[Media-watch] I'm a torture survivor
David McKnight
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Fri Dec 3 09:13:55 GMT 2004
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I'm A Torture Survivor
In a country where torturers are still free
By Tito Tricot
No one can really understand what being tortured means until that fateful moment when you find yourself naked, blindfolded and tied up at the mercy of your captors.
http://207.44.245.159/article7400.htm
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Iraqi commander says 10 anti occupation forces killed:
Ten anti occupation forces were killed in a clash with Iraqi security forces during a raid in the northern city of Mosul, a top commander said today.
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=126061948&p=yz6x6z654
http://snipurl.com/b1vd
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Anti Occupation Forces Kill American Soldier in Iraq :
Anti Occupation Forces killed an American soldier in the restive city of Mosul and mortar strikes pummeled central Baghdad on Thursday, while the U.S. Embassy barred employees from the dangerous highway leading to the airport.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=1&u=/ap/20041202/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
http://snipurl.com/b1ve
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Fallujah refugees in desperate need of aid: UN:
More than 200,000 people who fled Fallujah ahead of the US offensive have yet to return and many are in desperate need of aid, with temperatures in Iraq heading towards freezing, a new UN emergency report says.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200412/s1256867.htm
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The civilians we killed:
If only those who sent us to Iraq lay awake at night
http://207.44.245.159/article7408.htm
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Dahr Jamail: The Quiet of Destruction and Death:
"I need another heart and eyes to bear it because my own are not enough to bear what I saw. Nothing justifies what was done to this city. I didn't see a house or mosque that wasn't destroyed."
http://207.44.245.159/article7407.htm
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Gunning for Satan resulted in slaughtered innocents:
Who knew there was such a fine line between democracy and genocide? Destroying a city in order to save it is back in style, as long as a queasy public is spared raw footage of the details.
http://www.oscnewsgazette.com/index.php?option=news&task=viewarticle&sid=9677
http://snipurl.com/b1vg
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Sunnis warn of civil war over timing of election:
THE largest Sunni party in Iraq gave warning yesterday of civil war unless the January 30 elections are delayed to allow it to compete on equal terms.
http://207.44.245.159/article7402.htm
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Seven Killed by renewed Violence in Iraq :
Four people, including three children, were reported killed in a restive town north of the capital while another seven were wounded when a suicide car bomb exploded near a national guard checkpoint south of Baghdad.
http://pakistantimes.net/2004/12/02/top4.htm
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US death toll in Iraq at record level:
A further 135 American soldiers died in Iraq in November, equalling the number killed in April, previously the worst single month for US casualties. Seventy-one died in the assault on Fallujah and 600 were wounded, according to the US military in Baghdad.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=588815
http://snipurl.com/b1vj
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Iraq's civilian dead get no hearing in the United States:
Evidence is mounting that America's war in Iraq has killed tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians, and perhaps well over 100,000. Yet this carnage is systematically ignored in the United States, where the media and government portray a war in which there are no civilian deaths, because there are no Iraqi civilians, only insurgents.
http://207.44.245.159/article7403.htm
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More U.S. war wounded duty-bound again:
Amputations account for 2.4 percent of all wounded in action in the Iraq war - twice the rate in World War I and World War II, said Chuck Scoville, the amputee program manager of Walter Reed.
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/news/nation/10320228.htm
http://snipurl.com/b1vk
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U.S. Psychological Operations:
Military Uses Networks to Spread Misinformation: The U.S. military is reportedly distributing misinformation to the media as part of a campaign of psychological operation
http://207.44.245.159/article7406.htm
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Abu Ghraib, Caribbean style
The Red Cross said that fearful Guantánamo prisoners complained about female interrogators who exposed their breasts, kissed prisoners, touched them sexually and showed them pornography.
http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2004/12/01/opinion/edgitmo.html
http://snipurl.com/b1vl
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Ethics and the Shadow of Torture:
President Bush's nomination of his White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales to succeed John Ashcroft as attorney general will almost certainly -- at least briefly -- once again raise the shadow of torture and whether or not the United States not only practices it but also condones it at the highest level of the government.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week814/exclusive.html
http://snipurl.com/b1vn
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Former Guantanamo Detainees Release Report:
In a detailed report, Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal and Rhuhel Ahmed provide a graphic first-hand account of life at Guantanamo Bay
http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/reports/report.asp?ObjID=4bUT8M23lk&Content=424
http://snipurl.com/88ln
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Judge Questions Sweep of Bush's War on Terrorism:
A federal judge yesterday questioned the Bush administration's broad definition of its powers to indefinitely imprison alleged Taliban and al Qaeda fighters at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, especially those who have never taken up arms against the United States.
http://207.44.245.159/article7401.htm
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A Dwarf Known as Al Qaeda:
The threat posed by the group is hugely overblown.
http://207.44.245.159/article7404.htm
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Special forces quitting to cash in on Iraq
BRITAIN'S elite special forces are facing an imminent crisis because record numbers of men are asking to leave their units early, lured by high wages on offer in a growing security industry in Iraq.
http://www.sandline.com/hotlinks/Scotsman_Spec-forces.html
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Huge pay drawing NZ soldiers to Iraq
Security jobs paying up to $216,000 a year in Iraq are proving too strong a lure for New Zealand soldiers.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1ADD0B1C-B2D9-46B9-9AED-36B92D789177.htm
http://snipurl.com/b1vc
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U.K.'s Galloway Wins Libel Claim Against Telegraph:
U.K. Member of Parliament George Galloway won his libel claim against the Daily Telegraph newspaper, which reported last year that the Scotsman was in the pay of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000102&sid=aEnruk4XtRYI&refer=uk
http://snipurl.com/b1vo
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Putin Meets Ukraine Leader and Scoffs at Calls for New Runoff
http://snipurl.com/b1vp
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Putin urges new Ukraine election :
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for a new presidential election to be held in Ukraine.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4060763.stm
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Ukraine rivals agrees on vote, but devil is in the details :
Ukraine's bitter presidential rivals now agree on a need for a new election -- but the how and when are still contentious questions that could deepen the country's raging political crisis
http://news.inq7.net/world/index.php?index=1&story_id=20012
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Bhopal: A living legacy of corporate greed:
Meet the forgotten survivors
http://207.44.245.159/article7405.htm
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How far might the dollar fall?
By as much as 50 per cent from its peak, in trade-weighted nominal terms, suggest two distinguished international economists, Maurice Obstfeld of the University of California, Berkeley and Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard.* Up to now, the fall has been just 17 per cent, on a broad trade-weighted basis (see chart). More, it seems, is on the way.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/69dceca6-433f-11d9-bea1-00000e2511c8.html
http://snipurl.com/b1vs
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No child left unmedicated:
Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is under way, and pharmaceutical companies are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/phyllisschlafly/ps20041123.shtml
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FBI raids AIPAC offices :
For the second time in 13 weeks, FBI agents raided the pro-Israel American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) offices yesterday searching for information against Larry Franklin, an analyst at the Middle East desk of the Pentagon.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/508669.html
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Four AIPAC officials subpoenaed:
FBI officials issued subpoenas to four senior officials at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee on Wednesday, requesting that they appear before a grand jury.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1101874928973
http://snipurl.com/b1vu
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Video: Mosaic: World News Reports from Middle East TV For 12/01/04:
The nation's only uncensored compilation of daily television news reports from more than 15 countries in the Middle East. QuickTime Video.
http://snipurl.com/b1vw
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Israel: Edging back toward the UN
Reading the United Nations resolutions on the Middle East is a difficult experience for Israel. It is not pleasant to discover that your country is an occupier, an oppressor, a breaker of international law, a violator of human rights, a killer of innocents, a destroyer of infrastructures and historical sites, and that it imprisons and tortures thousands of people and carries out "colonization."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/508704.html
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Israel: Why they love Mahmoud Abbas:
Mahmoud Abbas is someone long prepared to climb down on final status issues, such as Jerusalem, refugees, settlements and the character of a Palestinian state. The notorious secret agreement Abbas reached with Israel's former Justice Minister Yossi Beilin in October 1995, foresees 130 Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian lands
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3386.shtml
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Israelis shoot 4-year-old child in Gaza:
Palestinian medical sources listed Shayma Hasan Abu Shammala in critical condition after she was hit by several bullets fired by an Israeli soldier manning a military tower near the Egyptian-Gaza borders on Sunday.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3388.shtml
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Iraq group says kills 3 Iraqis working for Marines:
The Army of Ansar al-Sunna said on its Web site it had shot dead the three men who transported goods to a U S base. It posted copies of their identity cards and what appeared to be authorisation letters from the U S Marine Corps.
http://www.deepikaglobal.com/ENG4_sub.asp?ccode=ENG4&newscode=83725
http://snipurl.com/b1vz
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The UN insists that Security Council approve "preventive" war:
The report, spurred by the US-led invasion of Iraq last year that divided world leaders, said "preventive action" when a threat was not imminent needed Security Council consent. This was denied to the Bush administration before the war.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1041202/asp/foreign/story_4076172.asp
http://snipurl.com/b1w0
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Britain, France, Germany Back Annan; Bush Waivers
Britain, Germany, France, Russia, and China rallied around U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday, but President Bush refused to explicitly endorse the U.N. chief under fire over suspected corruption in an Iraqi-oil sales program.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6982306
http://snipurl.com/b1wk
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Troops' return from Iraq delayed; more stateside units to deploy:
The moves could push U.S. troop strength to its highest level of the entire Iraq mission, which began in March 2003.
http://www.marinetimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-534135.php
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Tenet calls for Internet security:
Former CIA Director George J. Tenet "I know that these actions will be controversial in this age when we still think the Internet is a free and open society with no control or accountability," he told an information-technology security conference in Washington, "but ultimately the Wild West must give way to governance and control."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20041201-114750-6381r
http://snipurl.com/b1w1
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Ukraine elections betray Western bias:
Western media are misrepresenting the Ukrainian election crisis as a conflict between the forces of democracy and dictatorship, according to numerous political analysts.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8CF314BD-0BD9-4A59-89B6-95E989034DFE.htm
http://snipurl.com/b1w3
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Northern Ireland: Sinn Fein rejects "humiliation" deal:
The leader of Sinn Fein, the political ally of the IRA guerrillas, says agreement to seal a peace settlement in Northern Ireland was possible but could not be based on "humiliation".
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=631204§ion=news
http://snipurl.com/b1w4
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Liberty can not be preserved without general knowledge among people." (August 1765) John Adams
"An American-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein - and the replacement of the radical Baathist dictatorship with a new government more closely aligned with the United States would put America more wholly in charge of the region than any power since the Ottomans, or maybe even the Romans.": David Frum, speachwriter for USA president, George W Bush:
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"For bureaucratic reasons we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, because it was the one reason everyone could agree on.": Paul Wolfowitz, USA Deputy Defence Secretary in an interview in the July 2003 issue of magazine Vanity Fair
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"The US and other Western governments turned a blind eye to Amnesty International reports of widespread human rights violations in Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, and ignored Amnesty International's campaign on behalf of the thousands of unarmed Kurdish civilians killed in the 1988 attacks on Halabja. Once again, the human rights record of a country is used selectively to legitimize military actions." Amnesty International
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