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"Free Speech Violations Highlighted Ahead of UN Internet Summit"
By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com International Editor
November 15, 2005
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "(CNSNews.com) - Police in Tunisia Monday manhandled foreign and local press freedom advocates, preventing them from holding a meeting on the sidelines of this week's U.N. Internet summit, campaigners said.
Authorities also reportedly denied access within the country to a website for a meeting of non-governmental organizations planned to run alongside the main event beginning Wednesday, the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).
Rights groups long ago questioned the wisdom of allowing a government with a poor human rights record -- and one which censors the Internet -- to host the summit.
Other countries criticized for human rights and press freedom violations, including China and Iran, are among those spearheading attempts to wrestle supervision of the Internet away from the United States."
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"Venezuelan troops get provocative book"
Miami Herald ^ | November 15, 2005 | PHIL GUNSON
Posted on 11/15/2005 2:33:31 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "CARACAS - A book published and distributed by the Venezuelan army argues that ''revolutionary Islam'' and U.S. religious extremism are moral equivalents and quotes approvingly from the Venezuelan terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal.
The 250-page Peripheral Warfare and Revolutionary Islam was written by Spanish politician and academic Jorge Verstrynge and is being distributed on the personal orders of Army Chief Gen. Raúl Baduel, a long-time supporter of leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.
Baduel's office said he's not available for an interview until January. Armed Forces Inspector General Gen. Melvin López Hidalgo said he was unaware of the book but argued that its publication by the army should not be taken as ''tacit support for the opinions it contains.'' It's simply an example of ''freedom of expression,'' he added.
The book focuses on asymmetrical warfare, a term for ''David and Goliath'' conflicts between adversaries of vastly different capacities, such as the war between U.S. forces and Iraqi insurgents.
Verstrynge was a keynote speaker at a recent military conference in Caracas on asymmetrical warfare, which has been adopted by the Venezuelan military as a key defensive concept, based on a possible attack by U.S. forces to seize Venezuela's oil wealth or topple Chávez.
''For us, it would have to be a war of resistance,'' said Baduel in a speech last month."