bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update === 360 child detainees in Israeli prisons Saed Bannoura, IMEMC & Agencies, March 24, 2005 - 10:22 Minister of Detainees at the Palestinian Authority Sufian Abu Zaida, said that there are currently 360 child detainees in Israeli prisons and detention camps; at least half of them are between the ages of 12-15. Montreal Muslim News Network - http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net === George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography Posted Mar 26, 2005 10:04 AM PST - Category: HIDDEN HISTORY http://www.tarpley.net/bushb.htm === Bush signs bill on declassifying nazi war crime papers That include your grandfather, Dubya? http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-03/26/content_2744689.htm === Noam Chomsky Edinburgh Lecture Entitled "Illegal but Legitimate: a dubious doctrine for the times." Noam Chomsky delivered the last in the Gifford Lecture series at Edinburgh University�s McEwan Hall on Tuesday, 03/22/05 Watch It Now. Real Video. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8377.htm http://tinyurl.com/3qaoo === Weekend Video National Teach-In on Iraq: "How Can We End This War?" Speakers Naomi Klein, journalist and author, Phyllis Bennis from the Institute for Policy Studies, Celeste Zappala, founding member of Gold Star Families for Peace, Anas Shallal from Iraqi Americans for Peaceful Alternatives, Michael Hoffman from Iraq Veterans Against the War, and others talk about "National Teach-In on Iraq: How Can We End This War?" Watch it online now! http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8379.htm http://tinyurl.com/6escr === America's Dangerous Mideast Assumptions Syria sees Washington's policies as driven by fallacies and misinformation. By Bouthaina Shaaban I'm afraid that Americans don't know what's really going on in the Middle East today. Apparently it doesn't come through from your "embedded journalism." What is happening today is that Palestinian groups are being dismembered, the Lebanese resistance is being disarmed and the Syrian government is being demonized � all while Israel continues to occupy the Arab lands it has held since 1967 in violation of all U.N. resolutions calling for its withdrawal. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8379.htm http://tinyurl.com/6escr === The U.S. is Becoming a �Failed State� : The Bush regime has summoned the failed state chicken home to roost, with a vengeance, as it attempts to strip away every social obligation of the state to the people. http://www.blackcommentator.com/131/131_cover_failed.html http://tinyurl.com/579cm === Is This A New Dark Age? : Little proof to the contrary that we are indeed in a very long, bleak tunnel. Is there any light? http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/g/a/2005/03/25/notes032505.DTL&type=printable === Human rights and Cuba : The government of the US has no moral authority to elect itself as the judge over human rights in Cuba, where there has not been a single case of disappearance, torture or extra-judicial execution since 1959 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8374.htm http://tinyurl.com/4tbay === US steps up war on Afghan opium Suuuuuuuuuuure................... The Taliban had the opium trade shut down completely. Then the US invaded. Then the opium started flowing into American streets. You figure it out. http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,1446026,00.html === Rice Describes Plans To Spread Democracy "We're gonna turn up the voltage on their kids until they beg us for democracy!" http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A1911-2005Mar25?language=printer === 'Terrorist media'?? by IMEMC correspondent, 08 March, 2005 With the U.S. administration throwing around the word 'terrorist' so loosely, using it to refer to virtually anyone who disagrees with their line, it should be hardly surprising that the term was used recently to refer to a media organization as 'terrorist media'. But yet, it _is_ surprising. And it is surprising due to the fact that it is setting a historical precedent. What is perhaps more surprising, and in many ways, more disturbing, is the way most of the media outlets have simply let this accusation go unnoticed, sliding it under the proverbial carpet without a thought as to the implication. http://imemc.org/opinion/2005/mar/Terrorist-media.htm === No Government any Time Soon in Iraq The formation of a government in Iraq has been put off yet again, possibly until April 1 or beyond, according to AFP. The Shiites and the Kurds say they are close to agreement. But they could remain only close to an agreement for a long time. Parliament may meet again in the meantime. http://www.juancole.com/2005/03/no-government-any-time-soon-in-iraq.html === UK Lawmakers Accuse U.S. of Grave Rights Violations: The United States has committed "grave violations of human rights" against prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan and Iraq, the Foreign Affairs Committee of Britain's parliament said in a report on Friday. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8000617 http://tinyurl.com/59zk3 === The Missing WMD Report: It seems that Pat Roberts, the Republican chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, wants to break the promise he made last year to investigate whether the Bush administration misrepresented the prewar intelligence on WMDs. What a surprise. http://www.davidcorn.com/2005/03/the_missing_wmd.php === U.S. Troops Tortured Iraqis in Mosul, Documents Show: American soldiers tortured Iraqi prisoners at a military base in Mosul but nobody was court martialed over the abuse, U.S. army documents say. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8373.htm http://tinyurl.com/6nw9h === Army Probe Finds Abuse at Base Near Mosul : An Army investigation found systematic abuse and possible torture of Iraqi prisoners at a base near Mosul just as top military officials became aware of abuse allegations at the Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad, documents released Friday showed. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8371.htm http://tinyurl.com/49oc6 === Army: 27 People Killed From 2002-2004 While In U.S. Custody: : Twenty-seven detainees were killed in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan in suspected or confirmed homicide cases between August 2002 and November 2004, the Army said Friday http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8370.htm http://tinyurl.com/4bzz4 === Report: Army Won't Prosecute 17 Soldiers : Army officials have decided not to prosecute 17 soldiers involved in the deaths of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, a military report says. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8372.htm http://tinyurl.com/4hy2v === Car bomb kills 2 U.S. soldiers; Marine dies in fighting: A car bomb struck a U.S. military patrol Saturday in the Iraqi capital, killing two U.S. soldiers and injuring two others, and a Marine died in action in a restive central province, the military said. http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=54&u_sid=1370162 === US soldiers killed in Iraq Saturday 26 March 2005, 12:57 Makka Time, 9:57 GMT A bomber has detonated his car beside a US patrol in southwest Baghdad, killing two American soldiers and wounding two others, the army says. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B56119B8-B83D-4F3F-BF43-E9FD7AA31313.htm === Wave of violence across Iraq leaves 21 dead: Suicide bombers killed 15 Iraqi soldiers, a senior commander was assassinated and five women were murdered in an ambush in a wave of violence across the country. http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=623906 === Blows were taught, reservist testifies at hearing: An Army reservist accused of killing a detainee in Afghanistan told investigators that the blows that caused the man's death were commonly used to deal with uncooperative prisoners and said his superiors approved of the technique. http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/nation/11237898.htm === Flight to torture: where abuse is contracted out: ON THE night of December 18, 2001, a Gulfstream jet, tail number N379P, landed at Bromma Airport in Stockholm carrying eight hooded Americans in business suits. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1542390,00.html === UK panel faults gov't position on torture: A House of Commons committee faulted Prime Minister Tony Blair's government Friday for not saying whether it uses information extracted through torture in other countries. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8375.htm http://tinyurl.com/53lxq === Goss says CIA ban excludes "terrorists:" CIA Director Porter J. Goss told lawmakers that the ban on assassinations by U.S. intelligence is still in force, but that it does not prohibit the agency from killing the "terrorist" enemies of the United States. http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20050324-114414-9779r http://tinyurl.com/5lsr6 === Blair ignored them all : MI6, Jack Straw, defence staff: His public assertions on Iraq were at odds with what he was told in private http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1445965,00.html http://tinyurl.com/6dpte === UK: Goldsmith 'failed duty to MPs' by withholding advice on war : Lord Goldsmith was warned yesterday that he could face an inquiry by Parliament's watchdog if he ignores MPs' demands to publish the background to his advice that war would be legal. http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=623798 http://tinyurl.com/68uqh === Tariq Ali: For one day only, I'm a Lib Dem : We must take the politics of the anti-war front into the electoral arena http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9115,1446019,00.html === Foes of War in Iraq Rally for Teach-In: Perhaps some of the most compelling remarks last night came from panelist Celeste Zappala, founding member of Gold Star Families for Peace, whose son, Sgt. Sherwood Baker, 30, was killed in Baghdad last year. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8378.htm http://tinyurl.com/5hacb === Land mine Kills Four U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan: A Taliban spokesman, Mullah Dadullah, told Reuters via satellite telephone that Taliban fighters had planted the mine. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1535&ncid=731&e=6&u=/afp/20050326/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanusblasttoll http://tinyurl.com/448rc === Different Strokes For Different Folks: Mr. Bush is on a roll. He�s so happy he�s thumbing his nose at the world. He�s got away with Abu Ghraib, with Fallujah and Haiti and everywhere the rent-a-crowd counter-revolutions just seem to go rolling along. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8376.htm http://tinyurl.com/5fg6d === The God Racket, From DeMille to DeLay Mr. Bush who couldn't be bothered to interrupt his vacation during the darkening summer of 2001, not even when he received a briefing titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.," flew from his Crawford ranch to Washington to sign Congress's Schiavo bill into law. http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0325-31.htm === For some soldiers, battle reaches home front : Time spent serving overseas can prove costly to military personnel caught up in custody cases http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=345358&category=REGIONOTHER&BCCode=HOME&newsdate=3/26/2005 http://tinyurl.com/5u2ku === From Hero To Homeless: "I fought for this country," he said. "I shed blood for this country. I watched friends die." And like so many, Herold Noel came home a hero, but he wound up homeless. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/25/eveningnews/main683247.shtml http://tinyurl.com/57qa7 === UN Concerned about Racism in Australia In its concluding comments released on 11 March 2005, the Un Committee on the Elimination of racial discrimination, spoke about its serious concerns on the abolishment of ATSIC, the practical barriers Indigenous people face in obtaining native title claims, the continuing high rates of over-representation of Indigenous people in prisons and the extreme inequities between Indigenous people and others in the areas of employment, housing, health education and income. The committee called on the government to work towards a meaningful reconciliation and to properly address the issues of the stolen generation. http://www.abc.net.au/message/news/stories/s1326898.htm === Sex slavery rife in Israel On average the women receive $4 for every $120 that clients pay their pimps for their services. http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1681087,00.html === FLASHBACK: Five Israelis were seen filming as jet liners ploughed into the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 ... THERE was ruin and terror in Manhattan, but, over the Hudson River in New Jersey, a handful of men were dancing. As the World Trade Centre burned and crumpled, the five men celebrated and filmed the worst atrocity ever committed on American soil as it played out before their eyes. Who do you think they were? Palestinians? Saudis? Iraqis, even? Al-Qaeda, surely? Wrong on all counts. They were Israelis � and at least two of them were Israeli intelligence agents, working for Mossad, the equivalent of MI6 or the CIA. http://ww1.sundayherald.com/37707 === A Legacy of Violence and Counter-Violence: Israel's Record is "Not Reassuring": Palestinians are victims, and their rights, security and welfare should be the priority of the international community. Israel has no right to demand security from its victims; it lost that right the moment it breached international law when its tanks rolled onto Palestinian land. http://www.counterpunch.com/baroud03262005.html === Bush Administration Reaching Out to Syrian Opposition : Washington's action is the result of a discussion between President Bush and French President Jacques Chirac, in which Mr. Chirac cautioned that Syria's government is not likely to survive the withdrawal of its troops from Lebanon. http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-03-26-voa17.cfm === US discusses 'weakening Syrian regime' with dissidents: report: US officials held an �unpublicised� meeting with exiled Syrian dissidents in Washington to discuss ways of �weakening the Syrian regime,� a pan-Arab newspaper reported on Saturday. http://tinyurl.com/6uqvq === France Threatens Military Action Against Syria over Lebanon!: "France has long resisted calls for directly attacking Syria. So do not push us into a situation where we have to change our stance." http://tinyurl.com/6r5ju === Lebanese defence capability doubted: Lebanon's defence minister has warned that the country's forces will be incapable of filling the void left by the Syrian army if it withdraws completely. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2BCD4026-64EC-4794-99A2-0B7CA5A8A5F3.htm http://tinyurl.com/4rh43 === Kyrgyzstan in chaos as riots sweep capital : Newly declared head of state struggles to impose order as looters smash stores and exiled leader denounces revolution http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1445917,00.html?gusrc=rss === Report Reveals U.S. Plan to Destabilize Kyrgyzstan : "Our primary goal � according to the earlier approved plans � is to increase pressure upon Akaev to make him resign ahead of schedule." http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news4/kabar1.html === Iranian stockpile scares U.S. : Arms needed to fight drugs, nation insists. http://www.columbiatribune.com/2005/Mar/20050326News017.asp http://tinyurl.com/6mk52 === US plan to make India world power: THE United States unveiled plans to help India become a "major world power in the 21st century" even as it announced moves to beef up the military of New Delhi's nuclear rival, Pakistan. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12662629-23109,00.html === Rally Against War - Fayetteville, NC - March 19, 2005 : Hear the Rally (most speakers), with photos and links http://www.traprockpeace.org/fayetteville_rally_1.html === Half of Calif. Blacks and Latinos Drop Out of School, a New Harvard Study Finds "Dropout factories" is how a new Harvard study describes some California schools, finding that dropout rates for Latinos and black students are abysmal. Just 50.2 percent of black boys who entered ninth grade in the Golden State received a diploma four years later. http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/3/24/112510.shtml === -muslim voice- ___________________________________ BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.8.3 - Release Date: 25/03/2005 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> What would our lives be like without music, dance, and theater? 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