uruknet.info
  اوروكنت.إنفو
     
    informazione dal medio oriente
    information from middle east
    المعلومات من الشرق الأوسط

[ home page] | [ tutte le notizie/all news ] | [ download banner] | [ ultimo aggiornamento/last update 21/05/2013 05:18 ] -9

[ Voluntary translators from Arabic into English are welcomed. Click on "contact". ]

english italiano

  [ Subscribe our newsletter!   -   Iscriviti alla nostra newsletter! ]  





Uruknet on Alexa


End Gaza Siege
End Gaza Siege

>

:: Segnala Uruknet agli amici. Clicka qui.
:: Invite your friends to Uruknet. Click here.




:: Segnalaci un articolo
:: Tell us of an article




:: ONU - XX Assemblea Generale (1965):
La XX Assemblea Generale dell’ONU (1965) dichiara "la legittimità della lotta da parte dei popoli sotto oppressione coloniale, per esercitare il loro diritto all' autodeter-
minazione e all'indipendenza".
Inoltre, l'Assemblea invita "tutti gli Stati a fornire assistenza morale e materiale ai movimenti di liberazione nazionale nei territori coloniali".

:: ONU - Risoluzione 1514
"L'Assemblea Generale dichiara che: la soggezione dei popoli a dominio straniero, conquista e asservimento costituisce una negazione dei diritti umani fondamentali, è contraria alla Carta delle Nazioni Unite ed è un impedimento alla promozione della pace e della cooperazione mondiali.
Tutti i popoli hanno diritto all' autodeter-
minazione; in virtù di tale diritto essi devono liberamente determinare il loro status politico e liberamente perseguire il loro sviluppo economico, sociale e culturale".

:: Convenzione di Ginevra, Protocollo Addizionale I (1977):
La lotta armata può essere usata, come ultima risorsa, come mezzo per esercitare il diritto all' autodeter-
minazione.

:: Tribunale penale internazionale
In base allo Statuto del Tribunale penale internazionale, sono definiti “crimini di guerra”:
(1) attacchi lanciati intenzionalmente contro popolazione civili in quanto tali o contro civili che non prendano direttamente parte alle ostilità;
(4) attacchi lanciati intenzionalmente nella consapevolezza che gli stessi avranno come conseguenza la perdita di vite umane tra la popolazione civile, e lesioni a civili o danni a proprietà civili ovvero danni diffusi duraturi e gravi all’ambiente naturale che siano manifestamente eccessivi rispetto all’insieme dei concreti e diretti i vantaggi militari previsti.

:: Iraq anthem
(click to listen)




Previous news

Radicalized = Weaponized = Kill at Will
Glen Ford

May 15, 2013 - Like all advanced police states, the U.S. national security regime has begun speaking its own, degenerate language. It is a mode of speech that simultaneously defines the "enemy" and justifies his or her destruction. The soulless, bureaucratic roots of National Security Speech belie the ruthless intent, which is to make the utter destruction of the targeted group or individual appear to be the natural order of things. "Self-radicalization" is one of the terms coined by national security speakers. To people like President Obama, a guy who adds targets to his Kill List every Tuesday, "self-radicalization" represents a grave threat to the American state. "One of the dangers that we now face," said Obama, in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, "are self-radicalized individuals who are already in the United States," because it is difficult to prevent them from carrying out "plots."...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [97636] [ 17-may-2013 19:41 ECT ]

Gunmen attack Baghdad liquor stores, 12 killed
Reuters

May 15, 2013 - Gunmen using silenced weapons attacked at least nine liquor stores in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing 12 people, police and medical sources said.Police sources said the attack targeted a row of stores selling alcohol in Zayona district of eastern Baghdad, which has a majority Shi'ite population.Even though most people shun alcohol, forbidden under Islamic law, Iraq is a generally less conservative Muslim society than neighbours such as Saudi Arabia and Iran, thanks to its mix of Shi'ites, Sunnis, ethnic Kurds and Christians. But Islamist parties have risen to the fore since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 after the U.S.-led invasion and many fear they could encourage hardline Islamists to exert more influence over aspects of Iraqi life...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [97635] [ 17-may-2013 19:35 ECT ]

New Guantanamo policy: Genital "pat down"
Jason Leopold

May 15, 2013 - A new policy has been implemented at Guantanamo that calls for prisoners to submit to a "pat down" of their genitals and buttocks when they leave the detention camps to meet with their lawyers, an official here confirmed Tuesday.Navy Captain. Robert Durand, a Guantanamo spokesman, told Al Jazeera the new procedures were introduced about two weeks ago in an effort to stave off the alleged flow of "contraband" into the detention camps. It’s one of several new strict protocols that went into effect at the detention facility since February. David Remes, a Washington, DC-based human rights attorney who represents more than a dozen Yemeni prisoners, said the new policy amounts to "religious humiliation" and is a clear-cut attempt to break the nearly four-month-old hunger strike involving at least 100 prisoners...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97634] [ 17-may-2013 19:19 ECT ]

Does This Not Outrage You?
The Revolting Syrian-يلا إرحل يا بشار

May 15, 2013 - Much has been said over the past two days in the world press about a sick video showing an FSA commander tearing the heart out of a dead Hezbullah fighter (sent to murder Syrians) in Qusayr, Homs and then eating it.
The video is vile. The act is vicious. The cannibalism is inexcusable. However, the 'outrage’ over this video has been proclaimed by Human Rights Watch to be "the most disgusting atrocity filmed in the Syrian Civil War". Human Rights Watch is also quoted in dozens of the world’s most widely read newspapers, television programs and news media networks stating the same. The media in general has taken the same attitude, saying that this single video, is the worst thing to have befallen the Syrian Revolution (they incorrectly call it a civil war). Honestly? This video is the worst you people have seen come out of Syria? If that’s the case, then allow me to educate you for a moment.Countless keyboard pontificators, armchair generals, faux-leftists and of course, Assad’s supporters have pounced on this video, waved it like a flag in the wind, and declared that every Syrian who is not on Assad’s side of the massacre (again, not civil war) is a 'dirty cannibal terrorist’. And yes, they apply that label to babies, children, women, the elderly and the 90,000+ martyrs that Assad’s forces have killed since March 2011...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97632] [ 17-may-2013 19:09 ECT ]

Right of Return still key – Nakba Day demonstrations violently suppressed by Israeli forces
International Solidarity Movement

May 15, 2013 - The 15th May marks the 65th anniversary of the expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and the destruction – and massacre in some cases – of more than 500 Palestinian villages by Zionist forces in 1948. 65 years on, the same Zionist project of expelling the indigenous population of Palestine continues. House demolitions, land confiscation, settlement expansion, military occupation, restriction of movement and systematic bombing of the Gaza Strip are aimed at ethnically cleansing Palestine for the sake of the Zionist dream: Greater Israel. Palestinians from different villages and cities across the West Bank, Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and refugee camps in neighbouring Arab countries have commemorated the 65th anniversary of the Nakba, claiming once again their right of return to their land, their homes and their history...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97631] [ 17-may-2013 18:31 ECT ]

Watch: “From Al-Araqib to Susiya” - Palestinians highlight Israel’s ongoing efforts to expel them
Ali Abunimah

May 15, 2013 - Today, 15 May, Nakba Day, Palestinians everywhere mark the 65th anniversary of their continuing expulsion and exile from their homeland.A new short film, released to mark this date, features Palestinians talking about their experiences of ongoing forced removal from their lands and homes by Israel.The film "documents a journey between the two villages and two communities, whose very existence on their land is under threat today" according to Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, which produced it."It also demonstrates how, in the face of a single Israeli policy to forcibly displace Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line, the people are drawing on deep reserves of courage and steadfastness to remain on their land."...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97630] [ 17-may-2013 18:10 ECT ]

US drone strikes: 'deadly and dirty' warns new book
Richard Norton-Taylor

May 15, 2013- Not long after he was elected president, Barack Obama arranged what senior US officials called "Terror Tuesdays". On the agenda were "kill lists" — names of individuals whose perceived threat to America's security made them targets for assassination by unmanned drone attacks in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. The kill lists, scrutinised personally by Obama at the weekly meetings, were soon expanded to become what US journalist Jeremy Scahill, author of Dirty Wars, calls a form of "pre-crime" justice where individuals are considered fair game if they met certain life patterns of suspected terrorists...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97629] [ 17-may-2013 17:46 ECT ]

65th Commemoration: Ongoing Nakba and Secondary Forcible Displacement
BADIL - Resource Center for Palestinian Residencyand Refugee Rights

May 15, 2013- Of the 11.4 million Palestinians worldwide, 66% are forcible displaced, (refugees and internally displaced people) and over half live in the Shatat (forced exile). Instead of an event relegated to history, the Nakba continues into its 65th year – the central source for the annual increase of these displacement statistics.In the past year, for example, Israeli colonization, occupation and apartheid have targeted the indigenous presence of Palestinians particularly in Jerusalem, Area C of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip Buffer Zone and the Naqab. On 6 May 2013, Israel approved the Prawer Plan, which threatens to forcibly displace up to 70,000 Palestinian Bedouin in the Naqab. On the same day, Israel issued 11 home demolition orders in Deir Nidham village near Ramallah, which, if carried out, will make 40 Palestinians homeless. On large and small scales, the displacement of the ongoing Nakba repeats the original crime and tragedy producing Palestinian refugees and Internally Displaced Persons annually...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [97628] [ 17-may-2013 17:41 ECT ]

The major sea change in media discussions of Obama and civil liberties
Glenn Greenwald

May 15, 2013- Due to the controversies over the IRS and (especially) the DOJ's attack on AP's news gathering process, media outlets have suddenly decided that President Obama has a very poor record on civil liberties, transparency, press freedoms, and a whole variety of other issues on which he based his first campaign. The first two paragraphs of this Washington Post article from yesterday, expressed in tones of recent epiphany, made me laugh audibly: "President Obama, a former constitutional law lecturer who came to office pledging renewed respect for civil liberties, is today running an administration at odds with his résumé and preelection promises. "The Justice Department's collection of journalists' phone records and the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups have challenged Obama's credibility as a champion of civil liberties - and as a president who would heal the country from damage done by his predecessor." You don't say! The Washington Post's breaking news here is only about four years late...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97627] [ 17-may-2013 17:35 ECT ]

How the US Turned Three Pacifists into Violent Terrorists
by Fran Quigley

May 15, 2013- In just ten months, the United States managed to transform an 82 year-old Catholic nun and two pacifists from non-violent anti-nuclear peace protestors accused of misdemeanor trespassing into federal felons convicted of violent crimes of terrorism. Now in jail awaiting sentencing for their acts at an Oak Ridge, TN nuclear weapons production facility, their story should chill every person concerned about dissent in the US. Here is how it happened. In the early morning hours of Saturday June 28, 2012, long-time peace activists Sr. Megan Rice, 82, Greg Boertje-Obed, 57, and Michael Walli, 63, cut through the chain link fence surrounding the Oak Ridge Y-12 nuclear weapons production facility and trespassed onto the property. Y-12, called the Fort Knox of the nuclear weapons industry, stores hundreds of metric tons of highly enriched uranium and works on every single one of the thousands of nuclear weapons maintained by the U.S...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97626] [ 17-may-2013 17:27 ECT ]

On Political Preconditions
Richard Falk

May 15, 2013- To the extent that diplomacy solves international problems it depends on the satisfaction of the political preconditions that must be met for negotiations betweensovereign states to reach sustainable and benevolent results. To clarify the point, in situations where there is a clear winner and loser, political preconditions are irrelevant, as the winner can dictate the terms, either imposing them as was done after World War II in response to the unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan, or offering proposals on a 'take it or leave it’ basis. This is what Israel has attempted to do over the course of the twenty years that the Oslo Framework, the Roadmap, and the Quartet, have provided the ground rules for diplomacy with respect to Israel/Palestine negotiations. Israel has performed as if the winner, and expected Palestine to act as if the loser, but so far this scenario has not produced the desired outcome, a 'peace’ essentially framed in accordance with Israel’s priorities (retaining settlements by critical land swaps, annexing the whole of Jerusalem, maintaining access to West Bank aquifers, ignoring refugees, de-linking Gaza)...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97625] [ 17-may-2013 05:15 ECT ]

Without return, Palestine will not be free
by Abir Kopty

May 15, 2013- Many often express solidarity with Palestinians speaking only about ending the occupation that started in 1967, ignoring the root of the problem: the ethnic cleansing of 78% of historic Palestine in 1948. The occupation in 1967 was simply a completion of the plan.Palestinian refugees (5.3 million) along with the internally displaced Palestinians, citizens of Israel who are not allowed to go back to their villages (250,000), compose about half of the Palestinian nation (11.6 million). Does it make sense to be in solidarity with a nation by ignoring rights of half of them? ..
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97624] [ 17-may-2013 05:08 ECT ]

Nakba 2013: The Palestinian Youth Movement Commemorates 65 Years of Al Nakba (Introduction)
by Jennifer Moghannam & Palestinian Youth Movement

May 15, 2013 - The fifteenth of May 2013 marks the sixty-fifth commemoration of the day the oppressive Zionist state came into being. It also marks sixty-five years from the beginning of our collective fragmentation and simultaneous resistance. This current period that we are living also marks a significant shift in our history not only as Palestinians, but as Arabs, colonized, and young people of today’s world. While there are strong sentiments of brokenness and rupture of Palestinian and Arab communities, we also must recognize, reflect on, and celebrate our histories of resistance and use these narratives as fuel for creating a new and strong resistance for our generation and those that follow. While this current period might be among the most difficult to navigate, it also creates flexibility and possibilities for a creative resurgence of a legacy that will lead us to our liberation and return. ..
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97623] [ 17-may-2013 05:03 ECT ]

Why doesn't Syria retaliate against Israel?
Omar Kosh

May 15, 2013 - .. . The Syrian government has not responded to any of these attacks on its sovereignty, opting to limit itself to strong statements condemning Israel, including the caveat that "Syria reserves the right to respond at the right time and place". Subsequent inaction is defended by the claim that "Israel is trying to drag Syria into a war", code for "the government is alert and won't fall into an Israeli trap".Such inaction by the regime in Damascus can be explained very easily by the fact that the Israeli attacks were not meant to overthrow the government and what is of prime importance to Bashar Al-Assad is to maintain power and keep his regime intact. As such, attacks on the people of Syria and the country itself can be tolerated as long as the regime is not threatened....It should be obvious, therefore, that the Syrian regime no longer cares for attacks on the territorial sovereignty of the country and is concentrated on tackling internal opposition. This gives Israel a free hand to attack at will in its own interests, safe in the knowledge that it will neither be criticised in the international arena nor will it face any retaliation from the regime in Damascus...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97622] [ 17-may-2013 04:57 ECT ]

Facebook closes accounts commemorating Palestinian Nakba
Middle East Monitor

May 15, 2013 -The social networking website Facebook has closed down accounts opened by Palestinian-Israelis to commemorate the Nakba (Catastrophe) of 1948. Pages established by the Jaffa Youth Movement were targeted specifically.Aljazeera.net reported that Facebook had earlier this year blocked and closed the accounts of youth from Jaffa over their role in promoting the Palestinian cause via the social network. The activists have been documenting events in Clock Square, which has witnessed popular demonstrations to revive Palestinian national occasions. The activists have issued warnings about the blocking and closure of websites which express solidarity with the Palestinian people on the pretext that they "incite racism against Jews and hostility to Israel"...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97621] [ 17-may-2013 04:54 ECT ]

Notorious massacres of Palestinians between 1937 & 1948
Middle East Monitor

May 15, 2013 - According to hundreds of Palestinian, Arab, Israeli, and Western sources, both written and oral, Zionist forces committed dozens of massacres against Palestinians during what was called the 1948 "war". Some of these are well-known and have been published while others are not. Below are some of the details of the most notorious massacres committed at the hands of Haganah and its armed wing, the Palmach, as well as the Stern Gang, the Irgun and other Zionist mobs.
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97620] [ 17-may-2013 04:49 ECT ]

How Baghdad Fuels Iraq's Sectarian Fire
By SARAH LEAH WHITSON

May 15, 2013 — The Iraqi government has hurled the country to the brink of a new civil war. In under a month, Baghdad launched a vicious assault on a Sunni protest camp, resulting in 44 deaths; executed 21 alleged Sunni terrorists in one day, and suspended the licenses of 10 satellite channels, 9 of them deemed pro-Sunni. Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s message to his country’s extremely disaffected Sunni minority, which resists with an increasing sense of futility joining the battles between Maliki’s forces and extremists? "Bring It On!"...The government has failed to address any of the major grievances of the Sunni — and even some Shia — communities. Those include ongoing exclusion from the political process, with regular delays in elections; no real reforms in the punitive, wildly overbroad "De-Baathification" and antiterrorism laws; increasingly centralized power in the hands of the prime minister; and brutal policing, with mass arrests, unfair trials and endemic torture in Iraqi prisons. ..
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97619] [ 17-may-2013 04:40 ECT ]

New revelations of torture and murder of Afghan civilians by US Special Forces
By Thomas Gaist

May 15, 2013 -Zakaria Kandahari, a member of a US Special Forces "A Team," has been accused by Afghan officials of carrying out and directing the torture of 15 civilians detained in recent raids in Warduk province. Afghan officials say Kandahari is an American of Afghan descent and a leader of the Special Forces unit.Of the 15 prisoners, seven are confirmed dead, with the other eight missing. The body of one of the prisoners, Mohammad Qassim, was found dumped in a trash pit outside a US installation shortly after the detentions.US forces have long conducted bloody counter-insurgency operations in the province, just west of Kabul, prompting repeated accusations by local villagers that they torture and murder civilians. In February, responding to popular outrage, President Hamid Karzai demanded Special Forces cease operations in province...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97618] [ 17-may-2013 04:36 ECT ]

Palestinian Nakba: The Young Will Never Forget
By Ramzy Baroud

May 15 , 2013 -...In fact, al-Nakba is not a specific date or an estimation of time, but the entirety of those 65 years and counting. The event must not be assigned to the shelves of history, not as long as refugees are still refugees and settlers continue to rob Palestinian land. As long as Netanyahu speaks the language of Ben Gurion, other 'catastrophic’ episodes will follow. And as long as Palestinians hold on to their keys and deeds, the old may die but the young will never forget...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97617] [ 17-may-2013 04:32 ECT ]

Thousands mark Nakba Day in the West Bank and Gaza
Ma'an news

May 15, 2013- Thousands of people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Wednesday marked the 65th anniversary of the Nakba, an event which saw hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced from their homes in what is now Israel.Sirens were sounded for 65 seconds in the West Bank to mark the start of celebrations, with thousands of people gathering in Ramallah, Nablus, Qalqiliya and other West Bank cities."The right to return does not become invalid or ineffective as time passes, because this right is the core of the Palestinian plight," PLO official Wasil Abu Yousif said while addressing crowds at Yasser Arafat's tomb...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97616] [ 17-may-2013 04:25 ECT ]

Egyptian teacher accused of insulting Morsi over 'sheep' question
Ahram Online

May 14, 2013 -Ihab El-Islamboly, an English teacher in Alexandria, was questioned by police on Tuesday for setting a "politicised" exam question that "insulted" President Mohamed Morsi.The question that angered some members of the Alexandria teachers' syndicate, which El-Islamboly says is dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood, included the quote, "In the animal kingdom, a sheep cannot be king." El-Islamboly told Al-Ahram Arabic news website that he had not intended to insult the president, who hails from the Brotherhood, and the quote is part of the curriculum. "What part of this quote has anything to do with the president or politics?" asked El-Islamboly. Critics often accuse Muslim Brotherhood members of acting like sheep for slavishly following the orders of the group's supreme-guide...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97615] [ 17-may-2013 04:19 ECT ]

Syria News - May 14, 2013 (Warning: Graphic Videos)
Local Coordination Committees of Syria + Videos

May 14, 2013 -
By the end of Tuesday, Local committees documented 70 martyrs including 4 women, 10 children and 8 martyrs under torture: 20 martyrs were reported in Damascus Suburbs; 11 martyrs in Homs; 10 in Idlib; 9 in Hama; 9 in Aleppo; 4 in Deir Ezzor; 2 in Daraa; 2 in Raqqa; in Lattakia and 1 in Sweida. The Local coordination committees documented 352 points of shelling where Warplane shelling was reported in 26 points, the fierecest was in Helfaya in Hama and Mlaiha in Damascys suburbs; shelling with surface-to-surface missiles in 4 points in Kafrklain in Aleppo, the old ariport road in Deir Ezzor and Joret Shayah in Homs; sehlling with 3 explosive barrels in Raqqa; A vacuum bomb in Helfaya, Hama; Shelling with artillery was reporeted in 113 points, rocket shelling in 107 points; and finally shelling with mortars in 98 points, across different cities and towns in Syria...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97614] [ 17-may-2013 02:50 ECT ]

Syria News - May 14, 2013 (Warning: Graphic Videos)
Local Coordination Committees of Syria + Videos

May 14, 2013 -
By the end of Tuesday, Local committees documented 70 martyrs including 4 women, 10 children and 8 martyrs under torture: 20 martyrs were reported in Damascus Suburbs; 11 martyrs in Homs; 10 in Idlib; 9 in Hama; 9 in Aleppo; 4 in Deir Ezzor; 2 in Daraa; 2 in Raqqa; in Lattakia and 1 in Sweida. The Local coordination committees documented 352 points of shelling where Warplane shelling was reported in 26 points, the fierecest was in Helfaya in Hama and Mlaiha in Damascys suburbs; shelling with surface-to-surface missiles in 4 points in Kafrklain in Aleppo, the old ariport road in Deir Ezzor and Joret Shayah in Homs; sehlling with 3 explosive barrels in Raqqa; A vacuum bomb in Helfaya, Hama; Shelling with artillery was reporeted in 113 points, rocket shelling in 107 points; and finally shelling with mortars in 98 points, across different cities and towns in Syria...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97613] [ 17-may-2013 02:50 ECT ]

Taliban statement
Declaration of the Islamic Emirate regarding the incidents in the border regions with Iran and Pakistan

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

May 14 , 2013 -The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan strongly condemns the killing and affliction of our vulnerable oppressed countrymen by the Iranian border security forces and considers it the explicit violation of the human and neighborhood rights. The Afghans might have illegally crossed the Iranian border, but there are various other techniques to halt the unauthorized people from crossing the border instead of killing or torturing them. We pray for patience for those families whose relatives have incurred losses, urgent recovery for the injured ones and especially lofty status for the martyred ones....

  continua / continued avanti - next    [97612] [ 16-may-2013 19:49 ECT ]

Close Guantanamo Now!
by Stephen Lendman

May 14, 2013 - As president and commander-in-chief, Obama has legal authority to do so. On May 3, New York City Bar president Carey R. Dunne wrote him. He did so on behalf of the organization he heads.He called indefinite detention "legally and morally indefensible." He said 25 retired military flag officers said it's "an effective recruiting tool for our enemies."He urged "concrete steps to restart the process toward closure."On May 7, the New York City Bar said "Obama has the authority to close (Guantanamo) under Section 1028 of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013."..
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97611] [ 16-may-2013 18:17 ECT ]

Among the ruins of Lifta, memory of the Nakba persists
By Fatima Masri

May 14, 2013 - Standing within the boundaries of the holy city, Lifta is one of the 68 villages surrounding Jerusalem that were ethnically cleansed during the Israeli systematic attack in 1948. Unlike the others, it is the only Arab village that has not been destroyed since. Israel confiscated the village land under the Absentee Property law in 1950, despite recognition by the Fourth Geneva Convention of the right of refugees to be repatriated. Some of its inhabitants found shelter a few hundred meters away, certain of soon being able to return to their former homes, while others fled to the West Bank and are now unable to visit their village due to the severe restrictions on Palestinian movement imposed by the Israeli government...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97610] [ 16-may-2013 18:03 ECT ]

Military Resistance 11E9 Murder and Torture
Thomas F Barton

May 14, 2013 - The authorities in Afghanistan are seeking the arrest on murder and torture charges of a man they say is an American and part of a Special
Forces unit operating in Wardak Province , three Afghan officials have confirmed... The Afghan officials say they have substantial evidence of American
involvement. They say they have testimony and documents implicating Mr. Kandahari and his unit in the killings or disappearances of 15 Afghans in Wardak. Mr. Kandahari is of Afghan descent but was born and raised in the United States,they say. Included in the evidence, the Afghan officials say, is a videotape of Mr. Kandahari torturing one of the 15 Afghans, a man they identified as Sayid Mohammad...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97609] [ 16-may-2013 17:53 ECT ]

Pressure Cooker Scare: Saudi Held At Airport
Sky News

May 14, 2013 — A man from Saudi Arabia has been arrested in the US after being found with a pressure cooker in his luggage at Detroit Airport...The man's nephew, Nasser Almarzooq, said he asked his uncle to bring him the pressure cooker so he could make some lamb stew.The Ohio student said two devices he bought for himself in the US were "not good at all", and said the ones available in Saudi Arabia were of a higher quality... Mr Almarzooq vehemently denied any wrongdoing."If I wanted to do something stupid like this, should I just take my uncle from Saudi Arabia to buy me a pressure cooker?" he said. "It's legal here." Dawud Walid, from the Michigan branch of the Council of American-Islamic Relations, also urged caution. "I hope that our government is not criminalising people if they travel and have cooking items just because they are Muslim or come from the Muslim world," he told the Detroit News...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [97608] [ 16-may-2013 17:13 ECT ]

FBI surrounds house of Saudi student after sightings of him with pressure cooker pot - only to discover he was cooking RICE
By Martin Jay

May 14, 2013 - A Saudi student living in Michigan was questioned in his home by FBI agents after neighbours saw him carrying a pressure cooker and called the police. Talal al Rouki had been cooking a traditional Saudi Arabian rice dish called kabsah and was carrying it to a friend's house.The Saudi journal, Oukaz reported on the story of the Saudi student who had FBI agents come to his home, following a tip-off from neighbours that he was seen moving about with a pressure cooker bomb. While armed agents surrounded his apartment block, other agents, asked a 'nervous' Mr al Rouki if they could come in to question him...




  continua / continued avanti - next    [97606] [ 16-may-2013 16:53 ECT ]

3 U.S. soldiers killed in roadside bombing in Afghanistan, NATO says
Associated Press

May 14 , 2013 -A roadside bomb struck a U.S. convoy in southern Afghanistan Tuesday, killing three American troops, while a motorcycle bomb in a crowded village market killed at least three Afghan civilians, officials said.NATO spokesman Col. Thomas Collins said the blast hit the American convoy in the Zhari district of Kandahar province, the spiritual heartland of the Taliban and one of the most volatile regions in Afghanistan. Collins originally said four U.S. troops were killed in the blast, but Capt. Luca Carniel later said NATO had revised the death toll to three US service members...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97605] [ 16-may-2013 16:44 ECT ]

Justice Department's pursuit of AP's phone records is both extreme and dangerous
Glenn Greenwald

May 14, 2013 - Associated Press on Monday revealed that the Department of Justice (DOJ) "secretly obtained two months of telephone records of [its] reporters and editors", denouncing it as a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into the news gathering process. In a letter sent yesterday to Attorney General Eric Holder, AP's President, Gary Pruitt, detailed that the phone records cover more than 20 telephone lines used by AP journalists, including their homes, offices and cell phones. He said the phones for which the DOJ obtained records also include ones at the AP bureaus in New York City, Washington DC, Hartford, and at the House of Representatives...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97604] [ 16-may-2013 16:34 ECT ]

Buckling to Bigotry: The Newseum Dishonors Murdered Palestinian Journalists
Nima Shirazi

May 14, 2013 - Just two days before Palestinians commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Nakba, the names of two Palestinian cameramen targeted and killed by Israeli air strikes in Gaza last November were dropped from a dedication ceremony held to honor "reporters, photographers and broadcasters who have died reporting the news" over the past year. The move followed an Israel lobby pressure campaign led by anti-Palestinian organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and the American Jewish Committee, efforts that were openly supported by the Israeli government..
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97603] [ 16-may-2013 16:27 ECT ]

U.S. Military ‘Power Grab’ Goes Into Effect
Pentagon Unilaterally Grants Itself Authority Over ‘Civil Disturbances’

Jed Morey

May 14, 2013 - The manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects offered the nation a window into the stunning military-style capabilities of our local law enforcement agencies. For the past 30 years, police departments throughout the United States have benefitted from the government’s largesse in the form of military weaponry and training, incentives offered in the ongoing "War on Drugs." For the average citizen watching events such as the intense pursuit of the Tsarnaev brothers on television, it would be difficult to discern between fully outfitted police SWAT teams and the military. The lines blurred even further Monday as a new dynamic was introduced to the militarization of domestic law enforcement. By making a few subtle changes to a regulation in the U.S. Code titled "Defense Support of Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies" the military has quietly granted itself the ability to police the streets without obtaining prior local or state consent, upending a precedent that has been in place for more than two centuries...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97602] [ 16-may-2013 16:07 ECT ]

U.S. Guilty of Genocide in Guatemala Should be Real Headline
Ajamu Baraka

May 14, 2013- Now that former Guatemalan president Efrain Rios Montt has been convicted of genocide, it’s time for the "hegemonic puppeteer," the United States, to be put on trial. "U.S. officials were fully aware of the pogrom against the Ixil people in the mountains of Guatemala at the very moment that the U.S. government was involved in training and arming the Guatemalan military."...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97601] [ 16-may-2013 16:00 ECT ]

Patriarchs Condemn Israeli Police Measures, Violations of Christians' Rights to Worship at Holy Sites
Palestine News Network

May 14, 2013 -The Heads of Churches and Patriarchs in Jerusalem condemned in a statement the brutal treatment of the clergy, people, and pilgrims in the Old City of Jerusalem during Holy Saturday last week, Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation said in a press release. "A day of joy and celebration was turned to great sorrow and pain for some of our faithful because they were ill-treated by some Israeli policemen who were present around the gates of the Old City and passages that lead to the Holy Sepulcher," Heads of Churches said in a statement....

  continua / continued avanti - next    [97600] [ 16-may-2013 06:49 ECT ]

Newseum honors newsman who ran guns for ethnic cleansing of Palestine
by Matthew Taylor

May 14, 2013- It's not surprising that the Newseum has chosen to step back from honoring Palestinian journalists killed in the line of duty, given that the institution glorifies the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, Hasbara-style. On one of the top floors there's a shrine to deceased Las Vegas Sun publisher and armer of Zionist militias Hank Greenspun -- his family is one of the founding partners of the Newseum. The shrine reports that Hank, who supposedly "had a celebrated career as a leading public advocate and crusader for justice," ran guns to Zionist militias in the 1940s, in violation of the neutrality act...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97599] [ 16-may-2013 06:17 ECT ]

“Torture is for Torture, the System is for the System”: Shaker Aamer’s Letters from Guantánamo
Andy Worthington

May 14, 2013 - The quote in the title of this article is from 1984 (aka Nineteen Eighty-Four), George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece, published in June 1949, which Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, described as being "probably the book I’ve read more than any other but the Holy Koran" in a recent letter to his family from Guantánamo.I recently wrote about the latest developments — or the lack of them — in Shaker’s case, which continues to be a transatlantic game of political football, in which responsibility for his continued detention, six years after he was first cleared for release, is bounced from Washington to London and back with no regard for Shaker’s ongoing suffering or the injustice of holding a man who has long been cleared for release. Shaker’s suffering — and the injustice of holding a man long cleared for release — are part of a much bigger story, of course, in which a prison-wide hunger strike at Guantánamo, involving the majority of the 166 prisoners still held, is now in its fourth month, and 85 of those men — in addition to Shaker — are also being held despite being cleared for release ....
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97598] [ 16-may-2013 06:12 ECT ]

FBI files reveal Anti-Defamation League spied on Arab students
Grant F. Smith

May 14, 2013 - In 1969, the Anti-Defamation League infiltrated and spied on a national gathering of Arab students in the United States, newly released Federal Bureau of Investigation documents show.Obtained in April after an Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRMEP) freedom of information request, and reviewed by The Electronic Intifada, one declassified file [PDF] contains Anti-Defamation League reports held by the FBI. The documents reveal how ADL surveillance against the Organization of Arab Students (OAS) in 1969 coalesced into plans for infiltrating the OAS national organization in New York. The files also give an insight into why the entire effort eventually backfired, ultimately leading to raids on ADL offices involved in intelligence-gathering through illegal means, and a lawsuit against ADL in the early 1990s — ultimately settled out of court in 2002...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97597] [ 16-may-2013 06:09 ECT ]

Iraq snapshot - May 14, 2013
The Common Ills

May 14, 2013. Chaos and violence continue, Exxon Mobile is said to reach a deal with the KRG, unions and journalists continued to be suppressed in Iraq, the Associated Press reveals more about the US government's attack on their organization and the First Amendment, the IRS scandal gets worse, Dennis Kucinich explains why Benghazi matters, Thomas Pickering reveals that he wasn't really snubbed (despite what he's claimed publicly for the last few days), Pakistan's new leader may mean an end to Barack's Drone War in that country, and more...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97596] [ 16-may-2013 06:06 ECT ]

Life "no longer bearable" in Syria, says Palestinian refugee
Rami Almeghari

May 14, 2013 - One of the most distressing scenes that Redwan Amayra witnessed in Syria was of a woman being shot as she carried some bread. After warplanes hit Yarmouk, a Palestinian refugee camp near Damascus, last November, Amayra decided to flee.A 60-year-old teacher employed with the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), Amayra had just registered with the Palestinian Authority’s embassy in Cairo. It is not the first time that his family has been uprooted: they were forced to leave Safed, a town in the Galilee region of historic Palestine, when it was attacked by Zionist forces in 1948...


  continua / continued avanti - next    [97595] [ 16-may-2013 06:03 ECT ]

Are Israelis Now Appropriating the Nakba?
By Susan Abulhawa

May 14, 2013 -Al Jazeera Stream contacted me a few days ago asking if I would participate on a show commemorating the Nakbe. I would be the only Palestinian, the producer said, "to balance things out" amidst various Israeli voices. Here’s the exact excerpt of the email: "We are looking for a unique angle with which to cover this and one we were thinking of was looking at the Nakba through Israeli eyes and competing Israeli perspectives. We would also like to have a Palestinian guest join us on set however, to balance things out. As you noted, it would be 3-4 Israelis and just the one Palestinian – but as I said, the Israeli’s will include those very critical of Israeli society on this issue. We certainly wont have anyone in the discussion who flat out denies the Nakba."...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [97594] [ 16-may-2013 05:58 ECT ]

Will the Church of Scotland Cave in to Zionist Bullies?
By Stuart Littlewood

May 14, 2013 - "The political and humanitarian situation in the Holy Land continues to be a source of pain and concern for us all," says the introduction to the Church of Scotland’s report The inheritance of Abraham? A report on the 'promised land’.It is the Church’s latest reflection on the "questions that need to be faced". The report was intended for discussion at the Church’s General Assembly this week and it questions the assumption many Christians and Jews that the Bible supports an essentially Jewish state of Israel. Current Israeli policies towards the Palestinians, it suggests, have "sharpened this questioning". The report goes on to examine the issues in a measured and non-inflammatory way...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97593] [ 16-may-2013 05:53 ECT ]

Iraq's invisible refugee crisis
Dahr Jamail

May 14, 2013 - Maki al-Nazzal, a 57-year-old Iraqi from Fallujah, returned to Amman a week ago from a visit to his home city in Iraq. Having lived in Jordan since 2007, Nazzal, like most refugees, wants nothing more than to return to his home country.He had returned to test the waters, after having to flee in 2007 under threat to his life from having been first an outspoken critic of the US occupation of Iraq, and more recently having been critical of the regime of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki."When you tell the truth about what is happening in Iraq, this puts you in danger," Nazzal, a political analyst who has frequently appeared on television, told Al Jazeera. "After two of my sons were arrested in Fallujah, I left Iraq. I had no choice but to leave."..
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97592] [ 16-may-2013 05:48 ECT ]

JFO: Press freedom is the worst in Iraq
Shafaq News

May 14, 2013 -Journalistic freedoms Organization (JFO) considered that freedom of press in the country in the past year is the worst since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003.JFO said in a report briefed by "Shafaq News" that "the Iraqi government initiated 2012 with strict measures against the Iraqi media". "The government has used military and security forces to limit the work of journalists, especially against foreign journalists, most of who are deprived from entering Iraq and prevent others from covering the protests that took place in some cities"...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97591] [ 16-may-2013 05:44 ECT ]

Saudis overtaking Qatar in sponsoring Syrian rebels
Hassan Hassan

May 14, 2013- Last week, a 12-member delegation from the Syrian opposition visited Saudi Arabia, for an unprecedented two-day official meeting.Saudi authorities had consistently declined to meet the opposition, despite repeated requests. This was partly because the kingdom has opposed Muslim Brotherhood dominance in the Syrian National Council and then the National Coalition, owing to the Brotherhood's alliance with Qatar and Turkey and opposition to inclusivity.But last week, surprisingly, the Saudi foreign minister, Saud Al Faisal, met Syrian Brotherhood deputy leader Mahmoud Farouq Tayfour, in one-to-one talks.The Brotherhood had previously been confident in its alliance with Qatar and Turkey, and saw no need to offer concessions to engage other countries, including Saudi Arabia. So this meeting, which came after an "eager appeal" from the Brotherhood, suggests a shift in regional dynamics.Two separate sources close to the opposition say Mr Tayfour assured the Saudi minister that "Syria's Brotherhood will definitely not be like Egypt's Brotherhood"....
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97590] [ 16-may-2013 05:39 ECT ]

Top 10 Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About the #Nakba
By Yousef

May 14, 2013 - 1. Nakba is the Arabic word for catastrophe. It is used to describe the Palestinian loss of land and property during the depopulation of Palestine from 1947-1949 and does not refer simply to the declaration of a state of Israel. 2. 212 localities depopulated and at least half of the refugees created during the Nakba were created prior to May 15th, which is, prior to the entry of armies of other Arab states. The largest Palestinian cities at the time, Yaffa and Haifa, were emptied of the vast majority of their inhabitants before May 15th, 1948. The idea that refugee creation happened only after, or only as a result of, the mobilization of Arab armies is patently false...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97589] [ 16-may-2013 05:35 ECT ]

Marwan Barghouthi: “Right Of Return, A Sacred Right”
Saed Bannoura

May 14, 2013 - In a statement released from his prison cell, detained Palestinian political leader, Marwan Barghouthi, stated that May 15, marks the 65th anniversary of the Nakba, when Israel was established in the historic land of Palestine, over the ruins of hundreds of displaced and destroyed villages and towns, and added that on this day, the Palestinians reaffirm their legitimate inalienable Right of Return to their homeland. The Fateh leader said that the Palestinian people will never abandon their legitimate rights, and insist on the implementation of all related international resolutions, including United Nations General Assembly Resolution #194 regarding the Right of Return of the Palestinian refugees to their homeland...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97588] [ 16-may-2013 05:31 ECT ]

US Denies April Air Strike Deaths in Afghanistan
by Jason Ditz

May 14, 2013 - US commander Gen. Joseph Dunford has officially denied that the April 6 air strikes against the Kunar Province, which killed a number of civilians, including at least 11 children, were the US’ fault. Rather, Gen. Dunford claims that all of the civilians slain must’ve been killed by the Taliban since "no US, no coalition forces were involved in the deaths." It is a bizarre claim since the Afghan government has repeatedly confirmed the deaths were caused by air strikes...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97587] [ 16-may-2013 05:23 ECT ]

Israel plans construction scheme to facilitate Bedouin land confiscation
Middle East Monitor

May 14, 2013- Israeli media sources reported on Monday May 13, that the Israeli government plans to construct a city in the West Bank's Jordan Valley for Palestinian Bedouins.Palestinians are of the opinion that the scheme will indirectly allow Israel to control vast areas of land where the Bedouin have lived and worked for decades. It will also free the Occupation from the embarrassment caused by the series of prosecutions, assaults and acts of displacement that the Israeli authorities carry out against Bedouin families and farmers in order to displace them....
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97586] [ 16-may-2013 05:20 ECT ]

The Justice Department’s Seizing of AP Phone Records: A Continuation of Attacks on Freedom of the Press
By: Kevin Gosztola

May 14, 2013- The US Justice Department’s secret seizure of phone records of reporters and editors at the Associated Press is nothing less than a continuation of attacks on freedom of the press that have been ongoing under the administration of President Barack Obama. Carl Bernstein, famed investigative journalist who broke the story on the Watergate scandal with Bob Woodward, appeared on MSNBC’s "Morning Joe" and declared this is a "matter of policy." It goes right up to the president and the people who surround him, the very officials who have waged an unprecedented war on whistleblowers and leaks...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97585] [ 16-may-2013 05:18 ECT ]

Shaker Aamer, Abandoned in Guantánamo
Andy Worthington

May 14, 2013- Although the prison-wide hunger strike at Guantánamo is still raging, and President Obama spoke eloquently last week about the need for the prison to be closed, it remains painfully true that, for the 86 prisoners (out of 166 in total), who were cleared for release by an inter-agency task force that President Obama established in 2009, there is still no easy route out.The case of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in the prison, ought to be the easiest to resolve. One of the 86, his return has regularly been requested since August 2007 by the British government, and the legislative obstacles raised by Congress to prevent the release of prisoners to countries they regard as dangerous doesn’t apply in Shaker’s case — the UK, after all, where his wife and children live, and are all British citizens, is America’s staunchest ally in the "war on terror," and more than capable of keeping Shaker under surveillance if that were to be requested....
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97584] [ 16-may-2013 05:14 ECT ]

The criminalization of political dissent in America
Tom Carter

May 14, 2013- In a series of prosecutions, precedents are being established for the criminalization of political dissent in America. Last week, Massachusetts high school student Cameron D’Ambrosio was arrested and charged under "terrorism" laws merely for posting lyrics on Facebook that make reference to the Boston Marathon bombings. He faces 20 years in prison. A string of similar "terror" prosecutions around the country take aim at the First Amendment protection of free speech and political expression.The authorities have already branded select participants in Occupy Wall Street and anti-NATO protests as "terrorists."....
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97583] [ 16-may-2013 05:11 ECT ]

ICC prosecutor opens initial probe into Gaza flotilla
AFP

May 14, 2013 -- The International Criminal Court has opened a preliminary probe into Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla in 2010, the prosecutor's office said Tuesday. "My office will be conducting a preliminary examination in order to establish whether the criteria for opening an investigation are met," Fatou Bensouda said in a statement issued from the court based in The Hague.Nine Turkish nationals were killed when Israeli commandos staged a botched pre-dawn raid on a six-ship flotilla seeking to bust Israel's naval blockade of the Gaza Strip on May 31, 2010...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97582] [ 16-may-2013 05:06 ECT ]

Syria News - May 13, 2013 (Warning: Graphic Videos)
Local Coordination Committees of Syria + Videos

May 13, 2013 - By the end of Monday, local coordination coomitttes documented 81 martyrs including 3 women, 4 children and 2 martyrs under torture: 35 martyrs were reported in Damascus and its suburbs; 14 in Hama; 10 in Aleppo;10 in Homs; 6 in Idlib; 4 in Daraa; and 2 in Deir Ezzor. The committees have documented 415 points of shelling in different Syrian cites and areas among them 47 points were under warplane shelling, and explosive barrels were recorded used in Erbeen, Mleiha, Mseifra, and the perimeter of Menegh Military Airport, also Saraqeb was targeted with cluster bombs and Erbeen with thermobaric bombs, whereas artillery shelling was reported in 143 points, mortar shelling in 115 points, and rocket shelling in 103 points........
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97581] [ 16-may-2013 04:41 ECT ]

Ayad Allawi: Demonstrations Won’t Stop Unless Maliki Resigns
By: Ali Abel Sadah for Al-Monitor Iraq Pulse

May 13, 2013 - Iraqiya List leader and former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said that the protests in the Iraq provinces that are home to a Sunni majority won’t stop unless Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government resigns, thus paving a way for a reduced government to be formed to organize early general elections in which its members cannot participate.During a meeting with a number of Iraqi journalists at his house in the upscale neighborhood of Harthiya in Baghdad, Allawi said, "Maliki did not listen to our advice concerning the need to heed the demands of the demonstrators and attempt to implement as many as possible." He pointed out that Maliki "went in the opposite direction and described the protesters as terrorists and Baathists."...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [97579] [ 15-may-2013 23:40 ECT ]

Israelis Protest Austerity Harshness
by Stephen Lendman

May 13, 2013 - On May 11, thousands of Israelis protested publicly. They did so for social justice. More on that below. In summer 2011, widespread social justice protests erupted. They continued for weeks. Others followed in summer 2012.Several Israelis protested by self-immolation. Moshe Silman's remembered best. He died for justice denied. During a July 14, 2012 protest, he poured gasoline over his body. He set himself ablaze. He left a letter saying:""The state of Israel stole from me and robbed me. It left me helpless." "Two Housing and Construction Ministry committees rejected me, even though I had a stroke."...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97578] [ 15-may-2013 23:27 ECT ]

Israeli airport sorts passengers with ‘Jewish stickers’ and ‘Arab stickers’
by Philip Weiss

May 13, 2013- This shocking story-- of yet another "huge humiliation" of a non-Jew at Ben Gurion airport-- was posted by Mira Awad, an Israeli Palestinian singer, on her Facebook page, in Hebrew, today. Ami Kaufman at +972 provided a translation of the entry, and notes that Awad is a celebrity in Israel. Awad in translation: So, I was checked at the airport, they asked the questions, put the stickers on, and I proceeded to the X-Ray machine. Suddenly, the young security man comes to me: "Mira? Mira Awad?" Me: "Yes?" Security man: "Can I see your passport? There’s a mistake with the sticker." I almost told him: "No, you’re not mistaken, I see you put the right one on — the sticker for Arabs", but I didn’t say that (security people have their humor extracted during their preparatory course). I gave him my passport, he opens it, takes off the sticker in the passport and on the suitcase and puts on a new one, different, the same color but smaller. Now the dilemma. On the one hand it’s obvious the young man has just made my life easier by putting on the sticker for Jews. On the other hand, it’s one of the things that it’s hard to say thanks for...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97577] [ 15-may-2013 23:01 ECT ]

Biden and Bush: Two (Imperialist) Peas in a (Colonialist) Pod
Ben Norton

May 13, 2013 - ...Biden beseeches the aether, in earnest, "Why this terrorist phenomenon at the beginning of the 21 century." Apparently "this terrorist phenomenon," this whole "terrorism" thing, is new in human history, going back only a decade. Native American genocide; scorched earth campaigns in the Philippine-American war; the annexation of half of Mexico; the bombing of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and Dresden; the My Lai Massacre; the use of Agent Orange on Vietnamese civilians; the use of white phosphorous of Iraqi civilians (before 2003); the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia—none of this was "terrorism." The myopia is astounding. But the innocence in his voice, his incessant interrogative cries, the childlike sincerity, bring us to tears. Why do they hate us, Mommy? Why can’t they just be nice?...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97576] [ 15-may-2013 22:50 ECT ]

Jeremy Scahill: Other Side of the Barrel of the Gun
by Nozomi Hayase

May 13, 2013- I recently had an opportunity to hear Jeremy Scahill, author of the international best-selling book, Blackwater speak about his new book. Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield has also been made into a documentary directed by Rick Rowley and is scheduled for release across the US in June.In his presentation to a packed audience in Oakland, California, Scahill mentioned the Reagan’s CIA wars and their attempts to recolonize parts of Latin America. He then showed how these Dirty Wars from the 80s are back — in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and other corners of the world. Under the post-911 'counter-terrorism’ meme, this impulse of imperial colonization continues in the Middle East and North Africa. Scahill’s investigations uncovered the real-world consequences of brutal foreign policy being carried forward by the Obama administration ...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97575] [ 15-may-2013 22:43 ECT ]

Egypt's 6 April joins signature drive against President Morsi
Ahram Online

May 13, 2013- Egypt's 6 April Youth Group has joined the recently launched 'Rebel Movement' campaign, which aims to collect citizens' signatures for a petition calling for a vote of no-confidence in the administration of President Mohamed Morsi. Khaled El-Masry, 6 April spokesman, stated on Sunday that the new signature drive represented a "peaceful, forward-thinking and democratic means by which to oppose the current regime and reveal the extent of its [declining] popularity among the Egyptian public." According to organisers, the campaign is currently active in 19 out of Egypt's 27 governorates and in nine foreign countries... At a Sunday afternoon press conference, a Rebel Movement spokesman stated that a total of 2 million signatures had already been collected. In Cairo alone, he said, 800,000 signatures had been collected, while another 10,000 had been gathered in the Suez governorate...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97574] [ 15-may-2013 22:29 ECT ]

Attacks on Sunni mosques fuel fears in Iraq
By SAMEER N. YACOUB | Associated Press

May 13, 2013 — A sharp rise in attacks on Sunni holy sites in Iraq is feeding fears that the country could spiral into a new round of sectarian violence similar to the bloodletting that brought Iraq to its knees in 2006 and 2007...At least 29 Sunni mosques were attacked between mid-April and early May, according to Mahmoud al-Sumaidaie, the deputy head of Iraq's Sunni Endowment, which oversees the sect's holy sites. At least 65 Sunni worshippers were killed, according to a tally compiled by The Associated Press from police reports. By contrast, two Shiite mosques were hit in bombings that killed one person over the same period, police and hospital officials said. Dozens of Shiites were killed in attacks by Sunni extremists at places other than holy sites during this time...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97573] [ 15-may-2013 22:24 ECT ]

The Deepening Shame of Guantanamo
By Ray McGovern

May 13, 2013 - There have been nine congressional hearings on the Benghazi controversy – with more to come – but almost no one in Congress dares put the spotlight on the unfolding scandal surrounding the Guantanamo Bay prison where most of the remaining 166 inmates have opted to "escape" from indefinite detention via the only way open to them – starving themselves to death. One exception to the congressional cowardice is Rep. Jim Moran, D-Virginia, who sponsored a highly instructive panel discussion on the prison at Guantanamo last Friday. Why simply a "briefing," rather than a formal House hearing? Simple. Not one of the majority Republicans who currently chair committees in the House and have the power to call hearings wants Americans to hear the details of this blight on the nation’s conscience...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97572] [ 15-may-2013 22:01 ECT ]

Guantánamo hunger strikers subject to harsh new method of force feeding
Matt Williams

May 13, 2013 - Hunger-strikers being force fed at Guantánamo Bay are shackled to a chair, fitted with a mask and have tubes inserted through their nose and into their stomachs for up to two hours at a time, according to revised guidelines in use at the camp. The guidelines, which were updated after the latest protest by inmates began in February, detail the process of involuntary feeding and how after the sessions, detainees are kept in a "dry cell" to prevent them vomiting. News of the 30-page Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) manual – which was first published on Monday, by al-Jazeera, and has since been confirmed to be genuine by the US military – comes amid fresh questions over the ethics of force-feeding protesters at the prison...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97571] [ 15-may-2013 21:39 ECT ]

Brother and sister arrested without charge in Kufr Qalil
International Solidarity Movement

May 13, 2013 - At 1:30 am on May 12, Israeli soldiers arrested a brother and sister from Kufr Qalil without charge and ransacked their home, terrorizing their family and leaving them with no information about the siblings’ imprisonment. Israeli soldiers arrived at the residence of Abu Mahyoub Mansour in Kufr Qalil in south Nablus as at least five army jeeps surrounded the family home and eighteen soldiers entered looking for his daughter Tahrir, 29 and son Saddam, 27. All thirteen occupants in the house, including two small children, were woken and made to walk downstairs into one room, among them the youngest daughter, 19, who is severely disabled with cerebral palsy. She cannot walk and had to be woken up and carried down, crying in fear...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97570] [ 15-may-2013 21:33 ECT ]

Karzai Offers To Maintain Nine Army Bases Following US Evacuation
Nawai-Waqt, Pakistan

May 13, 2013- Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said that the U.S. wants an agreement that allows it continued use of nine Afghan military airbases; he also said that there was no harm in allowing America the use of the military airbases in Afghanistan's interest. In his address at Kabul University on Thursday, he said that "we are serious in our discussions with the U.S. and that we should derive as much benefit as we can from the presence of the U.S. forces."The need for a foreign military presence equipped with modern arms is felt only when there is fear of some foreign aggression. Afghanistan, however, faces no such danger from its neighbors...The biggest blow from America's evacuation from Afghanistan could be dealt to Karzai's power. Those aware of conditions in Afghanistan say that it is to protect his own power that Karzai considers it essential for U.S. forces to remain in the country...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [97569] [ 15-may-2013 20:09 ECT ]

The Palestinian Economy in East Jerusalem: Enduring Annexation, Isolation, and Disintegration
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

May 13, 2013 - With the onset of occupation in 1967, Israeli authorities began to pursue a policy of physical, political, and economic segregation of East Jerusalem from the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT), which continues apace today. Segregation strategies gained momentum during the last decade through measures that have altered the physical and demographic realities of the city and its predominantly Palestinian and Arab landscape. These include the city’s annexation and the expansion of Jewish settlements in and around East Jerusalem, as well as the construction of the separation barrier, which has effectively redefined the borders away from the pre-1967 armistice line...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97568] [ 15-may-2013 19:57 ECT ]

Report: “100% Of Administrative Detainees Are Former Prisoners”
Saed Bannoura

May 13, 2013 - The Ahrar Center for Detainees’ Studies and Human Rights reported that all of the Palestinian current administrative detainees, held by Israel without charges, are former political prisoners who have been repeatedly kidnapped and imprisoned by Israel. Fuad Al-Khoffash, head of the Ahrar Center, reported that Israeli is currently holding captive 218 detainees under Administrative Detention, mainly at the Negev detention camp and Ofer prison, while the rest are held in Majiddo, Hadarim and other prisons....
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97567] [ 15-may-2013 18:50 ECT ]

WATCH: Racist college humor in the Israeli heartland
By Larry Derfner

May 13, 2013 - Student Union members at a large college outside Tel Aviv make a grotesquely racist film, and they don’t understand what they did wrong. I wish I could say that the young Israelis who made this film and the "thousands" who immediately gave "positive reactions" to it were marginal in this society – that they were "hilltop youth" in the West Bank, or slum-dwellers growing up amid severe poverty, ignorance, violence and crime. But they’re not. They’re college students in their early twenties from the heart of the country, from the College of Management Academic Studies in Rishon Lezion, outside Tel Aviv. And the ones who made this little film aren’t marginal on their 12,000-student campus, either – they’re in the Student Union, they’re involved, they’re the leaders of tomorrow, as people like to say of such young adults...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97566] [ 15-may-2013 18:47 ECT ]

Municipal authorities raid and shutter asylum seekers' businesses in Tel Aviv
Haggai Matar

May 13, 2013 - Dozens of Tel Aviv municipal officers, border policemen and private movers raided several businesses run by African asylum seekers around Tel Aviv’s central bus station, confiscating goods and welding the doors shut. Officials also poured bleach into food in a Darfur refugee’s restaurant. Is city hall preparing for the upcoming municipal elections? ...All the goods, furniture and other equipment in all the businesses were inventoried and confiscated, and the doors were welded shut. In none of the locations photographer Oren Ziv and I visited was there any resistance by the shop owners and the armed policemen (and one police attack dog) were left without much to do. Several Israeli bystanders cheered the officials for helping pushing foreigners out, while other muttered insults at them for enforcing racist policies....
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97565] [ 15-may-2013 18:42 ECT ]

Nakba at 65: A Palestinian Reality in 138 Languages
By Jamil Toubbeh

May 13, 2013 - ...The 'beginning’ narrative of the Nakba shows some continuity in Zionist evolution of racism. Theodor Herzl, and years later, his echo, Golda Meier, denied the existence of Palestinians in a show-me-to-believe game. When a leader denies existence of people, the denied become a target for state violence; and denial is a form of racism. One renowned Russian-born Zionists, Ze’ev Jabotimsky described Zionism as "[a] colonizing adventure and therefore it stands or falls by the question of armed force". Decades later Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Rabin, Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu applied the principle with deadly force. The first PM of Israel encouraged his troops to rid the country (Palestine) of "Arabs" by any means possible, including terror and assassination—and there was a lot of indiscriminate terror and assassinations. This has been the narrative of the Palestinian Nakba through the evolutionary period of the Zionist Project...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [97564] [ 15-may-2013 18:33 ECT ]

Israel hands arbitrary demolition notices to Jerusalem residents
Middle East Monitor

May 13, 2013 -On Sunday, the Israeli occupation handed over an 'administrative destruction notice' to the owner of a six-flat building under construction in the Beit-Haneena neighbourhood in Jerusalem and detained three construction workers from the site. Staff of the Jerusalem Municipality claimed that the building is being built without a construction permit. Naji Hassouna, the owner of the building, which is still under construction, denied the claim and said that he had obtained permission two years ago...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [97563] [ 15-may-2013 18:26 ECT ]

Obama's false promises about Guantánamo
Nicole Colson

May 13, 2013 -BARACK OBAMA is promising to do something he had the last four years to do, and never did. Last week, Obama announced that he would close the U.S. prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. "It's not sustainable," Obama said at a White House news conference. "The notion that we're going to keep 100 individuals in no man's land in perpetuity" makes no sense, he added. "All of us should reflect on why exactly are we doing this?" But it's easy to answer "why" Guantánamo is still open today. Because the Obama administration has carried out virtually the same "war on terror" policies--often exactly the same policies--as its predecessors in the Bush administration, including the indefinite detention of prisoners at Guantánamo...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97562] [ 15-may-2013 18:22 ECT ]

Mali under indefinite occupation
Roger Annis

May 13, 2013 -France's National Assembly and Senate have voted to extend the country's military intervention in Mali. A resolution passed both houses of parliament on April 22. Not a single vote was cast in opposition. Three days later, the United Nations Security Council approved Resolution 2100, creating a policing mission beginning July 1, 2013. The mission is called by its French acronym MINUSMA. Its projected size is 11,200 soldiers and 1,440 police. France invaded the north of Mali with fighter aircraft and 4,000 soldiers on January 11. The Mali government and its French benefactor lost control of the area in 2012 to Tuareg and other national groups fighting for autonomy and independence...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97561] [ 15-may-2013 18:13 ECT ]

Al Maliki: The highest paid head of state in the world
Shafaq News

May 13, 2013 -A study conducted by a European university revealed that Prime Minister, Nuri al-Maliki earns the highest annual salary of all the presidents and kings of the world, while his Egyptian counterpart Mohamed Morsi earns the lowest salary.According to the study, conducted at the International University of Brussels in Belgium for salaries and property of kings and heads of the world, " statistics showed that the total salaries of Iraqi Prime Minister , Nuri al-Maliki is up to 3 million $ per year," stressing that "it is the highest in the world among the kings , presidents and prime ministers ". "The annual salary of Norway king is the highest among the kings, as he receives one million and 200 thousand Euros per year, while the new king of the Netherlands receives 829 thousand Euros, and the Duke of Luxembourg receives 645 thousand Euros"...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97560] [ 15-may-2013 18:08 ECT ]

The Jenin Jenin Amendment: Israel from Ethnocracy to Fascism
Search: P U L S E

May 13, 2013 - Last Monday, on the 6th of May, Israel’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation decided to approve the "Jenin Jenin Amendment" in a paramilitary hearing. The amendment [Hebrew] is an addition to the Israeli Defamation Law [Hebrew], stating that army personnel and the state can sue individuals, who expose army violence, for libel, without proving damages. The amendment comes as a reaction to Israel’s Supreme Court rejecting soldiers’ class action suit of defamation against actor/director Mohammad Bakri, for his documentary Jenin Jenin (watch it in full here), in which Palestinian testimonies describe their experiences of the 2002 massacre perpetrated by Israel’s army in the besieged refugee camp...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97559] [ 15-may-2013 17:59 ECT ]

Cornel West: Obama 'Is a War Criminal'
Jacob Chamberlain

May 13, 2013 - In an interview with the Guardian published on Sunday, renowned professor and prolific critic of the "military-industrial-complex" and rampant "plutocracy" in the U.S. and around the world, Dr. Cornel West explained his views on the state of America today and his fall from grace, by design, with President Barack Obama: "He's just too tied to Wall Street. And at this point he is a war criminal.""They say I'm un-American," West told interviewer Hugh Muir, referring to Obama's team...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97558] [ 15-may-2013 17:48 ECT ]

Solitary Confinement is Torture and is Official US Policy: Supermax Film Premieres in London, April 16
Andy Worthington

May 13, 2013 - No one who has spent any time studying and writing about Guantánamo, as I have, could fail to realize that, although the terrible innovation of Guantánamo is indefinite detention without charge or trial, its orange jumpsuits, and the perceived normality of solitary confinement as standard operating procedure, arrived at the prison directly from America’s domestic prison system — where there are 2.2 million prisoners (and almost 7 million people under correctional supervision (including probation and parole), and up to 100,000 prisoners are subjected to solitary confinement at any one time. Most harrowingly, many thousands of these prisoners are subjected to solitary confinement not as occasional punishment, but as a policy, and have spent years, or even decades without any human contact...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97557] [ 15-may-2013 17:44 ECT ]

Iraq snapshot - May 13, 2013
The Common Ills

Monday, May 13, 2013. Chaos and violence continue, Nouri wants Jalal replaced, a late breaking announcement is made regarding Jalal as the day ends in Iraq, a father whose son was killed in the Hawija massacre tells his story, State of Law wants Nouri to have a third term, the White House sicks the Justice Dept on the Associated Press, Barack gets pressed on the IRS targeting of conservatives, Pat Smith explains it wasn't Mother's Day yesterday without her son, and more...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [97556] [ 15-may-2013 17:40 ECT ]

Adel Baker, a fisherman from Gaza, now fighting for his life in hospital
International Action for Palestine

May 13, 2013 - On May 1st many countries celebrate the achievement of workers on Labor Day weekend. In Gaza too, workers celebrated labour day in a demonstration in the centre of Gaza City. Yet, for the Palestinian fishermen there was nothing to celebrate. In the early hours of Wednesday morning on May 1st 2013, a Palestinian fisherman was seriously injured when Israeli naval vessels off the coast of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats that were within 3 nautical miles of the Gaza coast.During the attack, a piece of the engine that is used to pull in the nets, smashed into the head of 51 year old Karim Adel Al Baker from Gaza City, leaving him seriously injured...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97555] [ 15-may-2013 17:36 ECT ]

In photos: revisiting the survivors of Israel’s November assault on Gaza
Anne Paq

May 13, 2013 - I was already in Gaza prior to Israel’s deadly eight days of attacks launched in November 2012. Once I left, the people I had photographed and interviewed during that terrible week remained at the forefront of my thoughts. I had visited Jamal al-Dalu — who lost ten family members in an Israeli air strike on their home — several times. We were standing together when the body of his son was pulled out of the rubble, four days after the bombing. Jamal was to repeat his story to countless journalists and organizations, and I wondered how he managed to do so with such patience and kindness.I also thought often about Nour Hijazi, whose father and two little brothers were killed, and who suffered serious shrapnel injuries to her back. I remember her lying in bed, obviously in great pain, yet managing to smile during the interview. I was deeply touched by her sweetness amidst such horror...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97554] [ 15-may-2013 17:30 ECT ]

Recognition and justice is our demand
Joharah Baker

May 13, 2013 - This week Palestinians will commemorate Al Nakba, the catastrophe that befell the Palestinian people when Israel was founded. Every year, Palestinians hang placards pointing to the right of return, they carry keys symbolizing the homes they were forced to leave and could not return to and remember the Palestine that was lost to them 65 years ago. This year will be no different. Every May 15, Palestinian recall their catastrophe and demand justice. They demand that they are granted the right of return for those who were made refugees virtually overnight and were then relegate to a life they did not choose. But more than anything, they demand recognition of the tragedy that befell them rather than a denial that it ever happened, or worse, that it was of their own making...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [97553] [ 15-may-2013 17:24 ECT ]

PA: Settlers exhume graves, spray racist graffiti
Ma'an news

May 13, 2013 -- Israeli settlers on Monday exhumed a number of graves and sprayed racist graffiti in the Sawiya village in Nablus, a Palestinian Authority official said.Ghassan Daghlas, who heads the PA settlement activity file, said settlers from the Alia settlement were responsible for the damage.
He added that a plant nursery and two tractors, belonging to local Abdel Azziz Nasserallah, were also damaged in the attack. The attack follows clashes on Saturday in the Burin village in Nablus, when dozens of settlers marched into the village...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [97552] [ 15-may-2013 17:19 ECT ]

Syria News - May 12, 2013 (Warning: Graphic Videos)

May 12, 2013 -
By the end of Sunday the LCC managed to document 91 martyrs and includes 2 woman, 6 children, and 8 martyrs under torture: 33 martyrs were reported in Damascus and its suburbs; 13 in Hama; 10 in Aleppo; 9 in Idlib; 9 in Homs; 7 in Daraa; 3 in Lattakia; 3 in Deir Ezzor; 1 in Qunietra ;and 1 in Raqqa. The Committees have documented 373 points of bombing in various Syrian cities and towns. Aviation bombardments by warplanes counted in 53 points in various regions.Explosive barrels were dropped in 5 points "Hazeh, Maleha in Damascus Suburbs, Kafar Zanoun in Aleppo, Tseel in Daraa and Tabaqah in Raqqa' while Ground-to-Ground missile were used in Madloum in Deir Ezzor, SCUD shelling was reported on the Southern side of Raqqa; Cluster shelling was reported in Halfaya in Hama, while vacuum shelling was reported in Eastern bowaida in Homs; Halfaya in Hama; and Binnish in Idlib...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97551] [ 15-may-2013 16:18 ECT ]

Military Resistance 11E7 What a Surprise
Thomas F Barton

May 12, 2013 - ...The United States has requested the use of nine large military bases in Afghanistan after international forces complete their combat mission here at the end of next year, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Thursday. [So, since the "combat mission" will be completed "at the end of next year," which of three following will apply, according to this drooling idiocy?: A) The U.S. military bases will be defended from Taliban attack by non-combat combat forces. B) The bases will be defended from Taliban attack by combat non-combat forces. C) The bases will not be defended from Taliban attack at all. U.S. military personnel will be issued suicide pills to be taken in the event of attack. Death before dishonor. T] ...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97549] [ 14-may-2013 17:31 ECT ]

"From al-Araqib to Susiya" documentary encourages new framework of resistance
By Felix Black

May 12, 2013- On April 26, the documentary by legal workers at the Adalah Legal Center "From al-Araqib to Susiya" featuring testimonies from the residents was screened in both of the villages. al-Araqib is located roughly eight kilometers north of Beersheba in the Naqab desert, whereas Susiya lies within the 1949 Armistice "Green Line," six kilometers south-east of Yatta in the South Hebron Hills. The 20-minute short film delved into the causes and thus the similarities between the forced displacement in each village in an attempt to encourage the understanding of a long-held fact: there is only one system of apartheid and only one occupation...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97548] [ 14-may-2013 17:15 ECT ]

Eroding Freedom in America
by Stephen Lendman

May 12, 2013 - US democracy is illusory. America never was beautiful. It's not the land of the free and home of the brave. It wasn't created that way. More than ever, it's not now.Freedom is a four-letter word. It's fast disappearing. It's an endangered species. Wealth, power and privilege alone matter. America's war on terror priorities advance them. International, constitutional and US statute laws are spurned. Rogue state ruthlessness replaced them. Boston's unprecedented lockdown suggests what's coming. It covered a two hundred square mile area. An important threshold was crossed...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [97547] [ 14-may-2013 16:51 ECT ]

Growing Anger Over American Drones in Yemen
by Abdurrahman Shamlan

May 12, 2013 - Mrs. Michele Obama: Tell us can your husband sleep after so many innocent people were killed by his drones?" read a banner held by a Yemeni activist at a recent rally to protest increasing American drone strikes in Yemen. The rally reflected the growing anti-American feeling among Yemenis, who strongly oppose increasing drone strikes that sometimes result in the killing of innocent civilians, including women and children...Those living in areas frequently targeted by the unmanned planes say their lives have been significantly affected by the drones. "The American strikes have had a huge psychological impact on the citizens as we don't know when and where the next American drone is going to strike," Khaled Alabd, a Yemeni reporter and activist based in his home town of Lawdar...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [97546] [ 14-may-2013 16:43 ECT ]

Click here to view the most recent news




Uruknet on Twitter




:: RSS updated to 2.0

:: English
:: Italiano



:: Uruknet for your mobile phone:
www.uruknet.mobi


Uruknet on Facebook






:: Motore di ricerca / Search Engine


uruknet
the web



:: Immagini / Pictures


Initial
Middle




:: What happened in Kurdish Halabja?






:: Lettera del Presidente Saddam Hussein al popolo americano

:: Letter from President Saddam Hussein to the American People




:: Lynching Saddam
by Gabriele Zamparini



The newsletter archive




L'Impero si è fermato a Bahgdad, by Valeria Poletti


Modulo per ordini




subscribe

:: Newsletter

:: Comments


Haq Agency
Haq Agency - English

Haq Agency - Arabic


AMSI
AMSI - Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq - English

AMSI - Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq - Arabic




Font size
Carattere
1 2 3





:: All events








     

[ home page] | [ tutte le notizie/all news ] | [ download banner] | [ ultimo aggiornamento/last update 21/05/2013 05:18 ]




Uruknet receives daily many hacking attempts. To prevent this, we have 10 websites on 6 servers in different places. So, if the website is slow or it does not answer, you can recall one of the other web sites: www.uruknet.info www.uruknet.de www.uruknet.biz www.uruknet.org.uk www.uruknet.com www.uruknet.org - www.uruknet.it www.uruknet.eu www.uruknet.net www.uruknet.web.at.it




:: This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more info go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.
::  We always mention the author and link the original site and page of every article.
uruknet, uruklink, iraq, uruqlink, iraq, irak, irakeno, iraqui, uruk, uruqlink, saddam hussein, baghdad, mesopotamia, babilonia, uday, qusay, udai, qusai,hussein, feddayn, fedayn saddam, mujaheddin, mojahidin, tarek aziz, chalabi, iraqui, baath, ba'ht, Aljazira, aljazeera, Iraq, Saddam Hussein, Palestina, Sharon, Israele, Nasser, ahram, hayat, sharq awsat, iraqwar,irakwar All pictures

 

I nostri partner - Our Partners:


TEV S.r.l.

TEV S.r.l.: hosting

www.tev.it

Progetto Niz

niz: news management

www.niz.it

Digitbrand

digitbrand: ".it" domains

www.digitbrand.com

Worlwide Mirror Web-Sites:
www.uruknet.info (Main)
www.uruknet.com
www.uruknet.net
www.uruknet.org
www.uruknet.us (USA)
www.uruknet.su (Soviet Union)
www.uruknet.ru (Russia)
www.uruknet.it (Association)
www.uruknet.web.at.it
www.uruknet.biz
www.uruknet.mobi (For Mobile Phones)
www.uruknet.org.uk (UK)
www.uruknet.de (Germany)
www.uruknet.ir (Iran)
www.uruknet.eu (Europe)
wap.uruknet.info (For Mobile Phones)
rss.uruknet.info (For Rss Feeds)
www.uruknet.tel

Vat Number: IT-97475000150