September 2011

FBI teaches agents: ‘mainstream’ Muslims are ‘violent, radical’

by News Sources 09.14.2011

Danger Room reports: The FBI is teaching its counterterrorism agents that “main stream” [sic] American Muslims are likely to be terrorist sympathizers; that the Prophet Mohammed was a “cult leader”; and that the Islamic practice of giving charity is no more than a “funding mechanism for combat.” At the Bureau’s training ground in Quantico, Virginia, [...]

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Some real shock and awe: racially profiled and cuffed in Detroit

by News Sources 09.14.2011

Shoshana Hebshi writes: Silly me. I thought flying on 9/11 would be easy. I figured most people would choose not to fly that day so lines would be short, planes would be lightly filled and though security might be ratcheted up, we’d all feel safer knowing we had come a long way since that dreadful [...]

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Why does Tripoli not resemble Baghdad?

by News Sources 09.14.2011

After entering Libya four days after the fall of Tripoli, Rory Stewart wrote: There were many reasons to fear that the aftermath of the fall of Tripoli would resemble the first days after the fall of Baghdad. For decades, Libya had been controlled by Gaddafi and his secret police. His sons, allies and a few [...]

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Islamists emerge in force in new Libya

by News Sources 09.14.2011

The Washington Post reports: In the fight against Gaddafi’s forces, the Islamist militants played an important role among the rebels’ rag-tag forces because of their experience in battles abroad. With a place in the new Libya, most have said that their days as militants are over. The largest of the organizations, the Libyan Islamic Fighting [...]

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Saleem Shahzad’s murder, al Qaeda, and the ISI

by News Sources 09.14.2011

Dexter Filkins writes: I met Saleem Shahzad nine days before he disappeared, and he seemed to know that his time was running out. It was May 20th, and Islamabad was full of conspiracy theories about the Abbottabad raid: bin Laden was still alive; Kiyani and Pasha had secretly helped the Americans with the raid. Mostly, [...]

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Post 9/11 wars and violations of civil liberties continue

by News Sources 09.14.2011

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U.N. experts say Israel’s blockade of Gaza illegal

by News Sources 09.14.2011

Reuters reports: Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip violates international law, a panel of human rights experts reporting to a U.N. body said on Tuesday, disputing a conclusion reached by a separate U.N. probe into Israel’s raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship. The so-called Palmer Report on the Israeli raid of May 2010 that [...]

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Inside Story – Egypt’s media crackdown

by News Sources 09.14.2011

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Erdogan calls for a secular Egypt

by News Sources 09.13.2011

Al-Masry Al-Youm reports: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday called on Egyptians to adopt a secular constitution, noting that secularism does not mean renouncing religion. A secular state respects all religions, Erdogan said in an interview with the private satellite TV channel Dream before heading to Egypt for a two-day visit. “Do not [...]

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Turkey may launch ground offensive into northern Iraq at any time

by News Sources 09.13.2011

Today’s Zaman reports: Turkey said on Tuesday that its military may launch a ground offensive against terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) targets in northern Iraq at any time in accordance with ongoing talks with Iraqi Kurdish officials as part of cooperation against the PKK. Interior Minister İdris Naim Şahin said in response to questions from [...]

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Bush ordered investigation to suppress Saudi 9/11 connection

by News Sources 09.13.2011

An interview with Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan, authors of The Eleventh Day, The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama bin Laden. Part Two: Part One: Share

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Listening Post – 9/11: When truth became a casualty of war

by News Sources 09.13.2011

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9/11 not an ‘intelligence failure’

by News Sources 09.13.2011

See the earlier report by Jason Leopold that this interview is based upon, Former Counterterrorism Czar Accuses Tenet, Other CIA Officials of Cover-Up. Share

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Libya’s new leader calls for civil state

by News Sources 09.13.2011

The New York Times reports: Aisha Gdour, a school psychologist, smuggled bullets in her brown leather handbag. Fatima Bredan, a hairdresser, tended wounded rebels. Hweida Shibadi, a family lawyer, helped NATO find airstrike targets. And Amal Bashir, an art teacher, used a secret code to collect orders for munitions: Small-caliber rounds were called “pins,” larger [...]

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Libya: NTC must take control to prevent spiral of abuses, says Amnesty

by News Sources 09.13.2011

The National Transitional Council (NTC) must get a grip on armed anti-Gaddafi groups to stop reprisal attacks and arbitrary arrests, Amnesty International warned as it released a major report into human rights violations during the Libyan conflict. The 107-page report The Battle for Libya: Killings, Disappearances and Torture reveals that while al-Gaddafi forces committed widespread [...]

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Meet New York City’s terror-linked political kingmaker

by News Sources 09.13.2011

Max Blumenthal writes: Bob Turner, the Republican candidate campaigning to replace disgraced Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner, picked up a crucial endorsement last week when Democratic Assemblyman Dov Hikind threw his support to him. Hikind is the former leader of the the Jewish Defense League (JDL), which the FBI lists as a terror organization. He was [...]

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Evidence that al Qaeda killed Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri in 2005

by News Sources 09.13.2011

Part Two of an interview with Gareth Porter: Part One: See also, Hariri Bombing Indictment Based on Flawed Premise and Tribunal Concealed Evidence Al-Qaeda Cell Killed Hariri, by Gareth Porter. For more background on the history of Lebanon, see the RealNews series parts One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, and Ten. Share

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At the UN, the funeral of the two-state solution

by News Sources 09.12.2011

Ilan Pappe writes: We are all going to be invited to the funeral of the two-state solution if and when the UN General Assembly announces the acceptance of Palestine as a member state. The support of the vast majority of the organization’s members would complete a cycle that began in 1967 and which granted the [...]

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Israel plans to evict 30,000 Bedouin from their homes

by News Sources 09.12.2011

Haaretz reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet on Sunday approved a plan to relocate tens of thousands of Bedouin from their unrecognized villages into settlements with official state status. The plan emerges from the Prawer Report, drafted to find a solution to the problem of unrecognized villages in the Negev. As part of the plan, [...]

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Jordan king: Palestinians have more secure future than Israel

by News Sources 09.12.2011

Haaretz reports: Jordanian King Abdullah II said Monday that Israel’s position in the Middle East has deteriorated in the wake of the recent wave of Arab uprisings, telling a group of intellectuals that the Palestinians now have a “more secure future” than Israel. Israel’s position is “more problematic than it has been in the past”, [...]

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Turkey: Israel’s raid on Gaza flotilla was ’cause for war’

by News Sources 09.12.2011

Reuters and the Associated Press report: Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan saw “cause for war” with Israel last year after a deadly raid on a Turkish ship headed for Gaza, according to a transcript of a recent interview. State news agency Anatolia released late on Sunday what it said was an original Turkish-language transcript of [...]

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‘A Child’s View From Gaza’ — art the Israel lobby doesn’t want you to see

by News Sources 09.12.2011

Cecilie Surasky at MuzzleWatch writes: Berkeley, CA’s Middle East Children’s Alliance broke the news yesterday that the exhibit of children’s artwork from Gaza that they had worked on for months with Oakland’s Children’s Museum of Art was suddenly canceled by the board before the planned September 24 opening reception. The show featured drawings by children [...]

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Egypt activists condemn revival of emergency law

by News Sources 09.12.2011

Reuters reports: Egyptian activists and politicians accused the ruling military leaders of breaking a promise to end emergency law, after authorities said they would reintroduce special security courts following an attack on the Israeli embassy. Eight months after protesters toppled President Hosni Mubarak and the military took power on an interim basis, many supporters of [...]

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Inside Story – Israel-Egypt: Troubled peace

by News Sources 09.12.2011

Omar Ashour, Gideon Levy, and Robert Fisk discuss Israeli-Egyptian tension. Share

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