Text messages send on 9/11

by Jeanne Meserve and Mallory Simon, CNN, November 25th 2009:

"Newly released text messages reportedly from the morning of September 11, 2001, show panicked family members trying to contact loved ones and officials frantically trying to grasp what was happening.

More than half a million messages, released by whistleblower site Wikileaks, reveal the panic, horror and pain of what happened that morning in the words of those who experienced it.

On September 11, 2001, 19 hijackers commandeered four commercial jetliners, loaded with fuel for cross-country flights. Two were flown into the World Trade Center's Twin Towers in New York, one crashed into the Pentagon, and another, headed for an unknown location, crashed in Pennsylvania when it was disrupted by passengers.

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Wikileaks will not say if the source was in government, law enforcement, industry or was a private citizen with the capability to intercept messages."

Read the full article on the CNN Homepage.

Cuba and human rights

The US organization Human Rights Watch recently published a new report, called "New Castro, same Cuba", about human rights in Cuba.

According to the report 40 people have been jailed because they are a "danger to the state" since Raul Castro reign the caribbean state. Additionally, 53 dissident prisoners, arrested when Fidel Castro ruled Cuba, are still in jail.
José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch, stated that "Cubans who dare to criticize the government live in perpetual fear, knowing they could wind up in prison for merely expressing their views." Unfortunately it is common practice to punish or attack political protestants in Cuba. Yoanni Sanchez, a dissident cuban blogger running the blog Generation Y, said she have been picked up last week and beaten for about half an hour before being released.
Beside the still lasting US embargo on Cuban goods, there is no international pressure on the Cuban government forcing a living democracy and changes in the human right situation.