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The new Arab world Hana Abdul Ilah Al Bayaty The project for a new Middle East was stillborn and is now buried. There is a democratic renaissance sweeping the Arab world that calls for independence, an Arab Palestine, unity, justice and democracy. It cannot be stopped. The political map of the region is being redrawn, but not by the Americans, nor the Israelis. The success of this renaissance is a gift for us all, pointing as it does towards a renewal of the international order along the lines of justice and the ! defence of human values. The page has been turned on 50 years of US-Israeli foreign policy. It is a new era. The tide has turned. Only how much destruction the bloodthirsty US-Israeli war machine will be able to inflict before it admits defeat remains to be seen and depends on our ability to resist globally. Arab victory is certain... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25924 BAGHDAD AND INFO WARS (Part One) Malcom Lagauche ...The propaganda cover-up of the Battle of Baghdad, what we call BOBCUP (Battle of Baghdad Cover-up) was so conspicuously against the United States principles of information, which is what we follow in the Department of Defense Public Affairs operations, was so egregiously out of line, it was then that I self-mobilized my mission of conscience because, basically, it was apparent to me at that point, that we were under dictatorship. Suppressing the events of an ent! ire battle and keeping it suppressed long after the battle was over … you know, you could have said, "Well, we didn’t want to tell the Iraqis where our troops were," or something else. But, you can’t say that months and months and months and years after the event. Baghdad was he beginning. I’ve finished a successful career; in and out of the active Army and in and out of the reserves. My last gig was that of a general staff officer. I’ve been around. Baghdad brought me out of the observation and analysis of this war to a participant in what we call the "info war." The war to get real information to the public... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25921 Innocent children jailed, U.S. official says Sharon Behn, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Children who have never been charged with a crime are being held in juvenile prisons in Iraq, a State Department official stated in a report he posted on the Internet this week. Some of the children are in the detention centers simply because there is no one to pick them up and take them home, said Marshall Adame, an official with the National Coordination Team based out of Camp Victory in Iraq. "These are not hardened criminals or t! errorists," said Mr. Adame in a personal detailed report he published on an Internet log. He added that there had been reports of "physical and other abuse" in the detention centers but that the U.S.-led coalition considered the issue "not our urgent business."... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25915 Officer Called Haditha Routine Marine Said Deaths Didn't Merit Inquiry Thomas E. Ricks, Washington Post Staff Writer The Marine officer who commanded the battalion involved in the Haditha killings last November did not consider the deaths of 24 Iraqis, many of them women and children, unusual and did not initiate an inquiry, according to a sworn statement he gave to military investigators in March. "I thought it was very sad, very unfortunate, but at the time, I did not suspect any wrongdoing from my M! arines," Lt. Col. Jeffrey R. Chessani, commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Marines, said in the statement... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25923 Letter to the World from Hanna Darwish (aka John Doe) American-Palestinian New Generation In what modern nation can an occupying nation imprison members of a democratically elected government and escape international censorship, let alone a mere mention in the press? How many times must we witness a blacker and viler version of chutzpah? Israel has once again shown its racist and fascistic nature by imprisoning additional members of the Hamas government, this time the deputy prime minister of the Hamas government! . 'Huda, the wife of Nasser al-Shaer said on Saturday that Israeli troops burst into her home of around 4:30am and took her husband away.... She said her husband had been in hiding since Israel began its crackdown in late June after fighters in the Gaza Strip infiltrated southern Israel and captured an Israeli soldier."... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25922 Alert: BBC's Panorama and John Ware to attack Muslims MPACUK.org As most of you will be aware, Israel and its Zionist agenda, have been waging a real war against the Palestinian people. Not satisfied with this, over the last few years we have also witnessed a strengthening media war, where lets face it, Muslims have been resounding losers. In another twist to this Islamophobic campaign, we have come to hear that, pro Israeli BBC journalist and researcher, John Ware (with picture), is planning yet another vicious ! sting against the Ummah. Who is his target and what can you do about it? Read on... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25920 How the Military/Industrial complex turned America into Murder, Inc. The Existentialist Cowboy ...Bush, of course, will not admit that our country has become Murder, Inc. His party will even deny that we've become it's euphemism: The National Security State. The origins of our Murder, Inc. is the National Security Act of 1947 —a blueprint for fascism . It granted to the Pentagon powers of unlimited defense spending. It would not have been possible to justify such largesse without a bogeyman to be dragged out when! ever the population is roused by truth to suspicion. In 1947, the bogeyman was the specter of communism —a tactic urged upon President Harry Truman by GOP Senator Arthur Vandenburg. The climate of fear is maintained by both parties but with less embarrassment by the GOP... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25919 Israel Violates UN Resolution 1559 James Marc Leas Recent articles in the corporate media cite UN resolution 1559 for its insistance on disarming Hezbollah. But the articles omit mention of the resolution's equal insistance on the withdrawal of "all non-Lebanese forces from Lebanon"--including Israeli forces. These articles and the statements by US government and Israeli officials focus on the portion of UN resolution 1559 which they insist "called for the disbanding of Hezbollah’s fighting force and all other mi! litias and the extension of Lebanese government control over the entire country" ("Testing How Long the Cease Fire Can Last," New York Times, August 15, 2006) But they do not mention that Israel violated this same UN resolution when it bombed and invaded Lebanon... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25918 Breaking the ceasefire Eli Stephens, Left I on the News The news is filled with the story of Israel breaking the ceasefire in Lebanon; even the bold Kofi Annan said he was deeply concerned. Three points: 1. Israel has already murdered numerous alleged Hizbollah fighters since the ceasefire went into place; not once have those attacks been labelled as "violations of the ceasefire." Yes, Israel says they were defensive acts against Hizbollah fighters pointing guns at them or whatever. Maybe they were. Is there any! proof? And does Israel have the slightest credibility which would allow us to believe anything they say?... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25917 Israel: a State built on lies Punyapriya Dasgupta ...The forked tongue is a constant in the history of Zionism. Over long years the Zionists worked single-mindedly for a take-over of Palestine but kept on denying that aim until they had achieved it. Who exactly coined the crisp slogan of a "land [Palestine] without people to a people [Jews] without land" is not known. The credit is given sometimes to Herzl himself and sometimes to his English collaborator, Israel Zangwill. Max Nordeau, another Hungarian-born asso! ciate of Herzl , had a twinge of conscience when he learnt that Palestine was not a land without people. He said: "I did not know that – but then we are committing an injustice!" But he quickly recovered and claimed that the word "homeland", used in the Balfour Declaration and the League of Nations Mandate to camouflage the contemplated State for the Jews in Palestine was his idea. The infamous Balfour Declaration (1917) was the first tall feather in the cap of Chaim Weizmann, an arrogant Jewish biochemist who dined with British prime ministers and helped British war efforts in 1914-18... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25916 *** NOT SATIRE *** 'A dead Saddam will be tried' News 24 South Africa Ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein could be tried posthumously for genocide if an Iraqi court decides to execute him for a separate accusation of mass murder, a US official in Baghdad said yesterday (...) "If the tribunal decides on the appeal during the Anfal trial and if it upholds the death penalty the sentence has to be carried out within 30 days of the decision on the appeal," said the US official. "Which means theoretically, that if S! addam is given the death penalty and if everything falls in place, he can be executed and the Anfal trial can carry on posthumously."... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25914 Were Arab Bishop's rights violated? Truth About Iraqis Below is an email I received from friends and colleagues. Ask yourself this, will Pat Robertson speak of this? Will Christian television shows address this? No, they will not. This is Bishop Riah's account of what happened when he tried to fly out of Tel Aviv (it seems he was due to record an interview for 'Hard Talk', amongst other things)... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25912 Israeli government continuing its policy of imprisoning the Palestinian Wisam Afifeh, PNN Government Spokesperson Dr. Ghazi Hamad strongly denounced Saturday Israeli forces arresting elected Palestinian officials. He put particular emphasis on this morning’s case of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education Dr. Nasser Addin Al Shaer. Israeli soldiers besieged his Ramallah home at dawn Saturday and announced via megaphone that he was to "surrender." Dr. Hamad said Saturday, "The kidnapping comes as part of t! he continuing Israeli policy to undermine and demolish our political system and spoil the elected Palestinian government."... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25911 Declaration in support of the Arab Resistance in Lebanon Nabila Harb, on the behalf of the editorial board of the Free Arab Voice ...This is not a conflict only for the Shi'a, although every Shi'a should support Hizb'ullah's actions. This is not a conflict only for Muslims, although every Muslim should support this Resistance. This is a conflict in which every Muslim, every Christian, every secularist, every Arab and every individual anywhere who believes in justice must support Hizb'ullah's Resistance. The peo! ple of Iraq are struggling under the yoke of foreign Occupation and oppression and a puppet government that only concerns itself with its own selfish and sectarian interests. The people of Palestine are struggling under the burden of foreign Occupation and a continuing programme of dispossession and genocide. The people of the Arab Nation from sea to sea are struggling under the corrupt rule of leaders who bow to U.S./Zionist propaganda and foreign interests daily. The aim of the U.S. alliance ultimately is the destruction of every vestige of strength and independence in the Arab Nation... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25910 Israel’s Racist “Jihad” Against the Arab & Muslim People Genevieve Cora Fraser As the world has witnessed in Lebanon and Palestine, Hizbullah and Hamas have a long way to go to rival the ferocity and utter ruthlessness of the Israeli military. Their goals are in diametrical opposition. Despite propaganda and resolutions to the contrary, Hizbullah and Hamas are resistance organizations, freedom fighters, determined to defend and liberate their people. Israel's military function is the alleged security of the Jewis! h state, but the achievement of that goal is highly questionable. Its hidden agenda or role, viewed historically, is the oppression and subjugation of the Arab-Muslim people so that Western Powers can rape their land and rob it of its riches – chief of which is oil... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25909 A Journey to Southern Lebanon Funerals at Qana KATHY KELLY Two days ago, driving toward the village of Qana, we saw men at work, creating neatly aligned rows of rectangular cement structures that would soon be ready for burials. On foot, we entered Qana, thinking we should at least identify the site where a massacre had taken place when, on July 30, an Israeli bomb hit a building that sheltered children as they slept. It took five hours for ambulances to reach them. Statistics differ, but the most rece! nt Human Rights Watch report estimated that twenty-three were killed. Turning a corner, we saw men arranging white plastic chairs for guests who came to mourn with family members in the funeral tradition. The men sat in front of one home. Women were next door... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25907 As Full of Pro-Israeli Holes as Swiss Cheese Inside 1701: What the UN Security Council's Ceasefire Resolution Actually Says VIRGINIA TILLEY What is really portended by UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which set the terms for the present ceasefire in Lebanon? The very fact that it was signed at all might be encouraging, but no one is sure what its actual impact will be and most are sceptical. For Israel, will it secure the outcome its leaders are (rather desperately) claiming they have gained by thi! s dreadful war - i.e., ultimate disarmament of Hizbullah? For Lebanon and Hizbullah, will it secure Israel's withdrawal? Either way, will it last?... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25906 Cave Dwelling Muslim Behind Liquid Bomb Non-Plot Kurt Nimmo Never mind that "liquid bombs" are fantastical nonsense, or there is no evidence those arrested—more accurately, disappeared—in Britain plotted to blow up planes (no bombs, no airline tickets, no passports), the corporate media, having established the now widely believed Brothers Grimm story of Muslim perfidy by way of household chemicals, has moved to the next level. "An al-Qaeda operative who masterminded the alleged plot to blow up airliners over the ! Atlantic is hiding in mountainous terrain in north-eastern Afghanistan, a Pakistan intelligence official has claimed," reports the Scotsman... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25905 Saved again, thank the Lord, saved again The Anti-Empire Report Some things you need to know before the world ends William Blum So now we've (choke) just been (gasp) saved from the simultaneous blowing up of ten airplanes headed toward the United States from the UK. Wow, thank you Brits, thank you Homeland Security. Well done, lads. And thanks for preventing the destruction of the Sears Tower in Chicago, saving lower Manhattan from a terrorist-unleashed flood, smashing the frightful Canadian "terr! or plot" with 17 arrested, ditto the three Toledo terrorists, and squashing the Los Angeles al Qaeda plot to fly a hijacked airliner into a skyscraper. The Los Angeles plot of 2002 was proudly announced by George W. early this year. It has since been totally discredited. Declared one senior counterterrorism official: "There was no definitive plot. It never materialized or got past the thought stage... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25904 Israeli officer killed, 2 others injured, in unsuccessful commando operation in Lebanon Ma'an News The Israeli army acknowledged Saturday that an Israeli officer was killed and two others seriously injured in an unsuccessful landing, west of Ba'albek, in Lebanon. They were involved in a confrontation with Hezbollah fighters, during which three Hezbollah fighters and the Israeli officer were killed. Lebanese security sources reported earlier that Israeli warplanes fired missiles at a Hezbollah stronghold in easter! n Lebanon in the early hours of Saturday morning, The Israeli strike came just hours after the United Nations appealed to the Europeans to contribute troops to a peacekeeping force to separate the two sides... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25903 “Let me get my right by my own hands.” Treasure of Baghdad ...Abu Bakir is an old man in his late 50s who works in the ministry of Agriculture in Baghdad. As he was heading to work, he was accompanied by one of his sons. As they were leaving the ministry, a group of armed men blocked off their way and kidnapped Abu Bakir leaving his son shouting and screaming in the street trying to help his father but in vain. No one intervened. By this time, bad news was coming like rain from the new democratic country. People ! were dying in dozens, fuel crisis increased, electricity almost vanished in a place where temperature reached 120 F, and death squads and militias move freely in a lawless country where no official force is really in control. S., my other close friend, emailed me and told me that the neighborhood opposite to mine is controlled by the Mahdi army militiamen who threatened every single Sunni family to leave despite the fact that the neighborhood is mixed and never had problems (...) Abu Bakir’s family searched for every spot they expected to see him in. One day, they received a phone call from the kidnappers. "We killed your father," they told his 24 year-old daughter. Neighbors took them to Ur neighborhood to search for his dead body. Finally, they found it in a black trash bag in a trash area. It was really hard to identify him, A. said. It appeared he was brutally tortured... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25902 www.uruknet.info: a site gathering daily information concerning occupied Iraq: news, analysis, documents and texts of iraqi resistance available in Italian and English. .