Racist : UK Spying On Muslims Who Visit Mecca

bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

=== News Update ===

Racist : UK Spying On Muslims Who Visit Mecca

Terror watch on Mecca pilgrims

By David Leppard

01/21/07 “The Times” — – THE intelligence agencies are monitoring every Muslim who travels from Britain to Mecca on pilgrimage in a wider effort to piece together intelligence on suspected Al-Qaeda terrorist activity.

A senior Whitehall official has disclosed that the operation targeting trips to the holy city in Saudi Arabia by more than 100,000 British Muslims is part of a trawl by MI5 and MI6 for information about movements of suspected terrorists. It follows evidence that British Islamic terrorists have visited the city before carrying out attacks in Britain and abroad.

The importance of the intelligence operation was one of the reasons given by spy chiefs for maintaining ties with Saudi Arabia when the Saudi government was threatening to break off intelligence ties over a bribery investigation by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) into BAE, Britain’s prime defence contractor.

Sir John Scarlett, the head of MI6, and Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, the director-general of MI5, told Lord Goldsmith, the attorney-general, that Saudi co-operation in the fight against Al-Qaeda was vital.

A well-placed security official said Scarlett and Manningham-Buller used the Mecca surveillance operation as evidence of the need for continuing intelligence ties with the kingdom: “They made it clear to Goldsmith that they were concerned about the implications for national security of losing Saudi co-operation. They said that every British Muslim who makes the pilgrimage to Mecca was monitored.”

This weekend Muslim leaders voiced their unhappiness about the operation. Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, leader of the Muslim parliament, said: “It is absolutely wrong that people who are going to Mecca for entirely religious purposes should be monitored by the security services. It is a sad commentary on Britain’s relations with Saudi Arabia.”

The Mecca operation is thought to have been launched after the July 7 London bombings. MI5 discovered that at least two of the suicide bombers had made the holy trip.

source:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2558373,00.html

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Fake Muslim : Doubt cast on Anani’s terrorist claims

bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

=== News Update ===

Fake Muslim : Doubt cast on Anani’s terrorist claims

Jihad adviser says story of holy war in Lebanon rings false

Trevor Wilhelm

Windsor Star

Saturday, January 20, 2007

Zachariah Anani, a self-proclaimed former terrorist who now warns against Islam’s so-called teachings of terror against Canada and the West, is imagining his past exploits as a mass murderer, according to a top jihad expert.

Tom Quiggin, Canada’s only court-qualified expert on global jihadism and a former RCMP intelligence and national security expert, said Anani’s tales of terror and murder just don’t jibe with the time and place he claims to have been killing.

“Mr. Anani’s not an individual who rates the slightest degree of credibility, based on the stories that he has told,” said Quiggin, also a Senior Fellow at the Centre of Excellence for National Security in Singapore.

“To have Mr. Anani described as a terrorist grants an impact to his words that simply is not rated.

“Whatever else he may have been, he was not a Muslim terrorist in Lebanon in the early 1970s.

“He may have been a low-level militant, radical, street fighter or insurgent, but he was not a terrorist of any description based on his stories.”

Anani, 49, touched off a controversy last week when he gave an anti-Islamic lecture at Campbell Baptist Church called The Deadly Threat of Islam. He says Islamic doctrine teaches the worship of a god who “strikes with terror” and allows no prisoners in the battle against Christians and Jews.

Anani, now an evangelical Christian, claims to be an expert on the topic because he killed 223 people in Allah’s name, “two-thirds of them by daggers.” He even claims to have killed a man for waking him up at 3 a.m. to pray.

Anani, born in Lebanon, said he joined a militant Muslim group in the early 1970s at age 13, and made his first kill shortly after.

“I was trained to fight and kill Jews, and to hate Christians and Americans,” Anani has said in varying versions of his story.

He said he was soon promoted to troop leader and formed his own regiment, but later met a Christian missionary and converted.

Anani said he was persecuted for his conversion — even his dad hired assassins to kill him.

He said he was soon promoted to troop leader and formed his own regiment, but later met a Christian missionary and converted.

Anani said he was persecuted for his conversion — even his dad hired assassins to kill him — and he was technically dead for seven minutes after narrowly escaping a beheading. He fled to the West and moved to Windsor about 10 years ago. His wife and three daughters joined him three years later.

Even in Canada, Anani said he’s been physically attacked, and his house and car have been burned in Windsor for speaking out against Islam.

POLICE LACK RECORDS

Staff. Sgt. Ed McNorton said Windsor police don’t have a record of physical attacks against Anani, and his house wasn’t burned.

McNorton said someone did torch his car, but it wasn’t for the reasons Anani has claimed.

“There is nothing in the report we have to indicate it was in retaliation to his religious beliefs,” said McNorton.

Anani’s bio also states he lectured at Princeton University. Cass Cliatt, Princeton’s media relations manager, said that never happened. She said Anani was scheduled to lecture there in late 2005 with the Walid Shoebat Foundation. But the event was cancelled and the foundation held a news conference at a nearby hotel.

Anani has refused several requests from The Star to revisit his past in detail.

Following a sermon Thursday night from Campbell Baptist Church Pastor Donald McKay — Anani was scheduled to speak but his lecture was cancelled — he again refused to answer questions.

“I’ve already spoken enough about that,” he said. “There is no need to repeat that, especially when there is people waiting to see me. So make it quick please…. If there are no more essential questions, please, let’s wrap it up.”

But Quiggin said there are some important details in Anani’s story that don’t add up.

“It appears to be that Mr. Anani is nothing more than an extremist who is trying to create an imaginative history from a contemporary set of fears and stories,” said Quiggin. “Mr. Anani’s myths that he has built up around himself lack validity on a number of key points.”

One key point, he said, is Anani’s claim that he killed 223 people.

FIGHTING BEGAN IN 1975

Anani has said he’s 49 years old, which would mean he was born in 1957 or 1958, said Quiggin. If he joined his first militant group when he was 13, it would have been in 1970 or 1971. But the fighting in Lebanon did not begin in earnest until 1975, Quiggin said.

“His story of having made kills shortly after he joined and having made 223 kills overall is preposterous, given the lack of fighting during most of the time period he claims to have been a fighter,” Quiggin said. “He also states he left Lebanon to go to Al-Azhar University at the age of 18, which would mean he went to Egypt in 1976. In other words, according to himself, he left Lebanon within a year of when the fighting actually started.”

He also pointed to a story on WorldNetDaily in which Walid Shoebat, another ex-terrorist and friend of Anani, also claims to have killed 223 people, two-thirds of them with daggers.

“What a coincidence,” Quiggin said.

Quiggin said Anani’s description of himself as a Muslim terrorist also “defies logic” based on the time frame.

“Most the groups involved in the fighting in Lebanon were secular and tended to be extreme leftists or Marxists,” he said.

Quiggin said religious-based terrorism as part of the warring in Lebanon didn’t begin until after 1979, following the revolution in Iran, the Soviet attack on Afghanistan and the attack on the Grand Mosque in Mecca by Sunni Muslim extremists.

Anani’s claim to have survived a beheading attempt is also questionable, said Quiggin.

“This was not a common practice in Lebanon at any time and again it appears as though he is attempting to build up his past mythology by playing on current Iraqi-based fears,” Quiggin said.

YOUTH OF ALI

He also questioned Anani’s assertion that the militant group he killed with was called the Youth of Ali, named after the prophet Muhammad’s cousin.

Quiggin said a group called Youth of Ali wasn’t even known to have been in existence during the civil war period in Lebanon that Anani is talking about.

“This story makes less sense as it goes along,” said Quiggin.

That is one detail Anani was willing to discuss Thursday, when he revised his story to say the group wasn’t named after the prophet’s relative.

“Actually, Ali was the top-notch guy in the area,” said Anani.

“That’s why they called it that. The Youth of Ali is the wrong word. You could say the Boys of Ali. That means the guy who was leading the group in the area.”

He said the group no longer exists.

“They were a small fragment,” said Anani. “It’s a more minor group. It was a long time ago. “

twilhelm@thestar.canwest.com or 519-255-5777, ext. 642

THREAT DOUBTED

Michael Bell, a former Canadian ambassador to Israel, Egypt and Jordan, doesn’t buy Zachariah Anani’s claim that Muslims pose a risk to Canadian society. He said new groups were often looked on with suspicion in Canadian history.

“We have to take a long run perspective on this and not be spooked,” Bell said. “For Muslims in Canada, this is not a primary preoccupation. They’re a group of people looking for a place within Canadian society. I don’t agree Islam in Canada is an overwhelmingly united force bent on very specific and unacceptable goals.”

Ran with fact box “Threat Doubted” which has been appended

source:
http://www.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=4a479502-4490-408e-bdb5-f2638619a62c

For background see: http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net/anani.htm

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-muslim voice-
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BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW

US Terrorize The World – 4 Muharram 1427 H (23.1.07)

bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

=== News Update ===

War Criminal : The Psychology Behind the Worst Possible President

The longer Bush is in office, the more his psychology becomes clear. He’s not a well-meaning doofus; he’s a madman.

READ ARTICLE AT:
http://www.alternet.org/stories/46794/

SEE ALSO THESE ARTICLES:
George W. Bush: Presidential or Pathological?
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/19227/

The Madness of President George
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/madness.html

The madness of President George (DIFFERENT ARTICLE FROM THAT ABOVE)
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/eric_alterman/2007/01/alterman_on_surge.html

George W. Bush: Neocon Napoleon
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=2325

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Fake Muslim : Doubt cast on Anani’s terrorist claims- all his claims false according to experts

Doubt cast on Anani’s terrorist claims. Jihad adviser says story of holy war in Lebanon rings false

Zachariah Anani, a self-proclaimed former terrorist who now warns against Islam’s so-called teachings of terror against Canada and the West, is imagining his past exploits as a mass murderer, according to a top jihad expert.

Tom Quiggin, Canada’s only court-qualified expert on global jihadism and a former RCMP intelligence and national security expert, said Anani’s tales of terror and murder just don’t jibe with the time and place he claims to have been killing.
http://www.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=4a479502-4490-408e-bdb5-f2638619a62c

For background see: http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net/anani.htm

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UK Racist : Every single British Muslim who performed Hajj or Umra are now on terror watch list

See Times article at:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2558373,00.html

UK Monitors “All” Muslim Pilgrims

IslamOnline.net & Newspapers- Jan 21, 2007

http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1168265758528&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout

CAIRO ­ UK spy chiefs are putting on the terror watch list every single British Muslim who travels to the holy city of Makkah to perform hajj or umra to filter out those who might be linked to Al-Qaeda, a leading British newspaper revealed on Sunday, January 21.

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Racist : Attacked school receives support from numerous politicians, individuals and organizations

Muslim Council of Montreal expresses thanks for all offers of help

Montreal, Quebec, Jan. 22nd, 2007- The Muslim Council of Montreal (MCM) would like to thank all individuals and organizations who have extended their support to École Les Jeunes Musulmans Canadiens following the recent attack by vandals. The school has received numerous visits, telephone calls and offers of help.

Website: http://www.muslimcouncil.org

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9/11 : Yemeni Guantanamo five years ex-detainee speaks out

The image above extracted from Al-Jazeera documentary on Guantanamo. Al-Jazerra team went to Guantanamo to make a documentary about how the prisoners being treated in this notorious prison, but for sure the team’s movement was restricted and they were escorted by a minder.

The minders took the team to an empty “model” prison, where all the facilities were available and there was even a Quran put by the window.

For westerners there is nothing wrong with the picture, but for Arabic readers …look very close to the text on the Quran….. Yes it is a Quran but put upside-down, which shows that the cell was arranged put together as just for the media show, a real model which is reality didn’t exist…..but that is not my main post here.

Yemeni five years ex-detainee Al-Assadi speaks about his own experience in Guantanamo:

Families demand closure of Guantanamo: They cut someone’s hand while they could have treated it, Or they refused to treat some patients, such as Sami al-Hajj, an Al Jazeera cameraman arrested in Afghanistan in 2001…..

….. People in there said that we did not have humans’ or animals’ rights, because ‘we were devils and devils have no rights….. they threatened to send the men to a dictator-run country.
http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2007/01/21/guantanamo-five-years-ex-detainee-speaks-out/

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Zionist IOA digging secret tunnel under the Aqsa Mosque

Officials in the Aqsa foundation that caters for Muslim holy shrines in occupied Palestine have unveiled that the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) was secretly digging a tunnel under the Aqsa Mosque that jeopardizes its foundations.

Director of the foundation Farid Al-Haj Yahya affirmed that his institution possesses audiovisual evidence to substantiate the charges, and that it will distribute this evidence to the media in a press conference it will hold in the coming days.

He, furthermore, charged that the Israeli occupation government was aware of those construction works and supported them, adding that Israeli brokers succeeded in convincing a Palestinian Jerusalemite into selling them his small store in Al-Wad street for 60,000 dollars, which is very close to the Mosque.

From that store, Yahya added, digging works of the tunnel started and are still going on in a very secretive manner.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/am/publish/printer_21198.shtml

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Warmonger : Oil, Not Terrorists, the Reason for US Attack on Somalia

Just why did the US attack Somalia two weeks ago? Of course, the answer given for the US military intervention and the generally accepted notion is the hunt for terrorists. But is it? Are terrorists the only bone of contention the US has with Somalia? When the US military devised “Operation Restore Hope” in 1993 which was short-lived after they were whipsawed by rag-tag militia in and around Mogadishu, were they fighting the ‘war on terror’?
http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/61/1/

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The Living Reality of Military-Economic Fascism

In countries such as the United States, whose economies are commonly, though inaccurately, described as “capitalist” or “free-market,” war and preparation for war systematically corrupt both parties to the state-private transactions by which the government obtains the bulk of its military goods and services.
http://www.mises.org/story/2450

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America’s Narcissists Indifferent to Iraqi Casualties

You can’t make this stuff up. George Bush believes that “the Iraqi people owe the American people a huge debt of gratitude.” On the other side of the political divide, Presidential hopeful Joseph Biden — a sponsor of the anti-surge legislation pending before Congress — maintains that we’ve “done enough for the Iraqis.”

What a strange war we’re having Iraq. After four years of shifting rationales, Americans remain clueless about why Bush opened this Pandora’s box. The cold math that led to this disastrous imperial project is just too much for the pundits to own up to.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan07/Amr21.htm

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A Fool’s Errand in Baghdad

Let’s assume for a moment, that Dick Cheney is the driving force behind the plan to surge in Iraq. Does anyone really believe that the vice president is genuinely concerned about the safety of the Iraqi people?
http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/62/1/

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Bloody Weekend: 29 American Servicemembers, 1 British Soldier, 151 Iraqis Killed

At least six more American servicemembers were reported killed in separate events that occurred on Saturday, and two Marines were killed on Sunday. This brings the weekend total to 29 American deaths. Meanwhile, 70 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 26 were wounded in violent attacks today. The weekend tally for them is 151 dead Iraqis and 59 wounded. A British soldier was killed near Basra and four more were injured. Also, Moqtada al Sadr’s Mehdi Army announced that they would resume relations with the Iraqi parliament.
http://www.antiwar.com/updates/?articleid=10365

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Bloody Monday: 143 Iraqis, 1 GI Killed; 218 Iraqis Wounded, 4 GIs Wounded

In today’s violence, a coordinated bomb attack killed dozens and injured over 160 in a Baghdad marketplace. Overall, 143 Iraqis were killed and 218 wounded throughout the country. One American soldier was killed and four more wounded in a roadside bomb attack in Ninewah province today. Also, Saturday’s deadly Black Hawk helicopter crash is now believed to have been caused by an enemy missile.
http://www.antiwar.com/updates/?articleid=10370

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Twenty-one U.S. troops killed in costly day in Iraq

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – U.S. forces had one of their costliest days in Iraq on Saturday when 21 troops were killed, including 13 in a helicopter and five in a clash in a Shi’ite holy city the U.S. military said was triggered by militiamen.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070120/ts_nm/iraq_dc_11

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25 US, UK troops killed in Iraq in less than 24hrs

More than 3,000 US paratroopers have landed in Baghdad to help quell raging sectarian violence, the military announced Sunday, after US losses surged with 24 troops killed in a single day with British losing a solider in an attack in southern Iraq.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/iraq/?id=19243

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U.S. helicopter crash caused by hostile fire: report

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. military helicopter that crashed outside Baghdad, killing all 12 on board, was shot down by a shoulder-fired missile, CNN reported on Monday.

The Black Hawk was most likely brought down on Saturday by hostile fire, according to unidentified U.S. officials cited by CNN. The crash was still under investigation but debris recovered on the ground indicate a missile was involved, CNN said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070122/ts_nm/iraq_helicopter_dc

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Deadly US helicopter crash caused by missile

The U.S. military helicopter that crashed outside Baghdad, killing all 12 on board, was shot down by a shoulder-fired missile
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N22435890.htm

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Another 6 U.S. Troops Die In Iraq Sunday

25 U.S. Troops Died In Iraq Saturday — Deadliest Day In 2 Years

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military reported the deaths of another six troops in Iraq Sunday, NewsChannel 4 reported.

Four soldiers and a marine died during combat Saturday in Anbar Province, and another soldier was killed by a roadside bomb northeast of Baghdad.
http://www.wnbc.com/news/10807819/detail.html

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13 more US soldiers killed across Iraq

At least 13 more US soldiers were killed across Iraq in one of the deadliest days for the US forces since the invasion began, as the military said 3,200 new troops had arrived to quell Baghdad violence
http://tinyurl.com/2ng4hz

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Report: Gunmen In U.S. Uniforms Killed GIs

A brazen attack on U.S. troops in southwest Iraq which left five soldiers dead was carried out by insurgents cleverly disguised to look like American officials in armored sports utility vehicles, according to a report Monday in the Washington Post
http://tinyurl.com/3dfpdb

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Bloody Weekend: 30 American Soldiers, 1 British Soldier, 151 Iraqis Killed

At least nine more American servicemembers were reported killed in separate events that occurred on Saturday. This brings the weekend total to 30 American deaths. Meanwhile, 70 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 26 were wounded in violent attacks today. The weekend tally for them is 151 dead Iraqis and 59 wounded. A British soldier was killed near Basra and four more were injured. Also, Moqtada al Sadr’s Mehdi Army announced that they would resume relations with the Iraqi parliament.
http://www.antiwar.com/updates/?articleid=10365

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Britain’s war on two frontlines: In Afghanistan and Iraq, two missions, one deadly outcome

The offensive reported on the previous pages highlights the very different dangers faced by UK troops in the killing fields of Helmand and the streets of Basra. By Raymond Whitaker
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article2171658.ece

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 20 January 2007.

• Iraqi Resistance car bomber blasts checkpoint manned by group of US Marines in al-Qa’im Saturday evening.
• US troops in ar-Ramadi kill 16-year-old boy for spitting on them Saturday.
• Half-hour gun battle in al-Fallujah Friday leaves two US troops reported dead.
• Iraqi Resistance sharpshooter kills first lieutenant in puppet army in al-Fallujah Saturday morning.
• Resistance fighters ambush puppet army patrol, killing seven.
• Fourth mass arrest campaign in al-Fallujah in 10 days sees 36 Iraqis rounded up, taken away.
• US soldier reported killed when Resistance bomb disables Bradley armored vehicle near ad-Dulu‘iyah.
• Resistance shoots down US helicopter near Buhriz; US admits 13 troops dead.
• British soldier reported killed in Resistance bomb attack in al-Basrah Saturday.
• Resistance carries out second mortar strike on US headquarters in al-Hadithah Saturday morning.
• Resistance bombards US headquarters in al-Hadithah with heavy mortar barrage Friday.
• Resistance bomb kills three puppet “Shock Troops” in ad-Durah.
• Resistance mortars pound US base in southern Baghdad before dawn Saturday.
• Resistance fighters destroy hideout for pro-Iranian Jaysh al-Mahdi gunmen in southern Baghdad Friday.
• Employee in official puppet regime TV company gunned down in al-Mawsil Saturday morning.
• Resistance captures officer in pro-American Kurdish separatist Peshmergah.
• Ninwa Province puppet policeman killed in ambush Friday.
• Resistance forces kill puppet army commander in Rabi‘ah, near Syrian border, on Friday.
• Rocket attack targets puppet provincial government building in Karbala’ as night falls Saturday.
• Resistance fighters destroy two tankers hauling fuel to US bases in al-Faw Saturday afternoon.

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0107/iraqiresistancereport_200107.htm

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German Soldiers Admit They Guarded US Prison in occupied Afghanistan

As part of the investigation into the alleged abuse of terrorist suspects by German soldiers in Afghanistan, officers from the German Special Forces (KSK) are for the first time making official statements — and they admit that they helped US soldiers guard detainees.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,461369,00.html

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Pakistani troops killed in rare attack

At least three Pakistani soldiers have been killed and nine injured in a suspected suicide attack on an army convoy in the pro-Taliban border region neighbouring Afghanistan.
http://tinyurl.com/3a82st

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U.S.-led coalition forces in occupied Afghanistan bomb Pakistani territory, killing one soldier

The U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan Monday bombed the Pakistani territory, killing one soldier and injuring two others, a Pakistani army statement said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-01/22/content_5639210.htm

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Tribe: U.S., not Pakistan, hit village

Tribesmen from a Pakistani mountain village where an airstrike hit a suspected al-Qaida hideout claimed Friday that missiles were fired from an American plane and denied the dead were terrorists.
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/world/16498800.htm

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General Musharraf is tightening the noose around his neck

The U.S. forces attacked the border town of Zamzola in South Waziristan on January 16, 2007, killing at least 8 civilians. Army spokesman Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. He reported eight “militants” were killed and 10 wounded.
http://tinyurl.com/3877e9

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Taliban militants to open own schools in occupied Afghanistan

The Taliban said it will open its own schools in areas of southern Afghanistan under its control, an apparent effort to win support among local residents and undermine the Western-backed government’s efforts to expand education.
http://tinyurl.com/2paxjo

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Ethnic Cleansing: Israel’s New proposal

Transfer-for-cash plan: A new proposal designed to solve Israel’s Arab demographic concerns suggests offering a million Palestinian residents of refugee camps in Judea and Samaria incentives totaling as much as $50 billion to convince them to leave the area.
http://tinyurl.com/2lbk8z

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250,000 Palestinians fenced in, says report

Some 250,000 Palestinians have been closed off from the rest of the West Bank by the separation fence, according to a report released by “Bimkom – Planners for Planning Rights” human rights organization.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3355396,00.html

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Israeli army admits the 44 barriers it said it removed, did not actually exist

The Israel Defense Forces admitted yesterday that the 44 dirt obstacles it said had been removed from around West Bank villages did not actually exist.

Last Tuesday, the IDF announced that it had removed 44 dirt obstacles that blocked access roads to West Bank villages, to fulfill promises made by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas during their meeting a month ago. Olmert had pledged measures to ease the lives of Palestinian civilians.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/816063.html

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Czechs give go-ahead for US ‘son of star wars’ base

The Czech government has announced that it wants to host a large US military site for the Pentagon’s much-criticised missile shield system, confirming for the first time that Washington had asked Prague for permission to build a radar site for the national missile defence programme.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,1995893,00.html

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Russia sees threat from US plan for missiles in eastern Europe

A top Russian general warned that a missile defense system that the United States wants to deploy in eastern Europe would pose a “clear threat” to his country.
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=160056

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Turning the tables on Washington, Cuba says US harbours terrorists

Posada Carriles is portrayed alongside Bush on the billboard made to look like a movie ad, which advertises “The Assassin – coming soon to a US court near you.”
http://tinyurl.com/32gpmc

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Bush T-shirt ban

An Australian who lives in Britain has threatened legal action against Qantas for barring him from a Melbourne-to-London flight wearing a T-shirt depicting US President George Bush as a terrorist.
http://tinyurl.com/2oznyc

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-muslim voice-
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BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW

US Terrorize The World – 1 Muharam 1428 H (20.1.07)

bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR

1 MUHARRAM 1428 HIJR

 

 

=== News Update ===

Rogue State America

What exactly are we doing in the horn of Africa, where we have encouraged the Christian government of Ethiopia to invade Somalia and replace its Islamic government? As far as I can tell, we have violated international law, committed war crimes, helped Al Qaeda recruit new members, and involved ourselves in a guerrilla war that could last decades.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16623.htm

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Where Is the Consistency in the War on Terrorism?

WASHINGTON — It would seem safe to assume that individuals who have fired a bazooka at the United Nations headquarters in New York, served time in connection with the first state-sponsored act of terrorism in the United States, or actively participated in secret groups that claimed responsibility for dozens of bombings in New York, New Jersey and Florida, would raise many red flags when coming into this country.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57117-2004Sep2.html?referrer=emailarticle

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War Criminal : Truth is Speaking….Is Power Listening?

Deep crimson stains mottle the pages of humanity’s history. Untold numbers of souls who were skewered, decapitated, eviscerated, or obliterated in anonymity scream out for recognition as one peruses humankind’s memoirs. While our historical manuscript is also generously dappled by the milk of human kindness, much of our narrative is dominated by tales of man’s savage cruelty to man.
http://civillibertarian.blogspot.com/2007/01/truth-is-speakingis-power-listening.html

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“The Fastest-Growing Humanitarian Crisis in the World”: Iraq’s Refugee Nightmare

The US occupation of Iraq is generating one of the largest refugees crises in decades.

Reports from Refugees International, Human Rights Watch and the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) document in terrifying detail the desperate plight of Iraqis forced to flee their homes. Close to two million Iraqis have already fled the country, and the rate of the exodus — currently at as many as 100,000 a month — shows every sign of increasing.

That’s only the tip of the iceberg. Another 1.7 million Iraqis have been driven by sectarian violence to leave their homes in integrated areas to live in an ethnic community inside Iraq. This internally displaced population is expanding by 50,000 each month, and the UNHCR predicts it could reach 2.7 million people by the end of 2007.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan07/Smith18.htm

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Washing War Crimes at the Washington Post

You can read all about the nasty business of washing war crimes at the Washington Post. They start with fixing the headline “Death in Haditha” — not “Mass Murder in Haditha” or “Another American Atrocity in Iraq.” Next, forget the damning details, screw the truth and give the perpetrators all the room in the world to blame their conduct on “mistakes” made in the heat of battle amidst the fog of war.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan07/Amr18.htm

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Cruelty and xenophobia shame and stir the lucky country

John Pilger returns to his homeland, Australia, and described the social regression of a once proud liberal democracy and says that the flag-waving “values” of the neo-con prime minister may be coming unstuck in Guantanamo Bay.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16226.htm

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You ain’t nothin’ but a dog

Where is that fascist french bitch brigitte bardot ? I need her in Baghdad now! Someone find her for me. Otherwise contact the animals lovers in england or america. Call the society for the protection of animals, greenpeace, the ecological movement, or any “liberal” “progressive” whose heart melts at the sight of endangered species.

Since they are not moved by the death or the maiming of humans maybe this will move them. I would not bet on it though. It’s an Iraqi dog. Another Arab dog. A limping, injured, dog being “taunted” by american tiny pricks called soldiers. Threatening to kill the poor thing for “fun”.

Killing as a sport, killing for rest and relaxation-your famous R&R, killing for pleasure, killing for leisure….killing coz you are so afraid of both, life and death. Cowardly bastards.
http://arabwomanblues.blogspot.com/2007/01/you-aint-nothin-but-dog.html

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The battle to save Iraq’s children

“Sick or injured children who could otherwise be treated by simple means are left to die in hundreds because they do not have access to basic medicines or other resources,” the doctors say. “Children who have lost hands, feet and limbs are left without prostheses. Children with grave psychological distress are left untreated,” they add.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16231.htm

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The Letter: ‘Sick or injured children, are left to die in hundreds’

We ask that all the revenues from Iraq’s oil now pass directly to the Iraqi people, and that illegal contracts entered into by the Coalition Provisional Authority are revoked.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2165471.ece

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U.S. Marine admits to shooting defenseless Iraqi

A U.S. Marine pleaded guilty on Thursday to shooting a defenseless Iraqi grandfather dragged from his house in the middle of the night in what his squad informally called “Operation Vigilante.”
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N18183724.htm

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War Crime : Solider to Plead Guilty in Iraq Rape

EVANSVILLE, Ind. – The second of five 101st Airborne Division soldiers accused of raping and killing a 14-year-old Iraqi girl along with executing three of her family members last year in Iraq has reached a plea agreement with prosecutors, his attorney said Thursday.

Sgt. Paul E. Cortez, 24, of Barstow, Calif., is expected to plead guilty to rape and premeditated murder during a hearing next month at Fort Campbell, attorney William Cassara said.
http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,122385,00.html

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War Crime : 2nd soldier to plead guilty in Iraq rape

EVANSVILLE, Ind. – The second of five 101st Airborne Division soldiers accused of raping and killing a 14-year-old Iraqi girl along with executing three of her family members last year in Iraq has reached a plea agreement with prosecutors, his attorney said Thursday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070118/ap_on_re_us/iraq_rape_slaying_3

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This video is a statement for history showing clearly that Khomeni and the fanatic aytollahs are the ones who started the Iraq-Iran war not the late Saddam

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b658f029d9

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Video: Alshaikh Al-qardhawy about the hero Saddam Hussain

http://switch5.castup.net/frames/20041020_MemriTV_Popup/video_480x360.asp?ai=214&ar=1354wmv&ak=null

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Video: Three generals speak against Iraq surge

http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?f=00&g=d99122ee-7330-40e3-a438-54fc4fba288d&p=News_Comment

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Iraq War Costs Going Through Stratosphere

The cost of the Iraq War in addition to costing thousands of American and Iraqi lives is bleeding the American treasury at dangerous levels.
http://www.btimes.com/News/article/article.asp?NewsID=75516&sID=35

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Auditors Report Billions in Reconstruction Waste and Fraud in Iraq

President Bush is asking for another $1.2 billion for rebuilding and jobs in Iraq. But with so much uncertainty, the committee chairman wants the government auditors to return in two months with estimates on how much money has been wasted in Iraqi reconstruction.
http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-01-19-voa32.cfm?rss=politics

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 18 January 2007.

• Iraqi Resistance sharpshooter reportedly kills US Marine in ‘Anah Thursday morning.
• Three US troops believed killed in Resistance attack on US vehicle in ar-Ramadi Thursday morning.
• US Marine reported killed in Resistance sharpshooter attack in ar-Ramadi Thursday morning.
• Resistance rocket strikes US base in al-Karmah Thursday morning.
• Resistance bombards US base in as-Saqlawiyah Thursday morning.
• Resistance bomb destroys US Humvee on patrol in al-Fallujah.
• Resistance ambushes US patrol, sparking nighttime gun battle in al-Fallujah.
• Iraqi Resistance men kill high-ranking puppet Intelligence officer, Badr Brigade official in Thursday evening attacks in Baghdad.
• Resistance fighters kill colonel in puppet “Iraqi Intelligence Service” in Baghdad’s as-Sayyidiyah Thursday evening.
• Iraqi Resistance sharpshooter kills official in Badr Brigade organization in Baghdad.
• Resistance bomb kills two puppet “National Guards” in southern Baghdad.
• University professor reported murdered by pro-Iranian Shi’i sectarian militias Wednesday.
• Resistance blasts puppet “National Guard” checkpoint with mortars Wednesday night.
• Resistance bomb explodes by puppet police patrol in southwest Baghdad Thursday.
• Fate of puppet Municipal Administrator of al-Mansur in Baghdad still a mystery.
• Resistance sharpshooter kills truck driver hauling supplies to US forces in ad-Durah.
• Eight acknowledged killed in Resistance attack on US National Democratic Institute representative’s convoy in Baghdad’s al-Yarmuk district on Wednesday.
• Resistance sharpshooter kills Jaysh al-Mahdi commander in Zuyunah on Wednesday.
• Resistance bombards US base in Tikrit at dawn Thursday.
• US troops, Iraqi puppet police carry out raids, searches, arrests in ad-Dawr at dawn Thursday.
• Resistance Grad rocket blasts puppet “Shock Troops” headquarters in Samarra’ neighborhood.
• Resistance demolishes puppet “Iraqi National Guard” headquarters in al-Latifiyah midday Thursday.
• Resistance bomb kills four puppet “Iraqi National Guards” in al-Yusufiyah.
• Resistance group takes responsibility for attack on British supply convoy near al-Basrah on Wednesday.

http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m29867&hd=&size=1&l=e

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Swedish human rights worker viciously attacked by Jewish extremists in Hebron

November 18th, 2006 | Posted in Reports, Hebron Region, Photos

see: http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/11/18/hebron-day-06/

Report can also be read at:
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6078.shtml

see also: Apartheid Road grows and farmers lose more land
http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/1384.shtml

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Israel’s ethnic cleansing policies in Palestine

Audio: Nora Barrows-Friedman reports from inside Israel and documents the ethnic cleansing that is going on in Palestinian areas.
http://www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=18255

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How Israel Enforces “Demographic Separation”

One of the main forecasts of the book was that Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line — those who currently enjoy Israeli citizenship and those who live as oppressed subjects of Israel’s occupation — would soon find common cause as Israel tries to seal itself off from what it calls the Palestinian “demographic threat”: that is, the moment when Palestinians outnumber Jews in the land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.
http://www.counterpunch.org/

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Palestinian girl dies of wounds from Israeli fire

A 10-year-old Palestinian girl has died of wounds suffered after Israeli border police fired on demonstrators in a village outside Jerusalem this week.

Her death brings to 5,627 the number of people killed since the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising in September 2000, the vast majority of them Palestinians, according to an AFP count.

Ethnic cleansing, one Palestinian kid at a time. That IDF soldier who killed her must be damned proud.
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/070119/1/4634o.html

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FLASHBACK: THE TWO ISRAELI SOLDIERS WERE CAPTURED IN LEBANON

The Israeli invasion of Lebanon was justified on the capture of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah. The little detail never mentioned is that the Israelis were inside Lebanon at the time.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/israeli_solders.html

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Jordan will develop nuclear power

Jordan aspires to develop nuclear power for peaceful purposes and believes that unless all sides move quickly toward a peace settlement in the region, the recent confrontation in Lebanon is only a hint of disasters to come.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/815304.html

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Medical Apartheid

The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/19/1432231

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USA Dictatorship: New Pentagon detainee manual could lead to executions based on ‘hearsay evidence’

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=== News Update ===

USA Dictatorship:

New Pentagon detainee manual could lead to executions based on ‘hearsay evidence’

David Edwards and Ron Brynaert

Published: Thursday January 18, 2007

According to a breaking report on MSNBC, a new Pentagon detainee manual could allow executions based on “hearsay evidence.”

“We have learned that the Pentagon has just completed a manual for the coming detainee trials that would allow suspected terrorist to be imprisoned or executed using hearsay evidence or coerced testimony,” said Nora O’Donnell, the chief Washington correspondent for NBC News’ 24-hour cable news network. “In other words, could be put to death on hearsay evidence…”

“According to a copy of the manual obtained by The Associated Press, a terror suspect’s defense lawyer cannot reveal classified evidence in the person’s defense until the government has a chance to review it,” Anne Flaherty writes for the Associated Press.

NBC News correspondent Pete Williams added that “the big question before Congress is ‘should we allow these two types of evidence?’”

“The handbook conforms with the law,” Williams said.

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The manual, sent to Capitol Hill on Thursday and scheduled to be released later by the Pentagon, is intended to track a law passed last fall by Congress restoring President Bush’s plans to have special military commissions try terror-war prisoners. Those commissions had been struck down earlier in the year by the Supreme Court.

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The Pentagon manual is aimed at ensuring that enemy combatants – the Bush administration’s term for many of the terrorism suspects captured on the battlefield – “are prosecuted before regularly constituted courts affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized by civilized people,” according to the document.

As required by law, the manual prohibits statements obtained by torture and “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment” as prohibited by the Constitution.

However, the law does allow statements obtained through coercive interrogation techniques if obtained before Dec. 30, 2005, and deemed reliable by a judge.

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FULL AP ARTICLE AT THIS LINK

source:
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/MSNBC_New_Pentagon_detainee_manual_could_0118.html

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Claim: Bin Laden Told Hamza Al-Qaeda Not Behind 9/11

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=== News Update ===

Claim: Bin Laden Told Hamza Al-Qaeda Not Behind 9/11

Statement dovetails with Osama’s previous attempts to distance himself from attack responsibility

Paul Joseph Watson

Prison Planet

Thursday, January 18, 2007

A claim attributed to a friend of one of the six men accused of plotting to detonate bombs on London’s underground tube system on July 21 2005, suggests that Osama bin Laden personally told hook handed cleric Abu Hamza that Al-Qaeda was not behind the attacks of September 11, 2001.

The London Independent today reports that Steven Bentley, a school friend of accused would-be suicide bomber Yassin Omar, was told by Omar that he did not think Bin Laden was behind 9/11. Omar based his conclusion on what he was told by extremist London cleric Abu Hamza, currently serving a seven-year prison sentence for soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred, who had personally met Bin Laden.

Bin Laden’s apparent attempt to distance himself from involvement in 9/11 dovetails with statements made shortly after the event in which he told a Pakistani newspaper that he was not involved in the attacks.

“I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States,” Bin Laden told Ummat, “As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children and other humans as an appreciable act. Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women, children and other people. Such a practice is forbidden even in the course of a battle.”

The supposed Osama “confession video” in which the terrorist leader discusses how the attacks were carried out has been widely debunked as a hoax. On closer analysis, the individual in the tape is clearly not Bin Laden and he makes statements completely inconsistent with Bin Laden’s previous public comments. Other so-called Al-Qaeda tapes have been directly traced back to the Pentagon and Donald Rumsfeld.

Though the information provided by Bentley is third or fourth hand, it makes interesting reading nonetheless when compared with previous statements from individuals with close ties to Bin Laden

The White House regularly intones that critics of President Bush are in some way aiding the enemy but it was not until recently that the media picked up on a similar tack in trying to smear anyone who questions the official version of 9/11 as being sympathetic with Al-Qaeda or even a recruiting aid for terrorists.

One day after the alleged liquid bomb plot to simultaneously blow up ten transatlantic airliners, CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour blamed alternative documentaries about 9/11 for radicalizing many Muslims in England and around the world, and leading them to ‘succumb to conspiracy theories.’

source:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2007/180107notbehind.htm

Related Link:

1. FBI says, it has “No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13664.htm

2. Fake Al Qaeda The Phony (Mossad) – Al Qaeda Cell in Palestine
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fakealqaeda.html

3. The Fake bin Laden Video Tape – YOU ARE LOOKING AT A US GOVERNMENT LIE
http://whatreallyhappened.com/osamatape.html

4. The Fake bin Laden – Audio Tape
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/binladen_audio.html

5. 9/11 : The Fake 2004 Bin Laden Video Tape
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osamatape2.html

6. Al Qaeda Tapes: Direct Link To Military Psyops And Donald Rumsfeld
http://infowars.net/articles/October2006/051006Rumsfeld.htm

7. U.S. Government Caught Red-Handed Releasing Staged Al-Qaeda Videos
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/october2006/051006redhanded.htm

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The War Becomes More Unholy : USA Criminal in Iraq

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In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

=== News Update ===

The War Becomes More Unholy

by Dahr Jamail

with Ali al-Fadhily

FALLUJAH – A stepped up military offensive that targets mosques, religious leaders and Islamic customs is leading many Iraqis to believe that the US-led invasion really was a “holy war.”

Photographs are being circulated of black crosses painted on mosque walls and on copies of the Quran, and of soldiers dumping their waste inside mosques. New stories appear frequently of raids on mosques and brutal treatment of Islamic clerics, leading many Iraqis to ask if the invasion and occupation was a war against Islam.

Many Iraqis now recall remarks by US President George W. Bush shortly after the events of Sep. 11, 2001 when he told reporters that “this crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take a while.”

“Bush’s tongue ‘slipped’ more than once when he spoke of ‘fascist Islamists’ and used other similar expressions that touched the very nerve of Muslims around the world,” Sheikh Abdul Salam al-Kubayssi of the Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS), a leading Sunni group, told IPS in Baghdad. “We wish they were just mere slips, but what is going on repeatedly makes one think of crusades over and over.”

Occupation forces claim that mosque raids are being conducted because holy places are being used by resistance fighters.

A leaflet distributed in Fallujah by US forces late November said mosques were being used by “insurgents” to conduct attacks against “Multinational Forces,” and that this would lead to “taking proper procedures against those mosques.”

The statement referred to daily sniper attacks against occupation forces in Fallujah in which many US soldiers have been killed.

Local people refute these claims made by coalition forces.

“Fighters never used mosques for attacking Americans because they realize the consequences and reactions from the military,” a member of the local municipality council of Fallujah told IPS on condition of anonymity. “Nonetheless, US soldiers always targeted our mosques and their minarets.”

During Operation Phantom Fury of November 2004, scores of mosques in Fallujah were damaged or destroyed completely. Fallujah is known as the city of mosques because it has so many.

Many of these are Sunni mosques. AMS leaders are now enemy number one for US occupation forces as well as the Shi’ite-dominated government.

Through continuous arrests of its members and the raids against mosques all over the Sunni areas of the country, including their headquarters on the outskirts of Baghdad, the AMS has often expressed feelings of persecution.

On the other hand, the occupation forces have been supportive of clerics who took part in the political structure that the US coalition created in Iraq. These include Shi’ite clerics and political leaders like current Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of the Dawa Party. Maliki has called AMS leader Dr. Harith al-Dhari a “terrorist leader” and a murderer.

Many Sunnis who are more secular also feel persecuted by the occupation.

“I am not a follower of al-Dhari or any other leader,” Prof. Malik al-Rawi of the National Institute for Scientific Research of Baghdad told IPS. “In fact most Sunnis do not literally follow any leader for religious reasons. Yet after we found Americans targeting our religious symbols, we had to stand together around the man who did not sell us to the occupation.”

Dr. Rawi, avowedly a secular Sunni, told IPS that the number of Iraqis who believe the occupation is waging a “religious war” increased dramatically after the 2004 attacks on Fallujah.

“Those sieges, along with all the events that followed in Samarra, al-Qa’im, Haditha and now Siniya have led people to think of the crusades,” he added. “Americans do hate us for some reason and we do not find any reason but religion.”

It is not just Sunni Iraqis who claim that their mosques are not respected by occupation forces. The mostly Shi’ite city of Najaf was exposed to massive US military assaults during August 2004. Many attacks came dangerously close to the sacred Imam Ali shrine, damaging its outer walls.

Other US raids on Shi’ite mosques in Baghdad have infuriated Iraq’s Shi’ite population.

Some Iraqi analysts say the perceived religious conflict seems to have expanded as the occupation has progressed.

“The world must be aware that this US administration is pushing the situation to the black hole of a new religious conflict by giving the green light to their soldiers to attack mosques and arrest clerics whenever they feel like it,” Kassim Jabbar, an Iraqi political analyst from Baghdad University told IPS.

“Even people with the highest education standards are wondering why US leaders have not restricted attacks upon religious symbols in our country.”

Ali al-Fadhily is our Baghdad correspondent. Dahr Jamail is our specialist writer who has spent eight months reporting from inside Iraq and has been covering the Middle East for several years.

source:
http://www.antiwar.com/jamail/?articleid=10347

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“Psst… Mr. President. That’s not your heart!”

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http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

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Genocide in Gaza, Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank

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=== News Update ===

Genocide in Gaza, Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank

By Ilan Pappe

01/18/07 “Electronic Intifada” On this stage, not so long ago, I claimed that Israel is conducting genocidal policies in the Gaza Strip. I hesitated a lot before using this very charged term and yet decided to adopt it. Indeed, the responses I received, including from some leading human rights activists, indicated a certain unease over the usage of such a term. I was inclined to rethink the term for a while, but came back to employing it today with even stronger conviction: it is the only appropriate way to describe what the Israeli army is doing in the Gaza Strip.

On 28 December 2006, the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem published its annual report about the Israeli atrocities in the occupied territories. Israeli forces killed this last year six hundred and sixty citizens. The number of Palestinians killed by Israel last year tripled in comparison to the previous year (around two hundred). According to B’Tselem, the Israelis killed one hundred and forty one children in the last year. Most of the dead are from the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli forces demolished almost 300 houses and slew entire families. This means that since 2000, Israeli forces killed almost four thousand Palestinians, half of them children; more than twenty thousand were wounded.

B’Tselem is a conservative organization, and the numbers may be higher. But the point is not just about the escalating intentional killing, it is about the trend and the strategy. As 2007 commences, Israeli policymakers are facing two very different realities in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. In the former, they are closer than ever to finishing the construction of their eastern border. Their internal ideological debate is over and their master plan for annexing half of the West Bank is being implemented at an ever-growing speed. The last phase was delayed due to the promises made by Israel, under the Road Map, not to build new settlements. Israel found two ways of circumventing this alleged prohibition. First, it defined a third of the West Bank as Greater Jerusalem, which allowed it to build within this new annexed area towns and community centers. Secondly, it expanded old settlements to such proportions so that there was no need to build new ones. This trend was given an additional push in 2006 (hundreds of caravans were installed to mark the border of the expansions, the planning schemes for the new towns and neighborhoods were finalized and the apartheid bypass roads and highway system completed). In all, the settlements, the army bases, the roads and the wall will allow Israel to annex almost half of the West Bank by 2010. Within these territories there will be a considerable number of Palestinians, against whom the Israeli authorities will continue to implement slow and creeping transfer policies — too boring as a subject for the western media to bother with and too elusive for human rights organizations to make a general point about them. There is no rush; as far as the Israelis are concerned, they have the upper hand there: the daily abusive and dehumanizing mixed mechanisms of army and bureaucracy is as effective as ever in contributing its own share to the dispossession process.

The strategic thinking of Ariel Sharon that this policy is far better than the one offered by the blunt ‘transferists’ or ethnic cleansers, such as Avigdor Liberman’s advocacy, is accepted by everyone in the government, from Labor to Kadima. The petit crimes of state terrorism are also effective as they enable liberal Zionists around the world to softly condemn Israel and yet categorize any genuine criticism on Israel’s criminal policies as anti-Semitism.

On the other hand, there is no clear Israeli strategy as yet for the Gaza Strip; but there is a daily experiment with one. Gaza, in the eyes of the Israelis, is a very different geo-political entity from that of the West Bank. Hamas controls Gaza, while Abu Mazen seems to run the fragmented West Bank with Israeli and American blessing. There is no chunk of land in Gaza that Israel covets and there is no hinterland, like Jordan, to which the Palestinians of Gaza can be expelled. Ethnic cleansing is ineffective here.

The earlier strategy in Gaza was ghettoizing the Palestinians there, but this is not working. The ghettoized community continues to express its will for life by firing primitive missiles into Israel. Ghettoizing or quarantining unwanted communities, even if they were regarded as sub-human or dangerous, never worked in history as a solution. The Jews know it best from their own history. The next stages against such communities in the past were even more horrific and barbaric. It is difficult to tell what the future holds for the Gaza population, ghettoized, quarantined, unwanted and demonized. Will it be a repeat of the ominous historical examples or is a better fate still possible?

Creating the prison and throwing the key to the sea, as UN Special Reporter John Dugard has put it, was an option the Palestinians in Gaza reacted against with force as soon as September 2005. They were determined to show at the very least that they were still part of the West Bank and Palestine. In that month, they launched the first significant, in number and not quality, barrage of missiles into the Western Negev. The shelling was a response to an Israeli campaign of mass arrests of Hamas and Islamic Jihad activists in the Tul Karem area. The Israelis responded with operation ‘First Rain’. It is worth dwelling for a moment on the nature of that operation. It was inspired by the punitive measures inflicted first by colonialist powers, and then by dictatorships, against rebellious imprisoned or banished communities. A frightening show of the oppressor’s power to intimidate preceded all kind of collective and brutal punishments, ending with a large number of dead and wounded among the victims. In ‘First Rain’, supersonic flights were flown over Gaza to terrorize the entire population, succeeded by the heavy bombardment of vast areas from the sea, sky and land. The logic, the Israeli army explained, was to create pressure so as to weaken the Gaza community’s support for the rocket launchers. As was expected, by the Israelis as well, the operation only increased the support for the rocket launchers and gave impetus to their next attempt. The real purpose of that particular operation was experimental. The Israeli generals wished to know how such operations would be received at home, in the region and in the world. And it seems that instantly the answer was ‘very well’; namely, no one took an interest in the scores of dead and hundreds of wounded Palestinians left behind after the ‘First Rain’ subsided.

The bar set continually higher: Palestinians pass by a pool of blood after the Israeli shelling of a residential area in Beit Hanoun in the northern of Gaza Strip in which at least 18 people were killed, 8 November 2006. (MaanImages/Wesam Saleh)

And hence since ‘First Rain’ and until June 2006, all the following operations were similarly modeled. The difference was in their escalation: more firepower, more causalities and more collateral damage and, as to be expected, more Qassam missiles in response. Accompanying measures in 2006 were more sinister means of ensuring the full imprisonment of the people of Gaza through boycott and blockade, with which the EU is still shamefully collaborating.

The capture of Gilad Shalit in June 2006 was irrelevant in the general scheme of things, but nonetheless provided an opportunity for the Israelis to escalate even more the components of the tactical and allegedly punitive missions. After all, there was still no strategy that followed the tactical decision of Ariel Sharon to take out 8,000 settlers whose presence complicated ‘punitive’ missions and whose eviction made him almost a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize. Since then, the ‘punitive’ actions continue and become themselves a strategy.

The Israeli army loves drama and therefore also escalated the language. ‘First Rain’ was replaced by ‘Summer Rains’, a general name that was given to the ‘punitive’ operations since June 2006 (in a country where there is no rain in the summer, the only precipitation that one can expect are showers of F-16 bombs and artillery shells hitting people of Gaza).

‘Summer Rains’ brought a novel component: the land invasion into parts of the Gaza Strip. This enabled the army to kill citizens even more effectively and to present it as a result of heavy fighting within dense populated areas, an inevitable result of the circumstances and not of Israeli policies. With the close of summer came operation ‘Autumn Clouds’ which was even more efficient: on 1 November 2006, in less than 48 hours, the Israelis killed seventy civilians; by the end of that month, with additional mini operations accompanying it, almost two hundred were killed, half of them children and women. As one can see from the dates, some of the activity was parallel to the Israeli attacks on Lebanon, making it easier to complete the operations without much external attention, let alone criticism.

From ‘First Rain’ to ‘Autumn Clouds’ one can see escalation in every parameter. The first is the disappearance of the distinction between civilian and non-civilian targets: the senseless killing has turned the population at large to the main target for the army’s operation. The second one is the escalation in the means: employment of every possible killing machines the Israeli army possesses. Thirdly, the escalation is conspicuous in the number of casualties: with each operation, and each future operation, a much larger number of people are likely to be killed and wounded. Finally, and most importantly, the operations become a strategy — the way Israel intends to solve the problem of the Gaza Strip.

A creeping transfer in the West Bank and a measured genocidal policy in the Gaza Strip are the two strategies Israel employs today. From an electoral point of view, the one in Gaza is problematic as it does not reap any tangible results; the West Bank under Abu Mazen is yielding to Israeli pressure and there is no significant force that arrests the Israeli strategy of annexation and dispossession. But Gaza continues to fire back. On the one hand, this would enable the Israeli army to initiate more massive genocidal operations in the future. But there is also the great danger, on the other, that as happened in 1948, the army would demand a more drastic and systematic ‘punitive’ and collateral action against the besieged people of the Gaza Strip.

A source of satisfaction for Israel: Palestinians inspect a burnt vehicle belonging to Colonel Mohammad Ghareeb, the deputy chief of preventive security in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. The vehicle was burnt during factional clashes between Fatah and Hamas. (MaanImages/Wesam Saleh)

Ironically, the Israeli killing machine has rested lately. Even relatively large number of Qassam missiles, including one or two quite deadly ones, did not stir the army to action. Though the army’s spokesmen say it shows ‘restraint’, it never did in the past and is not likely to do so in the future. The army rests, as its generals are content with the internal killing that rages on in Gaza and does the job for them. They watch with satisfaction the emerging civil war in Gaza, which Israel foments and encourages. From Israel’s point of view it does not really mater how Gaza would eventually be demographically downsized, be it by internal or Israeli slaying. The responsibility of ending the internal fighting lies of course with the Palestinian groups themselves, but the American and Israeli interference, the continued imprisonment, the starvation and strangulation of Gaza are all factors that make such an internal peace process very difficult. But it will take place soon and then with the first early sign that it subsided, the Israeli ‘Summer Rains’ will fall down again on the people of Gaza, wreaking havoc and death.

And one should never tire of stating the inevitable political conclusions from this dismal reality of the year we left behind and in the face of the one that awaits us. There is still no other way of stopping Israel than besides boycott, divestment and sanctions. We should all support it clearly, openly, unconditionally, regardless of what the gurus of our world tell us about the efficiency or raison d’etre of such actions. The UN would not intervene in Gaza as it does in Africa; the Nobel peace laureates would not enlist to its defense as they do for causes in Southeast Asia. The numbers of people killed there are not staggering as far as other calamities are concerned, and it is not a new story — it is dangerously old and troubling. The only soft point of this killing machine is its oxygen lines to ‘western’ civilization and public opinion. It is still possible to puncture them and make it at least more difficult for the Israelis to implement their future strategy of eliminating the Palestinian people either by cleansing them in the West Bank or genociding them in the Gaza Strip.

Ilan Pappe is senior lecturer in the University of Haifa Department of political Science and Chair of the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian Studies in Haifa. His books include, among others, The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (London and New York 1992), The Israel/Palestine Question (London and New York 1999), A History of Modern Palestine (Cambridge 2003), The Modern Middle East (London and New York 2005) and his latest, Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006).

source:
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6374.shtml

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US Terrorize The World – 29 Dhul-Hijjah 1427 H (19.1.07)

bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

=== News Update ===

Genocide in Gaza, Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank

A creeping transfer in the West Bank and a measured genocidal policy in the Gaza Strip are the two strategies Israel employs today. From an electoral point of view, the one in Gaza is problematic as it does not reap any tangible results; the West Bank under Abu Mazen is yielding to Israeli pressure and there is no significant force that arrests the Israeli strategy of annexation and dispossession.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16216.htm

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Terror and starvation in Gaza

Pilger on the genocide that is engulfing Palestine as bystanders silently look on.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16210.htm

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9/11 Torture and the Future : Perspectives from the Humanities

This series of events addresses the critical issues surrounding the use of torture by the most powerful democracy in the world. The series will focus on four areas: the devastating effects of torture conducted by democratic societies on the concept and practice of democracy; the consequences of state-sanctioned torture on the principles and practices of scholarship and education; the role of mass media in the increasing acceptability of the use of torture; and the relationship between torture used in US-run prisons abroad, and human rights violations on American soil. The series features scholars whose work on torture and human rights effectively crosses the disciplinary gap between the humanities and social sciences, as well as artists, activists and lawyers whose work is committed to an ethics and politics of response and resistance.
http://www.complit.ucsb.edu/projects/tortureandthefuture/index.html

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9/11 Strange Bedfellows: Torture & Democracy

cover_torture.jpgIn April 2004, vivid photographs of American military and intelligence personnel torturing Iraqi detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison facility were leaked to the press. Instantly iconic, the images became political rallying flags for terrorist recruitment throughout the Arab world, and within the United States they inspired shock and disgust.

Yet for all their brutal immediacy—or perhaps because of it—the Abu Ghraib photographs occupied only an isolated place in the American discussion of torture. Today, despite documented evidence of other American-ordered torture, Abu Ghraib is not just the signal scandal of the Bush administration’s extraordinary interrogation practices, but the only scandal. Journalist Mark Danner, who wrote what is now—and will likely remain—the authoritative account of Abu Ghraib in his book Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror, described this curious fact in a recent essay
http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/2007/01/strange-bedfellows-torture-democracy.html

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9/11 : New Pentagon detainee manual could lead to executions based on ‘hearsay evidence’

According to a breaking report on MSNBC, a new Pentagon detainee manual could allow executions based on “hearsay evidence.”

“We have learned that the Pentagon has just completed a manual for the coming detainee trials that would allow suspected terrorist to be imprisoned or executed using hearsay evidence or coerced testimony,” said Nora O’Donnell, the chief Washington correspondent for NBC News’ 24-hour cable news network. “In other words, could be put to death on hearsay evidence…”
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/MSNBC_New_Pentagon_detainee_manual_could_0118.html

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Claim: Bin Laden Told Hamza Al-Qaeda Not Behind 9/11

Statement dovetails with Osama’s previous attempts to distance himself from attack responsibility

A claim attributed to a friend of one of the six men accused of plotting to detonate bombs on London’s underground tube system on July 21 2005, suggests that Osama bin Laden personally told hook handed cleric Abu Hamza that Al-Qaeda was not behind the attacks of September 11, 2001.

The London Independent today reports that Steven Bentley, a school friend of accused would-be suicide bomber Yassin Omar, was told by Omar that he did not think Bin Laden was behind 9/11. Omar based his conclusion on what he was told by extremist London cleric Abu Hamza, currently serving a seven-year prison sentence for soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred, who had personally met Bin Laden.

Bin Laden’s apparent attempt to distance himself from involvement in 9/11 dovetails with statements made shortly after the event in which he told a Pakistani newspaper that he was not involved in the attacks.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2007/180107notbehind.htm

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Dictatorship : Gonzales live, “The Constitution does not say that every citizen has the right to habeas corpus.”

gonzales : Are you shitting me?

Je repete: “[GONZALES:] The Constitution does not say that every citizen has the right to habeas corpus.”

Quote transcribed, live from the hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which you should be listening to, if you aren’t (when it resumes at 2:00PM)

Gee, who decides when they don’t?

I like the expression that the guy in the background has. It’s one that I share (that is, when I’m not screaming or pounding my head on the desk).
http://www.correntewire.com/gonzales_live_the_constitution_does_not_say_that_every_citizen_has_the_right_to_habeas_corpus

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War Criminal : The War Becomes More Unholy

FALLUJAH – A stepped up military offensive that targets mosques, religious leaders and Islamic customs is leading many Iraqis to believe that the US-led invasion really was a “holy war.”

Photographs are being circulated of black crosses painted on mosque walls and on copies of the Quran, and of soldiers dumping their waste inside mosques. New stories appear frequently of raids on mosques and brutal treatment of Islamic clerics, leading many Iraqis to ask if the invasion and occupation was a war against Islam.
http://www.antiwar.com/jamail/?articleid=10347

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Death Squads : USA Crime in Iraq

Digby has been talking about the fact that the US probably trained Shia death squads. Her particular article is from a year ago, but my take is that the accelerating use of death squads dates from Negroponte’s appointment. This is what I wrote just before his appointment, in April 2004, and while parts are wrong, the core holds up well:

The problem, of course, is that they’ve lost control of the death squads. Or… have they? People get all worked up about ethnic cleansing (as they should) but in this sort of warfare it’s very effective – if you know the Sunni insurection’s base of support is in Sunni neighbourhoods then getting rid of Sunni neighbourhoods in your strongholds – whether through straight cleansing or by example killings, makes perfect military sense. As Mao pointed out – guerillas swim amongst the people like fish in water – remove the water and they are easily dealt with or must themselves flee.
http://agonist.org/ian_welsh/20070117/death_squads

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Al-Douri to increase resistance operations

For sure when I say Shiites, I don’t mean the real honest Iraqi Shiites, but I mean those who loyal to Iran and installed by the US occupation forces, so i don’t want to repeat this every time.

- Almalaf reported that Izzat Al-Douri, gave an order to former Iraqi army officer to escalate their operations against the occupiers and the traitors.

He also sent a letter offering a “truce” with Washington and reduce the armed operations against the American forces if the Americans crackdown Shiite militia supported by Iran
http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2007/01/18/al-douri-to-increase-resistance-operations/

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An Impartial Interrogation of George W. Bush

My question, Mr. President: If God asked you to bombard, invade and occupy Iraq for four years, why did he send an opposite message to the Pope? Did you not know that your father, George Bush, Sr., his Secretary of State James Baker and his National Security Advisor General Scowcroft were all opposed to your invasion? Wouldn’t you, our troops, the American people and the Iraqis all be much better off if you had listened to your more experienced elders including your earthly father? Instead of blaming God for the awful catastrophe you have unleashed in Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16219.htm

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Return to Arab survival

Will the deception of historical progression — or the irony of fate — manifest itself in this region with the collapse of Arab nationalism, not at the hands of pan-Arab or pan-Islamic movements but by force of local kin and sectarian groupings, which had originally inspired the ideology of pan-Arab statehood in the colonialist mandate era? It seems that these forces, with the help of some petit politicians, are incapable of tearing down the edifice on their own. However strong the ambitions of their leaders are to free themselves from the constraints of ideology and to mobilise popular bases behind them, not on the basis of a political calling, but on the basis of blood ties and cries for vengeance without going so far as to exact revenge, not all countries are Somalia.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/828/op41.htm

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Western Complicity In The Halabja Massacre

Shocking clip from a French documentary exposing how governments and corporations in the west knowingly aided and abetted Saddam’s most ruthless crimes.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16217.htm

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(SADDAM HUSSEYN) CONDOLENCE AND CONGRATULATION

Legitimate head of Iraq, Saddam Hussein who was enslaved by zionist occupiers, was executed and reach to the martry level in the first day of Eid al-Adha (the Feast of the Sacrifice) as a result of an illegitimate court process while defending his native country.

His dignified, glorious and virile posture during the execution of death sentence, annihilated the plans of Zionists to degrade all muslims with executing valiant and brave guy of Iraq and Islam and He became the symbol of courage, patriotism and jihadism even on the way of death.
http://dogustrateji.blogspot.com/2007/01/saddam-husseyn-condolence-and.html

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 17 January 2007

• US erects spy cameras along Euphrates Riverbank near ‘Anah to try to curb increasing attacks on US gunboats.
• US helicopter gun ships back Shi’i sectarian death squads in attack on Hayfa Street in Baghdad Wednesday evening, sparking fierce battle with Iraqi Resistance.
• US soldier reported killed in bomb attack in al-’Amiriyah early Wednesday.
• Resistance ambushes, wipes out eight foreigners – some of them Americans – in afternoon ambush in Baghdad.
• Resistance marksman reportedly kills US soldier in Baghdad’s al-Jami’ah district.
• Resistance bomb kills puppet “Shock Troops” and bomb disposal expert in Baghdad Wednesday.
• US troops raid Sudanese embassy, detain guards for five hours Tuesday.
• Resistance sharpshooter kills driver of truck in American supply convoy south of Baghdad Tuesday.
• US soldier reported killed south of Baghdad Wednesday morning.
• Resistance bombing in at-Tarimiyah leaves US Marine reported killed.
• US arrests Brigadier General in puppet forces for distributing arms to Iraqi Resistance in Ba’qubah. General now accused of “treason” to US-imposed regime.
• Resistance sharpshooter reportedly kills US soldier in southwest al-Mawsil Wednesday morning.
• Shi’i sectarians murder Sunni youth trying to save his family from sectarian violence in al-Basrah.

http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m29850&hd=&size=1&l=e

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Suicide attack kills one soldier, wounds 3 in occupied Afghanistan
A suicide bomber targeted a convoy of Afghanistan National Army (ANA) in the country’s eastern Paktika province Thursday, leaving one soldier dead and wounding three others, military sources said.
http://english.people.com.cn/200701/18/eng20070118_342581.html

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Zionism keeps Israelis, Palestinians apart

In hundreds of presentations we did at middle schools, high schools, colleges, universities and elsewhere, Andover was only the second time we were “disinvited.” We want to thank the teachers who invited us and the hundreds of students who worked diligently to make sure they hear us. The events went well at the classes and we received countless positive emails from students, teachers, parents and community members.

The Wheels of Justice brings eyewitness accounts to occupations in Iraq and Palestine. Our speakers come from various political backgrounds; the only requirement is that they support the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and support nonviolence as an alternative to war and injustice. We also recognize that to achieve peace anywhere in the world, the root causes of injustice, racism and oppression must be addressed. We also have speakers who are Jewish and even Holocaust survivors (e.g. 80 year-old Hedy Epstein).
http://plus.eagletribune.com/cgi-bin/searchstory.pl?fzgpmzbzbtltmvf08090705060402O3010305+fzgpmzbzbtltmvf0809070506040203010305+fzgpmzbzbtltmvf08090705060402O3010305+fn-fn-fn-fn-fn-qumsiyeh.0116-20070116-fn+e/archive/200701.t++page%3D0

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Rattling the cage: The racism of Israeli youth

Consistently, a majority of Jewish teenagers in this country is found to view Arabs as dangerous, to dislike them, to consider them unworthy of equal rights as Israeli citizens, and to wish many of them, most of them or all of them, gone.
http://tinyurl.com/2e6cwe

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Israel’s ‘invisible hand’ in Gaza

Although Israel withdrew from Gaza more than a year ago, its control over the lives of Palestinians there is in some ways even tighter than before, a new report by an Israeli human rights organisation says.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6270331.stm

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Israel occupation forces kill Palestinian resistance fighter in Nablus
A Palestinian member of al-Awda Brigades linked to Fatah has been shot dead by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Nablus.
http://tinyurl.com/2csklt

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Israel hands Abbas frozen funds

Israel has transferred to the Palestinians $100m (77.2m euros, £50.7m) of tax revenues withheld since Hamas won elections last year. The money has been paid directly to the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, and not the Hamas-led government.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6276355.stm

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Is Energo-Fascism In Your Future? The Global Energy Race and Its Consequences
It has once again become fashionable for the dwindling supporters of President Bush’s futile war in Iraq to stress the danger of “Islamo-fascism” and the supposed drive by followers of Osama bin Laden to establish a monolithic, Taliban-like regime — a “Caliphate” — stretching from Gibraltar to Indonesia.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16211.htm

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Dictatorship : Pentagon ‘detainee” manual may lead to executions based on ‘hearsay evidence’

“We have learned that the Pentagon has just completed a manual for the coming detainee trials that would allow suspected terrorist to be imprisoned or executed using hearsay evidence or coerced testimony,” said Nora O’Donnell, the chief Washington correspondent for NBC
http://tinyurl.com/2onkkn

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Dictatorship : Gonzales warns judges not to meddle

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Wednesday warned federal judges not to meddle in cases involving national security, following a string of judicial rebukes of the Bush administration’s anti-terrorism initiatives.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/01/18/MNGNINKGA91.DTL

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Dictatorship : 2 U.S. Attorneys Quit, Critics Say Bush Forced Them Out

Two U.S. Attorneys in California announced they are stepping down, as critics alleged political pressure from the Bush administration was pushing them and others out of their jobs.
http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=state&id=4944075

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Dictatorship : ACLU Report Shows Widespread Pentagon Surveillance of Peace Activists

The American Civil Liberties Union today released a new report revealing that the Pentagon monitored at least 186 anti-military protests in the United States and collected more than 2,800 reports involving Americans in an anti-terrorist threat database.
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/spyfiles/28024prs20070117.html

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Atheist Richard Dawkins on ‘The God Delusion’

In the last few years, Americans have seen the harm that results when political decisions are made in the name of religion. Now, the non-believers are fighting back.

In the last few years, Americans have seen the dark side of religion. The events of 9/11 brought home the extremes to which some radical Muslims would go to defeat infidels and attain virgins. At home, we’ve seen assaults on the separation of Church and State and attacks on the teaching of evolution and the distribution of life-saving condoms. And now, it appears the godless are fighting back.
http://www.alternet.org/stories/46566/

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Prophets, Apostles, and Mental Illness

I remember going with a minister to a home in Idaho once where the woman heard the voice of God often in her head. She had a young baby so the minister asked me to tend to the baby while he talked to her about her visions and voices. The baby had not had a diaper change in a pretty long time, so I took care of that in the kitchen while the minister tried to help her. Seems she was killing chickens on the farm and trying to resurrect them…without much luck. We never made any connection to the danger and I doubt either of us understood the symptoms of schizophrenia, but I do now. After that, I returned to Ambassador for my last year and was reading the LA Times in the lounge before breakfast. My eye fell on a small article about a woman in a small town in Idaho who was found sitting in her car on a Mountain top waiting for Jesus to return. I knew the name. They found the baby dead on the farm. Or should I say, still dead.

From the Bible we find a man once laid on his right side for 390 straight days and then flipped over for another 40 because the voice in his head told him to. He built little models of Jerusalem in the sand and laid siege to a stone with a pot (Ez. 4). He even cooked his food with human waste (Ez. 4:9) and dug a hole in his own home and squeezed himself through it with his possessions on his back (Ez. 12). His name was Ezekiel. Maybe he was traumatized by the captivity or the destruction of the symbol of all that was holy and stable to him, the temple. He died forever ago and lots of the stuff he said was going to happen never really did far as we can tell. I hear a lot of minister types quoting him 2500 years later as if you can read the newspaper and immediately see what Ezekiel was talking about. I guess if they lay siege to a rock, lay on their sides for a year or more and give up charcoal for human waste at cookouts, …well…ewwww. Time to find another church. I know most will say that God told him to do these things….but think about what you are saying. Would you say that about Andrea Yates who God told to drown her kids or Mijailo Mijailovic who killed the Swedish Foreign Minister, Anna Lindh, saying when asked who told him to do it, “I think it was Jesus. That he has chosen me”?
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/prophets.php

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-muslim voice-
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BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW

WAR CRIMES REPORT TRANSLATED AND PUBLISHED IN ARABIC : BRussells Tribunal

bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem

In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

=== News Update ===

Dirk Adriaensens
Member BRussells Tribunal executive committee
Coordinator SOS Iraq

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

JANUARY 17, 2006

CONTACTS: Nick Mottern, Director of Consumers for Peace
914.806.6179; nickmottern@earthlink.net
Karen Parker , President of Association of Humanitarian Lawyers
415.533.1066; ied@igc.org

WAR CRIMES REPORT TRANSLATED AND PUBLISHED IN ARABIC

“U.S. War Crimes in Iraq and Mechanisms for Accountability” – published on October 11, 2006 by ten organizations concurrently, has now been translated into Arabic. The report is now fully accessible by Iraqis and other Arabic speakers in the Middle East.

“We are making ‘U.S. War Crimes in Iraq and Mechanisms for Accountability’ available in Arabic because we want to increase its accessibilty to the people of Iraq so that they may have knowledge of the scope and illegality of certain U.S. conduct there,” said Nick Mottern, Director of ConsumersforPeace.org. “We hope that this will assist the Iraqi people in preventing further war crimes and in getting reparations for what has been done.”

The Arabic language edition of the War Crimes Report is available for free download as a pdf file through these websites:

http://www.consumersforpeace.org/pdf/war_crimes_arabic_ed_011307.pdf
http://traprockpeace.org/war_crimes_arabic_ed_011307.pdf
http://vcnv.org/files/war_crimes_arabic_ed_011307.pdf
http://www.videos1.informationclearinghouse.info/pdf/war_crimes_arabic_ed_011307.pdf
http://www.brusselstribunal.org/pdf/war_crimes_iraq_arabic.pdf
http://www.uruknet.info

English language editions are available at these sites and the sites listed below. We thank Dahr Jamail for coordinating the translation, which includes all references in his extensively researched report.

Adobe Reader for pdf files is installed on most computers, or available for free at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

The English language edition had been prepared by Consumers for Peace – http://www.consumersforpeace.org - with the advice of Karen Parker , noted lawyer in human rights and humanitarian law. Ms. Parker is President of the San-Francisco-based Association of Humanitarian Lawyers and Chief Delegate to the United Nations for the Los Angeles-based International Educational Development/Humanitarian Law Project (IED/AHL), an accredited non-governmental organization on the U.N. Secretary-General’s list.

Endorsements from the forward:

Howard Zinn, a historian, playwright, and social activist, is perhaps best known for A People’s History of the United States, which presents American history through the eyes of those he feels are outside of the political and economic establishment. He writes:

This report on the war crimes of the current administration is an invaluable resource, with a meticulous presentation of the evidence and an astute examination of international law.

Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Non-Violence and three-time Noble Peace Prize nominee, has visited Iraq 28 times in the last 15 years. She writes:

“After spending four days in the fortified and secure Green Zone, in Iraq, during September ’06, former Secretary of State James Baker III assured that the investigative panel he led had not spent any time “wringing our hands over what mistakes might or might not have been created in the past.” (NYT, September 20, 2006). The “Consumers for Peace” report on war crimes committed in Iraq helps us understand our responsibility not to wring our hands but rather to demand accountability from elected representatives by delivering this report to them and to local media. How many people killed? How many families torn apart? How many homes destroyed? How many livelihoods gone? How many lives ruined? How many cities sacrificed? We bear responsibility to end the war in Iraq, insist on just reparations for suffering caused, and promote careful, legal scrutiny of the crimes committed. This report beckons all who read it to stop collaborating with illegal, immoral warmongers who recklessly afflict Iraq.”

Dahr Jamail, noted independent journalist who spent more than eight months reporting from occupied Iraq, writes the following about the report:

“I cannot endorse strongly enough this report prepared by Karen Parker regarding U.S. war crimes in Iraq. Having witnessed much of what is so well documented in this report, it is a clear and encompassing indictment of the Bush Administration for the war crimes they are directly responsible for in Iraq. Until evidence such as this begins to see the light of day in a court of law and the perpetrators brought to justice, the world remains unsafe and unstable from an administration determined to rule the world. After witnessing what they are capable of in Iraq, I have no doubt these people will not stop in their quest for world domination. Instead, they must be stopped. And the only way to do that is bring the guilty to justice. This document will help achieve that goal.”

Neil MacKay, multi-award winning Home Affairs and Investigations Editor of the Sunday Herald (Scotland), writes:

“What has happened in Iraq is a great sin and a great crime. The invasion and occupation have stained the concepts of democracy, freedom and liberty; and disgraced the good name of the people of both the United States of America and Great Britain. As a journalist who has investigated the roots of this war, and the on-going horror of what is happening in Iraq, I fully commend this report to readers. It is an important reminder of the blood which is on the hands of our leaders, and the shame that the governments of the UK and the USA have brought to the British and American people by perpetrating a criminal war in our name.”

Ann Wright, 29 year US Army veteran who retired as a Colonel and US diplomat who resigned in March, 2003 in opposition to the war in Iraq commented on the War Crimes Report:

“While in the US Army at Ft Bragg, NC, I taught to US military officers and non-commissioned officers the responsibilities of military forces under the Geneva Convention and the Law of Land Warfare, as well as the obligations of an Occupying Power.

The War Crimes Report is an extraordinarily comprehensive and important presentation of international law that governs the conduct of nations and their military forces. The Report documents the blatant violations of international and domestic law by the Bush administration and US military forces including the use of illegal military tactics and illegal weapons.

Because of a huge media failure in the United States, many Americans do not realize how many times the Bush administration has violated international law. But, the rest of the world knows very well the extent of these crimes.

As a retired military officer, I know that accountability is one of the foundation elements of the US military. The Bush administration has undercut the professionalism of our military forces by encouraging and condoning the violation of international and domestic war in treatment of detainees, torture and use of illegal tactics and weapons. For the sake of our own military we must demand accountability from civilian leaders, as well as our military forces. This report provides specific mechanisms for much-needed accountability of criminal behaviour by Bush administration policy makers and by US military forces.”

Charles Jenks, human rights attorney (1981), Past President of Traprock Peace Center (1998-2005) and Chair of its Advisory Board, and consultant to Consumers for Peace writes:

This war crimes report accurately and succinctly states the case that US officials in the Executive Branch and military have committed grievous war crimes in Iraq. Of course, this is not to say that US culpability stops at the Executive Branch and military. It was the US Congress that authorized the Bush Administration to go to war against Iraq and that has funded the war through every request made by the Executive Branch.

In addition to the fact that this was an illegal war to begin with, the war has been conducted in myriad ways that violate international humanitarian law, including the use of uranium munitions, chemical weapons (white phosphorus), cluster bombs, torture, the indiscriminate killing of civilians and laying waste to cities and the land.

No treatment of crimes, criminals or atrocities could completely describe the wrongs of this tragic conflict. This war crimes report strikes a balance. It manages to be concise at 37 pages, yet has sufficient scope, factual detail and exposition on the law to be useful in both considering the war crimes committed, and the grounds and theories of prosecution for those crimes. Further, it is a treasure trove of resources, with 120 notes and references.

War Crimes Report publishers (English edition):

Consumers for Peace
http://www.consumersforpeace.org

Association of Humanitarian Lawyers
http://www.humanlaw.org

Traprock Peace Center
http://www.traprockpeace.org

Voices for Creative Nonviolence
http://www.vcnv.org

Uruknet.info
http://www.uruknet.info

Information Clearing House
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info

AfterDowningStreet.org
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org

Socialist Worker newspaper
http://www.socialistworker.org

The Brussells Tribunal (for International Anti-Occupation Network)
http://www.brusselstribunal.org/

Stop the War Coalition (UK)
http://www.stopthewar.co.uk

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Charles Jenks
Chair of Advisory Board, Traprock Peace Center
Media Liaison, Consumers for Peace
Consultant, ExxonMobil War Boycott Campaign
http://www.traprockpeace.org
http://www.consumersforpeace.org

source:
http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0107/brussells_170107.htm

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-muslim voice-
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BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW

Iraq Holocaust : 0.9 Million Violent + Non-violent Iraq Excess Deaths

bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem

In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

=== News Update ===

Iraq Holocaust

0.9 Million Violent + Non-violent Iraq Excess Deaths

Dr. Gideon Polya, MWC chief political editor

January 17, 2007

The following recent UN report of huge violent deaths in Occupied Iraq was published on 16 January 2007 in MWC News (see MWC News): “UN reports that 34,452 civilians have been killed in violence in Iraq over the past year and about 36,885 people have been wounded. Gianni Magazzeni, head of the UN human rights office in Iraq, accused the government in a press conference on Tuesday of failing to provide security and blamed some of the violence on militias colluding with or working inside the police and army. The figures are much higher than any statistics issued by Iraqi government officials. The government itself branded the UN’s last two-monthly report in November as grossly exaggerated and banned Iraqi officials from releasing data … the UN figures were compiled from information obtained through the Iraqi health ministry, the Baghdad mortuary, operations centres at hospitals across the country and other agencies.”

How do these UN estimates of post-invasion Iraq excess deaths compare with other authoritative estimates?

Excess deaths (excess mortality, avoidable mortality, avoidable deaths, deaths that should not have happened) can be violent (bombs, bullets, beating) or non-violent (through disease and deprivation). Overall, the excess deaths in a country is the difference between the actual deaths in a country and the deaths expected for a decently-run, peaceful country with the same demographics (see: here ).

Estimates of VIOLENT post-invasion Iraq excess deaths

Three major estimates of violent post-invasion Iraq excess deaths are outlined below.

(a) As outlined above, the UN reports 34,452 civilians killed in Iraq in the last year. Extrapolating over 47 months yields 135,000 violent deaths (however the annual death rate may well have varied from year to year). This estimate was based on institutional and agency data across Iraq – but will NOT include deaths NOT reported to officials.

(b) Iraq Body Count has an upper estimate of about 59,000 Iraqi civilians killed by military intervention since the US invasion. However this is based on media reports (notoriously deficient in this and other conflict zones) and as with (a) this will not include un-reported deaths.

(c ) Research from a group of top medical epidemiologists and biometricians from a top department (Bloomberg School of Public Health; first institution of its kind worldwide; largest school of public health in the world; receives 25.2% of all federal research funds awarded to the 37 accredited U.S. schools of public health at a top US university (Johns Hopkins), peer-reviewed and published in the top medical journal The Lancet in October 2006 – and endorsed by 27 top Australian institution-linked medical experts – estimated 655,000 post-invasion excess deaths including about 601,000 violent deaths (for discussion see: here and here ). Extrapolating over 47 months yields 642,000 violent deaths (as of January 2007). This survey was based on household surveys and would have included both officially reported and non-reported violent deaths.

Estimates of TOTAL post-invasion Iraq excess deaths

Four independent estimates of total post-invasion Iraq deaths from authoritative data sets are outlined below.

(a) From UN Population Division Data using the death rate in Iraq’s peaceful but impoverished neighbours Jordan and Syria as a baseline, the post-invasion excess deaths in Occupied Iraq (as of January 2007) totals 0.6 million (by way of comparison, the corresponding post-invasion under-5 infant mortality figure is 0.5 million).

(b) Detailed analysis of infant mortality and avoidable mortality for every country in the world since 1950 reveals that for Third World countries “under-5 infant mortality” is about 0.7 times the “total avoidable mortality”. Checking the latest data on the UNICEF website, we see that 122,000 under-5 year old infants die each year (12 months) in Occupied Iraq i.e. 122,000 x 47/12 = 478,000 would have died over the 47 months since the invasion; dividing by 0.7 yields an estimate of 683,000 (i.e. 0.7 million) post-invasion avoidable deaths in Occupied Iraq (as of January 2007).

(c) Roberts et al (2004) in The Lancet in which they estimated a post-invasion annual death rate of 12.3 persons per 1,000 of population (for links see: here ). Subtracting the annual death rate in impoverished but peaceful neighbouring Syria and Jordan (about 4 deaths per 1,000 of population) we get a post-invasion annual avoidable death rate of 8.3 per 1,000. This yields an estimated post-invasion avoidable mortality of 845,000 (0.8 million) assuming an average population of 26 million (as of January 2007).

(d) Using the latest Johns Hopkins data indicating 13.3 deaths annually per 1,000 people and a Jordan/Syria baseline of 4 deaths per 1,000 gives an “annual excess death rate” of 9.3 per 1,000 and post-invasion excess deaths totalling 947,000 (0.9 million) (as of January 2007).

Conclusion: using the most comprehensive and authoritative medical literature and UN demographic data yields an estimate of 0.9 million post-invasion excess deaths in US-occupied Iraq. Coupled with UN estimates of 2 million Iraqi refugees, this constitutes an Iraqi Genocide, an Iraqi Holocaust in which the US and its Coalition allies are complicit through gross violation of the Geneva Conventions that unequivocally demand that Occupiers keep their conquered subjects ALIVE (see MWC News). The magnitude of this on-going Iraqi Holocaust urgently requires comprehensive inter-national and intra-national Sanctions and Boycotts against those complicit in order to halt this appalling Iraqi Genocide.

Dr Gideon Polya, MWC News Chief political editor, published some 130 works in a 4 decade scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text “Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds” (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, New York & London, 2003), and is currently writing a book on global mortality

source:
http://mwcnews.net/content/view/11849&Itemid=1

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THE STORM : USA War Criminal

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=== News Update ===

THE STORM : USA War Criminal

Malcom Lagauche

Victims of the Feb. 14, 1991 U.S. terrorist attack on Amiryah civilian shelter

January 17, 2006

January 17th marks the 16th anniversary of the first U.S. attack on Iraq, dubbed Desert Storm by the U.S. administration. The destruction and devastation were portrayed in the U.S. similar to that of a Hollywood movie. The reality was far different.

Because so much has happened to Iraq since 1991 (the embargo, the March 2003 invasion, the current chaos, etc.), many people may not recall the particulars behind the January 17, 1991 attack and the ensuing horror.

When the first bomb fell on Iraq at 2:00am on January 17, 1991, the United States began the military implementation of years of deceit and dirty tricks to attain a permanent foothold in the Middle East. George Bush I enlisted, coerced and paid 27 other nations to help massacre Iraq, depriving these newly-won allies of any ethical high ground.

If you look at some of the countries involved in the anti-Iraq coalition, you will see that they varied greatly in their reasons for becoming involved in the slaughter. Few came on board because they considered it the right thing to do. As with the “alliance of the willing” that participated in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, many of the “allies” of the 1991 campaign participated only to receive a payday from Washington.

Egypt, a long-time backer of Iraq, initially declined. After George Bush I told the Egyptians he would forgive a $7 billion debt, the once Iraq-friendly Egyptian government changed sides. Syria entered the alliance because of long-time animosities between its president, Haffas al-Assad, and the Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein. Coincidentally, Syria was on America’s list of countries that support terrorism, but that did not affect Bush. Al-Assad’s payday came after the cease-fire was signed between Iraq and the U.S. The Bush administration turned a blind eye to Syria’s sending over 30,000 military personnel to Lebanon, leaving Syria with a tremendous amount of influence in Lebanon, a country emerging from the devastation of a 15-year civil war. Ironically, the Bush II administration called for the exit of Syrian troops from Lebanon and threatened Syria with military force if the troops remained. The difference between then and now is that Syria’s former president al-Assad died and his son, Bashir, inherited the presidency of Syria. The young al-Assad did not share the same animosity with Iraq as his father and the two countries were experiencing flourishing trade and political relations up to the time of the March 2003 invasion of Iraq. Now, Syria has to pay a price instead of being given preferential treatment.

Saudi Arabia, a country not exactly known for its progressive government, quickly sided with the U.S. when Bush falsely told them that Iraqi troops were stationed in Kuwait just across the Saudi border waiting to pounce on the Saudis. On September 11, 1990, Bush told a joint session of Congress, “We gather tonight witness to events in the Gulf as significant as they are tragic. 120,000 Iraqi troops with 850 tanks had poured into Kuwait and moved south to threaten Saudi Arabia.” The Defense Department outdid Bush with an estimate of 250,000 Iraqi troops and 1,500 tanks. The only thing wrong with Bush’s and the Pentagon’s ominous warnings is that they were based on falsehoods.

Soyuz-Karta, a Soviet commercial satellite agency, had pictures taken by its satellite of Saudi Arabia on September 11, 1990, and of Kuwait on September 13, 1990 that portrayed a different scenario. They showed no Iraqi presence near the Saudi border and only a small percentage of Iraqi troops in Kuwait compared to the U.S. estimates.

In December 1990, the St. Petersburg Times of Florida purchased these photos from the Soviet agency. They had them analyzed by experts who agreed that the U.S. estimate was based on lies. According to Peter Zimmerman, who served with the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency during the Reagan administration, “The Pentagon kept saying, the Iraqi troops were there, but we do not see anything to indicate an Iraqi force in Kuwait of even 20 percent the size the administration claimed.”

Jean Heller wrote a report for the St. Petersburg Times in January 1991 about the quandary. However, the national media ignored the report and refused to publish it despite the newspaper’s editors approaching the Associated Press twice and the Scripps-Howard News Service. According to Heller:

• The troops that were said to be massing on the Saudi border and that constituted the possible threat to Saudi Arabia that justified the U.S. sending of troops do not show up in these photographs. And when the Department of Defense was asked to provide evidence that would contradict our satellite evidence, it refused to do so.

  I think part of the reason the story was ignored was that it was published too close to the start of the war. Secondly, and more importantly, I do not think people wanted to hear that we might have been deceived. A lot of the reporters who have seen the story think it is dynamite, but the editors who have seen it seem to have the attitude, “At this point, who cares? If the war ends badly with a lot of casualties, more than the administration had led us to expect, you might hear of this story again.”

Coincidentally, the same photos that did not show proof of an Iraqi buildup portrayed an American presence that was not supposed to be in Saudi Arabia at the time. According to Zimmerman:

• We could see five C-141s, one C5A and four smaller transport aircraft, probably C-130s. There is also a long line of fighters, F-111s or F-15s, on the ground. In the middle of the airfield are what could be camouflaged staging areas.

Several countries did oppose the overwhelming force that was brought against Iraq, but they paid a price for such a lack of pro-U.S. sentiment. Aid was quickly cut to Jordan. Its leader, the late King Hussein, was under strong pressure from his country-people not to support the U.S. and he followed their lead, even though he was at one time, and again later became a U.S. ally and informant in the region. When told about the cessation of aid, King Hussein stated, “We’re not that cheap.” In the years after Desert Storm, King Hussein was brought back on board the U.S. ship of influence in the Middle East. Jordan became, and still is, the main area for U.S. intelligence and other operations in the Middle East. For a short time, however, King Hussein asserted his independence from the United States and stood up for the principles and ideas of his people.

Tiny Yemen was hard hit by the immediate severing of U.S. aid after it voted in the United Nations against the use of force against Iraq. Cuba, a long-time U.S. “enemy,” brought the possibility of an invasion of the island closer after it voted in the United Nations against “U.S. interests.” Ironically, since 1959, the U.S. has criticized Cuba for its lack of democracy, yet when Cuba acted in a democratic institution (a vote in the U.N. Security Council), it was lambasted for voting the wrong way.

The U.S. version of democracy is selective — you are allowed to vote freely, as long as the vote is in favor of the U.S. A few years after the Gulf War, an incident occurred that depicted this U.S. murky view of democracy. The first democratic elections ever were held in the Serbian portion of Bosnia. When the results were announced, then U.S. Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright quickly negated the election. When she was asked by the press what made her decide to annul the results, she stated, “The wrong side won.” In occupied Iraq, we see the same manipulation of democratic ideas occurring. In the first year of control, U.S. authorities shut down many newspapers and magazines for printing stories that were critical of the occupation. Democracy came to Iraq in a watered-down version.

The concept of the U.S. using the United Nations as a forum was a sham. Until November 1990, the U.S. considered the U.N. a useless organization that catered to Third World interests. The U.S. was quite vocal about its distaste for the U.N. and had refused to pay a substantial amount of money owed to the U.N. Then, in an about-face, shortly before a November 1990 vote on the Iraq issue, the U.S. forked over $187 million to the U.N. This “enlightened” action only constituted a small portion of what it owed to the world agency.

Much of the U.S. seemed to have gone mad during the five weeks of massacre in 1991. We watched as politician-after-politician talked favorably about what was happening. At times, it appeared that a vast portion of the U.S. political establishment was euphoric when describing the destruction. Unfortunately, we did not see the millions of people, both inside and outside the U.S., who were aghast at such actions. Government ministers from France, Italy and Turkey resigned in disgust, but the U.S. media did not deem their opposition newsworthy. There was a virtual news blackout of dissent. We were not being told what was happening, and what we were being told was mostly lies because the U.S. military controlled the media. The day after the cease-fire was signed, Norman Schwarzkopf publicly humiliated the U.S. media by stating, “You guys were great. You printed everything just the way we said it.” He then went on to describe many incidents in which the U.S. lied to the media.

“No more Vietnams!” we heard as the slaughter was occurring. This definitely was not Vietnam. Iraq was a Third World country that happened to be America’s chosen enemy in exorcising the ghost of Vietnam. After the cease-fire, even some ardent supporters of Desert Storm felt empty and confused. As one caller to National Public Radio stated on March 5, 1991, “The United States isn’t going to save its soul by a massacre in the desert.”

Despite the seemingly simple victory over Iraq in 1991, the U.S. has seen the Vietnam analogy resurrected. After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, a strong resistance has taken hold and many now see “another Vietnam” taking place for the U.S. as the number of deaths of U.S. soldiers steadily increases.

source:
http://www.malcomlagauche.com/id1.html

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US Terrorize The World – 28 Dhul-Hijjah 1427 H (18.1.07)

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Probable hate motivated vandalism extremely concerns Quebec’s Muslim and Arab organizations

From: Muslim Association of Canada (MAC), Canadian Muslim Forum (CMF), Regroupment Des Ageriens -Quebec (RAQ), Parole Arabe.

The negative propaganda Muslims and Arabs have been the target of, particularly since September 2001, cannot and should not be taken lightly. We are worried about the safety of our children and ourselves and call on all levels of government and law enforcement agencies in Canada to take appropriate actions to insure the safety of the Muslim and Arab communities.

Montreal Muslim News Network – http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net

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9/11 : Terror Suspect was terrorized in a U.S. Navy brig

The accused was held in extreme isolation for 1,307 days. Held in a nine-by-seven-foot cell. The only window blacked out. He was the lone prisoner on the two-tier cellblock. He was given food through a slot in the door. He slept on a steel mattress. No reading material. No calendar. No clock. Nothing to connect him to the outside world.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17205.htm

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9/11 : Pentagon Attacks Lawyers of Guantanamo Detainees

Guantanamo prisoners are entitled to protections under the Constitution, yet the government is trying to deny them due process.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/46755/

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WAR CRIMES REPORT TRANSLATED AND PUBLISHED IN ARABIC

“U.S. War Crimes in Iraq and Mechanisms for Accountability” – published on October 11, 2006 by ten organizations concurrently, has now been translated into Arabic. The report is now fully accessible by Iraqis and other Arabic speakers in the Middle East.

“We are making ‘U.S. War Crimes in Iraq and Mechanisms for Accountability’ available in Arabic because we want to increase its accessibilty to the people of Iraq so that they may have knowledge of the scope and illegality of certain U.S. conduct there,” said Nick Mottern, Director of ConsumersforPeace.org. “We hope that this will assist the Iraqi people in preventing further war crimes and in getting reparations for what has been done.”
http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0107/brussells_170107.htm

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THE STORM : USA Criminal War

Victims of the Feb. 14, 1991 U.S. terrorist attack on Amiryah civilian shelter

January 17th marks the 16th anniversary of the first U.S. attack on Iraq, dubbed Desert Storm by the U.S. administration. The destruction and devastation were portrayed in the U.S. similar to that of a Hollywood movie. The reality was far different.

Because so much has happened to Iraq since 1991 (the embargo, the March 2003 invasion, the current chaos, etc.), many people may not recall the particulars behind the January 17, 1991 attack and the ensuing horror.

When the first bomb fell on Iraq at 2:00am on January 17, 1991, the United States began the military implementation of years of deceit and dirty tricks to attain a permanent foothold in the Middle East. George Bush I enlisted, coerced and paid 27 other nations to help massacre Iraq, depriving these newly-won allies of any ethical high ground.
http://www.malcomlagauche.com/id1.html

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Military judge: objector can’t raise questions about war legality

We should officially drop out of the Geneva conventions, and just tell the rest of the world that from now on, American soldiers must just “follow orders”, no matter how morally reprehensible those orders might be.
http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kgw.com%2Fsharedcontent%2FAPStories%2Fstories%2FD8MN2KBG0.html

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Iraq Holocaust : 0.9 Million Violent + Non-violent Iraq Excess Deaths

The following recent UN report of huge violent deaths in Occupied Iraq was published on 16 January 2007 in MWC News (see MWC News): “UN reports that 34,452 civilians have been killed in violence in Iraq over the past year and about 36,885 people have been wounded. Gianni Magazzeni, head of the UN human rights office in Iraq, accused the government in a press conference on Tuesday of failing to provide security and blamed some of the violence on militias colluding with or working inside the police and army. The figures are much higher than any statistics issued by Iraqi government officials. The government itself branded the UN’s last two-monthly report in November as grossly exaggerated and banned Iraqi officials from releasing data … the UN figures were compiled from information obtained through the Iraqi health ministry, the Baghdad mortuary, operations centres at hospitals across the country and other agencies.”
http://mwcnews.net/content/view/11849&Itemid=1

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Middle East : Is The U.S. Planning A Horrific Global Nuclear War?

At no point since the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, has humanity been closer to the unthinkable, a nuclear holocaust which could potentially spread, in terms of radioactive fallout, over a large part of the Middle East.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17206.htm

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The Big Battle of Baghdad #2

The events reported on “Haifa Street” just because the neighborhood was a total embarrassment for the “Green Zone” government and the occupation forces, actually if you stand in the street you can see the entrance of the “Green Zone”, but what is not reported is the same events are going on since then in every Sunni neighborhood in Baghdad.
http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2007/01/17/the-big-battle-of-baghdad-2/

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Iraq: UN death figures paint a grim picture

“Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his cabinet have to move quickly and invest all they have to stop the bloodshed in Iraq, otherwise everything will collapse around them,” Dr Hafidh Jamil Mubarak, a professor of political science at Basra University, said on Wednesday.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EVOD-6XJHPQ?OpenDocument

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More dubious statistics from Iraq

The U.N. is claiming today that “34,452 civilians were killed – an average of 94 per day – and 36,685 were wounded last year [in Iraq].” Aside from the absolute numbers, which I’ve discussed many times, the relative numbers of killed and wounded are, to put it mildly, simply not credible. Here are the total (not just last year) U.S. statistics: 3020 dead, and 22,834 wounded – a 7.5:1 ratio. Granted that the U.S. soldiers receive far better medical care than Iraqis, so fewer of them die from serious injuries, but even given that, the claimed 1:1 ratio of deaths to injuries among Iraqis is just out-and-out impossible. The difference must certainly be that the alleged number of Iraqi wounded are only those who were treated in hospitals, as opposed to being treated by a doctor, at home, or not at all (whereas the U.S. statistics undoubtedly reflect all soldiers who are wounded).
http://lefti.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_lefti_archive.html#116897022169138012

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Iraq Sunni militant group urges war on Shi’ites

“Organise yourself in groups of four, each of which should cleanse their area from every spy, agent, traitor who stalks the mujahideen and all employees of the interior and defence ministries. Most of those are hateful rejectionists.”
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L17862862.htm

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How US is deferring war costs

As war spending on Iraq and Afghanistan nears the levels for Vietnam and Korea, concern is rising over the ‘borrow now, pay later’ approach.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0116/p01s01-usfp.html

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 16 January 2007.

• Resistance ambushes US Marine detachment in al-Hadithah Tuesday night sparking violent battle in the darkness.
• Resistance bomb rips through Humvee in Abu Ghurayb midday Tuesday.
• Resistance fighters battle US troops in western al-Fallujah late Monday night.
• US forces arrest 40 in campaign of raids, searches, and arrests west of al-Fallujah.
• Resistance blasts US base east of al-Fallujah with Katyusha rockets Monday night.
• Resistance mortars blast checkpoint near al-Fallujah Monday afternoon.
• Resistance ambushes puppet police car on its way to Saddam International Airport.
• Mysterious bombs target students, civilians in bloody day in Baghdad.
• Resistance bomb kills two puppet policemen Tuesday morning.
• Resistance car bomber kills three puppet “Iraqi National Guards” Monday afternoon.
• Pro-Iranian Shi’i sectarian Jaysh al-Mahdi militia, in cooperation with puppet regime forces, continue brutal murders of Palestinians in US-occupied Iraq.
• US helicopters kill five villagers during late-night attack near ad-Dujayl.
• Puppet “Iraqi National Guards” open fire on traffic jam to clear street in al-Ishaqi, killing civilian.
• US admits four American troops killed in Resistance bombing near al-Mawsil Monday.
• Resistance fighters kill officer in puppet police in Samarra’ Monday.
• US, Iraqi puppet army troops arrest 50 youths and men in roundups in Balad Ruz Monday.
• Puppet troops arrest 92 in house-to-house raids near al-Mahmudiyah Monday night.

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0107/iraqiresistancereport_160107.htm

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Three soldiers killed in blast

A ROADSIDE bomb killed three Afghani soldiers in an eastern part of the country that President Hamid Karzai visited, an army officer said.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21077517-38197,00.html

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Gates may OK troop boost for Afghanistan

Defense Secretary Robert Gates suggested on Wednesday that he is likely to urge President Bush to send more troops to Afghanistan to fight the resurgent Taliban.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070117/ap_on_re_as/us_afghanistan_17

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Blair signals UK will send more troops to occupied Afghanistan

During a private meeting in No 10 on Sunday, Robert Gates, the US Defence Secretary, asked the Prime Minister for additional British forces to keep up the military momentum against the insurgents.
http://www.theherald.co.uk/politics/westminster/display.var.1126958.0.0.php

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U.S. Commanders Ask for $6 billion

Military officials in occupied Afghanistan are proposing a surge of their own. Instead of troops, U.S. commanders here, hoping to counter a sharp rise in attacks by Taliban forces, are seeking as much as $6 billion to build roads and speed development of the Afghan army and police forces.
http://online.wsj.com/google_login.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB116900341533778499.html%3Fmod%3Dgooglenews_wsj

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Isreal Racist : The High Court of Justice is in no hurry

Starting on January 19, 2007, Israelis and foreigners will be prohibited from taking Palestinians as passengers in their cars throughout the West Bank?
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/814345.html

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Zionist : Condi’s Middle East Junket; a new dose of cynicism

The administration has no interest in resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. It’s a cynical attempt to manipulate Arab public opinion. The administration helped to enforce the Israeli boycott of food, water and medical supplies to Gaza, and they have stopped other donor-states from providing humanitarian relief.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17202.htm

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Pressure mounts on Olmert to resign

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz came under renewed pressure to resign Wednesday after the Israeli army’s chief of staff stepped down in the wake of the flawed Lebanon war.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070117/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_army

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Robin Hayes says we will win in Iraq by “spreading the message of Jesus Christ” there.

bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
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=== News Update ===

 

ROBIN HAYES SAYS WE WILL WIN IN IRAQ BY “SPREADING THE MESSAGE OF JESUS CHRIST” THERE

Robin Hayes has the solution to the Iraq war: have our soldiers convert all Muslims to Christianity.

 

 

 

 

 

Having won the election by only a hair’s width and almost getting himself kicked out of Congress seems to have had some profound psychological effects on poor Mr. Hayes. A speech that flip-floppin’ Robin gave last week at the Concord Rotary Club seems to prove he has finally gone off the deep end.

Our local weekly newspaper the “Concord Standard and Mount Pleasant Times” reported on Mr. Hayes speech in his hometown:

First there’s the usual talk of how we’re “winning” over there: “The war in Iraq has got to be won; it’s being won” (A couple of months ago Hayes said that the rise in violence in Iraq was an indication that we’re winning.)

Then comes the real kicker: “Stability in Iraq ultimately depends on spreading the message of Jesus Christ, the message of peace on earth, good will towards men. Everything depends on everyone learning about the birth of the Savior.”

So if we just turn our soldiers into missionaries everything will be okay, Mr. Hayes?

First we sent our men over there to take out the WMD’s, then it was to “spread democracy”, now you want them there to “spread the message of Jesus Christ”? It so happens that people in Iraq already have a savior but unfortunately for Mr. Hayes it’s Muhammed, not Jesus.

If we can’t keep Muslims from killing each other over there, I don’t think that trying to make them all Christian is going to be any easier.

With this kind of talk Hayes just plays into the hands of Al-Qaeda by confirming what their leaders have always been saying: those American soldiers are just modern Crusaders. He is thereby strengthening the beliefs of terrorists that want to kill every American soldier they come across.

source:
http://www.bluenc.com/robin-hayes-says-we-will-win-in-iraq-by-spreading-the-message-of-jesus-christ-there

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