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=== News Update ===
War Is Terrorism
Almost every individual or group not in love with
US foreign policy, which Washington wants to
stigmatize, is charged with being associated
with, or being a member of, al Qaeda, as if
there's a precise and meaningful distinction
between people retaliating against American imperialism.
"They told us this was one of the world's worst
terrorists, and he got the sentence of a drunken
driver," said Ben Wizner, an attorney for the
American Civil Liberties Union, referring to
David Hicks, a 31-year-old Australian who in a
plea bargain with a US military court will serve
nine months in prison, largely in Australia.
That's after five years at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba
without being charged with a crime, without a
trial, without a conviction. Under the deal,
Hicks agreed not to talk to reporters for one
year (a slap in the face of free speech), to
forever waive any profit from telling his story
(a slap -- mon Dieu! -- in the face of free
enterprise), to submit to US interrogation and
testify at future US trials or international
tribunals (an open invitation to the US
government to hound the young man for the rest of
his life), to renounce any claims of mistreatment
or unlawful detention (a requirement which would
be unconstitutional in a civilian US court).
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Uranium and the War : The effects of depleted uranium weapons in Iraq
In five billion years our sun will explode into a
white dwarf and envelope the earth, according to NASA projections.
The half-life of uranium 238 is 4.5 billion years.
This means that by the time the Earth ceases to
be a planet, only a little more than half of the
depleted uranium (DU) that the United States Army
is firing into Iraq and other countries around
the world will be gone. The rest of the
radioactive material will still be poisoning the Iraqi people.
The U.S. Army revealed in March 2003 that it
dropped between 320 and 390 tons of DU during the
Gulf Warthe first time the material was ever
used in combatand it is estimated that more
still has been dropped during the current
invasion, though there have been no official counts as yet.
http://www.cityonahillpress.com/article.php?id=474
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Pentagon report says no link between Saddam and Al-Qaeda
Interrogations of Saddam Hussein and seized
documents confirmed the former Iraqi regime had
no links with Al-Qaeda, a Pentagon report said
Friday, contradicting the US case for the 2003 invasion.
It contradicts a strong argument for the invasion
made by the administration of President George W.
Bush that Baghdad had a working relationship with Al-Qaeda.
In a radio interview Wednesday Cheney insisted on
a prewar link between Iraq and Al-Qaeda, saying
the group was working in Iraq "before we even arrived on the scene."
"As I say, they were present before we invaded
Iraq," Cheney told conservative radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh.
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No Saddam al-Qaida Link: Full Pentagon Report
A PDF of the Pentagon inspector general report
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Report outlines Pentagon effort to link Iraq, al Qaeda
Declassified memo shows how officials shaped
intelligence. Just four months after the Sept. 11
attacks, then-Deputy Defense Secretary Paul
Wolfowitz dashed off a memo to a senior Pentagon
colleague, demanding action to identify
connections between Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime and al Qaeda.
In making its case for the 2003 invasion of Iraq,
the Bush administration relied heavily on
evidence that Hussein was stockpiling weapons of
mass destruction. However, an important secondary
reason was the allegation of connections between
Iraq and al Qaeda. While the CIA has been
criticized for erroneously gauging Iraq's weapons
programs, its assessment of Iraq's ties to al
Qaeda turned out to be more accurate.
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Pentagon Officer Created Phony Intel on Iraq/al-Qaeda Link
Newly released documents confirm that a Pentagon
unit knowingly cooked up intelligence claiming a
direct link between Iraq and al-Qaeda in order to
win support for a preemptive strike against the country.
A report prepared by the Defense Department's
Inspector General for Carl Levin, the Democratic
Chairman of the Armed Services Committee,
explicitly shows how former Under Secretary of
Defense for Policy Douglas Feith used his defense
department position to cook intelligence claiming
a connection between the terrorist organization and Saddam Hussein's regime.
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Cheney Reasserts al-Qaida-Saddam Link
Vice President Dick Cheney repeated his
assertions lies of al-Qaida links to Saddam
Hussein's Iraq on Thursday as the Defense
Department released a report citing more evidence
that the prewar government did not cooperate with the terrorist group.
However, a declassified Pentagon report released
Thursday said that interrogations of the deposed
Iraqi leader and two of his former aides as well
as seized Iraqi documents confirmed that the
terrorist organization and the Saddam government
were not working together before the invasion.
The Sept. 11 Commission's 2004 report also found
no evidence of a collaborative relationship
between Saddam and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network during that period.
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Let's Hear it for the War on Terror: Somalia
Citing one of the globe's great champions of
human rights, " As President Bush has said, what
every terrorist fears most is human freedom -
societies where men and women make their own
choices, answer to their own conscience and live
by their hopes instead of their resentments."
Last year a coalition of Islamic groups managed
to bring calm to the capital of Mogadishu by
getting the feuding clans to disarm their
militias, and convincing Somalis, the majority of
whom are Sunnis, to accept Islam as the solution to their turmoil.
That calm lasted for six months. The problem was
that, as the U.S. saw it, while militant Islam
might pacify the Somalis, it could also offer
sanctuary for groups linked with Al Qaeda to
regroup and train for future attacks. Similarly
as well, the Ethiopian military scooped up scores
of people people of all ages, some apparently
just passing throughand packed them off to
clandestine prisons. Added to those were several
hundred more who had fled to neighboring
Kenya. International reaction was not long in coming.
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EU warned of 'Somalia war crimes'
A senior European Union security official has
warned the head of the EU delegation for Somalia
and Kenya that military forces may have committed
war crimes in occupied Somalia.
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The Press is Paying Patsy With Terrorist Propaganda
Pace 9/11, I am not afraid of terrorism, even
though I lived in London during the worst years
of IRA activity and already this year I missed a
terrorist attack on my hotel in Islamabad by only
a couple of days. Terrorism and the damage it can
do -- in particular the political and societal
damage -- is greatly overrated. Who to blame?
Doubtless, the politicians have a vested interest
in whipping up the populaces reaction, but most
of all we should blame the media. They behave
like patsies to the terrorists. They give their
dirty deeds every bit of publicity they could
ever dare to hope for and, as I saw last month in
Nigerias oil producing delta, ignore the often
valuable activities of the plethora of non-violent activists.
Look at the political plight of the Spanish prime
minister, Jose Luis Rodriquez Zapatero. Since the
first day he took office he has constantly been
pilloried by the principal opposition party for
being soft on the Basque terrorist group, ETA.
The Popular Party has kept up the false refrain
that the Madrid station bombings of three years
ago that took 190 lives were the work of ETA. For
long enough Zapatero tried to ignore them, and
continued his quiet and seemingly progressing
negotiations with ETA. But then late last year
what is probably a dissident ETA grouping killed
two people at Madrid airport and most of the
media, softened up by three years of the
oppositions carping, turned on Zapatero. His
negotiating hands are now effectively tied.
Who today would dare stand up and say talk to Al
Qaeda, negotiate with the Taleban or treat the
leaders of Hamas as sincere fellows whose agenda
is worth discussing? There are few of our
politicians, and even fewer members of the media.
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It took the spilled blood of nearly a 1,000,000
Iraqis and four years for them to realize this fact?
What a feat for an "informed and peace loving" people!
Without a full and comprehensive war reparations
to Iraqis, what welcome would the Americans
expect from the people of a future sovereign Iraq?
http://abutamam.blogspot.com/2007/04/it-took-spilled-blood-of-1000000-iraqis.html
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Bush/Cheney Still Lie with Abandon
What makes George W. Bush and Dick Cheney such
extraordinary threats to the future of American
democracy is their readiness to tell half-truths
and outright lies consistently without any apparent fear of accountability.
Bush and Cheney apparently believe that todays
friendlier media environment still lets them do
or say almost anything they want. But a
democratic Republic cannot long endure when leaders substitute lies for truth.
http://www.consortiumnews.com./2007/040607.html
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Fight on, Iraqi resistance, for they lied and lied ...
Fight on, Iraqi resistance, for they lied and lied ...
YOU, the American taxpayer, celebrate lies.
YOU celebrate deceit.
YOU celebrate false heroes and worship a God of War.
I and thousands of others have written profusely
about the lies that propelled the Iraq war.
The lies that some still believe and harbor and export and exploit.
http://truth-about-iraqis2.blogspot.com/2007/04/fight-on-iraqi-resistance-for-they-lied.html
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Playing Politics With War
There are politicians who are immune to this
basest form of politics, profiles in courage like
Paul Wellstone or Russ Feingold. But for every
one of them, there are tons more like Hillary
Clinton or John Kerry or John Edwards, who are so
interested in advancing their careers that they
are willing to cast even this most despicable,
this most murderous, this most shameful of votes to get there.
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Conservatives for the Constitution
Just imagine if one of the leading candidates for
the Democratic presidential nomination endorsed this radical agenda:
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An Administration's Epic Collapse
When Bush came to office--installed by the
Supreme Court after receiving fewer votes than Al
Gore--I speculated that the new President would
have to govern in a bipartisan manner to be
successful. He chose the opposite path, and his
hyper-partisanship has proved to be a travesty of
governance and a comprehensive failure.
I've tried to be respectful of the man and the
office, but the three defining sins of the Bush
Administration--arrogance, incompetence,
cynicism--are congenital: they're part of his personality.
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Liberals push to impeach Bush
Congressional Democrats say their constituents
are clamoring for something even the most liberal
lawmakers promise they won't pursue: President Bush's impeachment.
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Iraqi Sunni clerics support resistance for expelling invasion troops
Amman - About 200 prominent Iraqi Sunni scholars
ended a two-day annual meeting in Amman by
backing 'resistance' as one of the legitimate
means that should be adopted for ending the
US-led occupation of Iraq, according to a statement published Friday.
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/news/article_1287885.php/Iraqi_Sunni_clerics_support_resistance_for_expelling_invasion_troops
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IRAQIS : UP FROM THE ASHES
In 1991, the U.S. military virtually wiped Iraq
off the map. At the end of 42 days and nights of
bombing, little of the countrys infrastructure
was left undamaged. But, the U.S. administration
did not anticipate the miraculous rebound Iraq
would make in the first couple of years following the countrys annihilation..
Bush thought the destruction of tens of thousands
of buildings (including 4,000 schools and 20,000
houses), as well as rendering useless the sewage,
electricity, and water facilities in Iraq would
bring the Iraqis to their knees. When that did
not work, he put a noose around the country to
stop anything from entering. Still, the Iraqis
stood proud. As a last resort, Bush ordered the
destruction of their crops, but the Iraqis did not succumb.
The defiance of the Iraqi people became evident
and Bush experienced another setback in his
imperialistic plans the Iraqi people were
rebuilding their country at a fast pace with no outside help.
http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0407/lagauche_060407.htm
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Few Americans trust military or media for information on Iraq
Most Americans have little or no confidence in
the information they receive from the military or
the media about the situation in Iraq, according to a poll released Thursday.
The survey by the Washington-based Pew Research
Center for the People and the Press found that 52
percent have little or no faith in the military's
portrayal of the four-year war, compared with 60
percent who feel the same way about the press reports of the conflict.
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Tony Blair's secret army
Simon Basketter exposes how special British units
in Iraq are run by the same man who commanded death squads in Northern Ireland
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Gunfire forces U.S. helicopter down in Iraq: witnesses
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Heavy gunfire forced a U.S.
military helicopter down in an insurgent
stronghold south of Baghdad on Thursday, Iraqi witnesses said.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldnews&storyID=2007-04-05T101747Z_01_YAT530639_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-HELICOPTER.xml
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Thursday: 6 GIs, 4 Britons, 83 Iraqis Killed; U.S. Helicopter Shot Down
Coalition soldiers took heavy casualties today:
Six U.S. and four British soldiers, plus a
Kuwaiti translator, lost their lives in separate
incidents. A U.S. helicopter was downed as well.
Also, at least 83 Iraqis were killed or found
dead today and another 55 Iraqis were wounded in various attacks.
http://www.antiwar.com/updates/?articleid=10769
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Ten British, US troops killed in Iraq
Six US soldiers killed in separate attacks in
Iraq, four British troops in bomb attack near Basra.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/iraq/?id=20273
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 5 April 2007
* US admits Thursday that four more American
troops have been killed in Iraq.
* Massive bomb targets Sunni TV station in
Baghdad, killing, wounding 13.
* Resistance brings down US helicopter near al-Latifiyah Thursday morning.
* Britain announces death of four British
occupation troops in bomb attack in al-Basrah.
* Resistance bomb on al-Ghazaliyah Bridge
destroys US Humvee midday Thursday.
* Wednesday night attack disables two US Humvees in Baghdad.
* Four mortar shells slam into Sunni Islamic
University in al-Azamiyah, killing woman.
* Following Resistance rocket attack, US
forces lock down, search Baghdad districts.
* Resistance bomb wounds puppet police in Baghdad.
* Resistance bomb targets puppet army patrol
in al-Miqdadiyah Thursday afternoon.
* Bodies of 39 torture, murder victims found in Diyala Province Thursday.
* Al-Mawsil, Resistance raid leaves 10 puppet troops dead.
http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0407/iraqiresistancereport_050407.htm
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Misery of Palestinian children
Children throughout the West Bank and Gaza have
observed Palestinian Children's Day, which aims
to highlight the plight of children living under Israeli occupation.
To mark the day, the Palestinian Network for
Children's Rights issued new figures on Thursday
showing how the Israeli occupation has damaged
the lives of thousands of children.
"In 2007, the Israeli army continues to deploy
the same violent policy towards Palestinian
children with eight children being killed so far
this year," a press release from the group said on Thursday.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4EEE3AAA-CD6C-4E37-BF31-C5D796C02807.htm
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Taliban seize southern Afghan district
100 Taliban militants overran Khak Afghan
district in the troubled Zabul province, the
latest of several rebel attempts to exert control
in parts of southern and western Afghanistan.
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11 Killed In Afghan Suicide Attack, Clash
A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden
car near the Afghan parliament in Kabul on
Friday, killing himself and six people, including a policeman, officials said.
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Prosecutors to seek custody of CIA agents
German prosecutors said Thursday they will make a
new attempt to bring 13 CIA workers to justice
for the abduction of a German-Lebanese citizen
mistakenly suspected of terrorism.
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Between Good and Evil
The battle between Ahmadinejad and Blair is not a
political or diplomatic one, it is not about
points. It is actually a clash between
civilizations, but more than that, it seems to be
a fight between humanism and cold pragmatism. As
it emerges, in this battle, it is Ahmadinejad
rather than Blair who reminds us where goodness rests.
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The Crucifixion of Christ, American Style
For God so loved the world... he returned his
only begotten son to the land where he shed his grace on thee.
Vindication for the faithful, rejoicing for the
true believers, it was the second coming of
Christand he was coming to America. Not to bring
Armageddon, but to save mankind from Armageddon.
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