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  • Growing Dissent in UK Parliament: MPs "don’t belive what the US Administration states anymore"
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The US ambassador in London has been forced into an embarrassing retreat after his embassy clarified comments he made denying that the United States was involved in removing terrorist suspects to Syria.
    Robert Tuttle told Radio 4’s Today programme last Thursday that there was no evidence that US forces had sent suspected terrorists for questioning in Syria, a practice known as "extraordinary rendition".
    The US embassy issued a statement yesterday acknowledging that there had been claims (…)

  • Language of the Heart
    25 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Cindy Sheehan
    I have been in Europe for 2 weeks now. I have been toasted by the Mayor of London, Ken Livingston, and greeted by Foreign Ministers, a Vice President and members of the various Parliaments. Those stories are for another article.
    My highest honor both here in the States and in Europe now is meeting with the families of children murdered in George Bush’s War of Terror against the world.
    No matter if we all speak differently accented English, Spanish, or the heavy (…)

  • Final Final Word: British Intelligence Inside Operation
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by: Steve Watson
    With the major stories of torture/rendition and spying on US citizens, one important revelation has slipped away virtually unnoticed - the fact that the Blair Government and the British Intelligence services had prior knowledge of the London bombings on July 7th of this year.
    The London Times reported last weekend that MI5 and MI6 had specifically warned Tony Blair before the July 7 suicide bombings that Al-Qaeda was planning a “high priority” attack specifically aimed (…)

  • Britain’s secret torture centre : The interrogation camp that turned prisoners into living skeletons
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    German spa became a forbidden village where Gestapo-like techniques were used
    by Ian Cobain
    Despite the six years of bitter fighting which lay behind him, James Morgan-Jones, a major in the Royal Artillery, could not have been more specific about the spectacle in front of him. "It was," he reported, "one of the most disgusting sights of my life."
    Curled up on a bed in a hospital in Rotenburg, near Bremen, was a cadaverous shadow of a human being. "The man literally had no flesh on him, (…)

  • Major Demos Planned for Third Anniversary of War
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    International Antiwar Movement Builds at UK Conference
    By KEVIN ZEESE
    Andrew Murray the Chair of the Stop the War Coalition opened the conference describing it as an "historic event" that brings together peace activists from around the world. Indeed, I was part of a sizable delegation of activists from throughout the United States. And the conference also included delegates from across Britain, Iraq, Iran, as well as from Pakistan, India, the Philippines, Canada, Poland, Greece, Italy, (…)

  • Britain ’trying to stall $1.3bn theft inquiry that could hurt Allawi’s election chances’
    9 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad
    The British government is trying to stall an investigation into the theft of more than $1.3bn (£740m) from the Iraqi Ministry of Defence, senior Iraqi officials say.
    The government wants to postpone the investigation to help its favoured candidate Iyad Allawi, the former prime minister, in the election on 15 December. The money disappeared during his administration.
    The UK’s enthusiasm for Mr Allawi may have led it into promoting a cover-up of how the (…)

  • An International Peace Movement Building
    6 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Swanson
    On Saturday, December 10, in London, England, leaders of the peace movement against the Iraq war from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Iraq will meet to strategize. There is hope that the tide has already turned against the occupation, and that a coordinated international effort will be able to mobilize sufficient public pressure to bring the war to a complete end.
    If you can make it to London, sign up here: http://www.stopwar.org.uk
    If you can’t make it, I (…)

  • Atomic hypocrisy
    6 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Neither Bush nor Blair is in a position to take a high moral line on Iran’s nuclear programme
    by Tony Benn
    Britain has played a leading role in the negotiations with Iran about its nuclear programme and the risk that it might lead to the development of an atomic bomb, and may well seek to take the matter to the UN security council.
    Given that the prime minister himself is determined to upgrade Trident and appears to be committed to a new series of nuclear power stations, his position (…)

  • Al Qaeda - The Database
    4 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Wayne Madsen Report - November 18, 2005
    Shortly before his untimely death, former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook told the House of Commons that "Al Qaeda" is not really a terrorist group but a database of international mujaheddin and arms smugglers used by the CIA and Saudis to funnel guerrillas, arms, and money into Soviet-occupied Afghanistan. Courtesy of World Affairs, a journal based in New Delhi, WMR can bring you an important excerpt from an Apr.-Jun. 2004 article by (…)

  • UK concessions on farm reform fail to win over EU
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Andrew Grice and Stephen Castle in Brussels and Philip Thornton
    Tony Blair’s proposals to end the deadlock over the EU budget provoked strong opposition from eastern European nations even though he offered to cut Britain’s rebate by about a fifth.
    Under fire at home for his pledge to offer concessions over the rebate without concrete reforms on farm spending, Mr Blair faced direct criticism from leaders in central and eastern Europe at talks with them in Budapest yesterday. However, (…)