Stories from 2002-02-11
"Afghans captured by American forces in two raids in Oruzgan in Afghanistan last month have said that they were beaten and abused by American soldiers, despite their protests that they were supporters of Interim leader Hamid Karzai." [more]
"A Washington Post reporter who reached the remote scene of the attack was held at gunpoint by U.S. soldiers and prevented from entering the site. The soldiers also barred access to the nearby village where Ahmad and the two other [alleged civilian casualties] had lived." [more]
"The FBI issued an extraordinary terrorist alert Monday night, asking law enforcement and the American public to be on the lookout for a Yemeni man and several associates who might be plotting a terrorist attack as early as Tuesday." [more]
"Instead of taking advice from the U.S. Treasury Department or the International Monetary Fund, many struggling countries would rebound from economic crisis more quickly if they focused efforts on the specific needs of society, said Joseph Stiglitz, who was one of former President Clinton's economic advisers and co-winner of the 2001 Nobel prize in economics." [more]
"U.S. commanders acknowledged last week that they mistakenly took 27 prisoners in the raid, believing they were al-Qaeda and Taliban warriors ... Several contended in reports in The New York Times and The Washington Post that they were beaten and kept in a cage with wooden bars during their detention in Kandahar." [more]
"Former Iraqi army chief of staff General Nizar Khazraji has been picked by the United States to run Iraq after the overthrow of President Saddam Hussein." [more]
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(IHT, Apr 30)
"In just five years, Bush has challenged more than 750 new laws, by far a record for any president, while becoming the first president since Thomas Jefferson to stay so long in office without issuing a veto." [more]
(Interactivist Info Exchange, Jul 26)
"Horizontalism is not an ideology, however, it is a relationship — a way of relating to one another in a directly democratic way while at the same time creating through the process of discovery. What has resulted is the creation of an amazing complex of movements, all linked." [more]
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