New U.S. torture tactics revealed

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=== News Update ===

 

New U.S. torture tactics revealed

 

Philippe Khan, Aljazeera.com

Instead of banning torture, the Bush admin is finalizing new methods that would give wider latitude for abusive tactics.

June 10, 2007

Instead of scrapping abusive interrogation tactics that are being practiced not only in the CIA’s secret overseas prisons but also in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan and Iraq, the Bush administration is finalizing new methods that would give even wider latitude for torture techniques.

According to an article published on the New York Times last week, the new interrogation tactics are expected to prohibit water-boarding, the most used method by U.S. interrogators despite its cruelty. However, the so-called “enhanced interrogation” methods would allow prolonged stress positions, exposure to harsh elements as well as general mental and physical torture; methods that “go beyond those allowed in the military by the Army Field Manual,” according to the Times.

Apparently President Bush was forced to give orders for the new interrogation methods following critics’ fears over the use of such tactics and whether they are the best means to obtain a full and reliable intelligence debriefing of a detainee.

The “enhanced interrogation” methods follow the passage of the Military Commission Act of 2006, which allowed indefinite detention of prisoners and sanctioned military commissions. It also modified the War Crimes Act and gave the president explicit authority to interpret the Geneva Conventions. This was done to protect U.S. officials from prosecution and pave the way for a presidential directive that would authorize the CIA to carry out methods that amount to violations of Common Article III of the Geneva Conventions.

Philip Zelikow, former adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and currently a professor at the University of Virginia, gave an indication of what the new directive would allow. He also admitted that the Bush administration has sought, since 2002, to systematically implement a program of techniques that amount to torture in secret overseas prisons, Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan and Iraq.

Zelikow also made clear that the Bush administration applied shoddy legal reasoning to justify these new extreme measures. “The international legal strictures [including the Geneva Conventions] were interpreted so that they would not add any constraints beyond the chosen reading of American law,” he said. “Brilliant lawyers worked hard on how they could then construe the limits of vague, untested laws. They were operating so close to the frontiers of our law that, within only a couple years, the Department of Justice eventually felt obliged to offer a second legal opinion, rewiring their original views of the subject.”

Zelikow was referring to the “torture memo” drawn up by Justice Department lawyers under the guidance of then White House Counsel and current Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. The memo interpreted the term “torture” so narrowly to allow virtually any technique, while at the same time arguing that the President has the constitutional authority to order torture.

The Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Defense recently issued a report related to prisoners’ abuse that discussed torture programs adopted by the United States and illustrated how some of these methods violate Army Field Manual. Such tactics were used in Guantanamo Bay and later transferred to Iraq.

Guantanamo grew more popular when the prisoners’ abuse scandal erupted in 2002. Torture methods such as water-boarding, cold weather exposure and death threats were authorized by the Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Despite the fact that such authorization was revoked later, these techniques are still being used in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Abu Gharib is another example of the U.S. abusive interrogation policies that was criticized in the Inspector General’s report which attributed such incidents to the growing violence in Iraq. “Counter resistance interrogations techniques migrated to Iraq,” the report said, “in part because operations personnel believed that traditional interrogation techniques were no longer effective for all detainees.”

According to the New York Times, the new techniques being developed by the CIA are probably derived from the Soviet Union since the military program was created during the Cold War. The military program is mostly known as SERE, “Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape training” and its techniques included prolonged use of stress positions, exposure to heat and cold and sleep deprivation.

Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee are seeking to incorporate in the next intelligence authorization bill a requirement for a legal review of the CIA’s interrogation programs. Many hope that the new approach would change the tactics adopted by the Bush administration; from authorizing extreme techniques and rationalizing torture – practices that tarnished the U.S. image in the whole world and undermined its interests in Iraq and elsewhere because such techniques don’t lead to reliable intelligence.

source:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/newsfull.php?newid=10714

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Court rules US can’t detain enemy combatants without charges

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

=== News Update ===

 

Court rules US can’t detain enemy combatants without charges

 

RAW STORY

Published: Monday June 11, 2007

 

The normally conservative 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that the US can’t detain enemy combatants without filing charges, in a case involving “an immigrant [the US] believes is an al-Qaida sleeper agent.”

“In the 2-1 decision, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel found that the federal Military Commissions Act doesn’t strip Ali al-Marri of his constitutional rights to challenge his accusers in court,” Associated Press reports. “It ruled the government must allow him to be released from military detention.”

The court panel said that “to uphold such extraordinary power would effectively undermine all of the freedoms recognized by the Constitution,” and sanctioning “such presidential authority to order the military to seize and indefinitely detain civilians, even if the President calls them ‘enemy combatants,’ would have disastrous consequences for the constitution – and the country.”

Excerpts from AP article:

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Al-Marri has been held in solitary confinement in the Navy brig in Charleston, S.C., since June 2003. The Qatar native has been detained since his December 2001 arrest at his home in Peoria, Ill., where he moved with his wife and five children a day before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to study for a master’s degree.

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Al-Marri’s lawyers argued that the Military Commissions Act, passed last fall to establish military trials after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, doesn’t repeal the writ of habeas corpus – defendants’ traditional right to challenge their detention.

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FULL AP ARTICLE AT THIS LINK

source:
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Court_US_cant_detain_enemy_combatants_0611.html

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Court orders release of ‘enemy combatant’ in US

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

 

Court orders release of ‘enemy combatant’ in US

11 Jun 2007 19:44:39 GMT

Source: Reuters

By James Vicini

WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters) – President George W. Bush cannot order the military to indefinitely imprison a suspected al Qaeda operative, who is the only foreign national held in the United States as an “enemy combatant,” a court ruled on Monday.

The 2-1 appellate ruling was a major setback for Bush’s contention in the war on terrorism that he has the power to detain people in the United States without charging them.

The court panel based in Richmond, Virginia, ruled that the Qatari national involved, Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, must be released from military custody.

“The decision protects legal residents and citizens from secret detention,” said al-Marri’s lawyer, Jonathan Hafetz of the Brennan Center for Justice in New York.

The fresh blow to Bush’s policies, already under scrutiny on Capitol Hill and in military tribunals, followed last week’s dismissal of charges against two terrorism suspects at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

Judges in those high-profile cases have been considering acceptable standards for trying terrorism suspects since the Sept. 11 attacks.

The Pentagon is asking for reconsideration of the rulings that two were being held in the controversial prison because they were designated only as “enemy combatants,” and not “unlawful enemy combatants” as required by a 2006 law crafted after earlier definitions were rejected.

In the case involving al-Marri, who has been held in a U.S. Navy brig in Charleston, South Carolina, for about four years without charges, Judge Diana Gribbon Motz made a clear distinction for suspects being held in the United States.

“The government cannot subject al-Marri to indefinite military detention. For in the United States, the military cannot seize and imprison civilians — let alone imprison them indefinitely,” she said.

The ruling sent the case back to a federal judge in South Carolina with instructions to direct the defense secretary to release al-Marri from military custody within a reasonable period of time.

The government can transfer him to civilian authorities to face criminal charges, initiate deportation proceedings, hold him as a witness in a grand jury proceeding or detain him for a limited period under the Patriot Act, an anti-terrorism law.

MILITARY DETENTION MUST CEASE

“But military detention of al-Marri must cease,” Motz concluded in her 77-page ruling rejecting the administration’s argument that Bush has the legal power to keep him indefinitely.

She also rejected the argument that the 2006 law passed by the Republican-controlled U.S. Congress takes away such cases from U.S. courts.

Al-Marri entered the United States on Sept. 10, 2001, and was said by a captured al Qaeda member to be there to help operatives planning a second wave of attacks.

Al-Marri was a legal U.S. resident and was initially detained in December 2001 to testify in the investigation of the Sept. 11 attacks.

He later was indicted in Illinois, where he attended school, for credit card fraud, making false statements to the FBI and other charges. Al-Marri pleaded not guilty.

The U.S. government dropped the charges on June 23, 2003, when Bush designated him an enemy combatant and al-Marri was taken to Charleston.

Besides al-Marri, only two others have been held as enemy combatants inside the United States since the hijacked airliner attacks.

In January of 2006, Jose Padilla, who had been held for three years at the same brig in Charleston, had his case transferred to a criminal court in Miami, where his trial is now under way.

And Yaser Esam Hamdi, another U.S. citizen held at the brig for two years, was deported to Saudi Arabia after the U.S. Supreme Court in 2004 upheld his right to challenge his detention.

The Justice Department said it would appeal the ruling to the entire appeals court.

source:
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N11491119.htm

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Madama Theresa : misuse of millions in charitable donations and mishandling the poors

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In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

=== News Update ===

 

Former Catholic Sister Says Even Mother Teresa Is a Fraud

 

According to Susan Shields, Mother Teresa ‘harmed her helpers as well as those they helped.’

 

By Greg Szymanski

June 6, 2007

For nine years Susan Shields worked as a devoted Catholic Sister, working for Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity. When finally becoming fed-up in 1989, she left Mother Teresa in disgust over the misuse of millions in charitable donations that never got to their destination — the poor and afflicted.

Shields story was recently sent to the Arctic Beacon, as printed in the Free Inquiry Magazine, revealing how Mother Teresa really turned a blind eye to the poor while millions of dollars in donations are still sitting in Vatican bank accounts.

Here is her story entitled “Mother Teresa’s House of Illusions: How She Harmed Her Helpers As Well As Those They `Helped’

“Some years after I became a Catholic, I joined Mother Teresa’s congregation, the Missionaries of Charity. I was one of her sisters for nine and a half years, living in the Bronx, Rome, and San Francisco, until I became disillusioned and left in May 1989. As I re-entered the world, I slowly began to unravel the tangle of lies in which I had lived. I wondered how I could have believed them for so long.

“Three of Mother Teresa’s teachings that are fundamental to her religious congregation are all the more dangerous because they are believed so sincerely by her sisters. Most basic is the belief that as long as a sister obeys she is doing God’s will. Another is the belief that the sisters have leverage over God by choosing to suffer. Their suffering makes God very happy. He then dispenses more graces to humanity. The third is the belief that any attachment to human beings, even the poor being served, supposedly interferes with love of God and must be vigilantly avoided or immediately uprooted. The efforts to prevent any attachments cause continual chaos and confusion, movement and change in
the congregation. Mother Teresa did not invent these beliefs – they were prevalent in religious congregations before Vatican II – but she did everything in her power (which was great) to enforce them.

“Once a sister has accepted these fallacies she will do almost anything. She can allow her health to be destroyed, neglect those she vowed to serve, and switch off her feelings and independent thought. She can turn a blind eye to suffering, inform on her fellow sisters, tell lies with ease, and ignore public laws and regulations.

Women from many nations joined Mother Teresa in the expectation that they would help the poor and come closer to God themselves. When I left, there were more than 3,000 sisters in approximately 400 houses scattered throughout the world. Many of these sisters who trusted Mother Teresa to guide them have become broken people. In the face of overwhelming
evidence, some of them have finally admitted that their trust has been betrayed, that God could not possibly be giving the orders they hear. It is difficult for them to decide to leave – their self-confidence has been destroyed, and they have no education beyond what they brought with them when they joined. I was one of the lucky ones who mustered enough courage to walk away.

“It is in the hope that others may see the fallacy of this purported way to holiness that I tell a little of what I know. Although there are relatively few tempted to join Mother Teresa’s congregation of sisters, there are many who generously have supported her work because they do not realize how her twisted premises strangle efforts to alleviate misery.
Unaware that most of the donations sit unused in her bank accounts, they too are deceived into thinking they are helping the poor.

“As a Missionary of Charity, I was assigned to record donations and write the thank-you letters. The money arrived at a frantic rate. The mail carrier often delivered the letters in sacks. We wrote receipts for checks of $50,000 and more on a regular basis. Sometimes a donor would call up and ask if we had received his check, expecting us to remember it readily because it was so large. How could we say that we could not recall it because we had received so many that were even larger?

“When Mother spoke publicly, she never asked for money, but she did encourage people to make sacrifices for the poor, to “give until it hurts.” Many people did – and they gave it to her. We received touching letters from people, sometimes apparently poor themselves, who were making sacrifices to send us a little money for the starving people in Africa, the flood victims in Bangladesh, or the poor children in India. Most of the money sat in our bank accounts.

“The flood of donations was considered to be a sign of God’s approval of Mother Teresa’s congregation. We were told by our superiors that we received more gifts than other religious congregations because God was pleased with Mother, and because the Missionaries of Charity were the sisters who were faithful to the true spirit of religious life.

“Most of the sisters had no idea how much money the congregation was amassing. After all, we were taught not to collect anything. One summer the sisters living on the outskirts of Rome were given more crates of tomatoes than they could distribute. None of their neighbors wanted them because the crop had been so prolific that year. The sisters decided to
can the tomatoes rather than let them spoil, but when Mother found out what they had done she was very displeased. Storing things showed lack of trust in Divine Providence.

“The donations rolled in and were deposited in the bank, but they had no effect on our ascetic lives and very little effect on the lives of the poor we were trying to help. We lived a simple life, bare of all superfluities. We had three sets of clothes, which we mended until the material was too rotten to patch anymore. We washed our own clothes by hand. The never-ending piles of sheets and towels from our night shelter for the homeless we washed by hand, too. Our bathing was accomplished with only one bucket of water. Dental and medical checkups were seen as an unnecessary luxury.

“Mother was very concerned that we preserve our spirit of poverty. Spending money would destroy that poverty. She seemed obsessed with using only the simplest of means for our work. Was this in the best interests of the people we were trying to help, or were we in fact using them as a tool to advance our own “sanctity?” In Haiti, to keep the spirit of
poverty, the sisters reused needles until they became blunt. Seeing the pain caused by the blunt needles, some of the volunteers offered to procure more needles, but the sisters refused.

“We begged for food and supplies from local merchants as though we had no resources. On one of the rare occasions when we ran out of donated bread, we went begging at the local store. When our request was turned down, our superior decreed that the soup kitchen could do without bread for the day.

“It was not only merchants who were offered a chance to be generous. Airlines were requested to fly sisters and air cargo free of charge. Hospitals and doctors were expected to absorb the costs of medical treatment for the sisters or to draw on funds designated for the religious. Workmen were encouraged to labor without payment or at reduced rates. We relied heavily on volunteers who worked long hours in our soup kitchens, shelters, and day camps.

“A hard-working farmer devoted many of his waking hours to collecting and delivering food for our soup kitchens and shelters. “If I didn’t come, what would you eat?” he asked.

“Our Constitution forbade us to beg for more than we needed, but, when it came to begging, the millions of dollars accumulating in the bank were treated as if they did not exist.

“For years I had to write thousands of letters to donors, telling them that their entire gift would be used to bring God’s loving compassion to the poorest of the poor. I was able to keep my complaining conscience in check because we had been taught that the Holy Spirit was guiding Mother. To doubt her was a sign that we were lacking in trust and, even worse, guilty of the sin of pride. I shelved my objections and hoped that one day I would understand why Mother wanted to gather so much money, when she herself had taught us that even storing tomato sauce showed lack of trust in Divine Providence.”

source:
http://arcticbeacon.com/articles/6-Jun-2007.html

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US Terrorize The Whole World by “War on Terror” – 26 Jumadil Awal 1428 H (12.6.07)

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In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

=== News Update ===

 

Former Catholic Sister Says Even Mother Teresa Is a Fraud

According to Susan Shields, Mother Teresa ‘harmed her helpers as well as those they helped.’

For nine years Susan Shields worked as a devoted Catholic Sister, working for Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity. When finally becoming fed-up in 1989, she left Mother Teresa in disgust over the misuse of millions in charitable donations that never got to their destination — the poor and afflicted.

Shields story was recently sent to the Arctic Beacon, as printed in the Free Inquiry Magazine, revealing how Mother Teresa really turned a blind eye to the poor while millions of dollars in donations are still sitting in Vatican bank accounts.
http://arcticbeacon.com/articles/6-Jun-2007.html

 

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9/11 : Court rules US can’t detain enemy combatants without charges

“In the 2-1 decision, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel found that the federal Military Commissions Act doesn’t strip Ali al-Marri of his constitutional rights to challenge his accusers in court,” Associated Press reports. “It ruled the government must allow him to be released from military detention.”

The court panel said that “to uphold such extraordinary power would effectively undermine all of the freedoms recognized by the Constitution,” and sanctioning “such presidential authority to order the military to seize and indefinitely detain civilians, even if the President calls them ‘enemy combatants,’ would have disastrous consequences for the constitution – and the country.”
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Court_US_cant_detain_enemy_combatants_0611.html

 

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9/11 : Man labeled ‘enemy combatant’ wins US court case

“The government cannot subject al-Marri to indefinite military detention. For in the United States, the military cannot seize and imprison civilians — let alone imprison them indefinitely,” Judge Diana Gribbon Motz wrote.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N11491119.htm

 

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US 9/11 Crime : 39 Missing Prisoners

“What was previously just a set of allegations is now proven,” begins an official European investigative report released on Friday. Terrorism suspects were “abducted from various locations around the world,” subjected to “enhanced interrogation techniques” by CIA interrogators, and “held in secret prisons.”

The report, issued by the Council of Europe, a regional human rights body, states that “secret detention facilities run by the CIA did exist in Europe from 2003 to 2005, in particular in Poland and Romania.” It concludes, moreover, that the interrogation methods used in these secret prisons were “tantamount to torture.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joanne-mariner/39-missing-prisoners_b_51487.html

 

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US 9/11 Crime : New U.S. torture tactics revealed

Instead of banning torture, the Bush admin is finalizing new methods that would give wider latitude for abusive tactics.

Instead of scrapping abusive interrogation tactics that are being practiced not only in the CIA’s secret overseas prisons but also in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan and Iraq, the Bush administration is finalizing new methods that would give even wider latitude for torture techniques.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/newsfull.php?newid=10714

 

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US 9/11 Crime : Report Details CIA Prisons In Europe

A report released Friday by the Council of Europe confirms that the CIA has used interrogation centers in Europe, including in Romania and Poland, to secretly hold and torture prisoners captured in Afghanistan, Iraq and other parts of the globe.

The report is the most detailed description of a secret program initiated by the US government, with the collaboration of Europe. In addition to Poland and Romania, many European and other powers have taken part in the program, including Germany, Italy, Britain and Canada. An earlier report from the council released in June 2006 provided some information on the program, and singled out 14 European governments for complicity.
http://www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE/?p=83

 

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Lies, Damn Lies, and Lies that Unleash Hell

Many highly qualified and intelligent researchers, analysts, and authors have written books, essays, and reports documenting the astounding multitude and variety of crimes committed by the United States throughout its history. Since a nation is an entity comprised of numerous elements and dynamics, we can’t simply blame the government, the Republicans, the Religious Right, the Democrats, George Bush, Bill Clinton, or any one particular component. Therefore, nearly all US Americans bear a degree of responsibility. Obviously, some (i.e. Bush and Cheney) are far more culpable than others because they wield such tremendous power and act with a conscienceless, cynical awareness of the suffering they are inflicting on the Earth and its sentient inhabitants.
http://www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE/?p=84

 

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Divide et Impera : U.S. arming Sunnis in Iraq to battle old Qaeda allies

With the four-month-old increase in American troops showing only modest success in curbing insurgent attacks, American commanders are turning to another strategy that they acknowledge is fraught with risk: arming Sunni Arab groups that have promised to fight militants linked with Al Qaeda who have been their allies in the past
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/11/africa/11iraq.php

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Divide et Impera : US says Iran arming Sunni groups

Sunni militants are being armed with Iranian-made munitions, US military spokesman Maj Gen William Caldwell told reporters in Baghdad.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6546555.stm

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Divide et Impera : Tribal Coalition in Anbar Said to Be Crumbling

A tribal coalition formed to oppose the extremist group al-Qaeda in Iraq, a development that U.S. officials say has reduced violence in Iraq’s troubled Anbar province, is beginning to splinter, according to an Anbar tribal leader and a U.S. military official familiar with tribal politics.
http://tinyurl.com/2z5gub

 

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The Baghdad gulag

Imperial and neo-colonial systems are incapable of thinking laterally. The French failed to do so in Algeria. The Americans failed in Vietnam. The Israelis failed in Palestine. The Americans will fail to do so again in Iraq. Call it counterinsurgency run amok. Thirty of Baghdad’s 89 districts will become gated communities from hell – cellophane-wrapped compounds where only Iraqis with a new, theoretically safe ID will be allowed in and out of this “secure environment”, in Pentagon newspeak. Yes, it will be Orwellian. Better yet, it will be a post-mod, Arab condo version of Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon, where the eye of the system is ubiquitous.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/ID14Ak01.html

 

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11,000 troops go Awol since Iraq war

Almost 1,000 soldiers are absent without leave (Awol), according to figures from the Ministry of Defence.

More than 11,000 cases of soldiers going on the run have been logged since the Iraq conflict began in 2003.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/11/nawol111.xml

 

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Iraq: At least 32 killed in another bloody day of U.S. occupation

The bodies of 16 people who had been shot dead were found in the mostly Sunni western Karkh part of Baghdad
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KAM134819.htm

 

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Three U.S. soldiers killed, six hurt in bridge collapse

MAHMOUDIYA, Iraq — The U.S. military says three soldiers were killed in Sunday’s suicide bombing that collapsed a section of a highway bridge south of Baghdad.
http://www.news8austin.com/content/headlines/?ArID=185855&SecID=2

 

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 10 June 2007

• Puppet parliamentarian admits 40,000 Iraqis being held in US and puppet regime prisons under “tragic” conditions.
• Shi‘i sectarian militias together with US-backed puppet regime forces continue attacks on Sunni districts of Baghdad.
• Shi‘i sectarian militias attack Sunni village northwest of Ba‘qubah in attempt to massacre local inhabitants. Nine villagers die in defense against the sectarians equipped with latest weapons.
• Resistance truck bomb attack kills 14 puppet policemen near Tikrit Sunday.
• US admits Sunday that one of its pilots was killed south of Balad last Thursday.
• Students in al-Mada’in resolve to boycott final exams after puppet regime moves testing center to area controlled by sectarian Jaysh al-Mahdi death squads.
• Resistance car bomb destroys bridge used by US troops near al-Iskandariyah, trapping American soldiers under wreckage.
• US forces evacuate Bank of ar-Rutbah – after using it for five months as Marine headquarters.
• Sectarian murders, kidnappings increase in Abu al-Khasib.

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0607/iraqiresistancereport_100607.htm

 

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NATO occupation forces mistakenly kill another 3 Afghan civilians

The NATO-led International Occupation Force mistakenly killed three Afghan civilians and injured two others in the eastern Kunar province on Monday, an ISAF statement said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-06/12/content_6228953.htm

 

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European Parliamentarians Demand the Immediate Release of 45 Palestinian MPs Detained by Israel

45 Members of the European Parliament, from different political groups, have decided to express their solidarity towards the 45 Palestinian colleagues imprisoned by Israel, and called for their immediate and unconditional release.
http://tinyurl.com/2fnbuy

 

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Hebron ethnic cleansing: What they don’t show you on CNN

The silent ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Hebron never stopped since the Israeli occupation landed. Following are few examples of the endless crimes conducted by Hebron colonizers (a.k.a. settlers) and their terrorist army (IOF), against land and Palestinian families, documented and published by B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories.
http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2007/06/11/hebron-ethnic-cleansing-what-they-dont-show-you-on-cnn

 

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Ronnie Kasrils’ speech to S. African Parliament on 40th anniversary of occupation

Forty years ago this week Israel’s military unleashed lightning attacks against Egypt, Jordan and Syria, alleging provocations as justification for its strikes.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article7010.shtml

 

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The High Cost of Subservience to Israel

America’s support of Israel’s brutality was the main motivation for 9/11. It was the ultimate expression of Arab fury over America’s double standard that routinely ignores Israeli violations of Arab human rights.
http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/articles/article0064805.html

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US college rejects Jewish professor over anti-Israel stance

One of the most rancorous disputes in American academia has ended with a prominent political scientist, with controversial views on Israel and anti-semitism, being denied tenure at one of the country’s top-10 private universities
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2100590,00.html

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Letter from Francis Boyle: De Paul & Dershowitz v. Finkelstein

In my opinion it is Professor Finkelstein who far better represents the real values and ethos of the Jewish People. In any event, it is a shame that the University named after St. Vincent DePaul has allied itself with Dershowitz against the courageous Norman Finkelstein.
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/story-061007100808.htm

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Lebanese army toll rises

Five more Lebanese soldiers are said to have died from injuries sustained in continuing operations against Fatah al-Islam fighters in a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon.
http://tinyurl.com/2n6n6m

 

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A Catch-22 Nuclear World

Nuclear Weapons Programs Are about Regime Survival
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/11/1787/

 

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Global Military Spending Hits $1.2 Trillion -Study

The United States spent $529 billion. Military spending in China, which is modernising its People’s Liberation Army, climbed to an estimated $49.5 billion last year from $44.3 billion in 2005.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17862.htm

 

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Video: The Colbert Report – Are We Rome?

Colbert invites the comparisons from one genocidal empire to another, even suggesting that we borrow certain other ideas – such as crucifixion. In that light, I guess pro-torture Neocons aren’t really bad Americans afterall, they’re just good Romans.
http://tinyurl.com/yusapk

 

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