Bombshell As Six More British Documents Leaked
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9125.htm
06/13/05 - - Six new secret British documents have been leaked and are provided below. These were retyped from the originals to protect the source, RawStory.com has verified the authenticity .
Iraq options paper: Full text
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9124.htm
The following, titled "IRAQ OPTIONS PAPER," was prepared and dated March 8, 200. It presents possible courses to war. Continued
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9126.htm
British foreign secretary Straw says case for Iraq is weak
he following is purported to have been penned by the British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw--U.S. equivalent of Secretary of State--concerning a possible war in Iraq. Straw indicates the case for war is weak; that the Iraq situation has remained unchanged; and that the United States would not have gone to war without September 11. Continued.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9126.htm
Condi committed to regime change in early 2002
The following, is purported to be written by Blair foreign policy advisor David Manning, indicates that now-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was committed to "regime change" in early 2002. It also outlines some problems a postwar Iraq might face. Continued
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9127.htm
Iraq: The British legal background
The following was said prepared as an Iraq legal background for war. It is not dated. Continued
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9128.htm
'What has changed is not the pace of Saddam's WMD programs'
06/13/05 - - This memorandum, said from Blair political director Peter Ricketts and dated Mar. 22, 2002, indicates the challenges that an Iraq war would face. It indicates that it would have been carbon copied to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell and President George W. Bush. "The truth is that what has changed is not the pace of Saddam Hussein’s WMD programmes," the document says. Continued
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9129.htm
'The need to wrongfoot Saddam on the inspectors'
The following is said from Christopher Meyer, British ambassador to the US from 1997 through February 2003, and dated in March of 2002. Strikingly, the document speaks of a "need to wrongfoot Saddam on the inspectors" and suggests British intelligence and diplomacy draws a great deal on articles written by Sy Hersh in the New Yorker. It also describes a meeting with then-Deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz. Continued.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9130.htm
====================
UK: Ministers were told of need for Gulf war ‘excuse’
Bush and Blair agreed on regime change in April 2002 and then looked for a way to justify it.
Michael Smith
MINISTERS were warned in July 2002 that Britain was committed to taking part in an American-led invasion of Iraq and they had no choice but to find a way of making it legal. The briefing paper is certain to add to the pressure, particularly on the American president, because of the damaging revelation that Bush and Blair agreed on regime change in April 2002 and then looked for a way to justify it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9111.htm
http://snipurl.com/fj1a
===
Leaked Cabinet Office paper: Conditions for military action
PERSONAL SECRET UK EYES ONLY
IRAQ: CONDITIONS FOR MILITARY ACTION (A Note by Officials)
Agree to engage the US on the need to set military plans within a realistic political strategy, which includes identifying the succession to Saddam Hussein and creating the conditions necessary to justify government military action
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9112.htm
http://snipurl.com/fj1b
===
The Fix is In: Why the Downing Street Memo Matters
Pentagon whistleblower Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski and Daniel Ellsberg on the deceptions of the Bush administration
Real Video - 4 minutes
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9131.htm
http://snipurl.com/fci6
===
Five Iraqi Policemen killed, five other injured in explosions in Samara
http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=742364
http://snipurl.com/fk04
===
Gunmen attack checkpoint, killing four police:
Gunmen in three cars approached the checkpoint and began firing, killing four policemen and injuring seven before fleeing the scene 25 km (15 miles) south of Baquba.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KHA347615.htm
http://snipurl.com/fk05
===
Suicide car bombers kill 10 in Iraq:
Witnesses said a US army Humvee was on fire after the blast and said a US helicopter arrived to evacuate the wounded. They said three US soldiers were evacuated, but the details could not be confirmed with the US military.
http://www.timesofoman.com/newsdetails.asp?newsid=16595
http://snipurl.com/fk06
===
Suicide Bomber Kills 3 GIs in Afghanistan :
A suicide bomber rammed a car full of explosives into a U.S. military vehicle in southern Afghanistan, killing at least three American soldiers, the deputy police chief of nearby Kandahar said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5070359,00.html
http://snipurl.com/fk07
===
Bomber attacks US Afghan convoy :
A suicide bomber has attacked a United States military convoy in southern Afghanistan wounding four American soldiers, US officials say. But they say reports that five US soldiers were killed are wrong.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4086588.stm
http://snipurl.com/fk08
===
The leak that changed minds on the Iraq war:
It makes clear that both Blair and Bush have a lot to apologise for: “When the prime minister discussed Iraq with President Bush at Crawford in April he said that the UK would support military action to bring about regime change,” it states, adding that “regime change per se is illegal”.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9117.htm
http://snipurl.com/fk09
===
CNN change facts into fiction :
The point of the Downing Street Memo is not that the Bush regime "saw the war as inevitable." The point is that it wanted the war and had decided that military action was going to happen—and then figure out the justification.
http://villagevoice.com/blogs/bushbeat/archive/000989.php
http://snipurl.com/fk0b
===
Administration's Offenses Impeachable: So, what does it mean?
It means that our president and all of his administration are war criminals. It's as simple as that. They lied to the American people, have killed and injured and traumatized thousands of American men and women doing their patriotic duty, killed at least 100,000 Iraqi civilians
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/shetterly1.html
http://snipurl.com/fk0c
===
Mr. President, Explain The Downing Street Memo :
We come together, as concerned Americans, irrespective of political affiliation, to seek the truth from our government. As citizens, we deserve no less.
http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/dsm3/
===
Ray McGovern: Downing Street II:
On behalf of the Truth Telling Coalition, let me invite any patriotic truth tellers out of the woodwork, so that truly courageous leaders like Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., will not have to depend solely on patriots in Britain (and Rupert Murdoch!).
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9132.htm
http://snipurl.com/fk0d
===
Proof is in the memo:
Soldiers died for a lie: All the world – except America – is buzzing about the fact that George Bush created the WMD threat to justify his war in Iraq.
http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2005/06/13/bethcolj.htm
http://snipurl.com/fk0e
===
In an attempt to change the subject,
raqi "government" releases video of Saddam
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1505612,00.html
http://snipurl.com/fk0g
===
Military action won't end resistance, growing number of U.S. officers believe:
The recognition that a military solution is not in the offing has led U.S. and Iraqi officials to signal they are willing to negotiate with resistance groups, or their intermediaries.
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/world/11879261.htm
http://snipurl.com/fk0j
===
"Support Our Torturers!":
We Regret Any Inconvenience Caused by Your Humiliation
http://www.counterpunch.org/cloughley06102005.html
http://snipurl.com/fk0l
===
Military draft back on US agenda:
THE United States would "have to face" a painful dilemma on restoring the military draft as rising casualties saw the number of volunteers dry up, a senator warned today.
http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1274&storyid=3278264
http://snipurl.com/fk0n
===
Republican lawmakers urge shift in U.S. Iraq plans:
A Republican congressman called for a deadline to pull U.S. troops from Iraq, while some other members of President Bush's party urged on Sunday that his administration come to grips with a persistent insurgency and revamp Iraq policy.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050612/pl_nm/iraq_usa_republicans_dc_2
http://snipurl.com/fk0o
===
USA is losing patience on Iraq :
Nearly six in 10 Americans say the United States should withdraw some or all of its troops from Iraq, a new Gallup Poll finds
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-06-12-poll_x.htm
http://snipurl.com/fk0q
===
Court Rejects Padilla's Request For Appeal:
His attorneys asked the justices to decide whether President Bush has the power to seize U.S. citizens in civilian settings on American soil and subject them to indefinite military detention without criminal charges or a trial.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9121.htm
http://snipurl.com/fk0s
===
Some Held at Guantánamo Are Minors:
One lawyer said that his client, a Saudi of Chadian descent, was not yet 15 when he was captured and had told him that he was beaten regularly in his early days at Guantánamo and that an interrogator pressed a burning cigarette into his arm.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9120.htm
http://snipurl.com/fk0t
===
This web site represents the effort of one person.
I need your help to offset the costs associated with site hosting and bandwidth usage. If you find this site informative please help by clicking here
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/support.htm
http://snipurl.com/dn4j
===
New Gitmo abuse furor:
The humiliating tactics were so harsh that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had to green-light them - and they continued even after the suspect, who was never charged, was rushed to the hospital.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/318583p-272361c.html
http://snipurl.com/fk0v
===
Magazine Reports Details Of A Guantanamo Interrogation:
Time reported, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved 16 additional interrogation techniques for use on certain detainees.
http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3465379
http://snipurl.com/fk0w
===
Extracts from an Interrogation Log:
The detainee began to pray loudly but this did not stop me from finishing informing the detainee about the Al Qaeda member, Qaed Salim Sinan al Harethi aka Abu Ali, that was killed by the CIA.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9123.htm
http://snipurl.com/fk0x
===
Guantánamo detainees are 'bad people', says Cheney :
People need to understand that detainees at Guantánamo Bay are "bad people", the US vice president, Dick Cheney, will say in an interview to be broadcast tonight as pressure grows for the detention centre to close.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,13743,1505497,00.html?gusrc=rss
http://snipurl.com/fk0y
===
Pressure to close Guantánamo grows:
Republicans said that reports of mistreatment of prisoners there have made the prison a growing global liability.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002332036_gitmo13.html
http://snipurl.com/fk0z
===
Pakistan denies FBI terror camp claims :
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz denied Saturday there is a jihadist training center outside Islamabad near Rawalpindi, where federal agents say a 22-year- old Lodi man was taught "how to kill Americans" over a six-month period in 2003 and 2004.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/06/12/MNGJND7G5J1.DTL
http://snipurl.com/fk10
===
Israeli Spy Affair: Pentagon Analyst Indicted in Info Leak :
A Pentagon analyst has been indicted on charges he leaked classified military information to employees of a pro-Israel group (AIPAC) , according to court papers made public Monday.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9133.htm
http://snipurl.com/fk11
===
Conservatives for Espionage:
Many leading conservatives are taking up the cudgels on the spy ring’s behalf – and claiming that the accused are victims of an insidious plot!
http://snipurl.com/fk14
===
Palestinian Factions Warn Calm would Collapse due to Israeli Aggressions?:
In a leaflet signed by 13 Palestinian factions, the groups held Israel responsible for the deterioration of the cease-fire for violating it with continuous military operations in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. However they did not declare pulling out of the deal.
http://snipurl.com/fk15
===
Palestinian Authority won't disarm militants-minister:
The Palestinian Authority will not disarm militants until Israel ends its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza as stated in a U.S.-backed peace plan, Foreign Minister Nasser al-Kidwa said on Monday.
http://snipurl.com/fk16
===
Amnesty International calls for halt to death penalty as four executed in Gaza
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE210052005
http://snipurl.com/fk17
===
FBI Whistleblower: White Supremacists Are Major Domestic Terrorist Threat:
We speak with Mike German, an ex-FBI agent who resigned from the agency last year in protest of what he saw as continuing failures in the FBI counter terrorism program.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/13/145217
===
In case you missed it:
WMD Plot Uncovered In East Texas:
At least one weapon of mass destruction - a sodium cyanide bomb capable of delivering a deadly gas cloud - has been seized in the Tyler area.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5350.htm
http://snipurl.com/e441
===
John Pilger: Dodgy 'Partnership':
Accepting tainted money - money from the same source that "funds a murderous regime" - is itself a compromise and a dangerous one.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9118.htm
http://snipurl.com/fk1a
===
Privatisation Hangs Over Debt Relief:
The finance ministers' agreement contains a provision on privatisation that has the potential to deliver to them more money than they wrote off.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9122.htm
http://snipurl.com/fk1c
===
When it comes to Africa, Bush has more on his mind than aid:
Oil, raw materials and the expansion of the free market are the principal reasons the US engages in Africa, anything else is pretty much incidental.
http://www.sundayherald.com/50283
http://snipurl.com/fk1d
===
Police accused of breaching civil liberties of G8 campaigners :
Human rights campaigners have accused the police of breaching civil liberties as they gather intelligence on people planning to protest against the G8 summit.
http://snipurl.com/fk1f
===
Peace & Joy
Tom Feeley
===
Liberty can not be preserved without general knowledge among people." (August 1765) John Adams
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9125.htm
06/13/05 - - Six new secret British documents have been leaked and are provided below. These were retyped from the originals to protect the source, RawStory.com has verified the authenticity .
Iraq options paper: Full text
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9124.htm
The following, titled "IRAQ OPTIONS PAPER," was prepared and dated March 8, 200. It presents possible courses to war. Continued
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9126.htm
British foreign secretary Straw says case for Iraq is weak
he following is purported to have been penned by the British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw--U.S. equivalent of Secretary of State--concerning a possible war in Iraq. Straw indicates the case for war is weak; that the Iraq situation has remained unchanged; and that the United States would not have gone to war without September 11. Continued.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9126.htm
Condi committed to regime change in early 2002
The following, is purported to be written by Blair foreign policy advisor David Manning, indicates that now-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was committed to "regime change" in early 2002. It also outlines some problems a postwar Iraq might face. Continued
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9127.htm
Iraq: The British legal background
The following was said prepared as an Iraq legal background for war. It is not dated. Continued
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9128.htm
'What has changed is not the pace of Saddam's WMD programs'
06/13/05 - - This memorandum, said from Blair political director Peter Ricketts and dated Mar. 22, 2002, indicates the challenges that an Iraq war would face. It indicates that it would have been carbon copied to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell and President George W. Bush. "The truth is that what has changed is not the pace of Saddam Hussein’s WMD programmes," the document says. Continued
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9129.htm
'The need to wrongfoot Saddam on the inspectors'
The following is said from Christopher Meyer, British ambassador to the US from 1997 through February 2003, and dated in March of 2002. Strikingly, the document speaks of a "need to wrongfoot Saddam on the inspectors" and suggests British intelligence and diplomacy draws a great deal on articles written by Sy Hersh in the New Yorker. It also describes a meeting with then-Deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz. Continued.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9130.htm
====================
UK: Ministers were told of need for Gulf war ‘excuse’
Bush and Blair agreed on regime change in April 2002 and then looked for a way to justify it.
Michael Smith
MINISTERS were warned in July 2002 that Britain was committed to taking part in an American-led invasion of Iraq and they had no choice but to find a way of making it legal. The briefing paper is certain to add to the pressure, particularly on the American president, because of the damaging revelation that Bush and Blair agreed on regime change in April 2002 and then looked for a way to justify it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9111.htm
http://snipurl.com/fj1a
===
Leaked Cabinet Office paper: Conditions for military action
PERSONAL SECRET UK EYES ONLY
IRAQ: CONDITIONS FOR MILITARY ACTION (A Note by Officials)
Agree to engage the US on the need to set military plans within a realistic political strategy, which includes identifying the succession to Saddam Hussein and creating the conditions necessary to justify government military action
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9112.htm
http://snipurl.com/fj1b
===
The Fix is In: Why the Downing Street Memo Matters
Pentagon whistleblower Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski and Daniel Ellsberg on the deceptions of the Bush administration
Real Video - 4 minutes
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9131.htm
http://snipurl.com/fci6
===
Five Iraqi Policemen killed, five other injured in explosions in Samara
http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=742364
http://snipurl.com/fk04
===
Gunmen attack checkpoint, killing four police:
Gunmen in three cars approached the checkpoint and began firing, killing four policemen and injuring seven before fleeing the scene 25 km (15 miles) south of Baquba.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KHA347615.htm
http://snipurl.com/fk05
===
Suicide car bombers kill 10 in Iraq:
Witnesses said a US army Humvee was on fire after the blast and said a US helicopter arrived to evacuate the wounded. They said three US soldiers were evacuated, but the details could not be confirmed with the US military.
http://www.timesofoman.com/newsdetails.asp?newsid=16595
http://snipurl.com/fk06
===
Suicide Bomber Kills 3 GIs in Afghanistan :
A suicide bomber rammed a car full of explosives into a U.S. military vehicle in southern Afghanistan, killing at least three American soldiers, the deputy police chief of nearby Kandahar said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5070359,00.html
http://snipurl.com/fk07
===
Bomber attacks US Afghan convoy :
A suicide bomber has attacked a United States military convoy in southern Afghanistan wounding four American soldiers, US officials say. But they say reports that five US soldiers were killed are wrong.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4086588.stm
http://snipurl.com/fk08
===
The leak that changed minds on the Iraq war:
It makes clear that both Blair and Bush have a lot to apologise for: “When the prime minister discussed Iraq with President Bush at Crawford in April he said that the UK would support military action to bring about regime change,” it states, adding that “regime change per se is illegal”.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9117.htm
http://snipurl.com/fk09
===
CNN change facts into fiction :
The point of the Downing Street Memo is not that the Bush regime "saw the war as inevitable." The point is that it wanted the war and had decided that military action was going to happen—and then figure out the justification.
http://villagevoice.com/blogs/bushbeat/archive/000989.php
http://snipurl.com/fk0b
===
Administration's Offenses Impeachable: So, what does it mean?
It means that our president and all of his administration are war criminals. It's as simple as that. They lied to the American people, have killed and injured and traumatized thousands of American men and women doing their patriotic duty, killed at least 100,000 Iraqi civilians
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/shetterly1.html
http://snipurl.com/fk0c
===
Mr. President, Explain The Downing Street Memo :
We come together, as concerned Americans, irrespective of political affiliation, to seek the truth from our government. As citizens, we deserve no less.
http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/dsm3/
===
Ray McGovern: Downing Street II:
On behalf of the Truth Telling Coalition, let me invite any patriotic truth tellers out of the woodwork, so that truly courageous leaders like Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., will not have to depend solely on patriots in Britain (and Rupert Murdoch!).
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9132.htm
http://snipurl.com/fk0d
===
Proof is in the memo:
Soldiers died for a lie: All the world – except America – is buzzing about the fact that George Bush created the WMD threat to justify his war in Iraq.
http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2005/06/13/bethcolj.htm
http://snipurl.com/fk0e
===
In an attempt to change the subject,
raqi "government" releases video of Saddam
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1505612,00.html
http://snipurl.com/fk0g
===
Military action won't end resistance, growing number of U.S. officers believe:
The recognition that a military solution is not in the offing has led U.S. and Iraqi officials to signal they are willing to negotiate with resistance groups, or their intermediaries.
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/world/11879261.htm
http://snipurl.com/fk0j
===
"Support Our Torturers!":
We Regret Any Inconvenience Caused by Your Humiliation
http://www.counterpunch.org/cloughley06102005.html
http://snipurl.com/fk0l
===
Military draft back on US agenda:
THE United States would "have to face" a painful dilemma on restoring the military draft as rising casualties saw the number of volunteers dry up, a senator warned today.
http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1274&storyid=3278264
http://snipurl.com/fk0n
===
Republican lawmakers urge shift in U.S. Iraq plans:
A Republican congressman called for a deadline to pull U.S. troops from Iraq, while some other members of President Bush's party urged on Sunday that his administration come to grips with a persistent insurgency and revamp Iraq policy.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050612/pl_nm/iraq_usa_republicans_dc_2
http://snipurl.com/fk0o
===
USA is losing patience on Iraq :
Nearly six in 10 Americans say the United States should withdraw some or all of its troops from Iraq, a new Gallup Poll finds
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-06-12-poll_x.htm
http://snipurl.com/fk0q
===
Court Rejects Padilla's Request For Appeal:
His attorneys asked the justices to decide whether President Bush has the power to seize U.S. citizens in civilian settings on American soil and subject them to indefinite military detention without criminal charges or a trial.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9121.htm
http://snipurl.com/fk0s
===
Some Held at Guantánamo Are Minors:
One lawyer said that his client, a Saudi of Chadian descent, was not yet 15 when he was captured and had told him that he was beaten regularly in his early days at Guantánamo and that an interrogator pressed a burning cigarette into his arm.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9120.htm
http://snipurl.com/fk0t
===
This web site represents the effort of one person.
I need your help to offset the costs associated with site hosting and bandwidth usage. If you find this site informative please help by clicking here
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/support.htm
http://snipurl.com/dn4j
===
New Gitmo abuse furor:
The humiliating tactics were so harsh that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had to green-light them - and they continued even after the suspect, who was never charged, was rushed to the hospital.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/318583p-272361c.html
http://snipurl.com/fk0v
===
Magazine Reports Details Of A Guantanamo Interrogation:
Time reported, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved 16 additional interrogation techniques for use on certain detainees.
http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3465379
http://snipurl.com/fk0w
===
Extracts from an Interrogation Log:
The detainee began to pray loudly but this did not stop me from finishing informing the detainee about the Al Qaeda member, Qaed Salim Sinan al Harethi aka Abu Ali, that was killed by the CIA.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9123.htm
http://snipurl.com/fk0x
===
Guantánamo detainees are 'bad people', says Cheney :
People need to understand that detainees at Guantánamo Bay are "bad people", the US vice president, Dick Cheney, will say in an interview to be broadcast tonight as pressure grows for the detention centre to close.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,13743,1505497,00.html?gusrc=rss
http://snipurl.com/fk0y
===
Pressure to close Guantánamo grows:
Republicans said that reports of mistreatment of prisoners there have made the prison a growing global liability.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002332036_gitmo13.html
http://snipurl.com/fk0z
===
Pakistan denies FBI terror camp claims :
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz denied Saturday there is a jihadist training center outside Islamabad near Rawalpindi, where federal agents say a 22-year- old Lodi man was taught "how to kill Americans" over a six-month period in 2003 and 2004.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/06/12/MNGJND7G5J1.DTL
http://snipurl.com/fk10
===
Israeli Spy Affair: Pentagon Analyst Indicted in Info Leak :
A Pentagon analyst has been indicted on charges he leaked classified military information to employees of a pro-Israel group (AIPAC) , according to court papers made public Monday.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9133.htm
http://snipurl.com/fk11
===
Conservatives for Espionage:
Many leading conservatives are taking up the cudgels on the spy ring’s behalf – and claiming that the accused are victims of an insidious plot!
http://snipurl.com/fk14
===
Palestinian Factions Warn Calm would Collapse due to Israeli Aggressions?:
In a leaflet signed by 13 Palestinian factions, the groups held Israel responsible for the deterioration of the cease-fire for violating it with continuous military operations in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. However they did not declare pulling out of the deal.
http://snipurl.com/fk15
===
Palestinian Authority won't disarm militants-minister:
The Palestinian Authority will not disarm militants until Israel ends its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza as stated in a U.S.-backed peace plan, Foreign Minister Nasser al-Kidwa said on Monday.
http://snipurl.com/fk16
===
Amnesty International calls for halt to death penalty as four executed in Gaza
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE210052005
http://snipurl.com/fk17
===
FBI Whistleblower: White Supremacists Are Major Domestic Terrorist Threat:
We speak with Mike German, an ex-FBI agent who resigned from the agency last year in protest of what he saw as continuing failures in the FBI counter terrorism program.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/13/145217
===
In case you missed it:
WMD Plot Uncovered In East Texas:
At least one weapon of mass destruction - a sodium cyanide bomb capable of delivering a deadly gas cloud - has been seized in the Tyler area.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5350.htm
http://snipurl.com/e441
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John Pilger: Dodgy 'Partnership':
Accepting tainted money - money from the same source that "funds a murderous regime" - is itself a compromise and a dangerous one.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9118.htm
http://snipurl.com/fk1a
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Privatisation Hangs Over Debt Relief:
The finance ministers' agreement contains a provision on privatisation that has the potential to deliver to them more money than they wrote off.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9122.htm
http://snipurl.com/fk1c
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When it comes to Africa, Bush has more on his mind than aid:
Oil, raw materials and the expansion of the free market are the principal reasons the US engages in Africa, anything else is pretty much incidental.
http://www.sundayherald.com/50283
http://snipurl.com/fk1d
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Police accused of breaching civil liberties of G8 campaigners :
Human rights campaigners have accused the police of breaching civil liberties as they gather intelligence on people planning to protest against the G8 summit.
http://snipurl.com/fk1f
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Peace & Joy
Tom Feeley
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Liberty can not be preserved without general knowledge among people." (August 1765) John Adams
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