America Corruption : The 13 most corrupt members of Congress

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=== News Update ===

America Corruption : The 13 most corrupt members of Congress

Beyond DeLay: Report Summaries

* Executive Summary of the Report
* Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO)
* Rep. Randy Cunningham (R-CA)
* Rep. Tom Feeney (R-FL)
* Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA)
* Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO)
* Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH)
* Rep. Richard Pombo (R-CA)
* Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ)
* Rep. Charles Taylor (R-NC)
* Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)
* Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT)
* Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN)
* Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA)

Executive Summary of the Report Over the past year, the issue of Congressional ethics has taken on new resonance. Where questionable conduct was once shrugged off as “business as usual,” now both the public and the press are demanding greater accountability from Members of Congress. At a time when a recent Gallup Poll reports only that 36% of those polled express approval of Congress, people are taking a harder look at the actions of their representatives. The ethics issues surrounding House Majority Leader Tom DeLay are well documented and frequently reported. In fact, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has been one of Rep. DeLay’s harshest critics. Nonetheless, we recognize that Rep. DeLay is not the only Member of Congress whose behavior merits scrutiny. There are a significant number of other members who have engaged in similarly egregious conduct, thus the name of the report: Beyond DeLay. In the following report, CREW documents the unethical activities of thirteen Members of Congress: 10 House Members and three Senators. Although much of the information is available in a variety of documents, until now it has not been compiled in one place. The allegations against some of those on the list have been well publicized while the activities of others have gone relatively unnoticed. This is not intended to be a definitive list of all of the Members of Congress facing ethics issues. For example, other members, such as Senator David Vitter (R-LA), Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA) and Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ), have connections to now-indicted Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff that are worth exploring should either the Senate Select Committee on Ethics or the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct ever decide to initiate an investigation into the range of Mr. Abramoff’s influence on the Congress. CREW has a dual goal in releasing this report. First, we hope to bring greater attention to the unethical conduct of those named in the report as well as to the subject of congressional ethics in general. Second, we hope to galvanize both the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct and the Senate Select Committee on Ethics into action. The ethics committees of both houses have lain largely dormant over the past years despite the often appalling conduct of their members. It is time for our representatives to take their constitutional obligation to police themselves seriously, an obligation that members of both political parties have ignored to the detriment of the American people. Methodology To create this report, CREW reviewed articles, Federal Election Commission (FEC) reports and audits, sworn testimony, emails, and personal financial and travel disclosure forms. We then analyzed that information to determine whether the information discovered suggested that a Member of Congress’s conduct violated any federal laws, regulations or congressional ethics rules.

source:
http://www.netscape.com/viewstory/2006/09/17/the-13-most-corrupt-members-of-congress/?url=http://www.beyonddelay.org/summaries/execsumm.php&frame=true

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Jews – Kurds : A Long-Term Relationship

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In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

=== News Update ===

Jews – Kurds :

A Long-Term Relationship

By Daniel Bart

The Kurds and the Jews have been in love for as long as there have been Jews
and Kurds. The Kurds helped and sheltered the Jews for centuries without
expecting anything in return. The roles became reversed with the
establishment of the State of Israel which became the permanent protector of
Iraqi Kurdistan and Kurds in general. Israel is now in the middle of its
second attempt (1991-) to establish an independent Kurdish state after the
first attempt (1965-75) failed.

There are five main options for the exercise of self-determination in
Kurdistan .

1. Four interconnected autonomies that will be ever-closer tied to each
other.
2. A Kurdish autonomous region in Northern Kurdistan and an independent
state of Kurdistan in all other parts of Kurdistan .
3. A unified Kurdish state in all four parts of Kurdistan .
4. An extended Kurdistan that would include the coastal Latakia province in
what is now Syria .
5. A greater Kurdistan that would also include Turkish- and Arabic-language
Alevis/Alawis, the Druze regions as well as the Kurdish regions of central
Anatolia .

The last option may seem radical but there are many advantages for everyone
involved. Many Druze and Alevis are descendants of Kurds who were forcibly
assimilated into Arab and Turkish culture. Integrating Druze and Alevi
regions that are not linguistically Kurdish will free them from their
current minority position in Muslim society and create a demographic balance
between Muslims and non-Muslims in a greater Kurdistan .

Scientists of religion usually refer to Kurdish religion as “heterodox
religion in the Near East .” This terminology obscures the Kurdish origin of
Alevism, the Druze religion, Yarsanism and Yezidism. Nearly all Yarsanis and
Yezidis and many Alevis have kept their Kurdish language. Integrating the
Druze and the other Alevis will allow them to reclaim their Kurdish roots
and exercise freedom of religion in a state that would be as much non-Muslim
as Muslim.

This would not merely give Kurdistan a coastline, but forever change the
politics of the region. (There is even the possibility that the Kurdish
state could extend up to the Black Sea and Turkey ’s northeastern coastal
region could be incorporated with the Republic of Azerbaijan .)

Kurdistan would become established as a regional great power and Israel
would become far stronger. Israel and Kurdistan would also share a border on
the Golan Heights . A greater Kurdistan would be a stabilizing factor in the
region, a strong friend of America and a regional catalyst for
democratization and European integration.

Do any of the five options sound even remotely likely? No, the hard truth is
that the Kurds are doomed to lose even this unique historical opportunity to
establish a greater Kurdistan or even any kind of self-determination beyond
what they have now in Iraqi Kurdistan unless they learn to befriend their
Jewish neighbors in Europe.

Turkey is the main enemy of the Kurdish nation and that evil tyranny
occupies half of Kurdistan and elementary Kurdish geostrategy requires that
we deal with Turkey first. The Kurds have yet to fully appreciate their
Jewish friends in Europe or understand that Kurdish freedom will only come
through Europe if at all. The Kurds of Kurdistan are essentially helpless.
The Kurds of Europe cannot free Kurdistan unless they have certain partners.
They will have to try to convince the Jews of Europe to work with them or
otherwise perpetuate the Kurdish history of lost opportunities.

Israel is a close ally of the Kurdish state, but European Jewry, not Israeli
Jewry is the key to Kurdistan ’s freedom. Turkey is an Anti-Semitic state but
unless you tell the Jews they will not know. Nearly all Kurds are fervent
Zionists but unless you tell the Jews they will not know about this. The
Kurds love the Jews and have done so throughout history but unless you tell
the Jews they will not have the opportunity to reciprocate.

The discreet love between Jews and Kurds is an ancient one and something
that is not usually discussed in public. The Kurds of Europe need to tell
the Jews of Europe about this secret love. The Jews in Europe are not yet
aware of this love story that spans through the centuries so you must tell
them. You may be quite surprised to hear this but now is the time and
occasion to tell your Jewish friend and the world.

Daniel Bart
+46-73-578 77 20
Stockholm , Sweden
http://www.prodemocracylobby.org

source:
http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2006/0906/swedish_170906.htm

FOR INFO:

1) Gulan AVCI (a Kurd), now candidate of Folk Party in Sweden, attended a rally held in Stockholm back in April 2005 which was organized by Zionist Organization.

2) Daniel BART, a Zionist and one of the organizers of the rally writes about “love” between Jews and Kurds (see his article below, it’s hilarious!).

3) Rebwar HASSAN, Kurdish politician who lives in Sweden, active member of the Green Party of Sweden, is now a candidate to become the Kurdish member of the Swedish parliament.

4) Sakine MADON, Kurdish origin member of Sweden’s Liberal People’s party, was expelled from the party for insulting Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the Turkish people.

1) Born to be Free – Rally for Israeli MIAs

April 20, 2005
The Zionist Federation of Sweden helps in the organization of the local rally held in the center of Stockholm , which saw cooperation between Jewish, Iranian and Kurdish students.

It was unfortunately an ice cold windy day which prevented many from attending. Similar demonstrations against Iran took place simultaneously in European capitals and in New York . One of the speakers, Patrik Malm, is the chairman of the Liberal Youth Association, the other Swedish speaker was Birgitta Ohlsson, liberal parliamentarian and member of the foreign policy committee of the Swedish parliament. The Kurds were represented by Gulan Avci and the Iranians by Fred Saberi.

The event was organized by the Bnei Akiva shlichim and Mr. Daniel Bart. Working with organizers at all the rallies was the World Zionist Organization and Jewish Agency for Israel .

http://www.wzo.org.il/doingzionism/about_us/activity.asp?id=268

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A Question for the Pope: Was it Muhammad who was flying those Bombers over Beirut?

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In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

=== News Update ===

A Question for the Pope:

Was it Muhammad who was flying those Bombers over Beirut?

by Michael A. Hoffman II

As some of you may have heard or surmised, I am engaged in writing the introduction to one of the rarest books in the world, a volume that has not been printed in English in more than 250 years. It will go to press next week, after which we will offer a pre-publication opportunity for you to reserve a copy.

I want to leave no stone unturned, no detail overlooked in my introduction to this magnificent work, and I debated whether it would be worthwhile to pause from my labors to remark upon Pope Benedict XVI’s recent utterance on Islam, which has the Catholic and Neocon world ecstatic with glee at the thought that Rome is about to drop the syncretic universalism of Benedict’s predecessor and launch a full-scale “crusade” against the “mad mullahs.”

The gesture by the man said to occupy (usurp might be a more apt word) the “chair of Peter,” is too egregious in itself and too symptomatic of the schizophrenia that grips conservative Churchianity in these Kabbalistic “End of Days,” when male fish in the Potomac river are discovered to be carrying female eggs, and other portents of a world turned upside down abound, to pass by it in silence.

Benedict quoted a medieval Catholic source on the violence of Islam’s Muhammad just a couple of weeks after the armies of Judaism bombed Lebanon into the stone age for thirty-three days (a significant number in the Kabbalah).

The greatest orgy of violence by the military of any religion since the fruit of Bush’s “Third Awakening Christianity” pummeled Iraq and Afghanistan’s cities and villages with bombs and bullets, was perpetrated in Lebanon in July and August, with religious injunctions in favor of the mass murder issued by Orthodox Israeli rabbis.

But Pope Benedict’s stern admonition last week was directed not at them, but only at the “violence of Muhammad.” Excuse me, your ass-holiness, but was it Muhammad who was flying those bombers over Beirut?

In the eyes of the rabbis, including the crypto-rabbi in the Vatican, the one thousand Lebanese civilians who were murdered, their infrastructure wrecked, their food and medicine obstructed, the sea polluted and the land strewn with cluster bombs in the last days of the onslaught, are not a subject of particular concern. After all, God’s holy master race has a 007 license to kill, and if the swarthy sheikhs of sin-strewn Arabia are on the receiving end, so much the better. The killings perpetrated by the Israelis are sanctioned by the Talmud, the holy book of Benedict according to his own writings and the study habits of the cardinals he patronizes. The Koran? Why, that’s a venal book of violence!

So the old Judaic double-standard raises its ugly head yet again, last week through the mouth of its papal dummy, yesterday out of the orifice of the US President, and tomorrow from the baying hounds of American Churchianity, who confirm Ludwig Fuerbach’s observation of more than a century ago, that “Christianity has disappeared. Everywhere it has been substituted by the appearance of Christianity.”

The wisdom of the old German philosophers is not welcome in post-war Germany, or among Germans like the current Pontiff, who is now being hailed by terminally perverted “traditional” Catholics and pseudo-Protestants as the paladin of western civilization.

Let us peer a bit closer at the Renaissance Benedict is said to be rebirthing. In Germany, the suicide rate is intolerable and the birth rate has been below replacement level for thirty years. This is attributed to the consumerist hedonism that also infects Italy, Britain, France and Scandinavia. What is overlooked is the special circumstance, unique to Germany, the self-hatred that has been internalized by three generations bombarded with the guilt-laden mental genocide that is the Auschwitz gas chamber tale, which incessantly repeats that the Germans are collectively a race of hereditary “willing executioners,” to quote from the best-selling thesis of Harvard’s Daniel Goldhagen. This bigoted toxicity has been pounded into the German psyche in movies, plays, books, TV shows, schoolrooms and synagogues disguised as “Holocaust museums,” for decades.

Shortly before he burned himself alive in protest, Reinhold Elstner, a WWII German army vet, termed the “Holocaust” agit-prop a “Niagara of lies.” For trying to dam the flow of that deadly sewage, historian David Irving is in jail in Austria, and the Max Planck chemist Germar Rudolf is in prison in Germany, as is the revisionist writer Ernst Zundel, the latter confined to his cell 22 hours-a-day. It is not the first time that a pope has approved — by silence or commission — the presence of writers in dungeons.

The rape of the German psyche and the repression against revisionists is old news, and surely some jaded readers will yawn at the tedium of having to encounter it again. Few, if any influential persons in the West believe there is much that can be done about it. In the midst of the heightened concern about preserving western civilization against the colored hordes of crescent moon idolaters, the withered Teutonic branch of that civilization, the one that contributed the Enlightenment philosophy of Fichte and Goethe to Europe, and the moon rockets to NASA, is allowed to wither into virtual extinction, because the vengeance of the blessed rabbis requires it; this stealthy vengeance which is infinitely more subtle and cunning than the candid vengeance openly proclaimed by the hated imams.

It is patent that if it were left to what passes today for the flower of western civilization’s intelligentsia, the Irvings, Zundels and Rudolfs would rot in their cells, and the Germans would continue to abort and contracept themselves into extinction. Who in our vaunted, cultured, Christian, western ranks, be he pope, prince or president, would dare intervene with the Judaic “fatwa” issued against the German people through the cunning device of perpetual “Holocaust” hype?

And yet — and here is the portent of double-minded insanity again — if Judaic revenge and psychological warfare has its way, and there is no intervention, Muslim immigrants will fill the shoes of extinct Germans and Turks, rather than Teutons, will be in charge of the bastion of central Europe. What then will happen to the great crusade? Well, when did submitting to the Talmudically-crazed rabbis ever bring sanity or salvation to the west?

For that we must look to a black-bearded Persian, a despised follower of that “evil and inhuman” Muhammad. Rather than repay evil with evil, the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has offered good for evil.

In a letter this month to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Ahmadinejad spoke of “the persistence of a strong will by certain global powers and special groups to constantly portray Germany as defeated and indebted country of World War II…Sixty years have passed since the end of the war. But, regrettably…extortion and blackmail continue, and people are not allowed to think about or even question the source of this extortion, otherwise they face imprisonment….today the perpetual claimants against the great people of Germany are the bullying powers and the Zionists…I have no intention of arguing about the Holocaust. But, does it not stand to reason that some victorious countries of World War II intended to create an alibi on the basis of which they could continue keeping the defeated nations of World War II indebted to them?

“Their purpose has been to weaken their morale and their inspiration in order to obstruct their progress and power. In addition to the people of Germany, the people of the Middle East have also borne the brunt of the Holocaust. By raising the necessity of settling the survivors of the Holocaust in the land of Palestine, they have created a permanent threat in the Middle East in order to rob the people of the region of the opportunities to achieve progress….Without doubt, cooperation of two peace-loving, powerful and cultured nations like Germany and Iran will serve the interests of Europe. Together we must end the present abnormalities in international relations, the type of order and relations that are based on the impositions of the victors of Second World War on the defeated nations.”

If the German pope had a patriotic bone in his body, or a shred of paternal affection for the welfare of the Germans, he would summon the Iranian President to Rome and give him a medal, and urge Berlin to do the same, as the first step to a reborn Germany, free of the destructive guilt that has sucked the will to live from the marrow of its bones.

But no such man occupies the papacy, but rather a gravedigger who swings his mud-encrusted shovel over the barren wombs and seared brains of the Germans, while hurling calculated insults at the religion of decent men like Ahmadinejad, the better to grease the wheels of the Neocons’ World War III. And Benedict does so to the wildly enthusiastic applause of Catholics, Protestants and conservatives who mistake this Zionist wraith for the long-awaited crusader-king of Christendom.

Male fish in the Potomac carry female eggs. For the occult 33 days was death and terror ushered to Lebanon. A rabbi bears the name of Pope, a Bonesman bears the title of US President, as the double-mind is inducted into the western hall of shame.

source:
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/page1/page5/page5.html

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Islamophobia : An insufficient apology

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In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

=== News Update ===

An insufficient apology

What makes the Pope’s remarks about Islam so incredible is that he conveniently ignores Christianity’s own barbarous past.

When Pope Benedict recently delivered a lecture and managed to find the time and space to take a swipe at Islam, the Prophet Mohammed and effectively every Muslim, he must have expected the kind of reaction that followed across the Muslim world. If he hadn’t, then he has either been on another planet these last few years or he shouldn’t be in the high position he is.

Therefore, the cold reaction with which his so-called apology was met did not come as a great surprise. A true and sincere apology would have been to retract his remarks, however the Pope merely expressed regret at how Muslims had been “offended” without actually apologising for the quotation that he used in his lecture in Germany last week. In other words, he was sorry that Muslims took it badly.

While Pope Benedict stated that he was merely quoting a medieval Byzantine emperor (ie don’t shoot the messenger), it is beyond ridiculous to assume that this quotation came as a by the by, and did not formulate a main element of the argument he was trying to make in what was clearly a well-prepared speech.

Quotations are an odd thing, you see. When they are employed by the likes of a president, a prime minister a figure of authority or a pope, they potentially become a dangerous weapon. To pick a quote that asserts one thing is essentially to exclude many, often hundreds or even thousands, others that assert the exact opposite. However, since such an esteemed figure has cited the quote, then of course it must be true and his argument must hence be valid and taken at face value. This is why the Pope’s apology for the offence caused is almost meaningless as the original sin, as one may say, has caused immense harm and possible lasting damage.

The Vatican was expected to be at the helm of the campaign to build bridges, to reach out and to mend what politicians had managed to savagely destruct over recent years. If ever there was an antidote to the frenzy of an inevitable clash of cultures and civilisations, it was to come from people of faith, all faiths. At a time when all main representative Islamic organisations and figures of authority are speaking out against terrorism and against the barbarism of killing others under the false guise of faith, belief, ideology or religion, one would have thought that such calls would be supported and backed by the likes of the Pope.

However, when he spoke of “reason” it was clear that he was asserting that such notion is almost exclusive to Judaism and Christianity, whilst Islam is void thereof. In a sense he was ridiculing all attempts to conduct dialogue or communication with Islam, as it demonstrated no sense of “reason”; an accusation that Islam is inherently violent, fundamentally blood-thirsty and an enemy of all others. An extremely dangerous assertion to make, albeit implicit and embedded between the lines, when the world lies on the verge of an all out clash that threatens everyone and everything.

However, what makes the Pope’s words even more incredible is that he conveniently chose to ignore the reality that whilst the Catholic church was cementing the barbarism of Europe’s dark ages for centuries, in which atrocities of unspeakable volumes within its lands and beyond were committed under its very guise and with its blessings, the Muslim world stretching from southern Europe to the far borders of China was busy writing literature, philosophy, art, architecture, medicine, chemistry, physics, biology, algebra and music. Manuscripts on law, botany, etiquette and fashion were being produced and students from Europe, Africa and China converged in their tens of thousands upon the vast and illustrious universities and libraries of Baghdad, Damascus, Cordoba, Seville and Cairo. Indeed, Spanish historians hold in pride the 100 years of glorious co-existence among Muslims, Christians and Jews, which saw an outstanding leap on technology, medicine and science as well as the production of the most amazing fruits of human endeavour on all fronts. It is notable that the rulers of the time were Muslims, who did not think twice about employing Christian and Jewish ministers, advisors and ambassadors as long as they were the best suited for the job.

Only a few days ago, I ended my first ever visit to Iran where I took part in the regional meeting of the World Health Organisation in the exquisitely beautiful city of Isfahan. Among the 14,000 or so historic and heritage sites and monuments that adorns this city alone, we were taken on a tour to the city’s cathedral and were shown what was claimed to be the biggest synagogue in the region, both constructed many centuries ago. Both were in beautiful and impressive condition and were guarded and kept clean by local men and women. This, in a country which is being paraded as backward, autocratic, regressive, barbaric, oppressive and intolerant to other faiths and ideologies. The same can be said of Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Morocco, Yemen, Malaysia, Indonesia and countless other Muslim countries where the oldest and most ancient Christian, Jewish, Hindu and Bhuddist sites, shrines, temples and sacred places are kept in perfect condition for the pleasure of pilgrims and religious tourists from all around the world.

When I visited Spain a few years back for the first time however, I was met with the sad spectacle that despite Muslims ruling and populating the Iberian peninsula for many centuries, almost none of their mosques or places of worship had been left without being desecrated or raised to the ground by the Christian rulers who conquered Spain thereafter and expelled the native Muslims to the shores of north Africa. The Grand Mosque of Cordoba had its heart and essence ripped out and saw the installation of gothic Christian statues and monuments in between its main and original pillars that continue to provide the greatest attraction and source of amazement for tourists nevertheless. The same could be said of eastern Europe where Muslims settled and set home for centuries, only to see that everything they constructed was later demolished, mainly with the blessings of the church.

When I raised this issue in a lecture in Chicago last year, someone mentioned the Taliban government’s destruction of the Bhuddist statues in Bamyan in 1998 as evidence of Islam’s intolerance of the “other”. In fact, the issue of the Bamyan statues is proof of my very thesis, for had it not been subsequent Muslims states and rulers of that region over more than 1,000 years preserving those statues, they would have been no statues left for the Taliban to blow up, as a mere political gesture -and a foolish one at that- rather than a religious course of action.

The charge that Islam is intolerant and that it spread by force rather than by conviction is not only factually wrong, it is outrageously naïve. How anyone could actually believe, let alone promote the idea that anyone could be compelled to believe in anything he or she does not in their heart of hearts, is bewildering. But more importantly, the most populated countries in the Muslim world are those that lie in southern and south-east Asia; parts of the world where no Muslim battalion ever roamed. Islam spread many times more rapidly at times of peace than it ever did at times of war, both during the time of Prophet Mohammed and ever since. Indeed, the fact that Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world today, with scores if not hundreds embracing Islam as their faith of choice throughout the west every day, despite the vicious attacks and attempts to demonise Islam and Muslims, is one that the Pope seems to have neglected. Surely he’s not suggesting that those too are compelled to embrace Islam by the sword??

It would be a sad day indeed if some decided to throw in the towel and give up on creating a future in which all faiths, creeds, races and cultures live side by side in peace and in prosperity, as a result of the Pope’s remarks. The process of reaching out, initiating forums from upon which constructive dialogue could be carried out and accepting the other while agreeing to disagree with certain aspects of their faith, ideology and culture, must continue unabated. The Pope should have recognised the importance of his support of such a noble pursuit.

He didn’t, and in the process drove people further apart then they were before.

source:
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/anas_altikriti/2006/09/an_insufficient_apology.html

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CAIR REPORT: ANTI-MUSLIM BIAS INCIDENTS JUMP 29 PERCENT

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In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

=== News Update ===

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

REPORT: ANTI-MUSLIM BIAS INCIDENTS JUMP 29 PERCENT

Total number of Muslim civil rights cases tops 1,900 in 2005

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 9/18/06) – A report released today by a prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group indicates an almost 30 percent increase in the total number of complaints of anti-Muslim bias from 2004 to 2005.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) report – the only annual study of its kind – outlines 1,972 incidents and experiences of anti-Muslim violence, discrimination and harassment in 2005, the highest number of civil rights cases ever recorded in the Washington-based group’s annual report. (Hundreds of anti-Muslim incidents reported immediately following the 9/11 attacks were detailed in a separate report.) According to the study, called “The Struggle for Equality,” that figure is a 29.6 percent jump over the preceding year’s total of 1,522 cases.

CAIR also received 153 reports of anti-Muslim hate crime complaints, an 8.6 percent increase from the 141 complaints received in 2004. As in past years, CAIR said factors contributing to the sharp increase in reported incidents included the lingering impact of post-9/11 fears, increased awareness of civil rights issues in the Muslim community and a general increase in anti-Muslim rhetoric in American society.

“We believe the biggest factor contributing to anti-Muslim feeling and the resulting acts of bias is the growth in Islamophobic rhetoric that has flooded the Internet and talk radio in the post-9/11 era,” said CAIR Legal Director Arsalan Iftikhar, the report’s author.

Iftikhar said the report also outlines CAIR initiatives taken in the past year designed to decrease anti-Muslim prejudice. The report cites CAIR’s coordination of the fatwa, or Islamic religious ruling, by U.S. Muslim scholars repudiating terrorism and religious extremism, the “Not in the Name of Islam” public service announcements (PSA) and the “Explore the Quran” and “Muslims Care” educational and volunteerism campaigns.

A statement issued today by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) thanked CAIR for its “steadfast dedication to ameliorating the civil rights of American Muslims” and stated in part: “By all accounts, racial profiling, harassment, and discrimination of Muslim and Arab Americans have increased since 9/11. . .We cannot allow xenophobia, prejudice, and bigotry to prevail, and eviscerate the Constitution we are bound to protect.”

Overall, nine states and the District of Columbia accounted for almost 79 percent of all civil rights complaints to CAIR in 2005. They are (in descending order): California (19 percent), Illinois (13 percent), New York (9 percent), Texas (8 percent), Virginia (7 percent), Florida (6 percent), District of Columbia (5 percent), Maryland (4 percent), Ohio (4 percent) and New Jersey (4 percent).

The complete “The Struggle for Equality” report may be viewed at: http://www.cair.com/pdf/2006-CAIR-Civil-Rights-Report.pdf

CAIR began documenting anti-Muslim incidents following the 1995 attack on the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The council is America’s largest Islamic civil liberties group, with 32 regional offices and chapters nationwide and in Canada. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.

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CONTACT: Arsalan Iftikhar, 202-488-8787 or 202-415-0799, E-Mail: aiftikhar@cair.com; CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, 202-488-8787 or 202-744-7726, E-Mail: ihooper@cair-net.org

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CAIR
Council on American-Islamic Relations
453 New Jersey Avenue, S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20003
Tel: 202-488-8787, 202-744-7726
Fax: 202-488-0833
E-mail: info@cair.com
URL: http://www.cair.com

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US Terrorize The World – 26 Shabaan 1427 H (19.9.06)

bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem

In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

=== News Update ===

REPORT: ANTI-MUSLIM BIAS INCIDENTS JUMP 29 PERCENT

Total number of Muslim civil rights cases tops 1,900 in 2005

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 9/18/06) – A report released today by a prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group indicates an almost 30 percent increase in the total number of complaints of anti-Muslim bias from 2004 to 2005.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) report – the only annual study of its kind – outlines 1,972 incidents and experiences of anti-Muslim violence, discrimination and harassment in 2005, the highest number of civil rights cases ever recorded in the Washington-based group’s annual report. (Hundreds of anti-Muslim incidents reported immediately following the 9/11 attacks were detailed in a separate report.) According to the study, called “The Struggle for Equality,” that figure is a 29.6 percent jump over the preceding year’s total of 1,522 cases.
URL: http://www.cair.com

The complete “The Struggle for Equality” report may be viewed at:
http://www.cair.com/pdf/2006-CAIR-Civil-Rights-Report.pdf

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Racist : Feds raid Southfield Muslim organization

SOUTHFIELD — FBI agents from the Joint Terrorism Task Force raided the Southfield offices of an American Muslim relief organization today, but would not disclose the nature of the criminal investigation they were conducting.

The FBI executed a search warrant at the offices of Life for Relief and Development, located off 10 Mile Road, at about 9 a.m. and remained there for several hours, FBI Special Agent Dawn Clenney said.

The reasons given to a federal judge to obtain the search warrant were sealed and no arrests had yet been made. The search is “pertaining to a criminal matter,” Clenney said.
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060918/UPDATE/609180422

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Islamophobia : An insufficient apology

When Pope Benedict recently delivered a lecture and managed to find the time and space to take a swipe at Islam, the Prophet Mohammed and effectively every Muslim, he must have expected the kind of reaction that followed across the Muslim world. If he hadn’t, then he has either been on another planet these last few years or he shouldn’t be in the high position he is.

what makes the Pope’s words even more incredible is that he conveniently chose to ignore the reality that whilst the Catholic church was cementing the barbarism of Europe’s dark ages for centuries, in which atrocities of unspeakable volumes within its lands and beyond were committed under its very guise and with its blessings, the Muslim world stretching from southern Europe to the far borders of China was busy writing literature, philosophy, art, architecture, medicine, chemistry, physics, biology, algebra and music.
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/anas_altikriti/2006/09/an_insufficient_apology.html

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Pope: Karen Armstrong: We cannot afford to maintain these ancient prejudices against Islam

The Pope’s remarks were dangerous, and will convince many more Muslims that the west is incurably Islamophobic
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15012.htm

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A Question for the Pope: Was it Muhammad who was flying those Bombers over Beirut?

Benedict quoted a medieval Catholic source on the violence of Islam’s Muhammad just a couple of weeks after the armies of Judaism bombed Lebanon into the stone age for thirty-three days (a significant number in the Kabbalah).

The greatest orgy of violence by the military of any religion since the fruit of Bush’s “Third Awakening Christianity” pummeled Iraq and Afghanistan’s cities and villages with bombs and bullets, was perpetrated in Lebanon in July and August, with religious injunctions in favor of the mass murder issued by Orthodox Israeli rabbis.

But Pope Benedict’s stern admonition last week was directed not at them, but only at the “violence of Muhammad.” Excuse me, your ass-holiness, but was it Muhammad who was flying those bombers over Beirut?
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/page1/page5/page5.html

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The Path from 9/11

There is little doubt that that the 9/11 commission report has become the Warren commission report of our time – a fatally flawed official examination that ended up raising more questions than it answered, owing to a toxic brew of politics, partisanship, personal agendas and presidential obstruction. Chairman Thomas Kean’s recent paid involvement with ABC’s fictitious “historical” docudrama is but the latest reminder that the 9/11 tragedy has yet to be investigated fully or fairly.
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/rory_oconnor/2006/09/the_path_from_911.html

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Dictatorship Banned From The Classroom: 911 Physics Scientist Who Proved Thermite Involved In WTC Demolitions

Like a modern-day Galileo or Socrates, the highly respected physicist, who has challenged with logic and scientific evidence the official explanation for the “collapse” of the World Trade Center, has been banned from teaching classes at his university.
http://www.rense.com/general73/ZZIBN.HTM

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9/11 : Bush Tacitly Implies WTC Controlled Demolition?

During his speech Friday in which the President argued for the gutting of the Geneva convention and the legal classification of torture, Bush made a strange comment about explosives and their placement in U.S. buildings. Was this a tacit admission of 9/11 controlled demolition?
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2006/180906bushimplies.htm

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Why is Bush Admin so determined to use torture?

A lot has been written and said about President Bush’s demand that Congress “clarify” the part of the Geneva Conventions that, in effect, outlaws the use of torture under any circumstances.

We know that the world would see this action as a U.S. repudiation of the rules that bind civilized nations. We also know that an extraordinary lineup of former military and intelligence leaders, including Colin Powell, have spoken out against the Bush plan, warning that it would further damage America’s faltering moral standing, and end up endangering U.S. troops.
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/tsc.html?URI=http://select.nytimes.com/2006/09/18/opinion/18krugman.html&OQ=_rQ3D1Q26hp&OP=79c0ee8eQ2FCQ7DahCzBQ60VVzC,Q3AQ3AdCQ3AxCQ5EwCVLMvMVvCQ5EwqQ60WQ2AHQ7BvPUzHE

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The Bush administration and the CIA prisons: a new campaign of lies

SEE: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/sep2006/bush-s18.shtml

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Attorney general warns US on torture bill

The attorney general warned the US at the weekend that its bill to try to limit its obligations under the Geneva convention while interrogating and trying detainees risked international condemnation.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,,1874783,00.html

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UK accused of Guantánamo collusion

More than 100 senior doctors today accused the government of colluding in war crimes by refusing to give medical aid to British residents detained at Guantánamo Bay.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,1875367,00.html

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War Criminal at Bay

President George Bush, betrayed by the neoconservatives whom he elevated to power and by his Attorney General, Torture Gonzales who gave him wrong legal advice, is locked in a desperate struggle with the Republican Congress to save himself from war crimes charges at the expense of America’s reputation and our soldiers’ fate.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15009.htm

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What if they gave a War?

We must think beyond geopolitical borders, beyond political parties; past the familiar labels of liberal and conservative. Working class conservatives and working class liberals alike are exploited by those in power. We must set aside the petty differences that keep us apart and seek common ground to defeat our common enemy—corporate Plutocracy.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15016.htm

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Israel Lies : Proof (concerning the Holocaust) not allowed by law in Germany!

“A fair and independent court would have the duty to call for an examination of the evidence, fully independent of whatever has been heretofore thought, said, and assumed as self-evident.”
http://www.australiafreepress.org/articles/ursula_haverbeck.htm

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America Corruption : The 13 most corrupt members of Congress

In the following report, CREW documents the unethical activities of thirteen Members of Congress: 10 House Members and three Senators.
http://www.netscape.com/viewstory/2006/09/17/the-13-most-corrupt-members-of-congress/

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Ending the Dollar’s Tyranny

The dominance of the greenback has created a global empire which is controlled by a small group of corporatists and autocrats who depend on bullying and brute force to maintain their supremacy. The only way to restore the republic is to topple the empire, dislodge the dollar from its lofty perch, and even the playing field with the other currencies.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15014.htm

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Ten Nobel Peace Prize Winners Take Aim at US

DENVER, Colorado – Ten Nobel Peace Prize laureates called for world peace Saturday and took direct aim at the United States, asking an enthusiastic crowd of 7,000 youth to demand the U.S. pull back its military, spread its wealth and offer aid to developing countries.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0917-03.htm

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Murdoch Almighty: When Public Loses Opinion

People imagine that their opinions are their own, not those of corporate moguls who compete to colonise the public sphere. We are not as free in thought as we think.
http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net

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When free speech costs a career: How profs’ political advocacy outside academia can threaten their success within it.

SEE: http://www.yaleherald.com/article.php?Article=4796

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When the truth is a stranger to fiction

Did Monica Lewinsky cause the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States? Anyone who watched The Path to 9/11, the ABC two-parter about the events leading up to September 11, might be forgiven for thinking so.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1874584,00.html

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Jews – Kurd : A Long-Term Relationship

The Kurds and the Jews have been in love for as long as there have been Jews and Kurds. The Kurds helped and sheltered the Jews for centuries without expecting anything in return. The roles became reversed with the establishment of the State of Israel which became the permanent protector of Iraqi Kurdistan and Kurds in general. Israel is now in the middle of its second attempt (1991-) to establish an independent Kurdish state after the first attempt (1965-75) failed.
http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2006/0906/swedish_170906.htm

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U.S. military deaths in Iraq hit 2,682

As of Sunday, Sept. 17, 2006, at least 2,682 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,131 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military’s numbers.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060917/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_deaths

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Is war in Iraq a shield against attacks at home?

WASHINGTON – The war in Iraq constitutes a perimeter defense of the United States. Simply put, the US is fighting Al Qaeda and other extremists there, so it doesn’t have to fight them on American soil.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0918/p03s02-usfp.html

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Iraq’s “Death Squads” revisited: Chalabi leads “Death Squads” in Iraq.

Men wearing Iraqi police uniforms, riding police cars and using police communication devices, they take the victim for investigation, the following day his body found dumped in one of the neglected places, often a bullet in the head after savage torture using electric drill or a head without body in a fruit box.

All the victims treated the same way, these dirty operations escalated after the attack on the shrines of Imams Al-Askari in Samarra on the 22nd of February, and coincided with the displacement of thousands of Iraqi families to other regions based on sectarian backgrounds, then the massacres on public markets, attacks on Sunni and Shiite mosques.

Iraqis accused American forces specialized in assassinations, those associated with John Negroponte head of the American intelligence, and Ambassador for a short period in Baghdad. before the arrival of the current Ambassador Zalmai Khalilzad, making use of his experience in the formation of death squads in Latin America, The liquidation of leftist rebels in San Salvador in the 1980s.

Iraqis began whispering among themselves about the presence of ‘Death Squads’ who are assassinating people on their identity, for the benefit of several groups
http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2006/09/17/iraq%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cdeath-squads%e2%80%9d-revisited-chalabi-leads-%e2%80%9cdeath-squads%e2%80%9d-in-iraq/#comments

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Iraq attackers kill 30, aggravate ethnic tensions

KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) – Insurgents killed at least 30 people and aggravated Iraq’s hostile ethnic divide with a string of bombs in the northern city of Kirkuk, as well as attacks in volatile Anbar province and in Baghdad on Sunday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060917/wl_nm/iraq_dc

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Iraq: At least 69 killed in ongoing U.S. occupation

Fourteen bodies, tortured and with bullet holes in the head, were found in different districts of Baghdad on Monday, a Ministry of Interior source said.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IBO840395.htm

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Tension over Iraqi flag hits N Iraq

Hundreds of Iraqi flags bearing the phrase ‘Allah Akbar’ have appeared throughout the streets of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in what analysts are calling an act of Arab defiance.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1FD8F118-C424-42E0-81E4-2A8BEBAF3C3F.htm

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Iraq Puppet Goverment to regain control of another province in days

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq said on Monday it will take over security control of a second of its 18 provinces this week in the relatively calm British and Italian-patrolled south.

A ceremony will be held on Thursday to mark the handover of Dhi Qar province, currently policed by Italian troops under British command. But a large, self-contained U.S. air base located there will not be handed over.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060918/ts_nm/iraq_handover_dc

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Wounded Iraq troops given danger drug

THE Ministry of Defence has been accused of playing “Russian roulette” with soldiers’ lives after it admitted using an unlicensed drug linked to 67 deaths in America.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2361438,00.html

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 17 September 2006.

• US occupation troops kill two Iraqi civilians in ar-Ramadi early Saturday afternoon.
• At least 12 US troops reported killed in bombings, car bombings, and rocket strikes by the Resistance on US forces in al-Fallujah Sunday.
• US troops murder two Iraqi youths, put one on barbaric display, provoking death of their mother from stroke in Baghdad’s al-’Amiriyah district.
• Resistance bombings in Kirkuk leave five American troops reported killed.
• Resistance men ambush US patrol in al-Fallujah.
• Two Resistance bombs blast US patrols in al-Fallujah midday Sunday.
• Resistance blasts joint US-Iraqi puppet army camp in al-Fallujah Sunday morning.
• Resistance bomb targets US column in Hit Sunday morning.
• Fighting reported Sunday night in vicinity of Shi’i mosque known as center for torture and murder of Sunnis in Baghdad.
• Bodies of 15 more Sunnis tortured and murdered by pro-American Shi’i sectarian death squads found in Baghdad.
• Resistance ambushes US column in Baghdad’s al-’Amiriyah at midnight Saturday-Sunday.
• Resistance bomb blasts US column in ad-Dujayl Saturday night.
• Resistance bomb targets puppet “National Guard” patrol in al-Mawsil.

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2006/0906/iraqiresistancereport_170906.htm

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Afghan mission impossible: Poll

OTTAWA—Public support for Canada’s military role in Afghanistan has dropped “precipitously” as more and more Canadians thinks troops are fighting an impossible mission, a new poll shows.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1158531020079&call_page=TS_News&call_pageid=968332188492&call_pagepath=News/News&pubid=968163964505

see also: Canada to stay in Afghanistan as long as it takes: MacKay
http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2006/09/17/afghan.html

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4 Canadian Occupation Force Soldiers among 17 Killed In Afghanistan

A suicide bomber on a bicycle killed four Canadian occupation troops and wounded at least 27 civilians in southern Afghanistan on Monday, while two other blasts in the capital and in the western part of the country killed a total of 13 Afghans, officials said.
http://snipurl.com/wmc5

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NATO Faces Growing Hurdle As Call for Troops Falls Short

Alliance Casualties Hit 5-Year High in Occupied Afghanistan.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15013.htm

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Painful Deception In Palestine

To avoid death by strangulation and malnutrition, the Palestinians must practice diplomatic submission and subservience to Israel-American positions.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/09/18/painful_deception_in_palestine.php

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The great escape

Two peoples inhabit this land, we have lived here in the past, and we will continue to live here in the future. We have to work out some way of living together. We have to work out a formula for sharing our territory. We have to establish a means of cooperating to preserve our environment. We have to find a way to govern our population.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/763276.html

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Gaza: The children killed in a war the world doesn’t want to know about

Nayef Abu Snaima says his 14-year-old cousin Jihad had been sitting on the edge of an olive grove talking animatedly to him about what he would do when he grew up when he was killed instantly by an Israeli shell.

He says he clearly saw a bright flash next to the control tower of the disused Gaza international airport, occupied by Israeli forces after Cpl Gilad Shalit was seized by militants on 25 June. “I went two or three steps and the missile landed,” said Nayef, 24. “I thought I was dying. I shouted ‘La Ilaha Ila Allah’ [There is no God but Allah].”
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1619227.ece

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Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder-A Glimpse Into Israeli Collective Psychosis

The Israelis somehow fail to read the message on the wall. Rather than looking at the mirror and spotting out their obvious faults that have already matured into severe moral bankruptcy, the Israelis prefer total submission to the materialist fantasy of Nuclear Judeocide.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15015.htm

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This is how US will attack Iran

It will take a few days, with thousands of sorties, satellite and laser-guided bombs will be aimed at targets – 1,500 already planned by Pentagon – and will try to infiltrate armed concrete, under which some of nuclear sites are hidden. Meanwhile, Washington launches diplomatic blitz in attempt to promote sanctions on Tehran
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15010.htm

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U.S. accused of covert Somolia ops

A British newspaper Sunday said the United States was conducting illegal mercenary operations to support the U.N.-backed interim government in Somalia.
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060910-110944-6549r

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10 Sri Lanka Muslims hacked to death

POTTUVIL, Sri Lanka (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s military on Monday accused Tamil Tiger rebels of hacking 10 Muslim labourers to death in the island’s east, but angry local residents blamed security forces.

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) denied any involvement in the killings, which took place near the island’s Yala National Park on Sunday, instead blaming the military for the latest in a string of mass killings and abuses.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-09-18T123824Z_01_SP156421_RTRUKOC_0_UK-SRILANKA.xml&archived=False

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Arar inquiry blasts RCMP for triggering deportation, torture : Canada

OTTAWA — False information given to American authorities by an inexperienced RCMP anti-terrorism team, which tagged Maher Arar as an “Islamic extremist,” very likely set off a chain of events that led to his deportation and torture in Syria, an inquiry has found.
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=d200b82b-d3fd-4f28-ade2-a460e76e7bdd&k=94095

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Dictatorship : Congress Considering Strip Searching Students

Imagine an America in which school officials could strip search every student in their school based on the unsubstantiated tip that one of them might have a joint. Congress is voting on a bill Tuesday or Wednesday that could make these police state tactics more common.
http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/091806stripsearch.cfm

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