In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update ===
MUSLIMS ARE CIVILIZATION BUILDERS
[By Dr. Mohamed Elmasry; a paper presented at the International Islamic Conference, Cairo, Egypt, April 17, 2005 attended by over 200 Muslim scholars and leaders from over 50 countries]
Only the Islamic civilization, was characterized primarily by a foundational Idea, epitomized by a specific set of principles and a broad worldview containing them.
[Full text of the paper is posted on
http://www.canadianislamiccongress.com/docs/cairo_2005.php]
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U.S. Military Explanation of Quran Desecration Unacceptable, says Muslim-American group
SEE: http://www.masnet.org/takeaction.asp?id=2503
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Lodi reaction: Muslims shaken, fearful of backlash as after 9/11
Lodi, San Joaquin County -- After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, angry people threw eggs and shouted insults at the Pak-Indian Spices Grocery store downtown.
After the arrest here this week of two Pakistani American men and the detention of two Pakistani Muslim religious leaders, Mohammed Shoaib, 53, a shopkeeper, fears another backlash.
"People don't know who's who and what's what," said Shoaib, who immigrated here as a child, following his father, who had followed his uncle, who arrived here in the 1930s.
FULL ARTICLE:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/06/09/LODI.TMP&type=printable
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Memo on 9/11 Plotters Blocked:
New disclosures show that CIA information in 2000 about two Al Qaeda operatives in San Diego was squelched before reaching the FBI.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9108.htm
http://snipurl.com/fi3u
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Pre-9/11 Missteps By FBI Detailed:
Report Tells of Missed Chances To Find Hijackers
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9105.htm
http://snipurl.com/fi3v
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FBI 'missed chances to stop 9/11'
The FBI missed several opportunities to uncover and possibly prevent the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US, a high-level report has found.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4080554.stm
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The sword of justice:
Trillion dollar defence budgets cannot beat terrorism. What could, is the application of justice
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9107.htm
http://snipurl.com/fi3w
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Blood Group :
The brutal system of torture, corruption, lawlessness and war established in Washington by the faction of President George W. Bush is now backed by the greatest military power in history, able to wipe whole nations from the face of the earth in minutes.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9098.htm
http://snipurl.com/fi3c
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Amnesty International Calls for Prosecutions of U.S. Officials:
William Schultz, executive director of Amnesty International USA, called on foreign governments to investigate and prosecute all senior U.S. officials who have violated the Geneva Conventions and the U.N. Convention Against Torture.
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=40&ItemID=8037
http://snipurl.com/fi3d
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US threatens to withhold funds from UN:
A US congressional committee on Wednesday voted narrowly to approve legislation that would withhold half of its annual $500m contribution unless the UN, barred countries that violated human rights from UN human rights bodies.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/5aca2708-d875-11d9-8fa7-00000e2511c8.html
http://snipurl.com/fi3e
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Exit strategy: Civil war
The plan is an exact replica of an extreme right-wing Israeli plan to balkanize Iraq - an essential part of the balkanization of the whole Middle East
Against all odds, a national liberation front is emerging in Iraq. Washington hawks may see it coming, but they certainly don't want it. Many groups in this front have already met in Algiers. The front is opposed to the American occupation and permanent Pentagon military bases; opposed to the privatization and corporate looting of the Iraqi economy; and opposed to the federation of Iraq, ie balkanization.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9099.htm
http://snipurl.com/fi2f
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The Downing Street Memo Reveals Blood on the Hands of Our Complicit Corporate Media and the Hijacking of Our Collective Fear
Terrorism became the tool, the weapon wielded so effectively by this administration for five years now. They color-coded our fear, using the terror chart to influence elections, and to distract from potentially damaging news. They warned us over and over again that it could happen again. They made us go buy duct tape and brought us new terms like “dirty bomb”. Just enough to keep everyone on edge, and distracted, while they implemented the agenda they had all along. All the while, deregulating media, and winning hearts and minds of the corporations behind the mainstream media.
http://opednews.com/wade_061005_downing_st_memo.htm
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Memogate Hearings Scheduled for June 16
On Thursday June 16, 2005, Rep. John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member of House Judiciary Committee, and other Democratic Members will hold a Democratic hearing to hear testimony concerning the Downing Street Minutes and the efforts to cook the books on pre-war intelligence.
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=155
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About the Downing Street Memo...
US Media Shamed by Brit Journalist
At this stage, it seems almost pointless to say it, but once again, the corporate media in America have been exposed as a cowardly mass of toadies who cannot bring themselves to publish or air anything remotely critical of the administration unless compelled to do so by cattle prods...or a reporter from a foreign news organization doing what reporters are supposed to do routinely.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9109.htm
http://snipurl.com/fi2h
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Conyers To Hold Democratic Hearing On Downing Street Memo:
Rep. John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member of House Judiciary Committee, and other Democratic Members will hold a Democratic hearing to hear testimony concerning the Downing Street Minutes and the efforts to cook the books on pre-war intelligence.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9097.htm
http://snipurl.com/fi2w
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Bush and 'the memo':
PRESIDENT BUSH apparently thinks he can dismiss the damning "Downing Street memo" with a few glib words. If he is right, it is a sad commentary on the state of American democracy and values.
http://snipurl.com/fi2x
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Two Years Before 9/11,Bush was Already Talking Privately About Attacking Iraq
Two years before the September 11 attacks, presidential candidate George W. Bush was already talking privately about the political benefits of attacking Iraq, according to his former ghost writer, who held many conversations with then-Texas Governor Bush in preparation for a planned autobiography.
http://www.globalnewsmatrix.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1320
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In case you missed it:
Bush Planned Iraq 'Regime Change' Before Becoming President :
A SECRET blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure 'regime change' even before he took power in January 2001.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1221.htm
http://snipurl.com/fi2z
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FLASHBACK: Bush: WMD Report Justifies War
President Bush on Thursday defended his decision to oust Saddam Hussein by force, saying a report concluding that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction after 1991 supported the idea that Saddam was a growing threat.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,134766,00.html
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FLASHBACK: British officers knew on eve of war that Iraq had no WMDs
This disclosure came as a senior Israeli politician claimed that Mossad, its intelligence agency, knew before the war that the 45-minute claim was "an old wives’ tale" - but decided against telling Britain or the United States.
http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=518&id=136082004
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In case you missed it:
Woodward: Administration had 'fever' to take down Iraq:
President Bush asked for a plan to invade Iraq in November 2001, about three months after the Sept. 11 terror attacks and at a time when U.S. forces were still in the midst of ousting the Taliban regime from Afghanistan.
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/news/world/8458386.htm
http://snipurl.com/fi30
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In case you missed it
Why We Know Iraq is Lying" A Column by Dr. Condoleezza Rice
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030123-1.html
http://snipurl.com/fi4c
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Juan Cole: The revenge of Baghdad Bob:
It has gotten so that on the subject of Iraq, the way you can tell when Bush is lying is that his mouth is moving.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9102.htm
http://snipurl.com/fi32
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What the Iraq fight really costs us:
Ferguson, a professor of history at Harvard, argued that to defeat the insurgency in Iraq and establish a modicum of stability there would take one million U.S. soldiers and possibly 30 to 60 years.
http://snipurl.com/fi35
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Daniel Ellsberg: The Courage to Talk Withdrawal :
American soldiers and diplomats, if they can be called that, will be dying and killing in Iraq as long as they are there. Now, how long will that be?
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0609-31.htm
http://snipurl.com/fi36
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Robert Dreyfuss: Our Newest Proconsul:
It's a foregone conclusion that the Senate will confirm Zalmay Khalilzad to be the new U.S. ambassador to Iraq, replacing John Negroponte. Still, it's worth stepping back to consider what Khalilzad's appointment says about the Bush administration's continuing refusal to comprehend the magnitude of the disaster in Iraq
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9100.htm
http://snipurl.com/fi37
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U.S. Military Chief Admits, 'Good and Honest' Iraqis Are fighting US forces :
He predicted attacks would continue to surge in intensity, as key milestones were reached, including the upcoming constitutional referendum.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9103.htm
http://snipurl.com/fi2t
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The Occupiers Will Lose In Iraq:
America's military mission [in Iraq] has become impossible to succeed in," the London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies has just written. The dramatic situation in Iraq is, indeed, well known. On the military side, violence goes on unabated.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=168534
http://snipurl.com/fi4k
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5 Marines killed by roadside bomb
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A roadside bomb killed five U.S. Marines during combat operations in western Iraq, and the bodies of 21 Iraqis were found scattered in separate locations near a town close to the Syrian border considered an insurgent hotbed, officials and witnesses said Friday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7897149/
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Roadside Bomb Kills Five Marines in Iraq :
Five U.S. Marines have been killed by a roadside bomb in western Iraq, the military said Friday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050610/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
http://snipurl.com/fi2m
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More Americans dying from roadside bombs in Iraq
CAMP ANACONDA, Iraq - Improvised explosive devices, the roadside bombs that insurgents build from castoff artillery shells and other munitions, have become the No. 1 killer of American troops in Iraq this year, despite a massive U.S. campaign to blunt their effectiveness.
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/world/11856640.htm
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US Navy sailors arrested for smuggling
TWO American sailors and a Canadian national have been arrested for allegedly smuggling drugs into Australia aboard a US Navy ship.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15563736%255E1702,00.html
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2 Senior policemen killed in Iraq's Kirkuk, Basra:
Gunmen killed the head of an Iraqi police unit charged with fighting guerrilla violence in the troubled northern oil city of Kirkuk, police said on Friday. In the southern city of Basra, a second police colonel was shot dead on Friday, police there said.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MAC025510.htm
http://snipurl.com/fi2n
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US opens criminal probe of two army deaths in Iraq:
The U.S. army has opened a criminal investigation into a blast that killed two soldiers at a base in Iraq after discovering it was not caused by an insurgent mortar attack, a military statement said on Friday.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MAR050364.htm
http://snipurl.com/fi2r
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Building Iraq's Army: Mission Improbable:
Project in North Reveals Deep Divide Between U.S. and Iraqi Forces
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9106.htm
http://snipurl.com/fi2u
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US Treasury Dept freezes Syrians' assets over support to Saddam regime:
The US Treasury Department announced it was freezing the assets of a Damascus-based company and of two senior Syrian officials, accused of providing military equipment to the regime of deposed Iraqi dictato Saddam Hussein.
http://snipurl.com/fi3y
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Afghan Fighting Leaves U.S. Soldier Dead:
"Insurgents" ambushed a coalition patrol in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, killing one American and wounding three.
http://snipurl.com/fi3a
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Desertions blow hits Afghan army :
Hundreds of soldiers have deserted the Afghan National Army complaining of poor conditions and fierce resistance from the Taleban, US officials say.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4078118.stm
http://snipurl.com/fi3b
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Iran helped overthrow Taliban, candidate says:
Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards fought alongside and advised the Afghan rebels who helped U.S. forces topple Afghanistan's Taliban regime in the months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the guards' former leader says.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-06-09-iran-taliban_x.htm?POE=click-refer
http://snipurl.com/fi4i
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U.S. Vets Seek Probe of Israeli War Crimes :
Survivors of a U.S. spy ship attacked by Israeli fighters and torpedo boats 40 years ago are pressing the Pentagon for a full investigation into alleged Israeli war crimes for a strike that caused 205 casualties, including 34 killed.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5064796,00.html
http://snipurl.com/fi3x
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Why Israel?
There is an old joke about why Israel will never become the 51st state of the United States…it is because that would mean that they only have 2 Senators!
http://tvnewslies.org/blog/?p=10
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Republican donor named as new US ambassador:
President Bush has nominated Robert Tuttle, a Republican campaign donor and leading California car dealer, to be the next US ambassador to the Court of St James.
http://www.news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=645638
http://snipurl.com/fi3z
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New documents link Cuban militant Posada Carriles to airliner bombing:
Cuban "militant" exile Luis Posada Carriles said shortly before the deadly 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that he and others ``are going to hit a Cuban airplane,'' according to a declassified CIA document released Thursday.
http://snipurl.com/fi43
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Dean Just Told Them The Truth and They Thought It Was Hell
Timid and fearful Democrats are trembling on national television as they beg Dr. Dean to stop pointing out the hypocricy and misinformation efforts of Republicans in office and Conservatives in the media.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0610-28.htm
http://snipurl.com/fi4e
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Dean's Democrats Remain Pathetic:
The only thing worse than Dean's prepared platitudes is his virtual silence on the war in Iraq and the big-money corruption of electoral politics and congressional legislation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9104.htm
http://snipurl.com/fi46
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Gore Vidal: Something Rotten in Ohio :
Outside the oil and gas junta that controls two and a half branches of our government (the half soon to be whole is the judiciary), there was a good deal of envy at the late British election among those Americans who are serious about politics.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9096.htm
http://snipurl.com/fi47
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Full Report : Preserving Democracy:
What Went Wrong in Ohio "We have found numerous, serious election irregularities in the Ohio presidential election, which resulted in a significant disenfranchisement of voters." pdf format.
http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/ohiostatusrept1505.pdf
http://snipurl.com/fi48
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-muslim voice-
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