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  • Iraqi Prisoners claim US soldiers still committing abuse at Camp Bucca
    12 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    BAGHDAD, February 8 (IslamOnline.net) - The US occupation forces in Iraq are abusing Iraqi detainees and tearing up the Noble Qur’an, according to a message on a piece of cloth Iraqi detainees in the US-administrated Bucca detention camp in southern Iraq managed to sneak outside.
    The message also presented another version of events leading up to the killing of four Iraqi detainees by US forces at the camp on the eve of January 30 controversial elections, an incident that also left six (…)

  • In 2001 the FAA issued 52 warnings, including CD-ROM to airports mentioning Suicide Hijackings
    12 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    America’s aviation authority received numerous warnings about al-Qaeda attacks in the six months before 9/11, including five that mentioned hijackings and two that mentioned suicide operations, it has emerged.
    A previously published report by the commission set up to investigate the September 11 attacks on the United States reveals that the US Federal Aviation Authority received 52 intelligence reports on al-Qaeda between April and September 2001.
    The 911 Commission report criticises the (…)

  • Letter eMailed to a European Newspaper!
    12 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I am an American. World War II taught the world that all individual Germans were responsible for the crimes of Hitler and his henchmen - and every individual American is responsible for the crimes of Bush and his henchmen;
    therefore, I am responsible for war crimes committed by George Bush, and all of George Bush’s mobsters, regardless of my having voted against him and all Republicans and all that they represent. Since Germany refuses to accept responsibility for prosecution of American (…)

  • Waxman Calls for Hearings on 52 FAA warnings before 9/11, Qs Condi’s competence
    11 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON — February 10 — Today Rep. Waxman and Rep. Maloney ask for hearings on whether political considerations caused the Administration to delay release of findings by the 9/11 Commission about pre-attack warnings. The text of the letter follows:
    The Honorable Tom Davis Chairman Committee on Government Reform U.S. House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515
    Dear Mr. Chairman:
    We are writing to request that our Committee hold hearings to investigate two extremely serious (…)

  • Kucinich: Proposed Social Security price indexing would slash benefits
    10 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Social Security’s “Sleeper Issue”: Price Indexing Exposed By Kucinich
    Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) today brought forth a new case against the Administration’s so-called Social Security reform plan by exposing the precipitous drop in future retiree benefits implicit in the Administration plan to switch from wage indexing to price indexing.
    In a speech this morning on the House floor, Kucinich said:
    “Social Security benefits have increased over the years because they long have (…)

  • US authorities warned of SUICIDE hijackings before 9/11
    10 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (Xinhuanet) — US federal aviation authoritieswere warned of possible airline hijackings and suicide operations in dozens of intelligence reports in the months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a previously undisclosed report from the Sept. 11 commission showed.
    Federal aviation officials reviewed dozens of intelligence reports that warned about Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, some of which specifically discussed airline hijackings and suicide operations, The New (…)

  • The Clinton Syndrome
    10 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Real-life events of the more or less recent past, could read like a super-hyped fiction book. The problem? Big-time book publishers are not inclined to tell the factual truth about the murder of JFK and a lot of other happenings.
    Why? Simple.. The publishing cartel, made up of just a few handfuls of mega-corporations, like the rest of the oil-soaked, spy-riddled monopoly press, is not inclined to disturb the well-planted fairy tales of our era.
    This non-fiction story could begin at the (…)

  • Billions $ for WAR, Cuts for the POOR
    10 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    GEORGE W. BUSH’S budget proposal will impose deep cuts in domestic spending, while showering money on the military and homeland security.
    Bush claimed that his principle in deciding on the cuts was that “a taxpayer dollar must be spent wisely, or not at all.” To judge from a budget that will reduce or eliminate funding for some 150 government programs, the administration must think that it’s “unwise” to spend anything on helping the poor or vulnerable in U.S. society.
    “A cut of this (…)

  • Manufacturing Democracy in Iraq
    10 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Manufacturing “democracy”
    THE NEW York Times reported that the U.S. government was touting the elections as a success. “United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout,” read the Times story, despite a “terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting.”
    Those words could have come from any Times article about Iraq’s elections on January 30. In fact, they were written in 1967, after a presidential vote in South Vietnam, where the U.S. was at war against the (…)

  • Forget The UN. The US Occupation Regime Helped Itself To $8.8b Of Mostly Iraqi Money In Just 14 Mnts
    10 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Fraud And Corruption: Forget The UN. The US Occupation Regime Helped Itself To $8.8b Of Mostly Iraqi Money In Just 14 Months George Monbiot Tuesday February 8, 2005
    The Republican senators who have devoted their careers to mauling the United Nations are seldom accused of shyness. But they went strangely quiet on Thursday. Henry Hyde became Henry Jekyll. Norm Coleman’s mustard turned to honey. Convinced that the UN is a conspiracy against the sovereignty of the United States, they had (…)