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  • World Tribunal on Iraq : Final Declaration of the Jury of Conscience
    1 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WORLD TRIBUNAL ON IRAQ � ISTANBUL 23RD -27TH JUNE 2005
    27th June 2005, Istanbul
    In February 2003, weeks before an illegal war was initiated against Iraq, millions of people protested in the streets of the world. That call went unheeded. No international institution had the courage or conscience to stand up to the threat of aggression of the US and UK governments. No one could stop them. It is two years later now. Iraq has been invaded, occupied, and devastated. The attack on Iraq is an (…)

  • KARL ROVE and VARIOUS SPIES HE IS LINKED TO
    1 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    author: Clayton Hallmark
    Karl Rove’s only full-time foreign-policy advisor is Michael Ledeen, a rabid anti-Arab, pro-Israel activist. The FBI is investigating Ledeen for procuring forged documents (shown here) on nonexistent WMD, which George Bush used to justify his war on Iraq. When Joseph Wilson exposed the farce, Rove helped "out" Wilson’s CIA wife. Did Ledeen procure the documents for Rove, and how might he have done that? The story includes multinational stool pigeon Rocco Martino, (…)

  • Iraq War - Timeline on Fixed Facts Around the Policy
    1 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    At the very first National Security Council meeting of the Bush administration held on January 30, 2001, according to then Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill:
    "From the very beginning, there was a conviction, that Saddam Hussein was a bad person and that he needed to go...ten days after the inauguration."
    That tone had set the new administration’s secret policy - to invade Iraq intentionally and unconditionally.
    As the Bush administration embroils in scandal after scandal, it’s obvious (…)

  • Disengagement’s Foreplay
    1 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Disengagement’s Foreplay
    by Ran HaCohen
    Historic days in Israel: a showdown between the government and the settlers. Though the sides do negotiate behind the scenes, this time it does not look like the cat-and-mouse games for the media a few years ago, Prime Minister Barak’s favorite dissimulation, when a few settlers were filmed dragged from some unmanned West Bank outpost after signing a confidential agreement with the government assuring their return once the cameras were gone. This (…)

  • Senior officer linked to killing of Palestinian youth gets promoted
    1 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Senior officer linked to killing of Palestinian youth gets promoted
    By Amos Harel
    Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Dan Halutz on Sunday authorized the promotion of a senior officer who was reprimanded for his role in an incident in which a Palestinian teenager was killed near the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
    Lieutenant Colonel Adam Zussman, who is currently serving as a battalion commander, will be appointed as a brigade commander in the Southern Command and promoted (…)

  • Neck deep in the Big Muddy
    31 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    BY ANDREW GREELEY
    The Big Muddy is deeper and darker. Two Pentagon reports this week show just how muddy. In a survey of the morale of soldiers in Iraq, the Pentagon found that more than half said that morale in their units was either "low" or "very low." Morale was especially low, as one would have expected, among the National Guard and Reserve units. Only half of them said they had "real confidence" in their ability to carry out their mission, probably because they were not trained for (…)

  • Exclusive: Secret Memo-Send to Be Tortured
    31 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Michael Isikoff
    Aug. 8, 2005 issue - An FBI agent warned superiors in a memo three years ago that U.S. officials who discussed plans to ship terror suspects to foreign nations that practice torture could be prosecuted for conspiring to violate U.S. law, according to a copy of the memo obtained by NEWSWEEK. The strongly worded memo, written by an FBI supervisor then assigned to Guantanamo, is the latest in a series of documents that have recently surfaced reflecting unease among some (…)

  • The U.S. Congress Sends Mixed Message On Indonesian Military
    31 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The U.S. Congress Sends Mixed Message On Indonesian Military
    by Brian McAfee
    The U.S. Senate voted against giving the human rights abuses countering the House’s vote to reinstate funding and training for the Indonesian military.
    President George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice had been pushing for a full restoration of all military ties to Indonesia because of the ongoing terrorist threat but the persistence of human rights abuses and the corrupt nature of the Indonesian military and (…)

  • Vatican in terror dispute with Israel
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Vatican in terror dispute with Israel
    John Hooper in Rome and Chris McGreal in Jerusalem
    Pope Benedict XVI was yesterday immersed in the first big diplomatic crisis of his papacy after the Vatican issued an unusually blunt statement criticising Israel for its response to Palestinian attacks.
    The Vatican’s stinging rebuke came after Israel demanded to know why the Pope did not refer to a Palestinian suicide bombing in remarks he made on Sunday condemning terrorist attacks in London and (…)

  • Judy Miller: Do We Want To Know Everything or Don’t We?
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Judy Miller: Do We Want To Know Everything or Don’t We?
    by Arianna Huffington
    Not everyone in the Times building is on the same page when it comes to Judy Miller. The official story the paper is sticking to is that Miller is a heroic martyr, sacrificing her freedom in the name of journalistic integrity.
    But a very different scenario is being floated in the halls. Here it is: It’s July 6, 2003, and Joe Wilson’s now famous op-ed piece appears in the Times, raising the idea that the Bush (…)