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  • Terrified US soldiers are still killing civilians with impunity, while the dead go uncounted
    24 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An American patrol roared past us with the soldiers gesturing furiously with their guns for traffic to keep back on an overpass in central Baghdad. A black car with three young men in it did not stop in time and a soldier fired several shots from his machine gun into its engine.
    The driver and his friends were not hit, but many Iraqis do not survive casual encounters with US soldiers. It is very easy to be accidentally killed in Iraq. US soldiers treat everybody as a potential suicide (…)

  • War isn’t ‘winding down’ - Resistance attacks rise in Iraq
    24 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Editor’s Note>: We agree with Feinberg’s analysis below. In addition to the successful operations by the Iraq resistance cited by him in this article, the Iraqi resistance army: brought down a U.S. military helicopter with a surface to air missile, in broad daylight in Salah ad-Din Province on Thursday (Mecca time), killing 11; killed 5 U.S. soldiers in morning car bombing in ar-Ramadi on Thursday (local time); killed 4 U.S. troops with a bomb attack in as-Saqlawiyah at noon Thursday; (…)

  • Cleaner School Bus Fuel Is a ’Breath of Fresh Air’ for Chicago Area Children
    24 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Lt. Governor Announces Chicago School Transit to Implement Soy-Based Biodiesel Fuel
    Starting today on Earth Day, many Chicago area school children will be breathing easier as they get on and off their school buses, thanks to a blended fuel that contains soybean oil.
    Chicago School Transit is the first school bus service in the Chicago Metropolitan Area to use the soy-based biodiesel fuel, which reduces the hazardous exhaust emissions by 15-20 percent. Illinois Lt. Governor Pat Quinn will (…)

  • Gas prices have some looking at used cooking oil-Biodiesel is more attractive as gas gets expensive
    24 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Spurred by rising energy prices, groups and individuals across the country are considering diving into used frying oil and local seed crops as diesel fuel.
    Among them is the Montana-based Alternative Energy Resource Organization, which is considering establishing a new cooperative to process fuel from those sources to make what’s known as biodiesel.
    AERO member Doug Crabtree said the discussions are in an early phase but similar efforts have been successful elsewhere.
    "It takes the (…)

  • U.S.: Investigate Rumsfeld, Tenet for Torture
    24 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The United States should name a special prosecutor to investigate the culpability of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and ex-CIA Director George Tenet in cases of detainee torture and abuse, Human Rights Watch said in releasing a new report today. The report, Getting Away with Torture? Command Responsibility for the U.S. Abuse of Detainees, is issued on the eve of the first anniversary of the publication of the Abu Ghraib photos (April 28). It presents substantial evidence warranting (…)

  • Howard Dean Becomes Leader of the Other Pro-War Party
    23 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dean on Iraq: “We’re There and We Can’t Get Out”
    April 21, 2005 - It didn’t take long, the former anti-war presidential candidate has now become the pro-occupation leader of the Democratic Party. Just when a majority of the public is saying the Iraq War is not worth it, Howard Dean the new leader of the Democratic Party is saying: “Now that we’re there, we’re there and we can’t get out.”
    Like the good partisan he is Dean blames Bush for a war most in his party voted for and an occupation (…)

  • Forecast Earth : Alaska Meltdown
    23 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    How is global warming affecting the Alaskan climate?
    Global warming in Alaska?
    By Dr. Heidi Cullen, Climate Expert at: The Weather Channel
    Editor’s Note: In May 2004, Dr. Heidi Cullen, climate expert at The Weather Channel, took off for Alaska to investigate the issue of global warming first hand. The following report is a portion of what she discovered.
    It’s tempting to ask: "What does Alaska have to do with global warming?" The answer is simple. When you live in a place where there (…)

  • Army Clears Top Abu Ghraib Case Officers
    23 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By ROBERT BURNS
    The Army has cleared four top officers - including the three-star general who commanded all U.S. forces in Iraq - of all allegations of wrongdoing in connection with prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, officials said Friday.
    Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who became the senior commander in Iraq in June 2003, two months after the fall of Baghdad, had been faulted in earlier investigations for leadership lapses that may have contributed to prisoner abuse. He is the highest ranking (…)

  • Iraqi Legislators Denounce Us Assault On Assembly Member
    23 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by James Cagan
    An incident on Tuesday graphically illustrated the real relationship that exists between the US military forces in Iraq and the newly-elected, so-called “sovereign” Iraqi national assembly. At a vehicle checkpoint controlling the entrance to the “Green Zone” compound where the assembly’s building is located, a US army private threw an assembly member’s identity card in his face, pulled him from his car, handcuffed him and dragged him away in front of stunned onlookers.
    The (…)

  • Marines storm ashore in Nitzanim
    23 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By ARIEH O’SULLIVAN
    Hundreds of US Marines riding hovercrafts stormed ashore the beaches of Nitzanim Wednesday as part of joint maneuvers being quietly held between the US and Israeli militaries.
    The Marines simulated an armed assault from the sea while IDF forces maneuvered inland until the two forces met.
    Military sources said the operation was code named "Kaya Green." Troops were delivered by LCVs (hovercrafts) which also unloaded Humvees.
    The Marines of the Sixth Fleet specialize (…)