Fellow Gun Grabbers Gun supporters baffled by Bush stance
POLICE STATE HEADLINES
Ashcroft's New Ally Senator Schumer Pushes to Make Covert Surveillance Easier
Pocket tracker monitors children Worried parents will soon be able to keep an eye on their children at all times via a wearable tracking device and a website that maps where they go.
Key Republican Not Sure on Patriot Act The Bush administration's plans to expand a post-Sept. 11 anti-terrorism law face resistance from a powerful House Republican who says he's not even sure he wants the government to keep its new powers
Police focus on terror, security
Critics of Anti-Terror Law Warn about Dangers of Sequel In response to the leaked memo, obtained by the Center for Public Integrity, the Justice Department said there were no formal proposals for PATRIOT II submitted either to Attorney General John Ashcroft or President Bush.
US NEWS HEADLINES
Our outrageous tax system
Some peace activists refuse to pay taxes The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee estimates as many as 8,000 Americans each year avoid paying some or all of their federal income tax liability because of their political beliefs
Agency uses polygraph despite shortcomings The Energy Department decided yesterday to continue using polygraph tests to protect the nation's nuclear-arms stockpile, despite a scientific study that found severe shortcomings in the tests' accuracy.
GLOBAL POLICE STATE
Australia: Police seek national crossbow ban
WWIII?
Russia criticizes US stance on N.Korea
Hawks recycle arguments for Iraq war against Syria
NEW WORLD ORDER
SCIENCE AND HEALTH HEADLINES
US 'PAID OFF ARMY LEADERS' Many of Saddam's top military henchmen were secretly paid off and air-lifted to safe havens by US special forces as Baghdad fell
Iraqis Say Lynch Raid Faced No Resistance Pentagon Was Told Of Risk to Museums U.S. Urged to Save Iraq's Historic Artifacts
Russian President Vladimir Putin has welcomed the fall of Saddam Hussein but questioned the validity of the coalition's war aim of rooting out weapons of mass destruction
No strike on other countries, Putin warns US Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday warned the US-led coalition not to attack other countries under the pretext of promoting capitalist and democratic values after having defeated Iraq's dictatorial regime.
Pro-Saddam gangs challenge marines' control of Tikrit Gangs of Arab tribesmen armed with Kalashnikovs and machine guns were still in control of much of Tikrit last night
Blix: US was bent on war War against Iraq was a foregone conclusion months before the first shot was fired, the chief weapons inspector Hans Blix has claimed.
Admiral says banned arms claims were exaggerated "There are some people who have talked in terms of thousands of tonnes of chemicals and hundreds and hundreds of missiles, and I would say that is way beyond the top end," Sir Alan said, though he added: "I am absolutely convinced they have got elements of weapons of mass destruction."
The Smoking Gun’s Charred Trail Coalition May Have Destroyed Papers on Weapons — And Given Itself an Excuse
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