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Tuesday, September 5, 2006 |
BenFrank: "Congressman Dennis Kucinich has recently returned from a fact finding mission to Lebanon and Israel and it is interesting to see the contrast of the damage done in the recent violence ...
After about 2 hours of dragging out maps of the division between east and west Jerusalem, the wall route, the settlements, the separation between Gaza and the rest of the West Bank, and other enlightening information, he finally stood up, spread his hands across the maps and said in a voice filled with disbelief, 'This is diabolical!'"
List of collective massacres perpetrated by Israeli Army in its attack against Lebanon in summer 2006.
Michel Collon asks why Europe has to pay for the reconstruction of Lebanon. He says Washington should pay for it as the Americans are responsible and supplied the missiles, tanks, cluster bombs and the orders.
11:56:51 AM 
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NYTimes: "For 30 years during the cold war, Americans carried out the largest development project in Afghanistan's history here, building a modern capital with suburban-style tract homes, a giant hydroelectric dam and 300 miles of canals that made 250,000 acres of desert bloom. Afghans called this city 'Little America'.
Today, Little America is the epicenter of a Taliban resurgence and an explosion in drug cultivation that has claimed the lives of 106 American and NATO soldiers this year and doubled American casualty rates countrywide. Across Afghanistan, roadside bomb attacks are up by 30 percent; suicide bombings have doubled. Statistically it is now nearly as dangerous to serve as an American soldier in Afghanistan as it is in Iraq."
GlobeandMail: "Canadian soldiers were minutes away from launching an attack against the Taliban when a U.S. warplane mistakenly fired on them yesterday, killing one soldier, injuring more than 30 others and forcing a pause in the Canadian battle plan to purge the Taliban from the restive Panjwai district."
'Friendly-fire' incidents are proof of the fact that American troops shoot at anything that moves. When they have bombed civilians they tell us they killed 'Taliban'.
What is it like to fight a war?
11:47:03 AM
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Guardian: "Tony Blair's position has been further undermined by the drafting of a private letter from a majority of the 2001 intake of Labour MPs urging him to resign.
Last night, the BBC reported that a second, similar letter from the 2005 intake was being prepared. Others may be being drafted in what could be seen as a pincer movement against the prime minister."
11:36:48 AM
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© Copyright 2006 Hetty Litjens.
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