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We’ve been duped. The death toll is three times as high than as reported by the US media and military, says Ellen Knickmeyer. I know who I’m going to believe. The Baghdad morgue is full and turning away bodies, says NPR in an incredible report.

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The Birmingham News has discovered a treasure trove of buried historic photographs from the Civil Rights Era in Alabama and Mississippi. They’ve made a very good web site out of the materials. Here are just a few of the photos:

This photo was taken on “Bloody Sunday,” March 7, 1965, as the Selma to Montgomery march began, only to be stopped by horrific violence by Alabama State Troopers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge:

18 days later, the marchers finally reached Montgomery and were “greeted” by the same State Troopers who had brutally beaten them:

This photo taken in the Tuscaloosa jail is an historic reminder of what it takes to get change in this country:

Knight Ridder description of new FBI documents obtained by the ACLU:

WASHINGTON - Military interrogators posing as FBI agents at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, wrapped terrorism suspects in an Israeli flag and forced them to watch homosexual pornography under strobe lights during interrogation sessions that lasted as long as 18 hours, according to one of a batch of FBI memos released Thursday.

FBI agents working at the prison complained about the military interrogators’ techniques in e-mails to their superiors from 2002 to 2004, 54 e-mails released by the American Civil Liberties Union showed. The agents tried to get the military interrogators to follow a less coercive approach and warned that the harsh methods could hinder future criminal prosecutions of terrorists because information gained illegally is inadmissible in court.

Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, who was in charge of the prison at the time, overrode the FBI agents’ protests, according to the documents.

The memos offer some of the clearest proof yet that the abuses and torture of prisoners in U.S. military custody weren’t the isolated actions of low-ranking soldiers but a result of policies approved by senior officials, the ACLU said.

The great outgoing editor of Harper’s, Lewis Lapham has this editorial detailing his call for the impeachment of George W. Bush.

At the first meeting of the new National Security Council on January 30, 2001, most of the people in the room discuss the possibility of preemptive blitzkrieg against Baghdad.[3] In March the Pentagon circulates a document entitled “Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oil Field Contracts”; the supporting maps indicate the properties of interest to various European governments and American corporations. Six months later, early in the afternoon of September 11, the smoke still rising from the Pentagon’s western facade, Secretary Rumsfeld tells his staff to fetch intelligence briefings (the “best info fast…go massive; sweep it all up; things related and not”) that will justify an attack on Iraq. By chance the next day in the White House basement, Richard A. Clarke, national coordinator for security and counterterrorism, encounters President Bush, who tells him to “see if Saddam did this.” Nine days later, at a private dinner upstairs in the White House, the President informs his guest, the British prime minister, Tony Blair, that “when we have dealt with Afghanistan, we must come back to Iraq.”

In 2 years, they have gone from claiming three were ready, to one, to zero.

Mitchell Wade’s plea bargain in the case of bribing “Duke” Cunningham, R-San Diego, shows that he also illegally bribed Katharine Harris and Virgil Goode, both Republican members of Congress. How is she going to blame this one on Photoshop?

At least 50 dead, including this entire family:

This means that we’ve been lied to, and that there is no possible excuse in the world for not doing the mandatory 45-day review. Bush is absolutely sunk on this, it’s incredible.

UPI - stretching across every coast in the country including the Gulf. Meanwhile, The REPUBLICAN Chairman of the 9-11 Commission says this deal “never should have happened.”