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  • Netanyahu announces his resignation from gov’t
    7 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Yossi Verter
    In a dramatic step following cabinet ratification of the first phase of the disengagement plan, Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday announced his resignation from the government, citing his opposition to the pullout.
    "We have reached the moment of truth today," Netanyahu wrote in a letter he placed on the cabinet table before abruptly leaving the ministers’ weekly session. "There is a way to achieve peace and security, but a unilateral withdrawal under fire and (…)

  • Israeli Finance Minister Netanyahu Quits
    7 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu resigned from his post Sunday to protest next week’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank, a ministry spokesman said.
    Netanyahu, seen as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s biggest political rival within the Likud Party, submitted a letter of resignation during the weekly Cabinet meeting Sunday, said the Finance Ministry spokesman, Eli Yosef. The resignation will take effect within 48 hours.
    After Netanyahu (…)

  • United States partners with terrorists ... who is the real “Evil Doer”?
    7 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    VHeadline.com guest commentarist Mary MacElveen writes: A statement made by Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman in relation to Saudi Arabia, truly boggles the mind where he said, “As the world’s largest producer and as the world’s largest consumer, our two countries have a special relationship." He then went onto say “We are, at least in certain respects, partners" ... he made these statements earlier in the year with his Saudi counterpart Ali al-Naimi.
    As we all know (…)

  • IMPEACHMENT TIME: "FACTS WERE FIXED."
    7 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Greg Palast
    Here it is. The smoking gun. The memo that has "IMPEACH HIM" written all over it.
    The top-level government memo marked "SECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL," dated eight months before Bush sent us into Iraq, following a closed meeting with the President, reads, "Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam through military action justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." (…)

  • Police, protesters clash in Iraqi town
    7 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    About 1000 protesters have clashed with Iraqi police in the town of Samawa, south of Baghdad, leaving at least one person dead and about 60 others injured, police say.
    The protest on Sunday was over the poor state of water and power supplies.
    Witnesses said police opened fire on the crowd.
    At least one person was killed and 46 civilians injured in the fighting, said Captain Hussein Manwar. Thirteen police officers were injured, he said.
    Witnesses said the demonstration in front of (…)

  • Ex-Employees Faulted Halliburton Role in Iraq
    7 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Deborah Hastings
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Others besides Bunnatine Greenhouse have testified that Halliburton, the biggest holder of American rebuilding contracts in Iraq, has deceived the government and cheated taxpayers.
    The company denies the claims.
    Rory Mayberry, who worked for Halliburton subsidiary KBR from February through April 2004, testified from Iraq, via videotape, to the Democratic Policy Committee in June.
    As a food manager at a U.S. military camp, Mayberry said he (…)

  • Suppressed footage of Hiroshima after the bomb to air on cable TV
    7 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BY SADIA LATIFI
    Knight Ridder Newspapers
    WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Sixty years after the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, a film documenting the aftermath is reminding Americans about the horrors of nuclear war.
    Footage from a U.S. government-produced film, which was labeled top secret and kept out of public view for decades, is included in "Original Child Bomb," a documentary that will air on many cable stations Saturday, the 60th anniversary of the day that Hiroshima (…)

  • The Gorilla in the Room Must Be Dealt With
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Lack of Election Reform Threatens to Make All Progress Irrelevant.
    by Anthony Wade
    August 6, 2005
    The good fight has been fought for some years now. Progress has indeed been made. There are rumblings of indictments from the Valerie Plame incident, that may exceed Karl Rove. With each passing death in Iraq a nation begins to realize that this is just not worth it, despite the bravado of Bush, a man who knows nothing about sacrifice. The Downing Street Memos are still out there, waiting (…)

  • BUSH RANTS AGAIN
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BUSH RANTS ABOUT IRAQ By Peter Fredson August 7, 2005
    NEWS ITEM: “COLOMBIA’S PRESIDENT MEETS BUSH
    “U.S. President Bush met with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez at the Bush ranch near Crawford, Texas on Thursday, August 4, 2005.”
    After a talk about democracy in Colombia, Bush was asked about the status of his Iraq war. For dramatic effect the President’s standard ranting is capitalized, while my comments are not.
    REPORTER Q: THANKS, SIR. AL QAEDA’S NUMBER TWO, DR. AL-ZAWAHIRI, (…)

  • Israeli Businessman Sentenced in Plot to Ship Nuclear Detonation Devices
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON (AP) - An Israeli businessman who conspired to ship controlled nuclear technology to Pakistan was sentenced to three years in federal prison.
    U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina on Thursday imposed the sentence on Asher Karni, who pleaded guilty last year to helping ship devices that could be used to test, develop and detonate nuclear weapons.
    Karni, who was based in South Africa, admitted routing sophisticated oscilloscopes and high-speed electrical switches through South (…)