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United World News December 15 2004

IMARGO Journalist Switzerland

A Brilliant Secretary General in the UN.

The eyes of the world are on Kofi Annan. Bush wants complete control of foreign policy, he doesn’t want to share with Kofi Annan. When did the administration ever give up any World Power? Annan is considered the best General Secretary the UN has ever had. Kojo Gate is a dream come true for Kofis enemies in the White House. Fantasia White House spinners loose, they can’t admit Annan is innocent, they have nothing to stand on. Bite the bullet Bush.

Bush sees Annan and al Baradei as obstacles. It is repulsive to try to get to Kofi through Kojo, a pitiable quality. Bush would be happy to oppress the UN, he is not an admirer of the Institution. Bush rather dislikes the UN and Kofi, also Mr. al Baradei. We thank and praise both Annan and Baradei for a difficult job well done, thank you Gentlemen.


“Allawi war crime trial to begin in Baghdad”. The headline suggests, Allawi going on trial along with Negroponte for their war crimes. Allawi claims he found a mass grave, fabricated, mass grave fable? Possibly Allawi filled the new graves, why other wise would he find them? Did he find arrows saying “this way to the new mass graves?”
I want Bush to answer this question; How can two well known notorious war criminals be in charge of a war crime tribunal?. The people’s justice in Iraq will be served when Allawi and the other murderer Negroponte leave Iraq along with the US government.
The world can not allow war criminals to put war criminals on trial let alone convict them. It’s called getting rid of the evidence. How can we possibly trust this ooze, Allawi and Negroponte? How could we?

A stand off in Athens: the gunmen seized a bus to get to the airport to catch a plane to Russia? Why didn’t they just go to the airport? “Brainless in Athens”.

We put this fact up before but we feel to much is not enough in this case.
It turns out the military has been charging some injured combat soldiers travel expenses to and from hospitals and billing them for equipment that got lost in the chaos of their woundings.

Loria suffered extensive shrapnel injuries along the left side of his body, a torn tendon in one ankle, and a left thigh bone that was split right in two. Those were only the "minor" injuries. He is now an amputee, with no left hand. Loria was looking forward this month to going home for Christmas and toward being discharged early in the new year. He was also looking forward to receiving a pay check for more than $4,500. Instead, he was told by the Army he actually owed the Army money, and instead of receiving any had to cough up $1,800 or he couldn't leave his temporary duty station at Fort Hood in Texas. Wow, the Pentagon has some tough bill collectors.

"It isn't a matter of money. It isn't a matter on the part of the Army of desire. It's a matter of production and capability of doing it," Rumsfeld answered when asked about the lack of armored vehicles available in Iraq.

The Bush administration initially blamed the shortage of vehicle armor on delay in ramping up production lines back home. Not to worry, the Pentagon said, our armor manufacturers are producing more every week. Then somebody got the bright idea of asking the actual makers of the scarce armor. Not our fault, they said -- the Pentagon never ordered an increase in production, despite our sales efforts.
Bush administration once again proven to be outrageous liars.

Chris McGreal in Jayyous
Tuesday December 14, 2004
The Guardian

Sharif Omar has been waiting two years for the bulldozers, ever since Israel's steel and barbed wire "security fence" carved its way between his village and its land. Last week the excavators and diggers finally arrived on the outskirts of Jayyous to lay the foundations for an expansion of the nearby Jewish settlement of Zufim, fulfilling the fears and warnings of its Palestinian neighbours.
The bulldozers were preparing the ground for hundreds of new homes, despite the Israeli government's claim that it is not expanding Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Like other building work along the route of the barrier, it seems to be an attempt to ensure that the land between the fence and the 1967 border remains in Israeli hands in any final agreement with the Palestinians.
"When they built the fence, we said they would use it to build a much bigger settlement, and they would take our land to do it," said Mr Omar, whose olive and citrus groves are now encircled. "It is very clear to us, they are planning to confiscate all of our land and drive us from here. They came and told us to finish harvesting because they were going to begin building 80 houses. They are beginning with my neighbour's land but if they do it there they will do it on mine."
At least five other sites along the barrier have settlement work in progress. Israeli human rights groups say the government appears to be racing to fill in the gap between the barrier and the Israeli border before a US team arrives next year to mark out the final limits of settlement expansion. §

Like we insist on stating “we can’t trust the government”. For Gods sake don’t turn your back.

Ingrid Margo