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"One source said the Pentagon had 60 photographs from Abu Ghraib jail depicting instances of abuse more violent than those that had been released to the media./ 'The ones seen so far are the mild ones that people can live with,' the source said. One photo allegedly depicts an Iraqi teenage boy being raped by a private contractor hired by the US military." [more]
"And it's not just the foreigners - South Africans, who know they are breaking their country's laws on mercenary activity; skilled Gurkhas and Fijians who can't resist the dollars; or the Chileans who trained under General Pinochet - who are involved./ Beneath all of that is a dubious layer of Iraqi-run security - hundreds of local firms that have the capacity to become clan-based militias if, as some expect, security worsens after the June 30 hand-back of sovereignty to an Iraqi administration." [more]
"The hearings have highlighted serious gaps between Dr Rice's statements about what the White House did before September 11 and evidence from Mr Clarke that is backed by classified White House documents. In particular, Dr Rice's claim that a White House plan to 'destroy' al-Qaeda was radically different from president Bill Clinton's plan has been brought into question." [more]
"Mr Latham said the attacks were 'ludicrous' and he would not back down. He repeated that the 850 troops in and around Iraq would be withdrawn when power was handed to an Iraqi administration - scheduled for June 30 - even if it requested they remain." [more]
"Before last week's Mosul attack, some of the new Christian arrivals volunteered that they were handing out Christian tracts and seeking converts. Now they are quick to claim themselves to be non-proselytising humanitarian workers or evangelists who confine their activities to the Christian community." [more]
"US Major-General Tommy Crawford told the conference he strongly opposed the policy that blocked Australian officers from getting intelligence on Iraq, even when some of it originated from Australian intelligence sources." [more]
"Two years on, Americans remain deeply hurt by September 11, but the country is not transformed. This was not another Pearl Harbor, uniting the nation in a steely determination to do whatever it takes to defeat a clear enemy. The ambiguities and complexities of Iraq, the mixed success against al-Qaeda and confusion about domestic counter-terrorist efforts in the US itself have all deflated the spirit of 1942 that was invoked so often in the last months of 2001." [more]
"The third officer, who was uniformed, was shot as he got out from the front passenger seat and held his hands in the air, holding his coalition-issued yellow police badge and shouting 'police, police', said Nahi." [more]
"What would the occupying forces and their families make of Bush's executive order 13303, promulgated without fanfare in May, which gives sweeping powers to US oil companies operating in Iraq while granting immunity to them for the consequences of any of their actions in exploiting the oil?" [more]
"Opposition foreign affairs spokesman Kevin Rudd said that given the level of intelligence co-operation between Australia and the US, it was 'downright unbelievable' that no one from the Australian Government was in any way aware that the earlier reports from the US were flawed." [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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