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July 2, 2007
MI5 'knew of plot in advance'
MI5 may have been monitoring those involved in a cell at some stage - which, if true, could provoke claims that they were allowed to slip through the net.
U.S. needs domestic spying, say 2 top politicians
The attempted terror attacks in Britain prove the U.S. needs its domestic spying program and more surveillance cameras in American cities, two powerful lawmakers said yesterday.
More Surveillance Leading To A Microchipped Society
Flashback - Clinton, Bush Connection To Warrantless Wiretapping And The CIA Exposed
Weaver suspects 'prowler'
Randy Weaver is a name some people remember, but he sometimes wishes some other people would forget.
Vanunu to return to prison for violating terms of parole
Israeli nuclear spy Mordechai Vanunu is returning to prison after a Jerusalem court convicted him Monday to six months jail for violating his parole terms, Israel Radio reported. Vanunu, 52, three years ago completed an 18-year sentence for selling photographs and information about Israel's nuclear programme to London's The Sunday Times in 1986
Video - Compulsory psychiatric medication in the U.S. for people that defend Constitution (1 Minute 20 Seconds)
Hamas's plans for Temple Mount foiled
Hamas attempts to gain control of the Temple Mount and recruit new Israeli-Arab operatives in east Jerusalem have been foiled by the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), a senior security official announced on Monday.
Superbug Antibiotic Defence Uncovered
McGill University researcher Albert Berghuis has found out one of the ways in which the Staphylococcus aureus (SA) bacterium, a multi-drug resistant ‘superbug,’ is able to fight off one of the latest drugs of last resort used to treat it.
Police hunted Glasgow suspect before attack
Scottish police were investigating a man suspected of attacking Glasgow airport on Saturday even before the incident in which a fuel-laden jeep slammed into a terminal building.
Dollar Drops to 26-Year Low Vs. Pound
Dollar Falls to 26-Year Low Against British Pound Ahead of Central Bank Meeting
Video - Ron Paul: Freedom Is Popular
The Peril of the West’s Hamas Error
Bush spares Libby from 2 1/2-year prison term
President Bush commuted the sentence of former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby on Monday, sparing him from a 2½-year prison term that Bush said was excessive.
Libby, Ex-Cheney Aide, Must Go to Jail During Appeal
Lewis ``Scooter'' Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, must go to prison while appealing his conviction for obstructing a CIA leak probe, a U.S. appeals court said.
Libby may be behind bars within weeks after a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit today denied his request for release.
Dead US diplomat in Cyprus 'stabbed himself'
The US embassy's defence attache in Cyprus was found dead on Monday on a hilltop in a remote part of the Mediterranean island after apparently stabbing himself in the neck, officials said
Robots finally armed with Tasers
They won't make a US Predator drone jealous, but it appears that soon, a few American police agencies will be deploying tractored robots with Tasers.
US to hunt the Taliban inside Pakistan
Since last September, North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces in Afghanistan have been pressing Islamabad for the right to conduct extensive hot-pursuit operations into Pakistan to target Taliban and al-Qaeda bases.
According to Asia Times Online contacts, NATO and its US backers have gotten their wish: coalition forces will start hitting targets wherever they might be.
Scotland Yard: Bombers 'laughable', likely not 'al Qaeda'
"So incompetent as to be almost laughable." That's how former Scotland Yard detective John O'Connor described the botched UK bombings this morning on CNN. He also noted that it's probably wrong to refer to these guys as 'al Qaeda'.
Report: Nasrallah escapes assassination attempt
Hizbullah Secretary-General Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah has recently escaped an assassination attempt by the Mossad and Arab Intelligence organizations, said the Damascus weekly Al- Madar, Sunday
The Amnesia Drug
Medical researchers say they have found an existing drug used to treat for hypertension can also block selected memories if it is given at a precise time when the patient is actively recalling something. They say this could be useful for example to help rape victims or other folks suffering traumatic stress, like returning vets.
Congress about to "just say yes" to permanent secret vote counting
Congress is about to pass an election "reform" bill, HR811 (the Holt Bill). The bill will enshrine secret computerized vote counting, controlled by the White House.
Witness links U.S. companies, Colombia strife
A former paramilitary soldier told a congressional panel Thursday that several U.S. companies provided financial support to illegal militias accused of killing Colombian civilians.
‘US consent won’t be sought for Iraq incursion if security is at risk’
Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül said it was a responsibility of the United States to take measures against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Iraq and that Turkey would maintain its pressure on Washington to the very end to this effect, but made clear that Ankara won't seek approval from the United States when it sees its security is at risk.
Army tournament features chainsaw massacre video game.
The Army Gaming Championships, set to begin on July 4, allows people to compete for a $200,000 prize pool. But participants must be willing to be contacted by Army recruiters, providing the military with “another avenue to reach tech-savvy recruits.”
Civilian deaths fuel Afghan outrage
More than 100 people, nearly half of them Afghan civilians, were killed in Nato air strikes against the Taliban this weekend, an investigation by local officials in Helmand province has concluded.
Egyptian convicted of spying for Israel dies in jail
An Egyptian engineer convicted in 2002 of spying for Israel has died in a Cairo jail of a possible heart attack while serving a 15-year sentence, security sources said on Monday.
Pushing National IDs
The measure in question is the Real ID Act, which creates a de facto national ID for all Americans by requiring states to both issue licenses that conform to federal Department of Homeland Security guidelines and to link state driver’s-license databases together in a massive new federally administered database. It’s a highly controversial measure that is increasingly running into conflict with the states themselves over its enormous funding costs and its authoritarian overtones.
Secret Document: U.S. Fears Terror 'Spectacular' Planned
Official Cites Resemblance to Warnings and Intelligence Before 9/11
U.S. Warned of Glasgow Threat Two Weeks Ago
U.S. law enforcement officials received intelligence reports two weeks ago warning of a possible terror attack in Glasgow against "airport infrastructure or aircraft," a senior US law enforcement officials tells the Blotter on ABCNews.com.
Mexico Denies Drug Suspect's Allegations
The government said a lawyer for the house's fugitive owner, Zhenli Ye Gon, demanded special treatment from Mexican authorities on drug, weapons and money-laundering charges and apparently suggested he would go public with accusations that much of the $207 million belonged to the National Action Party.
9-11 Victim Families Battling For Justice
Aafter five-and-a-half years, not one single victim’s case from 9-11 has even been heard in a court of law in spite of the fact that the United States is known as a litigious society with an abundance of aggressive lawyers.
NYC trans fat ban takes effect
The city's ban on trans fat-laden cooking oils, the first of its kind in the nation, went into effect Sunday.
Since New York passed the ban last year, Philadelphia, Montgomery County in Maryland and the Boston suburb of Brookline have followed its lead with similar measures that take effect later this year or in 2008. Several other states and cities including California and Chicago are also considering trans fat prohibitions.
Britons beginning to accept Big Brotherish surveillance
Airport iris scans will give guards a more precise way to identify passengers and access their background information. Increased use of ultra-sensitive microphones may allow police to listen to whispered conversations.
All vehicles that enter the center of London are captured on the vast network of cameras, making sure they pay the congestion charge but also providing a tool for security.
Lab workers' fallout
Gerry Giovacchini believes the tumors in his neck, arm and eyes, as well as one in his spinal column that fractured two vertebrae and invaded his right lung, were caused by radiation exposure during the 26 years he worked at Sandia/California National Laboratories in Livermore.
In 2002, he applied for compensation through a government program for Cold War-era Department of Energy workers exposed to radioactive and toxic materials that made them ill.
But five years later he still hasn't been paid.
Mike Gravel Would End The War On Drugs If Elected
Two U.S. soldiers killed in Baghdad
Two U.S. soldiers were killed in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Sunday, the U.S. military said on Monday.
Castro: U.S. is still a 'killing machine'
Fidel Castro said Sunday that the U.S. government continues to be a "killing machine" after revelations that nearly 50 years ago it tried to use American mobsters to kill him with poison pills.
President Bush "has constructed powerful and expensive superstructures of intelligence ... that lead to war, injustice, hunger and death everywhere on the planet," Castro wrote.
EU pours £3.8bn into 'brainwashing campaign'
The European Union is spending £3.8 billion a year on "propaganda" to win over its sceptical citizens, it is claimed.
As well as publishing a plethora of pamphlets and employing an army of public relations staff, the EU has spent hundreds of millions of pounds on teaching aids, school trips and even cartoons.
Raids begin at dawn as evidence emerges
Police say fast-moving inquiry reveals new information on plot by the hour
Europe set to lift ban on GM crops
The European commission is about to give the go-ahead to the first commercially grown genetically modified crops since a public outcry nine years ago halted their cultivation, writes Jonathan Leake.
The commission has begun the final approval stages for at least four applications by biotech companies to let farmers grow GM potatoes and maize in British and European fields.
Third of Europe see US as threat to stability: poll
More Europeans see the United States as a threat to global stability than Iran and North Korea combined, according to a poll published Monday.
State-backed giants who want to buy the world
Government-controlled funds from China and elsewhere are snapping up Western companies
Protectionism is making a comeback. At least, that is the fear of many influential figures from senior officials at finance ministries to politicians and independent economists. These experts are, generally speaking, pointing their fingers from West to East, from the US and Europe to China, Russia and the Gulf, and they are being specific about the threat.
A new breed of global investment behemoths, the so-called 'sovereign wealth' funds (SWFs) effectively state-controlled investment funds bankrolled by huge foreign exchange surpluses or petrodollars want to buy up, among other things, western companies.
When the Vice President Does It, That Means It’s Not Illegal
Who knew that mocking the Constitution could be nearly as funny as shooting a hunting buddy in the face? Among other comic dividends, Dick Cheney's legal theory that the vice president is not part of the executive branch yielded a priceless weeklong series on "The Daily Show" and an online "Doonesbury Poll," conducted at Slate, to name Mr. Cheney's indeterminate branch of government.
The ridicule was so widespread that finally even this White House had to blink. By midweek, it had abandoned that particularly ludicrous argument, if not its spurious larger claim that Mr. Cheney gets a free pass to ignore rules regulating federal officials' handling of government secrets.
Mexican leftist calls mass rally
The leftist who barely lost Mexico's presidential election criticized President Felipe Calderon's oil policies, promising unspecified consequences during a mass rally Sunday aimed at re-igniting his government-in-resistance.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador threatened to rouse the masses if Calderon tries to privatize the state-owned oil industry or open it to foreign investment.
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