Who will stop the GENOCIDE OF THE IRAQI PEOPLE BY THE US-UK TERRORISTS?
EUROPEAN TURKMEN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION
How many more Iraqis must die before the politicians and decision makers in the western democracies firmly condemn and start prosecuting the leaders of the US and the UK governments for their crimes against humanity and genocide in Iraq? Their hypocrisy and “great principles” make me sick. They pretend to defend Human Rights everywhere in the world… but what about Iraq, Palestine and Afghanistan? I am disgusted with their “deux poids deux mesures” when they decide about genocides and holocausts… What concrete and immediate measures and resolutions are they taking to stop the GENOCIDE which is taking place in Iraq TODAY?….

Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: www.uruknet.de/?p=37202

HOLD UP IN BABA GURGUR
Gilles Munier
Pressed by their leaders, hundreds of thousands of Kurds from Iraq, but also from Syria, Iran and Turkey are settling in Kerkuk (…) The aim: to modify the ethnic composition of the city before the referendum that is supposed to be held before the end of 2007. Since 10th April 2003 – the day after the fall of Baghdad – a real Kurdish invasion took place in Kerkuk: Massoud Barzani and Jalal Talabani, respectively leaders of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) organized militarily a massive immigration of Kurds to the territories they wanted to conquer. The newly arrived Kurds registered on the election lists and are waiting for the referendum which is to take place before next December 31st. The aim of the operation: to give a democratic varnish to the annexation of Kerkuk and its surrounding region by the Kurds and hand over to the Americans the petrol fields of Baba Gurgur, situated near Kerkuk…

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An Allergy…
Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues
Do you know anything about Allergies ? I remember a friend of mine who was highly allergic to dust and pollen (…) Now when an American or an Americanized utters the word FREE, I freeze… I freeze for a few seconds…I become immobilized, tetanized… As if my reptilian limbic system is preparing itself for a flight/fight response… I hyperventilate, gasp for air… My pupils dilate, my heart palpitates like a thousand drums, my muscles tense up, my neurons work at full speed, my cortisol level antes up, my adrenaline pumps in…and my immune system calls on its soldiers for the ultimate battle…The final battle against the enemy… I try to calm myself, take in a few deep breaths only to see my skin erupt in red patches, like a hundred little red hills made of prickly thorns…like stings from a thousand wasps…covering my body… Urticaria, I say to myself – Relax it’s nothing but urticaria… Do you think I have become allergic to the word “Free”, by any chance ?….

Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: www.uruknet.de/?p=37193

U.S. Contractors in Iraq Rely on Third-World Labor
Guy Raz, # NPR
If you thought all contractors in Iraq were gun-toting American mercenaries, think again. Only a fraction of the estimated 180,000 contractors working on behalf of the U.S. government are security contractors — and the overwhelming majority aren’t even from the U.S. Consider Salim Khan, a dishwasher at a forward operating base in the volatile Iraqi province of Diyala. For about $1.25 an hour, the Pakistan native will work two years for a Saudi-based food-services firm, Tamimi. Tamimi is a subcontractor to KBR, which itself was, until recently, a subsidiary of Halliburton, the mega-corporation that has won most of the big money contracts in Iraq. Across the heavily fortified American bases in Iraq, men and women like Salim Khan cook the food, clean the dishes, chop the vegetables, take out the garbage and clean the latrines…

Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: www.uruknet.de/?p=37201

Who’s behind the Armenian genocide resolution?
Xymphora
Who’s behind the Armenian genocide resolution? Its pretty simple, isn’t it? It is the timing that is odd, so the timing should tell us something. Why stir up this issue and cause problems with Turkish-American relations at this particular time, when Iraq is a mess and the Kurds are making the Turks very nervous? The keystone to the Zionist Plan for the Middle East is breaking Iraq into three parts. The rupture was supposed to occur almost immediately after the American attack. Since that didn’t happen, the ‘surge’ was created to cause massive additional violence with the idea that the country couldn’t hold together under the strain (…) The resolution has so enraged the Turks that it is the Zionist hope that the State Department will no longer be able to stop the Turks from attacking. Putting Kurdistan into play is intended to cause Iraq to fall apart…

Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: www.uruknet.de/?p=37191

IS ISRAEL TRYING TO HIDE SOMETHING?
Desert Peace
It was bad enough that Desmond Tutu was prevented from leading a fact finding mission to Beit Hanoun last year after the Israeli massacre… but now even Israeli journalists are barred from entering the Gaza Strip. Just what is Israel trying to hide? Are their ongoing crimes, their ongoing genocide so heinous that outsiders (including Israelis) are not permitted to know about them? Fortunately there are still a number of foreign correspondents reporting on the events there, so the facts are coming to light… Israel can try to hide the truth, but that very truth will set us free one day….

Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: www.uruknet.de/?p=37190

It’s insanity, stupid! – Al Gore and that Nobel Peace Prize
Gabriele Zamparini, The Cat’s Dream
The Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore opened a heated debate: was it right to award a mass murderer and war criminal? This is a curious question that certainly would have a meaning in a sane world, certainly not in ours. A few days ago, commenting on this blog about this ordinary episode of folly, I wrote that Al Gore was “(…) a top war criminal that in a sane world would be hanged or imprisoned for life. But we are not living in a sane world – just in case someone wonders – and it’s not the first time that a war criminal and mass murderer has been rewarded with the Nobel Peace Prize.” On CounterPunch, Alexander Cockburn wrote, “When Gore goes to get the prize [… he] should be forced to march through a gauntlet of widows and orphans, Serbs, Iraqis, Palestinians, Colombians, and other victims of the Clinton era.”….

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Video: Gore criticizes George H.W. Bush for ignoring “Iraq’s ties to terrorists”
Al Gore blasts George H.W. Bush for ignoring Iraq’s ties to terrorists and disregarding Iraq’s attempts to acquire weapons of mass destruction. (1992)

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Dead Republic Blues: Bush Illegal Wiretapping Scheme Gets Darker and Dirtier
Chris Floyd , Empire Burlesque
The latest revelations in the Bush Administration’s long-unfolding, ever-growing illegal wiretapping scandal carry with them a multiple string. For not only do they bear upon Bush’s vast system of lawless espionage aimed at the American people, but they also underscore the perversion of the Justice Department into an armed enforcer of partisan thuggery and confirm that that the unprecedented authoritarian powers that Bush has seized have nothing to do with their ostensible justification, the 9/11 attacks, but were part of a pre-planned evisceration of the constitutional republic that began in the first days of his ill-gotten presidency…

Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: www.uruknet.de/?p=37206

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 14 October 2007.
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. www.freearabvoice.org
…In a dispatch posted at 7:13pm Baghdad time Sunday night, the Aswat al-’Iraq news agency, which was set up by Reuters and the U.N. Development Agency, reported that armed men blew up a vehicle bridge linking 25 villages in the as-Salam area near Ba’qubah and al-Khalis, about 60km northeast of Baghdad, at midday Sunday. After the bridge was blown, isolating the area, detachments of armed fighters deployed in the area…

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MY SECOND BLOGIVERSARY
Desert Peace
This week starts the third year of Desert Peace’s attempt to make this world a better place for all of its inhabitants. I owe special thanks to those that have been cross posting my threads on a regular basis, making it possible to reach out to many more readers….

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Sunday: 63 Iraqis Killed, 58 Wounded
Margaret Griffis, Antiwar.com
Due to the holiday news blackout, a significant suicide bombing yesterday in Samarra went unreported until today. Overall, at least 63 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 58 more were wounded in the latest attacks. Most were civilians. No foreign military casualties were reported. A suicide bomber killed at least 18 people and wounded 27 others near police headquarters in Samarra. The bomber had been shot to death by police but still managed to detonate his explosives. After the explosion, at least 60 gunmen drove up to the location and clashed with police. Three policemen were injured during the fighting….

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Gimmie that Ole 9/11, it’s Good Enough for Me.
Smoking Mirrors
…Everything that has happened in America and abroad in the last six years can be traced to this single event on 9-11-2001. Everything that has physically happened; everything that has happened in the judicial and legislative branches, everything that has happened at the airports, everything that has happened in the changed perceptions of the public mind… all of the deaths in the Middle East, Guantanamo, the secret prisons abroad, the torture, the death squads- including Blackwater and Israeli and British black-ops has been justified, sanctioned and carried out because of this event. Everything that happened, happened because of a lie…

Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: www.uruknet.de/?p=37204

Kurdish warlord Barazani fled Kurdistan to Najaf
Roads to Iraq
Secret information available on Haq Agency saying that a group Kurdish Pesmergah arrived to Najaf – South Iraq- preparing temporary resident for Kurdish warlord Barazani near Amar Al-Hakeem huis. Sources said that Barazani’s family members are already there in Najaf, this move came after rumors spread yesterday in Irbil saying that Turkish special commandos unite trained to air land at Barazani’s resident in Irbil….

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The insurgency against the evil of mankind
Roads to Iraq
A new communique released by Ansar Al-Sunna in two parts both approximately 1Gig. This release is in Arabic language but they already named it “The insurgency against the evil of mankind” so, I expect there is an English language release soon. The release shows Ansar Al-Sunna preparations before the operations and media preparation after the operations, there are operations and explosions to be seen, it is only an explanation how the resistance works. There is something very interesting in the video, members of the resistance were discussing the situation, and they said that the Americans are planting the IEDs and they witnessed this many times….

Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: www.uruknet.de/?p=37199

ISRAEL-SYRIA: Separation of families “priority humanitarian issue” – ICRC official
IRIN News
Some 580 women living in the occupied Golan region are disconnected from their families in Syria as they are not allowed to cross from the occupied zone to their homeland, a new women’s organisation has said. “All the Arabs of the Golan have some family in Syria. But these women are disconnected from their mothers, fathers and brothers and sisters,” said Souha Munder, a lawyer who works with the new group, which calls itself The Women of the Occupied Arab-Syrian Golan. The Israeli Ministry of Interior said the women are “citizens of Israel” and therefore not allowed to travel to Syria as it is an “enemy country”. However, the women could apply on an individual basis for a permit to travel to Syria, although this process can take months, a spokeswoman said….

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The Iron Wall
Originally published in Russian under the title O Zheleznoi Stene in Rassvyet, 4 November 1923
Vladimir Jabotinsky
… There can be no voluntary agreement between ourselves and the Palestine Arabs. Not now, nor in the prospective future. I say this with such conviction, not because I want to hurt the moderate Zionists. I do not believe that they will be hurt. Except for those who were born blind, they realised long ago that it is utterly impossible to obtain the voluntary consent of the Palestine Arabs for converting “Palestine” from an Arab country into a country with a Jewish majority…

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Turkish forces fire 250 artillery shells into northern Iraq
Voices of Iraq
Kurdistan borders forces said on Sunday Turkish troops fired over 250 artillery shells into areas inside Iraqi northern territories, inflicting material losses. “The Turkish artillery fired, last night, over 250 artillery shells into villages within districts of al-Imadiyah and Zakho, Iraq’s Kurdistan region, setting large farms ablaze,” a source from Kurdistan borders forces told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). The tension on the borders escalated after the Turkish Prime Minster Rajab Tayyeb Erdogan expressed his country’s readiness to face criticism on incursion into northern Iraq….

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The “Great Game” Enters the Mediterranean: Gas, Oil, War, and Geo-Politics
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, Globalresearch
This article is part of The Sino-Russia Coalition: Challenging America’s Ambitions in Eurasia (September 23, 2007). For editorial reasons the article is being published by Global Research in three parts. It is strongly advised that readers also study the prior piece. History is in the making. The Second Summit of Caspian Sea States in Tehran will change the global geo-political environment. This article also gives a strong contextual background to what will be in the backdrop at Tehran. The strategic course of Eurasia and global energy reserves hangs in the balance….

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News of the Day for Sunday, October 14, 2007
Iraq today
…DoD identifies a previously unreported combat death. Pvt. Nathan Z. Thacker, 18, of Greenbrier, Ark., died Oct. 12 in Kirkuk, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, N.Y. Nine killed, 13 injured when a car bomb explodes next to a minibus waiting to take passengers to a Shiite shrine. The incident occurred at Eden square in northwest Baghdad. Police had earlier found and defused another car bomb nearby. Note: Other sources give lower casualty figures but this seems to be the most recent. Police find the bodies of three people in various places on Saturday…

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Two killed and more than 20 wounded by Abbas’s militia in Qalqilya
Palestinian Information Center
Four-year-old Ziad Obaid, on Sunday, succumbed to wounds he sustained when PA security men, answerable to Mahmoud Abbas, opened fire at a local crowd. Medical sources at the UNRWA hospital in Qalqilya said that the child died as a result of being wounded by a live bullet fired from a close distance, while 20 other wounded Palestinians arrived at the same hospital. On Saturday evening PA security men fired directly at 20-year-old Husam Abu Asab from the Kura’an clan wounding him seriously. The young man was taken to hospital where he died on arrival….

Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: www.uruknet.de/?p=37189

Who will stop the GENOCIDE OF THE IRAQI PEOPLE BY THE US-UK TERRORISTS?
EUROPEAN TURKMEN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION
How many more Iraqis must die before the politicians and decision makers in the western democracies firmly condemn and start prosecuting the leaders of the US and the UK governments for their crimes against humanity and genocide in Iraq? Their hypocrisy and “great principles” make me sick. They pretend to defend Human Rights everywhere in the world… but what about Iraq, Palestine and Afghanistan? I am disgusted with their “deux poids deux mesures” when they decide about genocides and holocausts… What concrete and immediate measures and resolutions are they taking to stop the GENOCIDE which is taking place in Iraq TODAY?….

Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: www.uruknet.de/?p=37202

HOLD UP IN BABA GURGUR
Gilles Munier
Pressed by their leaders, hundreds of thousands of Kurds from Iraq, but also from Syria, Iran and Turkey are settling in Kerkuk (…) The aim: to modify the ethnic composition of the city before the referendum that is supposed to be held before the end of 2007. Since 10th April 2003 – the day after the fall of Baghdad – a real Kurdish invasion took place in Kerkuk: Massoud Barzani and Jalal Talabani, respectively leaders of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) organized militarily a massive immigration of Kurds to the territories they wanted to conquer. The newly arrived Kurds registered on the election lists and are waiting for the referendum which is to take place before next December 31st. The aim of the operation: to give a democratic varnish to the annexation of Kerkuk and its surrounding region by the Kurds and hand over to the Americans the petrol fields of Baba Gurgur, situated near Kerkuk…

Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: www.uruknet.de/?p=37200

An Allergy…
Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues
Do you know anything about Allergies ? I remember a friend of mine who was highly allergic to dust and pollen (…) Now when an American or an Americanized utters the word FREE, I freeze… I freeze for a few seconds…I become immobilized, tetanized… As if my reptilian limbic system is preparing itself for a flight/fight response… I hyperventilate, gasp for air… My pupils dilate, my heart palpitates like a thousand drums, my muscles tense up, my neurons work at full speed, my cortisol level antes up, my adrenaline pumps in…and my immune system calls on its soldiers for the ultimate battle…The final battle against the enemy… I try to calm myself, take in a few deep breaths only to see my skin erupt in red patches, like a hundred little red hills made of prickly thorns…like stings from a thousand wasps…covering my body… Urticaria, I say to myself – Relax it’s nothing but urticaria… Do you think I have become allergic to the word “Free”, by any chance ?….

Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: www.uruknet.de/?p=37193

U.S. Contractors in Iraq Rely on Third-World Labor
Guy Raz, # NPR
If you thought all contractors in Iraq were gun-toting American mercenaries, think again. Only a fraction of the estimated 180,000 contractors working on behalf of the U.S. government are security contractors — and the overwhelming majority aren’t even from the U.S. Consider Salim Khan, a dishwasher at a forward operating base in the volatile Iraqi province of Diyala. For about $1.25 an hour, the Pakistan native will work two years for a Saudi-based food-services firm, Tamimi. Tamimi is a subcontractor to KBR, which itself was, until recently, a subsidiary of Halliburton, the mega-corporation that has won most of the big money contracts in Iraq. Across the heavily fortified American bases in Iraq, men and women like Salim Khan cook the food, clean the dishes, chop the vegetables, take out the garbage and clean the latrines…

Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: www.uruknet.de/?p=37201

Who’s behind the Armenian genocide resolution?
Xymphora
Who’s behind the Armenian genocide resolution? Its pretty simple, isn’t it? It is the timing that is odd, so the timing should tell us something. Why stir up this issue and cause problems with Turkish-American relations at this particular time, when Iraq is a mess and the Kurds are making the Turks very nervous? The keystone to the Zionist Plan for the Middle East is breaking Iraq into three parts. The rupture was supposed to occur almost immediately after the American attack. Since that didn’t happen, the ‘surge’ was created to cause massive additional violence with the idea that the country couldn’t hold together under the strain (…) The resolution has so enraged the Turks that it is the Zionist hope that the State Department will no longer be able to stop the Turks from attacking. Putting Kurdistan into play is intended to cause Iraq to fall apart…

Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: www.uruknet.de/?p=37191

IS ISRAEL TRYING TO HIDE SOMETHING?
Desert Peace
It was bad enough that Desmond Tutu was prevented from leading a fact finding mission to Beit Hanoun last year after the Israeli massacre… but now even Israeli journalists are barred from entering the Gaza Strip. Just what is Israel trying to hide? Are their ongoing crimes, their ongoing genocide so heinous that outsiders (including Israelis) are not permitted to know about them? Fortunately there are still a number of foreign correspondents reporting on the events there, so the facts are coming to light… Israel can try to hide the truth, but that very truth will set us free one day….

Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: www.uruknet.de/?p=37190

It’s insanity, stupid! – Al Gore and that Nobel Peace Prize
Gabriele Zamparini, The Cat’s Dream
The Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore opened a heated debate: was it right to award a mass murderer and war criminal? This is a curious question that certainly would have a meaning in a sane world, certainly not in ours. A few days ago, commenting on this blog about this ordinary episode of folly, I wrote that Al Gore was “(…) a top war criminal that in a sane world would be hanged or imprisoned for life. But we are not living in a sane world – just in case someone wonders – and it’s not the first time that a war criminal and mass murderer has been rewarded with the Nobel Peace Prize.” On CounterPunch, Alexander Cockburn wrote, “When Gore goes to get the prize [… he] should be forced to march through a gauntlet of widows and orphans, Serbs, Iraqis, Palestinians, Colombians, and other victims of the Clinton era.”….

Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: www.uruknet.de/?p=37188

Video: Gore criticizes George H.W. Bush for ignoring “Iraq’s ties to terrorists”
Al Gore blasts George H.W. Bush for ignoring Iraq’s ties to terrorists and disregarding Iraq’s attempts to acquire weapons of mass destruction. (1992)

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Dead Republic Blues: Bush Illegal Wiretapping Scheme Gets Darker and Dirtier
Chris Floyd , Empire Burlesque
The latest revelations in the Bush Administration’s long-unfolding, ever-growing illegal wiretapping scandal carry with them a multiple string. For not only do they bear upon Bush’s vast system of lawless espionage aimed at the American people, but they also underscore the perversion of the Justice Department into an armed enforcer of partisan thuggery and confirm that that the unprecedented authoritarian powers that Bush has seized have nothing to do with their ostensible justification, the 9/11 attacks, but were part of a pre-planned evisceration of the constitutional republic that began in the first days of his ill-gotten presidency…

Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: www.uruknet.de/?p=37206

Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 14 October 2007.
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. www.freearabvoice.org
…In a dispatch posted at 7:13pm Baghdad time Sunday night, the Aswat al-’Iraq news agency, which was set up by Reuters and the U.N. Development Agency, reported that armed men blew up a vehicle bridge linking 25 villages in the as-Salam area near Ba’qubah and al-Khalis, about 60km northeast of Baghdad, at midday Sunday. After the bridge was blown, isolating the area, detachments of armed fighters deployed in the area…

Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: www.uruknet.de/?p=37209

Sunday: 63 Iraqis Killed, 58 Wounded
Margaret Griffis, Antiwar.com
Due to the holiday news blackout, a significant suicide bombing yesterday in Samarra went unreported until today. Overall, at least 63 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 58 more were wounded in the latest attacks. Most were civilians. No foreign military casualties were reported. A suicide bomber killed at least 18 people and wounded 27 others near police headquarters in Samarra. The bomber had been shot to death by police but still managed to detonate his explosives. After the explosion, at least 60 gunmen drove up to the location and clashed with police. Three policemen were injured during the fighting….

Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: www.uruknet.de/?p=37207

Gimmie that Ole 9/11, it’s Good Enough for Me.
Smoking Mirrors
…Everything that has happened in America and abroad in the last six years can be traced to this single event on 9-11-2001. Everything that has physically happened; everything that has happened in the judicial and legislative branches, everything that has happened at the airports, everything that has happened in the changed perceptions of the public mind… all of the deaths in the Middle East, Guantanamo, the secret prisons abroad, the torture, the death squads- including Blackwater and Israeli and British black-ops has been justified, sanctioned and carried out because of this event. Everything that happened, happened because of a lie…

Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: www.uruknet.de/?p=37204

Kurdish warlord Barazani fled Kurdistan to Najaf
Roads to Iraq
Secret information available on Haq Agency saying that a group Kurdish Pesmergah arrived to Najaf – South Iraq- preparing temporary resident for Kurdish warlord Barazani near Amar Al-Hakeem huis. Sources said that Barazani’s family members are already there in Najaf, this move came after rumors spread yesterday in Irbil saying that Turkish special commandos unite trained to air land at Barazani’s resident in Irbil….

Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: www.uruknet.de/?p=37203

The insurgency against the evil of mankind
Roads to Iraq
A new communique released by Ansar Al-Sunna in two parts both approximately 1Gig. This release is in Arabic language but they already named it “The insurgency against the evil of mankind” so, I expect there is an English language release soon. The release shows Ansar Al-Sunna preparations before the operations and media preparation after the operations, there are operations and explosions to be seen, it is only an explanation how the resistance works. There is something very interesting in the video, members of the resistance were discussing the situation, and they said that the Americans are planting the IEDs and they witnessed this many times….

Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: www.uruknet.de/?p=37199

ISRAEL-SYRIA: Separation of families “priority humanitarian issue” – ICRC official
IRIN News
Some 580 women living in the occupied Golan region are disconnected from their families in Syria as they are not allowed to cross from the occupied zone to their homeland, a new women’s organisation has said. “All the Arabs of the Golan have some family in Syria. But these women are disconnected from their mothers, fathers and brothers and sisters,” said Souha Munder, a lawyer who works with the new group, which calls itself The Women of the Occupied Arab-Syrian Golan. The Israeli Ministry of Interior said the women are “citizens of Israel” and therefore not allowed to travel to Syria as it is an “enemy country”. However, the women could apply on an individual basis for a permit to travel to Syria, although this process can take months, a spokeswoman said….

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The Iron Wall
Originally published in Russian under the title O Zheleznoi Stene in Rassvyet, 4 November 1923
Vladimir Jabotinsky
… There can be no voluntary agreement between ourselves and the Palestine Arabs. Not now, nor in the prospective future. I say this with such conviction, not because I want to hurt the moderate Zionists. I do not believe that they will be hurt. Except for those who were born blind, they realised long ago that it is utterly impossible to obtain the voluntary consent of the Palestine Arabs for converting “Palestine” from an Arab country into a country with a Jewish majority…

Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: www.uruknet.de/?p=37197

Turkish forces fire 250 artillery shells into northern Iraq
Voices of Iraq
Kurdistan borders forces said on Sunday Turkish troops fired over 250 artillery shells into areas inside Iraqi northern territories, inflicting material losses. “The Turkish artillery fired, last night, over 250 artillery shells into villages within districts of al-Imadiyah and Zakho, Iraq’s Kurdistan region, setting large farms ablaze,” a source from Kurdistan borders forces told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). The tension on the borders escalated after the Turkish Prime Minster Rajab Tayyeb Erdogan expressed his country’s readiness to face criticism on incursion into northern Iraq….

Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: www.uruknet.de/?p=37196

The “Great Game” Enters the Mediterranean: Gas, Oil, War, and Geo-Politics
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, Globalresearch
This article is part of The Sino-Russia Coalition: Challenging America’s Ambitions in Eurasia (September 23, 2007). For editorial reasons the article is being published by Global Research in three parts. It is strongly advised that readers also study the prior piece. History is in the making. The Second Summit of Caspian Sea States in Tehran will change the global geo-political environment. This article also gives a strong contextual background to what will be in the backdrop at Tehran. The strategic course of Eurasia and global energy reserves hangs in the balance….

Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: www.uruknet.de/?p=37194

News of the Day for Sunday, October 14, 2007
Iraq today
…DoD identifies a previously unreported combat death. Pvt. Nathan Z. Thacker, 18, of Greenbrier, Ark., died Oct. 12 in Kirkuk, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, N.Y. Nine killed, 13 injured when a car bomb explodes next to a minibus waiting to take passengers to a Shiite shrine. The incident occurred at Eden square in northwest Baghdad. Police had earlier found and defused another car bomb nearby. Note: Other sources give lower casualty figures but this seems to be the most recent. Police find the bodies of three people in various places on Saturday…

Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: www.uruknet.de/?p=37192

Two killed and more than 20 wounded by Abbas’s militia in Qalqilya
Palestinian Information Center
Four-year-old Ziad Obaid, on Sunday, succumbed to wounds he sustained when PA security men, answerable to Mahmoud Abbas, opened fire at a local crowd. Medical sources at the UNRWA hospital in Qalqilya said that the child died as a result of being wounded by a live bullet fired from a close distance, while 20 other wounded Palestinians arrived at the same hospital. On Saturday evening PA security men fired directly at 20-year-old Husam Abu Asab from the Kura’an clan wounding him seriously. The young man was taken to hospital where he died on arrival….

Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: www.uruknet.de/?p=37189

MY SECOND BLOGIVERSARY
Desert Peace
This week starts the third year of Desert Peace’s attempt to make this world a better place for all of its inhabitants. I owe special thanks to those that have been cross posting my threads on a regular basis, making it possible to reach out to many more readers….

Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: www.uruknet.de/?p=37183