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...Three Flavors of Tea Is anyone organizing all this? Or trying to? Tom Jenney is the Arizona state director of a Washington-based group called Americans for Prosperity (AFP), a low-tax, libertarian advocacy group funded primarily by the wealthy Koch family of Wichita, Kans., and its foundations. With its sister organization FreedomWorks - run by former House majority leader Richard Armey - the AFP nurtured the Tea Party movement in its early days, offering training and logistical support. When Santelli sounded his trumpet, Jenney organized the first Tea Party protests in his state. But the larger the movement has become...
...This is not an arrest. It is an abduction." - Anoma Fonseka, Sarath Fonseka's wife, pleading at a press conference that she knew little of her husband's whereabouts or medical condition (AFP...
...troops spoke to General Fonseka and the way they forcibly dragged him away is a disgrace to the security forces. It is a shameful way to treat your former commander." - Rauf Hakeem, leading Sri Lankan Muslim politician and Fonseka ally, after witnessing Fonseka's arrest (AFP...
...AFP / Getty Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was one of the banker's 16 children and the third child of Alhaji Mutallab's second wife. Born in 1986, he lived a privileged life in a country where 90% of the population survives on less than $2 a day. He was known as a basketball player while growing up and a great football fan, his favorite club being Arsenal. But his passion for sports seemed to have waned with time, religious fervor taking its place, according to friends. "Farouk was a devoted Muslim who took his religion seriously and was a committed student...
Sources: ABC News; Times of London; C-SPAN; Reuters; AFP; New York Daily News...