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Tuesday, June 22, 2004

12:31:40 PM

Yahoo! 48 Nobel Prize winners slam Bush, back Kerry (Chicago Tribune). Chicago Tribune - Forty-eight Nobel laureates denounced President Bush on Monday for "compromising our future" when it comes to scientific research and the environment, and said Sen. John Kerry "will restore science to its appropriate place in government and bring it back into the White House." [Yahoo! News - Reader Ratings]

11:06:59 AM

The Guardian Bush told he is playing into Bin Laden's hands

A senior US intelligence official is about to publish a bitter condemnation of America's counter-terrorism policy, arguing that the west is losing the war against al-Qaida and that an "avaricious, premeditated, unprovoked" war in Iraq has played into Osama bin Laden's hands...
Anonymous, who published an analysis of al-Qaida last year called 'Through Our Enemies' Eyes', thinks it quite possible that another devastating strike against the US could come during the election campaign, not with the intention of changing the administration, as was the case in the Madrid bombing, but of keeping the same one in place.
"I'm very sure they can't have a better administration for them than the one they have now," he said...

BBC US 'losing fight against terror'. A new book by a serving US intelligence official sees the West losing the battle against al-Qaeda. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition]

9:53:32 AM

Earth as Art

Yahoo! Port of Los Angeles Opens Green Shipping Terminal (Reuters). Reuters - The Port of Los Angeles on Monday opened the world's first green container terminal as part of a $50-million settlement of a lawsuit over air pollution that has plagued communities near the port. [Yahoo! News]

Updated: 7/1/04; 1:58:28 AM.

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