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US troops have allegedly shot dead two young Iraqi sisters near Baqubah, north of Baghdad. Iraqi police and family members say American troops shot the 12-year-old and 15-year-old as they were collecting wood from a field. The older girl died on the spot and her sister died later of her wounds. A policeman claims that US forces handed one of the girls' bodies over to the police "arguing that she had a gun in her possession". Police searched the family home but found nothing suspicious. Coalition forces in Iraq are investigating claims, but have declined to make further comment.

Sympathy for a Devil Myles B. Kantor Friday, July 4, 2003 Some do evil in silence. Others flaunt it. On Dec. 2, 1917, after the Bolshevik coup in Russia, a 38-year-old Bolshevik said to the Central Executive Committee of Soviets: "There is nothing immoral in the proletariat finishing off the dying class. This is its right. You are indignant … at the petty terror which we direct against our class opponents. But be put on notice that in one month at most this terror will assume more frightful forms, on the model of the great revolutionaries of France. Our enemies...

Neue Enthüllungen bringen die CIA in Bedrängnis: Offenbar hat der israelische Geheimdienst Mossad die US-Behörden schon frühzeitig auf die Terroristen-Gruppe um Mohammed Atta hingewiesen. Auch die deutschen Ermittler erfuhren erst sehr spät, wie viel die US-Kollegen schon zwei Jahre vor dem 11. September über die Hamburger Studenten wussten. Washington/Tel Aviv/Hamburg - Die neuen Erkenntnisse förderte das Hamburger Wochenblatt "Die Zeit" zu Tage, das am Donnerstag ein umfangreiches Dossier über die Pannen des amerikanischen Geheimdienstes CIA veröffentlichen will. Darin beschreibt der freie Autor Oliver Schröm seine Recherche-Ergebnisse bei diversen europäischen und amerikanischen Geheimdiensten. Die Schlussfolgerungen dürften für den angeschlagenen CIA-Chef George...

VATICAN Statement of Holy See spokesman Navarro VallsRome (Fides) – The Director of the Holy See Press Office Dr. Joaquin Navarro-Valls released the following statement this morning, April 3. In the face of the concerning deteriorating situation in the Holy Land and the numerous appeals for help which have reached the Holy Father from various sides, the Secretariat of State and the Papal Representative in Jerusalem have contacted the parties involved. Yesterday, April 2, Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran, Secretary for Relations with States, convoked His Excellency Yosef Neville Lamdan, Ambassador of Israel and this morning His Excellency Mr. R. James Nicholson...

Foes Claim BJP is Using Arms Training to Win Crucial Election in India Fears mount that reason for camps is to galvanize support for temple construction. By Newsroom News Service | posted 6/29/01 Hindu nationalists in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, continue to train hundreds of young men and women in the use of various weapons, despite increasing opposition from political parties not part of the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) coalition government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In recent weeks opposition parties have demanded that the federal government halt arms training by the Bajrang Dal, the ...

Christians Call for India's Prime Minister and Government to Resign in Wake of Scandal Web site releases tapes of party president taking bribes from men posing as arms dealers. By Anto Akkara in New Delhi | posted 3/22/01 A leading Protestant bishop has endorsed widespread calls for the resignation of India's ruling federal coalition following revelations on a Web site last week of government corruption. "The present government should resign immediately," says Bishop Z. James Terom, moderator of one of India's leading denominations, the Church of North India (CNI). Referring to the corruption scandal that has rocked the nation, the ...

Militant Hindus Assault Christians Persecution of religious minorities stirs Christian outrage against government inaction. By Manpreet Singh in New Delhi 1/31/01 In a renewed round of violence, Hindu extremists in India assaulted priests and nuns and ransacked Christian churches and schools. A growing atmosphere of religious intolerance in India is threatening to further damage relations between Hindu moderates and Christians. Militant Hindu organizations such as the Rashtiriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the Sangh Parivar (SP) and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) receive support from members of the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), thus fueling a campaign against religious minorities ...

PERVASIVE PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS IN INDIA POPE RETURNING TO AN INDIA AFIRE WITH HINDU NATIONALISM By Uli Schmetzer The mob arrived armed with knives and clubs while Rev. Joy Punnose addressed the 120 missionaries gathered in the small town of Dohad in northern Gujarat, an Indian state where Christians have become almost daily targets for Hindu mobs. The kicks, punches and slaps that followed were not unusual in the northern part of this country, the so-called Hindu belt, where dozens of Christian churches went up in smoke this year, an Australian missionary and his two sons were burned alive, another ...

Irv Rubin Speaks: A Response to the Anti-War.Com Attack By: Irv Rubin July 7, 2000 Mr. Raimondo: This is a response to your brutal attacks against me ("Wild About Harry," June 14, 2000). It is easy to create lies about your enemies from the comfort and security of your website. There you have the nerve to call me a terrorist and ask the Libertarian Party to exclude me from membership. Evidently, you have deluded yourself into thinking you are some sort of erudite philosopher vis-à-vis Libertarianism. However, you lack even the common decency to provide an e-mail address so I ...

<p>TONY SNOW, HOST: This week, senior correspondent Carl Cameron has reported on a longstanding government espionage investigation. Federal officials this year have arrested or detained nearly 200 Israeli citizens suspected of belonging to an "organized intelligence-gathering operation." The Bush administration has deported most of those arrested after Sept. 11, although some are in custody under the new anti-terrorism law.</p>

HOROWITZ GOES HAYWIRE - PART II Dime-store McCarthy answers Raimondo -- whines about "character assassination" Editorial note: We reprint below a letter posted a few hours ago on David Horowitz's Frontpage site, Horowitz's crazed answer, and Justin Raimondo's rejoinder. HOROWITZ EXPOSED I used to think David Horowtiz was the cat's pajamas for taking on the Left, but now am having "second thoughts" on account of a very illuminating analysis here: http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j120501.html What say you? -- Emily Creo New York, NY 12/6/01 Horowitz responds: Raimondo is a deranged individual with a pathological obssession [sic] for me because of a conflict we ...

[to the tune of "Joe Hill"] words by Joseph R. Stromberg I dreamed I saw Tom Ridge last night, going through my things. "Tom," I said, "Get out of here." "I never stint," said he, "Homeland Security." "I've never been an Arab, Tom, or played one on TV" – but Tom just kept right at his work, "I can't neglect," said he, "Homeland Security." "The Fourth Amendment, Tom," said I – "Don't mean a thing," said he. "You have to give it up," he said, "So we can keep you free – Homeland Security." "Well, Tom," I said, "I just ...

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The following statement was adopted by the Libertarian National Committee at its meeting in Atlanta, Georgia on October 14, 2001: On Sunday, October 7, the United States launched military action against Osama bin Laden, the terrorist believed to be responsible for the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The U.S. military also struck military bases controlled by the Taliban regime of Afghanistan, which has sheltered and reportedly assisted bin Laden. While the Libertarian Party has been a consistent voice against reckless foreign interventionism by the U.S. government, we support action against the perpetrators responsible for ...

Building 'empire' shouldn't be goal As the United States pummels terrorist targets in Afghanistan, an internal political war wages among policy makers and opinion leaders in Washington. The central question: How far does the United States take its war once current attacks are done? News reports suggest a rift between Secretary of State Colin Powell and administration undersecretaries, such as Paul Wolfowitz, who serves in the Defense Department. Leading neoconservative officials and writers want a broad war that targets Iraq's Saddam Hussein also. This is the logical outcome of an ongoing Washington debate in the years following the end of ...

Now everybody has this unique opportunity. In Germany the number of Osama bin Laden’s satellite telephone has been published. According to German mass media, this number is: 00873-682505331. The satellite telephone was bought for bin Laden by his brother-in-arms for $10,000 in New York, in 1996. Since that time, bin Laden has been using it only. It is being reported, FBI has spread this number. It is said, if somebody reached bin Laden, the terrorist would be born and attacked. Apropos, in 1998 the US already bombed the satellite telephone of bin Laden. Though at that time the terrorist seems ...

Odigo says workers were warned of attack By Yuval Dror Odigo, the instant messaging service, says that two of its workers received messages two hours before the Twin Towers attack on September 11 predicting the attack would happen, and the company has been cooperating with Israeli and American law enforcement, including the FBI, in trying to find the original sender of the message predicting the attack. Micha Macover, CEO of the company, said the two workers received the messages and immediately after the terror attack informed the company's management, which immediately contacted the Israeli security services, which brought in ...

Communist Party Protests Raimondo Speech Author Michael Parenti Says Invitation "Outrageous" San Francisco, California -- The Communist Party, USA has lodged protests to the sponsors of the "Project Censored" conference, complaining that Justin Raimondo, Editor-In-Cheif [sic]of the websites Antiwar.com, should not have been allowed to speak. Michael Parenti, a Communist Party author who's [sic] books on "sociology" are part of teh [sic] cirriculum [sic] in several colleges (including our own Montgomery College here in Maryland), wrote a letter to the organization on behalf of the party calling Raimondo's invitation "outrageous" and demanding it be revoked. The conference organizers declined Parenti, ...

To the tune of "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover." "Florida is going to George Bush" they said to me Your political ambitions will soon be history; But William Daley said, just leave it all to me, There must be fifty ways to count your voters. He said, three counties are all that we will need If they're mostly Democratic it is almost guaranteed Just demand a recount, we can surely take the lead There must be fifty ways to count your voters. Fifty ways to count your voters. Just punch out the chad, Brad, count 'em by hand, ...

Sorry for the vanity, but I would like to get information from San Francisco Freepers about the rally to be held today against the Gore Coup. There was a rally yesterday, but what about today (Saturday)? Does anybody know what's up?