Positive News Media (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
MANILA, Nov. 6 (PNA)-- Filipino Grandmaster Mark Paragua turned back IM Dzhurabek Khamrakulov but his efforts were not good enough to power the seventh- seed Philippine chess team to a higher notch.
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
RP rapid chessers beat Qatar, settle for 6th in Indoor Games Cebu Daily News First Posted 09:10:00 11/08/2009 THE RP rapid chess team composed of GM Rogelio “Joey” Antonio Jr., GM Mark Paragua, WFM Shercila Cua and WFM Catherine Perena yesterday settled for 6th overall at the end of the preliminary round of the rapid team competition in the 3rd Asian Indoor Games in Hanoi, Vietnam. Kazakhstan...
Rising Hegemon (Free subscription) | yesterday
Off to the boiler: The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country. Craig Murray, the rector of the University of Dundee in Scotland and until 2004 the UK's ambassador to Uzbekistan, said the CIA not only...
Bradenton.com: Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
As of Friday, Nov. 6, 2009, at least 833 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Friday at 10 a.m. EDT.
Jews sans frontieres (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Voting record of UN members on the General Assembly resolution: In favor: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Comoros, Congo, Cuba, Cyprus, Democratic People’s...
MadeByGirl (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Fabricadabra , run by Donna Halloran , is now one of my favorite shops for throw cushions! The variety & the quality of the covers are fabulous! I am so happy with the Ikat covers I chose for my white french provincial sofa, looks great, don't you think? The ones I have are Silk/cotton ikat pillow covers from Uzbekistan. Handwoven, natural dyes. Zipper closure. 18" x 18". Charcoal grey...
tourismvision (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Will Kazakhstan avoid the mass tourism trap with a heady mix of new airports, gambling and ecotourism? The enormous and oil-rich Central Asian Republic of Kazakhstan isn’t sparing a penny in its drive to become THE major regional tourism hub. With Russia, China and India all just 4 hours away by jet, big, rich and eager markets lie very close to this massive, sparsely-populated, land-locked state....
qwstnevrythg.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Daniel Tencer | Rawstory The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country. Craig Murray, the rector of the University of Dundee in Scotland and until 2004 [...]
Teacher Dude's Grill and BBQ (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
More at The Real News Video from Real News Network " CRAIG MURRAY , FMR. UK AMBASSADOR TO UZBEKISTAN : I got called back to London and I expected there, you know, to have a sensible talk about the merits or demerits of the intelligence and how much evidence I had that it was obtained under torture. I was absolutely stunned, genuinely stunned—it changed my whole worldview in an instant—to...
Pro-Life News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country. Craig Murray,...
Humint Events Online (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive , says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country. Craig Murray, the rector of the University of Dundee in Scotland and until 2004 the UK's ambassador to Uzbekistan, said the CIA not only relied on confessions...
Alternet (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Former British ambassador alleges CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan.
Craig Murray (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
A contributor to The Daily Kos, Jerome a Paris, has dismissed as "Conspiracy Theory" the notion that US policy in Afghanistan is in any way motivated by a desire to access Central Asian gas reserves via a trans-Afghanistan pipeline. He starts by referencing a Daily Kos entry about me, which he then seeks to "Debunk". http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/11/5/800848/-Gahhow-many-times-will-it-be-needed-to-debunk-silly-pipeline-conspiracies...
The Final Redoubt (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Craig John Murray (born 17 October 1958) is a human rights activist, writer, former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Rector of the University of Dundee and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Lancaster School of Law. While at the embassy in Tashkent, he accused the Karimov administration of human rights abuses, a step which, he argued, was against the wishes of the British government...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
TIRUCHI: The two families of six Uzbekistan citizens, including a teenaged girl and a four-year-old boy who were detained at the Tiruchi Airport on Wednesday, were remanded to judicial custody by Judicial Magistrate VI here on ...
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