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  • The massive heist
    14 July 2004

    Looting of Iraq is theft from Iraqi and American taxpayers that, according to several new reports, dwarfs the crimes of Adelphia and Ken Lay
    By Geov Parrish
    The CEO and founder of Adelphi Communications has now been convicted of looting his company of hundreds of millions of dollars. Ken Lay has (finally) been indicted for his Enron dealings. What lesson may we learn?
    If you really want to steal a lot of money, and get away with it, skip the private sector and go with government work. (…)

  • Red Cross Fears U.S. Is Hiding Detainees
    14 July 2004

    The international Red Cross said Tuesday that it fears U.S. officials are holding terror suspects secretly in locations across the world. The Geneva Conventions on the conduct of warfare require the United States to give the Red Cross access to prisoners of war and other detainees.
    "We have access to people detained by the United States in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan and Iraq, but in our understanding there are people that are detained outside these places for which we haven’t received (…)

  • Legal Nonsense
    14 July 2004

    I love the sharp tongue of the British. A former legal adviser to the British Foreign Office has said George Bush’s war on terrorism is "legal nonsense" and confers no more power on the United States to detain people than the war against obesity.
    That’s true. The British lady, Elizabeth Wilmshurst, is quite correct, too, that the war against Iraq was illegal and thus the occupation of Iraq was/is illegal. I say "was/is" because that depends on whether you believe the fairy tale of Iraqi (…)

  • Attack on base near Samarra illustrates rebels’ organization
    14 July 2004

    By Damien McElroy
    SAMARRA, Iraq - The attack was as brazen as it was meticulously planned. Under the gaze of a former Iraqi general wearing a Saddam Hussein-era olive-green uniform, a disciplined force of former soldiers unleashed a 90-minute mortar barrage on a U.S. base on the edge of Samarra. The onslaught, witnessed on Thursday by the Sunday Telegraph, claimed the lives of five American troops and six Iraqis in the most daring raid yet by Saddam loyalists in the shrine city 60 (…)

  • Who is Naomi Klein?
    13 July 2004

    Who is the person that writes such interesting essay’s. What has Naomi done for the planet lately?

  • British spies disown Saddam weapons claims
    13 July 2004

    By Peter Fray
    British spies have reportedly disowned the intelligence that underpinned the prewar claims of the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, that Saddam Hussein presented a serious threat and had to be deposed.
    The claims come just days before a report on the reliability of Britain’s prewar intelligence is published, and as fresh claims emerge that Mr Blair considered quitting politics last month.
    Several cabinet ministers and Mr Blair’s wife, Cherie, were instrumental in talking him (…)

  • US lawyers confident of justice for Vietnamese Agent Orange victims
    13 July 2004

    HANOI :
    American lawyers representing Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange are quietly
    confident that the manufacturers of the defoliant used by US forces during the
    Vietnam War will be held to account.
    On January 30, a lawsuit against more than 30 American chemical companies was
    filed in the US Federal Court in Brooklyn, New York by the Hanoi-based Vietnam
    Association for Victims of Agent Orange.
    The suit was lodged on behalf of three adults in Vietnam and all other Vietnamese (…)

  • Life in Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, newly available documents show, would have made Satan quake
    12 July 2004

    Hell On Earth
    In October last year, Army Capt. Donald Reese visited the Abu Ghraib prison complex near Baghdad for the first time. He had plenty of reason to be there. He had just been installed as the warden of part of the prison, and as he toured cellblock 1, he was stunned to see a bunch of naked prisoners. He would later tell Army investigators: "My first reaction was, ’Wow, there [are] a lot of nude people here.’ " Army intelligence officers assured him, he testified, that "nothing (…)

  • The real intelligence failure was Blair and Bush’s
    12 July 2004

    What we think
    IN the techno-speak jargon of California’s silicon valleys, "group think" is where everyone in a project speaks the same language, has the same understanding of what a project is about and how to achieve its goals. The term’s meaning was strangely morphed last week when the Republican head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Pat Roberts, said there had been a "collective group think" which had led intelligence analysts to presume Iraq had active and growing weapons of mass (…)

  • ’Iraq’s daily death toll much higher than reported’
    12 July 2004

    No one knows how many Iraqi civilians die every day in the attacks and military errors, which have scarred the country since the US-led invasion last year. Rough tolls have been compiled, but experts say the real figure is likely much higher.
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    http://www.thedailystar.net/2004/07/12/d407121303103.htm