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In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update ===
Dare To look Back : War Criminal
On the evening of 9-11, Bush went before a
paralyzed nation and, after a brief comment about
praying, grieving and mourning for the 3,000
victims of that terrible day, he announced,
"Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil."
Then, warming to his subject, Bush rammed home
what would become his mantra for the next six
years -- "These acts shattered steel, but they
cannot dent the steel of American resolve." He
then assured the masses that he would make no
distinction between the "terrorists" and the
regimes that harbored them. Bush's vision for
revenge was to chase them all over the world and kill them all...
But a vision is not a plan. Looking back, it
appears that Bush's plan for perpetual war is
sending Americans to their deaths, unequipped and
untrained, while bellowing, "Support the Troops!"
Bush's plan is destroying an entire nation, its
culture, its infrastructure -- raping, torturing
and slaughtering its people for no reason other
than he can. It is creating a humanitarian crisis
of mind-boggling proportions -- more than 3.9
million Iraqis have fled their homes to safer
areas in Iraq and in neighboring countries.
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2007/04/17/dare_to_look_back
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Poll of London Muslims challenges stereotypes-
General London population supports violence more than Muslims do
LONDON -- Muslims in London not only have almost
twice as much confidence in the government as the
wider public, but greater faith in the police,
judicial, and electoral system, a poll suggested Tuesday.
* 81 percent of London Muslims said violence
was completely unjustified, even if used in a
"noble cause" compared to 72 percent of the general public.
* 74 percent said they were loyal to the UK
compared to 45 percent of non-Muslims.
* 82 percent respected other religions, as
opposed to 54 percent of the wider public.
* 78 percent versus 69 percent had confidence
in the police; for the government, judicial
system, and elections the figures were 64 percent
* versus 36 percent, 67 percent versus 55
percent, and 73 percent versus 60 percent.
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070417-081720-8281r
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Old Church Becomes Mosque in Uneasy Britain
CLITHEROE, England On a chilly night this
winter, this pristine town in some of Britain's
most untouched countryside voted to allow a
former Christian church to become a mosque.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/02/world/europe/02britain.html?ex=1176955200&en=c26227f822656ec3&ei=5070
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The Americans Still Don't Get It
The surge isn't going to work because it was
wrong to begin with. The first rule for an
occupier fighting an insurgency is that you can't
win by killing insurgents. Killing insurgents is
easy and makes it feel like you are doing something, but its a trap.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17549.htm
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The Inexplicable Enrichment of Bush Cronies : The Iraq Money Trail
It's time for Americans to face the cold hard
truth that nothing will be accomplished by
allowing the daily carnage in Iraq to continue,
and if Bush has his way, our young people will be
dying in this war profiteering scheme until hell
freezes over. Congress needs to authorize funding
to pull our troops out of that deathtrap and not one dime more.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17547.htm
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The Devil's Dictionary of War in Iraq
Like all wars, the "war in Iraq" or "Iraq war" --
it's never gained the double caps of the Korean
or Vietnam Wars -- has also been a war of words.
From "homeland" and "unlawful combatant" to
"extraordinary rendition" and "Global War on
Terror" (aka:
<http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=2293>World
War IV or the Long War), never has an
administration reached more often for its
dictionaries to create pretzled words and
phrases. Its war in Iraq has been no exception.
But recently there's been a change, hardly
noticed by anyone. The administration's familiar
war vocabulary and imagery, which hung in there
so remarkably long, has finally disappeared down
the memory hole. So many images, tailored for
home-front consumption, each meant to help give
just a little more time to an increasingly
embattled administration, have in recent months disappeared.
http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/2007/04/devils-dictionary-of-war-in-iraq.html
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Endgame: Iraqi Insurgents Press For Final Blow
By all indicators, America's Iraqi expedition has
failed miserably. One by one, American allies
draw down their forces or resist increasing
public pressure to do so. The central Iraqi
government exercises little control--its main
means of exercising power is negative--the use of
Shiite death squads. A bloody civil war has
created a feedback loop of ethnic violence that
cannot be stopped. In the north, the Kurds lie in
wait for the perfect opportunity to break away.
And Iran is quietly grooming the Iraqi government to act as a client state.
To this end, insurgents have attempted numerous
attacks inside the Green Zone, the most brazen of
which was an April 12 attack on the Iraqi
parliament that killed one and injured
twenty-two. It is unclear how heavily Al-Qaeda In
Iraq and other insurgent factions have
infiltrated the Green Zone, but past plots
disrupted by American and Iraqi investigators
have indicated that Sunni insurgents definitely
have established a presence. Even if insurgents
fail to breach the Green Zone's defenses for a
much more devastating attack, they still can
succeed in waging a war of literal and
psychological attrition. Insurgents have
increasingly targeted Americans within the Green
Zone with mortars, weapons that can be fired from
many miles away using commercially available GPS coordinates.
http://electroniciraq.net/news/3003.shtml
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Iraqi politican says insurgents must unite
Insurgent groups in Iraq should unite, agree a
programme and be ready to reap the political
rewards for inflicting heavy losses on U.S.
troops, an Iraqi Sunni politician said on Tuesday.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=L17522103
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Dangers confessions to a Sunnis internee about
the wildly torturing in the interior ministry
. ..that beside the traditional known torturing
methods that they use like electric torturing and
hanging from hands and foots they use also a
wildly method that shows their Safawive rancor
against Sunnis threw putting the internee in the
refrigerator from 11 pm to 5 am then they bring
him out from it to sparge him with water and then
they put him in a room that contains cold air-condition...
A Sunnis internee released lately from the 'Fifth
Branch jail in al-Aathamya revealed that
elements from interior ministry commandos and
keeping law forces that manage the jail use
wildly torturing methods against the internees in
this jail whom are hundreds all of them are Sunnis.
http://76news.net/eng/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=198&Itemid=2
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Sunni warns of Shiia on Shiia clashes as a result
of the recent "provisional government" scheme
Iraqi League, a predominantly Sunni organization,
reports on its website about the recent
announcement of a "provisional leadership for the
South" by a group meeting in Baghdad. (The
initial and very sketchy news about this in
Al-Hayat is summarized here). Iraqi League's main
points, quoting the views of a Sunni member of
the national Parliament, are: (1) The move was
illegal and unconstitutional, because not in
conformity with the law on the creation of
federal regions; and (2) the fact that this is
being attempted increases the chances of
Shiite-versus-Shiite clashes. And in particular
it cites an anonymous source to the effect the
meeting and the announcement of this provisional
government are sponsored by SCIRI and in
particular by its leader Abdulaziz al-Hakim as
part of a partition-Iraq strategy.
http://arablinks.blogspot.com/2007/04/sunni-warns-of-shiia-on-shiia-clashes.html
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8 Million Iraqis Need Urgent Aid: UN
The United Nations warned on Tuesday, April 17,
that nearly eight million Iraqis were in dire
need of aid, while international relief groups
urged world countries, particularly war allies
Washington and London, to accommodate millions of
Iraqis fleeing their violence-ravaged country.
"Up to eight million Iraqi civilians are in
urgent need of humanitarian relief," UN
humanitarian chief John Holmes told a conference
on Iraq's displacement crisis in Geneva, reported Agence France Presse (AFP).
http://heyetnet.org/en/content/view/237/1/
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Trauma severe for Iraqi children
School children watch as U.S. soldiers climb to
the roof of their school to get a high vantage point April 15 in Baghdad.
BAGHDAD About 70% of primary school students in
a Baghdad neighborhood suffer symptoms of
trauma-related stress such as bed-wetting or
stuttering, according to a survey by the Iraqi Ministry of Health.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2007-04-15-cover-war-children_N.htm
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Iraqi refugee children trapped in poverty and fear
More than two million Iraqi refugees are trapped
in a cycle of poverty and fear. More than half a
million of these are school-age children, many
with no access to education or psychological
support, according to research by World Vision.
http://www.cnw.ca/fr/releases/archive/April2007/16/c5350.html
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Iraq's neighbours blocking refugees -- rights group
Iraq's neighbours are making it harder and harder
for Iraqis to flee across the border to escape
violence, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L17634333.htm
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Photos of UK 'tortured' Iraqi's corpse released
Photographs showing the severe beating suffered
by an Iraqi civilian who died in British custody
were released today as the House of Lords begins
a hearing into whether human rights law should apply to British forces abroad.
The pictures of 26-year-old Baha Mousa were
unveiled by his lawyer and human rights group
Liberty, who are calling for an "independent,
effective investigation into the big systemic issues" raised by the case.
Baha Mousa's case is one of six test cases being
examined by the Law Lords, along with five Iraqis
who died at the hands of British soldiers in the streets of Basra.
http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/04/photos-of-uk-tortured-iraqis-corpse.html
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$400 Billion for war: US announces USD 100 million
US Under-Secretary of State Paaula Dobriansky
announced today that her government expects in
2007 to provide USD 100 million in humanitarian
assistance for Iraqis, both inside and outside
Iraq. The US will also contribute USD 18 million
to the United Nations High Commissioner (UNHCR)
emergency appeal for Iraqi displacement.
http://snipurl.com/1gxq4
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Seven U.S. occupation force members killed in Iraq attacks
The attacks occurred in Baghdad, Fallujah and Anbar Province
http://snipurl.com/1gxq0
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Five more US troops killed in Iraq
American army suffers losses of 50 soldiers in
April alone as military faces resistance in Anbar.
BAGHDAD - Five more US troops have been killed in
a series of attacks in Iraq, the military
reported Tuesday, taking the losses to 50 in this month alone.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=20399
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600 U.S. Contractors Have Been Killed in Iraq
Calling the situation in Iraq a national
emergency, retired U.S. Army Gen. Barry
McCaffrey said April 16 that the country is
ripped by a catastrophic low-grade civil war.
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=2688598&C=mideast
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U.S. troop deaths climbing in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Over the past six months,
American troops have died in Iraq at the highest
rate since the war began, an indication that the
conflict is becoming increasingly dangerous for
U.S. forces even after more than four years of fighting.
From October 2006 through last month, 532
American soldiers were killed, the most during
any six-month period of the war. March also
marked the first time that the U.S. military
suffered four straight months of 80 or more
fatalities. April, with at least 58 service
members killed through Monday, is on pace to be
one of the deadliest months of the conflict for American forces.
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/17087215.htm
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Rate of U.S. losses in Iraq is highest yet
In the past six months, the rate of Americans
killed in Iraq has reached its highest level
ever, despite four years of fighting.
http://www.miamiherald.com/884/story/76515.html
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 16 April 2007
* 100 women widowed, 400 children orphaned in Iraq every day, study shows.
* Disaster threatens 4 million Iraqi refugees
displaced since US occupation of their country.
* US admits two soldiers killed in Baghdad.
* Resistance fighters assault checkpoint,
killing 13 puppet troops, al Hadar.
* US troops kill three puppet policemen in ar-Ramadi.
* Resistance car bomb blasts puppet police station in Baghdad.
* US forces raid Madinat as-Sadr area of Baghdad Monday morning.
* Bodies of 30 murder victims found in
Baghdad Sunday, number of victims of Shii
sectarian torture, murder continue to rise.
* Resistance bomb wounds puppet policemen Sunday evening.
* Bodies of Iranian truck drivers found near border Sunday.
* Armed attack claims life in al-Iskandariyah Sunday night.
* Resistance bomb damages puppet police car in Kirkuk Monday morning.
* Mysterious bomb in al-Kut.
* four mortar rounds blasted into the US Camp Echo near ad-Diwaniyah
* US, puppet forces raid neighborhoods in ad-Diwaniyah.
http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0407/iraqiresistancereport_160407.htm
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2006 bloodiest year since Taliban's fall, rights group says
KABUL Insurgents committed war crimes by
attacking ordinary Afghans and killing 669
civilians in 2006, the heaviest toll since the
Taliban's ouster in 2001, according to a report released Monday.
Tallying records from non-governmental
organizations and the media, Human Rights Watch
counted 189 bombings in 2006 that killed 492
civilians. Another 177 civilians were killed in
other attacks including ambushes and executions.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070416.wafghandead0416/BNStory/Afghanistan/home
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Heavy fighting erupts northeast of Afghan capital
Heavy fighting erupted to the northeast of the
Afghan capital on Tuesday when Taliban fighters
attacked police posts and a district government
headquarters, a provincial governor said.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=ISL252983
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The US has returned fundamentalism to Afghanistan
The following is a transcript of the speech given
by Malalai Joya, member of the Afghan Parliament,
given at the University of Los Angeles
http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2007/04/16/1050/
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Afghanistan in a downward spiral
In addition to long-lasting problems such as
military conflict, narcotics and warlordism, the
Afghan government is increasingly facing new
dilemmas which emanate from people's dire social and economic conditions
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/ID18Df02.html
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"Deletion" of Images in Afghanistan: Attempt to Cover Up Civilian Killings?
New York - In the past day, there has been wide
media coverage of an official report on the
slaying of Afghan civilians by U.S. forces early
last month. The Afghan human rights commission
concluded that American marines overreacted to a
bomb ambush with excessive force, peppering
civilians and vehicles with machine-gun fire in
attacks that covered 10 miles of road and left 12
civilians dead, including an infant.
The forced deleting of images by the US military
as well as the refusal to let journalists
continue in their work constitutes a violation of
the right to freedom of expression as it
obstructed the ability of the media present to
seek, receive and impart information about the 4
March incident, without falling under the
exceptions stipulated by ICCPR art.19(3).
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041607B.shtml
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Five killed in roadside bombing in occupied Afghanistan
A roadside bomb hit a Afghanistan's main city on
Tuesday, killing four Nepalese guards and an Afghan driver, official said.
http://snipurl.com/1gxq8
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UN workers killed in Afghan blast
Five United Nations staff have been killed when
their convoy was attacked in southern Afghanistan.
http://snipurl.com/1gxqb
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Israeli occupation troops assassinate Palestinian
Undercover Israeli troops have killed a senior
member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades near Jenin
in the northern West Bank, according to a Palestinian security source.
http://snipurl.com/1gxqq
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U.S. not interested in Hamas peace calls
On April 7, ending a seven-day visit to Israel, I
finally got an interview I had sought for a year.
I sat down in a Palestinian National Authority
office in Ramallah with a leader of Hamas
http://snipurl.com/1gxqt
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US-Israel ties bad for peace: Soros
"The pro-Israel lobby has been remarkably
successful in suppressing criticism," wrote
Soros. Politicians challenge it at their peril
and dissenters risk personal vilification, he said.
http://snipurl.com/1gxqu
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Judge rejects government plan for secret evidence at Israeli spy trial
A federal judge on Monday rejected prosecutors'
request to close portions of an upcoming trial
for two former pro-Israel lobbyists accused of violating the Espionage Act.
http://snipurl.com/1gxqv
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In case you missed it: Secret Briefing by Zinni
Seen as Key In Aipac / Israeli Spy Trial
New details are emerging about a secret 2003
briefing that could play a key role in the
defense of two pro-Israel advocates charged with
passing classified information.
http://snipurl.com/1gxqy
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Report: Egyptian passed intel to Mossad
According to reports, Sabar was in contact with
two Israeli agents. One held Irish citizenship,
while the second was a Japanese citizen. Both have been charged in absentia.
http://snipurl.com/1gxr2
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Egyptian engineer arrested for spying for Israel
CAIRO: Authorities said Tuesday they have
arrested an Egyptian engineer from the country's
nuclear energy agency for spying for Israel.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/17/africa/ME-GEN-Egypt-Spy.php
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Father of Guantanamo suspect alleges torture by interrogators
The father of a Pakistani terrorism suspect at
the Guantanamo Bay military prison alleges his
son was beaten by U.S. interrogators while held
in Pakistan, according to an affidavit released
Monday. The CIA denied the prisoner was abused.
http://snipurl.com/1gxr4
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Swiss journalists acquitted in case of leaked secret CIA prisons fax
Three journalists were acquitted Tuesday of
breaking Swiss military secrecy laws by
publishing classified intelligence material about
alleged secret CIA prisons in Europe.
http://snipurl.com/1gxr9
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Top UK defense official jailed for taking bribes from US arms dealer
Greedy Michael Hale's lengthy betrayal of trust
saw the American company being fed so much
confidential information that it was able to run
circles around the competition.
In addition to backhanders of more than £217,000,
the 58-year-old civil servant's five-star
lifestyle featured free flights, champagne
hospitality aboard an ocean-going cruiser and
stays in top hotels, London's Southwark Crown Court heard.
But when his secret paymaster was taken over by
another firm, "due diligence" attorneys in
California uncovered a total of nine corrupt
payments paid to him over the years.
http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/2007/04/top-uk-defense-official-jailed-for.html
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