bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update === Respect Islamic world's contributions : The astonishing blind spot in Western mentality that paints Islam as being a religion of violence is so bizarre as to be perplexing. How has it become so easy to overlook centuries of Christian aggression and blood-letting http://comment.independent.co.uk/letters/article303459.ece http://snipurl.com/gq2q === Frustration mounts among UK Muslims: Only days after the first London bombings you wrote in The Guardian, "The bloody trail of blame leads straight to 10 Downing Street." Were you suggesting in any way that Britain's role in the Iraq war may have justified those attacks? FAISAL BODI: Absolutely. http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2005/s1429702.htm http://snipurl.com/gq2w === Britain's Muslim scapegoats : Huge rise in race attacks on all ethnic minorities across Britain. Senior Tory MP tells Muslims: 'If you don't like our way of life, get out'. Senior Muslim tells women not to wear veils in public for fear of assault http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article303510.ece http://snipurl.com/gq2y === Danish Radio to be Closed Over Anti-Muslim Remarks COPENHAGEN, August 4, 2005 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) A Danish radio commentator has been charged with violating anti-racism laws for his anti-Muslim remarks in which he called for "exterminating Muslims" in Europe. http://www.islamonline.org/English/News/2005-08/04/article04.shtml === Ken Livingstone : Three ways to make us all safer : Support the police, treat Muslims with respect and pull out of Iraq http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9673.htm http://snipurl.com/gq2z === Hiroshima And Nagasaki: Worst Terror Attacks In History The 60th anniversaries will inevitably be marked by countless mass media commentaries and speeches repeating the 60-year-old mantra that there was no other choice but to use A-bombs in order to avoid a bitter, prolonged invasion of Japan. On July 21, the British New Scientist magazine undermined this chorus when it reported that two historians had uncovered evidence revealing that the US decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ... was meant to kick-start the Cold War [against the Soviet Union, Washington's war-time ally] rather than end the Second World War. http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_history&Number=293842242 === In case you missed it: John Pilger hails the Brigaders: The legacy of the International Brigades helps us understand not only the nature of fascism, but that even those who are not fascists have similar goals. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9493.htm http://snipurl.com/byrc === World Bank: Israel is west's second most corrupt country Israel ranks among most corrupt in West Israel's regime is one of the most corrupt and least efficient in the Western world. In fact, the only developed country considered more corrupt and less efficient is Italy, according to data published by the World Bank. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=608423 === Skin in the Game August is 3 days old and 22 soldiers and Marines have died in Iraq already. 14 more today. All are still "Pending Notification." 14 more mothers are going to collapse on the ground screaming, or put into shocked silence for the violence done to her and her son. 14 more fathers are going to lose the better part of their hearts. Dozens of spouses, siblings, children and friends are going to be put into a tailspin of grief. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9669.htm http://snipurl.com/gq1x === Mike Whitney : Hot in Crawford; Hot in Hell : Fourteen Marines will touch down at Dover Air Force Base tomorrow; their lives cut-short in a brutal war that has yet to produce a rationale. The architect of that war will be landing at nearly the same time at his vacation home in Crawford, Texas; resting up from the grueling task of sending other-mother's-sons to die for nothing. Where's the outrage? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9672.htm http://snipurl.com/gq29 === Marine killings in Iraq send new warning sign to Bush : Another day of carnage in Iraq threatened to deal a new blow to brittle public backing for President George W. Bush's handling of the war, as 14 Marines perished in a roadside bombing. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050803/pl_afp/usiraq_050803214658 http://snipurl.com/gq2d === William Rivers Pitt: A Feast of Death: Those who would defend Mr. Bush and his deranged war policies are fond of labeling dissenters as unpatriotic, un-American cowards. http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080405Z.shtml http://snipurl.com/gq2f === GI Pleads Guilty to Mistreating Detainee: A military intelligence soldier pleaded guilty Thursday to charges that she mistreated a detainee in Afghanistan who later died. Salcedo said that while questioning Dilawar on Dec. 8, 2002, she kicked him, grabbed his head and forced him against a wall several times. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050804/ap_on_re_us/afghanistan_prisoner_abuse http://snipurl.com/gq2i === Pentagon Relases More Photos Of War Casualty Honor Guards: Freedom of Information Lawsuit Removes Secrecy for Flag-Draped Casket Ceremonies http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB161/index.htm http://snipurl.com/gq2k === A View Of Iraq From A Soldier I am a concerned veteran of the Iraq War. My view of the situation in Iraq will differ from what the American People are being told by the Bush Administration. My opinions on this matter come from what I witnessed in Iraq personally. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9670.htm http://snipurl.com/gq1y === Counting The Dead: Nine Iraqi security personnel were also killed in scattered attacks Thursday. Another American Marine was killed in action in a city in the Euphrates River valley. Gunmen killed four Iraqi troops. U.S. soldiers killed five "insurgents". Two Iraqi soldiers from the elite Wolf Brigade were killed Thursday in a car bombing. Three other policemen were killed in a drive-by shooting in Kirkuk. http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/93-08042005-523384.html http://snipurl.com/gq20 === Iraqi insurgents learn deadly new tricks Thomas Harding goes on patrol with British troops in search of a bomb factory The Rorke's Drift company of the Royal Regiment of Wales was waiting pensively, ready for the go-ahead to mount a raid on a suspected bomb-making factory in Amarah. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/08/04/wirq104.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/08/04/ixnewstop.html === Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 3 August 2005 : - Huge Resistance bomb kills 14 US Marines, Egyptian translator in midday blast southwest of al-Hadithah - Thirteen US troops reported killed in martyrdom car bombing west of al-Hadithah early Wednesday afternoon - Resistance martyrdom fighter blasts US encampment in al-Qaim; five American troops reported killed - Resistance bombards US base with Katyusha rockets at noon Wednesday - Resistance martyrdom bombing Wednesday afternoon reportedly kills high-ranking US commander in al-Fallujah on an inspection tour - Four US troops reported killed in morning Resistance bombing in western al-Fallujah - Four US troops reported killed in fighting in al-Fallujah early Wednesday morning - Four US troops reported killed in morning bombing in Abu Ghurayb - US soldier reported killed in roadside bombing in at-Taji early Wednesday - Bodies of 50 Shii civilians abducted and murdered by Iraqi puppet security forces identified - US troops raid home of Chairman of the Sunni Waqf [Pious Endowment] Board early Wednesday - Eight US troops reported killed in triple bombing in Baqubah Wednesday morning - Resistance roadside bomb blasts US column in Mosul - American writer, supporter of US invasion, found dead in al-Basrah http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2005/0805/iraqiresistancereport_030805.htm === Three National Guard's killed in Iraq: Military officials says the three, who were members of the guard's 48th Brigade, were killed yesterday in a car bomb attack. Another was seriously wounded. http://snipurl.com/gq22 === 2 Iraq veterans stationed at Fort Hood kill themselves : Two young soldiers who served in the Iraq war have killed themselves in separate incidents in Killeen since the weekend, post officials said Wednesday. http://snipurl.com/gq23 === Marine Killed by Small Arms Fire in Ramadi: An American Marine was killed in action during operations in a volatile city west of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Thursday. http://snipurl.com/gq24 === Unofficial de-Baathification process targets Sunnis in Basra: The assassins have targeted mostly men who are thought to have been connected to Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, which was dominated by Sunni Muslims. About 950 people have been killed since Saddam's regime was toppled in April 2003 http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/12294890.htm http://snipurl.com/gq26 === Family Members Of U.S. Military Killed In Iraq To Protest At Bush's Country Estate.: George Bush said, "We have to honor the sacrifices of the fallen by completing the mission." "The families of the fallen can be assured that they died for a noble cause." Members of Gold Star Families for Peace (GSFP) are going to George's vacation home in Crawford, Tx this Saturday, August 6th at 11:00 am to confront him on these two statements. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9676.htm http://snipurl.com/gq2a === Ohio families reeling after battalion loses 21 in six days : Rosemary Palmer and her husband were making plans to attend memorial services for six Marine reservists killed earlier this week-- five of them from the same battalion as her son, Lance Cpl. Edward Schroeder-- when two uniformed servicemen came down her street. http://www.suntimes.com/output/iraq/cst-nws-iohio04.html http://snipurl.com/gq2b === OReilly: I Would Execute Everyone At Gitmo Posted Aug 4, 2005 10:27 AM PST - Category: TORTURE SCANDAL If you ask real nice, Bill, I'll bet they'll let you pull the lever yourself! http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2005/040805executeeveryone.htm === US challenged over 'secret jails' : Two Yemeni men claim they were held in secret, underground US jails for more than 18 months without being charged, Amnesty International has said. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4743485.stm === Australia: Hicks trial 'abuse of rule of law': FORMER High Court judge Mary Gaudron believes the trial process faced by Australian terror suspect David Hicks in the United States is an abuse of the rule of law. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16147948%255E1702,00.html http://snipurl.com/gq2o === A new credo for the hyperpower : To improve its influence and image in the world, the US should refrain from building new nuclear weapons, scrap the Bush doctrine of preventive war and regime change, break its climate-changing oil habit, and recommit to international rule-making organisations such as the UN. http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1542199,00.html http://snipurl.com/gq2p === Bomb made only of flour, says suspect's Italian lawyer : One of the July 21 bomb suspects claimed yesterday the devices used in the alleged attacks contained only flour, according to his lawyer. http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article303501.ece http://snipurl.com/gq2r === Israeli economic corruption rises: Jewish state scores low marks with regard to government corruption and influence, leadership efficiency, implementation of law and political stability; Ranks far lower than most developing countries http://snipurl.com/gq3i === Fallwell tells backers: 'vote Christian, vote pro-Israel' In Mailing, Falwell Urging Backers To 'Vote Christian' As part of a bid to revive his Reagan-era conservative powerhouse, the Rev. Jerry Falwell, Moral Majority leader, is urging Americans to "vote Christian" in 2008. http://www.forward.com/main/printer-friendly.php?id=3761 === Jewish terrorist murders four people in Israeli Arab town : A Jewish settler in army uniform opened fire on bus passengers in a Druze neighborhood of the Israeli Arab town of Shfaram in northern Israel Thursday afternoon. Four people - the driver another male and two women - were killed and five injured http://www.albawaba.com/en/news/187269 http://snipurl.com/gq34 === Jewish Extremist Kills 3 Israeli Arabs : A Jewish extremist opened fire inside a bus Thursday, killing three Israeli Arabs before being slain by an angry crowd, police said - an attack that could be linked to Israel's upcoming pullout from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank. http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5190027,00.html http://snipurl.com/gq37 === Israel Housing Ministry Issues Tenders : Israel's Housing Ministry said Thursday it has issued tenders to build 72 housing units in a West Bank settlement near Jerusalem. http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5189040,00.html http://snipurl.com/gq3c === How Britain helped Israel get the bomb : Robert McNamara, President John F Kennedy's defence secretary, has told Newsnight he is "astonished" at the revelation that Britain kept this secret from America. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/4743493.stm http://snipurl.com/gq3x === Two Charged in Pentagon Information Leak : An indictment unsealed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., names Steven Rosen, formerly the director of foreign policy issues for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and Keith Weissman, the organization's former senior Iran analyst. The five-count indictment also spells out in greater detail the government's case against Pentagon analyst Lawrence A. Franklin http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5190084,00.html http://snipurl.com/gq3z === Exclusive: New Information May Reveal Key Details on Judith Miller's Role in the Rove/CIA Scandal http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/04/1357248 http://snipurl.com/gq41 === -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: 267.10.0/63 - Release Date: 03/08/2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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