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-Caveat Lector- Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government
June 11, 2004All links to articles as summarized below are available here:
http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_newsPlease contribute today, for June expenses!! We need donations to continue. Thank you.Halliburton Under Investigation for Nigeria Bribery Accusations --The Securities and Exchange Commission is formally investigating allegations that a Halliburton Co. subsidiary was involved in paying $180 million in bribes to get a natural gas project contract in Nigeria. Vice pResident Dick Cheney was head of the oil services conglomerate at the time.
Iraqi deputy foreign minister slain in Baghdad --Ministry's most senior career diplomat ambushed Saturday --Assailants killed an Iraqi deputy foreign minister Saturday in an ambush that occurred as he was traveling to his Baghdad office, the Foreign Ministry said.
Resistance fighters blow up police station in Iraq --Attack is fourth on a police station in past week --Resistance fighters stormed a police station south of Baghdad, drove off the poorly armed police and blew up the building Friday in the fourth such attack against Iraqi security installations over the last week, officials and witnesses said.
General Granted Latitude At Prison --Abu Ghraib Used Aggressive Tactics --Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the senior U.S. military officer in Iraq, borrowed heavily from a list of high-pressure interrogation tactics used at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and approved letting senior officials at a Baghdad jail use military dogs, temperature extremes, reversed sleep patterns, sensory deprivation, and diets of bread and water on detainees whenever they wished, according to newly obtained documents.
Army Policy Bars Interrogations by Private Contractors --The use of private contractors as interrogators at Abu Ghraib and other prisons in Iraq violates an Army policy that requires such jobs to be filled by government employees because of the "risk to national security," among other concerns, the Army acknowledged Friday.
Iraqis Put Contempt For Troops On Display --A pair of AH-64 Apache helicopter gunships thumped back and forth overhead, scouring residential streets for insurgents. Dun-colored Bradley Fighting Vehicles snorted and wheeled around, their tracks gouging holes in the tarmac. A dozen Humvees stood sentry, closing off the four-lane avenue to Iraqi cars, while nervous American soldiers with M-16 automatic rifles forbade local residents from approaching. "Look at this," said Ghassan Abu Ahmed, raising his hand in a sweeping gesture toward the tableau of military might. "This is freedom? It is crazy."
Americans Say Iraq War Not Worth It -LA Times Poll --A majority of U.S. voters now say it was not worth going to war in Iraq and feel the United States is getting bogged down there, according to a Los Angeles Times poll published on Friday.
Bush, Blair See Support at Home Battered by Iraq --Most Americans now say the Iraq war was not worth it, an opinion poll showed on Friday, and British Prime Minister Tony Blair acknowledged the conflict was behind his party's drubbing in local elections.
Bush: Troops to stay until 'job's done' --Dictator George W. Bush said Iraq is on its way to becoming a 'sovereign democracy' [another puppet dictatorship for Halliburton and the Bush terror team] as he addressed the international media in closing remarks at the G8 Summit. But the dictator offered no definite timetable when the U.S. might reduce its troop level in Iraq. Significant troop withdrawals will happen "when the job's done," he said.
Michael Moore has Blair in sights --Michael Moore's anti-Iraq war crusade is not stopping with U.S. Dictator George W. Bush as the filmmaker says he now wants to make a movie about Prime Minister Tony Blair's role in the war.
Ten US Navy Carriers Now At Sea - Only Two In Port USS Carl Vinson Has Gone Out --From Radwick "This brings the number of carriers over the horizon to 10. This would prove to be a most COSTLY exercise if in fact this is ONLY an exercise. OR, are they all on emergency operational deployment??? Of the remaining 2 carriers only USS Nimitz is deployable as the USS Eisenhower is having its nuclear power plant refueled and will be out of commission for several years."
Document warns Guantanamo employees not to talk --Military and civilian employees at the U.S. prison for suspected 'terrorists' at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were warned recently not to talk with attorneys who represent detainees held there, according to a document prepared by the legal office of the Army-led task force that runs the facility.
US' charges against Australian terror suspect blasted --The father of an Australian terror suspect scorned the US military tribunal that his son will face, saying yesterday that his conviction seemed a foregone conclusion and accusing interrogators of abusing him during two years of detention at Guantanamo Bay.
Facing Defeat? Justice Department lawyers, fearing a crushing defeat before the U.S. Supreme Court in the next few weeks, are scrambling to develop a conventional criminal case against "enemy combatant" Jose Padilla that would charge him with providing "material support" to Al CIA-duh, NEWSWEEK has learned. Dictatorship officials now concede that the principal claim they have been making about Padilla ever since his detention�that he was dispatched to the United States for the specific purpose of setting off a radiological "dirty bomb"�has turned out to be wrong and most likely can never be used against him in court.
G-8 security a model for upcoming events --Get ready, Boston, New York and Washington, for surface-to-air missiles in public parks, severe restrictions on travel and soldiers and police on downtown streets. The unprecedented display of law enforcement power during the Group of Eight economic summit is about to go on the road. Organizers say their success at squelching potential terrorism and violent protests has convinced federal, state and local agencies across the country to make this a blueprint for "National Security Special Events," such as the national political conventions this summer.
FBI warns 10 cities about demonstrations --The FBI has told law enforcement agencies across the country that radical environmentalists may stage protests, possibly violent ones, this weekend in support of a jailed resistance fighter. [*See: International Day of Action & Solidarity with Jeff 'Free' Luers and Free Jeff "Free" Luers!]
DJ Reassigned After Feting Raygun's Death --A college disc jockey who was initially fired after devoting a radio show to celebrating the death of [Iran-Contra, arms-for-hostages terrorist] Ronald Raygun will be reassigned to another job until he can respond to complaints about his actions, officials said Friday. Scott Hornyak said the show was "a celebration that Ronald Reagan was dead, was finally dead," and that he told listeners he wanted to "walk over the newly laid dirt" on Reagan's grave.
Calculating Disaster --Accidents at Puget Sound's Trident installation cast doubt on Navy and Lockheed safety claims --by Glen Milner "There is no weapon system in the US arsenal with the operational risks of a Trident submarine. No weapon has as much explosive material, in the form of solid rocket propellant, and the number of nuclear warheads tightly packed in a confined vessel. On November 7, 2003 a missile handling crew at Bangor, WA hoisted a Trident C-4 missile into a ladder that was left inside the launch tube. A nine-inch hole was made in the nose cone as the ladder came within inches of a live nuclear warhead... When the accident became public in March 2004, many acknowledged the Navy's concern for safety but failed to recognize one critical fact--the design of the missile is inherently flawed... Had the ladder struck the third stage rocket motor with sufficient force, the resultant explosion would have detonated the much larger first and second stage rocket motors and spread the plutonium across Puget Sound."
Researchers Exposed to Anthrax --At least five workers developing an anthrax 'vaccine' at a children's hospital research lab in Oakland were accidentally exposed to the deadly bacterium because of a shipping mistake, officials reported Thursday.
McCain personally rejected Kerry overtures --Republican Sen. John McCain has personally rejected John Kerry's overtures to join the Democratic presidential ticket and forge a bipartisan alliance against Dictator Bush, The Associated Press has learned. [If such an alliance was forged and Kerry were to win, the Bush terror team would 'Wellstone' Kerry and install McCain (the Republican) as president shortly after the election.]
Sen. Kennedy Loses Bid to Remove Pryor --Sen. Edward Kennedy lost a legal challenge to Dictator Bush's appointment of former Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor to a federal appeals judgeship. Pryor's appointment has been vigorously opposed by Democratic senators who have objected to his past comments and writings on abortion and homosexuality. After the Senate failed to confirm Pryor's appointment, Bush installed him on the 11th U.S. Circuit of Appeals on Feb. 20 as a "recess appointment," which does not require Senate confirmation. [Bush should know all about 'installation,' since that is how he assumed power in 2000.]
Fed's Rate Increases May Come Quickly --Officials Don't Feel Bound to 'Measured' Pace --Two Federal Reserve bank presidents added their voices yesterday to the chorus of central bank officials warning that rising inflation may force them to raise interest rates more rapidly than many investors expect.
Speaker Pushes Jobs Bill --Provision Religious Leaders Would Be Allowed More Freedom to Participate in Partisan Politics --House Republican leaders have tacked on to a major jobs bill a provision that would give religious leaders more freedom to engage in partisan politics without endangering the tax-exempt status of their churches.
[June 10 lead stories:] Bush ignored Pentagon lawyers over tactics in war on [of] terror --No consultation on detention without charge --The Bush dictatorship routinely bypassed or overruled Pentagon experts on international law and the Geneva convention to construct a sweeping legal justification for harsh tactics in the war on terror, the Guardian has learnt. In one instance, Dictator George Bush's military order of November 13 2001, which denies prisoner-of-war status to captives from Afghanistan and allows their detention without charge or access to a lawyer at Guant�namo, was issued without any consultations with Pentagon lawyers, a former Pentagon official said... "That came like a bolt from the blue," the official said. "Neither I nor anyone I knew had any insight, any advance knowledge, or any opportunity to comment on the president[sic]'s military order."
Report: Rumsfeld OK'd Prison Rules --Defense Secretary [W-ar criminal] Donald Rumsfeld approved interrogation methods for Guantanamo Bay detainees including the use of "stress positions" for up to four hours, "fear of dogs" and "mild non-injurious" physical contact, a newspaper reports. The Wall Street Journal reports Rumsfeld approved the tactics in December 2002.
Use of Dogs to Scare Prisoners Was Authorized --Military Intelligence Personnel Were Involved, Handlers Say --U.S. intelligence personnel ordered military dog handlers at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq to use unmuzzled dogs to frighten and intimidate detainees during interrogations late last year, a plan approved by the highest-ranking military intelligence officer at the facility, according to sworn statements the handlers provided to military investigators.
Danish translator says he saw abuse of Afghan prisoners --Denmark said Thursday it opened an investigation into claims by a translator for Danish and U.S. troops in Afghanistan that he witnessed incidents of torture and killing of prisoners in American custody two years ago.
Ex-Detainees Sue 2 U.S. Contractors --Employees of Titan and CACI are accused of torturing prisoners. Lawyers say the action is based on a military report on abuse. Eight Iraqis filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday claiming that employees of two American contractors subjected them to abuse in U.S.-run prisons in Iraq, including electric shocks, rape, and torture. The lawsuit, which seeks class-action status, alleges that employees of San Diego-based Titan Corp. and Virginia-based CACI International, contracted for interpretation and interrogation services respectively, systematically tortured prisoners to extract more information and increase the firms' chances of winning future contracts. [Our suggestions for new company bylines: "Titan National Security Solutions: Specializing in Rape, Torture and Electrocution of Prisoners." "CACI: Technology that Supports 'Final Solutions.'" Readers are encouraged to "Remember The Titan's" crimes, and to contact them at: The Titan Corporation, 3033 Science Park Road, San Diego, California 92121 --Phone: (858) 552-9500 Fax: (858) 552-9645. For inquires other than about products and services (that would be torture and rape), contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Contact CACI at: Public Relations, Jody Brown, Senior VP (703) 841-7801, [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Warning, these are monsters who profit by competing at torturing prisoners, so be careful!!! These companies are the epitome of corporate murderers exporting torture and death for profit!!!]
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