bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update ===
A Pre-Ordained Verdict - Saddam Must Die
The Iraqi high tribunal has just announced the death sentence of Saddam Hussein. This should surprise no one. In fact, no other outcome was ever possible. From the moment he was captured in his underground hideout, Saddam's fate was sealed. Saddam Hussein and the others were convicted for crimes that happened almost 25 years ago. 148 members of the pro-Iranian Dawa Party were executed for attempting to assassinate Saddam during the Iran-Iraq war (...) Anonymous witnesses were brought forth, and in some cases, the witnesses did not even appear, but submitted affidavits instead. These people testified to the terrible experiences they and their loved ones had in prison. But whether they received fair trials, or were summarily executed, no one really knows. The transcript of the 1982 proceedings, and the evidence used to convict the defendants were excluded from the trial of Saddam Hussein. It's ironic that Saddam will be executed, essentially, for the unfair way in which these people were dealt with, yet his own trial was so unfair that the earlier proceedings and evidence were inadmissible....
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m28077&hd=0&size=1&l=t
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Proceedings and Death Verdict Against Saddam Hussein by a Puppet Court Are Illegal, Unfair, and Invalid
The proceedings and death verdict against Saddam Hussein, president of Iraq, by a court of the puppet government under the US Occupation in Iraq are illegal, unfair and invalid. The court is a product and instrument of US aggression. As the 1945 Nuremberg Charter states, "To initiate a war of aggression is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." The US invasion of Iraq was made on the basis of lies and in violation of the UN Charter. Contrary to the claims of Bush, the Hussein government of Iraq did not have any weapons of mass destruction, did not have any connection with al Qaida and did not pose any threat to the US...
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m28085&hd=0&size=1&l=t
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On the Trial of Saddam Hussein: Court set up by an Illegal Occupying Power
As a member of the International Committee for the Defence of President Saddam Hussein, to oversee the trial of Saddam Hussein I would like to express my horror and disgust over the trial and sentencing of Saddam Hussein to death by hanging; Firstly a court set up by his enemies has no right to try Saddam Hussein. Since the inception of the trial, the International Committee and the Panel of Lawyers in the defence of President Saddam Hussein have repeatedly pointed out that the court set up by an illegal occupying power has no jurisdiction whatsoever to conduct the said proceedings. If Saddam Hussein is to be tried, it should be by an international court of judges drawn from countries uninvolved in the Iraqi invasion and occupation. The members of the International Committee have demanded that in order for justice to be done and seen to be done, the trial court and the judges must be independent and without bias, and be able to discharge their duties without fear or favour...
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m28095&hd=0&size=1&l=t
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Iraq: Amnesty International deplores death sentences in Saddam Hussein trial
Amnesty International deplores the decision of the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal (SICT) to impose the death sentence on Saddam Hussein and two of his seven co-accused after a trial which was deeply flawed and unfair. The former Iraqi dictator was sentenced today in connection with the killing of 148 people from al-Dujail village after an attempt to assassinate him there in 1982. The trial, which began in October 2005 almost two years after Saddam Hussein was captured by US forces, ended last July. The verdict was originally due to be announced on 16 October but was delayed because the court said it needed more time to review testimony.
http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../ar_articles_2006/1106/al3fo_a_081106.htm
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UN HUMAN RIGHTS BODY DECLARES SADDAM DETENTION AND TRIAL ILLEGAL AS A VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
An United Nations expert human rights law body has declared the trial of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein before an Iraqi special court is illegal because it violates the right to fair trial under international law.
http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2006/1106/un-saddam_011106.htm
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More on the Saddam verdict
...One note on the quotes around "Iraqi." We all know that the defendants have been in the custody of Americans, not Iraqis. But tonight on BBC, something else was revealed. The BBC reporter had to get permission from the Americans to interview the defense lawyers. Yes, you read that right. Not the defendants. The defense lawyers. And, while we're on the subject of that "landmark" "Iraqi" "justice," just a brief reminder that there are many people - Tariq Aziz for one and Gen. Amer al-Saadi for another, who as far as we know are still being held illegally by American forces, three and a half years after surrendering voluntarily to the Americans...
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m28069&hd=0&size=1&l=t
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The First panel of the Iraqi High Criminal Court - Sub. / Request for Incrimination and Verdict Decisions
Immediately after the verdict in case # (1/criminal/2005) was announced on November 5,2006, the Defense Committee, in addition to its other colleagues, the attorneys of the other convicted persons, submitted written requests to the Court through the court's clerk and also to the American (side), who were present there in order to get copies of the incrimination and verdict decisions. The clerk returned the requests back to the lawyers stating that the court had refused to receive them and that the court will provide the defense attorneys with such copies after five days. Once again, the Court is behaving unlawfully and in an unfair manner with the defense and the clients....
http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../ar_articles_2006/1106/isnad2_a_071106.htm
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IS GEORGE W. BUSH CLINICALLY INSANE?
DETROIT -- His shrill voice pains sensitive ears. In the red states of the South and West, he ramps up his Texas twang as he brags on his war and hurls insults and lies about those who don't share his views. President George W. Bush says he's "pleased with the progress in Iraq," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is doing a "fantastic job," and those who support Democrats "want the terrorists to win."
http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/gallagher288.html
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Juma: Iraqi Resistance Video
Juma, An Iraqi Sniper is said to be responsible for the deaths of over 100 U.S. military personnel.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11282.htm
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Fierce Battle In Ramadi
There has been fierce fighting between US troops and gunmen in the Iraqi city of Ramadi. The largely Sunni city, to the west of Baghdad, has been a hub of pro-Saddam sentiment. There were no immediate reports of casualties but some of the fighting was captured in dramatic video footage. The violence came two days after former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by a court in Baghdad after being convicted of murder. Meanwhile, the US military said this month's casualties included two lieutenant colonels, among the highest ranking soldiers to die in Iraq since the 2003 invasion...
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m28073&hd=0&size=1&l=t
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Sunnis threaten to pull out of Iraq govt, take up arms
The main Sunni Arab bloc in Iraq's parliament threatened today to pull out of the unity government and take up arms if the Shiite-dominated government continued to ignore its calls for the dismantling of militias. Salim Abdallah, spokesman for the National Concord Front, a bloc of three Sunni parties holding 44 seats in parliament, told Agence France-Presse his group had delivered a message to the government two weeks ago about dissolving the militias. 'If they do not respond to this request, we may abandon the political process and have no other choice but to take up arms,' he said...
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m28097&hd=0&size=1&l=t
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The Blair Doctrine: Blood and Money
On 17 October, President Bush signed a bill that legalized torture and kidnapping and effectively repealed the Bill of Rights and habeas corpus. The CIA can now legally abduct people and "render" them to secret prisons in countries where they are likely to be tortured. Evidence extracted under torture is now permissible in "military commissions"; people can be sentenced to death based on testimony beaten out of witnesses. You are now guilty until confirmed guilty. And you are a "terrorist" if you commit what George Orwell, in Nineteen Eighty-Four, called "thoughtcrimes". Bush has revived the prerogatives of the Tudor and Stuart monarchs: the power of unrestricted lawlessness. "America can be proud," said Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the bill's promoters, who stood with other congressmen, clapping as Bush signed away the American constitution and the essence of American democracy. The historic significance of this was barely acknowledged in Britain, the source of these abandoned ancient rights, no doubt because the same barbarians' law is taking hold here. The great crime of Iraq is a moral tsunami that has left New Labour's vassals floundering and shouting their hopeless inversions of the truth as they await rescue by Washington...
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m28090&hd=0&size=1&l=t
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Bush announces resignation of Rumsfeld
The President promised a "new era of co-operation," with Democrats, and claimed that a Democratic majority will not mean a hasty pull-out from Iraq. "To our enemies," he said, "do not be joyful."
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/CNN_reporting_that_Bush_will_announce_1108.html
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Who is Robert Michael Gates
Involvement in the Iran-Contra Scandal: Owing to his senior status in the CIA, Gates was close to many figures who played significant roles in the Iran/contra affair and was in a position to have known of their activities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gates
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US Military Deaths in Iraq Hit 2,837
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061107/ap_on_re_us/iraq_us_deaths
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British Soldier Killed in Basra
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/6123842.stm
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 7 November 2006.
- US troops burst into Hit General Hospital, arrest hospital director, four doctors on Monday night, accusing them of giving medical treatment to Resistance fighters.
- Resistance attack leaves two Americans reported dead; US troops respond by randomly shooting at civilians.
- Hundreds of demonstrators in al-Fallujah continue to protest US death sentence for Saddam Husayn.
- Resistance fighters battle US occupation troops in Baghdad's al-'Amiriyah district Tuesday night.
- Resistance pounds US base in ar-Ramadi with mortars Tuesday morning.
- Resistance bomb blasts US patrol in western al-Fallujah early Tuesday morning.
- US carries out mass raids, searches, and arrests in Abu Ghurayb Tuesday morning.
- Resistance fighters battle US occupation troops in Baghdad's al-'Amiriyah district Tuesday night.
- Resistance bombards US base in al-Latifiyah Monday evening.
- Resistance attacks puppet police station in al-Mahawil Monday evening.
- Resistance fighters kill Iraqi puppet policeman in Kirkuk.
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United Nations ! The Sight Inside Biet Hanoun Reveal Unimaginable Horror
One Intire Palestinian Family Wiped Out - Rivers of Blood and Body Parts Shattered Every Where
We become more and more convinsed as we observe the ongoing carnage in the Palestinian northen Gaza Strip town Biet Hanoun- that the "Israelis" Jewish psychosis is turning to a state of acute. How else does one explain their copiously destructive violence that shows no scruple or restrain.The profoundly disturbing disregard for Palestinian lifes, including innocent children and women - and consistently, bizarrely revealed coments from official " Israelis "and the crazy, unpredictable rage from the " Israeli military " directed at the Palestinian population- instead of searching for stability, co-existence and peace ! This early morning the Gaza Hospitals are again filled with hundreds of dead and wounded - the sight inside the town of Biet Hanoun reveal a carnage - unbeliveable horror it looks like an earth-crack ! One intire family the Et- Athamna family of 11 are murdered in this mornings attack. The red lines are passed long agoe - 18 Martyrs and most of them are children - more than 35 are injured - there are bodyparts spreed everywhere, arms, legs, flesh and blood - and toys drenched in blood from murdered children...
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m28098&hd=0&size=1&l=t
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It's a massacre
No, not Republicans. Palestinians: Israel was placed on high security alert Wednesday, hours after Israel Defense Forces artillery shells struck a residential area in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanun early Wednesday, killing at least 18 Palestinians and wounding dozens of others. Eight children and seven women were among the dead, the Palestinain Health Ministry said, adding that 18 of the victims were members of the Athamna family. (...) Will any of those newly elected "antiwar" Democrats speak out against this American-financed war slaughter? Short answer: no. Now that the election's over, it will actually be a shock if they speak out against the other war, the one in Iraq (and even more of a shock were they to speak out against the war in Afghanistan)...
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m28102&hd=0&size=1&l=t
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ISRAEL BE DAMNED!
.... today murder is back on the front pages. Murder in Gaza... murder in other parts of the Occupied Territories. It seems that Israel learned absolutely nothing from the crimes commited by the American Army in Vietnam, the Mai Lai Massacre, to be specific. It was only then that the world woke up to the horrors going on in VietNam... it was only then that the truth started to leak out about the invasion of that tiny country. What has to happen here before the world says NO! How many more innocent civilians have to be butchered by Israel before the world says NO! To expect the Palestinians to 'turn the other cheek' at this point is pure nonsense... Palestine will retaliate.Israelis will die... and there will be no one to blame but themselves. Israel will, of course, cry out to the world after the first suicide attack on its civilians... the world will look at horror at the suffering of the 'poor Jewish people'. What about the Palestinians??? Doesn't anybody give a damn??? Israel be damned for what they are doing! Say somethng now...do something now...
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m28089&hd=0&size=1&l=t
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Israeli tank shells 'kill 18 Palestinians in sleep'
Israeli tank shells killed at least 18 people in their sleep when they landed in Gaza early today, witnesses report. Eight children were said to be among the dead. Khaled Radi, a health ministry official, said of the 18 dead, 13 were from the same family. He said at least 40 more were wounded, all civilians after the attack on a residential neighbourhood north of Beit Hanoun. Palestinian hospital officials said there were several more injured. According to witnesses, all those killed were women and children. Four hospitals are treating the wounded across Gaza. Palestinian security officials said that five tank shells landed in the area within 15 minutes. Most the casualties were caused to a row of homes belonging to members of one family...
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m28083&hd=0&size=1&l=t
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A brutal taste of the future
The assault on Beit Hanoun is a terrifying example of what lies in store for Palestinians
The initiation of Avigdor Lieberman - widely regarded as an outright racist - into Ehud Olmert's Israeli government seems to have already brought a taste of things to come. For the past week, the Gaza Strip city of Beit Hanoun has been made a ground zero by the Israeli army. By yesterday, more than 260 Palestinians lay dead and injured, with 53 fatalities - women, children and ambulance drivers among them.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15541.htm
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EU voices "shock" at Israel artillery strikes in Gaza
The European Union said it was "shocked" and "appalled" at Israel's deadly artillery strikes in northern Gaza which killed at least 19 Palestinians, including five women and seven children.
http://rawstory.com/news/2006/EU_voices_shock_at_Israel_artillery_11082006.html
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Survivors tell harrowing tales of Israeli barrage
Scorched fragments of clothes, a girl's slipper and body parts lay strewn in pools of blood in front of a row of houses that was riddled by what witnesses said was an Israeli artillery strike today while Palestinian residents slept.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1962576.ece
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Gaza media: It's Palestine's Qana massacre
"We pulled out bodies, all women and children, dismembered, without heads or hands," says Khaled Abu Saada, a Palestinian ambulance driver who evacuated the wounded to hospitals
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3325489,00.html
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International Red Cross 'appalled' by deaths in Gaza
The international Red Cross said it was "appalled" that 18 people - mostly women and children - had been killed during Israeli military operations Wednesday in the northern Gaza Strip.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/08/europe/EU_GEN_Red_Cross_Gaza.php
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Study: 57 unarmed Palestinian minors killed by IDF since June
A third of unarmed Palestinians killed during IDF operations in the Gaza Strip since the abduction of Gilad Shalit have been minors, according to a new report prepared by Physicians for Human Rights, to be published Wednesday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/785063.html
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Renewed violence in Gaza raises serious concerns for children's safety
Renewed violence in Gaza is again raising serious concerns about the welfare of civilians, including children. Now in its sixth day, the armed conflict has claimed the lives of an estimated 50 Palestinians - half of them civilians, and 8 of them children. "The situation in northern Gaza, and in particular in Beit Hanoun, is very serious and is getting worse," says UNICEF Representative in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Dan Rohrmann. "We have seen an extraordinary number of children being killed just in the last five days. There are tanks everywhere, shelling, house demolitions and there is fighting in the streets. People are getting quite desperate...
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m28070&hd=0&size=1&l=t
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Suicide bomber kills 42 soldiers in Pakistan
A suicide bomber killed 42 Pakistani soldiers at an army training ground on Wednesday in an attack the military said was linked to a bloody army assault on a militant camp last week.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061108/ts_nm/pakistan_blast_dc
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Pakistani Taliban claim responsibility as Musharraf condemns suicide attack
Pakistani Taliban have claimed responsibility for the suicide attack in an army camp, which killed some 40 recruit soldiers, a regional TV channel reported.
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-20/0611089470222739.htm
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Afghan violence leaves five dead, including Nato occupation force soldier
The latest in a wave of attacks blamed on Taleban fighters in Afghanistan has left five people dead, including a foreign soldier.
http://www.kuwaittimes.net/international.asp?dismode=article&artid=2035398312
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Prosecutors renew extradition request for Americans in alleged CIA kidnapping
Prosecutors have renewed their request for Italy to ask Washington to extradite 26 Americans in the alleged CIA kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in Milan in 2003, a prosecutor in the northern city said Tuesday
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/07/europe/EU_GEN_Italy_CIA.php
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CIA aircraft made 80 flights in UK air space, claims MP
It has been claimed that CIA is using Britain's air space to carry out "extraordinary rendition" - secret, international transfers of terrorism suspects across the world.
http://www.theherald.co.uk/politics/73920.html
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Plebiscite on an Outlaw Empire - Outlaw Empire Meets the Wave
The wave -- and make no mistake, it's a global one -- has just crashed on our shores, soaking our imperial masters. It's a sight for sore eyes.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15544.htm
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Voting in the absence of Choice
The corporate financing of political campaigns is, in fact, a capital investment in the status quo that benefits the wealthy and marginalizes those with neither wealth nor property. That explains why substantive change is rarely accomplished through the vote in America. It also explains the remarkable consistency and homogeneity of governmental policy through the decades; domestic and foreign, regardless of which party is in power.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15540.htm
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Election 2006: Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me
If anyone thinks the horrors of the Bush Imperium are somehow at an end - or will even be seriously impaired - by the results of yesterday's election, they have a harsh and bitter awakening to come.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15542.htm
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The Fire Next Time
It was no fluke that the reckless faction of the ruling elite picked up the ball and ran with it - the neoconservatives with their Project for a New American Century. These geniuses had and, presumably, still have the utopian plan of establishing permanent military predominance over the whole world.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15543.htm
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