bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update ===
To Hell With Muslim Terrorism
Pope tells top Muslims. Steer Young Muslims away from "barbarism, cruel fanaticism"
The dangerous aspect of Pope Benedicts comments is that it legitimizes actions of those who have already taken lives of at least 150,000 civilians alone since September 9/11. These war lords have set aside their lies. They are now using the same excuses as justification for their slaughter which Pope Benedict highlighted in his words. Like earlier papal bulls, such words from Pope Benedict carry the potential for new holocaust.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9965.htm
or
http://world.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/18309
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Pope Rat in Cologne: Papal Double Standards:
Western-Christian forces invade Muslim countries, kill innocent children, women and men by the tens of thousands, and it's Muslims whom Pope Benedict calls upon to "combat the cruel fanaticism of terrorism"? Are we still living in the age of the crusades? In the time of the "Holy Inquisition"?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9979.htm
http://snipurl.com/h7z8
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Pat Robertson Calls For Murder, Twice :
The Christian minister called for the murder of the President of Venezuela, in an apology he repeated the call for murder: is this the voice of Christianity?
http://snipurl.com/h7z1
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Chris Floyd: Extremist Mullah Calls for Assassination of American Leader :
That's Pat Robertson, of course, calling on his good Christian friend, George W. Bush, to murder Hugo Chavez, elected leader of the South American nation of Venezuela.
http://snipurl.com/h7z3
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Jesuits revisited : 500 years ago, Catholics were the enemy within:
The integration of Catholics into British society suggests that it is possible for a country and its minorities to outlive mutual suspicion and hatred.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9977.htm
http://snipurl.com/h7z7
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Crackdown will produce martyrs, Clarke is told :
Charles Clarke has been warned that moves to expel radical preachers, which could begin by the weekend, could backfire by turning extremists into martyrs and increasing prejudice against law-abiding Muslims.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article308007.ece
http://snipurl.com/h7z6
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Pakistan - Life Imprisonment for Blasphemy :
Mohammed Younus Shaikh has reportedly been sentenced to life imprisonment by a special anti-terrorism court for allegedly writing and distributing books that contained blasphemous and sacrilegious material.
http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/Claude/view?PostID=5539
http://snipurl.com/h7zp
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Who Will Say 'No More'?
What will history say about an opposition party that stands silent?
In 2008 I want a leader who is willing now to say: "I made a mistake, and for my mistake I am going to Iraq and accompanying the next planeload of flag-draped coffins back to Dover Air Force Base. And I am going to ask forgiveness for my mistake from every parent who will talk to me."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9964.htm
http://snipurl.com/h7y7
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Leaving a Legacy
Freedom, if you really want it, comes with some choices that you have to make: And these are:
1. To care more than others think is wise. 2. To risk more than others think is safe. 3. To dream more than others think is practical. 4. To expect more (from yourself) than others think is possible.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9957.htm
http://snipurl.com/h7ya
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Bill Gallagher: Bush Regime Rotten To The Core.
Even the perpetual propaganda machine of the corporate media can no longer manufacture consent for Bush's monstrously bad policies and decisions.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9966.htm
http://snipurl.com/h7zb
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In case you missed it:
Howard Zinn: Video Lecture: The Myth of American Exceptionalism:
Today, says Zinn, we have a president, who more than any before him, claims a special relationship with God. Zinn worries about an administration that deploys Christian zealotry to justify a war against terrorism
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8632.htm
http://snipurl.com/e7b9
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Mike Whitney : Privatizing the Truth; Bush's war on information :
Free speech and its antecedent the truth are much greater threats to the state than any bomb-wielding revolutionary. In the new world order only the managers are entitled to the truth, not the managed. That way, the public can be moved sheep-like in the direction of government policy.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9975.htm
http://snipurl.com/h7zc
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In case you missed it:
The Chains of Seduction:
How can those who govern keep those who are governed from the levers of power? In 'free' societies - which, by definition, lack the option of "chains of iron" - devotion to consumerism and an unthinking acceptance of the inequitable distribution of power must be inculcated and maintained by a constant stream of state-corporate propaganda.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4457.htm
http://snipurl.com/h7zd
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In case you missed it:
Noam Chomsky: Audio Lecture:
Propaganda and War: Iraq and Beyond
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9274.htm
http://snipurl.com/ftzb
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Stagger on, weary Titan :
The US is reeling, like imperial Britain after the Boer war - but don't gloat
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9976.htm
http://snipurl.com/h7zf
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In case you missed it:
Arundhati Roy: Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy, Buy One Get One Free:
I speak as a subject of the American Empire? I speak as a slave who presumes to criticize her king.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3441.htm
http://snipurl.com/h7zg
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The Photos Washington Doesn't Want You To See:
The grim reality of Iraq rarely appears in the American press. A photo gallery reveals the war's horrible human toll.
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,371411,00.html
http://snipurl.com/h7ys
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'Iraqi Freedom' on gravestones stirs controversy:
Some families across the country are questioning whether that term is more of a political slogan than a phrase fit for a grave.
http://shns.abc15.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=IRAQI-FREEDOM-08-25-05&cat=AN
http://snipurl.com/h7zq
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 24 August 2005 :
- US troops use copy of Quran as a football to try to provoke Resistance fighters to expose themselves
- Resistance car bomber blasts US checkpoint in ar-Ramadi, reportedly killing nine US Marines, after Americans play football with copy of Quran as provocation
- Resistance mounts deadly double attack on US-Iraqi puppet army checkpoint in Bayji oil refinery area
- Pro-Occupation Badr Brigades kill six Muqtada as-Sadr militiamen, burn down as-Sadr office in an-Najaf late Wednesday. Jaysh al-Mahdi vows vengeance, bombards Badr Brigade headquarters
- Resistance bomb blasts US patrol in Karbala early Wednesday morning
- Resistance car bomber slams into US column, destroying two Humvees in Amiriyat al-Fallujah late Wednesday afternoon
- Resistance sharpshooters gun down two US troops in al-Karabilah village at noon Wednesday
- Three US troops reported killed west of al-Khalidiyah late Wednesday morning
- Four powerful explosions shake green zone after nightfall Wednesday
- Three US troops reported killed in roadside bombing near ad-Durah Wednesday
- Resistance attacks motorcades of two high-ranking officials in US-installed regime
- Resistance fighters attack puppet police stations in western Baghdad Wednesday evening
- Four bombs explode in al-Jamiah neighborhood of western Baghdad, killing a reported 25 Iraqis
- Resistance shoots down Black Hawk helicopter late Wednesday afternoon, Ath Tharthar
- Resistance kills collaborator translator early Wednesday in Bayji
- Resistance bombards US camp in Balad late Wednesday afternoon
- Resistance ambushes US patrol leaving a reported four Americans dead, Ad Dulu'iyah
- Oil pipeline from Bayji to ad-Durah blown up
- Resistance ambushes joint US-Iraqi puppet army patrol Wednesday morning, Ad Dujayl
- Five mercenary security contractors reported killed in ambush north of al-Hillah
- Puppet army soldier killed by Resistance mortar attack on checkpoint in al-Hillah
- Resistance bombing in Kirkuk leaves Iraqi puppet army officer dead
- Bomb blasts US patrol in Karbala early Wednesday morning
- Muqtada as-Sadr followers clash with puppet police in an-Najaf Tuesday
http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2005/0805/iraqiresistancereport_240805.htm
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National Guard soldiers killed in Iraq :
"It's a bad war; it's a stupid war," said his mother, Karen Lieurance. "I questioned it from Day One. I think it's a lot easier to support the president when you don't have a family member over there."
http://www.southernstandard.net/news.ez?viewStory=20000
http://snipurl.com/h7yv
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25 dead as militias clash in gun battles:
AT LEAST 17 people were killed in Baghdad last night as gun battles erupted following a suicide car bomb attack on police.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1749830,00.html
http://snipurl.com/h7ye
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3 Killed In Attack :
A Filipino contract worker has been killed in an ambush by suspected insurgents. Two Iraqi companions also died in an attack in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/s1446330.htm
http://snipurl.com/h7yh
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Gunmen kill two bodyguards of Iraqi president :
Gunmen shot dead two bodyguards of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and wounded seven others in an attack north of Baghdad on Thursday, police said.
http://snipurl.com/h7yi
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Clashes between Badr and Sadr :
Earlier this evening, Moqtada gave the Jaafari government an hour to explain, pull back or apologize for these attacks. He also called on his supporters in parliament, Fatah and others from the NICE list, to resign because Moqtada now considers the government illegal,
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9970.htm
http://snipurl.com/h7yp
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Rethinking the War in Afghanistan
That war, to point out the obvious, is ongoing and taking a mounting toll. From October 10 to December 31, 2001, a mere 12 American soldiers were killed in Afghanistan as the Taliban regime collapsed like a house of cards. Since then the figure has increased each year, as Operation Enduring Freedom has morphed into Operation Keep Our Friends in Power
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Aug05/Leupp0824.htm
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One in Four Prisoners Held by US Forces not Rebels: U.S. Bucca commander
"...U.S. commander who oversees Bucca, Col. Austin Schmidt, 55, of Fairfax, estimated that one in four prisoners "perhaps were just snagged in a dragnet-type operation" or were victims of personal vendettas. "
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/23/AR2005082301525.html
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Dying for Israel:
As I'm sure you know, when Cindy Sheehan allegedly wrote a letter claiming her son Casey "was killed for lies and for a PNAC Neo-Con agenda to benefit Israel," she was roundly condemned and vilified by every sentient conservative on the planet
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9971.htm
http://snipurl.com/h7yy
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President Bush's Loss of Faith:
It took President Bush a long time to break his summer vacation and acknowledge the pain that the families of fallen soldiers are feeling as the death toll in Iraq continues to climb. When he did, in a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Utah this week, he said exactly the wrong thing.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9968.htm
http://snipurl.com/h7yz
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Italy 'did deal to free hostages' :
"Had the Americans known about it, this could have damaged the subtle strategy,"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4184026.stm
http://snipurl.com/h7z0
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Israeli troops murder five civilians in West Bank;
Israeli death squads on Wednesday night killed at least five Palestinians, including at least two children at a refugee camp in the northern West Bank.
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-17/0508250550173759.htm
http://snipurl.com/h7zh
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Five killed in West Bank violence:
Israeli troops shot dead four Palestinian fighters inTulkarim: Israeli soldiers surrounded a house and exchanged fire with fighters inside and outside, witnesses said. The four bodies were brought to the local hospital. A Palestinian is suspected of stabbing two young ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Old City, police said. One of the victims later died of his wounds.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2AAAEF9C-0BC0-4A24-A5E0-45CFA552F046.htm
http://snipurl.com/h7zi
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Israel Confirms Plan to Seize West Bank Land for Barrier:
The Palestinian leadership said the developments confirmed its fears that Israel would try to use the Gaza withdrawal, and the international good will it has generated, to consolidate its hold on the large settlement blocs in the West Bank.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9978.htm
http://snipurl.com/h7zj
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End the charade of American 'terrorism experts':
They represent a strange new school of intellectual buffoonery and socio-political amusement, in a mainstream American communications and political culture where the prized criteria for success are kicking ass, making the public feel good, and defining the terror problem as the criminal manifestation of aberrant Arab, Asian and Islamic cultures.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9963.htm
http://snipurl.com/h7zk
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-muslim voice-
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