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GadgetMania (Apr 29 2008 10:53 GMT) - RSS Junky -- Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:09:47 -0600 We are proud to announce the recent addition of http://gadgets.multiplayer. |
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Ex-Prosecutor Told By Pentagon 'There Could Be No Acquittals' of Detainees (Apr 29 2008 10:52 GMT) - Pentagon official insisted prosecutors use evidence derived from torture (Guantanamo Bay, Cuba) The former chief prosecutor here took the witness stand on Monday on behalf of a detainee and testified that top Pentagon officials had pressured him in deciding which cases to prosecute and what evidence to use. The prosecutor, Col. Morris D. Davis of the Air Force, testified that Pentagon officials had interfered with his work for political reasons and told him that charges against well-known prisoners "could have real strategic political value" and that there could be no acquittals. Testifying about his assertions for the first time, Colonel Davis said a senior Pentagon official who oversaw the military commissions, Brig. |
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Mahathir calls for war crimes tribunal for US, UK leaders (Apr 29 2008 10:52 GMT) - Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad called on Friday for an international tribunal to try Western leaders for war crimes over the war in Iraq, a spokesman for the organizers said. In a speech at Imperial College, Mahathir called for a tribunal to try US President [sic] George W. Bush and former prime ministers Tony Blair of Britain and John Howard of Australia for their part in the conflict, said a spokesman for the Muslim group the Ramadhan Foundation, which organized the event. [Yeah! And, feel free to 'proceed with evidence derived through waterboarding of prisoners and other aggressive interrogation methods that critics call torture. |
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Former prosecutor says he wouldn't have charged Hicks (Apr 29 2008 10:52 GMT) - The former chief prosecutor for the Guantanamo Bay military tribunals has testified he would not have charged Australian David Hicks if the decision had been up to him. Air Force Colonel Moe Davis said he pursued the case after he inherited it from a previous prosecutor. |
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Hicks comments 'no surprise' (Apr 29 2008 10:52 GMT) - Any doubt that David Hicks was charged with war crimes for purely political reasons has gone, his father and his lawyer say. The former chief prosecutor of the US military commissions at Guantanamo Bay said overnight he would not have pursued Hicks because the case against the Australian was not serious enough. The ex-prosecutor, Air Force Colonel Moe Davis, told a pre-trial hearing for another Guantanamo Bay inmate he had "inherited" the Hicks case and wanted to focus on cases serious enough to merit 20-year jail sentences, with the Australian's case not meeting that mark. |
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1st British Waterboarding Championships By Daniel Raven-Ellison (Apr 29 2008 10:52 GMT) - In direct response to the recent debate around if Waterboarding is torture, guerrilla geographers inverted the practice into a competitive sport and held the first British Waterboarding Championships in central London last Saturday... The Guerrilla Geographers are now calling for Waterboarding to become a recognised Olympic sport ready for the 2012 games in London. |
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Drone attacks hit high in Iraq (Apr 29 2008 10:52 GMT) - U.S. commanders in Iraq have ordered an unprecedented number of airstrikes by unmanned airplanes in April to kill 'insurgents' in urban combat and to limit their ability to launch rockets at American forces, military records show. The 11 attacks by Predators -- nearly double the previous high for one month -- were conducted as the Pentagon has intensified efforts to increase the use of drones. |
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Obama vows to back Bush's war commander By Bill Van Auken (Apr 29 2008 10:52 GMT) - Democratic presidential front-runner Senator Barack Obama said on Sunday he would endorse Bush?s nominee [David Petraeus] to direct US military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and throughout a region extending from North Africa to Central Asia. * * * * * |
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Decision Is Likely to Spur Voter ID Laws in More States (Apr 29 2008 10:52 GMT) - Coup 2008 underway: The Supreme Court ruling on Monday upholding Indiana?s voter ID law is likely to lead to more laws and litigation, voting experts said. Lawmakers in at least four states may seek to pass stricter regulations in the next year or so, the experts said. In response, voting rights groups might sue on behalf of individuals or groups in an effort to exempt them. |
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Supreme Court says states can demand photo ID for voting (Apr 29 2008 10:52 GMT) - States can require voters to produce photo identification, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, upholding a Republican-inspired law that Democrats say will keep some poor, older and minority voters from casting ballots. Twenty-five states require some form of ID, and the court's 6-3 decision rejecting a challenge to Indiana's strict voter ID law could encourage others to adopt their own measures. Oklahoma legislators said the decision should help them get a version approved. |
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US state demands photo ID from voters (Apr 29 2008 10:52 GMT) - The US Supreme Court has ruled that all states can demand photo identification papers from voters in a decision which could impact on the US presidential race six months before the 'elections.' By six votes to three, the judges upheld an appeals court decision backing a controversial Indiana law demanding voters provide proper picture identification such as a passport or driving licence before voting. |
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Almost 900 Iraq reconstruction projects unfinished (Apr 29 2008 10:52 GMT) - A review of US-funded reconstruction projects in Iraq has found that millions of dollars have been wasted because almost 900 separate projects have never been completed. The reconstruction of Iraq has cost American taxpayers more than $107 billion. |
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Insurgents take troops by sandstorm (Apr 29 2008 10:52 GMT) - Australian soldiers in Iraq have come under heavy rocket fire in Baghdad's green zone after sandstorms sent blankets of dust across the city and provided cover for 'insurgents.' . |
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4 US soldiers killed; militants shell Green Zone (Apr 29 2008 10:52 GMT) - Bombardments by suspected militants killed four U.S. soldiers Monday as troops tried to push Shiite fighters farther from the U.S.-protected Green Zone and out of range of their rockets and mortars. |
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Battles in Baghdad leave 45 dead (Apr 29 2008 10:52 GMT) - US forces killed 45 Shia militiamen in Baghdad in fierce fighting that included a tank battle with dozens of gunmen who attacked a checkpoint under cover of a dust storm, military officials claimed today. |
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Syria says US reactor charges as fake as Iraq WMD claims (Apr 29 2008 10:52 GMT) - Syria said on Monday that US accusations it had been building a nuclear reactor until its destruction in an Israeli air raid last September were as bogus as American claims that Saddam Hussein's government had weapons of mass destruction in 2003. "When you look at these pictures... a single image comes to mind -- that of US Secretary of State Colin Powell accusing Iraq of hiding weapons of mass destruction and presenting as proof a dossier of photographs," Al-Baath said. |
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