bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update ===
Tunisian Scholars Decry Anti-Hijab Remarks
TUNIS, January 4, 2006 (IslamOnline.net) Tunisian scholars have reacted in anger to remarks by the religious affairs minister and a university professor criticizing hijab and one of Prophet Muhammad's (PBUH) companions.
Minister Aboubaker Akhzouri said last week that hijab does not fit with the North African country's cultural heritage. "Akhzour's remarks were politically motivated and had nothing to do with the Islamic teachings," Sheikh Mohamed Mokhtar Al-Salami, former Tunisian mufti, told IslamOnline.net Wednesday, January 4, over the phone.
http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2006-01/04/article05.shtml
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Here are some issues about the September 11th attacks to consider:
- World Trade Center Towers
- Jet fuel does not burn hot enough to melt steel.
- Footage shows explosives were placed in both towers before the attack to cause the towers to disintegrate into dust.
- The towers fell exactly into their footprint, taking the path of most resistance in about 10 seconds, the same amount of time it takes an object to fall that distance in a vacuum.
- The towers tossed massive steel beams 200 feet in each direction, too far to be explained by a gravity collapse.
- Survivors and firefighters report explosions at the BASE of the WTC towers at the same time as the planes hit it - how did Osama do this?
- Pools of molten metal were found 7 stories under the towers 6 weeks after the attack. It takes 5000+ degrees Fahrenheit to turn steel into liquid. Where did this energy come from?
- The top of the south tower began to collapse sideways, then righted itself, falling into it's footprint. This is impossible with only gravity working to collapse the tower.
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Israel planning to give Galilee land to US rabidly extremist Christian fundaMENTAList radicals
Plans for Holy Land theme park on Galilee shore where Jesus fed the 5,000
The Israeli government is planning to give up a large slice of land to American Christian evangelicals to build a biblical theme park by the Sea of Galilee where Jesus is said to have walked on water and fed 5,000 with five loaves and two fish. A consortium of Christian groups, led by the television evangelist Pat Robertson, is in negotiation with the Israeli ministry of tourism and a deal is expected in the coming months. The project is expected to bring up to 1 million extra tourists a year but an undeclared benefit will be the cementing of a political alliance between the Israeli rightwing and the American Christian right.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1677556,00.html
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Why would NSA begin warrantless domestic spying BEFORE 9/11?
Our much esteemed president has barraged the airwaves with claims that the horror of 9/11 made his domestic warrantless spying program absolutely essential.
Ignoring for the moment the fact that its "essentialness" says absolutely nothing about why the government doesn't want to be bothered getting a warrant, how would he explain the fact that the NSA commenced a domestic spying program (spying on its own employees and their contacts among the journalism and congressional worlds?
http://watchingthewatchers.org/story/2006/1/3/144829/6368
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The Decline of the American Empire
The dilemma the US has had for a half-century is that the priorities it must impose on its budget and its imperial plans have never guided its actual behavior and action. It has always believed, as well it should, that Europe and its control would determine the future of world power. But it has fought in Korea, Vietnam, and now Iraq the so-called "Third World" in general where the stakes of power were much smaller.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/kolko2.html
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A President at war with America
President George W. Bush is not backing down from his drive to make the rights-robbing USA Patriot Act become the permanent law of the land and the White House is threatening Republican members of Congress with serious political reprisals if they dont get in line.
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7945.shtml
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First US crime of the year ... and lists
Posted Jan 3, 2006 05:55 PM PST - Category: IRAQ
http://truth-about-iraqis.blogspot.com/
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Why Our Military Despises Donald Rumsfeld
Civilian control over the military is a long established democratic tradition in our country. It was the military that was believed by our founding fathers to be susceptible to plunging our country into foreign adventure. Presently, however, the boondoggles, crimes and recklessness of draft-dodging George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and former Air Force pilot, Donald Rumsfeld, together with their draft-dodging neo-con associates, have turned this expectation upside down. The
civilians are the war-mongers.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/libertyunderground/
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In case you misseed it: Draft Iraq Indictment
The 2003 U.S. invasion and its ongoing occupation of Iraq are illegal, immoral and unjust, aimed at furthering U.S. imperialist aims in the Middle East and the world, not liberating the Iraqi people, but rather subjecting them to new, more brutal and direct forms of foreign domination and turning Iraq into a platform for further aggression and imperial maneuvers.
http://www.bushcommission.org/iraq.htm
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The countrys on the verge of a civil war
Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, V Corps commander since 2003
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=34094
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Elections in 2005, Civil War in 2006?
When Paul Bremer signed into law his dictate that banned the Ba'ath Party, he forgot the age-old notion that the enemy has a vote. In this case the enemy was the two-million plus members of the Ba'ath party who were suddenly disenfranchised from any legitimate role in determining the future of Iraq.
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/themix/30299
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Insurgents burn 19 fuel tankers north of Baghdad
Insurgents attacked a convoy of fuel tankers escorted with police commando in north of Baghdad on Wednesday, setting 19 tankers ablaze and destroying three military vehicles, a police source told Xinhua.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-01/04/content_4009250.htm
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Jobless Iraqis clash with police
Clashes have broken out in Nasiriya in southern Iraq between jobless protesters and police.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C28596F2-F5AF-4F7F-BA67-57EE6814617F.htm
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Billion Dollar Bunker
U.S. plans Baghdad embassy more secure than Pentagon
http://tinyurl.com/96785
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Iraq to give $3bn worth of bonds to Saddam-era creditors
NEARLY $3 billion worth of bonds bearing the name of the Republic of Iraq are scheduled to begin trading in London on January 19, in a private placement that will mark the troubled countrys first appearance in the international debt markets.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9063-1969496,00.html
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War pimp alert: Make them drink their sea of oil
Oil makes people crazy, especially if they are world leaders. Oil is what drove the president and the vice president to the lost-cause war in Iraq, and oil is what is now preventing them from removing the bomb from the stalls of the Persian market.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/665418.html
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Baghdad Burning
There is talk of major mismanagement and theft in the Oil Ministry. Chalabi took over several days ago and a friend who works in the ministry says the takeover is a joke. You know how they used to check our handbags when we first walked into the ministry? She asked the day after Chalabi crowned himself Oil Emperor, Now WE check our handbags after we leave the ministry- you know- to see if Chalabi stole anything.
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/
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28,000 US Troops Evacuated to Germany
The Total number of US troops injured, announced by the DOD, is kind of fishy. It seems like the DOD is trying to hide the real numbers or something.
let's see..
The total number of US soldiers wounded in Iraq, according to DOD, is less than 16000, and there some other 658 troops from Afghanistan. Yet, the counter on Global Security indicates that 20,748 US soldiers were evacuated from Iraq. 2,913 of them were wounded in Action, 5,876 with "non-battle injuries", and another 11,959 because of "diseases". (What kind of non-battle injuries and diseases can evacuate more than 17,000!!!)
http://raedinthemiddle.blogspot.com/2006/01/28000-us-troops-evacuated-to-germany.html
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 3 January 2006
- US shells family home in Hit, killing five: father, mother, three children.
- Resistance kidnaps brother of Iraqi puppet Interior Minister Sulagh in Baghdad.
- Mass grave of 21 Iraqi Sunnis killed by puppet Interior Ministry forces discovered in south Baghdad.
- American air raid kills 14 members of Iraqi family in Bayji.
- Three US troops reported killed in roadside bombing in al-Mundhiriyah on Iraq-Iran border.
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U.S. pushes for PA election to be held on schedule
****U.S. President George W. Bush "wants Palestinian elections to go forward as scheduled" on Jan. 25, a White House official said yesterday, and that Israel should not bar Palestinians from voting in East Jerusalem. "We believe that people must have access to the ballot," the official said. "Arrangements have been made in the past to ensure that those persons can vote, and we believe some arrangements should be possible at this time."****
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/665877.html
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RULES FOR OTHERS, EXCEPTIONS FOR OURSELVES: what about Israel`s WMDS?
Posted Jan 4, 2006 07:30 AM PST - Category: ISRAEL
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/ResponseDetails.jhtml?resNo=433497&itemno=665418&cont=2
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Israel Bonds: Investing in Apartheid
Do you support Apartheid? Buy Israel Bonds
http://www.al-awdany.org/lfp/israelbonds.html
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Abramoff used stolen Native American cash to fund Israel settlers
Fund-Raising: Take It to the (West) Bank. Money meant for the inner city went to fight the intifada. What donors to Jack Abramoff's charity didn't know.
May 2 issue - The pitch from superlobbyist Jack Abramoff was hard to resist: a good way to get access on Capitol Hill, he told his clients a few years ago, was to contribute to a worthy charity he and his wife had just started up. The charity, called the Capital Athletic Foundation, was supposed to provide sports programs and teach "leadership skills" to city youth. Donating to it also had a side benefit, Abramoff told his clients: it was a favored cause of Rep. Tom DeLay.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7615249/site/newsweek/
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Blair's Cynical Policy on Palestine
The British Government likes to portray itself as an honest broker' in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, seeing "blame on both sides". Perhaps because such a position finds no basis in international law, the Government dislikes international institutions getting too involved -- as seen when it tried to prevent the International Court of Justice ruling on the illegality of the Separation Wall 18 months ago.
http://www.counterpunch.com/dearden01042006.html
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Rights group urges US to cut Israel aid
A prominent US human rights organisation has called on the Bush administration to cut back its direct foreign aid to Israel until the latter complies with calls to stop settlement expansion and work on the separation wall.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/198C6D92-9EB1-46F9-BEFD-C42BBACC422C.htm
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New evidence in Sharon corruption case
According to the late Tuesday report, Sharons family may have received a bribe from Australian billionaire Martin Schlaff in connection with a scandal involving illegal campaign contributions in 1999.
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?ID=14171
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Increasing Calls for PM Sharon to Step Down
Calls directed at Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, to step down from office, are resonating from many prominent political personalities following a Channel 10 News report on Tuesday night that the prime minister received a $3 million payment
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=96000
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Extraordinary Rendition - Short Cuts
The official euphemism for it sounds like the title of a Tom Clancy thriller, or a straight-to-video 1980s action movie starring Chuck Norris. The practice itself sounds like something that might go on, or be rumoured to go on, through the course of a novel by Don DeLillo. But there is no doubt that it does happen, despite the cagey denials and qualifications of the British and American governments. Condoleezza Rice has described extraordinary rendition as a lawful weapon which has nothing to do with torture. Tony Blair has suggested it must be OK if only because its been going on for years, and a spokesman for the prime minister has blithely announced that we do not believe that we are involved in this story.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n01/jone01_.html
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Bush could bypass new torture ban
When President Bush last week signed the bill outlawing the torture of detainees, he quietly reserved the right to bypass the law under his powers as commander in chief.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11457.htm
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Justice to Try to Toss Gitmo Challenges
The Justice Department will seek dismissal of lawsuits from more than 300 Guantanamo Bay detainees fighting the legality of their confinement, using a new law that the Bush administration says sharply limits existing challenges. Advocates for detainees quickly registered their opposition Tuesday.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11453.htm
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Looks Like Bush Knew Wiretaps Were Wrong
President's defense of spying yesterday doesn't square with past
WASHINGTON, D.C.--While President Bush denies any wrongdoing in the National Security Agency domestic wiretap and data-mining program, saying yesterday that it was perfectly legal, actions by top officials in his own administration suggest Bush and his inner circle of confidants did indeed know the spying was wrong.
http://villagevoice.com/news/0601,ridgeway,71459,6.html
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The coverup begins: NSA acted on its own to expand surveillance
Agency moved without directive from Bush after 9/11, declassified documents show
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/3563662.html
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Tinker, Tailor, Miner, Spy - Why the NSA's snooping is unprecedented in scale and scope.
Posted Jan 4, 2006 06:59 AM PST - Category: DICTATORSHIP
http://www.slate.com/id/2133564/
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Something to Hide
As the Bush administration downplays its illegal wiretapping, the New York Times' chiefs keep quiet about their role in the scandal.
http://www.alternet.org/story/30352/
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They don't tell him anything
Turns out thousands of Americans and resident foreigners have been or are being monitored and recorded by the NSA. It's more like information-mining, which is what, you may recall, the administration said it would not do. But now Bush has to investigate The New York Times because Bush has been breaking the law, you see?
http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/1/2006/1290
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King George Effectively Dissolves Congress
So yeah, it looks like King George has dissolved Congress. Who needs the pesky Senate for "advice and consent" when a recess appointment will work just as well?
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/4/19034/24092
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Lobbyist to reveal all in Congress bribes scandal
- Senior politicians alleged to have accepted favours
- Republicans likely to suffer most damage
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1677515,00.html
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Bush to Give Away Abramoff Donations
President Bush's re-election campaign will give the American Heart Association thousands of dollars in campaign contributions connected to lobbyist Jack Abramoff, the White House said Wednesday, as the government pressed forward with a broad-ranging corruption investigation.
http://tinyurl.com/ac7nf
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Abramoff and al-Arian: Lobbyist's "Charity" a Front for Terrorism
Abramoff's dense network of illicit finances and phony charities might end some political careers in the United States. But the investigation into his activities by the FBI also shed light on the ways in which rightwing American Jews have often been involved in funding what are essentially terrorist activities by armed land thieves in Palestinian territory.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11456.htm
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CIA Gave Iran Bomb Plans, Book Says
The CIA in 2004 intentionally handed Tehran some top-secret bomb designs laced with a hidden flaw that U.S. officials hoped would doom any weapon made from them, according to a new book about the U.S. intelligence agency.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11458.htm
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Iran Elbows Afghanistan From Pipeline Project With Turkmenistan
The US will be dismayed as its oil and gas company UNOCAL's efforts to pass gas pipeline from Turkmenistan via Afghanistan to Pakistan had been delayed because India and Pakistan have opted to sign an accord with Iran, analysts say.
http://tinyurl.com/apu2x
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The $4bn industry that is America's guilty secret
Lobbying is Washington's grubby secret. Some say lobbying is part of the democratic process. Others claim it is legalised bribery, even corruption. But love it or loathe it, it is the way Washington works.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article336396.ece
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The man who bought off Washington
Lobbyist's guilty plea set to expose bribery scandal at the heart of US political system
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article336400.ece
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In case you missed it: Foundation's Funds Diverted From Mission
Records Detail Spending By GOP Lobbyist Abramoff : Tax and spending records of the Capital Athletic Foundation obtained by The Washington Post show that less than 1 percent of its revenue has been spent on sports-related programs for youths.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11455.htm
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Lobbying Plan Was Central to GOP's Political Strategy
The corruption investigation surrounding lobbyist Jack Abramoff shows the significant political risk that Republican leaders took when they adopted what had once seemed a brilliant strategy for dominating Washington: turning the K Street lobbying corridor into a cog of the GOP political machine.
http://tinyurl.com/c2a83
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