Month June 2004

Saboteurs blow up key Iraqi…

Saboteurs blow up key Iraqi pipeline Saboteurs blew up a key northern oil pipeline Wednesday, forcing a 10 percent cut on the national power grid as demand for electricity rises with the advent of Iraq’s broiling summer heat. More than…

Getting drafty in here

Getting drafty in here According to the Internet Web site www.sss.gov, officials at the Pentagon have begun a campaign to fill all 10,350 draft board posi­tions and 11,070 appeals board slots nationwide and $28 million has been added to the…

Torture investigations

Torture investigations Salah Edine Sallat puts the final touches to a wall painting based on the US Statue of Liberty and a widely published photograph of an abused detainee at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad’s Shiite neighborhood of Sadr…

Does the Internet need its…

Does the Internet need its own police? “Disorder and corruption are winning on the Internet, and computer users need the U.S. government to crack down on the thieves preying on the Net, said <Bruce> Sterling, author of futuristic novels Most…