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Today's News From Around The World Wednesday 21 February 2007

Bin Laden Expert Steps Forward Michael Scheuer is the senior intelligence analyst who created and advised a secret CIA unit for tracking and eliminating bin Laden since 1996.

"In 1993 Osama bin Laden began speaking in detail to Muslim and Western journalists about his beliefs, goals, and intentions, and began publishing commentaries on these matters in the media.... While bin Laden's words have not been a torrent, they are plentiful, carefully chosen, plainly spoken, and precise. He has set out the Muslim world's problems as he sees them; determined that they are caused by the United States; explained why they must be remedied; and outlined how he will try to do so. Seldom in America's history has an enemy laid out so clearly the basis for the war he is waging against it."

"The Afghan jihad confronted the theoreticians of democratic Islam with a hard reality. The Red Army was not defeated by a democratic revolution, but by an Islamist revolution grounded, guided, and steeled by God's words as found in the Koran and explained by the Prophet. Driven by their faith, the Mujahideen [sic] uses bullets, not votes, to win one for Allah, and by so doing revalidated jihad as Islam's normative response to attack."

It's always been hard for me to understand how we say people who supports Osama Bin Laden or someone else like him – who are willing to give their lives to destroy the dictatorship in Saudi Arabia – how we can describe those people as people who hated freedom. It seems to me that their definition of freedom might be different than ours, but to oppose a dictatorship, one must want freedom in some kind of way.

"I don't consider Osama Bin Laden to be a terrorist. I consider him to be a resistance fighter"

Is there anything about bin Laden that Americans don't know, but should? "Yeah, I think there is. I think our leaders over the last decade have done the American people a disservice in continuing to characterize Osama bin Laden as a thug, as a gangster, as a degenerate personality, as some kind of abhorrent individual."

Must Read Structured Cruelty- Learning to be a Lean, Mean Killing Machine What I learned about Marines is that despite the stereotype of the chivalrous knight, wearing dress blues with sword drawn, or the green killing machine that is always "ready to rumble," the young men and women I encountered instead comprised a cross-section of working-class America. There were neither knights nor machines among us. During my five years in active-duty service, I befriended a recovering meth addict who was still "using," a young male who had prostituted himself to pay his rent before he signed-up, an El Salvadorian immigrant serving in order to receive a green card, a single mother who could not afford her child's healthcare needs as a civilian, a gay teenager who entertained our platoon by singing Madonna karaoke in the barracks to the delight of us all, and many of the country's poor and poorly educated. I came to understand very well what those cries on top of the Grim Reaper expressed. Those teardrops represented hope in the promise of a change in our lives from a world that, for many of us as civilians, seemed utterly hopeless.

After the playing of Taps, lights went out. At which time, a DI would circle around the room and begin moralizing. "One of these days, you're going to figure out what's really tough in the world," he would exclaim. "You think you've got it so bad. But in recruit training, you get three meals a day while we tell you when to shit and blink," he continued. The DI would then lower his voice, "But when you're out on your own, you're gonna see what's hard. You'll see what tough is when you knock up your old woman. You'll realize what's cruel when you get married and find yourself stuck with a fat bitch who just squats out ungrateful kids. You'll learn what the real world's about when you're overseas and your wife back in the states robs you blind and sleeps with your best friend." The DI's nightly homiletic speeches, full of an unabashed hatred of women, were part of the second phase of boot camp, the process of rebuilding recruits into Marines.

US soldier tells court of Iraq rape-murder A U.S. soldier under court-martial at a Kentucky military base broke down in tears on Wednesday as he described how he and others planned the rape of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl, murdered along with her family. Sgt. Paul Cortez, 24, is the second U.S. soldier to plead guilty to raping the girl and killing her and her family in Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad, in March 2006. The soldiers then poured kerosene on the girl's body and lit her on fire in an attempt to cover up the crime. Cortez, wearing a dress green uniform and flanked by his civilian and military lawyers, described how he, Spc. James Barker and a since-discharged soldier, Pvt. Steven Green, planned the attack over liquor and a game of cards.

"While we were playing cards Barker and Green started talking about having sex with an Iraqi female. Barker and Green had already known..." Cortez said before breaking down. He bowed his head and remained silent, sniffling occasionally, for a full minute before continuing. "Barker and Green had already known what, um, house they wanted to go to ... knew only one male was in the house, and knew it would be an easy target," Cortez said.

Once at the house, Green, the suspected ringleader, took the girl's mother, father and little sister into a bedroom, Cortez said, while he and Barker took the teenager, Abeer Qassim al-Janabi, to the living room.

"She kept squirming and trying to keep her legs closed and saying stuff in Arabic," Cortez said.

"During the time me and Barker were raping Abeer, I heard five or six gunshots that came from the bedroom. After Barker was done, Green came out of the bedroom and said that he had killed them all, that all of them were dead," Cortez said.

"Green then placed himself between Abeer's legs to rape her," Cortez said, sniffing audibly. When Green was finished, he "stood up and shot Abeer in the head two or three times." The entire crime took about five minutes to carry out, he added.

Cortez said the girl knew her parents and sister had been shot while she was being raped. He said she screamed and cried throughout the assault.

Iraq Mujahideen shot down another American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military helicopter A American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military Black Hawk helicopter was shot down by Mujahideen on Wednesday in a rural area, 30 kilometers north of Baghdad.

In defeat Britain Christian kafir terrorists occupation military to withdraw 1,600 troops from Iraq Britain will withdraw around 1,600 of its terrorists soldiers from Iraq in the "coming months," aiming to cut its force to below 5,000 by late summer if Iraqi forces can secure the southern part of the country, Prime Minister Tony Blair said today. British Christian kafir terrorists occupation military troops will stay in Iraq until at least 2008 and work to secure the Iran-Iraq border and maintain supply routes to American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military and coalition terrorists troops in central Iraq, Blair told the House of Commons. "The actual reduction in forces will be from the present 7,100 -- itself down from over 9,000 two years ago and 40,000 at the time of the conflict -- to roughly 5,500," Blair said.

Denmark to withdraw all troops from Iraq in August Denmark will withdraw all of its 460 troops stationed in Iraq in August, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen announced on Wednesday.

Iraqi Mujahideen attacks against the enemies of Islam for Tuesday Mujahideen bomb reportedly kills four American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military Marines on patrol in ‘Anah Tuesday morning. American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military troops raid hospital in Bayji taking away only doctors there. Hospital shuts down in protest. Mujahideen bomb leaves four American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military troops reported dead near Ba‘qubah Tuesday afternoon.

Two tanks of American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led NATO terrorists army soldiers were destroyed in Helmand Wednesday afternoon at 12:00 pm Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan ambushed on American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led NATO terrorists army soldiers convey in Babajai Hadira area near the Lashkerga city of Helmand province. In result 2 tanks of American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led NATO terrorists army soldiers were demolished, also the troopers of this tanks were killed or wounded, but there were no correct details about the number of enemies killed or wounded. The killed and wounded were later transported by American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led NATO terrorists army soldiers with helicopter.

In a fight 8 American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led Afghan National army terrorists munafiq soldiers were killed in Kandahar Wednesday morning a heavy clash happened between Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led Afghan National army terrorists soldiers in Boragani area of Shawalikot district of Kandahar province. In this fight which continued for 4 hours, 8 American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led Afghan National army terrorists soldiers were killed and a large number were wounded. The fighting which started at 10:00 am and end at 2:00 pm and 3 Mujahideen were wounded.

Taliban: Spring offensive is coming Mullah Dadullah, the Taliban's Mujahideen commander, has told Al Jazeera that he has deployed more than 6,000 of his Mujahideen in preparation for a spring offensive against the Afghan puppet government and its allies. "The attack is imminent," he told Al Jazeera's Arabic channel in an interview aired on Wednesday. "The number of Taliban Mujahideen who are ready to launch the spring battle has reached 6000," he told Ahmed Zeidan, the Kabul bureau chief of Al Jazeera's Arabic channel. Dadullah said that the Mujahideen were concealed in tunnels and elsewhere in preparation for launching their attack. He said he might even be able to deploy even more Mujahideen if Nato troop increases continued to prompt more Afghans to take up arms. "It may rise to 10.000," he said. "The more the number of Jewish and Christian soldiers who fight us increases, the more the Afghan people will be encouraged to join us." Taliban commanders also told Al Jazeera that they had obtained new weapons suitable for use against helicopters. Dadullah's warnings came as Ali Jan Orkazi, the governor of the North West Frontier province of neighbouring Pakistan, said that the Taliban was growing stronger. "As time passes, Taliban becomes more powerful," he told Al Jazeera. "Today, they have reached a stage where many local residents support them. This makes it [the movement] evolve into a kind of a national and resistance movement; a kind of a liberation war against the coalition forces." Source Al Jazeera

New fighting operations reported in Djokhar and on the south of Chechnya

Kashmir group denies role in India train bombing Lashkar-i-Taiba Wednesday denied involvement in this week's bombing of a cross-border India-Pakistan train, saying its activities were confined to the restive occupied Kashmir where it was fighting against the Indian rule. Lashkar issued the denial in a statement published Wednesday on the website of Greater Kashmir, a regional English-language daily. “We don't believe in such brutal acts and killing of innocents; our activities are confined to Jammu and Kashmir where Mujahideen are fighting occupational forces,” Abdullah Gaznavi, the group's spokesman, said in the telephoned statement. “It's the handiwork of the Indian agencies and the Shiv Sena,” Gaznavi charged.

The Ecology of Commerce "One statistic makes clear the demand placed on the earth by our economic system: every day the worldwide economy burns an amount of energy the planet required 10,000 days (27 years) to create."

"...Germany, formerly the most wasteful nation in Europe, now (is) the leader in recycling. (But they still have a ways to go, still averaging yearly 824 pounds of waste per household. At 1900 pounds per household, we Americans have even farther to go; we're the world's worst wasters. With just 5 percent of the world's population, we produce 50 percent of its solid waste.)"

Every natural system in the world today is in decline. The loss of habitat and of biodiversity is not only continuining, but is in fact accelerating. Multinational corporations have become so large and so successful at exploiting the earth's natural resources that we are witnessing the physical limits being reached.

US Health Care Spending Seen Doubling in 10 Years A government report released on Wednesday found that US spending on prescription drugs, hospital care and other health services is expected to double to $4.1 trillion over the next decade, up from $2.1 trillion in 2006. National Health Statistics Group economists said in their projections looking at 2006 to 2016: Nearly 20 cents of every dollar spent in 10 years will go toward health care. Greater spending for prescription medications is expected to fuel much of the increase, especially amid more aggressive treatment of diabetes, heart issues and conditions affecting the central nervous system.

Islamic finance Islamic banking and financial institutions grew along with political Islam: it declined, they did not. In fact, Islamic finance is now a confident part of the new global world of venture capital, ethical investment and profit-and-loss sharing.

The assets of Islamic financial institutions now top the 0bn mark. That is more than a 40-fold increase since 1982 (1). Most of the large Western financial institutions, following the example of Citibank, have their own Islamic subsidiaries or, at the very least, Islamic "windows" or products aimed at their Islamic clientele. As proof of how many companies are compatible with Islamic law - and not just from within the Muslim world - there is now even a Dow Jones Islamic market index.

This may seem strange. We often hear it said that Islam is incompatible with the new world order that emerged with the end of the cold war (2). How can practices rooted in the Middle Ages thrive in the age of technology-driven global finance? Or institutions that are suspicious of interest operate within a global, interest-based financial system? And how can Islamic finance, often considered a facet of political Islam, experience its most rapid growth just as that same political Islam is on the wane (3)?

Guantanamo Ruling Comparable to Dredd Scott, Korematsu There was a wide range of condemnation recorded in reaction to Tuesday's court ruling upholding an act of Congress that deprived Guantanamo Bay prisoners of the right to challenge their detention in lower federal courts. The decision effectively denied the Guantanamo detainees virtually all access to due process and will almost certainly set in motion legal challenges that will be in the courts for years to come. The Miami Herald recorded a sampling of the reaction to the decision: Hina Shamsi, deputy director of Human Rights First's Law and Security Program said: "The ruling by the Court of Appeals runs counter to one of the most important checks on unbridled executive power enshrined in the US Constitution: the right to challenge imprisonment in a full and fair proceeding." Center for Constitutional Rights legal director Bill Goodman said: "We call on the legal profession and all Americans concerned about the loss of liberty undertaken by the Bush administration and now rubber stamped by the Court of Appeals to join with us in taking this fight to the United States Supreme Court."

Three thousand new Jewish homes being built: watchdog More than 3,000 Jewish settlement housing units are being built in the occupied West Bank where the Jewish population is growing steadily, Israel's anti-settlement watchdog Peace Now said Wednesday. In its annual report on settlements -- considered illegal under international law -- the organisation said the largest sites of construction were in Maale Adumim, east of Jerusalem, Modiin Illit and Beitar Illit. In addition, another 90 caravans were added to wildcat outposts -- which unlike full settlements are not authorised by Israel -- and of which permanent construction is taking place in 30, Peace Now said.

'Dealing with Iran crucial to Israel' It was important for Israel to develop defensive capabilities, but hopefully they will not be forced to use them, said Kyl, referring to the newly tested Arrow missile. Kyl was instrumental in securing US funding for the system. "This relationship has yielded great and crucial results in the past," said Steinitz. "These ongoing visits highlight the Americans' commitment to Israel."

Palestine's Martyred Zionist terrorists martyred an official of Palestine's Islamic Jihad Movement in Jenin in the West Bank on Wednesday. According to hospital officials in the West Bank: Israeli special Forces wearing Palestinian clothes shot Mahmoud Qasem Abu Obeid's vehicle and martyred him. He belonged to Qods battalion and was 25 years old.

Muslim clerics launch petition to UN chief on Jerusalem mosque Muslim clerics launched a campaign Tuesday to stop controversial Israeli excavation work near Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque, vowing to collect one million signatures on a petition to the UN chief. The clerics, including Egyptian-born Yussef al-Qaradawi, rallied in the Qatari capital Doha to launch the drive, which includes plans to sign up one million people across the Arab and Islamic worlds to the petition that will be presented to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

Exclusive- The Official Draft of the Oil and Gas Law of The Iraq Republic, 15 Jan 2007 (Update 1) To help the Iraqi Ministry Of Oil focus on its main duties of creating policies, planning, and supervision, while achieving the necessary upgrading to enhance operational quality, the oil activates operated solely by the Ministry of Oil have to be transferred to technical and commercial entities and institutions including an independent national Iraqi oil company, and the Iraqi provinces and regions should be given more authorities.

WHEREAS. the rehabilitation and further development of the petroleum Industry will be enhanced by the participation of international and national investors of recognized technical, managerial and operational skills as welt as robust capital resources to help upgrade and develop national expertise and efficiency in the petroleum sector;

US gets new eyes and ears in the sky After years of negotiations, Australia has agreed to host a new US military communications base. The facility will relay data, including instant intelligence, graphics and maps, from a new generation of satellites to ground forces in Asia and the Middle East. The base will also link with a mysterious giant global signals eavesdropping web that the US operates - and which has been exploited for commercial espionage.

China targets more than a satellite Every country will view China's feat of destroying an orbiting satellite through a different prism. The US will undoubtedly see it as a direct challenge to its dominance of space. Taiwan will see it as a way of preventing a move toward independence. Japan will see it as a provocation and a possible spur to move it even further from its official pacifism.

Final India-US nuclear deal may come by early 2008: Burns The India-US civil nuclear deal paving the way for resumption of nuclear commerce between the two countries after 30 years may well become a reality by early 2008, suggests chief US negotiator Nicholas Burns. The US under secretary of state for political affairs is set to have discussions on the whole gamut of bilateral relations with visiting Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon here Wednesday. Once negotiations over implementing the bilateral 123 agreement are completed, the accord will come up for US Congressional approval in an up or down vote with no room for amendment by the end of this year or early 2008, he said at a dinner hosted Monday by the US-India Friendship Council. President George Bush will then sign the final bill into law. "I am determined that we are going to get there as quickly as possible - I know we will," he said and added, "We will continue to rely on this bipartisan support that's being built up as we go along." The US official appreciated the role played by the Indian-American community in convincing members of the US Congress to support the deal and said the enactment of the enabling legislation "really was the coming out party of the Indian-American community in the United States".

India's anti-Iran votes were coerced, says former U.S. official "The best illustration of this is the two votes India cast against Iran at the IAEA," he said, adding: "I am the first person to admit that the votes were coerced." A key role in the entire process was played by the Congressional hearings on the nuclear deal, the former State Department official noted.

India bans export of nuclear technology, material to Iran India on Wednesday imposed a ban on export of any material and technology to Iran that could be used in development of its nuclear weapons and delivery systems. The decision is in compliance with the UN Security Council resolution of last year. The Central government has notified the decision to prohibit export and import of all items, materials and technologies that could contribute to Iran's enrichment-related activities. "Direct or indirect export and import of all items, materials, equipment, goods and technology which could contribute to Iran's enrichment-related, reprocessing or heavy water related activities, or to the development of nuclear weapon delivery systems... whether or not originating in Iran to/from Iran is prohibited," the notification issued by Directorate General of Foreign Trade said. However, there would be some exceptions such as equipment meant for light water reactors and low-enriched uranium when it is incorporated in assembled nuclear fuel elements for such reactors.

India, Pakistan sign nuke deal India and Pakistan signed Wednesday a deal to reduce the risk of a nuclear arms accident. The New Delhi signing ceremony took place in public after Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee and his Pakistani counterpart, Khurshid Kasuri, held an hour and 45 minutes of talks. “The holding of the joint commission meeting as scheduled is a reaffirmation of the commitment of both India and Pakistan to the dialogue process,” Mukherjee told reporters.“You have also witnessed the signing this morning of the agreement between India and Pakistan on reducing the risk of accidents relating to nuclear weapons.”

Western values break British Society Even the severity of the law does not deter people from committing crime. Thus, for many years, Western governments have struggled to reduce the growing number of pedophiles, rapists, drug addicts, joy riders, burglars, fraudsters, sleazy politicians, unscrupulous businessmen and the like – no matter how many laws they enact or how much time and money they spend on policing. This does not need to be the case. Rather, what lies at the heart of the issue is the incorrect understanding in Western societies of crime and its causes; this has led to Western governments implementing ineffective solutions to combat crime.

February 20 2007

martyrdom attack kills a large number of American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers in Khost Tuesday at 10:00 am a Mujahid of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Adil performed a martyrdom attack on American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers in the capital of Khost province, where high rank officers were inaugurating a project. In result a large number of American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led NATO terrorists army soldiers were killed and wounded but there were no correct details of casualties of the enemies of Islam.

The claim of American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led Afghan National Army about occupation of Bakwa district is untrue Two days ago Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate captured the Bakwa district of Farah province and captured 22 American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led Afghan National Army terrorists soldiers, 5 pickup vehicles and 40 fire weapons were booty of Mujahideen. This district is still in control of Mujahideen and the American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led NATO terrorists army and Afghan National army terrorists soldiers fled from the area but the American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led Afghan National Army terrorists soldiers claimed that: they captured the district, but this claim is un true. Propaganda report Afghan forces retake western town Afghan security forces supported by NATO troops on Tuesday retook a town in western Afghanistan that briefly fell to Taliban militants, an official said. About 200 Afghan police and soldiers moved into the remote town of Bakwa in Farah province early Tuesday and faced no resistance, said Gov. Muhajuddin Baluch. He said some NATO troops joined the operation. The Afghan forces were searching the vicinity for the militants, who moved into Bakwa on Monday and briefly held it and then left, taking three seized vehicles with them, he said.

In a fight 7 American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led NATO terrorists army soldiers and 8 Afghan National army terrorists soldiers were killed in Kunar Today at morning a heavy clash happened between Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led NATO terrorists army soldiers and Afghan National army munafiq terrorists soldiers in Kamodish district of Kunar province. In result 7 American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led NATO terrorists army soldiers and 8 Afghan National army terrorists soldiers, two vehicles were demolished and two Mujahideen were wounded. Also yesterday in another clash which happened in Naray district of Kunar, 5 American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldier were killed.

A commander of American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led Afghan National army was killed In Ghoar province Monday at noon Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan ambushed Amanullah Khan commander of American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military led Afghan National Army in Charsady district of Ghoar province, killing him and 4 of his guards were wounded.

Waziristan Mujahideen behead, 'American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military spy' Authorities in North Waziristan tribal district found the body of the Afghan national dumped on a road late Monday with a note identifying the man as “American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military spy Nek Amal,” sources said.

Iraqi Mujahideen attacks against the enemies of Islam for Monday Five American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldier reported killed when Mujahideen bomb targets American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldier transport vehicle in ar-Ramadi. Mujahideen brings down two puppet police stations with truck bombs Monday morning, leaving 70 puppet policemen dead or wounded. Mujahideen bomb in al-Fallujah reportedly kills three American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldier. Six American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldier reported killed in Sunday afternoon bombing in al-Hadithah. Triple car bomb attack on American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military camp near at-Tarimiyah launches complex Mujahideen assault on American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military facility. American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military helicopter kills two civilians in al-Miqdadiyah Sunday night.

Australia to change light bulbs to curb warming Australia will be the world's first country to ban incandescent light bulbs in a bid to curb Greenhouse gas emissions, with the government saying on Tuesday they would be phased out within three years. Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull said yellow incandescent bulbs, which have been in use virtually unchanged for 125 years, would be replaced by more efficient compact fluorescent bulbs by 2009. "By that stage you simply won't be able to buy incandescent light bulbs, because they won't meet the energy standard," Turnbull told local radio. Australia along with the U.S. has refused to sign up to the Kyoto Protocol setting Greenhouse Gas reduction targets, calling instead for an agreement requiring energy-hungry developing countries like India and China to help combat climate change.

Three worshippers of idols Indian terrorists troops killed in attack In occupied Kashmir, three Indian troops were shot dead and two injured in separate attacks in Islamabad and Doda districts, today. Two troops were shot dead at Sangam Bridge in Islamabad while another at Moghal Maidan in Doda.

Ahmadinejad rejects UN nuclear deadline Shia kafir President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday rejected a looming UN deadline for Iran to suspend uranium enrichment. “We are in favour of dialogue. But in order for us to talk they are imposing a condition that would deprive us of our right,” Ahmadinejad said in a public rally in Gilan province. “If they say that our nuclear production plant and its fuel cycle should be shut down, this is fine. But justice necessitates that those who want to negotiate should halt their own nuclear fuel cycles!” he said.

An interview with media professor Cees Hamelink on fear, terror, 9/11 and Iran

Daan de Wit: At this conference today, but also in the mass media, we talk about the War on Terror, we talk about Bin-Laden, Al-Qaeda, we talk about Al-Qaeda attacking the United States on September 11th. Why is not so that mass media, and we also here today, do not question this 'War on Terror'? Or ask the question if there is actually anything like Al-Qaeda? Thanks to the BBC documentary The Power of Nightmares we know it's highly unlikely that there's such a thing as Al-Qaeda. From professor David R. Griffin –who sold a 100.000 copies of The New Pearl Harbor- and from the documentary Loose Change, we know it's highly improbable that Al-Qaeda attacked the United States…

Cees Hamelink: 'If you have certain political purposes, whatever they may be, then it may well be that coining the phrase a 'war on terror', or framing an attack as an act of war, is very helpful. It helps you to do certain things that you otherwise could not do. I'm always amazed at ease at which you can manipulate media, and even fairly good and credible quality media, to follow this. And language of course is very important, because that act in New York at 9/11, again, it could had been framed as a criminal act. Now think about what enormous difference it would have been if not president Bush had been the president, who called it a war, but if Al Gore had become the president and Al Gore had said that this has been a criminal act and that he'd send the FBI after the guys who had done this. History would taken a totally different course. But the problem is since there's so little criticism of these notions, why do media just unquestionably adopt the phrase 'a War on Terror'?

Another example: A Iraqi/Dutch citizen is arrested, someone who's now surrendered to the United States, because he's suspected of terrorist acts in Iraq, he's suspected of having attacked American soldiers. All media write about him as a terrorism suspect, but in legal terms that's not what he is. In legal terms he's someone who resisted the occupation of his country by foreign forces, which in international law is quite accepted. To phrase that as terrorism is a totally different ball game. I can understand that the Americans and other governments do that, but I can't understand why media allow themselves this way to be manipulated by spin-doctors. Sometimes it's just sheer stupidity or reckless incompetence, sometimes it's patriotism, sometimes it's the feeling that you need to take sides. Sometimes it's the feeling that in journalism you've got to be certain, you can't say to your audience that you don't know. Sometimes it's strange conceptions about how evil is perpetrated and sometimes it's too much understanding for victims and too little understanding for perpetrators. It's all these factors together that begin to tell us a little bit about why this happens.'

Court rules against Guantanamo detainees Civil libertarians and leading Democrats decried the law as unconstitutional and a violation of American values. The law allows the government to indefinitely detain foreigners who have been designed as “enemy combatants” and authorizes the CIA to use aggressive but undefined interrogation tactics. But the most criticized provision of the law was the one stripping U.S. courts of the authority to hear arguments from detainees who said they were being held illegally. Attorneys argued that the detainees aren’t covered by that provision and that the law is unconstitutional.

Big Brother IS Watching YOU !!!! U.S.: Republican calls for email and IM monitoring A bill introduced to the US House of Representatives would require ISPs to record all users' surfing activity, IM conversations and email traffic indefinitely. The bill, dubbed the Safety Act by sponsor Lamar Smith, a republican congressman from Texas, would impose fines and a prison term of one year on ISPs which failed to keep full records.

Depleted Uranium- Pernicious Killer Keeps on Killing We must also consider the real possibility of Iraq as an uninhabitable wasteland, with the residue of the DU aerosol blowing in the wind and flowing in the waters to adjacent lands, a residue with a half-life of 4.5 billion years. Is this outlook too bleak? Dr. Jawad Al-Ali, director of the Oncology Center at the largest hospital in Basra said the following in 2003. "Two strange phenomena have come about in Basra which I have never seen before. The first is double and triple cancers in one patient.... We have 58 families here with more than one person affected by cancer.... My wife has nine members of her family with cancer." He went on to point out that these were families with no history of cancer. After Gulf War I, the United Kingdom's Atomic Energy Authority estimated that DU contamination could kill half a million Iraqis.

The Rape of Sabrine... Everyone knows American forces and Iraqi security forces are raping women (and men), but this is possibly the first woman who publicly comes out and tells about it using her actual name. Hearing her tell her story physically makes my heart ache. Some people will call her a liar. Others (including pro-war Iraqis) will call her a prostitute- shame on you in advance. I wonder what excuse they used when they took her. It’s most likely she’s one of the thousands of people they round up under the general headline of 'terrorist suspect’. She might have been one of those subtitles you read on CNN or BBC or Arabiya, "13 insurgents captured by Iraqi security forces." The men who raped her are those same security forces Bush and Condi are so proud of- you know- the ones the Americans trained. It’s a chapter right out of the book that documents American occupation in Iraq: the chapter that will tell the story of 14-year-old Abeer who was raped, killed and burned with her little sister and parents.

Now It Is Lack of Food Security "A country with two great rivers should have been the biggest exporter in the world, but now we beg for food from those who participated in killing us." Iraq is rich in oil and agricultural resources.

Professor Israel Shahak about Jewish "Religion" "Does not their Talmud say, and do not their rabbis write, that it is no sin to kill if a Jew kills a heathen, but it is a sin if he kills a brother in Israel? It is no sin if he does not keep his oath to a heathen. Therefore, to steal and rob, as they do with their usury, from a heathen is a divine service. For they hold that they cannot be too hard on us nor sin against us, because they are of the noble blood and circumcised saints; we, however, are cursed goyim. And they are the masters of the world, and we are their servants, yea, their cattle...

"Should someone think that I am saying too much, I am not saying too much, but much too little. For I see in their writings how they curse us goyim and wish us all evil in their schools and their prayers."

Jews Run Hollywood - So What?

February 19 2007

Must Read Mystery: How Wealth Creates Poverty in the World There is a “mystery” we must explain: How is it that as corporate investments and foreign aid and international loans to poor countries have increased dramatically throughout the world over the last half century, so has poverty? The number of people living in poverty is growing at a faster rate than the world’s population. What do we make of this?

highly recommended Must watch ... you can watch or listen Dr. Michael Parenti: "Terrorism, Globalism and Conspiracy"

Martyrdom attack kills 10 American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military troops, wounds 9 A Iraqi Mujahid carried out a martyrdom attack against a American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military outpost in Tarmiyah, 30 km north of Baghdad, on Monday killing 10 American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers and wounding 9 more.

29 American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military troops killed by Mujahideen on the weekend in Iraq....

Iraqi Mujahideen attacks against the enemies of Islam for Sunday Two American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers reported killed when Mujahideen bomb sinks American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military gunboat on Euphrates near al-Fallujah – second gunboat sunk by Mujahideen in 24 hours. American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldier reported killed by Mujahideen sharpshooter in al-Fallujah. Four American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers reported killed in double bombing in al-Fallujah Saturday afternoon. Five American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers reported killed in Sunday night battle in Abu Ghurayb. Mujahideen sharpshooter reportedly kills American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldier at checkpoint in Samarra’ Sunday morning. Marine stabs comrade when argument breaks out among American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers on patrol near Kirkuk.

Iraqi Mujahideen attacks against the enemies of Islam for Saturday Mujahideen group sinks American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military gunboat near al-Hadithah Saturday afternoon, reportedly killing three American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military Marines. Eight American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military troops reported killed on relatively “quiet Saturday” in Baghdad. American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldier reported killed by Mujahideen sharpshooter in Baghdad Saturday. After 10 days of lockdown and numerous civilian deaths, Americans wind up “security operation” in ad-Dulu‘iyah. Dozens of Mujahideen launch assault on American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military headquarters near Ba‘qubah Saturday night. Three American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military vehicles set ablaze; American casualties reported. Four American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers reported killed in Mujahideen bomb attack near Ba‘qubah Saturday afternoon. Mujahideen bombs in Kirkuk target bus terminals used for the forcible eviction of Sunni Arabs from Kirkuk.

Attacked on a convoy of Canadian Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers in Kandahar city Monday night at 12:00 am Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan ambushed a convoy of Canadian Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers between Kabul Dorahi and commando Dorahi of Kandahar city. The result was that a vehicle of American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers was destroyed but there were no correct details on the number of enemies killed or wounded in this operation.

A vehicle of American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military was demolished in Kapisa province Monday evening a heavy clash happened between Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers in Jalokhail area of Tagab district of Kapisa province. In this fight which continued for one hour, one American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military vehicle was destroyed and the soldiers in that vehicle were killed or wounded, no Mujahid was injured.

Mortar shells were fired on Ismail Khil district of Khost Monday night Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan fired several mortar shells on Mandozai Ada area of Ismail Khil district of Khost province. But there were no correct details of casualties to the enemy side.

Bakwa district of Farah province was captured Monday morning Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan after a fire fight captured Bakwa district of Farah province. A vehicle was destroyed and one vehicles and a 40 fire of light heavy weapons were booty of Mujahideen, the district chief and police chief and their guards fled, The building of district was set ablaze and demolished.

Madrid bombing trial goes into third session Monday marks the third day of the biggest Al-Qaeda related trial in Europe to date as 29 people answer charges of involvement in the 2004 Madrid train bombings. In Thursday and Friday's opening sessions three of the alleged masterminds denied any involvement in the attacks, which killed 191 people and which they also condemned. One of the alleged bombers likewise said he had nothing to do with the worst terror attack in Europe since the bombing of a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. Moroccans Youssef Belhadj and Hassan el-Haski both insisted they were innocent, as fellow alleged mastermind Rabei Ousmane Sayed Ahmed had on Thursday. Just as Ousmane had before them, Belhadj and Haski refused to address the court directly, merely addressing their defence lawyers to profess their innocence while condemning the bombings. Then one of the alleged bombers, Jamal Zougam, denied being at the scene of the crime. Four witnesses say they saw the former phone shop worker on one of the targeted trains but he dismissed the claim. "It's impossible I was there. I was asleep at home," said Zougam, 33, the first suspect to appear so far to agree to address the court without restricting himself to his own defence team. Zougam's DNA has not been found at any of the blast-related sites, including the flat where the bombs are believed to have been prepared.

Scapegoating Muslims in Britain [T]he price for these constant security operations is paid...by our Muslim communities. Every such operation tars them with the brush of terrorism, an intimation to [the] rest of society that extremism lurks within their ranks...Imagine what it feels like to be a Muslim, stalked by a constant sense of distrust and suspicion? As a society we may condemn racism, but when it comes to Muslims, it seems to be somehow acceptable.

Somalia- A weekend of assassinations Meanwhile the so called government security agency virtually closed all the radio stations by preventing the 3 top stations from reporting the real truth in the city, after being summoned by the head of the security, he issued the demands which are stated below.

1- You can not report about the Somali government and Ethiopian military operations in the capital as they are considered top secret.

2- You can not report about the civilian population fleeing the city under any circumstances.

3- The remnants of the Islamic Courts Union are directly responsible for the explosions and violence in the capital Mogadishu.

4- As there is an emergency state in place in Somalia generally, there is no so called freedom of expressions.

5- The government will nominate editors for these three radio stations and they must cooperate with our agents.

The Rules of Imperial Management The world community calls them "Blue Helmets" or "peacekeepers," and the UN defines their mission as "a way to help countries torn by conflict create conditions for sustainable peace" by implementing and monitoring post-conflict peace processes former combatants have agreed to under provisions of the UN Charter. The Charter empowers the Security Council to take collective action to maintain international peace and security that includes authorizing peacekeeping operations provided a host country agrees to have them under Rules of Engagement developed and approved by all parties. At that point, the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations enlists member nations to provide force contingents to be deployed once the Security Council gives final approval.

Police unearth over 400 baby bones from Christian Medical Hospital in India Police were investigating Monday a hospital's involvement in illegal female foeticide after 437 baby bones were dug up close by the complex, a state government said Monday. Police began unearthing the bones on Saturday from Christian Medical Hospital, in central Madhya Pradesh state, after a tip-off that medical staff were carrying out illegal abortions.

Suppressed report shows cancer link to GM potatoes Brian John of GM Free Cymru, who released the findings, said the research was conducted in 1998 by the Institute of Nutrition of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and has been suppressed for eight years. It showed that the potatoes did considerable damage to the rats' organs. Those in the "control groups" that were fed non-GM potatoes suffered ill-effects, but those fed GM potatoes suffered more serious organ and tissue damage.

Fake drug, fake illness -- and people believe it! But Mahmood said it really took off over the Internet. In the first few days after the Web site (www.havidol.com) went up, it had 5,000 hits. The last time he checked it had reached a quarter of a million. "The thing that amazes me is that it has been folded into real Web sites for panic and anxiety disorder. It's been folded into a Web site for depression. It's been folded into hundreds of art blogs," he added. The parody is in response to the tactics used by the drug industry to sell their wares to the public. Consumer advertising for prescription medications, which are a staple of television advertising in the United States, was legalised in the country in 1997.

US military oil pains Yes, the US military is completely addicted to oil. Unsurprisingly, its oil consumption for aircraft, ships, ground vehicles and facilities makes the Pentagon the single largest oil consumer in the world. By the way, according to the 2006 CIA World Fact book rankings there are only 35 countries (out of 210) in the world that consume more oil per day than the Pentagon.

737 U.S. Military Bases = Global Empire With more than 2,500,000 U.S. personnel serving across the planet and military bases spread across each continent, it's time to face up to the fact that our American democracy has spawned a global empire.

Mosque discovered in ramp near Al Aqsa The site of an Israeli `archaeological’ dig that has sparked angry Muslim reaction worldwide contains what could be a Muslim prayer room (mosque), an Israeli archaeologist said on Sunday. Muslim leaders and critics of the work said the announcement of the find, three years after it was discovered, confirmed their fears that Israel's Antiquities Authority is intent on hiding Muslim attachment to the site. Israel began work nearly two weeks ago on a ramp leading to the holy site known to Muslims as the Al Aqsa. The site is at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel says the project is needed to repair damage to the ramp caused by a 2004 snowstorm, and the dig won't affect Muslim holy sites on the nearby hilltop compound.

Muslim leaders accuse Israel of plotting to destroy Islamic holy places. In an article published recently on the authority's Website, Jerusalem district archaeologist Yuval Baruch described the ruins that were discovered after the snowstorm three years ago. “In 2004, when the Mughrabi ramp collapsed, a small room was discovered which contained an alcove covered with a dome, a kind of Muslim prayer niche, facing south,” Baruch wrote. “Some suggest that these are the remains of a prayer room that was part of a madressah (a Muslim religious school) which operated near the Mughrabi gate.” Authority officials said the article was published earlier this month, around the time the project began.—

Traumatized US soldiers being treated in 'virtual Iraq' Traumatized US soldiers are being treated for post-war psychological disorders by going out on patrol in a computer-generated "virtual Iraq," experts told a conference. Skip Rizzo, a psychologist at the University of Southern California, has helped create a program that simulates life in the war zone for Iraq veterans suffering from conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The ground-breaking treatment allows soldiers to experience the sights, sounds and even the smells of a war-zone, courtesy of wrap-around goggles linked to a startlingly realistic virtual world. The idea is to re-introduce veterans to the experiences that have inflicted mental scars until gradually they are no longer haunted by the memories, a long-established therapeutic technique known as "exposure therapy."

"What we do is put somebody in a virtual Iraq but at a level where initially there will be minimal anxiety," Rizzo said at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting. "Say for example their trauma event was being blown up in a Humvee -- we might start them off just standing in the desert next to a Humvee. "Gradually we would put them in the Humvee and have them start driving down a desert road. Eventually over the course of the therapy you introduce elements that increase the realism -- bombs going off, things blowing up. "It's a gradual exposure to a realistic environment which you can't really do just through imagination." Soldiers undergoing the treatment can be placed in a variety of situations -- either as the passenger, driver or gunner in an armored vehicle or as a soldier on a foot patrol walking through an Iraqi city.

The Testimony of an Iraqi citizen who managed to escape from execution at the hands of Mahdi Army - asks Iraqirabita to reveal his story and that of the engineer who was a member of the death squad to which he fell prey What they did was humiliate and curse us with the most sectarian insults possible and torture us with electrical cables, iron rods and other things. After 9 days, they moved us to another place and fired gun shots at all the detainees and I believe they were all killed. I was hit in the foot by a bullet and they thought I was dead too.

UK: Labour will force everyone to give fingerprints at ID card interview centres Ministers plan to force all adults to travel miles at their own expense to fingerprint scanning units so their details can go onto an identity card database. From 2009, everyone will have to attend one of 69 "interview centres", whose locations are revealed today for the first time.

No more troops for Iraq, Afghanistan, says Howard Australia may increase its assistance to war-ravaged Iraq and Afghanistan but is unlikely to send more combat troops, Prime Minister John Howard said Monday. "As far as combat troops are concerned, I think the current level is appropriate and I don't expect Australia to be increasing that, and I don't expect a specific request from the vice president," Howard said. Howard stressed that any increase in trainers would be modest. Australia has deployed about 1,400 troops to Iraq, and has about 30 army instructors training the army near Tallil, south of Baghdad.

Video wolf Blitzer former AIPAC employee promoting Zionism Listen to this fascist idiot talking. This is your CNN News Anchor. This would be why the News is so bias to Israel and why they never even mention the occupation. How much of this have you ever heard reported on the MSM? Please share this video with everyone you know. Here is what you Never see explained on the MSM.

Worshippers of idols Indian army terrorists troops martyr two more Kashmiri youth Special Police Officer shot dead in Doda In occupied Kashmir, Indian troops, in their fresh act of state-terrorism, martyred two more Kashmiri youth, during crackdown operations near Chambliyal village in Jammu region.

22 American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers killed, in helicopter shot down in Helmand by Mujahideen Saturday Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan with antiaircraft weapon fire shot down an American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military Helicopter, which was going to help American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers operation against he Mujahideen between Grishk and Sangen districts of Helmand province. Possible it is the same Helicopter which American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military claimed went down Sunday. A U.S. military helicopter the CH-47 Chinook helicopter was carrying 22 U.S. service members under overcast skies when there was a "sudden, unexplained loss of power and control and crashed," U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. David Accetta said on Sunday.

6 American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers were killed in Kunar Sunday at 1:00 pm fighting between Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers in Meadan area of Kurangal of Kunar province, which continued for 2 hours, 6 American Christian kafir terrorists occupation military soldiers were killed and a vehicle was demolished, one Mujahid was wounded in this operation.

Must read Senators nail problem, flub solution There is a bizarre disjunction in the Senate defence committee's useful – and remarkably frank – analysis of Canada's military role in Afghanistan. It's as if the 11 senators on the committee, having successfully outlined the near insurmountable problems associated with the Afghan war, couldn't bring themselves to accept the logical conclusion of their own analysis.

On the one hand, their 16-page report convincingly paints a picture of a war that cannot be won. The Afghan government of President Hamid Karzai, it states bluntly, routinely shakes down its own citizens. Its army and police are, in the words of committee chair Colin Kenny, "corrupt and corrupter."

The senators say they are "impressed by the optimism of Canadian troops and their leaders to bring about positive change in Afghanistan."

But they say that this optimism is hard to square with reality. In fact, they say, Canada's military presence in the southern province of Kandahar has not made the lives of Afghan citizens any better. It has made them worse. "Life is clearly more perilous because we are there," the report concludes.

Must watch video Israel Is Spying In And On The U.S.? Investigators from numerous government agencies are part of a working group that's been compiling evidence since the mid '90s. These documents detail hundreds of incidents in cities and towns across the country that investigators say, "may well be an organized intelligence gathering activity."

The first part of the investigation focuses on Israelis who say they are art students from the University of Jerusalem and Bazala Academy. They repeatedly made contact with U.S. government personnel, the report says, by saying they wanted to sell cheap art or handiwork.

Documents say they, "targeted and penetrated military bases." The DEA, FBI and dozens of government facilities, and even secret offices and unlisted private homes of law enforcement and intelligence personnel. The majority of those questioned, "stated they served in military intelligence, electronic surveillance intercept and or explosive ordinance units."

Why would Israelis spy in and on the U.S.? A general accounting office investigation referred to Israel as country A and said, "According to a U.S. intelligence agency, the government of country A conducts the most aggressive espionage operations against the U.S. of any U.S. ally."

A defense intelligence report said Israel has a voracious appetite for information and said, "the Israelis are motivated by strong survival instincts which dictate every possible facet of their political and economical policies. It aggressively collects military and industrial technology and the U.S. is a high priority target."

The document concludes: "Israel possesses the resources and technical capability to achieve its collection objectives."

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