Daily Archives: March 12, 2009 »
Iraq ‘shoe-thrower’ sentenced
An Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at George Bush, then US president, has been given a three-year jail sentence after pleading not guilty to assaulting a foreign head of state.The sentencing of Muntadher al-Zaidi,
Read More »FDA Scientists Accuse Agency of Corruption, Intimidation
A group of nine FDA scientists has sent letters to top politicians, accusing agency managers of intimidating and coercing scientists into changing or suppressing scientific data. In October, the scientists sent a letter to
Read More »Memo told Blair that Saddam Hussein posed no imminent threat
By Paul Waugh | Intelligence experts explicitly warned Tony Blair’s aides that Britain was not in “imminent danger of attack” from Saddam Hussein, a confidential memo revealed today. The row over claims that the
Read More »Landlord wins battle to keep CCTV out of his pub
By Georgina Littlejohn | A landlord has won the right not to install CCTV cameras in his pub after he argued that it would threaten drinkers’ civil liberties. Nick Gibson was told by police
Read More »US: Cluster Bomb Exports Banned
Legislation signed into law on March 11, 2009 by President Obama will make permanent a ban on nearly all cluster bomb exports by the United States, Human Rights Watch said today. The United States
Read More »Knife crime figures ‘were fiddled’
Ministers have been accused of “fiddling the figures” after new statistics undermined claims made in a notorious Home Office press release. The data, put out last year despite protests from NHS statisticians that it
Read More »UN experts to investigate secret U.S. jails
Two UN human rights experts said on Tuesday that they would conduct a global investigation of secret detention centers used by the United States and other countries in their counter-terrorism efforts. The yearlong investigation
Read More »FBI terrorist watch list hits 1 million entries
By Patrick Martin | The FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center acknowledged this week that there are more than 1 million names on its official terrorist watch list, a number that suggests the vast scale of
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