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Sunday, June 27, 2004 |
ICH: "The White House has lodged a complaint with the Irish Embassy in Washington over RTE journalist Carole Coleman's interview with US President George Bush."
Coleman is the first journalist who dares to ask Bush questions about his legitimacy as a war leader. Bush did not like that at all, being used to the bowing and scraping of US and other European journalists, none of whom have dared to expose the 'Emperor's Clothes' nature of Bush's policies in interviews.
10:34:51 AM 
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ABCNews: "On Nov. 13, 2001, with no advance notice to Congress, President Bush signed a military order that gave the Pentagon the power to try, sentence, and even execute anyone he identifies as an 'illegal combatant' - a suspected terrorist who had violated the laws of war."
But not only the Pentagon seems to have that power. The Guantánamo camp mentality has invaded US territory.
WTRF: "The attorney for a man charged with plotting to bomb a shopping mall said Wednesday his client was 'stripped of his identity' while in federal custody.
Authorities accuse Abdi, a Somali refugee, of plotting with admitted al-Qaida member Iyman Faris to blow up a shopping mall. He was indicted earlier this month on charges including providing material support to al-Qaida, conspiracy and document fraud. If convicted, he could get up to 80 years in prison."
The man is a mental wreck now and it is highly probable he is not guilty as charged.
Boston Phoenix: "... there has not been and likely never will be a trial. And even if Abdi were to plead guilty and 'admit' all these facts, we could not have any confidence in their truth. Why? Because one of Abdi's alleged co-conspirators was none other than Iyman Faris, a former Ohio truck driver who was more or less forced to plead guilty last year to planning to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge. For that crime, Faris was sentenced, in October 2003, to a prison term of 20 years. A public trial was not an option for Faris; his choice was either to plead guilty or be detained indefinitely, incommunicado, as an 'enemy combatant'. Under such circumstances, any information he may have provided implicating Abdi must be considered dubious at best.
Faris told FBI interrogators that the signed statement of 'facts' they were going to present to the sentencing judge was a fabrication. During his public sentencing hearing in October of last year, he interrupted the proceedings to insist, again, that he'd been pressured by prosecutors and agents to sign the false statement of facts."
10:19:15 AM
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© Copyright 2008 Hetty Litjens.
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