Bush plans to open 3 million acres in Alaska's Tongass National Forest to logging More than 3 million acres in Alaska's Tongass National Forest would be open to logging under a federal plan. Environmentalists fear that the proposal will devastate the forest. The Bush regime released Friday a management destruction plan for the forest. The plan would leave about 3.4 million acres open to logging, road building and other development.
Musharraf losing military backing There are definite signs that the Pakistani President, Pervez Musharraf, is losing the important backing of the military after an influential group of retired officers called on him to step down.
Pakistan tests missile, rejects nuclear safety worry Pakistan's army chief dismissed on Friday fears that the country's nuclear weapons could fall into the hands of Islamist militants as the military test fired a nuclear-capable missile.
Iraq Oil Law Talks Not Taking Place Negotiations are not taking place in Baghdad on the controversial oil law and other oil disputes, contrary to previous news accounts. UPI confirmed that a top U.S. State Department official tasked with moving the oil law forward is in Washington, not Iraq. Iraq Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani is at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which began Wednesday.
Mosul Bombings Prompt Promise of New Offensive Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki announced Friday that he was sending more troops to Mosul to drive the Sunni 'insurgent' group Al Qaeda [al-CIAduh] in Mesopotamia from what he described as its 'last major stronghold' in Iraq. Mr. Maliki’s remarks came in the wake of successive bombings in the northern capital.
Iraq: Another journalist held by the U.S. military Reporters Without Borders has voiced concern about the continuing detention of Rashid Majid Al-Sari, the editor of the biweekly newspaper "Al-Fatah", who was arrested by United States troops at his Baghdad home on 18 January 2008... Bilal Hussein, a 36-year-old photographer employed by the Associated Press, has been held by the U.S. military since April 2006.
Detainees might be stuck in legal limbo, lawyers say --Transfers to Afghan jails suspended, but military won't say where prisoners being held Battlefield prisoners in Afghanistan may be stuck in the Canadian equivalent of Guantanamo Bay – a legal limbo where they are not charged or granted a lawyer – now that prisoners are no longer handed over to Afghan jails for fear of torture, human rights lawyers say. The federal government revealed Wednesday that the Canadian military stopped sending its prisoners to local jailers almost three months ago after discovering a badly bruised prisoner and the weapons used in his torture on Nov. 5.
Judge releases Blackwater protesters after quiet debate of the issues (Currituck, NC) Judge Russell Duke gave no additional jail time to seven convicted Blackwater protesters for a demonstration at Blackwater’s Moyock headquarters Oct. 20, a re-enactment of a Sept. 16 shooting incident in Baghdad involving Blackwater security contractors in which 17 Iraqi civilians died. The seven were originally convicted in District Court in December, all but one of them in trials that were closed to the media and the public.
CIA: Hackers shut down power to entire cities Computer hackers have managed to shut down power to entire cities by breaking into the systems of electricity companies and then demanding money, a senior CIA analyst has claimed. Tom Donahue told a utilities security conference in New Orleans that all the successful hackings occurred outside America.
Musharraf losing military backing There are definite signs that the Pakistani President, Pervez Musharraf, is losing the important backing of the military after an influential group of retired officers called on him to step down.
Pakistan tests missile, rejects nuclear safety worry Pakistan's army chief dismissed on Friday fears that the country's nuclear weapons could fall into the hands of Islamist militants as the military test fired a nuclear-capable missile.
Iraq Oil Law Talks Not Taking Place Negotiations are not taking place in Baghdad on the controversial oil law and other oil disputes, contrary to previous news accounts. UPI confirmed that a top U.S. State Department official tasked with moving the oil law forward is in Washington, not Iraq. Iraq Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani is at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which began Wednesday.
Mosul Bombings Prompt Promise of New Offensive Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki announced Friday that he was sending more troops to Mosul to drive the Sunni 'insurgent' group Al Qaeda [al-CIAduh] in Mesopotamia from what he described as its 'last major stronghold' in Iraq. Mr. Maliki’s remarks came in the wake of successive bombings in the northern capital.
Iraq: Another journalist held by the U.S. military Reporters Without Borders has voiced concern about the continuing detention of Rashid Majid Al-Sari, the editor of the biweekly newspaper "Al-Fatah", who was arrested by United States troops at his Baghdad home on 18 January 2008... Bilal Hussein, a 36-year-old photographer employed by the Associated Press, has been held by the U.S. military since April 2006.
Detainees might be stuck in legal limbo, lawyers say --Transfers to Afghan jails suspended, but military won't say where prisoners being held Battlefield prisoners in Afghanistan may be stuck in the Canadian equivalent of Guantanamo Bay – a legal limbo where they are not charged or granted a lawyer – now that prisoners are no longer handed over to Afghan jails for fear of torture, human rights lawyers say. The federal government revealed Wednesday that the Canadian military stopped sending its prisoners to local jailers almost three months ago after discovering a badly bruised prisoner and the weapons used in his torture on Nov. 5.
Judge releases Blackwater protesters after quiet debate of the issues (Currituck, NC) Judge Russell Duke gave no additional jail time to seven convicted Blackwater protesters for a demonstration at Blackwater’s Moyock headquarters Oct. 20, a re-enactment of a Sept. 16 shooting incident in Baghdad involving Blackwater security contractors in which 17 Iraqi civilians died. The seven were originally convicted in District Court in December, all but one of them in trials that were closed to the media and the public.
CIA: Hackers shut down power to entire cities Computer hackers have managed to shut down power to entire cities by breaking into the systems of electricity companies and then demanding money, a senior CIA analyst has claimed. Tom Donahue told a utilities security conference in New Orleans that all the successful hackings occurred outside America.
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Musharraf lost control when he gave up his Miliatry command. Now it's anyone's guest who will control Pakistan.
Bush/Cheney team are working as fast as they can to make sure the next President will have a hell of a problem cleaning up the mess they've done for the pass 7 years.
What's so surprising is the American people still have not out cry even with the knowledge of the crimes and the stealing this Administration has done.
3.4 million acres of forest destroyed........not soon enough before this administration is out of office.
Yes, Jackie are people so numb to what is going on that they don't care? Is it the polluting the media with Brittany, etc. overshadowing what should be on the news?
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