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Inquiry Says CIA Jails Document Must Be Followed Up

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Inquiry Says CIA Jails Document Must Be Followed Up

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011106Q.shtml

The fax, intercepted November 15 by Swiss intelligence, reportedly

said Egypt had confirmed through its own sources that the CIA had held

23 terrorist suspects from Iraq and Afghanistan at a military base in

Romania. It also said there were similar US detention centers in

Ukraine, Kosovo, Macedonia and Bulgaria.

 

Pinochet Stripped of Legal Immunity

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011106R.shtml

An appeals court stripped General Augusto Pinochet of his legal

immunity Wednesday, a ruling that paved the way for the former

dictator to stand trial on charges of responsibility for killing two

bodyguards of Argentinian president Salvador Allende whom he toppled

in a bloody 1973 coup.

 

Business Deal or Bright Idea?

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/011106EA.shtml

The Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate meets in

Australia this week. Critics say that it is basically a business deal

and a public relations exercise to foster feelings that the US and

Australia, the Kyoto naysayers, are doing something.

 

Extreme Weather in Asia: The Big Freeze

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/011106EB.shtml

In the climate-change disaster movie " The Day after Tomorrow, " a

snowstorm in Delhi is one of the freak weather conditions that are

depicted as portents of doom. It hasn't got quite that bad in real

life yet, but this week there was frost in the Indian capital for the

first time in decades.

 

Logging and Violence against Women

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/011106EC.shtml

In the wake of Oregon State University's recent findings that

post-burn logging is not healthy for forests, a timber industry leader

from Idaho, Brett Bennett of Bennett Lumber Products, has responded

with an intimidating message to Matt Koehler, director of

Missoula-based conservation group Native Forest Network.

 

New Findings Challenge Bird Flu Assumptions

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/011106HA.shtml

Two young boys are being closely watched at a hospital in Turkey.

Though both boys have tested positive for the H5N1 virus after contact

with sick birds, neither has any symptoms of the frequently deadly

disease. Doctors are wondering if these new cases mean that infection

with the H5N1 virus does not necessarily lead to illness.

 

Emergency Systems Ailing

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/011106HB.shtml

Few states are equipped to handle emergency medical crises such as a

terrorist attack, a natural disaster or an influenza outbreak,

according to an analysis being released today by the American College

of Emergency Physicians.

 

Under Bush, Mine-Safety Enforcement Eased

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/011106LA.shtml

Since the Bush administration took office in 2001, it has been more

lenient than its predecessors toward mining companies facing serious

safety violations, issuing fewer and smaller major fines and

collecting less than half of the money that violators owed, a Knight

Ridder investigation has found.

 

Alito: A Defeat for Working Women

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/011106WA.shtml

Although organized women's groups are vehemently opposed to the

confirmation of Samuel Alito to the high court because he is almost

certain to vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, the right to privacy is not

the only thing on the line for women.

 

 

 

 

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VIDEO SPECIAL | Howard Dean: Democrats Took No Money from Abramoff

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On CNN's Late Edition, Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean responded

to Wolf Blitzer's attempts to include Democrats in the Abramoff

scandal. Dean pointed out that, according to the FEC, no Democrats

took money from Abramoff. Dean argued that money from Indian tribes

that were clients of Abramoff is not money from Abramoff. Dean went on

to say, " Republicans would like us to believe that Democrats are

involved ... they're scared and they should be. "

 

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