The article "Assad says alliance with Iran unshakable" at
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071214/ap_on_re_mi_ea/syria_iran
states "President Bashar Assad rejected claims that Syria's alliance
with Iran had been weakened by Damascus' participation in last month's
U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace conference, insisting Thursday that ties between
the two countries will never be shaken.
The November conference in Annapolis, Md., which relaunched Israeli-Palestinian
peace negotiations, was widely seen as also aimed at isolating Iran by bringing
together Arab nations. U.S. officials have expressed hopes that Syria's
attendance would mark a start to easing it out of its alliance with Tehran.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other top officials denounced the
conference, and some officials expressed surprise over Syria's participation -
though none directly criticized it...
Syria is Iran's closest Arab ally. The two countries have had warm relations
since 1980 when Syria sided with Persian Iran against Iraq in the 1980-88
Iran-Iraq war."
All these failures and we can't even allow our populace a glimpse of the facts.
The article "Lawyers Assert That Pentagon Overstates Ex-Detainee Threat" at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/10/AR2007121001616.html
states "A Seton Hall law professor contends that the Defense Department has
overestimated the number of former Guantanamo Bay detainees who became involved
in terrorist activities after they were released from the military prison.
Bush administration officials have long said that numerous former Guantanamo
detainees have turned up on battlefields or have become involved in unspecified
"anti-coalition militant activities." Defense officials put the number at 30 in
a news release in July.
The Pentagon cited seven former detainees by name, saying they turned up on
battlefields after leaving the prison, and it said there are 23 others who
became involved in unspecified terrorist activity but did not name them.
In material they will deliver to a congressional committee today, however, Mark
P. Denbeaux and his son, Joshua, who represent Guantanamo detainees, said the
data lack specificity and include some former detainees who did nothing more
than speak out publicly about their captivity....
Mark Denbeaux, director of the Seton Hall Law School Center for Policy and
Research, plans to present the information to a Senate Judiciary subcommittee
hearing today on the legal rights of Guantanamo detainees. Denbeaux has been
critical of Pentagon data regarding the threats the detainees pose, and his
previous reports have drawn fire from defense officials.
"Department of Defense senior officials have publicly claimed that dozens of
former Guantanamo detainees were captured or killed during battles with American
forces following their release," Denbeaux wrote in a prepared statement for the
committee. "This public representation was entirely inaccurate every time it was
uttered."
Tom Malinowski, Washington advocacy director of Human Rights Watch, also has
disputed the Pentagon's assertions about the number of detainees who have
returned to battle. He said it is part of a systematic effort to show that the
numbers do not add up."
They are lying about their failure! None of the numbers, and fuzzy math can fool some people for short periods, but is a recipe for W's impeachment!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071214/ap_on_re_mi_ea/syria_iran
states "President Bashar Assad rejected claims that Syria's alliance
with Iran had been weakened by Damascus' participation in last month's
U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace conference, insisting Thursday that ties between
the two countries will never be shaken.
The November conference in Annapolis, Md., which relaunched Israeli-Palestinian
peace negotiations, was widely seen as also aimed at isolating Iran by bringing
together Arab nations. U.S. officials have expressed hopes that Syria's
attendance would mark a start to easing it out of its alliance with Tehran.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other top officials denounced the
conference, and some officials expressed surprise over Syria's participation -
though none directly criticized it...
Syria is Iran's closest Arab ally. The two countries have had warm relations
since 1980 when Syria sided with Persian Iran against Iraq in the 1980-88
Iran-Iraq war."
All these failures and we can't even allow our populace a glimpse of the facts.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/10/AR2007121001616.html
states "A Seton Hall law professor contends that the Defense Department has
overestimated the number of former Guantanamo Bay detainees who became involved
in terrorist activities after they were released from the military prison.
Bush administration officials have long said that numerous former Guantanamo
detainees have turned up on battlefields or have become involved in unspecified
"anti-coalition militant activities." Defense officials put the number at 30 in
a news release in July.
The Pentagon cited seven former detainees by name, saying they turned up on
battlefields after leaving the prison, and it said there are 23 others who
became involved in unspecified terrorist activity but did not name them.
In material they will deliver to a congressional committee today, however, Mark
P. Denbeaux and his son, Joshua, who represent Guantanamo detainees, said the
data lack specificity and include some former detainees who did nothing more
than speak out publicly about their captivity....
Mark Denbeaux, director of the Seton Hall Law School Center for Policy and
Research, plans to present the information to a Senate Judiciary subcommittee
hearing today on the legal rights of Guantanamo detainees. Denbeaux has been
critical of Pentagon data regarding the threats the detainees pose, and his
previous reports have drawn fire from defense officials.
"Department of Defense senior officials have publicly claimed that dozens of
former Guantanamo detainees were captured or killed during battles with American
forces following their release," Denbeaux wrote in a prepared statement for the
committee. "This public representation was entirely inaccurate every time it was
uttered."
Tom Malinowski, Washington advocacy director of Human Rights Watch, also has
disputed the Pentagon's assertions about the number of detainees who have
returned to battle. He said it is part of a systematic effort to show that the
numbers do not add up."
They are lying about their failure! None of the numbers, and fuzzy math can fool some people for short periods, but is a recipe for W's impeachment!
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