Expert says FBI covered up the plot to attack Congress which may have been perpetrated by the same people who carried out the 9/11 attacks

The real culprits behind the 2001 anthrax attack on Congress were most likely US government scientists at the army’s Ft. Detrick, MD., bioterrorism lab according to a former government biological weapons legislator and University of Illinois Professor.

Dr Franics A. Boyle says the FBI covered up these facts and has also quite clearly stated that he doubts the official government story that 19 arabs with boxcutters perpetrated the attacks of 9/11.

Boyle is a leading American professor, practitioner and advocate of international law. He was responsible for drafting the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, the American implementing legislation for the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention. (more…)

Civil liberties campaigners have expressed concerns over a senior policeman’s idea that taking DNA from babies could help solve crimes.

Commander Dave Johnston, giving a personal point of view, said that samples could also be taken from people renewing passports and from migrants.

However, human rights group Liberty has warned of turning Britain into a “nation of suspects”.

The UK’s DNA database currently has just over 3.6 million samples in it. (more…)

Mourners grieve for bomb victims at a Baghdad hospital

Iraqi police say the number of people killed when a suicide attacker set off a large bomb in a central Baghdad square has risen to at least 70.

The man detonated an explosives-packed pick-up truck after reportedly attracting crowds of Shia labourers to his vehicle with the promise of work.

More than 230 people were also injured in the blast early on Tuesday. (more…)

Knew people in FAA on day of hijackings who said intercept procedures should have been enacted as normal

A former Boston Center air traffic controller has gone public on his assertion that 9/11 was an inside job and that Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon tracked three of the four flights from the point of their hijacking to hitting their targets. In an astounding telephone interview, Robin Hordon claims air traffic controllers have been ignored or silenced to protect the true perpetrators of 9/11.

A recording of the phone conversation was posted on Google video late yesterday by the Pilots For 9/11 Truth organization. (more…)

Iran and US signed an agreement in 1978 which allowed Tehran to seek nuclear technology in order to meet its future energy demands but no one now talks about the agreement, said a political science professor on Tuesday.

Addressing an international conference of world geologists in this ancient city, central Iran, Professor of Political Geography and Geopolitics Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh said it was the US that encouraged Iran to develop nuclear energy.

“At that time, Americans had predicted that Iran’s population would reach 100 million by 2025 and this would face the country with an energy crisis,” said the professor who is also head of the London-based research foundation, ‘Eurosevic Institute’. (more…)

Today on Studio B with Shepard Smith they ran a segment on what the president might be thinking on his new inititative in Iraq. Under the banner ‘Battle For Iraq’ Smith said that senior administation officials now told Fox News that President Bush is leaning toward a large increase, possibly more than 10,000 U.S. forces to bring down the level of violence.

It was reported by Wendall Goler that the president had hoped to have his new initiative ready by Christmas, but now they’re not sure if it will be ready until the State of the Union Address. They said that Bush was leaning towards sending thousands of more troops to Iraq to get better control of the insurgency and the sectarian violence there. The president’s aides are trying to find out how many more troops are needed and where they will come from. (Comment: Yes, where will they come from?)

One senior administation official said there was a ton of stuff, a mountain of specifics in his words that needed to be dealt with in terms of military tactics and regional diplomacy that needed to be dealt with before the president can reach his new strategy. (Comment: What’s he been doing for 4 years?) (more…)

The Bangladeshi banker Muhammad Yunus, who invented the practice of making small, unsecured loans to the poor, warned today that the globalized economy was becoming a dangerous “free-for-all highway.”

“Its lanes will be taken over by the giant trucks from powerful economies,” Dr. Yunus said during a lavish ceremony at which he was awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. “Bangladeshi rickshaws will be thrown off the highway.”

While international companies motivated by profit may be crucial in addressing global poverty, he said, nations must also cultivate grassroots enterprises and the human impulse to do good.

Challenging economic theories that he learned as a Ph.D. student at Vanderbilt University, in Nashville in the 1970s, he said glorification of the entrepreneurial spirit has led to “one-dimensional human beings” motivated only by profit. (more…)

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has told a conference in Tehran questioning the Holocaust that Israel’s days are numbered.

“Just as the USSR disappeared, soon the Zionist regime will disappear,” he said to the applause of the participants.

The two-day conference provoked widespread international outrage.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned the forum and British Prime Minister Tony Blair called it “shocking beyond belief”. (more…)

MARK COLVIN: A Sydney high school student has lodged a complaint with the Anti-Discrimination Board after his legal studies teacher called him a terrorist in class.

16-year-old Wagih Fares, known to his friends as “Zac”, says he was stereotyped because of his Lebanese background.

The Education Department says the teacher has been reprimanded and has apologised to the boy and his family. But the boy’s family want the teacher transferred to another school.

Jennifer Macey reports. (more…)

In a rare public comment on its intelligence operations, the National Security Agency said Monday that it had 39 documents containing references to the late Princess Diana but had never targeted her telephone communications for monitoring.

The statement came in response to British media reports that U.S. intelligence officials had intercepted Diana’s calls on the day she died in a car crash in Paris in 1997. According to the reports, the officials had assured Scotland Yard investigators working on a pending report that 39 classified documents about her final conversations revealed no sign that her death was anything but an accident.

In its statement Monday, the agency said it had released information about the documents earlier. “The 39 NSA-originated and NSA-controlled documents referenced in a response to a Freedom of Information Act request in 1998 only contained references to the Princess, and she was never the communicant,” the statement said. “NSA did not target Princess Diana’s communications.” (more…)

52% in Poll Back Hearings on Handling of Domestic Surveillance

Two-thirds of Americans believe that the FBI and other federal agencies are intruding on privacy rights as part of terrorism investigations, but they remain divided over whether such tactics are justified, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll released yesterday.

The poll also showed that 52 percent of respondents favor congressional hearings on how the Bush administration has handled surveillance, detainees and other terrorism-related issues, compared with 45 percent who are opposed. That question was posed to half of the poll’s 1,005-person random sample.

Overall, the poll — which includes questions that have been asked since 2002 and 2003 — showed a continued skepticism about whether the government is adequately protecting privacy rights as it conducts terrorism-related investigations. (more…)

Moscow plans on delivering fuel in March for Iran’s first atomic power plant amid heightened international debate over Tehran’s nuclear program, Russian state monopoly Atomstroiexport told Russian news agencies Tuesday.

“We plan to launch preliminary work in January to deliver fuel in March,” Sergei Shmatko, head of Atomstroiexport, was quoted by the Ria Novosti agency as saying.

Shmatko said the nuclear fuel would be delivered on schedule to the southern plant of Bushehr, six months before its expected opening in September 2007. (more…)

The Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majlis) is agreable to replacing the US dollar with the euro in Iranian foreign transactions, said a member of the Majlis Planning and Budget Commission, Morteza Tamaddon, on Saturday.

Speaking to IRNA, the MP said the move is part of Iran’s general policy towards the West as dependence on the US currency would have negative consequences for Iran in the long-term.

Reducing Iran’s dependence on the US dollar would eventually make the country less vulnerable to the dollar, argued the MP.

Referring to the move as a “positive approach,” Tamaddon said Iran’s decision to replace the US dollar with the euro was not politically motivated. (more…)

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Tuesday sparked an uproar after an apparent slip of the tongue in which he for the first time listed Israel as a nuclear power, but few expected the blunder to alter the Jewish state’s “policy of nuclear ambiguity.”

Israel, widely considered the Middle East’s sole nuclear power, has for decades refused to admit or deny whether it possesses the atomic bomb.

But on Monday, Olmert appeared to break the taboo in an interview with a German television station as he began a visit to Berlin.

“We never threatened any nation with annihilation,” Olmert said, speaking in English, on the N24 Sat1 station. (more…)

The Secret Rulers of the World features many of the characters covered in Ronson’s book THEM: Adventures with Extremists. Topics covered … all » include: David Icke, Bilderberg Group, Ruby Ridge, Bohemian Grove and Timothy McVeigh.