Philadelphia Inquirer (Inky)Philadelphia, United States of America — www.philly.com/mld/inquirer
"Iraqi defectors gave misleading information to bolster the case for war, U.S. officials have found." [more]
"Though U.S.-led coalition forces are stationed in hot zones, their sights are trained on terrorists rather than the local thugs, drug traffickers and bandits who make life for Afghans miserable. For many Afghans, the country is less secure today than it was before the coalition bombers arrived." [more]
"The [Canadian] government provided Butt with an attorney to plead his asylum case, health benefits, and, until he finds work, a housing allowance. He has applied for three factory jobs. Asylum-seekers in the United States, by contrast, must wait six months to work, relying on charity in the meantime. Sometimes they end up in jail as their case winds through the courts." [more]
"A huge puppet of Bush feeding the Bill of Rights into a paper shredder was stationed at the rally-site entrance with a sign reading: 'Defend our rights, repeal the Patriot Act now.' " [more]
"Bremer's request for more U.S. troops and civilian help underscores how difficult it has been for his small civilian staff and about 158,000 U.S.-led troops to meet the demands of Iraqis for security and other basic needs." [more]
"A third of the American public believes U.S. forces have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, according to a recent poll. Twenty-two percent said Iraq actually used chemical or biological weapons." [more]
President Bush linked war on Iraq to his global anti-terrorism campaign in a speech to the US Coast Guard, and argued that Saddam Hussein or his terrorist allies may try to strike America in retaliation for the US-led fighting. Several hundred protesters questioned this threat and accused the Bush Administration of waging a needless and destructive war. [more]
"While American military planners have concentrated since the 1991 Persian Gulf War on making more and better use of high technology, their Iraqi counterparts appear to have been taking lessons from every battle the United States, Britain and Israel have failed to win." [more]
"Braving the cold and nasty rain, hundreds of protesters converged on the building before 9 a.m. Supporters cheered as protesters were hauled away by the uniformed federal officers. Workers in the building had not been able to enter." [more]
"FBI officials, who confirmed the operation yesterday after Arab community leaders disclosed it, said the 'voluntary interviews' were meant both to cull more information for the war and antiterrorism efforts and to reassure people that the FBI would protect them against hate crimes." [more]
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"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]
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"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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