Stories from 2002-06-28
"Eventually, customs officials hope to extend the system to the 20 ports around the world that send the largest volume of cargo to the United States. Those 20 ports, said the customs spokesman, Dean Boyd, jointly account for almost 70 percent of the 5.7 million containers shipped by sea to the United States each year." [more]
"The departure of retired Army Gen. Wayne A. Downing, who also has been an outspoken hawk in administration debates about how to deal with Saddam Hussein, raised questions among security experts about both the administration's plans to improve homeland security through a massive government reorganization and the direction of its policy on Iraq." [more]
"Military officials had reported a clash Thursday between Philippine army scout rangers and about 150 Abu Sayyaf extremist guerrillas tracked by U.S. surveillance planes on the southern island of Jolo, in Sulu province. An army officer was killed and six others wounded in Thursday's 30-minute gunbattle with the rebels believed led by Abu Sayyaf chieftain Khaddafy Janjalani, who is on a list of Philippine terrorists wanted by the United States." [more]
"Two separate military reports blame two American F-16 pilots for the deaths of four Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, but the reports don't explain why one pilot ignored a direct order and attacked. Parallel Canadian and U.S. inquiries said Friday the pilots broke the rules and are directly responsible for the four deaths and eight injuries in the so-called friendly fire incident in April." [more]
" 'We must take the battle to the enemy and where necessary pre-empt grave threats to our country before they materialize,' Cheney told several hundred people in Charlotte, N.C. 'The only path to safety is the path of action. The United States of America will act, and we will defeat the enemies of freedom,' he said." [more]
"The American proposals, introduced by Richard Williamson, its ambasssador to the UN for political affairs, offer two options. The first would include all UN missions ... 'that current and former officials and personnel from a contributing state ... shall enjoy, except in the territory of the contributing state, immunity from arrest, detention and prosecution with respect to all acts arising out of such operations and that this immunity shall continue after termination of their participation for all such acts'. The second draft resolution makes the same proposals, but restricts it to the force for Bosnia." [more]
"The House approved its version of the fiscal 2003 defense appropriations bill June 27 after voting to shift $30 million from the Missile Defense Agency's space-based interceptor program to the agency's Airborne Laser." [more]
"Israeli troops and bulldozers are searching through the rubble of the Palestinian Authority's local headquarters in the West Bank town of Hebron, which they blew up in two huge explosions on Friday night. The army says 15 wanted Palestinian militants were hiding inside, but no-one has been found dead or alive according to Israeli officials." [more]
"U.S. officials said Riyad has been seeking intermediate-range missiles as well as biological, chemical and nuclear weapons from Islamic allies. They said China and Pakistan have been the most prominent suppliers in the Saudi effort." [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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