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Monday, May 16, 2005 |
Iraq Uncensored is a photo exhibit documenting US troops and Iraqi civilians, resistance fighters and child laborers, imprisoned women and incarcerated youths.
11:59:40 AM 
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Independent: "Washington's 'war on drugs' in Colombia is collapsing in chaos and corruption, and the drug producers are winning. The so-called Plan Colombia, which has cost the US more than $3bn (£1.6bn) in the past five years, is being abandoned, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has announced.
Last year, the hugely expensive effort to poison coca bushes - whose leaves are the source of cocaine - by aerial spraying ended in failure. More bushes were flourishing in January this year than in January 2004.
Meanwhile, complaints have multiplied about the damage done by the chemical poisons to the health of humans, especially children, as well as to livestock, fish and the environment."
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© Copyright 2005 Hetty Litjens.
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