12.1.04

Home Truths- from Media Lens (can we link these guys as well... they are good)

'If the substantial reduction in child mortality throughout Iraq during the 1980s had continued through the 1990s, there would have been half a million fewer deaths of children under-five in the country as a whole during the eight year period 1991 to 1998.' [Child and Maternal Mortality Survey 1999, August 1999 www.unicef.org/reseval/iraqr.html]

Home Lies- from Statewatch

Extradition legislation slipped through parliament over Christmas holiday
- controversial UK-US treaty ratified;
- use of Statutory Instrument "an abuse of democracy"- shadow Home Secretary;
- UK Extradition Act 2003 given full effect

"you're only s'posed to blow the bloody doors off"

Followup to the letter bombing business from Italian indymedia... a good summary with some history and lots of links

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