Capital to increase use of camerasMexico City may not look much different a year from now, but if its government´s plan to install 4,000 new video surveillance cameras during 2007 is carried out, the nation´s capital will likely have a different feel to it.
Residents and visitors will certainly feel more watched, with one, two or several wireless cameras set up in each of the city´s 1,352 "territorial units" carved out for crime prevention purposes.
Joel Ortega, chief of police, is... (more)
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Princes demand end to Diana conspiraciesPrinces William and Harry appealed last night for an end to the speculation surrounding the death of their mother after a three-year investigation demolished claims of a conspiracy to murder her. But the official police report into the deaths disclosed that Dodi Fayed had probably been intending to ask Diana, Princess of Wales, to marry him on the night she died.
The 832-page report also discloses details of the Princess’s state of mind at her marriage collapse, including he... (more)
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Judge sides with Bush administration on expanded detention powers under new terror lawUS President George W. Bush has scored the first victory in a new and drawn-out round of court battles with Guantanamo Bay inmates, including Australian David Hicks.
US District Court Judge James Robertson today ruled the Federal Court no longer had jurisdiction to hear cases involving prisoners challenging their detention at the US military base in Cuba.
Guantanamo detainees were stripped of their Federal Court access in October when Mr Bush signed the controversia... (more)
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Center for Constitutional Rights condemns dismissal of Hamdan V. RumsfeldOn December 13, 2006, the Center for Constitutional Rights Deputy Legal Director Barbara Olshansky said, "Unfortunately, Judge Robertson overlooked the primary ruling on the rights and protections guaranteed to the detainees at Guantanamo by the United States Supreme Court in its 2004 ruling in Rasul v. Bush."
She continued, "That decision held squarely that the detainees are entitled to challenge the legality of their detention in front of a court by means of the writ of habeas c... (more)
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Federal judge invokes Military Commissions Act to reject Gitmo habeas petitionA federal judge Wednesday dismissed [ruling, PDF] a habeas corpus petition brought by Guantanamo detainee Salim Hamdan [Trial Watch profile], finding it was clearly barred under the controversial habeas-stripping language [JURIST report] of the new Military Commissions Act (MCA) [text, PDF] even though it was ... (more)
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Students Told To Urinate In BottleSALISBURY, Md. -- School officials are deciding the fate of a Maryland teacher at Salisbury Middle School who instructed three boys who needed a bathroom break to urinate into a soda bottle.
Wicomico County school policy requires eighth-graders to be escorted to the restroom, and the teacher suggested the bottle Friday when an escort was not available.
Preston Whittington told The Salisbury Daily Time his 13-year-old nephew was told to urinate into a soda bottle ... (more)
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Banned for a George Bush T-shirtAN Australian was barred from a London-Melbourne flight unless he removed a T-shirt depicting George Bush as the world's number one terrorist.
Allen Jasson was also prevented from catching a connecting flight within Australia later the same day unless he removed the offending T-shirt.
Mr Jasson says Qantas and Virgin Blue were engaging in censorship but the airlines say the T-shirt was a security issue and could affect the sensitivities of other passengers.
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'Gitmo Is Like Being Alive in Your Own Grave'''Guantanamo brings images of a man in orange overalls, his face down and a soldier holding him by the neck, like a dog on a leash," says 14-year-old Zahra Paracha. "Animals are treated better,'' she tells IPS.
"What's the point of talking to you," she then says, her eyes clouding up. "I'm tired of telling the media that my father is innocent. In the first press conference three years ago, I poured my heart out but that did not bring my father back. I think no one can help us, nei... (more)
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Doctors prescribing antidepressants, antipsychotic medications to infants under the age of one, says psychiatristAccording to Dr. Yolande Lucire, a forensic psychicatrist based in New South Wales, Australia, doctors are giving children younger than 1 year of age prescriptions for atypical antipsychotics -- a class of narcotics used to treat schizophrenia, bipolar mania, psychotic agitation and other similar conditions.
In an email to Alliance for Human Research Protection President Vera Hassner Sharav, Lucire, published on the AHRP web site, Lucire says that she is taking kids under her care... (more)
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Inquest hears astrophysicist may have been poisonedNew Zealand police believe an Australian astrophysicist who died mysteriously while working at the South Pole five years ago might have been deliberately poisoned.
A coroner's inquest has heard the investigations have been frustrated by a lack of cooperation from the US agency that operated the base.
Rodney David Marks died in May 2000 from methanol poisoning while working on a Smithsonian astrophysical project at the US base at the South Pole.
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A Way Forward, a Look BackThe abrupt resignation of the Saudi ambassador to the United States and the postponement of George W. Bush’s new Iraq policy speech mark a troubling new chapter for a U.S. strategy for the Middle East that continues to spiral toward catastrophe.
Prince Turki al-Faisal, the Saudi ambassador to Washington and the former chief of Saudi intelligence, informed the State Department on Dec. 11 that he had ... (more)
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Senator Who Suffered Stroke Supports Anthrax InvestigationA cadre of U.S. lawmakers fired off a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales pleading for new information on the five-years-and-running investigation into the 2001 anthrax scare that shocked South Dakota when then-Sen. Tom Daschle's office was caught up in the attacks.
The bipartisan letter, signed by 33 members of Congress this week, extends an effort by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., to persuade the FBI to release an update ... (more) Note: The following report was published before it was announced today that Senator Johnson had suffered a stroke. |
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US Government Biological Weapons Legislator Says 2001 Anthrax Attacks Part Of Government Bio-warfare Program The real culprits behind the 2001 anthrax attack on Congress were most likely US government scientists at the army's Ft. Detrick, MD., bioterrorism lab according to a former government biological weapons legislator and University of Illinois Professor.
Dr Franics A. Boyle says the FBI covered up these facts and has also quite clearly stated that he doubts the official ... (more)
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Iranian Professor: US and Israel have Been Trying To Divide Iran For Years An Iranian political science professor has said today that Iran and the US signed an agreement in 1978 which allowed Tehran to seek nuclear technology in order to meet its future energy demands but no one now talks about the agreement. He has also asserted that Zionists in Israel in co-operation with neoconservatives in the US have intentionally been trying to divide Iran for decades.
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General foresees 'generational war' against terrorismThe American people need to prepare for a long-duration war against radical Muslims who are set to fight for 50 to 100 years to create an Islamist state in the region, a top Pentagon strategist in the war on terror says.
Air Force Brig. Gen. Mark O. Schissler said in an interview that the current strategy for fighting Islamists includes both military and ideological components that make it similar to the 40-year Cold War against communism.
"We're in a genera... (more)
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Who Killed Princess Diana?
At 12:25 a.m. on August 31, 1997, a black Mercedes sedan crashed into concrete pillar number 13 in the Alma Tunnel in Paris. In the back seat lay Dodi Fayed dead and Princess Diana — probably the most famous woman in the world — injured but at least still... (more)
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Al-Fayed accuses MI6 and senior royalMohamed al-Fayed insisted today that Princess Diana and his son Dodi were murdered on the orders of a member of the British royal family.
The Harrods owner branded Lord Stevens’ three-year investigation into the August 1997 Paris crash as “garbage” and a “cover-up”.
The senior royal and MI6 were in it together, according to Mr al-Fayed.
He said: “I’m certain 100% that a leading member of the roy... (more)
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Fayed dismisses 'shocking' probe Mohamed al Fayed has insisted he would not accept a "shocking" police probe which concludes that the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, was an accident.
Mr al Fayed said he was "the only person who knows the truth" about the death of Diana and his son Dodi in 1997.
Former Metropolitan Police chief Lord Stevens was presenting the findings of his three-year investigation at a press conference in central London later on Thursday.
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Boston Air Traffic Controller Says 9/11 An Inside JobA former Boston Center air traffic controller has gone public on his assertion that 9/11 was an inside job and that Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon tracked three of the four flights from the point of their hijacking to hitting their targets. In an astounding telephone interview, Robin Hordon claims air traffic controllers have been ignored or silenced to protect the true perpetrators of 9/11.
A recording of the phone conversation was posted on Google video la... (more)
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Blair questioned in honours probePrime Minister Tony Blair has been interviewed by police investigating cash for honours allegations.
Mr Blair was not interviewed under caution and he was not accompanied by a lawyer, his spokesman said.
The probe was sparked by revelations Labour was given secret loans ahead of last year's election. Some donors were subsequently nominated for honours.
Assistant Commissioner John Yates, of Scotland Yard, has said he expects to complete his inquiry nex... (more)
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Hidden Camera Exposes Illegal Search by PoliceA driver who wishes to remain anonymous has used a hidden camera mounted in the dash of his car to record instances with police as a protection against potential harassment or any violation of rights.
He was pulled over in a 2002 incident which reveals an illegal search by police recorded on his camera. The man clearly tells police not to search his vehicle because it would be in violation of his 4th Amendment right under the Constitution and threatens to su... (more)
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