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   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article , banana  writes   
      
   >Diego Garcia.   
   >   
   >Condoleeza Rice is coming to Europe. 'Rendition' - i.e. US State   
   >kidnappings and torture - is a big story.   
   >   
   >Remember 'strategic hamlets' in Vietnam?   
   >   
   >US propagandists are focusing 'discussion' on distractions, e.g.   
   >   
   >- the model numbers of the aircraft involved   
   >- the exact number of flights through such-and-such an airport   
      
   An "all-party group" to "challenge the UK and US governments" over the   
   "transport of suspected terrorists" was launched last week at   
   Westminster. It will be chaired by Chris Mullin and Menzies Campbell. No   
   shit. Talk about a snow job.   
      
   According to John Sifton of Human Rights Watch, most of the mentioned   
   flights aren't even carrying prisoners anyway,   
      
   One can envisage what the damage-limitation scumbags are going to   
   "conclude": that "only very few flights" were carrying prisoners, and   
   that maybe a very few prisoners got roughed up a bit, probably because   
   they refused to wear a seatbelt on the plane. Little bit of a question   
   mark over 2 or 3 cases maybe.   
      
   This is classic PR. Embrace it on your own false terms, then talk it   
   down.   
      
   Above info from the 'Independent':   
      
      
      
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   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
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