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  • Rumsfeld Scraps Visit To Germany Over Abu Ghraib War Crimes Probe
    25 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Rumsfeld Scraps Visit To Germany Over Abu Ghraib War Crimes Probe
    MUNICH - Due to Germany’s refusal to halt a law suit against him, United States Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he will not take part at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, in February, according to Expatica.
    The lawsuit, filed by the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights in December with the Federal German Prosecutor’s Office, accuses Rumsfeld of war crimes and torture in connection with (…)

  • Bush Sparred With Canadians On Missile Defence In Tense Meeting, Says Report
    25 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush Sparred With Canadians On Missile Defence In Tense Meeting, Says Report Canadian Press January 23, 2005 WASHINGTON (CP) - President George W. Bush tried to bully Canadian officials on missile defence during his visit last month by linking Canada’s participation to future protection from the U.S., the Washington Post reported Sunday.
    The newspaper quoted an unidentified Canadian official who was in the room as saying Bush waved off their attempts to explain how contentious the issue (…)

  • Gaza: An Appalling and illegal Occupation!
    24 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://newjersey.indymedia.org/feature/display/15359/index.php
    by Vincent Fischer
    Wednesday, January 19, 7 PM at the HalfKing, a Chelsea restaurant and bar, co-owner and author Journalist Scott Anderson talked about his article, “Gaza’s Apocalypse Zone” which appears in this month’s Vanity Fair. Accompanying the talk, comprised mostly of reading selected passages from the fifteen page article, was a slide show presentation of black and white photos recently taken in the Gaza Strip. (…)

  • Iraq: Water Disappears As Election Nears
    23 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraq: Water Disappears As Election Nears posted by river Saturday, January 22, 2005 It’s the third day of Eid. Eid is the Islamic holiday and usually it’s a time for families to get together, eat, drink and celebrate. Not this Eid. This Eid is unbearable. We managed a feeble gathering on the first day and no one was in a celebratory mood. There have been several explosions- some far and some near but even those aren’t as worrisome as the tension that seems to be growing on a daily basis. (…)

  • Police Hunt Poo Protesters
    23 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.ananova.com/news/story/s...
    Police Hunt Poo Protesters
    January 22, 2005
    Police in Germany are hunting pranksters who have been sticking miniature US flags into piles of dog poo in public parks.
    Josef Oettl, parks administrator for Bayreuth, said: "This has been going on for about a year now, and there must be 2,000 to 3,000 piles of excrement that have been claimed during that time."
    The series of incidents was originally thought to be some sort of protest against the (…)

  • Support Our Troops: Bring Them Home
    23 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By HOWARD ZINN
    We must withdraw our military from Iraq, the sooner the better. The reason is simple: Our presence there is a disaster for the American people and an even bigger disaster for the Iraqi people.
    It is a strange logic to declare, as so many in Washington do, that it was wrong for us to invade Iraq but right for us to remain. A recent New York Times editorial sums up the situation accurately: Some 21 months after the American invasion, United States military forces remain (…)

  • Knight Ridder Analysis Speaks Frankly: U.S. Losing in Iraq
    23 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Knight Ridder Analysis Speaks Frankly: U.S. Losing in Iraq
    Published: January 22, 2005 10:00 AM ET
    NEW YORK In a startling new analysis, Knight Ridder reporters Tom Lasseter and Jonathan S. Landay, who have done some of the best reporting on Iraq during the past two years, declare that unless something “dramatic” changes, “the United States is heading toward losing the war in Iraq.”
    The lengthy article, distributed Saturday, is based on what the reporters call an analysis of U.S. (…)

  • Why I’ll Refuse to Fight in this Immoral War
    22 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Every individual soldier has the moral right to decide whether he will put his life on the line
    By George Solomou
    Earlier this week, I came out publicly against the war in Iraq. I’m not the only member of the Labour Party to be opposed to our military participation in this American-led adventure, nor am I the only soldier. In fact, there growing vocal minority within the Territorial Army that is against the war. Nonetheless I am the first one to make it clear, in public, that if called (…)

  • What Happened To The Women Held At Abu Ghraib? The Government Isn’t Talking. But Some Of The Women A
    21 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Unusual Suspects What Happened To The Women Held At Abu Ghraib? The Government Isn’t Talking. But Some Of The Women Are Tara McKelvey Issue Date: 02.04.05 On the morning of September 24, 2003 — five weeks after the suicide bombing of a United Nations compound in Baghdad killed 23 people, including top envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello, signaling an intensified phase of Iraqi insurgency — a group of American soldiers burst into Selwa’s villa near the banks of the Tigris River in Samarra, Iraq. (…)

  • $17M slated for inaugural security would be better spent on armoring the troops
    21 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Their sons killed in Iraq, women speak out on whether $17M slated for inaugural security would be better spent on armoring the troops BY MARTIN C. EVANS STAFF WRITER
    January 20, 2005
    In November, Jeanette Urbina’s soldier son telephoned from Iraq with a simple request.
    It was cold there, Army Spc. Wilfredo F. Urbina told her. Could she send him a sweater?
    Three days later, he was dead. An explosive device had sliced into his Humvee while he was patrolling in Baghdad.
    Yesterday, (…)