Pena was up on the schoolhouse roof manning the same .50-caliber machine gun. He didn't say a word about the man he'd killed. As he stared at a patch of earth in front of him, at Samarra and its wreckage, he couldn't contain his frustration.
"No one told me why I'm putting my life on the line in Samarra, and you know why they didn't?" Pena asked. "Because there is no f[ucking] reason."
Read it. See a bunch of soldiers who are about to get their asses handed to them for speaking outside the approved narrative.
Sidebar - Why is it ok to describe in detail the death of an innocent Iraqi, and even to post a slideshow of him lying on the ground in his own blood, but we have to edit out the word "fucking" with a bunch of pansy-ass dashes: "...no f------ reason." So I put the word back in the quote above. It needs to be there. We have no right to edit that soldier's words. It's like Kurtz says at the end of Apocalypse Now: They train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene!
I think one of the most telling moments comes when 1st Lt. Call says, "If they ever figure out that we don't have many guys here we'll be in trouble."
Australia's Free Media: Abu Ghraib - The Sequel
Back in 2004 when the first shocking pictures were originally leaked, the world recoiled in horror, but since then the Bush Administration has fought tooth and nail to prevent the American public from seeing any new images of the treatment of Iraqi detainees, but tonight Dateline reporter Olivia Rousset reveals new photos and videos. Despite the currently overheated international climate, we are showing them because they show the extent of the horror that occurred at Abu Ghraib. A serious warning though - some of the images you're about to see are pretty confronting and may offend some of you.
Jim Hightower: SPYIN' AND LYIN' (jimhightower.com)
This is Jim Hightower saying... George W essentially is saying that he's above the law and that, well, folks just need to trust him to do the right thing. Well, no George, we don't! You've certainly not earned our trust, but more importantly, ours is not a government based on trusting some officials, but on holding all officials accountable to the rule of the law.
BIN LADEN'S GAME (citypages.com)
Michael Scheuer: The real root of their opposition is what we do in the Islamic world. If they were hating us because we had elections, or gender equality, or liberty, they would be a lethal nuisance, but they wouldn't be a threat to our security.
Stephen Pizzo: But Who's Counting?
Ralph Waldo Emerson said it best, "The louder he spoke of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons." And no administration in US history has spoken louder, or as often, of its honor. So let us count our spoons.
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'Without A Trace', then '48 Hours'.
NBC fills the night with more FRESH (but pre-taped & edited) 'The XX Winter Olympics: Only America Matters Version'.
Once again, there is no 'SNL' at all - just more of the tape-delayed time-warped Olympics.
ABC fills the night with the movie 'Cast Away'.
The WB has an old 'Friends', followed by an old 'Raymond', then panders with 'Cheaters'.
Faux has the traditional 'Cops', 'Cops', and 'America's Most Wanted'.
UPN has an old 'Alias', followed by an old 'Fear Factor'.
A&E has 'City Confidential', followed by the movie 'Jaws', then 'American Justice'.
AMC offers 'Hustle', another 'Hustle', still another 'Hustle', and yes, one more 'Hustle'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'Footballers Wives' - Episode 5;
[3pm] 'Footballers Wives' - Episode 6;
[4pm] 'Footballers Wives' - Episode 7;
[5pm] 'Footballers Wives' - Episode 8;
[8pm] 'The Night Detective' - Episode 5;
[9pm] 'The Night Detective' - Episode 6;
[10pm] 'The Night Detective' - Episode 1;
[11pm] 'The Night Detective' - Episode 2;
[12am] 'The Night Detective' - Episode 3;
[3am] 'The Night Detective' - Episode 5;
[4am] 'The Night Detective' - Episode 6;
[5am] 'The Night Detective' - Episode 1;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Inside The Actors Studio' (Tom Cruise), followed by the movie 'Jurassic Park', then the movie 'Jurassic Park', again.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Dick', followed by the movie 'National Lampoon's Van Wilder'.
History has 'Tech Tsunamis', 'Nostradamus: 500 Years Later', and 'Decoding The Past'.
IFC -
[6AM] Our Song (2000);
[7:45AM] Seven's Eleven (2004);
[8AM] Blind Swordsman #7: Zatoichi's Flashing Sword (1964);
[9:30AM] My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports (1996);
[11AM] Stevie (2002);
[1:30PM] Blind Swordsman #7: Zatoichi's Flashing Sword (1964);
[3PM] My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports (1996);
[4:30PM] Greg the Bunny: "Bunnie Hall" (2005);
[4:45PM] Greg the Bunny: "The 13th Step" (2005);
[5PM] Greg the Bunny: "Martian Serum 7 From Mars" (2005);
[5:30PM] Greg the Bunny: "Daddyhood" (2005);
[5:45PM] Greg the Bunny: "You Know, For Kids!" (2005);
[6PM] Greg the Bunny: "Sleazy Rider" (2005);
[6:15PM] Greg the Bunny: "2001-1: Space & Stuff" (2005);
[6:30PM] Greg the Bunny: "Dead Puppet Storage" (2005);
[6:45PM] Greg the Bunny: "The Godpappy" (2005);
[7PM] Greg the Bunny: "The Addiction" (2005);
[7:15PM] Greg the Bunny: "The Blues She is My Friend" (2005);
[7:30PM] Greg the Bunny: "Naturally Sewn Killers" (2005);
[7:45PM] Greg the Bunny: "Sex, Button Eyes and a Video Ape" (2005);
[8PM] Le Divorce (2003);
[10:15PM] The Magdalene Sisters (2003);
[12:30AM] Birthday Girl (2001);
[2:15AM] Le Divorce (2003);
[4:15AM] Birthday Girl (2001). (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Watchers Reborn', followed by the movie 'Rottweiler'.
Sundance -
[6:15AM] Hairspray;
[8AM] Mermaids;
[10AM] Molly and Mobarak;
[11:30AM] Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out;
[12PM] House Of Cards;
[2PM] Iconoclasts: Ford on Koons;
[2:45PM] Tube Mice;
[3PM] Slings & Arrows - Season 1: Episode 1 - Oliver's Dream;
[3:50PM] Slings & Arrows - Season 1: Episode 2 - Geoffrey's Return;
[4:40PM] Slings & Arrows - Season 1: Episode 3 - Madness in Great Ones;
[5:30PM] Slings & Arrows - Season 1: Episode 4 - Outrageous Fortune;
[6:20PM] Slings & Arrows - Season 1: Episode 5 - A Mirror Up to Nature;
[7:10PM] Slings & Arrows - Season 1: Episode 6 - Playing the Swan;
[8PM] Omagh;
[9:45PM] Press Any Button;
[10PM] Carrington;
[12:05AM] Henry & June;
[2:25AM] The Funeral;
[4:05AM] The Thing;
[5:55AM] Kicked in the Head. (ALL TIMES EST)
George Clooney, who may be giving speeches again at next month's Academy Awards, says he has no regrets about making an off-color joke about disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff during last month's Golden Globes.
"I make no apologies for that - it was a joke," Clooney told CNN's Larry King on Thursday.
Abramoff's father, Frank, who didn't find the joke funny, wrote an angry letter to The Desert Sun newspaper of Palm Springs. He denounced Clooney for a "glib and ridiculous" attack on his son that he said reduced his granddaughter to tears.
"Believe me, the person who's disparaged the Abramoff name is not me," Clooney told King. "Unfortunately, I think he also hurt the House of Representatives along the way."
Hollywood Office of the Humane Society of the United States
Genesis Awards
DreamWorks' Academy Award-nominated "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit," Miramax Films' "An Unfinished Life" and Warner Bros. Pictures' "Duma" are among the entertainment titles to be honored at the 20th anniversary Genesis Awards, set for March 18 at the Beverly Hilton.
Presented by the Hollywood Office of the Humane Society of the United States, the Genesis Awards recognize positive treatment of animal issues in the news and entertainment media.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, left, speaks as Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, right, looks on during a press conference in Islamabad, Pakistan on Friday, Feb. 17, 2006. Clinton criticized cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad on Friday, but he said Muslims wasted an opportunity to build better ties with the West by holding violent protests against the drawings.
Photo by Anjum Naveed
M. Night Shyamalan, whose directorial credits include "The Sixth Sense," "Signs" and "The Village," will be honored as ShoWest Director of the Year.
The filmmaker will receive the award at the March 16 closing-night ceremonies of the exhibitors convention, which will take place at the Bally's and Paris hotels in Las Vegas.
Brown is black in the eyes of Rush Limbaugh (R-Drug Addict). When Iraq war veteran Paul Hackett was forced out of the Democratic primary in the U.S. Senate race in Ohio, the conservative commentator criticized The New York Times for not saying that the Democrats' preferred candidate is black.
Limbaugh later found out from e-mails to his nationally syndicated radio show that the candidate, Rep. Sherrod Brown, is, in fact, white.
"Uh, Sherrod Brown's a white guy? Then I'm confusing him with somebody. OK, I'm sorry," Limbaugh said this week.
Later in his show, Limbaugh said he kept getting e-mails. "We have corrected this, and I, you know, I'm not gonna apologize because I don't think it's an insult to be black," he said.
The Berlin Film Festival's "Teddy" award for gay cinema began as a bit of a joke with a fluffy toy mailed to then little-known Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, but soon became a firm fixture.
The prize, which goes to the film in the festival line-up that does the most to further the gay cause, celebrates its 20th birthday this year.
The favourites include "Capote", US director Bennett Miller's film about gay author Truman Capote's journey through the homophobic American mid-West, and "Eleven Men Out" about an Icelandic football player's coming-out.
This image provided by the Smithsonian Institution's National Gallery of Art shows a gelatin silver print photograph by Man Ray titled 'Marcel Duchamp as Rrose Selavy', 1920-1921 c., and retouched by Duchamp.
The midnight blue tour bus that carried music legend Ray Charles around the country has begun a new career at Morehouse College.
The bus, donated to the college by the Ray Charles Foundation, will be on display, and may be used for trips by student groups. Emblazoned with the image of Charles' famous face, the vehicle is fully equipped with 35 customized seats, four televisions and a kitchen.
Joe Adams, Charles' longtime manager, said, "This is where Ray would have wanted to be. It served us well and now we want it to serve the wonderful students at Morehouse College."
A U.S. company has settled a long-running legal dispute with a South African family over the copyright to "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," one of Africa's most famous tunes, lawyers said on Friday.
Lawyers acting for the family of Zulu migrant worker Solomon Linda, the song's original composer, said Abilene Music -- which administered its copyright in the United States -- had agreed to settle the dispute for an undisclosed sum.
Linda's family live in poverty in the Johannesburg township of Soweto and were originally claiming 10 million rand ($1.6 million) in damages against the company.
Law enforcement officers harvested a dubious record last year - enough marijuana plants to rank the illegal weed as Washington state's No. 8 agricultural commodity, edging out sweet cherries in value.
The 135,323 marijuana plants seized in 2005 were estimated to be worth $270 million - a record amount that places the crop among the state's top 10 agricultural commodities, based on the most recent statistics available.
The net results have a tremendous payoff to illegal growers, said Rich Wiley, who coordinates pot busts with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and local law enforcement agencies. A single plant can produce as much as a pound of processed marijuana, worth an estimated $2,000, he said.
A child passes by a sand sculpture depicting singer Mick Jagger on Copacabana Beach, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Friday, Feb 17, 2006. Rock fans crowded Copacabana beach hoping for a glimpse of the Rolling Stones on Friday, a day before the band was to play a free concert expected to attract millions.The band arrived early Friday morning at Antonio Carlos Jobim International Airport and was escorted to the Copacabana Palace hotel by a motorcade of 15 cars, 30 motorcycles, police said.
Photo by Silvia Izquierdo
Rap-music mogul Marion "Suge" Knight has filed a $106-million federal fraud, conspiracy and racketeering lawsuit against a drug dealer he claims tried to extort money from him to curry favor with authorities.
The suit was filed Thursday against Michael Harris, who is incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison for narcotics distribution and attempted murder.
Harris claims he provided more than $1.5 million in seed money from behind bars in 1991 to start Knight's Death Row Records - a claim the rap entrepreneur has repeatedly and vehemently denied.
The suit claims that Harris and others, including attorneys David Casselman and Steven Goldberg, were behind a lawsuit filed by Harris's wife that led last year to a $107-million judgment against the rap entrepreneur.
The pastor of a charismatic Christian church attended by the Plano mother on trial, accused of fatally cutting off the arms of her 10-month-old daughter, told jurors Wednesday that mental illness is really demon possession that cannot be cured with psychiatry or medicine.
"I do not believe that any mental illness exists other than demons, and no medication can straighten it out, other than the power of God," said Doyle Davidson, the 73-year-old minister of the Water of Life Church that Dena and John Schlosser attended several times a week.
Davidson also testified that he has cast demons out of parishioners and seen evil spirits, including one that was 6 feet tall with a long tail. The former veterinarian, who has no formal religious training, has a cable TV show in the Dallas area and several states.
A worker from a U.S.-based major arms company, Lockheed Martin, climbs into the tail of a F-35 fighter jet model which is in the process of being assembled for a static display, Friday Feb. 17, 2006 in Singapore. When U.S. aerospace giant Boeing Co. won a bid last year to supply at least a dozen fighter jets to Singapore, its defeated French rival said America's superpower status had influenced the outcome. The city-state which hosts one of the world's biggest defense and aerospace conventions starting Monday, said its procurement process was rigorous and objective. But as a mega-deal for combat aircraft looms in India, the case recalled the murky mix of political, financial and military factors that often shapes major arms deals long after the Cold War.
Photo by Wong Maye-E
A lucky bidder may come away from an auction in China with their very own Russian aircraft carrier -- albeit one converted into a floating theme park with a movie theatre and restaurants.
The Minsk, a decades-old, decommissioned relic of the Soviet era, was first bought by a Chinese company for scrap metal in 1998 but then sold to an entertainment firm, which poured millions of dollars into turning the ship into a tourist attraction.
The carrier opened to the public in the southern boomtown of Shenzhen in September 2000 as the main draw of the military-themed Minsk Aircraft Carrier World amusement park.
But the company that operated the park, Minsk World Industries Co. Ltd., sank deep into the red and was declared bankrupt by a Shenzhen court in March last year, the Beijing News reported.
A long-lost manuscript by Austrian composer Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) is to go up for auction next month with the starting price set at 200,000 euros (238,000 dollars), auctioneers JA Stargardt said.
The 25-page manuscript is an early version of one of the movements of Mahler's Second Symphony ("Resurrection") and was believed to have been lost, the auction house said in a statement on Friday.
The manuscript of what was eventually to become the symphony's second movement, "Andante", dates back to the summer of 1893 and shows a number of differences from the final version, offering fascinating insights into the composition of the huge work, JA Stargardt said.
This image provided by the National Gallery of art shows Marcel Duchamps work, titled' L.H.O.O.Q.', 1919, a rectified readymade, i.e. a pencil on reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa'.
A Greek hiker found a 6,500-year-old gold pendant in a field and handed it over to authorities, an archaeologist said Thursday.
Only three such gold artifacts have been discovered during organized digs, archaeologist Georgia Karamitrou-Mendesidi, head of the Greek archaeological service in the northern region where the discovery was made, told The Associated Press.
She said the pendant, measuring rough 1 1/2 by 1 1/2 inches, was picked up last year near the town of Ptolemaida, about 90 miles southwest of the northern city of Thessaloniki.
Ray Barretto, the Latin conga drummer best known for his 1960s hit "El Watusi," died on Friday at a New Jersey hospital, a family spokesman said. He was 76.
Music critics said Barretto was key to the introduction of the driving salsa beat of the conga drum to jazz music.
"El Watusi" was released in 1962 and made it to the top 20 of the U.S. pop charts the following year. Barretto won a Grammy Award in 1989 for his performance of "Ritmo en el Corazon" with Celia Cruz.
The son of immigrants from Puerto Rico, New York-born Barretto played alongside jazz greats including Tito Puente, Art Blakey and Lou Donaldson.
Wind blown ice forms on a decorative light house along Lake Erie in Hamburg, N.Y., Friday, Feb. 17, 2006. Winds gusting up to 77 mph knocked out power to at least 1,000 homes and closed schools from Buffalo to Rochester.
Photo by David Duprey
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