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Muslim leaders join condemnation Muslim women in headscarves are warned to be vigilant Muslim leaders have condemned the attacks on London and said they fear their communities could now fall prey to vigilante attacks.
Muslim Association of Britain president Ahmed Sheikh said the attacks would make the Muslim community less safe.
He said women in headscarves might be in particular danger and warned all Muslims to be especially vigilant.
Muslim News editor Ahmed Versi noted one of (…)

David Edwards is co-editor of the London (UK) media watchdog MediaLens http://www.medialens.org
July 6, 2005
At the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal in 1946, Nazi leaders like Goering, von Ribbentrop, Jodl and Streicher were sentenced to death by hanging for "Crimes against Peace: namely, planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances, or participation in a Common Plan or Conspiracy for the (…)

Joseph Wilson is the author of The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that led to War and Betrayed My Wife’s CIA Identity (Avalon Publishing Group, 2004). Joseph Wilson is a political centrist, was a career United States diplomat from 1976 to 1998. During Democratic and Republican administrations he served in various diplomatic posts throughout Africa and eventually as ambassador to Gabon. He was the acting ambassador to Baghdad when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. In February 2002, he (…)

London blasts have provided a life-line to Bush and Blair. They will now further promote their agenda of oppression, occupation and fear. They use such events to justify their unjust policies. Indeed Bush, Blair and their teams are responsible for the London tragedy and tragedies in Iraq and Afghanistan. But the public is told about BS such as ’our values and our way of life’, which create hatred and division. There is no evidence that Al-Queda even exists. But our leaders, secret services (…)

6 Blasts Rock London, Killing at Least Two
Thursday July 7, 2005 12:31 PM
AP Photo LSD101
By JANE WARDELL
Associated Press Writer
LONDON (AP) - Half a dozen explosions rocked the London subway and tore open a packed double-decker bus during the morning rush hour Thursday. The blasts killed at least two people and injured scores in what a shaken Prime Minister Tony Blair said was a series of barbaric’’ terrorist attacks.
Blair said it was clear the attacks were designed to coincide (…)

Press Release: www.UnansweredQuestions.org Distribution via the Unanswered Questions Wire http://www.unansweredquestions.org/ .
ANNOUNCING THE DC EMERGENCY TRUTH CONVERGENCE, JULY 22 24, 2005
End the Fear Here! Publicize the Master Lies Behind the Endless War
TRUTH, VETERAN & MEDIA ACTIVISTS
Come Help Build a Breakthrough Campaign to Expose and Explode the Seamless Deceit behind 9/11, Resource Wars, Troop Betrayal and Constitutional Jeopardy
DC LAUNCH: JULY 22 24, 2005 An (…)

A colleague of Rove argues that the president’s adviser is hiding behind the First Amendment and that reporters should not protect him.
Counterpoint: Forget Confidentiality, Out Rove By Bill Israel, Editor & Publisher Posted on July 6, 2005, Printed on July 6, 2005 http://www.alternet.org/story/23385/
In 99.9 percent of cases I know, journalists must not break the bonds of appropriate confidentiality, to protect their ability to report, and to defend the First Amendment. I’ve (…)

Reporters’ Log: London explosions
There have been several explosions on the London Underground Tube network this morning, and on a bus in central London. BBC News correspondents are on the scene with the latest details.
Alison Freeman : Edgware Road Underground Station : 1245 BST
There are hordes of press here but it’s difficult to contact the office because the phone networks are down. The whole area is cordoned off and there are crowds of people at the cordons.
There are several (…)

More than four in 10 Americans, according to a recent Zogby poll, say that if President Bush did not tell the truth about his reasons for going to war with Iraq, Congress should consider holding him accountable through impeachment.
But you wouldn’t know it from following the news. Only three mainstream outlets that I can find made even cursory mention of the poll last week when it came out.
More White House Links
You also wouldn’t know it judging from the political discourse in (…)

At the end of the Iraq war, vast sums of money were made available to the US-led provisional authorities, headed by Paul Bremer, to spend on rebuilding the country. By the time Bremer left the post eight months later, $8.8bn of that money had disappeared. Ed Harriman on the extraordinary scandal of Iraq’s missing billions
Thursday July 7, 2005 The Guardian
When Paul Bremer, the American pro consul in Baghdad until June last year, arrived in Iraq soon after the official end of (…)