In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update ===
For Muslims, desecrating Koran dishonours God
NEW YORK - - The Koran is the most sacred object in the daily lives of Muslims and mistreating it is considered an offence against God, fuelling outrage over claims that the holy book was desecrated at U.S. bases.
Islam teaches that the Koran is the direct word of God, received by the Prophet Muhammad through the angel Gabriel, and it defines the belief and conduct for followers of the religion.
The Koran is so important in the faith that Islamic teaching spells out how it should be handled, including directing anyone who touches it to be in a state of ritual purity.
"The respect we show God, we show that same respect to the Koran, very much like Christians would treat Jesus himself," said Imam Yahya Hendi, chaplain at Georgetown University.
http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=86acec32-f6f6-4f51-a3c0-0bd6426d6ea4
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U.S.: Religious Humiliation of Muslim Detainees Widespread
(New York, May 19, 2005)�U.S. interrogators have repeatedly sought to offend the religious beliefs of Muslim detainees as part of their interrogation strategy, Human Rights Watch said today.
Human Rights Watch said that the dispute over the retracted allegations in Newsweek that U.S. interrogators had desecrated a Koran at Guant�namo Bay, Cuba, has overshadowed the fact that religious humiliation of detainees at Guant�namo and elsewhere has been widespread.
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2005/05/19/usdom10981.htm
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Red Cross supports original Newsweek Report of vandalized Qurans
Translation: The US magazine "Newsweek" had to retract a story about the desecration of the Koran in the military prison Guantanamo under massive pressure from the US government. The journalists have now received support for their report from the International Red Cross.
Geneva - A representative of the Internation Red Cross said today that it has informed the US authorities that members of the American military had abused the Koran. Such cases had occurred in the years 2002 and 2003, have since, however, been stopped, said the IRC representative Simon Schorno.
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,356663,00.html
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Red Cross told U.S. of Koran incidents:
The International Committee of the Red Cross documented what it called credible information about U.S. personnel disrespecting or mishandling Korans at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and pointed it out to the Pentagon in confidential reports during 2002 and early 2003, an ICRC spokesman said Wednesday.
http://snipurl.com/f0j9
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Cowardice In Journalism Award For Newsweek - Goebbels Award for Condi
"It's appalling that this story got out there," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on her way back from Iraq.
What's NOT appalling to Condi is that the US is holding prisoners at Guantanamo under conditions termed "torture" by the Red Cross. What's not appalling to Condi is that prisoners of the Afghan war are held in violation of international law after that conflict has supposedly ended. What is NOT appalling to Condi is that prisoner witnesses have reported several instances of the Koran's desecration.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8887.htm
http://snipurl.com/f0il
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Muslims Skeptical of Newsweek Retraction
CAIRO, Egypt -- The now-retracted report that American interrogators flushed a Quran down a toilet did not spark violent protests in the Middle East as it did in Afghanistan and Pakistan -- but it added another layer of bitterness among many Arabs who see the United States as anti-Muslim.
Across the Islamic world, many were unconvinced by Newsweek's retraction of the report. From Afghanistan to Egypt, some people believed the U.S. had pressured Newsweek to deny the story, using the magazine as a "scapegoat."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-mideast-quran-desecration,1,2626458.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines&ctrack=2&cset=true
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Newsweek, the Quran and the "Green Mushroom" - Following the real rules of modern journalism
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - Media analysis, critiques and activism
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2519
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Newsweek Was Right
We are printing below a letter from reader Calgacus--a pseudonym for a researcher in the national security field for the past twenty years--that shows how the desecration of the Koran became standard US interrogation practice.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20050518/cm_thenation/132550/nc:742
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About Newsweek...
Posted May 19, 2005 09:05 AM PST - Category: HUMOR
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/news/photos/don_wright/images/4.jpg
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Iraqis to trample on US flag over Koran desecration :
Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr urged Muslims across Iraq to paint US and Israeli flags at mosque entrances for worshippers to walk on in protest at the alleged desecration of the Koran at the US detention camp in Guantanamo.
http://snipurl.com/f0jb
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Muslim woman demands apology from Amazon.com after receiving defiled Qur'an
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Muslim woman who said she ordered a Qur'an through Amazon.com only to find profanity and religious slurs written inside asked Wednesday for an apology and a full investigation by the online retailer.
Azza Basarudin, 30, said she received the Qur'an by mail May 5 after ordering it through a used-books division of Amazon.com that allows customers to order directly from third-party sellers approved by the company.
When she opened the Qur'an, Basarudin said she found profanity and the phrase "Death to all Muslims" written in thick black marker on the otherwise-blank first page.
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050518/w051886.html
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George Bush is the worst president of the United States of America, ever. Hands down.
And here are just a few reasons why I believe that statement is true.
http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1291724.htm
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Patriot Act expansion would let FBI bypass judges:
The proposal would let federal investigators subpoena records from businesses and other institutions without a judge's approval if the investigators themselves declare that the material is needed as part of a foreign intelligence investigation.
http://snipurl.com/f0js
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No Place for US Homilies:
American officials and lawmakers seem to believe that they have the right and the obligation to instruct the leaders of China and Russia – and of other alleged backward areas of the world that are not (yet) under direct US control – in Democracy 101, Introduction to Human Rights, and other related topics that are included in the Freedom's Guide to the Universe.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/hadar/hadar14.html
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What the CIA Could Learn from Venezuela: The Luis Posada Carriles Case:
Orlando Bosch was labeled a terrorist back in the 1970's by the FBI, yet today he resides freely in Miami with the blessing of the Bush family. A host of other former dictators and tortures have been given refuge in the "land of the free." Will Posada Carriles meet the same fate?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8886.htm
http://snipurl.com/f0jq
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"Catastrophe" in Iraq
Under international law it is the primary responsibility of the occupier to safeguard the citizens of the country they occupy.
There has been a low-grade civil war going on for quite some time-but now the veil has been ripped off by the statements made by Dhari. All Sunni mosques in Iraq will be closed for three days...an ominous symbol of things to come.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8882.htm
http://snipurl.com/f0ik
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Iraq and Iran:
Iraq did not violate international law, the United States did. They didn’t have the integrity to tell the truth to the United States people,” he said.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8885.htm
http://snipurl.com/f0j6
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Iraqis Endure Worse Conditions Than Under Saddam, UN Survey Finds
A major study by the UN and Iraqi officials found that life in Iraq has decayed significantly since foreign forces invaded, following a general trend seen in most sectors since the imposition of a global embargo in 1990.
May 18 - Responses to a detailed survey conducted by a United Nations agency and the Iraqi government indicate that everyday conditions for Iraqis in the aftermath of the 2003 US-led invasion have deteriorated at an alarming rate, with huge numbers of people lacking adequate access to basic services and resources such as clean water, food, health care, electricity, jobs and sanitation.
http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/1816
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U.S. Claims Over Siege Challenged
Abu Ahmed, a resident of Al-Qa'im, told IPS on telephone that ”all the fighters here are Iraqis from this area.”
http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/hard_news/archives/hard_news/000244.php#more
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The Children of Iraq
Posted May 19, 2005 09:46 AM PST - Category: IRAQ
http://www.childrenofiraq.org/
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Losing in Iraq
If Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Rice and the other fearless Republican hawks had tours in Vietnam instead of tours for draft deferments, they would have not been giddy for this war with Iraq. They would have run just like they personally ran from wars in Korea and Vietnam. If they had not slipped out the back door of their generations’ wars, they would have known that Iraq was a trap. But they didn't and today we have the humdinger of a problem in Iraq.
http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1082
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The ideology of ignorance
During our Fallujah assault, the Independent noted that as we were being told of that “victory,” “at the same moment an insurgent offensive had captured most of Mosul.” The same Whackamole game played out from village to village in … yep … Vietnam.
http://pmcarpenter.blogs.com/p_m_carpenters_commentary/2005/05/the_ideology_of.html
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Torture, anyone?
Torture is always "sold" with the promise that the people being tortured deserve it, and that there is no other way to acccomplish the state's objectives than the use of torture.
But in the present case, that argument is already demolished. For years, the United States tortured Iraqis to find Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. Now the US admits trhere never were any; it was all a lie concocted to justify the invasion. So that means that the US has been torturing innocent people for information they could not possibly have, all because the lie about WMDs required that people be tortured as part of the theater of it all.
So, are you really comfortable with a government that tortures innocent people just for show?
http://webdiary.smh.com.au/archives/margo_kingston_comment/001024.html
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The end of secularism in Iraq :
Bush admits Iraq problems: Mr Bush cited an initiative in his Budget that would create a corps of trained civilians who could be deployed on short notice to help in crises caused by war or revolution.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-2-114-2516.jsp
http://snipurl.com/f0iy
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U.S. Claims Over Siege Challenged:
As with the siege of Fallujah six months back, U.S. claims over the siege of the Iraqi town Al Qa'im are being challenged now by independent sources.
http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=28742
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At home in the rubble: siege city reborn as giant gated community
Fallujah was devastated by a US offensive six months ago
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1618080,00.html
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U.S. Offensive Causes Humanitarian Crisis, Nets Few Rebels:
While information about last week’s counter-insurgency campaign in Western Iraq proves elusive, hospitals cite civilian deaths; thousands remain homeless as locals and some US troops challenge claims of success.
http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/1826
http://snipurl.com/f0j1
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U.S. generals take gloomier Iraq view :
The generals pulled back from recent suggestions - including those by some of the same officers - that positive trends in Iraq could allow a reduction in the 138,000 U.S. troops in Iraq late this year or early in 2006. One senior officer suggested Wednesday that U.S. military involvement could last "many years."
http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/05/19/news/iraq.php
http://snipurl.com/f0j2
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Bush admits Iraq problems:
Mr Bush cited an initiative in his Budget that would create a corps of trained civilians who could be deployed on short notice to help in crises caused by war or revolution.
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,15338457%255E1702,00.html
http://snipurl.com/f0j4
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$1 trillion missing : Military waste under fire :
A study by the Defense Department's inspector general found that the Pentagon couldn't properly account for more than a trillion dollars in monies spent. A GAO report found Defense inventory systems so lax that the U.S. Army lost track of 56 airplanes, 32 tanks, and 36 Javelin missile command launch-units.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8888.htm
http://snipurl.com/f0j5
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A new trauma in Iraq:
Severe brain injuries - and soldiers who live through them - increase in this war, creating challenges
http://snipurl.com/f0j7
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Iraq abuse allegations revealed ;
A lawyer for nine Iraqis who claimed they were tortured by UK soldiers has revealed details of their allegations of abuse at a camp in Basra in 2003.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4560881.stm
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Nine Iraqis killed, three injured in US air raid:
Nine Iraqis were killed and three injured as a result of air raid by United States aircrafts directed at outlawed gunmen in Mosul on Thursday, said medical sources.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=734491
http://snipurl.com/f0iq
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Seven killed in clashes in Iraq's Mosul:
Seven people were killed in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday after Guerrillas attacked the house of a local Sunni Muslim politician, witnesses and hospital officials said.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/GEO944390.htm
http://snipurl.com/f0ir
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Iraqi oil official gunned down in Baghdad:
In violence on Thursday, a university professor was shot dead, one Iraqi soldier was killed and nine injured in a suicide bombing and four other Iraqi soldiers were kidnapped in a separate incident.
http://snipurl.com/f0it
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Dealing with the Merchant of Death :
For the war effort in Iraq, the Bush administration has hired at least one company tied to the network of Victor Bout, one of the world's most notorious arms traffickers.
http://www.mojones.com/news/update/2004/09/09_413.html
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Six Afghans working on U-S project killed in second day of attacks :
Afghanistan At least six Afghan employees of a U-S-funded anti-drug project are dead, gunned down in an attack by suspected Taliban militants.
http://www.ktre.com/Global/story.asp?S=3366014
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Afghanistan: Former Female TV Presenter Shot Dead In Kabul:
She moderated a popular music program that had angered conservatives before she left her job under unclear circumstances in March. Police say it is not clear yet whether her killing is related to her work
http://snipurl.com/f0je
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Taliban officials brought in from the cold :
Authorities pin hopes on reconciliation effort to break insurgency
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,1487021,00.html
http://snipurl.com/f0jf
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Millions of Afghans left homeless:
The ebb and flow of humanity has often left refugees poor, homeless and unhealthy.
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/index.php?page=national&story_id=051905b1_afghanrefugees
http://snipurl.com/f0jg
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Galloway claims victory over US
BRITISH MP George Galloway claimed victory over a US Senate committee which accused him of profiting from the Iraq oil-for-food program in a triumphant speech to supporters today.
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,15337549%255E1702,00.html
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Galloway: The man who took on America
How did one maverick MP manage to outgun a committee of senior US politicians so successfully? And did he make any lasting impact?
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=639588
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Galloway wins on points rather than knockout, says US
“Brit fries senators in oil”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C3-1618042%2C00.html
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Mr. Galloway Goes to Washington:
Norm Coleman is a fool. Not an ideological nut case, not a partisan whack, not even a useful idiot -- just a plain old-fashioned, drool-on-his-tie fool.
When Coleman started slandering foreign politicians, he exposed the dramatic vulnerability of his claims that the supposed scandal was much more than a blatant example of US corporations taking advantage of their powerful connections in Washington to undermine official US policy, harm the national interest and profit off the suffering of the poor.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8884.htm
http://snipurl.com/f0in
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Video: George Galloway v The U.S. Senate
Video Of The Full Testimony Of British MP George Galloway Before The U.S. Senate
This is a must watch Video
Watch Mr. Galloway Speak Truth To Power.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8869.htm
http://snipurl.com/ezkc
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Gorgeous George - An Open Letter to U.S. Democratic Elected Officials:
British MP George Galloway serves as an example of why your party should be abandoned by the U.S. working class, by U.S. women, by oppressed nationalities in the United States, and by anyone who professes to be a progressive or a leftist.
http://stangoff.com/index.php?p=102
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Violence spreads in Uzbekistan :
Unrest was spreading across eastern Uzbekistan this week as fears grew of mass arrests and the autocratic state sought to stamp its authority on a region in revolt.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianweekly/story/0,12674,1487665,00.html
http://snipurl.com/f0jh
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Uzbek troops reclaim control of border, arrest Islamist leaders :
Residents from the Uzbek portion of the town, questioned in Kyrgyzstan, said that returning government forces had arrested Bakhtiyar Rakhimov, who is believed to head pro-Islamist forces on the Uzbek side of the town, along with two of his associates.
http://www.iii.co.uk/news/?type=afxnews&articleid=5300761&subject=general&action="">
http://snipurl.com/f0jj
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Update From Palestine
Posted May 19, 2005 08:28 AM PST - Category: ISRAEL
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0505/S00295.htm
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Pulling US strings on Israel
Many observers have long suspected that key supporters for the Iraq war inside the administration - including Wolfowitz and Feith - were at least in part motivated by their views on Israeli security. These views were also in line with the stance of AIPAC and several other pro-Israel outfits.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GE19Ak01.html
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Mofaz gives Israeli army free hand:
Israel's defence chief has given the army a free hand to strike at Gaza-based Palestinian resistance groups firing mortars and rockets, as a shaky, three-month-old truce threatens to unravel
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/0233941D-91D9-44C2-B86B-806D79CF0721.htm
http://snipurl.com/f0jk
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Three Colombians detained for allegedly helping U.S. soldiers smuggle cocaine:
Authorities arrested three Colombians, including a former serviceman, for allegedly helping American soldiers smuggle cocaine to the United States aboard a U.S. military aircraft, officials said Wednesday.
http://www.kristv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3363797
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Russia Signs Arm Agreement with Venezuela :
ITAR-Tass news agency reported that the official agreement will envisage the Venezuelan purchase of 100,000 automatic weapons from Russia.
http://www.zaman.com/?bl=hotnews&alt=&trh=20050519&hn=19695
http://snipurl.com/f0jn
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Caracas 'to try bombing suspect' :
Venezuela has sought to reassure the US it will not hand over a Cuban exile accused of bombing an airliner to Fidel Castro's regime if he is extradited.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4560347.stm
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Venezuela: Airline bomber will not be given to Cuba :
Venezuela says if the U-S extradites a Cuban exile wanted in a 1976 airliner bombing, he won't be turned over to Cuba. Instead, the country's vice president says he'll be held to face Venezuelan justice.
http://www.kvia.com/Global/story.asp?S=3362516
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Marshalls to seek new nuclear compensation from US :
The tiny central Pacific state of the Marshall Islands will go before a US Congress hearing next week to claim more than three billion dollars compensation for the effects of nuclear testing on their islands half a century ago.
http://snipurl.com/f0jr
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Ending Fake News
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SourceWatch
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How Many More Lies Will the Media Tell Before We Stop Them?
This is not a matter of bias in the media; it is a matter of deception.
http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/what_will_it_take_.html
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Porn Star to Dine With Bush and Rove
"I’m hoping to run as Lieutenant Governor of California next year,” Carey said. “Since Arnold {Schwarzenegger} is a Republican, I thought this dinner would be a great networking opportunity for me.”
http://www.globalnewsmatrix.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1020
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World Bank Immunity Bill:
The government moves to give immunity to the World Bank will be a free license to commit mass - Why does the government want to hide the ugly face of World Bank?
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=32&ItemID=7883
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