Thursday, November 6, 2003

project for the new american century I'm happy to see the PNAC in the news: The Project for the New American Century: Why American business should careIf you're in a hurry, here's an overview: Cheney/Rumsfeld foreign policy = all war, all the time. As bad as the Iraq situation is (e. g. 210 US soldiers killed since the President's May 1 "victory" speech), it's even worse to think that Cheney and Rumsfeld and the rest of the PNAC goons planned the whole thing in 1998. The WTC attack was a convenient excuse to do what they wanted to do what they wanted to do anyway. [debris.com] 2:50:41 PM

Maher Arar, a Canadian, arrested and deported by the US government to be tortured in Syria Maher Arar, a dual Canadian-Syrian citizen was arrested at a stopover in JFK in New York and deported to Syria by the US government. It seems to be unclear how they decided he was a "suspected terrorist" but it took close to a year in a prison in Syria and a lot of torture for them to decide that he was OK to be sent back to Canada. They say he had had a relationship with another suspected terrorist who is also being imprisoned and tortured now in Syria. He says he barely knew the guy. [Joi Ito's Web] 2:42:32 PM

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