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  • Torturing whistleblowers

    This article in Forbes (via Whitescreek) tells the story of two Americans working in Baghdad who blew the whistle on some nasty illegal activity. After feeding the FBI documentation of illegal arms sales to civilians, the two whistleblowers were kidnapped and taken to Camp Cropper, the US military prison where Saddam Hussein was held. During his ...
    Posted to Russ McBee (Weblog) by RussMcBee on August 25, 2007
  • The humanitarian crisis in Iraq

    In today's NYT (via TruthOut), Frank Rich says: Iraqis are clamoring to get out of Iraq. Two million have fled so far and nearly two million more have been displaced within the country. (That's a total of some 15 percent of the population.) Save the Children reported this month that Iraq's child-survival rate is falling faster than any ...
    Posted to Russ McBee (Weblog) by RussMcBee on May 27, 2007
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