Iraq Rejects Syria’s Invitation for Talks
( LA Times ) - An offended Iraqi Governing Council refused a last-minute invitation from Syria to attend a regional meeting Saturday and declared it was rejecting in advance any decisions the group might make. The U.S.-appointed council — which said it considered the ambiguous invitation an affront to […]

( CBC North ) - Several Nunavut MLAs are calling on the territorial government to denounce same-sex marriages. They say most people in the territory are opposed to same-sex unions and they want the government to publicly voice its opposition to Ottawa.
Given that the Territory of Nunavut has the highest suicide rate in Canada, high […]

In a move that is certainly not going to generate any good P.R. for them M$ had a temp employee escorted off their premises for taking a picture of a load of MAC G-5’s coming into the complex and posting it on his blog. M$’s comment was that
the company did not discuss personnel or security […]

Eircom.net: Saddam reported behind recent attacks
Saddam Hussein might be behind attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq, officials say, as foreign governments warn of more imminent strikes in Baghdad.
Ireland On-Line:Al-Qaida warns of Ramadan attacks
[an] al-Qaida operative, who identified himself as Abu Mohammed al-Ablaj, wrote in an e-mail sent to the London-based Al-Majalla magazine that Osama bin […]

‘Our bombings would be blamed on Muslims’ said planners of a coup d’etat.
Rightwingers planning a coup d’etat believed their terrorist deeds would be blamed on Muslim fundamentalists, the Pretoria High Court Boeremag treason trial heard on Friday.
…. Smit said the meeting considered ways of plunging the country into chaos to prompt blacks to rise […]

Don’t Let Your Kids Celebrate a Religion of Evil
( American Daily ) - Do you want your children and grandchildren involved in a celebration of demons and witchcraft? Halloween is not innocent fun with costumes and candy, as many believe. You may be surprised by the roots of this religious holiday.
Where to start with something […]

Well no $%&^ Sherlock - do ya figure?
( CBS News ) - A Senate panel is preparing a report that will sharply criticize intelligence agencies for overstating the weapons of mass destruction threat allegedly posed by Iraq, a newspaper reports.
Personally I think they should move a lot higher up the chain than the CIA, given […]

(Found on LocDog’s Blog while just blogging around)
God is not on anyone’s side now this is just plain dumb. do you people mean to tell me that God was not in favor of the allies during world war two? i mean, we’re assuming the existence of a moral God here, so if that’s the case, […]

From the department of trying-to-weasel-out-of-it-by-blaming-some-one-else-while-trying-to-duck-and-cover… Our friend and very good buddy G.W.B. is now saying that the “Mission Accomplished” banner under which he gave his famous Major Military Combat Operations Are Over speech had nothing to do with him or the war on Iraq as a whole.
The “Mission Accomplished” sign, of course, was put up […]

Putting another bright face on the increase in attacks over the last number of weeks Bush tells us that they are the result of success in Iraq, and that foreign terrorists from Iran and Syria are desperately trying to pull apart coalition progress in their fear of a free and democratic Iraq….. the only problem […]

The full text of this article printed in the Independent is available at Counterpunch.
The worst problem facing US forces in Iraq may not be armed resistance but a crisis of morale. Robert Fisk reports on a near-epidemic of indiscipline, suicides and loose talk.
Information you probably won’t find in the North American media.

…. they know they can’t realistically use the U.S. Pentagon wants to develop a bunch of little ones for “smaller aggressors”. Add to that the report
…..argues for a move away from the Cold War view of nuclear arms as catastrophic weapons of last resort.
Of course the War on terrorism is used as their rational - […]

Remember those aluminum tubes the U.S. administration said Iraq was going to re-engineer for use in centrifuges for their nuclear ambitions?
( The Age ) - Australia’s top expert on Iraq’s weapons has said prewar coalition claims that Iraq was importing the components of a nuclear weapons program - including aluminium tubes for use in centrifuges […]

Al-Qaida planned U.S. forest fires: FBI memo described plot to set blazes in the West
( World Net Daily ) - “Australian security authorities are aware of reports that al-Qaida has considered starting bushfires in the U.S. as a form of terrorist attack,”
I’m torn on this one….. it’s a credible enough idea, but it […]

Now who would have ever thought this?
( VOA News ) - Arab observers, speaking immediately after Monday’s attacks in Baghdad, say that although many in the Arab world would condemn attacks on civilians, most Arabs would also have some sympathy for those fighting to end what they see as the U.S. occupation of Iraq. The […]