The Busheviks are so busy stealing and so incompetent at governing that we are really and truly soooo screwed!
(CNN) -- A former top aide to Colin Powell says his involvement in the former secretary of state's presentation to the United Nations on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was "the lowest point" in his life.
"I wish I had not been involved in it," says Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, a longtime Powell adviser who served as his chief of staff from 2002 through 2005. "I look back on it, and I still say it was the lowest point in my life." ...
Judge berates US failures as 9/11 supporter is convicted
By Richard Beeston, Diplomatic Editor
A GERMAN court yesterday convicted a Moroccan student of belonging to the al-Qaeda cell responsible for the attacks on America of September 11, 2001, but acquitted him of direct involvement in the murder of nearly 3,000 people.Mounir al-Motassadeq, 31, was sentenced to seven years in prison for membership of a terrorist organisation, but the judge ruled that the more serious charges were not proven, in part because of a failure by the US authorities to co-operate with the prosecution.
In a three-hour judgment, read out before a court in Hamburg, Judge Ernst-Rainer Schudt said that the US Justice Department had refused to co-operate fully with the German court.
“How are we supposed to do justice to our task when important documents are withheld from us?” the judge asked. ...
Rockets Fired at U.S. Navy Ship in JordanBy Megan K. Stack, Times Staff Writer
EL ALAMEIN, Egypt -- Militants fired at least three homemade rockets from a warehouse hide-out in the Jordanian port of Aqaba today, narrowly missing a U.S. Navy ship and killing a Jordanian soldier.
Jordanian forces cordoned off the port city and scoured the rough desert and surrounding hills in search of the men suspected of waging the most serious militant strike against the U.S. Navy since the destroyer Cole was bombed off the coast of Yemen in 2000.A shadowy group loyal to Al Qaeda issued an Internet statement claiming responsibility for the attack. ...
