26.Jun.2004 In plot worthy of silver screen, Paraguay vice president's `slaying' likely faked: Dead men tell no tales - except in Paraguay, where one is telling a whopper..
26.Jun.2004 Client Was "Stripped of His Identity" While in Federal Custody.: "His jailers addressed him as John Doe and any correspondence he received was addressed to John Doe," Sheriff said.
"His family ... and all other relatives were not allowed to see or visit with him despite their efforts to do so."
26.Jun.2004 Bombs Away!: Anti-War Music Video: Is this what we have become? - Warning - Contains Graphic Images Of War. Windows media
URL: https://www.newint.org/issue348/history.htm
26.Jun.2004 Palestine + Israel mark the western limit of the ‘cradle of civilization’ that gave birth to hydrology-based hierarchies – central control over irrigation systems –
which eventually became the seeds of the modern state with all its autocratic flaws.
In the early years this area was home to a number of wandering tribes including first the Caananites and later the Israelites.
This harsh desert climate also
fostered a series of monotheistic ‘sky god’ religions that are the root of modern Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
They tended towards fairly harsh codes of conduct that blurred distinctions between political and religious authority.
These events represent a deep root of Jewish nationalism. The first revolt dates from the period just after Christ’s death +
was marked by the burning of the temple in Jerusalem by the Romans, selective assassination of Roman officials + Jewish collaborators +
the last stand of the Zealots against the Roman legions at the desert fortress at Masada.
The Jews were expelled from Jerusalem in 135.
This period is usually dated from just after the Prophet Mohammed’s death (632).
Abu Bakr, the first caliph and successor to Mohammed + Omar, who followed him, together engineered the capture of the Holy Land from Christian Byzantine authorities.
Several of the local tribes were ready converts to Islam.
This period of Islamic rule saw the construction of the Dome of the Rock mosque (Islam’s third-holiest site) on land in Old Jerusalem where the first and second Jewish temples had once stood.
This early period of Islamic rule was marked by an unusually high level of tolerance for the civil and religious rights of the remaining Christian and Jewish communities.
A hotly disputed historical topic between Christians and Muslims. There were eight crusades (1099-1291) of European warriors trying to capture the Holy Land.
The first and most successful resulted in the slaughter of both Muslims and Jews who were living together in
peace in Jerusalem. Other crusades were less successful due to fierce resistance, crusader infighting and outright banditry.
For Muslims the crusades mark a barbaric assault, while for some Christians the word retains the positive connotations of a noble cause.
After the failure of the revolt against Rome, Jewish refugees established communities from Spain to Ethiopia to Kerala in southern India. They were generally treated more hospitably by non-Christians than in the Christian world, where the dominant Catholic Church actively promoted anti-Semitism.
They flourished particularly in Moorish Spain until its invasion by Christian armies, after which they were victimized in the Inquisition.
Russia and eastern Europe were particularly bad, with bloody pogroms that killed thousands.
Despite notable intellectual and economic achievements, a history of discrimination (and much worse) led to a widespread Jewish desire for a homeland.
URL: https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3840133.stm
26.Jun.2004 But the row is thought to be unrelated to Thursday's bomb attacks in Turkey.
The flights were halted after reports that the number of Israeli guards permitted at Istanbul had been reduced.
26.Jun.2004 Israel and Iran chart collision course: The United States and its European allies may be self-indulging in a Wilsonian "greater Middle East" project or discourse frowned on by the region's politicians and intellectuals, yet there is little doubt about the operation of Israeli power well beyond her tiny borders pushing for a "greater Israel".
26.Jun.2004 What behind US setback in seeking war crimes court immunity: The United States has rarely been forced to abandon a UN measure it draws up.
The latest exception was in March 2003, when it failed to win the council's approval for waging war on Iraq.
26.Jun.2004 Iraq War Analysis Paints Grim Picture : Unless you own a lot of stock in Halliburton or other big defence, security, or construction companies, chances are the Iraq war has turned out to be a pretty bad investment, both in human lives and taxpayer dollars, according to a new assessment by a progressive Washington-based think tank, the Institute for Policy Studies
26.Jun.2004 Iraq, Afghan Wars Will Cost Up to $60B Next Year: The projection by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is more than double the $25 billion President Bush has so far requested for the wars for 2005
26.Jun.2004 9 Killed As Iraqi Guerrilla Attacks Continue : Insurgents launched attacks in the strife-ridden city of Baqouba today + nine people died, six of them insurgents, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. Attacks occurred in other cities north and south of Baghdad.
26.Jun.2004 Two Afghan Poll Workers Killed, 17 Hurt in Blast : Two women working to register voters for Afghanistan's elections were killed and 17 female election workers wounded when a blast wrecked their bus in the eastern city of Jalalabad Saturday, police said.
26.Jun.2004 Two Palestinian killed, two seriously wounded by Israeli troops enforcing curfew in Nablus : In one incident, members of a Palestinian family were hit by army fire on their balcony, killing a 19-year-old man and seriously wounding his father and brother with shots to the head and face, witnesses and medics said
26.Jun.2004 US soldier killed in rocket attack in Baghdad: Shiite militia loyal to Sadr fire on US military convoy
26.Jun.2004 Iraq Insurgency Showing Signs of Momentum: Iraq's insurgent movement is increasingly potent, riding a wave of anti-U.S. nationalism and religious extremism. Just days before an Iraqi government takes control of they country, experts and some commanders fear it may be too late to turn back the militant tide.
26.Jun.2004 Where Children Laugh at Bombs: During all of my five months in Iraq from my two trips here, the only two times I’ve been shot at have both been by US troops. Yesterday was yet another example of this, when our car was shot at five times by troops in a Bradley which sat in a nearby palm field as we passed.
26.Jun.2004 Iraqis killing Iraqis: Even in a country torn by 15 months of war, the scene was horrific: a woman's head had been placed on a box containing the ashes of her cremated body. This was her punishment for working as an interpreter for U.S. forces.
26.Jun.2004 Iraq war 'will cost each US family $3,415' : As of June 16, before yesterday's nationwide attacks, up to 11,317 Iraqi civilians and 6,370 Iraqi soldiers or insurgents had been killed, according to the report, which is titled Paying the Price: The Mounting Costs of the Iraq War.
26.Jun.2004 US lashes out in Fallujah as new leader Allawi defies insurgents: Mr Allawi has grandiose plans for a beefed-up Iraqi security force, but at the moment he has little armed strength. He must depend on the 138,000 US troops in the country for the foreseeable future.
26.Jun.2004 US restricts new Iraqi Army's capabilities: US occupation forces are taking measures to ensure that the emerging Iraqi Army remain a small defensive force with limited capabilities and no armour.
26.Jun.2004 Angry White House pulls RTE interview : THE White House has lodged a complaint with the Irish Embassy in Washington over RTE journalist Carole Coleman's interview with US President George Bush.
26.Jun.2004 Carole did us a service by dishing up an Irish grilling for George : In the US, both the print and broadcasting media approach their political leaders with a deference that's often indistinguishable from obsequiousness + that's the antithesis of what journalism should be.
26.Jun.2004 Naomi Klein: The multibillion robbery the US calls reconstruction: The shameless corporate feeding frenzy in Iraq is fuelling the resistance
26.Jun.2004 Video: Breaking The Silence: A hard hitting special report into the "war on terror" Award winning journalist John Pilger. This is a must watch documentary
26.Jun.2004 Charley Reese: White House Counting on Public Apathy : You know, of course, that the alleged handover of Iraqi sovereignty on June 30 is a phony-baloney public-relations stunt. The armed forces will remain in they country. A U.S. embassy with 1,000 employees will open. In other words, it will be a continued occupation with an Iraqi face.
26.Jun.2004 Bush should 'fess up about sovereignty: Whatever he wants to give Iraq next week, it comes with strings attached - and he should be honest about America's continuing control
26.Jun.2004 Guantanamo Detention Dilemma 13.Nov.2001 -on- with no advance notice to Congress, President Bush signed a military order that gave the Pentagon the power to try + sentence + even execute anyone he identifies as an "illegal combatant"
26.Jun.2004 Indians carry horror tales from US camps: More Indian workers are returning from Iraq with distressing tales of torture and human rights violations in the military camps of the United States.
26.Jun.2004 Ashcroft’s big con: False confessions, coerced pleas, show trials — the Justice Department’s reliance on Soviet-style tactics has turned the war on terror into a Potemkin village
26.Jun.2004 Paul Krugman: Errors on Terror: The Bush administration has cooked the books in many areas, including budget projections, tax policy, environmental policy + stem cell research.
Why wouldn't it do the same on terrorism?
26.Jun.2004 Koreas Sidestep U.S. to Forge Political and Pragmatic Links: The Koreas are entering more than a summer of détente. Quietly ignoring Bush administration efforts to isolate North Korea, South Korea has become North Korea's largest source of aid, trade and tourism. It is also North Korea's most consistent diplomatic advocate.
26.Jun.2004 Bush Bargains Badly: President Bush finally put a proposal—a set of incentives for disarmament—on the negotiating table. The remarkable thing is, the deal is practically identical to the accord that President Clinton signed with Pyongyang in 1994—an accord that Bush condemned and scuttled from the moment he took over the White House.
26.Jun.2004 Screams of Sudan's starving refugees: To see humanity stripped to its barest bones. To see people so traumatised that they stutter from their memories, or wail at night + now so destitute that they simply have nothing
26.Jun.2004 Children Starve: BBC Video Report From Darfur, Sudan : Real Video
26.Jun.2004 10 villagers killed in Kashmir: The dead included a woman and a child. Twelve people were wounded, four of whom were in a critical condition, police said.
26.Jun.2004 Iraq Violence Takes Toll on Civilians : Second-grader Ali Talmasan Qassim sobbed as he sat beneath a palm tree outside a hospital, nursing a gunshot wound in his arm. A few miles away, the body of a young woman in a black chador lay in a pool of blood near a smoldering car.
26.Jun.2004 'This is the only fun the kids get - shooting at the US sitting ducks' : Who exactly are the Iraqi resistance? In a remarkable essay, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad joins the front-line anti-American fighters in Kerbala, Falluja and Sadr City + discovers that they are not always the well-trained, highly motivated fanatics we imagine
26.Jun.2004 Bush Bargains Badly: President Bush finally put a proposal—a set of incentives for disarmament—on the negotiating table. The remarkable thing is, the deal is practically identical to the accord that President Clinton signed with Pyongyang in 1994—an accord that Bush condemned and scuttled from the moment he took over the White House.
URL: https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6391.htm
26.Jun.2004 Think of it as just one more indication that Mr. Bush isn't really serious about this terrorism thing. He talks about terror a lot + invokes it to justify unrelated wars he feels like fighting. But when it comes to devoting resources to the unglamorous work of protecting the nation from attack — well, never mind.
Speaking of numbers: in 1980, middle-income families with children paid 8.7 percent of their income in income taxes, not 8.2 percent, as I reported on June 8. But it's still true that their combined income and payroll taxes rose under Ronald Reagan.
URL: https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6391.htm
26.Jun.2004 "New York Times" -- Tonight, I am instructing the leaders of the F.B.I., the C.I.A., the Homeland Security and the Department of Defense to develop a Terrorist Threat Integration Center, to merge and analyze all threat information in a single location. Our government must have the very best information possible." Thus spoke President Bush in the 2003 State of the Union address. A White House fact sheet called the center "the next phase in the dramatic enhancement of the government's counterterrorism effort."
Among other things, the center took over the job of preparing the government's annual report on "Patterns of Global Terrorism." The latest report, released in April, claimed to document a sharp fall in terrorism. "You will find in these pages clear evidence that we are prevailing in the fight," Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage declared. But this week the government admitted making major errors. In fact, in 2003 the number of significant terrorist attacks reached a 20-year peak.
How could they get it so wrong? The answer tells you a lot about the state of the "war on terror."
URL: https://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/US/2020_guantanamo_040625-8.html
26.Jun.2004 And for the first time in American history, members of the British Parliament, 175 of them, submitted a brief to the court.
The high court is expected to rule on the cases before the end of its current term.
A Permanent Prison: Camp Five
The United States has now completed a new permanent prison at Guantanamo Bay. It is called Camp Five. If prisoners are transferred here, said our escort officer, they know they are not going home.
Today, the United States is sending men to Guantanamo from various parts of the world. Six, for example, were picked up in Bosnia, another in Iran + two men were delivered here from West Africa.
The courtroom for the military tribunals is ready. But after almost 2½ years in U.S. custody, only three prisoners have been charged. And not a single trial has begun or a date even set.
To Khalid al-Odah, the detention of his son is painful and incomprehensible. "It makes no sense, what they are doing.
We become all, as families and as the detainees, victims of 9/11 — become like the Americans, victims of the 9/11."
URL: https://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/US/2020_guantanamo_040625-7.html
20.Apr.2--- the Bush administration's policies in the war against terrorism were being argued at the Supreme Court. The justices had agreed to rule on two cases brought by families of prisoners in Guantanamo: Rasul v. Bush , on behalf of two British citizens and two Australians + Al-Odah v. the United States on behalf of 12 Kuwaitis, including Fawzi al-Odah.
The families had asked the high court asking to guarantee the Guantanamo prisoners a chance to argue their innocence.
The administration had answered that a president's wartime powers are so absolute that the courts — including the Supreme Court — have no business getting involved.
There were 19 so-called amicus briefs challenging the administration, including one from three former chief judge advocates.
John Hutson, who once served as the Navy's top lawyer, responsible for protecting the legal rights of all U.S. sailors, was among them. "We can't just sit back and say, 'We've got different rules now. Because they're terrorists, different rules are going to apply. We haven't articulated them, but by George, they're different,' " he said. "It's in a time of crisis that you have to cling ever more tightly to the rule of law. It's not a rule of law if you only apply it when it's convenient for you."
URL: https://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/US/2020_guantanamo_040625-6.html
26.Jun.2004 Some officials question the usefulness of continued interrogations at the base. "Given that a large number of [the prisoners] have been held for two years or more, I don't think that there is a continuing intelligence value for most of the people held at Guantanamo," Christino said.
In fact, Christino thinks there may be only "a few dozen, a few score at the most," who are continuing to provide useful information to interrogators.
Rodriquez said that there may be 50 detainees, of the nearly 600 prisoners, who are providing information.
Innocents Among the Detainees?
If the overwhelming majority of the detainees have yielded no useful information for interrogators, how many of the prisoners might not be affiliated with al Qaeda or involved with any terror activities?
Khalid al-Odah, a Kuwaiti, says there is at least one. His son, Fawzi al-Odah, has been held at the camp for nearly two years.
Fawzi al-Odah was among a group of five Kuwaitis picked up by authorities in a Pakistani village near the Afghan border in late 2001 and turned over to Americans. While held in Pakistan, the Kuwaitis had asked a guard to deliver a letter to their ambassador in Pakistan. They wrote that they had gone to Afghanistan legally to "provide humanitarian help to the needy Afghan people" during the war. The guard reportedly was too afraid to deliver the letter. Today, all five men remain in Guantanamo.
URL: https://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/US/2020_guantanamo_040625-5.html
26.Jun.2004 Camp officials said repeatedly that no prisoners have been tortured at the base. "All of our interrogations are conducted consistent with all the provisions laid out in the Geneva Conventions. We are not torturing anybody + anybody who has asserted so previously is lying. That doesn't happen here. Detainees are not beaten; they're not starved; they're not abused in any way," Hood said.
But the interrogations can be tough. They can occur any time of the night. Prisoners can be woken at any hour for interrogations, but they must be given five consecutive hours of sleep, Steve Rodriquez, chief of interrogations at the camp, said. And we have learned since that in late 2002, lawyers in the Justice Department and the Pentagon were arguing that under his wartime powers, the president could authorize "interrogation methods that might violate" laws forbidding torture.
"Infliction of pain or suffering per se," one memo said, does not "amount to torture." The pain or suffering must be "severe."
A few months later, the defense secretary approved a classified "matrix for stress and duress," listing the coercion that could be used at Guantanamo. It included holding prisoners isolated in dark cells and interrogating them for 20 hours at a time.
URL: https://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/US/2020_guantanamo_040625-4.html
26.Jun.2004 Incentive-Based Interrogations
Today, nearly 600 prisoners from 40 countries are being held by U.S. forces at the base. The standard cell in Camp Delta (the successor to Camp X-ray) is essentially a metal box a bit larger than a king-size mattress. There's a spray-painted arrow pointing toward Mecca for daily prayers. The lights are never off.
Soldiers patrol the cellblocks constantly, looking at every prisoner — "eyes on the target" they call it — every 30 seconds.
Gen. Jay Hood has been the commander at Guantanamo since March. His predecessor, Gen. Geoffrey Miller, is now running Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
When Miller ran Guantanamo, he once said, there had been 22,000 interrogations in a system he devised and called "incentive-based." A comfort item, like an extra bottle of water, would be given for good behavior. It was all about reward and punishment. Because rewards could be determined by prisoners' level of cooperation with interrogators, the interrogators essentially determined prisoner treatment at Camp Delta.
the biggest reward for those who cooperate is a move to what is called Camp Four, where they wear white instead of orange and live 10 men to a room. They can be outside more in the exercise yard — if they behave.
URL: https://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/US/2020_guantanamo_040625-3.html
11.Jan.2002 the first 20 prisoners from Afghanistan arrived at Guantanamo Bay. They were not told where they were. They were put in cages in a makeshift prison called Camp X-ray and dressed in orange jumpsuits. It is the color condemned men in the Arab world wear. They thought they were going to be shot.
Guantanamo had been chosen deliberately. It was, one official said, the "legal equivalent of outer space."
"No serious thought was given to bringing these terrorists and Taliban militia within the territory of the United States. That would be unwise for a whole variety of reasons, starting with security and also including creating the possibility of extended litigation," said Brad Berenson, a lawyer in the Office of the White House Counsel.
The Justice Department asserted at the time that Guantanamo was beyond the reach of U.S. law — and so beyond U.S. constitutional guarantees of habeas corpus , which requires justification for detaining a person.
Berenson explained the administration's rationale. "If the president decides that we are at war," he said, "and that the powers and weapons of war have to be used against these people such that we can detain and interrogate them without interference from lawyers or courts in order to protect the country, then that is really his decision to make."
Rumsfeld insisted the prisoners were "among the most vicious killers on the face of the Earth," that they included a man with links to the financing of 9/11, a bodyguard for bin Laden, an explosives expert for al Qaeda + other "senior al Qaeda and Taliban operatives, who continue to express a commitment to kill Americans if released."
URL: https://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/US/2020_guantanamo_040625-2.html
26.Jun.2004 Mark Jacobson, a member of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's prisoner policy team, said the administration had been preparing to hold tribunals for the men who surrendered in Afghanistan back in 00.Sep.2001+00.Oct.2001 which, he said, is standard procedure for the military when it captures persons on the battlefield.
But based on the president's military order, everyone taken into U.S. custody had already been deemed an illegal combatant. The tribunals never took place.
"Some people were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time," Jacobson said. "A lot of them were the flotsam and jetsam of the battlefield. That's what happens on a battlefield."
And Christino noted that no U.S. official wanted to let any potential terrorist slip through their fingers. "You don't want to be the one who had in his or her custody the next hijacker."
The Legal Equivalent of ‘Outer Space’
Getting information from the men who surrendered meant getting them away from the battlefield to a place where U.S. officials could interrogate them — Guantanamo Bay became the designated base.
26.Jun.2004 Ashcroft’s big con: False confessions, coerced pleas, show trials — the Justice Department’s reliance on Soviet-style tactics has turned the war on terror into a Potemkin village
URL: https://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/US/2020_guantanamo_040625-1.html
26.Jun.2004 Watch Peter Jennings Reporting: Guantanamo , on a special edition of 20/20 tonight at 10 p.m.
The day after the 11.Sep.2001, attacks that shook the nation to its core, President Bush declared war on the terrorists who had done it. In an address to the nation, the president said, "Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done."
Less than a month later, the president ordered the United States to attack Afghanistan — to destroy Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terror network and its Taliban protectors.
The campaign against al Qaeda thrust the country into an unprecedented type of war. In Washington, the Department of Justice and the White House began to grapple with the legal dilemmas of fighting an enemy that did not operate in the open or abide by the recognized rules of war.
On Nov. 13, 2001, with no advance notice to Congress, President Bush signed a military order that gave the Pentagon the power to try, sentence + even execute anyone he identifies as an "illegal combatant" — a suspected terrorist who had violated the laws of war.
By the end of that month, the last Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan fell to the Afghan Northern Alliance and U.S. forces. Thousands of men surrendered to the Northern Alliance + some of them were handed over to the Americans.
Lt. Col. Anthony Christino, a 20-year veteran of Army intelligence who was not directly involved in the Afghan campaign, says investigators would have had difficulty in determining which men posed threats to U.S. interests. "There are any number of legitimate reasons why someone of Arab descent may have been in Afghanistan. And there are also Arabs who were clearly in Afghanistan training to become terrorists. So, the question becomes, how do you discern one from the other," Christino said.
URL: https://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/US/2020_guantanamo_040625-1.html
26.Jun.2004 Detention Dilemma Two Years After 9/11, Guantanamo Prisoners Remain in Legal Limbo
23.Jun.2004 — Two and a half years ago, the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay was little more than an aggravation to the regime of Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Today, Guantanamo Bay has become one of the most controversial facets of America's war on terror.
URL: https://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/US/2020_guantanamo_040625-1.html
13.Nov.2001 with no advance notice to Congress, President Bush signed a military order that gave the Pentagon the power to try, sentence + even execute anyone he identifies as an "illegal combatant" — a suspected terrorist who had violated the laws of war.
26.Jun.2004 9 Killed As Iraqi Guerrilla Attacks Continue : Insurgents launched attacks in the strife-ridden city of Baqouba today + nine people died, six of them insurgents, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. Attacks occurred in other cities north and south of Baghdad.
26.Jun.2004 Two Afghan Poll Workers Killed, 17 Hurt in Blast : Two women working to register voters for Afghanistan's elections were killed and 17 female election workers wounded when a blast wrecked their bus in the eastern city of Jalalabad Saturday, police said.
26.Jun.2004 Two Palestinian killed, two seriously wounded by Israeli troops enforcing curfew in Nablus : In one incident, members of a Palestinian family were hit by army fire on their balcony, killing a 19-year-old man and seriously wounding his father and brother with shots to the head and face, witnesses and medics said
26.Jun.2004 US soldier killed in rocket attack in Baghdad: Shiite militia loyal to Sadr fire on US military convoy
26.Jun.2004 Iraq Insurgency Showing Signs of Momentum: Iraq's insurgent movement is increasingly potent, riding a wave of anti-U.S. nationalism and religious extremism. Just days before an Iraqi government takes control of the country, experts and some commanders fear it may be too late to turn back the militant tide.
26.Jun.2004 Where Children Laugh at Bombs: During all of my five months in Iraq from my two trips here, the only two times I’ve been shot at have both been by US troops. Yesterday was yet another example of this, when our car was shot at five times by troops in a Bradley which sat in a nearby palm field as we passed.
26.Jun.2004 Iraqis killing Iraqis: Even in a country torn by 15 months of war, the scene was horrific: a woman's head had been placed on a box containing the ashes of her cremated body. This was her punishment for working as an interpreter for U.S. forces.
26.Jun.2004 Iraq war 'will cost each US family $3,415' : As of June 16, before yesterday's nationwide attacks, up to 11,317 Iraqi civilians and 6,370 Iraqi soldiers or insurgents had been killed, according to the report, which is titled Paying the Price: The Mounting Costs of the Iraq War.
26.Jun.2004 US lashes out in Fallujah as new leader Allawi defies insurgents: Mr Allawi has grandiose plans for a beefed-up Iraqi security force, but at the moment he has little armed strength. He must depend on the 138,000 US troops in the country for the foreseeable future.
26.Jun.2004 US restricts new Iraqi Army's capabilities: US occupation forces are taking measures to ensure that the emerging Iraqi Army remain a small defensive force with limited capabilities and no armour.
26.Jun.2004 Angry White House pulls RTE interview : THE White House has lodged a complaint with the Irish Embassy in Washington over RTE journalist Carole Coleman's interview with US President George Bush.
26.Jun.2004 Carole did us a service by dishing up an Irish grilling for George : In the US, both the print and broadcasting media approach their political leaders with a deference that's often indistinguishable from obsequiousness + that's the antithesis of what journalism should be.
26.Jun.2004 Naomi Klein: The multibillion robbery the US calls reconstruction: The shameless corporate feeding frenzy in Iraq is fuelling the resistance
26.Jun.2004 Video: Breaking The Silence: A hard hitting special report into the "war on terror" Award winning journalist John Pilger. This is a must watch documentary
26.Jun.2004 Charley Reese: White House Counting on Public Apathy : You know, of course, that the alleged handover of Iraqi sovereignty on
30.Jun.2004 is a phony-baloney public-relations stunt. The armed forces will remain in they country. A U.S. embassy with 1,000 employees will open. In other words, it will be a continued occupation with an Iraqi face.
26.Jun.2004 Bush should 'fess up about sovereignty: Whatever he wants to give Iraq next week, it comes with strings attached - and he should be honest about America's continuing control
26.Jun.2004 Guantanamo Detention Dilemma : On
13.Nov.2001 -with no advance notice to Congress- President Bush signed a military order that gave the Pentagon the power to try, sentence + even execute anyone he identifies as an "illegal combatant"
26.Jun.2004 Indians carry horror tales from US camps: More Indian workers are returning from Iraq with distressing tales of torture and human rights violations in the military camps of the United States.
URL: https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6383.htm
26.Jun.2004 Amid the triumphant declarations, it is now widely agreed, the U.S. leadership was disastrously slow to anticipate that this primitive enemy could grow into a formidable foe.
What Bremer and other officials failed to appreciate fully was postwar Iraq's combustible character: a nation brimming with arms, munitions and disenfranchised young men with military training, all primed to be stoked by ruthless and well-funded Baath Party operatives embittered in defeat.
"It's not clear to me that we ever developed a coherent campaign plan for conducting a counterinsurgency campaign," said Andrew Krepinevich of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a Washington think tank. "We were unprepared for it [and] late to recognize it."
26.Jun.2004 Angry White House pulls RTE interview : THE White House has lodged a complaint with the Irish Embassy in Washington over RTE journalist Carole Coleman's interview with US President George Bush.
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26.Jun.2004 03:08:40 Ambiorix From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambiorix
Ambiorix was prince of Eburones, a tribe of Belgian Gaul -Gallia Belgica .
_0054 -winter- Although Caesar had freed Ambiorix from paying tribute to the Aduztuci,
Ambiorix joined Catuvolcus in rising against the Invading Roman forces under Q. Titurius Sabinus + I. Aurunculeius Cotta, +
Together almost annihilated them then attacked Quintus Cicero (brother of the orator), quartered with a legion in the territory of the Nervii, failed owing to the timely appearance of Caesar .
Ambiorix is said to have found safety across the Rhine.
Nowadays, Ambiorix statue can be found in the Belgian town of Tongeren.
Caesar, De Bello Gallico v. 26-51, vi. 29-43, viii. 24; Dio Cassius xl. 7-11; Florus iii. 10.
Bubona - was the goddess of horses + cattle in Roman mythology adopted after Caesar Rome conquered Gaul from the Celtic Epona URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubona