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Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government
15 May 2011
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'White phosphorous used in Afghan war' 14 May 2011 Leaked documents have revealed that US-led forces in Afghanistan have made extensive use of white phosphorus bombs in densely-populated areas. A review of the Afghan military documents revealed more than 1,100 instances of US-led forces -- including Danish troops -- having used white phosphorus (WP) grenades, rockets and bombs, the Danish daily Information reported. According to one document, US-led forces fired 20 to 50 WP rockets at a single target.
 
Four Afghans killed in anti-US protests 14 May 2011 Security forces in troubled eastern Afghanistan open fire on anti-US protesters, killing at least four people and wounding several others. The deaths come after hundreds of angry Afghans staged a protest against the killing of innocent civilians at the hands of foreign forces, a Press TV correspondent reported. The protest took place in Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province on Saturday. The protest comes after NATO troops killed a 12-year-old boy in an overnight raid in Nangarhar.
 
US-led forces kill Afghan teenage boy 14 Apr 2011 A 12-year-old Afghan boy has been killed by the US-led NATO forces operating in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar. Mohammad Balal, the son of an Afghan soldier, was killed on Friday night in Hesarak town, as foreign forces were carrying out an operation, a Press TV correspondent reported on Friday. In a separate incident on Thursday, a 12-year-old girl was killed in the same province after foreign troops hurled a hand grenade towards her.
 
Iraqi parliament: US military presence not allowed after 2011 14 May 2011 As many believe the US administration is on a campaign to keep its troops in the oil-rich Iraq beyond the 2011 deadline, Iraqi lawmakers have become united in their stance, saying they will not allow any extension for foreign troops in Iraq. The statement of the lawmakers comes as Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki stated in his recent press conference that any extension for the presence of foreign forces needs to have the full support of the parliament and all Iraqi political blocs.
 
Iraq's oil deals going faster than planned - Shahristani 14 May 2011 Work in Iraqi oilfields being developed by foreign oil companies is going ahead "normally" [!?!] and faster than contracted, the country's deputy prime minister for energy Hussain al-Shahristani said on Saturday. "We are comfortable that new (oil) export outlets will be ready to received extra crude according to the plans to boost oil production with the contracted oil companies," Shahristani said. Current oil exports are 2.1 million bpd, the majority of which come from the southern oil hub of Basra. ['Normally.' Yeah, after one million+ civilians died for the oil.]
 
Secret US-Led Mercenary Army Set Up by Blackwater's Founder 15 May 2011 ...The Colombians had entered the United Arab Emirates posing as construction workers. In fact, they were soldiers for a secret US-led mercenary army being built by Erik Prince, the billionaire founder of Blackwater Worldwide, with $529 million from the sheikdom. Mr. Prince was hired by the crown prince of Abu Dhabi to put together an 800-member battalion of foreign troops for the U.A.E., according to former employees on the project, US officials and corporate documents obtained by The New York Times. The force is intended to conduct special operations missions inside and outside the country, defend oil pipelines and skyscrapers from terrorist attacks and put down internal revolts, the documents show.

Mystery of the helicopter that landed at scene of Dr Kelly's death after his body was found --Flight log was heavily redacted, making it impossible to know who was on board or what its exact purpose was 13 May 2011 A helicopter mysteriously landed at the scene of Dr David Kelly's death shortly after the body was found. The aircraft only remained on the ground for five minutes before leaving, suggesting it either deposited or collected somebody or something. Details from its flight log, released under the Freedom of Information Act, show that the helicopter - hired by Thames Valley police - landed at Harrowdown Hill in Oxfordshire at 10.55am on July 18, 2003, 90 minutes after the body was discovered by volunteer search teams.
 
Japan's disaster zone hit by fresh quake 13 May 2011 A 6.2-magnitude earthquake on Saturday hit off the coast of northeastern Japan, still reeling from the massive March 11 quake and tsunami, according to the US Geological Survey. The quake struck at 8:35 am (2325 GMT Friday), 59 kilometres (36 miles) northeast of the Pacific coast city of Iwaki at a depth of nearly 38 kilometres, the USGS said. [Gee, I wonder if HAARP took down its website for this one, too?]
 
Worker at Fukushima nuclear plant dies 14 May 2011 A worker at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant died Saturday after collapsing while carrying equipment at a waste disposal building, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. The death is the third at the plant since the crisis began. The bodies of two workers who disappeared March 11 were found floating in the basement of reactor 4 later that month, having died from injuries sustained on the day of the disaster.
 
Seaweed near Fukushima contaminated 14 May 2011 Seaweed collected from the coast near crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant and sewage in Tokyo shows elevated levels of radioactive contamination. The new warning reports released separately by Greenpeace and Tokyo government officials pointed out the difficulty in containing the water-borne spread of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear plant, AFP reported. Initial tests of 22 seaweed samples collected by Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior flagship at distances up to 65 kilometers from the plant "registered significantly high levels of radioactive contamination," the environmental active group reported on Thursday.
 
Japan nuke plant suspends work 15 May 2011 Japan's aging Hamaoka nuclear power plant, has completed the forced shutdown of all its reactors. The plant is located near a tectonic faultline southwest of Tokyo, and shutdown to prevent any accident due to a natural disaster. The plant's number-five reactor stopped generating power and was shut down at 1:00pm local time, Chubu Electric Power Co. spokesman Hiroaki Oobayashi said. "The shutdown was confirmed after we inserted all 205 control rods into the reactor," he added.
 
US charges six Pakistanis with terrorism 14 May 2011 US officials have charged six people of Pakistani origin with providing financial support to Pakistan's pro-Taliban militants. Three are Pakistani-born US citizens who were arrested in Florida and Los Angeles, while three others are at large in Pakistan. The six have been accused of providing material support to a conspiracy to murder, injure and kidnap people overseas.
 
Three U.S. Citizens Among Six Charged With Supporting Taliban in Pakistan 14 May 2011 Three U.S. citizens of Pakistani descent were among six people charged by federal prosecutors with providing "material support" to the Pakistani Taliban. Three of those indicted, including two South Florida imams, have been arrested in the U.S., the Justice Department said today in a statement. The others are at large in Pakistan. All are charged with supporting a conspiracy to murder, maim and kidnap persons overseas as well as aiding the Pakistani Taliban.
 
4 men get preliminary terrorism charges in France 14 May 2011 French authorities have filed preliminary terrorism charges against four men as part of a probe into a suspected extremist recruitment network. A judicial official said Saturday the three Frenchman and one Indian are suspected of seeking to reach militant training camps in the Pakistan-Afghanistan region. They were among seven people detained Tuesday in and around Paris.
 
Supporter of WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning sues government over laptop seizure 13 May 2011 The co-founder of a group supporting an Army private accused of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks filed a federal lawsuit today accusing the Department of Homeland Security of violating his civil rights by seizing his laptop without a warrant when he passed through security at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. David House, a former MIT researcher from Cambridge, alleges in the suit filed in US District Court in Boston that federal agents seized his laptop, USB storage device, video camera, and cellphone when he arrived at the airport on Nov. 3 after a vacation in Mexico, then kept him from catching a connecting flight to Boston while they interrogated him about his association with Private First Class Bradley Manning.
 
I.M.F. Head Is Arrested and Accused of Sexual Attack --'No matter the outcome of Saturday's arrest, it will likely throw the French political world into turmoil and the Socialist Party into an embarrassed confusion.' 15 May 2011 The managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was taken off an Air France plane at Kennedy International Airport just minutes before it was to take off for Paris on Saturday and arrested in the sexual attack of a maid at a Midtown Manhattan hotel, the authorities said. Mr. Strauss-Kahn, 62, who was widely expected to become the Socialist candidate for the French presidency, was apprehended by detectives of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in the first class section of the jetliner, and immediately turned over to detectives from the Midtown South Precinct, which covers the part of Manhattan where the hotel is, officials said. [Julian Assange, redux?]
 
Obama makes push for Alaska offshore drilling 14 May 2011 Citing continued unemployment and the rising cost of goods across the U.S., including continued high gasoline prices, President Obama on Saturday declared plans to increase oil production in the Gulf of Mexico and in Alaska. Obama also emphasized safety and streamlining of the lease process, saying that he's "establishing a new team to coordinate work on Alaska drilling permits," in order to expedite the process. [Oh, and offshore drilling by Exxon Mobil and BP, who would then sell the oil to China after getting US taxpayers to subsidize the drilling -- will lower gas prices? LOL. Even after Obusha gives the oil companies *everything* they demand, they will keep oil prices sky-high so that the GOP, backed by Karl Rove's AmeriKKKan Crossroads and Koch brother billions, sweeps in 2012. The reason for 'continued unemployment' and the 'rising cost of goods across the U.S.' is Wall Street speculation and outsourcing by Obama's corporate overlords and their enablers, the GOP, who continue to wage war on the middle class and poor in the US. Barack Obama continues to facilitate the largest transfer of wealth in world history to the same corpora-terrorists who use that money to wage war on us. It's another reason to SEIZE DC! SeizeDC.org --Citizens for Legitimate Government (CLG) calls for protest –- SEIZE DC will begin on September 10, 2011, at noon, until finished.]
 
US Army Corps Floods Rural Louisiana to Save Oil Refineries, Levees --Sheriffs and National Guardsmen warned people in door-to-door sweep --Spillway at Morganza, La., hadn't been opened since 1973 14 May 2011 A steel, 10-ton floodgate was slowly raised Saturday for the first time in nearly four decades, unleashing a torrent of water from the Mississippi River... The water headed to swamp as much as 3,000 square miles of Cajun countryside known for small farms and fish camps. Some places could wind up under as much as 25 feet of water. Officials say the move will ease pressure on levees protecting New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and oil refineries and chemical plants downstream.
 
Mississippi River Floodgate Opens, Inundating Cajun Country in Louisiana 14 May 2011 Louisiana's Morganza floodway was opened today, sending torrents of brown water from the Mississippi River into the Atchafalaya River basin, a move designed to spare Baton Rouge and New Orleans oil refineries. Within 20 minutes after the first gate was lifted, several square miles of the Atchafalaya River basin were submerged. The spillway can release 600,000 cubic feet per second of water at maximum capacity. It may send enough water to eventually fill an area almost as large as Connecticut.
 
Maryland County Health Dept. Participates in 3-Day Pandemic Flu Exercise 14 May 2011 The St. Mary's County Health Department participated in a three-day exercise May 3-5 in coordination with the State's health care partners to test Maryland's ability to respond to an influenza pandemic. This planned exercise involved simulating emergencies at multiple locations in every county across Maryland. The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) coordinated a multi-jurisdictional functional exercise to test pandemic flu priorities and activities and included State and local health departments, hospitals, health care providers and schools, as well as private businesses and community organizations.
 
Health Insurers Making Record Profits as Many Postpone Care 14 May 2011 The nation's major health insurers are barreling into a third year of record profits, enriched in recent months by a lingering recessionary mind-set among Americans who are postponing or forgoing medical care. The UnitedHealth Group, one of the largest commercial insurers, told analysts that so far this year, insured hospital stays actually decreased in some instances... Yet the companies continue to press for higher premiums, even though their reserve coffers are flush with profits and shareholders have been rewarded with new dividends. [Thanks, Obusha, for the public option --*not!*]
 
'Operation Donkey' brings Iraqi equine to US 14 May 2011 It took 37 days and a group of determined animal lovers, but a donkey from Iraq is now a U.S. resident. Smoke The Donkey, who became a friend and mascot to a group of U.S. Marines living in Iraq's Anbar Province nearly three years ago, arrived in New York this week aboard a cargo jet from Turkey. After being quarantined for two days, he was released Saturday and began a road trip to Omaha, Neb., where he is destined to become a therapy animal.
 
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