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Date: 1 JULY 2006 |
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Date: 1 July 2006 === RSS FEED www.informationclearinghouse.info/rssfeed.xml News Syndication You can include the headlines from this newsletter on your own website free of charge === Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In Bush’s War 2536 The War in Iraq Costs === Supreme Court’s decision in Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld could expose officials to prosecution. By Rosa Brooks The real blockbuster in the Hamdan decision is the court’s holding that Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention applies to the conflict with Al Qaeda — a holding that makes high-ranking Bush administration officials potentially subject to prosecution under the federal War Crimes Act. === By Robert Fisk Violence has now become so close to all our lives that art sometimes seems incapable of matching the reality. Indeed, actors might be losing their credibility. After all, wasn’t the 43rd President of the United States all dolled up in a jumpsuit when he mouthed the greatest lie of all? Mission accomplished? === Video The film is a warning about how easy it is for American democracy to be hijacked by a combination of relentless ambition and corporate millions. It makes the case that DeLay built a “custom-made Congress” that is still providing votes for his agenda. Click here to watch === A US military vehicle which attempted to approach the blast scene withdrew in a hail of stones thrown by angry residents. === Police found the bodies of four Iraqi soldiers near Kirkuk, 250 km (150 miles) north of Baghdad. They had been kidnapped on Friday === More than 100 bodies are being held at room temperature because morgue refrigerators are full, inspector-general of Iraq’s health ministry Adil Abdul Muhsin told Al-Mada news. === “Insurgent” attacks in Baghdad have risen despite a recent security crackdown that added thousands of troops and new checkpoints to the streets of Iraq’s capital, a U.S. commander said on Friday. === Investigators believe a group of U.S. soldiers suspected of raping an Iraqi woman, then killing her and three members of her family plotted the attack for nearly a week, a U.S. military official said Saturday. === “We demand that the occupiers leave and offer a timetable for their withdrawal and not extend their stay here,” Sadr said, adding that de-Baathification must be activated fast and “their leader executed”. === The soldier whose abduction sparked Israel’s invasion of Gaza is in stable condition from his wounds, a Palestinian official said Saturday, while President Mahmoud Abbas warned the coming hours were “critical, sensitive and serious” for calming the crisis. === Palestinian fighters have kidnapped a second Israeli soldier and threatened to kill him unless Israel ends its military offensive in the Palestinian territories, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades announced overnight on Friday. === Israel has rejected Palestinian demands to free 1,000 prisoners as its warplanes pounded the Gaza Strip for a fourth straight night in a deepening crisis over a captured soldier. === Overnight, Israeli bombers pounded targets across Gaza, including the only power station and Palestinian government offices === As the United Nations warned that the destruction of a power plant in Israeli air raids was posing an imminent humanitarian crisis === Israel holds Khaled Mashal, the leader of Hamas’ Syrian branch, responsible for the abduction of two Israeli soldiers and wants Syria to expel Palestinian leaders from the country. === Several thousand protesters at one of Cairo’s main mosques called Friday for holy war against Israel to help the Palestinians in their conflict with the Jewish state. === Thousands of angry Turks burned an Israeli flag Friday and chanted “Murderer Israel, Get out of Palestine!” to protest Israel’s offensive into the Gaza Strip. === Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah told some 5,000 worshippers at a mosque in southern Beirut that Arabs and Muslims must support “the Palestinian people who are strongly standing fast against western racism that is backing Jewish racism.” === Arab and Muslim states on Friday put the occupied Palestinian territories on the permanent agenda of the U.N. Human Rights Council, overcoming Israeli and Western objections to singling out alleged abuses by the Jewish state. === MI6 warns of Iran threat to UK: MI6 has warned that Iran could direct terrorist attacks on British interests, if talks over its nuclear programme fail. === War pimp alert: Frist: Europe Missile-Defense Site Needed : Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist urged President Bush on Friday to intensify efforts to put interceptor missiles at a site in Europe to protect against potential attacks from Iran. === “In addition to its attempts to corner Iran and exerting further pressure on it in nuclear talks, the US intends to misuse the situation to divert public opinion away from the country’s nuclear issue by setting a deadline for Iran’s response. === A Ukrainian firm supplied China and Iran with six long-range cruise missile in 2000-2001, Russia’s defense minister said Friday. === The Supreme Court handed the prisoners at Gitmo a victory, but authorities there continue to use harsh methods to break one of their most common methods of protest — the hunger strike === THE Guantanamo camp may have only 30 to 40 “real” cases and the US detention centre should be shut down by 2007, the president of the Belgian Senate, who headed a European inspection team there, said overnight. === Throwing down a new challenge to the British government’s tactics against terrorism, a High Court judge ruled Wednesday that so-called control orders – a form of house arrest without trial – were incompatible with European human rights laws. === Only a spin doctor would deny that the media baron has a say in all major decisions taken in Downing Street === The Bush administration will work to bolster the police force and other security troops of Somalia’s government in exile in the hope of marginalizing the Islamic militias now controlling much of the war- torn country, a senior U.S. official told Congress. === Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden said his group reserved the right to fight the United States on its land and warned Washington and the world community against sending forces to Somalia, according to an Internet audio tape. === The U.S. National Security Agency asked AT&T Inc. to help it set up a domestic call monitoring site seven months before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, lawyers claimed June 23 in court papers filed in New York federal court. === The arrest of Echeverria, who is 84 and in poor health, came after two failed attempts by a special prosecutor to charge him with the deaths and disappearances of dozens of students and leftist dissidents in the late 1960s and early 1970s, a period known here as the dirty war. === The report, which was ordered by President George W. Bush and is due to be released next week, also recommends a new U.S. “democracy fund” for communist-run Cuba worth $80 million over two years to boost opposition to Castro. === Citing the example of Venezuela and Bolivia, he urged Africa to seize greater control of its energy resources. He described the low royalty payments made by some foreign oil companies as “robbery”. === The Russian rouble, riding high on Moscow’s burgeoning status as an energy superpower, becomes fully convertible from tomorrow as the petrodollar giant unleashes on the world a currency to match its growing economic clout === Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s office in charge of protecting California against terrorism has tracked demonstrations staged by political and anti-war groups, a practice that senior law enforcement officials say is an abuse of civil liberties. === Convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff improperly obtained a top-secret FBI document and tried to use the information to aid his clients in the Pacific Island territories, according to a report released Friday by the Justice Department’s inspector general === A judge has overturned a racketeering murder conviction against two former policemen, despite acknowledging they are guilty of the “heinous” crimes. === Mafia Cops?: Stephen Caraccappa and Louis Eppolito, two highly decorated former detectives, were convicted last month of murdering eight people – murders committed on the orders of a vicious mob boss. === Former vice presidential candidate John Edwards, who is mulling over a run for the presidency in 2008, called for withdrawal from Iraq within the next 18 months, and for the U.S. government to launch another war – on poverty === I need your help to offset the costs associated with site hosting and bandwidth usage. 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