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The recovery of victims and the investigation into the bombings in London last Thursday continues.
Reports show the coordination of the explosions was much closer than originally thought. The explosions went off within seconds of each other instead of minutes. It is still believed that no suicide bombers were involved.
Rescue/recovery workers are still probing the wreckage of one of the underground cars. The death toll is close to 60 with more deaths expected.
As British police continue to investigate over 1700 "tips," UK media is reporting the name of a possible suspect connected to al-Qaeda.
Mustafa Setmarian Nasar lived in London in the 1990s and later ran a training camp in Afghanistan. He is also suspected of leading the attacks in Madrid in March 2004.
London Bomb Probe Continues, Suspect's Name Emerges -- 07/11/2005
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Sen. Dick Durbin's (D-IL) staff continues to do damages control after Durbin compared US interrogators at Guantanamo Bay to Nazis, Soviets, and followers of Pol Pot. Durbin eventually apologized for his remarks, but it was an unapologetic apology. Durbin, and many of his liberal friends, believe and mean what they say.
There was no confusing or misunderstanding of Durbin's statement.
Durbin's office, however, is trying to silence critics by threatening an IRS audit.
Move America Forward, a conservative group that supports the US military and wants to eject the United Nations from the US, is currently running ads critical of Durbin.
"But these aren't the faces of torturers, the ad says: "They're the heroic men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces. They're our sons and daughters fighting for the cause of freedom around the world. Support our troops, at MoveAmericaForward.com."
While understanding that major media will question the motives from the Durbin office, a Durbin staffer hinted to a small suburban Chicago newspaper that the IRS should look at Move Forward America's ad.
Someone from Durbin's office was quoted as telling the newspaper - in connection with Move America Forward -- "Have you ever seen that H&R Block commercial where the guy leans in and says, 'I see an audit'?"
"For the office of a United States senator to threaten reprisals from the IRS against an organization that is supporting our troops in harm's way is absolutely reprehensible," said Mark Washburn, executive director of Move America Forward.
In addition to the IRS threat, Durbin's staff is also presurring Illinois television stations not to run the ads. This is a tactic out of the failed Kerry campaign strategy that threatened to sue television stations that run ads for the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth organization.
It seems the senator and his staff are running a little scared. With the number of military and Jewish votes in Illinois, Durbin may win the primary, but if there is a viable Republican candidate, Durbin will lose in November 2006.
Durbin's Staff Trying to Silence Critics, Group Says -- 07/11/2005
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Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) is running for President. Her campaign for re-election to the Senate is a sham. She will not serve out her term and she will forget any promise to do so. New York Republicans must find a candidate to beat her.
Her rhetoric of late is strictly anti-Bush, anti-Republicans, and anti-conservative. This is not much different than her normal rhetoric, but she is moving it to a national level. Sen. Clinton is not above ridiculing the president or his policies.
In a speech Sunday, Clinton compared President Bush to cartoon character Alfred E. Newman, Mad magazine. "I sometimes feel that Alfred E. Newman is in charge in Washington," Clinton said referring to the freckle-faced Mad magazine character.
Clinton used the typical liberal attack blaming the president for a weak economy (which it is not) by overspending and giving tax breaks to the rich.
There is nothing new in the attacks by Clinton, but the speech was given to raise awareness of her presidential campaign and national status.
Las Vegas SUN: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton Attacks Bush
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Outgoing NAACP Chairmen Julian Bond, not a friend of President Bush or conservatives,
was demanding the president attend the next NAACP convention. Bond accused the president of not paying attention to "black" needs.
The NAACP has invited the president to speak at the convention, but the White House has declined the invitation.
The reason for the decline is Bond himself. While asking the president to speak to the group, Bond's continual attacks on Bush and administration policies make it nearly impossible for the president to be received in an appropriate manner.
Many conservative blacks claim the NAACP is too liberal and backward-looking.
The departure of NAACP president Kwesi Mfume will make it harder for the president to accept. Although a liberal. Mfume is willing to listen to what the present has to say. Bond will not.
CNSNews.com -- News This Hour
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