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SYRIA: More questions about alleged nuclear site
Professor William Beeman at the University of Minnesota passed along a note today from “a colleague with a U.S. security clearance” about the mysterious Syrian site targeted in a Sept. 6 Israeli airstrike.
The note raises more questions about the evidence shown last week by U.S. intelligence officials to lawmakers [...]

http://www.tdn.com/…
from legitgov
Sand contaminated with DU and lead from U.S. Army base in Kuwait to be shipped to Idaho. Longshoremen should finish unloading 6,700 tons of sand contaminated with depleted uranium and lead Tuesday afternoon, said Chad Hyslop, spokesman for the disposal company American Ecology. The BBC Alabama arrived at the Port of Longview (WA) Saturday [...]

http://www.reuters.com/…
Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:10am EDT
By David Morgan
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy has temporarily added a second aircraft carrier in the Gulf as a “reminder” to Iran, but this was not an escalation of American forces in the region, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Tuesday.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/…
John Amato
OK, yea I know. Another BushCo. corruption case coming out of the DOJ. What’s new, right? Well, everything. Bush keeps telling us that his presidency can’t be measured correctly until years and years have passed us by.

http://www.motherjones.com/…
Late last week, two senior US intelligence and a senior administration official provided background briefings to Congressional committees and the media on what they said was the evidence of North Korean involvement in a covert Syrian nuclear reactor. The facility was destroyed by Israeli air strikes last September, in an operation dubbed “Operation Orchard” [...]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/…
By Les Blumenthal
McClatchy Newspapers
Wednesday 23 April 2008
Washington - The Veterans Administration has lied about the number of veterans who’ve attempted suicide, a senator charged Wednesday, citing internal e-mails that put the number at 12,000 a year when the department [...]

http://www.afp.com/…
26/04/2008 20h06
HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwe’s main opposition movement has won a historic victory over President Robert Mugabe’s ruling party, official results showed on Saturday, but the outcome of the presidential vote remained unknown.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/…
Public not informed, San Diego officials say
By Tanya Mannes
STAFF WRITER
April 26, 2008
OTAY MESA – San Diego officials will challenge Blackwater Worldwide’s permit for an indoor military training facility in South County, saying the public didn’t know about the plan.

http://www.upi.com/…
Published: April 26, 2008 at 12:07 PM
CHARLOTTE, N.C., April 26 (UPI) — U.S. investigators are looking into the role of Wachovia Corp. in an alleged money laundering scheme involving Mexican and Colombian drug money, officials said.

http://www.nytimes.com/…
MARK MAZZETTI
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has told Congress that American intelligence operatives attempting to thwart terrorist attacks can legally use interrogation methods that might otherwise be prohibited under international law.