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Friday, August 6, 2004 |
BBC: "Confusion surrounds claims that an al-Qaeda plan to attack Heathrow airport was foiled by British police.
The Times newspaper said an attack was in its 'final stages' but had been averted after UK police acted on Pakistani intelligence. But government officials in Pakistan deny any details were passed to the UK.
The Home Office confirmed that there had not been a specific threat."
Salon: "Rep. Katherine Harris has earned herself another dubious distinction. After doing her best to secure Florida's electoral votes for President Bush in 2000, the former Florida secretary of state turned U.S. Rep is now inventing terror plots to boost Bush's campaign.
The AP reports today: 'Republican Rep. Katherine Harris said Wednesday she regrets concerns caused by her claim that a plot existed to blow up the power grid in Carmel, Ind. City officials disputed the claims of a plot.'"
5:48:34 PM 
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"It wasn't necesssary to hit them with that awful thing.
Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Commander Allied Forces Europe, and later President of The United States.
When the atomic bomb was dropped, President Truman said that it was to make Japan surrender without losing large numbers of American lives in an invasion. This has long been the accepted truth. The release of documents and diaries now shows this story is false. In the months before the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Truman and his senior staff did not believe that it was necessary to drop the bomb to end the war with Japan. They believed that Japan could be brought to surrender without an invasion. Japan was militarily isolated and had no allies. They believed that bombing, blockade, and the entry of the Soviet Union into the war against Japan, would together force Japanese leaders to seek surrender on American terms. Most important, from diplomatic contacts and decoded Japanese wireless transmissions, they knew that the Japanese were seeking surrender. They believed that if they allowed the Japanese to retain the Emperor, as they later agreed to, the Japanese would accept American terms of surrender."
Turks: "Cancer and birth defects have been spreading like wildfire in Iraq since the 1991 US-led Gulf War ... 7500 Iraqis are being infected with cancer ever year."
11:34:07 AM
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White House: "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." (For as long as the link will give the original statement.)
Now you have it straight from the horse's mouth. Bush was serious, the audience remained unruffled.
Via Joi Ito's who also has the sound file.
I have made it the Theme of the month (see top yellow bar) so you can enjoy it whenever you want until at least the next month.
10:52:56 AM
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