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  • With Hand on Heart: Pelosi Admits Israel Comes First
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I think it is finally time we stood up and thanked Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the darling Democrat from the Bay Area who leads her party in the House. Pelosi’s recent speech to the Israel-American lobby AIPAC, the second largest lobby in Washington, was monumental - truly unparalleled in its candor.
    Despite the fact that AIPAC was recently busted for spying on the United States, Pelosi, along with many other top bureaucrats from Washington, gushed effusions of praise on the foreign power. "There (…)

  • Pentagon Analyst to Plead Guilty to Leak
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By MATTHEW BARAKAT The Associated Press Thursday, September 29, 2005; 12:33 PM
    ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A Pentagon analyst charged with providing classified information to an Israeli official and members of a pro-Israeli lobbying group will plead guilty, according to the U.S. District Court clerk’s office.
    Lawrence A. Franklin, 58, of Kearneysville, W.Va., was indicted in June on charges of leaking classified materials _ including information about potential attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq _ to (…)

  • We Are All Torturers Now: WHO DID YOU TORTURE DURING THE WAR, DADDY?
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ted Rall
    Or, We Are All Torturers Now
    NEW YORK—Never miss the Saturday paper. Because it’s the skimpiest and least-circulated edition of the week, it’s the venue of choice for lowballing the stories the government can’t completely cover up. September 24’s New York Times, for example, contained the bombshell revelation that the U.S. government continues to torture innocent men, women and children in Iraq.
    An army captain and two sergeants from the elite 82nd Airborne Division confirm (…)

  • Key Player in Torture Scandal Nominated to No. 2 Post at Justice Department
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Key Player in Torture Scandal Nominated to No. 2 Post at Justice Department; ACLU Expresses Deep Concern With Embattled Appointee
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Media@dcaclu.org
    WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union today expressed deep concern that Timothy Flanigan, who served as deputy to then White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, is being considered by the Senate Judiciary Committee to be deputy attorney general. The committee is scheduled to vote on his confirmation (…)

  • Judge Orders Release of Abu Ghraib Photos
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Judge Orders Release of Abu Ghraib Photos
    By LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press Writer 9 minutes ago
    Saying the United States "does not surrender to blackmail," a judge ruled Thursday that pictures of detainee abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison must be released over government claims that they could damage America’s image.
    U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein ordered the release of certain pictures in a 50-page decision that said terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan have proven they (…)

  • US forces ’out of control’, says Reuters chief
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Julia Day Wednesday September 28, 2005
    Reuters has told the US government that American forces’ conduct towards journalists in Iraq is "spiralling out of control" and preventing full coverage of the war reaching the public.
    The detention and accidental shootings of journalists is limiting how journalists can operate, wrote David Schlesinger, the Reuters global managing editor, in a letter to Senator John Warner, head of the armed services committee.
    The Reuters news service chief (…)

  • The verdict on Lynndie England, A major abuse and a minor sentence !
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The verdict on Lynndie England, A major abuse and a minor sentence !
    After more than a year of investigations and discussions by American Courts, the verdict by a military court has come to sentence Lynndie England to 3 years of imprisonment. The photos which have been disclosed about Lynndie have shown torture, sexual assault and humiliation of Iraqi detainee in Abu-Graib Prison. The pictures only show part of the suffering of those innocent detainee and only God knows what they have (…)

  • American soldiers killing Iraqis and disgrace the dead on a porn site.
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Support the troops they commit attrocities and publish the results on a porn site: click While the military proclaims there is nothing wrong to do so! here a few examples! We ask for forgiveness because we publish this only for documentation. Those who died needless - in the name of false propaganda: American freedom and democracy. Americans! Ask yourself why you carry stickers on your cars like: support our troops, or May God bless our troops.
    Only barbarians would support such (…)

  • The buck stops with Lynndie
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Derrick Z. Jackson
    LYNNDIE ENGLAND is convicted. Donald Rumsfeld cackles. England, the 22-year-old private, was found guilty as prosecutors convinced an all-male Army jury that she bore full responsibility for ’’her own sick humor" in the infamous photographs of her at Abu Ghraib holding a naked prisoner on a leash and smiling as she pointed at a prisoner’s genitals.
    Defense lawyers depicted England as a depressed reservist, a mere file clerk who was compliant to authority and easy to (…)

  • British commandoes with bombs in Basra: Another Milestone in the War on Terror.
    28 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "What our police found in their car was very disturbing - weapons, explosives, and a remote control detonator. These are the weapons of terrorists. We believe these soldiers were planning an attack on a market or other civilian targets." Sheik Hassan al-Zarqani, spokesman for the Mehdi Army
    We are only interested in one thing regarding the melee that broke out in Basra following the arrest of two British commandoes on September 20: whether or not the car they were driving contained (…)