 The International Court of Justice has ruled that Uganda must pay compensation to the Democratic Republic of Congo for looting during the 1998-2003 war. A government spokesman said DR Congo will seek up to $10bn in compensation. The Hague-based court also found Uganda responsible for human rights abuses. DR Congo has accused Uganda of invading its territory and massacring civilians. Several African states were involved in the war, which left 3m people dead. Uganda says its troops entered Congolese territory to pursue Ugandan rebels. DR Congo brought the case saying its sovereignty had been violated, and demanding compensation for plundered minerals and other resources....
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 U.S. frees former high-value Iraqis |
The U.S. military has released eight former Baathist detainees of high value, a military spokesman said Monday. Among them are two female biological weapons experts, Rihab Taha, the head of Iraq's biological weapons program, also known as "Dr. Germ;" and Huda Salih Mehdi Ammash, a top weapons scientist, known as "Mrs. Anthrax," CNN has learned. Both were captured a week apart in May 2003. The detainees were released Saturday as part of an ongoing review process, said Lt. Col. Barry Johnson, the U.S. military spokesman. "We no longer had cause to hold them since they are no longer under investigation for crimes," Johnson said in a statement. He would not release further details. Take notice they kept saying Saddam kept women and Christians out of positions of power, so how come they have these woman and Christians who had high positions in his government were being held all these years? Sounds like an admittance to another lie....
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Editor - 08:56:00 12-19-05
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| Bush says leaking spy program a ‘shameful act’ President vows to continue domestic eavesdropping |
Bush on Monday said disclosure of his domestic eavesdropping program was a “shameful act” and said he will keep using it “for so long as the nation faces the continuing threat of an enemy that wants to kill American citizens.” “As president of the United States and commander in chief I have the constitutional responsibility and the constitutional authority to protect our country,” he said in an opening statement at a year-end news conference. Asked if the Justice Department would be investigating who leaked the existence of the program, first disclosed last week by The New York Times, Bush said he presumed the process had started. “It was a shameful act for someone to disclose this important program in a time of war. The fact that we’re discussing this program is helping the enemy,” he said at the White House event. It isn’t foreign enemies that are taking our freedom, it’s our own Government...
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| The Fine Art of Withdrawal |
The main question about the war in Iraq was never whether it would go well or go badly. The question was whether it would go bad fast or go bad slowly. So far, it has gone bad slowly, which was always the greater probability. But the possibility remains that it could go bad fast. The greatest likelihood may be during that most delicate of military arts, the withdrawal....
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Editor - 00:43:00 12-19-05
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| Town has nuclear-powered plans |
Some people here have lived their whole lives in the shadow of the twin cooling towers of the Bellefonte Nuclear Plant. Their fathers and grandfathers helped build the facility, which the Tennessee Valley Authority began constructing in the 1970s but never completed. The TVA operates three other nuclear plants within a 125-mile radius, so many here are comfortable with the idea of a nuclear neighbor. They celebrated in September when a consortium of utility companies chose Bellefonte as one of two sites for new nuclear plants. "Everybody from 35 to 40 years old that grew up around this county in the '70s, they've seen the towers, they knew what it was," says Tommy Bryant, 36, a utility company manager whose father worked a construction job at Bellefonte. "Most people are really glad about what they're planning." Americans' confidence in nuclear power waned after the partial meltdown of a reactor at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island in 1979 and the explosion in 1986 at the Chernobyl ...
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-12-18-power-plant_x.htm?csp=34
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Editor - 23:36:00 12-18-05
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| Iran dismisses world’s criticism as ‘emotional’ |
Iran dismissed international criticism of anti-Israeli remarks by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, urging the West on Sunday to show greater tolerance for differing points of view.Last week, Ahmadinejad called the Holocaust a “myth” and said if Europeans insist it did occur, then they should give some of their own land for a Jewish state, rather than the one in the Middle East. The comments came just two months after the hard-line president called for Israel to be “wiped off the map.”The remarks sparked outrage in Israel and the United States, and European leaders warned Saturday they would consider sanctions. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said Sunday the international reaction was overblown.“The West had a very emotional attitude about Ahmadinejad’s comments. Westerners have to learn to tolerate other’s opinion,” Asefi said at a news conference....
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