Daily Archives: March 31, 2008 »

A third American war crime in the making

Mick Meaney March 31, 2008 0

The US Congress, the US media, the American people, and the United Nations, are looking the other way as Cheney prepares his attack on Iran. If only America had an independent media and an

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CIA enlists Google’s help for spy work

Mick Meaney March 31, 2008 1

US intelligence agencies are using Google’s technology to help its agents share information about their suspects Google has been recruited by US intelligence agencies to help them better process and share information they gather

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McCain says he wants Guantanamo closed

Mick Meaney March 31, 2008 0

Supporting many European Union officials stance, US Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has called for the closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison for alleged terrorist detainees. “I believe we should close

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Guantanamo Prisoner Charged in Embassy Attack

Mick Meaney March 31, 2008 1

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The U.S. has charged a Guantanamo prisoner with war crimes for the deadly 1998 al-Qaida attack on the American embassy in Tanzania. The Pentagon said Monday that Ahmed Khalfan

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Bill proposes violent criminals should submit DNA

Mick Meaney March 31, 2008 0

Meg Bernhardt ANNAPOLIS — A bill to allow officers to take a sample of DNA from people charged with certain violent crimes is close to passage in the Maryland General Assembly, despite fears that

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Jnquest Judge: There was no Diana murder plot

Mick Meaney March 31, 2008 0

London – The judge in the inquest on the death of Princess Diana in 1997 flatly told the jury Monday that she was not murdered in any alleged plot instigated by the British secret

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Tibetan monk protests reflect growing activism

Mick Meaney March 31, 2008 0

More Buddhist monks, nuns likely to revolt against injustice, oppression. BANGKOK, Thailand – Buddhist monks hurling rocks at Chinese in Tibet, or peacefully massing against Myanmar’s military, can strike jarring notes. These scenes run

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Detainee claims torture at U.S. base

Mick Meaney March 31, 2008 0

Says he received electric shocks in Afghanistan after being seized over alleged links to 9/11. WASHINGTON – A resident of Germany who was imprisoned for two months at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan

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UK: Mass genetic surveillance

Mick Meaney March 31, 2008 0

Richard Taylor Britain’s police want to routinely put children as young as five on the National DNA Database (NDNAD), even when no crime has been committed. Gary Pugh, the DNA spokesman for the Association

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Diana inquest coroner to sum up

Mick Meaney March 31, 2008 0

The coroner in charge of the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales is to begin his summing up to the jury. It is the final stage before the 11-person jury, which

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SOCPA: The GLA’s campaign against Brian Haw

Mick Meaney March 31, 2008 0

Having failed to get rid of Brian Haw by force the Greater London Authority is trying again by legislation, their responses to the government consultation ‘Managing Protest around Parliament’ all seem to be aimed

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Police arrest 80 year old anti-war protester

Mick Meaney March 31, 2008 0

An 80-year-old church deacon was removed from the Smith Haven Mall yesterday in a wheelchair and arrested by police for refusing to remove a T-shirt protesting the Iraq War. Police said that Don Zirkel,

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Iraq War Dataset: $506 Billion Spent, 4,002 Dead

Mick Meaney March 31, 2008 0

Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides On March 26, 2008 the United States military casualty count in Iraq hit 4,000. When I heard that I decided to research other numbers associated with the war. Over the past

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VIDEO: Halliburton poisoning US forces in Iraq?

Mick Meaney March 31, 2008 1

This 4 minute video describes how Halliburton is poisoning the troops in Iraq through their water supply

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Keegan turns back the clock as Newcastle tick

Mick Meaney March 31, 2008 0

David Hytner at White Hart Lane Kevin Keegan noted last week that it did not take much to set Geordie pulses racing. A couple of wins at the beginning of a season and the

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Watchdog’s threat to 42-day terror law

Mick Meaney March 31, 2008 0

Alan Travis | The Guardian The government’s own human rights watchdog threatened last night to launch a legal challenge to Labour’s plan to introduce a law that would let police detain terror suspects without charge

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