Challenging Ignorance on Islam: a Ten-Point Primer for Americans

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Challenging Ignorance on Islam: a Ten-Point Primer for Americans

by Gary Leupp

Gary Leupp is an an associate professor, Department of History, Tufts University and coordinator, Asian Studies Program
He can be reached at: gleupp@tufts.edu

“We should invade [Muslim] countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.”

Columnist Ann Coulter, National Review Online, Sept. 13, 2001

“Just turn [the sheriff] loose and have him arrest every Muslim that crosses the state line.”

Rep. C. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), chairman of the House Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland security and Senate candidate, to Georgia law officers, November 2001

“Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith where God sent his Son to die for you.”

Attorney General John Ashcroft, interview on Cal Thomas radio, November 2001

“(Islam) is a very evil and wicked religion wicked, violent and not of the same god (as Christianity).”

Rev. Franklin Graham, head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, November 2001.

“Islam is Evil, Christ is King.”

Allegedly written in marker by law enforcement agents on a Muslim prayer calendar in the home of a Muslim being investigated by police in Dearborn, Michigan, July 2002.

People with power and influence in the U.S. have been saying some very stupid things about Islam and about Muslims since September 11. Some of it is rooted in conscious malice, and ethnic prejudice that spills over into religious bigotry. But some is rooted in sheer historical and geographical ignorance. This is a country, after all, in which only a small minority of high school students can readily locate Afghanistan on the map, or are aware that Iranians and Pakistanis are not Arabs. As an educator, in Asian Studies, at a fairly elite university, I am painfully aware of this ignorance. But I realize it serves a purpose. It is highly useful to a power structure that banks on knee-jerk popular support whenever it embarks on a new military venture, at some far-off venue, on false pretexts immediately discernable to the better educated, but lost on the general public. The generally malleable mainstream press takes care of the rest.

I don’t mean to suggest that the academic cognosenti, as a “class,” habitually counter this ignorance and protest the imperialist interventions that Washington routinely undertakes. Some of them may indeed support the venture, cynically asserting that the advertised pretext fulfills some sort of valid function, regardless of the lies and distortions that surround it. (I think of the depiction in the media of the “Rambouillet Accords” concerning Yugoslavia in 1999 as “the will of the international community,” when one Contact Group member, Russia, rejected the U.S.-dictated plan for Kosovo outright, and several European states only signed on after their
arms were twisted nearly out of their sockets. I think of the calculated, extreme exaggeration of the number of Kosovar victims of Serbian forces as the bombing of Yugoslavia began. The lies surrounding that bombing were obvious to anyone studying the situation, but even some rather progressive academics were all for “Operation Allied Force.”) American academe is—unfortunately— whatever its right-wing critics may contend, not particularly left or anti-imperialist. In any case, such ignorance is not just a national embarrassment; it’s really dangerous. Raw material for a made-in-USA version of fascism.

To understand the contemporary world, we all need to know something about Islam-beyond the inane contribution of the Attorney General cited above. So I have prepared this little primer on Islam for Americans (suitable for ages 13 and above, so appropriate for high school use), dealing not with its theology so much as its general character as an important force in the world, presently encountering unprecedented, unprincipled attack from various quarters. (Oh, and by the way, I’m not a Muslim, but what those on the Christian right revile as a “secular humanist.”)

1. Islam has been around for approximately 1400 years. Established on the west coast of Arabia 900 years before European settlement in America, and spreading rapidly throughout Southwest Asia and North Africa soon thereafter, it was not designed as an anti-U.S. movement!

The basic teachings or requirements of Islam are not difficult to grasp. They constitute the “Five Pillars of Islam”: (1) profession that there is no God but God (“Allah,” in Arabic), and his Prophet (the last of the prophets, the “seal of the prophets”) is Muhammad; (2) daily prayer; (3) fasting during the month of Ramadan; (4) charity; and (5) the pilgrimage to Mecca. Whatever you may think of this package, it’s not terribly threatening to the non-Muslim.

2. Islam’s teachings are contained in a fairly compact book, the Qur’an, which Muslims believe was dictated to the Prophet Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel. They believe of it precisely what Jews and Christians believe of their scriptures: that is, it’s the Word of God. This book, like the Bible, demands belief in monotheism; refers to Adam, Noah, Abraham, Jesus, etc. (far more space is given to Mary, mother of Jesus, in the Qur’an than in the New Testament); has a substantial legalistic component reminiscent of the Old Testament Book of Leviticus, and poetic content as beautifully uplifting as the Book of Psalms. For religious and secular scholars alike, it is absolutely clear that Islam stems from the Judeo-Christian tradition. Indeed, we should think in terms of the “Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition.”

(Some fundamentalist Christians, of course, see Islam as the work of Satan, and medieval Christians in Europe saw it as a heresy rather than as “paganism. The point is—for better or worse—Muslims have a whole lot more in common with the dominant religious trends in the U.S. than do, say, Buddhists or Hindus.)

3. Muslims are about 20% of the world’s population; Christians, about 30%. (The U.S. Muslim population is estimated between 5 and 8 million; U.S. Jews between 5 and 6 million). The global Jewish population is statistically quite small, so one can say the Judeo-Christian-Islamic population is roughly half the world’s total. The consequences of a protracted religious war, pitting Christians and Jews against Muslims, are highly unpleasant to consider.

4. The Qur’an depicts Jews and Christians as “People of the Book,” meaning that they have their own scriptures bestowed upon them by God (Allah is simply the Arabic world for God, related to the Hebrew Elohim; we should see it as analogous to the German word Gott, the French Dieu, or the Spanish Dios. It’s not the personal name of a deity within a pantheon, like Thor, Aphrodite or Siva.)

Muslim scripture counsels respect for these communities, and indeed, in the history of Islam, within Islamic societies Jews and Christians have fared FAR better than non-Christians in Christendom. Muslims ruled all or part of Spain from around 800 to the late 15th century, when Columbus’ great patrons, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella “drove the Moors (Muslims) out of Spain,” forced everybody to embrace Catholic Christianity (or be killed), and promoted the exquisite Christian tortures of the Inquisition. Under Muslim rule, Christian and Jewish communities generally flourished from Spain to Iraq. On the other hand, until recent times, Christian intolerance prevailed throughout Europe.

5. The Qu’ran does NOT call upon Muslims to KILL all non-Muslims. It calls for the destruction of “infidels,” meaning principally Arabs who, during the time of Muhammad, practiced idolatry and polytheism. Again: this is a seventh-century book, produced in a specific historical context! It, and the Muslim religion, should be studied and understood objectively, dispassionately. Islam emerged very quickly, and within decades united under its banner-the banner of monotheism—the various tribes of Arabia. Its violent rejection of idolatry, however offensive to the modern, secular, humanist mind, is hardly unique. It can be compared to the ferocious suppression in Christian Europe of paganism (often associated with witchcraft).

And for perspective, while the Qu’ran does call for the extermination of “infidels,” the Old Testament is replete with its own exhortations to genocide. According to the Biblical narrative (of dubious historicity, but believed by hundreds of millions), the Hebrews under Joshua’s leadership, invading Canaan from Egypt, killed twelve thousand “men and women together” in the town of Ai-because God wanted them to (Joshua 8:25). The Hebrews put all the people of Hazor to the sword (they “wiped them all out; they did not leave one living soul.” Judges 11:14). The poetics of hatred are as conspicuous in the Bible as in the Qu’ran. A personal favorite of mine, from Psalm 137, refers to the Babylonians: “A blessing on him who takes and dashes your babies against the rock!” Such references are characteristic of Judeo-Christian-Islamic literature, and are best examined in historical perspective.

6. Islamic “fundamentalism” is not a species apart from other fundamentalisms, including the Christian, Jewish, and Hindu varieties. They are all anti-modern, anti-science, anti-intellectual, rarely harmless and potentially (if not necessarily) fascistic. They demand belief in received dogma, inscribed in texts, rather than open-ended scientific inquiry. They either legitimate the existing order, or call for a return to a past social order in which class and gender relations were properly sorted out in line with the Divine Will.

Some (including non-religious people in or from Muslim countries) criticize Islam (appropriately, in my view) for what they consider backward and reactionary features. This is not the place to deal with such criticisms, nor am I the right person to do it. I will merely observe what many others have observed: Christendom underwent the Enlightenment-an evolution towards secularism, rationalism, and scientific thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-which the Islamic world, in general, has not yet experienced. To become “modern” (more specifically, to become capitalist), the West had to become more ideologically tolerant (i.e., less religious), and allow a freer market in ideas than had been possible when the Church monopolized learning. If mullahs monopolize education in much of the Muslim world, they serve a function identical with that of Europe’s medieval Catholic clergy.

But our own Enlightenment is not irreversible. Top U.S. officials reject the theory of evolution in favor of the ludicrous “theory” of
“creationism,”and seek to criminalize abortion on the grounds that a fetus is a human being created by God. Recent changes in U.S. law (allowing the use of vouchers to support religious schools at taxpayer’s expense), and the failure of the courts to prosecute behavior which plainly violates the constitutional separation of church and state, demonstrate that medieval thinking and fundamentalism retain a strong hold in sections of U.S. society, and are well represented in the Bush administration. The American people are, I submit, far more threatened by Christian fundamentalism than its Islamic counterpart. And for a Pentecostalist Christian like John Ashcroft, who believes every word of the Bible literally, to inveigh against Islam (as he has) is (to use the English proverb) the “pot calling the kettle black.”

7. Islamic fundamentalism (or what some, including CNN Moneyline’s Lou Dobbs calls “Islamism,” meaning a specifically political Islam) has NOT, historically, posed a great threat to Western interests (by which I mean corporate, oil, and geopolitical interests) but rather been exploited to SERVE those interests. Remember Lawrence of Arabia? What was his objective other than to forge a British alliance with the Hashemites, who would certainly qualify as “Islamists” by Lou Dobb’s standards, during World War I? Later, the British boosted the Saudi royal family (patrons of the Wahhabi school of Islam, usually described as among the most conservative, embraced by Osama bin Laden as well as the Saudis in general) into power. The U.S. inherited Saudi Arabia as a client state after World War II, and we all know how well U.S. oil companies have done there ever since. (Aramco alone, prior to its nationalization in the mid-1980s, yielded some $ 3 trillion from the Arabian reserves.)

The U.S. helped create, recruit, and finance the fundamentalist Mujahadeen, including some 30,000 young volunteers who came from throughout the Muslim world to fight “godless Communism” in Afghanistan in the 1980s. The U.S. encouraged them to view their war as a jihad (in the sense of a “Holy War,” a meaning the term usually does NOT carry), and put many in contact with young Osama bin Laden, then an ally. The Reagan administration was in love with fundamentalist Islam, so long as it served its purposes.

The California-based company Unocal was cordially negotiating right up to Sept. 11 with Afghanistan’s Taliban for an oil pipeline through Afghan territory, State Department official and oilman Zalmay Khalilzad was arguing up through 1998 that the Taliban were friendly, potential business partners who did “not practice the anti-U.S. style of fundamentalism practiced in Iran.”

8. Muslims of the world have many thoroughly LEGITIMATE reasons to resent U.S. policy. Nearly absolute support for the settler state of Israel in its relationship with the indigenous Palestinian people. Imposition of brutal sanctions on Iraq, contrary to logic and morality. Maintenance of bases throughout the Persian Gulf, in defiance of local sensibilities and interests. Support for brutal regimes, including that of the Shah of Iran and that of Indonesia’s Suharto (who unquestionably has more blood on his hands than even that arch-villain and former U.S. buddy Saddam Hussein).

9. Muslims typically DO NOT hate the U.S. as an abstract concept, reject U.S. culture in toto, or seek the destruction of American civilization. Many are, indeed, uncomfortable with some aspects of American behavior, as are most people in the world, from Central America to Japan. But a Zogby International poll, released June 11 of this year, shows that in nine Muslim countries, including Bangladesh and Malaysia, the most admired foreign country is the U.S.

10. Muslims and Jews in Palestine/Israel have NOT always hated one another, and the current Middle East conflict does NOT go back many centuries. Rather, it began with the influx of foreign Jews into the region after World War I, which became a flood as a result of the Holocaust, and with international support resulted in the formation of Israel as a specifically Jewish state in 1948. Jewish settlement and terrorism (well-documented by the Jewish Israeli historian Ilan Pappe) resulted in the displacement of 750,000 Palestinian Arabs (including both Christians and Muslims). The Arab-Israeli conflict is not, fundamentally, about Islam, or a clash between Islam and other faiths, but about this-worldly land grabbing, settlement, dispossession and oppression that has enraged the Muslim world, as it should enrage any thinking, moral human being. Unfortunately, fundamentalist Christians in this country tend to depict this history of injustice as the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy, and they will brook no dissent when it comes to the Zionist cause that they have embraced as their own. (“God gave them the land, so don’t bother me with historical details. End of discussion.”) Hard to imagine a delusion more injurious to world peace and to the cause of justice.

Finally: In understanding Islam, Americans should give some thought to one of the pivotal episodes in world history, the Crusades, or Wars of the Cross, that ripped up the Holy Land between 1096 and 1291. During these two centuries, European Christians seeking to “win back for Christendom” territory that had fallen to the Muslim Turks-territory that had been ruled by Muslims since the early seventh century anyway, on terms generally agreeable to Jews and Christians as well as Muslims-committed unspeakable atrocities. In July 1099 Jerusalem was conquered, the Roman Catholic soldiers massacring all the Muslim and Jewish inhabitants, including women
and children. Nor was the Crusaders’ zeal exhausted upon non-Christians; frustrated at lack of success in Palestine in 1204, they instead sacked Constantinople (modern Istanbul), then the center of Eastern Orthodoxy. In comparison, the behavior of the Muslim armies was chivalrous, the twelfth-century Kurdish leader Saladin in particular winning high praise from Christians and Muslims alike for his humanity.

The Islamic world remembers the Crusades; George Bush, like many Americans, is clueless about them. Hence his amazingly dim-witted reference to the “War on Terrorism” as a “Crusade” last September 16-a statement that produced immediate, widespread outrage in the Muslim world. No offense intended, no doubt. But such ignorance, in action, in a world where religious prejudice generates idiotic action from Belfast, to the Balkans, to Gujarat, to the Moluccas, is perilous ignorance indeed.

source:
http://soundvision.com/info/peace/primer.asp

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Saddam was Right and Bush was Wrong

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Saddam was Right and Bush was Wrong

Think about it. It was the Bush administration and not Saddam that turned out to be lying about WMDs. As we all know now, there weren’t any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Amazingly enough, it was Saddam who was telling the truth from the very beginning. Bush was the one who lied to the whole world.

You may remember that in 2002, the UN Security Council ordered Iraq to put together a report detailing the entirety of its biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons programs. In response, Iraqi officials compiled an 11,800-page report on the past and present status of Iraq’s weapons programs.

>From that report we learned (from the Iraqis) that Iraq once had both chemical and biological weapons, as well as a program to develop nuclear weapons. We also learned that Iraq acquired biological and chemical weapons from the US, and Iraqi nuclear scientists were trained at US government nuclear facilities. Most importantly, though, the Iraqis told us that some of the weapons and nuclear facilities were destroyed in the first Gulf War, and the rest were destroyed under the supervision of UN weapons inspectors.

All of this turned out to be true.

WHAT WE’VE LEARNED

George Bush repeatedly told us that Saddam was lying, that Iraq had WMDs, and that Iraq under Saddam was a “threat to the whole world.” So, here we are, years later. What have we learned to be the truth?

The search for WMDs turned up nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch.

Everything Hussein said about the weapons has turned out to be true. Everything Bush said about the weapons has turned out to be false.

But, it wasn’t “faulty intelligence” as the liars keep telling us. War against Iraq was the product of a witch’s brew of disinformation, distortions, spin, and lies given by people interested in the US invasion of Iraq.

The non-existent weapons of mass destruction weren’t the only falsehood. There were the phony uranium purchases, lies about Al-Qaeda training camps in Iraq, mobile weapons labs, and drones that were going to attack the East Coast of the US.

Remember the lies about babies being thrown out of incubators? The propaganda started years ago. Even the claims of Saddam’s brutality are suspect. Why? Because most of these claims come from the same people that have already discredited themselves.

No one would call you naïve for distrusting someone who lies to you over and over and over.

NEW REASONS FOR WAR

So, when confronted with the charge that he lied about the reasons to go to war with Iraq, President Bush simply went into spin mode and said, “The defense of freedom is always worth it.”

Was it worth it to the thousands of Americans who have been wounded or killed?

Was it worth it to the countless Iraqi men, women and children who have died?

Was it worth it to their families?

FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS

The reality of the situation is that the US Government – from Bush Sr., to Bill Clinton, to G.W – decided on its own that Saddam should no longer be the president of Iraq. This is the very thing that the Constitution and International Law were designed to prevent.

America was never threatened by Saddam Hussein. Iraq had absolutely no capability to attack the United States, and never was there indicated a desire to do so.

In short, American “freedom” was never threatened by Iraq, or Saddam Hussein. So how can anyone consider an unprovoked attack on another nation as “defending freedom”? The absurdity of such lies will ring on for centuries.

It’s not America’s calling to choose who should or should not be in charge of another country. But, obviously, the Iraqi war was worth it to George Bush.

If George wants to donate his own money to revolutionary movements in foreign countries, he has the right as a free person to do so. If he wants to quit his job (wishful thinking) and go fight in one of those countries, he has a right to do so as well.

But, he has absolutely no constitutional authority to use American money and American lives to fight for “freedom” in other countries.

So, in order to continue war, the lies must continue.

TRUTH AND LIES

The result of all this was that the “Butcher of Baghdad” was right and that the “President of the United States” was wrong. Saddam Hussein was given the death penalty for “war crimes,” while George Bush and his accomplices in our two-party Congress continue to rule over us.

We’re living in sad times, indeed, times when you can trust what Saddam Hussein says more than your own government.

In practice, being honest or lying doesn’t matter. It’s might that’s right.

And that’s the sad truth.

Michael Boldin [mboldin@populistamerica.com], an outspoken critic of the American political system, is a senior editor and contributing writer for http://www.populistamerica.com.

source:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/saddamwasright.php

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A dictator created then destroyed by America

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In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

=== News Update ===

A dictator created then destroyed by America

Robert Fisk

Published: 30 December 2006

Saddam to the gallows. It was an easy equation. Who could be more deserving of that last walk to the scaffold – that crack of the neck at the end of a rope – than the Beast of Baghdad, the Hitler of the Tigris, the man who murdered untold hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis while spraying chemical weapons over his enemies? Our masters will tell us in a few hours that it is a “great day” for Iraqis and will hope that the Muslim world will forget that his death sentence was signed – by the Iraqi “government”, but on behalf of the Americans – on the very eve of the Eid al-Adha, the Feast of the Sacrifice, the moment of greatest forgiveness in the Arab world.

But history will record that the Arabs and other Muslims and, indeed, many millions in the West, will ask another question this weekend, a question that will not be posed in other Western newspapers because it is not the narrative laid down for us by our presidents and prime ministers – what about the other guilty men?

No, Tony Blair is not Saddam. We don’t gas our enemies. George W Bush is not Saddam. He didn’t invade Iran or Kuwait. He only invaded Iraq. But hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians are dead – and thousands of Western troops are dead – because Messrs Bush and Blair and the Spanish Prime Minister and the Italian Prime Minister and the Australian Prime Minister went to war in 2003 on a potage of lies and mendacity and, given the weapons we used, with great brutality.

In the aftermath of the international crimes against humanity of 2001 we have tortured, we have murdered, we have brutalised and killed the innocent – we have even added our shame at Abu Ghraib to Saddam’s shame at Abu Ghraib – and yet we are supposed to forget these terrible crimes as we applaud the swinging corpse of the dictator we created.

Who encouraged Saddam to invade Iran in 1980, which was the greatest war crime he has committed for it led to the deaths of a million and a half souls? And who sold him the components for the chemical weapons with which he drenched Iran and the Kurds? We did. No wonder the Americans, who controlled Saddam’s weird trial, forbad any mention of this, his most obscene atrocity, in the charges against him. Could he not have been handed over to the Iranians for sentencing for this massive war crime? Of course not. Because that would also expose our culpability.

And the mass killings we perpetrated in 2003 with our depleted uranium shells and our “bunker buster” bombs and our phosphorous, the murderous post-invasion sieges of Fallujah and Najaf, the hell-disaster of anarchy we unleashed on the Iraqi population in the aftermath of our “victory” – our “mission accomplished” – who will be found guilty of this? Such expiation as we might expect will come, no doubt, in the self-serving memoirs of Blair and Bush, written in comfortable and wealthy retirement.

Hours before Saddam’s death sentence, his family – his first wife, Sajida, and Saddam’s daughter and their other relatives – had given up hope.

“Whatever could be done has been done – we can only wait for time to take its course,” one of them said last night. But Saddam knew, and had already announced his own “martyrdom”: he was still the president of Iraq and he would die for Iraq. All condemned men face a decision: to die with a last, grovelling plea for mercy or to die with whatever dignity they can wrap around themselves in their last hours on earth. His last trial appearance – that wan smile that spread over the mass-murderer’s face – showed us which path Saddam intended to walk to the noose.

I have catalogued his monstrous crimes over the years. I have talked to the Kurdish survivors of Halabja and the Shia who rose up against the dictator at our request in 1991 and who were betrayed by us – and whose comrades, in their tens of thousands, along with their wives, were hanged like thrushes by Saddam’s executioners.

I have walked round the execution chamber of Abu Ghraib – only months, it later transpired, after we had been using the same prison for a few tortures and killings of our own – and I have watched Iraqis pull thousands of their dead relatives from the mass graves of Hilla. One of them has a newly-inserted artificial hip and a medical identification number on his arm. He had been taken directly from hospital to his place of execution. Like Donald Rumsfeld, I have even shaken the dictator’s soft, damp hand. Yet the old war criminal finished his days in power writing romantic novels.

It was my colleague, Tom Friedman – now a messianic columnist for The New York Times – who perfectly caught Saddam’s character just before the 2003 invasion: Saddam was, he wrote, “part Don Corleone, part Donald Duck”. And, in this unique definition, Friedman caught the horror of all dictators; their sadistic attraction and the grotesque, unbelievable nature of their barbarity.

But that is not how the Arab world will see him. At first, those who suffered from Saddam’s cruelty will welcome his execution. Hundreds wanted to pull the hangman’s lever. So will many other Kurds and Shia outside Iraq welcome his end. But they – and millions of other Muslims – will remember how he was informed of his death sentence at the dawn of the Eid al-Adha feast, which recalls the would-be sacrifice by Abraham, of his son, a commemoration which even the ghastly Saddam cynically used to celebrate by releasing prisoners from his jails. “Handed over to the Iraqi authorities,” he may have been before his death. But his execution will go down – correctly – as an American affair and time will add its false but lasting gloss to all this – that the West destroyed an Arab leader who no longer obeyed his orders from Washington, that, for all his wrongdoing (and this will be the terrible get-out for Arab historians, this shaving away of his crimes) Saddam died a “martyr” to the will of the new “Crusaders”.

When he was captured in November of 2003, the insurgency against American troops increased in ferocity. After his death, it will redouble in intensity again. Freed from the remotest possibility of Saddam’s return by his execution, the West’s enemies in Iraq have no reason to fear the return of his Baathist regime. Osama bin Laden will certainly rejoice, along with Bush and Blair. And there’s a thought. So many crimes avenged.

But we will have got away with it.

source:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article2112555.ece

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The execution of the President

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=== News Update ===

The execution of the President

Statement by Abdul Ilah Albayaty, Ian Douglas, Hana Albayaty, Dirk Adriaensens, Inge Van De Merlen

The execution of President Saddam Hussein would be a grave war crime imputable under international law

The US-orchestrated tribunal that sentenced President Saddam Hussein has no legal standing

The imminent execution of Iraq’s lawful president is testimony to the gutting of international law by the Bush administration and its criminal partners

December 30, 2006

President Saddam Hussein is a prisoner of war with protected status under international law.[i]Further, he is the lawful president of the Republic of Iraq. He cannot be executed legally by the US occupation.

Under the Interim Constitution of Iraq of 1990 — which remains in force despite the illegal imposition of a permanent Iraqi constitution written by the United States — President Saddam Hussein, like heads of state worldwide, including in the US and Europe, is afforded sovereign immunity to prosecution.[ii]

That the US invaded Iraq illegally and established an illegal political process and a quisling Iraqi government only exacerbates the violation of President Saddam Hussein’s personal and sovereign rights and the affront to the whole of Iraq. His imminent execution is an attempt to establish, de facto, a global state of exception to law. Force cannot make just what law denies.

The US-led invasion of the Republic of Iraq was illegal and cannot be made legal by the execution of Iraq’s lawful president. The occupation is illegal and cannot survive by authoring new atrocities.

This mockery of law

The Iraqi Higher Criminal Court that passed a death sentence on President Saddam Hussein is a farce. Not only is it grounded on illegality (occupying powers under international law are expressly prohibited from changing the judicial structures of occupied states[iii]); the trial itself stands distinguished in legal history by its sheer number of due process and international standard of fairness violations.[iv]

These violations have included, often with systematic effect: American imposed censorship of court proceedings; withholding evidence from the defence; forcible ejection from court of defence lawyers and the placing of defence lawyers under house arrest; denial of defence counsel access to defendants; blatant lack of impartiality of court judges; overt political interference in the selection of court officials and the prejudicing of the trial and trial outcome by statements made by invested political figures — including George W Bush — affirming progress towards, or demanding, execution; the replacement of four of the five originally selected court judges; lack of equality of arms between the prosecution and the defence; refusals to accept key defence submissions, especially motions challenging the competence and legality of the court; violations of key fair trial principles and standards and international humanitarian law[v]; violation of Iraqi law[vi]; intimidation of witnesses; failure to ensure the security of the defence leading to the murder of three defence lawyers.

Created by Paul Bremer, the Iraqi Higher Criminal Court was never anything but a US-orchestrated puppet court.[vii]The imposition of a death sentence after an unfair trial stands in direct violation of international law.[viii]

The truth about this court

From day one, this court has been nothing but a smokescreen: an attempt to establish a veneer of legality to an illegal invasion of a sovereign state. From day one, the final conclusion — the illegal execution of Iraq’s lawful president — has been a fait accompli. The only question has been when.

As 2006 ends, the United States is desperate. Defeated militarily on the ground, long defeated politically and morally, the occupation is preparing to open the year 2007 with a barrage of atrocities, including the open murder of Iraq’s lawful president. This, like all other US-authored atrocities in Iraq, will not allow the US and its criminal partners to impose on Iraq a future that is contrary to the fundamental interests of the Iraqi people.

The imminent execution of President Saddam Hussein is a challenge to the world. Its occurrence would mark a watershed in the imposition by force of a global state of exception to law and to international standards of justice and due process.

States are obliged to protect international law and oppose acts that undermine it.[ix]International law is the arbiter and final guarantor of world peace. When states cannot or fail to act to protect it, or when they act resolutely to destroy it, it is the duty of citizens everywhere to oppose global tyranny by direct action.

Urgent action demands

We demand that legal institutions worldwide, governmental and non-governmental, act now to prevent the illegal execution of President Saddam Hussein.

We demand that all states and the United Nations speak up immediately and oppose and prevent the illegal execution of President Saddam Hussein.

We demand an immediate meeting of the UN Security Council in which must be affirmed the legal basis governing international relations and in particular the fundamentaljus cogens norms of international humanitarian law.

We call upon the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to defend its November 2006 conclusion that the detention of President Saddam Hussein is illegal and act to prevent his illegal execution.

We invoke the mandate afforded to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Execution to intervene to prevent the illegal execution of President Saddam Hussein.

We call upon the Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers to defend his March 2006 conclusion that the Iraqi Higher Criminal Court is questionable, has limited competence and has given rise to serious breaches of international human rights principles and standards. We call upon the rapporteur to intervene to prevent the illegal execution of President Saddam Hussein — a further insult to justice.

We demand that the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights personally intervene to prevent this grave war crime from occurring. No one in authority can claim ignorance as to its imminence.

We affirm that international law is the bequest of generations and an expression of the development of human civilization and that people worldwide, individually and in groups, have a stake in protecting it, and the world peace that depends on it.

We call upon citizens and individuals everywhere to stand up in defence of international law and Iraqi sovereignty and act to prevent the execution of Iraq’s legal president.

The execution of Saddam Hussein would not only be a war crime against one individual and state. It would lend an illusion of legality to illegal acts — both the execution of a lawful president and the invasion and destruction of Iraq. It would be nothing less than a declaration of the death of international law, slain by this criminal Bush administration and its collaborators.

If the execution of President Saddam Hussein will not lead to an international or global war, it sows the seeds, in its overt illegality, and in conjunction with Washington’s exclusion of international law from international relations, for precisely this outcome.

Abdul Ilah Albayaty (BRussells Tribunal Advisory Committee)
Ian Douglas (BRussells Tribunal Advisory Committee)
Hana Albayaty (BRussells Tribunal Executive Committee)
Dirk Adriaensens (BRussells Tribunal Executive Committee)
Inge Van De Merlen (BRussells Tribunal Executive Committee)

[i] In January 2004 the US government officially recognized President Saddam Hussein’s prisoner of war status. See Article 3The Hague IV Regulations, 1907: “The armed forces of the belligerent parties may consist of combatants and non-combatants. In the case of capture by the enemy, both have a right to be treated as prisoners of war.” The Third Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, 1949, provides for the human rights to security of person, privacy, respect, humane treatment, and fair trial. Under international law, no special arrangements can be constituted that adversely affect the rights of persons. See Article 7 of The Fourth Geneva ConventionRelative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in the Time of War, 1949.
[ii] See Article 40 of the Interim Constitution of Iraq (1990).
[iii] See Articles 43 and 55 of The Hague IV Regulations on Laws and Customs of War on Land, 1907; Articles 54 and 64 of The Fourth Geneva ConventionRelative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in the Time of War, 1949.
[iv] For a full account of the illegality of the Iraqi Higher Criminal Court and the violations of international fair trial principles and standards witnessed during its proceedings see Iraqi Special Tribunal: A Corruption of Justice by Ramsey Clark and Curtis Doebbler (13 September 2006).
[v] Articles 70 and 65 of The Fourth Geneva ConventionRelative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in the Time of War, 1949; Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights requires that courts be established under preexisting law.
[vi] The Iraqi Higher Criminal Court is inconsistent with Iraqi law because it violates basic principles of international human rights law that are binding on Iraqi authorities according to Article 44 of theInterim Constitution of Iraq of 1990. Further, the court was formed in violation of processes set forth in Section IV, Articles 60 and 61 of the Interim Constitution and the Iraqi Law on Judicial Organization, the latter illegally annulled by Coalition Provisional Authority Order No 15 of 23 June 2003.
[vii] That the occupying power, through the Coalition Provisional Authority, created the Iraqi Higher Criminal Court (formerly the Iraqi Special Tribunal) is established by the fact that Order No 48, containing the statute of the court, had to be signed by Coalition Provisional Authority Administrator L Paul Bremer before it could enter into force.
[viii] See Article 6, paragraph 2, of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights that prohibits imposition of the death penalty when it does not apply “in accordance with the law in force at the time of the commission of the crime.” The retroactive application of the death penalty violates the Iraqi Penal Code, which states in Article 1: “no act or omission shall be penalized except in accordance with a legislative provision under which the said act or omission is regarded as a criminal offense at the time of its occurrence.” This arbitrary application of the death penalty is also a violation of the right to life in Article 6 of the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights. See also Articles 2, 4 and 5 of the UN Safeguards Guaranteeing Protection of the Rights of Those Facing the Death Penalty.
[ix] Article 42(2) of the United Nations International Law Commission’s Draft Articles on State Responsibility, representing the rule of customary international law, prevents states from benefiting from their own illegal acts: “No State shall recognize as lawful a situation created by aserious breach …” (emphasis added); Section III(e), UN General Assembly Resolution 36/103 of 14 December 1962, “Declaration on the Inadmissibility of Intervention and Interference in the Internal Affairs of States”.

source:
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m29392&hd=&size=1&l=e

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9/11 : What do the Statue of Liberty and WTC Towers have in common?

bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem

In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

=== News Update ===

9/11 :

What do the Statue of Liberty and WTC Towers have in common?

http://100777.com/node/1074

The Statue of Liberty had to be repaired due to galvanic corrosion in air. Not what most think is possible but in ocean environments, very possible. Normally galvanic corrosion is only a factor in an electrolyte such as sea water and the stern drive on the boat – having steel and aluminum components – erodes, turns brittle and snap – it fails – if electrolytic grounding plates are not installed. “””The galvanic reaction between iron and copper was originally mitigated by insulating copper from the iron framework using an asbestos cloth soaked in shellac. However, the integrity and sealing property of this improvised insulator broke down over the many years of exposure to high levels of humidity normal in a marine environment. The insulating barrier became a sponge that kept the salted water present as a conductive electrolyte, forming a crude electrochemical cell as and Volta had discovered a century earlier.””” In 1989 – there were plans to erect scaffolding and disassemble the WTC towers and rebuild them. Cost projection was around $5.6 billion. One of the architects shows up to work one day and the MIB’s were there – had confiscated all of the plans, specs, details, etc for WTC. They even confiscated their office cubicles and had tape on the floor outlining where they went. Reason – the exterior cast aluminum WTC panels had been directly connected to the steel superstructure of the building, thus causing galvanic corrosion. In short, the “life cycle” of the WTC was not 200 – 300 years, more like 30 years or so. The exterior skin of the building – in being aluminum and connected directly to the super structure – was making the building weaker every day. That could explain why there appears to be explosives set only about every 25 floors. Once the failure started, the brittleness of welds, rivets, bolts, etc would fail much easier as the loads became progressively greater on the way down. That same process would also explain why the concrete was “powderized” over time because electrolytic processes weaken concrete too by “debonding” the Portland that causes concrete to bond in the first place. However, bear in mind that the “concrete floors” were not load bearing reinforced concrete. They were supported by what was a weakening by the day superstructure and cross members. There was a 1989 meeting and the folks at the architectural firm Emory Roth, the project architect that took over after the design architects completed the conceptual drawings that had their office, records, plans and specs seized – were told that the $5.6 billion “take it down, rebuild it” project was cancelled and in about “10-12 years” they would “blow it up and start over”. Consider that – and consider that NYC and the US Govt could not stand the global embarrassment of being so stupid or negligent that they did not consider the effects of galvanic corrosion on the superstructure. That is structural design 101 in architectural school and why they want architects to take physics and chemistry for Christ’s sake. I did. I am an architect by the way, quit practicing in 1988. http://www.npl.co.uk/ncs/docs/the_electochemistry_of_corrosion_figures http://www.npl.co.uk/ncs/docs/the_electochemistry_of_corrosion.pdf http://www.corrosion-doctors.org/Aircraft/galvdefi.htm see bimetallic corrosion to get to the two links above http://www.corrosion-doctors.org/Landmarks/statue-saddle.htm Guess what? The fat lady HAS SUNG. You know, the one in New York Harbor with the torch of Liberty and Freedom held high. I want to find the sick bastard that thought it would be a cute idea to have close to 3,000 in the building and use that as an excuse to go take on a whole new energy policy, war policy, and lining the pockets of just certain people. I think a Statute of Liberty hanging for that person would be most appropriate. best regards, Patmos Nanotechnologies, LLC Karl W. B. Schwarz President, Chief Executive Officer

source:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/wtc_corrosion.html

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US Terrorize The World – 9 Dhul-Hijjah 1427 H (30.12.06)

bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem

In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

=== News Update ===

Challenging Ignorance on Islam: a Ten-Point Primer for Americans

“We should invade [Muslim] countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.”

Columnist Ann Coulter, National Review Online, Sept. 13, 2001
http://soundvision.com/info/peace/primer.asp

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Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America’s War? More Than 655,000

http://tinyurl.com/usq4x

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In Bush’s War 2989
http://icasualties.org/oif/

The War in Iraq Costs $353,769,746,058 – See the cost in your community
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182

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An 8-year war and 13-year blockade are looking like the country’s ‘Golden Years’.

http://tinyurl.com/ylxwfv

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Who will hang for this crime? Paying The Price: Killing The Children Of Iraq

Sanctions enforced by the UN on Iraq since the Gulf War have killed more people than the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945, including over half a million children – many of whom weren’t even born when the Gulf War began.
http://tinyurl.com/stgha

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Who will hang for this crime? The Secret Behind the Sanctions

How the U.S. Intentionally Destroyed Iraq’s Water Supply
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0808-07.htm

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The execution of the President

The execution of President Saddam Hussein would be a grave war crime imputable under international law

The US-orchestrated tribunal that sentenced President Saddam Hussein has no legal standing

The imminent execution of Iraq’s lawful president is testimony to the gutting of international law by the Bush administration and its criminal partners
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m29392&hd=&size=1&l=e

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Saddam’s Hanging Verdict Is Illegal And Unjust

Are we now going to compound our illegal preemptive attack and occupation of Iraq, where we set up and implemented a U.S. controlled coalition government, where we stage managed a flawed election and judicial system and where we now have condoned the hanging of this sovereign country’s leader after a mock U.S. managed monkey trial ?
http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2006/12/28.html

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Hanging Saddam

The execution of Saddam Hussein is another grim chapter in the catalogue of war crimes perpetrated against the Iraqi people. It is a gratuitous act of barbarism devoid of justice.
http://tinyurl.com/yym2aw

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World laughing at US: Mahathir

“The whole world is laughing at America, at the stupidity of the decisions they made and at the refusal to recognise the situation.” He described US President George W.Bush as being in “total self-denial”.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20989417-2703,00.html

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Saddam was Right and Bush was Wrong

Think about it. It was the Bush administration and not Saddam that turned out to be lying about WMDs. As we all know now, there weren’t any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Amazingly enough, it was Saddam who was telling the truth from the very beginning. Bush was the one who lied to the whole world.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/saddamwasright.php

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A dictator created then destroyed by America

But history will record that the Arabs and other Muslims and, indeed, many millions in the West, will ask another question this weekend, a question that will not be posed in other Western newspapers because it is not the narrative laid down for us by our presidents and prime ministers – what about the other guilty men?

No, Tony Blair is not Saddam. We don’t gas our enemies. George W Bush is not Saddam. He didn’t invade Iran or Kuwait. He only invaded Iraq. But hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians are dead – and thousands of Western troops are dead – because Messrs Bush and Blair and the Spanish Prime Minister and the Italian Prime Minister and the Australian Prime Minister went to war in 2003 on a potage of lies and mendacity and, given the weapons we used, with great brutality.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article2112555.ece

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Poll: Bad guy of 2006: President George W. Bush

Bush won the villain sweepstakes by a landslide, with one in four respondents putting him at the top of that bad-guy list. When people were asked to name the candidate for villain that first came to mind, Bush far outdistanced even Osama bin Laden
http://www.nbc30.com/news/10623325/detail.html

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MORE THAN 400,000 IRAQIS HAVE FLED SINCE FEBRUARY, SAYS OFFICIAL

Iraqi Deputy Migration Minister Hamdiya Ahmad said on December 28 that approximately 432,000 Iraqis have fled their homes and registered for government aid since the February attack on the Shi’ite shrine in Samarra (see “RFE/RL Newsline,” February 22, 2006), Reuters reported. Some Iraqi officials acknowledge that the figure could be even higher, since many people have not registered with the ministry or have fled abroad. In addition, he said more than 108,000 displaced Iraqis have registered for government help in the last month alone, indicating a sharp increase in internally displaced people as a result of soaring sectarian violence. “The main reason behind the rise of displaced families is the deterioration of the security situation and the death threats that people have received to flee their houses, in addition to the bombing of safe areas,” she said.
http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2006/12/6-SWA/swa-291206.asp#archive

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The Criminality of the State

“The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical.” No State known to history originated in any other manner, or for any other purpose. Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, its first instinct is that of self-preservation. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its own life, and, second, towards increasing its own power and enlarging the scope of its own activity.
http://tinyurl.com/umpcb

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The Disrespect for Truth has Brought a New Dark Age

At the beginning of the scientific era, men had the hope that the ability to discover truth would free mankind from superstition, dogma, and the service of power. The belief in truth was powerful. Truth would deliver justice and bring an end to status-based privileges and the falsehoods propagated by privilege. The faith in truth was short-lived. Today propaganda is everywhere in the ascendency.
http://tinyurl.com/sfr5p

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COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS : Bush: ‘We Found’ Banned Weapons

President Bush, citing two trailers that U.S. intelligence agencies have said were probably used as mobile biological weapons labs, said U.S. forces in Iraq have “found the weapons of mass destruction” that were the United States’ primary justification for going to war.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A60140-2003May30?language=printer

… except that the trailers turned out to be hydrogen generators used as weather balloon inflation systems sold to Iraq by Great Britain.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0809-05.htm

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Scarlett, author of the Iraq war dossier, is knighted

John Scarlett, who took responsibility for the error-ridden dossier that justified the war in Iraq, is knighted in today’s New Year’s Honours list. The award will enrage peace campaigners, who have accused the veteran spymaster of saving Tony Blair’s skin over the flawed case for the invasion.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2112587.ece

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At least 17 killed in ongoing U.S. occupation

A suicide bomber killed 10 people and wounded 11 near a Shi’ite mosque in the town of Khalis, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29787420.htm

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U.S. occupation Forces Kill 6 During Raids in Iraq

U.S. troops killed six people and destroyed a weapons cache Friday in separate raids in Baghdad and northwest of the Iraqi capital, the U.S. military said.
http://tinyurl.com/vsw8y

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Four Iraqi soldiers killed, injured in attack southwest of Kirkuk

Four Iraqi soldiers were killed on Friday and another was injured in an attack by unknown armed men southwest of Kirkuk northern Iraq, an Iraqi military source said.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=938471

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 28 December 2006.

• “These are the days of the decisive confrontation”: Iraqi Baath Party issues unprecedented warning to US against executing Saddam Hussein.
• · Three US troops reported killed in Resistance bombing on highway near al-Fallujah.
• · Resistance car bombs, explosive devices target US troops in Baghdad as argument between Marine soldier and officer escalates into fistfight Wednesday.
• Attacks on British occupation forces in al-Basrah continue as puppet security forces announce a halt in cooperation with UK forces following raid on Major Crimes Department Monday.
• In new repressive measure, US troops round up 50 young men, break their arms, crush their fingers in raids in ar-Ramadi, Thursday.
• Four US troops reported killed in Resistance bombing in ar-Ramadi Thursday afternoon.
• Four US troops reported killed in Thursday afternoon Resistance car bomb attack in al-Fallujah.
• Resistance pounds US base in al-Fallujah with heavy mortars Thursday morning.
• Resistance bomb destroys US Humvee in western al-Fallujah Thursday morning.
• Resistance bomb rips through puppet army troop transport in al-Karmah Wednesday.
• Resistance bomb damages US Abrams tank west of al-Hadithah at noon Thursday.
• Resistance sharpshooter reportedly kills two American troops in al-Khalidiyah Thursday morning.
• US soldier reported killed by Iraqi Resistance sharpshooter’s bullet in al-Qa’im Wednesday.
• Resistance bombards joint US-Iraqi puppet army base in ‘Anah Wednesday.
• Resistance bomb kills three puppet “Iraqi National Guards” in Baghdad Thursday.
• Resistance bomb rips through puppet patrol vehicle, killing “Shock Troop” soldier in Baghdad Thursday morning.
• Resistance sharpshooter kills two puppet “Shock Troops” in western Baghdad Thursday.
• Resistance fighters capture, execute pro-Iranian Jaysh al-Mahdi gunmen in Baghdad Thursday.
• Resistance fighters kill three Iraqi puppet “National Guards” in northwestern Baghdad Wednesday.
• Resistance bomb blasts puppet police in al-Hawijah Thursday.
• Puppet troops find Resistance bomb, which then explodes in their midst.

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2006/1206/iraqiresistancereport_281206.htm

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The Evil of Collaboration

There are two major contenders in the Middle East for eponymous recognition as traitors: Lebanon’s prime minister, Fouad Siniora, and Palestine’s president, Mahmoud Abbas, are willing to sell out their kinsfolk to Zionists and imperialists.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Dec06/Petersen27.htm

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Israeli journalist reveals the secrets of the assassination of Arafat by Ariel Sharon

The recently deceased Israeli writer, Uri Dan, who was close to Ariel Sharon, the former Israeli Prime Minister, published a book in France in which he accused Sharon of assassinating the former Palestinian President Yasser Arafat by poisoning him.
http://tinyurl.com/tv4v5

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Killing of Palestinians triples

From January to December 2006, the Israeli military killed 655 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, according to the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem – a huge rise on last year.
http://tinyurl.com/y67h5w

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The temples of the occupation

So far, of the dozens of checkpoints promised to be removed from the West Bank in a “gesture” to Mahmoud Abbas, not a single checkpoint has been dismantled.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/806575.html

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Egypt sends weapons to shore up embattled Abbas

JERUSALEM – Egypt has sent a large shipment of weapons through Israeli territory to shore up forces loyal to the embattled Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli security officials said Thursday – an extraordinary show of support by both countries for his efforts to renew peacemaking with Israel.

Israel approved the transfer of 2,000 automatic rifles, 20,000 ammunition clips and 2 million bullets on Wednesday, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the shipment had not been officially confirmed by Israel, the Palestinians or Egypt.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1228IsraelPals28-ON.html

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9/11 : What do the Statue of Liberty and WTC Towers have in common?

In 1989 – there were plans to erect scaffolding and disassemble the WTC towers and rebuild them. Cost projection was around $5.6 billion. One of the architects shows up to work one day and the MIB’s were there – had confiscated all of the plans, specs, details, etc for WTC. They even confiscated their office cubicles and had tape on the floor outlining where they went.

Reason – the exterior cast aluminum WTC panels had been directly connected to the steel superstructure of the building, thus causing galvanic corrosion. In short, the “life cycle” of the WTC was not 200 – 300 years, more like 30 years or so.

What an amazing coincidence that the “terrorists” attacked a building which was going to have to be demolished anyway!
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/wtc_corrosion.html

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9-11 Attacks: The Five Dancing Israelis Arrested on 9-11

It was later confirmed that the five detained Israelis were in fact Mossad agents (21). They were held in custody for 71 days before being quietly released.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fiveisraelis.html

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Taliban will never accept defeat, says Mullah Omar

Fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar called on Friday on his fighters to avoid harming civilians in Afghanistan in an anti-government insurgency he said would never accept defeat.
http://tinyurl.com/vykhv

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How I Was Kidnapped by the CIA

Letter from Abu Omar al Masri Imprisoned in Egypt
http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=3&id=7483

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This ‘victory’ could mean a return to anarchy

Ethiopian troops, with Washington’s tacit approval, have routed the Islamists who seized power in Somalia last June. The official Government forged by the international community in 2004 can take power. Good news, surely?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2522027,00.html

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Norway demands Ethiopia withdraw troops from Somalia

STOCKHOLM, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) — The Norwegian government is concerned over the development in Somalia, including the advance of Ethiopian troops into the neighboring country, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) reported on Thursday.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-12/28/content_5544617.htm

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African Union orders Ethiopia out

The African Union has demanded that all foreign players, including Ethiopia, immediately withdraw their forces from Somalia.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/FE375E90-2185-43DA-86E2-1B34CCC86A21.htm

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In Somalia, a reckless U.S. proxy war

12/26/06 “IHT” — — NAIROBI — Undeterred by the horrors and setbacks in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon, the Bush administration has opened another battlefront in the Muslim world. With full U.S. backing and military training, at least 15,000 Ethiopian troops have entered Somalia in an illegal war of aggression against the Union of Islamic Courts, which controls almost the entire south of the country.
http://www.iht.com/bin/print.php?id=4017649

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BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW

9-11, Iraq, PNAC All Roads Lead to Israel PART II

bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem

In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

=== News Update ===

Anti-neocons :

9-11, Iraq, PNAC All Roads Lead to Israel PART II

The DISINFORMATOIN about 911

PART II The Disinformation

I am so sick of having to explain away the utter nonsense that is attached to the truth about 911. Everything from Space aliens and reptilian fish people, to neo-Nazi groups have attached themselves to the 911 conspiracy. It is a classic tactic of deceivers to purposely leak disinformation which will mix truth with lies in order to discredit the truth. Don’t fall for disinformation. And don’t just follow every word someone says, people like Chomsky, Jones, Ruppert, Raimondo, Rivero and others are not always right, everyone makes goofs now and then. Help these people don’t just parrot them.

The 911 movement is splintered and factionalized. Different camps passionately hold to their theories. (but a large piece is missing, a large body of evidence is being ignore) Let me give some credit where credit is due before I try to merge these theories based on the strongest information from different thinkers. I would like to merge the 911 theories and hopefully you guys will check this out yourselves and see how this accounts for the most inclusive picture. (constructive criticism welcome)

We have a lot of half truths floating around about the NWO. So I thought I would clear some things up. Most of you seem to know the facts that there is a video for, but the whole picture still has not been said. So for those of you who read, let me just drop a few facts on you and you can look it up yourself.

First off 911 was an inside job, bombs were in the towers, and most of you can recite the arguments for that in your sleep. Building number seven is the smoking gun on that one. The 911 commission did not even address it and the steel from the towers was quickly carted off by trucks and sold to Chinathrough Metal Managment Inc owned by the Zionist Jew Alan Ratner. Alex Jones has done a great job on covering that side of the 911 story. (The Building 7 side of the story but not the Israeli connection) This guy is a trail blazer, hell he predicted the 911 strike back in July 25th of 2001. He did not say when it would happen, but he said they would use Osama Bin Laden as a patsy and they would run air planes into the WTC. He was also the first to make a video documentary about 911.

Michael Rupert of From The Wilderness had the information about the put-options and economic anomalies posted as soon as September 12th one day after the event.

The question arises, “Who did it and when” was it just a faction of Neocons in our government? Or was their assistance from a foreign government? Whose interests did they have in mind? Sites like WRH and ICH have been the best in addressing this side of the story.

Let’s look at the History of PNAC and combine that knowledge with the recent trials of AIPAC the Niger Gate (the Libby trial) and the pulled Fox News Report of the Israeli spy ring and the infamous 5 dancing Israelis. One pioneer who has been all over this angle from the beginning and has had up to date information on the ensuing trial is this guy, Justin Raimondo of anti-war.com See the Israeli Art Students section.

Justin wrote a book Terror Enigma: 9/11 And the Israeli Connection that will tell you more than you want to know about it. It is a short book but well worth the buy.

I propose that 911 was an inside job carried out by Neocons moles in the US government who work for the interest a foreign government(Israel) or rather what that government serves which is the international bankers and the military industrial complex. And it is not in the interests of Israel or America. Israel is a cashcow for the MIC. 911 and the resulting wars were done in the interest of the Israeli Lobby which is backed by the age old method of profiteering by Christian fanatics and Straussian globalists. Israel is waist deep in 911 and Evagelism is waist deep in Israel. Ask yourself, if it was an inside job, then where did the anthrax letters come from after 911 if not from the same cabal that orchestrated it? And why did the letters read “DEATH TO AMERICA DEATH TO ISRAEL“? Was this an attempt to link America’s enemies with Israel’s? Israel was caugh in a false flag opperations before where they tried to blame Arab patsies. Check out the Lavon Affair.

When were the bombs put in the towers? Ask yourself that. Then who was caught working for a fake moving company (a front for the Mossad)in New Jerseyafter they were spotted dancing and taking pictures of themselves smiling with the backdrop of the burning towers? What same moving company was in the WTC towers when the power was cut off for days prior to 911? Oh yes the power to the WTC was cut off prior to 911 and the security cameras were down. (think Al Qaeda did that?)

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According to Scott Forbes, a senior database administrator for Fiduciary Trust, Inc. – a high-net investment bank which was later acquired by Franklin Templeton – this is precisely what took place. Forbes, who was hired by Fiduciary in 1999 and is now stationed at a U.K. branch office, was working on the weekend of September 8-9, 2001, and said that his company was given three weeks advance notice that New York’s Port Authority would take out power in the South Towerfrom the 48th floor up. The reason: the Port Authority was performing a cabling upgrade to increase the WTC’s computer bandwidth

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You now know PNAC flowered from the Israeli Clean Break papers out of Tel Aviv. (why the trail stops as soon as we get to Israel, on all the major “alternative” radio shows, I do not know) Why are the co-authors Zionists Jews who have histories of spying for Israel such as Richard Perle and Doug Feith? How come AIPAC can be caught spying on the USand there is NO mention of it in the media including Alex Jones ect (as far as I know). They have never even brought it up! It would ruin the theories that “Bush did it” from the films. And Bush did do it, but he was a puppet of his Zionist handlers because Bush is a Christian bigot.

DISIFO BY OMISSION (probably due to fear)

When Alex Jones was asked by Allen Colmes of Fox, Who did it and how did they get away with it in the media? Alex stumbled over himself saying well you have to look at who authored PNAC and then went on to list high profile figures who have spoken out pretty much avoiding the question. Maybe he was just excited to name the people he wanted to say in a rare short interview on the mainstream. Well, in a way Alex did answer the question, because it was planned by the authors of PNAC as was the Iraq war. But it is a deathnail to plainly state that PNAC came out of Israel and stems from Israeli policy papers and was pushed for by a crowd that is overwhelmingly and disproportionately Jewish-Zionists some of whom have histories of spying for Israel or are currently caught up on charges (like Lewis Libby) for using the OSP to lie to push PNAC’s stated goals. And of course the Mossad story, the spy ring, and Nigerforgeries, are simply dropped from the picture. Jones knows who the real power is and me because he wants to stay on the air, he will not directly mention them.

This is huge. Can you imagine if any other government was caught spying on the US in a time of War? Imagine what would happen if Iran was caught doing the same thing.

Ever wonder how the bombs were put in the towers? You probably know the President’s brother was head of security, did you know he had a moving company in the towers and building 7 in the weeks prior to 911? Did you know that that moving company was Israeli (Urban Moving systems) and Israelis were caught on 911 taking pictures of themselves to the backdrop of the burning towers and laughing? They were arrested and the address for their moving company (yes the same one) turned up a front for the Mossad, it was an abandoned warehouse in New Jersey. (They were released by the FBI when Ashcroft put a lid on it, and they went back to Israel). Their van had traced of explosives in it, box cutters, thousands in cash, and hilighted maps of New York. When tested they failed polyagraph tests which are 98% accurate. WRH has been on the frontlines with this story.

It was clearly a Mossad opperation.

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1. The Israeli “movers” cheered the 9-11 attacks to celebrate the successful accomplishment of the greatest spy operation ever pulled off in history. 2. One of them, or an accomplice, then calls a 9-1-1 police dispatcher to report Palestinian bomb-makers in a white van headed for the Holland Tunnel. 3. Having thus pre-framed the Palestinians with this phone call, the Israeli bombers then head for the George Washington Bridge instead, where they will drop off their time-bomb van and escape with Urban Moving accomplices. 4. But the police react very wisely and proactively by closing off ALL bridges and tunnels instead of just the Holland Tunnel. This move inadvertently foils the Israelis’ misdirection play and leads to their own capture and 40 day torture. 5. To cover up this story, the U.S. Justice Department rounds up over 1000 Arabs for minor immigration violations and places them in New York area jails. The Israelis therefore become less conspicuous as the government and media can now claim that the Israelis were just immigration violators caught in the same dragnet as many other Arabs. 6. After several months, FBI and Justice Department “higher-ups” are able to gradually push aside the local FBI agents and free the Israelis quietly.

source Go and read all of it.

Look 911 was not carried out by Devil Worshipers or the Queen of England. 911 was the work of the Israeli Mossad and its Neocon moles in the US government. Many of the super Zionist are Russian Oligarchs protected by the Londonmoney powers. The back bone of Zionism is organized religion, it is fanatical Jews and Christians. More money goes to fund the Israeli occupation from Evangelical Christian churches than from the government even. (One church (Presbyterians) actually divested more money from Israel than what our government gives them in two years worth of foreign aid.) If we could only get other churches to follow…

I know people will say that a con-artist like Pat Robertson is not a *real* Christian. News flash Yes he is. Is he a BAD Christian? Absolutely! But to say he does not hold the minimal believes in a savior, a god, the creation story, and all that other biblical mess is not true, because he and his millions of brain-dead followers DO believe in all that crap. In fact it is one of the main motivations help Zionism because they think they must create conditions to fulfill Biblical prophecies. (making Jerusalem Jewish being one of those.)

Now if you just want to say that they do not follow some of the teachings of Christ then you are absolutely right. But then again basically no one does. Face it, All of Bush’s support comes from the 30 or so percent of the country that are Christian fanatics. Religion breeds authoritarianism. What would Israeldo without the tens of billions it receives from Christian churches? It would fall apart. I am not saying that Christianity is to blame for what these evil idiots do. I am saying that a Religion is not intrinsically good or bad. Religion is more like a car, and the behavior of the car depends on the driver. It seems like Moderate Christians are psychologically unable to face up to the fact that their own religion is being used to stuff the war-mongers pockets and finance aggression all over the world [as it has since its invention]. So they invent groups like a secretly atheist illuminati and even alien invasion etc, anything, to create a blame shift.

It was the Zionists. Here is the other thing Alex NEVER talks about, Israel being involved. And they were the ones who fricking did it. look here.

STRAWMAN DISINFO

I think the likes of those like Jeff Rense (a radio host who admits 911 was an inside job and has quite a following) is possibly a Real Patriot (or possibly a disinfo agent) but certainly not a critical thinker when it comes to ghosts and space aliens. That stuff HURTS the credibility. It is goofier than Zodiac signs. The site is still OK and you can pick out the real information from the entertainment (aka making money) stuff. The arguement that he has to say that junk just doesn’t float. I dont say any of that junk. Why is it so hard to just talk about the Zionist without ading sensless garbage to it? I would link to Rense.com far more if the front page wasn’t cover in unsolved-mysteries type of superstitious trash.

I am not saying that secret societies do not exist or that non-secret organizations (like the CIA) don’t carry out secret actions for the government. They do happen, and they have been around for a long time. Ranging from the Black Hand, to the America’s Know Nothings nations have always had groups of secrecy and privilege. The Bilderbergs is a great example.

One can not say that conspiracies simply don’t exist or can not happen. Hell the `19 hijackers theory` (where the BBC reports that some of the same hijackers turned up alive) of 911 is a conspiracy theory, so one is forced to believe in one conspiracy theory or another. People will ask how could something so big be kept a secret? How could the press not uncover it? Conspiracies happen all the time,. I’ll give you a recent example. Just look the Iran Contra affair was a secret government and CIA operation that included thousands of people, involved multiple countries, and used up billions of dollars. This conspiracy happened in your life time (unless you are under 15). This scandal involved some of the very same neocons that are in office today. Familiar readers of anti-neocons are aware of the Libby/Rich/Clinton connections. (listen to it on the radio)

Guilt by association
Don’t attach 911 to falsehoods like we never landed on the moon. First of all if any of you are so stupid as to think we were never on the moon then just don’t even bother reading the rest of this. The 911 evidence stands on its own, attaching it to silly things, just hurts the credibility and supports the tinfoil hat conclusions. PS NASA did bring lighting to the moon.

MORE DISINFO

Thanks in large part to a music video called Pentagon Strike, We now have a `no plane hit the pentagon` crowd. Plently of people saw a plane fly towards the building and no one saw one leave. Look if a plane did hit the pentagon and they show that then it will debunk the entire 911 story. Did you ever think the FBI might have taken the tapes away in order to create such a story? Here are some arguments against the no plane theory. I have to agree. But this is a mute point. Let’s stick with the more damning evidence and that is the WTC 1,2, and 7 attacks/detonations.
911 is undeniably tied to the war in Iraq. It is obvious to any thinking person how the 911 tragedy was used to justify by deception the war in Iraq. We know that the WMDs claims were lies not just mistaken intelligence. Now the question arises, who lied? Who set up and makes up the OSP? All roads lead to Israel.

MORE DISINFO

But this brings me to the disinformation wave. A couple of stinkers have come up. One is the Bohemian Grove tie in, which has been attributed to worshipers of Moloch and the Christian Devil. Did you ever think about the Grove connections worshipping Moloch could be related to the Bavli Talmud: the Jewish text from Babylon? It’s not the devil they follow it’s the Bavli Talmud; these people are Hardcore Zionists. (Guess who else was a Mizrahi Jew?…Mayer Amschel Rothschild) That is why they enjoy billions of dollars from Christian fanatics like Pat Robertson. This argument takes some time so go here if you need that to be cleared up. Is there a Satanic (or atheist) illuminati? NOPE It is the very opposite, the illuminati (as you guys think of it, the term is being used incorrectly) is the Zionist, not a German death cult. It is just a bunch of greedy, but god fearing, Christians and Jews at the Grove. Simply put, a religion is not what makes people good or bad; people are what make a religion good or bad.

Half Truth disinfo
MORE DISINFO BY OMISSION

We have the Chomsky ‘this war is all for oil crowd’. And also Rupert’s Peak Oil crowd. Oil was A reason for the wars but not THE reason. Chomsky and the like are very good at pointing out the big oil interests of the Iraq war and the petro-dollar interests with Iran. We get two camps, the ‘it’s about oil‘ and the ‘it’s about Israel’s safety‘ crowd. Look, the corporatists and the Zionists overlap. The thing is, THIS war party is so clearly made up of Zionists. But no one seems to catch the overlapping interests of the corporations (namely the largest one the MIC) and the Zionists.

As I pointed out on KUCI they don’t give a damn about Jews or any of that, nor does the Lobby. They just care about money, but what safe guards them from criticism IS the religious angle. Corporations could not get away with it if they didn’t have their all powerful anti-Semitism shield of protection around them and they would not have the hundreds of billions of dollars in extra backing from Christian religious factions without the religion/race card played by the Zionists. So it is multi-layered. The fact that Zionists wrote, planned for the war in Iraq as far back as 1992, and then actively played a part in spewing the pre-invasion disinformation makes it rather obvious to me who is in the front seat and who is cheering from the back seat between the Zionist and the energy companies.

If you want to know how the Libby/Niger-gate tie into the warmonger’s plans for Iran then listen to my radio interview. 911 and the resulting wars were planned in PNAC. I have gone through each Zionist player in the administration at one point or another on this board on on the radio, and tied their actions back to Israel.

Just ask yourself this question, what do Richard Perle, Lewis Libby, Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, David Frum, David Wurmser, Irving Kristol, Bill Kristol, Steven Rosen, and Keith Weissman, all have in common?

It is a war for Israelprimarily and a war for profit, as is any war, secondarily. I wrote in my book how they all connect, the MIC, the Evangelical churches, the lobby, and the Zionists neocons who make up the OSP and wrote PNAC. That is why I wrote Welcome to the USSA, to explain how no-bid contract work in communism and how we create state assisted monopolies through everything from agribusiness subsidies to earmarked foreign aid.

If we are to keep moving forward then we need to be aware of disinformation. It is my opinion, and I know I will get accused of in-fighting, but it is my opinion that we should drop the extreme end of the spectrum, the alien believers-who must admit that pragmatically, even if they sincerely believe in all that junk, they know that tactically it does not help us one bit. No one is ready to believe in reptilian fish people. So shut up you guys. Please do the rest of us a favor and just talk amongst yourselves.

People don’t let these shanky hands, Nostradamus-type, fold up the twenty dollar bill and look at the towers, retards pollute our real efforts of journalism and research into 911. Please stop saying it was the illuminati (a vague term) if you don’t really know anything about the illuminati other than a 5 minute history and you can’t immediately back up your claims with convincing arguments. (It is not a secret who did this, PNAC spells it out and shows it off.) I care about this country and the people we exploit, oppress, and kill. I want it to stop. Damn it! I really deeply need it to stop. The Occupation of Iraq and Palestine and Afghanistanhave to end. We have killed hundred of thousands of innocent people. We are torturing people. The real people who demonstratively wrote, planned, signed, lied, and carried out this war are ZIONISTS NEOCONS. (Just for the record the Brits need to get out of Ireland). Don’ blame it on a mysterious group of people when we already have the names and the physical evidence of who did this.

We seem to have about half a story floating around about 911. The Israeli connections have to made or refuted. I have not heard of any valid refutations. The anti-Semite card is all I have ever hear as an attempted rebuttal. The reply I usually get is, “wow god damn I didn’t know about that, how interesting.” I know you guys are smart, look into it yourselves.

Lastly, Here is a special type of disinfo.

We have to band together to stop the NWO but you need to know who is really behind the wizard’s curtain. NO MORE WAR FOR ISRAEL!

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http://groups.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=groups.groupProfile&groupid=104540793&Mytoken=6E1E2B88-92B0-403D-A2F229AFCCACAB6062801179

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BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW

9-11, Iraq, PNAC , All roads lead to Israel

bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem

In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

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9-11, Iraq, PNAC , All roads lead to Israel

Some of the “911 was an inside job” camps like to lay out 4 scenarios. Briefly they go as follows.

1 Is the official story.
We got caught with our pants down and terrorists did 911. And the wars in the Middle East are part of the greater war on terrorism.

2 The incompetence excuse
There was information available about the coming attacks but because of our incompetence we failed to see it. Terrorists attacked the US. And the wars in the Middle East were based on mistakes (more incompetence) but now we got to stay.

3 They let it happen
They knew full well about the coming 911 attacks but allowed it to happen in order to use it as a pretext to go to war with Iraq and Afghanistan as it was in military and corporate interests (particularly oil) to do so.

4 They made it happen. (They meaning just vaguely the Bush Admin)
The Bush government either helped protect the terrorists or simply used them as patsies, and assisted the plane crashes effects with bombs placed inside the towers prior to 911. The wars in the Middle East were about oil.

The 911 was an inside job camps then say the evidence must land you somewhere between 3 and 4 with more research dropping you firmly on 4.

Let me now throw in a 5th scenario

5 The Neocons Made it happen with the assistance of a foreign government, the same government where PNAC was first written, and who we have caught spies from who have been stealing secrets from us about Iran, and who made up the shadow government of the OSP which is who cherry picked and fabricated the lies told about Iraq in order to start the war. The Wars in the middle east were for separate reasons, Afghanistan was about a few pipelines as noted but more so about controlling large quantities of un-tapped uranium (a reason for both the Russian and US invasions) and secondly for controlling opium as the CIA uses drug money to fund it’s off the book black operations such as the now known massive secret prison systems, (torture camps and human medical/scientific testing). Location-wise Afghanistan is coupled with other color coded revolutions to circle China and Russia with US bases and puppets, (add to that the lesser known negotiations with Japan to allow nuclear subs into the Japanese Sea [pointed at China] in exchange for moving troops from Okinawa to Guam). The main goal however, which the PNAC think tank states, is to keep the eye on the pie: Iran, which Afghanistan and Iraq both boarder. The invasion of Iraq was to solve Israel’s oil crisis and stop the threat of a secular Middle East which would become a true economic player and was a threat to the aggressive state of Israel.

The evidence if it was ALL being stated, especially pertaining to the war in Iraq, would land you somewhere between scenario 4 and 5 and more research would land you firmly in 5.

A lot of people have written about and shown the problems with official 911 story. There is the demolition of building number 7, which the 911 commission didn’t even address, there are the firemen’s reports that the fires were almost out, there are numerous reports of secondary explosions etc. Because it has been said on radio and more so because people have made films about it, many people can recite the arguments for the inside job in their sleep. But what has been hidden from you and the dots which have not been connected in any 911 films is the Israeli connection. 911 was an inside job which was part of a larger plan for perpetual war hatched in Israel. 911 and the wars in the Middle Eastwere carefully planned attacks carried out by a faction of Zionist Neocons and the Israeli Mossad. I would like to focus more on who did it rather than just that it was done. It’s crystal clear that the government’s official story like their stories on everything else is a complete lie. Who really did 911?

To answer this question one should first ask, who had the power to cover it up? Who would have the power to censor the media and have total confidence that they could censor the media given an event this size? One look at the non-coverage of Israeli’s illegal occupation of Palestineshould give you an answer. Nowhere, in the US televised media, do they even mention that there is an occupation. This massive conflict, which one would assume would be impossible to conceal, is totally shielded from the American public. The Occupation is missing from the news and they purposely paint the distorted picture that Israel just defends itself from crazy suicide bombers. This is not something they can hide, or even debate about, the occupation is visible, you can go visit it, and it is widely covered in media outside the US, but you will never ever hear Israel’s crimes even mentioned. There is no news of the Jewish-Only racial colonies that the UScalls “Settlements” and “Neighborhoods” reported on Fox, ABCNNBCBS which is really one net work that tells the same stories often in the same order. I will explain why in the media section.

Also there has been no reporting on the second Israeli spy-ring, none, zero, and the first spy ring uncovered was yanked from Fox News.

Even though it is an open secret to the rest of the world, in the US there has been no mention of Israel’s secretly built nuclear weapons. The list goes on… the faction that has nothing to fear from the US media and who could cover up something as huge as 911 or larger are the Zionists of Israel and their allies in the US government and press who all profit through the MIC and investments from fridge element religious organizations who are rewarded with air-time.

One should also look at the list of congressmen on the AIPAC lobby’s “payroll” and then look at the astonishing number who we know had connections the Zionist lobbyist and criminal Jack Abramoff. (who is deeply connected to the Israeli Mossad and 911 as I will show you later).

The second question one should ask, is ‘what did 911 serve’? The answer to that is very simple. The aftermath of 911 led to two different wars, and we all know how 911 was falsely attached to the justifications for America’s wars. Almost 90% of US troops in Iraqthink that Saddam had a role in 911 and that the war was revenge for it. That level of total ignorance is mindblowing. War is of course is good for select businesses and central banks because they are debt generators. Iraq was not a threat to the US, they were a threat to Israel, and the same case can be said about Iran. We know who really wants these wars.

There can be no doubt that the press consciously distorted information leading up to the wars, and that they never made any clear pronouncements about how they had been wrong about their lies, with the Weapons of Mass Destruction myth being a clear stinging example. There are people in the US who still believe that Iraq had WMDs or that they moved them to Syria lol. If you want to know who planned 911 then a good place to look would be who do we know planned and then lied about Iraq? (also who has been lying the most about Iran) Who championed the disinformation? Where were the lies coming from? And when was this war really planned and where? The answered to all of those questions are sadly the same. Israel and American Zionists. And that is a fact we can prove.

If you want to know who the neocons are that orchestrated 911 then you should look at some of their other messes. We will start with PNAC and then jump and work backwards from the War in Iraq to 911.

Some 911 films have even been misleading, mentioning PNAC without telling the origins and then dropping some big names like Cheney and Rumsfeld who actually didn’t write one word of any of the PNAC papers. But I will leave that for the disinformation section. Don’t get me wrong, those two guys are the scum of the earth, but let’s be clear on who did what. Cheney had a central role in abetting the Mossad by personally having the authority to command NORAD moved to his position prior to 911, so that he could personally make NORAD stand down and assure that the planes hit their targets. And yes a plane DID hit the pentagon. I don’t want to argue here about that or get accused of dividing the movement, but you can see that here. This really should not be where our focus is as we already have much stronger evidence about the WTC towers. There is no motive to use a missile, why not just drop the plane? And before you say a pilots could not make that kind of flight, let me remind you many of the said hijackers were found alive. So that part of the arguement is pointless. They were never on those planes, they were flown by remote control via ultra Zionist Dov S. Zakheim. (another PNAC founder)

A lot of people know about PNAC, but very few people have taken a hard look at its origins. PNAC was a spin off from the American Enterprise Institute, and 100% of the members are Zionists. People have also gotten confused between the actual authors and people who just signed their letters. Rumsfeld for example is not part of the special in-group as its chairman William Kristol revealed, irronically on the Colbert report. PNAC was co-authored by the same people who have been caught lying about the Iraq War’s pre-invasion intelligence. We are talking about only around 28 people who helped fabricate evidence and pass it off to the president and journalists (and in some cases fake journalists like Gannon). PNAC’s ideas and statements stem from Israeli policy papers. And PNAC’s papers are comprised by Israeli citizens who are connected to every major Zionists group on earth.

In fact, PNAC’s papers were written by the very same people who wrote Israeli policy papers and hold dual citizenship with Israel. The war in Iraq and control over energy resources ect is all lined out in Israel’s A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm” which was written by Richard Perle and Douglas Feith. That is just one of many papers this little blood for money cabal cranked out. The IASPS (Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Science) also wrote a paper called the Afghan Vortex a year before the invasion. Note also that the US had ships already in place set to invade before 911.

One principle PNAC author was Paul Wolfowitz. In 1992 Paul Wolfowitz wrote the Defense Planning Guidance, with his former Student Lewis Libby:

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The foreign strategy of the US must be “unapologetic, idealistic, assertive and well funded. Americamust not only be the world’s policeman or its sheriff, it must be its beacon and guide..Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power. These regions include Western Europe, East Asia, the territory of the former Soviet Union, and Southwest Asia..There are three additional aspects to this objective: First the U.S must show the leadership necessary to establish and protect a new order that holds the promise of convincing potential competitors that they need not aspire to a greater role or pursue a more aggressive posture to protect their legitimate interests. Second, in the non-defense areas, we must account sufficiently for the interests of the advanced industrial nations to discourage them from challenging our leadership or seeking to overturn the established political and economic order. Finally, we must maintain the mechanisms for deterring potential competitors from even aspiring to a larger regional or global role.”

Paul Wolfowitz, who is now the head of the WTO, (appointed by Bush) was formerly the Director of Policy Planning in the Defense Department. Like Perle, he was also a “Scoop” Jackson Democrat and worked for Jacksonin the 70s. Paul was a principle PNAC author and he openly admitted in Vanity Fair magazine that they settled on WMD as the excuse to use to get a war with Iraq.

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For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, because it was the one reason everyone could agree on.

-May 2003 Vanity Fair

“we” Settled on WMDs…. who is “we” could it be the Zionist cabal that had been writing about the desire for a war with Iraq and who set up the OSP? he is also admitting that they were just inventing reasons for war to present to the public.

The Weapons of Mass Destruction claim is important because it was the legal reason for the invasion. If they were complying with UN resolution 1441 then the US did not have grounds to invade. please go here and listen to my Feb 10th radio interview which outlines more background on that as well as the sanctions which helped starve half a million people. Allow that statistic to sink in. 500,000 people mostly children starved to death. Can you comprehend the horror of that? It gets worse, but that is an extra tangent for now.

Paul Wolfowitz presented an open letter to Bill Clinton on January 26, 1998 where the opening lines clearly state the desire to go to war with Iraq. “Wolfowitz urged Clinton to recognize a provisional [Iraqi] government headed by the Iraqi National Congress under Chalabi.” Wow sound familiar? This would is what would later become PNAC’s doctrine and US foreign policy.

Later in 2000 PNAC released what is normally referred to as the document more of you are familiar with which is commonly but mistakenly just called “PNAC” and that was PNAC’s magnum opus, the paper, “Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategies, Forces and Resources for a New Century” This is the paper stating the infamous lines about the need for a New Pearl Harbor… P63 or P51 depending on the pdf you have. The bulk of the document however is about going to war with Iraq. It reiterates what this same dirty cabal had written for Israel’s Prime Minister (1996) Benjamin Netanyahu.

Now Wolfowitz did not do this on his own, Lewis Libby, Douglas Feith and Richard Perle and others who have recently resigned and or are or have been caught up in criminal activity in the past, all took part. Please see the real list of PNAC’s authors

Interestingly, Richard Perle and Wolfowitz both worked as aides to senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson. In 1970 while working for Jackson, (A Democrat!) Perle was charged with two heinous acts, spying for the state of Israel and leaking information about the CIA in regards to its nuclear deterrent program, to Russia. Now keep that in mind because it is very important. It’s the very same things that have happening with AIPAC and the Plame Affair from under Perle and Feith’s offices. Perle is even part of the tax-exempt Henry Jackson Society.

Perle is the nastiest of the nasty. In my mind he is The worst Neocon of them all. He has appropriately earned the nickname “The Prince of Darkness.” Perle along with Douglas Feith and David Wurmser, (all three of them got jobs in the US defense department, Perle and Fieth have had to resign) authored the Israel’s “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm.”

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Israel can shape its strategic environment, in cooperation with Turkey and Jordan, by weakening, containing, and even rolling back Syria. This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq .. an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right as a means of foiling Syria’s regional ambitions.

-Israel’s A Clean Break:A New Strategy for Securing the Realm by Richard Perle and Douglas Feith. (under the heading “Moving to a Traditional Balance of Power Strategy”

Now all of us that pay any attention to facts, know that Iraq had nothing to do with 911, so just why were we invading them and who cooked up the intelligence to justify it? And who openly wrote about it before we did it? And who was in the US Department of Defense creating groups like the OSP? The Zionist Israeli Firsters that is who. And we have plenty of irrefutable evidence to prove it. But that’s not all, it goes even deeper and gets even more obvious.

While speaking to Wolf Blitzer from CNN, a former AIPAC employee, Perle said of Semour Hersh, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who exposed the My Lai massacre of Vietnamand later with the help of Joe Darby, broke the story about the Abu Ghraib torture scandal, “Sy Hersh is the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist, frankly.” And Perle is the author of at least 4 different IASPS papers.

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On March 17, 2003, veteran investigative reporter Seymour Hersh reported in the New Yorker that Perle used his position as chairman of the DPB to solicit $100 million for his security-oriented investment firm,-Trireme, which was his own personal version of the Carlyle Group. But unlike the principals at Carlyle, who at least had the decency to wait until they left government service to cash in on their connections, Perle was attempting to capitalize while still serving as an official advisor to Secretary of; Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

–source, 5th paragraph. although, I recommend reading all of it.

Perle helped create The Trireme firm which has tens of millions dollars worth of investments from Boeing whose board of directors comprises people like John Biggs, John E. Bryson, Linda Z. Cook, and William M. Daley who also sit on the BOD of major banks and mass media conglomerates. For more on that mess see this. Perle was on the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee from 1987 to 2004 and his advice was always the same, build more and upgrade more weapons.

In the run up to the war in Iraq, there was a lot of disinformation. Once again most people know what the lies were concerning the WMDs, the Al Qaeda accusations, the mushroom cloud scare tactics, (notice once again how the neocons chose to have Neo-Condi make that loaded fearmongering statement with Wolf Blitzer, from CNN, a former AIPAC employee.) liberating the Kurds, and lastly the joke of democracy building, which have all been shown to be falsehoods or failures. I picked each of these reasons apart in my book, but I think by now they should be pretty self evident.

What people do not seem to know is who made these fabrications. They assume it was just “Bush” and the vague term “the administration”. Well yes it was people in the administration, but who? Well let’s break it down. AIPAC and the OSP were the two Zionist faction in the government who spoon fed the lies about Iraq which Bush was looking for to the administration to justify an invasion. Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski explains how military officers’ opinions were dismissed or even punished by the civiliand cabal brought in from the American Enterprise Institute, (the Parent of PNAC).

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…But in fact, my outspokenness was probably never noticed because civilian professionals and military officers were largely invisible. We were easily replaceable and dispensable, not part of the team brought in from the American Enterprise Institute, the Center for Security Policy, and the Washington Institute for Near East Affairs

The Israelis were visiting the DOD without having to sign in and going straight to Feith’s office where the secretive OSP was headed. The same office Lawrence (Larry) Franklin worked for who was sentenced to 12 years in jail for spying for AIPAC the thug like Israeli lobby, who we have learned Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) used AIPAC to help bribe her position as the highest ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. And whose aid has been suspended thus far for leaking leaking the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq to the New York Times the same paper Libby leaked classified information to through Judith Miller. Of course another Israeli firster Nancy Pelosi is set to replace Harman and she has already stated she would block attempts to impeach Bush.

Kwiatkowski continues.
In early winter, an incident occurred that was seared into my memory. A coworker and I were suddenly directed to go down to the Mall entrance to pick up some Israeli generals. Post-9/11 rules required one escort for every three visitors, and there were six or seven of them waiting. The Navy lieutenant commander and I hustled down. Before we could apologize for the delay, the leader of the pack surged ahead, his colleagues in close formation, leaving us to double-time behind the group as they sped to Undersecretary Feith’s office on the fourth floor. Two thoughts crossed our minds: are we following close enough to get credit for escorting them, and do they really know where they are going? We did get credit, and they did know. Once in Feith’s waiting room, the leader continued at speed to Feith’s closed door. An alert secretary saw this coming and had leapt from her desk to block the door. “Mr. Feith has a visitor. It will only be a few more minutes.” The leader craned his neck to look around the secretary’s head as he demanded, “Who is in there with him?”

Why were Israeli generals visiting a secretive group in the DOD under the office of the Clean Break authors (as well as PNAC) Fieth and Perle where a Spy for the Israeli looby AIPAC was caught spying on the US? (and trial dates from the rest of it have been bumped up 5 times and growing daily.)

One of the most important scandals in the administration which is currently on trial with it’s second trial date set for Jan 2007, is the Plame outing and Niger forgeries. The Plame Affair involves Lewis Libby, Wolfowitz former student and PNAC author. Libby we discovered got his orders from higher up. Libby of course was was part of the Office od Special Plans. Libby’s scandal is complex, please see the above link and listen to my radio interviews 1 and 3 to get into it further.

Lewis “Scooter” Libby was Dick Cheney’s Chief of Staff (now resigned after his indictment (which I predicted long before it happened). He was also a presidential advisor. Libby was a lawyer for 15 years for the billionaire “commodities trader” Marc Rich, a fugitive that Bill Clinton gave a pardon to the last hour he was in Office as President. Libby is also among the Republican perverts crowd writing fictional books about underage Japanese girls getting forcefully raped by a bear in a cage, among other disgusting things I see no point in repeating. This kind of work actually fit perfectly with his client Marc Rich if you know about him. That story is rather interesting and it’s in my book, but that’s too big a tanget for now. Seriously, there is something deeply wrong with these people.

UPDATE (we now have the Mark Foleywhich is set to widen enormously not in the MSM but on sites like this one). Abramoff, the Zionist criminal lobbiest, was paying for congressmen’s trips to visit the sex slavery market. We know other high ranking Republicans knew about Mark Foley for months yet they did nothing. I smell something Much deeper at work here.

I remember when a man with the same last name, Mick Foley, gave a speech on RAW where he made a play on the smelt-it-delt-it thing, saying often those who are yelling the loudest about something are guilty of it, like Rush Limbaugh ranting about drug use when he was a pill popper and dealer himself. And how the Chicken Hawks call for war. Well, this can include Mark Foley (not Mick) as he was the congressman incharge of writing the laws against pedophiles and missing children! Before someone points it out, yes, Mick Foley was a professional wrestler, so what, so was Jesse Ventura. Like comedy channels Wrestling has actually been a good covert criticsim about politics. Note the NWO in the wrestling world, or the WWE Debates. People can scoff at this but I would argue that in today’s world of Faux News that entertainment programs deliver more accurate information than the news networks most notably Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert. (Note that I am not saying any of these entertainers agree or disagree with me on 911) However when a celebrity speaks out like Charlie Sheen has, they have their opinion judged based on their profession rather than on its merits.

Andreas von Bulow the former German Defense Minister said on the Alex Jones show April 21, 2006 that this false flag operation [911] had to be carried out by a very small group of people. Alex asked him 100? 40? He said less than that. Right after the second break (which on the QuickTime bar would be right in line with Andreas von Bulow’s right ear) Alex talks about the picture getting more clear as the truth about the wars come out. He then talks about the 25 Neocons who wrote PNAC were in high positions in the DOD and white house, and Andreas von Bulow says “sure and part of them wrote the government program for Benjamin Netanyahu… “(Former Prime Minister of Israel). Alex goes on to say who could have done this? Bulow says it was not the CIA and Alex jumps in saying your talking about black ops. Then Alex says we know only a MAJOR STATEcould have carried this out. Andreas says it must have been done from high up and it had to be done by a few people. Alex says would you say 100-200, AVB says less, Alex askes 50 people? And AVB says less. Maybe Alex can not say it was the Zionists on the air. But he sure was hinting at it.

Well I have just been telling who the Neocons who wrote PNAC and were embeded in the DOD were. They are the Zionist cabal.

Bush and his merry band of sadistic Zionists would like to blame shift the responsibility of the WMDs myths to the CIA. Well as evil and corrupt as the CIA is, it is not that sloppy. Bush did not just get “mistaken intelligence” or make “miscalculations” he explicitly asked for fabrications.

Here is the concrete proof that they lied. One of Bush’s claims about Iraq was that Saddam was trying to acquire yellow-cake uranium from Africa. This rhetoric was further laced in fear by Neo-condelsleeza Rice saying we could not let the smoking gun be a mushroom cloud. What outrageous audacity, (they are even re-using the same fear-mongering excuses to attack Iran) they were dead wrong as George Tenet (head of the CIA at the time of 911) would later have to admit.

Well the document that Bush based this claim on was a fake! How do we know? Because the signature on it was forged. How do we know? Because the forgers put down the wrong person’s name. The Foreign minister from Niger, the country they were claiming Saddam was gathering uranium from, who supposedly signed it had been out of power since 1989! Allele Elhadj Habibou was not in power at the time of the supposed signature. Look here I have the primary documents and a summary.

Quote : In a letter from the President of Niger a reference is made to the constitution of May 12, 1965 — but the constitution is dated August 9, 1999; Another letter purports to be signed by Niger’s foreign minister, but bears the signature of Allele Elhadj Habibou, the minister between 1988-89; An obsolete letterhead is used, including the wrong symbol for the presidency, and references to state bodies such as the Supreme Military Council and the Council for National Reconciliation are incompatible with the letter’s date; It wasn’t until just before the war began that Mohamed El Baradei, IAEA director-general, told the UN Security Council on March 7 that his team and ‘outside experts’, had worked out that ‘ these documents … are in fact not authentic’.

Now that must be embarrassing. Be nice if the mainstream media would report that. Now are you ready to get pulled out of the rabbit hole some more? I will come back to just who forged these documents. (Ahmad Chalabi , Francis Brookes, Dewey Clarridge, and Michael Ledeen. ) First let’s see how they got into the president’s hands. Bush said, these well known false claims, as if they were true in his State of the Union Address. It has now been called is infamous 16 words, which he could be impeached for if we had an actual opposition party.

The disinformation was stove piped straight to Cheney/Bush by a little known shadow government called the OSP: the Office of Special Plans, headed under Cheney and Rumsfeld and a pack of Zionists underlings, yes the same ones who co-authored PNAC’s papers and the Clean Break for

Israel paper.

In an attempt to shut up people who tried to tell the public that the uranium claim was a lie, and as a means to prevent the CIA from catching who forged the documents, and as a means to once again undermine the US’s ability to track nuclear weapons thus creating wiggle room to lie about Iran, a clandestine CIA agent and her front company BJA was uncovered when journalists from the NY Times and CNN were purposely slipped information by Cheney’s Chief of Staff, Lewis Libby and Presidential advisor Karl Rove. To unravel all of this please go
here

We now have Libby admitting that Bush and Cheney authorized him to leak the information, yet another offense they could both be impeached for were we to have a functional Republic. Remember that Libby was also a co-author of PNAC and worked with Wolfowitz under Cheney in Bush the first’s presidency. Interesting isn’t it?

Don’t worry it gets worse. Notice that this is something that Richard Perle got in trouble for in the past. Perle has resigned from his position in the Department of Defense. He did so just after AIPAC’s headquarters was physically raided by the FBI, how coincidental. What is AIPAC? Well AIPAC would be Israel’s largest lobby. (In reality it is a Zionist lobby and it does not benefit Israel per-se, it benefits the MIC). A man working for Perle in the DOD named Larry Franklin has gotten sentenced to 12 years in jail for passing off top secret documents to AIPAC who in turn gave them to the Israeli government through the Israeli embassy in DC. Go read about that scandal here

So Israel has been caught spying on the US again what is new other than the fact that a foreign government can get caught spying in the US in a time of war and the Media will not report it. Just imagine if it had been Iranian spies instead of Jews, and how big this story would be. Also imagine that were attacking Iran’s enemies and were following a war plan written off of Iranian policy papers and a disproportionate number of the authors were all Iranian Americans who were still in government and had dual citizenship to Iran. Ha ha not a chance but you see Israel can get away with it because Israel is a cash cow for the Military-Industrial-Complex.

Corporations have obviously profiteered from the wars, that should be clear to captain obvious. But did they write, implement, and use deception, to start this war or was that the Zionists? Who got caught spying on the US, Halliburton or Israel? Israelthat is who. The profiteering is a by product of the war as in any war. They are all in bed together because of overlapping interests between the military related corporations and the Zionists. Zionism which allows a standing army to invade Palestine in order to protect illegal racial colonies of religious fanatics who think GOD gave them the land they bulldozed and shot children for in order to steal it…

However, just how the Hell do they get away with it? Well they are free from any and all criticism because they play the two cards which an over-socialized liberal can not see through. They play the race card and the religion card, a double whammy. If you say the J word it is over, even if Israel has an illegal military occupation and sets up racially segregated colonies into Palestine, kills kids, knocks down homes of civilians and attacks them with a military and runs a brutal police state which is causing a backlash of terrorism on Israeli people. The Zionists are the real racist, engaging in ethnic cleansing in the name of defense and calling any opposition terrorists. They are creating terrorism by engaging in it themselves.

Video link Israel can do ANYTHING and the press will not mention. But then again just who owns our press and our banks?…

One of the arguments that people express or at least struggle with, who do not believe 911 was an inside job, is the question of the media. They cannot believe that no one in the media would talk about it. Well anyone who knows jack about the Israeli Palestine conflict knows how much the US media, lies, distorts, and omits information in order to push the Zionists’ aims.

This site has this video up in the “best of section,” I highly recommend seeing “Peace Propaganda and the Promised Land” to learn more about the relationships between Israel and the US media. Visit our video section and watch all those films. For the record Google has reset this counter on this video many times. It was number 31 with millions views now down to 700,000 plus.

What people need to realize is what is behind the Media.

The MEDIA

Well the major networks are all owned by different corporations.
These corporations have vested interest in the largest umbrella corporation on earth, the Military industrial complex, or one might say the industries involved in weapons manufacturing, reconstruction, energy, ect everything that has a pay check tied to the allocation of money to the military. Corporations have “Boards of Directors.” However the same people may serve on multiple “Board of Directors” for different corporations, and they do as I will explain.

For Example CBS is owned by Viacom so is MTV, VH1, and Nickelodeon. It’s not just the news but the sitcoms and such as well that are part of the propaganda. Viacom is owned by Sumner Redstone. (originally Murray Rothstein) CNN is owned by AOl-TimeWarner. Warner Brothers is owned by Gerald Levin. ABC is owned by Disney. Disney is owned by Michael Eisner. Fox is owned by the Rupert Murdoch News Corporation. MSNBC is obviously influenced by Microsoft who holds 18% of the company but it was founded by none other than the corporate welfare sucking G.E. (who is deeply invested in the Israeli occupation).

Members of the Board of Directors of these corporations sit on the BOD of the weapons manufactures and mega companies like Texaco, Chevron, Boeing, Lockheed, Citigroup, Rockwell Automation, Chase, Worldcom, JP Morgan, Haliburton etc.

Some are even in the government. For Example Chevron/Texco merged with Unocal who got the largest and first no-bid contracts from Afghanistan. The Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, was on the Board of Directors for Chevron/Texaco. They even named an oil tanker after her.

Let’s look at some of this mess.
BOEING

John H. Biggs sits on the board of directors for both Boeing and JP Morgan & Chase. How nice to direct both a company and two banks. John E. Bryson is on the BOD with Boeing and also He is a director of The Walt Disney Company, who owns ABC. Linda Z. Cook the CEO of Shell is also on the BOD of Boeing.
more on boeing here disgusting isn’t it.

Lockheed
Lockheed is comprised of mainly ex-military and x-government employees in the defense industry. They got caught in the 70s financing the right-wing party the LDP in Japanwho has open connections to the Yakuza the Mafia times 100. Check out the Kodama Lockheed incident. (“Rokkeido jiken”) They paid this mobster Kodama of the Kanto-kai and ties to the Yamaguchi-gume Yakuza wing (the largest one) 2 million in 1976 dollars to swing contracts for Lockheed. Lockheed’s president at the time Carl Kotchian was forced to report in detail the company’s long history secret payments to Kodama. It’s a well known scandal in Japanas it was so disgraceful that 1) the Japanese government is full of mafia and 2) they got money from the very same company that built the planes that dropped the atomic bombs on Japan.
more here This was Japan’s Watergate. But you won’t hear about it in any standard history text books. Lockheed was busted vribing the Prime minister (Kakuei Tanaka) both the ministries of transportation and industry as well as setting up a $50,000 kickback to the president of All Nippon Airways for each plane sold. -*

Dick (45 million in Halliburton) Cheney’s wife was on the BOD of Lockheed until 2001! Unbelievable, and Lockheed for the past 7 years in a row has gotten the largest government contracts normally tens of billions. Here is a list from 2005 back to 2000. As you can see Boeing is in second every year.

Top 20 Defense contracts for 2005

1 Lockheed Martin Corp. $20 billion
2 Boeing Co. 18.8 billion
3 Northrop Grumman Corp. 13.7 billion
4 General Dynamics Corp. 11.1 billion
5 Raytheon Co. 9.4 billion
6 Halliburton Co. 5.9 billion
7 United Technologies Corp. 4.9 billion
8 L-3 Communications Holdings 4.8 billion
9 Carlyle Group 2.7 billion
10 SAIC 2.7 billion
11 BAE Systems 2.6 billion
12 General Electric Co. 2.5 billion
13 Computer Sciences Corp. 2.4 billion
14 Humana Inc. 2.2 billion
15 Textron Inc. 2.1 billion
16 Occupational Health Services 2 billion
17 ITT Industries 1.9 billion
18 Triwest Healthcare Alliance Co. 1.8 billion
19 URS Corp. 1.5 Billion
20 Bechtel Group Inc. 1.5 billion

Top 20 defense contracts for 2004

Lockheed Martin Corporation $20,690,912,117
The Boeing Company $17,066,412,718
Northrup Grumman Corporation $11,894,090,277
General Dynamics Corporation $9,563,280,236
Raytheon Company $8,472,813,918
Halliburton Company $7,996,793,706
United Technologies Corporation $5,056,937,646
Science Applications International $2,450,781,108
Computer Sciences Corporation $2,390,806,128
Humana, INC $2,372,078,226
L-3 Communications Holding, INC $2,260,292,852
BAE Systems PLC $2,192,647,377
Health Net, INC $1,899,824,940
General Electric Company, INC $1,822,720,199
Bechtel Group, INC $1,742,470,267
Bell Boeing Joint Program $1,539,815,440
ITT Industries, INC $1,539,742,075
Electronic Data Systems Corp $1,538,272,307
Honeywell International, INC $1,462,914,723
Carlyle Group $1,442,680,416

Top 10 defense contracts in 2002 before the Iraq war.

1 Lockheed Martin Corp. $17.0 billion
2 Boeing Co. $16.6 billion
3 Northrop Grumman Corp. $8.7 billion
4 Raytheon Co. $7.0 billion

6 United Technologies Corp. $3.6 billion
7 Science Applications International Corp. $2.1 billion
8 TRW Inc. $2.0 billion
9 Health Net, Inc. $1.7 billion
10L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc. $1.7 billion

2001

1 15. Billion Lockheed Martin Corp. 15,130,223,000
2 13. Billion Boeing Co. 13,595,338,000
3 11. Billion Northrop Grumman Corp. 11,122,116,000
4 5.8 Billion Raytheon Co. 5,875,142,000
5 5.5 Billion General Dynamics Corp. 5,213,835,000
6 3.6 Billion United Technologies Corp. 3,678,345 ,000
7 1.9 Billion TRW Inc. 1,970,383,000
8 1.7 Billion SAIC 1,774,863,000
9 1.6 Billion General Electric Co. 1,682,903,000
10 1.4 Billion Carlyle Group 1,413,968,000

As you can See every Year Lockheed Martin is at the top by a large gap followed by Boeing and Northrop Grumman Corporation. Notice that Carlyle and General Electric and Halliburton are in there as well. We are giving them BILLIONS, actually tens of Billions Almost as much as what Churches send to Israel. Please now read this

I got these figures from their own websites. Go ahead and comb them with a fine tooth comb. These are not secrets. This is right out in the open. These are not secret societies, these are companies in the MIC who profiteer from war and who own our mass media.

Let’s look at number 3 Northrop Grumman Corp.

They also have a hand in glove relationship with the government. They have been in the government.

Vic Fazio
Senior Advisor at Northrop

Quote

“Vic Fazio served as a Member of Congress for 20 years representing California’s third congressional district. During that time, he served as a member of the Armed Services, Budget and Ethics Committees and was a member of the House Appropriations Committee where he served as Subcommittee Chair or ranking member for 18 years

source

Kevin Sharner and Philip Frost both on the BOD at Northrop are or have been on the BOD of major Pharmaceutical companies.

It just gets more nasty the more you look

I will let you look up the rest on your own. Just grab some of the names from these list and look at their BODs. Needless to say they are all one happy corporate killing family. Nothing makes them more money than warfare. And nothing is currently a larger cash cow than the Zionist occupation of Palestinewhich also has the financing of super right wing Christian churches who get the benefit of air time from the networks for preaching the message that is best for the warmongers and investing their money into their stocks. More on that whole mess and the iron triangle etc here

Multi-national corporations run our press and government. They tie back to the privately owned central banks. long story short the MSM is full of shit.

Wanna to see more on the MIC?

Defense spending

Our senate voted on the new bill for Defense spending 100 for and 0 against it. That’s 100% for giving more money to the MIC and ZERO opposition.

Some interesting parts

(Sec. 8024) Authorizes DOD to incur obligations of up to $350 million for DOD military compensation, construction projects, and supplies and services in anticipation of receipts of contributions from the government of Kuwait. –source

(Sec. 8082) Earmarks specified RDT&E funds for producing Arrow missile components in the United States and Arrow missile components and missiles in Israel to meet Israel’s defense requirements. –source

There was this Amendment, but it got rejected.

S.AMDT.4875 to H.R.5631 To increase by $200,000,000 the amount appropriated or otherwise made available by title IX for the purpose of supplying needed humanitarian assistance to the innocent Lebanese and Israeli civilians who have been affected by the hostilities between Hezbollah and the Government of Israel.

8/3/2006 Amendment SA 4875 ruled out of order by the chair –source click Amendments and go to the very bottom of the page.

They can spend money to build missile but not to help civilians wounded or left homeless by missiles Israel used of a civilian population in Lebanon. The Amendment said Israeli and Lebanese civilians the problem being Lebanon had 2.5 billion damages and Israel specifically targeted civilian areas where as Hezbollah didn’t. Israel also used DU and cluster bombs and landmines all of which are illegal.

And nothing is covered with more of a bias than the occupation of Palestine. THE KEY ISSUE. Watch a long film on that here or a short film
here

911 was a spring board for these on going wars. You already know why the press won’t touch it. So WHO do you think took part in 911???

Let’s jump back to Iraq. The media has not covered crucial aspect of the war in Iraq either. The televised press still has not mentioned AIPAC’s spy ring yet they have reported outright lies about Iraq and Iran. There has also been no mention of the Niger Forgeries or the deeper aspects of the Plame affair that being why Bush ordered her ousted and how did Jeff Gannon (male hooker working for a fake news agency) make reference to internal government memos about it?! Where is the US press that could simply explain in one sentence that the wall Israel is building is not even on their boarder but cuts into Palestine? Where was the US’s coverage of the mk77 dropped all over Fallujah? How about the obvious theatre like production of the toppling of the Saddam statue in Iraq that British press could report in the same language and yet the Majority of Americans remain blissfully in the dark about it. There have been so many lies, not just about war….

The ATTA story is a smoking gun.

Answering some common questions.

Here is a question you may have asked yourself. If 911 was an inside job (and I believe it was) then why was there so much prior knowledge of the attacks? Granted it was ignored, but how could there be intelligence of an Al Qaeda ring in the US and all those pilots going to flight schools and the warning about Bin Laden wanted to attack America if the said hijackers didn’t do it (which is evident by some of them still being alive) ?

Why risk them getting busted if they were patsies? Since the hijackers didn’t do it how was there any evidence of them planning an attack that they didn’t do and obviously didn’t even know about considering they were going to get the blame?

Furthermore if the government really did 911 then why leak information about your own patsies and look like incompetent fools when the warnings were ignored?

The prior knowledge arguments have evidence. They do two things. They make the Bush administration look incompetent for not acting on supplied information but it also looks like the attacks could have been prevented had Bush and co only read the memos they were being given. What that does is make it appear like the attack was done by Arab terrorists. The Democrats naturally jumped all over this a chance to make Republicans look bad yet still blame 911 of Arab terrorists.

Someone was dropping hints and information to imply that the terrorists were Arabs and mainly from Saudi Arabia. Why did they frame Saudi Arabiaif it was a frame and they were patsies then why not use at least one Iraqi after all that is who they wanted to attack and did attack after 911. Why Saudi Arabia?

The answer is clear when you understand who really caried out 911. The Israeli Mossad and their neocon moles and the blackmail controlled shills.

OK so let’s put some facts together. Someone obviously wanted to pin the 911 terrorists attacks on Muslim Arabs.

One of the most laughable parts of the 911 story was the FBI finding Atta’s unburned passport two blocks away from the twin towers. What a crock. Atta’s pass port had been reported stolen in 1999 magically that missing and stolen pas port is the same one that was found at ground zero. Geee someone must have put it there for the FBI to find in order to implicate Muslim Arab terrorists.

Who could that be? Who got caught on 911 in a white van that had traces of explosives in it and worked for a moving company which turned out to be a front for the Israeli Mossad? 5 Israeli agents got caught and the first thing out of their mouths was Gosh an English speaking x-military explosives expert cheering and taking pictures of the WTC burning towers in in NY on 911 who worked for a fake moving company in the Mossad driving a van that had a hit with bomb sniffing dogs and over 4 thousand dollars stuffed in a sock is nothing to be concerned about. Sivan Kurzberg could still say with a straight face. “It wasn’t me, blame the Palestinians.”

Shortly after 911 we had two different Anthrax letters trying to blame 911 on the Arabs. One read

Quote:

“We are Israelis. We are not your problem. Your problems are our problems. The Palestinians are your problem.”

Quote:

“You cannot stop us. We have this anthrax. You die now. Are you afraid? Death to America. Death to Israel. Allah is great.”

And the other read

Quote:

This is next. Take Penacilin now. Death to America. Death to Israel. Allah is great.”

Death to America and Death to Israel. Gee, I wonder who really wrote it? Might it be Israel?

Rudi Dekkers was Atta’s or someone pretending to be Atta’s flight instructor in Florida. Note that we know the The Israeli Mossad was living next door to Atta in Florida (supposedly monitoring him).

Now Rudi Dekkers discovered that Atta could not speak German. Mohamed Atta lived in Hamburg Germanyyet suddenly he must have forgotten ohw to speak German. Dekkers a Dutch citizen tried to converse with Atta who stared at him and had to ignore him eventually leaving for Boston.

Quote:

This is eerily similar to the way in which Zacharias Moussaoui (the so-called “20th hijacker”) became “belligerent” when his Minnesota flight instructor tried to speak to him in French (his first language), at the beginning of that course. The Minnesota Star Tribune reported onDecember 21, 2001: also here

“The real Atta would have been able to respond to his instructor’s German small talk and the real Moussaoui would have been able to respond to his instructor’s French small talk.” quoted from here

Well SOMEBODY was trying to create information about Arab Hijackers training for 911. SOMEBODY was living next to their partner Atta framer. No wonder Atta was seen so many times on the casino ships with Jack Abarmoff. He was not Atta he was the Mossad’s own boy. They killed the real Atta.

SOMEBODY left his passport at ground zero and then somebody wrote letters for the anthrax attacks steering Americas rage on Israel’s enemies.

Back to the Saudi question. So why there? To understand this one would have to be aware of the foiled Mossad plot in Mexico. To be breif the OIl rich Mexico was being set up to ally with the USby way of another false flag operation. But the polt was foiled and the Israelis busted with Hand grenades and TNT. I really encourage you to get my book Welcome to the USSA. Cut oil off from the Sauds…. Blame the Anthrax attacks on an Egyptian… invent false Al Qaeda connections with Iraq… say Osama is in Afghanistan…. cook up lies about Iran having nukes or making people wear yellow stars… Someone is not at war with terrorists but with Israel’s enemies. We KNOW they lied about Iraq. I assure you Bin Laden is already dead. And we know they are lying about 911.

The question no longer remains who did it? We know the specific names. We know who made the OSP and wrote PNAC who put the bombs in the towers and when and I have given you a good theory as to why and how it was covered up by showing how the press works.

FOLLOW THE OIL

You can see from the partical list I made of government contracts and Boards of directors, how the scam works between the MIC, Media conglomerates, and the banks. They profit from lying to you. Always follow the money and the motives. And in this day and age, follow the oil too.

The first proposed oil pipeline to be opened in Iraq was set to go to Tel Aviv Israel. Here is where they planned it ten days before the end of the war. And here is where they planned setting up another oil pipeline to Israel, this one going to Haifa. And they now pump oil from Mosul to Hiafa Golly gee, that is interesting why was all the oil planned to go to Israel?
Oh it gets worse. The US sends oil to Israel from Iraq then buys it from Israel.

Quote:

One of Israel’s largest oil marketing firms has won a multi-million dollar tender to supply fuel to US troops in Iraq. According to a IsraelNationalNews.com report, the tender awarded to Sonol gasoline company, along with its foreign partner Morgantown International, is valued at $70-80 million. The company is expected to supply the USforces with 25 million litres of fuel each month. The tender was issued by the US-based KDR Company, a subsidiary of Halliburton, which has been entrusted with the majority of US military contracts in Iraq

source

Israel takes US aid and buys oil from Iraq at 20% less than the cost it gets it from Russia and then sells it to the US and is also awarded contracts by the US government.

Well Israel did have an oil problem.

Quote:

According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), a statistical agency of the US Department of Energy, Israelproduces almost no oil and imports nearly all its oil needs (around 237,000 barrels a day in 2002). Traditionally, major oil import sources have included Egypt, the North Sea, West Africa and Mexico

Quote:

Information provided by the EIA states that in April 2003, there was some discussion of “reopening” the old oil pipeline from Mosul in Northern Iraq to the Israeli port of Haifa on its northern Mediterranean coast. The line, which was built in the 1930s, carried 100,000 barrels a day at its peak, but has been closed since Israel’s establishment in 1948. The reopening of this pipeline is, on the other hand, reported as being able to “solve Israel’s energy crisis at a stroke”.

Source

But that is not all. They took oil from Kirkuk where 40% of Iraq’s oil is and Hafar al Batin, Al Basrah (Basara) and Mosul too.

It’s a war for oil the left shouts. “No blood for oil” they say. Yeh that’s true, ‘no blood for oil’ going to Israel, while our own gas prices rise.

The neocons have failed manything because of hubris, they failed in Lebanon, they are failing in Iraq. They would like nothing more than to Balkanize Iraq into three sections with a Kurdistanin the North but instead they just have a messy low impact guerilla civil war. The cheers and flowers never came despite the massive propaganda.

Now 911. Back in Feb 2001 the US and UK attacked Iraq with much public Backlash. Bush bombed Baghdadjust two weeks after being sworn in to office. He tried to start PNAC’s plan then but the public was not having it. They needed that New Pearl Harbor event that PNAC said would be necessary.

They rigged it with the Mossad’s help on 911.
here is how we know

Note the 5 dancing Israelis who had bomb sniffing dogs reacting to their van and who worked for a Mossad front, a fake moving company in NJ whose owner skipped town right after 911 and fled to Israel. Note that they all failed polygraph tests and were all x-military and oh geee explosive experts.

Note the following bogus Anthrax attacks which said “DEATH TO AMERICA DEATH TO ISRAEL” This was a huge story for a few day, long enough to pass the PATRIOT Act and then simultaneously it disappeared from all the News Networks over night. What a media coincidence huh? Putting it all together is easy. If 911 was an inside job and not the work of Al Qaeda (but patsies) then the anthrax didn’t come from Al Qaeda either. I wonder who sent it? I wonder where it came from? They basically named themselves in the classic Owellian double speak. America and Israel.

These things are not mentioned in 911 video alt radio and of course not on TV. Zionism is THE most sacred subject in the US. One mention of it and you are automatically and Anti-Semite. Well it is time to grow some balls and start talking about the Elephant in the room. Neocons from Israel and America started these wars and carried out 911. That’s the real 911 Truth.

New Information 100% proof Atta had a double
Red this summation of the how Atta was framed by the Mossad. Atta could not have been in two places at once, this just confirms my prior theory.

New Information Press caught in a huge lie about another Hijacker.Ziad Al Jarrah was recently (October 2006) shown in a video tape dated 2000-2001 with a full beard yet we have pictures of him all through out the same year clean shaven.

The MIC overlaps with the Zionism as more than half the CFRs and PNAC authors are Jewish Zionist. The reason being Jewish matters is that for some kooky reason just by having that religion (which is really an ethnicity in disguise,) one can have dual citizenship to Israel. Oh zionism is not a faith, (not that I think religions are too grand to begin with) Zionism is one version of one prophecy of one brand of one religion. If “legal Jewishness” was a religion and not a race then why the concept of bloodlines? You have to prove you are “Jewish” by ancestry to pass and that allows one to have dual citizenship with another country and government, Israel. Apparently this “religion” is genetically inherited much like a race. Thus the Zionists put the interests of a foreign government above the US.

The UN are puppets to the Banks which are also Zionist run and owned and have been since the days of the Rothchilds. The Veto Power rest with the colonial powers. However the “third” world is rising up. The UN can slap resolutions on Israel which Israel will openly defy all day. If America doesn’t want to enforce something then it is basically nothing but paper.

Zionists who have a hand in glove relationshipp with tax free multi-billion dollar churches, use that wealth to position theirselves into creating new conflicts which are used to milk in more money for the corporations under the MIC’s umbrella. They are acting as middlemen managing the money of stock holders through third party factions who practice insider trading with a veriety of profiteering methods. (video link I explained it here)

The ugly ‘Mega’ Zionist Ricahrd Perle (PNAC founder) buddied up with the wormy five foot two Super Zionist, Henry Kissinger who was the first choice to head up the 911 commission whose credibility is so poor that he had to decline the offer and give it to another Zionist Jew Michael Chertoff, whose cousin is the editor of Popular Mechanics a BS publication that tries to debate 911 with the likes of the ‘Loose Change’ folks who don’t even mention Zionism and spout off class-C arguments like the pentagon was hit by a missile and cell phones could not work on the planes. My advice is stick to Class A arguements, Building 7, Bush saw the first plane hit, the put-options, and the Mossad being caught redhanded as well as writing policy papers stating what they wanted to do including the following wars, the Anthrax, and follow the money. (In their defense they were never trying to lay blame on anyone, but just stating what they thought was fishy about 911.) I am glad the film is so wide spread, I just wish people who saw it would dig deeper afterwards.

Perle and Kissinger (Satan and Beelzebub) set up something called the Trireme Partners company. They raise venture capital from wealthy individuals and invest it into weapon companies, who they bet will get lucrative government contracts and thus raise their stock prices. But they know who getting the contracts, it’s insider trading. The defense industries and the companies under that massive umbrella corporation normally have ties to government employees. Kissinger didn’t call it insider trading, he called it ‘guaranteed speculation’. –Video

This is how the Zionist feed into the MIC. And the conflict in Israel with basically the entire Middle East is a cash cow for the military investments. It creates the demand.

These companies are not simply just American companies, most of them are multi-national with no loyalties to anyone aside from whichever government is the current medium they can use to pipe them money. And the money awarded to the companies by the State issued (aka communism, yes welcome to the USSA) contracts is not just the allocation of our tax money, the government is speanding way more than that (even when military spending consist of over half our tax money!). They are borrowing money by buying bonds from the Federal Reserve, which they have to pay interest on, in order to pay for the MIC pork projects and blood for oil and ethnic cleansing campaigns. We have created a 8.5 trillion dollar national debt. The Central banks as you know are rooted back to the same Zionists who wrote the plans for foreign policy (PNAC and ISCB) and collect from the investors. The largest investor of them all is not the wealthy individuals; it’s the multi billion dollar tax free institutions more popularly known as Protestant Churches.

Here is where it gets nasty. Religion has been perverted. The Christian-crazies are the kind of Christians who get to be on TV because they promote what is profitable for the government and themselves, are bankrolling the Zionist occupationand the yummy military related conflicts/projects it creates Sane Christians don’t get to have a TV show like Pat Robertson. Obviously the corrupt churches who pocket money are the ones who are going to rise in voice and power that is a no-brainer.

These people then promote the bigotry behind the “Settlements” and their racist attitudes. They can manipulate their flocks to vote for people like G.W. as they did in 2004 largely based on prejudice towards homosexuals. Christian Zionist have a happy alliance with the Jewish Zionists. They are not just using this to make money either. They are actually backwards enough that they believe all that “temple on the mount” rhetoric.

Tied to all of this is the corporate media and the banks. See the links. Wanna know what really happened on 911 go follow the Zionist like Larry Silverstein. And no it was not satanic groups, the Vatican, or the “illuminati.” It was real people with real names.

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US Terrorize The World – 5 Dzulhijah 1427 H (26.12.06)

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=== News Update ===

9-11, Iraq, PNAC , All roads lead to Israel

Some of the “911 was an inside job” camps like to lay out 4 scenarios. Briefly they go as follows:

1. Is the official story.

We got caught with our pants down and terrorists did 911. And the wars in the Middle East are part of the greater war on terrorism.

2. The incompetence excuse

There was information available about the coming attacks but because of our incompetence we failed to see it. Terrorists attacked the US. And the wars in the Middle East were based on mistakes (more incompetence) but now we got to stay.

3. They let it happen

They knew full well about the coming 911 attacks but allowed it to happen in order to use it as a pretext to go to war with Iraq and Afghanistan as it was in military and corporate interests (particularly oil) to do so.

4. They made it happen. (They meaning just vaguely the Bush Admin)

The Bush government either helped protect the terrorists or simply used them as patsies, and assisted the plane crashes effects with bombs placed inside the towers prior to 911. The wars in the Middle East were about oil.
http://groups.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=groups.groupProfile&groupid=104540793&Mytoken=6E1E2B88-92B0-403D-A2F229AFCCACAB6062801179

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The Power of Nightmares, part 1

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1002626006461047517&q=bbc

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Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America’s War? More Than 655,000

http://tinyurl.com/usq4x

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In Bush’s War 2950
http://icasualties.org/oif/

The War in Iraq Costs $351,444,838,962 – See the cost in your community
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182

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Iraq : The Warmonger’s Brigade

It appears the Bush administration has a real problem on its hands – the war effort is not going well at all and the military is on the verge of “breaking.” I do believe I have a plan, which if implemented right away could provide the needed relief Bush is desperately searching for. Desperate times call for desperate measures. If this country is indeed in danger of having to fight the enemy on our soil, it is time to pull out all stops. If the Bush administration is serious about “protecting our freedom” and this is not a war started on lies to increase the bottom line of companies from the Military Industrial Complex, it is time to deploy the Warmonger’s Brigade.
http://www.freedomunderground.org/view.php?v=3&t=3&l=2&aid=23108

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‘Regional power’ behind Iraq kidnappings

IRAQ’S interior minister has accused an unnamed regional power of being behind a recent spate of mass kidnappings in Baghdad and has promised to reveal more details in the coming days.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,20972437-5005961,00.html

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British troops attack Iraqi police station in Basra

Hundreds of British soldiers assaulted a police station in the southern city of Basra on Monday, killing seven gunmen, rescuing 127 prisoners and ultimately reducing the facility to rubble.

When British forces eventually gained control of the facility, they found the prisoners being held in conditions that a spokesman, Major Charlie Burbridge, described as “appalling.” He said that more than 100 men were crowded into a single 9-meter by 12-meter cell, or 30 feet by 40 feet, with two open toilets, two sinks and just a few blankets spread over the concrete floor.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/25/news/iraq.php

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British troops kill seven in Iraq police station raid

British forces demolish Basra police station to protect 127 prisoners feared would have been murdered.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/iraq/?id=18923

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UK troops storm Iraqi police HQ

Last time the Brits attacked a police station, it was because the police had arrested British undercover operatives caught planting bombs while dressed as Arabs.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6208535.stm

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Iraq massacre: US Marines ‘will point the finger of blame at senior officers’

Lawyers for eight Marines charged with involvement in the massacre of Iraqi civilians in Haditha 13 months ago have warned that they will point the finger much further up the chain of command if it means preventing their clients from being scapegoated.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2099982.ece

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Dec. is 2d-deadliest month for US forces in Iraq in ’06

BAGHDAD — Insurgent attacks have killed five more US servicemen, the military said yesterday — making December the second-deadliest month for American forces in 2006.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/12/23/dec_is_2d_deadliest_month_for_us_forces_in_iraq_in_06/

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Suicide bomber kills seven Iraqi policemen

One soldier killed in Diyala, 16 others wounded when two roadside bombs exploded in Khanaqinid.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/iraq/?id=18918

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Iraqi police deaths ‘hit 12,000’

Some 12,000 police officers in Iraq have died in the line of duty since the US-led invasion in 2003, Interior Minister Jawad Bolani said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6208331.stm

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6 U.S. troops die in bloody Iraq weekend

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Some 12,000 Iraqi policemen have been killed since the ouster of

Saddam Hussein, the country’s interior minister said Sunday, as clashes, a suicide bomber and weekend explosions killed more than a dozen Iraqi officers and six American soldiers.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061224/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

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Four U.S. military personnel killed in Iraq

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Four U.S. military personnel were killed and two were wounded in two separate incidents in Iraq on Saturday, the U.S. military said on Sunday.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-12-24T175252Z_01_L24197044_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-USA-SOLDIERS.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsHome-C1-topNews-6

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 24 December 2006.

• Five US troops reported killed in Resistance attacks in Baghdad Sunday.
• US soldier reported killed in Sunday morning Resistance bombing in Baghdad al-Jadidah.
• Resistance bomb in Baghdad’s ar-Ridwaniyah district leaves three US troops reported dead Saturday.
• The Resistance also set off four more bombs in Baghdad Sunday, targeted on puppet security forces.
• Resistance fighters assault puppet army checkpoint in northern Baghdad Sunday.
• Resistance sharpshooter kills Iraqi puppet army soldier in Baghdad Sunday morning.
• US troops arrest more than 20 men in Baghdad’s al-Yarmuk section Sunday morning.
• Resistance fighters kill Jaysh al-Mahdi commander in Baghdad’s al-Bayya’ district Sunday morning.
• Resistance bomb targets puppet “National Guards” in Baghdad Saturday afternoon.
• Three women students of al-Mustansiriyah University, abducted by the Jaysh al-Mahdi, found raped, murdered in Baghdad Saturday.
• Resistance fighters ambush US column near market in al-Ghazaliyah.
• US troops arrest woman to try to force husband to surrender.
• US F-16 warplanes kill 11 Iraqi villagers in al-Latifiyah area Sunday morning.
• Separate US air strike kills three villagers in al-Latifiyah.
• US troops open fire on civilian car killing driver in al-Khalidiyah, Sunday morning.
• Resistance blasts US camp in al-Karmah with heavy mortars Sunday.
• Resistance bomb rips through Iraqi puppet “National Guard” patrol in al-Hadithah.
• Resistance ambushes US patrol in ‘Anah Saturday afternoon.
• Resistance bombards joint US-Iraqi puppet army base near Hit Saturday afternoon.
• Resistance fighters attack Iraqi puppet army patrol near Iranian border.
• Resistance bomber kills six puppet policemen in al-Miqdadiyah Sunday morning.
• Resistance attack kills pro-American Badr Brigade activist in al-Basrah.

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../ar_articles_2006/1206/iraqiresistancereport_241206.htm

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Lights of Hope Shine Out in Bethlehem, Thanks to Hamas

While our President lights menorahs in the White House of a predominantly Christian country, Muslims in Bethlehem donate money to honor a Christian holiday in a predominantly Muslim town. But for the brain-dead Christian Zionists, all Muslims are “terrorists” and the Jews are our friends. Yet our Jewish “friends” fight tooth and nail to abolish Christmas here in the U.S. Will they ever figure this out?
http://joannafrancis.wordpress.com/2006/12/23/lights-of-hope-shine-out-in-bethlehem-thanks-to-hamas/

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Why Condemning Israel and the Zionist Lobby is so Important

The question of the power of the Lobby over US policies of war or peace, authoritarianism or democracy and over who defines the interests served by US foreign policy obviously go far beyond the politics of the Middle East, the Israeli-colonial land grabs in Palestine and even the savage occupation of Iraq. The playing out of Zionist influence over the greatest military power in the world, with the most far-reaching set of client states, military bases, deadly weapons and decisive voice in international bodies (IMF/World Bank/United Nations Security Council) means that the Lobby has a means to leverage its reach in most regions of the world. This leverage power extends over a range of issues, from defending the fortunes of murderous Russian-Jewish gangster oligarchs, to bludgeoning European allies of the US to complicity with Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_23607.shtml

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Crime of the Century: Are Bush & Cheney Planning Early Attack on Iran?

The idea of hitting Iran may make sense from the Bush-Cheney bunker, where the only consideration is not what’s good for the country, but what’s good for Bush and Cheney. After all, if you’re losing your war in Iraq, and if you have hit bottom politically at home (Bush’s ppublic support ratings are now down in the 20s, where Nixon’s were just before his resignation, and Cheney’s numbers have been in the teens for months), and if the public is clamoring for an end to it all–and maybe for your heads, too–expanding the conflict and putting the nation on a full war footing can look like an attractive even if desperate gambit.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_dave_lin_061223_crime_of_the_century.htm

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Iran criticizes hypocrisy of Security Council over Israeli WMDs

Iran denounced UN sanctions imposed on its nuclear program, accusing the Security Council of double standards for ignoring Israel’s recent admission of its nuclear capabilities.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20061225&articleId=4260

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Bush: God told me to invade Iraq

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=== News Update ===

Bush: God told me to invade Iraq

By Rupert Cornwell in Washington

President ‘revealed reasons for war in private meeting’

Published: 07 October 2005

President George Bush has claimed he was told by God to invade Iraq and attack Osama bin Laden’s stronghold of Afghanistan as part of a divine mission to bring peace to the Middle East, security for Israel, and a state for the Palestinians.

The President made the assertion during his first meeting with Palestinian leaders in June 2003, according to a BBC series which will be broadcast this month.

The revelation comes after Mr Bush launched an impassioned attack yesterday in Washington on Islamic militants, likening their ideology to that of Communism, and accusing them of seeking to “enslave whole nations” and set up a radical Islamic empire “that spans from Spain to Indonesia”. In the programmeElusive Peace: Israel and the Arabs, which starts on Monday, the former Palestinian foreign minister Nabil Shaath says Mr Bush told him and Mahmoud Abbas, former prime minister and now Palestinian President: “I’m driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, ‘George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan.’ And I did, and then God would tell me, ‘George go and end the tyranny in Iraq,’ and I did.”

And “now again”, Mr Bush is quoted as telling the two, “I feel God’s words coming to me: ‘Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East.’ And by God, I’m gonna do it.”

Mr Abbas remembers how the US President told him he had a “moral and religious obligation” to act. The White House has refused to comment on what it terms a private conversation. But the BBC account is anything but implausible, given how throughout his presidency Mr Bush, a born-again Christian, has never hidden the importance of his faith.

>From the outset he has couched the “global war on terror” in quasi-religious terms, as a struggle between good and evil. Al-Qa’ida terrorists are routinely described as evil-doers. For Mr Bush, the invasion of Iraq has always been part of the struggle against terrorism, and he appears to see himself as the executor of the divine will.

He told Bob Woodward – whose 2004 book, Plan of Attack, is the definitive account of the administration’s road to war in Iraq – that after giving the order to invade in March 2003, he walked in the White House garden, praying “that our troops be safe, be protected by the Almighty”. As he went into this critical period, he told Mr Woodward, “I was praying for strength to do the Lord’s will.

“I’m surely not going to justify war based upon God. Understand that. Nevertheless, in my case, I pray that I will be as good a messenger of His will as possible. And then of course, I pray for forgiveness.”

Another telling sign of Mr Bush’s religion was his answer to Mr Woodward’s question on whether he had asked his father – the former president who refused to launch a full-scale invasion of Iraq after driving Saddam Hussein from Kuwait in 1991 – for advice on what to do.

The current President replied that his earthly father was “the wrong father to appeal to for advice … there is a higher father that I appeal to”.

The same sense of mission permeated his speech at the National Endowment of Democracy yesterday. Its main news was Mr Bush’s claim that Western security services had thwarted 10 planned attacks by al-Qa’ida since 11 September 2001, three of them against mainland US.

More striking though was his unrelenting portrayal of radical Islam as a global menace, which only the forces of freedom – led by the US – could repel. It was delivered at a moment when Mr Bush’s domestic approval ratings are at their lowest ebb, in large part because of the war in Iraq, in which 1,950 US troops have died, with no end in sight.

It came amid continuing violence on the ground, nine days before the critical referendum on the new constitution that offers perhaps the last chance of securing a unitary and democratic Iraq. “The militants believe that controlling one country will rally the Muslim masses, enabling them to overthrow all moderate governments in the region” and set up a radical empire stretching from Spain to Indonesia, he said.

The insurgents’ aim was to “enslave whole nations and intimidate the world”. He portrayed Islamic radicals as a single global movement, from the Middle East to Chechnya and Bali and the jungles of the Philippines.

He rejected claims that the US military presence in Iraq was fuelling terrorism: 11 September 2001 occurred long before American troops set foot in Iraq – and Russia’s opposition to the invasion did not stop terrorists carrying out the Beslan atrocity in which 300 children died.

Mr Bush also accused Syria and Iran of supporting radical groups. They “have a long history of collaboration with terrorists and they deserve no patience”. The US, he warned, “makes no distinction between those who commit acts of terror and those who support and harbour them because they’re equally as guilty of murder”.

“Wars are not won without sacrifice and this war will require more sacrifice, more time and more resolve,” Mr Bush declared. But progress was being made in Iraq, and, he proclaimed: “We will keep our nerve and we will win that victory.”

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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article317805.ece

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Ex-Abu Ghraib detainee recounts atrocities committed by US forces

bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem

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=== News Update ===

Ex-Abu Ghraib detainee recounts atrocities committed by US forces

The Peninsula

December 23, 2006

DOHA • An Iraqi who spent seven months in Abu Ghraib jail in Baghdad says he has horrifying experiences to tell of how the US soldiers have committed atrocities on innocent Iraqi civilians who were taken into custody and put behind the bars for no fault of theirs.

And among the prisoners were not only young Iraqi men, but also the elderly, women and children, according to Abdul Jabbar Al Azzawi.

Having vowed to expose the “dirty face of America” before the world, Al Azzawi is here holding an exhibition of photographs showing “chilling” human rights violations committed by the US soldiers in his country.

The exhibition which opened yesterday on the sidelines of the ‘Islamist-Arab nationalists’ conference at the Ritz-Carlton ends today, although the conference concluded last evening.

Al Azzawi was working with a non-government organisation (NGO) doing family welfare work in Baghdad at the time of US invasion in early 2003. He says he was taken captive by the US forces because he was a Sunni Muslim and put in the dreaded Abu Ghuraib prison.

There were an estimated 9,000 to 9,500 Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghuraib at the time and many of them were old men, women and even children, Al Azzawi told The Peninsula in an interview.

An incident which Al Azzawi said changed his life and made him vow to expose the ‘gory deeds of Americans in Iraq’ before the world was the rape of a young Iraqi woman in front of other prisoners.

“All of us were kept in a cell each and there were about 50 cells in our wing. Late one night, I heard the voice of this Iraqi woman coming from her cell. She was being raped by some US soldiers and screaming for help.” ‘Save me, my Iraqi brothers!’ she was screaming hysterically.

“We could do nothing, so we began praying for her and reciting verses from the Holy Quran. Realising that we were in no position to come to her rescue, she also began reciting the verse.”

“However, she did not stop screaming. Her voice began gradually sinking and after a while, there was pin-drop silence. We don’t know what happened to her after that,” said Al Azzawi.

In reply to a question about the ongoing Sunni-Shi’ite conflict in Iraq, he said it is the handiwork of the Americans. “They are playing the Sunnis against their Shi’ite brethren.”

‘700,000 Iraqis killed since US invasion’

DOHA • More than 700,000 Iraqis have been killed since the US invaded the country in early 2003 until November this year, according to statistics released by the National Centre for Research and Arab Studies.

The figures were released at an exhibition of photographs showing human rights violations committed by US soldiers in Iraq which opened here yesterday on the sidelines of the ‘Islamists-Arab conference’ at the Ritz-Carlton.

Another 300,000 Iraqis are languishing in jails both inside the country and outside. There are huge camps in Kurba near Baghdad international airport and in Basra where a large number of Iraqi civilians have been kept prisoners. These camps are notorious for human rights violations, the release said.

source:
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=Local_News&subsection=Qatar+News&month=December2006&file=Local_News200612234114.xml

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Evidence of cooperation between Mahdi Army and US forces to attack Sunni neighborhoods

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=== News Update ===

Evidence of cooperation between Mahdi Army and US forces to attack Sunni neighborhoods

Roads to Iraq

December 23, 2006

Evidence of US occupation forces helping Mahdi Army to attack Sunni neighborhood and displace the residents.

The clip I managed to obtain is of woman recently displaced from AL-Hurryia neighborhood describes when Mahdai Army failed to capture her two sons because of the fierce resistance, Mahdi Army asked the American forces for help, the two brothers were arrested by the Americans, she said her two sons are now in jail.

At the beginning of the clip the woman says that her both sons are not involved in any political activities before and after the occupation.

The clip is here

Other News

– Iraqi Shiite Parties Iran and US occupation loyalists admit their heavy toll of death among their militia members:

Badr party: 1045

Al-Dawa party 745

Hizballah (Iraq branch): 213

Iraqi resistance training Sunni neighborhoods to defend their own areas against parties and government militias attacks, each district has a full battalion causing several deaths among the attackers.

Source: Islamicnews

http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2006/12/23/evidence-of-cooperation-between-mahdi-army-and-uus-forces-to-attack-sunni-neighborhoods/

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Militiamen abduct, rape and kill students

Nidhal al-Laithi, Azzaman

December 23, 2006
Three female students from the University of Mustansiriya were kidnapped, then raped and then killed and then their mutilated bodies passed to the Baghdad morgue.

The horrendous crime has shocked many in Baghdad and unleashed yet another wave of terror in the violence-torn city home to a quarter of Iraq’s population.

The female students were raped and killed “in a horrific manner at the hands of militias,” said the non-governmental Organization for the Defense of Women in Iraq.

“This is a fresh horrifying indication that the level of crime and violence is taking unprecedented proportions in Iraq,” the group said in a statement.

The crime has terrorized the university community in Baghdad, prompting many parents to stop sending their girls to classes.

Universities and high schools in Baghdad already suffer from high level of absenteeism due to the spiraling violence. Teachers complain that most of their students now stay away.

Militia groups work freely in Baghdad and frequently U.S. and Iraqi troops turn a blind eye to their atrocities.

A female teacher from the Ghazaliya district in Baghdad was also kidnapped, raped and killed and her body later found on a street in the same district.

University officials in Baghdad, refusing to be named, say teaching is under threat and classes may be suspended any time unless the authorities do something to halt the violence.

Scores of Iraqi professors have either been killed or kidnapped, forcing many of them to flee the country.

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http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news\\2006-12-23\\kurd.htm

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Statistics reveal true extent of Shi‘i civilian deaths in sectarian fighting in Iraq.

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=== News Update ===

Statistics reveal true extent of Shi‘i civilian deaths in sectarian fighting in Iraq.

In a dispatch posted at 9pm Makkah time Saturday night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that their correspondent had managed to acquire official documents issued by the Iraqi puppet regime detailing real numbers of casualties in the sectarian fighting that has raged in occupied Iraq since the mysterious bombing of the Imam al-Hadi Mosque in Samarra’ on 22 February 2006.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the pro-American Shi‘i sectarian puppet regime regularly claim that attacks on Shi‘i sectarian targets have resulted in primarily civilian casualties, the documents obtained by the correspondent indicate otherwise.

According to the puppet regime’s statistics, a total of 3,207 Shi‘i civilians were killed in sectarian violence in Baghdad from 22 February 2006 until 27 December 2006. In that same period, a total of 12,343 gunmen from the Jaysh al-Mahdi, Badr Brigades, Da‘wah Party, Hizballah in Iraq, and al-Fadilah Party – all Shi‘i sectarian militias supporting the US military – were killed.

Shaykh Abu Ahmad al-Jannabi a leader of the Iraqi Resistance organization al-Jaysh al-Islami told Mafkarat al-Islam that the Resistance had managed to “break the back” of the Shi‘i sectarian militias through their campaigns. He noted that there were about 150,000 Jaysh al-Mahdi militiamen in Iraq, with Baghdad being where most of them are located, particularly in the Madinat Saddam section of the city, dubbed “Madinat as-Sadr” after the American invasion.

Shaykh al-Jannabi told Mafkarat al-Islam that the Resistance is extremely careful to avoid any civilian casualties in so far as this is possible. “If we weren’t afraid of killing infant children and women, we would simply burn Madinat as-Sadr down over their heads,” Shaykh al-Jannabi told the correspondent. “May God bear witness that our hands have not touched any one of their children, women or elderly men. But we do target the sectarian fighters who attack the Sunnis and turn themselves into bulwarks for the occupation.”

source:
http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2006/1206/iraqiresistancereport_231206.htm

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US Terrorize The World – 4 Dzulhijah 1427 H (25.12.06)

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In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

=== News Update ===

Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America’s War? More Than 655,000

http://tinyurl.com/usq4x

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In Bush’s War 2950
http://icasualties.org/oif/

The War in Iraq Costs $351,444,838,962 – See the cost in your community
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182

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VIDEO: The “War on Terrorism” is a Fabrication

Michel Chossudovsky is the author of the international best America’s “War on Terrorism” Second Edition, Global Research, 2005. He is Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa and Director of the Center for Research on Globalization.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20061222&articleId=4245

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A Christmas Curse: Retribution Time or To Hell with All the B

It occurred to me in one of my less cynical moments, deluded no doubt by the merriment of the season, that all of those responsible for the havoc and chaos of these past six years should face the wrath of the American people and, one might hope, the wrath of the God of Justice and Vengeance. Once before I had similar urgings, in July of 2004 to be exact, and I penned an article titled “Legacy of Deceit: If Dante Knew of Bush and the Neo-Cons” that appeared in Counterpunch, wherein I placed our benighted leaders into the Inferno’s circles of Hell. The experience of the last two years heaped on that of the preceding four necessitates a reconsideration of the leniency of Dante’s punishment as it fits the crimes of our current horde that deserve an exclusive damnation prepared for their unique and heinous sins.
http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/504/81/

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War Criminal : Bush: God told me to invade Iraq – President ‘revealed reasons for war in private meeting’

President George Bush has claimed he was told by God to invade Iraq and attack Osama bin Laden’s stronghold of Afghanistan as part of a divine mission to bring peace to the Middle East, security for Israel, and a state for the Palestinians.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article317805.ece

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Ex-Abu Ghraib detainee recounts atrocities committed by US forces

DOHA • An Iraqi who spent seven months in Abu Ghraib jail in Baghdad says he has horrifying experiences to tell of how the US soldiers have committed atrocities on innocent Iraqi civilians who were taken into custody and put behind the bars for no fault of theirs.

More than 700,000 Iraqis have been killed since the US invaded the country in early 2003 until November this year, according to statistics released by the National Centre for Research and Arab Studies.
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=Local_News&subsection=Qatar+News&month=December2006&file=Local_News200612234114.xml

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U.S. trapped in Arabian sands

The U.S. began its third millennium with its Iraq adventure. It thought it would change the face of the Middle East through its illegal invasion of that country and crown itself as the world’s unrivaled superpower for decades.

But it failed drastically in the test it set for itself. The invasion through which it wanted to teach the Middle East a lesson backfired.
http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=opinion%5C2006-12-23%5Ckurd1.htm

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Evidence of cooperation between Mahdi Army and US forces to attack Sunni neighborhoods

Evidence of US occupation forces helping Mahdi Army to attack Sunni neighborhood and displace the residents.

The clip I managed to obtain is of woman recently displaced from AL-Hurryia neighborhood describes when Mahdai Army failed to capture her two sons because of the fierce resistance, Mahdi Army asked the American forces for help, the two brothers were arrested by the Americans, she said her two sons are now in jail.

At the beginning of the clip the woman says that her both sons are not involved in any political activities before and after the occupation.
http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2006/12/23/evidence-of-cooperation-between-mahdi-army-and-uus-forces-to-attack-sunni-neighborhoods/

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Shiite Militiamen abduct, rape and kill students

Three female students from the University of Mustansiriya were kidnapped, then raped and then killed and then their mutilated bodies passed to the Baghdad morgue.

The horrendous crime has shocked many in Baghdad and unleashed yet another wave of terror in the violence-torn city home to a quarter of Iraq’s population.
http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news\\2006-12-23\\kurd.htm

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15 Bodies Identified as those of High Ranking Officers in Iraq’s Former Armed Forces

Iraqi police has identified 15 dead bodies in one of Baghdad’s mortuary as officers in Iraq’s former armed forces. Amongst the dead were major generals and colonels.

Recently, ‘some 20 high ranking officers of the former Iraqi armed forces were kidnapped by AlMhadi militia’, said a general of the former Iraqi armed forces who had lucky escape from the kidnap operation who. The former general told London’s AlQuds newspaper that the militia wore Iraqi police uniforms and had set up fake check points when they abducted the 20 former high ranking officers who had gone to collect their pension from AlMoheet Bank Baghdad’s AlKathimeyah district.
http://www.iraqirabita.org/english/index.php?do=article&id=827

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IRAQ : Wolfowitz owes us an explanation

What is particularly disturbing is that Wolfowitz is visibly delighting in his role as one of the world’s highest-profile (publicly funded) philanthropists – while saying barely a word about the catastrophe in Iraq.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-op-efron24dec24,0,2105545.story?coll=la-home-commentary

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Iraq : Watada states his case in Moiliili

Watada said the American people were deceived by the Bush administration, which manipulated intelligence to fit policy and regime change in Iraq.

“We have been lied to, deceived and betrayed,” he said. “A crime has been committed against the constitution.”
http://starbulletin.com/2006/12/20/news/story11.html

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Four U.S. military personnel killed in Iraq

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Four U.S. military personnel were killed and two were wounded in two separate incidents in Iraq on Saturday, the U.S. military said on Sunday.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-12-24T175252Z_01_L24197044_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-USA-SOLDIERS.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsHome-C1-topNews-6

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 23 December 2006.

• Two US troops reported killed when massive Iraqi Resistance bomb destroys Abrams tank in ar-Ramadi.
• Resistance car bomb kills four puppet “al-Anbar Salvation Council” police in ar-Ramadi.
• Resistance blasts US al-Warrar base near ar-Ramadi with Katyusha rockets Saturday morning.
• US troops ransack houses arrest 15 local men in ar-Ramadi on Friday.
• US troops raid houses in al-Fallujah to stop people from watching banned TV station.
• Resistance blasts US food storage facility in al-Karmah with heavy mortars Saturday afternoon.
• Resistance mortars pound US headquarters in as-Saqlawiyah early Saturday.
• US troops arrest five in raids in al-Fallujah late Friday night.
• Resistance sharpshooter reportedly kills US soldier in northern al-Fallujah Saturday.
• US soldier reported killed by Iraqi Resistance sharpshooter in ‘Amiriyat al-Fallujah.
• US Marine reported killed by Iraqi Resistance sharpshooter in Baghdad Saturday.
• Piece of farm equipment explodes by US column in Baghdad.
• Seven Resistance Grad rockets blast US base in at-Taji Saturday.
• Two Resistance bombs target US troops in Baghdad Saturday.
• Statistics reveal true extent of Shi’i civilian deaths in sectarian fighting in Baghdad.
• US troops open fire on car without warning, killing man, two children in western Baghdad’s al-Ghazaliyah district.
• Car bomb targets puppet army column.
• Resistance car bomb explodes near checkpoint jointly manned by US-installed puppet police and pro-Iranian Jaysh al-Mahdi sectarian gunmen, killing 10.
• Resistance mortars pound Jaysh al-Mahdi headquarters in western Baghdad on Saturday morning.
• US troops ravage home of Iraqi Christian charged with aiding Iraqi Resistance in Baghdad, leaving two persons dead.
• Double Resistance bombing in al-Mawsil leaves three US troops reported killed.
• Resistance shoots down small US spy plane over ad-Dulu’iyah Friday.
• Resistance fighters ambush, kill puppet policeman near Samarra’ Friday evening.
• Resistance fighters kill Iraqi puppet army soldier in ad-Dawr Saturday morning.
• More than 30 Iraqis died and about 50 more were wounded when US aircraft struck the Mafraq ‘Uthman area near Ba’qubah.
• US troops, Iraqi puppet police arrest villagers in raid on ar-Rashad Friday night.

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2006/1206/iraqiresistancereport_231206.htm

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Iran: What about Zionists’ nukes?

Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini says sanctions imposed by UN on Islamic Republic ‘cannot affect or limit Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities but will discredit the decisions of the Security Council, whose power is deteriorating’; adds: Council doing nothing in response to Olmert’s comments on Zionists’ nuclear capabilities
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3343604,00.html

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Bardawil charges Abbas with planning military coup against the government

Gaza – Salah Bardawil, the spokesman of the Hamas-affiliated change and reform parliamentary bloc, on Sunday charged PA chief Mahmoud Abbas with impeding national dialogue and with planning military coup against the PA government.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/am/publish/article_20990.shtml

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Washington’s Game in Turkmenistan

Was the Bush administration involved in the death of Turkmenistan’s President, Saparmurat Niyazov?

After all, Niyazov met all the criteria for Bush’s policy of “regime change”. He controlled massive natural gas reserves and he refused to take orders directly from Washington. Typically, these are the only factors that are weighed when considering whether a change of leadership is in order.
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m29270&hd=&size=1&l=e

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Ethiopia launches airstrikes in Somalia

Ethiopia launched an attack Sunday on Somalia’s powerful Islamic movement, sending fighter jets across the border and bombarding several towns in a sharp escalation in the violence that threatens to engulf the volatile Horn of Africa.

“After too much patience, the Ethiopian government has taken a self-defensive measure and has begun counterattacking the aggressive extremist forces of the (Islamic council) and foreign terrorist groups,” said Ethiopia’s foreign affairs spokesman, Solomon Abebe.

Look for this to get very much more ugly very quickly.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-12-24-ethiopia-somalia_x.htm

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DICTATORSHIP – George Orwell Was Right: Spy Cameras See Britons’ Every Move

“Nowhere else in the free world is this happening,” said Helena Kennedy, a human rights lawyer who also is a member of the House of Lords, the upper house of Parliament. “The American public would find such inroads into civil liberties wholly unacceptable.”

Unfortunately, Lady Kennedy is incorrect in her assessment of Americans not allowing their civil liberties to be thoroughly destroyed.

We too are becoming an increasing surveilled society, and with the passage of the Patriot act and Military Commissions Act, this administration and the last congress have ripped the Constitution and Bill of Rights to shreds.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=avL4PSqZrcj4&refer=home

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Holocaust Jew accused of war crimes

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

=== News Update ===

By Allan Hall

Age Correspondent

Berlin

July 11, 2005

An old Jewish man who took his own cold-blooded revenge against Germans for the Holocaust will not be extradited back to Poland from Israel to answer charges of genocide.

The case of Solomon Morel, 86, is the only one in Holocaust history where a Jew stands accused of war crimes against Germans.

It has perplexed legal minds in both countries. Poland says genocide is genocide whether a Jew or a Nazi committed it, while many Israelis see rough justice in the 1500 German deaths for which Mr Morel is alleged to be responsible.

Now the Israeli Government has said that Mr Morel will not be sent back to stand trial in Poland under any circumstances.

Mr Morel, who came from the little Polish town of Grabowo, claims he was an Auschwitz survivor whose family was murdered by the Nazis during World War II. A book, An Eye for an Eye, which documents his strange life, claims his family was indeed liquidated, but by Poles who collaborated with the Nazis. It also says that he was never imprisoned by the Germans.

By 1943 he was employed peeling potatoes for a Jewish partisan brigade before escaping to the Soviet Union, where he trained in the gruesome interrogation methods of the NKVD, Stalin’s political police, before returning to Poland in 1945. He was then put in charge by the communists of a camp containing thousands of German prisoners including SS men, soldiers and civilians.

John Sack, the Jewish-American author of An Eye for an Eye, claims Mr Morel, as commandant of Swietochlowice Camp, morphed into the kind of monster that would have been welcomed by the Gestapo.

“His favourite method of killing prisoners was hacking the skull of his victims with a wooden leg of a chair,” according to the book. “It is quite possible that in Swietochlowice several thousand persons were murdered by Morel and his men.”

Sack’s book, and a score of Polish books and newspaper articles, said he beat, shot, starved, tortured and killed with gusto in the camp.

“I knew Morel in the camp. He was a very brutal man,” survivor Dorota Boriczek said. “He was young then. He would come in at night. We could hear the cries of the men then. They would beat them and throw the bodies out of the window.”

In 1989, a Polish reporter found Mr Morel living in a part of Katowice assigned for former uniformed functionaries of communist terror.

In the early 1990s, the Main Commission for the Investigations of Crimes Against the Polish Nation started an official investigation of Mr Morel’s activities in the Swietochlowice Camp after witness articles appeared in the press.

In 1994, Mr Morel sought political asylum in Sweden. This was refused. He then successfully sought sanctuary in Israel.

Poland tried to extradite him seven years ago on torture charges. Israel refused. So prosecutors began preparing a genocide case, for which there is no statute of limitations.

Last week, they received a blank refusal from Israel saying “there was no basis whatsoever” to extradite Mr Morel.

A Polish prosecutor said testimony from former inmates documented Mr Morel’s torture of at least 13 prisoners.

“There should be one measure for judging war criminals, irrespective whether they are German, Israeli, or any other nationality,” the prosecutor said.

source:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/holocaust-jew-accused-of-war-crimes/2005/07/10/1120934125780.html

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