Month May 2004

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king At the Camp War Horse detention centre in Baguba, north of Baghdad, it is a surreal scene: US soldiers handing out cash to freed prisoners along with a note…

They can’t keep their lies straight… Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez approved the use of sleep deprivation, intimidation by guard dogs, excessive noise and inducing fear as interrogation methods against a single Iraqi inmate at Abu Ghraib prison, according to a…

Go ahead, Bop Bush!

Surviving Mount Rainier climber evacuated A helicopter evacuated a climber stranded on Mount Rainier Tuesday, the day after his severely injured companion died on a copter flight to a hospital. Mt. Ranier, in the state of Washington, is a  mere…

Rumsfeld is toastFrom Seeing the Forest, comes this excellent analysis “Apparently Rumsfeld has been chosen as the fall guy for Iraq, as this piece by Martin Sieff, “UPI Senior News Analyst” shows: “Even worse for Rumsfeld and his coterie of…