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Cheney's Halliburton Options
Post Date: 2008-04-22 12:51:57 by Rupert_Pupkin
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US: Cheney's Halliburton Options Up 3,281% Last Year The Raw Story October 11th, 2005 An analysis released by a Democratic senator found that Vice President Dick Cheney's Halliburton stock options have risen 3,281 percent in the last year. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) asserts that Cheney's options -- worth $241,498 a year ago -- are now valued at more than $8 million. The former CEO of the oil and gas services juggernaut, Cheney has pledged to give proceeds to charity. The above graph released by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) charts the value of the Vice President's holdings in Halliburton in the past year. “ Halliburton has already raked in more than $10 ...
Iraqi leader calls for Arab support as militia threats grow
Post Date: 2008-04-21 20:52:27 by richard9151
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Mon Apr 21, 4:53 PM ET BAGHDAD - Iraq's prime minister appealed Monday for support from his Arab neighbors, urging them to open embassies and forgive Iraqi debts as his government tries to crack down on Shiite militias in a crucial power struggle. But the government plea came as militia leaders warned more violence could await. Followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, leader of the biggest militia, said they could widen the battles with the government — even asking supporters for blood donations to aid fighters injured during weeks of urban clashes. With tension rising, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki flew to Kuwait for a meeting Tuesday of Iraq's neighbors to discuss ...
US jets drop bombs on Sadr City
Post Date: 2008-04-21 19:16:39 by richard9151
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Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:42:45 US warplanes have dropped bombs on east Baghdad district of Sadr City where hundreds of civilians have already been killed in air strikes. Residents said low flying jets dropped bombs in sectors 22 and 24 of Sadr City, around midnight (2100 GMT Sunday). About two hours later, according to witnesses, helicopters fired missiles at four targets in Sadr City. The populated slum area has frequently been pounded by US aircraft or artillery. Many civilians have been killed and wounded as a result of the attacks. Click for Full Text!
Army doubled felony waivers for recruits in year of Iraq surge
Post Date: 2008-04-21 18:01:51 by robin
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The Army doubled the number of waivers it issued to allow convicted felons to enlist between 2006 and 2007, while felony waivers issued to Marine recruits increased by nearly 70 percent, according to newly released numbers from the Pentagon. The House Oversight Committee released the Department of Defense statistics Monday, and requested more explanation for the increase in criminals who have been allowed into the military's ranks. The Army issued 511 waivers in 2007, compared to 249 in 2006. The Marine Corps issued 350 waivers last year compared to 208 the year before. According to the new data, the Army and Marines have allowed recruits who have been convicted of assault with a ...
Pentagon propaganda over torture and Iraq revealed
Post Date: 2008-04-21 14:14:18 by tom007
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Pentagon propaganda over torture and Iraq revealed * Print Print * Email Email Search Search Go Independent.co.uk Web Bookmark & Share * Digg It * del.icio.us * Facebook * Stumbleupon What are these? Change font size: A | A | A By Leonard Doyle in Lancaster Monday, 21 April 2008 The Pentagon and the US media have been exposed for using pre-programmed “military analysts” to win hearts and minds of Americans over the war in Iraq, torture and detentions in Guantanamo Bay. Kenneth Allard, an NBC military analyst and teacher at National Defence University, described the propaganda exercise as a "coherent, active," sophisticated information operation." ...
Convicted Felons Enlist in Army, Marines
Post Date: 2008-04-21 12:34:39 by Rupert_Pupkin
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More convicted felons allowed to enlist in Army, Marines By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer 5 minutes ago Under pressure to increase their numbers, the Army and Marine Corps have sharply raised the number of recruits with felony convictions they are admitting to the services. Data released by a congressional committee shows that the number of soldiers admitted to the Army with felony records jumped from 249 in 2006 to 511 in 2007. And the number of Marines with felonies rose from 208 to 350. The bulk of the crimes involved were burglaries, other thefts, and drug offenses, but nine involved sex crimes and six involved manslaughter or vehicular homicide convictions. Several ...
A Navy lieutenant no more -- She ended career to protest assigning of sailors ashore
Post Date: 2008-04-21 01:26:27 by Ferret Mike
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Sabrina M. Weiner, 27, near her home in Everett on Friday. Weiner was a Navy reserve officer until she refused to go to Iraq in January. But for her, it wasn't the war itself. EVERETT -- Eleven years ago, Sabrina M. Weiner graduated as a valedictorian at Kamiak High School near Everett. She was a National Merit Scholar, aiming for a bright future after earning a Navy ROTC scholarship to Stanford University. Two months ago, Weiner, 27, forfeited her Navy career after seven years on active and reserve duty, during which she rose to the rank of lieutenant. In a rare instance involving a commissioned officer, Weiner was arrested and given a choice between a court-martial or ...
US to release 12,000 prisoners in Iraq (50 a day)
Post Date: 2008-04-20 22:20:17 by robin
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US to release 12,000 prisoners in IraqBy Damien McElroy, Foreign Affairs CorrespondentLast Updated: 3:03am BST 21/04/2008America plans to halve the number of detainees it is holding in Iraq by releasing more than 12,000 under a scheme designed to promote reconciliation with communities formerly sympathetic to the insurgency. US officers in Iraq told the Wall Street Journal yesterday that more than 50 prisoners per day would gain their freedom through the end of 2008. Over 12,000 prisoners are to be released from Iraqi prisonsThe vast majority of those in American custody are Sunni Muslims, including a hardcore of al-Qa'eda followers. However, officials estimate as few as 2,500 represent ...
Weary of war? Don’t collaborate
Post Date: 2008-04-20 11:37:03 by robin
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Weary of war? Don’t collaborateBy Kathy KellyOnline Journal Contributing Writer Apr 18, 2008, 00:12 An April 14 AP article by Anne Flaherty reported that U.S. senators and representatives are finding common ground in asking that Iraqis begin picking up the tab for the cost of war. The lawmakers are troubled that Iraqis might experience windfall surpluses of revenue generated by rising oil prices, while U.S. people bear the burden of paying for war in Iraq. “In hearings last week,” Flaherty writes, “Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., asked Defense Secretary Robert Gates whether Baghdad should start paying some U.S. combat costs, and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., raised the ...
Prosecuting No-Threat Stumblebums
Post Date: 2008-04-20 09:05:51 by Ada
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Earlier this week a federal judge in Miami declared a second mistrial in the case of the so-called "Liberty City 7," a group of men accused of a terrorist plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago. Only six men were on trial this time because last December a jury acquitted one of the so-called plotters and was deadlocked on the charges against the others, included the purported leader, one Narseal Batiste, 33, who was supposedly the leader of a self-styled sect called the Moorish Science Temple. The prosecution had at its disposal hundreds of FBI audio and video recordings documenting supposed plots, including one in which the men took an oath of allegiance to al-Qaeda. Perhaps ...
Al-Sadr Threatens "Open War Until Liberation"
Post Date: 2008-04-19 23:29:50 by robin
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BAGHDAD — Anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr gave a "final warning" to the government Saturday to halt a U.S.-Iraqi crackdown against his followers or he would declare "open war until liberation." A full-blown uprising by al-Sadr, who led two rebellions against U.S.-led forces in 2004, could lead to a dramatic increase in violence in Iraq at a time when the Sunni extremist group al-Qaida in Iraq appears poised for new attacks after suffering severe blows last year. Al-Sadr's warning appeared on his Web site as Iraq's Shiite-dominated government claimed success in a new push against Shiite militants in the southern city of Basra. Fighting claimed 14 ...
U.S. commanders urge wider Pakistan attacks: report
Post Date: 2008-04-19 21:36:45 by bush_is_a_moonie
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U.S. commanders in Afghanistan have recently urged expanding the war effort, possibly including U.S. attacks on indigenous Pakistani militants inside Pakistan's tribal areas, The New York Times reported in Sunday editions. Citing U.S. officials, the Times reported the requests had been rebuffed for now following internal Bush administration deliberations in which U.S. officials expressed fears that attacks on Pakistani radicals could foment anger within Pakistan's new government, which has been negotiating with the militants, and destabilize security there. One Bush administration official said the Washington discussions involved President George W. Bush's top national ...
Battle to retake Basra was 'complete disaster'
Post Date: 2008-04-19 21:35:33 by richard9151
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Last Updated: 12:34am BST 20/04/2008 The British-trained Iraqi Army's attempt to retake Basra from militiamen was an "unmitigated disaster at every level", British commanders have disclosed. 1 Frontline: Our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan 2 Your view: Is now the time to pull British troops out of Iraq? 3Analysis: Why British troops should stay in Iraq Senior sources have said that the mission was undermined by incompetent officers and untrained troops who were sent into battle with inadequate supplies of food, water and ammunition. They said the failure had delayed the British withdrawal by "many months". Their comments came as the Iraqi army, this time ...
Cleric Sadr threatens "open war" on Iraq government
Post Date: 2008-04-19 16:46:31 by richard9151
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1 hour, 11 minutes ago BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Saturday threatened "open war" against the government unless it chose what he called the "path of peace." In a statement, the populist Sadr ratcheted up the tension with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a fellow Shi'ite. Maliki has launched a crackdown on Sadr's Mehdi Army militia and threatened to bar his mass movement from political life. "I'm giving the last warning and the last word to the Iraqi government -- either it comes to its senses and takes the path of peace ... or it will be (seen as) the same as the previous government," Sadr said, referring to ...
Trying to Hold Together Iraq's Army
Post Date: 2008-04-19 16:42:40 by richard9151
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Fri Apr 18, 5:35 PM ET Sandstorms whipped through Baghdad again Friday, cloaking the city in a reddish shroud through which the sounds of gunfire from the bloody power struggle in Sadr City continued to echo. Thursday had seen the most intense sandstorms in the capital in many months, as gales swept in from the desert. The blinding winds closed Baghdad International Airport, emptied streets and left many Baghdadis struggling for breath. But one part of the city where things continued as normal was the Shi'ite neighborhoods of east Baghdad, where militiamen fighting Iraqi and U.S. forces plunged into the squall to launch rocket and mortar attacks on the Green Zone throughout the day as ...
GIs in Sadr City under fire from friends as well as foes
Post Date: 2008-04-19 16:39:10 by richard9151
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Fri Apr 18, 3:27 PM ET BAGHDAD — Three weeks after U.S. troops were ordered into the sprawling Shiite Muslim slum of Sadr City to stop rockets from raining down on the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad's Green Zone, they're caught in crossfire between Shiite militiamen and the mostly Shiite Iraqi army. American soldiers who try to move around this urban area, even in the U.S. Army's state-of-the-art Stryker armored vehicles, risk being ambushed. The soldiers in a platoon from the 25th Infantry Division quickly learned that holding a position puts them in the line of fire from both the Mahdi Army militia and the U.S.-backed Iraqi forces. The American soldiers can't go ...
Anti-US cleric al-Sadr threatens new uprising in Iraq
Post Date: 2008-04-19 16:33:50 by richard9151
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By SAMEER N. YACOUB, Associated Press Writer 17 minutes ago BAGHDAD - Anti-U.S. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr threatened a new uprising Saturday if U.S. and Iraqi forces persist with a crackdown against his followers. The statement, which was posted on his Web site, accused the U.S.-backed government of Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of betraying the movement and the Iraqi people. "So I direct my last warning and speech to the Iraqi government to refrain and to take the path of peace and abandon violence against its people," al-Sadr said in the statement. "If the government does not refrain and leash the militias that have penetrated it, we will announce an open ...
FBI email says Bush signed exec order authorizing torture
Post Date: 2008-04-18 21:44:53 by robin
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President George W. Bush’s comment to ABC News -- that he approved discussions that his top aides held about harsh interrogation techniques -- adds credence to claims from senior FBI agents in Iraq in 2004 that Bush had signed an executive order approving the use of military dogs, sleep deprivation and other tactics to intimidate Iraqi detainees. When the American Civil Liberties Union released the FBI e-mail in December 2004 -- after obtaining it through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit -- the White House emphatically denied that any such presidential executive order existed, calling the unnamed FBI official who wrote the e-mail “mistaken.” President Bush and his ...
Chaos Hardening Sectarian Fiefdoms
Post Date: 2008-04-18 11:49:35 by robin
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Chaos Hardening Sectarian Fiefdoms by Ali Gharib There are an estimated 2.7 million Iraqis who have been displaced within their own country. No house; no food; no security. Who do they turn to for help? The international community's humanitarian organizations? The occupying United States government? The central Iraqi government based in Baghdad? According to a report released Tuesday by Refugees International (RI), none of these has been able to provide sufficient assistance to the most vulnerable Iraqis. As a result, they are turning increasingly to local religious-political armed groups for their humanitarian needs – often Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army, or the ...
Pentagon institute calls Iraq war 'a major debacle' with outcome 'in doubt'
Post Date: 2008-04-18 10:05:38 by bush_is_a_moonie
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The war in Iraq has become "a major debacle" and the outcome "is in doubt" despite improvements in security from the buildup in U.S. forces, according to a highly critical study published Thursday by the Pentagon's premier military educational institute. The report released by the National Defense University raises fresh doubts about President Bush's projections of a U.S. victory in Iraq just a week after Bush announced that he was suspending U.S. troop reductions. The report carries considerable weight because it was written by Joseph Collins, a former senior Pentagon official, and was based in part on interviews with other former senior defense and ...
Company of Iraqi troops abandons position after attack . Again.
Post Date: 2008-04-18 09:03:26 by PSUSA
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BAGHDAD - A company of government troops in Sadr City retreated when they came under attack from Shiite militiamen who used the cover of a sandstorm, police said Friday. The clashes overnight killed two people and injured nine, a police commander said. The officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to release the information, said it was unclear whether there were any casualties among the soldiers. The reports of the latest setback for the Iraqi army come after government officials acknowledged that during fighting last month against Shiite militias in the southern city of Basra, more than 1,300 Iraqi soldiers and police deserted or refused to fight. The ...
Washington, al-Maliki and the Militias
Post Date: 2008-04-18 06:22:10 by Ada
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Who Do They Think They're Foolin'? Recently, the Green Zone parliament in Baghdad drafted a law that would forbid any political party that has an armed wing from participating in the upcoming regional elections in Iraq. This law comes on the heels of an announcement by the Green Zone leader al-Maliki stating very similar terms. The obvious target of this law are the forces behind al-Sadr known as the Mehdi Army. Other factions in Iraqi politics that might be affected include the various Sunni groups that maintain an armed wing not approved by the US and those few secular parties that remain in Iraq and feature armed elements. Despite any proclamations to the contrary claiming that ...
Our Very Own Axis of Evil in Guantánamo
Post Date: 2008-04-18 06:08:33 by Ada
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A former prisoner describes the foul essence of the Bush presidency If the deciders at the White House, the Justice Department, and the CIA who are responsible for war crimes ever face the equivalent of the Nuremberg trials—or at least an unsparing Congressional investigation—an essential witness against them will be Murat Kurnaz. His book, Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantánamo (Palgrave MacMillan), has just been published. CBS's 60 Minutes, keeping Edward R. Murrow's legacy alive, provided an introduction to Kurnaz on March 30, with Scott Pelley detailing how, three months after 9/11, this German citizen "found himself in a [U.S.] prison ...
Soldiers to celebrate Tillman
Post Date: 2008-04-17 22:11:32 by Red Jones
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Soldiers to celebrate Tillman Run in Afghanistan to honor late Ranger by Norm Frauenheim - Apr. 17, 2008 12:00 AM The Arizona Republic The finish is at a 42-yard line at Sun Devil Stadium. The start is in Afghanistan. The course is 4.2 miles, yet the distance does not measure a run without limits, no finish, to the memory of Ranger Corporal Pat Tillman, the former Arizona State linebacker and Cardinals safety who was killed on an Afghan hillside four years ago, almost to the day, April 22, 2004. A field of about 15,000 runners is expected Saturday in Tempe for Pat's Run, according to organizers of an event that raises funds for the Pat Tillman Foundation. Sometime before the 7 ...
AP photographer freed by US military after 2 years
Post Date: 2008-04-17 20:21:07 by robin
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AP photographer freed by US military after 2 years AP photographer Bilal Hussein freed by US military after 2 years ROBERT H. REID AP News Apr 16, 2008 12:58 EST Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein embraced sobbing relatives and thanked colleagues after being released Wednesday from more than two years in U.S. military custody. Hussein, 36, was freed at a checkpoint in Baghdad, where he was taken by the military aboard a prisoner bus. He left U.S. custody wearing a traditional Iraqi robe and appeared in good health. The U.S. military had accused Hussein of links to insurgents, but did not file specific charges. In December, military authorities brought Hussein's case into ...
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