Lawsuit Challenges Guantanamo Prisoners' Detention
Following Monday's Supreme Court ruling that detainees had the right to challenge their detention, nine lawsuits have been filed demanding that the government justify detainees' imprisonment and allowing them to speak with their attorneys in private.
US citizens in Bahrain warned to consider leaving
Six Bahrainis were released last week after being detained for one day on the belief that they were planning an attack on citizens similar to the attack across the causeway in Khobar that killed 22 people in a Western oil community. The U.S. State Department is warning U.S. citizens not to travel to Bahrain and suggesting that Westerners living there consider getting the hell out, on the basis of "credible information" that an attack is planned.
I still find it of particular interest that the Saudi officials reported being told by American officials to allow some of the perpetrators of the Khobar attack to escape.
US military in Afghanistan faces new allegation of prisoner abuse
No details. Human rights organizations are not permitted access to prisoners in Afghanistan, but supposedly the Red Cross is. Like that helped any of the Iraqi or Guantanamo detainees.
French Team Says Generic AIDS Pill as Good as Expensive Combination
In fact they say that one dose is as good as three doses of the expensive brand name shit - three different brands. I'm sure we can't be having that go unattended. Plus, it's the French.
And in a related story...
Multivitamin Slows Pace of HIV
It's a Harvard study.
Researchers found the patients taking vitamins B, C and E fared best. They were 30 percent less likely to progress to the latest stage of HIV infection or to die during the study than women who received the placebo. And they were substantially less likely to develop painful mouth inflammations, rashes and fatigue.
Blood tests showed that women on the multivitamin had higher levels of vital disease-fighting cells and lower levels of the AIDS virus.
A year's worth of multivitamins for an individual in Africa costs $15, whereas an annual supply of antiretroviral medications costs 20 times as much.
Blood tests showed that women on the multivitamin had higher levels of vital disease-fighting cells and lower levels of the AIDS virus.
A year's worth of multivitamins for an individual in Africa costs $15, whereas an annual supply of antiretroviral medications costs 20 times as much.
Better get on that Harvard team.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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