Kim Sengupta
"While the eyes of world are on Iraq, the Taliban are reborn across much of this country and their al-Qa'ida allies are once more in the ascendant. As attacks mount and the death toll rises, the US [is] losing control" [more]
"We should be ready to impose the will of the United Nations on them if they don't co-operate, but not by hurting the people of Iraq. / "Each one of them is as precious as the 3,000 people in the twin towers. We can't sacrifice them to putting it right," she [Clare Short, the International Development Secretary] 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]
"Squadron Leader Tom Rounds of the RAF said at Bagram airbase, 'Tens of thousands of dollars have been offered as bounty for both an attack on Bagram as well as killings of Westerners. There is a real and very immediate threat to this base at the moment; that is what our intelligence indicates, and we are taking it extremely seriously.' " [more]
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(Reuters, Dec 18)
"Federal prison officers in Brooklyn physically and verbally abused immigrants detained after the Sept. 11 attacks, slamming them against the wall and painfully twisting their arms and hands, the U.S. Justice Department's inspector general said on Thursday." [more]
(STAFF, DEBKAfile, Dec 14)
"Saddam was seized, possibly with the connivance of his own men, and held in that hole in Adwar for three weeks or more, which would have accounted for his appearance and condition. Meanwhile, his captors bargained for the $25m prize the Americans promised for information leading to his capture alive or dead." [more]
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