Shia Strength: [MahdiUniteMuslims] Zardari: Osama Bin Laden Was US Operator

Osama Bin Laden Was US Operator: President Asif Ali Zardari

By Arun Kumar

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has alleged that elusive Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was a US operator who had tried to destabilise his late wife Benazir Bhutto's government back in 1989.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22594.htm

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New US General Vs. Taliban, Pashtuns

By Robert Dreyfuss

It's the first time a wartime commander was fired since Harry Truman got rid of General Douglas MacArthur in the Korean War.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22596.htm

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The Bomb Iran Faction

By Gary Leupp

There is clearly a faction of the power elite that is, and has for some years been pressing, for a U.S. military attack on Iran. It is not advocating a war, at least openly, or an occupation of that vast nation; rather, it is advocating an operation similar in concept to the Israeli attack on Iraq's French-built Osiraq nuclear reactor in 1981. In a word, it is both advocating an Israeli-like action and justifying it explicitly as one on behalf of Israel.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22597.htm

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Obama Chooses a Reliable Dictatorship

By Wajahat Ali

By choosing Cairo, Egypt as the platform for his long awaited address to the global Muslim community, President Barack Obama predictably leans on a reliable dictatorship suffocating a country that is teetering toward religious and political irrelevance.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22598.htm

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Are We Being Conditioned To Accept a Pre-emptive Attack on Iran?

By rds2301

The historical precedent for the hatred fomented against the "alleged" Arab terrorists and Iran would be the Nazis in Germany, not Arab terrorist in Iraq.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22599.htm

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Family of Secrets

This is a must listen
By Guns and Butter

"Family of Secrets", The Bush Dynasty, The Powerful Forces That Put It In The White House, and What Their Influence Means For America, with author Russ Baker.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22595.htm

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Pakistan: 751 militants killed, 29 troops martyred in operation: ISPR:

Director General Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj. General Athar Abbas Tuesday said 751 militants have so far been killed while 29 security men martyred and 77 others injured in operation Raah-e-Haq underway in Swat and other parts of Malakand.
http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=214793

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Pakistan: 86 "militants" killed in Swat, Dir Lower:

Security forces claimed to have killed 52 militants in restive Swat Valley during the last 24 hours, while 31 persons, including three civilians were killed in Lower Dir on Monday.
http://paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=214739

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US Kills 8 People In Pakistan:

The death toll in the attack was feared to further rise, according to the report.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/12/content_11358460.htm

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Leading think tank asks US to stop drone attacks:

A comprehensive report on the current conflict and future of Pakistan, released here on Monday by a known independent think tank, strongly recommends that the drone attacks in Pakistan should be replaced with a humanitarian aid package for the internally displaced people of the Fata and the Swat region.
http://paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=214776

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Eyewitness: Trapped in Mingora:

The Taleban are still patrolling Mingora, and from where I am based, I can only see the army troops at the emerald mines. The sound of firing can be heard intermittently in various areas of Mingora.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8045732.stm

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Pakistan army: 1.3 million fled fighting:

The offensive has also unleashed a tide of refugees, whose plight could sap public support for the kind of sustained action against an increasingly interlinked array of Islamist extremists that the cash-strapped country's Western backers want to see.
http://snipurl.com/hvwkc

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Country should abandon war on terror: Imran Khan:

The chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Imran Khan has said that the country should dissociate itself from the so-called war against terrorism.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=77394

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Six killed by Taliban in Afghanistan:

A Taliban attack has killed at least six Afghan security officers and civilians, and wounded 13 other people in the eastern town of Khost
http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0512/afghanistan.html

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Probe reveals, US killed 140 Afghan civilians in strikes:

An investigation appointed by President Hamid Karzai concluded on Monday that 140 civilians, including children, were killed in the US air strikes in Afghanistan last week, a police chief said.
http://paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=214760

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Why the Pentagon Axed Its Afghan Warlord:

Public beheadings in Afghanistan are usually associated with the Taliban, but on Monday it was Defense Secretary Robert Gates metaphorically wielding the axe from the Pentagon platform.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1897555,00.html?xid=rss-world

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84 Afghan girls hospitalized in apparent poisoning:

At least 84 Afghan girls were admitted to a hospital Tuesday for headaches and vomiting in the third apparent poison attack on a girls school in as many weeks, officials and doctors said.
http://snipurl.com/hvwot

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Mogadishu violence: 113 killed, 27 000 flee:

Thousands of residents fled bomb-blasted north Mogadishu on Tuesday where the worst fighting in months between Islamist militants and the government has killed at least 113 civilians, according to a rights group.
http://snipurl.com/hvwpy

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At least 8 killed in Kirkuk suicide bombing:

The death toll from a suicide car bomb attack in the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk on Tuesday rose to eight and 16 others injured, a local police source said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/12/content_11359580.htm

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Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:

Iran very close to getting nuclear arms: Israel:

"Iran is at the moment very close to getting a military nuclear arsenal," Amos Yadlin told parliament's foreign affairs and defence committee, adding that "Iran can manage to stabilise its military nuclear programme by 2010."
http://snipurl.com/hvws4

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Report: Iran deploys missile batteries in Persian Gulf:

An Iranian source told al-Watan that the deployment took place after the Islamic Republic received secret information that the United States and Israel were planning to attack it.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1084966.html

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Iran Offers 'Dialogue With Respect' With U.S.:

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran took up President Obama's oft-repeated invitation for direct talks between the United States and Iran on Tuesday. The move signaled the start of a long-delayed war-or-peace drama that may help define the Obama administration's plans to remake America's approach to diplomacy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/world/middleeast/11iran.html?_r=1

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US to give Iran talks 'only until October':

According to the Israeli daily Haaretz, the United States has set October as its deadline for engaging Iran in the first round of talks over the country's nuclear activities.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=94380§ionid=351020101

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Abbas tells Ahmadinejad to bury his head in sand:

Acting Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas hammers Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for making supportive remarks about the Palestinians.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=94444§ionid=351020202

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UN calls for Palestinian state, Israel bites back:

In a Monday meeting convened to discuss measures to breathe new life into the much-delayed Middle East peace talks, the UN Security Council adopted a non-binding statement calling for "vigorous diplomatic" action to reach an overall settlement and a two-state solution.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=94429§ionid=351020202

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2 State Delusion: Palestinians must unite before creation of state: Mubarak:

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Tuesday urged rival Palestinian factions to unite in order to achieve the creation of a Palestinian state
http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n180767

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Haaretz reporter Amira Hass arrested upon leaving Gaza:

Hass was arrested and taken in for questioning immediately after crossing the border, for violating a law which forbids residence in an enemy state. She was released on bail after promising not to enter the Gaza Strip over the next 30 days.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1084996.html

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Jewish actress accused of anti-semitism:

A JEWISH star of stage and screen is stunned that a Jewish charity has cancelled her appearance because she is appearing in a play critical of Israel's actions in Gaza.
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,25466703-5003423,00.html

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Foreign Office diplomat charged over 'anti-Semitic' rant:

Middle East expert Rowan Laxton, 48, allegedly shouted 'f*****g Israelis' and 'f*****g Jews' while watching TV reports of the Israeli attack on Gaza in January at the gym in Regent's Park, London.
http://snipurl.com/hvwxy

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Spanish judges' human rights campaign comes under pressure :

Israel has reacted angrily to a Spanish inquiry into a 2002 Gaza bombing, urging the government and judiciary to do their 'utmost' to stop what it describes as a Palestinian attempt to 'exploit' the Spanish judicial system.
http://snipurl.com/hvwyv

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The Spanish Inquisition Meets The O'Reilly Factor?:

Sometimes you can't make it up. Bill O'Reilly, using the powerful podium that is his Fox News television show The O'Reilly Factor, threatened a boycott:
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/05/12/the-spanish-inquisition-meets

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Sri Lanka 'blood bath' hits last-standing hospital:

The humanitarian crisis in northern Sri Lanka deepens with the death of 47 civilians in an attack on a temporary hospital.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=94439§ionid=351020406

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Two Algerian soldiers killed in battle with Islamist gunmen:

The skirmish occurred early Monday near the town of Trachta, about 115 kilometres west of the capital Algiers, as units of the Algerian army surrounded a group of armed men in a secluded mountainous area.
http://snipurl.com/hvx1d

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Columbia and Extrajudicial Killings Scandal:

If this scandal had happened in modern day Cuba or Venezuela, then America, Canada, the United Kingdom, and others, would be the first to call for "a major enquiry" and more severe action would be taken.
http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=8368

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In Colombia, rape now being prosecuted as weapon of war:

In the conflicts in eastern Congo, Sudan's Darfur region, Serbia, and Rwanda, the widespread systematic raping of women has been well documented. In Colombia, however, the scale of rape and sexual violence as part of the four-decade-old conflict is largely unknown.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0511/p06s10-woam.html

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US to borrow 46 cents for every dollar spent:

The government will have to borrow nearly 50 cents for every dollar it spends this year, exploding the record federal deficit past $1.8 trillion under new White House estimates.
http://snipurl.com/hvx3s

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