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  • Ex-Governor Elected to Afghan Parliament
    19 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By AMIR SHAH
    KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A former regional governor who oversaw the destruction of two massive 1,500-year-old Buddha statues during the Taliban’s reign was elected to the Afghan parliament last month, officials said Tuesday as results from two provinces were finalized.
    Elsewhere, U.S.-led coalition forces killed four police officers after mistaking them for militants during an operation in the southern province of Kandahar, provincial Gov. Asadullah Khalid said. The (…)

  • Haliburton’s New Low In Treachery
    19 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Monday, October 17, 2005 by the Madison Capital Times (Wisconsin) Halliburton’s New Low in Treachery by Dave Zweifel
    The Chicago Tribune produced an incredible story last week detailing how unsuspecting young men from poor countries are tricked into working in dangerous jobs for a Halliburton subsidiary in Iraq.
    The two-part series retraced the journey of a group of Nepalese men who were lured to the Mideast with fraudulent paperwork that promised them jobs at a luxury hotel (…)

  • REVEALED: IDENTITY OF INTERNATIONAL FIGURE IN COURT CASE INVOLVING WAR CRIMES PROSECUTION
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    REVEALED: IDENTITY OF INTERNATIONAL FIGURE IN COURT CASE INVOLVING WAR CRIMES PROSECUTION
    World Exclusive:
    Regarding CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS’ October 14, 2005 EXCLUSIVE PRESS RELEASE:
    COURT CASE INVOLVING WAR CRIMES PROSECUTION
    Full story at:
    http://www.livejournal.com/users/mparent7777/3651786.html October 18, 2005
    Publication ban lifted on alleged war criminal
    The lawyer bringing forward a war crime charge of torture against a world leader has (…)

  • Why can’t the left face the Stolen Elections of 2004 & 2008?
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
    If some of its key publications are any indicator, much of the American left seems unable to face the reality that the election of 2004 was stolen. So in all likelihood, unless something radical is done, 2008 will be too.
    Misguided and misinformed articles in both TomPaine.com and Mother Jones Magazine indicate a dangerous inability to face the reality that these stolen elections mean nothing less than the death of what’s left of American democracy, (…)

  • Victory for Terrorism at the University of Oklahoma
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    [Part of the text was accidentally deleted in the earlier attempt to post this commentary, so please ignore it.] Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma USA mpwright9@aol.com The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation defines terrorism as the" unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives. " The fear level has certainly been raised at the (…)

  • Money for Nothing
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Billions of dollars have disappeared, gone to bribe Iraqis and line contractors’ pockets.
    by Philip Giraldi
    The United States invaded Iraq with a high-minded mission: destroy dangerous weapons, bring democracy, and trigger a wave of reform across the Middle East. None of these have happened.
    When the final page is written on America’s catastrophic imperial venture, one word will dominate the explanation of U.S. failure-corruption. Large-scale and pervasive corruption meant that (…)

  • No oversight of how more than $140 billion is being spent in
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - The chief Pentagon agency in charge of investigating and reporting fraud and waste in Defense Department spending in Iraq quietly pulled out of the war zone a year ago - leaving what experts say are gaps in the oversight of how more than $140 billion is being spent.
    The Defense Department’s inspector general sent auditors into Iraq when the war started more than two years ago to ensure that taxpayers were getting their money’s worth for everything from bullets to (…)

  • Bush to Blair: First Iraq, then Saudi
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    George Bush told the Prime Minister two months before the invasion of Iraq that Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran and North Korea may also be dealt with over weapons of mass destruction, a top secret Downing Street memo shows.
    The US President told Tony Blair, in a secret telephone conversation in January 2003 that he "wanted to go beyond Iraq".
    He implied that the military action against Saddam Hussein was only a first step in the battle against WMD proliferation in a series of countries. (…)

  • THE IRAQI CONSTITUTION: A Referendum for Disaster
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Phyllis Bennis The constitutional process culminating in Saturday’s referendum is not a sign of Iraqi sovereignty and democracy taking hold, but rather a consolidation of U.S. influence and control. Whether Iraq’s draft constitution is approved or rejected, the decision is likely to make the current situation worse. The ratification process reflects U.S., not Iraqi urgency, and is resulting in a vote in which most Iraqis have not even seen the draft, and amendments are being reopened and (…)

  • It’s Bush-Cheney, Not Rove-Libby
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By FRANK RICH
    There hasn’t been anything like it since Martha Stewart fended off questions about her stock-trading scandal by manically chopping cabbage on "The Early Show" on CBS. Last week the setting was "Today" on NBC, where the image of President Bush manically hammering nails at a Habitat for Humanity construction site on the Gulf Coast was juggled with the sight of him trying to duck Matt Lauer’s questions about Karl Rove.
    As with Ms. Stewart, Mr. Bush’s paroxysm of panic was (…)