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=== News Update === Accomplices in War Crimes: Despite the horrific crimes and wanton destruction caused by an illegal act of aggression and Occupation, mainstream media continues to promote the Occupation of Iraq as a �humanitarian� act. http://207.44.245.159/article8132.htm === Why Go to College, When You Can be Cannon Fodder? Do You Know What Your Kids Are Watching on "Educational" TV at School? By Dr. Teresa Whitehurst I learned something new yesterday. Channel One News, the "educational" TV show that my daughter Isa and millions of other American kids watch every morning at school, is busy recruiting our teenagers into the military. http://207.44.245.159/article8125.htm === New Tapes Say Bush May Have Smoked Marijuana: President Bush indicated in interviews secretly taped by a friend before he became president that he had used marijuana but would not admit it for fear of setting a bad example for children. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=7682264 http://snipurl.com/cy2o === The Justice of Roosting Chickens: Ward Churchill Speaks Professor Churchill, do you think that the World Trade Center was an acceptable target on September 11? Do you think it was a legitimate target? Video - Audio - Transcript What you have to understand, and what the listeners have to understand, is that under U.S. rules, it was an acceptable target. http://207.44.245.159/article8124.htm === We Aren't Fighting to Win Anymore: U.S. troops in Iraq are only trying to buy time. http://207.44.245.159/article8134.htm === Amnesty International: Iraqi women no better off post-Saddam : In a report entitled "Iraq - Decades of Suffering," it said that while the systematic repression under Saddam had ended, it had been replaced by increased murders, and sexual abuse - including by U.S. forces. http://snipurl.com/cy2f === Insurgents Wage Precise Attacks on Baghdad Fuel Insurgent attacks to disrupt Baghdad's supplies of crude oil, gasoline, heating oil, water and electricity have reached a degree of coordination and sophistication not seen before, Iraqi and American officials say. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/21/international/middleeast/21sabotage.html?hp&ex=1109048400&en=42d988dc64929643&ei=5094&partner=homepage === Entire US column reported wiped out in ambush near Iranian border Four US tanks, three Humvees, and one armored vehicle were destroyed in the fighting that lasted two hours, the correspondent reported. He said that US dead were in excess of 60 men. An adjutant commander of the Iraqi border guards confirmed that the entire US column was wiped out. http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=iraq_war&Number=293392521 === American troops prepare for assault on Sunni stronghold There were no WMDs. Iraq and Al Qaeda were enemies. Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11. Saddam is in jail. Iraq has had elections. Why is the killing still going on? http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=613165 === U.S. Military Personnel who died in German hospitals or en route to German hospitals are not counted. They total about 6,210 as of 1 January, 2005. Posted Feb 21, 2005 05:57 AM PST - Category: WAR http://www.iraq-war.ru/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=40295 === Nine killed, more disappear, in Iraq violence: "Insurgents" kidnap journalist working for government-funded TV and her son, three men working for US military. http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=12762 === Three US soldiers killed, eight wounded in Iraq: A bomb explosion killed three US soldiers and wounded eight others in Addorah area south of here, a statement released by the multi national forces in Iraq said Monday. http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=707017 http://snipurl.com/cy1m === US soldier killed in Mosul: A US marine soldier was killed on Saturday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, a Multi-National Force statement said on Monday. http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=706944 http://snipurl.com/cy1o === American troops prepare for assault on Sunni stronghold: American and Iraqi government forces have surrounded the city of Ramadi in preparation for an expected full-scale attack on the city, which has in effect slipped into the hands of anti-occupation forces. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=613165 http://snipurl.com/cy1p === Violence Trumps Rebuilding in Iraq : U.S. officials say soaring security costs have consumed $1 billion earmarked for badly needed water, power and sanitation projects http://ktla.trb.com/news/nationworld/world/ktla-fg-cuts21feb21-lat,0,5116764.story?coll=ktla-news-1 http://snipurl.com/cy1s === Talking with the Enemy: Inside the secret dialogue between the U.S. and insurgents in Iraq�and what the rebels say they want http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1029805,00.html http://snipurl.com/cy1u === America's refuseniks: A revolt is taking place within the ranks of the US military as a growing number of soldiers refuse to fight in Iraq and are increasingly vocal in their opposition to a war they consider illegal and immoral. They are today's generation of war resisters. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/730/in4.htm === Shooting the Messenger: "The trouble is that a lot of the military--particularly the American...military--do not want us there. And they make it very uncomfortable for us to work. And I think that this...is leading to security forces in some instances feeling it is legitimate to target us with deadly force and with impunity." http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050307&s=scahill === World churches see illegality at Guantanamo: The World Council of Churches (WCC), the main global body uniting non-Catholic Christians, has accused the United States of violating international law in its treatment of detainees at its Guantanamo naval base. http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=676571§ion=news&src=rss/uk/worldNews http://snipurl.com/cy1z === 'Brooklyn's Abu Ghraib' : Defense attorneys call it Brooklyn's Abu Ghraib. On the ninth floor of the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park, terrorism suspects swept off the streets after the Sept. 11 attacks were repeatedly stripped naked and frequently were physically abused, the Justice Department's inspector general has found. http://nydailynews.com/front/story/282716p-242172c.html === Army knew of Abu Ghraib months before Blair was told: A senior British officer knew about serious abuse allegations at Abu Ghraib prison five months before ministers learnt about the scandal, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/story.jsp?story=612890 http://snipurl.com/cy21 === A UK diplomat says Britain is part of a worldwide torture plot. Is he telling the truth?: Our former ambassador to Uzbekistan refuses to go quietly. The Government should come clean about interrogation methods, he tells Raymond Whitaker http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=612865 http://snipurl.com/cy23 === Al-Qaeda number two warns West it faces thousands of dead, economic collapse: Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri warned the West it faced defeat in what he termed its "new crusade" against the Islamic world, as well as thousands of dead and economic collapse, in a videotape aired by Al-Jazeera television. http://207.44.245.159/article8135.htm === Paul Craig Roberts: Bush Outfoxed By Bin Laden: Any day now the neocons may orchestrate a scenario that will suck the US into a wider war that America has no possibility of winning. If the American people had the slightest sense of their danger, they would demand immediate US withdrawal from Iraq and accountability for the liars who orchestrated the ill-fated US invasion. http://207.44.245.159/article8133.htm === Uri Avnery : Beware of the Dog! : It is not very flattering to be paraded like a Rottweiler on a leash, whose master threatens to let him loose on his enemies. But this is Israels situation now. http://207.44.245.159/article8128.htm === Syria says it will withdraw troops from the Lebanon: Amr Mussa, the head of the Arab League, said that Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian President, had assured him this morning that Syria was prepared to fulfil its obligations in the Taef accords that ended Lebanon's civil war in 1995. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1493978,00.html === Thousands take part in Beirut rally: Tens of thousands of Lebanese massed on Beirut seafront as pressure mounted on the government to step down and end Syrian influence. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/EA2180C4-F1A2-436D-BD93-14C2D3E87D79.htm http://snipurl.com/cy1w === Was Syria really to blame?: The 300-kilo car bomb that killed former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri in Beirut last week is being widely blamed on Syria. The Bush administration in the U.S., cheered on by Israel, accused Syria of "terrorism," withdrew its ambassador and all but threatened Damascus with war. http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Eric_Margolis/2005/02/20/pf-936484.html http://snipurl.com/cy1x === Assassinating Al-Hariri Fits Washington�s Plan: To understand who assassinated Rafik al-Hariri we don�t need to look any further than the $1.5 billion US Embassy currently under construction in Baghdad. The new embassy, the largest of its kind in the world, will facilitate 1,800 employees and serve as the regional nerve center for American political and economic activity. What does this have to do with al Hariri? http://207.44.245.159/article8127.htm === The Dangerous Implications of the Hariri Assassination and the U.S. Response: �As long as the vast majority of Democrats are afraid to appear �soft� toward the Syrian dictatorship and as long as so few progressive voices are willing to challenge the Democrats, the President Bush appears to have few obstacles in his way should he once again choose to lead the country to war.� http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0219-23.htm === Scott Ritter Says U.S. Plans June Attack On Iran: Ritter said plans for a June attack on Iran have been submitted to President George W. Bush, and that the president has approved them. He also asserted that knowledgeable sources say U.S. officials "cooked" the results of the Jan. 30 elections in Iraq. http://207.44.245.159/article8130.htm === Israel must be prepared for an air strike on Iran : Israel Air Force Commander-in-Chief Major General Eliezer Shakedi said Monday that Israel must be prepared for an air strike on Iran in light of its nuclear activity. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=543087&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y http://snipurl.com/cy1h === Israel pushes U.S. on Iran nuke solution: Israel has been privately pressing Washington to solve the Iran nuclear problem in a hint that Tel Aviv may be left with no choice but to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities, defense officials say. http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050221-123842-3048r.htm === Putin To Visit Iran: "The Russian Federation and Iran have several joint projects, in particular, the purchase of passenger liners from Moscow, the construction of the second unit of the nuclear power plant in Bushehr, the issue of ships on the Caspian Sea and others," http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=5430525&startrow=1&date=2005-02-19&do_alert=0 http://snipurl.com/cy24 === Israel releases 500 Palestinian prisoners: Fourteen buses carried manacled Palestinians from an Israeli jail at Ketziot, in southern Israel's Negev desert http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-02/21/content_2601479.htm http://snipurl.com/cy29 === Illegal Jewish squatters vow fight to the death: Illegal Jewish squatters have vowed to fight to the death after the Israeli cabinet voted to withdraw from Gaza, endorsing prime minster Sharon's controversial plan. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1EF5049B-C57A-4D99-A007-F8C56810EC02.htm http://snipurl.com/cy2a === Likud rebels scheme to torpedo pullout: The lineup of Likud renegades assembled on Monday to strategize on how to torpedo the plan for Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank, which crossed another milestone towards its implementation on Sunday when the cabinet approved it 17-5. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1108956309642 http://snipurl.com/cy2b === How long does it take to demolish a house? : At the end of last week, the defense minister and the army realized they had made a small mistake: It turns out that demolishing homes in the territories is not a deterrent, and might even do harm. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/542203.html === Settlers poison Palestinian well: A Palestinian village in the northern West Bank has appealed for pressure to be put on Israel to end the recurrent poisoning of their only source of water supply by Jewish settlers. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C7359420-4A5D-4069-973F-D056B0DB543C.htm http://snipurl.com/cy2d === Noam Chomsky: US-Israel Strategic Relations: The cease-fire is an enormous victory for the US-Israeli rejectionism which, since Kissinger, has blocked political settlement. The cease-fire is to be welcomed: better no killing than killing. But take a careful look at the terms. The framework is entirely that of US-Israeli rejectionism http://207.44.245.159/article8129.htm === New Zealand rejects Israeli apology on alleged Mossad agents : Wellington has rejected an official Israeli apology on the matter of two alleged Mossad agents who were apprehended and jailed after they tried to fraudulently obtain a New Zealand passport. http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/542991.html === Claims Israel uses Australia as spy base: Israel uses Australia as a base to monitor the activities of potential enemies in the region, according to an American security expert. http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/smh51.html === Army recruiting goals in jeopardy: The active-duty Army is in danger of failing to meet its recruiting goals and is beginning to suffer from manpower strains. - The Army is rushing incoming recruits into training as quickly as it can. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002185936_army21.html http://snipurl.com/cy2h === �This war is about money." : I am a manipulated stooge who sold his soul to exploit the ignorant with the proud lies our own leaders. http://www.traveling-soldier.org/1.05.money.php === Military offering more, and bigger, bonuses: Last month, the Pentagon said it would begin offering bonuses of up to $150,000 for long-serving Army, Air Force and Navy special operations troops who agree to stay in the military for up to six more years. http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-02-20-military-bonuses_x.htm http://snipurl.com/cy2i === UN: Afghanistan Could Become Terror Haven : Three years after the fall of the Taliban, Afghanistan remains the world's sixth-least developed country, the United Nations said Monday, warning that a nation that became a haven for international terrorists could fail again unless more is done to improve the lives of its long-suffering citizens. http://snipurl.com/cy2j === U.S. Troops Doubled In Afghan Army : The U.S. military has doubled the number of its soldiers embedded inside the Afghan army, a spokesman said Sunday http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,FL_afghan_022005,00.html http://snipurl.com/cy2k === Bring the Troops Home Now: Global Day of Coordinated Actions on the 2nd Anniversary of the "Shock and Awe" Invasion of Iraq initiated by antiwar organizations worldwide including the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition in the United States http://answer.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ANS_actions http://snipurl.com/cy2l === PBS Under Fire for Editing Iraq War Documentary The producers of a "Frontline" documentary about U.S. combat troops in Iraq on Thursday criticized a PBS decision to send member stations an edited satellite feed of the program that cut out profanity used by soldiers. http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0218-02.htm === Why Bush will fail in Europe : The President has an enormous political gulf to bridge. The trouble is, he doesn't even know it's there http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1418548,00.html === Chavez to suspend oil exports to US in case of assassination attempt: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened to suspend oil exports to the United States if someone tries to assassinate him, adding that US President George W. Bush would be to blame. http://www.turkishpress.com/world/news.asp?id=050220214200.4meabf8e.xml http://snipurl.com/cy2m === The World�s Warmonger According to the Bush administration, it is Venezuelan President Hugo Ch�vez�s desire to purchase weapons from Russia that threatens to destabilize the Andean region, not the $3 billion in military aid that Washington has provided to Colombia over the past five years. Likewise, in the Middle East, it is Syria�s efforts to obtain purely defensive anti-aircraft missiles that pose a threat to that region, not the $1 billion a year in U.S. military aid to Israel. And on the nuclear front, while there is no evidence that Iran is intending to build nuclear weapons, it is the regime in Tehran that is threatening to further destabilize the region, not President Bush�s apparent pledge to support any future Israeli attack against Iran. http://www.colombiajournal.org/colombia203.htm === Mary Pitt : The Dems Just Don't Get It!: The Democratic leadership just don't get it! Day after day, we hear them whine that we must become more Republican Lite in order to win. We should "move right" and be more conciliatory to our opponents if we want to earn more votes. In the Senate, our "leaders" bow to the will of the president in confirming the nominations of people who should not be allowed to serve in any capacity http://207.44.245.159/article8131.htm === Cubans Left Out In The Cold: In recent weeks, at least six Cubans have been dropped onto the streets of New Orleans, abruptly ending prison terms that exceeded 20 years in some cases. The releases were mandated by the U.S. Supreme Court last month in a decision that said federal officials could no longer indefinitely detain 747 Cubans and 173 other illegal immigrants simply because their native countries will not take them back. http://nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-7/1108969169277900.xml http://snipurl.com/cy2n === Bush: Why I won't admit trying dope : "You got to understand, I want to be president. I want to lead. Do you want your little kid to say, 'Hey, Daddy, President Bush tried marijuana, I think I will?'" http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1418944,00.html === The mole, the US media and a White House coup : The reporter who wasn't is part of a wider press scandal http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,1418539,00.html === Childhood under threat: Despite the near universal embrace of standards for protecting childhood, a new UNICEF report shows that more than half the world�s children are suffering extreme deprivations from poverty, war and HIV/AIDS, conditions which effectively deny children a childhood and hold back the development of nations. http://www.simedia.org/new/soc-econ-pol/child-threat05.html === China woos Caribbean away from Taiwan: And the US, China's Cold War enemy, is benignly watching the Asian economic superpower move into its backyard. http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/02/20/2003223817 http://snipurl.com/cy2q === Are the Bush tapes a Rovian trick to take the focus off of the gay prostitute in the White House Press Corps? Posted Feb 21, 2005 10:29 AM PST - Category: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/02/311181.shtml === Soros : Oil exporters' shift to euros behind dollar's fall: : Moves by Middle East oil exporters and Russia to switch some revenue from dollars to euros lie behind the United States currency's weakness, and a further rise in crude prices could prompt more declines, billionaire investor George Soros said Monday. http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/Markets/GB22Ag05.html http://snipurl.com/cy2r === Legendary US author shoots himself Thompson is credited with pioneering New Journalism - or, as he dubbed it, "gonzo journalism" - in which the writer made himself an essential component of the story. Much of his earliest work appeared in Rolling Stone magazine. http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm?id=197092005 === Why isn't Bob Novak going to jail?: Will someone please explain in simple, easy-to-understand language, why we never see right-wing pundit Bob Novak's name mentioned in the same breath as reporters facing jail time for contempt in the Valerie Plame affair? http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05049/459428.stm === -muslim voice- ___________________________________ BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.3.0 - Release Date: 21/02/2005 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. 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