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5 million on terrorism list:

"The U.S. lookout index contains some five million names of known terrorists and other persons representing a potential problem,"
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/TorontoSun/News/2004/01/20/318488.html

Tue, January 20, 2004

5 million on terrorism list
Canuck: U.S. on the lookout for 'potential problem'
By TOM GODFREY, TORONTO SUN

U.S. security agents have a master list of five million people worldwide thought to be potential terrorists or criminals, officials say. "The U.S. lookout index contains some five million names of known terrorists and other persons representing a potential problem," Brian Davis, a senior Canadian immigration official in Paris, said in a confidential document obtained by the Sun.

Names on the list are compared against those applying for visas or on flights travelling to the U.S.

Anyone whose name is on the list is questioned or banned from entering the U.S. -- as passengers were on two British Airways flights to Los Angeles two weeks ago.

The master list was revealed by U.S. embassy officials to a Canadian standing immigration committee in April 2002. Its existence was revealed in Davis' document, obtained by Montreal lawyer Richard Kurland through an Access to Information request.

Davis said Canadian visa officers abroad do not keep an extensive list like the U.S. because terrorists can use bogus documents and change their identities.

"We examine each application according to profiles," he said. "(We) apply experience and knowledge gained from a variety of sources. Canada's approach to identifying persons who may pose a danger was as sound as possible."

CSIS agents in Paris send a "brief" to Ottawa for cases that require more in-depth investigation.

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US set for Iraq election retreat :

The US-led coalition in Iraq is on the verge of bowing to Shia Muslim pressure for direct elections before the handover of power on June 30.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1127727,00.html

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Dilemmas of Colonialism: The Democracy Problem:

Being an empire is not so easy these days, as the Bush administration and its neoconservative supporters are beginning to see. The problem with empire-building in the modern age is that, in order to partake in it, you have to get by this silly, bothersome, internationally-accepted concept: democracy.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5560.htm

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Kurds turn against US after losing control over oil-rich land:

Kurdish community claims it had more autonomy under Saddam
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=483202

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UK: Probe into 'Government war crimes':

The Government could face an international trial for war crimes following the invasion of Iraq.
http://icberkshire.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/nationalnews/content_objectid=13839049_method=full_siteid=50102_headline=-Probe-into--Government-war-crimes--name_page.html

http://tinyurl.com/2dols

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In case you missed it:

General Wesley Clark says US plans to attack seven Muslim states
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B3A44697-9F60-4AA3-9E63-2304A0D164CA.htm

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Iraq Bombing Hurts 3 U.S. Soldiers, Others:

A roadside bomb exploded Wednesday near the northern city of Mosul, wounding three U.S. soldiers and seven other people, the military and local police said.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-iraq-soldiers-injured,0,3638303.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

http://tinyurl.com/2ns7s

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“Who will give us back our health?”:

The health problems experienced by the people in the village are too numerous to track. Stories abound of strange tumors, rashes and illnesses.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5564.htm

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Army Faults Its Treatment of Reserve Troops:

Seeking to avert an exodus of part-time soldiers, the chief of the U.S. Army Reserve on Tuesday faulted the Army's treatment of reservists and proposed to give them a firmer notion of when they may be plucked from civilian life for active duty.
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20040121_24.html

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Perle's Wisdom :

Nothing ennobles a nation more than citizens who shoulder the burdens of wartime. Nothing degrades a nation more than those who lobby for war while enriching themselves on its spoils.
http://www.tompaine.com/op_ads/opad2.cfm/ID/9757

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Names of soldiers killed in Iraq, by home state
http://tinyurl.com/2fle4

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Two killed, others disappeared, during President Bush visit:

Mexican troops suppress Indian town.
http://indiancountry.com/?1074631684

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Guantanamo families to take fight to US :

The families of British detainees at Guantanamo Bay are to take their fight for the men's release to the US with the help of the foremost American civil liberties group, they announced yesterday.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,13743,1127639,00.html

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Alleged Al Qaeda Operative Back on Internet:

"Al Qaeda has watched and learnd how the U.S. deals with its security concerns and we can tell you that the U.S. is in a security mess. Operational plan one has succeded well more than we have expected thanks to god."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5562.htm

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UK: Kennedy renews call for Iraq war inquiry :

Charles Kennedy today tackled Tony Blair over what George Bush meant by the garbled phrase "weapons of mass destruction-related programme activities".
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1128011,00.html

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Fiction review: State of the Union :

If you go to the White House Web site, in addition to video of the first dog ("Barney II: Barney reloaded" is the icon), you'll find the same lies still lying there in the text of last January's speech, including "We will not pass along our problems to . . . other generations" (see the deficit and add the moon and Mars), and the big one, "
http://www.post-gazette.com/columnists/20040121gene0121p1.asp

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In case you missed it:

Bush Knew Iraq Info Was Dubious
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/06/25/eveningnews/main560449.shtml

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Molly Ivins : It's about money:

Follow the greenbacks to learn where seemingly haphazard Bush policy comes from It is unclear to me why anyone would believe anything the president says about our fiscal situation. Keep in mind, this is a man who took three Texas oil companies into bankruptcy.
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=16303

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Denver's Homeless Seeking 'Tent City' :

Members of Denver's growing homeless population want the city to allow a tent city near the heart of downtown to provide temporary shelter.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-3651689,00.html

Greg Palast: Go ahead, George, and lie to me:

We have No Child Left Behind - to provide the new worker drones that will clean the toilets at the Yale Alumni Club, punch the cash registers color-coded for illiterates, and pamper the winner-class on the higher floors of the new economic order.
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=310&row=0

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Hatred Bush Hath Wrought: Why do they hate us?

And where do they get their hatred from? Of course, many of us don't give a damn whether French schoolchildren or anyone else think Bush's United States is a land of butchers and thugs. Whether or not we care, however, it matters.
http://www.uexpress.com/tedrall/

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Chronology of US raids in Afghanistan reported to have killed civilians:

Following is a list of reported civilian casualties from US bombing raids in Afghanistan:
http://www.hipakistan.com/en/detail.php?newsId=en51486&F_catID=&f_type=source

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Clampdown on nuclear scientists:

Pakistan has barred all scientists working on its nuclear weapons program from leaving the country
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/21/1074360835522.html

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Bush Pushes Plan to Permit Internet Surveillance :

The agreement makes it mandatory for each participating nation to grant new powers of search and seizure to its law enforcement authorities, including the power to force an Internet service provider (ISP) to preserve a customer's usage records and to monitor his or her online activities as they occur.
http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=22023

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Homeland security seen spurring biometrics:

Big government contract coming to develop fingerprint-ID system
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3999879/

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Supporting the Troops: A Critical Analysis:

It is not easy for an American citizen, with genuine loyalty to his nation, to ask these questions, for the answers bring nothing but shame and guilt. I, however, argue that Americans MUST ask themselves these questions.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5561.htm

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Israel kills Palestinian woman in Gaza :

Israeli troops have shot dead a Palestinian civilian woman during a massive invasion into the occupied Gaza Strip's Rafah refugee camp.During Wednesday's invasion, Israeli occupation soldiers also shot a teenager in the head, according to witnesses and medical sources.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C4500860-5581-4CB3-A1B5-1E8862369D56.htm

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Palestinians question US commitment to Middle East peace:

Palestinians are worried that US President George W Bush's failure to mention their conflict with Israel in his State of the Union address means he intends to scale down US involvement in the matter.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1029406.htm

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Norwegian Ambassador's home in Israel bugged:

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was informed of a recent meeting between PA Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei and opposition leader Shimon Peres at the home of the Norwegian ambassador via the use of electronic listening devices, Norwegian media reported Tuesday.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5563.htm

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Israel: Likud kingpin indicted for bribing Prime Minister Ariel Sharon:

His son Gilad and Labor Trade and Industry Minister Ehud Olmert in the first charge sheet filed in one of two political scandals involving the Sharon family.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/Printer&cid=1074657884519

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