Stories from 2003-04-24
"Children younger than 16 are being held as 'enemy combatants' in the American detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, the US military admitted yesterday, a practice human rights groups condemned as repugnant and illegal." [more]
"The F.B.I. has opened an internal ethics investigation to determine whether its agents abused their authority by secretly seizing from a news organization documents on international terrorism." [more]
"US officials are treading cautiously in naming an interim administration to represent Iraq's mosaic of a population. They have distanced themselves from self-proclaimed Baghdad governor Mohammad Mohsen Zubeidi and remained cool to key opposition figure Ahmad Chalabi, leader of the Iraqi National Congress." [more]
"Looters operating right under the nose of U.S. forces emptied the museum of priceless antiquities documenting the development of mankind in ancient Mesopotamia, one of the world's earliest civilizations. Their theft has left the international archaeological community in shock. Two cultural advisers to the administration of President Bush resigned in protest at the failure of U.S. forces to prevent the looting." [more]
"Not only might these tribes bring back an ancient vigilante style of justice — burning the homes of accused criminals, for instance — but tribal militias could become an obstacle for US forces as they search the countryside for Al Qaeda." [more]
"Thus the only viable solution for the transient Iraqi authority is likely to be a collective of three leaders — one Sunni, one Shiite and one Kurd." [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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