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color=#000000><FONT color=#080000><FONT size=3><STRONG>Breaking News and
Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government<BR></STRONG>04 Sep
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<DIV align=left><A
title="http://www.legitgov.org/US-defends-use-white-phosphorus-weapons-Iraq-CLG-archives CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="http://www.legitgov.org/US-defends-use-white-phosphorus-weapons-Iraq-CLG-archives"
target=_blank><STRONG
title="http://www.legitgov.org/US-defends-use-white-phosphorus-weapons-Iraq-CLG-archives CTRL + Click to follow link">US
defends use of white phosphorus weapons in Iraq - CLG
archives</STRONG></A><STRONG> --US, UK used white phosphorous in Falluja in
2005.</STRONG> Posted by Lori Price, <A
title="http://www.legitgov.org/ CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="http://www.legitgov.org/" target=_blank>www.legitgov.org </A>03 Sep 2013
>From <A
title="http://www.legitgov.org/shortnews_1105_page_two.html CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="http://www.legitgov.org/shortnews_1105_page_two.html"
target=_blank><STRONG
title="http://www.legitgov.org/shortnews_1105_page_two.html CTRL + Click to follow link">November
2005 Archives, Page Two.</STRONG></A> <STRONG><A
title="http://smh.com.au/news/world/us-denies-illegal-use-of-weapons-in-iraq/2005/11/17/1132016927074.html CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="http://smh.com.au/news/world/us-denies-illegal-use-of-weapons-in-iraq/2005/11/17/1132016927074.html"
target=display>US denies illegal use of weapons in Iraq</A></STRONG> 18 Nov 2005
(The Sydney Morning Herald) <SPAN style="COLOR: #ff0000"><STRONG>The Pentagon
has acknowledged using incendiary white phosphorus munitions in a 2004
counterinsurgency offensive in the Iraqi city of Falluja, but defended their use
as legal</STRONG></SPAN>. A Pentagon spokesman, Lieutenant-Colonel Barry
Venable, said on Wednesday that the US military had not used the highly
flammable weapons against civilians, contrary to an Italian state television
report this month that said the weapons were used against men, women and
children in Falluja who were burned to the bone. "We categorically deny that
claim," Colonel Venable said. "It's part of our conventional weapons inventory
and we use it like we use any other conventional weapon," said another Pentagon
spokesman, Bryan Whitman. Colonel Venable said white phosphorus was not outlawed
or banned by any convention. However, a protocol to the 1980 Convention on
Conventional Weapons forbids using incendiary weapons against civilians or
against military targets amid concentrations of civilians. <STRONG>The US did
not sign the protocol</STRONG>. <STRONG><A
title="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N16599015.htm CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N16599015.htm" target=_blank>US
defends use of white phosphorus weapons in Iraq</A></STRONG> 16 Nov 2005
(Reuters) The Pentagon on Wednesday acknowledged using incendiary
white-phosphorus munitions in a 2004 'counterinsurgency' offensive in the Iraqi
city of Falluja, but defended their use as legal. Army Lt. Col. Barry Venable, a
Pentagon spokesman, said the U.S. military had not used the highly flammable
weapons against civilians, contrary to an Italian state television report this
month which said the <STRONG>weapons were used against men, women and children
in Falluja who were burned to the bone</STRONG>. <STRONG><A
title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4441822.stm CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4441822.stm" target=_blank>UK
used white phosphorus in Iraq</A></STRONG> 16 Nov 2005 (BBC) UK troops have used
white phosphorus in Iraq - but only to create smokescreens
<STRONG>[?!?]</STRONG>, Defence Secretary John Reid has said. MPs are worried by
the admission by US forces that they used the controversial substance in the
Iraqi city of Falluja - something they had previously denied. <STRONG><A
title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4440664.stm CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4440664.stm" target=_blank>US used
white phosphorus in Iraq</A></STRONG> 15 Nov 2005 (BBC) The Pentagon has
confirmed that US troops used white phosphorus during last year's offensive in
the northern Iraqi city of Falluja. The US earlier denied it had been used in
Falluja.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><A
href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10283758/First-Syria-rebels-armed-and-trained-by-CIA-on-way-to-battlefield.html"
target=_blank><STRONG
title="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10283758/First-Syria-rebels-armed-and-trained-by-CIA-on-way-to-battlefield.html CTRL + Click to follow link">First
Syria 'rebels' armed and trained by CIA 'on way to battlefield'</STRONG></A> 03
Sep 2013 The first cell of Syrian 'rebels' trained and armed by the CIA is
making its way to the battlefield, President Barack Obama has reportedly told
senators. Mr Obama said that a 50-man [terrorist] cell, believed to have been
trained by US special forces in Jordan, was making its way across the border
into Syria, according to the New York Times. The deployment of the rebel unit
seems to be the first tangible measure of support since Mr Obama announced in
June that the US would begin providing the opposition with small arms.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><A href="http://rt.com/usa/congress-approve-attack-syria-364/"
target=_blank><STRONG
title="http://rt.com/usa/congress-approve-attack-syria-364/ CTRL + Click to follow link">Congress
moves to approve Syria strike</STRONG></A> 03 Sep 2013 Obama's battle to get
congressional approval for a military strike on Syria moved a step closer
Tuesday, with leaders of both parties in Congress announcing that the United
States should respond to Syrian President Assad's alleged use of chemical
weapons. US President Barack Obama convinced leaders of both Democrats and
Republicans in Congress to support his request for the authorization of a
military strike on Syria. After a meeting with more than a dozen senior
lawmakers this week, members of both parties went public, praising Obama's plan
and pledging a 'yes' vote on the operation against the Syrian government.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><A
href="http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/us-navy-deploys-five-warships-one-amphibious-ship-to-mediterranean-for-syria_873489.html"
target=_blank><STRONG
title="http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/us-navy-deploys-five-warships-one-amphibious-ship-to-mediterranean-for-syria_873489.html CTRL + Click to follow link">US
Navy deploys five warships, one amphibious ship to Mediterranean for
Syria</STRONG></A> 02 Sep 2013 The US Navy has deployed an amphibious transport
ship to the Mediterranean, where five destroyers are already in place for
possible missile strikes on Syria, a defense official said Sunday. The USS San
Antonio, with several helicopters and hundreds of Marines on board, is "on
station in the Eastern Mediterranean" but "has received no specific tasking,"
said the defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Unlike the
destroyers deployed to the area, the San Antonio carries no Tomahawk cruise
missiles but can ferry up to four helicopters and is designed to bring Marines
ashore by chopper or landing craft.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><A href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.544797"
target=_blank><STRONG
title="http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.544797 CTRL + Click to follow link">U.S.
positioning aircraft carrier for possible strike on Syria</STRONG></A> 02 Sep
2103 The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and other ships in its
strike group are heading west toward the Red Sea to help support a limited [sic]
<A
title="http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.544577 CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.544577" target=_blank>U.S.
strike</A> on Syria, if 'needed,' defense officials said on Sunday. The Nimitz
carrier strike group, which includes four destroyers and a cruiser, has no
specific orders to move to the eastern Mediterranean at this point, but is
moving west in the Arabian Sea so it can do so if asked. It was not immediately
clear when the ships would enter the Red Sea, but they had not arrived by Sunday
evening, said one official.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><A
href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-soldiers-amass-on-lebanese-border/"
target=_blank><STRONG
title="http://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-soldiers-amass-on-lebanese-border/ CTRL + Click to follow link">'IDF
soldiers mass on Lebanese border'</STRONG></A><STRONG> --Media reports claim
Israeli forces have mobilized in the north ahead of a possible US attack on
Syria</STRONG> 31 Aug 2013 Lebanese media reported Saturday that the IDF has
mobilized a large number of troops along the Israel-Lebanon border, ahead of a
likely US attack on Syria following the alleged use of chemical weapons by
regime forces last week. According to the reports, which were not confirmed by
the IDF, Israeli soldiers were deployed in areas bordering the eastern areas of
south Lebanon, namely the Upper Galilee, the Shebaa Farms and the Golan
Heights.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><A
href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ilFswkY19YM1gOA5uURFinw-TglA"
target=_blank><STRONG
title="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ilFswkY19YM1gOA5uURFinw-TglA CTRL + Click to follow link">US
Marine website targeted by pro-Assad hackers</STRONG></A> 02 Sep 2013 Pro-Syrian
regime hackers posted messages on a US Marine Corps recruiting website on
Monday, urging troops to defy orders from President Barack Obama. The hackers
showed photos of people in American uniforms holding hand-written signs saying
they would not fight for 'al-Qaeda' in Syria. "Obama is a traitor who wants to
put your lives in danger to rescue al-Qaeda insurgents," the message read,
according to a screenshot from The Wall Street Journal.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><A
href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/03/us-syria-crisis-idUSBRE97K0EL20130903"
target=_blank><STRONG
title="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/03/us-syria-crisis-idUSBRE97K0EL20130903 CTRL + Click to follow link">Obama
wins backing for Syria strike from key figures in Congress</STRONG></A> 03 Sep
2013 President Barack Obama won the backing of key figures in the U.S. Congress,
including Republicans, in his call for limited U.S. strikes on Syria to punish
President Bashar al-Assad for his suspected use of chemical weapons against
civilians. In remarks that appeared to question the legality of U.S. plans to
strike Syria without U.N. backing, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the use of
force is only legal when it is in self-defense or with Security Council
authorization. Assad denies deploying poison gas that killed hundreds of
civilians last month.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><STRONG>Two sociopath peas is a pod: </STRONG><A
href="http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/03/20308438-boehner-says-hell-back-obama-on-syria-strikes"
target=_blank><STRONG
title="http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/03/20308438-boehner-says-hell-back-obama-on-syria-strikes CTRL + Click to follow link">Boehner
says he'll back Obama on Syria strikes</STRONG></A> 03 Sep 2013 House Speaker
John Boehner, R-Ohio, on Tuesday endorsed President Barack Obama’s call for
military action in Syria. The top elected Republican in Washington, Boehner said
following a meeting at the White House that he intended to support Obama’s plan
for limited strikes against the regime of Bashar Assad in Syria. "I am going to
support the president's call for action,” he told reporters. "I believe my
colleagues should support this call for action."</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><A
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics-live/the-senates-syria-hearing-live-updates/?id=ed01ca14-222b-4a23-b12c-c0b0d9d4fe0a"
target=_blank><STRONG
title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics-live/the-senates-syria-hearing-live-updates/?id=ed01ca14-222b-4a23-b12c-c0b0d9d4fe0a CTRL + Click to follow link">McCain
playing poker on his iPhone during Syria hearing</STRONG></A> 03 Sep 2013
(Washington Post) Senator John McCain (R-Sociopath-Ariz.) plays poker on his
IPhone during a U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing where
Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, and Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey testify concerning the use of
force in Syria, on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, Tuesday, September 3,
2013.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><A
href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/09/01/201002/obamas-proposal-seeks-broad-war.html"
target=_blank><STRONG
title="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/09/01/201002/obamas-proposal-seeks-broad-war.html CTRL + Click to follow link">Obama's
proposal seeks broad war power, despite vow of limits</STRONG></A> 01 Sep 2013
While President Barack Obama insists he wants only a limited air attack on
Syria, his proposed authorization of force would empower him to do much more
than that. The substantive part of Obama's proposed authorization of the use of
military force, conveyed to congressional leaders over the weekend, contains 172
words. That's significantly more than either the 1964 Tonkin Gulf [aka false
flag] Resolution authorizing the Vietnam War or the 2001 resolution authorizing
retaliation for the 9/11 terror attacks [aka false flag], two measures that
later became notorious for how aggressively presidents used them.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT color=#000000><A
href="http://rt.com/news/syria-hague-military-parliament-276/"
target=_blank><STRONG
title="http://rt.com/news/syria-hague-military-parliament-276/ CTRL + Click to follow link">Only
'diplomatic support': UK Foreign Secretary says Syria military action ruled
out</STRONG></A> 01 Sep 2013 William Hague, the UK's foreign secretary, has
ruled out military intervention in Syria stating Britain will only be offering
diplomatic support in the light of PM Cameron's defeat on the parliament vote.
The UK Chancellor slammed Labour "opportunists." "Parliament has spoken. I don't
think it is realistic to think that we can go back to parliament every week with
the same question having received no for an answer," Hague said on the Murnaghan
Show on Sky News on Sunday.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><A
href="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/white-house-congress-syria-protect-israel-96133.html"
target=_blank><STRONG
title="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/white-house-congress-syria-protect-israel-96133.html CTRL + Click to follow link">White
House to Congress: Help protect Israel</STRONG></A><STRONG> </STRONG>02 Sep 2013
The Obama administration is using a time-tested pitch to get Congress to back
military strikes in Syria: It will help protect Israel. Israel's enemies,
including Iran and the <SPAN
style="TEXT-DECORATION: line-through">terrorist</SPAN> rebel group Hezbollah,
could be emboldened if Congress fails to approve action against the <SPAN
style="TEXT-DECORATION: line-through">regime</SPAN> government of Syrian
President Bashar Assad, senior administration officials said Saturday. And for
the second day in a row, President Barack Obama publicly cited the threat
against Israel if Assad's reported use of chemical weapons goes unchecked.
Secretary of State John Kerry also referred to Israel repeatedly as he made the
rounds on all five major Sunday morning news shows -- as well as comparing Assad
to Adolf Hitler. [<STRONG>Media: Why is it the 'Assad regime' but the 'Obama
administration?' Obama's killed thousands of civilians with drones worldwide.
--LRP</STRONG>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><A
href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/09/02/201027/to-some-us-case-for-syrian-gas.html"
target=_blank><STRONG
title="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/09/02/201027/to-some-us-case-for-syrian-gas.html CTRL + Click to follow link">To
some, US case for Syrian gas attack and need for strike has too many
holes</STRONG></A> 02 Sep 2013 The Obama administration's public case for
attacking Syria is riddled with inconsistencies and hinges mainly on
circumstantial evidence [aka lies], undermining U.S. efforts this week to build
support at home and abroad for a punitive strike against Bashar Assad's
government. The case Secretary of State John Kerry laid out last Friday
contained claims that were disputed by the United Nations, inconsistent in some
details with British and French intelligence reports or lacking sufficient
transparency for international chemical weapons experts to accept at face value.
After the false weapons claims [aka lies] preceding the U.S.-led invasion of
Iraq, the threshold for evidence to support intervention is exceedingly
high.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><A
href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/aug/30/syria-chemical-attack-war-intervention-oil-gas-energy-pipelines"
target=_blank><STRONG
title="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/aug/30/syria-chemical-attack-war-intervention-oil-gas-energy-pipelines CTRL + Click to follow link">Syria
intervention plan fueled by oil interests, not chemical weapon
concern</STRONG></A> 30 Aug 2013 In 2009 - the same year former French foreign
minister Dumas alleges the British began planning operations in Syria - Assad <A
title="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jhPTvibpnk98IR09Amuc5QzWQsIQ CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jhPTvibpnk98IR09Amuc5QzWQsIQ"
target=_blank>refused to sign</A> a proposed agreement with Qatar that would <A
title="http://www.thenational.ae/business/energy/qatar-seeks-gas-pipeline-to-turkey CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="http://www.thenational.ae/business/energy/qatar-seeks-gas-pipeline-to-turkey"
target=_blank>run a pipeline</A> from the latter's North field, contiguous with
Iran's South Pars field, through Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria and on to Turkey,
with a view to supply European markets - albeit crucially bypassing Russia.
Assad's rationale was "to protect the interests of [his] Russian ally, which is
Europe's top supplier of natural gas." Instead, the following year, Assad
pursued negotiations for an <A
href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/08/201285133440424621.html"
target=_blank>alternative</A> $10 billion pipeline plan with Iran, across Iraq
to Syria, that would also potentially allow Iran to supply gas to Europe from
its South Pars field shared with Qatar. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
for the project was signed in July 2012 - just as Syria's civil war was
spreading to Damascus and Aleppo - and earlier this year Iraq signed a <A
title="http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2013/02/20/267257.html CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2013/02/20/267257.html"
target=_blank>framework agreement</A> for construction of the gas
pipelines.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><A
href="http://friendsofsyria.wordpress.com/2013/09/01/cnn-caught-staging-news-segments-on-syria-with-actors/"
target=_blank><STRONG
title="http://friendsofsyria.wordpress.com/2013/09/01/cnn-caught-staging-news-segments-on-syria-with-actors/ CTRL + Click to follow link">CNN
Caught Staging News Segments on Syria With Actors</STRONG></A> 01 Sep 2013
Anderson Cooper and CNN have been caught staging fake news about Syria to
justify military intervention. The primary "witness" that the mainstream media
is using as a source in Syria has been caught staging fake news segments. Recent
video evidence proves that "Syria Danny" [LOL], the supposed activist who has
been begging for military intervention on CNN, is really just a paid <A
title="http://intellihub.com/2013/08/18/footage-of-crisis-actors-surface-from-egypt-and-syria-riots/ CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="http://intellihub.com/2013/08/18/footage-of-crisis-actors-surface-from-egypt-and-syria-riots/"
target=_blank>actor</A> and a liar. The following video shows him contradicting
himself while off air, and even <STRONG>asking crew members to "get the gunfire
sounds ready" for his video conference</STRONG> with Anderson Cooper on CNN.
[<STRONG>Yes, it's reminiscent of Robbie Parker laughing and asking what he
should say at his Sandy Hook presser: <A
title="http://www.legitgov.org/So-just-read-card-Yeah-just-read-card CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="http://www.legitgov.org/So-just-read-card-Yeah-just-read-card"
target=_blank>'So, just read the card?' 'Yeah, just read the
card.'</A></STRONG>.]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><A
href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/government-let-british-company-export-nerve-gas-chemicals-to-syria-8793642.html"
target=_blank><STRONG
title="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/government-let-british-company-export-nerve-gas-chemicals-to-syria-8793642.html CTRL + Click to follow link">Government
let British company export nerve gas chemicals to Syria</STRONG></A> 01 Sep 2013
The Government was accused of "breathtaking laxity" in its arms controls tonight
after it emerged that officials authorised the export to Syria of two chemicals
capable of being used to make a nerve agent such as sarin a year ago. The
Business Secretary, Vince Cable, will on Monday be asked by MPs to explain why a
British company was granted export licences for the dual-use substances for six
months in 2012 while Syria's civil war was raging and concern was rife that the
government could use chemical weapons on its own people. The disclosure of the
licences for potassium fluoride and sodium fluoride, which can both be used as
precursor chemicals in the manufacture of nerve gas, came as the US Secretary of
State John Kerry said the United States had evidence that sarin gas was used in
last month's atrocity [by the CIA-backed 'rebels'] in Damascus.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><A
href="http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/6/syrian-rebels-used-sarin-nerve-gas-not-assads-regi"
target=_blank><STRONG
title="http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/6/syrian-rebels-used-sarin-nerve-gas-not-assads-regi CTRL + Click to follow link">Syrian
rebels used Sarin nerve gas, not Assad's government: U.N. official</STRONG></A>
06 May 2013 Testimony from victims strongly suggests it was the rebels, not the
Syrian government, that used Sarin nerve gas during a recent incident in the
revolution-wracked nation, a senior U.N. diplomat said Monday. Carla del Ponte,
a member of the <A
title="http://p.washingtontimes.com/topics/un-independent-international-commission-of-inquiry/ CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="http://p.washingtontimes.com/topics/un-independent-international-commission-of-inquiry/"
target=_blank>U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry</A> on Syria,
told Swiss TV there were "strong, concrete suspicions but not yet
incontrovertible proof," that rebels seeking to oust Syrian leader Bashar
al-Assad had used the nerve agent. But she said her panel had not yet seen any
evidence of Syrian government forces using chemical weapons, according to the
BBC, but she added that more investigation was needed.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><A
href="http://news.sky.com/story/1136197/iraq-british-troops-deny-mutilation-claims"
target=_blank><STRONG
title="http://news.sky.com/story/1136197/iraq-british-troops-deny-mutilation-claims CTRL + Click to follow link">Iraq:
British Troops Deny Mutilation Claims</STRONG></A> 02 Sep 2013 Bodies of
insurgents killed in a battle in Iraq were not mutilated by British troops, nor
were detainees mistreated, a public inquiry has heard. On the first day of
evidence from military witnesses, the <A
title="http://www.alsweadyinquiry.org/index.htm CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="http://www.alsweadyinquiry.org/index.htm" target=_blank>Al-Sweady
Inquiry</A> was told that claims that Iraqis killed in the Battle of Danny Boy
were mutilated were "baseless rumours" [?] spread to discredit coalition forces.
The inquiry is examining claims that <SPAN style="COLOR: #ff0000"><STRONG>20 or
more Iraqis were unlawfully killed</STRONG></SPAN> at Camp Abu Naji (CAN) near
Majar-al-Kabir on May 14 and 15, 2004, and that <SPAN
style="TEXT-DECORATION: line-through">detainees</SPAN> prisoners were
ill-treated there and later at Shaibah Logistics Base.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><A
href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-03/kbr-seeks-combat-immunity-in-soldier-toxic-exposure-suit.html"
target=_blank><STRONG
title="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-03/kbr-seeks-combat-immunity-in-soldier-toxic-exposure-suit.html CTRL + Click to follow link">KBR
Seeks Combat Immunity in Soldier Toxic-Exposure Suit</STRONG></A> 03 Sep 2013
KBR Inc. is invoking federal laws shielding contractors during wartime to avoid
a Texas trial over injuries claimed by troops who were exposed to [KBR's] toxic
chemicals while guarding a work site in Iraq. KBR is set to argue today before a
U.S. Court of Appeals panel in El Paso, Texas, that such
contractor-on-the-battlefield statutes act as a firewall to litigation. Lawyers
for injured soldiers are urging the three-judge panel to reject KBR's theory
that the Houston-based company is immune from the lawsuits.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><A href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23925494"
target=_blank><STRONG
title="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23925494 CTRL + Click to follow link">Taliban
bombers attack US base in Afghanistan</STRONG></A> 02 Sep 2013 The Taliban have
attacked a US base in eastern Afghanistan, with reports of a series of
explosions. The morning raid took place on the Torkham base in Nangahar
province, near the Pakistan border. A Taliban spokesman told the BBC that the
group was behind the attack. The forward operating base is home to some 66,000
US troops serving in Afghanistan along with forces from other countries.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> </DIV>
<DIV align=left><A
href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/assange-asks-sweden-investigate-lost-luggage-20141195"
target=_blank><STRONG
title="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/assange-asks-sweden-investigate-lost-luggage-20141195 CTRL + Click to follow link">Sweden
Investigates Lost WikiLeaks Luggage, Including Evidence of Alleged U.S. War
Crime in Afghanistan</STRONG></A> 03 Sep 2013 Swedish police opened an
investigation Tuesday after WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange urged them to find
out what happened to a suitcase he suspects was stolen from him in 2010 by
intelligence agents as he traveled from Sweden to Germany. The suitcase
contained three laptops that had WikiLeaks materials, <SPAN
style="COLOR: #ff0000"><STRONG>including evidence of a war crime allegedly
committed by U.S. troops in Afghanistan</STRONG></SPAN>, according to an
affidavit that Assange's lawyer filed along with a criminal complaint to police
at Stockholm's Arlanda Airport. In the affidavit, Assange suggested his bag may
have been illegally seized "as part of an intelligence operation with the
purpose of gathering information about me."</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><A
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/us-intelligence-agencies-spend-millions-to-hunt-for-insider-threats-document-shows/2013/09/01/c6ab6c74-0ffe-11e3-85b6-d27422650fd5_story.html"
target=_blank><STRONG
title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/us-intelligence-agencies-spend-millions-to-hunt-for-insider-threats-document-shows/2013/09/01/c6ab6c74-0ffe-11e3-85b6-d27422650fd5_story.html CTRL + Click to follow link">U.S.
intelligence agencies spend millions to hunt for insider threats, document
shows</STRONG></A> 01 Sep 2013 The U.S. government suspects that individuals
with connections to al-Qaeda [al-CIAduh] and other hostile groups have
repeatedly sought to obtain jobs in the intelligence community, and it
reinvestigates thousands of employees a year to reduce the threat that one of
its own may be trying to compromise closely held secrets, according to a
classified <A
title="http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/national/inside-the-2013-us-intelligence-black-budget/420/ CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/national/inside-the-2013-us-intelligence-black-budget/420/"
target=_blank>budget document</A>. The CIA found that among a subset of job
seekers whose backgrounds raised questions, roughly one out of every five had
"significant terrorist and/or hostile intelligence connections," according to
the <A
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/black-budget-summary-details-us-spy-networks-successes-failures-and-objectives/2013/08/29/7e57bb78-10ab-11e3-8cdd-bcdc09410972_story.html"
target=_blank>document</A>, which was provided to The Washington Post by former
National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> </DIV>
<DIV align=left><A
href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2408681/REVEALED-Secret-program-gives-federal-agents-nearly-instant-access-BILLIONS-AT-amp-T-phone-records-court-order.html"
target=_blank><STRONG
title="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2408681/REVEALED-Secret-program-gives-federal-agents-nearly-instant-access-BILLIONS-AT-amp-T-phone-records-court-order.html CTRL + Click to follow link">REVEALED:
Secret program gives federal agents nearly instant access to BILLIONS of
AT&T phone records without a court order</STRONG></A><STRONG> --Hemisphere
program allows federal agents to access details on rolling database of 4billion
calls a day that are process through AT&T switches --<SPAN
style="COLOR: #ff0000">Secret program in place since 2007 includes records
dating back to 1987</SPAN> </STRONG>02 Sep 2013 A secret government program
called Hemisphere gives federal agents nearly instantaneous access to billions
of AT&T phone records dating as far back as 1987, <STRONG>all without a
court order or the oversight of a judge</STRONG>, it was revealed today. It's a
spying database that dwarfs anything built by the National Security Agency to
date - and federal agents have routine access to it to conduct criminal
investigations. The AT&T database contains the location, time, phone number
and other metadata from every phone call that crosses the AT&T relay
switches - an estimated 4billion calls a day. Because the database captures any
call that travels across the company's lines, calls made by users of other
carriers are also included. Since 2007, federal agents have been able to access
the trove of information in minutes - simply by issuing a subpoena. <SPAN
style="COLOR: #ff0000"><STRONG>It appears little or no judicial oversight
governs the access to this information</STRONG></SPAN>.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> </DIV>
<DIV align=left><A
href="http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/222023281.html"
target=_blank><STRONG
title="http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/222023281.html CTRL + Click to follow link">NSA
directly spied on Brazil, Mexico leaders, mapped communications with aides -
Report</STRONG></A> 01 Sep 2013 The National Security Agency's spy program
targeted the communications of the Brazilian and Mexican presidents, and in the
case of Mexico's leader accessed the content of emails before he was elected,
the U.S. journalist who obtained secret documents from NSA leaker Edward Snowden
said Sunday. Journalist Glenn Greenwald, who lives in Rio de Janeiro, told
Globo's news program "Fantastico" that a document dated June 2012 shows that
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto's emails were being read. The document's
date is a month before Pena Nieto was elected. <STRONG>It's not clear if the
spying continues</STRONG>.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> </DIV>
<DIV align=left><A
href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/04/us-japan-fukushima-tanks-idUSBRE98301020130904"
target=_blank><STRONG>Record radiation readings near Fukushima contaminated
water tanks</STRONG></A><STRONG> --Rising radiation levels and leaks at the
plant have prompted international alarm</STRONG>. 04 Sep 2013 Radiation readings
around tanks holding contaminated water at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant
have spiked by more than a fifth to their highest levels, Japan's nuclear
regulator said, heightening concerns about the clean-up of the worst atomic
disaster <SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: line-through">in almost three
decades</SPAN>. Radiation hotspots have spread to three holding areas for
hundreds of hastily built tanks storing water contaminated by being flushed over
three reactors that melted down at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in March 2011.
Readings just above the ground near a set of tanks at the plant showed radiation
as high as 2,200 millisieverts (mSv), the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA)
said on Wednesday.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> </DIV>
<DIV align=left><A
href="http://www.france24.com/en/20130903-japan-spend-500m-water-leaks-fukushima"
target=_blank><STRONG
title="http://www.france24.com/en/20130903-japan-spend-500m-water-leaks-fukushima CTRL + Click to follow link">Japan
to spend $500m on radioactive water leaks at Fukushima</STRONG></A> 03 Sep 2013
Japan will spend up to *500 million of public funds to tackle radioactive water
leaks at Fukushima, reports said Tuesday, as the government vowed to take the
lead in the 'clean-up.' Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will gather members of his
nuclear disaster response team to decide on the government response to stop
toxic waste leaking into the Pacific ocean from the crippled plant, officials
said. Water from nearby hillsides has been flowing under the plant and mixing
with polluted water that has already seeped into the ground, resulting in <SPAN
style="TEXT-DECORATION: line-through">mildly</SPAN> radioactive water reaching
the sea.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><A
href="http://www.legitgov.org/British-police-arrest-16-non-proliferation-activists-nuclear-site"
target=_blank><STRONG
title="http://www.legitgov.org/British-police-arrest-16-non-proliferation-activists-nuclear-site CTRL + Click to follow link">British
police arrest 16 non-proliferation activists at nuclear site</STRONG></A> 02 Sep
2013 Police have arrested 16 people attending a demonstration at a nuclear
weapons facility owned by UK's Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE). The rally
started on early Monday in the southern village Burghfield, Berkshire with
protestors storming the site, trying to blockade its access points, including a
public highway. The civil resistance group have targeted their campaign at
Britain's nuclear weapons policy. They want disarmament of nukes and a halt to
the UK's Trident nuclear missile system.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><A
href="http://www.seattlepi.com/news/us/article/NYC-mayor-sues-over-law-easing-suits-vs-police-4783963.php"
target=_blank><STRONG
title="http://www.seattlepi.com/news/us/article/NYC-mayor-sues-over-law-easing-suits-vs-police-4783963.php CTRL + Click to follow link">NYC
mayor sues over law easing suits vs. police</STRONG></A> 03 Sep 2013 Mayor
Michael Bloomberg asked a court on Tuesday to block a law that would make it
easier for people to sue over stop-and-frisk or other police techniques,
continuing his press against new checks being imposed on the nation's biggest
police force. The mayor's lawsuit, which he had indicated he'd file, argues that
the measure treads into an area governed by state criminal law. It includes a
section explaining when and how police can stop, question and pat down people,
for instance.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><STRONG><FONT color=#ff0000>US vampire checkpoints:</FONT>
</STRONG><A
href="http://www.wbir.com/news/article/282983/2/Maryville-officers-train-for-mandatory-blood-draws-at-DUI-stops"
target=_blank><STRONG
title="http://www.wbir.com/news/article/282983/2/Maryville-officers-train-for-mandatory-blood-draws-at-DUI-stops CTRL + Click to follow link">Maryville,
TN officers train for mandatory blood draws at DUI stops</STRONG></A> 02 Aug
2013 Police officers in Maryville spent the day Friday learning how to properly
handle a mandatory blood draw at DUI stops. The Blount County Substance Abuse
Prevention Action Team and the Blount County District Attorney General's Office
worked with the officers. The workshop explained the process of getting and
serving a search warrant for a mandatory blood draw.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><A
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/val-brown/gus-the-polar-bear-free-a_b_3856712.html"
target=_blank><STRONG
title="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/val-brown/gus-the-polar-bear-free-a_b_3856712.html CTRL + Click to follow link">Gus
the Polar Bear - Free at last, Free at last.</STRONG></A> 03 Sep 2013 Gus the
Polar Bear's death has been widely eulogized in the news and social media over
the past few days, but nowhere have I seen outrage expressed about the plight of
Gus and other large mammals who "live" at zoos... Born in the arctic wilderness
of Toledo, Ohio, Gus never visited his natural habitat and was forced to spend
his life under house arrest, unable to roam the hundreds of miles that are the
normal home range of a polar bear. His North Sea was the size of an inflatable
backyard pool; the New York summer was his cool arctic breeze. He lived alone
for the last two years of his life, after his great love Ida died, no new bear
brought in to keep him company.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><A
href="http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/photos-vladimir-putin-takes-field-trip-to-aquarium"
target=_blank><STRONG
title="http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/photos-vladimir-putin-takes-field-trip-to-aquarium CTRL + Click to follow link">Vladimir
Putin takes field trip to aquarium, gives high five to walrus</STRONG></A> 02
Sep 2013 Russian President Vladimir Putin <A
href="http://eng.news.kremlin.ru/news/5914" target=_blank>visited</A> an
"oceanarium" that is being built on Russky Island in Vladivostok on Sunday.
While there, according to the Presidential Press and Information Office, Putin
"watched brief performances by dolphins and walruses" and toured the
construction. Putin also posed for photos with some of the animals and gave a
high five to one of the walruses. The English-language <A
title="http://eng.news.kremlin.ru/news/5914 CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="http://eng.news.kremlin.ru/news/5914" target=_blank>recap of the trip</A>
posted by the Presidential Press and Information Office noted Putin is
"monitoring the construction work and has visited the site on a number of
occasions already." (Photos)</DIV>
<P align=left><A
href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/lhota_would_have_let_kittens_get_OkcNwKTVk8pEbh6dVS1BjJ"
target=_blank><STRONG
title="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/lhota_would_have_let_kittens_get_OkcNwKTVk8pEbh6dVS1BjJ CTRL + Click to follow link">Lhota
would have let kittens get run over, says subway shouldn't have been shut
down</STRONG></A> 30 Aug 2013 (NY) The two wayward kittens who caused chaos on
the B and Q lines were recovering from their adventure today, as the mayoral
candidates weighed in on the frisky felines. Former MTA boss Joe Lhota
(R-Terrorist) said he would have kept the trains running, rather than
inconvenience hundreds of riders. The MTA cut power on Thursday morning to keep
the two from getting squashed by the B and Q trains.</P>
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