Today Bush held a news conference to urge Congress to pass a surveillance bill that gives immunity to the telecommunications companies. He used his usual fear rhetoric..“Without the cooperation of private companies, we cannot protect our country from terrorist attack”..“that their assistance was legal and vital to national security”. Aside from showing his obvious allegiance to protecting corporate interests an
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A Human Rights Watch investigation in Chad has determined that two opposition politicians whom the government says it is not holding were in fact seized by state security forces on February 3. Their arrests were part of a crackdown on political opponents in the capital N’Djamena following a coup attempt by Chadian rebels in early February.
The battle began on February 2, 2008 when Chadian rebel forces opposed to Chadian President “Idr
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