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=== News Update ===
European Muslims face rising 'Islamophobia' - Report
Muslims across Europe are confronting a rise in 'Islamophobia' ranging
from violent attacks to discrimination in the job and housing markets, a
wide-ranging European Union report said today.
The study, compiled by the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and
Xenophobia, urged European authorities to strengthen policies on
integration.
http://www.breakingnews.ie/world/?jp=CWIDSNIDGBKF&rss=rss1
full report can be downloaded at: http://www.eumc.eu.int/eumc/index.php
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9/11 : Torture Is Now Part of the American Soul
You might have imagined that every possible means of inflicting pain had
already been devised. But never underestimate the human capacity for
invention. United States interrogators have found a new way of
destroying a human being.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/45613/
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The terrorist you've never heard of : Hypocrisy of US Justice
Unlike alleged al-Qaida terrorist Jose Padilla, right-wing "dirty
bomber" Demetrius Crocker was investigated and prosecuted the old-
fashioned constitutional way.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15936.htm
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Why isn't the dog barking in Israeli Northern Iraq?
See what they're doing? Do you see what they're not doing?
They're not telling us anything about Israeli (err) Kurdish northern
Iraq.
What is going on there? Any "sectarian violence" (wink wink - nod nod!)?
Any ministry policemen costumed "vendettas" happening there?
Kurds and Israelis are all fat - healthy and living the life in full
serviced (electricity, water, medical) comfort on top of their stores of
accumulated killing commodities protected under the 15 year "no-fly"
zone. They probably got cable TV and their homes are warm.
Southern Iraq is not so chosen.
http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2006%20Opinion%
20Editorials/December/18%20o/Why%20isn%5C't%20the%20dog%20barking%20in%
20Israeli%20Northern%20Iraq%20By%20Terry%20Thurber.htm
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Former U.S. Detainee in Iraq Recalls Torment
Detainee 200343 was among thousands of people who have been held and
released by the American military in Iraq, and his account of his ordeal
has provided one of the few detailed views of the Pentagon’s detention
operations since the abuse scandals at Abu Ghraib.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15931.htm
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It's Either Occupation or Education
Two in three children in Iraq have simply stopped going to school,
according to a government report.
http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/hard_news/archives/iraq/000512.php
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Iraq : Six brutal truths about Iraq
General William Odom, one of the earliest advocates of an immediate
withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, attacks some of the mythologies
that are interfering with an honest debate about how to proceed in the
Middle East and says the media have failed to recognize dramatic changes
in the region.
http://niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?
fuseaction=background.view&backgroundid=00146
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US Could Face Catastrophic Military Defeat In Iraq
US forces attempting to defend a zone of occupation deep within
landlocked Iraq now face an extraordinarily critical situation. These
forces are wholly dependent on a supply line based on two roads on
either side of the Euphrates which stretch some 400 miles (about 650 km)
from Kuwait north towards Baghdad. It is along these roads that
gasoline, food, ammunition, and all other sinews of war must be
transported by truck convoy. Two roads of 400 miles each add up to 800
miles of highway to defend an impossible proposition in the face of a
sustained people's war by the Shiites of the lower Euphrates.
http://www.rense.com/general74/cara.htm
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Iraq : Addendum to Clausewitz
It's all but official: The war in Iraq is lost. Report after leaked
report says so. Everybody in Washington knows it except that draft-
dodging ferret in the White House. Politicians scurry to avoid the
blame. One day soon people will ask aloud: How did we let 3000 GIs die
for the weak ego of a pampered liar and his desperate need to prove he's
half the man his father was?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/reed/reed116.html
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Rumsfeld has one last lie for the road
I’m not going down that negative road that finished off old Bob
McNamara’s legacy. What a disappointment - this is a guy who could sell
us the Vietnam War and then blows it by suddenly getting all squishy
about the truth when he’s long retired. Jeez Louise, he was once my role
model. No secretary of defense ever sold a losing war better.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15934.htm
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Soldiers Call for Iraq Withdrawal
For the first time since Vietnam, an organized, robust movement of
active-duty US military personnel has publicly surfaced to oppose a war
in which they are serving. Those involved plan to petition Congress to
withdraw American troops from Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15933.htm
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Democrat backs Iraq troop increase
The senate's top Democrat politician has offered qualified support for a
plan to increase US forces in Iraq, saying it would be acceptable as
part of a broader strategy to bring combat forces home by 2008.
http://tinyurl.com/w58qt
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Bush administration elaborates plans for bloodbath in Iraq
Reports on the Bush administration’s discussions on a change of course
in Iraq indicate that Washington is preparing a major new bloodbath as
part of a desperate attempt to salvage its nearly four-year-old bid to
conquer the oil-rich country.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/dec2006/iraq-d18.shtml
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Powell, Baker, Hamilton ... Thanks for Nothing! Washington Refuses to
End the War
When Colin Powell endorsed the Iraq Study Group report during his Dec.
17 appearance on "Face the Nation," it was another curtain call for a
tragic farce.
Four years ago, "moderates" like Powell were making the invasion of Iraq
possible. Now, in the guise of speaking truth to power, Powell and ISG
co-chairs James Baker and Lee Hamilton are refueling the U.S. war effort
by depicting it as a problem of strategy and management.
But the U.S. war effort is a problem of lies and slaughter.
http://www.counterpunch.org/solomon12182006.html
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Gates sworn in as US defense secretary
Former CIA Director Robert Gates was officially sworn in as U.S.
secretary of defense on Monday, replacing embattled Pentagon chief
Donald Rumsfeld, who was under fire for his handling of the Iraq war.
http://tinyurl.com/y7td8a
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Former Iraqi Cabinet minister escapes police custody in Baghdad
A dual U.S.-Iraqi citizen and the country's only postwar Cabinet
minister to be convicted of corruption has escaped police custody for a
second time, an Iraqi official said Monday.
http://tinyurl.com/yyn533
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Iraqi ex-minister spirited from police custody
Plain-clothes Americans have taken a former Iraqi electricity minister,
who is a dual U.S. citizen, from Iraqi police custody where he was
awaiting trial on corruption charges, Iraqi officials said on Monday.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15932.htm
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Iraq : Bush has lost battle for U.S. hearts, minds
Cheektowaga, N.Y.; Thibodaux, La.; Pflugerville, Texas; Presque Isle,
Maine; Westerville, Ohio; Marysville, Wash.; Redding, Calif.;
Stokesdale, N.C.; Bapchule, Ariz.; Oxford, Ala.
These are the hometowns of 10 American troops killed recently in Iraq,
10 of almost 3,000 fatalities. And there will be many more. The good
folks of Pflugerville and Westerville and Marysville no longer believe
their sons and daughters are dying for a good reason, but President Bush
seems in no mood to hear them.
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/opinion/8999347827896493055
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 17 December 2006.
* US warplane kills two civilians, wounds three more in raid on
home near al-Fallujah Saturday night.
* Saturday evening gun battle in al-Fallujah leaves US soldier
reported dead; Americans respond to attack by killing two Iraqi
civilians in wild gunfire.
* Resistance attacks Iraqi puppet troops in al-Fallujah.
* Resistance destroys US vehicle in battle in al-Fallujah.
* Resistance bomb wounds puppet “National Guardsmen” in Baghdad.
* Two US troops reported dead, three severely burned in Resistance
bomb attack in al-Hadithah Saturday evening.
* US soldier reported killed by Resistance sharpshooter in al-
Qa'im midday Saturday.
* Iraqi Resistance drives US forces out of al-Husaybah on Syrian
border, takes control of town, destroying American military
barriers and headquarters.
* Jaysh al-Mahdi gunmen kidnap Sunnis from Iraqi Red Crescent
building in Baghdad midday Sunday.
* Resistance traps Jaysh al-Mahdi gunmen with fake checkpoint
Sunday morning.
* Resistance bomb disables US Humvee late Saturday night.
* Puppet police wounded in Resistance bombing Saturday night.
* Resistance men battle puppet “Wolf Brigade” in al-Mada'in
Sunday morning.
* Resistance bombards US consulate, Amercian base in al-Hillah.
* Rocket attack Saturday morning shuts down al-Basrah Airport.
* Arab tribal leader assassinated in al-Basrah, tribes blame Jaysh
al-Mahdi militia.
* Resistance bombards Jaysh al-Mahdi headquarters in al-Mahmudiyah
Friday.
* Iraqi Resistance forces attacked a puppet police checkpoint in
al-Musayyib
* Rocket attack Saturday morning shuts down al-Basrah Airport.
http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?
mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2006/1206/iraqiresistancereport_171206.htm
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Taliban Plans 'Takeover' by 2010
The Taliban organization has set the year 2010 as its deadline for the
complete takeover of Afghanistan, an intelligence source revealed,
according to the Pakistani daily The Nation.
http://themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=16080
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Annals of the Damned Human Race: Liberating Afghans, Body and Soul
Let us turn once again to the other war, the "good war" in Afghanistan,
where four years ago George W. Bush famously liberated the suffering
Afghan people from the clutches of the militant Islamic extremists of
the Taliban into the hands of the militant Islamic extremists of the
Northern Alliance (and their U.S.-picked frontman, Hamid "Why, Yes, I
Did Once Work for Oil Barons, Why Do You Ask?" Karzai).
In the Good War - long touted as a success not only by the compulsive
liars of the Administration but also by the fat and sassy conventional
wisdomists who gorge themselves on eager lappings of Bushist cud - the
fighting is now far more brutal and intense than it was in the brief
autumn campaign in 2001 that led to overwhelming "victory." In fact,
more than 1,000 innocent civilians have been killed by US and NATO bombs
in the last year alone, the Christian Science Monitor reports.
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?
option=com_content&task=view&id=966&Itemid=135#jc_allComments
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Abbas attempts a political coup on behalf of Washington
Mahmoud Abbas, the Fatah president of the Palestinian Authority, has
announced that he will dissolve the recently elected parliament and call
new presidential and parliamentary elections. Abbas aide Yasser Abed
Rabbo told Associated Press that the president would set the date within
a week, and that new elections would be held within three months.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/dec2006/gaza-d18.shtml
Note also that the US is training the extremely corrupt Fatah to fight
democratically elected Hamas. See
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?
file=/chronicle/archive/2006/12/14/MNGIPMV3N61.DTL&type=politics
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JORDANIAN PUPPET KING CREATES DISUNITY CALLING FOR UNITY
Why can't the 'outsiders' just mind their own business? Why does Bush,
Blair and now King Abdullah, in true puppet form, have to meddle in the
inner politics of the Palestinian people? Abdullah supports Abbas in the
name of unity.... is he not aware of the FACT that it was Haniyeh and
his party that were ELECTED to represent the Palestinians?
Abdullah who attained his office by appointment by his late father might
not be aware how elections work... the party that receives the most
votes is elected..... simple as that!
In the case of Palestine it was Hamas.... not who Bush, Blair or
Abdullah supports 'in the name of unity'.....
Time for the 'outsiders' to literally mind their own business and let
the Palestinians decide again who they want to represent them. So, what
I am basically saying is that 'in the name of unity'... SHADDUP!!!
The following is from Ynet about the King's support of Abbas....
http://desertpeace.blogspot.com/2006/12/jordanian-puppet-king-creates-
disunity.html
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Counterproductive U.S. "Advice" to Palestinians - Slide of Palestinian
divide into the brink of a US sponsored civil war
RAMALLAH. December 18, 2006 - Regardless of good will or bad faith,
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' decision to go without national
consensus to early presidential and parliamentary elections was
divisive, counterproductive and conforms to U.S.-Israeli plans to remove
the Islamic Resistance Movement "Hamas" from power or pressure it into
accepting what its rival Fatah had accepted: A peace process on their
dictated terms and conditions.
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-
bin/blogs/voices.php/2006/12/18/p13028#more13028
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Blair to Peretz: Help strengthen Abbas
British Prime Minister Tony Blair requested of Israel's Defense Minister
Amir Peretz to help construct Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas'
abilities in a meeting between the two.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3341706,00.html
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Palestine on the brink of civil war?
Since the Palestinian elections on 25 January 2006 brought a resounding
Hamas victory, Fatah and its US and Israeli allies have been working to
destabilize the democratically-elected government.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6243.shtml
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Cancer didn't kill my mother, the occupation did
Early this morning, I received the sad news that my mother (54 years
old) passed away after serious health complications last night.
I am sending this message to you and many other people around the world
because I promised my mother before she died to let everybody know that
it wasn't cancer that killed her, it was the occupation.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6212.shtml
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Hamas ready for peaceful coexistence with Israel within the borders of
1967.
A Must Read Interview with Hamas-Leader Khaled Meshaal.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15941.htm
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Will The Israeli Palestinian Conflict Ever End?
In the current climate it is unlikely that Israel will go all out for
peace. It appears that their every action is aimed at guaranteeing
continued U.S support. That includes continuing the conflict and making
the Palestinians look like --terrorists-- the bad guys.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15938.htm
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EU to Israel: Stop violating int'l law
European Council urges Israel to release detained Hamas ministers
alongside release of abducted IDF soldier Shalit; 'Israel must put an
end to all activities which are contrary to international law, including
settlement activities and construction of barrier on Palestinian land
Israel will, predictably, ignore this completely.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3341487,00.html
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MEDIA BASHING OF JIMMY CARTER UNPROFESSIONAL AND UNFAIR, ISLAMIC
CONGRESS
SAYS
-- NEW WEB PAGE ON CARTER AND BOOK BEING CREATED FOR THOSE WHO SEEKING
TRUTH ABOUT ISRAEL- PALESTINE
-- LATEST BOOK TO BE GIVEN TO CIC DONORS
The Canadian Islamic Congress said today that it plans to give
complimentary copies of "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" to all donors
who contribute $100 or more:
http://www.canadianislamiccongress.com/support.php
CIC has also created a permanent web page where it will regularly
publish Carter's recent articles, authorized excerpts from his books,
reviews, media coverage and related material:
http://www.canadianislamiccongress.com/democracy/carter.php
CONTACTS:
Mrs. Wahida Valiante,
(905) 771-1023
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Montreal Muslim News Network - http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net
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U.N. peacekeepers accused of rape
Reports that peacekeepers raped teenage girls have surfaced in Haiti,
where a United Nations mission so far had avoided the sexual abuse
scandals that have sullied the international organization's reputation
in other parts of the world.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20061217-122119-4767r.htm
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Nuclear Weapon Nearly Detonated in the United States
A watchdog group charges a nuclear warhead nearly exploded in Texas when
it was being dismantled at the government's Pantex facility near
Amarillo.
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/nation/12/15/15pantex.html
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Tucson military recruiters ran cocaine
Two military recruiting stations sit side-by-side there, one run by the
Army, the other by the Marines. Between them, a total of seven
recruiters were on the take, secretly accepting bribes to transport
cocaine, even as most spent their days visiting local high schools.
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/relatedstories/160717.php
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US robberies, murders on the rise
Violent US crime such as robberies and murders rose by 3.7 per cent in
the first half of 2006.
I wonder if it was mostly in the "gun free" zones.
http://rawstory.com/news/2006/US_robberies_murders_on_the_rise_12182006.html
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More Americans hungry, homeless in 2006
More Americans went homeless and hungry in 2006 than the year before and
children made up almost a quarter of those in emergency shelters, said a
report released on Thursday by the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
The US government has no right to send tax dollars to foreign nations
while there are American women and children sleeping in alleys and
eating out of trash bins.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15919.htm
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