I C HLeaked torture documents published hereFri Dec 30, 2005 18:48
Leaked torture documents published here
The UK Government are trying to block these documents from publication under the Official Secrets Act
These are some more documents that the UK Government are trying to suppress with the threat of prosecution under the Official Secrets Act. They detail our use of intelligence extracted by torture, and legal advice the Foreign Office received on the subject, and we need to make people aware of their existence.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11407.htm
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War without end
Only justice, not bombs, can make our dangerous world a safer place
By Robert Fisk
We have gone on smashing away at the human rights we trumpeted at the Russians - and the Arabs - during the Cold War. We have perhaps fatally weakened all those provisions that were written into our treaties and conventions in the aftermath of the Second World War to make the world a safer place. And we claim we are winning.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11416.htm
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Let's Stop a US/Israeli War on Iran
By BILL and KATHLEEN CHRISTISON
Former CIA analysts
The peace movements of the entire world should be in crisis mode right now, working non-stop to prevent the U.S. and Israel from starting a war against Iran. The reckless and unnecessary dangers arising from such a war are so obvious that one wonders why normal political forces in the two aggressor countries -- both of whom love to glorify themselves as democracies -- would not prevent such a war from happening.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11410.htm
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U.S. Force-Feeding Prisoners At Guantanamo
U.S. reports surge in Guantanamo hunger strike
The number of Guantanamo Bay prisoners taking part in a hunger strike that began nearly five months ago has surged to 84 since Christmas Day, the U.S. military said on Thursday. Medical personnel were force-feeding 32 of the hunger strikers with plastic tubes inserted into the stomach through through the nose, the military said.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11413.htm
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Deadly attacks kill 5:
A car bomber and a mortar have killed five people and injured 10 others in two separate attacks in Baghdad, Aljazeera reports.
http://tinyurl.com/97m3q
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U.S. Soldiers Kill 2 :
U.S. soldiers killed two people in a car on Thursday night near the Himreen mountains, 75 miles south of Kirkuk. The U.S. military said the soldiers opened fire after being shot at from the car.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KAM933087.htm
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U.S. Soldier Killed:
A U.S. Soldier was killed when an improvised explosive device struck his vehicle while on patrol in southern Baghdad Dec. 30.
http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20051239.txt
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U.S. Soldier Killed In Fallujah:
A Soldier assigned to the 2nd Marine Division, died of wounds received from small arms fire while conducting combat operations against the enemy in Fallujah, on Dec. 29.
http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20051238.txt
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W.Va. man killed while providing security in Iraq:
Family members say 34-year-old John McMillan was killed Wednesday, but they haven't heard any details on how he died.
http://www.wchstv.com/newsroom/wv/news3.shtml
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Casualties of a War a World Away:
Elaina Morton is not listed as one of the 2,000 Americans now confirmed killed in Iraq since the start of the war, but she might as well be. Three months after her husband, Staff Sergeant Benjamin Morton, was killed by insurgents in Mosul, Elaina picked up a gun and shot herself.
http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/10-25-2005-79835.asp
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Word Spreads in Iraq of Refinery Shutdown :
Long lines formed at gas stations in Baghdad on Friday as word spread that Iraq ‘s largest oil refinery had shut down, spreading fears of a gas shortage.
http://www.heraldnewsdaily.com/stories/news-00118341.html
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Chalabi takes over Iraq Oil Ministry :
Ahmad Chalabi, Iraq's deputy prime minister, has assumed direct control of the powerful Oil Ministry amid growing panic over an anticipated fuel shortage
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/35CADFBB-7D78-4847-85E2-3E6AE80BDC67.htm
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S Korea cuts Iraq troops by a third:
South Korea's parliament has approved a bill to cut by about one third the size of its troop deployment in Iraq, the third-largest foreign contingent there.
http://tinyurl.com/ddbn7
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Propaganda?: U.S. to Launch Phased Iraq Pullout :
The exact size of the additional troops cuts has not been announced, but senior Pentagon officials have said the number of American troops in Iraq could drop to about 100,000 by next fall.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051230/ap_on_re_mi_ea/mideast_pace
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Pentagon propaganda program orders soldiers to promote Iraq war while home on leave:
The program, coordinated through a Pentagon operation dubbed “Operation Homefront,” ordered military personnel to give interviews to their hometown newspapers, television stations and other media outlets and praise the American war effort in Iraq.
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7918.shtml
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Torture: Iraqi policeman says it's just how things are done:
U.S. military officials announced Thursday the discovery of three more secret prisons, like two others where Sunnis claimed they were tortured.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10643911/
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Ex-envoy to Uzbekistan goes public on torture :
Britain's former ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, has defied the Foreign Office by publishing on the internet documents providing evidence that the British Government knowingly received information extracted by torture in the "war on terror".
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11417.htm
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The recipe for freedom:
Break heads, beat vigorously and boil
http://chickyog.blogspot.com/2005/12/recipe-for-freedom-break-heads-beat.html
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Rumsfeld Admits to "Ghosting" Detainee:
Following a catalog of evidence of other crimes sanctioned by top Bush Administration officials, the report reads:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/6120
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Covert CIA Program Withstands New Furor:
The effort President Bush authorized shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, to fight al Qaeda has grown into the largest CIA covert action program since the height of the Cold War, expanding in size and ambition despite a growing outcry at home and abroad over its clandestine tactics
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11414.htm
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US probes eavesdropping leak:
The U.S. Justice Department is investigating who disclosed a secret domestic eavesdropping operation approved by President George W. Bush after the September 11 attacks, officials said on Friday.
http://tinyurl.com/b87mj
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I'm a Soldier, Not a Spy:
As Americans take stock of the news that the government has been involved in domestic warrantless eavesdropping as well as surveillance of "potentially threatening people or organizations inside the United States," many people are troubled, including me.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11415.htm
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John W. Dean: George W. Bush as the New Richard M. Nixon:
Both Wiretapped Illegally, and Impeachably;
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20051230.html
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Growing powers of secrecy :
The White House's sweeping enlargement of agency powers has nearly doubled the rate of newly classified documents to 15 million a year. At the same time, the administration has choked back the annual volume of documents declassified for public access, from 200 million in 1998 to 44 million lately.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/12/29/opinion/edsecrecy.php
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US intelligence service bugged website visitors despite ban :
US government agencies have been barred from using persistent cookies since 2000 because of privacy concerns. The regulations were imposed after disclosures that the White House drug policy office had been using cookies to monitor visitors to its anti-drug advertisements.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1675272,00.html
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Robert Parry: What's Best for the Country?:
Either the United States will accept a future governed by an authoritarian Executive, with few safeguards of a citizen’s constitutional rights and no real checks and balances from other branches of government, or the American people will challenge the White House in defense of a traditional Republic, where no man is above the law.
http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=8318
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Now you can be arrested for any offence:
Police are to be given sweeping powers to arrest people for every offence, including dropping litter, failure to wear a seat belt and other minor misdemeanours.
http://tinyurl.com/dow5p
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Stephen Soldz: Total surveillance state takes giant leap in Britain:
Over a hundred years ago Lord Acton understood that the danger to liberty does not reside mainly in bad individuals, but in the power available to those in positions of authority: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” This is why it is essential to put absolute limits on the tools available to those in authority.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11412.htm
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Hackers Rebel Against Spy Cams:
When the Austrian government passed a law this year allowing police to install closed-circuit surveillance cameras in public spaces without a court order, the Austrian civil liberties group Quintessenz vowed to watch the watchers.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,69942-0.html?tw=rss.index
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UCSC chief alleges spying: `
`We are greatly concerned about the Pentagon's investigation of a UCSC campus protest of military recruiting last spring,'' UCSC Chancellor Denice Denton wrote in a campus e-mail. ``MSNBC reports that this protest was classified as a `credible threat' by the Department of Defense.''
http://www.miami.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/13506607.htm
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Leahy wants to know about Pentagon spying on protests:
Sen. Patrick Leahy wants the Defense Department to give him the details about two Vermont anti-war protests that were monitored by government officials.
http://tinyurl.com/8u62l
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Anti-Imperialists Beware – Bush Is Reading Again :
According to the White House, U.S. President George W. Bush has taken two books with him to Texas for his holiday reading, which he will presumably indulge between his favorite ranch pursuits – clearing brush and biking.
http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=8318
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'Israel is trying to push us out of Jordan Valley':
The Palestinian Authority and Palestinian farmers are accusing Israel of trying to force Palestinians out of the Jordan Valley through economic pressure and physical barriers. Israel denies the charge, saying that new restrictions derive solely from security considerations
http://tinyurl.com/bbdww
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Israel: Democracy of lords and masters :
In a colonial society, there are different types of human beings, and therefore, different rights and different values, as well.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/663596.html
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Israel considers protesting BBC show on `secret weapons' :
The program reportedly examines the "double standard" of the international community with regard to Israel's and Iraq's unconventional weapons.
http://tinyurl.com/dx4d5
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In case you missed it: Video: Israel's Secret Weapon :
This film is the story of the bomb, Vanunu and Israel's wall of silence.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6558.htm
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Targeting Iran and Syria:
Goss Builds the Case for Turkey-Based Attacks
http://www.counterpunch.com/leupp12302005.html
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Egypt: Police Kill 10 Sudanese Refugees :
Ten Sudanese refugees were killed and 20 injured when Egyptian riot police broke up their three- month protest outside United Nations offices in Cairo today, Egypt's Interior Ministry said.
http://tinyurl.com/7b6vc
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Immigration and the Iron Curtain of Mellila:
The beatings and insults to the sub-Saharan nationals in Melilla are something slightly more radical and fearsome than racism; they are the manifestation of a belligerent and potentially homicidal anti-humanism.
http://peacepalestine.blogspot.com/2005/12/santiago-alba-rico-immigration-and.html
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4 police killed in bomb explosion in S. Afghanistan :
Four policemen were killed, seven others were injured Thursday in a remote-control bomb explosion in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand, a local official said Friday.
http://english.people.com.cn/200512/30/eng20051230_231911.html
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Aid agencies predicted winter disaster - now it is reality for people of Kashmir :
People are beginning to die from the cold. Young children and babies are particularly vulnerable. Almost three months after the earthquake that killed 73,000 people in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, half of them children, a second tragedy is unfolding in the mountains. The winter disaster that the relief agencies had feared is now a reality.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article335615.ece
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Secret Invasion: US Troops Steal into Paraguay:
The Bush administration has sent troops into Paraguay. They are there ostensibly for humanitarian and counterterrorism purposes. The action coincides with growing left unity in South America, military buildup in the region and burgeoning independent trade relationships.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11409.htm
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Huge new oil discovery in Brazil :
Brazil's state-owned oil company, Petrobras, says it has discovered a huge new offshore oil field off the coast of Rio de Janeiro state
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4563896.stm
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War Resister Jerry Texiero, the Marine Corps and Who Betrayed Whom? :
Just when was it we in this nation lost our ability to choose if and when we would be willing to kill another human being, or be killed ourselves? When was it that following the “rules” became more important than following what is right
http://jack-dalton.blogspot.com/2005/12/war-resister-jerry-texiero-marine.html
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Bush least popular US president: survey:
President George W Bush ranks as the least popular and most bellicose of the last 10 US presidents, according to a new survey.
http://tinyurl.com/72jv2
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Lobbyist plea could entangle Washington:
Authorities are putting together the pieces of the lobbying web of Jack Abramoff, and the resulting investigation could brew into a wide Washington scandal.
http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=205208&cat=World
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Slaughtered (Officially acknowledged) In Bush's War 2178
http://icasualties.org/oif/
The War in Iraq Costs
$230,170,483,658
See the cost in your community
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