http://musliminsuffer.blogspot.com/'War on terror' trials could allow evidence obtained through torture
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
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US military officers, breaking with domestic and international legal precedent, said that "war on terror" military tribunals at the Guantanamo naval base could allow evidence obtained through torture. Continued
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12160.htm
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Guantanamo man tells of 'torture'
A Kuwaiti man being held at Guantanamo Bay has told the BBC in a rare interview that the force-feeding of hunger strikers amounts to torture. Audio and transcript.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12158.htm
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U.S. Cites Exception in Torture Ban
Bush administration lawyers, fighting a claim of torture by a Guantanamo Bay detainee, yesterday argued that the new law that bans cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of detainees in U.S. custody does not apply to people held at the military prison. In federal court yesterday and in legal filings, Justice Department lawyers contended that a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, cannot use legislation drafted by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to challenge treatment that the detainee's lawyers described as "systematic torture."
Torture: it's right up there with mom and apple pie these days as being an American value.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/02/AR2006030202054.html?nav==rss_politics/administration
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Islamophobia: Kill the ragheads and steal their oil for JESUS!
And after you blow all those little kids into itty-bitty pieces you will be allowed into heaven.
http://godlovessoldiers.com/
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A ruling for tolerance
For nearly five years, Gurbaj Singh has argued that he has a legal right under religious freedom to wear a ceremonial dagger to school. The Supreme Court of Canada now agrees with him.
The ruling is significant because it could impact other disputes, such as the ban at some schools on the traditional Muslim head scarf for women.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename==thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c==Article&cid=41339813109&call_page==TS_EditorialOpinion&call_pageid=8256290204&call_pagepath=íitorial/Opinion&pubid=8163964505
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Anti-US Protests Erupt Around Pakistan Before Bush's Visit
.. Crowds March On US Consulte, Flag Burning, "Death To America" Chants...
The government promised ironclad security for Bush's visit, with one official saying hundreds of army commandos and paramilitary troops would be patrolling the capital.
Could it possibly be that these people don't like our President? Can you imagine why? I for certain can. One has to wonder what will evolve in Pakistan when the current government is gone. Musharraf is only as good (in terms of staying power) as his army is at quelling dissent. And has anyone at the White House bothered to think beyond what happens when Musarraf is gone? I'd almost place a bet that the answer is "no"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/03/03/antius-protests-erupt-ar_n_16692.html
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Is Hell Too Good for the Iraqi Warmongers? (Satire)
I could only watch this madness briefly. It was a scene right out a nightmare. Then, it got worse. The ceiling suddenly opened up and a crying, struggling poodle was dropped down for these two ferocious fiends to feast on. This pitiful canine had all the features of - Tony Blair! He was once the UKs Prime Minister. Bush and Cheney quickly ripped the dog to shreds. The canine would then be renewed to life, lifted up to his high berth and lowered again for another feeding frenzy, which was repeated ad nauseam.
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=d85
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Iraq WMD Lies: The Words of Mass Deception
Posted Mar 3, 2006 09:44 AM PST - Category: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/WMDlies.html
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U.S. Commander Says Iraq Crisis Has Passed
"Mission Accomplished"
"The insurgents are on their last legs."
Etc. etc. etc. etc.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/03/03/D8G46EKO1.html
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Fmr. UN Official: Human Rights Abuses Worse Now Than Under Saddam...
Human rights abuses in Iraq are as bad now as they were under Saddam Hussein, as lawlessness and sectarian violence sweep the country, the former U.N. human rights chief in Iraq said Thursday. John Pace, who last month left his post as director of the human rights office at the U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq, said the level of extra-judicial executions and torture is soaring, and morgue workers are being threatened by both government-backed militia and insurgents not to properly investigate deaths. And this is what the Aministration describes as "success" in Iraq.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/03/02/fmr-un-official-human-_n_16668.html
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US tries to use Saddam Hussein trial to justify its own crimes
see: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/mar2006/sadd-m03.shtml
======Beaten to death in Basra
"When they took the cover off his body I could see his nose was badly broken," said Daoud Moussa, a senior Iraqi police officer. "The skin of his wrists had been torn off. The skin on his forehead was torn away. On the left side of his chest there were clear blue bruises. On his legs I saw bruising from kicking."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12163.htm
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Ex-Official: Iraq Abuses Growing Worse
Human rights abuses in Iraq are as bad now as they were under Saddam Hussein, as lawlessness and sectarian violence sweep the country, the former U.N. human rights chief in Iraq said Thursday.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12153.htm
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Baghdad official who exposed executions flees
Faik Bakir, the director of the Baghdad morgue, has fled Iraq in fear of his life after reporting that more than 7,000 people have been killed by death squads in recent months, the outgoing head of the UN human rights office in Iraq has disclosed.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12154.htm
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What Bush Was Told About Iraq
Two highly classified intelligence reports delivered directly to President Bush before the Iraq war cast doubt on key public assertions made by the president, Vice President Cheney, and other administration officials as justifications for invading Iraq and toppling Saddam Hussein, according to records and knowledgeable sources.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030206R.shtml
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Mr Blair, you sent my son to die in a war based on lies
Occupation has achieved nothing positive. It is time to bring our troops home and let the Iraqi people decide their own future.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1721351,00.html
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German Opposition Party Pushes Government Over Iraq War Spy Intel
Germany Says It Did Not Give U.S. Info on Saddam's PlansBomb Blasts Baghdad Market; Top Sunni Pol Escapes AssassinationSunnis Said Ready to End Boycott of Talks Attacks Kill 29 in Iraq as Curfew LiftsNo Word on Fate of Hostage JournoSaddam Lawyers Call for DelaySectarian Attacks Surge Despite Curfew in Iraq
BERLIN An opposition party on Thursday warned it may trigger a parliamentary probe of German intelligence operations in the Iraq war unless the government addresses more fully a report that its spies passed Iraqi defense plans to U.S. forces.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,186625,00.html
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Berlin File Says Germany's Spies Aided U.S. in Iraq
BERLIN, March 1 Starting in early 2003 and lasting through the American military invasion of Iraq, a German intelligence officer stationed in the office of Gen. Tommy R. Franks, the American commander of the invasion, passed on to the United States information being gathered in Baghdad by two German intelligence officers operating there, a classified German review has found.
http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fairenough/nyt077.html
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US soldier killed in western Iraq
A US soldier was killed in the restive Al-Anbar province of western Iraq, the US army said on Thursday.
http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read.html?id=d09
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 2 March 2006http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2006/0306/iraqiresistancereport_020306.htm
- Two US troops reported killed in bomb explosion in ar-Riyad area near Kirkuk.
- Resistance forces assault checkpoint in Tikrit killing 11 puppet police and troops.
- Mortars target British consulate in al-Basrah at dawn Thursday.
- Resistance bomb near al-Ubaydi wounds four American troops
- Two US troops wounded in bombing on highway near ad-Durah
- Mysterious explosions continue in Baghdad
- Resistance rockets US base south of ad-Dujayl
- Resistance forces assault checkpoint in Tikrit killing 11 puppet police and troops
- Resistance attacks puppet police officers returning from training course. One killed, 11 abducted
- Resistance bomb blasts US Humvee south of al-Azim
- Fourteen puppet National Guards killed in Resistance ambush in al-Madain
- Resistance bombards headquarters of puppet Shock Troops in al-Yusufiyah
- Resistance bomb wounds US troops in Mosul
- Mortars target British consulate in al-Basrah at dawn Thursday
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Fearing war crimes arrests, Israel bans top officers leaving country
Senior Israeli army officers "outraged" at ban on travelling abroad
Tel Aviv-- Senior Israeli army officers have expressed outrage at a decision by the military not to allow one of their number to study in England for fear he may be
arrested as a war criminal, the Ha'aretz daily reported Friday.
http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net
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Jew throws firecrackers inside Nazareth church
Israeli Arab MKs responded angrily to the attack and complained that Havivi had not been arrested after his past threats to attack churches.
UPDATE: I am still waiting for anyone in the mainstream media to refer to this as a "hate" crime or an act of "terror".
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/689946.html
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The Attacks on Norman Finkelstein's Book "Beyond Chutzpah"
The Winter 2006 issue of Middle East Journal ran a scathing review by Professor Marc Saperstein of my book Beyond Chutzpah: On the misuse of anti-Semitism and the abuse of history. Saperstein alleged that my book was a "prolonged diatribe," replete with "outrageous ad hominem attacks" and written in the "rhetorical style of the arrogant academic pit bull."
http://www.counterpunch.org/finkelstein03022006.html
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Australian PM denies seeing cable on wheat scandal
Australian Prime Minister John Howard has distanced himself from the scandal surrounding huge bribes paid to Saddam Hussein's regime by denying he had ever seen a diplomatic cable which warned of the payments.
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=0686
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I Do Not Wish to Be Associated With Torture
Note: Ray McGovern and 15 others took action Thursday in the halls of Congress. The 16 donned orange jumpsuits similar to those worn by detainees at Guantánamo Bay. They wore gags over their mouths decorated with one word torture. Not another word needed to be said as they walked the halls of Congress. McGovern, a 27-year veteran of the CIA, also returned his Intelligence Commendation Award medallion, which was given to him for "especially commendable service." He delivered the medal to Congressman Pete Hoekstra along with the letter below.
http://www.antiwar.com/mcgovern/?articleid=25
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Baby Bush Go Home !!
On his triumphalist tour of this part of the world, where he hopes to wave imperiously at people he considers potential subjects, President Bush's itinerary is getting curiouser and curiouser. For his March 2 pit stop in New Delhi, the Indian government tried very hard to have him address our Parliament. A not inconsequential number of MPs threatened to heckle him, so Plan One was hastily shelved. Plan Two was that he address the masses from the ramparts of the magnificent Red Fort where the Indian prime minister traditionally delivers his Independence Day address. But the Red Fort, surrounded as it is by the predominantly Muslim population of Old Delhi, was considered a security nightmare. So now we're into Plan Three: President George Bush speaks from Purana Qila, the Old Fort.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1720430,00.html
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Katrina: Criminal Negligence or Manslaughter?
Why arent we talking about Criminal Negligence?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12166.htm
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Rumsfeld: Todays weapons of war include e-mail, Blackberries, instant messaging, cameras & blogs
The United States lags dangerously behind al Qaeda and other enemies in getting out information in the digital media age and must update its old-fashioned methods, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Friday.
What Donald seems to not understand is that it isn't that we are using the new technology, it is that we are TELLING THE TRUTH.
http://www.bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=696
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US censors websites
US MARINES stationed in Iraq are complaining that the US government is restricting their access to websites too much.
Along with porn sites, on the Armys list of banned sites include mail sites such as Yahoo, AT&T, Hotmail. The censors are also blocking blogs and sites that do not agree with the current administration.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=0023
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Only a poor student of history would compare Bush to Jefferson
[Jefferson Waterman International is a corporate firm that engages in an assortment of lobbying efforts, and other PR related activities, on behalf of a diverse list of international clients. Their clientele has in the past included the Republic of Croatia, the Republic of Algeria, the Republic of Rwanda, the Chevron Chemical Company and the American Military University. [..] The founder and Chief Executive Officer of Jefferson Waterman International, Charles Waterman, held prior positions within the United States Central Intelligence Agency.
http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/6769843.html
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Republican Congressman Predicts Bush Impeachment
Republican Congressman Ron Paul has gone on record with his prediction that the impeachment of George W. Bush is right around the corner but warned that in the meantime the US was slipping perilously close to a dictatorship.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2006/030306bushimpeachment.htm
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The bungling Bush presidency is falling apart
An old acquaintance in Washington - a former member of Republican administrations whose foreign policy views are decidedly hard-line - recently had this to say to a friend about the Bush administration: This might be the most inept administration in American history.
http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-opklu034647696mar03,0,1347465.column?coll==ny-viewpoints-headlines
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BLAIR EVEN LESS POPULAR THAN BUSH
Posted Mar 3, 2006 05:44 AM PST - Category: PHONY TONY BLAIR
http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=32
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