Tue 6 Jun 2006
Terror Fears Hamper U.S. Muslims’ Travel – New York Times
For Ahmed Ahmed, a comedian, it is even worse. His double-barreled name matches an occasional alias used by a henchman of Osama bin Laden. “It’s a bad time to be named Ahmed right now,” he riffs in his stand-up routine, before describing being hauled through the Las Vegas airport in handcuffs.
Tue 6 Jun 2006
India Becoming a Crucial Cog in the Machine at I.B.M. – New York Times
On the pricing front, rivals like Tata Consultancy Services of Mumbai and Infosys Technologies of Bangalore have pioneered and perfected the low-cost model. Infosys Technologies, with 52,700 employees, has $2.15 billion in annual revenues, a figure that is growing 30 percent annually. But the depth, breadth and geographic spread of I.B.M.’s global operations — which generated $91 billion in sales last year, $47 billion from services — keep it ahead of its competitors for now. For example, I.B.M. manages a system it developed for a large American oil company, which it would not identify, that keeps track of consumption and oversees financial and administrative processes as well as the technical help desk, data network and servers. I.B.M. is also researching tools to track company assets and reduce costs.
Tue 6 Jun 2006
Teaching Remedial Decency – New York Times
Before the war, America railed against the Iraqi leader for slaughtering innocent Iraqis. Now the Iraqi leader is railing against America for slaughtering innocent Iraqis.
Fri 2 Jun 2006
CNN.com – Parents: Marine sons told to take Haditha photos – May 29, 2006 Briones was still grieving when he was sent in to clean up the bodies of the Iraqi civilians, his mother said.
One was a little girl who had been shot in the head, Susie Briones said.
“He had to carry that little girl’s body,” she said, “and her head was blown off and her brain splattered on his boots.”
Murtha, a Pennsylvania Democrat, said reports “from the highest level” found the killings took place in the absence of firing from insurgent forces.
After the roadside bomb went off, “A taxi drives up,” Murtha told ABC.
“There’s four or five people in it. And they shoot those four or five people, unarmed. And then, they go on a rampage throughout the houses and kill people,” said Murtha, a retired Marine colonel who has become a vocal critic of the war in Iraq.
“One woman, as I understand it, in talking to the officials in the Marine Corps, was bending over a child, pleading for mercy, and they shot her in cold blood,” Murtha said.
“More disturbing” is that the Iraqi government knew about the killings, “because they made payments to the Iraqis for accidental deaths,” said Murtha, a Vietnam combat veteran.
The authorization of payments to families must have been made by a senior official, meaning that high-level authorities would have known about the attack, Murtha said.
“First of all, they tried to say the IED is what killed these people. The next day, there was a team out there investigating, as they always do. And then, nothing happened. Nobody hears about it. They don’t tell anybody — until March, when Time magazine broke the news, nobody realized or recognized what happened.”
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