We are sitting, hazards blinking, in Brown's BMW on a rural road in Virginia's Facquier County, a horsey enclave an hour west of Washington DC. The object of our attention is Mount Weather, officially the Emergency Operations Centre of the Federal Emergency Management Authority (Fema); and, less officially, a massive underground complex originally built to house governmental officials in the event of a full-scale nuclear exchange. Today, as the Bush administration wages its war on terror, Mount Weather is believed to house a "shadow government" made up of senior Washington officials on temporary assignment.

Following the collapse of the USSR, Mount Weather seemed like an expensive cold-war relic. Then came September 11. News reports noted that "top leaders of Congress were taken to the safety of a secure government facility 75 miles west of Washington"; another reported "a traffic jam of limos carrying Washington and government license plates." As the phrase "undisclosed location" entered the vernacular, Mount Weather, and a handful of similar installations, flickered back to life. Just two months ago, a disaster-simulation exercise called Forward Challenge '06 sent thousands of federal workers to Mount Weather and other sites.

Mount Weather is not hard to find. From the White House, we take Route 66 west until it meets Highway 50. Fifty miles later, we turn off on Route 601, a small two-lane rural feeder that snakes up a ridge. That road seems to be going nowhere until suddenly, at the crest, we come into a clearing, bounded by two lines of tall, shiny, razor-wired fencing, marked with faded signs that say: "US Property. No Trespassing." Behind sits a grouping of white aluminium sheds and a few cars.

We have arrived at the edge of the known republic. What lies beyond is obscured by Appalachian scrub and the inky black of government classification. No one has ever been allowed to tour the underground complex at Mount Weather and tell of what they saw. Occupying 500 acres of Blue Ridge real estate, it functions like a rump principality, with its own leaders, its own police and fire departments, and its own set of laws.

Mount Weather is more easily viewed from outer space than down the block. Earlier in the afternoon, I had been looking at grainy 1m-resolution aerial images of Mount Weather assembled by Brown, a national security researcher and aerial imagery expert. He pointed to small notches on the side of a hill (tunnel entrances), helipads, and a series of "military-style above-ground soft support housing". The mountain straddles the two entrances, he noted. "It's something like 200ft of shelter on top of you at the highest point."

Just driving round the perimeter of Mount Weather, you can see the traces of recent work. "See how they've obscured this," he says, pointing to the black sheeting threaded through a length of fence. "You used to be able to see the helipad through that fence." He gestures towards the new entrance. "Look at the truck barriers. When you turned, there'd be no time to build up speed. They got smart."

The changes to its exterior landscape - not to mention the gossip among local residents - are just one sign that that something very important has been going on at Mount Weather, a level of activity not seen here since the days when Eisenhower and his advisers trooped out here during drills. For some, this is a sign of prudent planning in a world where the security calculus has been for ever altered; for others, it is the symbol of an administration with a predilection towards exercising power in secret. As we pull away from Mount Weather, Brown says, "I wouldn't want to be driving a rental truck and have it break down in front of the gate."

Mount Weather first caught the American imagination on December 1 1974, when a Dulles-bound TransWorld Airlines 727, struggling through heavy rains and 50mph winds, crashed into the top of the mountain, less than a mile and a half from the site. The crash briefly severed the underground line linking to the Emergency Broadcast System, and teletype machines in news offices across the country began spitting out garbled transmissions.

The story might have died there. With Vietnam and Watergate in the air, however, the words "secret government facility" did not exactly induce a frisson of patriotic glee. The Progressive, in 1976, published an article, entitled The Mysterious Mountain, which said Mount Weather, a place little known even to Congress, was home not only to a replica mini-government, but to files on at least 100,000 Americans. In 1991, Time published the fullest exposé, describing (based on conversations with retired engineers) a sprawling underground complex bristling with mainframe computers, air circulation pumps, and a television/radio studio for post-nuclear presidential broadcasts.

What information has emerged about Mount Weather has always been rather sketchy. At some point in the 1950s, however, it seems that a drilling experiment into the mountain's rugged foundations of Precambrian basalt was turned into an exercise in underground city building, with the army corps hollowing out of the "hard and tight" rock a complex of tunnels and rooms with roofs reinforced by iron bolts.

The base formed part of a "federal relocation arc", an archipelago of hardened underground facilities, each linked by a dedicated communications system and equipped with amenities ranging from showers to wash off nuclear fallout to filtration systems capable of sucking air clean down to the micron level. The sites, staffed by "molies", were spartan steel-and-concrete expanses, subterranean seats of power: the president could repair to Mount Weather; Congress had its secret bunker under the Greenbrier Hotel in Virginia; the Federal Reserve had a bunker in Culpepper, Virginia; the Pentagon was given a rocky redoubt called Site R in the mountains of southwestern Pennsylvania; while the nation's air defences were run out of Norad's (North American Aerospace Defence Command) Cheyenne Mountain facility. "The nuclear age has dictated that these men carry out their responsibilities inside a solid granite mountain," wrote the defence command.

Mount Weather's secrecy was never absolute. In the 1957 novel Seven Days in May, the authors referred to a shadowy facility called Mount Thunder, all but revealing its location. Driving around those Blue Ridge byways today, a curious mixture of secrecy and openness still prevails. On Route 601, an Adopt-a-Highway sign is sponsored by employees of the Mount Weather Emergency Operations Centre. But pull off toward the entrance of that facility, and things get a bit strange. Looking for the home of a local resident, I hail an exiting Mount Weather employee. As we begin to chat, cars side by side, I suddenly hear a strange, siren-like sound and notice that a black SUV has loomed into my rear-view. The occupant, wearing sunglasses, hastily points me in the right direction.

This contradictory world of sunshine and shadow is at one with the parallel nature of the facility itself. On the one hand, it is, as Fema describes it, "a hub of emergency response activity providing Fema and other government agencies space for offices, training, conferencing, operations and storage". Less discussed is Mount Weather's obliquely assumed status as one of the key "undisclosed locations" of the Bush administration. "Look, there are two Mount Weathers - there's the Fema one and the Mount Weather one," says John Weisman, a writer of military and spy thrillers and a neighbour of the facility. "I wouldn't be at all surprised if [the vice-president, Dick] Cheney had been here before, and if [the secretary of defence, Donald] Rumsfeld had been here before, because they were part of some hugely sensitive stuff that was going on in the 1980s."

Weisman is referring to a series of classified programmes, described by the journalist James Mann in The Rise of the Vulcans, in which Cheney and Rumsfeld were said to be "leading figures". According to Mann, the resurgence of tensions with the Soviet Union during the Reagan administration lent new urgency to "continuity of government" programmes. With a secret executive order, and an "action officer" in the form of Oliver North, top officials pondered such constitutional quandaries as whether it would be necessary to reconstitute Congress following a nuclear attack (the answer was no).

On September 11 2001, Mann writes, the long-dormant plan was activated, and any number of top officials - possibly including Cheney himself - were shuttled to Mount Weather.

Residents on the mountain did not need to read the newspapers to discern that something was going on there. Joe Davitt, a retired civil servant who lives in a small A-frame house a mile or so away, told me that on September 11 2001 his wife was returning home from Florida. At the bottom of the hill, he says, she was stopped by state troopers, who asked for identification. At the facility itself, he says, "The Mount Weather guards were not only armed, they had their guns in firing position." John Staelin, a member of the Clarke County Board of Supervisors, says that on September 11, the county's 911 line received a call from an agitated local woman. "She said, 'I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, but the whole mountain opened up and Air Force One flew in and it closed right up. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes.' So they said, 'Yes, ma'am.' "

Whatever else, Mount Weather makes for an interesting neighbour. "My God," says Davitt, as we sit on his back porch, "they put a plough up there at the first forecast of snow. They've always been good at keeping the road ploughed."

"We call our house ground zero," says Weisman. "This mountain has its interesting moments, between the helicopter flights and the people coming and going." Where for years "Mount Weather was nothing but a sleepy little byway", Weisman complains that the post-9/11 security adjustments have only served to draw attention to the facility. "It now says, 'Boy, am I important!' "

The local people are, by and large, perfectly happy to talk about Mount Weather. Sometimes, however, a veil of secrecy descends. When I asked about Mount Weather at the Daily Grind coffee shop in nearby Berryville, a woman smiled nervously and told me one woman she knew saw "missiles" being taken there. I was forwarded an email from a mountain resident (with the .mil domain that suggests a military background) that contained complaints about late-night helicopter flights, as well as recent episodes of nocturnal machine-gun fire and even a "massive explosion" that had shaken the house. My email seeking further comment received an immediate, terse response demanding that the sender not be associated with the story.

Inquiries to Fema yield little more light. "There's been a general upgrade of security at all federal installations around the country, and Mount Weather is one of them," says spokesman Don Jacks. "I answered your question in a very general way. We're not going to talk about Mount Weather, period. It's not that I can't, we just don't."

A request to talk to Reynolds Hoover, the director of Fema's Office of National Security Coordination, dies on the vine. And forget about James Looney, Fema chief at Mount Weather. "To talk to Mr Looney you would have to talk about Mount Weather," Jacks reminds me. "And we don't talk about Mount Weather."

One afternoon, I went to have lunch with Jim Wink at the Horseshoe Curve, a saloon tucked away near the hamlet of Pine Grove. It has been the unofficial canteen of Mount Weather for as long as anyone can remember. "I've seen Seabees [members of the US Navy Construction Battalions] come out of the tunnels at the end of the day and come down to the bar for a few beers," says Weisman. A Comanche pickup in the parking lot has a bumper sticker that says Terrorist Hunting Permit.

"I checked you out last night," Wink says by way of introduction. "So did Ray." He's talking about Ray Derby, a former Mount Weather employee whom I had visited the night before, who has suddenly appeared today. Wink, an Irish-blooded South Philadelphian with a tight smile and a steely, penetrating stare, does not seem like a man of whom you would like to run afoul. A retired counterterrorism expert with stints in the CIA, the Secret Service and any number of other agencies, he seems to have been in every place in the world at the most politically sensitive time. He was one of the last several hundred US personnel in Vietnam in April 1975, until he heard the song White Christmas - a coded message to get out of the country.

His office is filled with memorabilia culled from the more occluded arenas of US foreign policy; there is a plaque signed by the team tracking the Shining Path leader, Abimael Guzman, in Peru; a collection of Wink's identity cards from various intelligences agencies around the world (he's wearing sunglasses in most of them); and, among other souvenirs, a photograph of the slain drug lord Pablo Escobar. "There's your richest man in the world," he says, handing me a snapshot of a bloated, blank-eyed corpse. "He did not die a good death."

There's a Vets for North sticker on one wall, and, on another, one that says: "Even My Dog is Conservative."

Wink came to Mount Weather in the 1980s. "I needed a training facility and they offered a great deal up here."

When he came with the Secret Service one day to the Curve for a beer, he met his future wife, Tracee, whose grandfather had owned the bar. "Cheney and Rumsfeld, they've been here," he says, gesturing to the bar. "And Ollie. We all worked here together years ago. She can even tell you what they drank." His eyes shift toward his wife, behind the bar. "When I used to run exercises we'd bring 1,000 people," he says. "Most of the things we did, they didn't let 'em off the post." He talks vaguely of one training exercise. "We had to do the psychology of being locked up," he says. "We started with submarines."

There have been curious visitors to Mount Weather from the start, he says, including the Russians. "The State Department, in their infinite lack of wisdom, allowed the Russians to have a R&R center on the river here, right below Mount Weather." The Curve, which sits off an entrance to the Appalachian Trail, attracts wayward visitors. "One hiker came in and said he was hiking all the facilities. Said you could get closer that way. He was trying to find out a little too much."

Local people, Wink says, like to help Mount Weather maintain its low profile. "They won't talk about it," he says. "As a matter of fact," he says, fixing his eyes on me, "you might meet a local cop if you ask too many questions about it. Many of the men around here served in the second world war," he continues. "Consequently they don't discuss those things."

I had encountered a similar line of thinking the night before from Derby, a long-time federal emergency coordinator and civil defence officer who is now retired and living in nearby Winchester. "All the employees of Mount Weather have always been told, rightly so, that no matter what someone asks you, just don't say if it's true or not true. Just ignore the question. You'll get that if you ask," says Derby, a chain-smoker with neatly Brylcreemed hair who drinks what he calls "martoonis" out of a tumbler. His office, in the upstairs of his split-level suburban home, is filled with various presidential commendations, as well as a photograph of what looks like a emergency conference room.

"I designed that," he says, peering through a dense curl of cigarette smoke, "but I can't tell you where it is".

No, Hayes is not a historian. What are his qualifications? He’s a journalist who has cultivated close ties within the White House and has become the go-to source for insiders seeking to peddle false claims on Iraq. Here are some highlights of Hayes’ record:

1. This January, Cheney was asked by then-Fox News radio host Tony Snow, “Were there links to — between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda?” Cheney answered, “Well, I think Steve Hayes has done an effective job in his article of laying out a lot of those connections.” Hayes wrote an article entitled “Dick Cheney Was Right” about the Vice President’s effort to connect Saddam to 9/11. But even President Bush said most recently that Iraq had “nothing” to do with 9/11.

2. In 2003, Hayes declared “case closed” in an article purporting to show the links between bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Cheney recommeneded it to the Rocky Mountain news as the premier source of information on the issue. (”[Y]ou ought to go look is an article that Stephen Hayes did in the Weekly Standard here a few weeks ago…That’s your best source of information.”) Hayes relied on a classified Defense Department memo produced by Douglas Feith. The Defense Department shot down Hayes’ article, stating the Feith memo was “not an analysis of the substantive issue of the relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda, and it drew no conclusions.”

Each and every one of Hayes’ attempts to link Iraq to 9/11 have been thoroughly discredited, but he continues to push the argument. It’s quite fitting that Cheney chose him to be his official biographer.

But what could a psychic guess about him compared with what the world now knows? This story is one of hundreds, perhaps tens of thousands, revealed this month when AOL published the details of 23m searches made by 650,000 of its customers during a three-month period earlier in the year. The searches were actually carried out by Google - from which AOL buys in its search functions.

The gigantic database detailing these customers' search inquiries was available on an AOL research site for just a few hours before the company realised that substituting numbers for users' names did not really protect their identities enough. The company apologised for its mistake - and removed the database from the internet. The researcher who published the material has been sacked, as has his manager, and last week AOL's chief technology officer, Maureen Govern, resigned. But those few hours online were enough for the raw data files to be copied all over the internet, and there are now four or five sites where anyone can search through them using specialised software.

What was published by AOL represents only a tiny fraction of the accumulated knowledge warehoused within Google's records - but it has given all of us, as users, a dramatic and unsettling glimpse of how much, and in what intimate detail, the big search engines know about us.

The number of searches Google carries out is a secret, but comScore, an independent firm, reckons that the search engine performed 2.7bn searches by American users alone in July this year. Yahoo, its main rival, conducted around 1.8bn American searches in the same month; Microsoft's MSN around 800m and AOL 366m.

All of this information is stored. Google identifies every computer that connects to it with an implant (known as a cookie) which will not expire until 2038. If you also use Gmail, Google knows your email address - and, of course, keeps all your email searchable. If you sign up to have Google ads on a website, then the company knows your bank account details and home address, as well as all your searches. If you have a blog on the free blogger service, Google owns that. The company also knows, of course, the routes you have looked up on Google maps. Yahoo operates a similar range of services.

All this knowledge has been handed over quite freely by us as users. It is the foundation of Google's fortune because it allows the company to target very precisely the advertising it sends in our direction. Other companies have equally ambitious plans: an application lodged on August 10 with the US Patent & Trademark Office showed that Amazon is hoping to patent ways of interrogating a database that would record not just what its 59 million customers have bought - which it already knows - or what they would like to buy (which, with their wish lists, they tell the world) but their income, sexual orientation, religion and ethnicity. The company, of course, already knows who we are and where we live.

Even though the search logs that AOL released were made anonymous, by assigning a number to each user, it is not difficult in many cases to discover somebody's name from their search queries. And it is easy to follow exactly what users were thinking as they sat at their computers, in the apparent privacy of their own homes, since the time and date of every search is given.

On April 4, for instance, user 14162375, the melancholy Portuguese-American in Florida, seems to have passed out on the keyboard at 6.20pm, when he asked, suddenly, "llllfkkgjnnvjjfokrb" then "vvvvbmkmjk" and "vvglhkitopppfoppr". An hour later he had recovered enough to search for variations on his wife's name - he thought she might have moved to New England. On the evening of April 16, matters came to a head. "My cheating wife," he typed; and then, five times, "I want to kill myself," and then "I want to make my wife suffer," followed quickly by "Kill my wifes mistress," "My wifes ass," "A cheating wife". Two days after that he was back looking for audio surveillance and bugging equipment and four weeks later he seemed to have cheered up and was looking for motorcycle insurance.

The story stops abruptly there, at the end of May, because that is when the three months' worth of released AOL search records came to an end.

One of the first researchers to demonstrate that we will tell anything, however intimate, to a computer, was Joseph Weizenbaum of MIT, who in 1966 wrote a programme called "Eliza" that parodied non-directional psychotherapy. If the user typed anything in, Eliza would appear to ask a question based on that cue. In no time at all, unhappy students were telling the computer all their troubles as if there were a real and sympathetic person behind the screen. Stories and jokes about this circulated for decades, but the men most successful at turning this concept into a fortune were the founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergei Brin. As users, we think that the Google search engine is a way of supplying us with information about what's on the web. But the flow of information is two way. We ask Google things that we would hesitate to ask anyone living. The price for the answers is that Google remembers it all.

Take user 11110859 of New York City, who fell in love and then was sorry. She was up early on March 7 to buy hip-hop clothes from G-Unit; by March 26, however, there was more excitement in her life. Searches on "losing your virginity" were followed by three weeks of frantic worry about whether she was pregnant: stuff she might have hesitated to tell her best friend or her mother is all quite clear from the Google searches. But by the end of April the pregnancy scare was over and had been replaced by a broken heart. Even before she had stopped asking "Can you still be pregnant even though your period came?" she was asking "Why do people hurt others" and this was the theme of almost all her questions throughout May, culminating on the afternoon of the 19th, when she asked "How to love someone who mistreated you?"; "What does Jesus say about loving your enemies?" "What does God mean when he says bless those who spitefully use you?" Then she spent a couple of days trying to buy Betty Boop postage stamps, and the next thing we know, she was asking first for directions to the New York prison on Rikers Island, then "What items are we allowed to bring at Rikers Island" and finally for "uncoated playing cards".

User 11110859 was not the only person interested in the prison but she seems to have been the youngest and, in some senses, the most innocent. User 3745417 laid out her thoughts in detail just as graphic: on March 6 she made eight searches on child molestation and similar phrases. A week later she was trying to find a prisoner in Rikers Island - nine searches in one evening - a subject she returned to at 9.30am on March 25, when she made another eight searches. Between March 27 and March 29 she made 34 successive searches for M&M chocolates in the early evening, followed on the 30th, at 10pm, by four searches for "Kid Party Games". By 10.15pm she was searching for "Whitney Houston"; then, in the course of the next hour, 29 searches on "black porn for women" and similar subjects.

By the end of April, she was looking for a legal aid lawyer in New York City, a swimsuit, a credit card and a holiday in the Bahamas.

These stories, with all the revealing information they contain, cannot always easily be tied to a specific individual, but sometimes they can. The social security number, with which all Americans are issued, conforms to a recognisable pattern which is easy to search for in the data that AOL released. So, too, are telephone numbers. On the internet, you can buy anything from anywhere, but there are some things, such as pet care, which people mainly buy locally, so it is easy to spot where they live. People often search for their own names, which can then be cross- referenced with the telephone book.

At least one person in the AOL group, a blameless grandmother in Alabama, was identified by the New York Times within days of the AOL data release. And though it may be hard to identify complete strangers, it is very much easier to recognise in the AOL data details of someone you may already know. A church lady in the midwest, whose quest for Christian quilted wall hangings was interspersed with inquiries about vibrators and arousing frigid wives, is probably easy for anyone in her congregation to identify.

This is knowledge beyond the dreams of any secret police in history. Earlier this year Google fought a lawsuit to keep a week's worth of random search data out of the hands of the US government, but other search companies have handed over their data without complaint and nobody has yet discovered what deals have been struck between search engines and the Chinese government. China is generally thought of as attempting to censor the internet, which it does; search engines that do business in China must censor their own results if they are to succeed. But the real power for a totalitarian government is no longer just censorship. It is to allow its citizens to search for anything they want - and then remember it.

No western government, so far as we know, has gone that far. But if one ever does, it will know where the information is kept that will tell it almost everything about almost everyone. This morning, as I logged in to Googletalk, to chat with my sister, the programme silently upgraded itself. "Would you like to show friends what music you're playing now?" it asked.

From spying on the wife to motorcycle insurance

This edited list of searches by Florida AOL user 14162375 shows what intimate details are held by internet databases

March

marriage counseling 2006-03-19 17:50:31

spy on the wife 2006-03-19 17:52:47

spy on the wife 2006-03-19 17:52:47

spy on the wife 2006-03-19 17:52:47

spy on the wife 2006-03-19 17:52:47

spy on the wife 2006-03-19 17:58:58

spy recorders 2006-03-19 18:02:34

signs of cheating 2006-03-19 18:05:52

videos 2006-03-20 17:56:16

postal service stamps 2006-03-21 09:27:46

tracking cell phone numbers 2006-03-21 11:00:13

divorce 2006-03-23 14:10:27

divorce lawyers 2006-03-24 00:38:47

cheating wives 2006-03-24 06:07:00

cheating wives 2006-03-24 06:07:00

divorce lawyers 2006-03-24 13:10:32

saving a marriege 2006-03-24 13:42:04

saving a marriege 2006-03-24 15:02:24

saving a marriege 2006-03-24 15:02:24

saving a marriege 2006-03-24 15:20:13

fitness gyms 2006-03-24 16:32:50

womes wellness 2006-03-24 16:35:33

hypertension 2006-03-24 17:07:33

e-cards 2006-03-26 23:40:56

saving a marriage 2006-03-26 23:50:11

saving a marriage 2006-03-26 23:50:11

saving a marriage 2006-03-26 23:50:11

sexual techiques 2006-03-27 10:39:27

greenting cards 2006-03-27 12:45:53

standar times 2006-03-27 23:09:25

news papers 2006-03-27 23:09:56

stop your divorce 2006-03-27 23:49:06

stop your divorce 2006-03-27 23:53:30

stop your divorce 2006-03-28 00:06:53

alchool withdrawl 2006-03-28 10:43:51

alchool withdrawl sintoms 2006-03-28 10:45:38

disfunctional erection 2006-03-28 10:46:46

cheating therapy 2006-03-30 16:49:56

women's urine blood 2006-03-30 18:21:16

spy from a distance 2006-03-31 21:11:29

spy from a distance 2006-03-31 21:11:29

spy from a distance 2006-03-31 21:15:55

spy from a distance 2006-03-31 21:15:56

listentrough walls 2006-03-31 21:16:22

listen through walls 2006-03-31 21:16:25

car sound recorder 2006-03-31 21:20:07

car conversation spy 2006-03-31 21:20:24

April

spy on wife 2006-03-31 21:21:29

phico card readers 2006-04-01 22:03:08

bruchas 2006-04-01 22:04:17

phyco card readers 2006-04-01 22:06:43

phyco card readers 2006-04-01 22:07:10

predict my futur 2006-04-01 22:20:24

psychic 2006-04-02 10:14:07

i want my wyfe back 2006-04-02 23:14:28

i want revenge to my wife 2006-04-02 23:27:54

i want revenge to my wife 2006-04-02 23:27:54

get revenge from a wife cheater 2006-04-02 23:41:22

munchies 2006-04-03 11:54:59

lisbon jobs 2006-04-03 11:58:20

divorce and kids 2006-04-03 12:19:46

llllfkkgjnnvjjfokrb 2006-04-03 18:20:11

vvvvbmkmjk 2006-04-03 18:20:36

vvglhkitopppfoppr 2006-04-03 18:22:04

www.whitepages 2006-04-06 06:14:07

my wife wants to leave me 2006-04-07 16:35:03

how do i get my wife love me again 2006-04-08 17:10:55

need help getting my wife back 2006-04-08 19:27:2

i need my wife to get back to me 2006-04-08 19:29:11

i need my wife to get back to me 2006-04-08 19:29:11

my wife doesnt love animore 2006-04-08 19:30:58

i still live whith my wife can i get her bach 2006-04-08 19:32:15

i want revenge towards my wife 2006-04-08 19:32:59

i want revenge towards my wife 2006-04-08 19:32:59

i want revenge towards my wife 2006-04-08 19:32:59

i want revenge towards my wife 2006-04-08 19:36:58

making my wife suffer as i do 2006-04-09 13:19:54

get my wife back 2006-04-09 14:03:28

avoid breaking up 2006-04-09 14:04:11

avoid breaking up 2006-04-09 14:04:11

stop breaking up 2006-04-09 15:10:47

get even with my wife 2006-04-09 15:15:16

husband revenge 2006-04-09 15:23:37

husband revenge 2006-04-09 15:23:37

husband revenge 2006-04-09 15:23:37

how to harm my wifes lover 2006-04-10 13:11:28

infidelity 2006-04-10 14:32:02

whow to talk on the phone with youor wife 2006-04-10 14:43:07

catch your wife aving an affair 2006-04-10 14:44:32

baby monitors 2006-04-15 17:15:31

baby monitors 2006-04-15 17:15:31

my cheating wife 2006-04-16 16:48:06

my cheating wife 2006-04-16 16:48:06

my cheating wife 2006-04-16 16:48:06

i want to kill myself 2006-04-16 19:55:51

kill my wifes mistress 2006-04-16 20:26:49

my wifes ass 2006-04-16 20:38:37

cheating wives 2006-04-18 16:45:12

recording home survellence 2006-04-18 16:54:43

recording home surveillance 2006-04-18 16:54:53

audio roome surveillance 2006-04-18 16:55:40

audio roome surveillance 2006-04-18 16:55:43

sore muscules 2006-04-23 17:32:00

sore muscles 2006-04-23 17:32:06

sore muscles 2006-04-23 17:32:06

sore muscles 2006-04-23 17:32:06

alcoolism 2006-04-24 08:10:53

men acting like winners 2006-04-25 16:02:09

make the infidelity suffer 2006-04-25 16:03:20

the portuguese mafia 2006-04-25 16:24:04

May

motorcycle inurance 2006-05-29 18:31:19

motorcycle insurance 2006-05-29 18:31:29

private eye 2006-05-30 21:12:07

video surveillance 2006-05-30 21:20:18

video surveillance 2006-05-30 21:21:05

video surveillance 2006-05-30 21:21:24

white pages 2006-05-31 05:55:41

- AOL user search history data, released by AOL, August 2006.

"The United States remains committed to the defense of Japan and peace and stability in the western Pacific," visiting
U.S. Navy Secretary Donald Winter said in a speech at the dockside welcome ceremony.

The two allies stressed the significance of the ship's arrival as an example of the United States' strong security alliance with Japan, although the chances of preventing a missile attack on the country with a single vessel are slim.

North Korea condemned U.S. missile defense plans.

"The scheme of the U.S. war-thirsty quarters to deploy dense MD (missile defense) networks in the U.S. mainland, Japan and the Pacific reveals their wild ambition to rule the world by strength," Pyongyang's KCNA news agency reported the official Rodong Sinmun newspaper as saying in a commentary on Tuesday.

"No country in the world threatens the U.S. with missiles," it added.

In July, Pyongyang test-fired a series of ballistic missiles, an incident that drew attention to Japan's lack of defense systems eight years after Tokyo was spooked by a previous North Korean ballistic missile test in 1998.

Many analysts, however, have cast doubt on whether missile defense systems can reliably shoot down incoming missiles, and they criticize the program for drawing funds away from other areas of defense spending.

Missile defense accounts for 140 billion yen ($1.2 billion) of Japan's 4.81 trillion yen ($41 billion) defense budget this year.

The defense agency plans to seek a record 219 billion yen for missile defense in the fiscal year from next April 1, Kyodo news agency reported, although such requests are usually whittled down in the budget process.

As a second line of defense, the U.S. military will begin to install Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) interceptors at its Kadena Air Base on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa in September and plans to make them partly operational by the end of the year.

The ship-to-air SM-3 interceptors are designed to shoot down ballistic missiles in mid-flight, when they fly outside the earth's atmosphere, while ground-based PAC-3 interceptors target missiles in their terminal phase, shortly before they reach their targets.

Japan, whose pacifist constitution restricts the activities of its armed forces, relies on the United States for much of its defense capability, playing host to about 50,000 military personnel.

But Tokyo plans to install its own missile defense hardware, including fitting its four Aegis radar system-equipped warships with SM-3s.

"This is just a beginning," Japanese Foreign Ministry official Chikao Kawai said at the Yokosuka ceremony. "We need more capability. We need to speed up the deployment of additional equipment."

Kyodo said the United States had offered to provide Japan with up to 80 more Patriot missiles, as Japan seeks to speed up its own deployment of ground-based interceptor missiles.

A woman companion told police she and Taylor were abducted as they were out walking late Saturday. She said she was later released, according to police.

Taylor's 56-year-old mother and his sister, 21, were shot at the family's West Philadelphia home by two intruders on Sunday, authorities said. The mother, shot in the head, remained hospitalized in critical condition. The sister was treated for a shoulder wound and released. Their names were not made public.

Other than issuing the brief statement, Myers has not commented about the incident.

"He's not ready to talk about it," said Philadelphia Councilwoman Donna Reed Miller, a close friend. "He's trying to get information. He has a lot of questions."

Police consider the crimes connected, based on descriptions of the assailants provided by the woman companion and the sister.

The companion said a group of seven to 10 men shoved them into a van at about 11 p.m., according to Police Lt. John Walker. She told police they were duct-taped and taken to an unknown location, possibly a warehouse.

The woman said she was released at about 5 a.m. Sunday, but did not contact police until about 5 p.m., Walker said.

Two hours later, two intruders - who might have had a key - entered the Taylor residence, Walker said. They shot the women and then rummaged through Taylor's bedroom, leaving with an undetermined amount of cash.

Myers last spoke with his son a few weeks ago, spokeswoman Thera Martin said. Nothing seemed amiss, she said.

Taylor is Myers' son from a previous relationship with Taylor's mother. Myers is not related to her 21-year-old daughter. He has been married to his wife, Joyce, for more than 20 years, his spokeswoman said.

Myers has pursued state laws that would limit people to one gun purchase per month and let Philadelphia pass local gun laws that are stricter than the state's.

Meanwhile, Myers' Republican opponent in the November election, Joseph L. Messa, is suspending his campaign indefinitely out of respect for the Myers family.

"The DNA associated with the victim in this case does not match John Mark Karr," Lacy, Boulder's district attorney.

"The family of Mr. Karr cooperated by providing circumstantial evidence that Mr. Karr spent Christmas with his family in Atlanta, Georgia," at the time of the murder in 1996, Lacy said.

After a media circus covering Karr's extradition from Thailand, featuring Karr, 41, in Thai Airways business class reportedly drinking champagne, eating pate and king prawns next to a US Homeland Security agent, the case, remains unsolved.

Karr's attorney, Seth Temin, accused US authorities of acting without proof against his client.

"We are deeply distressed by the fact that they took this man and dragged him here from Bangkok, Thailand with no forensic evidence confirming the allegations against him, and no supporting factors leading to a presumption that he did anything wrong," Temin said.

The prosecutor came under similar criticism from legal commentators, including former prosecutors, who said Boulder authorities had botched the case and should have asked Thai police to conduct a DNA test.

The governor of Colorado, Bill Owens, joined in the criticism.

"I find it incredible that Boulder authorities wasted thousands of taxpayer dollars to bring Karr to Colorado given such a lack of evidence," the governor said in a statement quoted by local media.

Prosecutor "Mary Lacy should be held accountable for the most extravagant and expensive DNA test in Colorado history."

Ramsey's parents found their daughter's body in their wine cellar the day after Christmas in 1996 in a case that drew national media coverage.

Boulder Sheriff Joe Pelle said he will extradite Karr to Sonoma County, California, where he faces child pornography charges from 2001.

"He remains in our custody for the officials in California," Pelle said.

Thai police, who arrested Karr on August 16 on the outstanding child pornography charges, said Karr had confessed to killing Ramsey unintentionally. They said Karr told them he was "in love" with JonBenet, who wore makeup and glamorous outfits and struck precocious poses in her appearances at child beauty pageants.

US officials tracked Karr to Bangkok after studying four years' worth of his e-mails to University of Colorado journalism professor Michael Tracey.

"I am trapped in a world that does not understand," Karr said in one exchange. "I can understand people like Michael Jackson and feel sympathy when he suffers as he has."

While his arrest has revived huge interest in the murder -- in which, at one point, JonBenet's parents were investigated as possible suspects -- suspicions arose that Karr might not be the girl's killer.

Karr's ex-wife Lara Marie Knutson has said that on the day JonBenet's body was found, she was with Karr and their three sons in the southeastern US state of Alabama.

Her 11-year marriage to Karr ended in 2001, the year Sonoma County, California alleged Karr possessed child pornography.

And a Thai police officer further raised suspicions when he reportedly said Karr had mentioned that he had drugged and sexually assaulted the Ramsey girl before she died.

But the Ramsey's family lawyer noted that JonBenet's autopsy showed no signs of drugs and inconclusive evidence of sexual assault.

Asked last week by reporters if he had killed her, Karr said: "No, I did not. It was an accident." However, the girl's body was found beaten and strangled with a garrote.

Karr also reportedly told Thai police that he had "loved" the little girl.

Karr's motive for the confession remains fodder for speculation, along with the identity of the real murderer.