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08 Jan 2008 http://www.legitgov.org/ All items are here:
http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news
Bagram detention centre now twice the size of Guantanamo 08 Jan
2008 The United States has quietly expanded the number of "enemy
combatants" being held in judicial limbo at its Bagram military
base in Afghanistan, a facility which has now grown to more than
twice the size of the controversial and much more widely discussed
military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Bagram has received just
a fraction of the world attention paid to Guantanamo, but the two
facilities have prompted very similar complaints about prisoners
held incommunicado for weeks or months, the lack of recourse to any
system of legal redress, and persistent reports of prisoner
mistreatment that many human rights campaigners have characterised
as torture.
"His blood rose and he asked the occupying soldiers to stop beating
the woman," they said in the statement. "Their answer through the
translator was:
'We will do what we want.' So he opened fire on them." Killer of
U.S. Soldiers Becomes a Hero By Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail 07
Jan 2008 On Dec. 26, an Iraqi soldier opened fire on U.S. soldiers
accompanying him during a joint military patrol in the northern
Iraqi city Mosul. He killed the U.S. captain and another sergeant,
and wounded three others, including an Iraqi interpreter. Conflicting
versions of the killing have arisen. Col. Hazim al-Juboory, uncle
of the attacker Kaissar Saady al-Juboory, told IPS that his nephew
at first watched the U.S. soldiers beat up an Iraqi woman. When he
asked them to stop, they refused, so he opened fire.
2 Fires in Hit Iraqi Refinery; 1 Dead 07 Jan 2008 Two fires broke
out Monday in Iraq's largest oil refinery in the northern town of
Beiji, killing one person and injuring nine, police and hospital
officials said. The U.S.
military said two separate fires broke out in the refinery in the
town 155 miles north of Baghdad due to a mechanical fault [?].
Fire destroys Iraq refinery's LPG unit - engineer 07 Jan 2008 Iraq's
largest oil refinery was continuing to operate on Monday despite a
fire that destroyed its liquified petroleum gas (LPG) unit, an
engineer at the facility told Reuters. The engineer at Baiji refinery,
who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the fire had stopped
spreading but firefighters were struggling to extinguish the blaze
and had asked for reinforcements.
Bush to push Turkey, Iraq on Kurd fighters 08 Jan 2008 US President
[sic] George W. Bush was to encourage Turkish President Abdullah
Gul Tuesday to work with Iraq on a "long-term political solution"
to clashes with Kurdish fighters, the White House said.
US almost opened fire on Iranian boats, Pentagon says 08 Jan 2008
The US and Iran have engaged in their most serious military
confrontation in recent times, with American warships on the verge
of opening fire on gunboats of the Revolutionary Guards which had
threatened to blow them up.
Iranian boats confront U.S. warships in Strait of Hormuz 07 Jan
2008 In a confrontation in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, five
armed Iranian boats approached three U.S. Navy warships in international
Iranian waters, taking aggressive actions in a brief weekend
confrontation described by the Pentagon as "reckless and dangerous."
2 Hornets crash in Persian Gulf, crews safe 07 Jan 2008 Two F/A-18
Super Hornet fighter jets from the carrier Harry S. Truman collided
in midair over the northern Persian Gulf on Monday afternoon. Rescue
teams saved the three aviators involved in the crash and safely
returned all three to the ship.
Mega barf alert! More than 10,000 police will guard Bush during
Israel visit 07 Jan 2008 Israeli officials in Jerusalem are to
deploy more than 10,000 police officers in a vast security operation
ahead of the arrival this week of George Bush, the first US president
to visit in a decade. Graffiti are being cleaned off walls, road
markings are being repainted and hundreds of American flags are
being put up across the city.
Discrimination recorded against Yemenis in Guantanamo Bay 08 Jan
2008 International human rights activists accuse the American
government of exercising discrimination against Yemenis by keeping
most of them incarcerated in the Guantanamo Bay prison while most
other foreign nationals have been returned to their respective home
countries. Of the 107 incarcerated Yemenis, only thirteen have been
returned.
Heathrow Terror Plot Extremist Jailed 08 Jan 2008 A man arrested
at Heathrow Airport has been jailed for four-and-a-half years after
he admitted planning to fly to Pakistan with the intention of
committing acts of terrorism. Sohail Qureshi admitted three charges
of preparing or commissioning terrorist acts, possessing articles
likely to be used in a terror act and possessing records likely to
be useful in terrorism.
ACLU rips plan to track R.I. students 07 Jan 2008 A tech company
with ties to a school district plans to test a tracking system by
putting computer chips on grade-schoolers' backpacks, an experiment
the ACLU ripped Monday as invasive and unnecessary. [Just destroy
the backpacks --problem solved!]
In the toilet: Bush convenes Plunge Protection Team 08 Jan 2008
Bears beware.
The New Deal of 2008 is in the works. The US Treasury is about to
shower households with rebate cheques to head off a full-blown
slump, and save the Bush p_residency. On Friday, Mr Bush convened
the so-called Plunge Protection Team for its first known meeting
in the Oval Office. The black arts unit - officially the President's
Working Group on Financial Markets - was created after the 1987
crash... The Plunge Protection Team - long kept secret - was last
mobilised to calm the markets after 9/11. It then went into hibernation
during the long boom.
US recession is already here, warns Merrill 07 Jan 2008 The US has
entered its first full-blown economic recession in 16 years, according
to investment bank Merrill Lynch. Merrill, itself one of Wall
Street's biggest casualties of the sub-prime crisis, is the first
major bank to declare that a recession in the world's biggest economy
is now underway.
Pending home sales sink 2.6% in November 08 Jan 2008 Sales contracts
on previously owned U.S. homes fell by 2.6% in November, a sign
that home sales will continue to decline. The pending home sales
index, based on contracts signed but not closed in November, fell
2.6% in November and was down 19.2% in the past year, the National
Association of Realtors reported Tuesday.
Baltimore Is Suing Bank Over Foreclosure Crisis 08 Jan 2008 Baltimores
mayor and City Council are suing Wells Fargo Bank, contending that
its lending practices discriminated against black borrowers and led
to a wave of foreclosures that has reduced city tax revenues and
increased its costs.
Bloomberg, Others Urge Bipartisanship --N.Y. Mayor, Former Lawmakers
Use Forum to Ask for Unified Government 08 Jan 2008 New York Mayor
[GOPervert] Michael R. Bloomberg, declaring once again that he is
"not a candidate" for the presidency, joined a bipartisan forum
Monday of mostly former elected officials seeking new ways to solve
Washington's partisan gridlock. [The Democrats are winning, so the
PentaPost urges 'bipartisanship!' The power-brokers who run the US
know that the people are starting to demand a curb of Bush-style
predatory capitalism, and they can't have that. Hence, the emergence
of the 'bipartisanship card.' That's code for surrender to Bush and
allowance for the corpora-terrorists to continue to plunder the
National Treasury. God only knows, we've had enough of that for
7 years. Eliminate the Bush dictatorship; gridlock will end. --LRP]
Obama widens lead over Clinton in New Hampshire 08 Jan 2008 Democrat
Barack Obama expanded his lead over Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire
to 13 points as voting began in the state's critical presidential
primary, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on
Tuesday.
Obama and McCain get early win in New Hampshire hamlet --GOP gets
7 votes;
Dems, 10 08 Jan 2008 Sen. Barack Obama won seven of the 10 votes
cast for Democrats in the first balloting of the New Hampshire
primary on Tuesday in the northern hamlet of Dixville Notch, while
Sen. John McCain won the Republican balloting.
Edwards burns the midnight oil 08 Jan 2008 Presidential candidates
often call on America to "wake up" but John Edwards is bringing
that message to voters literally. The couple launched a 36-hour bus
tour of New Hampshire that began on Sunday and ended in the early
hours of today - the day that polls open.
Huckabee vows to defy birthright citizenship 08 Jan 2008 Mike
Huckabee wants to amend the Constitution to prevent children born
in the U.S. to illegal aliens from automatically becoming American
citizens, according to his top immigration surrogate -- a radical
step no other major presidential candidate has embraced.
Court Stays Out of Mich. Abortion Case 07 Jan 2008 The Supreme Court
turned down efforts by Michigan and an anti-abortion group Monday
to revive the state's law banning the procedure opponents call
partial-birth abortion.
Scientists: Flu virus must pick lock before entering human 07 Jan
2008 U.S.
researchers found that flu viruses must be able to pick a very
specific type of lock before entering human respiratory cells, media
reports quoted researchers as saying Monday. [And Bush's bioterrorists
have the key.]
Groups cite oil leases in U.S. delay on rating polar bear's status
08 Jan 2008 Environmental groups fear that political meddling and
a rush to sell oil leases in Arctic waters are behind the Bush
administration's announcement Monday that it will miss a legal
deadline to determine whether to list the polar bear under the
Endangered Species Act. Climate scientists predict that floating
polar ice will disappear by midcentury, leaving the bear without
food and habitat. Two-thirds of the population could disappear by
2050, scientists say.
Polar Bear Fate Undecided --U.S. Agency Says It Will Miss Deadline
for Endangered Species Decision 07 Jan 2008 The head of the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service took responsibility Monday for missing a
deadline requiring a final decision on whether to give polar bears
federal protection under the Endangered Species Act. "Rather than
speed up protections for this iconic animal, the Bush administration
is speeding up its giveaway of polar bear habitat to big oil," said
Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., in a statement. Markey chairs the House
Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.
Decision on Listing Polar Bear Postponed 08 Jan 2008 Federal officials
said Monday that they will need a few more weeks to decide whether
polar bears need protection under the Endangered Species Act because
of global warming. The deadline was Wednesday, but the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service said it now hopes to provide a recommendation
to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne in time for a decision by him
within the next month. [Please sign NRDC's petition to add the polar
bear to the "threatened" list.]
Pittsburgh basking in 66 degrees in January 08 Jan 2008 According
to the National Weather Service, the high temperature for Pittsburgh
yesterday reached 66, shattering the old record of 63 set on Jan.
7, 1930, by an almost-balmy three degrees of separation. "And we'll
probably break the record again," said Roger Stairs, a meteorologist
with the weather service, which is forecasting highs in the mid-
to upper 60s today.
Rare winter tornadoes pop up in nation's midsection 08 Jan 2008 A
tornado was reported blowing across eastern Arkansas Tuesday, a day
after a freak cluster of January twisters sprung up in the unseasonably
warm Midwest and demolished houses, knocked a railroad locomotive
off its tracks and shuttered a courthouse.
CLG needs your support.
http://www.legitgov.org/#contribute Or, please mail a check or money
order to the CLG:
Citizens for Legitimate Government (CLG) P.O. Box 1142 Bristol, CT
06011-1142 Contributions to CLG are not tax deductible.
[Previous lead stories:] Al-Qaeda: bombs waiting for Bush visit 07
Jan 2008 An 'al Qaeda' member [Adam Pearlman] warned on a videotape
Sunday that U.S.
President [sic] George Bush's upcoming trip to the Middle East will
meet bombs and booby-traps instead of roses and applause, media
reported Monday.
U.S. says Iranian gunboats harassed warships --Officials describe
incident as a 'significant provocative act' 07 Jan 2008 Iranian
Revolutionary Guard gunboats harassed three U.S. Navy warships in
the Strait of Hormuz Sunday, in what the U.S. military officials
described as a "significant provocative act."
Military officials told NBC News Monday that two U.S. Navy destroyers
and one frigate were heading into the Persian Gulf through the
international Iranian waters of the Strait of Hormuz when five armed
"fast boats" of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard approached a high
speed, darting in and out of the formation. At one point a radio
message from one of the Iranian boats warned, "You are going to
blow up within minutes." [How can you 'harass' a (foreign) warship
in your own waters? Its existence in your waters is, in itself, a
provocation. --LRP]
Navy fighter jets crash in Persian Gulf 07 Jan 2008 Two U.S. Navy
fighter jets plunged into the Persian Gulf Monday, after what initial
reports suggest was a mid-air collision, a defense official said.
All three pilots ejected safely from the planes and were headed
back to the USS Harry Truman, the aircraft carrier they were operating
from, according to the official, who requested anonymity because
the information was preliminary and not yet released publicly.
Please forward this newsletter to anyone you think might be interested.
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CLG Newsletter editor: Lori Price, Manager. Copyright ) 2008,
Citizens For Legitimate Government . All rights reserved. CLG Founder
and Chair is Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D.
08 Jan 2008 http://www.legitgov.org/ All items are here:
http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news
Bagram detention centre now twice the size of Guantanamo 08 Jan
2008 The United States has quietly expanded the number of "enemy
combatants" being held in judicial limbo at its Bagram military
base in Afghanistan, a facility which has now grown to more than
twice the size of the controversial and much more widely discussed
military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Bagram has received just
a fraction of the world attention paid to Guantanamo, but the two
facilities have prompted very similar complaints about prisoners
held incommunicado for weeks or months, the lack of recourse to any
system of legal redress, and persistent reports of prisoner
mistreatment that many human rights campaigners have characterised
as torture.
"His blood rose and he asked the occupying soldiers to stop beating
the woman," they said in the statement. "Their answer through the
translator was:
'We will do what we want.' So he opened fire on them." Killer of
U.S. Soldiers Becomes a Hero By Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail 07
Jan 2008 On Dec. 26, an Iraqi soldier opened fire on U.S. soldiers
accompanying him during a joint military patrol in the northern
Iraqi city Mosul. He killed the U.S. captain and another sergeant,
and wounded three others, including an Iraqi interpreter. Conflicting
versions of the killing have arisen. Col. Hazim al-Juboory, uncle
of the attacker Kaissar Saady al-Juboory, told IPS that his nephew
at first watched the U.S. soldiers beat up an Iraqi woman. When he
asked them to stop, they refused, so he opened fire.
2 Fires in Hit Iraqi Refinery; 1 Dead 07 Jan 2008 Two fires broke
out Monday in Iraq's largest oil refinery in the northern town of
Beiji, killing one person and injuring nine, police and hospital
officials said. The U.S.
military said two separate fires broke out in the refinery in the
town 155 miles north of Baghdad due to a mechanical fault [?].
Fire destroys Iraq refinery's LPG unit - engineer 07 Jan 2008 Iraq's
largest oil refinery was continuing to operate on Monday despite a
fire that destroyed its liquified petroleum gas (LPG) unit, an
engineer at the facility told Reuters. The engineer at Baiji refinery,
who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the fire had stopped
spreading but firefighters were struggling to extinguish the blaze
and had asked for reinforcements.
Bush to push Turkey, Iraq on Kurd fighters 08 Jan 2008 US President
[sic] George W. Bush was to encourage Turkish President Abdullah
Gul Tuesday to work with Iraq on a "long-term political solution"
to clashes with Kurdish fighters, the White House said.
US almost opened fire on Iranian boats, Pentagon says 08 Jan 2008
The US and Iran have engaged in their most serious military
confrontation in recent times, with American warships on the verge
of opening fire on gunboats of the Revolutionary Guards which had
threatened to blow them up.
Iranian boats confront U.S. warships in Strait of Hormuz 07 Jan
2008 In a confrontation in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, five
armed Iranian boats approached three U.S. Navy warships in international
Iranian waters, taking aggressive actions in a brief weekend
confrontation described by the Pentagon as "reckless and dangerous."
2 Hornets crash in Persian Gulf, crews safe 07 Jan 2008 Two F/A-18
Super Hornet fighter jets from the carrier Harry S. Truman collided
in midair over the northern Persian Gulf on Monday afternoon. Rescue
teams saved the three aviators involved in the crash and safely
returned all three to the ship.
Mega barf alert! More than 10,000 police will guard Bush during
Israel visit 07 Jan 2008 Israeli officials in Jerusalem are to
deploy more than 10,000 police officers in a vast security operation
ahead of the arrival this week of George Bush, the first US president
to visit in a decade. Graffiti are being cleaned off walls, road
markings are being repainted and hundreds of American flags are
being put up across the city.
Discrimination recorded against Yemenis in Guantanamo Bay 08 Jan
2008 International human rights activists accuse the American
government of exercising discrimination against Yemenis by keeping
most of them incarcerated in the Guantanamo Bay prison while most
other foreign nationals have been returned to their respective home
countries. Of the 107 incarcerated Yemenis, only thirteen have been
returned.
Heathrow Terror Plot Extremist Jailed 08 Jan 2008 A man arrested
at Heathrow Airport has been jailed for four-and-a-half years after
he admitted planning to fly to Pakistan with the intention of
committing acts of terrorism. Sohail Qureshi admitted three charges
of preparing or commissioning terrorist acts, possessing articles
likely to be used in a terror act and possessing records likely to
be useful in terrorism.
ACLU rips plan to track R.I. students 07 Jan 2008 A tech company
with ties to a school district plans to test a tracking system by
putting computer chips on grade-schoolers' backpacks, an experiment
the ACLU ripped Monday as invasive and unnecessary. [Just destroy
the backpacks --problem solved!]
In the toilet: Bush convenes Plunge Protection Team 08 Jan 2008
Bears beware.
The New Deal of 2008 is in the works. The US Treasury is about to
shower households with rebate cheques to head off a full-blown
slump, and save the Bush p_residency. On Friday, Mr Bush convened
the so-called Plunge Protection Team for its first known meeting
in the Oval Office. The black arts unit - officially the President's
Working Group on Financial Markets - was created after the 1987
crash... The Plunge Protection Team - long kept secret - was last
mobilised to calm the markets after 9/11. It then went into hibernation
during the long boom.
US recession is already here, warns Merrill 07 Jan 2008 The US has
entered its first full-blown economic recession in 16 years, according
to investment bank Merrill Lynch. Merrill, itself one of Wall
Street's biggest casualties of the sub-prime crisis, is the first
major bank to declare that a recession in the world's biggest economy
is now underway.
Pending home sales sink 2.6% in November 08 Jan 2008 Sales contracts
on previously owned U.S. homes fell by 2.6% in November, a sign
that home sales will continue to decline. The pending home sales
index, based on contracts signed but not closed in November, fell
2.6% in November and was down 19.2% in the past year, the National
Association of Realtors reported Tuesday.
Baltimore Is Suing Bank Over Foreclosure Crisis 08 Jan 2008 Baltimores
mayor and City Council are suing Wells Fargo Bank, contending that
its lending practices discriminated against black borrowers and led
to a wave of foreclosures that has reduced city tax revenues and
increased its costs.
Bloomberg, Others Urge Bipartisanship --N.Y. Mayor, Former Lawmakers
Use Forum to Ask for Unified Government 08 Jan 2008 New York Mayor
[GOPervert] Michael R. Bloomberg, declaring once again that he is
"not a candidate" for the presidency, joined a bipartisan forum
Monday of mostly former elected officials seeking new ways to solve
Washington's partisan gridlock. [The Democrats are winning, so the
PentaPost urges 'bipartisanship!' The power-brokers who run the US
know that the people are starting to demand a curb of Bush-style
predatory capitalism, and they can't have that. Hence, the emergence
of the 'bipartisanship card.' That's code for surrender to Bush and
allowance for the corpora-terrorists to continue to plunder the
National Treasury. God only knows, we've had enough of that for
7 years. Eliminate the Bush dictatorship; gridlock will end. --LRP]
Obama widens lead over Clinton in New Hampshire 08 Jan 2008 Democrat
Barack Obama expanded his lead over Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire
to 13 points as voting began in the state's critical presidential
primary, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on
Tuesday.
Obama and McCain get early win in New Hampshire hamlet --GOP gets
7 votes;
Dems, 10 08 Jan 2008 Sen. Barack Obama won seven of the 10 votes
cast for Democrats in the first balloting of the New Hampshire
primary on Tuesday in the northern hamlet of Dixville Notch, while
Sen. John McCain won the Republican balloting.
Edwards burns the midnight oil 08 Jan 2008 Presidential candidates
often call on America to "wake up" but John Edwards is bringing
that message to voters literally. The couple launched a 36-hour bus
tour of New Hampshire that began on Sunday and ended in the early
hours of today - the day that polls open.
Huckabee vows to defy birthright citizenship 08 Jan 2008 Mike
Huckabee wants to amend the Constitution to prevent children born
in the U.S. to illegal aliens from automatically becoming American
citizens, according to his top immigration surrogate -- a radical
step no other major presidential candidate has embraced.
Court Stays Out of Mich. Abortion Case 07 Jan 2008 The Supreme Court
turned down efforts by Michigan and an anti-abortion group Monday
to revive the state's law banning the procedure opponents call
partial-birth abortion.
Scientists: Flu virus must pick lock before entering human 07 Jan
2008 U.S.
researchers found that flu viruses must be able to pick a very
specific type of lock before entering human respiratory cells, media
reports quoted researchers as saying Monday. [And Bush's bioterrorists
have the key.]
Groups cite oil leases in U.S. delay on rating polar bear's status
08 Jan 2008 Environmental groups fear that political meddling and
a rush to sell oil leases in Arctic waters are behind the Bush
administration's announcement Monday that it will miss a legal
deadline to determine whether to list the polar bear under the
Endangered Species Act. Climate scientists predict that floating
polar ice will disappear by midcentury, leaving the bear without
food and habitat. Two-thirds of the population could disappear by
2050, scientists say.
Polar Bear Fate Undecided --U.S. Agency Says It Will Miss Deadline
for Endangered Species Decision 07 Jan 2008 The head of the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service took responsibility Monday for missing a
deadline requiring a final decision on whether to give polar bears
federal protection under the Endangered Species Act. "Rather than
speed up protections for this iconic animal, the Bush administration
is speeding up its giveaway of polar bear habitat to big oil," said
Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., in a statement. Markey chairs the House
Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.
Decision on Listing Polar Bear Postponed 08 Jan 2008 Federal officials
said Monday that they will need a few more weeks to decide whether
polar bears need protection under the Endangered Species Act because
of global warming. The deadline was Wednesday, but the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service said it now hopes to provide a recommendation
to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne in time for a decision by him
within the next month. [Please sign NRDC's petition to add the polar
bear to the "threatened" list.]
Pittsburgh basking in 66 degrees in January 08 Jan 2008 According
to the National Weather Service, the high temperature for Pittsburgh
yesterday reached 66, shattering the old record of 63 set on Jan.
7, 1930, by an almost-balmy three degrees of separation. "And we'll
probably break the record again," said Roger Stairs, a meteorologist
with the weather service, which is forecasting highs in the mid-
to upper 60s today.
Rare winter tornadoes pop up in nation's midsection 08 Jan 2008 A
tornado was reported blowing across eastern Arkansas Tuesday, a day
after a freak cluster of January twisters sprung up in the unseasonably
warm Midwest and demolished houses, knocked a railroad locomotive
off its tracks and shuttered a courthouse.
CLG needs your support.
http://www.legitgov.org/#contribute Or, please mail a check or money
order to the CLG:
Citizens for Legitimate Government (CLG) P.O. Box 1142 Bristol, CT
06011-1142 Contributions to CLG are not tax deductible.
[Previous lead stories:] Al-Qaeda: bombs waiting for Bush visit 07
Jan 2008 An 'al Qaeda' member [Adam Pearlman] warned on a videotape
Sunday that U.S.
President [sic] George Bush's upcoming trip to the Middle East will
meet bombs and booby-traps instead of roses and applause, media
reported Monday.
U.S. says Iranian gunboats harassed warships --Officials describe
incident as a 'significant provocative act' 07 Jan 2008 Iranian
Revolutionary Guard gunboats harassed three U.S. Navy warships in
the Strait of Hormuz Sunday, in what the U.S. military officials
described as a "significant provocative act."
Military officials told NBC News Monday that two U.S. Navy destroyers
and one frigate were heading into the Persian Gulf through the
international Iranian waters of the Strait of Hormuz when five armed
"fast boats" of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard approached a high
speed, darting in and out of the formation. At one point a radio
message from one of the Iranian boats warned, "You are going to
blow up within minutes." [How can you 'harass' a (foreign) warship
in your own waters? Its existence in your waters is, in itself, a
provocation. --LRP]
Navy fighter jets crash in Persian Gulf 07 Jan 2008 Two U.S. Navy
fighter jets plunged into the Persian Gulf Monday, after what initial
reports suggest was a mid-air collision, a defense official said.
All three pilots ejected safely from the planes and were headed
back to the USS Harry Truman, the aircraft carrier they were operating
from, according to the official, who requested anonymity because
the information was preliminary and not yet released publicly.
Please forward this newsletter to anyone you think might be interested.
Those who'd like to be added to the list can go here:
http://www.legitgov.org/#subscribe_clg and add your name. Those who
wish to be removed from the list can access the same link and click
'unsubscribe.' Please write to: signup@legitgov.org for
inquiries/issues/concerns with your subscription.
CLG Newsletter editor: Lori Price, Manager. Copyright ) 2008,
Citizens For Legitimate Government . All rights reserved. CLG Founder
and Chair is Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D.
