bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update === Nutbags, McCarthyism and western Muslims As an executive committee member of the Islamic Council of Victoria, I receive my fair share of hate mail. Not usually for anything Ive said or done, but mainly on the bogus assumption that because I am a Muslim, I want to see terrorism win the war on terror. Complete strangers regularly inform me that I am here to wage war against the country I have called home my entire life. http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=3599 === Muslims demand UN seat Foreign ministers of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference opened a meeting in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa yesterday with a call for a Muslim permanent seat on the UN Security Council. OIC secretary general Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu urged a greater role for Muslim countries in world affairs and demanded a "permanent representation for the Islamic world on the UN Security Council". http://www.7days.ae/content/view/3742/4/ === Iraqi Resistance Replies To Bush Speech: Sets Terms For U.S. Surrender Rafidan - Mujahideen Central Command We predict more air raids and destruction of our cities and villages. More killing and kidnaps, just as they did in Vietnam and Algeria before they fled. This in return, gives us the right to use all the types of weapons in our arsenal because American Fascism will not be defeated easily and the fight will continue to be fierce for some time and bloody too! http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9337.htm === Bush's Speech: Let's Count the Lies In the coming free 30 minutes of uninterrupted airtime that ABC News and the Disney Corporation will no doubt give to a spokesperson for the majority of Americans who believe that the war on Iraq was a mistake, I expect we'll see some of the following points made about the speech that Bush just gave http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/1396/1/104/?PrintableVersion=enabled === Arab Media: Bush's Iraq Speech Prepared Americans for More Bloodshed Editor's Note: After President Bush's recent address on Iraq, many Arab commentators agreed that the president missed a chance to admit his mistakes. But many also thought the president's message to Americans was clear: Get ready for the long haul. Jamal Dajani, director of Middle Eastern programming at Link TV (www.linktv.org), watched Al Jazeera, Al-Arabi and Abu Dhabi television news shows and monitored online Arab newspapers following the president's speech on June 28. He spoke with Brian Shott, an editor at Pacific News Service. http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=635fd188ffa8d93a65e967234b040503 === Deception, Denial, and Demagoguery: Bush Speech Sets A Record How many lies can this President cram into a single speech? That question may have been answered tonight. 9/11 was invoked at least 5 times as a jusification for the invasion and conquest of Iraq. http://www.antiwar.com/blog/index.php?id=P2183 === Veterans Angry Over Bush's Iraq Speech Here's Perry Jefferies: "He never referred to his earlier reasons for going to war in Iraq. He did not mention, or I think even say, the word 'Afghanistan' one time. President Bush did not tell us what became of his promise to hunt down Osama Bin Laden and the "people who knocked down these buildings." He made no mention of his vice-president's "last throes" ruminations. He certainly didn't mention the Chinook shot down in Afghanistan today. Although he cited uneven progress and terrible pictures, he didn't discuss the thousands of injured Soldiers or their after-care." http://cernigsnewshog.blogspot.com/2005/06/veterans-angry-over-bushs-iraq-speech.html === Bush Flops in Prime-time Death by a thousand cuts. He produced no plan, no strategy, and no vision; just a continuation of the same trends; the steady erosion of national confidence, a precipitous decline in credibility, and the daily loss of life. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9339.htm === Bush Speech: Complete text America good : Iraq Good . Bad men, terror, protect you, courage, sacrifice, global war on terror, yada yada yada. God Bless America..... http://www.nbc11.com/news/4663311/detail.html === Short version: Fact Sheet: Facts, Quotes From President's Address Bush mentioned "September Eleventh" 5 (five) separate times.* : TERROR: Bush mentioned "terror", "terrorism" or "terrorists" 35 times.* http://www.thelouisvillechannel.com/news/4663351/detail.html === Bush Declares Sacrifice in Iraq to Be 'Worth It' President Bush, facing a growing restiveness around the country and in his own party over the constant stream of casualties in Iraq, declared Tuesday night that the daily sacrifice of American lives in Iraq "is worth it, and it is vital to the future security of our country." http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050629/ZNYT03/506290399 === Bush's War: It Was Worth It Picture Album "I'm this great picture of the Army." Martinez suffered massive burns to his face, head and body. He has spent the last year in surgery and recovery at Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas. Photographed April 3, 2004 at his home in Dalton, Georgia,while on a brief hospital leave. http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0412/purplehearts_01.html In case you missed it: Video: Bush's War: Iraq In The Name Of Freedom http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9174.htm === The Big Lie Stripped of the usual lies that have driven his Iraq policy from the start, President George W. Bush Tuesday went back to square one and played the big one trying to tie the 9/11 terrorist attacks to his failed war. http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/printer_6950.shtml === US faces prison ship allegations The United Nations says it has learned of serious allegations that the US is secretly detaining terrorism suspects, notably on American military ships. The special rapporteur on torture, Manfred Nowak, said the claims were rumours at this stage, but urged the US to co-operate with an investigation. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4632087.stm === Who's spreading what?: Bush's democratic hoax in Iraq President George Bush told the nation on Tuesday night 28 June that we are in Iraq to fight terrorism and spread democracy. Joseph Goebbels, Adolph Hitler's minister of propaganda said: "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." http://www.redress.btinternet.co.uk/rburbach28.htm === In 1999, Bush Demanded A Timetable In 1999, George W. Bush criticized President Clinton for not setting a timetable for exiting Kosovo, and yet he refuses to apply the same standard to his war. http://thinkprogress.org/2005/06/28/in-1999-bush-demanded-a-timetable/ === GOP lawmaker: Saddam linked to 9/11 Told no investigation had ever found evidence to link Saddam and 9/11, Hayes responded, "I'm sorry, but you must have looked in the wrong places." I picture Hayes stamping his foot and screaming, "There is TOO evidence, there IS, there IS, there IS IS IS ISISISISIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!" http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/29/hayes.911/ === Bush slammed for Iraq link to 9/11 Critics of the U.S. war in Iraq have condemned President George W. Bush for attempting to link the insurgency there with the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington. http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/29/bush.intl/ === Blair Defends Iraq War, Dismisses Memo Posted Jun 29, 2005 08:37 AM PST - Category: PHONY TONY BLAIR Nixon Dismisses Tapes http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5106540,00.html === U.S. Helicopter Apparently Downed by Hostile Fire; Fate of 17 Crew Unknown The U.S. military said Wednesday that hostile fire likely brought down a Chinook helicopter that crashed in eastern Afghanistan, and officials said the status of the 17 American servicemembers aboard was "unknown." http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB65ZOFJAE.html === Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 28 June 2005 : - Resistance attacks column of foreign contractor profiteers near Hit midday Monday, killing five, wounding three - Resistance bomb blasts US column southwest of Baghdad Monday afternoon, set one of the vehicles on fire - Resistance car bomb blasts US tank apart in al-Wahdah area Monday morning - Iraqi Resistance forces shot down a US Apache helicopter in the al-Mashahidah area northwest of at-Taji at 9:30am local time Monday morning - Resistance ambush of American fuel convoy Monday morning leaves four American soldiers dead, al Iskandariyah - Resistance car bomb kills four US troops near midday Monday, Tall 'Afar - Resistance blasts US headquarters in al-Qaim - Resistance barrage on US camp leaves five US troops dead Tuesday morning, al Fallujah - Resistance bombards main US headquarters in Baqubah - Resistance bombards puppet police HDQ and joint US-Iraqi puppet Army HDQ in Samarra - Resistance shoots down US Apache helicopter gunship over Tall Afar - Resistance bomb blasts US truck convoy Tuesday morning, Mosul http://www.freearabvoice.org/Iraq/Report/report326.htm === Bush 'exploiting 9/11' Posted Jun 29, 2005 08:51 AM PST - Category: DUBYA As he has been ever since it happened. How lucky for Bush that 9-11 happened just in time to kick off the already-planned war in Afghanistan. http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1729039,00.html === Bush Condemned for Bid to Link War with 9/11 Posted Jun 29, 2005 08:49 AM PST - Category: DUBYA http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4756775 === 9-11: The Secret Service at Booker Elementary: The Dog That Did Not Bark Bush in his speech last night tried to exploit the memory of 9-11. Very well, let's go back and take a look at 9-11. Let's take a look at the one question Bush's supporters have no answer for. http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/9-11secretservice.html === Bush's Iraq-9/11 link irks US press US newspapers have said President George Bush failed, in his televised Tuesday speech, to speak honestly about Iraq and should not have linked the US-led fight there to September 11. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/03BC0704-A8CF-49C3-B0D6-30E8FB010ADF.htm === Bush at Fort Braggfear-mongering, lies and desperation Posted Jun 29, 2005 08:43 AM PST - Category: DUBYA http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/bush-j29.shtml === Does Bush Take US For Stupid? Posted Jun 29, 2005 08:30 AM PST - Category: DUBYA Yes, he does. He really thinks that he and his neocon buddies are really much smarter than you areand that you will continue to support his war even though you know he lied to start it. http://www.globalnewsmatrix.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1598 === US: Terror Policies Draw Outrage at Home and Abroad UNITED NATIONS - The George W. Bush administration's policies on indefinite detention and "extraordinary rendition" are coming under heavy fire from a number of institutions and organisations, including the United Nations, Amnesty International, and members of the U.S. Congress itself. http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=29247 === US Promoting Abu Ghraib Torturers Army Moves to Advance 2 Linked to Abu Ghraib WASHINGTON, June 28 - The Pentagon has promoted or nominated for promotion two senior Army officers who oversaw or advised detention and interrogation operations in Iraq during the height of the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/29/international/middleeast/29detain.html === Five Afghan policemen killed in attack Afghan President Hamid Karzai's spokesman dismissed the threat posed by the ousted Taleban regime yesterday as officials said five policemen and a suspected militant were killed in separate attacks. http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=Philippines+%26+South+Asia&month=June2005&file=World_News200506291292.xml === 17 US soldiers die as hostile fire hits aircraft as it tries to land in Afghanistan KABUL, Afghanistan - The U.S. military now believes that all 17 service members aboard the helicopter that crashed in Afghanistan on Tuesday were killed, a senior Pentagon official told reporters Wednesday. http://egyptelection.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1664 === 'New weapon' downed US Chinook in Afghanistan The Taliban claim to have used a new weapon to shoot down a US military helicopter in a remote region of Afghanistan. http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200506/s1403572.htm === Rights Groups Detail Growing Police State The FBI is carrying out "unwarranted investigations for religious or political reasons," according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which charges that "the agency has sunk back into the kind of political monitoring it did in the 1960s and 1970s." The Washington-based advocacy group said a series of FBI inquiries across the country shows that the agency is conducting investigations based on the targets' political activities or religious affiliations. http://www.antiwar.com/ips/fisher.php?articleid=6466 === Europe, US clash over terror war Italy may seek extradition for 13 purported CIA agents accused of abducting a terror suspect. ROME Italians are feeling indignant. According to a Milan judge, the US mounted a secret intelligence operation inside Italy, kidnapping a suspected terrorist as he walked the streets of Milan and whisking him to Cairo without letting Italy know. Italians say the operation, if proven to have been masterminded by the CIA, was not just illegal but disrespectful to a sovereign state that is one of America's closest allies. http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0629/p06s02-woeu.html === U.S. Citizen and his Family Sue Homeland Security Department to End Detentions and Harassment Triggered by Misidentification on Re-Entry to U.S. CHICAGO, June 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- After a nearly six-hour ordeal at the United States-Canada border -- during which he was subjected to unnecessary excessive force during a body search and shackled to a chair for approximately three hours while isolated from his wife and children -- the owner of a suburban Chicago computer software company and his family today asked a federal district court to order the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to remedy policies that caused this, and three other unlawful detentions, because he was misidentified. http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=49556 === US warnings and threats to Telesur ITS only just begun. Telesur, a television project initiated by Venezuela, Uruguay, Argentina and Cuba, which intends to do away with CNNs virtual monopoly of the Americas as a source of news and opinions and as a continental, Spanish-language network, has unleashed the fury of the empire. This new Latin American channel made its first test broadcasts on Tuesday, May 24. Just a few hours later, Richard Lugard, chair of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had already begun the game of warnings and threats, probably soon to be joined by its loyal ally: the European Union. http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2005/junio/lun27/27tele.html === -muslim voice- ___________________________________ BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. 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