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  • Justice for Abu Ghraib? U.S. on Trial
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The conviction of Specialist Charles Graner for atrocities committed at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is a first step toward accountability for the detainee abuse scandal, but it must not be the end of the process.
    Each passing day brings new evidence that the mistreatment of Muslim prisoners - far from being an isolated incident at Abu Ghraib - was widespread in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Detainees in Afghanistan were frequently beaten, held naked and deprived of sleep for (…)

  • US Official Confirms Allawi Shot Six Dead
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    A former Jordanian government minister has told The New Yorker that an American official confirmed to him that the Iraqi interim Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, executed six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police station last year.
    The claim is in an extensive profile of Dr Allawi written for this week’s issue of the magazine by an American journalist, Jon Lee Anderson, the author of The Fall of Baghdad and a regular Baghdad correspondent for The New Yorker.
    Writing about his research in (…)

  • US And Congress Knew Saddam Was Smuggling Oil
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    US And Congress Knew Saddam Was Smuggling Oil Mark Turner in New York January 19 2005 The Clinton and Bush administrations not only knew but told the US Congress that Iraq was smuggling oil to Turkey and Jordan, and in both cases recommended continuing military and financial aid to countries seen as important allies. Recent revelations that Saddam Hussein was able to raise billions of dollars in illicit revenue in defiance of international sanctions have prompted savage criticism of (…)

  • Majority of Americans disapprove Bush’s Iraq policy— Where is his mandate?
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON — Despite President George W. Bush’s belief that by reelecting him Americans expressed support for the war on Iraq, two opinion polls published Tuesday showed the opposite: the majority think the war was a mistake and disapprove of the way he is handling things in Iraq.
    Shortly before Bush’s inauguration for his second term in office, and after he said in an interview that the 2004 election result proved that electorate approved of his handling of the war, a Washington Post/ABC (…)

  • The Other, Man Made Tsunami
    18 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    THE OTHER, MAN-MADE TSUNAMI
    The west’s crusaders, the United States and Britain, are giving less to help the tsunami victims than the cost of a Stealth bomber or a week’s bloody occupation of Iraq. The bill for George Bush’s coming inauguration party would rebuild much of the coastline of Sri Lanka. Bush and Blair increased their first driblets of "aid" only when it became clear that people all over the world were spontaneously giving millions and a public relations problem beckoned. The (…)

  • No Evidence WMDs Were Moved From Iraq: Officials
    18 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    No Evidence WMDs Were Moved From Iraq: Officials January 17, 2005
    WASHINGTON (AP) - As the hunt for weapons of mass destruction dragged on unsuccessfully in Iraq, top U.S. administration officials speculated publicly that the banned armaments may have been smuggled out of the country before the war started.
    Whether Saddam Hussein moved deadly chemical, biological or radiological arms is one of the unresolved issues that the final U.S. intelligence report on Iraq’s programs is expected to (…)

  • Dutch Occupation Forces To Leave Iraq Mid-March
    18 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dutch Occupation Forces To Leave Iraq Mid-March Arjan El Fassed, Electronic Iraq 17 January 2005 Dutch ministers have decided against a gradual withdrawal of the nation’s peacekeeping troops from Iraq and the mission will end as planned mid-March, it was reported on Monday.
    The Netherlands will pull its soldiers out of Iraq on March 15, Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende confirmed after meeting today with his foreign and defense ministers Ben Bot and Henk Kamp.
    Prime Minister (…)

  • Decorated US Marine brings "Fallujah" back to his hometown
    17 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mexican-American marine who did not want to return to Iraq, kills cop and is killed in shootout
    AVI video clip of first part of the shootout
    by Ernesto Cienfuegos
    Los Angeles, Alta California, January 11, 2005 - (ACN) A US Marine of Mexican descent home for the holidays from Fallujah, Iraq decided to wage battle yesterday against his own hometown police department of Ceres, California rather than return to Iraq to kill innocent Iraqi civilians. Nineteen year old Andres Raya, a (…)

  • Defying Pentagon Ban, La. Guard Unit Allows Footage of Returning Coffins
    17 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By E&P Staff
    NEW YORK The Pentagon ban on newspaper and TV images of coffins returning from Iraq suffered an unexpected jolt in Louisiana yesterday.
    A Louisiana National Guard unit defied a Pentagon request to prevent television news crews from filming six flag-draped soldiers’ coffins arriving in the state following the men’s deaths in Iraq last week, according to a report by CBS News.
    The Louisiana National Guard allowed a CBS crew to film the arrival of six soldiers’ coffins at (…)

  • Jan. 20 media coverage & more updates
    17 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    January 20 Update:
    Media coverage from NYTimes, NPR, AP & Reuters (see below)
    Funds needed for bleachers, sound, stage & more
    Spread the word about antiwar bleachers at 4th St. & Pennsylvania Ave. NW!
    Please share the following articles from the mass media with your friends.
    "On inauguration day Pennsylvania Avenue is where the action is" was the lead of the January 13 Morning Edition on National Public Radio. The NPR news story is among hundreds covering plans for the (…)