Remember the Bruce Willis movie, DIE HARD 3, where ‘terrorists’ stole dump-trucks full of gold from the N.Y. Federal Reserve Bank that belonged to different foreign countries? Think what that gold was doing there in the first place: in 1973 all the OPEC member countries agreed with the USA to sell OPEC oil only for [...]

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U.S. suggests Iran sanctions not linked to UN
The Bush administration called on Friday for Russia and the countries of Europe to impose their own penalties on Iran over its suspected nuclear arms program if no agreement on sanctions could be reached soon at the United Nations Security Council.
“If the Security Council cannot act over a [...]

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A CIA official who had a top role during the run-up to the Iraqi war charges the White House with ignoring intelligence that said there were no weapons of mass destruction or an active nuclear program in Iraq.
The former highest ranking CIA officer in Europe, Tyler Drumheller, also says that while the intelligence community did [...]

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Banned in China.
Chinese audiences will not see images of Wang Wenyi, the protester at the White House today. According to the AFP, “CNN television said Chinese authorities blocked the transmission of its pictures of the protest in China. Full story…
China “heckler” at White House charged
A heckler from the Falun Gong spiritual movement who disrupted [...]

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EU terror chief lacks proof of CIA prisons
BRUSSELS The European Union’s anti-terrorism chief told a hearing Thursday that he had not been able to prove that secret CIA prisons existed in Europe.
“We’ve heard all kinds of allegations,” the official, Gijs de Vries, said before a packed Chamber of Deputies. “It does not appear to [...]

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Iran sanctions ‘depend on proof’
Russia has ruled out sanctions against Iran unless there is proof that its nuclear programme is not peaceful.
Mikhail Kamynin of the foreign ministry said Russia must see “concrete facts” proving Iran’s non-peaceful activities.
The US has been trying to rally support from UN Security Council members like Russia for tougher [...]

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Israeli troops could reoccupy part of Gaza
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli troops could reoccupy parts of the Palestinian-ruled Gaza Strip if cross border violence escalates, a senior army general told the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper on Friday.
Major-General Yoav Gallant, commander of Israel’s southern forces, said the army had stepped up an offensive against militants firing rockets [...]

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Beating NSA e-mail surveillance — use the “blue pill” and your e-mail will not go down the rabbit hole.
Beating Bush’s NSA e-mail surveillance simple. According to NSA sources, there is a simple method to avoid having one’s e-mail captured by NSA Internet filters that have been installed within major Internet exchanges, such as the AT&T [...]

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Iran shells Kurd positions in Iraq: Kurd official
Is this false news, a hoax or could the Iranians be that stupid?
SULAIMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) – Iranian forces shelled Iranian Kurdish guerrilla positions inside mountainous northern Iraq early on Friday morning to repel an attack, a Kurdish official said.
“This morning Iranian Kurdish fighters infiltrated the border into the [...]

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Yahoo ! implicated in third cyberdissident trial US company’s collaboration with Chinese courts highlighted in Jiang Lijun case
Reporters Without Borders has obtained a copy of the verdict in the case of Jiang Lijun, sentenced to four years in prison in November 2003 for his online pro-democracy articles, showing that Yahoo ! helped Chinese police [...]

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