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  • FBI took the hard drives of IMC servers in the UK
    8 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "The FBI issued an order to Rackspace in the US (Indymedia’s provider with offices
    in the US and London) to remove physically one of our servers. The order was
    so short term that Rackspace had to give away our hard drives in the UK. The
    servers hosted numerous local IMCs. If you find a site is down: that might be
    the reason"
    The servers "ahimsa 2" have the following Indymedias: Nantes, Belgrade,
    Liege, Oost-Vlaanderen, Andorra, Euskalherria, Lille, Nice, the U.K., Poland,
    Uruguay, (…)

  • Delegates Split Over Blair’s Iraq Apology
    30 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By ED JOHNSON
    BRIGHTON, England — For Tony Blair, sorry seems to be the hardest word. A day after the prime minister expressed regret about bad intelligence on Iraq, delegates at the Labour Party’s annual convention were divided over whether they’d heard a genuine apology for the war.
    In a contrite, conversational speech that won him a standing ovation, Blair said he could apologize for faulty evidence on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction — but he refused to do so for toppling Saddam (…)

  • Letters from France: Divided by a single language
    18 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Robert Thompson
    It is said that the late Sir Winston Churchill was the first to make the comment that the U.S.A. and Britain were divided by a single language, and listening to spokesmen for the present administration in the U.S.A. this becomes more and more evident as the election campaign rolls on on your side of the Atlantic.
    It seems almost comic when one has to learn that what you call "diapers" are the ordinary British "nappies", or that your "sidewalk’ is the British (…)

  • The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
    28 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    This Strips Away the Last Vestiges of Moral Authority
    By ROBIN COOK
    Those close to him mutter, under their breath of course, that Tony Blair’s only moment of doubt over Iraq came in the wake of the exposure of the Abu Ghraib scandal.
    This is plausible, as our Prime Minister possesses a Gladstonian moral imperative. He believes that any economy with the truth over the threat from Saddam’s vanishing weapons of mass disappearance would be forgiven in the short run by his electorate and in (…)

  • Detentions ’not right’ - Rimington
    19 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Tania Branigan
    A former head of MI5 has condemned the detention of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, where British security service officials are said to have repeatedly interrogated suspects under harsh conditions.
    Dame Stella Rimington’s comments came just two weeks after Britons formerly held at the camp described how MI5 officers questioned them at length.
    Their lawyers accuse the UK of "complicity" in the detention and mistreatment of prisoners by the US at its Cuban base.
    "It (…)

  • Red Cross urged to investigate Allawi claims
    19 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Tom Allard
    The former British foreign secretary, Robin Cook, has urged the International Committee for the Red Cross to investigate witness claims that the new Iraqi prime minister, Iyad Allawi, shot dead six insurgents last month.
    Revelations of the accounts of the killings by chief Herald correspondent Paul McGeough at the weekend and the refusal of US authorities to deny them outright sparked concerns around the world.
    The Herald reported that two independent witnesses alleged Dr (…)

  • The Iraq War is All Right Then
    19 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Robert Fisk
    Lord Butler told us Wednesday that Tony Blair acted in good faith. So that’s all right then.
    At the al-Yarmouk hospital in Baghdad on the same morning, there was blood on the walls, blood on the floor, blood on the doctors, blood on the stretchers. In the dangerous oven of Baghdad, 10 more lives had just ended. So what was it Tony Blair said in the Commons? "We are not killing civilians in Iraq; terrorists are killing civilians in Iraq." So that’s all right then. (…)

  • Britain’s worst intelligence failure, and Lord Butler says no one is to blame
    17 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What a shame that Anthony Eden did not have a Butler around to explain he was not responsible for Suez
    By Robin Cook
    What a wonderful specimen of the British establishment is Lord Butler of Brockwell. Urbane, unflappable and understanding. He should be put on display somewhere as a prize example of our ruling classes. Possibly the Victoria and Albert Museum would provide the right grandeur and period ambiance.
    There is an emotional disconnect between his measured tones and the brutal (…)

  • Robert Fisk : Iraq, 1917
    18 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Robert Fisk
    They came as liberators but were met by fierce resistance outside Baghdad. Humiliating treatment of prisoners and heavy-handed action in Najaf and Fallujah further alienated the local population. A planned handover of power proved unworkable. Britain’s 1917 occupation of Iraq holds uncanny parallels with today - and if we want to know what will happen there next, we need only turn to our history books...
    On the eve of our "handover" of "full sovereignty" to (…)

  • Blair suffers severe electoral drubbing over Iraq
    12 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Severe election blow for Labour
    · Labour loses 211 council seats
    · Tories +101, Lib Dems +67
    Hélène Mulholland, Tom Happold and agencies
    http://politics.guardian.co.uk/elections2004/story/0,14549,1236480,00.html
    Tony Blair suffered a drubbing today as Labour limped into third place in the local elections, losing control of at least eight councils.
    With about half of the results declared, Labour has lost over 200 councillors, with the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats both (…)