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A SCORE CARD Tony Sayegh Israeli Objective--------------------- Score (0-10) 1) Kill Hasan Nasrallah -----------------------------------------0 2) Prevent Missile Firing On Israel, In Retaliation--------------0 3) Occupy The Area South Of The Litani---------------------------0 4) Push Hizbullah North Of The Litani----------------------------0 5) Turn The Lebanese And The Arabs Against Hizbullah-------------0 6) Destroy The Military Capability Of Hizbullah------------------0 7) Disarm Hizbullah----------------------------------------------0.... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25806 Gullible Americans Paul Craig Roberts I was in China when a July Harris Poll reported that 50 percent of Americans still believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when Bush invaded that country and that 64 percent of Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein had strong links with al-Qaida. The Chinese leaders and intellectuals with whom I was meeting were incredulous. How could a majority of the population in an allegedly free country with an allegedly free press be so totally misinformed?... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25804 Will Mossad Ignite a War with Syria by Killing Fouad Siniora? John Brown, Savage Justice Since the sham cease-fire took hold in Southern Lebanon two days ago - a ceasefire in which the UN allows Apartheid Israel to freely blockade, murder and pillage the same Lebanese whose land it occupies while crying about Hizbullah's arms - the Zionist propaganda site DEBKA has written several articles suggesting that an attempt on the life of Lebanon's Prime Minister, Fouad Siniora, is imminent. As one would predict from suc! h a propaganda outfit, DEBKA claims to have anonymous sources who assert that Syria will carry out the assassination. But in the wake of a great victory for the Resistance that has rendered "the Middle East they (the Americans) aspire to... an illusion," in the words of President Bashar Assad, such an attack makes no sense from Syria's perspective. With Lebanon's pro-West Prime Minister already emaciated by the failed Zionist invasion, Syria has nothing to gain by assassinating him... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25802 Israel to Lebanese: don't return to your homes. Lenin's Tomb Israel's latest leaflets: "We warn you not to head to the southern regions before the deployment of the forces that are supposed to safeguard your security," said leaflets dropped by Israeli aircraft in south Lebanon on Tuesday. Nevertheless: Despite the warning, Thousands of vehicles jammed the bombed-out coastal highway linking Beirut to the south from the early hours of Tuesday as thousands of displaced people headed home. Because what! are the Israelis going to do?... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25801 When 3 Thousand Die in U.S., It's a Horrific Tragedy. When It Happens in Iraq, it's Just Another Day in Paradise. Cut to the Chase How strange double standards can be. When nearly 3,000 people died in New York, Washington D.C., and a field in Pennsylvania on September 11th, 2001, it was an unspeakable tragedy and one worth launching world wars over and committing atrocity after atrocity. But when it happens in just one city in just one month in Iraq, it's hardly worth mentioning. Why is that? And why do we allow ! it to happen? What makes American lives priceless but Iraqi deaths.. or Lebanese or Palestinians... so acceptable? And no, this question is not rhetorical.bFrom today's New York Times: More Iraqi civilians were killed in July than in apparently any other month of the war, according to Iraqi Health Ministry and morgue statistics, despite a security plan begun by the new government in June. An average of more than 110 Iraqis were killed per day in July, according to figures from the Health Ministry and the Baghdad morgue... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25799 At 9:30 tonight, Iraq takes longer than WW II Ironing the Flag.... We're counting from the day Germany declared war on the US (December 11, 1941) to VE day (May 8, 1945). This is 1244 days. The Invasion of Iraq began on March 20, 2003 at 21:34 EST when the US began their first air strike on Baghdad. On August 15, 2006 21:30 EST the United States will have been at war in Iraq longer than it was at war with Germany in World War II... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25798 Operation "Change of Location"? How Reports of the July 12th Capture of IDF Soldiers Soon Shifted From Lebanon to Israel TRISH SCHUH A team of Israeli lawyers is now suing the Lebanese government for starting the war. The case, to be filed in US civil court, will sue for compensation and damages incurred by Israeli residents and businesses as a result of the war. Attorneys Yehudah Talmon, Yoram Dantziger and Nitzah Libai claim the Lebanese government violated international law because it didn't stop He! zbollah's casus belli cross-border raid against Israel. Israel's justification for its 'self-defense' attack on Lebanon, and the placement of the original "provocation" will take on new legal significance in coming months. Who infiltrated whom, and on what territory did the initial capture of the IDF soldiers occur? Differing press accounts stating that the capture occurred in Lebanon- not Israel- are now widely known: most frequently cited are AFP, Hindustan Times, Deutsch Press Agency, Asia Times, Bahrain News Agency and Voltairenet. Others reflect changes of direction in the recording of basic facts. Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25797 Muslims don’t hate freedom, they hate oppression Khalid Amayreh ...Bush’s use of the term "Islamic fascists" is a very serious calumny that can be compared to Adolph Hitler’s deliberate vilification of Jews prior to WWII. It is designed to make people hate and murder Muslims. And as everyone knows, collective hatred toward a specific ethnic or religious community is only the penultimate step toward the systematic persecution and possible extermination of that community. Yes, there are Muslim extremists and terror! ists who ought to be condemned in the strongest terms. There are also Christian, Jewish and other terrorists who commit far worse acts of terror and criminality. Terrorists are terrorists because terror has no religion or particular ethnic or cultural identity. George Bush himself, if truth is be told, is probably the greatest terrorist of our time... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25796 Finally, an American news source pays attention to the victims of the Israeli war of aggression on Lebanon The Angry Arab News Service Finally, an American news source pays attention to the victims of the Israeli war of aggression on Lebanon: "Israeli zoo animals show signs of stress" ... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25795 The Yugoslav Caldron: Jürgen Elsässer: "The CIA recruited and trained the jihadists" Silvia Cattori, Signs of the Times In his latest book, How the Jihad Came to Europe, German journalist Jürgen Elsässer unravels the Jihadist thread. Muslim fighters recruited by the CIA to fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan were used successively in Yugoslavia and Chechnya, still supported by the CIA, but perhaps sometimes out of its control. Basing himself on diverse sources, mainly Yugoslavian, Dutch, and German, h! e reconstructed the development of Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants at the side of NATO in Bosnia-Herzegovinia... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25794 Flying without liquids Xymphora ...We will continue to be fooled by the politicians as long as they need to hide behind the 'war on terror’ in order to stay in power. In this case, we have upcoming American elections coupled with Tony’s pressing problem of unpopular support for Israel’s massacre of Lebanese civilians. Therefore, everyone else gets to pay with increasing inconvenience at the airports. The joke is that the inconvenience stays at its highest levels until the airline executives manage to get their! phone calls through to the politicians, when suddenly the terrorist threat is reduced a shade or two, just in time to save the airlines from bankruptcy. This political scam can continue as long as we agree to put up with it... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25800 www.uruknet.info: a site gathering daily information concerning occupied Iraq: news, analysis, documents and texts of iraqi resistance available in Italian and English.