Agriculture ministry officials blame deaths on animal feed, not disease
Authorities have been on the lookout for signs of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu
Camels are traded for thousands of dollars each in Saudi Arabia     
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) -- Hundreds of camels have died in Saudi Arabia this week from a mystery ailment.
Cars stop on a Riyadh highway to make way for a caravan of camels. The animals are big business in Saudi Arabia.
 The Agriculture Ministry has said 232 camels died in the space of four days in the Dawasir Valley, 250 miles south of Riyadh.
King Abdullah has promised compensation for owners, who say the real number of deaths is far higher.
Agriculture ministry officials have denied an infectious disease caused the deaths and blamed them on animal feed supplied by food storage authorities.
"The disease has to be limited to one place to prevent it spreading and then they have to find a serum," said camel breeder Hamad al-Harthy, who talked of hundreds of deaths.
"They need to bring in help from abroad to find a solution," said trader Turki Abdelaziz.
Camels are big business in the desert kingdom and are traded ...   more »

By Alfred Lubrano      
Search for terrorists finds a traitor   
Shannen Rossmiller is a former Montana judge who hunts terrorists online. After she ensnares a National Guardsman bent on betraying America, her identity is revealed, and she begins to receive death threats. Her life is changed forever.
Final installment
 Taking a break from cyberintelligence, Shannen Rossmiller switches on Karachi Cops.
It's a Pakistani version of a popular U.S. reality show, broadcast on WorldLink TV, that follows police on patrol.
Rossmiller loves watching dogged officers destroy mud-brick drug houses, and seeing bad guys' rights violated.
Brutal is as brutal does, she thinks.
She's been communicating with Michael Curtis Reynolds on the Web. He's like a great novel Rossmiller can't put down.
Mastermind, narcissistic sociopath, Rossmiller pegs Reynolds, a Wilkes-Barre man who is writing in English on the all-Arabic Osama bin Laden Crew Web site. Guys like him creep me out.
"The plan is [to] recall . . . [U.S.] troops home [from Iraq] as well as firing their boss," Reynolds writes. "Interested?"
It's November 2005, and Reynolds seems to want to crash the U.S. government and end the Iraq war. He's asking al-Qaeda for money and personnel.
Oh, dear G-d, ...   more »

They have to obey the law in educating their kids,' official says
Fifteen Christian families from a tiny community of only about 1,300 people are making plans to leave their homes and work behind so that their children will not be forced by the Canadian government to attend "sanctioned" schools where evolution is taught.
A report in the Vancouver Sun said provincial officials have threatened the families with legal action, including the potential loss of their children to state control, if they do not abide by the mandatory education curriculum.
But leaders of the Mennonite families say they'll leave Quebec before giving up their children to the state indoctrination.
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"It's kind of sad because we enjoy the community, we have friends and we have good rapport with our neighbors," said Ronald Goossen, 56, who in the 1990s was among the first Mennonites from Manitoba to move to Roxton Falls, about 75 mile east of Montreal.
"But when they threaten to take our children and put them in foster homes, that's beyond what we can accept," he said.
The Mennonites, whose forefathers broke away from the reforms of Martin Luther because they were not radical enough and adopted ...   more »

By Pastor Chuck Baldwin
That America's two most recent presidents, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, have been guilty of egregiously flawed and fallacious decisions and activities is obvious. However, at what point do bad policies and conduct become treasonous? At what point do we conclude that our country's Chief Executive has crossed the line of mere inanity or naïveté and has actually become a threat to our national security and survival?
Those who listened to my radio talk show when Bill Clinton was in office know how I daily chronicled what I believed were acts of treason. No, I am not talking about his numerous sexual affairs. I'm talking primarily about what became known as Chinagate.
There is a plethora of evidence to support the accusation that then-President Bill Clinton deliberately facilitated the transfer of military (including rocket and satellite) technology to Communist China in exchange for large donations via highly placed Chinese operatives. That, more than the Monica Lewinsky affair, should have been the basis of impeachment. However, the Republican majority in Congress chose to do absolutely nothing about Clinton's treasonous conduct in Chinagate. Now it is President George W. Bush who is pushing the envelope.
As I ...   more »