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The Forged Iraqi Letter: What Just Happened?

Posted by seumasach on August 8, 2008

Ron Suskind

Information Clearing House

7th August, 2008

What just happened? Evidence. A secret that has been judiciously kept for five years just spilled out. All of what follows is new, never reported in any way:

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FBI’s Allegation that Ivins was “Sole Custodian” is False

Posted by seumasach on August 7, 2008

 

George Washington’s Blog

6th August, 2008

The FBI made numerous claims in today’s official press conference. They are largely refuted by Dr. Meryl Nass, an expert on anthrax.

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The Irrelevancy of the Gitmo Trials

Posted by seumasach on August 7, 2008

Jacob G. Hornberger

ICH

6th August, 2008

The Pentagon’s model “judicial” system at Guantanamo Bay has many fascinating features, virtually all of which are contrary to the rights and guarantees in the federal system established by the Constitution. Among the features in the Pentagon’s system are a presumption of guilt for the accused, no right to confront witnesses, the use of hearsay evidence, the use of evidence acquired by torture or coercion, no right against self-incrimination, no protection against cruel and unusual punishments, no right to bail, and no right to trial by jury.

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On the Brink of War: The Caucasian conflict in the context of world politics

Posted by seumasach on August 7, 2008

 

Fyodor Lukyanova

Global Research

5th August, 2008

South Ossetia is once again on the brink of war. Alarming reports are coming from Abkhazia, and Russian-Georgian relations continue to be tense.

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Serb refugees recall horrors of war

Posted by seumasach on August 7, 2008

Russia Today

7th August, 2008

As Radovan Karadzic awaits trial on war crimes charges in The Hague, the world is once again remembering the victims of the war in Bosnia.

 

It’s more than a decade since a quarter of a million Serbs were forced to leave their homes in Croatia. And on the streets of Belgrade the wounds from the Yugoslav war are still raw. 

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The lies of Hiroshima live on, props in the war crimes of the 20th century

Posted by seumasach on August 7, 2008

John Pilger

Guardian

6th August, 2008

The 1945 attack was murder on an epic scale. In its victims’ names, we must not allow a nuclear repeat in the Middle East

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Why Obama might be in trouble

Posted by smeddum on August 7, 2008

This article says more about the Orwellian world created by US imperialism than the imperialist Obama.

.By Robert Parry, Consortium News. Posted August 7, 2008. Alternet

Instead of acting like journalists, the mainstream media have become McCain’s personal assistants, regurgitating his B.S. without question. Read the rest of this entry »

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Baghdad warms to Sunni awakening

Posted by seumasach on August 6, 2008

We are seeing some remarkable, unexpected and positive developments: the Iraqi government is throwing off it’s subordination to the occupation, making deals with the various strands of the resistance and leaving the occupiers out in the cold. This development is another illustration of the advanced phase of imperial collapse we have now entered.

By Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail

Asia Times 

7th August

BAQUBA – A massive military operation in Diyala province has underscored the military and political gains by the Sahwa militia, despite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s earlier attempts to thwart them. Maliki has now apparently come around to involving the Sahwa rather than opposing them. 

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Iraq Mines Nightmare

Posted by smeddum on August 6, 2008

Iraq Mines Nightmare
Afif Sarhan, IOL Correspondent Uruknet

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Colonel Anderson Refutes False Allegations against Dr Ivins

Posted by seumasach on August 6, 2008

 

George Washington’s Blog

6th August

Colonel Arthur Anderson is the chief of human use and ethics at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), the bioweapons facility where Dr. Ivins worked and where the anthrax strains were apparently obtained by the anthrax killer.

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Israel Concerned over US Move to Open Interests Section in Iran

Posted by alfied on August 5, 2008

I wonder if Britain share Israel’s concerns??

TEHRAN (FNA)- The question of whether the United States will open an interests section in Tehran will be decided by President George W. Bush himself in the coming month, senior government officials said Monday.

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