There was an old joke back in the ’70s: Getting Nixon for burglary was like getting Hitler for tax evasion. Now it seems life imitates black humor. From the BBC, June 7: Mixed day in court for Pinochet Augusto Pinochet… Read morePinochet to be charged with tax-evasion
The 9-11 Commission, its formal mission completed, is staying on as a private body, the 9-11 Public Discourse Project. In its first efforts, this private body is finding fault with the FBI for perceived inefficiencies in its intelligence capabilities, and… Read more9-11 Commish goes private, baits FBI
From the June 3 Stars & Stripes: Advocates See Veterans of War on Terror Joining the Ranks of the Homeless By Leo Shane III Stars and Stripes Friday 03 June 2005 Washington – Advocates for the homeless already are seeing… Read moreIraq, Afghan vets turning up homeless already
A leading senator, Joseph Biden of Delaware, suggested the time has come to consider a gradual closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. “This has become the greatest propaganda tool that exists for recruiting of terrorists around the world. And… Read moreBiden: Close Gitmo
Israeli police faced off against Palestinians throwing rocks at Jews outside Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque June 6 during Israel’s annual celebration of its 1967 capture of East Jerusalem. Police hurled several stun grenades as they moved into the area known to… Read moreViolence at Temple Mount
Four years after scores of rescue workers were injured in the smoldering wreckage of the World Trade Center, the federal government plans to rescind $125 million that was allocated to help them, and many of those who requested compensation are… Read more9-11 heroes get shafted
Afghan forces reportedly captured two key Taliban leaders as they were driving in Farah province June 4. The two, Mullah Abdul Rahim – a deputy for a key Taliban commander said to be close to the militia’s fugitive leader, Mullah… Read moreTaliban commander captured; Afghan violence goes on
Ana Uzelac of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting’s Tribunal Update, which monitors the war crimes trials at The Hague, offers this account (reprinted by the Bosnian Institute News) of the implications of the Srebrenica massacre video which has… Read moreSrebrenica video prompts arrests in Serbia
Our comrade Ivo Skoric of BalkansNet.org sends in the following disturbing missive on a growing Serbian neo-Nazi element, at least in cyber-space. This seems historically incongruous, given the usual pro-Russia posture of Serb nationalists (juxtaposed to the pro-German posture of… Read more“Nazification” of Serbia?
A new outbreak of ethnic violence in Sri Lanka’s restive east is hindering tsunami relief efforts, a group of nearly 100 aid agencies said June 3. Shootings and grenade attacks have become commonplace in the east in recent months, blamed… Read moreSri Lanka “Moors” protest tsunami aid deal
The June 2 car bomb explosion in the Christian Beirut neighborhood of Ashrafieh that killed prominent anti-Syrian journalist Samir Kassir comes as an international team is investigating the February assassination of former prime minister Rafik Hariri. Anti-Syrian leaders were quick… Read moreReport from Lebanon
Turf wars among imprisoned drug gang leaders are responsible for a wave of violence in northern Mexico, the country’s new attorney general Daniel Cabeza de Vaca said May 27. Ironically, Mexico’s success in putting drug lords behind bars has prompted… Read moreViolence surges on Mexican border
