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  • Everyone’s favorite Old Bat Helen Thomas took a switch to rich kid Scotty McClellan today.
    19 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Turns out we killed 18 kids in a airstrike today and Helen was trying to get some answers from our "err on the side of life" administration. Especially take a good look at Scotty’s response at the end... the lines between "us" and "them" are blurring.
    Q Dispatches from Iraq said that yesterday we killed 70 people in Iraq, near Ramadi, including 18 children. I want to know what the President thinks of that.
    MR. McCLELLAN: Well, first of all, I think you need to talk to the military, (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • The great power games in the Middle East
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    It has become almost impossible to invoke Islam or Muslims without reference to the vague and ever changing categories of moderation and extremism.
    Two years ago, the Rand Corporation, a think-tank close to decision-making circles in Washington, issued a 66-page report entitled Civil Democratic Islam: Partners & Resources, which identified three elements within the Islamic mix, "the traditionalists, the fundamentalists, the modernists and secularists".
    The document recommended a (…)

  • 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 CIA-leak case: From a notepad to jail and back
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By DON VAN NATTA JR, ADAM LIPTAK and CLIFFORD J. LEVY
    In a notebook belonging to Judith Miller, a reporter for The New York Times, amid notations about Iraq and nuclear weapons, appear two small words: "Valerie Flame." ADVERTISEMENT
    Miller should have written Valerie Plame. That name is at the core of a federal grand jury investigation that has reached deep into the White House. At issue is whether Bush administration officials leaked the identity of Plame, an undercover CIA operative, (…)

  • ARMY’S TOP ABUSE COP KILLS HIMSELF IN IRAQ
    17 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THE Army officer in charge of investigating abuse of civilians by British forces in Iraq has been found dead, it was revealed yesterday.
    Royal Military Police Captain Ken Masters, 40, is believed to have killed himself. His body was found on Saturday evening.
    An army colleague is said to have made the grim discovery in Waterloo Lines camp within the main British military base at Basra airport.
    Ministry of Defence sources said last night it is not believed Capt Masters had left a (…)

  • If George and Dick come out of this unscathed, Mr. Fitzgerald may as well have stayed in Chicago.
    17 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Well, I screwed it up real good, didn’t I?
    - Richard M. Nixon
    In a New York Times article published on Sunday, columnist Frank Rich buried the dart right in the center-black. "What matters most in this case," wrote Rich, "is not whether Mr. Rove and Lewis Libby engaged in a petty conspiracy to seek revenge on a whistle-blower, Joseph Wilson, by unmasking his wife, Valerie, a covert C.I.A. officer. What makes Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation compelling, whatever its outcome, is (…)

  • Cars stolen in US,Suicide bombers ’forced’,US/Brits caught smuggling arms: Who are the terrorists?
    17 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Cars stolen in US used in suicide attacks
    The FBI’s counterterrorism unit has launched a broad investigation of US-based theft rings after discovering some vehicles used in deadly car bombings in Iraq, including attacks that killed US troops and Iraqi civilians, were probably stolen in the United States, according to senior US Government officials.
    The FBI’s deputy assistant director for counterterrorism, Inspector John Lewis, said the investigation did not prove the vehicles were stolen (…)

  • German court declares Iraq war violated international law
    17 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Just a few weeks ago, a highly significant judicial decision was handed down by the German Federal Administrative Court but barely mentioned in the German media. With careful reasoning, the judges ruled that the assault launched by the United States and its allies against Iraq was a clear war of aggression that violated international law.
    Further, they meticulously demonstrated that the German government, in contrast to its public protestations, had assisted in the aggression against Iraq (…)