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  • Botched Sgrena Hit Does Not Bode Well for Bush and Berlusconi
    6 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Newspapers across the United States are publishing and posting the same story by Frances D’Emilio on the shooting of Giuliana Sgrena and the murder of Nicola Calipari. The story is entitled “Story of Italian Hostage’s Release Unclear” and it is divided between the “circumstances” surrounding Sgrena’s release and the “friendly fire incident” that killed Calipari and wounded Sgrena. D’Emilio, however, left out a few important facts, as noted by Lew Rockwell
    “Despite the universal reprinting (…)

  • 9/11 - 1700 Sue over illness.
    6 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bravest, Finest cite work at WTC and Fresh Kills
    By MICHELLE McPHEE DAILY NEWS POLICE BUREAU CHIEF
    In a dramatic sign of escalating health problems stemming from 9/11, more than 1,700 cops and firefighters have filed lawsuits against the city claiming they were sickened by work at Ground Zero or the Fresh Kills landfill.
    To handle the unprecedented legal overload, the city’s Law Department set up a special division to tackle 9/11 claims and appointed attorney Kenneth Becker as chief of (…)

  • GannonGate
    6 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Wayne Besen
    Although George W. Bush once owned the Texas Rangers, anyone who has seen him at a press conference knows that his favorite sport is really softball. Bush’s penchant for puff helps to explain the mercurial rise and fall of “reporter” Jim Guckert, who went from working in a cyber-whorehouse to covering the White House as a “correspondent” for conservative Internet mag, Talon News.
    When not reporting conservative news, Guckert was a member of Bush’s “ownership society”. In (…)

  • Why the U.S. Must Get Out of Iraq, Pronto
    6 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Maj. General Harry Upman
    Let me say in no uncertain terms, we must get out of Iraq.
    There is nothing to gain and everything to lose in Iraq. We have lost over four thousand of our military, those who were killed in Iraq and those who died in intransit from Iraq to our hospitals in Germany and in Europe. We have had over 10,000 of our troops wounded. According to a report I heard last night on Frontline on PBS, 1 in 6 of our people coming home from Iraq need mental help.
    What have we (…)

  • US attack against Italians in Baghdad was deliberate: companion
    6 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The companion of freed Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena on Saturday leveled serious accusations at US troops who fired at her convoy as it was nearing Baghdad airport, saying the shooting had been deliberate.
    "The Americans and Italians knew about (her) car coming," Pier Scolari said on leaving Rome’s Celio military hospital where Sgrena is to undergo surgery following her return home.
    "They were 700 meters (yards) from the airport, which means that they had passed all checkpoints." (…)

  • Negative news when USA mentioned
    6 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I just finished reading three articles on this site which mentioned USAbusers and not one was positive all very much the way I have always read that country. I have mentioned many times in my life that the US will fall like the Fall of the Roman Empire, so busy trying to conquer other countrys with their riches and wars, while at home their country fell. To hear how they USAbusers shot this hostage from Italy while the person who had her freed died in her arms from a US bullet, then we have (…)

  • Voting glitches haunt statistician
    5 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Brian Joiner wishes he could "just get over it."
    He wishes he could ignore the thousands of reported voting irregularities that occurred in the Nov. 2 election, accept the fact that George W. is going to be around another four years and just hope that we haven’t created even more enemies or fallen even deeper into debt by the time 2008 rolls around.
    "I’m sure the Republicans would like me to forget all that stuff, just like they wanted everyone to forget all the strange things that (…)

  • Members of Congress Pledge Support for FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds
    5 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Members From Both Sides of the Aisle Promise to Investigate Problems at FBI After Hearing Wednesday
    WASHINGTON - Two Members of Congress promised to investigate whistleblower Sibel Edmonds’ allegations against the FBI and raised concerns over the government’s response to her case after she testified Wednesday for the first time before Congress.
    Edmonds, who was fired after exposing national security concerns at the FBI, received support from Representatives Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and (…)

  • How the CIA created Osama bin Laden
    5 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BY NORM DIXON
    "Throughout the world ... its agents, client states and satellites are on the defensive - on the moral defensive, the intellectual defensive, and the political and economic defensive. Freedom movements arise and assert themselves. They’re doing so on almost every continent populated by man - in the hills of Afghanistan, in Angola, in Kampuchea, in Central America ... [They are] freedom fighters."
    Is this a call to jihad (holy war) taken from one of Islamic fundamentalist (…)

  • Documents unearthed in whistleblower suit show how Custer Battles cashed in on Iraq
    5 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    A $33,000 food order in Mosul was billed to the U.S.-led interim government of Iraq at $432,000. Electricity that cost $74,000 was invoiced at $400,000. Even $10 kettles got a 400 percent markup.
    Documents unearthed as part of a whistleblower suit against Fairfax, Va.’s Custer Battles reveal for the first time the extent to which the defense contractor is accused of gouging the Coalition Provisional Authority, which governed Iraq following the U.S. invasion of the country in 2003.
    Among (…)