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Bush rarely speaks to father, ‘family is split’
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash4.htm
George W, Bush feels betrayed by several of his most senior aides and advisors and has severely restricted access to the Oval Office. The president’s reclusiveness in the face of relentless public scrutiny of the U.S.-led war in Iraq and White House leaks regarding CIA operative Valerie Plame has become so extreme that Mr. Bush has also reduced contact with his father, former President George H.W. Bush, administration sources said on the condition of anonymity.“The atmosphere in the Oval Office has become unbearable,” a source said. “Even the family is split.”INSIGHT: Sources close to the White House say that Mr. Bush has become isolated and feels betrayed by key officials in the wake of plunging domestic support, the continued insurgency in Iraq and the CIA-leak investigation that has resulted in the indictment and resignation of Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff.The sources said Mr. Bush maintains daily contact with only four people: first lady Laura Bush, his mother, Barbara Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes. The sources also say that Mr. Bush has stopped talking with his father, except on family occasions.
US uncovers secret prison in Iraq?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1873606,00.html
Up to 200 malnourished Iraqi detainees bearing signs of torture have been found in a secret prison in the basement of a Government building in Baghdad.
The fog of war: white phosphorus, Fallujah and some burning questions
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article327094.ece
One resident told him the US used "weird bombs that put up smoke like a mushroom cloud" and that he watched "pieces of these bombs explode into large fires that continued to burn on the skin even after people dumped water on the burns." The doctor said he "treated people who had their skin melted"
'I treated people who had their skin melted'
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article327136.ece
Some saw what they thought were attempts by the military to conceal the use of incendiary shells. "The Americans were dropping some of the bodies into the Euphrates near Fallujah," said one ousted resident, Abdul Razaq Ismail. Dr Ahmed, who worked in Fallujah until December 2004, said: "In the centre of the Jolan quarter they were removing entire homes which have been bombed, meanwhile most of the homes that were bombed are left as they were." He said he saw bulldozers push soil into piles and load it on to trucks to carry away. In certain areas where the military used "special munitions" he said 200 sq m of soil was being removed from each blast site.
Bomb explodes outside Karachi KFC restaurant
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10045392/
"We did it to protest, and we did it to pressure the government to get our rights."
GOP memo touts new terror attack as way to reverse party's decline
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7639.shtml
“In 30 years of sampling public opinion, I’ve never seen such a freefall in public support,” admits one GOP pollster. ¶ 15.11.05
