After being stonewalled by FBI, Justice Department and Congressional officials into her allegations of national security breaches by Turkish and Israeli agents, FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds tells her story:
- Found in Translation (American Conservative Magazine)
Study by two journalism organizations count 935 false statements on Iraq in the lead up to the war, with “at least 532 occasions that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or was trying to produce or obtain them or had links to al-Qaida or bothâ€:
- Study: False Statements Preceded War (Associated Press/Raw Story)
Baath reform law may end up excluding more Sunnis from government jobs because of unclear wording and de-baathification process run by the dubious neo-con Ahmed Chalabi:
- Iraq’s New Law on Ex-Baathists Could Bring Another Purge (Washington Post)
Driven by rising costs of scarce goods from the Israeli blockade, Gazans bust down a border fence with Egypt to go on a shopping spree for basic supplies such as food and medicine:
- Palestinians Topple Gaza Wall and Cross to Egypt (New York Times)
UN Security Council members agree to “ ‘increase the severity†of existing sanctions, but don’t force new sanctions:
- UN Powers Agree On New Iran Draft (BBC News)
Justices attack private property rights by extending sweeping legal immunity to all law federal enforcement officers “over the ‘loss of goods, merchandise or other property’â€:
- Court Rules Inmates Can’t Sue for Property Loss (Washington Post)
Afghan clerics exploit Islam to sentence a man to death for distributing an article written by his brother on northern warlords’ abuses:
- Afghan Journalist Sentenced to Death (Associated Press/Washington Post)
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