Bismillah [hidayahnet] Terror in the Name of US War's Error - Headlines News 6 Rabiul Awal 1427 H - 5.4.06

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Silence in class 
University professors denounced for anti-Americanism; schoolteachers
suspended for their politics; students encouraged to report on their
tutors. Are US campuses in the grip of a witch-hunt of progressives, or
is academic life just too liberal? 
After the screenwriter Walter Bernstein was placed on the blacklist
during the McCarthyite era he said his life "seemed to move in
ever-decreasing circles". "Few of my friends dropped away but
the list of acquaintances diminished," he wrote in Inside Out, a
memoir of the blacklist. "I appeared contaminated and they did not
want to risk infection. They avoided me, not calling as they had in the
past, not responding to my calls, being nervously distant if we met in
public places."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1746227,00.html
see also: In the name of Free speech: 

http://www.frontlineonnet.com/stories/20060407001107800.htm
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9/11: Did Dead-eye Dick do it?
Dr. Robert Bowman, a man so decorated with medals and honors they
could fill a patriotic Christmas tree, has joined the ranks of those who
are declaring that the attacks on 9/11 were an inside job. As right wing
world comes tumbling down, more prominent individuals are coming forward
with their doubts and concerns with the official report. Some have little
more than the powers of their own deduction, others are expert engineers
and physicists. Dr. Bowman has inside knowledge of military protocal, and
has stated that it is apparent to him that the massive military exercises
that took place on September 11, 2001 were intentionally staged to
confuse civil defenses.
The person who headed those exercises? None other then Richard Cheney,
otherwise known as Dead-eye Dick. 

http://www.choicechanges.com/modules.php?op==modload&name==News&file==article&sid=R1

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No Guidelines on Empty ‘No Torture’ Promises
Council of Europe Rejects Minimum Standards for Diplomatic
Assurances
Human Rights Watch - (New York, April 3, 2006) ­ A Council of Europe
expert group has rightly decided not to develop guidelines for the
acceptable use of diplomatic assurances to justify sending people to
places where they are at risk of torture, Human Rights Watch said today.
The assumption that legally unenforceable assurances could ever provide
effective safeguards against torture is dangerous, and Human Rights Watch
called on the Council of Europe to reject altogether reliance on
diplomatic assurances in such cases.

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/04/03/eu13110_txt.htm
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Reaction to Padilla Case: 'Enemy Combatants' Category
Unconstitutional
Amnesty International Disappointed that Supreme Court Will Not
Consider Padilla Case 
  
(Washington, DC) - Statement of Curt Goering, Senior Deputy Executive
Director for Policy and Programs for Amnesty International USA, following
today's Supreme Court decision not to hear Jose Padilla's appeal
challenging the 4th Circuit's decision that the President had authority
to hold Padilla as an 'enemy combatant': 
 
http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0403-05.htm
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When vigilance undermines freedom of speech
Vigilance can be carried too far. Having denounced American academics
for supposedly making anti-semitic statements, the Anti-Defamation League
last year levelled a similar charge at faculty in the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem. There is something peculiarly Kafkaesque about the idea of
an American Jewish watchdog monitoring Israel for anti-semitism, yet once
the mechanism and mindset exist, this is where the logic of vigilance
leads: anti-semitism may be found anywhere. In fact, the intellectual
climate in Israel is tougher-minded than in the US and the authorities at
the Hebrew University simply took no notice. But brandishing the big
stick of anti-semitism against all and sundry helps no one: it lumps
together serious critique with crackpot ravings, does a signal disservice
to those who really suffered from it in the past and stifles a badly
needed debate within the US. There is no reason why the partnership
between the US and Israel should not be susceptible to the same kind of
cost-benefit analysis as any other area of policy. After all, no special
relationship lasts forever: ask the Brits. 

http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net
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Returning to the Scene of the Crime: War Crimes in Iraq


http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040406L.shtml
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When War Crimes Are Impossible


http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040406B.shtml
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DELUDED
After the fall of Baghdad, three years ago, the United States
military began a secret investigation of the decision-making within
Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship. The study, carried out by the U.S. Joint
Forces Command, drew on captured documents and interviews with former
Baath Party officials and Iraqi military officers, and when it was
completed, last year, it was delivered to President Bush. The full work
remains classified, but “Cobra II,” a recently published book about the
early phases of the war, by the Times reporter Michael Gordon and
Lieutenant General Bernard Trainor, has disclosed parts of the study, and
the Pentagon has released declassified sections, which Foreign Affairs
has posted on its Web site. Reading them, it is easy to imagine why the
Administration might resist publication of the full study. The extracts
describe how the Iraq invasion, more than any other war in American
history, was a construct of delusion. Frustratingly, however, we now
understand much more about the textures of fantasy in Saddam’s palaces in
early 2003 than we do about the self-delusions then prevalent in the West
Wing. 

http://www.newyorker.com/printables/talk/060403ta_talk_coll
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US-British diktat makes mockery of “democracy” in Iraq
The unannounced trip by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to Iraq over the past two days has
again underscored who is calling the shots in Iraq. For all of the Bush
administration’s empty rhetoric about “democracy” in Iraq, it is the
White House rather than the votes of Iraqis that will decide the shape of
the next government in Baghdad.

http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/7506979.html
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The enemies of a free Iraq
For three years in Iraq, the United States has worked to legitimize
formerly exiled Shiite politicians and to marginalize Sunni Arabs. Now
the U.S. ambassador has finally acknowledged that more Iraqis are being
killed by Shiite militias than by Sunnis, and the U.S. has withdrawn its
support for Transitional Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari. Are you
confused? Let me explain.
“The enemies of a free Iraq are employing the same tactics Saddam used,
killing and terrorizing the Iraqi people in an effort to foment sectarian
division” --George W. Bush, 3/29/2006

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_660.shtml
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Is it still worth it?
Listening to an interview with the US secretary of state, Condoleezza
Rice, this morning on the Today programme, I felt physically sick,
especially when she said: "Thousands of mistakes were committed in
Iraq". I couldn't listen to the rest of her sentence; was she about
to echo Madeleine Albright's "but the price is worth it"?

http://www.uruknet.info/?p==m22227&hd==0&size==1&l==e
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Iraq illusions shattered, with a terrible cost
What's the underlying message of the frenzied commotion over
establishing a government in Iraq?

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.price04apr04,0,3458681.story

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West accused of fiddling figures on Iraq aid 
Britain and other Western nations are using huge debt write-offs to
Iraq to boost development aid statistics and give a misleading impression
of their generosity to the Third World, campaigners say. 

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article355603.ece
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British Secretary Wants Geneva Review


http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Britain-Terrorism.html
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How Massacres Become the Norm
Posted Apr 4, 2006 09:01 AM PST - Category: IRAQ

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040406Z.shtml
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Movies of the Iraqi Resistance

http://www.uploading.com/?get==O0JPNJ8Y

http://www.uploading.com/?get=¥TEEAZL

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=:QLOJF3


http://storeandserve.com/download/176422/06.rar.html


http://www.verzend.be/d/8431211/1144151761/06.rmvb

http://www.megaupload.com/?d==KDL5GT0H


http://www.verzend.be/v/1765873/2.rmvb.html


http://www.merkaz00.com/snooopy/bagdad20041115.rm
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Is US Planning More Attacks on Shi'ite Militias? Is US Planning More
Attacks on Shi'ite Militias?
Last week's attack by U.S.-led Iraqi paramilitary forces on a
building that Shi'ite leaders claim was a mosque may have marked the
beginning of a new stage of U.S. policy in which Iraqi forces are used to
carry out military operations against Shi'ite militia forces – especially
those loyal to Moqtada al-Sadr.
However, such a strategy risks uniting the Shi'ites against the U.S.
military occupation and leading to a showdown that makes that presence
politically untenable.

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/porter.php?articleid=ˆ01
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US Death Toll in Iraq Jumps


http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/International/2006/04/04/1518670-sun.html

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10 US soldiers killed in Iraq


http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/iraq/?id=148
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 3 April 2006 

Three Resistance organizations battle US, puppet forces in fierce
combat in ar-Ramadi late Monday afternoon.  US forces bombard local
mosque killing Imam and preacher.  Ten US troops killed or wounded;
four Resistance fighters killed in fighting. 
Resistance bomb reportedly kills two US troops in ar-Ramadi Monday
morning. 
Resistance sharpshooter reportedly kills US soldier in al-Mawsil. 
 Resistance bomb blasts puppet “National Guards” in al-Fallujah
at noon Monday. 
 Resistance sharpshooter kills puppet soldier in eastern
al-Fallujah. 
 Resistance bomb blasts puppet police patrol in eastern
Baghdad’s at-Talibiyah district. 
 Resistance car bomb wounds US troops in eastern Baghdad. 
 Resistance bomb blasts US truck convoy south of Balad. 
 Resistance fighters kill two puppet policemen in Bayji. 
 Resistance fighters ambush puppet police in Ba‘qubah. 
Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a patrol of puppet “Iraqi Interior
Ministry Shock Troops (Maghawir)” on the main road between Salman Bak and
Jurf an-Naddaf 
 Resistance bomb blasts puppet “Shock Troops” southeast of
Baghdad. 
 Resistance bombards joint US-Iraqi puppet army camp north of
al-Yusufiyah. 
 Resistance Katyusha rockets blast puppet army headquarters in
ad-Dibis. 
 Resistance bomb blasts puppet “National Guards” west of Tall
‘Afar. 


http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2006/0406/iraqiresistancereport_030406.htm
 
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UN aid workers: Gaza on verge of disaster
United Nations aid organizations are warning that the Gaza Strip is
on the verge of a humanitarian disaster due to a lack of money and
food.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/702044.html
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Israel Fires Missiles into Abbas' Compound
Israeli warplanes fired three missiles into the presidential compound
of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday, wounding two people and
leaving deep craters in the ground. Abbas was not there at the time.


http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat==&Board==news_news&Number=)4538548#Post294538548

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Iranian crisis is inevitable result of Israel's US-backed WMD monopoly
in the region
If one side in a conflict goes nuclear, the other is bound to follow
suit. The Iranian crisis can only be understood as the inevitable result
of Israel's US-backed WMD monopoly in the region
There is widespread international agreement that Iran's acquisition of
nuclear weapons is an alarming prospect, but very little attention is
paid to the most obvious, immediate reason why: that there is already a
Middle Eastern nuclear power, Israel, insistent on preserving its
monopoly.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1746091,00.html
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Oregon Suit Tests Bush Wiretaps


http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040406O.shtml
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Suggest a 9-11 show to Oprah!
Posted Apr 3, 2006 08:13 PM PST - Category: ENTERTAINMENT

http://www.oprah911.com/
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