The Israeli Spy Ring Scandal "Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information." US official quoted in Carl Cameron's Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring.

Group Says DuPont Withheld Risk of Toxic Chemical DuPont Co., the second-largest U.S. chemical company, withheld from the government an internal study linking a toxic chemical in Teflon to birth defects in some children, an advocacy group charged on Friday. The Environmental Working Group claimed that DuPont violated federal law by failing to turn over a document in 1981 showing the risks of perfluorooctanoic acid, or C8, a chemical used to manufacture Teflon.

Was 9/11 Allowed to Happen? “Members of congressional committees investigating September 11th warnings said that there is far more damaging information that has not yet been disclosed about the government's knowledge of events leading up to Sep 11th. 'We've just scratched the surface,' said Senator Richard C. Shelby, ranking Republican member of the Senate intelligence committee." [Washington Post, 5/17/02]

Did Sept 11 victims die for Enron? These revelations, coupled with the growing evidence suggesting that US air defences were deliberately stood down on September 11 until it was too late, raise an awkward question of the greatest magnitude. Did those who died on September 11 do so as a consequence of a wider effort by the Bush Administration to promote Enron's overseas business interests as an integral part of emerging US energy and foreign policy?

Ex-CIA operative says US to target Syria But Robert Baer, a former senior CIA operative, says he believes that the Pentagon has “pretty much decided to go after Syria,” taking advantage of the presence of US military forces in neighboring Iraq. The Syrians are “easy to get, they’re vulnerable. There’s been this buildup of rhetoric and, of course, the Israelis would like us to do it,” he told The Daily Star.

'Amerithrax' easy to make U.S. scientists concoct similar compound in search of clues The findings reinforce the theory that has guided the FBI's 18-month-old investigation -- that the mailed anthrax was probably produced by renegade scientists and not a military program such as Iraq's. "It tends to support the idea that the anthrax came from a domestic source and probably not a state program," said David Siegrist, a bioterrorism expert at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. "It shows you can have a fairly sophisticated product with fairly rudimentary methods."

Details Given on Contract Halliburton Was Awarded The Pentagon contract given without competition to a Halliburton subsidiary to fight oil well fires in Iraq is worth as much as $7 billion over two years, according to a letter from the Army Corps of Engineers that was released today. The contract also allows Kellogg Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary, to earn as much as 7 percent profit. That could amount to $490 million.

Geneva Convention breached, says UN Coalition forces in Iraq are breaching the Geneva Convention by failing to protect hospitals in Baghdad from looters, the United Nations claimed.

Ricin Scare in Paris Is False Alarm Vials of what was suspected as the poison ricin found in train station locker last month turned out to be wheat germ and barley, officials said Friday.

Mount Sinai in Saudi Arabia? A British scientist is making two claims about Jewish history that could spark discussion over the Seder meal. Colin J. Humphreys of Cambridge University has concluded that science backs traditional beliefs that the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt was led by Moses pretty much the way the Bible and the Haggadah ritual tell it. He also says that Mount Sinai, where Scripture says Moses received God’s Law, is located in Saudi Arabia, not Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula — moving a key site for Judaism into the nation where Islam was founded.

NASA selects Mars landing sites In the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) landing site sweepstakes, the winners are: Meridiani Planum and Gusev crater. NASA has concluded that these two touchdown zones on Mars offer the greatest science reward for the soon-to-be launched dual Mars Exploration Rovers.