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Invasion USA: High-Tech Security Visas Sold on Mexican Black Market

Posted by AuntB On 09/16/2007 10:02:22 AM PDT · 12 replies · 271+ views Red State ^ | Sept. 16, 2007 | im Kouri, CPP United States immigration and State Department officials fear that their newly developed, high-tech visas are being sold on the Mexican black market. The US government hoped the newly designed visas would help in curtailing rampant illegal immigration at the Mexican border, but investigators believe many of them are being bought or rented by Mexicans seeking illegal entry into the US. Well over 11,000 of these Laser Visas, issued to Mexicans for legitimate travel into the United States were reported stolen or "lost" in just two border cities. Government officials claim this is a 15 percent jump from previous figures. The...

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Pro-Taliban cleric killed in Pakistan

Posted by DevSix On 09/16/2007 10:24:18 AM PDT · 15 replies · 259+ views Timesof India ^ | 9-15-07 Pro-Taliban cleric killed in Pakistan 15 Sep 2007, 2102 hrs IST,AP SMS NEWS to 58888 for latest updates PESHAWAR: Assailants opened fire on a car carrying a prominent pro-Taliban cleric in troubled northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing him before fleeing, police said. Maulana Hassan Jan, a senior leader of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam _ a religious party which controls the provincial government in Pakistan's North West Frontier province _ was traveling through the city of Peshawar when gunmen attacked him. Imtiaz Khan, a local police official, said Jan was going to a mosque for evening prayers when ``terrorists shot and killed him.''...

REMBER THE SHEIK PRO-IRAQ GOV, KILLED???

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Bushehr nuclear fuel to be delivered soon: Iran FM

Posted by Perdogg On 09/16/2007 11:08:36 AM PDT · 2 replies · 35+ views Iranian Students News Agency ^ | 09-16-2007 Iran's foreign minister said that Blusher's power plant nuclear fuel package was ready to be delivered to Iran soon, after it had been inspected and locked by the IAEA. Manouchehr Mottaki explained that the major part of the talks with the Russia's Federal Atomic Energy Agency director, Sergei Kiriyenko on his trip to Moscow was over Iran-Russia agreement on Bushehr power plant which made a good progress in this issue. While reminding that many countries were pleased with Tehran-the IAEA agreement he added "it demonstrates the fact that taking Iran's dossier to the UN Security Council was initially a wrong...

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Russian Poisoning Suspect Seeks Office

Posted by vahet pole On 09/16/2007 10:04:24 AM PDT · 2 replies · 32+ views AP ^ | September 16, 2007 | VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV MOSCOW (AP) — The sole suspect in the radiation poisoning death of a former KGB agent announced plans to run for parliament Sunday on the ticket of a pro-Kremlin ultranationalist party. Andrei Lugovoi, another former KGB officer who met with Alexander Litvinenko at a London hotel bar on Nov. 1 hours before Litvinenko fell ill, told state-run Russia Today television that he had no desire to go into politics but changed his mind because of British accusations. Now a Moscow businessman who runs a private security agency, Lugovoi said Sunday that he would be No. 2 on the list of...

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'You Have Liberated a People' Iraqis of all sects report progress, not "civil war" (Must Read)

Posted by mojito On 09/16/2007 9:25:31 AM PDT · 17 replies · 609+ views Opinion Journal ^ | 9/16/2007 | FOUAD AJAMI ...."Historically we are winning." The words were those of Vice President Adel Abdul Mahdi. This is a scion of Baghdad Shiite aristocracy, at ease with French and English, a man whose odyssey had taken him from Marxism to the Baath, then finally to the Islamism of the Supreme Islamic Council. "We came from under the ashes, and now the new order, this new Iraq, is taking hold. If we were losing, why would the insurgents be joining us?" He had nothing but praise for the effort that had secured the peace of Baghdad: "Petraeus can defend the surge," he said....

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Report: Israel destroyed Syrian nuke cache - Post Media Reply

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LONDON, 16 (UPI) -- Israeli jets entered Syria earlier this month to destroy a shipment of nuclear material supplied by North Korea, Western intelligence sources said. The Sept. 6 air raid about 50 miles from the Iraqi border reportedly destroyed a cache of nuclear material that had arrived days earlier by ship from North Korea marked as a cargo of cement, The Times of London reported Sunday. Preparations for the raid began in late spring when Israeli intelligence received information Syria was trying to buy a nuclear device from North Korea, The Times reported. No news of the raid emerged until Syria complained Israeli jets had violated its airspace, dropping fuel tanks to lighten their load as Syrian air defense chased them back across the border. Syrian leaders have revealed no further details, except to say they are considering "responses" to the air invasion. Israel's government declined to comment on the raid beyond saying Israeli soldiers demonstrated unusual courage in acting against Syria, The Times reported. SOURCE xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx “...in the past 8 months, we have considerably reduced the areas in which Al Qaeda enjoyed sanctuary. We have also neutralized 5 media cells, detained the senior Iraqi leader of Al Qaeda-Iraq, and killed or captured nearly 100 other key leaders and some 2,500 rank-and-file fighters. Al Qaeda is certainly not defeated; however, it is off balance and we are pursuing its leaders and operators aggressively.” Most of the Qaeda fighters come from Saudi Arabia and other breeding grounds. Now that the Sunni tribes are turning against them, they are more exposed and hunted than ever before. Wars are fluid and unpredictable, but no one can imagine that Al Qaeda is happy with its victories since 9/11. In Afghanistan, they have been on the run since 2003, although the Pakistan border regions continue to supply new recruits. But in Afghanistan they are being destroyed before ever reaching the cities. Add that to a sizable numbers neutralized in Pakistan, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and more. Add to that the cells pinpointed in Europe and America, the Philippines and Indonesia. ( lost source, it was good.) gerald