The wife of the owner of a popular television station in Nablus's old city vowed yesterday that it would return to the airwaves despite the arrest of her husband and the seizure of vital broadcasting equipment by Israeli soldiers. Sanabel TV went off the air after troops took away computers, digital cards, cassettes, DVD, video and other equipment early on Monday during a three-day operation to hunt down militants and explosives caches in the West Bank city. Nabegh Braik, 44, the owner of the station, which is the only one in the old city, specialises in grassroots programming that criticises the Palestinian authorities as well as Israel, and says it is not affiliated to any faction, was still in detention last night. His wife, Raida, 41, said she did not know why the station had been raided but added: "We will come back even if we have to buy new equipment piece by piece." Mrs Braik said the station regularly interviewed Palestinians whose houses had been targeted or occupied ... http://news.independent.co.uk censor News |
Editor - 23:56:00 02-27-07 |
How the war on terror made the world a more terrifying place |
Innocent people across the world are now paying the price of the "Iraq effect", with the loss of hundreds of lives directly linked to the invasion and occupation by American and British forces. An authoritative US study of terrorist attacks after the invasion in 2003 contradicts the repeated denials of George Bush and Tony Blair that the war is not to blame for an upsurge in fundamentalist violence worldwide. The research is said to be the first to attempt to measure the "Iraq effect" on global terrorism. It found that the number killed in jihadist attacks around the world has risen dramatically since the Iraq war began in March 2003. The study compared the period between 11 September 2001 and the invasion of Iraq with the period since the invasion. The count - excluding the Arab-Israel conflict - shows the number of deaths due to terrorism rose from 729 to 5,420. As well as strikes in Europe, attacks have also increased in Chechnya and Kashmir since the invasion. ... http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2311307.ece
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Editor - 23:16:00 02-27-07 |
Miracle U.K. Baby Comes Back From the Dead |
A 2-month-old baby written off for dead miraculously returned from the brink of death upon reaching his father's arms at a Leeds hospital, according to published report.Woody Lander's lifeless body was passed along to father Jon, 34, after doctors failed to resuscitate him after 30 minutes of heart massaging. Upon removing a tube from his mouth, baby Woody began coughing and showing movement, according to the Daily Mail."They took him straight back off us. They managed to get his heart going again and he came back to life in front of us," said Lander. "It was amazing. We still don't know how he managed to come round — we just know he's a little miracle. He's growing up into a happy and healthy little boy."... http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,255244,00.html
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Editor - 22:32:00 02-27-07 |
Air Force officer found guilty of raping 4 men |
An Air Force officer was found guilty Tuesday of raping four men and attempting to rape two others. A nine-member military jury deliberated for about seven hours in Capt. Devery L. Taylor's court-martial. Taylor gave no reaction upon hearing the verdict. Taylor, the former chief of patient administration at Eglin Regional Hospital, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. Sentencing was to begin Wednesday. ... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17371840/
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Editor - 21:32:00 02-27-07 |
An inconvenient truth: eco-warrior EGore's bloated gas and electricity bills · Household consumption 20 times national average |
Al Gore knows a thing or two about the vicissitudes of public life. Six years ago he was virtually written off as a has-been vice-president after he won the popular vote only to lose the 2000 race for the White House. On Sunday night his rehabilitation was completed as he was crowned the moral mouthpiece of Hollywood, receiving an Oscar for his global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth. In front of the cream of the movie industry and the world's cameras, he stood alongside fellow eco-warrior Leonardo DiCaprio and proclaimed the ceremony the first in the Academy Awards' history to be run on "environmentally intelligent" lines. "And you know what?" he told the adoring crowd. "It's not as hard as you might think. We have a long way to go but all of us can do something in our own lives to make a difference." EGore is as phony as a 3 dollar bill, and that is a sad but Inconvenient Truth... http://Al Gore knows a thing or two about the vicissitudes of public life. Six years ago he was virtually written off as a has-been vice-president after he won the popular vote only to lose the 2000 race for the White House. On Sunday night his rehabilitation was completed as he was crowned the moral mouthpiece of Hollywood, receiving an Oscar for his global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth. In front of the cream of the movie industry and the world's cameras, he stood alongside fellow eco-warrior Leonardo DiCaprio and proclaimed the ceremony the first in the Academy Awards' history to be run on "environmentally intelligent" lines. "And you know what?" he told the adoring crowd. "It's not as hard as you might think. We have a long way to go but all of us can do something in our own lives to make a difference." EGore is as phony as a 3 dollar bill, and that is a sad but Inconvenient Truth...
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Editor - 21:25:00 02-27-07 |
Colo. Police: Infant Traded for Used Car Colorado Police Say Woman, Couple Accused of Swapping Baby for Downpayment on Used Car |
A woman was a accused of giving a 5-month-old boy to a couple in exchange for a down payment on a used car, police said Tuesday. A tip led police Monday to Nicole Uribe, 23, who got a Dodge Intrepid as part of the deal with Jose-Juan Lerma, 47, and his wife, Irene, 27, authorities said. The baby was allegedly switched for $1,500, only $500 of which was for the down payment. The couple was arrested Tuesday. The three are charged with suspicion of felony trafficking in children and were being held at the Pueblo jail under $50,000 bail each. ... http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2910472
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