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Fran, try
http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2007/11/fbi-hoped-to-fo.html

Thanks Billy. That article says much the same as every other thing I've
managed to find out on this - the only 'factual' bit is the mention of a
few
names. There is no report of arrests of hundreds of people anywhere.

Just because someone comes up with a 'bright' idea doesn't mean it'll
fly. I
still have grave doubts that it did fly but it may have glided for a
short
distance till it went further up the bureacratic dung heap till it got to
Mason who had enough sense to see it was a crock of an idea.

Good news, Bad news: the Good news is that the L.A. Times gave their
source as the Congressional Quarterly. Bad news is that the
Congressional Quarterly is a private publication, that requires a
subscription to read it :O))

And those 3 names given, and which are as close as I can get to any 'facts'
about humus buyer targetting, are the same ones mentioned everywhere and are
probably also all from exactly the same 'source'.

There just is not enough 'evidence' to claim that anything of the sort
happened.

The telling point is that no American doubts the report. I think that we
are all screwed. I'm hoping that's just me.

LOL. That isn't saying a lot Billy. Americans seem to be more paranoid
about their own government than any other group of people on earth except
for those of the old Soviet Union - perhaps a hang over them the 1950s

Wish it was just me.

http://pewglobal.org/2007/03/14/amer...d-findings-fro
m-the-pew-global-attitudes-project/
Released: March 14, 2007
America¹s Image in the World: Findings from the Pew Global Attitudes
Project

I am here to tell you what we have learned over these years about
international opinion of the U.S., including views of its policies,
values, and people. Since our first poll in June 2002, we have
interviewed in depth about 110,000 people in 50 countries. I believe it
is fair to say we have been the first and foremost chronicler of the
rise of anti-Americanism in the 21st century. Indeed, the headlines of
our annual reports on America¹s image tell the story:
€ December 2002 * America¹s image slips, although goodwill towards
the U.S. remains
€ June 2003 * U.S. image plunges in the wake of the Iraq war
€ March 2004 * No improvement in U.S. image, some worsening in Europe
€ June 2005 * U.S. image improves slightly, although still negative
in most places; and anti-Americanism is becoming increasingly entrenched
€ June 2006 * Show little further progress * in fact some back
sliding. Even as the publics of the world concurred with the Americans
on many global problems.
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What's with Australia these days, drowning in the east, and burning up
in the west?
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- Billy
http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

http://peace.mennolink.org/articles/...acegroups.html
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