Links and News [2006.10.24]
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006- Rwanda Genocide: French Role in Slaughter under Investigation - SPIEGEL
The Rwandan government has alleged since 1994 that French soldiers trained and armed some of the Hutus that carried out the massacre, and also allowed Hutu extremists to enter camps set up to protect Tutsis.
(tags: news)
- Lieberman’s Words on War Show Some Shifts - NYT
NYT gives examples of Leiberman’s self-serving shifting positions on Iraq.
(tags: 9/11 dangerous-idiots iraq hypocrisy)
- BBC | US ‘cannot stay course’ in Iraq
A senior US state department official earlier said that the US has shown "arrogance and stupidity" in Iraq.
- Whiskey Bar: Friends in High Places
Time magazine is reporting that Rep. Jane Harman, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, is under investigation for her ties to the Israel lobby
- And the Winner Is … Me - NYT
Republican nominee, Kenneth Blackwell, who is also the Ohio secretary of state, could rule that his opponent is ineligible to run because of a technicality.
(tags: banana-republic elections)
- Guardian | FO’s human rights report omits attacks on Lebanon
Margaret Beckett, the foreign secretary, told a press conference the omission was because the timing was "a little bit tight" for publication. She said she anticipated the war being dealt with more fully in next year’s report.
But the authors did find sufficient time to include criticism of the Lebanese-based guerrilla group Hizbullah, and one of its backers, Syria, over attacks on Israel and to provide a figure for Israeli, but not Lebanese, casualties.
(tags: israel human-rights hypocrisy middle-east)
- Guardian | ITN reporter Terry Lloyed unlawfully killed, inquest rules
ITN reporter Terry Lloyd was unlawfully killed when he came under fire from American troops in Iraq, a coroner ruled today.
Andrew Walker, the assistant deputy coroner of Oxfordshire, said he would take steps to see if the soldiers responsible could be brought to justice.
(tags: iraq)
- BBC | Low-caste Hindus adopt new faith
Thousands of people have been attending mass ceremonies in India at which hundreds of low-caste Hindus (Dalits) converted to Buddhism and Christianity.
The events in the central city of Nagpur are part of a protest against the injustices of India’s caste system.
(tags: india human-rights)
- Expecting U.S. Help, Sent to Guantánamo - NYT
Mr. Ginco … had gone to Afghanistan in 2000 after running away from his strict Muslim father. He was soon imprisoned by the Taliban, and tortured by operatives of Al Qaeda until, he said, he falsely confessed to being a spy for Israel and the United States.
But rather than help Mr. Ginco return home, American soldiers detained him again. Nearly five years later, he remains in the United States military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba…
(tags: human-rights terrorism)
- Competitive Era Fails to Shrink Electric Bills - NYT
A decade after competition was introduced in their industries, long-distance phone rates had fallen by half, air fares by more than a fourth and trucking rates by a fourth. But a decade after the federal government opened the business of generating electricity to competition, the market has produced no such decline.
(tags: corruption neolib politics right-nuttery)
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