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bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful === News Update === The myth of Muslim support for terror The common enemy is violence and terrorism, not Muslims any more than Christians or Jews. Those who think that Muslim countries and pro-terrorist attitudes go hand-in-hand might be shocked by new polling research: Americans are more approving of terrorist attacks against civilians than any major Muslim country except for Nigeria. The survey, conducted in December 2006 by the University of Maryland's prestigious Program on International Public Attitudes, shows that only 46 percent of Americans think that "bombing and other attacks intentionally aimed at civilians" are "never justified," while 24 percent believe these attacks are "often or sometimes justified." Contrast those numbers with 2006 polling results from the world's most-populous Muslim countries Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nigeria. Terror Free Tomorrow, the organization I lead, found that 74 percent of respondents in Indonesia agreed that terrorist attacks are "never justified"; in Pakistan, that figure was 86 percent; in Bangladesh, 81 percent. Do these findings mean that Americans are closet terrorist sympathizers? http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0223/p09s01-coop.html === Anti-American feelings soar among Muslims, study finds The War on Terror has radicalised Muslims around the world to unprecedented levels of anti-American feeling, according to the largest survey of Muslims ever to be conducted. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1415550.ece === Islamophobia : Terrorists have ambitions of empire, says Cheney TERRORISTS' ultimate aim is to establish "a caliphate covering a region from Spain, across North Africa, through the Middle East and South Asia, all the way to Indonesia -and it wouldn't stop there," the US Vice-President, Dick Cheney, warned yesterday. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/02/23/1171734021090.html === Ban on Hijab Begins in Somalia- Hijab literally being torn off women's heads by security officers afrol News, 19 February - Two months after the Islamic Courts Union regime was flushed out in the country, the transitional federal government is now at the brink of transforming Somalia into a secular state. This action begins today as security officers have started removing the hijab or veil from women's heads on the streets of major cities in the country. http://www.afrol.com/articles/24404 === Islamic artists were 500 years ahead of Western scientists Islamic artists were exploiting a mathematical principle to decorate buildings with complicated patterns of tiles more than 500 years before its discovery in the West. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article2296841.ece === Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America's War On Iraq - At Least 655,000 + + http://tinyurl.com/usq4x Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America'sWar On Iraq 3,154 http://icasualties.org/oif/ The U.S. War On Iraq Costs $368,729,960,733 - See the cost in your community http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182 === Bush Gang Swore Saddam Was Behind 9/11 In Lawsuit The judge's decision is proof of the fact that the White House is home to the guilty parties who deliberately mislead Americans. His written findings document the fraud perpetrated on the country by top administration officials in taking the country to war based on the false claim that Saddam was involved in 9/11. http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00247.htm === Fallujans Defiant Amidst Chaos Resistance attacks against U.S. forces have been continuing in Fallujah despite military onslaughts and strong security measures http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17155.htm === North Of Baghdad, War Getting Worse More Attacks, Less Troops In Diyala Province As Military Focuses On Baghdad Crackdown http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/23/iraq/main2507079.shtml === Violating Iraqi Women ...Next week, MADRE , an international womens human rights organization, will release a report that documents the widespread use of rape and other forms of torture against female detainees in Iraq by U.S. and Iraqi forces. The report includes testimonies collected by the Organization of Womens Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) of numerous rape survivors. Since November 2005, OWFI has conducted a Womens Prison Watch project and has found that "torture and rape are common procedure of investigation in police stations run by the militias affiliated with the government, mostly the Mahdi and Badr militias," according to their summer 2006 report. These are the same sectarian Shiite militias that have been prosecuting Iraqs civil war, the same militias that stepped into the power vacuum created by the U.S. overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003 and the same militias that have been systematically attacking Iraqi women in their bid to establish an Islamist theocracy (...) By 2005, the U.S. was actively aiding the militias. As the "cakewalk" envisioned by U.S. war planners quickly devolved into the quagmire is the Iraq War, the U.S. began to cultivate Shiite militias to help battle the Sunni-led insurgency. According to Newsweek, the plan was dubbed the "Salvador Option," recalling the use of militias by the U.S. to bolster right-wing regimes in 1980s Central America. Today, the Mahdi Army controls the police forces of Baghdad and Basra , Iraqs two largest cities. The Badr Brigade is headquartered in Iraqs Ministry of Interior, which directs the countrys police, intelligence and paramilitary units... http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/02/22/violating_iraqi_women.php === Rape accusations split Iraqi government Accusations that Iraqi policemen taking part in a new security operation in Baghdad raped a young Sunni woman opened sectarian splits in the government. The woman said three policemen took turns to rape her on Sunday at a police facility in Baghdad where she was falsely held for supporting fighters. http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=12992 === Iraqi War Refugees: Millions of Iraqis Flee The Violence The United Nations is warning that the violence in Iraq is leading to a disastrous refugee crisis in the Middle East. Out of a population of 26 million, nearly two million Iraqis are internally displaced and another two million have fled abroad, according to recent UN estimates http://www.voanews.com/english/NewsAnalysis/2007-02-23-voa39.cfm === No such thing as victory in Iraq, says Nelson IRAQ will remain beset by sectarian violence and terrorism even after coalition forces leave it, Defence Minister Brendan Nelson has warned. http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fairenough/age40.html === Two Katyusha missiles target al Adhamiya district Our Haq correspondent in the residential Adhamiya reported that this neighborhood was subjected to two shellings from Katyushas which led to the injury of several civilians including women and children. Eyewitnesses report that the two missiles fell in Street 20 which led to the fleeing away of several inhabitants most of them children and to serious damage to two houses. Furthermore at dawn, the Iraqi and American forces raided the Royal Cemetery in a barbaric way... Haq Agency, www.76news.net === The Jaysh al Mahdi militia kidnap and kill the son of a Muezzin fom the Um al Qaree Mosque in Baghdad Our correspondent in Baghdad reported that the Safavid Jaysh al Mahdi militias has returned today to attack sunni homes in the Amil district. Our correspondent adds that eyewitnesses confirm that the criminal Jaysh al Mahdi militias targeted with the help and support of the Maghawir brigades from the Ministry of Interior and the Iraqi police, several houses near the Waraqa school for girls. This led to the inhabitants resisting back and containing this attack. The al Amil district is supposedly under the new security plan, yet it is still subjected to continuous attacks by the Jaysh Al Mahdi militias who roam freely in the streets doing what they please. Furthermore in al Baya'a district, two bodies of sunni civilian victims were found bearing severe signs of torture and gun shots in the head. http://www.76news.net/ === The retreat from Basra "They promised us freedom and now we find ourselves like slaves: no rights, no homes, no freedom, no democracy, and not enough strength to say a word." Like many Sunni she believed the US had deliberately fomented sectarian hatred in Iraq to keep control of the country. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2293469.ece === Revealed: The true extent of Britain's failure in Basrat The partial British military withdrawal from southern Iraq announced by Tony Blair this week follows political and military failure, and is not because of any improvement in local security, say specialists on Iraq. In a comment entitled "The British Defeat in Iraq" the pre-eminent American analyst on Iraq, Anthony Cordesman of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, in Washington, asserts that British forces lost control of the situation in and around Basra by the second half of 2005. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2296829.ece === Nation-building, Resource Manipulation and Zionist Skullduggery Though the US war on Iraq has been a disaster for nearly everyone, the Israelis have benefited in three distinct ways: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17156.htm === Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 22 February 2007 * US aerial attacks on ar-Ramadi civilian districts continue Thursday night with "dozens" more dead reported in American drive to "cleanse" the city. Earlier, savage US air raids killed 26 residents of ar-Ramadi, 18 of them women and children during Wednesday-Thursday night. * US air raids kill 26 residents of ar-Ramadi, 18 of them women and children. * US troops shoot, kill Iraqi woman after she stabs US Marine who tried to enter her home when she was alone with her small children in al-Hadithah. * Puppet police in Hit take over two schools, one family home to turn them into puppet police stations. * Resistance bombards puppet army camp with rockets late Wednesday night. * Resistance bomb disables Humvee in at-Taji Thursday morning. * Resistance bombing in eastern Baghdad Thursday morning leaves three US troops reported dead. * Resistance bomb destroys US Humvee Thursday morning. * Resistance bomb leaves three US troops dead in western Baghdad Wednesday afternoon. * Resistance blasts US base near at-Tarimiyah with mortars at dawn Thursday. * US soldier reported killed in al-Khalis Thursday afternoon. Resistance fighter wounds puppet soldier in al-Khalis. * US encircles Buhriz after Resistance shoots down US helicopter Thursday morning, reportedly killing two crewmen. * Resistance fighters ambush puppet "National Guards" in al-Miqdadiyah at noon Thursday. * Four US troops reported killed in bomb attack on US vehicle in al-Miqdadiyah Thursday morning. * Four US Marines reported killed by Iraqi Resistance, US soldier kills Iraqi school girl in bloody day in Ba'qubah Thursday. * Resistance bombs damage two US Bradley armored vehicles near Ba'qubah Wednesday. * Resistance bombards US base in al-Hillah Wednesday night. * Puppet troops block entrance to at-Tamim province as effort to drive Sunni Arabs out of oil-rich Kirkuk accelerates. * Rockets, mortars pound British facilities in al-Basrah area. http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m30883&hd=&size=1&l=e === Mass murder of Afghan women & children International Laws exist to preserve the happiness, safety and lives of everyone on the Planet. Those who step outside the Law are criminals. Those who step outside International Law and in doing so kill huge numbers of innocent people must unequivocally be described as mass murderers and Americans who do so are subject to the death penalty under US Federal Law. MWC News Editor Shahram Vahdany alerted me to the latest estimates of horrendous Maternal Mortality in US-occupied Afghanistan (see MWC News ) and I have responded to this horrifying report with the following carefully documented analysis. Based on the latest UNICEF data (unlike in Orwells 1984?, 2 plus 2 still equals 4 in much of the World) Bush Amerika has been involved for over 5 years in the mass murder of 145,000 Afghan women perinatally, 1.4 million Afghan females in total and 2.0 million under-5 year old Afghan infants as documented below in relation to (a) UNICEF demographic and mortality data and (b) International Law and moral culpability. http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/02/mass-murder-of-afghan-women-children.html === U.N. Commissioned Report Compares Israel to Apartheid in South Africa An independent report commissioned by the United Nations compares Israel's actions in the West Bank and Gaza to apartheid South Africa charges that drew angry rebukes from Israel and may revive charges that the U.N. Human Rights Council is biased against the Jewish state. http://snipurl.com/1b62b === Apartheid looks like this Jonathan Cook joins a watchdog group on duty in the West Bank, documenting abuses and numberless humiliations that characterise the daily life of ordinary Palestinians under occupation http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/print/2007/833/re91.htm === Occupied Gaza like apartheid South Africa, says UN report Officials inspect the damage to the Palestinian interior ministry building following Israeli air strikes on Gaza city. A UN human rights investigator has likened Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories to apartheid South Africa and says there should be "serious consideration" over bringing the occupation to the international court of justice. http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,2019547,00.html Read the UN report (pdf) http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/4session/A.HRC.4.17.pdf === Arabs say Israel is not just for Jews A broadly representative elite of Israel's Arab minority has rejected the idea of Israel as a Jewish state and demanded a partnership in governing the country to ensure that Arab citizens get equal treatment and more control over their communities. http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/07/02/22/100wir_a10mideast001.cfm === 'A Very Long and Very Bloody War' In contrast to Bush administration pronouncements that America's enemies despise our way of life, Scheuer says bin Laden has been quite clear that he is opposed to policies of the United States, not its character. http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/003310.html === Asia no longer in awe of US superpower Times Asia Editor looks at how Dick Cheney's visit has displayed a new mood in the region http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article1429100.ece === Poker, Prostitutes and Bribes : Did Corruption Force CIA Boss To Quit? Video BBC - Newsnight's Peter Marshall has been investigating the reasons behind the resignation of former CIA chief, Porter Goss. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17153.htm === 46 of 49 Nations OK Ban on Cluster Bombs (& who voted NO in US Senate) The bill was " To protect civilian lives from unexploded cluster munitions." In Sept. 2006, after Israel had dropped a million cluster bombs on Lebanon. Voting Nope, don't protect civilians were: * Senator Hillary Clinton * Senator Joseph Biden * Senator Bayh * Senator Dodd * Senator Inouye * Senator Landrieu * Senator Lautenberg * Senator Lieberman * Senator Lincoln * Senator Schumer * Senator Rockefeller * Senator Nelson * Senator Nelson * Senator Pryor * Senator Salazar All the other Democrats, including Kerry and Obama voted FOR the resolution. All the Republicans voted against it with the Democrats listed above. http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6435402,00.html http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00232 === All candidates are pro-Israel All the hopefuls for the office of the president have put the interest of Israel ahead of the best interest and security of the United States. Why? http://snipurl.com/1b62f === Global capitalism now has no serious rivals. But it could destroy itself Marx thought capitalism would have a problem finding consumers for the goods that improving techniques of production enabled it to churn out. Instead, it has become expert in a new branch of manufacturing: the manufacture of desires. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2018451,00.html === -muslim voice- ______________________________________ BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
