This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: BBC
September 15, 2009
New York-based Human Rights Watch said Marc Garlasco was on suspension with pay "pending an investigation".
Mr Garlasco's hobby was revealed by Mere Rhetoric, a pro-Israeli blog which said the activities reflected "an anti-Israeli bias".
Mr Garlasco said he was interested in military history and was not pro-Nazi.
He said his interest sprang from the fact that his grandfather had been conscripted into the Nazi army.
Source: BBC
September 14, 2009
The money was used to arm the troops who moved with their equipment from the western border to the east based on the perceived threats, he said.
The US gave $10bn dollars to Pakistan to fight the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
In 2007, Pakistan rejected a report which said it had used $5bn on weapons systems designed to fight India.
Pakistan's military had described the New York Times report as "nonsense".
Source: Daily Mail (UK)
September 14, 2009
She famously declared that the bombing of Buckingham Palace meant she could 'look the East End in the face'.
Yet it is only now that the Queen Mother's immediate reaction to the 'horrible' bombing of the Royal Family's home in London can be revealed in full.
In a letter written to her mother-in-law Queen Mary 69 years ago, but released to the public only yesterday, she gives an astonishing account of how she heard a German bomber overhead, felt blasts when it struck,
Source: Daily Mail (UK)
September 14, 2009
History in schools is under threat as thousands of children drop the subject at the age of 13.
Three out of ten schools no longer teach history as a stand-alone subject for Key Stage 3, despite it being a compulsory part of the curriculum.
One school admitted that it taught the whole of the three-year course in just 38 hours - about one hour a week for one school year.
The 'national scandal' was highlighted yesterday by a survey that found just 30 per ce
Source: Fox News
September 11, 2009
Google is well known for the clever logos it often drapes over its home page on holidays and some anniversaries, such as the Internet behemoth's own birthday.
But on the solemn eighth anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks, while rivals including Ask.com and Microsoft's Bing.com offered prominent commemoration displays, it was just another day for the biggest search engine of them all.
Whereas Google made special note when Luciano Pavarotti died, the anniversary
Source: Euro Topics
September 14, 2009
The Dutch right-wing populist politician Geert Wilders has criticised Barack Obama's attempts to establish dialogue with the Islamic world. He compares the US president's tactics with the appeasement policy of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain towards the Nazis in 1938. An absurd comparison, the tabloid De Telegraaf complains: "The dangers of fundamentalist Islam are real. But they are not to be compared with the threat of a heavily armed fascist country like Nazi Germany in the 19
Source: NYT
September 15, 2009
WASHINGTON — President Obama rejected comparisons on Monday between the war in Afghanistan and the conflict in Vietnam a generation ago, but he expressed concern about “the dangers of overreach” and pledged a full debate before making further decisions on strategy.
The president’s comments, in an interview at the White House with The New York Times and CNBC, appeared to be a response to rising unease within his own party in Congress about the possibility of the United States becomin
Source: Fox News
September 13, 2009
AMSTERDAM — Attention, countries of the world: Do you know where your moon rocks are?
The discovery of a fake moon rock in the Netherlands' national museum should be a wake-up call for more than 130 countries that received gifts of lunar rubble from both the Apollo 11 flight in 1969 and Apollo 17 three years later.
Nearly 270 rocks scooped up by U.S. astronauts were given to foreign countries by the Nixon administration. But according to experts and research by The Ass
Source: telegraph.co.uk
September 12, 2009
Experts warn that parts of the cathedral are "falling down" and that the building as a whole is "in serious jeopardy".
A fifth of the structure's internal marble pillars are currently held together by duct tape.
In July, masonry around the Great South Window fell out, forcing the authorities to fence off the area around the window and south entrance to protect the public.
There are fears that the fourteenth century window, which is 80ft
Source: Politico
September 14, 2009
TED KENNEDY, IN HIS OWN WORDS -- Excerpts provided to POLITICO from 'True Compass: A Memoir,' by Edward M. Kennedy (532 pages, $35), published today by TWELVE:
ON HIS CORE RELIGIOUS BELIEF: 'My own center of belief, as I matured and grew curious about these things, moved toward the great Gospel of Matthew, chapter 25 especially, in which he calls us to care for the least of these among us, and feed the hungry, clothe the naked, give drink to the thirsty, welcome the stranger, visit
Source: AP
September 14, 2009
The expected release on Monday of the Iraqi television reporter jailed for throwing his shoes at former President George W. Bush was postponed, two of his brother said, citing delays in processing his paperwork.
Muntadhar al-Zeidi's family had gathered shortly after dawn outside an Iraqi army base in central Baghdad where he was expected to be released from prison.
After waiting more than five hours, his brother Dargham said he had received a phone call from al-Zeidi te
Source: Fox News
September 14, 2009
Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden described President Barack Obama as "powerless" to stop the war in Afghanistan, and Americans' inability to grasp why the Sept. 11 attacks occurred has "cost you a lot without any result whatsoever."
The remarks by the terrorist leader were released two days after the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that he ordered. Bin Laden typically addresses the American people in a message timed around the Sept. 11 anniversar
Source: Mail on Sunday (UK)
September 13, 2009
Russia's ambassador to Afghanistan has some advice for top NATO commanders fighting the Taliban based on the Soviet Union's bitter experience battling Islamist insurgents here in the 1980s: Don't bring more troops.
'The more troops you bring the more troubles you will have here,' said Zamir Kabulov, a blunt-spoken veteran diplomat.
In 2002, he noted, there were roughly 5,000 U.S. soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and the Taliban controlled just a small corner of the coun
Source: Daily Mail (UK)
September 14, 2009
A museum has a deal with a top bookmaker to display the Loch Ness monster - if the beast is ever caught.
The Natural History Museum has thrashed out an agreement with bookmaker William Hill which would see the monster go on public display.
For more than 20 years, William Hill has been paying the museum a retainer to showcase Nessie's remains in return for verifying her existence.
Documents released by the museum, based in South-West London, show a deal bet
Source: BBC
September 14, 2009
French journalist Florence Hartmann - the court's spokeswoman for six years - was fined 7,000 euros (£6,100).
She was found guilty of disclosing the existence of confidential documents on Serbian government involvement in the Bosnian war of the 1990s.
The documents were discussed in a book and article published by Ms Hartmann.
The confidential documents in question were only released by Belgrade for the trial of the former Serbian President Slobodan Milo
Source: Politics Daily (Contributor Matthew V. Storin)
September 12, 2009
About a week ago, I was handed a copy of the Ted Kennedy memoir in a sealed, padded envelope. As I carried the package, I could feel the familiar outside edges of a hard cover. Strangely, a thought came that now this still-unseen book was all that was left of this man who had been part of my professional life since 1965.
I mention this because "True Compass" (By Edward M. Kennedy, Hachette Book Group, 532 pp. $35.00) seems to be everything Kennedy had wanted to say about h
Source: The Washington Post
September 12, 2009
In marking his first Sept. 11 anniversary as commander in chief, President Obama told a solemn audience at the Pentagon on Friday, including relatives of those who died there eight years ago, that "no passage of time and no dark skies can ever dull the meaning of this moment."
It was not hollow rhetoric. The attacks and the steps that the Bush administration took to prevent another one have defined the way Obama views the world and have influenced, more than any other eve
Source: NYT
September 12, 2009
IN a corner of Bukvatoriya, a bookstore here in the capital of the Crimean Peninsula, are some stacks of literature that may be as provocative to the Kremlin as any battalion of NATO soldiers or wily oligarch.
The books are classics — by Oscar Wilde, Victor Hugo, Mark Twain, and Shakespeare — that have been translated into Ukrainian, in editions aimed at teenagers. A Harry Potter who casts spells in Ukrainian also inhabits the shelves.
Two decades ago, there would have
Source: Telegraph (UK)
September 11, 2009
A British film about Charles Darwin has failed to find a US distributor because his theory of evolution is too controversial for American audiences, according to its producer.
Creation, starring Paul Bettany, details Darwin's "struggle between faith and reason" as he wrote On The Origin of Species. It depicts him as a man who loses faith in God following the death of his beloved 10-year-old daughter, Annie.
The film was chosen to open the Toronto Film Festiv
Source: BBC
September 10, 2009
The remains of 250 soldiers killed at the Battle of Fromelles in northern France have been recovered after a four-month archaeological operation.
The remains from the group burial at Pheasant Wood will be reburied with full military honours at a new military cemetery close to the site.
The excavation, which began in May 2008, was carried out by Oxford Archaeology whose final day in the field will be 14 September.
DNA samples have been taken from every sol
