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...election audio tape which he received from a military intelligence agent. Ong claimed the tape was genuine and incriminating of Arroyo, and after the press conference he hurried to a Catholic seminary for sanctuary. A jittery Jose de Venecia, Speaker of the House of Representatives, told lawmakers they must resist any attempt to bring Arroyo down. "The next few days will be difficult moments for our country and people," he said. "Let's not take this idly...
...believed capable of unlocking an enormous amount of specific and general insights into 9/11, al-Qaeda operations and ongoing planning for future attacks." But the initial questioning by the FBI went poorly. "We were getting nothing from him," a senior Pentagon official says. "He had been trained to resist direct questioning. And what works in a Chicago police precinct doesn't work...
...with the devil," he tells his captors. The interrogators respond by forcing him to stand or sit immobile on a metal chair. He tries to deflect questions about where he went in Afghanistan with answers apparently drawn directly from an al-Qaeda handbook, given to terrorists, about how to resist interrogations. When al-Qahtani resorts to a handbook answer, his handlers reply that it amounts to another admission of guilt...
...Google’s promises seem to have fallen on deaf ears in Europe, where libraries joined forces earlier this winter to resist the print project for a different reason...
Across the globe, it seems the media cannot resist a story about Harvard students having fun. Or at least trying...