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=== News Update === U.S.: Torture Nation February 24, 2005 - By TOM WRIGHT Abu Ghraib, a Year Later: What's Changed? If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face...forever. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1095379.htm === Pentagon seeks new anti-terror operation: The Pentagon is promoting a global counterterrorism plan that would allow Special Operations forces to enter a foreign country to conduct military operations without explicit concurrence from the U.S. ambassador there, administration officials familiar with the plan said. http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/nation/10977106.htm http://tinyurl.com/69ku2 === German Protesters Call Bush 'No. 1 Terrorist': The official rally, which was twice as big as expected, never got within earshot of President Bush, but a small group of protestors rushed toward his car as he left to visit a U.S. base in nearby Wie http://tinyurl.com/5p4q7 === Why are we welcoming this torturer? Europe is tacitly condoning the Bush regime's appalling practices Victoria Brittain George Bush is this week having an extravagantly orchestrated series of meetings with Europe's leaders, designed to show a united front for the creation of democracy around the world. Tony Blair talks of our "shared values". No one mentions the word that makes this show a mockery: torture. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8157.htm === Bin Laden: AUTHENTIC INTERVIEW Posted Feb 24, 2005 04:06 PM PST - Category: 911 http://www.public-action.com/911/oblintrv.html As opposed to the fake Osamas the US media has been showing. http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osamatape.html === Debunking Popular Mechanics� Article �9/11 Myths, The Pentagon: Flight 77 Debris� Posted Feb 24, 2005 08:57 AM PST - Category: MAINSTREAM MEDIA http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=consp_911&Number=293402544 === Israel Link to September 11 Terrorism Posted Feb 24, 2005 08:48 AM PST Category: ISRAELI SPYING http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=consp_911&Number=293403145#Post293403145 "Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information." -- US official quoted in Carl Cameron's Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring and its connections to 9-11. http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/israeli_spyring_fox.html === Core Values By Chris Floyd Here, where there should be thunderous denunciations of the Bush regime's rape of American honor -- a litany of sins that includes aggressive war, the decimation of cities, vile acts of torture, kidnappings, "renditions," imprisonment without charges, indefinite detention, assassinations, war profiteering and the exaltation of presidential power above the reach of law -- there has been only silent acquiescence, or the rare, decorous, timorous murmur, or, increasingly, enthusiastic support. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8161.htm === "No Tyrant Can Stand Forever" Least we forget the crimes, the pain, the death! Bring These People To Justice Now! 6 Minute Video: Watch It Online Now - Windows Media. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8159.htm === The Evolution of Revolution Expelling the Demons of the Opiate By Manuel Valenzuela If you must believe in something, then believe in humanism, in compassion, in peace, love and togetherness. Believe in the Earth and the splendors of her surface. Believe in nature and in saving it from ourselves. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8158.htm === Russia 'committed Chechnya abuse' : The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Russia committed serious abuses, including torture and extra-judicial killing, in Chechnya. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4295249.stm === War Crimes: Congress dozes while detainees are sent to other countries to be tortured. There cannot be an absence of moral content in American foreign policy. Europeans giggle at this, but we are not European, we are American, and we have different principles. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Telegraph, London, February 5, 2005 http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0508,hentoff,61345,6.html http://tinyurl.com/7y8b8 === Images from Iraq combined with audio clips of Dubya's pre-war 'intelligence' make a powerful case for War Crimes Prosecution of the Bush Regime. Posted Feb 24, 2005 08:38 AM PST - Category: IRAQ http://www.benfrank.net/nuke/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=297 === FLASHBACK: Bush Planned Iraq 'Regime Change' Before Becoming President A SECRET blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure 'regime change' even before he took power in January 2001. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1221.htm === US Marine who killed unarmed Iraqi prisoner won�t be charged: A US marine, captured on film shooting a wounded Iraqi at point blank range during last year's assault on Falluja, will not be formally charged. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/5C41ABE7-A613-47D1-AB91-C5298491BBFA.htm http://tinyurl.com/473mv === In case you missed it: Unarmed And Wounded POW Shot In The Head By U.S. Marine http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7296.htm === Where is al-Zarqawi?: Asked if he thought al-Zarqawi escaped during last month's U.S. assault on Fallujah, Majid smiled, took a drag on his cigarette and said, "Who knows that al-Zarqawi was ever in Fallujah?" http://tinyurl.com/3plnr === AI: US Soldiers Exploit Iraqi Women By Foreign News Services , Published: Wednesday 23, 2005 - zaman.com Amnesty International (AI) has declared that there has been no improvement in Iraqi women's lives since the collapse of the Saddam regime. http://www.zaman.com/?bl=international&alt=&hn=16829 === Extent of US abuse cases revealed The US army says it is conducting more than 100 criminal investigations into claims of detainee abuse in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4293023.stm === Car Bomb Attack Kills 15 Iraqi Policemen : At least four other police were killed in separate attacks across the country http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4822532,00.html http://tinyurl.com/6rdlw === U.S. Soldier Killed by Roadside Bomb in Iraq Wed Feb 23, 2005 05:42 AM ET BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier was killed in a roadside bomb blast north of Baghdad Wednesday, the military said in a statement. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7711099 === 3 People Killed and Another 8 were Injured in an Attack in Southern Baghdad http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?catid=138&newsid=58456&ch=0&datte=2005-02-24 http://tinyurl.com/6lg2m === 10 Iraqis, 2 US Soldiers Killed in Separate Attack: The U.S. military says the soldiers were killed in bomb blasts in the towns of Qaryat and near Samara. http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-02-24-voa3.cfm === Two US soldiers killed in Iraq bomb blasts Thu Feb 24, 6:01 AM ET Mideast - AFP BAGHDAD (AFP) - Two US soldiers were killed in separate bomb blasts north of Baghdad. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050224/wl_mideast_afp/iraqustoll&cid=1514&ncid=1473 === Ramadi residents flee city after latest US-led attacks: Residents of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province some 100 km east of Baghdad, have started to flee the city following the latest offensive launched by US Marines and the Iraqi army. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/f088ccb9258d6720ea36591a9abb5b37.htm http://tinyurl.com/6v2xs === Smearing an Anti-War Politician: The Galloway Saga: "They can charge me with incitement to disaffection! I've already stated, many a time, that when my life ends I want the words to be chiselled on my gravestone: 'He spent his life inciting them to disaffection; disaffection with war, disaffection with the capitalist system, disaffection with injustice!'" http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8160.htm === 30 Die in Series of Attacks Across Iraq 2 hours, 48 minutes ago Middle East - AP By TODD PITMAN, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide bomber wearing a police uniform blew up his car at police headquarters in Tikrit, killing at least 15 people in Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s hometown in the bloodiest of several attacks Thursday that claimed 30 lives. Two American soldiers were among the dead. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050224/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq&cid=540&ncid=2100 === 18 more UK troops face trial for Iraqi abuse : Charges are set to be made against 11 more soldiers, as well as seven from the Parachute Regiment who have been accused of killing an 18-year-old Iraqi. http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5035964.html === Court: Closure of soldier hearing illegal: An Army officer illegally closed a December hearing on the alleged suffocation death of an Iraqi general and must keep open as much of the rest of the hearing as possible, a military appeals court ruled Wednesday. http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/10974862.htm http://tinyurl.com/5xmpf === Kurds name their price for putting Shia party in power: The Kurds are to stick to their demand for the oil city of Kirkuk and a degree of autonomy which is close to independence as negotiations begin to form the next Iraqi government. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=614128 http://tinyurl.com/4bqk6 === Ukraine 'to withdraw Iraq troops': UKRAINE plans to pull out its 1650 troops currently serving in Iraq, the sixth-largest contingent in the US-led coalition forces, by the end of this year, the country's new defence minister said today. http://tinyurl.com/5lw63 === Churches attack Iraq troop plan: A Christian alliance has savaged the Government's decision to send more troops to Iraq as "scandalous", saying the Prime Minister had broken trust with the Australian people. http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/smh53.html === Guard facing troop shortage for Iraq in 2006: The Army National Guard will run short of troops for Iraq in 2006 unless the situation there improves or the 24-month limit on callups is changed, its top general said Wednesday. http://tinyurl.com/42avk === Iraqi TV airs tape of purported Syrian intelligence officer involved in insurgency: �We received all the instructions from Syrian intelligence,� said the man, who appeared in the propaganda video along with 10 Iraqis who said they had also been recruited by Syrian intelligence officers. http://tinyurl.com/4kugt === Juan Cole: Show Trials and Phony Confessions Target Syria: It is embarrassing that Allawi thought he could peddle this horse manure to the Iraqi and American publics. http://www.juancole.com/2005/02/show-trials-and-phony-confessions.html http://tinyurl.com/59qm5 === Plan Behind Orchestrated Campaign Against Syria: The tide is turning against Syria and it is turning fast. Both Israel and the United States are up in arms to bring an end to Syria�s hegemony over Lebanese affairs. But one must not be too hasty to believe that the American-Israeli action is motivated by their earnest concern for Lebanese sovereignty. http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=59419&d=23&m=2&y=2005 http://tinyurl.com/4eabs === Lebanon: Syrian troops pulling back : "The Lebanese and Syrian leadership have met and decided on the sixth redeployment of the Syrian forces in Lebanon," Murad said. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/979E4920-18AD-4C1E-9C55-AA1AF21649F6.htm http://tinyurl.com/5hpvl === Cartoon of the week http://www.cristianfleming.org/index.php?d=2/22/05 === New evidence of US torture in Iraq and Afghanistan By Kate Randall. 23 February 2005 New evidence of US mistreatment and torture of detainees and civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan has emerged in government documents obtained by both the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Associated Press. The documents also reveal a pattern of cover-up by the military in connection with the abuse. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/feb2005/tort-f23.shtml === Witness in plot to kill Bush is dead: The disclosure that a potential witness in the case is no longer alive could complicate the prosecution of Abu Ali on terrorism charges. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/213389_plot24.html === Buyer of SAM-7 Claims He Was Paid by CIA One of the men convicted of selling a SAM-7 surface-to-air missile in Nicaragua, Jorge Ivan Pineda, said he was paid $1,000 by the CIA to buy the weapon and that the whole thing was planned at a meeting in the US embassy in the presence of the US ambassador Barbara Moore on Dec. 23 2004. http://www.nicaliving.com/node/view/800 === Missile rejection perplexes U.S.: Canada's apparent decision to stay out of a North American missile-defence system has dumbfounded Americans as an unnecessary giveaway of sovereignty, Washington's envoy to Ottawa said Wednesday. http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2005/02/23/940281-cp.html === UK: New evidence shows No 10 'push to war' : The Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, was at the centre of a deepening row today over his advice on the legality of the Iraq war. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/16847366?source=Evening%20Standard http://tinyurl.com/4f7er === All the News That's Fit to Fake By DAVE LINDORFF Okay, so we know now that the Bush administration has been using all kinds of devious means to push propaganda on the American public-fake news generated by the Pentagon for overseas, and ultimately, courtesy of blowback, U.S. consumption, fake news reports by fake reporters peddled to local TV stations, bought reporters and syndicated columnists paid to shill for the administration's policies, and even fake reporters salted into the White House press corps to ask puffball questions if the president or press secretary start getting too much heat. http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff02212005.html === Even cowboys need friends : Bush and Blair's illegal war in Iraq has not made the world a safer place - only respect for international law can do that http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1423816,00.html http://tinyurl.com/6x9g4 === Blair limits damage after terror rebellion : The prime minister moved quickly today to defend his home arrests bill following last night's rebellion by more than 30 Labour MPs, saying he "rejected completely" that it was a fundamental attack on long-standing civil liberties. http://politics.guardian.co.uk/attacks/story/0,1320,1424303,00.html === Brits, Yanks, Asleep as Ancient Liberties Fade: Law after draconian law, has been placed on the statutory books in both countries that rip the revered �Rights of Englishmen,� the cherished U.S. Constitution, and the hallowed Bill of Rights to shreds. http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/13354 === Qurei gains Parliament's approval of his cabinet : The Palestinian Parliament on Thursday approved a new cabinet composed largely of professionals and technocrats supposed to institute changes in Palestinian political life. http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/02/24/news/ramallah.html http://tinyurl.com/3ksoo === Sharon's List: The doomed settlements, a guide : When Ariel Sharon began singling out settlements for future eviction, he knew just where to look. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=543597&displayTypeCd=1&sideCd=1&contrassID=2 http://tinyurl.com/3s5fg === Boycott Israel, Christian group urges This is a subtle bit of propaganda. The Christian group isn't using the word "Boycott". They are urging divestment, which is not the same thing. But if Israel's supporters in the media can spin this as a boycott, the US law that forbids boycotts of Israel can be brought into play. I told you Israel's supporters do not think you should be free to choose where your money goes. http://www.nynewsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-uschur244156165feb24,0,2819317.story?coll=ny-worldnews-headlines === Church council seeks pressure on Israel: The governing body of the World Council of Churches has asked its members to consider bringing economic pressure on companies that benefit from Israeli policy in the Palestinian territories. American Jewish leaders have condemned the recommendation as biased. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Christians%20Israel http://tinyurl.com/3oh3k === ADL Dismayed By World Council of Churches Decision To Pursue Divestment As Means To Punish Israel Posted Feb 24, 2005 07:55 AM PST - Category: ISRAELI SPYING http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_news&Number=293403366 Awwww, the Israeli spies are upset at the churches. Boo, hoo, hoo, hoo. http://www.solargeneral.com/ja/adl/ADLAHistoryofDisinformationandIntimidation.htm === Anti-Zionist rabbis speak out in Beirut : U.S. and British rabbis participating in a Beirut conference on Palestinians' right of return said they did not recognize Israel, founded on Palestinian land. http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story.asp?StoryId=CqH1FueidBgvIyw5VBI1YywjIAxm http://tinyurl.com/6kbff === Microsoft sue Israeli spammer for $500,000 Microsoft has asked the court to order Gans to make public details of how many email messages his company sent to Hotmail users, while posing as Hotmail subscribers, and to pay damages for every message sent. http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_crime&Number=293403895#Post293403895 === Reports: Indians Offer $25Bln in Russian Investments: India has offered the government the prospect of $25 billion in investments into Russia's oil and gas industry as New Delhi seeks to secure supplies and a stake in Yuganskneftegaz, Russia's two leading business dailies reported Tuesday. http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/24/041.html === Lawyer/activist speaks on human rights in Haiti : Fanfan told of entire portions of the poor parts of major cities being evacuated or many people thrown in jail following the ouster of elected President Jean Bertrand Aristide in last year's coup. A U.S.-backed government has run the country since. http://www.courierpub.com/articles/2005/02/24/lincolncountyweekly/local_news/n4lawyer.txt http://tinyurl.com/47fmj === Growing Protests Condemn Ottawa's Role In Haiti Coup And Repression : Growing numbers of people in Canada and around the world are raising their voices against the February 29, 2004 coup against the constitutional government of Haiti and the bloody repression that has reigned on that island ever since. http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=55&ItemID=7306 http://tinyurl.com/6pbvq === Al� Rodr�guez reports on plot against Ch�vez' government: Venezuelan Foreign Minister Al� Rodr�guez Wednesday at the Organization of American States warned the international community against a likely plot "to physically liquidate" President Hugo Ch�vez. http://english.eluniversal.com/2005/02/23/en_pol_art_23A535367.shtml === Venezuelan blasts U.S. in speech: In a speech to the OAS, Venezuela's foreign minister repeated charges that the White House is trying to undermine Hugo Chavez's government, including a plot to kill him. http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/nation/10980861.htm === Accused bombers won't be extradited United Press International (UPI) is reporting from Miami (Florida, USA) that a Miami immigration judge has barred the deportation of two former Venezuelan National Guard (GN) lieutenants accused of two bombings in Caracas. http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=25854 === Russia, Brazil arms deals called defensive move: Venezuela's foreign minister yesterday denied his country was a destabilizing influence in the region and defended weapons deals with Russia and Brazil as purely defensive in nature. http://tinyurl.com/5xz2a === Company's Work in Iraq Profited Bush's Uncle: The Iraq war helped bring record earnings to St. Louis-based defense contractor Engineered Support Systems Inc., and new financial data show that the firm's war-related profits have trickled down to a familiar family name � Bush. http://tinyurl.com/4t4ka === Valerie Plame and 30 Pieces of Silver: Bribing and Twisting Amerian Journalists: http://www.counterpunch.com/cloughley02242005.html === Maureen Dowd: Swifties Slime Again: Instead of trying to destroy AARP, Republicans should be signing up the seniors' lobby to find Osama. http://tinyurl.com/45lgl === US bankruptcies �to surge� amid junk bond deluge: THE US is heading for a surge in bankruptcies and a dramatic increase in corporate debt default as the number of companies with bonds rated at the lowest end of the junk bond scale reaches record levels. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,16849-1497723,00.html === Benderman Faces Court Martial: "Seeing how dehumanizing it is for our men and women in order to get along in that environment takes away all our humanity," he said in a Feb. 7 interview. http://www.wtoctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2989802&nav=0qq6WjvS === -muslim voice- ___________________________________ BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW -- No virus found in this outgoing message. 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