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If we knew more about Ireland, we might never have invaded Iraq |
Submitted by: The Enemy / 06 Jun 2006
Publisher: Guardian
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Why should we be surprised by these events? This is what happens when one country occupies another. When troops are far away from home, exercising power over people that they don't understand, knowing that the population harbours those who would kill them if they could, their anger and fear and frustration turns into a hatred of all "micks" or "gooks" or "hajjis". Occupations brutalise both the occupiers and the occupied. It is our refusal to learn that lesson which allows new colonial adventures to take place. If we knew more about Ireland, the invasion of Iraq might never have happened. |
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Intelligence behind raid was wrong, officials say |
Submitted by: @ / 05 Jun 2006
Publisher: Guardian
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UK Police Fuck Up. Invade a home with guns firing, shooting a man, over false tip from government snitch:
Senior counter-terrorism officials now believe that the intelligence that led to the raid on a family house last Friday in a search for a chemical device about to be used to attack Britain was wrong, the Guardian has learned...
One official, with knowledge why police acted and what had been found from days of searching, said the intelligence had been acted on correctly, but added last night: "There is no viable device at that house. There is no device being constructed, or chemicals. There does not appear to be anything there or anywhere else."
As lawyers for the two arrested men continued to protest their innocence, it emerged that the man who had passed the specific information that led to the raid in which a man was shot last Friday was a police informant who had been providing intelligence about the activities of alleged Islamist militants for several weeks. |
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Iraq Rejects US Probe Clearing Troops of Killings |
Submitted by: brad / 05 Jun 2006
Publisher: Reuters
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BAGHDAD - Iraq vowed on Saturday to press on with its own probe into the deaths of civilians in a U.S. raid on the town of Ishaqi, rejecting the U.S. military's exoneration of its forces.
Adnan al-Kazimi, an aide to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, said the government would also demand an apology from the United States and compensation for the victims in several cases, including the alleged massacre in the town of Haditha last year.
"We have from more than one source that the Ishaqi killings were carried out under questionable circumstances. More than one child was killed. This report was not fair for the Iraqi people and the children who were killed," he told Reuters
Police in Ishaqi say five children, four women and two men were shot in the head, and that the bodies, with hands bound, were dumped in one room before the house was blown up. |
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Wife of Marine Says Troops At Haditha Were Likely On Speed |
Submitted by: brad / 05 Jun 2006
Publisher: The Guardian
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The wife of one of the staff sergeants involved in the Haditha killings has told Newsweek that there was a total breakdown in discipline including drug and alcohol abuse within the Marine unit. She said "I think it's more than possible that these guys were totally tweaked out on speed or something when they shot those civilians in Haditha." |
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Pentagon Makes It Official Policy to Ignore Geneva Conventions |
Submitted by: brad / 05 Jun 2006
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
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The Pentagon has decided to make it official policy to ignore a key tenet of the Geneva Convention that explicitly bans "humiliating and degrading treatment†of detainees. According to the paper, the Pentagon’s new Army Field Manual on interrogation marks a further and potentially permanent shift away from strict adherence to international human rights standards. For decades, it had been the official policy of the U.S. military to follow the minimum standards for treating all detainees as laid out in the Geneva Convention. But, in 2002, Bush suspended portions of the Geneva Convention for accused members of Al Qaeda and Taliban. Critics said the Pentagon’s latest decision would violate a broadly supported anti-torture measure advanced by Sen. John McCain to ban torture and cruel treatment. The Los Angeles Times reports the move to officially ignore parts of the Geneva Convention was supported by Vice President Dick Cheney's office and by the Pentagon's intelligence arm. Sources said Cheney’s chief of staff David Addington and Stephen Cambone, the Defense undersecretary for intelligence, claimed the Geneva Conventions restrict the United States' ability to question detainees. |
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Shannen Rossmiller: Web Snitch |
Submitted by: @ / 04 Jun 2006
Publisher: MSNBC
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Woman trolls the Internet for "terrorists". You've got to wonder, what makes someone a terrorist in her eyes? Does she troll for anarchists too? |
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TSA: Killing Us an Hour at a Time |
Submitted by: @ / 03 Jun 2006
Publisher: Mises
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There were 738 million enplanements (670 million domestic and 68 million international flights by US carriers) in the United States last year, and nearly 70% of those being leisure (voluntary, as opposed to business or bereavement) travel. If the TSA wastes just 1 hour per person per flight, that's 738 million hours. There are 8,766 hours in an average year (365 times 24, plus 6 for leap-year accrual). If a newborn is expected to live another 75 years, we may assume that an "average" airline passenger is 37.5 years old, and has 37.5 years left to live. We can also assume that a typical business traveler, being older than the average traveler, has 25 years left to live.
Turn the crank, and you can calculate the silent carnage.
Those 738 million hours lost are equivalent to the remaining lives of some 2,582 people! Each year, the TSA's one-hour delay, all by itself, kills the equivalent of over 80% of the 9-11 victims. Put another way, roughly every year and a half, the TSA "kills" more travelers than the four flights and all the ground victims of September 11, 2001. |
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Judge says Christian prison program must end |
Submitted by: Jones / 03 Jun 2006
Publisher: Des Moines Register
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"Pratt's ruling said that for all practical purposes, the state had "literally established an Evangelical Christian congregation within the walls of one of its penal institutions." The Newton program gives InnerChange employees "authority to control the spiritual, emotional and physical lives of hundreds of Iowa inmates."
The judge said there are no adequate safeguards present, nor could there be, to ensure that state money is not being directly spent to indoctrinate Iowa inmates.
The state, through its direct funding of InnerChange, hopes to cure recidivism through state-sponsored prayer and devotion, Pratt added.
"While such spiritual and emotional 'rewiring' may be possible in the life of an individual and lower the risk of committing other crimes, it cannot be permissible to force taxpayers to fund such an enterprise under the Establishment Clause," he wrote." |
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