bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update === UK-US State Terrorism Whether a person in an OCCUPIED COUNTRY dies VIOLENTLY or dies NON-VIOLENTLY (through deprivation or avoidable, treatable disease) the end result is the same and the CULPABILITY the same. Further, the Ruler is responsible for the Ruled and the UN-mandated Geneva Conventions specify such obligations for occupying powers. http://www.countercurrents.org/us-polya220705.htm === Sidney Blumenthal: Democracy was only an afterthought: The situation in Afghanistan is one of barely managed chaos http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5243844-103677,00.html http://snipurl.com/gfuz === Another Phony Al-Qaeda Group Claims Responsibility For Latest London Bombings Abu Hafs al Masri Brigade was described by the Boston Globe as a "phantom organization." The same group claimed responsibility for the Madrid train bombing. There is no evidence that the group even exists. They have claimed responsibility for everything from the 2003 blackout to car bombings in Iraq, yet in no case is there any proof of their involvement. http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2005/220705phonygroup.htm === How the UN won the war : The history told about the defeat of Nazism and the founding of the United Nations in the 1940s has become distorted. A false view of the past is being used today to shape how we think about our future. The military power of the victorious wartime allies is offered as a model for running the world http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1533944,00.html http://snipurl.com/gfvm === The CIA in Latin America CIA Torture Training Manual for Honduras - Document 3 Todays Washington Post features an op-ed on page A17 titled Hardly a Distinguished Career, written by National Security Archive director Tom Blanton and commenting on the CIAs decision to award the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal to the highest-ranking CIA official fired in a 1995 scandal for failing to inform Congress about the CIAs ties to human rights abuses in Guatemala. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB27/ === The Cost of Israel And US Wars Notwithstanding the 1967 Israeli attack on the defenceless USS Liberty (34 deaths out of 206 US casualties), the US has continued to bank-roll Israel and the illegal Israeli occupation of Arab lands. Further, US support for Israel is intimately connected with the continuing US War on Muslims from Africa to Afghanistan. What has been the financial and human cost of Israel and US wars over the last half century? http://www.countercurrents.org/us-polya210705.htm === Illegal War - Final World War? Iraq, America and China In more than 40 op- eds on the net I have gone round and round why Iraq was an illegal war. Evidence of temptation, motive, deceit, aggression and incompetence. http://www.pacificfringe.net/ === Remembering Srebrenica, Thinking Of Fallujah On July 11, 2005, American and European leaders gathered at a ceremony in Srebrenica marking the 10th anniversary of the death of at least 8000 Bosnians men and boys during the war in Bosnia. As usual, the news of the anniversary was broadcast live throughout the Western world, and the alleged atrocity was compared only to that of Fascism (Europes worst massacre since World War II). Will Western leaders who commemorated Srebrenica massacre and promised to bring the indicted leaders to justice apply the same standards of justice to those who committed the Fallujah massacre? http://www.countercurrents.org/iraq-hassan220705.htm === Bush and Blair: On the wrong course ...The administration knows how guilty it is. That's why it has so quickly trashed any insider who contradicts its storyline of how we got to Iraq... Frank Rich in the New York Times. There is mounting evidence that the lies perpetrated by the Bush administration are beginning to be perceived for what they were and are: political and ideological fabrications cut from whole cloth to mask the real reasons President Bush led his nation into the swamp of Iraq, where it now thrashes about mindlessly like an old Holstein cow trying to extricate itself from the sticky slime of a mudhole. http://rabble.ca/everyones_a_critic.shtml?sh_itm=99bd564cbbbd95ac837443082ba1f67e&r=1 === America's Downing Syndrome, or Why the Not-So-Secret Air War Stayed Secret It's official now. The leaked Downing Street memos have confirmed that Lt. General Michael Moseley, who commanded allied air forces during the Iraq war, admitted in a briefing in 2003 that starting nine months before the invasion, British and American aircraft waged a secret air war against Iraq. http://www.dissidentvoice.org/July05/Rajiva0722.htm === 300 Events to Call for Bush's Impeachment over 'Downing Street' Allegations Remember that the Downing Street memos are not the only proof of the lies that tricked out nation into war. There are the forged Niger "Yellow Cake" documents behind the current Rove/Libby scandal, plus Tony Blair's "Dodgy Dossier", etc. http://news.yahoo.com/s/oneworld/45361157571122011370;_ylt=AqYu.eCjhu7h6wwOXY47me8DW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl === Iraq: What Are We Fighting For? An "Islamic republic," that's what Why are we in Iraq? According to George W. Bush and the 101st Fighting Keyboarders, we're battling for "freedom," we're fighting for the love of liberty that supposedly burns in every heart right? http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=6725 === Experts offer pessimistic outlooks on Iraq: During more than seven hours of testimony this week, a Senate committee heard that Iraq is in a low-grade civil war, that there are no additional U.S. or allied troops to help. http://www.nbcactionnews.com/kshb/news/article/0,1925,KSHB_9418_3946128,00.html http://snipurl.com/gfv7 === Arab network airs judge's interrogation of Saddam: A long-bearded Saddam, whose shaky voice was barely audible, accused the current Iraqi Government of being an American puppet. http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200507/s1419774.htm http://snipurl.com/gfv9 === Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 21 July 2005 : - Residents of the city of Rawah in western Iraq sent a message to human rights organizations about US attacks being carried out on their city backed up by Iraqi puppet forces - Iraqi Resistance forces fired six medium-range Katyusha rockets into the Youth Center in Hit - Iraqi Resistance forces bombarded a joint US-Iraqi puppet force camp at the northern entrance to the city of al-Fallujah in western Iraq with eight heavy 120mm mortar rounds at 10am local time Thursday morning - Iraqi Resistance roadside bomb exploded by a US column in the industrial zone of ar-Ramadi - Iraqi Resistance forces fired 18 mortar rounds into the main US base in al-Habbaniyah, the as-Saqr Airbase, west of Baghdad at about 8am local time Thursday morning - Iraqi Resistance issues statement declaring US occupation forces responsible for campaign of attacks on civilians - An Iraqi Resistance car bomb exploded at a checkpoint manned by puppet so-called interior ministry shock troops in the Hur Rajab area of the southern Baghdad suburb of ad-Durah - Resistance bomb targets US tank column on its way to al-Latifiyah Thursday afternoon - Resistance car bomber leaves five puppet troops dead - Four US troops reported killed in roadside bombing near Baqubah Thursday afternoon - Three US troops reported killed in Resistance ambush Thursday morning - Iraqi Resistance forces fired four 82mm mortar rounds into one of the American encampments at the western entrance to the city of Tall Afar in northern Iraq - US resumes arrests of female relatives of suspects despite objections of puppet ministry. http://www.freearabvoice.org/Iraq/Report/report349.htm === Iraq: At least 13 dead after insurgent clashes: A police patrol came under fire in the eastern Ghadeer neighbourhood, leaving two officers dead. In another incident, one policeman was killed and two others injured during a drive-by shooting in eastern Baladiyat http://www.canada.com/fortstjohn/story.html?id=4928117d-e83b-4c6a-b66c-c5b1b682bee0 http://snipurl.com/gfv1 === U.S. Marine Killed By IED: A Marine assigned to Regimental Combat Team-8, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), was killed in action July 21 by an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations near Zaidon, Iraq. http://snipurl.com/gfv3 === When a wave of torture and murder staggered a small U.S. ally, truth was a casualty. Was the CIA involved? Did Washington know? Was the public deceived? Now we know: Yes, Yes and yes. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-negroponte1a.story === Guantanamo detainees hunger strike : So far, the men have refused nine consecutive meals over three days, the US military said in a statement. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4704871.stm http://snipurl.com/gfvb === White House threatens veto on detainee policies: The White House on Thursday threatened to veto a massive Senate bill for $442 billion in next year's defense programs if it moves to regulate the Pentagon's treatment of detainees or sets up a commission to investigate operations at Guantanamo Bay prison and elsewhere. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050721/pl_nm/arms_congress_dc http://snipurl.com/gfvq === Legal expert says Hicks has slim prospects of receiving fair hearing: As Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks prepares to face a United States military commission, there are new concerns today about the process he'll be subjected to. http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2005/s1419375.htm http://snipurl.com/gfvr === SEC SECRET PROBE OF STOCK DEALINGS BEFORE 9/11 Between August 26 and September 11, 2001, a group of speculators, identified by the American Securities and Exchange Commission as Israeli citizens, sold short a list of 38 stocks that could reasonably be expected to fall in value as a result of the pending attacks. These speculators operated out of the Toronto, Canada and Frankfurt, Germany, stock exchanges and their profits were specifically stated to be in the millions of dollars. http://tbrnews.org/Archives/a048.htm === What Is the Plan If There's Another 9/11?: According to Philip Giraldi, writing in the new issue of the American Conservative, it's to nuke Iran: http://snipurl.com/gfvc === London: Suspect Bomber Shot Dead: Eyewitnesses said a group of 10-15 police officers chased the young Asian man onto a train and then drilled five shots into him at pointblank range. http://snipurl.com/gfvd === Man shot dead by police on London Tube : They pushed him to the floor, bundled on top of him and unloaded five shots into him http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4706787.stm http://snipurl.com/gfgu === 'Man shot dead was not a bomber' LONDON: A man shot dead by police at a London Underground station on Friday was not one of the four bombers who tried to attack the city's transport system on Thursday, Sky Television reported citing security sources. "This is what I am picking up from security sources that the man who was shot this (Friday) morning at Stockwell tube wasn't one of those four bombers that police are hunting," Sky reporter Martin Brunt said. http://www.newindpress.com/Newsitems.asp?ID=IEH20050722114819&Title=Top%20Stories&Topic=0 === 'Shoot-to-kill' Muslim fears : The Muslim Council of Britain called on police to explain why an Asian man - a ''suspected suicide bomber'' - was shot dead Friday at Stockwell station in south London. http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/World/GG23Wd03.html http://snipurl.com/gfvf === Young Muslims feel they are treated like bombers : Scottish Muslims tonight say that even getting on a bus is viewed with suspicion as a result of the London terror attacks - sentiments echoed by many young Islamic men and women across the country who say attitudes towards them are hardening. http://snipurl.com/gfvg === London Police Kill Man at Point Blank: Witness The claim of wires coming out of the guys clothing seems to have vanished from the later accounts. And despite all the spin justifying the shooting, it appears that the victim wasn't carrying anything dangerous at all. He was shot for running by plainclothesmen, and frankly, if you saw five guys with guns yelling at you and running towards you, would you stand still or run like hell? http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2005-07/22/article03.shtml === William Blum: London: Another Casualty of the War on Terror: How can you stop subway and bus bombs? Check every passenger throughout the day, every day, forever? X-ray all bags and backpacks at Times Square during the rush hour? Whether we like it or not, we must admit that Terror is a message and we better learn to listen to it with as unindoctrinated a mind as we can summon from our depths. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article9539.htm http://snipurl.com/gfvi === Ignoring the Intelligence: How New Labour Helped Bring Terror to London : The least that citizens can expect of their government is that it will not actively pursue policies that harm them, or place them in harm's way. Any failure to honour this duty of care renders a government unfit to hold office in the most basic and fundamental sense. http://www.democratsdiary.co.uk/2005/07/ignoring-intelligence-how-new-labour.html http://snipurl.com/gfvk === Israeli settlers stab to death Palestinian child Two Israeli settlers stabbed to death a 12-year-old Palestinian boy near the West Bank city of Nablus, Palestinian sources said. http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=9277 === Patriot Act renewed and toughened: Republicans repeatedly argued throughout the 11 hour debate that the latest explosions in London showed how urgent and important it was to renew the law. http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1268&storyid=3486427 http://snipurl.com/gfvt === Patriot Act : How Did Your US Representative Vote? http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll414.xml http://snipurl.com/gfmb === Video: Mosaic: World News Reports from Middle East TV For 07/21/05: The nation's only uncensored compilation of daily television news reports from more than 15 countries in the Middle East. QuickTime Video. http://snipurl.com/gfvw === Somebody is lying! : Rove, Libby Accounts in CIA Case Differ With Those of Reporters : Two top White House aides have given accounts to a special prosecutor about how reporters first told them the identity of a CIA agent that are at odds with what the reporters have said, according to people familiar with the case. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=an7SakVWGrTQ&refer=us http://snipurl.com/gfvy === Bush aides worked on damage control at time of CIA leak : They helped prepare response to criticism from agent's husband over nuclear allegation http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/07/22/MNG0VDS25U1.DTL http://snipurl.com/gfw1 === The Guardian profile: Karl Rove : For the first time in 32 years, he has been caught, and his survival now depends on the gratitude of his partner and protege in the White House. http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1533772,00.html http://tinyurl.com/ccglv === Young officers vow to bring Arroyo down : They claim military behind wiretapping: A GROUP of officers who nearly ousted President Corazon Aquino in a 1989 coup attempt announced yesterday it was breaking a 10-year-old peace agreement to try and bring down President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and save the country. http://news.inq7.net/nation/index.php?index=1&story_id=44350 http://tinyurl.com/akv7o === Behind the Presidency Admire him or despise him, George W. Bush is essentially a figurehead for the tightly knit Establishment oligarchy that actually runs the Executive Branch of our government. http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/printer_1803.shtml === Impeachment bid gains speed: 50 on board, 29 to go : An opposition leader yesterday claimed at least 50 lawmakers have committed to sign an impeachment resolution against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, just 29 signatures short of the number needed for the transmittal of the complaint to the Senate for trial. http://news.inq7.net/nation/index.php?index=1&story_id=44352 http://tinyurl.com/7hr54 === Web of Deceit: How Internet Freedom Got the Federal Ax, And Why Corporate News Censored the Story The mainstream media have systematically played down the Supreme Court's decision to deregulate broadband cable Internet just as it has ignored the Downing Street Memo. The decision was not even mentioned by cable TV networks like Fox and CNN. The New York Times covered it only on the bottom of C1 of the business section while the details of the BTK killer got front page press along with other decisions handed down by the Supreme Court on June 27 (including the Grokster file sharing case). The Palm Beach Post, which is published by Cox--another mainstream media company in the cable business--didn't cover it at all. Censoring stories that have potential to subvert corporate and government interests has already become the rule in this brave new world of corporate media coverage. And with open-access Internet now on its last leg, things promise to get even worse. Unless we are prepared to do something about it before it's too late! http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/05/07/con05238.html === Bush administration to keep control of internet's central computers : The Bush administration has decided to retain control over the principal computers which control internet traffic in a move likely to prompt global opposition, it was claimed yesterday. http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1519551,00.html http://tinyurl.com/9vb7z === -muslim voice- ___________________________________ BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.4/57 - Release Date: 22/07/2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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