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RALEIGH, Noord-Carolina: De federale agenten overvielen wereldwijd Blackwater deze week als deel van een onderzoek van of het privé veiligheidsbedrijf federale wetten uitweek die de privé aankoop van automatische aanvalsgeweren belemmeren, de bedrijf bovengenoemde Donderdag.
Spreekbuis Anne Tyrrell van Blackwater zei onderzoekers met de Dienst van Alcohol, Tabak, Vuurwapens en het Explosieven gezochte arsenaal van Blackwater bij zijn collectieve [...]

De meerderheid van politieleiders is tegen een universeel DNA- gegevensbestand voor de inwoners van Groot-Brittannië.
Op een vergadering tijdens de Vereniging van de Belangrijkste jaarlijkse conferentie van de Politie van de Ambtenaren (Acpo), stemde 61 percent van politieleiders tegen het idee van het zetten van alle Britse ingezetenen op het nationale gegevensbestand.
Slechts 38 percent van de aanwezigen bij [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) | Het agentschap van de Nationale Veiligheid te hoeven niet om advocaten voor de gevangenen van de Baai van Guantanamo te vertellen of hun telefoons als deel van het binnenlandse het toezichtprogramma van het beleid van Bush, een federale rechter in New York besliste Woensdag werden onttrokken.
NSA heeft geweigerd om te zeggen of het binnen op de gesprekken van de advocaten luisterde die [...] zijn

By Greg Miller | WASHINGTON — The United States has paid more than $5 billion to reimburse Pakistan for counter-terrorism expenses that have often been exaggerated, if not fabricated, according to a government audit released Tuesday that blasts the Pentagon for poor management of the program.
The report concluded that the Pentagon could not properly account [...]

By Doug Smith | BAGHDAD — Nine Iraqi civilians were killed Wednesday in two armed clashes involving U.S. soldiers, local authorities reported. The military said U.S. soldiers were fired upon first in both incidents.
In the capital, three people were killed in a fiery crash after gunfire erupted as their vehicle passed U.S. soldiers with a [...]

By Ron F | According to UN figures, in the 2000 growing season opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan covered 82,000 hectares. (1)
Following a ban ruthlessly enforced by the Taliban opium cultivation declined to 8,000 hectares in the following year, according to the same reporting agency. Much of this remaining opium cultivation was carried out in [...]

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Criticism of Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe and the actions of his ruling Zanu PF party is growing. The most recent condemnation comes from former South African President Nelson Mandela, who mourned the “tragic failure of leadership” in Zimbabwe on Wednesday. They were the former leader’s first comments [...]

Bush administration lifts sanctions, moves to take North Korea off terrorist list.
President Bush said Thursday he will lift key trade sanctions against North Korea and remove it from the U.S. terrorism blacklist, a remarkable turnaround in policy toward the communist regime he once branded as part of an “axis of evil.”
The announcement came after North [...]

By James Macintyre | A senior arms lobbyist is gaining access to ministers, MPs and peers inside Parliament using a research assistant pass allotted to a member of the House of Lords who benefits financially from one of his companies, The Independent has learnt.
 
Robin Ashby, who is chairman of a defence consultancy firm that offers [...]

Think Progress | Nearly two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that detainees held at Guantánamo Bay have the right to habeas corpus and can thus challenge their detention in civilian courts, a U.S. Court of Appeals dealt another blow to the Bush administration’s detention policy.
The appeals court ruled that the Pentagon improperly designated [...]

Press TV | Rep. Dennis Kucinich has accused the US of forcing Iraq to privatize its oil fields and keeping US troops at war to protect Iraqi oil reserves. Kucinich, who has introduced measures to impeach George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, said Thursday that oil executives who secretly met with the vice president in [...]

By Patrick Radden Keefe | Sometime today, the Senate is likely to approve the most comprehensive overhaul of American surveillance law since the Watergate era. Unless you’re a government lawyer, a legal scholar, a masochist, or an insomniac, chances are you haven’t read the 114-page bill. Don’t beat yourself up: Neither have most of the [...]

By Spencer Ackerman | In August 2004, a Defense Dept. panel convened to investigate detainee abuse after the Abu Ghraib scandal issued its much-anticipated report. Interrogation techniques designed for use at Guantánamo Bay, which President George W. Bush had decreed outside the scope of the Geneva Conventions, had “migrated” to Iraq, which Bush recognized was [...]

Quqnoos | BRITISH troops have used missiles in Afghanistan which suck the air out of human targets, shred their internal organs and crush their bodies, according to a leading British newspaper.
The Hellfire missiles, also known as vacuum bombs, are condemned by human rights groups as “brutal”.
Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) admitted to the London Times [...]

How conflict exacerbates Somalia’s starvation
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says thousands of Somalis are malnourished and in need of urgent medical treatment.
This comes as local human rights groups claim conflict in the country has left more than 2,000 civilians dead so far this year.
Ama Boateng reports on the fighting that is exacerbating hunger and illness.
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