Det danske Fredsakademi
Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 13. januar 2005 / Time Line January 13, 2005
Version 3.512. Januar 2005, 14. Januar 2005
01/13/2005
European Network of Genocide Scholars [ENOGS]: Foundational
Meeting (Berlin, January 13-15, 2005)
From August on, updated information on ENOGS and its foundation
will also be available on our website:
http://www.hist.net/ag-genozid/ENOGS
Dr. Juergen Zimmerer
(CEIS 20, Univ. Coimbra)
Rua Alves Torgo 25, 1o esq
P-5000-679 Vila Real
Portugal
01/13/2005
Amputee Care Center to Open in Texas
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON - The Defense Department's second amputee care center is
slated to open Jan. 14 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, to provide
state-of-the- art care for servicemembers who have lost limbs in
Iraq and Afghanistan.
The new center at Brooke Army Medical Center will incorporate a
full range of amputee patient care at one site. This includes
orthopedics, physical medicine and rehabilitation, occupational
therapy, physical therapy and prosthetics, as well as social work
and Veterans Affairs counselors.
Officials said the new facility will help return patients to "the
highest level of activity," while providing an opportunity to
research advances in rehabilitation and prosthetic design with all
amputee patients.
The new facility will expand the services already offered at
Brooke, the Army's only Level 1 trauma center and the Defense
Department's only burn center.
The Defense Department's first amputee care center opened at
Washington's Walter Reed Army Medical Center in early 2004. Since
then, 186 troops wounded in Iraq and 21 wounded in Afghanistan have
received treatment there, as well as a small number of other
patients not involved in the war on terror, according to center
public affairs officer Bill Swisher.
A new amputee training center is expected to open at Walter Reed in
December. Military officials broke ground for the new facility Nov.
19.
Once completed, the new 29,000-square-foot center will offer a full
range of patient-care services. It also will include features
officials say are aimed at "returning patients to a tactical level
of athleticism," such as a running track, bicycles, treadmills,
elliptical trainers, climbing and rappelling wall, platforms for
patients to practice balance and coordination skills, and a lab for
analyzing patients' gaits while wearing prosthetics.
Related Sites:
Brooke Army Medical Center [http://www.bamc.amedd.army.mil/]
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
[http://www.wramc.amedd.army.mil/]
01/13/2005
Bush accuses Saddam of telling the truth
By: Andy Borowitz
OREAD DAILY, Vol. 2005.3
Just hours after confirming that the search for weapons of mass
destruction in Iraq was over, President George W. Bush leveled his
harshest charge ever at Saddam Hussein, accusing the former Iraqi
dictator of "knowingly telling the truth" about not possessing WMD
in the months leading up to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
"After years of lying about his weapons, Saddam Hussein willfully
decided to tell the truth about them," Mr. Bush said. "His
treachery knows no bounds."
After Mr. Bush excoriated Saddam for his "wanton truth-telling," he
added that "thanks to the work of our coalition, Mr. Saddam Hussein
will never be free to tell the truth again."
Mr. Bush argued that even though the stated reason for invading
Iraq no longer applied, preventing the former Iraqi strongman from
telling the truth in the future was "reason enough" to go to
war.
"In the wrong hands, the truth can destabilize regions and even
destroy entire civilizations," Mr. Bush said. "In that respect, the
truth itself is a weapon of mass destruction one that Mr.
Saddam Hussein will never be able to use again."
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