CIA
memos reveal doubts over 'key' Lockerbie witness
A Libyan "double agent" who was central to the CIA's investigation
into the Lockerbie bombing exaggerated his importance in Tripoli's intelligence
apparatus and gave little information of value, yet is still living
at the US taxpayers' expense in a witness protection programme, according
to previously unseen CIA cables.
Dollar
Posts Biggest Monthly Gain Since Euro Debuted in 1999
The dollar posted its biggest monthly advance against the euro since
the European currency's 1999 debut on evidence economic weakness that
began in the U.S. spread and as crude oil prices declined.
Ron
Paul followers gathering for own convention
There's no room at the Xcel Energy Center for maverick Ron Paul, so
his acolytes have packed their cars, hitched rides on "Ronvoys"
and will pitch tents at Ronstock '08 in Minneapolis in defiance of next
week's GOP convention in St. Paul, Minn.
Kremlin
announces that South Ossetia will join 'one united Russian state'
The Kremlin moved swiftly to tighten its grip on Georgia’s breakaway
regions yesterday as South Ossetia announced that it would soon become
part of Russia, which will open military bases in the province under
an agreement to be signed on Tuesday.
Security
chip injects hope into Mexicans in fear of abduction
Fearful of kidnap during the upsurge of organised crime ravaging their
country, middle-class Mexicans are paying thousands of dollars to have
tiny transmitter chips injected into their skin so that law enforcers
can locate their whereabouts should they be held hostage.
Legal
bid to stop CERN atom smasher from 'destroying the world'
Critics of the Large Hadron Collider - a £4.4 billion machine
due to be switched on in ten days time - have lodged a lawsuit at the
European Court for Human Rights against the 20 countries, including
the UK, that fund the project.
Mayor
Orders the Evacuation of New Orleans
City officials ordered everyone to leave New Orleans beginning Sunday
morning — the first mandatory evacuation since Hurricane Katrina
flooded the city three years ago — as Hurricane Gustav grew into
what the city’s mayor on Saturday called “the storm of the
century” and moved toward the Louisiana coast.
Iran
warns any attack would start 'world war'
A senior Iranian military commander has warned that any US or Israeli
attack on the Islamic republic would start a world war, the state news
agency IRNA reported on Saturday.
Frederick
News Post column proclaims Ivins' innocence When Norm Covert, a conservative former Fort
Detrick public affairs officer, and attorney Barry Kissin, liberal activist
opposing Detrick's biolab expansion, agree that Bruce Ivins was not
the anthrax killer, either the world's spinning off its axis, or the
truth is staring us so hard in the face we'd have to be blind to miss
it.
Army
Experience Center offers simulations at mall The new Army Experience Center, which opened
Friday at the Franklin Mills Mall, is not exactly a store, although
it is trying to sell something -- the military life.
