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  • Deported activist landed with bill

    09/15/2005 5:20:09 PM PDT · by Aussie Dasher · 47 replies · 1,033+ views
    Herald Sun ^ | 16 September 2005 | Peter Mitchell
    AMERICAN peace activist Scott Parkin arrived back in the US today under guard after Australian authorities detained him in a Melbourne jail for five days for being a "national security risk". The 36-year-old Texan history teacher was also given a bill for almost $11,700 after his brush with Australian authorities. Mr Parkin said he was made to feel like a terrorist and a criminal and remains baffled as to why six police officers "snatched him off the street" as he left a Melbourne cafe last Saturday. He said he was interrogated and spent the next five days in solitary confinement...
  • Kerry Balks at Sending Troops to Sudan

    10/07/2004 7:28:39 PM PDT · by nonkultur · 28 replies · 714+ views
    ABCnews.com ^ | 10/07/2004 | The Associated Press
    Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry says he would not send U.S. forces to stop the genocide in Sudan if they continued to be needed in Iraq and Afghanistan. "I'd do everything possible," he said in a taped interview broadcast Thursday night on Black Entertainment Television, citing logistical support and money to help the African Union intervene in the Sudanese crisis. Asked whether he'd send troops, Kerry said the United States would "have to be in a position in Iraq and Afghanistan" to allow that to happen. He said his options as president would be limited because President Bush has overextended...