Bound, blindfolded and beaten – by Israeli troops

On 28 June, 2009, in Current events, by joe

Tony Blair and Gordon Brown to Blame Over Iraq War, says Army Report
By Rupert Hamer
Flawed US plans were rubberstamped by Blair. Brown blocked vital funding for five months.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22933.htm
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7 Years In Chains
Detained At 14, Tortured and Released At 21
Video
El-Gharani was treated with appalling brutality. After being tortured in Pakistani custody, he was sold to US forces, who flew him to a prison at Kandahar airport, where, he said, one particular soldier “would hold my penis, with scissors, and say he’d cut it off.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22926.htm
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“Even Guantánamo Bay Is Better Than This.”
By William Fisher
“They did things that you would not do against animals let alone to humans,” said one inmate.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22925.htm
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Change.. What Change?
White House Weighs Order on Detention
By Dafna Linzer and Peter Finn
Officials: Move Would Reassert Power To Hold Terror Suspects Indefinitely.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22927.htm
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Does The West Really Understand What Goes On In Iran?
By Nasima Yamchi
Mr. Khatami showed his real allegiance when he did not support the demonstrations of university students in defending freedom of speech in Iran. Mr. Mousavi also has been silent when more radical move is required to confront the repression of the regime. Both of them sacrificed their followers when the protests reveal the extent of dissatisfaction of the majority of young people, who form more than 60% of the population.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22928.htm
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Ajax Redux
US Heavy Meddle in Iran
By Lord Baltimore
The Western press has clearly taken a side and has successfully managed to drag its uninformed audience along with it. News reports all refer to the continuing groundswell of protest to the election results as an “unprecedented” show of courage, resistance, and people power against the government not seen in Iran since the 1979 revolution. But what we have seen this past week seems to have far more in common with the events of fifty-six years ago, rather than just thirty.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22930.htm
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A Fight For The Amazon That Should Inspire The World
The uprising In the Amazon is more urgent than Iran’s – it will determine the future of the planet
By Johann Hari
While the world nervously watches the uprising in Iran, an even more important uprising has been passing unnoticed – yet its outcome will shape your fate, and mine.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22932.htm
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A Bloodless Coup
The Transition From Democracy To A Bnk-run Society
By Mike Whitney
The banks created the financial crisis, and now they are its biggest beneficiaries. They don’t need to worry about risk, because Bernanke has assured them that they will be bailed out regardless of the cost.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22931.htm
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Obama must call off this folly before Afghanistan becomes his Vietnam:
Senseless slaughter and anti-western hysteria are all America and Britain’s billions have paid for in a counterproductive war
http://snipurl.com/l29e4
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Odierno: U.S. troops already out of Iraqi cities:
The top US commander in Iraq says the U.S. military has already reached its goal of withdrawing from Iraqi cities by the end of the month.
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/06/28/odierno-iraqis-ready-for-handover/
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U.S. forces to continue patrolling in Basra after June 30:
U.S. forces will continue their patrols in Basra even after the U.S. forces withdrawal from Iraqi cities by June 30, 2009, said the head of the U.S. Provincial Reconstruction Team (P.R.T.) in the province, explaining that the patrols are essential for his team’s protection.
http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=115298
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Leader warns West, says Iran sees solution in law:
The Leader said Sunday that legal measures were the only solution to the issues that the country has been facing since the 10th presidential elections on June 12. “The people’s emotions, especially that of the youth, must not be toyed with and they should not be pitted against one another as the Iranian nation, regardless of the differences of opinion, is a united nation that has good relations with the [Islamic] establishment.”
http://presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=99256&sectionid=351020101
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British embassy staff arrested in Iran:
Iranian security officials have arrested eight local staff members of the British embassy for inflaming post-election tensions in the country.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=99243&sectionid=351020101
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UK calls embassy detentions in Iran ‘unacceptable’:
David Miliband, condemned the detention of British Embassy employees in Iran, which he said occurred Saturday. He said Britain has protested to Iranian authorities.
http://snipurl.com/l29kw
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Iran releases ‘some British Embassy staff’:
“The British Embassy played a crucial role in the recent (post-election) unrest both through its local staff and via media,” IRNA quoted Intelligence Minister Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i as saying on Sunday.
http://presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=99274&sectionid=351020101
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UN public hearing in Gaza broadcasts accounts of war victims:
“In a single instant we had all of our joys replaced with blood,” he said. “There was a severe whistling in my ears and a pillar of smoke and dust and that obliterated what happened. When I looked up I found I had lost both my legs. I was sprawled over the body of my own brother. I looked for my father and others, and I found them motionless. Most of them were dead.”
http://snipurl.com/l29md
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Bound, blindfolded and beaten – by Israeli troops:
Children among Palestinian detainees abused during West Bank operation, according to soldiers’ confessions
http://snipurl.com/l29n2
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Israel to register 34,348 acres near WB settlement:
The sparsely populated desert region is mostly inhabited by Arab Bedouin tribes, who have been expelled during previous expansions of the settlement, the boundaries of which already extend to the Jordan Valley.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=20096\28\story_28-6-2009_pg4_7
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Eritrea now slams US on weapons for Mogadishu:
Washington official says US provided about 40 tonnes of weapons and ammunition
http://snipurl.com/l29p8
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World’s largest refugee camp keeps growing:
The bloody conflict in Somalia has created the world’s largest refugee camp, with 500 hungry and exhausted refugees pouring into this wind-swept camp in neighboring Kenya every day, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31569565/ns/world_news-africa/
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Honduran President Zelaya Is Arrested by Troops :
Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was taken into custody by soldiers and flown to Costa Rica after he tried unsuccessfully to fire the head of the central American nation’s armed forces.
http://snipurl.com/l29ta
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Soldiers detain Honduran president:
The Honduran army ousted President Manuel Zelaya and threw him out of the country in Central America’s first military coup since the Cold War, after he upset the army by trying to win re-election. US President Barack Obama has expressed deep concern after troops came for Mr Zelaya, an ally of leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, at dawn and took him away from his residence.
http://snipurl.com/l29qp
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Honduras president condemns ‘plot’:
Manuel Zelaya, the president of Honduras, has called for “peaceful resistance” after the country’s military forced him to leave the country. – “I think that this has been a plot by an elite whose only wish is to keep the country isolated and in total poverty.”
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/06/2009628155845590287.html
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Honduras’s Zelaya says US helped thwart coup-paper:
Honduran President Manuel Zelaya told Spain’s El Pais that a planned attempt to wrest power him was thwarted after the United States declined to back the move.
http://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSLS355357
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Change….. What change?
Obama issues signing statement on $106B war bill:
The Obama administration announced in the statement it would disregard provisions of the legislation that, among other things, would compel the Obama administration to pressure the World Bank to strengthen labor and environmental standards
http://snipurl.com/l29zo
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Change….. What change?
Indefinite prison time for detainees?:
Under the proposal, detainees considered too dangerous to prosecute or release would be kept in confinement in the U.S. or possibly overseas, two administration officials said Friday.
http://snipurl.com/l2a0h
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British Rum Maker Got a $2.7 Billion Payout from TARP:
I’m getting so tired of these stories. I mean, what’s the point? Americans are perfectly happy to stay home and watch TV while our elected officials rob us blind and we struggle along without needed health care:
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/british-rum-maker-got-27-billion-payo
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Mounting U.S. jobless claims force states to borrow:
The lengthy recession has proved discouraging for the swelling ranks of unemployed Americans, and forced U.S. states obligated to pay them jobless benefits to pile debt on their already strained budgets.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2632992220090626
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