bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update ===
Jerusalem Post - True believers: Converts to Islam are rapidly expanding the reach of the world's fastest growing religion - including in Israel
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It's Friday afternoon, a week after the July 7 bombings in London, and the central mosque of London at Russell Square is crammed. Worshipers flood the mosque and, even though it seems as if there is no more room inside or outside, the mosque's attendants unfold more and more praying carpets.
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Ayalon: "I killed Arabs more than Hamas killed Jews"
Ami Ayalon, former head of the Israel Security Service, and one of the leaders of the Labor party, said that he does not object to negotiating with Hamas movement if it becomes part of the Palestinian Authority, saying that he "killed Arabs more than Hamas fighters killed Jews" during his service.
Ayalon said that that for 38 years, he was part of the Israeli security services, killed Arabs, and saw colleagues get killed by Arabs, "therefore, if someone kills somebody from my nation, this cannot be a reason for not negotiating with him, but I will not negotiate with those who say they will continue the killing".
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Video Purports To Show Failed Suicide Bomber Executed By U.S. : - WARNING -
This video shows disturbing images and should only be viewed by a mature audience
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Nowhere to run :
To describe Iraq as the most foolish war of the last 2,014 years is a sweeping statement, but the writer is well qualified to know.
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In case you missed it:
Ramsey Clark : Demonize to Colonize :
The "rogue states" condemned by President Bush are "rogue" because they do not submit to U.S. authority.
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Bush's Fascist Valhalla :
The expanded powers of the Pentagon were presented in a proposal by a presidential commission headed by Lawrence Silberman and former Senator Charles Robb, two members of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the 9-11 "whitewash" commission.
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9/11: Only one logical reason Israeli spies were cheering near burning WTC
According to the police report, one of the passengers told the officers they had been on the West Side Highway in Manhattan "during the incident" — referring to the World Trade Center attack. The driver of the van, Sivan Kurzberg, told the officers, "We are Israeli. We are not your problem. Your problems are our problems. The Palestinians are the problem." The other passengers were his brother Paul Kurzberg, Yaron Shmuel, Oded Ellner and Omer Marmari. Eventually, The Forward, a respected Jewish newspaper in New York, reported the FBI concluded that two of the men were Israeli intelligence operatives.
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With detainees, we're training terrorists
We are a paragon of hypocrisy, promoting the rule of law and denouncing human rights violations among others while systematically breaching them ourselves. So blind is this administration to the consequences of its actions that it has now jeopardized its East European allies, who are under scrutiny by the European Union for violating human rights laws if they allowed the CIA "black sites" to flourish.
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Human Rights Watch's Open Letter to Hilary Clinton about Israel's Wall
Below is a remarkable letter from Human Rights Watch (HRW) critical of Senator Hillary Clinton's position on Israel's Wall. It is seldom that a human rights group publicly criticizes individual members of Congress!
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Mike Harris: "I want the f---ing Indians out of the park."
FOREST, Ont.—Only hours before native activist Anthony (Dudley) George was shot dead outside Ipperwash Provincial Park, former premier Mike Harris angrily said, "I want the f---ing Indians out of the park," a public inquiry heard yesterday.
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Bush's Bloody Strategy for Victory
We're beginning to see the outlines of Bush's military strategy in Iraq. It's not withdrawal. Don't kid yourself. Bush intends to prevail. While he may, under domestic pressure, bring 10,000 or 20,000 or even 50,000 troops home, he has no intention of ending this war.
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Growing bored of the carnage … as crime of the century unfoilds
The use of WP by the Saddam Hussein against the Kurds in 1991 was cited by the US Defence Department in 1995 as an example of the dictator's own infamy, and was one of the justifications for regime change. The US have also used thermobaric or "fuel air" weapons and depleted uranium shells. Really, if they wanted to turn public opinion against them, the occupying forces could not have done better if they tried.
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To heal or to patch?
Military mental health workers in Iraq
As part of a "combat stress detachment," her job is to help soldiers cope with the horror of the battlefield -- so that they can return to it as soon as possible. - "I do ache for these guys," says Col. Levandowski. "But if you send too many (soldiers) home, the risk is that mental health will be seen as a ticket out of country."
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Ex - Powell Aide Criticizes Bush on Iraq :
Wilkerson said that Cheney must have sincerely believed that Iraq could be a spawning ground for new terror assaults, because ''otherwise I have to declare him a moron, an idiot or a nefarious bastard.''
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Former weapons inspector claims WMD never the issue in Iraq:
The world now knows that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but that hasn't stopped President Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney this week from labelling people who accuse them of faking the evidence as 'dishonest,' 'reprehensible,' 'corrupt' and 'shameless.'
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Abuse of prisoners in Iraq widespread, officials say:
Iraqi authorities have been torturing and abusing prisoners in jails across the country, current and former Iraqi officials charged.
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Whistleblower! - US Interrogator Confirms Routine Iraq Torture :
Here's a story that will disappear until bloggers start talking about it. Only PBS Frontline and Democracy Now! have dared to interview U.S. interrogator Tony Lagouranis, who reports widespread torture and abuse throughout Iraq.
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A war supporter disillusioned in Iraq:
He believed in the fight, his family said, until he entered the war zone.
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Hospitals Come Under Siege:
Hospital personnel are reporting regular raids and interference by the U.S. military as fighting continues in the volatile Al-Anbar province of Iraq. The U.S. raids come as the hospitals face increasing lack of vital supplies and equipment.
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US conjures up Iraqi cataclysms to delay retreat:
Talk of a jihadist takeover if American troops withdraw is an absurd ploy
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 28 November 2005
- American sniper reported killed in Resistance attack on US camp in ar-Ramadi
- Massive US military columns converge on ar-Ramadi for major American offensive
- Resistance ambushes US patrol in eastern al-Fallujah
- Resistance bombards US headquarters east of al-Fallujah early Monday morning
- Member of collaborationist Islamic Party assassinated in 'Amiriyat al-Fallujah
- Two US troops reported killed in Resistance ambush of US patrol, Abu Ghurayb
- Two US troops reported killed in bomb attack on armored column in Baghdad's ar-Rustamiyah district
- British mercenary "security contractors" reported killed in ambush in southern Baghdad
- Resistance bombards US headquarters in ad-Durah
- Resistance bomb blasts puppet "Wolf Brigade" patrol near Jurf as-Sakhr
- Resistance bomb rips through US military fuel convoy in Balad
- US soldier reported killed in roadside bombing in Mosul's Tall ar-Rumman area
- Two US troops reported killed in roadside bombing in Mosul
- US forces discover, close down two more secret torture prisons run by puppet "Iraqi Interior Ministry" Shi'i sectarians
- Resistance bomb blasts US column just east of al-Hawijah
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U.S. casualties in Iraq climbing again:
The latest figures issued by the Department of Defense and other U.S. and Iraqi official sources reveal an insurgency still raging unabated in which the number of total casualties inflicted on U.S. troops is once again climbing
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Killings Linked to Shiite Squads in Iraqi Police Force:
With loyalties to banned paramilitary groups, the fighters have kidnapped, tortured and slain Sunnis, officials and witnesses say.
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Witness says he was bribed, tortured to testify in Hariri inquiry
Syrian Witness in U.N. Inquiry on Beirut Killing Reports Bribes
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Nov. 28 - A man claiming to be a former Syrian intelligence agent in Lebanon has said on Syrian state television that Lebanese officials tortured him and offered bribes to persuade him to present false testimony against Syria to a United Nations commission investigating the assassination of Rafik Hariri, the former Lebanese prime minister.
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Syria wants UN report changed after witness recants:
Syrian officials demanded that a UN report implicating them over the February murder of five-time Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri be revised after state television broadcast the apparent recanting of a witness.
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Dozens wounded as Palestinians riot in Israeli jail
RAMALLAH, West Bank Nov 29-- Dozens of Palestinian inmates and Israeli guards were wounded in overnight clashes at a military prison in the occupied West Bank, sources on both sides said Tuesday.
Police who shot Brazilian on Tube 'to escape charges':
THE two police marksmen who shot dead an innocent Brazilian in the belief that he was a suicide bomber will escape criminal charges for murder or manslaughter, sources close to the inquiry believe.
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Australia: Government's own see the danger in terrorism laws:
As the Senate inquiry makes clear, an ill-considered response to the terrorist threat creates a second threat to our values and way of life.
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CIA Flights In Europe:
The Hunt for Hercules N8183J: Last Friday, the Swiss prosecutor made it clear that he has no compunctions about picking a fight with the world's sole remaining superpower.
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Refusal to present ID sparks test of rights:
Woman said 'no' at Federal Center while on public bus
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Cunningham resigns after bribery plea:
U.S. Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, a California Republican, resigned on Monday after pleading guilty to taking $2.4 million in bribes in exchange for help in securing Defense Department contracts.
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Randy Cunningham's Crash Landing:
With search warrants in hand, the feds rummaged through Cunningham's $2.55 million mansion in the exclusive conclave of Rancho Santa Fe, outside San Diego, looking for evidence linking the 8-term Republican to Mitchell Wade, the founder and CEO of MZM, Incorporated, one of the Pentagon's top 100 contractors.
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Pentagon Ends New Work On D.C. Firm's Contract:
Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.), a member of the House defense appropriations subcommittee, acknowledged last week that his relationship with MZM founder Mitchell J. Wade is being examined by federal
authorities.Over the past three years it was also awarded several contracts, worth more than $600,000, by the Executive Office of the President
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Fox News, MSNBC devoted scant coverage to Rep. Cunningham's guilty pleas, resignation:
In the hours after Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-CA) pleaded guilty to federal charges of conspiracy and tax evasion and subsequently announced his resignation from the House of Representatives, Fox News and MSNBC devoted scant coverage to the unfolding story.
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Abramoff Sought Bush Officials' Aid in Indian-Tribe Fee Dispute :
Lobbyist Jack Abramoff sought the help of U.S. Interior Department officials to save the job of an Indian leader under fire for $37 million in fees his tribe paid Abramoff and a partner, according to interviews and e-mails.
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The Abramoff affair: Snapshots from an empire of corruption:
Christian fundamentalists and Internet gambling
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Marines caught on camera again
Stills from a secretly-shot video showing naked soldiers being pelted with eggs and wrestling in mud have been released.
The few, the proud, the seriously perverted! Make sure to show this to your kids before the recruiters can get to them.
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