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
More Koran desecration is being reported — this time in Israel. Israeli parliamentarian Ahmed Tibi has called for a Knesset investigation of the incident, which is supposed to have taken place in Megiddo prison on June 7. Ha’aretz reports: Prisoners… Read moreKoran desecration reported in Israel
The following item was featured in JTA on June 7: Rudy to the rescue? Rudolph Giuliani offered to help Israel fight crime. “I am prepared to help you but it would have to be done on a clandestine basis, not… Read more“Giuliani time” in Israel?
On May 27, Servicio Paz y Justicia (SERPAJ) Paraguay condemned an agreement approved by the Paraguayan Congress which will allow US troops into the country for an 18-month training and advisory mission from June 1, 2005 through December 31, 2006…. Read moreUS troops to Paraguay
While Chilean ex-Minister of the Interior, Jose Miguel Insulza, assumes the post of Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary General, Chile’s indigenous Mapuche bring their case to that same organization, accusing the Chilean government of human rights violations. Having exhausted… Read moreMapuche protest abuse of Chilean terror laws to OAS
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
William Schulz, executive director of Amnesty International, speaking on “Fox News Sunday,” charged: “The U.S. is maintaining an archipelago of prisons around the world, many of them secret prisons, into which people are being literally disappeared, held in indefinite, incommunicado… Read moreAmnesty: US kills prisoners in secret global archipelago
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
