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Ahmad Izzah – a touching story

Posted by musliminsuffer on September 15, 2006

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=== News Update ===

From: genki_moslem@yahoo.com
Subject: [media-dakwah] Ahmad Izzah – a touching story

Suatu sore, ditahun 1525. Penjara tempat tahanan orang-orang di situ serasa hening mencengkam. Jendral Adolf Roberto, pemimpin penjara yang terkenal bengis, tengah memeriksa setiap kamar tahanan.

Setiap sipir penjara membungkukkan badannya rendah-rendah ketika ‘algojo penjara’ itu berlalu di hadapan mereka. Karena kalau tidak, sepatu ‘jenggel’ milik tuan Roberto yang fanatik Kristen itu akan mendarat di wajah mereka.

Roberto marah besar ketika dari sebuah kamar tahanan terdengar seseorang mengumandangkan suara-suara yang amat ia benci. “Hai…hentikan suara jelekmu! Hentikan…! ” Teriak Roberto sekeras-kerasnya sembari membelalakan mata. Namun, apa yang terjadi? Laki-laki di kamar tahanan tadi tetap saja bersenandung dengan khusyu’nya. Roberto bertambah berang.

‘Algojo penjara’ itu menghampiri kamar tahanan yang luasnya tak lebih sekadar cukup untuk satu orang. Dengan congkak ia menyemburkan ludahnya ke wajah renta sang tahanan yang keriput hanya tinggal tulang. Tak puas sampai di situ, ia lalu menyulut wajah dan seluruh badan orang tua renta itu dengan rokoknya yang menyala.

Sungguh ajaib… Tak terdengar secuil pun keluh kesakitan. Bibir yang pucat kering milik sang tahanan amat gengsi untuk meneriakkan kata, “Rabbi, waana’abduka. ..” Tahanan lain yang menyaksikan kebiadaban itu serentak bertakbir sambil berkata, “Bersabarlah wahai ustadz…Insya Allah tempatmu di Syurga.”

Melihat kegigihan orang tua yang dipanggil ustadz oleh sesama tahanan, ‘algojo penjara’ itu bertambah memuncak amarahnya. Ia memerintahkan pegawai penjara untuk membuka sel, dan ditariknya tubuh orang tua itu keras-keras hingga terjerembab di lantai. “Hai orang tua busuk! Bukankah engkau tahu, aku tidak suka bahasa jelekmu itu?! Aku tidak suka apa-apa yang berhubung dengan agamamu!

Ketahuilah orang tua dungu, bumi Spanyol ini kini telah berada dalam kekuasaan bapak kami, Tuhan Yesus. Anda telah membuat aku benci dan geram dengan ’suara-suara’ yang seharusnya tak pernah terdengar lagi di sini. Sebagai balasannya engkau akan kubunuh. Kecuali, kalau engkau mau minta maaf dan masuk agama kami.”

Mendengar “khutbah” itu orang tua itu mendongakkan kepala, menatap Roberto dengan tatapan tajam dan dingin. Ia lalu berucap, “Sungguh…aku sangat merindukan kematian, agar aku segera dapat menjumpai kekasihku yang amat kucintai, Allah. Bila kini aku berada di puncak kebahagiaan karena akan segera menemuiNya, patutkah aku berlutut kepadamu, hai manusia busuk? Jika aku turuti kemauanmu, tentu aku termasuk manusia yang amat bodoh.”

Baru saja kata-kata itu terhenti, sepatu lars Roberto sudah mendarat diwajahnya. Laki-laki itu terhuyung. Kemudian jatuh terkapar di lantai penjara dengan wajah bersimbah darah. Ketika itulah dari saku baju penjaranya yang telah lusuh, meluncur sebuah ‘buku kecil’. Adolf Roberto bermaksud memungutnya. Namun,tangan sang Ustadz telah terlebih dahulu mengambil dan menggenggamnya erat-erat. “Berikan buku itu, hai laki-laki dungu!” bentak Roberto. “Haram bagi tanganmu yang kafir dan berlumuran dosa untuk menyentuh barang suci ini!” ucap sang ustadz dengan tatapan menghina pada Roberto. Tak ada jalan lain, akhirnya Roberto, mengambil jalan paksa untuk mendapatkan buku itu.

Sepatu lars berbobot dua kilogram itu ia gunakan untuk menginjak jari-jari tangan sang ustadz yang telah lemah. Suara gemeretak tulang yang patah terdengar menggetarkan hati. Namun tidak demikian bagi Roberto.

Laki-laki bengis itu malah merasa bangga mendengar gemeretak tulang yang terputus. Bahkan ‘algojo penjara’itu merasa lebih puas lagi ketika melihat tetesan darah mengalir dari jari-jari musuhnya yang telah hancur.

Setelah tangan renta itu tak berdaya, Roberto memungut buku kecil yang membuatnya penasaran. Perlahan Roberto membuka sampul buku yang telah lusuh. Mendadak algojo itu termenung. “Ah…sepertinya aku pernah mengenal buku ini. Tapi kapan? Ya, aku pernah mengenal buku ini.” suara hati Roberto bertanya-tanya.

Perlahan Roberto membuka lembaran pertama itu. Pemuda berumur tiga puluh tahun itu bertambah terkejut tatkala melihat tulisan-tulisan “aneh” dalam buku itu. Rasanya ia pernah mengenal tulisan seperti itu dahulu.

Namun, sekarang tak pernah dilihatnya di bumi Spanyol. Akhirnya, Roberto duduk disamping sang ustadz yang telah melepas nafas-nafas terakhirnya. Wajah bengis sang algojo kini diliputi tanda tanya yang dalam. Mata Roberto rapat terpejam. Ia berusaha keras mengingat peristiwa yang dialaminya sewaktu masih kanak-kanak.

Perlahan, sketsa masa lalu itu tergambar kembali dalam ingatan Roberto. Pemuda itu teringat ketika suatu sore di masa kanak-kanaknya terjadi kericuhan besar di negeri tempat kelahirannya ini.

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Sore itu ia melihat peristiwa yang mengerikan di lapangan Inkuisisi (lapangan tempat pembantaian kaum muslimin di Andalusia). Di tempat itu tengah berlangsung pesta darah dan nyawa. Beribu-ribu jiwa tak berdosa berjatuhan di bumi Andalusia. Di hujung kiri lapangan, beberapa puluh wanita berhijab (jilbab)digantung pada tiang-tiang besi yang terpancang tinggi. Tubuh mereka bergelantungan tertiup angin sore yang kencang, membuat pakaian muslimah yang dikenakan berkibar-kibar di udara. Sementara, ditengah lapangan ratusan pemuda Islam dibakar hidup-hidup pada tiang-tiang salib, hanya karena tidak mau memasuki agama yang dibawa oleh para rahib.

Seorang bocah laki-laki mungil tampan, berumur tujuh tahunan, malam itu masih berdiri tegak di lapangan Inkuisisi yang telah senyap. Korban-korban kebiadaban itu telah syahid semua. Bocah mungil itu mencucurkan air matanya menatap sang ibu yang terkulai lemah ditiang gantungan. Perlahan-lahan bocah itu mendekati tubuh sang ummi yang sudah tak bernyawa, sembari menggayuti ibunya. Sang bocah berkata dengan suara parau, “Ummi, ummi, mari kita pulang. Hari telah malam, bukankah ummi telah berjanji malam ini akan mengajariku lagi tentang alif, ba, ta, tsa….? Ummi,cepat pulang ke rumah ummi…” Bocah kecil itu akhirnya menangis keras, ketika sang ummi tak jua menjawab ucapannya. Ia semakin bingung dan takut, tak tahu harus berbuat apa. Untuk pulang ke rumah pun ia tak tahu arah.

Akhirnya bocah itu berteriak memanggil bapaknya ” Abi…Abi… Abi…” Namun, ia segera terhenti berteriak memanggil sang ba pak ketika teringat kemarin sore bapaknya diseret dari rumah oleh beberapa orang berseragam.

“Hai…siapa kamu?!” teriak segerombolan orang yang tiba-tiba mendekati sang bocah. “Saya Ahmad Izzah, sedang menunggu Ummi…” jawab sang bocah memohon belas kasih. “Hah…siapa namamu bocah, coba ulangi!” bentak salah seorang dari mereka. “Saya Ahmad Izzah…” sang bocah kembali menjawab dengan agak grogi. Tiba-tiba plak! sebuah tamparan mendarat dipipi sang bocah. “Hai bocah…! Wajahmu bagus tapi namamu jelek. Aku benci namamu. Sekarang kuganti namamu dengan nama yang bagus. Namamu sekarang ‘Adolf Roberto’ ..Awas! Jangan kau sebut lagi namamu yang jelek itu. Kalau kau sebut lagi nama lamamu itu, nanti akan kubunuh!” ancam laki2 itu. Sang bocah meringis ketakutan, sembari tetap meneteskan air mata. Anak laki-laki mungil itu hanya menurut ketika gerombolan itu membawanya keluar lapangan Inkuisisi. Akhirnya bocah tampan itu hidup bersama mereka.

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Roberto sedar dari renungannya yang panjang. Pemuda itu melompat ke arah sang tahanan. Secepat kilat dirobeknya baju penjara yang melekat pada tubuh sang ustadz. Ia mencari-cari sesuatu di pusar laki-laki itu. Ketika ia menemukan sebuah ‘tanda hitam’ ia berteriak histeris, “Abi…Abi.. .Abi…” Ia pun menangis keras, tak ubahnya seperti Ahmad Izzah dulu.

Fikirannya terus bergelut dengan masa lalunya. Ia masih ingat betul, bahwa buku kecil yang ada di dalam menggamannya adalah Kitab Suci milik bapanya, yang dulu sering dibawa dan dibaca ayahnya ketika hendak menidurkannya. Ia jua ingat betul ayahnya mempunyai’tanda hitam’ pada bahagian pusar. Pemuda beringas itu terus meraung dan memeluk erat tubuh renta nan lemah. Tampak sekali ada penyesalan yang amat dalam atas ulahnya selama ini.Lidahnya yang sudah berpuluh -puluh tahun alpa akan Islam, saat itu dengan spontan menyebut, “Abi.. aku masih ingat alif, ba, ta, tsa…” Hanya sebatas kata itu yang masih terekam dalam benaknya.

Sang ustadz segera membuka mata ketika merasakan ada tetesan hangat yang membasahi wajahnya. Dengan tatapan samar dia masih dapat melihat seseorang yang tadi menyiksanya habis-habisan kini tengah memeluknya.

“Tunjuki aku pada jalan yang telah engkau tempuhi Abi,tunjukkan aku pada jalan itu…” Terdengar suara Roberto memelas. Sang ustadz tengah mengatur nafas untuk berkata-kata, ia lalu memejamkan matanya. Air matanya pun turut berlinang. Betapa tidak, jika sekian puluh tahun kemudian, ternyata ia masih sempat berjumpa dengan buah hatinya, di tempat ini. Sungguh tak masuk akal. Ini semata-mata bukti kebesaran Allah.

Sang Abi dengan susah payah masih bisa berucap.” Anakku, pergilah engkau ke Mesir. Disana banyak saudaramu. Katakan saja bahwa engkau kenal dengan Syaikh Abdullah Fattah Ismail Al-Andalusy. Belajarlah engkau di negeri itu,” Setelah selesai berpesan sang ustadz menghembuskan nafas terakhir dengan berbekal kalimah indah “Asyahadu anla Illaaha ilallah,waasyhadu anna Muhammad Rasullullah. .” Beliau pergi dengan menemui Rabbnya dengan tersenyum, setelah sekian lama berjuang dibumi yang fana ini.

Kini Ahmad Izzah telah menjadi seorang alim di Mesir. Seluruh hidupnya dibaktikan untuk agamanya, ‘Islam’, sebagai ganti kekafiran yang di masa muda sempat disandangnya. Banyak pemuda Islam dari berbagai penjuru berguru dengannya… ” Al-Ustadz Ahmad Izzah Al-Andalusy.

Benarlah firman Allah…”Maka hadapkanlah wajahmu dengan lurus kepada agama Allah, tetaplah atas fitrah Allah yang telah menciptakan manusia menurut fitrahnya itu. Tidak ada perubahan atas fitrah Allah. Itulah agama yang lurus,tetapi kebanyakan manusia tidak mengetahui.” (QS 30:30)

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Pope’s remarks on Islam pointlessly upset a billion Muslims

Posted by musliminsuffer on September 15, 2006

 

bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

 

=== News Update ===

 

Pope’s remarks on Islam pointlessly upset a billion Muslims

 

Published: 9/14/2006

 

RABAT – Pope Benedict XVI pointlessly upset a billion Muslim faithful by launching an “attack” on Islam, according to Thursday’s edition of the independent Moroccan daily “Aujourd’hui”.

The newspaper urged the pope, as political leader of the Roman Catholic Church, to “quickly prove that his ambition is not to spark a war of religions by pointlessly upsetting almost a billion faithful”.

The pontiff launched a thinly veiled attack on Islam and the concept of holy war or jihad in a speech in Germany on Tuesday, quoting a 14th-century Christian emperor who said the Prophet Mohammed had brought the world “evil and inhuman” things.

“Pope Benedict XVI has a strange approach to the dialogue between religions. He is being provocative,” the paper said in its daily editorial column.

“The global outcry over the calamitous cartoons (of the Prophet Mohammed) have only just died down and now the pontiff, in all his holiness, is launching an attack against Islam,” it said.

There was a wave of protests throughout the Muslim world after a Danish newspaper published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in September 2005 that were then reproduced by a string of other publications across Europe.

09/14/2006 11:07 GMT

source:
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=142153

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Islamophobia: Pope Bashes Islam and Prophet Muhammad

Posted by musliminsuffer on September 15, 2006

 

bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

 

=== News Update ===

Pope Bashes Islam and Prophet Muhammad

Pope Seen Criticizing Islam

IslamOnline.net & News Agencies

 


Using the words, “Jihad” and “Holy War,” the pontiff quoted criticism of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) by Christian emperor Manuel II. (Reuters)

EGENSBURG, Germany ­ In what some immediately saw as a serious diversion from the rapprochement approach of his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday, September 12, said the Islamic concepts of “Jihad” was unreasonable and against God’s nature.

Using the words, “Jihad” and “Holy War” in lecture at the University of Regensburg, the pontiff quoted criticism of Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him) by a 14th Century Byzantine Christian emperor, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).

“Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached,” Benedict quoted Manuel II.

Quoting the Byzantine Christian emperor, Benedict said spreading the faith through violence is unreasonable and that acting without reason was against God’s nature.

“Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul,” added the pontiff in his own words.

British Karen Armstrong, a famed prolific writer on all three monotheistic religions, has criticized stereotyping the Arabic word “jihad” as merely meaning holy war.

She stressed that “jihad is a cherished spiritual value that, for most Muslims, has no connection with violence.”

At a giant open-air mass earlier Tuesday, Pope Benedict urged more than 250,000 pilgrims to stand up for their beliefs in the face of the “hatred and fanaticism” tarnishing religion.

“Such an atmosphere made it important to state clearly the God in whom we believe,” the pope said.

 

Strongest criticism

Pope’s criticism of Islam made his address the most political of his six-day visit to Germany, which had previously dealt exclusively with spiritual matters, commented AFP.

“This is maybe the strongest criticism because he doesn’t speak of fundamentalist Islam but of Islam generally,” Renzo Guolo, a professor of the sociology of religion at the University of Padua, told The New York Times on Wednesday, September 13.

“Not all Islam, thank God, is fundamentalist.”

Marco Politi, the Vatican expert for the Italian daily La Repubblica, said the pontiff’s speech revealed “deep mistrust regarding the aggressive side of Islam.”

“Certainly he closes the door to an idea which was very dear to John Paul II ­ the idea that Christians, Jews and Muslims have the same God and have to pray together to the same God,” he asserted.

Daniel A. Madigan, rector of the Institute for the Study of Religions and Cultures at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, agreed.

“If we are really going into a serious dialogue with Muslims we need to take faith seriously.”

But papal spokesman Father Federico Lombardi sought to ease the severity of the Pope’s rebukes of Islam.

He argued that the pontiff used Manuel’s views of Islam only to help explain the issue and not to condemn all of the Muslim religion as violent.

“This is just an example. We know that inside Islam there are many different positions, violent and non-violent,” he said.

“The Pope does not want to give an interpretation of Islam that is violent.”

Unlike late pope John Paul, Cardinal Ratzinger, who took the name of Benedict after his election, does not approve of joint prayers with Muslims.

He is also skeptical of the value of inter-religious dialogue.

In the summer of 2005, Pope Benedict devoted an annual weekend of study with former graduate students to Islam.

During the meeting, and since, he has reportedly expressed skepticism about Islam’s openness to change given the conviction that the Noble Quran is the unchangeable word of God.

In 2004, Pope Benedict also caused a stir by opposing Turkey’s accession into the European Union.

He said Turkey should seek its future in an association of Islamic nations, not with the EU, which has Christian roots.

source:
http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2006-09/13/04.shtml

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Terror in the Name of US War’s Error – Headlines News 22 Shabaan 1427 H – 15.9.06

Posted by musliminsuffer on September 15, 2006

bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

=== News Update ===

Pope Bashes Islam and Prophet Muhammad

EGENSBURG, Germany ­ In what some immediately saw as a serious diversion from the rapprochement approach of his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday, September 12, said the Islamic concepts of “Jihad” was unreasonable and against God’s nature.

Using the words, “Jihad” and “Holy War” in lecture at the University of Regensburg, the pontiff quoted criticism of Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him) by a 14th Century Byzantine Christian emperor, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).

“Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached,” Benedict quoted Manuel II.
http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2006-09/13/04.shtml

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Pope’s remarks on Islam pointlessly upset a billion Muslims

RABAT – Pope Benedict XVI pointlessly upset a billion Muslim faithful by launching an “attack” on Islam, according to Thursday’s edition of the independent Moroccan daily “Aujourd’hui”. The newspaper urged the pope, as political leader of the Roman Catholic Church, to “quickly prove that his ambition is not to spark a war of religions by pointlessly upsetting almost a billion faithful”. The pontiff launched a thinly veiled attack on Islam and the concept of holy war or jihad in a speech in Germany on Tuesday, quoting a 14th-century Christian emperor who said the Prophet Mohammed had brought the world “evil and inhuman” things.

“Pope Benedict XVI has a strange approach to the dialogue between religions. He is being provocative,” the paper said in its daily editorial column.

“The global outcry over the calamitous cartoons (of the Prophet Mohammed) have only just died down and now the pontiff, in all his holiness, is launching an attack against Islam,” it said.

There was a wave of protests throughout the Muslim world after a Danish newspaper published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in September 2005 that were then reproduced by a string of other publications across Europe.
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=142153

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UN Honors Racist Dictator Who Boils People Alive With “Cultural Diversity” Award

UNESCO gives Karimov “diversity” award – despite the fact he tortures innocent Muslims to death for fun and political kickbacks from Bush and Blair, who use phony confessions for war on terror propaganda.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2006/140906racistdictator.htm

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9/11 : Where is the evidence?

There are many problems with the 9/11 debate. Many different interests are using 9/11 to advance their agendas. Security interests use fear generated by 9/11 to erode civil liberties and establish the foundations of a police state. Federalist Society members in pursuit of a stronger executive use 9/11 to justify concentrating power in the White House, power that violates the separation of powers in the US Constitution.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14963.htm

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9/11 : A Visit with a Man Wrongly Detained at Guantanamo

Murat Kurnaz was detained in the United States detention camp at Guantánamo, Cuba, for almost five years and released three weeks ago. Cem Özdemir, a member of the European Parliament, visited Kurnaz at his home in Bremen and reports back about a German man of Turkish origin who appears to be anything but a fanatic.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14976.htm

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Why it matters what definition of torture we use.

The proposed Bush standard—detainees cannot be subjected to treatment that “shocks the conscience”—certainly sounds like it precludes torture. One would imagine that it would also extend to what professor Marty Lederman calls “torture light”: exposure to extreme temperatures, stress positions, threats to kill the prisoner’s family, the stacking up of naked bodies, threats with dogs, and water-boarding.

If we can agree on anything, can’t we agree that what we saw at Abu Ghraib shocked the conscience?

But “shocks the conscience” is a significant departure from the language of the Geneva Conventions, which (in now-famous Common Article 3) bars ”outrages upon personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment.” And that’s why Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., John Warner, R-Va., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., are still blocking the White House’s efforts to cut and paste their new definition of torture onto the law.
http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/12391824.html

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Terrorist democracy?

Though the power of the Israeli lobby in the U.S. can make it seem that both nations are one, there is a separation when it comes to paying the price for their common supremacist madness. While neither of these twins of global terror really benefit from their perverse relationship, one does absorb a far greater cost. Part of that is money, and part is the loss of life in the invasion of foreign nations, and the experience of 911. The expense will become even greater in the near future, and could cause depression which would not simply be in the individually profitable mental area, but in the far more costly physical, social realm.
http://www.uruknet.org.uk/?p=m26660&hd=0&size=1&l=e

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Video: The Trials of Henry Kissinger: The Making Of A War Criminal

“A fascinating, bombshell documentary that should shame Americans, regardless of whether or not ultimate blame finally lies with Kissinger. Should be required viewing for civics classes and would-be public servants alike.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6623.htm

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The Experts Say: It’s a Police State

Critics of the policies of George W. Bush are often greeted with this response: “Who are you to denounce the president? Don’t you think he’s privy to more information than you are? Don’t you think he has all kinds of experts giving him the full picture, which you will never know?”

OK, fair enough. Let’s see what the experts — those privy to the full picture, to the secret intelligence, those long schooled in policy and analysis — have to say. For example, what does the man who was George W. Bush’s director of homeland defense on the National Security Council on September 11, 2001, think of the “war on terror” launched by George W. Bush after September 11, 2001?
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=841&Itemid=135

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Terrorist Network Disconnect

George Bush’s new argument that Iran and Hezbollah are part of the same terrorist network as al-Qaida turns the recent history of international politics on its head to cover up a truth that makes the Bush administration extremely uncomfortable.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14967.htm

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IAEA protests “erroneous” U.S. report on Iran- House of Reps accused of serious distortions of IAEA findings on Iran’s activity

U.N. inspectors have protested to the U.S. government and a Congressional committee about a report on Iran’s nuclear work, calling parts of it “outrageous and dishonest,” according to a letter obtained by Reuters.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060914/ts_nm/nuclear_iran_usa_dc_1

see also: Iranian ambassador challenges his US counterpart to nuclear debate
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060914/wl_mideast_afp/irannuclearpolitics_060914112528

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I Hope That We May Find the Courage…

The United States is a weaker power now, especially in the Middle East, but also in the court of world opinion. Where is the America of restraint, of peace and of inspiration to millions? Where is the America respected not only for her military might, but also for her powerful ideas and her reasonable diplomacy?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14977.htm

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In praise of the ’subversive’ documentary

My own films have been shown all over the world, but never on network television in the United States. That suppression of alternative viewpoints may help us understand why millions of Americans display such a chronic ignorance of other human beings.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14973.htm

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The Modern Successor to the Slave Trade

Five rich countries manufacture the vast majority of the world’s weapons. In 2005, Russia, the United States, France, Germany and the UK accounted for an estimated 82 per cent of the global arms market. And it’s big business: the amount rich countries spend on fighting HIV/Aids every year represents just 18 days’ global spending on arms.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14978.htm

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US denied causing ‘disaster’ by invading Iraq US denied causing ‘disaster’ by invading Iraq

The White House begged to differ after UN chief Kofi Annan said Middle Eastern leaders had called the invasion of Iraq “a disaster” for the region.

“I’m not going to engage in a further disputation with the secretary general of the United Nations, but we disagree with the characterization,” White House spokesman Tony Snow said, while acknowledging “sectarian violence” in Iraq.

“How DARE Annan speak the truth as he sees it?” – Official White Horse Souse.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060913/pl_afp/unannaniraqus_060913194112

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Pentagon concludes US defeated in key Iraqi province

A series of Pentagon and other government documents either released or leaked in the last week have underscored the deepening debacle confronting the US occupation of Iraq.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/sep2006/iraq-s14.shtml

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General says he lacks troops to defeat insurgency in Anbar province

The commanding general of coalition forces in Iraq’s Anbar province said Tuesday that he had enough troops for his mission – training and recruiting Iraqi forces – but not enough to defeat the insurgency.
http://snipurl.com/wfcm

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Three Italian soldiers indicted for civilian deaths in Iraq

Three Italian soldiers have been indicted by a military tribunal in Rome for the 2004 killing of four civilians in an ambulance in Iraq, the Italian media reported on Thursday.
http://snipurl.com/wfco

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Officer Recommends Marine Stand Trial For Iraqi’s Death

Seven Marines and one Navy corpsman are accused of kidnapping 52-year-old Hashim Ibrahim Awad, taking him to a roadside hole and shooting him to death April 26 in Hamdania, west of Baghdad.
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/9849141/detail.html

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2 US Soldiers Among 17 Dead in Iraq

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4186155.html

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45 Iraqis, 3 GIs Dead as Wave of Violence Continues

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060914/wl_afp/iraqunrest

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 13 September 2006.

  • Resistance shoots down US helicopter near Rawah Wednesday evening.
  • American sniper kills 6-year-old Iraqi girl on her way to school.
  • Resistance ambush of US patrol near al-Hadithah leaves two Americans reported dead.
  • Four US troops reported killed in Resistance bombing in ‘Anah in western Iraq.
  • Bodies of 60 victims of savage torture by Shi‘i sectarian death squads found in various parts of Baghdad.
  • Resistance car bomb blasts puppet police patrol at eastern entrance to “Green Zone.”
  • Fierce fighting reported in al-Hawijah Wednesday night.
  • US carries out mass raids and arrests in ar-Ramadi Wednesday.
  • Resistance fighters target Iraqi puppet troops in ar-Ramadi Wednesday morning.
  • Resistance rockets pound two major US bases in ar-Ramadi simultaneously Wednesday afternoon.
  • US, Iraqi puppet forces raid, search neighborhoods in western al-Fallujah.
  • Resistance bombs target puppet police in Baghdad.
  • Resistance bomb kills three puppet police in eastern Baghdad.
  • Powerful Resistance bomb targets puppet army recruiting station at al-Muthanna Airport.
  • Resistance car bomb blasts puppet police patrol at eastern entrance to “Green Zone.”
  • Resistance bomb targets Iraqi puppet “National Guards” in Balad.
  • Resistance fighters ambush motorcade of Iraqi puppet “Defense Minister.”
  • Fierce fighting reported in al-Hawijah Wednesday night.

http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2006/0906/iraqiresistancereport_130906.htm

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50 killed in violence in occupied Afghanistan

NATO nations failed to agree on calls by military commanders for 2,500 extra troops to help crush the growing Taliban-led “insurgency” in occupied Afghanistan, where at least 50 people were killed Wednesday in widespread violence.
http://snipurl.com/wfcr

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Taliban push in western Afghanistan kills 4, Poland to deploy 900 troops

Taliban militants attacked police headquarters in western Afghanistan on Thursday, raising fears that insurgents fleeing NATO attacks in the south are opening new fronts. Two police and two militants were killed.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20060914-0334-afghanistan.html

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Palestinian killed by Israeli occupation forces

Medical sources said the local resident was shot in the head and chest at the entrance to his house, where he bled to death because the Israeli military prevented an ambulance from accessing the area.
http://snipurl.com/wfcu

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Report: Of 307 Palestinians killed in Gaza,

80 percent were civilians with no link to terror activity
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3303668,00.html

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Non-Aligned Movement demands Israeli military withdrawal from Gaza

The Non-Aligned Movement demanded at a summit in Havana that Israel withdraw its troops from Gaza, release jailed Palestinian officials and repair damage caused by its military operations.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060914/wl_mideast_afp/cubanamsummitmideast

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Palestinians forced to scavenge for food on rubbish dumps

The Israeli military and economic siege of Gaza has led to a collapse in Palestinian living conditions and many people only survive by looking for scraps of food in rubbish dumps, say international aid agencies.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1431114.ece

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Gaza’s poor struggling to survive in the face of an economic blockade

Though she wasn’t expecting visitors, Itidal al-Nazli, 35, was happy to display the sparse contents of her refrigerator. Despite the daily and lengthy interruptions to electricity supply since the Israelis bombed Gaza’s only power station in early July, it’s where she still stores the more perishable food for her family of 10 children. Yesterday morning, after the family had breakfasted on two large potatoes and an aubergine donated by a kindly neighbour, it contained six rather shrivelled peppers, a bag of coffee, three olives in a bowl, a bag of charcoal, and three bags containing crusts of bread.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1603672.ece

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Israeli MP calls for ethnic cleansing of Palestinian’s

It was the first time that Eitam, who heads the Religious Zionism faction within the National Union, has publicly supported deportation of Palestinians, a concept espoused by assassinated National Union founder Rehavam Ze’evi as “transfer.”
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/761308.html

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Olmert should have more of an insight than most into terrorism

Sixty years ago the sort of atrocity that Israel’s leaders habitually condemn helped bring the country into being
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14972.htm

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Israeli commander says, what the IDF did was “crazy and monstrous”

Soldiers in the artillery corps testified that the IDF used phosphorous shells, which many experts say is prohibited by international law.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14965.htm

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Hizbullah ministers did the right thing by publicly shunning Blair

As the Israeli Air Force was raining death and destruction on innocent civilians across this country, Blair was indifferent because all he could think about were the Hizbullah rockets headed the other way, weapons which caused a tiny fraction of the casualties and damage sustained in Lebanon.
http://snipurl.com/wfd0

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Blair hit by Lebanon backlash as minister admits ceasefire ‘mistake’

The war lasted 34 days. It left 1,393 people dead. Another 5,350 injured. And more than 1,150,000 displaced, of whom 215,413 are still homeless. The damage amounts to more than £2.6bn. Exactly one month after it ended, a Foreign Office minister admits that Tony Blair should have called for a ceasefire
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1578727.ece

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Syria Says US Behind Attack On Own Embassy

The official charged that Washington had orchestrated the attack to “prove Syria is filled with terrorists and to put us in a weak position” in order to extract political concessions. Following the attack, Bush administration officials said they hoped the incident had convinced Damascus of the dangers of Islamic terror and the need to cooperate with the West against the phenomenon.
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7004843361

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