Bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update === An Ideological Tower of Babel: Christian Zionism: Franklin Graham, whose father Billy converted Bush, has called Islam evil and Graham's decision to join other Christian evangelists in Iraq both to aid and convert Iraqis must bolster the Muslim perception of the invasion as an alliance of "Jews and Crusaders." http://207.44.245.159/article7702.htm === Religious aid groups try to convert victims Muslim clerics object as Western Christian groups hand out food and Bibles, reports Jason Burke in Banda Aceh http://www.guardian.co.uk/tsunami/story/0,15671,1391491,00.html http://tinyurl.com/5xk2e === Villagers furious with Christian Missionaries Rage and fury has gripped this tsunami-hit tiny Hindu village in India's southern Tamil Nadu after a group of Christian missionaries allegedly refused them aid for not agreeing to follow their religion. God save me from your followers! http://in.news.yahoo.com/050116/139/2j1rp.html === The tsunami - the real scandal and some lessons Professor, dr., Academic Director European University Center for Peace Studies (EPU). The hard facts of the scandal. Here is an article by TFF Associate Michel Chossudovsky that shows that "Washington was aware that a deadly tidal wave was building up in the Indian Ocean." It forms an important part of Richard Norton-Taylor's article here in The Guardian. There is also this news report by MSNBC, Tsunami spares U.S. base in Diego Garcia. And, finally, read Eric Wadell's Why weren't they warned? These reports confirm that the US military base on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean received a warning of the impending tsunami, but civilians did not. As we know now, the warning was not passed on. This is a crime of unprecedented proportions and should be exposed.* http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1010188.htm === Revealed: how the tsunami warning was bungled: Scientists at the Tsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii did not use an existing rapid telecommunications system set up to get warnings around the world almost instantly because the bureaucratic arrangements were not in place. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=601394 http://tinyurl.com/5muqm === Bush Finally Tells the Truth: Americans are Responsible for the It�s official, according to Bush. As an American, you are responsible for the invasion, the occupation, the 100,000 dead civilians, and the brutal political gulag in Iraq because you �re-elected� Bush last November. �We had an accountability moment, and that�s called the 2004 elections,� Bush told the Washington Post. �The American people listened to different assessments made about what was taking place in Iraq, and they looked at the two candidates, and chose me.� Of course, in regard to Iraq, there was virtually no difference between Kerry and Bush, a vote for Kerry would have resulted in a continuation of the occupation and an influx of an additional 40,000 troops, and Kerry�s �assessment� of �what was taking place in Iraq� was nearly indistinguishable from Bush�s. Kerry simply wanted to change management styles. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1010860.htm === Dr. James J. Zogby : The Reality of the Two Americas : Two radically different Americas were on display this week. Both are real, and both must be recognized a real to understand my country. http://www.iviews.com/Articles/articles.asp?ref=IV0501-2585 === CIA Chiefs Quash Revealing Report Pointing Fingers For September 11 Detailed CIA report is ordered to be kept secret for fear that �prying eyes� may uncover truth. An internal CIA report, naming individuals who may have been responsible for intelligence failures leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks, has been kept secret despite public outcries and congressional demands to release the incriminating evidence. The delays began last July on orders from CIA�s acting director, John McLaughlin, and have continued since Porter Goss took charge last September. Critics claim President George W. Bush has personally directed Goss, a Republican partisan, to keep the names from �prying eyes� in order to hide the truth exposing either government incompetence or outright complicity. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1010776.htm === WOMAN WAVING FROM WTC NORTH TOWER IMPACT HOLE The official 9-11 story is that the jet fuel from the planes that hit the world trade towers erupted into a blast-furnace inferno able to melt the steel of the towers, leading to the collapse. Yet, as this photo AND VIDEO clearly show, a woman was standing in the impact hole!!! There was no inferno. The government, the same government that claimed there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, lied. http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_news&Number=2932773 33#Post293277333 === Video: The Human Cost of War This Is A Must Watch Documentary This film is our soldiers� perspective of the Iraq War, and how they are being treated upon returning home. It goes beyond the war stories to look underneath our American tradition of engaging in war and then abandoning the warrior. Watch it online now! http://207.44.245.159/article7693.htm === Through racist eyes : The entire state of Israel has institutionalized racism because its charter is to preserve a Jewish character. Any other country in the world would be lambasted for such ethnic exclusionary premises. But in the US, Israel is celebrated. http://207.44.245.159/article7704.htm === An Appeal to Global Conscience An appeal to the peace and justice movement, calling for a long-term strategy for undermining the foundations of war. The time has come to recognize that the U.S. occupation is the principal cause of the violent insurgency and growing civil war. We disagree with those who, while admitting that that the war was a mistake based on fabricated evidence, nevertheless claim it would be a bigger mistake to end the occupation and withdraw. http://207.44.245.159/article7701.htm === A trail of torture at hands of US forces THE picture of Charles Graner, the convicted ringleader in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, giving the thumbs-up in front of a dead Iraqi is not as famous as those of detainees stacked in a human pyramid of naked flesh, held on a dog leash or hooded for mock execution. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1010549.htm === Scapegoats of the Empire With the Imperium not only safely reelected, but planning the most expensive �in your face� party in Presidential Inauguration history (in the face of a record humanitarian crisis overseas, an expensive and bloody war, and a record federal budget deficit), it�s time to tie up some loose ends. One of them, of course, is concluding which low level flunkies will take the rap for the entire Abu Ghraib fiasco (and while we�re at it, every abuse ever perpetrated by the American military or government). http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1010541.htm === Can You Imagine?: Hussein Was Right & Bush Was Wrong You may remember that in 2002, the year before the Iraq War began, the United Nations Security Council ordered Iraq to produce a report detailing all of its biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons � past and present. Iraqi officials complied and produced an 11,800-page report on Iraq's weapons programs. The report described all the chemical and biological weapons the country once had � where they came from and what was done with them � as well as what had happened to Iraq's nuclear weapons program. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1010436.htm === Dead because of a lie. Dead because selfish people in government wanted a war and lied to get one, aided by selfish people in the media. The government and the media traded the blood of these young Americans for their personal gain. Look at their faces. How can you not be angry? http://whatreallyhappened.com/ === From Axis of Evil to Exit Door for Weasels "One can speculate endlessly about what really motivated George Bush and his neocon Praetorian guards to go to war. Was their goal to convert the Middle East into a walking mat for Sharon and easy pickings for Halliburton? Did they set out to appease Bin Laden by lifting sanctions and dismantling the bases in Saudi Arabia?" "If we know Saddam Hussein has dangerous weapons today -- and we do -- does it make any sense for the world to wait to confront him as he grows even stronger and develops even more dangerous weapons?" -- George Bush, October 7, 2002 http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1010276.htm === Iraqi guards, aid worker killed: Five Iraqi soldiers and a policeman were shot dead on Saturday in a string of insurgent attacks around the northern trouble spots of Samarra and Kirkuk. http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200501/s1282721.htm === Four people reportedly killed in Samarra shooting;American soldier dead south of Baghdad http://www.albawaba.com/en/news/179021 === Pentagon Is Taking Steps For Longer Stay in Iraq: The Pentagon is building a permanent military communications system that suggests American soldiers will be in Iraq for the foreseeable future. http://www.news-record.com/ae/features/reservist_011605.html http://tinyurl.com/4eu7z === Injured Army reservist recalls suicide bomber's eyes: But the sight was hard for her mother to take. Her daughter�s oozing, shiny face was seared white from the mouth up. Her hair was singed. Her legs were in casts. Her father, Eddie Spinks, couldn�t take it. He left the room. http://www.news-record.com/ae/features/reservist_011605.html http://tinyurl.com/4eu7z === Hospitals handle growing number of war wounded : In the first eight months of the war, 2,076 soldiers were injured. In the 14 months since, 8,296 were injured. http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13759815&BRD=1645&PAG=461&dept_id= 33198&rfi=6 http://tinyurl.com/5eoff === Father transformed by anguish over Iraq: Scars define man who burned himself after son's combat death http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6831772/ === Bush Says Election Ratified Iraq Policy: President Bush said the public's decision to reelect him was a ratification of his approach toward Iraq and that there was no reason to hold any administration officials accountable for mistakes or misjudgments in prewar planning or managing the violent aftermath. http://207.44.245.159/article7705.htm === German was kidnapped by Americans, brought to Afghanistan, tortured. In German. http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,336869,00.html === Rumsfeld caught lying on video Shameless, just shameless. http://www.moveon.org/censure/caughtonvideo/ === This is an Unjust, Evil and Futile War Dr. King's comments on Vietnam. http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=5054 === Revisionist history: Original rationale for invasion was groundless News flash! The White House acknowledged Wednesday that its hunt for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction has ended without finding the stockpiles that President Bush cited as the main justification for invading Iraq nearly two years - and more than 1,350 American lives - ago. http://www.registerguard.com/news/2005/01/15/ed.edit.iraqwmd.phn.0115.html === Donald Rumsfeld and Alberto Gonzales should be prosecuted for war crimes Human Rights Watch Wants War Crimes Prosecution of Bush Administration Human Rights Watch today called for a war crimes prosecution of high-ranking officials in the Bush administration. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1010422.htm === U.S. Army Spc. Charles Graner Jr, Gets 10 Years For Iraq Prison Torture: Asked if he felt remorse after the sentence was handed down, Graner said, "There's a war on. Bad things happen." http://wfrv.com/topstories/topstoriestv_story_015205923.html === Higher Officials Unlikely to Be Tried: To some, the low-level Army reservist may look like the fall guy in a debacle that embarrassed the United States throughout the world and tainted the image of American forces in Iraq. Yet analysts said that for now, at least, it was doubtful that higher-level officials would be found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt http://207.44.245.159/article7708.htm === Group Calls for a Kenneth Starr for Abu Ghraib: The latest annual report by Human Rights Watch describes the torture and sexual humiliation as Abu Ghraib one of the most insidious threats to human rights in 2004. http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,336827,00.html http://tinyurl.com/6mph3 === The price of pain: Declassified FBI and military documents point the finger at the White House for allowing the torture of suspected terrorists. http://www.smh.com.au/text/articles/2005/01/14/1105582722411.html http://tinyurl.com/54nfq === Abu Ghraib abuse firms are rewarded : As prison ringleader awaits sentence, defence contractors win multi-million Pentagon contracts http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1391443,00.html http://tinyurl.com/5y23u === British soldiers accused of abuse: Shocking images of British soldiers allegedly abusing Iraqi prisoners will be revealed in a courtroom in Germany. http://tinyurl.com/7xnjo === Bush�s Cambodia: Syria in the Crosshairs: Americans simply don�t care, or can�t be bothered, about Bush�s dirty invasion, occupation, and now expansion of hostilities into Syria, even though, if we are to believe the corporate media conducted polls, roughly fifty percent of Americans think invading Iraq was probably not the right thing to do, not that Americans plan to go into the streets to put an end to it. http://207.44.245.159/article7707.htm === In case you missed it: Dom Stasi: A crime against humanity: The war against Iraq is an action that was - and remains - a crime against humanity. It is a crime of murder and deception on the grandest of scales. As Americans of free will we are witness if not party to a horrific atrocity. http://207.44.245.159/article5603.htm === Dahr Jamail: Blood is Precious: Iraqis and Americans meet to share grief and committment to justice http://207.44.245.159/article7709.htm === The forgotten inmate of Guantanamo Bay and the British secret service connection: London resident believes he was set up after being illegally arrested by US intelligence. http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/story.jsp?story=601387 http://tinyurl.com/5gzld === Bush�s Grand Plan: Incite Civil War : When you destroy a man�s home and kill and disgrace his friends, he�ll fight back. And, when you rob a man of everything he has, including his dignity, you leave him with one, solitary passion� rage. This rage is now animating the resistance in ways that no one had previously anticipated. http://207.44.245.159/article7700.htm === We Are Really, Really Sorry: We have become a nation that accepts no responsibility for its actions or its mistakes. We have become an apathetic people led by fat little kings who cater to a Boy King http://www.oldamericancentury.org/dave300026.htm === William Blum : Eastern Europe: From Soviet Satellites to American?: American interference in the political and economic affairs of nations in every corner of the world is, unfortunately, a tale told many times. - It had all been a con game http://207.44.245.159/article7699.htm === The Failure of Empire: The United States is facing the prospect of a major defeat in Iraq that is likely to constitute a serious setback in the ongoing campaign to expand the American empire. http://www.monthlyreview.org/0105editors.htm === Report: FBI botched internal spying probe: A former FBI linguist's allegations of possible espionage involving a colleague are credible but still have not been properly examined nearly three years after they were made, according to a new internal Justice Department report released Friday. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-10/06/content_380022.htm http://tinyurl.com/5al23 === Israel says freezing talks, no Palestinian state: Israel's unilateral plan to evacuate some occupied land and keep the rest will indefinitely prevent a Palestinian state with Washington's blessing, a senior Israeli official said in an interview published Wednesday. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-10/06/content_380022.htm http://tinyurl.com/5al23 === Mahmoud Abbas Extends His Hands In Peace: Israel Occupation Forces Kill Six In Gaza: http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1391480,00.html http://tinyurl.com/4z3hv === Sharon accused of exploiting violence: Ariel Sharon is accused of using the recent Gaza border incident as an excuse to sever contacts with Mahmud Abbas, says the leader of Israel's left-wing Yahad party, Yossi Beilin. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/159B16B6-BA79-4D1F-AB8F-929608A8C0AB. htm http://tinyurl.com/4aqr6 === Sharon orders crackdown : Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says he has given his troops a free hand to launch a crackdown on Palestinian anti occupation forces. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4178695.stm === 46 Palestinian Election Officials Resign: Forty-six members of the Palestinian election commission, including top managers, resigned Saturday, saying they were pressured by Mahmoud Abbas' campaign and intelligence officials to abruptly change voting procedures during the Jan. 9 presidential poll. http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=414882 === US Should Help Stop Land Grabs: The average American finds unfathomable the desperation that drives suicide bombers. Yet Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip is a recipe for violence. It robs Palestinians of their livelihood, their dignity, and their faith in the future. http://207.44.245.159/article7703.htm === -muslim voice- ___________________________________ BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> What would our lives be like without music, dance, and theater? Donate or volunteer in the arts today at Network for Good! http://us.click.yahoo.com/WwRTUD/SOnJAA/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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