UK Mulled Nuclear Strike On China Over Hong Kong
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Courtesy of: SpaceWar.com
June 30, 2006

London (AFP)--Britain discussed the possibility of a nuclear attack on China in 1961 to defend Hong Kong, its former colony, secret documents from the British government revealed Friday.

Letters circulated to then Prime Minister Harold Macmillan recommended nuclear force as the only real alternative to abandoning the territory in the event of an attack by the neighbouring Chinese.

But officials discussed how to ensure that Beijing understood any attack would be met by the United States dropping nuclear bombs on China.

At the same time, the plan needed to avoid laying Hong Kong open to the claim that it was becoming a military outpost of the United States.

Details of the discussions emerged from records of Macmillan's office between 1957 to 1961, which were made public by the National Archives.

The suggested nuclear strategy followed communications on how best to strengthen Honk Kong's defences amid growing uncertainty about the intentions of its communist neighbour.

Hong Kong was particularly vulnerable, not least because its water and food supplies from China could be cut off at any time.

On February 22 1961, then Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home wrote a letter marked "top secret" to Defence Minister Harold Watkinson and the Prime Minister.

In it, he said: "It must be fully obvious to the Americans that Hong Kong is indefensible by conventional means and that in the event of a Chinese attack, nuclear strikes against China would be the only alternative to complete abandonment of the colony."

"In these circumstances it is perhaps not so much formal staff talks with the Americans that we need so much as an informal exchange of views involving a discussion of the use of nuclear strikes."

"I need hardly say, however, that I agree entirely with your view that while we should encourage the Chinese to believe that an attck on Hong Kong would involve nuclear retaliation, we must avoid anything that would allow the Chinese to claim that the colony is a military outpost of the United States."

Secret meetings with US officials took place in Hawaii and it was advised in 1961 that further talks should be held on board a US naval carrier, which frequently visited Hong Kong.

Another letter, from Watkinson to Douglas-Home and Macmillan, advised on how Lord Louis Mountbatten, chief of defence staff, should approach talks with Admiral Harry Felt, commander-in-chief of the US Pacific forces.

He wrote: "Our objective is to encourage the Chinese to believe that an attack on Hong Kong would involve US nuclear strikes."

He also said Mountbatten believed Felt would ask him whether Britain's Royal Air Force would co-operate with a possible nuclear strike on China.

On this he wrote: "If this question is raised, I think he should say that he can make no commitment about what would happen, but that there would be no objection to discussion between Admiral Felt and our military representatives in the Far East on the machinery for co-ordination if our nuclear strike forces ever had to operate with the Americans in this area."

Hong Kong, a British colony since 1842, was handed back to China in 1997.

Source:
http://spacewar.com/2006/060630003944.hha4z8qi.html

Gaza Under Siege
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Courtesy Of: Rafah Today


WARNING: Disturbing Images!

Photos
http://rafah.virtualactivism.net/news/todaymain.htm

Condi's Candid Iraq Security Talk Broadcast By Mistake
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Courtesy Of: YouTube.com
June 29 2006
By CNN

This audio of a closed lunch meeting between Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was accidentally broadcast revealing a disagreement about Iraq security.

Throughout the audio broadcast, Secretary Rice and the Russian Foreign Minister argue and interrupt each other.

Responding to Lavrov's concerns about the protection of diplomats, Secretay Rice said:

"You know, on a fairly daily basis we lose soldiers and I think it would be offensive to suggest that these efforts are not being made...We are making those efforts and we are making them at quite a sacrifice...The problem isn't diplomatic missions. The problem is Journalists and civilian contractors and, yes, diplomats as well."

"The problem is you have a terrorist insurgent population that is wreaking havoc on a hapless Iraqi civilian population that is trying to fight back. And on a coalition force that is trying to fight back and the implication that by somehow declaring that diplomats need to be protected it will get better, I think is simply not right."

In contrast, both officials agree on the point during their public statements...

Video Clip:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9srGAuxg4fU&search=accidental%20broadcast

The Category Of Terror
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Courtesy Of: YouTube.com
RunTime: 9:50


Video:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=02FAf_j6lo4&search=false%20flag

Northwoods Documents: False Flag Attacks
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Courtesy of; YouTube.com
RunTime: 2:52

Information about the Northwoods documents, released through a Freedom of Information request, that detail plans for attacks on U.S. citizens to be carried out by elements within the United States government and blamed on Cuba.

This is Just one example of a "False Flag Operation," where a government is willing to attack its own citizens and falsely accuse another nation of being behind that attack, in order to achieve global political/economic objectives...


Video:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VrOGBdGJ8HY&search=false%20flag

The Bush Regime's Curve Ball
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Paying The Price: Killing The Children Of Iraq
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Courtesy Of: Google Video
RunTime: 1Hr 14 Min 20 Sec

A special report by John Pilger...


Documentary:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5598217689098188667

The Iraqi Insurgency
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Courtesy Of: YouTube.com
RunTime: 8 Min 55 Sec


This video clip briefly examines the state of the Iraqi insurgency.

You will need to log into YouTube, in order to view this vide. The registration is "free."

WARNING: Some Graphic Images...

Video:
http://youtube.com/watch?search=+islam&v=2F92M83TZZU

Kidnapping Hamas Parliamentarians Planned Weeks Ago
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Courtesy Of: Haaretz.com
By Avi Issacharoff and Amos Harel,
Haaretz Coorespondents
Last Updated: 29/06/2006

...The detention of Hamas Parliamentarians in the early hours of Thursday Morning had been planned several weeks ago and received approval from Attorney General Menachem Mazuz on Wednesday.

The same day, Shin Bet Director Yuval Diskin presented Prime Minister Ehud Olmert with the lists of Hamas officials slated for detention.

..."The detention of elected members of the Palestinian government and legislature raises particular concerns," said a Joint statement by the G8, which also called on Israel to exercise "umost restraint."

"[This]...is a pre-planned plot to destroy the [Palestinian] Authority, the government and the Parliament and to bring the Palestinian people to their knees," Hamas lawmaker Mushir al-Masri said Thursday.

...A Hamas official called the arrests an "Open war against the Palestinian government and people," and said that "Israel must be prepared to pay their consequences."

"We have no government, we have nothing. They have all been taken," Saeb Erekat, an ally of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, said of the arrests.

"This is absolutely unacceptable and we demand their release immediately."

Source:
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/732528.html

Hawaii's Last Queen
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Courtesy Of: InformationClearingHouse.info
Posted: 06/28/06
RunTime: 53 Min

Produced and released in 1997 by The American Experience documentary series, broadcast on TV by PBS.

On January 16, 1893, four boatloads of United States Marines with Gatling guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition came ashore in Honolulu, capital of the independent Kingdom of Hawaii.

As the Royal Hawaiian Band played a concert at the Hawaiian Hotel, 162 troops marched through the streets of Honolulu, heading for the palace.

The Queen of Hawaii, Lili' Uokalani, looked down from her balcony as the troops took up their positions.

The following day, she surrendered at gunpoint, yielding her throne to the government of the United States.


Documentary:
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article13786.htm

The Marquis de Shrub
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Disgustingly Callous Remark
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"The idea is to put Palestinians on a diet but not to make them die of hunger..."

-Commented Dov Weisglass, senior advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, when asked how Israel should deal with the new Hamas government-

That sums up Israeli policy towards the besieged Palestinian people.

Hamas: A Pale Image Of The Jewish Irgun And Lehi Gangs
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Courtesy Of: The Washington Report On Middle East Affairs
By Donald Neff
May/June 2006,
Pages 14-15

As easy as it is to dismiss cliches as banal and misleading, the troubling problem is that they often cloak an essential truth. Scoffs and derision often greet the cliche' that "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter."

Yet freedom fighters is exactly how Israelis view the early Zinoists who fought in 1947 for the establishment of Israel--And how Palestinians now consider their fighters resisting Israeli occupation.

The reality is that when faced with a superior military force, such as Britain possessed in 1947 and Israel does today against the Palestinians, terror is the underdog's only viable weapon.

Once a state has been established and legitimized, however, as in the cases of Israel and South Africa, the former "terrorists" tend to gain a veil of legitimacy as well.

But legitimacy is now being denied Hamas. Even though Palestinians elected a Hamas-led government in free and fair elections, Israel denies it legitimacy on the grounds that Hamas is a terrorist organization.

Sixty years ago, however, at the time of the British Mandate, it was Jews in Palestine who mainly waged terrorism against the Palestinians.

As Jewish leader David Ben-Gurion recorded in his personal history of Israel: "From 1946 to 1947 there were scarcely any Arab attacks on the Yishuv [the Jewish community in Palestine]."

The same could not be said for the Zionists. Jewish terrorists waged an intense and bloody campaign against the Palestinians, British, and even some Jews who opposed them leading up to the establishment of Israel.

The two major Jewish terror organizations in pre-independence Palestine were the Irgun Zvai Leumi--National Military Organization, NMO, also known by the Hebrew letters Etzel--Founded in 1937, and the Lohamei Herut Israel--Fighters for the Freedom of Israel, Lehi in the Hebrew acronym, also known as the Stern Gang after its leader Avraham Stern, known as Yair, founded in 1940.

The Irgun was led by Menachem Begin, the future Israeli Prime Minister who was a leading proponent of Revisionist Zionism, the militant branch of Zionism pioneered by Vladimir Zeev Jabotinsky, which openly despised the Arabs and sought restoration of what it called Eretz Yisrael, the ancient land of Israel.

By this was meant "Both sides of the Jordan," the Irgun slogan meaning all of Palestine and Jordan was the rightful home to the Jews.

Another belief of Begin's was that of the "Fighting Jew," a romanticized idea expressed in Jabotinsky's old Betar Movement song of "We shall create, with sweat and blood, a race of men, strong, brave and cruel."

Israeli scholar Avishai Margalit translated the verse as "Proud, generous and cruel," Adding: "Many are still waiting for the generous part to emerge."

The Irgun was the dominant Jewish terrorist organization. Both in size and the number and frequency of its attacks. Its most spectacular feat up to this time had been the July 22, 1946 blowing up of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, with the killing of 91 people--41 Arabs, 28 Britons and 17 Jews.

Mainstream Zionists despised Begin and his Revisionists, although there was cooperation between the two on military matters. Ben-Gurion, the leader of Mainstream Zionism, fought throughout his premiership with Begin.

The other major Jewish terrorist group, Lehi, was more extremist than the Irgun, claiming all the land between the Nile and the Euphrates as belonging to the Jews.

When Jabotinsky declared a cease-fire in the fight against Britain and its Mandate troops in Palestine during WWII, Stern broke with him and founded Lehi.

Stern sought allies with the Nazis, both because they shared an enemy in Britain and because Lehi shared Hitler's totalitarian ideology. During the war Sternists openly celebrated Nazi victories on the battlefield.

An infamous document called the "Ankara Document," because it was found in the German Embassy in Ankara after the war, detailed Avraham Stern's ideas "Concerning the Solution of the Jewish Question in Europe." It was dated January 11, 1941.

At the time, Stern was still a member of the Irgun, which he called by its initials, NMO.

Wrote Stern: "The evacuation of the Jewish masses from Europe is a precondition for solving the Jewish Question; but this can only be made possible and complete through the settlement of these masses in the home of the Jewish people, Palestine, and through the establishment of a Jewish State in the historical boundaries....the NMO...is well acquainted with the good-will of the German Reich government and its authorities toward Zionist activity inside Germany and toward Zionist emigration plans....The NMO is closely related to the totalitarian movements in Europe in its ideology and structure."

In the partition period, Irgun had around 2,000 men, while Lehi had about 800. Though the memberships were comparatively small, the damage these two groups caused in inflaming animosity between Arabs and Jew was considerable.

When Stern was killed by British police in 1942, leadership of Lehi was shared; among the leaders were Nathan Yalin-Mor, one of the eventual killers of Count Bernadotte, and Yitzhak Shamir, another future Prime Minister of Israel.

Arab terrorists carried out some major operations as well, including the bombing of the Jewish Agency and the Palestine Post. But in contrast to Jewish violence, it was unorganized and episodic.

As historian Michael C. Hudson noted:

"Organized Jewish violence against the British and Arabs (exemplified by the Irgun's bombing of the King David Hotel in 1946), however, was far more systematic and successful than that of the Palestinians, and the latter were unable to play a significant role in the final years of the Mandate."

The Jewish Agency, as the official representative of the Jewish community, repeatedly denied any responsibility for the acts of the Irgun and Lehi, maintaining they were underground terrorist groups operating outside the law.

However, there was close copperation among Irgun, Lehi and the Haganah Underground Army under an agreement called the Hebrew Resistance Movement and aimed specifically against the British Mandatory government.

It went into force in the Fall of 1945, when "Irgun and Lehi accepted Haganah discipline in the conduct of all armed operations," in the words of historian Noah Lucas.

By December 1947, British High Commissioner Alan Cunningham reported to London:
"...the Haganah and the dissident groups are now working so closely together that the Agency's claim that they cannot control the dissidents is inadmissible."


Source:
http://wrmea.org/archives/May-June_2006/0605014.html

Push The Limits
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Courtesy Of: Enigma
Via: YouTube.com


Video:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ucc78Ug4Pn0&search=enigma

Can You Hear Me Now?
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Beyond The Invisible
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Courtesy Of: Enigma
Via: YouTube.com


http://youtube.com/watch?v=EMI67lbz0Qc&mode=related&search=enigma

The Miami Seven "Soft" Terror Cell
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Courtesy of: The Daily Show
Via: YouTube.com


The Daily Show's Jon Stewart classified the Miami Terror Cell that was to "wage a ground war against America," according to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as "seven dipshits in a warehouse,"

Following a farcical press conference in which Gonzales was cornered into admitting that they had no links to any Al-Qaeda members, nor did they have any weapons or explosives to carry out any acts of terrorism.

The biggest kicker was that those guys weren't even Muslim. Considering that the mainstream media kept hammering away at the masses that this was in fact, a homegrown Islamic terror cell.

One of the members of that alleged terror cell stated that, "we study and train through the Bible..."


Video Clip:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=rcbAUUJtA_Q&search=the%20miami%20terror%20cell

How Israel Became A "Country"
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Courtesy Of: YouTube.com
RunTime: 08:28


http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZDQ-x6tJf7E

Jackass Of Mass Destruction
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This is what Iraq's "weapons of mass destruction," looked like...

An Ode Recited By Mejnun
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From the Immortal Love Poem:
"Leyla and Mejnun"
By Muhammed Fuzuli
(1498-1556)


Who is the only lover? He who gives?
His life and dying, thus forever lives
The craven, shunning death and holding fast
To every fleeting breath so quickly past
No goal may claim
Of every lover's aim
Before his love, his very soul to cast.

Perfection comes of selflessness divine
Of immolation at the lover's shrine
Who keeps his love, must stand by all confessed
No lover, though by passion sure oppressed
No lover he.

Who dumbly still may see
With life enduring rage still unsuppressed
Who is the only lover? He who finds
In death alone the union that binds
His soul, and that he love's in perfect peace
Who thus so wisely gives, lest passion cease
And finds the grief
Of separation, be it long or brief
The one and only way of sweet release.

Observe the moth, ye lover's, understand
Their age-long custom, found in every land;
How, burning in unsatisfied desire
Self-immolation seeking at the fire
Of every flame
Let lover's do the same
And gladly burn on love's own funeral pyre.

So die in love, dying fettered, bound
To love a heady Joy is found
A death so timed brings forth the perfect ease
Of Hizir's fountains: living streams that please,
The fount of life,
The end of strife,
The perfect cure for love's distressed disease.

No charm or posset holds the sov'ran worth
Of curing love's sweet passion on the earth
Abandonment of life and love as well
Thus losing life
And leaving mortal strife
In death thy love and thee may ever dwell
Yet cease this idle talk of leaving life
And losing thus passion's dearest strife.

'Tis but Fuzuli knows the secret road
'Tis he who sets it forth in happy ode-
This quality
Of winning, loses instability
Forgets the tribute that life is owed.

The Iron Wall
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Courtesy Of: InformationClearingHouse.info
Posted: 06/26/06
RunTime: 59 Minutes

In 1923 Vladimir Jabotinsky, th leading intellectual of the Zionist movement and father of the right wing of that movement, wrote:

"Zionist colonization must either stop, or else proceed regardless of the native population. Which means that it can proceed and develop only under the protection of a power that is independent of the native population--behind an iron wall, which the native population cannot breach."

First published in Russian under the title, O Zheleznoi Stene in Rassvyet, 4 November 1923.

From that day, these words became the official and unspoken policy of the Zionist movement and later the State of Israel.

Settlements were used from the beginning to create a Zionist foothold in Palestine.

Documentary:
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article13749.htm

Cambodia: The Betrayal
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Courtesy Of: Google Video
By John Pilger
Run Time: 51 Min 2 Sec

In this documentary, John Pilger explores the tragedy of the Cambodian people and their manipulation by the Chinese and Western powers...

Documentary:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8001898387464764449&q=cambodia+the+betrayal

The Changing Face Of Resistance
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Courtesy Of: Asia Times Online
By Syed Saleem Shahzad
Friday 23 June 2006

Karachi--A characteristic of a successful resistance movement is its ability to switch tactics as circumstances change, and the insurgencies in both Iraq and Afghanistan are proving to be capable in this respect.

In Iraq, the US killing of the leader of Al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has provided the opportunity for Al-Qaeda for the first time to take over the central command of the resistance, with the overall goal of fomenting a popular uprising againt the US presence.

Meanwhile in Afghanistan, the Taliban, after a highly organized and fruitful--though costly in terms of casualties--Mass offensive in the south of the country, is reorganizing somewhat to wage a more traditional guerrilla campaign involving carefully selected attacks.

In both countries, strong new leaders are calling the shots--Abu Hamza al-Muhajir in Iraq and Jalaluddin Haqqani in Afghanistan.

Al-Qaeda is proving to be flexible in other areas as well, such as in its choice of weapons and targets. Normally credible sources familiar with Al-Qaeda have told Asia Times Online of a buzz within the group of plans to strike the United States with electromagnetic bombs ("e-bomb," or high-power microwave weapons). Theoretically, these could shut down telecommunications networks, disrupt power supplies and disable computers and electronic gadgets.

"It is true about the e-bomb and a plan to cripple US satellite systems. A section of Arab fighters is working on this," retired squadron leader Khalid Khawaja told Asia Times Online. "I actually overheard such conversations with those who interact a lot with Arab fighters in Afghanistan."

Khawaja worked for Pakistan's secret service, the Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI), and was a friend of Osama Bin Laden.

"I never heard Osama or [his deputy] Dr [Ayman al-] Zawahiri, or anyone else, discuss nuclear attacks on the US. To me, this idea is ridiculous. Only states can use nuclear technology to destroy a country. Also, I never heard anyone discussing with any debth a gas attack on America."

"However, I have now overheard conversations which strongly suggest that there is a section in the anti-American resistance which is seriously pursuing a project aimed at taking America back to the Stone Age without harming human lives," Khawaja said.


CONSOLIDATION IN IRAQ
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Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, who cut his teeth on the battlefields of Afghanistan, will take over the whole command of the Iraqi resistance infrastructure, according to contacts who spoke to Asia Times Online.

"As soon as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was eliminated, a command council took over control. Most of the members are former veterans of the Afghanistan Jihad. As soon as a decision was communicated from Waziristan [in Pakistan, from Zawahiri] for Muhajir to be appointed as Emir-ul Jihad, a whole structure fell into place for a well-defined Jihad in Iraq," said a source connected with the Iraq resistance.

Prevoiusly, the command structure of the resistance was scattered. Various Islamic groups fought the Americans from the northern city of Kirkuk to Basra in the south. Each one had a separate command and organization.

Ba'athist elements also merged into many of these groups, in addition to the Ba'ath Party's own central command. Zarqawi gained prominence because of his high-profile activities among the various groups, but he did not represent a central command of the resistance.

Over the past two years, hundreds of Arab Afghans left Afghanistan to go to Iraq, where they merged with various groups. As they were like-minded in their conviction that US forces should be expelled from the country, they formed a Central Mujahideen Council (Shura).

With Zarqawi's death, the council, under Muhajir, who is said to have an "encyclopedia-like" knowledge of Mujahideen all over the world, has gained preeminence, largely because he has the widespread respect and support of the resistance, unlike Zarqawi.

Muhajir, said the sources, will use his influence and contacts to galvanize support from across th Islamic World, Especially from Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Egypt.

His plan is to flood human resources into the Iraqi resistance so that it can take on the government-backed militias, as well as US and government forces.

At the same time, instead of haphazard groups mounting attacks, the resistance will attempt to dictate the rules of the game. Effective intelligence operations will be put in place in an effort to make attacks more coordinated, effective and conherent. And insurgents also plan to make more use of snipers.

Similarly, in Afghanistan, the elevation of Jalaluddin Haqqani as head of military operations (see Taliban's new commander ready for a fight, Asia Times Online, May 20) had an immediate effect on the resistance. Haqqani has deep roots across the country, is well respected and is a proven tactician and coordinator.


HIDE AND SEEK IN AFGHANISTAN
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Soon after Haqqani took over, the Taliban launched their biggest offensive since being ousted from power in 2001. More than 600 people, mostly militants, have been killed in the past month in numerous full-scale battles in the south of the country, often involving Taliban groups more than 100-strong.

These attacks were complemented with the use of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and suicide attacks in various parts of the country.

At the same time, the Taliban appealed to the masses to take control of local administrations. This happened in the Provinces of Urzgan, Helmand, Zabul and Kandahar, besides Kunar, Paktia and Paktika, where the Taliban have taken over partial control of some districts.

This appeal to the masses was repeated in a new video message from Zawahiri, posted on Islamic websites on Wednesday evening. He called for "Young men in Kabul's universities to rise up and Join in with the Mujahideen forces in attacking the invaders and freeing Afghanistan."

Contacts familiar with the resistance say that now the Taliban will scale back the big attacks and concentrate on precision targeted attacks and ambushes, while still using IEDs and suicide bombers.

The contacts explained that this was part of a cat-and-mouse game to wear down coalition forces by constantly switching tactics. Just as the coalition was adjusting to deal with large groups of fighters, the Taliban have retreated to the mountains.

Commented Hamid Gul, a retired Lieutenant-General of the Pakistani Army and former Director General of the ISI,

"The resistance in Afghanistan and Iraq has very much attained a level which the anti-Soviet resistance [in Afghanistan] attained in 1987. The resistance beset the Soviet forces from all sides. By 1987, the Soviets had flexed their maximum muscle and they lost control and ultimately agreed to an exit strategy [1989]."

"The same is true with the Americans. They will apply maximum pressure by November, if only to win Congressional elections [for the Republican Party of President George W. Bush]. After that, you will see a Soviet-like policy in which they will steadily lose their grip and finally they will devise an exit plan," Gul said.

Source:
http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HF23AK02.html

Mejnun's Distress
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From the Immortal Love Poem:
"Leyla and Mejnun"
By Muhammed Fuzuli
[1498-1556]
(excerpts)

The following are couplets describing Mejnun's distress...

Now every morn Mejnun went forth to school
Where, freed of care, he mastered every rule.

With studied ease he followed all the lines
Of Leyla: Never book marked love's confines.

His heart with pleasure sang when'er the day
He, like the sun, pursued his constant way.

At school, a happiness he looked to find
The happiness of love, not yet unkind.

When passed the day, that Leyla cameth not
The sun was darkened, tho' its rays were hot.

All sunless sped the day, and school, as night,
Fell dark and gloomy, darkened, without light.

He guessed that fortune's cunning trickster hand
Had turned from him the pleasure he had planned.

The Jealous gossips, so the thought was born,
Upon her petalled rose had cast a thorn.

With grief at heart and sorrow in his mind
He railed at fortune, calling it unkind.

"What evil have I done? What left undone,
To kill my soul by banishing the sun?

What sin mine, that now, in sad eclipse,
Thou dashest wine of pleasure from my lips?

Thy favourite once was I, and happy, glad,
Beneath my idol's look in pleasure clad.

O, fortune! Now thy wheel to torture turns,
And now the graces of content it spurns.

Didst thou then fear that with a single sigh
That from my burning heart should reach the sky.

I might thy heaven into ashes turn,
And teach thee how these separations burn?

Were this achieved, then separation's pain
Thou, too, might'st know.

Nor think alone that dreary grief is mine:
The grief that tears my heart is also thine.

O, elif, straight, unbending as a rod,
Be shamed, and fall, to moulder 'neath the sod.

Still now thy boastful voice, seek not her height,
For she is gone, why standst thou upright?

O, noon, thou Joy on beauty's eyebrow set,
Go, hide thyself, seek not my soul to fret.

O, mim, thy crooked shape no purpose holds
Now destiny her smiling mouth withholds.

Corrosion seize thee, inkstand may thy heart,
Rust in thy bosom. Feel its angry smart!

Turn now thy ink that tender love expressed,
To pale and sickly water in thy breast.

And thou, open, as blots thy sorrow prove,
All restless, kissing not the hand of love.

Yet still cry on, pretend no day were here,
There is no day if Leyla be not near.

And as for thee, O, hard and ashen slate,
Talk of her hand and blackly grave thy fate."

The days moved on and still to school he went,
But passed his days in blackest discontent.

From morn till eve his lamentations deep,
Disturbed instruction, and at night no sleep.

Its solace brought to ease his weary mind:
Always to Leyla were his words inclined.

"O, thou, the Joy of heart, the light of eye,
Now, lacking thee, afar all light does fly.

The sweet companionship is sadly changed,
Give but a reason why thy soul has ranged?

Why thus intoxicate my giddy mind?
Why, making me a captive, be unkind?

If all thy purpose was to fling me out,
Why give me darkness and tormenting doubt?

My heart the flame of parting hourly sears,
My eyes are wet with longing bitter tears.

My heart, aflame, glows like the morning bright,
An angry dawn, with crimson clouds alight.

My tears, a mighty ocean without shore,
Well up, each asking more and more.

No friend I seek, thy friendship to replace:
Alone, take thou the image from my face.

Remove it, lest upon my heart, a crown
It burns, or else among my tears should drown.

With heady wine of longing I am drunk,
And deep in pain's bewilderment am sunk.

A drunkard fully masters not his will,
No heed can have bewilderment of ill.

My soul is lost upon this road of pain,
I ne'er shall feel afraid of death again.

One gift I have: This gift for thee has taught,
A gladness that was Joy with passion fraught.

At times I wonder: What if death should come?
No soul is left to seize; pain were its only sun.

A candle am I, burning in the night,
Of pain and suffering, stirr'd by breezes light.

Yet though my heart in torment forces tears,
And, against my head, grief's fiery sword appears.

This agony of pain I would not yield,
But, suffering, make suffering my shield.

And keep these days of misery's deep despair,
When restlessly I wander, full of care.

Should destiny, the Book of Life indict,
Against thee these days of suffering, or write.

The record of my life, I'd scorn the page,
And tear the note to fragments in my rage.

They say the sun translates darkness to day:
Resolve this subtlety, all ye who may.

The day whereon my sun declines to shine,
I cannot call a day, however fine.

The skies above. Alas, that there is none,
To whom in pity is my sorrow known.

With every thought my grief grows mountain high,
Each gusty sigh brings fiercer flames more nigh."

His mind then on his early meetings bent,
Upon this poem, all his forces spent...

School Of The Assassins
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The Western Hemisphere Institute For Security Cooperation (WHISC; formerly School of the Americas, SOA--Is a United States Army facility at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia. Its motto is Libertad, Paz y Fraternidad (Liberty, Peace and Fraternity).

The school is frequently cited as an example of United States support for regimes in Latin America that employ death squads and otherwise infringe upon human rights.


HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES
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The SOA has been accused of training members of governments guilty of serious human rights abuses and have been found to advocate techniques that violate accepted international standards, particularly the Geneva Conventions.

Graduates of the SOA include men such as, Hugo Banzer Suarez, Leopoldo Galtieri, Manuel Noriega, Efrain Rios Montt, Vladimiro Montesinos, Guillermo Rodriguez, Omar Torrijos, Roberto Viola, Roberto D'Aubuisson and Juan Velasco Alvarado.

Because many of its students have been associated with death squads, the school's acronym is occasionally reparsed by its detractors as the "School of Assassins." It is also known as the "School of Coups" (en.wikipedia.org)

Further abuses SOA graduates have alleged to have committed include "the death or disappearance of 200,000 Guatemalans and innumerable other atrocities...In Colombia, 2 million have been displaced and thousands are still reliving the horrors of their torture--Not surprising since, with 10,000 graduates from the SOA, Colombia is the school's largest customer and has the worst human rights record on the continent (sourcewatch.org).


U.S. TRAINING MANUAL
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On September 20, 1996, the Pentagon released seven training manuals prepared by the U.S. military and used between 1987 and 1991 for training courses in Latin America and at the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA).

According to the Third World Traveler (thirdworldtraveler.com), these manuals show ow U.S. agents taught repressive techniques and promoted the violation of human rights throughout Latin America and the Globe.


SOA Videos...

1) Close the School of the Americas (SOA / WHINSEC):
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vfCGVsBX95E&search=SOA


2) Fr. Roy Bourgeois and the SOA Watch:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1219294790121074599&q=SOA+watch

Nuclear Rapture
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Terror Storm
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Originan Source: PrisonPlanet.tv
Via: Google Video
by Alex Jones
June 23, 2006
Run Time: 1 Hr 52 Min 21 Sec

Alex Jone's latest film covers in detail the proven history of government sponsored terrorism, false flag operations.

It focuses on the burning of the German Reichstag, the overthrow of the democratically elected Mosaddeq government of Iran in "Operation Ajax," the attack on the U.S.S. Liberty, the 7/7 London bombings and 9/11, and the shift towards a police state...

Film:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5948263607579389947

Death Star
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By The Arab League
Runt Time: 4 Min 24 Sec
March 3, 2006

The Arab League rap group, denounces the Bush clan and sings about their connections to the Bay of Pigs, Cuba--Skull & Bones--Richard Nixon--Iran Contra--CIA Drug Running--and the Nazi Funding by Prescott Bush.

The song alludes that 9/11 was George W. Bush's Reichstag Fire. A fire that Hitler used to implement the Nazi version of Homeland Security.

This is a great song for those that don't know the Bush's history. All this is sung to the beat of the movie, Star Wars...


Video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8686518189609881681&q=death+star

New Warning On Palestinian Crisis
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Courtesy Of: The BBC
Friday, 23 June 2006

A UN rapporteur has said the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territories has worsened seriousely because of the aid boycott.

...John Dugard, who visited the territories recently, likened the boycott to economic sanctions.

...He said the boycott was causing ordinary Palestinians to lose faith in the international community.

He described ordinary people in the Palestinian territories as traumatised. Medical services were in short supply, he said, so too was food.

The growing restrictions on movement caused by Israel's security barrier were partly to blame, Mr Dugard said, but the biggest factor was the economic freeze imposed by the international community.

As a result of the aid freeze, Mr Dugard said, the Quartet of the Middle East negotiators made up of the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and Russia, was losing credibility among Palestinians.

"The Quartet has made it virtually impossible for the Palestinian Authority to meet its responsibilities in respect of medical supplies and other services," he said.

"The Quartet seems to have changed its policy from that of peace facilitator to policeman."

Mr Dugard said the Quartet was in danger of becoming so discredited that it might be better for the UN and the EU to withdraw from it altogether.

"The Palestinian people have been subjected to economic sanctions, the first time that an occupied people have been so treated," Mr Dugard said.

Source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5109252.stm

IDF Can Wipe Out All Of Gaza
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Courtesy Of: Haaretz.com
By Amiram Barkat,
Haaretz Correspondent and
Haaretz Service
Sat, June 24, 2006

Opposition leader and Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu told the 35th Zionist Congress in Jerusalem on Thursday that the Israel Defense Forces has the operational capability to wipe out the Gaza Strip, but chose not to do so.

"The IDF has the firepower to wipe out an entire population if we wanted. We could wipe out all of Gaza but we are not doing this..."

The Likud leader was speaking one day after a bothched Israeli Air Force Missile killed three Palestinian civilians in Southern Gaza.

Two days ago, three children were killed in an IAF strike in Gaza City that targeted members of Fatah's military wing.

The Wednesday strike marked the fourth time in one month that IAF strikes in Gaza have resulted in civilian fatalities, and brings the total of Palestinian deaths to 14.


Source:
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/730290.html

Israeli Lives Worth More Than Palestinian Ones
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Courtesy Of: The Independent
By Donald Macintyre in Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip
Published: 23 June 2006

Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, expressed "deep regret" for army operations that have killed 14 Palestinian civilians in Gaza in Just 9 days, but said the lives of Israeli citizens threatened by Qassam attacks were "even more important."

Mr Olmert said last night in Caesarea:

"I am deeply sorry for the residents of Gaza, but the lives, security and well-being of the residents of Sderot [the Israeli border town which has borne the brunt of Qassam attacks] is even more important..."


Source:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1095841.ece

Lullaby For The Hungry
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By Muhammed Mahdi Al-Jawahiri
Translated By: Issa Boulata & John Heath-Stubbs

Sleep, you hungry people, sleep!
The gods of food watch over you.

Sleep, if you are not satiated
By wakefulness, then sleep shall fill you.
Sleep, with thoughts of smooth-as-butter-promises,
Mingled with words as sweet as honey.

Sleep, and enjoy the best of health.
What a fine thing is sleep for the wretched!
Sleep till the resurrection morning
Then it will be time enough to rise.

Sleep in the swamps
Surging with silty waters.
Sleep to the tune of mosquitoes humming
As if it were the crooning of doves.

Sleep to the echo of long speechifyings
By great and eminent power politicians.

Sleep, you hungry people, sleep!
For sleep is one of the blessings of peace.
It is stupid for you to rise,
Sowing discord where harmony reigns.

Sleep, for the reform of corruption
Simply consists in your sleeping on.

Sleep, you hungry people, sleep!
Don't cut off others' livelihood.
Sleep, your skin cannot endure
The shower of sharp arrows when you wake.

Sleep, for the yards of Jail houses
Are all teeming with violent death,
And you are the more in need of rest
After the harshness of oppression.

Sleep, and the leaders will find ease
From the sickness that has no cure.

Sleep, you hungry people, sleep!
For sleep is more likely to protect your rights
And it is sleep that is most conductive
To stability and discipline.

Sleep, I send my greetings to you;
I send you peace, as you sleep on.

Sleep, you hungry people, sleep!
The gods of food watch over you.
Sleep, you hungry people, sleep!
The gods of food watch over you.

Have You Heard?
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Courtesy Of: YouTube.com
By Zain Bhikha

This is a Nasheed (Islamic song), that is dedicated to all the Muslims who have lost their lives...

Video:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=UxsL_1i9CZQ

The Dark Side
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Courtesy Of: InformationClearingHouse.info
Broadcast On: PBS' Frontline
10 videos from: YouTube.com
Run Time: 90 Minutes

After 9/11, Vice President Richard Cheney seized the initiative. He pushed to expand executive power, transform America's intelligence agencies and bring the war on terror to Iraq.

But first he had to take on George Tenet's CIA for control over intelligence.

The damning 90-Minute expose' stops short of laying those bodies at Vice President Dick Cheney's feet.

But it does finger Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld through more than 40 interviews with CIA veterans, Journalists, politicians and others--As the ones who ignored, suppressed and manipulated intelligence after the 9/11 attacks to lead us into war with a country that had nothing to do with our attackers.

Videos:
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article13728.htm

The Philosophy Of Israel & Zionism
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Courtesy Of: YouTube.com
By: HarunYahya.com

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XiGgDtsKvog&eurl

The Secret Government
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Courtesy Of: InformationClearingHouse.info
From The Archives Of: Bill Moyers

The following videos documents U.S. support of terrorist regimes and the brutality of Americas foreign policy...


Part-1
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article3281.htm


Part-2
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article3282.htm

Team America
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Leyla's Prayer In The Difficulty Of Decision
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By Muhammed Fuzuli
(1498-1556)
From The Immortal Love Poem:
"Leyla and Mejnun"
(Excerpts)

O Lord, for the Truth of Perfection,
Found in the Courts of the Great.
For God, Divine in His Goodness,
Consummate in all His Estate.

For Truth of the Prophet Mustafa
With countenance constantly bright,
Whose lustre has given the world
Its all illuminating light:

My body submerge in the ocean of love
For the sake of the truth that was sent from above
To furnish for Moses Thy sweet guidance dear
And urge him to follow the laws of Hizir.

Change now, I beseech Thee, my desolete eve
For glory of Morning my sorrow relieve.
With daybreak of union, bringing the breath
Of love to my spirit now closing in death.

Let not all my woe and affliction bring ill
Let love that is Thine all encompass me still.
'Tis I who have strayed from the path clearly shown,
Exhibit Thy guidance; Thy counsel make known.

For the sake of the guide at Thy hand ever near
Show now the dear pathway that runs straight and clear,
Still letting my heart all its sorrows endure
With those yet approved in a passion still pure.

Like Fuzuli, may Thou my devotion to prayer
Complete and inspire, leaving little to care...

US Does Not Consider Taliban Terrorists
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--Even As The Taliban Attacks US, Canadian, And British Forces, Organization Is Left Off Terrorist List In 'Political' Decision--

Courtesy of: The Christian Science Monitor
By Tom Regan
May 2, 2006

When the US State Department issued its annual Country Report On Terrorism [1] last Friday, it listed numerous state-sponsors of terrorism, like Iran, and groups it considers Foreign Terrorists Organizations [2], like Hamas, Al Qaeda, and Hizbullah. Conspiciously absent from the lists, however, was the Taliban.

In an article entitled "Terrorism's Dubious 'A' List," the non-partisan Council On Foreign Relations (CFR) reports that the religious extremist organization has never been listed [3] as a terrorist group by the US, Britain, the EU, Canada, Australia, or any of the coalition partners, despite the fact that during its six year rule in Afghanistan, it ptovided safe haven for Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, and currently is staging terrorist attacks against coalition forces and waging a national campaign of intimidation and fear.

The new report did designate the Pakistan-Afghan border region as a terrorist "haven," however,

In a CFR Q&A on the Taliban, Christopher Langdon, a defense expert at the Institute For International Strategic Studies, describes the group as "An insurgent organization" that will periodically "Use terrorism to carry out its operations" [4].

According to Kathy Gannon, the former Associate Press bureau chief for Pakistan and Afghanistan, these [Taliban] have at times aligned themselves with Al Qaeda fighters and with Mujahedeen (holy warriors) led by the anti-government warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.

During the Soviet occupation, Hekmatyar received more support from US and Pakistani agents than any other fighter.

"The Afghan Taliban is better organized today than it was in 2001," says Gannon, "They have more recruits [and they] have been able to take advantage of the lawlessness, the criminal gangs, and the corruption in the government."

Langton says Taliban forces "Have largely recovered from their initial defeat," and are proving a savvy enemy for coalition forces.

Taliban fighters have become encouraged by the domestic opposition some NATO nations face as they deploy in former Taliban strongholds previously patrolled by US forces, he says.

"They are very adept at reading these signals and seeing where the weaknesses lies."

...The steadily worsening situation in Southern Afghanistan is not the work of some ineffable Al Qaeda nebula. It is the result of the real depredations of the corrupt and predatory government officials whom the United States ushered into power in 2001, supposedly to help fight Al Qaeda.

To read the complete article, kindly click on the following:
http://csmonitor.com/2006/0502/dailyUpdate.html

Some of the references:
1) http://state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/c17689.htm


2) http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/65479.pdf


3) http://cfr.org/publication/10552/terrorisms_dubious_a_list.html?breadcrumb=default


4) http://cfr.org/publication/10551/

God Speaks Through Me!
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Dubya!
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US Warns N. Korea Over Missile Test -

But Tested Own Missile Last Wednesday!
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Courtesy of: InformationClearingHouse.info
By Press Release
06/18/06

The United States government has warned the DPRK (North Korea), who seem to be poised to perform a missile test (Maybe), of unspecified negative consequences should they perform that test.

However, the United States itself performed an exactly similar test last Wednesday, when it fired a Minuteman Missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base to Kwajelien Atholl in the Pacific.

The test was described as 'routine,' and the US conducts such tests on a continuing basis.
Nonetheless, the double-standard in dealing with the DPRK is breathtaking.

The DPRK may be preparing to conduct a test of the as-yet untried Taepo-Dong-II Missile, which is said to have a range capable of reaching the Continental US.

The US has warned the DPRK of unspecified but negative consequences should it proceed with the test, which may have been scheduled for this weekend.

Australian peace-groups have called for the US to do as it asks others to do.

According to nuclear weapons campaigner John Hallam of Friends of the Earth and People for Nuclear Disarmament,

"If the US believes that others such as the DPRK ought not to test nuclear-capable missiles, and describes those tests as 'provocative,' it should at least refrain from testing itself.

Having tested a missile as little as a week ago, the US is hardly in a position to complain if the DPRK tests.

Current US policies are simply pushing nations such as the DPRK and Iran in precisely the direction that we say we do not wish them to go.

We say we don't want a nuclear-armed DPRK (which we already have) or a nuclear-armed Iran (which we do not yet), yet the direction of current policy all but ensures that this is what we will get."

Source:
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article13673.htm

Magnificent Existence
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By Rumi

God has made existence magnificent,
He has made it through nonexistence.
He has concealed the sea
And exposed the foam,
Concelaed the wind and displayed the dust.
The whirling dust flies like a dancer,
The wind is invisible, known only by trust,
The foam moves all about you,
But without the sea no whirling takes place.
Thought is hidden, speech is manifest...

FBI: "No Hard Evidence Connecting Bin Laden To 9/11"
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Courtesy Of: The Muckraker Report,
By: TeamLiberty.net

June 6, 2006--This past weekend, a thought provoking e-mail circulated through internet news groups, and was sent to the Muckraker Report by Mr. Paul V. Sheridan (winner of the 2005 Civil Justice Foundation Award), bringing attention to the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist Web Page for Usama Bin Laden [1]

In the e-mail, the question is asked, "Why doesn't Usama Bin Laden's Most Wanted Poster make any direct connection with the events of September 11, 2001?"

The FBI says on its Bin Laden Web Page that Usama Bin Laden is wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998 bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. According to the FBI, these attacks killed over 200 people.

The FBI concludes its reason for "Wanting" Bin Laden by saying, "In addition, Bin Laden is a suspect in other terrorist attacks throughout the world."

On June 5, 2006, the Muckraker Report contacted the FBI Headquarters, (202) 324-3000, to learn why Bin Laden's Most Wanted Poster did not indicate that Usama was also wanted in connection with 9/11. The Muckraker Report spoke with Rex Tomb, Chief of Investigative Publicity for the FBI.

When asked why there is no mention of 9/11 on Bin Laden's Most Wanted Web Page, Tomb said,

"The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden's Most Wanted Page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11."

Surprised by the ease in which this FBI spokesman made such an astonishing statement, I asked, "How this was possible?"

Tomb continued, "Bin Laden has not been formally charged in connection to 9/11."

I asked, "How does that work?"

Tomb Continued, "The FBI gathers evidence. Once evidence is gathered, it is turned over to the Department of Justice. The Department of Justice then decides whether it has enough evidence to present to a Federal Grand Jury. In the case of the United States Embassies being bombed, Bin Laden has been formally indicted and charged by a Grand Jury. He has not been formally indicted and charged in connection with 9/11 because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11."

It shouldn't take long before the full meaning of these FBI statements start to prick your brain and raise your blood pressure. If you think the way I think, in quick order, you will be wrestling with a barrage of very powerful questions that must be answered.

First and foremost, if the U.S. government does not have enough hard evidence connecting Bin laden to 9/11, how is it possible that it had enough evidence to invade Afghanistan to "Smoke him out of his cave?"

The federal government claims to have invaded Afghanistan to "root out" Bin Laden and the Taliban through the talking heads in the mainstream media, the Bush administration told the American people that Usama Bin laden was Public Enemy Number One and responsible for the deaths of nearly 3000 people on September 11, 2001.

Yet nearly five years later, the FBI says that it has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.

Next is the Bin Laden "Confession Video" that was released by the U.S. government on December 13, 2001. Most Americans remember this video. It was the video showing Bin Laden with a few of his comrades recounting with delight the September 11 terrorist attacks against the United States.

The Department of Defense issued a press release to accompany this video in which, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld said, "There was no doubt of Bin laden's responsibility for the September 11 attacks before the tape was discovered." [2]

What Rumsfeld implied by his statement was that Bin Laden was the known mastermind behind 9/11 even before the "Confession Video" and that the video simply served to confirm what the U.S. government already knew; that Bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attacks.

In a BBC news article [3] reporting on the "9/11 Confession Video" release, President Bush is said to have been hesitant to release the tape because he knew it would be a vivid reminder to many people of their loss. But, he also, knew it would be "A devastating declaration" of Bin laden's guilt. "We're going to get him, " said President Bush "Dead or alive, it doesn't matter to me."

In a CNN article [4] regarding the Bin Laden tape, then New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said that "The tape removes any doubt that the U.S. military campaign targeting Bin laden and his associates is more than Justified."

Senator Richard Shelby, R-Alabama, the Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committe said, "The tape's release is central to informing people in the outside world who don't believe Bin Laden was involved in the September 11 attacks."

Shelby went on to say, "I don't know how they can be in denial after they see this tape."

Well Senator Shelby, apparently the Federal Bureau of Investigation isn't convinced by the taped confession, so why are you?

The Muckraker Report attempted to secure a reference to the U.S. government authenticating the Bin laden "Confession Video," to no avail.

However, it is conclusive that the Bush administration and U.S. Congress, along with the dead stream media, played the video as if it was authentic.

So why doesn't the FBI view the "Confession Video" as hard evidence?

After all, if the FBI is investigating a crime such as drug trafficing, and it discovers a video of members of a drug cartel openly talking about a successful distribution operation in the United States, that video would be presented to a federal grand Jury. The identified participants of the video would be indicted, and if captured, the video alone would serve as sufficient evidence to net a conviction in a federal court.

So why is the Bin laden "Confession Video" not carrying the same weight with the FBI?

Remember, on June 5, 2006, FBI spokesman, Chief of Investigative Publicity Rex Tomb said, "The FBI has no hard evidence connecting Usama Bin Laden to 9/11."

This should be headline news worldwide. The challenge to the reader is to find out why it is not.

• Why has the U.S. media blindly read the government-provided 9/11 scripts, rather than investigate without passion, prejudice or bias, the events of September 11, 2001?
• Why has the U.S. media blacklisted any guest that might speak of a government sponsored 9/11 cover-up, rather than seeking out those people who have something to say about 9/11 that is contrary to the government's account?
• And on those few rare occasions when a 9/11 dissenter has made it upon the airways, why has the mainstream media ridiculed the guest as a conspiracy nut, rather than listen to the evidence that clearly raises valid questions about the government's 9/11 account?
• Why is the Big Media Conglomeration blindly content with the government's 9/11 story when so much verifiable information to the contrary is available with a few clicks of a computer mouse?
• Who is it that is controlling the media message, and how is it that the U.S. media has indicted Usama Bin Laden for the events of September 11, 2001, but the U.S. government has not?
• How is it that the FBI has no "hard evidence" connecting Usama Bin laden to the events of September 11, 2001, while the U.S. media has played the Bin laden-9/11 connection story for five years now as if it has conclusive evidence that Bin Laden is responsible for the collapse of the Twin Towers, the Pentagon attack, and the demise of United Flight 93?

No hard evidence connecting Usama Bin laden to 9/11...Think about it.

To view the 4 references cited above and view the original article, kindly click on:

http://teamliberty.net/id267.html

Operation Saddam: America's Propaganda War
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Courtesy of: InformationClearingHouse.info
Originally Broadcast On: SBS,
Australian T.V.
Run Time: 50 Mins
July 29, 2003

A documentary focusing on the tactics used by the U.S. and it's allies in the build up to, and during, the Iraq War, featuring Ray McGovern and Seymour Hersh amongst others.

"In Iraq, the regime of Saddam Hussein is no more. One month ago, that country was a prison to its people, a haven for terrorists, an arsenal of weapons that endangered the world."

[In a televised address from the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington DC, on April 15, 2003, George W. Bush was euphoric].

"These are good days in the history of freedom."

Saddam Hussein had been overthrown--The Second Gulf War was over. However, the debate about the causes of the war--And thus about the credibility of US President George W. Bush--Has only Just begun.

According to one former high-ranking secret service agent, "the threat to America by Iraq's weapons of mas destruction was a propaganda lie used to deceive the public."

The cutting edge documentary, "Operation Saddam: America's Propaganda Battle," screening on SBS on Tuesday, July 29 at 8:30 pm, presents the individual stages of the propaganda battle, by which the American and British governments sought to Justify the Second Gulf War.

How does one sell a war?

This was a question that weighed heavy on the minds of those in the US administration long before the war had even started.

"Operation Saddam: America's Propaganda Battle" takes a look at the marketing of this war--A cocktail of distortion, lies and forgeries--As shown by former secret service agent Ray McGovern, American Invetigative Journalist Seymour Hersh and best-selling author John MacArthur.

MacArthur, for instance, tells of how the amazing image of an Iraqi man climbing the huge statue of Saddam Hussein in central Baghdad at the end of the war and throwing an American flag over the head of the dictator, was actually a carefully staged public stunt dreamed up by an advertising agency in the US:

"I think the Rendon Group advised the Pentagon right up through the seizure or the knocking down of the statue in the Central Aquare in Baghdad...That was a set piece of ahead of time for the Bush re-election campaign."

The documentary also examines the truths, lies and distortions around the assertions that Saddam Hussein was acquiring and building nuclear weapons, and the pretenses behind the Congressional authorization for the decisive new directions in American foreign and defence policy.

Documentary:
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article11054.htm

Israel's Secret Weapon
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Courtesy Of: InformationClearingHouse.info
Broadcast on: The BBC
Monday, 17 March, 2003


This film is the story of the bomb, Vanunu and Israel's wall of silence...

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article6558.htm

NATO Tests Troop Deployment Skills
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Courtesy Of: The Washington Times
By Gareth Harding
June 15, 2006

Brussels--NATO's ability to deploy troops to world hot spots on day's notice will be put to the test in a major exercise that begins today on the Cape Verde Islands off the coast of Africa.

Code-named Steadfast Jaguar 06, the military maneuvers will involve about 7,000 soldiers, sailors and air crew from the NATO Response Force (NRF), the alliance's fledgling rapid-reaction corps.

"Cape Verde will be a major test of the NRF to operate quickly, strategically and at a distance," NATO spokesman James Appathurai told the Washington Times. "We will be testing stuff we have never done before."

Over a fortnight, French-, Spanish-and German-based land, air and marine forces--under the command of Joint task force headquarters aboard the USS Mount Whitney--Will conduct a series of exercises on the arid mountainous islands.

One will involve evacuating civilians from a 9,900 foot-high Volcano on the Island of Fogo after a fictitious eruption. In another, alliance troops will stage an amphibious landing on one of the archipelago's 10 islands.

Lt. Col Mike Nicholson from the Allied Press Information Center in Cape Verde, said NRF troops will be asked to respond to "ever-changing missions, from military to humanitarian and back again."

NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, along with Supreme Allied Commander for Europe Gen. James L. Jones and alliance ambassadors, will oversee the maneuvers next Thursday and Friday.

Gen. Jones, the four-star U.S. general who commands NATO's military campaigns from his Mons, Belgium, headquarters, has described the NRF as the "primary vehicle for transforming the alliance's force structures and improving its military capabilities."

The Cape Verde Islands, which lie about 300 miles off the coas of Senegal in the Atlantic Ocean, were chosen to test the response force's ability to carry out complex missions in far-flung places with little support from the host nation. The United States wanted to hold the exercise in Mauritania, but France blocked the proposal.

The show of strength will be NATO's first military exercise in Africa, although the 57-year-old alliance has helped train and transport African Union troops in Sudan's troubled Drafur region.

NATO leaders agreed to create the NRF at a summit in Prague in 2002. The aim is to help transform the Brussels-based alliance from a static, Europe-centered, defensive organization into a security body with global ambitions and reach.

Once fully operational, the response force will allow NATO to deploy up to 25,000 troops within five days anywhere in the world for up to one month.

Under the principle of "first force in, first force out," the NRF will carry out counterterrorism operations, humanitarian missions and the evacuation of civilians from conflict zones.

"The NRF makes NATO much more expeditionary and much quicker reacting to events," Mr Appathurai said. "It is the hothouse for the alliance's latest doctrines and technologies."

Despite some troop shortfalls, NATO officials, speaking on the alliance's usual condition of annonymity, said the 26-member organization was "on track" to meet its deadline of having the NRF up and running by the fall.

Gen. Jones is expected to declare the NRF fully operational in October, a month before alliance heads of state meet in the Latvian capital, Riga.

The rapid-reaction force was used to deliver relief supplies to the New Orleans region in September after Hurricane Katrina. It also flew about 2,500 tons of aid to Pakistan in October after an earthquake in the mountainous Kashmir region killed 80,000 and left more than 3.5 million homeless.

The exercise in Cape Verde, which will include troops from the United States Special Operations Command Europe, will be the first meeting of the NRF's land, air and sea components. It also will be the force's biggest military maneuver since its creation.

Source:
http://washingtontimes.com/world/20060614-094647-8441r.htm

Bush Head
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Bush head created from the photos of American soldiers who have died in Iraq this year--creator unknown...

If a picture is worth a thousand words...this one speaks for itself...

I Was Tortured
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Courtesy Of: InformationClearingHouse.info
By Sister Dianna Ortiz, OSU

Sister Ortiz relates her personal experiences and tell us that "U.S. personnel were present in interrogation and torture rooms,"

In Guatemala in 1989 when she was kidnapped, taken to a secret prison and repeatedly raped and tortured by troops commanded by General Hector Gramajo (a CIA asset and graduate of the U.S. Army School of the Americas).

"Many of our fellow Americans wear a blindfold hiding from the truth of what our government is doing. But each of you has eyes to see, ears to hear, and a voice to oppose this crime against humanity."

Sr. Dianna is the author of the Blindfold's Eyes Tassc.org.
Buffalo, N.Y.
April 9, 2005

Video:
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8807.htm

On Seeking Knowledge
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By Hafiz
Translated By: Sir William Jones (1895)

The world to me has been a home,
Wherever knowledge could be sought.
Through differing climes I loved to roam,
And every shade of feeling caught.
From minds whose varied fruits supply,
The food of my philosophy.
And still the treasures of my store,
Have made my wandering less severe.
From every spot some prize I bore,
From every harvest gleaned an ear...

On The Excellence Of Contentment
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From: The Rose Garden
By: Saadi Shirazi

Contentment! Do thou me enrich; for those
Who have thee not, are blest with wealth in vain.
Wise Luqman for his treasure, patience chose:
Who have not patience, wisdom ne'er attain...

Note: Luqman, was an individual known in pre-Islamic Arabia as: Luqman the sage or the wise man...

Israeli Air Force Detonated Car Bomb In Lebanon
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Courtesy Of: Haaretz.com
By The Associated Press
15/06/2006

Beirut--An Israeli aircraft detonated the car bomb that killed two officials of a Palestinian militant group in South Lebanon last month, Lebanese Defense Minister Elias Murr said Thursday.

The government has decided to complain to the UN Security Council about Israeli attacks in lebanon, Information Minister Ghazi Aridi said following a Cabinet meeting that heard the defense minister's report.

Murr briefed the Cabinet on the May 26 car bombing that killed Mahmoud Majzoub, a senior Islamic Jihad official, and his brother as they walked out of their home in the Southern City of Sidon. Both men were Lebanese citizens.

Earlier Thursday, Murr told reporters at his office that the state's investigation had found an aircraft was looking out for the Majzoub's via a camera on the ground.

"The bomb was detonated from this aircraft," he said.

Murr said the main suspect had received "bags filled with explosives" delivered by Israeli sea-borne commandos North of Beirut.

On Saturday, the Lebanese Army said it had arrested Mahmoud Rafeh, 59, a retired police officer, for the killing of the Majzoub's.

Rafeh "had links to Israeli intelligence," the Army said in a statement.

On Tuesday, the Army said Rafeh had confessed to killing the Majzoub brother's as well as to other operations--including the killing of officials of the militant Hezbollah group in 1999 and 2003, and the slaying of the son of Ahmed Jibril, leader of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, in 2002.

Murr told reporters that Rafeh's group was the most dangerous to be discovered in Lebanon in 30 years.

Lebanon has detained many people on harges for spying for Israel.

The country considers itself at war with its southern neighbor and bans its citizens from having any contact with the Jewish State.

Source:
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/727552.html

I Broke It, You Fix It
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Why Are Women Allowed To Drive?
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Remember, this is Just for fun...

The Power Of Tehran's Defence
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Courtesy Of: GulfNews.com
BY Patrick Seale

Iran is a formidable military power, second only to Israel in the Middle East, this is the Judgement of most Western observers.

Unlike Israel, however, it has been denied access to American weapons, and indeed to most Western weapons, since the overthrow of the Shah by the Islamic Revolution 27 years ago.

And, again unlike Israel, Iran has no nuclear bombs at least not yet. nevertheless, militarily, it is by no means backward or defenceless.

Largely through its own immense efforts and with some help from Russia, China, Pakistan and North Korea, Iran has created a powerful military-industrial complex, which employs more than 200,000 engineers, technicians and skilled workers.

According to the London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS), Iran today produces almost 2,000 defence items, from munitions to aircraft, and from missile boats to satellites. It exports military equipment to over 30 countries, including seven in Europe.

How would it fare if it were attacked by the US alone or indeed by the US and Israel together. Could it defend itself? could it strike back? To what extent has it acquired a capability for strategic deterrence?


RELEVANT QUESTIONS
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The questions are relevant because, although there are now some slender hopes that the crisis over Iran's nuclear programme might be resolved by negotiation, the possibility of war cannot be ruled out.

There is undoubtedly a strong current of opinion in both the United States and Israel that, for geopolitical reasons, would prefer the Islamic regime in Tehran to be destroyed, much as Saddam Hussain's regime in Iraq was destroyed.

Geopolitical ambitions are, in fact, fueling the dispute over Iran's nuclear activities. The US is concerned to control Middle East oil for at least the next decade or two.

Israel, in turn now that Iraq has been smashed wants to consolidate its military dominance over the region, and be in a position to reshape the regional order to suit its interests. To both powers, therefore, Iran poses a strategic challenge.

Iran is determined to pursue its nuclear programme for what it claims is the purely peaceful purpose of producing fuel for nuclear power stations. Both the US and Israel have, on several occasions, stressed that they would not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons.

In pressing for the use of force to put an end to Iran's nuclear ambitions, Israel betrays its fear that the US might strike a deal with Iran which would undermine Israel's strategic predominance, as well as its privileged status as America's key Middle East ally.

In the Military Balance 2006, the IISS's annual analysis of the world's armed services, Iran's capability is described in some detail.

The IISS conclusion is that the years of war with Iraq "turned the Iranians into military professionals" who proceeded to develop an advanced and innovative defence industry. They were able to create an industrial infrastructure which is capable of meeting nearly every requirement of the Iranian Armed Forces.

What has been the purpose of this vast Iranian effort? Is it for offensive use or is it purely defensive? Should the Arab Gulf States be concerned at Iran's military power?

The IISS believes that Iran's defence structure is based on a foundation of "strategic deterrent defence."


STRATEGY
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Iran's strategy, it says, "is to absorb a first strike and then to initiate immediate retaliation with all means available, but only if such a move serves the political ends and does not threaten the very existence of the Islamic regime."

What does this mean in the current situation?

- First, it suggests that Iran will not be bullied into abandoning its nuclear activities.

- Secondly, Iran's considerable military strength is for deterrence purposes, to protect it against an aggression by the US or Israel aimed at regime change.

- Thirdly, if Iran is seeking to build an atomic bomb which it strenuously denies, this could only be to strengthen its deterrent posture. It could not consider using such a weapon without risking national annihilation at the hands of the US and Israel.

Nuclear weapons have contributed to stability between the West and te former Soviet Union, and between India and Pakistan. Might they not serve a similar function between Iran and Israel?

Would an Iranian bomb really be such a disaster?

History has surely proved that a balance of power creates peace, whereas imbalance causes war, as the more powerful side will inevitably seek to impose its will by force.

Is not this the meaning of the current threats against Iran by the US and Israel?

Source:
http://gulfnews.com/opinion/columns/region/10047206.html

Raised On A Diet Of Bullshit
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Cortez The Killer
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By Neil Young

He came dancing across the water
With his galleons and guns
Looking for the new world
In that palace in the sun.

On the shore lay Montazuma
With his coca leaves and pearls
In his halls he often wondered
With the secrets of the worlds.

And his subjects
Gathered 'round him
Like the leaves around the tree
In their clothes of many colors
For the angry gods to see.

And the women all were beautiful
And the men stood
Straight and strong
They offered life in sacrifice
So that others could go on.

Hate was Just a legend
And war was never known
The people worked together
And they lifted many stones.

They carried them
To the flat lands
And they died along the way
But they built up
With their bare hands
What we still can't do today.

And I know she's living there
And she loves me to this day
I still can't remember when
Or how I lost my way.

He came dancing across the water
Cortez, Cortez
What a killer.

War On Terror Flawed
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Courtesy Of: AlJazeera.net
Monday 12 June 2006
By Agencies

The concentration on the war on terror is increasing the risk of terrorist attacks and distracting governments from greater threats, a British think tank has warned.

The independent Oxford Research Group said the most likely causes of future conflicts are: climate change, competition over resources, social and economic marginalisation and increased militarisation.

"The war on terror is a dangerous diversion and prevents the international community from responding effectively to the most likely causes of future conflict," the report Global Resources To Global Threats: Sustainable Security For The 21st Century said.

The authors of the 18-month study criticised the war on terror for its high cost and suggested that it was "creating more recruits and supporters of terrorism than it defeats."

"There is abundant evidence that the 'war on terror' is proving deeply counterproductive, making the risk of future terrorist attacks...more, not less likely," the group said.

The report noted that the war in Iraq has entered its fourth year and the conflict in Afghanistan is moving into its sixth year yet neither looks as if it will reach a conclusion.

"Both countries are increasingly unstable and violent, while the Al-Qaeda movement is as active as ever," The author said.

Unless the US and Britain change their security outlook in the next five years, the world will be highly unstable by the middle of the century, the report said.

The research group said a new strategy is needed to address the issues which create instability in the world.

It urges governments to invest in four key areas: renewable energy and conservation to counter climate change; energy efficiency to combat resource competition; poverty reduction programmes to defeat marginalisation; and ending development of weapons of mass destruction to stop militarisation.

"These provide the best chance of averting global disaster as well as addressing some of the root causes of terrorism," the group said.

Source:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/D45B75D4-DAE9-40B9-9D59-3D0598698E7F.htm

It's Easy To Invade But Hard To Leave
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Anatomy Of An Atrocity
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Courtesy Of: Eric Blumrich

The savage and Inhumane effects of Depleted Uranium.

WARNING: Very Graphic Images!!!

Flash Animation:
http://ericblumrich.com/pl_lo.html

US Biggest Threat To Global Peace
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Courtesy Of: The BBC
Wednesday, 14 June 2006

People in European and Muslim countries see US policy in Iraq as a bigger threat to world peace than Iran's nuclear programme, a survey has shown.

The survey by the Pew Research Group also found support for US President George W Bush and his "war on terror" had dropped dramatically worldwide.

Goodwill created by US aid for nations hit by the 2004 Tsunami had also faded since last year, the survey found.

The survey questioned 17,000 people in 15 countries, including the US.

The latest in a series of annual polls by the Pew Global Attitudes Project interviewed respondents between 31 March and 14 May 2006.


"FADING GOODWILL"
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The latest survey shows the worldwide reputation of the US continues to suffer over its prosecution of the "war on terror."

Sharp declines in the public perception of the US were particularly apparent in India, Spain and Turkey.

...A majority of people in 10 of the 14 countries outside the US surveyed said the war in Iraq had made the world a more dangerous place.

Some 60% of people in the UK, which is the US biggest ally, felt the Iraq war made the world less secure, while some 30% said it had made the world safer.

According to the survey:

* Worlwide support for the "war on terror" has remained the same or declined.
* European confidence in Mr Bush has sunk even lower than it was last year.
* A majority of people in most countries feel the US will not achieve its goals in the "war on terror."


"MUSLIM DIFFERENCE"
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According to the survey, people in the US and Europe have grown increasingly concerned in the last year over Iran's nuclear programme.

...However, the poll showed public opinion in predominantly Muslim countries was far less troubled by Tehran's nuclear programme.

Muslim people also appeared less concerned than Europeans and Americans by the victory of the Hamas militant group in Palestinian elections earlier this year.

The survey found concern over bird flu was largely confined to Asia, while two-thirds of people surveyed in each country said they were worried by global warming.

Concern over the greenhouse effect was highest in India and Japan and lowest in the US and China.

The survey interviewed people in China, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Spain, Turkey and the US.

Source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5077984.stm

Hadji Girl Lyrics
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I was out in the sands of Iraq
And we were under attack and I
Well I didn't know where to go
Then the first thing that I could see
Was everybody's favorite Burger King
So I threw open the door and I hit the floor
Then sudden to my surprise,
I looked up and I saw her eyes
And I knew it was love at first sight
And she said...
Durka Durka Mohammad Jihad
Sherpa Sherpa Bakrala
Hadgi girl I can't understand what you say
And she said...
Durka Durka Mohammad Jihad
Sherpa Sherpa Bakrala
Hadji girl I love you anyway
Then she said she wanted me to see,
She wanted me to go meet her family
But I, well I couldn't figure out how to say "no"
Cause I don't speak Arabic so
She took me down an old dirt trail
And we pulled up to a sod shanty
Then we
Threw open the door and I hit the floor
Cause her brother and her father shouted
Durka Durka Mohammad Jihad
Sherpa Sherpa Bakrala
They pulled out their AKs so I could see
And they said...
Durka Durka Mohammad Jihad
Sherpa Sherpa Bakrala
So I grabbed her little sister and put her in front of me
And as the bullets began to fly
The blood sprayed from between her eyes
And then I laughed maniacally
Then I hid behind the T.V.
And I locked and loaded my M16
I blew those little fuckers to eternity
And I said...
Durka Durka Mohammad Jihad
Sherpa Sherpa Bakrala
They should have known they were fucking
With a Marine!


Hadji Girl Video
Courtesy Of: Google
Run Time: 4 Minutes 10 Seconds

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2058313056450546087&q=hadji+girl

Iran Welcome In China's New Sphere
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Courtesy Of: The Australian
By Rowan Callick,
China Correspondent
June 13, 2006

Iran's controversial President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is flying to Shanghai tomorrow to take part in a summit that will seal China's plans to lead an Asian rival to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.

The Shanghai Co-Operation Organisation--whose meeting has forced the shutdown of much of the city this week--is celebrating its fifth anniversary, and is preparing to expand its membership well beyond the present China, Russia and four strategic Central Asian States: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Li Hui refused at a briefing yesterday to disclose the countries that wished to become observers or full members, beyond saying: "A lot of countries in Asia and other continents have applied, demonstrating the SCO is broadening its influence."

Other leaders who will attend the summit include the Presidents of Pakistan and Mongolia
--formal observer states, like Iran and India--and Afghanistan.

Most of the members share a huge potential--and in China's case, an appetite--for increased energy production. India is sending its Oil and Gas Minister.

In the past, they have also shared a focus on combating Islamist terror, but Iran's participation in this summit and its eagerness to become a full member appear to point the organisation in a different direction: A coral of countries capable of countering Western influence.

...The group's foreign and defence ministers and parliamentary speakers have already held meetings this year, as the pace of enmeshment accelerates. The organisations members have begun holding Joint military exercises, most recently in March in Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan and next year in Russia.

...Last week SCO Secretary-General Zhang Deguang told Journalists in Beijing, when questioned about the participation of Iran:

"We cannot abide other countries calling our observer nations sponsors of terror. We would not have invited them if we believed they sponsored terror."

The SCO's charter speaks of creating "A new international political and economic order."

David Wall, a researcher associate for Cambridge University's East Asia Institute, wrote recently in the Japan Times that the SCO States'

"...Had become an important multilateral institution of global geopolitical significance."

At last year's summit, Beijing and Moscow initiated discussion about the fate of America's bases in Central Asia. The resulting statement said:

"As the active military phase in the anti-terror operation in Afghanistan is nearing completion, it is time to decide on the deadline for the use of temporary infrastructure and for their military contingents' presence in member countries."

Uzbekistan has since asked the U.S. military to leave but Kyrgyzstan continues to host a base.

Through the SCO, China has developed connections that will ensure at least some of the massive oil and gas reserves in Central Asia flow East and not West.

It has extended loans and made growing investments in the "-stan" economies, as part of its careful cultivation of the region, and is stepping up its purchases of Iranian oil, this year reaching 13 per cent of all its oil imports.

Source:
http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19453012-2703,00.html

Code Orange
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Nonaligned Nations Back Iran
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Courtesy Of: The New York Times
By: The Associated Press
Published: June 13, 2006

Vienna, Austria (AP)--Western countries pushed Tuesday for broad support on the need for Iran to freeze uranium enrichment but nonaligned countries backed Tehran, saying all countries have the right to pursue a nuclear program for civilian use.

A statement drawn up by the 16-nation nonaligned bloc at the board meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency,

"Reaffirmed the basic inalienable right of all countries to develop, produce and use atomic energy for peaceful purposes, without any discrimination and in conformity with their respective legal obligations."

The statement--made available to the Associated Press ahead of delivery when Iran comes up on the agenda later in the week--was mostly a repitition of a communique issued last month at a meeting in Malaysia of the nonaligned bloc's foreign ministers.

...The statement from the nonaligned bloc warned that "Any attack or threat of attack against peaceful nuclear facilities--constitutes a grave violation of international law."

The U.S. and its allies were focusing on key nations with clout among nonaligned countries such as Brazil, India and Argentina, urging them to put pressure on Iran in individual statements to accept an offer for talks on its nuclear program, diplomats said.

...The Western push suffered a setback Monday with the revelations that China and Russia were not prepared to Join America and its European allies in a unified message insisting that Tehran halt enrichment.

There reluctance reflected lingering differences along East-West lines among the six world powers...

...Still, other diplomats spoke of more potential divisions. China, Russia and possibly Germany might push to allow Iran some tightly controlled and small-scale enrichment rather than see talks founder, they said.

Russia and China also might balk at enforcing selective U.N. sanctions on Iranian officials and activities.

Source:
http://nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Iran-Nuclear.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Death On A Gaza Beach
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Courtesy Of: InformationClearingHouse.info
Run Time: 3 Minutes
06/12/06

Huda Ghalya a 7 year old Palestinian girl screams in horror as she watches her dead parents and other family members being removed from the beach after an Israeli bomb attack.

WARNING: This video should only be watched by a mature audience...

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article13593.htm

US To Keep 50,000 Garrison In Iraq For Protracted Time
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Courtesy Of: The Telegraph
By Francis Harris in Washington
Filed: 12/06/2006

America plans to retain a garrison of 500,000 troops, one tenth of its entire army, in Iraq for years to come, according to US media reports.

The revelation came as George W. Bush summoned his top political, military and intelligence aides to a summit on Iraq's future today at the presidential retreat at Camp David.

...But despite fierce domestic pressure to reduce troop levels before November's critical mid-term elections, there were growing signals that Gen George Casey, America's Iraq commander, may raise troop levels in the short term.

...America's military would be drawn into any defining battle over who rules Iraq.

General Casey has already summoned his main reserve unit, a 3,500 man armoured brigade based in Kuwait and has alerted a Germany-based brigade that it may be needed soon.

Military planners have begun to assess the costs of keeping a 50,000-man force in Iraq for a protracted period of time. At present the total number of serving American troops is about 500,000.

...Military analysts have noted that significant American spending is already being committed to permanent bases in Iraq.

Source:
http://telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=//news/2006/06/12/wirq12.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/06/12/ixnews.html

Hadji Girl
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Courtesy Of: CAIR
(Council on American-Islamic Relations)
Via: YouTube.com

This four-minute video, called "hadji girl," purports to be a "Marine in Iraq singing a song about hadji."

(A "Hajji" is a person who has made the Islamic Pilgrimage to Mecca), but the term has often been used as a pejorative by U.S. troops in Iraq.

The song posted online in March, tells of a U.S. Marines encounter with an Iraqi woman.
It has been viewed by almost 50,000 people.

The song's lyrics include:

"I grabbed her little sister and put her in front of me. As the bullets began to fly, the blood sprayed from between her eyes, and then I laughed maniacally...I blew those little fuckers to eternity...They should have known they were fucking with the Marines."

Members in the audience, not shown in the video, laughed and cheered wildly for these lyrics.

Comments apparently posted by other military personnel express approval for the songs contents.