POLICE STATE HEADLINES
The TSA is testing what could end up becoming a national ID card for transportation workers including warehouse operators and longshoremen at the nation's ports
Swipe against privacy But while stores insist that these cards — now embraced by almost half the supermarket chains — help keep loyal customers satisfied by having the right products at the prices they want, some privacy advocates say there is a dark side.
Chicago Mayor uses a claim of Homeland Security to justify a secret operation Daley rips up Meigs runways in surprise raid
Life Imprisonment for Any and All Involved in a Protest That Blocks Traffic
Defines Protesters as Terrorists...
GLOBAL POLICE STATE HEADLINES
US NEWS HEADLINES
Marine reservist refuses to serve as conscientious objector Funk said he began doubting his fitness for military service during basic training at Camp Pendleton last spring when he felt uncomfortable singing cadence calls that described violence and screaming "Kill. Kill. Kill," during weapons training.
Conscientious Objector Numbers Are Small but Growing With recruiting campaigns advertising the promise of job skills, tuition benefits and discipline, some members of the military now say there was little frank talk about the realities of combat. Mass Layoffs Threatened for Teachers in California The entire teaching staff, and some administrators, have received pink slips for the next academic year from the Alameda school district, which serves this island city of 75,000 across the bay from San Francisco.
SARS MYSTERY DISEASE OUTBREAK
88 new cases of deadly disease reported in one Hong Kong housing complex officials quarantine one block of apartments
2nd Hospital Closed in Canada Health officials closed a second Toronto-area hospital to new patients and said Saturday the number of probable or suspected cases of a flu-like mystery illness from Asia continued to increase.
WSF: Ban all China Flights
GLOBAL ECONOMY-War, and its prospect, shook world economy The shaky world economy suffered further damage in the build-up to war in Iraq and in the first few days of the conflict, surveys suggested on Tuesday.
WWIII?
Conflicting reports about a North Korean short-range missile test on Tuesday jangled North Asian nerves already on edge over suspicions Pyongyang might seek to grab attention now the U.S.-led war in Iraq is under way.
US fighters stay on in S Korea United States 'stealth' fighters sent to South Korea for a training exercise are to stay on once the exercises end
Pakistan denies nuclear assistance to N. Korea Pakistan says the US must provide evidence to support allegations that it helped North Korea with a programme of weapons of mass destruction.
Syria defies U.S.; more volunteers stream into Iraq Despite American warnings, in the last few days Damascus has expedited the passage of volunteers wishing to join the Iraqis in their war against the Americans. Thousands of volunteers, most of them Syrians, are thronging to the Mosul and Kirkuk regions in north Iraq.
Powell Warns Syria, Other Despotic Regimes "These country reports on human rights practices will help to shape the Bush administration's policy decisions as we work toward a safer, freer world," he said.
Russia warns of Iraqi fallout Against a backdrop of raging war on Iraq, Moscow warns that the other "axis of evil" states, North Korea and Iran, might find the temptation of using weapons of mass destruction even more irresistible.
Two Israelis die in room sealed against chemical attacK Two elderly Israeli Arab sisters were found dead Monday in a room they had sealed against a possible Iraqi chemical missile attack, and Israeli police said they were checking whether the women suffocated
PROPAGANDA UPDATE
False Claims Litter Iraq Conflict Almost every day, Britain and the United States have rowed back from triumphal claims in Iraq after jumping the gun in the propaganda war
Proliferation of Reports Favorable to the Coalition Turn out to Be False "We're absolutely sick and tired of putting things out and finding they're not true. The misinformation in this war is far and away worse than any conflict I've covered, including the first Gulf war and Kosovo," said a senior BBC news source.
(And Rumsfeld Complained about the Iraqis Violating the Geneva Convention) Hooded Iraqi POW and His Small Child Behind Barbed Wire
CNN: What's fair in war?
CHILDREN KILLED AT CHECKPOINT American troops killed seven women and children at a checkpoint in southern Iraq when the van in which they were travelling failed to stop
A Gruesome Scene on Highway 9 "It was the most horrible thing I've ever seen, and I hope I never see it again," Sgt. Mario Manzano, 26, an Army medic with Bravo Company of the division's 3rd Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, said later in an interview. He said one of the wounded women sat in the vehicle holding the mangled bodies of two of her children. "She didn't want to get out of the car," he said.
'You didn't fire a warning shot soon enough!' A journalist's account of the killing of a car full of Iraqi civilians by US soldiers differs widely from the official military version
US backs checkpoint killings soldiers A spokesman for US central command today backed soldiers who shot seven women and children at a checkpoint and blamed the Iraqi regime for the killings
America loosens 'nice guy' rules of engagement for troops American forces have loosened their rules of engagement, which specify when and how soldiers may make arrests and open fire
UK/US Troops Stretched as Tightly as Supply Lines After the race to reach Baghdad, the resilience of British and U.S. troops may now be stretched as tightly as their supply lines. Air war weapon stockpile runs critically low US needs to keep up supplies to back threat of new wars
Threat of suicide bombers changes the face of war Iraq produced a human bomb of its own on Saturday, the first such martyr of this war, when a non-commissioned army officer in plain-clothes drove a car up to a US military checkpoint in Najaf, killing four soldiers.
US draws up secret plan to impose regime on Iraq A disagreement has broken out at a senior level within the Bush administration over a new government that the US is secretly planning in Kuwait to rule Iraq in the immediate aftermath of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein
No Sign Yet of Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction Twelve days into the invasion of Iraq, there is no sign of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's suspected weapons of mass destruction, the primary rationale for the U.S.-led war now pummeling the country.
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