Bombed Saudi Mercenary Firm was owned by Carlyle Group
London Times
Also see: Meet The Carlyle Group

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Explosions Rock Western Enclaves in Saudi Capital
Four separate overnight attacks involving explosions and small-arms fire struck Western targets including residential compounds in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, causing an undetermined number of casualties, Saudi officials and diplomats said today.
New York Times

FCC Proposal Eases Media Ownership Rules
ABC News
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'US wants to control Iraq's oil, join OPEC'
Business Day

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The Two Faces of Rumsfeld
2000: director of a company which wins $200m contract to sell nuclear reactors to North Korea
2002: declares North Korea a terrorist state, part of the axis of evil and a target for regime change
Guardian (UK)

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Cheney company 'running Iraqi oil industry'
Halliburton, the company formerly run by US vice-president Dick Cheney, has been granted a far broader role in Iraq than previously disclosed and is already operating oil fields in the country, the US Army admitted yesterday.
Guardian (UK)

Explanation for Bush's Carrier Landing Altered
Washington Post

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White House refuses to release Sept. 11 info
From the San Jose Mercury News
Excerpt: The Bush administration and the nation's intelligence agencies are blocking the release of sensitive information about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, delaying publication of a 900-page congressional report on how the terrorist assault happened. Intelligence officials insist the information must be kept secret for national security reasons. But some of the information is already broadly available on the Internet or has been revealed in interim reports on the investigation, leading to charges that the administration is simply trying to avoid enshrining embarrassing details in the report.
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Firm in Florida election fiasco earns millions from files on foreigners
Guardian

US: 'Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction'
Sunday Herald

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Joe McCarthy Secret Hearings to Be Unveiled Monday
Fifty years after Sen. Joe McCarthy conducted some of the most infamous hearings in Senate history, thousands of pages of his secret probes into alleged Communist subversion will finally be made public.
Washington Post

Most of Soft Money Ban Is Ruled Unconstitutional
A federal court Friday struck down most of a ban on the use of large corporate and union contributions by political parties, casting doubt on the future of the new campaign finance law that was supposed to govern next year's elections.
New York Times

The Secrets of September 11
James Baker's firm defending Saudis against 9-11 families' lawsuit
Both from Newsweek
Also see: Meet James Baker

Moussaoui wants Ashcroft to answer quiz
Jay Garner: "We should be beating our chests"
Both from Guardian

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