According to ABC News' Brian Ross today, two agents told him they were ordered to stop investigations into a suspected terror cell linked to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network and the Sept. 11 attacks. 

In an investigation of a powerful Saudi Arabian businessman, Yassin al-Kadi, who is one of 12 Saudi businessmen suspected of funneling millions of dollars to al-Qaeda and who had extensive business and financial ties in Chicago.

Assigned to the case was FBI agent Gamal Abdel-Hafiz, who is Muslim; he refused to secretly record one of Yassin al-Kadi's suspected associates, who was also Muslim. Gamal Abdel-Hafiz said: "a Muslim doesn't record another Muslim." "He wouldn't have any problems interviewing or recording somebody who wasn't a Muslim, but he could never record another Muslim." Far from being reprimanded, Gamal Abdel-Hafiz was promoted to one of the FBI's most important anti-terrorism posts, the American Embassy in Saudi Arabia, to handle investigations for the FBI in that Muslim country.

Fox News Sunday: "There are white Niggers. I've seen a lot of white Niggers in my time." "I'm gonna use that word. But we all just need to work together to make our country a better country." 

In a 1940s letter renouncing his membership: "[I will never serve in the military] with a Negro by my side." "I should die a thousand times and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than see this beloved land of ours become degraded by Race Mongrels, a throwback to the Blackest Specimen of the Wilds." 

He spent 14 hours filibustering against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. He voted against the only two blacks ever nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas.

Mr. Fife recently retired from the North Carolina SBI, where he served as Special Investigator for 14 years.

Before joining the bureau, he worked for Mayberry Sheriff Andy Tailor as Chief Deputy for Training and Traffic.

In releasing the newly formed policy Friday afternoon, the bishops stopped short of calling for the immediate defrocking of priests guilty of child abuse as victims had demanded. 

"We did the second strictest thing," said Bishop Donald Trautman of Erie, Pa., "and what we did effectively took these priests out of ministry."

Oh yea speaking of sinning, son, tell your mother I'll be home a little late tonight.

More than 25 agency analysts and at least one senior manager from the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence will assist the FBI director, Robert Mueller, in reshaping the bureau into an agency more focused on counterterrorism, and less on retirement perks. Yea I believe that.

"Maybe it would be better for [Ashcroft] to
spend a little less time trying to sully up my
reputation and leave that to me.

When Attorney General John Ashcroft was asked about Dan Rather's remarks, he said, "Dan Who?"
 

Rather said he "believed" his network's report that the White House received a CIA briefing before 9-11 on possible al-Qaeda hijackings prompted the administration to issue the alert for political damage control.

"I believe the president and the people around him were surprised and peeved that the information got out last week with [CBS's] report that President Bush had been briefed about some things that, in retrospect after Sept. 11, would indicate that, well, maybe somebody should have done something."

Hey Dan, not everyone reacts the way you Would.

Under Secretary of Transportation for Security John "Can't-Draw" Magaw, testifying before a Senate committee, said, "Utilizing the experience of my 40 years as a night watchman at Sears, and consulting with all the 'best people,' both of them, I will not authorize firearms in the cockpit."

With Bush's approval rating hovering above 80 percent they are leaving him alone; but after he has succeeded in his/our War on Evil, they will slither out from under their rocks and do their best to "rip him a new one."

This is the same bunch that ambushed Bush's father in the early '90s, paving the way for the reason we are in the mess in the first place: The Clintons!
 

"I'm amused, frankly. I'd asked them to take a look at what I said, because I stand by what I said."

"Don't they know by now that we will go after them over anything, and everything?"

The latest bomb was accompanied by a letter, the FBI said. Most of the earlier bombs were accompanied by anti-government notes that warned "More 'attention getters' are on the way."

"It's another pipe bomb. It looks similar to the others," said FBI agent Larry Holmquist in Omaha. "Upon our initial inspection, it appears it would be from the same source."

In a unprecedented change of doctrine, the Holy See will decree that to make celibacy less stressful, and to reduce the temptation toward pedophilia, all new priests will undergo surgical castration. 

As proof of castration, priests will wear the Medal of St. Castration around their neck, and will wear on their Cossack, their dried and preserved Scrotum.

As atonement, those priests who have been implicated in acts against children will also undergo castration, but without benefit of anesthesia.

Police officers--detectives--showed up at the childrens's homes past midnight to investigate the charges.
 

Spokesman for the Rope Industry Trade Orginization (RITO) claims the shortage was brought about because of the rope given to PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat over the last 20 years.

According to the UN, no Despot has ever be given this much rope. 

Israeli------ Contribution

They appearently believe that a 88-year-old grandmother, carrying her knitting needles, would hijack a plane!  We can't put anything past Washington's bureaucrats: they must think that a hijacker with no hijacking tools might search the plane, find granny's knitting needles and stab his way through the steel reinforced cockpit doors. 

Arafat said. "Allah, give me martyrdom in … [Jerusalem], the place from which the Prophet Muhammad ascended to the heavens… I may be martyred, but certainly one of our boys or one of our girls will wave the flag of Palestine over the walls of Jerusalem, over the minarets of Jerusalem, and over the churches of Jerusalem. ... This is the path I have chosen. … Allah, give me martyrdom. ..." 

Please, somebody give him Martyrdom!

A Palestinian spokeswoman did say that they had made a request to the Israeli commander for a change of fresh underware for Chairman Arafat.

CNN beamed a report WORLDWIDE that stated: "The U.S. military needs more time to retool its ships, aircraft and weapons, restock munitions and to rest its troops." 

The network's Jamie McIntyre and slugged 'U.S. Military Not Ready']: "Could they help our enemies any more if they tried! Gee, CNN tells the world: 'Now's the time to attack America! That's what they've just done! We're resting??" 

McIntyre reported: "While the U.S. has plenty of the latest satellite-guided bombs, it is short of other high-tech assets, such as unmanned spy planes, which commanders now see as indispensable in providing real-time reports from the battlefield.

Mrs. Brady bought the Remington .30-06 rifle, complete with scope and safety lock, at a Lewes, Del., gun shop, reported the New York Daily News.

"I can't describe how I felt when I picked up that rifle, loaded it into my little car and drove home," she writes in "The Good Fight." "It seemed so incredibly strange: Sarah Brady, of all people, packing heat." 

"Bush seems to have adopted a policy of speak loudly and carry a small stick," Gore said at a private Manhattan fundraiser in mocking the anti-terror campaign. Like Daschle, he did not say what he would do differently.

Arab foreign ministers in closed-door talks discussed the Saudi proposals to offer Israel peace and recognition in return for withdrawal from Arab lands it captured in the 1967 Mideast war.

Even though the incident involved a toy gun, the Washtenaw County Prosecutor's Office said, Tommy Davis' intent was to threaten and scare the other children. The boy, who was 7 at the time of the incident, has a hearing on three felonious assault charges next week in Washtenaw County Juvenile Court.

"Besides, what do we do if they start calling us names?"

"John loves America. We love America," Walker's father said after the hearing. He said his son was innocent of the charges.

"John Walker chose to join terrorists who wanted to kill Americans," Attorney General John Ashcroft notes.

Senator Hillary Clinton said, "Johnny went bad because of the Bush Tax Cut."

The team will then report to the prison's leadership, making recommendations if necessary. A request may be as simple as putting another towel in the bathroom or increasing the size of their color TV.