 Fire broke out Sunday in a mine in central Canada, forcing some 70 miners trapped underground to retreat to emergency refuge rooms stocked with oxygen and supplies, a mine official said. Late Sunday, a rescue team reached one of the rooms, made sure everyone was safe, then closed them back inside until the air inside the mine could be cleared of toxic gases, said Marshall Hamilton, a spokesman for Mosaic Company, the Minneapolis-based firm that operates the potash mine. Hamilton said company officials had not been able to establish a radio link with the 30 miners in that room for about 18 hours. He said the rescue team took a roll call and checked the miners' health before leaving. "I won't kid you, there was a lot of relief in that," Hamilton said. Rayanne Hogshaw, sister of one of the trapped workers, said it was nerve-wracking waiting for news about her brother. ...
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 Palace Revolt: They were loyal conservatives, and Bush appointees. They fought a quiet battle to rein in the president's power in the war on terror. And they paid a price for it. |
James Comey, a lanky, 6-foot-8 former prosecutor who looks a little like Jimmy Stewart, resigned as deputy attorney general in the summer of 2005. The press and public hardly noticed. Comey's farewell speech, delivered in the Great Hall of the Justice Department, contained all the predictable, if heartfelt, appreciations. But mixed in among the platitudes was an unusual passage. Comey thanked "people who came to my office, or my home, or called my cell phone late at night, to quietly tell me when I was about to make a mistake; they were the people committed to getting it right—and to doing the right thing—whatever the price. These people," said Comey, "know who they are. Some of them did pay a price for their commitment to right, but they wouldn't have it any other way." ...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11079547/site/newsweek/
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| Morales Faces Tough Task Remaking Bolivia To Build a 'New Bolivia,' President Morales Must Start With the Corrupt, Racist 'Old Bolivia' |
Newly inaugurated President Evo Morales is inspiring tremendous hope among his overwhelmingly poor citizens with promises to build a "new Bolivia." But as the latest socialist to ride Latin America's surging leftist tide into power, he faces a tough task in remaking the "old Bolivia." It is one of South America's poorest nations. Officials are corrupt, roads are crumbling. Hospitals are decrepit. Racism against the Indian majority is severe. Still, Bolivians have a big reason for renewed hope: The nation's proven natural gas reserves have increased substantially in recent years, giving it Latin America's second-largest supply after Venezuela. ...
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| White House Official Warned Abramoff |
The Bush administration's former chief procurement official tipped off lobbyist Jack Abramoff that the government was about to suspend the federal contracts of an Abramoff client, newly filed court papers say.David Safavian provided "sensitive and confidential information" about four subsidiaries of Tyco International to Abramoff regarding internal deliberations at the General Services Administration, say the court papers filed Friday in a criminal case against Safavian.Abramoff has pleaded guilty to conspiracy, tax evasion and mail fraud in a burgeoning bribery probe centered on Capitol Hill but also involving the Interior Department.The White House is refusing to release photographs of President Bush and Abramoff or to reveal what contact Abramoff had with White House aides....
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| Judge Deciding Whether to Allow Israeli Intelligence Agents to Testify Using Aliases, Disguises. So much for his constitutional right to confront his accusers if the Judge allows this crap |
A federal judge plans to decide this week whether she will allow Israeli intelligence agents to take the witness stand in a Chicago courtroom and testify using aliases and wearing disguises. The case involves Palestinian activist Muhammad Salah, who is accused of illegally laundering funds for Hamas. The militant group, which won a landslide victory last week in Palestinian elections, is branded a terrorist organization by the U.S. government. Federal prosecutors want to use as evidence against Salah a confession that Israeli agents obtained from Salah in 1993 after he was arrested there. A hearing on whether to allow the confession is set for March 6, and prosecutors want the Israeli agents to testify, but they say extraordinary security measures are necessary for that to happen. Salah, however, claims he confessed only after being tortured. If that is true, the confession most likely would not stand up in a U.S. court. ...
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| CIA unlikely to back off al Qaeda attacks in Pakistan. Yep they think they are above all laws and can kill people in any country. And we wonder why others hate us? |
The Bush administration is unlikely to shy away from using Predator missile attacks on al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan, despite the risk of political backlash for U.S. ally, President Pervez Musharraf, officials and intelligence experts say. The CIA has used pilotless Predator drones to carry out at least three attacks against al Qaeda targets in Pakistan over the past eight months, including a January 13 airstrike targeted at al Qaeda No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri, which killed 18 civilians including women and children. "He (Musharraf) is walking a tightrope. He thinks that the United States' support is vital, both for Pakistan and himself. But he cannot allow an impression to form that … the Americans can conduct such operations without consulting," said Talat Masood, a retired Pakistani military general turned political analyst. ...
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