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Iraqi officials claim militia infiltrated Saddam Hussein's execution team withthe intent to inflame sectarian tensions 4 January 2007 Iraqi officials claim Saddam Hussein's execution was infiltrated by outsiders bent on inflaming sectarian tensions. Authorities are questioning a guard at the prison where the hanging took place. They are trying to find out who filmed the event on a cellphone, and leaked the video. The footage of the former dictator being taunted by Shi'ites as he stood on the gallows has sparked outrage across the Arab world.

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by Aaron Glantz O n New Year's Eve, the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq passed 3,000. By Tuesday, the death toll had reached 3,004 – 31 more than died in the Sep. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. But the number of injured has far outstripped the dead, with the Veterans Administration reporting that more than 150,000 veterans of the Iraq war are receiving disability benefits.

Every year the Chechens, and other Muslims and non-Muslims mark the anniversary to commemorate the Day of the Chechen-Ingush deportations on February 23 as World Chechnya Day. On this day, 63 years ago, Josef Stalin ordered the mass deportation of the entire Chechen and Ingush population. This resulted in the death of over half the population. Today the genocide, rape, killing, kidnapping, plunder and theft continue unchecked and with impunity, in an attempt to force the population into submission. The Chechens and their friends commemorate World Chechnya Day to remember those who died and to honour those still living and their struggle, and to what we can do to help.

The zionist lobby has been challenged from another quarter as well. In his latest book, Palestine: Peace not Apartheid, former president Jimmy Carter denounced Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. Despite the zionists’ hysterical denunciations, and the fact that many Democrats have distanced themselves from him, Carter has stuck to his guns. Such criticism of Israel is unprecedented in the US, where politicians recoil at the thought of offending the mighty zionist lobby. Carter has felt able to break this taboo as he does not plan to run for office again; he is considered an elder statesman of Democratic politics. As a result, for the first time in US history, the Israeli lobby finds itself confronted by two powerful segments of the establishment that regard Israeli policies as inimical to US interests. Jewish writers, such as Norman Finkelstein of New York State University, have predicted that if the US establishment ever considered Israeli policies to be damaging its interests, Isr...