Shia Strength: [MahdiUniteMuslims] 'Israel is the persecutor,' says Holocaust survivor on hunger strike for Gaza:

'Israel is the persecutor,' says Holocaust survivor on hunger strike for Gaza:

"There comes a time in one's life when one has to step up and risk one's own body," she told The Daily Star. "We're in a desperate situation here, but not as desperate as the people in Gaza."
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=110169

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US Congressmen Fighting for Gaza

By Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera's Todd Baer caught up with two US Democratic congressmen whose efforts to lift the Israeli blockade on Gaza are being met with stiff resistance.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24291.htm

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French Gaza Freedom March activist killed in Cairo:

Organizers of the "Gaza Freedom March" report the death of a French citizen from injuries sustained at the hands of security forces during a demonstration in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=115049§ionid=351020202

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Welcome to Orwell's World 2010

By John Pilger

In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell described a superstate called Oceania, whose language of war inverted lies that "passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past', ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past'.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24286.htm

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Stranger Than Fiction: Underwear Bomb

EXCLUSIVE: Photos of the Northwest Airlines Flight 253 Bomb

By RICHARD ESPOSITO and BRIAN ROSS

A singed pair of underwear with a packet of powder sewn into the crotch, seen in government photos obtained exclusively by ABC News, is all that remains of al Qaeda's attempt to down an American passenger plane over Detroit.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24284.htm

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The Global War on Stealth Underwear:

There is no "war" against terrorism. What George W. Bush launched and Barack Obama insists on perpetuating does not qualify.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24288.htm

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Obama: Air security system failed:

He said errors had emerged in the process of collecting and sharing intelligence and in the homeland security system which could have prevented the attack.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/12/2009123003057889428.html

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This is what they wanted to implement and now they can do it quite easily.

Dutch to use full-body scanners:

The Dutch government has said that it will commence using full-body scanners on flights to the US from Amsterdam's Schiphol airport within three weeks, after a failed Christmas Day airliner bomb attack.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/12/20091230124744428386.html

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Detroit Airliner Terror Incident

A Convenience Theory

By Grant Lawrence

I am not one that sees conspiracies everywhere, but I do like a good Convenience Theory. Like the one that is coming together out of the botched terror attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to blow up an airliner in Detroit just as it was arriving.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24285.htm

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Viva Palestina Update:

Egypt To Allow Convoy To Enter Gaza - Galloway Statement

1 Minute Video

George Galloway gives a statement explaining a deal that has been reached between the Turkish side of the Viva Palestina Convoy the Egyptian Government allowing the convoy to proceed to Gaza.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24287.htm

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Pakistani "Taliban" in attack claim:

Pakistan's Taliban has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed up to 44 people in the commercial capital Karachi, and threatened more attacks.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/12/200912298522825968.html

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Afghans condemn US for 10 'civilian deaths':

"Obama! Obama! Take your soldiers out of Afghanistan!" the protesters chanted, wearing blue headbands with the words: "Stop killing us!"
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/12/200912281348623886.html

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U.S. intelligence: 'Time is running out' in Afghanistan:

Intelligence officials are warning that the Taliban-led insurgency is expanding and that "time is running out" for the U.S.-led coalition to prove that its strategy can succeed.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/81358.html

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Afghans turn to Taleban justice as insurgents set up shadow government:

Corruption and incompetence in President Karzai's Government - particularly at local level - have forced a growing number of people to seek the services of the Taleban.
http://snipurl.com/tx6hh

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Seventy killed in clashes in northern Nigeria:

According to a foreign news agency 42 bodies were on the floor of the morgue in the city of Bauchi, all with bullet or machete wounds. Another 25 bodies, mostly young people including minors, had been placed in cold storage rooms.
http://www.pakistantimes.net/pt/detail.php?newsId=7289

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US Senator McCain calls for sanctions against Iran:

US Senator John McCain on Wednesday called for "immediate sanctions" against Iran in the wake of a violent crackdown on protests, which left at least eight people dead.
http://televisionwashington.com/floater_article1.aspx?lang=en&t=3&id=16866

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Ahmadinejad: U.S can't influence Iran:

The United States and others trying to interfere with Iran's domestic politics have no influence, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday.
http://snipurl.com/tx6jl

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China mulls overseas naval base:

Chinese naval vessels have been operating in the Gulf of Aden off the Horn of Africa for a year, escorting both Chinese and foreign ships through the waters where Somali pirates operate.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/12/20091230112836792549.html

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Egypt's Gaza wall months from completion - Israel:

Cairo has played down the scope of the dig on the 14-km (8-mile)-long frontier but Gaza's Islamist Hamas rulers condemn it as a "wall of death" that could seal an Israeli-led blockade by smothering smuggler tunnels from the Egyptian Sinai.
http://snipurl.com/tx6kj

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Threats to Yemen Prove America Hasn't Learned the Lesson of History

By Patrick Coburn

There is ominous use by American politicians and commentators of the phrase "failed state" in relation to Yemen, as if this some how legitimised foreign intervention. It is extraordinary that the US political elite has never taken on board that its greatest defeats have been in just such "failed states"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24292.htm

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The Fear Decade

Since 9/11, We've Embraced Our Inner Coward

By Ted Rall

Home of the free and the brave. Live free or die. Shoot first; ask questions later. Kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out. These were the mottos of a brash, impetuous, audacious-to-a-fault nation. That nation is dead.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24293.htm

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Lining Up for the Wall Street Gravy Train

By Mike Whitney

The banks are not only taking depositors money and using it in high-risk derivatives transactions and currency "carry trades", they're also propping up the long daisy-chain of insolvent creditors whose default could domino Lehman-like through the entire financial system. Funny how the media skips little tidbits like this when they give their rosy evening roundup.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24295.htm

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US sharply steps up military, economic aid to Yemen:

The Pentagon, through the 1206 funds, has been helping Yemen since 2006 to train and equip its forces, including providing them with radios, helicopter spare parts, trucks and patrol boats, according to Bryan Whitman, a spokesman.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091230/pl_afp/usattacksyemendiplomacyaidmilitary

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U.S. Arms Feed Yemen's Gun Culture:

The Obama administration "is essentially initiating a low-level war in Yemen with little or no public discussion about its potential consequences".
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49860

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Yemen: Visa Of Bomb Suspect Expired:

Officials Say Passport Control Should Have Prevented Suspect From Leaving
http://www.channel3000.com/news/22097623/detail.html

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