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(9.12.2004)
Saudi Government Named Defendant in WTC Suit
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey plans to join as a plaintiff

(9.12.2004)
North Korea May Be Testing Nukes
The U.S. administration is worried that Kim Jong Il is up to something, and a huge blast near the Chinese border has South Korea asking questions. Official word has it that it wasn't a nuclear test, but a column of smoke almost 8 km (almost 5 miles) in diameter is certainly suspicious.

(9.12.2004)
Stop Calling It "Ivan the Terrible"
The stupid cliche, which we're bound to see and hear over and over, does nothing to add dimension to the story and makes it hard to take the reports with their due gravity. If Ivan stays in the Category 4-5 range, it will be one of the 20 worst hurricanes to ever reach the mainland United States. Accuweather thinks it'll land somewhere between Mobile and Panama City.

(9.12.2004)
Attack on Australian Embassy Caught on Tape
Security videos show the attack in Jakarta. Why attack an Australian embassy in Indonesia? Because Indonesia will elect its president in about a week, and Australia's parliamentary elections follow a few weeks later. After the Madrid train bombing appeared to change the course of the Spanish vote, the world should expect more terror attacks close to elections. Worse: 10 members of the suspected terror cell are still thought to be at large.

(9.12.2004)
September 13th's Carnival of the Capitalists
Hosted this week by Josh Cohen at d-42.com. Personal favorites: How to buy a business, why the savings rate has to go up, and reasons to expect more terror attacks by Islamic fascists. The CotC series is certainly one of the most worthwhile efforts on the Web; contributors include libertarians, Objectivists, economists, and pro-business types of all stripes. The next edition appears at VoluntaryXChange.

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