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      Concern Growing in Sudan over Attempt to Charge President

      Posted by Jeff from Voice of America

      Demonstrations are expected in the Sudanese capital Khartoum to protest the decision of the International Criminal Court's (ICC) chief prosecutor to bring war crimes charges against President Omar al-Bashir. As Derek Kilner reports from VOA's East Africa bureau in Nairobi, the announcement has been greeted with concern by many in Sudan, including opposition party leaders and the former southern rebels sharing power in the national government.

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    • Top Bush aides directed torture from the White House

      Posted by Sandyenglish

      Speaking to the WSWS, Francis Boyle, a professor of international law and human rights at the University of Illinois, said, "Clearly this was criminal activity at the time they committed it. At the very least, it violated the Geneva Conventions, the Convention Against Torture, the War Crimes Act, and the federal anti-torture statutes. Clearly these would be impeachable offenses."

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      Jeremy Scahill: Confronting Blackwater on its Killing of Iraqis

      Posted by j1o2n3a4s5 from Huffington Post

      Last week, Jeremy spoke at a conference organized by NYU's Center on Law and Security called "Privatizing Defense: Blackwater, Contractors, and American Security." Also present at the conference were Blackwater Worldwide vice president Martin Strong and a lawyer for Blackwater, David Hammond. At the conference, I confronted Strong on Blackwater's killi...

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    • Rigged Trials at Guantanamo

      Posted by okami from Truth Out

      The litany of complaints about the legal treatment of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay is long, disturbing and by now familiar. Nonetheless, a new wave of shock and criticism greeted the Pentagon's announcement on February 11 that it was charging six Guantánamo detainees, including alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, with war crimes - and seeking the death penalty for all of them.

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    j1o2n3a4s5 comments on:

    Iraqi Civilians incl. Children Mutilated by Coalition

    http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2007/0907/iraqiresistancereport_060907.htm

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    5:56 pm 9/08/07
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    Link between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden: BCCI

    Tax documents and other financial records show that Bath, an aircraft broker with controversial ties to Saudi Arabia sheiks, had invested $50,000 in Arbusto, granting him a 5 percent interest in two limited partnerships controlled by Dubya.
    Time magazine described Bath in 1991 as “a deal broker whose alleged associations run from the CIA to a major shareholder and director of the Bank of Credit & Commerce.” BCCI, as it was more commonly known, closed its doors in July 1991 amid charges of multibillion-dollar fraud and global news reports that the financial institution had been heavily involved in drug money laundering, arms brokering, covert intelligence work, bribery of government officials and%u2014here’s the kicker%u2014aid to terrorists.
    Bath was never directly implicated in the BCCI scandal, but according to The Outlaw Bank, an award-winning 1993 book by Time correspondents, Jonathan Beaty and S.C. Gwynne, Bath originally “made his fortune by investing money for [Sheikh Kalid bin] Mahfouz and another BCCI-connected Saudi, Sheikh bin Laden,” reportedly the brother of none other than Osama bin Laden, the man accused by the U.S. government of masterminding the August 1998 terrorist bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania which killed more than 250 people.
    According to court documents, Bath swore that in 1977 he represented four prominent and wealthy Saudi Arabians as a trustee and used his name on their investments in the United States. In return, he received a 5 percent interest in their deals. Time reporters Beaty and Gwynne suggest in their book that the $50,000 Bath invested in Dubya’s Arbusto Energy drilling company may have belonged to Bath’s Saudi clients since the Houston businessman “had no substantial money of his own at the time.”
    The FBI and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network later investigated Bath after allegations were made by one of his American business partners that the Saudis were using Bath and their giant piggy bank to influence U.S. policy. (Dubya’s father had been appointed by President Ford to head the CIA from 1976%u201377.)

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    8:48 pm 4/06/07
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    Jeff comments on:

    Bush Family Purchases 98,842 acres in Paraguay

    Hey NewsClouders – I’d love to see more focus on this story. Please post any links you find. I think there’s a lot more here than is on the surface.

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    8:55 am 12/13/06
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    j1o2n3a4s5 comments on:

    No Standards, No Accountability

    ONE UP

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    11:18 pm 8/03/06
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    j1o2n3a4s5 comments on:

    A Time For Mutiny?

    defect now!, support the troops who rightfuly defect or commit mutiny in the name of the american people and all that is stood for our shared humanity all, we got your back just turn your back on the us military or take it over and turn it towards the liar in chief thar mislead U the world with his lie that there vwas 'evil' Hah

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    12:32 am 6/05/06
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    Jeff

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    Jeff is the founder of NewsCloud. He is also a freelance writer and blogs at Idealog.

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