I am found of what happens in Middle East. Here I recollect and comment such eventsa.

ACLU on Obama: Normalizing Bush’s Radicalism (Sana) - 31-jul-2010

July 30, 2010 - The American Civil Liberties Union just released a report on the performance of the Obama administration on issues relating to national security, civil liberties, and human rights....But, as the report goes on to state early on, these practical and impressive actions fell short of providing any indication of a long-term commitment to changing eight years of unabashed assaults on American national security, civil liberties and human rights under the Bush administration. Rather, the ACLU argues, the emerging trend of the last 18 months that this administration has been in power is one that is far more dangerous than that presented by the previous administration as the Obama administration seeks 'to normalize that which was radical under George W. Bush.’...

The Anatomy of a Massacre (Malcom Lagauche) - 31-jul-2010

July 30, 2010 - Twenty years ago, the Middle East was an entirely different entity from the area of today. No U.S. troops were stationed in Arab countries. Iraq and Iran had just finished a bloody eight-year war. Iraq was rebuilding its economy and the nation had a bright future. Then, on August 2, 1990, Iraqi troops crossed the border of Kuwait. The Kuwaitis, in collaboration with the U.S. and their silent partners, Israel, began a propaganda campaign that surpassed those of any in recent history. Iraq had a legitimate gripe with Kuwait and thought the Kuwaitis would sit down at the bargaining table if Iraqi troops crossed the border. Iraq was wrong. Kuwait and the US had begun to plan the destruction of Iraq in 1987 and now was the chance the U.S. was awaiting to control the Arab world with troops on the ground. Shortly after the August 2 intrusion of Iraqi troops, Saudi Arabia became a launching pad for the US military in the Arab world. Soon, it will be the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the end for the country of Iraq. Let’s go back to those days and also look at the preposterous events that followed that doomed Iraq’s fate...

Iraqis to sue US firm at Abu Ghraib (AlJazeera.net) - 31-jul-2010

July 30, 2010 - A US court has given the green light to 72 Iraqis to proceed with a lawsuit against a private contractor accused of complicity in the alleged abuse of detainees at the US-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. US District Judge Peter Messitte ruled that the Iraqis can proceed in their case against L3 Communications and its unit formerly known as Titan Group, which provided interpreters to the US army in Iraq after the US invasion...The 72 former prisoners released after being imprisoned for between one month and four years from 2003 to 2008, accuse L3 employees of beatings, torture, sexual aggression, the use of electric shock, mock executions and hangings from their feet...

Damage Control: Downplaying WikiLeaks Revelations (by Stephen Lendman) - 31-jul-2010

July 30, 2010 - When truths are too disturbing to conceal, downplay them, change the subject, and blame others, not responsible Washington officials and key allies, culpable politicians and media misinformation masters suppressing and misreporting the facts, their well-oiled spin machine counterattacking WikiLeaks — revelations too sensitive to explain, a potential game-changer otherwise, so pundits and reporters duck them. Above all, WikiLeaks "Afghan War Diaries" are a powerful indictment of wars, their true face, the mindless daily slaughter and destruction too disturbing to reveal, for Julian Assange: "the vast sweep of abuses, everyday squalor and carnage of war… one sort of kill after another every day going on and on and on… one damn thing after another… (endless) small events, the continuous deaths of children, insurgents, allied forces… (many) thousands" of war crimes needing exposure, accountability, and prosecutions....

'Whistleblower' transferred to US (AlJazeera.net) - 31-jul-2010

July 30, 2010 - The US army intelligence specialist accused of handing a secret military videos to WikikLeaks website has been moved from Kuwait to Quantic Marine base in the US, the US military has said. Private first class Bradley Manning, 22, arrived at the military base in Virginia on Thursday night where he will be held while awaiting trial for leaking military intelligence, after he was transfered from Camp Arifjan in Kuwait, the army said in a statement on Friday...Al Jazeera's Rosiland Jordan, reporting from Washington, said that Manning could potentially face the death penalty if he is convicted with leaking the Afghan information in addition to the Iraq video...

Report: Settler violence continues in south Hebron hills (Ma'an news) - 31-jul-2010

July 30, 2010 - Israeli settlers destroyed a field of vegetables in a Bedouin village in the southern West Bank on Wednesday night, international peace groups reported. During the night, a report said, a Palestinian farmer from Um Al-Kher village in the south Hebron hills heard noises from his garden, and thought there were animals inside. On inspection, he saw settlers walking through his field, but did not approach them for fear they were armed, he told Christian Peacemaker Teams and Operation Dove, who maintain a presence in the area...

Torture by U.S. Was Widespread (by Sherwood Ross) - 30-jul-2010

July 30, 2010 - Although U.S. officials have attributed the torture of Muslim prisoners in their custody to a handful of maverick guards, in fact such criminal acts were widely perpetrated and systemic, likely involving large numbers of military personnel, a book by a survivor suggests. Additionally, guards were responsible for countless acts of murder, including death by crucifixion, lynching, poisoning, snakebite, withholding of medicines, starvation, and bludgeoning of innocent victims. And the murders committed by U.S. troops numbered at least in the hundreds, according to reliable sources...

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