9/11 : CIA Mole Killed in Basra

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=== News Update ===

9/11 : CIA Mole Killed in Basra

Tuesday September 26th 2006, 8:27 am

Dead men don’t talk and Omar al-Farouk is dead, so he won’t be telling us about his exploits as a CIA recruit.

As you may recall, Omar escaped from the Bagram torture center in Afghanistan last year. How exactly a supposed high-ranking member of al-Qaeda escaped—by picking locks and navigating a mine field—from a “high value” military detention center was never explained, but the fact he was a CIA asset may have had something to do with it. It is said al-Farouk was a liaison between the al-Qaeda leadership in Afghanistan and Jemaah Islamiyah in Indonesia.

Few in the corporate media, however, mention A.C. Manulang, the former head of the State Intelligence Coordinating Board in Indonesia, who stated that al-Farouk was “assigned to infiltrate Islamic radical groups and recruit local agents within these groups” for the CIA, according to Tempo Interactive. “When Al Faruq finished his assignments, the CIA created a scenario that he had been arrested,” Manulang explained in September, 2002. Manulang believes al-Farouk recruited people from Islamic groups to commit several bombings and attempt to assassinate Megawati Sukarnoputri, the former president of Indonesia.

After al-Farouk was captured and underwent “interrogation,” we learned that Omar supposedly “sent Abu Bakr Baasyir, spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, a large sum of money in order to allow him to buy explosives,” according to the UK Telegraph. “A US report on the interrogation of Kuwaiti-born Omar al-Faruq, who is being held in Afghanistan, ‘refers to the transmission of $73,000 (£47,000) from Saudi Arabia to Baasyir, which he used to procure explosives’. But security sources cautioned that the explosive is much easier to get hold of than some reports have suggested.” No doubt, especially considering the explosive was military grade C-4.

“The explosive used in the Bali bomb attack could have come from supplies handed over to the Mujahideen by the CIA during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.”

It is, to say the least, curious al-Farouk “escaped” after a lawyer requested his testimony in a brutality case against a U.S. soldier. “While the possibility of al-Faruq making his way back to Indonesia remains a dangerous possibility, it is more conceivable that he may have joined the remnants of Al-Qaeda in or around Afghanistan or has made his way back to his country of heritage, Iraq,” reported the propaganda site Radio Free Europe. In fact, al-Farouk is Kuwaiti.

Now we are expected to believe he was killed after British troops raided a villa in Basra. “Omar al-Farouk was alone in the house in an upper-class neighborhood when soldiers from the Princess of Wales royal regiment entered, the Times of London reported…. ‘We wanted to arrest him, but regrettably he opened fire,’ Army spokesman Maj. Charlie Burbridge said.”

Regrettable, indeed, although a stroke of luck for the CIA, as dead moles tell no tales.

source:
http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=572

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Does America torture?

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=== News Update ===

Wednesday September 27, 2006

Does America torture?

By BRIAN COONEY – Contributing Columnist

On Sept. 6, President Bush announced the transfer to Guantanamo of 14 detainees from secret CIA prisons in foreign countries. He acknowledged that the CIA used “an alternative set of procedures” to interrogate these prisoners. He refuses to deny widespread reports that these procedures included “waterboarding” or simulated drowning.

He went on to say that “The United States does not torture. It’s against our laws, and it’s against our values.” He was lying. And he was playing games with words in a way that demonstrates his contempt for the intelligence of the American people.

Since 9/11, the United States has frequently outsourced torture to countries such as Egypt, Jordan and Syria, that are known to use brutal methods. This procedure is called “extraordinary rendition.” It is expressly forbidden by the U.N. Convention against Torture (Part I, A. 3.1), which the U.S. has signed and ratified. It also violates section 2242 of the 1998 Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act.

When you outsource a task, you remain the primary agent. If I hire someone to murder another person, I am guilty of murder. George Bush is guilty of torture.

The U.N. Convention defines torture as “any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person.” Waterboarding would certainly qualify, as would any technique that was really effective at getting information from a terrorist determined to remain silent.

The Supreme Court recently ruled that article 3 of the 1949 Geneva Convention applies to al Qaeda detainees. This article prohibits “cruel treatment and torture,” and “outrages upon personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment.” In his Sept. 6 address, Bush announced that he wanted Congress to “clarify” article 3 by stipulating that it is consistent with his “alternative” interrogation techniques.

When Bush refuses to call his “alternative” methods torture, when he wants to clarify “cruel” and “degrading” as allowing waterboarding, he reminds me of what Humpty Dumpty told Alice in Wonderland: “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.”

As I listened to this dishonest and belligerent man speak to the press, I was reminded of another bleak and oppressive period in recent American history – a time when, like today, basic American values were being trampled on by a ruthless politician.

On June 9, 1954, something momentous happened during a televised hearing of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

The American people finally recoiled in disgust at the way a powerful, fearmongering politician was abusing the power of government to undermine the rule of law.

For two years, Senator Joe McCarthy (R-WI) had used his subcommittee to bully and smear hundreds of people with unsubstantiated charges of being communist spies or sympathizers. He rode a wave of anxiety among Americans over the military threat, subversive activities and espionage of communist regimes in the Soviet Union and China. McCarthy manipulated these fears into a national paranoia. Politicians in both parties were afraid to stand up to him lest they, too, be accused of disloyalty.

On that June 9, McCarthy went too far. He was facing off with Joseph Welch, senior counsel for the Army. He insisted on entering into the record that a young lawyer working for Welch’s firm was once a member of the National Lawyers’ Guild, an organization that McCarthy had falsely accused of subversive activities. This entry could have meant an end to the young man’s career.

Welch then asked a question that was the undoing of McCarthy: “Have you no sense of decency sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?” Soon after the hearing McCarthy was censured by the Senate, and lost popular support. I hope something like this will happen to George W. Bush as a result of the Sept. 6 press conference.

Bush is the desperate leader of a desperate Republican majority haunted by what could happen to them as a result of their incompetent and disastrous response to 9/11. The latest National Intelligence Estimate, reflecting the conclusions of all 16 intelligence agencies, states that the Iraq war has increased the number of terrorists and the danger we face from terrorism. A record 6,600 Iraqi civilians were killed in July and August. Manfred Nowak, the U.N. special investigator on torture, reports that torture in Iraq “is totally out of hand. The situation is so bad many people say it is worse than it has been in the times of Saddam Hussein.”

Bush’s response to all this is to ask the American people to let him do more torturing. If you won’t, he threatens to label you as soft on terrorism, just as McCarthy threatened to call those who disagreed with him soft on communism. It’s time to ask Bush: “Have you no sense of decency sir, at long last?”

Brian Cooney is the Stodghill Professor of Philosophy at Centre College.

source:
http://www.amnews.com/public_html/?module=displaystory&story_id=25330&format=html

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Pope Benedict XVI has still not apologized for equating Islam with violence

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=== News Update ===

Benedict `should come clean’

Canadian Arab group finds stand disappointing Muslim diplomats mostly mum after meeting pontiff

Sep. 26, 2006.
STUART LAIDLAW
FAITH AND ETHICS REPORTER

Pope Benedict XVI has still not apologized for equating Islam with violence in a speech and now seems to be using the ensuing controversy to forge an allegiance with conservative Muslims, Canada’s largest Arab organization says.

“He should come clean,” Khaled Mouammar, president of the Canadian Arab Federation, said yesterday after meeting with the Toronto Star editorial board.

His strong reaction stood in sharp contrast to those of Muslim envoys to the Vatican who met Benedict yesterday to discuss fallout from a speech the Pope gave Sept. 12.

At a German university, Benedict quoted 14th-century Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus, a Greek Orthodox Christian, as saying the Prophet Muhammad commanded “to spread by the sword the faith he preached.”

That unleashed anger in the Muslim world, forcing the Pope repeatedly to say he regretted the reaction to his speech.

Mouammar said all Arabs felt targeted by the remarks, even those who are not Muslim.

“My wife was infuriated and she’s Catholic,” Mouammar, a Christian Palestinian, told the Star’s editorial board.

Mohamed Boudjenane, federation executive director, said Benedict’s words need to be seen in the context of others from the Roman Catholic leader, who laments Christianity’s waning influence in Europe and argues against Muslim Turkey joining the European Union.

“That Pope has a precedent with the Islamic world,” said Boudjenane, a Muslim.

Yesterday, Benedict met envoys from Muslim nations and representatives of Italian Muslim groups at his summer residence outside Rome. He used the 30-minute meeting to call for more interfaith dialogue.

Mouammar stressed that the Pope still has not apologized for the comments themselves, only the reaction to them.

“He has never apologized that he really condoned what this emperor said,” Mouammar said. “He should say: `I am sorry that I quoted this guy and based my conclusions on him.’”

The Pope repeatedly has said he does not agree with the emperor he quoted. Mouammar does not accept this explanation because the Pope based his conclusion in the speech — that reason and violence are not compatible — on the emperor’s statement.

“He indirectly agreed,” Mouammar said.

Some at yesterday’s meeting with the Pope saw good in it.

Mario Scialoja, adviser to the Italian section of the World Muslim League, told Reuters News Agency he had not expected “another (papal) apology.

“He recalled the differences but expressed his willingness to continue in a cordial and fruitful dialogue,” said Scialoja, who described the pontiff’s speech as “very good and warm.”

Nearly all those at the meeting drove off without comment.

The Pope used the word “dialogue” eight times during his five-minute address at Castel Gandolfo.

He said Catholics and Muslims should focus on what they agree on, not on what divides them.

“It is imperative that Christians and Muslims engage with one another (on) the numerous challenges that present themselves to humanity, especially those concerning the defence and promotion of the dignity of the human person and of the rights ensuing from that dignity,” the Pope said.

Mouammar said such a plea would only appeal to conservative Muslims. “He is talking about family-values issues, such as same-sex marriage, abortion, that sort of thing.”

Boudjenane said the Vatican stand on such issues would appeal to the conservative “fringe” of Islam, but not to more moderate Muslims.

Iraq’s ambassador to the Holy See said the pontiff’s meeting with Muslims should end the anger over his address at the university in Regensburg where he once taught theology.

“The Holy Father stated his profound respect for Islam. This is what we were expecting,” Iraqi envoy Albert Edward Ismail Yelda said, as he left. “It is now time to put what happened behind and build bridges.”

Al-Jazeera, in Arabic, carried Benedict’s speech live.

Others attending included a diplomat from Indonesia, where Christian-Muslim tensions were heightened last week by the execution of three Catholic militants.

Saudi Arabia, the seat of Islam, does not maintain diplomatic relations with the Vatican.

source:
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1159221039138&call_page=TS_World&call_pageid=968332188854&call_pagepath=News/World&pubid=968163964505

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Muslims ask Christians to look at violent history

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=== News Update ===

Muslims ask Christians to look at violent history

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Muslim scholars have called for a reassessment of the past, and for the churches to face up to their own history of violence in a frank re-assessment of the historical relations between the two faiths

Pope Benedict XVI has told diplomats from Islamic countries that the peace of the world relies upon them learning to respect one another, to discuss differences constructively, and to recognise the call within both faiths to reject violence decisively.

In response, Muslim scholars have called for a reassessment of the past, and for the churches to face up to their own history of violence in a frank re-assessment of the historical relations between the two faiths.

The Pope’s plea came in a special meeting on 25 September 2006 with Islamic leaders at the pontiff’s residence, in which the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics stressed his respect for Muslims, following a furore about a speech in which he quoted a 14th century Christian emperor who referred to “evil and inhuman” aspects of the religion.

“I should like to reiterate today all the esteem and the profound respect that I have for Muslim believers,” Pope Benedict told the ambassadors of Islamic countries accredited to the Holy See, as well as representatives of various Muslim communities in Italy.

For the sake of the world, Christians and Muslims needed to learn to work together, Pope Benedict declared, “to guard against all forms of intolerance and to oppose all manifestations of violence”.

Pope Benedict XVI’s reference to dark aspects in Islam’s history also opened up fresh examinations of its own past as conqueror, inquisitor and patron of missionaries whose zeal sometimes led to harsh actions against those of other faiths, points out Brian Murphy of Associated Press.

Many Islamic leaders have appealed, in turn, for onlookers not to judge their faith’s nearly 1,400-year history solely by modern calls for ‘holy war’, which they say is a clear distortion of the Qur’an’s teaching about jihad as a spiritual struggle, and Muslim rage over Benedict’s 12 September speech in Germany.

“There is this impression among Muslims that the pope was saying, ‘We are superior and we are without problems,’” explained Ali El-Samman, president of the interfaith committee for Egypt’s High Islamic Council. “The history books will tell you otherwise.”

In recent years the Vatican has tried to clear away some of its historical baggage, says Murphy. This includes a well-publicised (but subsequently overlooked) 2001 apology by Pope John Paul II for the medieval Crusades, which are widely seen both by Muslims and Orthodox Christians as Western invasions.

Meanwhile, a professor of Islamic law at Qatar University, Muhammad Ayash al-Kubaisi, has proposed on the website of the Al-Jazeera television that Christians should study their own turbulent past and that a constructive way forward might be a public debate about the history of Muslim-Christian relations.

In 1099 Christian crusaders captured Jerusalem and began wholesale attacks on its population, including Muslims and Jews, historians say. At the same time in other parts of the Muslim world, a golden age had its intellectual hub in Baghdad.

In the early 13th century, Crusaders sacked Constantinople, the ancient centre of Greek-led Byzantium, in part to use the plunder to fund more forays into Muslim lands. The Byzantine Empire never fully recovered from the blow.

“No religion is without their unholy periods,” commented the Rev Khalil Samir, a Vatican envoy for interfaith links in Lebanon. “To admit this is an important step to real understanding and dialogue.”

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http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idcategory=33&idSub=128&idArticle=5696

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US Terrorize The World – 5 Ramadhan 1427 H (28.9.06)

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=== News Update ===

Islam & the West: The Cult of Cruelty

In the week that George W Bush took to fantasising that his blood-soaked ‘war on terror’ would lead the 21st century into a ‘shining age of human liberty’ I went through my mail bag to find a frightening letter addressed to me by an American veteran whose son is serving as a lieutenant colonel and medical doctor with US forces in Baghdad.

Put simply, my American friend believes the change of military creed under the Bush Administration – from that of ‘soldier’ to that of ‘warrior’ – is encouraging American troops to commit atrocities.

>From Abu Ghraib to Guantánamo Bay to Bagram, to the battlefields of Iraq, and to the ‘black’ prisons of the CIA, humiliation and beatings, rape, anal rape and murder have now become so commonplace that each new outrage is creeping into the inside pages of our newspapers.
http://www.newmatilda.com/home/articledetailmagazine.asp?ArticleID=1834&HomepageID=162

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9/11 : CIA Mole Killed in Basra

Dead men don’t talk and Omar al-Farouk is dead, so he won’t be telling us about his exploits as a CIA recruit.

As you may recall, Omar escaped from the Bagram torture center in Afghanistan last year. How exactly a supposed high-ranking member of al-Qaeda escaped-by picking locks and navigating a mine field-from a “high value” military detention center was never explained, but the fact he was a CIA asset may have had something to do with it. It is said al-Farouk was a liaison between the al-Qaeda leadership in Afghanistan and Jemaah Islamiyah in Indonesia.
http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=572

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Challenge to Mainstream Journalists: Dare to really investigate 9/11

I dare you to tackle 9/11. Come on. Too scared of losing your job? Reputation, prestige, access? Stossel, Palast, Olbermann?? What the hell are you so afraid of? You want fame, an eternal legacy? You want the ultimate story? It’s right in front of your nose. It’s currently being written by on a shoestring by Alex Jones, David Ray Griffin, Daniel Hopsicker and other heroes who have the guts to risk everything for the sake of truth, for our future as a nation.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/September2006/240906Challenge.htm

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9-11 Fireman: Bomb In The Building

Video captures fireman reporting on the presence of an explosive device found inside one of the WTC buildings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W53wdu8IGlE&NR

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Fascism the American Way

Tragically, the forces of avarice, militarism, nationalism, and lust for power have all but extinguished the bright illumination cast by those amongst the Founding Fathers who were deeply influenced by the Age of Enlightenment. Despite its military and technological prowess, the United States is awash in ignorance, superstition, repression, and fear reminiscent of the Dark Ages.
http://civillibertarian.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-pledge-allegiance-to-corporations.html

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Fear the October Surprise

It wasn’t Adolph Hitler who paid the price for WW II and his illegal war of aggression, it was the German people. We simply cannot torture and murder people on a wholesale basis without paying the butcher’s bill.
http://www.321gold.com/editorials/moriarty/comment/20060927.html

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The United States Of Torture

The United States now presents itself as what amounts to the globe’s largest and most powerful rogue state—a nuclear-armed superpower capable of projecting military force to the furthest corners of the earth, acting utterly without legal or moral constraint whenever the president proclaims it necessary.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15128.htm

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Guantanamo Prisoner Brings Suit in European Court of Human Rights

Boumediene has been tortured and abused at the hands of U.S. forces throughout the course of his imprisonment at Guantanamo. He has been severely beaten and short-shackled, placed in solitary confinement, and deprived of sleep for extended periods of time.
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=73290

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Does America torture?

When Bush refuses to call his “alternative” methods torture, when he wants to clarify “cruel” and “degrading” as allowing waterboarding, he reminds me of what Humpty Dumpty told Alice in Wonderland: “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15129.htm

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For God’s Sake

It’s been said the world has changed since 911. That’s true for our government is indiscernible. It’s unrecognizable. It no longer adheres to the principles of our founding papers. It no longer accepts The Bill of Rights as the law of the land. No longer does it recognize treaties, proclamations or conventions.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15132.htm

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Combative Bush Releases Parts of Terror Study

Portions of a National Intelligence Estimate on terrorism that the White House released under pressure on Tuesday said that Muslim jihadists were “increasing in both number and geographic dispersion” and that current trends could lead to increasing attacks around the globe.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15125.htm

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White House refuses to release full NIE

The White House refused Wednesday to release the rest of a secret intelligence assessment that depicts a growing terrorist threat, as the Bush administration tried to quell election-season criticism that its anti-terror policies are seriously off track.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060927/ap_on_go_pr_wh/terrorism_intelligence

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Declassified : Key Judgments of the National Intelligence Estimate

Trends in Global Terrorism:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15123.htm

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“Thank you for not putting a bomb in your luggage.”

The Bush and Blair administrations can not admit to the correlation of terrorism with their policies, but those opposed to their wars should never allow them to avoid the issue.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15131.htm

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House OKs $70 Billion for Iraq, Afghanistan

Despite intense partisan divisions over the course of the Iraq war, the House on Tuesday easily approved $70 billion more for military operations there and in Afghanistan. Lawmakers also adopted a record $448 billion budget for the Pentagon. The $70 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan is a down payment on war costs the White House has estimated will hit $110 billion for the budget year beginning October 1st.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092706E.shtml

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BUSH MAY PROVIDE $2 BILLION OF TAXPAYER FUNDS TO PAY FOR ISRAEL’S ILLEGAL WAR

YAAKOV KATZ, JERUSALEM POST – If Israel asks, the US would “seriously consider” granting the Defense Ministry additional financial assistance because of the huge expenses incurred during the war in Lebanon, a high-ranking US diplomat revealed Wednesday. According to ministry estimates, Israel spent close to NIS 30 billion on ammunition, fuel and other expenses during the war. The defense establishment has already asked the Treasury to be compensated for that amount. The US provides Israel with military assistance of more than $2b annually. “A request has not yet come,” the US official said. “But we would consider it seriously.”
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1154525975369&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter

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Losing a War, Winning a Police State

The downward spiral of the Iraq War and the worsening worldwide terrorism threat are negatives only if one assumes that creating a more peaceful and secure world was the original goal.

If the goal included changing the character of the United States as a free and open society – and consolidating one-party Republican control over the federal budget – then the administration’s policies would seem to be working like a charm.

In the United States, which Bush calls part of the “battlefield” in the “global war on terror,” fear has prompted millions of Americans to surrender constitutional rights willingly and accept government intrusions that would have been unthinkable before 9/11.
http://www.uruknet.org.uk/?p=m26986&hd=0&size=1&l=e

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‘Not enough cash for war’

George Bush received a serious rebuke about his wartime leadership this week when his army chief said he did not have enough money to fight the war in Iraq.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianweekly/story/0,,1882208,00.html

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Chickens are home to roost in Iraq

The Bush administration is running out of troops, money and ideas
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15134.htm

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U.S. Occupation Forces Kill 4 Civilian Women in a Blood-Soaked Morning

Bodies Strewn About Capital, U.S. Raid Kills 4 “Militants”, 4 Civilian Women
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/27/iraq/main2042173_page2.shtml

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At least 34 Killed in U.S. occupied Iraq

A U.S. raid and air strike killed eight people, including seven members of one family, and wounded two others in Baquba
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MOU737628.htm

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Controversial group wins U.S. propaganda contract in Iraq

A public relations company known for its role in a controversial U.S. military program that paid Iraqi newspapers for stories favourable to coalition forces has been awarded another multi-million dollar media contract with American forces in Iraq.
http://snipurl.com/xejr

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Iraqi Man ‘Feared British Soldiers Would Kill Him’

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article1761675.ece

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Four US soldiers killed in Iraq

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/iraq/?id=17625

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Two US Troops Killed in Action in Iraq

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/09/27/africa/ME_GEN_Iraq_Troops_Killed.php

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 26 September 2006.

• US troops abduct 70-year-old grandmother in Hit to try to force her grandson to surrender to occupation forces.
• Pro-American Shi’i sectarian Jaysh al-Mahdi gunmen give Sunnis in Baghdad neighborhoods 72 hours to vacate their homes or their wives and children will be killed, as US-Zionist efforts to split up Iraq on sectarian lines continue.
• Shi’i sectarian gunmen loyal to pro-American cleric Muqtada as-Sadr launch bloody assault on Sunni district, kill defenders, seize two mosques under eyes and ears of US-installed puppet police.
• Bodies of 16 more tortured, murdered Sunnis, found in Baghdad; a total of 152 Sunnis murdered in sectarian torture killings since Saturday.
• Resistance car bomber blasts US column in Baghdad midday Tuesday, leaving four American troops reported dead.
• American soldier reported killed by Resistance sharpshooter in northern Baghdad suburb of at-Taji Monday night.
• Two US troops reported killed in Resistance bombing in al-Mushahadah Monday evening.
• Bomb targets US patrol in al-Fallujah Tuesday morning. US aircraft strike houses in ar-Ramadi.
• Shi’i sectarian Jaysh al-Mahdi gunmen attack Sunnis in al-Khadra’ area of Baghdad Tuesday afternoon.
• Resistance bomb targets puppet police in Ba’qubah Tuesday.
• Iraqi Resistance forces fired a mortar barrage at the puppet police station in Jurf as-Sakhr

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2006/0906/iraqiresistancereport_260906.htm

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Afghani war is winnable

AUSTRALIA’S military presence in Afghanistan is needed for at least another 10 years to eradicate the forces of terror, but the nation’s senior defence commander says the war is winnable.

In likening the scale of the war to Vietnam, Chief of the Defence Force Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston said yesterday the Howard Government should start planning for a long mission.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

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Nato occupation forces soldier killed in Taliban attack

A Nato occupation forces soldier has been killed when his patrol came under fire south of the Afghan capital, Kabul.
http://www.itv.com/news/world_76f133e266e092d0b6a1e96c622b3774.html

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Jewish state uses American jet to murder 14-year-old girl in Gaza

Gaza– A 14-year-old Gaza girl was killed and 14 others wounded on Tuesday night when an Israeli aircraft targeted a Palestinian house in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, witnesses said.
http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net

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UN says Gaza crisis ‘intolerable’

Standards of human rights in the Palestinian territories have fallen to intolerable new levels, says a UN expert on the Mid-East conflict.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/5382976.stm

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Report: Bombing of Gaza power plant war crime

Human rights group B’Tselem determines bombing of power plant in Gaza constitutes war crime and was carried out as ‘vengeance’
http://snipurl.com/xeka

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Gaza a prison, says UN envo:

Israel has turned the Gaza Strip into a prison for Palestinians where life is intolerable, a human rights envoy has told the United Nations Human Rights Council.
http://snipurl.com/xeka

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Israeli Army Invades Hebron, takes prisoners and occupies a home

The Israeli army took prisoner seven residents of the city of Hebron and the nearby Ithna village. Local sources reported that troops stormed the village of Ithna near Hebron and searched and ransacked several homes before arresting seven. Also on Wednesday, the Israeli army took over a house in the West Bank city of Hebron and turned it into a military post.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/21702/1/

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Thousands of Palestinians have been internally displaced due to the Wall

Thousands of Palestinians have been forced to leave their homes as a direct result of the Wall built by Israel in occupied East Jerusalem, a report by the BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights and the Norwegian Refugee Council’s International Displacement Monitoring Centre revealed.
http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=39031

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Criminal charges recommended against Olmert

State report implicates Israeli leader in bribe scandals, questionable real estate deals
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52168

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Hi-tech firm boycotts Israel over ‘war crimes’

Belgian hi-tech company specializing in development consulting notifies manager of Israeli company seeking cooperation that ‘your country has conducted war crimes and is an apartheid regime’
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3308579,00.html

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US continues covert action in Somalia

Copies of emails leaked to the Observer newspaper and Africa Confidential, presumably by British diplomats or intelligence operatives, show the United States is continuing its covert operations in Somalia.

Washington is attempting to prop up the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) led by President Abdullahi Yusuf. The discredited regime that the West tried to put together in 2004 is now based largely in the town of Baidoa in opposition to the Islamic Courts Council based in Mogadishu, which now controls the capital and much of the south of Somalia.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/sep2006/soma-s27.shtml

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Why Bush Will Nuke Iran

The neoconservative Bush administration will attack Iran with tactical nuclear weapons, because it is the only way the neocons believe they can rescue their goal of U.S. (and Israeli) hegemony in the Middle East.

The U.S. has lost the war in Iraq and in Afghanistan. Generals in both war theaters are stating their need for more troops. But there are no troops to send.
http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=9749

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U.S. Again Denies a Visa to Swiss Muslim Scholar Who Was Barred in 2004

Faced with a federal court’s deadline to issue Mr. Ramadan a visa or explain why it would not, the State Department pointed in its latest decision to donations he had made to French and Swiss organizations that provide humanitarian aid to Palestinians, the ACLU said in a written statement. Those donations, made between 2000 and 2004, totaled about 600 euros, which would be worth about $765 today.
http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=ynDwBkf8ZmmKyVdc5n5zRvpywmXkqDcP

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World Can’t Wait : Drive Out The Bush Regime!

On October 5, people everywhere will walk out of school, take off work, and come to the downtowns & townsquares and set out from there, going through the streets and calling on many more to join us – making a powerful statement: “NO! THIS REGIME DOES NOT REPRESENT US! AND WE WILL DRIVE IT OUT!”
http://worldcantwait.net/

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The five pillars of the U.S. military-industrial complex

In the 1920s, President Calvin Coolidge said, “the business of America is business.” Nowadays, it can be said that the arms industry and permanent war have become a big part of American business, as the offshoot of a well-entrenched military-industrial complex. This is a development that previous American men of vision, men like President George Washington and President Dwight Eisenhower, have warned against as being intrinsically inimical to democracy and liberty. However, the current Bush-Cheney administration is not afraid of such a development; its principal members are part of it and are instead very busy promoting it.

Wars, especially modern electronic wars, are very murderous, but they are also synonymous with big cost-plus contracts, big profits and big employment for those who produce the required military gear. Wars are the paradise of profiteers.
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1241.shtml

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AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER JOHN HOWARD LIES AGAIN TO THE AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE

In an effort to position modern terrorism effecting Australia before Australia’s involvement in the invasion, and the resulting fiasco that is the occupation or Iraq, he has stated that because the Bali bombings happened before the invasion of Iraq, Australia’s involvement could not have been the reason why Australians were targeted at Bali. This is an utter deceit.
http://lataan.blogspot.com/2006/09/australian-prime-minister-john-howard.html

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