bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update === Sixty years since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings - 3 parts Part one: Prompt and utter destruction http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/hiro-a06.shtml Part two: American imperialism and the atom bomb http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/hiro-a08.shtml Part three: American militarism and the nuclear threat today http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/hiro-a09.shtml === United States Military Forces Begin Coup, Top US General Arrested By Anti-Coup Factions Russian and Chinese Military Forces Go To High Alert Russian Intelligence Analysts are reporting this evening that an apparent coup is taking place in the United States and that both Russian and Chinese Forces have been ordered to their highest non-nuclear defense status. This troubling news comes on the eve of joint Military exercises previously planned between both Russian and China, and as we can read as reported by the Guardian Unlimited News Service in their article titled "China and Russia flex their muscles as they join forces to play the war game" and which says; http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index796.htm === It Has No Other Name: Neo-racism Humanity has paid a high price fighting racism and discrimination over centuries; how could we loose the battle today to similar ideologies covered up in the cloaks of "freedom" and "democracy?" http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9710.htm http://snipurl.com/gtx0 === The Tyranny of Pronouns on the Road to Fascism If people want to come here, either fleeing persecution or seeking better life, they play by our rules and our way of life .. Were angry about what theyre doing to our country. Were angry about abusing our good nature and toleration. (Tony Blair 5/8/05) I immigrated to Britain eleven years ago. Originally I came here with the intention of finishing my post-graduate studies in Philosophy. I didnt nurture any plans of staying, but I fell in love: first with London and later with Britain. When I came here just over a decade ago, I met a society that was trying to reconcile itself with the twilight of its long, disastrous history as a colonial power with the morally orientated liberal view it adopted in the aftermath of the Second World War. http://peacepalestine.blogspot.com/2005/08/gilad-atzmon-tyranny-of-pronouns-on.html === A Look Into the Mirror Whether we like it or not, the nations capital is the mirror image of the rest of the country Washington, like ancient Rome before it, has become, through the course of years breathing the airs of moral degeneration, corruption and greed, the monument for all that is wrong with the nation it represents, a new symbol of debauchery and immorality, a decadent city on a hill whose once noble foundations are now cracking under the weight of unscrupulous entities and malfeasant activities. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9713.htm http://snipurl.com/gtwx === Globalization And Its Discontents In my America, shopping is the universal spiritual value. Maybe add flag waving and barbecues! But globalization means spreading a culture of corporate brand names and 24/7 sales pitches. Rogue States who refuse to embrace this order are targets of regime change. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9711.htm http://snipurl.com/gtwz === Four in 9/11 Plot Are Tied to Qaeda in '00 More than a year before the Sept. 11 attacks, a small, highly classified military intelligence unit identified Mohammed Atta and three other future hijackers as likely members of a cell of Al Qaeda operating in the United States, according to a former defense intelligence official and a Republican member of Congress. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9714.htm http://snipurl.com/gtwv === Stakes are high in new great game being played by West in Iraq and Afghanistan The loss of more American soldiers may mark the beginning of the end for the occupation of Iraq, finds Diplomatic Editor Trevor Royle Forty years ago, when the US was mired in an increasingly unpopular war in Vietnam, the mantra for ending the impasse was declare victory and get out. Those words came back to haunt the country last week when it lost 14 marines in a single ambush in western Iraq, wiping out a whole platoon in one of the worst incidents of the insurgency war. http://www.sundayherald.com/51157 === Poll: Majority Of Americans Think Bush Is A Liar: A Gallup survey last week found that a majority of Americans - 51 percent - now believe that Bush "deliberately misled the people when he asserted Iraq had weapons of mass destruction." http://snipurl.com/gtxc === Asleep at the Wheel The medias perplexing performance on the Downing Street memo Back before I became obsessed with journalism, I was obsessed with drag racing. I loved nothing more than heading to South Jersey-there were no drag strips in Philadelphia-to Atco or Vineland, to see just how quickly my '60 Chevy (the one with the spray-painted gold wheels and Sun tach and lakes pipes) could navigate the quarter mile. http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=3916 === WMD Message Failure Damaging Bush President Bush's decision to concede the argument that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction has hurt his credibility badly, with a majority of Americans now saying he lied when he took the country to war based on a threat that didn't exist. http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/8/6/132931.shtml === Counting The Dead: BAGHDAD: 10 Iraqi policemen were shot dead in five separate attacks in Baghdad. BAGHDAD - Three Iraqis were killed by a suicide car bomb. BAQUBA - Three pilgrims were killed and eight injured when gunmen sprayed their minivan with gunfire. ABU KHAMIS - Two people were burned to death when insurgents stopped their truck and set fire to it . LATIFIYAH - Two Iraqi civilians were killed and a third critically wounded when gunmen fired on their car. HILLA - Gunmen killed a former officer in Saddam Hussein's Baath party. BAGHDAD - One police commando was killed and another injured by an explosion. BAGHDAD - One civilian was killed when gunmen attacked their shop. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MOU946822.htm http://snipurl.com/gtx1 === Analysis: Iraq statistics tell grim story: If the US Army and its Iraqi allies are killing as many insurgents as reports indicate they are per month, why is the insurgency intensifying instead of collapsing? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9712.htm http://snipurl.com/gtx5 ==== Killings of civilians by U.S. troops angers Iraqi government : "The reason they shot us is just because the Americans are reckless," the general said from his hospital bed hours after the July 6 shooting, his head wrapped in a white bandage. "Nobody punishes them or blames them." http://snipurl.com/gtx8 === Tragic price of war: Who pays?: Dr. Reinhardt said the majority of Americans are insulated from the human pain and financial cost, thus its easy for them to back the war. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9719.htm http://snipurl.com/gtxh === In case you missed it: Who's Paying for Our Patriotism?: Should anyone be surprised by this national resolve, given that these wars visit no sacrifice of any sort -- neither blood nor angst nor taxes -- on well over 95 percent of the American people? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9720.htm http://snipurl.com/gtxj === Depleted uranium is WMD: I have worked in two U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories, and in 1991 I became a whistleblower at the Livermore lab. Depleted uranium is very, very, very nasty stuff: http://snipurl.com/fqi6 === Cruel Confinement of Enemy Combatant in United States: A lawsuit filed today against U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld reveals the gratuitous cruelty inflicted on a foreign student held without charges for more than two years as an enemy combatant in a South Carolina naval brig, Human Rights Watch said. http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/08/08/usdom11612.htm http://snipurl.com/gtxl === U.S. reportedly planning to boost troop levels to 160,000 in Iraq http://japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=8&id=345817 http://snipurl.com/gtxa === Fallouja May Be in Rebel Sights American commanders in Baghdad and Fallouja say they control the city so completely that the guerrillas cannot regain a foothold. But they acknowledge that Fallouja remains a powerful icon to an insurgency that is keen to stop Sunni Muslim Arabs in western Al Anbar province from participating in an October referendum on Iraq's proposed constitution. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/latimests/20050808/ts_latimes/falloujamaybeinrebelsights === Saddam's germ war plot is traced back to one Oxford cow: The culture was sent to the United States, which exported samples to Iraq during Saddams war against Iran in the 1980s. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9721.htm http://snipurl.com/gtxb === Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 8 August 2005 : - Sandstorms knock out US communications, destroy three unmanned spy planes - Resistance martyrdom car bomber blasts US column on its way to al-Hadithah - Two US troops reported killed in afternoon roadside bombing in ar-Ramadi - Three US troops reported killed in roadside bombing mid-morning Monday - Resistance launches major attacks on US forces in al-Fallujahs Industrial Zone Monday morning - Four US Marines killed in massive bombing early Monday morning - Two US troops reported killed in roadside bombing near Jarf as-Sakhr early Monday - Puppet regimes Interior Minister issues order to shut down all media opposed to US occupation and to arrest employees of such organizations that refer to Resistance or Jihad. - Rape of Sunni women detainees reportedly on the increase in puppet regimes prisons - Resistance group announces execution of major Iraqi spy for US occupation - Four US troops reported killed in midday Resistance ambush - Iraqi Resistance bombards US base northeast of Baghdad late Monday morning - Resistance mounts double attack on US camp Monday afternoon http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2005/0805/iraqiresistancereport_080805.htm === Nine U.S. troops die in separate incidents in Iraq Details have emerged over the past 48 hours of the deaths of six soldiers and three Marines in Iraq. A car bomb, detonated near a Task Force Baghdad convoy Tuesday, killed one U.S. soldier and wounded two others in in the Rusafa district of central Baghdad, U.S. officials said. http://story.irishsun.com/p.x/ct/9/id/37fe0f14ae353c94/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/ === Another Marine Killed West of Baghdad BAGHDAD, Iraq - A U.S. Marine was killed in a suicide car bombing in a village west of Baghdad, the military said Sunday. http://p46.news.re2.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050807/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_marine_killed_1;_ylt=A86.I22uQfZCe0oAdQBX6GMA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl === At least 22 in Iraq attacks Three Iraqis, one US soldier, killed in Baghdad suicide bombing, ten Iraqi policemen killed in spate of attacks. http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/iraq/?id=14229 === Four Iraqi soldiers killed Tuesday morning in a bomb explosion in Samarra http://snipurl.com/gtx4 === Iraqi police killed in drive-by shootings A bomber detonated his vehicle near a US convoy in Baghdad A number of attacks across Baghdad have left 15 people dead, including 10 police officers killed in near-simultaneous drive-by shootings http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/D3740E20-1852-4D09-990E-BC5E8603856A.htm === Baghdad mayor 'ousted by gunmen' : Baghdad's mayor has been sacked by the Iraqi government, in circumstances that he has described as "dangerous" and "undemocratic". http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4135060.stm http://snipurl.com/gtx6 === Iraqi soldiers fear leaving training base: "We're all afraid. I can't go outside the base wearing these military clothes," says Sergeant Abbas, listing colleagues who have fallen victim to relentless insurgent attacks in the dusty towns and highways north of Baghdad. http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200508/s1432950.htm http://snipurl.com/gtx7 === Secret courts for terror cases : Security-cleared judges would decide how long suspects could be held http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlondon/story/0,16132,1545404,00.html?gusrc=rss http://snipurl.com/gtxq === Bombings survivor hits out at political rhetoric: An Australian who survived last month's bombings in London has criticised the political rhetoric that has followed them http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200508/s1433926.htm http://snipurl.com/gtxp === CIA asked us to let nuclear spy go, Ruud Lubbers claims : The CIA asked the Netherlands not to detain Pakistani scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan for stealing nuclear secrets from a Dutch facility, former Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers has claimed. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9717.htm http://snipurl.com/gtxy === Robert Dreyfuss: The Israeli Spy Affair: Bigger Than AIPAC: Can it be true that reporters are more courageous about pursuing a story that involves the White House than they are about plunging into a scandal that involves Israel, our No. 1 Middle East ally? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9715.htm http://snipurl.com/gtxz === Why AIPAC Indictment Is Bad News for Rove : The Franklin indictment is a sign that Rove and any other White House aide involved in the Plame/CIA leak might be vulnerable to prosecution under the Espionage Act. http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20050808/cm_thenation/311020 http://snipurl.com/gty1 === The silence of the Jewish leaders : An indictment was issued against Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, two former AIPAC employees. They are charged with passing classified security information, received during their work at the Jewish lobby, to various people, including employees of the Israeli Embassy in Washington http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/610107.html http://snipurl.com/gty2 === Israel leads West in child poverty: Israel has bypassed the United States and now leads Western countries when it comes to child poverty figures http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3124397,00.html http://snipurl.com/gtya === World in 10 Seconds: Must watch flash presentation http://www.bigpicturesmallworld.com/TenSeconds/introTenSeconds.html http://snipurl.com/gtyb === Army Whistleblower Draws Fire : She has rained a mighty storm upon herself for standing up, before members of Congress and live on C-SPAN to proclaim things are just not right in this staggeringly profitable business. http://snipurl.com/gtxm === Cindy Sheehan's diary: Camp Casey Day 3- The Peaceful Occupation of Camp Crawford http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9718.htm http://snipurl.com/gtxd === Cindy, Crawford, and the Bush Smear Machine: It's truly amazing what the human spirit can accomplish. From Gandhi's Salt March to Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail, a single person can fight a corrupt establishment and win -- when truth and justice is on his or her side. http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002301.html http://snipurl.com/gtxe === King George wouldn't see us: A Report from the Vigil in Crawford: Cindy Sheehan's trip to Crawford to talk to President Bush started out as just a small idea Wednesday evening. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9716.htm http://snipurl.com/gtxf === Sheehan Draws Tears of Support: When Robert DeLozier saw the story of Cindy Sheehan on television Sunday, he told his spouse right away: Im going up there. We have to drop everything and go. http://peacefile.org/wordpress/?p=222 === To All Conscious Americans: Get Thy Ass to CRAWFORD !!! http://benfrank.net/nuke/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=329 http://snipurl.com/gtxg === -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: 267.10.5/67 - Release Date: 09/08/2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. If your mailbox clogged with mails from Hidayahnet, you may wish to get a daily digest of emails by logging-on to http://www.yahoogroups.com to change your mail delivery settings or email the moderators at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the title "change to daily digest". Yahoo! 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