Friday, December 28, 2007

Press statement ...(Monitor) condemns police assault Tunisian.The Chief of the Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights in the city of Bizerte.

Exposure colleague Ali bin Salim Chief of the Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights, on the morning of the holidays December 20, 2007 in the city of Bizerte to attack by the Tunisian police, while he was prepared to receive the Amaadith friends, a number of police preventing them from entering the headquarters of the Association for the use of force. They were Mr. Ali Ben Salem, aged 77 years, was Doce under the legs, leaving him bodily injury and breaking his glasses. The head of the Territory and the head of the Bizerte and supervisors were present on this outrage, leading to the transfer colleague Ali bin Salim to the hospital situation deplorable.
The Palestinian Human Rights Foundation (Monitor) strongly condemns and deplores the attack by the police against Tunisian colleague "Ali Ben Salem" (77 years), Chief of the Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights in the city of Bizerte and a number of his fellow members of the Association during a meeting at the headquarters of the Association in Eid Al-Adha holidays to exchange congratulations.
It also demands (Monitor) Tunisian authorities to open an investigation impartial judiciary in the attack and for those responsible, and urge the Tunisian government to curb such attacks and to prevent recurrence and to ensure the necessary protection for human rights defenders and commitment by the International Bill of Human Rights..

Palestinian Human Rights Foundation (Monitor)


Information Section January 28, 2007

The United Arab Emirates: Citizens with No Native Country

Cairo on: December 4, 2007

The United Arab Emirates: Citizens with No Native Country

the Arab Program for Human Rights Activists (APHRA) follows up the different dimensions and developments of the people "with no nationality" in the Arab gulf states, the phenomenon that has no equivalent in either developed or developing countries. In fact there is no precise estimation of this phenomenon. But this is mainly due to information obscuring imposed by governments.
The "people-with-no-nationality" phenomenon causes several bad effects to both people with and without nationality in these countries. It, therefore, needs to investigate for determining its causes and finding solutions. For causes, it is clear that political reasons, namely religious politics conflicts, lie behind this phenomenon.
As the Arab Program for Human Rights Activists (APHRA) observes this phenomenon, it confirms that it utterly contradicts with all international human rights conventions. "People with no nationality" are lacking identity or legal protection by any state. They are deprived of all rights, freedoms or privileges. While alive in practice, they dead in law. They have no documents and can not document their marriages, properties. They do not even have any properties. In addition, they are deprived of the rights to work, free education, medical care, etc.
In short those people are deprived of the globally acknowledged right to have the nationality of the countries in which they and their ancestors were born. According to the international law, people acquire the nationality of the countries in which they are born or the nationality of their parents or that of the country in which they reside for certain time periods (only fives years in some cases). All these requirements are met by the "people with no nationality" in the United Arab Emirates. The least of requirements is that they have documents that prove that they were citizens of the individual emirates before the political unification. Yet, the federal state did not take these documents seriously. This negation clearly contradicts with the universal declaration of human rights that states in article 15 that "every individual has the right to have a specific nationality and that individuals can not be deprived of the rights to have or change nationality". It also contradicts with article 3/24 of the international covenant on civil and political rights. Furthermore, this negation also conflicts with the federal constitution that "gives all citizens the nationality of the United Arab Emirates according to the law, provides them with the due protection beyond borders in accordance with observed international rules and regulations, and states that nationality can not be dropped unless in the exceptional cases determined by law".
Being moved by the suffering of this big group of people in different gulf Arab states, APHRA requests authorities in the United Arab Emirates to offer effective and decisive solutions to this enduring problem so as to let those people enjoy the rights and freedoms guaranteed by all international human rights conventions, namely by giving them the nationality of the United Arab Emirates.
APHRA also appeals to all concerned Arab and international organizations, mainly United Nations, to join forces to put an end to the suffering of this group of people by applying the international human rights conventions giving them the nationality of the states in which they live.

Finally APHRA asks all human rights organizations all over the world to adopt this issue in the future until these people are given the nationality of the states in which they live.

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Saudi King pardons gang raped woman

Qatif Girl" case caused intl. outcry

Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz issued a royal decree annulling the penalty imposed on the Saudi woman in the heavily covered rape case known as "The Qatif girl”, according to a Saudi daily

The King issued the decree in his capacity as the guardian of the kingdom who has the right "to revoke sentences if that serves public interest," Saudi newspaper Al-Jazeera reported on Monday December 17

Saudi Minister of Justice Dr. Abdullah bin Mohamed told the DAILY that the king has the right to modify or cancel “taazeer” sentences, that is ones related to crimes for which there is no clear punishment ordained by aLLAH, as opposed to “Houdoud” (set penalties for grave sins like apostasy, adultery…etc)


"King Abdullah always cares about what is best for the people. He closely follows judicial rulings and makes sure penalties will not have negative psychological impacts on the convicts. He uses his right as guardian of the nation to alleviate people's suffering, while ensuring justice is secured

The Minister further stressed the transparency and independence of the judicial system in the kingdom: "Judges are keen on protecting the people in accordance with Islamic laws. And what happened is the best proof of the efficiency of Islamic courts: the judges pass the ruling they see as fair, and the convicted has the right to contest it via the legitimate channels."

The rape victim and her lawyer contested the Qatif court ruling that sentenced her to 90 floggings for "illicit privacy." The girl was accused of being alone with a man not related to her when seven men kidnapped and gang-raped her. However, the court passed a stricter ruling that sentenced the girl to 6 months in jail and 200 floggings. This sentence was annulled by the king's decree.

Saturday, December 8, 2007

AIDS victims are martyrs: Egypt Muslim authority

Arab world has second highest HIV infection rate

The head of the Religious Guidance Department at Egypt's Ministry of Religious Endowments ruled that death by AIDS is considered martyrdom, press reports said. Sheikh Ahmed Abu-Youssef referred to the Prophet's (PBUH) saying that: "He who dies of intestinal disease is a martyr" and pointed out that 90% of the patients "sincerely repent" before they die.
Of the 2,086 documented HIV cases since 1986, only 960 patients are still alive,
DR. Mamdouh Wahba, the Deputy Chairman of the Department for Combating Contagious Diseases at the Egyptian Ministry of Health told Egyptian daily Al-Masri Al-Youm.
Wahba said the WHO report about HIV in Egypt triggered concern,
since it said that for each reported case, 10 go unreported.Many people who suspect they are infected refuse to take the necessary medical tests, Al-Azhar University's reproductive health professor
Dr. Ahmed Ragaei said.Ragaei added that although the number of people infected in the Arab region is one of the lowest in the world, the rate that HIV infections are spreading ranks second.

Jordan mum kills newborn, dumps it in sewer

Hours after baby rescued from garbage dump

A few hours after a newborn was found shivering with the cold in a garbage bag in the Jordanian capital, the police said they found a dead baby in a sewer.The latest incident took place in a small town in West Jordan, so police were able to identify the mother easily. They went to her house, where they found her with her mother and uncle.Preliminary investigations revealed that the woman was illicitly involved with a laborer in the town, and got pregnant. After the delivery, her mother strangled the baby.

The woman, her mother, and her uncle then got rid of the body by throwing it in the sewage system of their bathroom, police said, making it easier to uncover the crime. A short while earlier, two garbage collectors found a naked newborn in garbage bag under a bridge in central Amman. Although the bag was black and tightly closed, the baby's cries attracted their attention."The baby was blue from the cold," Petra News Agency quoted the head of the Amman Environment Department, Omar Al-Abbadi, as saying.The director of the Islamic Cultural Center at the University of Jordan, Ahmed Al-Awaysha, said "disgrace, not poverty" was to blame for the recent cases in the country.

UNICEF shocked by rampant rape in Somalia

The United Nations Children's Fund's representative for Somalia on Friday voiced his concern at the increasing number of rape cases in the country's war-torn capital Mogadishu."Sexual violence and rape are part of the game now," Christian Balslev-Olesen said at a press briefing on the deteriorating access to health in Mogadishu."We had not seen the level and kind of open violence against civilian populations that we are seeing now," he said, citing several instances of women being raped at checkpoints in broad daylight.All parties involved in the conflict are involved in sexual violence, although aid workers on the ground said rapes were mainly committed by government militias and their Ethiopian allies.

"The people who were not able to leave Mogadishu seem to be in a situation that we have never, ever seen in the past 16 to 17 years," the UNICEF official said.Hundreds of thousands of people have fled the fighting in Mogadishu in recent months, leaving six out of 16 districts in the capital almost completely empty.Waves of displaced people are flooding nearby camps and seeking shelter with relatives across the country, but those who stay behind are facing unprecedented abuses and violence.

UNICEF noted that children were increasingly at risk, with 80 percent of all schools closed in Mogadishu.


The U.N. agency also said that children were being recruited by government militias and Islamist insurgents alike, thus making them "legitimate targets" in the conflict.Any movement inside Mogadishu exposes civilians to deadly risks and the multiplication of checkpoints manned by extortionist government militias and warlords in and around the city are making any bid to flee equally perilous.Checkpoints have also greatly impeded civilians' access to health, leaving victims of shelling and other fighting unable to receive medical assistance."People bleed to death in their houses," said one aid worker."We are therefore appealing to everyone involved in this conflict to allow women and children safe passage across the city so that they can access basic, life-saving medical services," Balslev-Olesen said.Ethiopian troops last year came to the rescue of the transitional Somali government and defeated an Islamist militia that briefly controlled large parts of the country.


The Islamist movement's remnants have since reverted to urban guerrilla tactics, launching hit-and-run attacks in Mogadishu which have drawn a heavy government response

Moroccan prisoner smuggles woman into his cell

he convinced guards it was a bag of clothes
A Moroccan jailed for terrorism offences smuggled a woman into his prison cell in a large plastic bag and spent six hours with her there before being caught, media reports said Thursday.The prisoner is serving time in a Casablanca jail for belonging to the radical Islamist movement Salafia Jihadia and engaging in "terrorist activities," newspapers said.The young woman came to see the prisoner on Tuesday and he smuggled her from the visiting room into his cell in a bag that he persuaded guards contained clothes, according to Assabah newspaper.

The Al Ittihad Al Ichtiraki paper said the woman spent six hours there before the pair were caught, adding that the prisoner was subsequently transferred to another jail in Casablanca.An official from the Ain Borja prison confirmed "the discovery by guards of a woman inside the prison" but said the media reports contained "inaccuracies". He told AFP in particular that she was only in the prisoner's cell for an hour.An inquiry has been launched into how the incident, thought to be the first of its kind, could occur

Thursday, October 4, 2007

FOR THAT REASON USA CAME TO IRAQ

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Abused husbands fill up Tunisian shelter

Tunisia's first shelter for abused men has already proved to be a big success, with some 120 men currently seeking refuge from their abusive wives within its walls.The founder of the shelter, Al-Arabi Ben Ali Al-Faytouri, said he decided to open the centre after he found himself roaming the streets at 2:00 a.m. on a freezing winter night after a heated argument with his wife back in 1977.

The shelter, which is located in the north of the capital overlooking the sea, opened its doors in July 2002.

Its first inhabitant was a 53 year old man who, after a fight with his wife, tried to stay with a friend at first, but the friend's wife wouldn't allow it.


Al-Faytouri, a rights activist, said he found the man sleeping in a train station, according to a report in the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat.The man stayed in the shelter for a week until he made peace with his wife. "A man is not totally safe in the shelter though…some wives chase their husbands here," Al-Faytouri said. "I try to deal with these situations wisely and I have managed to solve many problems.


Al-Faytouri says it's easy for a woman to go to her family or to the police when her husband abuses her, but men – especially those in Eastern societies – do not like to show their weakness. Most of the shelter's inmates are over 50. Al-Faytouri says the physical frailty that starts around this age makes it harder for men to deal with stress."The shelter is the place to keep his secrets and get the help he needs," the rights activist said, adding that most of 120 abused husbands are now his friends.

THANKING .. FOR THE SUADI KING

Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz has approved a new system for the judiciary in the Kingdom, within a comprehensive project called “King Abdullah’s Project for developing the judiciary”, and a budget of SR7 billion.

The King issued the royal decree approving the Two Judicial and Grievances systems following the cabinet meeting late Monday, according to the official SPA news agency.

The first Article of the judicial system includes the independence and safeguards of the system that stated the independence of judges and their adherence to Islamic rules and they will not be dismissed except in the cases stipulated in this system and they will not be transferred to other jobs without their consent or because of their promotion,” SPA quoted the royal decree as stating.

The article also stated that judges should not be disputed because of their jobs except for conditions and basis pertaining to their irregular deeds, it added.The new judicial system stipulates the establishment of a Supreme Court that handles the duties of the current Supreme Commission for the Judiciary.

The Royal decree states also that first degree courts will be established in areas, regions and centers, according to the needs of the system.The general courts will be set up in the regions for specialized circles that include circles for implementation and approval.The royal decree stated that commercial and labor courts will be set up to handle specialized cases, with one judge or more for each court, according to decisions by the Supreme Commission of Justice

Six million Egyptians addicted to drugs: Survey

At least 8.5 percent of Egypt's population, amounting to six million people, are addicted to drugs, an official survey published on Wednesday showed.

A recent study published by Egypt's National Council for Fighting and Treating Addiction (NCFTA) reported the majority of drug users are aged between 15 and 25, NCFTA member Suheir Lutfi told the English-language Al-Ahram Weekly.


Bango, a type of marijuana found in the Middle East, is the drug of choice, but cocaine, heroin and chemical drugs like ecstasy and methamphetamine are also widely available on the local market, the study found.

About 439,000 children are regular drug users in Egypt, a major producer, supplier and consumer of narcotics. Of the 12.2 percent of Egypt's students dependent on drugs, nine percent smoke Bango, three percent prefer hashish and 0.21 percent take heroin or chemical drugs, NCFTA said.


According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Egypt's location makes it a transit point for drug trafficking from major production areas in South East Asia and Europe.Bango is widely used in the Sinai Peninsula and has also been reported in southern Egypt, according to UNODC

GAZA REALITY

CAN YOU LIVE THERE FOR ONE DAY??!!!

Monday, October 1, 2007

The Danish Caricatures Of Prophet Mohammad

The trend of European Islam
(From the book "The Danish Caricatures Of Prophet Mohammad" By Mohey Eldin Gharib June 2007 )

Daniel Pipes, the supporter of “clash of civilizations” idea says: “we must support moderate Moslems to reach finally a clash "between two ideologies, Armed Islam and European Islam so that Moslems can have a suitable position in the world

Lately during the drawings’ crisis in Denmark, opinions mixed and media had quitted a number of descriptions of Islam. Beside extreme Islam there was armed Islam and cultural Islam and critical Islam scientific, democratic and moderate Islam. And lately there was European Islam.
Maybe in future there will be accepted Islam. And yet, politicians reduced it all to either of two things either Moslems in Denmark agree to the publishing of the drawings or they are against free expression (the American way).


Some Moslem politicians, headed by Naser Khader (Danish parliament member from the Radical Party) rushed to establish a Moslem moderates’ gathering. It had about a thousand members of Moslem moderates.
The name was later changed to “gathering of democratic Moslems”.

This time they became democratic Moslems. That was to them the ideal practical answer to face the drawings’ crisis and to escape it at the same time. Naser Khader had this answer and donated it to the Danish government as a political act or maybe for other reasons.

The government and rightist parties welcomed it and asked Moslems to join it – so if a Moslem immigrant to Denmark wants to be moderate democratic, he can just join this gathering. But polls and studies made by specialized bodies showed that the followers of Imams and Moslem preachers in Denmark are no more than 15%, and the followers of democratic Moslems are just 5%. So the overwhelming majority of 70-80% of Moslems is those who want to be Moslems without titles. They do not want to be different from the rest of society except by their descent.

They want to breath security and practice their democratic right and their right to free expression without putting on their backs a sign saying that they are moderate or democratic. Of course they do not dream of applying Moslem sharïa in Denmark or elsewhere.

And of course they get offended when religions are insulted, prophets molested, innocent people die and embassies burned.

They believe in peaceful demonstrations, boycott and resistance of injustice to regain rights. Most Danes share their views.

This great majority of Danish Moslems does not want to mix religion with politics- the question of religion should remain a private matter between man and God, whoever that God is.


Belief is a man’s need to reach internal equilibrium, each in his own way.

The trend of European Islam or democratic Moslems which they want to generalize in the West is a contradicting one by all measures.

It will first of all, lead to split between European Moslems and remaining Moslems in the world, which might lead to ideological clash that helps great powers to dominate the world, this time under the pretext of defending the democratic Moslems of Europe.

Secondly, it will lead to more split of elites in the same society.

For instance a Moslem can be denied certain jobs under the pretext that he is not a member of the democratic gathering. Of course employers will prefer this freedom of choice.

In fact it was announced by a Danish employer, Asger Aamund, that he will give jobs especially to members of this gathering.

Thirdly, the biggest contradiction will be mixing religion with politics, which violates the basic democratic rules and reduces Denmark’s and European’s credibility about democratic reform in Moslem countries.

The trend of European Islam, and the attempt to generalize it in the West seems to some a pragmatic way that may facilitate relations of the West and Islam and increase understanding.

But, beside the contradictions mentioned above the existence of middle men in the relation between the Danish society and the Moslem community- which in this case the gathering of democratic Moslems who do not represent the ordinary Moslem, will end up in a new form of monopoly of Islam as an alternative to Imams and preachers. Of course they will be politically exploited.

The leader of European Islam idea in Switzerland, Tareq Ramadan, criticized the escalation of the drawings’ crisis in Denmark saying that it was letter to solve it internally.

He ignored that the offence was not directed only to Danish Moslems but Moslems worldwide, who have the right to answer.

He ignored that such crises cannot be hidden from media and T.V. channels. The leader of democratic Moslems idea in Denmark, Naser Khader, known for his position among opposition parties wanted, as a politician to reduce the crisis to a political project.

Naser Khader says in a book about “Islam in Denmark”: “one of the biggest problems for Moslems in Denmark is their lack of a democratic tolerant leadership which accepts bargain, and broad minded enough to gather Moslems under one umbrella”.

This is exactly what Naser Khader misses. Such a leadership will push Moslems into the web of politics, and into a political party to defend their requirements and to have a Moslem candidate, i.e. a state within the state, the thing that most ordinary Moslems reject. It is rejected even in Moslem countries.

The big majority of ordinary Moslems does not want to be pushed in such political web. It wants fulfill its aims within the Danish constitution where every person chooses the party that satisfies his needs. This majority does not want to be represented by Imams and preachers or to turn to them as alternative to government bodies.

Their role should not exceed religious teachings. The danger of European Islam is pushing religion to be a political movement liable to criticism. A religion liable to deviation and control to suit political aims, in contrast to the civil modernization project which relies on making religion neutral of politics.

With due respect to the efforts of heightened persons like Naser Khader in Denmark and Tareq Ramadan in Switzerland and Basem Tiby in Sweden, whose good intentions and sincere desire to uplift the image of Islam I do not doubt, I hope that they reconsider their opinion and assemble their efforts to help

the great majority of Moslem immigrants and their descendants to assimilate into the societies in which they live, away from extremism either religious or rightist.

Friday, September 28, 2007

Thanks everyone searches for the truth

Days prove us and tell us the size of the quagmire of ignorance and backwardness in which we live in ( the Arab rulers and ruled people ) alike and how no responsibility in the decision-making or in our way of understanding the reality or even the logic ... And generated when convinced that emigrated were illiterate and that has emerged from the morass of ignorance and backwardness and intellectual of the left and that was only learner satisfaction to live in a swamp and that is no different from any other stupid to live with him. And what we hear and see from the invitations and the demands of democratic reform comes from the arabic world , but to no avail and that was positive in itself, an indicator of the presence of the opposite of reality. But will write to these invitations success and the desired application it is not for the fact that the call is from impossible, but the fact that the intellectual environment and the prevailing spread between the environment are ignorance and backwardness and inverse understanding of the present and live in the illusion of the past in which live the Arab race so far Since the collapse of Andalusia is no longer any place for Arabs or the presence or influence on the map of the human race except indicates the underdevelopment and declining social and religious, economic and in all aspects of life ,

our leaders (socialist-democratic-liberal-religious .... I leave you area to complete census every country tested mixtures political) claiming understanding and the ability to conduct things, claiming preference of the leadership, what we see from the results but showed degradation of the leadership and stupidity and ignorance in understanding other than science and the Arab people two kinds: the 1st is dogs for the governers and the 2nd is escape from the governers and thier dogs.


both of them live in a spiral conflict intellectual anti first alleged understanding Based on the understanding of the rulers and the second alleges better understanding, it can do well, as well as if it recognizes the masters and thus, and once received second reins things quickly discover that either the same evil and ignorance and no responsibility or more than that?



the Breakdowns, which thrive in our bodies is wrong ideological nation, we left the Islam , to live inside the secular and globalization then we became without any values and principles of civilization and forgot that the Arabs without the islam will be thieves ,, grinding one another and eating the flesh of the structure and people have forgotten that the Arabic man when becomes without any value he will be a christ , Muslim and Jew in the same time , and sometimes it is a quotation from the principles are intervention the idea of installing a personal vision and conviction .


Since the events of September/ 11 . the Arab ruler and ruled an extremely negative towards the islamic invitations and Islamic symbols entities - even including social-and intent that all what related in islam becomes undesired ,,, socially and politically, it held backward thinking dominates Arab mind since the Western forces accused of committing Islamists explosions September 11 is the only Arab rulers to fight this looks in their countries without the slightest room for reflection or very usefulness or results such an act?


By peoples see hesitation words and the responses made by the ruling regimes speech Islam and Muslim men committed to becoming refers to extremism and stresses, some openly saying it has become one of terrorism? ? ? ?


This is the level of the Arab Thought , on the contrary regarding what we know about the foriegn man who lives in europ and north america , that they hate us and accusations us extremism and terrorism, we find people in a very, very good thinking in understanding logic and reality, they are people looking for the truth, solely to the truth. They are people grow up and lived and worked in an environment filled with freedom and democracy then they worked to use this environment to freedom of opinion and expression best use.


They are people exactly dependency not subjugate the majority opinion or the opinion of the rulers Verddon words, they are people honest with themselves and with others, and often read and hear about reports of the Western institutions and organizations and individuals also independent, referring to the fact or statistics or DISCOVERIES for information for as long as we lived in the opposite with a full believing to this opposite ,


and we are the Arabs (Arabs or Muslims, we are the first to have ratified that the events of September 11 stands behind Al-Qaeda. and there is something in this world called AL-QAEDA .


in spite of the reports and the movies which prefer to AL-QAEDA or one of members in ,


if it is a measure of the presence and delivery then i can announce that i am amember of AL-QAEDA or any one can do that .. then will that be a truth ???? whay we allow as a arabic minds to think in this way ?


The problem here is not to deny the news or unbelievable, but in how to deal with the news you see him before he believe or not. It is a question of intellectual considered a watershed important to know the reality in which we live and what we want from this life?


It is only need a little time for thinking , to give him more time to think sincerely either you will believe or uou will deny this news, reports or analysis?


I know many of the prior reports issued by the organizations and bodies , and I was awaring that there are preconditions many lies and suspicions hovering around the events of September /11 , and that the western media is not honest with the American administration transfer data and reports accusing the content Al Qaeda and the Islamic causing other explosions?


The reports of these human rights organizations and some are exported by independent persons are reports and independent information is not subject to any guidance work to looking for the truth only , and not to provide service to communities and the Arab-Muslim peoples and say they disenfranchised, it is not up to uncover the truth only, they are honest with themselves and with their community than the American administration for example, that exploit its relationship with the media in favor of the issues. And thus illustrates the issues and remove as it is exactly the American


one of those reports and information not surprised by the content of course what I read to French writer called Laura Knight analyzed by her way in thinking the events of September /11 , from the perspective of the various non-political .. It was purely by good .. Of course, the Arab people will surprise from this information and the way of thinking becuase they are not used to thing ,


here is the problem of the Arab Thought ... And return to the discoveries Ms. Laura, it is unlikely the aircraft collision seizures are caused crash towers, any aircraft that can not overthrow the towers collapsing and imbedded basis , because the twin towers and grade which is designed towers do not allow them to capture the collision of two aircraft and therefore there is something may help in accelerating collapse .. what is it ???


at this point i will let the reader continue in reading from the sourse to know more about this facts .


Ultra-terrestrials and 9/11
Among the many things being argued by the 9/11 “Truthers” is the question of whether or not advanced, secret, “Space Based Weapons” could have been utilized to disintegrate the World Trade Center Towers. This discussion is, of course, going on in spite of the silly propaganda nonsense recently put out by the tabloid BBC which reported on the “findings” of Cambridge Don, Keith Seffen. All I can say to Keith is: Thinking that a steel framed building could collapse at freefall speed from the impact of even a jetliner loaded with fuel is absurd. In order to collapse at free fall speed, the underlying floors need to be removed before the floors above. It's something called Conservation of Momentum, and anyone not familiar with this should get educated before making a fool of themselves as Seffen has done. The footage of the collapse of the 1,300ft WTC towers has been played and replayed ad nauseum and is etched in all of our minds. If by some miracle you have not seen the footage, it is freely available on the various memorial DVDs of the 9/11 attacks. It is also available for download from our web site.


I strongly suggest that you avail yourself of a copy and study the collapse of both towers.


What you will see is that from the start point of the collapse until there is nothing but air where the towers used to be, about 10 seconds elapse.


An object in `free fall´ i.e. falling through thin air, will take a specific amount of time to reach the ground. The laws of gravity dictate that a 5 ton SUV, for example, and a 1lb rock, given that their relative densities are so much higher than the resistance presented by the surrounding air, will take approximately the same time to reach the ground when dropped from the same height.


The time t required for an object to fall from a height h (in a vacuum) is given by the formula t = sqrt(2h/g), where g is the acceleration due to gravity. Thus an object falling from the top of one of the towers (taking h = 1306 feet and g = 32.174 ft/sec2) would take 9.01 seconds to hit the ground.


Of course, this is in a vacuum, with no air present. It's basic physics. I guess Seffen skipped that lecture. Allowing for the resistance of the air we would have to add on a few seconds, yet according to the government´s 9/11 Commission report , the south tower collapsed in 10 seconds flat. But, as we all saw, the collapse of the south tower `pancaked´ through the 75 lower floors of the tower.


Those undamaged floors below the impact zone would have offered resistance that is thousands of times greater than air.


What time might we allow for the section above the impact point that collapsed to pass through each floor? 1 second each floor? If so, then the collapse should have taken 75 + 10 seconds, or over 1 minute and 20 seconds. For the sake of discussion, let´s allow just a half second delay in the collapse provided by each `pancaked´ floor. In this case it should have taken 37.5 + 10 seconds. But let´s be really charitable and suggest that each floor below the impact point offered just 1/10th of a second resistance to the section that first began to `pancake´ on the lower floors.


In this case the collapse should have taken 7.5 + 10 seconds for a total of 17.5 seconds. Yet this is not what happened. As the official 9/11 report states and as we all saw, the towers collapsed in just 10 seconds! How can this be possible? (Seffen's silliness notwithstanding).


The only explanation is that the floors below the impact point offered no resistance whatsoever allowing the building to fall in `free fall´ with only air as resistance. The only way that this could have occurred is if the support offered by the steel core beams was in some way undermined. The most obvious way to undermine the steel core beams of the WTC tower would seem to be via the techniques employed by demolition experts to take down buildings and have them fall into their own `footprint´ - which is exactly what happened to the WTC towers. However, in the case of the WTC towers there are several factors that point to something other than standard technology being used to demolish towers. This is what is being hotly contested among 9/11 researchers. In an email I received this morning, a 9/11 researcher wrote: If Tarpley is embracing the "space beam theory", he's hurting the Truth Movement. The ptb are trying desperately to keep the Peace Movement and Truth Movement from joining forces. So far, they've been successful, but i don't think they'll be able to keep these natural allies apart much longer. To which another researcher replied: Surely all it would take is a qualified physicist to explain to Tarpley the physical impossibility of such weaponry? My husband IS a physicist and he spent some time working for a DOD contractor in the U.S. before 9/11 subsequent to which we decided to leave the U.S.


He has looked long and carefully at all the evidence and has some thoughts about it. Let me tell you what he proposed as an appropriate way to approach this subject in our book 9/11: The Ultimate Truth.


"Most investigators point to evidence of "explosives" and "squibs" in video footage of the collapse of the two towers, yet to effect the complete destruction of so much concrete and office material, a massive quantity of explosives would surely have been required, and such a quantity is simply not evident in the available footage.


As has been suggested by Professor Jones, an advanced and publicly unknown form of "superthermite" was probably used to cut the steel core beams of the WTC towers, which leaves open the possibility that other similarly advanced and publicly unknown technology was used to disintegrate the concrete that constituted the body of the towers. In this case, it would not be responsible or wise for me to theorize about what specific device or technique was used to turn the towers to dust, however, I will say that `sound´ and `light´ weapons have been developed in the past 20 years by the U.S. and Israeli military that are capable of `invisibly´ destroying hardened targets.


To that I will add that part of the prepping of the WTC towers could have included the planting of `conductors´ to effect the propagation of such an induced wave throughout the buildings and thereby causing the vaporization of concrete and human bodies alike." That's the short version. Now, let's look at that paragraph in a broader context. Controlled demolitions at the WTC has been scientifically proven long ago since the government's version defies basic laws of physics (not to mention an amazing series of coincidences all over the place on that day.). At this point it's just a matter of figuring out what method was used for the demolition...............







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Thursday, September 27, 2007

Arab nations slam Israel for having nukes


U.N. rights chief urges Israel to have mercy on Gaza


Arab nations have condemned Israel for having nuclear weapons, on Friday the final day of a general conference of the U.N. watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency.Omani ambassador Salim Mohammed al-Riyami presented the agenda item "Israeli nuclear capabilities and threat" saying there was concern over the "failure of the universality" of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) since Israel refuses to sign it.Israel neither confirms nor denies it has nuclear weapons, although it is believed to have some 200 atom bombs.

"Israel still benefits from total freedom to develop its nuclear capacities," Riyami told the 144 member states of the IAEA, which uses safeguard agreements to monitor compliance with the NPT.Riyami had said in a document submitted along with the agenda item: "The policies of successive Israeli government have obstructed the peace process in the Middle East and all initiatives to free the region . . . of weapons of mass destruction, and in particular of nuclear weapons, have failed.

"The IAEA was also set to debate a resolution on safeguards, with Arab nations pushing for changes in the text to target Israel for having nuclear weapons.At the conference which began Monday Arab states on Thursday pushed through a resolution clearly aimed at Israel, calling for a Middle East free of nuclear weapons.The general conference approves broad policy lines for the IAEA.But the IAEA's 35-nation board of governors, which meets separately from the general conference, makes decisions for the agency on how policy is implemented


Meanwhile the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour urged Israel to exercise restraint in its dealings with the Hamas-led Gaza Strip. In a statement voicing concern at Israel's decision on Wednesday to declare Gaza an "enemy entity", Arbour said reducing fuel and power to the coastal territory would place an "unbearable burden" on its 1.5 million people.


Arbour reminded Israel of its obligations under international humanitarian and human rights law not to use disproportionate means or resort to collective punishment. Arbour condemned the indiscriminate firing of rockets into Israel by Palestinian militants in Gaza and said that Gaza had already paid a "heavy price" from daily violence, isolation and deprivation. After three months of nearly complete closure, the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is "critical", Angelo Gnaedinger, director-general of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), said on Friday on return from Gaza. The agricultural sector is particularly affected,


as most produce is grown for export, while most industrial and other businesses have had to close down, the ICRC said in a statement. The operation of Gaza's water and sewage facilities has been impaired by military incursions, import restrictions, extensive damage to Gaza power station and interruptions to fuel supplies, the Swiss-based aid agency said. An ICRC assessment of nine hospitals in the Gaza Strip found that the hospital infrastructure is deteriorating rapidly, it said.


"Many facilities, diagnostic machines and other equipment are either out of order or in bad condition,


as it is no longer possible to maintain them properly," the ICRC said. The transfer of Gaza patients allowed to go into Israel, Jerusalem and the West Bank for medical treatment had slowed to a "trickle", compared with the previous daily rate of 30 to 40 since the Hamas takeover in June, according to the ICRC

Convenient racism

Racism is, among many things, convenient. It provides simplified, definite and ready-to-serve answers to complex questions. Racists come from all walks of life; their motivation and the root cause of their contemptible views of others may differ, but the outcome of these views is predictably the same - racial discrimination, social and political oppression, religious persecution and war.
The textual definition of racism pertains only to race, but in practice, racism is a consequence of group think, whereby a group of people starts delineating its relationship with other collectives - or other people in general - with a sense of supremacy.
When coupled with economic and/or political dominance, supremacy translates into various forms of subjugation and cruelty.

The adulation of the self-collective and the disparagement of the other is an ancient practice, as old as human civilisation.
It is everlasting for the simple reason that it has always served as a political and economic tool and will likely remain effective as long as the quest for political and material power drives human behaviour.
The issue is not always as straightforward as black and white. For example, less economically advantaged Eastern Europeans seeking (competing for) employment in Western Europe find themselves all lumped in the same group and subject to all sorts of classifications. Equally convenient has been the caricatured misrepresentation of Arabs by mainstream media, which serves to further specific political and economic interests.Ironically, an extreme form of racism also exists in various Arab countries, where foreign workers find themselves placed in a demeaning hierarchy based on country of origin. Western European and Americans top the scale and are readily accommodated, while Southeast Asians are often at the bottom. A very qualified Indian engineer, for example, may find himself getting paid much less than a French engineer with relatively little experience.In some countries, like South Africa, racism has wrecked havoc on society for generations. It manifests itself in the refusal of some people to identify with their ancestral cultures because they fear that such affinity would negate the fact that they are “full” South African citizens (a right for which they fought a most arduous fight).In Malaysia, which exhibits considerable social harmony when compared to some of it neighbours, racial classification is still very real. Despite the government’s commendable efforts to accentuate the Malaysian national model while carefully underscoring the Malay, Chinese or Indian sub-groupings, members of these groups are wary of their statistical representation in Malaysian society. Some react by stressing their number in comparison to that of other groups, while others tirelessly underscore the types of discrimination they experience at the hands of those with the political and economic advantages.While racism is universally recognised, few individuals would admit to their own prejudices and racist tendencies.

Moreover, it would be self-deceiving to view racism as a purely Western phenomenon.

While the Western model of racism, influenced by 18th-century colonialism, is unique in many respects, group prejudices based on class, race and religion are shared almost equally by all nations.The racism of those with political, military and economic power is often violent and detrimental, but it is important to remember that the underdog can be just as racist.An Arab reader from London sent me an e-mail demanding that I explain myself for collaborating on various projects with some well-known Jewish authors. “You are either naïve or you are selling out,” she wrote.

It made no difference to her that these authors are anti-Zionist and have been, for many years, on the frontline of the struggle for Palestinian rights and justice. She simply couldn’t break away from a deeply ingrained racist belief that “Jews are not to be trusted”.Of course, this is not an Arab, but a global predisposition; prolonged conflicts and wars tend to validate and inflate already existing prejudices.Although the Israeli educational system has produced generations of students saturated with grossly misleading images of Arabs and Palestinians, the relationship between Arabs and Jews hasn’t always been negative.

For centuries, both groups lived in harmony; some of the best Arab poets of past times were Jews and some of the most luminous Jewish texts were written originally in Arabic.

Unfortunately, conflict and war have a way of undermining such facts; racism in Israel is so intense now that few dare use the term “Arab Jew”.
When it is not a matter of race, some people seem to slide easily into greater tribal memberships that divide the world into “us” and “them”, often using words of negation and utilising religion. The “non” prefix becomes very useful here - “non-Muslim”, “non-Jew”, “non-Christian”, and so on.
Such negations are never well-intended and always produce negative results. Less apprehensive terms such as “non-democratic” (a neocolonial equivalent to “uncivilised”, perhaps?) could be similarly loaded and dangerous and are often used to promote and justify war.

A true fight against racism and various other types of group prejudice require, first, accepting personal responsibility in shaping one’s own society, and this includes the racism that exists within. Martin Luther King, Jr. refused “to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality”.

We all must uncompromisingly reject such a view as well, if we truly wish for peace, harmony and equality to replace war, social discord and injustice.

* Published in the JORDAN TIMES on September 26, 2007.
The writer is a Palestinian-American author and editor of PalestineChronicle.com. His latest book is “The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People’s Struggle” (Pluto Press, London).

4 Egyptian editors jailed for defaming Mubarak

An Egyptian court sentenced four outspoken newspaper editors to one year in prison with labor on Thursday for defaming President Hosni Mubarak and his politician son Gamal, court sources said.The court also ordered the men -- Ibrahim Issa, Adel Hamouda, Wael el-Ebrashi and Abdel-Halim Qandil -- to pay fines of 20,000 Egyptian pounds ($3,540) each.The court allowed them to pay bail of 10,000 pounds each to stay out of jail if they decide to appeal.

The lawsuit against the editors was filed by two members of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) about a year ago.On Tuesday state security prosecutors referred Issa, editor of the daily newspaper al-Dustour, to trial in a separate case on the same defamation charge.Al- Dustour, along with other Egyptian papers, covered the rumors around the president's ill health in late August, sparking an angry response from authorities who said the rumors were false and politically motivated.Issa's trial is a way "to put pressure on those who are the most critical," said Gasser Abdel-Razek of Human Rights Watch. "It is a convenient way to try and silence the independent press," he told AFP.Issa said that authorities were making an example of him."Press freedom means the freedom to criticize the president," he told AFP. "It's time for the president to come down from the status of pharaoh to that of a human being

IS THAT TRUTH ???? WE HOPE THAT ...Dubai will not jail journalists over violations

Dubai ruler and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates decreed on Tuesday that journalists should not be jailed over their work, two days after two were sentenced to a two-month jail term for libel.“Sheikh Mohammed had issued his directives to the relative organizations not to imprison any journalist because of journalistic task,” the official WAM news agency quoted as saying Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chairman of National Media Council (NMC).He further added that Sheikh Mohammed emphasized that “there are other procedures to be taken in case of a certain violation by any journalist but imprisonment is not included.”
“Sheikh Mohammed issued his directives to the cabinet to speed up its steps towards issuing press and publication law in the light of the amendments made by the NMC in collaboration with relevant organizations,” Abdullah added.His move came two days after two Dubai-based journalists – an Indian and an Egyptian working for the English-language daily Khaleej Times -- were sentenced to two months for libel.They have since been released on bail and are appealing. Two UAE nationals were also recently sentenced to jail for defamation on an Internet site in the emirate of Ras al-Khaimah, another UAE member, and are appealing the rulings. The website has been closed

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Enough of shame and failure ... Oh enough Gulf States .. this phenomenon exists in Kuwait-qatar-uae too

This phenomenon called bedon... thats mean people who have not the right to naturalization .. yes you can bielive that .. in arbic gulf state where the person has the hightest income in the asia .

This picture of a Kuwaiti child sells watermelons in kuwait streets

why ... because This child is classified with thousands likes him as bedon . .... without citizenship . they are Muslims and Arabs in the majority and living in Kuwait since before its inception , but unfortunately thier parents did not register their names with the census of 60"s past century .... Government ugliest excuse itsself from guilt ? And the question here? Is census statistics or alleged by the Kuwaiti government to determine the measure of Kuwaitis are accredited by God or the Koran or Jewish or Christian?

What they differs from the Kuwaitis themselves?
What is the criterion for granting nationality?
Another question: Why the respectable States grant nationality to any person residing in a few years ,,, four years for example, regardless of affiliation, race, origin or religion? While the Gulf States generally refrain from this ?

Although they live in their own countries since tens of years , Is that because the Stateswhich granted the nationality for any one are respectable and you ar not ?
or the nationality of the Gulf States granted permission to enter Paradise while bearers of foriegn nationality goes to Hell? ? ?

Excuse government ugliest of guilt? ? ?

Enough .. its enought to live in backward . We live in the twentieth century, atheist? ? ? Reflection on nationality and others think of the finest and most useful topics?

Monday, September 24, 2007

Libyan President came to Yemen for planting mines to kill people? Dogs and help us to remove them?

Please be used Your mind and thought with us seriously and were neutral in your decision ...WHO IS BETTER FOR THE HUMANITY AND MORE USEFUL ? IS IT GADDAFI OR THE DOGS ?

An international campaign of solidarity with Mieh Jeribi Ahmad Najib Shabi


Ms. entered Mieh Jeribi, Secretary-General of the Democratic Progressive Party, with Professor Ahmad Najib Shabi, Director of the newspaper stand in an open hunger strike, from Thursday, September 20, 2007.
We are the signatures below:


we affirm our solidarity with the leaders of the Democratic Progressive, and support to the demands of the strikers in order:


1-stop all actions seeking to remove from the Progressive Democratic Party headquarters (central headquarters, and at the headquarters)


2-lifting and control sites experienced by the Democratic Progressive Party to Shbetaha Internet. Also recall that the harassment of the Democratic Progressive, are only part of the general policy to stifle dissenting voices in every opinion and every component of the opposition and independent civil society.


We hold the Tunisian authorities responsible for any deterioration of the health situation of hunger.


Please send signatures, with the name and status at the following address:



TAKE ACTION : Jordan begins monitoring sites like electronic newsletter publications

NO MORE ABUSES
The assistant general manager of the Printing and Publishing Nabil El Sunday 23-9-2007, the Service will monitor the content of electronic news sites and treated like newspapers, saying that the Chamber "entitled, under the law, follow the content of these sites.

He added that the second article in the Press and Publication Law, which was adopted last May, "known print it all means deployment, which codified the meanings or ideas or words in any way.


He said that El Diwan legislation in the prime minister gave an explanation of the law include the electronic sites and is therefore applicable to the press applies to all means of dissemination of the other.


Publications Act and abrogate the new stop journalists of the investigation, while the Press Syndicate aspire text explicitly abolished imprisonment as other laws including the Penal Code

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Another political jokes song by Condoleezza Rice

This movie or this work may consider that it is freedom of expression in countries that respect freedom of expression This work was published ... belief that our countries will allows such freedom of expression


Click here to see this work Satirical

In the first official libyan response : but unfortunately a very negative

Libya is trying to create confusion and division of opinion among the inhabitants of central regions in Yemen.
Yemeni people demands awareness and caution of this sedition and The Yemeni government responded to the claim Libyan blatant interference in the internal affairs of Yemen
source: the losted justice compaign for the mines-victims in yemen
A number of field headquarters of fronts sabotage which started in 1970s and 1980s last in the central regions of the two parts of Yemen met early this week / 14-September with a Libyan diplomat in Sanaa, and yielded meeting on preparations for the Forum on behalf of suspicious affected by the political conflict from the central regions and that the claim compensation to the families of prisoners and exiles on the grounds that the political conflict between the two parts of Yemen and timely settlement of their demand affected administrative and functional as it is happening today in the claims of the southern and eastern provinces

Monday, September 17, 2007

Is violence against children is a general phenomenon or exceptional situations in the Arab region

this is what happened in saudi arabia.............................................................?
.....................Child chained entrant rail for two days, the perpetrator is the father

Sabra Shatila massacre recalled

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Watch Zeina Khodr's report on the Sabra and Shatila survivors - 25 years on



By : Iman Azzi in Beirut, Lebanon
Twenty-five years after surviving the massacre at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut, Jamila Khalife still mourns family members who were killed at the hands of Phalangist Lebanese forces.

Her life since then, she says, has been a daily reminder of the horrors she witnessed as a 16-year-old Palestinian refugee from Jaffa living in the camps at the height of the 1975-90 Lebanese civil war.

This was my father," said Khalife, pointing to a black and white photo of a man lying face down in a narrow street.
"They shot him in the head."
Three of her relatives were also killed.
"After it was over, on the way to find my mother at the nearby hospital, I saw a woman on the street, her intestines were spilling out. She died holding her baby," Khalife recounted as her own daughter, Ghram (Arabic for Love), sat on her lap.
Dusk massacre
In September 1982, Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) fighters, evacuated from their Beirut barracks and the Israeli army, surrounded the refugee camps.



On the afternoon of September 16, Israeli forces allowed members of the Lebanese Forces (LF) - an offshoot of the Phalange party - into the camps allegedly to search for suspects in the slaying of Bashir Gemayel, then Lebanese president.
Gemayel, who also headed the LF, had been killed by a car bomb outside his office a day earlier, angering many of his supporters and plunging war-torn Lebanon into further chaos. Palestinian forces quickly distanced themselves from Gemayel's death, but it did not save the camps from reprisals.
Khalife says she remembers seeing both Israelis and Phalange party members inside the camps that day.
"The Israelis were wearing military uniforms. The Phalange wore jeans, normal clothes and military arm bands. They swore at us in Lebanese Arabic," she said.
Most aid organisations working in the camps in 1982 say around 2,000 civilians were killed over the course of three days.
Feigning death
Nabil Mohammad, a Palestinian refugee who lost all but one of his six siblings, said: "The Israeli military were bombing the camps and the worst case scenario was that the Israelis would come in and collect the young men so my uncle sent me away, thinking it would be safer."
Mohammad, his cousin and his cousin's wife dodged snipers as they made their way to a retirement home where his aunt worked. When the fighting had subsided and they returned to their home, they discovered that five of his siblings and his mother had been killed.
His younger brother Munir survived by feigning his death a few feet away from his mother's body.
Mohammad was only 19 when the killings took place, but every year since then he tries to keep the memories of his loved ones alive by returning to the camps, now home to 45,000 Lebanese, Palestinians and Syrians.
He remains bitter that fellow Arabs would commit what he called atrocities.
Avenging Gemayel?
But a former LF fighter, who spoke to Al Jazeera on the condition of anonymity, insisted that the Israeli military, and not the Lebanese, should shoulder full responsibility for the killings.
He said: "After Bashir Gemayel was killed, Lebanon was at a boiling state. We were angry, we were lost. We knew that something was going to happen but didn't know what."
He admitted that the LF was angered by the assassination of Gemayel but had no idea what was planned at Sabra and Shatila. The soldier, who began fighting with the LF when he was 13 in 1979, said his unit had been confined to barracks at the Beirut airport and not allowed to leave after Gemayel's murder until they were deployed around Sabra and Shatila.
"It was not the LF [who were responsible for the killings]. It was the Israeli soldiers who went inside those camps," he said.
Where is Sabra and Shatila?
But 25 years later, some Lebanese are unfamiliar with the events of Sabra and Shatila.


Elias, 20, said he had never heard of Sabra and Shatila.
"Where are Sabra and Shatila?" he asked turning to his friend. "Iraq? They never mentioned it in school."
George Hanna, 43, a resident of East Beirut, said: "It was between Christians and Palestinians during the war. I've never been there. What would I do there if I went?
"I never gave Sabra and Shatila any thought."
Nevertheless, Palestinians in Lebanon are determined to keep the history of the camps alive, at least for their community.
Kassem Aina, a co-ordinator for the 'Never forget Sabra and Shatila' campaign, told Al Jazeera: "We tell the children not only about the massacre of Sabra and Shatila. We tell them about all massacres from Deir Yassin to Tel Zaatar to Sabra and Shatila. I feel sad we have so many massacres in our history."
Never forget Sabra and Shatila was founded by Stefano Chiarini, an Italian journalist and activist, who passed away last February.
To mark the 25th anniversary this year, delegations from Italy, France, Spain and other nations will join Palestinian and Lebanese memorials planned for the week.
Seeking justice
The memorials mark the events at the camps, but also push for bringing perpetrators to justice.
To this day, there has been no direct accountability for the killings.
Ariel Sharon, the former Israeli prime minister, was forced to resign as defence minister after he was found both "indirectly" and "personally" responsible by the 1982 Kahane Commission of inquiry which investigated Israeli culpability in Sabra and Shatila.

LF commander Elie Hobeika, who led the incursion into the camps, received amnesty like all militia leaders following the Lebanese civil war, and went on to become a member of parliament.
He claimed he had evidence that would prove his innocence and directly implicate the Israelis, but was killed one month before he was to testify against Sharon in a case brought by camp survivors in Belgium in 2001.
This weekend, the streets of Sabra and Shatila remain densely packed with people struggling to live normally at the scene of one of Lebanon's worst modern tragedies.
Legal resolution may arrive later but on this year's anniversary the families of the victims are working to balance memories of their loved ones with the ability to move beyond the tragedy.
"You can forgive but you can never forget," said Aina

Iraq suffers triple bomb attacks

Dozens of people have been killed in three separate suicide bomb attacks in Iraq. At least six people died and 18 were wounded after a suicide bomber struck at an outdoor cafe near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk.

The attack occurred in the town of Tuz on Sunday, about 70km south of Kirkuk. Said Mohammed, the mayor of Tuz, said: "The toll could rise because we are still sifting through the rubble."

However, Iraqi police told Muhammad Faeq, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Arbil that 20 people were injured in the explosion.

Conflicting reportsHe also said that there were conflicting reports on the details of the explosion. The cafe was located in a religiously and ethnically mixed town of Turkmen and Shia residents. The bomber was wearing a belt filled with explosives and blew himself up at the cafe, police said.But Kurdish sources told that an explosive device planted on the side of the road near the cafe had detonated. Meanwhile in west Baghdad, at least nine people have reportedly been killed by a car bomb, followed by clashes between fighters and security forces.

Ramadan attacks Medical and security officals also said that at least 19 people were wounded.
The attack came a day after the Islamic State in Iraq, an al-Qaeda-led group, announced a new phase of attacks during Ramadan. On Saturday, a suicide car bomber killed at least 10 people and wounded 15 in southwest Baghdad as people were queueing outside the bakery in Al-Amil. A resident in the Shia neighbourhood said there was no security checkpoint nor police stationed in the neighbourhood.

At least 34 people have been killed by bomb blasts and gunfire in Iraq since the start of the holy month of Ramadan on Thursday.

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Global protests held over Darfur

The conflict in Darfur has drawn celebrities and activists onto the streets across the globe, all calling for urgent action by the world's leaders.

In London, scores of activists put on blindfolds on Sunday as part of Darfur Day, while demonstrators in Rome wore T-shirts printed to look like blood-stained hands.

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The various protests all symbolised the international community's failure to act to stop the atrocities being carried out in Sudan's troubled western region.

The Rome protesters carried a peace torch, which they said had been lit in Chad where there are hundreds of thousands of Darfur refugees.
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The co-ordinated demonstrations come ahead of a meeting this week of the UN general assembly.

Global protests

Organisers, who planned protests in more than 30 countries, said some in the international community had become complacent since the UN Security Council approved plans in July for a 26,000-strong peacekeeping force for the vast region.

The deployment of the joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force faces delays, however, due to a lack of aviation, transport and logistics units, Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, said last month.

In the meantime Darfur's violence has increased, organisers said.

Campaigners are demanding that the force be deployed quickly, and that the world's most powerful countries put pressure on all sides in the conflict until attacks on civilians stop.

In London, demonstrators carried signs reading 'Stop genocide in Darfur' and 'Rape, torture, murder. How much longer for Darfur?'

In a video made to mark Darfur Day, Desmond Tutu, the South African archbishop, called Darfur "the world's largest concentration of human suffering", adding "it's also entirely avoidable if people speak out".

Mounting misery

More than 200,000 people have died and 2.5 million have been uprooted since ethnic African rebels took up arms against the Arab-dominated Sudanese government in 2003, accusing it of decades of neglect.

Sudan's government is accused of retaliating by unleashing a militia of Arab nomads known as the Janjawid - a charge it denies.

Sunday's events were being organised by a coalition of more than 50 organisations including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the Save Darfur Coalition.

Sunday, September 9, 2007

Paraded naked before female U.S. wardens, Qahtani said

I confessed under torture: Saudi Gitmo inmate

A Saudi Guantanamo prisoner -- the so-called "20th hijacker" -- said he confessed to knowing about the September 11 attacks after being abused and humiliated by U.S. prison guards at the Guantanamo Bay camp.Muhammad al-Qahtani, 28, said he was beaten, restrained in uncomfortable positions for extended periods, threatened with dogs, and exposed to extreme noise and freezing temperatures. He also said he was forced to remove all his clothes and stand naked in front of female American wardens.

A 2005 U.S. military investigation confirmed that Qahtani was also forced to wear women's underwear, kept in solitary confinement for 160 days, and interrogated for 18-20 hours a day on 48 of 54 days. But the investigation led by Air Force Lt. Gen. Randall M. Schmidt concluded that Qahtani's treatment was not torture because he was not deprived of food, drink or medical attention and sustained no physical injuries.The Saudi prisoner said his confessions were extracted under duress, at his first appearance before a military panel at Guantanamo Bay, nearly five years after he was detained. "I am a businessman and a peaceful person. I have nothing to do with fighting or terrorism," Qahtani said, according to Saudi newspaper Al-Hayat.A U.S. officer at the hearing said Qahtani admitted that he went to Afghanistan in 2001, where he received terrorist training, met with Osama Bin Laden, and agreed to take part in a "martyr mission" for al-Qaeda. Qahtani is one of the most notorious prisoners at Guatanamo, the notorious prison camp in Cuba where the U.S. is holding some 340 terror suspects.Many of the men were captured in Afghanistan in the U.S.-led war to oust the Taliban after the September 11 attacks. The U.S. transferred 16 Saudi detainees to Riyadh on Thursday, bringing to 93 the number of Saudis handed over to the kingdom, while 37 remain incarcerated.About 800 detainees have passed through Guantanamo Bay since it opened. Of the hundreds still being held, only about 10 men have been charged.

Saturday, September 8, 2007

happy new year for new ramadan month

the arabic human rights web site team : congratulate all Muslims and Arabs states for ramadan month coming . and we wish to be a blessed and happy month and we hope that peace prevails, love and justice in the Arab Islamic holy month of this and every month year

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Friday, September 7, 2007

human rights watch :Israel bombed civilian targets during the last war on Lebanon

Tunisia opens first shelter for abused men

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Tunisia opened its first shelter for abused husbands, a Tunisian magazine reported Wednesday.The initiative was led by Al-Arabi Ben Ali Al-Faytouri, a prominent civil rights advocate, the weekly magazine Al-Moulahedh reported."Some women find pleasure in abusing their husbands…It's new to the society," Faytouri told the magazine.Faytouri dedicated a plot of land in the northern part of the country to men who leave their homes after suffering violence or ill-treatment at the hands of their wives.

A study by the National Office of Family and Population revealed last Monday that the structure of the Tunisian family has undergone radical changes, with the man no longer being the main provider for the family.

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Witness for Mubarak rival dead in Egypt jail

A key witness and defendant in the 2005 trial of Egyptian opposition leader Ayman Nour was found hanged in his prison cell in Cairo on Thursday, security sources said. Ayman Ismail Hassan, who at one stage in Nour's trial retracted his testimony against Nour, hanged himself with a sheet in the prison where he was serving a five-year sentence on a charge of forging documents, they added.During the trial, Hassan said he had made up his testimony under pressure from state security police, who had threatened members of his family.

"I confessed to forgery under pressure from officers from state security," Hassan told reporters in June 2005, after his lawyer told the court he had changed his plea to not guilty. The court disregarded his retraction and went on to sentence both Ayman Nour and Ayman Hassan to five years in prison.

Gameela Ismail, Nour's wife and a party official, said that Hassan, who was in his late 30s, was being held alongside prisoners who had been condemned to death and had complained to his family of mistreatment in prison. "He kept telling them that he had important information to give to the public prosecutor," she told Reuters. Amir Salem, the lawyer who defended Nour in the trial and who has been trying to secure his release on health grounds, told Reuters: "He (Hassan) was the only person taken alone and put in the Appeals prison (in central Cairo), and according to his family he complained constantly of ill treatment." Hassan had already served almost two years of his sentence, plus months in pre-trial detention. Prisoners in Egypt typically leave jail after serving two thirds of their time. Nour's wife said Hassan originally came to the party as a volunteer, offering to recruit members. He was a laborer and a bachelor who looked after his sisters and his nieces, she added.

Nour, 43, the most influential non-Islamist politician opposed to the Mubarak family, won 8 percent of the vote in the presidential elections of 2005, against 89 percent for Mubarak. Human rights groups say the elections were seriously flawed. The charge against Nour was that the endorsements he submitted to the authorities when he set up his liberal Ghad (Tomorrow) Party in 2004 contained forged signatures. Nour was sentenced on Dec. 24, 2005, and the Egyptian government has rejected repeated U.S. appeals for his release.In his absence the liberal and secular party he founded has struggled to survive. Political analysts said the government wanted him out of the way so that the Mubaraks can prepare for the installation of Mubarak's son Gamal, who is also 43, as the next president. Gamal denies having presidential ambitions

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Sixteen Gitmo prisoners return home to Saudi
Sixteen Saudis returned home on Thursday after the United States released them from a prison camp at Guantanamo Bay where terrorism suspects are held. The Saudi state news agency SPA said Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz "expressed his relief and appreciation for the cooperation shown by the authorities in the United States, hoping this leads to the return of the remaining Saudis." Their transfer brings to 93 the number of Saudi detainees so far handed over to the kingdom, while 37 remain incarcerated at the notorious prison camp in Cuba.

Saudi public anger over the treatment of Saudi detainees in Guantanamo Bay has been high in the kingdom, a key U.S. ally. Two Saudis were among three prisoners who hanged themselves at the naval base in June. Many of the men held at Guantanamo were captured in Afghanistan in the U.S.-led war to oust the Taliban after the September 11 attacks. Many have been held for years, most of them without charge. Washington has designated Guantanamo prisoners "enemy combatants", denying them the prisoner of war status that would guarantee them certain rights under international law. About 800 detainees have passed through Guantanamo Bay since it opened, and several hundred are still being held there without charge

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

IMAGINE YOUR SELF IN TWO DEFFERENT SITUATION


Imagine if you have the freedom of expression and opinion?
Imagine if you have the freedom to participate in the demonstrations?
Imagine if you have freedom of movement?
Imagine if you live in a country where elections are visiting?
Did you Sttersch for President?
Imagine if your country clean from corruption and bureaucratic and financial theft by officials?
Imagine if you could say to an official from where it obtained the money?


Imagine if your phone - observer? Or you personally - observer?
Imagine if you lived without racial discrimination?
Imagine what you like or want. its not pre-paid

I do not know that the dream became prevented in our Arab world..... where there are the most possessing dirtiest and worst political systems?
You are a person and you do not feel by your estimate or by your value or by the happiness or hope just because you live within the geographical map of the Middle East and called North Africa ..

I agree with you if I said that this region such unbearable hell, I agree with you as one of the worst areas of the world and the most backward, I agree you.... with any description , but to imagine a little if you live in a democratic country

imagine what would happen difference Feel very happy automatically will be considered yourself being productive player will power to do any Shi go to your happy not mesiralble .you will have a Group of Friends ,,,,,,you Read a book ,,,,,any book,,,, you will be a psychological comfort first and then find an encouragment for reading or playing or to make a jerny or you will set at your computer for hours to discover the world

If ... After that thought yourself and the way your life from two different angles and in different situations ..

Do you ever thought why? the reason for your present situation ..... It is the political environment and the socio-economic backward and totally radically?

And you thought of causing or reason? Although the Middle East and North Africa have significant sources of wealth .. They failed political regimes ruling and dirty and dictatorship and authoritarian and oppressive, and If you looking for or achieve for better life for you or/and for your children..... can create something ... Try to be part of change..... Established your own blog or web site if you are having a computer skills ..... known more about your rights and demand it .. Participate in the political process and educational, social and economic Try to help others try to uncover flaws and scandals officials ..Try to do what it can do ...what each of us can ....Not required from you or me to change all our situation .

you and I me a part of this done ... of this changing . and every one of us a part .

Remember well that change does not come suddenly and does not come alone,,, Nothing.... required patience, courage and boldness of us.............. remember that Not enough to sit down and say that the country is bad or our situation is bad , but needed to do, and we do not do that for us.... it is for our children

let us know a clear truth...,our immigration to europe or to canada our situation will not be changedbecuase we left our children ,, our families.. our friends.. our societies in the bad bad situation ... so what about all of those ?

so let us to be the candle that lights the way for others

Haditha Probe Limps to a Close

by Khody Akhavi
Last December, when the U.S. Marine Corps charged four infantrymen for the murder of 24 civilians in the Iraqi town of Haditha on Nov. 19, 2005, the counts represented the most serious case of alleged war crimes committed by Marines in Iraq or Afghanistan.
An official account of the incident, released Nov. 20, said that 15 civilian Iraqis had been killed by a roadside bomb and eight other "insurgents" were gunned down as they fought Iraqi army soldiers and Marines immediately following the blast.
But as new details emerged, an investigation was launched, and a more disturbing narrative developed: the 24 Iraqis had been the apparent victims of a vengeful massacre at the hands of Marines.
Iraqi witnesses said that, after a roadside bomb had killed fellow Marine Lance Cpl. Miguel Terrazas, the Marines went on a rampage, slaughtering civilians on the street and in their homes. The dead included men, women, and children as young as two years old. Death certificates of the 24 Iraqis indicate that they had all been killed by gunshots, contrary to the official account.
The events of Haditha – like the Abu Ghraib detainee-abuse scandal in 2004 – outraged the U.S. public, and military officials promised to punish the guilty. But more than one year later, the attempt to hold officers accountable for Abu Ghraib has limped to a close, and the prosecution of the Marines accused in the Haditha killings shows signs of crumbling.
Last week, Army Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan, the only officer to face trial over the Abu Ghraib scandal, was convicted of disobeying an order and reprimanded by a military jury, a punishment that spares him any jail time. Jordan's punishment is lighter than that of Army Col. Thomas M. Pappas, the top officer at Abu Ghraib. He confessed to approving the use of dogs in interrogations and was granted immunity from prosecution.
The preliminary hearing for Marine Staff Sgt. Frank D. Wuterich began Thursday at Camp Pendleton in California and marks perhaps the last chance for prosecutors to bring to court-martial any of the Marines charged with being directly responsible for the Haditha killings. Wuterich, the Marine squad leader and the senior enlisted man in the incident, is charged with 13 counts of murder in connection with the deaths of 18 Iraqis.
Of the four enlisted Marines and four officers charged, murder charges against two of the enlisted men have since been dropped, as have dereliction of duty charges against one of the officers, Capt. Randy W. Stone, a lawyer with the battalion.
As in the Abu Ghraib scandal, the prosecutions in Haditha tend to focus on enlisted men and noncommissioned officers – those accused of having personally committed the acts – not the officers who command the units. In the Abu Ghraib case, 11 soldiers were convicted of various charges relating to the incidents, including dereliction of duty.
The four commissioned officers involved with the Haditha killings were only charged with failing to direct a thorough investigation and were not present during the incident.
But prosecutors have had a difficult time convincing a skeptical investigating officer and a general who presides over preliminary hearings that the Marines had committed murder in Haditha. Additionally, the killings were not thoroughly investigated when they first occurred, and forensic evidence is nonexistent.
In August, Lt. Col. Paul J. Ware recommended that charges against Lance Cpl. Justin L. Sharratt and Lance Cpl. Stephen B. Tatum be dismissed, arguing that in both cases, the Marines were operating in a complex combat environment and that their actions, while horrific, did not constitute a criminal offense.
"My opinion is that there is insufficient evidence for trial. Lt. Cpl. Tatum shot and killed people in houses 1 and 2, but the reason he did so was because of his training and the circumstances he was placed in, not to exact revenge and commit murder," wrote Ware in a 29-page report regarding Tatum's conduct.
Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis, commanding officer of Marine Forces Central Command, dismissed charges against Sharratt after a preliminary hearing, and in a letter to the infantryman, wrote:
"The intense examination into this incident, and into your conduct, has been necessary to maintain our discipline standards, and, in the words of the Marine hymn, 'To keep our honor clean.' … You have served as a Marine infantryman in Iraq where our nation is fighting a shadowy enemy who hides among the innocent people, and routinely targets and intentionally draws fire toward civilians."
Charges against another member of the squad, Sgt. Sanick Dela Cruz, were dropped in exchange for his testimony against other Marines. On Friday, Cruz testified that he saw Wuterich kill five Iraqis as they stood beside a taxi immediately after the blast. He said Wuterich then walked over to the bodies and pumped more bullets into them, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times.
"He went to each and shot at them," Dela Cruz said. "The muzzle [of his rifle] was about a foot from their upper torsos."
Several hours after the incident, Wuterich reportedly told Cruz that should officers question him, the five Iraqis had been running away. Under the rules of engagement taught to Marines, Iraqis fleeing the scene of a roadside bomb explosion can be shot in the back, according to testimony at a preliminary hearing for another Marine.
In some cases, soldiers have faced much stiffer penalties.
Seven Marines and a Navy corpsman were charged with kidnapping and killing an Iraqi in the town of Hamandiya in April 2006. Five of the eight squad members pleaded guilty and the three others were convicted at courts-martial. Only the squad leader, Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins, is still behind bars, but his 15-year sentence is being reviewed by Mattis, commanding officer of Marine Forces Central Command.
Three soldiers accused of the rape and murder of a teenage girl and her family in March 2006 in Mahmudiyah received life sentences after pleading guilty. A fourth soldier who acted as a lookout was sentenced to 27 months in jail. The accused ringleader, Steven Green, risks the death penalty.