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	Photo Timeline: Prisoner Abuse in Iraq
		May 5: President Bush gives interviews to two Arab-language networks, saying that he and the American people were appalled by the revelations.
		May 11: Major General Taguba tells Congress the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners was a result of faulty leadership, a "lack of discipline, no training whatsoever and no supervision" of the troops.
		May 12: Sgt. Javal Davis, 26, of Maryland and Staff Sgt. Ivan L. "Chip" Frederick II of Buckingham, Va., are ordered to stand trial in the Abu Ghraib scandal.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2004/05/06/iraqabusepix.DTL&type=universal (1081 words)

	Afghanistan timeline May 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In Helmand province, Afghanistan, four Afghan National Army soldiers and one rebel died in a clash.
		In Kabul, Afghanistan, a rocket-propelled grenade killed a Norwegian ISAF peacekeeper and injured another as a four-vehicle convoy was driving back from patrol.
		Former King of Afghanistan Mohammad Zahir Shah was brought to a hospital in the United Arab Emirates because of nose bleeding caused by heat.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/A/Afghanistan-timeline-May-2004.htm (1316 words)

	May 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Memorial Day: President Bush honors the United States' war dead of past conflicts, and says that "two terror regimes are gone forever" in Iraq and Afghanistan as US deaths there climb to 1,000.
		FBI Director Robert Mueller and United States Attorney General John Ashcroft state that Al Qaeda may be planning a terrorist strike over the coming months.
		Philippine general election, 2004: Incumbent Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo wins another term according to a senior election official who leaks the narrow winning margin of about 3% or 900,000 votes.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/M/May-2004.htm (6137 words)

	A Timeline of Oil and Violence - Afghanistan
		Afghanistan's interim ruler Hamid Karzai and the Pakistan president agreed to revive plans (47a) for a trans-Afghanistan pipeline..
		Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai to hold talks with his Pakistani and Turkmenistan counterparts (47c) regarding a pipeline from Turkmenistan, through Afghanistan, and through Pakistan to the coast.
		The annual US Government estimate for opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan was released Nov. 2004 (49): approximately 206,700 hectares of poppy were grown in 2004, representing a 239% increase in production over 2003 estimates.
	www.ringnebula.com /Oil/Timeline.htm (1682 words)

	Photo Timeline: Prisoner Abuse in Iraq
		May 4: The Army says 20 investigations into prisoner deaths and assaults currently are under way in Iraq and Afghanistan.
		May 11: Major General Taguba tells Congress the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners was a result of faulty leadership, a "lack of discipline, no training whatsoever and no supervision" of the troops.
		May 12: Sgt. Javal Davis, 26, of Maryland and Staff Sgt. Ivan L. "Chip" Frederick II of Buckingham, Va., are ordered to stand trial in the Abu Ghraib scandal.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2004/05/06/iraqabusepix.DTL (1079 words)

	CBC News In Depth: Afghanistan
		Boneca is the 17th Canadian soldier to be killed in Afghanistan since the first battle group was sent to the country in February 2002.
		Rahman was accused in Afghanistan of converting to Christianity, but the case was dismissed for lack of evidence and suspicion that he may be mentally ill. Many clerics in Afghanistan had called for him to be put to death.
		Abdul Rahman, 41, is jailed in Afghanistan and faces the death penalty unless he agrees to convert back to Islam, said the judge at the Shariah court.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/afghanistan/timeline.html (4335 words)

	Body and Soul: How to unspin a web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		May, 2003: David Kay says that at the time he saw the facility "it was heavily looted...Sometime between April and May, most of the stuff was carried off.
		Oct 26, 2004 12:44:17 PM So many -- and not just in my 80% Republican region -- have made up their minds that any information coming out now which is prejudicial to Bush is the result of a media campaign to get him out of office.
		Oct 27, 2004 1:16:33 AM It's interesting to see the blind faith that Bush supporters still have in whatever the White House churns out: Slartibartfast, a regular poster on Obsidian Wings, who makes claims to be a skeptic, has decided that blind faith is best.
	bodyandsoul.typepad.com /blog/2004/10/spin.html (2469 words)

	Complete 911 Timeline
		One group of new additions to the 9/11 Timeline focuses on the “Blind Sheikh,” Sheikh Omar Abdul-Rahman, a key figure in the Afghan jihad and an associate of Abdullah Azzam who is said to have received support from the Central Intelligence Agency, which allegedly helped him with his US visas.
		This timeline is meant to be a comprehensive resource for anyone attempting to understand 9/11 and the “war on terrorism”; in general.
		Biases may show at times because no human being is completely objective and judgments have to be constantly made; for instance, to include this particular fact or that one when editing decisions have to be made to keep the length down.
	www.cooperativeresearch.org /project.jsp?project=911_project (3371 words)

	Body and Soul: The birth of outrage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It was not until November, 2004 that the Pentagon, eighteen months after the CPJ filed a FOIA request, released its redacted report on the incident, which came to the conclusion that coalition forces bore "no fault or negligence" in the journalists' deaths.
		May, 2004: An Iraqi technician from al-Jazeera, Hamid Rashid Wali, was shot and killed during clashes between the US Army and Moqtada al-Sadr's militia.
		May, 2004: Reuters reported that three of its local staffers in Iraq were detained by US forces and subjected to physical, psychological and sexual abuse.
	bodyandsoul.typepad.com /blog/2005/02/march_22_2003_b.html (8544 words)

	JuliusBlog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		May 24, 2002 - Railroad and other transit systems across the country received a Transportation Department warning based on "an unconfirmed, uncorroborated report", and were told to "remain in a heightened state of alert".
		May 12, 2003 -- Jay Garner, the retired lieutenant general who was the top civil administrator in Iraq, left his post and other senior officials were also replaced.
		May 19, 2004 -- Newsweek reports that President Bush's top lawyer warned two years ago that Bush could be prosecuted for war crimes as a result of how his administration was fighting the war on terror.
	juliusblog.blogspot.com /2004_08_01_juliusblog_archive.html (6598 words)

	CNN.com - Bush: Afghanistan is a victory over terrorism - Jun 15, 2004
		Afghanistan is "adamant," Karzai said, about ending the drug problem.
		However, Karzai said, Afghanistan is grateful "for your generosity and commitment to our people" and will continue to support U.S. efforts to battle terrorists.
		Karzai noted that his country remains "one of the poorest." Only 6 percent of its people have access to electricity, few have access to safe drinking water and farmers have a shortage of water to irrigate their crops, he said.
	www.cnn.com /2004/US/06/15/karzai (1101 words)

	Belmont Club: January 2004
		Conceptually, the most glaring omission from his premises is the dismissal of the notion that terrorism may be a form of proxy warfare by rogue states, a way of undermining the very deterrence Record puts such stock in.
		The Algerian may have made a run for it, forgetting to retrieve his ex-future suicide note from the family home, and was caught before his armpit hair had a chance to grow out.
		While it may be much better today, the ranges are still limited, which means that detectors are best deployed at choke points, such as at baggage scanners, security portals or highway checkpoints.
	belmontclub.blogspot.com /2004_01_01_belmontclub_archive.html (15205 words)

	Whiskey Bar: All in the Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		May 18: Okrent tells Times editor Bill Keller that he plans to publish something about the WMD propaganda campaign in his next column, which both men know will be published in the May 30th paper.
		May 26: Keller publishes the results of his "independent investigation." He later admitted that it would have looked bad if Okrent has published his column before the Times officially weighed in on the subject.
		Some of you may remember a post I did several stories ago about how when we get to a climate of fear where neocons and even Spy agencies are afraid of artist's and poet's we are past the line, well, we have reached it...
	billmon.org /archives/001489.html (6739 words)

	Grim's Hall
		It seems to be the governing publication for the operations in Abu Ghraib that led to the questionable practices, although it appears to be undergoing 'field modifications' under the strain of the new war.
		It may be only one sense in which this is worse than what went on in Saddam's Iraq, and it is not that it is positively worse.
		One set of people who may be facing charges probably did not expect to be: the people who classified the reports of torture, to give the government time to investigate before the story broke.
	grimbeorn.blogspot.com /2004_05_02_grimbeorn_archive.html (3967 words)

	ARCHIVES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Instamonger calls this "misconduct," but because zeyad is generally pro-invasion he generously allows that perhaps a reprimand is not sufficient for murdering an Iraqi by making him jump off Tharthar dam into the Tigris in January.
		Similar requirements were not made of the fledgling democracies in Afghanistan or Iraq, he said, and now Serbia is struggling to gain international attention and support for an economy ravaged by 40 percent unemployment and a depleted infrastructure that cannot rebuild the nation.
		Yet I dissent from the widely held notion that this sort of lasciviousness is all that alien to the Arab male, especially the Arab male with a hankering for violence.
	www.antiwar.com /blog/archives.php?id=A2004051 (14539 words)

	Centerfield: May 2004 Archives
		I have also recently said that a change of presidents, for the sake of change, may ultimately be in the national interest and a tie-breaking reason to vote for Kerry.
		As you may have noticed my disgust with the way this administration is handling the War in Iraq has grown, and I have been more and more critical of the President.
		There may be a legal argument that the torture of KSM is not in fact prohibited by treaties the United States has signed.
	www.centristcoalition.com /blog/archives/2004_05.html (15897 words)

	The Real Timeline (May 19, 2004)
		In fact, the abuse of Iraqi prisoners is part of a systemic problem, one that the top brass at the Pentagon and civilians in the Bush administration have been hiding for months, if not years.
		The Red Cross, which is required by international law to visit prisoners of war to ensure their legal and humane treatment, began issuing reports to the US government--including the civilian leadership in the Bush administration--detailing the horrifying prison conditions in Afghanistan.
		The rest of the timeline is familiar news, although the slaying of US businessman Nicholas Berg has driven some of the more recent revelations from the headlines.
	eatthestate.org /08-17/RealTimeline.htm (1389 words)

	CNN.com - Karzai sworn in as Afghan leader - Dec 8, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Just over three years ago Afghanistan was under the rule of the oppressive Taliban and the nation was being used by terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda as a base to plot the attacks on America.
		While 2004 finds Afghanistan in a better state, Karzai warned that much is left to do.
		In the end, Karzai is certain the people of Afghanistan have the commitment necessary to overcome the challenges facing them.
	edition.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/asiapcf/12/07/afghanistan.inauguration (777 words)

	Taliban Timeline
		Munguia was the first foreign aid worker killed in Afghanistan since the Taliban was deposed.
		Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld claims that most of Afghanistan is now secure and that American forces had moved from major combat operations to stabilization and reconstruction projects.
		Between 70 and 100 Taliban fighters were killed during a week of clashes in Afghanistan's southeastern Zabul province.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/taliban-time.html (1740 words)

	Afghanistan Online: Chronological History of Afghanistan--Part IV
		Soviet Union defeated by Afghanistan, total withdrawal by the Soviets occurred on Feb. 15, 1989.
		The men were believed to have been captured in May by general Abdul Malik during the Taliban's brief takeover of Mazar-i-Sharif.
		September--The ex-king of Afghanistan, Mohammad Zahir Shah, calls for a grand assembly, or Loya Jirga to discuss ways of bringing peace to the country.
	www.afghan-web.com /history/chron/index4.html (1049 words)

	Think Progress » A TIMELINE OF THE IRAQ WAR
		CIA officers in Iraq are warning that the country may be on a path to civil war, current and former U.S. officials said Wednesday, starkly contradicting the upbeat assessment that President Bush gave in his State of the Union address.
		MAY 7, 2007: 2,500: Number of troops infected in the last four years by a “parasitic disease rarely seen in United States but common in the Middle East,” picked up “because of massive deployments to remote combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan.” [Boston Globe, 5/7/2007]
		MAY 8, 2007: 54 percent: Number of Americans who disapprove of President Bush’s decision to veto the Iraq funding bill that called for U.S. troops to leave Iraq by 2008, according to a new CNN poll.
	thinkprogress.org /iraq-timeline (9987 words)

	Timeline of Detainee Abuse Allegations and Responses (Human Rights Watch, May 7, 2004)
		Haynes states that it is U.S. policy “to treat all detainees and conduct all interrogations, wherever they may occur” in a manner consistent with U.S. obligations under the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment.
		He adds that the term “cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment” means any treatment that would be prohibited in the U.S. by the Fifth, Eighth, and/or Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution—a standard that would clearly forbid most of the “stress and duress” techniques reported in the media, as well as degrading treatment later revealed in Iraq.
		Reuters reports that, “U.S. forces investigation allegations of mistreatment of Iraqi detainees at a prison west of Baghdad have suspended 17 soldiers including a battalion commander and a company commander,” pending the outcome of an investigation into allegations of abuse of detainees.
	hrw.org /english/docs/2004/05/07/usint8556_txt.htm (1652 words)

	Moral Volcano
		Afghanistan had been officially represented by the defunct government headed by Banruddin Rabbani and the Taliban greatly resented this.
		Between 1992 and 1996, Afghanistan was in semi-anarchy, as the country was carved into individual fiefdoms by the warlords.
		While Caligula may have made this order to establish his authority in Jewish lands or perhaps even to humiliate the Jews, Jewish and Christian historians, biased as they were, have alleged dementia as the cause.
	vsubhash.blogspot.com /2004_08_01_vsubhash_archive.html (12200 words)

	International Games News May 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Afghanistan has chosen a paralympic team for the first time since 1996, and, this time, female athletes will be included on the team
		Cassels brought his arguments before a a panel of the Australian Shooting Association on May 5, but the case was not resolved.
		The disposal of the housing is scheduled to take place very quickly, with the government setting a deadline of May 19 for the applications and the housing planned to be allotted by the end of the month.
	www.internationalgames.net /may2004.html (4143 words)

	History of Women in Sports Timeline - 2004
		2004 - The National Women's Party presents the 2004 Alice Award to Billie Jean King for her contributions to women in sports through lobbying for Title IX, founding the Women’s Sports Foundation, and for her dedication to ensuring equality and leadership opportunities for women and girls in all facets of their lives.
		Afghanistan, a country previously banned from the games because of its cruel gender apartheid, brought three women runners to compete - even the bearer of the Afghan flag in the opening ceremonies was a woman.
		2004 - Kelly Albin, a lacrosse player from the University of California-Davis, is selected as the NCAA Woman of the Year for her excellence in academics, athletics and community service.
	www.northnet.org /stlawrenceaauw/time15.htm (3238 words)

	History Commons
		The use of Islamist militants by American and Israeli militarists - The War in Afghanistan to September 11 and beyond, managed by tim_howell.
		All the timelines are organized into a topic heirarchy and can be accessed through this expandable list.
		The use of Islamist militants by American and Israeli militarists -- The war in Afghanistan to September 11 and beyond
	www.cooperativeresearch.org /timelines.jsp (560 words)

	MSF-USA: Publications - Ideas & Opinions From MSF
		MSF is no longer present in Afghanistan – the impunity shown towards those responsible makes it impossible for us to work there, despite clear humanitarian and medical needs.
		Pierre Salignon, Program Director for MSF, recently returned from Afghanistan and he discussed the need for ongoing hospital and clinic support in Bamyan, Ghazni, and Zaranj, as well as the urgent need of providing emergency medical relief to the "squatters" of Kabul.
		With world attention focused on a possible US-led war on Iraq, MSF is considering the possible impact that such a war might have on the civilian population of the country.
	www.doctorswithoutborders.org /publications/ideas (993 words)

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