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BBC Iraq coverage |
Thursday, September 22, 2005
BUSH TURNS OUT TO BE SURPRISINGLY RELAXED ABOUT CHILD SEX-TRAFFICKERS: Well, let's be honest - why would you want a little bit of selling kids to be shagged get in the way of the relationship between you and an oil-rich state, eh?: WASHINGTON -- President Bush decided Wednesday to waive any financial sanctions on Saudi Arabia, Washington's closest Arab ally in the war on terrorism, for failing to do enough to stop the modern-day slave trade in prostitutes, child sex workers and forced laborers. [Source: The Associated Press] Friday, September 16, 2005
BNP - DOING THE RIGHT THING FOR BRITISH WORKERS: The most interesting thing about the Kent Police seizing the BNP's newspapers as they came through Dover is, of course, just that: the BNP was importing its newspapers. We're not sure why this supposedly patriotic bunch are having their "isn't Britain great" propaganda printed out in Slovakia - shouldn't a patriotic party be having their papers printed in the UK, supporting British jobs? And isn't it doubly surprising that a party which wants to withdraw from the EU is making full use of the single European market to get its stuff printed off in Bratislava? NATION BUILDING: You have to wonder how the US hopes to bring order to a foreign land when it can't even bring order to its own armed services: according to a Miles Foundation study, one third of female US veterans have reported being sexually assaulted while at work; including nearly one in ten women serving during the first Gulf War. And if that's what's happening to people viewed as colleagues, you have to wonder what's happening to the people the army view as conquests. LEAVE US BE: The family of the contractor murdered in Iraq want to be "left alone to grieve in peace." Which is fair enough, of course, but... since they'd been left alone to grieve in peace for the last few months, why did they feel the need to give a newspaper interview asking to be left alone? |