CARROLL, N.Y. - A fugitive suspected of fatally shooting a New York state trooper and wounding two others while on the run for more than five months surrendered to police who had cornered him in a cornfield just over the Pennsylvania state line on Friday night.
Ralph Bucky Phillips walked out with his hands up, ending the states largest manhunt for the 44-year-old career thief who broke out of a Buffalo-area jail in April, New York State Police Investigator Gary Colon said.
The arrest capped a frantic day of searching that started with troopers firing at Phillips as he dodged authorities in a wooded area.
For hours, police had methodically moved closer to Phillips. Just before nightfall, 25 SWAT officers and 12 dogs swept through a cornfield where he was thought to be hiding. He gave himself up around 8 p.m., police said.
Phillips, who had threatened suicide by cop and once promised to splatter pig meat all over Chautauqua County, was on the FBIs 10 Most Wanted list.
Since his escape, he has twisted and turned his way throughout southwestern New York and northwestern Pennsylvania, eluding a huge manhunt, stealing cars, burglarizing homes and camps and relying on a network of acquaintances to stay free, police said. He may have stolen 41 guns from a New York gun shop, authorities said.
A U.S. Marshals Service task force joined the investigation Wednesday and had about 30 investigators on the ground, commanding officer Lenny DePaul said.
He said the agencies were proceeding deliberately to prevent any accidents: Everybodys in the woods and wearing different uniforms and everything else, and this guy is shooting back. It doesnt make it any easier for us.
Close call earlier
Fridays search started shortly before 2 a.m. in Pennsylvania when a police officer tried to pull over a stolen car. After a short chase, the car crashed and the driver, identified by police as Phillips, fled into the woods.
A half-hour later, Phillips stole a second car and drove back into New York, where troopers located him and launched a second chase, authorities said.
Phillips jumped out of the moving car and ducked into woods, zigzagging back and forth between New York and Pennsylvania, authorities said. Police dogs tracked his scent for several hours until he was spotted by two troopers, Bennett said.
As troopers approached, Phillips wheeled around with a pistol in his hand but did not fire, police said. One of the troopers fired an undisclosed number of shots as Phillips disappeared into the thick woods.
Phillips became the subject of a huge search after allegedly shooting a state trooper near Elmira in June. The trooper survived.
Then, authorities said, he ambushed and shot two New York state troopers on Aug. 31 as they staked out the home of Phillips former girlfriend. One trooper died on Sunday; the other was in critical condition.
'Peace Train' Singer to Release Pop Album Rare Release for Artist Formerly Known as Cat Stevens
The idiot artist formerly known as Cat Stevens will release his first pop album in 28 years this fall. Stevens, who changed his name to Yusuf Islam after converting to Islam in the late 1970s, has signed with Atlantic Records in conjunction with his Ya Records label, it was announced Thursday. "I feel right about making music and singing about life in this fragile world again," the 58-year-old singer-songwriter said in a statement. Care to illuminate on what makes this world so "fragile"? Like, maybe, your terrorist Islamic buddies?
"It is important for me to be able to help bridge the cultural gaps others are sometimes frightened to cross." Like the yawning abyss of a cultural gap that surrounds your death cult?
The album, "An Other Cup," is set for release in November. His last studio album was 1978's "Back to Earth." "Yusuf's new songs are as moving and timeless as the classics that inspired a generation," Atlantic Chairman/CEO Craig Kallman said in a statement. "His spiritual quest is one of the most extraordinary stories of our time - a life journey marked by courage, devotion and transformation." Which sort of devotion to what kind of beliefs and transformed into exactly what sort of being, he neglected to mention.
The London-born singer had a string of pop hits in the 1960s and '70s including "Here Comes My Baby," "Wild World," "Peace Train " and Moonshadow." After converting to Islam, he changed his name and left the music world. Not quite permanently enough, however.
His charity, Small Kindness, provides aid to orphans and families in Bosnia, Kosovo and Iraq, among other regions.
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I am only too proud to say that as an Armed Forces Radio & Television Services DJ, I boycotted his terr-symp ass the moment he came out and supported the Iranian fatwa on Salman Rushdie. I never played a one of his recordings on air again.... of course, there were only a handful of them anyway, and popwise he was pretty past it by the early 1980ies, but one does what one can.
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We should rewrite the Cat Stevens catalog to reflect his current interests and philosophy. For instance:
Another Saturday night and I ain't got no bodies,
I got some money 'cause Prince Alwed paid,
But how I wish I had a kuffir to behead,
I'm in an awful way.
Or this:
Oh, Im being cheered on by some moonbats, oh, moonbats, oh, moonbats, oh!
They might be infidels but I'm their hero, moonbats, oh, moonbats, oh!
And if I ever lose my hands, shoplift in Ryadh, get caught by The Man,
Oh if I ever lose my hands, oh if.... I won't have to make bombs no more. . . .
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Having renounced his former work, former fans are unlikely to rebuy this hypocrite's attempt at refunding his retirement.
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Mike, your just not right!!! You should write for Bob and Tom. LOL
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Nothing quite like riding the wave of publicity to launch a new album . His music was shit before he converted , its even poorer now .. Anyway , shouldnt he be killed by his brothers-in-bullshit for singing to us zionist pig-dogs and living off the trappings of wealth and corruption in a opulent super-state !? :p
Fatwa I say Fatwa !
Heres hoping the 'peace train' smacks straight into his 'wild world' and knocks 10 bells of 'moonshadow' out of him , with 'the first cut being the deepest'
Now that you've thrown away your Koran
You say you wanna start a rock 'n' roll band
And it's breakin' my heart you're leavin'
Baby, I'm grievin'
But if you wanna leave, you become the bad guy
The Koran says apostates have to die
And anyone who quits Islam goes to hell to fry
Oh, baby, baby, it's a Sharia world
It's hard to get by just upon a smile
Oh, baby, baby, it's a Sharia world
So you better put that burka back on, girl
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Now that I've got some Jihad to do
You say you wanna start something too
And Allah will bless you're leavin'
But Ahmed, I'm grievin'
So if you wanna leave, take good care
I hope you have a nice explosive belt to wear
And just remember those virgins oh so fair
Oh, Ahmed, Ahmed, it's Jihad world
Im, sayin goodbye, just before you fly
Oh, Ahmed, Ahmed, it's Jihad world
I'll always remember too that you blew, well
You know I've seen a lot of what Jihad can do
And were killin off the nasty Jew
Because Allah told us kill the infidel
And send him to Hell
Weve got the propaganda, got good press
I hope we a lot more of a bloody mess
Before we saw their heads off they must all confess
Oh, Ahmed, Ahmed, it's Jihad world
Im, sayin goodbye, just before you fly
Oh, Ahmed, Ahmed, it's Jihad world
I'll always remember too that you blew, well
Global warming over the coming century could mean a return of temperatures last seen in the age of the dinosaur and lead to the extinction of up to half of all species, a scientist said on Thursday. Not only will carbon dioxide levels be at the highest levels for 24 million years, but global average temperatures will be higher than for up to 10 million years, said Chris Thomas of the University of York.
Ummm... I don't think he's thinking of dinosaurs. 24 million or so years ago was the heyday of the monkeys, when the earth was warmer (yes) and the livin' was easy. Rather than working, we'll be able to sit around in the moist warmth that arctic ice cap's gotta go someplace scratching and eating bananas and copulating in the warm winter sun.
Between 10 and 99 percent of species will be faced with atmospheric conditions that last existed before they evolved, and as a result from 10-50 percent of them could disappear. "We may very well already be on the breaking edge of a wave of mass extinctions," Thomas told the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
Or we could be on a breaking wave of evolution, where existing species occupy new ecological niches, taking advantage of temperatures that are less severe than those of the present. No more mukluks in Skagway. No more winter colds. Too bad about the skiing industry, though.
Yummy New Jersey oranges ...
Scientists predict average global temperatures will rise by between two and six degrees centigrade by 2100, mainly as a result of the heat-trapping carbon dioxide being pumped into the air from burning fossil fuels for transport and power.
If it's warmer, then it'd stand to reason that there'd be less of a demand for burning fossil fuels, which'd to cause the temperature to stabilize, wouldn't it?
"If the most extreme warming predicted takes place we will be going back to global temperatures not seen since the age of the dinosaur," Thomas said. "We are starting to put these things into a historical perspective. These are conditions not seen for millions of years, so none of the species will have been subjected to them before," he added.
The figure given was 24 million years, which would be the early Miocene or late Oligocene, about 40 million years past the last of the dinosaurs. The Miocene was an age of greater species diversity than our age.
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Amazing that the fossil fuels are found 5 miles down in the Gulf Of Mexico...must have been a desert way back when...or was that the oily dino the swimmer era?
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So they can predict climate conditions a hundred years from now, but they can't be sure if it's going to rain next Tuesday?
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"Up from the depths, 30 stories high, breathing fire, his head in the sky - Godzilla, Godzilla."
Some Galactic Velociraptors = the Devil = Nostradamus' "hideous beast" are just so silly.
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Well, hells bells, sounds good to me. I never want to go back to those good olde winters in Interior Alaska, where we had low temps of -65 to -70F. Where the ice fog got so thick that we cut it with crosscut log saws and stacked it out of the way so we could see. When you had to steam trace the steam lines. Where a mastedon has not walked by in 10,000 years. Yep, Ima ready for tropical fish swimming the Yukon River. Bring it on. BTW, great graphic! LOL!
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Yeppo, AP. The Cremation of Sam McGee could have been avoided if only they had waited a few years.
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LOL. Wahtever will happen to our digital watches and the litttle bits of green paper, I wonder...
I have a theory that the smokers will survive - while the "healthy" little pricks who wag their fingers die off - cuz they're accustomed to higher CO and CO2 levels...
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Amazing that the fossil fuels are found 5 miles down in the Gulf Of Mexico...must have been a desert way back when...or was that the oily dino the swimmer era?
The problem is that the whole concept of the source of oil is based upon theory. Someone came up with the idea and now everyone a) just repeats it or does some reverse explanation were as the end result concept is justified by selected data. Just think that the theory of the earth as the center of the universe worked well for so long, that even centuries after Copernicus and Galileo, we still use the terms sunrise and sunset even though we understand it is us who are moving relative to the sun. And really, did the peasants have a need for the facts when their betters were running everything. Why mess it up with details.
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Well, this is good news now that Florida is full. I guess we'll soon be talking about "Sunbirds" who summer in Nova Scotia, instead of "Snowbirds" who winter in Florida.
And, E. Fudd hits that nail on the head...that's an AWFULLY big range even for gaia-worshipping "scientists." Scott R's comment is also spot-on....they can't predict the temp/rain events for 2 days from now...how do they expect us to believe them prediciting something unpredictable in 100 years?
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"Scientists predict average global temperatures will rise by between two and six degrees centigrade by 2100"
Actually, it's Celsius not centigrade, and they downgraded from three degrees to two degrees a couple of days ago. And it's still bullcrap -- they can't reliably tell us the weather three days from now.
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Some wise soul needs to compile all the BS that's beeen spewed about 'global warming' into one single reference, and store it in a safe place. Then when none of it has happened, in 100 years or so, their successors can retrieve it and rub it in the experts faces. Oh, wait....the 'experts' won't be around to humiliate......nevermind.
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AP, Where a mastedon has not walked by in 10,000 years.
Not that far back, ~3,500 years ago. There has been a dig in Yukon a few years back, and there was a mastodon bone with cutmarks that had to be done into a fresh bone--it is a quite distinct way the bone is striated. The stratification has been the same as the settlement and based on organic material left there, the settlement has been dated to ~1,600 BCE. I've got the info from someone who worked there. Sorry, sworn to not reveal any names.
The scientists were puzzled. The matter was resolved but introducing and introduction from an earlier strata. The bone, looking quite fresh and without any apparent mineralization, has not been carbon dated, based on theoretical considerations--it would mean too many books to rewrite.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Demonstrators hurled rocks and bottles and gunfire rang out Thursday as Venezuela's leading opposition presidential candidate toured a slum stronghold of President Hugo Chavez. At least five people were injured.
Manuel Rosales' motorcade came under a barrage of stones and bottles when it arrived in the Catia slum of western Caracas, prompting the candidate to leave his vehicle and continue on foot. Residents wearing the red T-shirts of Chavez's party chanted: "Get Out! Get Out!"
Sound like some of the Wisconsin Dhimmicratic workers in the 2004 election ...
Gunshots were fired from a hillside while Rosales greeted residents amid a crowd of supporters and bodyguards. Rosales, the popular governor of Zulia state, finally cut short his visit after riot police set off tear gas.
Set off tear gas on who?
Rosales, who has emerged as the opposition's leading choice to face Chavez in Dec. 3 elections, called the episode an "ambush." "If anything happens to me and they kill me in this ambush ordered by Chavez, I hold Chavez responsible and the people will know what to do," Rosales said.
Justice Minister Jesse Chacon said five people, including two police officers, were hurt but did not elaborate on their injuries. Chacon later rejected allegations of Chavez's involvement, and accused Rosales and his supporters of possibly setting up the disturbances in order to discredit the government.
Chavez, who leads in the polls, has called opposition candidates "lackeys" of the U.S. government. Rosales has responded by saying he is independent of both the U.S. and Cuba - Chavez's close ally.
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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - A U.S. Air Force officer who disappeared earlier this week in Kyrgyzstan was found alive late Friday, reportedly telling people who helped her that she had been kidnapped, Kyrgyz and U.S. officials said.
Maj. Jill Metzger, 33, was located by Kyrgyz law enforcement agents who informed authorities at the U.S. air base at the airport in Bishkek, the Central Asian nations capital, base spokeswoman Capt. Anna Carpenter said.
Kyrgyz Deputy Interior Minister Omurbek Suvanaliyev said Metzger, 33, knocked on the door of a house on the outskirts of the capital shortly before midnight and told its residents that she had been kidnapped.
Metzger said she had been abducted by three young men and a woman in a minibus and held in a rural area 30 miles from Bishkek, Suvanaliyev told The Associated Press, citing local police in Kant, where he said she approached the first house she came to. He said she looked exhausted and her hair was dyed.
That account differed somewhat from one given by Metzgers father-in-law, Kelly Mayo, who said in a telephone interview with the AP from Colorado Springs, Colo., that Metzger was found on the side of the road with her head shaved.
Maho said she had also been beaten. I know shes coherent, and whoever had her let her go, said Mayo. Weve got her back. Praise the Lord.
Suvanaliyev said the people who took Metzger in when she knocked on their door called the police.
Mayo said the Air Forces Office of Special Investigations notified the family Friday afternoon but were given few details. He said his son, Air Force Capt. Joshua Mayo, was elated after being told about his wife.
I cant even describe it. Hes just beside himself, just unbelievable joy, Mayo said.
Condition being evaluated
There was no immediately U.S. comment on the kidnapping report. Carpenter declined to discuss Metzgers condition, which a U.S. military statement said will be determined by a medical team.
We are elated to have Jill back with us, a U.S. military statement quoted the base commander, Col. Scott Reese, as saying.
Kyrgyz authorities notified base officials at 1:15 a.m. local time Saturday of the news, the statement said.
Metzger, a former resident of Henderson, N.C., was serving a four-month stint at the base with the 376th Air Expeditionary Wing. Her normal duty station is Moody Air Force Base in Georgia as a member of the 347th Mission Support Squadron. She had been scheduled to land back at her U.S. base Friday.
The U.S. military has maintained an air base at Kyrgyzstans main civilian airport since 2001, backing operations in nearby Afghanistan.
Military officials said the newlywed Metzger, dressed in blue jeans and a sweater, vanished during a shopping trip to a tourist hotspot in Bishkek, where she was searching for souvenirs to bring home to her family. The so-called cultural tours are common for off-duty personnel.
Her disappearance had baffled investigators. The military had 22 special agents looking for Metzger.
Disappeared from shopping center
The shopping center where Metzger disappeared, located about 35 miles from the base, is not a particularly dangerous area, said Col. Kevin Jacobson of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.
Still, the military had instituted a new policy barring all off-duty personnel from leaving the base until Metzger was found. It was unclear late Friday whether that policy had changed.
Interior Ministry spokesman Nurdin Jangarayev told the AP on Thursday that Metzger and another U.S. servicewoman were recorded on a security camera Tuesday afternoon as they entered TsUM, Bishkeks main department store.
She separated from her companion three minutes later, Jangarayev said. Over the next three hours, two calls were placed to her cellular phone but neither was answered, he said.
Before her disappearance, Metzger had been scheduled to head to Dayton, Ohio, for the annual United States Air Force Marathon. She has twice won the womens division of the event.
A week later, she was to travel with her husband to Jamaica for a belated 10-day honeymoon.
Jill is a consummate happy-go-lucky person, her father-in-law said. She doesnt see any kind of evil in the world. Shes a wonderful, innocent person, and she would never think anyone would try and harm her.
I know this sounds cynical, but could this be another "Runaway Bride" scenario? I hope not....
MOSCOW (AP) - A test of a new Russian intercontinental ballistic missile ended in failure Thursday when it fell into the sea shortly after its launch from a nuclear submarine, the Defense Ministry said. The nuclear submarine Dmitry Donskoy launched the experimental Bulava missile from an underwater position in the White Sea toward a testing range on the Kamchatka Peninsula, but it veered off its designated flight path and fell into the sea shortly after the launch, the ministry said.
The military previously had conducted four successful test-launches of the Bulava, which is set to be commissioned by the navy in 2008 and become a new standard weapon of Russian nuclear submarines. The Bulava has a range of 5,000 miles and carries six individually targeted nuclear warheads.
After years of desperate funds shortages following the Soviet collapse in 1991, the Kremlin has bolstered defense spending markedly. Officials touted the new Topol-M and Bulava missiles, saying that they would be capable of penetrating any prospective missile defense systems.
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This missile can go from the very eastern point of Siberia to the very western point of Alaska. Thus it is intercontinental and the launch was a success.
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This combined with yesterday's "accident" (electrical fire that killed 2 sailors) makes the Russian Navy look like the Afghan navy. I just hope the sailors don't die as a result of Pooty-Poot's creep back toward communism. I fully expect to hear of another sub going down here soon....good news comes in 3's, right?
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Maybe they can get some help from the North Koreans.
A saloon-style striptease at an Australian government-sponsored conference on global warming left some scientists and government officials hot and bothered.
The show was cut short and organizers issued an apology after some delegates at the Australia and New Zealand Climate Forum's dinner in Canberra walked out during what was intended as a lighthearted break from the weighty business of rising temperatures.
Rebecca Gale, who led the team of dancers from Miss Kitka's House of Burlesque, said the performance was in reasonably good taste and she didn't understand what the fuss was about.
Gale said she appeared during dinner wearing a heavy corset, black fishnet stockings and at least a dozen balloons, which she invited delegates to pop as she danced to Peggy Lee's 1958 hit "Fever."
"The most that any of the girls get down to is vintage lingerie, which is corsetry and stockings," Gale told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio on Friday. "It's not like we were doing full nudity and simulating sexual acts or anything like that."
"There wasn't even a midriff on display," she said.
But some in the audience objected to the Wednesday night show in Australia's old Parliament House, and the dance troupe was asked to stop about 10 minutes into a 45-minute routine, Gale said.
The Australian National University, which organized the conference, issued a statement the next day apologizing for any offense caused.
When Environment Minister Ian Campbell learned of the show, he canceled his department's sponsorship, and the Agriculture Department followed suit.
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I think they should've supported this. I mean, if they really believe in global warming, then the womminfolk will (in theory) be wearing less and less anyways as it gets hotter, right? This would just "prove" their theories.
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can you guess who appointed this judge? riiiggghhttt
A judge ordered Ohio's county elections boards Thursday to preserve ballots from the 2004 presidential election - a move activists hope will help prove allegations of fraud.
Federal law requires the counties to keep the ballots for 22 months after the election, which was this week.
The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by plaintiffs ranging from the Ohio Voter Rights Alliance for Democracy to the head of a Columbus neighborhood association that accuses Secretary of State Ken Blackwell of depriving many blacks of the right to vote in 2004 by distributing fewer voting machines per person in black neighborhoods. It seeks to remove him from overseeing the upcoming Nov. 7 election.
Blackwell, who is black, has drawn criticism for his oversight of the 2004 election and his simultaneous honorary role on Bush's re-election committee. President Bush beat Democrat John Kerry in Ohio by 118,000 votes, gaining the electoral votes that kept him in the White House.
Attorney Cliff Arnebeck, who represents the plaintiffs, asked Blackwell to order the state's 88 counties to secure the ballots. Blackwell said he lacked the authority to do so. In Thursday's decision, U.S. District Court Algenon Marbley ordered the counties to preserve the ballots until further notice.
Plaintiffs hope by preserving the ballots they'll be able to collect evidence for the groups' allegations that some punch-card ballots may have been pre-punched, rendering them invalid if punched again, and that some absentee ballots in Republican-leaning counties were counted twice, Arnebeck said.
"In order to nail that down, you want to have access to all the ballots," Arnebeck said.
A message seeking comment was left Thursday evening with a spokesman for the secretary of state's office.
In January 2005, Arnebeck - representing similar clients - dropped a challenge to Ohio's 2004 election results after Ohio Chief Justice Thomas Moyer called evidence in the case "woefully inadequate."
Mexican "presidente" Lopez Obrador said he admired their blind tenacity and recommended they draw up an alternative constitution and install their own president
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Need to prove the Dubya-GOP was solely responsible, directly andor indirectly, for any
Amer Hiroshima(s), i.e. casualty-intensive WMD attacks on Amer cities + GOP-NPE - you know, why post-Mushroom Cloud(s) the PC "post-attack priority for the Nation is the proper and rational comtinuance of Government despite the massive/wholesale destruction of most of the national leadership and Washington DC". REVENGE BY WAR = GEOPOL RETREAT-ISOLATIONISM, D*** YOU, NOT HUNTING FOR TRAITORS FROM WITHIN. EVEN TRAITORS NEED THEIR AGENCY PENSIONS AND SOCIAL SECURITY RETIREMENT CHECKS-MEDICARE, ETC. D *** it. America = Amerika must wage war in righteous indignation as long as we don't hurt anybody or destroy anything or pollute the environment or stop the flow of $$$ to the UNO = future anti-Amer OWG!? RAW CHICK character from comedy F-TROOP > "Yeah, give me the days when SCALPING meant something, before the Akowi Indians developed the Akowi Manual".
FORMER Iranian president Mohammad Khatami distanced himself from current president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, by calling the Holocaust an "absolute fact" in an interview published overnight.
"I believe the Holocaust is the crime of Nazism," Mr Khatami told Time magazine.
"But it is possible that the Holocaust, which is an absolute fact, a historical fact, would be misused. The Holocaust should not be, in any way, an excuse for the suppression of Palestinian rights," he told the New York-based newsweekly.
Mr Ahmadinejad has repeatedly denied publicly the Holocaust, as recently as August.
However, Mr Khatami said he doubts his successor's intentions.
"I personally believe that he really didn't deny the existence of Holocaust," he said.
Mr Khatami is the highest-profile Iranian to visit the United States since a rupture in diplomatic relations 25 years ago, after students occupied the US embassy in Tehran and held 53 hostages the for 444 days.
"I regret the hostage crisis, hostage-taking," Mr Khatami said.
"And I sympathise with the hostages and their families for their loss and their hurt. But this was (also) a revolutionary reaction to half a century of the US taking Iran hostage. Maybe the other (US) side would be more indebted (to Iran)," he told the magazine.
Hoping to reduce teen smoking, attorneys general from more than 35 states on Thursday offered movie studios free use of three public-service announcements to be included on DVDs and videos.
The move came nearly a year after 32 attorneys general sent a similar letter urging studios to add PSAs to home-viewing releases that depict smoking.
"I was deeply disappointed by the industry's failure to heed our initial call," Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said in a statement.
"We urge movie makers to do the right thing and include these powerful and persuasive anti-smoking ads on all DVDs and videos that depict tobacco use," he said.
Studios referred calls to the Motion Picture Association of America... They have to give permission, because the ads are copyrighted, mostly to reduce or prevent parodies that make fun of the ads. Several SLAPP lawsuits against humorous parodies have already been made.
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Kids smoke pot too. Going to cover that? Gee, where are all the commerical ads for that product to 'induce' teens to smoke it?
I've never smoked. Don't like smokers personally, but this is the start point of the Nannyists who daily intrude, first by admonition and then by regulation, and then by law to rule your everyday life. Once again, its about power that in the end gets abused.
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I wind up ripping the contents of any DVD's I buy, then eliminating the intro stuff and burning another DVD, just to eliminate all the crap.
Another thing: Hey DVD manufacturers, who says it's OK to have an Advertisement for ANYTHING on my DVD? You are already generating revenue by selling me the movie. Same thing with Ads at the movie theater. Whoever thought this was a good idea should get his ass whipped.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Global warming over the coming century could mean a return of temperatures last seen in the age of the dinosaur and lead to the extinction of up to half of all species, a scientist said on Thursday. Not only will carbon dioxide levels be at the highest levels for 24 million years, but global average temperatures will be higher than for up to 10 million years, said Chris Thomas of the University of York.
A saloon-style striptease at an Australian government-sponsored conference on global warming left some scientists and government officials hot and bothered.
