Bremer’s 100 orders: The true scale of Iraq’s rape and destruction
Whisperwolf
If you’re a US Citizen (and even if you’re not), ask yourself one important question with reference to Iraq: Have you ever heard of Bremer’s 100 orders? If the answer is “no” then you don’t understand the true destruction of Iraq. This is not altogether something to be ashamed of; the media, led by Murdoch’s “FOX News” has deliberately refrained from covering the laws in any detail, mostly because if they did reveal the extent of the destruction, good American citizens would be outraged. But Bremer’s 100 orders destroyed Iraq’s economy not just for years but for decades to come…

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Colonial Suffocation – No Energy for Gaza
Moon of Alabama
…After the attack Israel first promised to keep the already much reduced fuel supply to Gaza going for “humanitarian reasons”. Israel said it would hold Hamas responsible for Wednesday’s attack because it is in charge of the Gaza Strip but would not cut off the fuel supply to residents there. “The policy is to continue to bring humanitarian supplies to Gaza,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Aryeh Mekel said. … All cooking gas and oil, heavy diesel fuel and gasoline provided to the Gaza Strip go through the Nahal Oz crossing by a series of undergrounds pipes. But obviously Israeli official words are just that. Now it has cut off all supplies. Israel cut off the only source of fuel to Gaza’s 1.4 million people Thursday after a deadly Palestinian raid on the Israeli depot, deepening the seaside territory’s hardship. Israel, in its colonial expansion, daily kills Palestinians who resist the occupation and annexation of their land. More so, it is collectively punishing all Palestinian people, be they old or young, for the doings of those who resist to the stealing of their land. There are people in Gazan hospitals who will die tonight because their hospitals lack gaz for their generators. There are kids dying from not cooked waste water they’ll have to drink…

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The Children of Gaza
Saleh al Naeimi
…Dr. Fouad Al Khuffash, the Director of the Ahrar Center for Prisoners Studies said, “The Israeli intelligence agency places every detained Palestinian child in a cell alone for a week where an investigation is carried out regarding his involvement in stone throwing,” he added. He said that investigators threatened children with rape and would hurl abusive language at them. In a statement to Asharq Al-Awsat, he added, “Reprimanding a child everyday, threatening to arrest his brother or using other immoral threats destroys one’s soul and is a motive to commit suicide.” He pointed out that the Israeli intelligence agencies are continuing to create new methods to force detained children to become spies in order to destroy the Palestinian social fabric. Al Khuffash added that the [Israeli] Shabak security service depends on detained children in order to plant the biggest number of spies amongst Palestinian people. All detained children are invited to join Shabak and they are beaten and threatened with rape to convince them to go down the road of treason…

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Genocide announced
Bombs would fall under other circumstances, but when influential rabbis call for the total annihilation of the Palestinians the world watches without blinking
Saleh Al-Naami, Al-Ahram Weekly
“All of the Palestinians must be killed; men, women, infants, and even their beasts.” This was the religious opinion issued one week ago by Rabbi Yisrael Rosen, director of the Tsomet Institute, a long-established religious institute attended by students and soldiers in the Israeli settlements of the West Bank. In an article published by numerous religious Israeli newspapers two weeks ago and run by the liberal Haaretz on 26 March, Rosen asserted that there is evidence in the Torah to justify this stand. Rosen, an authority able to issue religious opinions for Jews, wrote that Palestinians are like the nation of Amalekites that attacked the Israelite tribes on their way to Jerusalem after they had fled from Egypt under the leadership of Moses. He wrote that the Lord sent down in the Torah a ruling that allowed the Jews to kill the Amalekites, and that this ruling is known in Jewish jurisprudence….

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Bush orders Iraq escalation to continue
Patrick Martin, WSWS
In a brief televised speech delivered just before noon Thursday, President Bush announced that there would be no further reduction of US troop strength once the current drawdown of forces is completed in July. This means that some 140,000 US soldiers will remain in occupation of the country through the November election, and likely until Bush leaves the White House on January 20, 2009. The speech followed two days of testimony on Capitol Hill by General David Petraeus, the US commander in Iraq, and Ambassador Ryan Crocker. While their appearance before a series of House and Senate committees provided the semblance of consultation with the legislature, the decision to maintain US troop strength was taken weeks ago and made public well in advance in both Baghdad and Washington…

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Catch 2,200
9 Propositions on the U.S. Air War for Terror
Tom Engelhardt
Let’s start with a few simple propositions. First, the farther away you are from the ground, the clearer things are likely to look, the more god-like you are likely to feel, the less human those you attack are likely to be to you. How much more so, of course, if you, the “pilot,” are actually sitting at a consol at an air base near Las Vegas, identifying a “suspect” thousands of miles away via video monitor, “following” that suspect into a house, and then letting loose a Hellfire missile from a Predator drone cruising somewhere over Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, or the tribal areas of Pakistan. Second, however “precise” your weaponry, however “surgical” your strike, however impressive the grainy snuff-film images you can put on television, war from the air is, and will remain, a most imprecise and destructive form of battle…

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Trapped between Egypt and Iraq
The plight of Iraqi refugees in Egypt is compounded by a lack of access to education or to work
Al-Ahram Weekly
…Given the large numbers of people involved, and the comparatively few that have applied for refugee status, all this means that between 60,000 and 140,000 Iraqi refugees in Egypt are living without legal recognition, which constitutes the most basic form of protection. Even for those who have registered with the UNHCR, the weight of life in exile when combined with the lack of opportunities to work renders life extremely difficult. Compounding such difficulties is the fact that the Egyptian authorities have forbidden Iraqi refugees from setting up their own associations. “Those who receive assistance from UNHCR do so via a Sudanese NGO, because we Iraqis are forbidden to set up NGOs of our own,” Ahmed says. Like all Iraqi refugees — registered or not — Ahmed is not allowed to work. He has also been unable to complete his degree in Egypt, because Cairo’s public universities have informed him that he will have to pay fees at the rate set for foreign students. “The US-led occupation of Iraq and the militias that started to operate after the invasion have done far more than kill Iraqis,” Ahmed says…

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Video: Deir Yassin Remembered
www.deiryassin.org
Early in the morning of April 9, 1948, commandos of the Irgun (headed by Menachem Begin) and the Stern Gang attacked Deir Yassin, a village … all “ with about 750 Palestinian residents. The village lay outside of the area to be assigned by the United Nations to the Jewish State; it had a peaceful reputation. But it was located on high ground in the corridor between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Deir Yassin was slated for occupation under Plan Dalet and the mainstream Jewish defense force, the Haganah, authorized the irregular terrorist forces of the Irgun and the Stern Gang to perform the takeover. In all over 100 men, women, and children were systematically murdered…

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More hopeless talks
As Israel engages in nationwide defence drills, Abbas is told that settlement expansion will continue
Khaled Amayreh from Ramallah
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas held another round of talks in West Jerusalem 7 April. Like numerous previous meetings, however, the latest encounter yielded no substantive results towards a breakthrough in Palestinian- Israeli peacemaking. According to Israeli press sources, the two leaders were updated on “secret talks” being held by Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and chief Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qurei on final status issues such as Jerusalem, the right of return, Jewish settlements and the borders of a prospective Palestinian entity in the West Bank…

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Capital Crimes: Another Smoking Gun on Terror War Torture
Chris Floyd , Empire Burlesque
…This is not just a smoking gun — it’s a MOAB dropped right on the White House, confirming, yet again, what any sentient being should already know: the illegal torture tactics (yes, they are torture; and yes, they are illegal, no matter what “the Attorney General says”) used on George W. Bush’s Terror War captives were approved by the highest officials of the government, all of whom knew — in exacting, sickening detail — just what they were inflicting. These cold-blooded atrocities were not restricted to “high value al Qaeda suspects” – the demure fiction that the ABC report, like most others in the mainstream media that have begun, gingerly, to delve into these crimes, still retains. As mountains of evidence has already shown, these “enhanced interrogation techniques” were used throughout the Terror War prison system, from top to bottom, on prisoners rounded up at random in mass raids in Iraq and Afghanistan, on innocent people sold into captivity by bounty hunters, on innocent people snatched off the streets in Asia, Africa, Europe…

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Sources: Top Bush Advisors Approved ‘Enhanced Interrogation’
Detailed Discussions Were Held About Techniques to Use on al Qaeda Suspects
JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG, HOWARD L. ROSENBERG and ARIANE de VOGUE, ABCNews
In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House, the most senior Bush administration officials discussed and approved specific details of how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency, sources tell ABC News. The so-called Principals who participated in the meetings also approved the use of “combined” interrogation techniques — using different techniques during interrogations, instead of using one method at a time — on terrorist suspects who proved difficult to break, sources said…

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PFLP – DFLP: A New Reconciliation Iniative is Drafted
Hiyam Noir, PalestineFreeVoice
In a press briefing on Wednesday, spokespersons of (PFLP),the Popular Front for the Liberation Palestine and (DFLP), the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, revealed that initiatives aimed towards a reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah had been drafted…PFLP and DFLP met last week,with high profile leaders of Hamas to propose the new initiative. The Yemeni initiative, was initially agreed to be the beginning,and intended to end the desire for vengeance,and instead build a momentum around solutions aimed to end the devastating and prolonged International siege on Gaza Strip.Also in regards to end corruption, and Fatah leaders plotting and collaboration with the Israeli enemy on the West Bank, a PFLP-DFLP meeting is slated for the coming days, to be held with members of Fatah leaders to discuss related issues drafted in the new consolidation – initiative…

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Baath Party Statement
A statement to our Mujahid peoples’ sons and daughters on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the bloodthirsty US- Brit- Zionist occupation
The Arab Baath Socialist Party
We remember today the disastrous fifth anniversary of the bloodthirsty US-Brit-Zionist occupation of Baghdad: they started with an evil aggression for twenty days bombing the sons and daughters of the resisting Iraqi people with the most horrible internationally prohibited weapons, their blind technology invented. They hit Iraq, all Iraq using war jets, missiles, smart and stupid bombs. They even used tactical nuclear bombs in the airport battle which pulverized the pure bodies of the Iraqi Army heroes. The filthy inventors of these bombs were even proud to publicly say that their bombs annihilate humans, trees, every living creatures and even rocks…

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 10 April 2008
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. www.freearabvoice.org
…In a dispatch posted at 3:15pm Baghdad time Thursday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a US military vehicle in the middle of Baghdad on Wednesday evening. Yaqen reported a US communiqué as saying that the blast killed one American soldier. In a dispatch posted at 11:18am Baghdad time Thursday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the US military had issued a statement saying that a bomb had exploded by a US military vehicle in northeastern Baghdad on Wednesday. In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 12:18pm Thursday afternoon Beijing time (8:18am in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a bomb had exploded by US forces in Salah ad-Din Province on Wednesday. Xinhua reported an American communiqué as saying that one US soldier was killed in the blast, which occurred in some unnamed location in Salah ad-Din Province…

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April 10, 2008: 1 US Soldier, 68 Iraqis Killed; 74 Iraqis Wounded
Margaret Griffis, Antiwar.com
Fighting in Sadr City has subsided dramatically, but violence still took the lives of 68 Iraqis across Iraq. Almost half of them were found in a mass grave. At least 74 Iraqis were wounded as well. An American soldier was killed during an overnight IED attack in Baghdad, and two U.S. soldiers were wounded in separate events. Also, the U.S. government has shifted focus from calling al-Qaeda groups the biggest threat in Iraq….

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Haunting: The Pillaging and Destruction of Iraq’s National Museum of Antiquities
Les Blough, Axis of Logic Editor
In the din of the infamous war on the people of Iraq, the killing and maiming is haunting; the dead and disabled children … the empty chairs at the dinner table … the empty or destroyed houses where whole families once lived … the suffering of those left behind … all of it haunts us; the destruction of a modern infrastructure, power plants, bridges, highways, sewage systems, water supply, public schools, universities, hospitals, clinics, dental labs, irrigation systems, farms, orchards, research facilities are haunting – under Saddam, Iraq had it all; … the destruction of this ancient culture is haunting. I am sometimes ashamed to say it, but I must. In a strange way, the destruction of the National Museum of Antiquities in Baghdad haunts me more … or at least differently … than any of these. How can I place “things” above the suffering of my brothers and sisters in Iraq, one might fairly ask. I do not. But when in 2003, I watched the National Museum pillaged and robbed, it went to my sense of “the cradle” … of the oldest symbols of our existance as homo sapien. humanity. It symbolized for me our self-annihilation as a species and whether we will … can … whether we can turn it around … and go on. In some strange way, the destruction and pillaging of the National Museum of Antiquities was and continues to be, the most haunting of all in this dark, bloody hell called “The War in Iraq”…

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Iraqi detainees languish uncharged in crowded jails
Steve Lannen | McClatchy Newspapers
Barefoot in his yellow jumpsuit, the young detainee’s eyes welled up as he described in a shaking voice how he landed in an Iraqi army detention facility on the outskirts of Baghdad. He was visiting his mother in the hospital when Iraqi soldiers raided the hospital and detained him and several others, said Thamer Hamed, 22. They handcuffed and blindfolded him and took him to a holding cell at a former U.S. military base, ironically named Camp Constitution, that’s been handed over to the Iraqi army. There, he was told that he was accused of murder. That was 45 days ago, and he still hadn’t seen a judge, he said. Asked to which religious sect he belongs, he smiled ruefully….

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Around 1,350 children languishing in Iraq jails
Preeti Kannan, Khaleej Times
Around 1,350 children are estimated to be detained in various Iraqi jails for conflict with the law, Unicef officials said in Dubai yesterday. Launching the Arabic version of the annual Humanitarian Action Report (HAR) in Dubai, Sigrid Kaag, Unicef’s regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, also called for strategic partnerships and flexible funding to enhance emergency response in the region. “As of 2007, there are estimates that about 900 to 1,350 children may have been detained in Iraqi jails for conflict with the law. We are trying to determine who these kids are and where they are. We are concerned about the protection of children and children’s rights, especially of those who are in conflict with the law,” Kaag told reporters after the launch of the report…

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BBC: Imperial Tool
Stephen Lendman
At a time of growing public disenchantment with the major media, millions now rely on alternate sources. Many online and print ones are credible. One of the world’s most relied on is not – the BBC. It’s an imperial tool, as corrupted as its dominant counterparts, been around longer than all of them, now in it for profit, and it’s vital that people know who BBC represents and what it delivers. It was close but not quite the world’s first broadcaster. Other European nations claim the distinction along with KDKA Pittsburgh as the oldest US one. BBC’s web site states: “The British Broadcasting Company Ltd (its original name) was formed in October 1922….and began broadcasting on November 14….By 1925 the BBC could be heard throughout most of the UK. (Its) biggest influence….was its general manager, John Reith (who) envisioned an independent British broadcaster able to educate, inform and entertain the whole nation, free from political interference and commercial pressure.” That’s what BBC says….

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Remarks by the IAI spokesman
Badger, Arablinks
Haqq news agency summarizes remarks by Ibrahim Al-Shammari the spokesman for the Islamic Army in Iraq, an important group at the Islamist end of the Sunni-resistance spectrum in a recent interview with AlJazeera. I haven’t found a transcript yet, but I think even the outline, particularly the remarks on the Shiites and the Mahdi Army, although fragmentary, are interesting by way of comparison with the treatment of this by Dhari, Moqtada himself, and the southern tribal confederation…

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Petraeus Urges Care in Dealing With Militia
BRIAN KNOWLTON, NYTimes
The top U.S. commander in Iraq on Thursday urged a “very, very sensitive approach” in dealing with the Shiite militias loyal to the radical cleric Moktada al-Sadr, as the Baghdad government unwinds a military operation against Sadr followers and other armed groups in southern Iraq…”We certainly share the frustration,” he said in a 90-minute news conference held along with Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker,. “It’s less reassuring to folks than some want to hear, but it is the reality on the ground.” After their extensive congressional testimony, the two men offered no revelations on Thursday, but they did elaborate on the delicate U.S. relationship with the Sadrist militia, with which Iraqi government troops recently battled in the southern port city of Basra. When a reporter asked whether the Sadrists were considered an enemy of the United States, both officials answered cautiously, almost deferentially. General Petraeus referred to the Sadrist militia as “a movement that has to be not just acknowledged but addressed, acknowledged, reached out to by the government of Iraq.” Mr. Crocker was more direct, saying, “No, I would not consider it our enemy.”…

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Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory No. 15/2008 (03 – 09 April 2008)
PCHR – Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Israeli violations of international law and humanitarian law seriously escalated in the OPT, especially in the Gaza Strip, during the reporting period (3 – 9 April 2008): Shooting: During the reporting period, IOF killed 8 Palestinians, including a child and a farmer, and wounded 24 others, including 5 children, in the Gaza Strip. They also wounded 2 Palestinian civilians, including a child, in the West Bank. In the Gaza Strip, on 9 April 2008, IOF killed 4 Palestinian civilian and an activist of the Palestinian resistance in less than 5 hours in a series of attacks against the east of Gaza City, after activists of the Palestinian resistance had killed 2 Israelis near Nahal Ouz crossing, east of Gaza City. Additionally, 11 Palestinians, including 2 children, were wounded…

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Google and Facebook Celebrate Israel’s 60th
Sabbah’s blog
President Shimon Peres is bringing in top personalities from around the world to celebrate Israel’s 60th birthday. United States President George W. Bush, Barbra Streisand, Tony Blair, Mikhail Gorbachev and Rupert Murdoch … But guess who is joining the celebration too: The list of confirmed guests also includes Henry Kissinger, Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, former Czech President Vaclev Havel, Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz, Google founder Sergey Brinn, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerman…

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Israeli calls for killing Hamas leaders heighten after Nahal Oz operation
Palestinian Information Center
Israeli calls for eliminating the Hamas Movement and its leaders in Gaza heightened after the Palestinian resistance killed Tuesday an Israel officer and two soldiers, and wounded five others in the Nahal Oz crossing, east of the Gaza city. Extremist Knesset MP Ivy Itam called for assassinating premier Ismail Haneyya, overthrowing his government and eliminating the Palestinian resistance; whereas, Israeli minister Gideon Ezra called for stop supplying Gaza power station with fuel…

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European, N. American Christians show solidarity with Hebron’s persecuted orphans
From Khalid Amayreh in Hebron
In a conspicuous contrast to Christian Zionists who rabidly support Israeli repression of Palestinians, scores of Christian activists from Europe and North America this week arrived in this southern West Bank town to show solidarity with the Islamic Charitable Society, Palestine’s largest charity. A few weeks ago, crack Israeli soldiers rampaged through orphanages and boarding schools affiliated with the charity, terrorizing children, vandalizing property and stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of clothes, furniture, food, and kitchen appliances as well as cars and buses. The Israeli army campaign also targeted the Muslim Youth Association and affiliated nurseries and kindergartens catering for hundreds of poor children…

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Can Criticism of Israel Be Stopped?
Alan Hart
How can criticism of Israel be stopped? By labeling it as anti-Semitism, or so supporters of Israel right or wrong believe. This has always been Zionism’s game but now the U.S. State Department, no doubt under immense pressure from the Zionist lobby and its Christian fundamentalist allies, is playing it, too. In my view the State Department’s 94-page study, Contemporary Global Anti-Semitism, is a disengenuous and dangerous document which might well make all Jews everywhere more not less vulnerable….

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Colonel killed in Green Zone
NIKI DOYLE, The Huntsville Times
Sister says Stephen Scott on treadmill in U.S. Embassy. When Col. Stephen Scott left for the Pentagon and later for Iraq, he never put a “For Sale” sign in the yard of his New Market home. Scott, 54, seemed to be on the fast-track to becoming a general with his recent assignment to train and arm the Iraqi troops, said his sister, Kathleen King. Now, his home sits empty, and his family members – all St. Louis natives – are planning his funeral after military officials told them Sunday that Scott had been killed in a mortar attack on Baghdad’s Green Zone…

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Deir Yassin: The Palestinians’ Wounded Knee
Sabbah’s blog
A recent poll found that 76 percent of Jewish Israelis support “transferring” the Palestinian citizens of Israel – more than 1.4 million people – out of the country. Today, April 9, marks the 60th anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre – the most traumatic incident in the campaign to expel Palestinians from their homeland…

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Maliki snubs Sadr bloc
UPI
A top official in the Sadrist Movement said Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki did not invite the bloc to a parliamentary meeting scheduled for Thursday. Nassar al-Rubaei, the top Sadr official in Iraqi Parliament, said the invitation to the other political parties “proves” Maliki is trying to prevent the Sadrist bloc from participating in the Iraqi political process, adding the Sadrist group would contribute to the stabilization of Iraq, Voices of Iraq reported…

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“Acute shortages” in clash-hit Baghdad suburbs
IRIN News
– A humanitarian crisis is looming in two sprawling Shia suburbs in Baghdad, as clashes continue between government forces (backed by US soldiers) and Shia militants, members of parliament and residents said on 10 April. “Sadr City and Shula are in a very tragic humanitarian situation as residents are suffering acute shortages of food and medicines,” Iraq’s parliamentary committee on human rights said in a statement…

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Lost Palestinian Refugee Camps on UN-Google Earth Map
Sabbah’s blog
It was a happy moment when I heard the news that UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) launched in coordination with Google Earth, a new layer that focus on refugee camps around the world. This should be a great tool to follow the crisis of Palestinian refugees under occupation and expose it to the world through one of the most used Web 2.0 applications (Google Earth claims to have more than 350 million downloads and counting)…

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THE CAMERA DOES NOT LIE ~~ BUT THE ZIONISTS DO…
Desert Peace
Case in point is an ‘analysis’ in the most recent bulletin published by a group called “CAMERA’; the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America. ‘Accuracy’ to a zionist is nothing more than a lie or cover up about zionist atrocities taking place in Palestine today. Their latest target is the New Statesman Magazine for publishing an article last month by my dear Brother Mohammed Omer. Mohammed literally risks his life daily in the process of gathering information to put into articles that he writes for various magazines and newspapers. ‘Armed’ only with his camera and pen, his works have been one of the few voices of truth coming out of Gaza in the past few months…

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Gov’t’s disarming campaign must include all militias-Sadr
Voices of Iraq
Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said he is not against the government’s disarming campaign provided that it includes all militias, Iraqi Vice president(VP) office reported. “The Sadrist movement does not reject the announced disarming campaign provided that it includes all militias” said a VP office statement received by Aswat al-Iraq-Voices of Iraq(VOI)…

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Six die in U.S. air strikes on Sadr City
UPI
At least six people died during the past 24 hours from two U.S. air strikes in Sadr City area in Baghdad, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said Thursday. The official said two people died and four others were injured in a strike on a building Thursday in Sadr City, where U.S. and Iraqi security forces have been fighting the Mehdi Army, a Shiite militia loyal to rebel cleric Moqtada Sadr, CNN reported. A U.S. air strike Wednesday killed four people and injured six others in the neighborhood…

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Israel claims Hamas recruited 20.000 fighters in Gaza
Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies
The Israeli “Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center” claimed on Thursday that Hamas movement managed to build up its military capabilities in the Gaza Strip and recruited nearly 20.000 fighters despite the siege imposed on the coastal region. The Center also claimed that Hamas obtained long-range rockets and advanced anti-tank munitions, Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported. The Center added that the Israeli Disengagement from the Gaza Strip, which was carried out in 2005, enabled the fighters in the Gaza Strip to build up their military power and boosted the power of Hamas which took over the coastal region in June 2006…

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Senator Feinstein: talk to Iran
ROBERT DREYFUSS
Speaking at a conference in Washington yesterday, sponsored by the National Iranian American Council, Senator Feinstein (D.-Calif.) said some remarkably sensible things about Iran (and Iraq): The question is: how should we proceed with Iran? I believe we should begin to pursue a robust, diplomatic initiative with Iran on all issues and without pre-conditions. Working with our European allies, the United Nations, and the International Atomic Energy Agency, we should put together a package of carrots and sticks that will serve as the basis for discussion with Iran. …

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