The U.S. is holding 500 at the base in wire cages at the Bagram Air Base, north of Kabul in Afghanistan. Some have been detained for up to three years. They have never been charged with crimes. They have no access to lawyers. They are barred from hearing the allegations against them. Officials describe the [...]
Archive for February, 2006
“Worse” Than Guantanamo: U.S. Expands Secretive Prison Inside Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan
27Feb06Beauty and Symmetry
27Feb06One study claimed that women who have infectious diseases during their pregnancy, are more likely to give birth to asymmetrical babies. They also claim that these asymmetrical babies will grow up to suffer more heart disease than their more symmetrical cousins.
Here’s another example involving humans. In the animal kingdom, it’s the secondary sexual characteristics that [...]
The preview posters for Paradise Now declare, ‘From the most unexpected place, a bold new call for peace’. The trailer suggested the same thing: a Palestinian suicide bomber deciding not to go through with his mission.
But by the time the film was nominated for this year’s Best Foreign Feature at the Oscars, certain audiences started [...]
News of the blogosphere…
PSM (Palestine Solidarity Movement) Fifth Annual Divestment Conferece has taken place from February 17-19 in Washington DC, US attracting more than six hundred student and community activists from ninety different university and organization from across the US as mentioned in a report by The Hatchet.
Witnesses from KABOBfest, said JDL protesters and Israel [...]
PSM (Palestine Solidarity Movement) Fifth Annual Divestment Conferece has taken place from February 17-19 in Washington DC, US attracting more than four hundred student and community activists from ninety different university and organization from across the US.
Messages of solidarity were sent via KABOBfest as part of real time update on the conference including audio, video, [...]
Received
23Feb06“we identified an Arab female 100m from the gate of the outpost”
“what did you see?”
“Root, we saw one on “two legs” 100m away from the post.”
“Sfard, can you see her?”
“positive, a little girl running, the target is moving to the east.”
“define the position.”
“north of Morshah”
“position not correct”
“she is now behind the digger, she is dying [...]
A well-known Iraqi journalist working for al-Arabiya television and two members of her crew were kidnapped and killed while reporting on the shrine attack in Samarra.
The bodies of Atwar Bahiat, 26 - a Sunni who had previously worked for al-Jazeera - and her cameraman Adnan Khairallah and soundman Khaled Mohsen, were found on the outskirts [...]
The death toll from violence sparked by the bombing of a Shia shrine in Samarra rose to at least 78 today, heightening fears that Iraq is sliding towards civil war.
Nearly 50 people were pulled from buses and shot dead in the Nahrawan area, south-east of Baghdad. Their bodies were later found behind a brick factory.
Sixteen [...]
Government spokesperson Nasser Judeh Tuesday said His Majesty King Abdullah II works around the clock to check on every citizen’s concerns and issues within the Jordanian loyal family. It was the King’s directives as well as the efforts of all government departments and our good brothers in Iraq that together helped to secure the release [...]
Ari Lives in Israel received an email in which he was asked to sign a petition to get Paradise Now off the Oscars, the email read:
I just signed this. Please join me in getting “Paradise Now” off the
Oscars.
The Revoke the “Paradise Now” Oscar Nomination Petition is red hot,
averaging well over a thousand signatures a day, [...]
Khaled
adel, I Three Dots, Ali MetalHead, Waleed, G [...]
Anne Pham, Geronimo Cristobal
الختيار, Shaden, bambam
john, Dave, kinzi