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Raw Source material to highlight the true nature of Al Qaeda. Do NOT underestimate Al Qaeda, they are NOT ’Ragheads’ or ’Sand Niggers’:
In the year since the September 11 attacks, few more chilling documents have emerged than "Military Studies in the Jihad Against the Tyrants," a how-to terrorism manual that investigators believe has been used by followers of Osama bin Laden.
The 180-page volume, seized from the Manchester, England home of a bin Laden disciple, offers jihad members (…)

’Most of the hostages (reportedly dozens), have been freed’ The Saudi authorities claim to have killed or captured all of the perpetrators. Saudi sources state that it is believed that the men were linked to al-Qaeda
One thing al-Qaeda isn’t is stupid. It is very dangerous to consider them as some band of wildcat maverick fundamentalists. Quite apart from the fact that ’al-Qaeda’ is more a philosophy than an organisation and that acts committed in its name (or attributed to it), are (…)

Bush’s Path is Mistaken - and Kerry Needs To Hear a Different Approach
Rabbi Michael Lerner on the Way to Respond to Terror and What Bush and Kerry Both Need to Know
Now George Bush Wants Us To Believe that the Iraq War
Will Protect us From Terror - When It Actually Is Creating Terror!
by Rabbi Michael Lerner
George Bush has managed to create the very Terror International that he claims to be defending us against. In fact, he is intent on convincing Americans that they are in (…)

The Guardian UK
By John Gittings
The Guardian William Hinton, who has died aged 85, was the author of Fanshen, a classic account of the Chinese revolution, but, first and last, he was a farmer. He ended his working career in Mongolia, adapting clapped- out Russian equipment to grow experimental barley on virgin land. And it was as a tractor technician in north China nearly 60 years ago that he gathered material for Fanshen, his brilliant documentary study of revolution in a Chinese (…)

The Guardian (UK)
How Chalabi and the White House held the front page
By James Moore
The Guardian When the full history of the Iraq war is written, the most scandalous chapter may be about how American journalists, in particular those at the New York Times, allowed themselves to be so easily manipulated by both Ahmad Chalabi, an Iraqi exile with his own virulently pro-war agenda, and the Bush White House.
Even before the latest suspicions that Chalabi may have been sending US secrets (…)

Wired News
By Xeni Jardin
The rapid proliferation of digital cameras, phonecams and wireless gadgets among soldiers and military contractors is giving senior military officials concern, in the wake of images that showed abuse in an Iraqi prison and snapshots that showed rows of coffins of American soldiers.
The Defense Department said it hasn’t banned the devices and doesn’t plan to — as the Business Times of London and two wire services have reported. But the Pentagon is telling (…)

By Connie Cass, Associated Press
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/05/28/1_in_75_men_were_in_prison_or_jail_in_2003/
WASHINGTON — America’s inmate population grew by 2.9 percent last year, to almost 2.1 million people, with one of every 75 men living in prison or jail.
The inmate population continued its rise despite a fall in the crime rate and efforts by many states to reduce some sentences, especially for low-level drug offenders.
The report issued yesterday by the (…)

A series of investigations has shattered neocon self-belief
By Sidney Blumenthal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1225600,00.html
The Guardian (UK)
At a conservative thinktank in downtown Washington, and across the Potomac at the Pentagon, FBI agents have begun paying quiet calls on prominent neoconservatives, who are being interviewed in an investigation of potential espionage, according to intelligence sources. Who gave Ahmed Chalabi classified information about (…)

After a long legal battle, the National Security Archive has succeeded in winning the release of a large volume of telephone conversations taped by Henry Kissinger during the Nixon Presidency. The NSA web page with the transcripts of the conversations, streaming recordings of selected conversations and much supporting material can be found at http://www.gwu.edu/ nsarchiv/ Haig Said Nixon Joked of Nuking Hill Transcripts of Phone Talks Are Released by Archives
By Michael Dobbs
Washington (…)

Recently there’s been a lot of talk about the problems with how women are represented in hip hop, but very little about where the influences for these images and ideas come from. Perhaps we should be looking at the influences instead of the performers themselves.
By Mark Anthony Neal http://www.africana.com/articles/daily/mu20040526hipgender.asp
The recent controversy over Nelly’s music video "Tip- Drill" has highlighted what we’ve all known for some time: hip (…)