noted. 05/13/2012

• Bush Convicted of War Crimes in Absentia | Foreign Policy Journal

  •  The court heard how

    • Abbas Abid, a 48-year-old engineer from Fallujah in Iraq had his fingernails removed by pliers.
    • Ali Shalal was attached with bare electrical wires and electrocuted and hung from a wall.
    • Moazzam Begg was beaten, hooded and put in solitary confinement.
    • Jameelah was stripped and humiliated, and was used as a human shield whilst being transported by helicopter.

• 1968 Democratic National Convention - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • At approximately 3:30 pm, a young boy lowered the American flag at a legal rally taking place at Grant Park. The demonstration was made up of 10,000 protesters.^[18] The police broke through the crowd and began beating the boy, while the crowd pelted the police with food, rocks, and chunks of concrete.^[19] The biggest clash in Chicago took place that day. Police fought with the protesters and vice versa. The chants of the protesters shifted from “Hell no, we won’t go” to “Pigs are whores.”
  • The police were taunted by the protesters with chants of “Kill, kill, kill.” They sprayed demonstrators and bystanders indiscriminately with Mace.
  • it was later revealed by lip-readers that Daley had cursed “Fuck you, you Jew son of a bitch! You lousy motherfucker! Go home!”
  • Public opinion polls demonstrated that the majority of Americans supported the Mayor’s tactics.
    • ugh god.

• Afghan commanders show new defiance in dealings with Americans - The Washington Post

  tags: afghanistan

  • KABUL —Afghan commanders have refused more than a dozen times within the past two months to act on U.S. intelligence regarding high-level insurgents, arguing that night-time operations to target the men would result in civilian casualties, Afghan officials say.

     

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