rone: (grumpy)
entombed in the shrine of zeroes and ones ([personal profile] rone) wrote2004-10-27 02:17 pm

guantanamera... guajira guantanamera

aDe pointed me towards a story on the al-Guardian (attribution dammit: [livejournal.com profile] palecur) about Dubya's Web site blocking foreign visitors; aDe confirmed that .au, .uk, and .nl sites were not able to access it. Also, Bob Harris links to a New York Times story regarding this most munificent administration's latest wacky hijink:

A new legal opinion by the Bush administration has concluded for the first time that some non-Iraqi prisoners captured by American forces in Iraq are not entitled to the protections of the Geneva Conventions, administration officials said Monday.