The CIA operated two secret "black sites" for terrorism suspects in Poland, the main European location for the clandestine operation, according to a Polish press report yesterday.The military expert with Human Rights Watch, which said last month that US intelligence had been using facilities in Poland and Romania to incarcerate and interrogate senior al-Qaida suspects, told the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper that about a quarter of 100 prisoners had been held secretly at two former Soviet air bases in Poland. The detainees were said to have been airlifted out of Poland ahead of this week's visit to Europe by Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, whose talks in Brussels, Berlin, and Romania have been dominated by the row over alleged CIA torture compounds in eastern Europe....
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 Doors close on bus case Technicality frees Arvada woman who refused to show ID |
Federal prosecutors have dropped charges against Deborah Davis, the 53-year-old Arvada woman who refused to show her identification to federal police officers on an RTD bus traveling through the Federal Center in Lakewood. Davis' supporters, at first jubilant to learn Wednesday morning that she will not be prosecuted, were dismayed to learn hours later that officers of the Federal Protective Service still will ask passengers on the public bus to show their identification. The policy applies to all passengers, including those, as in Davis' case, who are traveling through the Federal Center and not getting off the bus there. Federal officials said the Davis case was closed because of a technicality involving a problem with a sign at the Federal Center at the time Davis was ticketed. The sign was supposed to inform people that their IDs would be checked. "The policy hasn't changed," said Jamie Zuieback, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, of which ...
http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4298626,00.html
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| Britain Accused of Cover-Up Over Claims It Sold Key Nuclear Component to Israel in 1950s |
Two British lawmakers have accused the government of a cover-up for refusing to admit that Britain helped launch Israel's nuclear program in 1959 by secretly selling the Jewish state a batch of heavy water a key ingredient in producing weapons-grade materials. The British Broadcasting Corp. first reported the allegations contained in previously classified documents in August, but Foreign Office Minister Kim Howells swiftly denied the claims to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Howells' account "simply flies in the face of the known facts, now that we have access to previously classified documents," Menzies Campbell, a lawmaker and foreign affairs spokesman from the small centrist Liberal Democrat party, told the BBC's Newsnight program late Friday....
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| Fellow Passengers Say Man Killed by Air Marshals Did Not Say Word 'Bomb,' Was Agitated at Gate |
The airline passenger shot to death by federal marshals who said he made a bomb threat was agitated even before boarding and later appeared to be desperate to get off the plane, some fellow travelers said. One passenger said he "absolutely never heard the word 'bomb' at all" during the uproar as the Orlando-bound flight prepared to leave Miami on Wednesday. Federal officials say Rigoberto Alpizar made the threat in the jetway, after running up the plane's aisle from his seat at the back of the jetliner. They opened fire because the 44-year-old Home Depot employee ignored their orders to stop, reached into his backpack and said he had a bomb, according to authorities. Alpizar's brother, speaking from Costa Rica, said he would never believe the shooting was necessary....
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1391359&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
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Editor - 18:25:00 12-09-05
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| Mothers of Fallen Soldiers Share Their Grief |
In the Cleveland suburb of Berea, a group of mothers share a common bond. They are all Ohio women who have lost sons in the war in Iraq. They have felt the real impact of this war in a way that is hard for many to imagine or comprehend. But they don't necessarily share the same opinions about the cause for which their sons died. On Aug. 1, six Marines were killed in an ambush near Haditha. The deadliest roadside bombing of the war occurred two days later. Rosemary Palmer's son, Augie Schroeder, was one of those killed. ...
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| Witnesses: Chinese protesters shot, village sealed |
Hundreds of riot police have sealed off a southern Chinese village after fatally shooting as many as 10 demonstrators, villagers said Friday.It was the deadliest known use of force by security forces against Chinese civilians since the killings around Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989 and marked an escalation in the social protests that have convulsed the Chinese countryside.Police were searching for the protest organizers, villagers said.Thousands of people gathered Tuesday in Dongzhou, in southern Guangdong province, to protest the amount of money offered by the government as compensation for land taken to construct a wind power plant.Police fired into the crowd, killing as many as 10 people, mostly men, and wounding up to 20, villagers reached by telephone said Friday. They said many people are missing....
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/12/09/china.protest.ap/index.html?section=cnn_world
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