Citizens for Legitimate We are not concerned with international law.'' 04-10-05

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" We are not concerned with international law.'' 04-10-05

 

 

 

 

Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government

10 April 2005

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Guantanamo detainees' stories released in court papers --In a

development the Bush regime had hoped to avoid, the stories of about

60 detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base have spilled out

in court papers. A U.S. college-educated detainee asks plaintively in

one: " Is it possible to see the evidence in order to refute it?'' In

another transcript, the unidentified president of a U.S. military

tribunal bursts out: " I don't care about international law. I don't

want to hear the words 'international law' again. We are not concerned

with international law.''

 

Goss Launches Review of CIA Doubts on Iraqi Source --CIA Director

Porter Goss has ordered an internal review to determine why doubts

about an informant code-named Curveball, a key source of prewar

intelligence on Iraq, were not shared with policymakers, an official

said Friday.

 

Who Forged the Niger Documents? --by Ian Masters --A former

counterterrorism chief claims that the now discredited documents that

showed Iraq trying to purchase uranium were fabricated right here in

the United States. [An edited transcript of an interview conducted by

Ian Masters with Vincent Cannistaro, the former CIA head of

counterterrorism operations and intelligence director at the National

Security Council under Ronald Reagan, which aired on the Los Angeles

public radio KPFK on April 3, 2005.]

 

US 'smuggles wounded troops home' under cover of darkness --The

Pentagon has been accused of smuggling wounded soldiers into the US

under cover of darkness to avoid bad publicity about the number of

troops being injured and maimed in Iraq. The media have also been

prevented from photographing wounded soldiers when they arrive at

hospital.

 

US lawmakers regret voting for Iraq war --US Representative Walter

Jones, a conservative Republican, does not hide his anger when he says

bad information led him to vote for the Iraq war. " If I had known then

what I know today, I wouldn't have voted for that resolution.

Absolutely not, " he said Thursday in an interview. A day earlier,

during House Armed Services Committee testimony on the Iraq war, Jones

demanded an apology from the Bush regime.

 

More Americans Feel Misled On Iraq War --Adults in the United States

remain divided over their government's rationale to launch military

action in Iraq, according to a poll by Gallup released by CNN and USA

Today. 50 per cent of respondents believe the Bush regime deliberately

misled the American public, a seven per cent increase in a year.

 

Iraqis Protest U.S. Presence in Iraq --Chanting " Death to America! "

and burning effigies of Dictator Bush and Saddam Hussein [?!?] tens of

thousands of Iraqis flooded central Baghdad on Saturday in what police

called the largest anti-American protest since the fall of Baghdad

exactly two years ago.

 

Protesters Call for U.S. Pullout in Iraq --Tens of thousands of

supporters of a Shiite leader filled central Baghdad's streets

Saturday and demanded that American soldiers go home, marking the

second anniversary of Baghdad's fall with shouts of " No, no to Satan! "

[That would be Bush.]

 

Attacks kill 31 in Iraq as Sadr supporters demand US exit --At least

31 people were killed and scores wounded in attacks against Iraqi

security forces and civilians as followers of a Shiite leader marched

in Baghdad to demand a US withdrawal.

 

Insurgents Kill 15 Iraqi Soldiers South of Baghdad --Resistance

fighters killed 15 Iraqi soldiers south of Baghdad, Iraqi police said

on Saturday.

 

Task Force Liberty Soldier Killed by IED --One 'Task Force Liberty'

Soldier was killed when an IED detonated around 12:00 p.m. on April 8.

 

Iraqi cameraman for CBS detained --An Iraqi cameraman carrying

credentials for the United States network CBS is being held on

suspicion of rebel activity, the US military in Iraq said. The

cameraman suffered minor injuries during a battle in the northern town

of Mosul on Tuesday between US soldiers and suspected insurgents,

reports say.

 

US nuclear warhead plan under fire --Democrats and American arms

control groups warned yesterday that a new Bush regime scheme to

replace ageing nuclear warheads could be used as a cover for the

eventual construction of a " black arsenal " of new weapons.

 

US troops 'tried to smuggle cocaine' --Four US soldiers serving on

anti-narcotics missions in Colombia are being held on charges of drug

trafficking after the discovery of 35lb (15kg) of cocaine on a

military aircraft.

 

Karzai ally beheaded --Lal Mohammad, a top member of Afghanistan

Solidarity Party which backed US-installed drug lord ['president']

Hamid Karzai during last October's presidential election was beheaded

in insurgency-hit Helmand province on Tuesday, party spokesman Massoud

Mateen told AFP.

 

Election 'could be decided in courts' --Britain's next Government

" could be decided in the courts " , a leading election official has told

The Independent on Sunday. The spectre of " a Florida-style outcome " to

the general election has been raised as a second judge rules that

safeguards against postal vote fraud are seriously flawed.

 

Rudolph Giuliani Got Warning WTC Towers Were Going to Collapse

--(Prison Planet) " We first reported this 15 months ago but we have

now received the video where then Mayor of New York Rudolph Giuliani

admits to Peter Jennings that he got a warning that the South Tower

was about to collapse. Why is this important? No steel framed building

had ever collapsed from fire damage before in history. "

 

Republicans Step Up Attacks on Judiciary --Christian conservatives

[Reichwing whackjobs], led by some top Republicans, are stepping up

their assault on the U.S. judiciary in response to the Terri Schiavo

case, saying judges are attacking religion and must be reined in.

 

U.S. Seeks Access to Bank Records to Deter Terror -- The Bush

dictatorship is developing a plan to give the government access to

possibly hundreds of millions of international banking records in an

effort to trace and deter 'terrorist' financing, even as many bankers

say they already feel besieged by government antiterrorism rules that

they consider overly burdensome. [How will Halliburton and Monsanto

continue to launder the missing $8bn from Iraq???]

 

Court tosses conviction of man who endorsed Bush's death --Mailing a

letter to the White House supporting Dictator Bush's death at the

hands of terrorists [freedom fighters] is not illegal, a federal

appeals court ruled Friday. The decision overturns the conviction and

18-month sentence given last year to an Oregon inmate who sent a

rambling, poorly written [?] letter to Dictator Bush. It read, in

part, " You will die too George W Bush real Soon they Promised That you

would Long Live Bin Laden. " [What do they mean, `poorly written?']

 

Blogs spin tale of computers, conspiracies --The Web sites say an

Oviedo Republican asked a programmer for software to alter electronic

vote totals. Democrats around the country have accused Republicans of

stealing the last two presidential elections in Florida. Now some

Internet Web sites that traffic in conspiracy theories have fashioned

something of a political thriller out of a series of apparently

unrelated events they say prove the elections really were stolen.

 

$7,782,816,546,352.29 -- Forget the Social Security " crisis. " The

number above is the crisis you should worry about. --by Terence Samuel

" This week, President [sic] George W. Bush went to the Bureau of

Public Debt, in Parkersburg, West Virginia, to make the point that

there is no Social Security trust fund -- nothing there that can be

really counted on. All it is, he said, was a bunch of IOUs. ...t is

something of an irony that the one presiding over the largest

explosion in federal budget deficits would use the Bureau of Public

Debt as a backdrop for his plea for solvency in Social Security.

Gas prices breaking records --City tops in Bay Area; in Gorda, near

Big Sur, $3.69 buys a gallon --A rare event occurred at a busy San

Francisco service station Friday morning -- the price of gas went

down. All the way to below $3.

OPEC considers $US50 oil price ceiling -- Oil cartel OPEC says it may

revise its target price for oil closer to $US50 a barrel as petrol

prices in Australia surged overnight.

EPA Scraps Controversial Pesticide Testing Program --Dictator Bush's

choice [of whackjob] to head the Environmental Protection Agency on

Friday canceled a controversial program to test the effects of bug

spray and other pesticides on infants after two Senate Democrats

threatened to block his confirmation.

Holy Corpora-terror convenience, Batman! Consumer Product Safety

Agency Limits Its Functions --The federal agency tasked with

protecting Americans from harmful products can't do its job - the

Consumer Product Safety Commission is one commissioner short. Under

federal law, the three-member panel can act with two commissioners for

only six months, after which it loses its ability to impose penalties

and issue regulations and mandatory product recalls, which are among

its chief duties.

Cambodia confirms third bird flu death 10 April 2005 --Cambodia has

confirmed its third fatality from the deadly bird flu virus, with an

eight-year-old girl becoming the latest victim to die in the kingdom.

Attacks briefly halt WHO campaign in Angola 10 April 2005 --World

Health Organisation (WHO) teams fighting [fomenting?] an outbreak of

Marburg virus in Angola were forced to temporarily suspend work in one

area after scared residents stoned their vehicles, officials say.

To Contain Virus in Angola, Group Wants Hospital Closed 10 April 2005

--An international medical charity battling a hemorrhagic fever that

so far has killed 181 Angolans has urged the government to close the

regional hospital here, at the center of the outbreak, saying the

medical center itself is a source of the deadly infection. Doctors

Without Borders, the global relief organization that runs an isolation

ward at the hospital for victims of the deadly fever, Marburg virus,

told Angolan officials on Friday that the hospital should be closed if

the rapidly spreading epidemic was to be contained.

Marburg virus death toll hits 180 8 April 2005 --205 cases have been

reported -- The World Health Organization is investigating an outbreak

of hemorrhagic fever in northwestern Angola, it said Friday.

[Previous lead stories:] Santorum: Frist will go nuclear -- Sen. Rick

Santorum (Pa.), the chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, has

reassured conservative activist leaders that Senate Majority Leader

Bill Frist (R-Terrorist-Tenn.) is committed to triggering the " nuclear

option, " stripping Democrats of the power to filibuster judicial

nominees. [if the Senate 'goes nuclear,' can we go postal?]

Judiciary has `run amok,' DeLay says --House Majority Leader Tom

DeLay, R-Texas, stepped up his attack on federal judges Thursday,

telling a gathering of religious conservatives that the judiciary has

" run amok " and demanding that Congress assert authority over the courts.

Blix says war motivated by oil --Former UN chief weapons inspector

Hans Blix has said that oil was one of the reasons for the US-led

invasion of Iraq, a Swedish news agency reports. " I did not think so

at first. But the US is incredibly dependent on oil, " news agency TT

quoted Blix as saying at a security seminar in Stockholm. " They wanted

to secure oil in case competition on the world market becomes too hard. "

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