links for 2006-09-24

• Libya’s travesty: Nature
  Imagine that five American nurses and a British doctor have been detained and tortured in a Libyan prison since 1999, and that a Libyan prosecutor called at the end of August for their execution by firing squad on trumped-up charges of deliberately contam
  (tags: doctor Libya fascism fraud news politics)
• Venezuela foreign minister detained, US apologizes | Top News | Reuters.com
  CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) – Venezuela’s foreign minister was detained at a New York airport on Saturday, prompting an apology from the U.S. government and compounding already tense relations between the two countries.
  (tags: Venezuela Bush Chavez)
• Officials Wary of Electronic Voting Machines – New York Times
  WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 — A growing number of state and local officials are getting cold feet about electronic voting technology, and many are making last-minute efforts to limit or reverse the rollout of new machines in the November elections.
  (tags: diebold voting election)

~ by SAP on 24 September 2006.