April 22, 2005

Do you think they just walked out?: JERUSALEM - Palestinian leaders have admitted that two militants charged in connection with a Tel Aviv suicide bombing in February have escaped custody. Palestinian security forces arrested the two men, who belong to the militant group Islamic Jihad, following the Feb. 25 bombing. Five Israelis died in the bombing near the Stage nightclub. Security forces haven't explained how the two men escaped. The CBC News article here. 2:39:34 PM

Saddam invested one million dollars in Paul Martin-owned Cordex by Judi McLeod, Canadafreepress.com The Canadian company that Saddam Hussein invested a million dollars in belonged to the Prime Minister of Canada, canadafreepress.com has discovered. Cordex Petroleum Inc., launched with Saddam's million by Prime Minister Paul Martin's mentor Maurice Strong's son Fred Strong, is listed among Martin’s assets to the Federal Ethics committee on November 4, 2003. Among Martin’s Public Declaration of Declarable Assets are: "The Canada Steamship Lines Group Inc. (Montreal, Canada) 100 percent owned"; "Canada Steamship Lines Inc. (Montreal, Canada) 100 percent owned" -Cordex Petroleums Inc. (Alberta, Canada) 4.6 percent owned by the CSL Group Inc." READ THE WHOLE STORY HERE! 12:51:41 PM

The Globe and Mail reports that Videotron, a Canadian ISP, will not be fighting the request to turn over the names of music swappers to the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA). According to a lawyer for Videotron, producing the identities of Internet users alleged of wrongdoing happens so regularly that they believe that it is justifiable to hand over the names of people who share large volumes of songs on-line. The five Internet service providers named in the case -- Shaw Communications, Rogers Cable Communications, Bell Canada, Telus Communications and Videotron -- can't divulge the information without a court order because privacy legislation requires them to keep customer information sealed. [Slashdot] 11:15:13 AM

Burmese regime 'used chemical shell on rebels' Telegraph - The Burmese military dictatorship used chemical weapons against ethnic minority guerrillas this year, an international human rights group said last night. Christian Solidarity Worldwide said Burmese forces mounted a month-long artillery barrage against a border post held by Karenni soldiers at Nya My, close to the Thai town of Mae Hong Son. Rebels quoted by the organisation said it culminated with a shell that released a cloud of pungent yellow smoke. Martin Panter, the organisation's president, who interviewed five of them, said: "These are soldiers with 15 to 20 years' experience. This was not something they had experienced before." Within minutes they were "extremely distressed", some with their skin blistering, two vomiting blood, two more coughing it up and four unable to walk. "They were more or less bed-bound for a week," Dr Panter said, and lost between 11lb and 22lb each over the following four weeks. 8:16:49 AM

Google Feature Logs Users' Histories PC World -Users who routinely can't find Web sites they previously located using Google's search engine are getting some help from the Mountain View, California, company. To assist users in looking for previously found, but now misplaced, Web site links, Google is introducing a new service that logs users' Web search queries on the site and the results they click on. 7:22:08 AM