The Culture of Fear rises again.
The accused terrorists were caught, right? I thought so.
Canadians urged not to apply stereotype to Muslims
http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/National/2006/06/06/1616582-sun.html
TORONTO -- Canadians must understand an alleged plan to launch a terrorist attack in Ontario wasn't engineered by Muslims, but instead was a plot by people who happened to be Muslim, experts, politicians and community leaders said yesterday.
They say it would be a mistake now for people to draw rash conclusions about the possible failures of Canadian multiculturalism or seek radical societal changes since the 17 suspects were arrested under the federal Anti-Terrorism Act.
DIDN'T Bush do a great job at taking down al Qaeda and it's spawned networks. What a mess. Now Canada. A complete failure. Bush's campaign against terrorists after September 11, 2001 is a complete failure. He failed to stop them and they attacked Spain, they attacked London and now there was a terrorist cell arrested in Canada. A complete failure.
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It is another Timothy McVeigh issue. Was McVeigh a terrorist? Then why aren't the victims of Oklahoma City compensated the same way that the victims of the terrorists of September 11, 2001?
The Toronto Star said police had intercepted the fertilizer to be used in the bomb and substituted a harmless powder before the arrests were made. Police officials said yesterday that they stood by their statement that three tons of the fertilizer, which is highly explosive when mixed with fuel oil, was ``delivered" to the bombers.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2006/06/06/six_accused_of_hatching_bombing_plot_in_canada/
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Today is NOT 666. It's 6/6/06. O6. O6. O6. OOOOOOOO6. Got it. Propaganda by CNN. It's not 666. It's 6/6/06. Jerks.
You want 'the truth' about energy. Not as oil and gas industries. That is a losing propostion.
MoveOn targets four in Congress for aiding 'war profiteer' Halliburton
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/MoveOn_targets_four_in_Congress_for_0606.html
Four U.S. Representatives are coming under fire this week from MoveOn.org Political Action Committee, RAW STORY has learned.
In what MoveOn says is the third and final ad in its "Red Handed" series, the group will accuse the Congresspersons of protecting war profiteers. Two earlier ads in the $1.3 million ad buy accused the Members of supporting what MoveOn calls a flawed prescription drug plan and allegedly protecting big oil companies while gas prices rise.
The ads, which will run through June 16th, target Reps Nancy Johnson (R-CT), Thelma Drake (R-VA), Chris Chocola (R-IN), and Deborah Pryce (R-OH).
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Woman charged with smuggling babies arrested in Arizona
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - A woman who allegedly smuggled babies and young children from Mexico was arrested Monday when she attempted to cross the Arizona-Mexico border, authorities said.
Norma Higinia Felix De Sanchez, 41, was among 11 people charged last week on four felony counts of conspiracy, bringing illegal immigrants into the United States, and transporting and harboring them.
De Sanchez allegedly used false identification documents to bring children across the border.
A legal U.S. resident living in Yuma, Ariz., De Sanchez was crossing the San Luis port of entry with two family members Monday when border inspectors arrested her, said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Virginia Kice.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/14748174.htm
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There is an aspect to the struggle in Iraq that the American Public doesn't get a view of. Iraq has a history now of attacks by the USA. These towns in An Albar are strongholds to the Sunnis. I hope this isn't taken wrong, but, Sunnis are human beings although their attacks make them heinous, there are Sunnis that don't attack the USA or other Iraqis. Those Sunnis frequently die in attacks by others. As Sunnis die, the more determined the entrenched Sunnis become. It's a power loop that continues to feed itself. When people die in war, their memories, especially in Islam are elevated to extraordinary. Those deaths fuel retaliation. I really think it is best for the USA to leave as a stigmatized problem in Iraq and allow the people there to settle their conflict with each other.
Haditha (حديثة) is a city in the Iraqi province of Al Anbar, about 240 km northwest of Baghdad. It is a farming town on the Euphrates River with a mostly Sunni Muslim population of around 90,000.
Haditha Dam has a six turbine hydropower plant which at their peak produce 660 MW.
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Haditha during the Iraq war
Haditha Dam, the largest hydroelectric facility in Iraq, is located in Haditha. The dam and surrounding areas was initially secured by U.S. soldiers in April 2003 as part of the invasion of Iraq. An attack on the dam would have severely flooded towns along the Euphrates downstream from Haditha, as well as eliminating an important source of electricity needed for the re-establishment of the country.
As the fighting continued following the fall of Saddam Hussein, Haditha became a center for insurgent activity. It lies between Al-Qaim, an insurgent entry point, and Baghdad.
On July 16, 2003 Mohammed Nayil Jurayfi, mayor of Haditha, and his youngest son, Ahmed, were assassinated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haditha
THE KILLING in Hadith has a history. This is not the first time.
Alleged 2005 Massacre
Main article: Haditha killings
On 19 November 2005, US Marine Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas was killed in Haditha in a roadside bomb attack on Marines from Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines.[5] The unreleased report of the US military investigation into the event is said to have found that 24 unarmed Iraqis, including 11 women and children, were killed by 12 members of the US Marines, apparently in retaliation for the death of Terrazas,[6] and two captains and a lieutenant colonel have been relieved of duty.[7]
The Mayor of Haditha in November of 2005, Emad Jawad Hamza, allegedly brought a complaint to the local US commanders at the time of the incident.[8]
According to James Crossen, who was sitting next to Terrazas when the roadside bomb exploded, women and children in the area often helped insurgents. It's likely, according to Crossen, that women and children had given information about US patrols to insurgents. This information, according to Crossen, led to the roadside bomb attack. [9] In addition, Terrazas' father said other marines told him they were fighting with insurgents who used civilians as human shields
THE 'battles' that occur in Iraq day to day are battles, not just suicide bombs. We thinik of suicide bombers as 'crazies.' Each town has a populous that lives this nightmare day after day. To Iraqis there is no place to go. They don't want it anymore. The price is too high for both sides. There needs to be borders in Iraq that separates Kurds, from Sunnis from Shia. It has my opinion since the beginning of the invasion. We need to think of these attacks within the hamlets of Iraq and who is affected day after day. Not only that consider whom is left in Iraq. People are leaving and becoming refugees. Whom exactly is the American soldiers firghting and fighting for?
LEBANON: HAVING FLED IRAQ, CHALDEANS SEEK BETTER LIFE ABROAD
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Religion&loid=8.0.307051354&par=0
Beirut, 6 June (AKI) - Impoverished and living in Lebanon illegally - many of the 3,000 Iraqi Chaldean Christians who have fled their homeland now dream of a better future abroad with Australia the most desired destination. Most of the refugees left Iraq in the wake of the US invasion of the country and while the bloody sectarian stuggle that followed has mostly pitted Shiite and Sunni Muslims against each other, the small Christian minority has not been spared the bloodshed. But some Christians abandoned the country in the 1990s when it was still ruled by Saddam Hussein."I come from the northern Zakho region, and in 1996 together with my wife and children I fled because we were feeling threatened by an environment that was becoming more and more hostile," Sacharia Chamun,38, a father of seven, tells Adnkronos International (AKI).The family of nine share two small rooms in Beirut's Sidd al-Bawshriyye suburb in a building that overlooks an open drain used by a nearby print works shop to dump acid and chemicals.
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I don't dabble in speculation that insults and injures others. Just a thing I have about respecting culture no matter how odd it may seem as a Western citizen.
Unholy to some, 666 binds many Malaysian Chinese in matrimony
Kuala Lumpur, June. 6 (AP): The number 666 may represent the mark of the Devil to fans of the classic 1976 horror film 'The Omen.' But it was a good omen for many ethnic Chinese in Malaysia.
So much so that hundreds of couples rushed to tie the knot today, July 6, 2006, or 6/6/06. In the Hokkien dialect, spoken by many of Malaysia's Chinese minority, the number six is pronounced to sounds like the word "luck", so today was expected to bring them triple luck.
Today is also the much-awaited day for the release of a remake of The Omen, in which the Antichrist appears on Earth as an innocent looking five-year-old child on whose scalp the number 666 is engraved.
In Malaysia, a mass wedding registration ceremony was held for 234 Chinese couples, ranging from 19 to 56 years old, at the Thean Hou Temple in a suburb in the country's biggest city of Kuala Lumpur, national Bernama news agency said.
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200606061964.htm
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