bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update === Four bloody lies of war, from Havana 1898 to Baghdad 2003 The Bush Administration's lies about its rationales for attacking Iraq fit a pattern of deceit that has dragged America into at least three other unjust and catastrophic wars. Nixon's "dirty trickster" disciples Karl Rove and Dick Cheney have now poisoned this nation with yet another ghastly lie of war. Their hopeless Iraqi slaughter has become the modern definition of cynical deceit, human butchery and economic ruin. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8788.htm http://snipurl.com/erjh === America's shame, two years on from "Mission Accomplished" How did this culture of filth start in America's "war on terror" A vast quantity of evidence has now been built up on the system which the Americans have created for mistreating and torturing prisoners. I have interviewed a Palestinian who gave me compelling evidence of anal rape with wooden poles at Bagram - by Americans, not by Afghans. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8787.htm http://snipurl.com/erje === No Empire Kick the imperialists out of power and get rid of the lobbyists representing foreign governments. The urge to destroy resides in every human heart. Violence is all too often the problem-solving method of choice. The 20th century differed from the preceding ones only in the scale of the violence unleashed. Between wars and dictators, well over 200 million people died before their natural time. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8789.htm http://snipurl.com/erji === US totalitarian tendencies exposed Those who grew up during the peak years of the Cold War are struck by an emerging pattern in US foreign policy. The pattern suggests that throughout those Cold War years, the US projected on the Soviet Union its own intentions and inclinations, accusing the latter of seeking to set up a world government, seeking to spread the Soviet version of communism to every corner of the globe, when in fact it was the US which sought to impose its form of corporate cannibalism on the whole world. http://www.zimbabwemail.com/index.php?id=11215&pubdate=2005-05-08 === New Questions About Real Identity of 9-11 Hijackers Ticket agent says Atta, Alomari were dressed in business suits; surveillance photos don�t match http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/new_questions_about.html === We Are Very Good Drivers... So, just where are bin Laden and al-Zarqawi? Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, bragged they "almost got him," al-Zarqawi leapt from a speeding pickup truck and fled on foot. A one-legged man of sub-par intelligence outrunning a crack, highly trained special forces team. I'd pay to see that feat, wouldn't you? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8781.htm http://snipurl.com/erjf === The Glory of War: Thus does the American public not care much about Iraq. It is not quite as invisible as other nations that were the subject of national obsessions in the recent past. Hardly anyone knows who or what is running El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti, Libya, Serbia, or Somalia, or any of the other formerly strategic countries that once engaged national attention. http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/glory-of-war.html http://snipurl.com/erl5 === "Terrorist" Cuban Exile Seeking Political Asylum in U.S.: A chief 'terrorist" with long ties to US intelligence agencies is seeking asylum in the United States. The FBI has evidence linking him to an airline bombing that killed 73 people. We're talking about the notorious militant Cuban exile: Luis Posada Carriles. http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/09/148243 http://snipurl.com/erlp === The U.S.: More Like Saddam Every Day the Occupation Continues Interview with Ghazwan Al-Mukhtar from �Occupied Baghdad� Ghazwan Al-Mukhtar is an engineer living in what America calls �liberated' Iraq� but what he calls �occupied Baghdad.� Ghazwan has been an outspoken critic of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq, he was also an outspoken critic of Saddam Hussein. During our interview, which was conducted over email, Ghwazan noted that using the Internet was a problem because �electricity comes 2 hours (most likely less) and then goes off for 4 hours.� Now that the two year anniversary of the U.S. invasion has passed the interview provides a useful historical review of how the occupation has unfolded as well as an informed perspective of whether Iraq is better or worse off today then prior to the occupation. The interview was conducted by Kevin Zeese of Democracy Rising. http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1259056.htm === New Evidence of Conspiracy to Mislead on Iraq Weapons Evidence Warrants Impeachment of George W Bush Resolved: That we tattoo the word "LIAR!" in very large letters onto the forehead of everyone who helped send our kids off to die in Iraq by claiming that Iraq had WMDs, aided Al Qaeda, or had anything to do with 9-11. http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=5992 === Amidst doubts, CIA hangs on to control of Iraqi intelligence service: The CIA has so far refused to hand over control of Iraq's intelligence service to the newly elected Iraqi government in a turf war that exposes serious doubts the Bush administration has over the ability of Iraqi leaders to fight the insurgency and worries about the new government's close ties to Iran. http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/11597484.htm http://snipurl.com/erk1 === Turning Point Fallujah: How US Atrocities Sparked The Iraqi Resistance "In the 1930s the Spanish city of Guernica became a symbol of wanton murder and destruction. In the 1990s Grozny was cruelly flattened by the Russians; it still lies in ruins. This decade's unforgettable monument to brutality and overkill is Falluja..." -This is our Guernica, Jonathan Steele and Dahr Jamail, The Guardian (27 April 2005) http://electroniciraq.net/news/1947.shtml === Transcript Rafidan 9 Rafidan � The Political Committee of the Mujahideen Central Command Baghdad. The 17 of Rabia 1426 H, the 26th of April 2005 - Communiqu� No. 9 ( 5MB Video .wmv) http://www.albasrah.net/media/video/rafidan/rafidan9_090505 === Former ministers flee as Iraq begins corruption inquiry: Former Iraqi ministers are fleeing the country because of reports that the new administration may prevent them going abroad while accusations of corruption are being investigated. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=636841 http://snipurl.com/erk8 === Chalabi's Reversal of Fortune: With the White House's recent change of heart, critics have re-emerged to question why the U.S. is hanging its hopes for Iraq on a man who was not only convicted in Jordan for bank fraud but who also allegedly provided discredited prewar intelligence on weapons of mass destruction and whose relationship with Iran remains murky. " http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1059035,00.html http://snipurl.com/erke === U.S. troops launch attacks against villages along Euphrates: More than 1,000 U.S. troops supported by fighter jets and helicopter gunships attacked villages Sunday along the Euphrates River http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/world/11598220.htm http://snipurl.com/erjr === CNN : U.S. deaths in Iraq surpass 1,600 BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Total U.S. troop casualties in the Iraq war passed 1,600 Sunday, according to a CNN count, when two soldiers were killed near Khaldiya and a third died in Samarra. http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/08/iraq.main/index.html === Seven U.S. Servicemembers Killed in Iraq By THOMAS WAGNER, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq - An explosion of insurgent violence killed seven U.S. servicemembers in Iraq over the weekend even as the Shiite-dominated parliament reached out Sunday to Sunni Arabs, approving four more of them to serve as government ministers. http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050508/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq === Three Marines, One Sailor Killed: A number of "terrorists" were killed May 7 when they used a civilian hospital in Hadithah to conduct an attack on coalition forces. http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20050507.txt http://snipurl.com/erjp === Two U.S. Soldiers Killed: Two U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), were killed today by the detonation of an improvised explosive device. http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20050506.txt http://snipurl.com/erjq === Three U.S. soldiers killed in separate attacks in central Iraq, military says BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 8 � Three U.S. soldiers were killed in separate attacks Sunday in central Iraq, the military said. http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusintl/ap05-08-103739.asp?reg=mideast&vts=5820051101 === Juan Cole: 8 US Servicemen Killed Over Weekend: What is going on in Sunni Iraqi cities, which might account for this violence (which is typically reported curtly and in a shadowy fashion by the US military and American press)? http://www.juancole.com/2005/05/8-us-servicemen-killed-over-weekend.html http://snipurl.com/erju === US troops kill 75 "insurgents" in Iraq offensive: On Sunday, three soldiers were killed in two roadside bomb attacks and one was killed by small-arms fire. Three Marines were killed by a suicide car bomb and a sailor died in small arms fire, the military said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L09656175.htm http://snipurl.com/erjk === Nine Iraqis die as insurgent attacks continue : Nine Iraqis were killed and 17 wounded in attacks around the country on Monday http://snipurl.com/erjl === Eight bodies found near Baghdad: The bodies of eight Iraqi civilians, tortured and then executed with a bullet to the back of the neck, were found on Monday on the southern outskirts of Baghdad, the Iraqi army and medics said. http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1701988,00.html http://snipurl.com/erjn === Car bomb targeting Iraqi police kills 4 in Baghdad : A car bomb exploded Monday morning in southern Baghdad, killing two Iraqi police officers and two civilians, witnesses said. http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=8489 http://snipurl.com/erjo === British Memo Indicates Bush Made Intelligence Fit Iraq Policy A highly classified British memo, leaked in the midst of Britain's just-concluded election campaign, indicates that President Bush decided to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein by summer 2002 and was determined to ensure that U.S. intelligence data supported his policy. http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0506-01.htm === The job is done : The prime minister must accept that most British people want the troops out of Iraq http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1479411,00.html http://snipurl.com/erkq === In Britain, Iraq news that rolled off Bush damaged Blair severely: Six months after Bush won a second term by a comfortable enough margin to claim a mandate, Blair returned to No. 10 Downing Street visibly chastened. His party's delegation to Parliament was slashed by nearly 100 seats http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/05/08/news/britain.php http://snipurl.com/erku === I was tortured, says ricin plotter: AN INFORMANT who revealed an al-Qaeda plot to make and use deadly ricin poison in Britain is claiming that he was tortured before admitting his role in the conspiracy. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1604436,00.htmlago%20be%20squandered&lr=&sa=N&tab=gw http://snipurl.com/erl6 === In case you missed it?: The ricin ring that never was : The trial collapse has exposed the deception behind attempts to link al-Qaida to a 'poison attack' on London http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8537.htm http://snipurl.com/erl7 === Spy claims torture in prison: Jonathan Pollard, a U.S. citizen who spied for Israel, has been subjected to electric shock, sleep deprivation and other "cruel and extreme" forms of torture while serving a life sentence in American prisons, his lawyer said Sunday. http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2005/05/08/1030946-ap.html http://snipurl.com/erl8 === ARRESTED MAN NOT AL-QAEDA NUMBER 3, INTELLIGENCE SOURCES SAY Posted May 9, 2005 07:39 AM PST - Category: CURRENT EVENTS http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.164365478&par=0 === QAEDA THUG PLANNED U.S. ELEX TERROR Now we have gone beyond simple error into outright propaganda. Abu Farraj al-Libbi was NOT captured in Pakistan last week; they got the wrong guy. The foreign papers are reporting the error, but the US Mainstream Media, having invested so much of itself into waving Abu Farraj al-Libbi at us in the latest "booga booga", refuse to back down and admit it was all USDA choice bovine excrement. http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/43801.htm === 'Great Crime' at Abu Ghraib Enrages and Inspires an Artist BOGOT�, Colombia, May 7 - Fernando Botero, Latin America's best-known living artist, shocked the art world last year when he broke sharply from his usual depictions of small town life to reveal new works that depicted Colombia's war in horrific detail. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/08/international/americas/08botero.html === 12 rebels killed in operation in eastern Afghanistan : About twelve rebels were killed in eastern Afghanistan when US Marines tracked down a group of insurgents there, coalition said on Monday. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/09/content_2934914.htm http://snipurl.com/erlh === 2 US marines killed in Afghanistan : Two U.S. Marines were killed May 8 northwest of Jalalabad, in Laghman Province, in an engagement with approximately 25 suspected Taliban. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/09/content_2933723.htm http://snipurl.com/erlj === Taliban official turned U.S. spy faces prosecution: Zadran, 53, had avoided prison in a federal smuggling case by turning FBI informant. For three years, he offered intelligence on the Taliban's hierarchy and terrorist operations in Afghanistan even as he served as the regime's U.S. representative. http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/11592391.htm http://snipurl.com/erlk === Arab-S America ties set for a boost: In a bid to counter the apparent global dominance of the United States, ministers from 33 South American and Arab League states have arrived in Brazil for the first-ever summit of leaders from the two regions. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/17CAE2E3-6683-4DC1-830F-2FFAB724220A.htm http://snipurl.com/ermi === Latin-Arab summit worries U.S., Israel: The United States and Israel are concerned the summit could become a platform to attack U.S. and Israeli policies in the Middle East. A draft copy of the declaration published in the Brazilian press raised expectations the meeting would criticize U.S. and Israeli use of force and back the rights of peoples to resist occupation. http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20050508-123446-7241r http://snipurl.com/erja === Israel conducts illegal medical experiments on Palestinians Patients were guinea pigs and didn't know it The State Comptroller's Report features a laundry list of grave oversights and continuous negligence on the part of the Health Ministry and public hospital management regarding their supervisory role in the performance of thousands of experiments and research studies in which hospital patients were subjects. Bodily harm and even death were potential outcomes of some of these experiments. http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=573805 === Israel squeezes Gaza opposition : Israel is detaining a right-wing Jewish settler for five months without charge as part of efforts to quell opposition to its plan to evacuate the Gaza Strip. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4529637.stm === Pentagon: 1,700 Sex Assaults Reported : Military criminal investigators received 1,700 reports of sexual assault in 2004 involving at least one member of the military, the Pentagon said Friday. http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4989510,00.html?gusrc=ticker-103704 http://snipurl.com/erlx === The Air Force Academy is under investigation again : First, academy culture seems to permit targeting, even assault, of whole subgroups in its community, whether women or those who are not evangelical Christians. http://www.chron.com/CDA/umstory.mpl/editorial/3172786 http://snipurl.com/erlz === Social Security Quackery : The point is not to shore up Social Security. It is to kill it -- softly. That's why the Bush plan would be rolled out over a generation -- with little cuts, year by year, that would slowly make the program less and less helpful to (and more and more of a burden on) 2/3rds of American wage earners. http://snipurl.com/erm1 === Papers, Please!: Real ID = National ID Card: This Tuesday, the US Senate is scheduled to vote on the implementation of a national ID card system. The Real ID Act is nothing less than a Real National ID Act. http://www.unrealid.com/ === Great Taste, Less Privacy : A patron walks into a bar and orders a drink. The bartender asks to see some ID. Without asking permission, the barkeep swipes the driver's license through a card reader and the device flashes a green light approving the order. http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,62182,00.html http://snipurl.com/erm4 === A Draft in the Air: What do you get when you combine nose-diving military enlistments with a bleak assessment from the Pentagon's top brass that the ongoing Iraq-tastrophe hampers U.S. military readiness -- leaving the nation perilously short handed in the face of North Korean and Iranian provocation? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8785.htm http://snipurl.com/erkx === U.S. Increases Mercenary Forces: Ugandans deployed to work in Iraq, US installations worldwide http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/09/content_2936040.htm http://snipurl.com/erl2 === Parents can keep military recruiters from contacting kids: Fed up with constant calls and visits from military recruiters seeking to meet monthly enlistment quotas, some parents are unaware the military gets their contact information from their children's schools. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8786.htm http://snipurl.com/erl4 == North Korea has six nuclear weapons: ElBaradei: The International Atomic Energy Agency estimates that North Korea has close to six nuclear weapons, the UN nuclear watchdog�s chief said on Sunday. http://jang.com.pk/thenews/may2005-daily/09-05-2005/world/w1.htm http://snipurl.com/erl9 === Dynamic of war : The chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency tells the Senate Armed Services Committee North Korea has the wherewithal to put a nuclear device in the nose cone of a three-stage, long-range missile that can reach Hawaii and Alaska. http://www.segye.com/Service5/ShellView.asp?TreeID=1184&PCode=0007&DataID=200505091511000105 http://snipurl.com/erlc === Rumors of N.Korea Crisis in June Intensify: There are immediate signs that North Korea may be preparing for a nuclear test in Kilju, North Hamgyeong Province, with talk of a test coming not just from the U.S. but also from China and Japan. Most of it is pessimistic. "North Korea could conduct a nuclear test as early as June," http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8784.htm http://snipurl.com/erld === What is the Truth of the North�s Nuclear Issue? : The Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun reported that �the U.S.� intelligence manipulation� is designed for China to develop a feeling of crisis by making it keep its eye upon Pyongyang�s disquieting action. http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=060000&biid=2005051047868 http://snipurl.com/erle === Iran converted raw uranium into gas : �We converted all the 37 tons of uranium concentrate known as yellowcake into UF-4 at the Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facility before we suspended work there,� said Mohammad Saeedi. http://www.breakingnews.ie/2005/05/09/story201738.html === Iran's gasoline imports to top dlrs 4.5 billion this year : The total refining capacity is 40 million liters daily where as the gasoline consumption is estimated to exceed 64.5 million liters daily this year. http://www.payvand.com/news/05/may/1066.html http://snipurl.com/erlf === Mr. Bush and the Riga axioms : HISTORIANS OF the Cold War will not have missed the significance of President George W. Bush choosing Riga as the venue for his speech on Saturday repudiating the 1945 Yalta Agreement. http://www.thehindu.com/2005/05/09/stories/2005050906171100.htm http://snipurl.com/erll === US 'torpedoed Kursk nuclear sub': A FORMER British military official has backed a sensational claim that the Russian nuclear submarine, the Kursk, was torpedoed by US forces in August 2000. http://snipurl.com/erlm === UN accommodates human rights abuses by police in Haiti: The images of the killings by the U.S.-armed and U.N.-trained Police Nationale de Haiti (PNH) are stark and undeniable. Peaceful demonstrators slaughtered in cold-blood as the U.N. pontificates and postures to justify its role in legitimizing the coup in February 2004 against the democratically elected government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. WARNING - Graphic images http://www.haitiaction.net/News/HIP/5_8_5/5_8_5.html http://snipurl.com/erln === Cuba, Venezuela offer medial assistance to other countries : Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on May 8 said that his country and Cuba will carry out a programme entitled "Mision Milagro" with the aim of bringing light to the poor people with eye diseases in the Latin American and Caribbean regions. http://www.vnanet.vn/NewsA.asp?LANGUAGE_ID=2&CATEGORY_ID=34&NEWS_ID=150063 http://snipurl.com/erls === Mexico City's Leftist Mayor Says He Will Resign in July to Run for President http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBXEDLSI8E.html http://snipurl.com/erlt === -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: 266.11.7 - Release Date: 09/05/2005 ------------------------ Yahoo! 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