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Archive for January 16th, 2008

Can Blackwater Be Prosecuted?

By- Suzie-Q @ 7:10 PM MST

DoJ tells Congress: Prosecuting Blackwater for Nisour Square Shootings Will Be Mighty Difficult

By Paul Kiel – January 16, 2008, 2:47PM
No surprise here:
Justice Department officials have told Congress that they face serious legal difficulties in pursuing criminal prosecutions of Blackwater security guards involved in a September shooting [...]

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Evening Jukebox… Piece Of Me

By- Suzie-Q @ 7:00 PM MST

Britney Spears – Piece Of Me

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by Geezer Power …3:02 pm

Asif Ali Zardari and Family
PPP submits petition for UN probe in Bhutto’s killing
16 Jan 2008, 1430 hrs IST,PTI
ISLAMABAD: Slain former premier Benazir Bhutto’s party on Wednesday said it had submitted a petition to the United Nations seeking an investigation into her assassination after the Pakistan government refused to forward the [...]

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Wexler: Cheney impeachment ’stronger than Watergate.’

GEF @ 10:32 AM MST
via: Thinkprogress

Wexler: Cheney impeachment ’stronger than Watergate.’
Last night, Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) took to the House floor to urge the House Judiciary Committee to begin impeachment hearings into Vice President Cheney for “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Wexler, who has already acquired nearly 190,000 supporters through his website, explained his next [...]

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How the Pentagon Planted a False Story

Sudhan @10:20 CET

by Gareth Porter | Antiwar.com, January 16, 2008

Senior Pentagon officials, evidently reflecting a broader administration policy decision, used an off-the-record Pentagon briefing to turn the Jan. 6 U.S.-Iranian incident in the Strait of Hormuz into a sensational story demonstrating Iran’s military aggressiveness, a reconstruction of the events following the incident shows.
The initial press [...]

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