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CORRECTION: Iraqi PM plays down kidnap as militia dispute: Deletes reference to government spokesman in paragraph 10. The government spokesman clarified remarks made on Tuesday when he said up to 50 were held and about 20 released. He said those released were part of that 50, not an additional number.

However a spokesman for the Higher Education Ministry reiterated on Wednesday at least 100 men were seized. Spokesman Basil al-Khatib said around 40 had been freed, including 20 released within hours of the kidnap.


Iraqi govt at odds over missing hostages: Higher Education Minister Abd Dhiab, from the Sunni Arab minority, told Reuters that until the hostages were found he would boycott the U.S.-sponsored national unity government led by Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
 

Did I hear someone mention "Black Humor"?
Steve Peacock, The New US Embassy Compound: A Shrub Grows in War Torn Baghdad: The U.S. State Dept. may designate a one-million-dollar landscaping "allowance" for the New Embassy Compound (NEC) under construction in the heart of war-torn Baghdad ...
 

Israeli Death Squads Execute PFLP Fighter in West Bank
 

CIA acknowledges existence of presidential order authorizing it to detain, interrogate terror suspects overseas
 

Chris Floyd, Family Feud: Little Bush Hits Back at Daddy
 

Wayne Madsen, November 15, 2006 -- According to a U.S. source who was stationed in Anbar province, which has been abandoned by the US to Sunni insurgents, the U.S. Army's First Cavalry Division was supplied with substandard body armor supplied under a sole source contract by an Israeli manufacturer. ...

The Coalition Provisional Authority misappropriated $9 billion of the $18.4 billion appropriated in 2003 by Congress for Iraq reconstruction. The Iraq reconstruction fund grew to $22 billion in the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund. The loss of $9 billion was discovered by U.S. government auditors in late 2004, but the news of the fraud was purposely not made public until 2005. The Bush administration wanted to hide the loss of $9 billion by the CPA so it could not be used as a campaign issue by the Democrats in the 2004 presidential election. ...

The Coalition Provisional Authority's and Iraq PCO's only non-governmental organization (NGO) recipient of funds in Anbar province was the Iraqi Red Crescent. However, U.S. sources on the ground report that the Red Crescent in Anbar primarily used its U.S. funds to purchase weapons for the Sunni insurgents and move them around in ambulances, also bought with Coalition Provisional Authority and PCO funds.

In the initial days of the U.S. attack on Iraq, one of Saddam Hussein's Baghdad palaces was targeted as a strategic target. However, the palace, built by Saddam for his grandchildren as a "theme palace," was anything but a repository for weapons of mass destruction. In fact, Saddam, who used to watch Flintstone cartoons with his grand kids, decided to build a palace in Baghdad that was a replica of Bedrock, the fictional town where Fred, Wilma, Barney, Betty, and Dino lived. The palace was a huge playground for Saddam's grandchildren. However, Pentagon planners decided that Bedrock Palace was a threat to the West and it was demolished within the first few hours of the war.
 

(No dismounting a big brave cowboy)
Bush will not hesitate to use force in Iran: Israeli ambassador
 

Kurt Nimmo, Political Blogging as Hate Crime
 

Ray McGovern, Don’t Look for Much From the “Bipartisan” Iraq Study Group: Yesterday’s White House photo-op reminded me of the one orchestrated in early January with a dozen former secretaries of state and defense, who were given all of ten minutes (that would be 50 seconds a piece) to “advise” the president on Iraq.
 

Video (47 min), The Death Squads Exposed: The reality of U.S. occupation Of Iraq - This shocking film investigates the links between the death squads and high-ranking Shia politicians. It reveals how the Shia militia that these politicians control have systematically infiltrated and taken over police units and even entire government ministeries. It investigates how these units are closely linked to the death squads, indeed they often are the death squads. And the killers act with impunity -- there's little investigation into their activities.
 

Michael Gaddy, Worshipping the State: Why They Die: Does the insurgent in Iraq present a greater danger to freedom than the politicians who signed the Patriot Act without reading it? Is al Qaeda to be feared more than the suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus? Is the young Iraqi soldier fighting in the streets of Baghdad more dangerous to our freedoms than the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act, which allows the State to take direct control of any and all National Guard units over the objection of state and local officials to whom they report, through the simple expedient of declaring a "public emergency"? Just exactly who is the greatest threat to our individual rights and freedoms in this country?
 

Blair under new pressure to announce Iraq war inquiry: Mr Blair spent about an hour giving evidence by videophone from a bunker* in Downing Street to the Iraqi Study Group headed by James Baker, the former US secretary of state.
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* My g-d, was London under attack?
 

Firas Al-Atraqchi, Saddam's Verdict Will Not Meet Expectations
 

Malcom Lagauche, WHAT IS A CITIZEN? ... I find it quite ridiculous that my patriotism is measured by how many made-in-China flag pins I wear, or how many times I say the pledge of allegiance to a piece of cloth. (Ditto.)
 

xymphora, Alliance of Civilizations: The Alliance of Civilizations group was established under the auspices of the United Nations to consider the state of relations between the Islamic world and Western societies. It has conclusively rejected the Zionist propaganda known as the ‘Clash of Civilizations’ thesis, and concludes that the main basis for conflict is the lack of just resolution of the plight of the Palestinians.
 

No humor - of any color - here.
Iraq gov't in crisis after abducted employees tortured: Higher Education Minister Abed Dhiab al-Ujaili, a Sunni Arab member of the Shiite-led unity government, said some 75 hostages remained in captivity after the raid by militiamen wearing police-style uniforms, 40 of them his ministry's staff.
 

Defense complains as clock ticks on Saddam appeal: ... 10 days after sentencing him to death, an Iraqi court has yet to make public its reasons for finding him guilty.

Saddam's defense team complained on Wednesday that despite "repeated requests" it had not received a copy of the verdict so that it could begin work on an appeal and lodge it with the court within the 30-day deadline after the November 5 verdict.
 

Chris Floyd, Sympathetic Labour Pains: Tony Blair's Post-Election Panic Attack: With no foreign state posing even the remotest threat to the nation, a leader in search of enemies must look within.
 

Deborah Davies, Iraq's death squads: "Standing in a large family house in the Hurriya district of Baghdad a little boy, no more than ten years old, with huge round eyes silently points out the bullet holes in each of the bedrooms."
 

Truth About Iraqis, Iraqis have not yet learned
 

Haaretz, Bush gives go-ahead for building 'Bush Center' in Israel: United States President George Bush was informed on Tuesday of an initiative to establish a center under his name in Israel, as a sign of gratitude for his support for the country and its security.

Outgoing Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Daniel Ayalon asked Bush for the go-ahead to establish such a center during a farewell meeting with the president and his deputy, Dick Cheney.

Bush told Ayalon that "freedom"* would be a worthy subject for the center to focus on.
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* I do believe this great white leader (gwl) has no idea the meaning of words. Rather like a monkey at a typewriter.
 

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PalestineFreeVoice, GIVATI TERRORIST UNITE - ISRAELI /JEWS COWARDS AND SIMPLE THIEVES: The Israeli/Jews that was participating in the “Autumn Clouds”bloody murder carnage in Biet Hanoun the Givati terrorgang ( Unit) used the time to steal Palestinian private property - money, gold, cellphones and other valuables from the homes of the dead and those who escaped the horror.

The mayor of Beit Hanoun Muhammad Nazek Al-Kafarneh said in a press conference that the "soldiers" of the Givati "unit" ( gang) were not content with murdering and injuring hundreds of people, destroying property valued at millions of dollars, destroying the livelihood of a whole city during their so-called "Autumn Clouds" operation, but they used their time to steal cellphones, gold (which is the most widely used form of saving in Palestine) and other private property from the homes of impoverished people who are already under a genocidal regime of starvation.

It is obvious that these Israeli Jew psycopaths from the Givaty Unit did not steal because they were hungry, they stole Palestinian property because they are simple thieves.

The total value of stolen private property amounts to over 200,000 dollars.

The Biet Hanoun mayor also enumerated the loss and damages which the Israeli terrorists caused in the city of Beit Hanoun:
- The loss due to damages to water equipment is 350,000 dollars.
- The loss due to damages to the infrastructure for processing wasted water is 450,000 dollars.
- The loss due to damage and destruction of Palestinian houses amounts to 2,5 million dollars.
- The loss due to damages to road infrastructure amounts to 3,5 million dollars.
- The loss due to damages to the public gardens and the children gardens amounts to 200,000 dollars.
- The loss and the damages of the electricity net are 2,5 million dollars.
- The losses to the economy of the city amounts to one million dollars.
- The loss due to damages to the communication net amounts to 1,5 million dollars.
- The loss due to damages to public property amounts to 1,5 million dollar.

The mayor said that Israeli State terrorists destroyed 25 public facilities of the city, and other 25 facilities were damaged partially. He gives the amount lost due to these damages as half a million dollars.

Further more the mayor Al-Kafarneh said that 40 shops were destroyed completely; the loss due to the destruction of these shops is 200.000 dollars.

The losses of the Biet Hanoun city in the sectors of agriculture and health are not counted for among the losses given above.
 

American AIPAC Diplomat Handling Iraq
 

Bush doesn't fear attack on Iran: Israeli envoy
 

Where Hast Thou Been? Condi?
 

Manipulated with Words
We have our "war on terror,"
And we have our war in Iraq.
If you think that the latter is part of the former,
You might think that white is black.
(David Martin)
 

(What in the f--- where the police doing in a university computer lab?)
Video, UCLA Police Taser Student For Not Showing ID
(Is it relevant that the student's name is Mostafa Tabatabainejad, not John Smith? It think so.)
 

Call for Probe of UCLA Muslim Student Taser Incident
 

US plans last big push in Iraq: Strategy document calls for extra 20,000 troops, aid for Iraqi army and regional summit
 

Venezuela Halts Issuing Visas to Israelis
 

Pentagon boosts 'media war' unit: The Bush administration does not believe the true picture of events in Iraq has been made public ... (Indeed!)
 

Linda S. Heard, Israel's reign of terror must be stopped: There is one country that has virtually been handed carte blanche to commit any atrocity it likes.
 

Wahida C. Valiante, The Oppressed in The New World Order: In 1948, Kennan wrote Policy Planning Study 23; it is considered a key document in designing what the American administration calls the "New World Order." Here is an example of what it says:

"We have about 50% of the world's wealth, but only 6.3% of its population … Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity. To do so … our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives … We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in ‘straight power’ concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better."

This was, of course, a top secret document so to pacify the general public, it was necessary to trumpet the "idealistic slogans" Kennan despised ...
 

Dozens of kidnapped passengers killed - Iraqi TV
 

Stephen Grey, Missing presumed tortured: More than 7,000 prisoners have been captured in America's war on terror. Just 700 ended up in Guantanamo Bay. Between extraordinary rendition to foreign jails and disappearance into the CIA's "black sites", what happened to the rest?
 

Video (5 min), Neil Young: Let's Impeach The President
 

Steve Watson, Neocons to "Forget about the democracy crap" in Iraq
 

Ramzy Baroud, Killing Hope in Beit Hanoun: ... [T]here should be no surprises when more crude rockets burn their way towards Israel, when many more hideous suicide bombings detonate in crowded Israeli streets, creating further suffering. For, Israel’s insistence on living by the sword will continue to create the perfect environment for violence to prevail, for innocent people to die, and for people to lose everything, even their will to live.
 

Ben Tanosborn, Iraq: Rape without a morning-after pill: ... We could not begin to compensate Iraqis for the incalculable pain and suffering we’ve caused them, but we can certainly show contrition by footing the cost of a reconstruction program; designed by Iraqis and implemented with help from competent international organizations, not us.
 

Pro-Israel Congressman Elected Majority Leader
 

Why Are There Four Carriers In The Persian Gulf?
 

This Is Why The Iraqis Hate Us
 

UCLA student stunned by Taser plans suit (See above, November 16, 2006 12:14 PM)
 

Ahmed Janabi, US army 'seized Iraqi homes': Rabah al-Alwan, 36, head of the Union of Lawyers in al-Anbar governorate in western Iraq, said that the US army has occupied his family's house and those of with dozens of other families in al-Ramadi, the capital of al-Anbar governorate.

Al-Alwan has accused the US army of seizing the whole neighbourhood of al-Soufiya in the centre of al-Ramadi and using the houses for military purposes.

The press desk of the US army command in Iraq did not respond to repeated requests to comment on the claim made by al-Alwan.

Al-Alwan said: "Ten months ago, the US army seized my house and dozens of houses in the neighbourhood where I live. Residents were not allowed take any of their savings, jewellery, furniture or clothes."

Al-Alwan said the US army had installed snipers on the roofs of the houses to prevent anyone approaching the area they have taken over.

He said: "They killed a lot of people, such as Ayad Mutar and Muhamad Ayad, for approaching their houses to try to get some of their families' clothes and belongings."
 

"The United States and Israel have stood together since 1948 because we stand up for what is right – liberty, freedom, and democracy."
- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer to AIPAC Political Leadership Conference (Dec. 15, 2003)