bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update ===
The Iraqi Christians condemn and reject the Court - masquerade' sentence.*
In my name, and in the name of all the honorable heroic Iraqi Christians, we condemn, we reject, and utterly disapprove the Zionist US, pagan Persian Safawide' criminal heinous sentence taken against our father our brother, our comrade, and our leader, the builder of the glory of the Great Iraq, the legitimate President of the Republic of Iraq, whatever may the degraded and debased bloodthirsty US occupiers and their servile collaborators, the spies, the traitors, the gangs of spies..may think otherwise...
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m28120&hd=0&size=1&l=t
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Saddam's Trial in Context: Episode of Victors' Injustice
...However it is still too early to say the saga of Saddam Hussein and what his era stands for is over, because he, whether dead or alive, symbolizes the ongoing and unabated fierce and brutal struggle between the occupiers and the occupied and between two visions: One offered by the American occupying power for Iraq and the region and one offered by Pan-Arabism as symbolized by Saddam Hussein and Jamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt before him, despite their mistakes and flaws of their approaches and systems. Twice the US bought official Arab connivance or silence for targeting Iraq in 1991 and 2003 by offering to weigh in on Israel to withdraw from the Arab territories it occupies since 1967 in a land for peace deal but twice Arab governments were tricked to sacrifice Iraq for nothing...
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m28112&hd=0&size=1&l=t
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Saddam: Let's now charge the accomplices
Why isn't George Bush Snr being charged? In 1992, a congressional inquiry found that Bush as president had ordered a cover-up to conceal his secret support for Saddam and the illegal arms shipments being sent to Iraq via third countries.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15554.htm
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The silent are accomplices in the US show Saddam trial
Even though this whole "trial" against President Saddam Hussein and his seven comrades is taking place as the result of an illegal aggression violating the UN Charter, even though the "court" does not meet the most basic demands in terms of competence, independence and impartiality, even though "the judges" have been substituted at the whim of the US, and even though witnesses of the defence and three defence lawyers have been murdered in the course, this "trial of the millennium" has been continuing, this rape and murder of justice and international law, without any appreciable protests in the West...
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m28113&hd=0&size=1&l=t
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Journalists' Coverage of Middle East Shallow and Distorted
Journalists in the "West" should feel a burden of guilt for much that has happened in the Middle East because they have, with their gullibility, sold a fictitious version of events.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15557.htm
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Hubris followed by nemesis: The verdict on perhaps the worst presidency in US history
That old Bush self-certainty and swagger ('In Texas, we call it walking') is dead and buried.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15552.htm
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Our Long National Nightmare Has Just Begun
As ugly secrets surface, Bushists will turn desperate. Democracy has failed their grand schemes; token resignations like Rumsfeld's come too little, too late. Only tyranny can save their skins. Will the beleaguered neocons led by Cheney and Bush, cornered like rats, unleash their brand-new police state on their political opponents? Or will they tough it out and suck up the fines and prison sentences to come? The next year or two could go either way.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15549.htm
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Impeach the Terrorist
Until Congress steps up and accepts it's Constitutional responsibilities, it will be up to people throughout this Nation , to carry on the rich traditions of a Democratic Republic , by holding those whom we have put in power, accountable.
To the new Congress: We sent you to DC to do a job. If you fail to do it, you are just as guilty.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/impeach.php
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IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT
ATTENTION DEMOCRATS: Harry Truman said that Democracy means that the WILL OF THE PEOPLE IS THE LAW OF THE LAND.
WE THE PEOPLE WANT JUSTICE FOR THE LIES THAT SENT OUR YOUNG PEOPLE OFF TO DIE IN WAR. That is the ONLY reason we worked as hard as we did to give you the Congress, and if you fail, I promise we will work just as hard to take it away from you.
http://www.democrats.com/taxonomy/term/7929
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War Crimes Suit Prepared Against Rumsfeld
The president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Michael Ratner, is heading to Germany today to file a new case charging outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld with war crimes for authorizing torture at Guantanamo Bay.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15551.htm
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Human Rights Denial Deserves Impeachment
Human Rights belong to people collectively. To believe in rights for some and not others is a denial of the humanness of people worldwide. Yet, denial is exactly what Congress and George W. Bush did with the signing of the Military Commission Act of 2006.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15555.htm
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Outlawed: Extraordinary Rendition, Torture and Disappearances in the "War on Terror"
Human rights groups and several public inquiries in Europe have found the U.S. government, with the complicity of numerous governments worldwide, to be engaged in the illegal practice of extraordinary rendition, secret detention, and torture.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14989.htm
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Divide and Conquer Implied in Proposed Map of the New Middle East
It was meant to be a joke and it got a big laugh from TV host Tavis Smiley when his guest, political pundit Andy Borowitz quipped, "George Bush plans to withdraw all his troops from Iraq - to Iran. That's the plan - the exit strategy." But no one was laughing, least of all Turkish military officers, on September 15th when a map was presented at the NATO's Defense College in Rome that included a reduced Turkish landmass. The new Middle East map prepared by retired US Col. Ralph Peters and published in the Armed Forces Journal in June featured a "Free Kurdistan" that included additional territory taken from Syria and Iraq. Indeed, Iraq was a fragment of its former self and had been carved up to also include Sunnis Iraq and the Arab Shia State...
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m28114&hd=0&size=1&l=t
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Two years after U.S. assault on it, Fallujah returns to insurgent hands
When insurgents hid a bomb in front of his house a few days ago, intending to use it against U.S. or Iraqi troops, Majeed al-Rawi had only one option: Move out. "If I report it to the Americans, I will be killed by the men who put it there, and if I don't, my family will be killed either by the explosion or the Americans," the car dealer said. "This is not a way to live; this is a way to hate life." Two years after U.S. troops launched a devastating ground assault that purged, at least temporarily, the heart of the Iraqi insurgency, Fallujah once again is a violent place. In recent months, insurgents have filtered back into the city, despite tight controls that limit access to only six checkpoints. Residents must submit to an extraordinary identification system that includes fingerprinting, retina scans and bar-coded identification cards...
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m28106&hd=0&size=1&l=t
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Republican defeat means the Iraqi insurgency has won
The ugly American mark two is dead. Overnight six years of glib European identification of "American" with rightwing fantasism is over. The gun-toting, pre-Darwinian Bushite, the tomahawk-wielding, Halliburton-loving, Beltway neocon calling abortion murder and torturing Arabs as "Islamofascists" has been laid to rest, and by a decision of the American people. Another McCarthy raised its head over the western horizon and has been slapped down. It is a good day for level-headed Americans.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1942897,00.html
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Rummy Out - But Don't Start Cheering Just Yet
The neoconservative grip on American foreign policy is not yet ended, although it may be loosening.
Remeber, the neocons are going to try to keep things as they are for as long as possible by any means necessary - and we still have a couple of crucial months this year before the new Congress is sworn in.
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2006/11/08/rummy-out-but-dont-start-cheering-just-yet/
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Baghdad's 'missing' billions
"I think we're looking at a huge scandal. The CPA handed over $8.8bn in cash to the Iraqi government even though that new government had no security or accounting system. "No one can account for it. We don't know who got that money," Mr Waxman said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6129612.stm
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UN watchdog: $22 mln missing in Iraq contracts
An audit of 15 noncompetitive contracts paid for by U.S. government agencies with Iraqi oil money was unable to account for $22.4 million in funds
http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-11-07T022008Z_01_N06319105_RTRIDST_0_IRAQ-UN-CONTRACTS.XML
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Bechtel's billions down the drain
The decision of the giant engineering company Bechtel to withdraw from Iraq has left many Iraqis feeling betrayed. In the company's departure, they see the end of remaining hopes for the reconstruction of Iraq.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HK10Ak02.html
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Iraqi National Security Advisor, heart-attack becuase of Rumsfeld bad news
Aliraqnews reported the following: Muwaffaq Rubaie transferred to the American hospital at the airport yesterday after he heard the news of the fall of the Rumsfeld. Rubaie was at the Conference Palace for a meeting with Iraqia satellite channel, he fall on the ground after a heart-attack before the eyes of the staff at the building when he heard the news about Rumsfeld, he was transported immediately to the American military hospital by a US convoy...
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m28122&hd=0&size=1&l=t
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Iraq War Crime : Author of "Dodgy Dossier" identified.
Williams was as close to the Blairite spin machine as it was possible to get. If, as it seems, he wrote the first substantial draft of the document that was used to persuade the British public (and parliament) to go to war, then it changes everything.
There now needs to be full disclosure of Williams' involvement in the dossier: not just the draft of September 9, but right through to its publication just before parliament was recalled on that fateful day in late September. He may provide the key to the whole sorry affair.
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/martin_bright/2006/11/the_freedom_of_the_press_offic.html.printer.friendly
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Taliban kill 5 Afghan soldiers, destroy 2 tanks
A number of US soldiers were reportedly killed in a clash with the Taliban in southern Afghanistan.
http://paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?159406
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Palestinians Massacred In Gaza And U.S. Remains Silent
Israel Remains Defiant Despite Growing International Demands to Halt Offensive
WASHINGTON, DC - Nov. 8, 2006 (MASNET) While American citizens went to the polls and voted their opposition to death and destruction in Iraq, there is an unsettling silence within our government and many of its citizens, concerning the ongoing death and destruction taking place in Gaza.
http://www.masnet.org/index_publicaffairs.asp
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FROM DEIR YASSIN TO BEIT HANOUN
War crimes and massacres aimed at ethnic cleansing are part and parcel of the racist and criminal nature of the Zionist entity that was proclaimed on 14 May 1948.
http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net
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Nightmare in Beit Hanoun: How Gaza Offends Us All
An opened jaw with yellowed teeth gaped out of its bloodied shroud. The rest of the head parts were wrapped in a plastic bag placed atop the jaw and nostrils, as if to be close to the place to which it once belonged. The bag was red from the pieces that were stuffed inside it. Below the jaw was a human neck slit open midway down: a fleshy, wet wound smiling pink and oozing out from the browned skin around it, the neck that was still linked to the body below it. Above him, in the upper freezer of the morgue lay a dead woman, her red hennaed hair visible for the first time to strange men around her. More red plastic wrapped around an otherwise absent chin. She was dead for demonstrating outside a mosque in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza where more than 60 men sheltered during the artillery onslaught by Israeli tanks and cannons.
http://www.counterpunch.org/loewenstein11092006.html
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We overcame our fear
The unarmed women of the Gaza Strip have taken the lead in resisting Israel's latest bloody assault
11/09/06 "The Guardian" -- -- Yesterday at dawn, the Israeli air force bombed and destroyed my home. I was the target, but instead the attack killed my sister-in-law, Nahla, a widow with eight children in her care.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15547.htm
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Anger as Gaza buries its dead
Tens of thousands of Palestinians wept and screamed for revenge as they buried 18 civilians killed by Israeli shelling in a massive funeral in Gaza on Thursday.
http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-11-09T171031Z_01_L08474584_RTRUKOC_0_UK-MIDEAST.xml&WTmodLoc=HP-C3-World-5
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US to veto int'l probe on Gaza attack
United States expected to veto Security Council decision against Israel regarding recent IDF operations in occupied Gaza
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3326287,00.html
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U.S. plans to veto proposed UN resolution on Beit Hanun deaths
Proving before the world that the US Government is still Israel's bitch!
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=786114&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1
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Israeli forces beat schoolchildren in occupied Jerusalem
More than 25 female and male school students were beaten, amongst them 8 female students, who were fiercely beaten, causing one of them to lose consciousness.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&Do=Print&ID=16979
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Beit Hanoun II & the elusive "International Community".
Let's see how Israel's logic holds up. These women were marching towards the Mosque where the men were holed up. but Israel shot the women because they believed the men were hiding in the crowd of women, and were shooting ONLy at the men?
Yet when the Israelis stopped shooting, ONLY women were being loaded into the ambulances.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNFllrasQFc
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Somalia: US troops operate at Somalia Kenya borde
US troops are reported to have been seen on Thursday involving in military movements at Somalia-Kenya border as Kenya government said it had tightened its security to protect any aggression from Somalia.
KENYA??? What the blip are we doing in Kenya, and whose assets are we 'protecting'?
And remember: Kenya has huge oil, mineral, and gas deposits to exploit.
http://somalinet.com/news/world/English/4781
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Rumsfeld's firing: First casualty of post-election crisis in US
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/nov2006/usel-n09.shtml
see also:
US midterm elections: An overwhelming repudiation of the war in Iraq
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/nov2006/elec-n08.shtml
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Rumsfeld replacement (Robert Gates) was director of voting company
I don't know about you, but I'd rather use a paper, pencil, and count by hand at the polling place than have former CIA director Robert Gates fooling around with my vote.
http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/45174.html
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The Deeper Reality Behind Rumsfeld's Resignation
As Don Rumsfeld is tossed overboard by the panicky Bushes (who value loyalty to themselves above all other virtues but never, ever, practice it toward others; there will be many more bodies left behind as the Family rallies to clean up Junior's mess again)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15553.htm
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Rumsfeld: Virgin For The Volcano
President Bush is one lucky fella. I can imagine him today on the intercom with Cheney: "Well, pardner, looks like the game's up." And Cheney replies, "Hey, just hang Rummy out the window until he's taken all their ammo."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15550.htm
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Cheney seen retiring after midterm elections
Senior GOP sources envision the retirement of Mr. Cheney in 2007, months after the congressional elections. The sources said Mr. Cheney would be persuaded to step down as he becomes an increasing political liability to President Bush.
http://www.insightmag.com/Media/MediaManager/cheney3.htm
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Will the Democrats Become Part of the Problem?
If the Democrats are to make a real difference, their first task is to repeal the Orwellian-named “Patriot Acts,” the torture legislation, the detention without court evidence legislation, and the right-to-spy and invade privacy without court warrant legislation. The White House tyrant needs to be quickly told that one more “signing statement” and he will be impeached, convicted, and turned over to the War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15548.htm
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Peace mom Sheehan arrested in Washington
Activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested Wednesday as she led about 50 protesters to a White House gate Wednesday to deliver anti-war petitions she said were signed by 80,000 Americans. The Berkeley, Calif., woman, whose son was killed in Iraq more than two years ago, was arrested along with three other women on the sidewalk outside the White House gate, said Lt. Scott Fear, a U.S. Park Police spokesman. They were charged with interfering with a government function, he said. Before she was arrested, she joined the protesters in hailing the outcome of Tuesday's elections and chanting "Stop the War" outside the gate...
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m28110&hd=0&size=1&l=t
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Bush's Chernobyl Economy; hard times are on the way
In the next few months, a financial crisis will arise somewhere in the world which will jolt the American economy and trigger a swift and precipitous decline in the value of the dollar.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15545.htm
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