Chandeleur Islands Gone ¶ "Hazard Waste Areas :: Everyone Needs to Get Out!"

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Monday September 05, 2005 · 10:23 PM PDT

2005/09/05 · 22:23

As a public health catastrophe unfolded in New Orleans, hospitals in the Crescent City sank further into disaster, airlifting babies without their parents to other states and struggling with more sick people appearing at their doors.

Charity and University hospitals evacuated

Dangerous, unsanitary conditions spread across the city, much of which now sits in a murky stew of germs.

The federal government declared a public health emergency for the Gulf Coast region, promising 40 medical centers with up to 10,000 beds and thousands of doctors and nurses for the hurricane-ravaged area.

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Shooting Nicola Calipari No Accident

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Friday August 26, 2005 · 3:42 AM PDT

2005/08/26 · 03:42

Italy 'did deal to free hostages'

Italian aid workers, Simona Pari and Simona Torretta, were held hostage for three weeks in September 2004

The Italian Red Cross treated four Iraqi insurgents to secure the release of two Italian women held hostage last year, a Red Cross official has said.

Maurizio Scelli, the outgoing head of the Italian Red Cross, said the deal had been kept secret from the US.

Mr Scelli - who first revealed the story to the Italian daily La Stampa - said Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's right-man man, Gianni Letta, was aware of the deal. "He acknowledged it and - albeit with a thousand recommendations - he told me to go ahead with it."

Mr Scelli said Mr Calipari had been consulted about the deal to free Ms Torretta and Ms Pari.

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Sir Ian Blair :: New Developments In London Police Cover-up

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Monday August 22, 2005 · 10:13 AM PDT

2005/08/22 · 10:13

Tube death: New pressure on police

Two Brazilian government officials plan to meet members of the IPCC, Scotland Yard Deputy Assistant Commissioner John Yates and other officials. According to the UK's Press Association, they want clarification on new reports that emerged last week about the killing of the innocent 27-year-old Brazilian electrician, sparking accusations of a cover-up by police.

Vigil at Stockwell Tube Station for Jean Charles de Menezes

The Jean Charles de Menezes Family Campaign group are to hold a vigil and demonstration outside Downing Street today, a month since his death.

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Ehrenfest's Library :: Einstein Manuscript Found in Leiden

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Monday August 22, 2005 · 1:49 AM PDT

2005/08/22 · 01:49

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University of Leiden -- Institute Lorentz :: Einstein archive

At the initiative of Paul Ehrenfest, a special chair in Leiden was created for Albert Einstein, enabling him to come to our university for short periods of his choosing. On October 27, 1920, Einstein began his new position with an inaugural address on ether and relativity theory. The yearly visits stopped when Einstein fled Europe in 1933. The position was formally terminated by the German occupation.

Reminiscenses of Einstein's visits to Leiden are described elsewhere. Here we present the three Einstein manuscripts preserved in our archives.
Read the story of their discovery (in dutch).

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Breaking :: Documents Leaked on Menezes Death in London Subway ¶ Updated

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Wednesday August 17, 2005 · 3:01 AM PDT

2005/08/17 · 03:01

Leaked documents in shot Brazilian's death allege London police error

LONDON (AFP) - Police in London were under pressure after leaked documents revealed that a Brazilian killed on suspicion of being a suicide bomber was not trying to evade police and was already being restrained when he was shot at point-blank range.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission, which is investigating the police killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, refused to confirm or deny the new information -- broadcast by ITV News -- which contradicted earlier police claims and witness statements.

Police shot the electrician, 27, at point-blank range after he boarded a subway train on July 22, one day after four suspected would-be bombers tried but failed to repeat the July 7 blasts that killed 56 people.

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Nuclear Spy AQ Khan - CIA/America Refused Arrest in 1975 & 1985

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Tuesday August 09, 2005 · 4:47 AM PDT

2005/08/09 · 04:47

Pakistani nuclear spy AQ Khan stole essential blue prints in the Netherlands in the seventies. The Dutch secret service BVD was on to the espionage and uncovered the role Khan played to remove documents from nuclear facilities of UCN/URENCO ultracentrifuge process for enriched uranium and NIKHEF research institute.

Ruud Lubbers reveals today that on two occasions to his personal knowledge, the decision to arrest Khan for espionage was thwarted by the CIA and America. The reason was the CIA and US was following Khan in his effort to obtain nuclear materials and sophisticated nuclear test equipment, in order to uncover the countries and persons involved in world-wide nuclear proliferation. Therefore on both occasions, Dutch government and Justice stepped back and let Pakistani nuclear spy travel out of the Netherlands.

Illicit Nuclear Weapons Programs Involve Smuggling High-Precision Bearings
Uranium enrichment gas centrifuge bearing, confiscated
by the U.S. CIA in Iraq in mid-2003 represents an older,
less-efficient design of uranium gas centrifuge:

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Explosives Used in London Bombings 'originated in the Balkans'

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Tuesday July 19, 2005 · 1:39 PM PDT

2005/07/19 · 13:39

Explosives used in London bombings 'originated in the Balkans'

Dublin July 14, 2005 (Irish Examiner) -- THE BALKANS were last night being named as the possible source of the explosive material used in the London bombings.

French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy told the emergency meeting of EU justice ministers in Brussels, that there was strong suspicion the explosives used in the bombings came from the Balkans or Eastern Europe, where it is possible to buy the material on the black market after the Balkan wars.

However, British Home Secretary Charles Clarke said he was bewildered by the comments.

USS Cole - attack with C4 explosives

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UK Faces Terror Risk Because of US Alliance ¶ Chatham House Report

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Monday July 18, 2005 · 6:38 AM PDT

2005/07/18 · 06:38

Bin Laden Represents Ideological Leadership For Muslims

Al-Qaeda increasingly difficult to pin down

Experts say 'Hydra-like' Al-Qaeda
further complicate police efforts
to build up model of its mindset.

By Chris Wright - LONDON

Like the Hydra, the monster of Greek mythology, Al-Qaeda can grow new heads when others die, say experts, warning that last week's bombings in London show how the terrorist group's periphery is now more important than any remaining command.

The view is spreading that, a new wave of Al-Qaeda affiliated groups were responsible for the London carnage in London and last year's deadly blasts in Madrid. Many argue that the organisation's leadership under Osama bin Laden, has become increasingly cut off, since the Afghanistan's supportive Taliban leadership was forced from power by US-led forces in Afghanistan.

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Innocent 'til Proven Quilty ¶ Ordinary Lives of "Suicide bombers"

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Sunday July 17, 2005 · 3:37 PM PDT

2005/07/17 · 15:37

~ First Published @ European Tribune ~

Pakistani tribesmen dance as they gather for a tribal meeting at Shakai in South Waziristan, some 300 kilometres south west of Islamabad, where Pakistan has deployed more than 70,000 troops to hunt down hundreds of Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants.

The London bombings have thrown the terror spotlight back on Pakistan, where Islamic militants continue to thrive despite a massive crackdown on Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network.
(AFP/Pool/File/Farooq Naeem)

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Al Qaeda & Richard Reid Link ¶ London Explosives type TATP ¶ Updated!

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Friday July 15, 2005 · 3:00 AM PDT

2005/07/15 · 03:00

~ First Published @ European Tribune ~

BREAKING NEWS –
ARREST IN EGYPT OF MISSING CHEMISTRY STUDENT

LONDON (Reuters) - An Egyptian chemistry student Magdy Elnashar, 33, wanted by police in connection with last week's London bombings is understood to have been arrested in Cairo.

BBC reported the forensics have indicated the explosives used were NOT of military or commercial origin. The first analysis assumed a high-power explosive was used due to ratio power and weight carried in backpack.

1. London bombing suspect Hasib Mir Hussain at Luton train station in central England.
2. Hasib Hussain -19- from Leeds, who was named as the suicide bomber who died along with passengers on the number 30 bus near Tavistock Square.

BBC News - Police release bus bomber images

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Cause: US-UK Invasion of Iraq Blowback

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Wednesday July 13, 2005 · 11:40 AM PDT

2005/07/13 · 11:40

~ First Published @ European Tribune ~

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Blowback - The Nation ◊ by Chalmers Johnson Oct. 15, 2001

Homegrown terror - need to define the meaning of this term. The model of the Theo van Gogh killing is identical to the radical Islamist threshold of British citizens to place bombs in the London subway. The Hofstad group is a clear example of very young Muslims - 15 to 21 years old - that have radicalized in the last 4 years. Although this was a single murder, the reaction of the Dutch community was very ugly. Hate messages, arson of mosques and Muslim schools was a rage of hatred that made the divide in Dutch society even worse.

In a court in Holland, Mohammed Bouyeri has confessed to killing Theo van Gogh in November 2004.

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Qaida al-Jihad claims London bombings

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Saturday July 09, 2005 · 5:10 AM PDT

2005/07/09 · 05:10

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A number of Arab world watchers have described the claim as credible. This group also claimed the Madrid bombings. An interesting reference I read in Juan Cole's Salon article:

The phrase "Qaida al-Jihad" refers to the 2001 decision made by Ayman al-Zawahiri, a leader of the Egyptian terrorist group al-Jihad al-Islami, to merge his organization into bin Laden's al-Qaida ("the Base"). The joint organization was thus renamed Qaida al-Jihad, the "Base for Holy War." (Zawahiri and bin Laden had allied in 1998.)

The group claiming responsibility for the London bombings represents itself as a secret, organized grouping or cell of "Qaida al-Jihad in Europe." It is significant that they identify themselves as "in Europe", suggesting that they are based on the continent and have struck from there into London. This conclusion is bolstered by their description of the attack as a "blessed raid". One raids a neighboring territory, not one's own.

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