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Wednesday, March 09, 2005
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Ex-Marine Says Public Version of Saddam Capture Fi...: "
Ex-Marine Says Public Version of Saddam Capture Fiction
'A former U.S. Marine who participated in capturing ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said the public version of his capture was fabricated.
Ex-Sgt. Nadim Abou Rabeh, of Lebanese descent, was quoted in the Saudi daily al-Medina Wednesday as saying Saddam was actually captured Friday, Dec. 12, 2003, and not the day after, as announced by the U.S. Army.
'I was among the 20-man unit, including eight of Arab descent, who searched for Saddam for three days in the area of Dour near Tikrit, and we found him in a modest home in a small village and not in a hole as announced,' Abou Rabeh said.
'We captured him after fierce resistance during which a Marine of Sudanese origin was killed,' he said.
He said Saddam himself fired at them with a gun from the window of a room on the second floor. Then they shouted at him in Arabic: 'You have to surrender. ... There is no point in resisting.'
'Later on, a military production team fabricated the film of Saddam's capture in a hole, which was in fact a deserted well,' Abou Rabeh said.
Abou Rabeh was interviewed in Lebanon.' So, was there any landmark event during this war that wasn't staged?
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(Via BlondeSense..)
10:33:49 PM 
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Ward Churchill’s Counter Punch: " Ward Churchill published an article entitled ‘Conning the Public: Who's the Terrorist?’ in CounterPunch magazine today, again defending himself from what he believes are lies and distortions: First, Dan Caplis, Craig Silverman and numerous other right-wing media spinmeisters asserted that I 'advocated' terrorist attacks on the United States in my Op-Ed piece of Sept. 12, 2001. Even a casual reading of that piece, as well as the 300-page book On the Justice of Roosting Chickens in which I more fully explicated and documented my argument, reveals that I did not advocate such attacks. Rather, I pointed out that they were and will continue to be the inevitable result of a U.S. foreign policy that disregards the rule of law and results in massive death and destruction abroad.
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(Via FIRE's Torch.)
4:38:57 PM
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Pianist, Composer Fred Hersch: 'Leaves of Grass': "In his 30-year career, musician Fred Hersch has performed in solo, duo, trio and quintet settings. In 2003 he received the prestigious Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, which he used to work on his latest project, Leaves of Grass. For it, Hersch leads a 10-piece ensemble, which includes vocalists singing the words of Walt Whitman set to compositions by Hersch. He is touring the ensemble this month."
(Via NPR's Fresh Air from WHYY.)
I liked these songs quite a bit; I'll have to hear the whole album.
3:31:16 PM
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A lot of creationists will claim that evolution violates the Second Law of Thermodynamis. Here is a good rundown of the SLoT, explaining how they don't know what they're talking about. It's a good refresher on this basic law, if you're a bit rusty, too.
(Via Unscrewing The Inscrutable.)
2:13:58 PM
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