Monthly Archives: March 2005

BBC reveals secret U.S. plans for Iraq’s oil were made before the 9/11 attacks.

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The Bush administration made plans for war and for Iraq’s oil before the 9/11 attacks sparking a policy battle between neo-cons and Big Oil, BBC’s Newsnight has revealed.

Two years ago- when President George Bush announced US, British and Allied forces would begin to bomb Baghdad ? protestors claimed the US had a secret plan for Iraq’s oil once Saddam had been conquered.

In fact there were two conflicting plans, setting off a hidden policy war between neo-conservatives at the Pentagon, on one side, versus a combination of “Big Oil” executives and US State Department “pragmatists.”

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Federal investigators find that U.S. has been illegally selling nuclear wares to Pakistan in secret.

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WASHINGTON ? A federal criminal investigation has uncovered evidence that Pakistan has made clandestine purchases of U.S. high-technology components for use in its nuclear-weapons program in defiance of U.S. law.

Federal authorities also said the highly specialized equipment passed through the hands of an arms dealer in Islamabad, Pakistan, named Humayun Khan, who they said has ties to Islamic militants.

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Stem-cell breakthrough could allow women to grow their own breast implants

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A revolutionary technique using stem-cell research could soon allow women to choose breast enhancements made of living tissue instead of silicone.

Scientists who have been able to grow human fat cells in the laboratory for the first time say the breakthrough means that patients could, in effect, grow their own implants. The researchers also claim that, in the longer term, it may be possible to grow replacement organs for transplant surgery.

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