VERY INTERESTING…
Ramzi Bettibi, an internet prisoner in Tunisia sends a letter out of prison, describing a secret detention facility near Benzert, where CIA and “french-speaking” interrogators ask Tunisian (and foreign detainees) about their alleged ties to the jihad in Iraq.
Around 50 Kefaya activists in Mansoura demonstrated today in front of the United Bank, to protest the bank’s mistreatment of its Mansoura-España Garments Company workers. Simultaneously, a trade unionist delegation arrived in Cairo for negotiations with the Labor Ministry, the bank’s management, and the General Federation, only to find their meeting was postponed till tomorrow as Hussein Megawer the head of the Federation did not show up, according to a trade unionist, because he was busy with visitors from the US.
Meanwhile, the United Bank continued its crackdown on the factory workers, referring six new names for disciplinary board, on charges of instigating a strike, which may decree a new wave of sacking:
Sahar Shouman
Lawahez Ali
Badri Bedeir
Saad Abdel ‘Al
Hanaa Abdel Wahab
Mohsen Abdel Nabi
From Al-Jazeera:
The White House has denied assertions by a former leading military investigator of the Abu Ghraib scandal that the president and leading military officials knew about the abuse at the prison in Iraq before it became public.
A spokesman said George Bush first learnt about the abuse from media reports.
“The president said over three years ago that he first saw the pictures of the abuse on television,” White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said in Crawford, Texas, where Bush is spending the weekend at his ranch.
Stanzel was responding to questions about a New Yorker magazine report quoting retired Major-General Antonio Taguba, as saying “the president had to be aware” of the abuse of prisoners by US military guards.
