Bob Morris @ Jun 4th 2004 00:17 - Category: Unfiled ;
The Iraqi Horror Picture Show
The ever-talented Cara Scissoria just added six more collage-style political greeting cards to her website!
(Full disclosure: I’m webmaster for her site)
Bob Morris @ Jun 4th 2004 00:13 - Category: Unfiled ;
U.S. told Saudis to let Al-Qaida gunmen escape says official
Saudi authorities gave safe passage to three al-Qaida gunmen after the they killed 10 of the hostages they were holding at a hotel in the oil hub of Khobar, a senior security official said.
The Saudi official said upon hearing hostages had been killed, US officials advised the Saudis that letting the militants go would avert a bigger catastrophe.
I thought Dubya was all for gittin’ tough on terrorists, not for letting them waltz away. Nor do I see why letting them escape avoids anything. Most mysterioso.
Bob Morris @ Jun 4th 2004 00:12 - Category: Unfiled ;
Curiouser and curiouser
Let me get this right, Tenet has resigned while Chalabi is still standing? Chalib appears to have his hand in everything and to be working for and/or double crossing everyone. Or is he? There are whole levels of machination here not yet apparent. However since Bush tossed Tenet, one of his most trusted confidantes, out the window, then something real serious is most definitely going down. And there will be more resignations as Bush, in increasing desperation, attempts to deflect blame from himself.
Resignation won’t solve Bush woes
Former CIA chief Stansfield Turner said it was unlikely the resignation was Tenet’s idea. “I don’t think he would pull the plug on President Bush in the midst of an election cycle without being asked by President Bush to do that.”
It is far more likely that — in the midst of an election cycle — Bush would pull the plug on Tenet.
Chalabi says Tenet behind allegations against him
Politician Ahmad Chalabi accused CIA director George Tenet on Thursday of being responsible for allegations that the former Iraqi exile leader passed intelligence information to Iran.
Candidate who pulled out blames Chalabi plot
Adnan Pachachi, who had been widely tipped to become Iraq’s new president, last night claimed he was forced to turn down the job because of a “shabby conspiracy” led by the Pentagon’s disgraced ex-favourite Ahmad Chalabi.
What a rat’s nest…
PS Outsourcing the military: DynCorp took part in Chalabi raid
Bob Morris @ Jun 4th 2004 00:10 - Category: Unfiled ;
The prison house of nations
From a Workers World newsletter
On May 27 the U.S. Justice Department issued an alarming but not surprising report. The report documents that by the middle of 2003, one out of every 75 men in the United States was incarcerated.
This amounts to a 2.9-percent increase over 2002.
The U.S. rate of imprisonment is the highest in the world.
One-quarter of all the prisoners in the world are held in the United States–at last count, over 2.1 million people.
And speaking of prisons (this should be satire but it’s unfortunately not)
A 21-year-old college student could spend years in jail on bomb threat charges after he stood silently outside a military recruitment office dressed like an Iraqi prisoner: in a black cape, hooded, wearing stereo wires hanging from his fingers. The police charged Joseph Previtera with making a bomb threat since the stereo wires resembled wires to a bomb.
Bob Morris @ Jun 4th 2004 00:08 - Category: Unfiled ;
Marines get wrist-slaps for torturing Iraqi prisoner
Two U.S. Marines have been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to charges of abusing an Iraqi prisoner who threw trash by shocking him with 110 volts of electricity at a jail south of Baghdad in Apri
One was sentenced to a piddly one year, the other eight months. Had this happened in the United States under civilian courts, these torturers would serve way more time than that. The military doesn’t want to seriously prosecute anyone, it appears.
Note too, that these offenses happened AFTER the Abu Gharib photos, in Apri and in a different prison. Has anything actually changed in the Iraq prisons?
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