bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update
Why is the American press silent on the report of 655,000 Iraqi deaths?
By any objective standard, the report merits front-page coverage in every major newspaper in the country and extensive discussion and reporting on television news broadcasts. Yet the response of the US press has been to virtually ignore the report and limit its coverage to news accounts on inside pages
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/oct2006/iraq-o13.shtml
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Co-Author of Medical Study Estimating 650,000 Iraqi Deaths Defends Research
Les Roberts joins us now from Syracuse, New York -- He is one of the main researchers of the study. He was with Johns Hopkins when he co-authored the study but has just taken a post at Columbia University.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/12/145222
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Muslim Banker to the poor takes Nobel Peace Prize
Oslo — Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for pioneering the use of seemingly insignificant loans — microcredit — to lift millions out of poverty.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061013.w2npeace1013/BNStory/International/home
Note that is the second Muslim who has one a Noble Prize this year. See also:
http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2006-10/07/05.shtml
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Amnesty International warmly congratulates Muhammad Yunus and Grameem Bank on being awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize
"Poverty is both a cause and a consequence of the failure to respect human rights: both economic, social and cultural as well as political and civil. It is driven by human rights violations and perpetuates further abuses. Today's announcement by the Nobel Peace Prize Committee reinforces Amnesty International's message that poverty is a major threat to human dignity and an obstacle to promoting peace and justice, but that it is not inevitable and can be overcome through the creativity and courage of individuals and the power of group mobilization," said Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International.
http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net
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EU condemns French bill on mass killings in Armenia as counterproductive
HELSINKI, Finland The European Union on Friday condemned a French bill that would make it a crime to deny that the World War I-era killings of Armenians in Turkey were genocide, describing it as counterproductive at a critical stage in Turkey's EU entry talks.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/10/13/europe/EU_GEN_EU_France_Turkey.php
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Foreign Ministry slams Israeli Ambassador's racist comments.
The Foreign Ministry on Friday condemned remarks by the Israeli ambassador to Australia in which he told Haaretz that the two countries are white sisters amid "the yellow race" of Asia.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/774471.html
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Special Radio 4 documentary, 'Unveiled' (listen online)
Fareena Alam, editor of the Muslim magazine Q-News explores the impact of Jack Straw's views on women wearing the veil, in a special 30-min documentary for Radio 4.
Fareena Alam can be reached on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Listen online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainframe.shtml?http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4/unveiled
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Intervention and Exploitation
Map Of US and UK Government International Actions Since 1945
http://www.us-uk-interventions.org/
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Shameful legacy
In the early 1950s, Mau Mau rebels murdered 32 people in an uprising against colonial rule in Kenya. Britain's response was brutal: 150,000 Kenyans were detained in camps where, survivors claim, prisoners were beaten, tortured, sexually abused and even murdered. Fifty years on, a handful of them are suing the British government.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/kenya/story/0,,1921282,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1
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Beware Empires in Decline
Just as an empire on the rise, like the United States on the eve of the invasion of Iraq, is often inclined to take rash and ill-considered actions, so an empire on the decline, like the British and French empires after World War II, will engage in senseless, self-destructive acts. And I fear the same can happen to the United States today, as we, too, slip into decline.
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3596
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Bush’s Willing Legislators
The Case for Impeachment And Why It Won’t Happen.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15294.htm
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Documents Reveal Scope of U.S. Database on Antiwar Protests
Internal military documents released Thursday provided new details about the Defense Department’s collection of information on demonstrations nationwide last year by students, Quakers and others opposed to the Iraq war.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15293.htm
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Breaking the Silence of the Night
Like many Americans who served in Vietnam and those now serving in Iraq, and countless other human beings throughout history, I had been willing to give my life for my country with little knowledge or awareness of what that really meant. I trusted and believed and had no reason to doubt the sincerity or motives of my government. It would not be until many months later at the Bronx Veterans Hospital in New York that I would begin to question whether I and the others who had gone to that war had gone for nothing.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15295.htm
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Lied Into War - An Interview With Daniel Ellsberg
The most famous whistleblower of the Vietnam era, former State and Defence Department official, Daniel Ellsberg, is speaking out, calling on Bush Administration officials to do what he did with the Pentagon papers more than 30 years ago and leak secret documents and war plans to the public. Ellsberg claims President Johnson lied to take America to war in Vietnam. He accuses President Bush of lying to take America to war with Iraq and he believes secret groundwork is being laid for a war with Iran.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15291.htm
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American Prison Camps Are on the Way
Kellogg Brown & Root, a Halliburton subsidiary, is constructing a huge facility at an undisclosed location to hold tens of thousands of Bush's "unlawful enemy combatants." Americans are certain to be among them.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15290.htm
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9/11 : 17 Falsely Accused Guantanamo Detainees Returned to Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan --Sixteen Afghans and one Iranian released from years in captivity at Guantanamo Bay prison arrived in Afghanistan on Thursday, an Afghan official said, maintaining that "most" of the detainees had been falsely accused.
The 16 Afghans appeared at a news conference alongside Sibghatullah Mujaddedi, head of Afghanistan's reconciliation commission, which assists with the release of detainees from the American detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the U.S. prison at the Bagram military base north of Kabul.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2006/10/12/guantanamo_detainees_go_to_afghanistan/
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The Bush administration's torture of U.S. citizen Jose Padilla
The Bush administration insisted it had the right to abduct and detain U.S. citizens indefinitely and deny them access to any courts or even to any lawyers, to either contest the validity of their detention or the legality of their treatment. That is still the Bush administration's position, and the Congress less than two weeks ago purported to give the President the legal authority to do virtually all of that.
http://tinyurl.com/fdmzr
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'Cops tortured Chechen for terror confession'
The last article written by murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was an account from a Chechen man who said police passed electric shocks through his fingers until he confessed to terrorism.
http://tinyurl.com/yabvhq
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The Human Cost of the War in Iraq. A Mortality Study, 2002-2006. pdf
http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../Human_Cost_of_War.pdf
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Congressman Shays: Abu Ghraib Wasn't torture
2 Minute Video: At an October 11, 2006 Debate at Congregation B'nai Israel in Bridgeport, CT, Chris Shays states that what happened in Abu Ghraib was a sex ring, not torture.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15296.htm
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Shays defends comments on Abu Ghraib
"This is outrageous for a sitting congressman," said Joshua Rubenstein, Northeast regional director for Amnesty International. "The photographs did not only depict humiliating and degrading treatment of prisoners. They showed prisoners who were killed."
http://tinyurl.com/y4uy5n
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U.S marines accused of murdering British journalist
A Coroner is to ask the UK's attorney general to consider bringing charges against US troops who killed ITN reporter Terry Lloyd in southern Iraq.
http://tinyurl.com/yczlwc
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US 'unlawfully killed' ITN journalist US 'unlawfully killed' ITN journalist
The widow of the ITN reporter Terry Lloyd has called for a murder trial after a coroner ruled that he was unlawfully killed by US troops. Andrew Walker, Oxfordshire's assistant deputy coroner, said he would write to the Attorney General and Director of Public Prosecutions "to see whether any steps can be taken to bring the perpetrators responsible for this to justice".
You have to wonder what Lloyd witnessed that American troops didn't want the world to see.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/13/ulloyd.xml
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When Evil Doing Comes Like Falling Rain
UN reports estimate that one out of every four Iraqi children suffers from acute malnourishment. The colloquial word for this condition is "wasting."
http://electroniciraq.net/news/2525.shtml
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British Army Chief Says Troops Should Be Pulled Out Of Iraq
Tony Blair has received a public warning from the country's most senior military commander that the British presence in Iraq is threatening disaster there and in the UK.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15288.htm
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UK Government stunned by Army chief's Iraq blast
General Sir Richard Dannatt said troops should come home within two years - flatly contradicting the Prime Minister's policy that the military will stay "as long as it takes". In unprecedented comments he warned that the Army could 'break' if British soldiers are kept too long in Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15289.htm
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General Clarifies Iraq Comment
After suggesting that British troops be withdrawn from Iraq, Gen. Richard Dannatt, is backpedaling through the firestorm his comment caused.
http://tinyurl.com/yfarwb
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Iraq loses 25 police to violence each day
Violence in Iraq forces the interior ministry to budget a loss of 25 police officers each day to death or permanent injury, a US security advisor said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061013/wl_mideast_afp/usiraqunrestpolice
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Two British "contractors" killed in bombing south of Baghdad
Two British "security contractors" were killed after an explosive device targeted the US military engineering team they were accompanying between the cities of Karbala and Najaf, said an Iraqi security source on Friday.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=912938
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9 Marines Killed In occupied Iraq Identified
Defense Department Says All Died Fighting In Anbar Province Within The Last Week
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/12/iraq/main2085341.shtml
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U.S. Casualties Surge Amid Worsening Iraq Occupation
At least 44 U.S. troops have been killed so far in October. At the current pace, the month would be the deadliest for U.S. forces since January 2005.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2559501
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 12 October 2006.
- Iraqi Resistance fighters ambush, destroy US Bradley armored vehicle in Hit, leaving five US troops reported dead Thursday afternoon.
- Resistance bomb throws US Humvee into river near al-Fallujah early Thursday afternoon, three American troops reported killed.
- Resistance ambush leaves four US Marines, including an officer, reported dead in ar-Ramadi Thursday afternoon.
- Four US troops killed in Resistance land mine explosion near al-Habbaniyah before dawn Thursday.
- Resistance mortars pound US troops working to clear out ruined Falcon Forward Base on Thursday night.
- US trucks seen hauling burned out tanks out of Baghdad on Thursday evening, two days after Resistance barrage devastated American Falcon Forward Base arsenal.
- Fierce fighting breaks out in al-Mawsil Thursday evening; Resistance men battle Americans and their puppet regime allies into the night on both sides of Tigris River.
- US soldier reported killed by Resistance sharpshooter's bullet in Tall 'Afar Thursday morning.
- US forces burst into home of religious leader in al-Karmah, abduct him and two brothers.
- Resistance shoots down unmanned US spy plane over ar-Ramadi Thursday afternoon.
- Resistance car bomber blasts US column in ar-Ramadi, destroying two military vehicles.
- US forces seal off ar-Ramadi from outside world Thursday morning.
- Resistance car bomb wounds puppet policemen in Baghdad's al-Bab ash-Sharqi district Thursday.
- Resistance car bomb destroys US supply truck, killing drivers, on Wednesday.
- US forces stage lightning raid on al-Mahmudiyah late Wednesday night, kill elderly guard at water treatment plant.
- Resistance mortars pound Iraqi puppet “National Guard” checkpoint in al-Latifiyah Wednesday evening.
- Puppet police chief in al-Hillah targeted by Resistance bomb. Resistance bomb blasts car carrying four US security guards.
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Police arrest 10 Israeli settler youths who beat Palestinians harvesting olives
Police arrived on the scene and arrested 10 suspects. A search revealed the young settlers were carrying a knife, two saws, two hammers, a hoe and brass knucles.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/774011.hktml
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Prof. John Dugard, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Second Session of the Human Rights Council
SEE: http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net/dugard.htm
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Israeli Attacks Kill 8 In The Occupied Gaza Strip
Those killed include a 13-year-old boy and a two year old child.
http://tinyurl.com/yfz4n3
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Palestinians clash with Israeli police outside occupied Jerusalem
Clashes erupted Friday at several checkpoints outside Jerusalem as Palestinians protested against an Israeli restriction on their entry to the al-Aqsa mosque compound in the city for Friday prayers.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-10/13/content_5200890.htm
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Palestinian PM Rules Out Ever Recognizing Israel
" Resistance is a legitimate right...We will not give up our right to defend ourselves."
http://tinyurl.com/yb9nrp
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US launches $42 Million plan to help Hamas opponents
US Officials and consultants say the effort is being conducted without fanfare in order to protect the Palestinians who are receiving US Help -- some already branded by Hamas leaders as collaborators with Washington and Israel.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3314563,00.html
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US law experts question timing of Qaeda treason charge
The first treason charge against an American since the World War II era has puzzled some law experts who suspect that political motives were behind the move less than a month before congressional elections.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/usattacksjusticeqaeda
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Rep. Ney pleads guilty
Rep. Bob Ney pleaded guilty Friday in the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling investigation, the first lawmaker to confess to crimes in an election-year scandal that has stained the Republican-controlled Congress and the Bush administration.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061013/ap_on_go_co/ney_corruption
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Frist's Charity Under Scrutiny: (AP)
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's AIDS charity paid nearly a half-million dollars in consulting fees to members of his political inner circle, according to tax returns providing the first financial accounting of the presidential hopeful's nonprofit.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/17/politics/main1134721.shtml
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U.S. agents question teen: Girl ran anti-Bush page on MySpace
Julia Wilson, 14, got a surprise visit from two Secret Service agents Wednesday at McClatchy High after the words "Kill Bush" appeared on MySpace.com.
http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/13413108.html
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