20060216
It's been 1,613 days since GWB said he'd catch UBL 'Dead or Alive!'
U.S. plans to confront Iran?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/02/16/MNGJRH9JFI1.DTL
"The first step was Afghanistan, then Iraq, and now you're seeing an increasing focus on Iran," Brownback said.
Iraq Death Squad Claims Being Investigated
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060216/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
Another car bomb blast in Baghdad targeted the convoy of Nouri al-Nouri, a former government human rights official who was dismissed in December over the discovery of tortured detainees in a Baghdad government building. Al-Nouri escaped the blast unharmed but four civilians were wounded, police Lt. Mohammed Khayoun said.
New Abu Ghraib images stoke US fears
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4718666.stm
Detainees are forced to perform sexual acts. A young girl holds up her shirt, bearing her breasts for the soldier's camera.
Report Urges Gitmo Shutdown
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/16/AR2006021600318.html
Although the investigators did not visit Guantanamo, they said photographic evidence and the testimonies of former prisoners showed detainees were shackled, chained, hooded and forced to wear earphones and goggles. They said prisoners were beaten if they resisted." Such treatment amounts to torture," the report said.
Only 8% at Gitmo 'Qaeda fighters'
...only 5% of the detainees were captured by U.S. Forces!
A demonstration by more than 70,000 people angered by the Prophet Muhammad cartoons turned into a riot Wednesday, with armed protesters firing on police and youths torching foreign-owned businesses.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-den16.html
Demonstrations have been rumbling for weeks around the earth over the cartoons. At least 19 people have been killed.
Gonzales Withholding Plame Emails
Sources close to the investigation into the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson have revealed this week that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has not turned over emails to the special prosecutor's office that may incriminate Vice President Dick Cheney, his aides, and other White House officials who allegedly played an active role in unmasking Plame Wilson's identity to reporters.
A former NSA employee said Tuesday there is another ongoing top-secret surveillance program that might have violated millions of Americans' Constitutional rights.
http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060214-053955-9494r
Tice was testifying because he was a National Security Agency intelligence officer who was stripped of his security clearance after he reported his suspicions that a former colleague at the Defense Intelligence Agency was a spy. The matter was dismissed by the DIA, but Tice pressed it later and was subsequently ordered to take a psychological examination, during which he was declared paranoid. He is now unemployed.
'Beer quote' re-added to Cheney story
http://www.iamthewitness.com.nyud.net:8090/Smith13Feb2006_1.mp3 ¶ 16.2.06
U.S. plans to confront Iran?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/02/16/MNGJRH9JFI1.DTL
"The first step was Afghanistan, then Iraq, and now you're seeing an increasing focus on Iran," Brownback said.
Iraq Death Squad Claims Being Investigated
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060216/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
Another car bomb blast in Baghdad targeted the convoy of Nouri al-Nouri, a former government human rights official who was dismissed in December over the discovery of tortured detainees in a Baghdad government building. Al-Nouri escaped the blast unharmed but four civilians were wounded, police Lt. Mohammed Khayoun said.
New Abu Ghraib images stoke US fears
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4718666.stm
Detainees are forced to perform sexual acts. A young girl holds up her shirt, bearing her breasts for the soldier's camera.
Report Urges Gitmo Shutdown
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/16/AR2006021600318.html
Although the investigators did not visit Guantanamo, they said photographic evidence and the testimonies of former prisoners showed detainees were shackled, chained, hooded and forced to wear earphones and goggles. They said prisoners were beaten if they resisted." Such treatment amounts to torture," the report said.
Only 8% at Gitmo 'Qaeda fighters'
...only 5% of the detainees were captured by U.S. Forces!
A demonstration by more than 70,000 people angered by the Prophet Muhammad cartoons turned into a riot Wednesday, with armed protesters firing on police and youths torching foreign-owned businesses.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-den16.html
Demonstrations have been rumbling for weeks around the earth over the cartoons. At least 19 people have been killed.
Gonzales Withholding Plame Emails
Sources close to the investigation into the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson have revealed this week that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has not turned over emails to the special prosecutor's office that may incriminate Vice President Dick Cheney, his aides, and other White House officials who allegedly played an active role in unmasking Plame Wilson's identity to reporters.
A former NSA employee said Tuesday there is another ongoing top-secret surveillance program that might have violated millions of Americans' Constitutional rights.
http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060214-053955-9494r
Tice was testifying because he was a National Security Agency intelligence officer who was stripped of his security clearance after he reported his suspicions that a former colleague at the Defense Intelligence Agency was a spy. The matter was dismissed by the DIA, but Tice pressed it later and was subsequently ordered to take a psychological examination, during which he was declared paranoid. He is now unemployed.
'Beer quote' re-added to Cheney story
http://www.iamthewitness.com.nyud.net:8090/Smith13Feb2006_1.mp3 ¶ 16.2.06
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I write The Health Report, should you care to visit at www.DeadBrain.com.
I have a blog linked to it.
(http://www.thehealthreport.blogspot.com)
and would like to ask your permission to perhaps re-post some of your photos or dialogues in the future.
Kelly Mahan Jaramillo
Keep up the good work!
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