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Rep.
Porter Goss, President Bush’s nominee to head the CIA, recently introduced
legislation that would give the president new authority to direct CIA agents
to conduct law-enforcement operations inside the United States—including
arresting US citizens.
Biometric
testing of face, eye and fingerprints could soon be used on every resident of
the UK to create compulsory identity cards.
Jay
Leno joked recently that hearing Bill Clinton during the Democratic convention
“made you nostalgic for a time when presidents could speak.”
Saddam
Hussein was developing giant lizards and killer robots.
US
warplanes screamed over this Iraqi holy city Thursday in a massive assault aimed
at crushing a Shiite Muslim uprising, as the specter of attacks on the country's
petroleum infrastructure sent world oil prices to record highs for the second
time in 48 hours.
Gunmen
today threatened to kill a British journalist seized in Iraq. Sunday Telegraph
reporter James Brandon, 27, was taken captive when 30 armed men stormed a hotel
in the city of Basra.
