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=== News Update === More Hispanic women coverting to Islam Ask Melissa Matos why she converted to Islam, and you'll likely get an answer that spans 13 centuries. She may refer to seventh century Arabia, where Muslims believe the Prophet Mohammed received the Koran from the angel Gabriel. Or she might describe Islam's golden age in medieval Spain. Or she'll recall Sept. 11, 2001, when fear and curiosity drove her to read about Islam on the Internet. http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12820867.htm === Their God Is Bigger Than Our God : His mouthpieces in America - who always seem so sure of themselves, so sure that they alone hear God speaking, and so willing to share His wisdom with the rest of us - have gone strangely quiet of late. http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1005-20.htm === A Tale of Two Lives Destroyed by Abu Ghraib Nine US soldiers have now been sentenced for their role in the Abu Ghraib torture scandal. But is it enough? Davis says that his country punished him for crimes over which he had no control. Instead, he says, the people who were responsible for creating the system of torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib should be brought to justice. Davis wants to talk and wants to set things right. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10527.htm === White House Losing Ground on Prisoner Treatment: Despite strong opposition from the Pentagon and the White House, the Republican leadership in the U.S. Senate is coming under growing pressure to set specific standards for the "humane" treatment of detainees taken in Iraq and elsewhere in the George W. Bush administration's "war on terror". http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=30528 === Maureen Dowd: A Wolfowitz in sheep's clothing: Following the lead of that other wooly-headed war theoretician, Robert McNamara, Wolfie scuttled to the World Bank, where he changed the subject from bollixing up Iraq to fixing up Africa. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10529.htm === In case you missed it: Maureen Dowd: United States of Shame : America is once more plunged into a snake pit of anarchy, death, looting, raping, marauding thugs, suffering innocents, a shattered infrastructure, a gutted police force, insufficient troop levels and criminally negligent government planning. But this time it's happening in America. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10532.htm === Night And Fog Revisited Is Harriet Miers a Closet Sadist? Four years after 9/11, the U.S. government still refuses to release information about the disappeared. We do not know how many there are, where they are being held, how many are dead and alive, or even their names. The vanished have access to neither their families nor legal representation. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10533.htm === Harriet Miers: Bush's Pit Bull: Bush has nominated his Texas crony as a stealth appointment to the Supreme Court. Although the Senate will be hard-pressed to discover Harriet Miers's positions on the critical issues, she does have a long record of loyalty to Bush, whom she calls "the most brilliant man I ever met." http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100405I.shtml === U.S. general in Iraq questions war U.S. general in Iraq: Growing disconnect with Washington "I don't know if I have the moral authority to send troops into combat anymore," a senior American general recently told United Press International. http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20051005-022643-9419r === Iraq revives Sunni-Shi'ite tensions among neighbours: "This Shi'ite-Sunni tension is spilling into the region," Dubai-based analyst Mustafa Alani told Reuters. "If the Shi'ites of Iraq can come to power, Shi'ites next door in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait feel why can't they do the same." http://tinyurl.com/cvge5 === Middle East split over Iraq deepens: Saud has also charged that Washington was effectively handing Iraq to Iran by pursuing a policy that deepened sectarian divisions. Tehran dismissed Riyadh's concerns. http://tinyurl.com/dspyb === Robert Dreyfuss : Death Squads And Diplomacy: A flurry of Arab diplomacy over the last few days is unfolding in a rear-guard effort to prevent the crisis in Iraq from exploding into what Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Al Faisal warned last month could be a regional civil war involving not only Iraq, but all of its neighbors. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10531.htm === Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 4 October 2005 : - Iraqi puppet army spokesman acknowledges 17 Americans killed in operations along Euphrates River - Three Resistance car bombers blast US troops in al-Hadithah as night falls Tuesday - Two US troops reported killed in Resistance ambush of US armored column, ar Ramadi - Two US troops reported killed in Resistance car bomb attack on north side of "green zone." - Two US soldiers reported killed in fighting in western Baghdad's al-'Amiriyah district - One US soldier reported killed in Mosul roadside carbombing - Resistance shoots down unmanned US spy plane east of al-Hadithah - Resistance ambushes Iraqi puppet army patrol in ash-Shu'lah, Fighting rages in al-Yusufiyah http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2005/1005/iraqiresistancereport_041005.htm === Four U.S. Soldiers, One Marine Killed In Iraq BAGHDAD -- Violence in western Iraq has killed five U.S. troops: including four soldiers and a Marine. The military says the Marine was killed by a roadside bomb Monday near the Syrian border. It's the first announced U.S. death in Operation Iron Fist, a major sweep that began over the weekend. http://www.nbc4.com/news/5053865/detail.html === Five US troops killed in Iraq 2,500 US soldiers launch new sweep in Euphrates Valley, largest in Al-Anbar province this year. BAGHDAD - Five US troops were killed in western Iraq Monday, the US military said, as coalition forces pushed an assault in the rebel heartland close to the Syrian border. http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/iraq/?id=14686 === Bosnian Serb Panel Links 17,000 to Roles in Srebrenica Massacre BANJA LUKA, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Oct. 5, 2005 (AP) - A Bosnian Serb commission said Tuesday that it had identified more than 17,000 people who had taken part directly and indirectly in the Srebrenica massacre in 1995, the worst slaughter of civilians in Europe since World War II. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/05/international/europe/05bosnia.html?pagewanted=print === Franklin admits: I gave Israel secret material Former Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin admitted in court Wednesday he passed classified information to Israeli diplomat Naor Gilon and to two former AIPAC officials, Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/Printer&cid=1128478900053&p=1078113566627 === -muslim voice- ___________________________________ BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW -- No virus found in this outgoing message. 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