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  • FOX ’News’ misstates (or Lies About) Pope John Paul II’s Position on Iraq
    6 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Neil Cavuto Misstates (or Lies About) Pope John Paul II’s Position on Iraq
    Neil Cavuto (I’ll be generous, for now) vastly misstated Pope John Paul II’s position on the Iraq war today (April 4, 2005) on Your World w/Neil Cavuto.
    Hussein Ibish of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee was a guest. (Fox identified him as being from the "Progressive Muslim Unit," whatever that is.) Hussein was speaking about Pope John Paul’s pacifism and about his frequent support for people on both (…)

  • Palestinians forced thru radioactive X-ray scanner at checkpoint
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    GAZA CITY, April 2, 2005 (IslamOnline.net) - Amidst stark warnings of potential outbreak of chronic and deadly diseases, Israeli occupation troops have recently set up a “radioactive” glass room at the main Rafah crossing through which Palestinians have to pass to enter or exit the Gaza Strip.
    Palestinian medics said that potential diseases include thrombocytopenic, sterility, congenital anomalies, cancer, leukemia, mental retardation and ductless glands disorder, warning that Palestinians (…)

  • US Takes Sister and Mother of Iraqi Freedom Fighter Hostage
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    Apr 5, 2005 By Waleed Ibrahim, Reuters
    An Iraqi apparently suspected by U.S. troops of taking part in attacks in Baghdad accused U.S. forces on Tuesday of taking his mother and sister hostage to pressure him and his brothers into surrendering for questioning.
    A U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad said he doubted the accusation and was not aware of such an incident. But neighbors interviewed around Arkan Mukhlif al-Batawi’s villa in the capital’s Sunni Arab suburb of Taji corroborated his (…)

  • Destroy Abu Ghraib!
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    This weekend’s attacks on the Abu Ghraib prison facility should be welcomed as a direct assault on the foremost icon of Bush’s War of Terror. Abu Ghraib has the same meaning to Iraqis and free people across the globe as did the Bastille to French citizens prior to the Revolution; an enduring symbol of arbitrary state power and cruelty.
    Under Saddam the prison could be dismissed as the natural exponent of a tyrannical regime bent on removing political opponents. Now, however, under the (…)

  • US Had Hand In Violating Iraq Oil Sanctions
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    US Had Hand In Violating Iraq Oil Sanctions Molly Ivins April 05, 2005 Some days, it’s hard to pick the outrage du jour, but hypocrisy is always an inviting target, and the United Nations oil-for-food scandal provides a two-fer.
    We have been hearing much right-wing huffing over the dreadful, terrible, awful, unprecedented, worst-ever scandal in all history.
    One indignant winger was livid because The New York Times devoted more coverage to the collapse of Enron than to the earth-shaking (…)

  • Where Are the Great Statesmen
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    WASHINGTON — The International Criminal Court has been ratified by 100 nations, but the United States is conspicuously absent from the roster of supporters of the tribunal which was created to prosecute individuals who commit genocide or crimes of war.
    The court, which came into existence in 2002, was created by a treaty negotiated by 120 nations at a conference sponsored by the United Nations in Rome in 1998. The tribunal would step in to prosecute alleged war crimes only if national (…)

  • Pablo Paredes And The Culture Of Life
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    Pablo Paredes is a soft-spoken, humble, gentle young man who has a very calm and intelligent demeanor. Pablo is also one of the most courageous young men I have ever met.
    Last year, Pablo, a Navy Petty Officer, refused to board his ship which was bound for the Persian Gulf and transporting a group of Marines to fight in Iraq. He said at the time, I dont want to be part of a ship thats taking 3000 Marines over there knowing a hundred or more of them wont come back. He stood on the dock (…)

  • Why we’ll never see the second round of Abu Ghraib photos
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    by Matt Welch
    The images, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Congress, depict "acts that can only be described as blatantly sadistic, cruel, and inhuman." After Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) viewed some of them in a classified briefing, he testified that his "stomach gave out." NBC News reported that they show "American soldiers beating one prisoner almost to death, apparently raping a female prisoner, acting inappropriately with a dead body, and taping Iraqi guards raping young boys." (…)

  • Kerry & Clinton must stop their support of Bush’s War on (some) Terrorism
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    Continued support for this war of domination and greed goes beyond politics into a world of moral relativism where politicians who call themselves leaders and men/women of faith destroy and kill in the name of democracy and freedom.
    Kerry & the Clintons (Bill and Hillary) should be leading the way in exposing the lies and treason of the Bush administration instead of supporting what the whole world knows is an unjust, unprovoked and illegal attack and occupation of Iraq. They should (…)

  • Operation (Un)Truth: A Trojan Jackass for the Anti-War Movement
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    Fayetteville, North Carolina
    "To mark the second anniversary of the U.S.-led war in Iraq on March 19, various anti-war groups are planning to protest in Fayetteville, N.C., the home of Fort Bragg. It’s not the protest, but the location that has some people upset.
    "An organization representing veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan said demonstrators are ’wrong and insensitive’ to take their complaints to Fort Bragg, because it blames the warriors for the war.
    "’The decision (…)