The Miles Foundation received 307 reports of sexual assault from soldiers - mostly female - serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait and Bahrain. And many are reluctant to report rapes to their superiors. In an interview tomorrow on CBS' "60 Minutes," Lt. Jennifer Dyer of the New Jersey National Guard claims the Army treated her "like a criminal" after she reported being raped and was ordered to return to the base where her alleged attacker was stationed.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2854

http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/news/icelandunderattack.htm


Informant: David Diggins

http://www.totse.com/en/conspiracy/institutional_analysis/165501.html

Informant: Mark Marks

by Chris Paterson

AlterNet

02/16/05

CNN has a habit of devouring its own. Whenever the right-wing flak machine cranks up, CNN, like CBS last fall, dispenses with another top executive, producer, or correspondent, no matter how celebrated. The resignation last Friday of CNN's top news executive, Eason Jordan, should be seen in the context of CNN's previous abandonment of its top journalists, like April Oliver and Peter Arnett, and CBS' dismissal of top producer Mary Mapes; all of whom raised the ire of the right with the revelation of unflattering facts about the military. But the resignation is also being hailed as more evidence of the power of bloggers to fell their perceived enemies...

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21262/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp


PENTAGON THREATENED EARLIER TO KILL REPORTERS IN IRAQ
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=76203;show_parent=1

by Georg Mascolo and Holger Stark

The case is extremely sensitive. A German citizen may have been kidnapped by American agents and illegally taken to Afghanistan. Now, German authorities are quietly investigating the case. But no one here wants it to interfere with US-German rapprochement.

http://207.44.245.159/article8066.htm

In a notice slated for publication in the Federal Register, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will formally adopt an open door policy of accepting experiments conducted by pesticide companies and chemical manufacturers using human subjects, according to a draft posted by EPA late last Friday.

http://www.peer.org/news/index.php