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“On Monday August 6, 2001, at 17:50, [German] Ambassador Ischinger personally notified the President of the United States that information developed by the Bundesamt fŸr Verfassungsschutz [German domestic secret service] as well as the BND [Bundesnachrichtendienst, German foreign secret service] indicated clearly that an attack by a radical Arab group partially based in Germany was to occur on September 10-11, 2001. The President was at that time in residence at his farm in Texas. Our [German] Ambassador was acting in direct response to instructions from Foreign Minister Fischer.
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The British Government helped supply deadly chemical weapon materials to Iran in spite of its own ban on such sales, according to evidence to be put before an Israeli court. … Rest of Article
Sightings of Tomlinson and some “flamboyant millionaire” named Nahoum Manbar

A federal jury in San Francisco found Ed Rosenthal, one of the nation’s most prominent marijuana advocates, guilty Friday of felony conspiracy and cultivation charges — a triumph for federal prosecutors seeking to override California’s endorsement of pot as medicine.

Jurors deliberated less than a day before finding the 58-year-old Oakland resident — a columnist for High Times and Cannabis Culture magazines and author of more than a dozen books — guilty of all three felonies charged. Rosenthal faces a minimum of five years in prison.

His wife, brother and daughter embraced one another and wept in the courtroom when the verdict was announced. Outside, demonstrators chanted and waved signs advocating his acquittal.

The verdict ended the Bay Area’s first federal medical-marijuana trial, part of a high-profile federal crackdown that started immediately after passage of Proposition 215, the 1996 California initiative that allowed seriously ill patients to obtain the drug with a doctor’s approval.

”There is no such thing as medical marijuana,” Richard Meyer, a spokesman for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, told the Associated Press. “We’re Americans first, Californians second.”

The only defense victory Friday was a jury finding that Rosenthal conspired to grow more than 100 plants and not more than 1,000, which would have carried a mandatory 10-year sentence. The 100-plant finding requires at least a five- year term, which could be lessened only if Rosenthal were to cooperate with prosecutors, something he has shown no sign of doing.

”We’re going to fight this case all the way,” he declared outside the courthouse.

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According to unreliable sources Joe Millionaire is a scam! As my source suspected the the guy is relaly actually filthy rich. The ‘actor’ is named something like charles edwin MARRIOTT the IIIl, hes heir to the marriot hotel chain. evan marriott III” come on dude no fucking 19.00 an hour construction worker is named evan mariott the third. they would beat the hell out of him. Here’s more on the controversy complete with picts of Evan the pro wrestler

Cheney and Rumsfeld cameo. see the video or read the transcript

Top Ten Conspiracy Theories of 2002
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A 32-year-old Boulder man who had opened his apartment’s patio door to enjoy Wednesday’s unusually warm weather was later overheard screaming threats and seen waving what appeared to be a handgun, prompting a maintenance worker to call police.

Officers, as a precaution, evacuated the man’s apartment building and called SWAT officers to assist in defusing the situation.

It turned out that the man was simply upset at his computer Ñ which he had called a “bitch” he “wanted to kill,” police said Ñ and the gun was a plastic pellet gun, not the .45-caliber automatic handgun it was made to resemble. … Rest of Article

In December 1999, Mr Tigha fled from Algeria and is in prison in Thailand, accused of overstaying his visa. In an interview given to LibŽration in prison, Mr Tigha said at least some of the groups acting in the name of fundamentalist Islam in Algeria in the Nineties were formed or controlled by the army, which wished to discredit the Islamists and encourage an atmosphere of terror.

Similar allegations have been made by other Algerian former military or intelligence officers. During a trial in Paris in July, a former colonel, Mohamed Samraoui, said that “beyond a certain point” the Algerian military had “lost control of the groups we had created or infiltrated. We didn’t know which groups were which any more, whether they were ours or not.”
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“What the cases of North Korea and Iraq show is that if the threat is genuinely serious, the pre-emption doctrine is not pursued,” said Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was President Carter’s national security adviser. “If the threat is not immediate but, as the president said, grave and gathering, then you rely on pre-emption. It is less risky and more satisfying to beat up someone who is less threatening than more threatening.” … Rest of Article