bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update === Repaying the West's Debt to Islam Science today wouldn't be as advanced without so many discoveries from the Muslim world. It's time to reach across today's hurtful barriers Unless you're a history buff, it can be hard to believe how pivotal early Islamic civilization was in laying the foundations of modern science, mathematics, technology, and the arts. Between 600 AD and 1400 AD, Europe was caught in a bleak time, commonly termed the Dark Ages. During that same period, however, Islamic societies were making fundamental discoveries. http://www.businessweek.com/print/technology/content/mar2005/tc20050329_3316.htm?chan=tc === Viewing Terrorism through a Different Lens US and Israel: Hypocrisy, Double Standards, and More State Terrorism To gain perspective on the grossly disproportionate amount of money the US has expended in aiding Israel, consider that from 1949 to 1998, the US supplied more money to the 5.8 million people of Israel than it did to the 1,054,000,000 people of Latin America, the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10518.htm === 9/11 Videos - The Controlled Collapse of WTC Posted Oct 4, 2005 08:01 AM PST - Category: 911 Linked in response to an Air America guest host questioning the official story of 9-11 on the air today. http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/wtc7.html === Behind barbed wire in Guantanamo "We are dying a slow death in here," The cellblocks echoed with groans. Emaciated prisoners were vomiting blood or dropping unconscious to the floor. The military hospital overflowed with strikers being force-fed through their noses. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10513.htm === In New Book Ex-Chaplain at Guantánamo Tells of Abuses WASHINGTON, Oct. 3, 2005 - James J. Yee, a former Muslim chaplain at the Guantánamo Bay detention center, says in a new book that military authorities knowingly created an atmosphere in which guards would feel free to abuse prisoners. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/03/politics/03yee.html?pagewanted=print === 4 Minute Video: Exposed : More Lies From The Bush Administration: How many Iraqi battalions are fully trained and equipped, capable of operating independently of U.S. forces? Windows Media http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10521.htm === FLASHBACK: The Bush administration's Top 40 Lies about war and terrorism Posted Oct 4, 2005 10:06 AM PST - Category: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS http://www.citypages.com/databank/24/1182/article11417.asp === Top 10 Bad Reasons for "Staying the Course" in Iraq (and One Good One) Posted Oct 4, 2005 08:34 AM PST - Category: IRAQ http://www.epluribusmedia.org/columns/20051003huber.html === How the world was duped: The race to invade Iraq. The American media had never chosen to give the same attention to the men driving Bush to war, most of whom were former or still active pro-Israeli lobbyists. For years they had advocated destroying the most powerful Arab nation. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10501.htm === Blood, Sweat & Tears Asias Poor Build U.S. Bases in Iraq Numerous former American contractors returning home say they were shocked at conditions faced by this mostly invisible, but indispensable army of low-paid workers. Third country nationals frequently sleep in crowded trailers and wait outside in line in 100 degree plus heat to eat slop. Many are said to lack adequate medical care and put in hard labor seven days a week, 10 hours or more a day, for little or no overtime pay. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10514.htm === Ret. Army General William Odom: U.S. Should "Cut and Run" From Iraq: The invasion of Iraq will turn out to be the greatest strategic disaster in U.S. history. Odom says, Real Audio and transcript http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10519.htm === Withdrawal Symptoms:: Of the 100-plus battalions in the American-created Iraqi army, only one -- perhaps 1,000 soldiers -- is capable of heading off on its own to fight, out of sight of its American protectors. http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=26174 === Zarqawi's war whoops: Many Iraqis are now wondering whether Zarqawi is a real figure or not. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10523.htm === Torture of Iraqis was for 'Stress Relief', Say US Soldiers http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1002-05.htm === Report: Charges against US soldiers for abuse of Iraqis dismissed at higher rate: Charges against US Army soldiers accused of crimes against Iraqis are dismissed or withdrawn at a higher rate than charges in which the victims are fellow soldiers or civilian military employees. http://tinyurl.com/8gsqw === An Interview with Cindy Sheehan: "US foreign policy is totally responsible for 9/11, as well as the recent bombings in London. Our policies of killing innocent Iraqis; Afghanis; supporting the occupation of Palestine; our permanent bases in Saudi Arabia; our presence in Lebanon; our support of the Shah; supporting Saddam and giving him the WMDs used on his own people. I think this sort of behavior drives hatred toward the US." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10520.htm === Juan Cole: Sunni Arabs Enraged at Law on 3-Province Veto : The Sunni Arabs of Iraq have for some time had a sneaking suspicion that the Shiites and the Kurds whom the Americans had installed in power in Iraq intended to marginalize and humiliate them. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10511.htm === Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 3 October 2005 : - Heaviest fighting in two months drives US troops out of central ar-Ramadi - Resistance boat bomber blasts US patrol boat near al-Hadithah dam - Two US troops reported killed in ar-Ridwaniyah near Baghdad - Resistance bomb targets British patrol south of al-Amarah midday Monday - Resistance sharpshooter kills US Marine early Monday, al Fallujah - Two US troops reported killed in evening Resistance ambush north of Bayji - Two US troops reported killed in morning resistance bombing in Baqubah - Three US troops reported killed in afternoon roadside car bombing Monday, al Jusufiyah - Resistance bombards US base in Kirkuk airport early Monday - Resistance bomb targets British patrol south of al-Amarah midday Monday http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2005/1005/iraqiresistancereport_031005.htm === Four U.S. Soldiers, One Marine Killed In Iraq: Violence in western Iraq has killed five U.S. troops: including four soldiers and a Marine http://www.nbc4.com/news/5053865/detail.html === Car bomb blows up inside Baghdad Green Zone, 4 dead; A suicide car bomber drove into Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone complex with a convoy of other vehicles on Tuesday and blew up, killing three people and wounding six, Iraqi police said. http://tinyurl.com/az8ll === Four Iraqi police killed in clashes with insurgents : Four police commandos were killed and 14 others wounded on Tuesday in clashes with insurgents in Yousfiyah town, south of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said http://tinyurl.com/9v6ma === Iraqi parliament may review referendum rules: UN: "We have expressed our position to the national assembly and to the leadership of the government and told them that the decision that was taken was not acceptable and would not meet international standards," Jose Aranaz, a legal adviser to the U.N. electoral team in Iraq, told Reuters. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1182349 === Shia-Kurdish pact at risk over Kirkuk: The Shia-Kurdish pact at the heart of Iraq's transitional government is threatening to split amid accusations by Iraq's president, a Kurd, that the Shia prime minister's parliamentary bloc broke a deal over oil-rich Kirkuk, which the Kurds claim as their historic capital. http://news.ft.com/cms/s/0e6aa2ba-339d-11da-bd49-00000e2511c8.html === 46% Of Israel's Jewish Citizens Support Ethnic Cleansing Of Palestinians: Some 46 percent of Israel's Jewish citizens favor transferring Palestinians out of the territories, while 31 percent favor transferring Israeli Arabs out of the country- poll finds http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10522.htm === U.S., Israel discuss Syria regime change Report : Senior American officials discussed with Israeli counterparts the prospects of a regime change in Syria and possible successors to President Bashar al-Assad, an Israeli newspaper reported http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10516.htm === Is Israel planning Iran strike? : Sharon presented Bush with satellite photos, said Israel would not wait forever before attacking http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10515.htm === -muslim voice- ___________________________________ BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW -- No virus found in this outgoing message. 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