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bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful === News Update === The U.S. Has A History Of Using Torture For The Past 50 years Mr. McCoy is J.R.W. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006). In April 2004, Americans were stunned when CBS broadcast those now-notorious photographs from Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, showing hooded Iraqis stripped naked while U.S. soldiers stood by smiling. As this scandal grabbed headlines around the globe, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld insisted that the abuses were "perpetrated by a small number of U.S. military," whom New York Times" columnist William Safire soon branded "creeps"--a line that few in the press had reason to challenge. http://hnn.us/articles/32497.html === American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America Video - . Hedges describes what he considers to be the movement's ideological ancestors - the Italian and German fascist movements of the early 20th century - and also argues that contemporary "American Fascism" manifests itself in militant, sexist, and homophobic behaviors and policies. http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/376/59/ === Dictatorship : Obsessed by personalities, they've forgotten what democracy is for The US media is gripped by election fever - but discusses the candidates' highs and lows rather than the real social issues http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2005943,00.html === 9/11 : The view from Guantanamo Bay GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA - In what looks like a strangely choreographed dance, they pace. Guards in camouflage and tan military boots walk non-stop back and forth along two floors of cells. Their eyes are trained on the row of small windows through which they watch detainees also on the move. A few are sitting, one is rocking back and forth, but most of them pace, almost keeping step with the guards. This is Camp 6, the holding centre for nearly half of the 395 detainees still housed at the U.S. naval base on the southeast corner of Cuba. Canadian Omar Khadr now lives in this modern building modelled after a Michigan prison. Officials boast that the guards are better protected here than in other camps and that detainees enjoy more privacy and new amenities, including air conditioning. But lawyers for the detainees say the isolation "there's little or no contact with others at this facility" is driving the men mad. http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/178082 === 9/11 : The view from Guantanamo Bay GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA - In what looks like a strangely choreographed dance, they pace. Guards in camouflage and tan military boots walk non-stop back and forth along two floors of cells. Their eyes are trained on the row of small windows through which they watch detainees also on the move. A few are sitting, one is rocking back and forth, but most of them pace, almost keeping step with the guards. This is Camp 6, the holding centre for nearly half of the 395 detainees still housed at the U.S. naval base on the southeast corner of Cuba. http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/178082 === Bush admin. to ask for $700,000,000,000 for Military The Bush administration will seek congressional approval of more than $700 billion in military spending this year, including $245 billion to fund the ongoing wars of aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan, top officials told the press Friday. The gargantuan funding request will be formally unveiled and sent to Congress Monday. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/feb2007/war-f05.shtml === Failed States: The US and Israel Iran, a nation with a 5,000 year history, is certainly not a failed state. The main failed states in the Middle East are those that are US puppets. They represent American hegemony, not the interests of their people. http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/359/2/ === Why They Hate Us: Some Examples YouTube gives some examples of why Iraqis may have a less than positive view of US occupiers. I am not only amazed at what some of these videos show, but also the fact that the soldiers who shot the videos were apparently proud of their behavior. Driving in Baghdad : I first saw this one on MSNBC. Col. Jack Jacobs explained that this is the way US forces in Iraq are now trained to drive in Baghdad. US Soldiers Taunt Kids With Water : US soldiers conduct "kid races" where they use precious clean drinking water in the same way they use the fake rabbit at the greyhound races. US Soldiers Punish Looters of Firewood : Speaks for itself. It would be hard to argue that any of the victims in these videos were deserving of this behavior. http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/02/04/why-they-hate-us-some-examples/ === IRAQI RESISTANCE; BUILDING PEACE THROUGH DEFEATING AGGRESSION Ambassador Dr. Saeed Hasan Almusawi, Former Iraqi Permanent Representative to UN The aim of this paper is to render homage to Iraqi people, whose resistance and sacrifices accelerated the decline of the Uni-polar World Order. The Peace Movements around the world are urged to express solidarity with Iraqi resistance. the victory of Iraqi resistance is a victory for the International community in its struggle to defeat war mongers and create a New World Order based on respect of International Law and the right of peoples to live in peace. http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0207/saeed_050207.htm === Armed groups take control of Baaquba while the government focuses on the Bush-Baghdad scheme Diyala province is north and a little east of Baghdad, bordering Iran, and in recent months there have been reports of battles for control between Sunni and Shiite militias. Al-Hayat reports today on recent events in Diyala that indicate the security situation there has deteriorated, partly as a result of the government's concentration on the new Baghdad security plan. The vice-president of the Diyala provincial council, Hassan Bajlan, announced last week the fall of Baaquba into the hands of "armed persons and terrorist groups and Baathist remnants." http://arablinks.blogspot.com/2007/02/armed-groups-take-control-of-baaquba.html === Video shows fighters downing US chopper VIDEO - An al Qaeda-backed group the Islamic State in Iraq on Sunday issued a video which it said showed its fighters downing a US helicopter northwest of Baghdad. http://snipurl.com/19g86 === Top secret army cell recruiting Iraqi insurgent double agents Deep inside the heart of the "Green Zone", the heavily fortified administrative compound in Baghdad, lies one of the most carefully guarded secrets of the war in Iraq. It is a cell from a small and anonymous British Army unit that goes by the deliberately meaningless name of the Joint Support Group (JSG), and it has proved to be one of the Coalition's most effective and deadly weapons in the fight against terror. http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2007/040207cell.htm === UK Telegraph Reveals Brit Terrorist Ops in Iraq It is interesting the Telegraph.co.uk, "Lord" Conrad Blacks online version of a neocon newspaper, would publish a story admitting that the Joint Support Group, described as "a cell from a small and anonymous British Army unit," manages "covert human intelligence sources or agents," including double agents, that is to say the Brits are engaged in terrorist operations, as long suspected. "During the [Irish] Troubles, the JSG operated under the cover name of the Force Research Unit (FRU), which between the early 1980s and the late 1990s managed to penetrate the very heart of the IRA. By targeting and then 'turning members of the paramilitary organization with a variety of 'inducements" ranging from blackmail to bribes, the FRU operators developed agents at virtually every command level within the IRA," explains Sean Rayment. http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=751 === Occupation forces and death militias executed eight children in AL-Samra village Iraqirabita released a video shows women and children among the arrested in Najaf [watch: here], the video confirms an the earlier report broadcast by "Democracy Now" interviewing an Iraqi doctor from Najaf saying that women and children among the dead and injured contrary to what the "Green Zone" government and the American said. The crime of Najaf caused the so called "Iraqi Parliament" to delay their session today after Parliament spokesman "Al-Mashhadani" read a letter from tribal leaders in south Iraq saying that Najaf events will cause dangerous consequences in the future, Mashhadani refused to say who sent this letter for security reasons. http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2007/02/04/occupation-forces-and-death-militias-executed-eight-children-in-al-samra-village/ === Iraqis blame U.S. in suicide bombing "I saw with my own eyes young children flying from the windows of the apartments on top of the shops when the explosion arrived," said Haydar Abdul Jabbar, 28, a car mechanic who was standing near a barber shop when the bomb exploded. http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/05/news/iraq.php === The Battle for Kirkuk, Middle East Explosion and Why Uruknet is Censored In the privatization juggernaut, looms the ever growing conflict over Kirkuk's privatization. Iraq's new oil law is STILL being contested by the various parties concerned. (He who claims possession to the ground will reap the profits). Thus, regarding Kirkuk between Kurdistan's regional government, Iraq's puppet central goverment and Turkey http://karlmarxwasright.blogspot.com/2007/01/battle-for-kirkuk-middle-east.html === Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 4 February 2007. * US troops storm house near al-Fallujah, execute four men for no apparent reason. * Resistance men battle US troops in al-Fallujah Saturday-Sunday night. * US troops reported dead in day of active Resistance attacks in Baghdad. * Resistance bomb kills four western security men working for US military near American Camp Kalsu north of al-Hillah. * Resistance hits joint US-Iraqi puppet base with heavy mortars Sunday morning, Hit. * Resistance fidai fighter kills nine puppet al-Anbar Salvation Council police in attack in Hit on Saturday. * Resistance fighters foil attempt by Jaysh al-Mahdi to storm Sunni mosque in Baghdad. * Resistance mortar shell slams into house of puppet army general. * Car bomb targets sectarian fighters in Baghdad Sunday afternoon. === Ethnic Cleansing in Jerusalem, Israeli Style Israeli authorities are carrying out a process in East Jerusalem that can accurately be described as ethnic cleansing. It is plainly geared to uproot Palestinians from an area that historically has been known as Arab East Jerusalem and convert it into an integral, permanent part of the capital of the Jewish state. The scandalous process is recognized and deplored by the major news media in Britain and elsewhere and even by some newspapers in Israel, but it is predictably ignored in the United States. http://www.imemc.org/article/46757 === Police: Six Defense Ministry officials confess to taking bribes Six Defense Ministry officials have admitted they took gifts from contractors but denied they were given in return for ensuring those contractors won tenders held by the ministry, the Police International Crime Unit said Monday. A joint police and Defense Ministry investigation has revealed that three managers and three inspectors of the ministry's administration, maintenance and property management division accepted benefits in the form of gifts, in restaurants meals and renovation work at their homes. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/822077.html === AP Poll: Bush worse than Satan http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5e97f86945 === Timing of Hicks charges 'an act of bastardry' The Australian lawyer for David Hicks has accused the US military of an act of bastardry for waiting until the departure of his legal team to announce new charges. http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200702/s1840537.htm === The CIA Leak: Boring In on the Veep The new testimony could make things more awkward for Cheney, due to be called as a defense witness soon http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16960657/site/newsweek/ === 'Half of voters' want Tony Blair to quit immediately Tony Blair was under fresh pressure to quit Downing Street today after a poll found more than half of voters want him to step down immediately. http://www.24dash.com/centralgovernment/16066.htm === -muslim voice- ______________________________________ BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
