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=== News Update === 237 Administration Lies 237 Documented Administration Lies to Public, Congress, About Iraq 'Threat,' bin Laden Ties President Bush and Administration Officials have offered 237 specific claims that intelligence had established not only a threat from Saddam Hussein, but a threat that his ''Weapons of Mass Destruction'' might be given to terrorists. Additionally, the Administration mentioned ''Saddam Hussein'' and ''9/11'' within a few words of each other over 100 times, falsely associating the two in the public's mind. [See col. 3] http://www.byethetimes.com/id1.html === WEB OF COLD-BLOODED LIES PARIS -- In July 2002, the head of MI-6, Britain's secret intelligence service, briefed Prime Minister Tony Blair and his cabinet on U.S. plans to attack Iraq. Sir Richard Dearlove ("M" to James Bond fans) reported that U.S. President George Bush had decided to invade oil-rich Iraq in March 2003, in a war "to be justified by the conjunction of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. The intelligence and facts are being fixed around the policy." http://torontosun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Margolis_Eric/2005/06/12/1083345-sun.html === FBI Whistleblower: White Supremacists Are Major Domestic Terrorist Threat: We speak with Mike German, an ex-FBI agent who resigned from the agency last year in protest of what he saw as continuing failures in the FBI counter terrorism program. http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/13/145217 === In case you missed it: WMD Plot Uncovered In East Texas: At least one weapon of mass destruction - a sodium cyanide bomb capable of delivering a deadly gas cloud - has been seized in the Tyler area. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5350.htm http://snipurl.com/e441 === The Power of Nightmares Should we be worried about the threat from organised terrorism or is it simply a phantom menace being used to stop society from falling apart? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/3755686.stm === Administration's Offenses Impeachable: So, what does it mean? It means that our president and all of his administration are war criminals. It's as simple as that. They lied to the American people, have killed and injured and traumatized thousands of American men and women doing their patriotic duty, killed at least 100,000 Iraqi civilians http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/shetterly1.html http://snipurl.com/fk0c === German TV airs documentary charging American war crimes in Afghanistan The US State Department has reacted angrily to the showing of a documentary on German television alleging that US soldiers were involved in war crimes in Afghanistan. The Third Reich has reacted angrily to the showing of a documentary on British television alleging that German soldiers were involved in war crimes in Poland. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/dec2002/docu-d21.shtml === Could memo sink Bush? By itself, no. Backup up by millions of Americans surrounding the Capitol Building with anger in their eyes, yes. http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2005/06/13/drhousem.htm === Six More Secret British Documents Leaked Six new secret British documents have been leaked and are provided below. These were retyped from the originals to protect the source. Full Text http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9125.htm http://snipurl.com/fk02 === DOWNING STREET DOCUMENTS -- Ten Briefcases Full The papers are coming alive over the "Downing Street Memo." Am I supposed to get excited? Bollocks. Until the night of the 9th of June, the "Downing Street Memo" didn't even exist. We had the "Downing Street Minutes" all right. And we had a BBC transcript from March 20, 2005 that included the minutes, and several memos... including one from Christopher Meyer and one from David Manning. These things were explosive, to be sure. But no one read them, so they didn't exist. http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12501&s2=13 === COUNTERSPIN CENTRAL MEMO TO DEMS Get ready for the latest Pro-Bush spin on Memogate. It goes like this: This is why I wrote "Lie Of The Century". It proves the case for deliberate intention to deceive the American people regarding Iraq's WMDs without relying on the Downing Street memo. The faked "Yellow Cake" documents, the "Dodgy Dossier" plagiarized from an outdated student thesis paper, the British balloon inflators passed off as mobile Iraqi bioweapons labs, together show a clear pattern of intent to deceive the public. And, the existence of just one faked document proves that there was no real evidence of Iraqi WMDs. Else why bother with the expense and risk of fakes? The Downing Street Memo reveals much, but in the long run, the proof that the Bush administration intended to lie to the people existed long before that one memo leaked out. http://www.reachm.com/amstreet/archives/2005/06/13/counterspin-central-memo-to-dems/ === Leaked Cabinet Office paper: Conditions for military action PERSONAL SECRET UK EYES ONLY IRAQ: CONDITIONS FOR MILITARY ACTION (A Note by Officials) Agree to engage the US on the need to set military plans within a realistic political strategy, which includes identifying the succession to Saddam Hussein and creating the conditions necessary to justify government military action http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9112.htm http://snipurl.com/fj1b === The Fix is In: Why the Downing Street Memo Matters Pentagon whistleblower Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski and Daniel Ellsberg on the deceptions of the Bush administration Real Video - 4 minutes http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9131.htm http://snipurl.com/fci6 === The leak that changed minds on the Iraq war: It makes clear that both Blair and Bush have a lot to apologise for: “When the prime minister discussed Iraq with President Bush at Crawford in April he said that the UK would support military action to bring about regime change,” it states, adding that “regime change per se is illegal”. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9117.htm http://snipurl.com/fk09 === CNN change facts into fiction : The point of the Downing Street Memo is not that the Bush regime "saw the war as inevitable." The point is that it wanted the war and had decided that military action was going to happenand then figure out the justification. http://villagevoice.com/blogs/bushbeat/archive/000989.php http://snipurl.com/fk0b === Downing Street Afterschlock: CNN Makes Good on 'Storytelling' Vow - Headline News channels regime-change facts into fiction Whoever did the rip-and-read at CNN stopped reading the memo at least a sentence too soon. Here's the relevant passage from the Downing Street Memo: " … Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. … " http://villagevoice.com/blogs/bushbeat/archive/000989.php === Mr. President, Explain The Downing Street Memo : We come together, as concerned Americans, irrespective of political affiliation, to seek the truth from our government. As citizens, we deserve no less. http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/dsm3/ === Ray McGovern: Downing Street II: On behalf of the Truth Telling Coalition, let me invite any patriotic truth tellers out of the woodwork, so that truly courageous leaders like Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., will not have to depend solely on patriots in Britain (and Rupert Murdoch!). http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9132.htm http://snipurl.com/fk0d === Proof is in the memo: Soldiers died for a lie: All the world except America is buzzing about the fact that George Bush created the WMD threat to justify his war in Iraq. http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2005/06/13/bethcolj.htm http://snipurl.com/fk0e === Dueling memos? A transcript of the memorandum was posted Sunday on the Web site of The Sunday Times of London, after The Washington Post, citing one of the British paper's own correspondents as a source, published excerpts. No image of the original was included, The Times said, to protect its source; a note on the Web site said the last page was missing. All of a sudden, another memo, this one claiming there was no decision to go to war in 2002, surfaces, except that the actual memo can't be shown "to protect the source". http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/13/politics/13downing.html === LEAKED MEMOS Leaked memos from Downing Street, including the infamous "Downing Street Memo". Toegther, they show a look inside the process of manufacturing an excuse for a war. http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/leakedmemos.html === Brits and Yanks Unite to Demand Answers to Downing Street Minutes For Immediate Release: June 11, 2005 For More Info: democrats.com/contact Web link: afterdowningstreet.org Military Families Against the War, www.mfaw.org.uk/, in Britain, and AfterDowningStreet.org, www.afterdowningstreet.org, in the United States, are working together to demand answers to the questions raised by the Downing Street Minutes and related evidence suggesting that the rulers of both nations conspired to deceive the public, Congress, and Parliament with regard to justification for the Iraq War. http://www.williambowles.info/iraq/2005/answers_memogate.html === Military action won't end resistance, growing number of U.S. officers believe: The recognition that a military solution is not in the offing has led U.S. and Iraqi officials to signal they are willing to negotiate with resistance groups, or their intermediaries. http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/world/11879261.htm http://snipurl.com/fk0j === White House Acknowledges Everything But The Post-War Planning Angle I want to make sure I have this right, because if I do, then the Administration is effectively acknowledging that they had already decided to go to war against Saddam in 2002, but they say they planned better than the Brits would have us believe. http://watchingthewatchers.org/index.php?p=519 === Iraqi captors free French reporter held for 157 days The French journalist, Florence Aubenas, came home to a triumphant and emotional reception last night after five months of captivity in Iraq. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=646522 === Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 12 June 2005 : - US caught in another lie: claims US forces killed 40 Resistance fighters disputed by Hospital staff, local residents who say only civilians were in the area - Resistance fighters ambush US patrol in southern al-Fallujah - Resistance “welcomes” new puppet “governor” of al-Anbar with mortar barrage - Resistance attacks US forces west of ar-Ramadi, indiscriminate American fire leaves three Iraqi civilians dead - Resistance attacks three US patrol boats on Euphrates River Sunday morning. al Hadithah - Resistance bombards US base near Hit early Sunday morning - Puppet regime official admits Iraqi Resistance agents have penetrated to “sensitive levels” of all puppet security and military commands - US admits four Americans killed in al-Anbar Province Saturday - Twenty-eight bodies unearthed in and around Baghdad Sunday, puppet police announce, a day after Board of Muslim ‘Ulama’ disclosed their discovery - New questions raised on US military casualty count: American war widow suspects more than one person’s ashes are listed as belonging to her husband - Resistance car bomb targets US patrol near Mosul early Sunday, Resistance opens fire on puppet barracks Tal 'Afar - Resistance bomb targets US patrol in al-Hillah Sunday afternoon, Resistance bombards Japanese occupation troops Sunday afternoon as Samawah - Resistance bomb blasts US troops in an-Najaf Sunday afternoon http://www.albasrah.net/moqawama/english/0605/iraqiresistancereport_120605.htm === Suicide car bombers kill 10 in Iraq: Witnesses said a US army Humvee was on fire after the blast and said a US helicopter arrived to evacuate the wounded. They said three US soldiers were evacuated, but the details could not be confirmed with the US military. http://www.timesofoman.com/newsdetails.asp?newsid=16595 http://snipurl.com/fk06 === Seven US soldiers killed in Iraq Insurgent attacks, accidents claim lives of five US soldiers in Iraq as seventeen bodies found in Al-Qaim. http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/iraq/?id=13739 === Five Iraqi Policemen killed, five other injured in explosions in Samara http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=742364 http://snipurl.com/fk04 === Gunmen attack checkpoint, killing four police: Gunmen in three cars approached the checkpoint and began firing, killing four policemen and injuring seven before fleeing the scene 25 km (15 miles) south of Baquba. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KHA347615.htm http://snipurl.com/fk05 === Republican lawmakers urge shift in U.S. Iraq plans: A Republican congressman called for a deadline to pull U.S. troops from Iraq, while some other members of President Bush's party urged on Sunday that his administration come to grips with a persistent insurgency and revamp Iraq policy. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050612/pl_nm/iraq_usa_republicans_dc_2 http://snipurl.com/fk0o === USA is losing patience on Iraq : Nearly six in 10 Americans say the United States should withdraw some or all of its troops from Iraq, a new Gallup Poll finds http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-06-12-poll_x.htm http://snipurl.com/fk0q === In an attempt to change the subject, Iraqi "government" releases video of Saddam http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1505612,00.html http://snipurl.com/fk0g === FEMA was in New York the Night Before 9/11 Major questions exist as to why FEMA would deny being in New York City prior to 9/11 without mentioning the 9/12 bioterror drill. These questions must now be addressed as the initial suspicions of those who learned of the Tom Kenney statement have been clearly validated. The coincidental presence of a large FEMA team in NYC at the location, Pier 92, which became the Command Center for the entire emergency operation is disturbing. An alert press and a legitimate 9-11 Commission should have raised this issue long ago. http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fematape.html === Suicide Bomber Kills 3 GIs in Afghanistan : A suicide bomber rammed a car full of explosives into a U.S. military vehicle in southern Afghanistan, killing at least three American soldiers, the deputy police chief of nearby Kandahar said. http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5070359,00.html http://snipurl.com/fk07 === Bomber attacks US Afghan convoy : A suicide bomber has attacked a United States military convoy in southern Afghanistan wounding four American soldiers, US officials say. But they say reports that five US soldiers were killed are wrong. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4086588.stm http://snipurl.com/fk08 === Americans' faith in Bush is crumbling The Western democracies are suddenly suffering from potentially serious deficit problems. But it's a deficit measured less in dollars, euros and British pounds than in leadership. http://www.nj.com/columns/ledger/farmer/index.ssf?/base/columns-0/1118638219289660.xml&coll=1 === FLASHBACK: US press accounts confirm: Rumsfeld, Bush approved Iraq torture policy Posted Jun 13, 2005 08:45 AM PST - Category: TORTURE SCANDAL http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/may2004/tort-m18.shtml === "Support Our Torturers!": We Regret Any Inconvenience Caused by Your Humiliation http://www.counterpunch.org/cloughley06102005.html http://snipurl.com/fk0l === Guantanamo captive treated like dog An insight into the shocking, banal and often frustrating world of the interrogators at Guantanamo Bay emerged yesterday with the publication of the log of their treatment of a prominent detainee. http://telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/06/13/wguan13.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/06/13/ixworld.html === New Gitmo abuse furor: The humiliating tactics were so harsh that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had to green-light them - and they continued even after the suspect, who was never charged, was rushed to the hospital. http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/318583p-272361c.html http://snipurl.com/fk0v === Magazine Reports Details Of A Guantanamo Interrogation: Time reported, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved 16 additional interrogation techniques for use on certain detainees. http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3465379 http://snipurl.com/fk0w === Extracts from an Interrogation Log: The detainee began to pray loudly but this did not stop me from finishing informing the detainee about the Al Qaeda member, Qaed Salim Sinan al Harethi aka Abu Ali, that was killed by the CIA. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9123.htm http://snipurl.com/fk0x === Guantánamo detainees are 'bad people', says Cheney : People need to understand that detainees at Guantánamo Bay are "bad people", the US vice president, Dick Cheney, will say in an interview to be broadcast tonight as pressure grows for the detention centre to close. http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,13743,1505497,00.html?gusrc=rss http://snipurl.com/fk0y === Pressure to close Guantánamo grows: Republicans said that reports of mistreatment of prisoners there have made the prison a growing global liability. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002332036_gitmo13.html http://snipurl.com/fk0z === Some Held at Guantánamo Are Minors: One lawyer said that his client, a Saudi of Chadian descent, was not yet 15 when he was captured and had told him that he was beaten regularly in his early days at Guantánamo and that an interrogator pressed a burning cigarette into his arm. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9120.htm http://snipurl.com/fk0t === Court Rejects Padilla's Request For Appeal: His attorneys asked the justices to decide whether President Bush has the power to seize U.S. citizens in civilian settings on American soil and subject them to indefinite military detention without criminal charges or a trial. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9121.htm http://snipurl.com/fk0s === Pakistan denies FBI terror camp claims : Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz denied Saturday there is a jihadist training center outside Islamabad near Rawalpindi, where federal agents say a 22-year- old Lodi man was taught "how to kill Americans" over a six-month period in 2003 and 2004. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/06/12/MNGJND7G5J1.DTL http://snipurl.com/fk10 === Amnesty International calls for halt to death penalty as four executed in Gaza http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE210052005 http://snipurl.com/fk17 === Israeli Spy Affair: Pentagon Analyst Indicted in Info Leak : A Pentagon analyst has been indicted on charges he leaked classified military information to employees of a pro-Israel group (AIPAC) , according to court papers made public Monday. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9133.htm http://snipurl.com/fk11 === Conservatives for Espionage: Many leading conservatives are taking up the cudgels on the spy ring’s behalf and claiming that the accused are victims of an insidious plot! http://snipurl.com/fk14 === Palestinian Factions Warn Calm would Collapse due to Israeli Aggressions?: In a leaflet signed by 13 Palestinian factions, the groups held Israel responsible for the deterioration of the cease-fire for violating it with continuous military operations in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. However they did not declare pulling out of the deal. http://snipurl.com/fk15 === Palestinian Authority won't disarm militants-minister: The Palestinian Authority will not disarm militants until Israel ends its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza as stated in a U.S.-backed peace plan, Foreign Minister Nasser al-Kidwa said on Monday. http://snipurl.com/fk16 === Sharansky’s Double Standard But in real political life, moral clarity between liberty and despotism is not so easy to come by—and perhaps nowhere is that clearer than in Sharansky’s own path since he entered Israeli politics. For there his career has been marked not by moral clarity but rather by moral ambiguity and inconsistency in his advocacy of democracy and human rights, particularly in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. http://www.amconmag.com/2005_03_28/cover.html === Bush Poll Not Accurate, GOP Says "It's not accurate because, because, because, well, just BECAUSE, dammit!" -- Official White Horse Souse http://www.gopusa.com/news/2005/june/0613_bush_poll.shtml === Repealing the 22nd Amendment Ooh boy, the Rightists are at again. This time, they want to repeal the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution so that their iconic representative can illegitimately occupy the White House for an unlimited amount of time. http://blogsdontexist.blogspot.com/ === John Pilger: Dodgy 'Partnership': Accepting tainted money - money from the same source that "funds a murderous regime" - is itself a compromise and a dangerous one. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9118.htm http://snipurl.com/fk1a === Police accused of breaching civil liberties of G8 campaigners : Human rights campaigners have accused the police of breaching civil liberties as they gather intelligence on people planning to protest against the G8 summit. http://snipurl.com/fk1f === Privatisation Hangs Over Debt Relief: The finance ministers' agreement contains a provision on privatisation that has the potential to deliver to them more money than they wrote off. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9122.htm http://snipurl.com/fk1c === When it comes to Africa, Bush has more on his mind than aid: Oil, raw materials and the expansion of the free market are the principal reasons the US engages in Africa, anything else is pretty much incidental. http://www.sundayherald.com/50283 http://snipurl.com/fk1d === Military draft back on US agenda: THE United States would "have to face" a painful dilemma on restoring the military draft as rising casualties saw the number of volunteers dry up, a senator warned today. http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1274&storyid=3278264 http://snipurl.com/fk0n === -muslim voice- ___________________________________ BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW -- No virus found in this outgoing message. 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