• Italy Seeks Former U.S. Diplomat in Kidnapping 22 people sought in kidnapping of radical Muslim cleric from Milan and smuggling him to Egypt, where he was tortured
• Simon Jenkins in The Guardian on Mr Sanctimonious Blair’s latest mad law: This is an act of censorship worthy of Joseph Goebbels 
• Nice folks next door US sentences Jewish Defense League Leader Earl Krugel, 62, to 20 Years Jail for 2001 Terrorist Bomb Plot — His late comrade Irv Rubin told Mr Irving, “I’ll kill you”
• Holocaust class-action lawyer Ed Fagan in Austrian sex scandal: Forced governments, companies to pay compensation to WW2 slave labourers; now charged with hiring child prostitutes from eastern Europe – Israel, here I come?
• Simon Wiesenthal dies; called fraudulent by IHR 
• This is such unexpected news: Would-be German chancellor promises to fight anti-Semitism  — by this she means striking at the anti-Semites, not at the origins of anti-Semitism
• More on the multi-culturals Jews in the American porn industry: an investigation by Nathan Abrams for the UK Jewish Quarterly
• Getting worried Canada backs move for UN to mark Holocaust, “reject Holocaust denial”  – but London Sunday Times deplores such a move; guess who’ll win
• Four from Jewish Atlanta neighborhood charged in swastika vandalism 

Israel

• George Galloway does it again, Blasts Israel  “I believe that Zionism has exploited the Jewish people as much as the Palestinian people”
• Not in our name Jack Straw grovels, apologises to outraged Israel over near-arrest of alleged Israeli war criminal at Heathrow
• Israel starts ‘war-crime’ fund’: allocates $1m for officers facing charges | Citing “procedural reasons” (Blair stepped in?) British police cancel arrest warrant against Israel general | Israel condemns UK attempt to arrest him for atrocities  He evades arrest at Heathrow, London: tipped off by ambassador, flies back Israel, pleads was only acting under orders | More top Israeli officers and ministers targeted for human-rights prosecution abroad | Ariel Sharon fears arrest if he visits London 
• Stunned Israeli firm tossed out of UK fair London arms fair evicts Israeli company for offering stun guns, leg irons and other “weapons of torture” 
• Tuck and nip. Tucked it away, and nipped away Stolen e-mails contained details of Shirley’s hidden wealth  – Jail sentence and £20,000 fine for internet pioneer, for hacking e-mails which showed that Lady Shirley Porter, left, surcharged by Westminster, had squirreled away millions and lied about her wealth before fleeing to Israel
• Israel calls the great conductor Daniel Barenboim an anti-Semite 

Mossad

• Bogus movers, shakers Mossad cell back on USA soil — the guys who high-fived as the World Trade Center crashed on 9/11
• Was Mossad involved in the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri? The use of RDX in the car bomb suggests so

New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina

• Scuttlebut off the Internet I just got back from a FEMA Detainment Camp | A special police and rescue mission has been carried out in New Orleans looking for Jews missing since Hurricane Katrina | More on this strange story
• Eye witness report from New Orleans  | US Army Times headline: Troops begin combat operations in New Orleans: “Combat operations are underway on the streets ‘to take this city back’ in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina” 
• “A panicked George Bush sends in the Marines”  as in Detroit, summer 1967 | reader’s letter | another | and another
• David Irving, A Radical’s Diary on the New Orleans disaster: “If ever God’s finger hovered over the key marked SMITE, it seems to have happened with Hurricane Katrina” | Update: More thoughts on the mishandling of the disaster
• Auschwitz survivor stranded in New Orleans: Texas son’s anxiety  – but won’t go to neighbouring Louisiana to fetch father himself? (Plano to New Orleans is a one-day drive, we’ve done it several times. Oh well, it all helps keep that other Holocaust in the public eye)

Bush war against Iraq

• Free speech update United States bars award-winning UK journalist Robert Fisk  — papers not in order; or because of his reporting on Iraq war and the Middle East?
• Baghdad: Rip-off City What has happened to Iraq’s missing $1bn?
• Yes, but is it true? Tony Blair decided to wage war on Iraq after coming under the influence of a “sinister” group of Jews and Freemasons, a Muslim barrister who advises him has claimed  | Daily Mail (London) Opinion: Advice we can do without 
• Sunday Herald, Scotland Torture of Iraqis was for “stress relief”, say US soldiers (82nd Airborne) 

Lipstadt Trial and Auschwitz

• Auschwitz survivor stranded in New Orleans: Texas son’s anxiety  – but won’t go to neighbouring Louisiana to fetch father himself? (Plano to New Orleans is a one-day drive, we’ve done it several times. Oh well, it all helps keep that other Holocaust in the public eye)
• Death of Lord Donaldson, second-ranking British lawyer who felt the Leuchter Report on Auschwitz called for a full inquiry

Ernst Zündel trial

• Show-trial news November dates set for Germany trial of Ernst Zündel

World War II History

• Hungarian Liberation Holocaust survivors outraged at meager $25.5m Gold theft settlement for Nazi Gold Train “commandeered” by U.S. Army during World War II
• A rather unfortunate review of the work and worth of historian John Lukács  — note the uncanny resemblance to the Budweiser frog
•  Some extraordinary Third Reich film footage (wmv format, 1 hour)
• “Qui a tué la nièce d’Hitler?” (in French). The mysterious death of Hitler’s niece Geli Raubal; published 1970 in Miroir de l’Histoire

Miscellaneous

• David Irving, A Radical’s Diary – on moving home into the heart of the British Government quarter; and family problems
• Crazy English: Uzbekistan-born teenager becomes first ever Muslim girl to be crowned Miss England 
• AFP: ‘Pentagon Pulls Pre-Emptive Nuke Draft From Web Site’ | Intro of document that was pulled 

 AR-Dossier: casebook on the origins of modern antisemitism

• Sara Salzman finds fault in the Leuchter Report, since the forensic chemist involved has since reversed his findings
• “Jack Archer” applauds the verdict of the Lipstadt trial, claims to have read the transcripts, and calls Mr Irving a discredited historian
• Bob Johnston, American militaria collector, says that he has the gun Geli Raubal used to kill herself
• Arthur Welles inquires whether a David Irving biography is planned
• Alasdair Spark contributes his two ha’porth on Anne Frank’s controversial use of ballpoint pens in writing her diary | Douglas Rodger knows something about the date that ballpoint pens came into general use | a reader looks at Anne’s curiously varied handwriting
• Thomas Mullin of Danville, California, has read our Hitler biographies and is baffled at criticisms of author David Irving
• James Cain applauds our remarks on the New Orleans hurricane catastrophe | D. Durnin feels that our criticism of the Louisiana Governor’s appearance was uncalled-for | Drew Campbell feels our remarks on the federal response are ill-judged