Month: September 2004

MONTEVIDEO – Uruguay‘s Supreme Court threw a new obstacle in the way of efforts to prosecute retired military officers for alleged crimes against humanity during the dictatorships that ruled South America’s Southern Cone region in the 1970s and 1980s. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court magistrates unanimously ruled that they did not have the jurisdiction to … Continue reading “Accused Officers of ‘Operation Condor’ Elude Extradition”

Dear Senator Santorum, I see that you are sponsoring legislation supporting "regime change" in Iran, which suggests you have had the neocons whispering in your ears again about the "axis of evil." You are probably going to get support for your bill for the same reason the neocons led us into the unnecessary war in … Continue reading “Memo to Rick Santorum Re: Iran”

BAGHDAD – Iraqi leaders and officials are getting jittery over the now-partial elections proposed for January next year. The government of U.S.-appointed prime minister Iyad Allawi has said, with U.S. and British backing, that elections will be held as planned even if people in areas under rebel control do not vote. That is a growing … Continue reading “Doubts Rise Over Partial Elections in Iraq”

NAIROBI – The conflict in northern Uganda, which has claimed thousands of lives and displaced about a million people, is losing momentum and slowly grinding to a halt, religious leaders and human rights groups say. "The situation [in northern Uganda] is quiet. There is a climate of optimism that the war is in its final … Continue reading “War in Northern Uganda ‘Coming to An End’”

TOKYO – As the legal drama unfolds soon in the desertion trial of Charles Robert Jenkins, wanted by the U.S. Army for abandoning his patrol, close attention will be paid to his testimony for possible secrets into North Korea – the place where Jenkins made his home for nearly 40 years. Of particular concern to … Continue reading “Deserter’s Hearing Could Expose North Korean Secrets”

President Bush said Tuesday that the Iraqis are refuting the pessimists and implied that things are improving in that country. What would America look like if it were in Iraq’s current situation? The population of the U.S. is over 11 times that of Iraq, so a lot of statistics would have to be multiplied by … Continue reading “If America Were Iraq”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sibel Edmonds, a former FBI contract linguist who was terminated in 2002 after becoming a whistleblower regarding the 9/11 tragedy, filed a lawsuit today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia under the Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts (FOIPA). The complaint seeks to compel the release of a … Continue reading “Whistleblower Sues for Release of 9/11 Info”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sibel Edmonds, a former FBI contract linguist who was terminated in 2002 after becoming a whistleblower regarding the 9/11 tragedy, filed a lawsuit today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia under the Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts (FOIPA). The complaint seeks to compel the release of a … Continue reading “Whistleblower Sues for Release of 9/11 Info”

Christmas is coming early this year, with a gift from Robert Novak, the cantankerous and fearless conservative columnist and veteran reporter, whose connections inside the Bush administration and the GOP are as myriad and various as his many enemies: "Inside the Bush administration policymaking apparatus, there is strong feeling that U.S. troops must leave Iraq … Continue reading “A U-Turn in Iraq?”

Tariq Ramadan, a world-renowned Islamic scholar, sits in an empty apartment in Switzerland, unable to take up his new post at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Ind., due to the last minute revocation of his work visa by the U.S. State Department. His visa was revoked under a section of the PATRIOT Act that … Continue reading “State Department Bans Distinguished Muslim Scholar”