Corporate Indictments: Crimes & Excesses
Sidney Morning Herald August 15, 2007 (AAP) - A dual Australian citizen held in Lebanon on terrorism-related charges has had his jaw broken while in detention, his cousin says.
CIA's Paul Helliwell meets Michael Hand and Frank NuganWhen Frank Nugan was found dead in Australia in 1980, it was accepted as a suicide and the sighs of relief could almost be heard in Langley, on the other side of the globe.
Kenneth J. Hughes
How Paranoid Was Nixon? By Kenneth J. Hughes, Jr. 8-13-07 Mr. Hughes is the Nixon tapes editor for the Presid.
Ewen MacAskill & Tom KingtonThe Guardian, August 13, 2007• US kept in dark over 105,000 rifles deal • Revelation highlights Baghdad weapons chaos Weapons change hands for cash in a Baghdad home.
Photo: GW Bush prepares for his State of the Union address with Karen Hughes and speechwriter Michael Gerson in January 2002Isikoff and Corn assert that it was Gerson who conceived the “sound bite” that Iraq’s alleged nuclear program could not be absolutely proven but “the first sign of a smoking gun might be a mushroom cloud.
Alex Constantine
The writing seemed to be on the wall, but on August 9, the AP released an odd little story about the American occupation of Iraq, claiming that Bush's critics have been backed off by recent reports of military "progress": "There have been signs of changes in attitudes, some on the ground in Iraq, some in the United States.
" ... Judge O'Connor found that Mr. Arar was never a threat to Canadian national security and that authorities.
By David RoseThe Observer, July 29, 2007MI5 Headquarters in LondonBritish source tells of betrayal to CIA - "I was stripped and hauled to US base" An Iraqi who was a key source of intelligence for MI5 has given the first ever full insider's account of being seized by the CIA and bundled on to an illegal 'torture flight' under the programme known as extraordinary rendition.
Rumsfeld SkatesPublic Forum Letter07/19/2007A recent article reports the dismissal of a lawsuit brought against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on behalf of nine former prisoners who had been abused and tortured in American prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan.
By Chris Herz - July 20, 2007 The forces of born-again corporate fascism are as USAmerican as apple pie! VHeadline.