bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update ===
Shock, awe and Hobbes have backfired on America's neocons
The American imperial strategists invested deeply in the belief that through spreading terror they could take power. Neoconservatives such as Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and the recently indicted Lewis "Scooter" Libby, learned from Leo Strauss that a strong and wise minority of humans had to rule over the weak majority through deception and fear, rather than persuasion or compromise.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11398.htm
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NSA Spied on U.N. Diplomats in Push for Invasion of Iraq
This pretty much proves that Bush's illegal spying had little to do with terror and everything to do with eliminating opposition to his war.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1227-26.htm
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Bush was denied wiretaps, bypassed them
U.S. President George Bush decided to skip seeking warrants for international wiretaps because the court was challenging him at an unprecedented rate.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11396.htm
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Defense Lawyers in Terror Cases Plan Challenges Over Spy Efforts
Defense lawyers in some of the country's biggest terrorism cases say they plan to bring legal challenges to determine whether the National Security Agency used illegal wiretaps against several dozen Muslim men tied to Al Qaeda. The lawyers said in interviews that they wanted to learn whether the men were monitored by the agency and, if so, whether the government withheld critical information or misled judges and defense lawyers about how and why the men were singled out.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11395.htm
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By surrendering our liberties, we hand victory to terrorists
The authorization of domestic spying without warrants amounts to nothing less than a surrender of our civil liberty, the precise thing that guarantees our freedom and makes us so different from those enemies of freedom from whom the Bush administration is so determined to protect us.
http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news5/baltsun5v.htm
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In the Name of Homeland Security, Telecom Firms Are Deluged With Subpoenas
Operating under new powers to combat terrorism, law enforcement agencies are making unprecedented demands on the telecommunications industry to provide information on subscribers, company attorneys say.
http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/story1a041002.html
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The I-Word is Gaining Ground
For those interested in some of the most compelling charges against the president, I offer a brief summary:
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut?bid=7&pid=45006
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Chris Floyd: Clowntime is Over: The Last Stand of the American Republic
It has long been evident, that Bush and Cheney do believe their clique should by all rights rule the country -- and that anyone who opposes their unrestrained dominion is automatically "anti-American," an enemy of the state.
http://tinyurl.com/9r3ry
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U.S. takes terror fight to Africa's 'Wild West'
Critics say Saharan plan backs despots, is magnet for trouble
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/12/27/MNGISGDLR91.DTL
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Jabbar al Kubaysi freed: US accused me to mobilise the world against them
Abdeljabbar al Kubaysi, the secretary general of the Iraqi Patriotic Alliance, has been released along with other high profile political prisoners in Iraq. He had been kidnapped on September 3, 2004, by US forces in Baghdad and transferred to the special prison at the airport.
In his first statement today Jabbar reported about the inhumane treatment by the US army. The first ten days he was kept in a box of less than 70 cm width with his arms and legs completely cuffed and his eyes blind-folded. He was continuously interrogated and deprived of any sleep. Any movement resulted in self-injury.
full article at: http://www.antiimperialista.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4039&Itemid=148
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Report: Iraq prison abuse rampant
Troops from the US army's elite 82nd Airborne Division routinely beat and mistreated Iraqi prisoners at a base near Falluja in central Iraq, a New York-based human rights group says.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6232B9EA-B754-4ED3-830F-4A0F7776B38C.htm
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Documents reveal Iraq prisoner abuse
The US navy has investigated a number of alleged abuses of Iraqi prisoners by US marines, including an alleged mock execution of four Iraqi juveniles.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/48417513-1E87-48FD-9E8C-6C6961F25D8D.htm
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More Iraq prisoner abuse alleged
Members of a US special operations task force punched and abused prisoners in Iraq in front of intelligence agents, then threatened the agents to keep quiet, a document has revealed.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/3E1AE5A7-647F-4AC1-B1E6-39A0C624BCFB.htm
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Iraq prisoner abuse trials shift to US
The US military has said that the trials of three US soldiers accused of prisoner abuse in the Abu Ghraib scandal will be moved to the United States from Iraq.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/49A53B81-D25F-4612-BCA8-1F59478D48D1.htm
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More Iraq prison abuse cases emerge
New cases of prisoner abuse by US soldiers in Iraq have come to light, three months after the abuse-scandal first shocked the world.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/04B62832-DEBB-4872-A91F-A7058AC4C94B.htm
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Kurds plan to invade South
Kurdish leaders have inserted more than 10,000 of their militia members into Iraqi army divisions in northern Iraq to lay the groundwork to swarm south, seize the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and possibly half of Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city, and secure the borders of an independent Kurdistan.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11397.htm
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Israel Ex-commandos Training Kurds in North Iraq
Report: Dozens of former Israeli commandos have been training Kurdish security forces in northern Iraq, supplying them with equipment worth millions of dollars, Yedioth Aharonot newspaper reported
http://www.islamonline.org/English/News/2005-12/01/article05.shtml
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In case you missed it:
SEYMOUR M. HERSH: PLAN B
Ehud Barak, the former Israeli Prime Minister, who supported the Bush Administrations invasion of Iraq, took it upon himself at this point to privately warn Vice-President Dick Cheney that America had lost in Iraq; according to an American close to Barak, he said that Israel had learned that theres no way to win an occupation. The only issue, Barak told Cheney, was choosing the size of your humiliation.
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040628fa_fact
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How useful is US propaganda in Iraq?
Posted Dec 28, 2005 05:10 AM PST - Category: IRAQ
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1227/dailyUpdate.html
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Freed German hostage says Iraq captors not criminals
A former German hostage who spent 24 days in the hands of unknown captors in Iraq said her kidnappers were not criminals and had demanded humanitarian aid for Sunni Arab regions.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051226/wl_mideast_afp/iraqgermanyhostage
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Propaganda:
Pro-War Group Takes to the Airwaves
Newly found Iraqi documents show that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, including anthrax and mustard gas, and had "extensive ties" to al Qaeda. The discoveries are being covered up by those "willing to undermine support for the war on terrorism to selfishly advance their shameless political ambitions."
http://tinyurl.com/72rm9
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Ireland: Ahern accused of 'following orders from Washington'
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is shining the shoes of US president George Bush by allowing Shannon Airport to be used by American war planes, it was claimed today.
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=167199862&p=y67zxx568
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20 killed during failed jailbreak
Twenty Iraqi detainees have been killed attempting to break out of a prison in the Baghdad district of Kadhamiyah.
http://tinyurl.com/b24sm
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U.S. Bombs Kill Three Civilians Including 12 Year Old Girl
At midnight Tuesday, U.S. warplanes launched an air raid killing three Iraqis in Al-Dolouieya, 90 kilometres north of Baghdad, a police source said. Police captain Yassine Khalaf told dpa that an Iraqi and his two daughters, one aged 12, were killed when their house was destroyed by U.S. warplanes.
http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action="">
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U.S. army patrol kills 2 Iraqi civilians
In al-Khalidiya, 80 kilometres west of Baghdad, a U.S. army patrol opened fire on an approaching vehicle Wednesday killing two Iraqi civilians and critically wounding two others, a police source said.
http://tinyurl.com/duw7h
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Many Iraqi soldiers see a civil war on the horizon
"I see Iraq gradually becoming three regions that will one day become independent," said Jafar Mustafir, a close adviser to Iraq's Kurdish interim president, Jalal Talabani, and the deputy head of Peshmerga for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of two major Kurdish parties. "I see us moving toward the end of Iraq."
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/world/13495252.htm
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Two US Pilots Die in Iraq Helicopter Collision
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051227/ts_nm/iraq_helicopter_dc
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 27 December 2005
- Fourteen Iraqi villagers die Monday night of exposure in frigid weather, following American depopulation of al-Bu Hazim Village west of al-Khalidiyah, making 356 more civilians homeless.
- Four US troops reported killed in Resistance car bombing in Amiriyat al-Fallujah.
- US soldier reported killed by bomb in western Baghdads al-Bayya district.
- Resistance reportedly downs US helicopter, killing two crewmen Monday-Tuesday night.
- US offered high political post to Barzan at-Tikriti if he would testify against his half brother Saddam Hussein.
- Resistance bomb leaves three US troops reported dead in al-Miqdadiyah area.
- Iraqi Resistance marksman reportedly kills US soldier in al-Hawijah.
- Two US soldiers reported killed by Resistance bombing west of Mosul.
- Resistance bomb leaves two US soldiers reported dead in western Mosul.
http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2005/1205/iraqiresistancereport_271205.htm
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US Allies Reducing Troop Levels in Iraq
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051227/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_coalition
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Most Japanese Want Iraq Troops Home Soon
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/T76422.htm
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Ukrainian, Bulgarian Troops Leave Iraq
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1107AP_Iraq_Coalition.html
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Poland Postpones Full Pullout of Troops From Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/27/AR2005122700901_pf.html
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War pimp alert:
Mossad: 1 nuclear bomb wont suffice Iran
Mossad Chief Meir Dagan says during Knessets Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting, Iranian strategic decision to reach nuclear independence exists; they won't stop when they reach the level which would supply one bomb, but will continue and create more fissionable material
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3190940,00.html
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Two U.S. Soldiers Killed in Afghan Blast
"This afternoon at about 3 p.m., a U.S. vehicle hit a bomb in Spinjamaat area of Sawki district. Two U.S. soldiers were killed, another two soldiers and an interpreter were injured, while the vehicle was totally destroyed," Assadullah Wafa, provincial governor of Kunar told Xinhua.
http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/2239/2005-12-28/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Booming and broke - a tale of two cities
Four years after the fall of the Taliban, major reconstruction in Kabul is polarising rich and poor
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,1674404,00.html
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Nuking Iran With the UN's Blessing
Only the American people can stop it
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/hirsch.php?articleid=8312
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Palestine Press Releases
Jewish and Palestinian organisations defy EU secrecy
European organisations today defied the refusal of EU Ministers to publish a report complied by their own diplomats regarding Israeli violations of international law with regard to East Jerusalem. Over 30 Jewish, Palestinian, peace and anti-poverty groups from around Europe will publish the suppressed Report on their websites.
FULL ARTICLE AND REPORT AT: http://www.waronwant.org/?lid=11418
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Report: "9200 detainees are imprisoned in Israeli prisons"
Report: 9200 detainees are imprisoned in more than 28 Israeli prisons -since 1967 Isreal has arrested more than 650.000 Palestinains
The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees and Freed Detainees, reported that 9200 Palestinian detainee are still detained in more than 28 Israeli prisons, detention facilities, and interrogation centers.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15721&Itemid=147
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Israel fires to enforce Gaza Strip "no-go zone"
Israel shelled the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday after the army warned Palestinians that it would declare a "no-go zone" to try to stop cross-border rocket fire by militants.
http://tinyurl.com/9mzc6
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James Petras - The Politics of Language, Escalation or "Retaliation"
The empirical evidence provides the basis for concluding that Israeli military attacks on Palestinians, by their systematic and continuous nature, are not retaliatory; they are clearly detonators of Palestinian military responses. Israelis are not victims rather victimizers, as it evident from a multiplicity of actions:
http://peacepalestine.blogspot.com/2005/12/james-petras-politics-of-language.html
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Buffer zone angers Palestinians?
The Ruling Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) says it will hold Israel responsible for any consequences of its decision to establish a buffer zone in northern Gaza.
http://tinyurl.com/c2yzs
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Freedoms are gone, adviser to Putin says
The most outspoken of President Vladimir Putin's senior advisers abruptly resigned on Tuesday, warning that Russia's nascent political freedoms have been lost and that the Kremlin's economic choices have been poor. He also said that he had no more ability to influence the government's course.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/12/27/news/russia.php
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Kremlin reasserts control of oil, gas
To date, the Kremlin has effectively renationalized almost a third of the formerly private oil-and-gas sector. Other developments also point to growing state ambitions:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1228/p01s01-woeu.html
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Selling Out - $1.3 Trillion of American Companies Sold to Foreign Corps
The following staggering amount of our wealth producing companies has been sold to foreign owners in the 10 years from 1995 through 2005. Below is a partial list of the 8,600 U.S. companies sold.
http://www.economyincrisis.org/article_15.html
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