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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (5461)	11/2/2005 8:17:46 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 9838

Re: On some of the more prominent Internet sites, liberal bloggers even started calling the expected thunderclap of justice "Fitzmas" - as in Merry Fitzmas, Fitzmastime is here, and so on. Bet the ACLU would have no problem with that as a holiday:-/

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (5461)	11/2/2005 11:52:12 AM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 9838

more good work from the US Bush opps Pentagon: Top al-Qaida Operative Escaped A man once considered a top al-Qaida operative escaped from a U.S.-run detention facility in Afghanistan and cannot testify against the soldier who allegedly mistreated him, a defense lawyer involved in a prison abuse case said Tuesday. Omar al-Farouq was one of Osama bin Laden's top lieutenants in Southeast Asia until Indonesian authorities captured him in the summer of 2002 and turned him over to the United States. A Pentagon official in Washington confirmed Tuesday evening that al-Farouq escaped from a U.S. detention facility in Bagram, Afghanistan, on July 10. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information... ...Members of Driver's company, testifying by speaker phone in court Tuesday, identified the detainee Driver is accused of abusing as Omar al-Farouq, who was featured in a Time magazine cover story in September 2002. The article, titled "Confessions of an al-Qaida Terrorists," detailed his plans to carry out attacks in Southeast Asia, including a plot to bomb U.S. embassies near the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks... news.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------