Links and Minifeatures 11 04 Saturday

Looks like somebody has decided to spoof my email at this domain. My catch-all e-mail was full of returned spam again. As far as I know, there is no way to prevent spoofing.

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Armies of Liberation has yet another story on Yemen's problems: Children, in adult jail, as hostages for their relatives.

Torture on inmates. Real torture, not just forcing them to listen to Air America (or form human pyramids).



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Baghdad on alert awaiting Saddam verdict

On Wednesday, one of Saddam's lawyers said a death sentence would "open the gates of hell" to the roughly 140,000 U.S. troops in Iraq.

Illustrates the issue, although I think it's indicative of someone who should be in jail himself.



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Looks like the media black-out surrounding the New York Times article is over: Scientists protested Web site nuclear data: report



With the original article, the New York Times single-handedly refuted the "Bush lied" idea most of the media has been pushing for over three years. No wonder the wire services didn't want to cover it. But thanks to blogs etcetera, the story got enough attention that they can cover it, or watch everyone else cover it.



The Times said they were going to turn the results of the election. However, it looks like their intent to make it a Democratic run has backfired. Okay, mistake on the part of a low level bureaucrat putting actual nuclear data on the web. But Iraqi data can't help anyone less advanced than them. If Iraq had no nuclear program, their data wouldn't help anybody. Therefore, they did have a nuclear program, not to mention the Biological and Chemical programs. Therefore, President Bush did not lie.



All for:

A senior federal official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Times that scientists at California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory protested some of the weapons papers on the site to the National Nuclear Security Administration, an arm of the Department of Energy, in October. But the objections "never perked up to senior management," the Times quoted the official as saying. "They stayed at the mid-levels."