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I Am Become Death - The Destroyer Of The Worlds
Anwaar Hussain
The crimson waters of the Euphrates are now emptying into the Persian Gulf the hopes and aspirations of innocent people whose lives were snuffed out on the orders of a man rewarded for his monumental crimes by his great nation.
http://207.44.245.159/article7389.htm
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- Humor - If Only It Were True News - Humor -
Canadian authorities arrest president Bush
Canadian authorities have arrested US president George W. Bush in Ottawa. He has been charged with several offences under Canada's War Crimes Act. Vice-President Dick Cheney has mobilized the American military and all border crossings between the two nations have closed. Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin has urged for calm in a short radio and television broadcast to the Canadian people immediately after the arrest. Part of the Prime Minister's broadcast is included here:
http://207.44.245.159/article7390.htm
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How Iran is being backed into a corner
Scott Burchill.
Iran could be forgiven for thinking it needs WMD for its own protection. Such is the arrogance of double standards in the post-September 11 world.
http://207.44.245.159/article7388.htm
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Terrorism: No Name Death from the Sky
By: Jack Dalton
These are the wounds that are born out of fear, guilt, and terror. No name death falling from the sky-that is terrorism--bombs, rockets, and mortars that fall unannounced, at any time, in any place that are capricious, indiscriminate and arbitrary when they kill and maim. I've seen men that have gone thru literal hand to hand combat that turned into shaking piles of sobbing flesh during sustained mortar attacks-abject helplessness.
http://207.44.245.159/article7384.htm
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Red Cross Finds Detainee Abuse in Guantánamo:
The finding that the handling of prisoners detained and interrogated at Guantánamo amounted to torture came after a visit by a Red Cross inspection team that spent most of last June in Guantánamo.
http://207.44.245.159/article7392.htm
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Abu Ghaib abuse complaint names Rumsfeld:
An international legal team has filed a criminal complaint against US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top US officials over the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200412/s1255125.htm
http://snipurl.com/azuj
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Lawyers in Germany Charge Rumsfeld, Tenet With War Crimes in Iraq:
Democracy Now interview with Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, who is filing a criminal complaint charging a group of U.S. officials with war crimes in Iraq.
Audio and transcript
http://207.44.245.159/article7396.htm
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Car Bomb Kills Seven, Wounds 20 in Iraq:
A car bomb exploded in a crowded market in a town north of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least seven people and wounding 20, underlining Iraq's severe security problems with elections just two months away.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6951800
http://snipurl.com/azul
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Another U.S. Soldier Killed in Iraq:
A U.S. Army soldier died from injuries sustained after a roadside bomb exploded next to his patrol north of Baghdad, the military said Tuesday.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=291071
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135 American troops killed in Iraq this month:
The U.S. military death toll for November matched the highest for any month of the war.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/24/iraq/main541815.shtml
http://snipurl.com/azun
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Report: Pentagon wants 10,000 more troops in Iraq:
Faced with the problem of protecting upcoming elections and securing former insurgent stronghold, the US military tells NBC it will need between 10,000 and 11,000 more troops in Iraq.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1130/dailyUpdate.html
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Iraqi forces wilting under relentless attacks :
Iraqi police and national guard forces, whose performance is crucial to securing January elections, are foundering in the face of coordinated efforts to murder and intimidate them and their families, say American officials
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/11/30/MNGVNA3PDL1.DTL
http://snipurl.com/azuq
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UK: Gulf veterans' angry plea to MoD :
Soldiers on sick leave after serving in Iraq have told a BBC programme of their anger at not receiving proper medical or financial support from the Army.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/real_story/4050415.stm
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GI threatens suicide over return to Iraq:
A serviceman, apparently distraught over the prospect of being sent back to the war in Iraq, threatened to kill himself as he stood naked and screaming outside his house.
http://www.connpost.com/Stories/0,1413,96~3750~2566834,00.html
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Nuclear Agency Praises Iran:
The International Atomic Energy Agency praised Iran yesterday for suspending its uranium-enrichment work and removed an immediate threat of sanctions against the Islamic republic
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A19565-2004Nov29?language=printer
http://snipurl.com/azus
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Fallujah Napalmed:
News that President George W. Bush has sanctioned the use of napalm, a deadly cocktail of polystyrene and jet fuel banned by the United Nations in 1980, will stun governments around the world.
http://snipurl.com/ayr2
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U.S. Accused of Using Poison Gases in Fallujah:
Survivors of the week-long attack on Fallujah have reported the U.S. military used poison gas and other non-conventional weapons against civilians in the assault. We go to Baghdad to speak with independent reporter Dahr Jamail who broke the story.
Audio and transcript.
http://207.44.245.159/article7391.htm
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Riverbend: Iraqi Girl Blog: Tired in Baghdad...:
The situation in Falloojeh is worse than anyone can possibly describe. It has turned into one of those cities you see in your darkest nightmares- broken streets strewn with corpses, crumbling houses and fallen mosques... The worst part is that for the last couple of weeks we've been hearing about the use of chemical weapons inside Falloojeh by the Americans.
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2004_11_01_riverbendblog_archive.html#110175554175897095
http://snipurl.com/azuy
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US army blocks aid convoy for Falluja:
The US military has prevented an aid convoy from reaching the besieged city of Falluja, a doctor based in Baghdad who accompanied the convoy says.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F0A47D67-7D17-4140-A992-2AEC1CF0624A.htm
http://snipurl.com/azv0
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Neglect Follows Siege of Fallujah:
The Iraqi ministry of health is failing to provide enough support to hundreds of thousands who fled Fallujah. - Some doctors said a deliberate decision had been taken not to help people in the besieged city.
http://www.ipsnews.net/new_nota.asp?idnews=26483
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Farce In Fallujah:
In the annals of military history, it is difficult to find a more egregious example of a military operation dictated so completely by domestic political concerns.
http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/editorial179.html
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Red Crescent has trouble treating civilians hurt in Fallujah assault :
The Iraqi Red Crescent has set up a relief center in Fallujah -- but continued fighting between U-S-led troops and insurgents is making it impossible for doctors and nurses to treat the wounded.
http://www.kctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2622176
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Iraq health care 'in deep crisis' :
Iraq's health system is in a far worse condition than before the war, a British medical charity says.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4054105.stm
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The Destruction of Iraq's Health Care:
Since the US military invasion and occupation of Iraq, Iraq's health care system has deteriorated as a result of deliberate destruction by the US administration. The most vulnerable victims of this destruction are the Iraqi children, particularly children under the age of five.
http://207.44.245.159/article7393.htm
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Straw says sorry for Iraqi bloodshed:
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has offered the Muslim community a qualified apology for the casualties of the Iraq war. Speaking at an event hosted by the Muslim Council of Britain, Straw said he was "deeply sorry" for the bloodshed caused by military intervention in the country
http://about.upi.com/products/perspectives/UPI-20041130-015959-1757R
http://snipurl.com/azug
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Ottawa, Halifax on lockdown in preparation for Bush visit:
Helicopters, sharpshooters, riot police to protect world's most powerful politician
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20041130/BUSHSECURITY30/TPNational/Canada
http://snipurl.com/azv3
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Do Canadians have a conscience? :
The majority of Canadians oppose Bush, reject the war in Iraq, and don't want him here.
http://207.44.245.159/article7394.htm
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Video: Mosaic: World News Reports from Middle East TV For 11/29/04:
The nation's only uncensored compilation of daily television news reports from more than 15 countries in the Middle East. QuickTime Video.
http://snipurl.com/azv4
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Michel Chossudovsky: IMF Sponsored "Democracy" in The Ukraine:
Opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko in the Ukrainian presidential elections is firmly backed by the Washington Consensus.
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO411D.html
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US intervenes in disputed Ukraine election:
Who the hell asked you, Mr. Powell?
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/nov2004/ukra-n30.shtml
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Truth and Consequences in Ukraine:
When the Bush Administration rushed to celebrate the protesters' courage and tenacity, I thought--what rank hypocrisy. These same officials have shown no respect for American pro-democracy protesters
http://www.thenation.com/edcut/index.mhtml?bid=7
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Criminal Investigation in Germany into Culpability of U.S. Officials in Abu Ghraib Torture
http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/1129-08.htm
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A weapon against ourselves :
The politicisation of intelligence means that a sensible response to terrorism is becoming impossible
http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1362604,00.html
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Religious Fundamentalism and the Growing Threat to Democracy:
With the re-election of George W. Bush, religious fundamentalism seems to be in overdrive in its effort to define politics through a reductive and somewhat fanatical moralism.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Nov2004/Giroux1129.htm
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Leo Strauss and the Grand Inquisitor:
There is a certain irony in the fact that the chief guru of the neoconservatives is a thinker who regarded religion merely as a political tool intended for the masses but not for the superior few. He therefore taught that those in power must invent noble lies and pious frauds to keep the people in the stupor for which they are supremely fit.
http://207.44.245.159/article7395.htm
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1 Minute Video: Heard Any Good Jokes Lately George?
Windows Media.
http://video.buzzflash.com/04/10/Bushs_Big_Joke.wmv
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13 US marines wounded in mortar attack south of Baghdad :
Thirteen US marines and two civilians were wounded Monday when mortar shells struck a military base south of Baghdad, a marine spokesman said.
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?ID=34518
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Embassy sounds alarm over growing dangers in Iraq:
Disintegrating security in Baghdad was underlined in a sombre warning yesterday from the British embassy against using the airport road or taking a plane out of Iraq.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=588095
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Fallugah: Raw Video sent in by US Solider:
Windows Media
http://www.fallujah.us/download.php?f=www.fallujah.us-Raw-Footage03.wmv
http://snipurl.com/azva
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Al-Zawahri says will keep fighting U.S.-:
"We are a nation of patience and we will continue fighting you (United States) until the last hour," Ayman Al-Zawahri said in the tape.
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_ID=5831
http://snipurl.com/azvb
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A Close Look at Fallujah Lab:
It looks like a shelf in an elderly lady's bathroom, scattered with half-full and almost empty bottles so old the faded labels are peeling off. But Qassem Daoud, Iraq's national security adviser and Prime Minister Allawi's confidant, calls it a "chemical laboratory" where Fallujan anti occupation forces supposedly made "deadly explosives and poisons," including anthrax.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=55313&d=30&m=11&y=2004
http://snipurl.com/azvc
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Iraqi National Guard Abuses Anger Public :
The US-backed and trained Iraqi National Guard is facing allegations of misconduct and ill-discipline
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/irq/irq_92_1_eng.txt
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Huff and puff from General Abizaid :
The commander of the US forces in the Middle East, General John Abizaid, seems to be brewing up a storm. He has said the power of the US should never be underestimated. He further claimed America can "generate more power per square inch than anybody else in the world, and everybody knows it."
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/Opinion2.asp?ArticleID=141574
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'They hate our policies, not our freedom':
Quietly released Pentagon report contains major criticisms of administration.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1129/dailyUpdate.html
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Investing in War:
The Carlyle Group profits from government and conflict
http://www.publicintegrity.org/pns/report.aspx?aid=424&sid=200
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"War Is A Racket" U.S. Major General Smedley Butler:
A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4377.htm
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Ridge to Announce Resignation Today:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=292167
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Nearly a Month Later, Ohio Fight Goes On :
Nearly a month after John Kerry conceded Ohio to President Bush, complaints and challenges about the balloting are mounting as activists including the Rev. Jesse Jackson demand closer scrutiny to ensure the votes are being counted on the up-and-up.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&e=1&u=/ap/20041129/ap_on_el_pr/ohio_vote
http://snipurl.com/9han
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Afghan government condemns spraying of opium crops by mystery aircraft:
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has lodged a protest with British and U.S. officials after a mystery aircraft sprayed herbicide on opium crops without authorization, his spokesman said Tuesday.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2004/11/30/latest/19937Afghangov&sec=latest
http://snipurl.com/9hgp
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'I had soldiers break into tears':
Canada's troops patrolling war-torn Kabul have sent a sobering message home - "we are overtasked, overburdened and worn out."
http://snipurl.com/azve
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"Orphan" by Poverty :
It's hard to believe that any child would live here by choice. Yet, according to Sami Hashemi, chief protection officer for UNICEF in Afghanistan, 80 per cent of the children in the country's orphanages have at least one living parent.
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/arr/arr_200411_149_5_eng.txt
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Social Security plan gets support:
The White House and congressional Republicans are all but certain to embrace large-scale government borrowing to help finance President Bush's plan to create personal investment accounts in Social Security, said administration officials, members of Congress and independent analysts.
http://www.kansas.com/mld/eagle/news/nation/10286032.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
http://snipurl.com/azvf
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Liberty can not be preserved without general knowledge among people." (August 1765) John Adams
"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual." : Frank Herbert
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"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do." : William Blake
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"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws." -John Adams
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