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Sunday, March 4, 2007 |
Examiner: "The Pentagon has turned a secret terrorist-hunting unit into a nearly self-contained command of more than 1,000 men and women who collect intelligence and track and capture America's most-wanted enemies.
The most significant boost for U.S. Joint Special Operations Command came last year in an unpublicized move. The Pentagon took a super-secret spy unit at Fort Belvoir, Va., from the Army and put it under the JSOC's control.
The unit, code-named Task Force Orange, specializes in infiltrating foreign countries, tailing people and intercepting communications. Operatives have dug up fiber-optic telephone lines overseas and attached a listening device for the National Security Agency."
The JSOC's principal operators are Navy SEALs and Army Delta Force, soldiers who began special operations careers as Rangers or Green Berets."
Scotsman: "Up to 38 people who may have been held in secret CIA prisons are missing, according to a human rights group.
A new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) also details a terrorist suspect's allegations that he was held for over two years at a so-called 'black site', where he was kept naked for six weeks and chained to the wall of his cell so tightly that he could not stand up."
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RawStory: "The Bush Administration's drive for privatization may be responsible for the deplorable outpatient care for soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, according to a top Democratic Congressman investigating the scandal, which has already led to the resignation of the Secretary of the US Army.
A five-year, $120 million contract awarded to a firm run by a former executive from Halliburton - a multi-national corporation where Vice President Dick Cheney once served as CEO - will be probed at a Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs hearing scheduled for Monday."
Privatization and deregulation are the scourges of our age. They are responsible for deaths in hospitals due to lack of hygiene, on railroads due to incompetent maintenance and responsible for a significant prize hike in health care, transport, energy and many other essential branches of economy.
A government has to do what a government has to do, i.e. provide for the proper functioning of essential branches in our national economy for the benefit of all citizens.
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© Copyright 2007 Hetty Litjens.
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