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*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.

*U.S. Army gunman's act "impossible" -
grandfather<http://www.legitgov.org/attack_on_fort_hood_051109.html>
* 07 Nov 2009 The grandfather of a U.S. Army psychiatrist accused of
shooting dead 13 people and wounding 30 others at a base in Texas said on
Saturday he found it impossible to believe his grandson had committed the
act. "He is a doctor and loves the U.S." Ismail Mustafa Hamad told Reuters
in an interview at his home in the Palestinian town of al-Bireh. "America
made him what he is."

*Al Qaeda videos give an indication of new
plots<http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=563137>
* 08 Nov 2009 FBI agents in the US have recovered two highly inflammatory Al
Qaeda [al-CIAduh] videos. The videos have been recovered from the house of
Pakistan-born Canadian, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, who was arrested last month
along with another accused, David Coleman Headley, a Pakistan-born American
national. The new videos were taken from the house of Rana, who has been
living in Chicago for nearly a decade.

*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.

*US Army Chief of Staff: More Troops Needed in
Afghanistan<http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-11-08-voa24.cfm>
* 08 Nov 2009 The U.S. army's chief of staff says he believes more troops
are 'needed' in Afghanistan. General George Casey said in a U.S. television
interview - NBC's *Meet the Press* - Sunday additional forces are needed to
cut the Taliban's successes and train Afghan security forces.

*Obama leaning toward 34,000 more troops for
Afghanistan<http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/78516.html>
* 07 Nov 2009 President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to send more than
30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan next year, but he may not
announce it until after he consults with key allies and completes a trip to
Asia later this month, administration and military officials have told
McClatchy. Currently, the administration's plan calls for sending three Army
brigades from the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky. and the 10th
Mountain Division at Fort Drum, N.Y. and a Marine brigade, for a total of as
many as 23,000 additional combat and support troops. [*Obusha does most of
his bad news dumping on a Saturday, when people are typically taking a break
from Change We Can Deceive
In<http://www.legitgov.org/price_obama_change_deceive_in_190809.html>
*.]

*Anti-Taliban mayor dies in Pakistan
blast*<http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=563331>08 Nov 2009 Twelve
people have been killed in Pakistan's Peshawar after a
suicide bomber exploded a [Blackwater?] bomb near the house of the one of
the city mayors, Abdul Malik. Abdul Malik and a commander of the local
anti-Taliban force were killed instantly. Malik, in the past, had raised a
militia against Taliban rebels and was known as an anti-militant mayor.

*Afghan insurgents learn to destroy key U.S. armored
vehicle<http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/78443.html>
* 07 Nov 2009 Taliban-led 'insurgents' in Afghanistan have devised ways to
cripple and even destroy the expensive armored vehicles that offer U.S.
forces the best protection against roadside bombs by using increasingly
large explosive charges and rocket-propelled grenades, according to U.S.
soldiers and defense officials. At least eight American troops have been
killed this year in attacks on so-called Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected
vehicles, or MRAPs, and 40 more have been wounded, said a senior U.S.
military official who declined to be further identified because of the
issue's sensitivity.

*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.

*4 Colo. vets sue Halliburton,
KBR<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D9BQRC980.html>--Similar
suits are pending in at least 11 other states
* 07 Nov 2009 Associated Press Four Colorado veterans are the latest to file
"burn pit" lawsuits against military contractors accused of exposing
soldiers to toxic fumes and ash. The veterans are suing Houston-based
[terrorists] Halliburton Co. and KBR Inc., which have been accused in
several lawsuits around the country of operating dangerous war-zone burn
pits. [See: *Sen. Dorgan: KBR Still Using Burn
Pits<http://talkradionews.com/2009/11/sen-dorgan-kbr-still-using-burn-pits/>
* 06 Nov 2009.]

*Blackwater used 'child prostitutes in
Iraq'<http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=102887§ionid=3510203>
* 08 Aug 2009 New disturbing charges have emerged against XE, the infamous
private security firm formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide, whose
operations came under spotlight after its 2007 carnage in Baghdad. According
to a report by MSNBC and based on alleged sworn declarations by two
Blackwater employees in federal court, the firm used child prostitutes at
its compound in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone.

*Iraq MPs pass election
laws<http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/09/2736869.htm>
* 09 Nov 2009 Iraq's parliament has finally passed a crucial law that could
pave the way for a national 'election' in January, but there are still fears
it could be delayed Iraq's politicians have been in dispute for weeks over
new laws setting out the procedure for elections due by the end of January.

*Hezbollah gears up for new
war<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/08/hezbollah-rearms-against-...>--Fighters
rearm and reinforce positions in valleys amid fears that Israel
is about to launch attack on Islamic group* 08 Nov 2009 Hezbollah is rapidly
rearming in preparation for a new conflict with Israel, fearing that
Benjamin Netanyahu's government will attack Lebanon again prior to any
assault on Iran's nuclear facilities... In dramatic further evidence of
growing tensions, the Observer has learned that Hezbollah fighters have been
busy reinforcing fixed defence positions north of the Litani river. Having
lost many of its bunkers in the south, Hezbollah is preparing a new strategy
to defend villages there.

*Turkey PM: Israel war crimes worse than
Sudan*<http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1126694.html>08 Nov 2009
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday accused
Israel of committing greater crimes against Palestinians during its war in
the Gaza Strip than those for which Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir had been
indicted. Erdogan said he would rather confront Bashir, indicted for
orchestrating crimes against humanity in Darfur, than discuss state killings
of civilians with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

*Eggs hurled at Israel's ambassador to
Turkey<http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3800288,00.html>--Local
students in Turkish city of Trabzon chase ambassador Gabi Levy, try
breaking into his car. **Local police interfere, manage to restore order* 04
Nov 2009 Israel News Israel's ambassador to Turkey, Gabi Levy, was attacked
Wednesday in the Turkish city of Trabzon by local students who chased him,
hurled eggs at his direction and tried to break into his vehicle. As Ynet
learned, local police confronted the students, and the ambassador did not
suffer any injuries.

*'Students at the university intend to place the Israeli envoy under
citizen's arrest.' **Students bully Britain
envoy*<http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3801073,00.html>
* --Ambassador Prosor requires heavy security in face of rowdy Anti-Israel
protesters* 05 Nov 2009 Protesters at the University of Nottingham prepared
a rude welcome for Israel's Ambassador to England, Ron Prosor, welcoming him
with anti-Israel signs and interrupting his speech. Hours before the visit,
British police learned that students at the university intend to place the
Israeli envoy under citizen's arrest. Prosor's lecture on Israel's peace
efforts was delayed, as a heavy police guard escorted him into the lecture
site through a back door.

*Ni'lin demonstrators topple 8 meter tall concrete
wall<http://palsolidarity.org/2009/11/9226>
* 06 Nov 2009 20 years to the fall of the Berlin wall: Demonstrators toppled
8 meters tall concrete wall in Ni’ilin Three protest marches were held today
in the West Bank to mark the 20th anniversary to the fall of the Berlin
wall, which has been declared an international day of action against
Israel’s barrier. In Ni’lin, the 300 demonstrators managed to topple a part
of the eight meters tall concrete wall that cuts through the village’s land.
Following the direct action, the army fired scores of live rounds at the
demonstrators.

*U.S. House backs resolution to condemn Goldstone Gaza
report<http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1125593.html>
* 05 Nov 2009 The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday condemned a UN
report that accuses Israeli forces and Palestinian militants of committing
war crimes in Gaza early this year as irredeemably biased and unworthy of
further consideration or legitimacy. With a 344-36 vote, the House passed a
nonbinding resolution that urged President Barack Obama and Secretary of
State Hillary Rodham Clinton to oppose unequivocally any endorsement of the
report. Twenty-two representatives voted present.

*CDC's H1N1 Air Travel
Guidelines<http://www.abc2news.com/news/local/story/CDCs-H1N1-Airline-Travel-Gui...>
* 06 Nov 2009 The CDC has issued some special instructions for flights into
the United States. All cabin and crew members are required to understand and
recognize flu symptoms. If a person on an aircraft becomes ill with flu-like
symptoms, the pilot is instructed to inform the *CDC Quarantine
Station<http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dq/quarantine_stations.htm>
* at the airport where the place is expected to land. The Quarantine Station
will arrange for the patient to be brought from the plane in a manner that
will cut down the risk of spreading the virus.

*'I guess the police are here for crowd control, which is funny.' Low
Turnout at City Clinics for Free Swine Flu
Vaccine<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/nyregion/09vaccine.html>
* 09 Nov 2009 (NYC, NY) Perhaps it was fear of crowds that kept the crowds
away on Sunday from the clinics offering free
[squalene<http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/08/04/Squalen...>-laden,
mercury<http://www.organicauthority.com/blog/health/they-are-putting-mercury-...>-filled,
Polysorbate 80<http://www.i-sis.org.uk/fastTrackSwineFluVaccineUnderFire.php>-laced]
swine flu vaccinations to schoolchildren. Or, maybe, as some of the few who
did show up suggested, the small numbers could be attributed to wariness
about the new vaccine or a lack of knowledge about the clinics.

*Blackout: Military Personnel Banned From H1N1 Vaccine
Sites<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allen-mcduffee/blackout-military-person...>
* By Allen McDuffee 05 Nov 2009 Shortly after the Pentagon announced that
all Armed Services personnel would soon be facing a mandatory H1N1
vaccination program, I started receiving email from soldiers, airmen,
marines and sailors because of a previous story I had written on the anthrax
vaccine... What they found instead is that several websites and blogs with
key information asking critical questions had been blocked from their
viewing. Among those that were repeatedly mentioned as blocked sites are the
National Vaccine Information Center <http://www.nvic.org/> (NVIC), the site
for Gary Matsumoto's book, *Vaccine-A* <http://www.vaccine-a.com/>, and
vaccine expert Dr. Meryl Nass. NVIC is a national, non-profit founded in
1980s that, through public education, advocates "vaccine safety and informed
consent protections in the mass vaccination system."

*State defends withholding flu vaccine distribution
info<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN...>--The
state says it's helping doctors and patients by withholding any
information about where vaccine is going*. 07 Nov 2009 Texas recently
ordered a shipment of 22,600 doses of the H1N1 flu vaccine to be sent to a
doctor in Dallas County. Another doctor got 14,036. Another got 6,780. Who
are these doctors? The state won't say. Not even the Dallas County health
department knows who is getting the big batches.

*Infection of farmed animals with the pandemic
virus*<http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/notes/briefing_20091105/en/in...>
* --Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 briefing note 15* 05 Nov 2009 Since the new H1N1
pandemic virus emerged, a small number of infections in swine herds have
been reported... In addition, pandemic H1N1 infections have been reported in
turkeys in Chile and Canada and in a few pet animals in the USA... Another
concern is the continuing presence of the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian
influenza virus in poultry in several countries, where the virus is
endemic... Most recently, authorities in Denmark reported a novel H3N2
influenza virus in mink on several mink farms. Sequencing of the virus
demonstrated a combination of human and swine genes that has not been
identified previously in circulating influenza viruses.

*Sweeping Health Care Plan Passes
House<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/health/policy/08health.html>
* 08 Nov 2009 Handing President Obama a hard-fought victory, the House
narrowly approved a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s health care system on
Saturday night, advancing legislation that Democrats said could stand as
their defining social policy achievement. After a daylong clash with
Republicans over what has been a Democratic goal for decades, lawmakers
voted 220 to 215 to approve a plan that would cost $1.1 trillion over 10
years. Democrats said the legislation would provide overdue relief to
Americans struggling to buy or hold on to health insurance.

*House Democrats pass health-care
bill*<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/07/AR200...>
* --One Republican votes for plan* 08 Nov 2009 Hours after President Obama
exhorted Democratic lawmakers to "answer the call of history," the House hit
an unprecedented milestone on the path to health-care reform, approving a
trillion-dollar package late Saturday... After months of acrimonious
partisanship, Democrats closed ranks on a 220-215 vote that included 39
defections, mostly from the party's conservative ranks. But the bill
attracted a surprise Republican convert: Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao of Louisiana,
who represents the Democratic-leaning district of New Orleans and had been
the target of a last-minute White House lobbying campaign.

*Windfall Is Seen as Bank Bonuses Are Paid in
Stock<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/business/08pay.html>
* 08 Nov 2009 Even as *Washington tries to rein in Wall Street pay* [*Really?
I must have *missed* that one*], bankers are likely to make unusually large
gains on the stock grants and options they received after shares in their
companies fell sharply during the financial meltdown. Within months, the
financial system began to mend -- partly with the help of billions of
dollars in government aid -- and that stock began surging in value. Some of
it can be cashed in starting in just a few months... Goldman Sachs gave its
general counsel 104,868 stock options and 14,117 shares in December, when
the bank’s stock was around $78. Now the bank’s shares have more than
doubled in value, making that stock and option award worth nearly $12
million, according to Equilar, an executive compensation research firm in
Redwood Shores, Calif.

*UCBH Holdings' Bank Is Seized, 120th U.S. Lender Shut This
Year<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ayPwsBV1DI3c>
* 07 Nov 2009 UCBH Holdings Inc.'s United Commercial Bank, a San
Francisco-based lender with $11.2 billion in assets, was seized by
regulators, becoming the 120th U.S. bank to fail this year. United
Commercial was bought by East West Bancorp of Pasadena, California, the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said. United Commercial was the fifth U.S.
lender to be seized by regulators yesterday as banks fail at the fastest
rate since 1992.

*Britain and U.S. Clash at G-20 on Tax to Insure Against
Crises<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/business/global/08bank.html>--Gordon
Brown told G-20 finance ministers that the world needed a system to
force banks, not taxpayers, to cover future bailouts*. 08 Nov 2009 The
United States and Britain voiced disagreement Saturday over a proposal that
would impose a new tax on financial transactions to support future bank
rescues. Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain, leading a meeting here of
finance ministers from the Group of 20 rich and developing countries, said
such a tax on banks should be considered as a way to take the burden off
taxpayers during periods of financial crisis. But the proposal was *met with
little enthusiasm by the United States Treasury secretary*, Timothy F.
Geithner, who told Sky News in an interview that he would not support a tax
on everyday financial transactions.

*Oil cos shut output in Gulf due to
hurricane<http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-Oil/idUSTRE5A71PI20091109>
* 08 Nov 2009 U.S. oil companies were shutting production on Sunday as they
evacuated workers from the Gulf of Mexico ahead of Hurricane Ida, which is
forecast to roar across the offshore oil patch Monday before making landfall
on Tuesday. BP Plc, one the Gulf's largest oil producers, said on Sunday
some of its production was shut and nonessential workers were evacuated from
Ida's forecast path. *The company does not disclose amounts of shut
production*. [*Right, that way they can use the 'crisis' to send the price
of oil skyrocketing.*]

*Polar bear steals the torch's
thunder<http://www.ctvolympics.ca/torch/news/newsid=19252.html>
* 08 Nov 2009 The Olympic flame began its journey to the furthest point
north in its history by stopping off first at a town known for the Arctic's
most familiar icon - the polar bear. Unfortunately, the torch relay didn't
venture near Wapusk National Park on the shores of Hudson Bay, just near
here, where the polar bears congregate in the hundreds this time of year
waiting for the ice to freeze so they can go seal hunting for a few months.
The convoy with the Olympic flame was, however, briefly interrupted while
driving in from the airport when a polar bear crossed the road.

*Manitoba polar bears may woo Obama's
daughters<http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/Manitoba+polar+bears+Obama...>
*

              06 Nov 2009 Businesses in Churchill, Man., say they’ll roll
out the red carpet -- and the tundra buggy -- if the most famous kids in the
world want to come and see the polar bears. "That would be kind of big,"
Belinda Fitzpatrick, co-owner of the Tundra Inn in Churchill said Thursday
after U.S. President Barack Obama’s daughters, Sasha, 8, and Malia, 11, were
invited to the polar bear capital of the world. On Wednesday in Washington,
D.C., Ambassador Gary Doer and his family met with Obama and invited his
daughters to Manitoba to see Churchill’s polar bears.

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Previous lead stories: *Curiouser and curiouser: Fort Hood Shooting
'Oddities' <http://www.legitgov.org/attack_on_fort_hood_051109.html> **--Video
surfaces of alleged shooter, Major Nidal Hasan, at Homeland Security Task
Force conference *By Lori Price Updated 06 Nov 2009 *Major Hasan's name
appears on page 29 of The George Washington University Homeland Security
Policy Institute's 'Thinking Anew—Security Priorities for the Next
Administration<http://www.gwumc.gwu.edu/hspi/policy/PTTFProceedingsReport.pdf>'
--Proceedings Report of the HSPI Presidential Transition Task Force - April
2008 - January 2009.* The report is dated 19 May 2009. Other news: The
Alleged shooter graduated from Virginia
Tech<http://www.legitgov.org/virginia_tech_shooting_oddities.html>.
Major Hasan is 'in a coma,' and 'on a ventilator.' Officers raided the Texas
home of the suspect in the Fort Hood shootings. Full updates
here<http://www.legitgov.org/attack_on_fort_hood_051109.html>
.]

*Rare Ebola-like virus poses new threat to Afghan
troops*<http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/06/rare-virus-poses-new-...>06
Nov 2009 U.S. military officials sent a medical team to a remote
outpost
in southern Afghanistan this week to take blood samples from members of an
Army unit after a soldier in the unit died from an Ebola-like virus. Dr. Jim
Radike, an expert in internal medicine and infectious diseases at the Role 3
Trauma Hospital at Kandahar Air Field, told The Washington Times that Sgt.
Robert David Gordon, 22, from River Falls, Ala., died Sept. 16 from what
turned out to be Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever after he was bitten by a
tick. The virus is transmitted by infected blood and can be carried by
ticks, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

*Quebec woman dies from H1N1 virus after getting
vaccine<http://montreal.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20091103/mtl_children...>
* 04 Nov 2009 A 42-year-old Quebec woman has died from complications
resulting from the H1N1 virus. It is the third death in the province since
September. The woman, who worked at the Monteregie Health and Social
Services Centre, died Tuesday night. *She had also received the H1N1
vaccination on Oct. 29, two days before coming down with symptoms of the flu
*.

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