Thursday, August 24, 2006
My Crystal Ball
You know,
I always wondered where that dime-bag went to
went to after the cop finds it in someone's
car and seized it. Where does it end up?
Let me look into my crystal ball...
Here it is:
Teenagers testify in sex case against ex-officer
EATONTON, Ga. Two girls testified today that teenagers posed for sexually explicit photos and played with sex toys in the
home of a former Eatonton police officer last Labor Day weekend.
The teens testified about a party including a group of 13- and 14-year-olds at the home of Darrell Sanders and his 32-year-old
wife, Jennifer. They said they pair gave them alcohol and drugs, and she took a bubble bath with them before watching pornographic
movies. They also said they smoked marijuana that Sanders had confiscated during traffic stops.
The testimony came during the first day of the 45-year-old former officer's trial on charges of exploitation of children,
child molestation, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and distributing marijuana.
Defense attorney Rob Westin told jurors in opening statements that Sanders could not have been involved with the weekend activities
because did not have time to complete photos from the party and report for duty on the night in question.
Copyright 2006 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
6:47 pm pdt
Sunday, August 20, 2006
CIA allegedly abducted Muslims in Austria
Austria - The CIA abducted at least two Muslims residents in Austria, including one with links to a former imam in Italy who
was similarly abducted, Profil magazine reported in its Monday edition.
According to Profil, US secret service agents grabbed Gamal Menshawi, an Egyptian doctor and an eminent member of a Muslim
community in the south-eastern town of Graz, when his flight stopped over in Amman, Jordan, in late 2002.
Menshawi was suspected of belonging to the Egyptian Islamist extremist group Jemaah Islamiyah.
He had links, Profil said, with Osama Mustafa Hassan, an Egyptian Muslim cleric also known as Abu Omar, who was allegedly
kidnapped by the Central Intelligence Agency in the northern Italian city of Milan in February 2003.
Both men were held in the same prison in Egypt, the weekly said.
Hassan's abduction sparked an investigation in Italy that revealed that members of Italy's SISMI secret service colluded in
the operation. Two top SISMI officials have been placed under house arrest and its director questioned.
Profil also recounted the experience of a Muslim computer technician, native to an east African country but resident in Vienna,
who claimed to have been snatched during a stopover in Jordan in January 2003.
"I was hit and deprived of sleep for several nights and interrogated by Jordanian and American experts," said the
man, whose identity was not revealed. He said he was held for three months and then released.
According to Profil, Austria's domestice intelligence service BVT worked closely with the CIA in the operations.
Austria's interior ministry has denied any knowledge of the affair.
Profil, a respected Austrian magazine, broke the story in 1986 of the Nazi past of former UN secretary general Kurt Waldheim
and his stint in the Wehrmacht.
The human rights group Amnesty International said last month that Jordan was a "central hub" in the secret and illegal
transfer of people believed by the CIA to have links to terrorism. - Sapa-AFP
6:19 pm pdt
Thursday, August 17, 2006
This is fun, outing PeeJ vigilantes :
Xavier Von Erck : John Phillip Eide
Del Harvey : Alizon Shea
Jay Alternative : Gregg Brainer
Jessica Rabbit : Nila Rae Clark
PJ Alias: Jingles
Role: PJ Follow up vigilante
Quote: "Too much hair dye"
Real Name: Suzy Graham
PJ Alias: Persephone
Role: PJ Follow up vigilante
Quote: "Hi, Kutzler my name. Steve Kutzler .. errrm Stacey"
Real Name: Stacey Kutzler
PJ Alias: The Director
Role: PJ Contributor
Quote: "Damn you found my whiny journal"
Real Name: Kevin Saint
PJ Alias: Philipw
Role: PJ Service Provider / "Webmaster"
Codename: Froghumper
Real Name: Philip Whittaker
PJ Alias: Phoebus Appollo
Role: PJ "Webmaster"
Codename: The Mole
Real Name: Nicholas Lee Wilkins
PJ Alias: Kashmir Goat
Role: PJ Follow Up vigilante
Quote: "When I let my hair grow I look like Hulk Hogan"
Possible Names: Greg Johnson - John Morris
12:41 am pdt
Sunday, August 6, 2006
CIA in Milan : more dirty dealings
Italy won’t release documents in CIA case
Military intelligence chief cites ‘state secrets’ for holding records
REUTERS
ROME - Italy’s government has acknowledged that there are secret documents it cannot declassify related to the alleged CIA
kidnapping of a terrorism suspect in Milan, a senior official in parliament said on Sunday.
The head of Italy’s Sismi military intelligence agency, Nicolo Pollari, has refused to cooperate fully with magistrates investigating
a possible Italian role in the incident, saying he was restricted by “state secrets,” his lawyer told Reuters.
At the same time, Pollari has denied any wrongdoing.
The head of parliament’s intelligence oversight committee, Claudio Scajola, said after a four-hour hearing with Pollari on
Sunday the new center-left government had declined to declassify documentation related to the case.
He did not offer specifics.
Italian media have reported materials were classified under the previous center-right government of Silvio Berlusconi, in
power in 2003 when radical Muslim cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr was allegedly abducted.
“I asked the prime minister for clarification on this issue and I received an answer that the conditions do not exist to declassify
this documentation,” Scajola told reporters.
Pollari again broadly defended Sismi before the committee on Sunday, saying it would never take part in “operations similar”
to Nasr’s alleged abduction.
Prosecutors believe a CIA-led team grabbed Nasr off a Milan street, bundled him into a van and flew him to Egypt.
Nasr says he was tortured there under questioning and 26 Americans, most believed to be CIA agents, face arrest warrants over
the case.
Probe under way
Two members of Pollari’s Sismi were briefly arrested last month and Pollari is also under investigation.
“The director of Sismi said he ruled out participation in similar operations by (agents), to have always given very clear
orders that no actions be taken that violated the law,” said Scajola, a member of Berlusconi’s Forza Italia political party.
Pollari will go before the committee again on Sept. 19. The committee also intends to hear from the prosecutor leading the
investigation.
Berlusconi has denied that he or Sismi knew about a plot to kidnap Nasr.
One senior Sismi official under investigation, Marco Mancini, has said via his lawyer that the CIA asked Italy to help kidnap
Nasr, but it refused because it would be illegal.
The Egyptian cleric, now held in a prison outside Cairo, faces an Italian arrest warrant for suspicion of terrorist activity
including recruiting militants for Iraq.
9:29 pm pdt