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Judge Says Shoe-Throwing Journalist Was Beaten : NPRA judge in Iraq says the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush was beaten after the incident and had bruises on his face and around his eyes. The judge told the Associated Press that the court has filed a complaint on behalf of Muntadhar al-Zeidi and will try to identify those ...
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Report Spotlights Iraq Rebuilding BlundersAn unpublished 513-page federal history of the American-led reconstruction of Iraq depicts an effort crippled before the invasion by Pentagon planners who were hostile to the idea of rebuilding a foreign country, and then molded into a $100 billion failure by bureaucratic turf wars, spiraling ...
Iain Macadair
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Bipartisan Report on Detainee Abuse Blames Rumsfeld, Other Top Bush OfficialsA bipartisan panel of senators has concluded that former defense secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and other top Bush administration officials bear direct responsibility for the harsh treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, and that their decisions led to more serious abuses in Iraq and elsewhere.
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Senate Report Ties Rumsfeld to Abu Ghraib TortureWashington - Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other senior U.S. officials share much of the blame for detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to portions of a report released on Thursday by the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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I'm Still Tortured by What I Saw in IraqI learned in Iraq that the No. 1 reason foreign fighters flocked there to fight were the abuses carried out at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. Our policy of torture was directly and swiftly recruiting fighters for al-Qaeda in Iraq. The large majority of suicide bombings in Iraq are still carried out ...
Iain Macadair
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Iraqi Yellowcake discoveryIn a significant development on weapons of mass destruction (WMD) inexplicably not publicized by the administration nor well-covered by the media - a few months ago the U.S. military removed from Iraq 550 metric tons of yellowcake uranium, a necessary precursor to the development of nuclear ...
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Nature’s Wake Up Call“Let’s get one thing clear upfront—you are on my planet; I am the owner, landlord, and general manager. Think of yourselves as tenants facing eviction. The only entity to which you are accountable, and to which you will ultimately be held accountable, is me.” - Nature “The American way of life ...
Giorgio Bertini
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Reflections on Now ActivismThe idea for this dialogue on Now Activism emerged almost two years ago during a conference held in Halifax, Canada. Observing the failure of Americans and other concerned citizens from around the world to stop the Iraq war and to remove Mr. Bush from office, many friends from different parts of ...
Giorgio Bertini
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"I Heard a Tap-Tap of Gunfire. But I Didn't Realize My Legs Had Gone."Last week the world watched as Barack Obama embraced an Iraq war vet at a Veterans Day ceremony. Tammy Duckworth lost her legs on a mission in Baghdad four years ago. Now she is among a rising number of ex-soldiers reshaping US politics and may yet serve under the new president. Here she talks ...
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The Pentagon's Fifteen Billion Dollar Pirate PlunderAmerican taxpayers have paid out $15 Billion U.S. dollars in unaccounted for or sketchily and improperly accounted for payments to "contractors" in Iraq for things there is little or NO RECORD of what was received.
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