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Apartheid Israel Destroys; Hizbullah Rebuilds John Brown, Savage Justice "Apartheid Israel won this war." That's the fantasy BringItOn, Uncle Sam's unelected leader, tells us to believe in the opening quote. He uttered these words as a half-million Lebanese returned home to address the humanitarian and economic crisis in the aftermath of Apartheid Israel's intense, sustained, savage blitzkrieg. But as it always does, reality has proven him wrong. In the same way as Hizbullah took the lead in defending Lebanon du! ring the Zionist attack militarily, it quickly and efficiently assumed command in the nationwide effort to rebuild the country... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25933 I am Israel Window Into Palestine I am Israel — I came to a land without a people for a people without a land. Those people who happened to be here, had no right to be here, and my people showed them they had to leave or die, razing 480 Palestinian villages to the ground, erasing their history. I am Israel — some of my people committed massacres and later became Prime Ministers to represent me. In 1948, Menachem Begin was in charge of the unit that slaughtered the inhabitants of Deir Yassin, including 100 men, wo! men, and children. In 1953, Ariel Sharon led the slaughter of the inhabitants of Qibya, and in 1982 arranged for our allies to butcher around 2,000 in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatilla. I am Israel — carved in 1948 out of 78% of the land of Palestine, dispossessing its inhabitants and replacing them with Jews from Europe and other parts of the world. While the natives whose milies lived on this land for thousands of years are not allowed to return, Jews from all over the world are welcome to instant citizenship... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25947 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 20 August 2006. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. ...In a dispatch posted at 1:15am Monday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that pro-American Sunni politician 'Ala’ Makki, who is a member of the American installed puppet "parliament," denounced the "double standard" adopted by the Iraqi puppet "Ministries of Health and the Interior" in "talking only about the dead among the Shi'i pilgrims to the tomb of t! he Imam Musa al-Kazim but say nothing about the victims who fell as a result of attacks carried out by Safavi Shi'i militias on Sunni mosques." Makki, speaking on official Baghdad television, called on the two puppet "Ministries" to make public the toll of victims killed by Shi'i sectarians on Sunday, and not simply talk about the 20 Shi'ah reportedly shot to death during the day under various circumstances... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25951 Israeli Violation of International Law Saturday Morning in Ramallah will Add 25 More Years to Their Outstanding Criminal Records PalestineFreeVoice A gang of brutes and criminals, Israeli State terrorists broke and kicked open the doors (in what have become a wellknown Israeli pattern to the outside world)busted their way into the private residense of a Palestine Govermental minister,the PM deputy,dr Nasser Addin Ash-Sha'er and abducted him in front of his family this morning. That assault on a member of the Pale! stinian Parlament is a violation of International law - and beond all believes of what we could expect from a society that whish to call them self a civilisation. - The trespassing in to the residense of Addin Ash- Shaher and the abduction of him, will add 25 more years to an allready outstanding list in the Israelis criminal records. The list of crime is long and contain all crime categories - from murder to blackmail... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25944 Demonstrators urge end to Iranian meddling in Iraqi affairs in south Ali Allak, Azzaman Many Iraqis are wary of Tehran’s growing influence in southern Iraq and demonstrations are reported in several cities urging the authorities to take immediate measures to halt Iranian meddling.Since the U.S. 2003 invasion, Iran has established a firm foot in the region, bolstering its allies and their militias with money and arms. Iranian influence so conspicuous that in several cities such as Najaf, Kerbala and Basra Persian ! is steadily replacing Arabic as the official language. Major Shiite political factions and their powerful militias are pro-Iran... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25949 More good news from Iraq: US forces jail children Truth About Iraqis In the continuing series highlighting what democracy, freedom and liberty in Iraq as applied by the US military really means, a Washington Times report is proving to be a scathing testament to the inhumane and barbaric conduct of US troops. I am posting this report below - in its entirety - because it is a direct indictment of 1) the US military; 2) the Bush administration; 3) the pro-war crowd who crave endless genocide; and 4) those so-called ! Iraqis stuffing their pockets with Greenbacks to enslave their own people and cater to the lies they have been instructed to spread. This is one of thousands of stories of how the US has made a muck of things in Iraq, transformed it into a battlezone, and subjected its people to countless human rights abuses... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25925 Crying Wolf: Terror Alerts based on Fabricated Intelligence MICHEL CHOSSUDOVSKY, Global Research The British Home Office announced (August 10) that a "foiled terror plot" to simultaneously blow up as many as ten airplanes on transatlantic flights had been uncovered. So far Scotland Yard has not presented documentary evidence of this carefully coordinated suicide bombing operation. Confirmed by media reports, there is no evidence that the arrested suspects had actually purchased plane tickets which would have enab! led them to undertake this operation. Several of the suspects did not even possess a passport. (Craig Murray, 14 August 2006). Meanwhile, the feasibility of the plot ( at a technical-scientific level) has been questioned. No chemical labs were discovered, which might have confirmed that the suspects had the prior knowledge or skills to manufacture a triacetone triperoxide ( TATP) bomb, let alone their ability to appropriately mix the deadly liquid chemicals on board a transatlantic flight... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25930 Back to Roots of the Palestinian Problem Salman Abu Sitta ...I became a refugee at the age of 10, when strange European Zionist settlers invaded my country, destroyed my home and made me a refugee. I spent all my adult life wondering why this enemy destroyed my life. I tried to put a face to this invisible enemy—for I have never seen one before. Like millions of Palestinians, I started, then in 1948, on the long trek to return home. The trajectory of expulsion propelled us to the four corners of the earth, but ou! r compass was always directed toward our home. In unison and with unbelievable resilience, we vowed: "We shall never rest until we return home." ... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25929 Gunmen Target Shiite Muslims, Kill 22, Injure Hundreds Patrick J. McDonnell, LATimes Staff Writer Gunmen took aim at multitudes of Shiite Muslim worshipers marching through this besieged capital Sunday, killing at least 22 and leaving hundreds injured in a vivid illustration of the sectarian violence driving Iraq toward open civil war. Panicked pilgrims, including women in full-length black robes, scattered in terror as opportunistic gunmen fired from positions on rooftops, inside buildings and on the streets. Se! curity officers and Shiite militiamen returned fire during rolling gun battles along the routes to the worshipers' destination, a major Shiite shrine... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25946 An American Turning Point Peter Dyer If and when President Bush is impeached and removed from office, the next step should be to arrest him and the other architects of the unprovoked invasion and occupation of Iraq. If Americans ever find the will to do this, as we once did to German aggressors, history will remember it as a turning point in international relations (...) Aggression (initiating an unprovoked war) was formally outlawed in 1945 by the Nuremberg Charter (Article VI(a)), a treaty signed and largely wr! itten by the United States. And although the Nuremberg Charter was formed for the specific purpose of trying Nazi war criminals, the words of the judgment make clear the intent of the court that the Nuremberg principles must apply to all nations and for all time... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25945 Open Note to Kofi Annan: UN Urgent Need to Deploy International Security Force To Secure Palestine Territoral Borders Hayam Noir / PalestineFreeVoice European nations are needed urgently - to participate in a vanguard force of troops on the ground- to ensure that the Palestinian people can start to rebuild their destroyed infrastructure and continue the interupted building - of a State of their own. The Palestinain Secury and the Palestinian police force need to extend their authority in the occupied Palestinian ! territories - even with force make sure,that the Israeli occupant in defenite leave the Gaza Strip and the Westbank and withdraw its state supported terrorist units . If the United Nations can not implement its juristiction and work lawfully within the frames of International law and International Constitutes - it is a sick and corrupt body - in need to be cleaned out and replaced - the worldcommunity has to find other methods and tools to protect the Palestinian people and its government from Israel and its criminal activities on the Palestine territories... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25943 Amateur Warlords Bush, Cheney, Blair - and now Olmert - have demonstrated they have no grasp of military affairs Eric Margolis For a leader who styles himself "the war president," U.S. Commander-in-Chief George W. Bush's military record now stands at 0 for 4. Even Italy's born-again "imperial Roman conqueror," Benito Mussolini, fared better. - Fiasco I: Five years after Bush ordered Afghanistan invaded and proclaimed "total victory," U.S. and allied forces are fighting a losing war against Afgha! n resistance groups. Afghan heroin exports are up 90%. The U.S. just quietly deployed thousands more troops to Afghanistan to hunt Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri in a desperate attempt to save Republicans from getting clobbered in November midterm elections. - Fiasco II: "Mission accomplished" in Iraq. Bush's war in Iraq is clearly lost, but few dare admit it. The U.S. has spent $300 billion on Afghanistan and Iraq, with nothing to show but bloody chaos, deficits, body bags, and growing hatred of America. The Bush/Dick Cheney "liberation" of Iraq has now cost more than the Vietnam War... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25938 Does Lebanon Have The Rigth To Defend Itself ? Farzana Hassan-Shahid A much-awaited ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah has finally come into effect and appears to be holding despite the fragile peace brokered by the United Nations. After the month-long fighting in Lebanon it is difficult to determine who the victors and the vanquished really are in a war that has been described as asymmetrical. Certainly there were many asymmetries in the war. The damage done to Lebanon's infrastructure has far outweighed the! destruction caused to Israel by Hezbollah's Katyusha's. Other asymmetries appeared in the rhetoric of the war itself, blatant among which was the constant reference to Israel's right to defend itself. And while everyone agreed that Israel had the right to defend itself form "unprovoked" aggression by the Hezbollah, what was absent in the incessant discussion on the war was the question on whether Lebanon had the right to defend its borders from Israeli aggression?... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25926 After Lebanon, Israel is looking for more wars Jonathan Cook, GlobalResearch.ca Late last month, a fortnight into Israel’s war against Lebanon, the Hebrew media published a story that passed observers by. Scientists in Haifa, according to the report, have developed a "missile-trapping" steel net that can shield buildings from rocket attacks. The Israeli government, it noted, would be able to use the net to protect vital infrastructure -- oil refineries, hospitals, military installations, and public offices -- whi! le private citizens could buy a net to protect their own homes. The fact that the government and scientists are seriously investing their hopes in such schemes tells us more about Israel’s vision of the "new Middle East" than acres of analysis... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25937 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 19 August 2006 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice ...The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US occupation forces and their Iraqi puppet army allies prevented Sunni Iraqis in Baghad from going to work in their shops or from doing any sort of social activity, threatening them if any should be caught outside in violation of the sectarian curfew. One pregnant Sunni woman died in the western Baghda! d district of al-'Amiriyah after she was prevented from getting to a hospital at dawn Saturday due to the curfew on the Sunni population. The correspondent reported that predominantly Shi'i parts of Baghdad – such as al-Karadah, ash-Shu'lah, and Madinat Saddam (which was nicknamed "Madinat as-Sadr" after the American occupation) were experiencing life as usual Saturday since the Shi'i sectarian regime, imposed on the country by the US occupation, ordered curfew only for Sunni parts of the occupied capital... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25936 Li-Beirut Solidarity Campaign 20 - 28 August, 2006 Li-Beirut The joint efforts of Contemporary Image Collective (CIC), the Townhouse Gallery and Ebdaa Gallery, are being carried on in earnest to launch the fund raising drive "Li-Beirut", which they host this Sunday August 20th. "Most of the preparations have already been made, thanks to the volunteers who spared neither time nor effort to help this campaign come about," said Aleya Hamza, CIC cultural coordinator and one of the campaign organizers. Aleya said tha! t as soon as the word was spread, many artists, academics, and others who are involved in the cultural field, plus members of the Youth Solidarity Project in Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon (Cairo to Camps) expressed their full support of the campaign... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25942 Resolution N° 1701 Robert Thompson, -Axis of Logic exclusive After giving the Zionist aggressors a month in which to kill as many Lebanese civilians as they wished, the United Nations Security Council has finally unanimously approved Resolution N° 1701, despite the serious reservations of the sole Arab member, Qatar. This Resolution calls for an immediate "total cessation of hostilities", but the reaction of the aggressors has merely been to step up their attacks, and at the same time intensified their bombardmen! ts and their land invasion of southern Lebanon... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25935 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 Eli Stephens, Left I on the News Last night the local news I was watching carried a story which went something like this (quoted from memory): "Israel doesn't just face trouble on its northern border. Today, on another front, another person was killed as a Palestinian gunman opened fire and killed an Israeli soldier. The gunman was then shot dead." Yes, I'm pretty sure that the language she used referred to only a single "person" being killed, assigning the Palestinian to a state of non-existence. But even if I ! misheard that point, and this particular Palestinian was actually acknowledged as a person, there is the case of the Palestinians who were killed today. And yesterday. And the day before that. And the day before that. And the nearly 200 Palestinians who have been killed in Gaza in the last two months, many of them civilians. Virtually none of whose deaths have been reported on this same news channel, nor by most American media... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25932 Sen. Hagel: “Iran Probably Has More Influence In Iraq Than We Do”... ReBelle Nation Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) went on Fox News Sunday this morning to discuss the Middle East. The Senator, a vocal critic of the war in Iraq as of late, had harsh words about the situation in the Middle East. SEN. HAGEL: "We've got a very unstable Middle East, I think the most unstable Middle East we've seen since 1948, and you can measure that any way you want. The fact is the future of Iraq will be determined by the Iraqi people, ! just like it was in Vietnam. The answer, in my opinion, is not to just keep feeding more American troops into it"... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25931 Israel is 'preparing for more fighting' Tim Butcher Any chance of long-term peace between Lebanon and Israel all but vanished last night after Amir Peretz, the Israeli defence minister, said his country was preparing for another round of fighting. Mr Peretz spoke only hours after Israeli commandos mounted a raid deep inside Lebanon. Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary general, said it was a violation of the week-old UN ceasefire. Amir Peretz, the Israeli defence minister has said his country was preparing fo! r another round of fighting... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25948 www.uruknet.info: a site gathering daily information concerning occupied Iraq: news, analysis, documents and texts of iraqi resistance available in Italian and English.   You receive this newsletter because you subscribed it. 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NY Times, CNN, Fox News uncritically reported GOP suggestion that unwarranted surveillance helped foil U.K. terror plot

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NY Times, CNN, Fox News uncritically reported GOP suggestion that unwarranted surveillance helped foil U.K. terror plot In Propaganda/Noise Machine In an August 18 article on a federal judge's ruling striking down as unconstitutional the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance program, New York Times reporters Adam Liptak and Eric Lichtblau uncritically quoted House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert's (R-IL) claim that the program "saved the day by foiling the London terror plot." Liptak and Lichtblau reported that Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales has not said "whether the program played any role in foiling" the British terror plot, but then reported Hastert's assertion. The report went on to note that Hastert's office "declined to elaborate" on the claim, but, as Media Matters for America has noted, media reports cast considerable doubt on his assertion that intelligence gathered through the warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens and legal residents helped thwart the attack. Indeed, Lichtblau himself reported on August 15 that U.S. law-enforcement agencies found "no direct connection" between the London plotters and anyone within the United States. In their reports on the news, CNN justice correspondent Kelli Arena and Fox News chief White House correspondent Bret Baier similarly linked the warrantless domestic surveillance program to the recently foiled plot. On August 17, Judge Anna Diggs Taylor of the U.S. District Court in Detroit rejected the Bush administration's legal defense of the program -- which since 2001 has authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to eavesdrop on the international communications of U.S. persons without court orders required by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA). Taylor ruled that the program violates FISA, as well as the First and Fourth Amendments, and ordered that the program be halted. In their August 18 article on the ruling, Liptak and Lichtblau reported: Mr. Gonzales would not say whether the program played any role in foiling a plot last week to set off bombs in airliners bound for the United States from Britain. But Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, Republican of Illinois, suggested that it did play a role in the investigation. In a written statement criticizing Judge Taylor's ruling, Mr. Hastert defended the wiretapping operation and said that "our terrorist surveillance programs are critical to fighting the war on terror and saved the day by foiling the London terror plot." His office declined to elaborate. But Liptak and Lichtblau failed to note that the Bush administration and various news outlets -- including the Times -- have asserted that there is no evidence of any U.S. connection to the London plotters -- a fact that would seem to undermine Hastert's claim that the domestic surveillance program "saved the day." For instance, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff stated in an August 11 press conference that "we do not have evidence ... that the plotting [for the attack] was done in the United States." He later added that "we did not see any U.S. internal activity in this plot." Washington Post staff writers Dan Eggen and Spencer S. Hsu reported on August 13 that U.S. law enforcement agencies found "no links" between the plotters and anyone inside the United States. And Lichtblau himself reported in an August 15 article that, according to law enforcement officials, "no links to any Americans have surfaced." Furthermore, while it has been confirmed that U.S. authorities, once alerted to the London plot, conducted extensive surveillance of suspects within the United States, news reports indicate that the eavesdropping occurred in accordance with FISA, as Media Matters for America noted. Indeed, Lichtblau reported on August 15 that "the Justice Department sought double or triple the usual rate of court-approved wiretaps to monitor the communications of American suspects" in the plot (while, again, Lichtblau reported that U.S. officials found no direct connection to anyone in this country). Eggen and Hsu, in their August 13 article, reported that hundreds of law enforcement officials undertook "dozens of clandestine surveillance and search operations on individuals with possible links to the London plotters," including "people who had been called or e-mailed by suspects or their relatives and acquaintances." But Eggen and Hsu further noted that this surveillance "produced a noticeable surge in applications for clandestine warrants from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court." Despite the above evidence that the warrantless domestic surveillance program had little -- if anything -- to do with uncovering the London terror plot, CNN justice correspondent Kelli Arena uncritically reported on the August 17 edition of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight an argument attributed to unnamed "[g]overnment officials" that the incident is "a primary example of why the U.S. government sometimes needs to listen in on international communications without a warrant." Similarly, Fox News chief White House correspondent Bret Baier noted on the August 17 edition of Special Report that Taylor's ruling "comes one week to the day after the British terror plot to blow up jetliners was thwarted." He then reported that Gonzales "called the terrorist surveillance program a critical tool to stop more terrorist plots." From the August 17 edition of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight: ARENA: Government officials point to the alleged plot to blow up jetliners over the Atlantic as a primary example of why the U.S. government sometimes needs to listen in on international communications without a warrant. But a federal judge in Detroit says the National Security Agency's controversial wiretapping program violates free speech and privacy rights. From the August 17 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume: BAIER: The ruling comes one week to the day after the British terror plot to blow up jetliners was thwarted. In a late-afternoon news conference, the attorney general called the terrorist surveillance program a critical tool to stop more terrorist plots. GONZALES: I believe very strongly that the president does have the authority to authorize this kind of conduct and particularly in a time of war.

Bloglines - No Evidence on Patsy Rashid Rauf

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No Evidence on Patsy Rashid Rauf By Administrator on Uncategorized Now that we are well on our way to instituting “behavioral profiling,” that is to say “looking at your background so when your passenger list comes up we start identifying people that need more scrutiny,” at airports in the United States and Britain in the wake of the “liquid bomb” non-threat a week and a half ago, the corporate media is reporting that Rashid Rauf, initially pegged as the plot “key planner” and a close relative of Jaish-e-Mohammed leader Masood Azhar who went over the al-Qaeda dark side, is in fact not what he is cracked up to be, or rather what the corporate media, listening to Pakistan’s duplicitous ISI, basically a branch office of the CIA, made him out to be. After “two weeks of interrogation, an inch-by-inch search of his house and analysis of his home computer, officials are now saying that his extradition is ‘a way down the track’ if it happens at all,” notes the Daily Mail. “It comes amid wider suspicions that the plot may not have been as serious, or as far advanced, as the authorities initially claimed…. Analysts suspect Pakistani authorities exaggerated Rauf’s role to appear ‘tough on terrorism’ and impress Britain and America.” How fortuitous, especially for the neocons and Bush’s Ministry of Homeland Security, busily working to trounce the Constitution and turn America into a snoop and police state. “Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff called on state legislators Thursday to embrace new federal driver’s license requirements to strengthen security,” reports the Associated Press. “Starting three years from now, if you live or work in the United States, you’ll need a federally approved ID card to travel on an airplane, open a bank account, collect Social Security payments, or take advantage of nearly any government service. Practically speaking, your driver’s license likely will have to be reissued to meet federal standards,” explained CNet News in March. In addition to name, birth date, sex, ID number, a digital photograph, and address, “Homeland Security is permitted to add additional requirements—such as a fingerprint or retinal scan—on top of those.” In short, without this new card, slotted to go online by 2008, you will be unable to function in society. “In a speech at the annual meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures, Chertoff sought to allay privacy concerns about the federal Real ID Act, saying there are no plans to create a federal database of drivers’ personal information,” same as the NSA, ensconced in telecom offices, only listens in on al-Qaeda phone calls or reads Osama’s email. Recall Chertoff and AG Gonzales using the absurd liquid bomb plot as an excuse to hold “suspects” for long periods of time minus formal charge, as the Brits currently do. “What helped the British in this case is the ability to be nimble, to be fast, to be flexible, to operate based on fast-moving information,” or rather spurious information. “The Bush administration has pushed for greater executive authority in the war on terror, leading it to create a warrantless eavesdropping program, hold suspects who are deemed as ‘enemy combatants’ for long periods and establish a military tribunal system for detainees that affords defendants fewer rights than traditional courts-martial,” the Associated Press reported last week. In other words, kicking the Bill of Rights while it is down. Of course, at this point—with more than a week of corporate media reports detailing implausible liquid bomb scenarios, and airports going into hysterical lockdown, the fact Rashid Rauf did not plan to bomb airplanes, or the disappeared “suspects” in London did not have bombs, airline tickets, or even passports—it does not matter if there was a threat or not. Far too many Americans, reacting like Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero-One, to commands from the Borg Hive, now believe al-Qaeda will sooner or later mix up a deadly concoction of bathroom chemicals on the next red-eye flight out of Chicago, thus they will acquiesce to barking security thugs at airports and mindlessly march through X-rated X-ray machines with nary a bleat of protest. Comments

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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. .