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05.Jul.2004 URL: https://www.spacedaily.com/news/nanotech-04zu.html
"Generally," said medical microbiologist Neva Ciftcioglu, at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, "we say that a microorganism should not be any smaller than 200 nanometers.
So nanobacteria is within this range, however, there are some forms we detected that they are even 80 or 50 nanometers." These smaller forms, she says however, may not be complete cells.
So on a relative scale, the smallest biological cell would tower over these nanoflowers and nanoairplanes-- much like a 80-story skyscraper towers over a person looking up from ground level to the top floor.
Or as Richard Feynmann titled his imaginative survey, "There is plenty of room at the bottom."
This article for Astrobiology Magazine
URL: https://www.spacedaily.com/news/nanotech-04zu.html
05.Jul.2004 "Nano-" is Greek for dwarf.
A nanometer is one billionth of a meter --approximately ten times the diameter of the hydrogen atom--and nanotechnology is the design and manufacture of artifacts in the range of 100 nanometers to 0.1 nanometers.
In his visionary lecture delivered at Caltech
00.000.1959 Nobel Laureate Richard Feynmann gave the idea of nanotechnology a quantitative look in his talk entitled: "There is Plenty of Room at the Bottom".
From the outset Feymann asked: "Why can't we write the entire 24 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica on the head of a pin?"
After four decades his predictions have proven quite descriptive.
URL: https://www.spacewar.com/2004/040701200724.8lfmyvmi.html
04.Jul.2004 WAR.WIRE
URL: https://www.spacewar.com/
04.Jul.2004 CHARLESTON, West Virginia (AFP) The presidential jet Air Force One suffered engine trouble Sunday,
forcing President George W. Bush to delay by more than one hour a trip to the state of West Virginia, the White House said
URL: https://www.spacewar.com/2004/040703101829.86ifmu81.html
04.Jul.2004 US warns Pakistan's missile test plan revives dangers in South Asia
URL: https://www.spacewar.com/2004/040703101829.86ifmu81.html
04.Jul.2004 The Science and Art of Nano Worlds
URL: https://www.spacewar.com/2004/040703101829.86ifmu81.html
04.Jul.2004 It rained on Mars -three billion years ago
URL: https://www.spacewar.com/2004/040703101829.86ifmu81.html
04.Jul.2004 Mechanical trouble on Air Force One delays Bush trip
URL: https://www.spacewar.com/2004/040703101829.86ifmu81.html
04.Jul.2004 China with India is a principal customer for Russian arms, but most of the contracts until now have concerned aircraft, boats, submarines and munitions.
00.000.2002 China accounted for more than 2.5 billion $s (about two billion euros) worth of orders, more than half of Russia's export contracts signed that year, totalling 4.8 billion $s.
Russian-Chinese defense cooperation gained momentum in the 1990 s after Western nations imposed an embargo in response to the Tiananmen Square events of 00.000.1989 .
The cooperation was cemented
00.000.2000 at a summit meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Jiang Zemin.
04.Jul.2004 Top Chinese official to Moscow for military cooperation talks: China
00.000.2002 accounted for more than 2.5 billion $s (about two billion euros) worth of orders,
more than half of Russia's export contracts signed that year, totalling 4.8 billion $s.
04.Jul.2004 Eyes And Ears Of The Nation: Thousands of truckers, bus drivers and rest-stop workers are being enlisted to spot terrorists. Is this comforting news?
04.Jul.2004 Midwest Theaters Ban 'Fahrenheit 9/11' : R.L. Fridley, owner of Des Moines-based Fridley Theatres, says the controversial documentary incites terrorism.
04.Jul.2004 FBI Raids Islamic Institute In Virginia: US federal agents raided an Islamic institute in Northern Virginia on Thursday,
01.Jul.2004 with no reasons cited, a move seen by an American Muslim civil rights group as a "new fishing expedition".
04.Jul.2004 Republicans After Fahrenheit 9/11: The ‘5 stages of Change.’ - The first stage is denial
04.Jul.2004 Michael Moore: The Patriot's Act: What's more American than asking questions?
04.Jul.2004 Chris Floyd : And so it's come to this. The American people - proud heirs of a bold revolutionary spirit now marking the 228th anniversary of its fiery eruption into the world --
have been reduced to thanking the robed Olympians on the U.S. Supreme Court for preserving a few crumbs of the nation's once-vast ancient liberties.
04.Jul.2004 Reward veterans with better fate than homelessness: According to statistics compiled by the Department of Veterans Affairs,
23 percent of the homeless are combat veterans, even though this group comprises only 9 percent of the U.S. population.
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04.Jul.2004 www.octobersurprise.net
URL: https://cgi.citizen-times.com/cgi-bin/story/columnist/57183?storytemplate=columnist
04.Jul.2004 called "When the War Hits Home: U.S. Plans for Martial Law, Tele-Governance and the Suspension of Elections" by Wayne Madsen and John Stanton at www.counterpunch.org/madsen0514.html .
URL: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/storyprint.cfm?storyID=3576312
04.Jul.2004 A former Mossad spy living in New Zealand has said he suspects the agency is behind the scam.
He said New Zealand passports were prized by spy agencies, particularly Israel's, because they didn't arouse the suspicion of border officials,
particularly in the Arab world which regarded the New Zealand as sympathetic to Palestinians.
If the men were Mossad, he said, it was unlikely to be the first time the spy agency had tried to get New Zealand passports.
URL: https://cgi.citizen-times.com/cgi-bin/story/columnist/57183?storytemplate=columnist
00.000.2003 -In a interview- Gen. Tommy Franks ran the martial law flag up the pole, stating that a major terrorist attack might mean discarding the Constitution in favor of a military government.
You can check out this option in an article called
"When the War Hits Home: U.S. Plans for Martial Law, Tele-Governance and the Suspension of Elections" by Wayne Madsen + John Stanton at www.counterpunch.org/madsen0514.html .
URL: https://cgi.citizen-times.com/cgi-bin/story/columnist/57183?storytemplate=columnist
23.Jul.2003 Johns Hopkins' Information Security Institute issued a report asserting that Diebold's voting machine software contained "stunning flaws" + that
vote totals could be modified by remote access. California recently decertified all electronic touch-screen voting machines in the state + may bring criminal + civil charges against Diebold for using uncertified software.
But here's where the story really gets interesting.
00.000.2003 In a invitation to a Bush fundraiser, Diebold CEO Wally O'Dell stated, "I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
O'Dell was named a pioneer by the 02.Nov.2004 Bush campaign, having raised at least $100,000 in campaign contributions so far.
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25.Jul.2004 What `October Surprise' might be in store for Americans this fall? By Bruce Mulkey
"Then I'll get on my knees and pray, we don't get fooled again." - The Who
Fast forward to mid-00.Oct.2004 : President Bush continues to trail Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry in the presidential election polls,
not so much because Kerry has electrified the American electorate, but because he's not Bush. Then it happens - the "October Surprise."
The original "October Surprise" was allegedly carried out in 00.Oct.1980 by officials of Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign.
Iranian militants had stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 00.000.1979 -taking approximately 66 American hostages.
President Jimmy Carter's administration pursued the return of the hostages but had little success.
Years later, former Carter administration staffer Gary Sick attributed Carter's setback in this matter to overtures made to the Iranian government by officials of the Reagan campaign.
By encouraging the Iranians to continue holding the hostages beyond the 00.Nov.1980 presidential election, the Reagan supporters believed that their candidate would have a much better opportunity to unseat Carter. Whether or not Reagan's entourage actually convinced the Iranians to withhold the release of the hostages is still rigorously disputed.
What is beyond dispute, however, is that Iran released the remaining hostages on 20.Jan.1981 -immediately after Reagan took office.
So if you were Karl Rove, Bush's top political strategist + your candidate was slipping in the polls, what re- election strategy would you be cooking up right now?
04.Jul.2004 Musharraf Government is protecting Osama, says Benazir : Mocking the wild-goose chase for Osama bin Laden, the former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto today suggested that the best place to look for him was in the "basement of the presidency of Pakistan".
04.Jul.2004 Congressman suggests Bush hiding Osama: 'They are trying to decide what day they should bring him out'
04.Jul.2004 Iraq Group Denies Killing Abducted U.S. Soldier: The Army of Ansar al-Sunna issued a statement on its Web site on Sunday denying reports that it had killed a U.S. soldier abducted in Iraq.
04.Jul.2004 Rumsfeld gave go-ahead for Abu Ghraib tactics, says general in charge :The former head of the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad has for the first time accused the American Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld, of directly authorising Guantanamo Bay-style interrogation tactics.
04.Jul.2004 Robert Fisk: US military tried to censor coverage of Saddam hearing: A team of US military officers acted as censors over all coverage of the hearings of Saddam Hussein + his henchmen
on Thursday, destroying videotape of Saddam in chains and deleting the entire recorded legal submissions of 11 senior members of his former regime.
04.Jul.2004 Report: The 'real' costs of the Iraq war: In the run-up to the Iraq war, administration officials gave the impression, co-author Phyllis Bennys points out,
that the cost of reconstruction would be largely covered by Iraqi oil revenues.
04.Jul.2004 Critics say Iraq fund was suspiciously tapped before handover: U.S. officials in charge of the Development Fund for Iraq drained all but $900 million from the $20 billion fund by 01.Jun.2001 in what one watchdog group has called an “11th-hour splurge.”
04.Jul.2004 UK: Spy chiefs to censor hard-hitting Butler report: The intelligence services are to censor Lord Butler's report into their own failures in the run-up to the Iraq war.
04.Jul.2004 Baghdad accuses Iran, Syria of supporting insurgents: Hoshyar Zebari, Iraqi foreign minister, did not name the foreign powers, but
the Sunday Telegraph quoted "senior Iraqi officials" as indicating "that Iran + Syria were the worst offenders".
04.Jul.2004 Chalabi misled US planners on potential resistance in Iraq: :US war planners underestimated the job of establishing security in Iraq after the
00.Mar.2003 invasion because they "chose the wrong analysis" under the influence of prominent Iraqi exile Ahmed Chalabi, Britain's former envoy to Baghdad revealed.
04.Jul.2004 Israeli interrogators 'in Iraq': The US officer at the heart of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal says she has evidence that Israelis helped to interrogate Iraqis at another facility.
04.Jul.2004 Israeli Occupation Force kills five Palestinians in Gaza Strip: An Israeli military source said soldiers fired warning shots into the air when protesters threw cement blocks and stones at them
04.Jul.2004 Israel Urges U.S. To Ignore World Court Ruling: The Zionist state's foreign minister also pressed for U.S. support to block any U.N. action against Israel, the Washington Times reported Saturday.
04.Jul.2004 Israeli arms sales to Turkey a target : Turkey's progress toward membership in the European Community will negatively influence the strategic relationship between Turkey + Israel +
may halt Israeli weapons sales to the country in a matter of months
04.Jul.2004 Israel and Turkey fall out over Palestinian crackdown : But worsening relations between the two countries have worried Washington so much that President George W Bush reportedly raised the issue with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan while in Istanbul last week for the Nato summit.
URL: https://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=446844
04.Jul.2004 Defense analysts note that the U.S. sees strategic importance in Turkey's joining the EU, as it regards Turkey as a model proving that there is no contradiction between a Muslim state and a democratic one.
URL: https://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=446844
04.Jul.2004 The Defense Ministry stresses that, even now, without reference to Erdogan's aspiration to join the EU, Turkey has begun to change its strategic relationship with Israel, as it moves closer to Syria, Iraq + Iran, which are no longer the threat they were to Turkey before the U.S. attack on Iraq. A powerful expression of the change can be seen in Erdogan's criticism of Israel's actions in the territories. At the same time, the opinion also asserts that Turkey still sees Israel as its partner in this part of the world and, therefore, where security and economic interests are concerned, there has been no change for the worse.
URL: https://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=446844
04.Jul.2004 An EU decision to delay membership for Turkey will cause the Turkish military to grow stronger, to the point of deposing Erdogan and declaring new elections. The Defense Ministry believes one of the first moves would then be a large arms deal with Israel. According to Defense Ministry analysts, the Turkish military has no choice but to sit tight at present. On one hand, Erdogan is leading a popular move by forging a relationship with the West, a policy also accepted by the military. On the other hand, the EU requires that the military be restained and its influence on Turkish legislation be limited. The Defense Ministry believes that if the EU postpones setting a date for Turkey's joining the EU, it will be perceived as an insult that the military will not be able to ignore, and they will move to unseat Erdogan.
URL: https://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=446844
04.Jul.2004 A decision to put Turkey on a course toward membership will strengthen Erdogan + weaken the military, according to the Defense Ministry. EU membership will mean that the Turkish government will wield all its influence to make arms deals with EU countries instead of with Israel. Since 1996, when the strategic dialogue between Israel and Turkey began, numerous deals have been signed with the Israeli arms industry in order to "punish" EU countries, which have refused Turkey as a member, the Israeli defense establishment says.
URL: https://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=446844
04.Jul.2004 In December, the heads of the EU will decide on a date for Turkey to join the path leading to full membership in the union. Since 1999, Turkey has maintained a unique position as "a candidate for full membership," while 10 countries from central and eastern Europe have joined as full members in the interim.
04.Jul.2004 Israeli arms sales to Turkey a target : Turkey's progress toward membership in the European Community will negatively influence the strategic relationship between Turkey and Israel + may halt Israeli weapons sales to the country in a matter of months
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05.Jul.2004 All The World A Stage, Says Saddam
04.Jul.2004 Asia Times Online -When Saddam Hussein appeared before an Iraqi court on Thursday, he appeared focused and very much in control of his faculties.
The censored transcript shown proved that he was both defiant and unrepentant. How is he perceived in Iraq, the Arab world + the Third World in general?
People in the world at large watched the Iraqi dictator's appearance with acute attention. In his last public pictures in December - in the immediate aftermath of his capture from a hole in the ground where he had apparently been hiding for several months - he appeared shabby, unkempt, confused and almost deranged. Those pictures led to speculation that he might have been drugged by his captors + was purposely shown in a humiliating manner to dishearten his supporters. The expectations on the United States side were that, by viewing the former Iraqi ruler in an appalling and shameful way, his supporters would even consider abandoning their aspirations to fight against the occupation forces. The continued violence and terrorism since then did not fulfill those expectations. However, it cannot be stated with any amount of certainty that the perpetrators of violence and terrorism in Iraq were mainly, or even substantially, the supporters of Saddam.
Now, Saddam seems to have regained his old confidence. It is possible that in his present frame of reference, he sees no prospects of living much longer. After all, he should know what any Iraqi government has to offer him. It is possible that the man who is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people is now ready to die + wants to face death appearing to be defiant, even audacious. That is also the Arab way, and especially that of an Arab hero. Saddam envisions himself no lesser than the great Muslim warrior, Salahuddin Ayubi of Tikrit - Saddam's own hometown - or any other great Muslim Arab hero. Thus, at least in this appearance, he is very much speaking to history.
Saddam's supporters in Iraq are definitely shocked and elated. They are shocked to see their leader in the dock - with handcuffs - as a criminal, but they are also elated to watch his noncompliant mannerism to the representative of the interim Iraqi government, which, from their perspective, is the symbol of American occupation, and is doing the dirty work of its American "puppeteers". When Saddam dies, they will surely remember him for his appearances during these trials.
For the Iraqi Shi'ites and Kurds, any amount of time spent in trying the dictator + allowing his defense team to pull all sorts of legal shenanigans to postpone his much-deserved death is a sheer waste of time. They would love to see a very short trial, at the end of which the dictator should be hanged. That is one reason why they cheered the decision of the current Iraqi president, Ghazi al-Yawar, to reinstate the death penalty in Iraq, an option that was outlawed by the former Coalition Provisional Authority.
For the Arab world at large, Saddam has become a symbol of defiance to the Bush administration.
The Arab masses surely haven't forgotten the fact that his regime had the support of the US during the nine-year long Iran-Iraq war
in the 1980s, when Saddam used chemical weapons against the Iranians and the Kurds. There were no international outcries when those tragedies happened. The US's rationale for siding with Saddam during that war was that he was envisaged as the lesser of two evils, compared with the Islamic revolutionary fervor sweeping Iran. As such, he had to prevail over Iran.
In fact, Donald Rumsfeld, then serving as special envoy of president Ronald Reagan, met with Saddam in December 1983. The purpose of that meeting was to discuss "regional issues of mutual interest" and the "shared approach toward Iran and Syria".
Much of the Arab public does not understand why the US government subsequently made all that fuss in 2002 and 2003 over Saddam's use of chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq war. A predominant Arab perspective is that the decision was made by the administration of President George W Bush to oust Saddam. All the "rationales" for doing so were conjured up later on. As such, those rationales were nothing but fleeting afterthoughts. First, it was the alleged presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq + Saddam's purported use of those weapons against the US or the United Kingdom. When those weapons were not found, the very act of ousting his regime became a noble objective for the US. Arab public opinion continues to scoff at and ridicule all those rationales. Thus, Saddam had an audience in the Arab world when he stated during his hearing that his trial was a theater. "Everyone knows," he said, "this is a theater by Bush the criminal in an attempt to win the election."
Third World perspectives regarding Saddam are not that much different from the ones that prevail in the Arab world. No one admires the Iraqi dictator. However, there is a general understanding that, at one time, his regime fulfilled the purpose of keeping Iran engaged in a bloody war, thereby preventing that country from exporting its Islamic revolution into the neighboring Gulf region. That was what the US wanted. America's friends on the Arab side of the Gulf were truly fearful of being thrown into the dustbin of history a la the Shah of Iran. Washington knew that no ruler of the Arab side of the Gulf was any less dictatorial, corrupt or inept than the former ruler of Iran, thus, were very much vulnerable to becoming victims of cataclysmic change, like the Islamic revolution of Iran 00.000.1979 .
All Arab Gulf states pursued policies that were solely aimed at prolonging their corrupt and autocratic regimes. However, maintaining them in power - especially at the expense of defeating all Iranian endeavors to upset the political status quo - was very much a part of America's vital interests. Saddam played an important role in keeping Iran engaged + thereby preventing it from radically transforming the political map of the Persian Gulf. So, in the Third World at large, while Saddam was not considered a hero, he certainly is not regarded as the "Hitler-like" dictator that the Bush administration depicted him in the days preceding the US invasion of Iraq.
There is little doubt that, as a former Middle Eastern dictator, Saddam will die. Losers or bad guys in that part of the world face a certain death, while bad guys in Europe (eg Slabodan Milasovic) go through the process of prolonged trial, at the end of which the chances of their survival are pretty decent. However, Saddam's life or death is no longer a relevant phenomenon for continued political stability or the return of civility or democracy in that country. Only the Iraqis will play an important role in the evolution of such a system. Right now, they are busy deciding whether the interim government is indeed a legitimate one. If they were to grant the extant government its direly needed legitimacy, that would indeed be an important step toward democratization of Iraq. In the meantime, a fair trial for the former dictator - who was never fair to his subjects while he was in power - will speak volumes about what kind of Iraq will emerge in the coming months and years.
04.Jul.2004 Israel Urges U.S. To Ignore World Court Ruling: The Zionist state's foreign minister also pressed for U.S. support to block any U.N. action against Israel, the Washington Times reported Saturday.
04.Jul.2004 Spy chiefs to censor hard-hitting Butler report URL: https://news.independent.co.uk/low_res/story.jsp?story=537880&host=3&dir=62
URL: https://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=537880
04.Jul.2004 The committee, sources say, will focus in particular on two claims in the dossier: that Iraq could have WMD ready for use in 45 minutes + that it had sought uranium from Africa.
To the relief of Downing Street, Lord Hutton ruled in January that it was not his job to decide on the reliability of the intelligence in the dossier. But the following month a controversy erupted in Washington over WMD claims. President Bush announced an inquiry into intelligence failures in the run-up to the Iraq war + the Prime Minister was forced to follow suit.
URL: https://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=537880
04.Jul.2004 The intelligence services are to censor Lord Butler's report into their own failures in the run-up to the Iraq war.
The revelation, which comes from official sources, will fuel controversy over next week's report, which The Independent on Sunday has learnt will criticise Downing Street for its role in the 2002 dossier on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. Alastair Campbell, No 10's former director of communications + John Scarlett, the dossier's author, now about to take over as head of MI6, could be singled out.
A senior government source admitted last night that the intelligence services would be allowed to block out passages of the report before it is made public on 14 July. It is not known whether Mr Scarlett will be consulted.
04.Jul.2004 Chalabi misled US planners on potential resistance in Iraq: :US war planners underestimated the job of establishing security in Iraq after the March 2003 invasion because they "chose the wrong analysis" under the influence of prominent Iraqi exile Ahmed Chalabi, Britain's former envoy to Baghdad revealed.
URL: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/07/04/wtort04.xml&site=5
00.000.1998 -report-According to a- by Mr Flyer, one third of military recruits had arrest records.
00.000.1995 A report found that a quarter of serving army personnel had committed one or more criminal offences while on active duty.
00.000.2003 -In his study- Mr Flyer said that military personnel officers had been reluctant to toughen up screening procedures, fearing that the result would be a failure to meet recruitment goals.
Curtis Gilroy, who oversees military recruiting policy for the Pentagon, told the Los Angeles Times: "It's hard to pick out all the bad apples, but we are striving to improve the system and are doing so."
27.Jun.2004 Disgraced Abu Ghraib guard claims she is seen as a heroine
25.Jun.2004 US Abu Ghraib officer blames 'CIA' for abuse
24.Jun.2004 Pentagon sanctioned harsh interrogation of suspects
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04.Jul.2004 The former head of the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad has for the first time accused the American Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld, of directly authorising Guantanamo Bay-style interrogation tactics.
Brig-Gen Janis Karpinski, who commanded the 800th Military Police Brigade, which is at the centre of the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal, said that documents yet to be released by the Pentagon would show that Mr Rumsfeld personally approved the introduction of harsher conditions of detention in Iraq.
04.Jul.2004 Rumsfeld gave go-ahead for Abu Ghraib tactics, says general in charge :The former head of the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad has for the first time accused the American Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld, of directly authorising Guantanamo Bay-style interrogation tactics.
URL: https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6426.htm
04.Jul.2004 Judge Juhi said not long ago that "I have no secrets--a judge must not be ashamed of the decisions he takes." The Americans apparently think differently. The Independent
URL: https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6426.htm
04.Jul.2004 Three US officers viewed the tapes taken by two CNN cameras, 'Al-Djezaira' (a local, American-funded Iraqi channel) + the US government. "Fortunately, they were lazy and they didn't check all the tapes properly so we got our 'audio' through in the satellite to London," one of the crew members told The Independent yesterday. "I had pretended to unplug the sound from the camera but the man who claimed he was a US admiral didn't understand cameras and we were able to record sound. The American censors at the embassy were inattentive--that's how we got the sound out."
The only thing the Americans managed to censor from most of the tapes was Saddam's comment that "this is theatre--Bush is the real criminal."
URL: https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6426.htm
03.Jul.2004 "The Independent" -- A team of US military officers acted as censors over all coverage of the hearings of Saddam Hussein and his henchmen on Thursday, destroying videotape of Saddam in chains and deleting the entire recorded legal submissions of 11 senior members of his former regime.
A US network cameraman who demanded the return of his tapes, which contained audios of the hearings, said he was told by a US officer: "No. They belong to us now. And anyway, we don't trust you guys."
According to American journalists present at the 30-minute hearing of Saddam + 11 former ministers at Baghdad airport, an American admiral in civilian clothes told camera crews that the judge had demanded that there should be no sound recording of the initial hearing. He ordered crews to unplug their sound wires.
Several of the six crews present pretended to obey the instruction. "We learnt later," one of them said, "that the judge didn't order us to turn off our sound. The Americans lied--it was they who wanted no sound.
The judge wanted sound and pictures."
Initially, crews were told that a US Department of Defence camera crew would provide the sound for their silent tapes.
But when CNN + CBS crews went to the former occupation authority headquarters--now the US embassy-- they found that three US officers ordered the censorship of tape which showed Saddam being led into the courtroom with a chain round his waist which was connected to handcuffs round his wrists. The Americans gave no reason for this censorship.
"They were rude + they didn't care," another American television crew member said. "They were running the show. The USA decided what the world could and could not see of this trial + it was meant to be an Iraqi trial. There was a British official in the courtroom whom we were not allowed to take pictures of. The other men were US troops who had been ordered to wear ordinary clothes so that they were 'civilians' in the court."
URL: https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/0,1518,307091,00.html
04.Jul.2004 Auf Druck aus Washington werde vor allem Großbritannien den Fortbestand des Embargos sichern, so die Prognose der Zuarbeiter von Außenminister Joschka Fischer.
Die USA, heißt es im Auswärtigen Amt, wollten "keine europäischen Waffen in der Straße von Formosa", die bei einem amerikanisch-chinesischen Konflikt um Taiwan gegen US-Truppen eingesetzt werden könnten.
URL: https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,307200,00.html
04.Jul.2004 Das Kinderhilfswerk der Vereinten Nationen (Unicef) bestätige die Gefangennahme irakischer Kinder durch ausländisches Militär, berichtete "Report" unter Berufung auf einen internen Bericht der Organisation. Wörtlich heiße es in dem bislang unveröffentlichten Dokument vom
00.Jun.2004 : "Kinder, die in Basra + Kerbala wegen angeblich gegen die Besatzungsmächte gerichteter Aktivitäten festgenommen worden waren, wurden Berichten zufolge routinemäßig in eine Internierungseinrichtung in Umm Kasr überstellt. Die Einstufung dieser Kinder als Internierte ist Besorgnis erregend, da sie unbestimmten Gewahrsam ohne Kontakt mit der Familie, Erwartung eines Verfahrens oder Prozess beinhaltet."
URL: https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,307163,00.html
04.Jul.2004 Die Baukosten für den Freedom Tower werden auf 1,5 Milliarden $ geschätzt.
Jedoch hat der Pächter des Geländes, Larry Silverstein, bislang noch keinen Vertrag für die Nutzung des Freiheitsturms abgeschlossen.
Wegen ungeklärter Finanzierungsfragen ist es keineswegs sicher, ob bis 2015 alle fünf Bürotürme, die für die Neubebauung von Ground Zero vorgeschlagen wurden, auch wirklich errichtet werden.
Silverstein hat das gesamte World-Trade-Center-Gelände für zehn Millionen $ im Monat von der New Yorker Hafenbehörde, der Port Authority, gepachtet; der Vertrag läuft über insgesamt 99 Jahre.
Nach der Zerstörung des World Trade Centers hoffte er auf die Auszahlung einer Versicherungssumme von zwei Mal 3,5 Milliarden $.
Nach einer jüngsten Gerichtsentscheidung kann er nun mit 4,5 Milliarden $ rechnen - mehr als genug für die Errichtung des Freiheitsturms.
URL: https://www.spiegel.de/
04.Jul.2004 IRAK Mehr als 100 Kinder inhaftiert - Bericht über Misshandlungen durch US-Soldaten
Mehr als 100 Kinder sind nach Informationen des Internationalen Roten Kreuzes in irakischen Gefängnissen inhaftiert, darunter auch in berüchtigten Knast Abu Ghraib.
Wie das TV-Magazin "Report" berichtet, soll es auch zu Misshandlungen von Kindern und Jugendlichen durch Koalitionstruppen gekommen sein.