800 Pound Man's Date Ruined By Mishap

  This is a funny story but at the same time it isn't so funny.

  Manuel Uribe was ready to celebrate his having lost 440 pounds, bringing him down to 800 pounds, over the last 2 years. He also had a date with his girlfriend to celebrate the weight loss, but, this was not to be.

Washington Times

Uribe was halfway to a picnic near his Monterrey-area home on Sunday when one of the posts holding a sun-shielding tarp over his bed hit an overpass.

Uribe's blood pressure dropped so much his doctors advised him not to go on and the celebration - being documented by about two dozen photographers and reporters from around the world - was canceled.

"We were going to celebrate that I've been losing weight for two years and that it was my girlfriend's birthday," Uribe said in a telephone interview. "The saddest part was that I couldn't fulfill my dream of taking my girlfriend out to eat."

Uribe says that after losing weight on a high-protein diet he started two years ago, he's down to about 800 pounds.  

  To lose 440 pounds in 2 years is a major feat in itself. To lose that weight while living in Mexico is an act of God! Trust me on this, they do know how to eat very well south of the border. Congrats to you Manuel.

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Exhaustive review finds no link between Saddam and al Qaida

By Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents that were captured after the 2003 U.S. invasion has found no evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime had any operational links with Osama bin Laden's al Qaida terrorist network.

The Pentagon-sponsored study, scheduled for release later this week, did confirm that Saddam's regime provided some support to other terrorist groups, particularly in the Middle East, U.S. officials told McClatchy. However, his security services were directed primarily against Iraqi exiles, Shiite Muslims, Kurds and others he considered enemies of his regime.

The new study of the Iraqi regime's archives found no documents indicating a "direct operational link" between Hussein's Iraq and al Qaida before the invasion, according to a U.S. official familiar with the report.    Read More

    So now I guess that since the Pentagon has come out with this news, that what everyone else on the planet already knew is now official, George Bush and this administration are nothing but flat out liars. I am shocked!

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