A special room under strict lock-and-key, filled with evidence from two settled Columbine cases, is being shut down and a federal magistrate has ordered some of the materials - including depositions of the killers' parents - destroyed.

The room, in the federal courthouse in downtown Denver, was set aside in 2002 to "house particular documents and materials deemed to be worthy of special handling and security," according to court documents. . . .

"Who are they protecting?" asked Rich Petrone, the stepfather of slain student Daniel Rohrbough. "Are they protecting the murderers' families? There should be a public outcry." . . .

Barry Arrington, attorney for the five families who sued the Harris and Klebold families, said he'll file an appeal of the order. He has until Oct. 7. . . .

The two cases involved in the order are Mark Allen Taylor vs. Solvay Pharmaceuticals Inc.; and Brian Rohrbough and four other victims' families vs. the parents of Harris and Klebold.

In the Rohrbough case, plantiffs took the depositions of Susan Klebold on July 29; Thomas Klebold, July 30; Wayne Harris, July 31 and Aug. 1; and Katherine Harris, Aug. 1.

The Harrisses have never answered questions publicly . . .

Destroying transcripts of depositions is an unusual step, . . .

On Aug. 26, documents and materials in the evidence room that had belonged to the Harris family were removed by their attorneys. . . .

Evidence submitted by the Jefferson County School District will be destroyed by the court, with the district's permission, according to the order.

Representatives of the county and the sheriff's office retrieved material from the evidence room.

[Schwarzenegger] has yet to deny that on May 17, 2001, at the Peninsula Hotel in Los Angeles, he had consensual political intercourse with Enron chieftain Kenneth Lay. Also frolicking with Arnold and Ken was convicted stock swindler Mike Milken.

Now, thirty-four pages of internal Enron memoranda have just come through this reporter's fax machine tell all about the tryst . . . Schwarzenegger knowingly joined the hush-hush encounter as part of a campaign to sabotage a Davis-Bustamante plan to make Enron and other power pirates then ravaging California pay back the $9 billion in illicit profits they carried off. . . .

The biggest single threat to Ken Lay and the electricity lords is a private lawsuit filed last year under California's unique Civil Code provision 17200, the "Unfair Business Practices Act." This litigation, heading to trial now in Los Angeles, would make the power companies return the $9 billion they filched from California electricity and gas customers. . . .

Who's the plaintiff taking on the bad guys? Cruz Bustamante, Lieutenant Governor and reluctant leading candidate against Schwarzenegger. . . .

One month after Cruz brings suit, Enron's Lay calls an emergency secret meeting in L.A. of his political buck-buddies, including Arnold. Their plan, to undercut Davis (according to Enron memos) and "solve" the energy crisis -- that is, make the Bustamante legal threat go away. . . .

While Bustamante's kicking Enron butt in court, the Davis Administration is simultaneously demanding that George Bush's energy regulators order the $9 billion refund. Don't hold your breath: Bush's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is headed by a guy proposed by … Ken Lay. . . .

The evidence against the electricity barons is rock solid: fraudulent reporting of sales transactions, megawatt "laundering," fake power delivery scheduling and straight out conspiracy (including meetings in hotel rooms).

So the Bush commissioners cook up a terrific scheme: charge the companies with conspiracy but offer them, behind closed doors, deals in which they have to pay only two cents on each dollar they filched.

Problem: the slap-on-the-wrist refunds won't sail if the Governor of California won't play along.

Grassroots activists from around the country will converge on Washington D.C. in mid-October to express outrage at post 9/11 threats to our constitutional liberties. Their gathering point is the "Grassroots America Defends the Bill of Rights" conference at the Silver Spring Hilton, on October 18 and 19. The "Grassroots America" conference is an opportunity for ordinary people from across the country to continue planning the demise of laws like the PATRIOT Act. On October 20, some conference participants take their message to Capitol Hill, urging Congress to repeal aspects of the USA PATRIOT Act and other post 9/11 federal actions which threaten civil liberties and rights. . .

Conference organizers include the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and the American Civil Liberties Union, who, along with their regional groups have been most directly involved in passing community resolutions opposing the PATRIOT Act and other post 9/11 violations of our Constitutional guarantees. Other national groups helping to organize the conference include the American Library Association, the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Council on American Islamic Relations, the Friends Committee on National Legislation, the National Lawyers Guild and People for the American Way.

"So far, more than 170 communities and three states have passed resolutions or ordinances safeguarding constitutional freedoms against the excesses of the USA PATRIOT Act and other initiatives that threaten our rights - and the movement has already significantly affected the thinking of policymakers in Washington." . . .

A left/right panel discussion organized by People For the American Way features PFAW President Ralph G. Neas and Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist. The panel will be chaired by actor/activist Alec Baldwin.

Don't Fret Precious I'm here
Step away from the window
Go back to sleep
Lay your head down child
I won't let the boogeyman come
Counting bodies like sheep
to the rhythm of the war drum

pay no mind to the rabble
pay no mind to the rabble

head down, go to sleep
to the rhythm of the war drums
Hey, don't mind what the other voices say
They don't care about you, well i do... well i do
Safe from the pain and truth and choice and other posion devils
See.. they don't give a fuck about you, like i do.

Just stay with me, safe and ignorant,
Go back to sleep
Go Back to sleep

Lay your head down child
I Won't let the boogeyman come
Count the bodies like Sheep
to the rhythm of the war drums

pay no mind to the rabble

head down, go to sleep to the rhythm of the war drums

I'll be the one to protect your from
your enemies and all your demons
I'll be the one to protect you from
a will to survive and a voice of reason
I'll be the one to protect you from
your enemies and your choices son
they're one in the same
I must isolate you
Isolate and save you from yourself

swaying to the rhythm of the new world order and
count the bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drum

the boogeymen are coming
the boogeymen are coming

keep your head down, go to sleep, to the rhythm of a war drum

Stay with me
Safe and ignorant
Just, stay with me
Hold you and protect you from the other ones
The evil ones
(??????)
Go back to sleep

ABCNEWS obtained a copy of an unpublished book proposal with quotes from a verbatim transcript of an interview Schwarzenegger gave in 1975 while making the film Pumping Iron.

Asked who his heroes are, he answered, "I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it."

He is quoted as saying he wished he could have an experience, "like Hitler in the Nuremberg stadium. And have all those people scream at you and just being total agreement whatever you say."

The author of the book proposal [was] Pumping Iron's director, George Butler.

1. Pilot (18-Sep-2003)

A prisoner who is requesting asylum in the United States tells the government that there is a shipping container in which a group of terrorists is hiding, and that it is on its way to the U.S.

Frankie is sent to Jarkarta to question the one man who might know if the government has been told the truth, and so, to find out exactly where the container is headed. Frankie gets the job done, but before she can get out of the country, she gets wounded and then caught.

With the "Threat Matrix" team, from their headquarters (the "Vault") at Fort Meade, John Kilmer (the head of the "Threat Matrix" team *and* Frankie's ex-husband) works to find the answers they need to be able to neutralize the terrorist threat, even though doing that means that he has to leave Frankie to whatever fate awaits her until his primary job is done.

2. Veteran's Day (25-Sep-2003)

When a homicide detective becomes the victim of a terrorist car bomb, the Homeland Security team fears that a similar event is going to take place at a Veteran's Day parade that is planned for Washington, DC.

Their investigation unearths the fact that a military munitions officer has been selling C-4 to terrorists and that the terrorists have been using money supplied by a Utah drug dealer to make their purchases.

The team puts all of the pieces together in time to stop the terrorists from bombing the parade.

The moral of the episode is that: "We are, ironically, our own worst enemies. Terrorizing ourselves ... Fighting a war of dependency ... that, unfortunately, makes veterans of us all."

3. Doctor Germ (02-Oct-2003 pc: 103)

The Threat Matrix team searches for the infamous Dr. Germ, an Iraqi woman with a deadly knowledge of poison gas and a grudge against the United States Marines.

4. Natural Borne Killers (09-Oct-2003)

The Threat Matrix team track the carriers of the Ebola virus that was brought into Texas by a puppy.

5. In Plane Sight (pc: 105 )

The Threat Matrix squad investigates the seamy side of the West African coast as they struggle to track down a stolen cargo plane filled with nuclear waste.

6. Alpha-126

Considered an enemy combatant, a French-Algerian man is detained at Guantanamo Bay. Because Frankie refuses to allow him to have his medication while she is interrogating him, the man suffers a heart attack and dies.

Whether it was because he was unwilling or unable, the Algerian national never gave Frankie any of the information she was trying to get before he died, and she ends up in a courtroom, pleading "not guilty" to the charge of murder.

7. Under The Gun

A sniper is loose in the city, and the Threat matrix team is trying to profile and locate the killer before he strikes again.

8. Patriot Acts (pc: 102)

A series of university bombings have Kilmer and his team racing the
clock to trace the bomber before he strikes again.

Most distressing. . . "There's a group of people in every country who will believe any nonsense," a senior German government official said, dismissing the popularity of the theories here as nothing unique. But some analysts say there is something about both Germany and Sept. 11 that does make the Germans especially vulnerable to the conspiracy claims. . . .

A prevailing explanation for the popularity of conspiracy theories is that they give psychological comfort to believers. Der Spiegel quotes the American political scientist Michael Barkun as saying that conspiracy theories allow people to "understand everything perfectly" because they disclose that "all the evil in the world can be attributed to a single cause." .

Some people contend that Germany is prone to theories that attribute great evil to somebody else because it gives a sort of exoneration for its Nazi past. . . .

Bizarre Turnout at a public 911Skeptic Panel in Berlin on Monday. While almost 800 visitors listened to the popular analysis of guest author Matthias Broeckers ("..Secrets of 911"), director Gerhard Wisnewski ("File 9/11 unsolved"/ WDR) or former Minister Andreas von Buelow (supporter of "Remote Controle Possibility"), the crowd realised after a while, that one of the visitors had been right wing extremist Horst Mahler.

After the event in- and outside the University of Berlin almost turned into a riot (left wings hit Mahler during a break in his face and yelled "Nazis out!"), german police came and later stopped the event.

The left-wing scene in Berlin thinks, that Horst Mahler's "visit" was part of a planned sabotage, probably even orchestrated by German Intelligence. . . .

Reason of this sabotage: To distract from the event and accuse 911Skeptics of anti-semitism and being "conspiracy nuts".

The independent left-wing media criticised the organisators of the Berlin event with harsh words:

German Indymedia.de: "Why was it allowed to let Mahler into this event in the first place? Why was the focus on Flight93, Global Hawk and the Phantom Plane of the Pentagon only?

One in seven of Germany's top neo-Nazis is a secret service agent, the government has admitted in an attempt to sustain faltering efforts to ban a far-Right political party.

Government lawyers have offered the information in the hope that it will save agents from being identified in court. . . .

And I will tell you this. I have had six, count them, six investigative reporters for huge outlets, who have called me and privately told me that they have been lobbying to cover this story and they have been told by their management that they are not to cover it. And these are major organizations. . . .

And it’s so funny because they will say, “Please keep sending me the stuff and I wish I could break this because there is something to break. I could get a Pulitzer out of this.” Every time I put my proposal forward, it’s not getting taken up by the news [garbled]. I mean some of these are international publications. And it’s just amazing. People ask about the major TV investigative magazine shows, I can tell you that they have been in touch with me. I can also tell you that this has been killed. The story has been killed. And it’s not their producers that are killing it. It’s at the manager level. . . .

There was a conference that was held by teleconference in Houston. It was run by the Election Center and the voting machine manufacturers. It was supposed to be a secret. My publisher, David Allen from Black Box Voting, he runs Plan 9 Publishing, he managed to get into this. And it was actually quite funny because they had all this supposed security around their teleconference. But he actually dialed in and he signed in with his own name and no one asked him who he was. So he sat there and transcribed this meeting. And this meeting which was between, understand this is an insider meeting. What they were discussing, among other things, was: Can Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, defense contractors, you know, can they help us with our PR problem now like they helped get the HAVA Bill through? The HAVA Bill [Help America Vote Act] is the bill that requires that we buy all these new touch screen machines. Think about what they just said. This is insiders saying and admitting that the defense industry was behind getting this bill through.

Police in Britain today opened a murder inquiry into the death of Roberto Calvi, a Mafia-linked Italian banker whose body was found hanging beneath a London bridge in 1982.

[A] Milanese financier, who was nicknamed "God's banker" because of his connections to the Vatican, . . . the first inquest into Calvi's death returned a verdict of suicide . . .

Calvi was found dead in June 1982, hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge. The discovery came just days after Banco Ambrosiano, a Vatican-based bank of which he was president, collapsed with debts of $1.3bn (£0.8bn). . . .

The Banco Ambrosiano had dealt not only with the Cosa Nostra, but also with the Vatican's financial arm, the Institute for the Works of Religion, and P2, a highly influential but illegal Masonic lodge of which Calvi was a member.

In October last year, Rome prosecutors, who had been investigating the case since 1998, announced the results of forensic tests on Calvi's exhumed remains. . . it was most likely that he had been strung up from underneath the bridge by his killers.

Calvi's pockets were weighed down with bricks and stone, suggesting a Masonic connection. Blackfriars, or Fratelli Neri, is the nickname for the Italian Freemasons, who swear that those who betray the brotherhood will be weighed down with stones and drowned. . . .

[Joe Allbaugh] was Bush’s chief of staff when Bush was governor of Texas, his campaign manager when he ran for president and his Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) director after that. . . .

A couple weeks before the beginning of the war, Allbaugh left his job at FEMA to get into the business of securing pricey Iraqi reconstruction contracts for high-flying clients.

Allbaugh’s new firm is called New Bridge Strategies. But it’s actually an outgrowth of Haley Barbour’s lobbying firm, Barbour Griffith & Rogers.

How do I know that? Well, they’re both located in the same office space downtown, which is usually a good sign. And if that’s not enough, Lanny Griffith (of Barbour Griffith & Rogers) is the chief operating officer of New Bridge Strategies and Ed Rogers (of Barbour Griffith & Rogers) is the vice president. . . .

The president’s right-hand man quits his government job just before the bombs start falling. He sets up shop in the offices of one of the biggest GOP lobbyists in town. And he starts selling his services to clients who want a piece of the big Iraqi reconstruction contracts pie — the pie his old bosses are in charge of slicing up. . . .

Say what you will about the administration’s post-war planning. Allbaugh’s seems to have been right on the mark. . . .

[Telegraph, UK, September 28, 2003] Iran has dispatched hundreds of agents posing as pilgrims and traders to Iraq to foment unrest in the holy cities of Najaf and Kerbala, and the lawless frontier areas.

Teheran's hardline regime has also allowed extremist fighters from Ansar al-Islam, a terror faction with close links to al-Qa'eda, to cross back into Iraq from its territory to join the anti-American resistance.....

Paul Bremer, the American head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, has already accused Iran of "meddling" in Iraq's internal affairs and backing some attacks on American forces.

On Friday, he confirmed that several hundred members of Ansar, which set up a Taliban-style mini-state in Kurdish-controlled territory in 2001, had re-entered Iraq. "They are a very dangerous group," he said in Washington. "The flow of terrorists into Iraq is the biggest obstacle to the reconstruction of the country." .....

At the start of the war to topple Saddam, Kurdish militia and US special forces had crushed Ansar's 750-strong force of Arabs, Pakistanis, Chechens and Kurds. About 250 Ansar fighters were killed and another 100 captured, but Iran's military turned a blind eye as the rest escaped across the mountainous border. .....

Last week, many of the visiting pilgrims were speaking Farsi (Persian). Long-banned pictures of Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979, are once again on sale in the markets of the town where he spent part of his early exile.

The returning Iraqi exile said that several agents from the political wing of the Revolutionary Guards had been deployed to Najaf, some operating within the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, one of the "Big Five" political parties.

Iran denies the allegations of interference or sending agents to Iraq, saying that it has already recognised the Governing Council (the US-installed Shia-dominated transitional authority).

The Iranian opposition, however, says that the Quds force of the regime's Revolutionary Guards, which specialises in foreign operations, commands the loyalty of key commanders within the Badr Brigade, the Iranian-trained militia army of the SCIRI....

KUWAIT, Nov. 22 [2002] — An Iranian-backed ayatollah may seem an unlikely ally for the Bush administration. But consider Ayatollah Muhammad Bakir al-Hakim.
The ayatollah is an Iraqi Shiite who has been living in Tehran for more than two decades. He is backed by the Iranian government, the one that President Bush has derided as part of an "axis of evil." His father once gave sanctuary to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the fiery anti-American cleric who later rose to power in Iran's 1979 revolution.
Still, the United States and the Shiite cleric are in the process of forging a political alliance of convenience. It is an arrangement that is strongly supported by Kuwait, Washington's staunchest Arab ally in its campaign to dislodge President Saddam Hussein......"

"a senior official of the Iran-based Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) said Iraqi opposition leaders had already agreed on a blueprint for a new government as part of a process started by Washington last year......
"Our problem with America is this: is it correct to ignore all the opposition efforts during the last six months started in Washington?" asked the official, who attended meetings in the U.S. capital which included Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld."

"Since fleeing the holy city of Najaf for Iran 23 years ago, Hakim has been closely aligned with and supported by Iran's Islamic government and the clerics who lead it, including the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, whom Hakim thanked for his support over the years.
Hakim established his own large militia in Iran, known as the Badr Brigade, composed not only of infantry but heavy artillery and tanks. Members of the brigade have been pouring into Iraq, though they have not come as an organized army......
Moreover, Hakim took the side of Iran during the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, which taints him in the view of some more secular Shiites."

"Ansar al-Islam, which controls mountains above Halabjah, began carving out territory for itself in September 2001. Over the past year, it has sought to institute Taliban-like strictures in the area they control. The group's leader, Mullah Krekar, has links with Afghanistan which date back to the war against Soviet occupation in the 1980s. He also studied Islamic law in Pakistan under Palestinian scholar and mentor of Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam."

WASHINGTON (AP) - .... Vice President Dick Cheney first asserted that one of the bombers - a U.S. citizen and one of the FBI's most-wanted terrorists - received help from Iraq, although he offered little detail. Another U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said while some evidence has been uncovered, it was too soon to reach any conclusions.

Cheney, speaking Sept. 14 on NBC-TV's "Meet the Press'' program, did not mention the suspect by name. Other officials have confirmed he was speaking of Abdul Rahman Yasin, who is accused of mixing the chemicals in the bomb used in the 1993 attack.

"And we have learned subsequent to that, since we got into Baghdad and got into the intelligence files, that this individual probably also received financing from the Iraqi government, as well as safe haven,'' Cheney said. ...

Saddam's regime said it had imprisoned Yasin since arresting him in 1994, and that offers to turn him over to the U.S. government were rebuffed in the weeks before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

In 2002, he was interviewed on CBS-TV's "60 Minutes'' at an Iraqi prison. He thus far has not turned up in postwar Iraq.....

But the first World Trade Center bombing is not precisely considered an al-Qaida operation by American counterterrorism officials.

At the time, al-Qaida was in its formative stages in Sudan, and officials said they know of no conclusive evidence that ties either Osama bin Laden or the Iraqi government to the attack.

Instead, some of the terrorists who carried out the bombing would later ally themselves with bin Laden's organization. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind, was connected financially to the 1993 attack; he and bomber Ramzi Yousef would later receive financial support from bin Laden's brother-in-law.

"According to Pakistani investigators, Ramzi Youssef, convicted mastermind of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York, lived at a Bin Laden-funded safe house in Peshawar during most of the three years before his capture in 1995….
When Youssef came to the U.S. in 1992, the Alkifah center, which had been founded by bin Laden's mentor Abdullah Azzam, was his first stop. Alkifah has been identified by an aide to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak as a CIA front for transferring funds, weapons, and recruits to the anti-Soviet mujaheddin in Afghanistan. During one period, over $2 million annually was reportedly being transferred. A 1998 article in the New York Times referred to Alkifah as "the American outpost of Mr. bin Laden's international terrorist organization."

[Newsweek - Oct. 6 Issue] MILITARY OFFICIALS ACKNOWLEDGE that Capt. James Yee, who was recently arrested in Florida after returning from a tour of duty at Guantanamo, was certified as a Muslim imam by the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences—a group whose offices were raided last year by federal agents investigating a web of companies and charities in northern Virginia suspected of ties to terrorist financing. The Army said Yee’s religious credentials were also endorsed by the American Muslim Council’s Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs Office; the council’s cofounder Abdurahman al-Amoudi has been under scrutiny in the same probe. Federal law-enforcement sources tell NEWSWEEK that FBI agents in Chicago first became alarmed five years ago that terrorist suspects with ties to one of the northern Virginia groups were compiling lists of Muslims in the U.S. military for possible recruitment. (The concern was fueled by the case of Ali Mohammed, a former U.S. Army sergeant who became a devotee of Osama bin Laden’s and later pleaded guilty to charges related to the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.) But a proposal to investigate the issue then was rejected by FBI headquarters—apparently because of concerns that, without hard evidence, a full-fledged probe might rile religious sensitivities. Lawyers for the graduate school and al-Amoudi vehemently deny that their clients have any connection to terrorism.

"Acting Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger, who knew Yugoslavia well from his term as Ambassador there and as banker subsequently, instructed Warren Zimmerman, U.S. Ambassador in Belgrade, to fly post-haste to Sarajevo and persuade Izetbegovic to renege on the agreement, promising him all political, diplomatic and military aid if he agreed to do so. Izetbegovic was persuaded. He stationed his green-berreted snipers on the roofs of central Sarajevo, reneged on the agreement, appealed for support in the Moslem world; the Bosnian war began."

Retired Gen. Wesley K. Clark helped an Arkansas information company win a contract to assist development of an airline passenger screening system, one of the largest surveillance programs ever devised by the government.

Starting just after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, Clark sought out dozens of government and industry officials on behalf of Acxiom Corp., a data powerhouse that maintains names, addresses and a wide array of personal details about nearly every adult in the United States and their households, according to interviews and documents.

Clark, a Democrat who declared himself a presidential candidate 10 days ago, joined Acxiom's board of directors in December 2001. He earned $300,000 from Acxiom last year and was set to receive $150,000, plus potential commissions, this year, according to financial disclosure records. He owns several thousand shares of Acxiom stock worth more than $67,000. . .

he helped the company win a government contract worth an undisclosed amount to provide data and consulting services to the CAPPS II program. CAPPS II is the second-generation computer-assisted passenger screening system, a network that Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta once described as "the foundation" on which all other, far more public aviation security measures depend. . . .

Acxiom is a data integrator that manages billions of records for some of the nation's top banks, retailers and marketers. The company said it has "the largest collection of U.S. consumer and telephone data available in one source" -- data that is used in part to enhance others' records and authenticate identities.

After joining the company's board in December 2001, Clark quickly arranged for executives to talk with officials at FinCEN, a Treasury Department agency responsible for financial intelligence and initiatives to combat money-laundering.
Clark also has met on the company's behalf with officials at the Department of Justice, the CIA, the Department of Transportation, the Transportation Security Administration and Lockheed Martin Corp., the defense contractor that is heading up CAPPS II. . . .

In a meeting at the Department of Transportation in January 2002, according to participants, Clark described a system that would combine personal data from Acxiom with information about the reservations and seating records of every U.S. airline passenger.