Dispatch From Down Under

----Due to technichal difficulties Christy is re-posting Rossis news finds.---


The Rendering

U.S. knowingly sending prisoners to be tortured in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco and Jordan

'By Chris Floyd

In the heady months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the chickenhawks of the Bush Regime were eager to flash their tough-guy cojones to the world. Led by the former prep-school cheerleader in the Oval Office, swaggering Bushists openly bragged of "kicking ass" with macho tactics like torture and "extraordinary rendition."

http://207.44.245.159/article8232.htm


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Global sheriff is slowly gaining on the US and its cavalier way with the law

Simon Tisdall

In the opinion of many legal experts, the US government broke international law when it waged war on Iraq without explicit UN backing. Unrepentant, it has reserved the right to take similar action again, unilaterally if need be. But another key pillar of global jurisprudence - laws concerning individual liberty, dignity and human rights - is proving harder for Washington to ignore: like a sheriff with a posse of deputies, international law is slowly catching up with the Bush administration.

http://207.44.245.159/article8238.htm

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Further Evidence of Brutal U.S. Army Abuses :

The latest chapter in the torture and abuse of detainees held in U.S. custody includes a report of a formal agreement between the Army and the CIA to hide "ghost detainees" and an atmosphere of "releaseaphobia" that prevented innocent detainees from being freed.

http://207.44.245.159/article8235.htm


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Pentagon gets out the whitewash: Pentagon not to blame for abuseThe report resisted faulting senior military and civilian commanders for the abuse, although it acknowledges they failed to take swift action when torture allegations first came to light.

http://about.upi.com/products/perspectives/UPI-20050310-064724-7595R



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Iraq allies accused of failing to investigate civilian deaths :

Experts in public health from six countries, including the UK, today castigate the British and American governments for failing to investigate the deaths of civilians caught up in the conflict in Iraq.

http://207.44.245.159/article8236.htm


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U.S. soldiers abused Afghan prisoners till death

3/12/2005 6:45:00 PM

A report in the New York Times Saturday details how two Afghan prisoners held in U.S. custody died after being chained up, kicked and beaten by American soldiers.

http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=7513


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Iraqs clerics call for calm after Mosul attack

3/11/2005 10:30:00 PM

Iraq's Sunni and Shi'ia clerics have called for calm Friday, one day after an attack killed 50 people in the city of Mosul.

http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=7438



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UK went to Iraq war on one page of legal advice

3/11/2005 3:00:00 PM

The UK went to war in Iraq on the basis of a brief, nine-paragraph summary of advice on the legality of the invasion, Britain’s top civil servant said. http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=7441

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Bush Picks Adviser to Repair Tarnished U.S. Image Abroad

By ELISABETH BUMILLER Published: March 12, 2005

WASHINGTON, March 11 - President Bush will nominate one of his closest confidantes, Karen P. Hughes, to lead an effort at the State Department to repair the image of the United States overseas, particularly in the Arab world, administration officials said Friday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/12/politics/12hughes.html?hp&ex=1110690000&en=418e009ae1a6a3aa&ei=5094&partner=homepage

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Jacko's freak week 13 March 2005 WHAT a week at Michael Jackson's trial.

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,12523687%255E663,00.html




What a Travesty the cable and media are when this is world news no 1 story in America

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Rape trial bloodbath

13 March 2005

A MAN on trial for rape grabbed a deputy's gun and opened fire inside a US courthouse, killing a judge and two other people before escaping and triggering a manhunt across several states.

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/sectionindex1/0,5442,world%20news%5EWORLD%5ETEXT%5Eheraldsun,00.html


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We Beat Prisoners to Death, Says U.S. Army

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031205A.shtmlxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxSchwarzenegger

Forged News Reports

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/031205Z.shtml


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Bush confidante gets high-level State postFormer TV reporter and Bush spokeswoman will be named to State

Dept. http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/politics/11114594.html