A Brothel… Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues Have you ever loved ? Like seriously loved someone ? If you have, do you remember what it felt like ? Do you remember when you were like a tiger/tigress when anyone approached your love and tried harming it ? Do you remember how you were so protective, jealous over the one you really loved ? Do you remember how you cherished it day after day, night after night…Do you remember how you embraced it, watched over it, guarded its best interests ? It refers to the object of your l ove and not in a pejorative sense either. Well, that’s the way I feel about Her, about Iraq… Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=55648

Youngest prisoner in the world – Yousif, 17 months from Leeds to Palestine Yousif Rizq was born in an Israeli jail, to his incarcerated Palestinian mother, Fatima Rizq. Fatima had accompanied her niece who travelled to Israel for treatment in May 2007. Whilst they were waiting to cross into Israel in Beit Hanoun checkpoint in Gaza, they were arrested. She had thought that it was a mistake on behalf of the Israelis because of her name but to no avail. She was surprised to find out she was pregnant but the Israelis did not take this into consideration when sentencing her. Yousif’s father, Mohammad Rizq, is still unable to visit his son because the Israelis did not allow him due to him being a resident of Gaza… Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=55649

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The Truth Behind The Iraq “Sovereignty” Propaganda Hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops to remain stationed at dozens of U.S. military bases throughout the country by Paul Joseph Watson …According to Websters dictionary, “sovereignty” is defined as “freedom from external control”. Anyone who believes that Iraq is a sovereign country and has “freedom from external control,” or will ever achieve it while hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops are stationed at dozens of bases throughout the country, probably stil l believes that Saddam was hiding weapons of mass destruction… Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=55657

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Masters of hypocrisy By Khalid Amayreh in occupied East Jerusalem I have no doubt whatsoever that Shimon Peres, the President of the criminal state of Israel , would be the main winner in any international championship for the world’s worst liar and hypocrite. This week, Peres participated in an interfaith conference in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan , where he had the audacity to lecture delegates representing the world’s major religions on peace, human dignity, moral ethics and religious tolerance… Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=55659

John Yoo, Donald Rumsfeld and the Systematic Torture of Prisoners Jason Leopold On January 17, 2003, Mary Walker, the Air Force general counsel, received an urgent memo from the Pentagon’s top attorney. Attached to the classified document was a set of directives drafted two days earlier by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. “Establish a working group within the Department of Defense to assess the legal, policy and operational issues relating to the interrogations of detainees held by the US Armed Forces in the war on t errorism,” the directives said. Among the issues to be addressed were “policy considerations with respect to the choice of interrogation techniques, including contribution to intelligence collection, effect on treatment of captured US military personnel, effect on detainee prosecutions, historical role of US armed forces in conducting interrogations, recommendations for employment of particular interrogation techniques by [Defense Department] interrogators.”… Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=55651

Marines suffer first casualties in Afghan campaign By JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press Writer U.S. Marines suffered their first casualties of a massive new military campaign Thursday as they engaged in sporadic gunbattles along 55 miles of Taliban-controlled heartland in southern Afghanistan. One Marine was killed and several others were injured or wounded on the first full day of the assault, the largest military operation in Afghanistan since the fall of Taliban government in 2001. The offensive will test the Obama adm inistration’s new strategy of holding territory and letting the Afghan government sink roots in Helmand province. The insurgency has proven particularly resilient in this area, where foreign troops have never before operated in such large numbers… Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=55653

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Future of Fatah in Doubt Analysis by Mel Frykberg The future of Palestinian unity talks is far more complex than the bitter rivalry, bloodshed and division which represent the yawning chasm separating Palestine’s two main political factions, Hamas and Fatah. There are serious issues within Fatah that need to be resolved. After two decades of power struggles and acrimony within the organisation, Fatah’s Revolutionary Council has agreed to hold its sixth general conference Aug. 4 in Bethlehem in the Palestinian West Bank. F atah, founded in 1964, is affiliated with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority (PA), which controls the West Bank… Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=55654

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Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory No. 26/2009 (25 June- 01 July 2009) PCHR – Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Israeli violations of international law and humanitarian law in the OPT continued during the reporting period (25 June – 01 July 2009): Shooting: During the reporting period, 5 Palestinian civilians, including 4 children, were wounded by IOF gunfire in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. On 01 July 2009, 4 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children, wer e wounded when IOF soldiers waiting in an ambush to the south of Nablus fired at them… Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=55655