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Sunday, September 25, 2005 |
BBC: "Human Rights Watch has published a report giving fresh details of alleged torture and abuse of detainees by US forces in Iraq."
NYTimes: "Three former members of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division say soldiers in their battalion in Iraq routinely beat and abused prisoners in 2003 and 2004 to help gather intelligence on the insurgency and to amuse themselves."
CSMonitor: "The US and Iraqi governments have vastly overstated the number of foreign fighters in Iraq, and most of them don't come from Saudi Arabia, according to a new report from the Washington-based Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS). According to a piece in The Guardian, this means the US and Iraq 'feed the myth' that foreign fighters are the backbone of the insurgency. While the foreign fighters may stoke the insurgency flames, they only comprise only about 4 to 10 percent of the estimated 30,000 insurgents."
This war is not about fighting 'insurgents', but fighting the people of Iraq. By using torture the invading powers are losing all moral, ethical and legal justification. Neocon capitalism could turn out to be more dangerous than Stalinism or Nazism.
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While Bush is spending millions on his own transport to convince people that he is doing an effort and that everything is juz fi-ene, elderly people are being transported as cargo.
24 People fleeing hurricane Rita die when their bus explodes.
cbs2: "It was envisioned as the anti-Katrina plan: Texas officials sketched a staggered, orderly evacuation plan for Hurricane Rita and urged people to get out days ahead of time.
But tangles still arrived even before the storm's first bands. Panicked drivers ran out of gas, a spectacular, deadly bus fire clogged traffic, and freeways were red rivers of taillights that stretched to the horizon.
In an age of terrorist danger and with memories of the nightmare in New Orleans still fresh, the Texas exodus raises a troubling question: Can any American city empty itself safely and quickly?
Thousands of drivers were stranded for hours Friday to the north and west of Houston, many stuck in extreme heat and out of gas as gas trucks, rumored to be on the way, or at least buses to evacuate motorists, never came."
AlterNet: "The much-touted presence of the 'new and improved' FEMA was absent. Low-income people were not provided with sufficient food before the hurricane hit. Nor was water being distributed."
Naomi Klein: "'Reconstruction', whether in Baghdad or New Orleans, has become shorthand for a massive uninterrupted transfer of wealth from public to private hands, whether in the form of direct 'cost plus' government contracts or by auctioning off new sectors of the state to corporations."
Reconstruction relief will not go to the people, but to the reconstruction companies.
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