Child Prisoners at Guantanamo
After holding them prisoner for almost two years, the United States has released three “enemy combatants,” boys ages 13 to 15, captured in Afghanistan and held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Reluctantly, no doubt, Bush and Rumsfeld had to return the boys to Afghanistan, since they were no longer of any “intelligence” use [...]
Karzai Says Civilians Died in U.S. Attack
The Afghan president on Saturday said a U.S. air strike this month killed 10 civilians, including women and children, contradicting American military reports that claimed the casualties were Taliban militants.
I just don’t get it…. how do they think they are going to cover this stuff up?
Many Afghans are disenchanted [...]
Blair prepares to call inquiry into Iraq war … if Bush lets him
TONY Blair is preparing the ground to launch an independent inquiry to investigate the intelligence that justified war against Iraq … but only if President Bush calls for one first.
Personally I think he’s pretty safe if he’s not going to start the investigation [...]
BA, Air France cancel seven flights to and from United States citing security
British Airways and Air France on Saturday announced the cancellation of seven flights to and from the United States because of security concerns. BA canceled four flights between Heathrow Airport and Washington on Sunday and Monday and one from Heathrow to Miami [...]
Bush Demands Facts on Iraqi WMDs
President Bush says he wants to know why U.S. intelligence analysts said Iraq was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction. The threat from those weapons was the president’s biggest justification for going to war, but none of those weapons has yet been found. The president stopped short of endorsing calls for [...]
Kansas appeals court backs harsher sentence for illegal gay sex, says difference justifiable
Kansas can punish illegal sex with children more harshly when it involves homosexual acts, the state Court of Appeals ruled Friday in a case being watched by national advocacy groups.
So which is it Judge? Are homosexual sex offenses somehow worse that [...]
It’s difficult to argue at this point that president George W. Bush was a long way off the mark when he told the American people, and the world in general, that Saddam Hussein had stockpiles of chemical and biochemical weapons of mass destruction – that’s without even mentioning the supposed development of nuclear weapons we [...]
Thirteen American Soldiers Court Martialled
Adultery, assault, drunkenness, kidnapping, stealing computers, abusing prisoners and attempting to flee to Syria are some of the offences US soldiers have been charged with in court martial cases since Americans landed in Iraq. At least 13 soldiers have gone up for court martial hearings in Iraq since May 1, [...]
US Acknowledges Flaws in Iraq Intelligence
“I think that what we have is evidence that there are differences between what we knew going in and what we found on the ground,” Condoleezza Rice told CBS.
Ah .. if there is a difference between what they knew and what they found shouldn’t that sentence read there are [...]
Children released from Guantanamo Bay
The United States Government has released three children who had been held at its military prison in Guantanamo Bay, in Cuba, for more than a year. The Pentagon says the three boys, aged from 13 to 15, have been flown to their home country, which was not named.
Detained and chained for [...]
White House weighs response to Kay
Administration officials are debating how to handle fallout from former weapons inspector David Kay’s conclusion that there are no stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons in Iraq.
I suppose at this point in the game a simple “We screwed up guys, and we got caught – we’ll empty our offices and [...]
It looks like the Blair government has survived the Hutton Inquiry but according to this article journalists aren’t to happy with it
“It was so good for them, maybe Alastair Campbell gave Lord Hutton advice on how to write it,” muttered one disgruntled journalist as he left court 76 of the royal courts of justice.
and according [...]
U.S. Plans Afghanistan Offensive In Spring
…anti-terror missions in Afghanistan haven’t shut down terrorist networks.
WHAT!! According to Bush the Taliban is gone, businesses are opening, health care centres are opening, kids are back in school….. not a single solitary word about “a Taliban-led rebellion”.
That Taiwan doesn’t deserve independence from China.
Today
France and China laid the foundations for a new economic and diplomatic alliance yesterday, with President Jacques Chirac taking Beijing’s side against Taiwan…
And last month
the Bush administration signaled a tougher stance on Taiwan’s moves toward independence yesterday, warning the island not to take any unilateral steps…..
It seems that [...]
U.S. to announce cyber alert system
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security plans to announce details of a cyber alert system on Wednesday, two days after a virus called MyDoom spread rapidly across the Internet. The system, which will be detailed by the department’s National Cyber Security Division, could mimic the color-coded scheme that the [...]
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