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  • Downing Street Memos Explained in Plain English
    27 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Carmen Yarrusso
    The Bush and Blair administrations have dismissed the leaked British memos (including the so-called Downing Street Memo) that provide details of what top British officials believed about the case for war in the months leading up to the Iraq invasion. Both administrations have characterized the memos as “nothing new” or “old news”.
    Nothing could be further from the truth.
    Why primary-source evidence
    1) They document beliefs of people working closely with Bush’s top (…)

  • HALLIDAY: ’’TO TOP OFF THE U.S./BRITISH LIES WAS THE CHARGE OF ATTACK ON THOSE TWIN TOWERS OF...
    27 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    HALLIDAY: ’’TO TOP OFF THE U.S./BRITISH LIES WAS THE CHARGE OF ATTACK ON THOSE TWIN TOWERS OF CAPITALISTIC GREED IN NEW YORK CITY’’
    ISTANBUL, June 26 - Denis Halliday, who served between 1994-98 as Assistant Secretary-General of United Nations, and was appointed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the post of UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq, said on Saturday, ’’to top off the U.S./British lies and rubbish was the charge of a close Iraqi linkage to ’al Qaeda’ and the attack on those Twin (…)

  • BushCo wants you to believe...
    25 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iraq is Saddam’s fault Iraq bad intel is CIA’s fault Notion that Iaq was buying Uranium from Niger was Britain’s fault. Not listening to Richard Clarke regarding Terrorism’s rise was Clarke’s fault for not being more insistent. 911 and the WTC was Osama’s fault Not scrambling military aircraft on 911 to shoot down the “high jacked” planes was Osama’s fault. Not finding any wreckage or bodies, or even a black box at the Pentagon on 911 was - the fault of .... Somebody. The Anthrax scare right (…)

  • US caused more deaths in Iraq than Saddam
    24 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    AFP, 24 June 2005
    The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI), a grouping of NGOs, intellectuals and writers opposed to the war in Iraq, accused the United States of causing more deaths in Iraq than ousted president Saddam Hussein .../...
    See also: Busk: the world holds you accountable - http://www.bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=6581
    World Tribunal on Iraq - http://www.worldtribunal.org/

  • Anatomy of a Coverup
    24 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    June 23, 2005 - On May 1 the London _Sunday Times_ published leaked minutes — the Downing Street Memo — of a high-level British cabinet meeting held on 23 July 2002 that discussed contingencies, political and military, for invading Iraq.
    In the Cabinet meeting, C [the head of MI6, Richard Dearlove] ’reported on his recent talks in Washington’, where ’military action was now seen as inevitable’ and ’the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.’ In other words, the books (…)

  • What will Americans do about the Downing Street memo?
    23 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The murmurs about the Downing Street memo are growing into a louder chorus of outrage. What has been widely reported in the British press and other countries for weeks and months is just now beginning to bubble up over Michael Jackson and Paris Hilton as relevant news.
    For those who don’t know (and it still appears to be many), the Downing Street memo is a confidential British intelligence communication, written months before the war began, that was leaked to the Sunday Times of London. (…)

  • Yes, they did lie to us
    23 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In the US the latest leaked memos are seen as a smoking gun on Iraq, but in Britain we are struggling to keep up
    Jonathan Freedland Wednesday June 22, 2005 The Guardian
    Now try to work this one out. Before the war on Iraq, Britain witnessed a ferocious debate over whether the case for conflict was legal and honest. It culminated in the largest demonstration in the country’s history, as a million or more took to the streets to stop the war. At the same time, the US sleepwalked into (…)

  • Fixed Is Fixed
    23 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ray McGovern was a CIA analyst for 27 years, and is co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. He now works at Tell the Word, the publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour.
    With last week’s hearings on the Downing Street memos concluded, much work lies ahead. Now, the information in the Downing Street memos needs to be collated carefully with evidence from the mainstream media, on the Internet, and from other sources regarding what was going on in top (…)

  • Letter to Dana Milbank about the Downing Street Memo and Corporate Media Complicity in War Crimes
    21 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    To: milbankd@washpost.com, Sketch@washpost.com, ombudsman@washpost.com
    Mr. Milbank---
    Regarding Friday’s WashingtonSketch ("Democrats Play House To Rally Against the War"): what an offensive, intelligence-insulting, childish rant, totally lacking in professionalism and propreity. Give me a break.
    First of all, the Washington Post--- as well as much of the mainstream press--- seems more than a bit confused about the Downing Street Memo. (In this age where apparently the words (…)

  • The human cost of "Fortress Europe" : asylum-seekers unfairly detained and unfairly expelled
    20 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Amnesty international releases reports on UK, Spain, Italy
    (Brussels 20 June 2005) European Union countries are increasingly violating their international obligations on asylum according to three reports released simultaneously today by Amnesty International to mark World Refugee Day.
    The reports, covering a range of issues relating to the detention and expulsion of people seeking asylum in the UK, Spain and Italy, show up the terrible human cost of "Fortress Europe".
    Amnesty (…)