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Political Satire and Commentary
US keeps 'terror' arrests secret
A wave of arrests followed the 11 September attacks
The US Supreme Court has allowed the Bush administration to keep secret the names and other basic details of terror suspects it has detained.
From the Bill Of Rights

Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
No matter WHAT the crime all US citizens should get a fair trial and a lawyer.<S.>
US court to hear terror test case

Hamdi was originally among those taken to Guantanamo Bay
The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a US citizen captured in Afghanistan in 2001 who is being held without charge in a US military jail.
George Bush was picked as The Most Feared Person!

George Bush was picked as The Most Feared Person, followed by Tony Blair. Osama bin Laden, the world's most wanted man, could manage only third.

The poll was conducted in November and December with up to 1,200 British visitors queuing to get into Madame Tussauds.

War machine powers the US economy

10.01.2004
By ANDREW GUMBEL
What do the war in Iraq and the economic recovery in the United States have in common? More than one might expect, to judge from the last couple of rounds of US growth figures.

The war has been a large part of the justification for the Bush Administration to run ever-widening budget deficits, and those deficits, predicated largely on military spending, have in turn pumped money into the economy and provided the stimulus that low interest rates and tax cuts, on their own, could never achieve.