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bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful === News Update === Gideon Levy: Israel doesn't want peace The moment of truth has arrived, and it has to be said: Israel does not want peace. The arsenal of excuses has run out, and the chorus of Israeli rejection already rings hollow. Until recently, it was still possible to accept the Israeli refrain that "there is no partner" for peace and that "the time isn't right" to deal with our enemies. Today, the new reality before our eyes leaves no room for doubt and the tired refrain that "Israel supports peace" has been left shattered. Who would have believed it? A high-ranking U.S. official says Israel wants peace talks to resume and instantly her president "severely" denies the veracity of her words. Is Israel even hearing these voices? Are we digesting the significance of these voices for peace? Seven million apathetic Israeli citizens prove that we are not. It's not only Olmert who is dragging his feet. A leading figure in the Labor party said last week that "it will take five to 10 years to recover from the trauma." Peace is now no more than a threatening wound, with no one still talking about the massive social benefits it would bring in development, security, freedom of movement in the region and by establishing a more just society. <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=ibrvp5bab.0.bobvp5bab.iqnuv6bab.21885&ts=S0238&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.haaretz.com%2Fhasen%2Fspages%2F846420.html>http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/846420.html === Pro-Israel groups target American Muslims LOS ANGELES -- American Muslims and Muslim groups have long been a target of harassment and vilification from right-wing pro-Israel groups, a recent front-page article in the New York Times has exposed. Such forces, according to government sources, have used guilt by association to spread suspicion about Islam and Muslims, and in turn, kept Muslims out of mainstream American discourse and stripped them of their influence in the political and social arenas. http://www.infocusnews.net/content/view/10910/135/ === War Criminal : Army file details brutal deaths of un-tried Afghan detainees An interrogator told Dilawar that he could see a doctor after they finished with him. When he was finally sent back to his cell, though, the guards were instructed only to chain the prisoner back to the ceiling. Several hours passed before an emergency room doctor finally saw Dilawar. By then he was dead, his body beginning to stiffen. This is the image America will have to live with for the next half-century. http://www.unknownnews.org/0505240521warcrimes.html === "Preventive Warriors" Video : The film features many of the leading thinkers and intellectuals of our time including Noam Chomsky, Chalmers Johnson, Tariq Ali and more. The film examines a bold new foreign policy paper introduced by the White House in September 2002 entitled: "The National Security Strategy of the United States." <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=ibrvp5bab.0.qnbvp5bab.iqnuv6bab.21885&ts=S0238&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.informationclearinghouse.info%2Fvideo1020.htm>http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1020.htm === Video: Israeli Mossad training in northern Iraq to the "Peshmerga," http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=689217324327988215&hl=en === American Tortured by US in Iraq Speaks Out At a luncheon at the National Press Club, Vance received the Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling, an award named in memory of Army helicopter gunner Ron Ridenhour who struggled to bring the horrific mass murders at My Lai to the attention of Congress and the Pentagon during the Vietnam War. <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=ibrvp5bab.0.nnbvp5bab.iqnuv6bab.21885&ts=S0238&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.informationclearinghouse.info%2Farticle17501.htm>http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17501.htm === Suspect 'chained like a dog' in Iraq for three months A SYDNEY spray painter, Ahmed Jamal, was treated like a dog and handcuffed continuously for three months while imprisoned in Iraq as an alleged insurgent, his brother said yesterday <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=ibrvp5bab.0.ynbvp5bab.iqnuv6bab.21885&ts=S0238&p=http%3A%2F%2Fsnipurl.com%2F1fpiz>http://snipurl.com/1fpiz === The Iraqi Soldiers Brutally Beat Civilians- video Many evidences and video records of soldiers from Iraqi Army who are involved in abuses, tortures, detentions, arrests, raids and killings of tens of thousands innocent people together with sectarian militias were presented to the world community. In this video, brutal attacks of Iraqi Soldiers to the Sunni civilians can be watched. Those Iraqi Soldiers are brutally beating civilians http://heyetnet.org/en/content/view/176/1/ === U.S. Attack Kill Iraqi Woman and Children A local hospital source and a resident said six people, including two children and a woman, were killed in the missile strike on a home in the centre of the city, 110 miles south of Baghdad. <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=ibrvp5bab.0.iobvp5bab.iqnuv6bab.21885&ts=S0238&p=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.yahoo.com%2Fs%2Fnm%2F20070407%2Fwl_nm%2Firaq_dc>http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070407/wl_nm/iraq_dc === Scholar deaths "at hands of militias" spur Sunni anger in Iraq Baghdad - The Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq, a top Sunni authority in the divided country, Sunday accused 'sectarian militias which infiltrated government forces' of being responsible for the death of two Sunni scholars. http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/news/article_1288576.php/Scholar_deaths_"at_hands_of_militias"_spur_Sunni_anger_in_Iraq === Iraq Papers Mon:"US Army Used Neutron Bombs" Former General Speaks, Recounts the Battle for Baghdad. For the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad, Aljazeera published an interview with the former leader of the Iraqi Republican Guard, Saif al-Deen al-Rawi, who was charged with organizing the defenses of the capital during the 2003 invasion. Al-Rawi claimed that US forces used neutron nuclear bombs against the Iraqi Army during the battle for Baghdads airport. Al-Rawi said that his units were decimated by neutron bombs which, he added, neutralize soldiers without damaging buildings and equipment. Al-Rawi also claimed that large 9-ton bombs and phosphoric weapons that can cover large areas were used during the battle. http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2273/Iraq_Papers_MonUS_Army_Used_Neutron_Bombs === CIA tortured me in Iraq, claims freed Iranian diplomat Allegations spark fresh speculation of secret deal <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=ibrvp5bab.0.robvp5bab.iqnuv6bab.21885&ts=S0238&p=http%3A%2F%2Fpolitics.guardian.co.uk%2Fforeignaffairs%2Fstory%2F0%2C%2C2052599%2C00.html>http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,,2052599,00.html === Ex-army officer: troops are dying in Iraq for a 'doomed project' A former captain in the Scots Guards who has served in Afghanistan and Iraq describes both operations as a political and military shambles in a book to be published next week. <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=ibrvp5bab.0.wnbvp5bab.iqnuv6bab.21885&ts=S0238&p=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.independent.co.uk%2Fworld%2Fmiddle_east%2Farticle2432462.ece>http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2432462.ece === Sunday: 11 GIs, 73 Iraqis Killed; 95 Iraqis Wounded At least 73 Iraqis were killed or found dead today and 95 were wounded in violent attacks. Two significant bombings occurred, one in Baghdad and the other in Mahmudiya. Also, the U.S. military reported on the deaths of 11 more servicemembers in separate incidents. http://www.antiwar.com/updates/?articleid=10786 === 10 Americans die in bloody Iraq weekend BAGHDAD - The powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his militiamen on Sunday to redouble their battle to oust American forces and argued that Iraq's army and police should join him in defeating "your archenemy." The U.S. military announced the weekend deaths of 10 American soldiers, including six killed on Sunday. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070408/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq;_ylt=AlLa8VNkjuk91.Psv4R7.yms0NUE === Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 7 April 2007 * Resistance bomb destroys US vehicle, reportedly killing four American troops in al-Kubaysah Friday night. * Three US troops reported killed in Resistance bombing in al-Fallujah. * US continues military operations against Baghdads Sunni al-Azamiyah district for third straight day. * Bodies of 12 more victims of sectarian torture, murder found in Baghdad. * Resistance car bomber blasts puppet army checkpoint in Madinat as-Sadr in Baghdad Saturday afternoon. * US Marine reported killed in Saturday morning Resistance bomb attack in western Baghdad. * US soldier killed in Baghdad bomb attack Friday, American command admits. * US helicopter gun ships attack village near al-Khalis Saturday afternoon, killing five people. * US forces round up, arrest bearded men aged 17 to 60 in Tall Afar Friday, Saturday. * Eight puppet Shock Troops killed in double bombing attack in Samarra Saturday morning. * Ash-Shuruqat, US troops round up dozens of villagers at dawn Saturday. * Oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Bayji blown up Friday morning. http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0407/iraqiresistancereport_070407.htm === We want the Taliban back, say ordinary Afghans Faiz Mohammed Karigar, a father of two, fled Kandahar when the Taliban held power in Afghanistan because he was against their restrictions on education. Now he wants the fundamentalists back. At least we felt safe under the extremists, say Kandahar residents too afraid to go out after dark. <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=ibrvp5bab.0.xobvp5bab.iqnuv6bab.21885&ts=S0238&p=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.independent.co.uk%2Fworld%2Fasia%2Farticle2432448.ece>http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article2432448.ece === What the government won't tell you: we are losing Afghan hearts Our success or failure in Helmand depends not on warlords, or the governor of the province, or even special forces soldiers, but on the ordinary Afghans. And while we are spectacularly winning the war at the tactical level against the Taliban, we are rapidly losing the fight for those ordinary hearts and minds. "When the Taliban were here, I escaped to the border with Iran, but I was never worried about my family," he said. "Every single minute of the last three years I have been very worried. Maybe tonight the Americans will come to my house, molest my wife and children and arrest me." <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=ibrvp5bab.0.yobvp5bab.iqnuv6bab.21885&ts=S0238&p=http%3A%2F%2Fsnipurl.com%2F1fpk6>http://snipurl.com/1fpk6 === 7 NATO occupation force soldiers killed in roadside bombings in southern Afghanistan Roadside bombs in southern Afghanistan on Sunday left seven NATO occupation force soldiers dead, the alliance said, as its forces continued an anti-Taliban offensive in the world's most fertile opium-producing region. <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=ibrvp5bab.0.5nbvp5bab.iqnuv6bab.21885&ts=S0238&p=http%3A%2F%2Fsnipurl.com%2F1fpj8>http://snipurl.com/1fpj8 === Prime Minister Stephen Harper confirms six Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan killed <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=ibrvp5bab.0.4nbvp5bab.iqnuv6bab.21885&ts=S0238&p=http%3A%2F%2Fcnews.canoe.ca%2FCNEWS%2FWar_Terror%2F2007%2F04%2F08%2F3953345-ap.html>http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/War_Terror/2007/04/08/3953345-ap.html === Afghan translator for kidnapped Italian journalist beheaded Taliban spokesman: Ajmal Naqshbandi, a freelance journalist and translator, was kidnapped along with Daniele Mastrogiacomo of the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, and a driver in southern Helmand province March 5. <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=ibrvp5bab.0.aobvp5bab.iqnuv6bab.21885&ts=S0238&p=http%3A%2F%2Fsnipurl.com%2F1fpjd>http://snipurl.com/1fpjd === IN MEMORY OF DEIR YASSIN : ZIONIST WAR CRIME It is important that we pause to remember the dead of Deir Yassin, the young, the old, the children, the unborn. It is important that we remember the barbarism that was carried out against essentially defenceless people who were, and had been, living in peace with their Jewish neighbours in Kfar Shaul. That Jews depopulated Deir Yassin by massacre is significant not only because of its inhumanity, but it also marked the beginning of a campaign whereby Jews wiped over 500 Palestinian towns and villages off the map, killed thousands of Palestinian people, and forced close to 800,000 to flee. http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m31982 === Holocaust Memory and Jewish Identity When I recently asked some friends which chapter of Jewish history should be mandatory knowledge for all Jews, some chose the exodus from Egypt, others the establishment of modern Israel and some the emergence of prophetic Judaism. I found it odd that no one selected the Holocaust. Yet the Holocaust is precisely what American Jews have chosen. After all, Holocaust education permeates Jewish school curriculums, Holocaust museums have emerged throughout America, and Yom HaShoah commemorations, like the ones we will have this month, are ever-present. In turn, Jews, for whom Jewish philosophy remains untouchable, turn to the destruction of European Jewry as their dominant historical memory. http://ajcblog.org/2007/04/05/holocaust-memory-and-jewish-identity/ === Shalom, Shin Bet Recently, The chief of the Shin Bet declared that the "Israeli Arabs", a fifth of Israel's population, constitute a danger to the state. <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=ibrvp5bab.0.snbvp5bab.iqnuv6bab.21885&ts=S0238&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.informationclearinghouse.info%2Farticle17504.htm>http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17504.htm === URGENT NEWS - to UN & General Secretary Ban Ki - Moon : Israelis in New Missile Attacks over Gaza Strip The escalation in Israeli violence came after that the Israeli "defense" minister - Amir Peretz authorized "limited strikes" inside the Gaza Strip - The new Israeli missile attacks on Gaza Strip are attempts to prevent the Palestinian resistance from the preparations of attaching explosive devises and to bring weapons in tunnels from outside in to the Gaza Strip. - Weapons to be used by the Palestinian resistance in defending the borders from foreign hostile trespassers - the Israelis - waging new wars on the Gaza Strip. http://palestinefreevoice.blogspot.com/2007/04/urgent-news-to-un-general-secretary-ban.html === Torture account sidesteps gag on Hicks A British document speaks for the terrorist and reveals what the US hoped to hide, reports. He was neither interrogated nor physically restrained nor abused, to his surprise, given the Northern Alliance's reputation for extreme cruelty and even killing of prisoners. Then he was handed over to the Americans. "When the US interrogators showed up, my treatment changed," Hicks later recounted. "My hands were restrained behind my back and I was forced to kneel during interrogations. US personnel would force me into painful physical positions. The US interrogators would question me and after my responses I would be slapped in the back of the head and told I was lying." <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=ibrvp5bab.0.tobvp5bab.iqnuv6bab.21885&ts=S0238&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theaustralian.news.com.au%2Fstory%2F0%2C20867%2C21516985-601%2C00.html>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21516985-601,00.html === US allowed Ethiopia to buy arms secretly from N. Korea Three months after the United States successfully pressed the United Nations to impose strict sanctions on North Korea because of the country's nuclear test, Bush administration officials allowed Ethiopia to complete a secret arms purchase from North Korea, in what appears to be a violation of the restrictions, according to senior US officials. <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=ibrvp5bab.0.dobvp5bab.iqnuv6bab.21885&ts=S0238&p=http%3A%2F%2Fsnipurl.com%2F1fpji>http://snipurl.com/1fpji === Cuba slams US' double standard on terrorism Cuba yesterday slammed what it said was the US' double standard on terrorism after a US federal judge ordered the release of an anti-Castro activist convicted in the deadly downing of a Cuban jet. <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=ibrvp5bab.0.eobvp5bab.iqnuv6bab.21885&ts=S0238&p=http%3A%2F%2Fsnipurl.com%2F1fpjj>http://snipurl.com/1fpjj === Death threat's close news website "I have concluded that it's not safe for me any more to continue editing Al-Jazeerah.info in this atmosphere of intimidation, which abridges freedom of speech and freedom of the press." <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=ibrvp5bab.0.fobvp5bab.iqnuv6bab.21885&ts=S0238&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aljazeerah.info%2F>http://www.aljazeerah.info/ === -muslim voice- ______________________________________ BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
