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To: sandintoes who wrote (74532)	3/17/2006 11:28:03 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Over 150 churches and monasteries in [muslim] Albania have been destroyed or seriously damaged over the last 6 years. Now authorities project to turn the hull of one sanctuary into a nightclub. The Church of Christ the Savior in Pristina has been turned into public toilet... freerepublic.com terrorwhy.kg.co.yu

To: sandintoes who wrote (74532)	3/18/2006 2:18:54 AM
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I think we should demand an investigation into UN detention facilities Croat Serb leader commits suicide [Babic hangs self in UN detention cell] CNN international ^ \| 3/6/06 Milan Babic, the leader of rebel Serbs in Croatia and one-time president of the Croatian Serbs in the 1990s, has committed suicide in his cell at a U.N. detention facility where he was serving a 13-year term for war crimes, officials said. Babic was found dead in his cell at the prison in Scheveningen, a suburb of The Hague, at about 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, according to a statement from the U.N. war crimes tribunal. "The Dutch authorities were called immediately. After conducting an investigation, they confirmed that the cause of death was suicide," the statement said. (Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...

To: sandintoes who wrote (74532)	3/18/2006 9:09:13 PM
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Have Dan Rather and Mary Mapes joined the staff at the NEW YORK TIMES? .............................................................. NY Times says it erred in Abu Ghraib photo report MyWay ^ \| march 18, 2006 \| MyWay WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The New York Times said on Saturday it had identified the wrong man as the hooded prisoner standing on a box in a photograph that came to symbolize U.S. military abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. The newspaper's March 11 profile about Ali Shalal Qaissi was challenged by online magazine Salon.com, which said an Army investigation had concluded the prisoner was a different man. "The Times did not adequately research Mr. Qaissi's insistence that he was the man in the photograph," The Times said in an editor's note accompanying a front page story on the misidentification. "A more thorough examination of previous articles in The Times and other newspapers would have shown that in 2004 military investigators named another man as the one on the box, raising suspicions about Mr. Qaissi's claim," it said. The Times, one of the most respected U.S. newspapers, was stung in 2003 when former reporter Jayson Blair was found to have fabricated and plagiarized dozens of articles. Last year, the resignation of star reporter Judith Miller amid questions about her reporting in the run-up to the Iraq war further damaged the paper's standing. In last Saturday's article, Qaissi, a former Baath Party official, described how he was arrested in October 2003 and held for nearly six months at Abu Ghraib. It said prison records confirmed he was in detention at the time. The Times said other media outlets, including PBS and Vanity Fair, had accepted Qaissi's account and identified him as the prisoner in the photograph, which shows a man wearing a hood and a poncho with wires attached to his outstretched arms. The paper said Qaissi did appear with a hood over his head in other photographs seized by Army investigators. "However, he now acknowledges he is not the man in the specific photograph he printed and held up in a portrait that accompanied the Times article," the Times article said.