bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update ===
Islam and the Western Media
Islam is the fastest growing religion in the West. Nevertheless, the West has many stereotypes and misconceptions about Islam that are due to the media, prejudice, and ignorance. Islam is often looked upon as a "extremist", "terrorist", or "fundamental" religion. Many people hate Islam and do not want to acknowledge its true teachings. In many cases, the medias reports about Islam are incorrect due to ignorance.
http://www.islamfortoday.com/media.htm
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Crusades betrayed Christian beliefs, Williams tells Muslims
The Crusades were a serious betrayal of Christian beliefs, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, said yesterday.
Speaking 900 years after Christian warriors sacked Jerusalem, the Archbishop said that any attempt to revive the crusading ideal today would not garner much support among Christians.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/24/nbish24.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/11/24/ixhome.html
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New Zealand: Stop targeting Muslims at the border - Locke
The Immigration Service must stop targeting Muslim New Zealanders when they return to the country, Green Party Immigration Spokesperson Keith Locke says.
Javed Khan, President of the Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand has said Muslims are being "harassed" at the border and is calling on the Government to investigate. The Immigration Service has said it makes no apologies for the move.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0511/S00360.htm
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9-11 Proof
And while the government has consistently stated that it did not know where the aircraft were before they struck, this short video clip of the Secretary of Transportation's testimony before the 9/11 Commission shows that Cheney monitored flight 77 for many miles as it approached the Pentagon. How could one of the most heavily-defended buildings in the world have been succesfully attacked, when the Vice President of the United States, in charge of counter-terrorism on 9/11, watched it approach from many miles away?
http://www.911proof.com/
http://www.911truthmovement.org/video/hamilton_win.wmv
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9/11 : Are You Brainwashed?
How did you come to believe things like those statements in the first questions were true? Well, I heard it on.... Well, I saw it on.... Well, I read it in.... You needn't bother finishing those statements; we can do it for you: You, and your neighbours were told the truth by the mass media. The American news media, which is so proud of calling itself free, and has been patting itself on it back for the wonderful job it has done for all us during and after Sept. 11, is the largest, most expensive, mass-brainwashing machine ever assembled in human history. It is a machine that so completely brainwashes the nearly 300 millions Americans, that the Nazis' infamous Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels would be envious.
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=205
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20,000 demonstrate against US military torture training center
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/nov2005/benn-n24.shtml
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Thanksgiving in the CIA's Secret Prisons
Yet, U.S. officials have little sympathy for the prisoners. Collectively, they have admitted responsibility for the deaths of several thousand innocent civilians.
And it only took two weeks of torture to get them to confess to that, too!
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Thanksgiving/story?id=1342154
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The Price of Freedom
Those who have taken our freedom for granted and have not dared to question authority and think for themselves, those who allowed this nation to be led blindly over the cliff and into the abyss of this unnecessary and unjust war, have not paid the price of freedom.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11132.htm
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Report drops Fallujah bombshell
The controversy over the American use of white phosphorus as a weapon of war in Fallujah deepened yesterday when it was revealed that a US intelligence assessment had characterised WP as a "chemical weapon".
"no, no, no, nonononono, you just don't underSTAND! It's a chemical weapon when THEY use it. It's 'illumination' when WE use it. Got that?" -- Official White Horse Souse
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10356665
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Classified Pentagon Document Described White Phosphorus As Chemical Weapon :
A formerly classified 1995 Pentagon intelligence document titled Possible Use of Phosphorous Chemical describes the use of white phosphorus by Saddam Hussein on Kurdish fighters:
http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/21/phosphorus-chemical/
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Video Clips From Fallujah:
http://www.chris-floyd.com/fallujah/
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An Iraqi man carries a victim of a car bomb blast to a hospital in Baghdad:
An Iraqi man carries a child, a victim of a car bomb blast, to a hospital in Baghdad November 24, 2005
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/pictures/BAG203D.htm
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FLASHBACK: CIA and DOD Attempted To Plant WMD In Iraq
In a world exclusive, Al Martin Raw.com has published a news story about a Department of Defense whistleblower who has revealed that a US covert operations team had planted "Weapons of Mass Destruction" (WMDs) in Iraq - then "lost" them when the team was killed by so-called "friendly fire."
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2003/06/266752.shtml
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FLASHBACK: Wolfowitz Admits Iraq War Planned Two Days After 9-11
Judging by recent interviews Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz gave to a handful of media outlets during the past week, the short answer is yes, the public was misled into believing Iraq posed an imminent threat to the United States. Both admit that the war with Iraq was planned two days after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
http://www.utne.com/web_special/web_specials_2003-08/articles/10739-1.html
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Bush knew no Iraq link pre-9/11
US President George W Bush was informed 10 days after the September 11, 2001 attacks that US intelligence had no proof of links between Iraq and this act of terror, The National Journal reported today.
How many times has Bush used the memory of 9-11 to justify his war on Iraq? Each and every time he did, it was a lie. He KNEW Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11.
http://smh.com.au/news/world/bush-knew-no-iraq-link-pre911-report/2005/11/23/1132703230171.html
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 23 November 2005
- Resistance bomb in at-Tamim section of ar-Ramadi leaves one US soldier reported dead
- US soldier reported killed in Resistance ambush in Hit
- US soldier reported killed by Resistance sharpshooter in al-Fallujah
- Resistance bomb reportedly kills US soldier in eastern Baghdad
- Two US soldiers said killed in roadside bombing in Baghdads al-Amiriyah district
- Puppet National Guards assassinate Sunni tribal Shaykh and four of his sons in dawn raid in northeast Baghdad
- US, Iraqi puppet troops raid homes, arrest 30 local residents of southern ar-Ramadi
- Resistance bombards US al-Habbaniyah base
- Noon bomb blast wounds US troops in al-Fallujahs industrial zone
- US soldier reported killed as Resistance mounts repeated attacks on US, Iraqi puppet forces in al-Fallujah on Tuesday-Wednesday night
- Resistance bomb blasts US patrol in at-Taji
- Resistance bombards puppet military base in al-Yusufiyah
- Resistance bomb rips through puppet Shock Troop patrol south of Samarra
- Resistance ambushes pro-American Peshmergah gunmen, Diyala
- Resistance fires two Grad rockets into US base in Kirkuk Airport
- Resistance attacks puppet forces in Mosul
- Resistance bomb blasts Peshmergah patrol early Wednesday morning, Irbil
http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2005/1105/iraqiresistancereport_231105.htm
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Three police officers, member of INA assassinated in Iraq:
An Iraqi Police source told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that Lieutenant Colonel Khalid Hashim and two of his sons were assassinated by gunmen in the area of Doura, southern Baghdad.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=790604
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Two More U.S. Soldiers Killed:
Two U.S. Soldiers were killed when their patrol struck an improvised explosive device on a road southwest of Baghdad Nov. 24.
http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20051142.txt
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Three Who See the War Clearly:
The three faced the choice of defying Pelosi (and, in McKinneys case, the CBC leaderships similar attempts to put forward a face of unity without purpose) or to take advantage of the only chance available since October, 2002 to express an unqualified NO to the Iraq war.
http://www.blackcommentator.com/160/160_cover_see_war_clearly.html
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Wife To Sue U.S.:
THE widow of an al-Jazeera journalist killed in Iraq by an American attack is considering suing the US Government.
http://tinyurl.com/dmeso
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Cash transfer to Kurds raises questions about Bremer era :
Kurdistan officials say the secret, lastminute shipment of cash highlighted the sometimes questionable handling of billions of dollars by the United States during the 14 months Bremer ran Iraq.
http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/35378.html
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White House 'double-crossed' Blair, says Plame husband:
Tony Blair was "doubled crossed" by US President George W Bush's aides in the run-up to the Iraq war, according to the former diplomat at the centre of a political crisis engulfing the White House.
http://tinyurl.com/dqffx
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Why Tony Blair must be forced to face a public inquiry into the Iraq war :
Catherine Green, whose pilot brother, Philip, was a British casualty, explains why she backs today's High Court action pressing for an independent investigation into the conflict
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article328960.ece
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In case you missed it:
Blix: I was smeared by the Pentagon: Hans Blix, the UN chief weapons inspector, lashed out last night at the "bastards" who have tried to undermine him throughout the three years he has held his high-profile post.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3741.htm
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Press Freedom or Freedom to Bomb the Press?
The Bush Plan to Bomb Al-Jazeera
Wars are always dirty. Those engaged in war seldom admit the truth about the brutal means they are using. Those conducting an unpopular occupation are tempted to use all possible means to suppress those who resist occupation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11130.htm
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UK Vows to Prosecute Editors Over Al-Jazeera Report:
British newspapers Wednesday, November 23, accused their government of threatening to prosecute them if they published a leaked document claiming US President George W. Bush threatened to bomb the pan-Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeera.
http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2005-11/23/article06.shtml
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Qatar shock at al-Jazeera bombing report:
Qataris, including senior officials, reacted with shock on Wednesday to newspaper reports in Britain suggesting that George W Bush, the US president, had discussed bombing the Doha headquarters of the Arabic satellite TV channel al-Jazeera.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/92fad322-5c58-11da-af92-0000779e2340.html
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UN convinced US hiding truth about Guantanamo
The United Nations envoy who investigates torture allegations said the United States has "something to hide" at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, the German weekly Die Zeit reported in its latest edition.
http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/nov2005-daily/24-11-2005/world/w12.htm
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Romania Base Focus of Secret Prison Probe :
There's not an American in sight, but the sprawling Soviet-era facility has become a key focus of a European investigation into allegations the CIA operated secret prisons where suspected terrorists were interrogated.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5436648,00.html
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CIA illegal landings to be investigated:
The CIA planes have been spotted at airports in Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Sweden, raising questions whether they are being used to convey suspects subjected to extra-judicial detention and torture.
http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Andre+sprog/English/2005/11/23/164026.htm
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Tenn. Office Linked to CIA Renditions:
The law office of Douglas R. Beaty sits in a small business park near the city's more prosperous suburbs. Nothing on the front door says anything about the CIA or airplanes.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/11/23/national/w094209S94.DTL
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CIA 'may have flown prisoners across Austria' :
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) may have flown detained terrorist suspects across neutral Austrian airspace in 2003, said a newspaper report on Wednesday.
http://tinyurl.com/add6r
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Happy Thanksgiving, Jose Padilla
I'm sure you are thankful for the day in 2003 when the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that the government had no authority to hold you, an American citizen, as an "enemy combatant," despite the fact that you still had to remain in that Navy brig as your case was appealed to the US Supreme Court.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11131.htm
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Jose Padilla's Dirty Secret
Former "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla's criminal indictment for conspiracy to "murder, kidnap and maim," has rightly focused attention on the Bush administration's policy of denying basic rights to "enemy combatants."
Padilla was arrested in May 2002 after allegedly having spent time in an al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan. The Brooklyn-born Muslim convert was accused of plotting to detonate a radiological device in a U.S. city and former attorney general John Ashcroft described Padilla's plot as one of the most serious threats to America after 9/11.
http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2005/11/jose_padillas_d.html
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Investigation Shows Mainstream Media Not Interested In Freedom Of Information
The Pentagons records reveal that the law is broadly usedmore than 10,000 requests have been made since 2000. But they also illuminate a seeming dearth of curiosity by news organizations about the internal files of the U.S. military establishment. This lack of curiosity appears particularly evident among the nations three largest newspapers.
In total, the three papers with daily circulations greater than one million--USA Today, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times -- made just 36 requests of the Pentagon between 2000 and February 2005. USA Today made nine; the Journal, six; and the Times, 21.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2005/241105notinterested.htm
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