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Tuesday,26.April.11 Click on text to open full article                 ShareThis Yukoner tackles 9/11 Korean Air 'hijackings' mystery When Max Fraser started collecting footage and stories about how Sept. 11, 2001, played out in the Yukon capital of Whitehorse, he set out to make a point-of-view documentary about the terrifying spectre of 2 supposedly hijacked jumbo jets landing in — or on — Whitehorse. It's hard to forget the images of an American Airlines jet slamming into the World Trade Center in New York City, followed by a United Airlines jet hitting the second tower minutes later. The images were beamed to television sets around the world. What Fraser ended up with is the mysterious tale of how Korean Air Flight 085, bound for New York City, came to land at the then-Whitehorse International Airport at 11:54 a.m. that day, instead of descending at one of the many better-equipped Alaskan runways it passed on its way. Al Qaeda leaders were in Karachi on 9/11: WikiLeaks WikiLeaks documents reveal Canada’s alleged 9/11 link Al Qaeda had terror cell in Montreal: WikiLeaks   Libya: Silvio Berlusconi approves the use of Italy's air force in Nato strikes In a telephone conversation he had informed US President Barack Obama "that Italy has decided to respond positively" to an appeal by the head of the Nato military alliance, Mr Berlusconi said in a statement. "Italy has decided to augment the operational flexibility of its planes through targeted actions against specific... Poll: More than half of Egyptians want to cancel peace treaty with Israel   Man held by U.S. as terrorist may have worked for CSIS He appears to have been born to be an al-Qaeda terrorist. The 35-year-old Islamist from Algeria says he fought his first battle at age 11. He is described as a Taliban spy, a remorseless killer and a money runner. And for a time, the same man may have worked as an overseas intelligence source for Canada’s spy agency. Newly leaked documents from the Guantanamo Bay prison revealed on Tuesday the strange case of Adil Hadi al Jazairi Bin Hamlili. The globetrotting extremist seems to have been regarded by the Canadians... US listed ISI as terrrorist organization in Guantanamo cables Guantánamo Bay files: Al-Qaida assassin 'worked for MI6' Taliban fighters escape in mass Afghan prison break   Wikileaks: British aid budget funded key aide to al-Qaeda Mullan Haji Rohullah, who was subsequently transported to Guantánamo, was paid more than £300,000 of British taxpayers’ money to eradicate his poppy crops. But he instead allegedly supported al-Qaeda and helped terrorists escape allied forces — while continuing to act as a major drugs trafficker. The revelation raises new questions over the payment and monitoring of international aid in Afghanistan in the aftermath of the invasion in 2001. The international development budget, which has recently been embroiled in controversy over the... Queen a legitimate target, says top dissident Republican   WikiLeaks: Guantánamo Bay terrorists radicalised in London to attack Western targets Abu Qatada and Abu Hamza, two preachers who lived off state benefits after claiming asylum, are identified by the American authorities as the key recruiters responsible for sending dozens of extremists from throughout the world to Pakistan and Afghanistan via London mosques. The leaked WikiLeaks documents, written by senior US military commanders at Guantánamo Bay, illustrate how, for two decades, Britain effectively became a crucible of terrorism, with dozens of extremists, home-grown and from abroad, radicalised here. Finsbury Park mosque,..   'Nuclear hellstorm' if bin Laden is caught or killed: Al-Qaida Washington: Al-Qaida terrorists have threatened to unleash a "nuclear hellstorm" on the West if their leader and world's most wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden is nabbed. A senior Al-Qaida commander has claimed that the terror group has stashed away a nuclear bomb in Europe which will be detonated if bin Laden is ever caught or assassinated, according to new top secret files made public by whistleblower website WikiLeaks. The documents are secret details of the background to the capture of each of the 780 people held at or have passed...   WikiLeaks: leaked files accuse BBC of being part of a 'possible propaganda media network' The files, obtained by the WikiLeaks website and passed to The Daily Telegraph, disclose that a phone number of someone at the BBC was found in the phone books and phones of a number of extremists seized by US forces. A detainee assessment, dated 21 April 2007, states: "The London, United Kingdom (UK), phone number 0044 207 XXX XXXX was discovered in numerous seized phone books and phones associated with extremist-linked individuals. “The number is associated with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).” Analysis by...   Trump: How did Obama get into the Ivy League? Donald Trump on Monday suggested he had broadened the scope of his investigation regarding President Obama's background, arguing that - in addition to making inquiries into Mr. Obama's citizenship - he was "looking into" the president's college career. In an interview with the Associated Press, Trump alleged that Mr. Obama had been "a terrible student," and wondered how he could have been accepted to prestigious schools like Columbia and Harvard Universities. "I heard he was a terrible student, terrible," Trump told the AP... White House Slams Rev. Franklin Graham for Comment about Issues Surrounding President Obama's Birth Donald Trump says Robert De Niro 'not brightest bulb' after actor called Obama 'birthers' 'crazy' Donald Trump: Obama's Birth Certificate Is "Missing" Ron Paul Announces Exploratory Presidential Committee Why Haley Barbour pulled the plug   Republican Romney rips Obama over debt warning Standard & Poors said on April 18 that it might downgrade the United States' prized AAA credit rating unless the Obama administration and Congress find a way to slash the $1.4 trillion annual federal deficit within two years. The warning has given Republicans another opening to attack Obama's policies at a time the...   Former Obama Adviser Van Jones Helping to Push 'Human' Rights for Mother Nature Van Jones, the Obama administration's controversial former "green jobs czar," has found a new calling: helping to push for a new, global architecture of environmental law that would give Mother Nature the same rights status as humans. The new movement is almost certain to be showcased at a U.N.-sponsored global summit on “sustainable development” to take place in Rio de Janeiro in May 2012, when similar issues of “global environmental governance” are a major focus of attention. Jones is taking up the challenge as one of the newest board...    Red Reps 8 Hansen Clarke: Michigan Freshman Congressman’s Hard Core Communist Connections Freshman Congressman Hansen Clarke (D-MI) has a close working relationship with one of the U.S.’s most extreme Marxist-Leninist organizations – the pro North Korean Workers World Party. A former chief of staff to Michigan’s pro Marxist congressman John Conyers, Hansen Clarke seems to be following in his former mentor’s political footsteps. In 2008 Hansen Clarke worked closely with Detroit leaders of the...   Abbas: Obama led me on Harsh criticism: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says Barack Obama led him on, slamming the American president's handling of the peace process in unusually blunt remarks. Talking to Newsweek, the Palestinian leader said that President Obama was the one to suggest a full Israeli settlement freeze in the West BAnk, but later failed to pressure officials in Jerusalem to maintain the construction moratorium. "It was Obama who suggested a full settlement freeze,” Abbas was quoted as...   State Dept. wants to make it harder to get a passport If you don’t want it to get even harder for a U.S. citizen to get a passport — now required for travel even to Canada or Mexico — you only have until Monday to let the State Department know. The U.S. Department of State is proposing a new Biographical Questionnaire for some passport applicants: The proposed new Form DS-5513 asks for all addresses since birth; lifetime...   China and US plan talks to solve currency issues China and the US will hold economic talks next month as the two countries work towards reaching a common ground on currency policy. The US has accused of China on keeping the value of its currency, the yuan, artificially low in order to help its exporters. China has said that a sudden rise in its currency will be detrimental not only to its export sector but also to its overall economy. China is the world's largest exporter. The growth of the Chinese economy over the past few years has been powered by the success of its export sector... Saudi dollar peg to stay for now - Central Bank Governor Gold, silver soar to fresh records   US financial woes are nearly as bad as of Greece: economists US finances are in almost as troubled a state as the worst-hit members of the eurozone, economists say, underscoring the pressing need for Washington to reach agreement on how to reduce the spiralling deficit. A gauge of sovereign risk from economists at Deutsche Bank placed the US just behind Greece, Ireland and Portugal among 14 advanced economies. The report, from economists... 5 U.S. cities with the most credit card debt Rules for 'jumbo' mortgages to change this year   More transparency expected from Fed A new era of a more transparent U.S. Federal Reserve is set to begin Wednesday when Ben Bernanke becomes the Fed’s first chairman to hold a press conference directly following one of the central bank’s policy meetings. While it remains to be seen just how forthcoming Mr. Bernanke will be during his time with reporters this week, the move is being lauded as a important step for the bank, one that will provide markets with a more immediate and focused take on...   CIC Set for Up to $200 Billion in Fresh Funds China Investment Corp, the Chinese sovereign wealth fund, will soon receive $100bn-$200bn in new funds from the government, according to three people familiar with the matter. CIC, which has already fully allocated the $110 billion it had available for offshore investments, is to get the new money as Beijing seeks to reduce its exposure to US government debt. “There has been bureaucratic bickering for a year,” said one...   Hal Rogers’s 'empire' of nonprofits under scrutiny Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.), the new chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, has funneled more than $236 million in federal funds since 2000 to a web of nonprofit groups he created back home in the Bluegrass State, according to a new report by an ethics watchdog group. Another group of private firms...   Brussels' Fear of the True Finns - Rise of Populist Parties Pushes Europe to the Right Timo Soini, 48, is standing in front of "Hesburger," a fast food restaurant in the western part of Helsinki. It is shortly before 10 a.m., and he is waiting patiently for the restaurant to finally open its doors. Soini, the chairman of the right-wing populist Perussuomalaiset, or "True Finns" party, has been giving interviews for...   Auto production faces bigger hit after Japan quake A shortage of parts in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami has savaged Japan's auto sector supply chain, while damage to a major nuclear plant has disrupted power supplies. Investors expecting overseas rivals to benefit from a prolonged slump in Japanese output pushed up shares in South Korea's Hyundai Motors (005380.KS) and associate Kia Motors...   California Judge's Partner Cited in Push to Uphold Same-Sex Marriage Ban SAN FRANCISCO – Proponents of California's same-sex marriage ban filed a motion Monday seeking to vacate the historic ruling that overturned Proposition 8 because the federal judge who wrote it is in a long-term relationship with another man. Lawyers for the ban's backers said in the motion in San Francisco's U.S. District Court that Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker should have removed himself from the case, or at least disclosed his relationship status, because his "impartiality might reasonably be questioned." "Only if Chief...   Lawyer quits firm in clash over marriage case The constitutional battle over federal marriage laws took another twist Monday when one of the country’s best-known lawyers resigned as partner after his firm’s managers announced they were dropping the politically charged case. In a move that Capitol Hill Republicans said reflected pressure from gay-rights groups, former U.S. Solicitor General Paul D. Clement announced that he was leaving Atlanta-based King & Spalding and joining Washington-based Bancroft PLLC as a partner after the firm pulled out of the contract to defend the...   Over the past week, Colin Atkinson has been described as an ‘extremist’, an ‘outrageous radical’ and a ‘political agitator’. But as the 64-year-old grandfather potters happily round his very neat kitchen in his grey woolly socks — making sugary tea, laying out malted biscuits, checking his wife Geraldine is comfortable in her beige leather recliner chair and chatting on (and on) — he looks simply kindly. And oddly familiar...   IN PICTURES: Iran Jews celebrate Passover, Persian-style Iran's Jewish community celebrated Passover this week, gathering to pray at the Pol-e-Choubi Synagogue in Tehran, a synagogue catering to the largest Jewish community in the Middle East outside of Israel. The story of Iran's ancient Jewish community unfolds over more than 2,700 years, back to when the Jews were exiled from Jerusalem through to today, after most members of Iran's Jewish community have relocated...   Eddie Long Lawsuit Close to Being Resolved, Says Judge The lawsuit between Bishop Eddie Long and the four young men who accused him of sexual misconduct is close to being resolved out of court, said the judge overseeing the case on Friday. After three months of mediation, the case is within “field goal range” of being settled, said Judge Johnny Panos to reporters, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Panos talked to the media with the aim of clearing misinformation being reported about...   'A cell tower in a suitcase': Phone company sells portable wireless for disaster zones If 1980s cartoon character Inspector Gadget ever went on vacation, this is surely the luggage he would take with him. A cellphone company has announced it is selling suitcase-sized mobile towers, which will allow customers to generate their own wireless coverage from remote locations. The new product, aimed at...