Archive for May, 2004

Monday, May 31st, 2004

.. Cheney’s relationship with Halliburton has been nothing but trouble since he left the company in 2000. Both he and the company say they have no ongoing connections. But TIME has obtained an internal Pentagon e-mail sent by an Army Corps of Engineers official

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Monday, May 31st, 2004

Oil prices are expected to surge - if only temporarily - when already jittery markets reopen globally on Monday after the weekend attack on oil industry personnel in Khobar, eastern Saudi Arabia.
Although Saudi Arabian oil supplies were not interrupted and Khobar, the Persian Gulf coast town, has no production, export or refining facilities, analysts said […]

Monday, May 31st, 2004

President Bush keeps the former dictator’s pistol at arm’s reach
When Saddam Hussein was rousted from his spider hole in Dawr, a town near Tikrit, by U.S. soldiers last December, Iraq’s fallen dictator was clutching a pistol. He is now in detention at an undisclosed location, being questioned by American authorities and awaiting charges for war […]

Sunday, May 30th, 2004

Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Iyad Allawi plans to recall four divisions of Saddam Hussein’s old army

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Sunday, May 30th, 2004

Top advisers to the Democratic presidential candidate, John Kerry, have asked Bill Clinton to play a starring role in the final months of the Massachusetts senator’s campaign.
Four years ago, in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the former vice-president Al Gore distanced himself from Clinton, during his race against George W Bush.
But after heated […]

Saturday, May 29th, 2004

Miramax film studio founders Harvey and Bob Weinstein have personally acquired rights to Michael Moore’s documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11″ from Walt Disney Co., after Disney, which owns Miramax, declined to distribute it, Disney said on Friday.
Miramax had funded the film but Disney said it was too politically charged for the family-friendly company.
After more than a week […]

Saturday, May 29th, 2004

The Bush administration has told officials who oversee federal education, domestic security, veterans and other programs to prepare preliminary 2006 budgets that would cut spending after the presidential election, according to White House documents.
The programs facing reductions — should President Bush be re-elected in November — would also include the National Institutes of Health, the […]

Saturday, May 29th, 2004

Several U.S. guards allege they witnessed military intelligence operatives encouraging the abuse of Iraqi prison inmates at four prisons other than Abu Ghraib, investigative documents show.
Court transcripts and Army investigator interviews provide the broadest view of evidence that abuses, from forcing inmates to stand in hoods in 120-degree heat to punching them, occurred at a […]

Saturday, May 29th, 2004

Pat Tillman, the former Arizona Cardinals football player who died in April while a U.S. soldier fighting in Afghanistan, likely was killed by friendly fire, an Army investigation has concluded.
News of that finding was disseminated Friday to some members of Congress and some Tillman family members just as the Memorial Day weekend was to begin, […]

Saturday, May 29th, 2004

SANTIAGO - A court said on Friday former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet could be prosecuted for his role in Operation Condor, in which Latin American military governments coordinated elimination of their opponents.
The decision by the full Santiago Appeals Court came after a 14-9 vote in favor of the move.
Pinochet, 88, had enjoyed immunity lawmakers gave […]