bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
===News Update=== Is Al Qaeda Just a Bush Boogeyman?: Is it conceivable that Al Qaeda, as defined by President Bush as the center of a vast and well-organized international terrorist conspiracy, does not exist? http://207.44.245.159/article7657.htm === Through Racist Eyes "All Native American tribes were defined as "savages," "uncivilized," "barbaric" and needed to be rounded up and put on reservations. Oh yes, possessing one drop of "Indian blood" in Virginia could disqualify you from the right to vote." As soon as someone of Palestinian descent decides to engage the world in a self-explaining narrative, one immediately confronts racist attitudes. Many reading this right now may be thinking that I am exaggerating. Would that it was true. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1001862.htm === AMERICA - BARBARIC OR CIVILIZED It is with great sorrow for the whole of the world that I have come to realize that America is not America the Beautiful but, instead a society that condones torture, genocide, murder, extortion, mutilation and maiming of human beings, destruction of property of innocents, theft of property of innocents, use of WMD on innocents, and on and on through the totality of acts we call inhumane and amoral. Thus, we must ask � are we barbarians or civilized? http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1001722.htm === Vulnerability of Republicans in America Reckless Expenditure on Weapons By Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. In their effort to regain the reigns of government, the Democratic Party must not only emphasize the need for Americans to have free health care and education, they need to become highly critical of the Republican reckless expenditure on weapons. They must show that this expenditure is meant merely to boost the product of those big corporations, headed by the weapons industry that contributed money to their political campaign. Democrats must make it very clear on a constant basis that when Republicans speak of national defense and security, they do not have in mind the welfare of the American people, but the profit that comes from the lethal product of their vicious benefactors. http://207.44.245.159/article7653.htm === Moral clarity department Eventually, an administration willing to embrace torture to fight terror was going to embrace terror as well: especially an administration populated by moral monsters like John Negroponte, who had embraced terror before, and gotten away with it. Death squad activity is terrorism. Its purpose is never merely the assassination or kidnapping of a small number of leaders, but always the cowing of entire populations. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1001742.htm === Bush, Osama and Israel Concealing Causes and Consequences By William A. Cook Americans, for the most part, know little or nothing of the actions taken in their name that have given birth to the visceral hatred, evident throughout the world, that plagues their every step. What graphic pictures have we seen of our devastation of the holy city of Falujah? What pictures show the bodies buried beneath the rubble of bombed homes? What images of humans mangled and eaten by roaming dogs have we seen in our press or on TV? http://207.44.245.159/article7648.htm === Secret service link to film-maker's killing A group linked to the suspected killer of the film-maker and critic of Islam Theo van Gogh had a mole inside the Dutch secret services, a court in Rotterdam heard yesterday. Or did the Dutch Secret Service have their mole inside the group blamed for Van Gogh's murder? http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=599636 === Bob Herbert : The Scent of Fear : The assembly line of carnage in George W. Bush's war in Iraq continues unabated. Nightmares don't last this long, so the death and destruction must be real. You know you're in serious trouble when the politicians and the military brass don't even bother suggesting that there's light at the end of the tunnel. The only thing ahead is a deep and murderous darkness. http://207.44.245.159/article7650.htm === �This is not a life.� Already today at least 18 Iraqis have died as violence continues to escalate as the so-called elections approach. Suicide car bombers are striking Iraqi Police (IP) stations on nearly a daily basis now. Today�s target was in Tikrit, where U.S. military spokesman Major Neal O'Brien said six were killed when the police headquarters was bombed. He also said, �As the Iraqi police continue to get stronger, and continue to pose a threat to the insurgents and terrorists, they will be targeted.� Most Iraqis I�ve spoken with appear to disagree with Mr. O�Brien. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1001522.htm === Allawi group slips cash to reporters : The electoral group headed by Iyad Allawi, the interim Iraqi prime minister, on Monday handed out cash to journalists to ensure coverage of its press conferences in a throwback to Ba'athist-era patronage ahead of parliamentary elections on January 30. http://news.ft.com/cms/s/a3828a0c-6346-11d9-bec2-00000e2511c8.html http://snipurl.com/bxsz === 'No election' for parts of Iraq Mostly the parts that do not like the puppet government the US has installed. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4166587.stm === Robert Fisk: Iraqi insurgents ahead in war of intelligence http://207.44.245.159/article7654.htm === Film reveals true destruction to ghost city Falluja : Fresh evidence has emerged of the extent of destruction and appalling conditions in Falluja, still deserted two months after a major US offensive against the insurgent stronghold. http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1387467,00.html === City of ghosts On November 8, the American army launched its biggest ever assault on the Iraqi city of Falluja, considered a stronghold for rebel fighters. The US said the raid had been a huge success, killing 1,200 insurgents. Most of the city's 300,000 residents, meanwhile, had fled for their lives. What really happened in the siege of Falluja? In a joint investigation for the Guardian and Channel 4 News, Iraqi doctor Ali Fadhil compiled the first independent reports from the devastated city, where he found scores of unburied corpses, rabid dogs - and a dangerously embittered population http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1387460,00.html === U.N. says only 8,500 Fallujah refugees have returned permanently: Only 8,500 residents of Fallujah have returned home after a devastating U.S.-led campaign to retake the Iraqi city from insurgents, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday. http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/01/11/build/world/45-fallujahreturn.inc http://snipurl.com/bxsw === The Scent of Fear Bush's war in Iraq is a failure. It is time to admit that and bring an end to the killing. http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/011105_scent_fear.shtml === Forget the US media - US casualties are even worse than what Islammemo reports Many people think that Islammemo exaggerates US casualty numbers. The truth is that Islammemo correspondents can't keep up with the furious pace of the Iraqi war of liberation and may well be seriously underrreporting US losses. A recent AlJazera story highlights this issue. http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=35858 === U.S. Denies GIs Killed Iraq Civilians : A U.S. spokesman denied on Monday that American soldiers killed five civilians in a hail of gunfire after a roadside bomb exploded near American troops, and an Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman who initially issued the report backed away from the claim. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050110/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_checkpoint_attack http://snipurl.com/bxsv === Gunmen kill 8, abduct 3 in Iraqi "triangle of death" : Unidentified gunmen attacked a minibus traveling south of Baghdad, killing eight Iraqis and abducting three others, the Iraqi police said on Tuesday. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-01/11/content_2446264.htm === Car bomb kills 7 at police HQ in Tikrit, Iraq: A car bomb exploded at the police headquarters in Saddam Hussein's home town of Tikrit today, killing seven policemen, police at the scene said. http://www.deepikaglobal.com/latestnews.asp?ncode=24397 === Ukraine Parliament Demands Ukraine's Pullout From Iraq: The resolution On the Withdrawal of the Ukrainian Peacekeeping Force from the Republic of Iraq, introduced by Pyotr Simonenko, the leader of the Communist Party faction, was supported by 308 MPs, with 226 votes required. http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=5296771&startrow=1&date=2005-01-11&do_alert=0 http://snipurl.com/bxsy === CIA, SEALs beat prisoners in Iraq: The witness said he watched as SEALs punched, choked and poked their fingers in the eye of Iraqi Manadel al-Jamadi, who also was punched by a CIA official when he did not answer questions.Mr. al-Jamadi, died while being interrogated by CIA personnel in the shower room of the Abu Ghraib prison. http://207.44.245.159/article7651.htm === Shocking New Videos Shown at Iraq Abuse Scandal : Prosecutors also presented shocking new videos and photos from Abu Ghraib prison, including forced group masturbation. http://www.metronews.ca/reuters_international.asp?id=50029 === Media gag on 'Iraqi abuse' soldier case : The British public is not allowed to be told evidence heard against a British soldier at a court martial in Germany yesterday after a judge imposed reporting restrictions on the press. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1387438,00.html === U.S. Army Sergent Defies Order: 2 Soldiers Attempt Suicide at 2-7 Infantry, 17 Go AWOL http://207.44.245.159/article7659.htm === Marine Shoots Two Police: Julia Cortez Raya said Monday that her son served in Fallujah: "He came back different." http://www.modbee.com/local/story/9750300p-10616529c.html === US deserters flee to Canada to avoid service in Iraq: An estimated 5,500 men and women have deserted since the invasion of Iraq, reflecting Washington's growing problems with troop morale. http://snipurl.com/bxta === Jerry Ghinelli : Welcome back, Saddam! -- Satire -- http://207.44.245.159/article7658.htm === Americans make mockery of justice : Two men were pushed into a river by armed men. One of them died, swept away by the current. The crime was committed in Iraq on an Iraqi by an American sergeant, the sentence was a paltry six months http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/OpinionNF.asp?ArticleID=147226 http://snipurl.com/bxt2 === Abu Ghraib troops 'did not abuse' Graner says whatever happens, he hopes to have a smile on his face. Notorious photographs of human pyramids and tethered Iraqi prisoners do not prove that US troops abused detainees in Iraq, a military court has heard. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4155375.stm === Fresh Horrors at Guantanamo A leading civil rights group says that government records pertaining to an investigation of prisoner abuses at the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba are still being withheld, and those it has received under a court order are so heavily censored that they "raise more questions than they answer". http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0110-10.htm === Value of Guantanamo inmates in doubt: A senior US defence official has revealed that only a quarter of the Guantanamo detainees are of any intelligence value. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/EBC68328-F124-45FD-84A3-886C7A110F5B.htm http://snipurl.com/bxt7 === Guantanamo Takes on Look of Permanence : Most of the 550 prisoners from 42 countries no longer are considered of significant intelligence value, but many swept up in the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan aren't expected to be freed anytime soon http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4724177,00.html === Guantanamo Britons freed : The four remaining Britons held by the Americans at Guantanamo Bay today won their freedom. http://snipurl.com/bxt3 === The FBI Agents Who Tried To Stop 911 Read the part about the new chief of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff. http://rense.com/general54/ffroe.htm === Conservatives distorted Geneva Conventions to defend Gonzales Following White House Counsel Alberto R. Gonzales's January 6 Senate confirmation hearings, conservatives in the media used a series of false claims to defend the attorney general nominee's legal advice to President Bush on whether the Geneva Conventions apply to Taliban and Al Qaeda detainees. http://mediamatters.org/items/200501100004 === US to release Habib without charge: The US has told the Australian Government it does not intend to bring charges against Mr Habib, who has been at Guantanamo Bay since 2002. Mr Habib's lawyer Stephen Hopper says his client's release shows that the allegations against him are groundless. "The US Government's case has collapsed," http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200501/s1280289.htm === Moussaoui appeal reaches high court : Lawyers for accused terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui asked the Supreme Court on Monday to bar prosecutors from seeking the death penalty for the French citizen because he has been denied access to potentially favorable testimony from Al-Qaida suspects in custody. http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5179527.html === CSIS destroyed Charkaoui notes, court told: Canada's spy agency destroyed transcripts and notes from interviews it had with Adil Charkaoui, who has been held without charge since May 2003 on suspicion of being linked to the Al-Qa'ida terror network. http://snipurl.com/bxt4 === Advise And Rubber Stamp: Alberto Gonzales and the cowed Democrats are poised for a policy of "advise, snarl, bombast and then rubber stamp." http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/06/opinion/meyer/main665308.shtml === Torture and International Human Rights: A roundtable discussion with Francis Boyle, Michael Mandel, Liz Holtzman, H. Victor Conde, and Mark Levine http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=80&ItemID=6987 === Democrats sugar-coating Gonzales: One of his main tasks was overseeing the clemency petitions of people on death row in Texas, a crowded corridor. The government-sanctioned murder machine hummed along as Gonzales greased the gears. He knew that was what George W. wanted, and that's what he did. The merits of the pleas for clemency didn't really matter. http://207.44.245.159/article7649.htm === Will the U.S. Senate Endorse Torture? : In the past, Congress has meted out punishments to presidents or their prospective appointees for far lesser transgressions than culpability in torture. For example, President Bill Clinton was impeached�a rarity in American history�by Congress for having sex with an intern and lying about it. http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1446 === His Imperial Hignessness Stiffs His Own Capital City Posted Jan 11, 2005 10:50 AM PST Category: DUBYA - DICTATOR http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1802&u=/washpost/20050111/ts_washpost/a63896_2005jan10&printer=1 === FLASHBACK: HUNDREDS OF MOSSAD AGENTS CAUGHT RUNNING WILD IN AMERICA! In November of 2001, 6 more suspicious Israelis were detained in an unspecified mid-eastern state. They had in their possession box cutters, oil pipeline plans, and nuclear power plant plans. (6) The local police called in the Feds and Immigration officials took over the scene and released the men without calling the FBI. The Jerusalem Post, the Miami Herald, (7) and the Times of London (8) all carried this amazing story and all revealed how furious FBI officials were that these terror suspects with nuclear power plant plans were allowed to go free. Of course, the corruption riddled FBI would only have caved into Zionist pressure from the Justice Department�s Criminal Division boss, Michael Chertoff... And now the guy who was springing Israeli agents is in charge of Homeland Security? Anyone placing any bets if they fly the flag of Israel during the inauguration? http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/hundreds.html === Another hate crime hoax? The reason I conclude this is yet another in a long series of hate crime hoaxes is the use of the Swastikas. The swastika is a relic from a dead government from the middle of the last century and nobody except Israel is interested in keeping it, or the memory of Hitler, alive and current in the 21st century. http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?ID=35796 http://www.aztlan.net/spot_hate_crime_hoaxes.htm === -muslim voice- ___________________________________ BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divide! http://us.click.yahoo.com/hjtSRD/3MnJAA/i1hLAA/TXWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- All views expressed herein belong to the individuals concerned and do not in any way reflect the official views of Hidayahnet unless sanctioned or approved otherwise. 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