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=== News Update ===
Welcome to America
Canadian Student spent 11 hours in Georgia jail
for minor traffic violation. 23-year-old
fingerprinted, forced to strip naked, don jail
outfit and left in cell with inmates while
officials checked her immigration details
http://tinyurl.com/yqmndv
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9/11 : Bombs in the WTC Buildings Proves Nothing to Racist-Fascist Bigots
Fireman Lou Cacchioli was the first to grab me by
the heart, mind and soul with his isolated
courage by simply telling the truth about what he
experienced to the only media that cared to ask
about his eyewitness account of 9/11 on July 19,
2005. In the Arctic Beacon article, by Greg
Szymanski, he related his observations during the
efforts to save as many as he could with little
regard for personal safety: "...there were
bombs...elevator doors completely blown out... we
heard this huge explosion that sounded like a
bomb... another huge explosion like the first one
hits.... Oh. My God, these bastards put bombs in
here like they did in 1993! Then as soon as we
get in the stairwell, I hear another huge
explosion like the other two. Then I heard bang, bang, bang - huge bangs..."
Damning testimony to the fact that there were
bombs in the WTC, but it was only one man's
eyewitness. How valid can one brave and seemingly
honest man's visions be when there were many
others that also had to have eyewitness testimony
and managed to survive. Distinguished author and
professor emeritus of the Claremont Graduate
University, David Ray Griffin, exposes those
virtually unreported eyewitness experiences in "Explosive Testimony"
http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/06/08/21/ward.htm
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India: Five years after 2002 Gujarat pogrom,
While the victims languish, the perpetrators go unpunished
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/apr2007/indi-a10.shtml
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A US-Made Mess in Somalia
The media often reports overseas developments but
doesn't always explore their underlying causes,
which, in many cases, conveniently lets the U.S.
government off the hook. The recent internecine
violence in Somalia provides a classic example.
The U.S. media has focused to date almost
exclusively on the rising Islamist movement in
Somalia and U.S. "covert" assistance to the
Ethiopian invasion that supported Somalia's
transitional government against the stronger
Islamists. The media should be focusing on one of
the major causes of the Somali mess: U.S. government meddling.
After 9/11, the Bush administration feared that
the absence of a strong government in the "failed
state" of Somalia could turn the small east
African country slightly smaller than Texas
into a haven for terrorists. The administration
ignored the fact that other states with weak
governments have not become sanctuaries for
terrorists. Even if Somalia had become a
terrorist enclave, the terrorists, absent some
U.S. provocation, probably would not have attacked the faraway United States.
http://www.antiwar.com/eland/?articleid=10793
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Report: Somali clashes kill more than 1,000
Recent fighting between Ethiopian-backed
government troops and Islamic insurgents in
Somalia's capital killed more than 1,000
civilians and wounded 4,300, according to a
report by the largest clan in the battle-scarred city.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-04-10-somali-clashes_N.htm
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Iraq war was illegal and breached UN charter,
says Annan - Thursday September 16, 2004
The United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan,
declared explicitly for the first time last night
that the US-led war on Iraq was illegal.
Mr Annan said the security council had warned
Iraq in resolution 1441 there would be
"consequences" if it did not comply with its
demands. But he said it should have been up to
the council to determine what those consequences were.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1305709,00.html
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War Criminal 1 : The Inside Story of the Forged
Iraq-Niger Docs That Helped Build the Case for War
In his January 2003 State of the Union address,
President Bush declared the infamous sixteen
words: The British Government has learned that
Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.
The claim was central to the administrations
claims that Saddam Hussein was seeking weapons of
mass destruction and served as a basis for
launching the Iraq invasion less than two months later.
Bushs declaration was based on an intelligence
document that provided evidence about Iraqs
purchase of uranium from the African country of
Niger. But there was one problem: the document was a fake.
We speak with Carlo Bonini is the Italian
reporter who broke the Niger story. And Peter
Eisner is a veteran foreign correspondent and is
currently an editor at the Washington Post. His
new book is The Italian Letter: How the Bush
Administration Used a Fake Letter to Build the Case for War in Iraq.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/10/1321236
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WarCriminal 2 : Missing Weapons Of Mass
Destruction: Is Lying About The Reason For War An Impeachable Offense?
President George W. Bush has got a very serious
problem. Before asking Congress for a Joint
Resolution authorizing the use of American
military forces in Iraq, he made a number of
unequivocal statements about the reason the
United States needed to pursue the most radical
actions any nation can undertake - acts of war against another nation.
Now it is clear that many of his statements
appear to be false. In the past, Bush's White
House has been very good at sweeping ugly issues
like this under the carpet, and out of sight. But
it is not clear that they will be able to make
the question of what happened to Saddam Hussein's
weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) go away -
unless, perhaps, they start another war.
Frankly, I hope the WMDs are found, for it will
end the matter. Clearly, the story of the missing
WMDs is far from over. And it is too early, of
course, to draw conclusions. But it is not too
early to explore the relevant issues.
Bush's statements on Radio Address - October 5, 2002 :
"The Iraqi regime . . . possesses and produces
chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons."
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20030606.html
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War Criminal 3 : Text of a Letter from the
President to the Speaker of the House of
Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate
Consistent with section 3(b) of the Authorization
for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution
of 2002 (Public Law 107-243), and based on
information available to me, including that in
the enclosed document, I determine that:
(1) reliance by the United States on further
diplomatic and other peaceful means alone will
neither (A) adequately protect the national
security of the United States against the
continuing threat posed by Iraq nor (B) likely
lead to enforcement of all relevant United
Nations Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq; and
(2) acting pursuant to the Constitution and
Public Law 107-243 is consistent with the United
States and other countries continuing to take the
necessary actions against international
terrorists and terrorist organizations, including
those nations, organizations, or persons who
planned, authorized, committed, or aided the
terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030319-1.html
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WAR CRIMINAL : NUKE EM TIL THEY GLOW
In the buildup to Desert Storm, many bumper
stickers in the U.S. proclaimed, "Nuke Em Till
They Glow." In reality, there was some truth in
the statement because the U.S. left hundreds of
tons of spent uranium in Iraq. This material is
very hard and was used in missiles, rockets and
bombs. The leftover residue has contaminated much
of Iraq and incidences of malformed babies skyrocketed after the conflict.
The U.S. again pummeled Iraq with spent uranium
in its 2003 invasion of Iraq. But, did the U.S.
actually detonate a nuclear weapon during the
conflict? Former U.S. Army Captain Eric May came
to this conclusion after closely studying the
Battle of Baghdad at the international airport.
http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0407/lagauche_110407.htm
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Neocon Lieutenant Colonel Blames Iraqs Victims
Once again, the Arab people, within Iraq and
without, have failed themselves horribly, Peters
tells Kengor. Their pettiness, their embrace of
corruption, their social structures and their
taste for internecine feuds and religious
intolerance all have led them to make a hash of
this unprecedented opportunity to build one
rule-of-law democracy in the Arab world. Arabs
have an ineradicable genius for failing themselves.
In other words, the Iraqis have only themselves
to blame for more than a decade of crippling and
deadly sanctions in the wake of Bush Seniors
invasion, an illegal and immoral adventure that
targeted water and sewage plants, civilian
infrastructure, hospitals and homes. Even before
Bush the Juniors invasion, at least 500 children
a day in Iraq died from disease, mostly cancer
from depleted uranium. Cases of lymphoblastic
leukaemia have more than quadrupled with other
cancers, the Lancet, an esteemed British medical
journal, reported in 1998. In men, lung,
bladder, bronchus, skin, and stomach cancers show
the highest increase. In women, the highest
increases are in breast and bladder cancer, and
non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Diseases such as
osteosarcoma, teratoma, nephroblastoma, and
rhabdomyosarcoma are also increasing with,
according to the review, the most affected being
children and young men. Congenital malformations
have also increased, as have diseases of the immune system.
http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=825
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Many Iraqis believe suicide bombings done by US to start a civil war
Ali Ghazi, also a Shia from the Iraqi deep south.
"I believe it is the Americans who are doing
this, pretending it is the Sunni, so there will
be a civil war and they can control our wealth."
Many survivors lying mangled by this mornings
bombs subscribed to a conspiracy theory according
to which the US wants to rule Iraq by fomenting
differences between Shia and Sunni.... many of
those wounded denied there would be a war between
Shia and Sunni. Mohammed Abdul Karim, an injured
Shia at Noman hospital, pointed out that he was
in a Sunni district and the Sunni doctors were doing everything to help him.
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=8286
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video : Muhammad Describes Torture in Iraq
The man, "Muhammad"(not his real name),
interviewed this week is just one of many, an
innumerable and apparently increasing number of
Iraqis who have been tortured by militias and
fighters from all sides of Iraqs violence.
This past Sunday, the Association of Muslim
Scholars, an important Sunni authority in Iraq
again raised the spectre of torture, alleging
that the deaths of two Sunni scholars found Saturday.
http://aliveinbaghdad.org/2007/04/09/muhammad-describes-torture-in-iraq/
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Iraqi insider details U.S. mismanagement after fall of Saddam
In a rueful reflection on what might have been,
an Iraqi government insider details in 500 pages
what he calls the U.S. occupation's shocking
mismanagement of his country - a performance so
bad, he writes, that by 2007 Iraqis had "turned
their backs on their would-be liberators."
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/09/news/insider.php
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U.S. forces in heavy clashes in Baghdad
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. and Iraqi forces backed
by attack helicopters fought gunmen in Baghdad on
Tuesday, witnesses said, in what appeared to be
the heaviest battle in the capital since a
security crackdown was launched in February.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2007-04-10T115058Z_01_PAR340730_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ.xml&src=rss&rpc=22
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Urgent
Downing an American Chopper in the middle
of Baghdad and violent combats in al-Fathel
The correspondent added translating from
eyewitnesses that the American and the
governmental forces are surrounding the area now
and investigating for the falling reason of the
Chopper and its crew fate, but the eyewitnesses
confirmed that it downed by earth weapons caused downing it.
A statement for the American army mentioned that
three soldiers were killed today and four wounded
when a road side bomb targeted their convoy south
west Baghdad and we will report you more details
about the combats in al-Fathel areas as sonn as we get more information.
http://76news.net/eng/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=172&Itemid=1
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Urgent
executing two youth men was the reason of
the combats and news about downing another Chopper
Eyewitnesses confirmed to our correspondent in
al-Fathel area that the combats that begun
between armed men and between the American and
the governmental forces from the other side after
the occupation and the governmental forces killed
two youth men from the sons of the area in front
of the people after it arrested them, and they
decleared that this crime angered the sons of the
area and caused breaking out the combats that still until now.
And anther news report that another Chopper were
downed in al-Fathel area in Baghdad. In which our
correspondent in the area reported that another
American Helicopter were hit in the combats that
started today and it were seen when it is falling near Sheikh Omar graveyard.
In another side eyewitnesses confirmed that the
first downed Chopper crew that were downed
todays morning in Sheikh Omar area in the part
that is near Mohammad Kasem highway may killed in the accident.
http://76news.net/eng/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=173&Itemid=1
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Four US soldiers killed in Iraq
BAGHDAD - Another four US soldiers have died in
violence in Iraq, the military said on Tuesday,
bringing to 32 the number of American troops
killed in the country this month alone.
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2007/April/focusoniraq_April76.xml§ion=focusoniraq
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16 U.S. soldiers wounded in Baghdad
BAGHDAD - U.S. and Iraqi soldiers fought a
daylong battle with insurgents in a violent area
of central Baghdad on Tuesday, leaving four Iraqi
soldiers dead and 16 U.S. soldiers wounded, the military said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070410/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_baghdad_battle
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Tuesday: 4 GIs, 74 Iraqis Killed; 16 GIs, 108 Iraqis Wounded
Yesterdays reprieve from violence has
definitively ended. At least 74 Iraqis were
killed or found dead, and another 108 Iraqis were
wounded, mostly today . Also, four U.S. soldiers
were killed in separate incidents yesterday.
Meanwhile 16 GIs were wounded and two U.S.
helicopters were hit by gunfire in today's clashes..
http://www.antiwar.com/updates/?articleid=10796
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 9 April 2007
* US locks down cities of al-Anbar Province
Monday to mark 4th anniversary of occupation.
* Nine more bodies found in Iraqi capital as
America celebrates 4th anniversary of capture of Baghdad.
* Mysterious mortar attack targets
residential area of al-Khalis Monday afternoon.
* Car bomb targets puppet checkpoint near al-Miqdadiyah Sunday night.
* Mortar barrage targets US Camp Echo in ad-Diwaniyah Monday morning.
* Shii sectarian gunmen try to storm Sunni
mosque in al-Basrah as British headquarters come under bombardment.
http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0407/iraqiresistancereport_090407.htm
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Taliban attacks leave eight dead in Afghanistan
Taliban militants ambushed an Afghan army convoy
with rockets and heavy machine guns in southern
Afghanistan Tuesday, killing four soldiers and
injuring 19 others, the defence ministry said.
http://snipurl.com/1g03b
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Afghan government bans Al-Jazeera programs on local TV station
The government ordered an Afghan TV station to
suspend broadcasts of Al-Jazeera's
English-language programs, the station's director said Tuesday.
http://snipurl.com/1g03d
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Israeli spy case: Media seeks public access in upcoming AIPAC lobbyists' trial
News organizations filed documents in federal
court Monday opposing a government request to
close portions of an upcoming trial of two former
pro-Israel lobbyists accused of violating the Espionage Act.
http://snipurl.com/1g043
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Israeli spy case: Aipac Prosecution: Limited Access Is Constitutional
A government proposal to limit public access to
evidence in the trial of two pro-Israel lobbyists
is constitutional and represents a reasonable
attempt to safeguard classified information,
prosecutors argued in a brief filed last week in federal court in Virginia.
http://www.nysun.com/article/51871?access=726172
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In case you missed it: Israeli spy case: Ex-AIPAC
staffers say Condi leaked them classified info
Two former lobbyists for the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee say Condoleezza Rice was
their informant on sensitive national security matters.
http://snipurl.com/1g046
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Ex-AIPAC staffers say Condi leaked them classified info
Two former lobbyists for the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee say Condoleezza Rice was
their informant on sensitive national security matters.
The claim, laid out in a courtroom Friday, April
21, intensified the drama surrounding a trial
that could further roil a Washington political
establishment already consumed by cases involving
official and unofficial leaks.
http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/29053/edition_id/550/format/html/displaystory.html
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How Syria Helped US in "War on Terror" - And How Bush Said "Thanks"
http://www.counterpunch.org/abourezk04102007.html
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US Navy builds Stingray-esque base in Indian Ocean
Reports have emerged that the US Navy is
upgrading its submarine base at the isolated
tropical atoll Diego Garcia, which is formally British territory.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/07/marineville_in_diego_garcia/
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In case you missed it: Stealing a Nation - Special Report by John Pilger
Video": STEALING A NATION (2004) is an
extraordinary film about the plight of people of
the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean - secretly
and brutally expelled from their homeland by
British governments in the late 1960s and early
1970s, to make way for an American military base
http://snipurl.com/1g03v
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Guantanamo force-feeds detainees
Rights groups called on the US to halt the
"brutal" tactic, which includes strapping detainees to a chair
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6541091.stm
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MI5 blunder led to ghost flight and jail for 'extremists'
An inquiry into MI5's alleged complicity in the
detention without trial at Guantanamo Bay of two
British residents is believed to have concluded
that the intelligence service made serious mistakes, The Times has learnt.
http://snipurl.com/1g04j
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Judge rejects Padilla torture argument
MIAMI - A federal judge refused to dismiss
terrorism charges against a suspected al-Qaida
operative over claims he was tortured in U.S.
military custody, but the possibility that the
allegations could resurface at his upcoming trial was left open.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070410/ap_on_re_us/padilla_terror_charges
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Kissinger's Useful Idiot Bush Now Finds Himself Alone and Friendless
King Rat, Henry Kissinger, is leaving the USS
Shrub to save face. His departure underlines the
willingness of President George W. Bush and Vice
President Dick Cheney to continue sending young
Americans to die in a venture they know has
failed. Kissinger is an expert in that area.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17511.htm
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What Lack of Courage Cost
The Democratic Congress thus faces this April a
humiliating climb-down, and all because of a
Democratic Senate's vote in October 2002 - Tom
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17508.htm
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