bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update ===
Psych War in Afghanistan:
Photojournalist Stephen Dupont, who, while he was embedded with the Americans, managed to record some of the grotesque tactics being used by Australia's allies in that part of the world. Dateline should warn you that this report does include some pretty disturbing scenes, particularly for any Muslim viewers.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10679.htm
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Film rolls as troops burn dead:
US soldiers in Afghanistan burnt the bodies of dead Taliban and taunted their opponents about the corpses, in an act deeply offensive to Muslims and in breach of the Geneva conventions.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10681.htm
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The occupiers' trial
A running soap opera - the trial of Saddam Hussein
The court, the training and the whole proceedings cost US$75 million - courtesy of US taxpayers (the budget was allocated in May 2004). About 300 people - paid by the Americans - work on the trial machinery. The five "secret" Iraqi judges - Shi'ites and Kurds, no Sunnis - are paid by the Americans, live inside the Green Zone and are protected by the Americans from being kidnapped or killed.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10669.htm
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U.S. delivers bombs, not democracy
George Bush claimed that the US would bring democracy to Iraq and so end the violence there. But as Iraqis voted last weekend, US war planes delivered death from the sky.
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7613
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AN ILLEGAL GOVERNMENT
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, -- The Declaration of Independence
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/illegalgovernment.html
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The Illusion of Normality:
Never in the 229 years of United States history has this government of, by and for the people been in greater peril. Not during the Civil War, not during the great depression, and not during the Second World War or the Cold War which followed.
http://www.crisispapers.org/essays-p/normality.htm
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Good Night, and Good Luck"
In our own time, an arrogant bullying Administration is ruining the country, running roughshod over the Constitution, and questioning the patriotism of any who oppose them, much as Senator Joe McCarthy did with anyone who raised questions about his methods of hunting down suspected Communists. Except these days, of course, one substitutes "terrorists" for "communists."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10665.htm
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France Invades U.S. (Satire)
Mission Accomplished
Chirac expected the invasion to be a cakewalk; that the Americans would welcome French liberation forces with candy and flowers. After all, the Americans, Chirac suggested , were defeated by ragtag Vietnamese guerillas wearing sandals, and were thought unable or unwilling to fight any country, during the past 60 years, that had greater than a third-world status.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10676.htm
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Stiffed by U.S., UN Asks Groups to Report on U.S. Rights Violations
SAN FRANCISCO - In an unprecedented move, a UN committee has asked human and civil rights groups to submit reports and testify on U.S. breaches of international law, filling a gap left by the U.S. government's failure to submit its own report.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1019-06.htm
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Guantanamo Hunger Striker Seriously Ill:
Isa Almurbati is now being force-fed by feeding tube, his lawyer, Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, said after visiting the Bahraini detainees for the fifth time. "He has lost a tremendous amount of weight and looks exhausted. There is nothing to suggest that he will end this hunger strike,"
http://snipurl.com/ipdq
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Why torture is OK :
Imagine that you are on your way to work, coffee in hand, one December morning when three men in United States military uniforms, armed with guns, approach you. They say your name; you acknowledge it. - The men throw a heavy plastic black hood over your head.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-village/torture_2938.jsp
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Former CIA Analyst: Government May Be Manufacturing Fake Terrorism
McGovern then moved on to talk about terrorism and the fact that if there was another major attack in the US, it would mean a martial law state (According to General Tommy Franks) and a breakdown in our freedoms. He amazingly went on to suggest that if another attack took place we should not accept what the government tells us because it could be them carrying out the terror.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2005/191005McGovern.htm
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9/11 : The Secret Service at Booker Elementary - The Dog That Did Not Bark
If the events of 9-11 were really a surprise to the United States Government, then there is no way that the Secret Service could know there wasn't a hijacked or stolen plane headed towards Booker Elementary School that very second.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/9-11secretservice.html
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Bush's illegal war based on lies must be ended now :
Those who are stating that U.S. troops need to pull out slowly, in a year, or two (or more) in order to "save Iraq" from itself insult the dignity and intelligence of the Arab and Muslim world, which does not need our interference in their affairs and can determine their futures on their own.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10664.htm
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Niger Uranium Forgery - Mystery Solved? :
The Fitzgerald/Plame investigation goes in a new direction
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10673.htm
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Spanish judge issues arrest warrant for US troops:
A Spanish High Court judge issued international arrest warrants on Wednesday for three U.S. soldiers in connection with the death of a Spanish cameraman during the war in Iraq.
http://snipurl.com/ipdi
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1 in 4 Iraq vets ailing on return :
More than one in four U.S. troops have come home from the Iraq war with health problems that require medical or mental health treatment, according to the Pentagon's first detailed screening of servicemembers leaving a war zone.
http://snipurl.com/ipdl
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Rice won't rule out troops in Iraq in 10 years
http://www.suntimes.com/output/iraq/riceiraq19.html
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Human Rights Watch questions legality of Saddam trial due to interference, lost evidence
U.s. hegemony over Special tribunal may undermine legitimacy of any outcome
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=19413
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More than Saddam is on trial
Like Nuremberg, process is as important as the verdict, says historian MICHAEL MARRUS
The trial of Saddam Hussein for crimes against humanity begins tomorrow in Baghdad. Will this be, as some predict, "the trial of the century"? Will it advance global human rights? And will it, as some supporters of the Bush administration hope, lend legitimacy to the U.S.-promoted Iraqi regime and the American cause in Iraq, for which the humanitarian objective is perhaps the last credible justification for the original U.S. policy?
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20051018/COSADDAM18/TPComment/TopStories
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Saddam defiant as "trial" opens :
He stood up to tell the panel of five judges: "I won't answer to this so-called court ... Who are you? What are you? The occupation is illegitimate. I retain my constitutional rights as the president of Iraq."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1595662,00.html
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'I won't answer to this court' :
On Saddam Hussein's first day in court on charges of crimes against humanity he argued with presiding judge Rizgar Mohammed Amin and claimed he was still Iraq's president. What follows is a transcript of that exchange
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1595742,00.html
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Are British troops at breaking point in Iraq?
Fears that British forces in Iraq are reaching "breaking point" grew last night as the first hard evidence of a crisis in morale began to emerge.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article320343.ece
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A chance for justice, but will it be seized? :
"We have grave concerns that the tribunal will not provide the fair trial guarantees required by international law," said Richard Dicker of Human Rights Watch.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10671.htm
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FLASHBACK: Wolfowitz Aimed to Undermine Blix So US Could Strike Iraq
Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense, was so eager to see the United States launch a preemptive strike against Iraq in early 2002, that he ordered the CIA to investigate the past work of Hans Blix, the chief United Nations weapons inspector, who, in February 2002, was asked to lead a team of U.N. weapons inspectors into Iraq to search for weapons of mass destruction.
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/leopold7.html
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 18 October 2005 :
- Resistance car bomber blasts US armored column in Rawah at midday Tuesday
- US soldier reported killed in midday ambush in al-Fallujah
- Resistance assassinates first deputy puppet governor of al-Anbar Province
- Resistance bomb blasts US patrol Tuesday morning north of Baghdad
- Resistance bomb blasts US supply convoy southwest of Kirkuk late Tuesday morning
- Resistance shoots down unmanned US spy plane Tuesday morning, ar Ramadi
- Resistance bombards joint US-Iraqi puppet headquarters in Hit early Tuesday
- Car bomber hits US column going through Abu Ghurayb Tuesday morning
- Resistance bomb blasts US patrol in Hur Ruajab early Tuesday
- Resistance bombards US military headquarters in Samarra early Tuesday
- Resistance bomb blasts Iraqi puppet troops south of al-Yusufiyah Tuesday morning
- Resistance ambushes puppet al-Husayn Brigade troops at noon, Salman Bak
http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2005/1005/iraqiresistancereport_181005.htm
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Two Marines killed in western Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq More American deaths are being reported in Iraq.
http://www.kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=3992198&nav=HMO6
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Hungarian Tanks Leave for Iraq
Seventy-seven tanks left Hungary on Oct. 17 en route for Iraq, where they will be used to bolster the countrys armed forces, the Hungarian Defense Ministry said Oct. 17.
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=1179715&C=landwar
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50 Afghan election staff dismissed for alleged fraud:
A UN-backed election commission has dismissed about 50 of its staff for suspected fraud in last months legislative polls, officials said on Sunday, raising fears for the legitimacy of Afghanistans final formal step toward democracy.
http://snipurl.com/ipdx
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Zionist aparthied: Israel to further restrict major highways to Jews only
Israel plans separate roads for West Bank Palestinians :
Israel was Wednesday considering the imposition of a permanent ban on Palestinians using major highways in the West Bank in a bid to improve security for settlers living in the occupied territory.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10670.htm
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Israel grabs more land for new colonies than it returned in Gaza
Israel redraws the roadmap, building quietly and quickly; settler population grows as Sharon grabs more West Bank land than he returned in Gaza
At the northern edge of Jerusalem, on the main road to the Palestinian city of Ramallah, three towering concrete walls are converging around a rapidly built maze of cages, turnstiles and bomb-proof rooms.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,16518,1594808,00.html
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U.S. Urges Palestinians to Bar Hamas From Vote :
Palestinian representatives say that Mr. Abbas is receptive to strengthening the rules as Washington wants, as long as it does not look as if he is responding only to American pressure.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10677.htm
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UAE: Israel's nuclear Arsenal threats stability
The United Arab Emirates warned of the danger of Israel's tenacity of its nuclear arsenal causing a threat to the Middle East peace and stability, calling upon the world community to vote in favor of two draft resolutions dealing with the danger of the Israeli Nuclear weapons and creating of the Middle East a free from nuclear weapon region.
http://english.bna.bh/?ID=36804
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Fleeing Palestine: My right to return :
To the sound of gunfire, Ghada Karmi was forced to flee her home in Palestine 57 years ago. Now back in Ramallah, she has chronicled every detail of her harrowing flight.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article320551.ece
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History Proves That Israel Will Kill US Military Personnel
Many people on the internet are watching the killings of US military personnel in western Iraq's border region, and are taking note of how the killings only benefit the Israeli program to take the war into Syria.
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_members&Number=293856723
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Israeli Spying: The Mother of all Scandals
So here is the mother of all scandals. For two years, the FBI has suspected AIPAC of spying for a foreign country, and for those two years (and for decades before) that group suspected of spying for Israel has been reshaping the US Congress for the benefit of Israel.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/motherofallscandals.html
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The Israeli Spy Ring
Word is that Fitzgerald asked for and received permission from the Italian Parliament to share the report on the Nigerian forgers with Paul McNulty, the prosecutor of the AIPAC spy case.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/spyring.html
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Iran says arrested British agent for twin bombings
Tehran, Iran, Oct. 17 An individual arrested in connection with Saturdays twin bombings in the south-western city of Ahwaz has confessed to have received British training in Iraq to carry out the attacks, the Iranian Majlis (Parliament) deputy for the oil-rich city announced on Monday.
http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=4031
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White House Watch: Cheney resignation rumors fly:
Sparked by today's Washington Post story that suggests Vice President Cheney's office is involved in the Plame-CIA spy link investigation, government officials and advisers passed around rumors that the vice president might step aside and that President Bush would elevate Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/051018/18whwatch.htm
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Case Against Cheney :
While Cheney may not have done the deed directly, it is comic to suggest that the vice president -- who was in constant contact with both Libby and Rove around the time of the leak -- could have been unaware of any serious effort to discredit Wilson by "outing" his wife as a CIA agent.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10663.htm
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The F List:
Here's a list of folks who have either testified or have been interviewed by Patrick Fitzgerald (or by FBI agents) in connection with the Plame probe.
http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2005/10/the_f_list.html
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Sleuths Crack Tracking Code Discovered in Color Printers
It sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it isn't. The pages coming out of your color printer may contain hidden information that could be used to track you down if you ever cross the U.S. government.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10668.htm
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