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02 Feb 2004 04:54:42 PM |
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War Comes Home in a Coffin |
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274 DAYS ... AND STILL NO WMD FOUND IN IRAQ.
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Bush's next request for Iraq and Afghanistan may reach $50 billion :
The White House budget chief says the administration will ask Congress in the coming months for up to 50 billion dollars more for the ongoing military missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://tinyurl.com/2xapv
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Bush Unveils $2.4 Trillion Budget:
President Bush sent Congress a $2.4 trillion election-year budget on Monday featuring big increases for defense and homeland security but also a record $521 billion deficit.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040202/D80F66M01.html
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Halliburton in $16M food probe :
Halliburton Co. allegedly overcharged more than $16 million for meals at a U.S. military base in Kuwait during the first seven months of last year, according to a published report Monday
http://money.cnn.com/2004/02/02/news/companies/halliburton.reut/index.htm
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More Rumblings on Domestic Intelligence Move :
After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, a growing number of lawmakers, not to mention a few officials within the administration, began to argue that the United States might benefit from having its own domestic intelligence service, like Great Britain's famous MI5
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3844-2004Feb1.html
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UK Government floats plans for secret trials of terrorist suspects:
The British government said yesterday it was considering giving courts the power to try terrorist suspects in secret and without juries - proposals condemned by civil liberties groups.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/02/1075570363622.html
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War Comes Home in a Coffin:
Kimberly Hampton, like most of the soldiers killed in Iraq, was from a small town. And for everyone there, her death was a big deal.
http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news1/latimes72.html
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Bush to Announce Iraq Intelligence Probe This Week:
In a reversal of his position, President Bush will announce this week the establishment of a bipartisan, independent commission to investigate apparent flaws in intelligence used to justify the Iraq war
http://www.reuters.com/locales/newsArticle.jsp;:401d7f50:3acd8ee6927ab1?type=worldNews&locale=en_IN&storyID=4257386
http://tinyurl.com/23w4r
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A Tactical Retreat on Iraq:
Bush implicitly concedes that pre-war allegations appear to be wrong.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3980-2004Feb1.html?nav=hptop_tb
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Americans deserve Bush's profound apology:
Imagine how appalled the friends and the beloved of Iraq's casualties must have been last week to hear David Kay, the recently retired chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq tell the world, "It turns out we were all wrong."
http://www.sunspot.net/news/opinion/oped/bal-pe.column01feb01,0,6569930.story
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Kay Questions U.S. Pre-Emptive Strike Doctrine:
"If you cannot rely on good, accurate intelligence that is credible to the American people and to others abroad, you certainly can't have a policy of preemption," Kay said
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040201/ts_nm/iraq_usa_kay_dc
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UK: No 10 set to decide on WMD inquiry :
Downing Street appeared today to be on the brink of a climbdown over granting an inquiry into the intelligence basis for the war in Iraq.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1137113,00.html?=rss
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Intelligence services to be blamed for WMD failures:
British and American intelligence services look set to share the blame for the spectacular failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=486966
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A half-truth may not be a lie, but it is still dishonest :
No matter what Lord Hutton says, the prime minister has been deceitful
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1136791,00.html
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In case you missed it:
Former Aide Takes Aim at War on Terror:
"The administration wasn't matching its deeds to its words in the war on terrorism. They're making us less secure, not more secure," said Beers, who until now has remained largely silent about leaving his National Security Council job as special assistant to the president for combating terrorism.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A62941-2003Jun15¬Found=true
http://tinyurl.com/girv
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How drone went from solid proof to a red herring:
The story of the UAVs is emblematic of how US intelligence on Iraq often was wrong, even when officials made efforts to cull the strongest material from a torrent of information.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/02/02/how_drone_went_from_solid_proof_to_a_red_herring/
http://tinyurl.com/2kcp9
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Iraq war 'increased terror threat':
Britons are more - not less - likely to be the target of terrorist attacks as a result of the war in Iraq, an influential group of MPs claims.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3451239.stm
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Iraqi police a law unto themselves:
Accusations of police corruption are rampant across the country. Iraqis complain that police set up checkpoints for the sole purpose of shakedowns, threatening arrest unless a bribe is paid.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FB03Ak01.html
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Afghan mayor killed in terrorist bomb blast :
AN AFGHAN mayor and seven of his relatives were killed when a remote-controlled bomb exploded near their vehicle in an attack blamed on Taleban or al-Qaeda rebels, it was revealed yesterday.
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=127992004
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The jihad goes on, vow freed Taliban:
Taliban fighters have vowed to continue their "holy war" against the American-led coalition in Afghanistan after they are freed from a notorious prison in the north of the country.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/02/01/wafgh01.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/02/01/ixnewstop.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=195059
http://tinyurl.com/24t7q
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No Iraqi sovereignty if US forces stay :
The Bush administration may be prepared to recall American administrators from their desks in Baghdad, but the three- and four-star generals and forces under their command will remain for an indeterminate period.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/opinion/30_01_04_c.asp
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Iraq: Kurdish Politician Concerned By U.S. Stance On PKK:
Mahmud Uthman, an independent Kurdish politician and a member of the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council, told RFE/RL that Ankara's accusations regarding the PKK are unfounded and that the United States is only seeking to pacify its NATO ally Turkey
http://www.payvand.com/news/04/jan/1222.html4=0&p5=0&ssPageName=MerchMax
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Scott Ritter: Israel knew Iraq had no WMDs
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1075609218717&p=1008596981749
http://tinyurl.com/2abpk
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Russian Military Planning Nuclear Exercises:
The Associated Press Russia's nuclear forces reportedly are preparing their largest maneuvers in two decades, an exercise involving the test-firing of missiles and flights by dozens of bombers in a massive simulation of an all-out nuclear war.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/02/02/001.html
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Experts Warn of Accidental U.S., Russian Missile Launches:
“The dirty little secret of America’s current nuclear policy is that 99 percent of the nuclear weapons budget, planning, targeting, and operational activities still revolves around this one anachronistic scenario,” he said.
http://www.nuclearpolicy.org/NewsArticle.cfm?NewsID=1236
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Scientist 'admits nuclear deals':
Pakistan's top nuclear scientist has admitted he leaked nuclear secrets to groups working for Iran, Libya and North Korea, Pakistani officials say.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3450317.stm
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Send the Children of Politicians to the Front Lines?:
For all his talk about sacrifice, Bush never served in Vietnam. He spent the war flying National Guard aircraft over Texas. "I am angry that so many of the sons of the powerful and well placed ... managed to wangle slots in Reserve and National Guard units," Secretary of State Colin Powell wrote in his memoirs.
http://www.duckdaotsu.org/kober13104.html
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Video: The Bush Family Fortunes:
The Bush Family Fortunes The BBC and Greg Palast, Investigate the Bush family scandals.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4115.htm
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American Soldier Killed in Central Iraq :
One American soldier was killed and 12 others injured in a rocket attack Sunday on an Army base in central Iraq, the U.S. military said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3240-2004Feb1.html?nav=hptop_ts
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In case you missed it:
Saddam Extends Invite to CIA :
Saddam Hussein's adviser Amir al-Saadi on Sunday invited the CIA to send its agents to Iraq to point out to U.N. inspectors sites the Bush administration suspects of weapons development.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,73685,00.html
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Words From The Front-Lines:
"It's nothing like what the people back home have been hearing. They're saying the war's over. The war's not over. Now, it's more of a guerrilla war. The waste and frustration, everything that goes on over there, it's just a nightmare." - Army Sgt. Michael Badgley Jr.
http://www.traveling-soldier.org/1.04.words.php
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"Coitus Interruptus":
Lost in the pre-coital thrashing around last March as the imperial war machines got ready to mount their chargers was the fundamental question of why the rush to war? For the real issue is that the WMD are part of a massive diversion, a necessary component of a propaganda campaign to hide the real reasons for the invasion of Iraq.
http://www.williambowles.info/ini/ini-0191.html
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More Evidence that Bush Is a "Dry Drunk"?:
Earlier several other writers and I likened Bush’s personality characteristics to those of a person who, in AA parlance, is “dry” but whose thinking is not really sober. Grandiosity, rigidity, and intolerance of ambiguity, and a tendency to obsess about things are among the traits associated with the dry drunk.
http://hnn.us/articles/3165.html
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Israel 'to free nuclear whistleblower':
Israel's security services would bar Vanunu from giving press interviews, publishing a book, travelling overseas or within Israel, and planned to monitor his correspondence, the paper added.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/AA271386-353B-434F-B6D9-50A5A992D61B.htm
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Israeli defense minister threatens to kill Islamic leaders :
Shaul Mofaz issued the threat in response to a declaration by the spiritual leader of Hamas, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, that the group plans an all-out effort to kidnap Israeli soldiers.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/02/01/international1440EST0532.DTL
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Israel wants U.S. report held until after Hague hearing :
Israel has asked the U.S. administration to postpone publication of the State Department's annual report on human rights around the world, fearing it will be used against Israel in the discussion on the separation fence at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/389620.html
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The Strategic Function Of U.S. Aid To Israel:
Congressional researchers have disclosed that between 1974 and 1989, $16.4 billion in U.S. military loans were converted to grants and that this was the understanding from the beginning. Indeed, all past U.S. loans to Israel have eventually been forgiven by Congress
http://www.wrmea.com/html/us_aid_to_israel.htm#STRATEGIC
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China set to flood the world with chips :
China is set to provide 20 percent of global capacity in 2005 - pointing to a world-wide industry recession and slashed profits for other chip manufacturers.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FB03Ad01.html
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