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As a growing number of Italian soldiers who served in the Balkans meet their death due to serious illness, the specter of ’Balkan Syndrome’ and the effects of depleted uranium are again in the spotlight.
By Anes Alic in Sarajevo for ISN Security Watch (29/10/07)
An increase of the number of Italian soldiers who served in the Balkans during the 1990s who are falling seriously ill due to depleted uranium exposure is causing a public outrage in Italy, as the government downplays the extent (…)

The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed HR 1955 titled the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007. This bill is one of the most blatant attacks against the Constitution yet and actually defines thought crimes as homegrown terrorism. If passed into law, it will also establish a commission and a Center of Excellence to study and defeat so called thought criminals. Unlike previous anti-terror legislation, this bill specifically targets the civilian (…)

The largest dam in Iraq is at risk of an imminent collapse that could unleash a 20m (65ft) wave of water on Mosul, a city of 1.7m people, the US has warned.
The largest dam in Iraq is at risk of an imminent collapse that could unleash a 20m (65ft) wave of water on Mosul, a city of 1.7m people, the US has warned.
.......However, a $27m (£13m) US-funded reconstruction project to help shore up the dam has made little or no progress.
....a US watchdog said reconstruction of the dam had (…)

Not Another Fake News Conference By David Glenn Cox
White House Press Secretary Dana Perino promised reporters yet again that the staged news conference organized on Tuesday by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) would not happen again, and said the White House would never employ such tactics at its own press briefings.
That sure does sound nice, doesn’t it? Are you reassured? However this isn’t the first time that the administration has done this nor will it be the last. (…)

Lift the lid and look in the toolbox, and all the same innovative tools are there
The difference between the original Constitution and the present Lisbon Treaty is one of approach, rather than content. The draft constitution resulted from a political desire to simplify European institutions, rendered inefficient by recent expansions. It was about creating more democracy and transparency within the European Union. It was about opening the way for a "Constitution for the people of Europe". (…)

The following video/audio presentation is the most important talk given to date regarding the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the impending attack on Iran by the United States. It is a must see for anyone that wants to know what is happening in the Middle East, what World War III will look like, the complete hell that the 1.5 million American soldiers that have been involved in the Iraq war have had to live through and in what condition they are returning to the United States, how (…)

Supported by a mysteriously high level of support, while dodging and weaving around softball interchanges for years, Hillary Clinton’s teflon finally wore off last night during the MSNBC debate when she met her match. Finally, what many of us have been waiting to see: Her insubstantial character, her grossly inflated "35-year record of accomplishment." And her legislative initiatives and non-binding resolutions were sufficiently deconstructed until none of the best image makers in the world (…)

Did you get that? NO EVIDENCE=NONE=ZERO=NADA The attack on Iran is ILLEGAL and based on BULLSHIT....again! America, you were warned. By The Associated Press
10/28/07 "AP" — — WASHINGTON: The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Sunday he had no evidence Iran was working actively to build nuclear weapons and expressed concern that escalating rhetoric from the U.S. could bring disaster.
"We have information that there has been maybe some studies about possible weaponization," said (…)

Former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld fled France today fearing arrest over charges of "ordering and authorizing" torture of detainees at both the American-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the U.S. military’s detainment facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, unconfirmed reports coming from Paris suggest.
U.S. embassy officials whisked Rumsfeld away yesterday from a breakfast meeting in Paris organized by the Foreign Policy magazine after human rights groups filed a criminal complaint (…)

FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds: ’I Will Tell All, & Name (new) Names’
Let Sibel Edmonds Speak. Former FBI translator and whistleblower Sibel Edmonds has promised to tell us everything she knows about treason at the highest level of the US government - with one proviso:
"Here’s my promise to the American Public: If anyone of the major networks --- ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, FOX --- promise to air the entire segment, without editing, I promise to tell them everything that I know." (…)