German Intelligence: CIA Planted Fake Terror Alert:
According to information provided TV 2 Nettavisen by German intelligence, they are convinced that the CIA information is wrong, and they allegedly fear that American authorities planted the information.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5483.htm
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Army Wife speaks
http://www.lp.org/lpnews/0401/forum_hickson.html
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U.S. Accused of Killing Iraqi Couple:
Ahmed Hassan Farhoud, 37, and his wife Suham Omar, 28, were sitting when the house was hit by a shell. They said the couple's five children were in bed in an adjoining room and survived unhurt.
http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2004/01/07/ap/Headlines/d7vu1p0o0.txt
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Detained, Bludgeoned and Electrocuted into a Coma:
Even if the worst case scenario was true: that Mr. Abrahim was an active member of the resistance and/or a high ranking Ba’ath Party member, does this justify being tortured by electrical shock and being bludgeoned into a coma?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5482.htm
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Robert Fisk: Shot For A Mercedes And Left To Die:
Mohamed, a self-made man of money who left school after second grade and went on to create construction companies in four countries, was killed for a 14-year-old company car.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5481.htm
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Arms probe: Iraq had a will, not a way:
Investigators have found no support for the two main fears expressed in London and Washington before the war: that Iraq had a hidden arsenal of old weapons and built advanced programs for new ones.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/front/7648377.htm
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Bechtel gets new $1.8bn Iraq deal:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3375383.stm
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Generous new tax break for Bechtel and Halliburton?
http://www.iht.com/articles/115441.html
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Bechtel tied to bin Ladens :
Osama bin Laden family members invested $10M in an equity fund run by former Bechtel unit.
http://money.cnn.com/2003/05/05/news/companies/war_bechtel/
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Revisiting Saddam's CIA Connection: Flash Presentation.
http://www.bushflash.com/thanks.html
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The God Gulf :
Expect Republicans to wage religious warfare by trotting out God as the new elephant in the race, and some Democrats to respond with hypocrisy, by affecting deep religious convictions. This campaign could end up as a tug of war over Jesus.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/07/opinion/07KRIS.html?ex=1074464162&ei=1&en=5e1e1d2db2281d11
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It's because they fear us, say teenage refuseniks jailed by Israeli army :
Haggai Matar never expected that his sentence would be so harsh. But as the teenage refusenik reports to a military prison today, he says he will draw comfort from the judges' description of him as a threat to the survival of Israel.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1117573,00.html
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Israel to Take No Action Against Soldiers :
No action will be taken against Israeli soldiers who shot and wounded a Jewish-Israeli protester during a demonstration over a controversial West Bank barrier, the army said Tuesday.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=2&u=/ap/20040106/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_protester_shot
http://tinyurl.com/2tpvp
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Israeli official proposes 'ethnic cleansing':
A member of the Likud party has proposed "massive ethnic cleansing" of non-Jews in Palestine-Israel as a "final solution" of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9DCD41A2-E372-4732-8F1A-411EC28F603D.htm
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Kremlin committing genocide against Chechens:
About a quarter of the Chechen population died not in natural disasters, but as a result of purposeful actions by another nation; they died the same way the Jews or Gypsies did, while the world was totally silent
http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/article.php?id=2236
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Four countries defy US order to put sky marshals on planes:
America's demand for air marshals on all transatlantic flights encountered further problems yesterday when four countries said they would not comply and a fifth said it believed sufficient precautions were already in place.
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=478759
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Army Delays Discharge for Some G.I.'s in Afghanistan and Mideast:
The Army is preparing an order that would require about 7,000 troops now in Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan to remain on duty through the end of their deployments this spring, even if they could otherwise leave the service before then.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/06/politics/06MILI.html?th
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17 Canadians reported in US custody in Iraq :
At least 17 people from Canada believed to be part of a designated terrorist group are being heldunder guard by US forces in Iraq, it is reported here Tuesday.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-01/07/content_1263521.htm
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Delay on Kelly report pressures Blair:
Lord Hutton has delayed publication of his report on the events leading to the death of scientist David Kelly because he has yet to apportion blame on the central figures in the drama
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/01/06/1073268031809.html
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US Army's Advanced Riot Control Agent Device ( ARCAD )Reborn:
Newly-released US government documents indicate that recent Pentagon research on so-called "non-lethal" weapons is a revived version of a weapons program that was cancelled due to the Chemical Weapons Convention.
http://www.sunshine-project.org/publications/pr/pr060104.html
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Information Warfare or Yesterday's News?:
Pentagon media contractor loses battle for Iraqi audiences
https://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=9508
