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bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful === News Update === Nobody has the right to spread slander, libel or bigotry in the name of freedom of speech Pay attention to the end of the above quoteabsolutely no public value. The point is not that the cartoons of Muhammad insulted or upset Muslimsoffensive speech is defensiblebut they gratuitously and maliciously enraged Muslims by falsely equating Islam with legitimate armed resistance to Israels illegal Occupation of Palestine. http://www.gregfelton.com/media/2006_02_16.htm === Western Standards publishing of cartoons is deplorable says MP Dr. Keith Martin Victoria, BC - The Western Standards decision to publish a number of controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed is a cruel and potentially destructive act of utter irresponsibility. Using the right of freedom of the press as a pathetic fig leaf of an excuse to print these cartoons demonstrates at a minimum, a deplorable lack of insight into race relations, and at worst a cruel insensitivity towards Muslims. For further information please contact Dr. Keith Martin at: (250) 474-6505 or e-mail him here: http://www.keithmartin.org/contact/index.html === Denmark Has Lost Its Innocence See: http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmld2006/D36016.htm#1 === Anti-Muslim cartoons published in Australia http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/feb2006/cart-f16.shtml === FBI Investigating Mich. Mosque Attacks Authorities are investigating a series of attacks on Detroit-area Muslims, including an assault on a cleric who was hit with a shovel and reports that a group of youths threw shoes at worshippers in a mosque. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MOSQUE_ATTACKS?SITE=NVLAS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT === The Politics of Fear (or How Tony Blair Misled Us over the War on Terror) see: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0215-09.htm === What the terrorism law means for British Muslims He could not do much about global poverty or debt, neither has he made Britain a more equal society. We can safely assume that Tony Blair wants his legacy to be the man who 'stood up' to terrorism and made the country safe. Despite a severe mauling in the press yesterday, particularly in the Daily Mail and The Independent, Tony Blair managed to win the battle in passing through a law on glorifying terrorism last night - by 315 to 277 votes. http://www.asiansinmedia.org/news/article.php/current_affairs/1228 === UN report blasts Guantanamo prison, says detainees should be tried or freed The world body also called on the United States to refrain from practices that "amount to torture." http://www.940news.com/nouvelles.php?cat=24&id=21647 === THE POINT OF NO RETURN The people of the United States stand at that point right now. That the US Government is using torture on POWs (just as Hitler did) is beyond argument. One can either stand up and denounce that torture and demand the firing of all who took part in it (and the end of the war), or one is by default complicit, an accessory after the fact, seen by all to condone such barbarism. Anyone who steps across that line is trapped. Unable to look at what they themselves have become they will refuse to look at what the government has become, indeed will create or accept any justification, no matter how thin and transparent, rather than question that government. And indeed this web site gets email from people who have already crossed that point, and are trying to explain why torture is really necessary "this time". http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/noreturn.html === More Proof of Prewar Intelligence Manipulation by the Bush Administration Writing in the March/April 2006 issue of Foreign Affairs, Paul R. Pillar has launched a furious assault on the Bush administration for its manipulation of prewar intelligence about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and links to al Qaeda. Mr. Pillar should know, because he was the CIA's National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia (NESA) from 2000 to 2005. http://www.walter-c-uhler.com/Reviews/Pillar.html === Saddam Reportedly Warned U.S. of Terrorism Saddam Hussein told aides in the mid-1990s that he warned the United States it could be hit by a terrorist attack, ABC News reported Wednesday, citing 12 hours of tapes the network obtained of the former Iraqi dictator's talks with his Cabinet. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SADDAM_TAPES?SITE=NYNYD&SECTION=NATIONAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT === Talking to terrorists The New Statesman can reveal that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has - decided on a policy of engagement with what it calls "political Islam". To this end, it proposes to develop "working-level contacts" in Egypt with one of the Middle East's most militant groups, the Muslim Brotherhood http://www.newstatesman.com/200602200006 === The Forgotten Terrorist Attack The lines of burnt dead bodies lining the street presented a horrific scene reminiscent of Hiroshima after it was nuked by the U.S. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11951.htm === Outrage Spreads over New Images New footage of British soldiers beating up young Iraqi men in Amarah city in 2003, and the release of more photographs of atrocities by U.S. soldiers against Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib prison has spread outrage across Iraq. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11949.htm === Iraq: Horrific New Torture Pictures Released MORE photographs have been leaked of Iraqi citizens tortured by US soldiers at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad. Warning : These pictures should only be viewed by a mature AUDIENCE http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11923.htm === More Photos; More War Crimes The photographs illustrate in excruciating detail the commitment to physical coercion that the Bush administration has vigorously defended in its legal memoranda and justified in terms of its war on terrorism. The battered faces and hooded victims of American brutality attest to the shocking inhumanity of the present campaign. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11956.htm === Video: Abu Ghraib - The Sequel These are the photos the American Government doesn't want you to see. While researching a story on guards at Abu Ghraib, I obtained a copy of the unreleased photographs and videos. Taken at the same time as the photos released in 2004 and often of the same abuses, this is the first time they have been shown to the public. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11944.htm === Eyes Wide Open What shall we say when history asks how such crimes came to be committed in the name of America? Will we say that we stood silently by, shrugging our shoulders, filling our bellies, closing our eyes? Or will we be able to say: We saw. We dissented. We resisted. We condemned. http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=480&Itemid=1 === Report: U.S. Is Abusing Captives A U.N. inquiry says the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay at times amounts to torture and violates international law. NEW YORK - A draft United Nations report on the detainees at Guantanamo Bay concludes that the U.S. treatment of them violates their rights to physical and mental health and, in some cases, constitutes torture. http://www.minjok.com/english/news.php3?code=1456 Here is the link to the 54 paged UN report: http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/chr/docs/62chr/E.CN.4.2006.120_.pdf === U.S. reports discovery of apparent death squad in Iraq The U.S. military has stumbled across the first evidence of a death squad within Iraq's Interior Ministry after the detention last month of 22 men wearing police commando uniforms who were about to shoot a Sunni man, according to the American general overseeing the training of Iraqi police. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11955.htm === The Abu Ghraib files Never-published photos, and an internal Army report, show more Iraqi prisoner abuse -- evidence the government is fighting to hide http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/02/16/abu_ghraib/ === Abuse photos authentic: Pentagon The Pentagon has confirmed the authenticity of a set of photographs of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib that were aired for the first time on Wednesday by Australian television, a defence official said. http://www.dawn.com/2006/02/16/top6.htm === CIA chief sacked for opposing torture The CIAs top counter-terrorism official was fired last week because he opposed detaining Al-Qaeda suspects in secret prisons abroad, sending them to other countries for interrogation and using forms of torture such as water boarding, intelligence sources have claimed. Robert Grenier, head of the CIA counter-terrorism centre, was relieved of his post after a year in the job. One intelligence official said he was not quite as aggressive as he might have been in pursuing Al-Qaeda leaders and networks. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2036182,00.html === US State Department Rejects Visa Applications of Two Iraqi Women Whose Families Were Killed by US Troops US State Department Rejects Visa Applications of Two Iraqi Women Whose Families Were Killed by US Troops Women had planned to tell their stories to US policy makers and the public as part of an International Womens Day peace campaign. WASHINGTON - February 15,2006 - Two Iraqi women whose husbands and children were killed by US troops during the Iraq war have been refused entry into the United States for a speaking tour. The women were invited to the US for peace events surrounding international womens by the human rights group Global Exchange and the womens peace group CODEPINK. http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net === Yet more Abu Ghraib Posted Feb 16, 2006 08:37 AM PST - Category: TORTURE SCANDAL Don't it just makeya proudernSHIT to be Amerikun? http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/02/16/abu_ghraib/portfolio.html === An Arrogance of Power Let's say it plainly: This is the arrogance of power, and it has gone too far in the Bush White House. Posted Feb 16, 2006 08:36 AM PST - Category: DUBYA http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/14/AR2006021401783.html === An Abu Ghraib Photo We Didn't See on the Front Page of the NYT Posted Feb 16, 2006 08:34 AM PST - Category: TORTURE SCANDAL http://www.counterpunch.org/abughraib05242004.html === CNN Blames the Photos, Not the Torture Here I thought the "scandal" was that the U.S. military was systematically abusing prisoners. These new photos, with their documentation of violently inflicted, open wounds, obliterate any notion that what occurred at Abu Ghraib was anything short of torture by all accepted definitions of the term. They reveal some horrifying scenes of naked, humiliated, bloodied prisoners, some with apparent gunshot wounds. In a video broadcast on Australia's SBS, naked, hooded prisoners were seen being forced to masturbate in front of the camera. But, according to CNN's Starr, the real transgression was that some soldiers documented the torture in violation of "U.S. military law and practice." In a report later in the morning, Starr returned to her outrageous characterization of the "scandal," beginning her report: http://www.antiwar.com/orig/jscahill.php?articleid=8553 === The Basra video should lay to rest a scurrilous lie The smug superiority of the British over their peacekeeping efforts in Iraq is an insult to those of us who live there http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11947.htm === Sunni Insurgents Seen as Increasingly Unified "Over time, the insurgency appears to have become more coordinated, confident, sensitive to its constituents' demands and adept at learning from the enemy's successes and its own failures," according to the report, "In Their Own Words: Reading the Iraqi Insurgency". http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11953.htm === The Iraq war's defining weapon The threat posed by Iraq's reported possession of weapons of mass destruction was the excuse US President George W Bush gave for his invasion of Iraq in 2003, but it is the simplest of technologies - the roadside bomb - that has emerged as the biggest nightmare for US occupation forces in Iraq. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11952.htm === Iraq: the forgotten victims Military under fire for 'abandoning' more than 1,000 veterans with mental problems http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article345709.ece === New envoy Wilson backed Bush on Iraq In a 2003 interview, ex-finance minister said Canada should have sent ships, planes OTTAWA AND WASHINGTON -- The man Prime Minister Stephen Harper has chosen to improve relations with Washington has backed President George W. Bush in recent years on the war in Iraq. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060216.AMBASSADOR16/TPStory/?query= === Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 15 February 2006 * Call to action issued following report of location of secret 300-inmate torture prison, run by puppet Interior Ministry and Badr Brigades. US occupation administration in Baghdad said unaware of scandalous facility. * Two US troops reported killed in Resistance car bombing in al-Fallujah Tuesday evening. * Resistance ambush reportedly leaves six US troops dead in Abu Ghurayb Tuesday night. * Battle rages between US, Resistance forces from Tuesday night until midday Wednesday in al-Khalidiyah area. * Two US troops reported killed in Resistance bombing on road to Yathrib near Balad. * Three US troops reported killed in Resistance grenade assault in al-Hawijah. * US troops kill Jaysh al-Mahdi member, arrest seven more members of Muqtada as-Sadrs militia in raids in an-Najaf. http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2006/0206/iraqiresistancereport_150206.htm === Hamas to rely on Muslim funds Ismail Haniya, set to be named Palestinian prime minister, has said that a Hamas government would rely on help from the Muslim world if the West acts on threats to axe funds once it takes office http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9E942AFA-057B-4824-9CD1-561ACE922A4B.htm === Canadian government to cancel millions of dollars of humanitarian aid to Palestinians OTTAWA, JERUSALEM -- The West Bank and Gaza could lose $25-million in long-term annual funding and $37-million more in aid announced by the Martin government last year unless the Islamist group Hamas renounces violence and accepts Israel's right to exist, Ottawa's foreign aid arm said yesterday. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060216.HAMAS16/TPStory/?query= === US House votes 418-1 to cut off aid to Palestinians WASHINGTON, Feb 15 2006-- The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to withhold direct US foreign aid from the Palestinian Authority unless Hamas revokes its call for the destruction of Israel. http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net === UK govt trying to sabotage Israel boycott The newspaper Haaretz recently reported that the British ambassador to Israel, Simon McDonald, told a meeting at Bar Ilan University: "We had success in May" in overturning the AUT boycott of two Israeli universities. He is also reported to have described the AUT as taken over by a "highly motivated minority" who captured it to further their agenda. Bar Ilan was one of two universities targeted by a 2005 AUT boycott resolution as it had established the College of Judea and Samaria in the colony of Ariel, in the occupied West Bank (Vote ends Israeli boycott, May 27 2005). http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/worldwide/story/0,,1710766,00.html === Bush plans huge propaganda campaign in Iran The Bush administration made an emergency request to Congress yesterday for a seven-fold increase in funding to mount the biggest ever propaganda campaign against the Tehran government, in a further sign of the worsening crisis between Iran and the west. http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329413536-110878,00.html === Coulter on Iranian "jihad monkey" and the inapplicability of "conventions of ... personal hygiene and grooming" to Muslims See: http://mediamatters.org/items/200602160005 === An Anti-Democracy Foreign Policy: Iran When Iranians took U.S. officials hostage in the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979, Americans were mystified and angry, not being able to comprehend how Iranians could be so hateful toward U.S. officials, especially since the U.S. government had been so supportive of the shah of Iran for some 25 years. What the American people failed to realize is that the deep anger and hatred that the Iranian people had in 1979 against the U.S. government was rooted in a horrible, anti-democratic act that the U.S. government committed in 1953. That was the year the CIA secretly and surreptitiously ousted the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, a man named Mohammad Mossadegh, from power, followed by the U.S. governments ardent support of the shah of Irans dictatorship for the next 25 years. http://www.fff.org/comment/com0501i.asp === Republicans Criticize Bush Mideast Policy Republican senators criticized the Bush administration Wednesday over its policies in Iraq, Iran and the Palestinian territories, as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's first testimony on Capitol Hill in months exposed her to a tough grilling from some members of her own party http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1622428 === Secret Data Exposed in Terrorism Case Federal officials in Dallas mistakenly disclosed classified counter-terrorism information in a breach of national security that could also threaten one of the country's biggest terrorism prosecution cases, newly unsealed court records show. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11954.htm === Civil liberties fear as US terror suspect list rises to 325,000 Civil liberties organisations expressed outrage yesterday after it was reported that the database of terrorist suspects kept by the US authorities now holds 325,000 names, a fourfold increase in two and a half years. http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1710756,00.html === Dick Cheney authorized to disclose classified information? Dick Cheney used the occasion of his softball interview with the Fox News Channel about shooting his hunting partner to announce to us that he is authorized to disclosed classified information. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/02/15/national/w201800S25.DTL === Fueled by arrogance, Bush White House ignores the rules There is a temptation that seeps into the souls of even the most righteous politicians and leads them to bend the rules, and eventually the truth, to suit the political needs of the moment. That arrogance of power is now on display with the Bush administration. http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060215/OPINION05/602150310/1006/OPINION === COURT ORDERS JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO RELEASE INFORMATION ABOUT WARRANTLESS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM WITHIN 20 DAYS Grants EPIC's Motion for an Emergency Court Order Compelling Release of Information WASHINGTON, DC -- In response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a federal judge has ordered the Department of Justice to process and release documents related to the Bush Administration's warrantless surveillance program by March 8. It is the first court opinion addressing the controversial domestic spying operation. http://www.epic.org/privacy/nsa/foia/ === The NSA's Brave New World When Russell Tice, former NSA and DIA employee, first spoke to the public in January about the administration's spying on Americans, he received a lot of attention. http://www.weblog.ro/soj/2006-02-16/The+NSA%27s+Brave+New+World.html#68263 === Premier Klein's wife, Colleen, said to be devastated by magazine article EDMONTON (CP) - Colleen Klein is said to be "devastated" by a magazine article that quotes an unnamed Conservative source as saying that when her husband retires as Alberta premier, she'll be "just another Indian." http://www.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=90e5cab1-103b-4568-a1fe-d31145385181&k=42427 === Man Shot In 'Accident' After Laughing At Cheney (AP) LAFAYETTE, Colo. 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