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Stories from 2003-06-24
" 'Get me out of here,' said one female U.S. soldier stationed in central Baghdad when told about the latest grenade attack. 'This place is too dangerous.' " [more]
" 'I don't think the American people fully appreciate just how long we are going to be committed here and what the overall cost will be,' said Senator Joseph Biden, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee." [more]
"Mullah Omar called on the Taliban to make sacrifices to drive out U.S. and other foreign troops and the "puppet" government of U.S.-backed President Hamid Karzai." [more]
"A US defense official with knowledge of the intelligence that led to the strike, said reports that Saddam or his sons were hit were 'wishful thinking.' " [more]
"The conservative Sunni Muslim town has been a flashpoint since US troops shot dead at least 16 Iraqis at a demonstration in late April." [more]
"Under an order that President Bush issued in November 2001, military tribunals can be used to try non-citizens accused of terrorist acts. Individuals brought before the tribunals would have no right to a jury trial, no right to confront their accusers and no right to judicial review of trial procedures or sentences, which could include death." [more]
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(IHT, Apr 30)
"In just five years, Bush has challenged more than 750 new laws, by far a record for any president, while becoming the first president since Thomas Jefferson to stay so long in office without issuing a veto." [more]
(Interactivist Info Exchange, Jul 26)
"Horizontalism is not an ideology, however, it is a relationship — a way of relating to one another in a directly democratic way while at the same time creating through the process of discovery. What has resulted is the creation of an amazing complex of movements, all linked." [more] |
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