During his first days in detention, senior al-Qaeda operative Khalid Sheik Mohammed was stripped of his clothes, beaten, given a forced enema and shackled with his arms chained above his head, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross. It was then, a Red Cross report says, that his American captors told him to prepare for "a hard time."
Over the next 25 days, beginning on March 6, 2003, Mohammed was put through a routine in which he was deprived of sleep, doused with cold water and had his head repeatedly slammed into a plywood wall, according to the report. The interrogation also included days of extensive waterboarding, a technique that simulates drowning.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/25/AR2009042503122.html?wpisrc=newsletter
Mohammed, according to the memo, resisted giving any answers to questions about future attacks, saying, "Soon you will know."
The memo, while saying it discussed only a fraction of the important intelligence gleaned from Abu Zubaida and Mohammed, cited three specific successes: the identification of alleged "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla; the discovery of a "Second Wave" attack targeting Los Angeles; and the break-up of the Indonesian Jemaah Islamiya cell, an al-Qaeda ally led by Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali.
"The dates just don't add up," wrote Ali Soufan, a former FBI special agent, in an opinion piece in the New York Times last week. Soufan, who questioned Abu Zubaida between his capture in March 2002 and early June of that year, said the detainee gave up Padilla without any physical or psychological duress. He also said Abu Zubaida identified Mohammed as the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks "under traditional interrogation methods."
A number of officials have questioned the viability of the plot in the wake of the changes in airport security after Sept. 11. And President George W. Bush, in a speech in 2007, said the plot was broken up in 2002, before Mohammed's capture in Pakistan on March 1, 2003.
It is absolutely crazy with all the security at the airports after 9/11 that there were any plot to hijack any airplane and crash it on a Los Angeles building.
This is a fabrication nonsense and if any admitted that any torture that was a fabrication so to placate the torture interrogators than a reality.
In the mean time under such barbaric horrendous torture what are the names of the potential hijackers of such Los Angeles plot. Any more details than that? Any one was arrested of these potential imaginary hijackers?
How they were be able to pass the security gates at the airports? with knife cutters? guns? This is absolutely crazy! Why the FBI , the CIA or George W Bush feed the American people such lies and nonsense?
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Saturday, April 25, 2009
President Barack Obama and the Armenians Remembrance Day
Barack Obama Statements
"Just as the terrible events of 1915 remind us of the dark prospect of man’s inhumanity to man, reckoning with the past holds out the powerful promise of reconciliation," Obama said in a statement issued by the White House on Friday afternoon. "I have consistently stated my own view of what occurred in 1915, and my view of that history has not changed. My interest remains the achievement of a full, frank and just acknowledgment of the facts."
"I strongly support efforts by the Turkish and Armenian people to work through this painful history in a way that is honest, open and constructive," Obama said. "To that end, there has been courageous and important dialogue among Armenians and Turks, and within Turkey itself."
Obama said he stood with the diaspora "and with Armenians everywhere with a sense of friendship, solidarity and deep respect."
Before the statement had even been issued, Turkish President Abdullah Gul hinted that he knew Obama would avoid the contentious term, telling reporters Friday that Obama had left his early-April Turkey visit "now better informed."
Obama had promised early in his presidential campaign that he would call the mass killings genocide if elected. "The facts are undeniable," Obama said in a Jan. 19, 2008, statement. "An official policy that calls on diplomats to distort the historical facts is an untenable policy. As a senator, I strongly support passage of the Armenian Genocide Resolution (H.Res.106 and S.Res.106), and as president I will recognize the Armenian Genocide."
It should not be forgotten that that the Ottoman empire at that time was in the danger of disappearance from the world map. Greece would have carved big chunk in the western part, so Bulgaria will absorb part and of course Russia. The Armenians joined the Russian armies in the east to wage war against what is now Turkey.
No one should pretend to be innocent.
"Just as the terrible events of 1915 remind us of the dark prospect of man’s inhumanity to man, reckoning with the past holds out the powerful promise of reconciliation," Obama said in a statement issued by the White House on Friday afternoon. "I have consistently stated my own view of what occurred in 1915, and my view of that history has not changed. My interest remains the achievement of a full, frank and just acknowledgment of the facts."
"I strongly support efforts by the Turkish and Armenian people to work through this painful history in a way that is honest, open and constructive," Obama said. "To that end, there has been courageous and important dialogue among Armenians and Turks, and within Turkey itself."
Obama said he stood with the diaspora "and with Armenians everywhere with a sense of friendship, solidarity and deep respect."
Before the statement had even been issued, Turkish President Abdullah Gul hinted that he knew Obama would avoid the contentious term, telling reporters Friday that Obama had left his early-April Turkey visit "now better informed."
Obama had promised early in his presidential campaign that he would call the mass killings genocide if elected. "The facts are undeniable," Obama said in a Jan. 19, 2008, statement. "An official policy that calls on diplomats to distort the historical facts is an untenable policy. As a senator, I strongly support passage of the Armenian Genocide Resolution (H.Res.106 and S.Res.106), and as president I will recognize the Armenian Genocide."
It should not be forgotten that that the Ottoman empire at that time was in the danger of disappearance from the world map. Greece would have carved big chunk in the western part, so Bulgaria will absorb part and of course Russia. The Armenians joined the Russian armies in the east to wage war against what is now Turkey.
No one should pretend to be innocent.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Suicide Blasts Kill 79 at Baghdad Shiite Shrine
This suicide bombers are absolutely crazy. Why this cowardly of the shiite worshipers at th their mosques. Totally disgusting.
BAGHDAD -- Two female suicide bombers hiding explosives in their purses struck worshippers streaming into Baghdad's most important Shiite shrine for Friday prayers, killing at least 66 people a day after Iraq's most deadly violence in more than three months..
There were no immediate indications that the bombings in Baghdad and nearby Diyala province were coordinated. But they vividly demonstrated that militant groups are still capable of staging attacks that cause mass casualties, as they did in the darkest days of the country's 2006-07 sectarian violence.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/24/AR2009042401485.html
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2009/April/middleeast_April419.xml§ion=middleeast
http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/world/2009/04/24/D97OS8S84_ml_iraq_attacks_glance/
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-fg-iraq-bombings24-2009apr24,0,540535.story
Uyghur Detainees in Guantanamo Prison Seeking Settlement in the US
It is shame none in the Muslim world would accept these prosecuted Uighur detainees. Shame.
The United States government has held twenty-two Uyghurs in Guantanamo Bay detainment camp. Eighteen of the detainees were present at Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRTs) conducted by the U.S. military to review their cases.
Uyghurs are an ethnic group from Central Asia and Xinjiang province in western China.[1]
The Uyghurs call their homeland East Turkestan.
The Washington Post reported on August 24, 2005 that fifteen Uyghurs had been determined to be "No longer enemy combatants" (NLEC) after all.[2] The Post reported that detainees who had been classified as NLEC were, not only still being incarcerated, but were still being shackled to the floor. Five of these Uyghurs, who had filed for writs of habeas corpus, were transported to Albania on May 5, 2006 just prior to a scheduled judicial review of their petitions. As of June 22, 2008, seventeen Uyghur men remain incarcerated at Guantanamo. Two years ago, an Administrative Review Board declared all but one to be "approved for release." The Pentagon had previously determined, reportedly as early as 2003, that the Uyghurs should be released. They continue to be incarcerated.
None of the Uyghurs wanted to be returned to China. The United States declined to grant the Uyghurs political asylum, or to allow them parole, or even freedom on the Naval Base.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uighur_detainees_in_Guantanamo
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4894921
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/currentawareness/uighurs.php
http://www.uyghurcongress.org/En/news.asp?ItemID=343112032&rcid=803688565&pcid=1110134820&cid=803688565
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/18/holder-says-some-uighur-detainees-could-go-to-us/
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Turkey and New Constitutional Cmendments
Turkey is making preparations for Constitutional amendments.
http://www.worldbulletin.net/news_detail.php?id=40506
http://www.worldbulletin.net/news_detail.php?id=40506
Saudi Arabia Announces the Recognition of the Republic of Kosovo April-20 2009
Riyadh, April 20, SPA -- In line with the existing religious and cultural bonds with the people Kosovo, and in respect to the will of the people Kosovo to obtain independence, the Kingdom (of Saudi Arabia) announces its recognition of the Republic of Kosovo, and hopes that this development will positively contribute to enhancing the pillars of security and stability in Kosovo and its neighboring countries, said an official source at the Foreign Ministry here today.
http://www.unpo.org/content/view/9508/122/
http://www.worldbulletin.net/index.php
Monday, April 20, 2009
Abu Zubaydah at least 83 Times Waterboarded During August 2002
Waterboarding, the near-drowning technique that top Obama administration officials have described as illegal torture, was used by CIA interrogators far more frequently on two key al-Qaeda prisoners than had been previously reported.
A 2005 Justice Department legal memorandum says that CIA officers used waterboarding at least 83 times during August 2002 against Abu Zubaydah, who has been described as an al-Qaeda operative.
And waterboarding was used 183 times in March 2003 against Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described planner of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to a May 30, 2005 memo. That memo was quoting a 2004 investigation by the CIA inspector general.
Former CIA officer John Kiriakou told ABC News and other news media organizations in 2007 that Zubaydah had undergone waterboarding for only 35 seconds before agreeing to tell everything he knew.
The New York Times reported in 2007 that Mohammed had been barraged more than 100 times with harsh interrogation methods, causing CIA officers to worry that they might have crossed legal limits. They stopped his questioning. But the precise number and the exact nature of the interrogation method used so many times was not previously known.
The release of the numbers is likely to become part of the debate about the morality and usefulness of interrogation methods that the Bush administration Justice Department declared legal even though the United States had historically treated them as torture.
President Barack Obama plans to visit CIA headquarters today and speak publicly to employees, as well as meeting privately with officials, an agency spokesman said Sunday night. It will be his first visit to the agency, whose use of harsh interrogation methods he often condemned during the presidential campaign and whose secret prisons he ordered closed on the second full day of his presidency.
CIA officials had opposed the release of the interrogation memos, but when Obama ordered the papers' release on Thursday, he said CIA officers who had used waterboarding and other harsh methods with the approval of the Justice Department would not be prosecuted. He has also repeatedly suggested that he opposes congressional proposals for a "truth commission" to examine Bush administration counterterrorism programs, including interrogation and warrantless eavesdropping.
White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said Sunday that Obama does not intend to prosecute Bush administration officials who devised the policies.
Asked Sunday on ABC's This Week about the fate of those officials, Emanuel said the president believes they "should not be prosecuted either and that's not the place that we go."
The Senate Intelligence Committee has begun a yearlong, closed-door investigation of the CIA interrogation program, in part to assess claims of Bush administration officials that brutal treatment, including slamming prisoners into walls, shackling them in standing positions for days and confining them in small boxes, was necessary to get information.
The fact that waterboarding was repeated so many times might raise questions about its effectiveness, as well as assertions by Bush administration officials that their methods were used under strict guidelines.
A footnote to another 2005 Justice Department memo released Thursday said waterboarding was used both more frequently and with a greater volume of water than the CIA rules permitted.
The information came out over the weekend when a number of bloggers, including Marcy Wheeler of the blog emptywheel, discovered the numbers in the memo.
The sentences in the memo including the number of times the two men were waterboarded appeared to be blacked out from some copies but visible in others. Initial news reports about the memos did not include the numbers.
Michael Hayden, director of the CIA for the last two years of the Bush administration, would not comment when asked on Fox News on Sunday if Mohammed had been waterboarded 183 times. He said he believed that information was still classified.
A CIA spokesman, reached Sunday night, would not comment on the new information.
Hayden said he had opposed the release of the memos, even though Obama has said the techniques will never be used again, because they would tell al-Qaeda "the outer limits that any American would ever go in terms of interrogating an al-Qaeda terrorist."
He also disputed an article in The New York Times on Saturday saying that Abu Zubaydah revealed nothing new after being waterboarded, saying that he believed that after unspecified "techniques" were used, Abu Zubaydah revealed information that led to the capture of another terrorist suspect, Ramzi Binalshibh.
The Times story, based on information from former intelligence officers who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Abu Zubaydah revealed a great deal of information before harsh methods were used and after his captors stripped him of clothes, kept him in a cold cell and kept him awake at night. The article said interrogators at the secret prison in Thailand believed he had given up all the information he had, but officials at headquarters ordered them to use waterboarding.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/washington/stories/042009dnnatwaterboard.434c983.html
A 2005 Justice Department legal memorandum says that CIA officers used waterboarding at least 83 times during August 2002 against Abu Zubaydah, who has been described as an al-Qaeda operative.
And waterboarding was used 183 times in March 2003 against Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described planner of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to a May 30, 2005 memo. That memo was quoting a 2004 investigation by the CIA inspector general.
Former CIA officer John Kiriakou told ABC News and other news media organizations in 2007 that Zubaydah had undergone waterboarding for only 35 seconds before agreeing to tell everything he knew.
The New York Times reported in 2007 that Mohammed had been barraged more than 100 times with harsh interrogation methods, causing CIA officers to worry that they might have crossed legal limits. They stopped his questioning. But the precise number and the exact nature of the interrogation method used so many times was not previously known.
The release of the numbers is likely to become part of the debate about the morality and usefulness of interrogation methods that the Bush administration Justice Department declared legal even though the United States had historically treated them as torture.
President Barack Obama plans to visit CIA headquarters today and speak publicly to employees, as well as meeting privately with officials, an agency spokesman said Sunday night. It will be his first visit to the agency, whose use of harsh interrogation methods he often condemned during the presidential campaign and whose secret prisons he ordered closed on the second full day of his presidency.
CIA officials had opposed the release of the interrogation memos, but when Obama ordered the papers' release on Thursday, he said CIA officers who had used waterboarding and other harsh methods with the approval of the Justice Department would not be prosecuted. He has also repeatedly suggested that he opposes congressional proposals for a "truth commission" to examine Bush administration counterterrorism programs, including interrogation and warrantless eavesdropping.
White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said Sunday that Obama does not intend to prosecute Bush administration officials who devised the policies.
Asked Sunday on ABC's This Week about the fate of those officials, Emanuel said the president believes they "should not be prosecuted either and that's not the place that we go."
The Senate Intelligence Committee has begun a yearlong, closed-door investigation of the CIA interrogation program, in part to assess claims of Bush administration officials that brutal treatment, including slamming prisoners into walls, shackling them in standing positions for days and confining them in small boxes, was necessary to get information.
The fact that waterboarding was repeated so many times might raise questions about its effectiveness, as well as assertions by Bush administration officials that their methods were used under strict guidelines.
A footnote to another 2005 Justice Department memo released Thursday said waterboarding was used both more frequently and with a greater volume of water than the CIA rules permitted.
The information came out over the weekend when a number of bloggers, including Marcy Wheeler of the blog emptywheel, discovered the numbers in the memo.
The sentences in the memo including the number of times the two men were waterboarded appeared to be blacked out from some copies but visible in others. Initial news reports about the memos did not include the numbers.
Michael Hayden, director of the CIA for the last two years of the Bush administration, would not comment when asked on Fox News on Sunday if Mohammed had been waterboarded 183 times. He said he believed that information was still classified.
A CIA spokesman, reached Sunday night, would not comment on the new information.
Hayden said he had opposed the release of the memos, even though Obama has said the techniques will never be used again, because they would tell al-Qaeda "the outer limits that any American would ever go in terms of interrogating an al-Qaeda terrorist."
He also disputed an article in The New York Times on Saturday saying that Abu Zubaydah revealed nothing new after being waterboarded, saying that he believed that after unspecified "techniques" were used, Abu Zubaydah revealed information that led to the capture of another terrorist suspect, Ramzi Binalshibh.
The Times story, based on information from former intelligence officers who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Abu Zubaydah revealed a great deal of information before harsh methods were used and after his captors stripped him of clothes, kept him in a cold cell and kept him awake at night. The article said interrogators at the secret prison in Thailand believed he had given up all the information he had, but officials at headquarters ordered them to use waterboarding.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/washington/stories/042009dnnatwaterboard.434c983.html
Sunday, April 19, 2009
President Barack Obama Meets Hugo Chavez
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad - Presidents Barack Obama and Hugo Chavez have met for the first time, shaking hands as the Summit of the Americas gets under way in Trinidad and Tobago.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/17/obama-and-hugo-chavez-sha_n_188515.html
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Castro Wants More From Obama on Cuba
Obama to ease Cuba restrictions on travel, money
Obama will announce the policy change before this month's Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago.
President Barack Obama will allow U.S. telecommunications companies to apply for licenses in Cuba, under a new policy shift.
Castro says the Obama administration did not go far enough in softening sanctions, and criticized it for leaving in place the embargo that bars most trade and travel between the two countries
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
Violence in Nigeria's Oil region Left 1,000 People Dead
Nigeria oil unrest 'kills 1,000' Some rebels say they are fighting for a fair distribution of oil wealth
Violence in Nigeria's oil region left 1,000 people dead and cost $24bn (£16bn) last year, a report says, according to an official and activist.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/default.stm
The Country of Gambia Recognizes Kosovo While the Arab Countries Are Deaf and Blind 2009
Four countries had recognized Kosovo since the Begining of the year.
Panama (January 16, 2009)
Maldives (February 19, 2009)
Palau (March 6, 2009)
Gambia, (April 7, 2009)
Suicide Attack Kills 5 G.I.’s in Mosul Iraq April-10 2009
BAGHDAD — Five American soldiers and two members of the Iraqi security forces were killed in a massive suicide truck bombing Friday near the headquarters of the Iraqi national police in the northern city of Mosul, a United States military spokesman said.
It is sad that these young American lives are lost, this does not exclude indifference to the Iraqi lives that are lost.
President Barack Obama made the right decision of more accelerated American combat troops withdrawal than of George W Bush. However, the planned with drawl this year amount to about nothing, just little cosmetic.
In the mean time negotiation is necessary for opposing parties who may inspire such violent acts.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/11/world/middleeast/11iraq.html?_r=1&hp
It is sad that these young American lives are lost, this does not exclude indifference to the Iraqi lives that are lost.
President Barack Obama made the right decision of more accelerated American combat troops withdrawal than of George W Bush. However, the planned with drawl this year amount to about nothing, just little cosmetic.
In the mean time negotiation is necessary for opposing parties who may inspire such violent acts.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/11/world/middleeast/11iraq.html?_r=1&hp
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Pirates Hijack Maersk Ship of Somali Coast April-08 2009
US captain freed; Somali pirates vow to retaliate
Maersk Alabama after arrival in Kenya
Maersk ship hijacked
Wednesday, 08 April 2009 14:45 KR News
Pirates have hijacked a Maersk ship off the Somalian coast with a US crew
Pirates have attacked and hijacked a Maersk ship this morning off the coast of Somalia. The Danish shipping company said the ship was flying under a US flag and had a crew of 20 Americans on board when it was captured 500 kilometres off the coast.
According to CNN, the 17,000 tonne ship was carrying general supplies, but a Maersk spokesman would not specify exactly what the cargo consisted of.
The Danish company said that the Maersk Alabama was part of the East Africa service network and was on course for the Kenyan port of Mombasa when the attack occurred.
This is the second time a Maersk ship has been hijacked off the African coast.
In February, the Svitzer Korsakov tugboat from Maersk-owned shipping line Svitzer was hijacked. It was released more than six weeks later with all crew unharmed.
Maersk ships have previously come under fire from pirates in the area, but have evaded capture. It is thought that this is the first time an all American crew has been captured by pirates, in an area that witnessed 15 attacks in March.http://www.cphpost.dk/news/international/45366-maersk-ship-hijacked.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fgw-somali-pirates11-2009apr11,0,4669254.story
Maersk Alabama after arrival in Kenya
Maersk ship hijacked Wednesday, 08 April 2009 14:45 KR News
Pirates have hijacked a Maersk ship off the Somalian coast with a US crew
Pirates have attacked and hijacked a Maersk ship this morning off the coast of Somalia. The Danish shipping company said the ship was flying under a US flag and had a crew of 20 Americans on board when it was captured 500 kilometres off the coast.
According to CNN, the 17,000 tonne ship was carrying general supplies, but a Maersk spokesman would not specify exactly what the cargo consisted of.
The Danish company said that the Maersk Alabama was part of the East Africa service network and was on course for the Kenyan port of Mombasa when the attack occurred.
This is the second time a Maersk ship has been hijacked off the African coast.
In February, the Svitzer Korsakov tugboat from Maersk-owned shipping line Svitzer was hijacked. It was released more than six weeks later with all crew unharmed.
Maersk ships have previously come under fire from pirates in the area, but have evaded capture. It is thought that this is the first time an all American crew has been captured by pirates, in an area that witnessed 15 attacks in March.http://www.cphpost.dk/news/international/45366-maersk-ship-hijacked.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fgw-somali-pirates11-2009apr11,0,4669254.story
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
ITALY EARTHQUAKE April-07 2009
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/photogalleries/italy-earthquake-pictures/photo4.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7988832.stm
President Barack Obama Iraq With Troops April-07 2009
http://us.mg3.mail.yahoo.com/dc/launch?.rand=02pvmpbt1e1ud
Monday, April 6, 2009
Barack Obama Speech in Prague the Czech Republic April 2009
US President Barack Obama walks with his wife first lady Michelle Obama, right, before delivering a public speech to thousands of people on the Hradcany Square in Prague, Czech Republic, Sunday, April 5, 2009.
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2008/s2536366.htm
http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=3666
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Friday, April 3, 2009
Michelle Obama Meets With Britain's Queen Elizabeth II April 2009
Michelle Obama, wife of U.S. President Barack Obama, left, walks with Britain's Queen Elizabeth II
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Barack Obama and Gordon Brown in Britain April-1 2009
As the G-20 Summit approaches, the President and Prime Minister Gordon Brown hold a joint press conference following a working meeting
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090401/ap_on_bi_ge/g20_summit.
Gottschalks Liquidation News
Fresno, Calif. (KFSN) -- Company officials announced late Monday night, the 105-year-old Fresno-based company has been sold to liquidators.
Gottschalks operates 61 stores in six western states. Going out of business sales at all of those stores could start as early as this Thursday or Friday. The company's CEO said liquidation is now the only path for the company. Now a bankruptcy judge needs to approve the proposed liquidation on Wednesday.
5,000 people companywide will soon be losing their jobs. Gottschalks will begin notifying employees Tuesday about what will happen. Some may be kept on for the closing sales
http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/business&id=6736714
Gottschalks operates 61 stores in six western states. Going out of business sales at all of those stores could start as early as this Thursday or Friday. The company's CEO said liquidation is now the only path for the company. Now a bankruptcy judge needs to approve the proposed liquidation on Wednesday.
5,000 people companywide will soon be losing their jobs. Gottschalks will begin notifying employees Tuesday about what will happen. Some may be kept on for the closing sales
http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/business&id=6736714
Michelle and Barack Obama Visit the Queen in Buckingham Palace April-1 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/President-Barack-Obama/photo//090401/481/e3d1fec72ddd4fe7ba4ef6cc5f46fa99//s:/ap/20090401/ap_on_re_eu/eu_obama
Barack Obama and Michelle First Trip to Europe March-31
Michelle Obama arrived on her first official trip to Europe in classic US style, thanks to Thakoon and Jason Wu, two of the First Lady's fashion favorites.
On Tuesday, she stepped onto Air Force One -- shttp://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedishrag/2009/03/michelle-obama-brings-us-style-to-london-what-will-she-wear-to-meet-the-queen.htmleen at right -- wearing a classy ivory tulle tweed custom-made Thakoon coat.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedishrag/2009/03/michelle-obama-brings-us-style-to-london-what-will-she-wear-to-meet-the-queen.html
http://theenvelope.latimes.com/
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