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  • Dutch Occupation Forces To Leave Iraq Mid-March
    18 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dutch Occupation Forces To Leave Iraq Mid-March Arjan El Fassed, Electronic Iraq 17 January 2005 Dutch ministers have decided against a gradual withdrawal of the nation’s peacekeeping troops from Iraq and the mission will end as planned mid-March, it was reported on Monday.
    The Netherlands will pull its soldiers out of Iraq on March 15, Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende confirmed after meeting today with his foreign and defense ministers Ben Bot and Henk Kamp.
    Prime Minister (…)

  • Decorated US Marine brings "Fallujah" back to his hometown
    17 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mexican-American marine who did not want to return to Iraq, kills cop and is killed in shootout
    AVI video clip of first part of the shootout
    by Ernesto Cienfuegos
    Los Angeles, Alta California, January 11, 2005 - (ACN) A US Marine of Mexican descent home for the holidays from Fallujah, Iraq decided to wage battle yesterday against his own hometown police department of Ceres, California rather than return to Iraq to kill innocent Iraqi civilians. Nineteen year old Andres Raya, a (…)

  • Defying Pentagon Ban, La. Guard Unit Allows Footage of Returning Coffins
    17 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By E&P Staff
    NEW YORK The Pentagon ban on newspaper and TV images of coffins returning from Iraq suffered an unexpected jolt in Louisiana yesterday.
    A Louisiana National Guard unit defied a Pentagon request to prevent television news crews from filming six flag-draped soldiers’ coffins arriving in the state following the men’s deaths in Iraq last week, according to a report by CBS News.
    The Louisiana National Guard allowed a CBS crew to film the arrival of six soldiers’ coffins at (…)

  • Jan. 20 media coverage & more updates
    17 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    January 20 Update:
    Media coverage from NYTimes, NPR, AP & Reuters (see below)
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    "On inauguration day Pennsylvania Avenue is where the action is" was the lead of the January 13 Morning Edition on National Public Radio. The NPR news story is among hundreds covering plans for the (…)

  • Torture Scandal: High level officers encouraged mistreatment of detainees
    17 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    FORT HOOD, Tex., Jan. 16 - The Army reservist accused of being the ringleader of the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison failed to convince a jury he was following orders when he mistreated detainees, but higher-ranked officers still may be prosecuted, military officials and lawyers for the officers say.
    The reservist, Specialist Charles A. Graner Jr., who was sentenced here on Saturday to 10 years in prison, could offer no witnesses or evidence to prove that higher-ups authorized the treatment (…)

  • Bush Says Election Ratified Iraq Policy
    17 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jim VandeHei and Michael A. Fletcher
    President Bush said the public’s decision to reelect him was a ratification of his approach toward Iraq and that there was no reason to hold any administration officials accountable for mistakes or misjudgments in prewar planning or managing the violent aftermath.
    "We had an accountability moment, and that’s called the 2004 elections," Bush said in an interview with The Washington Post. "The American people listened to different assessments made (…)

  • US To Try 20 More Troops For Iraq Abuse
    17 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Suzanne Goldenberg
    The Pentagon plans to put at least 20 more US troops before military courts for abuse of detainees in the wake of last week’s high profile trial of the ringleader in the Abu Ghraib scandal, military spokesmen said yesterday.
    The various prosecutions of soldiers accused of mistreating and, in some cases, murdering detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay have been in the works for months, but have been largely overshadowed by the trial of the man who became (…)

  • Prez Never Has To Say He’s Sorry
    17 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Prez Never Has To Say He’s Sorry Michael Harris January 14, 2005 Quit his anchor job over a bad story call? I think Dan would rather not. But he did.
    Quit his job over a war launched by a fiction? It wouldn’t cross Dubya’s mind. And he won’t.
    Accountability in journalism, none in the barnyards of power.
    This week even the looniest of neo-cons and chicken hawks that surround this bellicose president finally gave up on the weapons of mass destruction whopper that has cost thousands (…)

  • Did Expatriate and SoldierVote Get LEFT BeHind?
    17 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    corporate dominance | election fraud | human & civil rights
    Scandal: Did Expatriate & SoldierVote COUNT?
    author: CultureJamCleveland U.S. CitiZeNs; ON The FrontLines Of Int. Relations- DID Expat. & SoldierVote get Left Behind?
    A Pivotal, Hotly contested ’election of a lifetime’ spurring Worldwide interest saw OverSeas Voters registration increase fourfold as these Americans are the Country’s spokespeople, and best face forward. Recalcitrant insistence on conflict (…)

  • Eddy around American Undercover mission in Iran
    17 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    According to a report of the American star reporter US special-purpose forces penetrated and identify Seymour Hersh secretly into Iran goals for a possible attack. The white house disclaims and says, the report is "full inaccuracies".
    Berlin - the US journalist Seymour Hersh is famous for his searches: From the My-Lai-massacre during the Viet Nam war up to the Folterorgie in Abu Ghureib the reporter scandals uncovered, which shook the American society.
    In the newest expenditure of the (…)