bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update ===
MI6 and CIA 'sent student to Morocco to be tortured'
An Ethiopian claims that his confession to al-Qaeda bomb plot was signed after beatings
Binyam Mohammed, 27, says he spent nearly three years in the CIA's network of 'black sites'. In Morocco he claims he underwent the strappado torture of being hung for hours from his wrists, and scalpel cuts to his chest and penis and that a CIA officer was a regular interrogator.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11277.htm
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TORTURE IS AN INSTRUMENT OF TERROR, SAYS ANNAN
Posted Dec 11, 2005 08:43 AM PST - Category: TORTURE SCANDAL
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.238027590
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On the Trail of the CIA
Since Sept. 11, the CIA has played a vital role in the war on terror. But what role is it? Operating in the shadows, American secret services have been given wide-ranging powers by the Bush Administration. And they include murder, abduction and torture.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11284.htm
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Low Prices, Widespread Torture
Our new system of global production
This is a story that implicates all of us. Torture, and fear of torture, are factors in holding costs down in our new-age globalized production system. Take just-in-time delivery, add a touch of submersion in shit, fear of beating, fear of drowning, and voilࡠYou get Wal-Mart?s everyday low prices.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11274.htm
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Torture and the Lawless "New Paradigm"
see: http://www.merip.org/mero/mero120905.html
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Are you a terrorist?:
FBI put peaceful protesters in terrorism files:
The names and license plate numbers of about 30 people who protested three years ago in Colorado Springs were put into FBI domestic-terrorism files, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Colorado says.
http://tinyurl.com/c736h
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Incalculable Pain
The Pentagon is underreporting the number of American soldier casualties in Iraq, say House Democrats.
A group of seven House Democrats wrote President Bush this week, accusing the Pentagon of underreporting casualties in Iraq. It's a shocking charge. The letter writers argue that Pentagon casualty reports show only a sliver of the injuries, mostly physical ones from bombs or bullets. But war doesn't work like that, the Democrats declare, adding that the reports skip a horrible panoply of accidents, illness, disease and mental trauma.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11287.htm
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Bush Should Be on Trial Too:
There have been reports from US federal agencies that the White House chose to ignore warnings on possible terrorist attacks on American soil, perhaps to bring together the impetus needed to garner world sympathy and license these ?democratic lawmakers? to pursue their diabolical objectives.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=74462&d=10&m=12&y=2005
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Condoleezza Rice Warned Sept. 6 About Imminent Terror Attack
Five days before Sept. 11, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice was warned that a terrorist attack inside the United States was imminent, a former U.S. senator who headed up a blue-ribbon commission on terrorism revealed late Tuesday.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/rice_hart_9-11.html
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Harold Pinter: "The Crimes of the United States Have Been Systematic, Constant":
Harold Pinter, British playwright and this year's Nobel Literature prize winner, on Wednesday delivered a searing attack on US foreign policy.
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,389251,00.html
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The Diminishing Numbers of Alleged Dead in Auschwitz
I have told you a million, billion, trillion times, DON'T EXAGGERATE!
http://vancouver.indymedia.org/news/2004/08/156377.php
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The Evacuation of Auschwitz
Posted Dec 11, 2005 08:18 AM PST - Category: HIDDEN HISTORY
http://www.rense.com/general69/evac.htm
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Patrick Cockburn: Iraq: the beginning of the end
The state created by Britain after the First World war may be passing away
Iraq is disintegrating as a united state. The election for the National Assembly this week may mark the point of no return. "A Bosnian solution to the Iraq crisis is now on the agenda," says Ghassan Attiyah, a veteran Iraqi commentator. The election is decisive because the Shia and Sunni Arabs and the Kurds - the three main Iraqi communities - show every sign of voting along ethnic and religious lines. Secular and nationalist groups looking for support beyond their own community have their backs to the wall.
http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article332284.ece
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CORNERED BY THE TRUTH
Elwood Bush: It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses!
Elwood Bush: They're not gonna catch us! We're on a mission from God!
It was bizarre at first; even amusing in a hideous little way. When George "Elwood" Bush and Tony "Jake" Blair scrambled up on the international stage shortly after 9-11 and broke into their frenzied Blues Brothers routine, I fully expected the US Congress, the UK Parliament and citizens on both sides of the Atlantic to snort in derision and get up and walk out of the theater. I mean, c'mon...
http://www.haroldpinter.org/
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A comprehensive shredding of the Rep/Dem reasons to continue the war
Pro-War Arguments Don?t Hold Water- A comprehensive shredding of the Rep/Dem reasons to continue the war
http://benfrank.net/blog/2005/12/08/pro_war_arguments/
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Neocons Concentrate on Promoting U.S.-Iran War:
The ultimate neocon goal is a U.S. war with Iran over the nuclear issue. That would serve to postpone indefinitely Washington?s attention to the Palestine question.
http://www.wrmea.com/archives/March_2005/0503032.html
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Scott Ritter: Iraq war ?deliberate deception'
Many pro-war politicians attribute the failure to locate weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to mistakes made by Western intelligence agencies. For Scott Ritter, former chief United Nations weapon inspector in Iraq between 1991-98, it was ?deliberate deception? designed to force regime change.
http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/652/652p7b.htm
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The only way is out:
The ignorance of the American strategists and their allies -- Ahmed Chalabi, Rend Rahim, Kinaan Makiyah, Falih Abdul-Jabar, and the like -- who theorised the US invasion of Iraq is such that they took their interests as reality, forgetting Iraqis' pride in their free will and independence, and in their Arab-Muslim identity which passes to them from father to son.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11278.htm
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EU on US track: truth about US torture forbidden
1) 41 Italian MP inquire on subordination to US
2) Also Austria refuses visa for Haj Ali -- protests
3) Abnaa elBalad's secretary's sentence extended to 4.5 yrs
4) Athens, April 06: anti-imperialist gathering in parallel to ESF
5) Luz Perly C?rdoba, political prisoner of Colombia, speaks out
http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2005/1205/torture_111205.htm
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Juma: Iraqi Resistance Video:
Juma, An Iraqi Sniper is said to be responsible for the deaths of over 100 U.S. military personnel.
- WARNING -
This video shows the reality and horror of war and should only be viewed by a mature audience.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11282.htm
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Sunni cites more secret prisons:
Sunni leader Saleh al-Mutlaq said yesterday that a second and possibly a third secret prison had been discovered in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood, charges that threaten to ratchet up Sunni-Shi'ite tensions just days before Thursday's election of a new parliament.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20051209-101930-7942r.htm
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In case you missed it: Why the U.S. and UK will stay in Iraq: British Petroleum, Shell and Chevron Win Iraqi Oil Contracts
http://www.warprofiteers.com/article.php?id=7989
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France warned Bush against Iraq claims:
The retired chief of the French counterintelligence service, Alain Chouet, told the Los Angeles Times that on two occasions -- in 2001 and 2002 -- his agency told the CIA there was simply no evidence of the plot, which Bush referred to in his 2003 State of the Union speech.
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20051211-075455-4652r
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Ex-Marine leader poses hard questions about war :
He has harsh words for the Bush administration and its policies in the Mideast as well as for the yellow-ribbon crowd that refuses to question U.S. leadership. "Occupation breeds resentment," he said. "When you have a boot on someone's neck, they don't appreciate it."
http://www.charleston.net/stories/default_pf.aspx?newsID=58041
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 10 December 2005
- Bombing in al-Bu Munaysir village near Abu Ghurayb kills a reported three US troops.
- US military admits four American troops killed in Resistance attacks in Baghdad and al-Yusufiyah.
- Two US soldiers reported killed in roadside bombing south of al-Latifiyah.
- US soldier reported killed in ath-Tharthar.
- Battle erupts in al-Mundhiriyah near Iranian border as Resistance, local residents clash with US troops as night falls Saturday.
- Roadside bomb leaves US soldier reported dead in Tall ?Afar.
http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2005/1205/torture_111205.htm
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Pentagon Covering Up Tens of Thousands of U.S. Casualties In Official Reports
Seven Members of Congress issued a letter this week charging that the Pentagon is systematically ?under-reporting casualties in Iraq by only reporting non-fatal casualties incurred in combat.? They asked for a full accounting of the accurate numbers.
http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/10/casualty-cover-up/
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Ex-TC soldier dies of burns :
Akers died from injuries he suffered in November in Iraq, when his military vehicle struck a land mine. One other Michigan soldier died instantly in the attack, and three others were injured.
http://www.record-eagle.com/2005/dec/11iraq.htm
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How the CIA Paid for Judy Miller's Stories:
The Bush era has brought a robust simplicity to the business of news management: where possible, buy journalists to turn out favorable stories and, as far as hostiles are concerned, if you think you can get away with it, shoot them or blow them up.
http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn12102005.html
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EU concealed deal with US to allow 'rendition' flights:
The European Union secretly allowed the United States to use transit facilities on European soil to transport "criminals" in 2003, according to a previously unpublished document. The revelation contradicts repeated EU denials that it knew of "rendition" flights by the CIA.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11276.htm
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Military's Information War Is Vast and Often Secretive :
The 1,200-strong psychological operations unit based at Fort Bragg turns out what its officers call "truthful messages" to support the United States government's objectives, though its commander acknowledges that those stories are one-sided and their American sponsorship is hidden.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11285.htm
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A letter to Senator Rodham Clinton from Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb
was surprised last week when I saw your picture in Ha aretz (November 15, 2005), which was taken near the Wall, just outside of our town. I know that many Palestinians would have loved to welcome you in their homes in Bethlehem, but you did not come to visit us. Perhaps you simply did not have time to stop by and greet us, the people who would be the other half of any agreement which would allow Israel to live in security and peace. Or perhaps while you had Bethlehem in the background of the publicity photos, you had certain of your constituents in New York in the forefront of your mind. In one month s time you will be singing O Little Town of Bethlehem.
http://www.openbethlehem.org
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Condi's trail of lies
At least the "L" word is becoming fashionable.
http://mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=486595
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White House Liars on the Defensive
The bullying Bush insider warned against such belief, dismissing it as naﶥ: "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he declared. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality, we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
Translation: We will say and do what we want and it is your job to make it make sense.
http://counterpunch.org/leupp12092005.html
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Australia: Beach erupts into violence :
ANGRY crowds have singled out and bashed people of Middle Eastern appearance at Sydney's Cronulla beach as racial tension erupted into violence.
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,17532687^661,00.html
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Why December 25?
The historical Jesus wasn't born in the dead of winter, but in early spring. The date for Christmas was chosen not to reference anything about Jesus himself but siply to assimilate (hijack) other religious festivals occuring at or near the Winter Solstice.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/newsletter/2000/dec08.html
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