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Former Iraq PM: poll ban risks civil war (Reuters) - 09-feb-2010
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February 8, 2010 - A ban on election candidates accused of links with Saddam Hussein's Baath party threatens to drag Iraq into civil war, a former prime minister and head of a group seen as a strong contender in the polls said Monday. Iyad Allawi, who leads the Iraqiya list into the March 7 vote, said the ban could trigger a resurgence in sectarian attacks, reversing a fall in violence in the last two years that has allowed U.S. forces to eye a 2011 withdrawal date and Iraq to sign major oil deals...
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Israel admits detention of international activists illegal (International Solidarity Movement) - 09-feb-2010
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February 8, 2010 - A state prosecutor admitted before the Supreme Court today that the Immigration Police illegally detained the two international activists arrested yesterday in a pre-dawn raid on the International Solidarity Movement’s Ramallah offices. The two will be released on bail. Earlier today, the Israeli Supreme Court ordered the release on bail of the two activists who were arrested on Sunday during a pre-dawn raid on the Ramallah media office of the International Solidarity Movement. During the hearing, the State Prosecutor admitted that it was illegal for the Immigration Police to receive custody of the two in the Occupied Territories, where it has no legal authority...
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The "shock doctrine" for Haiti
The U.S. is reviving what Haitians call "the plan of death." (Ashley Smith) - 09-feb-2010
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February 8, 2010 - ONE MONTH after the devastating earthquake, Haiti continues to suffer under apocalyptic conditions. The quake killed more than 200,000 people, injured 250,000 and has left over 3 million dependent on assistance for food, water and housing. Contrary to the puff pieces in the media, the relief operation has been a miserable failure. The United Nations admitted at the end of January that had only been able to feed 1 million people, leaving many more without access to food. Whole sections of Port-au-Prince and surrounding towns never even saw relief convoys...
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Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Case Stuck in Legal Limbo (By Dave Lindorff) - 08-feb-2010
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February 8, 2010 - The recent decision by the US Supreme Court to send convicted police killer Mumia Abu-Jamal’s case back down to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, with instructions for a three-judge panel there to reconsider its decision to uphold the lifting of the prominent African-American journalist’s death penalty, is only the latest in a long string of examples of how courts at all levels have made special exceptions to precedent in order to try and kill this particular prisoner...
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Wars sending U.S. into ruin (By ERIC MARGOLIS) - 08-feb-2010
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February 8, 2010 - U.S. President Barack Obama calls the $3.8-trillion US budget he just sent to Congress a major step in restoring America’s economic health. In fact, it’s another potent fix given to a sick patient deeply addicted to the dangerous drug — debt. More empires have fallen because of reckless finances than invasion...
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An act of the highest levels of Infidelity and Cowardice (Hussein Anwar) - 08-feb-2010
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February 8, 2010 - ...The main objective is a Psychological war, they want to kill the Iraqi people's resistance by doing such a thing, the traitors told them that you will crush them down by violating and ruining the most precious diamond in every Arab man's life and that is his mother, sister, wife and daughter. The main objective is to HUMILIATE the Iraqi individual specifically and HUMILIATE the Arab individual in general, to deliberately degridate and humiliate the Iraqi female that resembles the Arab virtue. And this act of Infidelity is only one part of the process of erasing the Arab identity...
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'Hold inquiry into Army abuse in Iraq'
Judge calls for single investigation to cover 46 claims by civilians (By Robert Verkaik) - 08-feb-2010
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February 8, 2010 - Ministers have been told by a senior judge to consider opening an independent inquiry into all allegations of abuse made by Iraqi civilians against the British Army. The move could lead to the biggest investigation into military malpractice ever heard in this country. Mr Justice Silber, in a note written to lawyers acting for the Defence Secretary, Bob Ainsworth, has told the Government: "My provisional view is that I am uncertain what is to be gained by the Secretary of State continuing to contest these claims for investigation."...Samahir Abbas Hashim, 32, six months pregnant at the time of the alleged assault, claims she was so badly beaten by soldiers that she lost her baby... The allegations include claims that British troops subjected Iraqi prisoners to rape, sexual humiliation and torture...
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Iran: Student Facing Execution for Throwing Rocks (International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran) - 08-feb-2010
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February 8, 2010 - The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran today strongly condemned the prosecution of a young student activist, Mohammad Amin Valian, under the charge of Moharebeh, or "enmity against God," which is punishable by death and called the charges "grossly disproportionate." At least nine other protestors have been sentenced to death in similar unfair trials and are at risk of imminent execution. Five other protestors, including Valian, were prosecuted last week and face the death penalty if convicted. The main pieces of evidence used to convict the twenty-year old student are photographs showing him throwing rocks during Ashura protests...
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Video: Gazans recycle rubble to rebuild (Aljazeera.net) - 08-feb-2010
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February 8, 2010 - Palestinians have been forced to innovate ways to rebuild houses destroyed during last year’s war on Gaza. That is because an Israeli blockade is preventing construction materials from getting into the Gaza Strip. Many therefore are collecting rubble from destroyed homes, smuggling in cement from Egypt, and using the two to make concrete blocks. The quality of the concrete blocks is not as good as they should be. But desperate to rebuild homes, few are complaining...
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Two NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan bombing (AFP) - 08-feb-2010
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February 8, 2010— Two soldiers with NATO-led forces fighting Taliban-led insurgents were killed in a bomb explosion in southern Afghanistan, NATO said Monday. "Two ISAF service members died following an IED (improvised explosive device) strike in southern Afghanistan yesterday (Sunday)," NATO's International Security Assistance Force said. The latest deaths took to 61 the number of the foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan since the start of the year, according to an AFP count based on a tally kept by independent icasualties.org website...
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Dozens of Palestinians injured as Israelis raid refugee camp (RIA Novosti) - 08-feb-2010
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February 8, 2010 - Israel police injured dozens of Palestinians in violence that broke out after they raided a refugee camp on the edge of Jerusalem on Monday, a Palestinian news agency reported. Israeli police moved into the camp early on Monday to arrest tax evaders while Palestinians, mostly schoolchildren, retaliated in the afternoon by hurling stones. Over 10 people were detained, police said...
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Sheikh Jarrah settlers threaten Palestinians with M-16 for the second time in 8 days (International Solidarity Movement) - 08-feb-2010
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February 8, 2010 - Today at around 3PM, a settler named Yoni was caught spray painting a swastika on the Ghawi tent by an Palestinian who was driving by in his truck. The truck driver yelled at the settler, Yoni and called the police. When the police arrived they ignored the settler and accused neighborhood Palestinians of having painted the swastika. Palestinians painted over the swastika to prevent further accusations. Later, at 5.30 the settler came back again and this time accompanied with another settler dressed in army uniform...
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Stop the Wall offices hit in late night raid (Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign) - 08-feb-2010
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February 8, 2010 - Late last night Occupation forces raided the Stop the Wall offices in Ramallah. Some 10 military jeeps, hummers and an armoured bus surrounded the building as soldiers searched rooms, turning the office upside down and confiscating computer hard disks, laptops, and video cameras along with paper documents, CDs, and video cassettes. Part of the mounting repression of the anti-Wall movement, this attack on the Campaign offices comes after the arrests of Jamal Juma’ and Mohammed Othman, who were both were later released after significant international pressure. Other arrest operations are ongoing, and currently some 40 anti-Wall activists are held for their grassroots mobilizing and international advocacy efforts in Israeli jails...
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The three dead Guantanamo men crying for justice (Andrew Sullivan) - 08-feb-2010
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February 8, 2010 -... What really happened? I do not know. But it seems to me that these credible witnesses should have at least been interviewed by the NCIS; that the official story has gaping holes of logic; that the autopsies are beyond bizarre; and that the slightest possibility that something is amiss requires further investigation. If there is any chance that these prisoners were accidentally tortured to death and their deaths then covered up as suicide, this is the biggest story in the grim annals of the Bush-Cheney era since Abu Ghraib. And yet, other than to carry a brief synopsis from Associated Press, no main US newspaper has delved into the Harper’s cover-story. And indeed, a year ago Hickman and his fellows went to Obama’s justice department to explain what they believed needed to be investigated further. The FBI interviewed other witnesses who backed Hickman up. Last November, after months of waiting for a response, Hickman’s lawyer got a call from the justice department. The case was closed. The NCIS report stood. When Hickman’s lawyer asked why, he was told that Hickman’s conclusions "appeared" to be unsupported. This is the change we were asked to believe in...
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Health conditions of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails (Senussi Bsaikri) - 08-feb-2010
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February 8, 2010 - Since the beginning of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967 the number of Palestinians detained is in excess of 700,000 men, women and children, representing 20% of the Palestinians living in the Occupied Territories. The current number of prisoners and detainees is estimated at between 8,000 – 10,000 spread around 30 prisons and detention centres. This includes prisons in the desert, where prisoners are held in tents in the searing heat of the summer and bitter cold of winter...
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Military Resistance 8B3: Misspent Youth - 8 February 2010 (Thomas F. Barton) - 08-feb-2010
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A Military Resistance Exclusive: Congressman John Murtha Linked To War Profiteer Chosen By Army To Supply Inferior Plate Carrier Protection For Soldiers In Combat: KDH Defense Systems "Had The Assistance Of A Lobbying Firm That Employed Both Murtha’s Brother And His Former Appropriations Aide". Part 1: The Plate Carrier. "During A Raging Conflict In Afghanistan, The SSB Chose A New And Inferior System … Over A Proven, Superior And Currently Fielded System". "Army Armor Experts That Have Used The MBAV In Afghanistan Told Army Times They Agree With Miller That The Gap In KDH’s Soft Armor Is A Serious Concern". Sgt. Miller Says "This Decision Points To A Lack Of Common Sense". Pentagon Fool Says "We Can’t Just Go With MBAV Because It’s Out There And Battle-Proven".
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Destabilizing Pakistan (Tom Engelhardt & Pratap Chatterjee) - 08-feb-2010
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February 7, 2010 - Almost every day, reports come back from the CIA’s "secret" battlefield in the Pakistani tribal borderlands. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles -- that is, pilot-less drones -- shoot missiles (18 of themin a single attack on a tiny village last week) or drop bombs and then the news comes in: a certain number of al-Qaeda or Taliban leaders or suspected Arab or Uzbek or Afghan "militants"have died. The numbers are often remarkably precise. Sometimes they are attributed to U.S. sources, sometimes to the Pakistanis; sometimes, it’s hard to tell where the information comes from. In the Pakistani press, on the other hand, the numbers that come back are usually of civilian dead...
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HRW: Gaza inquiry fails war victims (Ma'an News) - 08-feb-2010
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February 7, 2010 - Israel has failed to demonstrate that it will conduct thorough and impartial investigations into alleged laws-of-war violations by its forces during last year's Gaza conflict, Human Rights Watch said on Sunday. An independent investigation is needed if perpetrators of abuse, including senior military and political officials who set policies that violated the laws of war, are to be held accountable, the New York-based group said...
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Emergency in Gaza
War doctor Mads Gilbert discusses the politics of health in the Occupied Territories (By Humera Jabir) - 08-feb-2010
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February 7, 2010 - Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse became the eyes of the world in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli invasion of December 2008. As the only two foreign doctors in Gaza when the fighting broke out, Gilbert and Fosse reported to CNN, Al-Jazeera, ABC, BBC, and CBS from outside al-Shifa hospital where they worked, allowing the world to see the conflict through the eyes of those affected. Gilbert spoke to students Friday night at an event hosted by the McGill chapter of Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights. Gilbert described the interwoven nature of politics and medicine, and his belief that health is the most important foreign policy issue of our time. Gilbert’s political opinions stand out in a profession where neutrality is often the expected norm. But in his view, to be neutral would be tantamount to complicity – putting his patients in further danger. He has argued that the wall separating Gaza from Israel is a dividing line between those who have the right to health care and those who do not, and that pushing for an end to violence and the blockade of Gaza is just "good preventative medicine."...
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Hypocrisy in Haiti (Aijaz Zaka Syed) - 08-feb-2010
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February 7, 2010 - Israeli hypocrisy would be comical, if its consequences weren’t so tragic. These days, Israeli media and Israel’s powerful friends in the media in the United States have been tom-tomming about the noble help and rescue mission Israelis have undertaken in the remote, quake-hit island of Haiti. Doubtless, the catastrophe that has hit Haiti is truly mind-boggling and terrifying. The all-round devastation the island has suffered is beyond words. This is perhaps how our world would look like when the End comes. And one hates to make a political point out of this terrible, terrible human tragedy. But you can’t help it when you come across the kind of hypocrisy that Israel displays in Haiti...
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Israeli army raids Ramallah to arrest international activists in violation of Oslo Accords (International Solidarity Movement) - 08-feb-2010
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February 7, 2010 - Israeli soldiers raided a Ramallah apartment around 3AM to arrest a Spanish and an Australian activist over expired visas in direct violation of the Oslo Accords. At three in the morning, the Israeli army forcefully entered an apartment in the Area A city of Ramallah and arrested two activists from the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) on suspicion of overstaying their visas. The two, Ariadna Jove Marti, a Spanish journalist, and Bridgette Chappell, an Australian student in the Beir Zeit university, were then taken to the Ofer military prison located inside the Occupied Territories, where they were handed over to the Israeli immigration police unit "Oz"...
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Deported international activist appeals against her illegal arrest (International Solidarity Movement) - 08-feb-2010
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February 7, 2010 - The lawyer of Eva Nováková, the former International Solidarity Movement (ISM) media coordinator, who was taken from her apartment in Ramallah on 11 January 2010 and subsequently deported, filed an appeal to the Supreme Court of Justice today to challenge the legality of her arrest. The official reason given by the Israeli authorities was that Eva Nováková overstayed her visa. However, her lawyer argues that by invading Ramallah the Oz unit, which is a part of the Israeli Ministry of the Interior, acted against the law as they do not have jurisdiction over areas with full Palestinian civilian control...
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