bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update ===
Peace on Earth Means No More War
The story goes that when the nonviolent Jesus was born into abject poverty to homeless refugees on the outskirts of a brutal empire, angels appeared in the sky to impoverished shepherds singing, Glory to God in the highest and peace on earth! That child grew up to become, in Gandhis words, the greatest nonviolent resister in the history of the world, and was subsequently executed by the empire for his insistence on justice.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11378.htm
===
More Americans growing weary of civil liberties sacrifices
Like many Americans, the Rev. Dan Hutt of Palo Alto was prepared to sacrifice some freedom for more safety in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/13482242.htm
===
Who Will Fight for the Constitution?: The Year of Vanished Credibility
Start with Bush. Never at ease before the cameras, he now has the glassy stare and mirthless smile of a cornered man with nowhere left to run.
http://www.counterpunch.com/cockburn12242005.html
===
U.S., Citing Abuse in Iraqi Prisons, Holds Detainees
The commander of American-run prisons in Iraq says the military will not turn over any detainees or detention centers to Iraqi jailers until American officials are satisfied that the Iraqis are meeting United States standards for the care and custody of detainees.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051225/NEWS06/512250505/1012/NEWS06
===
In case you missed it: Torture Inc. Americas Brutal Prisons
Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic Chemicals, Does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8451.htm
===
IHRC wants CIA planes searched
The Irish Human Rights Commission (IHRC) said it was "seriously concerned" about reports that US aircraft landing at Irelands Shannon airport may be carrying detainees to secret locations where they were at risk of torture.
http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/dec2005-daily/24-12-2005/world/w5.htm
===
Amnesty seeks fair procedures for US professor Sami Al-Arian
Amnesty International said this week that it notes the recent acquittal by a jury of the most serious of terrorism-related charges against former Florida professor Sami Al-Arian, and urges fair procedures in the resolution of outstanding charges against him, on which the jury deadlocked.
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/051224/2005122415.html
===
Is the US State Department still keeping April Glaspie under wraps?
It is now more than fifteen years since that fateful meeting on July 25, 1990 between then-US Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie and President Saddam Hussein that the Iraqi leader interpreted as a green light from Washington for his invasion of Kuwait eight days later.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11376.htm
===
Former aide to Powell opens fire on US administration
"What I saw was a cabal between the vice president of the United States, Richard Cheney, and the secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, on critical issues that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made," the paper recalled Wilkerson saying in a speech at the New America Foundation in October.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051224/pl_afp/usiraqcritic_051224173411
===
US soldiers kill three Iraqis north of Baghdad
"According to the police investigation the US soldiers arrested Dhrgham Shiyaa in his house and took him to his neighbor house where they arrested Fuad Abdullah Ubaid, a policeman, and his cousin Ahmed Karim Khalaf, an army soldier, and killed the three,"the source said
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-12/25/content_3968697.htm
===
2 Iraq soldiers killed south of Baghdad
Mortar rounds landed at a military base in Baghdad on Sunday, killing two Iraqi soldiers, police source told Xinhua.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-12/25/content_3967200.htm
===
4 US Soldiers Killed in Western Iraq
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-12/24/content_3965330.htm
===
U.S. Soldier Killed
Master Sgt. Joseph J. Andres, Jr., 34, of Seven Hills, Ohio, died in Balad, Iraq, on Dec. 24, of injuries sustained earlier that day in Baqubah, Iraq
http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2005/nr20051225-12218.html
===
U.S. Soldier Killed
A Soldier assigned to the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade died of wounds sustained from a rocket-propelled grenade attack on Dec. 24 while on a routine patrol near Hawijah, in northern Iraq.
http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20051229.txt
===
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 24 December 2005
- American soldier reported killed in roadside bombing in ar-Ramadi.
- Resistance sharpshooter kills US soldier in al-Fallujah.
- Traffic accident: Iraqi civilian truck reportedly crashes into US Marine Humvee in al-Fallujah, killing four sleeping Marines.
- One US soldier reported killed in bombing in at-Tarimiyah.
- Three US troops reported killed in Resistance bombing in al-Mushahadah.
- US soldier reported killed in highway bombing in al-Latifiyah.
- Resistance car bomber blasts joint US-Iraqi column south of al-Yusufiyah, reportedly killing two US troops.
- Resistance bomb disables American Bradley armored vehicle, reportedly killing US soldier in Tall Afar.
http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2005/1205/iraqiresistancereport_241205.htm
===
Spying broader than Bush admitted - NYT
The National Security Agency has conducted much broader surveillance of e-mails and phone calls without court orders than the Bush administration has acknowledged, The New York Times reported on its Web site.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051224/ap_on_go_pr_wh/domestic_spying;_ylt=Avrf.BOVRrwIH28qcW0ttbCs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ
===
U.S. spying broader than acknowledged: report
This may explain that stinky man lurking around the hedges.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051224/spying_report_051224/20051224?hub=TopStories
===
NSA Snooping And Israeli Connection Questioned
Is the Times protecting Israeli interests to the detrimnet of America, leading to censorship of important stories like the motives behind the Iraqi War, 9/11, the Patriot Act and NSA snooping on Americans.
http://www.rense.com/general69/nsan.htm
===
Israel is the reason America is at war
George Bush told the American people the reason we had to start a war in Iraq was because Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction. In addition, the President said Iraq had ties to Al Qaeda. Both of these assertions are false. Why then, did the US invade Iraq? It turns out the main reason is Israel. Iraq was a potential threat to the Jewish state.
http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=46347
===
Military School Sexual Harassment Persists
Washington - Sexual assaults and harassment are still significant problems at the nation's military academies, polls of students at the schools show, despite recent scandals that triggered intensive training to prevent the behavior.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/122405G.shtml
===
-muslim voice-
___________________________________
BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
All views expressed herein belong to the individuals concerned and do not in any way reflect the official views of Hidayahnet unless sanctioned or approved otherwise.
If your mailbox clogged with mails from Hidayahnet, you may wish to get a daily digest of emails by logging-on to http://www.yahoogroups.com to change your mail delivery settings or email the moderators at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the title "change to daily digest".
YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS
- Visit your group "hidayahnet" on the web.
- To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
