Bob Morris @ Aug 19th 2006 20:20 - Category: Uncategorized Tags: Lebanon;
“Strains”? A more accurate word is “violates.”
P.S. Google News currently has this story second-ranked with 872 related links while JonBenet is first-ranked with 4,977 links. Sigh.
Bob Morris @ Aug 19th 2006 08:09 - Category: Uncategorized Tags: Cuban Five;
The L.A. Times today has a quite favorable article on the Cuban Five, who have been unjustly imprisoned here for spying on the US even though there was no proof they did so. Recent disclosures have shown there were, and are, serious threats to Cuba from anti-Castro Cubans and the right, thus bolstering the Five’s contention they were protecting Cuba from violence.
Among the developments is the admission by Jose Antonio Llama, a 75-year-old exile, that he financed a 1997 mission to kill Castro for which he had already been tried and acquitted.
In addition to Llama’s admission, Robert Ferro, a Cuban exile in Upland, Calif., said in April that he collected 1,500 guns and grenades for an assault on Cuba during U.S. military exercises in the Caribbean in May. Ferro was charged with illegal weapons possession. And trial begins next month in the case of Miami developer Santiago Alvarez on charges of amassing guns last year for an attack on Castro.
“The Five should never have been arrested. They were fighting terrorism,” said Gloria La Riva, committee coordinator. “New terrorist plots have been revealed since their convictions in Miami which give further weight to the arguments that Miami was a place where they should never have been tried.”
[Richard Klugh, who represents Fernando Gonzalez] points out the five were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage without ever having spied. No evidence was presented suggesting any of the five had obtained classified information.
“Were they here to hurt the United States, or were they here to protect Cuba from crime and violence?” Klugh asks of the five. “It really goes to the core of the case.”
You can get more information at Free the Five who are currently organizing a march in D.C. on Sept. 23 and fund-raising for the next round of court battles in the eight years since the Five were imprisoned.
This case is a grotesque micarriage of justice. Again, no proof was ever given that the Five did any spying or got any classified information. Yet they are doing long prison terms and aren’t even allowed visits from family.
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Bob Morris @ Aug 19th 2006 06:52 - Category: Unfiled ;
Conservative Bill Lind details Why the IDF Lost in Lebanon. An internal Lebanese army statement tells its troops to support Hezbollah. Israeli soldiers tell of a military invasion so bungled with supplies being so low they had to drink water from canteens of dead Lebanese to survive.
Meanwhile, oh, that war - A guide to armed groups in Iraq
Bob Morris @ Aug 19th 2006 00:23 - Category: Unfiled ;
British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott was recently quoted as saying Bush’s Middle East policy was “crap.” He quickly denied saying it however now many members of his own party are supporting and applauding what he said, so one assumes a denial of the denial will be forthcoming.
Bob Morris @ Aug 19th 2006 00:15 - Category: Anti-war ;
Sgt. Ricky Clousing, an Iraq war combat vet and U.S. Army interrogator, turned himself in to U.S. military custody on Aug. 11 at Ft. Lewis, Wash., after being absent from his unit for one year. Flanked by his family, fellow resisters from the Iraq and Vietnam wars, and other supporters, he spoke at a press conference at the University of Washington campus, site of the 2006 Veterans for Peace national convention.
“I witnessed our baseless incarceration of civilians. I saw civilians physically harassed. I saw an innocent Iraqi killed before me by U.S. troops. I saw the abuse of power that goes without accountability.”
Israel war resisters
Yesh Gvul has news of first refuser of the Lebanon war, there may be many more.
Bob Morris @ Aug 19th 2006 00:06 - Category: Blogging ;
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