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9/11: Five years later - TYPECASTING MUSLIMS AS A RACE
As the war on terror heads into its sixth year, a new racial stereotype is emerging in America. Brown-skinned men with beards and women with head scarves are seen as "Muslims" -- regardless of their actual faith or nationality.
-- Most Arabs in the United States, such as Ralph Nader, are not Muslims.
-- Many Palestinians are Christian.
-- Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim country, but its residents don't resemble the stereotype.
-- African Americans make up more than a quarter of the U.S. Muslim population, more than any other ethnicity. Complicating matters, Muslims who are black often are confused with Black Muslims, Nation of Islam followers, who abide different beliefs.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/03/MNG4FKUMR71.DTL
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9/11 : 9 Minute Video: Planet of The Arabs
A trailer-esque montage spectacle of Hollywood's relentless vilification and dehumanization of Arabs and Muslims.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14836.htm
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9/11 : New Video by Azzam the Black Propaganda Operative
Californian Adam Gadahn, wearing a white robe and turban, introduces the message by calling on Westerners to convert, reports CNN. We invite all Americans and believers to Islam, whatever their role and status in Bush and Blairs world order, Gahahn declares. Decide today, because today could be your last day.
http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=545
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9/11 : Terror prosecutions falling back to pre-9/11 levels
The federal government has fallen back to prosecuting international terrorists at about the same rate it did before 9/11, according to a study based on Justice Department data.
http://tinyurl.com/haa3j
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How 9/11 changed America: In statistics
The defense graph is most interesting, because the ramp up in defense spending started BEFORE 9-11.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/629/629/5305868.stm
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9/11 : Our Fascism, and Theirs
The administration's new theme, designed to sell the Iraq war and the larger "war on terrorism" as an historic struggle against "fascism" or "Islamo-fascism," as the president and his blogger fan club would have it is not merely a very bad joke. As an analysis of where we are and what we are facing, it is worse than useless to compare Osama bin Laden's scattered, ragtag legions with the massed might of the Wehrmacht: it is a delusional inversion of reality. Listen to Rummy as he tries to convince us it's 1939:
"It was a time when a certain amount of cynicism and moral confusion set in among Western democracies. When those who warned about a coming crisis, the rise of fascism and nazism, they were ridiculed or ignored. Indeed, in the decades before World War II, a great many argued that the fascist threat was exaggerated or that it was someone else's problem.
This is an administration has a pathological inability to take responsibility for any of its failures, which is why it is resorting to this kind of rhetoric.
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9647
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9/11 : Guantanamo tarnishes Bush credibility in "war on terror" Guantanamo tarnishes Bush credibility in "war on terror"
The US prison facility for detainees in the war against terrorism remains a difficult challenge for the United States five years after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
There are about 450 detainees still locked up at the US naval installation on Cuba, leaving US President George W Bush in the difficult position of trying to portray himself as a world leader of human rights while keeping people locked up for years without trial.
http://www.antara.co.id/en/seenws/?id=19411
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9/11 Lies : Masked man with firebomb attacks Montreal Jewish school
In the video, the man takes a few steps toward the entrance, then steps back to throw a lighted Molotov cocktail. He removes his mask as he steps out of the video frame, but his face is not visible.
Translation: He KNEW the camera was there and it's an inside job ; another phony hate crime hoax.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/09/02/school-firebomb060902.html
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Israel - The Country That Wouldn't Grow Up
But today everything is different. We can see, in retrospect, that the victory of Israel in June 1967 and its continuing occupation of the territories it conquered then have been the Jewish state's very own nakba: a moral and political catastrophe. Israel's actions in the West Bank and Gaza have magnified and publicized the country's shortcomings and displayed them to a watching world. Curfews, checkpoints, bulldozers, public humiliations, home destructions, land seizures, shootings, "targeted assassinations," the separation fence: All of these routines of occupation and repression were once familiar only to an informed minority of specialists and activists. Today they can be watched, in real time, by anyone with a computer or a satellite dish - which means that Israel's behavior is under daily scrutiny by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. The result has been a complete transformation in the international view of Israel. Until very recently the carefully burnished image of an ultra-modern society - built by survivors and pioneers and peopled by peace-loving democrats - still held sway over international opinion. But today? What is the universal shorthand symbol for Israel, reproduced worldwide in thousands of newspaper editorials and political cartoons? The Star of David emblazoned upon a tank.
http://johnmccarthy90066.tripod.com/id798.html
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Israel's Invasion of Lebanon Was Not Justified
An abridged version of this essay was rejected by WBFO radio as his monthly commentary for August. According to Mr. Simpson, he was told by WBFO that the NPR station was no longer going to air commentaries critical of Israels conduct in the recent war in Lebanon because callers had complained about a previous commentary critical of Israel. Mr. Simpsons regular monthly WBFO commentary has also been canceled.
http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views06/0903-22.htm
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Israel afraid of retribution for war crimes against Lebanon
Three weeks after a cease-fire ended Israel's monthlong war against Hezbollah guerrillas, Israel is increasingly concerned that government officials and army officers traveling abroad could face war crimes charges related to the country's actions in Lebanon, officials said Monday.
A Foreign Ministry official said a special legal team is preparing to provide protection for officers and officials involved in the 34-day conflict in Lebanon. Israeli fears of prosecution abroad are based on experience.
This appears to be a tacit understanding by the Israeli government that war crimes have in fact been committed in their latest incursion into Lebanon.
http://english.pravda.ru/news/world/04-09-2006/84237-warcrimes-0
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Officials said fearing wave of war crimes suits over Lebanon - IDF generals have deferred visits to Europe for fear of arrest
The Foreign Ministry fears a wave of lawsuits accusing Israeli military and governmental officials of war crimes, Army Radio said Monday, adding that a report prepared by the ministry`s chief legal advisor warns officials against inflammatory statements in connection with the recent war, saying that their words could later be used against them in foreign lawsuits or indictments for alleging them to be war criminals.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/758476.html
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Israeli officials 'face war crimes risk'
Israel's public officials have been told to watch what they say in public about the Lebanese and Palestinian conflicts for fear of being prosecuted for war crimes, political sources say.
http://tinyurl.com/zulca
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Genocide in Gaza
Nothing apart from pressure in the form of sanctions, boycotts and divestment will stop the murdering of innocent civilians in the Gaza Strip.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14830.htm
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Jewish state death squad executes father, son in cold blood (PCHR)
Father and Son Killed in Cold Blood, 2 Daughters Seriously Injured. 9 Homes Destroyed, 2 Activists Detained, 6 Civilians Injured
In another crime in the ongoing war crimes in the Gaza Strip, IOF killed a Palestinian civilian and his son in cold blood in the town of Beit Hanoun in the predawn hours of Saturday, 2 September 2006. In addition, two of the slain man's daughters were seriously injured. The raid by IOF undercover units also resulted in the injury of 6 civilians, including two parents and their 3 children, and the destruction of 9 homes. The casualties and damages were inflicted in an operation aiming to detain 2 "wanted" activists.
http://pchrgaza.org/files/PressR/English/2006/104-2006.htm
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Racist : Israel invites bids to build 342 Jew-only colony homes in West Bank (non Jews not allowed)
Tenders issued for hundreds of homes in W. Bank settlements
MMN NoteL We wonder what would happen in this country, Canada, if a policy were adopted where Jews, or any other group, were told they are not permitted to live in a certain area based soley on their ethnicity. Traditionally this has been called aparthied, but when the zionist state adopts such a policy then it is overlooked and referred to has "preserving the unique Jewish character of the zionist state." But a rose by any other name is still a rose.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/758516.html
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Gaza doctors encounter 'unexplained injuries'
Doctors in Gaza are reporting what they say are unexplained injuries among the dead and wounded in operations by the Israeli military, which have killed more than 200 Palestinians in the past nine weeks.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1359830.ece
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"You don't see, you don't feel, and you don't look" - An Israeli Combat Soldier Breaks the Silence
When I was in the Occupied Territories, you could have said that I was an American soldier. After all, I owned an M-16 that wasn't produced in Israel. I shot grenades that weren't produced with Israeli money, but by American money. Everyone, and especially Americans, have a responsibility to know what's going on in the world. And since I am from here, I am talking about here.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14826.htm
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Bint Jbeil; Hezbollahs Blood Victory
Theres a sign at the entrance to Bint Jbeil that says: Bint JbeilCapital of Freedom. The cheery greeting contrasts dramatically with the vast devastation that lies just beyond. Bint Jbeil was a bustling hamlet in Southern Lebanon that became the central battlefield in Israels war of aggression.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14833.htm
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A commission to investigate the occupation
During the past two months, July and August, 251 Palestinians were killed in Gaza and the West Bank, all of them by Israel Defense Forces fire. About half of them were civilians, including women, children and the elderly.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/758207.html
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Israeli warplanes bomb Palestinian refugee Camp
Israeli warplanes bombarded a house in Jabaliyah refugee camp in occupied northern Gaza Strip, said a security source on Monday.
http://tinyurl.com/z8p7y
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Italy, Germany, UK refuse Israeli cargo , planes loaded with weapons to land in their airports
A number of European states are refusing to allow El Al cargo planes carrying Israel Defense Forces equipment from stopover landings in their airports.
The refusal came from states considered friendly with Israel, including Britain, Germany and Italy, according to Captain Etai Regev, the chairman of El Al's pilots' union.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/758607.html
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Qatar Airways to defy Israeli blockade on Beirut
Qatar Airways has decided to resume direct flights between Doha and Beirut "within the next 24 hours" despite the Israeli blockade on Lebanon, a company spokeswoman told AFP.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060903/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictlebanonblockadeqatar
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War Crime : "It's My Duty to Speak Out"
Marine Corporal Grant Collins describes what it was like to participate in the war in Iraq. He also describes what it is like to live with giving orders that resulted in the deaths of civilians.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14834.htm
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War Crime : No innocent bystanders in America
The excuse of ignorance is not valid when graphic images are available within minutes. It's not lack of knowledge; it's denial...or perhaps even acquiescence. There are no innocent bystanders when our money and/or rhetoric support the world's most powerful military and the corporate status quo.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14827.htm
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War Crime : Breaking The Silence
A hard hitting special report into the "war on terror". Award winning journalist John Pilger
This is a must watch video documentary
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12555.htm
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U.S. deaths in Iraq, war on terror surpass 9/11 toll
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/03/death.toll/
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Iraq : The War Is Lost
The Pentagons latest quarterly progress report to Congress on Iraq is a grim tale of a lost war. The Pentagon told Congress what Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and propaganda organs such as Fox News never tell the American public, namely:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14829.htm
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Iraq : A Time for Consciousness
Standing amid the swirling ashes of our own destruction, we deny the cinders of the charred bodies even as we try in vain to wipe them from our eyes.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14828.htm
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Al "Lackey" Barzani : Kurdish leader threatens Iraq secession
The leader of the Kurdish region in northern Iraq threatened secession Sunday as a dispute over flying the Iraqi flag intensified.
http://tinyurl.com/gkvtr
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Massoud "Lackey" Barzani: Kurdish leader threatens Iraq secession
The leader of the Kurdish region in northern Iraq threatened secession Sunday as a dispute over flying the Iraqi flag intensified.
Massoud Barzani on Friday ordered the country's national flag to be replaced with the Kurdish one, sparking harsh words in Baghdad.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060903/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_kurds_flag
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Six US troops killed in Iraq
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/iraq/?id=17367
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Two US Soldiers Killed in Iraq's Al-Anbar Province
http://english.people.com.cn/200609/04/eng20060904_299474.html
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Two British soldiers killed in Iraq attack
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/iraq/?id=17371
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Roadside Bomb in Basra Kills British Soldiers
http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20355461-1702,00.html
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6 US Soldiers, 2 UK Soliders Killed, 35 Tortured Bodies Found in Iraq
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060904/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 3 September 2006.
- US blocks aid to beleaguered residents of ar-Ramadi, calling them terrorists who dont deserve to live.
- Iraqi puppet army spokesman: Resistance bomb kills four US Marines in al-Hadithah Sunday morning.
- Resistance bomb leaves three US troops reported dead near al-Khalidiyah.
- Pro-American death squads of Shii sectarians, Kurdish separatists step up murders of prominent opponents of US occupation in Baghdad.
- Scandal-ridden representative of Ayatallah as-Sistani in al-Amarah assassinated Sunday morning.
- Muqtada as-Sadr orders his men in ad-Diwaniyah to lay down arms and not oppose US and Iraqi puppet forces.
- Resistance bomb destroys US troop transport in al-Hadithah.
- Resistance bombards Marine headquarters in al-Habbaniyah.
- Iraqi Resistance men ambush puppet police in Baqubah.
- Resistance fighters bombard puppet army headquarters in al-Madain.
- Resistance mortars pound joint headquarters in al-Yusufiyah.
- Resistance bomb destroys US Bradley armored personnel carrier in al-Mahmudiyah.
- Resistance bomb targets US column near al-Hawijah.
- Resistance batters US base in Tall Afar with Katyusha rockets Sunday evening.
- Resistance bomb targets puppet police in al-Mawsil.
http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2006/0906/iraqiresistancereport_030906.htm
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Economic Empire Building and Domestic Decay
While world attention has focused largely on Washingtons military interventions and violent covert operations as the most visible signs of empire building, they have overlooked the far more successful domestic and overseas economic strategies designed to enhance the US economic empire.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14832.htm
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4 NATO Soldiers Killed In S Afghanistan Fighting-Official
Four occupation forces soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force were killed by enemy fire in heavy fighting in Panjwayi district, about 20 kilometers west of the city of Kandahar
http://tinyurl.com/fl4lu
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Briton among at least 5 killed by Afghan suicide bomber
A British occupation forces soldier has been killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan, along with at least four civilians as another Nato soldier died and others were wounded after coming under friendly fire during a major offensive to crush a resurgent "Taliban" in southern Afghanistan.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3786559a12,00.html
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U.S. warplanes in Afghanistan kill Canadian soldier in 'friendly fire'
Two U.S. warplanes accidentally strafed their own occupation forces in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing one Canadian soldier and seriously wounding five others, NATO and the U.S. military said.
http://www.startribune.com/722/story/654754.html
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How U.S. dollars disappear in Afghanistan
To understand the failure -- and fraud -- of reconstruction in Afghanistan, you have to take a look at the peculiar system of U.S. aid for international development.
http://tinyurl.com/ll7nj
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Returning Home Alive
"Some soldiers come home missing limbs and other parts of their bodies. Still others will live with permanent scars from horrific events that no one other than those who served will ever understand."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14835.htm
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10 killed in Somali airport clashes
10 people have been killed in fighting between police and militia fighters in the Somali town of Baidoa, the current seat of the national government.
http://tinyurl.com/h3fea
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Sudan 'agrees' to let AU troops stay
Sudan has agreed to let African troops remain in Darfur, but only if they stay under African Union control and not that of the UN.
http://tinyurl.com/g3l6d
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An unimaginable loss of life
Since 1997, approximately 4 million people have been killed as a result of the civil war (and foreign interventions) in the Congo. That comes down to approximately 444,000 per year or 37,000 per month or about 1,200 per day.
http://tinyurl.com/zajcw
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Mexican leftist says will never accept rival's win
Mexico's leftist opposition leader said on Sunday he will never recognize his right-wing rival as president and vowed a "radical transformation" of the country by setting up a parallel government.
http://tinyurl.com/jsle9
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Bush's performance has been poor, but his packaging is exemplary
After 9/11 and Katrina, reality intruded on the president's finely honed image - and both times he was missing in action
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1864123,00.html
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Katrina Aftermath: And Then I Saw These
I thought the news images we had seen from New Orleans during the worst days of Katrina were fundamentally unvarnished. And then I saw these.
http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/2005/09/katrina_afterma.html
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