The price of pain:

The price of pain:

Declassified FBI and military documents point the finger at the White House for allowing the torture of suspected terrorists.
http://www.smh.com.au/text/articles/2005/01/14/1105582722411.html

http://tinyurl.com/54nfq

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Video: The Human Cost of War

This Is A Must Watch Documentary

This film is our soldiers’ perspective of the Iraq War, and how they are being treated upon returning home. It goes beyond the war stories to look underneath our American tradition of engaging in war and then abandoning the warrior.

Watch it online now!
http://207.44.245.159/article7693.htm

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An Appeal to Global Conscience

An appeal to the peace and justice movement, calling for a long-term strategy for undermining the foundations of war.

The time has come to recognize that the U.S. occupation is the principal cause of the violent insurgency and growing civil war. We disagree with those who, while admitting that that the war was a mistake based on fabricated evidence, nevertheless claim it would be a bigger mistake to end the occupation and withdraw.
http://207.44.245.159/article7701.htm

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Iraqi guards, aid worker killed:

Five Iraqi soldiers and a policeman were shot dead on Saturday in a string of insurgent attacks around the northern trouble spots of Samarra and Kirkuk.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200501/s1282721.htm

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Four people reportedly killed in Samarra shooting;American soldier dead south of Baghdad
http://www.albawaba.com/en/news/179021

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U.S. Army Spc. Charles Graner Jr, Gets 10 Years For Iraq Prison Torture:

Asked if he felt remorse after the sentence was handed down, Graner said, "There's a war on. Bad things happen."
http://wfrv.com/topstories/topstoriestv_story_015205923.html

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Higher Officials Unlikely to Be Tried:

To some, the low-level Army reservist may look like the fall guy in a debacle that embarrassed the United States throughout the world and tainted the image of American forces in Iraq. Yet analysts said that for now, at least, it was doubtful that higher-level officials would be found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt
http://207.44.245.159/article7708.htm

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Group Calls for a Kenneth Starr for Abu Ghraib:

The latest annual report by Human Rights Watch describes the torture and sexual humiliation as Abu Ghraib one of the most insidious threats to human rights in 2004.
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,336827,00.html

http://tinyurl.com/6mph3

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The price of pain:

Declassified FBI and military documents point the finger at the White House for allowing the torture of suspected terrorists.
http://www.smh.com.au/text/articles/2005/01/14/1105582722411.html

http://tinyurl.com/54nfq

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Abu Ghraib abuse firms are rewarded :

As prison ringleader awaits sentence, defence contractors win multi-million Pentagon contracts
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1391443,00.html

http://tinyurl.com/5y23u

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British soldiers accused of abuse:

Shocking images of British soldiers allegedly abusing Iraqi prisoners will be revealed in a courtroom in Germany.
http://tinyurl.com/7xnjo

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Pentagon Is Taking Steps For Longer Stay in Iraq:

The Pentagon is building a permanent military communications system that suggests American soldiers will be in Iraq for the foreseeable future.
http://www.news-record.com/ae/features/reservist_011605.html

http://tinyurl.com/4eu7z

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Injured Army reservist recalls suicide bomber's eyes:

But the sight was hard for her mother to take. Her daughter’s oozing, shiny face was seared white from the mouth up. Her hair was singed. Her legs were in casts. Her father, Eddie Spinks, couldn’t take it. He left the room.
http://www.news-record.com/ae/features/reservist_011605.html

http://tinyurl.com/4eu7z

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Hospitals handle growing number of war wounded :

In the first eight months of the war, 2,076 soldiers were injured. In the 14 months since, 8,296 were injured.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13759815&BRD=1645&PAG=461&dept_id=33198&rfi=6

http://tinyurl.com/5eoff

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Bush’s Cambodia: Syria in the Crosshairs:

Americans simply don’t care, or can’t be bothered, about Bush’s dirty invasion, occupation, and now expansion of hostilities into Syria, even though, if we are to believe the corporate media conducted polls, roughly fifty percent of Americans think invading Iraq was probably not the right thing to do, not that Americans plan to go into the streets to put an end to it.
http://207.44.245.159/article7707.htm

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Father transformed by anguish over Iraq:

Scars define man who burned himself after son's combat death
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6831772/

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In case you missed it:

Dom Stasi: A crime against humanity:

The war against Iraq is an action that was - and remains - a crime against humanity. It is a crime of murder and deception on the grandest of scales. As Americans of free will we are witness if not party to a horrific atrocity.
http://207.44.245.159/article5603.htm

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Dahr Jamail: Blood is Precious:

Iraqis and Americans meet to share grief and committment to justice
http://207.44.245.159/article7709.htm

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Bush Says Election Ratified Iraq Policy:

President Bush said the public's decision to reelect him was a ratification of his approach toward Iraq and that there was no reason to hold any administration officials accountable for mistakes or misjudgments in prewar planning or managing the violent aftermath.
http://207.44.245.159/article7705.htm

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Dr. James J. Zogby : The Reality of the Two Americas :

Two radically different Americas were on display this week. Both are real, and both must be recognized a real to understand my country.
http://www.iviews.com/Articles/articles.asp?ref=IV0501-2585

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The forgotten inmate of Guantanamo Bay and the British secret service connection:

London resident believes he was set up after being illegally arrested by US intelligence.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/story.jsp?story=601387

http://tinyurl.com/5gzld

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Bush’s Grand Plan: Incite Civil War :

When you destroy a man’s home and kill and disgrace his friends, he’ll fight back. And, when you rob a man of everything he has, including his dignity, you leave him with one, solitary passion… rage. This rage is now animating the resistance in ways that no one had previously anticipated.
http://207.44.245.159/article7700.htm

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We Are Really, Really Sorry:

We have become a nation that accepts no responsibility for its actions or its mistakes. We have become an apathetic people led by fat little kings who cater to a Boy King
http://www.oldamericancentury.org/dave300026.htm

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William Blum : Eastern Europe: From Soviet Satellites to American?:

American interference in the political and economic affairs of nations in every corner of the world is, unfortunately, a tale told many times. - It had all been a con game
http://207.44.245.159/article7699.htm

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The Failure of Empire:

The United States is facing the prospect of a major defeat in Iraq that is likely to constitute a serious setback in the ongoing campaign to expand the American empire.
http://www.monthlyreview.org/0105editors.htm

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Report: FBI botched internal spying probe:

A former FBI linguist's allegations of possible espionage involving a colleague are credible but still have not been properly examined nearly three years after they were made, according to a new internal Justice Department report released Friday.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-10/06/content_380022.htm

http://tinyurl.com/5al23

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Israel says freezing talks, no Palestinian state:

Israel's unilateral plan to evacuate some occupied land and keep the rest will indefinitely prevent a Palestinian state with Washington's blessing, a senior Israeli official said in an interview published Wednesday.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-10/06/content_380022.htm

http://tinyurl.com/5al23

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Mahmoud Abbas Extends His Hands In Peace: Israel Occupation Forces Kill Six In Gaza:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1391480,00.html

http://tinyurl.com/4z3hv

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Sharon accused of exploiting violence:

Ariel Sharon is accused of using the recent Gaza border incident as an excuse to sever contacts with Mahmud Abbas, says the leader of Israel's left-wing Yahad party, Yossi Beilin.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/159B16B6-BA79-4D1F-AB8F-929608A8C0AB.htm

http://tinyurl.com/4aqr6

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Sharon orders crackdown :

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says he has given his troops a free hand to launch a crackdown on Palestinian anti occupation forces.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4178695.stm

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46 Palestinian Election Officials Resign:

Forty-six members of the Palestinian election commission, including top managers, resigned Saturday, saying they were pressured by Mahmoud Abbas' campaign and intelligence officials to abruptly change voting procedures during the Jan. 9 presidential poll.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=414882

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US Should Help Stop Land Grabs:

The average American finds unfathomable the desperation that drives suicide bombers. Yet Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip is a recipe for violence. It robs Palestinians of their livelihood, their dignity, and their faith in the future.
http://207.44.245.159/article7703.htm

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Through racist eyes :

The entire state of Israel has institutionalized racism because its charter is to preserve a Jewish character. Any other country in the world would be lambasted for such ethnic exclusionary premises. But in the US, Israel is celebrated.
http://207.44.245.159/article7704.htm

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An Ideological Tower of Babel: Christian Zionism:

Franklin Graham, whose father Billy converted Bush, has called Islam evil and Graham's decision to join other Christian evangelists in Iraq both to aid and convert Iraqis must bolster the Muslim perception of the invasion as an alliance of "Jews and Crusaders."
http://207.44.245.159/article7702.htm

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Religious aid groups try to convert victims

Muslim clerics object as Western Christian groups hand out food and Bibles, reports Jason Burke in Banda Aceh
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tsunami/story/0,15671,1391491,00.html

http://tinyurl.com/5xk2e

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Revealed: how the tsunami warning was bungled:

Scientists at the Tsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii did not use an existing rapid telecommunications system set up to get warnings around the world almost instantly because the bureaucratic arrangements were not in place.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=601394

http://tinyurl.com/5muqm

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Peace & Joy
Tom Feeley

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