US millionaire linked to looted relicsMulti-millionaire James Ferrell, the CEO of America’s second largest propane gas company Ferrellgas, and an international network of smugglers and academics are making millions of dollars through their illegal dealings in looted Middle Eastern artefacts, according to a leading stolen antiquities activist.
Continue Reading June 29th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Times Online - A photo has emerged which it is claimed links the President-elect of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, with the taking of 60 American hostages during the US embassy siege in Tehran in 1979. A London-based Iranian news agency which opposes Mr Ahmadinejad is circulating the photograph, which it says was taken by the Associated [...]
Continue Reading June 29th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
As capitalized on by the Daily Show, George W Bush last week, during a press conference at the European Union Summit went on to say the following. The trouble starts, of course, the moment W is forced to answer unscripted questions. The first thing he does is cheer for John Bolton and then comes a [...]
Continue Reading June 29th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Kevin Lyda offers his take on the road towards totalitarianism and the loss of innocence over at the Daily Kos.
At some point in the formation of the Nazi party an innocent was killed. A jew, a gypsy, a homeless man, a baker, whatever. That person was killed and the Nazis who saw it [...]
Continue Reading June 29th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
The Israeli sniper that killed Tom Hurndall during an army operation in the Gaza Strip in April 2003 has been found guilty of manslaughter. As for the actual sentence, it will have to wait until August.
ThisisLondon - Hurndall’s sister, Sophie Hurndall, praised the verdict, but said the army must change its practices. Said there had [...]
Continue Reading June 27th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
CNN - It took all but two days until Donald Rumsfeld declared the entire Iran election to be a hoax.
Speaking on "Fox News Sunday," Rumsfeld said the Iranian government had paved the way for ultra-conservative Tehran mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to win the post. "So the fact that they had a mock election and elected [...]
Continue Reading June 27th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Cheney: Iraq will be ‘enormous success story’ Dick, having just finished reading George Orwell’s 1984 and looking up "throes" in the dictionary, is now saying that "we will succeed in Iraq, just like we did in Afghanistan. We will stand up a new government under an Iraqi-drafted constitution. We will defeat that insurgency, and, in [...]
Continue Reading June 25th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
AP - An Italian judge has ordered the arrest of 13 CIA agents for allegedly helping deport an imam to Egypt as part of U.S. anti-terrorism efforts, an Italian official familiar with the investigation said Friday.The agents are suspected in the seizure of an Egyptian-born imam identified as Abu Omar on the streets of Milan [...]
Continue Reading June 25th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Playing right into the hands of US warmongers, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won a landslide victory in the Iranian presidential elections.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the hardliner who will become Iran’s president in August, is hailed by the devout poor as a Robin Hood figure who will give them a slice of the Islamic Republic’s abundant oil wealth.Before the first [...]
Continue Reading June 25th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
CNN - The United States’ image is so tattered overseas two years after the Iraq invasion that communist China is viewed more favorably than the U.S. in many long-time Western European allies, an international poll has found. The poor image persists even though the Bush administration has been promoting freedom and democracy throughout the [...]
Continue Reading June 24th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
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