October 13, 2004

Human Rights Watch report on the men detained at “undisclosed locations” by the US intelligence services. (Thanks to Nick Barlow) [Unfounded Speculation]I have a little theory about this, which I won’t push too hard without corroboration. If you had to move prisoners around the world secretly, wouldn’t a couple of aircraft not belonging to the…

Answering heavy criticism of his speech to the effect that he walked around Brixton for two hours without seeing a policeman, Michael Howard yesterday penned an article in the Guardian ranting against what he calls “selective statistics”. He is angry about the British Crime Survey, the scheme created by the Thatcher government in 1981 which…

Reuters It seems that the looting of Iraqi nuclear facilities went as far as dismantling whole buildings. “Satellite imagery shows that entire buildings in Iraq have been dismantled. They once housed high-precision equipment that could help a government or terror group make nuclear bombs, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a report to the…