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An Informant Bonanza for the FBI at the Border
About a week ago, we first learned of a shocking new program that has the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) and FBI collaborating to target travelers to the U.S. for potential recruitment as FBI informants. CBP provides flight manifests to the FBI before a flight departs, the FBI reviews them for potential recruits, gives names to CBP, and CBP then stops the traveller when he/she arrives in the United States. Feeling pretty good about this program, CBP gloats that it is the "GO TO agency in the Law Enforcement world when it comes to identifying individuals of either source or lead potential." This isn't the first time our nation's immigration process has been used as a proxy to target Muslim, Arab, and South Asian communities. Even over the past year we've seen how some people want to impose religious or ideological tests on all visitors and new immigrants to the country. We've watched Congress make discriminatory changes to the Visa Waiver Program, and of course the refugee resettlement part of our immigration code has been under abject attack. And of course there is the TSA. But this CBP program is perhaps either an underlying reason or a compounding factor of another sneaky immigration change that we've been fighting against. Earlier this year, CBP announced that it will start collecting "social media identifiers" of all foreign travelers to the United States. At the time, we criticized the move as being an intrusive and logistically worthless new screening mechanism. But now that we know about the FBI-informant scheme, we're starting to wonder if the two are connected. Our immigration policy is regularly used as a means of targeting, discriminating against, and plain making life difficult for Arab and Muslim visitors to the United States. CBP seems to happily be the leader of immigration authorities who are running wild with objectionable ideas on how to promote national security.TWEET THIS
War Crimes, Retaliation, and Underreported Suffering in Yemen
The Yemeni civil/regional war that started last March has been chronically and damagingly underreported, by the media and right here in Countdown's five quick takes of the week. So we are going to do our darnedest to fix that because the suffering and politics involved in Yemen are pretty unbelievable. Back in August, the United Nations estimated that 10,000 people have died in the cross fire of Yemen's civil war, Saudi's bombings, Iran's interference, and the U.S.'s "logistical support." The civil crisis and regional proxy war has largely been ignored as the U.S. and international community has focused on fighting ISIL and talking about ending the conflict in Syria. But Yemen commanded acute attention over the weekend when the latest Saudi airstrike on densely populated civilian areas struck a wedding killing over 140 people, the images are horrific. The U.S. didn't take kindly to the Saudi assault on civilians (which, for what it's worth, Saudi claims was a mistake), and announced the U.S. would begin a review of U.S. assistance because "U.S. security cooperation with Saudi Arabia is not a blank check." We even dispatched a high ranking State Department official to the region to take some meetings. While the Saudi actions have only prompted words, reviews, and meetings - when the Houthi side launched missiles at a U.S. warship nearby the U.S. responded this morning with fire power, targeting radar sites with cruise missiles. A Pentagon spokesman said "these limited self-defense strikes" were for protection of U.S. assets in the region, but warned that future threats will be responded to similarly. This has all the hallmarks of a major escalation in U.S. involvement and might just be a turning point in the war. We hope that it turns for the better, but given the reckless disregard for human life we see happening - we're worried.TWEET THIS
Syrian Divisions Keep On Obscuring a Path Forward for U.S.
The merciless assault on Aleppo's rebel held areas hasn't abated in the four weeks since the ceasefire failed. The U.S. has continued to rely on diplomatic strength to urge the impervious Russians to stop their strikes and to reign in the unhinged Assad regime. In a new diplomatic maneuver, the U.S. joined France in calling for a war crimes investigation into a recent Assad-led bombing of a hospital in Eastern Aleppo. The Pope (who obviously doesn't have military options at his disposal) has also joined in on the diplomatic pressure as well, calling today for an immediate end to hostilities and promoting the Papal Ambassador to Syria to the rank of Cardinal, which is reportedly a historic diplomatic escalation. While there has been some coming-together amongst those who want the violence to end, the U.S. domestic political scene is continuing to divide and defeat itself over what more the world's super power can do aside from diplomacy. The many raw nerves of U.S. advocates have been on full display recently, with some pushing for American military action (enforcing no fly zones, increasing air strikes, arming the opposition), which some have posited have no chance of changing the trajectory of the crisis. Others are pushing for U.S. restraint and historical memory of the damage U.S. intervention can lead to. And our Presidential candidates are adding to the hopeless lack of consensus on the way forward. We saw Mike Pence and Donald Trump have a notable - and drastic - split on military action in Syria. And Clinton for her part is still playing coy with her recommendations for limited use of force. Today, Russia's Lavrov and John Kerry apparently pledged to try again at a meaningful ceasefire and diplomatic resolution. Let's hope this time is the charm. We've lost count.TWEET THIS
U.S. Pledges More Support for Syrian Refugees
Even if an end to the conflict in Syria was in sight (which it really isn't as far as we can see), it won't solve the problem of Syrian refugees. The U.S. is wise to that, even if countries like Lebanon and Jordan are hoping for a magical solution to the conflict and an even more magical homeward march of the Syrian refugees that have escaped into their borders. The new U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon, announced another $36 million dollar injection of U.S. aid into international agencies providing services for Lebanon's Syrian refugee population as well as Lebanese infrastructure. It's needed, especially given the hesitancy of the Lebanese government to provide long(er) term services to Syrian refugees who stand to be in Lebanon for many, many more years. That includes education and employment programs that have to be established so that Syrians aren't left languishing.


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Bob is Dave's eldest son and second in command of the Republic of Dave in 2277.
Born in 2258, Bob is young, hotheaded and bossy, and has been given the title of "Second-Commander of the Army of Dave." He is nineteen years old, thinks of himself as Vice Dave, insisting that he knows best and that all citizens of the republic should listen to him. From his speech, before him becoming an emperor, you can see that he has dictatorship ideas and that he knows nothing of leading the country. Although Dave will not talk badly to Bob in public, it's widely known that he really lets Bob have it when the two are alone. Bob can't stand his father, and is looking forward to establishing the Empire of Bob.[1]
Daily scheduleEdit
Bob can be found at the Republic of Dave grounds during the day. At night Bob sleeps in the men's quarters.
Bob will wander between the Republic of Dave buildings, approaching their outer walls and 'repairing' them with a wrench in his hand. This results in no actual change. He can, on occasion, be found practising at the shooting range.
Interactions with the player characterEdit
Interactions overviewEdit
|This character is involved in quests.
- Election Day: The Lone Wanderer can convince Bob to run for the presidential election.
Effects of player's actionsEdit
Bob is the "bad" choice for finishing the Election Day quest. His brash and headstrong ways lead to the creation of the Empire of Bob, run with an iron fist. Bob cuts off contact with the wasteland, halts negotiations with other countries and stockpiles weapons for later use.[citation needed]
|Other items
|Merc troublemaker outfit
|Chinese assault rifle
Notable quotesEdit
- "Yeah? Well it just so happens that I like being number 2 around here. So I think I'll just stay right where I am."
- "Maybe we need a flag? One with my picture on it. That could be pretty cool."
- "Dave made me Second-Commander of the Army of Dave, and that means I get a gun. Don't make me have to use it."
Bob appears only in Fallout 3.
Behind the scenesEdit
Strangely, although Bob is Asian, both his father Dave and biological mother Rosie are Caucasian.

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ATHENS (Reuters) - Upending conventional wisdom, there is now a strong chance that all the European governments that have accepted or implemented unpopular EU/IMF austerity programmes may be re-elected in the coming months or remain the strongest political force.
From Lisbon and Madrid to Dublin, incumbents are gaining ground in opinion polls while the opposition is split among mainstream and radical parties, reducing the prospect of ousting sitting prime ministers and also encouraging investors to buy their countries' debt.
One explanation is a gathering economic recovery, which is strongest in Ireland and Spain and picking up in Portugal, although unemployment remains painfully high and living standards have fallen for many in those countries.
There are several other factors: nervous voters prefer to play safe after taking the pain of spending cuts and tax rises; untried opposition leaders fail to offer a credible alternative to austerity; populist or nationalist parties are sapping the main opposition party everywhere.
Whatever the reason, it looks as if euro zone politicians may have found an answer to the economic reform conundrum enunciated by then Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker in 2007: "We all know what to do. We just don't know how to get re-elected after we've done it."
It's not that Europeans have suddenly fallen in love with pay cuts, later retirement, lower welfare benefits or reduced public services. But many are resigned to such sacrifices to preserve a somewhat slimmed-down European social model.
Leftist Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras showed with a convincing victory on Sept. 20 that it is possible to perform a brazen U-turn and swallow previously rejected stringent bailout terms without being wiped out electorally. The hard leftist faction that broke with his Syriza party over the bailout deal failed to win enough votes to get back into parliament.
The political and economic turmoil that plunged Greece back into recession in Tsipras' first six months in power may act as a deterrent to radical experiments elsewhere in the euro zone.
As in Britain's May election, when Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives were returned to office with an outright majority of seats despite five years of public spending and welfare cuts, the Greek result confounded opinion polls that had pointed to a dead heat and a hung parliament.
Seen in that light, the opposition Labour party's choice of anti-austerity leftist Jeremy Corbyn as its new leader after more moderate centre-leftist Ed Miliband lost to Cameron, seems at odds with electoral trends around Europe.
In the final straight before Sunday's Portuguese election, Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho's centre-right coalition, which faced down strikes to implement an EU/IMF bailout plan, is pulling ahead of the mainstream opposition Socialist party.
Passos Coelho is campaigning on his record of having steered the country safely through a sovereign debt and competitiveness crisis that forced his Socialist predecessor to apply for an international rescue in 2011.
He has struck a chord with voters by promising to maintain economic stability, which he says only he can deliver. The election coincides with the strongest economic performance since the end of the debt crisis, with consumer confidence close to its highest levels since 2001.
Socialist challenger Antonio Costa has struggled to pin blame for hardships on the government, since the Socialists agreed to the bailout terms before they lost the last election.
Across the border in Spain, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's conservative People's Party has stretched its lead over the main opposition Socialists to about six percentage points, while new insurgent leftist and centrist parties, and Catalan nationalists are pulling voters away from the mainstream centre-left.
With the PP polling just below 30 percent, Rajoy is still well short of the score he would need to secure an outright majority on Dec. 20, and his party has suffered a series of disastrous regional and municipal election results this year.
Yet many political analysts expect Rajoy will pick up at least enough support to lead a minority administration, while novice Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez will struggle to find compatible coalition partners.
Like Passos Coelho, the uncharismatic Rajoy insists only he can guarantee stability and stop populist forces taking Spain back to the brink, after he avoided a full sovereign bailout when he took an international loan to rescue the banks in 2012.
Last Sunday's strong regional election win by Catalan separatists, challenging rule from Madrid, may also cause a Spanish unionist backlash in Rajoy's favour, some say.
The anti-austerity leftist Podemos (We Can) party appears to be fading at around 15 percent nationwide after briefly drawing level with the two mainstream parties - not strong enough to be kingmaker but sufficient to weaken the Socialists.
Ireland's economy is set to grow faster than any other in the EU at near 6 percent this year, fuelling steadily rising support for Prime Minister Enda Kenny's Fine Gael party, while left-wing Eurosceptical challenger Sinn Fein has fallen back and centre-right rival Fianna Fail has stalled.
With the recovery accelerating, debate has shifted from the merits of a seven-year austerity drive that followed the 2008 financial crisis - and was accepted with little protest - to whether voters feel better off. Unemployment and personal debt levels are still high.
Kenny and centre-left coalition partner Labour aim to return to power together and will campaign on a message of maintaining economic stability. They will unveil fresh personal tax cuts and spending increases in an Oct. 13 budget, after which Kenny may call a snap election six months ahead of schedule to capitalise on the momentum.
The usual cautions apply. Pollsters have got several elections wrong this year and the voters' mood may swing again.
And non-euro Poland, the only EU state to have avoided recession since the 2008 crisis, seems set to buck the trend and punish an economically successful centre-right government by electing a more fiscally loose party next month, opinion polls suggest.
(Additional reporting by Axel Bugge in Lisbon, Julien Toyer in Madrid and Padraic Halpin in Dublin; Writing by Paul Taylor; Editing by Gareth Jones)
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Apple cider, cherry juice, orange juice, and warm winter spices like cinnamon, cloves, and star anise make this the best warm Christmas Kinderpunsch recipe!
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Last year I attended my first ever European Christmas Markets. We went to markets in Reims, France; Budapest, Hungary; Bratislava, Slovakia; Vienna, Austria; and Prague, Czechia. Being a non-drinker my favorite hot beverages to get at Christmas markets are hot apple cider and Kinderpunsch!
I didn't taste Kinderpunsch until last winter, but once I did I fell in love with the stuff! It's a nice departure from cider, and I love the sweet flavor that the cherry juice gives it. Kinder Punch is nicely spiced with cinnamon, cloves, and star anise, but the surprise ingredient that just sets this hot beverage apart is the herbal hibiscus tea, YUM!
As soon as I got back from my trip I made it for my family and everyone LOVED it! It's something different besides the traditional hot chocolate or hot apple cider that's usually served at Christmas time! My kids especially loved the sweet and tart cherry juice in the Kinderpunsch.
Cook's Note – Kinder Punch:
- You can keep this punch on warm in your slow cooker for up to 24 hours. At hour 12, the punch may become a bit too concentrated. I sometimes add a cup of water around this time.
- If you can't find cherry juice, then try pomegranate juice.
- I like to keep the whole cloves in a stainless steel tea diffuser so they don't end up in my cup.
Cook's Tools – Kinderpunsch – Non-Alcoholic Warm Christmas Punch:
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- 2 cups apple cider
- 2 cups cherry juice
- 2 cups orange juice
- 2 cups water
- 10 whole cloves
- 3 cinnamon sticks
- 2 whole star anise
- 4 bags herbal hibiscus tea caffeine-free
- granulated sugar to taste
- cinnamon sticks
- orange slices
- star anise
- Pour in the apple cider, cherry juice, orange juice, and water into a large slow cooker.
- Add the cloves, cinnamon sticks, and star anise. Cover and cook on HIGH for 3 hours or LOW for 6 hours.
- Add the tea bags, draping the strings over the side of the slow cooker. Cover and let the tea bags steep for 15 minutes before removing them. Taste the Kinderpunsch and add sugar to taste (I suggest starting with 1 tablespoon at a time).
- Keep the slow cooker on WARM until ready to serve. Ladle Kinderpunsch into heat-resistant mugs and garnish with cinnamon sticks, orange slices or star anise (all optional).


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Since 1946, the prime directive of the intelligence community has been to prevent another Pearl Harbor, to never again fail to collect, collate, and analyze information in a coordinated, centralized manner that would warn the President of an impending attack on America. Since 1947, that responsibility has rested with the Director of Central Intelligence, currently George J. Tenet, a Clinton appointee held over by the Bush administration. Tenet is nominally responsible for overseeing the entire intelligence community, which includes the FBI, and he is the President's chief intelligence advisor.
The attacks on September 11, 2001 killed more Americans than the attack on Pearl Harbor, but the Bush administration has consistently rejected the analogy to December 7, 1941. During Congressional testimony, for example, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III explained that the intelligence community couldn't possibly have detected preparations for the attacks because the hijackers were just too clever. He said, "In short, the terrorists managed to exploit loopholes and vulnerabilities in our systems, to stay out of sight, and to not let anyone know what they were up to beyond a very closed circle." National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice took the same tack, say-ing, "I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon."
Up until May 15, when CBS News reported that President Bush had been briefed on August 6, 2001 on warnings of terrorist attacks, the media have tended to accept the administration's line that there were no warnings and that the hijackers were just too slick to be caught. The Washington Post's Walter Pincus, in particular, has consistently relayed the "spin" coming out of CIA depicting George Tenet in the most favorable terms. When the Congress passed the FY2003 intelligence authorization bill Pincus concluded that the increase in the budget "suggests the growing confidence Congress and Bush have placed in CIA Director George J. Tenet."
Newsweek, which is owned by the Post, has also portrayed Tenet and the CIA in glowing terms. It recently reported that Tenet had the CIA "focused" and was doing a bang-up job fighting the terrorist war in Afghanistan. After the 9/11 tragedy, when many thought Tenet might resign or be fired, the Post and the New York Times published front-page photos of Tenet meeting with President Bush and Condoleezza Rice.
The "spin" worked and the establishment media paid little or no attention to information that indicated that there had been a colossal intelligence failure because those responsible for uncovering and foiling terrorist plots, primarily the FBI and the CIA, had fallen down on the job. On Sept. 13, Accuracy in Media sent out a column about an Agence France-Presse (AFP) story on the Internet that ran in the Sydney Morning Herald. AFP had immediately connected the dots between the attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon and Project Bojinka, an ambitious plan to plant bombs in 11 U.S. airliners, use a suicide bomber to kill the pope, and to crash planes into high profile American buildings, specifically naming CIA headquarters. Of the three, the crashing of planes into buildings was the only one that al Qaeda succeeded in executing.
Bojinka had been discovered by the Philippine National Police in January 1995, when Ramzi Yousef and Abdul Hakim Murad, who had links to al Qaeda, started a fire in their Manila apartment while making a bomb. Yousef escaped and was later cap-tured in Pakistan. Murad was caught and interrogated by the Philippine police. They claim the information about Bojinka, which means "big bang" in Serbo-Croatian, came from Ramzi Yousef's laptop. The Washington Post, which sent several reporters to Manila to look into the story, published a long report on September 23, which accepted Murad's claim that it was extracted from him by torture.
Murad, who learned to fly at U.S. flight schools, said one of the Bojinka scenarios had him flying a small plane loaded with explosives into CIA headquarters. That may have been inspired by an attempt to crash a small plane into the White House in 1994. The Philippine police claim that he had mentioned a number of high profile buildings as possible targets and that they shared all the information they got from him with the FBI and the CIA. Both Yousef and Murad are serving life sentences in a federal prison in Colorado, Yousef for his role in the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 and for having conspired with Murad to destroy American airliners.
That was the reaction of a Filipino investigator when he saw airliners crash into the Twin Towers on TV . He told reporters, "We told the Americans everything about Bojinka. Why didn't they pay attention?" If our counterterrorism experts at the FBI and CIA had paid attention, they would have been watching for any indications that bin Laden was still thinking of using planes as missiles to destroy big buildings. We said in our 9/13 column, "Reports that bin Laden was training pilots should have set alarm bells ringing. Only a few months ago an American Airlines crew had their uniforms and ID badges stolen from their hotel room in Rome. At the end of August, the airline alerted its employees to be on the lookout for impostors, but apparently no one saw this as a possible link to Project Bojinka. Airport security remained as lax as ever. Next came bin Laden's warning in mid-August that there would be 'an unprecedented attack on U.S. interests.' With Bojinka in mind, the government should have taken the strongest possible measures to prevent hijackings.
"Bin Laden showed his contempt for our intelligence agencies by training some of his hijackers at flight schools in this country, right under their noses. Had they forgotten about Project Bojinka in only six years? It should have been engraved in the collective memory of the CIA, the one target that Abdul Hakim Murad had mentioned by name. The FBI should have been asked to check out the flight schools, seeking information about any Middle Eastern students they had enrolled. The NSA should have been monitoring phone calls from the cities in which flight schools with Middle Eastern students were located. The CIA should have checked them for ties to bin Laden."
Chief Police Superintendent Avelino Razon told the Philippine Daily Inquirer that the Philippine intelligence report was passed on to the U.S. Embassy and the U.S. Joint Task Force on Terrorism. He said, "It was not given credibility, otherwise, it could have prevented the destruction of the World Trade Center." He said, "Bojinka called for the hijacking of U.S. commercial airliners, bombing them or crashing them into several targets, including the CIA."
In February 1998, Bojinka was described by Dale L. Watson, then the Chief of the International Terrorism Operations Section of the FBI, in testimony before a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, only as a plot to blow up "numerous U.S. air carriers." He said that the FBI had identified "a significant and growing organizational presence" of foreign terrorists in the U.S. He claimed the bureau had them under control. He said that as a result of the World Trade Center and Oklahoma City bombings, the FBI had developed an "enhanced capability" to track their activities.
After Bojinka was uncovered, federal authorities received further indications that the plan was being implemented. In early 1998, the Federal Aviation Administration was told of "concerns" of instructors at the Pan Am International Flight Academy in Phoenix, Arizona about a Saudi student named Hani Hanjour. They said he lacked the English skills necessary to fly multi-engine jet aircraft, a requirement for the civil aviation industry. The FAA responded by offering to provide an interpreter for Hanjour. He was the pilot of American Airlines Flight 77 which crashed into the Pentagon on September 11th. The FBI was also informed that al Qaeda agents had attended flight schools in the U.S. and Kenya in 1999 and 2000.
A very important clue that they failed to exploit was a tip from the Pan Am Flight Academy near Minneapolis concerning Zacarias Moussaoui, a Moroccan-French citizen who on Aug. 13 had paid $8,300, of which $6,800 was in cash, for training on a Boeing or Airbus 300 simulator. He had spent three months at the Airman Flight School in Norman, Oklahoma, where he had paid $5,000, half in cash, for pilot training. He completed 57 hours of flight time without soloing. Trainees there usually solo after 12 to 20 hours. The University of Oklahoma Daily quoted Airman's admissions director as saying, "He paid a large amount of cash to do this, but did not want to know how to take off or land. He wanted to know all about the navigation system." This was widely reported as an odd request Moussaoui made. Airman Flight School won't comment, but it was apparently a conclusion reached by his instructors at Airman.
He was at the Pan Am Flight Academy only two days. The instructor in his first ground school class saw that he wasn't pilot material. A New York Times story of Feb. 8, 2002 quoted him as saying, "He seemed particularly interested in flying once the plane was in the air," confirming the impression he gave the Airman instructors. It took only 24 hours for the Pan Am staff to conclude that his motives were not pure. Some thought he might be a hijacker, and, according to the Times, they discussed how much damage a 747 loaded with fuel would cause if it hit something. One of the managers offered to call a friend of his in the FBI office in Minneapolis. He was given permission to do so after class on Aug. 14. An FBI agent and an immigration agent came the next day and arrested Moussaoui on an immigration charge. On Aug. 17, they told the academy that he would not be returning.
A week later, FBI agents made inquiries about him at the Airman Flight School where they were no doubt told about his lack of interest in learning how to take off and land. They then asked headquarters to get a warrant to authorize a search of Moussaoui's computer and possessions. The FBI lawyers denied this request, saying there were not sufficient grounds to submit it to a judge. If the lawyers had been told about Bojinka they might have approved it. They might have been even more likely to approve it if they had known about the recommendations made in a July 10, 2001 memo to headquarters by Kenneth Williams, a counterterrorism specialist in Phoenix, AZ. He was concerned about the number of Middle Easterners being trained in our flight schools. His memo recommended that headquarters launch a nation-wide review of aviation schools, do visa checks, and take other steps to investigate the presence of potential terrorists in these schools. It also recommended sharing the information with the CIA. FBI headquarters did nothing but send the memo to the New York field office, which had responsibility for counterterrorist operations.
The memo was not shared with the CIA or agents investigating Moussaoui, who is believed to be the missing twentieth hijacker and is facing trial in Virginia. If the requested search had been authorized last August, the FBI would have learned that one of his tasks was to gather information about crop dusting. That was viewed as evidence that he was involved with a terrorist group planning to attack us with chemicals or pathogens.
That information might have spurred the FBI to give priority to Kenneth Williams' recommendation that the Middle Easterners who were taking flight training be investigated. They might have identified enough of the hijackers to disrupt their 9/11 plans. They have been busy checking the flight schools since then and have learned a lot. If they had done it earlier, three thousand deaths and billions of dollars in property damages might have been avoided. A thorough Congressional investigation of this incredibly costly failure is imperative.
When FBI Director Robert Mueller testified before the joint Senate and House investigative committee, Senator John Edwards (D-NC) asked Mueller if the Williams memo had made any reference to Osama bin Laden. Mueller said he was not certain. He couldn't recall. The senators begged him to release the memo or at least a redacted version of it, but Mueller refused, claiming it was necessary that he protect sources and methods.
The next day, the media reported that there had been a very prominent reference to bin Laden in the memo. Its very first sentence read, "The purpose of this communication is to advise the bureau and New York of the possibility of a coordinated effort by Osama Bin Laden to send students to the United States to attend civilian aviation universities and colleges." Mueller must not have read it.
Another document that has attracted a lot of media attention is the "analytic report" included in President Bush's morning intelligence briefing on August 6. Interest in it intensified when it was revealed that it also mentioned Osama bin Laden and hijacking. In a press briefing given by Condoleezza Rice, the President's National Security Advisor, she stressed that this was not a warning, simply an "analytic report." She said it provided no specific warnings and cited only information back to 1997 .
If so, it did not discuss Project Bojinka, which was discovered in January 1995. This is another example of Bojinka not getting the attention it deserved. The Washington Post's long story on Sept. 23 did not get picked up by other papers. Other news organizations, including the New York Times and the Washington Times, ignored it. Last September, AIM sent Howell Raines, executive editor of the New York Times, what we had written on Bojinka on Sept. 13 and a copy of the Washington Post story that filled over two pages. We asked why the Times had not even mentioned Bojinka. Raines responded that they didn't report it because it was old news that they had reported in 1995. We told him that was all the more reason to remind readers of its importance now. A few days later, the Times ran a brief account of Bojinka buried deep in another story.
In the wake of the controversy stirred up by the President's August 6 intelligence briefing, Bojinka suddenly became important news. On May 18, it was on the front page of the New York Times under a photo of the President and a three-column headline reading, "FBI Knew for Years About Pilot Training," followed by this sub-head: "Bureau Failed to Share Its Findings and to Connect the Dots." That is a fair criticism of the FBI and CIA, but it also applies to the New York Times and other news media that for over eight months failed to recognize Bojinka as an important dot. By finally putting it on page one, the New York Times tacitly acknow-ledged that AIM was right in treating it as important news on Sept. 13, and Howell Raines was wrong in ignoring it.
The only way 9/11could have been prevented was to find and arrest the bin Laden agents on the same charge that was brought against Ramzi Yousef and Abdul Hakim Murad-conspiracy to destroy American airliners. It took the staff at the Pan Am Flight Academy only one day to see that Zacarias Moussaoui had an ulterior motive in taking flying lessons. His training was obviously being paid for by someone else. Finding the source of the money could have led to others in the conspiracy. A week passed before the FBI checked on Moussaoui with the Airman Flight School where he paid half his tuition with a personal check. It was also where his lack of interest in learning to take off and land had been observed. The refusal of the FBI's lawyers in Washington to seek a warrant authorizing the Minneapolis field office to search Moussaoui's computer was another costly mistake.
The frustration felt in the FBI's Minneapolis office was expressed in a 13-page letter from its general counsel, Coleen Rowley, to the Congressional investigating committee. She disputed Mueller's claim that there was no information that would have helped prevent 9/11. She believed there was sufficient evidence to get a warrant to search Moussaoui's computer and charged that headquarters had ignored it, including Ken Williams' July 10 memo. She said they were also rebuffed when they sought permission to use grand jury subpoenas and open a criminal investigation. The FBI has classified her letter, and she has sought whistleblower status.
Condoleezza Rice offered the fullest accounting to date of what was known and how it was assessed prior to 9/11. She said that an attack was anticipated, most likely overseas. In December 1941, Japan was expected to attack south, not east. Rice says that the "threat information" was non-specific, vague, and generalized, that the intelligence came in "little snippets." She seemed to be saying that it was just too hard to put it all together, and she admitted that a "reorganization" was necessary to ensure that there would be a greater fusion of intelligence from all sources. We are relearning Pearl Harbor's lessons at the cost of nearly 3,000 American lives.
The agencies that were set up specifically for that objective failed. No matter how the White House, Congressional Republicans, or George Tenet's friends in the media try to spin this, the nation's intelligence agencies failed miserably in their most important mission, the prevention of another Pearl Harbor.
A front-page story in the Wall Street Journal on May 20 reported that a week before the 9/11 attacks "investigators told the Federal Aviation Administration that student-pilot Zacarias Moussaoui had been arrested and was under investigation as a potential terrorist with a particular interest in flying Boeing 747s." It said the FAA "decided against warning U.S. airlines to increase security. The story by three reporters, Stephen Power, David S. Cloud and Gary Fields, asserted FAA officials had said that at the time they did not have enough information to act. It went on to quote "a senior law enforcement official" as saying of Moussaoui, "Whatever he was going to do he was going to do it with a 747, and [the FBI] communicated that with the FAA. The logic at the time was that he intended to hijack a plane."
The Journal said the FAA's response to this was being scrutinized by Congressional investigators. It said FAA officials would not say what the FBI had told them about Moussaoui, but they said they didn't have enough information to warrant issuing an advisory to airlines. It quoted Scott Brenner, the FAA's public information officer, who asserted that they had not been told anything by the FBI "that would prompt us to take action." The Journal noted that Moussaoui was in custody and that the FBI didn't have enough evidence to connect him to "a larger plot."
It compared the FAA's response in this case to its action last June, when it cited "unconfirmed reports that American interests may be the target of terrorist threats from extremist groups" and advised the airlines that there was a "potential for a terrorist operation, such as an airliner hijacking to free terrorists incarcerated in the United States." However, that warning was in response to information from the CIA that there had been talk of hijacking a Pakistani airliner and holding the passengers and crew hostage to secure the release of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, who is serving time for plotting to bomb the World Trade Center in 1993. The FAA had been advised by the National Security Council's counterterrorism coordinator, Richard Clarke, to issue a warning about this hijacking threat.
Prior to 9/11, the FBI did not even inform Mr. Clarke about the arrest of Moussaoui. The FAA was justifiably upset by the implication that the information it got from the FBI about Moussaoui's arrest was enough to justify issuing a warning to the airlines. They say that all they were told was that this one individual, with no known ties to terrorists was under arrest. The quote from the senior law enforcement official implying that Moussaoui was intending to hijack a 747 should have been included in the information they were given, but it was not. The Journal's criticism of the FAA was unwarranted. The story went on to report information that reflected badly on the FBI, but that was in the last five paragraphs.
First, there was the report of the FBI's failure to notify the National Security Council's counterterrorism coordinator or other White House officials about Moussaoui. Next came the information that the reports on the Moussaoui investigation were routed to the office whose task was to monitor "radical fundamentalists," the same office that essentially bottled up Kenneth Williams' July 10 memo recommending an investigation of Middle Easterners studying at our flight schools. The Journal pointed out that this memo would have bolstered the argument for obtaining a search warrant in the Moussaoui case, a request that FBI lawyers rejected.
In the last paragraph, the Journal reported what might have been a more appropriate lead. It said that "agents working on the Moussaoui case in Minneapolis had a 'brainstorming session' about his possible intentions." At the flight school, Moussaoui had filed a mock flight plan that involved JFK airport. The Journal said that one of the agents wrote in the margins of his notes that one possibility was that he was planning to hijack a plane and fly it into the World Trade Center. The Journal said, "Those notes were part of an internal report that never left Minnesota, although they are now in the hands of Congressional investigators."
The FBI not only failed to provide the FAA with that information, but it also gave Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta information that contradicted a widely publicized report that supported the suspicion that Moussaoui was planning to hijack an airliner and crash it. On May 21, Mineta testified to the Senate Commerce Committee that the FBI had informed him that it was not true that Moussaoui had told his flight instructors that he was not interested in learning how to take off and land a plane, only in how to steer it. This is somewhat misleading. As we show in the story above, the assertion that he had little interest in learning to take off and land was a conclusion reached by his instructors at the Airman Flying School in Oklahoma, not what he told them. An instructor in Minnesota got the same impression, according to the New York Times.
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There's a clear trend in the prestige sector of the market for new models not to stray too far away from the successful formula. You can understand why. If your existing model is selling strongly, why would you want to risk scaring loyal buyers with something they might not like?
The new Range Rover (and in particular the Range Rover Sport which I drove for this test) is an interesting example. It continues the distinctive Range Rover look. But behind the evolutionary appearance, the latest model is radically different beneath the skin.
Whereas the outgoing Range Rover Sport actually had the Land Rover Discovery as its nearest relative, this new version really is part of the Range Rover family. In place of the body frame and separate chassis it inherited from its Discovery underpinnings, the new Range Rover Sport is built using the same aluminium monocoque construction as the latest Range Rover. This change has resulted in dramatic weight reduction, shedding a massive 400kg on some versions.
One of the most notable features of any Range Rover is that commanding driving position and fans of this will not disappointed. You definitely step up into the new Range Rover Sport.
That height is important, of course, for the Range Rover Sport's off-road ability. Compared to some other luxury SUVs, the Range Rover Sport is designed to have real off-road ability. Ground clearance with the air suspension in off-road height, is 278 mm. It can approach a 31º slope without grounding and leave a similar angle slope (30.9º to be precise). It can also cope with water up to a wading depth of 850 mm. (There is even a wade sensing mode in the £750 blind-spot monitoring system.)
The cabin is spacious and luxurious. I quickly found my ideal driving position, thanks to the electrical adjustments and, if you hate to get too hot, or too cold, you can hand Land Rover an extra £500 and specify the heated and cooled front seats. If you are spending that little bit extra, you also have to pamper yourself on cold winter mornings with the £175 heated steering wheel.
The test Range Rover Sport came with mysterious cloth pouches. On investigation they contained the headphones for passengers to use with the video and TV screens front and back. The Dual View Touchscreen (£600) manages the neat trick of showing video to the passenger, while displaying navigation or other settings to the driver on the same screen.
The air suspension initially felt a little floaty, such was the way it insulates you from bumps and thumps. But, the more I drove it, the more I marvelled at how Land Rover's engineers have managed to overcome the dreaded "lurch" that used to afflict comfort-sprung Land Rovers in days gone by. Despite its inevitably higher centre of gravity, this Range Rover Sport simply corners amazingly flat, with very little lean.
The loss of weight makes the Range Rover Sport feel more nimble and sporting. It also brings considerable improvement in efficiency. Times were when you feared to glance at the fuel gage in a Range Rover, but this Range Rover Sport now boasts a combined economy figure of 37 mpg. On mainly out-of-town driving, I found it easy to achieve a real-world figure of around 30 mpg – which seems pretty good for such a big four-wheel-drive vehicle.
As with most cars these days, you can see the manufacturers efforts to squeeze the most miles out of every gallon. In the Range Rover Sport I got the impression that the – otherwise wonderful eight-speed auto gearbox – had been giving a slightly lethargic initial uptake. I usually opted for the sports gearbox setting, which satisfied my desire for a sharper response.
My test would not be complete without taking the Range Rover Sport off road. You can set it up for off-road conditions either manually, by using the off-road terrain control, or you select 'auto'.
With the suspension in high setting, the gearbox in low and the differential locks engaged, I set off on my off-road course. Needless to say it romped over the heather, without a moment's hesitation. I found the side cameras, mounted in the door mirrors, useful to ensure there were no hidden boulders.
The Range Rover was the original vehicle that set out to combine off-road ability, with on-road refinement and a dash of luxury. Over the years it has become more and more luxurious and the Range Rover Sport has added its own more rakish style.
That combination of all-conditions driving ability, comfort, luxury and refinement makes the Range Rover Sport feel special. That is probably why it has continued to sell in huge numbers, despite the recession. This latest version is aimed at keeping it that way.
Range Rover Sport SDV6 HSE Dynamic
292 bhp
Combined fuel consumption 37.7 mpg
CO2 emissions 199 g/km
VED band J
0-60 6.8 seconds
Max speed 130 mph
Boot capacity 784/1761 litres
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The Ford Sierra RS Cosworth: an '80s icon of high-performance motoring in Europe, popular with rallying and touring car teams, as well as those who simply liked to drive fast. Nowadays you don't see too many driving around, and this Sierra Cosworth graveyard in Sweden may be one reason why.
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by Junnhb on Nov. 4, 2019
I spend about 4 hours there today 5%u201D of ice pretty solide did about 15 holes no bit I try a lots of different thing nothing I think there's to much food for them to bite
by Swamp_Donkey on Jul. 29, 2019
Went on July 24th 2019. Weeds line the perimeter of the shoreline for a bout 10'. No bites and no risers but only there for 20 minutes.
by Nemofish on Jun. 5, 2019
That shall be prussian carp on the sonar guaranteed. Nice little pond has been destroyed by carp. It's not a trout pond anymore....... it's stocked but hard to catch.
by Mykul on May. 22, 2019
Was there 4 hours today, not one bite. All over the sonar though. Their there, just not hungry.
by Ho Lee Fook on Apr. 21, 2019
No, but when they do it will be fished out in a week.
by PapaG on Apr. 19, 2019
Have they stocked the pond yet?
by Lakechaser on Jul. 16, 2018
Tiller, we can have the same effect if we report violations. There is even a reward for reporting poachers if convicted, This can be most effective if you phone them immediately so they can respond quickly and catch them red handed.
by Nagufish on Jul. 16, 2018
3 metre scum and thick algae perimeter around water, caught zero on mealworms and power bait and corn. Saw a guy catch a prussian
by Tiller150 on Jul. 1, 2018
Whoever put the carp in there needs to be locked up. I'm guessing it's one of these 2 rod Fishermen. Who keep over their limit and leave their trash lying around. I'm seriously considering to become a conservation officer to nail these people to the wall.Alberta is getting raped and ruined by these people.
by Nemofish on May. 6, 2018
Bread paste bait is the secret to catching carp, darn the secret is out! Nothing fancy, the trout will take also if it tastes good but more for carp. Use a pencil bobber vs round bobber, can detect more bites and set the hook after a few or more nibbles, not to soon. Put weight on fish hook (plummer) to find water depth, adjust bobber up & down, when weight is off the hook, when you put the bait on it should be resting at the bottom of pond or thereof right where the carp are bottom feeding. Use a size 12 hook, the smaller the better.
by Nemofish on May. 6, 2018
They normally target carp, their bait catches carp as I have done, carp no limit as they are a pest. The more fished out the better.
by Nemofish on May. 6, 2018
They normally target carp, their bait catches carp as I have done, carp no limit as they are a pest. The more fished out the better.
by jkagron on May. 5, 2018
Bunch of Chinese or some Asian decent... I asked them what are they using and they said No English but im sure its over the limit I told the guy you already caught more than 5 thats the limit...
by Nemofish on Feb. 28, 2018
Ice report 18 inches Fish on sonar but no bites
by Alija1984 on Sep. 3, 2017
The fishing. Today was excellent i used worms and got my limit of trout i also used a bobber and let my hook down 2 feet from the bobber it worked awesome
by Fishing Newbie on Aug. 22, 2017
Went out a couple days ago around dusk. Fished for a couple hours. Caught a 2inch Prussian carp and took it out of the water. No trout though. The area is pretty nice just wish the fishing was better.
by Nemofish on Jun. 30, 2017
AHFA a reminder the garbage bins along the east side are over the brim and spilling outwards. Need to be emptied. Thks
by Nemofish on Jun. 30, 2017
Pretty slow, can't even get a carp to bite. There is also NO CHUMMING allowed which means no you can't throw anything in water to attract fish near you. There is a guy with green and white striped umbrella. He was chumming and I told him that is not allowed. Probably playing 'No speakaenglish' He moved to a different spot on south end further away and threw alot more in water again. Hope fish & wildlife can nail him.
by walleye finder on May. 20, 2017
man oh man i am not screaming i am just impressed
by Nemofish on May. 20, 2017
Dewitts pond are just the small fry carp and they taste very good!!
by Nemofish on May. 20, 2017
CAPS ARE TO BE USED FOR THE FIRST LETTER OF A SENTENCE, THAT IS WHAT WE DO IN CANADA. Danny W was just sharing his opinion and all he asked was why we don't like carp? Some people like carp and others don't. There are BIG carp in Saskatchewan like they have in England and they enjoy fishing them too!!
by Nemofish on May. 20, 2017
by walleye finder on May. 19, 2017
by walleye finder on May. 8, 2017
not going there even thought i am asian
by scotiaberta on May. 6, 2017
Some bites. Lots of angler's no one really had luck
by walleye finder on Apr. 25, 2017
by Nviro on Nov. 5, 2016
Not only do they ruin the ecosystem they also don't get really big. They're basically goldfish. Biggest I've seen was probably a little over a pound.
by Jayjayjay on Nov. 5, 2016
I tried but it won't work. It's from a lake called Blood Indian creek reservoir
by Jayjayjay on Nov. 5, 2016
by Jayjayjay on Nov. 5, 2016
Carp ruin the environment for other fish here in Canada Danny. The other fish numbers go wayyyy down. We don't not like carp here. I have a picture of another lake and it says if you catch carp " Catch then and Kill them ".
by Danny w on Sep. 5, 2016
Why do you guys hate carp? Im from england and we have huge carp fisharies where there are big club competitions. They grow huge and fight like hell and they dont even bother the outher types of fish. Australia also dont do carp either
by Nemofish on Aug. 19, 2016
they are fishing carp, they know very well what they are doing!!!
by Driveby Fisher on Aug. 17, 2016
Don't bother, shallow, full of weeds and muddy brown smelly water. Only very small fish in here and shores are lined with people who don't have a clue.
by Kevintheangler on Jul. 24, 2016
by Icefishinglord39 on Jul. 18, 2016
Any fish left ? Thinking about going tomorrow
by Icefishinglord39 on Jul. 18, 2016
Any fish left ? Thinking about going tomorrow
by EthanAW on Jul. 7, 2016
Any browns caught? It'd be nice to see something rather than carp being caught
by BuschWacker on Jul. 6, 2016
by BuschWacker on Jul. 6, 2016
Was there on Sunday. Lots of bites. Pulled one out. Was about 10".
by Rsbrad on Jul. 3, 2016
Lots of bites here!
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by CaptSumTingWong on Jun. 28, 2016
Nope - fished out already. People from Communist countries took them all.
by jkagron on Jun. 27, 2016
No more fish? Even the people beside me didnt get anything
by Barrybull on May. 21, 2016
AIRDRIE DEWITTS POND BNTR BRBR 3N 600 19.2 18-Apr-16
by ab trouter on May. 11, 2016
I'm headed up there on Sunday I will be sure to try and get a few on a stringer. Only good Prussian carp is a dead one
by Nviro on May. 9, 2016
Cornmeal works too. Most of them are tiny but the odd one is 6 or 7 inches. They'll choke the trout out eventually. There are a few other potholes in the area with them too.
by CaptSumTingWong on May. 8, 2016
If there are that many up there I'll drop by and catch and kill them. This wasn't a problem until recently.
by ab trouter on May. 8, 2016
wow thats crazy!
by AlbertakidFishing on May. 8, 2016
Ab Trouter these are around 1-4 inch carp! not suckers actual asian carp. they like flour under a bobber. find a tree branch in a water they hide under that! caught one on a small spinner too!
by ab trouter on May. 8, 2016
nviro do you mean suckers or actual carp? It would be cool to catch some carp in Alberta.
by AlbertakidFishing on May. 7, 2016
I can agree on both ways! Using bait here works also but not using bait caught me more fish. But there would be a sign up saying has to be more than 6 inches to keep if there was a rule. there isn't so the people that are saying stuff just stop theres no point your just whining. The people that are keeping more than 5 rainbow or brown trout is illegal. But there is also a lot of carp in here and i mean a lot and today i went fishing to Dewitts the people beside us caught 82 carp. The conservation officers tell us to kill every single one you catch. Yes it is hard for all the asians or different culture fisherman that come to fish and do not read the regulations properly us canadians should go and just give them a little rundown and if it keeps happening call fish and wildlife. But these ponds are stocked for people to keep fish, i always do catch and release but stop hating on the people that keep 5 fish because there allowed


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I had a 6.0 mile run scheduled on my marathon training plan today, and I was unsure if I would be able to complete it.
Last week, I noticed that my left shin bone a couple inches under my knee was really bothering me. Not like shin splints, or the muscles that hurt around the shin bone, but the bone itself. Every time I would put pressure on that leg to walk down stairs, jump, or try to run pain would shoot up the bone.
I decided to skip my Friday run, and also my Sunday long run. In all, I took 5 days of complete running rest, only going to the gym for weights, and going on a 3.25 mile walk with Debbie.
This morning, I woke up late (7:45 am!). I knew that I could run this morning since my leg has been feeling better the last couple of days. I started of REALLY slow.. like 11:20 min/mile pace, and gradually built back up to normal speed.
Before heading out the door, I fueled up with a slice of toast with cherry preserves. Debbie brought me 9 bags of groceries when she moved, so I have all kinds of fun new stuff to try now (including cherry and pineapple preserves!)
I completed the 6.0 mile run in 58:16, or 9:42 pace! 😀 Considering ALL that I had working against me:
- 85 degree temps
- Running w/o my BFF 😦
- First run since injury
I think I did great! The pain never came back, and once I stopped wondering if it was going to hurt, I ran as usual!
Sweaty success! I came back to the apartment with a big grin! 😀
I honestly worried that I would be out for much longer! I think I did the right thing by taking time off IMMEDIATELY after the pain started. I've heard so many stories of people that kept running through injuries and it's only made them worse off. I can't imagine taking MONTHS off!
Breakfast was a big yogurt mess. It's been so long since I've craved yogurt, but with the hot temps, that was the only thing that would do the trick.
In the mess:
- 1/2 cup Kashi Go Lean
- 1/2 cup Kashi H2H
- 1/4 cup plain Oikos yogurt
- 1 kiwi
- strawberries
- raspberries
All mixed up…
I'm really happy, and thankful for every.single.mile.
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The British Academy of Management (BAM) is pleased to announce the launch of the BAM Transitions 1 Grants Scheme.
Through this scheme, BAM will make grants of up to £4,000 to encourage and support research activities with the ambition of building a pluralistic management research community, and advancing business and management scholarship.
Transitions 1 is open to BAM members early in their research career. The scheme is designed to:
- Give priority to members early in their research career (including those with an established teaching career).
- Encourage and support research across the range of BAM members' research interests.
- Support research in traditional and more innovative domains, as well as research with a practical orientation.
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Key Dates 2017
- Call for applications: January 2017
- Opening for applications: Monday 6th March 2017 at 12.00pm (GMT)
- Deadline for applications: Friday 7th April 2017 at 17:00pm (GMT)
- Reviewing process: May-July 2017
- Outcome of application notification and allocation of funding: August-September 2017
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