Monthly Archives: December 2006

STOP ALL the clocks

Posted on December 31, 2006 by sayaf87

By Iain Macwhirter .  He is dead. Saddam Hussein had a rather good death, and dictators shouldn’t have good deaths. He went to the gallows in dignity, holding the Koran, urging reconciliation, his head uncovered amid his captors’ balaclavas. The … Continue reading →

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Robert Fisk: A dictator created then destroyed by America

Posted on December 29, 2006 by sayaf87

Published: 30 December 2006 Saddam to the gallows. It was an easy equation. Who could be more deserving of that last walk to the scaffold – that crack of the neck at the end of a rope – than the Beast … Continue reading →

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فصل شرف العالم غناه بعمله

Posted on December 29, 2006 by sayaf87

  كتاب – صيد الخاطر-الشيخ الإمام العالم أبو الفرج عبد الرحمن بن علي بن محمد بن الجوزي رحمة الله عليه رأيت من أعظم حيل الشيطان ومكره أن يحيط أرباب الأموال بالآمال والتشاغل باللذات فإذا علقهم بالمال – تحريضاً على جمعه وحثا … Continue reading →

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Israel admits it may have hit ambulance

Posted on December 28, 2006 by sayaf87

  Mark Dodd December 27, 2006 THE Israeli army has admitted its soldiers may have fired on a Red Cross ambulance during the war in Lebanon – an incident Foreign Minister Alexander Downer claimed was a hoax that had duped … Continue reading →

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ADL Breaks With Pack On Church-State

Posted on December 28, 2006 by sayaf87

 oxman signals shift in tactics with attack on Evangelical power in U.S.   James D. Besser/Washington – Washington Correspondent Warning that the Evangelical right has made alarming gains in social and political influence, a leading Jewish church-state watchdog is calling for … Continue reading →

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End of the Strongmen

Posted on December 28, 2006 by sayaf87

Do America and Israel Want the Middle East Engulfed By Civil War? By JONATHAN COOK – Counterpunch December 19, 2006 The era of the Middle East strongman, propped up by and enforcing Western policy, appears well and truly over. His … Continue reading →

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Israeli freed by Hezbollah in 2004 admits drug deal

Posted on December 20, 2006 by sayaf87

he Associated Press Published: December 20, 2006   JERUSALEM: Elhanan Tannenbaum, an Israeli reserve colonel abducted in 2000 in Lebanon in murky circumstances and held in captivity by Hezbollah for more than three years, admitted Wednesday for the first time … Continue reading →

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Woman beaten on Jerusalem bus for refusing to move to rear seat

Posted on December 19, 2006 by sayaf87

By Daphna Berman A woman who reported a vicious attack by an ad-hoc "modesty patrol" on a Jerusalem bus last month is now lining up support for her case and may be included in a petition to the High Court … Continue reading →

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USA gives piece of counterproductive advice to Palestinians

Posted on December 19, 2006 by sayaf87

  Regardless of good will or bad faith, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ decision to go without national consensus to early presidential and parliamentary elections was divisive, counterproductive and conforms to U.S.-Israeli plans to remove the Islamic Resistance Movement “Hamas” from … Continue reading →

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Diplomat’s suppressed document lays bare the lies behind Iraq war

Posted on December 15, 2006 by sayaf87

By Colin Brown and Andy McSmith Published: 15 December 2006 The Government’s case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. … Continue reading →

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