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Cheney -  Criminal
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"Spanish Court Weighs Inquiry on Torture for 6 Bush-Era Officials." ... "A Spanish court has taken the first steps toward opening a criminal investigation into allegations that six former high-level [Republican President] Bush administration officials violated international law by providing the legal framework to justify the torture of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, an official close to the case said." ... "The case, against former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and others, was sent to the prosecutor’s office for review by Baltasar Garzón, the crusading investigative judge who ordered the arrest of the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. The official said that it was “highly probable” that the case would go forward and that it could lead to arrest warrants." ... "The complaint under review also names John C. Yoo, the former Justice Department lawyer who wrote secret legal opinions saying the president had the authority to circumvent the Geneva Conventions, and Douglas J. Feith, the former under secretary of defense for policy." ... "Spain can claim jurisdiction in the case because five citizens or residents of Spain who were prisoners at Guantánamo Bay [Cuba] have said they were tortured there. The five had been indicted in Spain, but their cases were dismissed after the Spanish Supreme Court ruled that evidence obtained under torture was not admissible." ... "The 98-page complaint, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times, is based on the Geneva Conventions and the 1984 Convention Against Torture, which is binding on 145 countries, including Spain and the United States. Countries that are party to the torture convention have the authority to investigate torture cases, especially when a citizen has been abused." ... "Gonzalo Boye, the Madrid lawyer who filed the complaint, said that the six Americans cited had had well-documented roles in approving illegal interrogation techniques, redefining torture and abandoning the definition set by the 1984 Torture Convention." ... "Secret memorandums by Mr. Yoo and other top administration lawyers helped clear the way for aggressive policies like waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques, which the [Central Intelligence Agency] C.I.A. director, the attorney general and other American officials have said amount to torture." ... "The other Americans named in the complaint were William J. Haynes II, former general counsel for the Department of Defense; Jay S. Bybee, Mr. Yoo’s former boss at the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel; and David S. Addington, who was the chief of staff and legal adviser to [Republican] Vice President Dick Cheney." -By Marlise Simons with contributions by Scott Shane and Eric Schmitt -NYTimes
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Nord -  Children
- Safety
- Politics
-  Government
- Consumer
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- Enforcement- Manufacturer
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-  Money
-  China
- Spain
- US
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Francisco -  California
- New
Orleans -  Louisiana
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"Industries Paid for Top Regulators' Travel: Two Heads of Product Safety Agency Accepted Trips From Manufacturer Groups." ... "The chief of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and her predecessor have taken dozens of trips at the expense of the toy, appliance and children's furniture industries and others they regulate, according to internal records obtained by The Washington Post. Some of the trips were sponsored by lobbying groups and lawyers representing the makers of products linked to consumer hazards." ... "The records document nearly 30 trips since 2002 by the agency's acting chairman, Nancy Nord, and the previous chairman, Hal Stratton, that were paid for in full or in part by trade associations or manufacturers of products ranging from space heaters to disinfectants. The airfares, hotels and meals totaled nearly $60,000, and the destinations included China, Spain, San Francisco [California], New Orleans [Louisiana] and a golf resort on Hilton Head Island, S.C. [South Carolina.]" ... "Consumer groups and lawmakers intensified their criticism of the CPSC this summer after several highly publicized recalls of Chinese-made toys that contained hazardous levels of lead. Critics have long charged that the agency has become too close to regulated industries, opting for "voluntary" standards and repeatedly choosing not to take legal action against businesses that refuse to recall dangerous products." ... "Government-wide travel regulations state that officials from agencies such as the CPSC should not accept money for travel from nonfederal sources if the payments "would cause a reasonable person . . . to question the integrity of agency programs or operations."" ... ""This is a blatant violation of the ethics code," said Craig Holman, an expert on governmental ethics law for the nonprofit consumer advocacy group Public Citizen." ... "The records show that Nord and Stratton repeatedly accepted gift travel for events from industries subject to CPSC enforcement." (1, 2, 3) -By Elizabeth Williamson -WashingtonPost 
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Enforcement -  Prisons
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Rights - Politics
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-  Italy
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- Spain
-  Romania
-  Poland
"Probe of CIA Prisons Implicates EU Nations." ... "Fourteen European nations colluded with U.S. intelligence in a "spider's web" of human rights abuses to help the CIA spirit terror suspects to illegal detention facilities, a European investigator said Wednesday." ... "Swiss senator Dick Marty's report to Europe's top human rights body was thin on evidence but raises the possibility of a cover-up involving both friends and critics of Washington's war on terror. It says European governments "did not seem particularly eager to establish" the facts." ... "He listed 14 European countries - Britain, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Bosnia, Macedonia, Turkey, Spain, Cyprus, Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Romania and Poland - as being complicit in "unlawful interstate transfers" of people." -By Jan Sliva -AP via -Forbes 
Spain
"Five small ETA blasts in Madrid, no injuries." ... "Armed Basque separatist group ETA exploded five small bombs on motorways around Madrid on Saturday as Spain celebrated the 27th anniversary of its constitution with a ceremony in the parliament building." ... "ETA has killed some 850 people since 1968 and in the last two years has frequently set off non-fatal bombs." (1, 2) -By Emma Pinedo, Emma Ross-Thomas, Blanca Rodriguez -Reuters
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"16 terror suspects held in Spain." ... "Spanish police have arrested 16 suspected Islamic terrorists, including 11 believed to be linked to the terror network of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, officials said Wednesday." ... "The other five suspects were linked to last year's Madrid [Spain] train bombings, the Interior Ministry said." ... "Authorities identified the alleged leader of the 11 suspects as Samir Tahtah, 28, who has a previous police record for document forgery." ... "Of the five people arrested in connection with the Madrid train bombings, authorities identified the prime suspect as Moroccan native Mohamed Larbi Ben Sellam, 28." -By Al Goodman -CNN 
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"Powell urges coalition leaders to keep troops in Iraq." ... "Secretary of State Colin Powell said Tuesday the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq remains strong despite decisions by Spain and Honduras to pull out their troops. Later, the Dominican Republic announced that it also would withdraw its troops." ... "Powell told reporters that leaders of 13 coalition countries with whom he spoke by telephone Monday and Tuesday "all expressed steadfast support" for their respective troop commitments." ... "Among the leaders Powell spoke with was Thai Foreign Minister Surakiart Sathirathai." ... "In addition to Surakiart, Powell spoke with leaders of El Salvador, Dominica, Norway, Denmark, Hungary, Portugal, Poland, Bulgaria, Holland, Romania, the Philippines and Ukraine." -By George Gedda -AP via -SFGate.com 
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on Alert for More Letter Bombs; Suspect Letter at
Italy Mission Turns Out to Be False Alarm." ... "EU officials and members
of the European Parliament were warned to be extra vigilant after two bombs
ignited Monday, one in the Brussels office of a leading German conservative
member of the EU legislature and another in the office of a British socialist
member in Manchester, England." ... "A third booby-trapped letter was intercepted
in the Brussels office of a Spanish conservative in the Parliament."
-AP via -ABCNEWS.com
- Christmas
News
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PM Aznar Makes Christmas Trip to Iraq." ... "Prime
Minister Jose Maria Aznar made a lightning trip to Iraq Saturday to express
his support for Spanish troops just ahead of the Christmas holiday." ...
"Despite strong opposition to the U.S.-led war among the Spanish public,
Spain has 1,300 soldiers in Iraq." -Reuters
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- "Two
U.S. Soldiers Among 12 Killed in Iraq This Weekend:
Deadly Weekend Ends Deadliest Month Since March." ... "Guerrillas killed
a dozen people from four nations helping the U.S. military in Iraq in weekend
ambushes, sparking new concern among Washington's allies about the risks
of getting involved in stabilizing the country." ... "Two South Koreans
died on Sunday when their car was sprayed with bullets near Saddam Hussein's
hometown, a day after ambushes killed seven Spanish intelligence agents,
two Japanese diplomats and their Iraqi driver, and a Colombian contractor."
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via -WashingtonPost
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months after Saddam, eight die as bombers prolong violence."
... "A suicide car bomber killed at least eight people at a Baghdad police
station yesterday as Iraq marked six months since the fall of Saddam Hussein's
regime with another day of bitterly familiar violence." ... "The latest
attack killed three Iraqi policemen and five civilians who had crowded
into the courtyard of the police station in the poor Shia Muslim district
now known as Sadr City. The driver of the car also died and at least 45
people were injured in the blast." ... "In a separate incident in western
Baghdad a few minutes earlier, a Spanish intelligence officer was assassinated
in front of his house." -By Rory McCarthy and Giles
Tremlett -Guardian.co.uk
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- "Spanish
Peacekeepers Killed in Turkey Plane Crash." ... "A
plane carrying 62 Spanish peacekeepers returning from Afghanistan crashed
in Turkey early on Monday and all aboard, including 13 crew, were killed,
officials and Turkish media said." ... "The Ukrainian Yak-42 crashed as
it tried to land in thick fog near Turkey's Black Sea city of Trabzon."
... "The soldiers were mostly members of an engineers regiment based in
Burgos and had been in Afghanistan serving with the International Security
Assistance Force (ISAF) monitoring Kabul for four months, Spanish newspaper
El Mundo's Web Site said." -By Enis Yildirim-Reuters
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Department Noon Briefing Transcript [List of the 30 Nations Supporting
US Disarmament of Iraq]." ... "BRIEFER: Richard
Boucher, Spokesman." ... "MR. BOUCHER: There are 30 countries who have
agreed to be part of the coalition for the immediate disarmament of Iraq.
I'd have to say these are countries that we have gone to and said, "Do
you want to be listed?" and they have said, "Yes."" ... "They are: Afghanistan,
Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Denmark,
El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Hungary, Iceland, Italy,
Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Nicaragua,
the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom,
and Uzbekistan." ... "In addition to these countries, there are actually
another 15 or so that we know of, probably more than 15, that are cooperating
with us in -- and the coalition, or perhaps offering defensive assets in
the event that Saddam resorts to the use of weapons of mass destruction."
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- "Bush
to address nation tonight on Iraq." ... "Faced with
insurmountable opposition at the United Nations, the United States, Britain
and Spain pulled back a resolution aimed at securing international approval
for an attack on Baghdad. It represented an abject failure for U.S. diplomacy.
The resolution's sponsors said France's veto threat in the U.N. Security
Council made further negotiations futile." ... "Instead, the United States
seemed poised for the first full-scale war in its history in which it launches
an attack without being struck first. In doing so, the president is set
to create a new doctrine of preventive war, which he justifies as the only
way to head off attacks such as the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist assaults
on the United States." -By Jim Drinkard
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- "Optimistic
War Protesters Keep Pressure on Bush: Diplomatic
Setbacks For Military Strike Lift Crowd's Hopes." ... "They had come for
what was billed as the last chance to make a statement, tens of thousands
of them, chanting, waving their homemade signs, bringing their children
for a real-life civics lesson to rally around the Washington Monument and
march on the White House, pressing their case against war with Iraq." ...
"The [Washington D.C.] march was held in conjunction with antiwar demonstrations
in Los Angeles, San Francisco and abroad; hundreds of thousands joined
rallies in Spain, France, Greece and Germany, among other nations." -By
Manny Fernandez with Hamil R. Harris, S. Mitra Kalita, Allan Lengel, Ylan
Q. Mui and Christina A. Samuels contributing-WashingtonPost
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- "Bush: ‘Moment
of truth’ at hand: Bush, Blair, Aznar:
Monday is Iraq’s final deadline for full disarmament." ... "Calling Monday
a “moment of truth for the world,” President Bush pressed one last time
Sunday for Iraq’s disarmament at an emergency summit with the leaders of
Spain and Britain in the Azores islands. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein,
who just hours before the meeting placed his country on war footing, responded
to the allies, saying it is a “great lie” that his country still has banned
weapons." ... "French President Jacques Chirac showed no sign of backing
down from his opposition to a U.S.-led war in Iraq, saying in a “60 Minutes”
interview broadcast Sunday that France “will naturally go to the end” in
refusing to endorse military action." -By Andrea Mitchell,
Rachel Elbaum, and Jon Bonné, & -AP
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- "Bush,
Allies Set Monday Deadline on Iraq: On
Brink of War, U.S., Allies Set Monday Deadline for U.N. to Authorize Force
Against Iraq." ... "On the brink of war, President Bush and summit partners
from Britain and Spain gave the United Nations a Monday deadline to endorse
the use of force to compel Iraq's immediate disarmament." ... "Though the
leaders pledged to seek compromise with U.N. foes through the night and
all day Monday, they offered little hope of a diplomatic breakthrough.
Even if a compromise plan somehow secured approval of a U.S.-Britain-Spain
resolution at the U.N., it would delay military action only a week or so,
officials said." -AP
via -ABCNEWS.com
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- "Britain
says Iraq summit not a council of war." ... "Britain
insisted on Sunday that a summit with the United States and Spain on Sunday
was not a council of war and would look into several options, including
a possible peaceful solution to the Iraq crisis." -Reuters
via -AlertNet.org/Newsdesk
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- "Iraq
on War Footing Hours Before Last-Ditch Summit." ...
"Iraq went onto a war footing on Sunday just hours before President Bush
was to hold an emergency summit with close allies Britain and Spain that
could start the clock for an invasion." ... "Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
divided his country into four military districts under his command to prepare
for any assault by quarter of a million U.S. and British troops already
massed in the Gulf region." -By Ian Simpson-Reuters
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- "Allies
to hold Iraq crisis summit: President George
W Bush is to hold emergency talks with British and Spanish leaders on Sunday
amid diplomatic deadlock at the UN Security Council over their plans for
disarming Iraq." ... "Mr Bush, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and Spain's
Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar will meet in the Azores in the Atlantic
Ocean on Sunday, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said." ... "The meeting
was aimed at a "final pursuit" of a UN resolution, Mr Fleischer said."
... ""We are still pursuing the vote next week. We have not said what date,"
he said." -BBC/News
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bloc states line up with U.S. against 'old' Europe:
Central, Eastern European governments back anti-Hussein efforts." ... "Brushing
aside French tirades that they should "shut up," the nations of Eastern
Europe are flexing newfound diplomatic muscle, and nowhere is this more
evident than in their strong support for President Bush in the confrontation
with Iraq." ... "While continental heavyweights such as France and Germany,
along with Russia, remain staunchly opposed to a U.S.-led attack, neophytes
such as Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania,
Poland and Slovakia -- all of whom recently emerged from the Soviet yoke
-- are standing by Washington. In the Security Council, it was Bulgaria
that joined the United States, Britain and Spain in pushing resolutions
setting a deadline for Iraq to surrender its weapons." -By
Steven C. Johnson -SFGate.com
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U.S. plans for Iraq war: France, Russia, Germany
say they will oppose U.N. resolution." ... "The foreign ministers of France,
Russia and Germany said Wednesday they will not allow a U.N. resolution
to pass that authorizes war against Iraq. Their statement, which followed
a hastily called meeting in Paris, came amid a quickening U.S. push for
military action against Baghdad. A White House spokesman played down the
resistance, saying President Bush remained confident that the draft resolution,
sponsored by the United States, Britain and Spain, would be approved."
-MS-NBC
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- "Who
is for and who against a war on Iraq?" ... "A new
resolution on Iraq which Washington would like passed by mid-March will
need backing from at least nine of the 15 members of the U.N. Security
Council, and no vetoes." -Reuters
-AlertNet.org/Newsdesk
currently calculates four Security Council member countries are for a new
resolution: the US, UK, Spain, and Bulgaria; six member countries have
voiced opposition to a new resolution: China, France, Germany, Mexico,
Russia, and Syria; and five member countries are "unclear": Angola, Cameroon,
Chile, Guinea, and Pakistan.
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opens push for second U.N. Iraq resolution:
President: 'Clear and simple' question for Security Council." ... "Bush
said Saturday the U.N. Security Council will be presented with a "clear
and simple" resolution that asks members to address just one question:
Is Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein complying with a November resolution demanding
that Iraq disarm itself of weapons of mass destruction?" ... ""[Resolution
1441] did not ask for hints of progress or minor concessions. It demanded
full and immediate disarmament," Bush said at a news conference after meeting
at his ranch in Texas with Jose Maria Aznar, Spain's prime minister. "That,
and that alone, is the issue before the council.""
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- "9 European
nations line up with U.S. in pledge on Iraq." ...
"Assuming a somewhat frayed mantle as global diplomat, Prime Minister Tony
Blair flew to the United States on Thursday night to meet President George
W. Bush, bearing an unusual pledge of support for Washington against Baghdad
from nine European leaders but leaving behind a continent ever more divided
over the need for war in Iraq." ... "Significantly, the letter's expressions
of ringing support for the United States fell short of explicit backing
for Washington's threat of a go-it-alone war with what it terms a "coalition
of the willing" if other nations continue to oppose it." ... "The signatories
included both established European Union members -Britain, Spain, Portugal,
Italy and Denmark - along with four countries set to join the Union next
year - Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland." -By
Alan Cowell -NYTimes
via -IHT.com
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