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FATWA: Airport body scanners violate Islamic law, The Fiqh Council of North America

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Duped again by the fraud...

Report Ties Dubious Iran Nuclear Docs to Israel Analysis by Gareth Porter The... more

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ISRAELI APARTHEID IN ACTION

North America’s news media never discuss it, but Israel is a society pervaded by... more

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Putting the squeeze on Israel's settlements

Putting the squeeze on Israel's settlements For over 40 years, US presidents... more

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U.S. soldier in Baghdad kills four fellow troops before killing himself

It is unclear if the shooter was among the wounded, despite earlier reports that he... more

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America going bust

Pentagon's requests increased weapons spending: The Pentagon's proposed... more

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Foreign intelligence analysts contradict US

Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran: Report: Foreign intelligence analysts... more

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Israel ...Did You say You did not committ War crimes in Gaza?

Israel ...Did You say You did not committ War crimes in Gaza?

Israel ...Did You say You did not committ War crimes in Gaza?

Israel ...Did You say You did not committ War crimes in Gaza?

Photo courtesy of National Lawyers Guild
Muhammed Shurrab holds photos of his murdered sons
A Vermont attorney who visited the Gaza Strip in February to investigate allegations of Israeli war crimes, including two Middlebury College-connected shooting deaths, rejected Israel’s recent exoneration of its conduct, saying the investigation was “lacking in credibility.”
In February, James Marc Leas of South Burlington traveled to Gaza as part of an eight-member legal delegation from the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) to investigate why Israel’s invasion had such a devastating impact on the civilian population.
On November 4, Israel invaded the Palestinian-controlled territory, which it claimed was necessary to halt Hamas rocket attacks on nearby Israeli towns and settlements. During the 22-day offensive, dubbed “Operation Cast Lead,” more than 1400 Palestinians were killed, including at least 288 children. More than 5300 were wounded. Two-thirds of the Palestinian casualties were noncombatants. Thirteen Israelis, including three civilians, died; another 518 Israelis were wounded.
Among the Palestinian civilians gunned down were two brothers of Amer Shurrab, a 2008 graduate of Middlebury College. Senator Patrick Leahy condemned the killings and called on the Israeli government to investigate.
According to a January 28 statement issued by Sen. Leahy, Shurrab’s father, Muhammed, and two brothers, Kassab, 28, and Ibrahim, 18, were driving home from their family farm on January 16 during a three-hour humanitarian ceasefire. The reprieve was to allow civilians to restock food, water and other provisions.
There was no indication that Shurrab’s family was traveling on a road considered unsafe to civilians. Nevertheless, members of the Israeli Defense Forces opened fire on the family’s vehicle in an unprovoked attack, wounding all three occupants.
Shurrab’s older brother, Kassab, leapt from the car in a panic and was shot 18 times. Shurrab’s father and other brother, Ibrahim, were also injured, but were prevented by Israeli soldiers from accessing medical attention, even though there was a hospital less than a mile away.
“Muhammed tried everything he could to save his son, Ibrahim, who was bleeding to death before his eyes,” Leahy said in his statement. The father called the Palestinian Red Crescent Societ..........Israel ...Did You say You did not committ War crimes in Gaza? Israel ...Did... more

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TORTURE: Holding America to account

Editorial
The Guardian, Saturday 18 April 2009

Torture: Holding America to account
To read the four newly released Bush-era memos on America's so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" for terror suspects is to enter a very dark moral world indeed. It is the Orwellian world of the concealed global detention network set up by the CIA on President Bush's authority after 9/11 in which suspected terrorists - many of whom may have had a lot of blood on their hands - were secretly held in US bases from Afghanistan to Romania and systematically tortured. A world in which Britain is implicated too, do not forget.

The memos do not admit torture, of course. The United States, Mr Bush famously claimed in 2006, "does not torture". The memos embody a cynical bureaucratic attempt to align what went on in the secret prisons with that claim. Yet no one who reads their argument that the threat of imminent drowning caused by waterboarding does not reach the level of "prolonged mental harm" which the Bush lawyers argue is necessary to constitute torture, can doubt that torture is precisely what the CIA had been permitted and encouraged to carry out. The truth, as the new US attorney general Eric Holder has said, is clear: "Waterboarding is torture."

Jaw-dropping though they are, the memos are not the only evidence of the Bush administration's embrace of torture. Two years ago, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was given access to 14 Guantánamo detainees who had been through the "alternative procedures". Their experiences, retold in two recent essays by Mark Danner in the New York Review of Books (one of which we republish inside our own Review today), tell of the relentless abuse of detainees who were kept naked in low temperatures for weeks, forced to live in permanent bright light (or total darkness), required to wear nappies, deprived of solid food, blindfolded, shackled, forcibly shaved, and compelled to wear earphones through which loud music was repeatedly played.Editorial The Guardian, Saturday 18 April 2009 Torture: Holding America to... more

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American peace activist shot by Israelis

Parents demand inquiry into how son was critically injured by tear gas canister By... more

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The Politics Of Bollocks

The Politics Of Bollocks By John Pilger February 06, 2009 "Information... more

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Obama, McCain meeting

Barack Obama and John McCain are ready to talk about how they can collaborate on... more

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Obama triggers Gun Sales

The buying spree reminds local sellers of a 1994 surge that preceded the 10-year ban... more

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Race Issues and Obama.

He did not run from race, but he did not run on it. That’s a balance right... more

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Obama sheds light on new administration

Obama is finalizing new administration. And this process is going on day and night.... more

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Obama's first visit to White House

Was Obama's first visit to White House was useful. Media says that it was very... more

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Obama Marriage

Barack and Michelle understand the importance of putting a priority on their time... more

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Bush welcomes Obama in White House

President-elect Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, flew to Washington on Monday to... more

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Maya - Obama's Half Sister

Obama's half sister and his mother pictures.

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Obama Fever in Africa

Obama's fever in Africa is at full zenith.

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