bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update === The roots of Muslim unrest I am not suggesting for a moment that ''Lion" is an inspiration for violence, and I had no trouble rooting for Anthony Quinn against Mussolini, just as I rooted for Mel Gibson against Edward I and George III. But I could also see that for some of Europe's impressionable and alienated Muslim young, all of Stern's five grievances can be found in Akkad's film and that Europe and the rest of the West can ignore these grievances only at their peril. http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/04/15/the_roots_of_muslim_unrest/ === Reports undercut Iraq, al-Qaeda link The declassified documents undermine the Bush administration's claims regarding Iraq's involvement in training al-Qaeda operatives and the likelihood of a meeting between September 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta and an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague in April 2001, Senator Levin said in a statement. There was no link from Iraq to Al Qaeda There was no connection between Iraq and 9-11. There were no WMDs. FIRE THE LIARS! http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12875384%5E1702,00.html === From Iran-Contra to 9-11, the Road Map has had many detours to suit the agenda of Zionism Bush and Sharon had a meeting in Crawford, and Bush pretended to insist on the 'Road Map', including the prohibition on the expansion of Israeli settlements. This was very encouraging, but misleading. As soon as Sharon left Texas he was confirming that he had no intention of following the 'Road Map', and that Israel would do just what it wanted with respect to illegal settlement expansion. http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=ethnic_judaism&Number=293537257#Post293537257 === Scare stories about terrorist threat blown away Evidence prosecution lawyers tried to link to Afghanistan and al-Qaeda in trials of terrorist suspects has been shown to be false. The existence of just one piece of false evidence proves that there was no evidence at all to support the claims and accusations made. Because if there is real and true evidence, no false evidence is needed. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8551.htm === The Left Coaster: Armstrong Williams Report Shows Spellings And Bush Lied The report in total paints a portrait of a Department of Education that used its existing Ketchum contract to specifically funnel money to Armstrong Williams' company, when Secretary Paige himself says that he didn't have a relationship to Williams prior to the contract. If so, then who was making the decision to use Ketchum to push in essence payola for propaganda to Armstrong Williams, and as the report also notes, to pay him for services that DOE had no idea were ever delivered? http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/004150.php === Bush administration eliminating 19-year-old international terrorism report The State Department decided to stop publishing an annual report on international terrorism after the government's top terrorism center concluded that there were more terrorist attacks in 2004 than in any year since 1985, the first year the publication covered. Translation: Everything the US government does in the name of the war on terror is creating more terror. http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/11407689.htm === Congress morally bankrupt? Morally bankrupt? America's Congress has passed a new, creditor-friendly bankruptcy bill. As consumer advocates and credit-card companies both try to stake out the moral high ground in the debate, there are some reasons to be concerned about the change http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1204503.htm === Bush�s Vision Of Arab Democracy Vs Two Reports Two new reports on economics (�Arab World Competitiveness Report 2005�) and politics (�Towards Freedom in the Arab World,� launched in Amman, Jordan on April 5, 2005) in the Arab states dramatized what all astute observers already knew: the Arab region is a mess and US policies have exacerbated the situation. http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=7649§ionID=22 === "An Open Letter to Donald Rumsfeld Concerning Allegations of Atrocities and Their Cover-up in Fallujah" Seeks a response from the Defense Secretary concerning widespread allegations of the targeting of civilians by US forces in Fallujah, the use of banned chemical and other weapons, including reformualted Napalm, as well as indications that DoD covered-up these actions. http://democracyrising.us/content/view/203/151/ === Bush's Iraq Occupation isn't Liberation Twin-track liberation GEORGE W Bush's refusal to countenance withdrawal of occupation troops from Iraq until the security situation improves is a classic case of putting the cart before the horse. http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/962/1/88/ === What I Heard About Iraq I heard... a year after the first Gulf war, I heard Dick Cheney, then Secretary of Defense, say that the US had been wise not to invade Baghdad, since it would have meant getting "bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq." I heard him say: "The question in my mind is: How many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is: Not very damned many." http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1204495.htm === Vote against the warmongers The message from the mass demonstration in Iraq is: �Use your freedom to end this terrible occupation�. Tens of thousands of Iraqis staged a huge demonstration in Baghdad on Saturday, calling for an end to the occupation. Some estimates put the turnout at up to 300,000 � the biggest Iraqi protest since the invasion. http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=6235 === Secret Agent: Rumsfeld Sneaks Off to Baku Unreported in U.S. press, he stalks oil and Iran in Azerbaijan Crude crossroads: Azerbaijan is not only a major oil producer and port but also sits in a strategic and volatile place on the Caspian, bordered not only by its bitter enemy Armenia but also by Russia, Iran, and Georgia. http://villagevoice.com/blogs/bushbeat/archive/000848.php === Houston, We Have An Image Problem... NEW YORK, Apr 15 (IPS) - In March 2003, Dr. John Brown resigned from the U.S. State Department after 20 years as a senior Foreign Service officer, telling then Secretary of State Colin Powell he could not �in good conscience� support President George W. Bush's war plans against Iraq. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1204574.htm === International Law Fire Bombs in Iraq: Napalm By Any Other Name http://electroniciraq.net/news/1928.shtml === Contractor Immunity a Divisive Issue Interim Government Resists U.S. Proposal to Exempt Foreigners From Iraqi Law BAGHDAD, June 13 -- In an early test of its imminent sovereignty, Iraq's new government has been resisting a U.S. demand that thousands of foreign contractors here be granted immunity from Iraqi law, in the same way as U.S. military forces are now immune, according to Iraqi sources. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39159-2004Jun13.html === Iraqi cleric pushes president to pardon native insurgents BAGHDAD (AP) � An important Sunni cleric urged Iraq's new president Friday to buck U.S. pressure and free thousands of suspected rebels, a sign the religious group most often associated with the Iraqi insurgency might be willing to work with the new government. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2005-04-15-iraq_x.htm === Journalist shot dead in Iraq A Kurdish television journalist has been shot and killed in the ethnically divided oil city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/EF53FEEE-90D2-449E-8BF5-ECB038CB265D.htm === Protest the Cover-Up of the Shooting of Giuliana Sgrena NEW YORK, April 14, 2005 -- When Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena's car was fired upon near the Baghdad airport by U.S. soldiers, resulting in her wounding and the death of intelligence agent Nicola Calipari, press freedom groups demanded an impartial and independent international investigation. The Pentagon rebuffed the call. http://www.mediachannel.org/views/dissector/affalert355.shtml === An Unjust War It would pay us all to remember that the war in Iraq was both unjust and illegal. We launched a war of aggression against a country that was not attacking us, did not have the means to attack us, and had never expressed any intention of attacking us. http://www.antiwar.com/reese/?articleid=5577 === War Reporters at ASNE Say Iraq Remains Frightening WASHINGTON, D.C. Despite the elections in Iraq and recent decline in American deaths there, violence and danger to reporters remains at very high levels, a panel of war reporters said on Friday. They also countered claims that the press has been too negative in its reporting from Iraq, pointing out that there is still quite a bit to be negative about. http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000884459 === Lawyer says Saddam�s rights being violated WASHINGTON: Saddam Hussein�s human rights are being violated at �every moment� and he probably will not get a fair trial after being �demonised� by the United States, his attorney, a former US attorney general, said Thursday. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_16-4-2005_pg4_5 === Two U.S. Marines killed in Iraq More convoys attacked in Baghdad BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Two U.S. Marines were killed in fighting in western Iraq, and insurgents attacked three military convoys in Baghdad, authorities said Friday. http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/04/15/iraq.main/ === Rare parasite infection afflicts U.S. troops in Iraq COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - (KRT) - Troops in Iraq call it the "Baghdad boil," and Dr. Peter Weina predicted an outbreak among soldiers even before the first case appeared. http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/breaking_news/11402394.htm === Not always popular but adept at survival, Ahmed Chalabi talks to Mohamed Al-Anwar in Baghdad Leader of the Iraqi National Congress Party, Ahmed Chalabi, may be a controversial figure, but he is also a force to contend with in today's Iraq. He came to the spotlight as a staunch supporter of the US invasion and has since continued to influence the course of events. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/738/re7.htm === Torture, Incorporated The U.S. Army has employed as many as 27 contractors to run its interrogation operations, according to media reports. But while CACI and Titan are getting all the mainstream media play, it appears that far more than 27 contract employees were involved in recruiting and placing interrogators in various locations. Some of the firms involved in the Bush administration's "TortureGate" include an odd assortment of telecommunications companies and executive placement firms that have jumped into the lucrative torture business in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan, Iraq and at secret locations throughout Central Asia and North Africa. http://www.counterpunch.org/stanton06142004.html === EU enlargement or empire? How many years does it take to dismantle an empire? And how many wars? In the case of the Ottoman empire, the answer would seem to be about 400 years and at least 20 wars, including the world war that began in Sarajevo. And we may not have seen the last of them. According to a recent survey, three out of every four Macedonians expect a new military conflict in their country. So who's for another little Balkan war? http://www.dawn.com/2005/04/15/op.htm#5 === Trapped in our own land There's a popular Palestinian folk song called "Wein a Ramallah" � we are going to Ramallah. It's largely a nostalgic tune cherished by the Palestinian diaspora and sung at festivals to reflect the longing for Palestine. However, no one inside Palestine thought about it quite that way � at least not until recently. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull%26cid=1113272267675 === Realities and Roots of Pro-Israeli Harassment at Columbia University Relating his experience below, and using the pseudonym "Mark Roberts" to avoid the kind of vicious attacks Zionist groups are notorious for, he describes how Zionist students have attacked Muslims inside and outside the classroom, and exposes the heavily pro-Israel nature of Columbia Law School. He then explains in detail how this comprises merely one part of a broader campaign of attacks on intellectual freedom and Palestinian rights on campuses across the country. In fact, the broad outlines of his account have been confirmed by Columbia's Ad Hoc Grievenace Committee. Tasked with investigating the claims of anti-Semitism in the department, the panel found the claims untrue - but noted several instances of harassment in the University mounted by Zionist students themselves. http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=7652 === Israeli Occupation Forces Terrorize Palestinian Refugee Camps, Wound, Arrest Civilians, Expropriate 6000 Dunums of Palestinian Lands Israeli occupation forces wounded five civilians and arrested two others during against Apartheid, Land-Grab Wall demonstration in Ramallah province, while three more were arrested in Bethlehem, coincidently with the intentions to expropriate thousands of dunums of Palestinians lands for the sake of the Apartheid Wall. http://www.aljazeerah.info/April%202005%20News/16%20n/Israeli%20Occupation%20Forces%20Terrorize%20Palestinian%20Refugee%20Camps,%20Wound,%20Arrest%20Civilians,%20Expropriate%206000%20Dunums%20of%20Palestinian%20Lands.htm === EU-US coordination on Iran's nuclear issue not welcome: negotiator Iran recognizes that if the US gets into the fray, they will play the usual game of ask for more, ask for more, ask for more, until everyone realizes that the US isn't bargaining in good faith and quit, whereupon the US will invade, which is what it wants anyway. http://english.people.com.cn/200504/16/eng20050416_181379.html === Presumption of guilt Politicians and journalists are corroding the foundations of justice I doubt that any of us will forget where we were and how we felt on September 11 2001. I was spending my second working day at the human rights organisation Liberty. Before lunch I wondered nervously about my new job and the challenges it would bring. In the afternoon the devastating news of the twin-towers atrocity ended such navel gazing. http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1461275,00.html === Author Of This Article Fired Apparently, the company that owns the new paper is owned by Michael Gartner, a high-powered individual in Des Moines who owns the Minor league baseball team in that town, oversees a state board that disburses funds to big business, and was a former writer for the Des Moines Register and Tribune who once won a Pulitzer. He was also once president of NBC news, but was forced to leave after the debacle when they blew up trucks with rockets to make them look like they exploded on impact. http://rense.com/general63/arthr.htm While President of NBC, Gartner spiked video tape showing civilians killed by US bombs during the 1991 Iraq invasion. http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Project%20Censored/CensoredNews_1991.html === Sub wreck could reveal Japanese peace offer Paul Tidwell, a shipwreck salvager, said yesterday he believes wreckage of a Japanese submarine sunk by US warplanes in the Atlantic on June 23 1944 could contain a peace proposal from Tokyo that never made it into the hands of its intended recipient. http://www.guardian.co.uk/japan/story/0,7369,1460993,00.html?gusrc=rss === -muslim voice- ___________________________________ BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. 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