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  • In Mourning for Margaret Hassan and for the dead of Fallujah
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Tony Kevin
    I never knew Margaret Hassan. But her decency shines through every photograph I have ever seen of her. Her Iraqi husband’s love and admiration for her was manifest. I grieve for her, her family and her friends.
    She was the kind of rare person the world cannot afford to lose: the bridge-builders between cultures and religions, the people who live to break down barriers, the people who believe life is about helping others less lucky than ourselves.
    I have known many people (…)

  • The untamed threat of al-Qaeda
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Erich Marquardt
    On October 29, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden released a new videotape, revealing the first images of the leader in more than a year. The video offered proof that bin Laden is alive and healthy with access to modern technology. The resurgence of bin Laden emphasizes the threat still posed by Islamic revolutionaries to the United States and its interests.
    Bin Laden applauds US response to September 11 attacks Bin Laden is undeterred by the Bush administration’s (…)

  • Who Killed Margaret Hassan?
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state” (Noam Chomsky)
    by Yamin Zakaria
    There are truths; there are lies; there is then the middle ground of half-truths: propaganda. Those who engage in its dissemination are malicious criminals. And those who are subjected to it are the victims. Propaganda is consumed innocently, like drinking a glass of milk that has been contaminated with small drops of urine; the taste, color, odor of the milk is sustained, so the (…)

  • After Arafat’s death Will the Palestinian Authority take the carrot?
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Yossi Schwartz
    Following the announcement regarding the selection of the new leader of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Abu Mazen, the government of Israel signalled a possible shift in policy toward the PA. Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said yesterday that if the new Palestinian leadership fights against terrorism, Israel would agree to conduct negotiations over a coordinated implementation of the disengagement plan. At the same time Shalom warned the new leadership of the PA that (…)

  • Few foreigners are among insurgents captured in Fallujah
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Robert Burns WASHINGTON (AP) Only a tiny percentage of the more than 1,000 insurgents detained by U.S. forces in the Iraqi city of Fallujah over the past week are foreigners, a Marine officer said Monday.
    Col. Michael Regner, operations chief for the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, said in a conference call with reporters at the Pentagon that 1,052 people had been detained at last count.
    Of that total, he said at least 1,030 were Iraqis, meaning only about 20 were foreigners.
    He (…)

  • Flashback:Remember James Bath? Charles "Bill" White does
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Transcript from "The Fifth Estate" Broadcast Wednesday October 29, 2003 http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/
    © CBC Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Republished at sanderhicks.com under the provisions of Fair Use.
    BILL WHITE
    Interviewed by: Bob McKeown
    Charles "Bill" White
    LET’S GO BACK TO THE BEGINNING WHEN DID YOU FIRST MEET JAMES BATH?
    I met him when I graduated from Business School in nineteen seventy-eight. Came down to Houston on an interview.
    AND WHAT KIND OF PERSON WAS HE?
    I was (…)

  • Conspiracy theories: Republican delusions
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Conspiracy theories seem to be the talk of the town lately. One theory that is overlooked however, is the republican conspiracy theory...talk about wearing tin foil hats. Let’s review...
    Confirmed drug addict by his own admission, Rush Limbaugh, with his policy of scaring his listeners with conspiracy theories about the liberal left media. What’s next for Rush? Alien autopsies...republicans can do better then that. We believe in you. Try again.
    Ok, how about Coulter and her new book? (…)

  • Top spies threaten to leave the fold over CIA reform
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by From Roland Watson in Washington
    THE CIA’s top spies are on the brink of revolt seven weeks after the arrival of President Bush’s new Director.
    Porter Goss and his newly imported aides have had a series of bruising showdowns with established CIA figures that have left the agency in turmoil.
    John McLaughlin, the agency’s deputy director, a 32-year CIA veteran, announced at the weekend that he was quitting. Stephen Kappes, the deputy director of operations, is expected to announce his (…)

  • Veteran CIA terror hunter quits over gag
    14 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Shaun Waterman
    A veteran CIA terror hunter has quit the agency, saying it gagged him for fear his exposure of intelligence failures would embarrass other U.S. agencies.
    Michael Scheuer, a 22-year CIA veteran who headed its operations against terror mastermind Osama bin Laden, told United Press International that he was barred from publishing a critique he wrote in May "documenting management and leadership failures" in U.S. efforts to disrupt al-Qaida and capture or kill its leader, (…)

  • Reflections on the Suicide at Ground Zero
    13 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    "All suicides kill other people. However isolated the moment, suicide is also always an act of cruelty. Anyone left behind after someone close to them commits, or even attempts, suicide is likely to spend much of the rest of their life wondering whether they themselves have, or should have, survived. Suicide is rarely the singular, definitive act it appears to be. The ego, Freud tells us, turns onto itself the hatred it feels towards the object. But the object is never spared. No one commits (…)