Citizens for Legitimate Government

Citizens for Legitimate Government or CLG is a multi-partisan activist group established to expose the Bush coup d'etat and to oppose the Bush occupation in all of its manifestations. CLG is a pro-democracy, pro-voting rights, pro legitimate government group that publishes links to news stories with brief summaries that use editing marks, highlighting and commentary to help reveal the truth amid the propaganda.

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Recently Published News and Commentary

U.S. leaves millions' worth of gear in Iraq

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Pentagon eases rules --Even as the U.S. military scrambles to support a troop surge in Afghanistan, it is donating passenger vehicles, generators and other equipment worth tens of millions of dollars to the Iraqi government. Under new authority granted by the Pentagon, U.S. commanders in Iraq may now donate to the Iraqis up to $30 million worth of equipment from each facility they leave, up from the $2 million cap established when the guidelines were first set in 2005. The new cap applies at scores of posts that the U.S. military is expected to leave in coming months as it scales back its presence from about 280 facilities to six large bases and a few small ones by the end of next summer.

No Firm Plans for a U.S. Exit in Afghanistan

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'We're going to be in the region for a long time.' --The Obama administration sent a forceful public message Sunday that American military forces could remain in Afghanistan for a long time... In television interviews, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and other top administration officials said that any troop pullout beginning in July 2011 would be slow and that the Americans would only then be starting to transfer security responsibilities to Afghan forces under Mr. Obama's new plan. "We have strategic interests [opium and gas pipelines] in South Asia that should not be measured in terms of finite times," said Gen. James L. Jones, the president's national security adviser, speaking on CNN's "State of the Union." "We're going to be in the region for a long time."

'Taliban' bombs fan Pakistan distrust of US

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The US embassy issued statements denying reports of a Blackwater presence. Clawing at debris after a massive bomb pulverised a busy market in Pakistan's northwest capital Peshawar on October 28, Umar Hayat could find no trace of his eldest son, 11-year-old Mohsin. "Soon after burying my brother, I came back to the bomb site. I found my son's body at midnight. The next day, in the afternoon, we found my nephew's body," Hayat told AFP. But rather than feeling disgust at Taliban fighters blamed for an attack that killed 125 people, Hayat holds the United States responsible, reflecting a deep-seated distrust felt throughout Pakistan. "I appeal to America, please leave us be. Please stop this game, this war on terror. Osama (bin Laden) is just a smokescreen to attack Muslims," Hayat said. "Stop it. How many more lives will you take in revenge for the World Trade Centre? Do you want to destroy the whole of Pakistan?" ..."What did my father do? Why did somebody do this to us?" said Rashid Javed, who lost his father and two cousins on October 28. "I think America, Israel and India are involved. The Taliban can't do this -- they used to target only police and army men." [See: The Obusha AfPak Money Pit.]

Pakistan huge blast rocks Peshawar

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At least five people have been killed and 49 others wounded in a blast outside a court building in Pakistan's northwest city of Peshawar. The explosion occurred Monday following recent attacks in Peshawar that lies on the edge of Pakistan's tribal belt. Senior police official Mohammad Karim Khan confirmed the casualties to AFP. The cause of the blast [Blackwater?] was yet to be determined, Khan added. Earlier on Saturday, an explosion in Peshawar left four people dead.

US National Security Adviser: 'Clock is Ticking' on Iran

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The U.S. national security adviser says Washington is still open to nuclear negotiations with Iran, but the picture is not a "good one." The U.S. national security adviser says Washington is still open to nuclear negotiations with Iran, but the picture is not a "good one." Jim Jones said Sunday the "clock is ticking" toward the end of the year, when President Barack Obama plans to review U.S. diplomatic efforts with Iran. Senior U.S. officials have proposed pursuing new sanctions at the U.N. Security Council if Iran does not cooperate with the international community on its nuclear program. [Why is it the US (and Israel) can impose 'ticking clocks' on other countries (usually those with lots of oil)? Maybe another nation will declare a 'ticking clock' on the US.]

US sounds fresh warning to Iran again

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While the Western powers have been pressuring Iran to accept a US-backed proposal over Iran's nuclear fuel supply, the White House says it is still open to nuclear negotiations with Tehran but the time is running out. US National Security Advisor Jim Jones said on Sunday that the White House is "still open to nuclear talks" with Tehran, but "the clock is ticking" towards the end of the year.

MoD 'did not want to breach privacy of detainee'

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It's OK to waterboard, but: The Government misled MPs over Britain's role in the rendition of two men arrested by the UK and then imprisoned by the Americans for five years in Afghanistan, it is claimed today. Ministers are also accused of conspiring in the men's unlawful imprisonment by refusing to disclose their identities and providing false information about the allegations against them. The Ministry of Defence wrote to the law charity Reprieve, saying that the two terror suspects captured by British forces in Iraq in 2004 could not be identified because it would be a breach of their rights under the Data Protection Act. [!?!] But a six-month investigation by Reprieve has identified one of the men, a Pakistani, and found evidence of his unlawful detention and possible torture.

Gordon Brown snubbed by soldiers' 'curtain' protest

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Gordon Brown was snubbed by badly injured Afghan veterans when they closed curtains round their beds during a hospital visit and refused to speak to him. More than half the soldiers being treated at the Selly Oak hospital ward in Birmingham either asked for the curtains to be closed or deliberately avoided the prime minister, according to several of those present.

8 journalists in Arroyo ally massacre buried

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A funeral procession for eight journalists among 57 people massacred in the Philippines' worst political violence was showered with flowers Friday, as security forces confiscated an entire armory from a powerful clan suspected in the carnage. Thirty journalists and their staff -- the highest number of reporters slain in a single attack anywhere in the world -- were killed in an ambush Nov. 23 together with the family and supporters of a candidate contesting the Ampatuan clan's iron-fisted control of impoverished Maguindanao province. The Ampatuan clan, notorious for running a large private army, has been allied with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who received crucial votes from the region during [] stole the 2004 elections.

U.S. sees homegrown Muslim extremism as rising threat

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This may have been the most dangerous year since 9/11, anti-terrorism experts say. The Obama administration, grappling with a spate of recent Islamic terrorism cases on U.S. soil, has concluded that the country confronts a rising threat from homegrown extremism. Anti-terrorism officials and experts see signs of accelerated radicalization among American Muslims, driven by a wave of English-language online propaganda [Blackwater] and reflected in aspiring fighters' trips to hot spots such as Pakistan and Somalia... "You are seeing the full spectrum of the threats you face in terrorism," former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said. "Radicalization is clearly happening in the U.S.," said Mitchell Silber, director of analysis for the Intelligence Division of the New York Police Department.