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Titolo: Verita' nascoste

Verita' nascoste
Una donna statunitense che lavorava all'aeroporto del Kuwait č stata
licenziata per aver diffuso una foto che mostra le file di bare di soldati
caduti in Iraq. Per il Pentagono immagini del genere non devono essere viste
http://www.peacereporter.net/it/canali/storie/0000america/statiuniti/040423silicio
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Saluti & Salute
    Pomero

 caduti in Iraq. Per il Pentagono immagini del genere non devono essere viste
Eccovi come questa storia č stata presentata dalla BBC.
Bye bye, Albert
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Last Updated: Friday, 23 April, 2004, 15:43 GMT 16:43 UK
US concern over war dead photos
The Pentagon says the ban is to protect soldiers' families
Pentagon lawyers are examining the release of photographs of the coffins
of dead American soldiers repatriated from Iraq.
The images, taken by Department of Defense officials, appeared on the
web after the US Air Force released them under the Freedom of
Information Act.
Pentagon rules dating back to 1991 ban the media from covering the
return of the remains of soldiers killed abroad.
Critics say the rule is designed to cover up the human cost of war.
Defence officials insist it is in the interests of bereaved families.
'Reasonable' policy
The official photographs of coffins draped in the US flag were released
last week to activist Russ Kick, who had filed a Freedom of Information
Act request to receive the images. He published them on his website The
Memory Hole.
Camera ban on US war dead
Deputy Under Secretary of Defence John Molino said Pentagon lawyers were
looking into whether banning the further release of such photographs
would fall foul of the Freedom of Information Act.
"The attorneys now are looking to see if the policy and the law are in
conflict, or if the policy and the law are not in conflict and there was
just some misunderstanding or misinterpretation of the situation that
allowed that release," he told reporters.
Mr Molino added that he fully supported what he considered a
"reasonable" policy restricting such images that had spanned several
different administrations.
"We continually get feedback from families that this reflects their
desires to maintain a degree of privacy... and also maintains the
respect and the dignified treatment of those remains as they're
transferred," he said.
He denied the suggestion that restricting access to the photographs was
an attempt at damage limitation by the Bush administration, which is
under pressure over its policy of invading and occupying Iraq.
"I don't see that as our motivation. To be very frank with you, we don't
want the remains of our service members who have made the ultimate
sacrifice to be the subject of any kind of attention that is unwarranted
or undignified," said Mr Molino.
'Deep regret'
In a separate development, an American woman and her husband have been
fired from their job with a US cargo contractor in Kuwait after a
photograph of flag-covered coffins she took during the course of her
work appeared in the Seattle Times newspaper.
Colorado-based Maytag Aircraft Corporation said Tami Silicio and her
husband were dismissed for violating US government and company
regulations.
"Maytag deeply regrets these actions and fully concurs with the
Pentagon's policy of respecting the remains of our brave men and women
who have fallen in service to our country," said company president
William Silva.
Mr Molino said his office had played no part in Ms Silicio's dismissal.
"I indicated that I didn't think it would be appropriate for the
Pentagon to take any sanctions against her," he said.
Some of the relatives of service personnel killed in Iraq have
criticised the Pentagon stance.
"We need to stop hiding the deaths of our young," said Jane Bright of
California, whose son was killed in action last year. "We need to be
open about their deaths."
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Prato, rapinatori tentano di investire poliziotta
 
 
PRATO - Due rapinatori in fuga, a bordo di una Fiat Punto, hanno tentato di
investire un'agente donna della questura di Prato che ha poi sparato un
colpo di pistola mirando alle ruote della macchina. Gli stessi rapinatori
sono stati successivamente arrestati dai poliziotti delle volanti, dopo una
colluttazione nel corso della quale due agenti sono rimasti feriti: tre
giorni la prognosi per entrambi. Sono riusciti a fuggire altri due
rapinatori, inizialmente a bordo di un'altra auto, una Peugeot 206, ma che
si sono poi dileguati a piedi.
[Data pubblicazione: 23/04/2004
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