Thursday Feb 01 2007 Daily News

Al-Maliki: Iraq won't be battleground for U.S., Iran
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/01/31/iraq.main/index.html

"BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraq's prime minister said Wednesday he's sure Iran is behind some attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq and he won't allow his country to be a battleground for the two nations.

"We have told the Iranians and the Americans, 'We know that you have a problem with each other, but we are asking you, please solve your problems outside Iraq,' " Nuri al-Maliki told CNN."

An Iron Curtain is Descending: And Most Americans Don't Know
http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/202/52/

I spy - a pupil in the toilets http://www.bdrecorder.co.uk/content/ba rkinganddagenham/recorder/news/story.aspx?brand=RECOnline&category=newsBarkDag&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newsBarkDag&itemid=WeED27%20Dec%202006%2016%3A55%3A39%3A070

"CHILDREN as young as four are being filmed in school toilets across Barking and Dagenham."

Blood center to collect DNA of donors
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=2003544880&zsection_id=2002111777&slug=blooddna28m0&date=20070128

Note: I saw the apology last night on "Adult Swim"
TV Network Takes Responsibility For 'Hoax Devices'
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/10890113/detail.html

Photo I.D. for Glastonbury tickets
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=168852007

Methane now bubbling from Beaufort Sea
http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/2007012918482645
"streams of methane-rich gas bubbles coming from the crests of pingo-like-features (PLFs) – due to warm water influx."

Merc Army
http://www.gnn.tv/articles/2893/Merc_Army
"Many of these contractors make up to $1,000 a day, far more than active-duty soldiers. What's more, these forces are politically expedient, as contractor deaths go uncounted in the official toll."

Anti-Semitic attacks at record level
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=170362007

Iraq civilian deaths hit new high in January
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=168772007

Sixty European tourists fall ill at Tobago hotel
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=171282007

Somali Islamist leader out of Kenyan custody
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=171222007

Stonehenge workers' village found
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/01/30/stonehenge.village.ap/index.html

Two bombs kill 20, wound 35
http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21157858-1702,00.html
"From correspondents in Hilla, Iraq
February 02, 2007

TWENTY people were killed and 35 wounded when two makeshift bombs slammed the centre of Hilla, 120km south of Baghdad, medics and a security source said.

Elsewhere in Baghdad, at least 11 people were killed, and security officials said Iraq's raging sectarian conflict had claimed the lives of nearly 2000 civilians across the country in January."

Convicts bound for Botany Bay
http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21154506-1702,00.html
"Other emergency proposals include renting prison ships to house criminals offshore and converting an RAF camp to house prisoners.

The maximum capacity of British jails is 80,716. The number of inmates topped 80,000 for the first time in November."

US senators unite against Iraq surge
http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21155674-1702,00.html