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  • IRAN : The Road to Armageddon? by Felicity ARBUTHNOT
    7 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Global Research and the UN Observer
    Reminder to the crusading Armageddonists... “Thou shalt not kill.” Exodus 20: 13
    They are at it again. Remember when Milosovic was labelled “the butcher of Belgrade”, the new Hitler?
    Then Saddam Hussein was “the butcher of Bagdad” and, of course the most dangerous man since Hitler - with weapons of mass destruction which could be unleashed on the world “in forty five minutes”.
    Colin Powell lied to the U.N., about the danger Iraq posed to the (…)

  • Iran: Israel’s WMDs, serious threat to global security
    6 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister says Israel’s arsenals of weapons of mass destruction are the most serious threat to global security.
    Abbas Araqchi, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs, said Israel has refused to join the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and has stockpiled weapons of mass destruction which makes the Zionist Regime the biggest obstacle to the disarmament process in the region.
    Araqchi made the remarks in the 12th annual conference of members (…)

  • Pakistan Sinks Deeper Into the Night
    6 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Intoxicated by the Incense of Power
    By TARIQ ALI
    For anyone marinated in the history of Pakistan yesterday’s decision by the military to impose a State of Emergency will hardly comes as a surprise. Martial Law in this country has become an antibiotic: in order to obtain the same results one has to keep doubling the doses. What has taken place is a coup within a coup.
    General Pervaiz Musharraf ruled the country with a civilian façade, but his power base was limited to the Army. And it (…)

  • CLUSTER BOMBS AND TEDDY BEARS by Bican Jagger
    6 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Commondreams
    Published on Monday, November 5, 2007 by The Telegraph/UK
    This November 5 sees an international day of action to raise awareness of the human suffering caused by cluster bombs. Ten years after a treaty banning landmines, there is now an international process under way to ban cluster bombs.
    Like landmines, cluster bombs kill and injure civilians after conflict.
    The widespread use of these weapons in Lebanon last year drew the world’s attention to that once again. Like (…)

  • IRAQ : MILLIONS TRAPPED IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY
    5 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    International Press Service (IPS) Ahmed Ali*
    At least five million Iraqis have fled their homes due to the violence under the U.S.-led occupation, but half of them are unable to leave the country, according to well-informed estimates.
    According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), there are more than 4.4 million displaced Iraqis, an estimate that many workers among refugees find conservative.
    The UNHCR announced last week that at present 2,000 Iraqis are (…)

  • Taliban capture third western Afghan district
    5 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Taliban capture third western Afghan district
    Herat, Afghanistan, Nov 04: Taliban insurgents have captured a third district in western Afghanistan, local officials said on Monday, defying Western assertions the rebels are unable to mount large military offensives.
    The hardline Islamist Taliban relaunched their insurgency two years ago to topple the pro-Western Afghan government and eject the 50,000 foreign troops, expanding their operations further from the mainly Pashtun south where (…)

  • What Happened in Nahr Al Bared? (video)
    5 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By MICHAEL BIRMINGHAM
    A Palestinian Camp in Lebanon is Burned and Destroyed, the Media is Banned, and the World is Silent
    Nahr Al Bared is a Palestinian refugee camp in the north of Lebanon which has been home to about 40,000 Palestinian people, most of whom are the children and grandchildren of those who left Palestine in 1948. Some like Abu Mohammad were born in Palestine. He was ten years old, and next year it will be sixty years since the formation of the State of Israel was achieved (…)

  • Germany becomes the First Country to admit Clandestine Chemtrails Operation
    5 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    For all those activists who have been investigating and reporting on clandestine government operations around the world to manipulate our weather patterns, this news from Germany is groundbreaking.
    The TV news report states that “the military planes of the German Federal Army are manipulating our climate; this is what the weather researchers are presuming and their suspicions are confirmed…
    “We can state with a 97% certainty that we have on our hands chemical trails (chemtrails) (…)

  • Iraqi guns: Smugglers and bunglers
    4 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    With Iraq sliding into civil war amid repeated reports detailing the large-scale loss of US-provided weaponry, questions arise regarding the Pentagon’s alleged relationship with international gun runners.
    02 November 2007
    By Dominic Moran in Tel Aviv for ISN Security Watch (02/11/07)
    Post-invasion Iraq has been blighted by a massive proliferation in small arms, conducted with the active involvement of both state and non-state actors, including major criminal entities.
    This (…)

  • Musharraf declares state of emergency
    3 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Musharraf declares state of emergency
    Troops surround Bhutto’s home; U.S. calls developments ‘regrettable’ BREAKING NEWS
    MSNBC News Services updated 12:45 p.m. ET Nov. 3, 2007
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Gen. Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency in Pakistan on Saturday, ahead of a crucial Supreme Court ruling on his future as president, thrusting the country deeper into political turmoil as it struggles to contain spreading Islamic militancy.
    Seven Supreme Court judges (…)