bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update ===
Six Arab states join rush to go nuclear
Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, UAE and Saudi Arabia seek atom technology
THE SPECTRE of a nuclear race in the Middle East was raised yesterday when six Arab states announced that they were embarking on programmes to master atomic technology.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2436948,00.html
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U.S. Seeks Silence on CIA Prisons - suspects shouldn't be allowed to talk - EVER
excerpts:
".....terrorism suspects held in secret CIA prisons should not be allowed to reveal details of the "alternative interrogation methods" that their captors used to get them to talk.
"....The government, in trying to block lawyers' access to the 14 detainees, effectively asserts that the detainees' experiences are a secret that should never be shared with the public."
FULL ARTICLE AT:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/03/AR2006110301793.html
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U.S. seeks silence on detainees
The Bush administration has told a federal judge that terrorism suspects held in secret CIA prisons should not be allowed to reveal details of the "alternative interrogation methods" that their captors used to get them to talk.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15503.htm
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Wrongfully Jailed - Pakistani could be deported as immigration case dropped
A federal judge let the government drop all charges against a man jailed for more than two years after the FBI targeted him as a
possible terrorist, clearing the way for Haroon Rashid to be deported to the Pakistan- Afghanistan borderlands.
The decision Thursday in Denver by U.S. District Judge Lewis Babcock dismayed Rashid's U.S.-citizen relatives.
"Three years they've been dragging him. Now my family will be destroyed. Why didn't they drop the charges before?" said Saima, his wife.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_4594521
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They Hate Our Freedom - The Truth about the Military Commissions Act
On October 17th, with Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales, and Donald Rumsfeld standing behind him, George W. Bush solemnly announced, "in memory of the victims of September 11th, it is my honor to sign the Military Commissions Act of 2006 into law." It is apt that Bush invoked a terrifying assault on America as he signed the Military Commissions Act (MCA), legislation that chisels away at our civil liberties, abets and immunizes top-level torturers, and strikes at the core of American values and tradition. The message that Bush gave when he signed the Defense Bill in 2005 is now truer than ever: "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."...
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m27988&hd=0&size=1&l=e
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Neocons Make Excuses for Mass Murder
In America, instead of facing justice, criminals from up high usually write memoirs, or become "elder statesmen," and are interviewed, settling comfortably into the historical record, either oblivious to or proud of the swathe of blood and gore that enshrouds them. For instance, take the neocons, who should be filling up the docket at the Hague for plotting and executing the invasion and occupation of Iraq-current death total, 650,000, with millions floundering in abject misery-but are instead allowed to walk free and talk freely with David Rose, Vanity Fair contributing editor...
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m27983&hd=0&size=1&l=e
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Dictatorship : Tracked In America: Stories from the History of U.S. Government Surveillance
This documentary Web site explores more than two centuries of surveillance in America. Included are two hours of audio interviews, 300 photographs and 25 personal stories beginning in 1917.
http://www.trackedinamerica.org/
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Iraq War Will Cost More-than-$2-Trillion
In January, we estimated that the true cost of the Iraq war could reach $2 trillion, a figure that seemed shockingly high. But since that time, the cost of the war – in both blood and money – has risen even faster than our projections anticipated.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15499.htm
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The Truth about Iraq You Won't Get from Bush/Cheney or Our Media
...Today Iraqis are longing for the days of Saddam, when they had security. And when there was much less snuffing of the neighbors. The country is thoroughly butt-bonked, blood-assed and bum-buggered for the next 20 years. And we did it, not the Iraqis. We destroyed their institutions, and let them vote for a bunch of corrupt pols who play us for suckers and sit high and dry in the safety of the Green Zone and act like they're running the country, a country they're too afraid to travel in, unless surrounded by US Army tanks, jeeps and Humvees. What a mess. It's insoluble. Bush says we're training the Iraqis to stand up so we can stand down. Such BS. What we're actually doing is training the Shiites in the army to kill the Sunnis, and giving them the arms to do it with. That's what we're doing. We're knee-deep in a civil war, on the side of the Shiites...
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m27973&hd=0&size=1&l=e
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Saddam verdict date 'rigged' for Bush
"This court is a creature of the US military occupation, and the Iraqi court is just a tool and rubber stamp of the invaders," insisted Dulaimi.
Okay folks, Bush is expecting you all to obediently clap and cheer when Saddam is sentenced.
But what is he being sentenced FOR?
WMDs? Saddam didn't have them.
9-11? Saddam was not involved.
Aiding Al Qaeda? Iraq was a secular government and Al Qaeda favors religious rule. Saddam and Al Qaeda were enemies.
Killing his own people? Evidence suggests Iran gassed the Kurds as an act of war, and in any event, the US Government has killed more Iraqis than Saddam's regime ever did.
So, what is Saddam being sentenced for?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10409222
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Verdict in trial of Saddam Hussein due Sunday
Iraqis and human rights advocates have questioned the timing of the verdict in the Dujail case — two days before midterm elections in the United States — and whether it is intended to boost President Bush and his Republican allies.
http://www.dailytidings.com/2006/1104/stories/1104_saddam.php
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Bush Surrenders Iraq to Maliki's Death Squad
When the time eventually comes to make historic documentaries about the Iraq war, there is one scene that will leave no doubt about the dark and sinister nature of George W. Bush. The timing is a week before mid-term elections. Along with his senior aides, the president is holding a videoconference with Nouri Al-Maliki, the Prime Minister of Iraq. After an extraordinary public feud, the two men kiss and make up in front of the cameras. But both walk away from the encounter -- which was initiated at the request of Maliki -- with the understanding that the United States will abandon efforts to tackle the death squads in Iraq. The hastily arranged meeting was the result of a little spat between the administration and the Iraqi government on how best to deal with reign of terror in Iraq, largely attributed to Iranian trained and indoctrinated Shia militants that have infiltrated Maliki's security forces...
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m27985&hd=0&size=1&l=e
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Top Ten Ways we know We have Lost in Iraq
http://www.juancole.com/2006/11/top-ten-ways-we-know-we-have-lost-in.html
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Rats Jump Ship: Richard Perle: Iraq War Decision Wrong
Richard Perle, a leading proponent of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, now says devastating dysfunction within the Bush administration has turned U.S. policy there into a disaster.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/11/4/150148.shtml?s=ic
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Rats Jump Ship: Neocons turn on Bush for incompetence over Iraq war
Several prominent neoconservatives have turned on George Bush days before critical midterm elections, lambasting his administration for incompetence in the handling of the Iraq war and questioning the wisdom of the 2003 invasion they were instrumental in promoting.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/midterms2006/story/0,,1939472,00.html
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GI Special 4K4: Resistance Where It Counts - November 4, 2006
- Michigan Marine Killed In Iraq
- Three U.S. Soldiers Killed By Baghdad IED
- Marine Killed in Anbar
- Soldier Killed At Taji
- N.C. Based Marine From Indiana Dies In Iraq
- Absarokee Man Dies In Iraq Bombing
- Indiana Soldier Killed In Mosul
- Another South African Mercenary Killed
- Zionists Butcher Un-Armed Women
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m27977&hd=0&size=1&l=e
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3 More Marines Reported Killed in Anbar Action
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/03/AR2006110301468_pf.html
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South African Killed in Iraq
http://iafrica.com/news/sa/373325.htm
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Modesto (CA) Soldier Killed 11 Days Before Return Home
http://www.modbee.com/local/story/12973382p-13624837c.html
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 3 November 2006.
- Resistance assault on US command post leaves six American Marines reported dead in ar-Ramadi Friday night.
- Resistance fighters armed with rocket-propelled grenades ambush US column in al-Fallujah Friday afternoon.
- Three US troops reported killed in Resistance bombing in al-Fallujah Friday morning.
- US Marine reported killed by Iraqi Resistance sharpshooter in Tall 'Afar.
- Resistance attack targets Iraqi puppet troops in al-Fallujah Friday morning.
http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2006/1106/iraqiresistancereport_031106.htm
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Gaza's pain: 'We're bored of this life and want to die'
HE WAS a small man in a small hospital ward about to hear words that no father ever should. Outside the window, a short drive away, Israeli battle tanks and snipers fought Palestinian gunmen in Beit Hanoun during the fiercest street fights in Gaza for months.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2436922,00.html
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Gaza's pain
Muhammad Zakout’s 14- year-old son, Alaa, leaked blood on to a hospital pillow as his family gathered around the bed, incredulous that after repeated warnings to stay out of trouble he had been shot while throwing stones at Israeli tanks.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2436922,00.html
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27 Palestinians, including 11 civilians, 12 year old girl killed by Israel today
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/783577.html
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Israel Gaza attack kills 43
Seven people, including a teenager and five resistance fighters, were killed in the Gaza Strip Saturday as Israel pressed an attack on anti occupation forces that has left 43 Palestinians and one soldier dead in four days.
http://www.jordantimes.com/sun/news/news1.htm
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Palestinians: Saturdays Death toll up to 11
Palestinian sources reported that an additional Palestinian was killed and another wounded from Israeli occupation forces fire near Beit Hanoun in occupied northern Gaza.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3323622,00.html
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Number of dead in occupied Gaza reaching historic levels
Malki Shahwan silently picks at the peach tissue she's using to dab at the tears in the corners of her opaque eyes, eyes that her family says have gone blind from grief.
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/15924320.htm
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Palestinian PM: Israeli operation is massacre
Demands international intervention
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3323352,00.html
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Time for Pakistan Army to Arrest its Chief
Who should Pay for 83 Killed at Khar in Bajaur?
http://www.icssa.org/arrest_musharraf.html
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Kabul: Mock execution of child
Germany's army was hit by fresh allegations of misconduct on Saturday when a newspaper reported peacekeeping soldiers in Afghanistan staged the mock execution of a local child in 2002.
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/488120/880012
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German military challenges newspaper over terrorizing Afghan boy
The German Defense Ministry challenged a newspaper Saturday to provide proof for a claim that German soldiers terrorized a little Afghan boy in 2002 by holding a gun to his head.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-11/05/content_5290847.htm
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Taliban kill two in attack on US convoy in occupied Afghanistan
Taliban fighters ambushed a convoy supplying logistics and goods to a US base in southeastern Afghanistan, killing two Pakistani drivers and wounding an Afghan, police said.
http://tinyurl.com/t6s6b
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Afghan politician flays U.S., Britain roles in Afghanistan
"The continued illegal stay of foreign forces and the criminal behavior of the U.S. and the UK troops would cause more crises in Afghanistan,"
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-11/04/content_5289681.htm
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Hate Crime Charges Filed Against Five Jewish Teenagers in Brooklyn
Five Jewish teenagers have been charged with hate crimes for attacking a Pakistani-American man with brass knuckles in the Midwood section of Brooklyn and calling him a "terrorist," officials said.
Hmmm. Didn't see this one on ABCNNBBCBS.
http://www.nysun.com/article/42836
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Homeland Security Tightens Grip on International Travel
The Department of Homeland Security proposed new rules back in July that would fundamentally undermine the right of American citizens to travel abroad. Public carriers--airlines, cruise lines, even fishing boats--will be required to submit the names of all passengers to Homeland Security prior to departure and to obtain permission from Homeland Security to board those passengers. These new rules will take effect January 14, 2007.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15504.htm
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Just Try Voting Here: 11 of America's Worst Places to Cast a Ballot (or Try)
Machines that count backward, slice-and-dice districts, felon baiting, phone jamming, and plenty of dirty tricks.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15502.htm
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Military Newspapers Call for Rumsfeld's Resignation
An editorial scheduled to appear on Monday in Army Times, Air Force Times, Navy Times and Marine Corps Times, calls for the resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The papers are sold to American servicemen and women.
see: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110406Z.shtml
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U.S. speeds attack plans for North Korea
The Pentagon has stepped up planning for attacks against North Korea's nuclear program and is bolstering nuclear forces in Asia, said defense officials familiar with the highly secret process.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15497.htm
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The Case for Engagement
I recently returned from a trip to Iran, where over the course of a week I made the journey from the northern suburbs of Tehran to the gates of the Natanz enrichment facility, and in doing so had my eyes opened. The Iran that I witnessed was far removed from the one caricatured in the US media. I left with the frustrating realization that, as had been the case with Iraq, America was stumbling toward a conflict, blinded by the prejudice and fear born of our collective ignorance.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15507.htm
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