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To: jjkirk who wrote (45161)	12/10/2003 12:37:07 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Enough with the touching propaganda. How about some gritty reality: occupationwatch.org Illegal detentions, disappearances, secret death squads. This is getting very ugly and you know it. We are returning to the bad old days of the evil Vietnam era Phoenix Program with Christian crusader/fascists in charge: newyorker.com Quite simply, you cannot deny that Rumsfeld is ordering assassination teams to blindly attack and terrorize an innocent population. We have become evil.

To: jjkirk who wrote (45161)	12/10/2003 3:32:28 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Winners take it all- The Bush administration hinted - even before the conflict - that countries opposed to the war would pay a price when it came to a share in post-war reconstruction, says the British news channel on Wednesday. Now, the Pentagon has published formal guidelines from Mr Wolfowitz confirming that companies from those countries cannot bid for new reconstruction contracts. It is necessary for the protection of the essential security interests of the United States to limit competition for prime contracts of these procurements to companies from the US, Iraq, coalition partners and force contributing nations, he said. The guidelines effectively get the French and German companies out of the competition for Iraq rebuilding contracts.

To: jjkirk who wrote (45161)	12/10/2003 3:35:20 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Bush doctrine at work -A rich booty from the 'hornets nest' the so called 'terrorized innocent students' who read Koran but act indiscriminately against the injunctions of the book to maim children are now safely behind the bars.. Pakistan Wednesday handed over six Indonesian students held on suspicion of terror links to a delegation from Jakarta for repatriation to their homeland, officials said. The detainees includes Rusman Gunawan, the younger brother of alleged top terrorist Hambali, considered al-Qaeda's pointman in Asia and also former operations chief of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) terror group. The students have been handed over to the delegation, a senior government official told media here. The official would not disclose when the Indonesian students would be flown out of Pakistan. Foreign office spokesman Masood Khan confirmed the handover and said the Indonesian delegation, which arrived here Sunday, had come with a formal request to take custody of the six detainees. The Indonesians had been studying at the Abu Bakar Islamic University in Karachi before their arrest in September.

To: jjkirk who wrote (45161)	12/10/2003 4:03:44 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Also this- The US army gathered sheikhs in the southern Iraqi city of Nassiriyah on Monday after land disputes from the Saddam Hussein era sparked threats of violence among the region’s powerful tribes. The sheikhs arrived at the main US military base here in their traditional robes for the talks aimed at calming disputes between former exiles who charge their lands were confiscated during the ousted Sunni Muslim strongman’s brutal rule over the Shiite south and landowners who say they have been dipossessed by the returnees. US commanders stressed that they had no powers to adjudicate the disputes themselves — their aim was purely to defuse the threat of violence between the returnees and those who found a way to cohabit with the Saddam regime. “Until a new government is formed, we can take no decisions about the ownership of land — our main priority is to prevent any conflicts arising in the meantime,” said US army civil affairs officer Lieutenant Colonel Jeff Bryant.He said the main area of dispute lay west and northwest of the city from where a number of tribal leaders had fled the country during Saddam’s rule, charging their lands had been confiscated during their absence.