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=== News Update === Charge Him or Release Him Jose Padilla : U.S. Citizen Imprisoned Without Trial or Charges for 2 Years and 303 Days === Original axis of evil: Colonial empires "The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion ... but rather by its superiority in applying organised violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do." http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/972FFE74-F7DE-44F0-AB5E-92B47BBDADE7.htm === Karen Kwiatkowski: Just Say No ... to Empire: Violence Increases in Democratic Republic of Congo: � In the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, more than 100,000 people have been displaced because of a surge in fighting between rival militias. The unrest also has sparked an outbreak of cholera. http://www.militaryweek.com/kk033105.shtml === Its Time To Examine Our Character As A Nation: Flash presentation. http://www.bushflash.com/14.html === Bush team 'causing chaos in Arab world' A group of Arab intellectuals endorsed by the Bush administration turned their wrath on America yesterday, accusing it of undermining reform in the Arab world by backing Israel, weakening the United Nations and creating chaos in Iraq. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/04/06/wbush06.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/04/06/ixworld.html === Survey: U.S. media censors Iraq reporting WASHINGTON -- The news media are self-censoring reports about Iraq because of concern for public reaction to graphic images and details about death and torture, according to a survey of 210 U.S. and international journalists. Many reporters and editors chose less-graphic images and explicit details, or made them less noticeable, according to an online, anonymous survey conducted between September and October 2004 by two American University professors. The study was released March 17. http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050405-013342-2175r === The Psychodynamics of Occupation and the Abuse at Abu Ghraib: An Interpretation After One Year of Revelations By Stephen Soldz We see that the logic of war, the logic of occupation, the logic of imprisonment, and the post 9/11 logic of revenge all came together in an Iraqi torture center in 2003. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8479.htm http://snipurl.com/duyp === The phony (Mossad) Al Qaeda Cell in Palestine December 2002: Mossad agents arrested by the PA for attempting to set up phony 'al Qaeda' cells in the Gaza Strip. http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fakealqaeda.html === Muslims feel stigmatised by Iraq war LONDON (Reuters) - British Muslims feel victimised by the "war on terrorism" and community relations have worsened since the September 11 2001 attacks on the United States, MPs have said in a report. The report comes a day after Prime Minister Tony Blair called an election in which the parties will fight hard for Muslim votes. http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=701942§ion=news&src=rss/uk/topNews === 9-11: Why the Buildings Fell Down In the months immediately following the 9-11 attacks, the going theory for why both towers collapsed was that a massive fire, fed by jet fuel, warped the lightly constructed and inadequately fireproofed floors of each tower, causing a cascading collapse. http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0514,murphyweb2,62734,6.html === The Terrorism of War From Cruise Missiles to the Patriot Act Our foreign policy has been decided by oil companies, Wall Street, and the politicians who serve them, for too long. If the world is to survive, the US can no longer act as if the world is its real estate. It is essential that we put human needs before corporate desires. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8477.htm http://snipurl.com/duyr === Columbia U. Prof. Rashid Khalidi: "Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom Are Necessary For Unpopular and Difficult Ideas" http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/06/1421213 === 601 pages that aren't worth reading It is absurd to have yet another investigation into the chuckleheaded assessments on Saddam's phantom WMD that intentionally skirts how the $40 billion-a-year intelligence was molded and manufactured to fit the ideological schemes of those running the White House and Pentagon. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/218750_dowd05.html === Iraq - The Trail of Disinformation So, this is the trail of the lies that started a war, beginning at the White House, and via Dick Cheney moving upstream to the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans, under Wolfowitz and Feith, then from OSP to an parallel group operating out of Ariel Sharon's office in Israel. http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/trailofdisinformation.html === Half of Americans say Bush deliberately misled about Iraq: For the first time since the war in Iraq was launched in spring of 2003, more people than not, or half of all Americans, said the Bush administration deliberately misled the American public about alleged weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, according to a USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll released on Wednesday. http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=720764 http://snipurl.com/duyw === Green Card Soldiers: 30,000 U.S. military troops not citizens: There are still about 30,000 active duty and 11,000 Guard and Reserve personnel in the military who are not U.S. citizens http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8480.htm http://snipurl.com/duyx === Iraq rebels hit back after US offensive The US military claimed a fresh victory in its offensive against Iraq's insurgency yesterday, striking a militant hideout with helicopter gunships and artillery. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/04/06/wirq06.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/04/06/ixworld.html === Bad News Bears Go Into Hibernation: The utter disregard the American media have shown this story is astonishing. http://www.cjrdaily.org/archives/001421.asp === Iraqi Girl Blog: Baghdad Burning: American Media...: Two years ago, the major part of the war in Iraq was all about bombarding us with smart bombs and high-tech missiles. Now there�s a different sort of war- or perhaps it�s just another phase of the same war. Now we�re being assailed with American media. It�s everywhere all at once. http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2005_04_01_riverbendblog_archive.html#111247654157434704 http://snipurl.com/duyu === Large Blast Hits Bus Carrying Iraqi Soldiers: Three Killed, at Least 44 Wounded http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28309-2005Apr5.html http://snipurl.com/duys === US soldier killed in Baghdad ambush http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1339610.htm === 16 Dead In Helicopter "Crash": Sixteen people have now been confirmed dead in the crash of a Coalition CH-47 transport helicopter near Ghazni on Wednesday afternoon. http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20050409.txt http://snipurl.com/duz1 === US troops hinder Iraq's stabilisation claims MPs' report : The House of Commons foreign affairs committee said the slow pace of reconstruction had fuelled the insurgency, and suggested Iraq had replaced Afghanistan as a training ground for international terrorists. http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=361512005 === Former fighter who masks Kurdish divisions : Iraq's new president is a titular leader who will have to call on a lifetime of struggle to guarantee Kurdish rights, writes Simon Jeffery http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1453610,00.html http://snipurl.com/duz6 === Prisoners and guards injured as Iraqi detainees riot: Twelve Iraqi prisoners and four US prison guards were wounded when inmates rioted at Camp Bucca last week, torching tents and hurling rocks at Iraq's largest US-run detention center, the US military said yesterday after initially denying any knowledge of the incident. http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/04/06/2003249355 === Federal Court to Consider Legality of President's Military Trialsat Guantanamo; Press Avail. on Courthouse Steps Following Argument http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=669&ncid=669&e=20&u=/usnw/20050405/pl_usnw/federal_court_to_consider_legality_of_president_s_military_trialsat_guantanamo__press_avail__on_courthouse_steps_following_argu === U.S. Refuses To Allow U.N Rep Investigate Possible Abuse and Torture at Guantanamo : Manfred Nowak met Monday afternoon with Pierre Prosper, the American ambassador-at-large for war crimes, and said U.S. officials refused to guarantee him the right to speak to detainees in private an ``absolute precondition'' for such a visit. http://cbsnewyork.com/international/UN-US-Guantanamo-ai/resources_news_html http://snipurl.com/duz2 === White House restricts information on CIA terror suspect detentions: report : The White House is maintaining extraordinary restrictions on information about the detention of high-level terror suspects by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), permitting only a small number of Congress members to be briefedon the issue http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/04/06/news/detain.html http://snipurl.com/duz4 === Theodore E. Lang: Conflict of Command: The Destruction Of American Military Honor: �Duty, honor, country,� were once the moral standards for the American military. It is nothing short of both a rude, astonishing awakening, as well as a great sense of shame and humiliation, to witness how far both our military and this once great nation have fallen into such disgrace, disrepute and international condemnation and rebuke. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8478.htm http://snipurl.com/duz5 === US moves to create a beachhead in space: Satellite weapons systems would give the US an edge but are costly and controversial. http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0406/p03s01-usmi.html http://snipurl.com/duyy === Afghanistan likely to have permanent US military: Afghanistan's defence minister signalled Kabul was eager for �enduring arrangements� that could include permanent air bases or �pre-positioned� military equipment that would be used by rapidly deployed US forces in a crisis. http://news.ft.com/cms/s/c09c7152-a612-11d9-b67b-00000e2511c8.html http://snipurl.com/duyz === The Bush Administration's Afghan Spring: Drugs, Bases, and Jails: The power of the new, democratically elected government of Hamid Karzai extends only weakly beyond the outskirts of Kabul. Large swathes of Afghanistan are still ruled by warlords and drug lords, armed militias dominate much of the country as they did after the Soviet withdrawal back in 1989 http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=2303 === Jewish settlers attack Israeli forces Jewish settlers live in the Israeli-controlled part of Hebron Two women settlers were detained and a third was slightly injured in a scuffle with soldiers, police spokesman Shlomi Sagi said on Wednesday. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/657CAAF3-67B7-4FFA-A248-802DB685093C.htm === Israeli troops beat Palestinian police: Four Palestinian policemen have been beaten and detained by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank town of Hebron. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/20598563-5012-4A7F-9FAA-1EA794BF3CE6.htm http://snipurl.com/duz8 === Israel ignores US reproach over settlement expansion : The planned expansion conflicts with international law that regards all settlements as illegal and also contradicts the US view that settlements should not be enlarged http://snipurl.com/duza === �Israel must remain Jewish�: Security officials suggest drafting law to toughen conditions under which Palestinians may obtain Israeli citizenship; according to estimates, Arab-Israeli minority to reach 40 percent by 2020 http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3068007,00.html http://snipurl.com/duzb === Is Israel a safe haven for Jews?: The Australian court determined that it could not �offload its responsibilities� to protect them by arguing Israel was a �safe third country� on the basis of the so-called law of return or �Aliyah�. http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3737.shtml === Colombian calls for extradition of U.S. soldiers in drug arrests: U.S. soldiers being held in the United States for allegedly smuggling cocaine from Colombia should be extradited to the South American country to stand trial, a leading senator said Tuesday, pointing out that extradition should be "a two-way street." http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/11318920.htm http://snipurl.com/duzg === Reviving Cold War Reporting on Nicaragua: As the Bush administration carries out what the New York Times (4/5/05) describes as a "concerted effort" to block the return of the left-wing Sandinista party to power in Nicaragua, U.S. media are returning to the kind of distorted reporting on Nicaragua that characterized coverage during Washington's war against that country in the 1980s. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2478 === U.S. will demand passports from Canadians: In response to a new rule requiring most Canadians to carry passports for entry into the U.S., Public Security Minister Anne McLellan said Americans may also have to carry the document to enter Canada. http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/04/05/passports050405.html === Passport needed for U.S. border: U.S. citizens will be required to show a passport to re-enter the United States from Canada, Mexico, Panama, Bermuda and the Caribbean by 2008, the departments of State and Homeland Security announced Tuesday. http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-04-05-us-visits_x.htm === Florida to expand law on gun use : A law letting people in Florida kill in self-defence on the street without first trying to flee an attacker has been passed by Florida politicians. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4415135.stm === DeLay's way paid by lobby, some say: Pro-Russian business groups funded 1997 trip, planners claim http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3120476 === DeLay's daughter, wife paid $500,000: The wife and daughter of Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, have been paid more than $500,000 since 2001 by DeLay's political action and campaign committees, according to The New York Times' http://www.kentucky.com/mld/heraldleader/news/nation/11321432.htm http://snipurl.com/duzj === DeLay daughter's baby shower held by Texas energy firm under investigation: Among the shower's guests was Jack Abramoff, the lobbyist found to have paid for at least two DeLay trips that were fronted through a conservative nonprofit. The trips, taken in violated of House rules, ran a tab of more than $130,000. http://rawstory.com/exclusives/byrne/delay_baby_shower_reliant_abramoff_406.htm http://snipurl.com/duzm === -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: 266.9.4 - Release Date: 06/04/2005 ------------------------ 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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