The Two Faces of Rumsfeld
2000: director of a company which wins $200m contract to sell nuclear reactors to North Korea
2002: declares North Korea a terrorist state, part of the axis of evil and a target for regime change
Randeep Ramesh
Friday May 9, 2003
Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, sat on the board of a company which three years ago sold two light water nuclear reactors to North Korea - a country he now regards as part of the "axis of evil" and which has been targeted for regime change by Washington because of its efforts to build nuclear weapons.
Mr Rumsfeld was a non-executive director of ABB, a European engineering giant based in Zurich, when it won a $200m (£125m) contract to provide the design and key components for the reactors. The current defence secretary sat on the board from 1990 to 2001, earning $190,000 a year. He left to join the Bush administration.
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-- Nietzsche
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-- Aldous Huxley
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-- James Madison, Political Observations, 1795
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-- Retired Air Force Colonel Robert M. Bowman, former director of the U.S. "Star Wars" space defense
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Bush Administration Pledges to Uphold Minimal Protections of the Geneva Conventions
HRF Says the "Devil Is in the Details" of Implementation
NEW YORK – The Pentagon pledged on Tuesday to treat detainees in U.S. military custody in accordance with the minimum standards of the Geneva Conventions, as required by the Supreme Court in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. Two weeks ago, the Court struck down military commissions established by President Bush, holding they were inconsistent with Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions and the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
“The Bush Administration has now been told by the courts, and again by members of Congress, that the executive cannot act alone in how detainees in U.S. custody are treated,” said Maureen Byrnes, Executive Director of Human Rights First.
“We’re heartened by the overdue announcement by the Defense Department that all military personnel must adhere to the minimal standards of Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions. This is an acknowledgement that the Administration is bound by rules. But the devil is in the details. When the President disavows his memo stating that Common Article 3 does not apply to certain detainees, when we see that there is no more secret detention by any U.S. agency anywhere in the world, and when detainees are tried in accordance with binding U.S. and international rules – then we’ll know our optimism is warranted and that America is getting back on track.”
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