Stories from 2002-05-13
"Mr Razim said US energy company Unocal was the 'lead company' among those that would build the pipeline, which would bring 30bn cubic meters of Turkmen gas to market annually." [more]
" 'There were absolutely no such allegations made or questions raised,' Mr. Carter said at a biological research center before an audience that included President Fidel Castro of Cuba and numerous scientists. 'I asked them myself on more than one occasion if there was any evidence that Cuba has been involved in sharing any information with any country on earth that could be used for terrorist purposes. And the answer from our experts on intelligence was no.' [more]
"Most Afghans, I found, feel deep gratitude for America's role in ousting the Taliban and banishing Al Qaeda. But they also worry that Washington is losing interest in their country ... [D]uring my stay I found little evidence that the United States has the necessary will, or skill, to address Afghanistan's profound political and economic problems." [more]
"The United Statesówhich has the final say in a country it still deems a war zoneóhas steadfastly opposed the deployment of foreign peace-keepers, regardless of nationality, beyond the confines of Kabul. Not only won't we provide the Afghans security; we won't let anyone else do it either." [more]
"Last week, a subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee added $3.2 billion in items to the $70.2 billion procurement part of the 2003 defense budget. 'I would have liked to have added more,' subcommittee Chairman Rep. Curt Weldon, a Pennsylvania Republican, told reporters." [more]
"The effort by Nuaimi and his colleagues may be the most potent legal undertaking so far to challenge the government's detention of the 384 captives in Cuba and Hamdi, who is held in the brig at the Norfolk Naval Station." [more]
"FBI agentís notes pointed to possible World Trade Center attack." [more]
"Precise details of the new accord were not immediately available, but it generally calls for both sides to reduce their arsenals of nuclear warheads from the current levels of about 6,000 to between 1,700 and 2,200." [more]
"It is not immediately clear how a new gym in Texas, a harbor cleanup in California, or raising a Civil War-era ironclad in Virginia do much to advance that war. [Sen. John] McCain has demanded investigations of [a particular] Boeing deal. 'This is clearly war profiteering,' he says. 'It is obscene.' " [more]
"White House chief of staff Andrew Card has assigned a small team to study possible alternativesóranging from eliminating the post altogether to transforming it into a separate cabinet-level department with Ridge in charge. 'Everything is on the table,' said one Bush staffer." [more]
Reporters who criticise Israel are to blame for inciting anti-Semites to burn synagogues. Thus it is not Israel's brutality and occupation that provokes the sick and cruel people who attack Jewish institutions, synagogues and cemeteries. We journalists are to blame. [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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