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The London Plot Something is Rotten in the State of Denmark Anwaar Hussain, Fountainhead A huge 'terror plot’ has just been uncovered in London. "This was intended to be mass murder on an unimaginable scale" say the London Metropolitan police. Britain's terror alert, accordingly, has been ratcheted up to its highest-ever level with security services, military and police now on "severe specific" alert. Not to be left behind, even though the list of unanswered questions, irregularities, and discrepancie! s continues to grow with each passing hour, the obedient Western media jumped at the occasion ensuring a spate of spectacular cover stories and anti-Muslim tirade. As usual, though the facts are still coming in, the media is dutifully following the open-ended cues provided by the US and British governments, and reproducing the handed-down script without a pause for the facts to emerge fully... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25667 Video Lebanon Shocking Documentary "Fog of War" WWW.TURNTOISLAM.COM Best Lebanon War Documentary. Lebanese Doctors and Civillians Speak Out against the Terrorism they are facing from Israel. Chemical Weapons, Cluster Bombs, Massacres Shocking Documentary About the War in Lebanon and the tradgedy in Qana. Lebanese testimonials to the war there, please share this video! Doctors Speak Out Against War Crimes... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25660 Israel Wants the Litani River Water and Farmlands Dr. Sam Hamod The fact that Israel is trying to destroy all of Lebanon, not just Hezbollah, is clear by their bombing of Christian villages and other infrastructure that has nothing to do with Hezbollah. What Israel really wants is control of Lebanon by a puppet government, but also covets the Litani River and the lands it irrigates--very good cropland that is the heart of the Bekka Valley, which is the heart of Lebanese agriculture. Israel also wants the electric! ity the dams and the Litani generate--so that they may use this for more of their "settlements" and, just like Hitler, they want this area but use different names for their taking of the land of others... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25670 Huge cost of US-Israel State Terrorism Gideon Polya ...The continued civilian-targeting and infrastructure bombing by racist, war criminal US-Israeli State Terrorists (USISTs; US planes, tanks, bombs and shells and Israeli military "just obeying orders") is set to cause horrendous "annual avoidable deaths" of over 44,000 annually. The US is still blocking World demands for a ceasefire and USIST remains resolute in preventing Peace (or even "interim Peace") with Equality, Justice and Reconciliation in the Middl! e East. The only sensible course for the Civilized World involves immediate International Boycotts and Sanctions ("free market choice" in all areas of human activity) against racist, war criminal US-Israeli State Terrorists (USISTs) and against all the countries, corporations and individuals supporting US and Israeli war crimes in the Middle East. Such Sanctions and Boycotts were ultimately successful against the similarly racist and violent Israel- and US-backed Apartheid regime in South Africa... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25673 The latest "terror plot" Eli Stephens, Left I on the News There isn't enough information yet to know if the latest "terror plot" was a real one, or yet another agent provocateur -induced, hyped-up phony. I just want to focus on one detail of the hype, which I have heard from several sources, because it comes straight from the U.K. police so it's being widely repeated: UK police said they could have caused "mass murder on an unimaginable scale". "Unimaginable"? Really? Blowing up nine planes is truly horrif! ic, but the dead might total, what, 2000-3000? That's about the number that were killed in Iraq in just the last month, and pales before the number of Iraqis that have died since the U.S./British invasion... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25669 Some Anti-war Activists fail to see the Imperialist Roots of the U.S. Democratic Party By Joshua Frank with Axis of Logic editorial comment Joshua Frank's discerning analysis shows that many anti-war activists like Cindy Sheehan fail to see the futility of supporting any Democratic Party candidate who tries to gain support on an anti-war ticket. Democrats have shown their true colors as never before in their nearly unanimous support of the war on Iraq and of the Israeli attack on Lebanon. We are often keen to re! mind people that Bill Clinton (Slick Willy) killed more people in Iraq than George W. Bush through his 8 years of sanctions. As president, he was also heavily invested in the industrial military complex and resulting death and destruction in former Yugoslavia and Sudan. The war on the people of Vietnam was driven than none other than Lyndon Johnson who repeatedly deceived the U.S. population. The Democratic Party has a long history of making war and interfering in the domestic affairs of many other sovereign nations. Any "anti-war" effort that embraces the Democratic Party is at best naíve and at worst in complicity with a political party that puts profits for the ruling class ahead of the welfare of working class and poor in the United States... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25665 Time Bomb Jeff Wells, Rigorous Intuition Some brief thoughts on the latest mass-induced near-death experience. The crawl on MSNBC Thursday night read Terror in the Sky: Mass Murder on an Unimaginable Scale! Well, no; and I mean no to everything. There is no terror in the sky, unless you're Iraqi or Lebanese, or reside in northern Israel or any of the world's other free-fire zones and might expect to see death fall from it. Or unless we can include the sky itself, churning with strange weather and unwholes! ome artifacts, and a sun that now seems to burn an alien white. Because if we look up, we may just catch our breath... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25663 Israeli strikes on Lebanese watersheds questioned Kim Murphy Israeli bombing has knocked out irrigation canals supplying Litani River water to more than 10,000 acres of farmland and 23 villages in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley, raising accusations here that Israel is using its war on Hezbollah to lay claim to Lebanon's prime watersheds. Heavy fighting and a series of targeted strikes on open water channels and underground water diversion pipes has effectively suspended much of Lebanon's agricultural use o! f the Litani River along the coastal plain and in parts of the Bekaa Valley near Qaraon dam, according to water engineers who have surveyed the south... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25674 No dead Lebanese children on TV today Craig Murray ...But let us do what none of the 24 hour news channels are doing; draw breath and count up to ten. What has actually happened so far? There have been, reportedly, 21 people arrested. There have been no terrorist attacks, no explosions. US sources are reported as saying that explosive devices have been found, but no news from the Police as yet. I am reminded of the Forest Gate arrests and the notorious "Chemical weapon vest" which was threatening London and requi! red 270 policemen and a four mile air exclusion zone to deal with. The media was shoving that out just as uncritically as it is shoving out this air attack, even though it made no sense. Anyone who knows anything about weapons knows that for a chemical weapon you want maximum dispersal - the last thing you are going to do is wrap it in fabric around a human body. And why the air exclusion zone? Were they going to throw the vest at a passing jet? The media never did ask any of those questions... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25662 DAILY WAR NEWS FOR FRIDAY, August 11, 2006 Today in Iraq Shiite assailants ransacked and burned a provincial office of the Iraqi president's Kurdish party, accusing its official newspaper of unfairly criticizing a Shiite cleric, police said (...) As night fell a mortar shell crashed out of the sky onto a cafe in a district north of the capital, killing six people playing dominos. Six bound and blindfolded bodies bearing signs of torture were found in different parts of Baghdad. Each had been executed with a singl! e shot to the head. The bodies of two Soldiers missing as a result of a helicopter mishap in Al Anbar Province Aug. 8 have been recovered. Both service members died as a result of the accident... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25666 Israel Prepares Wider Ground Offensive CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press Writer Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert decided Friday to launch an expanded ground offensive in southern Lebanon after expressing dissatisfaction over an emerging cease-fire deal at the United Nations, government officials said. Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz made the decision after meeting for several hours. Meanwhile, Israeli airstrikes pounded south Beirut and border crossings to Syria, killing at least 14 people across Leb! anon as ground fighting picked up intensity in the south. It was not immediately clear whether Israel was trying to pressure the U.N. Security Council, which was close to a vote on a cease-fire resolution, or whether Israel is really determined to send troops deeper into Lebanon... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25661 MEDIA ALERT: THE VALUE OF BLOOD Sovereignty Shattered By Brute Force Media Lens ... It is astonishing to reflect, for example, that our mass media system is not in fact state-controlled. Who could guess from the unvarying support of our media corporations for mass violence committed by our government and its allies? From their eager demonisation of leaders and countries labelled 'enemies' of the state? From their consistent indifference to the mass death of our victims? As Respect MP George Galloway re! cently told one hapless Sky News interviewer: "You don't give a damn. You don't even know about the Palestinian families. You don't even know that they exist... Because you believe, whether you know it or not, that Israeli blood is more valuable than the blood of Lebanese or Palestinians. That's the truth, and the discerning of your viewers already know it."... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25659 Britain’s airline terror plot: Questions that need to be answered World Socialist Web Site Editorial Board The claim that American and British security forces have thwarted a terrorist plot to blow up commercial flights between Britain and the United States should not be accepted uncritically. It is impossible to determine at this point whether or not such an attack was in the offing, although the mass media have, as usual, reported the assertions of the British and American governments as indisputable fact, with! out bothering to ask for any specific information that would substantiate the official story. The British police statement that the alleged plotters aimed to "create mass murder on an unimaginable scale" by blowing up mid-flight an unspecified number of aircraft is chilling. The far-reaching security measures that have been implemented—including the shutdown of London’s Heathrow Airport and an indefinite ban on carry-on luggage—add to the climate of fear and apprehension... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25658 Dirty Neo-Fascist Slugs Slam-Dunk Another Terror Scam Evening round-up of twilight zone manic spewing propaganda blitz Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com Numerous questions need to be asked about this latest attempt by the dirty Neo-Fascist slugs to bully people into placating to being treated like slaves and updates on the frothing propaganda being spewed by the news networks need to be quantified. For what it's worth, Drudge currently has this on his front page.... CNN: 'Don't use your cellphone wi! thin 50 feet of a suspicious object, you might detonate something'... Absolute twilight zone irrational bullshit. ABC News and FOX aren't done with this one yet. ABC says ten deadly terror suspects on the loose - that's not enough for FOX who say ten are on the run. Reports differ as to when the supposed plot was discovered - BBC says Bush spoke to Blair about it some days ago - other reports say its been known for weeks... | Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25657 It's time for Jewish dissenters to challenge Israeli policies HENRI PICCIOTTO, Mercury News ...Jewish American leaders work tirelessly to promote the myth of Jewish consensus. Their tactics include refusing to rent space to dissenters, threatening funding cuts when Jewish institutions question Israel's actions and canceling meetings when they suspect debate might occur. Their most ubiquitous weapon is the hurtful charge of anti-Semitism, hurled at both dissenting Jews and Gentiles. Many Jews question Israel's pol! icies, but are afraid to speak out in their congregations or even to their families. But the time has come for Jewish dissidents to challenge the policies of the Israeli government. In the short run these policies kill Arabs, mostly innocent civilians; in the long run, they can result only in disaster for Israelis and Jews worldwide. Our silence in this time of crisis is complicity... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25656 The Pentagon's "Second 911" "Another [9/11] attack could create both a justification and an opportunity to retaliate against some known targets" MICHEL CHOSSUDOVSKY, Global Research One essential feature of "defense" in the case of a second major attack on America, is "offense", according to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff: "Homeland security is one piece of a broader strategy [which] brings the battle to the enemy."(DHS, Transcript of complete March 2005 speech of Secr. Michael Chertoff)! In the month following last year's 7/7 London bombings, Vice President Dick Cheney is reported to have instructed USSTRATCOM to draw up a contingency plan "to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States". Implied in the contingency plan was the certainty that Iran would be behind a Second 9/11. This "contingency plan" used the pretext of a "Second 9/11", which has not yet happened, to prepare for a major military operation against Iran, while pressure was also exerted on Tehran in relation to its (non-existent) nuclear weapons program... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25655 Abu Jahl ( Mr. Ignorant!) Or the (Saudi) baboon who wanted to handle the magic lantern! Nazar al Qabbani, Al Moharer Before his death the great Arab poet Nazar al Qabbani, wrote a poem entitled Mr.Ignorant making ridicule of the Saudi Eunuch's who wanted to influence the Media and bought al Sharq al Awsat Newspaper, in London Fleet Street. The Saudi servile eunuchs, the traitors of Mecca and Medina, the plotters and the lackeys of their Zionist masters, those who sold Palestine to the Zionist gangster! s sixty years ago, the Saudis whores who helped destroy Iraq the cradle of Civilization, the beating heart of Arabity and Islam, thanks to their bloodthirsty US masters, these backward Saudi did everything, through petrodollars, bribes and threats to prevent publish or distribute this beautiful poem... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25671 The U.S. war against Lebanon Eli Stephens, Left I on the News Without comment: Israel has asked the Bush administration to speed delivery of short-range antipersonnel rockets armed with cluster munitions, which it could use to strike Hezbollah missile sites in Lebanon, two American officials said Thursday. The request for M-26 artillery rockets, which are fired in barrages and carry hundreds of grenade-like bomblets that scatter and explode over a broad area, is likely to be approved shortly, along with other ! arms, a senior official said. (...) Cluster bombs, incidentally, are only illegal when used against civilians, not against military targets. And since Israel has declared that there are no civilians in southern Lebanon anymore, the problem is solved... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25654 The British Terrorist Plot: Stage Two of the October Surprise Hassan El-Najjar ...The announcement yesterday of a British terrorist plot to destroy ten US aircraft using liquid bombs can be considered the second stage of an October surprise. It aims at keeping the US voters in tense conditions, making them feel that the world is not safe around them. This, purportedly, may push them back towards the War Party, which has the reputation of being "strong on security." The timing of the announcement of such a terrori! st plot should be received with skepticism and scrutiny, particularly because the pro-war corporate media have adopted the story and fully propagated it to death. The following are some points to be taken into consideration in scrutinizing the story. First, the announcement came just one day after the earthquake of defeating the symbol of war in the Democratic Party, Joe Lieberman, representing a determination among American voters to fire proponents of war in Congress, Republicans and Democrats alike. The announcement of the terrorist plot would serve as the Bush administration counterattack against the peace camp... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25653 Insane Americans think Muslims should wear yellow crescents on their sleeves Palestinian Pundit A new Gallup poll finds that many Americans -- what it calls "substantial minorities" -- harbor "negative feelings or prejudices against people of the Muslim faith" in this country. Nearly one in four Americans, 22%, say they would not like to have a Muslim as a neighbor. While Americans tend to disagree with the notion that Muslims living in the United States are sympathetic to al-Qaeda, a significant 34% believe they! do back al-Qaeda. And fewer than half -- 49% -- believe U.S. Muslims are loyal to the United States. Almost four in ten, 39%, advocate that Muslims here should carry special I.D... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25652 GI Special 4H11: A Call From My Son - August 11, 2006 Thomas F. Barton Just as I was going to have lunch he called. Well, I asked him what he "needed" and he said "to get the hell out of there and come home". He's tired of patrolling 12 to 14 hours, having the Iraqi's tell them to leave "town", not knowing who the enemy is, and he is with the Iraqi soldiers, who he said he cannot trust. The Iraqi soldiers go out on their own and "summarily execute with a bullet to the head" anyone they want to. He doesn't under! stand it, nor does he want to. He said "if he didn't know any better, he thought he died and went to hell." He watched from the rooftop of the [X] in [Anbar] as 3 of his buddies were shot, one dead, the kid from Vermont. They were in a horrendous gun battle, with RPG's and AK-47's blaring at them. They were all involved. Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25649 www.uruknet.info: a site gathering daily information concerning occupied Iraq: news, analysis, documents and texts of iraqi resistance available in Italian and English.