Dictatorship : Death Wish: The Presidential Prerogative of Murder

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Tuesday, March 01, 2005

Dictatorship:

Death Wish: The Presidential Prerogative of Murder

First published in The Moscow Times on Nov. 2, 2001. Yes, that’s how long Bush has claimed the absolute power of life and death over every single person on earth.

“Augurs and understood relations have…brought forth the secret’st man of blood.”
– Shakespeare, Macbeth.

The president of the United States has now assumed the power to order the murder of anyone on earth.

It’s no joke. The Washington Post reports this week that George W. Bush has signed an executive order giving himself the right to issue death warrants for any individual he deems a terrorist or terrorist supporter. These people will be killed in secret by the CIA, without any pretense of due process, without defense or appeal.

Such “targeted killings” – which have worked so well in making Israel the secure and peaceful place it is today – could also include the financial backers of terrorist activity. Good thing this executive order was not in effect during the 1930s, when Bush’s grandfather, Prescott, was one of the biggest financial backers of a terrorist organization known as Nazi Germany. Indeed, Bush was in so deep with Hitler that he kept doing business with Nazis even after American soldiers were being ripped by German lead in North Africa.

Ordinarily, this kind of thing might be called treason – but as we all know, the niceties of law and morality don’t apply to the Bushes of this world. Prescott’s Nazi assets were finally seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act – but it was all hush-hush, on the QT. After all, he was a pillar of the Establishment, and had a good lawyer working the case for him: Allen Dulles, a founding father of the CIA.

Now the CIA – which operates out of a building named for Prescott’s son, the “George H.W. Walker Center for Intelligence” – will be murdering the designated victims of Prescott’s grandson. What lovely historical symmetry, eh?

Bush’s license to kill leaves the meaning of “terrorist” and “terrorist supporter” deliberately vague. The definition is entirely up to the president: there is no legislative oversight, no judicial review, no public scrutiny. If he wants you dead, he can have you killed. It’s as simple as that.

This official acceptance of the principle of extra-judicial murder degrades the American government to the level of moral savagery. It is the same “principle” underlying all terrorist activity: a threat to a group’s interests is arbitrarily defined by its leaders, who then act arbitrarily, lawlessly, to eliminate the threat. It is the same principle invoked by bin Laden to defend Muslim lands from “infidels.” It is the same principle invoked by the Taliban when they assassinated moderate Afghan leader Abdul Haq last week. It is the same principle invoked by Ariel Sharon and his Palestinian doppelgangers as they trade “targeted killings” and civilian murders. It is the same principle once invoked by Prescott’s pal Hitler to defend Aryan “purity” by killing Jews.

It is the principle of evildoers, men of blood, murderers and beasts.

And it is now a guiding light of the “civilized” world.

source:
http://empireburlesquenow.blogspot.com/2005/03/death-wish-presidential-prerogative-of.html

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Torture Bill States Non-Allegiance To Bush Is Terrorism

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Torture Bill States Non-Allegiance To Bush Is Terrorism

Legislation tolls the bell for the day America died, birth of the dictatorship

Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones/Prison Planet.com | September 29 2006

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Buried amongst the untold affronts to the Bill of Rights, the Constitution and the very spirit of America, the torture bill contains a definition of “wrongfully aiding the enemy” which labels all American citizens who breach their “allegiance” to President Bush and the actions of his government as terrorists subject to possible arrest, torture and conviction in front of a military tribunal.

7:25PM CST UPDATE

After five hours of searching through the 80-plus page bill, Alex Jones, who won the 2004 Project Censored award for his analysis of Patriot Act 2, uncovered numerous other provisions and definitions that make the bill appear as almost a mirror image of Hitler’s 1933 Enabling Act.

In section 950j. the bill criminalizes any challenge to the legislation’s legality by the Supreme Court or any United States court. Alberto Gonzales has already threatened federal judges to shut up and not question Bush’s authority on the torture of detainees.

“No court, justice, or judge shall have jurisdiction to hear or consider any claim or cause of action whatsoever, including any action pending on or filed after the date of the enactment of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, relating to the prosecution, trial, or judgment of a military commission under this chapter, including challenges to the lawfulness of procedures of military commissions under this chapter.”

The Bush administration is preemptively overriding any challenge to the legislation by the Supreme Court.

The definition of torture that the legislation cites is US code title 18 section 2340. This is a broad definition of torture and completely lacks the specific clarity of the Geneva Conventions. This definition allows the use of torture that is, “incidental to lawful sanctions.” In alliance with the bill’s blanket authority for President Bush to define the Geneva Conventions as he sees fit, this legislates the use of torture.

The media has spun the bill as if it outlaws torture – it only outlaws torture for “enemy combatants,” and in fact outlaws the retaliation of any military against the United States as “murder.” Those deemed “enemy combatants” are not even allowed to fight back yet the government affords itself every power including the go-ahead to torture.

Further actions that result in the classification of an individual as a terrorist include the following.

- Destruction of any property, which is deemed punishable by any means of the military tribunal’s choosing.

- Any violent activity whatsoever if it takes place near a designated protected building, such as a charity building.

- A change of the definition of “pillaging” which turns all illegal occupation of property and all theft into terrorism. This makes squatters and petty thieves enemy combatants.

In light of Greg Palast’s recent hounding by Homeland Security, after they accused him of potentially giving terrorists key information about U.S. “critical infrastructure” when filming Exxon’s Baton Rouge refinery (clear photos of which were publicly available on Google Maps), sub-section 27 of section 950v. should send chills down the spine of all investigative journalists and even news-gatherers.

“Any person subject to this chapter who with intent or reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign power, collects or attempts to collect information by clandestine means or while acting under false pretenses, for the purpose of conveying such information to an enemy of the United States, or one of the co-belligerents of the enemy, shall be punished by death or such other punishment as a military commission under this chapter may direct.”

Subsection 4(b) (26) of section 950v. of HR 6166 – Crimes triable by military commissions – includes the following definition.

“Any person subject to this chapter who, in breach of an allegiance or duty to the United States, knowingly and intentionally aids an enemy of the United States, or one of the co-belligerents of the enemy, shall be punished as a military commission under this chapter may direct.”

For an individual to hold an allegiance or duty to the United States they need to be a citizen of the United States. Why would a foreign terrorist have any allegiance to the United States to breach in the first place?

This is another telltale facet that proves the bill applies to U.S. citizens and includes them under the “enemy combatant” designation. We previously cited the comments of Yale law Professor Bruce Ackerman, who wrote in the L.A. Times, “The compromise legislation….authorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the United States. And once thrown into military prison, they cannot expect a trial by their peers or any other of the normal protections of the Bill of Rights.”

The New York Times stated that the legislation introduced, “A dangerously broad definition of “illegal enemy combatant” in the bill could subject legal residents of the United States, as well as foreign citizens living in their own countries, to summary arrest and indefinite detention with no hope of appeal. The president could give the power to apply this label to anyone he wanted.”

Calling the bill “our generation’s version of the Alien and Sedition Acts,” the Times goes on to highlight the rubber stamping of torture.

“Coerced evidence would be permissible if a judge considered it reliable — already a contradiction in terms — and relevant. Coercion is defined in a way that exempts anything done before the passage of the 2005 Detainee Treatment Act, and anything else Mr. Bush chooses.”

Since with this bill, in the aggregate, Bush has declared himself to be above the Constitution and the laws of the United States, the allegiance of American citizens is no longer to the flag or the freedoms for which it stands, but to Bush himself, the self-appointed dictator, and any diversion from that allegiance will mandate arrest, torture and conviction in a military tribunal under the terms of this bill.

Similar to the UK’s Glorification of Terrorism law, which top lawyers have slammed as vague, open to interpretation and a potential weapon for the government to kidnap supposed subversives, the nebulous context of “wrongfully aiding the enemy,” could easily be defined to include publicly absolving an accused terrorist of involvement in a terrorist attack.

That renders the entire 9/11 truth movement an aid to terrorist suspects and subject to military tribunal and torture. In addition, Bush’s recently cited National Strategy for Combating Terrorism, which is available on the White House website, labels conspiracy theorists as terrorist recruiters.

This should leave us with no doubt as to which parties are the target of the government’s torture and intimidation campaign.

Could protesting a war approved by the government and their bootlickers in Congress and the Senate be considered breaching an allegiance to the United States? Could campaigning against the bombing of a target country be considered wrongfully aiding the enemy?

When the USA PATRIOT act was rushed through at the height of an anthrax scare without any members of Congress even having time to read it, we were assured that it was to fight terrorists and would not be used against the American people.

Since then a plethora of cases whereby the USA PATRIOT act was used against U.S. citizens emerged, including the internment without trial for over three years of Jose Padilla, an American citizen who was finally released after no evidence of terrorism was uncovered.

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The so-called “compromise” before the bill was passed and the media acclaim of John McCain as some kind of human rights champion is one of the biggest con jobs ever inflicted upon the American people.

Shortly after the bill was finalized it was spun by Bush security advisor Stephen Hadley as “good news and a good day for the American people.” McCain said that it safeguarded “the integrity and letter and spirit of the Geneva Conventions.”

In truth the legislation does the exact opposite, giving Bush carte blanche to “interpret the meaning and application of the Geneva Conventions.”

In addition, under the bill, “No person may invoke the Geneva Conventions or any protocols thereto in any habeas corpus or other civil action or proceeding to which the United States, or a current or former officer, employee, member of the Armed Forces, or other agent of the United States is a party as a source of rights in any court of the United States or its States or territories.”

The bill also allows hearsay evidence (obtained via phony confessions after torture) to be considered by the military tribunal and bars the suspect from even having knowledge of the charges against him – making a case for defense impossible. This is guaranteed to produce 100% conviction rates as you would expect in the dictatorships of Uzbekistan or Zimbabwe and other torture protagonists who are in many cases allied with the Bush administration and provide phony confessions obtained from torture that allow the U.S. government to scare its people with the threat of imaginary Al-Qaeda terror cells waiting to kill them.

Following the Supreme Court’s ruling to previously strike down Bush’s shadow penal system, Alberto Gonzales is already out threatening federal judges to shut up and get behind the dictator or face the consequences.

Gonzales has the sheer gall to attack judges for even considering to “overturn long-standing traditions or policies without proper support in text or precedent,” which is exactly what Gonzales, Bush and the rest of the White House criminals are doing themselves by de facto abolishing the Bill of Rights!

This is a dark day for the United States, the day America died and the bastard birth of a literal dictatorship.

RELATED: Bush Given Authority To Sexually Torture American Children

source:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2006/290906torturebill.htm

See Also:

Thunder on the Mountain: The Murderers of Democracy
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m27044&hd=0&size=1&l=e

Habeas Corpus, R.I.P. (1215 – 2006)
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15163.htm

“A Total Rollback Of Everything This Country Has Stood For”
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15161.htm

New legislation authorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy combatants
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=105042;title=APFN

Death Wish: The Presidential Prerogative of Murder
http://empireburlesquenow.blogspot.com/2005/03/death-wish-presidential-prerogative-of.html

Attorneys For Guantanamo Detainees Could Be Detained As Enemy Combatants Under New Legislation
http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/reports/report.asp?ObjID=zQrItml3Gv&Content=845

A Personal Declaration of Independence
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15156.htm

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Dictatorship : US Congress legalizes torture and indefinite detention

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=== News Update ===

Dictatorship :

US Congress legalizes torture and indefinite detention

By the editorial board

29 September 2006

The legislation adopted by the House of Representatives Wednesday and the Senate Thursday, legalizing the Bush administration’s policy of torture and indefinite detention without trial, as well as kangaroo-court procedures for Guantánamo detainees, marks a watershed for the United States.

For the first time in American history, Congress and the White House have agreed to set aside the provisions of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and formally adopt methods traditionally identified with police states.

This bill is the outcome of a protracted process of decay of American democracy, which has accompanied the immense growth in social inequality and reached a turning point in the stolen election of 2000. In early December of 2000, on the eve of the US Supreme Court ruling that halted the counting of votes in Florida and awarded the presidency to George W. Bush, who had lost the popular vote nationally to his Democratic opponent Al Gore, David North, the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party of the US and chairman of the international editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site, in a report on the US election crisis said:

“What the decision of this court will reveal is how far the American ruling class is prepared to go in breaking with traditional bourgeois-democratic and constitutional norms. Is it prepared to sanction ballot fraud and the suppression of votes and install in the White House a candidate who has attained that office through blatantly illegal and anti-democratic methods?

“A substantial section of the bourgeoisie, and perhaps even a majority of the US Supreme Court, is prepared to do just that. There has been a dramatic erosion of support within the ruling elites for the traditional forms of bourgeois democracy in the United States.”

The Supreme Court ruling and the refusal of the Democratic Party to oppose it demonstrated that there remained no significant constituency within the American ruling elite for the defense of democratic rights.

The battery of police state measures enacted by the Bush administration, without any serious opposition from within the political establishment, has confirmed this analysis.

The Military Commission Act of 2006 will do far more than set down the procedures to be used to rubber-stamp the incarceration of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay and other US-run detention camps throughout the world. It attacks the rights of all American citizens as well as all legal residents and other immigrants, who will now be subject to the threat of arrest and imprisonment for life, on the order of the president alone, without judicial review.

The legislation now goes back to the House of Representatives for a final vote Friday, to reconcile minor language differences between the two versions. President Bush is expected to receive the bill for signing by the weekend.

Under the terms of this law, the president may designate any person as an “unlawful enemy combatant,” to be rounded up by intelligence agents and jailed indefinitely without legal recourse. The law defines an “unlawful enemy combatant” as “an individual engaged in hostilities against the United States” who is not a regular member of an opposing army.

Given the Bush administration’s elastic view as to what constitutes “hostilities,” this definition has the potential to erase any legal distinction between an actual Al Qaeda terrorist, an Arab immigrant who makes a charitable donation to Lebanese relief, and an American college student who clashes with police during a protest demonstration against the Iraq war.

The legislation passed the House Wednesday with the support of 34 Democrats, who joined 219 Republicans in the lopsided vote of 253-168. The Senate adopted the bill the next day, by an even wider 65-34 margin, with 12 Democrats joining a near-unanimous Republican bloc.

Before voting on the overall bill, senators defeated four amendments: to restore habeas corpus rights for prisoners, defeated 51-48; to increase congressional oversight of the CIA torture program, which lost 53-46; to impose a five-year limit on the military commissions, which lost 52-47; and to ban specific, named torture techniques, which lost by a similar margin.

The sweeping legislation meets all the desires of the Bush administration except for an explicit repeal of the Geneva Convention. The White House agreed to slightly weaker language that gives the president the power to “interpret” the Geneva Convention to permit lesser forms of torture.

Its major provisions include:

* Authorizing the president to establish military commissions to prosecute detainees taken into US custody, either overseas or within the United States.

* Giving the military commissions power to determine punishment, up to and including death.

* Rules of evidence that permit hearsay evidence and testimony coerced from witnesses.

* Permitting the use of testimony obtained by “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment” if the torture took place before December 30, 2005, when it was banned by Congress.

* Allowing prosecutors to withhold from defendants evidence given to a jury, if it involves classified information, and substitute unclassified summaries.

* Stripping US courts of jurisdiction over detainees, and stripping detainees of their right to seek a writ of habeas corpus.

Violations of the Constitution

Many of the provisions of this legislation are flagrant violations of the US Constitution. This was acknowledged by Republican Senator Arlen Specter, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, who nonetheless voted for the bill after his amendment to restore habeas corpus rights was defeated.

Specter said in the debate that in denying habeas corpus rights for suspects detained in the “war on terror,” the bill “would take our civilized society back some 900 years” to the time before the adoption of the Magna Carta—the first elaboration of democratic principles under English law.

“What this entire controversy boils down to is whether Congress is going to legislate to deny a constitutional right which is explicit in the document of the Constitution itself and which has been applied to aliens by the Supreme Court of the United States,” he said.

Article I, Section 9 of the US Constitution declares: “The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.” No one in the Bush administration or the congressional Republican leadership has suggested that the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 constituted such an invasion. They simply ignore the clear language of the Constitution.

The bill’s other provisions also violate the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution, which spell out the requirements of a fair trial, based on the colonists’ bitter experience with the injustices of the British Crown. The Amendment reads:

“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.”

Prisoners in Guantánamo and other US concentration camps will face trial by a panel of military officers, can be denied the right to see the evidence or witnesses against them, and will have lawyers hamstrung by being under the direct surveillance of the military and working under the authority of the commander-in-chief.

>From the standpoint of the Bush administration and the congressional Republican leadership, these gross constitutional violations are not a regrettable necessity but a positive good. They are whipping up public fear of terrorism not merely for short-term electoral purposes, but to lay the basis for a permanent shift to authoritarian forms of rule in the United States.

The role of the Democrats

The votes on four amendments Thursday allowed Senate Democrats to posture as defenders of civil liberties and constitutional freedoms. Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, for instance, denounced the elimination of habeas corpus protection for 12 million legal resident immigrants, as well as for immigrants without legal papers. The provision “makes a mockery of the Bush-Cheney lofty rhetoric about exporting freedom across the globe,” he said, adding, “What hypocrisy!”

Senator Carl Levin of Michigan said, “The habeas corpus language in this bill is as legally abusive of rights guaranteed in the Constitution as the actions at Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo and secret prisons that were physically abusive of detainees.”

But Leahy and Levin did not explain why they and other Democratic leaders refused to block a vote on the legislation through a filibuster, which requires only 40 votes to sustain. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid reached an agreement Wednesday evening with Majority Leader Bill Frist to allow votes on the four amendments in return for the Democrats refraining from any filibuster—although the Democrats filibustered on much less weighty issues, such as the appointment of a number of federal appeals court judges.

In his Senate floor speech, Leahy declared, “We are about to put the darkest blot possible on the nation’s conscience. This is so wrong. . . . It is unconstitutional. It is un-American.” Apparently not so wrong, or so dark a blot, as to impel the Democrats to actually oppose the Bush administration one month before an election.

Instead, Democrat after Democrat facing close contests sided with the Bush administration. The 12 Democratic senators who voted for final passage of the bill included, besides such open right-wingers as Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, liberals facing re-election contests such as Robert Menendez of New Jersey, Debbie Stabenow of Michigan and Bill Nelson of Florida.

The 34 House Democrats included a number of right-wing Southern Democrats, but also several members of the Congessional Black Caucus and two congressmen who are Democratic candidates for the US Senate in next month’s election—Harold Ford of Tennessee and Sherrod Brown of Ohio.

Brown, a liberal, has sought to appeal to antiwar sentiment in Ohio, a state which has lost a disproportionate number of young men and women in Iraq, including two dozen from a single National Guard unit based in the Cleveland suburb of Brook Park. In an interview with MSNBC.com, Brown said that detainees “are not soldiers, not combatants representing a government, these are terrorists.”

Of course, the ostensible purpose of a judicial proceeding is to determine, on the basis of evidence, whether the accused are actually guilty of the charges against them. Brown, like the Bush administration, assumes that all those seized by the CIA and the US military are guilty, and uses that presumption of guilt to justify star-chamber proceedings.

Brown rejected criticism of his complicity with the Bush administration, saying, “Some people just don’t want me to agree with George Bush on anything.”

The New York Times observed, in its editorial deploring in advance the passage of the bill, the year 2006 will go down in history for the passage of “a tyrannical law that will be ranked with the low points in American democracy, our generation’s version of the Alien and Sedition Acts.” But the newspaper did not attempt to give a serious explanation for this turn toward tyranny, or suggest a basis for fighting against it.

Nor could it, since the Times, along with the rest of the establishment media and both political parties of the American corporate elite, supports the so-called “war on terror,” which is a political fig leaf for the use of militarism and war in pursuit of the global aims of US imperialism. A policy of military aggression and conquest abroad is ultimately incompatible with democracy at home.

The struggle against authoritarian methods of rule must be taken up by the working class, the only social force within American society that retains a deep attachment to the defense of democratic rights. The prerequisite for this struggle is a break with the two parties of the American ruling elite and the building of a mass socialist movement of the working class.

source:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/sep2006/tort-s29.shtml

See Also:
Senate-White House compromise sanctions CIA torture of detainees
[23 September 2006]
Republican senators’ resistance to Bush torture bill reflects tension between White House and military brass
[22 September 2006]
After the Supreme Court ruling
Congressional Democrats join with Republicans to maintain military commissions at Guantánamo
[1 July 2006]

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Christians: We’ll fight for Israel

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Christians: We’ll fight for Israel

Evangelical delegates from around the world arrive at Knesset to express ‘love for Israel’

Yaakov Lappin

Published:

09.27.06, 21:43

Millions of Evangelical Christians around the world support and constantly pray for the State of Israel , representatives at a meeting of the Knesset’s Christian Allies Caucus said Wednesday.

Dozens of Evangelical pastors, parliament members, and leaders from an array of countries gathered at the Knesset in Jerusalem to proclaim their support for the country, during a meeting of the Caucus, which was also attended by Knesset Members from across the political spectrum.

“We see Israelis as our spiritual mothers and fathers. It’s an honor for us to be here,” Pastor Norman Miller of Australia told Ynetnews. “We love your God, Israel,” Miller told the meeting, to a round of warm applause.

“The line between the political and the biblical is disappearing,” Josh Reinstein, Director of the Caucus, told the meeting. “Around the world, we see the rise of radical Islam come against our Judeo-Christian values, and we must meet it with a well organized response,” Reinstein said. “We formed the Christian Allies Caucus to coordinate cooperate and communicate with our Christian allies around the world… we want to work with you, and we thank you for your support,” he told delegates.

Speaking to Ynetnews, Reinstein said that modern events were shaping up to fit well with Torah prophecies. “If you can read the newspaper, than you can read the Torah, because things are coming into place like people have predicted many years before us.”

“This isn’t just a time to shake hands… this is really the start of a relationship, of a political relationship, and that means an economic relationship, a social cooperation, and that also means political support for the State of Israel,” he said.

Addressing concerns voiced by some about an alliance with Evangelical Christianity, Reinstein said: “Of course we have to be vigilant to make sure that we’re not working with organizations that are just befriending us to convert us, but what we are doing is finding real friends and creating real relationships, so we can promote each other.

“Evangelical Christians around the world are the greatest friends Israel has. And for us to turn our noses at them because of past transgressions is a ridiculous idea… the relationship between Jews and Christians in the 21st century is going to be the most important issue of our time, I think.”

Reinstein said concerns about the Evangelical belief in the second coming of Jesus were unfounded: “We also have our own beliefs. For our purpose, it’s completely irrelevant. If you’re a Jew and you’re concerned about what’s going to happen in the Christian faith, you’re not really a practicing Jews, because that’s something you shouldn’t be concerned about.”

‘We have soldiers for you’

During the lunch-meeting, delegates introduced themselves, declaring their love for Israel. A delegate from Africa said: “We have soldiers in Africa, not just spiritual soldiers, but those who even want to come and fight with you.” A Kenyan member of parliament said he would soon run for prime minister in his country, promising that should he win, “the next morning the Kenyan embassy would be moved to Jerusalem.”

“The friendship that we receive from you, our Christian friends, has significance far beyond the good feeling it gives to us Israelis,” Knesset Member Gilad Eran said. “It is clear proof to us, and to the whole world, and particularly to the terrorists, that Israel is not alone,” he said.

“It says in the book of Isaiah that Egypt, Israel, and Syria will worship God together,” Tom Hess, an American Evangelical pastor who has lived in Israel for the past 19 years, told the delegates.

“What’s beginning to happen in the Middle East is that there are Arab leaders that God’s raising up as pillars, that are standing with God’s covenant, that are saying the land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people,” Hess said, introducing a number of Evangelical pastors from east Jerusalem, Egypt, and Turkey, described by Hess as “biblical Syria.”

“They are teaching their people in their nations, they are the leaders of their nations, against replacement theology, to stand with God’s

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covenant with the people of Israel and the Land of Israel,” Hess said.

Palestinian: Jerusalem belongs to Israel and Jesus

Amir Boutros, and Egyptian Christian, said to warm applause: “I assure you, Members of Knesset, and the government here in Israel, that no one can wipe away Israel. I’m not talking nonsense. It’s from my own experience. I’ve been in the Six Days war, 1967, fighting against Israel.

“And in those days, president Nasser assured to the whole world that he is going to wipe away Israel from the map… thousands of tanks and troops came to the border, and Nasser said that we are going to throw Israel into the Mediterranean Sea. But I tell you people, that the God of Israel is defending Israel.”

Boutros said he had a revelation, during which he was ordered by God to love Israel.

Naim Khoury, a Palestinian Christian, said he is “wanted” by Islamic groups, adding: “I believe the land of Israel is going to prosper… the Iranian president cannot touch this land, because it belongs to God’s chosen people. And God is going to protect this land, and keep Jerusalem a united city, forever and ever. Because Jerusalem does not belong to Iran, Hamas, Hizbullah, or Syria. It belongs to the State of Israel, and the great king the lord Jesus Christ.”

source:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3309009,00.html

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Global anti-American feelings may take decades to fix

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Global anti-American feelings may take decades to fix

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — It may take decades to change anti-American feelings around the world that have been aggravated by war in Iraq, U.S. policy toward Israel and America’s “sex and violence” culture, the State Department official in charge of dealing with the U.S. image abroad said Thursday.

“The anti-Americanism, the concern around the world … this ideological struggle, it’s not going to change” quickly, Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes said in an interview with the Associated Press. “It’s going to be the work of years and maybe decades.”

A June poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press found that America’s image in 15 nations dropped sharply in 2006. According to that poll, America’s continued involvement in Iraq was seen as a worse problem than Iran and its nuclear ambitions.

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http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060929/NATION/609290345/1020

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Where are all the dead Taliban?

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=== News Update ===

Where are all the dead Taliban?

British troops in Afghanistan are brave, says robert fox, but the body count doesn’t add up

Troops in line for VCs,” the Daily Telegraph trumpeted this week, claiming there had been recommendations for 180 gallantry awards for soldiers in Afghanistan, including six Victoria Crosses.

The news was given by “a senior Whitehall source” who explained just how tough the fighting had been and that the British were now winning against the Taliban.

Official spin of this kind frequently appears during controversial military campaigns. The line about six VCs for Helmand – “to be rushed through for Christmas,” as the Telegraph added breathlessly – has an echo of the Lancashire Fusiliers’ “Six VCs before Breakfast” for their assault on W Beach at Gallipoli on April 24, 1915.

The trouble is that, while there undoubtedly have been great acts of bravery in Afghanistan, the figures just don’t add up.

In the past two months ‘official sources’ have claimed that an aggregate of several thousand ‘Taliban’ have been killed by British, Canadian, Danish and special forces. The Nato commander, General Jim Jones, said last week: “It wouldn’t surprise me if 1,500 had been killed” by Canadian forces in Kandahar this month alone.

The numbers game – giving increasingly implausible counts of enemy dead – was one of the main factors that undermined the credibility of US forces in Vietnam.

If hundreds of Taliban really have been killed in one attack or another, it raises two questions: Who are they? And what on earth was the Blair government doing sending a force with initially only 650 combat troops against ‘thousands’ of Taliban fighters?

Only a few of the Taliban appear to be diehard followers of Mullah Omar Mohammed, who founded the movement in Afghanistan a dozen years ago. “I am afraid we have killed an awful lot of local villagers,” a special forces commander said this week.

source:
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=1&subID=789

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US Terrorize The World – 7 Ramadhan 1427 H (30.9.06)

bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem

In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

=== News Update ===

Dictatorship : US Congress legalizes torture and indefinite detention

For the first time in American history, Congress and the White House have agreed to set aside the provisions of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and formally adopt methods traditionally identified with police states.

The legislation adopted by the House of Representatives Wednesday and the Senate Thursday, legalizing the Bush administration’s policy of torture and indefinite detention without trial, as well as kangaroo-court procedures for Guantánamo detainees, marks a watershed for the United States.
See: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/sep2006/tort-s29.shtml

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Torture Bill States Non-Allegiance To Bush Is Terrorism

Buried amongst the untold affronts to the Bill of Rights, the Constitution and the very spirit of America, the torture bill contains a definition of “wrongfully aiding the enemy” which labels all American citizens who breach their “allegiance” to President Bush and the actions of his government as terrorists subject to possible arrest, torture and conviction in front of a military tribunal.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2006/290906torturebill.htm

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Thunder on the Mountain: The Murderers of Democracy

>From the New York Times:
The Senate today rejected an amendment to a bill creating a new system for interrogating and trying terror suspects that would have guaranteed such suspects access to the courts to challenge their imprisonment. The action set the stage for final passage of the bill, which was approved on Wednesday by the House of Representatives. The bill’s ultimate passage was assured on Wednesday when Democrats agreed to forgo a filibuster in return for consideration of the amendment. (For what the bill really means, see this excellent piece from Glenn Greenwald.)

Who are these people? Who are these useless hanks of bone and fat that call themselves Senators of the United States? Let’s call them what they really are, let’s speak the truth about what they’ve done today with their votes on the bill to enshrine Bush’s gulag of torture and endless detention into American law.
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m27044&hd=0&size=1&l=e

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Habeas Corpus, R.I.P. (1215 – 2006)

I’d like those supporting this evil bill to spare me one affliction: Do not, please, pretend to be shocked by the consequences of this legislation. And do not pretend to be shocked when the world begins comparing us to the Nazis.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15163.htm

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“A Total Rollback Of Everything This Country Has Stood For”

Sen. Patrick Leahy Blasts Congressional Approval of Detainee Bill

The Senate has agreed to give President Bush extraordinary power to detain and try prisoners in the so-called war on terror. The legislation strips detainees of the right to challenge their own detention and gives the President the power to detain them indefinitely.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15161.htm

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New legislation authorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy combatants

America…You deserve what is being done to you! We are a bunch of gutless wonders who would make our forefathers nauseous if they knew how we act. We are letting our country be taken away from us and all we do is talk about it.

Our grandkids are going to hate us!
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=105042;title=APFN

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Death Wish: The Presidential Prerogative of Murder

The Washington Post reports this week that George W. Bush has signed an executive order giving himself the right to issue death warrants for any individual he deems a terrorist or terrorist supporter. These people will be killed in secret by the CIA, without any pretense of due process, without defense or appeal.
http://empireburlesquenow.blogspot.com/2005/03/death-wish-presidential-prerogative-of.html

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Attorneys For Guantanamo Detainees Could Be Detained As Enemy Combatants Under New Legislation

On September 26, 2006, attorneys for the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) determined that what appears to be the final version of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 could allow the government to detain the attorneys themselves as ‘enemy combatants.’
http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/reports/report.asp?ObjID=zQrItml3Gv&Content=845

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A Personal Declaration of Independence

As a citizen of these United States for 70 years, I refuse to be ruled by a tyrant who imposes despotic, autocratic control on the citizens of these United States through a series of clandestine actions that usurp the rights of the people.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15156.htm

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The Breaking Point : More than a half trillion dollars in 3 years.

The war is bankrupting the nation while grooming the next generation’s terrorists. This is the very definition of failure.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15159.htm

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Screening “What is said about…Arabs & Terrorism”

>From the makers of the award-winning documentary “About Baghdad,” a ground-breaking documentary series is beginning its US tour this fall. “What is said about . . . Arabs and Terrorism” has been shown on satellite channels worldwide and is being screened successfully across the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. We think your community will find this series
compelling and engaging and we would like to work with you to schedule a screening locally.

This documentary is a critical investigation of Western perceptions of Arabs and Muslims and their connection to “terrorism.” The most comprehensive audiovisual treatment of this topic to date, the project consists of over 125 interviews researched and filmed on location in 12 different countries and 6 different languages. These three episodes-Definitions of Terrorism, State Terrorism, and Terrorism and Resistance-follow the director, Professor Bassam Haddad, through the United States, Europe, and the Middle East as he converses with politicians, media personalities, academics, civil society advocates, accused terrorists/resistance leaders, and hundreds of people on the street in a direct, detailed investigation of the grammar and vocabulary of mainstream
Western discourse and its critics.
http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net

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Global anti-American feelings may take decades to fix

It may take decades to change anti-American feelings around the world that have been aggravated by war in Iraq, U.S. policy toward Israel and America’s “sex and violence” culture, the State Department official in charge of dealing with the U.S. image abroad said Thursday.
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060929/NATION/609290345/1020

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Another Hideous US Crime against Humanity in Iraq

The US forces of occupation have added yet another massacre of civilians to its war criminal record in Iraq, when it executed a family of eight amongst which four women; two of which were pregnant, and arrested two other family members in the city of Baquba north east of Baghdad, reports a London based newspaper (28/9/2006).
http://www.iraqirabita.org/english/index.php?do=article&id=737

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Who Thinks Of These Type Of Operations? Eventually Israel/Zionists will control all of Iraq’s oil

http://judicial-inc.biz/fu.el_tanker_explodes_and_kills_t.htm

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Iraq : Our men and women are fighting and dying for this?

Under a broad new set of laws criminalizing speech that ridicules the government or its officials, some resurrected verbatim from Saddam Hussein’s penal code, roughly a dozen Iraqi journalists have been charged with offending public officials in the past year.

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Book says Bush ignored urgent warning on Iraq

The White House ignored an urgent warning in September 2003 from a top Iraq adviser who said that thousands of additional American troops were desperately needed to quell the insurgency there, according to a new book by Bob Woodward
http://snipurl.com/xmds

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At least 15 killed as bloody U.S. occupation grinds on

Gunmen firing from a car killed three Iraqi soldiers, two of them brothers, in the small town of Rashad, 20 km (12 miles) southwest of the northern oil city of Kirkuk, police said.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/RAS925166.htm

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More Tortured Bodies Found In Baghdad

The corpses of six men and one woman were all found in east Baghdad neighborhoods. They were blindfolded, and had their hands and legs bound, police said.
http://cbs4boston.com/national/topstories_story_272061155.html

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Five killed in U.S. air strike -police, medics

Iraqi police and hospital officials said a woman and two children were among five people killed in an air strike on a car on Thursday, but the U.S. military said it was unaware of any such incident.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MAC856534.htm

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Two U.S. occupation force soldiers killed in Iraq

Two U.S. soldiers were killed in two incidents in the volatile Anbar province, the U.S. military said on Thursday.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200609/29/eng20060929_307302.html

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U.S. army `coming to end of its rope’

Not only are troop levels not being reduced, but almost 8,000 soldiers have just had their 12-month tours of duty extended.
http://snipurl.com/xmdp

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 28 September 2006.

• Resistance bomb in al-Fallujah reportedly kills two US troops Thursday morning.
• Four US troops reported killed in Resistance car bombing in western Baghdad Thursday afternoon.
• Bodies of 61 torture murder victims found in various parts of Baghdad as US-Zionist-backed effort to split Iraq along religious and ethnic lines continues.
• American troops greet new school year by rounding up elementary school children of Resistance fighters in Baghdad.
• US soldier reported killed by Resistance sharpshooter in Baghdad’s al-A’zamiyah district.
• Resistance bomb kills puppet “National Guards” in al-Fallujah.
• Four US troops wounded in Resistance bombing in al-Yarmuk Thursday morning.
• Sunnis take back mosque occupied by Shi’i sectarian Jaysh al-Mahdi gunmen two days earlier.
• Resistance car bomber blasts into puppet army camp in Baghdad.
• Resistance bombs rip through US supply convoy near Samarra’.
• Bomb targets puppet police in Tikrit late Wednesday.
• Resistance blasts US-occupied al-Bakr Air Base with mortars Wednesday evening.
• Resistance car bomber kills four Kurdish mercenaries in attack on US base in Kirkuk Thursday afternoon.
• British, Iraqi puppet forces launch sweep to retake control of al-Basrah from Shi’i sectarian militias.

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2006/0906/iraqiresistancereport_280906.htm

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Why NATO cannot win the Afghan war

Germane to the crisis in a fundamental sense is the hard reality that no matter the oft-repeated factor of a reasonably secure cross-border sanctuary in Pakistan, the Taliban have indeed staged a comeback in essence as an indigenous guerilla force capable of waging a long-term struggle. That is to say, the central issue is that the US has simply failed to come up with a winning political and military strategy in Afghanistan.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HI30Df01.html

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NATO occupation forces soldier killed in Afghanistan explosion

A NATO occupation forces soldier was killed in a blast in Afghanistan today during a patrol in the southern province of Kandahar, the force said.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/4223924.html

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Taliban say they shot “spy”

The Taliban claimed responsibility on Friday for executing a man described as a spy for US and Afghan intelligence in North Waziristan, a border region where the Pakistan government signed a pact with tribals a few weeks ago to stamp out militancy.
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411319/838247

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Why British government conceals true casualty figures in Afghanistan, Iraq?

British soldiers wounded in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are not eligible to timely help as the British government is reluctant to disclose the actual casualty figures in the two wars, recent media reports in Britain note.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200609/29/eng20060929_307599.html

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Where are all the dead Taliban?

The figures just don’t add up.
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=1&subID=789

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Afghanistan: The Wild East

Sheer desperation is driving many Afghans back into the arms of the fanatical Taliban movement. Once again, the holy warriors have taken control of entire regions and are seeking to ensnare the Western allies in a bloody guerilla war.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,440017,00.html

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Pakistan accused of hundreds of terror abductions

Pakistan has abducted hundreds of people as part of the U.S-led war on terror, often secretly holding them for months while they are interrogated, the human rights group Amnesty International said on Friday.
http://snipurl.com/xmeb

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Hundreds of Terror Suspects Have ‘Disappeared,’ Rights Group Says

Hundreds of suspects connected with the war on terror in Pakistan have “disappeared,” and some detainees have been captured by bounty hunters and sold to America, according to Amnesty International.
http://www.nysun.com/article/40640

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RCMP chief apologizes to Arar for ‘terrible injustices’

RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli apologized to Maher Arar on Thursday and said he accepts all the recommendations of a report criticizing the RCMP’s role in the Canadian’s deportation to Syria, where he was tortured.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/09/28/zaccardelli-appearance.html

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It’s official- RCMP no longer has any credibility in Canada

Ottawa stands by top cop RCMP commissioner grilled; Zaccardelli apologizes for Arar blunders but says he has no intention of resigning

Breaking 10 days of silence, the head of the RCMP offered a public apology yesterday to Maher Arar for the “terrible injustice” that he and his family suffered after the Mounties falsely labelled him a terrorist.
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=a9f9e560-e9ed-4fa7-a597-5d9e37fa5391&k=22316

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Professor Ghazi-Walid Falah seeks an apology from Israel concerning his unfair detention

Now after the dust has settled somewhat regarding the case of my recent detention by the Israeli secret police from 8 to 30 July, 2006 and my subsequent release without any charges (www.ghazifalah.com), the Israeli Ministry of Justice is sending a PDF file letter to many scholars around the world. The thrust of this letter is basically that my arrest and investigation were done in full compliance with Israeli law. The letter was dated September 6, 2006 —38 days after my release and following a number of interviews that I gave to the media in the US, Canada and Ireland, stating my version of truth about this political detention (http://muehlenhaus.com/ghazi/ ) and my request for a formal apology from the State of Israel (http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/15211375.htm).

http://www.ghazifalah.com/about.html

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Bad faith and the destruction of Palestine

A mistake too often made by those examining Israel’s behaviour in the occupied territories — or when analysing its treatment of Arabs in general, or interpreting its view of Iran — is to assume that Israel is acting in good faith. Even its most trenchant critics can fall into this trap.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15158.htm

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Two Palestinian boys killed by an Israeli drone

Two Palestinian boys were killed when an Israeli drone fired a rocket at them while they were cycling in occupied Beit Hanoun in the north of the Gaza Strip.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=15777

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UN envoy says Israel guilty of ‘collective punishment’ in Gaza

Israel is guilty of “collective punishment” of the Palestinian people through its military actions in the Gaza Strip, a United Nations human rights official said Friday.
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=144277

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UN tells of Israeli border violation

Israel has violated the UN-drawn border it shares with Lebanon, the spokesman for the UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon says.
http://snipurl.com/xme6

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UNIFIL confronts Israeli troops

U.N. peacekeeping forces in south Lebanon intervened for the first time Thursday with Israeli forces who arrested journalists in violation of Resolution 1701.
http://license.icopyright.net/user/viewFreeUse.act?fuid=MTYxMzY3

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In case you missed it: Video: How Israel Treats Journalists

-:WARNING:- This video should only be viewed by a mature audience
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15157.htm

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Gonzales cautions judges on interfering

Gonzales has sent Justice Department lawyers into federal courts from coast to coast defending Bush’s detention of terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, his plans to try some of them before military tribunals and his use of the National Security Agency to wiretap Americans without court warrants when they communicate with suspected terrorists abroad.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15160.htm

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This Is What Waterboarding Looks Like

The Washington Post simply referred to waterboarding a few days ago as an interrogation measure that “simulates drowning.” But what does waterboarding look like?
http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2006/09/this_is_what_wa.php

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House passes warrantless domestic spying measure

Rep. John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat, charged: “Hidden in the fine print are provisions which grant the administration authority to maintain permanent records on innocent U.S. citizens, granting the administration new authority to demand personal records without court review, and terminating any and all legal challenges to unlawful wiretapping.”
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15152.htm

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Legal residents’ rights curbed in detainee bill

A last-minute change to a bill currently before Congress on the rights of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay could have sweeping implications inside the United States: It would strip green-card holders and other legal residents of the right to challenge their detention in court if they are accused of being “enemy combatants.”
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15153.htm

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Ex-Prez Carter: Bush has brought U.S. “international disgrace”

Former President Carter is urging northern Nevadans to elect his son, Jack, to the Senate to help combat a Bush administration he says has brought “international disgrace” to the country.
http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?s=5473638

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Majority of Baptists Support Bush

The head of public policy for the Southern Baptist Convention says an overwhelming majority of Baptists still support President Bush and his handling of the Iraq war.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15155.htm

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