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Assailants killed three people Wednesday at a publishing house that distributed Bibles, in the latest attack apparently targeting Turkey's tiny Christian minority.

The three victims were found with their throats slit and their hands and legs bound at the Zirve publishing house in Malatya, a city in eastern central Turkey, local Gov. Ibrahim Dasoz said. One was found still alive and was taken to the hospital, but later died, he said.

Two of the victims were Turkish, and one was a German who had lived in Malatya since 2003, Dasoz said. The German ambassador to Turkey said he was shocked by the attack.

The manner in which the victims were bound suggested the attack could have been the work of a local Islamic group, commentators said, and CNN-Turk television reported that police were investigating the possible involvement of Turkish Hizbullah - a Kurdish Islamic organization that aims to form a Muslim state in Turkey's Kurdish-dominated southeast.

Turkish Hizbullah - which has been known to "hog-tie" its victims while torturing them - takes its name from the better-known Lebanon-based Hizbullah, but has no formal links to it.

Posted - 4/21/2007 05:21:00 PM - Permalink | |

Political insiders have expressed alarm after 12 voter smartcards have gone missing from one Shelby County, TN early vote location!

The cards are used to activate electronic voting machines.

The location at the center of the controversy is Bishop Byrne High School on E. Shelby Drive in Memphis.

The polling place started out with 25 cards. By Wednesday, 11 were missing, says an eyewitness.

The location was given 5 more smartcards on Thursday.

And another card went missing!

Someone possessing a smartcard could use 'off the shelf equipment' [equipment that reprograms the card] and alter it to be used multiple times, and cast multiple votes.

One concerned insider explains: "Shelby County Board of Elections has been notified. They said is was 'not a big deal' because, they said, the cards are deactivated. But the reality is, you can buy the equipment at computer stores to reactivate them. It's on the Internet how to reactivate the cards!"

Meanwhile, The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is reviewing reports by the Shelby County Election Commission that two people voted twice during early voting in Memphis.

Dist. Atty. Gen. Bill Gibbons said he's referred the cases to the TBI for investigation along with other matters he declined to discuss.

Poll watchers are expected to turn out Tuesday to observe voting in Tennessee's heated U.S. Senate race between Chattanooga Republican Bob Corker and Memphis Democrat Harold Ford Jr.

Developing...

Posted - 11/03/2006 04:15:00 PM - Permalink | |

I will predict to you that the Drive-By Media is practicing and putting together their damage control on this, what they will do, if I'm right, we will soon see reports on whether Kerry has a point. They will go out and they'll explain what he actually "meant," what he was "trying to say."

RUSH: Back on Tuesday when first discussing the John Kerry situation, I warned you people what I expected to occur in the Drive-By Media. One of the things I told you is that they will do segments on what Kerry really meant. I then said before this is all over, the odds are that one of them will actually go out and do a story about how Kerry was right, and they'll go out and try to find military families that fit the bill of Kerry's view of them and so forth and so on.

MATTHEWS: Do you think he should have apologized for something he didn't say? You would like him to apologize for trashing the servicemen, and he says he didn't do that.

MCKINNON: No, he apologized if the servicemen took it that way, which many of them did.

MATTHEWS: Of course they took it that way if there's 48 hours of bashing by the Republicans. They only heard the attack. They didn't hear the initial comment.

MCKINNON: The interesting story that may be more relevant...

MATTHEWS: Let me get this straight now. When your opponent takes a word you said out of context and dump all over you on it, turning it into an attack on the military, then you apologize to the military for the fact they did it to you, right? Is that how it works, now?

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MATTHEWS: Bob, what I was impressed by was the Republican choreography of the last 24 hours. They had John Boehner out there saying he wasn't going to quit until this guy apologized. Well, he's done that. You had Denny Hastert, who was basically in the bunker himself out there in Illinois, he's out of the bunker attacking John Kerry.

They were joined by allies, and I was wrong the other day to say that it was coordinated. I thought it was. Apparently it wasn't. The head of the American Legion now says that he wasn't part of any coordination plan, although his press release arrived in the same pile, it all came out at the same time the other day.

I accept his word it wasn't part of a coordinated plan. But all of these people acted without checking out what Kerry said. Kerry did not attack the regular working person or the person who enlists in the military. He attacked the president's intelligence, which I think is a mistake, because you are always wrong when you attack the other guy's IQ.

But clearly that's what he was doing. But Kerry is stuck now, he has spent the day writhing over this thing, and ends up putting out an apology. The front pages tomorrow morning, which didn't have one him on today, will be on the front page tomorrow, I'll bet you, the "Washington Post" tomorrow, the "Boston Globe" will say, Kerry, quote, "apologizes" on the front page tomorrow. He's done it to the Democrats again.

SHRUM: Well I think he did it, in my view, because, a, what was being said about what he had said was a lie. B, he wanted to make sure that service people, and I don't know this, I'm just guessing at this, he wanted to make sure that service members understood that he wasn't talking about him.

MATTHEWS: Why did he apologize to him? Just tell me Bob, why he apologized to somebody he did not insult?

SHRUM: Because as you just said, Chris, they spent 48 hours telling a big lie about his remarks, distorting his remarks. Denny Hastert climbed out of his hole of corruption and grabbed onto this because he can't talk about anything else. George Bush can't talk about anything else. He doesn't want this war decided on the basis of Iraq. Every voter in America that votes next week will decide if we'll stay on the same failed course in Iraq, that's the fundamental issue in this election.

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