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POPSGreat Escape tunneller dies they don't make them like this anymore. This appears on the UK's Institution of Civil Engineers website presumably because he was a 'tunneller'!
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POPSThe Constitution Lives! Almost killed by rebubbacans, making a comeback.
Members of the area's Uighur community reacted to the decision with jubilation. "We won!" one attendee exclaimed after the hearing, setting off a loud cheer. Scores of detainees are challenging their detentions in federal court after winning a Supreme Court ruling in June that gave them the right to have their cases reviewed by federal judges under the legal doctrine of habeas corpus. The government suffered a major setback in June when a federal appeals court found the evidence against one Uighur to be so weak that it compared the government's legal theories to a nonsensical 19th-century poem, Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark." The court ordered the man, Huzaifa Parhat, released, transferred or offered a new military hearing. The government chose not to retry Parhat and announced it would no longer treat him as an enemy combatant. It subsequently did the same for four others and added the final 12 late last month.
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POPSFARC Hostage Ingrid Betancourt Freed But in becoming so famous, the 46-year-old Ms. Betancourt also became more valuable to the FARC, which was feeling the heat from the government under U.S.-ally President Álvaro Uribe (who, it so happened, hosted Sen. John McCain on Tuesday). FARC funds itself largely through drug trafficking and kidnapping, but despite such activities had found a friend in Hugo Chávez. The Venezuelan president and FARC had sought to use the selective release of hostages to get governments allied with him, such as Ecuador and Nicaragua, to grant the group diplomatic recognition -- a move that, if followed by other countries in the region, would undermine the Colombian government's offensive against the FARC and by extension U.S. influence in the region. Mr. Chavez had declared his motives to be purely humanitarian; but, in any event, it is the Colombian military that has now done the selective releasing.
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POPSlavande sur plateau de valensole Site remarquable du goût pour le miel de lavande, le plateau de Valensole est la plus grande étendue plantée de lavandins où les abeilles, captives de ces flagrances entêtantes, butinent exclusivement les fleurs bleues. Le paysage composé par l'homme est une immense mosaïque de bleus et d'or. Période de floraison : mi-juin / mi-juillet
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POPSBarak: Only deterrent military power will bring peace As if Israel is not already top-heavy with the most sophisticated weaponry and accompanying connivance ever known to the human race, including 150 nuclear bombs, its head-of-state don't think Israel has enough. Barak's statement is just one of the many illustrations of a very mentally ill society that thinks that gunpower will exonerate them from all the butchering, slaughtering, torturing, ethnic cleansing, stealing and any and every crime against humanity. If his statement is the rule of humanity then all gangsters and brutal dictators have been morally correct all along.
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POPSWaterboarding Is Torture Waterboarding is a torture technique. Period. The next U. S. Attorney General should say those same words, and it's not going to the Michael Mukasey.
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POPSWho is the US fighting in Iraq? And when you hear Cheney say we have to fight al-Qaeda in Iraq, you will know that most of the people the US is fighting there are no such thing. Bomb Saudi Arabia! Wait I mean, look over there......it's the Iranians! Bomb the Iranians. Frigging nutjob lying chickenhawks.
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POPSGitmo Not So Bad Hey I thought Gitmo was supposed to be ultimate evil. Now these babies and their supporters want to stay?
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POPSIsraeli 'Shin Bet involved in 1976 hijacking' 
The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) may have been involved in the hijack of an Air France plane in 1976 by Palestinian terrorists, according to newly declassified British government documents released Friday. Some 100 passengers were held by hijackers at Entebbe airport in Uganda during an eight-day ordeal that concluded when General Staff Reconnaissance Unit (Sayeret Matkal) troops stormed the building where captives were held. Twenty-four people died in the shoot-out, including three hostages, 20 Ugandans and the commander of the rescue team, Yoni Netanyahu. The hijackers, from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the German Baader-Meinhof gang, demanded the release of Palestinian prisoners. But according to the newly released documents, the Shin Bet, and the PFLP are alleged to have teamed up in an "unholy alliance" in an attempt to change foreign policy in the Middle East. The allegation appeared in a document written by official DH Colvin at t
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