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  • ‘Wish Lists’ Drafted by U.S. Interrogators Urged Torture of Iraqis
    21 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Apr 20 - A series of e-mail messages between Army interrogators and intelligence officers in Iraq during 2003 — in which soldiers advocated the use of brutal interrogation techniques such as low voltage electric shock and beatings with phone books — appears to have helped spawn the widespread torture and abuse of Iraqi detainees by US forces.
    The Washington Post reports that an August 2003 e-mail sent to US interrogators by Captain William Ponce, an officer at Army headquarters in Baghdad, (…)

  • THE 9/11 "MISSILE HITS THE PENTAGON" HOAX.
    21 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THE 9/11 "MISSILE HITS THE PENTAGON" HOAX.
    There has been a concerted effort to convince those that disbelieve the official 9/11 fable, to believe another, even stranger, fable. Namely, that the damage to the Pentagon was caused by a missile strike. Why the perpetrators of 9/11 want to spread this missile myth is not at all clear, as even a cursory investigation of the facts, makes it clear that it was not hit by a missile. Maybe the reason they are doing this is to tar the disbelievers (…)

  • Christian Theologian calls for response to 9/11
    20 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    David Ray Griffin asks the tough questions about Sept. 11, contending U.S. officials had some knowledge of what was coming and possibly orchestrated the attacks.
    Griffin, whose book, "The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11," came out a year ago, drew an enthusiastic standing ovation from the majority of the 400 or so people who packed his lecture Monday night at Bascom Hall.
    A retired Christian theologian, Griffin, 65, taught for more than 30 (…)

  • Iraqi Parliament demands apology after MP is assaulted at US Checkpoint
    19 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraqi deputies have demanded an official apology from Washington over the manhandling by US soldiers of an MP at a Baghdad checkpoint.
    Deputies suspended their session on Tuesday for an hour in protest against the incident involving Fatah al-Shaikh, a follower of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and member of the dominant United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) bloc, Aljazeera reported.
    They then voted unanimously on a motion demanding an official apology from the US embassy and Washington, and the (…)

  • FBI Tells 911 Rescue Worker to ’Shut Up’ Over Finding Airplane "Black Boxes."
    19 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    FBI Tells 911 Rescue Worker to ’Shut Up’ Over Finding Airplane "Black Boxes." Two ground zero workers go public about finding cockpit and flight data recorders from Flight 11 and 175. Government claims ’black boxes’ from the doomed 911 flights were never found. 911 Commission ignores information and fails to interview rescue workers. December 4, 2004
    By Greg Szymanski
    A 911 rescue worker said this week he was told by FBI agents to "keep his mouth shut" about one of the "black boxes" (…)

  • Pakistan Gets F-16s in Exchange for US Bases to Attack Iran
    19 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Kilafah.com - April 16, 2005
    The well known Israeli-based web site Debka has revealed that Pakistan’s General Musharraf had agreed to US intelligence agencies’ need for a presence in Pakistani territory for gathering intelligence on Iran’s nuclear installations and in case of a decision to mount a military operation against Tehran.
    "There are strong intimations that Musharraf has already agreed to assist America in this eventuality." the Debka-weekly-Net said in a special report on (…)

  • Does the Resistance target civilians? According to US intel, not really
    18 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    April 16, 2005 - The ceaseless demonization of Iraqis committed to ending foreign control of their country is a key ideological crutch for maintaining the American occupation. Smearing the armed resistance as a band of murderous thugs is well understood by American war planners to be a crucial part of effective counter-insurgency work. (1) Obviously, brutal and horrific attacks on Iraqi civilians have been carried out by some forces claiming to be a part of the resistance. But there is (…)

  • Arnold Schwarzenegger sued for groping and libel
    18 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    London groping case dogs governor British libel law seen as benefit to TV host’s suit
    Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s treatment of women he encountered as a movie star has largely faded from public discourse, aside from the occasional Doonesbury cartoon that depicts the governor as a giant hand addressed by reporters as Herr Gropenführer.
    But there’s one incident that refuses to go away. A British television interviewer, Anna Richardson, says Schwarzenegger pawed her during a publicity stop (…)

  • Iraqi Rebels attack US Base, 3 troops killed
    18 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THREE US soldiers were killed by mortar fire at a US base in the city of Ramadi overnight, the US military said today.
    Seven servicemen were also wounded in the attack, three of them seriously, the military said in a statement. The attackers were believed to have fled into a nearby mosque. But when Iraqi security forces searched it, they found no insurgents.
    Ramadi, about 110 km west of Baghdad, has been one of the most violent cities over the past two years, with daily attacks on US and (…)

  • Irish Times breaks silence about Bush fraud 2004
    18 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In a column entitled “Senator Frist in a fluster over Democrats filibuster” in The Irish Times (conservative/liberal Irish newspaper of record) today, the paper’s US correspondent Conor O’Clery addresses the renewed fuss brewing in the US about allegations of fraud in the presidential elections of last November.
    See excerpt below.
    I am naturally delighted that O’Clery has come good on a promise to give the matter some attention, following messages about the statistical analysis and Clint (…)