Corruption? UN Stalls Oil-for-Food Investigation
U.N. bureaucrats are stonewalling requests from Iraq’s new government for records from the scandal-plagued oil-for-food account set up in Saddam Hussein’s handpicked French bank, officials said yesterday.
The mysterious activities over the handling of the U.N. account at the French banking giant BNP Paribas, where $100 billion worth of oil-for-food [...]
Russian Kirov Class Cruiser Peter the Great ( Petr Velikyy ) Out of Service
One of the nation’s best (based on the results of 2003), most powerful ships, the nuclear-powered missile cruiser of the Russian Northern Fleet “Peter the Great” is no longer in working condition. The cruiser will spend the next couple of months by [...]
Ayman al-Zawahri : Al-Qaida Has Brief Case Nukes
Osama bin Laden’s terror network claims to have bought ready-made nuclear weapons on the black market in central Asia, the biographer of al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader was quoted as telling an Australian television station.
In an interview scheduled to be televised on Monday, Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir said Ayman [...]
Operation Mountain Blizzard
Operation Mountain Blizzard has successfully ended in Afghanistan, and Operation Mountain Storm has begun, coalition officials in the Afghan capital of Kabul announced in a news release today.
The U.S. military’s Mountain Blizzard was a sweeping new operation across troubled southern and eastern Afghanistan, with the aim of destroying al-Qaida and the [...]
Kerry Starts Negative Campaign
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry called Wednesday for deeper tax cuts for the middle class than proposed by President Bush. A startling statement from a man who has been attacking the Bush tax cuts during most of the Democratic primary.
Earlier Wednesday in Chicago, Kerry toughened his comments about his GOP critics [...]
John Kerry and Yasser Arafat
The Human Gaffe Machine
Democratic presidential nominee-to-be John Kerry called Yasser Arafat a “statesman” and a “role model” in a 1997 book that Kerry cites as proof of his own foresight about foreign policy.
John Kerry calls Yasser Arafat a “statesman” and a “role model”.
Kerry expressed the opposite view [...]
Kerry Weak on Defense
Kerry’s defense votes leave him vulnerable
Two decades of votes cast by Sen. John Kerry to cut military and intelligence spending could make him vulnerable to charges of being soft on defense in the 2004 presidential election, say some top political and defense analysts.
The liberal Massachusetts senator, [...]
