Other newspapers give more details. Odd since the BBC broadcast a programme on this on Newsnight last night. Even odder that it took a media investigation to make anything happen. Dowsing plus a store theft tag, all powered by “static electricity”, allegedly…hmmm. Iraq paid $40,000 per unit, allegedly. Pass me my alleged homeopathic tranquilisers, please.
True in so many areas, but this is about the right to privacy and the dangerous roa down which the Commission and other central institutions continue to drive in the name of counter-terrorism [and keeping the US happy…]
Justice should be put back ahead of security
If this is true, then it’s rather important and has implications for the “war on terror” too. “War” declared by Nixon in 1969 compared to Prohibition in this piece, and considered just as disastrous. Towards the end, he accuses the CIA of ferrying drugs around in the same planes used for extraordinary rendition and names … US WAVES WHITE FLAG ON DISASTROUS “WAR ON DRUGS”
Independent article attacking the way police are being governed by a “target culture”. Reads as if it were written by a Telegraph journalist. Probably taken from someone’s press release, but if it’s true, they will do anything to fine us to meet performance targets and raise revenue…I thought they were too busy filling in forms!
El Pais announces another success in the drive against the Mexican drug cartels. The head of the Arellano Felix family captured, possibly with his brother, el Torito. Hey, they may be breakinbg through here!
Mostly about Google. Nothing about the attack on Baidu posted a few days ago. Something’s going on and as usual, political spin will disguise reality.
Pakistan sources say member of Abu Nidal group killed. Involved in 1986 Pan-Am aircraft hijack. Theres an epic to be told here.
Four failures to reach a verdict. Prosecutors now give up.
A longer piece on the subject of the previous post from the Washington Post
