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=== News Update ===
HEAD OF AIPAC BOASTED ABOUT HIS CONTROL OF POLITICIANS IN 1992
In 1992, Harry Katz phoned the President of
AIPAC, David Steiner, to offer contributions.
Steiner proceeded to make several claims,
including negotiating with then-candidate Bill
Clinton over who would be Secretary of State, and
had already "cut a deal" with Baker for more aid to Israel.
Unknown to Steiner, Katz taped the phone call and
gave the recording to the media, worried that
AIPAC's influence had grown to dangerous levels.
Following the release of transcripts of the phone
conversation, David Steiner was forced to resign the Presidency of AIPAC.
The following is a transcript of the Oct. 22,
1992 conversation with President David Steiner of
the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
(AIPAC) recorded without his knowledge by New
York businessman Haim (Harry) Katz. Its existence
was first revealed to the Washington Times and
its release triggered Steiner's resignation.
<http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/AIPACClinton/index.html>Scans
of the original article
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/AIPACClinton.html
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Israeli Spying: The Mother of all Scandals
Once again, Israel has been caught with spies at
the highest levels of the US Government.
At the heart of the investigation are two people
who work at The American Israel Public Affairs
Committee (AIPAC), a powerful pro-Israel lobby in
Washington. The FBI investigation, headed up by
Dave Szady, has involved wiretaps, undercover
surveillance and photography that CBS News was
told document the passing of classified
information from the mole, to the men at AIPAC, and on to the Israelis.
CBS sources say that last year the suspected spy,
described as a trusted analyst at the Pentagon,
turned over a presidential directive on U.S.
policy toward Iran while it was, "in the draft
phase when U.S. policy-makers were still debating
the policy." This put the Israelis, according to
one source, "inside the decision-making loop" so
they could "try to influence the outcome."
[<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/08/27/eveningnews/main639143.shtml>CBS
News]
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/motherofallscandals.html
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The Gestapo and Wehrmacht of our time
German Catholic Bishop visiting Israel and the
Occupied Territories on 5 March compared Israels
oppression of Palestinians with Nazi oppression of Jews at Ghetto Warsaw
When a conscientious German Catholic Bishop
visiting Israel and the Occupied Territories on 5
March compared Israels oppression of
Palestinians with Nazi oppression of Jews at
Ghetto Warsaw, Israeli apologists got furious.
Gregor Maria Franz Hanke of Eichstatt couldnt
suppress his rectitude and human decency when he
was brought face to face with the affronting
ugliness of the "separation wall" which has
already morphed Palestinian population centers
into modern-day concentration camps.
Upon seeing the misshapen creature, which is as
ugly and as deformed as the Nazi-like mentality
that gave birth to it, the German bishop said the following:
"This morning we saw pictures of the Warsaw
ghetto at Yad Vashem and this evening we are going to the Ramallah ghetto."
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2007/03/12/p15101#more15101
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The Casualties of War Crimes Who Weeps for Abeer?
Sandwiched between International Womens Day on
March 8 and the fourth anniversary of the U.S.
invasion of Iraq on March 19 is another date that
marks a tragic nexus of the two: the day one year
ago when 14-year-old Abeer Qassim Al-Janabi was
stalked, gang-raped, shot in the head and her
corpse burned in her own home in Mahmoudiya,
Iraq. Four U.S. soldiers and one former soldier
are charged with the crimes committed March 12, 2006.
The soldiers were so confident of their abilities
to achieve their intended crimes that they
rounded up the Al-Janabi family from their daily
chores in broad daylight. Pfc. Stephen Green
allegedly shot Abeers parents and 5-year-old
sister to death in the room next to where she was
being raped by Sgt. Paul Cortez. His buddy, Pfc.
James Barker held the struggling, crying teenager
down while two other soldiers, Pfc. Jesse
Spielman and Pfc. Bryan Howard, reportedly stood watch.
All this in the middle of the day under the hot afternoon sun, March 12, 2006.
http://www.womensmediacenter.com/iraq/iraq_current.html
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Abeer Qassim Al-Janabi : What a War Crime Looks Like
The account below is compiled from testimony
given at the courts martial of Paul Cortez and
James Barker, from accounts of the Article 32
Hearing and other court proceedings in the cases,
and from previous WMC and newspaper reports.
Former Pfc. Steven Green, Pfc. Jesse Spielman and
Pfc. Bryan Howard are still awaiting trial.
References to them are to alleged actions on
their part according to the above sources.
Through court martial testimony, including that
of the now convicted Paul Cortez and James
Barker, a picture is emerging of what took place
on March 12, 2006. Almost everything we know
about the day one year ago when Abeer Qassim
Hamza al Janabi was raped and, along with her
parents and sister, murdered comes from her
proven and alleged killers. The only other
witnesses, the family members themselves, are dead.
On that day, Pfc. Steven Green, Pfc. Jesse
Spielman and Pfc. Bryan Howard, all currently
awaiting trial, were on duty with Barker and
Cortez at Traffic Control Point 2 (TCP2), near
Mahmoudiya, Iraq. While others stood guard,
Spielman, Green, Barker and Cortez sat outside
playing cards, hitting golf balls and drinking
canned Iraqi whisky mixed with an energy drink.
As Barker put it, they were "pretty
buzzed." Green started talking about wanting to
kill some Iraqis, Barker said, but he didnt take
him seriously. As several soldiers testified,
Green had said the same thing on almost a daily
basis, to anyone, of any rank, who would listen.
This time he was persistent. Instead of
challenging him, Barker suggested a house they
could go toone that would be, Cortez later
testified, "an easy target" since previous
searches had shown that it contained only one
adult male. It was fewer than 1,000 feet from
TCP2, past one occupied and two unoccupied houses.
http://www.womensmediacenter.com/iraq/iraq_current_a.html
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Discovering the "Disappeared" and Other Detainees
- Ghost Prisoners, Shadowy Prisons & Secret Trials
The International Convention for the Protection
of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance is but
another instance in which a significant number of
countries are not waiting for the people of the
"world's greatest democracy" to wake up to the
fact that they are sacrificing liberty for a
sense of false security. These are extraordinary
times, as the Bush administration often declares.
But extraordinary times demand extraordinary
vigilance against extraordinary efforts by government to accumulate power.
The international community has seen the danger;
the U.S. courts have seen the danger. Now "We the
People" must do our part and demand the
administration both sign the International
Convention and roll-back the Military Commissions Act of 2006.
http://www.counterpunch.org/smith03122007.html
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The Future Has Caught Up With Us
For the past five years, the Bush Regime has held
people in secret prisons without warrants,
charges, or access to an attorney. Most detainees
have been tortured and abused. Bushs real world
victims suffer from more disorientation and
hopelessness than Kafkas character, Josef K.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17288.htm
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Killing the Constitution
Impeachment is not enough. Our society is in need
of a political and economic overhaul. We need to
align civic duty with genuine compassion, the
desire to make a better world. - Our entire
society needs to shift from a materialistic,
elitist theocracy living by outdated norms of
colonialism to a truly progressive one, where the
dignity of all, regardless of nationality, is honoured.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17290.htm
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Cheney Sends US Wounded, Militia in Iraq, Scraps its Last Puppets
The United States of Monsters :
* Lack of "US Coalition" Troops in Iraq, Afghanistan
* Coalition of "willing"
* Congress reinforcements
* Sending US injured, madmen, militia back to Iraq
* Who are the "mentally unfit", really?
* Doubling The tours of US GIs
* US Militia (Military Police) sent in too
* Regional Conference has failed
* Plan B? Irans got it!
* Blank Cheque for Mass Murderer
* Why the Escalation (aka Surge) will fail
http://theunitedstatesofmonsters.blogspot.com/2007/03/cheney-sends-us-wounded-militia-in-iraq.html
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Iraq : Total Withdrawal? Who are you kidding?
Though U.S. legislators voted against
appropriating funds for permanent bases in Iraq,
the White House and Pentagon have ignored that
prohibition by portraying the huge construction
projects to be for temporary facilities tied to the on-going conflict.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17295.htm
===
Iraq: Pulled Out Or Pushed Out
Few Americans pay attention to Iraqi politics,
but over the past few days something has occurred
that could change the course of the war. For the
first time since the Iraqi election of 2005, a
coalition of Sunni and Shiite Arab parties and
leaders is starting to take shape, across the
sectarian divide that has fueled the civil war. '
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17292.htm
===
The fall guy in Iraq
As Lewis "Scooter" Libby was the fall guy in
Washington, Premier Nuri al-Maliki will be the fall guy in Baghdad.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IC13Ak05.html
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UK: Foreign Office helped set up Iraqi oil deals
The British Government intervened to help UK and
US energy giants in their attempts to secure
lucrative contracts to exploit Iraq's ruined oilfields.
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article2347416.ece
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Cheney: Iraq withdrawal may harm Israel
Cheney said that a possible withdrawal of US
forces from Iraq before goals for a stable Iraqi
government were completed could damage Israel.
http://snipurl.com/1ctqm
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Cheney says U.S. 'unflinching' on Israel
The U.S. vice president said support for Israel
is unflinching and steadfast in a speech to the
American Israel Public Affairs Committee Policy Conference
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/39357.html
===
Five U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq
A total of five U.S. soldiers were killed and
three others wounded in Iraq on Sunday, the U.S. military said on Monday.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-03/12/content_5836362.htm
===
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 11 March 2007
* Resistance bomb kills four puppet troops in Amiriyat al-Falluajah.
* Iraqi Resistance sharpshooter kills two
puppet troops in ar-Ramadi Sunday morning.
* US soldier injured in bomb attack near Hit Sunday morning.
* Three US troops reported killed in double
Resistance bombing near Hit Sunday afternoon.
* Resistance sharpshooter reportedly kills US
Marine in western Baghdad Sunday afternoon.
* Resistance bomb explodes near puppet
official in vicinity of German Embassy in Baghdad Sunday afternoon.
* Resistance batters puppet Shock Troop base in Baghdad Sunday morning.
* Resistance blasts US base in at-Taji with mortars Sunday morning.
* Resistance bomb reportedly kills two US
soldiers near al-Latifiyah early Sunday.
* British troops kill Iraqi man and his son
near al-Basrah airport Saturday night.
* Body of drowned Iranian Revolutionary Guard found on Iraqi territory.
* Mysterious bomb explodes by vehicle transporting construction workers.
* Resistance bomb targets US patrol in Baqubah.
* After Shii Virtue Party withdraws from
pro-American alliance, bomb explodes in party offices in as-Suwayrah.
* Resistance bomb wounds two puppet troops in al-Mawsil.
* Resistance sharpshooter kills puppet
policeman in al-Mawsil Sunday morning.
* Bomb explodes outside Sunni
collaborationist party headquarters Saturday night.
http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0307/iraqiresistancereport_110307.htm
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Nine police killed in Afghan blast
Police said that the newly-appointed district
police chief and eight of his officers were
killed on Monday when the bomb destroyed their vehicle.
http://snipurl.com/1ctqg
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British soldiers fighting 'appalling' hospital care
A shocking picture of neglect and the appalling
treatment of wounded British troops returning
from Iraq and Afghanistan emerged yesterday in a
remarkable series of letters from soldiers' families.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=359&objectid=10428254
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UN committee: Israel should let Palestinians return to their land
A United Nations committee has called on Israel
to allow Palestinian refugees to return to their
property and land in Israel and to ensure that
the bodies responsible for distributing property,
such as the Jewish National Fund, not
discriminate against the Arab population.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17293.htm
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Netanyahu and Meshal Forever
Enough empty talk about "a Jewish state." There
is no such thing. The fact that the Palestinians
live under unequal conditions does not make them
subjects of another entity. On the contrary, the
state's control of their lives is immeasurably
greater than its control over its Jewish citizens.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17291.htm
===
Salim Lone: The last thing we need
The new US command for Africa will militarise the
continent and inflame a string of regional conflicts
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2031670,00.html
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A network of the US secret prisons in Africa
According Le Monde newspaper that the US started
a regional network of US secret prisons in
East-Africa violating international law.
http://snipurl.com/1ctrp
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Democrats call for resignation of Gonzales
U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should
resign following disclosures of mass firings of
federal prosecutors and a report the FBI
improperly obtained information on private
citizens, top Democratic senators said Sunday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17566059/
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"Bush Should Get The Gold Medal For Hypocrisy"
Bushs trip to Latin America has turned into
another public relations disaster. Every time
Airforce 1 touches down in a southern capital,
the streets turn into battlegrounds between
incensed protestors and fully-armored,
truncheon-wielding Robo-cops. At the same time,
Bush has to be whisked away in an armored-plated
limousine to an undisclosed spider-hole in the Andean outback.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17296.htm
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Hugo Chavez to George W. Bush: Gringo Go Home
As President Bush tours Latin America, Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez spoke before tens of
thousands at an anti-imperialist rally in
Argentina of Friday. We broadcast excerpts of
Chavez's stinging attack on Bush who was in
Uruguay, just thirty miles away across the River Plate.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17294.htm
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Missing Iranian official was kidnapped: relatives
The relatives of an Iranian ex-deputy defense
minister who went missing in Turkey accused
Iran's arch enemies the United states and Israel
of kidnapping him, state radio reported on Monday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070312/wl_nm/iran_missing_dc_1
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