bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update ===
9/11 : BOMBS INSIDE WTC
“It's amazing how many people are afraid to talk for fear of retaliation or losing their jobs,” said Isaac, regarding the FBI gag order placed on law enforcement and fire department officials, preventing them from openly talking about any inside knowledge of 9-11.
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/bombs_inside_wtc.html
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Time's book of Insults and Falsehoods about the Middle East.
Time magazine has just published a special book on the Middle East. When I bought it to read it on the plane yesterday I knew what to expect. But it was beyond my lowest expectations. It was worse than bad, and more stupid than you can imagine.
It started with an introduction by Jimmy Carter. I read his memoirs and read his silly book on the Middle East (the first one) and enjoyed neither. What can I tell you. Arab American and Muslim American organization have not noticed this book of insults and will not protest it: Arab American organizations in DC are busy propagating for Gulf dynasties and Muslim Arab American organizations are busy propagating for Gulf dynasties, and both are busy scrutinizing Danish cartoons. The book is an anthology of offenses, insults, falsehoods, and stupidities--and so many stereotypes about Muslims and Arabs. The Pope would be proud.
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2006/11/times-book-of-insults-and-falsehoods.html
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Religious hatred is no more than a variety of racism
The demonisation of Islam by politicians and pundits benefits only the extreme right
We are witnessing the emergence of a new type of hatred, where religion and culture overlap with race and ethnicity. The climate generated by the war on terror - stoked further by the inflammatory speech on Friday of the MI5 director general Eliza Manningham-Buller - has allowed the far-right to redirect its poison of exclusionism from specific racial minorities to specific religio-racial minorities: from the black and Asian, to the Muslim black and Asian.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1946290,00.html
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Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America's War? More Than 655,000
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15266.htm
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In Bush's War 2850
http://icasualties.org/oif/
The War in Iraq Costs $341,976,944,217 - See the cost in your community
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
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Iraqi Forced To Drink Urine By British Occupation Forces
10/23/06 --- LONDON (AP) — An Iraqi civilian detained by British troops in Iraq told a military court Monday that he was beaten and forced to drink urine by his captors.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15381.htm
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In case you missed it: Video: Message of the Iraqi Resistance to the American People
Propaganda or disinformation? You decide.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15596.htm
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Richard Perle Insists That Saddam Had Ties To Al Qaeda Because He's 'Seen The Evidence'
Yesterday, in an interview with NPR, Richard Perle, a prominent neoconservative and leading proponent for the war in Iraq, insisted that Saddam Hussein had ties to al Qaeda. He stated that anyone who believes otherwise is "simply wrong" because he's "seen the evidence." But the report by the Senate Intelligence Committee in September concluded that there was no relationship between Saddam and al Qaeda: Postwar findings indicate that Saddam Hussein was distrustful of al-Qa'ida and viewed Islamic extremists as a threat to his regime, refusing all requests from al Qa'ida to provide material or operational support. Debriefings of key leaders of the former Iraqi regime indicate that Saddam distrusted Islamic radicals in general, and al Qa'ida in particular…
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m28240&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Danish journalists on trial for publishing leaked intelligence reports on Iraq
The reports said there was no evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction during Saddam Hussein's rule — one of the main reasons behind the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
http://tinyurl.com/yh7vh7
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Saddam Finale
What is good for America in Iraq is not necessarily good for Iraq. Controlling Iraq and using its strategic position, oil and status within the Arab-Muslim worlds is part of America’s plans and the weaker Iraq is through religious and ethnic divisions the easier it is to control.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15593.htm
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Iraq: More Than 41 killed in ongoing U.S. occupation
U.S.-led occupation troops killed eight suspected "insurgents," believed to be linked to members of an al Qaeda cell in Iraq.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L13700113.htm
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Iraq reconstruction needs more than $100B
The civil reconstruction of Iraq will cost at least $100 billion, U.S. officials in Baghdad told Iraqi contractors who are vying for some of the work.
http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20061110-114629-4533r
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Australia: Officials linked to AWB deals
AWB paid $290 million in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's regime between 1999 and 2003, most of which went through Alia, disguised as trucking fees.
http://tinyurl.com/yzf2ft
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 12 November 2006.
- US troops murder six residents of Hit in evident revenge for Resistance attack Friday that left six American Marines reported dead.
- Resistance bombards joint US-Iraqi puppet army base in 'Anah.
- Resistance bomb reportedly kills three US troops in 'Anah Sunday afternoon.
- Resistance fida'i fighters strike recruiting station for American backed puppet forces in Baghdad.
- Two US troops reported killed in early morning bomb attack in al-Mawsil Sunday.
- Resistance fires two Grad rockets at US-occupied base in al-Habbaniyah.
- Puppet "National Guard" soldier killed in hand grenade attack.
- Resistance car bomb wipes out puppet "Shock Troops" at road block, Baghdad.
- Resistance abducts puppet police lieutenant colonel from northern Baghdad Saturday.
- Puppet regime employee shot and killed in Ba'qubah.
- Resistance fighters ambush puppet "National Guards" in al-Mada'in killing seven of them.
- Resistance bombards puppet "National Guard" base in al-Hawijah.
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Exclusive: U.S. 'Torture Taxis' Make Regular Stops in Las Vegas
This is the story of so called rendition planes, otherwise known as torture taxis. They are civilian aircraft often owned by companies suspected of being fronts for the CIA. The planes are used to travel abroad, kidnap suspects, and take them to dark places at the ends of the earth, from which few ever return.
http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5660267
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Taliban insurgency gains strength and sophistication
The insurgency's high level of sophistication has aroused suspicions that Pakistan has quietly reactivated its old alliance through its powerful spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,,1946279,00.html
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Insurgent activity rising in Afghanistan
Insurgent activity in Afghanistan has risen fourfold this year, and militants now launch more than 600 attacks a month, a rising wave of violence that has resulted in 3,700 deaths in 2006, a bleak new report found.
http://www.rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src="">
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Post-Taliban Kabul blossoms for the rich
The owners of these mansions "are commanders, ministers. It makes me angry. These people use everything that isn't theirs and they ruin the houses of the poor people to build their homes," said Mohammed.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061111/ap_on_re_as/kabul_five_years_on&printer=1
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'Taleban law' passed in Pakistan
Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP) has passed a bill setting up a Taleban-style department under a cleric to enforce Islamic morality.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6143754.stm
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Afghan conflict deaths quadruple
More than 3,700 people have died so far this year - about 1,000 of them civilians. The report also highlights corruption and says that alienation among the Afghan people is hampering those fighting the insurgency.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6141762.stm
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Who are the Terrorists: Massacre in Gaza: Photographic Evidence
We bring to the attention of Global Research readers photographic evidence of the Israeli sponsored massacres in Gaza. While most of these pictures pertain to the recent massacre in the village of Beit Hanoun and its tragic aftermath, some of them pertain to earlier periods including the July massacres. The Western media has been involved in a criminal coverup. "Immediately after the facts became known, the entire choir of professional apologists, explainers-away, sorrow-expressers and pretext-inventors, a choir that is in perpetual readiness for such cases, sprang into feverish action." (Uri Avnery). Who are the people who are planning to commit atrocities? Who are the victims of these atrocities? British intelligence no doubt in liason with their Israeli counterparts contributed in a timely fashion to turning realities upside down... The victims are presented as the aggressors. The aggressors are the victims...
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m28226&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Names of 83 Palestinian Martyrs Victims of Israeli Massacre in Bait Hanoun Gaza Strip
Victims of the "Israelis" Illegal Invasion and Destruction of Bait Hanoun 1st Nov 2006 - 8th Nov. 2006
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m28228&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Amira Hass : How a Beit Hanun family was destroyed
The light filtered in through the cloud of dust, and she saw his blanket was covered by fragments of broken glass. She pulled it off and found him shaking. "You weren't hit," she said, urging him to run and join her other children, May, Rami and Fadi, who fled with her downstairs.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=786928
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Peace Not Apartheid - Jimmy Carter's Roadmap
Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli government is willing to comply with international law, with the Roadmap for Peace, with official American policy, with the wishes of a majority of its own citizens--and honors its own previous commitments--by accepting its legal borders.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15599.htm
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South Africa seen as model for Palestine
The two-state solution remains attractive and comforting in its apparent simplicity and finality. But in reality, it has proved unattainable because neither Palestinians nor Israelis are willing to give up enough of the country that they love.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15600.htm
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Video: Wall of Shame
The wall being constructed on the West Bank by the Israeli government is twenty-five feet high. Studded with guard towers and armaments, and encrusted with high-tech sensors, the wall cuts across the land, separating Palestinians from their own farms, their own neighbors, and from the Israeli settlements which have sprung up rapidly as a result of lavish subsidies from the Israeli government.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15602.htm
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Arab states promise to overcome fear of US, help Palestinians (JT)
CAIRO (AFP) -- Arab foreign ministers gathered in Cairo vowed Sunday to ignore the aid freeze imposed on the Palestinian Authority and start stepping up payments.
"The Arab decision to lift the blockade is extremely important, it means that Arabs will revert to using the usual means to transfer aid," he told reporters.
http://jordantimes.com/mon/news/news1.htm
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EU foreign ministers help to topple elected PA cabinet (AP)
European Union foreign ministers were expected Monday to reiterate their support for the efforts of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to form a unity government with the militant Hamas group.
"At this point, I'm optimistic," said EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana as he entered the meeting of the 25 foreign ministers.
They were to issue a declaration urging reconciliation between Hamas and Abbas' Fatah movement.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/787276.html
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The root of terror is clear
Only a resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict will stop al-Qaida recruitment.
If Al Qaeda were a genuine response to Israel, yes. But more and more it appears that Al Qaeda is a manufactured enemy used to demonize the Palestinians and Arabs in general to justify US and Israeli military actions.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1946372,00.html
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fakealqaeda.html
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No one is guilty in Israel
Nineteen inhabitants of Beit Hanun were killed with malice aforethought. There is no other way of describing the circumstances of their killing. Someone who throws burning matches into a forest can't claim he didn't mean to set it on fire, and anyone who bombards residential neighborhoods with artillery can't claim he didn't mean to kill innocent inhabitants.
Therefore it takes considerable gall and cynicism to dare to claim that the Israel Defense Forces did not intend to kill inhabitants of Beit Hanun. Even if there was a glitch in the balancing of the aiming mechanism or in a component of the radar, a mistake in the input of the data or a human error, the overwhelming, crucial, shocking fact is that the IDF bombards helpless civilians. Even shells that are supposedly aimed 200 meters from houses, into "open areas," are intended to kill, and they do kill. In this respect, nothing new happened on Wednesday morning in Gaza: The IDF has been behaving like this for months now.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/786549.html
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Media Coward : CNN editors pull Palestinian quotes, replace with US
CNN editors replaced all Palestinian quotations with quotes from US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton and the Isaraeli military, in its story 'U.S. vetoes U.N. condemnation of Israel's Gaza strikes'. The replacement article begins with the exact same wording as the original, but all Palestinian remarks are gone.
http://cnnexposed.com/story.php?story=24
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The Democrats Don't Care
Screw the Palestinians, Full Steam Ahead
http://www.counterpunch.org/christison11132006.html
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Open Letter To: US House Of Representatives Leader Nancy Pelosi And The US House Of Representatives
You said, "Hugo Chavez fancies himself a modern-day Simon Bolivar, but all he is, is an everyday thug." And you charged that Chavez "has abused the privilege of speaking at the United Nations." You could learn a lot from this man, Nancy, because he actually represents not only his people, but the vast majority of people in the world. Part of the reason for the United Nations is to provide people from other nations with a forum to do exactly what Chavez did-which was to simply rebut the policies and practices of what has become the military-dictatorship of the USA-Israeli cabal. You have only to note the length of the applause that greeted Chavez's remarks to understand how far from reality your own uninformed positions really are.
http://www.rense.com/general73/kirlet.htm
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Mrs Nancy Pelosi as seen from Europe
Mrs Nancy Pelosi is known in Europe, from her public pronouncements, as being one of the most strident voices of extremist support for Zionism, and has long been reported as being constant in her support for the noxious AIPAC and for the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. In a funny sort of way, this makes us surprised that she was not already firmly ensconced in the Bush régime, which was so deeply committed to the close-knit Neocon/Zionist alliance...
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m28227&hd=&size=1&l=e
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Are Democrats Turning A Blind Eye to Civil Liberty?
Democrats are anxious to get on with their agendas and have shown no recognition that the first order of business is to repeal the legislation that permits torture, warrantless detention and domestic spying.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15597.htm
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“With Great Power…”
We must remind these people that until we have the 900-year-old principle of Habeas Corpus returned in this country – whole, undiluted, for citizen and non-citizen alike, we really do not live in America.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15594.htm
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Open Letter to Reps Pelosi and Conyers - We the People are Setting the Table Now
We the people put the Democrats back into power because we want to see a change in this country and a rejection of politics as usual. We want politics as unusual. We want to see the issue of impeachment and a speedy and safe withdrawal of our troops from Iraq de-politicized and brought into the realm of "right and wrong" where these issues belong, not "right and left."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15595.htm
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Rumsfeld’s long walk into Political Oblivion
Even after being forced to resign in utter disgrace, he still shows no sign of doubting his abilities as a military genius. His ego remains as impervious to criticism as tempered steel.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15603.htm
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Leahy aims at restoring habeas corpus
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., is expected to take over as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and The (Calif.) Daily Journal reports that Leahy is drafting a bill to undo portions of the new law in an effort to restore habeas corpus rights for enemy combatants.
http://washtimes.com/upi/20061111-111429-7560r.htm
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Pelosi Endorses Murtha as Next Majority Leader
House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) endorsed Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) yesterday as the next House majority leader, thereby stepping into a contentious intraparty fight between Murtha and her current deputy, Maryland's Steny H. Hoyer.
http://tinyurl.com/ylhmsn
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MI6 link to Lockerbie briefings
Today, Fulton faces losing his job as co-ordinator of Glasgow University's Lockerbie Trial Briefing Unit following investigations into his MI6 career. Revelations that he was one of the most glittering talents in MI6 have destroyed claims by the briefing unit that its self- appointed task of briefing the world's press over Lockerbie was carried out with the highest standards of impartiality and fairness.
http://www.sundayherald.com/8619
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