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The Shocking Stories of the Aid Workers Just Released From Gitmo
Post Date: 2007-12-17 06:04:52 by Ada
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Two years after being cleared for release from Guantánamo by a military review board, Adel Hassan Hamad, a hospital administrator who worked for a Saudi charity, and Salim Muhood Adem, who worked with orphans for a Kuwaiti NGO, have been repatriated to the country of their birth, where, as lawyer Clive Stafford Smith explained, they are both "safe with their families." After arriving at Khartoum airport, they were presented with traditional Sudanese clothes by intelligence officers, who took them to a hospital for a short medical examination before returning them to their families and friends. As a noisy celebration got underway, Hamad spoke by phone to his American ...
Turkey bombs northern Iraq
Post Date: 2007-12-16 18:35:27 by robin
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December 17, 2007 - 8:52AM Turkish warplanes targeting Kurdish rebels bombed villages deep in northern Iraq today, killing one woman and forcing hundreds of people to flee their homes. In Ankara, the Turkish military's General Staff confirmed in a statement its warplanes had attacked targets of the separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which uses northern Iraq as a base from which to attack security forces inside Turkey. But the head of the General Staff, General Yasar Buyukanit, quoted by Turkey's Anatolian state news agency, denied any civilian targets were hit and said his forces had acted with the implicit approval of US occupying forces in Iraq. "In opening Iraqi ...
US orders review of mission in Afghanistan: report
Post Date: 2007-12-16 18:27:11 by robin
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President George W. Bush's administration has launched an elaborate review of the US mission in Afghanistan amid fears Taliban and Al-Qaeda forces are gaining ground, the New York Times reported on Sunday. The review comes amid a rise in attacks by Taliban insurgents this year, the bloodiest since US-led forces ousted Al-Qaeda's allies in the Taliban regime after the attacks of September 11, 2001. Reflecting an anxiety in the White House that its early success in defeating the Taliban could be unraveling, the administration plans three assessments -- one by the US military, one by diplomats in the State Department and one by the NATO alliance -- looking at the security, economic ...
New KBR employee tells of rampant sexual harassment
Post Date: 2007-12-16 15:55:43 by Zipporah
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New KBR employee tells of rampant sexual harassment. Earlier this week, former Halliburton/KBR employee Jamie Leigh Jones revealed that in 2005 she had been “raped by multiple men at a KBR camp” in Baghdad. This past Friday on Houston’s CBS affiliate KHOU, former KBR employee Linda Lindsey said that, while she didn’t know Jones, the allegations of sexual harassment aren’t surprising: “If you wanted to get a promotion you didn’t necessarily have to have the qualifications,” remembered Lindsey, a former KBR contractor. “You just needed to be sleeping with the person who was doing the hiring.” […] In a sworn affidavit for the Jones case, ...
Mobile Labs to Target Iraqis for Death
Post Date: 2007-12-16 09:21:22 by Zipporah
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U.S. forces in Iraq soon will be equipped with high-tech equipment that will let them process an Iraqi’s biometric data in minutes and help American soldiers decide whether they should execute the person or not, according to its inventor. "A war fighter needs to know one of three things: Do I let him go? Keep him? Or shoot him on the spot?” Pentagon weapons designer Anh Duong told the Washington Post for a feature on how this 47-year-old former Vietnamese refugee and mother of four rose to become a top U.S. bomb-maker. Though Duong is best known for designing high-explosives used to destroy hardened targets, she also supervised the Joint Expeditionary Forensics Facilities ...
Alleged Halliburton gang rape survivor says she was given 'special drink'
Post Date: 2007-12-15 22:53:24 by tom007
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Alleged Halliburton gang rape survivor says she was given 'special drink' David Edwards and Jason Rhyne Published: Friday December 14, 2007 del.icio.us del.icio.us Print This Email This The former Halliburton/KBR employee accusing the company of attempting to cover up her gang-rape in Iraq is now speaking out about her ordeal -- saying she felt "imprisoned" after reporting the incident, and was told by her superiors to keep quiet or lose her job. Appearing in an interview with ABC's Brian Ross, Jamie Leigh Jones spoke about what she describes as horrifying circumstances surrounding her rape and it's aftermath as handled by officials at KBR, a then-subsidiary ...
False Flag Terrorism
Post Date: 2007-12-15 12:26:08 by richard9151
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"False flag terrorism" occurs when elements within a government stage a secret operation whereby government forces pretend to be a targeted enemy while attacking their own forces or people. The attack is then falsely blamed on the enemy in order to justify going to war against that enemy. Or as Wikipedia defines it: False flag operations are covert operations conducted by governments, corporations, or other organizations, which are designed to appear as if they are being carried out by other entities. The name is derived from the military concept of flying false colors; that is, flying the flag of a country other than one's own. False flag operations are not limited to war ...
Jury deadlocks on 6 of 7 terrorism suspects (1 acquitted - Entrapment)
Post Date: 2007-12-14 23:08:19 by robin
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Jury deadlocks on 6 of 7 terrorism suspects The seventh is acquitted. The case, in which the group is accused of plotting to blow up the Sears Tower and other buildings, has been criticized as entrapment. MIAMI -- A federal jury Thursday acquitted one member of a group accused of plotting to blow up Chicago's Sears Tower and declared themselves deadlocked in deciding the fate of the six other defendants in the case of the so-called Liberty City Seven. The case has divided legal experts over how far the government should go in building a case against terrorism suspects. Paid government informants who provided evidence for prosecutors had proposed acts of violence to suspects under ...
No Bravery ... only sadness
Post Date: 2007-12-14 07:35:23 by noone222
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Poster Comment:When we participate in this shit in "any" way ... we are contributors and hypocrits.
Illegal Drug Use costing army a 'battalion a year': study
Post Date: 2007-12-14 06:26:34 by Ada
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LONDON (AFP) - The army is losing the equivalent of nearly a battalion to illegal drug use every year, research released Friday said. Research from the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a defence think tank, showed the losses are greater than the total number of fatalities and serious injuries resulting from Britain's involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. An article in RUSI's journal showed an increase in positive test results for illegal substances, through the defence ministry's compulsory testing (CDT) programme, from 517 cases in 2003 to 769 last year -- almost a battalion's worth. The research provides more bad news for the British armed forces, after the ...
House Passes Ban On WaterBoarding
Post Date: 2007-12-14 02:36:04 by wudidiz
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UN rights envoy suspects CIA of Guantanamo torture
Post Date: 2007-12-13 20:44:10 by richard9151
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12/13/07 -- -- GENEVA, Dec 13 (Reuters) - A United Nations investigator said on Thursday he strongly suspected the CIA of using torture on terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, suggesting many were not being prosecuted to keep the abuse from emerging at trial. On a visit to the U.S. detention centre in Cuba last week, Martin Scheinin, U.N. special rapporteur on protecting human rights while countering terrorism, attended a pre-trial hearing of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's former driver. Scheinin said U.S. officials had told him that of the roughly 300 detainees currently held at Guantanamo, 80 were expected to face military trials for suspected crimes. Another 80 inmates had ...
Hidden U.S. Deaths Of Gulf Wars -- Since Gulf War 1 - 73,846 US Dead, 1,620,906 Disabled
Post Date: 2007-12-13 20:33:41 by richard9151
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12/13/07 "ICH" -- -- The US department of veteran affairs has issued an official report (See report in full) that confirms 73,000 U.S. troops killed and 1.6 million "disabled" by Persian Gulf wars. 73,846 U.S. Troops Dead (Page 6) and 1,620,906 permanently disabled ( Page 7) George Walker Bush has presided over the worst defeat of the United States Military since Vietnam and has deliberately skewed reporting of the deaths and injuries to conceal the facts. The Department of Veteran's Affairs, in conjunction with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has released the truth because they need the American People to know our military is literally, destroyed. They cannot release ...
Iran Oil Bourse Soon
Post Date: 2007-12-13 07:07:58 by leveller
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Head of Oil Pension Fund Tuesday announced that oil and economy ministers were holding talks on the setup of Oil Bourse and the center would become operational in the near future. Mehdi Karbassian talking to PIN quoted Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari as saying that his talks with Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance Davud Danesh-Ja?fari on the running of the Oil Bourse would be finalized soon. In Oct. 2006, President Mahmud Ahmadinejad underlined the necessity to set up the Oil Bourse, recalled the official, regretting over the delay. Karbassian blamed the row between petroleum and economy ministries over the selection of secretary general for the delay in the establishment of ...
US and Her Fundamentalist Stooges are the Main Human Rights Violators In Afghanistan
Post Date: 2007-12-12 22:00:15 by richard9151
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12/12/07 "ICH" --- -- The US and her allies tried to legitimize their military occupation of Afghanistan under the banner of “bringing freedom and democracy for Afghan people”. But as we have experienced in the past three decades, in regard to the fate of our people, the US government first of all considers her own political and economic interests and has empowered and equipped the most traitorous, anti-democratic, misogynist and corrupt fundamentalist gangs in Afghanistan. In the past few years, for a thousand times the lies of US claims in the so-called “War on terror” were uncovered. By relying on the criminal bands of the Northern Alliance, the US made a ...
Robert Fisk Retires - Important Work
Post Date: 2007-12-12 20:43:30 by tom007
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U.N. expert says Guantanamo visit deepens concerns
Post Date: 2007-12-12 18:05:38 by richard9151
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Wed Dec 12, 1:16 PM ET GENEVA (Reuters) - A United Nations human rights investigator said his visit to the U.S. military facility in Guantanamo Bay last week left him wondering whether it would be possible for detainees' lawyers to mount an adequate defense. Martin Scheinin visited the naval base in Cuba from December 3-7 at the invitation of the U.S. government, while a tribunal in the case of Salid Ahmed Hamdan, an accused guard for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, was under way. Scheinin did not address the details of that case in his remarks to the 47-state U.N. Human Rights Council on Wednesday. But he said: "The hearings provided graphic illustrations of the practical ...
Pentagon Critical Of NATO Allies: Gates Faults Efforts In Afghanistan
Post Date: 2007-12-12 16:29:05 by scrapper2
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates sharply criticized NATO countries yesterday for not supplying urgently needed trainers, helicopters and infantry for Afghanistan as violence escalates there, vowing not to let the alliance "off the hook." Gates called for overhauling the alliance's Afghan strategy over the next three to five years, shifting NATO's focus from primarily one of rebuilding to one of waging "a classic counterinsurgency" against a resurgent Taliban and growing influx of al-Qaeda fighters. "I am not ready to let NATO off the hook in Afghanistan at this point," Gates told the House Armed Services Committee. Ticking off a list of vital ...
Only hatred of U.S. unites Iraq
Post Date: 2007-12-11 23:03:29 by tom007
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Only hatred of U.S. unites Iraq PATRICK COCKBURN As British forces come to the end of their role in Iraq, what sort of country do they leave behind? Has the United States turned the tide in Baghdad? Does the fall in violence mean that the country is stabilizing after more than four years of war? Or are we seeing only a temporary pause in the fighting? U.S. commentators generally are making the same mistake that they have made since the invasion of Iraq was first contemplated five years ago. They look at Iraq in over-simple terms and exaggerate the extent to which the U.S. is making the political weather and is in control of events there. The U.S. is the most powerful single force in ...
U.S. refuses `Any Wounded Soldier' mail
Post Date: 2007-12-11 22:52:22 by kiki
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Hundreds of thousands of holiday cards and letters thanking wounded American troops for their sacrifice and wishing them well never reach their destination. They are returned to sender or thrown away unopened. Since the Sept. 11 attacks and the anthrax scare, the Pentagon and the Postal Service have refused to deliver mail addressed simply to "Any Wounded Soldier" for fear terrorists or opponents of the war might send toxic substances or demoralizing messages. Mail must be addressed to a specific member of the armed forces — a rule that pains some well-meaning Americans this Christmas season. "Are we going to forget our soldiers because we are ...
Hersh: children raped at Abu Ghraib, Pentagon has videos
Post Date: 2007-12-11 20:56:41 by tom007
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Hersh: children raped at Abu Ghraib, Pentagon has videos Posted by Xeni Jardin, July 15, 2004 12:22 PM | permalink From Daily Kos' partial transcript of a video (link to REAL stream) of Seymour Hersh speaking at an ACLU event. He says the US government has videotapes of children being raped at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. " Some of the worst things that happened you don't know about, okay? Videos, um, there are women there. Some of you may have read that they were passing letters out, communications out to their men. This is at Abu Ghraib ... The women were passing messages out saying 'Please come and kill me, because of what's happened' and basically what happened ...
New Document Reveals Military Mystery's Powers
Post Date: 2007-12-11 20:12:59 by tom007
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New Document Reveals Military Mystery's Powers By David Hambling EmailDecember 10, 2007 | 1:35:00 PMCategories: Bizarro, DarpaWatch, Lasers and Ray Guns, Less-lethal, Science! Allen01For years, no military program has sparked more fevered speculation from conspiracy theorists than the mysterious High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP. And for years, the Pentagon has been pooh-poohing speculation that the enormous collection of transmitters, radars, and magnetometers in Alaska was some sort of superweapon. But, it turns out, the conspiracy theorists may not have been entirely off-base, after all. Since its inception, there's been a huge range of opinion on what ...
Conyers, Poe Request Justice Department Info on Halliburton Rape Cover-Up
Post Date: 2007-12-11 19:06:54 by aristeides
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Conyers, Poe Request Justice Department Info on Halliburton Rape Cover-Up December 11th, 2007 by Jesse Lee Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers and Rep. Ted Poe sent a letter today to the Justice Department requesting information on the status of a Department inquiry into the alleged rape of a 22-year-old female Halliburton/KBR employee in Baghdad. Victim: Gang-Rape Cover-Up by U.S., Halliburton/KBR ABC News - Dec. 10, 2007 A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident. Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green ...
Pearl Harbor: Proves Nine Eleven Fraud
Post Date: 2007-12-11 18:06:55 by echo5sierra
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Here we are again at the “day that will live in infamy.” I have a modest thought I have seen nowhere else. Let’s look at the horror again, through the eyes of Robert B. Stinnett, who spent seventeen years going through more than 200,000 documents and interviews about it. His book is Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor, New York, Touchstone (S & S), 2001. It is crucially important to establish who Robert Stinnett is. In the early years after the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, through one utterly phony “investigation” after another, Roosevelt’s Socialist idolaters swore up and down that he had known absolutely nothing about it. The ...
Operation Iraqi Freedom Exposed: Bush Negotiates Permanent Presence in Iraq
Post Date: 2007-12-11 14:48:48 by aristeides
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Operation Iraqi Freedom Exposed Bush Negotiates Permanent Presence in Iraq By MARJORIE COHN The revelation that Bush will sign an agreement for a permanent U.S. military presence in Iraq before his term is up confirms the real reason he invaded Iraq and changed its regime. It was never about weapons of mass destruction. It was never about ties between Saddam and al Qaeda. And it was never about bringing democracy to the Iraqi people. These claims were lies to cover up the real motive for Operation Iraqi Freedom: to create a permanent American presence in Iraq. With Bush's November 26, 2007 announcement that the United States and Iraq were negotiating a permanent "security ...
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