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CIA Plans to Purge its Agency

Knut Royce | Newsday | November 14, 2004

"Sources say White House has ordered new chief to eliminate officers who were disloyal to Bush." [more]

Bush Campaign Gear Made in Burma

Lauren Weber | Newsday | March 18, 2004

"The merchandise sold on www.georgewbushstore.com includes a $49.95 fleece pullover, embroidered with the Bush-Cheney '04 logo and bearing a label stating it was made in Burma, now Myanmar." [more]

Cell Phones Jury-Rigged to Detonate Bombs

Lou Dolinar | Newsday | March 15, 2004

"The jamming concept originated in Israel in the early '90s and is currently used by U.S. troops in Iraq. The United States has tested an air-dropped cell-phone jammer, WolfPack, that can knock out all cell-phone traffic in a combat zone." [more]

US Considers 'Regime Change' for Syria

Timothy M. Phelps | Newsday | September 17, 2003

"Bolton testified that Syria and Libya had weapons of mass destruction programs that must be 'rolled back' and eliminated. [He] said diplomacy is the administration's preferred approach but that 'every tool in our nonproliferation toolbox' was an option. Bolton refused to rule out 'regime change' as an administration option in Syria." [more]

Secret Talks With Iranian Arms Dealer

Knut Royce and Timothy M. Phelps | Newsday | August 8, 2003

"The senior administration official identified two of the Defense officials who met with Ghorbanifar as Harold Rhode, Feith's top Middle East specialist, and Larry Franklin, a Defense Intelligence Agency analyst on loan to the undersecretary's office." [more]

A Kind of Fascism is Replacing Our Democracy

Sheldon S. Wolin | Newsday | July 18, 2003

"Like previous forms of totalitarianism, the Bush administration boasts a reckless unilateralism that believes the United States can demand unquestioning support, on terms it dictates; ignores treaties and violates international law at will; invades other countries without provocation; and incarcerates persons indefinitely without charging them with a crime or allowing access to counsel." [more]

Iraqi Scientist Ignored, Jailed

William Douglas and Knut Royce | Newsday | June 27, 2003

"An Iraqi scientist who has provided what the White House yesterday called key components and blueprints for an illicit nuclear program was initially ignored by the Pentagon and jailed by U.S. military forces in Baghdad as he tried to get the materials into American hands." [more]

Hundreds of Iraqis Killed by Faulty Grenades

Thomas Frank | Newsday | June 22, 2003

"The consequences of failure rates are magnified by the numbers of grenades used: To destroy one air-defense system covering 100 square yards requires 75 rockets, each carrying 644 grenades — a total of 48,300. The 16 percent failure rate listed by the Pentagon produces 7,728 unexploded grenades, scattering them over 600 square yards." [more]

What Some of the Protesters Came To Say

Margaret Ramirez | Newsday | February 16, 2003

"Yesterday, a new diverse, anti-war movement was born on the streets of New York." [more]

250 Arrested During Rally

Joshua Robin | Newsday | February 16, 2003

"Police last night said the arrests were mostly for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. To manage crowds that were larger than expected, the Police Department's highest ranking uniformed official, Chief of Department Joseph Esposito, declared a Level 4 mobilization, the force's largest emergency deployment." [more]

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