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...came at midnight. they turned off phones, e-mail and broadcasting equipment, and TV-6, the reincarnation of the independent NTV news team that so infuriated Vladimir Putin, went off the air last week in mid-sentence. As usual the government denied that the closure of an independent TV station had anything to do with politics...
...year and a half after Kira was born because Lisa wanted to give her child legitimacy. Kerkorian consented on the condition that Lisa divorce him after a month and waive spousal support. Lisa says Kira's current stipend does not adequately allow the child to maintain a "station of life ...befitting the daughter of Kirk Kerkorian." That goes for her pet rabbit too; Lisa is also asking for $436 a month for her bunny's upkeep...
...took pains over the weekend to spotlight the dietary, medical and religious provisions made for the captives. Congress, meanwhile, is poised to approve construction of new prison units at Guantanamo designed with terrorist detention in mind - a project that could turn Gitmo, until last month a neglected Caribbean naval station, into a key military Alcatraz. "We're going to be in this sort of thing for a long time," said Alaska Senator Ted Stevens. And that includes, it seems, the disagreement over how to label these prisoners as well as house them...
Even by the dull standards of home videos, the tape is notably unexciting: a shaky, amateurish pan along a typically busy Singapore street, with views of a subway station and passing commuters. A bland voice provides a running commentary in well-educated English, a litany of street names and building numbers. But then comes a chilling remark: as the camera zooms in on a parking area, the narrator advises his viewers to "notice some of the boxes placed on the motorcycles, these are the same type of boxes that we intend to use"?to plant a bomb. The narrator describes...
...Since 1997, the group has been conducting detailed surveillance of possible targets in Singapore, mostly U.S.-related, according to the police. The principal target appears to have been a shuttle bus that conveys visiting U.S. naval personnel between Sembawang Wharf and the Yishun subway station. A second plan was to allegedly bomb U.S. naval vessels in Singapore waters. Other members of the group had apparently wanted to attack U.S. airplanes at a Singapore air base...