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Hate speech or free speech? What much of West bans is protected in U.S. - International... - 0 views

  • "In Canada, the right to freedom of expression is not absolute, nor should it be," the commission's statement said. "By portraying Muslims as all sharing the same negative characteristics, including being a threat to 'the West,' this explicit expression of Islamophobia further perpetuates and promotes prejudice toward Muslims and others."
  • "The problem with so-called hate speech laws is that they're not about facts," he said in a telephone interview. "They're about feelings."
  • . "Western governments are becoming increasingly comfortable with the regulation of opinion.
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  • he First Amendment really does distinguish the U.S., not just from Canada but from the rest of the Western world."
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    Beware world when it comes to speech promoted by America.... the Americans can say anything they want provided the utterances do not cause any physical harm to other American citizens. Amercans say; "Sticks and stones may break my bones but NAMES will never hurt me". So for all of you NON-AMERICANS... get prepared to be told where the "dog died" in America.
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Ronin Ronin

The American army: the bombing was carried out by groups linked to freedom in Iran and ... - 0 views

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    A spokesman for the coalition forces in Iraq, General Kevin Bergnr that initial investigations into the bombing, which targeted the town of Freedom on Tuesday proved the involvement of groups associated with Iran, as saying. واضاف بيرغنر في المؤتمر الصحافي المشترك مع الجنرال بروكس باش قائد فريق التدريب في قوة طيران القوات المتعددة الجنسيات الذي عقد ببغداد الأربعاء: He added Bergnr joint press conference with General Brooks Bash team leader Force flight training in the multinational forces which was held in Baghdad Wednesday: "التحقيقات ما تزال جارية، وهناك أشخاص يشتبه بوقوفهم وراء الحادث، وهم أعضاء في خلية للمجاميع الخاصة المرتبطة بايران ولدينا معلومات استخباراتية تؤكد أن الهجوم نفذ من هذه المجموعات وليس من تنظيم القاعدة". "Investigations are still ongoing, and there are people suspected of being behind the incident, members of the cell aggregates associated with Iran and we have intelligence information confirm that the attack carried out by these groups and not from Al Qaeda." وعن مطالبة الحكومة العراقية من القوات الأميركية رفع يدها عن حماية معسكر أشرف الخاص بمنظمة مجاهدي خلق الايرانية في محافظة ديالى شمالي بغداد قال بيرغنر: And the Iraqi government called for U.S. forces lift its control of Camp Ashraf protect private MKO Iran in Diyala province north of Baghdad, said Bergnr: "نحن نتفهم مخاوف الحكومة العراقية من وجود منظمة مجاهدي خلق الايرانية في محافظة ديالى وستناقش مع إدارة الجيش الأميركي، وقد أخبرتني السفارة الأميركية
Ronin Ronin

U.S. Report: Detained by Saddam's regime acknowledged the transfer of Syrian chemical w... - 1 views

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    قال المدير السابق لعمليات السجون في العراق دون بوردينكيرشر أمس، إن عشرات المعتقلين من مسؤولي النظام المخلوع تباهوا بإسهامهم في نقل رؤوس حربية تحوي أسلحة دمار شامل الى سورية ولبنان في الشهور الثلاثة التي سبقت تحرير العراق من تلك الزمرة. The former director of prison operations in Iraq without Bordenkircher yesterday that dozens of detainees from the ousted regime officials boasted their contribution to the transfer of warheads containing weapons of mass destruction to Syria and Lebanon in the three months preceding the liberation of Iraq from the junta. ونقل موقع «وورلد نت ديلي» الأميركي على الانترنت عن بوردينكيرشر الذي أشرف على سجون ضمت عشرات من المسؤولين في جيش واستخبارات النظام السابق، أن عدداً صغيراً من هؤلاء المعتقلين ادعوا معرفتهم بمواقع الرؤوس الفارغة التي دفنت في العراق بعد نقل محتوياتها. The relocation of «World Net Daily» American Internet Bordenkircher, who oversaw the prisons included dozens of officials in the army and intelligence previous regime, that a small number of these detainees claimed to know the location of the empty warheads that were buried in Iraq after the transfer of its contents. وأضاف: «أن هؤلاء المعتقلين أرادوا مقايضة معلوماتهم بإطلاقهم من السجون» مؤكداً استعدادهم لكشف مواقع هذه الرؤوس. He added: «that these detainees wanted to swap their information releases from prison» affirming their willingness to detect the locations of these warheads. وتابع أن السجناء كانوا أعضاء في الجيش العراقي أو مدنيي
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Looking for the New Baghdad -- Printout -- TIME - 0 views

  • The Baghdadis caught between these extremes know that the only thing standing in the way of another sectarian conflagration is the U.S. military. This may explain why every Iraqi who offers me a view on American politics seems to be praying for a McCain victory. A 100-year American military presence, of which McCain once spoke, may seem a bit much; I suspect most Iraqis would be happy with five.
  • Now, says Ali al-Dabbagh, spokesman for the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, all the credit for the decline in violence is going to the U.S. military: "People think the Americans are like Superman, who can do anything."
  • Many are former insurgents who are happy to accept salaries ($300 per month, paid by the U.S., not the Iraqi government)
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  • from the men they once hoped to kill.
  • . But colleagues recently embedded with U.S. troops in Baghdad tell stories of soldiers being received with smiles and waves, even cups of tea. Driving through the city,
  • in the Jadriyah district, we get four to six hours of electricity a day, up from just two hours.
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    Let's hope that the Iraqi will achieve their peace with the help of America.
Ronin Ronin

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Shen number of members of Congress, known for hostile attitudes of the Arab and Islamic states, in solidarity with the American Committee for International Religious Freedom, a campaign aimed at cl...

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AMERICA --soldier gets 110-years for raping girl - Times Online - 0 views

  • The accused ringleader, former Private Steven Green, was discharged from the Army for a “personality disorder” and is awaiting trial in a civilian court, where he could face a possible death penalty.
  • Sergeant Paul Cortez and Specialist James Barker, both of whom admitted to raping the girl, received life sentences after pleading guilty earlier this year
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    This American soldier received 110 years to serve in a prison while another soldier in the same group recieved a 100 year jail sentence for participating in the rape crimes on an Iraqi girl. Now if American soldiers are given severe prison penalties for their crimes; would America provide farin justice to the Guitmo "enemy combattants" who were captured by co-alition forces in Afghanistan/Iraw etc.?
Ronin Ronin

Marine soldier demobilization and another punishing both the "puppy" in Iraq - 0 views

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    demobilize one of the elements of the Marines "Marines", and punish another, after the disclosure of a videotape they portrayed as "punishment" a small puppy, before the one pelted from the rocky hills above the one in Iraq. وجاء في بيان للبحرية الأمريكية الأربعاء، أنه تقرر إنهاء خدمة الجندي ديفيد موتاري على خلفية "الحادث" الذي تم بثه على موقع YouTube، في الثالث من مارس/ آذار الماضي. A statement by the American navy on Wednesday, he decided to terminate the service of the soldier David Mutare against the backdrop of "incident" which was broadcast on the site YouTube, on the third of March last. كما تقرر معاقبة السيرجنت كريسمارفن بانيز إنكارناشيون، بسبب تورطه أيضاً في الحادث، إلا أن البيان لم يكشف طبيعة العقوبة، وكذلك لم تتضح الاتهامات التي تم توجيهها لكلا الجنديين. It also decided to punish Alsrzint Krismarven Ankarnaxion Caniza, also because of his involvement in the incident, but the statement did not reveal the nature of the penalty, was also not clear that the accusations were directed to both soldiers. وكان الجيش الأمريكي قد قرر إحالة الجنديين للجنة تأديبية بعد بث الشريط المصور الذي يظهر أحدهما، على الأرجح موتاري، وهو يمسك بجرو أبيض ذي رأس سوداء، ثم يقذف به من فوق منحدر صخري. The U.S. Army has decided to refer the soldiers of disciplinary committee after the broadcast the video which shows one is likely to Mutare, which holds a white puppy with a black head, and then jump over the rocky slope. وفي خلفية الصورة، كان جندي آخر، يقول: "هذا ما يعنيه، هذا ما كان يعنيه"، في إشارة إلى
Ronin Ronin

W.H.O. Says Iraq Civilian Death Toll Higher Than Cited - 0 views

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    The study is the latest in a long series of attempts to come up with realistic numbers of civilian deaths. The numbers are politically fraught, and researchers' work has been further complicated by problems in collecting data while working in a war zone. The estimates have varied widely. The Iraq Body Count, a nongovernmental group based in Britain that bases its numbers on news media accounts, put the number of civilians dead at 47,668 during the same period of time as the World Health Organization study, the W.H.O. report said. President Bush in the past used a number that was similar to one put forward at the time by the Iraq Body Count. But another study, by Johns Hopkins, which has come under criticism for its methodology, cited an estimate of about 600,000 dead between the war's start, in March 2003, and July 2006. The World Health Organization said its study, based on interviews with families, indicated with a 95 percent degree of statistical certainty that between 104,000 and 223,000 civilians had died. It based its estimate of 151,000 deaths on that range. Those figures made violence the leading cause of adult male deaths in Iraq and one of the leading causes of death for the population as a whole, the health organization research team reported online in the New England Journal of Medicine. More than half the violent deaths occurred in Baghdad. While the new study appears to have the broadest scope to date, increasing its reliability, well known limitations of such efforts in war areas make it unlikely to resolve debate about the extent of the killing in Iraq. Iraqi officials gave conflicting assessments of the newest study, with one senior Health Ministry official praising it and another saying the numbers were exaggerated. The White House said that it had not seen the study and would not comment on its estimated death toll, but that the recent increase in American forces had reduced civilian and military casualties. "We mourn
liveinfreedom .

Al Qaeda Indonesia Commander Quits Bin Laden Inside The Enemy Camp - 0 views

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    Nasir Abas, a 20 year Indonesian Al Qaeda commander quits Al Qaeda when Bin Laden told him to kill the Jews and Americans. Abas says that killing innocence is NOT IN THE Quran.
Ronin Ronin

The father of a Saudi terrorist detained in Iraq decides to prosecute advocates of blas... - 0 views

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    Riyadh / Al-Hayat Al-Zaman: The father of a Saudi terrorist detained in Iraq that he be prosecuted two of thought advocates who promoted Heresy لمئات من الشبان فتاوى تحرض على ما اسماه بالجهاد والذهاب إلى مناطق الفتن والصراعات من دون أن يراجعوا فيها هيئة كبار العلماء في المملكة. Hundreds of young men to incite opinions on what he called jihad and go to areas of strife and conflict without review by senior scientists in the Kingdom. وقال عبدالله البليهد في حديثه إلى صحيفة الحياة اللندنية ، إن عراقيا اقتاد ابنه ثامر (23 عاماً) لتهريبه إلى الحدود السعودية لكنه سلمه الى قوات الاحتلال في العراق في مقابل 250 دولاراً أميركياً. Alpeletd Abdullah said in his speech to a life of London newspaper, The Iraqis took his son Thamer (23 years) of smuggled to the Saudi border but donated to the occupying forces in Iraq, compared with U.S. $ 250. وأشار البليهد، الذي يعمل مديراً لمكتب العمل في حفر الباطن، إلى أنه عثر على فتاوى في غرفة ابنه تحض على (الجهاد) موقعة من علي الخضير وأحمد الخالدي اللذين قبض عليهما في مداهمة أمنية غرب المملكة في 28 أيار (مايو) 2003. He Alpeletd, who works as director of the Office of work in Hafr al-Batin, it was found in the room fatwas urging his son Ali (Jihad) signed by the Khudayr and Ahmad Khalidi two arrested in security raids in the west of Saudi Arabia on May 28 (May) 2003. وأضاف انه قرر مقاضاتهما أمام الجهات الشرعية فور تسليم ابنه للسلطات الأمنية، وقال: «لقد اعتذر الخضير والخالدي أمام الملأ عن الفتاوى التكفيرية
liveinfreedom .

VIDEO -- Iraqis! See Your IRAQI FLAG RAISED by using America's Blood and Treasure to ma... - 0 views

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    WARNING! DO NOT GET AMERICANS ANGRY else pay the price. America's mission in the world is to bring peace and FREEDOM to the world by removing oppression everywhere in the world without regard to the cost of ; its blood, or treasure, or to receive any rewards for doing so. PEACE benefits the WHOLE world. http://www.diigo.com/list/liveinfreedom/clintons-iraq-liberation-act
Ronin Ronin

Multinational declare Qaeda leader killed in Mosul - 0 views

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    Multinational forces announced the killing of the leader of Al Qaeda in the city of Mosul, named Abu Khalaf and assist the Syrian named Abu immortality, who was wearing a belt. وقتلت القوات أيضا امرأة حاولت تفجير الحزام بعد مقتل أبو خلود في مداهمة نفذتها قوات التحالف الثلاثاء الماضي، حسب تأكيد المستشار الإعلامي لقوات التحالف عبد اللطيف الريان لـ"راديو سوا". The troops also killed a woman tried to blow belt after the killing of Abu immortality in the raid carried out by coalition forces last Tuesday, according to confirm the information advisor to the coalition forces Abd al-Latif told "Radio Sawa." وأشار الريان إلى أن المدعو أبو خلف كان من المقريبن لأبو مصعب الزرقاوي مؤسس تنظيم القاعدة في العراق والذي تمكنت قوات التحالف من قتله في عام 2006 في محافظة ديالى. He pointed out that Al-Rayyan named Abu Khalaf was Almkren of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, founder of Al-Qaida in Iraq and that coalition forces were able to kill him in in 2006 in Diyala province. ونفى الريان اتهامات النائب أسامة النجيفي التي سبق أن وجهها في مؤتمر صحافي والتي ذكر فيها أن الجيش الأميركي ارتكب ما وصفه بـ"المجزرة" في مدينة الموصل. He denied accusations MP Osama al-Sanjivan previously addressed in a press conference, which stated that the American army committed what he described as a "massacre" in the city of Mosul. وكان النائب النجيفي اشار إلى أن القوات الاميركية قامت لدى مداهمتها إحدى الدور في حي العريبي في محافظة نينوى بقتل امرأة وعدد من الأطفال، مطالبا بفتح تحقيق في ا
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U.S. says exercise by Israel seemed directed at Iran - International Herald Tribune - 0 views

  • A second, the official said, was to send a clear message to the United States and other countries that Israel was prepared to act militarily if diplomatic efforts to stop Iran from producing bomb-grade uranium continued to falter.
  • But American officials were also told that Israel had prepared plans for striking nuclear targets in Iran and could carry them out if needed.
  • "They are clearly nervous about this and have their air defense on guard," a Bush administration official said of the Iranians.
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  • Two sets of advance Russian-made radar systems were recently delivered to Iran. The radar will enhance Iran's ability to detect planes flying at low altitude.
  • Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, said in February that Iran was close to acquiring Russian-produced SA-20 surface-to-air missiles. American military officials said that the deployment of such systems would hamper Israel's attack planning, putting pressure on Israel to act before the missiles are fielded.
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    Iran is getting nervous about aircraft fying in the air corridors adjacent to their air space. Israel is making arrangments to remove the nuclear sites in Iran.
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3 VIDEOS -- The Future of Iraq: A Conversation with General Raymond T. Odierno (video) ... - 0 views

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    Scroll down to view 3 VIDEOS "On February 16th, the Institute for the Study of War hosted an event with General Odierno at the Army and Navy Club. General Odierno offered his insights into Iraq's evolution since the Surge, the political challenges facing Iraq this year, the security challenges that the American drawdown will pose to Iraq, the policies of Iraq's neighbors, and the potential for long-term success."
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President Bushes Speeck to the U.N. - 0 views

  • Our common security is challenged by regional conflicts -- ethnic and religious strife that is ancient, but not inevitable. In the Middle East, there can be no peace for either side without freedom for both sides
  • Had Saddam Hussein been appeased instead of stopped, he would have endangered the peace and stability of the world. Yet this aggression was stopped -- by the might of coalition forces and the will of the United Nations. To suspend hostilities, to spare himself, Iraq's dictator accepted a series of commitments. The terms were clear, to him and to all. And he agreed to prove he is complying with every one of those obligations. He has proven instead only his contempt for the United Nations, and for all his pledges. By breaking every pledge -- by his deceptions, and by his cruelties -- Saddam Hussein has made the case against himself.
  • n 1991, Security Council Resolution 688 demanded that the Iraqi regime cease at once the repression of its own people, including the systematic repression of minorities -- which the Council said, threatened international peace and security in the region. This demand goes ignored.
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  • he founding members resolved that the peace of the world must never again be destroyed by the will and wickedness of any man. We created the United Nations Security Council, so that, unlike the League of Nations, our deliberations would be more than talk, our resolutions would be more than wishes. After generations of deceitful dictators and broken treaties and squandered lives, we dedicated ourselves to standards of human dignity shared by all, and to a system of security defended by all.
  • Tens of thousands of political opponents and ordinary citizens have been subjected to arbitrary arrest and imprisonment, summary execution, and torture by beating and burning, electric shock, starvation, mutilation, and rape. Wives are tortured in front of their husbands, children in the presence of their parents -- and all of these horrors concealed from the world by the apparatus of a totalitarian state.
  • In 1993, Iraq attempted to assassinate the Emir of Kuwait and a former American President. Iraq's government openly praised the attacks of September the 11th. And al Qaeda terrorists escaped from Afghanistan and are known to be in Iraq.
  • U.N. inspectors believe Iraq has produced two to four times the amount of biological agents it declared,
  • s we meet today, it's been almost four years since the last U.N. inspectors set foot in Iraq, four years for the Iraqi regime to plan, and to build, and to test behind the cloak of secrecy.
  • Just months after the 1991 cease-fire, the Security Council twice renewed its demand that the Iraqi regime cooperate fully with inspectors, condemning Iraq's serious violations of its obligations. The Security Council again renewed that demand in 1994, and twice more in 1996, deploring Iraq's clear violations of its obligations. The Security Council renewed its demand three more times in 1997, citing flagrant violations; and three more times in 1998, calling Iraq's behavior totally unacceptable. And in 1999, the demand was renewed yet again.
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    Just read President Bushe's address to the UN
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Looking Back at Five Years in Iraq - New York Times - 0 views

  • With 12 million people casting ballots, a turnout of about 75 per cent,
  • Iraqis I met who felt secure enough to speak with candor had an overwhelming desire to see American troops remain long enough to restore stability.
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Looking Back at Five Years in Iraq - New York Times - 0 views

  • That it took such force to accomplish seemed mitigated, at least somewhat, by the precision of the strikes, with only isolated instances, during the 19 days before American troops reached Baghdad, of errant missiles killing innocent civilians. Early one morning, I went to the smoking wreckage of the city’s central telephone exchange, only to find patients from Iraq’s main heart hospital, 150 feet away, across a narrow lane, uninjured, out in the garden in their pajamas watching the commotion.
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Iraq's Insurgency Is Running on Stolen Oil Profits - New York Times - 0 views

  • And while American troops have captured stockpiles of artillery shells from Mr. Hussein’s days, insurgents have adapted, building bombs from cheap materials like fertilizer and cocoa.
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Iraq forces talks reach 'dead end' - 0 views

  • But given that there is little consensus in Baghdad over the treaty, Iraqi leaders may simply decide to push for an extension of the UN mandate, however imperfect it may be.
  • “If the Iraqi and the American side can’t reach an agreement, then they have to think of extending the mandate for six months or a year,” said Mahmoud Othman, an independent Kurdish parliamentarian.
  • Under the UN mandate, US and British forces have had the authority to detain or strike at those deemed threats to security, and their troops are allowed legal immunity from Iraqi law for their actions. A US administration would be reluctant to give away this freedom of action and immunity lest it be accused of not giving its military the tools to protect itself, or of letting US citizens be judged by foreign courts
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  • Mr Maliki has reportedly reassured Iran that the accord would not turn Iraq into a launching pad for an attack and Washington insists that it does not want permanent bases.
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    America and Iraq are locked into a situation that may not be resolved through negotiations between the two parties. If the parties can't agree on a new agreement prior to the U.N. resolution authorizing U.S. forces in the region then the parties MAY extend the U.N. resolution in order to maintain the "multi-national" troops in the region.
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