Rumsfeld expects to find French aided Iraqis

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday that he expects to find out about French support for Saddam Hussein's government from information recovered by coalition forces now working in Iraq.
reporters at the Pentagon. "My understanding is that it continued right up until the outbreak of the war. What took place thereafter, we'll find out."
When asked whether France is harboring Iraqi officials or had helped Iraqi leaders flee Iraq, Mr. Rumsfeld responded by saying: "I've read those reports, but I don't have anything I can add to them."

posted by Frodgie at 10:24 AM

 
France, Russia Question U.S. Postwar Plan
HAHA...ridiculous. Again, I will say acouple words. Cowards,traitors, enemies, and two-faced. Here is the story.UNITED NATIONS - With the U.N. Security Council looking to avoid the bitter divisions that broke out before the war, France and Russia toned down objections to a new U.S. plan for ruling postwar Iraq, but appeared intent to seek changes to give the United Nations a stronger role.

The United States introduced a wide-ranging draft resolution that would give the U.N. stamp of approval for a U.S.-British occupation of Iraq for at least a year and hand the Americans and British control of the country's oil wealth to use in rebuilding the country.






posted by Frodgie at 10:09 AM

 
Best Resale Value Cars:TDI Near the Top


When you buy a new car, it loses value fast. But these cars are predicted to keep theirs.

posted by Frodgie at 6:37 AM

 
Senate panel passes tax-cut plan


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- After nine hours of deliberations, the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday night emerged with a tax bill that largely resembles the agreement reached a day earlier among committee Republicans.

In a 12-9 vote, primarily along party lines, the committee approved a 10-year, $438 billion tax bill. Arkansas Democrat Blanche Lincoln, up for re-election in 2004, voted with committee Republicans for final passage of the bill.

It was a day marked with humorous moments, John Breaux, D-Louisiana, comparing offsets with "a fat chicken in Baghdad," both being rare, and Don Nickles, R-Oklahoma, crying, "We tax dividends higher than France!" -- the height of post-Iraq-war insults.


posted by Frodgie at 6:33 AM

 
Fetus Is Body Part
This is great. Just read it, and that will be enough to laugh at how inconsistent these people are.







posted by Frodgie at 11:17 AM

 
New Tornado Forecast

CARROLLTON, Georgia (CNN) -- Forecasters are warning that conditions are ripe for Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas to be hit by more tornadoes Thursday.

Those states were heavily damaged earlier this week in one of the most intense outbreaks of tornadoes in 53 years of record-keeping.


posted by Frodgie at 6:30 AM

 
Iran 'violating nuclear treaty'
Washington hurls accusation and calls for greater global pressure but Teheran says its nuclear programme is peaceful
WASHINGTON - Iran has done little to cooperate with UN inspectors on its nuclear programme, according to the US.

The comment by a senior American official on Tuesday reinforces Washington's view that Teheran is violating a key treaty and should face more international pressure.

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'Nothing that we have seen suggests the Iranians are being transparent about their nuclear activities in the true meaning of transparent,' said the official, who declined to be named.

'It's deny and deceit, cheat and retreat. Nothing that we see about the programme convinces us that they are in compliance with the 1970 Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty.'



posted by Frodgie at 6:27 AM

 
Tape shows 9/11 cell

(CNN) -- A videotape obtained by CNN shows 9/11 hijackers and suspected plotters attending a wedding reception in Hamburg, Germany, two years before the terrorist attacks on the United States.

The tape offers a rare, inside look at behavior among members of an al Qaeda terrorist cell in Hamburg thought to be behind the 2001 attacks, German authorities said.

The video -- received by CNN on Tuesday -- shows a reception at the October 1999 wedding of Said Bahaji, who is wanted by German authorities for suspected involvement in the attacks. He is believed to have fled to Pakistan shortly before they occurred, and is still at large.


posted by Frodgie at 1:44 PM

 
Is there a new Saddam Tape?

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- An audiotape purportedly recorded this week by deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein calls on the people of Iraq to reject the "invaders," while promising that victory is coming.

"I am talking to you from inside great Iraq," the voice on the tape says, "and I say to you, the main task for you, Arab and Kurd, Shia and Sunni, Muslim and Christian and the whole Iraqi people of all religions, your main task is to kick the enemy out from our country."

There was no way to authenticate that the tape was made this week, nor could it be immediately proven that the speaker on the tape was Saddam.


posted by Frodgie at 6:26 AM

 
Hussein's Son Took $1 Billion Just Before War, Bank Aide Says

BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 5 - In the hours before American bombs began falling on the Iraqi capital, one of President Saddam Hussein's sons and a close adviser carried off nearly $1 billion in cash from the country's Central Bank, according to American and Iraqi officials here.

The removal of the money, which would amount to one of the largest bank robberies in history, was performed under the direct orders of Mr. Hussein, according to an Iraqi official with knowledge of the incident. The official, who asked not to be identified, said that no financial rationale had been offered for removing the money from the bank's vaults, and that no one had been told where the money would be taken.


posted by Frodgie at 8:26 AM

 
More severe weather feared for tornado survivors

JACKSON, Tennessee (CNN) -- As parts of the Midwest and South recovered Tuesday from tornadoes that killed dozens of people, the National Weather Service urged residents to watch for possible new twisters in already hard-hit areas.

The number of dead from Sunday's storms stood at 38, with hundreds injured and thousands of homes and businesses damaged in Kansas, Missouri and Tennessee.

Officials said seven people died Kansas, at least 17 in Missouri and at least 14 in Tennessee. Other people thought to be in the storm's path were reported missing. Although the storm also ripped through Arkansas, no deaths were reported there.


posted by Frodgie at 8:21 AM

 
Returned space crew lucky, others faced wolves

MOSCOW (AP) -- It could have been a lot worse for the two Americans and one Russian whose landing ended up nearly 300 miles off course and their recovery hours late.
In 1976, a Soyuz spacecraft came down in a freezing squall and splashed into a lake; the crew spent the night bobbing in the capsule.
Eleven years before that, two cosmonauts overshot their touchdown site by 2,000 miles and found themselves deep in a forest with hungry wolves. That's when Russian space officials decided to pack a sawed-off shotgun aboard every spacecraft.


posted by Frodgie at 8:59 PM

 
At least 34 feared dead in tornadoes

Lawrence County, Missouri, appeared to be the hardest hit with an estimated 12 fatalities and extensive damage, according to Sheriff Doug Seneker. The tornado cut across the southeastern corner of the county Sunday at 6:25 p.m. CDT (7:25 p.m. EDT) and stayed on the ground half an hour, passing through the heart of Pierce City.
"Our downtown area was pretty much leveled," said Shelly Yonker, a Pierce City, Missouri, utilities clerk. "It was a beautiful little town."


posted by Frodgie at 8:26 AM

 
100 N. Korean nuke missiles 'target US'...



Kim Myong Chol, who styles himself executive director of the Centre for Korea-American Peace, told Australia's Channel Nine network Sunday: "It's quite obvious North Korea may have minimum 100 nuclear warheads, maximum 300.
"They all lock onto American cities."
Kim, who rejoices in the title "unofficial spokesman for North Korea", was speaking in an interview recorded overseas, although it was unclear where.


posted by Frodgie at 9:03 PM