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The Treasury Department agency entrusted with blocking the financial resources of terrorists has assigned five times as many agents to investigate Cuban embargo violations as it has to track Osama bin Laden’s and Saddam Hussein’s money, documents show.

In addition, the Office of Foreign Assets Control said that between 1990 and 2003 it opened just 93 enforcement investigations related to terrorism. Since 1994 it has collected just $9,425 in fines for terrorism financing violations.

In contrast, OFAC opened 10,683 enforcement investigations since 1990 for possible violations of the long-standing economic embargo against Fidel Castro’s regime, and collected more than $8 million in fines since 1994, mostly from people who sent money to, did business with or traveled to Cuba without permission…. Rest of Article

Poster1:time to hear stupid asshat liberals try and compare frickin iraq to vietnam

Poster2You won’t hear me doing it. The death toll in the first year in Vietnam was far lower than the death toll in our first year in Iraq. Plus Vietnam was just a quagmire, not the possible harbinger of Armageddon. So you won’t hear me comparing Iraq to Vietnam.

I wouldn’t want to make Vietnam look bad.

FArk!

Part of the Army’s own investigation is a statement from an Iraqi detainee who charges a translator – hired to work at the prison – with raping a male juvenile prisoner: “They covered all the doors with sheets. I heard the screaming. …and the female soldier was taking pictures.”

There is also a picture of an Iraqi man who appears to be dead — and badly beaten.

“It’s reprehensible that anybody would be taking a picture of that situation,Ó says Kimmitt.

But what about the situation itself?
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Welcome to my Web Site. My name is Jeremy and I was born on March 30, 2002. When I was 3 months old, my mommy went back to work and my daddy became a stay-at-home dad.

One day he took me to the opening of a store and we met the Barber Brothers, Tiki and Ronde, who play football. Daddy took a picture of me with them and that is how this all began.

Daddy figured it would be fun to take pictures of me with well-known people, and it has been fun! We have met lots of interesting people and they have been very nice to me (and to my dad).

So click on the links to the left and see who that is with little me!… Rest of Article

Executives at news organizations, many of whom have protested the policy, said last night that they had not known that the Defense Department itself was taking photographs of the coffins arriving home, a fact that came to light only when Russ Kick, the operator of The Memory Hole, filed his request.

“We were not aware at all that these photos were being taken,” said Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times.

John Banner, the executive producer of ABC’s “World News Tonight,” said, “We did not file a F.O.I.A. request ourselves, because this was the first we had known that the military was shooting these pictures.”… Rest of Article

The Memory Hole

North Korean Asstards build Office Tower of the future. Behold the Luxor of Pyongyang
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President Bush was told more than a month before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that supporters of Osama bin Laden planned an attack within the United States with explosives and wanted to hijack airplanes, a government official said Friday.

The warning came in a secret briefing that Mr. Bush received at his ranch in Crawford, Tex., on Aug. 6, 2001. A report by a joint Congressional committee last year alluded to a “closely held intelligence report” that month about the threat of an attack by Al Qaeda, and the official confirmed an account by The Associated Press on Friday saying that the report was in fact part of the president’s briefing in Crawford.

The disclosure appears to contradict the White House’s repeated assertions that the briefing the president received about the Qaeda threat was “historical” in nature and that the White House had little reason to suspect a Qaeda attack within American borders…. Rest of Article

MAKE A USB TURD…. Rest of Article

he Department of Agriculture refused yesterday to allow a Kansas beef producer to test all of its cattle for mad cow disease, saying such sweeping tests were not scientifically warranted.

The producer, Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, wanted to use recently approved rapid tests so it could resume selling its fat-marbled black Angus beef to Japan, which banned American beef after a cow slaughtered in Washington State last December tested positive for mad cow. The company has complained that the ban is costing it $40,000 a day and forced it to lay off 50 employees.

The department’s under secretary for marketing and regulation, Bill Hawks, said in a statement yesterday that the rapid tests, which are used in Japan and Europe, were licensed for surveillance of animal health, while Creekstone’s use would have “implied a consumer safety aspect that is not scientifically warranted.”… Rest of Article

How would you fancy the chance to fire a rocket-launcher at a cow? Or an anti-aircraft gun at a chicken? They are among the special attractions on offer to tourists in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh…. Rest of Article