Safety measures were in place at the site - one where fatal stampedes have been frequent - but "caution isn't stronger than fate," said Saudi Hajj Minister Iyad Madani. "All precautions were taken to prevent such an incident, but this is God's will."

Anti-Flag's Banner Performance
Saturday, January 31, 2004; Page C03

The aged and the cynical may be excused for writing off as so much idealistic hoo-ha the "What's so funny about peace, love and understanding?" sentiments of the "peace punks" in Anti-Flag. Or for turning up their noses at Anti-Flag's old-school punk sound, which is long past its freshness date.

But then again, not too many cynics showed up Thursday at the 9:30 club to see Anti-Flag demonstrate that, whatever it lacks in world-weary sophistication and originality, this Pittsburgh band makes up for with passionate idealism. The audience was made up mostly of kids, some of them young enough to have a parent in tow as a chaperon. The vibe was definitely middle school dance.

As for Anti-Flag, the band played a hyperkinetic set composed of political fist-pumpers bearing such titles as "Angry, Young and Poor," "Post-War Breakout" and, as the opener, a rousing "[Expletive deleted] Police Brutality." They preceded "Death of a Nation" with a call to arms, exhorting their fans to help rid America of those who "make a killing off of killing." It's all part of what they call, in song, their "Underground Network."

"The Blood of Militarism Is the Death of a Nation" read the banner behind the band, and there's not much arguing with the sentiment. One can only hope it's a message Anti-Flag's fans will remember when they're old enough to vote.

-- Michael Little

what the fuck are you talking about ........ Anti-Flag rox
I hate people like U.,,,who judge just by a bands name....................................Anti-Flag even says "were not Anti-the american Flag were Anti-war,,,and thats just fuckin fine ...... I for one
also am Anti-war so hhhhhhaaaaa hhhhhaaaaaa.................................

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Security experts warned on Monday about a new virus outbreak that was spreading quickly across the Internet.
The new virus, dubbed MyDoom or Novarg, is a mass-mailing worm that arrives as an attachment with an .exe, .scr, .zip or .pif extension and can have a subject line of "test" or "status."

It mails itself out to addresses in the victim's computer and is clogging mail servers and degrading network performance at companies, experts said.

"Mailboxes at large corporations are infected and reporting multiple infections throughout their entire organizations," said David Perry, global education director at Trend Micro.

The worm was discovered on Monday afternoon and spread so quickly that Trend Micro, Network Associates, Symantec and other anti-virus companies were rating it a "high" outbreak.

Security experts said they were still analyzing the virus to discover what it does to the victim computers.

"Other than WMD, there was no good reason to interrupt Mr. Hussein's 25-year benevolent reign, which by all accounts had stabilized the region and served as a beacon of peace and freedom for the Arab world," said Mr. Rumsfeld. "I have done a great disservice to the Iraqi people and the entire region. I'm sorry."

"We are not talking about a large stockpile of weapons," he said. "But we know from some of the interrogations of former Iraqi officials that a lot of material went to Syria before the war, including some components of Saddam's WMD programme. Precisely what went to Syria, and what has happened to it, is a major issue that needs to be resolved."

skatanikman wrote: - 2004-01-25 12:54:26
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