PHOTOS
Some Photos of 1st May 2003 in Zürich.
Saturday, May 10, 2003
Tuesday, May 06, 2003
911
Heise: Ist es Zufall?
Die Nationale Kommission zur Untersuchung der Ereignisse vom 11.9. hat die ersten Anhörungen durchgeführt, die Bush-Regierung blockiert weiter die Aufklärung
Seit der Tragödie vom 11. September sind fast 20 Monate vergangen. Die Fragen, die durch diese Ereignisse entstehen, müssen in den USA erst noch durch eine öffentliche Untersuchung geklärt werden. Der Widerstand der Bush-Administration gegenüber der notwendigen öffentlichen Untersuchung hatte ein bedeutendes Hindernis dargestellt. Das ist desto mehr eine Anklage der Bush-Regierung, da sie das Mantra des 11. Septembers verwendet hatte, um einen Krieg gegen Dissidenten und Bürgerrechte im Land und gegen die Zivilbevölkerungen und Regierungen im Ausland zu führen.
Newsweek web exclusive: The Secrets of September 11
The White House is battling to keep a report on the terror attacks secret. Does the 2004 election have anything to do with it?
Even as White House political aides plot a 2004 campaign plan designed to capitalize on the emotions and issues raised by the September 11 terror attacks, administration officials are waging a behind-the-scenes battle to restrict public disclosure of key events relating to the attacks.
Heise: Ist es Zufall?
Die Nationale Kommission zur Untersuchung der Ereignisse vom 11.9. hat die ersten Anhörungen durchgeführt, die Bush-Regierung blockiert weiter die Aufklärung
Seit der Tragödie vom 11. September sind fast 20 Monate vergangen. Die Fragen, die durch diese Ereignisse entstehen, müssen in den USA erst noch durch eine öffentliche Untersuchung geklärt werden. Der Widerstand der Bush-Administration gegenüber der notwendigen öffentlichen Untersuchung hatte ein bedeutendes Hindernis dargestellt. Das ist desto mehr eine Anklage der Bush-Regierung, da sie das Mantra des 11. Septembers verwendet hatte, um einen Krieg gegen Dissidenten und Bürgerrechte im Land und gegen die Zivilbevölkerungen und Regierungen im Ausland zu führen.
Newsweek web exclusive: The Secrets of September 11
The White House is battling to keep a report on the terror attacks secret. Does the 2004 election have anything to do with it?
Even as White House political aides plot a 2004 campaign plan designed to capitalize on the emotions and issues raised by the September 11 terror attacks, administration officials are waging a behind-the-scenes battle to restrict public disclosure of key events relating to the attacks.
Monday, May 05, 2003
SARS BIOWEAPON
AFP: Rumours Abound Of SARS Link To BioWeapons
BEIJING (AFP) -- The mounting death toll exacted by Sars in China has triggered speculation that the virus could ultimately be traced back to a leak from military bio-weapon programmes.
Although most reports favour a natural origin for Sars, a bio-weapon link should not be ruled out, according to Mr Richard Fisher, a senior fellow at the Jamestown Foundation, a Washington-based think-tank.
'While there is no reported evidence that Sars is indeed a weapon, there are plenty of ways that a real weapon with the properties of Sars could prove decisive in a military conflict,' he said.
Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng, in an opinion piece published in the International Herald Tribune this week, cited rumours circulating in China such as the idea 'that Sars emanated from China's biological weapons research facilities'.
Many analysts consider a link between Sars and bio-weapons far-fetched
AFP: Rumours Abound Of SARS Link To BioWeapons
BEIJING (AFP) -- The mounting death toll exacted by Sars in China has triggered speculation that the virus could ultimately be traced back to a leak from military bio-weapon programmes.
Although most reports favour a natural origin for Sars, a bio-weapon link should not be ruled out, according to Mr Richard Fisher, a senior fellow at the Jamestown Foundation, a Washington-based think-tank.
'While there is no reported evidence that Sars is indeed a weapon, there are plenty of ways that a real weapon with the properties of Sars could prove decisive in a military conflict,' he said.
Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng, in an opinion piece published in the International Herald Tribune this week, cited rumours circulating in China such as the idea 'that Sars emanated from China's biological weapons research facilities'.
Many analysts consider a link between Sars and bio-weapons far-fetched
SWITZERLAND
AFP: War crimes charges filed in Switzerland against Bush, Blair
BERN (AFP) - A private group called "Solidarity with Victims of the War Against Iraq" has filed war crimes charges in Switzerland against US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) and British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites), the public prosecutor's office said Thursday.
In a submission, the Geneva-based group said it represented Iraqi nationals whose family members had been victims of acts of war during the invasion carried out by US and British troops.
AFP: War crimes charges filed in Switzerland against Bush, Blair
BERN (AFP) - A private group called "Solidarity with Victims of the War Against Iraq" has filed war crimes charges in Switzerland against US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) and British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites), the public prosecutor's office said Thursday.
In a submission, the Geneva-based group said it represented Iraqi nationals whose family members had been victims of acts of war during the invasion carried out by US and British troops.
OCCUPIED TERRITORIES
Arabicnews: 17 Palestinians killed in Israeli massacre, demolishing, damaging 93 houses
The Israeli occupation forces yesterday committed brutal acts which claimed the lives of 17 Palestinians including three brothers from Abu Hein family and two children, while more than 40 others were wounded when scores of Israeli tanks incurred yesterday at dawn at al-Shuje'eya quarters in Gaza under the cover of the Israeli military helicopters opening fire intensively at the homes of Palestinians.
Two other Palestinians were killed by the Israeli forces in another incursion operation in Yata town, Hebron, in the West Bank and four were wounded, thereby making the number of Palestinians killed yesterday at 17.
Arabicnews: 17 Palestinians killed in Israeli massacre, demolishing, damaging 93 houses
The Israeli occupation forces yesterday committed brutal acts which claimed the lives of 17 Palestinians including three brothers from Abu Hein family and two children, while more than 40 others were wounded when scores of Israeli tanks incurred yesterday at dawn at al-Shuje'eya quarters in Gaza under the cover of the Israeli military helicopters opening fire intensively at the homes of Palestinians.
Two other Palestinians were killed by the Israeli forces in another incursion operation in Yata town, Hebron, in the West Bank and four were wounded, thereby making the number of Palestinians killed yesterday at 17.
IRAQ
Omaha: U.N. blamed for causing Iraq's gas shortages
Iraq - Jay Garner, the former lieutenant general who has been in Iraq for nearly a month with a mandate to get the country running again, on Sunday blamed U.N. sanctions for the gasoline shortages that have prompted Iraqi anger at the American occupation forces here.
Waving his arm to indicate the long lines of cars waiting at a gas station in central Baghdad, Garner said the economic sanctions still in force on Iraq had stalled deliveries of oil for its domestic needs.
"Put in there that the U.N. really needs to lift the sanctions so we don't have all of this," he said.
"Was er nicht gesagt hat ist das die USA das Irakische Öl nicht verkaufen können solange das "Oil-for-Food" Programm der UNO in Kraft ist"
Omaha: U.N. blamed for causing Iraq's gas shortages
Iraq - Jay Garner, the former lieutenant general who has been in Iraq for nearly a month with a mandate to get the country running again, on Sunday blamed U.N. sanctions for the gasoline shortages that have prompted Iraqi anger at the American occupation forces here.
Waving his arm to indicate the long lines of cars waiting at a gas station in central Baghdad, Garner said the economic sanctions still in force on Iraq had stalled deliveries of oil for its domestic needs.
"Put in there that the U.N. really needs to lift the sanctions so we don't have all of this," he said.
"Was er nicht gesagt hat ist das die USA das Irakische Öl nicht verkaufen können solange das "Oil-for-Food" Programm der UNO in Kraft ist"
FINANCE
Guardian: Arise, investors, says Buffett
US investment guru calls for shareholder revolt against boardroom greed
Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor, has urged shareholders to rise up against greedy executives, in a searing weekend attack on rising pay and the
business practices that grew out of the dotcom boom.
Mr Buffett was particularly critical of the trend to report Ebitda - earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation - which became popular in the 90s and remain so today. His long-time business partner at investment fund Berkshire Hathaway, Charlie Munger, summed up their attitude: "Wherever you read Ebitda, you should substitute it with 'bullshit earnings'. "
At the annual shareholder meeting of Berkshire Hathaway, in Omaha, Mr Buffett also delivered a brutal assessment of the $726bn tax cuts proposed by President Bush, which, he said "screamed of injustice" to the poor.
Guardian: Arise, investors, says Buffett
US investment guru calls for shareholder revolt against boardroom greed
Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor, has urged shareholders to rise up against greedy executives, in a searing weekend attack on rising pay and the
business practices that grew out of the dotcom boom.
Mr Buffett was particularly critical of the trend to report Ebitda - earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation - which became popular in the 90s and remain so today. His long-time business partner at investment fund Berkshire Hathaway, Charlie Munger, summed up their attitude: "Wherever you read Ebitda, you should substitute it with 'bullshit earnings'. "
At the annual shareholder meeting of Berkshire Hathaway, in Omaha, Mr Buffett also delivered a brutal assessment of the $726bn tax cuts proposed by President Bush, which, he said "screamed of injustice" to the poor.
IRAQ: HALLIBURTON
MSNBC: Halliburton cash registers ring in Iraq
WASHINGTON, May 2 — Halliburton Energy Services, the giant government contractor formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, is overseeing no-bid Army projects worth nearly a half-billion dollars that involve almost every aspect of U.S. operations in Iraq, NBC News has learned. The projects extend well beyond a previously reported Pentagon contract the company won to put out oil-well fires in Iraq two months ago.
MSNBC: Halliburton cash registers ring in Iraq
WASHINGTON, May 2 — Halliburton Energy Services, the giant government contractor formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, is overseeing no-bid Army projects worth nearly a half-billion dollars that involve almost every aspect of U.S. operations in Iraq, NBC News has learned. The projects extend well beyond a previously reported Pentagon contract the company won to put out oil-well fires in Iraq two months ago.
AFGHANISTAN
Times of India: Senior Taliban leader resurfaces, vows jihad
SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan: One of the most senior leaders of Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime vowed on Sunday to continue a jihad, or holy war, against the United States and its Afghan allies.
Mullah Mohammad Hasan Rehmani, former governor of the province of Kandahar and a close associate of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, was speaking to Reuters by satellite telephone from an undisclosed location in his first interview since the fall of the Taliban in late 2001.
"The Taliban will continue their jihad and struggle for peace, implementation of Islamic sharia law, and against America and its agents", Rehmani said. "The jihad will continue because American troops are occupying Afghanistan".
Afghan officials say the Taliban appears to be regrouping this year and blame the hardline militia for a series of attacks on American and Afghan government troops in recent months
Times of India: Senior Taliban leader resurfaces, vows jihad
SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan: One of the most senior leaders of Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime vowed on Sunday to continue a jihad, or holy war, against the United States and its Afghan allies.
Mullah Mohammad Hasan Rehmani, former governor of the province of Kandahar and a close associate of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, was speaking to Reuters by satellite telephone from an undisclosed location in his first interview since the fall of the Taliban in late 2001.
"The Taliban will continue their jihad and struggle for peace, implementation of Islamic sharia law, and against America and its agents", Rehmani said. "The jihad will continue because American troops are occupying Afghanistan".
Afghan officials say the Taliban appears to be regrouping this year and blame the hardline militia for a series of attacks on American and Afghan government troops in recent months
USA
Guardian: Firm in Florida election fiasco earns millions from files on foreigners
A data-gathering company that was embroiled in the Florida 2000 election fiasco is being paid millions of dollars by the Bush administration to collect detailed personal information on the populations of foreign countries, enraging several governments who say the records may have been illegally obtained.
US government purchasing documents show that the company, ChoicePoint, received at least $11m (£6.86m) from the department of justice last year to supply data - mainly on Latin Americans - that included names and addresses, occupations, dates of birth, passport numbers and "physical description". Even tax records and blood groups are reportedly included.
Nicaraguan police have raided two offices suspected of providing the information. The revelations threaten to shatter public trust in electoral institutions, especially in Mexico, where the government has begun an investigation.
Guardian: Firm in Florida election fiasco earns millions from files on foreigners
A data-gathering company that was embroiled in the Florida 2000 election fiasco is being paid millions of dollars by the Bush administration to collect detailed personal information on the populations of foreign countries, enraging several governments who say the records may have been illegally obtained.
US government purchasing documents show that the company, ChoicePoint, received at least $11m (£6.86m) from the department of justice last year to supply data - mainly on Latin Americans - that included names and addresses, occupations, dates of birth, passport numbers and "physical description". Even tax records and blood groups are reportedly included.
Nicaraguan police have raided two offices suspected of providing the information. The revelations threaten to shatter public trust in electoral institutions, especially in Mexico, where the government has begun an investigation.
IRAQ
Sunday Herald: US: 'Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction'
The Bush administration has admitted that Saddam Hussein probably had no weapons of mass destruction.
Senior officials in the Bush administration have admitted that they would be 'amazed' if weapons of mass destruction (WMD) were found in Iraq.
According to administration sources, Saddam shut down and destroyed large parts of his WMD programmes before the invasion of Iraq.
Ironically, the claims came as US President George Bush yesterday repeatedly justified the war as necessary to remove Iraq's chemical and biological arms which posed a direct threat to America.
Bush claimed: 'Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. We will find them.'
This represents a clearly dramatic shift in the definition of the Bush doctrine's central tenet -- the pre-emptive strike. Previously, according to Washington, a pre-emptive war could be waged against a hostile country with WMDs in order to protect American security.
Now, however, according to the US official, pre-emptive action is justified against a nation which simply has the ability to develop unconventional weapons.
Sunday Herald: US: 'Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction'
The Bush administration has admitted that Saddam Hussein probably had no weapons of mass destruction.
Senior officials in the Bush administration have admitted that they would be 'amazed' if weapons of mass destruction (WMD) were found in Iraq.
According to administration sources, Saddam shut down and destroyed large parts of his WMD programmes before the invasion of Iraq.
Ironically, the claims came as US President George Bush yesterday repeatedly justified the war as necessary to remove Iraq's chemical and biological arms which posed a direct threat to America.
Bush claimed: 'Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. We will find them.'
This represents a clearly dramatic shift in the definition of the Bush doctrine's central tenet -- the pre-emptive strike. Previously, according to Washington, a pre-emptive war could be waged against a hostile country with WMDs in order to protect American security.
Now, however, according to the US official, pre-emptive action is justified against a nation which simply has the ability to develop unconventional weapons.
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