Filed at 9:37 pm, Saturday February 25th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
From the arch-conservative New York Post:
Al Qaeda warned the government of the United Arab Emirates more than three years ago that it “infiltrated” key government agencies, according to a disturbing document released by the U.S. military.
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The explosive document is certain to become ammunition for critics of the controversial UAE port deal, who fear the Dubai-based […]
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Filed at 8:45 pm, Saturday February 25th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Most of the corpses in Baghdad’s mortuary show signs of torture and execution. And the Interior Ministry is being blamed.
Hundreds of Iraqis are being tortured to death or summarily executed every month in Baghdad alone by death squads working from the Ministry of the Interior, the United Nations’ outgoing human rights chief in Iraq has […]
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Filed at 7:35 pm, Saturday February 25th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Filed at 6:26 pm, Saturday February 25th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
AMERICAblog: A week in the life of the Bush/Condi failed foreign policy agenda
And you thought your week was tough.
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Filed at 5:24 pm, Saturday February 25th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Apparently, there will be 6.5 Billion of us tonight. My goodness.
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Filed at 4:30 pm, Saturday February 25th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Reuters international newswire agency:
Iraq’s defense minister warned on Saturday of the risk of a “civil war” that “will never end” as sectarian violence flared again despite a second day of curfew in Baghdad.
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The gravest crisis since the U.S. invasion in 2003 threatens Washington’s hopes of withdrawing its 136,000 troops from Iraq.
“If there is a civil […]
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Filed at 3:35 pm, Saturday February 25th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Okay, okay, mostly the trouble part.
Remember that business about the White House discovering 250 pages of emails that they somehow ‘lost’ and then ‘found’ and then turned over to Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald? Yeah well, more on them. Check this out:
The emails are said to be explosive, and may prove that Cheney […]
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Filed at 2:42 pm, Saturday February 25th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Longtime readers may remember that I’ve bashed the military journalist “embed” program before, saying it led to propaganda stories, was biased towards the conservative publications, and kicked people out unfairly (say, for taking photographs of Humvees without adequate armor for instance, as two photographers were kicked out for a few months ago).
Well, I just read […]
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Filed at 1:43 pm, Saturday February 25th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
I thought I’d offer a little reminder. It’s the weekend, so I generally don’t post as much as on weekdas, but if there’s something you think I should be covering but I’m not, I thought I might remind you that we have a submit scoop feature. You can either fill out the scoop submit form, […]
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Filed at 12:31 pm, Saturday February 25th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
This is five-time indicted former top Vice Presidential aide Lewis Libby last October, right after he resigned form the White House, after being charged with the most crimes ever, of a Presidential aide:
And this was Libby yesterday, exiting a courthouse after trying a desperate attempt to throw out charges against him:
Quite a different picture, no? […]
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Filed at 11:38 am, Saturday February 25th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Yesterday, FOX News said that civil war in Iraq is a good thing. Now, CNN is saying that the bombing of Mosques is actually a sign of sucess.
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Filed at 10:09 am, Saturday February 25th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Have you heard about that whole petition that conservative host Bill O’Reilly of FOX has made up, trying to get liberal host Keith Olbermann fired from MSNBC? Keith takes it on, dismantles O’Reilly’s ratings lies, and even got MSNBC’s staff and on-air personalities (including conservative host Tucker Carlson!) to sign the petition as part of […]
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Filed at 9:11 pm, Friday February 24th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Out of nowhere, the White House apparently found 250 emails, and turned them over to Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald in the CIA leak case. RAW has the story, and a look at what this could mean.
Update: turns out that wasn’t 250 emails, it was 250 pages of emails. I’ve no idea if that’s less or […]
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Filed at 6:47 pm, Friday February 24th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Only on FOX News can you find people saying that a Civil War in Iraq is a “Good Thing” (apologies to Martha Stewart). A double-plus-good thing.
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Filed at 5:48 pm, Friday February 24th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
OOH:
Just 17% of Americans believe Dubai Ports World should be allowed to purchase operating rights to several U.S. ports.
There’s more findings over at Ramussen.
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