US Terrorize The Whole World by “War on Terror” – 30 Rabiul Awal 1428 H (18.4.07)

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

=== News Update ===

Dare To look Back : War Criminal

On the evening of 9-11, Bush went before a paralyzed nation and, after a brief comment about praying, grieving and mourning for the 3,000 victims of that terrible day, he announced, “Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil.” Then, warming to his subject, Bush rammed home what would become his mantra for the next six years — “These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.” He then assured the masses that he would make no distinction between the “terrorists” and the regimes that harbored them. Bush’s vision for revenge was to chase them all over the world and kill them all…

But a vision is not a plan. Looking back, it appears that Bush’s plan for perpetual war is sending Americans to their deaths, unequipped and untrained, while bellowing, “Support the Troops!” Bush’s plan is destroying an entire nation, its culture, its infrastructure — raping, torturing and slaughtering its people for no reason other than he can. It is creating a humanitarian crisis of mind-boggling proportions — more than 3.9 million Iraqis have fled their homes to safer areas in Iraq and in neighboring countries.
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2007/04/17/dare_to_look_back

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Poll of London Muslims challenges stereotypes- General London population supports violence more than Muslims do

LONDON — Muslims in London not only have almost twice as much confidence in the government as the wider public, but greater faith in the police, judicial, and electoral system, a poll suggested Tuesday.

• 81 percent of London Muslims said violence was completely unjustified, even if used in a “noble cause” compared to 72 percent of the general public.
• 74 percent said they were loyal to the UK compared to 45 percent of non-Muslims.
• 82 percent respected other religions, as opposed to 54 percent of the wider public.
• 78 percent versus 69 percent had confidence in the police; for the government, judicial system, and elections the figures were 64 percent
• versus 36 percent, 67 percent versus 55 percent, and 73 percent versus 60 percent.

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070417-081720-8281r

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Old Church Becomes Mosque in Uneasy Britain

CLITHEROE, England ­ On a chilly night this winter, this pristine town in some of Britain’s most untouched countryside voted to allow a former Christian church to become a mosque.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/02/world/europe/02britain.html?ex=1176955200&en=c26227f822656ec3&ei=5070

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The Americans Still Don’t Get It

The surge isn’t going to work because it was wrong to begin with. The first rule for an occupier fighting an insurgency is that you can’t win by killing insurgents. Killing insurgents is easy and makes it feel like you are doing something, but its a trap.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17549.htm

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The Inexplicable Enrichment of Bush Cronies : The Iraq Money Trail

It’s time for Americans to face the cold hard truth that nothing will be accomplished by allowing the daily carnage in Iraq to continue, and if Bush has his way, our young people will be dying in this war profiteering scheme until hell freezes over. Congress needs to authorize funding to pull our troops out of that deathtrap and not one dime more.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17547.htm

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The Devil’s Dictionary of War in Iraq

Like all wars, the “war in Iraq” or “Iraq war” — it’s never gained the double caps of the Korean or Vietnam Wars — has also been a war of words. From “homeland” and “unlawful combatant” to “extraordinary rendition” and “Global War on Terror” (aka: World War IV or the Long War), never has an administration reached more often for its dictionaries to create pretzled words and phrases. Its war in Iraq has been no exception. But recently there’s been a change, hardly noticed by anyone. The administration’s familiar war vocabulary and imagery, which hung in there so remarkably long, has finally disappeared down the memory hole. So many images, tailored for home-front consumption, each meant to help give just a little more time to an increasingly embattled administration, have in recent months disappeared.
http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/2007/04/devils-dictionary-of-war-in-iraq.html

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Endgame: Iraqi Insurgents Press For Final Blow

By all indicators, America’s Iraqi expedition has failed miserably. One by one, American allies draw down their forces or resist increasing public pressure to do so. The central Iraqi government exercises little control–its main means of exercising power is negative–the use of Shiite death squads. A bloody civil war has created a feedback loop of ethnic violence that cannot be stopped. In the north, the Kurds lie in wait for the perfect opportunity to break away. And Iran is quietly grooming the Iraqi government to act as a client state.

To this end, insurgents have attempted numerous attacks inside the Green Zone, the most brazen of which was an April 12 attack on the Iraqi parliament that killed one and injured twenty-two. It is unclear how heavily Al-Qaeda In Iraq and other insurgent factions have infiltrated the Green Zone, but past plots disrupted by American and Iraqi investigators have indicated that Sunni insurgents definitely have established a presence. Even if insurgents fail to breach the Green Zone’s defenses for a much more devastating attack, they still can succeed in waging a war of literal and psychological attrition. Insurgents have increasingly targeted Americans within the Green Zone with mortars, weapons that can be fired from many miles away using commercially available GPS coordinates.
http://electroniciraq.net/news/3003.shtml

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Iraqi politican says insurgents must unite

Insurgent groups in Iraq should unite, agree a programme and be ready to reap the political rewards for inflicting heavy losses on U.S. troops, an Iraqi Sunni politician said on Tuesday.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=L17522103

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Dangers confessions to a Sunnis internee about the wildly torturing in the interior ministry

. ..that beside the traditional known torturing methods that they use like electric torturing and hanging from hands and foots they use also a wildly method that shows their Safawive rancor against Sunnis threw putting the internee in the refrigerator from 11 pm to 5 am then they bring him out from it to sparge him with water and then they put him in a room that contains cold air-condition…

A Sunnis internee released lately from the ‘Fifth Branch’ jail in al-A’athamya revealed that elements from interior ministry commandos and keeping law forces that manage the jail use wildly torturing methods against the internees in this jail whom are hundreds all of them are Sunnis.
http://76news.net/eng/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=198&Itemid=2

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Sunni warns of Shiia on Shiia clashes as a result of the recent “provisional government” scheme

Iraqi League, a predominantly Sunni organization, reports on its website about the recent announcement of a “provisional leadership for the South” by a group meeting in Baghdad. (The initial and very sketchy news about this in Al-Hayat is summarized here). Iraqi League’s main points, quoting the views of a Sunni member of the national Parliament, are: (1) The move was illegal and unconstitutional, because not in conformity with the law on the creation of federal regions; and (2) the fact that this is being attempted increases the chances of Shiite-versus-Shiite clashes. And in particular it cites an anonymous source to the effect the meeting and the announcement of this provisional government are sponsored by SCIRI and in particular by its leader Abdulaziz al-Hakim as part of a partition-Iraq strategy.
http://arablinks.blogspot.com/2007/04/sunni-warns-of-shiia-on-shiia-clashes.html

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8 Million Iraqis Need Urgent Aid: UN

The United Nations warned on Tuesday, April 17, that nearly eight million Iraqis were in dire need of aid, while international relief groups urged world countries, particularly war allies Washington and London, to accommodate millions of Iraqis fleeing their violence-ravaged country.

“Up to eight million Iraqi civilians are in urgent need of humanitarian relief,” UN humanitarian chief John Holmes told a conference on Iraq’s displacement crisis in Geneva, reported Agence France Presse (AFP).
http://heyetnet.org/en/content/view/237/1/

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Trauma severe for Iraqi children

School children watch as U.S. soldiers climb to the roof of their school to get a high vantage point April 15 in Baghdad.

BAGHDAD — About 70% of primary school students in a Baghdad neighborhood suffer symptoms of trauma-related stress such as bed-wetting or stuttering, according to a survey by the Iraqi Ministry of Health.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2007-04-15-cover-war-children_N.htm

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Iraqi refugee children trapped in poverty and fear

More than two million Iraqi refugees are trapped in a cycle of poverty and fear. More than half a million of these are school-age children, many with no access to education or psychological support, according to research by World Vision.
http://www.cnw.ca/fr/releases/archive/April2007/16/c5350.html

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Iraq’s neighbours blocking refugees — rights group

Iraq’s neighbours are making it harder and harder for Iraqis to flee across the border to escape violence, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L17634333.htm

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Photos of UK ‘tortured’ Iraqi’s corpse released

Photographs showing the severe beating suffered by an Iraqi civilian who died in British custody were released today as the House of Lords begins a hearing into whether human rights law should apply to British forces abroad.

The pictures of 26-year-old Baha Mousa were unveiled by his lawyer and human rights group Liberty, who are calling for an “independent, effective investigation into the big systemic issues” raised by the case.

Baha Mousa’s case is one of six test cases being examined by the Law Lords, along with five Iraqis who died at the hands of British soldiers in the streets of Basra.
http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/04/photos-of-uk-tortured-iraqis-corpse.html

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$400 Billion for war: US announces USD 100 million

US Under-Secretary of State Paaula Dobriansky announced today that her government expects in 2007 to provide USD 100 million in humanitarian assistance for Iraqis, both inside and outside Iraq. The US will also contribute USD 18 million to the United Nations High Commissioner (UNHCR) emergency appeal for Iraqi displacement.
http://snipurl.com/1gxq4

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Seven U.S. occupation force members killed in Iraq attacks

The attacks occurred in Baghdad, Fallujah and Anbar Province
http://snipurl.com/1gxq0

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Five more US troops killed in Iraq

American army suffers losses of 50 soldiers in April alone as military faces resistance in Anbar.

BAGHDAD – Five more US troops have been killed in a series of attacks in Iraq, the military reported Tuesday, taking the losses to 50 in this month alone.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=20399

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600 U.S. Contractors Have Been Killed in Iraq

Calling the situation in Iraq a “national emergency,” retired U.S. Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey said April 16 that the country is ripped by a catastrophic low-grade civil war.
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=2688598&C=mideast

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U.S. troop deaths climbing in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Over the past six months, American troops have died in Iraq at the highest rate since the war began, an indication that the conflict is becoming increasingly dangerous for U.S. forces even after more than four years of fighting.

From October 2006 through last month, 532 American soldiers were killed, the most during any six-month period of the war. March also marked the first time that the U.S. military suffered four straight months of 80 or more fatalities. April, with at least 58 service members killed through Monday, is on pace to be one of the deadliest months of the conflict for American forces.
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/17087215.htm

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Rate of U.S. losses in Iraq is highest yet

In the past six months, the rate of Americans killed in Iraq has reached its highest level ever, despite four years of fighting.
http://www.miamiherald.com/884/story/76515.html

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 16 April 2007

• 100 women widowed, 400 children orphaned in Iraq every day, study shows.
• Disaster threatens 4 million Iraqi refugees displaced since US occupation of their country.
• US admits two soldiers killed in Baghdad.
• Resistance fighters assault checkpoint, killing 13 puppet troops, al Hadar.
• US troops kill three puppet policemen in ar-Ramadi.
• Resistance car bomb blasts puppet police station in Baghdad.
• US forces raid “Madinat as-Sadr” area of Baghdad Monday morning.
• Bodies of 30 murder victims found in Baghdad Sunday, number of victims of Shi‘i sectarian torture, murder continue to rise.
• Resistance bomb wounds puppet policemen Sunday evening.
• Bodies of Iranian truck drivers found near border Sunday.
• Armed attack claims life in al-Iskandariyah Sunday night.
• Resistance bomb damages puppet police car in Kirkuk Monday morning.
• Mysterious bomb in al-Kut.
• four mortar rounds blasted into the US “Camp Echo” near ad-Diwaniyah
• US, puppet forces raid neighborhoods in ad-Diwaniyah.

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0407/iraqiresistancereport_160407.htm

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2006 bloodiest year since Taliban’s fall, rights group says

KABUL — Insurgents committed war crimes by attacking ordinary Afghans and killing 669 civilians in 2006, the heaviest toll since the Taliban’s ouster in 2001, according to a report released Monday.

Tallying records from non-governmental organizations and the media, Human Rights Watch counted 189 bombings in 2006 that killed 492 civilians. Another 177 civilians were killed in other attacks including ambushes and executions.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070416.wafghandead0416/BNStory/Afghanistan/home

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Heavy fighting erupts northeast of Afghan capital

Heavy fighting erupted to the northeast of the Afghan capital on Tuesday when Taliban fighters attacked police posts and a district government headquarters, a provincial governor said.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=ISL252983

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The US has returned fundamentalism to Afghanistan

The following is a transcript of the speech given by Malalai Joya, member of the Afghan Parliament, given at the University of Los Angeles
http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2007/04/16/1050/

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Afghanistan in a downward spiral

In addition to long-lasting problems such as military conflict, narcotics and warlordism, the Afghan government is increasingly facing new dilemmas which emanate from people’s dire social and economic conditions
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/ID18Df02.html

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“Deletion” of Images in Afghanistan: Attempt to Cover Up Civilian Killings?

New York – In the past day, there has been wide media coverage of an official report on the slaying of Afghan civilians by U.S. forces early last month. The Afghan human rights commission concluded that American marines overreacted to a bomb ambush with excessive force, peppering civilians and vehicles with machine-gun fire in attacks that covered 10 miles of road and left 12 civilians dead, including an infant.

The forced deleting of images by the US military as well as the refusal to let journalists continue in their work constitutes a violation of the right to freedom of expression as it obstructed the ability of the media present to seek, receive and impart information about the 4 March incident, without falling under the exceptions stipulated by ICCPR art.19(3).
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041607B.shtml

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Five killed in roadside bombing in occupied Afghanistan

A roadside bomb hit a Afghanistan’s main city on Tuesday, killing four Nepalese guards and an Afghan driver, official said.
http://snipurl.com/1gxq8

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UN workers killed in Afghan blast

Five United Nations staff have been killed when their convoy was attacked in southern Afghanistan.
http://snipurl.com/1gxqb

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Israeli occupation troops assassinate Palestinian

Undercover Israeli troops have killed a senior member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades near Jenin in the northern West Bank, according to a Palestinian security source.
http://snipurl.com/1gxqq

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U.S. not interested in Hamas peace calls

On April 7, ending a seven-day visit to Israel, I finally got an interview I had sought for a year. I sat down in a Palestinian National Authority office in Ramallah with a leader of Hamas
http://snipurl.com/1gxqt

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US-Israel ties bad for peace: Soros

“The pro-Israel lobby has been remarkably successful in suppressing criticism,” wrote Soros. Politicians challenge it at their peril and dissenters risk personal vilification, he said.
http://snipurl.com/1gxqu

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Judge rejects government plan for secret evidence at Israeli spy trial

A federal judge on Monday rejected prosecutors’ request to close portions of an upcoming trial for two former pro-Israel lobbyists accused of violating the Espionage Act.
http://snipurl.com/1gxqv

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In case you missed it: Secret Briefing by Zinni Seen as Key In Aipac / Israeli Spy Trial

New details are emerging about a secret 2003 briefing that could play a key role in the defense of two pro-Israel advocates charged with passing classified information.

http://snipurl.com/1gxqy

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Report: Egyptian passed intel to Mossad

According to reports, Sabar was in contact with two Israeli agents. One held Irish citizenship, while the second was a Japanese citizen. Both have been charged in absentia.
http://snipurl.com/1gxr2

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Egyptian engineer arrested for spying for Israel

CAIRO: Authorities said Tuesday they have arrested an Egyptian engineer from the country’s nuclear energy agency for spying for Israel.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/17/africa/ME-GEN-Egypt-Spy.php

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Father of Guantanamo suspect alleges torture by interrogators

The father of a Pakistani terrorism suspect at the Guantanamo Bay military prison alleges his son was beaten by U.S. interrogators while held in Pakistan, according to an affidavit released Monday. The CIA denied the prisoner was abused.
http://snipurl.com/1gxr4

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Swiss journalists acquitted in case of leaked secret CIA prisons fax

Three journalists were acquitted Tuesday of breaking Swiss military secrecy laws by publishing classified intelligence material about alleged secret CIA prisons in Europe.
http://snipurl.com/1gxr9

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Top UK defense official jailed for taking bribes from US arms dealer

Greedy Michael Hale’s lengthy betrayal of trust saw the American company being fed so much confidential information that it was able to run circles around the competition.

In addition to backhanders of more than £217,000, the 58-year-old civil servant’s five-star lifestyle featured free flights, champagne hospitality aboard an ocean-going cruiser and stays in top hotels, London’s Southwark Crown Court heard.

But when his secret paymaster was taken over by another firm, “due diligence” attorneys in California uncovered a total of nine corrupt payments paid to him over the years.
http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/2007/04/top-uk-defense-official-jailed-for.html

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-muslim voice-
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BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW

US Terrorize The Whole World by “War on Terror” – 29 Rabiul Awal 1428 H (17.4.07)

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

=== News Update ===

At least 33 dead in rampage on Virginia campus

15 others at Virginia Tech wounded in worst mass shooting in U.S. history

Witnesses described him as a man in his 20s, wearing a maroon cap and a black leather jacket. A spokesman for the FBI in Washington said there was no immediate evidence to suggest that the incident was a terrorist attack, “but all avenues will be explored.”

Perkins said the gunman never said a word. “He didn’t say, ‘Get down.’ He didn’t say anything.” He just started shooting.”

Until Monday, the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history was in Killeen, Texas, in 1991, when George Hennard plowed his pickup truck into a Luby’s Cafeteria and shot 23 people to death, then himself.

The deadliest previous campus shooting in U.S. history took place in 1966 at the University of Texas, where Charles Whitman climbed to the 28th-floor observation deck of a clock tower and opened fire. He killed 16 people before he was gunned down by police.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18134671/

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Torture, Secrecy, and the Bush Administration

We have a duty to posterity, and that is to bear witness to these events. We must document them carefully. We must act to avoid the destruction of valuable evidence-and recognize, as we have already seen, that it is in the character of those who commit crimes to destroy the evidence of their misdeeds. In this way we lay the path for the justice which will in good time be meted out to those who betrayed a nation’s trust.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17540.htm

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Bush administration pushes for expansion and deepening of police state

The George W. Bush administration seized the White House in 2000 by way of an openly stolen election, then cemented its criminal power into place with the unprecedented 9/11 mass murder, and its two resulting abominations: the fabricated “war on terrorism” (the pretext for endless global war), and the USAPATRIOT Act (the full-scale destruction of the Constitution, and the militarization of the US homeland).

The deepening of the war and security state continues unabated and relatively unopposed, in spite of meager posturing of (largely complicit) congressional Democrats. Nothing has been done to stop, reverse or undo the Bush administration’s boundless criminality, its wide open corruption, or the absolute and systematic rape of law itself. Few if any of Bush’s criminals have been brought to justice.
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1972.shtml

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Dictatorship : Bush administration seeking to expand spying powers

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/apr2007/fisa-a16.shtml

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The Assassination of Muhammad Abdulhamed al-Naimi

AMSI issued a press statement condemning the assassination of Sheikh Muhammad Abdulhamed al-Naimi preacher and imamof Dhi Noorain mosque in Al-Noor Area.

The Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMSI) issued a press statement condemning the assassination of Sheikh Muhammad Abdulhamed al-Naimi preacher and imam of Dhi Noorain mosque in al-Noor neighborhood in the side of al-Ayser in Mosul city , while he was heading for Friday prayers at the same mosque.
http://heyetnet.org/en/content/view/230/1/

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Photos of ‘tortured’ Iraqi’s corpse released

Photographs showing the severe beating suffered by an Iraqi civilian who died in British custody were released today as the House of Lords begins a hearing into whether human rights law should apply to British forces abroad.
http://snipurl.com/1grk5

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13 Iraqis soldiers killed in ambush

Gunmen killed 13 Iraqi soldiers in an attack on a checkpoint 50km southwest of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul today, according to police sources.
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/0416/breaking21.htm

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US Occupation Forces Killed Three Iraqi Police Officers By Mistake

US occupation soldiers killed three Iraqi police officers and wounded a fourth by mistake, officials said on Monday. The US soldiers were a raid against suspected insurgents in western Iraq when they shot four Iraqi police.

http://snipurl.com/1grjy

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Iraq bombing victims turn on government

As police and ambulances approached to carry away victims, angry residents shot at them, witnesses said. The police responded, firing bullets into the air to dissipate the angry crowd. As the bullets rained down, a child and elderly man were killed, witnesses said.

http://snipurl.com/1grk0

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 15 April 2007

• American air strikes destroy houses near al-Fallujah killing five residents at dawn Sunday.
• Resistance ambush kills puppet soldier in al-Fallujah midday Sunday.
• US, puppet troops raiding homes in Baghdad’s al-Amiriyah district attack pregnant woman, causing miscarriage early Sunday morning.
• US says two soldiers killed in “helicopter collision” north of Baghdad Sunday.
• Five dead, dozens wounded in double bombing in al-Karradah Sunday evening.
• Resistance bomb targets puppet police patrol in Baghdad Sunday afternoon.
• Two mysterious car bombs target popular market in Baghdad Sunday morning.
• Bombs rock Baghdad Saturday. US arrests 20 puppet Civil Defense troops Saturday.
• Resistance bomb destroys Humvee near Yathrib.
• Bomb targets home of puppet “Scorpion Brigade” soldier in al-Hillah Saturday.
• Puppet troops kill Iraqi civilian in al-Mawsil Saturday.
• Turkey launches military maneuvers near Iraqi border following threats by US-backed Kurdish puppet leader Barzani.
• US aircraft attacks chicken farm near ad-Diwaniyah at dawn Sunday.

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0407/iraqiresistancereport_150407.htm

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Suicide attack kills up to 10 policemen in occupied Afghanistan

A suicide bomber ran onto a police training field and blew himself up, killing up to 10 policemen and wounding dozens of others today in northern Afghanistan, officials said.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4717735.html

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About anti-Semitism

A letter -from the heart- to my Jewish friends :
People talk with liberty about Muslim extremists, and Christian fundamentalists; but they stop short of uttering the forbidden word “Jewish extremists”
http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/1190/58/

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Pentagon: Al-Qaeda suspect alleges torture

Zubaydah, captured in 2002, also told the hearing at Guantanamo Bay that he had been tortured in U.S. custody and confessed to things he did not do just to stop the abuse, according to a Pentagon transcript released Monday.
http://snipurl.com/1grko

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Padilla in jail peril, experts say

Accused al-Qaida agent Jose Padilla could be thrown back in a military brig even if he’s acquitted or gets a light sentence in his civilian criminal trial beginning this week, experts say.
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/politics/17085079.htm

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Jose Padilla: The Bad Guy

Gangbanger, fifth columnist, radical Muslim, poor fatherless Puerto Rican-is it mere coincidence that in Jose Padilla the government has the perfect fall guy?
http://snipurl.com/1grkx

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Two Months Before 9/11, an Urgent Warning to Rice

Tenet called Condoleezza Rice, then national security adviser, from the car and said he needed to see her right away. There was no practical way she could refuse such a request from the CIA director.
http://snipurl.com/1grkt

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San Diego: Fascist Raids and Vigilantes Terrorize Immigrant Communities

Eight men in an unmarked white suburban pull up to a home in Vista, San Diego. They knock on the door, looking for a Mexican woman who has been ordered deported. The men are armed Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. They search each room in the house and round up the family who lives there and question them in their living room. The woman ICE is looking for doesn’t live there, but they detain two men, including the father of a 3-month-old and an 8-year-old daughter in the house. It’s 5 a.m. and the men, still in their pajamas, are handcuffed and driven away in a van.
http://www.revcom.us/a/085/ice-en.html

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Cheney’s Nemesis

“We know from the Pentagon Papers — and to me they were the most important documents ever written — that from 1963 on, Kennedy and Johnson and Nixon lied to us systematically about the war. I remember how shocked I was when I read them. So . . . duh! Nothing’s changed. They’ve just gotten better at dealing with the press. Nothing’s changed at all.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17542.htm

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ACLU Congressional Scorecard

The ACLU Congressional Scorecard provides you with a quick summary of important civil liberties measures and how your elected officials have voted. By looking at their actual voting record, you can go beyond the soundbites that characterize much of today’s campaigns to better understand your elected officials’ positions.
http://snipurl.com/1grl0

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-muslim voice-
______________________________________
BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW

US Terrorize The Whole World by “War on Terror” – 28 Rabiul Awal 1428 H (16.4.07)

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

=== News Update ===

FBI says, “No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11”

June 6, 2006 – This past weekend, a thought provoking e-mail circulated through Internet news groups, and was sent to the Muckraker Report by Mr. Paul V. Sheridan (Winner of the 2005 Civil Justice Foundation Award), bringing attention to the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist web page for Usama Bin Laden.[1] (See bottom of this web page for Most Wanted page) In the e-mail, the question is asked, “Why doesn’t Usama Bin Laden’s Most Wanted poster make any direct connection with the events of September 11, 2001?” The FBI says on its Bin Laden web page that Usama Bin Laden is wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998 bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. According to the FBI, these attacks killed over 200 people. The FBI concludes its reason for “wanting” Bin Laden by saying, “In addition, Bin Laden is a suspect in other terrorists attacks throughout the world.”

On June 5, 2006, the Muckraker Report contacted the FBI Headquarters, (202) 324-3000, to learn why Bin Laden’s Most Wanted poster did not indicate that Usama was also wanted in connection with 9/11. The Muckraker Report spoke with Rex Tomb, Chief of Investigative Publicity for the FBI. When asked why there is no mention of 9/11 on Bin Laden’s Most Wanted web page, Tomb said, “The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.”
http://www.teamliberty.net/id267.html

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A 9/11 “Smoking Gun” Hidden In Plain Sight

Let’s face it, if the 9/11 attacks were “legitimate”, they would have been accompanied by “legitimate” statements and claims of responsibility.

You don’t pull off the most spectacular “terrorist” attack in history, especially against largely symbolic targets, and then hide.

You don’t put yourself through the expense, trouble, risk, etc., of carrying out the most daring “terrorist” attack in world history, only to let a panel of fatuous government apologists tell the world what your ostensible motive was; e.g., “they hate us because of our ‘freedom'”, or some such puerile nonsense.

Let’s face it, the whole point of “terrorism” is to make a point. What good is “terrorism” to the “terrorists” if the “terrorists” don’t get to make their point? That would be like robbing a bank, and then giving the money back.

Thus, like many other aspects of the official government conspiracy theory of 9/11, it simply doesn’t make sense.
http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/print_friendly.php?p=opedne_joseph_s_070414_a_9_2f11__22smoking_gun_22.htm

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9/11 We Know : 911weknow.com

Our consciousness had been altered :

What if it wasn’t an accident?

What if it wasn’t beyond our control?

What if it was all planned?

It does not take much to think for yourself. Start with one question. Follow it as it forms a trail. There are dozens of videos, books and links to explore. Start here.
http://www.911weknow.com/

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US Professor intimidated into closing his ” Al Jazeera info” website : Dictatorship

A local professor has again suspended updates to his pro-Palestinian Web site following another round of criticism and pressure ­ this time instigated by another member of the Internet community.

“I have concluded it’s not safe for me anymore to continue editing aljazeerah.info in this atmosphere of intimidation, which abridges freedom of speech and freedom of the press. I believed that, as an American citizen, I have these sacred rights as a given. I acknowledge now that I was wrong,” he wrote. “Until I’m assured of these constitutional freedoms and rights, I’ll stop editing news reports and opinion editorials about U.S. wars and Israeli occupation of Palestine, hoping that the campaign against my employer stops.”

From the perspective of El-Najjar, who says he is a native of Gaza, Palestine, Israeli Jews took control of Muslim holy land in an “occupation,” and are proponents of Zionism. Similarly, the U.S. presence in Iraq is an occupation of Arab land, and those fighting against this “Imperialism” are “resistance fighters,” rather than “terrorists.”
http://www.northwestgeorgia.com/local/local_story_104223429.html

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ISLAMOPHOBIA : QUEBEC MUSLIM GIRLS BANNED FROM KARATE TOURNAMENT

CAIR-CAN says ‘fixation’ on Islamic attire in Quebec marginalizing Muslim women and girls.

(Ottawa, Canada – April 15, 2007) – The Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CAN) said today that the decision to ban Muslim girls wearing Islamic head scarves from a tae kwon do tournament in Quebec will only serve to marginalize Muslim women by forcing them to choose between their faith and athletic activities.

In Longueuil, Quebec, today, five girls were barred from taking part in a tae kwon do tournament because they wished to wear the hijab or Islamic head scarf. Organizers in Quebec’s tae kwon do federation said the sport’s rules prevent women from competing in hijab. However, for more than five years, youth wearing the hijab have taken part in the province’s tournament. Additionally, women in hijab compete internationally on a regular basis. Also in tournament, men and women are seen in padded head gear.
SEE: http://www.caircan.ca/itn_more.php?id=2881_0_2_0_C

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George W. Bush: The Quiet Dictator

As of this week, the Bush Administration’s descent into totalitarian depravity has reached a new low so despicable that even a few Republicans are beginning to criticize it.

It was revealed this week that the Bush Administration is planning to keep people as prisoners for their entire lives, even though there is no evidence that those people have committed any crime against the United States. The lack of evidence against these people is so striking that the American government does not even have enough grounds to bring them before a form of military tribunal that has been set up by George W. Bush precisely for the purpose of evading the standards of justice set by the United States Constitution.

Furthermore, it has been determined that these prisoners are of no use to American spies. As Reuters news service puts it, these are people “the government believes have no more intelligence to share”.
http://www.irregulartimes.com/thequietdictator.html

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In Illegal War : U.S. Holds 18,000 Detainees in Iraq – Recent Security Crackdown in Baghdad Nets Another 1,000

In the past month, as a new security crackdown in Baghdad began, U.S. forces arrested another 1,000 Iraqis, bringing to 18,000 the number of detainees jailed in two U.S.-run facilities in that country.

The average stay in these detention centers is about a year, but about 8,000 of the detainees have been jailed longer, including 1,300 who have been in custody for two years, said a statement provided by Capt. Phillip J. Valenti, spokesman for Task Force 134, the U.S. Military Police group handling detainee operations.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/14/AR2007041401554.html

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Neocon War Propaganda To Be Investigated

Will panel investigate all the lies, foul play, deaths and cover ups surrounding the Tillman and Lynch cases or will it be another whitewash?

A U.S. House committee has announced it will hold hearings to investigate misleading military statements that followed the friendly fire death of Pat Tillman in Afghanistan and the rescue of Pfc. Jessica Lynch in Iraq.

The Tillman and Lynch cases are two clear and blatant examples of how the government has consistently lied to the public about events during both the wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq, often spinning situations and distorting reality in order to put the US military occupations in a better light.

The Iraqi soldiers fled the hospital days before Lynch’s rescuers stormed it. The doctors there, having already tried and failed to return Lynch to the Americans after they fired upon an ambulance which she was being transported in, described the “rescue” as a Hollywood show, as special forces stormed in with cameras rolling.
http://infowars.net/articles/april2007/130407Propaganda.htm

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Shiites keep driving Sunnis from Baghdad homes

A Shiite Muslim militia’s campaign to clear Baghdad neighborhoods of Sunni Muslim residents continues despite a U.S.-led security plan.

BAGHDAD — Nearly two months into a Baghdad security plan intended to calm the Iraqi capital by protecting residents from sectarian violence, Shiite Muslim militia members are still driving Sunni Muslims from religiously mixed neighborhoods.
http://www.miamiherald.com/578/story/70950.html

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Video: Lahad…Death ghost from the past, re-employed by Israel in Iraq

Lebanese New TV revealed that at least 3 thousand members of Antoine Lahad’s Lebanese South Army, after years of unemployment in Israel, at last the US and Israel found something for them to do.

This report shoes that members of LSA are doing Israel’s dirty jobs in Iraq.
http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2007/04/14/video-lahaddeath-ghost-from-the-past-re-employed-by-israel-in-iraq/

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Bush’s Plan for the Middle East: No Palestinian State, Iraqi Partition, Cooperation with Syria and Iran

Over the past few months, the Bush administration in the backdrop of the Iraq Study Group’s (ISG) report has announced its plan for Iraq-apart from the Presidents refusal to formally engage Iran and Syria- the plan broadly concurs with the recommendation laid out by the ISG. Furthermore, the US has mobilised its surrogates in Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq and the gulf countries to implement this plan and prepare the ground for the emergence of a new middle east. What follows is a brief summary of what America is planning to achieve in Palestine, Iraq, Iran and Syria.
http://globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=2640&cid=1&sid=27

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2 UK coppers downed in Iraq, around 30 dead in attacks

Baghdad – At least 30 people died on Sunday in several car-bomb attacks across Iraq, reports said. Two British soldiers died when two military helicopters crashed into a field near Taji, north of Baghdad. Britain’s Defence Secretary Des Browne said a third soldier had also been fatally injured.
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2007/April/focusoniraq_April111.xml&section=focusoniraq

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Iraq: 3 US soldiers, 1 Marine die

BAGHDAD: Two U.S. soldiers and a Marine were killed in separate incidents in Iraq, and another soldier died while on leave, the U.S. military said Sunday.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/15/africa/ME-GEN-Iraq-US-Casualties.php

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 14 April 2007

• Resistance in al-Fallujah arrests member of Ahmad Chelebi’s security service putting up false posters inciting Resistance groups against each other.
• Resistance bomb rips through US Humvee south of al-Fallujah midday Saturday.
• Americans raid district in al-Fallujah Saturday, arresting 10 local residents.
• Resistance forces pound US base in as-Saqlawiyah Saturday morning.
• Resistance forces kill two puppet troops in Saturday ambush in al-Fallujah.
• Muthanna Harith ad-Darri: Efforts under way for unified program for Iraqi Resistance.
• Al-Qa‘idah captures 20 puppet “Iraqi Interior Ministry” troops demands release of all Sunni women in Iraqi jails within 48 hours.
• Bomb explodes in central Baghdad Saturday.
• Car bomb blasts bridge in al-Jadiriyah Saturday morning.
• US admits three American troops killed in Baghdad on Thrusday.
• Resistance car bomber blasts puppet army checkpoint near Bayji, killing five puppet troops midday Saturday.
• Bomb explodes in al-Mada’in midday Saturday.
• Puppet police lieutenant colonel killed in Resistance bomb attack late Friday.
• Mortar shells hit village north of al-Hillah Saturday morning.
• Car bomb targets vacated headquarters of puppet army division at noon Saturday.
• Mortar attack targets puppet army troops north of as-Suwayrah Saturday morning.
• US troops raid offices of Muqtada as-Sadr movement in ad-Diwaniyah, arrest press spokesman.
• US column hit by Katyusha rocket attack in ad-Diwaniyah Saturday morning.
• Katyushas, mortars blast US “Camp Echo” in ad-Diwaniyah.
• Car bomb explodes near Shi‘i shrine in Karbala’ Saturday morning.
• Bomb targets British patrol in al-Basrah Friday night.

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0407/iraqiresistancereport_140407.htm

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U.S. Report: Marines Killed Unarmed Civilians

A preliminary U.S. military investigation indicates that more than 40 Afghans killed or wounded by Marines after a suicide bombing in a village near Jalalabad last month were civilians, the U.S. commander who ordered the probe said yesterday.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17538.htm

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3 US occupation force soldiers killed

Two U.S. soldiers and a Marine were killed in separate incidents in Iraq, the U.S. military said Sunday.
http://snipurl.com/1gl9j

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40 Afghan civilians killed or wounded by US marines

The US military has determined that more than 40 Afghan civilians were killed or wounded by US marines after a suicide bombing in a village near Jalalabad last month, The Washington Post reported Sunday.
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=171477

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Suicide bomber kills at least 9 in Afghanistan

A suicide bomber walked to the gate of a border police unit in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday and detonated his explosives, killing at least nine people – eight policemen and one civilian, local officials said. Five other policemen were wounded.

http://snipurl.com/1gla3

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War is hell, Afghanistan is worse

When we lose eight smiling young men, couldn’t someone somewhere just say — out loud — ‘What a terrible and meaningless waste of lives’

http://snipurl.com/1gla5

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Afghanistan fight will only get tougher

The death last Sunday of six Canadian soldiers in southern Afghanistan reminds us of Santayana’s famous maxim that those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it.
http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/04/afghanistan-fight-will-only-get-tougher.html

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Israeli forces killed 900 Palestinian children during last 7 years : War Criminal

RAMALLAH (Palestine Times) – The Arab and International Department of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) stated yesterday that the Israeli occupation forces have killed 900 Palestinian children in the past seven years injured 16,000, leaving 750 of them handicapped.
http://www.times.ps/etemplate.php?id=5074&arch=1&year=2007&month=04&day=15

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Uri Avnery: Blood on Our Hands

When one makes peace, prisoners-of-war are expected to be released. In our case, this would not only be a sign of humanity, but also of wisdom. These prisoners come from all the towns and villages. Sending them home would release an outburst of joy all over the occupied Palestinian territories.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17539.htm

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Arab states seek nuclear power

Turkey is preparing for its first atomic plant. And Egypt has announced plans to build one on its Mediterranean coast. In all, roughly a dozen states in the region have recently turned to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna for help in starting their own nuclear programs.
http://snipurl.com/1gl9z

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CAUGHT ON TAPE !!! Presidents Bush & Johnson!: 1 minute video

George Bush & Lyndon Johnson used the same sales pitch for troop surge. 50,000 American Troops were killed AFTER Johnson successfully used the pitch.
http://snipurl.com/1gl9r

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Bush asks Congress to alter 1978 eavesdropping law: Dictatorship

The Bush administration asked Congress on Friday to expand the number of people it can subject to electronic surveillance in the United States.
http://www.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=USN1321090420070413

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-muslim voice-
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BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW

US Terrorize The Whole World by “War on Terror” – 27 Rabiul Awal 1428 H (15.4.07)

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

=== News Update ===

The Zionist Project in Palestine: Colonial Settlement, Land Robbery and Ethnic Cleansing

About 8,000 Jews were living in Palestine before 1882. Creation of a “Jewish State” in such a small country with such a small Jewish community, which owned virtually no land to settle on, was practically impossible. Consequently, building an exclusive Jewish State in Palestine implied bringing Jews from the four corners of the world, acquisition of the land and ethnically cleansing it from its indigenous Arab population.

Hovevei Zion, the precursor of the Zionist Organization, sponsored the first wave of pioneer settlers, which started in 1882 and ended in 1903. About 35,000 immigrants arrived in Palestine within this wave. Almost half of them left within several years of their arrival.

A pre-meditated and pre-planned campaign of land theft started shortly following the ethnic operations of 1948. A law was passed in the Israeli Knesset in 1950, the “Absentees Property Law “. According to this law, any body that was not present directly before, during or after the war was, regardless of the reason, defined as “absentee” and his land as surrendered. Thus it was confiscated.

David Ben-Gurion believed that the Zionists had to exert pressure to force the British to act. But if necessary, he wrote in his diary, “We must ourselves prepare to carry out the removal of the Palestinians”. (Michael Palumbo, The Palestinian Catastrophe, p. 4, citing Ben-Gurion’s Diary – published in Hebrew – vol. IV, p. 299)
http://peace4palestine-housewife4palestine.blogspot.com/2007/04/zionist-project-in-palestine.html

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Endorsing the Gitmo Kangaroo Courts despite the fact that they have been condemned by every human rights organization in the world

The latest edition of the American Journal of Imperial Law has an article by Harvard Law School’s Bemis Professor of International Law Detlev Vagts endorsing the Gitmo Kangaroo Courts despite the fact that they have been condemned by every human rights organization in the world as well as by the United States Supreme Court in Hamdan.

Whenever they are up and running the Gitmo Kangaroo Courts will constitute Stalinist Show Trials as well as Kangaroo Courts.

And the fact that the Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School has publicly endorsed the Gitmo Kangaroo Courts despite Hamdan proves that Harvard has a Kangaroo Law School:Harvard Kangaroo Law School.

Along with the 4 torture mongerers on the HKLS Faculty: Dersh;Parker;Goldsmith and Waco Phil Heymann. And their 2 certifiable war criminals: Dersh and Goldsmith. And the Dean of the Harvard Kangaroo Law School Kagan who boasted in the Washington Post that she is “so proud” to have hired their war criminal Goldsmith. And in the Boston Globe Kagan boasted that the “future of international legal studies” at Harvard Kangaroo Law School is in the “good hands” of their war criminal Goldsmith. The Harvard Kangaroo Law School Faculty and Deans are no longer fit to educate Lawyers, Members of the Bar, and Officers of the Court. They are a joke and a fraud. Groucho Marx would have a field day with them: Harvard is to Law Schools what Kangaroos and Torture are to Law.
http://lethal-injection-florida.blogspot.com/2007/04/endorsing-gitmo-kangaroo-courts-despite.html

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Aid and Comfort for Torturers: US War Criminal

On January 24, 2003, National Guardsman Sean Baker, stationed as a military policeman at Guantanamo detention center, volunteered to be a mock prisoner, donning an orange suit and refusing to leave his cell as part of a training exercise. As planned, an Immediate Reaction Force team of MPs attempted to extract him from the cell. When he uttered the code word, “red,” indicating that this was a drill and that he’d had enough, one of the MPs “forced my head down against the steel floor and was sort of just grinding it into the floor. The individual then, when I picked up my head and said, ‘Red,’ slammed my head down against the floor,” says Baker. “I was so afraid, I groaned out, ‘I’m a U.S. soldier.’ And when I said that, he slammed my head again, one more time against the floor. And I groaned out one more time, I said, ‘I’m a U.S. soldier.’ And I heard them say, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa,’ “. Even though, unlike if Baker had been a real prisoner, the “extraction” was called off part-way through, he was diagnosed with traumatic brain injury and was left with permanent injuries, including frequent epileptic-style seizures.

When asked what would have happened if he had been a real detainee, Baker told CBS’s 60 Minutes: “I think they would have busted him up. I’ve seen detainees come outta there with blood on ’em. …If there wasn’t someone to say, ‘I’m a U.S. soldier,’ if you were speaking Arabic or Pashto or Urdu or some other language in the camp, we may never know what would have happened to that individual.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17530.htm

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Terror War III: U.S. Forces Capture, Render Refugees From Somali “Regime Change”

Here’s how George W. Bush treats refugees fleeing from the carnage wrought by his “War on Terror”: he has them captured at gunpoint and “rendered” to torturers in his pay, where they are chained, blindfolded, beaten, stuffed into cages then “disappeared” into secret prisons notorious for their vile abuses. These captures of people trying to escape from the terrors of “regime change,” from the ravages of foreign armies invading their homes, include women and children, as attested by the story of 17-year-old Safia Benaouda, a pregnant Swedish woman who was grabbed – by American troops – as she fled from the bloodbath following the Bush-backed Ethiopian assault on Somalia, AP reports.
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1108&Itemid=135#jc_allComments

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9/11 Muslim Victims : Fear and loathing on an American campus

On the night of 11 September 2001, Al Dershowitz of Harvard law school exploded in anger. Robert Fisk, he roared over Irish radio, was a dangerous man. I was “pro-terrorist”. I was “anti-American” and that, Dershowitz announced to the people of County Mayo, “is the same as anti-Semitic”.

Of course I had dared to ask the “Why” question; Why had 19 Arabs flown aircraft into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Pennsylvania? Take any crime on the streets of London and the first thing Scotland Yard does is look for a motive. But when we had international crimes against humanity on the scale of New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, the first thing we were not allowed to do was look for a motive. How very odd. The 19 murderers came from a place called the Middle East. Was there a problem out there?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17537.htm

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9/11 Victim Mohamed Harkat: His every move is carefully watched

A 38-year-old Algerian immigrant, Mr. Harkat has never been charged with a crime. But he did spend nearly four years jailed under an extraordinary Canadian law that declares him a possible al-Qaeda agent. Then, last June, he was released on house arrest to live at his in-laws’, after his French-Canadian wife vowed she would effectively serve as his warden.

Government agents don’t enter the Harkat home but follow the couple whenever they leave it. Ms. Harkat remembers that, at first, the agents wore combat boots, bulletproof vests and matching blue windbreakers. Now they come in street clothes, but their surveillance remains intense.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070414.wharkat14/BNStory/National

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Muslim Scholar Banned from U.S., but Speaking from Afar : Islamophobia

Banned from U.S. soil three years ago, a prominent Muslim scholar accused of aiding terrorist activity spoke to a crowd via satellite this week in Gaston Hall on several major issues concerning relations between the Islamic world and the West.Projected live on a large screen, Tariq Ramadan – a Muslim academic whose visa was revoked by the State Department in 2004 – spoke in a three-day series of satellite conversations that began Tuesday.

Ramadan, who grew up in Geneva, is viewed by many as a reformer and is especially popular among young European Muslims. He had expected to teach at the University of Notre Dame three years ago, but the State Department rescinded his visa under a provision of the USA PATRIOT Act, citing donations he made to organizations that allegedly aid terrorists.
http://www.thehoya.com/news/041307/news5.cfm

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A War to Spread Terror

Unchallenged, America’s pursuit of global hegemony bears an eerie resemblance to the building of empires in the past. As this Administration expands its international dominance, the dictates of the Athenians to the Melians come to mind in which they are told that their submission to the rule of the Athenians would be of mutual benefit.

So as a subject of this world, I am asking all Americans, hyphenated or not, to defend their birthright, humanity, and justice. We must determine our own destiny today lest someone robs us of our future with their actions. America cannot afford to lose the battle for peace, justice and humanity because humanity has not found a place in this Administration. In the American ‘Dialogue’, we are the ‘strong’, for we have the power of the people, justice, and above all, the Constitution of the United States of America.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17531.htm

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Four Years of Invasion Are Enough

Four years have now elapsed since the fall of Baghdad into the hands of the new Moguls, but the Iraqi people still have not gone out holding roses and waving white flags as in the Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Blair dream. Instead of roses and signs of surrender, Baghdad – from the first days of occupation –prepared itself for the decisive battle that cannot be settled by military force alone with its warplanes raining down a torrent of internationally-prohibited bombs; it is rather settled by patience, faith in the just cause and confidence in victory.
http://heyetnet.org/en/content/view/221/38/

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Record of Iraq War Lies to Air April 25 on PBS : Uncover the Face of War Criminal

Bill Moyers has put together an amazing 90-minute video documenting the lies that the Bush administration told to sell the Iraq War to the American public, with a special focus on how the media led the charge. I’ve watched an advance copy and read a transcript, and the most important thing I can say about it is: Watch PBS from 9 to 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 25. Spending that 90 minutes on this will actually save you time, because you’ll never watch television news again – not even on PBS, which comes in for its share of criticism.
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/21146

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Civilian compensation claims: a glimpse into US crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/apr2007/iraq-a14.shtml

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The price of an Iraqi life – about $2500

In all, the military has paid more than $32 million to Iraqi and Afghan civilians for noncombat-related killings, injuries and property damage, an Army spokeswoman said. That figure does not include condolence payments made at a unit commander’s discretion.

32 million divided by 2000 equals 16,000, yet the 32 million also covers property damage which means that far less than 16,000 Iraqis have been compensated (average of $2000 for each murder) by the US government. The recent Lancet study shows that over 300,000 Iraqis have been murdered by US troops directly over the past 4 years.
http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/130172-An+Iraqi+Life+-+%242500

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“Sorry We Shot Your Kid, But Here’s $500” : US ‘Disgusting’ War Criminal

Here you will find, for example, that when the U.S. drops a bomb that goes awry, lands in an orchard, and does not detonate — until after a couple of kids go out to take a look — our military does not feel any moral or legal reason to compensate the family of the dead child because this is, after all, broadly speaking, a “combat situation.”

Also: What price (when we do pay) do we place on the life of a 9-year-old boy, shot by one of our soldiers who mistook his book bag for a bomb satchel? Would you believe $500? And when we shoot an Iraqi journalist on a bridge we shell out $2500 to his widow — but why not the measly $5000 she had requested?

Last June, The Boston Globe and The New York Times revealed that a local custom in Iraq known as “solatia” had now been adapted by the U.S. military — it means families receive financial compensation for physical damage or a loss of life. The Globe revealed that payoffs had “skyrocketed from just under $5 million in 2004 to almost $20 million last year, according to Pentagon financial data.”
http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003571125

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“I want to kill somebody today,” : Low Live Mercenary America

Four Hired Guns in an Armored Truck: Bullets Flying, and a Pickup and A Taxi Brought to a Halt. Who Did the Shooting and Why? A Chaotic Day On Baghdad’s Airport Road

On the afternoon of July 8, 2006, four private security guards rolled out of Baghdad’s Green Zone in an armored SUV. The team leader, Jacob C. Washbourne, rode in the front passenger seat. He seemed in a good mood. His vacation started the next day.

“I want to kill somebody today,” Washbourne said, according to the three other men in the vehicle, who later recalled it as an offhand remark. Before the day was over, however, the guards had been involved in three shooting incidents. In one, Washbourne allegedly fired into the windshield of a taxi for amusement, according to interviews and statements from the three other guards.

Washbourne, a 29-year-old former Marine, denied the allegations. “They’re all unfounded, unbased, and they simply did not happen,” he said during an interview near his home in Broken Arrow, Okla.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/14/AR2007041401490_pf.html

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The Growing Toll Of Iraqi Civilian Deaths

04/14/07 “ICH” — – “New York’ — — “The suffering that Iraqi men, women and children are enduring today is unbearable and unacceptable,” the director of operations of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Pierre Kraehenbuehl, stated Wednesday on releasing a ICRC report on the situation in Iraq after four years of the US-led war. Entitled “Civilians Without Protection – The Ever-Worsening Humanitarian Crisis in Iraq,” Mr. Kraehenbuehl added that the humanitarian situation is “affecting in one way or another, directly or indirectly, all Iraqis today.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17532.htm

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U.S. Holds 18,000 Detainees in Iraq

In the past month, as a new security crackdown in Baghdad began, U.S. forces arrested another 1,000 Iraqis, bringing to 18,000 the number of detainees jailed in two U.S.-run facilities in that country.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/14/AR2007041401554.html

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Scott Ritter: We (US) should acknowledge our true status as nothing more than a colony of Israel

“So if we are to continue to permit AIPAC to operate as an undeclared agent of a foreign nation, and to influence American foreign and national security policymaking at the expense of our Constitution, then we should acknowledge our true status as nothing more than a colony of Israel, pull down the Stars and Stripes and raise the Star of David over our nation’s capitol. While representing the final act of submission, it would also be the first truly honest act that occurred in Washington, D.C., in many years.”
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_final_act_of_submission/

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The Israeli Occupation is murdering Childhood : War Criminal

The Palestinian children lately celebrated the Palestinian children’s day ­ (5th April). A series of formal and public festivals were held throughout the Palestinian areas; the massage was the need to secure a dignified and free life for them.

Since 2000, about 900 Palestinian children were murdered and 16.000 were injured by the Israeli forces, 750 of whom were left with permanent disabilities. About 6000 children (13-18 years old) were imprisoned by the Israeli occupation- 398 of whom are still in prisons up to this day, another 16 are administrative detainees and have been held without a trial for till now. Mohammed Khawaja 13-year-old is the youngest Palestinian child detainee in the Israeli jails.
http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net/

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Video : Palestinian Youngsters Used as Human Shields By Israeli Occupation Forces in Balata Refugee Camp

The following is a “new” (April 11th, 2007) video evidence that document another human rights violation by using Palestinian youths as human shields.

The video show Israeli occupation solider forcing two Palestinian youngsters to serve as human shields and protect the Israeli armor from stone throwers. The scene was taken in Balata Refugee Camp (Nablus, Occupied Palestine) by a filmmaker from RJI (blog) who caught the scene and other shots of the military operation and home demolition on tape.

The video talks for itself. Unfortunately not all war crimes and human rights violations such as this one can be documented, however, so many documentaries were seen yet, Israeli occupation forces still escape the justice.
http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2007/04/13/palestinian-youngsters-used-as-human-shields-by-israeli-occupation-forces-in-balata-refugee-camp/

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War Crime Korea – Letter reveals U.S. intent at No Gun Ri: Hundreds, mostly women and children, slaughtered

Six years after declaring the U.S. killing of Korean War refugees at No Gun Ri was “not deliberate,” the Army has acknowledged it found but did not divulge that a high-level document said the U.S. military had a policy of shooting approaching civilians in South Korea.
http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/2007/04/letter-reveals-us-intent-at-no-gun-ri.html

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Making Love, Money and War – Wolfowitz’s Real Crimes

The flak that the World Bank’s President Paul Wolfowtiz is getting currently really misses his main crimes: The invasion and occupation of Iraq and for waging the endless war of state terror. As Rumsfeld’s second-in-command Mr. Wolfowitz bears direct personal and official responsibility for the illegal war of aggression on Iraq and for posing threats to international peace.

The crime of war of aggression is the one of the most serious violation of international law.
http://www.counterpunch.org/spinoza04142007.html

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75,000 Voter Registration Cards Found in Trash Bin in Atlanta

ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia Secretary of State’s office has begun an investigation into who threw more than 75,000 Fulton County voter registration cards into a trash bin.

The cards contained a voter’s full name, address and Social Security number. The office says a random sampling showed many of the cards were for active voters.
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/georgia/news-article.aspx?storyid=79939

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The Apostles of Deception

What passes for Christianity among the people, like so many things American, is not the genuine article. The sermons that rise from many of the pulpits of the churches of America are, I suspect, as counterfeit as a six dollar bill; as phony as the people running the country. But those whose faith is blind are incapable of seeing truth. That is the trouble with blind faith. It does not, it cannot, see. I have always been wary of organized religion.

Every pastor, every minister of every church in the land should denounce what is happening in America and violently projected upon the world. They should criticize the wretched lies of the president and his murderous regime. They should condemn union busting, racism and sexism, corporate greed and war. They should deplore the obscene accumulation of property and wealth, while emphasizing service to the community and the poor. Most often, however, a perverted version of Christianity gives the appearance of moral credence to war and conquest.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17536.htm

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-muslim voice-
______________________________________
BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW

US Terrorize The Whole World by “War on Terror” – 26 Rabiul Awal 1428 H (14.4.07)

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

=== News Update ===

ACLU Releases Files on Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq

The files made public today are claims submitted to the U.S. Foreign Claims Commissions by surviving Iraqi and Afghan family members of civilians said to have been killed or injured or to have suffered property damages due to actions by Coalition Forces. The ACLU released a total of 496 files: 479 from Iraq and 17 from Afghanistan. The documents released by the ACLU are available online in a searchable database at www.aclu.org/civiliancasualties

“Since U.S. troops first set foot in Afghanistan in 2001, the Defense Department has gone to unprecedented lengths to control and suppress information about the human costs of war,” said Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU. “Our democracy depends on an informed citizenry, and it is critical that the American people have access to full and accurate information about the prosecution of the war and the implications for innocent civilians.”

The ACLU pointed out that during both the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Defense Department has instituted numerous policies designed to control information about the human costs of war. These policies include:

• Banning photographers on U.S. military bases from covering the arrival of caskets containing the remains of U.S. soldiers killed overseas;
• Paying Iraqi journalists to write positive accounts of the U.S. war effort;
• Inviting U.S. journalists to “embed” with military units but requiring them to submit their stories for pre-publication review;
• Erasing journalists’ footage of civilian deaths in Afghanistan; and
• Refusing to disclose statistics on civilian casualties.

http://www.aclu.org/natsec/foia/29316prs20070412.html

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The Baghdad Gulag : War Criminal

There were hundreds of thousands, perhaps more than a million Iraqi nationalists, waving Iraqi flags – with no room for a religious divide – responding to Muqtada’s call for “Occupation out!” The Shi’ite million-man march proved once again Sadrists rule the Shi’ite street – and are the most powerful political force among Iraqi Shi’ites.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17527.htm

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Victim Recounts Iraqi Police Torture : War Criminal

Ala’a Emad Al-Dulaimi, a young man in his early twenties, sits in the living room of a friend’s house in a quiet Damascus neighborhood as he retells the nightmare of his arrest almost a year ago. The intensity of Al-Dulaimi’s experience is palpable, though his face remains dispassionate throughout most of the two hours it takes to detail the complicated maze of his encounter with Iraq’s corrupt justice system—one in which bribes and torture are so common even Donald Rumsfeld acknowledged them prior to his resignation.

In early 2005 Human Rights Watch reported that torture and abuse by Iraqi authorities were “routine and commonplace.” The Al-Maliki government promised reforms, but in July last year the Los Angeles Times reported Iraqi Interior Ministry investigations revealed over 400 incidents of police misconduct, which included “the rape of female prisoners, the release of terrorism suspects in exchange for bribes, assassinations of police officers and participation in insurgent bombings.” Most went unpunished.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m32102

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Israel torturing Palestinian child prisoners : War Criminal

Appalling photographs of abuse and torture by American guards at U.S. military bases and detention facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan shocked the international community, but the Palestinians have been suffering harsher treatment inside Israeli prisons since the 1967 occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

The Palestinians’ suffering at the hands of the Israelis is worse than in any other part of the world. Many of the Palestinian detainees are children, who are subjected to physical and psychological torture by Israeli interrogators and prison guards.

Mohammed Mahsiri, a 17-year-old resident of Dheisheh refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, was arrested by Israeli occupation forces almost a year and a half ago. “I was taken to a detention centre and interrogated…The interrogation would begin at 2 o’clock in the afternoon and would finish after eleven p.m. I was beaten all the time, especially if the soldiers did not get the answers they wanted,” he told IPS.
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2007/04/13/p15906#more15906

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Swedish teen: U.S. troops ‘war criminal’ led operation

A Swedish teenager who was imprisoned for weeks with alleged terror suspects in Ethiopia said in an interview published Thursday that Americans in military uniform directed the Kenyan soldiers who took her into custody on the Somali-Kenyan border.
http://snipurl.com/1ge9h

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The bombing of Somalia – U.S. grabs for power in Horn of Africa : WarCriminal

Why is the U.S. Air Force strafing southern Somalia? Why is the carrier USS Eisenhower in the Indian Ocean? What possible threat is Somalia to the U.S.?

The White House claims the right to attack other countries to get suspected al-Qaeda members. But no al-Qaeda operatives were hit on Jan. 8, the first acknowledged U.S. military action in Somalia since 1994. Seventy nomads and their cattle perished. The herders were bombed at night as they camped around fires to deflect mosquitoes.
http://www.socialism.com/

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9/11 Revealed : Former Bush Speechwriter Hints at 9/11 Inside Job

A GOP insider, former Bush 41 speechwriter and close friend of the Bush family writes in his new book that before 9/11, the Neo-Cons in control of the Bush administration were eager to seize upon a manufactured provocation to go to war – just as LBJ had done with the Gulf Of Tonkin in 1965, and questions the official 9/11 story.

Gold confirms that war in Iraq was decided upon from day one, and that a fake pretext was readied and anticipated before 9/11 happened. Though Gold still pins the blame on Al-Qaeda, in acknowledging the fact that the Bush administration would have staged a false flag attack anyway had it not been for 9/11, he is one small step away from intimating that the attacks on the WTC and Pentagon were an inside job.

“There would be regime change in Iraq,” writes Gold, “All that the Neo-Con war hawks, in the Bush administration and out, needed to bring it about was an excuse to invade. Looking back a half-decade and knowing what we now know, who could doubt that if al Qaeda hadn’t obliged the Neo-Cons with 9/11, the Kristolites would have torn a page out of history and, with Rupert Murdoch playing the role of William Randolph Hearst, given us a reprise of the sinking of the Maine?”
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2007/130407insidejob.htm

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Police chief- Lockerbie evidence was faked : Another Dirty Work of CIA Revealed

A FORMER Scottish police chief has given lawyers a signed statement claiming that key evidence in the Lockerbie bombing trial was fabricated.

The retired officer – of assistant chief constable rank or higher – has testified that the CIA planted the tiny fragment of circuit board crucial in convicting a Libyan for the 1989 mass murder of 270 people.
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The police chief, whose identity has not yet been revealed, gave the statement to lawyers representing Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, currently serving a life sentence in Greenock Prison.

The evidence will form a crucial part of Megrahi’s attempt to have a retrial ordered by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC). The claims pose a potentially devastating threat to the reputation of the entire Scottish legal system.

The officer, who was a member of the Association of Chief Police Officers Scotland, is supporting earlier claims by a former CIA agent that his bosses “wrote the script” to incriminate Libya.
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1855852005

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A Paradigm Shift: America as Proxy

While the US was the major power that often orchestrated proxy wars through clandestine tactics, as it did in Central America and various parts of Asia, Israel is now adopting a similar scheme. In most instances in the past, Israel managed to sway US administrations to behave according to the misleading mantra: “What’s good for Israel is good for America.” But a clash of interests here is unavoidable.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17528.htm

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The True Face Of This Administration Fully Revealed

The article quoted a comment by a senior administration official that was outrageous. – I cannot imagine in any other democracy that the person who made this statement would not immediately be told to resign from his non-elected high office of influence.

Mr. Bush’s National Security Adviser, Stephen J. Hadley, said in an interview on “Meet the Press” on NBC that the White House has sufficient money under its control to deploy the troops as planned, and he suggested that once the troops are in place, Congress would be reluctant to cut off funding.

“I think once they get in harm’s way, Congress’s tradition is to support those troops,” Mr. Hadley said.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/1/16/9288/25225

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The Israel Lobby. Portrait of a Great Taboo : The Power of the Israel Lobby in the United States

A documentary program by the Dutch public broadcast organization VPRO, allows several interesting opinion makers to speak on the future of the American and Israel relationship and the reception of John Mearsheimers and Steve Walts article “The Israel Lobby and US foreign policy.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17525.htm

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War in Iraq “the Sharon war”?

Robert Novak: “I am convinced that Israel made a large contribution to the decision to embark on this war. I know that on the eve of the war, Sharon said, in a closed conversation with senators, that if they could succeed in getting rid of Saddam Hussein, it would solve Israel’s security problems.

http://snipurl.com/1ge9e

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Dark of Heartness – A Journey Into The (Reputed) Soul of Conservatism

I have been haunted this last quarter-century, and especially this last decade, by the darkness that has descended over the American political landscape, a long shadow unlike any I remember from the first half of my life.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17529.htm

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Uranium dust

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories has applied for a permit to blow up as much as 450 pounds of depleted uranium in explosives tests west of Tracy this year.
http://tracypress.com/content/view/8695/2/

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In case you missed it: Poison DUst : Video

Poison DUst tells the story of young soldiers who thought they came home safely from the war, but didn’t.

http://snipurl.com/1ge9l

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Encouraging Ethnic Chauvinism – Kirkuk, Oil and the Kurds : Iraq Muslim’s Traitor

Before the end of this year, the residents of the city of Kirkuk (about 250 KM north of Baghdad) will partake in a referendum to choose their fate. At issue is whether the oil rich city will be annexed as part of so-called Kurdistan. The history of Kirkuk is emblematic of the greater history of Iraq: It is a city that has always been prone to invasion, has always been seen as a strategic point of defense against rival empires, is ethnically and religiously very mixed and, of course, has been both cursed and blessed by its enormous oil supply. In conforming to this narrative Kirkuk has once again become the focal point of strategic concerns and the current puppet regime in Iraq has agreed to “relocate” Arabs, by removing them from their homes, and “re-settle” Kurds in their place. Taking this action just before the referendum almost insures annexation and de facto Kurdish separation from the rest of Iraq.
http://www.counterpunch.org/saud04132007.html

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“Suicide Bombings” – The Cover Story For US Military Ops In Iraq

Al-sarafiya bridge which, until two days ago, spanned the Tigris in Baghdad, linking Shia and Sunni neighborhoods of the city.

“Suicide bombings” are a daily occurrence in Iraq, and are the major propaganda tool used by the US government and its mainstream media to convince the world that there is still some “freedom and Democracy” work to be done by US troops in Iraq. But what if they are a cover for something else?
http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/130203-%22Suicide+Bombings%22+-+The+Cover+Story+For+US+Military+Ops+In+Iraq

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A bloody message from Iraq: nowhere is safe

Nowhere is safe. Insurgents struck in the heart of the Green Zone yesterday, one of the most heavily defended places in Baghdad. The symbolism – and the bloody message – was clear with this attack on the home to the US-imposed democracy.
http://snipurl.com/1ge8s

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Drug use, trafficking soar following US occupation; 24,000 Iraqis officially reported having used drugs, real number said far higher.

In a dispatch posted at 3:25pm Baghdad time Thursday afternoon, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that the Reform Society for combating Drugs in Iraq announced that the number of drug users in the country is on the increase, as a result of the war and the chaotic security situation that has turned Iraq into a drug market. Some of the narcotics are consumed within the country; some pass through on their way to other markets.
http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0407/iraqiresistancereport_120407.htm

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War on Terror Looks Like a Fraud

It’s becoming pretty clear that Iraq has been ‘pacified’ solely for the purpose of economic aggression.

Contrary to the “patriots” who try to use the deaths of our soldiers in Afghanistan to stifle debate on Canada’s involvement in the War on Terror, I would say that as new evidence presents itself, we would indeed be cowards to ignore it simply because we’ve lost troops in the field and are therefore blindly committed to the mission.

And new evidence is piling up around us, arguably strong enough to declare the whole War on Terror an undeniable fraud.

“The key point of the law,” wrote Mother Jones’ Washington correspondent James Ridgeway on March 1, “is that Iraq’s immense oil wealth (115 billion barrels of proven reserves, third in the world after Saudi Arabia and Iran) will be under the iron rule of a fuzzy ‘Federal Oil and Gas Council’ boasting ‘a panel of oil experts from inside and outside Iraq.’ That is, nothing less than predominantly U.S. Big Oil executives.
http://www.edmontonsun.com/Comment/2007/04/13/4002307-sun.html

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A forbidden city inside Baghdad

The Green Zone is a forbidden city, a concrete fortress in the heart of Baghdad housing the Iraqi government, the US embassy, the British embassy and the Iraqi parliament. It is defended by concrete blast walls and well-fortified checkpoints.

From a distance, the first signs of the Green Zone are the cranes rising above the enormous new US embassy. They are impossible to miss because they are the only new cranes in Baghdad.

A closer view of the Green Zone reveals that it is entirely surrounded by grey concrete blast walls to stop suicide bombers or other attackers. These walls run along the right-bank of the Tigris river and then run inland, blocking main roads and slicing through neighbourhoods.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2444474.ece

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The most secure place in Iraq?

Ordinary people undergo a full body search. Dogs sniff for explosives, luggage and equipment are opened. Electronic vehicle scanners screen large cars and lorries.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6552229.stm

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The spectre of Saigon looms over Baghdad

That someone was able to pass through the security checks yesterday with explosives sufficient to inflict so much death and destruction means that the “green zone” can no longer be considered impregnable.

http://snipurl.com/1ge8v

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The Life Of An Iraqi Is Worth The Same As A Zebra

Yesterday’s NYTimes had a story about the US government paying up to but hopefully no more than $2,500 for every Iraqi killed.

http://snipurl.com/1ge8y

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3 soldiers killed near Baghdad

BAGHDAD (AP) — Three U.S. soldiers and two Iraqi translators were killed in two attacks south of Baghdad, the military said on Friday. Eight soldiers were wounded.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2007-04-13-iraq-casualties_N.htm?csp=34

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 12 April 2007

• Iraqi Resistance bomber attacks puppet “Iraqi Parliament” inside top-security “Green Zone,” killing puppet politicians just after midday Thursday.
• Bomb explodes in Baghdad’s al-Karradah district Thursday evening.
• Resistance bomb rips through US Humvee in Baghdad’s al-Hurriyah district Thursday afternoon.
• Bomb blasts rock Baghdad Thursday afternoon.
• Eleven bodies found in Baghdad Thursday, more victims of Shi‘i sectarian torture, murder.
• Bomb explodes in al-‘Amiriyah. Shi‘i club director killed.
• Drug use, trafficking soar following US occupation; 24,000 Iraqis officially reported having used drugs, real number said far higher.
• Truck bomb severs bridge in central Baghdad Thursday morning.
• Mysterious bomb destroys bus in Kirkuk.
• Powerful blast destroys two buildings in al-Mawsil Thursday evening.
• US military camp in ad-Diwaniyah bombarded Thursday morning.

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0407/iraqiresistancereport_120407.htm

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NATO Occupation Force Soldier Killed in Afghanistan, Bringing Week’s Toll to 12

A member of the NATO occupation force in Afghanistan died in combat today, bringing to 12 the number of foreign occupation force soldiers killed in the past week as the Taliban steps up attacks as part of a spring offensive.
http://snipurl.com/1ge90

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Israel will not be transferring Palestinian funds

Israel preceded the Olmert-Abbas meeting by announcing Friday it will not transfer any funds to Israel.
http://snipurl.com/1ge9f

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Bush Administration Threatens Veto of Secret Prison Measure : Dictatorship

April 12 (Bloomberg) — Administration officials will advise President George W. Bush to veto legislation requiring him to provide lawmakers with details of the CIA’s secret prisons for terrorism suspects, a White House statement said.

The disclosure provisions are included in proposed Senate legislation that would set new requirements for giving lawmakers access to intelligence reports and set intelligence program funding for the fiscal year that ends Sept. 30.

The administration also opposed a proposal to reveal annual U.S. spending on intelligence programs, a figure that’s now classified, saying it imperils national security.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=ai94tdsY_sCI#

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Australia censors terrorism books : Dictatorship

The new law would be targeted at removing the material from publication, rather than punishing its authors, and customs officers would be given much broader powers to confiscate books and films being imported into the country.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6551003.stm

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1984? – Homeland Security Developing ‘Hostile Intent’ Technology

The United States Department of Homeland Security announced in April that it is developing human factors technology able to screen people at borders for hostile intent. The tool will help screeners identify people who should not be allowed to enter the country

http://www.ergoweb.com/news/detail.cfm?id=1717

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-muslim voice-
______________________________________
BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW

US Terrorize The Whole World by “War on Terror” – 25 Rabiul Awal 1428 H (13.4.07)

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

=== News Update ===

In case you missed it: Afghan Massacre – The Convoy of Death

In Afghanistan, filmmaker Jamie Doran has uncovered evidence of a massacre: Taliban prisoners of war suffocated in containers, shot in the desert under the watch of American troops.

The film has been broadcast on national television in countries all over the world and has been screened by the European parliament. Human rights lawyers are calling for investigation into whether U.S. forces are guilty of war crimes. But no U.S. media outlet has broadcast the film.

It tells the story of thousands of prisoners who surrendered to the US military’s Afghan allies after the siege of Kunduz. According to eyewitnesses, some three thousand of the prisoners were forced into sealed containers and loaded onto trucks for transport to Sheberghan prison. Eyewitnesses say when the prisoners began shouting for air, U.S.-allied Afghan soldiers fired directly into the truck, killing many of them. The rest suffered through an appalling road trip lasting up to four days, so thirsty they clawed at the skin of their fellow prisoners as they licked perspiration and even drank blood from open wounds.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3267.htm

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How the FBI framed a Muslim charity : Islamophobia and Racist

YET MORE evidence of the government’s persecution of Arabs and Muslims since September 11 has come to light.

More than five years ago, the Bush administration shut down the Dallas-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, the largest Muslim charity in the U.S. The Feds labeled Holy Land a “specially designated global terrorist” and charged seven former foundation officials, including six U.S. citizens, with funneling money to overseas charities controlled by the Palestinian group Hamas, which the U.S. also has designated a terrorist organization.

Much of the government’s case against Holy Land was based on FBI “summaries” of thousands of hours of classified wiretapped conversations­including one of a 1996 conversation involving charity officials.

But in late February, lawyers for the foundation revealed that much of the government’s “official summary” of that conversation appears to have been fabricated.
http://www.mpacuk.org/content/view/3446/34/

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Documents show new secretive US prison program isolating Muslim, Middle Eastern prisoners – Program in apparent violation of federal law

The US Department of Justice has implemented a secretive new prison program segregating “high-security-risk” Muslim and Middle Eastern prisoners and tightly restricting their communications with the outside world in apparent violation of federal law, according to documents obtained by RAW STORY.

Documents obtained by RAW STORY show that the CMU program, instituted Dec. 11, 2006 — shortly after the mid-term elections in which Democrats won both chambers of Congress — is being implemented at Terre Haute Federal Correctional Institution in Indiana.

Under the CMU program, telephone communications must be conducted using monitored phone lines, be live-monitored by staff, are subject to recording, and must be in English only. All letters must be reviewed by staff prior to delivery or sending. Visits must be non-contact only, live-monitored, and subject to recording in English.
http://www.rawstory.com//news/2007/Documents_show_new_secretive_new_US_0216.html

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Bush has “near dictatorial power”

So apparently, the American Founders risked their lives and fortunes in order to wage war against Great Britain and declare independence from the King — all in order to vest “near dictatorial power” in the American President in all matters of foreign policy and national security. And, of course, for the Michael Goldfarbs of the world, “war” and “national security” — and the “near dictatorial power” vested in the President in those areas — now encompasses virtually every government action, since scary and dangerous Muslims are lurking everywhere, on every corner, and the entire world is one big “battlefield” in the “War on Terrorism,” including U.S. soil.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/04/12/weekly_standard/index.html?source=email

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Occupation turf war sheds new light on the Nick Berg case – US contractors ‘tortured’ for talking to the FBI

The case of Donald Vance, an American citizen secretly imprisoned by the US military in Iraq after making accusations against an Iraqi-owned security company for which he worked, has revealing parallels with the 2004 disappearance of Nick Berg, a US contractor whose murder is officially attributed to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

The Nicholas Berg execution:
A working hypothesis and a resolution for the orange jumpsuit mystery
23 May 2004
Why was Nick Berg wearing a US prison “jumpsuit” when he was apparently executed on video by what are claimed to be al-Qaeda-linked terrorists? Something fishy there, but there was an elegant explanation. This was my first work on the case, later elaborated by …

New evidence and observations on the Berg case
18 July 2004
A close comparison of frames from the Berg video and pictures from Abu Ghraib prison reveals more evidence that the execution video was recorded in the notorious prison complex. Also, a refinement on the issue of the orange jumpsuit, which was actually a two-piece US prison uniform. And for an “off camera” view of a videotaped interrogation like the one seen in the opening 13 seconds of the Berg execution video, see the postscript to this piece. WARNING: disturbing images.
http://www.brushtail.com.au/july_06_on/occupation_turf_war.html

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Killing from on High

In reality, “Death from Above” means nothing less than mass murder from 15,000 feet. It means daisy cutters, bunker busters, cruise missiles, napalm, and white phosphorous. It means depleted uranium and cluster bombs littering the landscape for decades. It means rubble, destruction, the ruination of lives by the hundreds, by the thousands and more. It means Dresden, Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki. It means “shock and awe.” It means 9/11. It means more than space allows me to explain, yet it’s perfectly normal for an American to slap a “Death from Above” decal on his/her vehicle…right next to “support the troops” sticker.
http://www.pacificfreepress.com/content/view/1140/81/

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April 2007: The deadliest month of the Iraq occupation

We’re more than a third of the way through April now, and I haven’t seen this actually reported in the media anywhere, but unfortunately this has been the deadliest month for the U.S.-led coalition forces — on an average daily basis — of the four-year occupation of Iraq.

So far, according to icasualties.org, 47 American troops and six British soliders have died in the 11 days of April so far — an average of 4.82 coalition deaths every day. And — looking at the month to month statistics — no month has been that high since Baghdad fell on April 9, 2003.
http://www.attytood.com/2007/04/april_2007_the_deadliest_month_1.html

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An April Fool ?

April 11, 2007 – On April Fool’s Day, 1st April, Senator John McCain went for a stroll in Baghdad’s central, sprawling Shorja Market. There were “encouraging signs”, he said “progress” was “evident”. The man whose 2004 book is entitled: “Why Courage Matters – The Way to a Braver Life”, wore body armour and was reported as accompanied by one hundred soldiers, three Blackhawk helicopters and two Apaches. The Iraq debate in Congress “has an Alice in Wonderland quality about it”, he comments on his website ( http://www.mccain.senate.gov ). So did his market visit, where the “warm” people even refused money for his “souvenirs”. Probably because a very proud people would not take an invasion supporter’s cash if it was the last on the planet.
http://www.unobserver.com/

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Refugees Speak of Escape from Hell

“America is the reason why Iraq was invaded, so we would like the American administration to give aid to us refugees,” she added. “I would like people to read this and tell Bush to help us.”
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=37302

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Payment sought in murder of Iraqi and Afghan civilians by US. occupation forces

The military has paid more than $32 million to Iraqi and Afghan civilians for non-combat-related killings, injuries and property damage. That figure does not include condolence payments.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/4707769.html

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Kurdistan’s Covert Back-Channels : Iraq Muslim ‘s Traitor

How an ex-Mossad chief, a German uberspy, and a gaggle of top-dollar GOP lobbyists helped Kurdistan snag 15 tons of $100 bills.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17524.htm

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Who’s behind the attack in parliament?

Several other lawmakers also said they saw the limbs, believed to be those of the bomber.

Earlier in the day, security officials used dogs to check people entering the building in a rare precaution — apparently concerned that an attack might take place.

But a security scanner that checks pedestrians at the entrance to the Green Zone near the parliament building was not working Thursday, Abu Bakr said. People were searched only by hand and had to pass through metal detectors, he said.

La ballah! It didn’t work on the very day a suicide bomber got through? COME ON. Who did this? El gringo, of course. And buddy Mehdi.
http://truth-about-iraqis2.blogspot.com/2007/04/whos-behind-attack-in-parliament.html

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Green Zone Down: Bomb Hits Parliament As Bush Moves to Make Baghdad a Prison

The Bush-McCain “surge” is working so well that now the very heart of the American-installed, American-protected Iraqi government has been struck by a bomb, killing at least two legislators, as the Washington Post, AP and the Guardian report.
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1107&Itemid=135

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4 Years On, the Gap Between Iraq Policy and Practice Is Wide

WASHINGTON, April 11 — Four years after the fall of Baghdad, the White House is once again struggling to solve an old problem: Who is in charge of carrying out policy in Iraq?
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/world/middleeast/12policy.html?ex=1334030400&en=6000b64f9dc27a9f&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

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Iraq policy ‘spawned new terror’

The British and US policy towards Iraq has “spawned new terror in the region”, a think tank report has said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6542567.stm

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Troops accused of killing suspects

Corpses lay unclaimed in deserted streets of central Baghdad yesterday and accusations of extrajudicial execution hung over the US-trained Iraqi Army after the most intensive gun battle in the capital since the American military launched its last-ditch security plan to prevent the collapse of the city.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article1642663.ece

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Thursday: 52 Iraqis Killed, 86 Wounded; Iraqi Parliament Suffers Bombing

A bomb at the Iraqi Parliament building in the fortified Green Zone and another on a major bridge shook Baghdad today and underscored weaknesses in the security crackdown. Overall, at least 52 Iraqis were killed and 86 injured during violent attacks today. No foreign casualties were reported.
http://www.antiwar.com/updates/?articleid=10807

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 11 April 2007

• US admits two American troops killed in Resistance attacks in Baghdad Tuesday, Wednesday.
• Explosion rocks area in al-A‘zamiyah Wednesday afternoon.
• Islamic Army spokesman: US, Iran behind many car bombings in Iraq.
• Resistance fighters assault puppet police at checkpoint in al-Miqdadiyah Wednesday afternoon.
• Attacks target puppet police stations in al-Mawsil.
• British troops report clash with “armed men” in al-Basrah.

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0407/iraqiresistancereport2_110407.htm

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Afghani mass grave hides 400 dead

THE bodies of nearly 400 Afghan civilians killed during the communist regime that ended in 1992 have been found in a mass grave in northeastern Afghanistan.

The grave was found by local farmers in a desert just outside Faizabad, the capital town of the remote Badakhshan province, deputy governor Shams-ul Rahman Shams said.
http://snipurl.com/1g9r7

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Two more Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan: Confirmed

Two Canadians have been killed and three injured in Afghanistan, a military official at CFB Gagetown says.
http://snipurl.com/1g9r4

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Zionist War Crime : “68 women gave birth on checkpoints, 33 infants and 4 women died”

The Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens Rights (PICCR) reported that Israeli troops stationed at hundreds of roadblocks in the occupied territories barred dozens of pregnant women from crossing the checkpoints while in labor; 34 infants and four women died on their roadblocks.

The Commission reported that soldiers forced 68 pregnant women to give birth on road blocks after barring them from crossing as they were being transferred to hospitals and medical centers.
http://imemc.org/article/47767

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UN envoy on children says Israel broke international law in 2006 war in Lebanon

A UN envoy for children in conflict said Thursday she had been horrified by the destruction of a Lebanese village besieged by Israeli troops last year, and that many of Israel’s actions during the war against Hezbollah had violated international law.
http://snipurl.com/1g9rp

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On Video: Palestinian As Human Shield

International law, including the Geneva Conventions and Hague regulations, prohibits placing civilians in harm’s way during military operations.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=3030769

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Ex-FBI boss blasts MI5’s Ulster record

This is the first time that Freeh has so openly criticised MI5, which worked closely with the FBI in operations against the IRA while Freeh was FBI director.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/article2442155.ece

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White House Can’t Say If Lost E-Mails Include Firings

The Bush administration acknowledged that some lost White House e-mails might have dealt with the firing of eight U.S. attorneys, as a Senate panel stepped up demands for more information on the removal of the prosecutors.

http://snipurl.com/1g9s8

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Leahy Doubts Bush Aides on Lost E-Mails

President Bush’s aides are lying about White House e-mails sent on a Republican account that might have been lost, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy suggested Thursday, vowing to subpoena those documents if the administration fails to cough them up.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6552441,00.html

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Awful Truth About Hillary, Barack, John and Whitewash

This year, with their virtually identical statements about “options” and “the table,” the leading Democratic presidential candidates – Clinton, Obama and Edwards – have refused to rule out any kind of attack on Iran. If you’re not shocked or outraged yet, consider this:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17520.htm

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Rev Al Sharpton on FBI Tape – Drug Dealer &Snitch

A shocking FBI surveillance tape shows the Rev. Al Sharpton discussing a major drug deal with an undercover agent posing as a South American kingpin.

The black activist was offered thousands of dollars as a cut for arranging bulk sales of cocaine on the 1983 videotape, which will be shown tonight on HBO’s “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.”

“I can get pure coke … for about 35,000 a kilo,” says Victor Quintana, the FBI agent, as Sharpton nods during the sting operation. “But I gotta get, you know, more than one.”

“Right,” Sharpton replies.
http://www.strangecosmos.com/content/item/23284.html

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-muslim voice-
______________________________________
BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW

US Terrorize The Whole World by “War on Terror” – 24 Rabiul Awal 1428 H (12.4.07)

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

=== News Update ===

480 US nuclear warheads in Europe : War Mongering

A documentary aired on Italian TV channel, RAI 24, has claimed that the U.S. military is keeping 480 nuclear warheads across Europe, 90 in Italy.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=5510&sectionid=3510206

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Researcher Says Israel Responsible for at least 97.8 Percent of Serious Human Rights Abuses in Conflict

Dr. Anthony Löwstedt, an independent Swedish researcher released his extensive research analysis titled :”Apartheid – Ancient, Past, and Present: Systematic and Gross Human Rights Violations in Graeco-Roman Egypt, South Africa, and Israel/Palestine.” (PDF File)

In his focus on the Middle Eastern conflict since the formation of the state of Israel in 1948, he said that the vast majority of grave violations of human rights falls under the responsibility of the Jewish state.

Researcher says Israel Responsible for at least 97.8 Percent of Serious Human Rights Abuses in Conflict.
http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2007/04/11/researcher-says-israel-responsible-for-at-least-978-percent-of-serious-human-rights-abuses-in-conflict/

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The Iraqi resistance only exists to end the occupation

The escalating attacks are not usually aimed at civilians, but are a direct response to the brutal actions of US-led troops.

During the first three years of occupation women were mostly confined to their homes, protected by male relatives. But now that the savagery of their circumstances has propelled many of them to the head of their households, they are risking their lives outdoors. Since men are the main target of US-led troops, militias and death squads, black-cloaked women are seen queuing at prisons, government offices or morgues, in search of disappeared, or detained, male relatives. It is women who bury the dead. Baghdad has become a city of bereaved women. But contrary to what we are told by the occupation and its puppet regime, this is not the only city that is subject to the brutality that forces thousands of Iraqis to flee their country every month.

There is only one solution to this disaster, and that is for the US and Britain to accept that the Iraqi resistance is fighting to end the occupation. And to acknowlege that it consists of ordinary Iraqis, not only al-Qaida, not just Sunnis or Shias, not those terrorists – as Tony Blair called them – inspired by neighbouring countries such as Iran. To recognise that Iraqis are proud, peace-loving people, and that they hate occuption, not each other. And to understand that the main targets of the resistance are not Iraqi civilians. According to Brookings, the independent US research institute, 75% of recorded attacks are directed at occupation forces, and a further 17% at Iraqi government forces. The average number of attacks has more than doubled in the past year to about 185 a day. That is 1,300 a week, and more than 5,500 a month.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2054881,00.html

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Could a Google Search Have Helped Prevent the War in Iraq?

The ‘Smoking Gun’ letter, citing a deal to sell uranium to Saddam Hussein, was obvious forgery, say a new book.

The July 2000 letter, which was obtained from Italian intelligence services, appeared to be an official correspondence from the Niger government to the president of Iraq, confirming a deal to sell 500 tons of pure uranium to Iraq annually.

But if the CIA had done a simple Internet search on some of the terms used in the letter, the agency would have quickly learned that it was a forgery.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=3012688&page=1

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Divide and Rule – America’s Plan for Baghdad

Faced with an ever-more ruthless insurgency in Baghdad – despite President George Bush’s “surge” in troops – US forces in the city are now planning a massive and highly controversial counter-insurgency operation that will seal off vast areas of the city, enclosing whole neighbourhoods with barricades and allowing only Iraqis with newly issued ID cards to enter.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17515.htm

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Iraqis Finally Unite-Against the U.S.

You have to hand it to Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., for having the chutzpah to cite the fiercely anti-American rally that dominated the anniversary of Iraq’s fourth year of U.S. occupation as evidence that the troop “surge” is working. As opposed to Lieberman, who continues to act as Bush’s overeager lap dog, his masters in the White House knew better than to celebrate at this depressing moment.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17517.htm

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Barazani bribed former Iraqi justice minister : America Lackey and Iraqis Traitor

Turkish newspaper Hurriyet says they have evidence that Kurdish warlord Barazani bribed former Iraq’s Justice minister Hasham Al-Shibli to deport Arabs out of Kirkuk.

Hurriyet says that they have copies of bank checks of thousands of dollars paid by Barazani to the minister Al-Shibli.
http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2007/04/11/barazani-bribed-former-iraqi-justice-minister/#respond

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Iraq situation ‘ever worsening’

The situation for civilians in Iraq is “ever worsening”, the International Committee of the Red Cross says.
http://snipurl.com/1g4jh

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Film for torturing and killing old Palestinian by the Safawee Shiite militias

You can’t describe the ugly crime that was done by the betrayal hands that hate Islam and the Palestine existence, this gang is Bader corps. It abducted old Palestinian man that his age is more than 70 years old, from his job place and tortured him in an ugly way that you didn’t witness any one like this way even wild animals don’t do this things that is not from Islam or any low in the world.
http://76news.net/eng/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=121&Itemid=27

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Urgent… tens killed and wounded from civilians by occupation and government bullets in al-Fathel

Medical sources revealed to our correspondent in al-Fathel area that the first statistics of civilian losses that was made by the armed combats that is still accruing until now in the area reached 27 killed and tens wounded
http://76news.net/eng/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=175&Itemid=2

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Military spending soars to keep troops in the service

The struggle to entice Army soldiers and Marines to stay in the military, after four years of war in Iraq, has ballooned into a $1 billion campaign, with bonuses soaring nearly sixfold since 2003
http://snipurl.com/1g4jp

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Medical crews airlifted 850 wounded in March

Air Force planes and medical crews airlifted more than 850 wounded and injured servicemen out of war zones during March, according to the Air Force. In February, the Air Force flew out 767 patients.

http://snipurl.com/1g4jr

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Standing on the bodies: McCain Assails Democrats On Iraq War

Republican presidential contender John McCain on Wednesday called the four-year conflict in Iraq “necessary and just” and accused anti-war Democrats, including their leading White House candidates, of recklessness.

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/politics/11620785/detail.html

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The Inevitable Collapse : Democrats for War

The precipitous decline of antiwar sentiment within the Democratic Party has been on grand display over the past few months. The majority of leading Democrats say they oppose the war in Iraq, but still refuse to cut funding. And when Bush vetoes the pork-swollen appropriations bill, which he’s promised to do, the Democrats have pledged to compromise, rewrite the bill, and grant President Bush exactly what he wants: more cash and no timetable for troop withdraw from Iraq.
http://www.counterpunch.org/frank04102007.html

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US Forced to Import Bullets from Israel as Troops Use 250,000 for Every Rebel Killed

US forces have fired so many bullets in Iraq and Afghanistan – an estimated 250,000 for every insurgent killed – that American ammunition-makers cannot keep up with demand. As a result the US is having to import supplies from Israel.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0925-02.htm

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 10 April 2007

• American armored vehicle reported destroyed when Resistance ambushes US patrol in al-Fallujah, sparking half-hour fire fight Tuesday morning.
• US troops set up temporary checkpoint, arrest 15 southeast of al-Fallujah.
• Resistance sharpshooter kills puppet soldier in al-Fallujah Tuesday morning.
• Unidentified victim of torture, murder found in al-Fallujah.
• US command admits four troops killed on Tuesday, Baghdad.
• At least 10 reported killed in fierce battle as neighborhood defenders fight Americans, puppet troops following execution of two local youths in al-Fadl neighborhood of Baghdad. US admits 16 American troops wounded.
• Mysterious car bomb in Baghdad University parking lot kills five midday Tuesday.
• Mortar shell lands near Palestinian middle school killing one, injuring 10, including students.
• Woman Resistance fighter detonates explosive belt amidst puppet police recruits in al-Miqdadiyah, Tuesday morning, killing 17.
• US carries out raids, arrests in village near ad-Dulu‘iyah.
• US troops kill student at fuel station in Tikrit.
• Mysterious bomb kills two civilians north of al-Khalis Tuesday morning.
• Bomb in al-Haswah kills two. Torture, murder victim found in al-Iskandariyah area.
• Resistance fighters battle US troops near al-Mahmudiyah Sunday, US announcement says.
• Four rockets blast into US “Camp Echo” in ad-Diwaniyah.

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0407/iraqiresistancereport_110407.htm

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26 dead in Afghanistan airstrike, explosions

US-led coalition and Afghan troops called in warplanes after Taliban rebels attacked them with mortars and rockets in the troubled Sangin district of southern Helmand province, the coalition said.
http://snipurl.com/1g4k8

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Murder of 8 Afghan Civilians leads to firing of Spec ops commander

The firings occurred April 3, one month after members of the company allegedly killed eight civilians after a Marine convoy was ambushed by a car bomb in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province.
http://snipurl.com/1g4kd

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Probe finds that Marines accused of killing Afghan civilians used excessive force

The initial investigation of the March 4 incident, in which up to a dozen Afghan civilians are reported to have died, concluded that the Marines’ response was “out of proportion to the threat that was immediately there,” a senior defense official said Wednesday.

http://snipurl.com/1g4kf

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The Third Temple’s Holy Of Holies: Israel’s Nuclear Weapons

The Counterproliferation Papers Series was established by the USAF Counterproliferation Center to provide information and analysis to U.S. national security policy-makers and USAF officers to assist them in countering the threat posed by adversaries equipped with weapons of mass destruction. Copies of papers in this series are available from the USAF Counterproliferation Center, 325 Chennault Circle, Maxwell AFB AL 36112-6427. The fax number is (334) 953-7538; phone (334) 953-7538.
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/cpc-pubs/farr.htm

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Dr Mengele’s new lab : Zionist War Crime

In a country famous for conducting illegal medical experiments on its own citizens, it is perhaps not surprising to find that Palestinian political prisoners are being used as subjects for illegal medical experiments. There is no direct proof of this – nor would there be, unless an Israeli doctor confesses, as the experiments are done without the knowledge or consent of the prisoners – but the allegation is based on the combination of a marked decrease in the health of the prisoners coupled with an admission that there was an annual increase of 15 percent in the number of permits given to the Israeli ministry of health to conduct experiments on Palestinian prisoners. This is just one of a long monthly list of Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity.
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2007/04/dr-mengeles-new-lab.html

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10% of Palestinian children have lasting malnutrition effects

About 10 percent of Palestinian children suffer permanent effects from malnutrition, according to a survey published Wednesday, a result of widespread poverty in the West Bank and Gaza.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/847548.html

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Israelis Torturing Palestinian Children

About a year and a half ago, he tells IPS, he and his friend were walking down the street when Israeli military jeeps surrounded them, shouted at them in Hebrew to stop, and forced them inside a jeep.

“I was taken to a detention centre and interrogated,” Mohammed says. “The interrogation would begin at 2 o’clock in the afternoon and would finish after eleven pm. I was beaten all the time, especially if the soldiers did not get the answers they wanted.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=37283

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Closed 1967 Senate protocols reveal bids to pressure Israel

Senator William J. Fulbright is quoted as saying, “The trouble is they [the Jews] think they have control of the Senate and they can do as they please.”
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/847481.html

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Palestinian family must wait in jail for case hearing

While their case remains uncertain, 56-year-old Radi Hazahza and his four adult children Mirvat, 24; Hisham, 23; Suzi, 19; and Ahmad, 18 wait in a West Texas detention center where they say they’ve been mistreated.

http://snipurl.com/1g4kz

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U.S. citizen says FBI ordered his torture

Jack Idema is the last of three U.S. citizens imprisoned in Afghanistan for running a private prison. Idema said they were hunting terrorists as part of a mission sanctioned by U.S. counterterrorism officials – a claim that U.S. officials have denied.
http://snipurl.com/1g4ki

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White House Considers War Overseer

The Washington Post reported that the White House has approached at least three retired four-star generals in recent weeks, but they have declined to be considered for the position

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6549473,00.html

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Dictatorship : Florida Legislature Forces University To Idolize Jeb Bush

Upset by this lack of Jeb Bush adoration, the conservative-controlled House Schools & Learning Council voted yesterday to force the university to rename its education school the “Jeb Bush College of Education.”

Over the faculty’s opposition, the school will now have “to erect ‘suitable markers‘ noting the college’s new name and include the revised name in all university documents, including catalogues and brochures.” The lawmakers acknowledge they “came up with the idea as an answer” to the faculty’s denial of Bush’s honorary degree.
http://www.rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2F2007%2F04%2F11%2Fbush-education%2F

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Alberto Gonzales is a Symptom

He refuses to resign. His explanation is that he has worked too hard to surrender. After all, he gave up a Texas Supreme Court Judgeship for the opportunity to engage in this morass.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17519.htm

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Libby supporters in Republican Jewish Coalition attack Pelosi

This is truly shameful. The Republican Jewish Coalition, a GOP front group, is doing a swiftboating of Nancy Pelosi
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/4/11/92251/5636

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Hillary’s pathetic ploy

Sen. Hillary Clinton’s decision to co-sponsor a bill to make it a crime to burn the American flag amounts to political pandering of the worst kind.

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/12/12/Opinion/Hillary_s_pathetic_pl.shtml

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-muslim voice-
______________________________________
BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW

US Terrorize The Whole World by “War on Terror” – 23 Rabiul Awal 1428 H (11.4.07)

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

=== News Update ===

Welcome to America

Canadian Student spent 11 hours in Georgia jail for minor traffic violation. 23-year-old fingerprinted, forced to strip naked, don jail outfit and left in cell with inmates while officials checked her immigration details
http://tinyurl.com/yqmndv

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9/11 : Bombs in the WTC Buildings Proves Nothing to Racist-Fascist Bigots

Fireman Lou Cacchioli was the first to grab me by the heart, mind and soul with his isolated courage by simply telling the truth about what he experienced to the only media that cared to ask about his eyewitness account of 9/11 on July 19, 2005. In the Arctic Beacon article, by Greg Szymanski, he related his observations during the efforts to save as many as he could with little regard for personal safety: “…there were bombs…elevator doors completely blown out… we heard this huge explosion that sounded like a bomb… another huge explosion like the first one hits…. Oh. My God, these bastards put bombs in here like they did in 1993! Then as soon as we get in the stairwell, I hear another huge explosion like the other two. Then I heard bang, bang, bang – huge bangs…”

Damning testimony to the fact that there were bombs in the WTC, but it was only one man’s eyewitness. How valid can one brave and seemingly honest man’s visions be when there were many others that also had to have eyewitness testimony and managed to survive. Distinguished author and professor emeritus of the Claremont Graduate University, David Ray Griffin, exposes those virtually unreported eyewitness experiences in “Explosive Testimony”
http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/06/08/21/ward.htm

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India: Five years after 2002 Gujarat pogrom, While the victims languish, the perpetrators go unpunished

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/apr2007/indi-a10.shtml

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A US-Made Mess in Somalia

The media often reports overseas developments but doesn’t always explore their underlying causes, which, in many cases, conveniently lets the U.S. government off the hook. The recent internecine violence in Somalia provides a classic example.

The U.S. media has focused to date almost exclusively on the rising Islamist movement in Somalia and U.S. “covert” assistance to the Ethiopian invasion that supported Somalia’s transitional government against the stronger Islamists. The media should be focusing on one of the major causes of the Somali mess: U.S. government meddling.

After 9/11, the Bush administration feared that the absence of a strong government in the “failed state” of Somalia could turn the small east African country – slightly smaller than Texas – into a haven for terrorists. The administration ignored the fact that other states with weak governments have not become sanctuaries for terrorists. Even if Somalia had become a terrorist enclave, the terrorists, absent some U.S. provocation, probably would not have attacked the faraway United States.
http://www.antiwar.com/eland/?articleid=10793

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Report: Somali clashes kill more than 1,000

Recent fighting between Ethiopian-backed government troops and Islamic insurgents in Somalia’s capital killed more than 1,000 civilians and wounded 4,300, according to a report by the largest clan in the battle-scarred city.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-04-10-somali-clashes_N.htm

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Iraq war was illegal and breached UN charter, says Annan – Thursday September 16, 2004

The United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, declared explicitly for the first time last night that the US-led war on Iraq was illegal.

Mr Annan said the security council had warned Iraq in resolution 1441 there would be “consequences” if it did not comply with its demands. But he said it should have been up to the council to determine what those consequences were.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1305709,00.html

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War Criminal 1 : The Inside Story of the Forged Iraq-Niger Docs That Helped Build the Case for War

In his January 2003 State of the Union address, President Bush declared the infamous sixteen words: “The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”

The claim was central to the administration’s claims that Saddam Hussein was seeking weapons of mass destruction and served as a basis for launching the Iraq invasion less than two months later.

Bush’s declaration was based on an intelligence document that provided evidence about Iraq’s purchase of uranium from the African country of Niger. But there was one problem: the document was a fake.

We speak with Carlo Bonini is the Italian reporter who broke the Niger story. And Peter Eisner is a veteran foreign correspondent and is currently an editor at the Washington Post. His new book is “The Italian Letter: How the Bush Administration Used a Fake Letter to Build the Case for War in Iraq.”
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/10/1321236

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WarCriminal 2 : Missing Weapons Of Mass Destruction: Is Lying About The Reason For War An Impeachable Offense?

President George W. Bush has got a very serious problem. Before asking Congress for a Joint Resolution authorizing the use of American military forces in Iraq, he made a number of unequivocal statements about the reason the United States needed to pursue the most radical actions any nation can undertake – acts of war against another nation.

Now it is clear that many of his statements appear to be false. In the past, Bush’s White House has been very good at sweeping ugly issues like this under the carpet, and out of sight. But it is not clear that they will be able to make the question of what happened to Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) go away – unless, perhaps, they start another war.

Frankly, I hope the WMDs are found, for it will end the matter. Clearly, the story of the missing WMDs is far from over. And it is too early, of course, to draw conclusions. But it is not too early to explore the relevant issues.

Bush’s statements on Radio Address – October 5, 2002 :
“The Iraqi regime . . . possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons.”
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20030606.html

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War Criminal 3 : Text of a Letter from the President to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate

Consistent with section 3(b) of the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 (Public Law 107-243), and based on information available to me, including that in the enclosed document, I determine that:

(1) reliance by the United States on further diplomatic and other peaceful means alone will neither (A) adequately protect the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq nor (B) likely lead to enforcement of all relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq; and

(2) acting pursuant to the Constitution and Public Law 107-243 is consistent with the United States and other countries continuing to take the necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030319-1.html

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WAR CRIMINAL : NUKE ‘EM TIL THEY GLOW

In the buildup to Desert Storm, many bumper stickers in the U.S. proclaimed, “Nuke ‘Em Till They Glow.” In reality, there was some truth in the statement because the U.S. left hundreds of tons of spent uranium in Iraq. This material is very hard and was used in missiles, rockets and bombs. The leftover residue has contaminated much of Iraq and incidences of malformed babies skyrocketed after the conflict.

The U.S. again pummeled Iraq with spent uranium in its 2003 invasion of Iraq. But, did the U.S. actually detonate a nuclear weapon during the conflict? Former U.S. Army Captain Eric May came to this conclusion after closely studying the Battle of Baghdad at the international airport.
http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0407/lagauche_110407.htm

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Neocon Lieutenant Colonel Blames Iraq’s Victims

“Once again, the Arab people, within Iraq and without, have failed themselves horribly,” Peters tells Kengor. “Their pettiness, their embrace of corruption, their social structures and their taste for internecine feuds and religious intolerance all have led them to make a hash of this unprecedented opportunity to build one rule-of-law democracy in the Arab world. Arabs have an ineradicable genius for failing themselves.”

In other words, the Iraqis have only themselves to blame for more than a decade of crippling and deadly sanctions in the wake of Bush Senior’s invasion, an illegal and immoral adventure that targeted water and sewage plants, civilian infrastructure, hospitals and homes. Even before Bush the Junior’s invasion, at least 500 children a day in Iraq died from disease, mostly cancer from depleted uranium. “Cases of lymphoblastic leukaemia have more than quadrupled with other cancers,” the Lancet, an esteemed British medical journal, reported in 1998. “In men, lung, bladder, bronchus, skin, and stomach cancers show the highest increase. In women, the highest increases are in breast and bladder cancer, and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Diseases such as osteosarcoma, teratoma, nephroblastoma, and rhabdomyosarcoma are also increasing with, according to the review, the most affected being children and young men. Congenital malformations have also increased, as have diseases of the immune system.”
http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=825

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Many Iraqis believe ’suicide’ bombings done by US to start a civil war

Ali Ghazi, also a Shia from the Iraqi deep south. “I believe it is the Americans who are doing this, pretending it is the Sunni, so there will be a civil war and they can control our wealth.” Many survivors lying mangled by this morning’s bombs subscribed to a conspiracy theory according to which the US wants to rule Iraq by fomenting differences between Shia and Sunni…. many of those wounded denied there would be a war between Shia and Sunni. Mohammed Abdul Karim, an injured Shia at Noman hospital, pointed out that he was in a Sunni district and the Sunni doctors were doing everything to help him.
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=8286

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video : “Muhammad” Describes Torture in Iraq

The man, “Muhammad”(not his real name), interviewed this week is just one of many, an innumerable and apparently increasing number of Iraqis who have been tortured by militias and fighters from all sides of Iraq’s violence.

This past Sunday, the Association of Muslim Scholars, an important Sunni authority in Iraq again raised the spectre of torture, alleging that the deaths of two Sunni scholars found Saturday.
http://aliveinbaghdad.org/2007/04/09/muhammad-describes-torture-in-iraq/

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Iraqi insider details U.S. mismanagement after fall of Saddam

In a rueful reflection on what might have been, an Iraqi government insider details in 500 pages what he calls the U.S. occupation’s shocking mismanagement of his country – a performance so bad, he writes, that by 2007 Iraqis had “turned their backs on their would-be liberators.”
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/09/news/insider.php

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U.S. forces in heavy clashes in Baghdad

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – U.S. and Iraqi forces backed by attack helicopters fought gunmen in Baghdad on Tuesday, witnesses said, in what appeared to be the heaviest battle in the capital since a security crackdown was launched in February.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2007-04-10T115058Z_01_PAR340730_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ.xml&src=rss&rpc=22

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Urgent… Downing an American Chopper in the middle of Baghdad and violent combats in al-Fathel

The correspondent added translating from eyewitnesses that the American and the governmental forces are surrounding the area now and investigating for the falling reason of the Chopper and its crew fate, but the eyewitnesses confirmed that it downed by earth weapons caused downing it.

A statement for the American army mentioned that three soldiers were killed today and four wounded when a road side bomb targeted their convoy south west Baghdad and we will report you more details about the combats in al-Fathel areas as sonn as we get more information.
http://76news.net/eng/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=172&Itemid=1

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Urgent… executing two youth men was the reason of the combats and news about downing another Chopper

Eyewitnesses confirmed to our correspondent in al-Fathel area that the combats that begun between armed men and between the American and the governmental forces from the other side after the occupation and the governmental forces killed two youth men from the sons of the area in front of the people after it arrested them, and they decleared that this crime angered the sons of the area and caused breaking out the combats that still until now.

And anther news report that another Chopper were downed in al-Fathel area in Baghdad. In which our correspondent in the area reported that another American Helicopter were hit in the combats that started today and it were seen when it is falling near Sheikh Omar graveyard.

In another side eyewitnesses confirmed that the first downed Chopper crew that were downed today’s morning in Sheikh Omar area in the part that is near Mohammad Kasem highway may killed in the accident.
http://76news.net/eng/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=173&Itemid=1

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Four US soldiers killed in Iraq

BAGHDAD – Another four US soldiers have died in violence in Iraq, the military said on Tuesday, bringing to 32 the number of American troops killed in the country this month alone.
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2007/April/focusoniraq_April76.xml&section=focusoniraq

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16 U.S. soldiers wounded in Baghdad

BAGHDAD – U.S. and Iraqi soldiers fought a daylong battle with insurgents in a violent area of central Baghdad on Tuesday, leaving four Iraqi soldiers dead and 16 U.S. soldiers wounded, the military said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070410/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_baghdad_battle

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Tuesday: 4 GIs, 74 Iraqis Killed; 16 GIs, 108 Iraqis Wounded

Yesterday’s reprieve from violence has definitively ended. At least 74 Iraqis were killed or found dead, and another 108 Iraqis were wounded, mostly today . Also, four U.S. soldiers were killed in separate incidents yesterday. Meanwhile 16 GIs were wounded and two U.S. helicopters were hit by gunfire in today’s clashes..
http://www.antiwar.com/updates/?articleid=10796

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 9 April 2007

• US locks down cities of al-Anbar Province Monday to mark 4th anniversary of occupation.
• Nine more bodies found in Iraqi capital as America celebrates 4th anniversary of capture of Baghdad.
• Mysterious mortar attack targets residential area of al-Khalis Monday afternoon.
• Car bomb targets puppet checkpoint near al-Miqdadiyah Sunday night.
• Mortar barrage targets US “Camp Echo” in ad-Diwaniyah Monday morning.
• Shi‘i sectarian gunmen try to storm Sunni mosque in al-Basrah as British headquarters come under bombardment.

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0407/iraqiresistancereport_090407.htm

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Taliban attacks leave eight dead in Afghanistan

Taliban militants ambushed an Afghan army convoy with rockets and heavy machine guns in southern Afghanistan Tuesday, killing four soldiers and injuring 19 others, the defence ministry said.
http://snipurl.com/1g03b

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Afghan government bans Al-Jazeera programs on local TV station

The government ordered an Afghan TV station to suspend broadcasts of Al-Jazeera’s English-language programs, the station’s director said Tuesday.

http://snipurl.com/1g03d

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Israeli spy case: Media seeks public access in upcoming AIPAC lobbyists’ trial

News organizations filed documents in federal court Monday opposing a government request to close portions of an upcoming trial of two former pro-Israel lobbyists accused of violating the Espionage Act.
http://snipurl.com/1g043

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Israeli spy case: Aipac Prosecution: Limited Access Is Constitutional

A government proposal to limit public access to evidence in the trial of two pro-Israel lobbyists is constitutional and represents a reasonable attempt to safeguard classified information, prosecutors argued in a brief filed last week in federal court in Virginia.

http://www.nysun.com/article/51871?access=726172

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In case you missed it: Israeli spy case: Ex-AIPAC staffers say Condi leaked them classified info

Two former lobbyists for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee say Condoleezza Rice was their informant on sensitive national security matters.

http://snipurl.com/1g046

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Ex-AIPAC staffers say Condi leaked them classified info

Two former lobbyists for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee say Condoleezza Rice was their informant on sensitive national security matters.

The claim, laid out in a courtroom Friday, April 21, intensified the drama surrounding a trial that could further roil a Washington political establishment already consumed by cases involving “official” and “unofficial” leaks.
http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/29053/edition_id/550/format/html/displaystory.html

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How Syria Helped US in “War on Terror” – And How Bush Said “Thanks”

http://www.counterpunch.org/abourezk04102007.html

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US Navy builds Stingray-esque base in Indian Ocean

Reports have emerged that the US Navy is upgrading its submarine base at the isolated tropical atoll Diego Garcia, which is formally British territory.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/07/marineville_in_diego_garcia/

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In case you missed it: Stealing a Nation – Special Report by John Pilger

Video”: STEALING A NATION (2004) is an extraordinary film about the plight of people of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean – secretly and brutally expelled from their homeland by British governments in the late 1960s and early 1970s, to make way for an American military base

http://snipurl.com/1g03v

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Guantanamo force-feeds detainees

Rights groups called on the US to halt the “brutal” tactic, which includes strapping detainees to a chair
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6541091.stm

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MI5 blunder led to ghost flight and jail for ‘extremists’

An inquiry into MI5’s alleged complicity in the detention without trial at Guantanamo Bay of two British residents is believed to have concluded that the intelligence service made serious mistakes, The Times has learnt.

http://snipurl.com/1g04j

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Judge rejects Padilla torture argument

MIAMI – A federal judge refused to dismiss terrorism charges against a suspected al-Qaida operative over claims he was tortured in U.S. military custody, but the possibility that the allegations could resurface at his upcoming trial was left open.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070410/ap_on_re_us/padilla_terror_charges

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Kissinger’s Useful Idiot Bush Now Finds Himself Alone and Friendless

King Rat, Henry Kissinger, is leaving the USS Shrub to save face. His departure underlines the willingness of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney to continue sending young Americans to die in a venture they know has failed. Kissinger is an expert in that area.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17511.htm

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What Lack of Courage Cost

The Democratic Congress thus faces this April a humiliating climb-down, and all because of a Democratic Senate’s vote in October 2002 – Tom http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17508.htm

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-muslim voice-
______________________________________
BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW

US Terrorize The Whole World by “War on Terror” – 22 Rabiul Awal 1428 H (10.4.07)

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

=== News Update ===

War, Lies and WMDs

Is there an ethical distinction between lying to get your country out of a war and lying to get your country into one? The preponderance of the evidence strongly suggests that Bush did the latter when he said the existence of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction was sufficient reason to go to war with Iraq.

Saddam Hussein was under an obligation to destroy his WMDs under the terms that ended the first Iraq war. To justify a second Iraq war to implement a regime change, Bush needed to show that Saddam Hussein was in violation of those terms. His basic instrument was United Nations Resolution 1441. In order to get a second resolution to satisfy his only real ally, Britain, he needed evidence that the U.N. inspectors were failing and that WMDs did, indeed, exist.

To this end, Colin Powell trotted out photos of vehicles that may or may not have been mobile weapons labs and produced statements by defectors that the WMDs did exist. To this spectacle, America and Britain added an obsolete dissertation by a graduate student published in an Israeli journal from an institution for research in international affairs funded by Ronald Lauder, and forged documents from Niger about Saddam’s attempts to purchase uranium for making nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, Bush and his minions, including Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleeza Rice kept repeating that the WMDs were there, and that there were proven Iraqi ties to Al Queda, the other justification for the war being that it was somehow related to the war on terrorism. There is still no concrete proof of any Iraq–Al Queda connection.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/cummings/cummings22.html

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Islamophobia : Why Does the GOP Seek to Silence American Muslims?

Ahmed Rehab argues that America is facing a battle between proponents of dialogue and those who wish to stifle dialogue and replace it with Islamophobic fear-mongering.

Is it possible for Muslim Americans to criticize our administration’s neoconservative foreign policies, our government’s complicit role in Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian land, or our violations of civil liberties, and not be branded as “apologists for terror”?

Since the 9/11 attacks, anti-Muslim hysteria has evolved from a collective knee-jerk reaction to a coordinated cottage industry of agenda-driven extremists.

Baseless suspicion of Muslims – not actual wrongdoing – is now apparently sufficient to demand that certain Americans be stripped of the right to speak freely in our nation’s beacon of democracy and pluralism, the U.S. Capitol building.
http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/04/why-does-gop-seek-to-silence-american.html

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Zionist Groups Killed News Stories About Mossad & 9/11

“What are you doing putting this stuff out there? You’re killing us!”

These were the words of Abraham Foxman, executive director of the infamous Anti-Defamation League, considered by many in the know to be nothing more than a domestic branch of Israel’s intelligence service Mossad.

Had Americans been made aware of the arrests of hundreds of Israeli intelligence officers in the aftermath of Sept. 11 and the highly suspicious circumstances surrounding them, it is unlikely—even as propagandized as they are concerning the Middle East—that they would have signed on to sending their sons and daughters off to fight and die for Israel in Iraq.

Cover-ups are part of the dirty business of the Israeli lobby. Whether it involves the murderous attack on the USS Liberty by Israeli forces in 1967, Israeli foreknowledge of Sept. 11, the attempt to secure the release of major spy Jonathan Pollard or the efforts to gain an acquittal for the two AIPAC executives now standing trial for espionage, the conclusion to which all Americans must arrive is that Israel and her various tentacles collectively make up the most dangerous enemy the United States has ever faced.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/04/366728.html

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Iran Releases New Video Of British Captives

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5f9_1176075119&o=1

Constrast this with how American terrorist occupiers treated Iraqi prisoners (very graphic with full nudity)

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

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Dictatorship : Professor who criticized Bush added to terrorist ‘no-fly’ list

A top Constitutional scholar from Princeton who gave a televised speech that slammed President George W. Bush’s executive overreach recently learned that he had been added to the Transportation Security Administration’s terrorist watch list. He shared his experience this weekend at the law blog Balkinization.
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Professor_who_criticized_Bush_added_to_0409.html

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War Criminal : West Has Bloodied Hands

04/01/07 “Toronto Sun” — — Who was the first high government official to authorize use of mustard gas against rebellious Kurdish tribesmen in Iraq?

If your answer was Saddam Hussein’s cousin, the notorious “Chemical Ali” — aka Ali Hassan al-Majid — you’re wrong.

The correct answer: Sainted Winston Churchill. As colonial secretary and secretary for war and air, he authorized the RAF in the 1920s to routinely use mustard gas against rebellious Kurdish tribesmen in Iraq and against Pashtun tribes on British India’s northwest frontier.
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Eric_Margolis/2004/12/19/790077.html

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Darfur Sudan background and commentary : Did the Mainstream West Media Telling the Truth ?

I find it interesting that there are so many sucker Muslims, chosenite Jews like rabbi Lerner, and sweet, white, European and American “do gooders” who care sooooo much about the Muslim darkies in Darfur . While never visiting Sudan or talking to people from Sudan , like I and others have, they pick up pages from a known to be lying Zionist media and run with it as gospel truth. They just know it is the truth. Of course it has to be!!! But what is interesting is when you compare the news given by independent groups versus mainstream media about Sudan , it is the Zionist mainstream media who are pushing hard the genocide and massacre of the people of Darfur by that evil Islamic Sudanese government. Other news sources are not calling it genocide and are not blaming the Sudanese government for the problems. At the same time it is a fact that Sudan has been considered an enemy of the US for several years and both the US and Israel have been supporting rebels in an effort to overthrow the government. Clinton even launched a missile attack that destroyed the El Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Sudan . This plant, by the way, was responsible for over 50% of Sudan ‘s medicine. This included 90% of the most critically needed drugs.
http://www.darfurinformation.com/p_looking_beyond.shtml

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Puppet troops force 12-year-old boy to pick up bomb, causing his death in Samarra’

In a dispatch posted at 3:13pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported thatthe puppet Iraqi regime forces that are blockading the city of Samarra’, 120km north of Baghdad, force a boy to pick up a bomb, which then exploded and killed him, according to reports by eyewitnesses.

AMSI reported the witnesses as saying that the puppet troops on a patrol in one of the streets of Samarra’ forced a 12-year-old boy to carry a bomb. The device exploded, killing the boy.
http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0407/iraqiresistancereport_080407.htm

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One third of Iraqis live in poverty ­ UN report

One-third of Iraqis are now living in poverty, according to the findings of dire UN study for a nation that enjoyed prosperity less than three decades ago.

The study, carried out by the United Nations Development Program and a division of the Iraqi government, is the first major survey of living conditions for poverty-stricken Iraqis since the 2003 U.S.- led invasion.
http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=12916

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In case you missed it: A tale of two photos – West Mainstream Media’s Fake

Photos grabbed off of Reuters show a long-shot view of Fardus Square… it’s empty save for the U.S. Marines, the International Press, and a small handful of Iraqis.

The photographs tell the story… Is This Media manipulation on a grand scale? Yes, the occupation has begun.

April 6th: Iraqi National Congress founder, Ahmed Chalabi is flown into the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah by the Pentagon. Chalabi, along with 700 fighters of his “Free Iraqi Forces” are airlifted aboard four massive C17 military transport planes. Chalabi and the INC are Washington favorites to head the new Iraqi government. A photograph is taken of Chalabi and members of his Free Iraqi Forces militia as they arrive in Nasiriyah.

April 9th: One of the “most memorable images of the war” is created when U.S. troops pull down the statue of Saddam Hussein in Fardus Square. Oddly enough… a photograph is taken of a man who bears an uncanny resemblance to one of Chalabi’s militia members… he is near Fardus Square to greet the Marines. How many members of the pro-American Free Iraqi Forces were in and around Fardus Square as the statue of Saddam came tumbling down?

The up close action video of the statue being destroyed is broadcast around the world as proof of a massive uprising. Still photos grabbed off of Reuters show a long-shot view of Fardus Square… it’s empty save for the U.S. Marines, the International Press, and a small handful of Iraqis. There are no more than 200 people in the square at best. The Marines have the square sealed off and guarded by tanks. A U.S. mechanized vehicle is used to pull the statue of Saddam from it’s base. The entire event is being hailed as an equivalent of the Berlin Wall falling… but even a quick glance of the long-shot photo shows something more akin to a carefully constructed media event tailored for the television cameras.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2842.htm

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In case you missed it: The Toppling Of Saddam Statue: An Eyewitness Report

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3024.htm

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In case you missed it : Army Stage-Managed Fall of Hussein Statue

A Marine recovery vehicle toppled the statue with a chain, but the effort appeared to be Iraqi-inspired because the psychological team had managed to pack the vehicle with cheering Iraqi children.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6424.htm

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9/11 Pentagon Flag Used To Cover Saddam’s Face In Baghdad

We’ve just learned from the US marines that the US flag that was put on the face of Saddam yesterday – it was replaced by an Iraqi flag when the people shouted for that – was the flag that was flying over the Pentagon on September 11.

For a lot of the American marines, they think this war is all about defeating terrorism, they will tell you that over and over again. There is also a connection in the minds of the American public between the regime of Saddam and what happened on September 11, and apparently the flag that was draped over this face was flying over the pentagon when the plane crashed into it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2834.htm

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Australia’s ‘blood money’ payments to Iraqis revealed

The payments are huge sums for Iraqis, with the US Agency for International Development putting the present Iraq average annual income at $1830.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21524215-2,00.html

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Iraq: Hundreds of thousands protest U.S. occupation

Hundreds of thousands of chanting Iraqi Shias burned and stamped on US flags at an anti-American rally called by “firebrand” cleric Moqtada Al Sadr on the fourth anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein.
http://snipurl.com/1fv30

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 8 April 2007

• After population refuses to sell out Resistance men, US conducts mass raids, arrests in ar-Ramadi Sunday afternoon, rounding up 50 people between the ages of 14 and 60.
• Shi‘i sectarian gunmen blast Sunni mosque, shoot down woman in Baghdad’s al-‘Amil district.
• US admits 10 American troops killed on Saturday, Sunday.
• US soldier reported killed in Resistance bombing in southern Baghdad Sunday afternoon.
• Bodies of 17 more torture, murder victims found in Baghdad.
• Resistance bomb kills puppet policeman in al-A‘zamiyah Sunday morning.
• Shaykh Harith ad-Darri: secret services of US, UK, “Israel,” and Iraq work round the clock to stir up sectarian fighting in Iraq.
• Puppet troops force 12-year-old boy to pick up bomb, causing his death in Samarra’.
• Pro-American Shi‘i sectarian religious authority, Ayatallah as-Sistani, hospitalized in an-Najaf.
• Ad-Dulu ‘iyah, Resistance bomb destroys US Humvee Saturday night.
• Mortar shell blasts into residential area in al-Miqdadiyah, killing one.
• Mysterious explosion kills 17 in al-Mahmudiyah Sunday.
• Resistance car bomb kills, wounds eight Kurdish separatist Peshmergah gunmen.
• Military operations by US, puppet troops in ad-Diwaniyah leave seven dead.
• US, British consulates pounded by mortars before dawn Sunday.

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0407/iraqiresistancereport_080407.htm

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Annals of Liberation: Bush “Terror War” Gives Taliban Big Boost

The Independent reports that a new study in the region shows that support for the Taliban is growing even among moderates who were once glad to see the back of the primitive fundamentalists. Crime and violence are now running rampant under the satrapy set up by the primitive fundamentalists back in Washington, making the lives of locals a living hell – the identical outcome of all of Bush’s Terror War “regime change” operations, in Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia.
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1099&Itemid=135

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U.S Force Feeding Guantanamo Hunger Striker’s

Several detainees at Guantanamo Bay have joined a long-running hunger strike that attorneys say is a protest against harsher conditions at a new prison unit, bringing their number to 13, a spokesman at the U.S. military base said Monday.
http://www.11alive.com/news/article_news.aspx?storyid=95125

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Who’s the Boss?

How Pat Robertson’s law school is changing America.
http://www.slate.com/id/2163601/?nav=navoa

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Gonzales Crams for a Senate Grilling

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has virtually wiped his public schedule clean to bone up for his long-awaited April 17 testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee-a session widely seen as a crucial test as to whether he will survive the U.S. attorney mess.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17995971/site/newsweek/

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Dictatorship : 6-Year-Olds Under Arrest

When 6-year-old Desre’e Watson threw a tantrum in her kindergarten class a couple of weeks ago she could not have known that the full force of the law would be brought down on her and that she would be carted off by the police as a felon.
http://snipurl.com/1fv4a

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-muslim voice-
______________________________________
BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW

US Terrorize The Whole World by “War on Terror” – 21 Rabiul Awal 1428 H (9.4.07)

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

=== News Update ===

Gideon Levy: Israel doesn’t want peace

The moment of truth has arrived, and it has to be said: Israel does not want peace. The arsenal of excuses has run out, and the chorus of Israeli rejection already rings hollow. Until recently, it was still possible to accept the Israeli refrain that “there is no partner” for peace and that “the time isn’t right” to deal with our enemies. Today, the new reality before our eyes leaves no room for doubt and the tired refrain that “Israel supports peace” has been left shattered.

Who would have believed it? A high-ranking U.S. official says Israel wants peace talks to resume and instantly her president “severely” denies the veracity of her words. Is Israel even hearing these voices? Are we digesting the significance of these voices for peace? Seven million apathetic Israeli citizens prove that we are not.

It’s not only Olmert who is dragging his feet. A leading figure in the Labor party said last week that “it will take five to 10 years to recover from the trauma.” Peace is now no more than a threatening wound, with no one still talking about the massive social benefits it would bring in development, security, freedom of movement in the region and by establishing a more just society.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/846420.html

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Pro-Israel groups target American Muslims

LOS ANGELES — American Muslims and Muslim groups have long been a target of harassment and vilification from right-wing pro-Israel groups, a recent front-page article in the New York Times has exposed. Such forces, according to government sources, have used guilt by association to spread suspicion about Islam and Muslims, and in turn, kept Muslims out of mainstream American discourse and stripped them of their influence in the political and social arenas.
http://www.infocusnews.net/content/view/10910/135/

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War Criminal : Army file details brutal deaths of un-tried Afghan detainees

An interrogator told Dilawar that he could see a doctor after they finished with him. When he was finally sent back to his cell, though, the guards were instructed only to chain the prisoner back to the ceiling.

Several hours passed before an emergency room doctor finally saw Dilawar. By then he was dead, his body beginning to stiffen.

This is the image America will have to live with for the next half-century.
http://www.unknownnews.org/0505240521warcrimes.html

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“Preventive Warriors”

Video :
The film features many of the leading thinkers and intellectuals of our time including Noam Chomsky, Chalmers Johnson, Tariq Ali and more. The film examines a bold new foreign policy paper introduced by the White House in September 2002 entitled: “The National Security Strategy of the United States.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1020.htm

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Video: Israeli Mossad training in northern Iraq to the “Peshmerga,”

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=689217324327988215&hl=en

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American Tortured by US in Iraq Speaks Out

At a luncheon at the National Press Club, Vance received the Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling, an award named in memory of Army helicopter gunner Ron Ridenhour who struggled to bring the horrific mass murders at My Lai to the attention of Congress and the Pentagon during the Vietnam War.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17501.htm

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Suspect ‘chained like a dog’ in Iraq for three months

A SYDNEY spray painter, Ahmed Jamal, was treated like a dog and handcuffed continuously for three months while imprisoned in Iraq as an alleged insurgent, his brother said yesterday
http://snipurl.com/1fpiz

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The Iraqi Soldiers Brutally Beat Civilians- video

Many evidences and video records of soldiers from Iraqi Army who are involved in abuses, tortures, detentions, arrests, raids and killings of tens of thousands innocent people together with sectarian militias were presented to the world community. In this video, brutal attacks of Iraqi Soldiers to the Sunni civilians can be watched. … Those Iraqi Soldiers are brutally beating civilians…
http://heyetnet.org/en/content/view/176/1/

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U.S. Attack Kill Iraqi Woman and Children

A local hospital source and a resident said six people, including two children and a woman, were killed in the missile strike on a home in the centre of the city, 110 miles south of Baghdad.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070407/wl_nm/iraq_dc

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Scholar deaths “at hands of militias” spur Sunni anger in Iraq

Baghdad – The Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq, a top Sunni authority in the divided country, Sunday accused ‘sectarian militias which infiltrated government forces’ of being responsible for the death of two Sunni scholars.
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/news/article_1288576.php/Scholar_deaths_&quotat_hands_of_militias&quot_spur_Sunni_anger_in_Iraq

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Iraq Papers Mon: “US Army Used Neutron Bombs”

Former General Speaks, Recounts the Battle for Baghdad. For the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad, Aljazeera published an interview with the former leader of the Iraqi Republican Guard, Saif al-Deen al-Rawi, who was charged with organizing the defenses of the capital during the 2003 invasion.

Al-Rawi claimed that US forces used neutron nuclear bombs against the Iraqi Army during the battle for Baghdad’s airport. Al-Rawi said that his units were decimated by neutron bombs which, he added, neutralize soldiers without damaging buildings and equipment. Al-Rawi also claimed that large 9-ton bombs and phosphoric weapons that can cover large areas were used during the battle.
http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2273/Iraq_Papers_MonUS_Army_Used_Neutron_Bombs

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CIA tortured me in Iraq, claims freed Iranian diplomat

Allegations spark fresh speculation of secret deal
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,,2052599,00.html

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Ex-army officer: troops are dying in Iraq for a ‘doomed project’

A former captain in the Scots Guards who has served in Afghanistan and Iraq describes both operations as a political and military shambles in a book to be published next week.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2432462.ece

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Sunday: 11 GIs, 73 Iraqis Killed; 95 Iraqis Wounded

At least 73 Iraqis were killed or found dead today and 95 were wounded in violent attacks. Two significant bombings occurred, one in Baghdad and the other in Mahmudiya. Also, the U.S. military reported on the deaths of 11 more servicemembers in separate incidents.
http://www.antiwar.com/updates/?articleid=10786

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10 Americans die in bloody Iraq weekend

BAGHDAD – The powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his militiamen on Sunday to redouble their battle to oust American forces and argued that Iraq’s army and police should join him in defeating “your archenemy.” The U.S. military announced the weekend deaths of 10 American soldiers, including six killed on Sunday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070408/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq;_ylt=AlLa8VNkjuk91.Psv4R7.yms0NUE

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 7 April 2007

• Resistance bomb destroys US vehicle, reportedly killing four American troops in al-Kubaysah Friday night.
• Three US troops reported killed in Resistance bombing in al-Fallujah.
• US continues military operations against Baghdad’s Sunni al-A‘zamiyah district for third straight day.
• Bodies of 12 more victims of sectarian torture, murder found in Baghdad.
• Resistance car bomber blasts puppet army checkpoint in “Madinat as-Sadr” in Baghdad Saturday afternoon.
• US Marine reported killed in Saturday morning Resistance bomb attack in western Baghdad.
• US soldier killed in Baghdad bomb attack Friday, American command admits.
• US helicopter gun ships attack village near al-Khalis Saturday afternoon, killing five people.
• US forces round up, arrest bearded men aged 17 to 60 in Tall ‘Afar Friday, Saturday.
• Eight puppet “Shock Troops” killed in double bombing attack in Samarra’ Saturday morning.
• Ash-Shuruqat, US troops round up dozens of villagers at dawn Saturday.
• Oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Bayji blown up Friday morning.

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0407/iraqiresistancereport_070407.htm

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We want the Taliban back, say ordinary Afghans

Faiz Mohammed Karigar, a father of two, fled Kandahar when the Taliban held power in Afghanistan because he was against their restrictions on education. Now he wants the fundamentalists back. At least we felt safe under the extremists, say Kandahar residents too afraid to go out after dark.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article2432448.ece

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What the government won’t tell you: we are losing Afghan hearts

Our success or failure in Helmand depends not on warlords, or the governor of the province, or even special forces soldiers, but on the ordinary Afghans. And while we are spectacularly winning the war at the tactical level against the Taliban, we are rapidly losing the fight for those ordinary hearts and minds.

“When the Taliban were here, I escaped to the border with Iran, but I was never worried about my family,” he said. “Every single minute of the last three years I have been very worried. Maybe tonight the Americans will come to my house, molest my wife and children and arrest me.”
http://snipurl.com/1fpk6

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7 NATO occupation force soldiers killed in roadside bombings in southern Afghanistan

Roadside bombs in southern Afghanistan on Sunday left seven NATO occupation force soldiers dead, the alliance said, as its forces continued an anti-Taliban offensive in the world’s most fertile opium-producing region.
http://snipurl.com/1fpj8

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper confirms six Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan killed

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/War_Terror/2007/04/08/3953345-ap.html

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Afghan translator for kidnapped Italian journalist beheaded

Taliban spokesman: Ajmal Naqshbandi, a freelance journalist and translator, was kidnapped along with Daniele Mastrogiacomo of the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, and a driver in southern Helmand province March 5.
http://snipurl.com/1fpjd

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IN MEMORY OF DEIR YASSIN : ZIONIST WAR CRIME

It is important that we pause to remember the dead of Deir Yassin, the young, the old, the children, the unborn. It is important that we remember the barbarism that was carried out against essentially defenceless people who were, and had been, living in peace with their Jewish neighbours in Kfar Shaul.

That Jews depopulated Deir Yassin by massacre is significant not only because of its inhumanity, but it also marked the beginning of a campaign whereby Jews wiped over 500 Palestinian towns and villages off the map, killed thousands of Palestinian people, and forced close to 800,000 to flee.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m31982

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Holocaust Memory and Jewish Identity

When I recently asked some friends which chapter of Jewish history should be mandatory knowledge for all Jews, some chose the exodus from Egypt, others the establishment of modern Israel and some the emergence of prophetic Judaism.

I found it odd that no one selected the Holocaust.

Yet the Holocaust is precisely what American Jews have chosen. After all, Holocaust education permeates Jewish school curriculums, Holocaust museums have emerged throughout America, and Yom HaShoah commemorations, like the ones we will have this month, are ever-present. In turn, Jews, for whom Jewish philosophy remains untouchable, turn to the destruction of European Jewry as their dominant historical memory.
http://ajcblog.org/2007/04/05/holocaust-memory-and-jewish-identity/

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Shalom, Shin Bet

Recently, The chief of the Shin Bet declared that the “Israeli Arabs”, a fifth of Israel’s population, constitute a danger to the state.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17504.htm

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URGENT NEWS – to UN & General Secretary Ban Ki – Moon : Israelis in New Missile Attacks over Gaza Strip

The escalation in Israeli violence came after that the Israeli “defense” minister – Amir Peretz authorized “limited strikes” inside the Gaza Strip – The new Israeli missile attacks on Gaza Strip are attempts to prevent the Palestinian resistance from the preparations of attaching explosive devises and to bring weapons in tunnels from outside in to the Gaza Strip. – Weapons to be used by the Palestinian resistance in defending the borders from foreign hostile trespassers – the Israelis – waging new wars on the Gaza Strip.
http://palestinefreevoice.blogspot.com/2007/04/urgent-news-to-un-general-secretary-ban.html

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Torture account sidesteps gag on Hicks

A British document speaks for the terrorist and reveals what the US hoped to hide, reports.

He was neither interrogated nor physically restrained nor abused, to his surprise, given the Northern Alliance’s reputation for extreme cruelty and even killing of prisoners. Then he was handed over to the Americans.

“When the US interrogators showed up, my treatment changed,” Hicks later recounted.

“My hands were restrained behind my back and I was forced to kneel during interrogations. US personnel would force me into painful physical positions. The US interrogators would question me and after my responses I would be slapped in the back of the head and told I was lying.”
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21516985-601,00.html

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US allowed Ethiopia to buy arms secretly from N. Korea

Three months after the United States successfully pressed the United Nations to impose strict sanctions on North Korea because of the country’s nuclear test, Bush administration officials allowed Ethiopia to complete a secret arms purchase from North Korea, in what appears to be a violation of the restrictions, according to senior US officials.
http://snipurl.com/1fpji

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Cuba slams US’ double standard on terrorism

Cuba yesterday slammed what it said was the US’ double standard on terrorism after a US federal judge ordered the release of an anti-Castro activist convicted in the deadly downing of a Cuban jet.
http://snipurl.com/1fpjj

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Death threat’s close news website

“I have concluded that it’s not safe for me any more to continue editing Al-Jazeerah.info in this atmosphere of intimidation, which abridges freedom of speech and freedom of the press.”
http://www.aljazeerah.info/

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-muslim voice-
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BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW

US Terrorize The Whole World by “War on Terror” – 20 Rabiul Awal 1428 H (8.4.07)

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

=== News Update ===

Deaths In Iraq Have Reached 1 Million : US WarCriminal

Grim claim on fourth anniversary of conflict. THE number of deaths in Iraq since the start of the conflict could be as high as one million, it was claimed yesterday.

On the fourth anniversary of the invasion by Allied troops, an Australian scientist insisted the true death toll dwarfed previous estimates. Dr Gideon Polya said: “Using the most comprehensive and authoritative literature and UN demographic data yields an estimate of one million post-invasion excess deaths in Iraq.”

His figure is far higher than the biggest previous estimate of 655,000.

A spokesman for the Stop The War Coalition said the figure was “astonishing”, adding: “Four years after the start of the conflict in Iraq, we can now see what a disaster the war has been.

“Everything we predicted would happen has taken place, but it has been far worse than we feared.”
http://globalavoidablemortality.blogspot.com/

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One million post-invasion Iraqi excess deaths ignored – Silence of Mainstream media

MWC NEWS readers may have encountered a recent article of mine in which the post-invasion excess deaths (avoidable deaths, deaths that did not have to happen) in Occupied Iraq were estimated at 1 million (ONE MILLION). This estimate was based on the very latest medical literature and UN Population Division data sources that were carefully documented in the 2 February 2007 article.

Accordingly I have RE-CALCULATED the “post-invasion Iraqi excess deaths” as of March 2007, making 5 ESTIMATES using 4 INDEPENDENT SETS OF DATA as set out below. The key sources are UNICEF, the UN Population Division and scientific papers from the top US medical epidemiology group in the World’s top Public Health Department (the Bloomberg School of Public Health) at the top Johns Hopkins University and published peer-reviewed in the top medical journal The Lancet (for further details and detailed documentation of what follows see MWC News and HERE ):
http://mwcnews.net/content/view/12904/42/

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Yvonne Ridley: Australian media is hostile to Muslims, several MPs wanted her banned from country

British firebrand Yvonne Ridley has accused Australia’s media of being hostile towards Muslims, as Labor demanded to know why the Islamic convert was allowed into the country.

The former investigative reporter, in Melbourne for a major religious conference, was quoted in news reports today saying Australians were among the world’s worst Muslim haters.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/australian-media-is-hostile-to-muslims-ridley/2007/04/07/1175366531566.html

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Robert Fisk: The true story of free speech in America

This systematic censorship of Middle East reality continues even in schools.

Laila al-Arian was wearing her headscarf at her desk at Nation Books, one of my New York publishers. No, she told me, it would be difficult to telephone her father. At the medical facility of his North Carolina prison, he can only make a few calls – monitored, of course – and he was growing steadily weaker.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article2430125.ece

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Film on “RadicalIslam” Tied to Pro-Israel Groups promoting anti-Muslim hatred

WASHINGTON – A controversial documentary on the threat of radical Islam, promoted by the two most-watched U.S. cable news networks, was marketed and supported in part by self-described “pro-Israel” groups, according to an IPS investigation.

Abbreviated versions and segments of “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West” ran on FOX News and CNN, but neither station disclosed the film’s connection to HonestReporting, a watchdog group that monitors the media for allegedly negative portrayals of Israel.
URL to article: http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/03/27/112/

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9/11 A Child in War: Detaining Omar Khadr Violates Our Moral and Legal Principles

That was in November 2004, a few months after the Supreme Court had ruled, in Rasul v. Bush, that detainees at Guantánamo had a right to have access to lawyers and to the U.S. courts.

Omar and his family, all Canadian citizens, lived in Kabul at the time the United States took military action against the Taliban in Afghanistan in October 2001. He was separated from his parents and siblings as they tried to make their way to Pakistan, and he was taken into U.S. custody in July 2002. He was severely wounded in a confrontation with U.S. and U.S.-supported troops during which a U.S. soldier died.

He was 15 years old when captured, a child by any measure. He spent the first several months of his detention at the U.S. air base at Bagram, Afghanistan, where he was aggressively interrogated, including questioning on a hospital stretcher and without the benefits of pain medication. Then he was sent to Guantánamo in October. Brutal and virtually continuous physical and psychological interrogation continued after his transfer and throughout most of 2003.
http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/2007/04/child-in-war-detaining-omar-khadr.html

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9/11 facts on the Sudden Implosion of WTC Building 7 are inconsistent with official Muslim conspiracy scenario

Everyone remembers the Twin Towers exploding at 9:59AM and 10:28AM EDT on September 11, 2001. Comparatively few people can recall that there was a third massive skyscraper, also a part of the World Trade Center, which fell very rapidly to the ground on that day. This was World Trade Center Building 7.1

One reason that few remember WTC Building 7’s collapse is that after September 11th it has been treated, both in the media and in The 9/11 Commission Report, as if it didn’t happen.

“The total collapse of the third huge skyscraper late in the afternoon September 11th was reported as if it were an insignificant footnote… most people never saw video of Building 7’s collapse… Incredibly, it is virtually impossible to find any mention of Building 7 in newspapers, magazines, or broadcast media reports after September 11th.” 2

“The Commission avoids another embarrassing problem – explaining how WTC 7 could have collapsed, also virtually at free-fall speed – by simply not mentioning the collapse of this building.” 3

The collapse of Building 7 at 5:20PM EDT was in itself a major event; the sudden and unexplained fall to earth of a 47-story steel-framed skyscraper is certainly news. Why has there been almost no mention of this in the U.S. corporate mass-media, and why was there no mention of Building 7’s collapse in The 9/11 Commission Report? These are questions of great significance, and they cry out for answers. To be able to approach any kind of explanation, however, first some pertinent and verified facts of the Building 7 aspect of 9/11 need to be scrutinized.
http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2007/04/03/01472.html

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9/11 : Guantánamo Follies

There has been much speculation about the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear an appeal from a group of Guantánamo Bay inmates until they have exhausted their legal options. Was the court signaling that the appeal had no merit? Were the court’s liberals waiting for a better chance to review President Bush’s unconstitutional detention system for “illegal enemy combatants”?

Whatever the justices’ intentions, we saw one clear message in their decision, and we hope that Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker, and Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, saw it too. It is past time for Congress to undo the grievous damage done by President Bush’s abuse of the Constitution when he created his system of secret prisons and public internment camps to detain selected foreigners indefinitely without any real legal challenge.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/06/opinion/06fri1.html?_r=3&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

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9/11 Truth Movement: Only Growing Stronger – And the Media are Frightened to Death!

The corporate media have launched a desperate attempt to eliminate all discussions about the official body of evidence related to the events of 9/11. Just watch how they are trying frantically to get Rosie O’Donnell fired from ABC’s The View. Also think back to when the media launched a broad based attack against the character of Charlie Sheen for daring to publicly question the official story of 9/11. Rosie, however, is a much greater problem for the criminals in the media. She is on a daily network TV program with a large audience that doesn’t even know that questions and disturbing facts about 9/11 exist.
http://tvnewslies.org/blog/?p=593

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The Brutality of Rudy Giuliani

What is often forgotten and ignored is the well worn streak of brutality and totalitarianism that runs like a river through both his public and private actions. Let us look back to before the 9/11, to 1999 and Giuliani’s dramatic reforming of the NYPD for both the better and the worst.

He feels no doubt and would not hesitate, as Bush continues to “feel no doubt” about his decision to attack, invade and occupy an unarmed Arab nation?

This “lack of doubt”, his self-righteous and authoritarian nature is exactly why he continues to be the rights true darling, and why should he succeed in claiming the Republican nomination he should be opposed by all who abhor neo-con fascists at all costs.
http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/2007/04/brutality-of-rudy-giuliani.html

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War Criminal : Pentagon report debunks prewar Iraq-Al Qaeda connection

Declassified document cites lack of ‘evidence of a long-term relationship,’ although No. 3 Defense staffer called contact ‘mature and symbiotic.’

A declassified report by the Pentagon’s acting Inspector General Thomas F. Gimble provides new insight into the circumstances behind former Pentagon official Douglas Feith’s pre-Iraq war assessment of an Iraq-Al Qaeda connection — an assessment that was contrary to US intelligence agency findings, and helped bolster the Bush administration’s case for the Iraq war.

The report, which was made public in summary form in February, was released in full on Thursday by Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. In a statement accompanying the 121-page report, Senator Levin said: “It is important for the public to see why the Pentagon’s Inspector General concluded that Secretary Feith’s office ‘developed, produced and then disseminated alternative intelligence assessments on the Iraq and al-Qaeda relationship,’ which included ‘conclusions that were inconsistent with the consensus of the Intelligence Community.’ ”
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0406/p99s01-duts.html

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Video War Criminal : Mossad In Iraq – Facts of Zionist Terrorism

This film present the israeli Mossad training in northern Iraq to the “Peshmerga,” Kurdish forces, to push them to carry out killing and destruction of the Iraqis and downs of the Iraqi resistance to tarnish its image.
http://zionists.blogspot.com/2007/04/mossad-in-iraq.html

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APRIL 9 : US War Crime

Four years ago, many of us awoke to see Saddam Hussein’s statue being torn down in Baghdad. The media ate it up. This was as eventful as the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, George Bush stated. Iraq was free, most pundits wrote or spoke. The U.S. proved its naysayers to be wrong. Baghdad had fallen with a minimal loss of U.S. lives. A democratic Iraq was just over the horizon.

What you saw wasn’t real. Saddam’s statue was not torn down by Iraqis. The event was staged and well-rehearsed by the U.S. military.

It appears that the “experts” who assessed the implications of the statue coming down were all wrong. The U.S. military was not met with a flower-throwing public; almost 3500 U.S. soldiers, 1000 U.S. civilian “security” personnel; and hundreds of other foreign nationals have been killed since April 9, 2003. Tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers have been severely wounded since that date. There is no democracy in Iraq. There is no government in Iraq. There is no peace in Iraq. It looks like the experts were a little premature in their basking in glory.
http://www.malcomlagauche.com/id1.html

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U.S. air strike hits volatile Iraqi city

DIWANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) – U.S. forces launched an air strike in Diwaniya on Saturday as U.S. and Iraqi troops fought for a second day to overcome Shi’ite militias and bring the city back under government control.

A local hospital source and a resident said six people, including two children and a woman, were killed in the missile strike on a home in the centre of the city, 110 miles south of Baghdad.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070407/wl_nm/iraq_dc

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America’s Broken-Down Army

For most Americans, the Iraq war is both distant and never ending. For Private Matthew Zeimer, it was neither. Shortly after midnight on Feb. 2, Zeimer had his first taste of combat as he scrambled to the roof of the 3rd Infantry Division’s Combat Outpost Grant in central Ramadi. Under cover of darkness, Sunni insurgents were attacking his new post from nearby buildings. Amid the smoke, noise and confusion, a blast suddenly ripped through the 3-ft. concrete wall shielding Zeimer and a fellow soldier, killing them both. Zeimer had been in Iraq for a week. He had been at his first combat post for two hours.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1606888,00.html

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Saturday: 1 GI, 64 Iraqis Killed; 53 Iraqis Wounded

At least 64 Iraqis were killed or found dead during violent activity today; another 53 were wounded, and ten Iraqis were kidnapped south of Kirkuk. Several explosions around the country resulted only in property damage. Also, a U.S. soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in west Baghdad yesterday. Two British soldiers were wounded in a bomb blast west of Basra.
http://www.antiwar.com/updates/?articleid=10785

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We did not lose in Iraq!

Believe it or not, what is happening in Iraq today is very much okay with democrats and republicans. No worries bro, access to oil will always be there!!!

If we accept what is obvious; instability as the core of American foreign policy in the Middle East, then we are winning.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m31948&hd=&size=1&l=e

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 6 April 2007

• US attack kills 10 civilians near al-Fallujah Friday morning.
• Mysterious bomb kills seven family members in ‘Amiriyat al-Fallujah Friday morning.
• US, puppet troops arrest 22 in dawn raids near al-Fallujah Friday.
• Whose interests is al-Qa‘idah serving? Iraqi Resistance organization issues statement in response to activities and demands of al-Qa‘idah in Iraq.
• US troops kill Iraqi civilian in Baghdad Friday afternoon.
• US admits soldier killed Thursday in at-Ta’mim Province.
• Truck bomb targets puppet police checkpoint in ar-Ramadi Friday.
• Mortar shells target Sunni mosque just after Friday prayers in continuing effort to drive Sunnis out of Baghdad district.
• Three puppet troops wounded in Resistance attack on checkpoint.
• Mortar shells wound civilians. US troops kill Iraqi civilian in Baghdad Friday afternoon. Shooting reported.
• Al-Mahmudiyah, Civilian wounded in mysterious mortar attack.
• Resistance bomb blasts US Humvee in ad-Diwaniyah, midday Friday.
• US locks down city of ad-Diwaniyah for mass raids and searches Friday.
• US admits soldier killed Thursday in at-Ta’mim Province.
• Car bomb targets Peshmergah headquarters in al-Mawsil.
• Tribal shaykh gunned down in drive-by shooting in al-Mawsil Friday afternoon.
• Third attack in two days targets Qur’an School in al-Mawsil Thursday night.
• US announces its forces arrested 179 people in two days of raids in Ninwa Province.

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0407/iraqiresistancereport_060407.htm

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Zionist Terrorism : Time for Israel to go back to 1967

SINCE the founding of the state of Israel, successive Israeli governments have done their best to ensure the question of a Palestinian state remains perpetually in limbo.

Commenting on Israel’s disengagement from Gaza, former Israeli PM Ariel Sharon’s spokesman Dov Weisglass said: “It supplies the amount of formaldehyde that’s necessary so that there will not be a political process with the Palestinians.”
http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/04/time-for-israel-to-go-back-to-1967.html

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Why is Arab criticism always labeled as conspiracy to destroy Israel?

The Arab-Israeli public recently marked “Land Day.” This event originated in 1976, when thousands went on strike and protested the government’s intention to expropriate land in northern Israel in order to establish Jewish communities. Six Arab citizens were killed during these protests, and since that time the Palestinian people and broad sections of the Arab people have been marking “Land Day” on March 30 every year as a symbol of the struggle against discrimination and aspiration for peace and equality.
http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/2007/04/why-is-arab-criticism-always-labeled-as.html

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IOF troops kidnap mother of two detainees to force them confess

QALQILIA, (PIC)– An IOF unit at dawn Saturday broke into the home of a Palestinian family in Qalqilia city and kidnapped the mother of two detainees to force them to confess, father of the detainees told PIC.
http://www.palestine-info.com/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7zyy268ylXWK0qwczKYpTxDDMPOg5VC%2fl24WGDe%2bYv%2b4uuudiqROYjhSZ3Zc0PDrYCpmNs%2fzjzvLq2q0ZAD36qLCQprvetbLJTPQYqdCexgk%3d

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Israel’s Nazi Atrocities: The Dawud Story

Almost two weeks ago, my friend Dawud, a high school English teacher from Kufr ‘Ain, called me nearly in tears to report the checkpoint hold-up that had cost him his six-month-old son. Shortly after midnight on March 8th, my friend’s baby began having trouble breathing.

His parents quickly got a taxi to take him to the nearest hospital in Ramallah, where they hoped to secure an oxygen tent, which had helped him recover from difficult respiratory episodes in the past.

As the family was rushing from their Palestinian town in the West Bank to their Palestinian hospital in the West Bank, they were stopped at Atara checkpoint, where an Israeli soldier asked for the father’s, mother’s, and driver’s IDs.

Dawud explained to the soldier that his son needed urgent medical care, but the soldier insisted on checking the three IDs first, a process that usually takes a few minutes.
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=38&contentid=4298

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Israel launches deadly raid in Gaza

Residents said the helicopters fired at least two missiles at Palestinians near the Jabalya refugee camp early on Saturday.

An Israeli army spokesperson said the helicopters fired at a “group of militants” who had tried to plant an explosive device near the border fence.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/97E10877-AFD7-4ABF-B0F7-559A49276DF7.htm

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US Dictatorship : 13-Year-Old Arrested In School For Writing On Desk

(CBS) NEW YORK In this day and age where young students are frequently charged for serious school offenses such as possessing weapons, dealing drugs, or assaulting other students on school property, one Brooklyn teen’s arrest may come as a surprise. A 13-year-old girl was handcuffed and placed under arrest in front of her classmates in Dyker Heights after she wrote “Okay” on her desk.

The “suspect,” Chelsea Fraser, says she’s sorry for scribbling the word on her desk, but both she and her mother are shocked at the punishment.

“I’m appalled, because here we have rapists, murderers, and you’re taking a 13-year-old kid? Wasting valuable manpower to arrest a child who wrote on a desk?” Fraser’s mother Diana Silva told CBS 2.
http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_095170448.html

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Iranians behind Sept. 11 attacks: Rudy Giliani

As for Iran, Mr. Giuliani said that “in the long term,” it might be “more dangerous than Iraq.”

He then casually lumped Iran with Al Qaeda. “Their movement has already displayed more aggressive tendencies by coming here and killing us,” he said.

Mr. Giuliani was asked in an interview to clarify that, inasmuch as Iran had no connection to the Sept. 11 attacks. Further, most of its people are Shiites, whereas Al Qaeda is an organization of Sunnis.

“They have a similar objective,” he replied, “in their anger at the modern world.”
http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/2007/04/iranians-behind-sept-11-attacks-rudy_07.html

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-muslim voice-
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BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW

US Terrorize The Whole World by “War on Terror” – 19 Rabiul Awal 1428 H (7.4.07)

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

=== News Update ===

War Is Terrorism

Almost every individual or group not in love with US foreign policy, which Washington wants to stigmatize, is charged with being associated with, or being a member of, al Qaeda, as if there’s a precise and meaningful distinction between people retaliating against American imperialism.

“They told us this was one of the world’s worst terrorists, and he got the sentence of a drunken driver,” said Ben Wizner, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, referring to David Hicks, a 31-year-old Australian who in a plea bargain with a US military court will serve nine months in prison, largely in Australia. That’s after five years at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba without being charged with a crime, without a trial, without a conviction. Under the deal, Hicks agreed not to talk to reporters for one year (a slap in the face of free speech), to forever waive any profit from telling his story (a slap — mon Dieu! — in the face of free enterprise), to submit to US interrogation and testify at future US trials or international tribunals (an open invitation to the US government to hound the young man for the rest of his life), to renounce any claims of mistreatment or unlawful detention (a requirement which would be unconstitutional in a civilian US court).
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17498.htm

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Uranium and the War : The effects of depleted uranium weapons in Iraq

In five billion years our sun will explode into a white dwarf and envelope the earth, according to NASA projections.

The half-life of uranium 238 is 4.5 billion years.

This means that by the time the Earth ceases to be a planet, only a little more than half of the depleted uranium (DU) that the United States Army is firing into Iraq and other countries around the world will be gone. The rest of the radioactive material will still be poisoning the Iraqi people.

The U.S. Army revealed in March 2003 that it dropped between 320 and 390 tons of DU during the Gulf War—the first time the material was ever used in combat—and it is estimated that more still has been dropped during the current invasion, though there have been no official counts as yet.
http://www.cityonahillpress.com/article.php?id=474

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Pentagon report says no link between Saddam and Al-Qaeda

Interrogations of Saddam Hussein and seized documents confirmed the former Iraqi regime had no links with Al-Qaeda, a Pentagon report said Friday, contradicting the US case for the 2003 invasion.

It contradicts a strong argument for the invasion made by the administration of President George W. Bush that Baghdad had a working relationship with Al-Qaeda.

In a radio interview Wednesday Cheney insisted on a prewar link between Iraq and Al-Qaeda, saying the group was working in Iraq “before we even arrived on the scene.”

“As I say, they were present before we invaded Iraq,” Cheney told conservative radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh.
http://snipurl.com/1fhb5

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No Saddam al-Qaida Link: Full Pentagon Report

A PDF of the Pentagon inspector general report
http://snipurl.com/1fhb7

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Report outlines Pentagon effort to link Iraq, al Qaeda

Declassified memo shows how officials shaped intelligence. Just four months after the Sept. 11 attacks, then-Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz dashed off a memo to a senior Pentagon colleague, demanding action to identify connections between Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime and al Qaeda.

In making its case for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration relied heavily on evidence that Hussein was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction. However, an important secondary reason was the allegation of connections between Iraq and al Qaeda. While the CIA has been criticized for erroneously gauging Iraq’s weapons programs, its assessment of Iraq’s ties to al Qaeda turned out to be more accurate.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17493.htm

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Pentagon Officer Created Phony Intel on Iraq/al-Qaeda Link

Newly released documents confirm that a Pentagon unit knowingly cooked up intelligence claiming a direct link between Iraq and al-Qaeda in order to win support for a preemptive strike against the country.

A report prepared by the Defense Department’s Inspector General for Carl Levin, the Democratic Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, explicitly shows how former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith used his defense department position to cook intelligence claiming a connection between the terrorist organization and Saddam Hussein’s regime.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040607A.shtml

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Cheney Reasserts al-Qaida-Saddam Link

Vice President Dick Cheney repeated his assertions lies of al-Qaida links to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq on Thursday as the Defense Department released a report citing more evidence that the prewar government did not cooperate with the terrorist group.

However, a declassified Pentagon report released Thursday said that interrogations of the deposed Iraqi leader and two of his former aides as well as seized Iraqi documents confirmed that the terrorist organization and the Saddam government were not working together before the invasion.

The Sept. 11 Commission’s 2004 report also found no evidence of a collaborative relationship between Saddam and Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network during that period.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=3014241

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Let’s Hear it for the War on Terror: Somalia

Citing one of the globe’s great champions of human rights, ” As President Bush has said, what every terrorist fears most is human freedom – societies where men and women make their own choices, answer to their own conscience and live by their hopes instead of their resentments.”

Last year a coalition of Islamic groups managed to bring calm to the capital of Mogadishu by getting the feuding clans to disarm their militias, and convincing Somalis, the majority of whom are Sunnis, to accept Islam as the solution to their turmoil.

That calm lasted for six months. The problem was that, as the U.S. saw it, while militant Islam might pacify the Somalis, it could also offer sanctuary for groups linked with Al Qaeda to regroup and train for future attacks. Similarly as well, the Ethiopian military scooped up scores of people –people of all ages, some apparently just passing through–and packed them off to clandestine prisons. Added to those were several hundred more who had fled to neighboring Kenya. International reaction was not long in coming.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17497.htm

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EU warned of ‘Somalia war crimes’

A senior European Union security official has warned the head of the EU delegation for Somalia and Kenya that military forces may have committed war crimes in occupied Somalia.
http://snipurl.com/1fhc3

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The Press is Paying Patsy With Terrorist Propaganda

Pace 9/11, I am not afraid of terrorism, even though I lived in London during the worst years of IRA activity and already this year I missed a terrorist attack on my hotel in Islamabad by only a couple of days. Terrorism and the damage it can do — in particular the political and societal damage — is greatly overrated. Who to blame? Doubtless, the politicians have a vested interest in whipping up the populace’s reaction, but most of all we should blame the media. They behave like patsies to the terrorists. They give their dirty deeds every bit of publicity they could ever dare to hope for and, as I saw last month in Nigeria’s oil producing delta, ignore the often valuable activities of the plethora of non-violent activists.

Look at the political plight of the Spanish prime minister, Jose Luis Rodriquez Zapatero. Since the first day he took office he has constantly been pilloried by the principal opposition party for being soft on the Basque terrorist group, ETA. The Popular Party has kept up the false refrain that the Madrid station bombings of three years ago that took 190 lives were the work of ETA. For long enough Zapatero tried to ignore them, and continued his quiet and seemingly progressing negotiations with ETA. But then late last year what is probably a dissident ETA grouping killed two people at Madrid airport and most of the media, softened up by three years of the opposition’s carping, turned on Zapatero. His negotiating hands are now effectively tied.

Who today would dare stand up and say talk to Al Qaeda, negotiate with the Taleban or treat the leaders of Hamas as sincere fellows whose agenda is worth discussing? There are few of our politicians, and even fewer members of the media.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17494.htm

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It took the spilled blood of nearly a 1,000,000 Iraqis and four years for them to realize this fact?

What a feat for an “informed and peace loving” people!

Without a full and comprehensive war reparations to Iraqis, what welcome would the Americans expect from the people of a future sovereign Iraq?
http://abutamam.blogspot.com/2007/04/it-took-spilled-blood-of-1000000-iraqis.html

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Bush/Cheney Still Lie with Abandon

What makes George W. Bush and Dick Cheney such extraordinary threats to the future of American democracy is their readiness to tell half-truths and outright lies consistently without any apparent fear of accountability.

Bush and Cheney apparently believe that today’s friendlier media environment still lets them do or say almost anything they want. But a democratic Republic cannot long endure when leaders substitute lies for truth.
http://www.consortiumnews.com./2007/040607.html

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Fight on, Iraqi resistance, for they lied and lied …

Fight on, Iraqi resistance, for they lied and lied …

YOU, the American taxpayer, celebrate lies.

YOU celebrate deceit.

YOU celebrate false heroes and worship a God of War.

I and thousands of others have written profusely about the lies that propelled the Iraq war.

The lies that some still believe and harbor and export and exploit.
http://truth-about-iraqis2.blogspot.com/2007/04/fight-on-iraqi-resistance-for-they-lied.html

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Playing Politics With War

There are politicians who are immune to this basest form of politics, profiles in courage like Paul Wellstone or Russ Feingold. But for every one of them, there are tons more like Hillary Clinton or John Kerry or John Edwards, who are so interested in advancing their careers that they are willing to cast even this most despicable, this most murderous, this most shameful of votes to get there.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17499.htm

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Conservatives for the Constitution

Just imagine if one of the leading candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination endorsed this radical agenda:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17492.htm

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An Administration’s Epic Collapse

When Bush came to office–installed by the Supreme Court after receiving fewer votes than Al Gore–I speculated that the new President would have to govern in a bipartisan manner to be successful. He chose the opposite path, and his hyper-partisanship has proved to be a travesty of governance and a comprehensive failure.

I’ve tried to be respectful of the man and the office, but the three defining sins of the Bush Administration–arrogance, incompetence, cynicism–are congenital: they’re part of his personality.
http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1607243,00.html

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Liberals push to impeach Bush

Congressional Democrats say their constituents are clamoring for something even the most liberal lawmakers promise they won’t pursue: President Bush’s impeachment.
http://snipurl.com/1fhba

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Iraqi Sunni clerics support resistance for expelling invasion troops

Amman – About 200 prominent Iraqi Sunni scholars ended a two-day annual meeting in Amman by backing ‘resistance’ as one of the legitimate means that should be adopted for ending the US-led occupation of Iraq, according to a statement published Friday.
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/news/article_1287885.php/Iraqi_Sunni_clerics_support_resistance_for_expelling_invasion_troops

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IRAQIS : UP FROM THE ASHES

In 1991, the U.S. military virtually wiped Iraq off the map. At the end of 42 days and nights of bombing, little of the country’s infrastructure was left undamaged. But, the U.S. administration did not anticipate the miraculous rebound Iraq would make in the first couple of years following the country’s annihilation..

Bush thought the destruction of tens of thousands of buildings (including 4,000 schools and 20,000 houses), as well as rendering useless the sewage, electricity, and water facilities in Iraq would bring the Iraqis to their knees. When that did not work, he put a noose around the country to stop anything from entering. Still, the Iraqis stood proud. As a last resort, Bush ordered the destruction of their crops, but the Iraqis did not succumb.

The defiance of the Iraqi people became evident and Bush experienced another setback in his imperialistic plans — the Iraqi people were rebuilding their country at a fast pace with no outside help.
http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0407/lagauche_060407.htm

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Few Americans trust military or media for information on Iraq

Most Americans have little or no confidence in the information they receive from the military or the media about the situation in Iraq, according to a poll released Thursday.

The survey by the Washington-based Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found that 52 percent have little or no faith in the military’s portrayal of the four-year war, compared with 60 percent who feel the same way about the press reports of the conflict.
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=169986

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Tony Blair’s secret army

Simon Basketter exposes how special British units in Iraq are run by the same man who commanded death squads in Northern Ireland
http://snipurl.com/1fhb2

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Gunfire forces U.S. helicopter down in Iraq: witnesses

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Heavy gunfire forced a U.S. military helicopter down in an insurgent stronghold south of Baghdad on Thursday, Iraqi witnesses said.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldnews&storyID=2007-04-05T101747Z_01_YAT530639_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-HELICOPTER.xml

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Thursday: 6 GIs, 4 Britons, 83 Iraqis Killed; U.S. Helicopter Shot Down

Coalition soldiers took heavy casualties today: Six U.S. and four British soldiers, plus a Kuwaiti translator, lost their lives in separate incidents. A U.S. helicopter was downed as well. Also, at least 83 Iraqis were killed or found dead today and another 55 Iraqis were wounded in various attacks.
http://www.antiwar.com/updates/?articleid=10769

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Ten British, US troops killed in Iraq

Six US soldiers killed in separate attacks in Iraq, four British troops in bomb attack near Basra.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/iraq/?id=20273

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 5 April 2007

• US admits Thursday that four more American troops have been killed in Iraq.
• Massive bomb targets “Sunni” TV station in Baghdad, killing, wounding 13.
• Resistance brings down US helicopter near al-Latifiyah Thursday morning.
• Britain announces death of four British occupation troops in bomb attack in al-Basrah.
• Resistance bomb on al-Ghazaliyah Bridge destroys US Humvee midday Thursday.
• Wednesday night attack disables two US Humvees in Baghdad.
• Four mortar shells slam into Sunni Islamic University in al-A‘zamiyah, killing woman.
• Following Resistance rocket attack, US forces lock down, search Baghdad districts.
• Resistance bomb wounds puppet police in Baghdad.
• Resistance bomb targets puppet army patrol in al-Miqdadiyah Thursday afternoon.
• Bodies of 39 torture, murder victims found in Diyala Province Thursday.
• Al-Mawsil, Resistance raid leaves 10 puppet troops dead.

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0407/iraqiresistancereport_050407.htm

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Misery of Palestinian children

Children throughout the West Bank and Gaza have observed Palestinian Children’s Day, which aims to highlight the plight of children living under Israeli occupation.

To mark the day, the Palestinian Network for Children’s Rights issued new figures on Thursday showing how the Israeli occupation has damaged the lives of thousands of children.

“In 2007, the Israeli army continues to deploy the same violent policy towards Palestinian children with eight children being killed so far this year,” a press release from the group said on Thursday.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4EEE3AAA-CD6C-4E37-BF31-C5D796C02807.htm

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Taliban seize southern Afghan district

100 Taliban militants overran Khak Afghan district in the troubled Zabul province, the latest of several rebel attempts to exert control in parts of southern and western Afghanistan.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070406/wl_asia_afp/afghanistanunrest

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11 Killed In Afghan Suicide Attack, Clash

A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden car near the Afghan parliament in Kabul on Friday, killing himself and six people, including a policeman, officials said.
http://snipurl.com/1fhbx

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Prosecutors to seek custody of CIA agents

German prosecutors said Thursday they will make a new attempt to bring 13 CIA workers to justice for the abduction of a German-Lebanese citizen mistakenly suspected of terrorism.
http://snipurl.com/1fhbz

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Between Good and Evil

The battle between Ahmadinejad and Blair is not a political or diplomatic one, it is not about points. It is actually a clash between civilizations, but more than that, it seems to be a fight between humanism and cold pragmatism. As it emerges, in this battle, it is Ahmadinejad rather than Blair who reminds us where goodness rests.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17495.htm

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The Crucifixion of Christ, American Style

“For God so loved the world…” he returned his only begotten son to the land where he shed his grace on thee.

Vindication for the faithful, rejoicing for the true believers, it was the second coming of Christ—and he was coming to America. Not to bring Armageddon, but to save mankind from Armageddon.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10025.htm

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-muslim voice-
______________________________________
BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW

US Terrorize The Whole World by “War on Terror” – 18 Rabiul Awal 1428 H (6.4.07)

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

=== News Update ===

Jesus Guilty! A Slice of Roman Talkback

Well, we got him. It’s been a long time coming, but, finally: he’s confessed. Egg on the face of all his supporters this afternoon, as self-confessed terrorist Jesus Christ gets exactly what he deserved. And some would say crucifixion is too good for the likes of him.

It’s my understanding he was arrested at approximately 8.30 last evening, hiding out in a mountain of olives, after government authorities – working with the religious leadership – employed one Judas Iscariot, who had infiltrated his network of supporters, to lead them to him.

Then, in a rapid series of late night sittings and early morning hearings, the Sanhedrin, the Roman governor Pontius Pilate AND King Herod himself ALL came to the same conclusion: this grubby threat to the civilised world had to be dealt with, and promptly.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17487.htm

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Hidden from History: The Canadian Holocaust

The Untold Story of the Genocide of Aboriginal Peoples by Church and State in Canada.
http://canadiangenocide.nativeweb.org/

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The Saudi Royal Family: Video

This film profiles the secretive House of Saud, from the oil boom of the 40s and 50s, to the complicated and fraught relations with the west amid rising fundamentalism
http://snipurl.com/1fcw2

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Chertoff: Next 9/11 could be launched by Europeans

Mr. Chertoff insisted that America required additional information, including e-mail addresses and credit card details, to vet European passengers.

The American government fears that the next September 11-style attack on the U.S. could be launched by Muslims from Britain or Europe who feel like “second-class citizens” and are alienated by a “colonial legacy,” according to the U.S. Homeland Security chief.
http://snipurl.com/1fcwv

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The 911 Mystery Plane

On September 11 2001, as the eyes of the nation were focused on the gruesome events at the World Trade Center, the networks interrupted their coverage in New York with a breaking story from Washington. A large plane had just been sighted over the White House.

Exactly when it first appeared is not certain, but the reports aired at about the time of the pentagon strike, or just before. Witnesses who saw the mystery plane say it circled over Washington. CNN’s Senior White House correspondent John King saw it while standing in Lafayette Park, directly across from the White House. King reported live that “about 10 minutes ago, there was a white jet circling overhead.

Now, you generally don’t see planes in the area over the White House. That is restricted air space. No reason to believe that this jet was there for any nefarious purposes, but the Secret Service was very concerned, pointing up at the jet in the sky.”
http://rense.com/general76/missing.htm

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9/11 : Guantanamo conditions ‘worsening’

Conditions for detainees at the US military jail at Guantanamo Bay are deteriorating, with the majority held in solitary confinement, a report says.

Amnesty International said the often harsh and inhumane conditions at the camp were “pushing people to the edge”.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6526589.stm

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9/11 : NEW AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORT CONDEMNS CONDITIONS IN GUANTÁNAMO

2007-04-05 | The large majority of detainees who remain in Guantánamo are held in cruel conditions of isolation which flout international standards, according to a new report, USA: Cruel and inhuman – Conditions of isolation for detainees in Guantánamo Bay, published by Amnesty International today.
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=3345&blz=1

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9/11 : ‘Outsourced Guantanamo’

FBI & CIA Interrogating Detainees in Secret Ethiopian Jails, U.S. Citizen Among Those Held.

The CIA and FBI agents have been interrogating hundreds of detainees at secret prisons in Ethiopia. Many of the prisoners were recently transferred there secretly and illegally from Kenya and Somalia. They are being held without charge or access to counsel. One of those held is 24 year-old U.S. citizen, Amir Mohamed Meshal. We speak with an attorney working on Meshal’s case, Human Rights Watch and a reporter in Nairobi who covered the story.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/05/141256

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9/11 : CIA ‘secretly detaining’ al-Qa’eda suspects

American intelligence agents are interrogating hundreds of al-Qa’eda suspects secretly imprisoned in Ethiopia, human rights organisations said yesterday.

The detainees, from 19 different countries, have allegedly been “illegally” deported to Ethiopia where they are being held in horrific conditions in crowded jails, notorious for torture and abuse.

They include women and children as young as seven months and were arrested in Somalia and Kenya as they fled December’s rout of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) around Mogadishu
http://snipurl.com/1fcwf

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Fake al-Qaeda : The Media Calls him Al Qaeda, but his Jewish Father calls him Adam Pearlman

The CNN article[1] is entitled “American al Qaeda: U.S. should convert to Islam,” and if that wasn’t scary enough the article then quotes one of the speakers on the alleged “Al Qaeda” tape, a Jew named Adam Pearlman, “We invite all Americans and believers to Islam, whatever their role and status in Bush and Blair’s world order…Decide today, because today could be your last day.” The article then quotes an alleged “expert,” on Al Qaeda and terrorism, a woman named Laura Mansfield, who says, “the time reference could indicate an attack is near. Muslims believe that non-believers should be given a chance to convert before they are attacked.” Booga booga!

What the CNN article never mentions is that Adam Gadhn, or “Azzam the American,” as the media likes to refer to him, is in reality a Jew from California named Adam Pearlman. I’m not kidding reader, I’m as serious as a heart attack, Azzam the American is a Jew. CNN isn’t the only negligent news agency, not a single one of the television networks have mentioned Gadahn’s/Pearlman’s pedigree, not one. The only news source I am aware of that has mentioned the fact that “Azzam the American” is Jewish, was the LA Times and the Washington Post, and then only in the most cryptic manner.
http://pcapostate.blogspot.com/2006/09/media-calls-him-al-qaeda-but-his.html

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Questions Linger About Bush, Bin Laden And BCCI

The link between Hussein and Bin Laden was their banker, BCCI. But the link went beyond the dictator and the jihadist — it passed through Saudi Arabia and stretched all the way to George W. Bush and his father.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17488.htm

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Senator Feinstein’s War Profiteering : Democratic Blood Money

Here’s a brief rundown of the Feinstein family’s blatant war profiteering.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17485.htm

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Hang Up on War

If you are upset that Congress won’t defund the war in Iraq, there’s something you can do: Stop paying a tax. Legally.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17486.htm

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In Case You Missed It : Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence

“A time comes when silence is betrayal.” That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam.- – I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm

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In case you missed it : War by Other Means

John Pilger and David Munro examine the policy of First World banks agreeing loans with Third World countries, who are then unable to meet … all the cripling interest charges. Won Geneva International TV Award at the North-South Media Encounters event, Geneva, 1993

Click to view
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17490.htm

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Rice trying to dodge hearing on Iraq-Niger documents : War Criminal

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appears to be seeking to avoid testifying before a committee hearing concerning the intelligence used to justify the Iraq War and other matters, according to a report in today’s Washington Post.
http://snipurl.com/1fcwn

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Niger Forgery and Michael Ledeen : War Criminal

My thoughts are below concerning Michael Ledeen being the person who was behind the forgery of the documents.

Here is a link to more information on the companion piece. Now, in terms of a timeline, we know the Niger forgeries were given to the US Embassy in Rome in October 2002. So, was Michael Ledeen, neo-con extroadinaire, resposible for the forgery?

Well, I think it’s curious that in September 2002 (one month before the Niger forgeries were provided to the US Embassy, with the companion forgery), Ledeen wrote an article for the National Review.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/7/4/10362/61305

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American who advised Pentagon says he wrote for magazine that found forged Niger documents

Michael LedeenA controversial neoconservative who occasionally consulted for the Bush Defense Department has confirmed that he was a contributor to the Italian magazine Panorama, whose reporter first came across forged documents which purported that Iraq was seeking to obtain uranium from Niger.

The bogus documents became the basis for the infamous sixteen words in President Bush’s 2003 State of the Union Address, in which he detailed his case for war. Their origin has been one of the most persistent mysteries in how American intelligence on Iraq was so wrong.
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/American_who_consulted_for_Pentagon_says_0117.html

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SCANDAL OF THE LOBBY ZIONIST AIPAC: IRAQ WAR CRIMINAL

Italian Parliament finger four forgers – Ahmad Chalabi , Francis Brookes, Dewey Clarridge, and Michael Ledeen.

July 22, the democratic group of the American Senate held a capital hearing to evaluate the extent of the political implications and of safety caused by the disclosure with the press of the identity of the secret agent Valerie Plame. They also examined the behavior of the White House and president Bush which, while refusing to seek and sanction the persons in charge, worsened the damage.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/aipacledeen.html

Original french at http://news.stcom.net/modules.php?name=AvantGo&file=print&sid=1603

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Iraqi prime minister says some officials are involved in terrorism

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told U.S. President George W. Bush in a recent videoconference that some Iraqi officials are involved in terrorism, government officials said Wednesday.
http://snipurl.com/1fcvr

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25% of UK Iraq aid budget goes to security firms

The UK has spent £165m on hiring private security companies in Iraq in the past four years – the equivalent to around a quarter of the entire Iraq aid budget, it has emerged. A further £43m has been spent on private guards in Afghanistan since 2004
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2048009,00.html

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Celebrating Iraqis parade macabre souvenirs

Iraqis celebrated the death of four British soldiers in a roadside bomb by parading the victims’ helmets and equipment. The disturbing scenes came after the four were ambushed while on patrol in Basra last night.
http://snipurl.com/1fcvt

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US helicopter ‘shot down’ in Iraq

They said the helicopter came under attack near Latifiya, 40km (25 miles) south of the capital, Baghdad.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6528953.stm

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Six U.S. soldiers killed in attacks

Six U.S. soldiers were killed in four separate incidents in and around Baghdad and four British soldiers and their civilian interpreter died after a roadside bomb exploded near the southern Iraqi city of Basra today.
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Apr/05/br/br4502169387.html

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Basra blast kills four UK troops

Four British soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb attack in southern Iraq last night, the Ministry of Defence said today.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2050838,00.html

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 4 April 2007

• US Marine reported killed in booby-trapped shop in al-Qa’im.
• Body of US soldier reported washed ashore by al-Habbaniyah Lake.
• US air raids kill 12 civilians in ar-Ramadi Wednesday morning.
• After guard dog reportedly kills US Marine, US forces go on dog-killing spree in Baghdad Wednesday.
• Baghdad man says US troops planted explosives in his car, tried to get him killed.
• US forces kill eight Iraqi civilians in four days of raids, arrests in Baghdad district of ‘Arab Jabbur.
• Three puppet policemen killed in car bombing in Hit.
• Puppet police arrest tribal leader in al-Fallujah.
• US locks down Samarra’ carries out widespread raids, searches early Wednesday.
• Bombs explode in Kurdish areas of Kirkuk, wounding nine on Tuesday.
• Resistance bomb wounds puppet police major in al-Mawsil Wednesday morning.
• Resistance bomb kills two puppet army soldiers in al-Kut area.
• Katyusha rockets blast US “Camp Echo” in ad-Diwaniyah Tuesday night.
• Twenty-two shepherds robbed kidnapped from Karbala’ area Wednesday morning.

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0407/iraqiresistancereport_040407.htm

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Local employee of U.S. base killed, 3 injured in occupied Afghanistan

Unknown armed men opened fire on a car of local employees of the U.S. military-civilian Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Afghanistan’s eastern Khost province Thursday, killing one and wounding three, a local official said.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200704/05/eng20070405_364122.html

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Occupied Afghanistan: 200 police search for missing French aid workers

A purported Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, said militants kidnapped the five in Nimroz province – a claim that could not be independently confirmed.
http://snipurl.com/1fcw9

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Zionists Uprooting 1,000 Palestinians from Jerusalem (Al-Quds)

One hundred Palestinian Arab families from Assalam (Peace), on the outskirts of occupied Al-Quds, received evacuation orders, and were “given” 14 days to evacuate their homes. The occupation authority claimed that the houses are built on land owned by the heirs of a dead Jewish woman called Rachel Filibine.
http://peacepalestine.blogspot.com/2007/04/zionists-uprooting-1000-palestinians.html

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U.S. tries new strategy with occupied Somalia

The United States is using surrogate nations and financial aid in an effort to prevent Somalia from slipping further into chaos as militias battle in Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-04-04-somalia-us-strategy_N.htm

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TERROR SUSPECT’S LAWYER CHALLENGES SECRET EVIDENCE LAW

A lawyer for the first person charged under Canada’s Anti-terrorism Act says it is impossible for suspects to defend themselves when Canadian law allows government lawyers to meet secretly with judges to decide what evidence should be hidden from the defence.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2007/04/04/khawaja-070404.html

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Criminalizing Solidarity: Sami Al-Arian and the War of Terror

Dr. Sami Al-Arian, Palestinian political prisoner, is being held in a prison hospital, after a debilitating 60-day hunger strike seeking to draw the attention of the nation and the world to the injustice visited upon him, jailed for his commitment to justice and dignity for his homeland.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6767.shtml

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In case you missed it: Sami Al-Arian: The Terror Verdict TV Networks Ignored

Courtroom defeats for prosecutors don’t come much more embarrassing than the one suffered Tuesday in the Florida terror trial of Sami Al-Arian, who was acquitted on key charges of abetting terrorists.
http://snipurl.com/1fcw5

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Lindh asks Bush to set him free

The lawyer and parents of John Walker Lindh, the American-born Taliban soldier serving 20 years in prison after his capture in Afghanistan, called on President Bush on Wednesday to commute his sentence and set him free.
http://snipurl.com/1fcwb

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Australia: Our own laws condemn Hicks’ trial

The Howard Government has been prepared to break Australian laws in order to further its objects, secure in the knowledge that while it retains power, it is immune from the operation of the law.
http://snipurl.com/1fcwi

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Hicks gag meaningless, says Ruddock

A PLEA deal condition that prevents David Hicks speaking to the media for 12 months would not be enforceable in Australia, Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said.
http://snipurl.com/1fcwl

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Kuwaiti media: U.S. to attack Iran by end of April

The United States is planning to attack Iran’s nuclear reactors and other nuclear facilities by the end of this month, Kuwait-based daily Arab Times reported Wednesday.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-04/05/content_5937874.htm

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Iran’s release of sailors: A humiliating episode for Britain

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/apr2007/iran-a05.shtml

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Aipac Spy Case Prosecutor Caught Up in Justice Department Scandal

The escalating controversy over the Bush administration’s dismissal of eight federal prosecutors has ensnared the high-ranking Justice Department official who brought charges against two pro-Israel advocates for allegedly leaking classified information.
http://snipurl.com/1fcwo

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Bush Bypasses Senate to Name Ambassador

The appointment, made while lawmakers were out of town on spring break, prompted angry rebukes from Democrats, who said Bush’s action may even be illegal.
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/ap/story.asp?AP_ID=D8OA3S880

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Bush Bypasses Congress to Install New Head of Regulatory Office

Bush renominated Dudley on Jan. 9, but with Democrats in control in the 110th Congress, the nomination was virtually certain to fail in the Senate.
http://public.cq.com/docs/cqt/news110-000002484899.html

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Presidential Candidate: Ron Paul on ‘Real Time’ with Bill Maher: 6 Minute Video

Disband the CIA will reduce terrorism
http://snipurl.com/1fcws

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-muslim voice-
______________________________________
BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW

US Terrorize The Whole World by “War on Terror” – 17 Rabiul Awal 1428 H (5.4.07)

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

=== News Update ===

U.S. interrogating at Africa’s secret prisons: War Criminal

CIA and FBI agents hunting for al-Qaida militants in the Horn of Africa have been interrogating terrorism suspects from 19 countries held at secret prisons in Ethiopia, which is notorious for torture and abuse, according to an investigation by The Associated Press.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17935971/

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Secret American Prisons In Ethiopia: War Criminal

Human rights groups, lawyers and several Western diplomats assert hundreds of prisoners, who include women and children, have been transferred secretly and illegally in recent months from Kenya and Somalia to Ethiopia, where they are kept without charge or access to lawyers and families.
http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=51752

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Dirty Secrets of the War on Terror: War Criminal

The men describe a Kafkaesque nightmare of secret transfer followed by torture at the hands of a foreign government or detention in secret prisons. They are not survivors of Latin America’s “Dirty War,” but of the United States’ shadowy anti-terrorism tactics.
http://snipurl.com/1f5jp

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Senior Military, Intelligence, Law Enforcement, and Government Officials Question the 9/11 Commission Report

Many well known and respected senior U.S. military officers, intelligence services and law enforcement veterans, and government officials have expressed significant criticism of the 9/11 Commission Report or have made public statements that contradict the Report. Several even allege government complicity in the terrible acts of 9/11. This website is a collection of their statements. It is not an organization and it should be made clear that none of these individuals are affiliated with this website.

Listed below are statements by more than 90 of these senior officials. Their collective voices give credibility to the claim that the 9/11 Commission Report is tragically flawed. These individuals cannot be simply dismissed as irresponsible believers in some 9/11 conspiracy theory. Their sincere concern, backed by their decades of service to their country, demonstrate that criticism of the Report is not irresponsible, illogical, nor disloyal, per se. In fact, it can be just the opposite.
http://www.patriotsquestion911.com/

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Former Fed Analyst Questions M1 Currency Component Spike Prior To 9/11

The currency component of M1 (Federal Reserve Notes circulating outside of banks) rose especially rapidly in July and August 2001. In fact, up to and including August 2001, that month (August 2001) was one of the three fastest growing months for the currency component of M1 since 1947, on a seasonally adjusted basis, even on the heels of significantly above-average growth in July 2001. Much of the July-August surge (over $5 billion above-average) seems to have been in the $100 denomination. Among other explanations, persons aware of any imminent terrorist attacks and concerned about possible asset seizures such as those that arose after the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis and the 1998 embassy bombings could have been trying to liquidate their bank accounts in July and August 2001.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00047.htm

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9/11 FACT SHEET

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

http://911proof.com/FactSheet.html

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None of the Democratic Contenders Has Called for the Closure of the Guantanamo Prison Of Confessions and Torture

While Washington burns, reporters have fun with Karl Rove at the annual Correspondents Association dinner. Rove and Bush have the nerve to joke about breaking the law and the press make fools of themselves in order to stay in their good graces. If we had real journalists, this annual embarrassment would be cancelled for lack of participants. But we don’t have real journalists, so they continue to whore for a living while somewhere revenge is being plotted against every American. When the strike comes most people won’t even know why and David Hicks won’t be able to tell us.
http://www.counterpunch.org/kimberly04042007.html

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US Empire and the Middle East: Zionism, Puppet Regimes and Political Allies

Washington’s policy of permanent warfare is a wild irrational gamble comparable to Hitler’s attack on Russia following its conquest of Poland and parts of Western Europe. New wars in the face of failed wars can only lead to greater defeats, greater domestic rebellion and wider wars.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17482.htm

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The legacy of Fallujah : The western rhetoric of apathy must not blind us to our obligation to challenge atrocities

Few people know about the crimes committed during the two sieges of Fallujah – Operation Vigilant Resolve, launched three years ago tomorrow, and Operation Phantom Fury, in the following November – as a result of which 200,000 people became refugees. There are no official figures for civilian deaths.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2049664,00.html

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10,000 Mother of a March

The time for being polite to our war-mongering politicians and organizations which support them is over. The time has been up for years now: over four to be exact. Women in Iraq are afraid to go to the market or send their children to school. Our occupation has killed many babies and destroyed many Anglo-Christian families and brown Muslim families and, really, families of all color schemes and religious/non-religious persuasions.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17483.htm

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 3 April 2007

• Savage US air raid near ar-Ramadi leaves 30 civilians dead, most of them women, children.
• US Marine reported killed in Resistance bomb attack in Tikrit midday Tuesday.
• US, puppet troops in Samarra’ reportedly use mentally retarded persons to investigate objects suspected of being roadside bombs.
• Iraqi Resistance shoots down US transport plane near ad-Dulu‘iyah.
• Two US troops reported killed in bomb attack in al-Kut, Tuesday morning.
• US forces arrest tribal leader in al-Kut at dawn Tuesday.
• Resistance blasts US headquarters near al-Hadithah with mortars Tuesday morning.
• UN High Commissioner for Refugees: at least 600 Palestinians have been killed in Iraq.
• Puppet police together with Shi‘i sectarian militia drive into al-‘Amil district shooting at passers by on Tuesday.
• US forces carry out raids, searches in al-Jadiriyah, as-Sayyidiyah in Baghdad.
• US admits four more Americans killed in Iraq Monday.
• US blasts two houses in Baghdad Monday afternoon.
• Resistance attacks target puppet police in al-Musayyib.
• Resistance bomb kills puppet police in Kirkuk area.
• Jaysh al-Mahdi commander gunned down in al-Basrah.
• British soldier dies of wounds received in ambush.

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0407/iraqiresistancereport_030407.htm

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Israel launches Gaza attack

Troops in tanks, bulldozers and jeeps moved 500m into farmland near the village of Beit Hanoun and clashed with Palestinians near the separation barrier, security sources said on Wednesday.
http://snipurl.com/1f5jf

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New York dinner raises $18m. for IDF

The Friends of the Israel Defense Forces raised a record $18 million at its annual gala dinner held last week in New York City.
http://snipurl.com/1f5kb

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Palestinians say Israel stalling on Arab peace bid

The Palestinian foreign minister said on Wednesday that Israel’s call for a conference with Arabs sidestepping their land-for-peace offer suggested the Jewish state wanted normal ties without giving up anything in return.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=L04713892

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Olmert reminds Rice: Bush is still her boss

The message was unmistakable: What Rice had to say barely mattered. Olmert had it all worked out with the president. Rice did not like it,
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/844719.html

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Colombia seeks Israelis accused of training death squads

Interpol issued an international arrest warrant Tuesday for three Israelis accused of training private armies of Colombian drug cartels and right-wing death squads
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/845082.html

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Ahmadinejad DID NOT threaten to “wipe Israel off the map”

2 Minute Video

http://snipurl.com/1f5je

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Democracy for sale: Obama Raises $25 Million

Illinois Senator Barack Obama raised at least $25 million in the first quarter of his presidential campaign, just below the total of Democratic rival and top fundraiser Hillary Clinton.
http://snipurl.com/1f5ju

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Jungle Law

In a forsaken little town in the Ecuadorean Amazon, an overgrown oil camp called Lago Agrio, the giant Chevron Corporation has been maneuvered into a makeshift courtroom and is being sued to answer for conditions in 1,700 square miles of rain forest said by environmentalists to be one of the world’s most contaminated industrial sites.
http://snipurl.com/1f5jy

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-muslim voice-
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BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW

US Terrorize The Whole World by “War on Terror” – 16 Rabiul Awal 1428 H (4.4.07)

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

=== News Update ===

Somalia slips ever backwards

Hundreds of civilians have died in fighting in Mogadishu – further proof that last year’s US-backed Ethiopian invasion did more harm than good.

Predictions that the US-backed Ethiopian invasion of Somalia last Christmas would hasten rather than halt the country’s political disintegration are proving grimly accurate. In the league of failed states, Somalia is runaway leader. With international attention focused on Zimbabwe and Darfur, it is the hidden shame of the world.

More than 1,000 civilians have been killed or wounded in recent fighting in the capital, Mogadishu, and tens of thousands have fled their homes. The UN says wounded civilians are lying untended in the streets after heavy artillery and mortars pounded residential areas. Since February, 96,000 refugees have swelled the ranks of Somalia’s 400,000 internally displaced persons. And despite a temporary truce today, it seems likely that worse is to come.
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/simon_tisdall/2007/04/somalia_slips_ever_backwards_h.html

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400 Die in Mogadishu’s Worst Fighting in 15 years

Ethiopian tanks, artillery and helicopter gunships have fought against guerillas armed with machine guns, missiles and rocket-propelled grenades. The guerrilla forces comprise fighters allied to the Somali Council of Islamic Courts and clan militias who are opposed to the transitional government and the Ethiopian occupation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17473.htm

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Clashes in Somalia kill 381 in 4 days

Four days of fierce fighting between Ethiopian-backed government forces and Islamic insurgents has killed 381 people, a local human rights organization said Monday, as the government warned residents to abandon their homes ahead of a new military offensive.
http://snipurl.com/1f0z0

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Tall ‘Afar.

Shi‘i Turkoman Council in al-Mawsil says Kurdish parties carried out 27 March bombings of civilians in Tall ‘Afar, sparking “retaliatory” massacre later that night.

In a dispatch posted at p12:11pm Baghdad time midday Monday, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that the Shi‘i Turkoman Council, one of the more important Turkoman parties in al-Mawsil, has issued a statement blaming the pro-American Kurdish separatists leadership for carrying out the bombings of civilian targets in Tall ‘Afar on Tuesday, 27 March. Those bombings killed some 70 people and prompted pro-Iranian Shi‘i sectarians to massacre over 70 Sunnis in “reprisal.”

AMSI reported the Turkoman Shi‘i Council as saying that the bombings served the interests of the Kurdish movement that aspires to steal what it called the “Turkoman area” of Tall ‘Afar.

Demonstrators who took to the streets after the Tuesday bombings placed blame for the atrocities directly on the Kurdish separatist leaders and their American military backers, saying that it was they who let the explosives-laden truck to pass and then detonated it by remote control – maintaining that there was no “suicide driver” as the news media widely reported.

The Turkoman statement denounced the Kurdish separatist militia, the Peshmergah, saying that Peshmergah gunmen prevented puppet police from stopping and inspecting the truck bomb.

The Council also denounced the fact that some Shi‘i parties were ignoring testimony about this evidence out of partisan motives.
http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0407/iraqiresistancereport_020407.htm

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SCHOLARS FILE CHALLENGES TO NIST REPORTS ON 9/11 

Download this press release as an Adobe PDF document.

Madison, WI (PRWEB) March 30, 2007 – Some members of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, a non-partisan organization of students, experts and scholars dedicated to exposing falsehoods and revealing truths about 9/11, have filed complaints against the National Institute of Standards and Technology for legal defects in its studies of events of 9/11 involving the Twin Towers and Building 7. James H. Fetzer, the society’s founder, believes these actions have the potential to break the back of the cover-up that has enveloped these events.

“It would be nice if the government would tell us the truth about our own history,” Fetzer said. “But all we get from the President, the Vice President, the Secretary of State and former Secretary of Defense is a ‘song and dance’ that keeps the American people in ignorance.” The complaints have been filed by Ed Hass, who edits The Muckraker Report; Morgan Reynolds, past Chief Economist in the Department of Labor in the Bush administration; and Judy Wood, former professor of mechanical engineering at Clemson University. Reynolds and Wood are both members of the society.
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2007/3/emw515165.htm

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UK Issued Two Different Coordinates for Gulf Incident

The UK Ministry of Defence website still contains their widely quoted press release, issued on the 28th March, which attempts to clearly establish that the arrest of the fifteen British sailors and marines by Iran took place in Iraqi waters.

Unfortunately for the MOD, it appears that they have used two different sets of position coordinates to fix the site of the incident. One of these coordinates is quoted in the text (para 4), another is pictured in their photograph taken from a helicoptor. Furthermore, the data was presented in the same press briefing. Assuming that both sets of data were expressed using the same coordinate system this is, at the least, an embarrassing over sight.

It can be observed that the coordinates on the Garmin GPS handset photo on the MOD site are different from the coordinates quoted in the text of the same press release (N 29 50.174 vs. N 2950.36 and E 48 43.544 vs. E 48 43.08).
http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/1114

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The Unearthing: An Awakening Has Arrived : With Truth Comes Awakening

It is our love for humankind, our respect for life, our desire for a better world, our hatred of wickedness and injustice and deception and all the evils the truth we seek has created and brought forth that compels in us the responsibility to bring honor and dignity to those whose voice and energy have been silenced.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17475.htm

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Government And Citizenship

When violence is the first resort of a government, the people have no business referring to it as a democratic republic. They must offer resistance to it. They must bring it into line with the values and code of ethics of the citizenry.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17472.htm

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Even Mormons Jumping Off Bush Bandwagon As War Takes Its Toll

Iraq is lost militarily and politically. Even the Mormons are now abandoning President George W. Bush’s mad war. That’s akin to the Swiss Guard deserting and leaving the pope to fend for himself with the Vatican under siege.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17471.htm

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Time to Acknowledge and Address the Displacement Crisis

The humanitarian and displacement crisis in Iraq is growing in intensity and gravity. The UN estimates that more than two million Iraqis are now refugees in neighboring countries and more than 1.9 million have fled for safer areas within Iraq.
http://snipurl.com/1f0ya

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How Bogus Letter Became a Case for War

Intelligence Failures Surrounded Inquiry on Iraq-Niger Uranium
http://snipurl.com/1f0ye

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In case you missed it: CIA Analysis: The Predicament Mr. Bush And The Pentagon Have Gotten US Into

CIA analyst Stephen Pelletiere (ret. prof at the Army War College) says that after Desert Storm, when Iraq refused to bow to US. pressure, holding out against American dominance, George W. Bush fabricated the present crisis so as to, once and for all, beat the Iraqis into submission – to control oil…”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2097.htm

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In case you missed it: Saddam: America’s Best Enemy

Historical account of the relationship between America and Saddam Hussein. Reveals the complicity of America in Saddam’s atrocities. Forty years of secrets, incomprehension and incompetence led to the occupation of Iraq
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13512.htm

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Iraqi refugees living in poverty

Long queues of Iraqi refugees await receiving help from Syria amid inaction from indifferent Iraqi government.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/iraq/?id=20234

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Iraqi children suffer bad water diseases

Doctors express concern over spread of waterborne diseases as Iraqis pay high price to obtain clean water.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/iraq/?id=20241

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Canada’s Role in Depleted Uranium (DU) Weapons worldwide

“CANADIAN URANIUM IS BASICALLY PROVIDING THE MATERIAL FOR THESE [DU] WEAPONS And I really would ask you to make this an issue in the front / centre and STOP IT NOW AS QUICKLY AS YOU CAN !! — Dr. Rosalie Bertell, authority on Depleted Uranium (DU).
http://www.peace.ca/depleteduranium.htm

Photos of Babies Deformed at Birth as a Result of Depleted Uranium (DU) 2003 photos: Dr. Jenan Hassan WARNING: Extremely Graphic Images!
http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2003/DU-Baby2003.htm

source:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=WEB20070403&articleId=5258

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AMSI: The Iraqi Resistance Defeated the Occupation in Iraq

The Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMSI) issued an open letter addressed to the great Iraqi people on 29 Safar 1428 – 19 March 2007 on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the Anglo-American occupation of Iraq.

“American project is bankrupted in Iraq and the victory is very near” told in the letter.

We want to remind you of quotations from some senior members of CIA in a program “Hidden Wars of CIA” in an Arab Channel. They told: “We were ordered to kill women, children and businessmen to spread terror among them in Vietnam war!!!”

This is the reality…
http://heyetnet.org/en/content/view/117/1/

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the 22 Iraqi Scientists are in detention

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0307/scientist_190307.htm

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Media complicity and disinformation on the Iraq war

Mouthpiece of U.S. imperialism.

A new report by the progressive media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting shows the complicity of the capitalist media in selling the U.S. invasion of Iraq to a skeptical U.S. public.
http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=6597

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U.S. plane crashes in Dalouiya

Dalouiya, April 3 (VOI) – A U.S. plane, believed to be a cargo plane, crashed in a remote area in eastern Dalouiya, Salah al-Din province, eyewitnesses said on Tuesday.
http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=41016&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

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Four US troops killed in Iraq attacks

Death toll among US soldiers continues to rise despite armed crackdown on insurgents.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/iraq/?id=20238

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 2 April 2007

• Americans imprison nine-year-old boy as hostage.
• Resistance reports destroying US troop transport in al-Karmah last week.
• US air raid north of ar-Ramadi kills three families Monday afternoon.
• US announces death of Marine in al-Anbar on Sunday.
• Resistance shoots down unmanned US spy plane east of ad-Dulu‘iyah Monday morning.
• US lockdown of ad-Dawr enters second week as Americans arrest 400 on suspicion of involvement in Resistance activities, including puppet governor, chief of police.
• US troops gun down six people in al-Mawsil Monday morning.
• Shi‘i Turkoman Council in al-Mawsil says Kurdish parties carried out 27 March bombings of civilians in Tall ‘Afar, sparking “retaliatory” massacre later that night.
• Two puppet troops killed in Baghdad.
• Resistance bombs target puppet troops, police in Baghdad.
• Truck bomb kills two in al-Bayya‘.
• Resistance bomb wounds puppet governor of Balad Monday evening.
• Bodies of 19 villagers kidnapped in Habhab Sunday found dead.
• Mysterious bomber targets popular market in al-Khalis, killing at least three Monday afternoon.
• Mortar rounds blast into residential areas of al-Iskandariyah Monday afternoon.
• Al-Musayyib, Attackers gun down puppet official.
• Two puppet policemen killed in truck bomb attack on puppet police station in Kirkuk.
• US troops gun down six people in al-Mawsil Monday morning.

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0407/iraqiresistancereport_020407.htm

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Jenin Massacres, 5th Anniversary

As part of the Palestinian history, Jenin had a role in the national struggle starting with the Romans and ending with the Zionist occupation.

Israel has exploited the situation and atmosphere created after September 11 to intensify its aggression against Palestinians in general and those of Jenin in Particular. Thus, remorseless massacre committed in Jenin in front of the whole world targeted everything even trees and houses, causing many dead and a few wounded, so what does this mean?
http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2007/04/03/jenin-massacres-5th-anniversary/#more-1917

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Historian to quit Israel for UK

Ilan Pappe, a senior lecturer in the University of Haifa’s Department of Political Science, says he is moving to the UK because it is “increasingly difficult to live in Israel” with his “unwelcome views and convictions.”
http://snipurl.com/1f0zk

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Book says Kissinger delayed telling Nixon about Yom Kippur War to keep him from interfering

Newly released documents show that former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger delayed telling President Richard Nixon about the start of the Yom Kippur War in 1973 to keep him from interfering, according to new book excerpted in Vanity Fair on Monday.
http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/04/book-says-kissinger-delayed-telling.html

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Palestinians arrested after Israeli settlers attack them

A 48 year old Palestinian man was walking home about 11 am when he was attacked with stones by a 14 year old settler outside the Israeli settlement of Beit Hadassa. Three other settler youths about the same age supported this attack. The soldier on duty intervened and told the settlers to leave.
http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/04/palestinians-arrested-after-israeli.html

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What the U.S. doesn’t want you to know about “War on terror”: Taliban retuning to Afghanistan, NATO, U.S. forces losing ground!

More than five years after the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan that ousted the Taliban regime, Afghans say their lives have become more insecure.
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/conspiracy_theory/fullstory.asp?id=370

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Stranger than fiction: British pilots asked to consider suicide flight

During a training exercise, Air Vice-Marshal David Walker put it to newly qualified pilots that they should think of flying suicide missions in a “worst case scenario” when a terrorist attack was imminent.
http://snipurl.com/1f0za

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Orwell at Guantanamo

Here’s what the Bush administration has done to the values, traditions and honor of the United States of America: An accused terrorist claims he confessed to heinous crimes so that agents of the U.S. government would stop torturing him, and no one is shocked or even surprised.
http://snipurl.com/1f0zm

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Police Log Confirms FBI Role In Arrests

A secret FBI intelligence unit helped detain a group of war protesters in a downtown Washington parking garage in April 2002 and interrogated some of them on videotape about their political and religious beliefs, newly uncovered documents and interviews show.
http://snipurl.com/1f0zo

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The Once and Future Republic of Vermont

Vermont was once an independent republic, and it can be one again. We think the time to make that happen is now. Over the past 50 years, the U.S. government has grown too big, too corrupt and too aggressive toward the world, toward its own citizens and toward local democratic institutions
http://snipurl.com/1f0zr

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Undercover agents slip bombs past DIA screeners

“It really is concerning considering that we’re paying millions of dollars out of our budget to be secure in the airline industry,” said passenger Mark Butler who has had two Army Swiss knives confiscated by screeners in the past. “Yet, we’re not any safer than we were before 9/11, in my opinion.”
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=67166&

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-muslim voice-
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BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW