 The Sept. 11 commission was so frustrated with repeated misstatements by the Pentagon and FAA about their response to the 2001 terror attacks that it considered an investigation into possible deception, the panel’s chairmen say in a new book. Republican Thomas Kean and Democrat Lee Hamilton also say in “Without Precedent” that their panel was too soft in questioning former N Y Mayor Rudy Giuliani and that the 20-month investigation may have suffered for it. The book, a behind-the-scenes look at the investigation, recounts obstacles the authors say were thrown up by the Bush administration, internal disputes over Bush’s use of the attacks as a reason for invading Iraq, and the way the final report avoided questioning whether U.S. policy in the Middle East may have contributed to the attacks. This would really be “News” if this investigation had really done an honest investigation, but it was set up to be, "a cover the Governments Ass" Side Show. And some people swallowed it. ...
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 Eskimo village destroyed by fire |
Elvena Smart was asleep when her sister jolted her awake with the news that the old elementary school was on fire. Soon, village police were knocking on the door, telling them it was too dangerous to stay, she said.Smart and her family were among the 250 people in the remote Alaska village of Hooper Bay who fled a massive fire that flattened a 15-acre swath of the Yupik Eskimo community Thursday.The blaze burned 35 structures and came within 300 feet of bulk fuel tanks before it was extinguished by residents and firefighters who flew in from around the state. No one was injured.Smart's home was spared, but 12 others are gone. So is the elementary school, a nearby high school, a teacher housing complex, a store, some village offices and numerous storage shelters....
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| Police: Teacher says he molested up to 200 Calif. sub charged with abusing 10-year-old girl, but police eye more victims |
A substitute elementary school teacher was charged Friday with lewd and lascivious acts involving a 10-year-old girl, and police said he claimed to have molested more than 100 students.Eric Norman Olsen, 28, of Ontario, told detectives that he molested between 100 and 200 elementary school students since becoming a teacher three years ago, said police Detective Diane Galindo. He was scheduled to be arraigned Aug. 8.Police said his resume shows that he has taught in different school districts throughout San Bernardino, Riverside and Kern counties. A phone number for Olsen’s residence could not be located. It wasn’t immediately clear whether he had an attorney.The probe began on June 13 after a male student allegedly witnessed Olsen molest the 10-year-old girl and told school officials, Galindo said. Olsen did not have a criminal background....
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| War news targets Israel for blame |
Lurid headlines and images in the Iranian press from the war in Lebanon are drawing huge crowds to newspaper kiosks dotting the wide boulevards of Tehran. Despite tensions between Iran and the Arab world that date back to the 7th century, when Arab armies occupied Persian Iran, the war has provoked widespread sympathies for fellow Shi'ite Muslims in southern Lebanon. "I feel a lot of sympathy for the poor Lebanese," said Samira Vaziri, a 27-year old graphic designer. "But I don't think that we should get involved in this war." The Iranian press' tone is overwhelmingly anti-Israeli and anti-Western, with inaction by Arab governments also getting criticism. The United States says Iran is the main military and financial backer of Hezbollah. "5 Merkava tanks destroyed as Hezbollah deals Israel defeat across 4 axes" was ...
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| GOP seeks to mobilize disaffected base |
Republicans say their disaffected base can be mobilized for the Nov elections by emphasizing the security pitfalls of a Democrat-controlled Congress. The question for hard-core Republicans is do they want the House to be led by Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, "who said less than a year after 9/11 'I don't really consider ourselves at war,'" Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman yesterday told the annual summer gathering of the Republican National Committee. "As foreign jihadists call into the U S, do we use NSA technology to stop sleeper cells before they hit us?" Mr. Mehlman asked. "Or do we surrender the use of this technology, as Nancy Pelosi and [Democratic National Committee Chairman] Howard Dean would have us do?" From their arrival on Wednesday, the party members' mood has seemed upbeat, despite the disgust many of them say Republican voters feel over the spending, immigration policy and the handling of the Iraq war by the Republican White House and Congress...
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| Israel blasts Lebanon's last outside link |
Israeli warplanes destroyed four key bridges on Lebanon's last untouched highway yesterday, severing the country's final major connection to Syria and deepening its isolation. Hezbollah launched its deepest rocket strike inside Israel to date, hitting near a town 50 miles south of the Lebanese border, police said. At least 190 rockets rained down on other towns, killing four civilians, three of them Arabs. Aircraft on a mission to destroy weapons caches hit a refrigerated warehouse where farm workers were loading vegetables, killing at least 28 near the Lebanon-Syria border. At the United Nations in New York, U.S. Ambassador John R. Bolton said the United States and France have "come a long way" in negotiating a Security Council resolution that calls for an immediate end to Middle East hostilities. U.N. officials said negotiators were ready to work through the weekend and hoped to have an agreement by early next week. ...
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