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U.S. Military 'In Peril': McCaffrey
Post Date: 2007-04-01 13:44:08 by Don
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U.S. Military 'In Peril': McCaffrey By SEAN D. NAYLOR The Iraq war has left the U.S. military “in a position of strategic peril,” retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey has warned in the wake of a recent trip to Iraq. “This whole Iraq operation is on the edge of unraveling as the poor Iraqis batter each other to death with our forces caught in the middle,” McCaffrey writes in a March 26 memo to colleagues at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., where he is an adjunct professor of international affairs. “The majority of the Iraqi population [Sunni and Shia] support armed attacks on American forces” while “U.S. domestic support for the war ...
Britain seeks U.N. condemnation of Iran
Post Date: 2007-03-29 09:18:36 by Don
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Britain seeks U.N. condemnation of Iran Faye Turney, 26, right, the only woman amongst the British navy personnel seized by Iran, an unidentified sailor, centre, and an unidentified marine, eat a meal, in this image made from television, in footage broadcast by Al-Alam, an Arabic-language, Iranian state-run television station, in Tehran, Wednesday March 28, 2007. (AP Photo/APTN, courtesy of Al-Alam) By Salah Nasrawi, Associated Press Writer | March 29, 2007 TEHRAN, Iran --Iran may delay the release of the female British sailor if Britain takes the issue to the U.N. Security Council or freezes relations, the country's top negotiator Ali Larijani said Thursday. The Foreign Office in ...
The Mysterious Death of Pat Tillman
Post Date: 2007-03-27 00:09:06 by A K A Stone
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The Mysterious Death of Pat Tillman Pat Tillman was a straight-A football hero who'd turned down a $3.6 million NFL scholarship to join the Army and fight AlQaeda after 9/11, much to the public delight of Bush and Rumsfeld. Following training he was sent to Iraq, where he didn't like what he saw; a fellow soldier remembers, "He said, 'You know, this war is so f-ing illegal. And we all said, Yeah. That's who he was. He totally was against Bush. Another soldier in the platoon, who asked not to be identified, said Pat urged him to vote for Bush's Democratic opponent in the 2004 election, Sen. John Kerry. "He was an avid reader whose interests ranged from history ...
10 PERCENT OF IRAQIS DEAD?
Post Date: 2007-03-26 00:25:10 by A K A Stone
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Never in modern history has country been forced to pay for its death, torture, and destruction with its own money - its own oil revenues. Iraq has become a country where thieves are entrusted with its richness and where murderous gangs are entrusted with its security, says Ali Al-Sarraf. The war on Iraq was not carried out on the basis of mere strategic interests. No strategies or interests could explain the level of death and destruction that Iraq had undergone ever since the Gulf War in 1991. If one were to assume that the US led invasion in 2003 is a continuation of that war, then Iraq could be said to have suffered more horrors than any country had, including the countries that were ...
Iran accuses Britain over sailors
Post Date: 2007-03-23 21:23:08 by A K A Stone
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Fifteen British navy personnel captured at gunpoint by Iranian forces had sailed into Iran's waters illegally, its government has insisted. An Iranian official said Tehran had made a "firm protest" about the "illegal entry" in the Gulf. The UK maintains the eight sailors and seven marines had been carrying out routine duties in Iraqi waters. The personnel, who are thought to be unharmed, were seized at 1030 local time after boarding a boat in the Gulf. Iranian and UK diplomats have met in Tehran and London in the wake of the incident. Ibrahim Rahimpour, Iran's director general for Western European affairs, said he had met the UK's charge d'affaires, ...
Iran seizes 15 British Navy personnel
Post Date: 2007-03-23 12:41:20 by A K A Stone
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BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iranian forces seized 15 British Royal Navy personnel who had searched a merchant ship on Friday, Britain said, triggering a diplomatic crisis at a time of heightened tensions over Tehran's nuclear ambitions. Britain said the incident took place in Iraqi waters, where it routinely searches merchant vessels with UN permission. In London, Foreign Office Permanent Undersecretary Sir Peter Ricketts summoned Iranian ambassador Rasoul Movahedian. A spokesman said: "The meeting was brisk but cordial. Sir Peter demanded the safe return of our personnel and equipment." The incident took place a day after Iran launched a week of naval war games along its ...
This "Grandma" needs her face kicked in!
Post Date: 2007-03-21 11:19:18 by A K A Stone
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A foster mother was found guilty today of subjecting three young children to a "horrifying catalogue of cruel and sadistic treatment". Eunice Spry, 62, routinely beat, abused and starved the youngsters in her care over a 19 year period. The devout Jehovah's Witness forced sticks down their throats and made them eat their own vomit and rat excrement. Eunice Spry Eunice Spry regularly beat and starved children in her care As punishment for misbehaving, she would beat them on the soles of their feet and force them to drink washing up liquid and bleach. Spry, a pillar of her local community in Gloucestershire, staunchly denied all the claims made against her and insisted the ...
Proved: US terrorist activities in Iraq
Post Date: 2007-03-19 08:07:46 by A K A Stone
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That the USA aids and abets state terrorism and has done so for many years, there is no doubt. Now we have proof that the forces of the United States of America committed terrorist attacks in Iraq from 2002 to 2003. The Pentagon report undertaken by its inspector-general Thomas Gimble, the content of which has recently been made public, has concluded that the special operations office conducted and/or developed “unauthorised, illegal or inappropriate actions” in or connected to Iraq from September 2002 to June 2003. The report further reveals that false information was provided to “senior officials” regarding Iraq’s links with Al Qaeda. The predictable response ...
Bush and Blair could face war crimes charges, says International Court
Post Date: 2007-03-19 08:05:18 by A K A Stone
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A new, and perhaps the deadliest, confrontation between the War Allies United The London Sunday Telegraph is reporting this news on March 18, and as we can read: "Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph that it was frustrating that the court was viewed in the Arab world as biased in favor of the West. Asked whether he could envision a situation in which Mr. Bush and Mr. Blair found themselves in the dock answering charges of war crimes in Iraq, he replied: "Of course, that could be a possibility ... whatever country joins the court can know that whoever commits a crime in their country could be prosecuted by me." As we had ...
A cartoon for China's new generation
Post Date: 2007-03-19 01:38:56 by A K A Stone
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BEIJING — Little P is a red-haired joker with a robot dog and a mind bursting with rebellion. She has a closet filled with tight, midriff-baring clothes. Her biggest worry is getting fat. Meet Bad Girl, a cartoon aimed at a generation of young Chinese raised on a diet of imported video games, Kentucky Fried Chicken and communist rhetoric. When Song Yang published his Bad Girl comic book last year, his friends asked whether the character was him in disguise. "I guess I am a lot like her," said the elfin 25-year-old, dressed in a pair of tight black jeans and a T-shirt. Asked what that meant, he tilted his head and smiled. "I'm naughty." Song, a bad boy with ...
Pressure for Zimbabwe change
Post Date: 2007-03-19 01:33:11 by A K A Stone
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President Mugabe said Western critics of his rule could "go hang" after they blamed him for the mistreatment of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. Observers are now asking if this week's events could lead to real change in Zimbabwe. As BBC News is banned from reporting inside Zimbabwe, Peter Biles has been following developments from Johannesburg: Morgan Tsvangirai Morgan Tsvangirai was prepared for a brutal response from the state A week ago, we sat in the ballroom of a luxury hotel in Johannesburg. It was the annual dinner of the Foreign Correspondents' Association, and almost everyone from our Southern Africa press corps was there. For the guest of honour was ...
Germany issues international Warrant for CIA officers
Post Date: 2007-03-18 14:44:59 by A K A Stone
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The US is not happy about Germany going international with its hunt for the CIA agents responsible for kidnapping Khaled el-Masri. American diplomats vented their anger in meetings with German government officials. The German investigation into what exactly happened to the German citizen Khaled el-Masri, and who was responsible, is becoming an increasingly prickly thorn in the side of Germany-US relations. Indeed, after a Munich court issued arrest warrants against 13 CIA agents at the end of January for complicity in his kidnapping and subsequent torture, high-ranking US diplomats sought to convince the German government not to expand the search for the perpetrators internationally, ...
Africa and Europe set for tunnel link
Post Date: 2007-03-13 23:10:32 by A K A Stone
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Plans to link Europe to Africa via a tunnel are gathering pace. The Moroccan government has been holding talks with its Spanish counterparts to start the project, which would consist of a railway beneath the Strait of Gibraltar carrying freight, passengers and cars. Work is expected to start in 2008. The ferry between Tangier in Morocco and southern Spain is the traditional way people have travelled from Africa to Europe. But that could change if a tunnel is built between the two continents. If that is the case, Africa and Europe, which split apart millions of years ago, could soon be joined together again permanently via a tunnel. The man entrusted with designing the tunnel is the ...
Faggots Demand Apology From Pace
Post Date: 2007-03-13 10:06:13 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON (AP) - A gay advocacy group Tuesday demanded an apology from the Pentagon's top general for calling homosexuality immoral. In a newspaper interview Monday, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had likened homosexuality to adultery and said the military should not condone it by allowing gays to serve openly in the armed forces. "General Pace's comments are outrageous, insensitive and disrespectful to the 65,000 lesbian and gay troops now serving in our armed forces," the advocacy group Servicemembers Legal Defense Network said in a statement on its Web site. The group has represented some of the thousands dismissed from the military ...
Incest: an age-old taboo
Post Date: 2007-03-13 00:27:55 by A K A Stone
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As a German brother and sister take their fight for the right to a sexual relationship to the country's highest court, the BBC News website's Clare Murphy looks at the history of the incest taboo and how it is changing. When Henry VIII wanted to be rid of Anne Boleyn, he made sure she was accused of one particularly heinous crime: sleeping with her brother. According to the great modern anthropologist Claude Levi Strauss, the incest taboo has been the driving force of humankind. By forcing man to find a mate outside the home, disparate, warring clans have been brought together and society has flourished. Others see the abhorrence for sleeping with relatives as having a primarily ...
The Neocon Roadmap to War in Iran
Post Date: 2007-03-06 20:37:38 by A K A Stone
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I was talking about the possibility of a U.S. attack on Iran in the very near future with my dad the other day. Now my dad doesn't follow politics or current affairs as avidly as I do, i.e. he watches the TV news if it happens to be on, but his exact words were, "yeah, it's bubbling away nicely innit." For those not from Yorkshire in England innit means isn't it. "Bubbling away nicely" said it all for me; it put into words my own feelings on the matter. Small steps, none too significant but all in succession are threatening to lead us into another war, and I don't think anything can stop it. Like everybody else, I believed the Afghanistan invasion was ...
Sick people used like laboratory rats in GM trials
Post Date: 2007-03-06 20:34:16 by A K A Stone
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Genetically modified potatoes developed by Monsanto, the multinational biotech company, have been fed to sick patients in an experiment. Rats that ate similar potatoes in the research suffered reductions in the weight of their hearts and prostate glands. Dr Michael Antoniou, reader in molecular genetics at Guy's, King's and St Thomas' School of Medicine, said use of humans was "irresponsible and totally unethical, especially when already ill subjects were enrolled. These people truly were guinea pigs." Other scientists said the trials were too short, on too few people, to give meaningful results of long-term effects. Monsanto said the vegetables were safe, and the ...
War of words after call for independence
Post Date: 2007-03-05 23:20:51 by A K A Stone
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The simmering feud between China and Taiwan burst into the open yesterday when Beijing criticised the President of Taiwan for making strident calls for independence. Li Zhaoxing, the Chinese Foreign Minister, speaking at the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference in Beijing, said: “Don’t listen to local leaders. Whoever wants to split away will become a criminal in history.” His anger, which came a day after the announcement of an 18 per cent increase in Chinese military spending, was triggered by remarks at the weekend by Chen Shui-bian, the President of the self-ruled island that lies within striking distance of the southern coast of China. Beijing has ...
Outrage Over ‘Israeli Killing of Captured Egyptians’
Post Date: 2007-03-05 12:41:20 by A K A Stone
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CAIRO, 5 March 2007 — Egypt summoned Israel’s envoy to Cairo yesterday after Israeli media allegations that the Israeli Army may have killed 250 captured Egyptian soldiers at the end of the 1967 Middle East war. Two ruling party lawmakers demanded the ambassador’s expulsion. Another called for a special parliamentary session for a declaration of war on the Jewish state. Egyptians were outraged by an Israeli documentary film which, according to media reports, alleged an army unit led by Benjamin Ben Eliezer, now Israel’s infrastructure minister, may have killed 250 prisoners of war in the Sinai Peninsula rather than transferring them to POW camps. Egypt’s deputy ...
11 killed at Pakistani kite-flying festival
Post Date: 2007-02-27 22:33:35 by A K A Stone
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LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — At least 11 people were killed and more than 100 people injured by sharpened kite strings, stray bullets and other accidents at an annual kite-flying festival in eastern Pakistan, officials said Monday. The two-day Basant festival is regularly marred by casualties caused by sharpened kite strings or celebratory gunshots fired into the air. Kite flyers often use strings made of wire or coated with ground glass to try to damage a rival’s kite, often after betting on the outcome. Authorities had banned kite flying following a string of deaths at the festival last year, but temporarily lifted it before this year’s event. Officials said the ban was ...
How the US plans to 'retake' Baghdad
Post Date: 2007-02-25 00:38:42 by A K A Stone
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The worst fears of military chiefs trying to re-establish control of Baghdad have been realised. After huge car bombs killed more than 60 people on Sunday, there were three suicide bomb attacks in Baghdad on Monday morning. Until last week, that intensity of bloodshed was almost routine. But the presence of tens of thousands of Iraqi and American troops spreading out across the city as part of the new security plan was supposed to make a difference. In the days after the operation began last week there was a significant drop in violence - fewer bodies were found, there were no lethal suicide bombs, and more than 300 families returned to homes that had been seized by rival gangs. Iraqi ...
How Iraq terrorists target Prince Harry
Post Date: 2007-02-25 00:33:31 by A K A Stone
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LONDON – New concerns for Prince Harry's safety have emerged with MI6's discovery that the Iran-backed Mahdi army has obtained a version of the super-sensitive, U.S.-created Promis software, according to a breaking report in Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. The software provides access to databases on specific targets. It is equipped with artificial intelligence, which can analyze tens of millions of snippets of information in seconds to create a sophisticated overall picture that can both identify and predict the actions of a target. The software was originally sold by a renegade FBI agent, Robert Hanssen. For years he had been a KGB spy inside the FBI. Before he was arrested ...
Another U.S. Military Assault on Media
Post Date: 2007-02-24 18:48:17 by A K A Stone
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U.S. soldiers raided and ransacked the offices of the Iraq Syndicate of Journalists (ISJ) in central Baghdad Tuesday this week. Ten armed guards were arrested, and 10 computers and 15 small electricity generators kept for donation to families of killed journalists were seized. This is not the first time U.S. troops have attacked the media in Iraq, but this time the raid was against the very symbol of it. Many Iraqis believe the U.S. soldiers did all they could to deliver the message of their leadership to Iraqi journalists to keep their mouth shut about anything going wrong with the U.S.-led occupation. "The Americans have delivered so many messages to us, but we simply refused all ...
Cheney: Now is the Time to Attack “Apocalyptic” Iran
Post Date: 2007-02-24 10:12:44 by A K A Stone
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Dick Cheney “has endorsed Republican senator John McCain’s proposition that the only thing worse than a military confrontation with Iran would be a nuclear-armed Iran,” reports the Herald Sun. “The visiting Vice-President said that he had no doubt Iran was striving to enrich uranium to the point where they could make nuclear weapons.” Recall, back in 2002 and early 2003, there was nothing worse than an Iraq with weapons of mass destruction. Of course, no such weapons existed, nor do they in Iran, although it appears Cheney and McCain are careful to say a “nuclear-armed Iran” may exist in the future. Cheney “accused Iranian President Mahmoud ...
The US psychological torture system is finally on trial
Post Date: 2007-02-24 10:06:57 by A K A Stone
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Something remarkable is going on in a Miami courtroom. The cruel methods US interrogators have used since September 11 to "break" prisoners are finally being put on trial. This was not supposed to happen. The Bush administration's plan was to put José Padilla on trial for allegedly being part of a network linked to international terrorists. But Padilla's lawyers are arguing that he is not fit to stand trial because he has been driven insane by the government. Arrested in May 2002 at Chicago's O'Hare airport, Padilla, a Brooklyn-born former gang member, was classified as an "enemy combatant" and taken to a navy prison in Charleston, South Carolina. ...
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