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What happened to Iraq’s oil money?
 

Dear Imad,

Hazim Shaalan was Minister of Defence during Allawi's government and his misdeeds were uncovered during Jaafari government. You seem to forget that in your persistent attacks on Maliki's government which is headed by Dawa as well.

I guess your intense dislike for the Shii - led government is not allowing a full presentation of the facts lumping them all together. According to recent analyses,Allawi is once again being groomed for a come back. I,therefore,suggest that you save this one for that day as it does not stick here! {Yaani datkhabbus yimna wuyisra}

Those providing you with the so called "documents" must have good friends some where high, or are good at forgeries.However,their grammar is quite weak unfortunatly.. Alot of the names I read in the excell sheet on Badr are from the South. I guess your chauvinist sectarian friends still like to think that all Shiis are "Ajam" and that 60 % of Iraqis can be dismissed by this non-sense !

Have a good morning
 

Dear Friend1

I am having a good morning, thank you.

You woud be quite surprised, yourself, to know the name of my "somewhere high" source. The grammer is, alas, not their doing.

By the way, did you happen to see Adel Mahdi, the subject of our email exchanges that were posted on this site "A not so idle chatter about Iraq .... and a ‘VP’" on November 26, 2005, a bossom Ba'athist friend of Allawi and then lefter than most leftist Marxists as he was Yaltum Yimna wa Yusra (beating his breast left and right) in Karbala? I suppose that he has reserved a place for himslef in heaven, also.

My dislike is not the Shi'a, as you well know after 60 years of friendship, but rather the American occupiers, the mercenaries and the Iranian insidious interference in Iraq's affairs.

Now why am I rather surprised by your defence of Al-Jafari? Perhaps because you have not yet been his guest in his multi million pounds buildings that he recently bought in London; from his salary, of course.

Would you need a tisuue to clean the lenses of your glasses?

All the best
 

An hour conversation with the ambassador to Iraq Paul Bremer about his goals for a new Iraqi constitution, combat capabilities and security in rules of engagement among the coalition forces.

Dear Dr. Imad I asked did Bremer visited Al-Mosul dam.
Did Bremer visit Haditha Dam?
Did Bremer Visit the Phosphates factory west of Ira? Did he visit Iraqi Nuclear Centre?

All these well developed project are most recent in Iraq it’s not old or technology of 1960.

Can you give your feedback please...?

The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope in Iraq (A Meet the Author Program)
 

US military plans Iraq pullout in case 'surge' fails: ... The Los Angeles Times said the alternative strategy was based in part on the US experience in El Salvador in the 1980s.
 

Baghdad reeling from bomb attacks
 

Legal expert: President Bush may have ordered torture of terror suspects
 

(Tongue in cheek!)
"As to possible treatment options for Dubya’s mood disorder, I believe that if he’d become a pot smoker while still an underage drinker, he probably would have managed his use of alcohol better and had a much different life.

Alternatively, had he switched from booze to pot instead of to Jesus at age forty, we’d all have been better off: not only would he not have been able to run for President in 2000, he’d probably have become a better adjusted and happier person."
 

Kurt Nimmo, Iran Attack: Neocons Find New Curveball
 

Kurt Nimmo, Mysterious and Predictably Clueless “Iraqi Militants” Abduct Germans
 

Haaretz.com, Only twelve years old: It was about 3 P.M. last Wednesday, when Salama suddenly noticed small objects falling on the sand and kicking up little clouds of dust. Salama told her father later that she had no idea what they were; she had never seen a volley of live bullets. A few minutes later she saw her cousin Hanan slump to the ground, a hole in her head.
 

Bush looking to rally support for Colombian leader: After a relaxing day of boating and barbecue in the Uruguayan countryside, President Bush flies to Colombia today for a much more difficult chore: shoring up U.S. support for President Alvaro Uribe, a longtime ally whose government has been tainted by ties to paramilitary death squads.
 

Budapest under Israeli Occupation?
 

Israel Hasbara Committee (8 March 2007), Updated Travel Warnings: Israel’s National Security Council Counter-Terrorism Division presents the following updated travel warnings for Israelis traveling abroad. It is advised that travelers should avoid visiting and leave the area as soon as possible in the following high to very high-threat countries: Algeria, Afghanistan, Chechenya, (southern Russia) Djabouti, Egypt, (especially the Sinai peninsula), Jordan, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kashimir (northern India), Lebanon Malaysia, Mindanao, (southern Philippines) Northern Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia Southern Thailand, Syria & Yemen. Travelers should postpone non essential travel to: Bangladesh, Bangkok, Libya, Oman, Nigeria & southeastern Turkey (borders with Iraq and Iran). Travelers in general, should avoid visiting the following countries: Bahrain, Chad, Kenya, Kuwait, Morocco, Qatar, Tunisia. Israeli citizens are called upon to be especially cautious when visiting: Philippines, Turkey, Thailand, & Uzbekistan. (Sources: National Security Council Counter-Terrorism Division, GPO)
 

Video (58 min.), Checkpoint: The Herded Life of Palestinians
 

Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews Protest Annual AIPAC Convention: All wars and all suffering which came about through Zionism and the state of "Israel", including the brutal seizure of the land and possessions, of the Palestinian people, are painful to the Jewish nation, which finds it shameful that these acts of brutality are committed in the name of "Israel" and Judaism.
 

HEAD OF AIPAC BOASTED ABOUT HIS CONTROL OF POLITICIANS IN 1992
 

Israel recalls 'naked ambassador': Reports say he was able to identify himself to police only after a rubber ball had been removed from his mouth.
 

Chris Floyd, The Poison Kitchen: Mark Steyn's Racist Stew: Mark Steyn is a blithering idiot, and his new book about the coming Muslim "takeover" of Europe -- a Protocols for the 21st century -- is full of outright lies, a number of which I can disprove simply by walking around my neighborhood here in England. In a civilized society, the kind of paranoid racist bile disgorged by Steyn would be relegated to the freakish fringe, and he himself would be an object of pity, a dribbling ranter on some obscure street corner.

Fortunately, in this case, young Johan Hari has courageously gone before us. In a masterpiece of waste management, Hari cleans Steyn's clock with a review of his hate tract, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It, in the New Statesman.
 

Arthur Silber, From Mild Smacking to Outright Sadism, Torture and War: The Lie of "Well-Intentioned" Violence
 

Pepe Escobar, The fall guy in Iraq: ... [T]his gory chronicle of a failure foretold is inevitably slouching toward the "secret" US Plan B - which is none other than installing the new Saddam Hussein: in this case the same old "Saddam without a mustache" (as he is known in Baghdad) Iyad Allawi. Allawi's stellar record - former car-bomber, Ba'ath thug, alleged embezzler (in Yemen), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) asset, corrupt interim prime minister and "butcher of Fallujah" - could have been penned by a Hollywood hack.

... Maliki and his helpless, corrupt government - whose only role is to enforce imperial US edicts in Iraq - will be blamed by the Bush administration for failing to help the Pentagon occupy and "pacify" the country with minimum hassle. He doesn't even control the Green Zone: the US does. Baghdad's neighborhoods are controlled either by the muqawama or by Shi'ite militias. The ministries of Defense and Interior are infested with death squads. Basra is being slowly ethnic-cleansed: Sunnis were 40% in 2003; now they are less than 14%.

... If you want divide-and-rule and total domination, who's your man? A clever, charismatic nationalist or a ruthless CIA asset?
 

Time line of the Middle East from 1954 to Now: 1954 the Lavon affair. Israeli mossad agents bomb American and British targets in Egypt and try to blame it on the Egyptians. One bombers Philip Natanson's bomb went off prematurely in his pocket lighting him on fire. By searching his house it was discovered that the bombings were a false flag operation. Israel's Defence Minister Pinhas Lavon is forced to resign in 63 six years after the event, however his signature had been forged on a document by Zionist Colonel Benyamin Givli and his spy ring.
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2001-2007 Israel makes up false stories about Iran
ADL makes up yellow stars story. Bush uses Nuclear weapons scare tactics. WMD myths are tracable to Feith's office. Wolfowitz even admits it in Vanity Fair.

Before June 2007 unless the AIPAC trial is moved again there will be an airstrike on Iran.
 

On eve of Bush visit, military activity in Colombia confirmed: The president and first lady Laura Bush stopped for dinner at a restaurant in the old part of the city situated on a quaint plaza. "I strongly recommend that you come and have dinner," Bush said, standing outside the establishment with two of its employees. Area residents stood in the plaza waiting to get a glimpse of the president. When he emerged, one bystander shouted an obscenity.
 

Behind Burqa, Student Gets An Education In Bigotry
 

Wayne Madsen, March 12, 2007 -- The America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) annual meeting today and tomorrow in Washington has been designated a "national security event" by the Department of Homeland Security. ...


Wayne Madsen, March 12, 2007 -- Chinese and Japanese intelligence are from cautious to suspicious about the diplomatic rapprochement between the Bush administration and North Korea. After years of acrimony between the Bush neo-cons and Pyongyang there are strong indications that Washington will soon normalize relations with the reclusive North Korean Communist government. It is no secret that the Bush administration and North Korean-born religious cult leader Sun Myung Moon have close ties. In fact, a number of Moon's Unification Church members hold high office in the Bush administration, incluidng the State Department. Moon has extensive financial interests in North Korea, including holdings in the hotel, automotive manufacturing, and shipping sectors. It is also unclear what role the new UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon (no relation to Sun Myung Moon, but non-committal about his non-denominational Korean Christian links in Korea) may have had in the Washington-Pyongyang rapprochement.

What has Beijing and Tokyo worried are the ties between Sun Myung Moon's organization and the Falun Gong movement in China and the Aum Shinrikyo cult in Japan. The Aum cult has attempted to acquire weapons, including weapons of mass destruction, from North Korea. In 1995, it launched a deadly sarin attack on Tokyo's subway system. There are also links between Aum and the Russian-Israeli mafia, especially relating to the smuggling of chemical and biological weapons, including VX and hydrogen cyanide. The Falun Gong is considered a major subversive organization by Beijing, which fears it has a number of adherents inside the Communist Party.
 

Golf Overload: Elder Bush faints
 

AIPAC breakfast: Cheney says U.S. 'unflinching' on Israel (This is news?)
 

March on the Pentagon, March 17: 4th anniversary of the start of the criminal invasion of Iraq

We will assemble at 12 noon at 23rd St. and Constitution Ave. NW. Click here for more information.

Click here to read ... the full ANSWER statement on why we're marching.
 

Naked, drunk, surrounded by sex toys - it's the Israeli ambassador
 

Steven LaTulippe, Empire in the Ditch: A policy that drastically downsized the federal government and ended our imperial foreign policy would have a dramatic, negative effect on our ruling elites. As members of a class that controls the world’s dominant nation, they live as Olympians. They wield power on a scale undreamed of by Moguls or pharaohs. The fame, the wealth, and the sex are just too seductive for them to ever contemplate "throwing it all away."
 

xymphora, ZOG proof: The Israeli right will continue its evil plans, plans which don’t even benefit Israel, until Americans recognize the importance of the ZOG, and until the kind of overt support for Zionism, exemplified by the three major Democrat candidates for President having to kiss AIPAC’s ass, becomes a political kiss of death in American politics. People whose pride won’t allow them to admit the truth of the ZOG thesis are morally responsible for the horrors that have yet to flow from the ZOG.
 

Video (2 min.), Anti-Bush Riots Rip Columbia
 

Missing Iranian general was Western spy
 

Barry Chamish, Deranged Israel - Press 'Down' For Hell
 

BG Looks To Iraq Gasfield


Whose oil is it, anyway?
 

ENCAMPMENT TO STOP THE WAR - DAY 1: The Encampment to Stop the War was pitched yesterday on the Washington Mall directly in front of the capital in full view of the Democrat-led congress demanding that they defund the U.S. war on the people of Iraq. It kicked off yesterday morning with 4 large trucks rolling into the Washington Mall, loaded with scaffolding, staging, conference room tents, medical supplies and all the equipment we needed to set up the Encampment.
 

House oversight chairman wants Rice to answer Niger uranium lies (Better pitch a tent, Mr. Waxman)
 

Pelosi hears boos at AIPAC
 

Wayne Madsen, March 13, 2007 -- The actual reason Halliburton and its chairman David Lesar are moving their corporate digs to Dubai is that the UAE's lax laws on corporate record keeping and the opaqueness of business transactions in the emirates will allow the firm to avoid responding to congressional subpoenas for its scandalous war profiteering in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other locations. A source with extensive ties in Dubai also reports that after leaving office, Dick Cheney will be spending "a lot of time in Dubai." WMR was told that Cheney will likely start looking for property in the emirate -- there are a number of highly-secured gated communities springing up in Dubai, which is fast becoming the "Hong Kong" of the Middle East.
 

US and Israel in UN walk-out: Israeli and US delegations walked out of the United Nations' disarmament forum today after Iran said Israel was the "real source of nuclear danger in the Middle East" and had a "dark record of crimes".
 

War Protestors Camp Out At Pelosi's S.F. Home
 

Cummy-Dreamgir5@ un01.wizhoo. com wrote:

This message is about Human beings, Democracy, UNHCR, Refugees, The Iraqis, Islam, Kurds, Human rights, Respect, Money, Donations, Angelina Jolie, Pavarotti, Giorgio Armani, Donors, Peace, History, Campaigns and about you if you care about these words.

Hi there,

I am SAM, an Iraqi refugee living in Lebanon at the moment; I have spent the last 10 years of my life as a refugee registered with the UNHCR in Beirut. The last 4 years, I have spent as an activist for peace and human rights (especially refugees and asylum seekers) on the Internet; I'm also books author and ebooks publisher. I have launched many campaigns to improve our situation as refugees in Lebanon and hopefully bring more understanding to our problems worldwide. I helped make many changes and improvements at the UNHCR office in Beirut; I used the Internet as the field for my activities (you can read more about that in my free ebook 'MY CAMPAIGNS'). All my ebooks are free and could be download from my sites.

This is my newest campaign, it's about the illegal and humiliating actions of the UNHCR, who using photos of refugees as banners and human-buttons to collect money. This is an abuse of the dignity and humanity of the refugees and must stop immediately and a clear public apology present by The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. My friends, I am talking about the pictures you can see here:
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Where you can read the rest of this message as web page.

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For more info about UNHCR and life of refugees you can read my free ebooks. I invite you as fellow humans and members of the world community to support my campaign by reading my article on my site and see the human-buttons. The campaign is to support and improve the UNHCR http://www.unhcr. org especially after the last scandals in the UN and UNHCR, just for example:

The refugees allege that UNHCR staff is selling most of the food items they are supposed to be supplied.
"They aren't supplying sufficient food to us because they sell most of the food items," they allege: http://allafrica. com/stories/ 200503140214. html
Here is another example: Burmese Refugees Withdraw Protest Against UNHCR http://www.mizzima. com/archives/ news-in-2005/ news-in-april/ 12-April05- 22.htm

"We make demonstration and fast because the UNHCR office in Cairo did nothing for our problem..." http://news. bbc.co.uk/ 2/hi/africa/ 4440730.stm

Together we will build better world.

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and if you like to know more about me, you can google for my name 'osam altaee'.

Thanks
THE TRUTH WARRIOR
http://unhcrlebanon .batcave. net
 

Evelyn more on Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Pelosi, who aides said she was prepared for the mixed reception to her war comments, confined Iraq to a few paragraphs at the end of her 25-minute speech. The House speaker, just like the other politicians who annually address the group's conference, lauded Israel, called the U.S.-Israel partnership unshakable, attacked the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group in Lebanon and blasted the radical Hamas organization's role in the Palestinian government.

the House Republican leader, Rep. John Boehner of Ohio, had received a standing ovation from the same crowd when he defended the war as a key part of the global war on terrorism vital to the survival of the United States and Israel.

John Boehner, on the other hand, was cheered when he said, "Who does not believe that failure in Iraq is not a direct threat to the state of Israel? The consequences of failure in Iraq are so ominous for the United States and Israel you can't even begin to think about it.''

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/14/PELOSI.TMP
 

U.S. Expects Iraq Prison Growth: ... [T]e effort "to expand the U.S. capacity for detention" in Iraq was one reason 2,200 U.S. Army military police personnel are part of the troop increase in Iraq.

The Camp Cropper contract proposal ... underscores the detainee increase and offers insight into U.S. detention practices in Iraq -- including a ban against hiring local staffers and an emphasis on meal practices sensitive to local traditions.

According to the food contract, local Iraqis and Iraqi companies are prohibited from preparing and serving food for the detainees. Neither the U.S. government nor Iraqi government "presently has a vetting process which would accommodate Iraqi employees while ensuring adequate security," according to the contract proposal.

Instead, the cont[r]actor is to use "expatriates and third-country nationals." Any third-country nationals hired must live in trailers or tents provided by the contractor on a U.S. military base near the food facility. ...

The Iraqi guards at the facility are employees of Iraq's Ministry of Justice, which supposedly vets them. Nonetheless, while working at the Camp Cropper detention facility, the guards must be matched with U.S. soldiers, escorted by U.S. units as they travel to and from work, and housed in a compound on the base guarded by U.S. forces, ...

However, the guards receive some benefits: Their meals on the base include a wider selection of food and "shall consist of 25% larger portions" than detainees' meals, according to the contract.

All food consumed at the Camp Cropper prison must be purchased outside Iraq and convoyed into the country by either U.S. or Iraqi military forces, according to the contract. That is because food vendors must be inspected by U.S. officials and "currently there are no Iraqi-approved sources for food contracts," ...

The Camp Cropper proposal requires the contractor to provide three meals a day for up to 5,000 detainees and 600 Iraqi correctional officers, some of whom are still in training. The meals provided detainees and guards "shall comply with traditional Muslim ethnic meals and traditions," according to the contract. Detainee meals must be prepared using "a chef experienced with Iraqi culture."

For detainees, the only eating utensil is to be a disposable "spork" -- a spoon with short teeth in the middle that serves as a fork. As a result, all meat, fish and chicken served must have bones removed, according to the contract.
 

Top official in Sadr City seriously hurt
 

Iraq confirms death sentence on former Saddam aide: Ramadan, who was born in 1938, is likely to be hanged by the end of this month ...
 

Kurt Nimmo, Email to Layla Anwar and Uruknet: I am simply bemused by an Arab woman denigrating any attempt made — however fruitless or even naive — to put an end the madness in the Middle East.
 

Iraq killings leave 26 dead as Blair denies civil war
 

Max Fuller, Silence of the Lambs? Proof of US orchestration of Death Squads Killings in Iraq: Probably everyone remembers the discovery of the Jadiriyah detention facility in November 2005. US troops were reported to have uncovered the prison in their hunt for a missing person, only to discover some 170 detainees in horrific conditions, many of them clearly the victims of obscene tortures. Although it was admitted that the facility belonged to the interior ministry and that the detainees were held by a secretive interior ministry force known as the Special Investigations Unit, the story was quickly shuffled away as yet another example of the work of Shiite militiamen, in this instance, as was the vogue at that time, the Badr Brigade[i]. Myriad promises were forthcoming both from the US and Iraqi governments that investigations would be rapidly carried out and better supervision would in future be applied to Iraqi-run detention facilities (for instance the Iraqi government assured the world that a ministerial level investigation would rapidly be carried out, while US officials promised a legal team to go through the detainees’ files and a US embassy spokesman stated that Justice Department and FBI officers would provide technical assistance).

Of course the Americans have always been aware of the existence of this and other horrific dungeons within Interior Ministry facilities. How could they not be? They set them up and continue to operate from the same facilities! ...

... [I]t is absolutely beholden on every decently minded individual as well as every organisation that opposes the illegal occupation of Iraq to demand the truth and bring an end to this monstrous culture of impunity. Jean Paul Sartre noted that the American assault on Vietnam was not only an attack against that nation, but an act of violence directed against the whole of humanity. If we are to have any hope of rescuing our own collective humanity, we must raise our voices to bring an end to the screaming from Iraq.

Two important notes

Note 1: On Sectarianism

The cherished western mainstream media notion, undoubtedly nurtured by false flag covert warfare and so-called psyops, that Iraq has fragmented into a state of intercommunal sectarian civil war is the biggest single impediment to understanding the role of the Anglo-US Occupation in the thousands upon thousands of extrajudicial killings taking place in Iraq.

Of course, given the scale of the abuse (flayings, burnings, drillings etc) and the proximity of the perpetrators to the Iraqi government (by dint of working for the Interior Ministry as well as by any possible Badr-SCIRI links) and to the US occupation which had, after all, established them (as numerous reports have amply documented, eg Knight Ridder, 9 May 2005), such investigations were grossly less than what was urgently required – a full and public criminal investigation by independent international agencies. In the event, even these limited promises came to nothing, as the UN Human Rights Office in Iraq recently highlighted. What we have actually seen is neither investigation nor prosecutions, despite the fact that Jadiriyah lies at the heart of the state of fear that Iraq undeniably now is.
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Note 2: On Genocide

The distinguished dissident academic Edward Herman, recently wrote a paper entitled Iraq: the Genocide Option in which he argued that the US war in Iraq threatened to become genocidal. He was quite right to point to genocide. With credible figures of over one million Iraqi casualties, another three to four million displaced internally and externally, the total collapse of civic infrastructure and the imminent threat of political disintegration, there must already be a very real question as to whether Iraq continues to exist as a viable nation. To fully substantiate the charge, the only question technically remains establishing intent, although I believe that too is perfectly possible when we consider the statements on partition made by the likes of Leslie Gelb (New York Times 25 November 2003, 1 May 2006).
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In Iraq (with its much smaller population) the US has already matched in scale the violence perpetrated on Vietnam and the war goes on, although there is little indication that it has given up its economic interests. Undoubtedly a very great part of this violence is conducted directly by US forces (the extremely credible Lancet study suggests from 30-40%), but, despite surges, that proportion appears to be falling. That leaves perhaps as many as 500,000 violent deaths unattributed to Coalition military action. Herman states that some of these would belong to the Salvador Option, while the bulk of the others would fall into the pattern that he explicitly describes as large-scale communal civil war manipulated by the US. I think it is vital that we all remember that this inter-communal sectarian warfare still consists of anonymous bombs that target the Shia and which most Iraqis for good reason believe are the work of the occupation and sectarian killings of Sunnis by members of the security forces – along with academics, engineers, lawyers, trade unionists, imams, doctors, teachers and other state functionaries by paramilitary forces operating from the Ministry of the Interior[iii]. This is indeed the application of the Salvador Option and it contributes an essential part of the ongoing genocide in Iraq.
 

Felicity Arbuthnot, Iran - Upping the Ante
 

Jonathan Cook, Olmert’s testimony reveals the real goal of the war in Lebanon: ... [T]he picture that emerges is of a long-standing plan by the Israeli army, approved by senior US officials, for a rapid war against Lebanon -- followed by possible intimidatory strikes against Syria -- using the pretext of a cross-border incident involving Hizbullah. The real purpose, we can surmise, was to weaken what are seen by Israel and the US to be Tehran’s allies before an attack on Iran itself.

That was why neither the Americans nor Israel wanted, or appear still to want, to negotiate with Assad over the Golan and seek a peace agreement that could -- for once -- change the map of the Middle East for the better.
 

Malcom Lagauche, COWARD: The headlines on Al-Jazeera’s website on March 9, 2007 were unexpected and powerful: "Saddam Judge Flees Iraq." Raouf Abdel-Rhaman, the judge who sentenced Saddam Hussein, as well as Barzan al-Tikriti and Awad al-Bandar, to death, has left Iraq and has applied for political asylum in Great Britain. ...

There is one aspect to this whole unlikely scenario that confuses me, but I have yet to read where anyone else has picked up on the quandary. Abdel-Rahman is asking for "political asylum" in Great Britain. Political asylum is usually requested by citizens of countries in which they are not allowed political, social or religious rights that other citizens enjoy. Abdel-Rahman is a product of the quisling Iraqi government. He was right in the middle of all the shenanigans and violence the stooges have thrust on Iraq. Why is he asking for "political asylum" when he was a mainstream player in current Iraqi politics?
 

Mark Glenn, An Offer You Can’t Refuse: ... Now it’s not just a small town in Europe or Russia wanting your collective head on a silver platter, but almost the whole world, and of those, 1.5 billion Muslims who have already demonstrated clearly that they cannot be bought off or bullied when it comes to calling in that I-O-U they have been holding since their lands were invaded and their women and children murdered en mass. ...

It is a lesson that is way-past due and high-time you folks learned – crime does not pay.

And now, we have the ‘mother’ of all your screw-ups and fly-by-night deals, the state of Israel…The source of all unrest in the world today and the fountain from which flow waters of nothing but trouble and woe. The ‘Great Experiment’ in Jewish self-rule that has turned out to be a big goose egg for 6 billion people on the planet. ...

And now, here we are, on the brink of that thing mankind has been awaiting with dread for thousands of years known as Armageddon, where the very real possibility exists of all life on the planet being wiped out, and again, all because one small group of people insist upon having it ‘their way’ 110% of the time instead of learning to live in peace and harmony with others.

... For the sake of posterity, let it be known and entered into the record that a formal offer was made in the interests of peace between you ‘chosen people’ and us Gentiles:

1. Abandon this congenital madness known as ‘the Judaic mindset’. There is no such thing as one tiny group of people who being ‘God’s chosen’ destined to ‘inherit the earth’ and rule over the rest of humanity with a rod of iron. ...

2. Stop murdering us, and in particular those in the Middle East. ...

3. Quit coveting our lands and our prosperity. ...

4. Stop deceiving us all the time through your media outlets. ...

[5.] Stop corrupting our political systems through bribery and intimidation. ...

[6.] Stop destroying our children. ...

[7.] Stop attacking our institutions. ...

[8.] Stop lying about the Muslims. They are not terrorists, they are only tired of having their lives destroyed. Stop imputing upon them all the character flaws that you yourselves possess–the small-mindedness, violence, ambitiousness and all the rest…Tell the truth about them and about their Islamic religion. Reveal the passages of the Koran which speak of Jesus, his mother Mary and the Christians–not just favorably, but reverently. ...

There are probably a million more, but this is a good start, and besides, we simply do not have the time.
 

Israeli admits beating rabbi for attending Holocaust conference in Iran: "We gave him a good beating, the kind we haven't given out for a long time," Maariv quoted Meshi-Zahav as saying, adding that others in the crowd joined in the attack shouting "go to Ahmadinejad" before Friedman was aided by local policemen.

Police confirmed responding to the incident but did not report any arrests.

Friedman is associated with, but not a member of Neturei Karta, a small, fiercely anti-Zionist sect that opposes the drive to establish the state of Israel, believing only the Messiah could do that.

Friedman's children were expelled from a Jewish school in Vienna because he attended the Tehran conference. He said Wednesday that an Austrian court had ruled that they be allowed to return to the school.
 

Desert Peace, PEACE IS A THREAT TO AIPAC
 

Jerusalem Post, Rattling the Cage: Living with Olmert, dying with Bush: Olmert is worried that the Winograd Commission inquiry into the Lebanon War could embarrass him so badly that Kadima, by public demand, might throw him over for someone else. Bush, however, isn't worried about anything. Nothing embarrasses him. No disgrace creates the sort of public demand that might force Congress to end the war. The Libby trial reveals that the president's Svengali, Dick Cheney, stopped at nothing to conceal the administration's lies about the war, yet more American troops keep being sent over to fight it. The scandal at Walter Reed Hospital reveals that maimed US veterans of the war have been treated with near-indifference, but Bush keeps ordering more healthy soldiers into harm's way for his lost cause.

Nothing shames him, nothing even cramps his style. It's as if one pathetic excuse for a responsible decision-maker is leading 300 million Americans around by the nose. And that is about what's happening.
 

Video (5 min.), Cheney's Baffling Clout: "The only thing that I would trust Cheney for advice on -- if I had a dead hooker in my hotel room."
 

Greg Mitchell, Gen. Petraeus and a High-Profile Suicide in Iraq: Col. Ted Westhusing, a West Point scholar, put a bullet in his head in Iraq after reporting widespread corruption. His suicide note -- complaining about human rights abuses and other crimes -- was addressed to his two commanders, including Gen. David Petraeus, now leader of the U.S. "surge" effort in Iraq. It urged them to "Reevaluate yourselves....You are not what you think you are and I know it."
 

CLICK for name of Statesmanship Award honoree. See you on November 17th !!!
 

Ali al-Fadhily, Give Us Some Real Political Leaders: "We know who the good people are and we will choose them if we ever have the chance, but they refuse to participate in any solution under occupation. ... Clean hands could not eat out of the same plate with the occupation, but they will definitely take their positions as soon as the occupation leaves or some acceptable arrangement is agreed."
 

About dozen Iraqi detainees escape from British prison


Iraqi forces backslide on lead role
 

Israel lobby's AIPAC summit included 'adoration for Cheney': "AIPAC's three-day summit included fiery evangelical oratory, adoration for Dick Cheney -- and new plans for going after Iran," reports Gregory Levey for Salon.

According to Levey, Hagee proclaimed that "the sleeping giant of Christian Zionism has awoken!" to a mostly Jewish, "electrified" crowd that "roared in support, pounding on the tables." Hagee, Levey continues, described the United Nations as a "political brothel, and asserted that Israel must never give up land."

AIPAC, writes Levey, "has been highly successful in building strong relationships with both U.S. political parties." He notes that the 2007 conference featured a Who's Who of Americans: "Everyone from Vice President Dick Cheney to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama (and other 2008 presidential contenders), as well as former CIA director James Woolsey. ... Leaders from Congress were there, as were numerous officials from the State Department and White House."

Levey notes that a bipartisan spirit permeated the conference. "Even if Democrats and Republicans bicker on every other issue," he writes, "AIPAC leaders seemed constantly eager to stress that one thing on which the parties can come together is unswerving devotion to Israel." To that end, both House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) made appearances.

When the thousands of lobbyists descended on Capitol Hill, they were greeted by nearly every U.S. senator and more than half the members of the House of Representatives -- approximately 500 meetings were held between AIPAC representatives and members of Congress on Tuesday alone. In addition to pushing for the sanctions plan, the goal was to showcase the strength of AIPAC and establish more ties for future communication and lobbying.

The AIPAC activists were aided in their mission by some members of Congress themselves, who advised them how to reach out to their colleagues. "Our commitment to Israel defines us as a nation," said Republican Norm Coleman of Minnesota, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, adding that the AIPAC lobbyists "help make sure that we don't forget."
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