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=== News Update === Feces-Covered Quran Left At Housing Complex CAIR asks American leaders to address growing anti-Muslim sentiment WASHINGTON, D.C. -- (OfficialWire) -- 06/23/05 -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has called on local and national leaders to address growing anti-Muslim sentiment in our society following an apparently intentional desecration of the Quran in Nashville, Tennessee. http://news.baou.com/main.php?action=recent&rid=20299 === U.S. Attacks UN To Undermine International Law, Not Reform International Institutions The recent attacks on the United Nations have nothing to do with the so-called "scandals" involving the oil for food program. Rather, they are part of a well-orchestrated campaign by elements of the Bush administration and their far-right allies in the U.S. press, aimed at punishing the UN for its refusal to support Bush's war in Iraq, and at undermining the overall power and influence of the UN and international law. Certainly U.S. domination of the UN is an old story, extending back as far as the very creation of the global organization in 1945, when U.S. agents wiretapped the train cars and hotel rooms of 50 nations' diplomats heading to San Francisco to create the United Nations. http://www.ips-dc.org/comment/Bennis/bolton_int_law.htm === U.S. doctors linked to POW `torture' Guantanamo medical records misused Basis of interrogators' strategy: Report Medical records compiled by doctors caring for prisoners at the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay are being tapped to design more effective interrogation techniques, says an explosive new report. http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1119477015095&call_pageid=968332188854&col=968350060724 === Europe/America/Canada continue to bark orders at Muslim world... G8 foreign ministers put Iran, Syria on notice LONDON (AFP) - Group of Eight foreign ministers told Iran to keep its nuclear programme on ice, and urged Syria to stop meddling in Lebanon, as they paved the way for next month's summit of the G8 world powers. Middle East issues dominated the day-long meeting, with the diplomatic "quartet" on Middle East peace stressing the "urgent need" for Israel and the Palestinians to coordinate a planned Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050623/wl_mideast_afp/g8foreign_050623170426 === Religious hate law revolt fails in Britain LONDON -- The British government has narrowly defeated a parliamentary revolt on its controversial incitement to religious hatred bill, but still faces a battle to get the proposals passed into law amid criticism the measure curbs freedom of expression. http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050622-095241-9485r === Terror suspect freed in Mexico Mexico on Wednesday cleared a Lebanese-born, British citizen of wrongdoing, setting him free mere days after his arrest because of suspected links to September 11 terror groups. http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1725795,00.html === Guantanamo; the new-world icon Guantanamo is emblematic of a militarized world stripped of humanity or justice. It looms as the salient icon of the new world order. To fully appreciate the depravity of the Bush claque, we only need to visit the Rush Limbaugh web site, where the drug-addicted spokesman for the administration is currently hawking T-shirts (Orange; "I got my free Koran and Prayer Rug at G'itmo" or, orange baseball cap reading "Camp G'itmo") and baseball caps in an public relations scheme to trivialize the horrors of systematic torture of detainees in US custody. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9243.htm === Bush War On Terror? More like Bush's War Creates Terror! The Evidence File! You've made us all less safe now, while killing tens of thousands of innocent people, including Americans. Read the evidence file. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9246.htm === American soldier kills little girl to win a bet. The father of Aishah, who works for the Railroad Department said that residents in the area where his little daughter was killed told him that the American had been betting with his buddies whether he could hit the little girl who had come out of the school some 700 meters from the US observation post. http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/54506 === The Real News in the Downing Street Memos Bush and Blair began their war not in March 2003, as everyone believed, but at the end of August 2002, six weeks before Congress approved military action against Iraq. The real news is the shady April 2002 deal to go to war, the cynical use of the U.N. to provide an excuse, and the secret, illegal air war without the backing of Congress. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9248.htm === The Real News in the Downing Street Memos Downing Street had a "clever" plan that it hoped would trap Hussein into giving the allies the excuse they needed to go to war. It would persuade the U.N. Security Council to give the Iraqi leader an ultimatum to let in the weapons inspectors. Although Blair and Bush still insist the decision to go to the U.N. was about averting war, one memo states that it was, in fact, about "wrong-footing" Hussein into giving them a legal justification for war. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-smith23jun23,0,1838831.story === The Bill of Rights: The Rights of the Accused Is the Sixth Amendment relevant today? You bet it is Make no mistake about it: If the feds treat foreigners accused of terrorism in this way, theyll do the same to Americans. Just ask Jose Padilla, an American whom the Pentagon has held in a military dungeon for over three years and whom they have denied all the rights enumerated in the Sixth Amendment. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9255.htm === We shelter behind the myth that progress is being made The reality - unimaginable for the Americans and their self-deluding allies, tragic for the Iraqis themselves - is that Iraq is a hell-disaster So we are going to support the myth. As the headless bodies are found along the Tigris, as the mortuaries fill up, as the American dead grow far beyond 1,700 - and, let us remember, the Iraqi dead go into the tens of thousands - Europe and the rest of the world still support the American project http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9247.htm === Why The US Invaded Iraq To sum it all up, powerful American Jews instigated the US invasion and theft of Iraq on behalf of Israel, with the immediate objective of removing the threat to Israel that Saddam Hussein posed, but, more importantly, with the ultimate objective of Israeli expansionism into Iraq. Israel sees Iraq as part of the Grand Israel they envision, which would include Lebanon, Jordan and Syria in their entirety, along with parts of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey. They can probably achieve this goal as long as the US continues to obey their dictates. http://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/june/article356.html === Iraq, the new Afghanistan It's virtually impossible for US President George W Bush's Iraq to be "on its way to democracy" when real unemployment reaches a staggering 50% (a scarier prospect for most people than car bombs or snipers), 25% of children under five years old are malnourished, 78% of the households in the country (and 92% in Baghdad) have electricity only a few hours a day, only 37% of urban households (and a mere 4% in the countryside) have sewage-disposal systems, only 61% have access to drinking water. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9249.htm === A War Waged by Liars and Morons What is Bush's Agenda in Iraq? 06/22/05 "Counterpunch" - - For what purpose has President Bush sent 1,741 US soldiers to be killed in action in Iraq (as of June 19, 2005)? For what purpose have 15,000 - 38,000 US troops been wounded, many so seriously that they are maimed for life? Why has the US government thrown away $300 billion in an illegal and pointless war that cannot be won? These questions are beginning to penetrate the consciousness of Americans, a majority of whom no longer support Bush's war. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9230.htm === TRUTH REVEALED: The New York Times is a Master at Deception In each New York Times article, Mahajan does a masterful critique on how the writers fake, dodge and shift the focus of the articles from the important and damning facts found within The Downing Street Memos (minutes). http://newsclipautopsy.blogspot.com/2005/06/truth-revealed-new-york-times-is.html === What the Media Dont Report to You About Iraq The Western media, which are very prompt to report any atrocities committed by insurgents against civilians, hardly tell the public about the important political resistance to the occupation going on in Iraq, both in the streets and in the Parliament. Thus, the huge demonstration called for on April 9 by Muqtada al-Sadr whose Current plays a prominent role in the organization of the political resistance was very much and very blatantly underrated in most Western media. What is even less known to the Western public opinion is the political fight waged by Iraqi MPs against the occupation. http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/resources_files/News_fromIraq-June%2022.html === Meetings to focus on Bush impeachment The Madison chapter of Veterans for Peace is planning a series of town hall meetings to discuss the impeachment of President Bush. http://www.madison.com/tct/news/stories/index.php?ntid=44461&ntpid=2 === FLASHBACK: Wolfowitz comments revive doubts over Iraq's WMD "The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on which was weapons of mass destruction as the core reason," Wolfowitz was quoted as saying in a Pentagon transcript of an interview with Vanity Fair. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-05-30-wolfowitz-iraq_x.htm === Top Commander Says Insurgency Still Strong The top American commander in the Persian Gulf told Congress on Thursday that the Iraqi insurgency has not grown weaker over the past six months, despite a claim by Vice President Dick Cheney that it was in its "last throes." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9253.htm === British troops out of Iraq as 'quickly as possible' Britain hopes to withdraw its troops from Iraq "as quickly as possible," but only plans to do so when it is sure Iraqi forces can cope with the security threat, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said Wednesday. http://www.spacewar.com/2005/050622145859.a7wgu63b.html === Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 22 June 2005 : - Seven Marines die in martyrdom attack by youth whose family was killed by American bombs on Sunday, al Qa'im - US evacuates more than 40 wrecked vehicles from al-Qa'im - Resistance pounds US camp on eastern approaches to al-Fallujah Wednesday afternoon - Resistance bomb blasts US troops heading for al-Fallujah Wednesday morning - Resistance martyrdom bomber blows up amidst US patrol west of Hit Wednesday morning - Resistance car bomb blasts checkpoint in ar-Ramadi late Wednesday - American soldier kills little girl to win a bet - Resistance fighters kill four Badr Brigade gunmen on puppet police patrol in ad-Durah - Resistance ambushes Iraqi puppet patrol on Airport Road Wednesday evening - Iraqi Resistance car bomb explodes by puppet police patrol on road to al-Mada'in Wednesday night - Resistance bombards US "Biological Base" east of Ba`qubah Wednesday morning - Resistance shoots down US helicopter Wednesday afternoon east of Balad - Resistance martyrdom bomber blasts US Marines in Tall `Afar Wednesday - Resistance bomb blasts US column in Mosul, Puppet police captain ambushed - Resistance bombards US base in Kirkuk Airport http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2005/0605/iraqiresistancereport_220605.htm === Three U.S. soldiers killed in combat west of Baghdad Three U.S. soldiers were killed by small-arms fire during combat operations west of Baghdad, the military announced Wednesday. http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-932143.php === Link from Abramoff to 9-11? As the scandal embroiling House Major Domo Tom Delay and Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff grows hotter, there may be new revelations about the 9.11 attack. Less than one week before the 9.11 attack, for example, Atta and several other hijackers made a still-unexplained visit onboard one of Abramoffs casino boats. What were they doing there? No one professes to know. http://www.madcowprod.com/ === UN experts say accounts detail Guantanamo torture U.N. human rights experts said Thursday they have reliable accounts of detainees being tortured at the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9245.htm === U.N. Expert Says U.S. Stalling on Request to Visit Guantanamo Detainees Manfred Nowak, the U.N. special investigator on torture, said that he and three other experts would use a news conference later Thursday to voice their complaints that Washington has not responded to their mid-April request to check on the conditions of the detainees. http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB0IPKTAAE.html === Palestinian prisoner dies in Israeli jail GAZA, Gaza (UPI) -- A Palestinian prisoner held in the Israeli jail of Jalboo on charges of belonging to Islamic Jihad has died mysteriously, Palestinian sources said Thursday. http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/printer_1020013.php === Israeli Soldiers "Getting Away With Murder" - HRW Israeli soldiers have killed an average of more than one Palestinian civilian per day since the current intifada uprising began in 2000, but only a handful of cases have even been investigated, according to a new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9251.htm === White House declines to criticize Israel assassinations The White House on Wednesday declined to criticize Israel for resuming an assassination policy against Islamic Jihad militants and called on the Palestinian leadership to do more to combat "terrorist" groups attempting to derail peace efforts. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N22692399.htm === Israel: Detainee blinded during interrogation Lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Society, Fahmi Shqeirat, reported that detainee Salama Mohammad Rashaida, 30, from Bethlehem, lost his sight as a result of torture in Asqalan detention. http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11956&Itemid=1 === Church may black firms over Israeli 'occupation' The Anglican Church is expected to back a report tomorrow urging it to disinvest in companies that "support the occupation" of Palestinian lands http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/06/23/nchur23.xml === Confronting Israeli Myth-Making Propagandists on behalf of Israel - become increasingly deceptive and malign -- and increasingly effective with time. http://www.counterpunch.org/christison06222005.html === Showdown: Washington Threatens Ecuador, Demands Immunity for U.S. Troops Ecuador's President Alfredo Palacio has decided not to sign an immunity treaty for U.S. military and civilian officials before the World Court. Washington is now trying to blackmail Ecuador's new (60-days-old) President, Alfredo Palacio with threats of cutting aid. http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/6/23/1446/60713 === Supreme Court Rules Cities May Seize Our Homes The Supreme Court today effectively expanded the right of local governments to seize private property under eminent domain, ruling that people's homes and businesses -- even those not considered blighted -- can be taken against their will for private development if the seizure serves a broadly defined "public use." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9250.htm === The Chauffeur's Dilemma Bush used his war policies to create votes, so he converted an economic program aimed at strip-mining America into a program for winning blue-collar hearts and minds. http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=3779 === -muslim voice- ___________________________________ BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW -- No virus found in this outgoing message. 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