Free Republic

Freedom By: Muhammed Abdul Jabbar Getting freedom is something, and maintaining it another thing. Iraqi people lives now in prosperity of freedom i.e freedom of expression, freedom of media , freedom of creating parties and political organizations , freedom of gathering, and freedom of transportation etc.. This was being banned during the buried regime. However, the price of obtaining this freedom was so expensive, representing in the occupation and existence of foreign forces on Iraq's lands, the matter makes Iraqi people shoulder new responsibilities in the course of peaceful political process to regain full sovereignty and restore building of the...

PARIS (AP) - The latest audiotape statement attributed to accused terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden is not authentic, a Swiss research institute said. The Lausanne-based Dalle Molle Institute for Perceptual Artificial Intelligence said it is 95-per-cent certain the tape does not feature the voice of the long-absent terrorist leader. The review of the tape was commissioned by France-2 television and its findings were presented by the institute's Professor Herve Boulard in a special TV report shown late Thursday. He said the institute compared the voice on the tape, first aired two weeks ago on Al-Jazeera, an Arabic television network, with...

TASHKENT, Uzbeskistan — They won't have costumes or much candy or money but they might have food, thanks in part to the efforts of American children this Halloween. Many U.S. kids collect money for UNICEF every Oct. 31, but this year, the money they raise will be donated solely to Afghan children, the head of the U.S. fund for UNICEF said Monday. It will be the first time in the 51 years that American children have been collecting money for UNICEF that all the proceeds will go to one cause, said Charles J. Lyons, president of the U.S. Fund for ...