Iraqi Residents Welcome Resistance ‘With Flowers’

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Iraqi Residents Welcome Resistance ‘With Flowers’

Azzaman

Residents shower ‘Mujahiddeen’ with flowers

Azzaman, November 15, 2006

Women ululate. Children clap. Men raise fists in the air and shout ‘Allah Akbar.’ And two young men approach and hand the masked ‘mujahideen’ a bouquet of flowers.

The festive mood was supposed to be reserved to the U.S. ‘liberation’ troops whose leaders believed before sending them to Iraqi hell that Iraqis would go out into the streets and welcome them with flowers and ululation.

Conditions are totally the opposite of what the current Whitehouse and its leaders had in mind before embarking on their Iraq mission for the sale of which they used every trick and lie in the book.

And look at their troops. U.S. occupation forces and their leaders and their lackeys are now the most despised in Iraq. U.S. ‘liberation’ of Iraq is now seen as a deliberate U.S. attempt to destroy Iraq.

No sane Iraq would today even mention the word ‘liberation.’ No sane Iraq would look at U.S. occupation troops as ‘liberators.’ They are in most Iraqi eyes, and it is really unfortunate to say, viewed as thieves, gangsters and thugs who have come to rape and molest women and girls, abuse prisoners, and destroy cities and residential districts one after the other.

And U.S. tormentors in Iraq are now the ‘heroes of liberation,’ the resistance fighters who are held with highest esteem and respect in Iraqi eyes.

Stories abound of how residents in many Iraqi cities currently bearing the brunt of fighting the occupation provide shelter to anti-U.S. rebels.

Following successful operations, residents get out of their homes celebrating the rebels and pouring scorn on Americans.

Why did this happen? The answer lies with the Whitehouse and its occupants.

Look at them and the way they are trying to get themselves out of the quagmire they have created.

Their only aim is how to ‘prevail,’ how to minimize their losses and loss of face. There is little talk of the country they have imploded and hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis their disastrous polices have killed, maimed and uprooted.

More than a hundred innocent Iraqis are being killed everyday in Baghdad alone and they are not moved. The only thing that moves them is their strategic interests. To hell with Iraq and its 26 million people.

Any solution to the current crisis which is devouring lives like fire in a forest is rejected if it does not meet their strategic interests.

They refuse to conduct serious talks with the resistance because its demands contradict their interests. And let Iraqis die in droves.

They have antagonized and marginalized two of the regions states with frontiers running for nearly 2,000 kilometers with Iraq. They openly say their policies aim at destabilizing both Syria and Iran and at the same ask them not to disturb their presence in Iraq.

And they want Iraqis to believe them that they have come as ‘liberators’ and not invaders.

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WHAT THE AMERICANS DO NOT KNOW

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=== News Update ===

WHAT THE AMERICANS DO NOT KNOW

Ibrahim Ebeid, Al-Moharer

November 19, 2006

The aggression against the Palestinians is widening and the United States of America is taking an active role in it. The country of “Justice for All” and its allies are maintaining a deadly blockade against the people of Palestine. Medicine, food and water are not available and the Palestinian children, like their young brethren in Iraq, are suffering the most. Hospitals and medical centers are not operating to an acceptable standard because of lack of medicine, water and electricity. A friend of mine died at a barricade, he was gravely ill, and he was not allowed to cross to the hospital which was a couple of miles away. He was neither the first nor the last to die at the crossings or barricades. American taxpayer money is supplied to the Zionist terrorists to maintain this racist entity and to build settlements on Palestinian confiscated lands. American guns and bombs are killing Palestinians every day and in every spot of occupied Palestine.

“Israel,” is guilty of mass murder but President Bush and our political parties, Republicans and Democrats are giving the Palestinians deaf ears and blind eyes, they are ignoring the tragedy and giving the racist Zionist state strong support, protection and immunity.

The United States never blamed the racist state for the atrocities that it is committing against the Palestinians or Lebanese. Every time a UN draft resolution is introduced to condemn the Zionist perpetrators and their atrocities, Washington vetoes it, no matter what administration we have.
American occupation forces in Iraq are taking an active part in terrorizing the Palestinians. The US occupation forces stormed the Palestinian refugee residential compounds in Hay al Baladiyat in Baghdad. People were beaten; their apartments were ransacked and destroyed; their furniture and belongings were smashed; and their jewelry and money were stolen. Scores of men and women were unlawfully arrested. Machine guns were fired against the walls of the compounds and homes; bombs were exploding all around. Children and women were terrified.
This campaign of terror came hours after the US vetoed a draft resolution condemning the Zionist “state” for mass murder in Beit Hanoun, in which an entire family of 18 was bombed and ripped apart at dawn while people were sleeping.

The residents of the compound were enraged with the humiliating way the savage American soldiers treated the women who were driven to the army vehicles under gunfire and profane language. This treatment of women reflects the hatred that the members of the armed forces are fed by their superiors.

Last month the “Death Squads” of the sectarian regime, allied with the United States, attacked the same compound under the eyes of the occupation forces and no effort was done to stop the terror and the sectarian terrorists.
Palestinians in Baghdad al Jadidah were not spared either, they were also attacked, some were beaten and suffered broken bones and bruises, and all were stripped from their outer clothes and arrested. Every one was asked whether he or she was a Sunni or Shii, this was defiantly a racist interrogation intended to stir up sectarianism.

The Mahdi Army of Moqtada Al Sadr and the Badr brigades are engaged in a systematic campaign against the Palestinians to evict them from their homes and expel them out of Iraq, to no man’s land. These racist sectarian armies, supported and financed by Iran, threatened the Palestinians of Al Dorah and Hay Al Sihhah in south of Baghdad. The residents were ordered to evict their homes and they were not permitted to take any of their belongings with them. Members of these notorious armies were shooting haphazardly at the Palestinians and at their homes. Windows and doors were shattered and people were terrorized by those who claim that they are for the Palestinians. Their supporter, Mahmoud Ahmadinijad, the President of Iran, is deafening our ears with his speeches against the Zionist enemy while his people in Iraq are killing and terrorizing them. He is doing a job that “Israel” failed to do to the Palestinians in Iraq by supporting such gangs, what a contradiction! The sectarian, pro Iran, militias deployed their forces in many areas where Palestinians live. They were knocking at their doors and asking them to leave immediately or they face death. Many families left; some are stranded at the Jordanian and Syrian borders; some went to other areas to stay with friends and relatives; and some are staying in tents with no facilities whatsoever.

This is the new democracy that the United States and its allies want to maintain on the Palestinians and Iraqis. It is death and elimination, it is horror, and it is terror. This type of democracy means creating sectarian fascist states in Iraq, the “Green Zone Republic” in Baghdad and strengthening the racist Zionist state in Palestine.

These are some of the facts that our officials and media are hiding from us to keep us unaware, ignorant and in the dark.
The Palestinians have a Homeland to go to; it is historic Palestine that stretches from the Mediterranean Sea to the River of Jordan. Help them to go to their homes from which they were evicted by force.

* The author is a Vietnam era veteran, antiwar activist and Co-Editor of Al-Moharer.

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Palestine is Arab from the river to the sea
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One Arab Nation United and Free

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No doubt about it – Jesus Camp is ritual child abuse

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=== News Update ===

November 18, 2006
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No doubt about it – Jesus Camp is ritual child abuse
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Obviously, in these times of professed sensitivity to child abuse, hitting kids is not allowed, nor is sexually exploiting them, but psychologically abusing the hell out of them in Jesus’ name is sanctioned and/or ignored by both church and state.
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A copy of the film Jesus Camp came into my hands this week. I watched it last evening and I’m glad, because now that I’ve seen it I’ll never have to look at it again.

In spite of my own background, I tried to approach it from the point of view of one who has not seen the inside of Pentecostalism, and although much of it is typical of what has been going on for a long time behind closed church doors, I can certainly understand why people would find the political implications frightening – and why they have sympathy for Becky Fischer’s kids.

Fischer makes no bones about literally creating an army of replicas of the automated Stepford child – “surprisingly precocious and a little creepy” – who will impact future governments and society in favour of Christian extremism.

The aim is much less about the love of Jesus and far more about political clout than any truly Christian teaching ought to be, given that Jesus himself separated faith from state in his famous line about rendering to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.

Not once did Jesus say, “Go ye therefore and take over the government” or “Go ye into the ends of the earth and enforce the gospel”. He said if people don’t want to hear you, shake the dust of their town off your boots and move on. Matthew 10:14

He recommended simply letting one’s light shine so that converts would be attracted by goodness and love, not compelled by threats of hellfire and eternal damnation. I don’t know who threw the segments about wailing and gnashing of teeth into the New Testament and attributed it to Jesus, but it couldn’t have been Jesus who ranted thus – unless he was a hopelessly schizoid personality, which somehow I doubt.

More likely it was the squabbling 4th Century Roman Catholic Bishops who messed with the old writings as they fought over what to believe, what to toss that didn’t match the beliefs they finally voted to adopt, and what to include that would give them control over the poor flock who financed their lavish lifestyles. All of which has left today’s Christian (Pauline) literalists stuck with a hopelessly incomplete and doctored Bible, and a dread of reading any other scriptures lest they be from Satan.

They are also stuck with a pagan name and date for the celebration of Jesus’ resurrection, and with the birthdate of Sol Invictus on which to celebrate Jesus’ birth. Not only that, but they have to quote Paul and the Old Testament in order to justify their political leanings, all the while that they loudly proclaim Jesus as their King, their Saviour, their lover, their redeemer.

If the “apostle” Paul lived today, he’d be an American TV evangelist. He’d have 33% of the population believing that Christ came to him in a vision and told him what to say. He’d rant on and on about hellfire and damnation, about how women need to know their place, and about sexual temptation and perversion, and he’d rake in lots of dough.

But Jesus didn’t dwell on any of those things. And he certainly didn’t sell fire insurance. He offered love and liberation from guilt; he described a means of personal empowerment through the mental process of “knowing” by which one could seek and find a path out of one’s own slavery to the opinions of others, and to false ideas and false views of self and God. He placed God’s Kingdom squarely in the present, within all of us and spread out upon the earth. He counselled living fully in the current eternal moment, leaving the future and the past to God.

And something else – something that Christians unaccountably don’t seem able to get through their heads – Jesus counselled praying in private, not in public in the manner of show-off hypocrites!

Sadly, Jesus is only a buzz word for Becky Fischer. Beyond that, she’s into enforce mode, big time. She’s into public prayer – as raucous and showy as possible – over everybody else’s sins. Rotund Becky tells the kids that most Christians are “fat and lazy” and aren’t getting their act together about abortion, gays, and “dirty talk”. The only answer lies with training children to sacrifice their very lives for the ruthless extermination of everything Becky hates. “This is war” she hollers. “This is war.”

She trots out a lifesize cardboard cutout of President Bush and encourages the kids to bless him. Technically, they don’t actually worship Bush, as some people are saying. The kids’ arms are raised toward God. But the message of loyalty to the state as well as to Becky’s fanatical goals are brought home in the oaths she orders them all to swear loudly on the Bible.

Yes, the same Bible wherein Jesus said, “Swear not at all“. Matthew 5:34.

The fact that Bush lied to the American people is not an issue for Becky; his professed born-again status is paramount. She never stops to wonder if he might be a wolf in sheep’s clothing, the evil one who only pretends to receive instructions from God. In full confidence, Becky makes it clear to her kids that if they don’t support presidents like Bush, they will fall victim to Satan who has unimaginably horrific plans for them.

Becky talks about how Bush appoints judges that will save the country from gays, abortionists, and other evil beings. In no time, she has the kids screaming over and over, with upraised fists and tears running down their faces, “Righteous judges! Righteous judges!”

As a special treat, Becky introduces a man who cheerily opens a box of tiny, pink baby dolls, each one smaller than the other, and he places them in the hands of Becky’s key kids while the other kids look on in awe, to illustrate all of the potential playmates they have lost through abortion. How crafty to make abortion into a personal loss for these children. How diabolical.

Then he places red tape over the kids’ mouths, with the word “Life” written on each piece, to demonstrate the silent screams of the fetus.

Obviously, in these times of professed sensitivity to child abuse, hitting kids is not allowed, nor is sexually exploiting them, but psychologically abusing the hell out of them in Jesus’ name is sanctioned and/or ignored by both church and state.
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At a time in their lives when they ought to be carefree and having fun, Becky’s kids are constantly on the alert, having been told that children are Satan’s prime targets, and that he will trick them into sinning. You should see the looks on the faces of the kids when they heard that. They were not having a fun time at camp; they were horrified. They were not learning anything; they were shocked into obedience, and set up for for Becky’s antidote to their inherently evil natures.

The only difference from Jim Jonesville is that Jesus Camp is “funner”, according to one of the glassy-eyed little Jesus Camp stars. Becky gets away with deliberate child exploitation by wrapping it in religious shake-and-bake, while cookie cutting a generation of mindless robots that she hopes will one day rule America and the world.

One of Becky’s key prodigies says on screen that he has accepted the idea of literally “dying for Jesus”. One wonders how many of these kids will eventually commit suicide, or murder an abortionist, or beat a gay person to death.

In a scene where the kids are horsing around in the camp dorm, like normal kids do at camp – shining flashlights and telling ghost stories – a counsellor walks in and puts the kibosh on it. Does he sense a defence mechanism in action against the fear instilled by Becky? Or does he simply want them afraid of only one thing – Satan’s power.

Becky doesn’t believe in democracy, by the way, because it allows too much freedom for people to sin and follow religions that don’t preach “the truth”. If Becky has her way, we will all become fanatical messianics – or else!

Perhaps her solid approval of Bush is based on one of the premises that the Skull and Bones Society reportedly adapted from a popularized, rightist version of Hegelian philosophy imported from Germany, wherein “the citizen can only become free by worship and obedience to the state“. This requires, of course, the taking over of the children by the state, as we saw with Hitler’s Jungvolk and Jugend.

To rationalize what she is doing, Becky draws a bizarre parallel to Muslim extremist training camps. Her only concern about them seems to be that American kids have to catch up with what the Muslims are doing, or else Islam will win the religion competition.

Canadians will not remain exempt. Already we have a Prime Minister attempting to rejoin religion and state, and prayer meetings are being held on Parliament Hill to ask God to rid Canada of gays and abortion. The Cry 2 organizers had hoped to accomplish a youth revival last July on the Hill – but the “fat and lazy” Christians pretty much stayed home in droves.

Not to worry, though. Great things are expected. A National House of Prayer has been purchased in Ottawa, supported by tax free donations, from which the US-influenced Cry personnel hope to continue working on us benighted Canuks. Click the House of Prayer link above and you will see that the Supreme Court is one of its prime targets. If photos and goals such as these appeared on an Islamic website, it would instantly be branded a terrorist organization and shut down toot sweet.

It’s hard to predict how much real impact this movement will eventually have on North American society. Movements come and go. Religious extremism peaks and ebbs, and has done so for centuries. This is not the first mobilization of children in history designed to stamp out the world’s evil. The young boy featured most prominently in Jesus Camp might well be emulating the boy called Stephen who sparked the Children’s Crusades in 1212, during one of a long line of turn-of-century messianic frenzy periods.

Turns of century, and especially turns of millennia, seem to stir the juices of the rabidly messianic. If you’d like to learn more about this strange phenomenon, I can highly recommend this book: “The Pursuit of the Millennium” by Norman Cohn. The “signs of the times” have risen and faded numerously, and still no Christ has returned, and still the sinners sin.

As indicated above, Jesus Camp focused on several key kids; the rest were mere movie extras. Two or three families obviously worked closely with Becky Fischer to put on a good show for the cameras. Their kids, already heavily indoctrinated and rehearsed at home, were Becky’s star pupils and had lead roles in the movie. Becky pretended not to have met them before, as did Ted Haggard to whose church the kids were taken on a field trip. He was ironically held up to these kids as a heroic preacher and God-fearing opponent of homosexuality.

Haggard has since made a contritional written confession, a la Jimmy Swaggart, and so has his wife – who had to have known his secret but allowed everyone to believe she had a perfect marriage – so Haggard’s hypocrisy is not just a rumour.

In case you’re interested, here is Swaggart’s written confession and apology, designed to get back in good graces and continue, more discreetly, his customary activities. Here also is a much more indepth discussion of his church’s reaction and Swaggart’s response to it. Not five months after the humble apology he thought would reinstate him, he reverted back to not so humble, and said: “Any Believer who has supported this Ministry in the past, and has stopped, at least because of these adversaries, they have not stopped because the Lord has told them to do so, but because Satan has told them to do so …“

Makes me wonder what religious leadership is if not the height of hypocrisy. And I’m not only talking about Christianity. The lies so many of them tell, and the acts they commit, are unconscionable in view of what they demand of the flock, and of the rest of society.

Here’s an example of the kind of lie that religious leaders get away with. In a Jesus Camp scene where one of the key kids is being coached by his mother about “Intelligent Design”, the boy says, “I’m glad Galileo gave up science for Christ.” Good freeking greef !!

So, not only do these Jesus Camp jokers lie to the cameras, they also lie to the kids. Up until I heard the boy say that, I hadn’t cared a whole lot about whether Creationism was taught alongside Darwinism in schools, or not. Teaching honest errors is one thing but telling baldfaced and insidious lies, paid for by tax dollars, is quite another.

Becky at one point orders the kids to “speak in tongues”. Tongues is another lie. I’ve been there and I know that it’s fake, fake, fake. Pentecostals are expected to do it, so they comply.

When I was a kid there was a simple farm woman in our church who liked to sit near the front, and if the minister got on a good roll and worked up the congregation enough, she would give a shout and stand up and begin babbling incomprehensible syllables. Then the pastor would pretend to translate what she said – usually dire warnings from God about the wages of sin. He was a prolific tongues speaker himself, saying over and over the same set of syllables which I recall to this day included (phonetically) the “word”, “Sha-goon-dria”. Anyone out there know what language that is? If so, I’d love to get a translation.

By the way, the farm woman eventually lost all of her marbles, as do many religious fanatics when they begin to age.

One of Becky’s little stars says in the film that shouting and babbling in tongues is what God wants. Churches where people just sit there and worship with straight faces are “dead” churches, she says.

In my day, the grownups smugly called them “dry” churches. If a preacher failed to whip up the congregation into a good tension relieving frenzy, he was branded “dry”. Familiarity breeds boredom, so when things dry up, the pastor calls in a travelling fire and brimstone preacher to kick-start the flock.

With any luck, the visiting evangelist will not feel up some sweet Christian girl during his stay.

As I’ve said many times before, the people who are the most rabidly obsessed with and militant against society’s sexual mores are too often the ones with the most to hide. That would include two of the loudest and crudest – Jerry Falwell and John Hagee. The latter can be seen and heard on the CTS Network which provides re-runs of “wholesome” sit-coms and advice from “perfect marriage” partners to throw newcomers off the scent.

Hagee calls the hate words belching from his bloated lips “diamonds”, but the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council recently found him in violation of broadcast regulations, saying in part:

“He stands resolutely against homosexuality. That is clearly his right but he does not stop there. As in the above-cited CKRD-AM Focus on the Family decision, he pins on gays and lesbians a “gay agenda” and the “brain-washing” of children in the schools. He accuses the “homosexual lobby [... of] pushing this curriculum.” In other words, he has attributed to gays and lesbians “a malevolent, insidious and conspiratorial purpose, a so-called ‘agenda’”, to use the terminology of the Prairie Panel in the CKRD-AM decision. In this case, as in that, the Panel finds that such an attribution constitutes a breach of the Human Rights and Religious Broadcasting Clauses of the CAB Code of Ethics.

Hagee advocates and looks forward joyfully to a war on Iran, as does Michael Coren, another so-called Christian broadcaster on CTS.

Hagee believes that Christ will Rapture the “saved” before they can be harmed by nuclear fallout. He has even reinterpreted scripture to say that Jews no longer have to convert to Christianity in order to be saved from the chaos to come.

Like so many other fanatics, Hagee worries about the “brain-washing” of children in public schools, but doesn’t bat a wattle when it comes to depriving them of a childhood in order to carry out the political goals of religious extremism. Completely unconsidered in all of this is Jesus’ stern counsel against harming little ones.

Are Falwell and Hagee projecting their own personal demons onto the world, as did Swaggart, Bakker, Haggard and others whose immorality was exposed? Is it any wonder that somebody is making money doing background checks on church employees and volunteers?

Does Becky Fischer, an equally rabid finger pointer have something to hide as well? Only time will tell, and we would be well advised to stay tuned.

source:
http://www.yayacanada.com/jesuscamp2.html

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US Terrorize The World – 28 Syawal 1427 H (20.11.06)

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A terrible legacy of hatred and death

This is the hell we have bequeathed to the Arab peoples of Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15669.htm

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Russia has a Muslim dilemma – Ethnic Russians hostile to Muslims

Across Russia, Islam is thriving. Experts say the country is undergoing a startling change and that if current trends continue, more than half of Russia’s population will be Muslim by midcentury.

“Russia is going through a religious transformation that will be of even greater consequence for the international community than the collapse of the Soviet Union,” said Paul Goble, an expert on Islam in Russia and a research associate at the University of Tartu in Estonia.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/11/19/MNGJGMFUVG1.DTL

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Enemy to 9/10ths of Humanity Dies

Milton Friedman, who was instrumental in providing the intellectual justification capitalist classes needed to claw-back the reforms they had conceded to labor in the post-WWII period, has died. Friedman’s neoliberalism – the idea that enterprises and markets must be free, and if they’re not, governments must intervene to make them so — has two bookends. The first is Chile, following the other 9/11 – September 11, 1973. That was the date Augusto Pinochet, backed by US companies, the CIA and Henry Kissinger, overthrew the leftist government of Salvador Allende (…) Thirty years later neo-liberalism was brought to Iraq, also by the gun. On September 19, 2003, Paul Bremer, the US proconsul in Iraq, imposed Friedman’s ideas on a country that had been brought under US suzerainty by force. Bremer defined a bill of rights for foreign capital, including the right: to buy Iraq’s public enterprises; to own Iraqi businesses; to repatriate profits; to own Iraqi banks; to be free from barriers to trade and investment; and to pay little tax. To ensure foreign capital would also have the right to cheap labor, Bremer banned strikes in key sectors and severely restricted unionization…
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m28378&hd=&size=1&l=e

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Jesus Camp is church and state sanctioned ritual child abuse

Sadly, Jesus is only a buzz word for Becky Fischer. Beyond that, she’s into enforce mode, big time. She’s into public prayer – as raucous and showy as possible – over everybody else’s sins. Rotund Becky tells the kids that most Christians are “fat and lazy” and aren’t getting their act together about abortion, gays, and “dirty talk”. The only answer lies with training children to sacrifice their very lives for the ruthless extermination of everything Becky hates. “This is war” she hollers. “This is war.”

She trots out a life size cardboard cutout of President Bush and encourages the kids to bless him. Technically, they don’t actually worship Bush, as some people are saying. The kids’ arms are raised toward God. But the message of loyalty to the state as well as to Becky’s fanatical goals are brought home in the oaths she orders them all to swear loudly on the Bible.
http://www.yayacanada.com/jesuscamp2.html

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Criminalizing Compassion in the “War on Terror”

Writing after the Holocaust, Pastor Martin Niemoeller said:

“First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a communist; then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a socialist; then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a trade unionist; then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-because I was not a Jew; then they came for me–and there was no one left to speak out for me.”
http://www.uruknet.com/?p=m28365&hd=&size=1&l=e

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“An American Killing Field”

Dr. Dahlia Wasfi, speaks of the reality of life in Iraq under U.S. occupation. 6 Minute Video:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15653.htm

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Iraqi Residents Welcome Resistance ‘With Flowers’

Women ululate. Children clap. Men raise fists in the air and shout ‘Allah Akbar.’ And two young men approach and hand the masked ‘mujahideen’ a bouquet of flowers. The festive mood was supposed to be reserved to the U.S. ‘liberation’ troops whose leaders believed before sending them to Iraqi hell that Iraqis would go out into the streets and welcome them with flowers and ululation. Conditions are totally the opposite of what the current Whitehouse and its leaders had in mind before embarking on their Iraq mission for the sale of which they used every trick and lie in the book. And look at their troops. U.S. occupation forces and their leaders and their lackeys are now the most despised in Iraq. U.S. ‘liberation’ of Iraq is now seen as a deliberate U.S. attempt to destroy Iraq…
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m28379&hd=&size=1&l=e

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Islamic militancy could yield world war-US general

The top U.S. general in the Middle East said on Friday that if the world does not find a way to stem the rise of Islamic militancy, it will face a third world war.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15678.htm

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Congress to probe UK’s claims on Iraq uranium

British intelligence reports on Saddam Hussein’s alleged efforts to buy uranium ore from Niger will be at the centre of new American investigations into the Iraq war by the newly elected Democrat-run Congress.
http://tinyurl.com/v8uv4

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Israeli Mossad members joined the American base near Baghdad International Airport

http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2006/11/18/iraq-development-18-nov-2006/

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Israelis ‘using Kurds to build power base’

Israeli military and intelligence operatives are active in Kurdish areas of Iran, Syria and Iraq, providing training for commando units and running covert operations that could further destabilise the entire region, according to a report in the New Yorker magazine.

Look at the guy BEHIND the guy you are calling a terrorist.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1243588,00.html

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Israelis training Kurdish soldiers

Kurdish authorities have been using Israeli personnel to train security forces in Iraq, the BBC’s Newsnight programme has found. Credit: BBC newsnight…
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m28381&hd=&size=1&l=e

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1996. Neocons deliver report to Israel: Remove Saddam

“Hmmm, wouldn’t it be better to trick the Americans into doing it FOR us?”
http://zfacts.com/p/89.html

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Plea deals pile up in Iraq murder cases – Experts surprised that military has agreed to lighter sentences

“They killed a 52-year-old crippled man in cold blood,” Lt. Col. John Baker, a prosecutor, said during a recent hearing. “They killed a retired police officer with 11 children and four grandchildren.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15682.htm

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At least 59 killed (Sunday) as U.S. occupation grinds on

A total of 11 bodies were brought to Baquba hospital, the victims of assassinations and executions in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KAM926460.htm

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At least 37 killed (Saturday) in another bloody day of U.S. occupation

Police found 20 bodies in different areas of western Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL855174.htm

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Major battle in Iraq’s Baqouba kills 18

Iraqi resistance and American forces fought Sunni insurgents in an hours-long street battle Saturday in the increasingly violent city of Baqouba
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/16041231.htm

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Allawi shapes up as Iraq’s iron man

A FORMER Iraqi prime minister who is tipped to return as a “strongman” leader if Baghdad’s faltering government falls has challenged the American-led coalition’s objective of creating a western-style democracy even though the country is in turmoil.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2460035,00.html

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Kissinger: Iraq Military Win Impossible

Military victory is no longer possible in Iraq, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said in a television interview broadcast Sunday.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6226157,00.html

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General: Cut Iraq strength by one-third

The U.S. would have to slash combat forces in Iraq to 10 brigades by Christmas to keep the Army from breaking, said retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey.
http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-2363642.php

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 18 November 2006.

• Resistance car bomber blasts US-Iraqi puppet army checkpoint in al-Hadithah Saturday evening.
• US warplane rockets car carrying four people in eastern ar-Ramadi.
• Resistance fighters capture two US Marines as fighting rages in ar-Ramadi Saturday afternoon.
• Resistance bomb leaves two US troops reported dead in ‘Anah Saturday morning.
• American sniper assassinates former General in independent Iraqi Army as he stands in his backyard in al-Fallujah Friday night.
• Resistance fighters in Baghdad kill No. 3 leader of pro-American SCIRI organization.
• Resistance fires mortars at house occupied by US troops in al-Karmah Saturday morning.
• Resistance fighters ambush puppet “Iraqi National Guards” in al-Fallujah at dawn Saturday.
• Resistance bomb targets puppet “Iraqi National Guards” in al-Fallujah Friday evening.
• Resistance blasts US base east of al-Fallujah with rockets Frdiay.
• Resistance fighters kill puppet policeman in al-Fallujah Friday.
• Resistance rocket attack targets US Humvee in Hit Friday evening.
• Resistance bombards puppet “Shock Troop” headquarters in ad-Durah Friday.
• Resistance blasts US-occupied base near Yathrib with mortars Friday.
• Resistance car bomber blasts into Kurdish separatist Peshmergah checkpoint Saturday morning.

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2006/1106/iraqiresistancereport_181106.htm

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Israel orders killing of Hamas politicians

IN A desperate attempt to stop the barrage of rockets fired by Hamas at Israeli villages, Ehud Olmert, Israel’s prime minister, has ordered his security chiefs to target the Islamic movement’s political leadership.

According to Israeli security sources, a decision to assassinate leading Hamas politicians was taken by Olmert and his defence minister, Amir Peretz. Early yesterday Israeli missiles struck Hamas targets in Gaza, including a charity run by the group.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2460032,00.html

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Send Hamas leaders ‘to paradise’: Israeli deputy PM

Leaders of the Hamas militant movement should be assassinated and moderate Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is “irrelevant,” Israel’s deputy prime minister called Saturday for.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2006/11/18/israel-hamas.html

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Israel Orders Murder of Elected Hamas Politicians

According to Israeli security sources, a decision to assassinate leading Hamas politicians was taken by Olmert and his defence minister, Amir Peretz. Early yesterday Israeli missiles struck Hamas targets in Gaza, including a charity run by the group.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15673.htm

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Report: Olmert Orders Murder of Hamas Leaders Here & Abroad

According to a report in the Sunday Times published in Britain, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has ordered the security establishment to target Hamas leaders in PA (Palestinian Authority) autonomous areas and abroad.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=115758

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Israeli aircraft strikes Gaza

Hospital officials said an elderly passerby aged over 70 died of his wounds after being hit in the strike.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1951740,00.html

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Israeli attack kill two in occupied Gaza

Israeli occupation forces in the northern Gaza Strip shot dead two Palestinians and wounded three others, medical sources saids. Said Hahjuj, 20, a member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was shot dead in Umm Nasser on Gaza’s northernmost border. Thaer Al Masry, 16, was later shot dead in the same village, medical sources said.
http://tinyurl.com/y7elr2

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UN asks Israel to vacate Gaza: US opposes, EU backs resolution

The UN General Assembly on Friday voted overwhelmingly to condemn Israel for “indiscriminate and disproportionate use of force” in its military offensive in Gaza which, according to the Palestinian ambassador, threatens to “destroy the entire people.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15672.htm

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UN hijacked by evil forces

The United Nations General Assembly on Friday evening discussed a proposal to establish a “committee to look into the facts” of the Beit Hanoun incident , in which 19 Palestinians were killed.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3329422,00.html

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World must take decisive step to stop Israel

Ahmed bin Abdullah described the Israeli massacre at Beit Hanoun and the continued Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people, as war crimes and crimes against humanity adding these crimes would be a mark of disgrace on the face of the world community if it did not take a decisive step.
http://tinyurl.com/yx5kkq

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WHAT THE AMERICANS DO NOT KNOW

The aggression against the Palestinians is widening and the United States of America is taking an active role in it. The country of “Justice for All” and its allies are maintaining a deadly blockade against the people of Palestine. Medicine, food and water are not available and the Palestinian children, like their young brethren in Iraq, are suffering the most. Hospitals and medical centers are not operating to an acceptable standard because of lack of medicine, water and electricity. A friend of mine died at a barricade, he was gravely ill, and he was not allowed to cross to the hospital which was a couple of miles away. He was neither the first nor the last to die at the crossings or barricades. American taxpayer money is supplied to the Zionist terrorists to maintain this racist entity and to build settlements on Palestinian confiscated lands. American guns and bombs are killing Palestinians every day and in every spot of occupied Palestine (…)The United States never blamed the racist state for the atrocities that it is committing against the Palestinians or Lebanese. American occupation forces in Iraq are taking an active part in terrorizing the Palestinians. The US occupation forces stormed the Palestinian refugee residential compounds in Hay al Baladiyat in Baghdad (…) Last month the “Death Squads” of the sectarian regime, allied with the United States, attacked the same compound under the eyes of the occupation forces and no effort was done to stop the terror and the sectarian terrorists. Palestinians in Baghdad al Jadidah were not spared either, they were also attacked, some were beaten and suffered broken bones and bruises, and all were stripped from their outer clothes and arrested. Every one was asked whether he or she was a Sunni or Shii, this was defiantly a racist interrogation intended to stir up sectarianism. The Mahdi Army of Moqtada Al Sadr and the Badr brigades are engaged in a systematic campaign against the Palestinians to evict them from their homes and expel them out of Iraq, to no man’s land…
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m28383&hd=&size=1&l=e

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Glenn Beck Interviews Benjamin Netanyahu

War Pimp Alert: 5 Minute Video – U.S. & Israeli Propaganda Manufacturing Consent For War With Iran.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15676.htm

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CIA analysis finds no Iranian nuclear weapons drive

A classified draft CIA assessment has found no firm evidence of a secret drive by Iran to develop nuclear weapons, as alleged by the White House, a top US investigative reporter said on Saturday.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15674.htm

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United States Rides Weapons Bonanza Wave

War, instability, and high oil prices have created a perfect storm of profit for the world’s weapons manufacturers. This year, military analysts predict the biggest arms bonanza since 1993.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15677.htm

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Why We Fight

What are the forces that shape and propel American militarism? This award-winning film provides an inside look at the anatomy of the American war machine.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8494.htm

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Gonzales attacks ruling against domestic spying

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales contended Saturday that some critics of the Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance program were defining freedom in a way that presents a “grave threat” to U.S. security.

Memo to Alberto Gonzalez: the ‘grave threat’ you describe is a threat to the American people which does not come from outside our country. The ‘grave threat’ Americans face is the further erosion of civil liberties to an executive branch which is currently drunk with its own power.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/18/gonzales.ap/index.html

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Republicans plot to bring down Pelosi … and Clinton with her

“Two years of Pelosi gives a good idea of what four years of Hillary will be like,” said Tom DeLay, the Republican powerbroker who ran his party in the House before he was caught up in a lobbyist corruption scandal. “They are both committed liberals and we will make that clear to the American people.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/19/wus19.xml

It isn’t the liberalism I oppose in Hillary, it’s the connections to drug money.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/gallery.html

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