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9 Muslim passengers kicked off flight after remark - Yahoo! News WASHINGTON – Nine Muslim passengers were kicked off a flight from Washington, D.C., to Florida after other passengers reported hearing a suspicious remark about airplane security. AirTran Airways spokesman Tad Hutcheson called the incident on the New Year's Day flight from Reagan National Airport to Orlando, Fla., a misunderstanding, but defended the company's response. He said the airline followed federal rules and did nothing wrong. One of the Muslim passengers, Kashif Irfan, told The Washington Post the confusion began when his brother was talking about the safest place to sit on an airplane. "My brother and his wife were discussing some aspect of airport security ," Irfan said. "The only thing my brother said was, 'Wow, the jets are right next to my window.'" Irfan told the newspap...

While we wait for a ground invasion in Gaza… :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dall'Iraq occupato :: news from occupied Iraq :: - it : "…israeli terrorists continue its illegal practices such as extra-juridical assassination. such as targeting women and children. but i think the coast is clear for israeli terrorists to invade: after all they are continuing to ban the media from entering and they just let the foreigners out. now conditions are ripe for its little concentration camp project. children, women, neighbors, an apartment building home to hundreds–these were all the people targeted by israeli terrorism’s latest assassination, with the aid of american weapons. al jazeera’s ayman mohyeldin shows us the consequences of what this terrorism looks like:"

THE DONKEY WHO SCARED THE ISRAELI ARMY : "The weakest and most coward army in the world, which considers itself as the strongest one targeted and bombed a donkey on the streets of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip. The cowards of the Israeli Air forces fired a missile at the donkey which was pulling a cart while Lama and Haya Hamdan, two sister aged 4 and 11, were searching for some food for their impoverished family."

"It's death whether by killing or by cancer; it's the same thing. Nothing will change if it's an Apache (helicopter) or cardiac arrest. But I prefer to be killed by Apache." Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi (October 23, 1947 – April 17, 2004) "If Israel was established in Britain , would you accept compromise?" , to a British journalist, June 1993. Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi (October 23, 1947 – April 17, 2004) Assassinations.....

WRAPUP 7-Israeli strike kills Hamas political leader | Antiwar Newswire : "GAZA, Jan 1 (Reuters) - Israel killed a senior Hamas leader in an air attack on his home on Thursday, striking its first deadly blow against the top ranks of the Islamist group in a Gaza offensive that has claimed more than 400 Palestinian lives. Nizar Rayyan, a cleric widely regarded as one of Hamas's most hardline political leaders, had called for renewed suicide bombings inside Israel. Medical officials, confirming his death, said another nine people, including members of Rayyan's family, were killed in the bombing in Jabalya refugee camp."

blackagendareport.com - McKinney to Obama: “Say Something” About Gaza Humanitarian Crisis : "'As we are about to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, let us remember what he said. He said that the United States is the greatest purveyor of violence on the planet. And guess what: we experienced a little bit of that violence, because the weapons that are being used by Israel are weapons that were supplied by the United States government.'" Former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney has called upon President-Elect Barack Obama to "please, say something about the humanitarian crisis that is being experienced by the Palestinian people, by the people of Gaza." McKinney spoke to CNN news from the Lebanese city of Tyre, where she had debarked from the relief vessel Dignity after it was rammed on the high seas by an Israeli patrol boat, early Tuesday morning. Passengers also report the Israelis fired machine guns into the water near their ship. ...

allAfrica.com: Somalia: Ethiopia Troops 'Arrest' Former Mogadishu Mayor (Page 1 of 1) : "Ethiopian troops have led an operation to arrest the former mayor of Somalia's national capital, Radio Garowe reports. Ex-Mayor Mohamed 'Dheere' Omar was detained near KM4 junction, where African Union peacekeepers are stationed."

ei: The real goal of the slaughter in Gaza Israel is now faced by two Palestinian national movements. The Fatah one, based in the West Bank and led by a weak president, Mahmoud Abbas, is largely discredited and compliant. The other, Hamas, based in Gaza, has grown in confidence as it claims to be the true guardian of resistance to the occupation. Unable to destroy Hamas, Israel is now considering whether to live with the armed group next door. Hamas has proved it can enforce its rule in Gaza much as Arafat once did in both occupied territories. The question being debated in Israel's cabinet and war rooms is whether, like Arafat, Hamas can be made to collude with the occupation. It has proved it is strong, but can it be made useful to Israel, too? In practice that would mean taming Hamas rather than crushing it. Whereas Israel is trying to build up Fatah in the West Bank with carrots, it is using the current slaughter in Gaza as a big stick with which to beat Hamas into compliance. ...