Thursday, March 27, 2008
US court overturns Mumia Abu-Jamal death sentence - BBC NEWS
March 28 2008
A US federal appeals court has overturned the death sentence imposed on former Black Panthers member Mumia Abu-Jamal.
The court said Abu-Jamal's conviction for murdering a Philadelphia police officer should stand, but that he should have a new sentencing hearing.
The former radio journalist and activist was sentenced to death for the murder in 1982.
While in jail he became a leading campaigner against the death penalty.
He appealed against the sentence, on the grounds that racism on the part of the judge and the prosecutors had corrupted his conviction, which was by a jury of 10 white and two black people.
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INCOMING! Diplomats Told to Take Cover in Baghdad - AP
Diplomats Told to Take Cover in Baghdad
By MATTHEW LEE
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The State Department has instructed all personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad not to leave reinforced structures due to incoming insurgent rocket fire that has killed two American government workers this week.
In a memo sent Thursday to embassy staff and obtained by The Associated Press, the department says employees are required to wear helmets, body armor and other protective gear if they must venture outside and strongly advises them to sleep in blast-resistant locations instead of the less secure trailers that most occupy. In Full
Colombian military says it found uranium linked to FARC - McClatchy
Colombian military says it found uranium linked to FARC
Frances Robles Miami Herald
March 26, 2008 10:47:01 PM
Colombian authorities said they seized up to 66 pounds of uranium, linked to the FARC guerrillas, hidden off the side of a road in southern Bogota on Wednesday. The uranium could be used to make so-called 'dirty bombs.''
The Defense Ministry announcement, which hasn't been corroborated by a third party, adds weight to the evidence reportedly found in a laptop computer belonging to rebel leader Ra�l Reyes, killed March 1 when the Colombian military bombed his camp in neighboring Ecuador.
The Colombian government has used details of an alleged deal to buy up to 50 kilograms of uranium at $2.5 million a kilo found in e-mails on Reyes' computer to charge that the FARC was hatching deadly plans from a sanctuary set up in the jungle about one mile from the Colombia-Ecuador border." Source
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Good Morning, Vietnam! - Stan Goff, Feral Scholar
The same US press, which has parroted the absurd claims of “surge success” for months now, a success that was based on successful ethnic cleansing in Baghdad combined with the Mehdi Army’s ceasefire, will now have to tie itself in rhetorical knots to explain how this success is now adrift in the columns of black smoke rising from one of the two main oil pipelines passing through the port-transit city of Basra, and why rocket-propelled grenades and mortar rounds are splashing onto the Green Zone like a storm.Good Morning, Vietnam!
27th March 2008, 03:54 pm
by Stan
Nouri al Maliki, at the behest of his American masters, has thrown the new Army of the Republic of Vietnam against the militias of the most powerful and cohesive popular movement in Iraq, that of Muqtada al Sadr. By all accounts, even with their American advisers, tactical air and intelligence support, this operation appears to be a stupendous failure; the Mehdi Army of Sadr is reported to be routing the Iraqi “government” forces at every turn.
Moreover, it has ignited an uprising that stretches from Baghdad to Basra and all points in between. This flagrant violation of the ceasefire that the Sadrists renewed only days ago for six additional months, by the American-controlled puppet government, has set the stage for the most dangerous moment in Iraq for the occupation forces since the dual rebellions in Fallujah and Najaf in April 2004.
It has also quite probably signed the death warrant for the Iranian-trained and supported militias of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), the foundation of Maliki’s last thread of legitimacy as an “Iraqi government.” In Full
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Basra,
Disinformation,
Ethnic Cleansing,
Green Zone,
Iran,
Iraq,
Muqtada al Sadr
Condi Rice making a VP pitch? - The Swamp (Washington Post)
Condi Rice making a VP pitch?
by James Oliphant
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke at a breakfast today of powerful economic conservatives in Washington, say The Huffington Post and The Washington Note. They speculate Rice is courting conservatives to position herself as a possible vice presidential pick of Sen. John McCain." In Full
Tags:
2008 Election,
Condoleezza Rice,
John McCain
Our 'War On Terror' Allies - The World According To Bill Fisher
OUR ‘WAR ON TERROR’ ALLIES
By William Fisher
One of the Arab world’s most widely respected non-governmental organizations is charging that at least fourteen Middle East and North African governments are systematically violating the civil liberties of their citizens – and most of them are close U.S. allies in the war on terror.
In a report to the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) said that there have been “huge harassments of human rights organizations and defenders have been increasingly subject to abusive and suppressive actions by government actors in democratic rights and freedoms in the majority of Arab countries, particularly Egypt, Syria, Bahrain and Tunisia.” In Full
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Bahrain,
Egypt,
Human RIghts Abuse,
Syria,
Tunisia
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