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09 Nov 2009
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*Breaking: Son of Washington Lieutenant Governor
Shot<http://www.kirotv.com/news/21566795/detail.html>
* 09 Nov 2009 A son of Lieutenant Governor Brad Owen (D) has been shot,
reported KIRO 7 Eyewitness News. Owen has three sons and three daughters.

*Obama's Afghan Plan: About 40,000 More
Troops<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/09/world/main5592551.shtml>--CBS:
Sources Say Force Will Grow to 100,000 - Nearly Filling Gen.
McChrystal's Request; Long-Term [Blackwater/KBR] Stay Planned* 09 Nov 2009
Tonight, after months of conferences with top advisors, President Obama has
settled on a new strategy for Afghanistan. CBS News reports that the
president will send a lot more troops and plans to keep a large force there,
long term. ...Informed sources tell CBS News he intends to give Gen. Stanley
McChrystal most, if not all, the additional troops he is asking for.
McChrystal wanted 40,000 and the president has tentatively decided to send
four combat brigades plus thousands more support troops.

*CLG Exclusive: Fort Hood: 'This story stinks to high
heaven.'<http://www.legitgov.org/attack_on_fort_hood_051109.html>--SFC,
who spent ten years at Fort Hood, comments on Ft. Hood events
* 09 Nov 2009 I spent 10 years at Ft Hood. There is no way this 'official'
story is legitimate. No way would a room full of combat vets allow this one
shooter to get off over 100 rounds! And, it is not normal for the outside
security guards to be there. They are at the MP station, and at the main
gates. This means the room full of soldiers processing must have been pinned
down; multiple shooters is the only plausible scenario. This sounds like MAJ
Hasan has been used, and perhaps is a patsy. --SFC Donald Buswell (Retired)

*Hasan Computer Reveals No Terror
Ties<http://www.legitgov.org/attack_on_fort_hood_051109.html>
* 09 Nov 2009 A preliminary review of the computer of Maj. Nidal Malik
Hasan, the accused shooter in Thursday's rampage at Fort Hood in which 13
people were killed, has revealed no evidence of any connection to terror
groups or conspirators, according to law enforcement officials. CBS News
reports that an examination of the computer has revealed Hasan visited Web
sites promoting radical Islamic views, but investigators have not found any
e-mail communications with outside facilitators or known terrorists.

*CIA Denies Report of Blocking Hasan
Intel*<http://www.legitgov.org/attack_on_fort_hood_051109.html>
* --Officials Tell CBS News Agency Isn't Withholding Information on
Suspected Fort Hood Shooter* 09 Nov 2009 Responding to a report that the
Army psychiatrist suspected in last week's Fort Hood shootings had tried to
contact people within al Qaeda - and that *government intelligence agencies
knew about it and are refusing to brief Congress on it* - a U.S.
intelligence official told CBS News that the CIA isn't withholding
information from Congress. "There's no sign at this point that the CIA had
collected information relevant to this case and then simply sat on it," the
official told CBS News. ABC News published the
report<http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/fort-hood-shooter-contact-al-qaeda-terr...>Monday
morning with details that the CIA was refusing to brief the
congressional committees charged with overseeing the intelligence agencies,
a senior lawmaker told ABC.

*U.S. Monitored Fort Hood Suspect Before
Shooting<http://www.legitgov.org/attack_on_fort_hood_051109.html>
* 10 Nov 2009 *Intelligence agencies intercepted communications last year
and this year* between Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who is accused of shooting to
death 13 people at Fort Hood, Tex., and a radical cleric in Yemen known for
his incendiary anti-American teachings. But federal authorities dropped an
inquiry into the matter after deciding that the messages warranted no
further action, government officials said on Monday. Major Hasan’s exchanges
with the cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, once a spiritual leader at a mosque in
suburban Virginia where Major Hasan worshipped, indicate that the
authorities were aware of Major Hasan before last Thursday’s deadly rampage,
but did nothing.

*Officials: U.S. Aware of Hasan Efforts to Contact 'al
Qaeda'<http://www.legitgov.org/attack_on_fort_hood_051109.html>--Army
Major in Fort Hood Massacre Used 'Electronic Means' to Connect with
Terrorists* 09 Nov 2009 U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago
that Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan was attempting to make contact with people
associated with al Qaeda [al-CIAduh], two American officials briefed on
classified material in the case told ABC News. It is not known whether the
intelligence agencies informed the Army that one of its officers was seeking
to connect with suspected al Qaeda figures, the officials said.

*Lawyer asks investigators not to question
Hasan<http://www.legitgov.org/attack_on_fort_hood_051109.html>
* 09 Nov 2009 A lawyer for the Army psychiatrist accused in a deadly
shooting spree at Fort Hood said Monday he asked investigators not to
question his client and expressed doubt that the suspect would be able to
get a fair trial, given the widespread attention to the case. Retired Col.
John P. Galligan said he was contacted Monday by Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's
family and was headed to an Army hospital in San Antonio to meet Hasan.
"Until I meet with him, it's best to say we're just going to protect all of
his rights," Galligan said... Galligan questioned whether Hasan could get a
fair trial in either criminal or military court, given President Barack
Obama's planned visit to the base on Tuesday and public comments by the post
commander, Lt. Gen. Robert Cone.

*Hoekstra to launch investigation into Fort Hood shooting, dubs it
'homegrown jihadism'<http://www.legitgov.org/attack_on_fort_hood_051109.html>
* 09 Nov 2009 A key Republican lawmaker on Monday asked that the Obama
administration keep documents relevant to the Fort Hood shooting available
so Congress can continue its investigation into what he called an incident
of "homegrown jihadism." Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Insane-Mich.), the ranking
member of the House Intelligence Committee, sent a preservation order to the
heads of the FBI, CIA, NSA and Director of National Intelligence Dennis
Blair directing them to keep the documents as part of his committee's review
of the attacks.

*Soldier Found With 100 Pounds of C-4 Released From
Jail<http://www.legitgov.org/attack_on_fort_hood_051109.html>--The
ATF, FBI and Montgomery County Bomb Squad investigated the case,
trying to determine whether the explosives came from Fort Campbell*. 05 Nov
2009 *An Army Special Forces soldier who admitted to police that he was
stockpiling military-grade explosives outside his home near Fort Campbell
was released from jail* into the custody of his wife. U.S. Magistrate Judge
Cliff Knowles gave the order releasing 25-year-old Sgt. 1st Class Timothy
Ryan Richards during a detention hearing Thursday in federal court in
Nashville. He was charged with possessing two unregistered automatic weapons
but he has not yet entered a plea.

*Soldier Arrested After C-4 Explosives, Unregistered Guns Found At
Home<http://www.legitgov.org/attack_on_fort_hood_051109.html>--The
explosives were found in crates
*. 02 Nov 2009 An Army Special Forces soldier has been arrested following
the discovery of 100 pounds of explosives at his Tennessee home in
Montgomery County. Timothy Ryan Richards appeared in federal court Monday in
Nashville on charges of possessing two unregistered guns. Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives agent Eric Kehn said he expects Richards will face
more charges related to the discovery of the explosives... The house is
located near the Fort Campbell, Ky., Army post where the solider is based.

*US marine slain by fellow soldier at N Carolina
base<http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=110851§ionid=3510203>
* 09 Nov 2009 A US marine has been killed by a fellow soldier in Camp
Lejeune, military investigators at the Marine base in North Carolina have
found. Private Jonathan Law, 21, "is in the custody of military
authorities... for the alleged homicide of Corporal Joshua E. Hartzell, 22,
early Friday morning," said Captain Timothy Patrick, base public affairs
officer on Monday, reported AFP.

*British spies help prevent al Qaeda-inspired attack on New York
subway<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6529436/Br...>
* 09 Nov 2009 British spies have foiled a terrorist plot by a suspected al
Qaeda [al-CIAduh] operative to blow up the New York subway. The plan, which
reportedly would have been the biggest attack on America since 9/11, was
uncovered after Scotland Yard intercepted an email. The force alerted the
FBI, who launched an operation which led to airport shuttle bus driver
Najibullah Zazi, 24, being charged with conspiracy to use weapons of mass
destruction.

*Ind. base hosts nuclear terrorist attack
training<http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/military/Ind_base_hosts_nuclear_attack...>--Over
4K military personnel taking part in training
* 09 Nov 2009 Thousands of military personnel, first responders and
emergency workers are experiencing the ultimate test at the Muscatatuck
Urban Training Center <http://www.mutc.in.ng.mil/HOME/tabid/56/Default.aspx>.
They are participants in a joint exercise, called Vibrant Response, that
simulates a terrorist nuclear attack in a US city. Over 4,000 military and
civilian personnel from around the country are taking part in the exercise.
Vibrant Response involves urban and aerial search-and-rescue missions,
nuclear, biological and radiological decontamination, as well as airlift and
medical training. General Victor Renuart, the four-star Air Force general in
charge of NORAD, attended the training Monday.

*Troops train for nuclear attack in southern
Indiana<http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=11472632>
* 09 Nov 2009 Thousands of members of the military trained for a "ground
zero" scenario in Indiana this week. The troops, from several branches of
the military, worked together to simulate the aftermath of a nuclear attack.
The exercise, underway at Muscatatuck Training Center, plays out the problem
areas in a nuclear disaster, from search and rescue to decontamination.
[See: *Minot AFB Clandestine Nukes
'Oddities'<http://www.legitgov.org/minot_afb_nukes_oddities.html>
*.]

*Two more from Fort Lewis confirmed killed in
Afghanistan<http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/947574.html>
* 09 Nov 2009 The Department of Defense confirmed today the death of two
Fort Lewis soldiers who died Thursday in Jelewar, Afghanistan. Spc. Gary L.
Gooch Jr., 22, of Ocala, Fla. and Spc. Aaron S. Aamot, 22, of Custer, Wash.,
died of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked their vehicle with an
improvised explosive device.

*US helicopter pilots die in
Iraq<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8350112.stm>
* 09 Nov 2009 Two US army pilots have been killed in a helicopter crash in
central Iraq, the US military has said. Their helicopter "experienced a hard
landing" at a base in Salahuddin Province on Sunday, a statement said
without giving further details. The incident was under investigation and
there was no indication that enemy action had been involved, it added.

*Schumer Calls for Review as Millions in Stimulus Funds Aid Foreign
Firms<http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/09/schumer-calls-review-milli...>
* 09 Nov 2009 Sen. Charles Schumer called for a "comprehensive" review on
Monday of all renewable energy projects seeking funding from the economic
stimulus package, following reports that $849 million in U.S. grants have
gone to foreign wind companies in the past two months alone. The New York
Democrat first intervened last week, writing a letter to Energy Secretary
Steven Chu urging him to deny stimulus funding to a Texas wind farm that
would rely on wind turbines made in China. *The $1.5 billion project would
create up to 3,000 jobs in China but only 330 jobs in the United States,
most of which would be temporary*, according to one report.

*Report: $30B in Bonuses Doled on Wall
St.<http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/09/business/econwatch/entry55865...>
* 09 Nov 2009 Just a year after receiving a record-setting amount of
government aid to rescue their failing companies, three of Wall Street's
giants will pay the government's generosity forward, in the form of nearly $30
billion worth of executive bonuses, according a report in Bloomberg. Goldman
Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase, which have all exited the
government's Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, are set to dole out
$29.7 billion in bonus money. According to Bloomberg, *"The money, split
among 119,000 employees, equals $250,400 each, almost five times the $50,303
median household income in the U.S. last year."*

*U.S. Joblessness May Reach 13 Percent, Rosenberg
Says<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aHmxIMR1DFq0>
* 09 Nov 2009 The U.S. unemployment rate may rise to a post-World War II
high of 13 percent in the aftermath of the recession Bush Depression, said
David Rosenberg, chief economist at Gluskin Sheff & Associates Inc. in
Toronto. "This is going to be the mother of all jobless recoveries,"
Rosenberg said today in an interview on Bloomberg Radio.

*A Tea Party party registers in
Florida<http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1109/A_Tea_Party_party_arrives...>
* 09 Nov 2009 A Florida conservative [Orlando lawyer Frederic O’Neal, the
new party's chairman] has registered an official "Tea Party" with the office
of the Secretary of State, and is promising to run candidates against
Republicans and Democrats in state and national races. A spokeswoman for the
Florida Secretary of State, Jennifer Davis, said the party had registered in
August, and that its qualified candidates will appear on the ballot in the
state.

*Pro-Choice Caucus: Bill contains 'unprecedented' attack on abortion
rights<http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2009/11/prochoice-caucus-bill-co...>
* 09 Nov 2009 Reps. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., and Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y.,
co-chairs of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus, today released the text of
a letter<http://degette.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id...>to
Speaker Nancy Pelosi that they are circulating on the abortion
provision
in the health care bill. USA TODAY's John Fritze says the House bill would
prohibit people who receive government subsidies from getting insurance
coverage for an abortion procedure even through a private health insurance
plan. It also would prohibit the government-run insurance plan from offering
abortions.

*Lieberman on Fox News Sunday: "I will not allow this bill to come to a
final vote"<http://race42008.com/2009/11/09/lieberman-on-fox-news-sunday-i-will-n...>
* 09 Nov 2009 Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Israel) reiterated his commitment to
filibuster any bill which contains the public option [that the hypocritical
maggot advocated in the 2006 CT Democratic primary] in an interview with
Chris Wallace.

*Gov. Rell will not seek
reelection*<http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/Gov-Rell-will-not-seek-reelection-...>09
Nov 2009 Connecticut Gov. M Jodi Rell (R) announced Monday she will
not
seek reelection. The surprise announcement came during an early evening
press conference, NBC Connecticut was first to report. The news comes with
several Democrats considering a run for the state's top job.

*Radioactive waste to be put in £18bn
hole*<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6908914.ece>
* --Each reactor will produce about 20 tonnes of highly radioactive spent
fuel per year, which will remain lethal for up to 100,000 years*. 09 Nov
2009 Radioactive waste from a new generation of British nuclear power
stations will be buried deep underground in a storage facility that could
cost up to £18 billion to build, under plans to be announced by the
Government today. Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary, will give the formal
green light to a plan to construct a "deep geological repository" for
permanent disposal of the 200 tonnes of high-level waste produced annually
by the ten new reactors planned for Britain.

*News Corp Sites May Be Removed From
Google<http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Business/News-Corp-Boss-Rupert-Murdo...>
* 09 Nov 2009 News Corp chairman [sociopath] Rupert Murdoch has suggested
the company's online newspaper pages will be invisible to Google users when
it launches its new paid content strategy. He claimed that readers who
randomly reach a page via an internet search hold little value to
advertisers. When asked by Sky News Australia's political editor David
Speers why News Corp has not stopped Google from finding its content, Mr
Murdoch replied: "I think we will."

*Chemicals in Our Food, and
Bodies<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/opinion/08kristof.html>
* By Nicholas D. Kristof 08 Nov 2009 Your body is probably
home<http://www.cdc.gov/ExposureReport/environmental_phenols1.htm>to a
chemical called bisphenol A, or BPA. It’s a synthetic estrogen that
United States factories now use in everything from plastics to epoxies — to
the tune of six pounds per American per year... Now it turns out it’s in our
food. Consumer Reports magazine
tested<http://www.consumerreports.org/health/healthy-living/health-safety/bp...>an
array of brand-name canned foods for a report in its December issue
and
found BPA in almost all of them. ...[More] than 200 other studies have shown
links between low doses of BPA and adverse health effects, according to the
Breast Cancer Fund, which is trying to ban the chemical from food and
beverage containers.

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Previous lead stories: *Are you ready? Wait for it... it's good: Fort Hood
shooting: Texas army killer linked to September 11
terrorists<http://www.legitgov.org/attack_on_fort_hood_051109.html>--Major
Nidal Malik Hasan worshipped at a mosque led by a radical imam said
to be a 'spiritual adviser' to three of the 'hijackers' who attacked America
on Sept 11, 2001*. 07 Nov 2009 Hasan, the sole suspect in the [*'Manchurian
Candidate'-style*] massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas, attended the
controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia, in 2001 at the
same time as two of the September 11 terrorists, The Sunday Telegraph has
learnt. The preacher at the time was Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born
Yemeni scholar who was banned from addressing a meeting in London by video
link in August because he is accused of supporting attacks on British troops
and backing terrorist organisations.

             *Oops! Langley editors falling down on the job: **Osama bin
Laden videotape a repeat <http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=562943>* 07
Nov 2009 A videotape of Osama bin Laden released on Friday is a repeat of a
tape released many months ago. IntelCenter, a U.S.-based terrorism
monitoring company, says the latest videotape is the Pashto-language version
of the previously released tape. Titled "To Our People in Pakistan," the
original tape was released on July 12th in Arabic and Urdu, IntelCenter said
Friday. Excerpts had already been screened by Al-Jazeera television (on June
3rd) IntelCenter added.

*Mission accomplished! Iraq Minister Says Three Oilfields to Pump 6 Million
Barrels <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=ar1BLZE3ylI8>*09
Nov 2009 Iraq expects three of its oilfields will together pump more
than
6 million barrels a day once foreign companies complete development work
they were awarded this year. BP Plc and other international oil companies
have signed contracts for the Rumaila, Zubair and West Qurna fields, which
were originally offered in Iraq’s first post-war licensing round in June.

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