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It’s Chilling!
Hussein Al-alak, The
Iraq Solidarity Campaign
What is more chilling, then reading a
weekend newspaper and viewing a selection of
pictures that were taken during World War
Two, from the perspective of NAZI officers
which depicted them during leisure time in a
European concentration camp. Is it chilling,
that these images should have even been
referred to as being "chilling", when only a
decade ago at the Fire Brigade Union
conference in Manchester, a conference
ironically titled "The Silent Holocaust",
was organised with the aim of exposing the
brutality of the UN imposed sanctions on
Iraq. The conference brought to light, how
the imposition of a regime like the
sanctions, was also viewed by Madeline
Albright as being a "price worth paying",
that the 6,000 children who died each month
from sanctions related causes, or the 1.5
million who died in total, was "worth" every
life lost, if this meant that the USA and
the UK were able to "contain" Saddam Hussein
and prevent him from building his "weapons
of mass destruction"...
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Top-ranking IDF
Sadists
Gilad Atzmon,
Palestine Think Tank
We learn from the Israeli press that a
criminal investigation has been launched
against the soldier caught on tape firing
towards a bound Palestinian. However, there
is a detail the Israeli press in English is
reluctant to share with us. The shooting
soldier was not just an ordinary low-ranking
infantry recruit, he was a First Sergeant.
But it goes much further, the soldier who is
caught on video holding the bound
Palestinian detainee is no less than a
regiment commander, an IDF Lieutenant
Colonel. In case someone fails to
understand, it is a high-ranking Israeli
officer who is caught on video holding a
handcuffed man as a still target for the
merciless vengeance of another IDF soldier.
An unavoidable question pops to air. What
are these people made of? Do they share any
recognised qualities with the rest of
humanity? Clearly, cruelty is deeply rooted
in Israeli society...
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Father of girl who
filmed Ni’lin shooting and Canadian activist
arrested in Ni’lin
International
Solidarity Movement
On the 23rd July, the father of the girl
who filmed the Israeli shooting of a
detainee in Ni’lin and a Canadian activist
were arrested during a non-violent
demonstration again in Ni’lin against the
construction of the apartheid wall. The
arrests occurred at a non-violent women’s
demonstration again the construction of the
wall in which the two were arrested after
observing the march towards the construction
site...
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WHEN SADDAM HUSSEIN
MET APRIL GLASPIE
Malcom Lagauche
Eighteen years ago, the infamous meeting
between Saddam Hussein and April Glaspie
took place. Most people only recall that
April Glaspie, in her ambiguity, may have
given Saddam a "green light" to enter
Kuwait. But, there was much more to the
meeting than this oft-told allegation.
Saddam let Glaspie know that he and his
government were well aware that the U.S. and
Kuwait were attempting to undermine Iraq’s
economy. Hindsight shows us today that this
meeting dealt with many issues that were
involved in the U.S. aggression against
Iraq, not just the border problem with
Kuwait. Here is another interesting aspect
of this conversation. Today, the U.S. public
is complaining about gasoline prices, yet
Saddam Hussein told April Glaspie that $25 a
barrel was an equitable price and that some
of his Arab counterparts wanted to increase
the price. In 2003, the U.S. public was told
that Iraq had to be invaded to ensure the
flow of oil from the Middle East. Just the
opposite was true.
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New York Times boosts
Pentagon push for wider bombing in Afghanistan
Patrick Martin, WSWS
A lengthy front-page article in
Wednesday’s New York Times cites US military
officials to make the case for wider
latitude in conducting bombing raids against
targets in Afghanistan. The article by
reporter Thom Shanker carries a headline
reflecting the complaints of the Pentagon:
"Civilian Risks Curbing Strikes in Afghan
War." According to this sympathetic account,
"American and allied commanders said that
even as orders for air attacks in
Afghanistan had increased significantly this
year, their ability to strike top insurgent
leaders from the air was severely restricted
by rules intended to minimize civilian
casualties."...
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Mukasey to Congress:
Defy the Rule of Law
Stephen Lendman
Along with other past and present
administration officials, Attorney General
Michael Mukasey supports lawlessness and
police state justice. Weeks after the
Supreme Court's landmark (June 12)
Boumediene ruling, he addressed the
conservative, pro-war American Enterprise
Institute (on July 21) and asked Congress to
overrule the High Court - for the third
time. His proposal: -- subvert
constitutional and international law; --
authorize indefinite detentions of
Guantanamo and other "war on terror"
prisoners (including US citizens designated
"enemy combatants"); and -- deny them habeas
rights, due process, and any hope for
judicial fairness...
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The speech Gordon
Brown should have made to the Israeli parliament
Stuart Littlewood*
I apologize most sincerely to the world,
and especially to Arab friends, for our
prime minister's crass speech to the
Knesset. Britain, like the US, has an
uncanny knack of producing one silly leader
after another from a limitless supply that
thrust themselves on an unsuspecting public
in order to perpetuate the Great Betrayal
and the Nakba (catastrophe). Brown is the
latest high-flier from our political swamp.
Judging by his performance so far, we
Britons are destined to live our lives in a
state of perpetual and excruciating
embarrassment. Gordon Brown praised Menachem
Begin whose terror gang, the Irgun, blew up
the British headquarters in Jerusalem's King
David Hotel in 1946, killing 91 people. Let
it be known that this prime minister doesn't
speak for me or anyone I know when he says:
"Britain will always stand firmly by
Israel's side." ...
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IRAQ: Most NGOs Losing
Face
Ali al-Fadhily and
Dahr Jamail*
Welcomed at first after the U.S.-led
invasion in 2003, most NGOs have run into
scepticism and mistrust. Few remain to help.
Hundreds of local and foreign NGOs became
active in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion
in 2003, after decades of restrictions under
the regime of former dictator Saddam
Hussein. "The former Iraqi regime did not
trust NGOs, and always thought them to be
spies," Muath A'raji of the National
Societal Organisation, a human rights NGO
based in Baghdad told IPS. "Iraqis used to
think the regime was wrong, but now they
have changed their minds because of the many
false foreign NGOs that look more like
contracting companies than humanitarian and
human rights organisations."....
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Gays in Iraq
terrorized by threats, rape, murder
Frederik Pleitgen,
Mohammed Tawfeeq and Wayne Drash, CNN
Kamal was just 16 when gunmen snatched
him off the streets of Baghdad, stuffed him
in the trunk of a car and whisked him away
to a house. But the real terror was about to
begin. The men realized he was gay, Kamal
said, when he took his shirt off and they
saw that his chest was shaved. "They told me
to take off my clothes to rape me or they
would kill me immediately. This moment was
the worst moment in my life," he said,
weeping as he spoke of the 2005 ordeal...
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The Palestinian Bar
Mitzvah
Bassam Aramin writing
from occupied Jerusalem, Live from Palestine
My son Arab is 14, just past the age that
his Jewish Israeli peers are celebrating
their Bar Mitzvahs. This ceremony in Jewish
culture is a rite of passage that marks a
boy's entrance into the realities and
responsibilities of adulthood. And last
week, my son experienced something akin to
the Palestinian Bar Mitzvah. It was a
beautiful day on Friday the 12 July when
Arab went with his friends to the beach in
Tiberias. He spent all of his time in the
days leading up to the trip trying to
convince me that I should let him go. At
first I refused -- he's young to be
traveling so far in a group without his
parents. But then I remembered the regret I
still feel about the death of my daughter
Abir...
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Obama in Iraq
underscores his commitment to US militarism
James Cogan, WSWS
The visit of US presidential candidate
Barack Obama to Iraq on Monday underscores
once again that the millions of American
workers and youth who oppose militarism have
been completely disenfranchised by the
Democratic Party. The Illinois senator used
the trip to make clear his commitment to the
indefinite occupation of Iraq, as well as to
agitate further for his policy of
redeploying troops from the Middle East in
order to escalate the war in Afghanistan.
Obama took every opportunity to be
photographed and filmed in the company of
military commanders and personnel...
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Pentagon to recommend
more troops for Afghanistan
LOLITA C. BALDOR, AP
Top Pentagon leaders are expected to
recommend soon that Defense Secretary Robert
Gates order hundreds of additional U.S.
troops to Afghanistan over the next month or
so, according to a senior military official.
The units are likely to be small and could
include engineers, ordnance disposal troops
and other support forces needed to shore up
fighting needs and the training of Afghan
forces. Officials have not ruled out
identifying a larger, brigade-sized unit
before the end of the year that could either
be shifted to Afghanistan from a planned
deployment to Iraq or moved from some other
location...
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The Israeli army shot
a civilian in the Gaza Strip
Rula Shahwan - IMEMC
The Israeli army shot a Palestinian from
the Gaza Strip on Wednesday midday from a
nearby Israeli military zone located on the
northern borders of the Gaza Strip. Medical
sources reported that Israeli troops opened
fire at the 25 year old Abed Hamdan causing
the injury of his foot and he was
transferred to a local hospital for
treatment...
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Ahmadinejad Praises
U.S. Envoy Showed Respect Towards Iran
Zahra Hosseinian,
Reuters
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on
Wednesday praised U.S. participation in last
week's talks with Tehran on its disputed
nuclear program as "a positive step" and a
sign of respect by its arch foe. "I advise
you not to spoil this positive step ... by
using the language of colonial times and by
bullying," Ahmadinejad said in a televised
speech. But Ahmadinejad, who was unusually
complimentary in his comments about a
representative of a country Iran's clerical
leaders see as "the Great Satan," made clear
again Tehran would not halt atomic work the
West suspects is aimed at making bombs....
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Gaza poverty mounts
despite Hamas-Israel truce
Xinhua
A UN official in Gaza Strip said
Wednesday that poverty in the enclave is
mounting despite an one-month-long truce
between Israel and Hamas. "The situation in
the Gaza Strip continues to deteriorate and
the number of poor people continues to
increase one month after a truce has been
reached," John Ging, operation director of
the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in
the impoverished enclave told reporters...
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Who Funds the
Progressive Media?
Michael Barker
Critiques of liberal philanthropy are
nothing new: indeed such criticisms have
regularly surfaced ever since liberal
foundations were created in the early
twentieth century. In the past few years,
however, the number of critical scholars and
activists writing about practices of liberal
foundations has grown rapidly, and there is
now a blossoming literature showing the
funding strategies of these highly
influential philanthropists are
antidemocratic and manipulative. The
antidemocratic nature of liberal foundations
is epitomized by the long history of
collaboration (that formerly existed)
between the largest major liberal
foundations (like the Ford Foundation) and
the US Central Intelligence Agency.
Moreover, recent research has demonstrated
the key leadership role that liberal
foundations played in developing the means
by which powerful elites could manufacture
public (and elite) consent. By focusing on a
variety of progressive media-related groups
in North America (including most notably the
Benton Foundation and the newly launched The
Real News Network), this article will
discuss the limits of current funding
strategies, and reflect upon alternative,
arguably more sustainable (and democratic)
methods by which civil society media groups
may be created and sustained. It will be
argued that the integral hegemonic function
of liberal philanthropy has already
deradicalised all manner of progressive
social movements, and that civil society
media groups need to cut their institutional
ties with such ! financin g sources...
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Trim Reaper:
Streamlined Killer Drone Begins Combat Operations in
Iraq
David Piper, Fox News
It looks more Star Wars than Iraq War, an
unmanned aerial killer ready to fly its
first combat mission in Iraq. But the MQ-9
Reaper is more than just a stunning sight —
it may represent the future of combat
aviation. The Reaper's streamlined form
stands out in its hangar in Balad Air Base
in central Iraq, now the busiest in the
world for the Department of Defense, with
F-16s and cargo planes taking off and
landing every few minutes. The Reaper looks
like its predecessor, the Predator drone,
which was originally built as a
reconnaissance plane and is already widely
in use in Iraq and Afghanistan in support of
troops on the ground...
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Despite reports that the company is leaving the
mercenary business, Blackwater's future is secure
Jeremy Scahill
It seems that executives from Blackwater
Worldwide, the Bush administration's
favourite hired guns in Iraq and
Afghanistan, are threatening to pack up
their M4 assault rifles, CS gas and Little
Bird helicopters and go back to the great
dismal swamp of North Carolina whence they
came. Or at least that's how it is being
portrayed in the media. This story broke on
Monday, when the Associated Press ran an
article based on lengthy interviews with
Blackwater's top guns. Since then, the story
has picked up considerable steam and
generated a tremendous amount of buzz online
and in the press...
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Iraq's president
rejects provincial election law
Voices of Iraq
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on
Wednesday said that the passage of the
provincial election law is a constitutional
violation that has occured contrary to the
will of Iraq's second main constituent and
to national accordance principles, a
presidential statement said. The release
noted that Talabani called on Presidency
Council's members to reject the law...
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Obama for President of
Israel?
Tarik, KABOBfest
...OR... Was Obama insinuating what I
always thought? That the U.S. and Israel are
essentially interchangeable names (at least
in as much as policy is concerned)? Was he
giving AIPAC the green light (finally) to
replace the U.S. Congress? Maybe he meant,
simply, that since he was speaking in an
Arab country it would be a good idea to
fully disclose which country he was truly
representing... As if we don't know yet. Or
perhaps it was just a simple mistake...
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Iraqi Parliament
Passes Provincial Elections Law
Reidar Visser
(www.historiae.org)
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Some Matter More: When
47 Victims Are Worth 43 Words
Media lens
In his classic work, Obedience to
Authority, psychologist Stanley Milgram
observed: "There is always some element
of bad form in objecting to the destructive
course of events, or indeed, in making it a
topic of conversation. Thus, in Nazi
Germany, even among those most closely
identified with the 'final solution', it was
considered an act of discourtesy to talk
about the killings." (Milgram, Obedience to
Authority, Pinter & Martin, 1974, p.204)
The same "bad form" is very much discouraged
in our own society. One would hardly guess
from media reporting that Britain and
America are responsible for killing anyone
in Iraq and Afghanistan, where violence is
typically blamed on "insurgents" and
"sectarian conflict". International
"coalition" forces are depicted as
peacekeepers using minimum violence as a
last resort...
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US/IRAN: Scowcroft,
Brzezinski Urge Bush to Drop Precondition
Jim Lobe*
Two of Washington's most prominent
foreign policy greybeards praised Saturday's
direct participation in multinational talks
with Iran by a senior U.S. diplomat but
called on the administration of President
George W. Bush to drop his demands that
Tehran freeze its uranium enrichment
programme as a precondition for broader
negotiations. Ret. Gen. Brent Scowcroft, who
served as national security adviser under
Republican presidents Gerald Ford and George
H. W. Bush, and Zbigniew Brzezinski, who
held the same post under Democratic
President Jimmy Carter, urged Bush to go
further by offering immediate rewards to
Tehran in exchange for such a freeze...
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A West Bank town’s
fight to survive
Media bias and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
NEVE GORDON
"Jerusalem bulldozer 'terrorist' kills 3
in rampage," read the headline of a CNN
article describing the recent attack of a
Palestinian construction worker that left
three Israelis dead and scores wounded. A
Google news search indicates that the brutal
assault was mentioned in 3,525 news
articles. USA Today, the New York Times, the
Los Angeles Times, BBC, Fox News and
Al-Jazeera as well as all the other major
media outlets covered the incident.
Lesser-known media sources, such as the
Khaleej Times in the United Arab Emirates,
the Edmonton Sun in Canada and B92 in
Serbia, also featured the event. Indeed, one
could safely assume that almost all news
outlets around the globe provided some type
of coverage of the attack. Another Google
news search, this one using the name Ni'lin,
produces only 75 results. A few major
outlets have carried the story about the
brave resistance to Israeli seizures of land
staged by the residents of this Palestinian
town in the occupied West Bank, but CNN, the
Los Angeles Times and USA Today have not...
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How I’ve come to know
Gilad Shalit
Simon Black
I know Gilad Shalit. Not personally, but
I could tell you what he looks like, his
age, where he went to school, his hometown,
his father’s name, what his father looks
like, and how he weeps for his son. I know
that this is not the first time that the
Shalit family has felt the emotional impact
of armed conflict. I know that during the
Arab-Israeli war, Gilad’s uncle, Yoel, was
killed. I know that Gilad’s brother is named
after Yoel (...) I know that Gilad is the
first Israeli soldier captured by
Palestinians since 1994. I know Gilad’s
friends describe him as a peaceful and quiet
young man. I know that Israeli Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert has spoken with Gilad’s
father. I know that Olmert has assured
Galid’s father that everything in his power
is being done to secure the release of his
son. I also know that the "everything" Prime
Minister Olmert speaks of includes the
collective punishment of the Palestinian
people by further military incursions into
their territory, destroying Palestinian
infrastructure and cutting their power
supply, leaving families in the dark. I know
these things because I watch the nightly
news and read the daily paper. Since his
capture, I have been unable to avoid the
image of Gilad Shalit and the life and
history behind this image. What I do not
know is the names and faces of the hundreds
of Palestinian children held in Israeli
jails. I could not tell you about their
brother or sister, whether they would like
to go to university, or whether they have a
dead relative for who! m they w ere named
after...
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Iraq: Provincial
elections and displacement
Helena Cobban
In all the recent reporting that I've
seen on the Iraqi provincial elections, and
their now almost certain postponement, I've
seen almost no mention of one of the biggest
administrative/political hurdles to holding
these elections: that of the conflict-driven
displacement of some four million Iraqis --
more than 12 percent of the whole national
population--away from their earlier home
communities. Somewhere around or just under
two million of those displaced have gone to
other countries and are thus considered
refugees. Somewhere around or over two
million of them are displaced inside the
country and are thus defined as 'Internally
Displaced Persons' (IDPs.)...
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Denied Entry: another
step in the ethnic cleansing process of Jerusalem
Kristen Ess / PNN
exclusive
Ziad Sad is one of millions of
Palestinians living in the Diaspora now. He
is a Jerusalem resident currently being
denied entry to his own country and city. He
is in the United States, San Francisco,
California to be exact. He was separated
from his wife and two children. From the
occupied West Bank, PNN spoke Sad at 2:00
am, Pacific Standard Time. "Thank you very
much for this interview. These problems
started back in 2005 when I went to the
Israeli Consulate in San Francisco,
California, and there at the Consulate they
confiscated my Israeli Travel Document and
they asked me to leave the Consulate
immediately.--
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Iraq: provincial
election passes in its own special way
Marc Lynch
The controversial provincial election law
has finally passed the Iraqi Parliament,
accompanied by a mass walkout by the Kurdish
representatives, a raft of procedural
complaints about secret voting, and warnings
that it is impossible to carry out an
honest, credible election on the scheduled
date. A happy ending! The law passed with
127 votes out of the 140 members in the room
(out of 275 total)...
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A Palm Tree, a Napalm
Bomb and a Fallen Leaf...
Layla Anwar, An Arab
Woman Blues
Blogs just like Life itself, attract all
kinds of people...Sane, mad, lost, aware,
confused, sick, searching... I took this
title from a commentator who keeps harassing
me...but even a harasser can come up with
some good stuff...How about that for
impartial, unbiased, objectivity ? Don't you
Westerners pride yourselves on being
rational beings and o' so fucking objective?
Are you not the ones who posited empirical
positivism, cartesian minds over matter,
thesis and anti-thesis, dialectics, and
hypothetical assumptions tested against hard
facts ? All and above a "mundane" reality -
"theirs"....
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US-led forces kill
more Afghan civilians
Jerry White, WSWS
US and NATO forces killed at least 13
Afghans over the weekend, adding to the toll
of civilian deaths as the military
intensifies efforts to crush opposition to
the nearly seven-year-old US occupation. The
two latest incidents occurred as Democratic
presidential candidate Barack Obama visited
Afghanistan and called for more US troops to
be sent to the war-ravaged country. On
Sunday, US-led coalition forces killed four
Afghan police officers and five civilians in
the Anar Dara district in the western
province of Farah, near the Iranian border.
Coalition forces, which entered the area
around midnight, waged a four-hour firefight
and called in air strikes after reportedly
receiving small arms fire from a group of
local policemen...
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Israeli settlers spray
chemicals on Palestinian farmers during attack
Ma'an news
Israeli settlers sprayed chemicals on a
group of Palestinian farmers while attacking
them in the Qalqilia area of the northern
West Bank on Monday, human rights
fieldworkers reported. According to a report
compiled by the International Women's Peace
Service (IWPS), five settlers, two of them
riding horses, from an outpost called Havat
Gilad approached two farmers while they were
working on their land in the village of
Immatin. As the settlers started surrounding
the two Palestinian farmers, they phoned
their family for help. In the meantime, an
additional fifteen Palestinians from Far'ata
who had been working in their land nearby
rushed to the aid of the other farmers...
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Torture and the
Strategic Helplessness of the American Psychological
Association
Torture After Dark
By STEPHEN SOLDZ, BRAD
OLSON, STEVE REISNER, JEAN MARIA ARRIGO and BRYANT
WELCH
Jane Mayer's new book, The Dark Side, has
refocused attention on psychologists’
participation in Bush administration torture
and detainee abuse. In one chapter Mayer
provides previously undisclosed details
about psychologists James Mitchell and Bruce
Jessen’s role in the CIA's brutal, "enhanced
interrogation" techniques. These techniques
apparently drew heavily on the theory of
"learned helplessness" developed by former
American Psychological Association President
Martin Seligman. (Seligman’s work involved
tormenting dogs with electrical shocks until
they became totally unable or unwilling to
extract themselves from the painful
situation. Hence the phrase "learned
helplessness.")...
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Four Germany-based
soldiers charged in detainee deaths in Iraq
Matt Millham, Stars
and Stripes
The Army on Monday charged four
Germany-based soldiers in the deaths of
"several" detainees captured in Iraq in
2007. Staff Sgt. Jess Cunningham, Sgt.
Charles Quigley, Spc. Stephen Ribordy, and
Spc. Belmor Ramos were charged with
conspiracy to commit premeditated murder
under the Uniform Code of Military Justice,
according to a news release issued Tuesday
by 7th Army Joint Multinational Training
Command. The soldiers are members of Company
D, 1st Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment,
172nd Infantry Brigade...
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The Israeli army
released the soldier who shot a bound Palestinian in
Ni'lin two weeks ago
IMENC
The Israeli National Radio reported on
Monday evening that the Israeli Army
District Attorney has released the Israeli
soldier who shot a bound Palestinian
civilian in Ni'lin village near Ramallah in
the northern part of the West Bank two weeks
ago. A video showing an Israeli soldier
shooting a bound Palestinian in the village
of Ni'lin near Ramallah raised uproar among
human rights organizations. The tape, which
was released on Sunday by the Israeli human
rights group B'Tselem, shows an Israeli
soldier shooting Ashraf Abu Rahme with a
rubber coated-steel bullet at short range
while his arms were bound almost two weeks
ago...
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NYT releases Iran
blueprint for talks
AFP
The New York Times released on Tuesday
what it called a two-page informal document
that outlined Tehran's approach to last
week's nuclear talks in Geneva and was
distributed by Iranian negotiators. The
paper called for seven more rounds of talks,
stressed the need for an end to sanctions,
and made no mention of an incentives package
offered by six world powers in exchange for
a suspension of uranium enrichment by the
Islamic republic....
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Haniyya cheers coming
prisoner swap deal with Israel
Saed Bannoura - IMEMC
The Prime Minister of the dissolved
government of the Palestinian people, Ismail
Haniyya, stated Monday that the Palestinian
people will soon celebrate a dignified
prisoner swap deal, adding that the Hamas
party will not concede any of their demands
until the detainees are freed. Haniyya's
statement came during a ceremony at the
Ministry of Detainees in Gaza, where he
described the detainees as "the leaders of
the resistance movement which fights for
Palestinian rights". He also challenged the
Israeli abduction of Palestinian legislator
Mona Mansour, as well as several prominent
West Bank businessmen, on Thursday, and the
ongoing daily abduction campaigns in Nablus,
saying that these actions prove the
bankruptcy of Israeli policies and
promises...
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ISRAEL: THE VIGILANTE
NATION
Desertpeace
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El Khoudary and Paul
Laurde speak about Gaza Boat of August
Popular Committee
Against Siege
Manager of FreeGaza Movement phoned today
Chairman of Popular Committee aginest the
siege on Gaza, MP Jamal N. El Khoudary. Both
spoke about the latest preparations
regarding the coming ship in august. Mr. El
Khoudary asserted that all arrangements are
being ready now. He added that the ship has
to come to draw more attention on this
suffocating siege. "we aspire to end the
siege of Gaza by all peacfull and
non-violent ways. This Voyage is one of the
activities that suit our goals so we will go
on." EL Khoudary said...
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Najaf is a corpse
smugglers’ haven
Nizar Latif
As a worker in one of the world’s largest
cemeteries, Majid Karim’s livelihood always
had a grim edge to it because of its
intimate association with death. But his
work went further, beyond the usual routines
of digging graves, building tombs or keeping
burial sites tidy. He was a corpse smuggler.
From the end of the 1980s and throughout the
following decade, the 36-year-old said he
was part of a gang that smuggled Iranian
dead across the border and into Iraq to be
laid to rest in Najaf cemetery, a vast
burial site revered by Shiite Muslims. "We
would get about five corpses every two
weeks. Sometimes they’d come just as bones
in plastic bags because it was too difficult
to get a whole body through," he said... "If
it was too dangerous to bring the bones in
during the war, they would just put them in
a mass grave, with the idea to move them
later," Abu Malik said. "I heard of at least
200 sets of bones being put in one grave
like that." Both gravediggers said they did
not know the locations of bodies that had
not made it as far as the cemetery. But they
speculated that some of the mass graves
unearthed since the war could have been
bodies of Iranians dumped by smugglers who
feared discovery by security patrols....
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Zionist settlers burn
Palestinian farms
Palestinian
Information Center
Zionist settlers set fire to Palestinian
farms planted with olive trees northeast of
Qalqilia district on Monday evening in an
area called Abul Jud valley, locals
reported. They said that tens of citizens
rushed to extinguish the fire with the help
of civil defense squads, and noted that the
quick action on the part of those citizens
prevented the spread of fire...
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