Day May 27, 2004

New York Times: we were wrong on Iraq The New York Times today issued an extraordinary mea culpa over its coverage of Iraq, admitting it had been misled about the presence of weapons of mass destruction by sources including the…

U.S. General linked to use of dogs at prison The U.S. Army general sent by the Pentagon to bolster the collection of intelligence from prisoners at Abu Ghraib is said to have urged the use of guard dogs to frighten…

Feel safer? The US-led “war on terror” is behind a surge of human rights abuses around the world, according to a report by Amnesty International. The organisation said America’s offensive against global terrorism was “bankrupt of vision” and had “made…

Anti-Muslim hate crime at UC Irvine Arab students built a display wall in the campus Free Speech Zone to symbolize the apartheid-like wall being built in Israel now. Someone burned it down. UCI Police Chief Al Brown said officials are…