bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update ===
Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators: Adolf Hitler, 1938
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Washington�s Darkest Secret
Until six weeks before 9/11, for nearly a decade the CIA reportedly had a mole buried inside al Qaeda in a trusted position close to Osama bin Laden. Suddenly, his reports stopped. The CIA assumed that he was discovered, tortured and killed. Before he died, he likely revealed 9/11 plans.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Apr05/Charles0405.htm
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Patriot Act's secret searches used 108 times
The section of the Patriot Act permitting police to surreptitiously enter and search a home or office without notifying the owner has reportedly been used 108 times during a 22-month period.
http://news.com.com/Patriot+Acts+secret+searches+used+108+times/2100-1030_3-5655112.html
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Overview: The Great Energy War
US & Allies Neutralized, World War III Ends
by John Stanton
By the 1990�s, securing energy resources and limiting the growth of the economies of China, India, Russia, Brazil and Venezuela became paramount. Even with the US colonization of Iraq in 2005, there was not enough oil & gas to satisfy both US needs and those of the high growth nations. The historical record shows that the resource domination was the real goal of the disingenuous US War on Terror. And with the US removing itself from international diplomacy and treaty, and refusing to share the wealth, world war was just a step away.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8471.htm
http://snipurl.com/du34
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The freedom bell is not ringing as loudly as Bush thinks
What could be more just with respect to a people's sovereignty than its free choice of a representative government? U.S. President George W. Bush wants the world to believe that this maxim inspires Washington's activity vis-a-vis Middle East elections. He declared the alleged electoral successes in Palestine and Iraq as the opening stages of a Middle East political reformation.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=13999
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Gallup: Bush Approval Rating Lowest Ever for 2nd-Term Prez at this Point
NEW YORK It's not uncommon to hear or read pundits referring to President George W. Bush as a "popular" leader or even a "very popular" one. Even some of his critics in the press refer to him this way. Perhaps they need to check the latest polls.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000866232
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Latest neocon target: The Vatican
The neocon strategy to ensure their candidate is selected pope
April 5, 2005�The international neoconservative movement, already giddy over their bloodying the nose of the United Nations and Secretary General Kofi Annan in the overhyped Iraq "oil for food" brouhaha, the nomination of anti-UN wacko and Jesse Helms sycophant and racist John Bolton as the next US ambassador to the UN, and the comb-licking and dandruff-munching Paul Wolfowitz's selection as World Bank president, is now involving itself in the internecine politics that will highlight the selection of the next pope.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/040505Madsen/040505madsen.html
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FBI seeks expanded search powers:
Justice Dept. also wants expiring Patriot Act provisions renewed
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7388717/
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How to lose the war on terrorism
AFTER HUMILIATING failure, America's spy agencies are destined for better days, we were told. Competing bureaucrats are cooperating, reforms are taking hold and information gatherers have sharpened their work.
URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/04/04/EDGBQC201O1.DTL
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Why Our Food is So Dependent on Oil
"Concentrate on what cannot lie. The evidence..." -- Gil Grissom
http://www.321energy.com/editorials/church/church040205.html?print=on
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Bob Herbert: Is no one in administration accountable?:
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 United States in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere have been killed, tortured, sexually humiliated and otherwise grotesquely abused.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8473.htm
http://snipurl.com/du3m
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Ziegler 'wrong' on Iraq hunger
GENEVA -- The Bush administration's anger at those who use the United Nations as a platform to broadcast anti-American rhetoric boiled over last week when a U.N. "rapporteur" -- who had not visited Iraq -- blamed the U.S. military for growing malnutrition among Iraqi children.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20050403-102322-6172r
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Iraqi Suspect Says U.S. Troops Took Mother Hostage:
An Iraqi apparently suspected by U.S. troops of taking part in attacks in Baghdad accused U.S. forces on Tuesday of taking his mother and sister hostage to pressure him and his brothers into surrendering for questioning.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8093558
http://snipurl.com/du3d
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Where being a Christian leads to prison and torture
When Kim Tae Jin was being interrogated after his forcible repatriation to North Korea from China, he swallowed a nail in the vain hope of receiving medical treatment, rather than return to his prison cell.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=626475
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US Casualties: An Email From US Soldier Stationed At Abu Garib Prison
http://www.albasrah.net/maqalat_mukhtara/arabic/0405/aboqreb_050405.htm
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Iraq: Four U.S soldiers killed in different clashes
http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=720321
http://snipurl.com/du36
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U.S, Iraqi Troops Battle Dozens of Anti Occupation Forces:
U.S. and Iraqi forces battled dozens of anti occupation forces in a remote area east of Baghdad and three soldiers, two American and one Iraqi, were killed in the fighting, the U.S. military said on Tuesday
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8087107
http://snipurl.com/du37
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Four US soldiers killed in Iraq
Iraqi Brigadier General kidnapped in Baghdad as insurgents' attacks on US-led troops kill four US soldiers in 24 hours.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/iraq/?id=13137
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2 killed in car bomb blast at Iraqi army checkpoint in Baghdad :
A car bomb blew up on Tuesday at an Iraqi army check point in Baghdad's Ameriyah neighborhood, killing at least two civilians, witnesses said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-04/05/content_2790358.htm
http://snipurl.com/du38
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Blasts Kill GIs, Iraqi Beheaded:
Gunmen broke into a house and kidnapped a top Interior Ministry official, Brig. Gen. Jala Mohammed Saleh, was kidnapped early Tuesday by gunmen who broke into his house, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.
http://wfrv.com/topstories/topstories_story_095094401.html
http://snipurl.com/du39
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Iraq north pipeline hit, oil exports at standstill
BAIJI, Iraq, April 4 (Reuters) - An explosion hit an oil pipeline in northern Iraq on Monday as sabotage kept exports to Turkey idle, witnesses said.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MAR450432.htm
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America is usurping the democratic will in Iraq:
To forestall a clerical-driven religious regime, Washington has a plan to arm small militias
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8460.htm
http://snipurl.com/du3a
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Cameraman for CBS Wounded by U.S. Troops in Iraq:
An Iraqi freelance cameraman who works for CBS News was shot and wounded on Tuesday in northern Iraq by U.S. troops
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8093780
http://snipurl.com/du3b
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Solidarity to Iraq in the city of Curitiba, Brazil
The Brazilian Committee of Solidarity to Iraq, in the city of Curitiba, Brazil, is working in partnership with the Committee of Boycotting to the North American Products. In the last saturday, during the traditional photograph exposition of Iraq, the Committee of Boycotting presented works in the street, theater and distributed brochures, inviting the people to boycott north american products as form to stimulate the withdrawal of foreign troops of Iraq.
http://www.albasrah.net/maqalat/english/0405/Brazil-iraq_040405.htm
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UK Panel: U.S. Troops Too Heavy-Handed :
U.S. troops in Iraq are provoking civilians and hampering rebuilding with an excessive use of force, British lawmakers said in a report Tuesday.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8474.htm
http://snipurl.com/du3c
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Talabani to be new president in Iraq:
Veteran Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani will be named Iraq's new president at a parliament meeting on Wednesday, according to senior government sources.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1BA55EC6-905D-498B-9B13-5A44D42B7869.htm
http://snipurl.com/du3e
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Support grows for beefing up U.S. forces :
The war-strained all-volunteer U.S. military has a growing manpower problem and a cross-section of Washington policymakers has proposed a solution -- increase the size of the regular military by 30,000, 40,000 or even 100, 000 or more.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8470.htm
http://snipurl.com/du3f
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They're Talking Up Arms:
Military recruiters are fortifying their outposts at high schools, hoping a chummy familiarity will entice students to enlist. Some decry the tactics.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8475.htm
http://snipurl.com/du3g
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Centrist Democrats warn liberals :
"I can't tell the difference between the positions the DLC puts forward and Republican policy," said Jack Blum, counsel for the liberal Americans for Democratic Action.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8472.htm
http://snipurl.com/du3h
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Chechnya fighting leaves six dead, five injured: govt official:
Fighting between pro-Moscow forces and separatists in war-torn Chechnya has left six people dead and five injured on the Russian side in the past 24 hours, a local government official said Monday.
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=39791
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Chechen leader orders own death :
CHECHEN rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov ordered his bodyguards to kill him to avoid being captured by Russian forces.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/pport/web/world/Full_Story/did-sgHC-ZqjTFbCksglO-LCk0lQvU.asp
http://snipurl.com/du3s
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Moscow rejects reports of nuclear-armed Chechens:
Moscow doesn�t believe Chechen gunmen have a nuclear device and may use it in a terrorist attack, Russia�s foreign ministry said on Tuesday. It was responding to allegations by Boris Berezovsky, Russian billionaire living in a self-imposed exile in Britain, that Chechen gunmen have nuclear weapons.
http://www.russiajournal.com/news/cnews-article.shtml?nd=47348
http://snipurl.com/du3t
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Israel 'is sealing off Jerusalem Arabs'
Palestinians accuse Sharon over go-ahead for 3,500 homes linking settlements with capital
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1452135,00.html
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A Palestinian State - Now!
A statement by the Communist Party of Israel
Sharon is well aware of both the Israeli public's weariness of the occupation and the pressure of national and international public opinion to leave the Occupied Territories. But instead of a mutual Israeli-Palestinian agreement he has opted for his "disengagement plan".
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/898/1/87/
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In case you missed it:
A Conservative Total for U.S. Aid to Israel: $91 Billion�and Counting .
The common figure given for U.S. aid to Israel is $3 billion per year�$1.2 billion in economic aid and $1.8 billion in military aid. As impressive as this figure is, however, since it represents about one-sixth of total U.S. foreign aid, the true figure is even more remarkable.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5964.htm
http://snipurl.com/du3w
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Israel's Next War?:
They do not believe in peace talks. They do not want to share the land. They are well armed and are carrying out increasingly violent attacks, even targeting innocent civilians. They are members of Israel's militant far right, and they are threatening to become Israel's next big problem.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/press/2311.html
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Australia: Death in custody autopsy finds signs of torture:
A second autopsy conducted on Mr Scott's body at the weekend found lesions that were consistent with torture procedures, like being kicked in the genital region, and with a facial blow and strangulation.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1338617.htm
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Video: Mosaic: World News Reports from Middle East TV For 04/04/05:
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/du3y
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Crushing defeat for Italy's Berlusconi :
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has suffered a crushing defeat at Italian regional elections, official results have shown, a huge boost for centre-left leader Romano Prodi's hopes of unseating him next year.
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=vn20050405091512967C779553
http://snipurl.com/du3n
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Blair calls election as Tories narrow the gap:
Tony Blair has confirmed the worst-kept secret in politics -- that an election will be held on May 5 -- as opinion polls suggested a closer contest than any since 1992.
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=701877§ion=news&src="">
http://snipurl.com/du3o
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Yushchenko says previous Ukraine regime sold missiles to Iran, China:
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said in an interview late Thursday that nuclear-capable cruise missiles were sold illegally to Iran and China under Kiev's previous regime.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8468.htm
http://snipurl.com/du3p
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Ted Rall: Who Lost Central Asia?:
U.S. Again Sides with Dictatorship over Democracy
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8466.htm
http://snipurl.com/du3r
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What kind of revolution is this?:
Was it people power? Was it a coup? Or was it just the toppling of a clan? With the same lightning speed with which it materialized, the March 24 revolutionary object called the Tulip Revolution has disappeared like a comet in the geopolitical cosmos.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/GD02Ag02.html
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Peres says will ask U.S. for financial aid for pullout:
Israel has budgeted about US$1 billion for the pullout.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8476.htm
http://snipurl.com/du3u
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Uzbekistan - Torture Trail:
Former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray, says he repeatedly warned the British Government that Uzbekistan was systematically torturing suspected Islamic militants to obtain intelligence.
http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2005/s1330326.htm
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Canada's Corruption Scandal Breaks Wide Open:
Extracts of testimony given in secret by Jean Brault revealed a massive pattern of corruption going to the highest levels of the Liberal party and government. Brault testified to hundreds of thousands of dollars of bogus transactions designed to benefit the Liberal Party of Canada over a period from 1994 to 2002.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8463.htm
http://snipurl.com/du3z
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Japan orders changes to school text books:
In its latest screening of junior high school text books, the Ministry has ordered publishers not to state that weapons of mass destruction were not found in Iraq.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1339014.htm
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Cartels cloud country's commerce:
The Philippines is a tragic basket case of a country that for all its raw materials, abundant skills among its far flung peoples, is so riddled with a corrupt political elite - a legacy of its four hundred plus years of being browbeaten by colonial masters - first the Spanish, then the U.S.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8465.htm
http://snipurl.com/du41
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