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Double standards that kill Posted: Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Straw withdraws 45 minutes claim Jack Straw has told MPs the claim Saddam Hussein could use weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes has been officially withdrawn.
Group: al-Qaida Detainees 'Disappeared' At least 11 al-Qaida suspects have "disappeared" in U.S. custody, and some may have been tortured, Human Rights Watch said in a report issued Monday. The prisoners are probably being held outside the United States without access to the Red Cross or any oversight of their treatment, the human rights group said. In some cases, the United States will not even acknowledge the prisoners are in custody.
Venezuela will Raise Oil Production Royalties
Chavez Threatens Central Bank With Supreme Court Order to Get Funds for Social Programs
True lies ... untrue facts Lies and statecraft are almost synonymous these days. Pity John Q. Public trying to figure out the difference between true lies and genuine lies. Any suggestion Ariel Sharon was deliberately scuttling the Mideast peace process was automatically branded anti-Israeli, even anti-Semitic. And this despite three former Israeli intelligence chiefs who leveled the same charge against the Israeli prime minister.
Sharon's Doomed Course of Action
Dead Palestinian girl 'riddled with bullets'
Charts of eight little-known Palestine/Israel statistics
Double standards that kill As usual, there has been a disproportionate and unbalanced reaction to recent and ongoing violence in our region. Since late September, Israel has been butchering civilians in the occupied Gaza Strip. As I write, the death toll has passed 115, of which over 30 children.
The madness of George
Kerry is 'Bush lite' but still hazardous to your health
Don't Believe a Word
Profiting with the Enemy Under Cheney, Halliburton Helped Saddam Siphon Billions from UN's Oil-for-Food Program
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