US Terrorize The World – 8 Syawal 1427 H (31.10.06)

bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem

In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

=== News Update ===

U.S. Predator drone killed 80 In Pakistan Attack

Despite earlier reports that the missiles had been launched by Pakistani military helicopters, Pakistani intelligence sources now tell ABC News that the missiles were fired from a U.S. Predator drone plane.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15443.htm

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No Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants among the 80 dead: Sultan

Director General Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Shaukat Sultan has said that local people and foreigners were among the 80 dead in Bajaur agency operation however no Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants were among the dead.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15444.htm

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In pictures: Madrassa air strike

An eyewitness said told the BBC the madrassa school was filled with local students who had resumed studies after the Muslim Eid holidays
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6099240.stm

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

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

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9/11 : Shaped Charges and the World Trade Center Collapses

Here’s what demolition experts use in steel framed buildings, the linear shaped charge … It generates around 3,000,000 psi pressure … at a speed in excess of 27,000 feet per second … There are over 1000 different types of explosive … With the use of delays we can control … where the debris lands … vibration … noise level.

The job of a shaped charge is to cut steel H-beams. “The way we do this is by cutting the beam at an angle which through a series of beams cut at the same angle will tend to make the building shift over and ‘walk'”
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/wtc_charges.html

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9/11 : Evidence of Demolition Charges In WTC 2

Before proceeding with this page let me explain a little something about explosives and how people perceive them.

I work in special effects. In films, great use is made of low velocity explosives such as untamped black powder and ANFO because they are low velocity explosives. With a great whoosh and roar they belch forth with fire and smoke in a manner that has caused folks to drop their popcorn in matinees ever since sound came in.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/wtc2_cutter.html

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A Recipe for the Greater War – The U.S. fear of losing power which it doesn’t have

The Bush administration has been fully successful in what it wanted to achieve in Iraq. The country is occupied. Oil resources are under full control. The military threat that Iraq could pose has been fully neutralized. The country is divided. Iraqis are pitted against each other. The civil war is on and the co-opted media still limits its description to fear of a looming civil war.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15438.htm

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The real problem is that it is illegal for one country to invade another country

As the Nuremberg Tribunal concluded after World War II: “War is essentially an evil thing … To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”
http://tinyurl.com/ycscrg

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Biggest Foreign Policy Blunder Since the End of World War II

In reality, when President Bush decides to bring the American boys home Tony Blair will decide the same for the British boys. Working closely day by day with the White House is the hallmark of this government. The United Kingdom’s policy on Iraq has been described as the biggest foreign policy blunder since Suez. Failure at Suez was damaging for the United Kingdom and the region for years. Iraq now looks like the biggest foreign policy blunder since the end of World War II.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7&section=0&article=84597&d=29&m=10&y=2006

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Iraq: Weapons of Mass Delusion

Ritter gives his analysis of the real reasons for the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15436.htm

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Iraq: At least 80 killed as bloody U.S. occupation continues

A bomb blast ripped through a crowd of labourers in a square in Baghdad’s Shi’ite Sadr City district, killing 28 people and wounding 60, Interior Ministry sources said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061030/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

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Security firms ‘abusing Iraqis’

Private security firms operating in Iraq are committing human rights abuses, a charity has claimed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6097372.stm

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 29 October 2006.

• Two US soldiers reported killed in Resistance bomb attack west of Rawah.
• Puppet policemen resign en masse, hand weapons over to Resistance.
• US helicopter reported lost in Abu Ghurayb Sunday evening.
• Resistance fighters attack puppet “Iraqi National Guard” camp early Sunday morning.
• Resistance bombards checkpoint in western al-Fallujah during Saturday-Sunday night.
• Resistance bombards joint US-Iraqi puppet bases in ‘Anah area.
• Resistance ambushes US patrol in al-Hadithah on Saturday.
• Resistance fighters assault puppet police patrol in eastern Baghdad at noon Sunday.
• Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US military patrol in al-Mada’in on Saturday.
• Resistance bomb targets puppet police in Kirkuk Sunday.
• Resistance blasts US airbase in Kirkuk with Katyusha rockets Saturday night.
• Resistance bomb blasts US Humvee in al-Mawsil Saturday evening.

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2006/1006/iraqiresistancereport_291006.htm

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Taliban plan to fight through winter to throttle Kabul

Militia fighters are operating just an hour’s drive from the capital’s suburbs, confident of undermining Western support for the war
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1934251,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12

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Afghanistan war is ‘cuckoo’, says Blair’s favourite general

Tony Blair’s most trusted military commander yesterday branded as ‘cuckoo’ the way Britain’s overstretched army was sent into Afghanistan
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1934382,00.html

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-muslim voice-
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BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW

US Terrorize The World – 7 Syawal 1427 H (30.10.06)

bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem

In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

Eid Mubarak Syawal 1 , 1427 H

May Allah accept from us and you.

=== News Update ===

Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America’s War? As Many As 655,000

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15266.htm

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In Bush’s War 2811
http://icasualties.org/oif/

Cost of America’s War in Iraq $337,580,504,977 – See the cost in your community
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182

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The real problem is that it is illegal for one country to invade another country

Much has changed in the way the mainstream media deal with the war in Iraq. Most commentators now acknowledge the war is a disaster and will hurt the Republicans badly in the upcoming U.S. midterm elections.

But one thing hasn’t changed — the willingness to believe that the motives for war, however misguided, were basically honourable. So the criticism centres instead on the Bush administration’s inept handling of the war.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1162034469856&call_page=TS_EditorialOpinion&call_pageid=968256290204&call_pagepath=Editorial/Opinion&pubid=968163964505

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Torture as a tool of democracy

The existence of a clandestine network of CIA prisons where suspected Al Qaeda terrorists and other alleged Islamic militants are held and tortured to obtain information first was revealed by the Washington Post’s Dana Priest in a series of Pulitzer Prize-winning reports. Ron Suskind’s excellent account of the war on terror, “The One Percent Doctrine,” sketched in further insights. British journalist Stephen Grey now builds on that work in “Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program.” His account is an impressively detailed investigation that includes original reporting, public documents and a rather remarkable number of on-the-record interviews.
http://www.calendarlive.com/columnists/rutten/cl-et-rutten25oct25,0,360130.story

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Murdered in broad daylight – California Muslim woman victim of racist atrocity

The brutal murder of a Muslim woman in Fremont, Calif., has sent a wave of fear through the city’s Afghani community. On Oct. 19, Alia Ansari was walking down a residential street with her 3-year-old daughter when a man stopped his car, stepped out and shot her once in the head. He then got back in the car and sped away.
http://www.workers.org/2006/us/muslim-woman-1102

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Christian Zionism: An Egregious Threat to U.S. – Middle East Understanding

10/27/06 “CNI” — — Christian Zionism, a belief that paradise for Christians can only be achieved once Jews are in control of the Holy Land, is gathering strength in the United States and forging alliances that are giving increasingly weird shape to American policy toward the Middle East. The nature of the movement and its detrimental impact on policy was the subject of the 22nd Capitol Hill public hearing presented by the Council for the National Interest yesterday.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15421.htm

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The Myth of the “Anfal Genocide”. Did Saddam Hussein “Kill the Kurds”?

Many crimes against Iraq have been justified by the demonization of Saddam Hussein. Invasion was justified by claims that he possessed “weapons of mass destruction,” had ties to al-Qaeda, and posed a threat to the territorial United States.

The claims turned out to be lies. There were no “weapons of mass destruction” or programs to develop them. There were no ties to al-Qaeda. He did not threaten U.S. territory.
http://www.brusselstribunal.org/HussainAppeal.htm#Anfal

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Ethnic Cleansing in a Baghdad Neighborhood?

U.S. soldiers have uncovered evidence that one Shi’ite militia is engaged in a systematic campaign of violence and intimidation to clear out Sunni residents
http://www.time.com/time/world/printout/0,8816,1550441,00.html

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US airstrike kills six civilians in occupied Iraq

Six Iraqis, including three women and two children, have been killed in a US air strike in the city of Ramadi in western Iraq, a doctor said.
http://tinyurl.com/ykj6zw

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October a dark month for US as toll hits 98

OCTOBER became the deadliest month for US soldiers in Iraq in nearly two years with the announcement of the death of a US Marine in the western Anbar province.
http://tinyurl.com/yyjszt

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 28 October 2006.

• US Marine reported killed by Resistance sharpshooter’s bullet in al-Hadithah Friday morning.
• · Heavy fighting reported in ar-Ramadi Friday afternoon.
• · Three US troops reported killed in Resistance ambush in Samarra’ market Friday morning.
• Resistance, Iraqi puppet forces engage in combat near the Saudi border in western Iraq’s al-Anbar Province Saturday night.
• Resistance mounts attacks on US forces in al-Fallujah Saturday.
• Violent battle in al-Fallujah leaves three US soldiers reported dead.
• Five civilians killed in US air raid in southern ar-Ramadi at dawn Saturday.
• US troops, equipment deploy in force in ar-Ramadi, seizing control of the city and launching house-to-house raids.
• US seals off al-Fallujah, launches mass raids and arrests.
• Resistance fighter assault puppet “Interior Ministry Shock Troop” check point in Baghdad Saturday afternoon.
• On Friday another 45 Iraqi puppet troops were abducted elsewhere in Diyala Province.
• Resistance fighters abduct 11 more puppet army troops near al-‘Azim in Diyala Province.

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2006/1006/iraqiresistancereport_281006.htm

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NATO blasted for Afghan civilian deaths

NATO-led troops are not doing enough to protect civilians during military operations in Afghanistan, and the deaths of noncombatants are turning the population against the Western alliance, Human Rights Watch said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061028/ap_on_re_as/afghanistan

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Fresh fighting engulfs ‘Taliban-free’ region

Appeals to Nato nations with troops stationed in less hostile regions of Afghanistan, such as Germany, Turkey and France, have become increasingly vociferous in recent weeks with Nato commanders stating that they are 2,500 men short of the force they require.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/28/wafg28.xml

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German paper publishes new Afghan skull photos

BERLIN (Reuters) – A German newspaper on Saturday published new photographs purporting to show German soldiers desecrating human bones in Afghanistan, including a mock execution of a skeleton assembled from various human remains.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061028/wl_nm/germany_afghan_desecration_dc

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The Lancet on Southern Lebanon: Yet another country infested with cluster bombs

After Vietnam, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq, southern Lebanon has become the latest horrific example of the consequences of international inaction over cluster bombs. In a report released last week, Foreseeable harm: the use and impact of cluster munitions in Lebanon: 2006, the UK organisation Landmine Action estimates, based on field research, that on average three or four civilians have been killed or injured by submunitions from cluster bombs every day since the ceasefire in August. 35% are children, who pick up these often brightly coloured, sometimes ball-shaped objects. In addition, farmers’ harvests are impeded, and schools, roads, houses, and gardens are still littered with unexploded munitions.
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673606696128/fulltext

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Mystery of Israel’s secret uranium bomb

Alarm over radioactive legacy left by attack on Lebanon

Did Israel use a secret new uranium-based weapon in southern Lebanon this summer in the 34-day assault that cost more than 1,300 Lebanese lives, most of them civilians?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15432.htm

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An enigma that only the Israelis can fully explain

If the Israelis or the Americans want to avoid accusations, at the very least, of a cavalier attitude to the use of nuclear waste products, they need to explain what was in that bomb and why it was there.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1935931.ece

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US terror law ‘could violate international treaties’

Washington’s new anti-terrorism law could end up violating international treaties protecting detainees, with some provisions denying suspects the right to a fair trial, a key UN rights expert said today.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=13010364&p=y3xyx4yx&n=13010452

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Swiss Find Evidence of CIA Spy Attempt

BERN, Switzerland (AP) – Swiss authorities have found enough evidence to seek a full investigation into allegations the CIA was trying to obtain personal details of about 500 labor union members, most of them Arabs, officials said Friday.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-eur/2006/oct/27/102703675.html

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Airport screeners fail to see most test bombs

Screeners at Newark Liberty International Airport, one of the starting points for the Sept. 11 hijackers, failed 20 of 22 security tests conducted by undercover U.S. agents last week, missing concealed bombs and guns at checkpoints throughout the major air hub’s three terminals, according to federal security officials.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003327485_screeners28.html

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-muslim voice-
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BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW

US death toll in Iraq – higher than you think

bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem

In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

=== News Update ===

US death toll in Iraq – higher than you think

“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour.

–George Orwell, ‘1984’

That is not to say that the lives lost in warfare are not welcomed by those who control the purse.

After all, dead men can’t complain.

The US military confirmed today [October 18] that nine troops had been killed in fighting and bombings in Iraq yesterday, raising this month’s death toll for American forces to 67.

If the rate of US fatalities continues at the same level throughout this month, it will make October the deadliest for coalition forces since January 2005, when 107 US troops died.

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As of Sunday, Oct. 15, 2006, at least 2,766 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,198 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military’s numbers.

Qualifiers like “at least” are there for a reason.

They enable the government to mislead the American people without actually ‘lying’ to them. There are other tricks of the trade that help our elected liars mask the high American death toll.

After all, it is a NUMBER and like all numbers, it can be ‘tweaked’ by simply modifying the ‘accounting policies’ used.

So, what’s the REAL number of US soldiers who died in Iraq?

“The actual death toll is in excess of 10,000. [Given] the officially acknowledged number of over 15,000 seriously wounded (and a published total of 25,000 wounded overall,), this elevated death toll is far more realistic than the current 2,700+ now being officially published.”

Don’t believe it? This kind of discrepancy is NOT unprecedented.

The U.S. Veteran Dispatch had uncovered Pentagon records revealing that the United States suffered nearly 20,000 more fatalities during the Vietnam war era than the 58,182 servicemen whose names are engraved on the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

How do they manage to hide these figures?

According to a U.S. Army file called TAGCEN which contains over 293,000 Army casualty records, there are 19,644 U.S. Army servicemen who were killed or died between January 1, 1965 and December 31, 1975 that are not counted as Vietnam war dead because their death certificates were written in other countries, including the United States.

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DOD Instruction 7730.22, (“Reports of U.S. Casualties in Combat Areas,” January 20, 1967, and March 20, 1973) provided that the Vietnam casualties to be reported were all those occurring within the designated combat areas and those deaths occurring anywhere as the result or aftermath of an initial casualty occurring in a combat area. The current related document, Military Personnel Casualty Matters, Policies, and Procedures” DoD Instruction 1300.18, December 18, 2000, is simply silent on this critical matter.

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[Moreover,] the official DoD count, which appears to undercount US casualties [accounts] for them only once the next-of-kin have been notified and the names publicly released. Casualties whose next-of-kin are not notified or cannot be contacted/located do not therefore appear to be counted in the official tally.

Additionally, an April 27, 2004, story titled “The Lasting Wounds Of War: Roadside Bombs Have Devastated Troops and Doctors Who Treat Them” by Karl Vick and published in the Washington Post, page 1, mentioned instances where US casualties, having suffered extensive brain-damage and with no prospect of regaining consciousness, are sent home for families to decide whether or not to terminate life support . . . It is not immediately apparent the extent to which these casualties are accounted for in the official DoD casualties count.

In a world that is all about numbers, acounting policies are like scripture.

But, since accountants are neither gods nor saints, when their policies are secret, you can be sure they’re up to no good.

I’ll leave you with a link to a video of US soldiers being killed in action, presumably compiled by those who kill them.

Warning – it’s graphic and may be very painful for those who have loved ones serving.

It’s provided as evidence that things are very ugly in Iraq – not just for Iraqis.

These are dark days for humanity.

source:
http://wakeupfromyourslumber.blogspot.com/2006/10/us-death-toll-in-iraq-higher-than-you.html

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-muslim voice-
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BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW

US Terrorize The World – 26 Ramadhan 1427 H (19.10.06)

bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem

In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

=== News Update ===

Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America’s War? As Many As 655,000

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15266.htm

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In Bush’s War 2782
http://icasualties.org/oif/

Cost of America’s War in Iraq $335,182,488,420 – See the cost in your community
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182

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Open Letter opposing Islamophobia

http://www.stopwar.org.uk/documents/OPENLETTER_000.pdf

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ISLAMOPHOBIA AND THE “WAR ON TERROR”

http://www.stopwar.org.uk/new/Straw_Veil.htm

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The Republic is Dead, Long Live the Republic.

Bush and a supine, cowardly Congress shredded the US Constitution on Tuesday, abolishing the right of a court review (habeas corpus) for some classes of suspect. Suspect, mind you, not proven criminal.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15339.htm

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A Time Of Shame – National yawn as our rights evaporate’

First thing this morning, the president signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which does away with habeas corpus, the right of suspected terrorists or anybody else to know why they have been imprisoned, provided the president does not think it should apply to you and declares you an enemy combatant.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15342.htm

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Sowing the Seeds of Fascism in America

Author Stan Goff, a retired 26-year veteran of the U.S. Army Special Forces, sounds a warning call that many of the historical precursors of fascism—white supremacy, militarization of culture, vigilantism, masculine fear of female power, xenophobia and economic destabilization—are ascendant in America today.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15340.htm

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Bush signs terror bill in victory for White House

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4264318.html

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Shame on Us All

>From the noble American ideal of each human being possessing “unalienable rights” as declared by the Founders 230 years ago amid the ringing of bells in Philadelphia, the United States effectively rescinded that concept on a dreary fall day in Washington.
http://www.uruknet.biz/?p=m27561&hd=0&size=1&l=e

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MEDIA ALERT: DEMOCRACY AND DEBATE – KILLING IRAQ

The Lancet Reports 655,000 Excess Iraqi Deaths As A Consequence Of The Invasion

…The media response to the latest Lancet report consisted of initial, relatively high-profile coverage in the broadcast media and more subdued coverage in some print media. Coverage focused heavily on government dismissals and on the alleged ‘controversy’ surrounding the figures. Expert commentators were few and far between, with journalists exhibiting the usual confusion on the methodology behind, and significance of, the figures. Passing mentions aside, the story was dropped within 24 hours from media coverage, with essentially zero meaningful follow up reporting or analysis since. Journalists did respond with considerably less scepticism than after the 2004 Lancet report was published. However, the extent of coverage has, if anything, been less than in 2004…
http://www.uruknet.biz/?p=m27562&hd=0&size=1&l=e

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Study of Iraqi Dead Shocking, But Sound Science

The Statistical Assessment Service a non-profit, non-partisan media research organization – finds the study estimating 650,000 excess Iraqi casualties since American forces entered the country to be methodologically sound.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15335.htm

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Over 650,000 excesive Iraqi deaths during war and occupation

The scientific community is in agreement over the statistical methods used to collect the data and the validity of the conclusions drawn by the researchers conducting the study.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15336.htm

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US death toll in Iraq – higher than you think

“The actual death toll is in excess of 10,000. [Given] the officially acknowledged number of over 15,000 seriously wounded (and a published total of 25,000 wounded overall,), this elevated death toll is far more realistic than the current 2,700+ now being officially published.”

Don’t believe it? This kind of discrepancy is NOT unprecedented.
http://wakeupfromyourslumber.blogspot.com/2006/10/us-death-toll-in-iraq-higher-than-you.html

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8 courts-martial ordered in rape, murder cases

4 U.S. soldiers face charges over 14 year old girl’s death in Iraqi town of Mahmoudiya
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15320226/

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Gunmen in Iraq’s Ramadi announce Sunni emirate

Dozens of “al Qaeda-linked” gunmen took to the streets of Ramadi on Wednesday in a show of force to announce the city was joining an Islamic state comprising Iraq’s mostly Sunni Arab provinces, Islamists and witnesses said.
http://tinyurl.com/y588jn

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English translation of Saddam Hussein Letter

I know the heart of the freedom fighter and love to his nation, his people after his love to God, I expect you to heal the wounds and not to open new wounds.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15334.htm

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Bush’s Petro-Cartel Almost Has Iraq’s Oil

Even as Iraq verges on splintering into a sectarian civil war, four big oil companies are on the verge of locking up its massive, profitable reserves, known to everyone in the petroleum industry as “the prize.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15337.htm

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US says troop deaths in Iraq are price of victory

Asked by a reporter whether the latest deaths would prompt US President George W Bush to change strategy, White House spokesman Tony Snow said: “No, the strategy is to win.”

Memo to Tony Snow: winning can only happen when a strategy actually works, and this one absolutely has not.
http://rawstory.com/news/2006/US_says_troop_deaths_in_Iraq_are_pr_10182006.html

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U.S. military says 11 soldiers killed in Iraq By Ibon Villelabeitia

Eleven U.S. soldiers were killed on Tuesday, the U.S. military said on Wednesday, in one of the sharpest spikes in attacks on American forces battling soaring sectarian violence and a Sunni Arab insurgency.
http://tinyurl.com/tzz5q

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Ten US soldiers killed in Iraq

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/iraq/?id=17895

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10 More GIs Killed; US Death Toll in Iraq Hits 69 in Oct.

http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/10/18/ap3100860.html

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US Military Deaths in Iraq Hit 2,775

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061018/ap_on_re_us/iraq_us_deaths

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Simon Jenkins: America has finally taken on the grim reality of Iraq

America must leave Iraq without preconditions and hope that its neighbours, hated Syria and Iran, can clear up the mess. This advice comes not from some anti-war coalition but from the Iraq study group under the former Republican secretary of state, James Baker
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1924736,00.html

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Slovakia to pull troops from Iraq in February

Slovakia was a staunch supporter of the U.S.-led military campaign in Iraq under the centre-right government of Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda. He lost power in a June election and the new leftist administration of Prime Minister Robert Fico has long opposed Slovakia’s presence in Iraq.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L1825061.htm

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 17 October 2006.

• Iraqi Resistance reportedly shoots down US helicopter near al-Qa’im Tuesday night.
• US warplanes blast three houses in ar-Ramadi Tuesday morning, killing four children and their mother.
• Powerful explosions shake US al-Warrar base late Tuesday night.
• US warplanes blast house in ar-Ramadi Monday night, killing family of six.
• US soldier reported killed by Iraqi Resistance sharpshooter’s bullet Tuesday morning.
• Resistance battles US troops in al-Fallujah in pre-dawn hours of Tuesday.
• Iraqi puppet troops kill civilian south of al-Fallujah.
• Resistance mortar barrage targets US base in as-Saqlawiyah for second straight day.
• Resistance bomb disables Humvee in al-Fallujah.
• Resistance bomb blasts US patrol in al-Hadithah Monday.
• Resistance bomb kills two puppet “Iraqi National Guards” Tuesday afternoon.
• Resistance fighters kill member of pro-American Kurdish separatist party in al-Mawsil.

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2006/1006/iraqiresistancereport_171006.htm

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21 killed as occupation forces kicks off “Operation Eagle” in Afghanistan

As many as 20 Taliban fighters have been killed in a clash with Afghan and NATO forces in the southeastern parts of Afghanistan as the alliance announced a countrywide anti-insurgent operation on Tuesday.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=914103

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More than 20 civilians killed in Afghan attacks

NATO occupation forces air strikes killed nine civilians and wounded 11 others Wednesday, a provincial governor said, while 13 other civilians reportedly were killed in a firefight with suspected Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan.
http://tinyurl.com/y4fo2z

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NATO occupation forces rocket kills 13 Afghan civilians during battle

Abdul Rehman, a resident in the village, said in a telephone interview with the Associated Press that a rocket launched from an aircraft landed on a home and killed 13 people inside.
http://tinyurl.com/wk87t

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Troops may occupy Afghanistan for 20 years says commander

The commander of British forces returning from Helmand, Afghanistan, said that his forces were having to make up for the time lost by the decision of the United States and Britain to invade Iraq instead of concentrating on post-Taleban Afghanistan.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10406588

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Two Palestinians killed as Israel attacks Gaza

Two Palestinians have been killed as Israeli tanks invaded the southern Gaza Strip this morning
http://tinyurl.com/wpnpn

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Palestine Observer to UN Warns of Israeli attack on Gaza Strip

The Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council, Mansour said Israel, the occupying Power, has stepped up its illegal campaign of extrajudicial killings, carrying out a number of attacks in the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the killing of 23 Palestinians.
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?id=7754

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French UNIFIL commanders say will shoot at IAF overflights

Commanders of the French contingent of the United Nations force in Lebanon have warned that they might have to open fire if Israel Air Force warplanes continue their overflights in Lebanon.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/775387.html

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CIA Spy Operations in Mexico

The declassified U.S. documents reveal CIA recruitment of agents within the upper echelons of the Mexican government between 1956 and 1969. The informants used in this secret program included President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz and future President Luis Echeverría
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB204/index.htm

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Judge Allows 9/11 Lawsuits to Go Forward

A federal judge on Tuesday refused to toss out claims by thousands of emergency workers who sued New York City and about 150 private contractors after the workers were sickened by dust at the World Trade Center site.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6154404,00.html

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New Poll: Americans Question Bush on 9/11 Intelligence

Only 16 per cent of respondents say the government headed by U.S. president George W. Bush is telling the truth on what it knew prior to the terrorist attacks, down five points since May 2002.
http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/13469

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A terror raid that doesn’t make the headlines – despite chemical explosives and a rocket launcher

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=9882

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In case you missed it: WMD Plot Uncovered In East Texas

At least one weapon of mass destruction – a sodium cyanide bomb capable of delivering a deadly gas cloud – has been seized in the Tyler area.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5350.htm

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Documents Shed New Light on Pentagon Surveillance of Peace Activists

Documents released today by the American Civil Liberties Union reveal new details of Pentagon surveillance of Americans opposed to the Iraq war, including Quakers and student groups.
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/spyfiles/27050prs20061012.html

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FBI tried to entrap Ramsey Clark

Yousry, told ABC News that the FBI offered him a chance to avoid indictment — if he would wear a hidden microphone to gather evidence against Stewart and Clark, who was also part of the blind sheik’s defense team
http://license.icopyright.net/user/viewFreeUse.act?fuid=MTgzNTAw

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FBI director wants ISPs to track users

FBI Director Robert Mueller on Tuesday called on Internet service providers to record their customers’ online activities.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15338.htm

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Payback’s a Bitch for Weldon

The FBI raided the homes of Weldon’s lawyer friend who did business in Russia and the Soviet Union, another friend who ran a public relations firm, and his daughter—she’s a lobbyist whom authorities allege Weldon helped land lucrative deals, including $1 million contracts from two Russian energy firms
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2006/10/paybacks-a-bitch-for-weldon.php

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America’s Dumbest Congressmen

Radar ranks the 10 biggest fools on the Hill
http://tinyurl.com/yk9wfj

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Ashcroft: Bush should be trusted not to abuse new powers

In the following MSNBC video, former Attorney General John Ashcroft says that President Bush should be trusted not to abuse new powers granted to him by Congress.

Just when you think you can’t rely on Ashcroft to say something hysterically idiotic, the guy surprises you!
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Video__Ashcroft_Bush_should_be_1017.html

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Criticism of the veil is not about liberating women

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

=== News Update ===

Criticism of the veil is not about liberating women

by Lindsey German- 21 October 2006 | Socialist Worker Online

One of the more distasteful features of the wave of attacks on Muslims has been the sight of feminists lining up to support Jack Straw’s comments against the veil.

Women who claim they believe in liberation should know better. The women’s movement of the 1960s was anti-racist, coming out of the civil rights and anti-war movements in the US.

Those who espouse their ideas today are attacking some of the most oppressed women in the name of liberating them. Their assumption is that any Muslim woman who wears the veil or the hijab does so because of pressure.

This is false – some women may fit into this category, but many Muslim women choose to wear the niqab or the hijab for their identity, or for political or other reasons. They are making a statement which they have every right to make.

You would think from the attacks that it was only among Muslims that women’s oppression still exists. In fact, women in the West do not have even the most basic equality, despite nominal lip service to the term.

Women suffer worse wages, have to do most housework and childcare and are subject to sexual double standards.

Feminists often say superior ideas on women’s liberation in the West go back 200 years, which makes the West more advanced than the Middle East or South Asia. But women’s liberation has long been a minority view.

It took until well into the 20th century before women won the vote after a long struggle. It took another struggle to put issues like abortion, equal pay and gay liberation on the agenda in the 1960s and 1970s.

These struggles are still to be won. Only a small minority of women have benefited from changes in society – they pay other, often immigrant, women, to do domestic work.

They have turned their backs on any struggle to change the world and supported a series of bloody wars aimed at countries with Muslim populations.

They now presume to tell Muslim women they can’t be liberated unless they dress and behave like them.

source:
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=9965

Note: This article should be read after: Warmongers play race card
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=9963

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Under Bush’s law, guilty until confirmed guilty

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

=== News Update ===

The New York Times

Published: October 16, 2006

When President George W. Bush rammed the bill on military commissions through Congress, the Republicans crowed about creating a process that would be tough on terrorists but preserve essential principles of justice. “America can be proud,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the bill’s architects.

Unfortunately, Graham was wrong. One of the many problems with the new law is that it will only make it harder than it already is to separate the real terrorists from the far larger group of inmates at the American military detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who were bit players in the Taliban or innocent bystanders.

Graham and other supporters of this dreadful legislation seem to have forgotten that American justice does not merely deliver swift punishment to the guilty. It also protects the innocent.

Bush ignored that fact after the Sept. 11 attacks, when he tried to put the prisoners of the war on terror beyond the reach of American law and the Geneva Conventions. For starters, he dispensed with one of the vital provisions of the conventions: that prisoners must be screened by a “competent tribunal” if there is any doubt about who they are and what role they played in hostilities.

As a result, hundreds of men captured in Afghanistan and other countries were sent to Guantánamo Bay and other prisons, including the network of illegal CIA detention camps, without any attempt to determine whether they were any sort of combatant, legal or illegal.

The Bush administration showed not the slightest interest in fixing this problem until the Supreme Court said in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld that the president cannot simply lock up anyone – even a foreign citizen – without giving him a real chance to challenge his detention before a “neutral decision maker.”

In response, Bush created Combatant Status Review Tribunals, which gave the most cursory possible reviews of the Guantánamo detainees. These reviews took place years after the prisoners were captured. They permitted the use of hearsay evidence, evidence obtained through coercion and even torture, and evidence that was kept secret from the prisoner. The normal burden of proof was reversed: The tribunals presumed prisoners were justifiably detained and the prisoners had the burden of disproving government evidence – presuming they knew what it was in the first place.

The new law makes this mockery of justice stronger. The Military Commissions Act of 2006 makes it virtually impossible to contest a status tribunal’s decision. It prohibits claims of habeas corpus – the ancient right of prisoners in just societies to have their detentions reviewed – or any case based directly or indirectly on the Geneva Conventions. Even if an appeal got to the single appeals court now authorized to hear it, the administration would be very likely to argue that it cannot be heard without jeopardizing secrets, as it has done repeatedly.

The new law dangerously expands the definition of illegal enemy combatant and allows Bush – and the secretary of defense – to give to anyone they choose the authority to designate a prisoner as an illegal combatant. It also allows Bush to go on squirreling prisoners away at secret CIA camps where none of the rules apply.

Bush wants Americans to trust him to apply these powers only to truly dangerous men. Even if the American system were based on that sort of personal power and not the rule of law, it would be hard to trust the judgment of a president and an administration whose records are so bad. The United States has yet to acknowledge that it kidnapped an innocent Canadian citizen and sent him to be abused in a Syrian prison. In another case, a German citizen has accused the United States of grabbing him off the streets of Macedonia, drugging him and sending him to Afghanistan, where he was brutally treated. Then there is the Ethiopian living in London who said he was grabbed by American agents and brutalized by Moroccan torturers until he confessed to plotting with Jose Padilla to set off a “dirty bomb.” Padilla was never charged with the crime. The Ethiopian remains at Guantánamo Bay.

Republicans who support the new law like to point out that it only covers foreigners. But Americans have never believed that human rights are just for Americans.

The United States is outraged when an authoritarian government jails an American, or one of its own citizens, on trumped-up charges and brings him or her before a phony court. Surely that is not the model that Americans want to follow in their own prisons.

When President George W. Bush rammed the bill on military commissions through Congress, the Republicans crowed about creating a process that would be tough on terrorists but preserve essential principles of justice. “America can be proud,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the bill’s architects.

Unfortunately, Graham was wrong. One of the many problems with the new law is that it will only make it harder than it already is to separate the real terrorists from the far larger group of inmates at the American military detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who were bit players in the Taliban or innocent bystanders.

Graham and other supporters of this dreadful legislation seem to have forgotten that American justice does not merely deliver swift punishment to the guilty. It also protects the innocent.

Bush ignored that fact after the Sept. 11 attacks, when he tried to put the prisoners of the war on terror beyond the reach of American law and the Geneva Conventions. For starters, he dispensed with one of the vital provisions of the conventions: that prisoners must be screened by a “competent tribunal” if there is any doubt about who they are and what role they played in hostilities.

As a result, hundreds of men captured in Afghanistan and other countries were sent to Guantánamo Bay and other prisons, including the network of illegal CIA detention camps, without any attempt to determine whether they were any sort of combatant, legal or illegal.

The Bush administration showed not the slightest interest in fixing this problem until the Supreme Court said in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld that the president cannot simply lock up anyone – even a foreign citizen – without giving him a real chance to challenge his detention before a “neutral decision maker.”

In response, Bush created Combatant Status Review Tribunals, which gave the most cursory possible reviews of the Guantánamo detainees. These reviews took place years after the prisoners were captured. They permitted the use of hearsay evidence, evidence obtained through coercion and even torture, and evidence that was kept secret from the prisoner. The normal burden of proof was reversed: The tribunals presumed prisoners were justifiably detained and the prisoners had the burden of disproving government evidence – presuming they knew what it was in the first place.

The new law makes this mockery of justice stronger. The Military Commissions Act of 2006 makes it virtually impossible to contest a status tribunal’s decision. It prohibits claims of habeas corpus – the ancient right of prisoners in just societies to have their detentions reviewed – or any case based directly or indirectly on the Geneva Conventions. Even if an appeal got to the single appeals court now authorized to hear it, the administration would be very likely to argue that it cannot be heard without jeopardizing secrets, as it has done repeatedly.

The new law dangerously expands the definition of illegal enemy combatant and allows Bush – and the secretary of defense – to give to anyone they choose the authority to designate a prisoner as an illegal combatant. It also allows Bush to go on squirreling prisoners away at secret CIA camps where none of the rules apply.

Bush wants Americans to trust him to apply these powers only to truly dangerous men. Even if the American system were based on that sort of personal power and not the rule of law, it would be hard to trust the judgment of a president and an administration whose records are so bad. The United States has yet to acknowledge that it kidnapped an innocent Canadian citizen and sent him to be abused in a Syrian prison. In another case, a German citizen has accused the United States of grabbing him off the streets of Macedonia, drugging him and sending him to Afghanistan, where he was brutally treated. Then there is the Ethiopian living in London who said he was grabbed by American agents and brutalized by Moroccan torturers until he confessed to plotting with Jose Padilla to set off a “dirty bomb.” Padilla was never charged with the crime. The Ethiopian remains at Guantánamo Bay.

Republicans who support the new law like to point out that it only covers foreigners. But Americans have never believed that human rights are just for Americans.

The United States is outraged when an authoritarian government jails an American, or one of its own citizens, on trumped-up charges and brings him or her before a phony court. Surely that is not the model that Americans want to follow in their own prisons.

source:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/16/opinion/edcourts.php

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Bush signs law authorizing harsh interrogation

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

=== News Update ===

Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:53am ET

By Steve Holland

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President George W. Bush signed a law on Tuesday authorizing tough interrogation and prosecution of terrorism suspects and took an indirect, election-year swipe at Democrats who opposed the legislation.

Bush, trying to help Republicans maintain control of the U.S. Congress by emphasizing national security, called the Military Commissions Act of 2006 “one of the most important pieces of legislation in the war on terror.”

Human rights groups charge that the measure would allow harsh techniques bordering on torture, such as sleep deprivation and induced hypothermia.

In a White House East Room ceremony, Bush praised members of Congress who approved the law over the opposition of the Democratic leadership in both the Senate and House of Representatives.

“Every member of the Congress who voted for this bill has helped our nation rise to the task that history has given us. Some voted to support this bill even when a majority of their party voted the other way,” Bush said.

Much of the new law, which critics say still does not protect detainees’ rights and predict will face legal challenge, was negotiated in September after senior Republicans rebelled against Bush’s plan.

The new law means Bush can continue a secret CIA program for interrogating terrorism suspects whom he believes have vital information that could thwart a plot against America.

Bush said the law will allow intelligence professionals to question suspects without fear of being sued by them later.

“This bill spells out specific recognizable offenses that would be considered crimes in the handling of detainees so that our men and women who question captured terrorists can perform their duties to the fullest extent of the law,” he said.

The White House has refused to describe what techniques will be allowed or banned.

CHALLENGES SEEN

Critics and legal experts have predicted the new law will draw vigorous court challenges and could be struck down for violating rights guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution.

They cited provisions that strip foreign suspects of the right to challenge their detentions in U.S. courts and what they described as unfair rules for military trials.

Bush insisted the law complies with the spirit and letter of international agreements. “As I’ve said before, the United States does not torture. It’s against our laws and it’s against our values,” he said.

The law also establishes military tribunals for terrorism suspects, most of whom are held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The law was prompted by a Supreme Court ruling in June that said Bush lacked legislative authority in setting up his first system of military commissions. Future legal battles will likely also end up in the high court.

Shortly after Bush signed the law, the Republican National Committee issued a press releasing headlined, “Democrats would let terrorists free” and listed the names of many House and Senate Democrats who opposed it.

The American Civil Liberties Union expressed outrage, calling the new law “one of the worst civil liberties measures ever enacted in American history.”

“Nothing separates America more from our enemies than our commitment to fairness and the rule of law, but the bill signed today is an historic break because it turns Guantanamo Bay and other U.S. facilities into legal no-man’s-lands,” said ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero.

source:
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=2006-10-17T145346Z_01_N17413926_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-BUSH.xml&WTmodLoc=PolNewsHome_C1_%5BFeed%5D-2

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9/11 – ALL THE PROOF YOU NEED!

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

=== News Update ===

A 9/11 CHECKMATE
BY TvNews LIES .ORG – April – 2005

Some things are so disturbing that they are almost impossible to believe. That is why, in the 9/11 enigma, less is more.

Until these questions are answered there is no need to establish more doubt. What we have here is solid undisputed evidence that we were never told the truth.

Before you read this article, conduct this test. Try to purchase some stock, or some futures, a mutual fund or some put options, without providing your identity. Go ahead and try it! See if you get anywhere. Find out what happens when you tell the investment firm that you want to make a huge investment anonymously. It can’t be done.

Then ask yourself this question: How could someone have placed anonymous put options on American Airlines and United Airlines just prior to the attacks of 9/11? Then ask yourself why no one has investigated this suspicious deal. Ask yourself why there has been no attempt by the US government to identify the person who anticipated huge profits from a disaster that was yet to occur. Is it because the trail possibly leads to the CIA?

Then wonder about the collapse of Building 7 on the day of the attacks. Ask yourself why the owner of the building allowed the building to be pulled down (intentionally demolished) hours after the Twin Towers fell. Pulling down a building takes weeks of planning and preparation so that explosives can be safely positioned and wired. Not so in this case. Wonder why.

If you have any doubts at all about the official 9/11 story, then the answers to these questions are all the proof you need that something is very, very wrong!

Independent 9/11 researchers have worked nonstop since the events to examine the events of 9/11 and they have uncovered enough information to seriously challenge the official versions of what happened on that fateful day. But maybe, just maybe, the very fact that massive amounts of information are available is a problem in itself. There may be far too much evidence for most Americans to face.

The challenges to the official stories may be too devastating to be processed by the average American who has spent a lifetime believing in the system. Many people can deal with the minor violations that are part of the political scene, but cannot possibly fathom a government that might be complicit in an attack on its own people. They are not unlike the parents who eventually come to terms with a child’s shoplifting spree. The same parents would do anything to deny far more serious accusations. Imagine the response of parents whose son turns out to be a Timothy McVeigh.

Some things are so disturbing that they are almost impossible to believe. That is why, in the 9/11 enigma, less is more. There is a real danger of frightening everyone off by offering too much information. Therefore, if we think of the problem as a chess game, two strategic moves can lead to checkmate.

There are two pieces of the 9/11 puzzle that on their own expose the lies of the administration.

Two questions must be raised so that even the most diehard Bush supporters realize they have been deceived. These are issues that no one can debate or dismiss. These are not conspiracy theories. They are fact-based questions that can lead to exposing the deceptions in the official reports. The apologists have no way to explain these away or justify them. Basically, they offer clear evidence that the official explanations of 9/11 are meaningless.

TWO MOVES TO CHECKMATE

1. THE COVER UP

Someone had foreknowledge of the attacks. In the weeks leading up to 9/11 someone made a series of investments that would have paid off in huge profits because of the attacks. This is well documented and undisputed. This person specifically invested in the two airliners used in the attacks, anticipating windfall profits from any drop in the stock prices of these companies. This is solid evidence that at least one person in the United States had detailed information that something bad was going to happen to the specific airlines that were to be used in the attack.

We have been told that the person who made these investments never claimed the profits. We are expected to believe that this explains why his or her identity is unavailable. This is absolutely untrue. This is not an instance in which someone was waiting to pick up a package at an airport locker. This is a case of a financial institution processing an investment transaction for an individual. This CAN NOT BE PERFORMED ANONYMOUSLY! The identity of this person who had foreknowledge of the attack is know and this person’s identity is being protected by our government and this is a fact! Period, end of story.

WHO MADE THE INVESTMENT? Identify this person and you have someone who very probably had detailed foreknowledge of the events. The fact that the profits were never collected is even more suspicious and incriminating. The fact that the identity of this person remains unknown is even more suspicious. The only possible conclusion is that this person is known to the government and that his or her identity is being protected.

There has been a clear and concerted cover up regarding the person who tried to profit from events he or she knew were coming. The people who could easily clear this up, but who chose to close any further investigation into the matter are not underlings. They are officials who answer directly to the President of the United States. Check.

2. BUILDING 7

On September 11th, Towers One and Two collapsed after suffering direct hits by airliners. Building 7 was neither hit by an airliner nor damaged severely by flying debris, but at 5:20 p.m. it collapsed in the exact same accordion style of the other two towers. The official explanation by FEMA investigators claimed that WTC 7 fell as a result of burning for 7 hours.

Several weeks after the events of 9/11, Larry Silverstein, the new owner of the WTC was interviewed on TV. At this time he openly acknowledged the decision to pull Building 7. This was a public statement in which the owner of the WTC agreed to the destruction of the building.

This decision was never explained and was never questioned by the Kean Commission. The conflicting report of the FEMA investigators was also never explained. Pulling a building requires weeks, if not months of preparation. Explosives have to be carefully and strategically placed and wired. How was it possible to pull a building without first preparing for its demolition?

Larry Silverstein invested $386 million in WTC 7. On 9/11, by his own admission, Larry Silverstein ordered the demolition of his building . In February of 2002, his company won a settlement of $861 million from Industrial Risk Insurers. Do the math. No one investigated. This is a confession to the demolition of Building 7. Let me repeat that, THIS IS A CONFESSION! Checkmate.

Until these questions are answered there is no need to establish more doubt. What we have here is solid undisputed evidence that we were never told the truth. We have solid evidence that the official investigation stopped short of delving into questions that could have supplied answers. We have solid proof that something is very, very wrong.

There is a mountain of unanswered questions concerning the events surrounding the 9/11 attacks. Anyone willing to listen or look at the inconsistencies would have to draw an obvious conclusion: the official explanation of the events of 9/11 is nothing more than a desperate attempt to distract the American people from investigating the truth. There can be no denying that there are a number of strange and puzzling occurrences that have never been, and seemingly cannot be explained.

Perhaps the abundance of startling and damning information is too incredible to be accepted easily by the millions of Americans who have bought into the corporate media’s version of the events. So many people in this country can not deal with, or accept any real challenge to the official explanation that allows for no foreknowledge or cover up by their government. Even if most Americans were to be presented with clearly corroborated facts or cold evidence, they would probably refuse to even consider the involvement of their elected leaders in a tragedy of such huge proportions.

The official story, however, collapses after an examination of the two questions just raised. Very simply put, case closed. We do not need to pull an OJ here and bury the obvious under more evidence than the jury can handle. Show the Bronco chase and the blood evidence, and rest the prosecution. Otherwise we risk badly confusing a jury of the uninformed.

It is vital that the evidence based community encourage the American public to question the events for themselves. Two questions of this magnitude are enough to raise reasonable doubt. Two such questions that have gone uninvestigated and unexplained are enough to arouse curiosity,

We’re in a very dangerous game, here, and all of us are players. Much of what happened on September 11th remains at best unclear, and at worst terribly suspicious. The reality that the President of the United States spent more than 18 months resisting an official investigation into the most devastating tragedy in our history is in itself an outrage. But the reality that there is no official body still seeking answers to vital questions is an even greater outrage.

And if that remains the case, we all will have been checkmated, en masse.

Editor’s NOTE: People might comment on this article by calling it a conspiracy theory. This is their usual way of dismissing the facts. I ask you, where exactly is there ‘theory’ on this page? What elements of this article are in dispute? This is not a theory, this article poses questions that have not been answered and the people who call the results of the independent 9/11 research community ‘conspiracy theories’ have yet to qualify their assertion. You can not simply call something a ‘theory’ just because you have not looked closely enough to see the facts that have been presented. If you call this a theory you are in denial. Very simply put, you can not debate this issue. Many people will dismiss this, as they do all evidence that goes against what they want to believe, yet when asked what their criteria is for discerning between theory and fact, they will not have a logical answer. This is not theory and neither are the facts that have been brought to light by the many people involved in the legitimate independent 9/11 research community.

An URGENT Message from the Editor!TvNewsLIES Challenges Believers of the Official Version of 9/11: – Where the Hell is YOUR proof? They Are Not ‘Conspiracy Theories’ – They Are, in Fact, ‘Discoveries’9/11-PNAC, 9/11-PNAC – SHOULD BE THE #1 TOPIC OF DISCUSSION A WAKE-UP CALL THE ALTERNATIVE AND LIBERAL MEDIA: TO STOP IGNORING 9/11 AND THE PROJECT FOR A NEW AMERICAN CENTURY WHY AMERICANS REFUSE TO BELIEVE THE 9/11 EVIDENCE!!! – The attacks of 9/11 were so unthinkable that most Americans would refuse to believe the complicity of their own government, even if presented with a mountain of evidence. – Very simply, it is possible to escape blame if you do something that nobody in the world believes you could do.
• DAVID RAY GRIFFIN: ALMOST PERFECT ABOUT 9/11!
• Before you call this a ‘Conspiracy Theory’ read this! Learn the difference between theory and fact!
• Close-Up of WTC-7 Collapse Footage Shows Unmistakable Demolition Charges
• Professional Demolition of World Trade Center Building 7 – On-line videos and in depth analysis.
• 9/11 Video Selection
• How Building Implosions Work

SOURCE: 911 Review
http://911review.org/brad.com/sept11_truth/9_11_-_all_the_proof_you_need.html

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Genocide in Iraq

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

=== News Update ===

Genocide in Iraq

The Numbers Tell the Horrific Story of a Lying Government and Complicit Corporate Media

by Kim Petersen
www.dissidentvoice.org
October 16, 2006

As reported by BBC News [1], a forthcoming study in the academic peer review journal Lancet estimates the extra number of people killed because of the aggression-occupation of Iraq at 655,000 — up from a previous Lancet study that estimated 100,000 deaths since the US-UK attacked Iraq. [2] All the killing has its origin in US-UK government lies. Weapons of mass destruction were just a pretext as acknowledged by Ziocon Paul Wolfowitz in a Vanity Fair interview, and the invasion was a foregone matter as revealed by the Downing Street Memos. [3]

There is an ongoing genocide in Iraq. What else can over 600,000 killings be deemed but genocide? A price “worth it”? [4] George W. Bush, who some consider the elected president of the United States, labeled the killings in Darfur as genocide over a year ago. [5] But, in totality and proportionally, the number of deaths in Sudan pale in comparison to the number of deaths in Iraq. Sudan with a population of 41,236,378 (July 2006, CIA Factbook estimate) is purported by some sources to have incurred 200,000 deaths from “fighting, famine and disease.” [6] Using the figure cited in the latest Lancet to-be-published study, Iraq with a population of 26,783,383 (July 2006, CIA Factbook estimate) has a far greater extraordinary fatality rate covering approximately the same period of time.

The genocide in Iraq is perpetrated by US imperialist interests. Despite the large number of body bags returning to the US (at best a lowball figure, as who can really trust the number of US troop fatalities reported given the mendacity and secrecy of the Bush administration — not to forget the complicity of the Democratic Party?), the corporate media continues to pump out the outrageous disinformation and propaganda supporting societal destruction and murder. The media is an ensanguined partner in imperialism.

Why the media pumps out the disinformation is understandable: it is effective in swaying much of the public to the “national interest” — i.e., the interests of corporate “elites.”

The duped support imperialism

A 10 October e-mailing from Project Censored exemplifies the effectiveness of disinformation through a unique methodology for gathering and analyzing polling data. The data collected and analyzed by the firm Retro Poll reveals a connection between people’s ignorance and the opinions they hold. Not surprisingly, misinformation or disinformation appears to affect public perceptions.

Retro Poll’s methodology asks both factual and opinion questions and compares the opinion responses on accurate and inaccurate understanding.

In a recent Retro Poll phone survey, 151 Americans in 40 states were contacted. Among the results were that only 53 (35%) knew that none of the 19 al Qaeda members alleged to be directly involved in the 9-11 attack were Iraqis; about the purported connection between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, 23% said there were no ties while 28% didn’t know; only 44% knew the International Red Cross has charged the US with systematic torture at Guantanamo; only 40% knew of the “extraordinary rendition” of prisoners by the US to countries that torture.

Furthermore,

86% of people who think Saddam and Al Qaeda worked together agreed that prisoners held at Guantanamo without trials must all be guilty simply for being picked up, while two thirds (67%) of those who knew the truth about Saddam and Al Qaeda reject blanket assumptions about prisoners’ guilt. Three quarters (75%) of those who have not heard about the “renditions” in which prisoners have been secretly transferred between nations say they think that all the prisoners at Guantanamo are guilty, compared to just 39% of those who did answer the rendition question accurately. Statistically such differences were highly unlikely to occur by chance (far less than 1%).

“But the important point,” stressed Dr. Marc Sapir, executive director of Retro Poll, “is how strongly these opinion differences are linked to bad information in our surveys.” Most of the bad information came from TV sources; about half of the TV viewers cited Fox or CNN as their source.

Safir warned, “What people think they know — if it is consistently wrong — can endanger our nation in a world environment of war, crisis and US dominance.”

Giving credit where it is due

The BBC News noted that the Lancet findings are “vigorously disputed by supporters of the war in Iraq, including US President George W Bush.” Bush described the methodology of the discredited researchers as “pretty well discredited.” One cannot help wondering about how thoroughly discredited a warring president must be who justified an invasion based on phantom WMD, leading to the untimely killing of so many people, who described the mission as accomplished but whose troops remains mired in the death and mayhem that engulfs Iraq.

With his credibility in tatters, Bush still uttered: “Six-hundred thousand or whatever they guessed at is just … it’s not credible.”

The BBC News mentioned that the 655,000 figure has a built-in “survivor bias.” A bias toward underreporting deaths is reasoned to exist for slain resistance fighter, infant mortality, and the fact of completely annihilated families.

The corporate media abysmally covered the Iraqi civilian fatalities first study published in the Lancet. It is expected that the corporate media will once again focus on the inexpert politicians’ opinions as to what constitutes proper methodology. The effectiveness of such corporate media reporting will depend on the public continuing to trust a media steeped in a genocidal project.

There is, after all, another media that is not beholden to profit nor the spilling of blood to obtain greater profit.

Kim Petersen, Co-Editor of Dissident Voice, lives on the outskirts of Seoul in southern Korea. He can be reached at: kim@dissidentvoice.org.

ENDNOTES

[1] “‘Huge rise’ in Iraqi death tolls,” BBC News, 11 October 2006.

[2] Les Roberts, Riyadh Lafta, Richard Garfield, Jamal Khudhairi, Gilbert Burnham, “Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: cluster sample survey, Lancet, 29 October 2004.

[3] Downing Street Memos. “But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.”

[4] In 1996, then US ambassador to the United Nations, Madeleine Albright, gave the infamous necrophilic reply that the murder of a half-million Iraqi children was a price “worth it” in a 60 Minutes interview.

[5] Jim VandeHei, “In Break With U.N., Bush Calls Sudan Killings Genocide,” Washington Post, 2 June 2005.

[6] “Sudan: Obasanjo Warns of ‘Near-Genocide’ in Darfur,” allAfrica.com, 11 October 2006. About genocide in Darfur, Nigeria’s president Olusegun Obasanjo finds Bush to be hasty.

source:
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Oct06/Petersen16.htm

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BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW

US Terrorize The World – 25 Ramadhan 1427 H (18.10.06)

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

=== News Update ===

Criticism of the veil is not about liberating women

One of the more distasteful features of the wave of attacks on Muslims has been the sight of feminists lining up to support Jack Straw’s comments against the veil. Women who claim they believe in liberation should know better. The women’s movement of the 1960s was anti-racist, coming out of the civil rights and anti-war movements in the US.

Those who espouse their ideas today are attacking some of the most oppressed women in the name of liberating them. Their assumption is that any Muslim woman who wears the veil or the hijab does so because of pressure. This is false – some women may fit into this category, but many Muslim women choose to wear the niqab or the hijab for their identity, or for political or other reasons. They are making a statement which they have every right to make.

You would think from the attacks that it was only among Muslims that women’s oppression still exists. In fact, women in the West do not have even the most basic equality, despite nominal lip service to the term.
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=9965

Note: This article should be read after: Warmongers play race card
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=9963

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Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America’s War? As Many As 655,000

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15266.htm

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In Bush’s War 2771
http://icasualties.org/oif/

Cost of America’s War in Iraq $334,899,987,539 – See the cost in your community
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182

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Genocide in Iraq

The Numbers Tell the Horrific Story of a Lying Government and Complicit Corporate Media
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Oct06/Petersen16.htm

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Why Bush Smiles: Victory is at Hand in Iraq

Yes, victory. You wonder why Bush and his minions maintain the seemingly irrational belief that “things are going well” in Iraq, that “we’re making progress,” etc.? That’s because things are going well in the war they are fighting: the war for money and power.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15328.htm

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The worst in Iraq is still to come

In the US, Iraq is now primarily an electoral rather than a nation-building, humanitarian or counter-terrorism issue. With the Republicans fighting to retain control of Congress in next month’s midterm polls, George Bush’s Middle East freedom mission has become a hard-nosed numbers game.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15323.htm

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Iraq: Leave Or Be Forced Out

The United States is not militarily capable of preventing the worse war yet to come, and trying to do so would only start a new war between the United States and the Shiites who want the U.S. to leave. Since we cannot prevent sectarian violence, the only question is whether we leave before the inevitable confrontation with Shiites­a battle U.S. troops would certainly lose.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15331.htm

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The Ground Truth : The Human Cost Of War

Sometimes the greatest act of courage is to tell the truth, Must Watch Video
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15319.htm

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Stewart in Leg-irons; the latest victory in the war on terror

So far, Bush’s only triumph in his muddled war on terror has been locking up the two Stewart Sisters, Lynne and Martha. (They’re not really sisters) Neither posed any threat to national security, but that’s beside the point. Their arrest sends a chilling message to “home-decoration mavens” and 67 year old cancer patients that they’d better “watch their step” or they’ll find themselves in prison-pinstripes.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15330.htm

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The propaganda of our times

J.B. Priestly in the Root Is Fear wrote: “Almost all propaganda is designed to create fear. Heads of governments and their officials know that a frightened people are easier to govern, will forfeit rights it would otherwise defend, are less likely to demand a better life, and will agree to millions and millions being spent on ‘defense’.” Between now and Election Day we’ll see Karl Rove’s minions flaunt the Islamic Fascist line repeatedly and unabashedly to garner votes.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15329.htm

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Islamic Army in Iraq Issues Video of Ammunition Facility Bombing in Baghdad, Commenting on the Operation at the Falcon Base

http://www.siteinstitute.org/bin/articles.cgi?ID=publications219606&Category=publications&Subcategory=0

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Video of the Iraqi resistance operations

http://alrashedeen.net/download.php?actionfiltered=view&id=86

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US Army AMMO DUMP ATTACK with secondarys

Note how they are asking if the burning ammo dump had chemical weapons.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1410660598904719984&pr=goog-sl

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The courts are starting to accept that the war against Iraq is a crime

In Britain and Ireland, protesters who have deliberately damaged military equipment are walking from the dock
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1924178,00.html

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Iraqi Judge Sentences U.S. Citizen To Death After U.S. Military “Demanded” the Man Be Executed

An Iraqi-born US citizen is in a battle to save his life as he tries to avoid execution in Baghdad. But he’s not up against insurgents groups ­ he’s up against the Iraqi and US governments.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/17/1439239

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The End of Press Freedom in Iraq?

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/www.juancole.com/2006/10/end-of-press-freedom-in-iraq-al-zaman.html#comments

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Saddam: Kurds dividing Iraq for Israeli benefit

“This will only serve the separation,” Saddam said, referring to the deepening division among Iraqis as shown by the rising death toll in the insurgency and sectarian fighting.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3316173,00.html

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Blame the Iraqi’s: Dennis Ross: A plan for Iraq

Staying the course is a prescription for avoiding reality. But simply setting a deadline and withdrawing might also constitute a form of denial — denial of what will happen in the region after a precipitous pullout.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15321.htm

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Iraqis Ask Why U.S. Forces Didn’t Intervene in Balad

…In the aftermath of the reprisals, some residents of Balad asked why American troops had not intervened when the killings began in earnest on Saturday. One of the largest American military bases in Iraq, Camp Anaconda, which includes a sprawling air base that serves as the logistical hub of the war, is nearby. “People are bewildered because of the weak response by the Americans,” said one Balad resident who asked not to be identified for fear of reprisals. “They used to patrol the city every day, but when the violence started, we didn’t see any sign of them.”….
http://www.uruknet.biz/?p=m27545&hd=0&size=1&l=e

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Iraq: At least 73 killed as U.S occupation rages on

65 bodies were found in different districts of Baghdad since Sunday night, an Interior Ministry source said.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IBO731144.htm

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Open letter to Danish MP Villy Soevndal: Impunity for the Danish responsible for 655.000 dead Iraqis?

http://fritirak.blogspot.com/2006/10/open-letter-to-danish-mp-villy.html

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2 U.S. army copters crash in Baghdad

Two U.S. Army helicopters crashed in south-west Baghdad, killing two soldiers and injuring two others, the U.S. military said. The 1st Cavalry Division said the cause of the crashes, which occurred about 8:30 p.m. yesterday, had not been determined. The aircraft went down in south-west Baghdad. Names of the dead and injured were withheld pending notification of relatives, but U.S. officials said they were assigned to Task Force Baghdad…
http://www.uruknet.biz/?p=m27548&hd=0&size=1&l=e

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US Death Toll in Iraq Hits 57

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061016/wl_mideast_afp/iraqusunresttoll_061016152611

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US Military Deaths in Iraq Hit 2,774

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061017/ap_on_re_us/iraq_us_deaths

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 16 October 2006.

• Four Resistance bombs rip through US column in Hit, leaving six Americans reported dead.
• US warplane wipes out family of five near al-Qa’im at dawn Monday.
• Resistance sharpshooter kills US sniper atop building in al-Qa’im on Sunday.
• US soldier reported killed in Resistance bomb attack in al-Ba‘aj midday Monday.
• Resistance battles US troops for two hours in ar-Ramadi on Sunday.
• the fourth straight day US troops accompanied by their Iraqi puppet army allies have kept the Iraqi town of ‘Anah
• Resistance bomb blasts Iraqi puppet army troops in Abu Ghurayb noon Monday.
• Resistance car bomber wounds puppet policemen in Baghdad al-Jadidah.
• Resistance bomb blasts puppet police patrol in eastern Baghdad Monday morning.
• Tuz Khurmatu, Resistance bomb blasts puppet “Iraqi National Guard” column Sunday.
• Yathrib, Resistance blasts US-occupied base with Katyusha rockets.
• Resistance fighters assault puppet police checkpoint a midday Monday.
• Resistance bomb damages US armored vehicle in al-Mawsil on Sunday.
• Member of collaborationist “Islamic Party” assassinated in al-Mawsil on Sunday.
• Rocket blasts British official’s car in al-Basrah.
• Armed men attack home of spokesman for puppet Provincial Assembly of al-Basrah on Sunday.

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2006/1006/iraqiresistancereport_161006.htm

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The War in Afghanistan: Drugs, Money Laundering and the Banking System

It must also be recognized that the insurgency is also partially and genuinely a resistance movement in many parts of Afghanistan. The media “erroneously” calls this movement the “Taliban.” On the ground in Afghanistan, however, NATO troops term the Afghan insurgents as Anti-Coalition Militias (ACMs).
http://tinyurl.com/yghxxu

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Four Palestinians killed by Israeli Occupation Forces in West Bank

Border Policemen fired at Palestinian stonethrowers in Qabatiya, killing one and moderately injuring another, according to the IDF.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=775854

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Gaza doctors say patients suffering mystery injuries after Israeli attacks

Doctors in occupied Gaza have reported previously unseen injuries from Israeli weapons that cause severe burning and deep internal wounds often resulting in amputations or death.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1924524,00.html

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Abbas lacks majority in Fatah to oust Hamas government

Most Fatah leaders are opposed to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ initiative to dismiss the Hamas government. Consequently, the Fatah Central Committee has postponed a meeting scheduled to discuss the Abbas proposal.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/775934.html

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9/11 – ALL THE PROOF YOU NEED!

Some things are so disturbing that they are almost impossible to believe. That is why, in the 9/11 enigma, less is more.

Until these questions are answered there is no need to establish more doubt. What we have here is solid undisputed evidence that we were never told the truth.
http://justanotherblowback.blogspot.com/2006/10/911-all-proof-you-need.html

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Government Targets American Bloggers As Enemy Propagandists

Military, Homeland Security, Bush White House strategy sharpen knives against anyone critical of the “war on terror”

Recent scientific polls that show around 84% don’t believe the government’s explanation behind 9/11 and others confirming the fact that support for the war in Iraq is at an all time low have led the Bush administration to sharpen their knives against the new breed of perceived “enemy propagandists,” bloggers, journalists and online activists who dissent against the “war on terror.”
http://www.uruknet.biz/?p=m27541&hd=0&size=1&l=e

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Bush signs law authorizing “harsh” interrogation

Bush signed a law on Tuesday authorizing tough “interrogation” and prosecution of terrorism suspects and took an indirect, election-year swipe at Democrats who opposed the legislation.
http://tinyurl.com/y8s9sm

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Under Bush’s law, guilty until confirmed guilty

Graham and other supporters of this dreadful legislation seem to have forgotten that American justice does not merely deliver swift punishment to the guilty. It also protects the innocent
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/16/opinion/edcourts.php

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Bush’s S.S. Grills 14 Year-Old

Two super-sized adult male U.S. Secret Service (“S.S.”) agents banged on the front door at 14 year-old Julia Wilson’s home last Thursday during school hours, but Julia wasn’t home. Predictably (except to the S.S. agents), the straight-A student was in her microbiology class at school.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15325.htm

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Web could be terror training camp in U.S., politician says

Disaffected people living in the United States may develop radical ideologies and potentially violent skills over the Internet and that could
present the next major U.S. security threat, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said on Monday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061016/ts_nm/security_chertoff_dc

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Former FDA Chief Lester Crawford to Plead Guilty in Fraud Case

Former FDA chief Lester Crawford will plead guilty for failing to disclose a financial interest in companies his agency regulated, his lawyer said.
http://www.fox28.com/News/index.php?ID=6438

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Lone Wolf Takes on the Pharma Pack: The Whistleblower

Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman , Rost compares corporate culture to running with a wolf pack. “Everyone helps out and is friendly as long as it benefits the group,” he writes, “but each wolf cares only about himself and will do anything to survive.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15327.htm

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BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW

US Terrorize The World – 24 Ramadhan 1427 H (17.10.06)

bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem

In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

=== News Update ===

Report: British universities to be asked to ‘spy’ on Muslim students

Also, all religious schools in Britain will be required to enroll those of other faiths and non-believers.

In a move sure to set off more fireworks between Tony Blair’s government and the Muslim community in Britain, lecturers and university staff will be asked to spy on “Asian looking” and Muslim students whom they suspect are “involved with Islamic extremism and supporting terrorist violence.”
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1016/dailyUpdate.html?s=mesdu

Note: The article below has a lot of hyper links so please visit the url to view them
see also: http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,1923325,00.html

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UK: Teachers asked to root out Islamic extremists

As part of the campaign the Department for Education has prepared plans to ask university staff and lecturers to inform police of Muslim and “Asian-looking” students they suspect of involvement in supporting terrorists.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2406457,00.html

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9/11 New York Times and CBS News Poll: Most Americans Believe Bushcons Hiding Nine Eleven Crimes

In most cases, you can’t trust polls far as you can throw them, as they are routinely used to foist propaganda and nonsense upon the unwitting, or rather the intellectually lazy and incurious. However, there is absolutely no propaganda value for the criminal neocons when a large number of people believe “the Bush administration is hiding something” in regard to the attacks of nine eleven. Of course, it does not take a rocket scientist to figure this out, even though we now have Fox News pundits calling for the FBI to tail nine eleven researchers. If the overt fascist tactics of Bill “phone sex” O’Reilly, the moral derelict and psychopathic bully, demonstrate anything, it is that the neocons are petrified of nine eleven truth, now emerging from the shadows…
http://www.uruknet.biz/?p=m27518&hd=0&size=1&l=e

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9/11 : Time For The Sleeping 9/11 Giant To Awaken

Will 84% Of Americans remain content with a lying, exploitative and criminal government?
http://www.infowars.net/articles/October2006/151006Sleeping.htm

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Scientific Poll: 84% Reject Official 9/11 Story

The other 16% are walking organ donors with no brains.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/October2006/141006poll.htm

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Act’s provisions make us like the terrorists

Future historians will characterize the Bush administration by one event: the recent astounding and heinous suspension of habeas corpus by the Republican-led Congress. The inhumanity and cowardice of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 is stunning and unprecedented. It sanctions secret prisons, kangaroo tribunals, indefinite detentions without charge, the admission of secret evidence and evidence obtained by torture, the elimination of most judicial oversight and the suspension of habeas corpus for noncitizens. The act also conveniently shields government personnel against prosecution for illegal detention and interrogation practices committed since Sept. 11, 2001.
http://www.star-gazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061016/OPINION02/610160313/1004

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War Crimes Report Shows US Violations of International Law and Demands Prosecution of US Military and Civilian Leaders.

Full report: http://www.brusselstribunal.org/pdf/war_crimes_iraq_101006.pdf

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Why is the New York Times silent on massive Iraq death toll? A question for Bill Keller

The corporate-controlled American media is deliberately suppressing the results of a survey that demonstrates that the US invasion and occupation of Iraq has caused more than 600,000 deaths in the past three years-a figure that in and of itself refutes all the claims by the Bush administration that it carried out the invasion of Iraq in order to foster democracy in the Middle East. What kind of “freedom” and “human rights” can be the consequence of such a slaughter?
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_news&Number=294992815

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Iraq Through a Rebel’s Eyes

Thomas Jefferson was a rebel, as so many of his comments demonstrated. He also was a gun enthusiast, and not the bird-shooting kind. His gang of insurgents fought the British with the eighteenth century equivalents of assault rifles, RPGs, and roadside bombs — and that is why they are worth recalling when our conversation turns to Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15310.htm

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Iraq: Divide and Rule, ‘Ethnic Cleansing Works’

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=-6

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More Deadly Than Saddam

The final indignity, if you are an Iraqi who was shot for accidentally turning into the path of a U.S. military convoy (they thought you might be a terrorist), or blown apart by a car bomb or an airstrike, or tortured and murdered by kidnappers, or just for being a Sunni or a Shiite, is that U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair will deny that your death happened.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15316.htm

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Stranger than fiction: Saddam Verdict Is Expected on Nov. 5

Two days before U.S. election: A verdict against Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants charged with crimes against humanity in connection with an anti-Shiite crackdown in the 1980s will be announced Nov. 5, a senior court official said on Monday.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061016/D8KPMFNO1.html

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What happens if Saddam Hussein is acquitted?

One, if Saddam is found guilty and given a death sentence there will be hell to pay in the streets of Tikrit. Two, if he’s found innocent, then our excuse for occupying Iraq after finding no weapons of mass destruction goes up in smoke.
http://www.tahoebonanza.com/article/20061013/Opinion/110130057

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Chalabi’s “Death Squads” mapped

http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2006/10/15/chalabi%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cdeath-squads%e2%80%9d-mapped/

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Bush Torture Crimes – Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcgXO-vX7dM

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On every level, the Iraq war is hurting America

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1005/p09s02-coop.html

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Iraq: More than 77 killed as U.S. occupation grinds on

A total of 46 bodies, with gunshot wounds and bearing signs of torture, were found in Baghdad since Saturday night, an Interior Ministry source said.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IBO631031.htm

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Seven US troops killed in Iraq

Seven more US troops have been killed in action in Iraq, bringing the number of American troops to have died this month to 57.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061016/wl_mideast_afp/iraqusunresttoll_061016152611

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US Death Toll in Iraq Hits 53

http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fairenough/nyt541.html

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 15 October 2006.

• Resistance bomb leaves three US troops reported dead in al-Fallujah Saturday.
• US soldier reported killed by Resistance sharpshooter in ar-Ramadi.
• Wild American gunfire kills three civilians in Hit market Saturday.
• Resistance bomb destroys US Humvee, killing crew in Abu Ghurayb Sunday afternoon.
• Resistance bomb near Samarra’ Sunday afternoon leaves five US troops reported dead.
• US troops gun kill two Iraqi civilians, wound another following Resistance bomb attack in Jurf as-Sakhr Sunday.
• Resistance bomb blasts puppet “National Guard” pickup on Saturday.
• Resistance bomb blasts US patrol in al-Fallujah Sunday afternoon, flipping over Humvee.
• Resistance mortars pound puppet “Iraqi National Guard” camp in al-Fallujah Saturday night.
• Resistance bomb blasts US patrol near ‘Anah Saturday.
• US troops release tribal leader after four days in custody for advocating the return of Saddam Husayn to office.
• Resistance pounds puppet “Shock Troop” camp in southern Baghdad with heavy mortars on Saturday.
• Resistance bomb near Samarra’ Sunday afternoon leaves five US troops reported dead.
• Bomb wounds three in al-Basrah Sunday morning.

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2006/1006/iraqiresistancereport_151006.htm

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UK’s Afghanistan mission “could take another 20 years,” says MP

British troops could be in Afghanistan for another 20 years, according to a main opposition Conservative MP and Territorial Army soldier who has just returned from a tour of duty there
http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=913762

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France to Withdraw Special Forces from Afghanistan

France plans to withdraw around 200 special forces from southern Afghanistan at the start of next year following a recent surge in violence, reported the French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche on Sunday.
http://www.india-defence.com/reports/2609

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Canada blocks bid by Arab countries for vote on Israel’s nuclear capabilities

More than a dozen Arab countries were blocked by a Canadian motion in their bid to have a vote on a resolution labelling Israel’s nuclear capabilities a threat on the final day of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s annual meeting.
http://tinyurl.com/y8vklf

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Attorney Lynne Stewart, Facing Up To 30 Years in Prison Speaks Out

Stewart was convicted of five counts of conspiring to aid terrorists and lying to the government. Stewart’s case has reverberated with defense attorneys around the country. Many argue that the government’s aim is to discourage them from representing unpopular clients.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/16/143257

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Lawyer gets 28 months jail for aiding terrorism

Lynne Stewart, 67, was convicted in February 2005 of helping her imprisoned client, Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, to contact the Islamic Group, which is listed by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization.
http://tinyurl.com/y3kl9a

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Questionable justice during ‘terror sting’ trial

Under the current regulations, jurors could neither hear nor consider the evidence that prompted the sting operation in the first place; the validity of the FBI’s “suspicions” must be taken on faith.
http://tinyurl.com/ybnv5p

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Muslims Holocaust and Genocide Remembrance Day

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

=== News Update ===

Muslims Holocaust and Genocide Remembrance Day

Muslims Against Terrorism http://www.m-a-t.org

In order to remember more than 32 million Muslims killed / displaced during the past 1400 years, Muslims Against Terrorism (MAT) will be holding two memorial ceremonies in Toronto and Calgary.

Major holocausts and genocide of Muslims are as follows :

• Crusaders killed more than half million Muslims during and after occupying Jerusalem.
• Ganges Khan and his forces killed more than a million Muslims during the occupation of Iraq and neighboring areas.
• More than a million Muslims were killed / forced to change religion by Spanish Crusaders in South America
• More than 2 million Muslims were killed / forced to change religion / displaced by Spanish and other European extremists during the rebellion against Ottoman empire.
• More than 3 million Muslims were killed by the European colonial powers during and after the occupation of Muslim countries
• More than 8 million Muslims were killed / displaced by Tsars of Russia
• More than 3 million Muslims were killed / displaced by communist government of Russia
• More than 1.5 million Muslims have been killed in China, Cambodia, Vietnam, and other Far East countries since the world war II
• More than half million Muslims have been killed / displaced in Burma since world war II
• More than half million Muslims have been killed in India and Kashmir since 1947
• More than half million Muslims were killed by Serbs and Croats in Bosnia during early 90s.
• More than 100,000 Muslims were killed in Kosovo and Albania during mid 90s.
• More than a million Muslims were killed in East European countries during the communist governments
• More than 5 million Muslims have been killed / displaced in Palestine since 1948
• More than 6 million Muslims were killed / displaced by the Russian occupation of Afghanistan
• Thousands of Muslims have been killed by secular / dictator governments (backed by the West) in Muslim countries since the independence from the colonial powers.

Why 32 million Muslims killed / displaced during past 1400 hundred years?

Simply, because they didn’t do Perfect Jihaad with the help of Perfect Defense.

Your comments are welcome….noor_e_islaam@hotmail.com

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9/11 Breaking News : Scientific Poll: 84% Reject Official 9/11 Story

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

=== News Update ===

9/11 Breaking News :

Scientific Poll: 84% Reject Official 9/11 Story

Only 16% now believe official fable according to New York Times/CBS News poll
Truth Movement has the huge majority of opinion
How will the Bush Cabal react?

Steve Watson & Alex Jones / Prisonplanet.com | October 14 2006

A monumental new scientific opinion poll has emerged which declares that only 16% of people in America now believe the official government explanation of the September 11th 2001 terror attacks.

According to the new New York Times/CBS News poll, only 16% of Americans think the government is telling the truth about 9/11 and the intelligence prior to the attacks:

“Do you think members of the Bush Administration are telling the truth, are mostly telling the truth but hiding something, or are they mostly lying?

• Telling the truth 16%
• Hiding something 53%
• Mostly lying 28%
• Not sure 3%”

The 84% figure mirrors other recent polls on the same issue. A Canadian Poll put the figure at 85%. A CNN poll had the figure at 89%. Over 80% supported the stance of Charlie Sheen when he went public with his opinions on 9/11 as an inside job.

A recent CNN poll found that the percentage of Americans who blame the Bush administration for the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington rose from almost a third to almost half over the past four years. This latest poll shows that that figure has again risen exponentially and now stands at well over three quarters of the population.

It took 35 plus years for the majority of Americans to wake up to the fact that the assassination of JFK was a government operation. It has only take five years for MORE Americans to wake up to the fact that 9/11 was an inside job on behalf of the Neoconservative crime syndicate within the US.

Reference to past polls show that in the last five years there has been an explosion in numbers of those who do not buy the official line.

In 2004 a Zogby Poll showed that just over half of New Yorkers believed there was a cover up.

In May of this year another Zogby poll indicated that around half of ALL Americans did not buy the official story.

The latest poll also shows a massive awakening has occurred recently given that previous estimates indicated that around 34% still believed the official story and around 30% were oblivious altogether.

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Alex Jones declared that the Truth movement has cause to celebrate this evening as it is now beyond any doubt that the vast majority of Americans know that the official story of 19 Saudis with box cutters is ludicrous.

The diligence of those who have worked to educate the world on 9/11 truth from day one cannot be underestimated. We are now seeing the fruits of this hard and at times extremely trying labor hit home.

We would add thought that although this is a major victory for the truth movement it does not mean that the hard work can stop.

The next step is to use the majority opinion as leverage towards officially changing the record of what happened on 9/11, forcing the mainstream media into addressing the issue, not as a quirky news item, but as a serious re-defining of the state of the nation and the world today.

We have not taken the country back yet and the cabal that has taken control of the government continues to systematically use 9/11 and the war on terror as an excuse to destroy the Constitutional foundations of law and order in America.

As it becomes clearer that more and more Americans KNOW that their government is lying to them on the most fundamental issue of their lifetimes, we must consider what kind of reaction the government will undertake.

Remember that the majority of American voters now believe the Sept. 11 terrorist attack was a more significant historical event than the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

In July 2001 Alex jones issued an emergency warning that there was going to be a massive false flag terrorist attack in New York to be blamed on Osama Bin Laden. At that time there was not enough activism among the population to prevent it going ahead.

In August of 2006 Alex Jones issued a second emergency warning that all the factors pointed towards an imminent attack. The activism that occurred in the wake of this warning and that of others was exponential and may indeed have helped stave off another attack.

Our next warning is this, desperate times call for desperate measures. The criminal elements of the government now know that they have been totally exposed and are reviled by the majority of free thinking Americans. Will their response be to vamp up the crack down on that free thinking itself?

In essence Americans have outright REJECTED giving up their liberty for security in the wake of 9/11. The only security IS liberty itself, and the only way to stay secure is to constantly defend liberty.

source:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/October2006/141006poll.htm

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9/11 : London bomber’s suicide video is ‘linked to traitor’

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9/11 : London bomber’s suicide video is ‘linked to traitor’

Californian masterminded al-Qaeda propaganda, claim terrorism experts

Jamie Doward, home affairs editor
Sunday October 15, 2006
The Observer

The first American to be charged with treason since the Second World War is said to be the mastermind behind al-Qaeda’s propaganda operations in Britain.

Californian Adam Yahiye Gadahn, 28, who last week was charged by the US with treason and aiding terrorists, has produced and appeared in a series of videos that have been disseminated over the internet, including films urging Muslims in Britain to commit terrorist atrocities against Western targets.

British intelligence believes Gadahn produced a 31-minute video featuring 7 July bomber, Shehzad Tanweer, extracts of which were released by Arab satellite station al-Jazeera earlier this year on the anniversary of the London bombings.

Gadahn has been credited with helping produce anti-US media on behalf of al-Qaeda, and now his more recent attempts to disseminate the organisation’s message to British Muslims are troubling terrorism experts here.

Gadahn is believed to have been responsible for cutting the footage of Tanweer to make his ‘martyr’s will’, although a study of the full video suggests he struggled with the task.

In clips towards the end of the tape, which have not been broadcast by Western media but have been obtained by The Observer, Tanweer is seen becoming increasingly agitated. Stumbling over a script that appears to have been written for him, he is seen to take deep breaths as he points a finger at the camera.

Tanweer – thought to have been filmed several months before carrying out his bombing mission – finds reading passages of his will difficult, tripping over the sentences and repeating words.

Experts said the language employed in the footage showed how senior clerics within al-Qaeda’s high command were influencing young impressionable followers like Tanweer and Gadahn to perpetuate the organisation’s messages.

‘Muslim blood has become cheap,’ Tanweer declares at one stage, before urging Muslims to ask Allah to protect ‘Sheikh Osama’ and to ‘lift the oppression of Muslims across the earth’.

‘The likes of Tanweer may not be the sharpest tacks in the box,’ said Josh Devon, senior analyst with think-tank Search for International Terrorist Entities (SITE), which monitors Islamic fundamentalist media. ‘This is a guy reading a script; you don’t get to say some of the things Tanweer said without coming into contact with senior Koranic scholars.’

The broadcast of a small part of the Tanweer footage by al-Jazeera earlier this year drew widespread revulsion. The video from which it is extracted is equally disturbing. Gadahn’s slickly produced video shows a computerised simulation of the King’s Cross tube exploding. In the video Gadahn takes great efforts to reach out to a British Muslim audience. He is seen claiming that neither Forest Gate-style raids, Belmarsh, Guantanamo or the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board, which was set up last year to tackle radical Islamic clerics in Britain, will ‘prevent Muslims from exacting revenge on behalf of their persecuted brothers and sisters’.

Gadahn goes on to suggest Britain taught America to kill Muslims, drawing on a ‘blood-soaked colonialist history’. ‘Where’s Britain in all of this? Coaching from the sidelines,’ he mocks.

The video, one of hundreds produced by al-Sahab, al-Qaeda’s video production unit and downloaded by sympathisers across the globe, includes extracts of speeches by Osama bin Laden, radical cleric Ayman al-Zawahiri and the now dead terrorist, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

An unidentified narrator emphasises a key al-Qaeda message: that Tanweer, like all suicide bombers, wanted to become a martyr because of his love of Allah, not because of ‘poverty, unemployment and emptiness as some of the mercenary media try to portray it to us’.

It tells how Tanweer and Mohammed Siddique Khan, his fellow 7 July bomber, attended al-Qaeda terror training camps with the sole aim of becoming martyrs.

Intelligence experts believe the tape shows how al-Qaeda has been attempting to develop its ideology by creating a ‘single narrative’, one that emphasises a history of Western aggression towards Muslims around the world.

The tape makes repeated references to the Crusades and explains that King’s Cross was chosen as a target because of its Christian connotations. Tanweer and Khan are referred to as ‘knights’ while al-Zawahiri talks of the Crusader/Zionist alliance. There are also references to the West’s wars against the Turkish Ottoman empire and repeated mentions of the conflicts in Palestine, Afghanistan and Iraq.

Read extracts of Tanweer’s speech

source:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1922856,00.html

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1 Man Still Locked Up From 9/11 Sweeps

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1 Man Still Locked Up From 9/11 Sweeps

Oct 14, 8:03 PM (ET)

By MARTHA MENDOZA

In a jail cell at an immigration detention center in Arizona sits a man who is not charged with a crime, not suspected of a crime, not considered a danger to society.

But he has been in custody for five years.

His name is Ali Partovi. And according to the Department of Homeland Security, he is the last to be held of about 1,200 Arab and Muslim men swept up by authorities in the United States after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

There has been no full accounting of all of these individuals. Nor has a promised federal policy to protect against unrestricted sweeps been produced.

Human rights groups tried to track the detainees; members of Congress denounced the arrests. They all believed that all of those who had been arrested had been deported, released or processed through the criminal justice system.

Just this summer, it was reported that an Algerian man, Benemar “Ben” Benatta, was the last detainee, and that his transfer to Canada had closed the book on the post-9/11 sweeps.

But now The Associated Press has learned that at least one person – Partovi – is still being held. The Department of Homeland Security insists he really is the last one in custody.

“Certainly it’s not our goal as an agency to keep anyone detained indefinitely,” said DHS spokesman Dean Boyd. Boyd said the department would like to remove Partovi from the United States but that he refuses to return to his homeland of Iran.

And so he remains, a curious remnant of a desperate time.

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Within hours of the Sept. 11 attacks – before it was even clear if they were over – the FBI was ordered to identify the terrorists who had managed to slip so smoothly into American society and to catch anyone who might have been working with them. The FBI operation was called PENTTBOM; it was swift and fierce, and the stakes couldn’t have been higher.

When in doubt, the orders came, arrest now and ask questions later. To make this easier, law enforcement officials were authorized to use immigration charges as needed. The risk of allowing terrorists to slip away just because there wasn’t ample evidence to hold them on terror charges could not be tolerated. And thus hundreds of individuals who were not terrorists, nor associated with terrorists, were temporarily taken into city, county and federal custody.

They were caught in their bedrooms while they slept, pulled from the restaurant kitchens where they worked, stopped at the border, even federal offices where they had gone to seek help. In the end, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft’s call for “aggressive detentions” in the unprecedented sweeps netted more than 1,200 individuals in less than two months.

The initial reaction to the sweeps was confusion. Members of Congress, leading civil rights organizations, Arab and Muslim activists, even the Justice Department’s internal watchdogs, didn’t know how to react.

“After 9/11, everyone was caught off guard. There was so much secrecy surrounding the government’s policies that it took a number of months before the public and civil-liberties groups began unraveling what the government was doing,” said Lee Gelernt, an American Civil Liberties Union attorney.

Then came demands, from Congress, from the Justice Department’s Inspector General, from the ACLU and Human Rights Watch and from Arab and Muslim activists, that these individuals must be accounted for.

To date that hasn’t occurred.

“The fact is the United States has not come forward with information on what happened to these people, or released their names,” said Rachel Meeropol, a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, an advocacy organization that represents several detainees being held in Guantanamo. “Our understanding is that the majority of these people who were swept up on immigration violations were then held in detention until they were cleared of any connection to terrorism. We believe that accounts for the vast majority of people who were swept up.”

Here’s what is known: 762 of the 1,200 PENTTBOM arrestees were charged with immigration violations at the behest of the FBI because agents thought they might be associated with terrorism. Partovi was one of these 762. Much as Partovi used a false passport, nearly all of these detainees had violated immigration laws, either by overstaying their visas, entering the country illegally, or violating some other immigration law.

Unlike Partovi, almost everyone was either deported or released within a few months.

There were still at least 438 other individuals who were not accounted for. Most of those individuals, said Justice Department officials, were released within days. But at least 93 were charged with federal crimes and processed through the courts, and an unknown number were deemed material witnesses.

As the years passed, said the ACLU’s Gelernt, public concern faded.

“Initially there was a lot of attention on the 1,200 people, but we’re still not sure exactly what happened to all of them,” said the ACLU’s Gelernt.

The repercussions are still being felt, say advocates.

“Those 1,200 were taken in on pseudo-immigration charges,” said Jennifer Daskal of Human Rights Watch. “It really is a black mark on the U.S. and it undermines our intelligence gathering because it creates distrust between law enforcement officials and communities where those officials should be building rapport and trust.”

“People lost years of their lives and families were ripped apart in the frenzy of fear,” said Kerri Sherlock, director of policy and planning at the Rights Working Group, an advocacy organization in Washington D.C. “Do we really want to be a country that locks people up without guaranteeing their basic constitutional rights?”

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In June 2003, the Justice Department’s inspector general, an in-house auditor, found widespread abuses in the way immigration laws were used to hold people suspected of terrorism in the months following 9/11. The inspector general made 21 recommendations aimed at protecting individuals’ civil rights. Twenty of those recommendations have been adopted.

The last recommendation calls for the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security to formalize policies, responsibilities, and procedures for managing a national emergency that involves alien detainees. After the inspector general’s report, the Justice and Homeland Security departments agreed with the recommendation and began negotiating over language. Officials at both departments say those negotiations are still going on.

“The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice continue to work toward the development of formal joint policies and approaches for the handling of such national security cases during periods of national impact,” said Homeland Security Department spokesman Dean Boyd.

However, Boyd stressed that guidelines were set up in 2004 to make sure detainees’ rights are being protected on a case-by-case basis.

“We learned from the past,” he said. “We evaluate each situation to make sure it’s being handled fairly.”

Tim Lynch, a lawyer with the libertarian think tank Cato Institute, said guidelines are not enough.

“I don’t think the guidelines will mean very much in an emergency if they don’t have the binding force of law,” he said. “We shouldn’t be surprised if those guidelines aren’t followed if there’s another massive attack.”

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When the AP wrote Ali Partovi to ask for an interview, he called collect from the Florence Correctional Center, a privately run detention center in Arizona where he is held. Adamantly, he said he did not want to be interviewed and that he wanted to remain private, even though he said understood his case files, including litigation he files himself, are part of the public record.

He later reportedly told a public affairs officer at the facility that he is too busy for an interview – perhaps preparing his many legal appeals.

In his lawsuits – there have been seven so far – Partovi claims he is a victim of civil rights abuses and demands between $5 million and $10 million in restitution. The most recent was filed in July.

The staff at the jail where he was first held “poured hot coffee on my body, they also poured cold ice water on my body,” he wrote in one, claiming that staffers also cuffed his hands and feet, which caused “my ankle and lower extremities to swell abnormally.”

“It is my firm belief that I am constantly subjected to physical abuse (because) of my ethnicity, I am Iranian of Persian birth,” he wrote in another, filed this summer. In that lawsuit he claimed that immigration officers forced him to kneel while handcuffed, and then kicked and punched his stomach and kidneys.

“As you can imagine, this is very, very painful when you are cuffed from behind,” he wrote.

A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney said that office was aware of the lawsuits but could not comment on them. A detention center spokesman said he was not aware of any lawsuits and could not respond.

Partovi doesn’t have a lawyer, and he told the AP he doesn’t want one, choosing instead to represent himself, gleaning expertise from the prison library.

He did have a lawyer once, when he was arrested in Guam in the fall of 2001, trying to enter the country on a fraudulent Italian passport.

“Mr. Partovi came into Guam International Airport using a false passport. He explained about having been married to a Japanese women and the arrangement wasn’t working out. He applied for political asylum, and I believe the federal government thought he might be a terror suspect,” said Curtis Charles Van de Veld, who was hired by the federal government to represent him.

Partovi was sentenced to 175 days in custody, which he had already served by the time he pleaded guilty in 2002. Then he was turned over to the Department of Homeland Security.

Until the AP contacted him, Van de Veld didn’t realize his former client was still in custody.

“I’m surprised he hasn’t contacted me,” he said.

source:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061015/D8KONLJ80.html

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