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http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news Polish Troops Face War Crimes
Charges 28 Dec 2007 Reports that Poland's troops in Afghanistan may
have committed a war crime against defenseless civilians has shocked
the country's public, which remains sensitive to the performance
of the Polish military abroad. In August... Polish reinforcements
soon arrived and opened fire on a nearby village. The mortar attack
on the village of Nangar Khel, close to the Afghan-Pakistani border,
killed eight Afghani civilians and left three women crippled. A
pregnant woman and a child were among the dead.

Navy JAG Resigns Over Torture Issue 27 Dec 2007 "It was with sadness
that I signed my name this grey morning to a letter resigning my
commission in the U.S. Navy," wrote Gig Harbor, Wash., resident and
attorney-at-law Andrew Williams in a letter to The Peninsula Gateway
last week. Williams' resignation stems from the recent CIA videotape
scandal in which tapes showing secret interrogations of two 'Al
Qaeda' operatives were destroyed. The tapes may have contained
evidence that the U.S. government used a type of torture known as
waterboarding to obtain information from suspected terrorists.
Torture, including water-boarding, is prohibited under the treaties
of the Geneva Convention.

UK #70m arms sales to Saddam Hussein's Iraq 28 Dec 2007 Thirty years
ago, Britain sold millions of pounds of military equipment to the
Iraq's Baathist government. Foreign Office papers, just released
by the National Archives in London, show that defence sales to Iraq
in 1976 amounted to an estimated #70m.

At this time, [CIA-installed] Saddam Hussein was the de facto leader
of Iraq.

Eight killed, 66 injured in Baghdad car bombing 28 Dec 2007 At least
eight people were killed and 66 others wounded in a car bomb explosion
in a crowded central Baghdad area on Friday, an Interior Ministry
source said. "A car bomb parked near the Taiyran Square in Bab
al-Sharji area detonated in the afternoon, killing at least eight
people and wounding 66 others," the source told Xinhua on condition
of anonymity.

Bush to Veto Pentagon Funds Over Iraq Provision 28 Dec 2007 President
[sic] Bush will veto a huge Defense Department bill because of
concerns by the Iraqi government that Iraqi assets in American banks
could be vulnerable to claims from victims of Saddam Hussein, the
White House said Friday in Texas.

Iraq vet arrested on charges of attempted murder 28 Dec 2007 A U.S.
Navy medical corpsman recently returned from combat duty in Iraq
awaits arraignment in Cumberland County Jail today on charges of
attempted murder. Police deployed a Taser on Thursday when they
discovered Victor Perez, 24, chasing his wife with a butcher knife,
according to Brunswick police Lt. Shawn O'Leary.

Control order easy after Guantanamo, says lawyer 29 Dec 2007 A
control order is unlikely to worry David Hicks after surviving the
rigours of Guantanamo Bay, according to his former military lawyer,
Major Michael Mori. Major Mori, who is to be sent to Iraq's Anbar
province soon as part of a US Marines contingent, would not comment
on whether his former client was a serious terrorist or merely a
misguided adventurer.

"The man who murdered Osama bin Laden" Frost over the World - Benazir
Bhutto - 02 Nov 07 --Sir David interviews former Pakistani prime
minister Benazir Bhutto. 03 Nov 2007 6:13 into this YouTube video,
Benazir Bhutto declares, "Yes, well one of them is a very key figure
in security. He's a former military officer. He's someone who's had
dealings... and he also had dealings with Omar Sheikh [Ahmad Omar
Saeed Sheikh], the man who murdered Osama bin Laden." [Did Bhutto
mean to say Daniel Pearl? If that was the case, she did not correct
herself.]

Pakistan agents 'staged escape' of terror suspect 23 Dec 2007 Friends
of Rashid Rauf, the man wanted in Britain for last years Al-Qaeda
[al-CIAduh] plot to blow up transatlantic airliners, believe that
he did not escape from custody last weekend but was kidnapped by
Pakistans military intelligence agency (ISI). They fear he may be
shot. Rauf was arrested in Pakistan in August last year at the same
time as 25 men were held in Britain after police uncovered an alleged
plot to blow up 12 airliners flying to the United States from
Heathrow and Gatwick. Since then, Rauf has been held with other
Al-Qaeda suspects in Pakistan's highest-security unit in Rawalpindi
until his "escape"

last weekend. The officers had allowed him to stop for lunch at a
McDonald's restaurant and later in the journey permitted him to
pray at a mosque. His handcuffs were removed to allow him to pray
freely... Hashmat Habib, Raufs lawyer, said his client was being
victimised because the Pakistani authorities had been forced to
drop all charges against Rauf over the transatlantic flight plot.

Poland to boost Afghanistan troops in wake of Bhutto assassination
28 Dec 2007 Poland will boost its forces in Afghanistan by 400
troops to a total of 1,600 after the assassination of Pakistan's
opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, Defence Minister Bogdan Klich
said Friday.

Poland plans more troops in Afghanistan 29 Dec 2007 Poland's force
in Afghanistan will be enlarged by 400 troops between April and May
next year, defense minister Bogdan Klich announced on Friday. Klich
said the assassination of Pakistani former Prime Minister Benazir
Bhutto on Thursday threatened to destabilize the entire region,
including Afghanistan.

Bhutto Buried as Government Orders Virtual Lockdown 29 Dec 2007 As
Benazir Bhutto was laid to rest on Friday, Pakistans government
recast its version of events and announced that it had obtained an
intelligence intercept pinning the attack on a militant leader
linked to Al Qaeda [al-CIAduh]. With many of Ms. Bhuttos supporters
openly blaming the government for her death, the Interior Ministry
made the surprising announcement that Ms. Bhutto had died not from
gunshots or shrapnel but from a skull fracture when she was thrown
by the force of the suicide attack and hit her head on a lever of
the car sunroof in which she was riding.

Pakistan: Fractured skull killed Bhutto 28 Dec 2007 Benazir Bhutto
died from a fractured skull caused by hitting her head on part of
her car's sunroof as a bomb ripped through a crowd of her supporters,
a spokesman for Pakistan's Interior Ministry said Friday.

Red alert in Pakistan 27 Dec 2007 A red alert has been sounded in
entire Pakistan after the assassination of former Prime Minister
Benazir Bhutto in a suicide bomb and sniper gun attack in Rawalpindi
on Thursday evening. Geo News quoted Punjab Home Secretary Khusro
Pervaiz Khan as saying that the provincial government has called
in the army and contingents of the Rangers to help the police
maintain law and order in these districts.

U.S. Brokered Bhutto's Return to Pakistan --White House Would Back
Her as Prime Minister While Musharraf Held Presidency 28 Dec 2007
For Benazir Bhutto, the decision to return to Pakistan was sealed
during a telephone call from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
just a week before Bhutto flew home in October. The call culminated
more than a year of secret diplomacy -- and came only when it became
clear that the heir to Pakistan's most powerful political dynasty
was the only one who could bail out Washington's key ally in the
battle 'against' terrorism.

Ghana President Says Oil Reserves Discovered in Country's Waters
[And, according to Cheney, their weapons of mass destruction were
discovered about one hour later. ] 22 Dec 2007 Ghana's president
said Saturday that offshore oil reserves discovered in the West
African country's waters total 3 billion barrels. "Ghana has struck
oil in commercial quantities," President John Kufuor said, speaking
at a ruling party congress in the capital, Accra. "This is only the
beginning. The future is very bright indeed." [Not as bright as he
thinks - the US knows about it.]

FBI to post criminals' mug shots on digital billboards 28 Dec 2007
The FBI's most wanted bank robbers, violent criminals and terrorists
will soon appear on 150 digital billboards in 20 cities nationwide.
The agency has teamed up with Phoenix-based Clear Channel Outdoor
to begin airing mug shots following a successful test run in
Philadelphia that led to several arrests. [150 of the most dangerous
terrorists in the US - that takes care of the top members of Bush
regime. Arrest them, and we'll be safe. --LRP]

FEMA hires new public affairs director 27 Dec 2007 The Federal
Emergency Management Agency has hired a new director of public
affairs [Jonathan Thompson] to replace the official who was in
charge during a fake news conference in October.

Sales of New Homes in U.S. Dropped 9%% to 12-Year Low 28 Dec 2007
Sales of new homes in the U.S. fell to a 12-year low in November,
pointing to bigger declines in construction that will hobble economic
growth throughout 2008.

Purchases dropped 9 percent to an annual pace of 647,000 and October
sales were revised down to a 711,000 rate, the Commerce Department
said today in Washington.

Exxon Mobil to seek LNG facility off Jersey coast --COA opposes
offshore gas terminal 12 Dec 2007 After Exxon Mobil Corp. announced
plans to seek regulatory approval for a floating liquefied natural
gas (LNG) receiving terminal off the coast of New Jersey Dec. 11,
state officials and local activists are speaking out against the
plan. In a Dec. 12 letter, Rep. Frank Pallone (D-6) urges U.S. Coast
Guard Commandant Admiral Thad Allen and U.S.

Maritime Administrator Sean Connaughton to deny ExxonMobil's BlueOcean
Energy proposal under the Deepwater Port Act.

Huckabee's muzzle control problem By Jim Tankersley 27 Dec 2007
Republican Mike Huckabee took his presidential campaign for a quick
pheasant-hunting expedition in Iowa on Wednesday, and at one point,
a reporter asked why he hadnt invited sporting enthusiast Dick
Cheney along. "Because I want to survive all the way through this,"
Huckabee replied, in a chuckling dig at the vice presidents [sic]
accidental shooting of a quail-hunting partner last year. Any good
sportsman, though, couldnt miss a distinctly Cheneyesque moment in
the press accounts of the former Arkansas governors morning hunt:

At one point, Huckabees party turned toward a cluster of reporters
and cameramen and, when they kicked up a pheasant, fired shotgun
blasts over the group's heads. [OMG, and the group didn't return
the favor?]

Giuliani ad links World War II, 9/11 27 Dec 2007 Rudy Giuliani's
presidential campaign will begin airing a new television ad Friday
in which he equates the resolve and heroism of Americans during
World War II with what he witnessed as mayor of New York City after
the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and in which he asserts
that the US will prevail in a war with Islamic terrorists.

WHO confirms inter-human bird flu transmission in Pakistan 27 Dec
2007 Experts with the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday
confirmed the first case of inter-human transmission of bird flu
in Pakistan, but ruled out any risk of a widespread outbreak.

Two Egyptians test positive for bird flu - ministry 27 Dec 2007 Two
Egyptians have tested positive for the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus,
a day after an Egyptian woman died of the disease, Egypt's health
ministry said on Thursday.

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[Previous lead stories:] 'The Hartford Courant wouldn't publish a
positive, smiling picture of Ned Lamont on its cover if God Himself
commanded it.' "Ned Wins, Joe's In!" By Lori Price 27 Dec 2007 When
Joe LieberBush lost the Connecticut Democratic primary - despite
the Hartford Courant exerting every fiber of its being to insure
that Reichwinger Joe would emerge victorious - their actual headline
read: "Ned Wins, Joe's In!" Also, they showed equivalent sized
photos of BOTH candidates, smiling. Prior to that day, the Courant
wouldn't publish a positive, smiling picture of Ned Lamont on its
cover if God Himself commanded it.

Wars Cost $15 Billion a Month, GOP Senator Says 27 Dec 2007 The
latest estimate of the growing costs of the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan and the worldwide battle against of terrorism -- nearly
$15 billion a month -- came last week from one of the Senate's
leading proponents of a continued U.S.

military presence in Iraq. "This cost of this war is approaching
$15 billion a month, with the Army spending $4.2 billion of that
every month," Sen. Ted Stevens (Alaska), the ranking Republican on
the Appropriations defense subcommittee, said in a little-noticed
floor speech Dec. 18. While most of the public focus has been on
the political fight over troop levels, the Congressional Research
Service (CRS) reported this month that the Bush administration's
request for the 2008 fiscal year of $189.3 billion for Defense
Department operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and worldwide counterterrorism
activities was 20 percent higher than for fiscal 2007 and 60 percent
higher than for fiscal 2006.

'The Americans assassinated them both.' U.S. Defends Soldiers'
Actions in Killing of 2 Iraqis in Baqubah 27 Dec 2007 Two Iraqi men
killed by American soldiers north of Baghdad on Tuesday, including
a member of a U.S.-backed security force, were shot after one of
them [allegedly] fired on the soldiers and the other then attempted
to pick up a weapon, according to an account of the incident provided
by U.S. military officials on Wednesday. ...Both slain men had been
bound in plastic handcuffs. Iraqis who gathered at the scene of the
shootings used the vest and the handcuffs as evidence that the
killings were unjustified and alleged that the men were first
captured and then shot.

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