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If at first you don't succeed..

On this day in 1993, an Islamic cohort, sucessfully executed an attack at the world trade center in new york city. The operation was planned by Ramzi Yousef, Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, El Sayyid Nosair, Mahmud Abouhalima, Mohammad Salameh, Nidal Ayyad, Ahmad Ajaj, and Abdul Rahman Yasin. The attack was financed by Yosef's Uncle Khaled Shaikh Mohammed.
A member of "The Base" and architect of the September 11, 2001 attack.

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From the cradle to the grave...

Ground Zero

Casualties of War

The 18th Hole at Pebble Beach & Alcatraz

Gagosian Beverly Hills

I LOVE THROW UPS!

yoooo Chino!!

Malibu Canyon

5th Column

fuqaduck

Groucho Marx

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Uovo

Clinton Did 9/11

Former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger was sentenced Thursday to community service and probation and fined $50,000 for illegally removing highly classified documents from the National Archives and intentionally destroying some of them.

Berger must perform 100 hours of community service and pay the fine as well as $6,905 for the administrative costs of his two-year probation, a district court judge ruled.

"I deeply regret the actions that I took at the National Archives two years ago, and I accept the judgment of the court," Berger said outside the courthouse after his sentencing.

"I'm glad that the 9/11 commission has made clear that it received all the documents that it sought, all the documents that it needed, and I'm pleased to finally have this matter resolved," he added.

Berger reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors in April to avoid a jail sentence.

At that time, he said the reason he took the documents was so he could prepare himself and others to assist the 9/11 commission, which investigated the circumstances surrounding the 2001 terrorist attacks and published a report of its findings last year.

The documents taken by Berger dealt with the terror threats during the 2000 millennium celebration, according to parties in the case.

According to the charges, Berger -- between September 2 and October 2, 2003 -- "knowingly removed classified documents from the National Archives and Records Administration and stored and retained such documents at places," such as his private Washington office.

Berger's associates admit he took five copies of an after-action report detailing the 2000 millennium terror plot from the Archives. The aides say Berger returned to his office, discovered that three of the copies appeared to be duplicates and cut them up with scissors.

The revelations were a dramatic change from Berger's claim last year that he had made an "honest mistake" and either misplaced or unintentionally threw the documents away.

When Archives officials contacted him after they realized documents were missing, Berger told them about the two copies he had, and returned them, along with his handwritten notes, officials said.

Former Klan Member, Robert C. Byrd

Another (D)ickhead.

Vote Democrat

Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854

The act established that settlers could decide for themselves whether to allow slavery, in the name of "popular sovereignty" or rule of the people. Opponents denounced the law as a concession to the Slave Power of the South. The act and the subsequent civil war in Bleeding Kansas was a major step on the way to the American Civil War.

Rookesbury 1914

Oh Snap!

Big Burly Dude in a ROGUE STATUS Shirt sucking down pints beatnik style...

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Happy Birthday Little Man..

Kim Jong Il Birthday in Progess at Nuclear Square..

For government consists mainly in so keeping your subjects that they shall be neither able nor disposed to injure you.

What goes up must come down, What goes down comes back around again, where it all began..

Realpolitik (German: real ("realistic", "practical" or "actual") and Politik ("politics")) is a term used to describe politics based on strictly practical rather than ideological notions, and practiced without any "sentimental illusions"

Klemens Wenzel von Metternich


Otto von Bismarck

America Rules, You Lose..

Now go suck a dick.

Liberals Ally In Iraq Wounded

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- The leader of al-Qaida in Iraq was wounded and an aide was killed in a clash Thursday with Iraqi forces north of Baghdad, the Interior Ministry spokesman said.

The clash occurred near Balad, a major U.S. base about 50 miles north of the capital, Brig. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf said.

Khalaf said al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri was wounded and his aide, identified as Abu Abdullah al-Majemaai, was killed.

Khalaf declined to say how Iraqi forces knew al-Masri had been injured, and there was no report on the incident from U.S. authorities.

Deputy Interior Minister Maj. Gen. Hussein Ali Kamal said he had no information about such a clash or that al-Masri had been involved.

Al-Masri took over the leadership of al-Qaida in Iraq after its charismatic leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was killed in a U.S. airstrike last June in Diyala province northeast of Baghdad.

Al-Sadr Runs Away..

By ANNE GEARAN


WASHINGTON (AP) -- Anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr fled Iraq for Iran ahead of a security crackdown in Baghdad and the arrival of 21,500 U.S. troops sent by President Bush to quell sectarian violence, a senior U.S. official said Tuesday.

Al-Sadr left his Baghdad stronghold some weeks ago, the official said, and is believed to be in Tehran, where he has family. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss U.S. monitoring activities, said fractures in al-Sadr's political and militia operations may be part of the reason for his departure. The move is not believed to be permanent, the official said.

Word of al-Sadr's departure coincides with an announcement that Iraq will close its borders with Iran and Syria for 72 hours as part of the drive to end the violence that has threatened to divide the capital along sectarian lines.

The U.S. official said it is not clear how firmly the radical Shiite cleric is controlling his organization and the associated Mahdi Army militia from exile.

"The question for us is to what extent his organization is going to participate in the political process," the official said, referring to al-Sadr's on-again, off-again relationship with the fragile democratic government in Baghdad.

Al-Sadr's departure was reported by several television networks Tuesday.

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And ride the trains for free.

C*H*U*D

Close Call

Bubbling the weight...

Elbows, Glocks and Crack Rocks...

Layup

East Meets West

MQ DMS Vs. "Gangs"

Leak Logek Blear KFS WF

FROM THE HEART OF MEDINA TO THE DEPTHS OF FT. GREENE

NOW I SEE EVERYTHING...

Urban Blight

Don't Forget the Struggle..

Don't Forget the Streets

Rep. (D) Jerrold Nadler of NY 8th District (The Obsenely Obese White Guy)

Ground Zero Obstructed.

Bollocks Happens..

Sorry Mates

@ Berlin

Tunnel Rats & Workbum Paddles..

What Part of the Game is That?