MADRID (AFP) — A Spanish judge on Thursday revived murder charges against three US soldiers over the killing a Spanish television cameraman during the shelling of a Baghdad hotel in 2003.
The same judge, Santiago Pedraz, had thrown out the charges one year ago, citing “insufficient evidence” of deliberate intent on the part of the three [...]
May 21, 2009
US soldiers charged over Spanish journalist’s death…
May 21, 2009
No hope or change from Obama-Netanyahu meeting…
by Ali Abunimah
Source: The Electronic Intifada
Seldom has an encounter between an American and Israeli leader been as hyped as this week’s meeting between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. As expected, Obama committed himself to diplomacy with Iran and pledged an enormous effort to achieve a two-state solution. Netanyahu continued to [...]
May 21, 2009
New York “Terror Plot” Another Government Provocateured Set-Up…
Officials seize upon arrests with glee to propagandize for the police state and justify targeting American citizens in war on terror…
The corporate media and the authorities are having a field day lavishing saturation coverage on the so-called New York “terror plot” in which four men, three of them U.S. citizens, supposedly planned to blow up [...]
May 21, 2009
US Promises to Fully Fund Israeli Missile Defense System, While Cutting Its Own…
Even as Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was being raked over the coals in Congress for the decision to cut funding to America’s missile defense systems, Israeli defense officials have revealed that Israel’s own Arrow 3 missile defense system will be “fully funded” by the United States yet again this year.
Israel has been working on [...]
May 21, 2009
Gonzales approved ‘borderline torture’ months before ‘torture memos’ issued: report…
Months before the first “torture memo” was issued by Bush administration lawyers in 2002, Alberto Gonzales – then White House counsel – personally approved “borderline torture” techniques used on Abu Zubaydah, according to a new report.
An anonymous source told NPR that in April and May of 2002 CIA contractor James Mitchell sought approval on a [...]
May 21, 2009
Military attorney: Waterboarding is ‘tip of the iceberg’…
A military attorney who represented a now-freed Guantanamo detainee told CNN on Wednesday that waterboarding is only “the tip of the iceberg”
Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Yvonne Bradley was the lawyer for Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian national who was arrested by the Pakistani government in April 2002 on suspicion of being a member of al Qaeda. [...]
May 21, 2009
Exclusive: How MI5 blackmails British Muslims…
Five Muslim community workers have accused MI5 of waging a campaign of blackmail and harassment in an attempt to recruit them as informants.
The men claim they were given a choice of working for the Security Service or face detention and harassment in the UK and overseas.
They have made official complaints to the police, to the [...]
May 21, 2009
US President Gives Green Light for Israel to Continue Its Nuclear Arms Program…
According to the Israeli press, US President Barak Obama promised Prime Minister Netanyahu that he would maintain the current understandings between the two countries regarding Israel’s nuclear program.
Before the Obama-Netanyahu summit, at an International Atomic Energy Agency meeting, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, Rose Gottemoeller, declared that Israel, Pakistan, India, and North Korea should sign [...]
May 21, 2009
Pakistan’s displaced struggle to find shelter…
Fighting between government forces and Taliban have forced two millions of Pakistanis to flee their homes.
Al Jazeera’s Imran Khan reports from Mardan district in the North West Frontier Province, where every available space that can house the displaced is being utilised.
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May 21, 2009
Senate set to approve Obama war funding request…
President Barack Obama is likely to get a sweeping bipartisan endorsement when the Senate votes on his request for continuing military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The $91.3 billion measure being taken up by the Senate on Thursday closely tracks Obama’s request for war funds, although the $80 million he was seeking to close [...]
May 21, 2009
Car bomb blast kills 41 in northwest Baghdad…
BAGHDAD – A car bomb exploded Wednesday near several restaurants in a Shiite neighborhood of northwest Baghdad, killing 41 people and injuring more than 70, police and hospital officials said.
No group claimed responsibility for the horrific blast but the style and location of the attack suggested it was carried out by Sunni extremists, such as [...]
