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John Bolton: US should bomb Iranian camps
Tuesday, 06 May 2008 14:25
Mr Bolton said that striking Iran would represent a major step towards
victory in Iraq. While he acknowledged that the risk of a hostile
Iranian response harming American’s overseas interests existed, he said
the damage inflicted by Tehran would be “far higher” if Washington took
no action.
“This is a case where the use of military force against a training camp
to show the Iranians we’re not going to tolerate this is really the most
prudent thing to do,” he said. “Then the ball would be in Iran’s court
to draw the appropriate lesson to stop harming our troops.”
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Inquiry: Hospitals couldn't handle terror attack
Tuesday, 06 May 2008 13:29
WASHINGTON — Hospital trauma centers in seven major cities do not have
the capacity to handle even a modest terrorist attack, according to
findings released Monday from a House committee investigation.
Lawmakers looked into hospitals' ability to deal with a sudden influx of
victims in the five cities considered at highest risk for terrorist
attack and in the two cities hosting this summer's political conventions.
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House panel subpoenas top Cheney aide
Tuesday, 06 May 2008 13:19
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Judiciary Committee voted Tuesday to compel
a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney to testify to the committee
about the Bush administration's interrogation practices.
David Addington, Cheney's chief of staff, refused to testify without a
subpoena. No date has been set for his appearance before Congress.
Addington is one of several lawyers believed to have played a key role
in crafting the administration's interrogation policies shortly after
the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, policies which some say amounted to
torture.
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Guantánamo Briton sues UK over 'torture evidence'
Tuesday, 06 May 2008 12:49
The last British resident left in Guantánamo Bay is suing the UK
government for refusing to produce evidence that he was a victim of
extraordinary rendition and torture.
Binyam Mohamed faces a US military commission which could sentence him
to death, and his lawyers say proving that the case against him is based
exclusively on evidence extracted by torture, following his rendition by
the CIA, is vital to his defence.
Today, they lodged papers at the high court in London, seeking a
judicial review to force the Foreign Office to release information on
his movements.
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Fuelling the world food crisis
Tuesday, 06 May 2008 12:39
Yesterday’s Washington Post front-page lead story summed up in seven
words what’s going on: "Siphoning Off Corn to Fuel Our Cars."
Yes, cars on American roads will burn up close to one-third of the
enormous corn crop American farmers will grow this year. But because the
United States is the world’s biggest producer of corn, an essential
staple, this massive diversion from the food bowl to the fuel tank
threatens to wreak increasing havoc from here to Timbuktu.
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