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Poor George Tenet; He Still Doesn't Get It - by Ray McGovern George Tenet's book shows that he remains, first and foremost, a politician – with no clue as to the proper role of intelligence work. He is unhappy about going down in history as "Slam-Dunk Tenet." But, George protests, his famous remark to President Bush on Dec. 21, 2002, was not meant to assure the president that available intelligence on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was a "slam dunk." Rather he meant that the argument that Saddam Hussein had such weapons could be enhanced to slam-dunk status in order to sell war on Iraq. Those of you who tuned in to CBS' 60 Minutes Sunday night heard Tenet explain what he meant when he uttered the words he now says everyone misunderstood or distorted in order to blame him for the Iraq war. What he says he meant was simply: "We can put a better case together for a public case." [sic]

The War Profiteers - Lawyer: Haditha Officer Up for Medal : "Lawyer: Haditha Officer Up for Medal By Thomas Watkins Associated Press April 26, 2007; 12:53 AM San Diego - Even as the government was investigating whether a Marine officer failed to probe the death of 24 Iraqi civilians, he was being recommended for a Bronze Star medal partly for his actions the day of the killings, his attorney said Wednesday. First Lt. Andrew A. Grayson, of Springboro, Ohio, was in a team of intelligence operatives that inspected the scene of the Nov. 19, 2005, attack in Haditha. The killings were carried out by a Marine squad in the aftermath of a roadside bomb explosion that left one Marine dead."

A few minutes ago I was watching George Tenet on CBS 60 MINUTES. That guy is basically a human scum. He presided over the largest torture chambers established by his government; he transferred people to get tortured by friends of the U.S; he presided over giving and receiving lies of information about Iraq’s WMD (all that chemical and biological weapon garbage). Yet he comes and says the National Intelligent Estimate he presented over was the best thing he could do to implicate Saddam and clear the way for invasion. (That estimate before the war invented LIES, LIES AND LIES) you think the scum would regret for his participation in a rape of Iraq? No! the garbage man as he is, he couldn’t even capture or kill Osama and his murderous bunches after they slaughter more than 200 hundred innocent people in East African bombs (in Kenya and Tanzania) in 1998 way before 2001 attack by the terrorist group! Tenet was the director then! He has been described [Osama]by the White House as "the...

Tenet says Cheney had eye on Iraq long before 9/11 | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle : "Tenet says Cheney had eye on Iraq long before 9/11 In his book, former CIA director says aides to Cheney and Rumsfeld inserted 'crap' into public justifications for war"

The extremist leader of slave state “Saudi Arabia” refused to accept the opportunistic “leader of Iraq”. Both pigs are puppets to uncle Sam but differ in Islamic ideology, the division of which created at the onset of Islam.

barrylando.com » Blog Archive » Dubya vs Seung-Hui Cho. Who’s the Greater Menace? Officials in Virginia are taking heavy flak for their failure to act on early warnings that South Korean Seung-Hui Cho, who massacred 32 students and teachers at Virginia Tech, was a seriously disturbed menace to his community How then to judge the United States Congress which continues to ignore overwhelming evidence that George W. Bush is an infinitely greater threat to his countrymen; indeed to the entire globe.

Ramzy Baroud: Stealing from the Poor and Giving to the Rich Locating Dartmouth House, where Hans von Sponeck, former UN humanitarian coordinator for Iraq was scheduled to speak in London 18 April, was a challenge. Yet having been lost for an hour in the ever-confusing and expanding city of London was the least of my concerns the moment I slipped quietly into the lecture hall. His statements were shocking, as were his many statistics: Iraq was simply and shamelessly robbed blind during the period of US-championed UN sanctions. Sadly, the robbery and mismanagement continue to this day, but now the figures are much more staggering.

Antiwar.com Blog · Gravel Won’t Be Buried

Baghdad residents find little security "We are calling it the traffic-jam plan rather than the security plan, because traffic jams are the only things that have increased," said Isam Jasim of Sadr City, an impoverished Shiite district where U.S. and Iraqi troops established a presence in early March. Now, entering the massive neighborhood from central Baghdad requires going through one of three checkpoints, the roads to which are usually jammed with cars, taxis and minivans caught in bottlenecks.

Displaced Iraqis in and outside of Iraq. These heart wrenching stories from the refugees mouth reported by Dhar Jamail is extensive. Iraqis are now refugees by millions, yet the country that raped Iraq and destroyed it, won’t help them. Americans were quick to support their leader the terrorist George W. Bush rape of Iraq; I haven’t see any demonstration yet in support of Iraqi people who are getting blown up and made refugees by millions. As far as Americans are concerned Iraqis deserve what they got.

Ethiopians launch new attacks in Mogadishu | International News | News | Telegraph

AlterNet: Kucinich Files Articles of Impeachment Against Cheney

Al Jazeera English - News : "The UN has criticised Baghdad for concealing casualty figures from ongoing violence and noted the 'disappearance' of many detainees."

TomDispatch - Tomgram: Brown, The Virginia Tech Massacre in Global Context

Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | The last thing the Middle East's main players want is US troops to leave Iraq

Insurgents claim 'new methods' in Iraq BY KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Article Last Updated: 04/24/2007 09:13:15 PM PDT BAGHDAD - Two dump trucks sped down the road, then took aim at an outpost defended by paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division. Under heavy gunfire, one of the heavy vehicles smashed into an outer ring of concrete barriers and exploded. The second rammed into the wrecked truck, dragging it and other rubble before it exploded 30 yards from the building housing the post's troops, collapsing two walls. Nine American soldiers lay dead and 20 others were injured, U.S. officials said Tuesday as an al-Qaida-linked group claimed it used "new methods" in staging the attack in volatile Diyala province. The assault underscored the ability of guerrillas of the Sunni Arab-dominated insurgency to wage war in Iraq four years after the U.S.-led invasion, and it came in a region that has seen violence escalate since U.S. and Iraqi troops launched the security cr...

A Grisly Problem, Grateful Iraqis and a Grim Outlook - washingtonpost.com

'Not the Israel we dreamed of' - Israel News, Ynetnews : "'Not the Israel we dreamed of' Uri Avneri, Aharon Amir, and Haim Guri talk about what's left of 1948 dream. The greatest danger, they say, is within. "

Economic Armageddon Is Coming : "Stop being a compliant consumer. Face the ugly truth. Don’t get fooled by the stock market. Accept the need for the mistreated middle class to become the revolutionary class. The British military establishment's most prestigious think tank sees what too few over-consuming Americans are willing to anticipate. Unjustified and mounting economic inequality is planting the seeds for global economic conflict. "

: "Fascist America, in 10 easy steps From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. And, George Bush and his administration seem to be taking them all "

Gunmen Kill 74 at Ethiopian Oil Field - New York Times By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: April 24, 2007 ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- Gunmen raided a Chinese-run oil field near the Somali border on Tuesday, killing 65 Ethiopians and nine Chinese workers, an official of the Chinese company said. An Ethiopian rebel group claimed responsibility. Seven Chinese workers were kidnapped in the morning attack at the oil installation in a disputed region of eastern Ethiopia, Xu Shuang, the general manager of Zhongyuan Petroleum Exploration Bureau, told The Associated Press. China has increased its presence in Africa in recent years in a hunt for oil and other natural resources to feed its rapidly growing economy. Its forays into areas considered politically unstable, however, has exposed Chinese workers to attacks. The Ogaden National Liberation Front said in a statement sent to the Associated Press they had launched ''military operations against units of the Ethiopian armed forces guar...

Free Iraq: Israelis with Ahmed Chalabi are building the walls in Iraq ... من يبني الحائط؟ : ". Dar Babel for Studies & Information (Mosul) has issued a report (above, in Arabic, April 24, 2007) indicating that work on the 'walls' that are now being put up in Iraq have been in preparation for over three months. This project is being headed by Ahmad Al-Chalabi in conjunction with the Israeli company of Zeef Belinsky who has a long track record in ghetto construction, and with Al-Mahdi Army's financing and labor. The document provides sufficient details on the six work locations producing these concrete blocks, for easier targeting. ."

Saul Landau: The Courage to Withdraw : "George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and his staff of neo con hard liners, and assorted handwringers could not have predicted the horror show that erupted in Iraq. The war makers were"

Constant Conflict There will be no peace. At any given moment for the rest of our lifetimes, there will be multiple conflicts in mutating forms around the globe. Violent conflict will dominate the headlines, but cultural and economic struggles will be steadier and ultimately more decisive. The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing.

A hierarchy of death : "Why do 32 deaths in Virginia receive blanket coverage while nearly 200 fatalities in Iraq are barely reported?"

Al Jazeera English - News : "The US war in Iraq is lost and a further build-up of US troops in the country will not recover the situation, the senior Democrat in the US senate has said. "

Amnesty International: Incommunicado detention, fear of torture or ill-treatment, health concern in Ethiopia

Amnesty International: Incommunicado detention, fear of torture or ill-treatment, health concern in Ethiopia

Scores of Ethiopian troops flee Somalia to Yemen: report - Africa Email RSS Talkback Africa News Scores of Ethiopian troops flee Somalia to Yemen: report Apr 17, 2007, 17:51 GMT Sana'a - Scores of Ethiopian army troops have arrived off the coast of Yemen onboard two boats belonging to smugglers after they fled fighting with Islamic insurgents in Somalia, a press report said on Tuesday. Some 89 Ethiopian soldiers arrived in the Arqa area in southern Yemen after crossing the Gulf of Aden from Bosaso city in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland in northeast Somalia, the al-Ayyam daily newspaper said in a report on its website. The paper said 49 Somali refugees were aboard the boats that carried the soldiers, who were wearing civilian clothes. An Ethiopian army officer was quoted as saying that he and his comrades had fled the ranks of Ethiopian troops in Somalia after a dramatic escalation in fierce fighting with Somali Islamic insurgents. 'I am a member of the Ethiopian army an...

EthiopianReview.com :: View topic - Woyanne forces bomb markets and civilian homes : "SomaliNet) At least 20 people mostly civilians have been killed and more than 40 others were wounded in a renewed fighting that raged in the Somalia capital Mogadishu overnight, local medical sources said on Wednesday – the anticipated hopes dashed out with crisis worsening. "

Reuters AlertNet - IRAQ: Thousands missing since war began

People of the world should never forget the slaughter of more than 300 people and other 300 wounded is squarely falls on the shoulder of the mass murderer George W Bush. This mass murderer just like Hitler was, elected by his people to lead his nation. Germany suffered hugely for supporting their leader who killed millions of people around the world and he was responsible for the “Second World War”. George Bush is also responsible for his war against Muslims waged now in many countries. His war radicalized many young Muslims to fall under some extremist groups running under religion of Islam. The groups are very obscure despite the fact alqaida is the obvious one that stands out. Osama and his deputy and other murderers used their religion to attack military and civilian targets justifying even the killing of Muslims, children and women who has nothing to do with the war of terrorists. Iraq is the first war besieged by car bomb, road side bomb, and human bomb a combination which devas...

Leave Somalia or face all-out war, Ethiopia told : Mail & Guardian Online Ethiopia must withdraw its troops from Somalia immediately or face an all-out war that "no army" could resist, three senior Somali leaders warned on Wednesday. The three, including top Islamist leader Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and Hussein Aidid, who holds a post in Somalia's government, were meeting in the Eritrean capital for talks.

Democracy Now! | Howard Zinn Urges U.S. Soldiers to Heed Thoreau’s Advice and “Resist Authority”

Belgian defense min: Israel must pay for cluster bomb cleanup - Haaretz - Israel News : " Belgium's Defense Minister said last week that he would act to extract payment from Israel for the removal of cluster bomb fragments that the Israel Defense Forces fired into Lebanese territory during the Second Lebanon War. "

Belgian defense min: Israel must pay for cluster bomb cleanup - Haaretz - Israel News : " Belgium's Defense Minister said last week that he would act to extract payment from Israel for the removal of cluster bomb fragments that the Israel Defense Forces fired into Lebanese territory during the Second Lebanon War. "

Go ahead. Send me a new generation of recruits. Your bombs will fuel their hatred of America and their desire for revenge. Americans won�t be safe anywhere. Please, attack Iraq. Distract yourself from fighting Al Qaeda. Divide the international community. Go ahead. Destabilize the region. Maybe Pakistan will fall -- we want its nuclear weapons. Give Saddam a reason to strike first. He might draw Israel into a fight. Perfect! So please -- invade Iraq. Make my day. And anyone who talks about an "intelligence failure" is missing the point. The problem lay not with intelligence professionals, but with the Bush and Blair administrations. They wanted a war, so they demanded reports supporting their case, while dismissing contrary evidence.

Reuters AlertNet - Qaeda group says Iraq a "university of terror" : "The leader of an al Qaeda-led group in Iraq said on Tuesday he agreed with those who say the country has become a 'university of terrorism' in a growing insurgency since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. 'From the military point of view, one of the (enemy) devils was right in saying that if Afghanistan was a school of terror, then Iraq is a university of terrorism,' the leader of the self-styled Islamic State in Iraq said in a Web audio recording."

Reuters AlertNet - FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, April 16 FALLUJA - Two U.S. soldiers were killed and two others wounded in a roadside bomb attack in the city of Falluja on Saturday, the U.S. military said. -----------------Americans destroyed Fallujah more than two years ago; the resistance forces got stronger throughout Iraq because of the sucrifice paid by Fallujahns. now even Fallujah, a prison city not safe for the rapistS!

"Sorry We Shot Your Kid, But Here's $500"

40 Afghan civilians killed or wounded by US marines :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq - it : "The US military has determined that more than 40 Afghan civilians were killed or wounded by US marines after a suicide bombing in a village near Jalalabad last month, The Washington Post reported Sunday."

Al Jazeera English - News : "A senior leader of the Union of Islamic Courts has offered to negotiate with Somalia's interim government if its Ethiopian allies leave the country."

A Paradigm Shift: America as Proxy While Iran's prime objective is to discourage an American military assault against it, Israel seeks regional hegemony, where it is left only with "moderate" neighbours. According to this vision, conceived and promoted publicly by Israeli leaders and their friends in Washington and emphasised to the point of boring repetition by every relevant US official at every possible opportunity, the Iranian "threat" must be eradicated at any cost. Israel's fears of Iran are not nuclear in essence. What worries Israel is that Iran is militarily strong, politically cohesive and economically viable, enough to allow Iran opportunity to challenge Israel at every turn. The Israelis, as their country's history illustrates, simply despise such contenders. Israel's attempt to demolish Gamal Abdel Nasser's national regime in 1956, only eight years after the establishment of the Israeli state, is a poignant example.

Iraq Parliament Won't Bow to Terrorism | World Latest | Guardian Unlimited By STEVEN R. HURST Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraq's parliament met in an extraordinary session of ``defiance'' Friday, the Muslim day of prayer, and declared it would not bow to terrorism. A bouquet of red roses and a white lily sat in the place of Mohammed Awad, the lawmaker killed in the parliament dining hall suicide bombing claimed by al-Qaida. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Defiant? Defiant against who? Defiant against the rapist Americans who killed a million of their people? Defiant against the destroyer of Iraqi infrastructure? Defiant against the evil America who made two million refugees to live in other countries unwanted? Defiant against coward troops who break in, in the middle of dead night terrorizing their people? Defiant against American war planes and their 500 pounds load which crushed thousands of fami...

Free Iraq: We shall build a better Sarrafiya bridge .... سنعيد بناء جسر الصرافية بأفضل Caption on cardboard: "Bush is a donkey (a derogaroty term in Arabic) And this American is a jackass who does not understand what is written on this piece of carton" Go Iraq Go

Bosnia revokes citizenship of Muslim soldiers

Life for ordinary Iraqis is worse than ever-News-World-Iraq-TimesOnline : "Life for ordinary Iraqis is getting worse as they try to live with a poor healthcare system, little electricity, a shortage of drinking water and bodies left lying on the streets in unsanitary conditions, according to a report by the Red Cross. "

A bloody message from Iraq: nowhere is safe... - Independent Online Edition > Middle East : "A suicide bomber cleared at least eight rings of security to blow himself up in the Iraqi parliament, killing eight people including three lawmakers as they were eating lunch. It was the most deadly attack mounted from within the Green Zone."

Media Matters - In wake of CBS Decision David Brock Calls for 'Broader Conversation' on bigotry and sexism in the media

barrylando.com » Blog Archive » Let’s Hear it for the War on Terror: Somalia : "O.K. so what goes on in the prisons of Ethiopia, America’s partner? You could ask Human Rights Watch, which of course talks of torture and beatings. But we know what knee-jerks the HRW folks are. To get the real truth, we turn to the U. S. State Department and its current report on Human Rights around the globe. " Their summary on Ethiopia? “Human rights abuses reported during the year included: limitation on citizens’ right to change their government during the most recent elections; unlawful killings, and beating, abuse, and mistreatment of detainees and opposition supporters by security forces; poor prison conditions; arbitrary arrest and detention, particularly those suspected of sympathizing with or being members of the opposition; detention of thousands without charge and lengthy pretrial detention”…and so on. You get the picture.

The Iraqi resistance only exists to end the occupation

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iran envoy repeats US abuse claim : "An Iranian diplomat kidnapped in Iraq has appeared before journalists in Tehran, saying that a US official was present while his captors tortured him. Jalal Sharafi was brought to the news conference in a wheelchair flanked by nurses, a week after his release."

Al Jazeera English - News : "Kurt Vonnegut, a satirical American novelist best known for the classic novels Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle, has died, his wife said. He died on Wednesday in Manhattan at age 84."

Al Jazeera English - News : "One of Iraq's main armed groups has confirmed a split with al-Qaeda, according to a spokesman for the dissenting organisation. Ibrahim al-Shammari told Al Jazeera on Thursday that the Islamic Army in Iraq had decided to disunite from al-Qaeda in Iraq after its members were threatened"

Information Clearing House Blog Stealing a Nation - Special Report by John Pilger

What lack of courage cost : "The Democratic Congress thus faces this April a humiliating climb-down, and all because of a Democratic Senate's vote in October 2002 – Tom Daschle, Reid, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards, Joe Biden, Chris Dodd all assenting – to give George Bush his blank check for war. "

Death from Above : "In reality, 'Death from Above' means nothing less than mass murder from 15,000 feet. It means daisy cutters, bunker busters, cruise missiles, napalm, and white phosphorous. It means depleted uranium and cluster bombs littering the landscape for decades. It means rubble, destruction, the ruination of lives by the hundreds, by the thousands and more. It means Dresden, Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki. It means 'shock and awe.' It means 9/11. It means more than space allows me to explain, yet it's perfectly normal for an American to slap a 'Death by Above' decal on his/her vehicle...right next to 'support the troops' sticker. "

Kissinger's Useful Idiot Bush

Doomsday for the Greenback               Consider this: In 2002 the euro was $.87 on the dollar. Last Friday (4-6-07) it closed at $1.34-- a better than 50% gain for the euro in just 4 years. The same is true of gold. In April 2000, gold was selling for $279 per ounce. Last Friday, at the close of the market it skyrocketed to $679.50---more than double the price.

Al Jazeera English - News At least 1,086 people were killed in four days of recent heavy clashes between Ethiopian forces and Islamist fighters, elders from the Hawiye clan say. The fighting erupted last month when Ethiopian forces launched a crackdown on suspected fighters in the Somali capital, Hussein Aden Korgab, the Hawiye clan spokesman, said on Tuesday.

The Toppling Of Saddam Statue: An Eyewitness Report.

The photographs tell the story...

Period Details

Robert Fisk: The true story of free speech in America - Independent Online Edition > Robert Fisk : "Laila al-Arian was wearing her headscarf at her desk at Nation Books, one of my New York publishers. No, she told me, it would be difficult to telephone her father. At the medical facility of his North Carolina prison, he can only make a few calls - monitored, of course - and he was growing steadily weaker. "

Iraqi Shiites burn US flags on regime fall anniversary : "Hundreds of thousands of Shiites burned and trampled on US flags on Monday as they gathered in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf for an anti-American rally called by firebrand cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on the fourth anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein."

Las Vegas SUN: Fourth Anniversary of the Fall of Baghda One day last spring, a dozen men in black uniforms knocked down her door with machine guns. They screamed "Filthy Sunnis!" and they handcuffed her sons: Haqqi, 39, Qais, 37, Ali, 31. "Why? What did my boys do?" the mother cried. She got no answers. The dozen gunmen dragged their new prisoners across the floor, pummeling heads with their rifle butts. Al-Dulaimi dropped to her knees, clinging to the ankles of a kidnapper. She begged, kissing his shoes. Then she bargained: "At least leave me one. Take the other two. Leave me one."

Four years ago I was shocked to see American capture of Baghdad without a fight. According to some account Americans used chemical weapons against the defenders of the airport in Baghdad. The rapists used the same methods throughout Iraq to put down resistance forces to some success. Iraqis are still fighting the ugly occupation paying a heavy price for it. As freedom loving people around the world know, freedom need to be gotten by blood and money. It is very important that Iraqis need not to lose hope in the face of death and destruction; they are the face of resistance for every oppressed and colonized people. Four years after that moment, with violence besieging the country, Jubouri is concerned with neither benchmarks nor timelines, troop strengths nor withdrawal dates. What he cares most about is security and order, of which, he said, he has seen very little. He blames Iraq's Shiite-led government and its security forces, and wishes for a return of the era led by the man wh...

Al Jazeera English - News : "Timeline: Four years of turmoil"

Al Jazeera English - News : "The former commander of Iraq's Republican Guard has accused the US of using non-conventional weapons in its war against the Middle East country. Saifeddin Fulayh Hassan Taha al-Rawi told Al Jazeera that US forces used neutron and phosphorus bombs during their assault on Baghdad airport before the April 9 capture of the Iraqi capital."

THE FEW. THE PROUD. THE DISILLUSIONED. / Conflict in Iraq: Some active duty troops, while proud to serve, are speaking out and signing a petition against the war : "'You're spending your days driving around the highways looking for people who are hiding, and they blow you up from a mile away with a remote detonator,' he said. 'Or they shoot at you from a building and put their weapon down and walk through the streets. And if you kill someone, you could potentially turn that town against you whether it's justified or not.' "

National Priorities Project - Where Do Your Tax Dollars go?

Military Spending Gets Forty Per Cent of Every Income Tax Dollar : "Military Spending Gets Forty Per Cent of Every Income Tax Dollar By Pamela Schwartz 04/06/07 'ICH' -- - Northampton, MA -- As taxpayers prepare to meet this year's April 16th tax deadline, they may want to consider that almost 40 cents of every tax dollar is spent on past and present military spending, according to a newly released publication by the National Priorities Project (NPP), a non-profit research organization that examines the local impact of federal spending policies. "

US offered to scare Iran: report | Herald Sun : "US offered aggressive air patrols over Iranian bases Britain knocked back offer, asked for calm approach THE US offered to mount aggressive air patrols over Iranian bases during the country's stand-off with Britain, UK media reported today. "

We want the Taliban back, say ordinary Afghans - Independent Online Edition > Asia : "In the Panjwayi district west of Kandahar city, which saw heavy fighting last year, Mawlawi Abdul Hadid said 18 members of his family died in an air strike last May against suspected insurgents. 'In the beginning you had only one enemy. Then you made two, then three, and now I also stand against you,' he declared. "

Ex-army officer: troops are dying in Iraq for a 'doomed project' - Independent Online Edition > Middle East

White House Watch -- News on President George W Bush and the Bush Administration - washingtonpost.com

North Koreans Arm Ethiopians as U.S. Assents - New York Times : "WASHINGTON, April 7 — Three months after the United States successfully pressed the United Nations to impose strict sanctions on North Korea because of the country’s nuclear test, Bush administration officials allowed Ethiopia to complete a secret arms purchase from the North, in what appears to be a violation of the restrictions, according to senior American officials. "

AP Wire | 04/07/2007 | U.S. denies Iranian claim of CIA torture : "TEHRAN, Iran - An Iranian diplomat freed two months after being abducted in Iraq accused the CIA of torturing him during his detention, state television reported Saturday. The United States immediately denied any involvement in the Iranian's disappearance or release."

Karzai Says He's Met With Taliban to Pursue Peace; Insurgents Deny It - washingtonpost.com : "Zabiullah Mujaheed, a purported spokesman for the militants, said Taliban leaders 'do not want to talk to a puppet government.' 'Karzai's government has no power and all their policies are designed by America,' Mujaheed said by telephone from an undisclosed location. 'If the U.S. wants to negotiate with the Taliban, they should first leave our country.'"

Al Jazeera English - News On Friday an EU conflict expert warned that Ethiopian and Somali forces may have committed war crimes during heavy artillery shelling in the capital, and that foreign donors could be complicit. "I need to advise you that there are strong grounds to believe that the Ethiopian government and the transitional federal government of Somalia and the African Union [peacekeeping] Force Commander, possibly also including the African Union Head of Mission and other African Union officials have through commission or omission violated the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court," he said. The warning was made in an email to Eric van der Linden, the chief EU official for Kenya and Somalia. A Somali human-rights organisation has said that more than 1,000 civilians were killed or injured during the clashes with local militias. "The European Commission is now very concerned about any allegations of war crimes and they are going to look into those allea...

War Is Terrorism : " 'They told us this was one of the world's worst terrorists, and he got the sentence of a drunken driver,' said Ben Wizner, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, referring to David Hicks, a 31-year-old Australian who in a plea bargain with a US military court will serve nine months in prison, largely in Australia. That's after five years at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba without being charged with a crime, without a trial, without a conviction. Under the deal, Hicks agreed not to talk to reporters for one year (a slap in the face of free speech), to forever waive any profit from telling his story (a slap -- mon Dieu! -- in the face of free enterprise), to submit to US interrogation and testify at future US trials or international tribunals (an open invitation to the US government to hound the young man for the rest of his life), to renounce any claims of mistreatment or unlawful detention (a requirement which would be unconstitutional in a c...

Al Jazeera English - News : "An influential Iraqi Sunni armed group has called on al-Qaeda in Iraq to 'review' its behaviour in the country. The Islamic Army in Iraq, believed to be the largest group of former Baathists and army officers fighting Iraqi and US forces, called on Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader, to take more responsibility for al-Qaeda in Iraq."

A Provocation Backfires- by Justin Raimondo

TALES OF IRAQ WAR by LATUFF

TALES OF IRAQ WAR by LATUFF

The Long Ordeal of Sami Al-Arian - Civil and Human Rights Advocate and Political Prisoner - The Smirking Chimp I always believe America is a terrorist state. The invasion of countries, the wiping of tribes of native people, taking of big chunks of lands from Mexico, the slavement and lynching of black people, the deportation of Chinese and Mexican Americans to their lands of their ancestry by force, the use of nuclear bombs on Japanese civilians, the internment camp ordeal of Japanese Americans and now the torture, killings and invasion of any thing of Islam and Muslims! Sami Al-Arian is one unfortunate Muslim who paid and paying a heavy price by Zionist and Christian fascist led government of America. If I affect a change I would be picked up tortured and deported somewhere in Arab countries (oh! Ethiopia too contracting a torture agreement with America. Ethiopia is where I was born and raised a country I have no fondness) to be tortured and disappeared forever! But so far many peopl...

ContraCostaTimes.com | 04/04/2007 | U.S. agents interrogate terror suspects in Ethiopia By Anthony Mitchell ASSOCIATED PRESS NAIROBI, Kenya - CIA and FBI agents hunting for al-Qaida militants in the Horn of Africa have been interrogating terrorism suspects from 19 countries held at secret prisons in Ethiopia, which is notorious for torture and abuse, according to an investigation by the Associated Press.

Asia Times Online :: Middle East News - Shi'ite power bloc in Iraq takes shape

First They Came for the Spies- by Justin Raimondo

ABC News: Shiite Cleric Opposes Baathists' Return

Kansas City Star | 04/01/2007 | New Jersey man jailed in Ethiopia

Carter enters lions' den

allAfrica.com: Kenya: Only Bold Action in Somalia Will Put End to the Chaos (Page 1 of 1) : "Salim Lone Nairobi Just as the US-Ethiopian war against Somalia began in December, John Githong'o from his Oxford redoubt 'prayed that the gates of hell have not been opened in the region as a result of this intervention.'"