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=== News Update === Western Propaganda Media try to shut down albasrah.net! By the al-Basrah Network. Once again the propaganda media have begun to spew stupid accusations against al-Basrah, the true aim of which is to smother the voice of Iraqi people and silence one of the few sources of information on the unprecedented massacres that are taking place inside occupied Iraq in the name of �international law.� The American MSNBC network has accused al-Basrah of propagandizing the terrorism of az-Zarqawi and preaching anti-Semitism and hate towards the west. The goal behind this slander is to close down the albasrah.net website. http://webwarper.net/ww/www.albasrah.net/?*#english State of the Empire report: brutal but brittle With Emperor George Bush entering his second term, what is the state of his empire? What are his policies likely to be? What can the rest of the world expect from US imperialism? From the United States, STEVE PALMER reports. http://www.revolutionarycommunistgroup.com/frfi/183/183_usa.html White House Must Lead by Example for Department of State's Democracy Report to be Effective : Amnesty International USA warns that as long as the White House continues to flout international law and blatantly disregard the Geneva Conventions, many of its policies to promote democracy and human rights will be greeted with deep skepticism. http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0328-06.htm American Royalty For a democracy that's not supposed to have royalty, we seem to have a curious number of officials who think public money ought to be spent to keep them in private and privileged cocoons. http://cgi.ozarksgateway.com/cgi-bin/MasterPFP.cgi?doc=self&bottom=self Is America the SS Titanic? When the collision of the SS America occurs, with a mountainous iceberg of foreign debt amid an ice pack of foolhardy foreign adventures, the ablest survivors will be those least clinging to the notion that the vessel is unsinkable. Indeed, many of the foremost survivors will resemble the 22 crewmen who abandoned the Titanic before she sailed, aware that those who command our beautiful vessel are woefully incompetent or criminally insane. http://www.strike-the-root.com/51/herman/herman8.html American nightmare: When the likes of Bolton sit in the UN and Wolfowitz presides over the World Bank we know that the "new American century project" has moved well beyond the planning phase. We had better gird ourselves, for the nightmare is just beginning. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8389.htm Warheads Four books, four views of American militarism � trouble ahead, trouble behind ... Reviewed by Chalmers Johnson. Many American leaders and intellectuals are truly distressed over our role in the world and the loathing our policies have elicited in virtually every country on Earth. These four books provide important confirmation that they have good reason to be. http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050327/news_lz1v27war.html Will Truth Rise Again? NEW YORK, March 28, 2005 � Maybe because it was the Easter weekend, or because I was replaying Bruce's 911 hymn "The Rising," or, maybe, because I was meditating on the difficulty we journalists have in reporting or establishing "truth" but I thought back on a famous saying which I first heard come out of the always eloquent lips of Martin Luther King, Jr., in a union hall in lower Manhattan early in the 1960's. http://www.alternet.org/story/21616/ 9/11: Court prevents release of most September 11 emergency calls Privacy concerns outweigh public interest, judges rule (CNN) -- The emergency phone calls made by people trapped inside the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, need not be released to the public, a New York court ruled Thursday. The New York State Court of Appeals declined to grant the wish of September 11 families who joined in a lawsuit seeking release of all tapes and transcripts of calls made from inside the Twin Towers to 9-1-1 operators. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1161507.htm Look Who's Not Talking�Still: A new report says U.S. intelligence agencies haven't learned to share information, despite lessons of 9/11. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7306163/site/newsweek/ Entries for a Devil�s Dictionary of the Bush Era For the last few years we have been ruled by lexicographers. Never has an administration spent so much time creating, defining, or redefining terms, perhaps because no one (since George Orwell) has grasped the power and possibility that lay hidden in plain sight in the naming and renaming of words. In a sense, our post-9/11 moment began with two definitions: The Bush administration named our global enemy "terrorism" and called the acts that followed a "war," which was soon given the moniker "the global war on terror" (later reduced to the acronym GWOT, also known as World War IV), which was then given an instant future -- being defined as a "generational struggle" that was still to come. All this, along with "war" itself, was simply announced rather than officially "declared." http://www.tomdispatch.com/indexprint.mhtml?pid=2288 Is America in despair or denial over Iraq, or both? LEXINGTON, MASS. - It was the first day of spring, the second anniversary of the Iraq (news - web sites) war, the fourth day of the NCAA (news - web sites) tournament. At the liberal church I was attending near Boston this Palm Sunday, the minister mentioned the tough winter that had dumped 108 inches of snow on the area. He said not a word about the 1,524 American soldiers killed in Iraq, at last count. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/csm/20050325/cm_csm/ylanson25 Words of war: Iraq and the rise of "Neoconzo" Journalism Hunter S. Thompson on a Bear Hunt in Montana, 1969. (Photo: HST archives) His spirit and his moral sense are something that will draw young journalists in... [Hunter S.] Thompson knew what was right and wrong in a way that is almost gone from journalism today, he knew who got the sharp end of the stick and who didn't. [1] http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1161696.htm Sects and Solidarity in Iraq Baghdad - Wrapped in his brown abaya, Sheik Sayak Kumait al-Asadi, a spokesman in Baghdad for the revered Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, is angry and forceful when speaking of both the US occupation and the suffering of the Shiites under the regime of Saddam Hussein. Above him hangs an ornately framed poster of Sistani. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1161716.htm US general reported killed in Resistance bombardment of American base near Ba�qubah, early Sunday afternoon. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1161542.htm Rebel Attacks on Police Leave Eight Dead Across Iraq : As negotiators haggled over Cabinet posts, debate raged over religion�s place in Iraq�s much-anticipated new government. http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4318090 Iraqi police major shot dead by U.S. troops : While approaching a checkpoint on the wrong side of the road, Najaf's police chief said. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=8013633&type=worldNews U.S. Soldier Pleads Not Guilty At Trial For Killing Wounded Iraqi: A military court was shown shaky video from a surveillance drone aircraft as a court-martial began Monday for a U.S. tank commander accused of killing an Iraqi man who witnesses have said was critically wounded http://www.ksdk.com/news/illinois_article.aspx?storyid=77297 Iraq Official Discourages Demonstrations: Iraq's interior minister warned citizens Monday not to hold protests, saying the gatherings were an invitation for a large-scale terrorist attack. His comments came a day after government bodyguards opened fire on a group of employees demanding higher wages, killing one person. http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=619107 UN Reports Irregularities in Iraq Elections: Two months after an election described as �historic,� a new United Nations report revealed irregularities in the legislative election process. http://www.islamonline.org/English/News/2005-03/28/article02.shtml Suicide car bomber blows up in path of US convoy in Mosul MOSUL, Iraq (AFP) - A suicide car bomber blew himself up in the path of a US military convoy in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police said, but it was not immediately known if there were any US casualties. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050327/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestmosul Wave of bomb attacks sweeps Iraq Police said the attack on Monday occurred on the road leading from Hilla, 100km south of Baghdad, to Karbala, where this week pilgrims will mark Arbain, the end of an annual mourning ceremony. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/ECB11484-325B-45F0-9301-0733EFC7A08E.htm Cut in U.S. Aid to Manila Linked to Iraq Pullout: Nearly a year on, the ripples from the Angelo de la Cruz decision has come back to haunt relations between the United States and the Philippines. http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=98ed9c74df92bd276a1ff329b6956d43 US Turns Iraq Into "Free-Fraud" Zone: Report CAIRO, March 28, 2005 (IslamOnline.net) � The US administration�s lenient line with fraudulent American contractors in Iraq would turn the occupied country into a �free-fraud zone,� leaving the money of US taxpayers at stake, NEWSWEEK revealed in its April 4 edition. http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2005-03/28/article04.shtml Lies about the �oppression of the Shi�ah� and others. By Muhammad al-Baghdadi. - Translated by Muhammad Abu Nasr We have heard a lot about how the Shi�ah were supposedly oppressed in the time when the Arab Socialist Baath Party ruled Iraq. We�ve heard about how they were supposedly not treated equally with other Iraqis. http://www.albasrah.net/maqalat/english/0305/oppression-shiah_280305.htm Is No One Accountable? Lawlessness should never be an option for the United States. The Bush administration is desperately trying to keep the full story from emerging. But there is no longer any doubt that prisoners seized by the U.S. in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere have been killed, tortured, sexually humiliated and otherwise grotesquely abused. Continued. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8391.htm Video: Why America Must Stop John Bolton: Think Bolton's the right man for the job of UN Ambassador? Take a look and decide for yourself Windows Media. http://www.stopbolton.org/ When Weeping For Religious Martyrs Leads To The Crucifixion Of Innocents Passion and redemption were probably essential parts of our parents� religious experience. But I believe it would be wiser and more human in our 21st century to reflect upon the sins of our little human gods, those evangelicals who also claim we are fighting for "good" against "evil", who can ignore history and the oceans of blood humanity has shed - and get away with it. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8386.htm Will final settlement include an apology?: The alternative to the traditional and alternative view for solution to the Israeli -Palestinian problem is for Israel to formally apologise for the dispossession of the Palestinian people. It must compensate all who have suffered in the process. It must hand back all land not provided for at the end of British Mandate and gained through war and terror. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8388.htm Israel: Budget for cancer mapping doesn't extend to Israeli Arab sector : "Only mapping Jewish communities violates constitutional rights, anchored in the Basic Law on Human Dignity and Freedom," http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/557476.html U.S. criticized over support for Jewish settlements JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Palestinian leader criticized Israel and indirectly the United States over Jewish settlements Sunday, and Israel's defense minister warned he would send troops into Gaza to seize Palestinian anti-aircraft missiles -- the latest threats to efforts to expand a truce into lasting peace. http://www.azdailysun.com/non_sec/nav_includes/story.cfm?storyID=105828 Group Rallies Against Pakistan President : Thousands of opposition activists rallied Monday in this city in northwestern Pakistan, chanting ``Death to dictatorship!'' in the latest demonstration against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's grip on power. http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4896796,00.html The Dawn of a New Oil Era?: China is the world's second-largest consumer of oil. It has about 20 million cars and trucks now. By the year 2020, that may be 120 million. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7304437/site/newsweek/ David Corn: Jeb Bush's Expert Undercuts DeLay et. al. on Schiavo...and W's Hypocrisy http://www.davidcorn.com/2005/03/jeb_bushs_exper.php Killing For Compassion: In Italian, Schiavo means slave, and that is just what we have done to her. If we are just going to complacently sit by and literally watch this woman shrivel up and die, at least let it not be in vain. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8387.htm Wolfowitz, the Bad Surprise It's practically certain that Paul Wolfowitz, the candidate proposed by George W. Bush, will be approved by the World Bank's (WB) Board of Directors next week and will become its new president. http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032805I.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: 266.8.4 - Release Date: 27/03/2005 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Would you Help a Child in need? It is easier than you think. Click Here to meet a Child you can help. http://us.click.yahoo.com/0Z9NuA/I_qJAA/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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