Saturday, March 25, 2006

IL BERLUSCA Break: "I suppose across the world their are various ways to greet someone. Looks like Italy is definitely the friendliest. This is Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi greeting a traffic cop just before he gets in his limousine." 12:42:29 PM

OPERATION ENDURING ABUSE DailyIndia: "Dutch naval personnel replayed the abuse of prisoners committed at the US prison at Abu Ghraib near Baghdad as a joke and took photographs of the scenes, the Telegraaf newspaper reported Friday. The report was published a day after revelations of sexual abuse, including rape, aboard another Dutch vessel, the frigate Tjerk Hiddes. Crew members acknowledged alcohol abuse, snorting cocaine and participating in acts of sexual abuse against women crew members. On the last mission of the Tjerk Hiddes to the Caribbean to counter the drugs trade in December 2005, three young sailors were dismissed for smuggling three kg of cocaine aboard." 12:15:07 PM

THE FORGOTTEN WAR Everybody seems to have forgotten the bombing of Yugoslavia by NATO. 'Collateral damage' of that intervention: about 3.000 civilians killed, many schools, hospitals, power stations and bridges destroyed. About $200 billions of material damage made. Nineteen NATO countries took part in that intervention, take a look at their capitals. 12:09:13 PM

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