Prominent investigative journalist Seymour M. Hersh reported that Israel had previously planned to attack Lebanon prior to the Hezbollah’s kidnappings on 12 July, which is regarded as the official reason for the Lebanese war, and added that the Bush administration was “closely” interested in the war planning.

In a report from Johar, the capital of the Russian-occupied Chechnya, dated  August 14, about  such an “important world news” as Russian terrorists from the KGB (now called FSB) sending  SMS text messages on mobile phones of every subscriber in Ingushetia “to end their participation in illegal

The Islamic force has seized control of a strategic township near the Ethiopian border from Somalia’s puppet “transitional government”, further expanding their territory, officials and residents say.