In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update ===
Amnesty official says US running " archipelago" of prisoners around the world:
"The United States is maintaining an archipelago of prisons around the world, many of them secret prisons into which people are being literally disappeared and in some cases, at least, we know that they are being mistreated, abused, tortured and even killed," he said.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9063.htm
http://snipurl.com/fdmw
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Rights group leader says U.S. has secret jails
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The chief of Amnesty International USA alleged Sunday that the Guantanamo Bay detention camp is part of a worldwide network of U.S. jails, some of them secret, where prisoners are mistreated and even killed.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/06/05/amnesty.detainee/
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One Muslim's Odyssey to Guantánamo
BREMEN, Germany - About two months after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, the Pakistani police picked up Murat Kurnaz, a 19-year-old Muslim from Germany who was traveling by bus near the city of Peshawar. The police turned Mr. Kurnaz, a Turkish citizen born in Germany, over to the American military in Pakistan, who in turn transferred him to Afghanistan, and he was held as a terrorist suspect.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/05/international/europe/05prisoner.html?ex=1118635200&en=e785e943c867c2d4&ei=5070&emc=eta1
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Facts EVERY war supporter should have known
Who "mass-graved" thousands of Iraqis by bulldozing over them?
Where did the figure of "300,000" originate as the number of Iraqis "killed by Hussein"?
Answers Here :
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9045.htm
http://snipurl.com/fd12
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Facts EVERY war supporter should have known, BEFORE the US attacked Iraq
On the "Hussein = mass murdering monster" rhetoric only; the "WMD", "ties to 911", and "ties to al Qaeda" have been thoroughly debunked by everyone on the planet already (except for the die-hard rightwing idiots) and have been well-documented as being known by most the world before Bush's attack on Iraq.
www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3780745
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9/11 News Summary: Major Breakthroughs in the Media on the 9/11 Cover-up
The cover-up of 9/11 has been appearing in the news with ever greater frequency. Besides the first nationally televised 9/11 cover-up program, in which Dr. David Ray Griffin's powerful 9/11 lecture at the University of Wisconsin recently aired two weekends in a row on C-SPAN, dozens of excellent media articles have been published in recent months.
http://www.WantToKnow.info/050605news911
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Amnesty Int'l Director Responds to President Bush--in Letter to Editor
If Amnesty's reports are so "absurd," Schulz asked, "why did the administration repeatedly cite our findings about Saddam Hussein before the Iraq war? Why does it welcome our criticisms of Cuba, China and North Korea? And why does it cite our research in its own annual human rights reports?
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000946565
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AIPAC in total control of decisions in America
AIPAC controls both political parties, both houses of congress, the White House, and controls appointees from the highest to the lowest halls of governments. with chapters in all 50 states, and a 100,000 members all over the country, AIPAC is at the Helm.
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=35807
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Are Weapons of Mass Destruction Being Planted in Iraq for Future "Discovery"
Rumor has it that this was already tried once, but the convoy of WMDs was destroyed by "friendly fire". This late in the game, any WMDs found in Iraq would be assumed to have been planted by Bush's minions. If Saddam had actually had WMDs, he would have used them to defend himself from the invading US armies.
http://world.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/15429
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Bush's optimism clashes with pessimism in Iraq:
The disconnect between Rose Garden optimism and Baghdad pessimism, according to government officials and independent analysts, stems not only from Bush's focus on tentative signs of long-term progress but also from the shrinking range of policy options available to him if he is wrong.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9058.htm
http://snipurl.com/fdmr
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What’s Up With the Downing Street Memo?:
If I had lost a loved one fighting in Iraq or currently had a soldier over there, I would be enraged over the Downing Street Memo. Even without that link, I am fuming about this formerly “extremely sensitive” and now public memorandum.
http://www.the-signal.com/News/ViewStory.asp?storyID=7284
http://snipurl.com/fdms
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Occupation is cause of suicide bombings: :
"Islamic fundamentalism is not the primary driver of suicide terrorism," Pape said. "Nearly all suicide terrorist attacks are committed for a secular strategic goal -- to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from territory the terrorists view as their homeland."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9059.htm
http://snipurl.com/fdmt
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Wartime Prosecutions Come Under Scrutiny:
A soldier who admitted executing a wounded Iraqi teenager received three years in prison. His co-defendant got a one-year term. A captain convicted of charges in the fatal shooting of another wounded Iraqi was dismissed from the armed forces, but received no prison time.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9064.htm
http://snipurl.com/fdmv
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US aggressors make practice of arresting wanted persons’ female relatives official policy.
Mafkarat al-Islam reported in a dispatch posted at 9:45am Saturday morning Mecca time that the US occupation regime had just issued a decree in the context of its emergency regulations that made it officially legal for the US military to arrest the mother, sister, wife or daughter of a person they regard as “wanted” and accuse of involvement in armed activities against the occupation.
http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/1326520.htm
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Iraqi soldiers killed in bomb attacks:
Nine Iraqi soldiers have been killed in three separate bomb attacks in Iraq.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CDD2E891-4AC7-44D9-A154-CB2CD2DA70B2.htm
http://snipurl.com/fdmm
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Judge orders Pentagon to release 100 new photos of Abu Ghraib prison abuse:
A US judge has ordered the Bush administration to release more than 100 new photographs and videos of abused prisoners at Abu Ghraib, creating a fresh public relations nightmare for government officials as they seek to rebut accusations that the US is sponsoring torture in Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=644264
http://snipurl.com/fdmx
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Biden: U.S. needs to close Cuba prison:
A leading Senate Democrat said Sunday the United States needs to move toward shutting down the military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-06-05-biden-close-guantanamo_x.htm
http://snipurl.com/fdn0
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Israelis stunned by TV indictment from within
He films graffiti on a wall, "Arabs to the crematoriums". A Russian-born Israeli border policeman assures Yavin that "I am only following orders". Another soldier confides: "We have set up a slave camp here. We are committing crimes here."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9065.htm
http://snipurl.com/fdn2
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Jerusalem orders Palestinian homes to be demolished :
Jerusalem's city council has ordered one of the largest mass demolitions in the city's recent history, with plans to raze the homes of about 1,000 Palestinians in a neighbourhood claimed by Israeli squatters.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1499116,00.html
http://snipurl.com/fdn3
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Palestinian Jewish settlers?:
A group of Jewish colonists from the illegal West Bank settlement of Kadim are planning to ask Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas for political asylum and keep their houses despite Israel's planned disengagement.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1475815A-3C8C-4986-85C4-D67CA42BC0EF.htm
http://snipurl.com/fdn5
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Outrage greets new Israeli military chief :
The appointment of Dan Halutz as the Israeli military's new Chief of Staff has infuriated many Palestinians who consider the former Commander of the Israeli Air Force a criminal.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/38C7D317-77AC-4B68-BEB0-ADB406473FB4.htm
http://snipurl.com/fdn6
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Israeli Spy Affair: AIPAC Source to Be in Court June 13 :
Larry Franklin, the Pentagon worker who is accused of passing information to two American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) analysts, faces a court hearing June 13, his attorney Plato Cacheris said.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=83321
http://snipurl.com/fdn7
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AIPAC the unstoppable :
The fact that AIPAC never had to register as a foreign agent demonstrates Israel is an integral part of the body politic, a de facto 51st state of the union.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9060.htm
http://snipurl.com/fdn8
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Israel bugged Syrian first lady’s e-mails:
THE personal computer of Syria’s British-born first lady was bugged by Israeli military intelligence to build up a profile of her husband, President Bashar al-Assad, it emerged last week.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9061.htm
http://snipurl.com/fdn9
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Israel: Spy Software Code Had Design Flaw June:
The spy software at the center of an Israeli economic espionage scandal quietly harvested stolen business documents and e-mails from victims' computers, and secretly transmitted them to a computer in London, where police arrested a key suspect.
http://snipurl.com/fdna
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Mossad spied on far-right Austrian :
THE ISRAELI secret service spied on Jörg Haider, the right-wing Austrian populist, using one of his closest aides to gather information on his contacts with Arab dictators. Peter Sichrovsky said that he had been a Mossad informant for five years until retiring from politics in 2002.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-1637080,00.html
http://snipurl.com/fdnb
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In case you missed it:
Israel Is Spying In And On The U.S.?
Fox News has learned some U.S. investigators believe that there are Israelis again very much engaged in spying in and on the U.S., who may have known things they didn't tell us before September 11. Fox News correspondent Carl Cameron has details in the first of a four-part series.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7545.htm
http://snipurl.com/eo3i
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The tie that binds China, Russia and Iran:
From the perspective of Russia and China, Iran is integral to thwarting the Bush administration's foreign policy goals, which is why they have been strengthening their ties with Tehran - and selling it increasingly sophisticated weapons.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9057.htm
http://snipurl.com/fdnc
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Kuwaiti speaker criticises US envoy for Iran remarks :
Kuwait's parliament speaker yesterday criticised remarks by the US ambassador over Iran's nuclear programme, in which he called on the Gulf states to take a firm stand against it.
http://snipurl.com/fdnd
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Along An Imaginary Axis:
Iran from the Inside: Iran wants nuclear weapons as a deterrent against the threats made by the US and Israel, and these concerns about future preemptive strikes by the US are founded in fact. - The hypocrisy of the Bush administration couldn't be more transparent.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9062.htm
http://snipurl.com/fdnf
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India will not bow to US pressure on Iran gas deal - minister:
India on Saturday [4 June] said it would not come under pressure from any country over its proposed 4.16bn USD [US dollar] Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline and that its decision would be based on the interests of its people.
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/mediamonitor/article_1005232.php/India_will_not_bow_to_US_pressure_on_Iran_gas_deal_-_minister
http://snipurl.com/fdng
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U.S. May Push U.N. to Punish North Korea :
The Bush administration may ask the United Nations to punish North Korea for refusing to return to international talks about its nuclear weapons program, Pentagon officials say.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5053811,00.html
http://snipurl.com/fdnh
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UN 'scapegoat' fires back :
The only United Nations official to be fired over the Iraqi oil-for-food scandal has hit back angrily saying he has been made a "scapegoat.''
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/World/GF06Wd07.html
http://snipurl.com/fdni
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Nixon was given the Felt tip by his own spy in the FBI:
JUST two months after the Watergate break-in, the Nixon White House already knew that Mark Felt was leaking information to reporters -- because Nixon had his own spy in the FBI.
http://snipurl.com/fdnk
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The Plight of Whistleblowers :
The plight of whistleblowers – those employees who sound the alarm about anything from dangerous conditions in the workplace to missed or ignored intelligence regarding our nation’s security – is a story that seems to grow stronger and with more frequency every day.
http://snipurl.com/fdnn
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Officials: Bolton Provoked Unlawful Firing :
A former Bolton deputy says the U.S. undersecretary of state felt Jose Bustani ``had to go,'' particularly because the Brazilian was trying to send chemical weapons inspectors to Baghdad. That might have helped defuse the crisis over alleged Iraqi weapons and undermined a U.S. rationale for war.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5052309,00.html
http://snipurl.com/fdn1
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-muslim voice-
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