Report Warned Bush Team About Intelligence Suspicions

Report Warned Bush Team About Intelligence Suspicions

By DOUGLAS JEHL

A high Qaeda official in American custody was identified as a likely fabricator months before the Bush administration began to use his statements as the foundation for its claims that Iraq trained Al Qaeda members to use biological and chemical weapons, according to newly declassified portions of a Defense Intelligence Agency document.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10887.htm

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Cheney asks that the CIA be allowed to continue torture

By Associated Press

Vice President Dick Cheney made an unusual personal appeal to Republican senators this week to allow CIA exemptions to a proposed ban on the torture of terror suspects in U.S. custody, according to participants in a closed-door session.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10886.htm

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The reality of Britain's reliance on torture

I will tell you what torture means.

By Craig Murray

It means the woman who was raped with a broken bottle in both vagina and anus, and who died after ten days of agony. It means the old man suspended by wrist shackles from the ceiling while his children were beaten to a pulp before his eyes. It means the man whose fingernails were pulled before his face was beaten and he was immersed to his armpits in boiling liquid.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10892.htm

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Missing the Bus: When Conscience Bows to Calculation

By Niranjan Ramakrishnan

There is nothing less risky than praising a dead icon. There is nothing more risky than standing with a living one who, to use John Kerry's words for Rosa Parks, "speaks truth to power".
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10888.htm

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When Courage Fails Us

By Charles Sullivan

Are there no more Rosa Parks moving among us today? Did hope for social justice and simple human dignity get buried with Thoreau, Mother Jones, Joe Hill, Dr. King and Rosa Parks?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10893.htm

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Iraqi Policeman Among Six Killed In Continuing Violence:

Three people were killed and seven wounded by a car bomb in western Baghdad, police said.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PAR645455.htm

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House-to-house fighting reported during major U-S-led offensive :

Disputing a claim by U-S commanders, there is now a report of heavier-than-expected enemy resistance in the latest U-S-led offensive in Iraq.
http://tinyurl.com/alynz

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Major US attack on eve of Iraq talks :

Insurgents armed with Kalashnikovs opened fire down alleyways and from windows. As fighting continued throughout the day, jets launched at least nine air strikes.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1635482,00.html

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Chalabi, in Tehran, Meets With Iranian President:

The timing of the visit, which both sides said came at the Iranians' request, suggested the possibility that Mr. Chalabi might have been asked to carry a message from the Iranians to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at their scheduled meeting next week. Mr. Chalabi is also scheduled later to meet the Treasury secretary, John W. Snow.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10896.htm

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Iraqi Girl Blog: Riverbend: Congratulations Americans:

American and British sons and daughters and husbands and wives are dying so that this coming December, Iraqis can go out and vote for Iran influenced clerics to knock us back a good four hundred years.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10890.htm

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Guardsman re-enlists, Pentagon kills bonus:

A Department of Defense decision to renege on war-time promises to pay bonuses to more than a dozen re-enlisting Washington National Guardsmen has sparked outrage from prominent elected officials and state National Guard officers working to rectify the situation.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/247264_guardx05.html

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Frank Rich: The Mysterious Death of Pat Tillman :

This administration just loves to beguile us with a rollicking good story, truth be damned. The propagandistic fable exposed by the leak case - the apocalyptic imminence of Saddam's mushroom clouds - was only the first of its genre. Given that potboiler's huge success at selling the war, its authors couldn't resist providing sequels once we were in Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10895.htm

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Linda McQuaig: Beneath spy `outing' lies story of lies about Iraq:

If George W. Bush had announced, prior to invading Iraq, that his motive was to seize Iraq's oil, to enhance Israel's power or to ensure U.S. military dominance of the Middle East, none of these justifications would have satisfied the public. Hence the need for a cover story
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10894.htm

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The Niger connection :

Britain insists it did not rely on forgeries for its case against Iraq. But its own 'evidence' came from the same shady Italian intelligence broker.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article325155.ece

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UK: MPs unite for inquiry into Blair’s conduct over Iraq:

TONY BLAIR is set to face an unprecedented parliamentary inquiry into his conduct in the run-up to the Iraq war.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1859669,00.html

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The Quiet Oil-for-Food Scandal:

The small group of conservative writers who I've dubbed the "Scandal Pimps" have been less enthusiastic about the release of this report than they've been about those that preceded it.
http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/27792

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Guantanamo ordeal of Aljazeera cameraman:

"Guantanamo is a PR disaster. It is one of the most iconic symbols of hypocrisy in the world."
http://tinyurl.com/bgpz3

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Secret Jails:

The Bush Administration faces international controversy over what amounts to a clandestine CIA prison system
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1126698,00.html

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Chief U.N. Investigator Summons Six Senior Syrian Officers for Questioning Over Hariri Death:

The officers include Syrian President Bashar Assad's brother-in-law.
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB42SVTOFE.html

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Syria prepares for Western economic sanctions:

"The sanctions, which will be biting in case they are imposed by the Western countries, will be aimed at depriving Syria of its economic strength and pave the way for domestic strife and division,"
http://www.kuna.net.kw/home/story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=784478

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Palestinian Boy Dies After Israeli Gunshot :

A 12-year-old Palestinian boy who was shot by Israeli troops while holding a toy gun last week died of his wounds Saturday, relatives and medical officials said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5394778,00.html

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The tragic continuum:

Caging up the Palestinians in the occupied territories is not a temporary but a permanent Israeli policy
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/767/re2.htm

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Marooned :

Bethlehem, a place of Christian pilgrimage for centuries, will soon be encircled by Israel's security barrier. Is the town to become no more than a museum among ancient shrines?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1607870,00.html

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Damning report could soon force Israel's U.S. envoy to quit:

The officials said publication of the report will cause a public outcry, and it will be very difficult for Ayalon to remain in his post afterward.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/642042.html

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The day George Bush came face to face with Latin America's revolt :

Thanks to a powerful indigenous movement from Colombia to Bolivia, US free-trade policies are in tatters
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1634856,00.html

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Political ire in Puerto Rico grows :

The death of Ojeda Ríos, who was cornered in a farmhouse, was a revivifying jolt to an independence movement that had seemed all but dead
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/06/news/rico.php

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The FBI's Secret Scrutiny: Bureau Examines Records of Ordinary Americans:

The burgeoning use of national security letters coincides with an unannounced decision to deposit all the information they yield into government data banks -- and to share those private records widely, in the federal government and beyond.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10891.htm

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Australia: Police rift over PM's terror alert:

The spy agency and police forces have been at loggerheads over the Government's decision on Wednesday to seek the immediate recall of the Senate for the urgent passage of a new anti-terrorism law.
http://tinyurl.com/885um

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Family fights an HMO for 4-year-old's life:

One doctor in the country just might be able to save Jack, but the nation's largest HMO won't let Jack see him because the doctor is not within its network.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/11/05/MNG41FJMLM1.DTL

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News For 11/05/05

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Family ambushed, 11 killed::

ELEVEN members of a family have been killed and three wounded by armed men who ambushed their minibus north-east of Baghdad.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17156346-23109,00.html

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U.S. Soldier Killed By Bomb:

A Soldier died of wounds sustained when a convoy struck an improvised explosive device in east Baghdad Nov. 4.
http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20051109.txt

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U.S. Soldier killed by small-arms fire Nov. 4 south of Baghdad.
http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20051110.txt

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U.S Soldier Killed By Mine: –

A Soldier assigned to the 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), died of wounds after his vehicle hit a mine near Habbaniyah, Nov. 4.
http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20051111.txt

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National Guardsman Killed In Iraq:

Military officials say Staff Sergeant Kyle Wherly was killed yesterday in Ashraf -- north of Baghdad -- when a roadside bomb detonated near his vehicle.
http://www.ksdk.com/news/illinois_article.aspx?storyid=87274

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Army Infantryman Dies After Iraq Injuries:

An injured Army infantryman from Beatrice has died, one week after he was injured by a roadside bomb in Iraq.
http://www.ketv.com/news/5259366/detail.html

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Insurgent base undiminished:

New recruits replace those killed in Iraq: Insurgents' ranks are being replenished as quickly as they are depleted, said Michael O'Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a research center in Washington, and the co-author of its Iraq Index, which tracks statistics in key areas such as security and economics.
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/13085759.htm

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Pool: 61% Say Iraq Conflict Not Worth Fighting:

50% want withdrawl of U.S troops
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10885.htm

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2 Minute Video:

Not One More Death: Not One More Dollar:
http://www.afsc.org/iraq/movie.htm

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Iraq war 'fuelled terrorism': ex-British ambassador:

Britain's involvement in the Iraq war has "partly radicalised and fuelled" the rise of home-grown terrorism, London's former ambassador to Washington, Sir Christopher Meyer, says.
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/051105/1/3w7vk.html

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US told to repay Iraq for 'shoddy' work: reports:

The United States has reportedly been told it should pay Iraq as much as $280 million for overbilling or shoddy work by a subsidiary of the American oil firm Halliburton.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200511/s1498638.htm

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Rummy's bird flu bonanza:

No sooner are indictments being handed down to I Lewis "Scooter" Libby, but a new scandal is surfacing, every bit as outrageous and ultimately, likely also criminal.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/GK04Aa01.html

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Libby Jewish? Some wonder how neo-con’s faith impacts leak scandal :

Anti-Semitic and anti-Israel conspiracy theorists were quick to tie Libby’s Jewishness to his role in selling the Iraq war, imagining once again a neo-con cabal that has a singular agenda: promoting Israel at all costs.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10889.htm

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Israeli Ambassador to U.S. suspected of various financial improprieties :

State Prosecutor Eran Shendar is considering holding a disciplinary hearing for Israel's ambassador to the United States, Danny Ayalon, for allegedly submitting unwarranted expenses to the state and offering benefits to those who agreed to testify on his behalf.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/641716.html

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In a world gone crazy:

US Muslim travellers urged to register: :

The head of civil rights for the US Department of Homeland Security is urging Muslim air travellers to register with the federal government before flying to reduce the chances they might be stopped at an airport.
http://tinyurl.com/9d865

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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