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Stories from 2004-04-29

Abuse of Iraqi POWs by GIs Probed

Dan Rather | CBS News | April 29, 2004

"Six months before he faced a court martial, Frederick sent home a video diary of his trip across the country. Frederick, a reservist, said he was proud to serve in Iraq. He seemed particularly well-suited for the job at Abu Ghraib. He’s a corrections officer at a Virginia prison, whose warden described Frederick to us as 'one of the best.' The Army investigation confirms that soldiers at Abu Ghraib were not trained at all in Geneva Convention rules." [more]

Transcript: Al-Zarqawi Denies Jordanian Intelligence Story on Chemical Bomb

Abu-Mus'ab al-Zarqawi | World News Connection | April 29, 2004

"The Jordanian intelligence service lied twice: First, when it claimed that we were preparing to kill the people of Islam and innocent citizens. Second, when it claimed that it foiled a plot to defend the homeland and safeguard the blood of the people of Islam." [more]

Chicago Police's Crime-Fighting Cameras Divide Neighbors

Mike Colias | Associated Press | April 29, 2004

"'It seems prejudiced to me,' said Abdul Bucky, 40, who works within sight of a camera at Deal Beauty Supply and General Merchandise in East Garfield Park. 'Why didn't they put them in all the neighborhoods?'" [more]

The Disintegration of Palestine

Edward R. F. Sheehan | New York Review of Books | April 29, 2004

"...the recent interview of Benny Morris in Haaretz has alarmed many Palestinians, who fear that it foreshadows official Israeli policy. Morris, the leading Israeli revisionist historian, showed from documentary evidence that Israel expelled hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in 1948 and that most of them did not (as Israel has alleged) leave voluntarily. He now justifies this 'ethnic cleansing' as necessary to the establishment of a Jewish state and predicts that it may be necessary again." [more]

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