Oreo 02 17 08 Morning Edition
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02 17 08 - Morning Edition
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Newsstories of interest:
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** = Important [in this edition: 4]
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MH = Misleading Headline [in this edition: ]
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1 DISORDER
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** CIA set up 12 bogus companies mostly in Europe after 9/11:
report
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http://au.news.yahoo.com/080217/19/15v0w.html
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"[CIA] agents posed as employees of investment banks,
consulting firms or other fictitious enterprises with
no apparent ties to the US government."
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** CIA's ambitious post-9/11 spy plan crumbles
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-intel17feb17,0,1331775,full.story
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"case officers -- the CIA's term for its overseas spies"
Usually "they pose as U.S. diplomats or employees of anoth-
er government agency." While "the agency has used non-
official cover throughout its history, the newer front
companies were designed to operate on a different scale."
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This particular struggle about which way to go was one part
of the larger factional infighting under Goss: "The issue
became came so divisive that the agency's then-director...
tapped the official then in charge of the CIA's European
division, Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, to lead an in-house review
of the [new] NOC strategy. Mowatt-Larssen sided with critics
of the approach and began pulling the plug on the companies
before he left the agency to take a senior intelligence post
at [duh] the Department of Energy"
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SEE "Factionalism At The Top" in three parts:
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoliticalEssays/message/748
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoliticalEssays/message/751
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoliticalEssays/message/790
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RESOLVED: THE CIA MUST BE ABOLISHED ROOT AND BRANCH
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(ROOT includes the Security Council)
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3 ASIA
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THE BU$H PLAN (IRAQ)
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US admits it fired on anti-Qaeda fighters in Iraq
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http://au.news.yahoo.com/080217/19/15v1v.html
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"US commanders say there are now around 130 such [collabora-
tor] groups across Iraq totalling about 80,000 volunteers,
80 percent of them Sunni Muslims and the remainder Shiite."
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THE BU$H PLAN (PAKISTAN)
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** Pakistan's poorest have no faith in polls or leaders
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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080217/tpl-uk-pakistan-election-scavengers-87aac06_1.html
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"We are not expecting any change in our life whoever comes
to power. We are Pakistanis, but they don't even consider
us to be human beings."
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FACTBOX - Pakistan's legislative elections
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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080217/tpl-uk-pakistan-election-factbox-87aac06_1.html
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INDIA / NEPAL
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Breakfast in Nepal, lunch in India, daily
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http://in.news.yahoo.com/hindustantimes/20080217/r_t_ht_nl_features/tnl-breakfast-in-nepal-lunch-in-india-da-6b6720b.html
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"millions of people...cross this border every day."
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Not quiet on northern front
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http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=3e7d9b11-7278-4bd2-b618-ce8193cabe57
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Maoists redefining border stretches
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http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=6684708e-8658-48e3-bf38-cc6b98d65f3e
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IMPERIAL INDIA
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INDIA
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'People looking beyond UPA'
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http://in.news.yahoo.com/hindustantimes/20080217/r_t_ht_nl_politics/tnl-people-looking-beyond-upa-b610e63.html
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"The Leader of Opposition was speaking to business leaders
at the annual general meeting of the Federation of Indian
Chambers of Commerce and Industry" "Advani also told indus-
try leaders his party had 'consistently followed a policy
of supporting private enterprise'"
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Lal Krishna Advani:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advani
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"senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, which has
named him as its Prime Ministerial candidate for the
General Elections due in May 2009."
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National Democratic Alliance (India) [NDA]:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Democratic_Alliance_%28India%29
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United Progressive Alliance [UPA]:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Progressive_Alliance
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"the present ruling coalition of political parties"
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KUWAIT
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Qatar urges end to [international] unilateralism
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http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1884719&Language=en
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"Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister...called for an
end to international unilateralism, double-standard policies,
lack of transparency and use of force."
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It sounds like he's slamming The Superpower.
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And where were these fine words uttered? At "the U.S.-Islam-
ic World Forum"
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So what else had the Qatar PM/FM have to say?
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"Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon, Iran's nuclear standoff and others
are still the key source of tension and mistrust, he said."
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He's not really slamming The Superpower, he's letting it off
the hook.
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AH, WHAT SLY DOGS THEY ARE!
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MALAYSIA
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Facts and figures about Malaysia's general elections
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http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/ap/20080213/tap-as-gen-malaysia-elections-facts-and-b3c65ae.html
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Malaysian opposition aiming for seismic shift at the polls
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http://au.news.yahoo.com/080217/19/15v1j.html
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"in 2004 the coalition seized 90 percent of the seats with
just 64 percent of the vote."
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The coalition?
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Barisan Nasional:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barisan_Nasional
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Politics of Malaysia:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Malaysia
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REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
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Arroyo cabinet urged to resign
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http://au.news.yahoo.com/080217/2/15v3l.html
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"50 former top Philippine government officials, including
a one-time head of the central bank, have urged...Arroyo's
cabinet to resign over a multi-million dollar corruption
scandal."
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5 LATAM
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__DIRTY WAR__
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MEXICO
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** Putting a spotlight on the massacre of 1968 in Mexico City
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/latinamerica/cl-et-mexcenter16feb16,1,1044237.story
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"The new Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco hopes to
shed light on an event that has been shrouded in secrecy."
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An event?
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"gaining size and strength all that summer, the student-led
protests culminated on the evening of Oct. 2, when thousands
massed in the Plaza of the Three Cultures" "bloodshed began
when troops creeping in among the [Aztec] ruins converged on
the protesters, and snipers began shooting down on the plaza
from the surrounding buildings."
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Shrouded in secrecy? Much of the truth is known!
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Official Report Released on Mexico's "Dirty War" \ Government
Acknowledges Responsibility for Massacres, Torture, Disappear-
ances and Genocide \ National Security Archive Electronic
Briefing Book No. 209 \ Posted - November 21, 2006
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http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB209/index.htm#informe
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Historical Report to the Mexican Society - 2006 in 12 chapters.
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"The report by the Office of Special Prosecutor Ignacio
Carrillo Prieto, named by President Vicente Fox in 2002 to
investigate past human rights crimes, accuses three Mexican
presidents of a sustained policy of violence targeting armed
guerrillas and student protesters alike, including the use of
'massacres, forced disappearance, systematic torture, and
genocide.' The report makes clear that the abuses were not
the work of individual military units or renegade officers,
but official practice under Presidents Díaz Ordaz (1964-1970),
Echeverría (1970-1976) and López Portillo (1976-1982)."
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