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Marjorie Cohn | Spinning Suicide

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Marjorie Cohn on the Bush administration's spinning of the suicides at

Guantanamo; Bush official dismisses suicides as " good PR move " ; Daniel

Ellsberg is waiting for the Pentagon Papers of Iraq; US wants to keep

50,000 troops in Iraq for years to come; Maj. Gen. John Batiste on the

link between Rumsfeld and Haditha; Libby in court today; John Brown

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Marjorie Cohn | Spinning Suicide

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061206J.shtml

" Three men being held in the United States military prison camp at

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, killed themselves by hanging in their cells on

Saturday. The Team Bush spin machine immediately swept into high gear, "

writes Marjorie Cohn.

 

" Killing Themselves Was Unnecessary. But It Certainly Is a Good PR

Move. "

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061206K.shtml

The Bush administration stared down a new wave of international

condemnation of Guantanamo yesterday, dismissing the suicides by three

inmates

of the prison camp as a " good PR move " on their part and an " act of

asymmetrical warfare. "

 

Daniel Ellsberg | Iraq's Pentagon Papers

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061206L.shtml

" Today, there must be, at the very least, hundreds of civilian and

military officials in the Pentagon, CIA, State Department, National

Security Agency and White House who have in their safes and computers

comparable documentation of intense internal debates - so far carefully

concealed from Congress and the public - about prospective or actual war

crimes, reckless policies and domestic crimes: the Pentagon Papers of

Iraq,

Iran or the ongoing war on US liberties, " writes Daniel Ellsberg. " Some

of those officials, I hope, will choose to accept the personal risks of

revealing the truth - earlier than I did - before more lives are lost

or a new war is launched. "

 

US " Planning to Keep 50,000 Troops in Iraq for Many Years "

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061206M.shtml

America plans to retain a garrison of 50,000 troops, one tenth of its

entire army, in Iraq for years to come, according to US media reports.

 

Maj. Gen. John Batiste | Root Causes of Haditha

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061206N.shtml

" There is a direct link between the alleged atrocities in Haditha and

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, " writes retired Maj. Gen. John

Batiste. " His poor decisions and bad judgment in 2003 and 2004 are the

root causes for the prolonged challenge we now face. Haditha is but a

symptom of a much bigger problem. "

 

Libby Faces Pre-Trial Status Hearing Today

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061206O.shtml

The federal district judge overseeing the CIA leak case against I.

Lewis " Scooter " Libby will hold a pre-trial status hearing today. Libby,

Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, is facing five counts

of obstruction of justice, false statements and perjury in the

investigation of who leaked CIA employee Valerie Plame's name to the

media.

 

Tom Engelhardt | John Brown Helps the President Address the Nation

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061206P.shtml

" Since President Bush has not commandeered the television screen to

address the American people on the latest wrinkles in his 'strategy for

victory' in Iraq, former diplomat John Brown, who resigned his State

Department post in 2003 to protest the onrushing invasion of Iraq, and

who

now compiles the Public Diplomacy Press Review, thought he might lend

the President a hand, " writes Tom Engelhardt.

 

VIDEO | Caught in the Crossfire

A Film by Mark Manning

http://www.truthout.org/multimedia.htm

Independent filmmaker Mark Manning was the only Westerner to travel to

Fallujah un-embedded, and he lived with the refugees of Fallujah and

experienced life from their point of view, returning with them to their

destroyed city after the siege by the United States. Unknown to any

authorities, he recorded what he saw. He went through the checkpoints,

witnessed the devastation of thousands of homes, shops and mosques, and

documented the horrors of the siege as recounted by those who survived

inside the city during the battles. The people of Fallujah asked him to

tell their story to the world, and he is now fulfilling that request with

the release of Caught in the Crossfire. Shot from November 2004 to

April 2005 inside the city of Fallujah, Caught in the Crossfire

details the

conditions experienced by civilians as they endured the violent clashes

and consequences of Operation Phantom Fury and became refugees outside

the eyes and care of the international community.

 

 

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