bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update ===
Get out if you want Sharia law, Australia tells Muslims:
Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_25-8-2005_pg1_2
http://snipurl.com/h8wh
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Aussie PM backs spying on mosques:
Prime Minister John Howard angered some Australian Muslims yesterday by saying that he supported spies monitoring the nations mosques.
http://snipurl.com/h8wj
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Israeli prostitute throw's pig head into mosque
TEL AVIV Aug 26-- An Israeli prostitute and her pimp have been arrested for throwing a pig's head wrapped in a traditional Arab headdress into a mosque, police said Friday.
Montreal Muslim News Network - http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net
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First they came for Muslim's; I wasn't a Muslim so I didn't speak up.
Charge Him or Release Him
Jose Padilla : U.S. Citizen Imprisoned Without Trial or Charges for 3 Years and 108 Days
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9221.htm
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Muslims suffer double stress rates from London bombings London
The stress caused by the 7/7 bombings in London was far more keenly felt by Muslim residents compared with other inhabitants of the capital, according to a psychological study published in the online version of the British Medical Journal.
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0508268873182323.htm
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CIA officials face discipline over 9/11:
After a two-year review into what went wrong before the suicide hijackings, people familiar with the report say Helgerson harshly criticises a number of the agency's most senior officials. Among them are former Central Intelligence Agency Director George Tenet
http://seven.com.au/news/topstories/102809
http://snipurl.com/h8x0
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE
UK: New security measures are a serious attack on human rights
The new measures, proposed today by the United Kingdom (UK) government, targeting non-nationals considered to be threatening public order, national security and the rule of law, violate basic human rights and the UK's international obligations, Amnesty International said today.
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGEUR450332005
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Nuremberg lesson for Iraq war: Its murder
This month marks the 60th anniversary of the London Charter of the International Military Tribunal, the basic legal document for the trial of the major Nazi war criminals that commenced in November 1945.
Montreal Muslim News Network - http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net
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Is Bush al-Qaeda's 'Useful Idiot'?
If Western intelligence agencies are right that the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and the two-year-plus military occupation have been recruiting boons for Islamic terrorism why is it logical to commit American troops to an indefinite deployment there? Wont that just create more terrorists?
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/082505.html
http://snipurl.com/h8xe
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Why U.S. Military Lawyers Opposed Torture:
Extraordinary renditions, torture, abuse, humiliation, detention without charge or end, an obsession with protecting American officials (and military men) from future foreign or domestic criminal charges for their acts -- these are the cornerstones of foreign policy under George Bush, and they have produced horror stories galore.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=16843
http://snipurl.com/h8ws
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Full Text : TEXT OF THE DRAFT IRAQI CONSTITUTION
Translated from the Arabic by The Associated Press .pdf file
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/24_08_05_constit.pdf
http://snipurl.com/h8x3
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Scott Ritter: Achieving 'Total Victory' in an Unwinnable War:
The policies of the Bush administration have bred far more terrorists than have been eliminated, and the world, including the United States and its allies, is a much more dangerous place to live.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9999.htm
http://snipurl.com/h8w6
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U.S. commander foresees worse Iraq bloodshed :
Earlier this week, the Pentagon announced that 1,500 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C., would be sent to Iraq for election security duty, but it did not say where in Iraq they would operate.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9994.htm
http://snipurl.com/h8w8
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`There's something happening here'
Will history remember this week as the tipping point for George W. Bush and the Republicans who control Congress? Can they stay the course as they head into mid-term elections next year?
http://snipurl.com/h8xh
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George Bush's Soldiers Of Fortune:
With no public debate, to compensate for inadequate troop strength in Iraq, the Bush Administration has contracted with tens of thousands of mercenaries, who operate outside U.S. control and undermine military morale.
http://snipurl.com/h8wa
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A Nurse's Perspective on Iraq :
These poor young boys most of them 18, 19, 20 years old out there getting blown up. And they come in and you see pictures of their families falling out of there wallet...it just makes you angry.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9993.htm
http://snipurl.com/h8wb
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Radioactive Wounds of War:
Tests on returning troops suggest serious health consequences of depleted uranium use in Iraq
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2298/
http://snipurl.com/h8wc
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And What Did They Die For Once Again?:
This may come as something of a shock to some of those yahoos down in Crawford, Texas, who are so upset with antiwar Gold Star mother Cindy Sheehan's vigil outside the president's Godforsaken ranch, but if they were to look real close they'd discover she is committing first-degree, premeditated citizenship.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9996.htm
http://snipurl.com/h8wd
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Supporting American Troops: What It Means and What It Entails :
The ultimate goal of US big corporations is to control the economy of the whole world. Hence, when politicians fail to get what such corporations want by diplomatic means then they will resort to the military to get for corporations what they want by force.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10000.htm
http://snipurl.com/h8we
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Grieving Military Mothers Rally Around Cindy Sheehan at Camp Casey
We play a press conference from Camp Casey held by members of Gold Star Families for Peace with mothers and wives from around the country speaking about their opposition to the war and to President Bush's policies in Iraq.
Audio and transcript
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9998.htm
http://snipurl.com/h8vz
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Tennessee National Guard soldiers killed in Iraq
SWEETWATER (AP) Two Tennessee National Guard soldiers were killed Monday in Iraq, their family members said Tuesday.
http://www.southernstandard.net/news.ez?viewStory=20000
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 25 August 2005 :
- US troops kill six-year-old boy at roadblock outside Amiriyat al-Fallujah Thursday afternoon
- Resistance shoots down US Chinook transport helicopter full of troops north of ar-Ramadi Thursday night
- People of Rawah appeal for immediate international intervention due to the serious humanitarian situation in the city under blockade since mid-July
- Residents of al-Madain appeal to world for help as puppet regime security forces storm city, arrest hundreds, loot property
- Resistance car bomb blows up reputed three-story headquarters of Israeli, US, British secret services in Irbil
- Muqtada as-Sadr calls for cease fire after his Jaysh al-Mahdi militia mounts punishing offensive that leaves 20 pro-American Badr Brigade gunmen dead, SCIRI radio, TV, and newspaper offices burned to the ground
- Resistance bomb leaves a reported two American troops dead early Thursday, al Baghdadi
- Three US troops reported killed in bombing south of ad-Durah Thursday afternoon
- Four US troops reported killed in roadside bombing in al-Amil district Thursday morning
- Four US troops reported killed in early morning roadside bombing
- US soldier reported killed in land mine explosion Thursday morning, Samarra'
- Resistance bomb blasts US supply convoy at noon Thursday, al Iskandariyah
- Resistance pounds US base in al-Yusufiyah Thursday morning
- Resistance bomb blasts US armored column early Thursday afternoon, Kirkuk
- Four mercenary security contractors killed by Resistance car bomber Thursday morning, Mosul
http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2005/0805/iraqiresistancereport_250805.htm
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Acts of hate: full list of 'deportation' acts
The Home Office today published a list of "unacceptable behaviours" which will lead to the deportation or exclusion of any foreign national who commits them from the UK.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22989-1748674,00.html
http://snipurl.com/h8x4
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The contract with Muslims must not be torn up :
Britain's culture of tolerating radicalism is in the national interest and should not be swept away by the urge to get tough
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1556677,00.html
http://snipurl.com/h8wk
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Fans Welcome Emperor Bush to Jerusalem (satire)
http://www.notinkansas.us/
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Israel boosts W.Bank settlers while quitting Gaza :
The population of Jewish settlements in the West Bank has grown this year by more than the 9,000 settlers evacuated under a plan to cede some occupied land, an Israeli government official said on Friday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050826/wl_nm/mideast_settlers_dc
http://snipurl.com/h8wm
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Don't let the settlers fool you :
The settlers have the knack of turning themselves into "the robbed Cossack." They will always present themselves as the ones who have been wronged, the hapless who have been maltreated, the trampled-on minority - even though the truth is the exact opposite.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/615872.html#resp
http://snipurl.com/h8wn
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After Gaza, Sharon's next aim is ... do nothing :
Mr Sharon's public position is that the unilateral withdrawal from Gaza and four isolated settlements in the northern West Bank is a path to the US-led "road map" to a two-state solution - if the Palestinians first end "the terror". But last year, the Israeli prime minister's closest aide, Dov Weisglass, said the real intent of the pullout was to place the peace process in formaldehyde.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1556576,00.html
http://snipurl.com/h8wo
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Israeli Muslims slam government:
Islamic leaders in Israel have accused the government of "encouraging and inciting", and "treating with utmost flaccidity", attacks by Jewish extremists on mosques (and occasionally on some churches) in the country.
http://snipurl.com/h8wq
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Father loses hope of Hicks's freedom:
The father of Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks says he fears his son has little prospect of release from the US military camp where he has been held for three-and-a-half years.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200508/s1446809.htm
http://snipurl.com/h8wr
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The US vs The UN :
American ambassador seeks to scupper UN's global strategy with 750 amendments after just three weeks in the job
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article308269.ece
http://snipurl.com/h8wx
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Scrap the ideals, Bolton tells UN :
In an extraordinary intervention, United States appointee John Bolton has sought to roll back proposed UN commitments on aid to developing countries, combating global warming and nuclear disarmament.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9997.htm
http://snipurl.com/h8wz
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