Israeli Professor: ‘We Could Destroy All European Capitals’

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Israeli Professor:

‘We Could Destroy All European Capitals’

By Nadim Ladki
2-6-3

(IAP News) — An Israeli professor and military historian hinted that Israel could avenge the holocaust by annihilating millions of Germans and other Europeans.

Speaking during an interview which was published in Jerusalem Friday, Professor Martin Van Crevel said Israel had the capability of hitting most European capitals with nuclear weapons.

“We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets of our air force.”

Creveld, a professor of military history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, pointed out that “collective deportation” was Israel’s only meaningful strategy towards the Palestinian people.

“The Palestinians should all be deported. The people who strive for this (the Israeli government) are waiting only for the right man and the right time. Two years ago, only 7 or 8 per cent of Israelis were of the opinion that this would be the best solution, two months ago it was 33 per cent, and now, according to a Gallup poll, the figure is 44 percent.”

Creveld said he was sure that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon wanted to deport the Palestinians.

“I think it’s quite possible that he wants to do that. He wants to escalate the conflict. He knows that nothing else we do will succeed.”

Asked if he was worried about Israel becoming a rogue state if it carried out a genocidal deportation against Palestinians, Creveld quoted former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan who said “Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.”

Creveld argued that Israel wouldn’t care much about becoming a rogue state.

“Our armed forces are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that this will happen before Israel goes under.”

Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP)

http://www.iap.org

source:

http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/israel/destroycaps.html

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Memoir of a great friend

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Memoir of a great friend

By Tom Segev

One morning in the spring of 1983, Jimmy Carter left the King David Hotel and went for a morning jog, as he did wherever he was in the world. One U.S. Secret Service agent ran with him, as did two young Israeli soldiers who insisted on showing them the way.

They reached Jaffa Gate and turned north, circling the walls of the Old City. Carter was enthralled by the view. Their run led them to the Jericho road. Several elderly Arab men were sitting there reading the morning papers.

“The sidewalk was almost empty and wide enough for us to pass easily, but one of the soldiers cut to the right and knocked all of the newspapers back into the faces of the startled readers,” Carter writes in his new book. Some of the papers fell to the ground.

Carter stopped and apologized but the old men didn’t understand him. He told the soldiers to either let him continue alone or not harass anyone else. The soldiers reluctantly consented, and explained that “one could never tell what was being hidden behind newspapers.”

Carter is apparently aware of the symbolic cliches in the story: There is enough room for everyone here; soldiers abuse people with no reason; misunderstandings; “the press is to blame.”

He’d been in Israel several times, usually with his wife Rosalynn. Once, Rosalynn visited a hospital in Gaza. Her hosts showed her ambulances that the Palestinians had received from Europe. They couldn’t operate them because the Israeli authorities refused to issue license plates, claiming the chassis were too long. Carter demanded an explanation and was told that, because of security concerns, the dimensions of all vehicles had to conform to a certain standard. “The Palestinians couldn’t be given special permits to operate even ambulances that deviated from standards set by the local military officers,” Carter writes.

The book is causing an uproar among those in America who consider themselves as “friends of Israel,” for one thing because of its title: “Palestine – Peace Not Apartheid.”

Predictably, some are accusing Carter of anti-Semitism. Carter is closely following the responses, including on the Internet, and responding to his critics. He is prepared to lecture for free about his views – but Jews don’t want to hear, he complains. An Israeli reader won’t find anything more in the book than is written in the newspapers here every day.

Carter has much praise for the public discourse in Israel, saying that it is more open to debate over a withdrawal to the Green Line than is the public discourse in America. It’s become something of a fashion there lately to claim that the Jewish lobby stifles all criticism of Israel; in fact, it isn’t difficult to find criticism there, too. Surveys show that a majority of Jews in America support a withdrawal in return for peace, as do at least half of the inhabitants of Israel. Carter isn’t calling for anything more than that.

He has written a very personal and very Christian book, in the first person – I and the Middle East – that starts with his first visit to Israel in 1973. Prime Minister Golda Meir instructed that he be given the use of an old Mercedes and also provided a guide, by the name of Giora Avidar. Carter, who was then the governor of Georgia, describes his trip as if he were a 19th-century pilgrim visiting the Holy Land.

Visiting a kibbutz synagogue on the Sabbath, he remarked on the very small number of kibbutz members who came there to pray, and Giora the guide just shrugged his shoulders. He asked Golda Meir if she wasn’t concerned by the secular character of her government and she, too, responded with a shrug, then lit cigarette after cigarette and said that there were enough religious people. Carter was disappointed, evidently; he’d imagined that Israel would be closer to God. But he returned from the trip “a great friend of Israel,” as Golda Meir used to refer to people who supported her views.

He subsequently returned to Israel numerous times – and each time moved further away from what his official guide had pumped into his head on that first visit; from one visit to the next, he grew more critical. He has a good reason to be mad at Israel: Thanks to him, it achieved the first peace agreement in its history; and relations with Egypt are holding steady. This was “his” agreement, the one that brought him the Nobel Peace Prize.

It’s no wonder that Carter sees it as key: Had Israel adhered to the Camp David Accords and not built settlements in the West Bank, it could have realized a comprehensive and lasting peace with Arabs who would recognize its legal borders, he contends. The expulsion of the Arabs reminds him of the expulsion of the Native Americans who once lived in Georgia and were forced to go west to Oklahoma via the Trail of Tears; his family farm was built on the land of those who were expelled.

In addition to offering personal memories, chapters of history and legal arguments, Carter frequently quotes UN resolutions and all kinds of other international decisions. He once went to meet with Prime Minister Begin to explain to him why the construction of settlements was a violation of UN Resolution 242.

To his surprise, Begin did not look him in the face; he was withdrawn and passive. He mumbled a few words and Carter understood that the conversation was over. He has several possible theories to explain Begin’s behavior, most likely he was preoccupied with something. Tactfully, he does not mention Begin’s shaky mental state. They sat in a small, dim room; Carter noticed that the room next door was empty and that it was also larger and better lit, and its number happened to be 242.

One evening, Carter invited Supreme Court president Aharon Barak to meet with him. They sat in the bar of a Jerusalem hotel; Carter urged him to act on behalf of the Palestinians’ human rights, and told him of a number of abuses he’d heard of, including the story about the ambulances in Gaza. Barak said cautiously that he could not comment on specific cases.

Carter asked if Barak thought that the Palestinians deserved fair treatment. Barak replied that they do receive fair treatment before the high court, but that he was not in a position to undertake any legal action on their behalf. Carter asked if Barak felt a responsibility to really examine the overall situation. Barak said that he could only adjudicate matters brought before the court.

“When I requested his personal assessment of the situation in the West Bank and Gaza, he said that he had not been in the area for many years and had no plans to visit there,” Carter writes. “I remarked that if he was to make decisions that affected the lives of people in the occupied areas, he should know more about how they lived.

He answered with a smile, ‘I am a judge, not an investigator.’” It’s not certain whether Carter also expects the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court to pay a visit, say, to Jamaica Plains, New York, to get a closer look at the place where an innocent black citizen was recently gunned down by police. Maybe he does.

The book appears to include a few errors: It’s doubtful whether “cardinals” were included among the heads of the Christian communities who came to see him in Jerusalem; the capital of Yemen is not Tirana and UN Resolution 242 does not call for Israel to return to the 1967 borders.

Had Carter asked me, I would not have suggested that he sum up his theory of peace by means of citations from Palestinian journalist Daoud Kuttab and former MK Naomi Chazan. I would also have suggested that he not mention the Web site where a film on the security wall can be purchased for $10. Let people search for it on Amazon.

These are small things; the uproar is over the word “apartheid.” That’s another thing I would have recommended that Carter forgo, if he’d asked me. It’s not necessary; the situation is terrible as it is. Now everyone’s busy arguing about the use of the term “apartheid” instead of focusing on the horrors of the occupation in the territories. Similarly, I had a hard time getting worked up over the fact that the security wall in Jerusalem passes through territory that was a favorite of Jesus and his disciples.

But the principal argument is well-founded, and backed up by the reports from B’Tselem, Peace Now, Israeli newspapers and even many articles that appear in The New York Times (as opposed to the theory, which Carter cites, that says Israel’s critics are being silenced). Like many others, Carter points out the ongoing and systematic violation of the Palestinians’ human rights; the injustices of the oppression perpetuate the conflict. It’s bad for everyone, the United States included.

The security wall is adding to the hardships for the Palestinians; its route is not meant solely to increase Israel’s security, but to take a bite out of territories in the West Bank and annex them to Israel. Carter demands that Israel’s right to exist in security and peace be ensured; he calls on Palestinians and the Arab states to accept this; he denounces terror. Time is pressing: Radical Islam is growing stronger, Israel has nuclear arms: This detail is mentioned in the book quite casually, as if it’s something that everybody knows.

One reason the book is outraging “friends of Israel” in America is that it requires them to reformulate their friendship: If they truly want what’s good for Israel, they must call on it to rid itself of the territories. People don’t like to admit that they’ve erred; therefore, they’re angry at Carter. But the belief that a withdrawal to the Green Line will bring peace has been around ever since the Six-Day War. What else is new?

Israel has remained in the Palestinian territories and the Golan Heights mainly because the United States has not compelled it to withdraw. As optimistic as only a God-fearing person can be, the former U.S. president also essentially only propose that we all try to be nice to one another, in the spirit of the upcoming Christmas holiday. He has no new ideas to offer and thus his book is something of a let-down, though this does not justify a rebuke. Not to Carter. We owe him for the peace with Egypt.

source:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/801270.html

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Former British diplomat makes public secret evidence on Iraq

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Former British diplomat makes public secret evidence on Iraq

They knew ‘Iraq would collapse into chaos’ before the invasion

Carne Ross says Saddam’s Iraq never posed threat, we knew regime change would cause chaos.

LONDON – Previously secret written evidence submitted to an inquiry on British intelligence failures in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq was made public on Thursday, with a former diplomat alleging that “at no time” did the government assess that Iraq posed a threat to Britain.

According to the statement originally submitted by Carne Ross to Lord Robin Butler’s 2004 inquiry into the intelligence relating to Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD), Ross said that during his posting to the United Nations, “at no time did HMG assess that Iraq’s WMD (or any other capability) posed a threat to the UK or its interests.”

Ross was First Secretary in the British mission to the UN from December 1997 to June 2002. He said that the preparation of the infamous dossier on Iraq’s supposed WMD progremme began before he left.

The evidence was made public on House of Commons’s Foreign Affairs Committee website on Thursday.

In it, Ross, who resigned from the Foreign Office in 2004 in protest over the war, states that “it was the commonly-held view among the officials dealing with Iraq that any threat had been effectively contained.

“I remember on several occasions the UK team stating this view in terms during our discussions with the US (who agreed).

“At the same time, we would frequently argue, when the US raised the subject, that ‘regime change’ was inadvisable, primarily on the grounds that Iraq would collapse into chaos.”

Neither Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Downing Street office, nor the Foreign Office, commented on the evidence.

Ross went on to say that with the exception of about a dozen Scud missiles which were not accounted for, “there was no intelligence evidence of significant holdings of CW (chemical weapons), BW (biological weapons) or nuclear material” within Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.

He continued: “There was moreover no intelligence or assessment during my time in the job that Iraq had any intention to launch an attack against its neighbours or the UK or US.”

He added that, aside from Israel, none of Iraq’s neighbours voiced concern that they would be attacked by it.

The former diplomat said that “inertia” within the Foreign Office and the “inattention of key ministers” contributed to Britain never making “any coordinated and sustained attempt to address sanctions busting”.

Ross had been threatened that he could be prosecuted under British legislation that requires government employees to keep secret certain official information, particularly matters of national security.

Despite the risk of breaking the law, Ross told the committee in November that he would be “happy to share” the evidence he gave to the Butler inquiry as it had been weighing on his conscience.

He has since founded Independent Diplomat, a non-profit diplomatic advisory service.

source:

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/iraq/?id=18765

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US Terrorize The World – 25 Dzulqaidah 1427 H (16.12.06)

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Diplomat’s suppressed document lays bare the lies behind Iraq war

The Government’s case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15913.htm

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U.K. case for war ‘torn apart’

A committee of Britain’s Parliament has published formerly secret testimony that the newspaper The Independent says has “torn apart” the case for war in Iraq.

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20061215-120607-8005r

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Former British diplomat makes public secret evidence on Iraq

Carne Ross says Saddam’s Iraq never posed threat, we knew regime change would cause chaos.

LONDON – Previously secret written evidence submitted to an inquiry on British intelligence failures in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq was made public on Thursday, with a former diplomat alleging that “at no time” did the government assess that Iraq posed a threat to Britain.

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/iraq/?id=18765

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Iraq War : Tony Blair’s speech

This is the text of prime minister Tony Blair’s speech opening today’s debate on the Iraq crisis in the house of Commons, as released by 10 Downing Street.

We now know this speech was filled with lies about Iraq’s WMDs, and that Tony Blaire KNEW he was lying at the time.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,,916790,00.html

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Blair ‘Knew Iraq Had No WMD’

TONY BLAIR privately conceded two weeks before the Iraq war that Saddam Hussein did not have any usable weapons of mass destruction, Robin Cook, the former foreign secretary, reveals today.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1005-01.htm

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Unrevealed : Iran’s poison

Short summary:

On Thursday, November 23, 2006, a bomb exploded in a market in Thawra City (Sadr City) that caused the death and wounding of tens of civilians. The culprit was caught the next day by Al-Mahdi army who control Thawra City. His name is Firas Al-Rikabi. He confesses in this video (in Arabic) that Hakam, who lives in the nearby Rashad district, had given him the bomb and the detonator and instructed him to place it among the crowd and blow it up, for $200 bounty.

Both Hakam and Firas are Shi’ites. Hakam belongs to the Badr and SCIRI Iranian backed shi’ite militias who now control the police in the Interior Ministry (who are responsible for the recent mass kidnappings) and the army in the Defence Ministry (being trained to step up by the American occupiers to allow Bush to step down). Hakam is now being sought by the Mahdi Army. They executed Firas after the recording of his confession.

http://www.iraqirabita.org/movie.wmv


http://abutamam.blogspot.com/2006/12/irans-poison.html

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Egypt Releases Name Of American – Grey Warren – Arrested In Terror Investigation

An American, operating in an Egyptian university, recruiting Muslims, teaching them, and sending them into Iraq to “carry out operations via other countries in the region.”

Can you say “set up?”

http://www.pipelinenews.org/index.cfm?page=brotherhood2121406.htm

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Survey indicates Iraqis in despair

More than 90 per cent of Iraqis believe the country is worse off now than before the war in 2003, according to new research obtained by Al Jazeera.

A survey of 2,000 people by the Iraq Centre for Research and Strategic Studies found that 95 per cent of respondents believe the security situation has deteriorated since the arrival of US forces.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4940DA96-ABAE-4684-B86E-831004B3185A.htm

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The Bloodbath We Created : news from occupied Iraq – it

The bloodbath argument foisted on the public by the ISG is really about the refusal of a large segment of the political elite to accept the fact that the United States has broken Iraq in a way that can no longer be fixed by U.S. power-and has lost a war it entered into with such arrogance. It is a statement of ideological belief by an elite still deep in denial.

http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m29020&hd=&size=1&l=e

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Tears of Rage; Tears of Grief

Mass death came again to the Iraqi town of Ishaqi last Friday. Nine months after an American raid that killed 11 civilians, including five children under the age of five, another ground and air assault on suspected insurgents in the area left behind a pile of corpses, including at least two children. As with the earlier incident, Friday’s attack has produced conflicting stories of what really happened, but the end result is clear: a multitude of grieving, angry Iraqis further embittered against the American occupation.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121406A.shtml

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Iraqi refugees can’t find peace

Hundreds of thousands spread across Mideast, straining host countries

CAIRO, Egypt – Strolling the alleys and boulevards of this city, Raaid Lafta sometimes thinks he glimpses his old country: in the barber’s face, in the baker’s oven, in the way the restaurant chef serves the spiced dishes he’s known since boyhood.

http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/stories/DN-refugees_15int.ART.State.Edition1.3eda336.html

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US Troops Raid Fallujah Hospital Again

FALLUJAH – Iraqi doctors and medical staff are outraged over yet another U.S. military raid at Fallujah General Hospital.

The raid followed a roadside bombing Dec. 7 in which four Iraqi policemen were killed and two injured. The injured were taken to Fallujah General Hospital.

http://www.antiwar.com/jamail/?articleid=10165

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Iraqi Red Crescent accuses U.S. forces of attacks

The Iraqi Red Crescent accused U.S. forces on Friday of carrying out a spate of attacks on its offices over the last three years during operations to flush out suspected militants.

http://today.reuters.com/News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=IBO549337

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Outraged Shi’i father kills son who joined Jaysh al-Mahdi, robbed and murdered Sunnis.

In a dispatch posted at 5:01pm Makkah time Thursday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an outraged father had shot and killed his son, who had joined the pro-Iranian Jaysh al-Mahdi Shi’i-sectarian militia and taken part in sectarian attacks on Baghdad Sunnis.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses on Baghdad’s Palestine Street as saying that ‘Ali Hasan al-Kannani, a resident of the area, heard from his friends that his son had joined the Jaysh al-Mahdi sectarian militia and had taken part in burning down the Sunni al-’Asharah al-Mubashsharin Mosque in the al-’Amil neighborhood and played a big role in terrorizing Sunni families out of their homes. Witnesses said that after hearing of his son’s sectarian rampages, ‘Ali al-Kannani threatened to kill him.

Mafkarat al-Islam reported that when the son showed up at his father’s house with a car full of furniture and money that he had looted from the homes of Sunnis he had terrorized and killed, ‘Ali al-Kannani shot and killed his son in the yard of his home.

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2006/1206/iraqiresistancereport_141206.htm

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Iraq : Take This War and Shove It

Talk about stepping into the abyss. George Bush and his Pentagon allies are considering increasing the number of troops in Iraq by 40,000. The idea is supported by some members of Congress, although John McCain is the only one so far to express his support publicly. This is despite the fact that over 60% of US residents want the troops out of there sooner rather than later. Not only does the Bush position represent another blow to the idea that the people of the US run the country, it is a blatant kick in the voters’ face.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=704

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American senator puts onus on Iraqis to end slide into chaos

A group of visiting US senators had blunt words for Iraqi leaders, telling them to put their differences aside to ease the violence that has raised fears of all-out civil war.

“We were very straightforward about how important it is for them to act more effectively as a government and stop some of the divisions that we see clearly within the government,” said Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican.

Translation: we broke your country, now you fix it!

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=77680

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Tribal Leaders Don’t Trust Iraq Soldiers

Tribal leaders and some political groups in the strife-ridden Iraqi province of Diyala are turning to terrorists and insurgents for protection rather than trust Iraqi soldiers and police, the commander of U.S. forces in that area said Friday.

http://tinyurl.com/y8h4u8

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Three US occupation force soldiers killed in Iraq

Two US marines killed in occupied province of Al-Anbar, one soldier killed in Nineveh province.

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=18781

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 14 December 2006.

• American soldier reported killed by Iraqi Resistance sharpshooter near al-Hadithah Thursday morning.
• Residents of al-Hadithah stll banned from using their cars, one month after American prohibition of motor vehicles in the city.
• Resistance bomb blows US Humvee apart in al-Baghdadi midday Thursday.
• US tanks bulldozers crush parked cars, dig up streets and sidewalks in area where Resistance bomb blasted puppet police in Hit, in line with new American policy.
• Resistance bomb destroys US Humvee in eastern ar-Ramadi Thursday morning.
• Resistance ambushes puppet “al-Anbar Salvation Council” puppet police in ar-Ramadi Wednesday.
• Outraged Shi’i father in Baghdad kills son who joined sectarian Jaysh al-Mahdi, robbed and murdered Sunnis.
• Eight US troops reported killed in Resistance attacks in Baghdad Thursday; US admits one.
• US soldier reported killed in Resistance grenade attack in al-Mushahadah.
• Resistance bomb blasts British tank in al-Basrah.
• Resistance targets US troops in al-Fallujah area with bombs, mortars Wednesday night.
• Thirty Sunni shopkeepers from automotive stores abducted by Shi’i sectarian gunmen wearing puppet police uniforms in Baghdad late Thursday morning.
• Resistance sharpshooter kills puppet “Iraqi National Guard” on Wednesday.
• Resistance bomb blasts puppet “Order Protection Force” patrol in Baghdad’s al-Mansur area Wednesday.
• Two puppet “Iraqi National Guards” shot by Resistance marksman in Baghdad Wednesday.
• Puppet forces, US troops carry out raids, searches, arrests in Ba’qubah at dawn Thursday.
• Resistance bomb blasts US military vehicle south of al-Hillah Thursday morning.
• Resistance bomb explodes killing bomb disposal expert in Kirkuk Wednesday night.
• The Shi’i sectarian Jaysh al-Mahdi militia is run by Muqtada as-Sadr, a Shi’i cleric loyal to Iran, which is seeking to extend its regional hegemony and step into the shoes of the American occupation in Iraq.

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2006/1206/iraqiresistancereport_141206.htm

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9/11 : Guantanamo Detainees To Be Held Even Without Evidence

The hard core of detainees held at America’s Guantanamo Bay detention camp will be held indefinitely even if there is insufficient evidence to bring them to trial, a senior Bush administration official said.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15911.htm

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9/11 – ARE AMERICANS THE VICTIMS OF A HOAX?

The time has come to stop using the flag as a blindfold, to stop waving our guns and our gods at each other, to take a close look at the facts which have emerged from the attacks on the World Trade Towers and to recognize the very real possibility, indeed probability, that We The People are the victims of a gigantic and deadly hoax.

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/hoax.html

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Memoir of a great friend

One morning in the spring of 1983, Jimmy Carter left the King David Hotel and went for a morning jog, as he did wherever he was in the world. One U.S. Secret Service agent ran with him, as did two young Israeli soldiers who insisted on showing them the way.

Carter stopped and apologized but the old men didn’t understand him. He told the soldiers to either let him continue alone or not harass anyone else. The soldiers reluctantly consented, and explained that “one could never tell what was being hidden behind newspapers.”

Carter is apparently aware of the symbolic cliches in the story: There is enough room for everyone here; soldiers abuse people with no reason; misunderstandings; “the press is to blame.”

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/801270.html

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Here is what happens when you challenge Zionism

David Horowitz: Jimmy Carter: Jew-Hater, Genocide-Enabler, Liar

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25994

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MURDER LEGALISED IN ISRAEL

Despite the fact that there were 339 targeted assassinations in the Occupied Territories since the year 2000, despite the fact that 210 of those murdered were targets and the rest (129) were innocent bystanders, the Supreme Court of Israel declared it legal for Israel to continue such operations.

This practice has received condemnation from most European countries, but once again, Israel does not give a damn… it will continue doing what it wants to…. legal or not. This is a most dangerous precident that must be protested by the civilised world…. it cannot be allowed.

The following AP report deals with the court’s decision….

http://desertpeace.blogspot.com/2006/12/murder-legalised-in-israel.html

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Gaza border shots ‘targeted PM’

The Palestinian Hamas group says a rival faction has tried to assassinate Prime Minister Ismail Haniya as he crossed back into Gaza from Egypt.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6181681.stm

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Hamas says Abbas wants war

A senior Hamas official has accused Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president and leader of Fatah, of starting a war after his security forces opened fire on a Hamas rally in the West Bank and firefights broke out in Gaza.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/76853FBA-D077-4D8B-BA19-880F69F4D97E.htm

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U.S. fermenting civil war

U.S. training Fatah in “anti-terror” tactics :

U.S. officials training Palestinian security forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas are emphasizing urban anti-terrorist techniques as part of a systematic effort to bolster Abbas and his Fatah loyalists to counter the political success of Hamas, according to Palestinian analysts and officers receiving the training.

http://tinyurl.com/yxegfm

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The enemy within

There are hundreds, possibly thousands of Palestinians working covertly for the Israeli intelligence services.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/6217188.stm

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Israel boycott may be the way to peace

Ten Palestinians are killed for every Israeli death; more than 200, many of them children, have been killed since the summer

http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329663158-103552,00.html

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Who’s Running Lebanon?

Devastated by Israel’s bombs, threatened by the looming might of Iran and Syria, and divided from within by its own ethnic bloodletting – Lebanon is an unfolding tragedy with little hope of salvation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15912.htm

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In case you missed it: U.S. funding Somali warlords – intelligence experts

The United States has been funnelling more than $100,000 a month to warlords battling Islamist militia in Somalia, according to a Somalia expert who has conferred with the groups in the country.

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=831732006

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Arar still on U.S. watch list: U.S. ambassador

Four years ago, the RCMP mistakenly labelled Arar as an Islamic extremist and asked Washington to place a lookout for Arar. The former Ottawa engineer was detained at a New York airport in late 2002 and deported to Syria, where he spent a year being tortured in a prison.

The RCMP has since apologized for its mistake and its commissioner, Giuliano Zaccardelli resigned after telling a commons committee he gave incorrect information during earlier testimony.

Late last week, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said he didn’t know whether Arar was still on the American watch list, telling a Commons committee he had recently posed the question to U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Continue Article

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/12/15/arar-watchlist.html

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Decision to Deport Secret Trial Detainee Mohammad Mahjoub to Egypt Found to be “Flawed, Perverse, Patently Unreasonable”

Canadian Government Delegate Deliberately Ignores Evidence of Widespread Torture in Egypt While Dismissing Credibility of Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch

December 15, 2006 — In another setback for the Canadian government’s determined efforts to deport secret trial detainee Mohammad Mahjoub to torture in Egypt, Federal Court judge Dani�le Tremblay-Lamer has ruled “patently unreasonable” a decision by a delegate of the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration to return Mr. Mahjoub to Egypt.

http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net/mahjoub.htm

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Why Did They Torture Jose Padilla

What makes this case so insidious is that, according to a psychiatrist who examined him over a 22-hour period, the treatment Padilla received in the South Carolina brig was such that he now “lacks the capacity to assist in his own defense.” In other words, a U.S. citizen was secretly worked over for 21 months to the point he is unable to think well enough to engage with his lawyer.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15909.htm

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Dictatorship : Even if they’re off, cellphones allow FBI to listen in

It should come as no surprise that cellphone calls may be tapped by law enforcement.

But authorities also can use cellphones to eavesdrop on suspects, even when the devices are off.

Leave your cell phone on the TV while a really boring show is on.

http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=bugs130&date=20061213

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The Cash Cows of Personal Debt : The Credit Card Industry and Predatory Capitalism

The booming credit card business is one of the most profitable and destructive industries to ever emerge from the inventive capitalist mind. Citibank is raking in more money than Microsoft and Wal-Mart. Obscene profits are realized without lifting a finger to perform any physical work. In 2004 a single credit card company—the MBNA—realized 1.5 times the profits of fast food industry giant McDonald’s. Collecting on credit card debt is a very lucrative business.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15910.htm

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Judge: Florida woman didn’t break law by exposing breasts

Sooooooooo, it’s illegal for women to show their breasts in public, but at the airport we all gotta let some total stranger look at us naked in those new machines they have?

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/16247479.htm

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