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by Robert Fisk, Information Clearing House, March 04, 2004
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================ 304 DAYS ... AND STILL NO WMD FOUND IN IRAQ. === Admit WMD mistake, survey chief tells Bush : David Kay, the man who led the CIA's postwar effort to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, has called on the Bush administration to "come clean with the American people" and admit it was wrong about the existence of the weapons. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5806.htm === UN Iraq Inspectors Say U.S. Has Not Cooperated : U.N. arms inspectors
on Tuesday complained that a lack of cooperation by the United States
had stymied their efforts to completely account for Iraqi weapons. === After pigeon inspections, Bush eats crow: If so many lives had
not been lost and were not still being lost each day, the Bush administration's
weapons of mass destruction faux-intelligence campaign leading up to the
invasion of Iraq would be laughable. === Doubts cast on efforts to link Saddam, al-Qaida: The Bush administration's
claim that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had ties to al-Qaida - one of the
administration's central arguments for a pre-emptive war - appears to
have been based on even less solid intelligence than the administration's
claims that Iraq had hidden stocks of chemical and biological weapons. === A constitution drenched in blood : How did Iraq slide
in 24 hours from adopting a draft constitution that could pave the way
for democracy into a state where civil war is a definite step closer?
The attacks against the Shi'ites must be interpreted in light of what
happened behind the closed doors of the US-appointed IGC during the weekend. === In case you missed it: We have entered an
age of constant conflict: US Army War College document. === 9/11 panel rejects White House limits on interviews: The independent commission
investigating the Sept. 11 attacks is refusing to accept strict conditions
from the White House for interviews with President Bush and Vice President
Dick Cheney and is renewing its request that Mr. Bush's national security
adviser testify in public, commission members said Tuesday. === Insurer warns of global warming catastrophe: The world's second-largest
reinsurer Swiss Re warns that the costs of global warming threaten to
spiral out of control, forcing the human race into a catastrophe of its
own making. === Shell chairman is forced to quit: Shell shares skidded on 9 January after the company revealed that its oil reserves had been overstated by 20%. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3529801.stm === Gun battle rages in Port-au-Prince: There was no sign
of U.S. or French troops to intervene in the shootout that erupted in
the fetid Port-au-Prince slum of open sewers blocked by rubbish and streets
strewn with garbage heaps. === Molly Ivins: 'Four wars and a cloud of dust': Anyone see any reason
to think Haiti will be better off without Jean-Bertrand Aristide? Just
another little gift from the Bush foreign policy team, straight out of
the whacko-right playbook. === Haitian Consul General Says Aristide Still President: In a Democracy Now!
exclusive, Consul General of the Haitian government in New York Harry
Fouche recognizes the Aristide government as legitimate saying Jean Bertrand
Aristide is still president of Haiti and Yvon Neptune is still his prime
minister. === This web site represents the effort of one person. I need your help to
offset the costs associated with site hosting and bandwidth usage. If
you find this site informative please help by clicking here. === The Central African Republic (CAR) has shut off President Aristide's phone service. Armed members of the French and CAR military are guarding President Aristide and he is not free to leave. http://www.kpfk.org/haiti_press_release.htm === Official: No permanent asylum yet found for Aristide: No permanent home
has yet been found for Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a top Central African Republic
official said Wednesday, as the ousted Haitian leader settled into temporary
exile in this impoverished, isolated capital. === Convicted Assassin Gets Role in Haiti Rebel leader Louis-Jodel
Chamblain, a convicted killer and accused death squad leader, says he
has no plans of fading into the shadows. === Deported war criminal freed in Haiti: The convicted war
criminal and former Haitian general was among the thousands of convicts
released Sunday from the country's largest prison when rebels drove into
Port-au-Prince. === Haiti : Interview with Prime Minister Yvon Neptune: "Even though
I am the legal Prime Minister I am a prisoner in my office. That's a fact." === Rebel leader Guy Philippe says he plans to arrest Haiti's prime minister: "The country
is in my hands!" Philippe announced on Radio Signal FM. He summoned
20 police commanders to meet with him Tuesday and warned that if they
failed to appear he would arrest them. === Aristide insists US soldiers forced him to leave Haiti: "Agents were
telling me that if I don't leave they would start shooting and killing
in a matter of time," Aristide said during the brief interview. When
asked who the agents were, he responded: "White American, white military.
=== Did U.S. Push or
Pull Aristide from Power? : "I called this a coup d'etat the
modern way, to have a modern kidnapping," said Aristide. "We
had to leave and spent 20 hours in an American plane not knowing where
they were going with us until they told us 20 minutes before we landed
in the Central African Republic". === Phillipe declares himself Haiti's military leader : Rebel leader Guy Philippe
declared himself Haiti's new military commander today and called on the
people to give his forces "the mandate to provide them with security".
=== Venezuela: Opposition refuse to accept defeat by due democratic process: Spontaneous riots
have broken out across Venezuela this evening as embittered opposition
radicals refuse to accept that they have been defeated by due democratic
process. === White House and Congress Use State Dept. Money to Fund Recall of Chavez: Independent researcher
Jeremy Bigwood has obtained U.S. government documents that would seem
to demonstrate that the National Endowment for Democracy has been granting
money to the Venezuelan organization, Sumate, in order to "encourage
participation in a referendum voting process" to recall President
Hugo Chavez. === Robert Fisk: All This Talk Of Civil War, And Now This Carnage. Coincidence?: I don't believe the
Americans were behind yesterday's carnage despite the screams of accusation
by the Iraqi survivors yesterday. But I do worry about the Iraqi exile
groups who think that their own actions might produce what the Americans
want: a fear of civil war so intense that Iraqis will go along with any
plan the United States produces for Mesopotamia. === Lawyers submit
war crimes petition : The group Legal Action Against War have submitted
a petition to the international criminal court in the Hague today, asking
them to investigate alleged offences by Mr Blair, Jack Straw, Geoff Hoon,
and the attorney general, Lord Goldsmith. === Pakistan stirs up a tribal war: The killing of 11
people at the hands of the Pakistan army has shattered the truce that
Pakistani authorities had negotiated with local leaders in the hunt for
al-Qaeda and Taliban fugitives, raising the specter that Islamabad's troops
will become the hunted, rather than the hunters. === Iran charges US over military action: A Tehran court has
ordered the United States government to pay $1.2 billion in damages in
connection with military actions against the Islamic republic in the 1980s,
a report said on Wednesday. === US military spending soars, security suffers: The United States
military budget has ballooned to a level comparable to that of the world's
next 25 biggest military spenders combined. But according to a new study
written by nine national security experts, such steep increases in spending
are doing little to strengthen US security. === The EU could impose
$4bn in sanctions a year on US goods. === US jailed Saudi again after jury's acquittal Eight hours after
a Saudi man was acquitted by a federal jury of all charges for carrying
three small sparklers on a flight from Germany to Boston and was told
he was free to leave, five federal officers stormed his South End apartment
just after midnight Saturday and arrested him for not having a valid visa.
=== Government's pursuit of personal data lives on Several federal agencies
are using the personal data of U.S. citizens to pinpoint terrorist activity,
a practice that a secretive Pentagon program was pursuing before Congress
axed its funding amid fears it would be used to spy on Americans. === The Terrorism Case that Wasn't : Federal agents started
knocking on the doors of Muslim families throughout the Syracuse area,
asking them questions about their donations to Help the Needy, and about
their religion. In four hours, authorities visited as many as 150 area
families. Although the exact number is not known, it is believed to be
one of the largest federal interrogations of Muslims in the United States.
=== Three killed in Israeli missile strike Unofficial Israeli
sources confirmed to Aljazeera's correspondent the vehicle was targeted
by Israeli helicopters in an assassination attempt. === Liberty can not be preserved without general knowledge among people." (August 1765) John Adams PLEASE FORWARD SUMMARY OR ARTICLES TO THOSE INTERESTED & ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO SUBSCRIBE This is a free service and an unpaid volunteer effort to allow alternative viewpoints to reach the public. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/emaildigest.htm |
