1. “Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan tops $1 trillion
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60E0M220100115
2. “Jack Straw’s secret warning to Tony Blair on Iraq
The letter, a copy of which is published for the first time today, warned the prime minister that the case for military action in Iraq was of dubious legality and would be no guarantee of a better future for Iraq even if Saddam Hussein were removed.
It was sent 10 days before Blair met George Bush, then the US president, in Crawford, Texas, in April 2002. The document clearly implies that Blair was already planning for military action even though he continued to insist to the British public for almost another year that no decision had been made.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6991087.ece
3. ” The Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram claimed on Saturday that the head of Israel’s Mossad, Meir Dagan, is “Israel’s superman” for successfully thwarting the Iranian nuclear program.
The article in Al-Ahram, written by the paper’s analyst for Palestinian affairs Ashraf Abu al-Haul, claimed that Dagan is the “brains” behind last week’s assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist. “
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1142960.html
4. “The FBI has admitted using a photograph of a bearded Spanish politician as the basis for a mocked-up photofit image showing how Osama Bin Laden might look now.
The US state department was forced to withdraw the mocked up photo-image, circulated around the world last week, after the discovery that it was not quite as technically sophisticated as the FBI had originally claimed.
The digitally altered image of an older and greying Bin Laden was meant to show how the world’s most wanted terrorist might now look without his trademark turban and long beard. It was released in a renewed effort to locate him, more than eight years after the September 11 attack which he ordered and directed.
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The FBI claimed to have used “cutting edge” technology to reproduce new images of 18 of the most wanted terrorist suspects for the State Department’s Rewards for Justice website.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7004715/FBI-admits-Spanish-politican-was-model-for-high-tech-Osama-bin-Laden-photo-fit.html
5. “Airport full-body scanners ‘break laws on privacy’”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6990990.ece
6. “Iran Not Committed to Building Nuclear Bomb, Pentagon Intel Chief Says
The US intelligence establishment can’t even see evidence for a nuclear weapon program at all, meaning that the time line is rather longer than 7 years.
Unfortunately, a lot of Burgess’s colleagues, under political pressure, appear ready to cave to the hawks and Neocons on this issue in the next National Intelligence Estimate. Laura Rozen says they will shift to saying Iran may be doing experiments with weapons implications, without saying there is a weapons program, but the military-media complex in the US and Israel will deliberately miss the distinction.”
7. “Haiti earthquake: UN says worst disaster ever dealt with
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24410.htm
8. “Satan Writes a Letter to Pat Robertson
I know that you know that all press is good press, so I appreciate the shout-out. And you make God look like a big mean bully who kicks people when they are down, so I’m all over that action. But when you say that Haiti has made a pact with me, it is totally humiliating. I may be evil incarnate, but I’m no welcher.
The way you put it, making a deal with me leaves folks desperate and impoverished. Sure, in the afterlife, but when I strike bargains with people, they first get something here on earth — glamour, beauty, talent, wealth, fame, glory, a golden fiddle.
Those Haitians have nothing, and I mean nothing. And that was before the earthquake. Haven’t you seen “Crossroads”? Or “Damn Yankees”?
If I had a thing going with Haiti, there’d be lots of banks, skyscrapers, SUVs, exclusive night clubs, Botox — that kind of thing.
An 80 percent poverty rate is so not my style. Nothing against it — I’m just saying: Not how I roll.
You’re doing great work, Pat, and I don’t want to clip your wings — just, come on, you’re making me look bad. And not the good kind of bad. Keep blaming God. That’s working. But leave me out of it, please. Or we may need to renegotiate your own contract.
Best, Satan “
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24412.htm
