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Attendance drops at MacDill's AirFest. War no longer cool?
Post Date: 2008-05-04 16:29:16 by PSUSA
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TAMPA — Jesse Brincefield and his wife, Loren, have attended so many annual air shows at MacDill Air Force base, they've lost count. But the Hudson couple never had an experience like the one Saturday. No traffic. Shorter lines for food and drink. Room to walk around. "Last year, you couldn't move," said Loren. "This year, it's wide open." MacDill spokeswoman Rebecca Heyse said attendance was down from previous years, judging from all the available parking. An estimated 60,000 came to the event Saturday, a sharp drop from last year's 150,000. "We knew it would be a struggle because of the parking. We had about 5,000 fewer parking spaces than ...
Liberation; Truth's Traitor
Post Date: 2008-05-04 16:26:47 by robin
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Liberation; Truth's TraitorBy Felicity ArbuthnotGlobal Research, May 4, 2008 The world is about to witness more “justice” in Iraq. It will be summary execution, ordered by a U.S. convened Court, under United States and United Kingdom jurisdiction and responsibility, as occupying forces. Another trial, another lynch mob, this time of Iraq's former Deputy Prime Minster and Foreign Minister, Tareq Aziz, which began on 29th April and will resume on 20th May.He stands trial with Ali Hassan al-Majid, already sentenced to death for the campaign against the Kurds in the late eighties (whatever about the shocking harshness of the retribution, many had ceded to Iran, against their ...
INTERVIEW-"Torture is terrorism", ex-Guantanamo man tells US
Post Date: 2008-05-04 13:09:39 by richard9151
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Fri May 2, 2008 1:56pm EDT KHARTOUM, May 2 (Reuters) - Al Jazeera journalist Sami al-Haj returned home to Sudan on Friday after more than six years in the U.S.-run Guantanamo Bay prison, urging Washington to respect human rights and branding torture as terrorism. Haj said he and the other Guantanamo detainees had been subjected to all kinds of torture, but the worst had been when his jailers insulted Islam or desecrated the Koran in front of prisoners. "Security and human rights are inseparable issues -- you cannot have one without the other," he told Reuters in an interview. "Human rights are not only for times of peace -- you need to hold onto them always even during ...
An ex-SAS veteran reveals the antics of 'security experts' helping to lose the war on terror
Post Date: 2008-05-04 08:03:50 by PSUSA
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As soon as I saw her, I knew there'd be hell to pay. The scene before me was utter bedlam: hundreds of people in the street looting, while the sound of AK47 gunfire cracked from burning government buildings. Everywhere, there were defaced portraits of Saddam - some with the eyes scratched out, others painted over or burnt. The British "liberation" of Basra was entering its third day, and I was working as a private security consultant for ITN, protecting their crews as they reported on a war which was less than a month old. They had been tipped tip off that the Sheraton Hotel - a symbol of the West - had been set alight, and they wanted to get some footage. While the ...
Psychologists Collaborated with "War on Terror" Torture Program
Post Date: 2008-05-04 03:57:45 by robin
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Psychologists Collaborated with "War on Terror" Torture Program By Tom BurghardtGlobal Research, May 3, 2008 Antifascist Calling... Antifascist Calling...Newly declassified documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from the Department of Defense (DoD) expose the role played by psychologists in the illegal interrogation of prisoners at CIA and Pentagon detention facilities in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.According to ACLU staff attorney Amrit Singh, "The documents reveal that psychologists and medical personnel played a key role in sustaining prisoner abuse -- a clear violation of their ethical and legal obligations. The documents ...
War Propaganda: Disneyland goes to war-torn Iraq
Post Date: 2008-05-04 03:55:00 by robin
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War Propaganda: Disneyland goes to war-torn IraqBy Michel ChossudovskyGlobal Research, April 28, 2008Disneyland goes to war-torn Iraq, with a multi-million dollar entertainment complex, to be built on a 50 acre lot adjacent to the Green Zone. ("Fun park rises from ruins of Baghdad zoo", The Times, London, 24 April 2008)The American-style amusement park will feature a skateboard park, rides, a concert theatre and a museum. The occupation forces are of the opinion that Baghdad is "lacking in entertainment". General David Petraeus, is said to be a “big supporter” of bringing Disneyland to Baghdad. Fox News considers the project as a "market signal that the ...
Despite Alert, Flawed Wiring Still Kills G.I.’s
Post Date: 2008-05-04 00:57:43 by bush_is_a_moonie
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In October 2004, the United States Army issued an urgent bulletin to commanders across Iraq, warning them of a deadly new threat to American soldiers. Because of flawed electrical work by contractors, the bulletin stated, soldiers at American bases in Iraq had received severe electrical shocks, and some had even been electrocuted. The bulletin, with the headline “The Unexpected Killer,” was issued after the horrific deaths of two soldiers who were caught in water — one in a shower, the other in a swimming pool — that was suddenly electrified after poorly grounded wiring short-circuited. “We’ve had several shocks in showers and near misses here in Baghdad, as ...
Despite Alert, Flawed Wiring Still Kills G.I.’s
Post Date: 2008-05-03 19:13:31 by robin
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May 4, 2008 Despite Alert, Flawed Wiring Still Kills G.I.’s By JAMES RISEN At a 173rd Airborne base in Shin Kay, Afghanistan, in 2005, an outdoor, 200-ampere breaker panel, above, was uncovered and wired from the top. Its exposure to water made it unsafe, said Jeffrey Bliss, an electrician who worked for KBR, the military contractor. WASHINGTON — In October 2004, the United States Army issued an urgent bulletin to commanders across Iraq, warning them of a deadly new threat to American soldiers. Because of flawed electrical work by contractors, the bulletin stated, soldiers at American bases in Iraq had received severe electrical shocks, and some had even been electrocuted. ...
Contractors Gone Wild-News: Theft, hookers, melting down Iraqi gold to make cowboy spurs—all in a day's work for private military contractors in Iraq?
Post Date: 2008-05-03 17:07:37 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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The hearing was on Monday. I was just reading an article about it. It hasn't been on the news as far as I know....I wonder why! Contractors Gone Wild http://www.motherjones.com/washington_dispatch/2008/05/contractor-fraud-and-theft-in-iraq.html News: Theft, hookers, melting down Iraqi gold to make cowboy spurs—all in a day's work for private military contractors in Iraq? By Bruce Falconer May 2, 2008 Allegations of widespread mismanagement and corruption among private contractors in Iraq are nothing new; if anything, tales of cronyism, over-billing, and embezzlement have become so frequent that our national tolerance for them seems only to have increased as the Iraq War ...
Iraq Boy's Family Describes Fatal Blast
Post Date: 2008-05-03 14:38:49 by Red Jones
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Iraq Boy's Family Describes Fatal Blast Parents Tell ABC News About the US Bombing that Killed Their 2-Year-Old Boy By MARCUS BARAM May 2, 2008— Just like any other day, the Hussein family was getting ready for lunch at their home in Baghdad, Iraq, when the house suddenly shook and the brick walls came down around them. That was the dramatic account told to ABC News by the parents of 2-year-old Ali Hussein, the Iraqi boy killed during a fierce battle in Sadr City Tuesday. Dramatic photographs of Hussein's dust-covered body being pulled out of the rubble of his home appeared on front pages and TV news reports around the world. When a U.S. patrol in the Shiite militia ...
Air raid hits Baghdad hospital, US says 14 fighters dead
Post Date: 2008-05-03 12:52:09 by Red Jones
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Air raid hits Baghdad hospital, US says 14 fighters dead by Jacques Charmelot Sat May 3, 7:25 AM ET A US air strike damaged a hospital in the Iraqi capital's violent Shiite stronghold of Sadr City on Saturday, injuring 20 people, as American forces claimed to have killed 14 militiamen. The US military said it carried out the strike in Sadr City, a bastion of anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, where US troops in separate confrontations killed at least 14 militiamen since Friday. "I can confirm that we conducted a strike in Sadr City this morning," a US military spokesman told AFP. "The targets were known criminal elements. Battle damage assessment is currently ...
Ex-Iraq commander accuses Bush Administration of 'gross incompetence'
Post Date: 2008-05-02 21:46:12 by robin
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In a new memoir set to be published May 6, the former commander of US forces in Iraq provides new intimate details of the goings-on at high levels of the Bush Administration in the first year of the Iraq war. His sharp tongued conclusion: "Hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars were unnecessarily spent, and worse yet, too many of our most precious military resource, our American soldiers, were unnecessarily wounded, maimed, and killed as a result. In my mind, this action by the Bush administration amounts to gross incompetence and dereliction of duty." An excerpt from Sanchez's book, Wiser in Battle: A Soldier's Story, published in TIME, buries the quotation on the ...
Olbermann: How do we reignite anger over this godforsaken war?
Post Date: 2008-05-02 21:43:03 by robin
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May 1 was the fifth anniversary of George Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” speech, in which he claimed, “Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.” MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann began his commemoration of this anniversary by saying there had been nothing comparable to Bush’s “misleading, disingenuous, deliberately deceptive” speech since Neville Chamberlain’s declaration of “peace for our time” after capitulating to Hitler in 1938. Olbermann noted that even now the administration keeps insisting that the only problem with the speech was that the huge “Mission ...
Pat Tillman’s mother still not sure she’s being told the truth
Post Date: 2008-05-02 21:42:02 by robin
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The mother of Pat Tillman is speaking out about her son’s death in her first television interview, to be broadcast this Sunday on 60 Minutes. Tillman, a pro football player, joined the military after 9/11 and was killed in action in Afghanistan in 2004. The Army initially lauded him as a hero who had died storming a hill in the face of enemy fire and even awarded him the Silver Star. They only revealed five weeks later that he had actually died by friendly fire. The Tillman family has spent years trying to get at the facts of what happened and who was responsible for the cover-up. Even today, they are not convinced it was as innocent an accident as the military claims. “When I ...
Democrats Okay Funds for Covert Ops -- Secret Bush "Finding" Widens War on Iran
Post Date: 2008-05-02 18:11:39 by richard9151
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02/05/08 "Counterpunch" -- - Six weeks ago, President Bush signed a secret finding authorizing a covert offensive against the Iranian regime that, according to those familiar with its contents, "unprecedented in its scope." Bush’s secret directive covers actions across a huge geographic area – from Lebanon to Afghanistan – but is also far more sweeping in the type of actions permitted under its guidelines – up to and including the assassination of targeted officials. This widened scope clears the way, for example, for full support for the military arm of Mujahedin-e Khalq, the cultish Iranian opposition group, despite its enduring position on the ...
Bush details $70 billion war funding request for 2009
Post Date: 2008-05-02 15:08:37 by richard9151
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1 hour, 50 minutes ago WASHINGTON - President Bush sent lawmakers a $70 billion request Friday to fund U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan into next spring, which would give the next president breathing room to make his or her own war policy. Friday's request fills in the details of the $70 billion placeholder that the White House asked for when it sent its budget to Congress in February. The money is for the budget year that begins Oct. 1. Congressional analysts say Bush's request would bring the total spending since Sept. 11, 2001, to fight terrorism and conduct the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to $875 billion. The request comes as Democrats on Capitol Hill are struggling ...
SHOCKER: Army Ranger killed in Afghanistan -- on 7th tour
Post Date: 2008-05-02 11:19:23 by aristeides
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SHOCKER: Army Ranger killed in Afghanistan -- on 7th tour by GregMitch [Subscribe] Fri May 02, 2008 at 07:56:03 AM PDT Yesterday, amid all of the Mission Accomplished "nostalgia" and reports on the April death toll in Iraq hitting a new recent high of 50, one particular fatality in Afghanistan nearly escaped attention. I did an item about it over at Editor & Publisher which did get widely linked, but I will now bring it to you here. Meanwhile, let's keep in mind that as of May 1, according to the Pentagon, at least 425 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan since late 2001. Of those, the military reports 292 were killed by hostile ...
Karen Kwiatkowski: War and Decision: Doug Feith Explains (why he's a warmongering shit)
Post Date: 2008-05-02 10:22:40 by ghostdogtxn
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An Urgent Memo to the SecDef
Post Date: 2008-05-02 00:11:22 by rack42
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On May 13 about 70 percent of Iraq's mobile telephone network will cease to operate. This will be a serious blow to the Iraqi economy. Moreover, a shutdown of Iraq's mobile phone network - upon which our own people in Baghdad rely to communicate, by the way -- will greatly diminish our intelligence gathering on al Qaeda in Iraq, thus de-railing our counter-insurgency strategy of relying on tips telephoned to us by Iraqis. And that will cost American lives. Here's what's happening: The primary mobile phone network in Iraq is operated by a Kuwaiti company called Zain Group. Zain also operates cell phone networks in other Mideast countries including Saudi Arabia, Jordan, ...
Al-Jazeera cameraman freed from Guantanamo after 6 years
Post Date: 2008-05-02 00:01:51 by richard9151
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2 hours, 22 minutes ago KHARTOUM, Sudan - An Al-Jazeera cameraman was released from U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay and returned home to Sudan early Friday after six years of imprisonment that drew worldwide protests. Sami al-Haj, who had been on a hunger strike for 16 months, grimaced as he was carried off a U.S. military plane by American personnel in Sudan's capital, Khartoum. He was put on a stretcher and taken straight to a hospital. Al-Jazeera showed footage of al-Haj being carried into the hospital, looking feeble and with his eyes closed, but smiling. Some of the men surrounding his stretcher were kissing him on the cheek. "Thank God ... for being free again," he ...
US missile strike kills reputed al-Qaida leader in Somalia
Post Date: 2008-05-01 23:33:37 by Red Jones
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US missile strike kills reputed al-Qaida leader in Somalia By MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN, Associated Press Writer Thu May 1, 6:22 PM ET this is the man they targeted U.S. missiles destroyed the house of the man identified by the U.S. military as the top al-Qaida commander in Somalia, killing him and 10 others Thursday in a pre-dawn attack that analysts warned could torpedo peace talks. The killing of Aden Hashi Ayro comes amid escalating fighting and a spiraling humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa nation. Islamic fighters have staged a series of attacks on towns in the months leading up to the U.N.-sponsored talks, scheduled to start May 10. The insurgents typically hold the towns ...
Relax, Celebrate Victory (RICHARD PERLE IN MAY 2003)
Post Date: 2008-05-01 22:48:22 by aristeides
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Relax, Celebrate Victory From start to finish, President Bush has led the United States and its coalition partners to the most important military victory since World War II. And like the allied victory over the axis powers, the liberation of Iraq is more than the end of a brutal dictatorship: It is the foundation for a decent, humane government that will represent all the people of Iraq. This was a war worth fighting. It ended quickly with few civilian casualties and with little damage to Iraq's cities, towns or infrastructure. It ended without the Arab world rising up against us, as the war's critics feared, without the quagmire they predicted, without the heavy losses in ...
US officials: Decision On Confronting Iran Up To Iraq
Post Date: 2008-05-01 21:42:24 by richard9151
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01/05/08 "AP" -- - WASHINGTON -- Iraqi leaders have been given the latest U.S. evidence of Iranian support for militias inside Iraq, and Baghdad will decide what to do about it, two senior Pentagon officials said Wednesday. Marine Lt. Gen. John Sattler, director of strategy, plans and policy for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki possesses the evidence, which other officials said contradicts Tehran's stated commitment to stop providing arms, weapons technology and training to Shiite militias inside Iraq. "It's in Prime Minister al-Maliki's hands right now, the evidence as to whether or not he's been lied to -- bald-faced lied to ...
CIA Director Says Iran Wants to Kill Americans in Iraq
Post Date: 2008-05-01 21:33:31 by richard9151
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01/05/08 " -- - MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — CIA Director Michael Hayden said Wednesday that Iranian policy, at the highest government level, is to help kill Americans in Iraq, the boldest pronouncement of Iranian involvement by a U.S. official to date. Hayden made the statement in response to a student question while delivering the Landon Lecture at Kansas State University. "It is my opinion, it is the policy of the Iranian government, approved to highest level of that government, to facilitate the killing of Americans in Iraq," Hayden said. "Just make sure there's clarity on that." In recent weeks, U.S. officials have ratcheted up their complaints that Iran ...
Terminal operators say West Coast cargo traffic halted
Post Date: 2008-05-01 19:53:04 by Arete
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — West Coast cargo traffic came to a halt Thursday as port workers staged daylong anti-war protests, terminal operators said Thursday. Thousands of dockworkers did not show up for the morning shift, leaving ships and truck drivers idle at ports from Long Beach to Seattle, Pacific Maritime Association spokesman Steve Getzug said. Workers were expected to return for the start of the evening shift, he said. "There's no work happening so that means there's no cargo being unloaded and certainly being loaded either," Getzug said. Getzug could not immediately say how much the walkout would cost employers or how many dockworkers failed to show up to work. ...
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