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Lie detectors target benefit claim cheats

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The Observer Benefit claimants and job seekers could be forced to take lie detector tests as early as next year after an early review of a pilot scheme exposed 126 benefit cheats in just

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Pentagon ‘three-day blitz’ plan for Iran

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The Times The Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians’ military capability in three days, according to a national security expert. Alexis Debat,

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Al Fayed inquest plea to Diana bodyguard

Mick Meaney September 2, 2007 1

By Marc Baker HARRODS boss Mohamed Al Fayed has urged Princess Diana’s former bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones to give evidence at her inquest. Mr Rees-Jones, 49, marked the 10th anniversary of the Princess’ death by

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Ministers pledge to fight growing calls for EU treaty referendum

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By Marie Woolf Ministers, including David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, are set to come out fighting this week against growing demands for a EU treaty referendum. Government sources say that a string of ministers

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Second UK general attacks US Iraq policy

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A second general has spoken out against the US’ attitude towards post-war Iraq, heightening differences between the American and British views on the war. Major General Mike Cross added to comments yesterday by the

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Active-duty US troops become outspoken critics of Iraq war

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By Brad Knickerbocker A recent op-ed about the war in Iraq charged that upbeat official reports amount to “misleading rhetoric.” It said the “most important front in the counterinsurgency [had] failed most miserably.” And it

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The History Channel – The conjuring of the neo-truth!

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The History Channel has produced a documentary titled 9/11 Conspiracies – Fact or Fiction.  It aired on Monday, August 20, 2007.  According to the abstract, the documentary examines the various conspiracy theories espoused on

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Former Reagan aide: ‘Brownshirt’ Bush among top ‘mass murderers of all time’

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By Nick Juliano President Bush’s apparent plans for a preemptive nuclear strike on Iran will only add to the civilian death toll as a result of US intervention that has placed the president “high

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