Yakima roundup -- Opium rules Afganistan -- British torture contests on
Taliban religious -- Israeli beating-shooting at checkpoint -- Karpinski
watched etc.
The Australian Defence Force stands accused of censor****p after it banned
the showing of the inflammatory anti-war blockbuster Fahrenheit 9/11 on
military bases, despite requests direct to the distributor from serving
personnel.
http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/smh18.html
Canadian troops to be in Afghanistan through 2008 -- Defence Minister
Bill
Graham is expected to sign an agreement next week committing Canadian army
trainers to Afghanistan through 2008, the first long-term undertaking
Ottawa
has made to the war-ravaged country.
http://tinyurl.com/4ee3d
Beating, shooting at checkpoint filmed -- An IDF soldier was seen first
beating and then shooting out of control at a Palestinian student at a
roadblock north of Nablus on Sunday, inflicting wounds that sent Mohammed
Canaan, 26, a student at A-Najah University in Nablus, to hospital. A
volunteer from Machsom Watch, the volunteer group of Israei women who
attend
checkpoints to watch out for abuse, witnessed the beating and took
photographs of the victim.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/456453.html
A veterans advocate said today that defense lawyers may blame an
anti-malarial drug for triggering a rage in U-S soldiers charged with
shoving two Iraqi civilians into the Tigris River. One of the Iraqis
drowned. Steve Robinson of the National Gulf War Research Center says
he's
been told he may be questioned at an Article 32 hearing tomorrow, which
could determine whether the three of the soldiers face courts-martial in
the
case.
http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2096231
A lot of U.S. journalists saw a familiar face when soldier of fortune
Jonathan Keith Idema turned up in chains in an Afghanistan court last
week,
charged with kidnapping Afghans and detaining them at his private compound
in central Kabul, the capital. -- On the plus side, at least for Idema,
were his appearances on TV programs as prestigious as CBS's "60 Minutes
II"
as an expert on al Qaida and the Taliban. He also received a 2001 National
Press Club award for online journalism. -- The latest, offered from
prison
last week via a U.S. freelance ally, bears this headline: "IDEMA: I
STOPPED
HUGE BOMB PLOT TO KILL GI'S IN AFGHANISTAN-Says He Used Loud Melissa
Ethridge Music to Make Terrorist Confess."
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwa****ngton/9247934.htm
Bull dyke general Karpinski watched. -- In a videotaped deposition from
Iraq
played Tuesday, Saddam "Sam" Saleh Aboud said he endured beatings at the
prison. During one session, his hood was removed and he said he saw Brig.
Gen. Janis Karpinski. --Aboud identified Karpinski from a photograph in a
news magazine that his lawyer, Michael Hourigan, showed him. -- "He was
adamant that there was an occasion when he was being tortured, in Tier 1A,
when she was present and watching and laughing as he was being tortured,"
Hourigan said. He said Aboud did not know Karpinski's identity until he
told
him.
http://tinyurl.com/57dmy
New supercomputer for military will sup****t weaponized weather
modification.
The computer will be fed real-time data from thousands of sensors in land,
sea, atmosphere and space and then crunching the numbers to determine
intervention points where cloud is to be layed modifying air pressure in
order to re-direct parcels of hot, cold, wet and/or dry air, first to
intensify those parcel characteristics and then to direct the extreme
weather against a target region. -- Weather-op technology is credited with
overthrowing the Serbian regime of Slobodan Milosovic with a record heat
wave in the Balkans. -- The system will perform at a peak speed of 20
teraflops, or 20 trillion mathematical operations per second.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200407/s1162971.htm
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/weather_ops/message/22
A surprising re****t released by the US Justice Department shows that no
fewer than 6.9 million Americans are under the control of the prison
system.
That represents 3.2 per cent of the nation's adult population or almost as
many people as live in New York City.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=545070
Bush wants "fast" track to centralize all intelligence under on
Presidentially appointed head -- White House staff are ru****ng to draft
emergency executive orders putting the "one-basket" intelligence plan into
effect. Driving it all, say the Commissioners narrowly assigned to find
what could be done to prevent large-scale terrorism, is the original
assumption: "The present transnational danger is Islamist terrorism." The
recommendation for politicialized and centralized police state powers
seems
to have been a pre-determined goal, the actual purpose of creating the
Commission.
http://www.counterpunch.org/christison07272004.html
Two URLs circulating outside Democratic Convention in Boston convincingly
demonstrate the falseness of the government's account of the September
11th
attack at the Pentagon.
http://www.bedoper.com/eastman
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pentagon911/message/507
The opium harvest in Afghanistan this year will be one of the biggest on
record, the Foreign Office said yesterday, and it has triggered a flood of
heroin on Britain's streets.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=545400
A HOTEL worker who says he witnessed British troops beating his friend to
death in Iraq spoke yesterday of being subjected to "torture competitions"
at the hands of the army.
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=862202004
Small is Beautiful -- A JORDANIAN firm working for the United States
military in Iraq said yesterday it was withdrawing from the country to
secure the release of two employees who have been kidnapped by militants.
http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=404&id=863042004
Israel has asked the United Kingdom for explanations as to why it changed
its position and voted in favor of the United Nations resolution calling
on
Israel to dismantle the separation fence, despite promising to abstain.
Sharon had hoped that the British abstention would crack the united
European
Union front, and prevent a Palestinian diplomatic victory.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/455865.html
Let them throw rocks. -- The protracted conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan
and heightened combat training with live ammunition have left the military
short of small-caliber bullets. To offset the squeeze, the Army is taking
unusual stopgap measures such as buying ammunition from Britain and
Israel.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2699892
UN special envoy to Iraq, Lakhdar Brahimi, expresed deep criticism of the
Bush administration's Iraq war in an Austrian newspaper interview. --
[Brahimi] said Iraq would no doubt recover from the chaos in which it was
presently. ''The question is only, how long will it take? And what will
the
normalization cost?'' The price up till now had already been very high . .
.
Brahimi said the resistance in Iraq was difficult to analyze. Alongside
the
old cadres of the Baath regime of Saddan Hussein, there was a strong group
of Iraqis which for patriotic reasons attacked any form of occupation.
http://www.juancole.com/
When his turn came to speak at the community dialogue on the Iraq War,
Staff
Sgt. Jimmy Massey of the United States Marines Corps chewed his gum slowly
and slowly scanned the 150 people in the audience. What he was about to
say
required deliberation. "We shot a man with his hands up," he said, "We
even
shot women and
children."
http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/mass1.htm
Iyad Allawi, Iraq's prime minister, has established a media committee to
impose restrictions on print and broadcast media, a government official
announced yesterday. The step underlines an aggressive new attitude
towards
press freedoms
http://tinyurl.com/3jwbf
"Terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength. They are invited
by the perception of weakness." says Dick Cheney. "Terrorist attacks are
caused by despots staging mass-murder frameups to monopolize power in a
police state, while violent acts initiated by the weak are not caused by
the
justice of their targets, but by the injustice," says Dick Eastman who is
urging Phillips to again run for the Constitution party since Dems, Nader,
Greens, Libertarians have sold-out and are subtly working to "throw the
match."
http://www.cosmicpenguin.com/911/Eastman/m18h05.html
Cheney says Americans are safer and he stands by prewar characterizations
of
Iraq as a threat despite the failure to find weapons of mass destruction
and
new warnings by himself and other administration officials that another
major terrorist attack is coming before the elections. He emphasized the
im****tance of implimenting the consolidation of US intelligence as
recommended in the re****t of the commission investigating the 911
terrorist
attacks.]
http://www.juancole.com/
John Kerry borrowed President George Bush's tactic of using military
hardware as a campaign prop yesterday as the Democratic camp sought
topromote his credentials as as a competent hawk against the global terror
threat and a trustworthy commander-in-chief.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1270693,00.html
Independent "psy-op debunker" presents compilation of 911 evidence ignored
by the 911 Commission. -- "One, man, Al Felzenberg, decided what evidence
presented by citizen investigators would be passed to the Commissioners."
--
Some "911 investigator" submissions were sent directly to an intelligence
unit for investigation as the work of potentially dangerous extremists.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/9-11-demonstrative-evidence-of-frameup/
US theft of uranium used to power Iraqi power plant. --
Two weeks after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
confirmed that the US had secretly ****pped nuclear materials out of Iraq,
the Agency has been invited back for the first time in over a year.
http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=732
The US is run by the money power. AN examination of the de facto
enslavement of nations through privatized central banking.
http://www.bilderberg.org/monref.htm
Last Thursday, however, the House quietly passed a renewed appropriation
that keeps open the U.S.'s most infamous torture-teaching institution,
known
as the School of the Americas (SOA), where the illegal physical and
psychological abuse of prisoners of the kind the world condemned at Abu
Ghraib and worse has been routinely taught for years.
The US-installed interim Iraqi government requested the return of
international inspectors. The Agency's director general, Mohamed
ElBaradei,
confirmed to re****ters Wednesday in Cairo that a team would return to
Baghdad. Before the US-led invasion last year, the Agency was responsible
for ensuring that Iraq's nuclear material and facilities were not being
used
for military purposes. --Agence France-Presse quotes ElBaradei as saying
the IAEA's return "is an absolute necessity, not to search for weapons of
mass destruction, but to draft the final re****t on the absence of WMDs in
Iraq so that the international community can lift the [remaining]
sanctions
on Iraq." The director general also stated that inspectors "will complete
the mission [the UN had] assigned to them before the invasion." However,
various press re****ts cite IAEA spokesperson Melissa Fleming referring to
the upcoming mission as a routine, UN-mandated inventory of the Tuwaitha
Nuclear Complex, not a search related to weapons of mass destruction
(WMD).
Yanked out of Iraq just days before the March 2003 invasion, the IAEA was
at
that time unable to fulfill its dual mandate: to find evidence of weapons
of
mass destruction, and to conduct routine audits of nuclear materials
sealed
and warehoused after the 1991 Gulf War. The inspectors have been asked to
return just once, in June 2003, after frantic media re****ts of missing
low-level nuclear materials and contamination surrounding the Tuwaitha
Facility, just south of Baghdad, prompted the US to call on the IAEA for
help. -- According to ElBaradei's re****t to the UN after that mission, at
least 10 kg of uranium compounds "could have been disbursed" into the
residential areas surrounding the site, though ElBaradei stated that
neither
the type nor quality of the material would be useful for weapons purposes.
http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=732
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