bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update ===
How the U.S. Uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions
We speak with John Perkins, a former respected member of the international banking community. In his book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man he describes how as a highly paid professional, he helped the U.S. cheat poor countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than they could possibly repay and then take over their economies.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8171.htm
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Who Really Supports Cocaine Traffickers?
A Peruvian court tries Vladimir Montesinos -- a 30-year CIA asset -- for supplying Colombian drug traffickers with weapons.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/18349
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Tunisian security forces raid soft-toy shops and pull hijab-clad doll, says "doll invokes sectarian feud"
TUNIS — No sooner had as the new academic year begun in Tunisia than security forces raided soft-toy shops across the country to withdraw Fulla, the doll, which inspired millions of Muslim girls worldwide, eclipsing the American and world's best-selling Barbie.
http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2006-09/22/05.shtml
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Robertson Islamophobia Maniac : "[A] holy war between Islam and Christianity" is "going to come"
During a segment on the September 19 edition of the Christian Broadcasting Network's The 700 Club about Pope Benedict XVI's recent controversial comments about Islam and Al Qaeda's reaction, host Pat Robertson stated: "[W]e understand the leaders of Al Qaeda are calling for a holy war between Islam and Christianity. It's going to come, ladies and gentlemen."
As Media Matters for America noted, Robertson stated on the August 29 edition of The 700 Club that "Osama bin Laden may be one of the true disciples of the teaching of the Quran ... because he's following through literally word-for-word what it says." Robertson added: "Islam is not a religion of peace. No way."
http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src="">
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The Pope and Islam: Ratzinger's Crusade
The Vatican has gone to some lengths to dampen down the controversy following the lecture given by Josef Ratzinger, alias Pope Benedict XVI, at Regensburg University in Germany. Ratzinger’s remarks provoked violent protests by Muslims across the globe.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/sep2006/pope-s22.shtml
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COULD THE POPE BE JOKING?
Last week, Pope Benedict XVI quoted the 14th-century Byzantine emperor
Manuel II: "Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you
will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by
the sword the faith he preached."
http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net
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Bush War Crimes Commission: The final verdict
The final verdict of the INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF INQUIRY ON CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY COMMITTED BY THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION OF THE UNITED STATES has now been published and can be downloaded from here:
http://www.craigmurray.co.uk/archives/Final%20Verdict.pdf
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The Heart of “Terror”
This is not a struggle… it is already done. The World has decided. The World is self-aware and has already decided what the future is. We, as Americans, have to graciously accept that. No war will change the nature of this reality. Bombing one more country’s infrastructure will not make us one more friend and it’s time we accept and understand that.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15069.htm
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He Wrote the Book on Torture
George W. Bush has made absolutism respectable among American conservatives. And no one has done more pimping for president-as-Supreme-Leader than John Yoo, the former Justice Department official who helped create the “commander-in-chief override” doctrine, unleashing presidents from the confines of the law. At a time when Bush is pushing Congress to approve the use in military tribunals of confessions that resulted from torture, it is vital to understand the thinking of the Bush administration's most visible advocate of “coercive interrogation.”
http://www.amconmag.com/2006/2006_10_09/print/reviewprint.html
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Compact with Evil: The McCain "Compromise" on Bush's Torture Program
After George Bush's Rose Garden hissy fit, in which he declared that he would simply stop interrogating suspected terrorists unless he could torture them, John "I Only Flip-Flop On Matters of Deep Principle" McCain and the other so-called "Senate rebels" have capitulated to the unpopular president's petulant demands.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15064.htm
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America's detainees face grave injustice
NEW YORK -- More than two years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Rasul v. Bush that prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have the right to challenge their detention in federal court through habeas corpus. No longer, the court said, could Guantanamo operate as a prison beyond the law.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.guantanamo22sep22,0,6751730.story
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UK suspects in new claims of torture at Guantanamo
The extent of the torture and abuse that British residents held at Guantanamo Bay claim to have suffered is revealed for the first time in a series of recently declassified interviews between the detainees and their human rights lawyers.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article1655652.ece
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Venezuelan Government To Launch International 9/11 Investigation
Billionaire philanthropist Jimmy Walter and WTC survivor William Rodriguez this week embarked on a groundbreaking trip to Caracas Venezuela in which they met with with the President of the Assembly and will soon meet with Venezuelan President himself Hugo Chavez in anticipation of an official Venezuelan government investigation into 9/11.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2006/310306launchinvestigation.htm
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Bush insults Americans by still linking Iraq to 9/11 attacks
I arrived home on the evening of 9/11/06 to a speech on television by President George W. Bush, commemorating the fifth anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers.
The argument carried some water in the aftermath of 9/11, but the president's continued insistence, in the face of contrary evidence, that Iraq was connected to the 9/11 attacks is difficult to swallow. The president's constant revisionism five years after the fact -- and after the facts are even clearer -- is an insult to Americans.
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060922/OPINION02/609220359/1070/OPINION
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800,000 Iraqi children not attending school
Once the model of education in the Middle East, twelve years of grueling sanctions and three years of bloody occupation have left Iraq's system in shambles, a generation of children both traumatised and, it seems, deprived of education.
More 'mission accomplished'.
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=-6&l=t
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List of accusations of GIs in Iraq stuns experts
The accounts are brutal: An Iraqi man dragged from his home, executed and made to look as if he were an insurgent. Three prisoners killed by their Army captors. A team of revenge-seeking Marines going home to home, shooting down unarmed Iraqi men, women, children.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13506794/
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New terror that stalks Iraq's republic of fear
The republic of fear is born again. The state of terror now gripping Iraq is as bad as it was under Saddam Hussein. Torture in the country may even be worse than it was during his rule, the United Nation's special investigator on torture said yesterday.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15063.htm
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Iraq is Bush’s Reflection Pond
Martial law is not liberation. In the last two months, the number of dead appearing at the Baghdad morgue has skyrocketed; nearly 6,600 Iraqis brutally tortured and killed in July and August alone. In terms of population, this is the equivalent of 79,200 American casualties. Simply put, it is a massacre.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15070.htm
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Videos of the Iraqi Resistance Operations 4
http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../ar_articles_2006/0906/moqaw_210906.htm
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Videos of the Iraqi Resistance Operations 3
http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../ar_articles_2006/0906/islmi_200906.htm
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Videos of the Iraqi Resistance Operations 2
http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../ar_articles_2006/0906/qasas_200906.htm
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Videos of the Iraqi Resistance Operations 1
http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../ar_articles_2006/0906/ansar_200906.htm
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At least 15 killed as U.S. occupation continues
Police found 10 bodies, including those of two women, in different parts of Baghdad since early on Friday.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/RAS232513.htm
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3 U.S. occupation forces troops among 94 killed in Iraq
A total of 38 bodies were recovered by police in Baghdad in the past day, an Interior Ministry source said. Most were bound, shot and bore signs of torture.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L21430391.htm
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 21 September 2006.
- Heaviest combat in a month rages in ar-Ramadi Thursday afternoon. At least three American snipers reported killed. Resistance car bomber blasts two-story house occupied by US troops to rubble reportedly killing all inside.
- US closes International Airport for two hours Thursday - a measure taken when an important personage arrives in the country.
- Two US troops reported killed in Wednesday night Resistance ambush in northern Baghdad.
- Resistance bombing near ad-Dulu 'iyah leaves three American troops reported dead Thursday morning.
- Resistance ambush leaves three US troops, two foreign mercenaries dead in al-Musayyib early Thursday morning.
- Pro-American puppet Kurdish separatist regime hangs 11 Salafi Muslim religious figures at dawn Thursday.
- Resistance fighters assault to puppet “National Guard” camps in al-Fallujah at dawn Thursday.
- Resistance men ambush US Marines in 'Amiriyat al-Fallujah Wednesday night.
- Resistance car bomber blasts US column in Baghdad's al-'Amiriyah district Thursday afternoon.
- Resistance bomb blasts Iraqi puppet “National Guard” patrol in al-Miqdadiyah.
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Afghan casualties 'much higher'
A senior officer in the British army has said that casualty figures from Afghanistan are being systematically under-reported for political reasons.
http://snipurl.com/nr1t
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War Signals?
The Bush Administration and the Pentagon have issued orders for a major "strike group" of ships, including the nuclear aircraft carrier Eisenhower as well as a cruiser, destroyer, frigate, submarine escort and supply ship, to head for the Persian Gulf, just off Iran's western coast.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15061.htm
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Iran Threatens 'Lightning' Response To Attacks
Iran has warned its armed forces would strike back "like lightning" against any attack on the country and will destroy "the enemy."
http://snipurl.com/p5ap
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Musharraf Pledges Continued Cooperation Even Though Bush Threatened To Bomb Pakistan
London, UK, September 22, 2006 – In excepts from an interview with CBS released on Thursday, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf said the US had threatened to bomb Pakistan "back to the stone age" unless it joined the US in the ‘war on terror’.
http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net
see also: http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2006-09/22/02.shtml
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Hamas will not recognise Israel, backs 10-year truce: adviser
The next Palestinian government will not recognise Israel but is instead prepared to back a 10-year truce with the Jewish state, an adviser to the Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya said.
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=143272
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Israeli government issues tenders for 164 new illegal homes in the occupied West Bank
The Israeli government is planning to build 164 new homes in three illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, despite an obligation under a U.S.-backed peace road map to halt such construction on land Palestinians seek for a state.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/765929.html
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UK politician: Pro-Israel lobby controls West: Baroness Jenny Tonge
' The pro-Israeli lobby has got its grips on the Western World, its financial grips. I think they’ve probably got a certain grip on our party'
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3306894,00.html
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Fate of some CIA detainees still unknown:
Missing Boston woman among them, kin say
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15066.htm
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There is only one reason prisoners are whisked off to other countries
To allow the CIA to use what President Bush euphemistically calls “alternative interrogation” methods outside the reach of U.S. law.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/09/22/torture_exhibit_a.php
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Top secret: Banff security meeting attracted U.S., Mexico officials
"Here they are talking in my backyard, no media to tell Canadians, Mexicans and Americans about what's going on. [I am] completely outraged," he said. "This is an assault on democracy."
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2006/09/21/secret-meeting.html
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Anti-Americanism Is Providing a Glue
The rhetoric from the leaders of Iran, Sudan and Venezuela at the U.N. shared a theme of outrage at the U.S., despite their differences.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15067.htm
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Bombs Over Cambodia
New information reveals that Cambodia was bombed far more heavily than previously believed
http://snipurl.com/wvk2
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A Courageous Man Speaks Out
Hugo Chavez is dedicated to the principles and spirit of the Bolivarian Revolution he gave the people of Venezuela and wants to spread it to the developing world as a counter-force to the US model of global dominance of the developed North over the less-developed South with the US as hegemon-in-chief.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15062.htm
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Venezuela Says Police Cut Off Chavez Speech
New York police stopped the feed, which was broadcasting in Venezuela Chavez's address to the Mount Olivet Church in Harlem, as a way to retaliate for remarks Chavez made about U.S. President George W. Bush in the United Nations the day before, said William Lara, Chavez's chief spokesman, according to the paper.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=ahO5SVKqILcQ&refer=latin_america
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Interview with Bolivian President Evo Morales on Latin America
U.S. Foreign Policy and the Role of the Indigenous People of Bolivia
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/22/1323211
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