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Chavez to launch guerrilla warfare against USA

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has urged soldiers to prepare for a guerrilla-style war against the United States.

He said the US government is using psychological and economic warfare as part of an unconventional campaign aimed at derailing his government. Dressed in olive green fatigues and a red beret, Chavez spoke yesterday inside Tiuna Fort – Venezuela’s military nerve-centre – before hundreds of uniformed soldiers standing alongside armoured vehicles and tanks decorated with banners reading: “Fatherland, Socialism, or Death! We will triumph!”

“We must continue developing the resistance war, that’s the anti-imperialist weapon. We must think and prepare for the resistance war everyday,” said Chavez, who has repeatedly warned that American soldiers could invade Venezuela to seize control of the South American nation’s immense oil reserves.

Bush vetoes bill banning CIA waterboarding

US President George Bush says he has vetoed legislation that would stop the CIA using interrogation methods such as simulated drowning or “water-boarding”. He said he rejected the intelligence bill, passed by Senate and Congress, as it took “away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror”. The president said the CIA needed “specialised interrogation procedures” that the military did not. Water-boarding is condemned as torture by rights groups and many governments. It is an interrogation method that puts the detainee in fear of drowning.

US special services arrest ‘Merchant of Death’ in Bangkok

Viktor Bout, an arms dealer known as “The Merchant of Death,” was arrested in Thailand, at a Bangkok hotel. Special services from many countries of the world have been hunting for Bout for years. US officials believe that the Russian businessman is world’s largest arms trafficker. Hollywood apparently sticks to the same opinion: Nicolas Cage played a character similar to Bout in a 2005 film Lord of War.

Special units of the Thai police and representatives of US law-enforcement agencies arrested Viktor Bout in his hotel room.

US authorities accuse the Russian citizen of illegal arms deliveries to Africa in contravention of the international embargo. Bout has been supposedly shipping weapons to rebels in Angola, Congo, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra-Leone and Sudan since the beginning of the 1990s. The dealer was selling Soviet-made weapons for diamonds. Western investigators believe that Bout has established a network of 50 airlines to transport his arms all over the world.

From WIKIPEDIA Article: Viktor Anatolyevich Bout (Russian: Виктор Анатольевич Бут) (born January 13, 1967 in Dushanbe, Tajik SSR, Soviet Union) is a Russian former KGB major and arms dealer, [1] nicknamed “the Merchant of Death”.[2] Bout is suspected of supplying arms to the Taliban and Al Qaeda and of supplying huge arms shipments into various civil wars in Africa with his own private air fleet.[3] He is the subject of a book by that name written by Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun[4] (Bout is not the first to bear the title: it appeared in a premature obituary of Alfred Nobel, which ultimately inspired him to create the Nobel Prizes). According to Lee S. Wolosky, he is “the most powerful player in the trafficking of illegal arms.” [1]

Recent reports suggest he is also operating in Iraq using front companies and Cargo Airlifts (Airline Transport, Air West, Aerocom and TransAvia Export). Bout came to officials’ attention in the 1990s, when he was accused of supplying arms to rebels in West Africa after a cease-fire agreement had been brokered. At that time he owned or was using many airlines, including Air Cess and Centrafrican, which were later forced to shut down by authorities. He also supplied arms to the deposed regime of Charles Taylor in Liberia.

When Terrorists Become ‘Warriors’

By Tom Malinowski
Sunday, March 18, 2007; Page B07

As an Irish American politician, the late, great Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan felt he had a duty to speak out against the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland. He considered IRA members to be nothing more than murderers. From time to time, some of his constituents who sympathized with the IRA would complain. “There is a war in Northern Ireland,” they pleaded. “The IRA are not terrorists; they are soldiers.”

For as long as there has been terrorism, terrorists have justified their actions by calling themselves warriors. A glance at the names such groups give themselves reveals how central warfare is to their self-image: the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the Lord’s Resistance Army, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat. Conversely, throughout history, most governments fighting terrorist groups have tried to delegitimize them as criminals and bandits.

Call Cruelty What It Is

By Tom Malinowski
Monday, September 18, 2006; Page A17

President Bush is urging Congress to let the CIA keep using “alternative” interrogation procedures — which include, according to published accounts, forcing prisoners to stand for 40 hours, depriving them of sleep and use of the “cold cell,” in which the prisoner is left naked in a cell kept near 50 degrees and doused with cold water.

Bush insists that these techniques are not torture — after all, they don’t involve pulling out fingernails or applying electric shocks. He even says that he “would hope” the standards he’s proposing are adopted by other countries. But before he again invites America’s enemies to use such “alternative” methods on captured Americans, he might benefit from knowing a bit of their historical origins and from hearing accounts of those who have experienced them. With that in mind, here are some suggestions for the president’s reading list.

Voice of an Iraqi Activist

This woman speaks the truth

The Full Fox News Presidential Debate – January 10, 2008

My comment: The way “Fox News people” treat Ron Paul is completely unfair. Ron Paul, in my opinion, is the strongest candidate. Although nearly everybody disagrees with him (mostly on foreign policy), all of Paul’s statements make sense and have good reasons behind them. Mitt Romney’s comment about Ron Paul was very insulting and disrespectful and no person with such attitude should ever even run for presidency. Thompson should read more about the “virgins,” before making silly jokes about people he doesn’t even know anything about. Assuming those people on the ships were terrorists (and already assuming they are ‘Islamic Extremists’ awaiting virgins) and were trying to blow up the US destroyer is simply idiotic and ignorant… Mitt Romney’s plan to “Move Islam” is absurd. He probably wants to invade more Muslim countries (and perhaps force them to like Israel) – Giuliani, in my opinion, is too supportive of Israel… he acted like Israel is the 51st state (adding “I have many friends” – so what?). Huckabee is a good candidate although I don’t agree with him on continuing the surge.

And finally, RON PAUL is the best republican candidate out there (check his response to the question on “electability”…)

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BBC: US Congress passes Iraq funding

BBC News. The US House of Representatives has voted for a $555bn (£277bn) federal budget, with an extra $70bn for the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Faced with a veto threat from President George W Bush, Democrats dropped efforts to tie the funds to a timetable for a US troop withdrawal from Iraq. The US Senate had already approved the Iraq funds on Tuesday. The votes end a long-running battle in which Democrats tried unsuccessfully to change President Bush’s war policy.

The approval comes as a quarterly report by the Pentagon for Congress said US forces had made “significant progress” in Iraq over the past three months, with the country becoming safer.

But the report cautioned that despite the progress on the security front, the handover to Iraqis was lagging, with Iraqi forces still dependent on US troops for logistics and training.