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Sickened Iraq War Veteran Fights for Fellow Veterans
Juan Gonzalez New York Daily News November 30, 2005
Scientific research, paid for by the military, links depleted uranium (DU) with the development of cancer in laboratory animals. Now DU emerges as a serious health isue for both Iraq War and Gulf War veterans exposed to the radioactive toxic waste widely used as ammunition by the U.S.
In Iraq, even sectarian unity can be deadly BAGHDAD (Reuters) - In a country ravaged by sectarian bloodshed, Sunni Abu Alaa believed contesting elections on a list with Shi'ites would promote unity. Then his brother ended up like so many other Iraqis -- kidnapped and murdered. And he came to a conclusion shared by many other Sunnis whose relatives have been abducted and killed. "I am 99 percent sure it was Shi'ite militiamen connected to the government," he said, looking over photographs of his brother Abu Akeel's corpse in the morgue. "They tortured him and put a bullet in his head." As U.S. and Iraqi officials speak of how Iraqi forces have improved after training, Sunnis are focused on what they say are widespread abuses at the hands of Shi'ite government forces
Michael Georgy Reuters November 30, 2005
Bush flags war strategy ANNAPOLIS, Maryland (Reuters) - U.S. troops will be able to withdraw from Iraq as local forces gain competence, U.S. President George W. Bush said on Wednesday, but near Baghdad the killing of nine people underscored a dire security situation two weeks before Iraq's milestone election.
Tabassum Zakaria Reuters November 30, 2005
General: Americans Must Stop Iraqi Abusers
WILLIAM C. MANN AP NewsDay November 30, 2005
WASHINGTON -- The nation's top military man, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, said American troops in Iraq have a duty to intercede and stop abuse of prisoners by Iraqi security personnel.
When Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld contradicted Pace, the general stood firm.
Rumsfeld told the general he believed Pace meant to say the U.S. soldiers had to report the abuse, not stop it.
Pace stuck to his original statement.
"If they are physically present when inhumane treatment is taking place, sir, they have an obligation to try to stop it," Pace told his civilian boss.
Analysts Foresee Bleak Road Ahead in Iraq
CHARLES J. HANLEY AP NewsDay November 30, 2005
Two senior Army analysts who in 2003 accurately foretold the turmoil that would be unleashed by the U.S. invasion of Iraq offer a bleak assessment in a new study of what now lies ahead in that bloodied land.
Excerpts: White House Iraq Strategy
AP NewsDay November 30, 2005
Excerpts from a 35-page plan the White House issued Wednesday in defense of President Bush's policy in Iraq. The report defines victory and the enemies being fought, and gives a progress report on U.S. action in Iraq along political, economic and security fronts.
Excerpts: White House Iraq Strategy
AP NewsDay November 30, 2005
Excerpts from a 35-page plan the White House issued Wednesday in defense of President Bush's policy in Iraq. The report defines victory and the enemies being fought, and gives a progress report on U.S. action in Iraq along political, economic and security fronts.
Pentagon Expanding Its Domestic Surveillance Activity
Walter Pincus The Washington Post November 30, 2005
The Defense Department has expanded its programs aimed at gathering and analyzing intelligence within the United States, creating new agencies, adding personnel and seeking additional legal authority for domestic security activities in the post-9/11 world.
In Terror Cases, Administration Sets Own Rules
ADAM LIPTAK New York Times November 30, 2005
When Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales announced last week that Jose Padilla would be transferred to the federal justice system from military detention, he said almost nothing about the standards the administration used in deciding whether to charge terrorism suspects like Mr. Padilla with crimes or to hold them in military facilities as enemy combatants. "We take each individual, each case, case by case," Mr. Gonzales said. The upshot of that approach, underscored by the decision in Mr. Padilla's case, is that no one outside the administration knows just how the determination is made whether to handle a terror suspect as an enemy combatant or as a common criminal, to hold him indefinitely without charges in a military facility or to charge him in court.
Bush Antiterror Plans Irk Big Business
ROBERT BLOCK THE WALL STREET JOURNAL November 30, 2005
As President Bush and Republican leaders in Congress scramble to renew the USA Patriot Act before it expires on Dec. 31, they are meeting surprising resistance from a group they usually consider an ally: big business. Joining the American Civil Liberties Union, organizations such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers, the National Association of Realtors and the Financial Services Roundtable are demanding changes in the antiterror law's rules on government access to confidential business records.
Growing bored of the carnage … as crime of the century unfolds
Iain Macwhirter Sunday Herald November 30, 2005
We’ve all familiar now with “compassion fatigue”, when we become inured to the plight of disaster victims in uncharismatic parts of the world such as Kashmir. Well, I fear we are now developing a kind of “atrocity fatigue” over Iraq.
The Iraq war and Nuremberg precedent
Frank Nicosia Burlingtonfreepress.com November 30, 2005
The many revelations by former administration and government insiders, coupled with the Downing Street Memo, the Lewis Libby indictment, and numerous other sources since the invasion of Iraq almost three years ago leave little doubt that the Bush administration deceived Americans and the world before invading a country that threatened no one.
New Military Operation Launched in Iraq
AP Fox News November 30, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. and Iraqi troops launched an operation in western Iraq to clear insurgents from a suspected safe area used to make car and roadside bombs, the military said Wednesday.
Afghanistan: U.S. Too Lenient in Body-Burning Punishments
AP Fox News November 30, 2005
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan's government said Monday the U.S. military has been "very lenient" in punishing American soldiers for burning the bodies of two Taliban rebels in an incident caught on camera
How Soon Could U.S. Troops Leave Iraq?
Steve Inskeep NPR November 30, 2005
Morning Edition, November 29, 2005 · Steve Inskeep talks to correspondent Peter Kenyon in Baghdad about the prospect of American troops pulling out of Iraq. He says many Iraqis admit an immediate pullout could undermine security goals.
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