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Pakistan’s Bhutto Detained Again – Ahead of Protest

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LAHORE/LONDON (Reuters) – Pakistani police put opposition leader Benazir Bhutto under house arrest for a week on Tuesday as the Commonwealth threatened suspension unless President Pervez Musharraf repealed a state of emergency.
Army chief Musharraf set off a storm of criticism when suspended the constitution, sacked most judges, locked up lawyers, rounded up thousands of opposition [...]

Olympic Games At Risk – Tibet Confronts Angry China

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“We will give our lives but not our land!”
“This is a new beginning for the Tibetan struggle against Chinese occupation,” said Kalsang Phuntsok Godrukpa, president of the congress.
Thousands of Tibetans rallied in the Indian capital yesterday in the first protest of an aggressive new campaign to highlight Chinese abuses in Tibet in the run-up [...]

Slim Coverage For Saturday’s Anti-War Protest

Posted by bosskitty

Protesters gather to march on Capitol
By MATTHEW BARAKAT, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) –
The protesters gathered in Lafayette Park with signs saying “End the war now” and calling for President Bush’s impeachment. The rally, organized by the ANSWER Coalition and other groups, was expected to conclude [...]

The Terror Presidency – Presents Cheney In All His Gory

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New Book Details Cheney Lawyer’s Efforts to Expand Executive Power

By Dan Eggen and Peter Baker Washington Post Staff Writers
Vice President Cheney’s top lawyer pushed relentlessly to expand the powers of the executive branch and repeatedly derailed efforts to obtain congressional approval for aggressive anti-terrorism policies for fear that even a Republican [...]

Ignorantia juris non excusat – Bush, More Ignorant Defiance

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US Lawmaker Threatens to Hold White House Officials in Contempt
The Democratic chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, has threatened to hold members of the Bush administration in contempt for withholding documents subpoenaed by his panel. The administration did not meet a Monday deadline for handing over information about the [...]

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