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Torture by Special Forces, CIA and Iraqi Allies Revealed

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080305I.shtml

Pressure to produce intelligence for anti-terrorism efforts and the war

in Iraq led US military interrogators to improvise and develop abusive

measures, not just at Abu Ghraib but in detention centers elsewhere in

Iraq, in Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

 

 

CIA-Trained Scorpions Did the " Dirty Work "

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080305J.shtml

The covert members, many of whom were exiles recruited by the Kurds,

were trained in target identification, explosives and small arms at two

secret bases in Jordan, according to one US government official.

 

 

Roberts Helped Coach Reagan Administration on Civil Rights

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080305K.shtml

As a government lawyer in the 1980s, John Roberts helped coordinate

efforts aimed at rebutting criticism that the Reagan administration

Justice Department was hostile to civil rights, according to documents

released Tuesday.

 

 

Bush Remarks Roil Debate over Teaching of Evolution

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080305L.shtml

" It sounds like you're being fair, but creationism is a sectarian

religious viewpoint, and intelligent design is a sectarian religious

viewpoint, " said Susan Spath, a spokeswoman for the National Centerfor

Science

Education.

 

 

Rightwing Evangelicals Snub Frist for Stem-Cell Stand

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080305M.shtml

Senate majority leader Bill Frist spoke by video to the first " Justice

Sunday " evangelical rally in April, but he wasn't invited to address

" Justice Sunday II, " even though it's in his home state of Tennessee.

 

 

Jim Lobe | Reviving 'The Radical Center'

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080305N.shtml

As US President George W. Bush announced the unprecedented recess

appointment of ultra-nationalist John Bolton as his next ambassador to

the

United Nations, a group of diplomatic heavyweights was preparing to

launch a bipartisan coalition to promote a return to a more moderate and

multilateral foreign policy.

 

 

George Monbiot | The Treaty Wreckers

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080305O.shtml

Saturday is the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. The

nuclear powers are commemorating it in their own special way: by

seeking to

ensure that the experiment is repeated.

 

 

14 Marines Killed in Single Attack, 21 in Past 3 Days

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080305Z.shtml

Fourteen Marines and a civilian interpreter were killed Wednesday when

their amphibious assault vehicle struck an improvised explosive device

about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) south of Haditha, Iraq, military

officials said.

 

 

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