bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update ===
Western media stereotype Muslims
academic: They're either terrorists bent on jihad, or poor, veil-wearing women, Jenny Jackson reports.
The international media portray Muslims as wild-eyed terrorists and downtrodden women dressed in black, but often Muslims themselves fuel the caricatures, a Carleton University journalism professor said.
http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=11682513-8941-4574-9354-695de54debf1
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The U.S. at War - A History of Shame
"I knew that my God was bigger than his."
- Lt. General William G. "Jerry" Boykin, named Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence after making this statement about the time he headed the U.S. Armys Delta Force in Somalia.
Obscenely named Operation Restore Hope, U.S. and allied troops invaded and occupied Somalia in the early 1990s, bringing a reign of terror. The occupation came to an abrupt end shortly after the Battle of Mogadishu, when Somali fighters shot down two U.S. helicopters, and thousands of Somalis attacked downed U.S. troops. Eighteen U.S. troops were killed, and 84 wounded.
http://rwor.org/a/020/war-of-shame-somalia.htm
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We Now Live in a Fascist State
Knowing the source of this piece makes it all the more disturbing. It is not every day that the editor of a respected national magazine publishes an essay claiming that America is not on the road to becoming, but ALREADY IS, a fascist state.... or words to that affect.
The article below appears in the current issue of Harpers and was written by Lewis H. Lapham
www.harpers.org/LewisLapham.html
http://organicconsumers.org/Politics/harpers101205.cfm
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U.S. Ranks 44th in Worldwide Press Freedom Index
The annual worldwide press freedom index from Reporters Without Borders shows the United States, which is supposedly spreading freedom and liberty throughout the world, is in a fast decline regarding the freedom of its own press.
http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=3&no=254376&rel_no=1
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Flight 77 Hijacker Hani Hanjour - 9/11 Pilot Extraordinaire
The Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, was founded in 1997. The group's Statement of Principles [PDF] published September 2000 stated that "some catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor" would advance their policies.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/hanjour.html
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FLASHBACK: The 9/11 Reichstag Fire
As the sheer scale of the lies that led to war in Iraq become more and more clear to the general public, it is prudent to go back and take a look at the other events that led to war to see is perhaps they were lies as well.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/911_reichstag.html
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A State Of Inequality
The United States is now the third most unequal industrialized society after Russia and Mexico. This is not a club we want to be part of. Russia is a recovering kleptocracy, with a post-Soviet oligarchy enriched by looting. And Mexico, despite joining the rich-nations club of the Organization for Economic and Community Development, has some of the most glaring poverty in the hemisphere.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10733.htm
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The Weapons of Misperceptions:
It is trendy to view any revolutionary movement worthy of its cause as a bunch of terrorists. This attitude is but a terminally lazy reflection. Should the intelligent impulse to honest enquiry be nipped in the bud in any free and democratic state then the concept of a "free world" becomes slightly more farcical.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Oct05/Sinnathurai1022.htm
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U.S. Creates New Clandestine Spy Agency with Domestic And Worldwide Tentacles
| Voices Magazine | Last Thursday, in a memorandum to the National Association of Chiefs of Police, John Negroponte, Director of National Intelligence, and Porter Goss, Director of Central Intelligence, announced the creation of the National Clandestine Service at the CIA.
http://www.voicesmag.com/Archives/kouri/intelligence_czar_clandestine_service_101605.htm
CIA acquires new clandestine leadership role
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/10/13/cia_acquires_new_clandestine_leadership_role/
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Bush at bay:
The CIA leak inquiry that threatens senior White House aides has now widened to include the forgery of documents on African uranium that started the investigation, according to NAT0 intelligence sources.
http://tinyurl.com/7a7bu
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Prelude to a Leak: Gang fight:
How Cheney and his tight-knit team launched the Iraq war, chased their criticsand set the stage for a special prosecutor's dramatic probe.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10731.htm
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How Scary Is This? :
The White House is sweating out the possibility that one or more top officials will soon be indicted on criminal charges. But the Bush administration is immune to prosecution for its greatest offense - its colossal and profoundly tragic incompetence.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10735.htm
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Gassing Iraqis: Karen Hughes Tells a Big Lie :
Last Friday, 21/10/05, she visited Indonesia as Tasked by U.S. President George W. Bush to polish America's image overseas, the undersecretary of state for public diplomacy is in Jakarta to meet leading Muslim clerics and students during a tour of the world's most populous Muslim nation.
She said: "After all he (Saddam Hussein) had used weapons of mass destruction against his own people like he murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent people using poison gas against them."
Karen Hughes, Bushs propaganda minister on call, is apparently a habitual liar.
http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=77
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FLASHBACK: 'Iraq was Invaded to Secure Israel,' says Senator Hollings, and 'Everybody Knows It.'
Posted Oct 24, 2005 01:41 PM PST - Category: IRAQ
I wonder if the families of those dead soldiers knew they died for Israel.
http://www.ihr.org/news/040716_hollings.shtml
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Our Inscrutable Iraq Policy: Why We Did It, What To Do Now, and What Happens Next
Posted Oct 24, 2005 01:38 PM PST - Category: IRAQ
http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski128.html
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U.S. Operatives Killed Detainees During Interrogations in Afghanistan and Iraq :
CIA, Navy Seals and Military Intelligence Personnel Implicated
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10740.htm
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Torture in Iraq:
Firsthand Accounts of Torture of Iraqi Detainees by the US Army's 82nd Airborne Division," a report issued by Human Rights Watch
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10741.htm
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C.I.A. to Avoid Charges in Most Prisoner Deaths
Posted Oct 24, 2005 07:52 AM PST - Category: TORTURE SCANDAL
"Hey, they were still alive when we left them nailed to the ceiling!"
http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/nyt00A.html
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FLASHBACK: How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib
According to interviews with several past and present American intelligence officials, the Pentagons operation, known inside the intelligence community by several code words, including Copper Green, encouraged physical coercion and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners in an effort to generate more intelligence about the growing insurgency in Iraq.
http://www.ccmep.org/2004_articles/iraq/051704_gray_zone.htm
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How Media Help US Efforts to Hide Ground Realities in War-Torn Iraq
In the weeks and months preceding the Iraq war in March 2003, various US officials informed the already baffled public that there would be tactical misinformation for the purpose of derailing Iraqs war stratagems and protecting the lives of American soldiers.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=72099&d=22&m=10&y=2005
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Making a killing:
The American government is hiring private security firms to stabilise Iraq and paying them a fortune to do it. But many of them are unregulated and operate outside the law. Jon Swain joins the hired guns on the streets of Baghdad and assesses the real cost of privatising war
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10738.htm
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Fate of Iraqi charter in balance :
Two Sunni-dominated provinces in Iraq have rejected the country's draft constitution, according to partial results given by election officials. Electoral rules mean the document will fail if three out of the 18 provinces vote "No" by two-thirds or more.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4372094.stm
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In case you missed it:
Malnutrition among Iraqi children has almost doubled since U.S. invasion:
Children who are acutely malnourished are literally wasting away, and for severe cases their condition can be fatal. Acute malnutrition sets in very fast and is a strong indicator of the overall health of children.
http://www.unicef.org/emerg/media_9419.html
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Iraqi oil exports halted as attacks continue :
Iraqi rebels on Monday attacked key oil infrastructure in the north and gunned down 12 building workers, shattering a lull in violence and contributing to a complete halt of oil exports.
http://tinyurl.com/7bhka
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Link - "Iraq Uncensored" - Photo Journal
Click here:
http://www.mothers-milk.org/IraqUncensored/iuindex.html
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Insurgents Step Up Lethal Attacks in Iraq
Wait, I thought that the referendum on the constitution was going to SOLVE ALL THAT!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051024/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 23 October 2005 :
- Resistance car bomb blasts US column near al-Qaim
- Two US troops reported killed in fighting around Baghdad Sunday
- Resistance bombards joint Italian-Iraqi puppet army base in an-Nasiriyah early Sunday
- Resistance bombards US military headquarters near Jordanian border early Sunday
- US soldier reported killed in bombing in northeastern Baghdad early Sunday afternoon
- US soldier reported killed in Sunday morning ambush in Akrakuf west of Baghdad
- Resistance launches two-stage attack on Iraqi puppet army checkpoint north of Tall Afar
- Resistance bomb targets joint patrol south of Tikrit
- Resisatnce bomb blasts American supply convoy early Sunday morning, al Ishaqi
http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2005/1005/iraqiresistancereport_231005.htm
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Iraq war foes ready for 2,000th military death
Cindy Sheehan, the military mother who made her son's death in Iraq a rallying point for the anti-war movement, plans to tie herself to the White House fence to protest the milestone of 2,000 U.S. military deaths in Iraq.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051023/us_nm/iraq_casualties_protest_dc
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Another Iraq war legacy: badly wounded US troops :
The human toll for the U.S. military in the Iraq war is not limited to the nearly 2,000 troops deaths since the March 2003 invasion. More than 15,220 also have been wounded in combat, including more than 7,100 injured too badly to return to duty, the Pentagon said.
http://www.maconareaonline.com/news.asp?id=12320
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U.S. Marine Killed:
A Marine assigned to the 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), was killed in action by small-arms fire during combat operations against the enemy in ar Ramadi, Oct. 23.
http://tinyurl.com/a4kn8
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Voting in Afghanistan; warlords, jihadis, and Iranian-agents :
The western media has scrupulously kept Afghanistan off the front page of America's newspapers. That spot has been reserved for the spurious charges against Syria so that Washington can drum-up support for its next war. But, thoughtful American's should take a second look at Afghanistan and judge for themselves whether any of the administration's goals have been realized
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10739.htm
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U.N. criticizes jailing of Afghan journalist for alleged blasphemy :
The United Nations on Monday criticized a two-year jail sentence given to the editor of a women's magazine for publishing articles deemed anti-Islamic, while a friend expressed concern for his safety in prison.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20051024-0640-journalistjailed.html
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The Dangerously Incomplete Hariri Report
A new United Nations report implicates the Syrian government in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, giving a lift to George W. Bushs demand for regime change in Damascus. But the investigation has many holes, including failure to follow up on a mysterious van connected to the Feb. 14 bombing.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/102205.html
see also: Pivotal Witness in Mehlis UN Report is a Convicted Swindler
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10726.htm
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Syria: The Next Iraq:
The news from Syria shows that the neoconservative plan for the Middle East is still in play
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051024/syria_the_next_iraq.php
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Palestinian official: Peace hope fading :
The Palestinian Authority is steadily losing faith in the US-backed peace plan for the resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
http://tinyurl.com/8kgf6
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Israel and Palestine and America :
If I don't support state religion in Saudi Arabia, Nepal or Alabama, am I a hypocrite for thinking otherwise about Israel?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10737.htm
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In case you missed it:
A one-state solution:
A unitary Arab-Jewish homeland could bring lasting peace to the Middle East. Other article on this topic.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4861.htm
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The Greatest Scandal:
Today, this town is salivating over the prospect that Karl Rove and "Scooter" Libby will be indicted for outing Joe Wilson's wife as a CIA operative. Thirty months ago, many of those anxious to see the White House brought down were hauling its water. Consider the role played by our newspaper of record, the New York Times.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10736.htm
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Brent Scowcroft "Breaks Ranks" with George W. Bush:
In "Breaking Ranks: What Turned Brent Scowcroft Against the Bush Administration?", Jeffrey Goldberg coaxes Brent Scowcroft to delineate his differences with the foreign policy proclivities of George W. Bush, Condoleeza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Cheney, and others.
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/001024.html
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The Devil And Judy Miller
According to our sources, Miller shared Plames identity with her perfidious fellow neocon after deciding not to publish it herself; Novak then called his two White House sourcesone of whom was Karl Rovefor confirmation and wrote the July 14, 2003 column that blew Plames cover.
http://www.radaronline.com/fresh-intelligence/2005/07/15/index.php
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The Troops Dont Defend Our Freedoms :
As a practical matter the troops serve not as a defender of our freedoms but instead simply as a loyal and obedient personal army of the president, ready and prepared to serve him and obey his commands.
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0510g.asp
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Data on FBI cite abuses in secret surveillance:
The FBI has conducted clandestine surveillance on some US residents for as long as 18 months at a time without proper paperwork or oversight, according to classified documents scheduled to be released today.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10732.htm
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Australia: How's this for sedition?:
The latest legislative threat to our freedoms is worthy of contempt
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10734.htm
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Keep terribly mum :
Proposed legislation in Australia would make it a crime for one parent to tell the other that their child had been detained under anti-terror laws.
http://www.sundaytribune.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=160&fArticleId=2962283
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US prison population continued to grow in 2004 :
The U.S. prison population, already the largest in the world, grew by 1.9 percent in 2004, leaving federal jails at 40 percent over capacity, according to Justice Department figures released on Sunday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051024/us_nm/crime_prisons_dc
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