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In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update ===
More in Hawai'i turn to Islam
Some Muslim clerics across the country say they are seeing a fourfold
increase in conversions since Sept. 11, when stories about Islam jumped
from the back pages of the religion section to front pages worldwide.
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2001/Nov/11/ln/ln06a.html
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US accused of using aid to sway votes in UN security council
The US uses its aid budget to bribe those countries which have a vote in
the United Nations security council, giving them 59 per cent more cash in
years when they have a seat, according to research by economists.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1973770,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12
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Omissions In the Iraq Study Group Report
How could a nation born as a great democratic experiment rebelling against
the divine right of monarchs become instead now one worshipping the divine
right of capital and capable of being even more repressive.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15928.htm
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U.S. troops should leave country, but how will America then keep control of
oil fields, asks Linda McQuaig
Advising the Bush administration on how to deal with the Iraq fiasco, the
report of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group urges the president to clarify
that Washington does not seek to control Iraq's oil.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1166271550347&call_page=TS_EditorialOpinion&call_pageid=968256290204&call_pagepath=Editorial/Opinion&pubid=968163964505
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Iraqs Sunnis risk ethnic cleansing
Vice-president Tariq al-Hashimi, Iraqs most senior politician from the
Sunni Arab minority, said on Sunday that more US troops were needed in
Baghdad to stop the "systematic cleansing" of the Sunni community by Shia
militias.
Some 3,000 Iraqis were fleeing the country daily and Iraqi forces were
insufficient, incompetent and corrupted, he said. There is intense
speculation in Washington that President George W. Bush will propose
"surging" some 30,000 more US troops into Iraq in a last-ditch effort to
secure the city and Anbar province.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/9a58296c-8df8-11db-ae0e-0000779e2340.html
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A letter to an American G.I.
When I watch pictures of your dead buddies on albasrah.net and I read some
of your naive childlike poems, I feel sorry for you. I honestly do.
I feel sorry for you yet at the same time I feel anger.
It is a very confusing mix of ambivalent, contradictory emotions.
On the one hand,I would love to strike you and on the other hand I say to
myself, it is not really your fault.
You chose it yet you did not choose it.
From your perspective you are only "executing orders" . Yet hard facts on
the battle ground tell me that you also enjoy the humiliation you inflict
on these "alien" "evil " people-the Iraqis.
http://arabwomanblues.blogspot.com/2006/12/letter-to-american-gi.html
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Sham Courts And Instant "Justice"
Legal System in Iraq Staggers Beneath the Weight of War. Soldiers who have
little if any training in gathering evidence or sorting the guilty from the
innocent are left to decide whom to detain. The military conducts reviews
to decide whom to release, yet neither Iraqi detainees nor defense lawyers
are allowed to attend, according to military documents and interviews.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15927.htm
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Iraqi Province Turning to Insurgents for Protection
Tribal leaders and some political groups in the strife-ridden Iraqi
province of Diyala are turning to terrorists and insurgents for protection
rather than trust Iraqi soldiers and police, the commander of U.S. forces
in that area said yesterday.
http://washtimes.com/national/20061215-103349-7142r.htm
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Up to 30 people kidnapped at Baghdad Red Crescent
The organization is part of the Red Cross movement and has 1,000 staff and
about 300,000 volunteers in Iraq, working to provide food, water and
medicine to those in need.
http://tinyurl.com/yd2848
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Powell: We Are Losing In Iraq
Former Secretary Of State Says More Troops Isn't The Answer
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15926.htm
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A war in which no one wins and everyone loses
Seven out of 10 Americans polled last week disapprove of the war. Retiring
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan chides the U.S. president for his
go-it-alone strategy. Even Bush-blessed Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri
al-Maliki calls for a Middle Eastern conference of nations (which Bush
dismisses) to discuss the region's future.
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/opinion/16255314.htm
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U.S. military deaths in Iraq at 2,945
As of Saturday, Dec. 16, 2006, at least 2,945 members of the U.S. military
have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to
an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At
least 2,359 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's
numbers.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061217/ap_on_re_us/iraq_us_deaths
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Arizona Marine Killed While Serving in Iraq
http://www.knxv.com/news/index.asp?did=31862
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 16 December 2006.
* Resistance fighters battle US troops in al-Fallujah midday Saturday.
* Resistance mortars pound US as-Simak base in al-Fallujah at noon
Saturday.
* Resistance men attack Iraqi puppet army camp in al-Fallujah Saturday
morning.
* Resistance blasts puppet army headquarters in Amiriyat al-Fallujah
with mortars.
* Resistance bomb kills Iraqi puppet National Guard west of
al-Fallujah Friday.
* Resistance blasts US outpost in al-Fallujah with heavy mortars Friday
night.
* Puppet soldier shot dead in al-Fallujah Friday.
* Resistance bomb blasts US patrol in al-Hadithah early Saturday.
* Iraqi puppet Shock Troops join Jaysh al-Mahdi gunmen in sectarian
assault on Sunni neighborhood even as the same puppet regime convenes
public National Reconciliation Conference.
* Resistance bombards Jaysh al-Mahdi militiamen Friday night.
* Pro-Iran Shii sectarian Jaysh al-Mahdi militia kill civilian in
mortar attack on Sunni mosque in Baghdad.
* Resistance bombards joint US-Iraqi puppet army base in Anah Saturday
morning.
* Resistance bomb kills Iraqi puppet policeman in ar-Ramadi Saturday
morning.
* Resistance sharpshooter kills Iraqi puppet soldier in Abu Ghurayb
Friday.
* Resistance bomb blasts puppet Iraqi National Guards in ad-Dawr
midday Saturday.
* Resistance bomb targets US patrol in Samarra Friday evening.
* Resistance bomb rips through US patrol in al-Yusufiyah Saturday morning.
* Resistance sharpshooter kills Iraqi puppet soldier in al-Latifiyah
midday Saturday.
* Resistance bomb kills four puppet Iraqi National Guards Friday
afternoon.
http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2006/1206/iraqiresistancereport_161206.htm
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Two Killed In Suicide Attack On American Convoy In Occupied Afghanistan
http://tinyurl.com/ycdbvw
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France to pull out special forces from Afghanistan
France has decided to pull its special forces out of Afghanistan after a
NATO-led stabilisation force extended operations to the whole country, the
French defense ministry said yesterday.
http://www.thedailystar.net/2006/12/18/d61218015025.htm
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US policy in Lebanon and in Palestine: A comparison
US policy in Lebanon and in Palestine: A comparison. The US is opposed to
unarmed demonstrations in Lebanon but supports armed demonstrations by
Dahlan gangs in Palestine; the US does not deal with the president in
Lebanon, and only deals with the president in Palestine; the US says that
the Sanyurah government is democratically elected and should be supported,
but opposes the democratically elected government in Palestine and calls
for its punishment; the US calls for disarming of militias in Lebanon, but
arms and finances militias in Palestine; the US is opposed to early
elections in Lebanon, but supports early elections in Palestine; the US is
opposed to a national unity government in Lebanon and also opposes one in
Palestine--the idea of national unity bothers the US it seems; the US calls
for Syria to not intervene in Lebanon but wants Syria to intervene in
Palestine to support US/Israeli puppets; the US wants to punish assassins
in Lebanon, but the US supports Israeli and Dahlan assassinations in
Palestine, and the assassins there receive US financial and military support.
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2006/12/us-policy-in-lebanon-and-in-palestine.html
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We must speak out
Today we are launching an appeal for a world-wide cultural boycott
against the Israeli state.
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/john_berger/2006/12/john_berger.html
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Jimmy Carter: Revisiting 'Apartheid'
"You and I both know the powerful influence of AIPAC [the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee], which is not designed to promote peace. I'm not
criticizing them, they have a perfect right to lobby, but their purpose in
life is to protect and defend the policies of the Israeli government and to
make sure those policies are approved in the United States"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16240761/site/newsweek/
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Gideon Levy: The High Court's blessing for IDF assassinations
At the end of this productive judicial week, the Israeli occupation won
significant power.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/801781.html
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Ex-soldiers break `silence' on Israeli excesses
Yehuda Shaul tells Haroon Siddiqui `something rotten' is going on in Gaza
and the West Bank
A young Israeli was in Canada last week raising ethical questions about the
conduct of Israeli soldiers in the Occupied Territories.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1166271550356&call_pageid=970599119419
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Abbas' call for early elections causes rift within Fatah
Gaza - The central committee of the Fatah Movement on Sunday lashed out at
Farouk Kaddoumi, the secretary general of the Movement, and other
Palestinian factions that rejected PA chief Mahmoud Abbas' call for early
legislative elections.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/am/publish/article_20913.shtml
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Abbas Starts His Coups d'état to Overthrough Hamas Government
On Friday Hamas organized,a huge rally in Gaza City to mark 20 th
anniversary of its foundation at the Yarmouk stadium.The stadium was too
small for the huge numbers (over 250.000) attending the rally forcing some
participants to stand on the roads surrounding the stadium.
http://palestinefreevoice.blogspot.com/2006/12/abbas-starts-his-coups-dtat-to.html
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Rice to seek additional funds to boost Abbas' security forces
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday she would
ask the U.S. Congress for tens of millions of dollars to strengthen the
security forces of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/801714.html
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Congress extends Israel loan guarantees
The new aid package comes on top of the annual US aid package for Israel,
as well as special packages, such as for the Arrow anti-ballistic missile
program.
http://tinyurl.com/yk8ahc
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Palestinian PM: Hamas will not participate in elections
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh vowed Sunday that his Hamas party
will not participate in fresh elections, and branded Palestinian Authority
Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' remarks on the matter "inflammatory."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/802049.html
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Aljazeera: The Plot thickens
The launch of Aljazeera International on November 15, the English arm of
Aljazeera Satellite Television was hardly an ordinary event.
It was another notable addition to the growing global efforts aimed at
counterbalancing American-European domination over world media: deciding on
what story is to be told and how, thus shaping public opinion, reinforcing
Westerns policies, disseminating its own ideas and ideals, at the expense
of the almost entirely neglected and utterly hapless audiences that neither
relate nor wish to identify with such discourses.
http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net
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Witchcraft Being Taught On Arabic Satellite TV Channels (Arabic Article)
This is an Arabic article relating to the issue of witch craft being taught
on satellite TV channels in Egypt, Middle East in general. Azhar University
issued a fatwa forbidding people from watching or learning from these
channels such topics as black magic or astrology.
http://www.almesryoon.com/ShowDetails.asp?NewID=28025&Page=13
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No Matter What Ahmadinejad Does He'll be Portrayed as the New Hitler :
Tehran's Holocaust Conference
Was the two-day conference on the Holocaust held earlier this month by the
Iranian government intended to cast "doubt on the Nazi Holocaust during the
Second World War," (1) or was it Iran's rejoinder to the Jyllands-Posten
affair, an attempt "to embarrass the West and say, 'Look, we are practicing
what you preach. We are allowing freedom of discussion of just about any
issue, including the Holocaust'"? (2)
It's pretty clear how Western journalists summed up the event. The point of
the conference was to assemble the world's most notorious Holocaust-deniers
and Jew haters, among them KKK kook David Duke, to lend support to Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad's claims that the Holocaust is a myth and to cheer on the
Iranian president as he prepares to perpetrate a genocide against the Jews
and 'wipe out' Israel.
http://www.counterpunch.org/gowans12162006.html
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The Truth About The Tehran Holocaust Conference - By One Who Was There
When Alexander Baron returned from the Holocaust Conference in Iran which
he attended, he found that the conference Western media "reported" about
might as well have been on a different planet.
http://mathaba.net/news/?x=547346
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Iran offers Arab states nuclear technology From correspondents in Tehran
The Islamic Republic of Iran is ready to provide its experience and
valuable achievements in peaceful nuclear technology as a clean source of
energy and as oil replacement to all regional countries, Mr Ahmadinejad
told a visiting Kuwaiti envoy, Mohammed Zeyfullah Shirar.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20941421-401,00.html
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India's shame
Mohammad Afzal is due to hang for his part in the 2001 attack on India's
parliament building. But was he only a bit player? And is the country
trying to bury embarrassing questions about its war on terror?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/india/story/0,,1972788,00.html
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