Monthly Archives: June 2006

U.S. soldiers: kidnap, rape and killing

Yet, another U.S. inves­ti­ga­tion which will dis­ap­pear in the bin of U.S. democ­racy. Five U.S. Army sol­diers are being inves­ti­gated for allegedly rap­ing a young woman, then killing her and three mem­bers of her fam­ily in Iraq, The killings appeared to … Con­tinue read­ing

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The U.S. vs. John Lennon

The U.S. vs. John Lennon poster seems to be a bit of an “homage” to a famous con­cep­tual movie poster design — the peace V-sign hand for the Robert Alt­man film M*A*S*H. We lost John 26 years ago, day, but … Con­tinue read­ing

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Interview with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad

Al-Hayat: If we return to the topic of Syrian-American rela­tions, Wash­ing­ton says that it doesn’t want to change the regime in Syria, but wants a change in behav­ior; in your opin­ion, where is the prob­lem? Is it Iraq, or Lebanon, … Con­tinue read­ing

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Ugly Americans in Iraq

Break­through method of com­mu­ni­cat­ing in for­eign lan­guages. It was so cutting-edge that Rosetta Stone [the language-training pro­gram] doesn’t even know about it. It goes some­thing like this: The louder you yell at an Arab in Eng­lish, the more the Arab … Con­tinue read­ing

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Fly Air torture

Air Tor­ture is the pre­miere air­line trans­port­ing detainees to select tor­ture cham­bers around the world. Orga­ni­za­tions such as Amnesty Inter­na­tional like to call our busi­ness “out­sourc­ing tor­ture” because we deliver all our cus­tomers to coun­tries where tor­ture is rou­tinely prac­ticed … Con­tinue read­ing

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Names of Iraq’s factions and their positions from Maliki’s reconciliation initiative.

—-Update— Read how Maliki fool­ing & sell­ing the plan to the Amer­i­can pub­lic: Maliki on TV today: Amnesty.…. “will exclude fight­ers who killed Iraqis or sol­diers of the multi­na­tional forces.” —End Update— Seven groups accepted Maliki’s plan: Notice, accept­ing Maliki’s … Con­tinue read­ing

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US soldier who Killed Handcuffed Iraqi Freed

This is what they get after killing hand­cuffed Iraqi He is free An Amer­i­can sol­dier con­victed in the fatal shoot­ing of a hand­cuffed Iraqi cow herder in 2004 was freed from a mil­i­tary prison Why he is free? He thought he lunged … Con­tinue read­ing

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A brief story of the four killed Russian diplomats

News.com.au US Vice Pres­i­dent Dick Cheney said in May that Rus­sia was using oil and gas riches as “tools of manip­u­la­tion and black­mail.” Yahoo The coali­tion forces espe­cially carry the respon­si­bil­ity of ensur­ing secu­rity in Iraq, includ­ing the defense of … Con­tinue read­ing

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Dive in Sudan

What do you think of Sudan? Burned-down vil­lages, refugees, hunger and vio­lence, Darfur…etc Unfor­tu­nately these mis­eries exists in Sudan but it is a vast coun­try, hardly had any eco­nomic activ­i­ties, that’s what makes it’s coast­line and coral-reefs the most beau­ti­ful and … Con­tinue read­ing

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honored by a visit from Hana Al-Bayaty

I am hon­ored by a visit from Hana Al-Bayaty the Brus­sels Tri­bunal Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee, Leav­ing a link to a very good arti­cle on the Al-Ahram Don’t miss the arti­cle: What polit­i­cal process? By…Abdul-Ilah Al-Bayaty and Hana Al-Bayaty In view of … Con­tinue read­ing

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