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=== News Update ===

What was the crime of this Palestinian baby?

As-salaamu 'Alaikum Wa Rahmatullah, Hope you are in the best of health
and Imaan (faith), Ameen.

I just wanted to share a short story a brother told at the Interpal
event. It's a really horrbile story, but sadly it is the norm in
Palestine.

A husband was rushing his wife to the hospital in his car as she laid
there in extreme labour pains. They then were stopped by israeli
soldiers when they got to one of those road stops (they're all over
Palestinian roads). The soldiers just laughed at her and they knew that
she needed to be at the hospital immediately. They then checked them (i
think for passes etc) and they purposely took their time.
http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/69

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The Restrictions Remain: Life Under Prohibition in Palestine

All the promises to relax restrictions in the West Bank have obscured
the true picture. A few roadblocks have been removed, but the following
prohibitions have remained in place. (This information was gathered by
Haaretz, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
Affairs and Machsom Watch)
http://www.counterpunch.org/hass01222007.html

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Israel Builds Synagogue Under Al-Aqsa: Palestinians

Occupied Jerusalem - The Supreme Islamic Association and Al-Aqsa
Association for Construction of the Holy Shrines accused Israel on
Tuesday, January 3, of building a Jewish synagogue beneath Al-Aqsa
Mosque, warning that the continued Israeli excavations jeopardize the
mosque's structure.
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=4061

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Aqsa foundation: Zionist IOA digging secret tunnel under the Aqsa Mosque

Officials in the Aqsa foundation that caters for Muslim holy shrines in
occupied Palestine have unveiled that the Israeli occupation authority
(IOA) was secretly digging a tunnel under the Aqsa Mosque that
jeopardizes its foundations.

Director of the foundation Farid Al-Haj Yahya affirmed that his
institution possesses audiovisual evidence to substantiate the charges,
and that it will distribute this evidence to the media in a press
conference it will hold in the coming days.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/am/publish/printer_21198.shtml

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Dr. Sami Al-Arian Begins Hunger Strike

Never Convicted, Muslim Professor Lingers in Prison and Harassed by the
Government

WASHINGTON, DC - Jan. 23, 2007 (MASNET) Yesterday, Dr. Sami Al-Arian
began a hunger strike to protest continued government harassment.
Earlier, Dr. Al-Arian appeared before a new grand jury in Alexandria,
Virginia, where he was subpoenaed by a federal prosecutor to testify a
second time in the same case. After Dr. Al-Arian expressed his ethical
stance against testifying, a judge in the Eastern District of Virginia
held him in civil contempt, once again prolonging his suffering and
imprisonment by up to 18 months. Dr. Al-Arian's originally scheduled
release date is April 13.

Montreal Muslim News Network - http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net

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Arar: America's deep shame

Let's be clear about this: Maher Arar -- victim of an American midnight
rendition to Syria for imprisonment and torture -- is an innocent man.

Not just in law, although the presumption of innocence would be enough
to make that true. Arar is innocent because at least three national
security agencies -- the RCMP, CSIS and the CIA -- have not produced one
scintilla of evidence against him despite pressure on them to do so.
http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?
pagename=hamilton/Layout/Article_Type1c=Articlecid=1169247013057call_pageid=1020420665036col=1112188062581

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Bush Continues to Unite the World... Against Him

Despite two years of a concentrated effort by Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice and her public diplomacy major-domo Karen Hughes to
boost Washington's global image, more people around the world have an
unfavorable opinion of U.S. policies than at any time in recent memory,
according to a new BBC poll released Monday.
http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=10375

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Views on U.S. Drop Sharply In Worldwide Opinion Poll

Global opinion of U.S. foreign policy has sharply deteriorated in the
past two years, according to a BBC poll released on the eve of President
Bush's annual State of the Union address.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
dyn/content/article/2007/01/22/AR2007012201300_pf.html

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[media-dakwah] 9/11 : Dr. Sami Al-Arian Begins Hunger Strike


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In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful



=== News Update ===

Dr. Sami Al-Arian Begins Hunger Strike

Never Convicted Muslim Professor Lingers in Prison and Harassed by the 
Government


WASHINGTON, DC - Jan. 23, 2007 (MASNET) Yesterday, Dr. Sami Al-Arian began 
a hunger strike to protest continued government harassment. Earlier, Dr. 
Al-Arian appeared before a new grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, where he 
was subpoenaed by a federal prosecutor to testify a second time in the same 
case. After Dr. Al-Arian expressed his ethical stance against testifying, a 
judge in the Eastern District of Virginia held him in civil contempt, once 
again prolonging his suffering and imprisonment by up to 18 months. Dr. 
Al-Arian's originally scheduled release date is April 13.

Last November, the same judge placed Dr. Al-Arian in civil contempt for not 
testifying. At the time, his attorneys argued that cooperation was a clear 
violation of the plea agreement he reached with Florida prosecutors last 
May. One month after he was held in contempt, the grand jury term expired. 
However, less than a month later, a new grand jury was once again impaneled 
by Gordon Kromberg, a federal prosecutor who allegedly boasts about his 
contempt for Muslims and Arabs while touring Israel.

During yesterday's court appearance, Dr. Al-Arian's attorney requested to 
delay the judge's decision until further evidence could be brought to light 
supporting Dr. Al-Arian's decision not testify and the highlighting the 
government's abuse of power. However, the judge denied the request and 
ordered that Dr. Al-Arian be held in civil contempt. -Please read below Dr. 
Al-Arian's statement before the judge-

This is the second hunger strike by Dr. Al-Arian, who is a diabetic, during 
his nearly four-year imprisonment. Following his February 20, 2003 
incarceration, he went on a 140-day hunger strike to protest the 
government's political persecution. During that time, he was hospitalized 
and lost 45 pounds.

In recent weeks, Dr. Al-Arian has been placed under particularly arduous 
conditions after he was moved from Warsaw, Virginia to Atlanta because of 
what prison authorities deemed a mistake. Not only did the nonsensical 
move further isolate Dr. Al-Arian from family and friends, but he was also 
denied phone calls and visitations in Atlanta.

Mahdi Bray, Executive Director of MAS Freedom Foundation stated The 
government after years of incarcerating Dr. Al-Arian and spending millions 
of the taxpayers' dollars, was unable to get a single conviction by a 
federal jury in this case. In short they lost the case. Yet they've used 
every trick in the book to persecute Dr. Al-Arian and his family. His 
prison treatment is extremely inhumane, including periods of 23 hour 
lock-down in a rat and roach infested environment, deliberately improperly 
dressed while forced to walk in sub-freezing weather, and threats and abuse 
from guards and U.S. marshals. These latest developments in Dr. Al-Arian's 
case are a clear and outrageous display of government corruption and abuse 
of power. In spite of an agreement intended to resolve his case once and 
for all, the government has continued to harass Dr. Al-Arian and mire him 
further in legal purgatory. Clearly the U.S. Bureau of Prisons is complicit 
in the inhumane treatment of Dr. Al-Ari!
  an. Congress, who has oversight over the U.S. prison system, needs to be 
alerted to this abuse and inhumane treatment.

Dr. Al-Arian vows that he will remain on a hunger strike until the 
government ends its vindictive campaign against him and allows him to 
return to his wife and children.


ACTION TO BE TAKEN

Please write to the following individuals to ask for an immediate end to 
Dr. Al-Arian's suffering:

1- Honorable Judge Gerald Lee
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
401 Courthouse Square, Alexandria, VA 22314

2- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
Department of Justice
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530-0001
Fax Number: (202) 307-6777
BY E-MAIL:
E-mails to the Department of Justice, including the Attorney General,
may be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] gov.

3- The Honorable John Conyers, Jr
2426 Rayburn Building
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-5126
(202) 225-0072 Fax
John.Conyers@ mail.house. gov

4- Senator Patrick Leahy
433 Russell Senate Office Building
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
(299029)224- 4242
senator_leahy@ leahy.senate. gov

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Dr. Al-Arian's Statement before Judge Gerald Lee of the Eastern District of 
Virginia


January 22, 2007 (Fair summary not verbatim):

Thank you, your honor, for giving me the opportunity to address the court. 
First of all, I have no contempt whatsoever for this honorable court, but 
all the respect in the world for it.

The initial draft of the plea agreement presented by the government to my 
defense team contained a

[media-dakwah] Zionist Crime : What was the crime of this Palestinian baby?


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=== News Update ===

What was the crime of this Palestinian baby?


From: Mohammed A [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: {(SaveYoungMuslims)} What was the crime of this Palestinian baby?

As-salaamu 'Alaikum Wa Rahmatullah,

Hope you are in the best of health and Imaan (faith), Ameen.

I just wanted to share a short story a brother told at the Interpal event. 
It's a really horrbile story, but sadly it is the norm in Palestine.

A husband was rushing his wife to the hospital in his car as she laid there 
in extreme labour pains. They then were stopped by israeli soldiers when 
they got to one of those road stops (they're all over Palestinian roads). 
The soldiers just laughed at her and they knew that she needed to be at the 
hospital immediately. They then checked them (i think for passes etc) and 
they purposely took their time.

She coulnd't bare the pain and fell out of the car onto the sand. The 
soldiers laughed more. As she gave birth she felt the baby's head hit the 
floor and she quickly took it up to her chest. She could feel the baby 
breathing against her chest. After a short while the breathing stopped and 
her newborn child sadly passed away in her arms.

Imagine this sister's pain as she carried her baby for 9 months, gave birth 
on the sand in so much pain only to loose her baby, because she was 
prevented from reaching the hospital.

So many of our sisters give birth this way and loose their babies because 
of this. This shows us the extent of pain and suffering they go through all 
the time.

May Allah keep them strong, ease their pain and give them a place in Jannah 
where they can be happy and peaceful forever, Ameen.

Take care Inshallah,
May Allah make it easy for us to help our suffering brothers and sisters 
around the world, we have so much 2 be greatful for.

Wa 'alaikum assalaam

Please pass this story on so that people can see what they go through ,how 
much we should help them and how greatful we should be.

Jazakallah khair

source:
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[media-dakwah] Stop the Jewish barbarians in Hebron

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=== News Update ===

Stop the Jewish barbarians in Hebron

By mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]YOSEF (TOMMY) LAPID
Jan. 17, 2007 21:48 | Updated Jan. 18, 2007 14:07

That woman, the one who it turns out is named Yifat Alkobi, the Jewish
woman that confronted, cursed, spat on and threatened her Arab neighbor in
Hebron, she who is imprisoned in her own home, seemed somehow familiar to me.

Gradually, from the cobwebs of my childhood memories, I dredged up the
image of a Hungarian neighbor in Novi Sad, who used to stand at the
entrance to her home and curse us every time we went into the street - just
like Yifat Alkobi.

When we decide, and rightly so, to never under any circumstances compare
the behavior of Jews to that of Nazis, we are forgetting that anti-Semitism
only reached its height at Auschwitz. It had existed, was active,
frightening, harmful and disgusting - exactly like Alkobi's image - in the
years that preceded Auschwitz too. And behind shuttered windows hid
terrified Jewish women, exactly like the Arab woman of the Abu-Isha family
in Hebron.

It is unthinkable that the memory of Auschwitz should serve as a pretext to
ignore the fact that living here among us are Jews that behave toward
Palestinians exactly the way that German, Hungarian, Polish and other
anti-Semites behaved toward Jews.

I am not referring to crematoria or pogroms, but rather to the persecution,
hounding, stone-throwing, undermining of livelihood, scare tactics,
spitting and contempt.

It was all of these things that made our lives in the Diaspora so bitter
and harrowing, even before they began the wholesale killing of Jews. I was
afraid to go to school because little anti-Semites lay in wait on the way
and beat us. In what way is a Palestinian child in Hebron any different?

EVEN THOSE that justify the occupation for ideological or religious reasons
- or perhaps especially those that seek to justify the occupation - should
be ashamed, as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said of himself, when seeing
these pictures. We all bear responsibility for the suffering of the
Palestinians, but it would not have been possible to establish a Jewish
state without causing them some harm.

But there is no reason or justification for the thuggery of the kind
demonstrated time after time by the residents of the Jewish settlement in
Hebron toward their Arab neighbors.

The settlement of Jews in Hebron is the original sin. Now, they are adding
insult to injury. And at best, we, the Jewish citizens of the State of
Israel say, Tsk, tsk, tsk.

We forget that this hounding of the Palestinian neighbors in Hebron happens
not only at the moment we see it on television, but rather day after day,
every day of the year (with the exception of Yom Kippur). The truth is that
I too only pipe up occasionally and pay lip service by means of articles
such as this. Even worse: I reacted with silence to this when I was justice
minister too. We left the task of protest to the extreme leftist groups,
who provoke well-deserved loathing from us all other days of the year.

We are familiar with the excuse of We didn't know. So, for the record: We
do know.

We will never be able to forgive ourselves - our consciences won't let us -
and neither will our children if we do not make our army and police put an
end to the Jewish barbarism in Hebron.

The writer is a former MK.

source:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467756320pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

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[media-dakwah] US occupation turns 3.7 million Iraqis into refugees


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=== News Update ===


US occupation turns 3.7 million Iraqis into refugees



By James Cogan
23 January 2007


The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reported this month that the US 
invasion and occupation of Iraq has forced one out of every eight Iraqis to 
flee their homesmore than 3.7 million people. The agency described the 
refugee crisis caused by the Iraq war as the worst in the Middle East since 
the ethnic cleansing that accompanied the creation of Israel in 1948. The 
Zionist military and paramilitary death squads drove an estimated 711,000 
Palestinian Arabs from their land.

UNHCR estimates that two million Iraqis are now living outside the 
countryincluding those who left before 2003 but have failed to return due 
to the countrys catastrophic situation. Some 50,000 Iraqi émigrés returned 
in 2005, but just 1,000 came back last year.

Another 1.7 million Iraqis have been internally displaced. At least 500,000 
people fled their homes in 2006 as a result of US military repression and 
the dramatic rise in sectarian violence between rival Shiite and Sunni 
militias in the wake of the destruction of a prominent Shiite mosque in 
Samarra last February. It is thought that 80,000 to 100,000 people are 
joining the ranks of internal and external refugees each month.

The cause of the refugee crisis is the political, economic and social 
collapse in Iraq after close to four years of US occupation. The UN Human 
Rights Office report for the period November 1, 2006 to December 21, 2006, 
stated: The civilian population remains the main victim of the prevailing 
security situation, characterised by terrorist acts, action by armed 
groups, criminal gangs, religious extremists, militias, as well as 
operations by security and military forces. The resulting insecurity, 
sectarian prejudice, and terror negatively and comprehensively affect the 
enjoyment of basic rights and freedoms by the population at large. In 
addition, growing unemployment, poverty, various forms of discrimination 
and increasingly limited access to basic services, prevent most citizens 
from realizing their economic, social and cultural rights.

The UN specifically condemned the actions of the US military: Armed 
operations by the Multinational Forces-Iraq [the official title of the 
US-led occupation forces] continued to restrict the enjoyment of human 
rights and to cause severe suffering to the local population. Continued 
limitations of freedom of movement and lack of access to basic services 
such as health and education are affecting a larger percentage of the 
population and depriving it of basic rights for extended periods of time.

Many Iraqis have felt they had no choice but to leave the country. While 
there are no precise numbers, up to 800,000 are taking refuge in Syria; 
another 700,000 in Jordan; 100,000 in Egypt; 40,000 in Lebanon; 50,000 in 
Iran and a large number in Turkey.

The Iraqi refugees are being accorded no rights. The Jordanian monarchy 
labels them as temporary visitors. It has not made any request for 
international assistance and is not cooperating with agencies such as 
UNHCR. Only 21,000 Iraqis in Jordan have been registered by the UN and just 
800 have been recognised as refugees eligible for international resettlement.

Syria has also rejected calls for Iraqis on its territory to be recognised 
as refugees and is treating them as tourists or illegal immigrants. Iran 
has sealed its borders to any more Iraqis, while the Gulf States, such as 
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, are refusing to allow them to enter their 
territory at all. While doing nothing to assist refugees, Saudi Arabia has 
allocated $500 million to construct a fence along parts of its 
1,000-kilometre border with Iraq, to prevent terrorists and illegal 
immigrants from entering. The fence will have security gates, guard posts 
and electronic movement sensors.

The majority of Iraqi émigrés live in considerable hardship and a 
significant proportion are sinking into complete poverty. Jordan charges 
Iraqis for all services, including a $US225 fee for a one-year work permit. 
Many families are reportedly sharing small apartments and paid employment 
is difficult to obtain. Syria has now begun charging refugees for health 
care and also limits their ability to work. More than 10 percent of Iraqi 
families in Syria are headed by women due to the death, imprisonment or 
disappearance of their men. UNHCR noted this month that there are 
increasing reports of female Iraqi refugees being forced into prostitution.

The strain of the inflow on Jordan is leading to an ever-more restrictive 
attitude toward the Iraqi refugees, who now make up 10 percent of the 
population. This would be equivalent to the US taking in 30 million 
refugees. Fearful of political unrest among the desperate émigré community, 
Jordan

[media-dakwah] Fugitive warlord claims U.S. facing Soviet-style defeat in Afghanistan


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=== News Update ===


Fugitive warlord claims U.S. facing Soviet-style defeat in Afghanistan

The Associated Press
Published: January 23, 2007
[]


ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The United States faces a Soviet-style humiliation in 
Afghanistan, a fugitive Afghan warlord claimed in a video message while 
taunting Pakistan for aiding U.S.-led counterterrorism operations.

In a recording obtained by The Associated Press in Pakistan, Gulbuddin 
Hekmatyar also accused Washington of fomenting conflict among Afghan ethnic 
groups on a scale comparable with the strife in Iraq.

Everyone knows that the American aggressors are faced with defeat in every 
part of the country, Hekmatyar said. They were unable to achieve their 
goals by bombing innocent Afghans, their villages and homes. They are 
preparing to leave like the Soviet troops.

Hekmatyar leads a militant faction blamed along with Taliban and al-Qaida 
fighters for an intensifying insurgency in Afghanistan, despite the 
presence of an expanding number of foreign troops.

U.S. and NATO officials insist they can still defeat the insurgents, while 
calling for an acceleration of reconstruction projects and warning that 
time is running out to persuade ordinary Afghans that the country is 
heading for a stable, democratic future.

In a video message publicized Monday, al-Qaida deputy leader Ayman 
al-Zawahri also contended that al-Qaida and Taliban were regaining control 
in Afghanistan.

The 24-minute recording from Hekmatyar was undated. It was also unclear 
where it was recorded. However, Hekmatyar refers to the Muslim celebration 
of Eid al-Adha at the turn of the year.

In comments aired on Pakistani television earlier this month, Hekmatyar 
claimed his fighters helped al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and al-Zawhri 
escape intense U.S. bombardment in Afghanistan's Tora Bora mountains five 
years ago.

Seated before a dark backdrop in a black turban and apparently reading from 
text positioned off-camera, Hekmatyar repeatedly invoked Islam to urge 
Afghans to unite in order to expel foreign soldiers, topple President Hamid 
Karzai and install an Islamic government.

He complained that Washington  along with Russia, Iran and India  was 
favoring the Tajik-dominated Northern Alliance, which helped U.S. forces 
drive out the Taliban in late 2001, over ethnic Pashtuns.

That, he forecast, could lead to a conflict similar to the civil war that 
engulfed Afghanistan after Soviet troops ended their 10-year occupation in 
1989 and pitched Hekmatyar's Pashtun-dominated Hezb-i Islami faction 
against ethnic Tajik rivals.

He claimed that Washington and others had filled the Afghan army and police 
with Shiites, members of a Tajik faction and communists.

This is the same thing that they did in Iraq, Hekmatyar said. They want 
non-Pashtuns to fight against the Pashtuns and Shiites to fight Sunnis.

Afghan and U.S. officials deny that claim, saying its fledgling security 
forces fairly reflect the ethnic and religious balance of Afghanistan.

Taking aim at Pakistan, Hekmatyar said Islamabad could deploy all its 
troops to the troubled border region, clamp down on religious schools 
suspected of supplying militant recruits, and still America will not be 
pleased with you.

Pressing the case for foreign troops to leave, he cited the withdrawal in 
October of British troops from Musa Qala, a town in southern Afghanistan, 
under an agreement with tribal elders that they would keep out Taliban 
fighters.

source:
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/23/asia/AS-GEN-Pakistan-Hekmatyar.php

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[media-dakwah] Bush Continues to Unite the World... Against Him


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=== News Update ===

Bush Continues to Unite the World... Against Him

January 23, 2007
by Jim Lobe

Despite two years of a concentrated effort by Secretary of State 
Condoleezza Rice and her public diplomacy major-domo Karen Hughes to boost 
Washington's global image, more people around the world have an unfavorable 
opinion of U.S. policies than at any time in recent memory, according to a 
new BBC poll released Monday.

The survey, which polled more than 26,000 people in 25 countries, including 
the U.S., between November and January, found that a 49 percent plurality 
overall believes the U.S. is playing a mainly negative role in the world 
today, compared to less than a third (32 percent) who said Washington's 
influence was mainly positive.

And in the 18 countries where respondents were asked the same question in 
each of the past two years, the latest poll found a substantial drop in the 
percentage who said they viewed U.S. influence as positive, from 40 percent 
in 2005, to 36 percent last year, to 29 percent in 2007.

According to world public opinion, these days the U.S. government hardly 
seems to be able to do anything right, said Steven Kull, director of the 
University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA), 
which, along with Canada-based Globescan, conducted the survey.

Germany and Indonesia, where nearly three out of four respondents said they 
had a mainly negative opinion of U.S. influence, were the least favorable, 
while 69 percent of French and Turkish respondents agreed.

The sharpest drops in positive ratings over the past year were found in 
Poland (62 percent in 2006 compared to 38 percent in 2007), Indonesia (40 
percent to 21 percent), the Philippines (85 percent to 72 percent), and 
India (44 percent to 30 percent).

Respondents in the United States also showed greater opposition to their 
government's policies than in previous years, according to the survey.

Another Washington Post-ABC News poll, released on the eve of President 
George W. Bush's State of the Union speech to Congress Tuesday, found that 
65 percent of respondents oppose the so-called surge of more than 21,000 
additional U.S. troops to Iraq, while 48 percent called the war the most 
important issue today.

The findings of the BBC poll echo those of another major survey of 14 
foreign countries released last June by the Pew Research Center's Global 
Attitudes Project. It found that Washington's global image had slipped over 
the previous year, particularly in Europe and Asia, as well as 
predominantly Muslim countries, and that Washington's continuing 
intervention in Iraq appeared to be the main cause.

The new BBC poll found that the most negative views were evoked by policies 
pursued by the Bush administration in connection with its global war on 
terror and the Middle East.

Nearly three in four respondents overall (73 percent) said they disapproved 
of Washington's role in the Iraq war. Opposition was particularly intense 
in Egypt, France, and Lebanon where more than three out of four respondents 
said they strongly disapprove[d].

At the same time, more than two out of three (68 percent) overall said the 
U.S. military presence in the Middle East provokes more conflict than it 
prevents. More than four out of five respondents in three Latin American 
countries  Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico  and in two mainly Muslim 
countries  Egypt and Indonesia  took that position.

Conversely, only 17 percent overall said they thought Washington's military 
presence exercised a stabilizing influence in the Middle East. The most 
positive views on this question were found in Nigeria, the only country 
where a plurality (49 percent) said it was stabilizing, the Philippines (41 
percent), and Kenya (40 percent).

Perhaps not coincidentally, the same three countries were the only ones, 
aside from the U.S. itself, where majorities of respondents said 
Washington's influence in the world was mainly positive.

On related issues, 67 percent of all respondents said they disapproved of 
Washington's handling of detainees at Guantanamo, while only 16 percent, 
concentrated in Kenya, Nigeria, India, the Philippines, and the U.S., said 
they approved.

Nearly two-thirds (65 percent) of respondents overall also said they 
disapproved of U.S. policy during last summer's war between Israel and 
Lebanon's Hezbollah, compared to 21 percent  again concentrated in the 
same five countries  who said they approved.

Opposition to the U.S. role in the conflict, during which Washington 
strongly backed Israel and repeatedly defended it in UN Security Council 
deliberations, was particularly intense in Argentina (79 percent strongly 
disapproved of the U.S. role), Egypt (78 percent), Lebanon itself (76 
percent), the United Arab Emirates (UAE) (71 percent), France and Brazil 
(63

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=== News Update ===

War Criminal : The Psychology Behind the Worst Possible President

The longer Bush is in office, the more his psychology becomes clear. He's 
not a well-meaning doofus; he's a madman.

READ ARTICLE AT:
http://www.alternet.org/stories/46794/

SEE ALSO THESE ARTICLES:
George W. Bush: Presidential or Pathological?
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/19227/

The Madness of President George
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/madness.html

The madness of President George (DIFFERENT ARTICLE FROM THAT ABOVE)
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/eric_alterman/2007/01/alterman_on_surge.html

George W. Bush: Neocon Napoleon
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=2325

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Fake Muslim : Doubt cast on Anani's terrorist claims- all his claims false 
according to experts

Doubt cast on Anani's terrorist claims. Jihad adviser says story of holy 
war in Lebanon rings false

Zachariah Anani, a self-proclaimed former terrorist who now warns against 
Islam's so-called teachings of terror against Canada and the West, is 
imagining his past exploits as a mass murderer, according to a top jihad 
expert.

Tom Quiggin, Canada's only court-qualified expert on global jihadism and a 
former RCMP intelligence and national security expert, said Anani's tales 
of terror and murder just don't jibe with the time and place he claims to 
have been killing.
http://www.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=4a479502-4490-408e-bdb5-f2638619a62c

For background see: http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net/anani.htm

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UK Racist : Every single British Muslim who performed Hajj  or Umra are now 
on terror watch list


See Times article at:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2558373,00.html


UK Monitors All Muslim Pilgrims

IslamOnline.net  Newspapers- Jan 21, 2007

http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_Ccid=1168265758528pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout

CAIRO  UK spy chiefs are putting on the terror watch list every single 
British Muslim who travels to the holy city of Makkah to perform hajj or 
umra to filter out those who might be linked to Al-Qaeda, a leading British 
newspaper revealed on Sunday, January 21.

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Racist : Attacked school receives support from numerous politicians, 
individuals and organizations

Muslim Council of Montreal expresses thanks for all offers of help

Montreal, Quebec, Jan. 22nd, 2007- The Muslim Council of Montreal (MCM) 
would like to thank all individuals and organizations who have extended 
their support to École Les Jeunes Musulmans Canadiens following the recent 
attack by vandals. The school has received numerous visits, telephone calls 
and offers of help.

Website: http://www.muslimcouncil.org

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9/11 : Yemeni Guantanamo five years ex-detainee speaks out

The image above extracted from Al-Jazeera documentary on Guantanamo. 
Al-Jazerra team went to Guantanamo to make a documentary about how the 
prisoners being treated in this notorious prison, but for sure the teams 
movement was restricted and they were escorted by a minder.

The minders took the team to an empty model prison, where all the 
facilities were available and there was even a Quran put by the window.

For westerners there is nothing wrong with the picture, but for Arabic 
readers look very close to the text on the Quran.. Yes it is a Quran but 
put upside-down, which shows that the cell was arranged put together as 
just for the media show, a real model which is reality didnt exist..but 
that is not my main post here.

Yemeni five years ex-detainee Al-Assadi speaks about his own experience in 
Guantanamo:

Families demand closure of Guantanamo: They cut someones hand while they 
could have treated it, Or they refused to treat some patients, such as Sami 
al-Hajj, an Al Jazeera cameraman arrested in Afghanistan in 2001..

.. People in there said that we did not have humans or animals rights, 
because 'we were devils and devils have no rights.. they threatened to 
send the men to a dictator-run country.
http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2007/01/21/guantanamo-five-years-ex-detainee-speaks-out/

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Zionist IOA digging secret tunnel under the Aqsa Mosque

Officials in the Aqsa foundation that caters for Muslim holy shrines in 
occupied Palestine have unveiled that the Israeli occupation authority 
(IOA) was secretly digging a tunnel under the Aqsa Mosque that jeopardizes 
its foundations.

Director of the foundation Farid Al-Haj Yahya affirmed that his institution 
possesses audiovisual evidence to substantiate the charges, and that it 
will distribute this evidence to the media in a press conference it will 
hold in the coming days.

He, furthermore, charged that the Israeli occupation government was aware 
of those construction works and supported them, adding that Israeli brokers 
succeeded in convincing a Palestinian Jerusalemite into selling them his

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=== News Update ===

Fake Muslim : Doubt cast on Anani's terrorist claims

Jihad adviser says story of holy war in Lebanon rings false

Trevor Wilhelm
Windsor Star


Saturday, January 20, 2007

Zachariah Anani, a self-proclaimed former terrorist who now warns against 
Islam's so-called teachings of terror against Canada and the West, is 
imagining his past exploits as a mass murderer, according to a top jihad 
expert.

Tom Quiggin, Canada's only court-qualified expert on global jihadism and a 
former RCMP intelligence and national security expert, said Anani's tales 
of terror and murder just don't jibe with the time and place he claims to 
have been killing.

Mr. Anani's not an individual who rates the slightest degree of 
credibility, based on the stories that he has told, said Quiggin, also a 
Senior Fellow at the Centre of Excellence for National Security in Singapore.

To have Mr. Anani described as a terrorist grants an impact to his words 
that simply is not rated.

Whatever else he may have been, he was not a Muslim terrorist in Lebanon 
in the early 1970s.

He may have been a low-level militant, radical, street fighter or 
insurgent, but he was not a terrorist of any description based on his stories.

Anani, 49, touched off a controversy last week when he gave an anti-Islamic 
lecture at Campbell Baptist Church called The Deadly Threat of Islam. He 
says Islamic doctrine teaches the worship of a god who strikes with 
terror and allows no prisoners in the battle against Christians and Jews.

Anani, now an evangelical Christian, claims to be an expert on the topic 
because he killed 223 people in Allah's name, two-thirds of them by 
daggers. He even claims to have killed a man for waking him up at 3 a.m. 
to pray.

Anani, born in Lebanon, said he joined a militant Muslim group in the early 
1970s at age 13, and made his first kill shortly after.

I was trained to fight and kill Jews, and to hate Christians and 
Americans, Anani has said in varying versions of his story.

He said he was soon promoted to troop leader and formed his own regiment, 
but later met a Christian missionary and converted.

Anani said he was persecuted for his conversion -- even his dad hired 
assassins to kill him.

He said he was soon promoted to troop leader and formed his own regiment, 
but later met a Christian missionary and converted.

Anani said he was persecuted for his conversion -- even his dad hired 
assassins to kill him -- and he was technically dead for seven minutes 
after narrowly escaping a beheading. He fled to the West and moved to 
Windsor about 10 years ago. His wife and three daughters joined him three 
years later.

Even in Canada, Anani said he's been physically attacked, and his house and 
car have been burned in Windsor for speaking out against Islam.


POLICE LACK RECORDS

Staff. Sgt. Ed McNorton said Windsor police don't have a record of physical 
attacks against Anani, and his house wasn't burned.

McNorton said someone did torch his car, but it wasn't for the reasons 
Anani has claimed.

There is nothing in the report we have to indicate it was in retaliation 
to his religious beliefs, said McNorton.

Anani's bio also states he lectured at Princeton University. Cass Cliatt, 
Princeton's media relations manager, said that never happened. She said 
Anani was scheduled to lecture there in late 2005 with the Walid Shoebat 
Foundation. But the event was cancelled and the foundation held a news 
conference at a nearby hotel.

Anani has refused several requests from The Star to revisit his past in detail.

Following a sermon Thursday night from Campbell Baptist Church Pastor 
Donald McKay -- Anani was scheduled to speak but his lecture was cancelled 
-- he again refused to answer questions.

I've already spoken enough about that, he said. There is no need to 
repeat that, especially when there is people waiting to see me. So make it 
quick please If there are no more essential questions, please, let's 
wrap it up.

But Quiggin said there are some important details in Anani's story that 
don't add up.

It appears to be that Mr. Anani is nothing more than an extremist who is 
trying to create an imaginative history from a contemporary set of fears 
and stories, said Quiggin. Mr. Anani's myths that he has built up around 
himself lack validity on a number of key points.

One key point, he said, is Anani's claim that he killed 223 people.


FIGHTING BEGAN IN 1975

Anani has said he's 49 years old, which would mean he was born in 1957 or 
1958, said Quiggin. If he joined his first militant group when he was 13, 
it would have been in 1970 or 1971. But the fighting in Lebanon did not 
begin in earnest until 1975, Quiggin said.

His story of having made kills shortly after he joined and having made 223 
kills overall is preposterous, given the lack of fighting during most of 
the

[media-dakwah] Racist : UK Spying On Muslims Who Visit Mecca


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=== News Update ===

Racist : UK Spying On Muslims Who Visit Mecca

Terror watch on Mecca pilgrims

By David Leppard


01/21/07 
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2558373,00.htmlThe Times 
-- - THE intelligence agencies are monitoring every Muslim who travels from 
Britain to Mecca on pilgrimage in a wider effort to piece together 
intelligence on suspected Al-Qaeda terrorist activity.

A senior Whitehall official has disclosed that the operation targeting 
trips to the holy city in Saudi Arabia by more than 100,000 British Muslims 
is part of a trawl by MI5 and MI6 for information about movements of 
suspected terrorists. It follows evidence that British Islamic terrorists 
have visited the city before carrying out attacks in Britain and abroad.

The importance of the intelligence operation was one of the reasons given 
by spy chiefs for maintaining ties with Saudi Arabia when the Saudi 
government was threatening to break off intelligence ties over a bribery 
investigation by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) into BAE, Britain's prime 
defence contractor.

Sir John Scarlett, the head of MI6, and Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, the 
director-general of MI5, told Lord Goldsmith, the attorney-general, that 
Saudi co-operation in the fight against Al-Qaeda was vital.

A well-placed security official said Scarlett and Manningham-Buller used 
the Mecca surveillance operation as evidence of the need for continuing 
intelligence ties with the kingdom: They made it clear to Goldsmith that 
they were concerned about the implications for national security of losing 
Saudi co-operation. They said that every British Muslim who makes the 
pilgrimage to Mecca was monitored.

This weekend Muslim leaders voiced their unhappiness about the operation. 
Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, leader of the Muslim parliament, said: It is 
absolutely wrong that people who are going to Mecca for entirely religious 
purposes should be monitored by the security services. It is a sad 
commentary on Britain's relations with Saudi Arabia.

The Mecca operation is thought to have been launched after the July 7 
London bombings. MI5 discovered that at least two of the suicide bombers 
had made the holy trip.

source:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2558373,00.html

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=== News Update ===


IOA digging secret tunnel under the Aqsa Mosque

http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/am/publish/printer_21198.shtmlRoads to Iraq

http://www.uruknet.de/pic.php?f=tunnel5.jpg
tunnel5.jpg







January 21, 2007

IOA digging secret tunnel under the Aqsa Mosque

Officials in the Aqsa foundation that caters for Muslim holy shrines in 
occupied Palestine have unveiled that the Israeli occupation authority 
(IOA) was secretly digging a tunnel under the Aqsa Mosque that jeopardizes 
its foundations.
Director of the foundation Farid Al-Haj Yahya affirmed that his institution 
possesses audiovisual evidence to substantiate the charges, and that it 
will distribute this evidence to the media in a press conference it will 
hold in the coming days.
He, furthermore, charged that the Israeli occupation government was aware 
of those construction works and supported them, adding that Israeli brokers 
succeeded in convincing a Palestinian Jerusalemite into selling them his 
small store in Al-Wad street for 60,000 dollars, which is very close to the 
Mosque.
 From that store, Yahya added, digging works of the tunnel started and are 
still going on in a very secretive manner.

source:
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/am/publish/printer_21198.shtml

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[media-dakwah] Oil, Not Terrorists, the Reason for US Attack on Somalia


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=== News Update ===

War Criminal :

Oil, Not Terrorists, the Reason for US Attack on Somalia

By Wanjohi Kabukuru


01/22/07 http://www.ichblog.euICHBlog -- -- Just why did the US attack 
Somalia two weeks ago? Of course, the answer given for the US military 
intervention and the generally accepted notion is the hunt for terrorists. 
But is it? Are terrorists the only bone of contention the US has with 
Somalia? When the US military devised Operation Restore Hope in 1993 
which was short-lived after they were whipsawed by rag-tag militia in and 
around Mogadishu, were they fighting the 'war on terror'?

They couldn't have been because this war was to start much later, If 
anything it is a post-Sept 11 phenomenon. So then why did the US bomb ICU 
extremists in the name of Al Qaeda terrorists and not throughout last year 
when they occupied Mogadishu?
Just why is Somalia so important to the US, and by extension the big boys 
of Europe and some Gulf states? A UN Somalia Monitoring Group report 
released in November 2005 reveals that a dozen countries, namely Yemen, 
Djibouti, Libya, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Ethiopia, Iran, Syria, Eritrea, 
Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Uganda were all poking their noses into the 
Somalia pie.

What the UN Somalia Monitoring Group didn't reveal, however, is that these 
were not the only countries which were interested in the country. The 
little known yet well-heeled contact group, consisting of Norway, the US, 
UK, France and Tanzania (just an appendage) are also deeply enmeshed in 
Somalia.

While the terrorism theory holds some water, the reality of the factors 
contributing to the mess in Somalia is pegged on natural resources. Oil and 
gas are Somalia's Achilles heel. It is an open secret that four US oil 
giants are sitting pretty on money-spinning concessions expecting to reap 
huge windfalls from massive resources of both oil and gas in Somalia.

The story of Somalia and oil goes back to the colonial period. British and 
Italian geologists first identified oil deposits during that period of 
imperialism. The first oil wells historically referred to as the Daga 
Shabell series were dug in the 1960s. Tiny gas discoveries adjacent to 
Socotra were also noted.

The race for these precious natural resources took a new turn in 1988, when 
the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Bank, with 
the support of the governments of Britain, France and Canada and backed by 
several Western oil companies financed a regional hydrocarbon study of the 
countries bordering the Red Sea and the Gulf of Eden.

The countries were Somalia, Ethiopia and Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia was 
later dropped, but not before it had been established that within the study 
area, massive deposits of oil and gas existed. The results of the findings 
were presented to a three-day American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 
Eastern Hemisphere group conference, in London in September, 1991. Is there 
oil in Somalia? Listen to the answer:

It's there. There's no doubt there's oil there, said geologist Thomas E. 
O'Connor, the World Bank's principal petroleum engineer, who steered the 
in-depth, three-year study of oil prospects in Somalia's Gulf of Eden in 
the northern coastal region.

The study was intended to encourage private investment in the petroleum 
potential of eight African nations. The conclusions of their findings are 
quite telling as the geologists put Somalia and Sudan at the top of the 
list of prospective commercial oil producers.

While presenting their results during the conference, two geologists 
involved in the study (an American and an Egyptian) reported that the 
investigation of nine exploratory wells dug in Somalia pointed out that the 
region was situated within the oil window, and thus (is) highly 
prospective for gas and oil.

Geologist, Z. R. Beydoun, who was involved in the survey, noted that the 
geological parameters conducive to the generation, expulsion and trapping 
of significant amounts of oil and gas were within the offshore sites. Soon 
after a race for lucrative deals kicked off in earnest.

Four US oil companies, namely Conoco, Chevron, Amoco and Philips have 
concessions in nearly two thirds of Somalia. This quartet of oil 
conglomerates was granted these contracts in the final days of Somalia's 
deposed dictator, Siad Barre. The US first military engagement in Somalia 
was fully supported by Conoco.

About the Author: Mr Kabukuru is a Nairobi-based freelance journalist.

This article first appeared in the Daily Nation

source:
http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/61/1/

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[media-dakwah] US Terrorize The World - 1 Muharam 1428 H (20.1.07)

2007-01-19 Terurut Topik muslim insuffer


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=== News Update ===

  Rogue State America

What exactly are we doing in the horn of Africa, where we have encouraged 
the Christian government of Ethiopia to invade Somalia and replace its 
Islamic government? As far as I can tell, we have violated international 
law, committed war crimes, helped Al Qaeda recruit new members, and 
involved ourselves in a guerrilla war that could last decades.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16623.htm

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Where Is the Consistency in the War on Terrorism?

WASHINGTON -- It would seem safe to assume that individuals who have fired 
a bazooka at the United Nations headquarters in New York, served time in 
connection with the first state-sponsored act of terrorism in the United 
States, or actively participated in secret groups that claimed 
responsibility for dozens of bombings in New York, New Jersey and Florida, 
would raise many red flags when coming into this country.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57117-2004Sep2.html?referrer=emailarticle

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War Criminal : Truth is Speaking.Is Power Listening?

Deep crimson stains mottle the pages of humanitys history. Untold numbers 
of souls who were skewered, decapitated, eviscerated, or obliterated in 
anonymity scream out for recognition as one peruses humankinds memoirs. 
While our historical manuscript is also generously dappled by the milk of 
human kindness, much of our narrative is dominated by tales of mans savage 
cruelty to man.
http://civillibertarian.blogspot.com/2007/01/truth-is-speakingis-power-listening.html

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The Fastest-Growing Humanitarian Crisis in the World: Iraq's Refugee 
Nightmare

The US occupation of Iraq is generating one of the largest refugees crises 
in decades.

Reports from Refugees International, Human Rights Watch and the United 
Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) document in terrifying detail 
the desperate plight of Iraqis forced to flee their homes. Close to two 
million Iraqis have already fled the country, and the rate of the exodus -- 
currently at as many as 100,000 a month -- shows every sign of increasing.

That's only the tip of the iceberg. Another 1.7 million Iraqis have been 
driven by sectarian violence to leave their homes in integrated areas to 
live in an ethnic community inside Iraq. This internally displaced 
population is expanding by 50,000 each month, and the UNHCR predicts it 
could reach 2.7 million people by the end of 2007.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan07/Smith18.htm

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Washing War Crimes at the Washington Post

You can read all about the nasty business of washing war crimes at the 
Washington Post. They start with fixing the headline Death in Haditha -- 
not Mass Murder in Haditha or Another American Atrocity in Iraq. Next, 
forget the damning details, screw the truth and give the perpetrators all 
the room in the world to blame their conduct on mistakes made in the heat 
of battle amidst the fog of war.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan07/Amr18.htm

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  Cruelty and xenophobia shame and stir the lucky country

John Pilger returns to his homeland, Australia, and described the social 
regression of a once proud liberal democracy and says that the flag-waving 
values of the neo-con prime minister may be coming unstuck in Guantanamo Bay.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16226.htm

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You ain't nothin' but a dog.

Where is that fascist french bitch brigitte bardot ? I need her in Baghdad 
now! Someone find her for me. Otherwise contact the animals lovers in 
england or america. Call the society for the protection of animals, 
greenpeace, the ecological movement, or any liberal progressive whose 
heart melts at the sight of endangered species.

Since they are not moved by the death or the maiming of humans maybe this 
will move them. I would not bet on it though. It's an Iraqi dog. Another 
Arab dog. A limping, injured, dog being taunted by american tiny pricks 
called soldiers. Threatening to kill the poor thing for fun.

Killing as a sport, killing for rest and relaxation-your famous RR, 
killing for pleasure, killing for leisurekilling coz you are so afraid 
of both, life and death. Cowardly bastards.
http://arabwomanblues.blogspot.com/2007/01/you-aint-nothin-but-dog.html

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  The battle to save Iraq's children

Sick or injured children who could otherwise be treated by simple means 
are left to die in hundreds because they do not have access to basic 
medicines or other resources, the doctors say. Children who have lost 
hands, feet and limbs are left without prostheses. Children with grave 
psychological distress are left untreated, they add.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16231.htm

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  The Letter: 'Sick or injured children, are left to die in hundreds'

We ask that all the revenues from Iraq's oil now pass

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=== News Update ===


WHO IS SENDING YOUR CHILDREN (U.S.) OFF TO DIE IN WAR?

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


http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/02/06/26258.htmlIsrael says US will 
attack Iraq in May

http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/attack/consequences/2003/0227benefit.htmIsrael
 
Says War on Iraq Would Benefit the Region

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/11577p-10983c.htmlAttack 
Iraq soon, Sharon aide says

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=467Israel Urges US to 
Attack Iraq: Sooner, Rather than Later

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/08/18/world/main519037.shtmlIsrael To 
U.S.: Don't Delay Iraq Attack

http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazinestandalone=0num=717month=3year=2002function=textCheney
 
Admits US will attack Iraq 'for Israel's sake'

http://www.aipac.org/stratTourEmail/stratTour_teaser3.htmAIPAC is pushing 
for the USA to attack Iran for Israel

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/575337.htmlAIPAC spurring Congress to 
pass sanctions bill against Iran

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=476b621571be3259Israel says Iran 
close to having a nuclear bomb

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143sid=5596610Israel 
warns on Iranian nightmare

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/oct2002/shar-o03.shtmlIran the next 
nuclear threat

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/oct2002/shar-o03.shtmlSharon stirs up 
conflict with Syria and Iran

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31222Iran, 
Libya, Syria are next?

http://www.theinsider.org/mailing/article.asp?id=0614Israel instructs 
America to attack Iran and Syria

http://www.middleeast.org/premium/read.cgi?category=Magazinenum=772month=11year=2002function=textISRAEL
 
DEMANDS IRAN BE ATTACKED NEXT AFTER IRAQ

http://www.arutzsheva.org/print.php3?what=newsid=41867Syria's Next

http://news.softpedia.com/news/2/2003/February/2555.shtmlUS Assures 
Israel That Syria And Iran Are Next

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2003-03-17-oppose_x.htmWar 
is not in U.S. interest

http://www.counterpunch.org/cook04262003.htmlSharon Recruits US 
Mercenaries Against Syria

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/4/15/193534.shtmlSharon 
Wants U.S. Action Against Syria

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0%2C6119%2C2-10-1460_1340941%2C00.htmlIraqi
 
WMD 'possibly in Syria'

http://www.coastalpost.com/03/03/02.htmSharon Says US Should Also Disarm 
Iran, Libya and Syria

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-06/27/content_3140216.htmIsrael 
urges harder int'l line towards Iran

Israeli foreign minister calls for international action against Iran in 
light of elections

http://www.washtimes.com/world/20050929-114709-2065r.htmIsraelis urge 
U.S. to stop Iran's nuke goals

http://www.jta.org/brknews.asp?id=158739ref=JTAIt would be a 
catastrophe for the United States to pull out of Iraq, a leading Israeli 
legislator warned.

http://www.ptinews.com/pti/ptisite.nsf/0/70843D3360D50A206525708C004F5A65?OpenDocument'Israel
 
will take out Iran's nuke facilities if US does not'

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3150318,00.htmlAccording to 
al-Watan, Israel made it clear that it would only be able to wait until a 
certain date next year and would strike at Iran if no progress is made by 
that time.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/14102005/323/israel-says-syria-regime-change-world-s-interest.htmlIsrael
 
says Syria regime change in world's interest

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/636587.htmlIsraeli officials call for 
changes in Syrian rule

http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Diplomacy/6879.htmIsraeli leaders 
call for regime change in Syria after assassination report

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200511/s1505961.htmSharon blasts 
Syria-Iran 'axis of evil'

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051117/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iranIsraeli Says 
Rockets Shipped to Hezbollah

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=93945Israeli Says Iran 
Nuclear Race Reaches Point of No Return

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3177833,00.htmlSharon: Israel 
will not accept nuclear Iran

http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20051201-035746-1007rSharon: 
Iran nukes may require military response

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/653454.htmlIDF chief: Diplomatic 
pressure on Iran unlikely to succeed

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20051208-1347-strikingiran.htmlIsrael
 
expands war arsenal to deal with Iranian nuclear threat

http://www.forward.com/articles/6989Israeli Aides Warn U.S. Not To Drop 
Ball on Iran

http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-20/0512108885190721.htmZionists 
pressures Bush Administration to attack Iran's nuclear facilities

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/663042.htmlMK: Iran to have nuclear 
capability within 2 years

[media-dakwah] 9/11 Blood Meridian: Bush's High Crimes of Torture and War

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  === News Update ===

   9/11 Blood Meridian: Bush's High Crimes of Torture and War

Chris Floyd, Atlantic Free Press


  guantanamo5.jpg


January 10, 2006

If you want to see the depravity and filth that festers in the core of
the Bush Administration made plain , read the story below. The regimen
of torture and suffering being inflicted on captives in Bush's War of
Terror is not some sort of aberrant overreaction to concerns about
national security and public safety: these specifically designed,
deliberately induced tortures are the expression of the President's
deepest desires and clearly stated wishes. Just as the war of aggression
in Iraq is his war, these crimes against humanity are his crimes. They
are happening because he wants them too. 

The only possible response of a sane society to the depredations of this
man is his impeachment and removal from power. There is no other course
of action for any responsible, patriotic member of Congress to take.
Unfortunately, the American Establishment has clearly gone insane — so
deranged from decades of bloated power and privilege that it can no
longer act even to save itself from the general ruin that Bush is
bringing upon the country. Unfortunately, there are very, very few
responsible, patriotic members of Congress. 

Witness the empty bluster behind the latest Democratic opposition: in
the face of Bush's imminent escalation of the war — with a surge that
cannot possibly succeed in doing anything but increasing the bloodshed
and hatred in the other nation he has ruined — they are offering a
series of symbolic votes that would do nothing in practical terms to
stop or even hinder this insane course, as the NY Times reports. The
ever-hapless hairpiece hero, Joe Biden, believes this witless flapping
of arms will demonstrate to the president that he's on his own — a
realization that will somehow spark real change.

But Bush already believes he is on his own — and he likes that way. He
has already asserted that he will continue his course in Iraq even if he
is deserted by everyone but his wife and dog. And his little mouthpiece,
Tony Snow, has just announced that the President is an autocrat who
cannot be restrained by any action of Congress whatsoever: The
President has the ability to exercise his own authority if he thinks
Congress has voted the wrong way. (Via Cenk Uygur by way of Steve
Gilliard.)

Symbolic votes won't stop Bush. Even substantive actions — such as
cutting off funding — will not stop him. He will clearly provoke a
constitutional crisis and continue the war (and the tortures in his
gulag) by any means necessary. He is probably willing to attempt to
overthrow the government altogether with a military coup if he feels he
is being thwarted in his sacred duty as Commander-in-Chief to protect
the nation, which, in his mind, means waging aggressive war, torturing
people, spying on us all and looting the treasury on behalf of his
cronies. The only possible way to derail his destructive and criminal
course is impeachment. 

But how will that happen with the weak reeds and blathering hairpieces
now in charge of Congress? What will it take to light a fire under them
and force them to do what they are legally and morally bound to do —
uphold the Constitution? Will they really let Bush go on and on, in
slaughter and torture, escalating the war crime in Iraq and very likely
launching a new war against Iran? 

If the past five years is any indication, the answer is yes, they will.
Consider that most leading Democrats are even more hawkish in their
saber-rattling at Iran than the Bush Administration, which is even now
methodically preparing for war with Tehran, either via a direct U.S.
strike or else in reaction to the inevitable Iranian response to an
attack by Israel. How can the bellicose Democrats object when Bush puts
blood and iron to their rhetoric? A strike on Iran would be the perfect
way to restore bipartisan unity on the Hill.

Yet we live in hope and die in despair, as Brother Edsel always says. So
keep pounding the drum: impeach, impeach, impeach. Make it so loud that
one day it might even pierce the hairpiece of Joe Biden, and convince
the cowardly lions of Congress to do their duty. The alternative is too
ghastly to contemplate — although that grim reality may well be thrust
upon us. But for God's sake, let's not go down without a fight.

Guantánamo's  Lost Souls  (Guardian). By American lawyer George Brent
Mickum.

Excerpts: The day after tomorrow marks the confluence of two ignominious
anniversaries. The first is the five-year anniversary of the opening of
the notorious prison camps run by the US at the Guantánamo naval air
station in Cuba. In the five years since the US started

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  === News Update ===


   Who Rules America?


In the broadest and deepest sense, understanding how the US political
system functions, the decisions of war and peace are taken, who gets
what, how and why, requires that we address the question of ‘Who rules
America?’ 
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16140.htm

  ===


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


Here's what demolition experts use in steel framed buildings, the linear
shaped charge ... It generates around 3,000,000 psi pressure ... at a
speed in excess of 27,000 feet per second ... There are over 1000
different types of explosive ... With the use of delays we can
control ... where the debris lands ... vibration ... noise level.
WMV video download (680kB)

The job of a shaped charge is to cut steel H-beams. The way we do this
is by cutting the beam at an angle which through a series of beams cut
at the same angle will tend to make the building shift over and 'walk'
WMV video download (670kB)
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/wtc_charges.html

  ===


  9/11 : The Israeli Spy Ring


Prior to 9/11, the FBI had discovered the presence of a massive spy ring
inside the United States run by the government of Israel. This seems a
harsh gratitude from a nation which obtains 10% of its annual budget
from the American taxpayer, $3+ billion a year. Over the years, American
taxpayers have been required to send Israel more than four times what
the US spent to go to the moon. 
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/spyring.html

  ===


 9/11 :  A voice from Gitmo's darkness


A current detainee speaks of the torture and humiliation he has
experienced at Guantanamo since 2002.

JUMAH AL-DOSSARI is a 33-year-old citizen of Bahrain. This article was
excerpted from letters he wrote to his attorneys. Its contents have been
deemed unclassified by the Department of Defense.

Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba - I AM WRITING from the darkness of the
U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo in the hope that I can make our voices
heard by the world. My hand quivers as I hold the pen. 
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16138.htm

  ===



9/11 : Guantanamo detainee speaks of the torture and humiliation he has
 experienced since 2002


I AM WRITING from the darkness of the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo
in the hope that I can make our voices heard by the world. 
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16138.htm

  ===


 Blood Meridian: Bush's High Crimes of Torture and War


If you want to see the depravity and filth that festers in the core of
the Bush Administration made plain , read the story below. The regimen
of torture and suffering being inflicted on captives in Bush's War of
Terror is not some sort of aberrant overreaction to concerns about
national security and public safety: these specifically designed,
deliberately induced tortures are the expression of the President's
deepest desires and clearly stated wishes. Just as the war of aggression
in Iraq is his war, these crimes against humanity are his crimes. They
are happening because he wants them too. 
http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/645/81/

  ===



  9/11 : Torture Inc. Americas Brutal Prisons


Video : Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic
Chemicals, Does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the
horrors that were committed in Iraq? 
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8451.htm

  ===



   9/11 : Guantánamo inmates ‘driven insane’


Prisoners held at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba are being
driven insane by a tightening of conditions and the situation of their
indefinite detention without trial, according to lawyers and rights
activists involved with the US camp.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/1945c100-a0e4-11db-acff-779e2340.html

  ===



   9/11 : Guantanamo Unclassified: Prisoner # ISN 940: 8 Minute Video


Adel Hamad, husband and father, aid worker and teacher, has been
detained at Guantanamo Bay since 2003.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16139.htm

  ===



9/11 : CIA says it cannot reveal interrogation method documents


The CIA cannot reveal alternative interrogation methods used on
terrorists because doing so would cause exceptionally grave damage to
national security by telling enemies how the agency gathers
intelligence, the government has told a judge.

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=== News Update ===

Genocide in Gaza, Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank

A creeping transfer in the West Bank and a measured genocidal policy in the 
Gaza Strip are the two strategies Israel employs today. From an electoral 
point of view, the one in Gaza is problematic as it does not reap any 
tangible results; the West Bank under Abu Mazen is yielding to Israeli 
pressure and there is no significant force that arrests the Israeli 
strategy of annexation and dispossession.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16216.htm

===

Terror and starvation in Gaza

Pilger on the genocide that is engulfing Palestine as bystanders silently 
look on.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16210.htm

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9/11 Torture and the Future : Perspectives from the Humanities

This series of events addresses the critical issues surrounding the use of 
torture by the most powerful democracy in the world. The series will focus 
on four areas: the devastating effects of torture conducted by democratic 
societies on the concept and practice of democracy; the consequences of 
state-sanctioned torture on the principles and practices of scholarship and 
education; the role of mass media in the increasing acceptability of the 
use of torture; and the relationship between torture used in US-run prisons 
abroad, and human rights violations on American soil. The series features 
scholars whose work on torture and human rights effectively crosses the 
disciplinary gap between the humanities and social sciences, as well as 
artists, activists and lawyers whose work is committed to an ethics and 
politics of response and resistance.
http://www.complit.ucsb.edu/projects/tortureandthefuture/index.html

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9/11 Strange Bedfellows: Torture  Democracy

cover_torture.jpgIn April 2004, vivid photographs of American military and 
intelligence personnel torturing Iraqi detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison 
facility were leaked to the press. Instantly iconic, the images became 
political rallying flags for terrorist recruitment throughout the Arab 
world, and within the United States they inspired shock and disgust.

Yet for all their brutal immediacyor perhaps because of itthe Abu Ghraib 
photographs occupied only an isolated place in the American discussion of 
torture. Today, despite documented evidence of other American-ordered 
torture, Abu Ghraib is not just the signal scandal of the Bush 
administrations extraordinary interrogation practices, but the only 
scandal. Journalist Mark Danner, who wrote what is nowand will likely 
remainthe authoritative account of Abu Ghraib in his book Torture and 
Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror, described this curious 
fact in a recent essay
http://mparent.blogspot.com/2007/01/strange-bedfellows-torture-democracy.html

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9/11 : New Pentagon detainee manual could lead to executions based on 
'hearsay evidence'

According to a breaking report on MSNBC, a new Pentagon detainee manual 
could allow executions based on hearsay evidence.

We have learned that the Pentagon has just completed a manual for the 
coming detainee trials that would allow suspected terrorist to be 
imprisoned or executed using hearsay evidence or coerced testimony, said 
Nora O'Donnell, the chief Washington correspondent for NBC News' 24-hour 
cable news network. In other words, could be put to death on hearsay 
evidence...
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/MSNBC_New_Pentagon_detainee_manual_could_0118.html

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Claim: Bin Laden Told Hamza Al-Qaeda Not Behind 9/11

Statement dovetails with Osama's previous attempts to distance himself from 
attack responsibility

A claim attributed to a friend of one of the six men accused of plotting to 
detonate bombs on London's underground tube system on July 21 2005, 
suggests that Osama bin Laden personally told hook handed cleric Abu Hamza 
that Al-Qaeda was not behind the attacks of September 11, 2001.

The London Independent today reports that Steven Bentley, a school friend 
of accused would-be suicide bomber Yassin Omar, was told by Omar that he 
did not think Bin Laden was behind 9/11. Omar based his conclusion on what 
he was told by extremist London cleric Abu Hamza, currently serving a 
seven-year prison sentence for soliciting murder and inciting racial 
hatred, who had personally met Bin Laden.

Bin Laden's apparent attempt to distance himself from involvement in 9/11 
dovetails with statements made shortly after the event in which he told a 
Pakistani newspaper that he was not involved in the attacks.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2007/180107notbehind.htm

===

Dictatorship : Gonzales live, The Constitution does not say that every 
citizen has the right to habeas corpus.

gonzales : Are you shitting me?

Je repete: [GONZALES:] The Constitution does not say that every citizen 
has the right to habeas

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=== News Update ===

Ex-Muslim claims he killed 223 in terror acts: MP seeks review of Christian
convert's citizenship status

WINDSOR, Ont. -- An Ontario MP says he will be asking Canadian immigration
officials to investigate how professed former terrorist Zachariah Anani got
into the country and how he obtained his Canadian citizenship.

Mr. Anani claims he was a terrorist. That's his background, Windsor West
MP Brian Masse said after a news conference held by members of the Windsor
Muslim community. Masse said he will ask for a ministerial review of
Anani's citizenship and claims for refugee status.

Anani angered Muslims last Thursday night at a lecture he gave titled The
Deadly Threat of Islam, in which he used passages from the Qur'an to
support his view that Islam preaches violence. Anani, now a Christian
convert, claims to have killed 223 people while a militant Islamic militia
leader in Lebanon. According to an article on the Christianity.ca website,
Anani came to Canada in 1996 claiming refugee status after he converted to
Christianity.

How is it that someone who has openly admitted to killing 223 people in
terror attacks is able to walk around freely? For our part we doubt Anani's
story to begin with, but his public statements of killing so many people
makes us wonder why he is not behind bars. Does his Christian faith
protect him from prosecution?
Montreal Muslim News Network - http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net

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CAF calls for concrete measures against rise in racism

Toronto - The Canadian Arab Federation (CAF) finds it distressing, though
it does not come as a complete surprise, that the recent Sun Media poll
revealed that Canadians have the lowest opinion of the Arab community. This
poll comes at the heels of a 2006 report from the Canadian Labour Congress
that found unemployment rates were highest among Arab and West Asian
populations in Canada at 14%, followed by Blacks at 11.5%.
Montreal Muslim News Network - http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net

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US Racist : Muslims say they were profiled by airline

Claiming they were unfairly profiled, a group of Michigan Muslims said
today that they were not allowed to board a flight to Detroit while
returning home from a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia.

At a press conference this morning at a mosque in Dearborn, the group said
they were unfairly treated because of their religion and background.
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070116/NEWS02/70116022

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US Racist : Yet another example of racial profiling

We got this posting from a reader yesterday. The person did not want his
name posted:
I just flew out to the States for an interview last week.Out of the whole
crowd of over 200 people that were in line, I was the only one they singled
out for a random search. They patted me down, did a chemical test on
all my bags and wasted time rummaging through my meager belongings which
amounted to a jacket, a laptop an Ipod full of
Simpsons episodes and a book on Marketing. The white-trash red-neck
high-school dropout who opened my bag picked up my book and said Looks
like a book in a sinister voice.

It's extremely embarrassing when you are the only one they pick out of a
line of hundreds because you are brown skinned and have a beard.

Montreal Muslim News Network - http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net

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Hate Crime : Congressman Demands Iraqis Be Converted To Christianity

New Hampshires North Carolinas 8th District congressman has a winning
plan for Iraq: Convert all the Muslims to Christianity! In the past, only a
few brave public intellectuals such as Ann Coulter have offered this only
obvious solution to our 3-1/2 year bloodbath occupation of Iraq, so it is a
proud moment for America that Rep. Robin Hayes is the first politician to
deal seriously with our disastrous war.

full article at:
http://wonkette.com/politics/crazies/congressman-demands-iraqis-be-converted-to-christianity-223931.php

see also: Chris Hedges: Americas Holy Warriors
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20061231_chris_hedges_americas_holy_warriors/

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Hate Crime : Windows broken at Montreal Muslim school; police investigating

MONTREAL (CP) - Police were searching for leads after more than a dozen
windows were broken at a Muslim school in Montreal.

Spokesman Laurent Gingras says it's too early to say if it's a hate crime
and police are treating it as mischief for the time being. A school
official says it's not the first time the private school has been
vandalized and she worries about students' safety.

The name of the school is : Les Jeunes Musulmans Canadiens.
http://www.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=c4c1f6d6-d26c-46db-b38d-60088d5f0a8dk=38720

See also: Saint-Laurent Council condemns the acts of vandalism committed
against L'école Les jeunes musulmans canadiens

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=== News Update ===

The War Becomes More Unholy

by http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/Dahr Jamail

with Ali al-Fadhily


FALLUJAH  A stepped up military offensive that targets mosques, religious 
leaders and Islamic customs is leading many Iraqis to believe that the 
US-led invasion really was a holy war.

Photographs are being circulated of black crosses painted on mosque walls 
and on copies of the Quran, and of soldiers dumping their waste inside 
mosques. New stories appear frequently of raids on mosques and brutal 
treatment of Islamic clerics, leading many Iraqis to ask if the invasion 
and occupation was a war against Islam.

Many Iraqis now recall remarks by US President George W. Bush shortly after 
the events of Sep. 11, 2001 when he told reporters that this crusade, this 
war on terrorism, is going to take a while.

Bush's tongue 'slipped' more than once when he spoke of 'fascist 
Islamists' and used other similar expressions that touched the very nerve 
of Muslims around the world, Sheikh Abdul Salam al-Kubayssi of the 
Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS), a leading Sunni group, told IPS in 
Baghdad. We wish they were just mere slips, but what is going on 
repeatedly makes one think of crusades over and over.

Occupation forces claim that mosque raids are being conducted because holy 
places are being used by resistance fighters.

A leaflet distributed in Fallujah by US forces late November said mosques 
were being used by insurgents to conduct attacks against Multinational 
Forces, and that this would lead to taking proper procedures against 
those mosques.

The statement referred to daily sniper attacks against occupation forces in 
Fallujah in which many US soldiers have been killed.

Local people refute these claims made by coalition forces.

Fighters never used mosques for attacking Americans because they realize 
the consequences and reactions from the military, a member of the local 
municipality council of Fallujah told IPS on condition of anonymity. 
Nonetheless, US soldiers always targeted our mosques and their minarets.

During Operation Phantom Fury of November 2004, scores of mosques in 
Fallujah were damaged or destroyed completely. Fallujah is known as the 
city of mosques because it has so many.

Many of these are Sunni mosques. AMS leaders are now enemy number one for 
US occupation forces as well as the Shi'ite-dominated government.

Through continuous arrests of its members and the raids against mosques all 
over the Sunni areas of the country, including their headquarters on the 
outskirts of Baghdad, the AMS has often expressed feelings of persecution.

On the other hand, the occupation forces have been supportive of clerics 
who took part in the political structure that the US coalition created in 
Iraq. These include Shi'ite clerics and political leaders like current 
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of the Dawa Party. Maliki has called AMS 
leader Dr. Harith al-Dhari a terrorist leader and a murderer.

Many Sunnis who are more secular also feel persecuted by the occupation.

I am not a follower of al-Dhari or any other leader, Prof. Malik al-Rawi 
of the National Institute for Scientific Research of Baghdad told IPS. In 
fact most Sunnis do not literally follow any leader for religious reasons. 
Yet after we found Americans targeting our religious symbols, we had to 
stand together around the man who did not sell us to the occupation.

Dr. Rawi, avowedly a secular Sunni, told IPS that the number of Iraqis who 
believe the occupation is waging a religious war increased dramatically 
after the 2004 attacks on Fallujah.

Those sieges, along with all the events that followed in Samarra, 
al-Qa'im, Haditha and now Siniya have led people to think of the crusades, 
he added. Americans do hate us for some reason and we do not find any 
reason but religion.

It is not just Sunni Iraqis who claim that their mosques are not respected 
by occupation forces. The mostly Shi'ite city of Najaf was exposed to 
massive US military assaults during August 2004. Many attacks came 
dangerously close to the sacred Imam Ali shrine, damaging its outer walls.

Other US raids on Shi'ite mosques in Baghdad have infuriated Iraq's Shi'ite 
population.

Some Iraqi analysts say the perceived religious conflict seems to have 
expanded as the occupation has progressed.

The world must be aware that this US administration is pushing the 
situation to the black hole of a new religious conflict by giving the green 
light to their soldiers to attack mosques and arrest clerics whenever they 
feel like it, Kassim Jabbar, an Iraqi political analyst from Baghdad 
University told IPS.

Even people with the highest education standards are wondering why US 
leaders have not restricted attacks upon religious symbols in our country.

Ali al-Fadhily is our Baghdad correspondent. Dahr Jamail is

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=== News Update ===

Genocide in Gaza, Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank

By Ilan Pappe


01/18/07 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6374.shtmlElectronic 
Intifada On this stage, not so long ago, I claimed that Israel is 
conducting genocidal policies in the Gaza Strip. I hesitated a lot before 
using this very charged term and yet decided to adopt it. Indeed, the 
responses I received, including from some leading human rights activists, 
indicated a certain unease over the usage of such a term. I was inclined to 
rethink the term for a while, but came back to employing it today with even 
stronger conviction: it is the only appropriate way to describe what the 
Israeli army is doing in the Gaza Strip.

On 28 December 2006, the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem 
published its annual report about the Israeli atrocities in the occupied 
territories. Israeli forces killed this last year six hundred and sixty 
citizens. The number of Palestinians killed by Israel last year tripled in 
comparison to the previous year (around two hundred). According to 
B'Tselem, the Israelis killed one hundred and forty one children in the 
last year. Most of the dead are from the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli 
forces demolished almost 300 houses and slew entire families. This means 
that since 2000, Israeli forces killed almost four thousand Palestinians, 
half of them children; more than twenty thousand were wounded.

B'Tselem is a conservative organization, and the numbers may be higher. But 
the point is not just about the escalating intentional killing, it is about 
the trend and the strategy. As 2007 commences, Israeli policymakers are 
facing two very different realities in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. In 
the former, they are closer than ever to finishing the construction of 
their eastern border. Their internal ideological debate is over and their 
master plan for annexing half of the West Bank is being implemented at an 
ever-growing speed. The last phase was delayed due to the promises made by 
Israel, under the Road Map, not to build new settlements. Israel found two 
ways of circumventing this alleged prohibition. First, it defined a third 
of the West Bank as Greater Jerusalem, which allowed it to build within 
this new annexed area towns and community centers. Secondly, it expanded 
old settlements to such proportions so that there was no need to build new 
ones. This trend was given an additional push in 2006 (hundreds of caravans 
were installed to mark the border of the expansions, the planning schemes 
for the new towns and neighborhoods were finalized and the apartheid bypass 
roads and highway system completed). In all, the settlements, the army 
bases, the roads and the wall will allow Israel to annex almost half of the 
West Bank by 2010. Within these territories there will be a considerable 
number of Palestinians, against whom the Israeli authorities will continue 
to implement slow and creeping transfer policies -- too boring as a subject 
for the western media to bother with and too elusive for human rights 
organizations to make a general point about them. There is no rush; as far 
as the Israelis are concerned, they have the upper hand there: the daily 
abusive and dehumanizing mixed mechanisms of army and bureaucracy is as 
effective as ever in contributing its own share to the dispossession process.

The strategic thinking of Ariel Sharon that this policy is far better than 
the one offered by the blunt 'transferists' or ethnic cleansers, such as 
Avigdor Liberman's advocacy, is accepted by everyone in the government, 
from Labor to Kadima. The petit crimes of state terrorism are also 
effective as they enable liberal Zionists around the world to softly 
condemn Israel and yet categorize any genuine criticism on Israel's 
criminal policies as anti-Semitism.

On the other hand, there is no clear Israeli strategy as yet for the Gaza 
Strip; but there is a daily experiment with one. Gaza, in the eyes of the 
Israelis, is a very different geo-political entity from that of the West 
Bank. Hamas controls Gaza, while Abu Mazen seems to run the fragmented West 
Bank with Israeli and American blessing. There is no chunk of land in Gaza 
that Israel covets and there is no hinterland, like Jordan, to which the 
Palestinians of Gaza can be expelled. Ethnic cleansing is ineffective here.

The earlier strategy in Gaza was ghettoizing the Palestinians there, but 
this is not working. The ghettoized community continues to express its will 
for life by firing primitive missiles into Israel. Ghettoizing or 
quarantining unwanted communities, even if they were regarded as sub-human 
or dangerous, never worked in history as a solution. The Jews know it best 
from their own history. The next stages against such communities in the 
past were even more horrific and barbaric.

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=== News Update ===

Claim: Bin Laden Told Hamza Al-Qaeda Not Behind 9/11

Statement dovetails with Osama's previous attempts to distance himself from 
attack responsibility

Paul Joseph Watson
http://www.prisonplanet.com/index.htmlPrison Planet
Thursday, January 18, 2007



[]



A claim attributed to a friend of one of the six men accused of plotting to 
detonate bombs on London's underground tube system on July 21 2005, 
suggests that Osama bin Laden personally told hook handed cleric Abu Hamza 
that Al-Qaeda was not behind the attacks of September 11, 2001.

The http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article2162851.eceLondon 
Independent today reports that Steven Bentley, a school friend of accused 
would-be suicide bomber Yassin Omar, was told by Omar that he did not think 
Bin Laden was behind 9/11. Omar based his conclusion on what he was told by 
extremist London cleric Abu Hamza, currently serving a seven-year prison 
sentence for soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred, who had 
personally met Bin Laden.

Bin Laden's apparent attempt to distance himself from involvement in 9/11 
dovetails with statements made shortly after the event in which he told a 
Pakistani newspaper that he was not involved in the attacks.

I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in 
the United States, http://911review.com/articles/usamah/khilafah.htmlBin 
Laden told Ummat, As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had 
no knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of innocent 
women, children and other humans as an appreciable act. Islam strictly 
forbids causing harm to innocent women, children and other people. Such a 
practice is forbidden even in the course of a battle.

The supposed Osama confession video in which the terrorist leader 
discusses how the attacks were carried out has been 
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osamatape.htmlwidely debunked as a 
hoax. On closer analysis, the individual in the tape is clearly not Bin 
Laden and he makes statements completely inconsistent with Bin Laden's 
previous public comments. Other so-called Al-Qaeda tapes have been 
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2006/051006redhanded.htmdirectly 
traced back to the Pentagon and Donald Rumsfeld.

Though the information provided by Bentley is third or fourth hand, it 
makes interesting reading nonetheless when compared with previous 
statements from individuals with close ties to Bin Laden

The White House regularly intones that critics of President Bush are in 
some way aiding the enemy but it was not until recently that the media 
picked up on a similar tack in trying to smear anyone who questions the 
official version of 9/11 as being sympathetic with Al-Qaeda or even a 
recruiting aid for terrorists.

One day after the alleged liquid bomb plot to simultaneously blow up ten 
transatlantic airliners, 
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2006/110806linkstruthers.htmCNN 
reporter Christiane Amanpour blamed alternative documentaries about 9/11 
for radicalizing many Muslims in England and around the world, and leading 
them to 'succumb to conspiracy theories.'

source:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2007/180107notbehind.htm

Related Link:

1. FBI says, it has No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13664.htm

2. Fake Al Qaeda The Phony (Mossad) - Al Qaeda Cell in Palestine
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fakealqaeda.html

3. The Fake bin Laden Video Tape - YOU ARE LOOKING AT A US GOVERNMENT LIE
http://whatreallyhappened.com/osamatape.html

4. The Fake bin Laden - Audio Tape
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/binladen_audio.html

5. 9/11 : The Fake 2004 Bin Laden Video Tape
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osamatape2.html

6. Al Qaeda Tapes: Direct Link To Military Psyops And Donald Rumsfeld
http://infowars.net/articles/October2006/051006Rumsfeld.htm

7. U.S. Government Caught Red-Handed Releasing Staged Al-Qaeda Videos
  http://prisonplanet.com/articles/october2006/051006redhanded.htm

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From: Nazia Shaheen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: revert Brother need HELP


Assalamualaikum

There is a revert Brother whose name is John Smith He is 26 yrs of 
age.. He is a needy muslim brother from England but now in Malaysia 
since he accepted Islam his parents have forced him to leave Islam n handed 
him over to the ChurchHe had to escape from his land and go to 
Malaysia...He has no means to stay now.He is really in need of 
Muslim Brothers who can help him inshaALLAh...jus try to mail him n 
assist him in his difficulty plzz n try to post this brothers condition in 
ur Yahoo Groups ! so tht other Muslim Brothers can help him inshaALLAh

this is his mail address...plzz contact him.he is in dire need...

InshaALLAh Allah will reward u if u assist this Brother in Need...
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Wassalaam
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  === News Update ===


Probable hate motivated vandalism extremely concerns Quebec's Muslim and
  Arab organizations 


From: Muslim Association of Canada (MAC), Canadian Muslim Forum (CMF),
Regroupment Des Ageriens -Quebec (RAQ), Parole Arabe.

The negative propaganda Muslims and Arabs have been the target of,
particularly since September 2001, cannot and should not be taken
lightly.  We are worried about the safety of our children and ourselves
and call on all levels of government and law enforcement agencies in
Canada to take appropriate actions to insure the safety of the Muslim
and Arab communities. 

Montreal Muslim News Network - http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net

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9/11 : Terror Suspect was terrorized in a U.S. Navy brig


The accused was held in extreme isolation for 1,307 days. Held in a
nine-by-seven-foot cell. The only window blacked out. He was the lone
prisoner on the two-tier cellblock. He was given food through a slot in
the door. He slept on a steel mattress. No reading material. No
calendar. No clock. Nothing to connect him to the outside world.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17205.htm

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9/11 : Pentagon Attacks Lawyers of Guantanamo Detainees


Guantanamo prisoners are entitled to protections under the Constitution,
yet the government is trying to deny them due process.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/46755/


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  WAR CRIMES REPORT TRANSLATED AND PUBLISHED IN ARABIC


“U.S. War Crimes in Iraq and Mechanisms for Accountability” - published
on October 11, 2006 by ten organizations concurrently, has now been
translated into Arabic. The report is now fully accessible by Iraqis and
other Arabic speakers in the Middle East. 

We are making 'U.S. War Crimes in Iraq and Mechanisms for
Accountability' available in Arabic because we want to increase its
accessibilty to the people of Iraq so that they may have knowledge of
the scope and illegality of certain U.S. conduct there, said Nick
Mottern, Director of ConsumersforPeace.org.   We hope that this will
assist the Iraqi people in preventing further war crimes and in getting
reparations for what has been done.
http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?
mod=artlapage=../en_articles_2007/0107/brussells_170107.htm

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  THE STORM : USA Criminal War


Victims of the Feb. 14, 1991 U.S. terrorist attack on Amiryah civilian
shelter

January 17th marks the 16th anniversary of the first U.S. attack on
Iraq, dubbed Desert Storm by the U.S. administration. The destruction
and devastation were portrayed in the U.S. similar to that of a
Hollywood movie. The reality was far different.

Because so much has happened to Iraq since 1991 (the embargo, the March
2003 invasion, the current chaos, etc.), many people may not recall the
particulars behind the January 17, 1991 attack and the ensuing horror.

When the first bomb fell on Iraq at 2:00am on January 17, 1991, the
United States began the military implementation of years of deceit and
dirty tricks to attain a permanent foothold in the Middle East. George
Bush I enlisted, coerced and paid 27 other nations to help massacre
Iraq, depriving these newly-won allies of any ethical high ground.
http://www.malcomlagauche.com/id1.html

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   Military judge: objector can't raise questions about war legality


We should officially drop out of the Geneva conventions, and just tell
the rest of the world that from now on, American soldiers must just
follow orders, no matter how morally reprehensible those orders might
be.
http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kgw.com%
2Fsharedcontent%2FAPStories%2Fstories%2FD8MN2KBG0.html

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 Iraq Holocaust :  0.9 Million Violent + Non-violent Iraq Excess Deaths


The following recent UN report of huge violent deaths in Occupied Iraq
was published on 16 January 2007 in MWC News  (see MWC News): UN
reports that 34,452 civilians have been killed in violence in Iraq over
the past year and about 36,885 people have been wounded. Gianni
Magazzeni, head of the UN human rights office in Iraq, accused the
government in a press conference on Tuesday of failing to provide
security and blamed some of the violence on militias colluding with or
working inside the police and army. The figures are much higher than any
statistics issued by Iraqi government officials. The government itself
branded the UN's last two-monthly report in November as grossly
exaggerated and banned Iraqi officials from releasing data … the UN
figures were compiled from information obtained through the Iraqi

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  === News Update ===



Iraq Holocaust 

  0.9 Million Violent + Non-violent Iraq Excess Deaths



  Dr. Gideon Polya, MWC chief political editor



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January 17, 2007

The following recent UN report of huge violent deaths in Occupied Iraq
was published on 16 January 2007 in MWC News  (see MWC News): UN
reports that 34,452 civilians have been killed in violence in Iraq over
the past year and about 36,885 people have been wounded. Gianni
Magazzeni, head of the UN human rights office in Iraq, accused the
government in a press conference on Tuesday of failing to provide
security and blamed some of the violence on militias colluding with or
working inside the police and army. The figures are much higher than any
statistics issued by Iraqi government officials. The government itself
branded the UN's last two-monthly report in November as grossly
exaggerated and banned Iraqi officials from releasing data … the UN
figures were compiled from information obtained through the Iraqi health
ministry, the Baghdad mortuary, operations centres at hospitals across
the country and other agencies.

How do these UN estimates of post-invasion Iraq excess deaths compare
with other authoritative estimates? 

Excess deaths (excess mortality, avoidable mortality, avoidable deaths,
deaths that should not have happened) can be violent (bombs, bullets,
beating) or non-violent (through disease and deprivation). Overall, the
excess deaths in a country is the difference between the actual deaths
in a country and the deaths expected for a decently-run, peaceful
country with the same demographics (see: here ).  

Estimates of VIOLENT post-invasion Iraq excess deaths 

Three major estimates of violent post-invasion Iraq excess deaths are
outlined below.

(a) As outlined above, the UN reports 34,452 civilians killed in Iraq in
the last year. Extrapolating over 47 months yields 135,000 violent
deaths (however the annual death rate may well have varied from year to
year). This estimate was based on institutional and agency data across
Iraq - but will NOT include deaths NOT reported to officials.

(b) Iraq Body Count has an upper estimate of about 59,000 Iraqi
civilians killed by military intervention since the US invasion.
However this is based on media reports (notoriously deficient in this
and other conflict zones) and as with (a) this will not include un-
reported deaths.

(c )  Research from a  group of top medical epidemiologists and
biometricians from a top department (Bloomberg School of Public Health;
first institution of its kind worldwide; largest school of public health
in the world; receives 25.2% of all federal research funds awarded to
the 37 accredited U.S. schools of public health;) at a top US university
(Johns Hopkins), peer-reviewed and published in the top medical journal
The Lancet  in October 2006 – and endorsed by 27 top Australian
institution-linked medical experts – estimated 655,000 post-invasion
excess deaths including about 601,000 violent deaths (for discussion
see: here and here ). Extrapolating over 47 months yields 642,000
violent deaths (as of January 2007).  This survey was based on household
surveys and would have included both officially reported and non-
reported violent deaths.

Estimates of TOTAL post-invasion Iraq excess deaths

Four independent estimates of total post-invasion Iraq deaths from
authoritative data sets are outlined below.

(a) From UN Population Division Data using the death rate in Iraq’s
peaceful but impoverished neighbours Jordan and Syria  as a baseline,
the post-invasion  excess deaths in Occupied Iraq (as of January 2007)
totals 0.6 million (by way of comparison, the corresponding post-
invasion under-5 infant mortality figure is 0.5 million).

(b) Detailed analysis of infant mortality and avoidable mortality for
every country in the world since 1950 reveals that for Third World
countries under-5 infant mortality is about 0.7 times the total
avoidable mortality. Checking the latest data on the UNICEF website, we
see that 122,000 under-5 year old infants die each year (12 months)  in
Occupied Iraq i.e. 122,000 x 47/12 = 478,000 would have died over the 47
months since the invasion; dividing by 0.7 yields an estimate of 683,000
(i.e. 0.7 million)  post-invasion avoidable deaths in Occupied Iraq (as
of January 2007).

(c)  Roberts et al (2004) in The Lancet in which they estimated a post-
invasion annual death rate of 12.3 persons per 1,000 of population (for
links see: here ). Subtracting the annual death rate in impoverished but
peaceful neighbouring Syria and Jordan (about 4 deaths per 1,000 of
population) we get a post-invasion annual avoidable death rate of 8.3
per

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  === News Update ===


Dirk Adriaensens
Member  BRussells Tribunal executive committee
Coordinator  SOS Iraq

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

JANUARY 17, 2006

 

CONTACTS: Nick Mottern, Director of Consumers for Peace
914.806.6179; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Karen Parker , President of Association of
Humanitarian Lawyers
415.533.1066; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 

  WAR CRIMES REPORT TRANSLATED AND PUBLISHED IN ARABIC

 

“U.S. War Crimes in Iraq and Mechanisms for Accountability” - published
on October 11, 2006 by ten organizations concurrently, has now been
translated into Arabic. The report is now fully accessible by Iraqis and
other Arabic speakers in the Middle East. 

We are making 'U.S. War Crimes in Iraq and Mechanisms
for Accountability' available in Arabic because we want to increase
its accessibilty to the people of Iraq so that they may have knowledge
of the scope and illegality of certain U.S. conduct there, said Nick
Mottern, Director of ConsumersforPeace.org.   We hope that this
will assist the Iraqi people in preventing further war crimes and in
getting reparations for what has been done.

The Arabic language edition of the War Crimes Report is available for
free download as a pdf file through these websites:

http://www.consumersforpeace.org/pdf/war_crimes_arabic_ed_011307.pdf
http://traprockpeace.org/war_crimes_arabic_ed_011307.pdf
http://vcnv.org/files/war_crimes_arabic_ed_011307.pdf
http://www.videos1.informationclearinghouse.info/pdf/war_crimes_arabic_ed_011307.pdf
http://www.brusselstribunal.org/pdf/war_crimes_iraq_arabic.pdf
http://www.uruknet.info
 

English language editions are available at these sites and the sites
listed below. We thank Dahr Jamail for coordinating the translation,
which includes all references in his extensively researched report.
 

Adobe Reader for pdf files is installed on most computers, or available
for free at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
 

The English language edition had been prepared by Consumers for Peace -
http://www.consumersforpeace.org - with the advice of Karen Parker ,
noted lawyer in human rights and humanitarian law.  Ms. Parker is
President of the San-Francisco-based Association of Humanitarian
Lawyers and Chief Delegate to the United Nations for the Los Angeles-
based International Educational Development/Humanitarian Law Project
(IED/AHL), an accredited non-governmental organization on the U.N.
Secretary-General’s list.
 

Endorsements from the forward:

Howard Zinn, a historian, playwright, and social activist, is perhaps
best known for A People's History of the United States, which presents
American history through the eyes of those he feels are outside of the
political and economic establishment. He writes: 

This report on the war crimes of the current administration is an
invaluable resource, with a meticulous presentation of the evidence and
an astute examination of international law. 
 

Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Non-Violence and
three-time Noble Peace Prize nominee, has visited Iraq 28 times in the
last 15 years. She writes: 

  “After spending four days in the fortified and secure Green Zone, in
Iraq, during September ’06, former Secretary of State James Baker III
assured that the investigative panel he led had not spent any time
“wringing our hands over what mistakes might or might not have been
created in the past.” (NYT, September 20, 2006).  The “Consumers for
Peace” report on war crimes committed in Iraq helps us understand our
responsibility not to wring our hands but rather to demand
accountability from elected representatives by delivering this report to
them and to local media.  How many people killed?  How many families
torn apart?  How many homes destroyed?  How many livelihoods gone?  How
many lives ruined? How many cities sacrificed?  We bear responsibility
to end the war in Iraq, insist on just reparations for suffering caused,
and promote careful, legal scrutiny of the crimes committed.  This
report beckons all who read it to stop collaborating with illegal,
immoral warmongers who recklessly afflict Iraq.” 


Dahr Jamail, noted independent journalist who spent more than eight
months reporting from occupied Iraq, writes the following about the
report: 

  “I cannot endorse strongly enough this report prepared by Karen Parker
regarding U.S. war crimes in Iraq.  Having witnessed much of what is so
well documented in this report, it is a clear and encompassing
indictment of the Bush Administration for the war crimes they are
directly responsible for in Iraq.  Until evidence such as this begins to
see the light of day in a court of law and the perpetrators brought to
justice, the world remains unsafe and unstable

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  === News Update ===



  THE STORM : USA War Criminal



Malcom Lagauche



  amiriyahlagauche2.jpg
 Victims of the Feb. 14, 1991 U.S. terrorist attack on Amiryah civilian
shelter



January 17, 2006

January 17th marks the 16th anniversary of the first U.S. attack on
Iraq, dubbed Desert Storm by the U.S. administration. The destruction
and devastation were portrayed in the U.S. similar to that of a
Hollywood movie. The reality was far different.

Because so much has happened to Iraq since 1991 (the embargo, the March
2003 invasion, the current chaos, etc.), many people may not recall the
particulars behind the January 17, 1991 attack and the ensuing horror.

When the first bomb fell on Iraq at 2:00am on January 17, 1991, the
United States began the military implementation of years of deceit and
dirty tricks to attain a permanent foothold in the Middle East. George
Bush I enlisted, coerced and paid 27 other nations to help massacre
Iraq, depriving these newly-won allies of any ethical high ground. 

If you look at some of the countries involved in the anti-Iraq
coalition, you will see that they varied greatly in their reasons for
becoming involved in the slaughter. Few came on board because they
considered it the right thing to do. As with the alliance of the
willing that participated in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, many of the
allies of the 1991 campaign participated only to receive a payday from
Washington.

Egypt, a long-time backer of Iraq, initially declined. After George Bush
I told the Egyptians he would forgive a $7 billion debt, the once Iraq-
friendly Egyptian government changed sides. Syria entered the alliance
because of long-time animosities between its president, Haffas al-Assad,
and the Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein. Coincidentally, Syria was on
America’s list of countries that support terrorism, but that did not
affect Bush. Al-Assad’s payday came after the cease-fire was signed
between Iraq and the U.S. The Bush administration turned a blind eye to
Syria’s sending over 30,000 military personnel to Lebanon, leaving Syria
with a tremendous amount of influence in Lebanon, a country emerging
from the devastation of a 15-year civil war. Ironically, the Bush II
administration called for the exit of Syrian troops from Lebanon and
threatened Syria with military force if the troops remained. The
difference between then and now is that Syria’s former president al-
Assad died and his son, Bashir, inherited the presidency of Syria. The
young al-Assad did not share the same animosity with Iraq as his father
and the two countries were experiencing flourishing trade and political
relations up to the time of the March 2003 invasion of Iraq. Now, Syria
has to pay a price instead of being given preferential treatment.

Saudi Arabia, a country not exactly known for its progressive
government, quickly sided with the U.S. when Bush falsely told them that
Iraqi troops were stationed in Kuwait just across the Saudi border
waiting to pounce on the Saudis. On September 11, 1990, Bush told a
joint session of Congress, We gather tonight witness to events in the
Gulf as significant as they are tragic. 120,000 Iraqi troops with 850
tanks had poured into Kuwait and moved south to threaten Saudi Arabia.
The Defense Department outdid Bush with an estimate of 250,000 Iraqi
troops and 1,500 tanks. The only thing wrong with Bush’s and the
Pentagon’s ominous warnings is that they were based on falsehoods. 

Soyuz-Karta, a Soviet commercial satellite agency, had pictures taken by
its satellite of Saudi Arabia on September 11, 1990, and of Kuwait on
September 13, 1990 that portrayed a different scenario. They showed no
Iraqi presence near the Saudi border and only a small percentage of
Iraqi troops in Kuwait compared to the U.S. estimates.

In December 1990, the St. Petersburg Times of Florida purchased these
photos from the Soviet agency. They had them analyzed by experts who
agreed that the U.S. estimate was based on lies. According to Peter
Zimmerman, who served with the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
during the Reagan administration, The Pentagon kept saying, the Iraqi
troops were there, but we do not see anything to indicate an Iraqi force
in Kuwait of even 20 percent the size the administration claimed.

Jean Heller wrote a report for the St. Petersburg Times in January 1991
about the quandary. However, the national media ignored the report and
refused to publish it despite the newspaper’s editors approaching the
Associated Press twice and the Scripps-Howard News Service. According to
Heller:


The troops that were said to be massing on the Saudi

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berbahagialah bagi yg memerlukannya.

=== News Update ===

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Subject: Kidney failure-Free Treatment


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=== News Update ===

Terrorist Confession :
Ex-Muslim claims he killed 223 in terror acts: MP seeks review of Christian 
convert's citizenship status

The Canadian Press
15 January 2007
Edmonton Journal


Note: How is it that someone who has openly admitted to killing 223 people 
in terror attacks is able to walk around freely? For our part we doubt 
Anani's story to begin with, but his public statements of killing so many 
people makes us wonder why he is not behind bars. Does his Christian faith 
protect him from prosecution?


WINDSOR, Ont. -- An Ontario MP says he will be asking Canadian immigration 
officials to investigate how professed former terrorist Zachariah Anani got 
into the country and how he obtained his Canadian citizenship.

Mr. Anani claims he was a terrorist. That's his background, Windsor West 
MP Brian Masse said after a news conference held by members of the Windsor 
Muslim community. Masse said he will ask for a ministerial review of 
Anani's citizenship and claims for refugee status.

Anani angered Muslims last Thursday night at a lecture he gave titled The 
Deadly Threat of Islam, in which he used passages from the Qur'an to 
support his view that Islam preaches violence.

Anani, now a Christian convert, claims to have killed 223 people while a 
militant Islamic militia leader in Lebanon.

According to an article on the Christianity.ca website, Anani came to 
Canada in 1996 claiming refugee status after he converted to Christianity.

There will be an examination of whether he became a Canadian citizen with 
the full truest extent. His citizenship is going to be questioned at that 
time, said Masse.

Members of the local Muslim community have filed a formal complaint with 
the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations in Kanata, Ont.

source:
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=== News Update ===


More Germans convert to Islam

BERLIN, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- The number of Germans converting to Islam has 
quadrupled in recent years, a German news magazine reported.

Between July 2004 and June 2005, some 4,000 Germans converted to Islam, 
four times more cases than in the year before, German news magazine Der 
Spiegel said in its latest issue, citing a study on Islamic life in Germany 
financed by the Interior Ministry to be published later this year.

While in recent years mostly women who married Muslim men converted, many 
people today deliberately and voluntarily converted, the report said, 
according to the magazine.

Many of the converts have previously been firm Christians who have lost 
their faith; others simply searched for an alternative.

The current debate around the integration of Muslims in Europe has put 
Islam on the forefront of Europe's media scene, causing it to become more 
widely known as an alternative, Der Spiegel said.

source:
http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20070116-061026-1200r

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[media-dakwah] Robin Hayes says we will win in Iraq by spreading the message of Jesus Christ there.

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=== News Update ===

Robin Hayes says we will win in Iraq by spreading the message of Jesus
Christ there.

Robin Hayes has the solution to the Iraq war: have our soldiers convert all
Muslims to Christianity.

[]

Having won the election by only a hair's width and almost getting himself
kicked out of Congress seems to have had some profound psychological
effects on poor Mr. Hayes. A speech that flip-floppin' Robin gave last week
at the Concord Rotary Club seems to prove he has finally gone off the deep end.

Our local weekly newspaper the Concord Standard and Mount Pleasant Times
reported on Mr. Hayes speech in his hometown:

First there's the usual talk of how we're winning over there: The war in
Iraq has got to be won; it's being won (A couple of months ago Hayes said
that the rise in violence in Iraq was an indication that we're winning.)

Then comes the real kicker: Stability in Iraq ultimately depends on
spreading the message of Jesus Christ, the message of peace on earth, good
will towards men. Everything depends on everyone learning about the birth
of the Savior.

So if we just turn our soldiers into missionaries everything will be okay,
Mr. Hayes?

First we sent our men over there to take out the WMD's, then it was to
spread democracy, now you want them there to spread the message of Jesus
Christ? It so happens that people in Iraq already have a savior but
unfortunately for Mr. Hayes it's Muhammed, not Jesus.

If we can't keep Muslims from killing each other over there, I don't think
that trying to make them all Christian is going to be any easier.

With this kind of talk Hayes just plays into the hands of Al-Qaeda by
confirming what their leaders have always been saying: those American
soldiers are just modern Crusaders. He is thereby strengthening the beliefs
of terrorists that want to kill every American soldier they come across.

source:
http://www.bluenc.com/robin-hayes-says-we-will-win-in-iraq-by-spreading-the-message-of-jesus-christ-there

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[media-dakwah] The sick mindset that breeds Islamophobia


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=== News Update ===

The sick mindset that breeds Islamophobia

By: ABID ULLAH JAN
Published: January 14, 2007

[]

Zachariah Anani

 From Popes anti-Islam comments to Church signs saying, You must 
remember, Islam is the enemy, and The Koran needs to be flushed, a 
Church in west Windsor, Canada, came out in its true colors with publicly 
promoting anti-Islam hatred. On January 11, 2007, Campbell Baptist Church 
organized a lecture of a purported former Muslim terrorist, Zachariah 
Anani, to warn the public that Islam is a religion of war being brought to 
Canadian soil.

Donald McKay, senior pastor at the church, said the event was organized 
simply to propagate what the church believes to be absolute truth. So the 
absolute truth which the Church decided to propagate through Ananis 
lecture, entitled The Deadly Threat of Islam, is that Islam teaches nothing 
less than the ambushing, seizing and slaying of non-believers  
especially Jews and Christians.[1]

According to Donald McKay, We have no desire to be offensive. We have no 
desire to polarize people unnecessarily, it is, in his words, the Islamic 
faith that is oppressive and vicious.[2]

It also shows that Anani was used as a puppet to validate and propagate 
which was already on the mind of the guardians of Campbell Baptist Church. 
Ananis words reflected the mindset. He described Muslims worshipping a god 
who fights and kills and strikes with terror, and allows no prisoners 
in battles against non-believers.[3]

An interesting point to note is the background of Mr. Anani, who, in 
McKays words, killed hundreds of people in the name of Allah before 
converting to Christianity.

An interesting point to note is none of these anti-Islam hate campaigners 
base their argument in logic and reason. Lies upon lies on the religious 
and political fronts reign supreme these days. Opportunists puppets, such 
as Musharraf, Karzai and a host of others are serving the purpose of 
Islamophobes on the political front. Whereas, persons like Anani are 
helping Islamophobes on the religious front to give Islamophobes an 
opportunity to vent their hatred and poison minds against Muslims an Islam.

One can judge value of this anti-Islam, fear mongering work from the not so 
secret background of persons like Anani. Here are some of his major claims.

Zachariah Anani claims to be a  former Muslim, who joined  one of the many 
military groups in Lebanon when he was 13. Anani claims that he was 
trained to fight and kill Jews, and to hate Christians and Americans, 
which he now blames on Islam.[4]

He claims to have killed 223 people in the name of Islam and gained points 
from his former militia for doing so. But the claim to dosing so in the 
name of Islam loses its value when he claims to also have shot and killed a 
Muslim for trying to make him get up for Fajr prayer.[5] Did he do that for 
Islam as well?

As for his knowledge of Islam is concerned, he claims that while he lived 
in Lebanon, Muslim leaders called him to the local mosque and interrogated 
him. He admits that the imam asked intelligent questions, and Anani felt 
the inadequacy of his own answers. I knew nothing about Islam, nothing 
about Christianity, he is quoted as saying.[6]

Despite this, he actually claims to know Islam intimately and the church 
leaders see him fit to spew venom against Muslims and Islam as an 
authoritative figure. This speaks volumes of the sick mindset of not only 
Mr. Anani, but of his promoters as well.

This is a fine example of how collaboration of people with sick mindset are 
leading the pack of Islamophobes. Their work becomes very effective in an 
environment in which according to todays Toronto Sun, a Leger Marketing 
poll commissioned by Sun Media, half of the Canadians admitted to at least 
being slightly racist[7]  not to speak of the anti-Muslim bias in the 
post-9/11 era.

Such words and deeds of inciting hatred should have been seriously 
condemned and officially brought to account. But unfortunately, the same 
mindset prevails. It is only the matter of opportunity to bring it out of 
the closet under one or another cover.  The chances of peaceful 
co-existence are getting bleaker and the chance for a far more serious 
bloodbath in the Muslim world are increasing as President Bush deploys 
additional 20,000 troops to Baghdad, attacks Iranian offices and officials 
in Iraq, orders carrier battle groups to Gulf and annihilates Somalia, the 
poorest country in the world in an unreported military invasion and 
occupation. All within a week!!!.

  It is obvious that the Church and State alliance is threatening the 
future of humanity. Besides churches of various denominations playing their 
own particular role, on the political front, whatever may be the human or 
material cost, Bush and company are not in a position to lose

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Christians and Zion: British stirrings

Part 1 in a series of 5 articles on Christian Zionism:

Donald Wagner


10/09/03 (Daily Star) The British have had a long-term fascination with the 
idea of Israel and its central role in biblical prophecy that dates back to 
their earliest recorded literature. The Epistle of Gildas (circa. 6th 
century AD) and the Venerable Bedes Ecclesiastical History (735 AD) both 
saw the British as the new Israel, Gods chosen people, who were destined 
to play a strategic role despite repeated invasions by their Nordic 
neighbors. In the British perception of being an elect, these battles were 
understood in the context of Israels battles against the Philistines, 
Babylonians and others.

A clear resurgence of such themes was evident in the 16th century, perhaps 
influenced by the Protestant Reformation and its emphasis on the Bible and 
varied interpretations of its texts, now that Rome had lost its control 
over the new clergy and theologians. One of the early expressions of 
fascination with the idea of Israel was the monograph Apocalypsis 
Apocalypseos, written by Anglican clergyman Thomas Brightman in 1585. 
Brightman urged the British people to support the return of the Jews to 
Palestine in order to hasten a series of prophetic events that would 
culminate in the return of Jesus.

In 1621, a prominent member of the British Parliament, attorney Henry 
Finch, advanced a similar perspective when he wrote: The (Jews) shall 
repair to their own country, shall inherit all of the land as before, shall 
live in safety, and shall continue in it forever. Finch argued that based 
on his interpretation of Genesis 12:3, God would bless those nations that 
supported the Jews return. However, his idea did not find support from 
fellow legislators.

While these writers cannot be classified as Christian Zionists, they might 
be viewed as proto-Christian Zionists, as they prepared the way for those 
who would follow. Gradually their views receded, but the turbulence 
following the American and French revolutions provoked significant feelings 
of insecurity across Europe. As the anxiety rose in the run-up to the 
centennial year at the beginning of the 19th century, prophetic speculation 
concerning Jesus return and related events was in the air.

During the decade that followed the year 1800, several Christian writers 
and preachers began to reflect on the events leading to Jesus would-be 
imminent return, among them Louis Way, an Anglican clergyman. Way taught 
that it was necessary for the Jews to return to Palestine as the first 
stage prior to the Messianic Age, and he offered speculation as to the 
timing of Jesus second coming. Within a short period of time, Way gained a 
wide readership through his journal The Jewish Expositor, and counted many 
clergymen, academics and the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge as subscribers.

A number of influential proto-Christian Zionists emerged in the generation 
that followed Way. John Nelson Darby (1800-81), a renegade Irish Anglican 
priest, added several unique features to Ways teachings, including the 
doctrine of the Rapture, whereby born again Christians would be 
literally removed from history and transferred to heaven prior to Jesus 
return. Darby also placed a restored Israel at the center of his theology, 
claiming that an actual Jewish state called Israel would become the central 
instrument for God to fulfill His plans during the last days of history. 
Only true (born again) Christians would be removed from history prior to 
the final battle of Armageddon through the Rapture  based on his literal 
interpretation of 1 Thessalonians 4:16.

Darbys extensive writings and 60-year career as a missionary consolidated 
a form of fundamentalism called premillennialism (Jesus would return 
prior to the Battle of Armageddon and his millennial rule on earth). Darby 
made six missionary journeys to North America, where he became a popular 
teacher and preacher. The premillennial theology and its influence on 
Christian fundamentalism and the emerging evangelical movement in the 
United States can be directly traced to Darbys influence.

Christian Zionism is the direct product of this unusual and recent Western 
form of Protestant theology. Found primarily in North America and England, 
it is now exported around the globe via satellite television, the internet, 
best-selling novels such as the Left Behind series, films and a new breed 
of missionaries. These unique doctrines were found among fringe movements 
in Christianity throughout the ages, which most Catholic, Eastern Orthodox 
and Protestant churches regarded as extreme and marginal, if not heretical.
One of the influential British social reformers to be influenced by 
premillennial theology was Lord Shaftesbury, a conservative

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U.N. Officials Question Iraq's USA Puppet Govt Rough Justice

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=36173Haider Rizvi


UNITED NATIONS, Jan 15 (IPS) - The U.S.-backed government in Baghdad is 
facing harsh criticism from the international community for ignoring calls 
to adopt a policy of restraint with regard to carrying out death sentences 
against the members of Iraq's former ruling party.

Reacting to the hanging of Saddam Hussein's two close aides Monday, senior 
U.N. officials and human rights organisations warned that the government 
must end its policy of executions, which they see as serious violation of 
international human rights standards.

Those responsible for serious human rights violations must be brought to 
justice, said Louise Arbour, the top U.N. official for human rights. But 
to be credible and durable, the fight against impunity must be based on 
respect for international human rights standards.

The imposition of the death penalty after a trial and appeal proceedings 
that do not respect the principles of due process amounts to a violation of 
the right to life, she said in a statement.

Hussein's half-brother Awad Hamed Al-Bandar and former intelligence chief 
Barzan Ibrahim Al-Tikriti were hanged early Monday morning despite calls 
from Arbour and others to commute their sentences.

Both Al-Bandar and Al-Tikriti were condemned to death for the killings of 
148 Shias in 1982. Reports from Baghdad said Barzan's hanging left behind a 
headless body, bloodied at the neck.

Arbour, who opposes the death penalty under all circumstances, said that 
in Al-Tikriti and Al-Bandar's case, not only is the penalty irredeemable, 
it may also make it more difficult to have a complete judicial accounting 
of other, equally horrendous, crimes committed in Iraq.

Like Arbour, Ban Ki-moon, the new U.N. chief, seemed equally displeased 
with the Iraqi authorities' decision.

He fully regrets that despite pleas by the high commissioner, they were 
executed, Ban's spokesperson Michele Montas told reporters. Clarifying his 
views on Hussein's execution, Ban said last week he believed that life is 
precious and that it must be protected and respected.

Noting that international law affirms these values, the U.N. 
secretary-general said he recognised the growing trend in international 
law and national practice towards phasing out the death penalty.

While Ban and other U.N. officials chose to confine their criticism of the 
executions to Iraqi authorities, rights activists said the U.S. government 
must be held equally accountable.

If the international community is to restore confidence in the rule of law 
in Iraq, it must prosecute the individuals for the international crime of 
aggression against the Iraqi people, said Dr. Curtis Doebbler, an 
international human rights lawyer.

In Doebbler's view, only by calling for such prosecutions can the 
international community restore trust in the rule of law. Failure to do 
so, he cautioned, will send a clear message to vulnerable people 
everywhere who have been subjected to U.S. aggression that they cannot 
depend on the rule of law to stop the U.S. and its collaborators from 
violating their most basic human rights.

Speaking to reporters in Egypt, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice 
defended the executions by saying that it was an Iraqi process. However, 
she expressed her displeasure with the way the executions were actually 
carried out. We were disappointed there was not greater dignity given to 
the accused under these circumstances, she said.

Deploring the executions in strong words, the London-based human rights 
watchdog group Amnesty International said such actions were nothing but a 
further slide into the errors of the past.

The group said the Iraqi court failed to meet international standards for a 
fair trial and raised serious questions about its impartiality and ability 
to assert independence from political intervention.

During the trial of Hussein and his aides, many believe that authorities 
forced the first presiding judge to step down and blocked the other's 
appointment while failing to ensure protection for witnesses as well as 
defence lawyers, three of whom were assassinated during the course of the 
trial.

Amnesty also noted that Hussein was denied access to legal counsel for the 
first year after his arrest, and said the appeals process was conducted in 
haste and failed to rectify any of flaws of the first trial.

In addition to Monday's executions, rights groups expressed concern about 
the possibility of a death sentence for Taha Yassin Ramadhan, the former 
vice president. Though already sentenced to life imprisonment, he is likely 
to face another trial.

Reports from Baghdad said the hangings took place in the same building in 
the city where Hussein was executed on

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Good Morning, Baghdad! Two Hangings, One Decapitation Before Breakfast

http://winterpatriot.blogspot.com/2007/01/good-morning-baghdad-two-hangings-one.htmlWinter

Patriot

January 15, 2007

Public barbarity reached yet another new low this morning -- even for
occupied Iraq -- when two of Saddam Hussein's former aides were hanged
before dawn in Baghdad, one of them losing his head in the process.

Like John Kerry's dumb joke, the American media have already decided for us
-- the hanging was botched. Reuters are packaging Jonathan Wright's piece
from Cairo under the heading:
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNewsstoryid=2007-01-15T124522Z_01_L15262958_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-ARABS.xmlsrc=rssBotched

hanging in Iraq arouses Arab suspicions

and it leads with the official version:
The botched hanging of Saddam Hussein's half-brother Barzan on Monday
aroused Arab suspicions of foul play and malice, deepening the divide
between the Iraqi government and Arabs in other countries.
The noose pulled off Barzan al-Tikriti's head as he fell from the gallows,
suggesting that the hangman had misjudged the length of rope needed just to
break his neck.
Government spokesman Ali Dabbagh said there was no violation of procedure
in the hanging of Barzan and fellow convict Awad Hamed al-Bander, Saddam's
former chief judge, for crimes against humanity over the killings of 148
Shi'ites.

but if you keep reading you can see that the Arab street doesn't buy the
official version at all.
from Morocco to Yemen, ordinary Arabs cast doubt on the official
explanation. Some recalled the chaotic and abusive treatment of Saddam
Hussein when he was hanged on December 30.

Zaid al-Boudani, a shopkeeper in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, said: I am very
sad today, as many other Muslim Arabs are. This execution is part of the
revenge campaign going on in Iraq. The way his head was ripped off shows
hatred and revenge.
The president of Morocco's Human Rights Center described the hangings as a
barbaric and vengeful act carried out under external pressure, probably
from Iran and the United States.
We had never heard that the head of a hanged person was ripped from his
body, only in this case, which mirrors the hatred and violence, said the
president, Khaled Charkaoui.

Wright provides more details of Arab reaction later in the article:
Issam Ghazzawi, a Jordanian lawyer who saw Barzan on Friday, said he was
convinced the decapitation was deliberate.
His head was cut off after he was hanged to mutilate his body in [...] a
barbaric act of revenge that is against any human values and is vigilante
justice by a group of thugs, he said.

Qassim Abdul-Zahra of the Associated Press, reporting from Baghdad via the
Toronto Star, says http://www.thestar.com/article/171227reaction inside
the occupied country is equally skeptical:
Khalaf al-Olayan, a leader of the main Sunni bloc in parliament, demanded
to see any video taken during the execution.
It is impossible for a person to be decapitated during a hanging, he told
Al-Jazeera television. This shows that they (the government) have
mutilated the body and this is a violation of the law.
We want to see the video that was taken during the execution of the two
men in order for them (government) to prove what they are saying, he added.

Qassim Abdul-Zahra adds:
The two men were to have been hanged along with Saddam, but Iraqi
authorities decided to execute the former dictator alone on what National
Security Adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie called a special day.

Oh, yes! Very special, indeed!

And now we have two special days to recall with extreme fondness, as one
wave of barbaric carnage follows another. The daily death toll barely
warrants a mention:
At least 78 people were reported killed or found dead on Sunday, including
41 bullet-riddled bodies discovered in Baghdad. The U.S. military also said
two American soldiers died Sunday from roadside bombs in Baghdad.

source:
http://winterpatriot.blogspot.com/2007/01/good-morning-baghdad-two-hangings-one.html

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MP SEEKS PROBE OF ZACHARIAH 'TERRORIST' ANANI LECTURER

Windsor Star, 01/15/07
Dale Molnar


Immigration officials must investigate how professed former terrorist 
Zachariah Anani got into the country and obtained Canadian citizenship, 
says Windsor West MP Brian Masse.

Mr. Anani claims he was a terrorist. That's his background. He also became 
a Canadian citizen, so we'll be investigating to find out whether or not 
that information was provided at the time, Masse said following a news
conference Saturday by members of Windsor's Muslim community in response to 
Anani's anti-Islamic lecture series at Campbell Baptist Church.

Anani angered local Muslims when he used passages from the Qur'an during 
his first lecture Jan. 11 to support his view that Islam preaches violence.

Masse said he is going to ask for a ministerial review of Anani's 
citizenship and 1996 claim for refugee status...

As well, members of the Windsor Islamic Association have filed a formal 
complaint with the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

CAIR has sent letters to Ontario Attorney General Michael Bryant asking for 
a prompt investigation into Anani's  lectures under Canada's hate crime 
legislation.

It also sent a letter to the Windsor police Street Crimes Branch requesting 
officers attend Anani's remaining lectures to monitor them for breaches of 
the legislation. Two plainclothes officers were at the first lecture...

source:
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=== News Update ===

Hate Crime : The sick mindset that breeds Islamophobia

 From Popes anti-Islam comments to Church signs saying, You must 
remember, Islam is the enemy, and The Koran needs to be flushed, a 
Church in west Windsor, Canada, came out in its true colors with publicly 
promoting anti-Islam hatred. On January 11, 2007, Campbell Baptist Church 
organized a lecture of a purported former Muslim terrorist, Zachariah 
Anani, to warn the public that Islam is a religion of war being brought to 
Canadian soil.
http://www.icssa.org/article_detail_parse.php?a_id=1046rel=383,325

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MP SEEKS PROBE OF Zachariah 'TERRORIST' Anani LECTURER

Immigration officials must investigate how professed former terrorist 
Zachariah Anani got into the country and obtained Canadian citizenship, 
says Windsor West MP Brian Masse.

Mr. Anani claims he was a terrorist. That's his background. He also became 
a Canadian citizen, so we'll be investigating to find out whether or not 
that information was provided at the time, Masse said following a news
conference Saturday by members of Windsor's Muslim community in response to 
Anani's anti-Islamic lecture series at Campbell Baptist Church.

Anani angered local Muslims when he used passages from the Qur'an during 
his first lecture Jan. 11 to support his view that Islam preaches violence.
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/story.html?id=6b5974e0-f847-49cd-9259-a1d6fa02f8bb
 


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Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America's War On Iraq -  At Least 
655,000 + +

http://tinyurl.com/usq4x

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In 
America'sWar On Iraq 3,020
http://icasualties.org/oif/

The U.S. War On Iraq Costs $358,287,970,262 - See the cost in your community
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapperItemid=182

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Misreading The Enemy

The president cannot seem to let go of his fixation on Al-Qaida, a minor 
actor in Iraq, and his determination to confront Iran and Syria. He still 
assumes that the insurgents are outsiders to their neighborhoods and that 
U.S. troops can chase away the miscreants and keep them out, acting as a 
sort of neighborhood watch in khaki. In fact, Iraq's Sunni Arab elite is 
playing the spoiler, and until a deal is negotiated with its members, no 
one will be allowed to enjoy the new Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16181.htm

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Bush the Empire Slayer

Yeats bemoaned an era when the best lacked all conviction, while the worst 
were full of passionate intensity. Today, Kristol blusters and hectors, 
Cheney scolds and forebodes, Bush struts and smirks. Meanwhile, the giant, 
timid chorus listens politely to the deafening silence of the outragedand 
the mad march of war goes on.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16177.htm

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Elite Propaganda : The Myth of the Liberal Media

Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky demolish one of the central tenets of our 
political culture, the idea of the liberal media. Instead, utilizing a 
systematic model based on massive empirical research, they reveal the 
manner in which the news media are so subordinated to corporate and 
conservative interests that their function can only be described as that of 
elite propaganda.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6435.htm

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Iraq War and the American Peasant

Christopher King explores the phenomenon of the American peasant - that 
segment of US society which, through suspension of all critical faculties 
and indifference to the truth, defy logic and evidence by supporting the 
war against Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16179.htm

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U.N. Officials Question Iraq's USA Puppet Govt Rough Justice

The U.S.-backed government in Baghdad is facing harsh criticism from the 
international community for ignoring calls to adopt a policy of restraint 
with regard to carrying out death sentences against the members of Iraq's 
former ruling party. Reacting to the hanging of Saddam Hussein's two close 
aides Monday, senior U.N. officials and human rights organisations warned 
that the government must end its policy of executions, which they see as 
serious violation of international human rights standards. Those 
responsible for serious human rights violations must be brought to 
justice, said Louise Arbour, the top U.N. official for human rights. But 
to be credible and durable, the fight against impunity must be based on 
respect for international human rights standards...
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m29790hd=size=1l=e

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Good Morning, Baghdad! Two Hangings, One Decapitation Before Breakfast

Public barbarity reached yet another new low this morning -- even for 
occupied Iraq -- when two of Saddam Hussein's former aides were hanged 
before dawn in Baghdad, one of them losing his head in the process. Like 
John Kerry's

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   Mahdi Army



  Iraqi screen





Sunday, January 14, 2007

When the fight broke out with Sader's fallowers and US forces, most of
the journalists heaed to Najef to cover the fight there, while we were
there, we had the chance to speak with one of Sader assistant about
Sader, the father views about Imam Al-mahdi, the man said,  Al-Sader,
the father belives that injustice, corruption and flourish of all sorts
of bad things would help in bring Imam Mahdi back to save the world but
when Imam Al-Mahdi comes to life and look at those who claim that they
are his fallowers and they are waiting for him, he will turn his face
and gets very upset because of their behaviour and incommitments to
Islam.

We could not believe the man when he said that Imam Al-Mahdi will leave
muslems and go to the west nut he insisted on that fact, but today when
we look at the crimes committed by those who call themsleves,  Mahdi
Army, I found that man speech was right and sure Imam Al-Mahdi if he
comes back to life he would get rid of this army who is using his name
for doing very bad things which do not have any relation with the Imam.

Dhiya Ibrahiem, Sunni man in his mid thirtiess with four kids, he just
got back from Syria a week ago after renting an apratment there to take
his family and leave his neighbourhood which is dominated by this bloody
army.

Dhiya who works in selling cars, had few cars that he needed to sell
them to leave Iraq to Mahdi army to turn it a jungle that is suitable
only for them to stay in.

Dhiya was in his shop which is few meters of his family house, sitting
inside his shop when more than 15 armed sectarian cirminal broke in his
shop ordering him to come with them, he tried to resist but their guns
was on his head in a way he could not do anything.

They were in two cars and they put him in his car and ranaway to Al-
Hurriyia district, the den of the criminals.

Dhiya was thrown in the trank of his car and while he was isnide teh
trank, his mobile was with him, he rang his family saying,  Mahdi
militia took me.

These were the last words Dhyia family heard from him and then he
disappeared, the family did not leave a place to ask about their son
only the forenisc department because no Sunni dares to go there to
collect teh body of his relative, otherwise he himslef he would be
killed because this bloody filthy militia is waiting their like hungry
vampires to kill the relatives of their Suni victims.

The family decided to send their Shiite neighbour to go to the forenisc
department and look for Dhiya because sure he would be one of the 100
unknown body every day found in Baghdad while the Iraqi officials are
sitting in the Green Zone counting their millions and stating that the
situation is imporving and that their government is the government of
the national unity.

The Shiite neighbour found Dhiya sinking in his blood at the forensic
department after receiving five bullets in his head and his face and
that his hand was on face just to avoid the bullets in a way his fingers
were cut too.

Along the trip from Dhiya house till Abu Ghraib graveyard, Dhiya mother
was trying to have one look to say goodbye to her son and when the
coffin was open, it was full of blood in a way, Dhiya mother became full
of blood while she was trying to give him her last kiss.

I was talking with a singer from Sader city who is chased by the co
called Mahdi army, he said,  I swear to you, these bloody guys who are
chasing me and they want to kill me because I am a singer, I know them
all because I am Shiite from Sader city, all of them are drug adicts and
they drink wines and do all sorts of bad things, now, they tallk about
religion and this is Halal and this Haram, may God curse be upon them.

source:
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  === News Update ===



 9/11 : Al Qaeda Doesn't Exist



al-Qaeda is Fiction - The organization doesn't exist as a large
terrorist organization

There's no such thing as al Qaeda, or al Qaida, or however you want to
spell it. It's a fraud perpetrated on the American people by our own
government to scare us into submission. 

This is a clip from the excellent three-part BBC documentary The Power
of Nightmares. 

You can watch the whole thing on Google Video or download it at:
scholarsfor911truth.org. 

Transcripts are available in various places : 
http://marc.perkel.com/archives/000753.html

including here:
http://disruptive.org.uk/20050129.power-nightmares/.

see clip at:
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-9213554821937648649

see also: 
http://marc.perkel.com/archives/000753.html


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 9/11 : The Power of Nightmares


UK Prime Minister and US President George W Bush stand behind a picture
of Osama Bin Laden

Should we be worried about the threat from organised terrorism or is it
simply a phantom menace being used to stop society from falling apart?

Click here to send us your comments

In the past our politicians offered us dreams of a better world. Now
they promise to protect us from nightmares.

The most frightening of these is the threat of an international terror
network. But just as the dreams were not true, neither are these
nightmares. 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/3755686.stm

The Power of Nightmares - BBC News Documentary


  * PartOne: The Rise of the Politics of Fear 
  * PartTwo: The Phantom Victory 
  * PartThree: Conclusion 


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9/11 : Transcripts of The Power of Nightmares


These were taken from the transcriptions which were done by Mike Conley.

HTML versions
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3

PDF versions
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3

http://disruptive.org.uk/20050129.power-nightmares/

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Scholars for 9/11 Truth


Exposing Falsehoods and Revealing Truths
http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org/#AV

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 9/11 : Absolute Power


The real reason the Bush administration won't back down on Guantanamo.

Why is the United States poised to try Jose Padilla as a dangerous
terrorist, long after it has become perfectly clear that he was just the
wrong Muslim in the wrong airport on the wrong day?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16171.htm

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Hate crime or free speech? Windsor police board member wants anti-Islam
   lecturer arrested


A member of the Windsor Police Services Board says the anti-Islamic
lecture held at a Baptist church Thursday night was a hate crime, and
he's leading the charge to have the speaker arrested.

Now a Christian convert, Anani said Islamic doctrine teaches the
ambushing, seizing and slaying of non-believers, especially Jews and
Christians. He said Islam is a religion that worships a god who strikes
with terror.

Pastor Donald McKay, who heads the Baptist church of about 350 members,
also called Islam oppressive and vicious.
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/story.html?id=465428a2-657b-4732-
b12f-e07548dda592


MMN Note: We have also compiled this information on the Claims made by
Zachariah Anani
See: http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net/anani.htm

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 Is the United States a military dictatorship?


Is the United States a military dictatorship?  Three stories all from
January 14, 2007
http://www.xymphora.blogspot.com/

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 The Folly of Total War


Is Dubya's objective to see how many wars he can start at one time?
Let's see, there's Iraq Attack II, of course, the family affair, and
then there's North Korea, that bit of fifty year old unresolved
business, and now there's Pakistan where the US bombed a religious
school the other day. If you really want to groom hatred, simply bomb
religious schools, hospitals, water purification plants, electrical
grids, etc. Then there's Bahrain where the people rioted against the
presence of US troops the other day. In Kuwait, policemen are taking
potshots at soldiers. According to the Russian newspaper Moskovsky
Komsomolets, over a hundred US soldiers are missing in Afghanistan.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?
context=viewArticlecode=20070113articleId=4445

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   A Time to Break Silence - A time comes when silence is betrayal.


In his Beyond Vietnam speech delivered at New York's Riverside Church
on April 4, 1967 -- a year to the day

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  === News Update ===



 The Folly of Total War



 Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire






January 13, 2006

Is Dubya's objective to see how many wars he can start at one time?
Let's see, there's Iraq Attack II, of course, the family affair, and
then there's North Korea, that bit of fifty year old unresolved
business, and now there's Pakistan where the US bombed a religious
school the other day. If you really want to groom hatred, simply bomb
religious schools, hospitals, water purification plants, electrical
grids, etc. Then there's Bahrain where the people rioted against the
presence of US troops the other day. In Kuwait, policemen are taking
potshots at soldiers. According to the Russian newspaper Moskovsky
Komsomolets, over a hundred US soldiers are missing in Afghanistan.

Reality check for the neocon chicken hawks -- the US is not set up to
wage multiple wars in multiple theaters across the world. Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, of all people, should know this -- yet he
tells the world no problem, the US can wage multiple wars and win them
hands down. The message of the holiday season is peace on Earth,
Rumsfeld told the troops over Christmas. Yet, despite our best hopes,
history shows that this season of peace has often been a time of war.
Donald Rumsfeld, as the Grinch who stole Christmas, ordered the carpet
bombing of Who-ville. No one quite knows the reason. It could be his
head wasn't screwed on just right. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes
were too tight. But I think that the most likely reason of all may have
been that his heart was two sizes too small.

I don't like the word crisis, said Secretary of State Colin Powell the
other day, it suggests we're about to move forces or there's a war
about to break out, and that's not the case at all. Powell is often at
odds with the neocons who have exclusive permission to yell strident
directives in the ear of his half-wit boss. In the months before Dubya
was installed in the White House these dogmatic neocons made their
intentions known. The core mission of the US military is to fight and
decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theater wars... the process
of transformation is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic
and catalyzing event -- like a new Pearl Harbor. As the neocon Richard
Perle -- known in Washington by the affectionate moniker the Prince of
Darkness -- told the journalist John Pilger, the US must wage a total
war against a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there.
All this talk about first we are going to do Afghanistan, then we will
do Iraq... this is entirely the wrong way to go about it. If we just let
our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely and we
don't try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a total
war... our children will sing great songs about us years from now. 

So, Mr. Powell, climb onboard -- or your children will not be allowed to
sing great songs about mass murder and endless wars of conquest. Of
course, your children may choose not to live in the world after the
neocons are finished with it -- a world ravaged by mini-nukes and
poisoned by countless tons of depleted uranium, a world where the grand
imperatives of imperial geostrategy, as Zbigniew Brzezinski so candidly
put it, are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among
the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the
barbarians from coming together. The New Feudalism envisioned by the
Bush neocons may require multiple wars fought with designer nukes
(specifically engineered for regional conflict), as the Rumsfeld-Grinch
Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) spells out. Nuclear war's not strictly for
deterrence anymore, but a force intended primarily for war-fighting,
as Robert K. Musil, Executive Director and CEO of Physicians for Social
Responsibility explains. Future warfare scenarios may require low-yield
nuclear options, says the Heritage Foundation matter-of-factly. Get
used to it.

Now imagine the above mentioned multiple, simultaneous major theater
wars fought against a variety of enemies using low-yield nuclear
options. Hold that wretched thought in mind and then consider what
David W. Allan, esteemed atomic clock physicist, has to say about such
madness. Detonating many nuclear explosions at once, such as in a
nuclear war scenario, would be like focusing a giant blow torch toward
the center of the earth, writes Allen. Not only would this exacerbate
the green-house effect, it would also contribute to polar ice cap
melting and the rise of ocean levels and the inundation of the
continents with water. If you live in England, you might want to think
about moving. Even without a noxious concert of nukes going off

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  === News Update ===



The Israeli policy in the Occupied Territories: what should one call it?





By: Victoria Buch- Jan 14, 2007









The State of Israel calls it “fight for existence” or “fight against
terror”. Its detractors call it “colonization”, “apartheid”, or “ethnic
cleansing”. Baruch Kimmerling coined the term “politicide of
Palestinians”. Edward Said spoke of slow bleeding. Recently, even words
such as “genocide”[1] have been used. Let us try to define the Israeli
policy, and then grapple with the question of proper naming.
 
It should be stated in advance, that by “policy” I mean consistent long
term developments pursued by the different Israeli governments in the
Occupied Territories. Its major element has been massive settlement
construction in conjunction with land grab. By now the number of Israeli
Jewish citizens residing beyond Israel’s 1967 border nears 0.44 million
(including Jerusalem). The built-up area of the settlements consists of
less than 3% of the area of the West Bank, but the area which they
officially dominate (municipal jurisdiction) constitutes over 40% [2].
Presently, more than 1/3 of the West Bank is out of reach for most
Palestinians [3]. A second element has been confinement of West Bank
Palestinians to disconnected enclaves, and attrition of the enclaves by
military invasions and economic blockade [4]. 
 
On the other hand, I shall attach little significance to the recent
Olmert-Abbas meeting, and to recent declarations by PM Olmert of
forthcoming goodwill gestures towards Palestinians. Similar declarations
by Israeli leaders were made periodically in the past, and have thus
been an integral part of the Israeli policy. However, the “goodwill
gestures” were never carried through to any significant extent, for any
significant length of time [5]. Not a dent was made in the large-scale
settlement and expropriation projects noted above.  Thus, the obvious
significance of such declarations is a publicity gimmick designed to
make Israel look good in the eyes of the public, which is ignorant of
the reality on the ground, and mistakes the declarations for reality.
Also, as noted astutely by D. Breslau, such declarations often serve as
a prelude for a major military invasion to the Occupied Territories. 

To assess the Israeli policy one needs to face squarely the grim reality
in the Occupied Territories, and to look through periodic publicity
exercises. One aspect of this reality transpires through the following
translation of a letter from a soldier, received by Yesh Gvul - an
organization of Israeli men who refuse military service in the Occupied
Territories. I quote such an ugly letter, since in my view, it is
indicative of the strong current inside the IDF:
 
“Hello, as written above, my name is Ofir and all I have to say is that
for 3 years I have committed `war crimes` as you guys define it. I have
beaten and shot Palestinians and their belongings. I even have plenty of
pictures. I really enjoyed it and I was even a commander, a Platoon
Sergeant, and later a Sergeant-Major of a company. The entire company
did similar things. I must admit that I am proud of what I did there. I
don't give a damn about those beasts you call Palestinians, and don't
give a damn about you guys. I think you should all be sent to camps, you
and your friends across the border. OK, I am sure you are nothing but a
bunch of old ladies who came up with this temporary solution to your
boredom, to pass time between retirement and death... I am sure you
won't bother to read this but just in case, you should know that I am
quite smart (engineering major), young (23), secular, not some settler
loonie from the OT, and yet, I think you shouldn't be living with us. I
wish you all get the worst disease there is, you and your kids. Die.
Nazi assholes.” 
 
The adjectives applied by the author of the letter to Yesh Gvul
activists are not of much interest beyond evoking an old Jewish saying
“A condemner condemns himself” (“Ha-posel be’mumo posel”). Of much
greater interest is this man’s self image – he views himself as just a
“regular guy”.  Most “regular people” acquire their value systems from
the surroundings. It appears that the army leaders want the soldiers to
view Arabs as “those beasts”. The army leaders seem to view them
likewise.  
 
And if you do not believe me – observe the current policy in Gaza, the
West Bank, and, last summer, in Lebanon. The principle is simple – “the
more damage to the Arabs, the better”. Otherwise, how can you explain
spreading of millions of cluster bombs all over South Lebanon just
before the retreat from Lebanon? In view of the commanders, the act must
have been equivalent to spraying pesticide before leaving a room. And
what is the point of

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  === News Update ===



  Iraqi Sunnis Rebuild Destroyed Shiite Shrine



   By Mazen Ghazi and Nada Omran, IOL Correspondents





  * BAGHDAD, February 26, 2006 (IslamOnline.net) – In a gesture of
goodwill, Iraqi Sunnis in the northern city of Samarra are
working tirelessly to rebuild the Golden Mosque, one of the
holiest Shiite shrines which was devastated in an odious
explosion last week.


The initiative came soon after the explosion in solidarity with our
Shiite brothers, Abu Oqba Al-Samarrai told IslamOnline.net Monday,
February 27, after collecting golden pieces of the mosque's destroyed
dome.

He said people of different age groups have volunteered to remove the
ruble in a love demonstration.

Elderly, women, children and men of [predominantly Sunni] Samarra rush
to the tomb to remove the debris, using shovels and manual carriages,
he explained.

Women provided food and water to exhausted men after a long day of hard
work to get the job done as soon as possible.

The men chant in unison Islamic songs to kill time, Samarrai said.

More than 200 people have been killed since Wednesday, February 22, when
the Golden Mosque was destroyed in a bombing that sparked a wave of tit-
for-tat killings and led the defense minister to warn of the danger of
endless civil war.

The main Sunni political coalition announced on Thursday, February 23,
boycotting talks on government formation after the sectarian attacks,
while Shiite leader Muqtada Al-Sadr ordered protection for Sunni mosques
in predominantly Shiites areas.

On Saturday, February 25, Shiite scholars from the Sadr and Khalsi
schools met with Sunni leaders in Baghdad's premier Sunni mosque Abu
Hanifa, where they both prayed under the leadership of prominent Sunni
imam Abdel Salam Al-Qubaissi.

The meeting also announced the formation of a commission to determine
the reasons for the crisis with a view to solving it, while also
calling for a timetable for the withdrawal of US troops.

Donations

Chairman of the Sunni Waqfs Ahmad Abdul Ghaffor Al-Samarrai has declared
that his body will donate two billion Iraqi dinars ($1,350 million) to
reconstruct the shrine..

The Shiite shrine contains the tombs of the 10th and 11th imams, Ali Al-
Hadi, who died in 868 A.D., and his son Hassan Al-Askari, who died in
874 A.D.

Tradition says the shrine, which draws Shiite pilgrims from around the
world, is near the place where the last of the 12 Shiite imams, Muhammad
Al-Mahdi, disappeared.

Shiites believe he is still alive and will return to restore justice to
humanity.

Shiite scholar Jawad Al-Khalsi has said the shrine bombing was a planned
and a specialist work.

The Iraqi capital returned to relative normality on Monday with the end
of an extended curfew that had seen a traffic ban to reduce the threat
of further violence.

Residents were moving freely, with cars back on the roads under the
direction of traffic police.

source:
http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2006-02/27/article01.shtml

Also read:


  * Sunnis  Shiites: Overlooking Differences 

  * Iraqi Sunnis Battle To Defend Shiites 


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  === News Update ===



Hate Crime : Rage over anti-Islam rally


Controversy filled a west Windsor church where the lecture of a
purported former Muslim terrorist warned that Islam is a religion of war
being brought to Canadian soil. In a speech at Campbell Baptist Church
on Thursday night, 49-year-old Zachariah Anani said that Islamic
doctrine teaches nothing less than the ambushing, seizing and slaying
of non-believers -- especially Jews and Christians.

Violence keeps going on, said Anani, a Lebanese-born convert to
Christianity who came to Windsor in 1997.

'No Prisoners'

The hour-long talk, entitled The Deadly Threat of Islam, described the
religion as worshipping a god who fights and kills and strikes with
terror, and allows no prisoners in battles against non-believers.

That's how Islamic doctrine obliges its followers to conduct in war
time, Anani said.
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/story.html?
id=8f12e622-3aa5-47c8-86ac-6eecddd92b07k=71255


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  CAIR-CAN and Windsor Muslims Ask Police to Investigate Possible Hate
 Speech



- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -

(Ottawa, Canada – Jan 13, 2007) The Canadian Council on American-Islamic
Relations (CAIR-CAN), Muslim Association of Canada (MAC), Windsor
Islamic Association, Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), and Al
Hijra Mosque and School, are asking the Windsor  Police in Ontario to
investigate the lecture series, “The Deadly Threat of Islam,” as a
possible forum for hate speech. The talks, sponsored by Windsor’s
Theological Institute in association with the Campbell Baptist Church,
are taking place each Thursday until February 1.
URL: www.caircan.ca

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ZIONIST RACIST : ISRAELI ARABS (PALESTINIANS) RACIALLY PROFILED


Israel constantly denies that its Arab citizens are treated any
differently than its Jewish ones. In plain, simple English... that is
nothing but a lie.

The following report that I have linked HERE is from the Electronic
Intifada, it is true... I have seen it happen at the airport, I
travelled with Palestinians and witnessed their harassment while I was
allowed through security without a problem... simply because I am a Jew.
The Palestinians I speak of are Israeli citizens, carrying Israeli
passports.

Yet, the State of Israel denies these antics makes one wonder what
else they might be lying about.

Read the report by clicking the following headline... :
Suspected Citizens: Racial Profiling against Arab Passengers by Israeli
Airports and Airlines
Report, Arab Association for Human Rights and Center Against Racism, 12
January 2007 
http://desertpeace.blogspot.com/2007/01/israeli-arabs-palestinians-
racially.html

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  Culture of War: Source of Human Suffering and Death 


If the US President was not born and raised in a culture of war, he
would have never dreamt in a million years to invade a nation that posed
no threat whatsoever to the United States.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16163.htm

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 Reading Bush : “If you are afraid to speak out, you are not in America
 any more” - ‘unknown’


The United States, once known as the beacon of democracy, finds itself
in a dilemma. It is faced with a President that is deaf to the people.
In his address to the nation on January 10, 2007 he left little doubt
that he means to rule over the people he was ‘elected’ to serve. 
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16166.htm

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How many lies can one presidential speech hold?


A critique of Bush's address to the nation
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16165.htm

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Cry Iraq


the voice-with-a-smile of democracy announces night and day all poor
little peoples that want to be free just trust in the u.s.a. e. e.
cummings, thanksgiving, 12

The upshot is that the US program for the Arab world has become the same
as Israel's for Palestine. If the Iraq of yesteryear stood for an Arab
identity par excellence, today, it represents the loss of that very
identity. The aim of the invasion was to reshape the Middle East so that
Palestine will become Israel, Jordan Palestine, and Iraq the Hashemite
Kingdom.
http://www.countercurrents.org/iraq-marrouchi130107.htm

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   America Cannot Win the War in Iraq


The situation in Iraq is deteriorating, maybe even spiraling out of
control towards all out civil war. The insurgency movement in Iraq is
growing, making nation building on the part of America and its allies

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  === News Update ===

 NGOs to sue US over WMD claims

 From correspondents in Niamey
January 14, 2007


SOME 30 non-governmental organisations in Niger said overnight they are
going to sue the United States for nearly two billion dollars for
unfairly accusing Niger of selling uranium to the late Iraqi dictator
Saddam Hussein.
Our lawyers are about to file a lawsuit against the US calling for
damages of about 1000 billion CFA francs ($2.42 billion dollars) for the
harm suffered by the country, Moustapha Kadi, president of the
Collective of organisations in Niger defending the right to energy
(CODDAE).


The lawsuit by the collective will be filed at either French or Belgian
courts, Kadi added.

In January 2003, US President George W. Bush accused Saddam of having
bought uranium from Niger to make weapons of mass destruction.

The Niger collective said in a statement that investigations by the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), world media and US officials,
all concluded that it was a false accusation against Niger.

That false information was used by Bush to invade Iraq, said the
collective's statement, which also called for support from Niger's
President Mamadou Tandja, who back in 2003 said the US allegations were
harming Niger's image.

Niger is the world's third-largest producer of uranium with about nine
percent of the global market, according to 2003 figures.

The country's two uranium deposits have been mined for 40 years by the
French group Areva, number one in civil nuclear energy. 

source:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21057247-1702,00.html

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[media-dakwah] Iraq Cry : An urgent plea from the people of Haditha

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  === News Update ===

   An urgent plea from the people of Haditha

 Mr. Zaid Mahdi



Janury 12, 2007

Peace be upon you, I am one of the residents of Haditha, a city under
siege for two months now, by the American and Iraqi forces. We have
serious shortages of food stuffs and medical supplies. Movements within
the city itself is restricted and there are many isolated communities
running out of food and fuel.

The situation is dire, I beg you, help us make our voice heard by the
good people of the world, Alert your representatives and government
officials. Help us avert a humanitarian disaster and put an end to the
harassment and humiliation we are currently suffering.


Sender Mr. Zaid Mahdi
Date 11/1/2007

source:
http://www.iraq4allnews.dk/index.php?sec=newsact=view_newsid=14932

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[media-dakwah] Instead of “al-Qaeda,” U.S. Kills Nomads in Somalia

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  === News Update ===

  Instead of “al-Qaeda,” U.S. Kills Nomads in Somalia

 Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire



January 13, 2006

As usual, it takes a few days for the truth to emerge, not that the
corporate media here in America notices. 

Instead of killing Fazul Abdullah Moham-med, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan and
Abu Taha al-Sudani, supposedly al-Qaeda operatives responsible for the
1998 US embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, the Pentagon
killed herdsmen … gathered with their animals around large fires at
night to ward off mosquitoes in Somalia, according to the Independent. 

Oxfam yesterday confirmed at least 70 nomads in the Afmadow district
near the border with Kenya had been killed. The nomads were bombed at
night and during the day while searching for water sources. Meanwhile,
the US ambassador to Kenya has acknowledged that the onslaught on
Islamist fighters failed to kill any of the three prime targets,
described as backfir[ing] spectacularly by the British newspaper. 

All of this runs counter to the assertions of U.S. ambassador, Michael
Ranneberger, who said that no civilians had been killed or injured and
that only one attack had taken place. The UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR,
reported that an estimated 100 people were wounded in Monday’s air
strikes on the small fishing village of Ras Kamboni launched from the US
military base in Djibouti after a mobile phone intercept. It is not
explained why impoverished nomads, in search of water, would be in
possession of cell phones (or, for that matter, why there are cell phone
towers in a remote area of one of the world’s poorest countries). 

As should be expected, the operations against innocent Somalis serve but
one purpose only, that is beyond satiating the blood lust of Muslim
hating neocons—it was an excuse to get boots on the ground for the
first time since a 1993 mission backfired and led to a humiliating
withdrawal from Somalia, a mission mythologized in violent Hollywood
fashion in the film Black Hawk Down. 

Under international law, there is a duty to distinguish between
military and civilian targets, said Paul Smith-Lomas, Oxfam’s regional
director. We are deeply concerned that this principle is not being
adhered to, and that innocent people in Somalia are paying the price,
as innocent people have since the neocons captured the Oval Office and
large swaths of the Pentagon. 

It is of no concern to the Pentagon that above mentioned terrorists
were not killed and innocent nomads suffered instead. In fact, such
reckless behavior will serve as a blueprint for future operations
against Muslim enemies. 

U.S. commandos’ military operations in Somalia and the use of the
Ethiopian army as a surrogate force to root out al Qaeda operatives
there provide a blueprint for counterterrorism missions across the
globe, Pentagon strategists say, reports the neocon propaganda
syndicate, the New York Times. U.S. officials said the recent military
efforts in Somalia have been led by the Pentagon’s joint Special
Operations Command, which directs the military’s most secretive and
elite units, including the Army’s Delta Force. 

The Pentagon’s Special Operations Command runs P2OG, or the Proactive
and Preemptive Operations Group, a black budgeted psyop designed to
stimulate reactions among terrorists, or maybe that should be
nomadic animal herding Muslims careless enough to light fires as AC-130
gunships roam the night skies. 

Unfortunately, many Somalis live in the Pentagon’s battlespace where
we are told al-Qaeda operates, thus putting their sovereignty … at
risk, as an August 16, 2002, Power Point presentation held at the
Defense Science Board made abundantly clear. 

Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told members of
Congress on Friday that a U.S. airstrike by an AC-130 gunship early this
week in Somalia was executed under the Pentagon’s authority to hunt down
and kill terrorism suspects around the world, a power given to it by the
White House shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks. 

Bush and crew believe the non-declaration of war against Iraq—that is to
say, a war not declared by Congress, as required by Article One,
Section Eight of the Constitution—gives them the right to attack
anybody, anywhere, without regard to Article 51 of the First Protocol to
the Geneva Conventions, stating that parties shall at all times
distinguish between the civilian population and combatants and
accordingly shall direct their operations only against military
objectives. 

But then neocons don’t do the Geneva Conventions—or the Constitution for
that matter. 

Democrat members of Congress complained, if slightly, that the Pentagon
is using U.S. forces outside declared combat zones, thus giving the
Pentagon too much authority in

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ZIONIST RACIST : ISRAELI ARABS (PALESTINIANS) RACIALLY PROFILED

  DesertPeace


January 13, 2007

Israel constantly denies that its Arab citizens are treated any
differently than its Jewish ones. In plain, simple English... that is
nothing but a lie.

The following report that I have linked HERE is from the Electronic
Intifada, it is true... I have seen it happen at the airport, I
travelled with Palestinians and witnessed their harassment while I was
allowed through security without a problem... simply because I am a Jew.
The Palestinians I speak of are Israeli citizens, carrying Israeli
passports.

Yet, the State of Israel denies these antics makes one wonder what
else they might be lying about.

source:
http://desertpeace.blogspot.com/2007/01/israeli-arabs-palestinians-
racially.html

  ===

Suspected Citizens: Racial Profiling against Arab Passengers by Israeli
 Airports and Airlines

Report, Arab Association for Human Rights and Center Against Racism, 12
  January 2007





  The following is the introduction to the report Suspected Citizens:
Racial Profiling against Arab Passengers by Israeli Airports and
   Airlines, issued in December 2006


Salah Ya'aqubi is an Arab citizen of Israel who lives in the village of
Reineh, close to Nazareth. He is a cum laude student in the Department
of Nursing in Tel Aviv University. In 2005, Tel Aviv University chose
Ya'aqubi as one of its representatives at an international conference
held in London. Three other students from the institution were also
selected to participate in the conference. The four students served as
representatives of the State of Israel at the event.

On the day of their flight, Ya'aqubi and the three Jewish students
arrived together at Ben Gurion Airport. The four were due to fly with
the Israeli air carrier Israir. During the routine security inspection,
the security staff inspected the baggage of all four students using x-
ray scanners. The Jewish students then moved on and their passports were
stamped, while Ya'aqubi was obliged to undergo a special security
inspection. The security personnel stated that they intended to
undertake a manual search of his baggage. During the course of the
manual inspection, the security personnel overturned Ya'aqubi's bag with
all his belongings in it, and then asked him to accompany them to a side
room so that they could ask him some questions. When Ya'aqubi attempted
to ascertain the reason for this special interrogation, which his Jewish
friends were not required to undergo, one security guard replied that
these are our instructions, and they come from high up. The security
personnel asked Ya'aqubi numerous questions: where he was going, what
the purpose of his visit was, and so on. After completing the
questioning, the security personnel ordered Ya'aqubi to accompany them
to another room, where he was again asked the same questions. When he
commented that he had already answered these questions, and that his
baggage had already been examined, one of the security personnel told
him that these were their instructions, adding, I don't care what they
asked you before. The security guards did not claim that there were any
specific suspicions against Ya'aqubi or that he presented any danger.

Eventually, after the additional security inspections were completed,
Ya'aqubi got on the airplane and flew to the conference. His feeling was
that he had been required to undergo a special security inspection
because of his national origin, i.e. because he is an Arab. At the end
of the conference, as the students headed back to Israel, the phenomenon
repeated itself. Ya'aqubi and the Jewish members of the delegation went
through the routine inspections at the inspection points of the British
authorities. Their baggage was examined and they were politely asked a
number of questions. After this inspection was completed, Ya'aqubi was
again asked to undergo an additional inspection by Israeli security
personnel. After his baggage was examined in an x-ray scanner, the
Israeli security personnel demanded to perform a manual search, claiming
that there was suspicion that his case contained molecules of
explosives. Ya'aqubi stated that he had no doubt that his baggage
contained nothing other than his personal belongings. The security
personnel also insisted on carrying out a manual search of Ya'aqubi's
hand baggage.

After the inspections were completed, the Israeli security personnel
informed Ya'aqubi that his large bag would be held at the airport for
several days and then sent to Reineh, his home village. Ya'aqubi was
then taken into

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  “If you are afraid to speak out, you are not in America any more” -
   ‘unknown’

   By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich



01/13/07 Information Clearing House -- - The United States, once known
as the beacon of democracy, finds itself in a dilemma. It is faced with
a President that is deaf to the people. In his address to the nation on
January 10, 2007 he left little doubt that he means to rule over the
people he was ‘elected’ to serve. In tune with everything else he does,
he has devalued the meaning of the word democracy and eroded its ideals;
which explains why he is ‘dictating’ democracy to other nations. 

“But victory in Iraq will bring something new in the Arab world - a
functioning democracy that polices its territory, upholds the rule of
law, respects fundamental human liberties, and answers to its people.”

Even if one were to allow for the fact that he is no longer in touch
with his faculties, one would think that his speech writers would not
make such a slip. Wasn’t there a clear indication from the people that
in our so-called democracy the people to whom he is answerable, told him
to deescalate the American presence in Iraq? He is obliterating the rule
of the law, disrespecting fundamental human liberties and yet he is
demanding that the Arab world exercise democracy. Clearly the Arab world
fare far better not following his suit for at least hundreds of
thousands of lives would be spared.

Much like the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, Mr. Bush is misleading the
American people about what the mission in Iraq is and will continue to
be. He had this to say:

“A democratic Iraq will not be perfect. But it will be a country that
fights terrorists instead of harboring them - and it will help bring a
future of peace and security for our children and grandchildren.” 

He forgets that in a digital age, history, especially recent history, is
recorded. It was Mr. Bush’s White House that offered sanctuary to
terrorists in Iraq. Even the US Department Personnel as well as non-US
personnel were taken aback when Mr. Bush ordered MEK terrorists to be
granted ‘special persons status’ under the Geneva Conventions . Yet here
he is, at the height of hypocrisy, relying on our short memories, asking
for American soldiers to ‘sacrifice’ so that Iraqis will not harbor
terrorists. 

“Countries like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and the Gulf States need to
understand that an American defeat in Iraq would create a new sanctuary
for extremists - and a strategic threat to their survival.”

Mr. Bush is calling to his friends in the region, all of whom happen to
be ruled by dictators, to cooperate in the war against Iran, the next
war he has planned for the region. The stability of Iraq has never been
his concern, nor the death of the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. Did
he have these thoughts as the Mother Of All Bombs (MOAB) were sent to
Iraq as part of the arsenal? Iraqis are irrelevant. Mr. Bush now needs
the cooperation of Saudi Arabia. A country which due to its
authoritarian rule and relationship with the United States gave birth to
al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden’s hatred of the West. Is Mr. Bush’s love of
Saudi Arabia simply the oil or is it the fact that the Sunni insurgents
killing American soldiers, the al- Qaeda network that is spread over 60
countries, stemmed from Saudi Arabia and need to be controlled by Mr.
Bush’s Saudi allies? Maybe it is their hatred of and rivalry with
Iranians or simply it’s their fondness of democracy! 

After all, there is no limit to this President’s love for ‘democracy’.
While his aim is to uproot the Tehran regime with bombs, he appeals to
the Saudi regime to understand that Iraq’s stability is paramount to
their survival – the survival of their despotism. Not long ago, a $47
billion arms deal between America’s close ally the British and the
Saudis was concluded and cleverly concealed from the public. There were
two chilling stipulations to this deal: first, that the Brits would
freeze their ongoing investigation into certain royal family members;
and the second far more important stipulation was that they would expel
from England two Moslem, Saudi progressive thinkers who were pro-
democracy ; reducing the risk of contaminating the Saudis with the
ideals of democracy. Those who believe Mr. Bush has a Wilsonian agenda
may want to re-evaluate their supposition.

Clearly 20,000 soldiers will not be enough to confront Iran militarily.
There are only two scenarios. The draft will be instituted early in 2007
and soldiers will be asked to serve a mad man – or worse still, there
will be weapons of mass destruction deployed, the plans of which were
drawn up in 2003. 

In an August 1, 2005

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=== News Update ===

Hate Crime - Rage over anti-Islam rally

Dalson Chen - Windsor Star

Friday, January 12, 2007

Controversy filled a west Windsor church where the lecture of a purported
former Muslim terrorist warned that Islam is a religion of war being
brought to Canadian soil.

In a speech at Campbell Baptist Church on Thursday night, 49-year-old
Zachariah Anani said that Islamic doctrine teaches nothing less than the
ambushing, seizing and slaying of non-believers -- especially Jews and
Christians.

Violence keeps going on, said Anani, a Lebanese-born convert to
Christianity who came to Windsor in 1997.

'No Prisoners'

The hour-long talk, entitled The Deadly Threat of Islam, described the
religion as worshipping a god who fights and kills and strikes with
terror, and allows no prisoners in battles against non-believers.

That's how Islamic doctrine obliges its followers to conduct in war time,
Anani said.

More than 120 people packed the church to hear Anani's speech.

Many came to contest his views in a question period that often grew heated
with raised voices talking over each other.

You're inciting hatred by the title of tonight's topic, argued Gary
Roberts while waving a hand with emotion.

Roberts, a 50-year-old Windsor resident, said he's not a member of the
church, but decided to come to the meeting as soon as he learned of it. I
just couldn't sit back and not say nothing, he said. I had to vent.

Windsor police said two officers in plain clothes attended the lecture at
the church's request.

Donald McKay, senior pastor at the church, said the event was organized
simply to propagate what the church believes to be absolute truth.

We have no desire to be offensive. We have no desire to polarize people
unnecessarily, McKay said.

But in asking Anani to clarify points of his speech, McKay described the
Islamic faith as oppressive and vicious.

The Muslims are coming over here to Windsor, Canada, for the purpose of
advancing this faith, McKay said.

A group of seven male Muslims who attended the meeting shook their heads at
Anani's speech. At the start of the event, the men declined to stand for
the church's hymn as a sign of protest.

Tarik Mohammed, 32, said that Anani took quotes from the Qur'an out of
context, and demonstrated he could do the same with the Bible's Old Testament.

If I want to go through this, I can find a lot about killing, Mohammed
said to Anani.

What you did tonight, you preached hate. You did not preach
Christianity What you did right now is causing instability in our
community and throughout the world.

Gabriel Keresztes, who converted to Islam from Christianity three years
ago, agreed with Mohammed.

You cannot sweep and generalize everything and you cannot put everyone in
a box, said the 23-year-old Windsor resident. We stepped a step back
tonight in history, in the community of Windsor.

McKay said he finds it interesting that advocates of Islam would argue for
tolerance. Islam is the most intolerant religion in the world today.

McKay said Anani killed hundreds of people in the name of Allah before
converting to Christianity, and Anani has brought his perspective to such
media outlets as CNN and Fox News.

Anani said he was responsible for deaths while engaged in the Lebanese
civil war before a missionary showed him the Christian path in 1975.

According to Anani, his goal is awakening people to the truth.

We've been bombarded all the time about how good and nice is Islam, Anani
said.

During the question period, 46-year-old church member Bruno Franciskovic
yelled that Muslims were responsible for the suicide attacks on the World
Trade Center.

This day and age, you don't hear about Christians doing things like that,
Franciskovic shouted.

Fatimah Abdullah, a 46-year-old Windsor Muslim, responded by shouting
Timothy McVeigh -- the U.S. citizen responsible for the Oklahoma City
bombing in 1995.

Abdullah said she found Anani's views misinformed and ignorant.

I can't see this as hate-mongering. I see this as ignorance, she said.
This is an effort to push Christianity at the victimization of the truth.

The lecture was the first in a series of four this month.

Anani said he's not intimidated by the reaction to his first lecture, and
the series will continue as planned. It's always like that.

source:
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/story.html?id=8f12e622-3aa5-47c8-86ac-6eecddd92b07k=71255

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CAIR-CAN and Windsor Muslims Ask Police to Investigate Possible Hate Speech

- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -

(Ottawa, Canada Jan 13, 2007) The Canadian Council on American-Islamic
Relations (CAIR-CAN), Muslim Association of Canada (MAC), Windsor Islamic
Association, Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), and Al Hijra Mosque
and School, are asking the Windsor Police in Ontario to investigate

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  === News Update ===

 Baghdad : News Flash!

  Layla Anwar



January 11, 2006

Three very reliable eyewitnesses confirmed to me the following :

- Al Adhamiya District , a predominantly Sunni neighborhood, has been
shelled heavily.
The home of one of the persons has been partly blown away. She and her
husband saw several corpses , at least three according to her, lying in
different streets in Adhamiya.
She and her husband were not quite sure if it was the Iraqi Army, the
US occupation forces or the Mahdi Death Squads. Her husband added: It
is probably the three of them.

- Karrada District, a mixed neighborhood. Sunni/Shi'a and Christians.
The third person stated that they have been without electricity for the
5th day in a row.
The shelling and mortar bombs have been continuous. Since most Iraqi
homes use gas or kerosene for heating , they have been freezing. It is
impossible to go out and purchase any.
Supplies are short and it is too dangerous to leave the house.

End of the News Flash . Happy Dreams !

source:
http://arabwomanblues.blogspot.com/2007/01/news-flash.html

  ===

   News Flash ! continued

  Layla Anwar


January 12, 2006

More of the same . Different Sooone (sunni) neighborhoods, same
stories.
From very, very reliable eyewitnesses :

- Al Amariya : Remember this name ? Remember the shelter where over 300
women and children were seeking refuge from the B52's bombs during
Desert Storm?
For those of you with short memories , it is also referred to as Gulf I.
A very smart missile carbonized to death and during their sleep, all
those who sought shelter in Al Amariya.
For well over a week, Amariya has been encircled by American occupation
forces, the puppet iraqi army and of course who else but the Badr/Sadr
Iranian backed milita-death squads.

Um A. wakes up ever morning and sees two dead corpses lying at her front
door. This has been going on for quite some time but not on a daily
basis like this past week.
Her small grandchildren who live not too far away can no longer visit.
They tripped over a couple of cadavers a few days ago and have been
screaming hysterically with fear ever since.
One of her kids is married to a Shi'a. The spouse has been receiving
death threats from the Iranian backed brigades. Was forced to move to
another neighborhood, a shi'a one. The spouse is still pursued daily
with death threats. The crime ? Married to a sunni. So is the spouse's
mother as well all of the aunts and cousins. Go figure now ...
Umm A's other grown ups: One of her sons escaped to a neighboring
country. His name was too sunni !
Her other kid is also married to a shi'a. Cannot visit her. Changed
names more than once to remain in the predominantly shi'a neighborhood
where he/she lives , to no avail. Packed their bags and left the
country.
Her other child has diabetes. Wanted to make an appointment with her/his
doctor. Too late- he has been murdered. He was a sunni. Now they have to
make arrangements to drive 2 hours to visit another doctor who is
willing to receive them.
Check this out, they need to get an authorization from the occupation
forces first (remember they are in their own country!!!) in order to
leave al Amaryia. Then they are met half way by other members of the
family since no one dares to undertake that drive all the way for two
hours. They relegate this poor patient from one car to another. She/he
needs to change three drivers and cars before getting to the doctor.
Hopefully this latter is still alive today, or so we wish.

Oh and I forgot to mention . Today around 33 men (could not get exact
figure) were murdered in Al-Amaryia. The reason?
They fit the right age group : 17 - 35. By whom ? American occupation
forces,Iraqi Army, and of course none other than the militias. But hey,
that is only a detail right ?

Wait it gets more surreal...

- Al Baladiat : Another neighborhood populated by Palestinians.
M's family i.e his parents, siblings, nieces,nephews, uncles, aunts and
cousins have all escaped. Reason ? Have a wild guess. They are
Palestinians.Yep, the Iranian backed Death sqads of al Sadr and Co were
at them.
The irony - part of his family sought political asylum in India and got
it (thank you India!) because no other Arab country was willing to
accept them. As for the other part, he is not quite sure where they are.

End of News Flash. Have a wonderful, wonderful evening !

P.S : Another detail. Um A. only found out about Saddam's assasination 8
hours later through a phone call. No electricity that day. Deliberate
black out. Not that it really matters or so you think.

P.S.S:

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 9/11 

   This is a US torture camp


  Vikram Dodd
Friday January 12, 2007
 The Guardian 


Evidence of prisoner abuse at Guantanamo is overwhelming - and it hasn't
made anyone safer 


It would be the ideal spot for a beachside birthday party. Surrounded by
a turquoise sea, palm trees and white sand, the US detention camp at
Guantánamo Bay in Cuba was five years old yesterday. Tony Blair calls it
an anomaly, but the evidence is overwhelming. Camp Delta, which still
houses 470 men never convicted of any crime, is a torture camp. That
should be the starting point of any debate about what is acceptable in
the west's fight with Islamist extremists. More than 750 men have passed
through the camp, with nearly half being released. Many prisoners, past
and present, have given consistent and repeated testimony of serious
abuses and ill treatment. There is also significant evidence from US
officials and government documents of widespread abuse at the camp.

The British detainees known as the Tipton Three allege they were
repeatedly beaten, shackled in painful positions for long periods and
subjected to sleep deprivation. They were also subjected to strobe
lighting, loud music and extremes of hot and cold - all meant to break
them psychologically. Other detainees have suffered beatings, sexual
assaults and death threats. At least one man has been water boarded -
tied to a board and placed under water so that he had the sensation of
drowning.

According to the Red Cross, the regime at Guantánamo causes
psychological suffering that has driven inmates mad, with scores of
suicide attempts and three inmates killing themselves last year.

Even US officials are shocked. Last week FBI documents revealed that an
inmate's head had been wrapped in tape for quoting from the Qur'an.
Another was humiliated for his religious beliefs and baptised by a
soldier posing as a Catholic priest. The documents show FBI agents saw
26 instances of abuse in their time at Guantánamo. The FBI is highly
sceptical about alleged confessions gained by its military colleagues. A
May 2004 FBI memo branded intelligence gained from special techniques
as suspect at best. Indeed, one of the Tipton Three confessed to being
in a video shot at an Afghan terror camp alongside Osama bin Laden - in
fact, at the time he was working in an electronics store in the
Midlands.

But the US should not shoulder all the blame. Some of the material from
Guantánamo has been used by Britain's counter-terrorism agencies. In
June 2003 Tony Blair told the Commons: Information is still coming from
people detained there ... That information is important. George Bush,
his aides and the US military define what they have been doing as a
special programme using special measures: their position appears to be
that as long as blood is not drawn, it is not torture.

One official investigation found an inmate had been sexually humiliated
and forced to perform dog tricks on a leash. It said the conduct was
abusive and degrading but not torture. In a UK court hearing over
Guantánamo, a senior British judge, Mr Justice Collins, declared:
America's idea of what is torture is not the same as ours. A UN report
has confirmed evidence of torture, and Amnesty International has
declared Guantánamo the gulag of our time. Guantánamo is not the only
US torture camp. Bagram in Afghanistan has been dogged by stories of
abuse, and there are secret US prisons around the world where it is
widely feared new horrors are occuring.

Human rights have been traded away in Guantánamo in the hope of gaining
security, and it has not worked. One of the US's founding fathers,
Thomas Jefferson, stated: He who trades liberty for security deserves
neither and will lose both. Adorned on the walls of the Guantánamo camp
is its mission statement: Honour-bound to defend freedom. After five
years of Guantánamo, do you feel any safer?

· [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1988677,00.html


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 9/11 

   U.S. Has Lost Credibility On Rights, Group Asserts


By Nora Boustany
Washington Post Foreign Service
 Friday, January 12, 2007; A10


The advocacy group Human Rights Watch said yesterday that Washington's
once-powerful role as a prime defender of human rights had effectively
ended because of arbitrary detentions and reports of torture since the
Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and the group urged the European
Union to step up as a leader of the cause.

Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human

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  === News Update ===

 Western civilisation?

 Hussein Al-alak, The Iraq Solidarity Campaign



January 12, 2007

August 2005 saw a report published by the Integrated Regional
Information Networks (IRIN), which brought to light the growth of child
prostitution, under the new liberated Iraq and how children as young as
thirteen have become victims of this sexual tyranny, which the West has
brought to these children’s doors.

The report states that extreme poverty has lead to an increase in gangs,
who are going around and kidnapping children and forcing them into the
sex trade, where hard currencies can be exchanged for the degradation of
a young persons body.

On May 12th 2005, the United Nations organization which monitors drug
trafficking announced that Iraq is about to become a transit station for
transporting the heroine, which is manufactured in Afghanistan and is
heading towards Europe through neighbouring Iran.

The problem’s faced by children, are being intensified by the growing
displacement of Iraqi nationals, as a consequence of sectarian tensions.
It was said by the Ministry of Displacement and Migration in June 2006,
that around 40,000 Iraqi children have been displaced due to violence,

July 2006 saw another report published, claiming that from January into
the reports publication saw a staggering 90 children die in Basra, due
to lack of medicine, the number rising from the previous year, which
stood at 40.

These deaths had to be recorded by local NGO’s, as a consequence of the
Iraqi Authorities having no official statistics about the number of
children who have died in Basra. A partial explanation could be the
shortages in medical staff, with unofficial records showing that around
200 health professionals having left since January.

The Iraq Index, compiled by the Brookings Institution in Washington,
released on 21 December 2006, estimated that up to 40 percent of Iraq's
professionals have fled the country since 2003, with doctors and the
pharmacists topping the list.

The Association of Psychologists of Iraq have also warned about the
damage, that has been caused to Iraq’s children, with learning
impediments having been brought on by the fear of guns, bullets, death
and a general fear of the US occupation.

The basis for this report was on the dramatic increase in parents
seeking out psychological help for their children.

In September 2006, Save the Children reported that 43 million primary-
age children worldwide are unable to go to school because of armed
conflicts in their respective countries.

Although most countries have signed up to the Universal Declaration on
the Rights of the Child, Save the Children reported that 818,000
children in Iraq, 22.2 percent of the total number of students in the
country, are unable to go to school.

Over half of Iraq’s population is below 15 and even Koffi Annan was
forced to admit the war and invasion of Iraq has been a real disaster.
The disaster according to the Ministry of Education in September, has
been more chairs sitting empty in our country’s classrooms. This
problem goes from primary education to universities,

Attacks and kidnapping in schools have made parents afraid that the
next victims would be their children. So they prefer to let them not
have a proper education until the situation improves. Others require
their children to start working early because poverty has risen and
their [financial] help becomes more important.

As one child recently declared in the 9/1/2007 Id rather be illiterate
article, I am 10 years old but I have not been to school for the past
three years because I'm scared of the killings taking place in Iraq.
Many of my friends have either been kidnapped or killed.

Parents are not the only people who are opting out of Iraq’s
deteriorating education system, with teachers being targeted and
threatened by death squads and students at Baghdad University noticing
that; Ninety percent of our teachers have changed in the past two
years. The ones who have come to replace them are not well prepared or
have no experience, leaving us without a good professional for teaching
and training,

The Declaration on the Rights of the Child with all that the West call
civilised, has now been completely discredited and once again,
disgrace is placed on the shoulders of the occupiers by the Wall Street
Journal, who have recently reported that a child as young as five, has
been allowed to go on patrol with Al-Sadr’s Mehdi Army.

A five year old whose clothes were all black, the favourite attire of a
powerful Shiite Muslim militia. He introduced himself as a commander,
shouted the incantation God is greater and warned Sunni Muslims not to

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 A Somali Jihadist: We're Not Al-Qaeda




 Enlarge Photo

Fighters loyal to the Islamic Courts Union load up on trucks to head to
  the front in December 2006.




Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2007

Said Ali, 21, is a volunteer fighter for the Shabab militia, the feared
enforcers of the Islamic Courts Union. The U.S. brands the organization
as an ally of al-Qaeda; in reality, it is also a nationalist anti-
warlord movement that contains many Muslim moderates and has no
international ambitions. He was 11 when he left his village in southern
Somalia and traveled to Mogadishu to look for an education. But all
public education had collapsed with the last functioning government in
1991, leaving private school the only option. And Said Ali, like most of
his generation, was unable to afford the fees. Instead, he found a job
as a porter, and then graduated to selling shirts and kikoi wraps by the
side of the road. In time, he was given a job inside a clothes store in
Bakara Market, where he earned about 10,000 Somali shillings (80 cents)
a day. But often he would be forced to hand over his earnings to armed
militias blocking the roads on his way home. He came out of hiding in
central Mogadishu to meet TIME's Alex Perry.


TIME: How did you join the Shabab?

Ali: I was very angry with the militias. I decided to go to the training
camps because I was tired of being robbed at roadblocks. At that time,
before the Courts came to power, you could see someone kill a friend of
yours, you could see a friend of yours robbed, the situation was as bad
as that. The Shabab were good people. They trained you to defend your
people ... . There were reserve troops and frontline troops. And after
2004, we fought against the warlords and thankfully we were successful.

TIME: What sort of training did you get?

Ali:  How to handle a gun, how to defend, how to attack, how to drive a
car, first aid, how to repair a weapon and endurance exercises. I would
end my work then go for training from 4 o'clock until midnight. We were
trained at a base in Mogadishu.

TIME: Tell me about the war these past few weeks against Ethiopia.

Ali:  My position was at the front. Our plan was to sandwich the
Transitional Federal Government [T.F.G.] at their base in Baidoa [in
southwest Somalia]. But then the Ethiopians crossed the border behind
us. We fought them, but there were bad people helping us, gangsters and
thugs, there was misinformation, and this caused our defeat.

TIME: Was it hard fighting?

Ali: Many died from their injuries. It was hand-to-hand fighting. You
have to kill people with your knife. One of my group climbed onto an
Ethiopian tank and dropped a grenade inside the tank, but there was no
blast and the tank just drove away. It was our duty to die at the front
instead of being under occupation here in Mogadishu. Everyone prayed
they would be killed at the front.

TIME: Did you have any doubts about what you were doing?

Ali: No, it was excellent. To defend your religion and your country —
which is the same thing — was excellent. It wasn't our intention to
fight Ethiopia; our purpose was to defend the people from the warlords.
But it was excellent.

TIME: How did you get away?

Ali: We threw our guns down and took off our uniforms and set off on
foot for the city. A friend sold his gun to some local people and paid
for a bus ride for three of us back to Mogadishu. I went back to my
workplace — now I work in a public telephone booth, connecting calls and
selling pre-paid cards.

TIME: What's the plan now?

Ali: We want the Ethiopians out and we are preparing to fight them. We
are ready, we are in Mogadishu. A few pockets of us are outside. We have
a full connection with our leaders, and they are also inside Mogadishu.
And when we start to fight, other people will come from Mogadishu to
join us. We will come back more powerful than before, and we will clean
those traitors among us away.

TIME: Some people believe you have connections with al-Qaeda.

Ali: The warlords used to send people out of the country, saying there
were al-Qaeda. They took one of my neighbors to Addis Ababa and said he
was an al-Qaeda terrorist. But the Ethiopians said he was not, and they
did not want him. And the man came back to Mogadishu and told us what
had happened to him. That's why we know that we have to defend our
religion against Ethiopia.

TIME: What do you make of [al-Qaeda leader] Ayman al-Zawahiri's call for
Somalis to rise up against Ethiopia?

Ali: We are not a special group. We are the Somali people. What we're
doing is in the interests of all Somalis. People used to criticize the
Courts when they were in power, saying they pressured people and did not
allow this or that. But now

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  === News Update ===

  Iraq’s Sovereignty?

  Stephen Gowans, What's Left


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Janaury 11, 2007

When Iraq’s prime minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki decided to go ahead
with the hanging (of Saddam Hussein) the Americans said they made no
further attempts to stop it, having concluded that they could advise the
Iraqis against the execution, but not prevent it if the Iraqis
persisted, out of respect for Iraqi sovereignty (my italics, New York
Times, January 3, 2007).

Given that Washington’s respect for Iraqi sovereignty hasn’t prevented
an invasion, occupation and installation of a puppet government, it
seems curious that respect for Iraqi sovereignty should suddenly stay
Washington’s hand.

Libya plans to erect a statue depicting Saddam Hussein in the gallows,
along with a monument to Omar Mukhtar, the religious teacher who led a
two decades-long resistance to Italian colonialism early in the last
century. Mukhtar was the subject of the Moustapha Akkad film, Lion of
the Desert, with Anthony Quinn in the role of the resistance leader.
Like Hussein, Mukthar was hanged for being on the wrong side of an
imperialist power bent on outraging another nation’s sovereignty.

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[media-dakwah] What's at stake in the Horn of Africa

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  === News Update ===

 What's at stake in the Horn of Africa

  By Monica Moorehead 

 Published Jan 7, 2007 9:05 PM


It is important for revolutionaries and progressive activists to expose
what is going on in the Horn of Africa and connect this development to
the overall struggle against U.S. imperialist designs in the Middle
East, Asia and elsewhere. The people of Africa deserve reparations,
political stability and economic development free from imperialist
domination and plunder.


An estimated 15,000 Ethiopian troops invaded Mogadishu, the capital of
the African country of Somalia, in late December to militarily defeat
the Islamic Courts Union. The ICU until recently controlled large
sections of the southern part of that country. It has now pulled back
from the cities and said it will conduct guerrilla warfare against the
invaders.

This war and invasion began to escalate in early 2006. Somalia’s
Transitional Federal Government, which has been put together with U.S.
and British connivance, supported the invasion.

As of Jan. 1, the ICU forces have been pushed back on a temporary basis.
The ICU has a mass base among many Somalis, along with other Muslims
throughout the region, due in part to social services it provides for
the poor, especially in the areas of health and education.

The U.S. government has openly supported this invasion under the guise
of the Bush administration’s on-going war against “terrorism,” which
began after 9/11. This war began with the illegal invasions of
Afghanistan and Iraq and now has spread its tentacles into the Horn of
Africa. Millions of Muslims view Bush’s endless war as a ploy to attack
Islam, not just as a religion but also for daring to resist imperialist
and colonial aggression.

This recent conflict has drawn Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda into an anti-
ICU alliance. Jakkie Ciliers, executive director of South Africa’s
Institute for Security Studies, stated in the article “Africa, Root
Causes and the War on Terror,” that “The potential impact upon the
region is catastrophic, and may, if not checked, open the Horn as the
latest battleground between the U.S. and Islam with disastrous
consequences for its peoples, regional stability and the consolidation
of African development, peace and security.”  

A U.N. resolution orchestrated by the U.S. and Britain, which hold
permanent positions on the Security Council, is being used to justify
sending a “peacekeeping force” to Somalia to protect the transitional
U.S.-backed government there from the ICU forces.

Fighting “terrorism” or quest for oil?

What has been the concrete involvement of the U.S. in this war between
Ethiopia and Somalia, two of the poorest countries in the world?

According to William Church, director of the Great Lakes Centre for
Strategic Studies, the CIA has been funneling between $100,000 and
$150,000 monthly to the Alliance for Restoration of Peace and
Counterterrorism, which includes Somali officials recognized by the
West, “warlords” and business people. Military equipment has also been
donated to the Somali military by Select Armor, a private company based
in Virginia.

The Pentagon also sent $19 million worth of weapons and loans to
Ethiopia in 2005 and is scheduled to provide another $10 million worth
of weapons this year. (Sudan Tribune) In countries as poor as Somalia
and Ethiopia, this is a lot of money.

Just as Bush used the phony excuse of “fighting terrorism” to invade and
occupy Iraq, he is using the same excuse to justify Washington’s support
for the invasion of Somalia by Ethiopia. And just as controlling another
country’s oil reserves was the real reason for invading Iraq, the same
holds true for this recent invasion of the Horn of Africa.

The Horn has great strategic value, since naval bases there can control
the traffic of tankers and other ships through the Red Sea and Gulf of
Aden. In addition, however, the U.S. is well aware that Africa has the
world’s third-largest oil reserves, after the Middle East and Latin
America.

Industry sources say these reserves amount to over 95 billion barrels,
or about 8 percent of the world’s total. Nigeria is the largest producer
of oil on the African continent. It remains one of the poorest countries
because Shell, ExxonMobil and ChevronTexaco, not the Nigerian people,
control the oil production, wealth and profits there.

Much of Africa’s overall oil reserves are untapped and are strategically
located in the Horn of Africa, which is on the Red Sea and is a direct
route to the oil-rich Middle East.

The Pentagon established a Central Command in Africa in 2002 and
stationed naval warships off the Horn of Africa. The excuse was that
they were monitoring the movements of al-Qaeda members based in

[media-dakwah] Palestine 2007: Genocide in Gaza, Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank

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=== News Update ===

Palestine 2007: Genocide in Gaza, Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank

Ilan Pappe, The Electronic Intifada

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January 11, 2006

On this stage, not so long ago, I claimed that Israel is conducting
genocidal policies in the Gaza Strip. I hesitated a lot before using
this very charged term and yet decided to adopt it. Indeed, the
responses I received, including from some leading human rights
activists, indicated a certain unease over the usage of such a term. I
was inclined to rethink the term for a while, but came back to employing
it today with even stronger conviction: it is the only appropriate way
to describe what the Israeli army is doing in the Gaza Strip.

On 28 December 2006, the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem
published its annual report about the Israeli atrocities in the occupied
territories. Israeli forces killed this last year six hundred and sixty
citizens. The number of Palestinians killed by Israel last year tripled
in comparison to the previous year (around two hundred). According to
B'Tselem, the Israelis killed one hundred and forty one children in the
last year. Most of the dead are from the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli
forces demolished almost 300 houses and slew entire families. This means
that since 2000, Israeli forces killed almost four thousand
Palestinians, half of them children; more than twenty thousand were
wounded.

B'Tselem is a conservative organization, and the numbers may be higher.
But the point is not just about the escalating intentional killing, it
is about the trend and the strategy. As 2007 commences, Israeli
policymakers are facing two very different realities in the West Bank
and the Gaza Strip. In the former, they are closer than ever to
finishing the construction of their eastern border. Their internal
ideological debate is over and their master plan for annexing half of
the West Bank is being implemented at an ever-growing speed. The last
phase was delayed due to the promises made by Israel, under the Road
Map, not to build new settlements. Israel found two ways of
circumventing this alleged prohibition. First, it defined a third of the
West Bank as Greater Jerusalem, which allowed it to build within this
new annexed area towns and community centers. Secondly, it expanded old
settlements to such proportions so that there was no need to build new
ones. This trend was given an additional push in 2006 (hundreds of
caravans were installed to mark the border of the expansions, the
planning schemes for the new towns and neighborhoods were finalized and
the apartheid bypass roads and highway system completed). In all, the
settlements, the army bases, the roads and the wall will allow Israel to
annex almost half of the West Bank by 2010. Within these territories
there will be a considerable number of Palestinians, against whom the
Israeli authorities will continue to implement slow and creeping
transfer policies -- too boring as a subject for the western media to
bother with and too elusive for human rights organizations to make a
general point about them. There is no rush; as far as the Israelis are
concerned, they have the upper hand there: the daily abusive and
dehumanizing mixed mechanisms of army and bureaucracy is as effective as
ever in contributing its own share to the dispossession process.

The strategic thinking of Ariel Sharon that this policy is far better
than the one offered by the blunt 'transferists' or ethnic cleansers,
such as Avigdor Liberman's advocacy, is accepted by everyone in the
government, from Labor to Kadima. The petit crimes of state terrorism
are also effective as they enable liberal Zionists around the world to
softly condemn Israel and yet categorize any genuine criticism on
Israel's criminal policies as anti-Semitism.

On the other hand, there is no clear Israeli strategy as yet for the
Gaza Strip; but there is a daily experiment with one. Gaza, in the eyes
of the Israelis, is a very different geo-political entity from that of
the West Bank. Hamas controls Gaza, while Abu Mazen seems to run the
fragmented West Bank with Israeli and American blessing. There is no
chunk of land in Gaza that Israel covets and there is no hinterland,
like Jordan, to which the Palestinians of Gaza can be expelled. Ethnic
cleansing is ineffective here.

The earlier strategy in Gaza was ghettoizing the Palestinians there, but
this is not working. The ghettoized community continues to express its
will for life by firing primitive missiles into Israel. Ghettoizing or
quarantining unwanted communities, even if they were regarded as sub-
human or dangerous, never worked in history as a

[media-dakwah] LIVE FROM PALESTINE : A NATION OF HOMELESS PEOPLE

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  === News Update ===

   LIVE FROM PALESTINE : A NATION OF HOMELESS PEOPLE

  DesertPeace


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January 10, 2007

Twenty one Palestinian homes were demolished yesterday by Israelis
Why??? Because they were there. No other reason!

The occupier considers the residents of this particular area as
'trespassers'...Does that sound right??? The OCCUPIER considers the
RESIDENTS as trespassers!!!

It is winter here 21 Bedouin families are without shelter... this
despite the recommendation of the Knesset Interior Committee to stop
razing the homes until an alternative housing solution has been found
for the residents. So who authorised it? Are we living in an
anarchistic society? Is anyone answerable to this horrendous travesty of
justice?

Someone should be

But, we are talking about Palestinians... a people without rights,
without proper representation, and now, without homes...

The following is from HaAretz it briefly describes the ugly
situation


A NATION OF HOMELESS PEOPLE

Gov't razes 21 Bedouin homes built on state land in Negev By Mijal
Grinberg, Haaretz Correspondent

The Interior Ministry and the Israel Land Administration on Tuesday
raised 21 Bedouin homes built on government land in the Negev.

This is the second time that homes in the Al-Twail village have been
raised in recent weeks. Residents of the village had rebuilt the homes
that were destroyed in the last round of demolition.

Seventeen of the 50 homes in the village were knocked down last month,
leaving 12 families without living arrangements.

The Land Administration considers the residents trespassers and is
refusing to help them find a new housing solution. The residents dispute
the government's claims, saying the houses were built on land they own.

The demolition of the homes in Al-Twail was carried out against the
recommendation of the Knesset Interior Committee to stop razing the
homes until an alternative housing solution has been found for the
residents.

source:
http://desertpeace.blogspot.com/2007/01/live-from-palestine-nation-of-
homeless_10.html

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[media-dakwah] 9/11 : Torture Inc. Americas Brutal Prisons

2007-01-11 Terurut Topik muslim insuffer

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 In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful


  === News Update ===

  Torture Inc. Americas Brutal Prisons

   By Deborah Davies


Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic
   Chemicals, Does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the
  horrors that were committed in Iraq?


They are just some of the victims of wholesale torture taking place
inside the U.S. prison system that we uncovered during a four-month
investigation for Channel 4 . It’s terrible to watch some of the videos
and realise that you’re not only seeing torture in action but, in the
most extreme cases, you are witnessing young men dying. 

The prison guards stand over their captives with electric cattle prods,
stun guns, and dogs. Many of the prisoners have been ordered to strip
naked. The guards are yelling abuse at them, ordering them to lie on the
ground and crawl. ‘Crawl, motherf*s, crawl.’ 

If a prisoner doesn’t drop to the ground fast enough, a guard kicks him
or stamps on his back. There’s a high-pitched scream from one man as a
dog clamps its teeth onto his lower leg. 

Another prisoner has a broken ankle. He can’t crawl fast enough so a
guard jabs a stun gun onto his buttocks. The jolt of electricity zaps
through his naked flesh and genitals. For hours afterwards his whole
body shakes. 

Lines of men are now slithering across the floor of the cellblock while
the guards stand over them shouting, prodding and kicking. 

Second by second, their humiliation is captured on a video camera by one
of the guards. 

The images of abuse and brutality he records are horrifyingly familiar.
These were exactly the kind of pictures from inside Abu Ghraib prison in
Baghdad that shocked the world this time last year. 

And they are similar, too, to the images of brutality against Iraqi
prisoners that this week led to the conviction of three British
soldiers. 

But there is a difference. These prisoners are not caught up in a war
zone. They are Americans, and the video comes from inside a prison in
Texas 

They are just some of the victims of wholesale torture taking place
inside the U.S. prison system that we uncovered during a four-month
investigation for Channel 4 that will be broadcast next week. 

Our findings were not based on rumour or suspicion. They were based on
solid evidence, chiefly videotapes that we collected from all over the
U.S. 

In many American states, prison regulations demand that any ‘use of
force operation’, such as searching cells for drugs, must be filmed by a
guard. 

The theory is that the tapes will show proper procedure was followed and
that no excessive force was used. In fact, many of them record the exact
opposite. 

Each tape provides a shocking insight into the reality of life inside
the U.S. prison system – a reality that sits very uncomfortably with
President Bush’s commitment to the battle for freedom and democracy
against the forces of tyranny and oppression. 

In fact, the Texas episode outlined above dates from 1996, when Bush was
state Governor. 

Frank Carlson was one of the lawyers who fought a compensation battle on
behalf of the victims. I asked him about his reaction when the Abu
Ghraib scandal broke last year and U.S. politicians rushed to express
their astonishment and disgust that such abuses could happen at the
hands of American guards. 

‘I thought: “What hypocrisy,” Carlson told me. ‘Because they know we do
it here every day.’ 

All the lawyers I spoke to during our investigations shared Carlson’s
belief that Abu Ghraib, far from being the work of a few rogue
individuals, was simply the export of the worst practices that take
place in the domestic prison system all the time. They pointed to the
mountain of files stacked on their desks, on the floor, in their office
corridors – endless stories of appalling, sadistic treatment inside
America’s own prisons. 

Many of the tapes we’ve collected are several years old. That’s because
they only surface when determined lawyers prise them out of reluctant
state prison departments during protracted lawsuits. 

But for every ‘historical’ tape we collected, we also found a more
recent story. What you see on the tape is still happening daily. 

It’s terrible to watch some of the videos and realise that you’re not
only seeing torture in action but, in the most extreme cases, you are
witnessing young men dying. 

In one horrific scene, a naked man, passive and vacant, is seen being
led out of his cell by prison guards. They strap him into a medieval-
looking device called a ‘restraint chair’. His hands and feet are
shackled, there’s a strap across his chest, his head lolls forward. He
looks dead. He’s not. Not yet. 

The chair is his punishment because guards saw him in his cell with a
pillowcase on his head and he

[media-dakwah] Destabilizing The Horn


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=== News Update ===

Destabilizing The Horn

By Salim Lone


0108/07 http://informationclearinghouse.info/Information Clearing House 
--- - The stability that emerged in southern Somalia after sixteen years of 
utter lawlessness is gone, the defeat of the ruling Islamic Courts Union 
now ushering in looting, martial law and the prospect of another major 
anti-Western insurgency. Clan warlords, who terrorized Somalia until they 
were driven out by the Islamists, and who were put back in power by the 
U.S.-backed and -trained Ethiopian army, have begun carving up the country 
once again.

With these developments, the Bush administration, undeterred by the horrors 
and setbacks in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon, has opened another 
battlefront in this volatile quarter of the Muslim world. As with Iraq, it 
casts this illegal war as a way to curtail terrorism, but its real goal 
appears to be to obtain a direct foothold in a highly strategic area of the 
world through a client regime. The results could destabilize the whole region.

The Horn of Africa, at whose core Somalia lies, is newly oil-rich. It is 
also just miles across the Red Sea from Saudi Arabia and Yemen, overlooking 
the daily passage of large numbers of oil tankers and warships through that 
waterway. The United States has a huge military base in neighboring 
Djibouti that is being enlarged substantially and will become the 
headquarters of a new U.S. military command being created specifically for 
Africa. As evidence of the area's importance, Gen. John Abizaid, the 
military commander of the region, visited Ethiopia recently to discuss 
Somalia, while Chinese President Hu Jintao visited Horn countries a few 
months ago in search of oil and trade agreements.

The current series of events began with the rise of the Islamic Courts more 
than a year ago. The Islamists avoided large-scale violence in defeating 
the warlords, who had held sway in Somalia ever since they drove out U.N. 
peacekeepers by killing eighteen American soldiers in 1993, by rallying 
people to their side through establishing law and order. Washington was 
wary, fearing their possible support for terrorists. While they have denied 
any such intentions, some Islamists do have terrorist ties, but these have 
been vastly overstated in the West.

Washington, however, chose to view the situation only through the prism of 
its war on terror. The Bush administration supported the warlordsin 
violation of a U.N. arms embargo it helped impose on Somalia many years 
agoindirectly funneling them arms and suitcases filled with dollars.

Many of these warlords were part of the Western-supported transitional 
government that had been organized in Kenya in 2004. But the government 
was so devoid of internal support that even after two years it was unable 
to move beyond the small western town of Baidoa, where it had settled. In 
the end, it was forced to turn to Somalia's archenemy Ethiopia for 
assistance in holding on even to Baidoa. Again in violation of the U.N. 
arms embargo, Ethiopia sent 15,000 troops to Somalia. Their arrival eroded 
whatever domestic credibility the government might have had.

The United States, whose troops have been sighted by Kenyan journalists in 
the region bordering Somalia, next turned to the U.N. Security Council. In 
another craven act resembling its post-facto legalization of the U.S. 
occupation of Iraq, the Council bowed to U.S. pressure and authorized a 
regional peacekeeping force to enter Somalia to protect the government and 
restore peace and stability. This despite the fact that the U.N. has no 
right under its charter to intervene on behalf of one of the parties 
struggling for political supremacy, and that peace and stability had 
already been restored by the Islamists.

The war came soon after the U.N. resolution, its outcome a foregone 
conclusion thanks to the highly trained and war-seasoned Ethiopian army. 
The African Union called for the Ethiopians to end the invasion, but the 
U.N. Security Council made no such call. Ban Ki-moon, the incoming 
secretary-general, is being urged to treat the enormously complex situation 
in Darfur as his political challenge, but Somalia, while less complex, is 
more immediate. He has an opportunity to establish his credentials as an 
unbiased upholder of the U.N. Charter by seeking Ethiopia's withdrawal.

The Ethiopian military presence in Somalia is inflammatory and will 
destabilize this region and threaten Kenya, a U.S. ally and the only island 
of stability in this corner of Africa. Ethiopia is at even greater risk, as 
a dictatorship with little popular support and beset by two large internal 
revolts by Ogadenis and Oromos. It is also mired in a military stalemate 
with Eritrea, which has denied it secure access to seaports. It now seeks 
such access in Somalia.

The best

[media-dakwah] 9/11 Fake Al Qaeda - The Phony (Mossad) Al Qaeda Cell in Palestine

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=== News Update ===

Fake Al Qaeda
The Phony (Mossad) Al Qaeda Cell in Palestine

Ana raicha Al Qaeda is colloquial for I'm going to the toilet. A very
common and widespread use of the word Al-Qaeda in different Arab
countries in the public language is for the toilet bowl. This name comes
from the Arabic verb Qa'ada which mean to sit, pertinently, on the
Toilet Bowl. In most Arabs homes there are two kinds of toilets:
Al-Qaeda also called the Hamam Franji or foreign toilet, and Hamam
Arabi or Arab toilet which is a hole in the ground. Lest we forget it,
the potty used by small children is called Ma Qa'adia or Little Qaeda.

So, if you were forming a terrorist group, would you call yourself, The
Toilet?

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ... said that al-Qaeda militants were
operating in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. We know that they are there. We
know that they are in Lebanon, working closely with Hezbollah. We know that
they are in the region, he said.
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2546863.stmBBC News - 12/5/2002]

Officials from the Palestinian Authority have accused the Israeli spy
agency Mossad of setting up a fake al-Qaeda terrorist cell in Gaza.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said that Israel had set up the mock cell
in order to justify attacks in Palestinian areas.
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2546863.stmBBC News - 12/8/2002]

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Mossad agents arrested by the PA for attempting to set up phony 'al Qaeda'
cells in the Gaza Strip.

The full story:
*
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2002/2949idf_qaeda.htmllarouchepub.com -
Mossad Exposed in Phony 'Palestinian Al-Qaeda' Caper
* http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j120902.htmlantiwar.com - By Way of
Deception, by Justin Raimondo
*
http://www.khilafah.com/home/category.php?DocumentID=8238TagID=7khilafah.com
- PA uncovers Israelis posing as Al-Qaeda
*
http://www.propagandamatrix.com/palestinians_arrest_al_qaeda_poseurs.htmsmh.com.au

- Palestinians arrest al-Qaeda 'poseurs'
*
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=241042contrassID=2subContrassID=5sbSubContrassID=0listSrc=YitemNo=241042Ha'Aretz

- Ibrahim, the Shin Bet wants you to join Qaida!
Of the MOSSAD, the Israeli intelligence service, the SAMS officers say:
Wildcard. Ruthless and cunning. Has capability to target U.S. forces and
make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act.
[http://www.public-action.com/911/sams.htmlWashington Times - 9/10/2001]

Adam Yahiye Gadahn: The Fake Terrorist

[]

Images from http://www.fbi.gov/terrorinfo/gadahn.htmofficial FBI wanted
poster for terrorist Adam Yahiye Gadahn

The FBI lists Gadahn's aliases as Abu Suhayb Al-Amriki, Abu Suhayb, Yihya
Majadin Adams, Adam Pearlman, and Yayah.

But Adam Pearlmen is his REAL name! Adam is the grandson of the late Carl
K. Pearlman; a prominent Jewish urologist in Orange County. Carl was also a
member of the board of directors of the Anti-Defamation League, which was
http://www.fpp.co.uk/docs/ADL/ADLspies.htmlcaught spying on Americans for
Israel in 1993, much as AIPAC has been caught up in the
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/motherofallscandals.htmlmore recent spy
scandal.

Al-Qaeda cleric exposed as an MI5 double agent

ONE of al-Qaeda's most dangerous figures has been revealed as a double
agent working for MI5, raising criticism from European governments, which
repeatedly called for his arrest.

Britain ignored warnings - which began before the September 11 attacks -
from half a dozen friendly governments about Abu Qatada's links with
terrorist groups and refused to arrest him. Intelligence chiefs hid from
European allies their intention to use the cleric as a key informer against
Islamic militants in Britain.

Indignant French officials accused MI5 of helping the cleric to abscond.
While he remained on the run, one intelligence chief in Paris was quoted as
saying: British intelligence is saying they have no idea where he is, but
we know where he is and, if we know, I'm quite sure they do.

Almost a year later Abu Qatada was found hiding in a flat not far from
Scotland Yard.
[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-3-1050175,00.htmlTimes]

From a reader:

So,

1. We have MI5 (British CIA) posing as Alqueda.
Al-Qaeda cleric exposed as an MI5 double agent,
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-3-1050175,00.htmlhttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-3-1050175,00.html

2. We have Mossad (Israel CIA) posing as ALqueda in Palestine:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fakealqaeda.htmlhttp://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fakealqaeda.html

http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2002/2949idf_qaeda.html
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j120902.htmlhttp://www.antiwar.com/justin/j120902.html

http://www.propagandamatrix.com/palestinians_arrest_al_qaeda_poseurs.htm

[media-dakwah] New video of Saddam's corpse on Internet

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=== News Update ===

New video of Saddam's corpse on Internet

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, Associated Press Writer
Tue Jan 9, 5:53 AM ET

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070107/photos_wl_me_afp/4338b8cc7d619ffa387d1461888a953dg=events/wl/052205saddamphotos
Protestors demonstrate against the bungled execution of Saddam

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070107/photos_wl_me_afp/4338b8cc7d619ffa387d1461888a953dg=events/wl/052205saddamphotosAFP

Photo: Protestors demonstrate against the bungled execution of Saddam Hussein
outside the Al-Askari mosque in the...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The second clandestine video from
http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=Saddam+HusseinSaddam
Hussein's execution appeared on the Internet Tuesday, showing the deposed
Iraqi leader's corpse, with a gaping neck wound, after his hanging.

The video appeared to have been taken with a camera phone, like the graphic
video of the hanging which showed guards taunting Saddam in the final
moments of his life.

The footage pans up the shrouded body of the former leader from the feet.
It apparently was taken shortly after Saddam was executed and placed on a
gurney. He was hanged shortly before dawn on Dec. 30.

As the panning shot reaches the head region, the white shroud is pulled
back and reveals Saddam's head and neck.

His head is unnaturally twisted at a 90 degree angle to his right. It shows
a gaping bloody wound, circular in shape, about an inch below his jaw line
on the left side of his neck. His left cheek is marked with red blotches,
and there is blood on the shroud where it covered his head.

The newest video leak was likely to increase the angry reaction over the
way the execution was carried out. There already has been a global outcry
about the undignified manner in which the Shiite-dominated government
hanged Saddam, a Sunni.

The 27-second video was posted on an Iraqi news Web site that is known to
support Saddam's outlawed Baath Party.

A new film of the late immortal martyr, President Saddam Hussein, the web
site said in a headline over a link to the video.

Voices could be heard on the video. As the shroud is pulled back, one voice
says, Hurry up, hurry up. I'm going to count from one to four. One, two
... . Hurry up you're going to get us into a catastrophe.

Then another voice, apparently the man taking the pictures, says, Just one
second, just one second, Abu Ali. I'm about finished.

Then a third voice says, Abu Ali, you take care of this.

It was the second clandestine video to have leaked, the first showing
Saddam being taunted in his final moments. That clandestine video showed
the former leader dropping through the gallows floor as he offered chanted
prayers. It ends with his dead body swinging at the end of a rope.

The hanging video was in sharp contrast with an official video that was
broadcast not long after Saddam's execution which showed him standing
silently on the gallows as the noose was put around his neck. The official
video was muted.

The leaked hanging video, however, was shot from the floor of the gallows
chamber, looking up at Saddam. Voices could be heard taunting him with
cries of Muqtada, Muqtada, Muqtada, referring to radical anti-American
cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, the leader of the Shiite Mahdi Army militia and a
key support of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

The prime minister pushed for Saddam to be executed before the end of 2006
and just four days after the death sentence was upheld by the appeals
court. U.S. official sought to delay the execution.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070109/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_saddam_video

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Fresh Saddam pictures 'released'

Last Modified: 9 Jan 2007
Source: ITN

More images allegedly showing Saddam Hussein's body in the immediate
aftermath of his execution have been posted on the Internet

The new video reportedly shows the former Iraqi dictator with a gaping neck
wound.

Meanwhile, a man alleged to have shouted sectarian abuse at Saddam moments
before he was hanged last month has been referred to the Iraqi judicial
authorities.

Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said it was now up to the courts
to deal with the man.

The new 27-second video was posted on an Iraqi news website that is known
to support Saddam's outlawed Ba'ath Party.

A new film of the late immortal martyr, President Saddam Hussein, the
video link said.

Then another voice, apparently the man taking the pictures, says, just one
second, just one second, Abu Ali. I'm about finished.

The release of yet more images of Saddam's final moments is likely to
intensify outrage at the manner in which his execution was carried out.

[media-dakwah] SADDAM'S GOODBYE CURSE


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=== News Update ===

SADDAM'S GOODBYE CURSE

January 08, 2007

Eric S. Margolis


The Bush/Cheney Administration has never concealed its sneering contempt 
for international law or world public opinion. Even so, the lynching of 
President Saddam Hussein of Iraq established a new nadir for America and 
shocked the entire globe.

This sordid act, which grossly violated international law, the Geneva 
Conventions, and basic human decency, provoked a well-deserved storm of 
criticism around the globe against the Bush/Cheney Administration. It also 
rekindled demands for an international abolition of the death penalty.

Washington professed surprise and denied blame for this disgusting 
spectacle. More lies. Saddam had been under US guard in a US-run prison in 
Baghdad's US-run Green Zone. He was transferred under US guard to a US-run 
execution prison. What did US officials think would happen when they turned 
him over to a raging lynch mob of vengeful Shias? A parade?

The United States has already been heavily criticized for stage-managing 
the Soviet-style show trial and rigged kangaroo court that condemned Saddam 
and two of his closest henchmen.

It's clear Iraq's deposed leader was hurriedly executed to prevent him from 
revealing embarrassing details about his long collusion with the US, 
Britain, and Arab states.

Saddam's principal crime was launching an unprovoked war against Iran that 
cost over one million casualties. This crime was never mentioned in 
President Hussein's trial because, at the time, his principal accomplices 
were the United States, Britain and the Arab oil monarchs. Dead men tell no 
tales.

Ironically, Saddam's courage and dignity on the gallows will reinforce his 
claim to martyrdom and make him the hero in death that he certainly was not 
in life. This process has already begun.

By contrast, the UN's new South Korean secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, who 
was maneuvered into office by Washington, shamefully supported Saddam's 
execution even though the UN has long opposed the death penalty, and its 
human rights chief, Louise Arbour, had condemned the brutal execution . 
This was an inauspicious start for a timid yes-man.

This week, the Bush/Cheney Administration is widely expected to announce 
plans to deploy another 20,000 or more troops to Iraq and allocate billions 
more for the war effort and economic reconstruction. This will be George 
Bush's petulant reply to the bipartisan Iraq Study Group's wise proposal 
that all US combat forces withdraw from Iraq within a year.

Senior American generals charged with Iraq, including Gen. John Abazaid and 
Gen. George Casey, openly disagreed with Bush's plans for a `surge' in US 
troop deployment. These able officers told media they didn't need more 
troops. They warned additional US troops would deter Iraq's Shia regime 
from developing its own security forces and keep it dependant on the US and 
death squads.

These statements were a shocker. American generals are not supposed to 
publicly disagree with the president. Both officers have just been replaced 
in command. Gen. Abazaid, who speaks Arabic and understands Iraq, is 
retiring early, in disgust, say friends.

Casey and Abazaid follow another fine officer, former Army Chief of Staff 
Eric Shinseki, who choose duty to America over career. He was forced to 
retire by the White House after publicly stating a minimum of 300,000 US 
troops would be needed to pacify Iraq. The 140,000 US troops currently in 
Iraq, and the 80,000 or so mercenaries(`civilian contractors' in Pentagon 
and media doublespeak) supporting them, are stretched to the breaking point 
and hard pressed to defend their own bases and vulnerable supply lines.

Iraq's western Anbar Province has become a Ft Apache for the US Marines, 
who are barely able to defend their own besieged bases. Iraq's Sunni 
resistance forces have almost defeated American forces there in spite of 
massed US air, artillery, and armor support.

Many US senior military officers privately say it is small wonder Bush, who 
styles himself the `war president,' is so deficient in military experience 
and knowledge. A few months in the Texas Air National Guard evading wartime 
military service during Vietnam certainly did not prepare him to wage two 
wars. The real power behind the throne, VP Dick Cheney, also avoided 
military service, claiming he was `too busy.'

Responsible presidents know when to listen to their generals, and when to 
retreat from stalemated or lost wars. If Bush does send thousands more 
troops to Iraq, he will be risking more American lives in a desperate, 
11th-hour political gamble to show voters he has a new plan to resolve the 
horrible mess in Iraq that he created.

The White House's last gamble may call for stationing the new troops in and 
around Baghdad to end the anarchy in Iraq's capitol

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=== News Update ===


US marines killed Iraqis one by one in Haditha

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070106/pl_afp/usiraqmilitaryhaditha2_070106165446AFP

http://www.uruknet.de/pic.php?f=haditha_investigation_dcwap101.jpg
haditha_investigation_dcwap101.jpg





January 7, 2006

WASHINGTON (AFP) - An investigative report compiled by the US military 
reportedly indicates that US marines gunned down five unarmed Iraqis who 
stumbled onto the scene of a 2005 roadside bombing in Haditha, Iraq.

Citing the document obtained by The Washington Post, the account said that 
Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich, the squad's leader, shot the men one by one 
after marines ordered them out of a white taxi in the moments following the 
explosion, which killed one marine and injured two others.

Another marine fired rounds into their bodies as they lay on the ground, 
the paper said, citing the military report.

The taxi's five occupants exited the vehicle and according to US and Iraqi 
witnesses, were shot by Wuterich as they stood, unarmed, next to the 
vehicle approximately ten feet in front of him, The Post quotes the report 
by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service as saying.

One of the witnesses, Sergeant Asad Amer Mashoot, a 26-year-old Iraqi 
soldier who was in the marine convoy, told investigators he watched in 
horror as the four students and the taxi driver fell.

They didn't even try to run away, the report quotes him as saying. We 
were afraid from marines and we saw them behaving like crazy. They were 
yelling and screaming.

The shootings were the first in a series of violent reactions by marines on 
November 19, 2005 that left 24 Iraqi civilians dead, the paper said.

The report, which relied on hundreds of interviews with marines, Iraqi 
soldiers and civilian survivors conducted months after the incident, 
provides evidence that the marines responded to the roadside bombing in 
ways that are difficult to reconcile with their rules of engagement.

Four marines were charged with murder last month in connection with the 
civilian deaths in Haditha: Wuterich, Sergeant Sanick Dela Cruz, Lance 
Corporal Justin Sharratt and Lance Corporal Stephen Tatum.

Each faces the possibility of life in prison if convicted

source:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070106/pl_afp/usiraqmilitaryhaditha2_070106165446

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[media-dakwah] Persian For Dummies


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=== News Update ===


Persian For Dummies

http://arabwomanblues.blogspot.com/2007/01/persian-for-dummies.htmlLayla 
Anwar


http://arabwomanblues.blogspot.com/2007/01/persian-for-dummies.htmlAn 
Arab Woman Blues - January 7, 2007

News from Basrah.

Basrah has now become a complete Persian enclave run by Shi'as whose 
allegiance are to their Mother country the Safavid chauvinistic Iran of the 
Mullahs.

Two families I personally know, Sunnis, who have lived all their lives in 
Basrah, born and raised there for generations - left.
Each of these families lost a husband, a wife, a son, a daughter, a mother, 
a father,a relative, due to the sectarian massacres undertaken by the 
Iranians carrying recently issued Iraqi nationalities.

One grandmother lost her son who is a doctor, her daughter in law, another 
doctor, and now she has to look after 6 kids alone. She escaped with them.

The second family lost two members who were the breadwinners. Two 
pharmacists. A man and his wife. The rest of the family locked up their 
house and left taking nothing with them.

They related the following :

- Basrah is totally dominated by Iran. It is unofficially an Iranian 
province/state. All goverment and office employees are Iranians and hold 
the dual Iranian- Iraqi nationality.

-There are no Sunni families left in Basrah. They all fled.

- Application forms to enter Iraq from the Kuwaiti border - known as the 
Safwan Crossing- are printed in Persian and not Arabic. Hence anyone 
wishing to enter Basrah has to fill in an entry form on which the official 
language is Farsee.

- They confirmed to me reports that I had read and heard earlier namely 
that the whole of Southern Iraq has become an Iranian Province.

My hunch is that the whole of Iraq is going to become an Iranian Province 
apart from darling Kurdistan. But then that should not be a problem since 
both Iranians and Kurds pride themselves on being an Aryan race.

Iraqis, start learning Persian. I personally have started with a crash 
course. Elementary stuff.
I have learned so far how to say very good  Khayleh Khob  and a couple of 
insults.
The latter I will save for some other time . When the Iranian Mullahs 
become the official and legitimate rulers of Baghdad after the full 
decimation of all those disloyal to Teheran and Washington.
Don't be surprised. I keep hearing that the last elections were legitimate 
and official. No one mentions of course the buses that were carrying 
approximately 1 million Iranians who came and participated in those 
transparent elections.

As for theanti-Imperialists,anti-Warvenerable personalities and 
movements in the West,I suggest you do the same thing.
Start learning Persian. So in due time , when the full liberation of Iraq 
is complete, you can come and congratulate your anti Imperialist Iranian 
Mullahs with  Khayleh Khob- Very Good and Bravo !

Postscript:
In today's edition of the Independent, 
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article2132467.eceDanny 
Forston - the oil Expert- states:
The most coveted sites in Iraq are the Majnoon and West Qurna fields, both 
close to Basrain the South of the country.
Iranian Imperialism is as deadly as the American one.

source:
http://arabwomanblues.blogspot.com/2007/01/persian-for-dummies.html

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[media-dakwah] The Unmentionable Hypocrisy: Hussein Hanged, Bush and Blair Remain in Power


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=== News Update ===

The Unmentionable Hypocrisy: Hussein Hanged, Bush and Blair Remain in Power

By Sean M. Madden
http://inoodle.com/2007/01/unmentionable-hypocrisy-hussein-hanged.htmliNoodle.com


01/06/07 http://informationclearinghouse.info/Information Clearing 
House -- -- East Sussex, UK  Saddam Hussein was hanged a week ago, today, 
for executing 148 people. Yet, even by conservative estimates, George W. 
Bush and Tony Blair are responsible for hundreds, or thousands, of times 
more deaths due to their war of aggression  the supreme international 
crime  in Iraq.

But, while Saddam Hussein is hanged, Bush and Blair remain in power with 
apparent impunity.


Why the double standard?

This afternoon I listened to BBC Radio 4s call-in program, Any Answers?, 
hosted by Jonathan Dimbleby. The first caller did what the 'free press'  
in both the UK and the US  have failed to do. She pinpointed the obvious 
yet unmentionable hypocrisy hovering over last weeks hanging of Saddam 
Hussein:

I find I get so angry when I hear expressions of disgust of the way Saddam 
Hussein was hanged or the procedure. What about the over 400,000 people who 
have been killed in Iraq, innocent people who didnt do anything, who died 
by the invasion of their country by America and Britain? George Bush did 
not declare war on Iraq. So this is not a genuine war in which civilians 
are accidentally killed. This was an invasion of their country, illegally. 
George Bush declared war on terror. There had been no terrorist threat from 
Saddam Hussein, from Iraq, either to America or to Britain. And, yet, it 
was invaded. [] My goodness, compared to the 400,000 people  and the 
country it has devastated  and for no reason whatsoever. Why arent they 
accountable? Why isnt George Bush being made accountable? If Saddam 
Hussein has been made accountable for anyone whom he killed, then look at 
the enormous  [caller was, here, cut off by the BBC host].

The next caller seconded the unmentionable:

Im really following-up the same point as your previous caller. I hold no 
brief, whatsoever, for Saddam Hussein. He committed terrible atrocities 
during his reign. But, he was actually convicted and found guilty of a 
crime against humanity, condemned to death, and hanged on the narrow charge 
that he authorized the murder of 200 [148] civilians in a village in 
northern Iraq. Now compare that, as your previous caller said, with the 
many thousands, mostly civilians  women and children  who were killed by 
the American bombing of Baghdad and so forth which was authorized by 
President George W. Bush in his capacity as the commander-in-chief of the 
United States forces.

The power of simple, common sense truths.

This simple truth  the disparity between Husseins being hanged for his 
crime against humanity of ordering 148 executions versus Bush and Blairs 
apparent impunity in committing the supreme international crime of ordering 
a war of aggression against a sovereign nation and killing tens, or 
hundreds, of thousands of people in the process  must be carried forth, 
told and retold, by all who would demand an end to the war in Iraq, the 
prosecution of all war criminals, and an end to US and UK imperial 
misadventures.

Sean M. Madden is a UK-based American who guides himself and others in 
mindful living, meditation and writing. He blogs at 
http://mindfullivingguide.blogspot.com/Mindful Living Guide and 
http://inoodle.com/iNoodle.com, and can be reached via email at 
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] © copyright 2007 by Sean M. Madden

source:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16093.htm

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[media-dakwah] Defense Team: Iran offered $100 million for not talk about Halabja


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=== News Update ===


Defense Team: Iran offered $100 million for not talk about Halabja

http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2007/01/07/defense-team-iran-offered-100-million-for-not-talk-about-halabja/Roads
 
to Iraq

January 7, 2007

- Khalil Dulaimi [head of Saddam defense team] revealed that Iranian 
officials met with the lawyer Hatem Shaheen, and some members of the 
defense to offer them $ 100 million for not talk about Halabja.

Al-Dulaimi said he owns documents and evidence which prove that the Halabja 
attack was done by the Iranian army, American intelligence has sent a team 
led by one of the generals, and I do not want to mention his name, who took 
soil samples and found that that Iraq does not possess this gas.

- With the media reported that Maliki announced a new plan for Baghdad 
security and Militias crack down.

Haq agency says that Maliki brook records in the number of security plans:

What happening in Iraq is s that all these plans are revenge against Sunni 
Muslim in the country through by Shiite militias with government forces 
involving abductions, torture, murder, and the displacement of Sunni Muslims.

Salih Al-Mutalq agreed and said:

The plan aimed to empty Baghdad of its people, and leaving it to the mob.

- Two very important statements by Baath Party on Al-Arabiya satellite 
channel.

Baath Party spokesman said, in an exclusive statement to Arabyia.

The party will revenge for the execution of former Iraqi President Saddam 
Hussein with an armed operations against the American forces, through the 
military wing of the party and coordination with other armed factions in 
Iraq except Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia.

Iraqi political thinker and former Baathists Hassan Al-Allwi said to the 
same satellite channel that the execution of Saddam Hussein was in the 
context of a political deal between the Iraqi government and a Iraqi Baath 
Party wing. to hold Saddam responsible for every act committed by the party 
against Iraq in return for the of the Baath Party and to allow the 
participation in power.

source:
http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2007/01/07/defense-team-iran-offered-100-million-for-not-talk-about-halabja/

See also:
What happened in Kurdish Halabja?
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=-4bh=2http://www.uruknet.info/?p=-4bh=2

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[media-dakwah] Kurdish Desease of Nepotism : Bloodline instead of merit - The Talabanis

2007-01-07 Terurut Topik muslim insuffer


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=== News Update ===


Bloodline instead of merit: The Talabanis

http://www.kurdmedia.com/articles.asp?id=13857Simko 
http://www.kurdmedia.com/articles.asp?id=13857Azad


Sunday, January 07, 2007

The following is a list of the positions in the PUK and in the KRG which 
are held by close relatives of Jalal Talabani. This is not meant as an 
attack on this family, which has contributed to the Kurdish struggle but as 
a warning against, the Kurdish disease, nepotism:

Jalal Talabani: Secretary General of the PUK, President of Iraq.

Hero Talabani (wife of Jalal Talabani): Owner of KurdSat Television, Khak 
Publishing group, Chairwomen of Kurdistan Save the children.

Qubad Talabani (son of Jalal Talabani): Kurdistan Regional government 
representative in the United States of America.

Bavel Talabani (Son of Jalal Talabani): Chief of PUK Special Forces, 
Leadership candidate at Plenum.

Mullah Baxtiar (father to Bavel Talabani's wife): PUK politburo, 
Administrator of the democratic organisations (i.e. all union's in PUK 
areas, e.g. Women's association, medical association, legal association, 
Kurdish engineers union etc). Also controls Chawder newspaper/publishing 
group.

Shanaz Ibrahim Ahmed (sister of Hero Talabani): PUK Representative to 
United Kingdom, Plenum Leadership candidate.

Latif Rashid (Husband of Shanaz Ibrahim Ahmed): Minister for water and 
Irrigation, Iraqi federal government.

Hama Sabir (Husband of Hero Talabanis sister): Iraqi Ambassador to China.

Leloz Ibrahim Ahmed (Sister of Hero Talabani): Iraqi Embassy first 
secretary to European Union.

Asos Rashid (son of Shanaz Ibrahim Ahmed): Iraqi embassy first secretary in 
Geneva.

Bayaz Talabani (cousin of Jalal Talabani): KRG minister of finance.

Ali Hama Salih Talabani (Jalal Talabani's nephew): Member of PUK leadership 
council.

This is the leadership of the new PUK, an organisation in which the only 
way to progress is to be either a blood relative of Jalal Talabani, to 
marry into Jalal Talabani's family or to work for their interests.

Please note that this list is not in any way exhaustive and is based on the 
authors own knowledge. There maybe many more family members in the PUK 
leadership of which I have no knowledge.

Also please note that this is list is limited in scope to those holding 
governmental/party political positions and there are many more family 
members in other sensitive positions which are claimed to be independent of 
PUK-Talabani control, for example Halo Ibrahim Ahmed (Brother of Hero 
Talabani) owns numerous businesses in Kurdistan including the independent 
weekly newspaper Hewal.

source:
http://www.kurdmedia.com/articles.asp?id=13857

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=== News Update ===

The Mossad in the CIA

It might be of public interest to know that a significant number of Israeli
Mossad agents are now working in the United States as employees of the
Central Intelligence Agency. These agents, some of whom are listed below,
are initially paid by the Israeli Embassy in Washington but Israel then
bills the U.S. Government for the salaries and is reimbursed in full on a
monthly basis.

These are Israeli citizens but many of the middle level CIA officials are
American-born Jews and not included in this list but we do know who they
are. All of them, without exception, work for Israel and Israeli interests,
not American interests and more than a few are known to be friendly with a
number of the so-called Neocons, a significant number of whom are also
Israeli citizens.
http://tbrnews.org/Archives/a2608.htm#005

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War Criminal : Murder in Haditha

Staff Sgt. Frank D. Wuterich, the squad's leader, shot the men one by one
after Marines ordered them out of a white taxi in the moments following the
explosion, which killed one Marine and injured two others, witnesses told
investigators. Another Marine fired rounds into their bodies as they lay on
the ground.
http://tinyurl.com/ybgqr3

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War Criminal : Death in Haditha

Eyewitness Accounts in Report Indicate Marines Gunned Down Unarmed Iraqis
in the Aftermath of a Roadside Bombing in 2005

U.S. Marines gunned down five unarmed Iraqis who stumbled onto the scene of
a 2005 roadside bombing in Haditha, Iraq, according to eyewitness accounts
that are part of a lengthy investigative report obtained by The Washington
Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/05/AR2007010502248_pf.html

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In Case You Missed It : Iraqi Girl tells of US Attack in Haditha

Video : Ten-year-old Iman Walid witnessed the killing of seven members of
her family in an attack by American marines last November. The interview
with Iman was filmed exclusively for ITV News by Ali Hamdani,our Iraqi
video diarist.
http://tinyurl.com/l4qbg

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Bush surrounds himself with war supporters

President Bush yesterday began an overhaul of his top military and
diplomatic teams as he prepared to announce a highly controversial increase
of 20,000 US troops in Iraq. He is to replace his two senior generals in
Iraq, both said to be sceptical about increasing troop numbers, and he has
also reshuffled his national security and foreign policy teams.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-2533292,00.html

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War Criminal : Bush won't end Iraq war on his own

The president of the United States does not have the sense God gave a
duck--so it's up to us. You and me.
http://tinyurl.com/yg4wvx

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WHO IS SENDING YOUR CHILDREN OFF TO DIE IN WAR?

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

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The zionist in Iraq. Video and pictures

http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=artlapage=../ar_articles_2007/0107/shyon_050107.htm

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Jews and the Iraq War

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5f38ce530ep=1

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They have made a killing

The US has spent a million dollars for every dead Iraqi - is that what they
mean by value for money?
http://tinyurl.com/yh8fhq

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The whole bloody thing was obscene

The lynching of Saddam Hussein - for that is what we are talking about -
will turn out to be one of the determining moments in the whole shameful
crusade upon which the West embarked in March of 2003.
http://tinyurl.com/yb27cj

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Justice Is Done: Why Doesn't It Feel Like It?

They tied a cloth around Hussein's neck before dropping the heavily knotted
noose over his head. It's an interesting humanitarian gesture designed
surely, to prove that a barbaric act by civilized people is more humane
than the inhumanity of its violent counterparts. After all, saving the neck
of a hanging victim from rope burns is not only hardly necessary, it is
also ludicrous, laughable, absurd.
http://tinyurl.com/ygc9lp

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Ethnic Cleansing in Battle for Baghdad - Sistani Aide Claims threat to
Islamic Line

Al-Sharq al-Awsat reports in Arabic that Abdul Mahdi al-Karbala'i, an aide
to Sistani in the holy city of Karbala in the south, said Friday that a
failure of the al-Maliki governmen might well discredit the whole Islamic
line. He urged the government to act before it was too late. It would be
ironic if the collapse of Iraq really did discredit political Islam. But I
fear it is more likely to discredit democracy and the United States. It is
hard to discredit utopian ideologies. Studies have shown that members of
sects whose leaders predict the end of the world on a certain date are
actually more committed to the leader when the date comes and goes with
nothing happening. Apparently they had so much time, money, and social
networks invested in him that they didn't want to lose it all.

[media-dakwah] The execution debate on Al-Jazeera: You are an Iranian dog

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In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful

=== News Update ===

The execution debate on Al-Jazeera: You are an Iranian dog

http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2007/01/06/the-execution-debate-on-al-jazeera-you-are-an-iranian-dog/#more-1707Roads

to Iraq

http://www.uruknet.de/pic.php?f=mo3akis_1.jpg
mo3akis_1.jpg

January 6, 2006

This is a video from a debate broadcast on Al-Jazeera about Saddam
execution in 2-1-2007, Mashaan Al-Jaburi reveals the real identity of this
person who claim that he representing Iraq.

Persons:

Mashaan Al-Jaburi (right side): Chairman of the reconciliation and
liberation bloc in Iraqi Parliament, owner of Al-Zawraa TV satellite
channel [read Cairo Ignores U.S. Request to Pull Plug on Jihadi TV in
Iraq and http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2007/01/04/this-is-al-zawraa/This
is Al-Zawraa]

Sadeq al-Musawi (left side): [pseudo name] Chief of Iraqi Media and
International Relations

Faisal Al-Kasim: Al-Jazeera anchor, of The Opposite Direction show.

watch the show: You are an Iranian dog

Transcript:

Faisal Al-Kasim: Welcome again Dear viewers We are on air in the Program of
the opposite direction, start with you Mr. Mousawi, I would like to
apologize to thousands of people who plunged the electronic mail the
messages to pay tribute to Saddam Hussein.

Some people describe the image as Jesus Christ, a female writer from
Tunisia Hanan Al-Munsif says that he is the martyr just like historical
Al-Hussein, who shed his blood by the same the hands and the same the
scoundrels.
Can you deny that this man entered history through its broadest gate this
assassination also is called in the first day of Eid Al-Adha feast What do
you say about these allegation?

Mashaan al-Jaburi: [interrupting]: Please.

Faisal Al-Kasim: Just a minute, the voting. Do you support the execution of
Saddam Hussein? 88.6% no, 11.4% Yes, what do you say to them?

Mashaan al-Jabouri: But if I may..

Faisal Al-Kasim: Just a minute.

Mashaan al-Jabouri: I want to invite the viewers to read a verse from the
Quran on the soul of the martyr President Saddam Hussein.

Sadeq al-Musawi: In the name of God, the Merciful, we are not here to read
a verse from the Quran.

Mashaan al-Jabouri: (In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful)

Sadeq al-Musawi: Here we condemn the man.

Mashaan al-Jabouri: (Praise be to God, the Cherisher and Sustainer of the
worlds, Most Gracious, Most Merciful..).

Sadeq al-Musawi: condemn the man who killed thousands and millions of
Iraqis I am not here to read Quran verses, he killed his nephew in Ramadan,
the man did not know only violence and killings, I am here to talk to those
who have sent you messages I am here to clarified the picture to the Arab
people and the Islamic nation, they should understand who is Saddam
Hussein, we want to say that Iraqi people today impelled me millions of
messages from millions of mothers and fathers who were sitting and waiting
for their sons that they would return from prisons and fronts of
battlefield fabricated by Saddam Hussein.

Faisal Al-Kasim: OK.

Sadiq Al-Mosawi: Allow me . Saddam Hussein is not the leader and not an
Arab leader Saddam Husseins climb to power surreptitiously in the dark
night killed his contemporaries to access the governance, Saddam Hussein
went to the dustbin of history Saddam Hussein does not described as leader
of the Arabs.

Who wants to describe Saddam Hussein as Arab leader hurts the feelings of
the Iraqis people as a whole Sunni, Shiite and Turkmen and Christians all
scarred Saddam Hussein today this man dead - as a shoplifter or likes.

Faisal Al-Kasim: OK.

Quarrel and angry dispute starts between the two guests, Sadeq al-Musawi
leaves the place angry after Mashaan Al-Jaburi calls him an Iranian dog.

Faisal Al-Kasim: sit, sit, please sit

Mashaan al-Jabouri: Well, first, if you please, Mr. Faisal allowed me to
explain to the audience. you were unable to bring one national Shiite
guest accepts to show himself in this position.

Clarify for the Iraqis.. these papers issued by the Interior Ministry,
this person [Sadeq al-Musawi] who his name is Tarek request of Iraqi
nationality in 2004, You know that he entered Qatar as Tariq and not on as
Sadeq Al Mousawi, his father and mother living in Iran when recalling his
friends, he recalls Ibrahim al-Jaafari and says that the has no family in Iraq.

This person is not of an Iraqi citizen, he is part of the Safavid, Iranian
project, when I say Shiites I do not mean the sons of Iraq from the Shiites
Patriots.

source:
http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2007/01/06/the-execution-debate-on-al-jazeera-you-are-an-iranian-dog/#more-1707

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[media-dakwah] The Puppet Is Upset : Saddam Execution

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

=== News Update ===

The Puppet Is Upset : Saddam Execution

http://palestinianpundit.blogspot.com/2007/01/puppet-is-upset.htmlPalestinian
Pundit

http://www.uruknet.de/pic.php?f=maliki_34.jpg
maliki_34.jpg

January 6, 2007

Lyncher-in-Chief Is Upset About Worldwide Revulsion At The Barbarity of His
Shiite Thugs: The sock puppet threatened to cut diplomatic relations with
any country criticizing the lynching...

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Iraq PM hits out at hanging critics

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/549C7AB1-0639-443C-968A-424B2A13647B.htmAljazeera.net

- January 6, 2006

Nuri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, has said his country may review
relations with countries which have criticised the manner of the execution
of Saddam Hussein, saying the hanging was an internal matter.

Al-Maliki said: We consider the execution of the dictator an internal
affair that concerns only the Iraqi people.

Saturday's comments were the prime minister's first reaction to the ousted
president's hanging in Baghdad on December 30.

He said: The Iraqi government could be obliged to review its relations
with any state that fails to respect the wish of the Iraqi people.

Al-Maliki, speaking at a ceremony on the 86th anniversary of the Iraqi
army, reacted angrily to those who criticised the execution.

He said: We find that this conduct is inciting sedition and flagrant
interference in the internal affairs of Iraq and abuses feelings of the
families of the victims.

Mubarak criticism

A number of international leaders have criticised the manner of Saddam's
hanging saying it appeared as a sectarian lynching rather than a
court-directed punishment.

The criticism came after a guard, believed to be a Shia, taunted the Sunni
former president in his final moments.

The strongest comments came from Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, who
said that the execution had turned Saddam into a martyr.

New security plan

In a separate development, al-Maliki said that Iraqi forces would launch a
new effort, with US help, to wrest control of Baghdad's neighbourhoods from
armed groups.

Al-Maliki said: The Baghdad security plan is now ready and we will depend
on our armed forces to implement it with multinational forces behind them.
Field leaders will ask for help from these forces if needed.

Iraqi forces will begin a neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood assault on
fighters in the capital this weekend, as a first step in the new White
House strategy to contain violence in the capital.

The first details of the plan emerged on Friday, a day after George Bush,
the US president, and al-Maliki spoke for nearly two hours by video conference.

Bush is expected to outline more of the strategy in the coming days.

Violence

On Saturday, Iraqi police clashed with armed men in the area near Haifa
Street, a traditional Sunni area in central Baghdad, when they went to
investigate a report that 27 bodies had been found.

A source at Baghdad police headquarters said local police called in
reinforcements, but when they arrived, they came under fire.

Meanwhile, police said two car bombs killed four civilians in separate
attacks in the Iraqi capital on Saturday.

A parked car exploded near a fuel station in the southern neighbourhood of
Dora at midday, killing three people and wounding four others.

Another car bomb targeted the convoy of a high-ranking Iraqi police officer
in the central Baghdad neighbourhood of Karradah, killing a pedestrian and
wounding six.

Ali al-Yassiri, head of emergency police in the Iraqi capital, survived the
attack on his convoy, while three of his bodyguards were hurt.

source:
http://palestinianpundit.blogspot.com/2007/01/puppet-is-upset.html

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[media-dakwah] Future of Iraq: The spoils of war


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



=== News Update ===

Future of Iraq: The spoils of war



How the West will make a killing on Iraqi oil riches



By Danny Fortson, Andrew Murray-Watson and Tim Webb



Published: 07 January 2007


Iraq's massive oil reserves, the third-largest in the world, are about to 
be thrown open for large-scale exploitation by Western oil companies under 
a controversial law which is expected to come before the Iraqi parliament 
within days.

The US government has been involved in drawing up the law, a draft of which 
has been seen by The Independent on Sunday. It would give big oil companies 
such as BP, Shell and Exxon 30-year contracts to extract Iraqi crude and 
allow the first large-scale operation of foreign oil interests in the 
country since the industry was nationalised in 1972.

The huge potential prizes for Western firms will give ammunition to critics 
who say the Iraq war was fought for oil. They point to statements such as 
one from Vice-President Dick Cheney, who said in 1999, while he was still 
chief executive of the oil services company Halliburton, that the world 
would need an additional 50 million barrels of oil a day by 2010. So where 
is the oil going to come from?... The Middle East, with two-thirds of the 
world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies, 
he said.

Oil industry executives and analysts say the law, which would permit 
Western companies to pocket up to three-quarters of profits in the early 
years, is the only way to get Iraq's oil industry back on its feet after 
years of sanctions, war and loss of expertise. But it will operate through 
production-sharing agreements (or PSAs) which are highly unusual in the 
Middle East, where the oil industry in Saudi Arabia and Iran, the world's 
two largest producers, is state controlled.

Opponents say Iraq, where oil accounts for 95 per cent of the economy, is 
being forced to surrender an unacceptable degree of sovereignty.

Proposing the parliamentary motion for war in 2003, Tony Blair denied the 
false claim that we want to seize Iraq's oil revenues. He said the 
money should be put into a trust fund, run by the UN, for the Iraqis, but 
the idea came to nothing. The same year Colin Powell, then Secretary of 
State, said: It cost a great deal of money to prosecute this war. But the 
oil of the Iraqi people belongs to the Iraqi people; it is their wealth, it 
will be used for their benefit. So we did not do it for oil.

Supporters say the provision allowing oil companies to take up to 75 per 
cent of the profits will last until they have recouped initial drilling 
costs. After that, they would collect about 20 per cent of all profits, 
according to industry sources in Iraq. But that is twice the industry 
average for such deals.

Greg Muttitt, a researcher for Platform, a human rights and environmental 
group which monitors the oil industry, said Iraq was being asked to pay an 
enormous price over the next 30 years for its present instability. They 
would lose out massively, he said, because they don't have the capacity 
at the moment to strike a good deal.

Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister, Barham Salih, who chairs the country's oil 
committee, is expected to unveil the legislation as early as today. It is 
a redrawing of the whole Iraqi oil industry [to] a modern standard, said 
Khaled Salih, spokesman for the Kurdish Regional Government, a party to the 
negotiations. The Iraqi government hopes to have the law on the books by March.

Several major oil companies are said to have sent teams into the country in 
recent months to lobby for deals ahead of the law, though the big names are 
considered unlikely to invest until the violence in Iraq abates.

James Paul, executive director at the Global Policy Forum, the 
international government watchdog, said: It is not an exaggeration to say 
that the overwhelming majority of the population would be opposed to this. 
To do it anyway, with minimal discussion within the [Iraqi] parliament is 
really just pouring more oil on the fire.

Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman and a former chief 
economist at Shell, said it was crucial that any deal would guarantee funds 
for rebuilding Iraq. It is absolutely vital that the revenue from the oil 
industry goes into Iraqi development and is seen to do so, he said. 
Although it does make sense to collaborate with foreign investors, it is 
very important the terms are seen to be fair.

source:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2132569.ece

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