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  • 1,100 Lawyers Leave Saddam Defense Team
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By JAMAL HALABY
    AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Some 1,100 Iraqi lawyers have withdrawn from Saddam Hussein’s defense team, citing insufficient protection following the slayings of two peers representing co-defendants of the ousted Iraqi leader.
    In a statement obtained Sunday, the lawyers did not say whether Saddam’s chief Iraqi attorney, Khalil al-Dulaimi, was among those who withdrew. But the statement said other members of the team in Baghdad were continuing their duties under complex and (…)

  • BYU Physics professor thinks bombs, not planes, toppled WTC
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The physics of 9/11 - including how fast and symmetrically one of the World Trade Center buildings fell - prove that official explanations of the collapses are wrong, says a Brigham Young University physics professor.
    In fact, it’s likely that there were "pre-positioned explosives" in all three buildings at ground zero, says Steven E. Jones.
    In a paper posted online Tuesday and accepted for peer-reviewed publication next year, Jones adds his voice to those of previous (…)

  • Anti-Terror Measure Rejected in Britain. Parliament Vote Deals Major Setback to Blair
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan
    LONDON - The House of Commons on Wednesday soundly defeated an anti-terrorism measure championed by Prime Minister Tony Blair, dealing him one of the most significant political setbacks of his eight years in office.
    The lower house of Parliament voted 322 to 291 against a proposal to allow suspects in terrorism cases to be held for as many as 90 days without charge, up from the current 14. It was Blair’s first loss in a major vote in that house since he (…)

  • GOP memo touts new terror attack as way to reverse party’s decline
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By DOUG THOMPSON
    A confidential memo circulating among senior Republican leaders suggests that a new attack by terrorists on U.S. soil could reverse the sagging fortunes of President George W. Bush as well as the GOP and "restore his image as a leader of the American people."
    The closely-guarded memo lays out a list of scenarios to bring the Republican party back from the political brink, including a devastating attack by terrorists that could “validate” the President’s war on terror and (…)

  • Blair wins historic victory as new UK anti-terror laws are approved
    10 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The British regime achieved a major victory in parliament yesterday, successfully passing a new anti-terror bill containing an extensive package of new and increased powers for the authorities and new and increased restrictions on the public.
    Unfortunately, few ordinary people in the UK are aware of the changes approved yesterday by their elected representatives, because to date they have been barely mentioned in the mass media. How many of them can you list? One of the new laws approved (…)

  • Paranoia and the USA Patriot Act as used by Bushco
    9 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I’ll just bet J. Edgar Hoover would be so envious with all of this high tech ability at our leader’s finger tips!! To snoop in anyone’s life THEY (Big Brother) desires.
    Bush Leagues
    White House keeps dossiers on more than 10,000 ’political enemies’
    By DOUG THOMPSON
    Spurred by paranoia and aided by the USA Patriot Act, the Bush Administration has compiled dossiers on more than 10,000 Americans it considers political enemies and uses those files to wage war on those who disagree with (…)

  • The FBI’s Secret Scrutiny : in Hunt for Terrorists, Bureau Examines Records of Ordinary Americans
    7 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Barton Gellman
    The FBI came calling in Windsor, Conn., this summer with a document marked for delivery by hand. On Matianuk Avenue, across from the tennis courts, two special agents found their man. They gave George Christian the letter, which warned him to tell no one, ever, what it said.
    Under the shield and stars of the FBI crest, the letter directed Christian to surrender "all subscriber information, billing information and access logs of any person" who used a specific computer (…)

  • The Consequences of Covering Up Washington Post withholds info on secret prisons at government request
    6 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On November 2, the Washington Post carried an explosive front-page story about secret Eastern European prisons set up by the CIA for the interrogation of terrorism suspects. While the Post article, by reporter Dana Priest, gave readers plenty of details, it also withheld the most crucial information—the location of these secret prisons—at the request of government officials.
    According to the Post, virtually nothing is known about these so-called "black sites," which would be illegal in the (…)

  • Republicans Still Keeping Secret Evidence Administration Used Reports They Knew Were False to Bring US to War
    6 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Rob Kall
    The US has been staying in a war for more than a year since senate Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee bottled up information that showed the administration knew that evidence they cited as reasons to go to war was provided by a source who was known to "fabricate" bogus information.
    The NY Times reports Bush, Cheney, Powell, and other administration officials repeatedly cited known dissembler’s information as “credible’’ evidence that Iraq was training Al Qaeda (…)

  • Drifting towards a Police State
    6 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid the terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America’s enemies and pause to America’s friends" — Former Attorney General John Ashcroft
    Did you know that under the terms of the new Patriot Act prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty in cases where "defendants gave financial support to umbrella organizations without (…)