9/11 cleanup killed retired detective

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Sunday January 08, 2006 · 1:21 PM PST

2006/01/08 · 13:21

The ghosts of 9/11 are deadly. Bad news from CNN:

NEW YORK (AP) -- A retired, 34-year-old New York City police detective who spent hundreds of hours searching for September 11 victims at ground zero has died of a respiratory disease related to the cleanup, union officials said.

James Zadroga is believed to be the first emergency responder to die as a result of exposure to World Trade Center dust and debris, said Michael Palladino, president of the Detectives' Endowment Association.

"Unfortunately, I do not think he is going to be the last," Palladino said Saturday.

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Now, remember the hunky dory claims by EPA? While I'm highly uncertain on whether a more responsible response from EPA would have saved poor James, I'm certain they will have helped Al Qaeda to cause the premature demise of many New Yorkers in a not too distant future.

Whistleblower? in Menezes murder arrested.

Johannes

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Sunday September 25, 2005 · 7:04 AM PDT

2005/09/25 · 07:04

It seems like the British police have found a suspect for who blew the cover up of the Menezes murder after the terrorist attacks in London this summer. It seems very likely to me that whoever leaked the information contradicting the police's lies, did so in order to prevent the case from being white-washed. From the article:

A woman has been arrested over the leak of findings about the fatal police shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes on the Tube, it has emerged.

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The leaked information contradicted much of what had previously been thought about Mr Menezes' death and led his family to demand the resignation of Metropolitan Police chief Sir Ian Blair.

Scotland Yard was quoted as saying that Mr Menezes' "clothing and demeanour" added to suspicions that he was a suspected suicide bomber.

However, the leaked documents and photographs show the body of Mr Menezes, on the Tube where he was shot dead by police, wearing a denim jacket - not a bulky one as previously described.

Does anyone know if the U.K. have any protection laws for whistleblowers?

Basra spin spin spin: Insurgents infiltrate police

Johannes

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Wednesday September 21, 2005 · 3:13 AM PDT

2005/09/21 · 03:13

From CNN:

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Insurgents have infiltrated Iraq's security forces, a senior Iraqi official said, as the fallout continued over British forces' used of armed vehicles to smash their way into a police station to rescue two undercover soldiers.

This is hardly news to readers of Daily Kos, but it now seems like the occupiers are trying "blame the victim tactics" in order to make it look like the soldiers who killed an Iraqi policeman thought they were fighting insurgents.

I really doubt the (mainly Sunni) insurgents have a lot of power in Shia dominated Basra. The different Shia militias on the other hand are probably very influential. Later in the article:

Inside, troops discovered that the two men had been handed over to the militia by Iraqi police and freed them.

"The" milita? There are plenty of militias in Iraq. It would be d-mn nice to know if they were held by hostile Sadrists or (more likely) people like the Badr corps. Anyone who knows?

Fraud and Corruption!

Johannes

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Tuesday February 08, 2005 · 3:54 AM PST

2005/02/08 · 03:54

Has anyone seen this little cute article yet?

Fraud and corruption

Forget the UN. The US occupation regime helped itself to $8.8 bn of mostly Iraqi money in just 14 months

George Monbiot
Tuesday February 8, 2005
The Guardian

The Republican senators who have devoted their careers to mauling the United Nations are seldom accused of shyness. But they went strangely quiet on Thursday. Henry Hyde became Henry Jekyll. Norm Coleman's mustard turned to honey....

A handy link when some freeper starts whining about U.N. corruption. While I prefer peaceful resistance to the occupation, I can fully understand those Iraqis who prefer an armed fight to get rid of these brigands.

Nukular pros... proc... profilitasion

Johannes

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Wednesday November 17, 2004 · 8:09 AM PST

2004/11/17 · 08:09

Good ol' days are here again!

Excerpt:

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is working on new nuclear missile systems that other powers do not have in order to protect itself against future security threats, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday.

...(snip)...

Russia's latest nuclear innovation was a test launch in February of a missile designed to outwit Washington's planned $50 billion missile shield.

"It flies as a ballistic missile warhead in space, but when it penetrates the atmosphere it begins flying like a cruise missile," Golts said.

He said it made the American anti-missile plans more or less useless. "And it means that we still think about the United States as a potential adversary," Golts added. (Additional reporting by Tom Miles)

Emphasis mine.

I doubt bushit's shield would stop many of the old Russian missiles. Putin's system doesn't have to work particularly well in order to make mockery of Raygun's Star Wars project, but the fact that it even exists is a nasty reminder of the Cold War.

I miss Gorby :(

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