Bismillah [hidayahnet] Terror in the Name of US War's Error - Headlines News 22 Rabiul Awal 1427 H - 21.4.06

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====== News Update ======

Differential calculus of grief: The western media again gives the
impression that Arab blood is less precious than that of others.
Ten years ago today, on Thursday April 18 1996, I broke the news of a
massacre in Kanaa to a shocked House of Commons thus:
Has the deputy prime minister had time to see the devastating pictures of
the shattered United Nations peacekeepers' base in the south of Lebanon?
In the past few hours, more than 50 Fijian soldiers, Lebanese and
Palestinian refugees - men, women and children - have been slaughtered by
the Israeli invasion force. Does the right honourable gentleman know that
this morning, some hours earlier, a mother, her four-day-old child and
her six other children were killed by an Israeli air raid on her home in
south Lebanon? Does he agree that the flames now burning in Lebanon run
the risk of burning to ash all the hopes of the peace process in the
Middle East? Will the British government support an emergency meeting of
the security council to try to bring the cycle of devastating violence to
an end?

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/george_galloway/2006/04/the_differential_calculus_of_g.html

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CONDOLEEZZA RICE: Attacking Iran has become "self defense"
& doesn't need Security Council Resolution
CONDOLEEZZA RICE: Opening Remarks and Q&A Session at Chicago
Council on Foreign Relations
EXCERPT:
"SECRETARY RICE: Well, I think that it's difficult to state a
principle in the abstract. Obviously, the President keeps open his
options and we have always said that the right of self-defense does not
necessarily require a UN Security Council resolution. I would note that,
for instance, we went to war in the Balkans without a -- war action
without a Security Council resolution. We did in the case of Iraq, of
course, have multiple resolutions that constituted Iraq as a peace to --
a threat to international peace and security and a final resolution,
Resolution 1441, from the 2002 that said that there would be serious
consequences if Iraq did not go forward."
full statement:

http://www.noticias.info/asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=8706&src="">

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Pentagon Guantanamo List Angers Nations
A chorus of complaints against the Bush administration erupted
Thursday after the Pentagon released a previously secret list of the
names and nationalities of 558 people held at the U.S. military prison in
Guantanamo Bay.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5769345,00.html
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The Real First Casualty of War 
During the 1970s, I filmed secretly in Czechoslovakia, then a
Stalinist dictatorship. The dissident novelist Zdenek Urbánek told me,
"In one respect, we are more fortunate than you in the west. We
believe nothing of what we read in the newspapers and watch on
television, nothing of the official truth. Unlike you, we have learned to
read between the lines, because real truth is always subversive."


http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12798.htm
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U.S. Has 100,000 Spy's 
The nation's spy chief disclosed for the first time Thursday that the
number of U.S. intelligence personnel worldwide totals nearly
100,000.

http://tinyurl.com/nvvev
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The CIA “Wehrmacht”
An ex-senior agency officer who keeps in contact with his former
peers told me that there is a “a big swing” in anti-Bush sentiment at
Langley. “I've been stunned by what I'm hearing,” he said. “There are
people who fear that indictments and subpoenas could be coming down, and
they don't want to get caught up in it.”
http://www.harpers.org/sb-cia-wehrmacht.html 
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North Korea says it has "shocking evidence" of US plot

"The CIA secretly enlist(s) experts on counterfeiting notes claimed
to be the 'most sophisticated in the world' and invite(s) them to issue
lots of fake currencies at 'counterfeit notes printing houses of North
Korean-style' operating in U.S. military bases in different parts of the
world," the spokesman said.

http://tinyurl.com/m2vbx
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Millions of refugees are hidden victims of the West's war on
terror
Refugees fleeing persecution or civil war are becoming the hidden
victims of the West's obsession with combating terrorism, the United
Nations will warn in a report published today.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article358573.ece
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Most Guantanamo detainees are small fry, experts say 
The names released on Thursday by the US Defence Department did not
include a single senior figure from Al-Qaeda or other Islamic extremist
groups, nor from Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime, experts stressed.


http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/8376
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Canadian claims mistreatment by U.S agents 
Akhil Sachdeva, an accountant from India who emigrated to Canada, still
wonders why he was seized at gunpoint by U.S. agents and held for months
with hundreds of foreigners following the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/world/14375964.htm
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Intelligence Director's Budget May Near $1 Billion, Report Finds

The budget next year for National Intelligence Director John D.
Negroponte's office and the several agencies attached to it may be near
$1 billion or more, according to language buried in the report of the
House intelligence committee on the fiscal 2007 intelligence
authorization bill.

http://tinyurl.com/mct5u
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Rumsfeld torturing by remote and making his own home movies
"The secretary of defense had video teleconferences with
civilian contractors who were conducting questioning of prisoners at Abu
Ghraib, Volzer added."
WASHINGTON (AP) - A military judge Tuesday allowed defense lawyers to
call a general to testify at a court martial in the Abu Ghraib prisoner
abuse scandal, but the judge barred the defense from summoning Defense
Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.
Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, the former commander of the detention center
at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, would become the highest-ranking military
officer to testify in the cases stemming from mistreatment of inmates at
Abu Ghraib in Iraq. 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5763993,00.html
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'YOU COULD KILL WHOEVER YOU WANTED'
"I have seen innocent people being killed. IEDS go off and you
just zap any farmer that is close to you... hit him with the 50 [heavy
machine gun] or the M-16 [rifle]. Overall there was just the total
disregard - they basically jam into your head: 'This is Hajji! This is
Hajji'. You totally take the human being out of it and make them into a
video game... If you start looking at them as humans, and stuff like
that, then how are you gonna kill them?" 

http://www.medialens.org/alerts/index.php
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Unforeseen Spending on Materiel Pumps Up Iraq War Bill 
With the expected passage this spring of the largest emergency spending
bill in history, annual war expenditures in Iraq will have nearly doubled
since the U.S. invasion, as the military confronts the rapidly escalating
cost of repairing, rebuilding and replacing equipment chewed up by three
years of combat.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12791.htm
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Rocketing US war spending under fire 
A second study released on Wednesday was critical of rebuilding efforts,
saying the US had failed to make the health of ordinary Iraqi and Afghan
citizens a top priority.

http://tinyurl.com/s6moz
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Sex and money bought Iraq contracts 
A CONTRACTOR in Iraq has pleaded guilty to providing money, sex and
designer watches to US officials in exchange for more than $US8 million
($10.8 million) in reconstruction contracts.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12796.htm
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'Justice and Equality'
The dynamic between Israel and its strategic allies, on the one hand,
and the Palestinians locked in their occupied land, in refugee camps and
in Israeli prisons, on 
the other, is characterised by unilateral dictates from one powerful side
and resistance by any means possible from the other.
The US is openly trying to humiliate and oust the Hamas-led,
democratically elected Palestinian government and at the same time
talking about charity, otherwise 
known as "legitimate humanitarian aid".

http://jordantimes.com/thu/opinion/opinion5.htm
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Three Israeli artillery shells hit Gaza every minute
ISRAELI ARTILLERY SHELLS NORTH GAZA
Doha, April 19--Israeli forces resumed at noon today the heavy artillery
bombardment of Palestinian areas in north Gaza Strip.
The bombardment was focussed on al-Atatra area, west of Beit Lahya, north
of Gaza with shells landing on agrarian areas.
Eyewitnesses said three artillery shells land every minute in an
escalating military shelling in the northern part of the strip.

http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net
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Arrest Raids Target Women, Children and collective Intimidating Acts
against Nablus
NABLUS, Palestine, April 20,2006 (IPC+ Agencies) - -On 31 March 2006,
the Israeli occupation army lunched military offensive dubbed
"ongoing pressure" which premeditated to wage a staged
attrition against 15,000 population of Nablus district. 
MMN: Please overlook this article's less than perfect English.  No
doubt you will understand the essence of it, and for sure you will not
learn about it in mainstream information media.

http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_new/english/news_stories/details.asp?name=459
 
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Israeli Forces Storm Several West Bank Towns, Make Dozens of
Arrests
JENIN, Palestine, April 18, 2006 (IPC + Agencies) - - Israeli
occupation forces stormed a number of cities and towns in the West Bank
and conducted a number of search and arrest campaigns, resulting in
dozens of detainees.

http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_new/english/details.asp?name=406
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War Crimes Caught on Tape; Still No Justice - The Massacre at Qana, 10
Years Later
News of atrocious attack on civilians in Tel Aviv is coming in as I
write this article. This will be worldwide news as it should be. The
Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz says Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri said
the attack was "a natural result of the continued Israeli crimes
against our people." "Natural" as if no one ordered this
attack on civilians. A repulsive excuse.Yet the steady stream of
Palestinians killed by the Israeli army's low intensity warfare and siege
against the Palestinians, goes by almost unnoticed [26 killed including 5
children in the last three weeks].

http://www.counterpunch.org/heller04192006.html
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Israel Fires 400 Rockets on Gaza in 2 Days
Gaza Strip has been under heavy rocket attacks from Israel since
Friday, said a spokesman for the Israeli military.

http://www.zaman.com/?bl==hotnews&alt==&trh= 060416&hn=2090

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Bush raises UN action against Iran 
US President George W. Bush said he has discussed with Chinese President
Hu Jintao the possibility of the United Nations passing a motion against
Iran that could order sanctions or action going up to military
action.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18879879-38198,00.html
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US prepared to go it alone over Iran  
US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice has invoked self-defence as a
potential justification for military intervention in Iran

http://euronews.net/create_html.php?page=Þtail_info&article=54913&lng==1

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Russians withhold judgment on Iran  
Russia will decide its stance on the Iranian nuclear crisis based on a
report next week by the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the deputy
foreign minister said today.

http://www.columbiatribune.com/2006/Apr/20060420News015.asp
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Brazil follows Iran's nuclear path, but without the fuss 

As Iran faces international pressure over developing the raw material for
nuclear weapons, Brazil is quietly preparing to open its own
uranium-enrichment center, capable of producing exactly the same fuel.


http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12797.htm
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Tony Judt: A Lobby, Not a Conspiracy 
Does the Israel Lobby affect our foreign policy choices? Of course ­ that
is one of its goals. And it has been rather successful: Israel is the
largest recipient of American foreign aid and American responses to
Israeli behavior have been overwhelmingly uncritical or supportive. 

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12793.htm
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Israeli Spy Affair 
Judge grants second hearing in AIPAC case: 
In an unusual move, a US judge scheduled a second oral hearing on the
request of former American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
lobbyists to dismiss the case against them. 

http://tinyurl.com/q645p
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Israeli spy affair 
FBI wants to search papers of late columnist: 
The agents expressed interest in documents that would aid the
government's case against two former lobbyists for the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060419/1065466.asp
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The Worst President in History?
George W. Bush's presidency appears headed for colossal historical
disgrace. Barring a cataclysmic event on the order of the terrorist
attacks of September 11th, after which the public might rally around the
White House once again, there seems to be little the administration can
do to avoid being ranked on the lowest tier of U.S. preside...
OHMYGAWDLOOKATTHETERRORISTBOMB!!!!!!!

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/profile/story/9961300/the_worst_president_in_history?rnd=45488898506&has-player==true

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