"The missile shipped into the New York area last month was not a real missile — just a mockup — arranged entirely by the government. The government also arranged the meetings at a New Jersey hotel and elsewhere, where Lakhani allegedly told undercover agents posing as al Qaeda terrorists about his support of bin Laden. 'One would have to ask yourself, would this have occurred at all without the government?' said [one] criminal defense attorney." [more]

"The effect of a nuclear-isomer explosion would be to release high-energy gamma rays capable of killing any living thing in the immediate area. This material could cause long-term health problems for anybody who breathed it in." [more]

"Recently, U.S. English [a group for which Schwarzenegger sits on the board of advisors] has come under the scrutiny of watchdog groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center for its hiring of [James] Lubinskas in March. [He] has long ties to right-wing nationalist groups, such as American Friends of the British Nationalist Party. The Summer 2000 edition of the AFBNP newsletter describes a meeting in which Lubinskas shared a stage with former Louisiana Klansman David Duke." [more]

"One of the psychologists behind the study, Jack Glaser, said the aversion to shades of grey and the need for 'closure' could explain the fact that the Bush administration ignored intelligence that contradicted its beliefs about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction." [more]

"Since the war, Iraq has started to look like a fertile ground for terrorists. The American invasion made this possible. The United States has created what it went to war to prevent." [more]

"With all the attention paid to neo-conservatives in the international media nowadays, one would think that there would be a standard definition of the term. Yet, despite their now being credited with a virtual takeover of US foreign policy under President George W Bush, a common understanding of the term remains elusive." [more]