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The letter to US President George Bush carries the Iranian nation's views and comments on international issues as well as suggestions for resolving the many problems facing humanity, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told reporters in Tehran. Iranian government spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham said at a news conference in Tehran that President Ahmadinejad, in his letter, talked of international developments and crises, analyzed the global situation and offered new ways to resolve international disputes. The letter was submitted to President Bush via the Swiss embassy in Tehran which takes charge of the US interests section in Iran.
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In a free society, we can publish speech that humiliates, slanders and incites hate. But should we? Freedom of speech should not be used as a licence to spread hatred. In December 2005, when Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the Holocaust a myth, his comments were censured and condemned around the world, and rightly so. The British newspaper The Guardian reported that the Danish newspaper that ran the cartoons defaming the Prophet had refused to run drawings lampooning Jesus Christ three years ago on the "grounds that they could be offensive to readers and were not funny". With this revelation, the newspaper's intent became clear. In today's polarised world, newspapers hiding behind freedom of speech in an effort to provoke and demean a disenfranchised European Muslim minority is nothing to celebrate.
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U.S. Holding at Least Twenty-Six "Ghost Detainees"
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List of Detainees Published by Human Rights Watch
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December 1, 2005
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Human Rights Watch
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Human Rights Watch
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Officials in the U.S. government, speaking anonymously to journalists, have suggested that some detainees have been tortured or otherwise seriously mistreated in custody. "President Bush speaks about bringing terrorists to justice, yet not one of these suspects has actually been brought to justice," said John Sifton, terrorism and counterterrorism researcher for Human Rights Watch. "The Bush administration has severely compromised the chances of prosecuting terrorist suspects by holding them illegally, and reportedly subjecting some of them to torture and other mistreatment." Indefinite incommunicado detention and torture are illegal under international human rights law and the laws of war, and the mistreatment of detainees could subject U.S. officials to criminal liability.
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Dr Ali dismisses the term, M.E., in favour of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. But fatigue is a symptom, not an illness, and it doesn't begin to describe, qualitatively or quantitatively, the utter exhaustion, amongst all the other symptoms that M.E. sufferers experience. Some doctors can readily clinically diagnose M.E., distinctly from other chronic fatigue states and the World Health Organisation recognises it as a neurological, not psychiatric, illness.
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MILITARY PAY
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November 12, 2004
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A1C MICHAEL BRAGG HILL AFB AFNCC
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California News
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This is an Airman's response to Cindy Williams' editorial piece in the Washington Times about MILITARY PAY, it should be printed in all newspapers across America. On Nov.12, Ms Cindy Williams(from Laverne and Shirley TV show) wrote a piece for the Washinton Times, denouncing the pay raise(s) coming service members' way this year--citing that the stated 13% wage was more than they deserve. A young airman from Hill AFB responds to her aritcle below. He ought to get a bonus for this.
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