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.... Shopkeeper Ammar Fallah, a witness to the shooting, told AFP the guards, who were escorting a civilian convoy through the streets, signalled for a woman driving a car to pull over as they passed.
"When she failed to do so they opened fire, killing her and the woman next to her," he said. "There were two children in the back seat but they were not harmed. The women were both shot in the head." ......
"Winning the hearts and minds", or blowing their brains out if not. (…)

Press TV correspondent in Afghanistan, Fayez Khurshid has said that he was tortured by US forces after his illegal detention last night.
According to Khurshid, foreign soldiers stopped him on the way home, grabbed him by the collar and asked if he was a member of the IRGC (The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps) and worked for the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The Afghan journalist was rendered unconscious by a taser and taken to a US base where the officers in charge of (…)

Iran has never manifested itself as a serious threat to the national security of the United States, or by extension as a security threat to global security. At the height of Iran’s “exportation of the Islamic Revolution” phase, in the mid-1980’s, the Islamic Republic demonstrated a less-than-impressive ability to project its power beyond the immediate borders of Iran, and even then this projection was limited to war-torn Lebanon.
.....The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), mandated (…)

A German anti-nuclear group says the world’s biggest supplier of enriched uranium, URENCO, is frantically seeking German and Dutch transport licenses to send waste to an open-air dump in Russia before Russia stops the dumping at the latest in 2009.
Among its worldwide activities, the Anglo-Dutch-German corporation runs enrichment plants at Gronau, near Münster, in Germany and not far away across the border in Holland at Almelo.
The SOFA Münster group writes at (…)

by Sarah Meyer
Mr. Nawab Buntangyar was shot in the face / head by an American soldier in Afghanistan. The case focused not on the murdered Afghan’s plight but on the `procedures’, And, so, yet another American has been let off the hook for murder.
Mr Nawab Buntangyar’s murder in Afghanistan was brought to my attention through an article by Robert Parry, George Bush’s Thug Nation. “According to evidence emerging from a military court hearing at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, US Special (…)

There has been a glaring omission in the U.S. media presentation of the Darfur tragedy. The compassion demonstrated, mostly in words, until recently, has not been accompanied by a recognition of U.S. complicity, or at least involvement, in the war which has led to the enormous suffering and loss of life that has been taking place in Darfur for many years. In 1978 oil was discovered in Southern Sudan. Rebellious war began five years later and was led by John Garang, who had taken military (…)

The conspiracy: The Secret Service claims that North Korea is churning out "supernotes" or "superdollars"— amazingly high-quality counterfeit $100 bills. Authorities have discovered an estimated $50 million worth of the phony ’Benjamins’ in the past two decades and think at least $22 million more are out there.
But the presses needed to mimic the real bills’ anticounterfeit technologies cost around $50 million—not a great investment, even for Kim Jong Il. Next suspect? The Central (…)

By Abdoulaye Massalatchi
Francois Bergeron, Paris, October 6
NIAMEY, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Authorities in Niger have expelled a French documentary film-maker for suspected links to a Tuareg-led rebellion in the desert north.
Francois Bergeron, an independent film-maker who has been working on a series of documentaries about Tuareg nomads in Niger, was arrested in August in Agadez, a Saharan trading town at the centre of an 8-month-old Tuareg uprising.
The Tuareg-led Niger Movement for (…)

"In 1945, ordinary Germans said that ’they didn’t know’ that the Jewish Holocaust was happening. The same excuse cannot be used by the citizens of the US Alliance, notwithstanding the continuing lying by commission and omission of racist, holocaust-ignoring Mainstream media – the awful truth is only several mouse clicks away."
According to Dr Gideon Polya (article below), during the regimes of Bush I and Bush II EIGHT MILLION West Asians (Arabs etc) have died. If this is correct then it (…)

From surveillance cameras to data pirating, every bit of life is scanned and stored to meet economic and political agendas. Until awareness is heightened and proper legislation put in place, our right to privacy will continue to be violated, said privacy activists at the Privacy Rights in a World under Surveillance conference held last weekend at Montreal’s Sheraton Centre.
By Stephanie Stein 2007-10-03 10:16:57
An explosion of new technologies that enable the tracking and monitoring of (…)