Shia Strength: [MahdiUniteMuslims] The Main Result of the "War on Terror"

The Main Result of the "War on Terror"

The Destabilization of Pakistan

By Gary Leupp

The interests of U.S. imperialism in this case, in the form of regime change in Afghanistan, and the way it was done, have antagonized much of the Pakistani population.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22735.htm

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The Pakistan Quagmire

By Moammar Gadhafi

Why do neither the Americans nor the Israelis want Pakistan to possess the bomb?
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22732.htm

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UN war investigators arrive in Gaza

A United Nations team has arrived in the Gaza Strip to investigate possible war crimes and other violations of international law during Israel's assault on the territory earlier this year.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/06/20096195239754821.html

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Barak to UN Chief: Probe Hamas rockets, not Israel 'war crimes'

Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Monday told the United Nations secretary general during their meeting in New York that the international body's investigation of alleged Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip was misguided.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1089537.html

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'Proud Hungarians must prepare for war against the Jews'

By Yehuda Lahav

"Given our current situation, anti-Semitism is not just our right, but it is the duty of every Hungarian homeland lover, and we must prepare for armed battle against the Jews."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1089550.html

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Settlers attack Palestinians, disrupt traffic over outpost evacuations

By Haaretz Service and The Associated Press

Dozens of settlers blocked the entrance to Jerusalem on Monday, burning tires and clashing with police officers in a protest over the evacuation of West Bank outposts.The protest came hours after a group of settlers attacked 15 Palestinian laborers near the West Bank settlement of Kedumim early Monday after demonstrating against plans to evacuate illegal outposts.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1089503.html

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Barak: There is neither hunger nor crisis in Gaza

By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent

Defense Minister Ehud Barak told the cabinet on Sunday that he felt that there was no crisis in the Gaza Strip.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1089251.html

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Iran domestic submarines join naval fleet

Iran's domestically manufactured fleet of lightweight submarines makes great strides after three mid-jet Ghadir-class submarines come on stream.
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=96674&sectionid=351020101

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After Iraq, It's Not Just North Korea that Wants a Bomb

By Seumas Milne

In April 2003, North Korea drew the obvious conclusion from the US and British aggression against Iraq. The war showed, it commented at the time, "that to allow disarmament through inspections does not help avert a war, but rather sparks it". Only "a tremendous military deterrent force", it stated with unavoidable logic, could prevent attacks on states the world's only superpower was determined to bring to heel.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22734.htm

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During His Trip to Egypt, Obama Should Visit Gaza

By Medea Benjamin

Obama won great support from the American people during the presidential campaign when he said that America must talk to its adversaries, without preconditions. But his administration now puts ridiculous conditions on talking to Hamas:
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22733.htm

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The Impossible Rehab of Colin Powell

By Ray McGovern

Powell's well-documented disregard for those who have borne the brunt of the battle places him in the company of the priest and the Levite - in the Good Samaritan parable - who, seeing the man attacked by robbers on the side of the road, walked right on by.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22736.htm

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Why The Photos Probably Do Show Detainees Sodomized and Raped

By Naomi Wolf

Well, America? Do you want to live with this? Remember: history shows categorically that once the state can lock `them' up without a fair trial, torture, rape them or sodomize them - well; sooner or later it will be able to do the same to your children or mine; or to you and me.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22737.htm

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Ghosts of Abu Ghraib

"How could ordinary American soldiers come to engage in such monstrous acts?"

Video Documentary

For the first time, GHOSTS OF ABU GHRAIB features both the voices of Iraqi victims (interviewed in Turkey after arduous attempts to meet with them) and guards directly involved in torture at the prison. Conducted by Kennedy, these remarkably candid, in-depth interviews shed light on the abuses in an unprecedented manner.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22731.htm

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Sri Lanka: As Many As 20,000 Civilian Killed :

Times photographs expose Sri Lanka's lie on civilian deaths at beach
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6383477.ece

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US occupation forces claims 35 militants killed in Afghanistan:

The military did not say whether the militants were suspected Taliban but fighters from that group operate in Zabul and other southern provinces.
http://snipurl.com/j1cn9

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Taliban kill 4 truckers, set fire on 10 trucks in S Afghanistan:

Taliban insurgents fighting Afghan and the U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, attacked a supplying convoy in the southern Zabul province, killing four drivers and set on fire 10 trucks, provincial police chief Abdul Rahman Sarjang said Friday.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/29/content_11454702.htm

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28 more militants killed in military operation in NW Pakistan:

As many as 28 militants were killed and seven others were apprehended in operations in various areas of Swat valley in the last 24 hour, the army said in a statement on Friday.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/29/content_11453703.htm

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Pakistan: 10 civilians and four Policemen among 18 persons killed in four explosions:

Two separate blasts took place in the Qissa Khwani bazaar while three Policemen were killed and nine others injured in a suicide attack on a Police vehicle at the Sra Khawra security post on the Kohat road. Two suspected militants were killed and two others arrested in an encounter between the Police and alleged terrorists
http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/detailed_news.asp?date1=5/29/2009#1

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Pakistan on 'Red Alert' amid wave of bombings:

"The security has been put on high alert after secret agencies received information that a number of suicide bombers are trying to target key installations at all major cities of the country, including the capital Islamabad," a senior Interior Ministry official told Press TV on condition of anonymity.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=96395§ionid=351020401

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23 killed in Iran mosque bombing:

Fars quoted unnamed sources as saying the "suicide attacker exploded the bomb in the women's section" of the shrine, the second biggest Shiite mosque in Zahedan.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=32364

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Iran mosque blast bears 'US, Israel thumbprints':

A senior Iranian official says Israel and the US have had a hand in the mosque bombing that shook the southeastern city of Zahedan to its core.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=96389§ionid=351020101

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Cleric: Clues of US, Israel's Involvement in Zahedan Bombing Discernable:

Ayatollah Khatami said both Shiite and Sunni Muslims will, through their vigilance, manage to foil the plot to pit the two branches of Islam against each other.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8803080813

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Gunmen 'attack Ahmadinejad' election office:

IRNA said the gunmen, on motorcycles, opened fire at the centre at around 7:00 pm (1430 GMT).
http://snipurl.com/j1cyk

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7 killed, 14 injured in separate bomb attacks NE Baghdad:

Five people were killed and 12 others were injured in the firstattack when a parked minibus was ripped apart by blast in Khalis town in Diyala, Separately, two people were killed and two others were injured when a car were struck by a roadside bomb near Khanaqeen town in Diyala, about 60 km northeast of Baghdad.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/29/content_11454377.htm

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US Occupation Force Soldier Killed In Northern Iraq, Bringing May Toll To 25:

A statement says the grenade detonated Friday near a patrol in the northern province of Ninevah.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/29/us-soldier-killed-in-nort_n_209038.html

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Obama "can never dictate to Israel" US Sen. Frank Lautenberg:

"If Israel were able to get rid of Iran's nuclear bomb-making capability, I'm sure that America would not send Israel a chastising e-mail message. We have to give Israel the courtesy of [allowing it to] make its own "decisions."
http://snipurl.com/j1d4k

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Russia accuses US of exaggerating Iran missile threat:

A senior Russian official today accused the US of grossly exaggerating the missile threat posed by hostile powers such as Iran, predicting there would be no menace from the Middle East "for at least a decade to come".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/28/russia-us-iran-missile-threat

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Study Supports View That Iran Attack Unlikely To Work:

Contrary to Israeli claims of tacit Arab support for an Israeli strike against Iran, "Arab countries will not condone any attack on Iran under the pretext that Iran poses an existential threat to Israel, whilst Israel has some 200 to 300 nuclear weapons," they write
http://forward.com/articles/106687/

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Amnesty accuses Israel of violating laws of war:

Amnesty International, in its annual report released Thursday, accused Israel of having "repeatedly" violated the laws of war during its December offensive in the Gaza Strip that killed more than 1,400 Palestinians.
http://www.brunei-online.com/bb/fri/may29w15.htm

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Israel refuses cooperation with UN inquiry into Gaza 'war crimes':

The UN announced from Geneva Friday that the four-member team, headed by South African war crimes prosecutor Richard Goldstone, will head to the region this weekend, and wants to begin work next week.
http://snipurl.com/j1d9s

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Exploitation of Gaza

Would anyone ever imagine that the people of Gaza and Palestine own vast reserves of oil and gas in their own territorial waters? Is it possible that Israel wanted this conflict in order to get its hands on those reserves? Well the answer to both these questions is simply yes
http://blogs.amnesty.org.uk/blogs_entry.asp?eid=3248

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Washington Post: Abbas to wait for U.S. pressure to unseat Netanyahu:

Palestinian Authority officials expect U.S. pressure on Israel to restart the Peace Process will slowly force Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from office, the Washington Post reported on Friday.
http://snipurl.com/j1dc4

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Abbas's Waiting Game:

Until Israel meets his demands, the Palestinian president says, he will refuse to begin negotiations. He won't even agree to help Obama's envoy, George J. Mitchell, persuade Arab states to take small confidence-building measures. "We can't talk to the Arabs until Israel agrees to freeze settlements and recognize the two-state solution," he insisted in an interview. "Until then we can't talk to anyone."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/28/AR2009052803614.html

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Israel rebuffs U.S. call for total settlement freeze:

Israel will press ahead with housing construction in its illegal West Bank settlements despite a surprisingly blunt demand from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that all such building stop, an Israeli official said Thursday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1088799.html

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Tensions high ahead of Israeli drill:

Israeli military officials claim Hezbollah is better armed than it was in 2006 as Lebanese forces go on high alert ahead of Israeli border exercises.
http://snipurl.com/j1dgt

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Obama must respect the choice of Lebanon's voters:

President Barack Obama is on a mission to improve America's battered image in the Muslim world - his major address in Cairo comes three days before the Lebanon poll - it would be a mistake to punish voters for making what the US considered to be the wrong choice.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/04bfa642-4bb9-11de-b827-00144feabdc0.html

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N. Korea threatens retaliation if ships inspected:

"They will regard any hostile actions against the DPRK, including checkup and inspection of its peaceful vessels, as an unpardonable encroachment on the DPRK's sovereignty and counter them with prompt and strong military strikes," the statement said.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20090528a1.html

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Chinese ships 'quit Korea waters':

Chinese fishing boats are reported to be leaving the tense inter-Korean border in the Yellow Sea after North Korea's threat of military action.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8073129.stm

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Franks: Shoot down N. Korean missiles:

Arizona Congressman Trent Franks is calling for the United States to take tough action against North Korea's nuclear program.
http://www.620ktar.com/?nid=6&sid=1171668

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Moscow Opposes N. Korea Sanctions:

Russia does not want to see North Korea isolated, and Moscow believes that the only way to resolve the standoff is through the now-suspended six-nation negotiations, Andrei Nesterenko said.
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/article/1010/42/377527.htm

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Army chief: US able to fight NKorea if necessary:

Casey said his usual rubric for how long it would take the Army to gear up for a new "conventional" war is about 90 days. That doesn't mean it would take 90 days for the U.S. to effectively fight the North's million-man army, he said.
http://snipurl.com/j1dl1

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US failing to investigate war crimes: UN investigator: -

An independent UN human rights investigator has said that the United States is failing to properly investigate alleged war crimes committed by its soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq.
http://snipurl.com/j1dmi

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Afghan was taken to Guantanamo aged 12: rights group:

An Afghan who has spent over six years at the U.S. military's Guantanamo Bay prison was only around 12 years old when he was detained, not 16 or 17 as his official record says, an Afghan rights group said on Tuesday.
http://www.reuters.com/article/gc05/idUSTRE54P6A420090527

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U.S. slams British press over report of abuse photos:

In unusually forceful terms, the Pentagon attacked the report in the Daily Telegraph newspaper while the White House went so far as to cast doubt on the accuracy of the British press in general.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090528/ts_nm/us_iraq_abughraib_rape

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The Bogus Torture Coverup:

The Daily Beast has obtained specific corroboration of the British account, which appeared in the London Daily Telegraph, from several reliable sources, including a highly credible senior military officer with firsthand knowledge, who provided even more detail about the graphic photographs that have been withheld from the public by the Obama administration.
http://snipurl.com/j1dp1

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Iraqi victims recall U.S. abuse:

The marks on Firas al-Sammarrai's body from when he says U.S. soldiers repeatedly electrocuted him are one reason he can't forget his abuse at their hands
http://snipurl.com/j1dpy

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Jim Rogers on the Next Financial Meltdown:

The next crisis in his eyes is in currencies which makes sense since sovereign states have taken much of the bad debt from the banks and piled them onto their own balance sheets.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rogers-j/rogers-j13.html

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Get your $8,000 HUD tax credit now:

On Friday, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced that first-time homebuyers using FHA-approved lenders can now get an advance on the $8,000 tax credit created by the stimulus package and apply it toward their down payments or closing costs.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/29/real_estate/tax_credit_as_downpayment/

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