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Saddam's Inbox Hacked

MotorMachineMercenar writes "Wired News is reporting that Saddam Hussein's email account (press@uruklink.net) has been hacked into. The account had a five-letter login with the same password. Messages in his inbox sent from all over the world included everything from death threats to business propositions to offers to sell him WMDs. A choice quote from the article: 'One AOL user sent Saddam a one-word message: 'Imminent.' Attached to the Aug. 6 e-mail was a photograph of an atomic mushroom cloud.' I wonder what the login was." You'd think it was "press," password "press," but if it were that obvious I think someone would have said so.

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  1. Re:All Saddam's email are belong to us! by Hard_Code · · Score: 5, Informative
    Not to argue with your conclusion, but:

    doesn't gas its own citizens


    Oh really?

    US germ war tests on civilians

    Tuskegee syphilis experiment
    more

    US eugenics program
    more

    Intentional radiation of civilians during nuclear testing
    more

    Gulf War Syndrome, which was at first completely ignored and lied about, and finally recently acknowledged (although we still don't know what it is, nor do we know whether the government really knows or not - there have been accusations of experiments on our own soldiers).

    not to mention:

    Genocide of indigenous peoples as official policy
    by the way, this shit was [is?] still going on in uncomfortably recent history still going on:
    Article II of the Genocide Convention also expressly prohibits
    involuntary sterilization as means of "preventing births among" a
    targeted population. Yet, in 1976, it was conceded by the
    U.S. government that its ÒIndian Health ServiceÓ (IHS), then a
    subpart of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), was even then
    conducting a secret program of involuntary sterilization which had
    affected approximately forty percent of all Indian women of
    childbearing age. The program was allegedly discontinued, and the IHS
    was transferred to the Public Health Service, but no one was
    punished. Hence, business as usual has continued in the ÒhealthÓ
    sphere: 1990, for example, it came out that the IHS was inoculating
    Inuit children in Alaska with Hepatitis-B vaccine. The vaccine had
    already been banned by the World Health Organization as having a
    demonstrated correlation with the HIV-virus which is itself correlated
    to AIDS. As this is being written, a Òfield testÓ of Hepatitis-A
    vaccine, also HIV-correlated, is being conducted on Indian
    reservations in the northern Plains region.


    Supposedly, Himmler kept a framed photograph of a Native American, as a reminder of the splendid example the United States provided.

    The list goes on and on. Sure, Saddam may be a war criminal. But our own history is not so rosy...in fact it is pretty fucking disgusting and we need to wake up to that fact. We don't have the moral highground we profess to have. In fact Iraq's entire history pales in comparison to the atrocities that have been committed in the names of US citizens. This doesn't make either right. It makes both wrong.
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    It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?