` ` OREO ` 01 25 08 - Morning Edition ` ` Newsstories of interest: ` ** = Important [in this edition: ] ` MH = Misleading Headline [in this edition: ] ` ` ` 1 DISORDER ` ` Bush admin. pays Moussaoui tipster $5M ` http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080125/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_moussaoui_reward ` "Moussaoui recanted his testimony and denied any role in 9/11, saying he lied on the stand because he assumed he had no chance of getting a fair trial." ` PARDON MOUSSAOUI! ` ` ` Judge wants answers on CIA videotapes ` http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080125/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/cia_videotapes ` "It was only a matter of time before a court ordered the government to account for its handling — or mishandling — of evidence in these cases." ` RESOLVED: THE CIA MUST BE ABOLISHED ROOT AND BRANCH ` ` ` Philippine defence department cancels chopper contract ` http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080125/tap-philippines-military-helicopter-prob-5cc1ef8.html ` "for six US-made attack helicopters" "specifications in the bidding contract had been altered without the department's consent." "Asian Aerospace Corp...local representative of McDonnell Douglas" ` ` ` Lawyer suggests Vancouver police [didn't] want to publicize [man's] death ` http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080124/national/paul_death_inquiry ` Man? Frank Paul, an aboriginal. ` Death? "in-custody death" ` ` ` ==== ` Does the software at this site automatically convert URLs ` to links? If not, go to the Oreo Archive: ` Oreo ` ==== ` ` ` 3 ASIA ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (PALESTINE) ` Israel eyeing large-scale Gaza operation ` http://au.news.yahoo.com/080125/2/15mwf.html ` "'Probably we will find ourselves there,' [Defence {= War} Minister Ehud] Barak told AP in Davos, Switzerland, where he is attending the World Economic [?] Forum." ` ` ` Egypt begins closing Gaza border, fueling tensions ` http://au.news.yahoo.com/080125/15/15n1c.html ` "using barbed wire and water cannons" "Israeli air strikes... killed four Palestinian militants in...Gaza town of Rafah" ` ` ` Egypt Cheers Films Critical of Police ` http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080125/D8UCQ3M00.html ` The film, 'Heya Fawda' - Arabic for 'It's Chaos' - is a rare, frank look at police torture, corruption and political oppre- ssion that rights groups say is widespread in this top U.S. ally." ` DEEDS ARE THE ACID TEST ` ` ` West Bank violence erupts, Gazans stream into Egypt ` [Reuters has replaced this newsstory with "Egypt begins clos- ing Gaza border, fueling tensions," above. Last paragraph of new newsstory retains the substance of the quote below.] ` http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/080125/world/international_palestinians_israel_dc ` "Jewish settlers shot dead two Palestinians and gunmen killed an Israeli border policeman in two separate incidents in the occupied West Bank" ` West Bank: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank ` Israeli settlements: ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_settlement ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (LEBANON) ` Beirut car bomb kills police intelligence officer ` http://au.news.yahoo.com/080125/15/15n1k.html ` "worked for an intelligence unit...close to anti-Syrian [= pro-Superpower]...leader...al-Hariri." "unit... closely in- volved in...U.N.-led investigation into the 2005 assassina- tion of Hariri's father" ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (IRAQ) ` Army Brutality In Iraq: Report Into Allegations Published ` http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20080125/tuk-army-brutality-in-iraq-report-into-a-45dbed5.html ` Duh: "It's taken three years for Brigadier Robert Aitken to produce his 36-page review of claims that UK forces ill- treated civilian detainees." ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (AFGHANISTAN) ` Roadside bomb kills 4 [puppet] Afghans from U.S.-led force ` http://au.news.yahoo.com/080125/15/15n0m.html ` ` [Canadian] Government refuses to answer key questions on Afghan POWs, cites national security ` http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080124/national/afghan_cda_detainees ` "government stood behind an army of attorneys and the Canada Evidence Act" ` ` ` THE BU$H PLAN (PAKISTAN) ` Pakistan tests missile, rejects nuclear safety worry ` http://au.news.yahoo.com/080125/15/15n00.html ` Kayani: "Pakistani armed forces were...capable of safeguarding and securing nuclear assets against all categories of threat." ` ALL? DEEDS ARE THE ACID TEST ` ` Government Blasts Musharraf Critics ` http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080125/D8UCQE1O0.html ` "But criticism of Musharraf continued at home" "the police and rangers are busy beating up civil society in the city streets" --Masood Sharif, "former head of the Intelligence Bureau, Pakistan's main domestic intelligence agency" ` ` US willing to send troops to Pakistan ` http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080125/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_pakistan_military ` "In an Associated Press interview in January 2002...Gen. Tommy Franks, who headed the U.S. Central Command at the time, disclosed a deal with Pakistan allowing U.S. troops in Afghanistan to cross the border in pursuit of...extremist leaders." ` ` ` INDIA ` Poor frozen out of India's boom ` http://news.scotsman.com/world/Poor-frozen-out-of-India39s.3710625.jp ` "government officials asked for bribes of £2,500 for state government jobs reserved for Dalits." ` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit ` "Dalit is the term used in Western countries for the former 'Untouchables'" ` ` ` 7 $$$$ ` ` Britain's Brown sets out plan to fix global financial system [in the Financial Times] ` http://au.news.yahoo.com/080125/19/15mwn.html ` "set to address the Davos event later on Friday morning, and take part in a round-table discussion in the afternoon." ` and ` Gordon Brown \ Ways to fix the world’s financial system ` http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2bc2289e-caa2-11dc-a960-000077b07658.html ` EU NEEDS TO KICK OUT UK ` ` ` ==== ` ` Oreo Archive: ` http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-r-e-o ` `
