Iraqi minister says US and UK spies arrested in Iraq; Iran meddling.
“As I have repeatedly told, Iran has nothing to do with Iraq’s developments….Let me tell a piece of truth to the public in Iraq. We have arrested a number of US and UK intelligence elements.”
I wonder why this sudden conscious awaking by the minister?
And what about Allawi’s last announcement
Former Iraqi PM Allawi Reveals Latest Assassination Plot on His Life.
Iraq’s former Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, revealed an Iraqi political faction planned to assassinate him by enlisting the help of a militia group and indicated he had obtained a detailed copy of plot from a trusted intelligence source last week.
I will not be surprised if it’s true because the current government are a mix of terrorists and thieves with a religious flavor and much worst than Saddam.
But I will not be surprised also if Allawi is making up these claims trying to merchandise himself as the new Iraq’s leader, he is a businessman and the US prefer such people to be it’s shopkeeper in the region.
Everyone is jockeying for pole-position and nothing suprises me anymore.
(Fundamentalist) Christian Values
“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.“
–Robert A. Heinlein
CIA Avoids Scrutiny of Detainee Treatment
In November 2002, a newly minted CIA case officer in charge of a secret prison just north of Kabul allegedly ordered guards to strip naked an uncooperative young Afghan detainee, chain him to the concrete floor and leave him there overnight without blankets, according to four U.S. government officials aware of the case.
The Afghan guards — paid by the CIA and working under CIA supervision in an abandoned warehouse code-named the Salt Pit — dragged their captive around on the concrete floor, bruising and scraping his skin, before putting him in his cell, two of the officials said.
As night fell, so, predictably, did the temperature.
By morning, the Afghan man had frozen to death.
CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons
The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, according to U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement.
The secret facility is part of a covert prison system set up by the CIA nearly four years ago that at various times has included sites in eight countries, including Thailand, Afghanistan and several democracies in Eastern Europe, as well as a small center at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, according to current and former intelligence officials and diplomats from three continents.
*Since Bush has unsigned the US from the world court treaty, it will be difficult if not impossible to charge him for war crimes committed outside US soil.*
Democrats Corner Repugnicans Over Falsified Intelligence in Closed Session
“They have repeatedly chosen to protect the Republican administration rather than get to the bottom of what happened and why,” Democratic leader Harry Reid said.
Carter Roasts Bush
FORMER US president Jimmy Carter overnight accused President George W. Bush’s administration of degrading moral standards underpinning decades of US foreign policy.
“In the last five years there has been a profound and radical change in the basic policies or moral values of our country,” said Mr Carter, a Democratic Party president between 1977 and 1981.
“This (Washington Post article) is just one indication of what has been done under this administration to change the policies that have persisted all the way through our history.”
“I think that the claims that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and the claims that he had massive weapons of mass destruction that would threaten our country were manipulated at least to mislead the American people into going to war,” he said.
The Project for the New American Century
*The People versus the Powerful is the oldest story in human history. At no point in history have the Powerful wielded so much control. At no point in history has the active and informed involvement of the People, all of them, been more absolutely required.*
Above all else, PNAC desires and demands one thing: The establishment of a global American empire to bend the will of all nations.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1665.htm
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AI Concerned Over New Claims of Abuse
This “is only the latest in a series of cases of abuse by US troops in Afghanistan since 2001,” Amnesty said in a statement. Most of the other cases involve the abuse of detainees, at least eight of whom are reported to have died.
A “pattern of impunity and military leniency as well as delays and cover-ups in the investigation of deaths in US custody and abuses in Afghanistan and Iraq” was reflected in recent trials of soldiers involved in the 2002 abuse of detainees, Amnesty said.
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What Judy forgot: Your right to know
The most intriguing revelation of Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald’s news conference last week was his assertion that he would have presented his indictment of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby a year ago if not for the intransigence of reporters who refused to testify before the grand jury. He said that without that delay, “we would have been here in October 2004 instead of October 2005.” Had that been the case, John Kerry probably would be president of the United States today.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10852.htm
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The Neocon Agenda: Will We Undermine It? Or, Is Democracy Dead?
Will the American and British people demand — not wish, hope or plead for, but demand — that their ransacked, just-barely ostensible, and corporatized democracies be exchanged for the real McCoy, true democracies built upon solid foundations of truth, law and mutual respect, so that democracy itself may live?
http://inoodle.com/2005/11/neocon-agenda-will-we-undermine-it-or.html
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Venezuela Chavez Says U.S. Won’t Sell F-16 Parts
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said the U.S. refuses to sell parts for the South American country’s F-16 fighter jets and put pressure on other countries to refrain from parts sales as well.
http://tinyurl.com/dvo85
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Wal-Mart: is this the worst company in the world?
It is the biggest private employer in America with a turnover equivalent to that of a medium-sized country, but churches, unions, and an innovative film-maker are set on holding Wal-Mart to account
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article324050.ece
Muslims Detained for Praying at Football Game
“I’m as American as apple pie and I’m sitting there and now I’m made to feel like I’m an outsider, for no reason other than I have a long beard or that I prayed,” said Sami Shaban, a 27-year-old Seton Hall Law School student who lives in Piscataway.
Hussein Attempted to Enter Exile Before Attack
Days before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, Saddam Hussein agreed in principle to accept an offer of exile from the United Arab Emirates, but the deal fell through, a UAE government senior official told CNN.
*Maybe if Bush hadn’t been in such a rush, we could have saved a whole lot of lives.*
Iran Removes 40 Diplomats
Iran’s hard-line government said Wednesday it was removing 40 ambassadors and senior diplomats, including supporters of warmer ties with the West, from their posts in a shake-up that comes as the Islamic republic takes a more confrontational international stance.
Is it just me or is anyone else sick of jon spooging his garbage all over the comments section. It’s like watching him masterbate. It’s really pathetic. Bye Bye LadyBug.
“Is it just me or is anyone else sick of jon”
Poor baby.
“It’s like watching him masterbate”
You wish.
“Bye Bye”
See ya Nazi!
حملة أمنية واسعة النطاق
على حد قوله.
http://www.alarabiya.net/Articles/2005/11/02/18271.htm
Kill women and children, honeslty isn’t this EXACTLY how Saddam did things? Democracy has lost its meaning, now it means state terrorism and if you don’t agree we will smash you house on your kids and women. I think this man should be next to Saddam in his cell.
Nadia– Democracy actually means “mob rules”.