Tag: ABC
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doomsday cult refuses to leave underground bunker
from abc: Local officials and negotiators from the Russian Orthodox Church spent the weekend unsuccessfully trying to convince a group of doomsday cult members to come out of the underground bunker they have been holed up in for weeks. The groups leader, Peter Kuznetsov, ordered followers to take refuge in the bunker last month to…
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blackwater’s new weapon: laser dazzlers
from danger room: The State Department has a high-tech solution to keeping its security contractors from killing any more Iraqi civilians unnecessarily: Give the mercs laser dazzlers and helmet cameras. U.S. officials also tell ABC News that “the State Department plans to double the number of its diplomatic security agents to 90 so that one…
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iraq: video shows blackwater overreacted
official: ‘on the tape, there was nobodyshooting at the blackwater guards’from abc: The shooting deaths of 11 Iraqis and wounding of 12 more, allegedly by private security contractors working for Blackwater USA, has become a case of “he says, she says” in Iraq. Blackwater claims that the convoy of U.S. embassy officials they were escorting…
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surveillance cameras win broad support
from abc: Crime-fighting beats privacy in public places: Americans, by nearly a 3-to-1 margin, support the increased use of surveillance cameras – a measure decried by some civil libertarians, but credited in London with helping to catch a variety of perpetrators since the early 1990s. Given the chief arguments, pro and con – a way…
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‘possible’ new message from osama bin laden
from abc: A brief clip of an older-looking Osama bin Laden is contained in a new al Qaeda videotape praising al Qaeda martyrs posted on jihadi Web sites early this morning. Experts who study al Qaeda videos told ABC News they had not previously seen the clip of bin Laden, which was released with little…
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chertoff has ‘a gut feeling’ about more terror
from abc: Senior U.S. intelligence officials tell ABC News new intelligence suggests a small al Qaeda cell is on its way to the United States, or may already be here. The White House has convened an urgent multi-agency meeting for Thursday afternoon to deal with the new threat. Top intelligence and law enforcement officials have…
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paul tops mccain in campaign cash
from raw story: Ron Paul’s Republican presidential campaign raised $2.4 million in the second quarter of this year and currently has that much money in the bank, topping onetime-frontrunner John McCain’s $2 million cash on hand, ABC News reported. The campaign’s most recent haul is nearly quadruple its first quarter fundraising total, which the campaign…
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news on the march
pentagon funds gay bombs & armed sharksfrom abc: Creating armor that renders a soldier invisible. Stimulating the brain to suppress sleep for days. Arming sharks with chemical implants and cameras to work as spies. This year the Pentagon will spend $78 billion – about half of all government research and development dollars – on a…
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ed & elaine brown’s press conference
from blacklisted news/abc: Calling the federal agents surrounding his fortified compound “guns for hire,” a New Hampshire man convicted of tax evasion vowed today that he and his wife would fight U.S. marshals to the death if they tried to capture them. “Do not under any circumstances make any attempt on this land. We will…
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fbi terror watch list ‘out of control’
from abc: A terrorist watch list compiled by the FBI has apparently swelled to include more than half a million names. Privacy and civil liberties advocates say the list is growing uncontrollably, threatening its usefulness in the war on terror. The bureau says the number of names on its terrorist watch list is classified. A…
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abc’s the view plugs the resistance manifesto
from the resistance manifesto/you tube: Rosie O’Donnell and Christine Ebersole talk about John Conner crashing college campuses with 9/11 truth on ABC’s The View, Feb 9th, 2007 flashback: actor james brolin questions 9/11 on abc’s the view