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| Men grieve over the three boys' bodies. The sons of a senior Fatah official were murdered when their car was riddled with 60 bullets |
Two days ago in the Gaza strip, unknown gunmen deliberately targeted and murdered 3 Palestinian children as they were being driven to school. The Guardian reports:
In a letter released last Friday Trepashkin alleged that the FSB Russian state security service had created a hit squad to kill Litvinenko and other enemies of the Kremlin.
"He [Trepashkin] says that he possesses information that may shed light on the murder. And he is ready to speak out," Yelena Liptser, a lawyer for Trepashkin, told a news conference in Moscow on Monday. Trepashkin told his lawyers about his readiness to testify in Nizhny Tagil, where he is serving his sentence, she said.
"He said I want to be buried according to Islamic tradition. I said okay son. It will be as you wish. We already have one Muslim in our family. The important thing is to believe in the Almighty. God is one," he said in the interview. Valter Litvinenko said he was sure that President Vladimir Putin was involved in the death, a view apparently voiced by the former agent himself in a letter before his November 23 death and rejected claims that former Russian agents may have been responsible, the AFP news agency reports.
"The police will follow wherever this investigation leads; inside or outside Britain," Home Secretary John Reid told Sky News. "Over the next few days ... all of these things, I think, will widen out a little from the circle just being here in Britain."
Scotland Yard officers, assisted by the FBI, have already traveled to Virginia to interview former KGB officer Yuri Shvets.
A United States-based friend of the former Russian spy Litvinenko said he had given police the name of a suspect he believes orchestrated his killing, according to Associated Press' report.
Shvets said he had known Litvinenko since 2002 and had spoken to him on Nov. 23, the day he died.
" Very nice house, "he said. (He was a proud member of the builders union) "But David why in Connecticut"
"What's wrong with Connecticut?"
"The people here are all crazy. They sent a Nazi to the United States Senate. A Nazi who supported and got rich from doing business with the madman Hitler."
My father lost many of his relatives in Byelorussia during the Nazi rampage in that country. Naturally he followed the war news very closely and that day he told me about Roosevelt passing the "Trading with the enemy act in 1942 and how the U.S. confiscated the Prescot Bush holdings in a Nazi banking group. Until then I had never heard about that and I could hardly believe it. How could voters, less than ten years after that horrible war send such a man to the U.S. Senate?
This fact, finally reported by the mainstream press, goes to the very heart of and proves accurate much of what we have been saying on the Signs of the Times page for several years.
The following are facts, indisputable by all but the most self-deluded:
ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINE SLAYS NINE
Terrorizes Florida in Thrill-Kill Rampage
That headline was from a satirical column written by Andy Borowitz published last Monday, the day before Tuesday's midterm elections. Unfortunately, given the post-election coverage by some of the nation's leading media -- or at least their headline writers -- it seems that only an event such as a Diebold voting machine becoming "unmoored from the floor and...trampling everyone and everything in its path," as Borowitz wrote, would qualify as anything more than a "glitch," "hiccup," "snag" or "snafu."





