In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update ===
Judging Georgie: Why Bush must gut our courts as fast as he can
That "smoking gun" Bush/Blair memorandum that just hit the blogs has proved conclusively that Bush knew all along that his 200 billion dollar war on Iraq was a phony war. I knew it was. You knew it was. And now we have the proof.
http://jpstillwater.blogspot.com/2005_05_01_jpstillwater_archive.html#111542839620990783
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A Terrorist Comes Home to Roost:
The sudden and untimely arrival on U.S. territory of a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) asset and admitted terrorist, Luis Posada Carriles, poses an embarrassing challenge to the credibility of the Bush administration's war on terrorism.
http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=28658
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Anti-US protests grow after Quran report:
Demonstrations have also been held in Pakistan and Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/608E1737-47A0-4D74-87EF-FCCD954189A4.htm
http://snipurl.com/evd8
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Imran Khan Demands US Apology for Holy Quran Desecration
I wonder is the soldiers who did that realize that the Quran includes portions of the Old and New Testaments.
http://www.insaf.org.pk/press/2003Jan/press_release_2005may6.htm
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Saudi ire at Koran 'desecration' :
Saudi Arabia has voiced "deep indignation" at reports that a copy of the Koran was desecrated at the US prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4543373.stm
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Dozens Reported Killed in Uzbekistan:
Soldiers opened fire on thousands of protesters in eastern Uzbekistan on Friday after demonstrators stormed a jail to free 23 men accused of Islamic extremism. At least 50 people may have been killed in clashes with police and security forces, a protest leader said.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2005/05/13/international/i074321D38.DTL
http://snipurl.com/evdt
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Uzbekistan: Protesters demand the government's resignation:
"The streets are littered with cars with burnt bodies inside. People in civilian clothes carrying automatic weapons are seen among protesters in the city center. They are allegedly maintaining order," Fergana.ru reports.
http://en.rian.ru/world/20050513/39975892.html
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What lies behind Uzbek protests? :
Andijan has been particularly hard hit by the Uzbek government's continuing crackdown against Islamic groups.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4543847.stm
More on "Uzbekistan"
http://snipurl.com/evdu
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Stop the Crime of the Century
In Iraq, there is a crime of breathtaking proportions taking place. Breathtaking, but necessarily surprising. We know from the historical record that governments will lie and deceive, and we've rarely seen one as immoral and venal as the Bush administration.
http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views05/0513-20.htm
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Human Tragedy Unfolds in Iraq’s Al-Qaim:
The Red Crescent warning that the US offensive has turned the city into a “big disaster”, as local inhabitants complained about the stench of dead bodies laid on the streets or beneath the rubble of houses as a result of the fierce US offensive.
http://www.islamonline.org/English/News/2005-05/13/article03.shtml
http://snipurl.com/evd1
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Losing hearts and minds:
On Wednesday, National Public Radio broadcast a piece that made it appallingly clear that we have not cleaned up our character in Iraq. Humiliation remains a primary weapon. For all the soldiers who have a heart, a lot also appear to have lost their minds.
http://snipurl.com/evd4
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ABC News: We're Not Interested in Covering the Iraq War
http://www.davidsirota.com/2005/05/abc-news-were-not-interested-in.html
http://snipurl.com/evd6
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Attacks intensify as Iraqi anger grows:
Bomb have killed nearly 400 people in the past fortnight:
http://www.dawn.com/2005/05/13/int6.htm
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Iraq Falls Apart
Here was the capital city of the greatest, most powerful empire the world has ever seen, prostrate before the threat of a two-seat Cessna 152, which is smaller than most cars. How quickly the illusion of safety – and strength – dissipates.
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=5936
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Seventeen U.S. soldiers killed since Saturday :
The U.S. military is reeling from escalating casualties in Iraq. Since last Saturday at least 15 troops have died in combat in Iraq, mostly from explosions. Another two died in action in Afghanistan.
http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=544037879da82fae
http://snipurl.com/evcz
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Ohio Squad Takes Heavy Hit in Iraq :
Six Marines were reportedly killed and 15 were wounded from one central Ohio squad involved in a U.S. offensive near Iraq's border with Syria.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5002776,00.html
http://snipurl.com/evcw
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Suicide attack claims 3:
Two Iraqi soldiers and a civilian were killed when a suicide bomber drove his car packed with explosives into a truck carrying 40 soldiers on Friday in Baquba, central Iraq
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1704547,00.html
http://snipurl.com/evcx
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One policeman killed, three wounded in Baghdad shooting
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=42007
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US denies copters downed in Iraq:
An Iraqi official said two US helicopters have been shot down in northwest Iraq, near al-Qaim, but the US military has denied the report.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B68DA4D6-4F17-4FEF-A612-0F55159F0CCF.htm
http://snipurl.com/evcy
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New Iraqi gov't extends state of emergency for 30 days:
Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari announced he was extending for 30 days a state of emergency throughout the country, except for the three Kurdish provinces in the north.
http://www.bakutoday.net/afps/english/shared/int/050513150633.i99qb4ug.html
http://snipurl.com/evd3
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Nine killed as Afghans rage at US :
At least nine more people - including civilians and policemen - have been killed in a fourth day of anti-US protests in Afghanistan, officials say.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4544833.stm
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Afghan riots bode ill for US long-term plans:
Riots and protests that have spread from Jalalabad to the Afghan capital in the wake of a report that US interrogators had desecrated the Koran have taken a political turn, with students demanding the government reject US intentions to create a permanent military presence there.
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?ID=11287
http://snipurl.com/evd7
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The family released a statement...
"Mass round-ups and detentions of innocent civilians, torture and abuse of prisoners and detainees, America’s honor and prestige at the lowest point ever, and investigations that whitewash the president’s men and blame it all on the enlisted personnel.
The obscene spectacle of the grieving families at funerals forced by the president’s dishonesty to defend the honor of their dead even as they mourn: Small wonder that the president, desperately attempting to hide behind a façade of rigid religiosity that glorifies war and false patriotism that exalts the very evils it claims to despise, never attends the funerals of those who have died in the line of duty. How could he?"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8830.htm
http://snipurl.com/evct
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US-held detainees at risk of torture:
Amnesty International: Prisoners detained by the United States in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere are still at risk of torture and ill-treatment, Amnesty International said on Friday.
http://snipurl.com/evdj
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Head of Abu Ghraib Prison Speaks Out:
"All the way up to the top of the Pentagon, they have a long-standing mindset about Reservists and National Guard soldiers, and we are considered disposable," Karpinski said
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/IraqCoverage/story?id=751870&page=1
http://snipurl.com/evdk
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Miami Vice
The next president of the United States was on the road last week, throwing red meat about "moral issues" to a baying crowd of Bushist Party faithful -- while simultaneously trying to cut off medical support for a 6-year-old girl his agents had previously tried to kill
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8824.htm
http://snipurl.com/evcv
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Army offers 15-month hitch:
The Army, faced with a severe and growing shortage of recruits, began offering 15-month active-duty enlistments nationwide Thursday, the shortest tours ever.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-05-13-army-short-tour_x.htm?csp=34
http://snipurl.com/evdb
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No jail time for sailor's refusal to board ship:
This is an affirmation of every sailor's and military person's right to speak out and follow their conscience."
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20050513-9999-7m13paredes.html
http://snipurl.com/evdc
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New Hearing Ordered for Objecting Soldier :
The court-martial of an Army mechanic who refused to deploy to Iraq came to a sudden halt Wednesday when a military judge ordered a new investigative hearing for the soldier.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4999566,00.html
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Wounded Marine returns from Iraq ready to share his view on life :
"I came from almost being dead to walking and talking," he continued. "I've had 24 surgeries in the past eight months. I've got an acrylic forehead, one glass eye; I'm going to get another surgery done in my left eye orbit so it can hold a glass eye also. I took some shrapnel to my hand, some shrapnel to my knee. I've limited use of
my right hand, but it's getting better by the day."
http://www.abcactionnews.com/stories/2005/05/050512marine.shtml
http://snipurl.com/evdd
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Video: Purple Hearts: Back from Iraq. Quicktime.
The reality hits home for those injured in the invasion of Iraq
http://www.purpleheartsbook.com/vid.php
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Law Protecting Soldiers Undermines War on Terror:
What happens to U.S. soldiers who are charged with aiding and abetting an international terrorist organization?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8826.htm
http://snipurl.com/evdz
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Obama Amendment to Pay for Wounded Soldiers’ Food Passes Senate:
An amendment offered by U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) to ensure that wounded veterans recovering in military hospitals don’t have to pay for their own meals passed the Senate yesterday
http://www.suntimesnews.com/2/news_archive/may_05/0512obama.htm
http://snipurl.com/evdg
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Bush questioned over papers leaked in UK:
The White House is being pressed by congressional Democrats to explain leaked British documents which suggest that President George Bush and Tony Blair had basically decided to invade Iraq as early as July 2002.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=637950
http://snipurl.com/evdh
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Molly Ivins: More evidence on why the Iraq war is a George Bush folly:
At least it finally settles this ridiculous debate about how Dear Leader Bush just wanted to bring democracy all along and we did it all for George Washington.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0505120037may12,1,4263103.story
http://snipurl.com/evdi
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Galloway to face US hearing :
MP to fly to Washington to deny profiting from oil for food scandal : In a rapid-fire series of interviews with TV channels and the press, he denounced the Senate subcommittee on investigations which made the allegations as "a lickspittle Republican committee, acting on the wishes of George W Bush".
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8828.htm
http://snipurl.com/evdl
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I'm going to give Senate both barrels, says defiant Galloway:
GEORGE GALLOWAY will confront a US Senate committee in Washington next week over its charge that he received an allocation of 20 million barrels of oil from Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1610109,00.html
http://snipurl.com/evdm
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How allies of Britain and America benefited :
UN officials said the US and Britain, both members of the security council, were aware of illicit trade in oil to Iraq's neighbours, Jordan, Turkey and Syria, but opted to turn a blind eye to it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1483112,00.html
http://snipurl.com/evdo
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U.S. Embassy Rejects Spying Allegations:
The United States on Friday sharply rejected allegations by Russia's security chief that Washington had used non-governmental organizations and the Peace Corps for espionage and to promote political upheaval in the former Soviet republics.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050513/ap_on_re_eu/russia_spies_us
http://snipurl.com/evdp
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Bush Administration Vows To Boycott Hamas Militants Elected in Territories:
The Bush administration "will neither recognize nor engage with" members of Hamas or Hezbollah who are elected to office unless the two militant groups disarm, a top American diplomat told the Forward.
http://www.forward.com/articles/3154
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Hizb Allah, Israeli forces trade fire:
Israeli forces have retaliated with a barrage of artillery fire and an airstrike after Hizb Allah fired on Israeli positions in the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farmsborder area, in the heaviest exchange in months between Israel and the Lebanese group.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/AFA71DA8-E3F8-4522-B0CD-1BF9BE49EFA4.htm
http://snipurl.com/evdq
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Pimping a war:
Israel says Iran will have nuclear bomb know-how soon:
Iran will have the technological know-how within six to nine months to build a nuclear bomb, Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said on Friday.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HEL336081.htm
http://snipurl.com/eve2
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Arming an Israeli Attack on Iran: Why the US should cancel "Bunker Buster" Bombs for Israel:
Faulty Intelligence, WMD Hype and a New Trigger for War
http://www.irmep.org/GBU.htm
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33 Major U.S. Bases Would Close Under Plan :
Rumsfeld's plan calls for a massive shift of U.S. forces that would result in a net loss of 29,005 military and civilian jobs at domestic installations.
http://snipurl.com/eve5
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On History And Self Defence:
Before we Can Claim our Future, We Have to Confront our Past: Dominant media in the real world works to keep most of the population in a state of manufactured amnesia
http://www.blackcommentator.com/138/138_think_street.html
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Satire: John Cleese : Declaration of Revocation :
To the citizens of the United States of America, in the light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective today.
http://www.stephaniemiller.com/declarationofrevocation.htm
http://snipurl.com/eve9
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Rich-poor gap widens in U.S:
The reality of mobility in America is more complicated than the myth. As the gap between rich and poor has widened since 1970, the odds that a child born in poverty will climb to wealth -- or a rich child will fall into the middle class -- remain stuck.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05133/504149.stm
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Video: Mosaic: World News Reports from Middle East TV For 05/12/05:
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/evds
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Satire: Kosovo:
Rock video
http://www.big-boys.com/articles/kosovo.html
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Soviets Planned Nuclear First Strike to Preempt West, Documents Show:
New Volume of Formerly Secret Records Published on 50th Anniversary of Warsaw Pact
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB154/index.htm
http://snipurl.com/eve7
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Russia to send first fuel to Iranian nuke plant:
Russia plans to make its first delivery of nuclear fuel to Iran at the end of the year or early next year under a landmark agreement to fire up the country’s first atomic power station
http://snipurl.com/eve1
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Russian Official Calls Iran’s Nuclear Development “Legitimate”:
Iran’s intention to restart sensitive nuclear activities earlier frozen under a deal with the European Union is “legitimate” and will not alter Russia’s nuclear cooperation with the Islamic state.
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/05/12/russiairannuclear.shtml
http://snipurl.com/eve3
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The Iranian Nuclear Issue in a Global Context:
In 2000 the U.S. government pledged to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty but has not done so yet and shows no signs that it will. It also promised to sign a verifiable accord to end the production of new fissile material for nuclear weapons but has failed to do so.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=2452
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China Says U.S. Impeded North Korea Arms Talks:
A senior Chinese diplomat on Thursday accused the Bush administration of undermining efforts to revive negotiations with the North Korean government and said there was "no solid evidence" that North Korea was preparing to test a nuclear weapon.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8827.htm
http://snipurl.com/eve0
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Ousted Haitian PM Yvon Neptune Enters 25th Day of Hunger Strike:
The Caribbean Community, known as CARICOM, has officially called on the provisional Haitian government to release Neptune immediately.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/13/1437240
http://snipurl.com/evdw
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