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THEGLOBEANDMAIL Sunday, Oct. 03, 2010 12:10AM EDT
A defiant George Galloway says he may take another run at legal action against Immigration Minister Jason Kenney for branding him a terrorist and trying to muzzle his anti-war views.
The outspoken former British MP, who landed in Toronto Saturday, came out swinging against his political nemesis. He said he wants “redress” from Mr. Kenney, accusing the cabinet minister of putting his life at risk.
“I'm not being melodramatic,” Mr. Galloway said.
“There are crazy people in the world who — if I really was, really were the person Jason Kenney painted me as — might have thought themselves fully justified in putting a bullet in me.”
Mr. Galloway said he'll go into more details about the “searing” and “surreal” turn his life took after Mr. Kenney deemed him a security risk when he speaks Sunday in Toronto.
The speech will also focus on how the Canadian government is using anti-terrorism as an excuse to suppress legitimate political debate, he said.
By trying to keep him out of Canada, Mr. Kenney has only managed to attract more attention to his anti-war views, Mr. Galloway said.
“He's damaged Canada's reputation,” he said.
“I don't know if it's because he's a fool or a knave. I'm not sure which would be worse, but I am sure that Canada deserves better than that.”
Mr. Galloway, who cleared customs more than an hour after his plane landed, was greeted by dozens of chanting, sign-waving supporters at the airport.
He said he was quizzed at length by three immigration officials, but found them to be professional and polite.
Mr. Galloway was scheduled to speak in Canada in March, 2009, about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but aborted the tour after Ottawa said he would likely be denied entry.
The government cited his dealing with Gaza's elected Hamas government, which Canada considers a terrorist organization.
Earlier this week, a Federal Court judge found the Conservative government had acted politically to suppress his opinions.
Mr. Galloway said Kenney's terrorist allegation cost him his long-held seat in the U.K. House of Commons in May, hampered his ability to travel and created anxiety and stress for him and his family.
He abandoned a libel suit against Mr. Kenney on the grounds that it was proving too expensive to fight, but said Saturday he will consult his Canadian lawyers and examine his legal options.
“I'm very happy to be in Canada, and my presence proves that Canada remains a country governed by laws, not by ‘here today, gone tomorrow' politicians and their whims,” he said.
Brandishing signs calling Mr. Kenney the “Minister for Censorship and Deportation,” Mr. Galloway's supporters said they're outraged by the government's attempts to suppress free speech.
"All he is doing is delivering aid — ambulances, incubators, hospital supplies, wheelchairs, that kind of thing — to the people of Gaza who have been under siege and are living in deplorable conditions,” said 29-year-old student Fava Zaharuk, who volunteers with the Toronto Coalition to Stop the War.
“And it's for this that we're banning him from speaking in Canada? I don't want that kind of government.”
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HUFFINGTONPOST Sat, 02 Oct 2010
The report of the fact-finding mission of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla released last week shows conclusively, for the first time, that US citizen Furkan Dogan and five Turkish citizens were murdered execution-style by Israeli commandos.
The report reveals that Dogan, the 19-year-old US citizen of Turkish descent, was filming with a small video camera on the top deck of the Mavi Marmara when he was shot twice in the head, once in the back and in the left leg and foot and that he was shot in the face at point blank range while lying on the ground.
The report says Dogan had apparently been "lying on the deck in a conscious or semi-conscious, state for some time" before being shot in his face.
The forensic evidence that establishes that fact is "tattooing around the wound in his face," indicating that the shot was "delivered at point blank range." The report describes the forensic evidence as showing that "the trajectory of the wound, from bottom to top, together with a vital abrasion to the left shoulder that could be consistent with the bullet exit point, is compatible with the shot being received while he was lying on the ground on his back."
Based on both "forensic and firearm evidence," the fact-finding panel concluded that Dogan's killing and that of five Turkish citizens by the Israeli troops on the Mavi Marmari May 31 "can be characterized as extra-legal, arbitrary and summary executions." (See Report [.pdf] Page 38, Section 170)
The report confirmed what the Obama administration already knew from the autopsy report on Dogan, but the administration has remained silent about the killing of Dogan, which could be an extremely difficult political problem for the administration in its relations with Israel.
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DAWN Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:20:31 PKT
TACOMA, Washington: A US soldier charged with murdering civilians and other crimes in Afghanistan appeared in court on Monday, as 11 other soldiers invoked their constitutional right not to testify in the case.
Nine of the soldiers who declined to take the witness stand are among a dozen infantrymen of the 5th Stryker Brigade, based in Washington state, who are charged in a case stemming from their deployment in Afghanistan's Kandahar province.
The first soldier formally accused in the case, Army Specialist Jeremy Morlock, 22, is charged with premeditated murder in the deaths of three Afghan civilians, assaulting a fellow soldier and “wrongfully photographing and possessing visual images of human casualties”.
In two of the slayings, fragmentary grenades were thrown at the victims and they were shot, according to charge sheets. The third victim also was shot.
Morlock, from Wasilla, Alaska, wore standard Army combat fatigues and sat silently during the proceedings at Joint....
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GUARDIAN **Flash Back 16 November 2005**
In the recording, a soldier in a watchtower radioed a colleague in the army post's operations room and describes Iman as "a little girl" who was "scared to death". After soldiers first opened fire, she dropped her schoolbag which was then hit by several bullets establishing that it did not contain explosive. At that point she was no longer carrying the bag and, the tape revealed, was heading away from the army post when she was shot.
Palestinian witnesses said they saw the captain shoot Iman twice in the head, walk away, turn back and fire a stream of bullets into her body.
On the tape, Capt R then "clarifies" to the soldiers under his command why he killed Iman: "This is commander. Anything that's mobile, that moves in the [security] zone, even if it's a three-year-old, needs to be killed."
At no point did the Israeli troops come under attack.
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INDEPENDENT 02 Apr 2010
An Israeli journalist is in hiding in Britain, The Independent can reveal, over fears that he may face charges in the Jewish state in connection with his investigation into the killing of a Palestinian in the West Bank.
In his article for Haaretz, Mr Blau reported that one of two Islamic Jihad militants killed in Jenin in June 2007 had been targeted for assassination in apparent violation of a ruling issued six months earlier by Israel's supreme court.
The news of Mr Blau's extended absence comes just days after it emerged that another Israeli journalist, Anat Kam, has been held under house arrest for the last three months on charges that she leaked classified documents to the press while completing her military service.
She was arrested more than a year after Mr Blau's report, which was cleared by military censors at the time of publication
The move to gag Israel-based media has sparked fevered debate on Jewish blogs, which have freely reported the story. Bloggers have railed against the blackout, saying it represents a critical challenge to the freedom of the press.
"I do not believe that a citizen can be arrested and tried for suspected security offences right under our noses without anyone knowing anything about it," wrote former Haaretz editor Hanoch Marmari in an eloquent cri de coeur on the Seventh Eye website.
"Trials do not take place here in darkened dungeons, nor do we have show trials behind glass or chicken wire.
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TIMESONLINE Sat, 02 Jan 2010
American-led troops were accused yesterday of dragging innocent children from their beds and shooting them during a night raid that left ten people dead.
Afghan government investigators said that eight schoolchildren were killed, all but one of them from the same family. Locals said that some victims were handcuffed before being killed.
Western military sources said that the dead were all part of an Afghan terrorist cell responsible for manufacturing improvised explosive devices (IEDs), which have claimed the lives of countless soldiers and civilians.
“This was a joint operation that was conducted against an IED cell that Afghan and US officials had been developing information against for some time,” said a senior Nato insider. But he admitted that “the facts about what actually went down are in dispute”.
The allegations of civilian casualties led to protests in Kabul and Jalalabad, with children as young as 10 chanting “Death to America” and demanding that foreign forces should leave Afghanistan at once.
President Karzai sent a team of investigators to Narang district, in eastern Kunar province, after reports of a massacre first surfaced on Monday.
“The delegation concluded that a unit of international forces descended from a plane Sunday night into Ghazi Khan village in Narang district of the eastern province of Kunar and took ten people from three homes, eight of them school students in grades six, nine and ten, one of them a guest, the rest from the same family, and shot them dead,” a statement on President Karzai’s website said.
Assadullah Wafa, who led the investigation, said that US soldiers flew to Kunar from Kabul, suggesting that they were part of a special forces unit.
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TIMESONLINE Wed, 04 Nov 2009
Simon Mann, the Old Etonian who plotted to overthrow a West African government, arrived back in Britain today.
Scotland Yard counter terrorism officers were preparing to interview him after he said he would co-operate and hoped his alleged co-conspirators, including Sir Mark Thatcher, would be punished by the British legal system.
Regardless of any agreement with the authorities in Malabo, Scotland Yard have insisted that they are carrying out an independent investigation into the plot, part of which may have been hatched from London.
Before leaving West Africa, Mann said he would assist the British authorities in prosecuting a possible case against Sir Mark and Ely Calil, a Lebanese-born businessman working in Britain.
“I am very anxious that Calil, Thatcher and one or two of the others, should face justice,” Mann said.
He claimed that he had already made statements to British investigators while he was in jail and added: “I am very happy to restate those things in court in the UK as a witness for the prosecution.”
A small team from Counter Terrorism Command travelled to Equatorial Guinea three times as part of their enquiries while Mann was in custody for his part in the bungled coup.
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BBC Thu, 26 Mar 2009
A Sudanese government minister has confirmed reports of an air raid in eastern Sudan earlier this year.
The minister, Mabrook Mubarak Saleem, told an Arabic news channel that many people had been killed in the strike, said to have taken place last month.
Israeli officials have not commented publicly on reports that their planes may have been involved.
Israel's Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, did not confirm any raid but said Israel hit everywhere to stop terror.
"That was true in the north," said Mr Olmert, "and it was true in the south ... Those who need to know, know there is no place where Israel cannot operate."
Giving a speech in the coastal town of Herzliya, the outgoing prime minister said: "We operate in many places near and far, and carry out strikes in a manner that strengthens our deterrence."
The CBS television network said it had been told by American officials that a strike by Israeli planes in January had succeeded in preventing weapons from Sudan reaching Gaza.
Mr Mabrook Mubarak Saleem said those killed in the air raid had been civilians from a number of African countries.
The BBC's Paul Wood in Jerusalem says Israel's response is following a traditional pattern, set when it attacked a suspected nuclear reactor in Syria in 2007, of first refusing to confirm an alleged strike and then giving a nod and a wink.
What we are getting now from Mr Olmert is clearly the nod and the wink, our correspondent says.
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THEFIRMMAGAZINE 04 Mar 2009
A scientific analysis of the Crown's discredited theory that approximately 1lb of semtex contained in a Toshiba radio caused the destruction of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, has concluded that the notion is "scientifically implausible."
The report, by Dr Ludwig de Braeckeleer agrees with the findings of John H Parkes, a former MOD contractor and explosives engineer who assisted in the rescue operations in Lockerbie, and subsequently submitted a report of his findings to the then Scottish Secretary Malcolm Rifkind. Parkes was never called as a witness to the trial.
Dr de Braeckeleer's findings reiterate the initial findings from US sources, that the Crown theory does not stand up to forensic scrutiny.
"In the immediate aftermath of the tragedy, researchers at the Centre of Explosives Technology Research in Socorro, New Mexico, estimated that up to thirty pounds of explosive was needed to destroy a Boeing 747, if the explosion had occured in the container. We agree with that estimate," the report says.
"As the explosion of one pound of Semtex H inside the luggage container does not generate a blast wave sufficiently powerful to fracture the skin of the fuselage, we have little choice but to conclude that the verdict appears scientifically very implausible."
The AAIB report into the destruction of the Boeing 747, which concluded that the plane was downed by a small semtex blast, contains five conflicting accounts of the moment of the explosion on board the aircraft.
Evidence of fragmentation observed on victims at the site and on the wreckage - which was not heard at the trial- indicate an explosives "signature" that was not consistent with a semtex blast close to the skin of the fuselage. Unbroadcast footage of the wreckage, and contemporaneous photographs of the crashed plane, shows puncture damage to parts of the plane far away from the claimed site of a semtex blast, and of a character indicating far more powerful explosives events on board.
The evidence introduced during the trial to support the semtex theory, which was claimed to have been recovered from the crash site, was later demonstrated to have actually come from simulated test explosions.
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HAARETZ Wed, 18 Feb 2009
srael is assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists as part of a covert war against the Islamic Republic's illicit weapons program, the Daily Telegraph on Tuesday quoted Western intelligence analysts as saying.
The British daily said Israel's Mossad espionage agency was rumored to be behind the death of Ardeshire Hassanpour, a top nuclear scientist at Iran's Isfahan uranium plant, who died in mysterious circumstances from reported "gas poisoning" in 2007.
Other recent deaths of important figures in the procurement and enrichment process in Iran and Europe have been the result of Israeli "hits", intended to deprive Tehran of key technical skills at the head of the program, according to the analysts.
The Telegraph also quoted United States intelligence sources as saying Israel is using sabotage, front companies and double agents to disrupt the regime's illicit weapons project as an alternative to direct military strikes.
Nevertheless, it should be noted that Israel has been carrying out similar covert activities for about a decade, ever since Iran was first suspected of seeking nuclear weapons. The U.S. journalist James Risen has written recently that the CIA and the Mossad have planned together a number of sabotage operations against the Iranian program, including damaging power lines to nuclear sites in order to cause harm to computer systems and equipment.
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RAWSTORY Sat, 13 Dec 2008
The CIA's clandestine role in Latin American politics continues.
With the help of CIA spotters, the Peruvian air force shot down 15 small civilian aircraft between 1995 and 2001, ostensibly as part of the US-abetted war on drugs, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee revealed Thursday. Many of the shoot-downs were made without warning within two to three minutes of the planes being detected.
Michigan Rep. Pete Hoekstra, who disclosed the program, was the first to confirm the number of planes shot down in the CIA led "Airbridge Denial Program," which sought to derail the narcotic trade but also claimed the life of an American missionary from Michigan and her daughter in 2001. Charity Bowers' husband, Jim, is pictured above right.
A State Department inquiry previously said that the program had also forced 23 jets to land, but had not identified the more than a dozen planes that were destroyed mid-flight.
Most of the 15 planes shot down with the help of the CIA crashed in the jungle, Hoekstra told AP, and "the wreckage has not been or could not be examined to ascertain whether narcotics were aboard the aircraft.
"The Bowers could have gone in the same category if they had crashed in the jungle," Hoekstra said, referring to the missionary and her child, who hail from his state.
The Bowers' plane made an emergency river landing after it was hit.
A CIA inspector general's report in November raised questions about planes being taken down "without being properly identified, without being given the required warnings to land, and without being given time to respond to such warnings as were given to land."
It also said the CIA withheld information about multiple investigations that showed failures and violations of procedures from the National Security Council, Justice Department and Congress. The classified report was sent to Congress in October, AP said.
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BBC Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:01:05 GMT
A commuter who was sitting near Jean Charles de Menezes on a Tube train has told his inquest that police gave no warning before killing him.
Anna Dunwoodie said she believed officers were "out of control" and gave off a "sense of panic" before shooting.
She claimed that the innocent 27-year-old appeared calm as a gun was held to his head.
Mr de Menezes was killed in 2005 in south London by police who mistook him for a failed 21 July suicide bomber.
Ms Dunwoodie was sitting two or three seats to the left of Mr de Menezes when he boarded the train at Stockwell Tube Station, south London on 22 July 2005.
She told the inquest that, at the time, she thought the firearms officers pursuing Mr de Menezes were members of a gang.
She said she did not hear officers shout any warning at the electrician.
"I would like to say that on whether I heard anything from police officers, I am very, very clear. I had absolutely no idea who they were and had they shouted I would have latched on to that," she said.
She described the scene on the train as one of panic:
"I think it was the man, who I now know to be a surveillance officer, (who) really seemed to be frightened or hyped up and when he was calling the other men they seemed... you know, when people are full of adrenalin and they move quickly and their movements are a bit jerky.
"I felt they were a bit out of control, that's what it felt like."
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BBC Thu, 23 Oct 2008
The trial of 86 people accused of being part of an ultra-nationalist plot to provoke a military coup is due to resume in Turkey.
"The Ergenekon terror organisation is known as the 'deep state' in our country and organises many bloody activities aiming to create an atmosphere of serious crisis, chaos, anarchy and terror,"
Its purpose, he says, is "to weaken the country's administration [and] justify an illegal intervention against the government."
The prosecutor links Ergenekon to the murder of a secularist judge in 2006 and a grenade attack on the Istanbul office of Cumhuriyet newspaper, a publication known for its opposition to the religious-minded government.
Previously ascribed to an Islamic fundamentalist, the attacks are now described as the first stage of Ergenekon's campaign to stoke divisions and unrest.
Two retired generals have been charged in connection with the case, although their indictment has not been released yet.
Their arrest is unprecedented in a country that has seen four military coups and whose generals have long been a powerful political force.
One of the central pieces of evidence in the case, a document entitled "Lobi", describes Ergenekon as operating "under the Turkish armed forces".
Liberal commentators say the prosecutor has a duty to use this trial for a thorough investigation of the claim, to root-out any rogue elements within Turkey's security forces.
"In Europe, these 'Gladios' or counter-guerrilla organisations were discovered and removed from the state and the army. In Turkey, we never confronted them and what they were doing," says Oral Calislar, a writer for Radikal liberal newspaper.
Many Turks talk darkly of a "deep state" - groups they suspect of links to the security forces since the 1950s, formed to carry out illegal activities, including assassinations, to "protect" the republic.
Their alleged crimes include the murder of many prominent writers and intellectuals and the disappearance and killing of many Kurds during the Kurdish conflict in the 1990s.
First confirmation of those suspicions came in 1996, when the passengers in a fatal car crash in Susurluk revealed clear links between state security officers, organised criminals and politicians.
It emerged that a senior police chief, a prominent MP and a wanted assassin were travelling in the car together. The assassin - a nationalist militant - was carrying government-backed diplomatic ID.
The main perceived threat to the state at that time was Kurdish separatism. Earlier, communism was the danger. Today, it is political Islam and the AK Party.
"I believe there are so many connections with the army. We want to discover all of them with this trial," says Mr Calislar. "We will fight for that because we want to live in a democratic society."
Turkey's democratic transition is what Can Paker believes this case is all about.
The head of the liberal Tesev think-tank describes a power struggle between Turkey's old elite - the civil and military bureaucracy - and a rising urban middle-class. He sees the threat of political Islam as a weapon in the struggle against the AKP and its electorate and suggests Ergenekon emerged from that.
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DAILYMAIL Sun, 31 Aug 2008
A female confidante of Dr David Kelly raised disturbing new questions last night over how the Ministry of Defence weapons inspector was able to kill himself.
But five years after his death at 59, his close friend, American military linguist Mai Pederson, has come forward to dispute this account. The Hutton inquiry heard that he died after making several cuts to his left wrist, which severed the ulnar artery, buried deep in the tissue on the side of the hand nearest the little finger. An earlier coroner’s inquest was halted when the Government used an obscure law to turn the investigation over to Lord Hutton. His inquiry concluded that ‘there was no involvement by a third party’ in the scientist’s death, which was said to be caused primarily by the cut artery and hastened by the painkillers. Ms Pederson, a former US Air Force officer, met Dr Kelly when she was assigned to work in 1998 as a translator for the UN weapons inspection team in Iraq. And she revealed in an interview with The Mail on Sunday that, in the months leading to his death, the right-handed scientist was unable to use his right hand for tasks requiring strength because of a painful injury to his right elbow. According to Ms Pederson, when she dined with Dr Kelly at a Washington restaurant in the spring of 2003, the hand’s grip was so weak that he struggled to get a knife through a steak he had ordered. The linguist, who counselled Dr Kelly during his conversion to the Baha’i religious faith that she follows, says he had begun to favour his left hand for even relatively minor tasks, a tendency she observed on numerous other occasions.
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ABCNEWS.GO Fri, 15 Aug 2008
The incident involving Sen. Barack Obama's campaign plane last month was much more serious than the airline or the Federal Aviation Administration said, according to FAA control tower tapes obtained by ABC News.
At the time, an FAA spokesperson said the pilot did not declare an emergency and the airline owner, Midwest Airlines, said safety "was never an issue."
The tapes, broadcast Thursday on ABC News' "World News with Charles Gibson", show otherwise.
An FAA spokesperson acknowledged today that its statements at the time of "no emergency" were wrong, based, the spokesperson said, on erroneous reports from FAA air traffic managers.
"We later learned there was an emergency declared," FAA spokesperson Elizabeth Cory said. The FAA had not publicly corrected the record until today, after being contacted by ABC News.
Unbeknownst to the pilot, an emergency evacuation slide had inflated inside the tail of the jet, affecting control cables there.
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the incident. In a preliminary report, the NTSB said it detected "marks consistent with rubbing of elevator control cables" and a broken railing that "impinged upon elevator control cables."
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WORLDPRESSNETWORK Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:48:38 GMT
The body of Colombian unionist Guillermo Rivera Fuquene was found buried in a garbage dump in a rural area of Ibague, Tolima department, on July 15. Rivera Fuquene, an economist in the Bogotá Controller's Office and the president of the Public Services Union of Bogotá (Sinserpub), disappeared on April 22 after putting his daughter on a school bus in the Tunal section of the capital. According to his wife, Sonya Betancur (also given as "Sonia Betancourt"), the last news she heard after his disappearance was that he had been detained by the police. The center-left Democratic Alternative Pole (PDA), of which Rivera Fuquene was a member, said it had indications from a witness and videotapes that the Bogota police were involved. The authorities in Ibague determined that Rivera Fuquene was strangled and then buried on April 28.
In a press conference in Bogotá on July 15 after Rivera Fuquene's body was identified, members of the Unitary Workers Confederation (CUT) charged that the government was carrying out a "dirty war" against members of leftist groups. The CUT demanded an investigation into the murder and said "the facts demonstrate that, contrary to the official propaganda, there still aren't sufficient guarantees on the part of the state" for leftists "to exercise constitutional rights to life, liberty and union organizing and participation." (Notice from Confederacion de Trabajadores de Colombia, July 15; El Tiempo, Bogotá, July 17; TeleSUR, July 18)
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PRESSTV Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:28:07 GMT
Bolivian officials say that they have arrested two men who may have planned to kill President Evo Morales, but a local prosecutor released them.
Police said the two were arrested Thursday at the El Trompillo airport in the eastern city of Santa Cruz minutes before Morales was scheduled to arrive. They said one of the suspects carried a rifle and rounds of ammunition.
"The government has well-founded reasons to believe this involves an attempted assassination," said Sacha Llorenti, deputy minister of social movements, at a news conference.
But the two had already gone free before Llorenti spoke. The Santa Cruz prosecutor's office released the men late Thursday for lack of evidence they had committed a crime, said Ruben Gamarra, vice minister of the interior.
"The prosecutor's decision is lamentable because one of them was carrying a Mauser rifle with a telescopic sight," he said.
The Interior Ministry, in charge of security, said the two men were members of a conservative Santa Cruz youth group that has led protests against Morales' leftist policies.
Relatively wealthy Santa Cruz has been a center of opposition to Bolivia's first Indian president and the region's leaders are trying to win greater autonomy from the national government. Morales' visit to the region went on as scheduled, but with heavy security.
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RAWSTORY Sat, 24 May 2008
Sen. Hillary Clinton, in defending her decision to continue running for the Democratic nomination that almost certainly will go to rival Sen. Barack Obama, invoked the shooting death of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in the summer of 1968.
The Obama campaign responded to Clinton's statement, saying, "Sen. Clinton's statement before the Argus Leader editorial board was unfortunate and has no place in this campaign."
In early March of this year, Clinton made a similar RFK remark in an interview with Time: "Primary contests used to last a lot longer. We all remember the great tragedy of Bobby Kennedy being assassinated in June in L.A. My husband didn't wrap up the nomination in 1992 until June, also in California. Having a primary contest go through June is nothing particularly unusual."
Sensitivity to even the humorous suggestion of assassination in this campaign season has been high, particularly in regard to Sen. Obama. Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee found that out recently when he kidded about Obama ducking a gunman, a spontaneous quip he later apologized for.
CNN earlier reported that the Clinton camp was in talks with the Obama team about joining forces for the November election, saying that if Obama does not run with Clinton on his ticket, "civil war" in the Democratic Party could result. Clinton later denied that any such negotations were taking place.
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INFOWARS Fri, 23 May 2008
Two prominent heart doctors have told an ongoing Canadian inquiry that there is no doubt that Taser stun guns can cause heart problems and even induce sudden and lethal cardiac arrest.
A cardiologist and a heart surgeon both stated that based on their own studies of the literature on the weapons, it is clear that they can induce ventricular fibrillation.
As reported by the Canadian Press, Dr. Michael Janusz, a heart surgeon and professor of surgery at the University of British Columbia, told the Vancouver inquiry "almost all physicians would conclude that Tasers can induce ventricular fibrillation."
Dr. Charles Kerr, another UBC professor and a heart surgeon also concluded that a Taser jolt could induce ventricular fibrillation.
"Whatever the cause of death in patients receiving Taser discharges, there does appear to be the potential of a cardiac arrest situation, as has been demonstrated on a number of occasions," Kerr said.
Dr. Kerr also said that police should routinely carry defibrillators if they plan to employ Tasers and should be trained to initiate resuscitation after using the Taser on someone who is then unresponsive.
"In summary, Tasers almost certainly can cause cardiac arrest in humans" Dr. Janusz said.
Despite these conclusions, according to a senior police officer, Taser International instructs that the exact opposite is true.
Earlier this month doctors condemned as corporate "intimidation" a court decision ordering a chief medical examiner to remove any reference to the use of a taser as an antecedent in the deaths of three men.
Taser International filed and won a civil suit, forcing deletion all mentions of the weapons in the autopsy reports and requiring the deaths be termed "accidental".
The ongoing Vancouver inquiry into Taser use by municipal police, sheriffs and corrections officers comes in reponse to reports of hundreds of taser related deaths around the world, but was particularly spurred by the death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver's airport in October after police used a taser on the man several times before he died on the spot.
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 George Galloway debates : Inside Iraq - The Iraq war: Success or blunder?
YOUTUBE 26 September 2010
Was toppling Saddam Hussein's regime worth the enormous cost paid by millions of Iraqis? And where do Iraqis go to seek justice and compensation for this illegal war waged by Bush and Blair?
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CCTV footage: The assassination of Mahmoud al Mabhouh in Dubai
YOUTUBE 16 Feb 2010
Dubai hunts 'Europeans' for Hamas murder
By Wissam Keyrouz (AFP) 4 hours ago
DUBAI — Police are hunting 11 suspects with European passports, including a woman, for the murder in a...
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Dr. Norman Finkelstein at the University of Waterloo - Holocaust not an excuse for Israeli War Crimes
YOUTUBE 17 Feb 2010
Dr. Norman Finkelstein standing up to zionists using the Holocaust as an excuse for Israeli's War Crimes.
Clip is from American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein.
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Buffalo plane Crash: A convenient Crash?
WORLDPRESSNETWORK 13 Feb 2009
Beverley Eckert who waived her compensation right to persue a Government investigation into the 911 attacks is dead, she dies in the Buffalo Plane crash. She set up the website 911voices to...
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WHITEWASH: No one Guilty of "Murder" Jean Charles de Menezes
WORLDPRESSNETWORK 12 Dec 2008
Open Verdict In De Menezes Case
The jury at the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes have returned an open verdict - but rejected nearly all of the police version of events...
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George Galloway on the talkSPORT radio show Saturday 13 December 2008
"The Mother of All Talk Shows"
SPIDEREDVIDEOS Saturday 13 December 2008
George Galloway's very popular radio show covering current topical discussions, including whether the police lied in the Jean Charles de Menezes assassination case.
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George Galloway on the talkSPORT radio show Friday 12 December 2008
"The Mother of All Talk Shows"
SPIDEREDVIDEOS Friday 12 December 2008
George Galloway's very popular radio show covering current topical
discussions, including the inquest jury's verdict in the Jean Charles de
Menezes assassination, and the upcoming judicial...
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Menezes Murder:"We should give up our freedom for liberty"
YOUTUBE **Flashback 7 November 2007**
UPDATE INQUIRY TO START 22/09/08: So many lies so many excuses, now Ian Blair refuses to resign, HE SHOULD BE SACKED. THE BUCK STOPS AT THE TOP. This case alone shows the shockingingly...
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Suicide or Attempted Assassination of Ehud Olmert?
YOUTUBE
Covered by the Mainstream Media as a suicide of a Guard, this story smacks of more lies being spewed. It was reported that the Guard fell from a tall building after being struck by a bullet...
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Mike Reagan Talk Show Host Calls for Murder
INFOWARS Fri, 20 Jun 2008
Talk show host Michael Reagan files copyright infringement claim to prevent audio clip of him calling for the murder of anti-war activist from circulating the Internet
(San Diego,...
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Dead DC Madam: "They will make it look like suicide"
YOUTUBE
WASHINGTON BREATHES BIG SIGH OF RELIEF
In an interview last year, Palfrey vowed to fight the federal prosecutors who brought the charges against her. "They just destroy you on...
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CIA Agents killed Robert Kennedy -- Part 1
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When the hypnotized patsy, Sirhan Sirhan, opened fire on Robert Kennedy from the front, a CIA agent fired the kill shot at close range into the back of Kennedy's head.
The same agent...
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Benazir Bhutto: Bin Laden was Murdered
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UPDATE: Tried to email Al-Jazeera for clarification of this claim. As yet NO response. After the BBC censored this clip and then reinstated it, then some of them now claiming they NEVER...
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You CAN Handle The Truth - Who Killed JFK Jr ? - 2 of 11
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A no-holds-barred investigation into the mysterious death of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. From the creators of JFK II: The Bush Connection.
Who Killed JFK Jr ? 3 of 11 :
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Lesson of Loyalty. JFK Spoof.
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Prince teaches us a valuable lesson. JFK Spoof.
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Alex Jones on Ian Collins' talkSPORT radio show Thursday 19 June 2008
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Alex Jones on Civil Liberties, Europe, Conspiracies, Taxation, Imperialism, Globalization, Global Government, Puppet Governments, Global warming, Iraq, Afghanistan, Assassinations, Religious...
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