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  • Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena : US troops fired on the convoy transporting her
    5 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena, earlier reported released in Iraq, was wounded when US troops fired on the convoy transporting her, her newspaper said.
    Freed Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena was wounded when US troops opened fire on a convoy carrying her to safety, and an Italian mediator who help negotiate her release was killed, her newspaper Il Manifesto said on Friday.
    "She was going in a car to the airport with three people from the Italian security forces. US forces opened (…)

  • Maximum pain aim of new U.S. weapon
    4 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by David Hambling
    The US military is funding development of a weapon that delivers a bout of excruciating pain from up to 2 kilometres away. Intended for use against rioters, it is meant to leave victims unharmed. But pain researchers are furious that work aimed at controlling pain has been used to develop a weapon. And they fear that the technology will be used for torture.
    "I am deeply concerned about the ethical aspects of this research," says Andrew Rice, a consultant in pain (…)

  • US display marks 1,500 war dead
    3 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Portraits of nearly all of the 1,500 US troops killed in Iraq are going on display at a New York state university.
    The pictures, mostly painted by art students, stare down from a 60m (200ft) wall at Syracuse University.
    "It’s not about the war or politics. It’s about these people who have given their lives," said Stephen Zaima, a professor at the university.
    According to AP news agency, the number of US servicemen and women killed in Iraq reached 1,500 on Thursday.
    However, domestic (…)

  • Fundy Insecurity Undermines National Security
    3 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    Imagine a Middle Eastern terror cell infiltrating the United States with a plot to blow up the nation’s capital with a crude nuclear device stashed in a suitcase. If the terrorists succeed, hundreds of thousands of Americans would be annihilated.
    In a desperate attempt to stop the horrific plot, military specialists pour over Arabic "chatter" looking for specific leads. Unfortunately, there are hundreds of hours of tape and very few Arabic specialists to decipher the (…)

  • ACLU and Human Rights First Sue Defense Secretary Rumsfeld Over U.S. Torture Policies
    3 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld bears direct responsibility for the torture and abuse of detainees in U.S. military custody, the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights First charged today in the first federal court lawsuit to name a top U.S. official in the ongoing torture scandal in Iraq and Afghanistan that has tarnished America’s reputation.
    The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Illinois on behalf of eight men who were subject to torture and abuse at the (…)

  • Man Tasered, Arrested for not providing evidence of salad purchase at Chuck E Cheese
    2 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dad Accused Of Chuck E. Cheese Salad Theft Zapped By Police Aurora Police Say Proper Procedures Followed
    AURORA, Colo. — Aurora police have reviewed a weekend incident in which a man accused of stealing salad from a Chuck E. Cheese salad bar was hit with a stun gun twice by officers and said that proper procedures were followed.
    The incident began at 4:05 p.m. Sunday when officers were called to the restaurant on a report of a larceny in progress.
    Police talked to the Chuck E. Cheese (…)

  • Artists Break With Industry on File Sharing
    2 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    A prominent group of musicians and artists, breaking with colleagues and the major entertainment studios, is urging the Supreme Court not to hold online file-sharing services responsible for the acts of users who illegally trade songs, movies and software.
    by Jonathan Krim
    The group, which includes representatives of Steve Winwood, rapper Chuck D and the band Heart, said in court papers to be filed today that it condemns the stealing of copyrighted works. But it argues that popular (…)

  • Custer Battles: Justice Dept. won’t Intervene to Reclaim Millions From Military Contractor in Iraq
    2 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    A U.S. military contractor in Iraq is at the center of a controversy over how American-forces disbursed and accounted for hundreds of millions of dollars in Iraq.
    The firm, Custer Battles is being charged in a lawsuit of defrauding the Coalition Provisional Authority of tens of millions of dollars during work in Iraq, which included securing Baghdad International Airport.
    Two former employees sued the company last year under the False Claims Act, seeking to recover damages on behalf of (…)

  • US Soldier Deaths have more than Doubled over 2004
    2 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ben Frank
    In the first two months of 2005 US casualties in Iraq have more than doubled over the first two months of 2004.
    If this pattern continues, more than 100 US troops will die next month, and more than 200 will die in April.
    The Question of the Day is:
    Why does the United States continue to send young Americans and billions of dollars to Iraq? Are US soldiers really ’spreading freedom’ ... or is this about oil and strategic positioning via the 14 ’enduring bases’ the US is (…)

  • The Man Who Fought for the Forgotten
    1 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Peter Benenson 1921-2005 Founder of Amnesty International
    by Antony Barnett
    There are not many newspaper articles that can genuinely claim to have changed the world for the better. But on Sunday, 28 May 1961, The Observer published a campaigning piece on the front of its Weekend Review section.
    The article was entitled ’The Forgotten Prisoners’ and it was by Peter Benenson, a 33-year old Eton-educated London lawyer.
    Benenson had been angered after learning about two Portuguese (…)