Hundreds Queue Up for Dream Pay/Jordan Times--New World Media Watch

[Gloria]

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WORLD MEDIA WATCH FOR AUGUST 2, 2004

1//Inter Press Service News Agency, Italy--BUSINESS BOOMING FOR SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE (Despite scandals over human rights abuses and war profiteering, private military contractors are expanding their presence overseas, and may even be involved in helping to draft the next U.S. defence budget… more than 150 U.S. companies have been awarded contracts worth up to 48.7 billion dollars for work in post-war Afghanistan and Iraq, according to research by the Washington-based Centre for Public Integrity. That figure represents an increase of 82 companies and more than 40 billion dollars since the centre first issued a study of contracts awarded to PMCs last fall. In a separate report released Jul. 29, the centre also found that three private companies -- Booz Allen Hamilton, Perot Systems Government Services and Miltec Systems Co -- are headhunting for analysts to work in the development of the U.S. defence budget.)



2//The News International, Pakistan--MUSLIM TROOPS MUST REPLACE COALTION FORCES IN IRAQ: SAUDI FM (Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said on Sunday that any Muslim and Arab forces sent to Iraq must be a replacement of coalition troops there…"These thoughts were discussed with Secretary of State Colin Powell," he said, adding that the proposal to send Muslim troops to Iraq originated from Malaysia. "The troops from Arab and Muslim nations sent to Iraq will not be similar to the current troops. They don’t come as invaders or occupiers. They will go there to help the Iraqi people," Saud said. Musa, on a one-day visit to the Kingdom, was due to meet Crown Prince Abdullah later on Sunday.)



3//Asia Times Online, Hong Kong--PAKISTAN CAUGHT IN TERROR TIT-FOR-TAT (The Bush administration believes that it is an "interesting" idea, but Saudi Arabia's proposal to send an all-Muslim security force to Iraq is fraught with danger for any country that participates in such a force, and especially Pakistan…On Thursday, in a statement posted on an Islamic Internet site known to carry messages from militant groups, the Jamaat al-Tawhid al-Islamiya Omar el-Mukhtar Brigade - the main title means Group of Islamic Monotheism - warned of attacks against any Islamic or Arab nation that contributed troops to the Saudi-proposed Muslim force…A top Pakistani security official told Asia Times Online that the administration of President General Pervez Musharraf was taking the threat extremely seriously, so much so that almost all official functions have been canceled and the country's leaders are lying low… Another official in Pakistan's Intelligence Bureau said that the Pakistani consul in Saudi Arabia was constantly sending alarming reports on the security situation in that country, predicting a highly volatile situation in the days ahead. The intelligence reports warn that there is a major problem within the Saudi security apparatus, as well as among clerics who are fiercely anti-US. They support the Iraqi insurgency and oppose the House of Saud for supporting the US-led "war on terror".)



4//The Jordan Times, Jordan--HUNDREDS QUEUE UP FOR DREAM PAY (Thirty-three-year-old Kareem Sajid, an Iraqi labourer, feels his days of poverty are over, at least for the next few weeks. Sajid is one of some 2,000 Iraqis working on a landfill project on the southwestern outskirts of Baghdad, bankrolled by a small part of the $18.4 billion Iraq reconstruction package approved by the United States last year. Every Saturday, these Iraqis queue up in the scorching sun to get their weekly dream pay of $40 for building what is reported to be one of the largest landfills in the country…"I am very happy as this is the best day when we get paid," said Sajid. "It is the highest pay a labourer can get in Baghdad. I am sure my family can now relax for the next two weeks.")



5//The Independent, UK--FOREIGN OFFICE INVESTIGATES CLAIMS OF ABUSE OF BRITONS AT CAMP DELTA) Allegations that US soldiers assaulted and abused British detainees at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba are being investigated by Foreign Office ministers, The Independent on Sunday can reveal…In early July, British diplomats made further formal complaints about the ill-treatment of two Britons, Feroz Abbasi and Moazzam Begg, who are in solitary confinement in a special secure unit at the base and thought to be suffering from mental illnesses. These moves will add to the growing strain between London and Washington over the controversial detention camp after it emerged that Tony Blair has "unequivocally" demanded that Mr Begg, Mr Abbasi and two other Britons, Richard Belmar and Martin Mubanga, are released. The Prime Minister and the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, say they believe that US plans to try Mr Begg and Mr Abbasi before military tribunals are illegal and breach basic rights to a fair trial.)

[donsu]

1. why are we building the largest landfill?

what are we covering up? what will be built on top of it?

all 5 posts are crimes of one sort or the other.

crimes committed in our name.

thanks for the posts