bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update ===
Return to the dark ages :
By drawing on medieval poison about Islam, the Pope has boosted Muslim fears of a new crusade
The Pope's response to the anger his statements sparked in the Muslim world was more offensive than the statements themselves. He apologised not for what he said, but for Muslims' failure to grasp the intended meaning.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1875507,00.html
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National Catholic Reporter June 30th report on Islam in America
They face rising public suspicion but new opportunities. Please see: Muslims in America
http://www.natcath.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2006b/063006/063006a.php
There is also an article about "Catholics who turn to Islam" but it requires paid subscription to the magazine. Here is the url: http://www.natcath.org/index0630.htm
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Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America's War? More Than 250,000
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11674.htm
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In Bush's War 2713
http://icasualties.org/oif/
The War in Iraq Costs $330,722,660,208 - See the cost in your community
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
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America the Tyranny - The Road to Authoritarianism
The red, white and blue, sadly enough, has become the symbol of what we most hate, of what we swore to never become. It has become a flag hijacked by tyrants, with the American People unconcerned and unwilling, to the point of embarrassment, to free it from its dungeon, with most too lazy or apathetic to care, most too ignorant to know.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15208.htm
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The October Surprise
For a divinely guided president who imagines himself to be a latter day Winston Churchill (albeit lacking the ability to formulate intelligent sentences), and who professedly does not care about public opinion at home or abroad, anything is possible, and dwindling days in power may be seen as making the most apocalyptic actions necessary.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15206.htm
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Lincoln Weeps
Once upon a time the House of Representatives was known as "the people's house." No more. It belongs to K Street now. That's the address of the lobbyists who swarm all over Capitol Hill. There are 65 lobbyists for every member of Congress. They spend $200 million per month wining, dining and seducing federal officials. Per month!
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15207.htm
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Wanted: a world leader
The U.S. collapse couldn't come at a worse time, says former Canadian diplomat
http://tinyurl.com/nw6d5
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What A Terrorist Incident in Ancient Rome Can Teach Us - Pirates of the Mediterranean
The vote by the Senate on Thursday to suspend the right of habeas corpus for terrorism detainees, denying them their right to challenge their detention in court; the careful wording about torture, which forbids only the inducement of “serious” physical and mental suffering to obtain information; the admissibility of evidence obtained in the United States without a search warrant; the licensing of the president to declare a legal resident of the United States an enemy combatant - all this represents an historic shift in the balance of power between the citizen and the executive.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/30/opinion/30harris.html?ex=1160366400&en=379e62c9993ca0cc&ei=5070&emc=eta1
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Will Americans Seek Repeal Of Constitution Killing Enabling Act?
The end of the U.S. Constitution and the impending passage of George W. Bush's own Enabling Act are of little importance to a U.S. media fixated with the lurid e mails of a pervert politician. Will Americans focus on what really matters and seek a repeal of HR 6166?
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/october2006/031006seekrepeal.htm
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Congress to Bush: Here are the Tools to Dictatorship, Go and Enjoy
These.... people... crazy people... very, very scared people?... voted to dump the Magna Carta protections of being able to confront your accuser, and said it's okay to lock up "suspected terrorists" FOR LIFE without trial or anyway of protesting their innocence, you know sort of like in The Man in the Iron Mask.
Arianna seems puzzled by the way Congress keeps caving int to Bush's demands for more power. But I think the mystery has been solved. According to ABC, more politicians are going to get caught up on the pedophilia scandal. Start lining up the perverts and those covering for them with the votes for dictatorship, and I think you will see a strong correlation. In other words, a large portion of the US Congress is being blackmailed to go along with the dictatorship agenda, which is why even those few who speak out against the excesses seem to change their minds at the last moment and vote for the enabling acts.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-durang/congress-to-bush-here-ar_b_30808.html
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9/11 : Planes, Hijackers and Automobiles
Proof of Lies And Evidence Fabrication Against The Hijacker Suspects of 9-11.
Another Mysterious Plane Crash Victim?
On Sept 11th 2000, exactly one year before the Boeing planes crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, a much smaller plane crash occurred in Florida. Two small planes collided (20), one of the pilots (both of whom were killed) was a man named Amer Bukhari, who's name appeared on the passenger list of American Airlines Flight 11, the first plane to crash into the World Trade Center towers (5).
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/bukhari_hijackers.html
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9/11 : Photographic Evidence Showing Ziad Jarrah Was Not a 9/11 Hijacker
The person playing "Evil Arab Hijacker" looked a lot like Ziad Jarrah. Close, but no cigar.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/jarrah.html
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9/11 : Atta's Father Says Video Fake, Credibility of 'Hijackers Tape' Crumbles
New revelations about the so-called 'laughing hijackers' tape expose its release as a stage-managed politically timed trick. The father of Mohammed Atta blasts the video as a "fake" while contradictory claims of its origin and nature baffle even mainstream terror experts - while even the media admits that the tape was released not by Al-Qaeda but by the U.S. intelligence apparatus.
http://infowars.net/articles/October2006/031006faketerror.htm
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9/11 Mohamed Atta: Terrorist, Patsy, or Scapegoat?
[Atta and Alomari] spent their last night pursuing ordinary activities: making ATM withdrawals, eating pizza, and shopping at a convenience store. [9/11 Commission Report] (http://911.gnu-designs.com/Chapter_7.4.html)
"Most college kids order pizza all the time," Ponemon said. "But most people pay cash for pizza. These guys paid with a credit card. That was an odd thing." [SignOnSanDiego] (http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20020903-1227-n75512.html)
Gas station security photos (http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/atta/resources/photos/gas.htm) - Supermarket security photos (http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/atta/resources/photos/walmart.htm)
The above were not the actions of a terrorist ringleader determined to achieve a goal which was years in the planning, they were the actions of someone determined to leave a trail of evidence.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/atta_9-11.html
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9/11 : Clues sought in Atta video
Video footage of 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta reading a "martyrdom" will about 20 months before the attacks on the US may never have been intended to be released in thatform.
And an expert on Islamic extremism predicted the footage was so out of character for al-Qa'ida it could have been taken by a security agency.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20515159-2703,00.html
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9/11 Rice: I don't recall alert about attack
SHANNON, Ireland - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she cannot recall then-CIA chief George Tenet warning her of an impending al-Qaida attack in the United States, as a new book claims he did two months before the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
"What I am quite certain of is that I would remember if I was told, as this account apparently says, that there was about to be an attack in the United States, and the idea that I would somehow have ignored that I find incomprehensible," Rice said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061002/ap_on_re_eu/rice
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9/11 : Records Show Tenet Briefed Rice on Al Qaeda Threat
A review of White House records has determined that George J. Tenet, then the director of central intelligence, did brief Condoleezza Rice and other top officials on July 10, 2001, about the looming threat from Al Qaeda, a State Department spokesman said Monday.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15204.htm
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Video: Condoleezza Rice Facing 9 - 11 Commission
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may have committed perjury in her testimony before the 9/11 Commission in May of 2004.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15205.htm
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Rumsfeld, Ashcroft received warning of al Qaida attack before 9/11
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and former Attorney General John Ashcroft received the same CIA briefing about an imminent al-Qaida strike on an American target that was given to the White House two months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15202.htm
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Rice Loyalist Headed 9/11 Commission Probes
Bob Woodward's State of Denial provides evidence of the politicization of the 9/11 Commission's investigative process, conclusions, and certain omissions from its report, as well as then national security advisor Condoleezza Rice's likely role in burying unflattering, damning evidence through the appointment of Bush/Rice loyalist Philip Zelikow (PHOTO RIGHT) as the Commissions' chief investigator and Zelikow's reward (perhaps) of a top senior-level position in the State Department, which Rice now heads.
Long time readers will recall that it was Philip Zelikow who has publicly stated that the war in Iraq was fought for Israel.
http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/10/rice_loyalist_h.html
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9/11 Britain to US: we don't want Guantánamo nine back
Documents obtained by the Guardian show US authorities are demanding that the detainees be kept under 24-hour surveillance if set free - restrictions that are dismissed by the British as unnecessary and unworkable.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1886164,00.html
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9/11 : 'I thought Britain stood for justice, but the British government has abandoned us'
At least nine former British residents are being held at Guantánamo. They include two former public schoolboys and two political refugees, a one -time MI5 informer and a man with a history of mental illness. US authorities say they want to send most back to the UK, but the British say they have no right to be in this country.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,,1886309,00.html
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The Lineage of Bush-Cheney Torture
It is obvious too from the facts related by Margulies that what the CIA was interested in - and is still interested in - was not techniques for eliciting accurate information but methods for producing confessions that would conform to whatever horrific fantasy scenario that the regime deemed politically expedient. This of course has a direct application to our political reality today. The Bush Regime relies on the manufacture and manipulation of fear in order to retain power and push its unconstitutional - and unpopular - agenda of presidental dictatorship, military aggression, war profiteering, and oligarchic plunder.
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=-6&l=t
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American Narcissism and Iraq
The Iraq War Isn't a Quagmire. It's Just Wrong.
http://www.counterpunch.org/solomon10022006.html
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Beatings, abductions, shootings: on patrol with the al-Mahdi army
ABU MAHA admits freely that he kills and kidnaps Sunni “terrorists”. At checkpoints Iraqi soldiers greet him by name and let him pass.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2385385,00.html
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New Militias Push Govt Back Further
Reports of the setting up of U.S.-backed Sunni militias have brought new uncertainty to deepening chaos within Iraq.
http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/hard_news/archives/iraq/000472.php
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Violence In Iraq Leaves At Least 51 Dead
A suicide bomber unleashed a blast in a Baghdad fish market Tuesday and two Shiite families were found slain north of the capital as violence across Iraq claimed at least 51 lives.
http://www.wral.com/apworldnews/9992953/detail.html
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Bloody Day of Occupation in Iraq Leaves 263 Dead
At least 16 of a total of 40 kidnap victims are still missing. Roadside bombs, mortars and simple shootings took many lives, while stray fire or mortars took the lives of several children.
http://www.antiwar.com/news/?articleid=9780
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11 U.S. Occupation Force Soldiers Killed In Iraq
Eleven U.S. occupation soldiers have been killed in recent fighting in Iraq. The U.S. command said the toll included nine Army soldiers and two Marines.
http://cbs3.com/topstories/topstories_story_276101520.html
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Three US Marines Die in Iraq
http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B10E4712A-D117-4BDB-8094-00EB8BD7CB56%7D)&language=EN
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2 GIs, 1 British Soldier Killed - 113 Bodies Found - Debaathification Targets Interior
http://www.juancole.com/2006/10/2-gis-1-british-soldier-killed-113.html
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Nine U-S soldiers, two more Marines killed in Iraq
http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=5488956
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17 US soldiers killed in Iraq since Saturday
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/iraq/?id=17693
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U.S. military deaths in Iraq hit 2,718
As of Monday, Oct. 2, 2006, at least 2,718 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,164 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061002/ap_on_re_us/iraq_us_deaths
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 2 October 2006.
- In day-long campaign of raids and searches, US forces arrest 81 local residents including elderly and disabled persons reportedly for use as human shields in US base east of al-Fallujah.
- Resistance bomb in as-Saqlawiyah near al-Fallujah leaves US soldier reported killed.
- US soldier reported killed in Resistance bombing in Baghdad Street in the occupied Iraqi capital Monday afternoon.
- Four US troops reported dead after high-explosive Resistance bomb goes off in Bayji.
- Resistance bomb destroys US tanker truck in Tikrit killing two drivers Monday morning.
- Eight US troops reported killed in one week by new Iraqi Resistance sharpshooter in Tall 'Afar.
- Resistance mortars blast US base in 'Anah. Resistance mortars bombard US headquarters in Hit Sunday evening.
- Resistance bomb targets US column in Abu Ghurayb Monday morning.
- Resistance fighters ambush US soldier near Kirkuk Monday morning.
- Resistance bombs target puppet police in al-Mawsil. Resistance bombards puppet police station in al-Mawsil Sunday.
- Resistance fighter kills Iraqi puppet policeman to cover withdrawal of Resistance fighters following battle in al-Mawsil.
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Afghanistan: Nato is Now US-ATO
The pre-planned war in Afghanistan will be 5 years old on 7 October. The PNAC gang had their eyes on Afghanistan and its oil prior to 9/11, as seen in R. M. Gerecht’s (March ’01) NY Times article, reprinted on the PNAC website.
http://indexresearch.blogspot.com/2006/10/afghanistan-nato-is-now-us-ato.html
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US eyes Latin America's help in Iraq, Afghanistan
The United States is pressing some Latin American countries to send troops to Afghanistan and Iraq for non-combat missions as the Pentagon struggles to transition those operations from war to reconstruction.
http://tinyurl.com/osc96
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Afghanistan fighting kills 6, including 2 U.S. occupation troops
Two gunbattles in eastern Afghanistan killed four Afghan and two U.S. troops, officials said today, and NATO prepared to assume military command of all of the country from the U.S.-led coalition.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/4232084.html
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UNHCR deeply concerned by plight of Palestinian refugees in Iraq, region
More UNHCR is deeply concerned over the well-being of Palestinian refugees inside Iraq, as well as those who fled targeted harassment and violence in Baghdad and are now stuck at the border between Iraq and Syria and in camps in Jordan and Syria.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/UNHCR/ca2f525d242bd3ee979fd45a59b86469.htm
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U.S. is recruiting misfits for army - Felons, racists, gang members fill in the ranks
After falling short of its goals last year, military recruiting in 2006 has been marked by upbeat pronouncements from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, claims of success by the White House, and a spate of recent press reports touting the military's achievement of its woman- and manpower goals.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/10/01/ING42LCIGK1.DTL
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FLASHBACK: The Strange Death Of The Woman Who Filed A Rape Lawsuit Against Bush
http://www.rense.com/general63/strange.htm
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IRB judge offers refugee claimant visa for affair
CTV News has obtained video of an Immigration and Refugee Appeal Board judge suggesting to a South Korean woman that he would approve her refugee application if she had an affair with him.
"I had no choice. When he asked me for the coffee, I had to meet him. I was afraid he would say no, deny my case," Kim told CTV News. Brad Tripp, her boyfriend, said: "We knew the only thing to do was to record this because no one was going to believe us later."
Over the course of the 45-minute recording, it became too dark to videotape. In the audio recording, Ellis suggests he can approve her application if she has an affair with him, but warned Kim not to tell her boyfriend.
"He might try to make trouble and say, `Oh yeah, this guy she fucked was a judge. She fucked him and that's why she is fucking him and that's why he said yes'," Ellis said.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061002/irb_judge_061002/20061003?hub=TopStories
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Republican Pedophilia - A Long but Distinguished List
To be fair, if anyone has the same list for Democrats, send it along and I will post it.
http://www.teambio.org/2006/10/republican-pedophilia-a-long-but-distinguished-list/
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Photographer for White House child sex ring arrested after Thompson suicide
Hunter S. Thompson was working on an article about a congressional pedophile ring at the time he was "suicided'."
http://www.infowars.com/articles/world/tom_flocco_arrested_tied_to_wh_child_sex_ring.htm
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US Corruption : The 50 Richest Members of Congress (Roll Call)
For the 50 richest Members of Congress, 2005 was great for the bottom line, according to Roll Call's annual survey of lawmakers' personal wealth.
http://tinyurl.com/rqeeu
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Man Says He Was Arrested After Criticizing Cheney
A Colorado man accused a Secret Service agent Tuesday of arresting him on trumped-up allegations of assaulting Vice President Dick Cheney
after he told Cheney the administration's policies in Iraq were "reprehensible."
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15201.htm
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North Korea Vows First Nuclear Test
A statement released by the North Korean state-run news agency declared that “the U.S. extreme threat of a nuclear war and sanctions and pressure” compel the country “to conduct a nuclear test, an essential process for bolstering nuclear deterrent, as a corresponding measure for defense.”
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15200.htm
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