Month August 2002

Qatar also refuses to allow be used as staging area for Iraq WarThis is huge news.  Qatar joins Saudi Arabia in refusing to allow the US to use their country to invade Iraq.  This leaves, I believe, Turkey as the only…

Israel’s ‘corrupting’ war under fire – from chief rabbi Britain’s chief rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, has warned Israel that it is adopting a stance “incompatible” with the deepest ideals of Judaism, and that the current conflict with the Palestinians is “corrupting”…

Gulf War Council Divided On Iraq This Time “Vice President Dick Cheney’s sharp rebuke this week of critics of the Bush administration’s approach to Iraq is striking for two reasons: He wrote that passage into a speech himself, and the…

Slashdot | Network Associates Buys “Better Carnivore”. ShaunC writes “CNet is reporting that Network Associates has just purchased a software company called Traxess, whose main product – DragNet – supposedly makes Carnivore look like a toy. DragNet is capable of…

US court rules against secret deportation hearings. Federal appeals court says Bush administration’s attempts to hold secret deportation hearings of suspected terrorists undermines democracy.