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=== News Update === How Germans Fell for the 'Feel-Good' Fuehrer: Why did average Germans so heartily support the Nazis and Third Reich? Hitler, says Goetz Aly, was a "feel good dictator," a leader who not only made Germans feel important, but also made sure they were well cared-for by the state. http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,347726,00.html === United States Urges U.N. Human Rights Body Not To Target Israel Members of the United Nations� Commission on Human Rights should refrain from singling out Israel for criticism in their discussions about human rights violations and support progress that is being made in addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to Rudy Boschwitz, U.S. envoy to the commission. OKay folks, let's make it really REALLY obvious that Israel has the US Government totally under their control. Meanwhile, keep in mind who is stealing whose lands. Israel has demolished 4170 Palestinian homes to make way for 60+ Jewish-only settlements. Palestinians have demolished 0 Jewish homes to make way for 0 Palestinian-only settlements. http://tokyo.usembassy.gov/e/p/tp-20050324-04.html === Phony Iraq warriors beginning to surface: Sgt. Thomas Larez was said to have braved enemy fire to pull an injured soldier to safety, taking two shots to his torso and shrapnel in his thigh as he did. Not only was the "advisory" bogus, apparently concocted by Larez, but the Marine had never even left the United States, much less distinguished himself in combat overseas. http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=WARFAKES-03-23-05&cat=AN http://snipurl.com/dn4l === Buck Up, The World Hates Us More Than Ever Bush should face prosecution at a war crimes tribunal for the murder of the 100,000-plus Iraqis he ordered killed by U.S. troops. By Ted Rall Bush deserves life in prison for ordering the torture, and allowing the murder under torture, of countless innocent Afghans and Iraqis. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8356.htm http://snipurl.com/dn3o === Diving Into Falluja: To Hell and Back with Documentary Film Maker - Mark Manning: �As an American citizen, I felt personally responsible for what happened to the people of Falluja." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8353.htm http://snipurl.com/dn3q === Iraqi fighters regain control of camp: About 30 to 40 fighters were seen Wednesday at the lakeside training camp attacked by US and Iraqi forces. One of the fighters, who called himself Muhammad Amer and claimed to belong to the Secret Islamic Army, said they had never left the base. He denied that scores of his fighters had been killed and said only 11 of his comrades perished in airstrikes on the site. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/BC0C5535-3F85-467F-862A-06730D3A9A77.htm http://snipurl.com/dn3n === Iraq's Fallujah, Samarra in deep waters two years after war : Only a small number of some 200,000 citizens that fled Fallujah ahead of a US massive assault have returned to the war-battered city, residing in partially opened neighborhoods and leaving otherparts occupied by the American troops. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-03/21/content_2722092.htm http://snipurl.com/dn3t === U.S. bars Italians from examining victim�s car: The U.S. military command in Iraq has blocked two Italian policemen from examining the car in which an Italian intelligence agent was shot to death in Baghdad http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-740304.php === Bush administration clears US troops in slaying of Calipari and wounding of Sgrena: The Bush administration took specific legal steps that cleared a U.S. Special Forces assassination team in Iraq from any future criminal proceedings arising from their assassination of Italian SISMI intelligence number two man Nicola Calipari. http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/031505Madsen/031505madsen.html http://snipurl.com/dn3u === British legal adviser considered Iraq war 'crime of aggression': BBC: A British government legal adviser resigned on the eve of the US-led invasion of Iraq because she believed such action would be unlawful and amount to a "crime of aggression," the BBC reported Thursday. http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=39284 === Iraq war: The smoking gun?: Foreign Office official's resignation letter reveals that Attorney General did change his mind on legality of Iraq war http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=623125 http://snipurl.com/dn3x === Was the Attorney General leant on to change his mind?: Elizabeth Wilmshurst's resignation letter provides the first glimpse from inside Whitehall of the Attorney General's apparent change of heart over the legality of the war. http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=623124 http://snipurl.com/dn3y === Straw hits back in Iraq law row : Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has mounted a robust defence of Attorney General Lord Goldsmith's advice on the legality of the Iraq war. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4379381.stm === Q&A: was the Government sure Iraq war was legal?: What is the controversy all about? http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1540039,00.html === In case you missed it: Iraq No Threat : Both Colin Powell, US Secretary of State, and Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's closest adviser, made clear before September 11 2001 that Saddam Hussein was no threat - to America, Europe or the Middle East. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6456.htm http://snipurl.com/dn3z === Iraqi Lullaby: Vocals by Laura Bush and Mothers of America : Pictures provided by President G W. Bush http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7379.htm http://snipurl.com/dn40 === The USA's Tragic Withdrawal From the Rule of Law: Pentagon Confirms Unilateral Pre-emptive Strikes Are Now U.S. Policy http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8352.htm http://snipurl.com/dn43 === Anti occupation forces target Iraqi, U.S. security forces; protests erupt in Basra http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2005/03/24/news/latest_news/ade3d2439fe6062486256fce004f88d3.txt http://snipurl.com/dn3s === Shiite-Kurd talks lag on forming Iraq�s next government : Negotiations on forming the next Iraqi government dragged on Thursday, with Kurdish negotiators absent and the Shiite side questioning whether a government would be unveiled this weekend even if the parliament convenes. http://www.kurdmedia.com/news.asp?id=6466 === Analysis: Oil struggle stops Iraq government : Oil.No matter what else the politicians say, that's the biggest reason a new Iraq government hasn't been formed after weeks of haggling. http://www.newkerala.com/news-daily/news/features.php?action=fullnews&id=89610 http://snipurl.com/dn3v === Iraq�s Parliament: New Farce: It was anything, but a democratic parliament. It was a US theatrical show with Iraqi puppets playing as actors. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8351.htm http://snipurl.com/dn3w === Five die in friendly fire gun battle : Police mistook a group of Iraqi soldiers for rebels today and opened fire, sparking a ten minute gun battle that left five dead. http://www.breakingnews.ie/2005/03/24/story195146.html === US soldier killed in Baghdad, two Iraqi headless bodies found on main road : The soldier, assigned to Task Force Baghdad Mission, was killed south of Baghdad during an attack launched at that area last night http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=716616 http://snipurl.com/dn3r === The meaning of war: War, specifically US imperialist war, is based on the belief of imperial invincibility � based on mass media imagery of successful US warriors-supermen representing a righteous superpower. http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=12606 === Army Orders Further Involuntary Troop Call-Up: The U.S. Army is ordering more people to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan involuntarily from a seldom-used personnel pool as part of a mobilization that began last summer. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1896&u=/nm/20050323/us_nm/iraq_usa_reserve_dc&printer=1 http://snipurl.com/dn45 === Grieving soldier finally granted leave for baby's funeral: He was miles away from home, fighting the war in Iraq, when his baby girl was stillborn. But the army would not let the 278th soldier come back on emergency leave. http://www.wkrn.com/Global/story.asp?S=3118138&nav=1ugFXqEG http://snipurl.com/dn47 === The Battle for America's Youth : The U.S. Army admits that it expects to miss its recruiting goals this month and next and is working on a revised sales pitch appealing to the patriotism of parents. http://www.antiwar.com/orig/zeese.php?articleid=5317 === Documenting the legal process to obtain confiscated videos showing Flight 77 crashing into the Pentagon on 9/11 When enough blogs buy into the "no plane" theory put out by the "Pod People", the video showing the plane crashing into the Pentagon will be released. What is interesting is that the FBI's refusal to release the tapes is due to an "ongoing investigation". If we take that statement at face value, this is essentially admitting that the official story about arabs is a fabrication after all. http://www.flight77.info/ === NIST Has No Evidence of WTC 1,2 Core Columns Overheating Posted Mar 24, 2005 06:46 AM PST - Category: 911 http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=consp_911&Number=293474183 === Warlord Killed In Chechnya Was Ex-U.S. Marine: - Rizvan Chitigov, who was killed in the district center Shali in Chechnya on Wednesday, had graduated from an elite U.S. subversion and reconnaissance school and had served on a contract basis in a U.S. Marine battalion http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=5474577&startrow=31&date=2005-03-24&do_alert=0 http://snipurl.com/dn49 === Guantanamo detainee gets "hearing" in rare glimpse of review process: Navy Capt. Eric Kaniut, overall commander of Pentagon review processes here, said prisoners are skipping their hearings for reasons that range from sheer skepticism to disagreement with the U.S. authority to hold them. "Some are cynical," he said. http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/world/11213034.htm === Declassified FBI Reports Question Guantanamo Interrogation Techniques: "As I suspected, the previously withheld information had nothing to do with protecting intelligence sources or methods and everything to do with protecting DoD from embarrassment," the Michigan Democrat said in a statement. http://www.masnet.org/news.asp?id=2292 === Railroading Moussaoui : The Moussaoui case is a window into the increasingly tyrannical workings of the state, that's why it's buried on page 14a next to the Wall-Mart ad. For those who follow these cases, the pattern is clear and troubling. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8357.htm http://snipurl.com/dn4c === Guant�namo Detainees Make Their Case The prisoner never heard some of the evidence against him because it was deemed classified and was given to the court in secret. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/24/national/24gitmo.html?hp&ex=1111726800&en=3f4daa278973995c&ei=5094&partner=homepage === Seven Killed in Afghanistan Fighting : U.S.-led forces trying to capture a suspected Taliban militant got into a firefight that left seven people dead, including two children and a woman, the military said Thursday. http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4888706,00.html === The Qaddafi Proposal: Libya�s Muammar Qaddafi tried to present an initiative in Beirut but faced immediate rejection, that of a con-federal arrangement between Israel and Palestine (Isratine). Qaddafi will once again try to put his initiative on the agenda of the present summit. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8355.htm http://snipurl.com/dn4g === Arab leaders relaunch Saudi Mideast peace initiative : Arab leaders on Wednesday relaunched a 2002 peace initiative which offered Israel normal relations in return for withdrawal to 1967 borders. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/556029.html === US, Israel urged to emulate Syria : Syria's ambassador to Washington has expressed hope that his country's pullout from Lebanon would inspire the United States and Israel to withdraw from Iraq and Palestine, respectively. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/BE152594-E795-4E0E-8407-C9C7CBE5FAFD.htm http://snipurl.com/dn4h === Dead in the Water : During the Six-Day War, Israel attacked and nearly sank the USS Liberty belonging to its closest ally, the USA. Thirty-four American servicemen were killed in the two-hour assault by Israeli warplanes and torpedo boats. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5073.htm http://snipurl.com/dn4i === US in a spot over Darfur atrocities: France has put the US in a tight spot by demanding a vote on a measure referring perpetrators of atrocities in Sudan's Darfur region to the International Criminal Court, which Washington rejects. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/3DD3BDAA-0B31-476B-AEDF-C42A071ED731.htm http://snipurl.com/dn4d === The Iranian Threat: The Bomb or the Euro? Iran does not pose a threat to the United State because of its nuclear projects, its WMD, or its support to "terrorists organizations" as the American administration is claiming. By Dr. Elias Akleh In its attempt to re-shape the global economical system by converting it from a petrodollar to a petroeuro system. Such conversion is looke01tempd upon as a flagrant declaration of economical war against the US that would flatten the revenues of the American corporations and eventually might cause an economic collapse. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8354.htm === Fayetteville, NC - March 19, 2005 Rally Against War: Hear these speakers http://www.traprockpeace.org/fayetteville_rally_2.html === Video: Mosaic: World News Reports from Middle East TV For 03/23/05: The nation's only uncensored compilation of daily television news reports from more than 15 countries in the Middle East. QuickTime Video. http://snipurl.com/dn4k === Expert witness minimizes effect of priests' sex abuse Youngsters sexually abused by priests can "sometimes slide right over it with no perceived effects,'' a psychologist hired by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco testified Wednesday. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/03/24/BAGFIBTQ941.DTL === Venezuela plan irks Rumsfeld Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday issued the strongest U.S. condemnation yet of Venezuela's planned purchase of 100,000 AK-47 rifles, saying he couldn't "imagine why" Venezuela needed the weapons. http://snipurl.com/dn5c === Venezuela criticizes Rumsfeld remarks: Calling Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld a "lord of war," Vice President Jose Rangel said his remarks were "inspired by his goal of getting involved in the internal politics of other nations and violating our [Venezuela's] sovereignty." http://www.wpherald.com/Latin_America/storyview.php?StoryID=20050324-104410-5493r http://snipurl.com/dn53 === The Nature of CIA Intervention in Venezuela: Philip Agee is a former CIA operative who left the agency in 1967 after becoming disillusioned by the CIA�s support for the status quo in the region. Says Agee, �I began to realize that what I and my colleagues had been doing in Latin America in the CIA was no more than a continuation of nearly five-hundred years of this, exploitation and genocide and so forth. http://snipurl.com/dn4o === Venezuela and the Latin American New Left Will the Region�s New Left Movement March North? http://snipurl.com/dn5a === At Least One Killed As Haiti cops shoot at crowd: Gunfire erupted on Thursday at protest outside Haiti's capital of several thousand people calling for the return of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and at least one man was killed and another wounded, witnesses said. http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1681131,00.html http://snipurl.com/dn4q === Haiti mission a bust says NGO : The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti led by Brazil is failing to provide security or stability to the island nation, a human rights group reports. http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&id=89605 http://snipurl.com/dn4s === Embattled Peruvian president opens new front : Relations between the South American Pacific neighbours have strained following the revelation by a former Ecuadorian military officer that Chile had sold weapons to Ecuador during the so called �Condor War� between January and February 1995. http://www.falkland-malvinas.com/Detalle.asp?NUM=5327 === Americans clueless about gene-altered foods: Today, about 75 percent of U.S. processed foods - boxed cereals, other grain products, frozen dinners, cooking oils and more - contain genetically modified, or GM, ingredients, said Stephanie Childs of the Grocery Manufacturers of America. http://snipurl.com/dn4x === -muslim voice- ___________________________________ BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW -- No virus found in this outgoing message. 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