Bismillah [hidayahnet] Terror in the Name of US War's Error - Headlines News 25 May 05

Tue, 24 May 2005 21:07:38 -0700

bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful


=== News Update ===

Condoleezza Rice's Credibility Gap:

A point-by-point analysis of how one of America's top national security officials has a severe problem with the truth.
http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.aspx?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=40520

http://snipurl.com/f4ff

===

The Supreme Court And "Enemy Combatants":

Both the corporate media and the pundits of the left claim to see a “major victory” for the “rule of law” in the June 28, 2004 Supreme Court rulings on Guantánamo and “enemy combatants.” But the fundamental aspect of these decisions is that they have enshrined the concept of enemy combatants into our legal system.
http://www.marcnorton.us/13001/51314.html

===

Pakistan: U.S. Citizens Tortured, Held Illegally

By Human Rights Watch

U.S. FBI agents operating in Pakistan repeatedly interrogated and threatened two U.S. citizens of Pakistani origin who were unlawfully detained and subjected to torture by the Pakistani security services.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8940.htm

http://snipurl.com/f4ev

===

In case you missed it: Video - Convoy of Death

In Afghanistan, filmmaker Jamie Doran has uncovered evidence of a massacre: Taliban prisoners of war suffocated in containers, shot in the desert under the watch of American troops.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3267.htm

http://snipurl.com/f3fi

===

"Everybody heard him cry out and thought it was funny." :

"He screamed out, 'Allah! Allah! Allah!' and my first reaction was that he was crying out to his god," Specialist Jones said to investigators. "Everybody heard him cry out and thought it was funny." It became a kind of running joke, and people kept showing up to give this detainee a common peroneal strike just to hear him scream out 'Allah,' " he said. "It went on over a 24-hour period, and I would think that it was over 100 strikes."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8918.htm

http://snipurl.com/f2ju

===

Real Gitmo shame? : Report U.S. soldier rapped for Koran abuse :

Disrespecting an inmate's Koran got at least one American soldier reprimanded at the Guantanamo prison
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/311282p-266320c.html

http://tinyurl.com/9h833

===

The face of modern tyranny:

The Karimov regime has played a major role in the Anglo-U.S. fight against Islamic independence groups -- misnamed "the war on terrorism."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8924.htm

http://snipurl.com/f2ka

===

Afghan prisoners were 'tortured to death' by American guards:

Shocking and detailed accounts have emerged of how two Afghan prisoners were tortured to death by American interrogators and prison guards at Bagram air base, outside Kabul.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8906.htm

http://snipurl.com/f20k

===

New Swedish Documents Illuminate CIA Action:

Probe Finds 'Rendition' Of Terror Suspects Illegal:

The basic facts of the Stockholm rendition were reported last year; this article is based on newly released documents from the parliamentary probe that provide elaborate details about an operation that normally unfolds entirely out of public view and about the government deliberations that preceded it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8909.htm

http://snipurl.com/f20t

===

Pentagon Caught In Fib about Koran-gate?: .

After Newsweek retracted its ten-sentence Koran-in-a-john item, Lawrence Di Rita, the chief Pentagon spokesman, claimed that the Pentagon had never received any "credible allegations" about "the willful desecration of the Koran as a component of interrogations" at Guantanamo
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?bid=3&pid=2636

http://snipurl.com/f20u

===

A base for the corruption of democracy

The purple finger revolution of January 2005 has proved only one thing: that the US media is capable of building something out of nothing.

As the honeymoon period of the much-hyped 30 January elections in Iraq comes to an end amid the explosions of car bombs and continuous US military action, the harsh reality that these elections have failed to produce a government capable of governing, let alone govern in a fashion that resembles any notion of what a democracy should look like, comes crashing home.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8939.htm

http://snipurl.com/f4ew

===

An essay in imperial villain-making :

Through their pens - blissfully unencumbered by any knowledge of the Muslim world - the old colonial idea of the Islamic ruler as the decadent, destructive, degenerate Oriental despot lives on and, as before, it is effortlessly projected on a credulous public by western warmongers in order to justify their own imperial projects.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1490682,00.html

http://snipurl.com/f4fe

===

Unseen Pictures, Untold Stories:

How The U.S. Press Has Sanitized The War in Iraq: Readers of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Washington Post never saw a single picture of a dead serviceman or servicewoman in their morning papers.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/24/1341241

===

Patriarch denounces U.S. evangelicals in Iraq:

The head of Iraq's largest Christian community denounced American evangelical missionaries in his country on Thursday for what he said were attempts to convert poor Muslims by flashing money and smart cars.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L19124772.htm

===

Syria Stops Cooperating With U.S. Forces and C.I.A.:

The ambassador, Imad Moustapha, said in the interview on Friday at the Syrian Embassy here that his country had, in the last 10 days, "severed all links" with the United States military and Central Intelligence Agency because of what he called unjust American allegations.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8937.htm

http://snipurl.com/f4fd

===

Seven US soldiers killed in Iraq :

Seven US soldiers have been killed in two separate bomb attacks in Iraq.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4575861.stm

http://snipurl.com/f4ez

===

Nine US troops killed in Iraq

Bombings, shootings and other attacks have claimed the lives of nine US troops in two days, the military said Tuesday.
http://snipurl.com/f4fk

===

Surge in U.S. Deaths in Iraq Draws Concern:

Eighteen U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq during the past week - 14 in the past three days alone.
http://snipurl.com/f4f1

===

US fights Iraq fire with street fighters:

The US, instead of training up a regular professional Iraqi army, will create what in effect will be armed militias, acting under US central command, to take the militias of the resistance on at their own game.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8941.htm

http://snipurl.com/f4f4

===

Three U.S. Soldiers Killed:

Three Task Force Freedom Soldiers were killed and one was injured in two separate terrorist attacks in Mosul May 22.
http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20050526.txt

http://snipurl.com/f3eh

===

U.S. Soldier Killed:

Soldier died of wounds sustained in an attack at 10:00 a.m., May 22 when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device was detonated near a combat patrol, just north of Tikrit
http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20050527.txt

http://snipurl.com/f3ei

===

Two U.S. soldiers killed:

Two Task Force Baghdad Soldiers died May 19 at approximately 5:40 p.m. from wounds suffered when their convoy was fired upon
http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20050523.txt

http://tinyurl.com/dxjfp

===

Humiliating Saddam or the Entire Arab-Muslim Nation?:

No sovereign nation with an ounce of dignity even facing a vicious dictatorship would concede for a foreign force, especially one with an alien culture and values, to enter its territory to capture and humiliate its leadership.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8934.htm

http://snipurl.com/f3ez

===

U.S. Soldier Instructed Iraqi Detainee to Dig Own Grave, According to New Army Documents :

New documents released by the Department of Defense reveal more cases of abuse including mock executions and use of a religious symbol to taunt detainees
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8914.htm

http://snipurl.com/f2jr

===

Eight members of elite Iraqi force killed; Sunnis form alliance :

The attack comes amid accusations by minority Sunni Muslims that the elite force, known as the Wolf Brigade, was involved in recent killings of Sunni clerics.
http://www.whotv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3374800

===

Soldier Pleads Guilty to Assault in Murder of Afghan Prisoner; Gets 3-Month Sentence:

A military policeman has been sentenced to three months in prison after pleading guilty to assault and two counts of making a false statement in the 2002 beating death of a prisoner in Afghanistan.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8922.htm

http://snipurl.com/f2jx

===

Five Afghan soldiers killed in landmine blast in Spin Boldak:

At least five Afghan soldiers were killed when their vehicle went over a landmine in the Spin Boldak area of southern Afghanistan on Monday evening.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_24-5-2005_pg7_27

http://snipurl.com/f4f6

===

Bush, Karzai sign pact for long term US military presence in Afghanistan:

Among the key points of the agreement was allowing US military forces operating in Afghanistan to have continued access to the key Bagram Air Base as well as other military facilities as "may be mutually determined."
http://www.bakutoday.net/afps/english/shared/int/050523191559.ow1w8vrb.html

http://snipurl.com/f3fb

===

Occupation will lead to collapse of Zionism:

Today's reality is that the Zionist regime is bankrupt.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8902.htm

http://snipurl.com/f216

===

Sharon: "Agreement signed by Arabs not worth paper its written on:"

Although Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom is meant to be spearheading a drive to forge diplomatic relations with up to 10 Arab states, the premier told a closed meeting with a pro-Israel lobby in New York that he was deeply sceptical about the value of such agreements.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050524/wl_mideast_afp/mideastisraelussharon

http://snipurl.com/f4f8

===

Sharon Gets Hostile Reception in D.C:

Leave it to Israel’s Ariel Sharon to bring everyone together! His appearance in Washington, DC, on May 23, 2005, brought out hundreds of vocal demonstrators. The occasion was the annual conference of AIPAC. Are Sharon and the Zionist Cartel scheming a repeat performance for us with Iran and Syria?
http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/10263/index.php

http://snipurl.com/f4fa

===

Israeli occupation forces use Palestinian as human-shield in West Bank

The TV report showed how soldiers led the blindfolded youth out onto a second-floor balcony as a soldier aimed a rifle with a tear gas grenade from behind the teenager and other teens threw rocks at the building from across the street.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/579444.html

===

Graduation Day with Howard Zinn:

There is poverty in this country, and homelessness, and people without health care, and crowded classrooms, but our government, which has trillions of dollars to spend, is spending its wealth on war.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=2728

===

FBI asks US Congress for new power to seize documents:

The FBI on Tuesday asked the U.S. Congress for sweeping new powers to seize business or private records, ranging from medical information to book purchases
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N24307625.htm

===



-muslim voice-
___________________________________
BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW


--------------------------------------------------------------------------

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.

If your mailbox clogged with mails from Hidayahnet, you may wish to get a daily digest of emails by logging-on to http://www.yahoogroups.com to change your mail delivery settings or email the moderators at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the title "change to daily digest".


Yahoo! Groups Links

Kirim email ke