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Clarity Sought on Electronics Searches
U.S. Agents Seize Travelers' Devices: The seizure of electronics at U.S. borders has prompted protests from travelers who say they now weigh the risk of traveling with sensitive or personal information on their laptops, cameras or cellphones. In some cases, companies have altered their policies to require employees to safeguard corporate secrets by clearing laptop hard drives before international travel.
 

In search for foreign intelligence, spies turn to YouTube, MySpace, blogs

Psssttttt . . . ! ! ! Are you there? I got some great 'intelligence' for you. Reasonable rates. THESE JUST IN:
- Gates cites European anger over Iraq
- U.S. should not provoke Iraq militia: report
US kills 8, detains 26 in Iraq raids
- Iraq: US soldier's murder trial opens
- Bush says election is fight over his policies (And we want to replace this bright guy?)
American Soldiers Kill 3 Iraqis in Raid
- Next Year’s War Costs Estimated at $170 Billion or More
- From Prince Andrew, Critical Words for U.S. on Iraq
- Row over killing of Iraqi family (More stink about nothing)
- Iraqi women struggle to survive as violence claims their men
 

Major IDF operation in Gaza back on the agenda: Following many weeks of being kept on ice, the likelihood of a major military operation in the Gaza Strip is once more at the forefront.
 

Gaza Diary: Not a life for children: It has been five days now since I have had a shower. This is due to a lack of power to fuel the water system and to the hectic times that are upon us.

It is winter and we are all beginning to get very cold. Without electricity, all my family and I can do to stay warm it to huddle around a gas lamp. We cover ourselves in sheets.

Sometimes, I warm some water for my children to immerse their hands or feet in. But there is very little that we can do apart from hope that this will be the last time that we live like this.

The cold makes it difficult for us to get to sleep but even when we manage to, the blasts of Palestinian and Israeli rockets wake us throughout the night. The tremors and explosions scare my children so much that they now sleep with my wife and me.

They are so small and vulnerable and also very confused. They come home from school talking of Hamas and Fatah, but they do not understand the situation.

This is not a life for children. It is not for anyone.

My third child is due in March. This is just two months away.

As a father and a husband I am worried - really worried for my wife and my unborn child. How can she deliver a child when there is no electricity and little supplies in the hospitals?

Will she and our third child suffer as a result? These are some of the questions that keep me awake at night.

Speaking about this makes me want to cry, not just for my family but also for the people of Gaza.
 

Dear Dr. Imad,

They knew well there are no WMD, they knew well Iraq after 13 years of sanction was brought to its knees, and the regime lost his support inside Iraq even from closest guys with the regime circle.

But they need these liars for propaganda machine and they showed the world these the guys who were worked and ware inside Iraq to get credibility for their fake lies.

However you miss another lire Imad , guess who Hussein Shahristani, the lire on BBC and other media and interviews keep bring that Russian 5MW rector as Saddam tool to produce nuclear bombs so its not just Khidir Hamza, also the other lire Kanan Makiya with his book Republic of Fear where some resources telling that this book in fact paid by the regime to be published telling goods things about regime and Iraq.

So the reality is if there are criminals and crimes done against Iraq and Iraqis its should be hold account first of all these liars who approved be deliberately lied and helped to destroying Iraq and Iraqi nation.

I just say these are the folks should be brought to the court and charges with crimes that done to Iraq and should hanged.

Iraqi’s will not forget them.
 

Waterboarding should be prosecuted as torture: U.N.
 

Video (10 min), FOX News Whistle blowers. UNBELIEVABLE!!!
 

Just for laughs . . .
Could Blair be Europe's George Washington?
 

Blair as permanent EU president? Oh no! In reality, Blair's seeming invincibility doesn't so much depend on the alignment of planets; it has more to do with his personal charm and quick wit. But even more importantly it hangs on his status as one of the boys. He's a man with connections in the corridors of international power. He's cultivated the right people. He's proffered George W. Bush a sweater not to mention thousands of British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He's been anointed to hobnob with elite world leaders, bankers and captains of industry at secretive Bilderberg meetings, where foreign policy strategies are struck long before they are implemented. He's allegedly attended the annual jamboree of select movers and shakers held at California's Bohemian Grove and he's beloved by Rupert Murdoch's media empire. In contrast, Brown, who long ago lost his title as the great clunking fist, appears almost parochial.

Naturally, Blair's new presidential aspirations are being supported by another member of the "in-crowd," the newly-wed French President Nicolas Sarkozy, dubbed the neocon with the French passport. On a range of important issues -- including Iran -- the Washington-worshipping duo is singing from the exact same hymn sheet.
 

Would Tony Blair make a good EU president? To post a comment click here.
 

G.I. Tells of Ordering Unarmed Iraqi’s Death: The military trials have highlighted a secret baiting program, begun in early 2007, in which snipers placed lures like fake explosives or other weaponry to draw insurgents into the open, where they could be killed.

But Sergeant Hensley’s testimony at the base here suggested that by last spring, in addition to baiting and killing, soldiers had added a new tactic: carrying weapons to plant on bodies to deter prosecution.
 

A nuclear-free mirage: The Middle East cannot be freed from weapons of mass destruction unless the US turns the spotlight on Israel