Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will deliver an alternative
Christmas message on Channel Four to rival Queen Elizabeth II's annual
address, the broadcaster said Wednesday.
Ahmadinejad, whose comments will go out on 1915 GMT on Christmas Day,
will say that if Jesus Christ were alive today, he would oppose
"bullying, ill-tempered and expansionist powers," according to a
pre-released transcript.

Britain and Iran have had rocky relations since the 1979 Islamic
revolution, particularly over Iran's disputed nuclear programme, which
the West fears could be used to build arms but Tehran insists is for
civilian purposes.

Ahmadinejad is the most high-profile guest yet on Channel Four's
alternative broadcast, which was started in 1993 and has seen Jesse
Jackson, Brigitte Bardot and cartoon character Marge Simpson among others
take to the airwaves.

However, Israel's ambassador in London, Ron Prosor, condemned the message
as a "scandal and a national embarrassment" given the Iranian president's
denial of the Holocaust and his calls for the destruction of the Jewish
state.

Two years ago, on September 11, 2006, the Washington Post stirred an
election-year uproar with this chilling dispatch:

"The chief of intelligence for the Marine Corps in Iraq recently filed an
unusual secret report concluding that the prospects for securing that
country's western Anbar province are dim and that there is almost nothing the
U.S. military can do to improve the political and social situation there . .
."

But there WAS something we could do: Pursue a different counterinsurgency
strategy and commit more troops. And on Monday, U.S. forces formally handed
control of a now largely peaceful Anbar to the Iraqi military. "We are in the
last 10 yards of this terrible fight. The goal is very near," said
Major-General John Kelly, commander of U.S. forces in Anbar, in a ceremony
with U.S., Iraqi and tribal officials. Very few in the American media even
noticed this remarkable victory.

"A new book by the author Ron Suskind claims that the White House
ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head
of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein," Politico reported the other
day:

Suskind writes in "The Way of the World," to be published
Tuesday, that the alleged forgery--adamantly denied by
the White House--was designed to portray a false link
between Hussein's regime and al Qaeda as a justification
for the Iraq war. . . .

According to Suskind, the administration had been in contact
with the director of the Iraqi intelligence service in the
last years of Hussein's regime, Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti.

Analysis: Case against Ivins not airtight

By MARK SHERMAN – 1 hour ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lacking hard proof, federal prosecutors relied on the
process of elimination and circumstantial evidence to finger Bruce Ivins
as the anthrax killer.

Their case might be compelling, but it is not airtight.

Government investigators didn't place Ivins at the Princeton, N.J.,
mailbox where letters that killed five people were sent. Nor did they
present a witness who saw him at work at the Army bioweapons lab at Fort
Detrick, Md., pouring powder into envelopes. If they found anthrax
spores in Ivins' home or cars, they're not saying.

In documents released Wednesday, prosecutors suggested several possible
motives, none of them particularly convincing — from concern that the
vaccine program Ivins worked in was in trouble to his dislike of
Catholic senators who favor abortion rights.

Yet Jeffrey Taylor, the U.S. attorney in Washington, said Wednesday, "We
believed we could prove his guilt to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt."

We'll never know. Ivins relieved prosecutors of the challenge of proving
their claims when he killed himself last week.

Witnesses have told the government and the media that:
Dr. Bruce Ivins, the scientist who killed himself before being charged
with the anthrax attack, was long obsessed with a sorority called Kappa
Kappa Gamma.

Evidently, Dr. Ivins' obsession with Kappa Kappa Gamma goes back 30
years, to his days as a college student; and continued ever since.

And in Princeton New Jersey, Kappa Kappa Gamma's sorority house is
located at 20 Nassau Street. That's a few doors down from the location
of the mailbox that the anthrax letters were mailed from (judging by the
spores found on that mailbox by investigators). That would explain why
Dr. Ivins would travel 200 miles from his home and job in Frederick
Maryland, all the way to Princeton NJ.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-anthrax0804,0,4233390.story

My take:

One can only wonder what happened to Dr. Ivins in college to make him
hate this sorority so much. Maybe he picked up an STD or something.
:-) Maybe that's even why he became a bacteriologist. :-)

Associated Press - August 2, 2008 10:13 PM ET

FREDERICK, Md. (AP) - The therapist for the chief suspect in the 2001
anthrax attacks has told a judge that as far back as 2000, the late
microbiologist had attempted to poison people. She told the judge she
was "scared to death" of him.

Social worker Jean Duley testified at a hearing in Frederick, Maryland,
on July 24th in a successful bid for a protective order from Bruce
Ivins. The New York Times obtained a recording of the hearing and posted
it on its Web site today.

In her testimony, Duley says Ivins was a "revenge killer" motivated by
perceived slights.

She said she had evidence that several top psychiatrists considered
Ivins "sociopathic" and "homicidal" and that she believed that "to be
very true."

Ivins, who worked at an Army biodefense laboratory at Fort Detrick, took
his own life Tuesday.

http://www.kplctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8778944&nav=menu66_2

Dragan Dabic's business card said he practiced "human quantum energy," a
form of alternative healing. With his abundant white beard, he looked a
bit like Andrew Weil, the famous alt-medicine guru. He recently gave a
talk on "how to nurture your own internal energy." But it was a hoax.

But as the BBC reports, it was all a hoax. Dabic wasn't really a
holistic quack. He was (like Weil, we should note) a real doctor--a
psychiatrist. Oh, and Dabic isn't his real name. He is actually Radovan
Karadzik, erstwhile leader of the Bosnian Serbs and a war-crimes
fugitive for 13 years. On Monday Serbian intelligence, acting on a tip
from a foreign intel service, nabbed him in Belgrade.

In today's Washington Post, Richard Holbrooke, who served as a
high-level diplomat in the Clinton administration, recalls his only
meeting with Karadzic, a negotiation session in Belgrade in 1995. Here's
one detail that caught our attention:

Theophilia and Race Crime
---------------------------------
Theophiles as lovers of gods do an awful lot of hating- largely
through mass ignorance of evolutionary reality and bucket loads of
monotheistic prejudice against any worldview other than their own.

Plutocrats as lovers of wealth are the chief peddlers and consumers of
theophilia but of late have found a much more useful ally in feminism

If the masses cannot think other than in the theophile terms given to
them by pretentious masters, they are effective isolated from secular
reality- the real world that exists.

Political power doesn't materialize in a vacuum. It must be gained by
a force of will that overcomes any opposition based on past myth.
Reactionaries naturally seek to maintain and renew these myths and
build new ones when the opportunities arise.

Our media is so loony-left you have to go to a US blog to find the truth about Khadr's family:
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2004/04/the-khadrs-canadas-first-family-of-terrorism...

"Dimwit Patton" wrote in message
news:20080715200324.a7667f88.campbell@neotext.ca...

Welcome Back Khadr - (Comedy series, Wed. 8:00 PM) Follow the crazy antics of the Khadr family as
each week they find themselves in a new predicament requiring the intervention of the Prime
Minister of...

An article in Friday's New York Times drew lots of attention from those who
like to wring their hands about U.S. "torture" of terrorists, but to our mind
it's awfully thin:

Red Cross investigators concluded last year in a secret report
that the Central Intelligence Agency's interrogation methods
for high-level Qaeda prisoners constituted torture and could
make the Bush administration officials who approved them guilty
of war crimes, according to a new book. . . .

The book, "The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on
Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals," by Jane Mayer,
who writes about counterterrorism for The New Yorker, offers
new details of the agency's secret detention program. . . .