Top Bush admin. officials approved "enhanched interrogation" techniques; Higgs predicts ‘God particle’ soon to be revealed…
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10 April :: ABC News reported yesterday that “In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House, the most senior Bush administration officials discussed and approved specific details of how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency, sources tell ABC News”; Rice chaired the meetings, as National Security Adviser; according to the ABC News report: “At the time, the Principals Committee included Vice President Cheney, former National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell, as well as CIA Director George Tenet and Attorney General John Ashcroft”… Physicist Peter Higgs predicts new CERN collider will discover ‘Higgs boson’, known as ‘the God particle’, early next year; Higgs theorized a primordial Higgs field, made up of a higher force that gives the universe mass, makes life possible, 4 decades ago… Palestinian officials say Bush plans to meet PA pres. Mahmoud Abbas in Sharm el-Sheikh for peace talks next month; other Arab leaders may also be in attendance… Microsoft, NewsCorp may team up in bid to takeover Yahoo!, which is reportedly in talks with TimeWarner to merge with AOL, seeking to reposition itself strongly against more profitable online rivals; projected mergers would reshape market for online goods, services… Despite protests from China’s gov’t, the Olympic torch was diverted with little announcement, to avoid clashes between human rights protesters and China supporters; Reuters reports “On a beautiful spring day, San Francisco deployed hundreds of security officers, including FBI agents backed up by police cars, harbor boats, jet skis and helicopters”; Hong Kong authorities also plan to divert the torch from its planned route, to avoid “embarrassing scenes”…
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