bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update ===
TARIQ RAMADAN IN GLOBE AND MAIL ON POPE'S RECENTS STATEMENTS - Now for the real debate ...
The papal message is troubling, says TARIQ RAMADAN, but Muslims must show they share core values
A few sentences by the Pope were sufficient to touch off a firestorm. Throughout the Muslim world, religious leaders, politicians and intellectuals joined their voices to masses angered by a perceived "insult" to their faith. Most did not read the speech; others relied on a summary according to which the Pope had linked Islam and violence. But all railed against what they saw as an "intolerable offence."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060921.wxcopope21/BNStory/specialComment/home
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From Arar to the Pope: How to deal with Muslims
It is fortuitous that we are learning the lessons of the Maher Arar tragedy at the same time as grappling with the fallout from the Pope's ill-advised comments on Islam. The first has to do with the fear of, and paranoia about, Muslims in the post-9/11 world, and the second about the rocky relationship between the West and the world of Islam.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1158790224698&call_pageid=968256290204
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House apologizes for Arar's treatment (but Harper yet to apologize on behalf of Govt)
Motion passes unanimously in Commons; names removed from terrorism watch list
OTTAWA AND TORONTO — A packed House of Commons apologized unanimously Wednesday to Maher Arar for Canadian involvement in his deportation from the United States and torture in Syria.
MMN Note: It should should pointed out, as the article indicates below, that Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day and other Conservatives did join in to support the motion of apologizing to Arar. Harper himself was in the US beating the drums of war for Afghanistan.
http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net
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Canada: House apologizes for Arar's treatment
Motion passes unanimously in Commons; names removed from terrorism watch list
http://snipurl.com/wspc
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Islamophobia : Arar's blackened name
By the summer of 2003, public unease over the case of Maher Arar was steadily growing into outrage. How could our government have allowed a Canadian citizen to be sent off to the hellhole of a Syrian jail?
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060921.wxcowent21/BNStory/National/home
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Islamophobia : U.S. must accept the truth about Arar
The United States was complicit in the torture of an innocent Canadian citizen. Yet it has never been called to account for sending Maher Arar to his Syrian prison nightmare.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060921.wxearar21/BNStory/specialComment/home
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German police shadowed man before CIA seized him: witness
German police were shadowing Khaled el-Masri and exchanging information on him with U.S. authorities before he was seized by the CIA and taken to Afghanistan, a German federal policeman said on Thursday.
http://snipurl.com/wsp9
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Muslims protest against police massacre in eastern Sri Lanka
see: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/sep2006/sril-s21.shtml
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9/11 : Atta and friends and abramoff and friends
"On September 26, 2001, Associated Press writer Vickie Chachere reported that FBI agents probing Atta's connections had turned their attention to SunCruz casinos -- then owned by Abramoff
http://wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/2005/08/atta-and-friends-and-abramoff-and.html
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9/11 Abramoff and Able Danger: Confirmed: US Intel told "hands off money laundering"
Jack Abramoff, known lobbyist, known crook, suspected Israeli intelligence asset, enjoyed the protection of US Intelligence while he used his Suncruz casino ships to launder money for various Neocon figures in the US. Along with the murder of Suncruz' prior owner, Abramoff is suspected of a link to 9-11 itself, with Mohammed Atta confirmed as a regular guest on Abramoff's casino ship in the months leading up to 9-11.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/10/1/1955/10277
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The Doomsday Code - Is This What Motivates U.S. Foreign Policy?
The people with powerful political friends in the White House, who are trying to bring about the end of the world. Julia Bard reports.
The leaders of the End Time movement are rich, well-connected and very powerful. Though the USA constitution enshrines the separation of church and state End Timers are frequent visitors to the White House.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15032.htm
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w w w . h a a r e t z . c o m : You're either a Zionist or a terrorist
The Israeli legal system, stretched to the limit by cases of private and public corruption, still finds the time and the resources to provide massive support for spreading and deepening Israel's image as a country suffering from terrorism and fighting for its existence. It is an image of a country threatened by traitors from within (Arab Israelis, hoping for a victory of the Axis of Evil whose center is in Damascus), by Hamas operatives (who aspire to destroy it) and by murderous Lebanese (Hezbollah).
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/765578.html
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Bush Rages: “I am not Beelzebub, Lord of Sulfur”
Plucky Chavez, - publicly throttled the Global Emperor in front of 6 billion people and left his bruised and bloodied carcass splattered across the canvas like Roberto Duran in Round 9 of the middleweight championship match…..
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15049.htm
In case you missed it : President Hugo Chavez, Address to the United Nations - Rise Up Against the Empire
Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15041.htm
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Noam Chomsky on Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest For Global Dominance
“If you repeat it loudly enough it will become the truth” - MIT institute professor of linguistics and author Noam Chomsky speaks out on U.S. hegemony, controlling the domestic population through fear and the historical parallels of current U.S. foreign policy.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15052.htm
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United States of Hypocrisy : We don't ratify human rights treaties
"The principles of this world beyond terror can be found in the very first sentence of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This document declares that, "The equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom and justice and peace in the world."
-- President Bush at the United Nations, Sept 19, 2006
COMPLETE list of states NOT YET RATIFYING the CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN (CEDAW), one of the enabling conventions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/12604351.html
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Bush Desperate To Legislate Mengele Style Torture
Phony intelligence from false confessions needed to maintain Al-Qaeda myth, sexual mutilation of children advocated by White House legal architect
The Bush administration's desperation to legitimize and legislate torture in the face of revolt from Congress, the Senate and even Colin Powell, is an attempt to rescue the need to have a constant supply of phony intelligence obtained from torture to justify the war on terror - while the real horror of how the administration advocates sexually mutilating children under the same legal definition remains hidden from the U.S. public.
http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/september2006/190906mengelestyle.htm
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Bill O'Reilly Endorses Waterboarding As Safe and Reliable
Bill O'Reilly will not rest until he proves that harsh interrogation, never call it torture, really gets results. Tonight he had Brian Ross, ABC News, on The Factor to reinforce his claims that the CIA use of "alternative" interrogation methods like waterboarding are not only safe but very effective breaking down 14 terror suspects.Then Carol Bogart, Human Rights Watch, appeared so BOR could feel personally vindicated but his plan fell short.
Would he be willing to demonstrate for us just how safe it is? I have a few questions to ask him.
http://www.newshounds.us/2006/09/20/bill_oreilly_endorses_waterboarding_as_safe_and_reliable.php
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Justice Dept. Amends Remark on Torture Case Justice Dept. Amends Remark on Torture Case
In an embarrassing turnabout, the Department of Justice backed away Wednesday from a denial by Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales of responsibility for the treatment of a Canadian who was seized by American authorities in 2002. The man was deported to Syria, where he was imprisoned and beaten.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/21/world/americas/21canada.html?ex=1316491200&en=c01819e14cf573a8&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
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Letter to Senator John Warner, Chairman, and Senator Carl Levin, Ranking Member, Senate Armed Services Committee on Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions
If any agency of the U.S. government is excused from compliance with these standards, or if we seek to redefine what Common Article 3 requires, we should not imagine that our enemies will take notice of the technical distinctions when they hold U.S. prisoners captive. If degradation, humiliation, physical and mental brutalization of prisoners is decriminalized or considered permissible under a restrictive interpretation of Common Article 3, we will forfeit all credible objections should such barbaric practices be inflicted upon American prisoners.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2006/09/mil-060912-sasc01.htm
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Torture reaches new depths in Iraq - New report blames government, militias with atrocities
GENEVA (AP) - Torture in Iraq is reportedly worse now than it was under deposed president Saddam Hussein, the United Nations' chief anti-torture expert said Thursday.
Manfred Nowak described a situation where militias, insurgent groups, government forces and others disregard rules on the humane treatment of prisoners.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1158833710803&call_pageid=968332188492
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UK : Video footage shows soldier abusing hooded Iraqi prisoners
The ringleader of a group of British soldiers conducted a "choir" practice in which the "music" was the cries of pain from captive Iraqis as they were beaten, a court martial was told yesterday.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article1655633.ece
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Bush wants a bloodbath in Baghdad
Increasingly desperate over the deteriorating situation in Iraq, the Bush administration is demanding that the US-installed government in Baghdad support a savage intensification of repression or give way to a dictatorial regime that will.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/sep2006/iraq-s21.shtml
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"DVD Of The Resistance": Watch For Free, Spread The Word - Please help us get Terror Storm to as many people as possible!
Alex Jones' latest and greatest documentary film Terror Storm is available to watch for free on Google Video and we entrust our great supporters to circulate this page or a direct link to a high quality version of the movie - bypassing the controlled media monopoly and enflaming the revolution of information.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2006/200906terrorstorm.htm
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UN: Nearly 6,600 civilians killed in Iraq in two months
In July at least 3,590 people were killed and in August 3,009 died in bloody attacks on civilians, according to the UN human rights report.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=17535
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U.S. Occupation Forces Among At least 33 killed
"Insurgents" killed six policemen and wounded two others when they attacked a police station in western Baghdad's Sunni Amiriya district, police said.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L21430391.htm
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Anti Occupation Forces Gain Alarming Support Among Iraq's Sunni Muslims
A confidential Pentagon assessment finds that an overwhelming majority of Iraq's Sunni Muslims support the insurgency that has been fighting against U.S. troops and the Iraqi government
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=2470183&page=1
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Torture reaches new depths in Iraq
Torture in Iraq is reportedly worse now than it was under deposed president Saddam Hussein, the United Nations' chief anti-torture expert said Thursday.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15047.htm
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Halliburton ambush in Iraq caught on video
The video, by KBR truck driver Preston Wheeler, shows what initially appears to be a routine convoy of sixteen-wheeler trucks delivering supplies to U.S. troops. Three KBR truck drivers were killed.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15059.htm
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 20 September 2006.
- Wednesday morning Resistance bombing in al-Fallujah leaves three US soldiers reported dead.
- US soldier reported killed in Resistance bomb attack in 'Anah Wednesday morning.
- Bodies of 41 more Sunni victims of savage torture and murder found in Shi'i sections of Baghdad as US-Zionist drive to partition Iraqi on sectarian and ethnic lines continues.
- New pro-American judge expels President Saddam Husayn from courtroom in latest session of American-run show “trial” in Baghdad.
- Mafkarat al-Islam obtains personal file of new American-backed judge al-'Arribi.
- US soldier reported killed in Resistance ambush in southwestern Kirkuk Wednesday.
- Resistance sharpshooter kills two US soldiers on patrol in al-Mawsil Wednesday morning.
- Resistance mortars pound joint US-Iraqi puppet army camp near al-Fallujah Wednesday morning.
- Resistance blasts puppet “Iraqi National Guard” headquarters in al-Fallujah with heavy mortars before dawn Wednesday.
- Fighting rages in ar-Ramadi just before midnight Tuesday-Wednesday.
- US troops raid Baghdad mosque during midday prayers Wednesday.
- Resistance car bomber blasts puppet police checkpoint near ad-Durah refinery.
- Resistance blasts US base in Samarra' with Grad rockets Wednesday morning.
- Resistance bomb targets puppet “Iraqi National Guards” in al-Miqdadiyah Wednesday.
- Resistance eliminates Shi'i sectarian death squad leader Tuesday evening.
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Musharraf: US threatened to bomb Pakistan after 9/11
President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan said that after the September 11 attacks the United States threatened to bomb his country if it did not cooperate with America's war campaign against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
http://snipurl.com/wso8
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Pakistan rejects Bush threat
Pakistan today vowed to not let foreign forces enter its territory a day after US president George Bush said he would order American military action inside this Islamic nation if Osama bin Laden was found to be hiding there.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=83878688&p=8387899x&n=83879068
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Genocide Crime : Jewish rabbi calls for extermination of all Palestinian males
Extremist rabbi Yousef Falay, who dwells at the Yitzhar settlement on illegally seized Palestinian land in the northern part of the West Bank, wrote an article in a Zionist magazine under the title "Ways of War", in which he called for the killing of all Palestinian males refusing to flee their country, describing his idea as the practical way to ensure the non-existence of the Palestinian race.
http://www.imemc.org/content/view/21527/1/
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In 9 hours in Gaza, IDF kills 5, including 3 children, and injures 7
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) has used excessive force in the north and south of the Gaza Strip during a 9-hour span today, Thursday, 21 September 2006, resulting in the death of 5 Palestinian civilians and the injury of 7 others, including a father and 2 of his children. Two of the victims including a woman were killed in cold blood in Rafah. They were left to bleed to death inside their houses. The other 3 victims were children from the town of Jabalia who were killed by a surface-to-surface rocket as they were herding sheep.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article5766.shtml
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5 Killed In Israeli Attack On Occupied Gaza
Israeli occupation forces backed by a transport helicopter killed a woman in a raid on a house in the southern Gaza Strip.
http://snipurl.com/wso9
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Israel seizes million dollars in bank raids across West Bank
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) - Israeli security forces confiscated more than one million dollars during a series of pre-dawn raids on money exchange shops and banks across the West Bank, saying the cash was used for "terrorism."
It was the latest crackdown against the Palestinians by Israel since a Hamas-led government took office in March.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060920/wl_mideast_afp/mideastunrestarmywestbankbanking_060920083543
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Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory ( 14 - 20 September 2006)
SEE: http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/W_report/English/2006/21-09-2006.htm
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Livni rejects Palestinian right to return home
Tzipi Livni, the Israeli foreign minister, has used a speech at the United Nations to tell Palestinian refugees that they should not expect to be allowed to return to their homes in Israel.
http://snipurl.com/wsoe
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Arab states urge IAEA to slam Israel for atomic arsenal
Israel again rebuffed two resolutions in what has become an annual Arab effort to get the International Atomic Energy Agency to press it to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty arms-control pact and help set up a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/765538.html
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Iran could cut West's oil supplies in event of war, warns American chief in Gulf
Iran could trigger a global terrorist campaign and choke the West's oil supplies in the event of war with America, the top US commander in the region has warned.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/21/woil21.xml
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American CIA Explosive Experts Are Due to Arrive in Somalia in 24 Hours
The United States government was quick to respond the Somali transitional government's appeal to find international help over probing the double car bombings that engulfed the lives of at least 11 and injured dozens. The blasts took place in Baidoa town that, temporarily houses government buildings.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200609200514.html
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Pentagon to release report on September 11 claims
The Pentagon's inspector general will release a report in the coming days that is expected to refute claims that an Army intelligence unit had information that could have thwarted the September 11 attacks, officials said on Wednesday.
http://snipurl.com/wspj
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Judge Orders More Gitmo Papers Unsealed
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Department of Defense to release documents detailing mistreatment or disciplinary action taken against detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and other information sought by The Associated Press
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6094165,00.html
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Padilla's alleged recruiter wants wiretaps tossed
In court papers, Hassoun's lawyers seek disclosure of secret FISA applications and warrants to determine whether they hold up under legal scrutiny.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15045.htm
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VT Cong Candidate Calls For Arrest of Bush and Cheney by U.S. Military
Former Army Lieutenant and a candidate for Congress in VT, Dennis Morrisseau of W. Pawlet, today called for the arrest of President Bush and Vice President Cheney by the American military "if necessary" to prevent an unauthorized attack upon the nation of Iran.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15056.htm
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Only 25% in Poll Approve of the Congress
With barely seven weeks until the midterm elections, Americans have an overwhelmingly negative view of the Republican-controlled Congress, with substantial majorities saying that they disapprove of the job it is doing and that its members do not deserve re-election, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/21/us/politics/21poll.html?ei=5094&en=ef00c357f1e7980c&hp=&ex=1158897600&partner=homepage&pagewanted=all
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Joe Stalin is Alive and Living on Pennslyvania Avenue
Just as the Neo-Nazis are back as newly elected respectable members of governments in Eastern Germany, abandoning the skinhead look for suits and ties and softer rhetoric, our Neo Cons have moved from left to hard right wrapped in burkas made of the American flag.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15058.htm
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Jesus Camp: 3 Minute Video
ABC new report about the documentary 'Jesus Camp'
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15048.htm
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