Why I Am Saying Good-Bye, Too

So many reasons.

The first of which is the heartbreak in the destruction of a year's work. Over 2,700 articles and posts that can not be retrieved.

A second is that as I have worked so hard over the last year or so, nothing has changed. Despite all the hullaballoo and the talk in the media, stories just go away and crap is presented.

Newspapers always foreshadowing events they promote and won't stop (like Israel's re-invasion of Gaza coming soon, and the imminent U.S. bombing of Iran).

Even the decisions on what to focus on is so full of Zionist bias and skew, I am simply not going to repeatedly subject myself to endless upon endless hours upon the computer countering day-after-day, month-after-month, year-after-year of Zionist shit spew.

It's amazing. I open papers from two-three years ago, and EVERYTHING is still the SAME! I am so sick of reading the SAME LIES OVER and OVER again by the shit Jew Press!!!

A third thing is because nothing is honestly reported by the shit papers. They omit, they distort, and at the end of the day, it is all in service of stink Zionists!! What they decide to cover, what they don't.

Another reason is that I am so far behind already, even with current stuff, that I could be on here 24/7 and never get caught up. You are free, reader, to cruise the blogs and get the real truths.

I am not going to be analyzing the Jew crap in the MSM anymore as much, that's for sure. You can go read Jew Lies if you want to. Don't get me wrong; the shit rags sometimes have good info, but most of it is skewed NaZionist crap!

Let me take you on a stroll today.

As usual, I stop at my corner store and shell out my $2 for the War Daily Boston Globe and War Daily New York Times. I get my cup of coffee, and head home.

I lay the papers out on the table, grab my highlighter pens, and begin flipping and snipping.

Years ago, I looked forward to this part of the day. I felt I was learning about the world, getting educated, and being a good person by informing myself. Little did I know that it would lead to heartbreak.

Anyhow, as per the routine, it is Globe first.

Nothing I'm interested on the front-page, and page 2 has Bush's climate change talks, which is just a bunch of hot-fart mist (unless the Global vampires want to tax us).

When the rich and powerful quit jetting and limoing, I'll take it seriously. Otherwise, it is just another manufactured issue of urgency by the Jew Press for oppression and control of the population.

Gonna track and trace all our energy use, that's what all this homeland spying apparatus is for. Not for our "protection," not by the very killers and agents who false-flagged 9/11, lied us into Iraq, and are promoting war with Iran (hi, NY Times!).

The first story I would have picked up is on page 3, and it is the Myanmar protests story. Government cracking down now, and this will continue as the coverage fades.

Yesterday, I was wondering why in the news all of a sudden. Here is your answer and more: The truth is, this is being focused on because the US wants the military junta gone and Myanmar is an ally of China and Russia. This isn't about military dictators, otherwise the U.S. would be up Egypt and Saudi Arabia's asses!

No, this is simply the Jew Press focusing on an unfriendly regime (to USrael interests), otherwise WHERE are the stories on ISRAELI OCCUPATION, OPPRESSION, and MURDER of Palestinians? Why doesn't that ONGOING ATROCITY flare up in the headlins.

No, I must get behind on Israeli, their murder of Palestinians and their children, because the Stink NaZionist press feeds me such shit!

Play the interactive video/audio so you can see the beautiful Palestine children Israel took from this earth!

For Gaza’s Young at Play, Fields Can Be Deadly

By STEVEN ERLANGER
GAZA — The three Abu Ghazala fathers were in mourning, in the Palestinian way, sitting with their relatives recently in a shaded courtyard, open to the fields of watermelon and eggplant in which their children had died.

The children — Yehiya, 12, Mahmoud, 9, and Sara, 9 — were tending goats and playing tag on Aug. 29 when an Israeli shell or rocket blew them apart. “They went up to that palm tree,” said Ramadan Abu Ghazala, Yehiya’s father, pointing 300 yards away. “They went there every day.”

As the fathers, all farmers, talked, an Israeli blimp, with cameras, hovered in the sky above Beit Hanoun on the northern edge of Gaza, an Israeli drone buzzed in the air and an Israeli watchtower loomed over the nearby border. It was the blimp or the drone, presumably, that first identified the target.

Fatah, the more secular and nationalist of the two main Palestinian movements, and the opposition here in Hamas-run Gaza, has adopted the three young cousins. A Fatah flag flies over the house where they all lived. Fatah has published a “martyr” poster of the three, with Sara represented, between the boys, by a large bunch of red roses. Anyone who dies for any reason in the fight with Israel is regarded by Palestinians as a martyr, with a rapid path to heaven.

The Israeli Army said the children were playing near a launcher used to send Qassam rockets into Israel to try to kill or destroy anyone and anything they happen to land on — children, soldiers, livestock. Sderot, an Israeli city visible from here, has been the main target, and its residents live in fear, running to shelters when an alarm sounds. Sometimes they do not make it.

The children touched the launcher, the Israelis say. But they will not say what munition hit the children, except that it was ground-launched. The assumption here is that it was a missile, directed or fired by the Israeli troops who often hide in the orchards and fields, trying to kill the gunmen who launch the Qassams.

The Israelis, who contend they must do everything they can to stop rockets from falling on innocent Israelis, say they did not realize that the targets in this case were children, except when it was too late. The Abu Ghazalas do not defend the rocket fire from their fields.

Since June 1, 18 Palestinians from Gaza under the age of 19 have been killed by Israeli fire of some kind: 7 under the age of 15, not counting a year-old baby who died waiting at a checkpoint, and 11 between the ages of 15 and 18, according to figures kept by the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group.

Suleiman Abu Ghazala, Sara’s father, said the launcher in question had been sitting in the same field for three months; the others agreed.

Capt. Noa Meir, an Israeli Army spokeswoman, said that was impossible. And although the children had been killed by ground fire, she offered an interview with an Israeli fighter pilot, identified only as Major Asaf, who spoke with feeling of how hard Israel tried “to prevent terror actions against our innocent civilians” while “not hurting the innocent on the other side.”

“The moment we see that there is any doubt that all the people in the vicinity are armed, our policy is to cancel the mission,” Major Asaf said.

Moussa Abu Ghazala, Mahmoud’s father, described the day as “quiet, like now,” except for the buzzing drone. It was around 5:30 p.m., and there was no warning, he said. “There were no rockets at that time, but suddenly there was a whoosh, and an explosion. And we were sitting here and watching them die.”

In Nusseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza, the Abeeds were mourning Nizar, 22. He was shot dead by Israeli troops as he tried to climb the border fence in late August. His family and friends say that he was seeking work in Israel, like his brother Ghassan, 24, who has done it four times.

Nizar had finished high school but could not afford college, and found little work, said his father, Rajid al-Abeed, 47, a taxi driver and the head of an extended family of 13 that lives in three rooms.

“They don’t ask permission when they try to jump the fence; they know I wouldn’t allow it,” he said. “But this youth has no future. They want to work in Israel, and the legal ways are not open.”

Ghassan once spent 18 months working in Israel before getting caught and sent back to Gaza. He has worked in agriculture, construction and plumbing, mostly in Beersheba, where the family, which came to the region from Darfur in western Sudan several hundred years ago, has relatives. “The Israelis treated me as if I were one of them,” he said.

But he has found no steady work in Gaza. His father cited an Arabic proverb, “Seven professions but no luck.”

Ghassan explained that the border fence was electronic, but that he had learned to wire two parts of the fence together to maintain the electrical connection while cutting the fence to get into Israel. He goes in daylight, having spent hours watching the routine of the foot patrols. But Nizar, on his first effort, Ghassan said, was shot by Israeli troops who everyone knows will fire at those trying to cross the fence.

“Of course I’ll do it again,” Ghassan said. “I’m here, I’m doing nothing. I wake up and sleep. I get up and try to find work, and I fail. I want a future.”

His father said: “It’s not easy to lose a son. I told him, ‘I don’t want anything from you, just live your life.’ ”

Ghassan said: “But I want something for me. I want a future.”

The situation is “much worse now since Hamas took over,” his father said. “Everything is closed now. I hope Hamas and Fatah can get together. We hope, but the hope is weak.”

And what about the prospect of a Palestinian state? “It seems as far away,” he said, “as the distance between land and sky.”

In Faluja, north of Beit Lahiya, two other Gazan families still mourned.

In June, the first day of vacation after school exams, four boys were playing at the beach, near the former Israeli settlement of Dugit, in northwest Gaza, about 100 yards from the border fence, another good place to launch Qassams.

Israeli forces were just inside Gaza, searching for rocket-launching teams. The troops saw the boys crawling toward the fence and appearing to dig and plant something, presumably an explosive.

The Israelis say they yelled a warning over a loudspeaker and fired warning shots, then real ones. Two of the boys, Ahmed Abu Zubeida, 9, and Zaher al-Majdalawi, 10, were shot dead. Muhammad al-Atawanah, 16, was seriously wounded and brought by the Israelis to an Israeli hospital, where he was treated and interrogated by Shin Bet, the Israeli intelligence agency. Muhammad Abu Tabaq, 15, ran away.

Some Palestinians said the boys had been digging for scrap metal. Others said they had been flying a kite and wanted to hide it while they went to the beach. That is roughly the Atawanah youth’s story.

“We swam, we played and flew the kite, but it hit something and fell,” he said. “We all bent to try to find out what went wrong and fix it, but then there was shooting. Ahmed wasn’t moving. Zaher was bleeding. I got a bullet in the back.” The Israeli soldiers took him to the hospital, but he accused them of not helping Zaher. “They are criminals!” he said. “All this for a kite!”

The boys’ parents were distraught and their siblings were enraged. Zaher’s father, Jaber, 59, was at midday prayers at the mosque when he heard the news. “Why didn’t Israel arrest them?” he shouted later. “Why didn’t Israel shoot them in the legs?”

In the Zubeida home, 14 people share a small house divided into four tiny rooms, with a shower in the kitchen. Ahmed’s father, Sabri, 52, could not stop crying. Ahmed’s brother Muhammad, 18, shook with anger.

“In this big prison, all we have is the sea!” he said. “They were innocent, innocent.” Muhammad wants to be a psychologist, “to guide the young,” he said. “But inside me there is such anger for what the Jews did to Ahmed!”

The Israeli Army agreed to show an edited version of the observation film shot at the time, from a camera on the border at least 100 yards away. The tape runs just 11 seconds, from 14:14:37 to 14:14:48, and it does not include the shootings. The boys who are not obviously youths, are seen crawling in an open area near the sea, digging in the ground. As they move to run away, one of them is seen pulling something that looks like a wire — or, perhaps, a kite string.

An army officer who showed the film, but refused to allow his name to be used, said, “Every Palestinian knew we were in the area, that this was a no-go area, and the assumption we made was that they were trying to hide a bomb or booby trap to attack our forces if we moved into Gaza.”

Such ambushes have been common. And it also happens that boys are paid by their elders to do such dangerous work, assuming that Israelis do not kill children. Did the soldiers find an explosive device? “They didn’t find a device,” the officer said. “But they didn’t find a kite, either.”

Israeli Bank Severs Ties With Gaza Banks

By SABEL KERSHNER
Bank Hapoalim, Israel’s largest commercial bank, said it was terminating all banking activity with banks in the Gaza Strip. The Tel Aviv-based bank said in a statement that its decision came in light of the Israeli government’s decision last week to declare the Gaza Strip hostile territory. The government declaration came in response to increased rocket fire from Gaza, which is run by Hamas. It opened the way to further restrictions on the supply of services and goods like electricity and gasoline, though the government has not yet carried out any cuts. Israeli banks have minimized their dealings with Gaza, but the Israeli shekel remains the official currency there. I




Israeli strikes in Gaza kill 7 Palestinians
Defense minister warns Hamas
By Rushdi abu Alouf and Richard Boudreaux, Los Angeles Times | September 27, 2007

GAZA CITY - Israeli forces killed seven Palestinians in an air strike and ground assault in the Gaza Strip yesterday, retaliating for a barrage of mortar and rocket fire into southern Israel.

On the bloodiest day in Gaza since Israel declared it a "hostile territory" last week, Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned that the military was "moving closer to a broad and complex operation" in the enclave ruled by the Islamic movement Hamas.

The Israeli air strike hit a jeep on a Gaza City highway, killing three occupants and wounding the fourth, hospital officials said. The targeted men were members of the Army of Islam, a Hamas offshoot involved in the capture last year of an Israeli soldier who is still missing and the March kidnapping of a British Broadcasting Corp. correspondent who was later freed.

The Israeli military said the jeep was transporting rockets to launch sites.

Dozens of Palestinians surrounded the wrecked vehicle, some dipping their hands in the dead men's blood and crying out for revenge.

About 10 miles to the north, Israeli troops backed by dozens of tanks and armored bulldozers moved into Beit Hanoun, setting off clashes with Hamas and other armed groups. Hospital officials said 17 Palestinians were wounded in the fighting.

Witnesses said an Israeli tank shell struck a residential building in Beit Hanoun, killing a militant who had been firing rocket- propelled grenades at the tanks. Hospital officials said three teenagers in a crowd of bystanders also were killed by the shell.

The Popular Resistance Committees said the dead militant was one of its members.

Israel said the raids were a response to the recent bombardment of Israeli border towns, including 20 mortar shells and 10 rockets fired yesterday. Much of the fire comes from Beit Hanoun.

Small militant groups such as the Popular Resistance Committees and Islamic Jihad fire most of the rockets, with little apparent interference from Hamas. By designating Gaza as a hostile territory, Israel formally held the strip's leadership responsible for the attacks, a precursor to a possible cutoff of electricity, water, and fuel to the strip's 1.5 million people.

Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader in Gaza, called Israel's military offensive "a new wave of Israeli aggression" and said it would only strengthen the resolve of Palestinians to fight back.

Israel withdrew Jewish settlers and military bases from the Gaza Strip in 2005 after 38 years of occupation. Palestinians there say they are still fighting occupation because Israel controls the territory's borders, waters, and air space.

In a sign that rocket-launching cells might spread to the West Bank, Palestinian security officials said yesterday that they had seized two homemade rockets in Bethlehem and turned them over to the Israeli army.

The West Bank-based government of the Palestinian Authority's president, Mahmoud Abbas, has been cooperating more with Israel since Hamas gunmen seized control of Gaza in June, ousting security forces loyal to him.

In the West Bank city of Nablus, meanwhile, the Israeli army arrested the fifth and last remaining wanted suspect in a deadly mob attack on two Israeli reservists in 2000. "

Israelis Kill Up to 9 in Gaza

By ISABEL KERSHNER
JERUSALEM, Sept. 26 — Up to nine Palestinians were killed in Israeli military strikes in Gaza on Wednesday, according to Palestinian witnesses and medical officials. Six of them were described as militants.

The strikes were carried out after 10 Qassam rockets and about 20 mortar shells were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, an Israeli Army spokeswoman said. At least six of the rockets landed in Israel, the spokeswoman said. They caused no casualties, though one damaged a house in an Israeli community near the Gaza border, she said.

Israel has declared Gaza, where the Islamic militant group Hamas seized control in June, hostile territory.

By contrast, in the West Bank, where President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority holds sway, Palestinian security forces found what they said were two Qassam rockets and handed them over to the Israeli Army for inspection. The handing over of the rockets, which have been found only rarely in the West Bank, was an illustration of the renewed security cooperation between Israel and the Authority’s forces there after years of intense mistrust.

Up to five members of a small armed group, the Army of Islam, were killed in an airstrike in Gaza City, Palestinian officials and witnesses said. The army spokeswoman said the air force had hit a vehicle carrying five “terror operatives with rockets ready to be launched.”

The Army of Islam was responsible for kidnapping the BBC correspondent Alan Johnston, who was released in July. It was also involved, with the military wing of Hamas and the Popular Resistance Committees, in seizing an Israeli corporal, Gilad Shalit, in a cross-border raid in June 2006. Corporal Shalit is still being held.

Four more Palestinians were killed when an Israeli shell hit a house in Beit Hanoun, in northern Gaza, during an incursion of ground forces, Palestinian witnesses and medical officials said.

According to Reuters, the shell struck the home of a gunman of the Popular Resistance Committees, who had fired at Israeli troops first. Witnesses told Reuters that he had been killed along with three occupants of the house who were noncombatants.

The army spokeswoman said that Israeli forces had fired in an open area at a cell that was about to launch an antitank missile. She said she had no information about a shell hitting a house.

Thousands of the crude homemade rockets known as Qassams have been fired from Gaza in recent years, killing a total of 12 Israelis. The damage has been limited because the rockets are inaccurate and often fall in open areas around the strip.

Israel’s defense minister, Ehud Barak, told Army Radio that Israel was “moving closer to a broad and complex operation in Gaza” in response to the continued rocket fire.

In the West Bank, Palestinian Authority security officials said that they had found the two rockets in the Bethlehem area, near Jerusalem.

The Israeli Army said it had received two pipelike objects, which could have been used as launchers, from the Palestinians. While rockets are regularly fired into Israel from the Gaza Strip, none have yet been fired from the West Bank. Such a development would be potentially “deadly,” the army spokeswoman said, because of the many densely populated Israeli communities that lie within close range of the West Bank.

The Palestinian Authority intelligence chief, Gen. Tawfiq Tirawi, said this was not the first time that the Palestinian security apparatus had found rockets in the West Bank. “Two months ago, we found similar rockets and we destroyed them,” he told The Associated Press, adding: “This is unacceptable. We will not allow anyone to use such missiles because he will be destroying the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian towns.” He was referring to the Israeli reprisals that any such action would prompt.

The army spokeswoman said that projectiles were found in Bethlehem 18 months ago. A spokesman for the Israeli police, Micky Rosenfeld, said that a number of Border Police operations “had prevented attempts to transfer rockets” from Gaza to the West Bank in recent years.

General Tirawi said the rockets found Wednesday were still in the early stage of production and had not yet been fitted with explosives. It was not clear to which group they belonged, but General Tirawi said they resembled rockets assembled by Hamas and other groups in the Gaza Strip.

He also said that the rockets were manufactured locally, according to Israel Radio.

The Palestinian police loyal to President Abbas, of Fatah, have been cracking down on Hamas in the West Bank since the Islamic group routed Fatah’s forces in Gaza in June.

Security cooperation between the Abbas-led Authority and Israel has subsequently resumed, helped by Mr. Abbas’s establishment of a new West Bank caretaker government that excludes Hamas. Israel considers Hamas a terrorist organization and refuses to deal with it.

The security cooperation is “developing” but is still “at initial stages,” said Miri Eisin, a spokeswoman for Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister. High-level officials from both sides have met, she said.

In Gaza, a spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees told reporters that the Authority’s security apparatuses in the West Bank were “preventing bold armed attacks” planned against Israel."

And today, the shitter papers report nothing!

This also another reason I'm scaling back, is because a year ago November, Israel FLATTENED Beit Hanoun and killed about 80 people -- families, women, children. I had a years worth of great stuff, and my heart is crushed at the loss and the continued lying shit coverage of the past and present.

Sick of the NaZionists and their lying, land-stealing, mass-murdering, genocidal regime and their flunky-fuck press agents (the Times chief among them).

Will cheer when they are gone!

Flipping to page 6, I notice that Ahmadinejad is now making friends in Latin America before returning home.

"Ahmadinejad's trip underscored growing ties to Latin American nations, including Nicaragua and Ecuador, even as the United States tries to isolate him internationally."

Yeah, just slip in a bit of truth, lying Jew Press!!

Of course, the Times doesn't even cover it! So sick of their fucking Zionist shitstink!

Continuing in the Globe, I find that after years and years of being told we are winning in Afghanistan, we are presented with this:

"Attacks by Taliban increase, approach Afghanistan capital
Seen capitalizing on public concern, weak government
By John Ward Anderson, Washington Post | September 28, 2007

Yup, we are winning, even as the Taliban gets closer to Kabul!

All these years where we have heard the same shit, same shit, and turns out our military is FULL of SHIT LIES!!!

SICK of the ZIONIST PRESS' SHIT LIES yet, readers?

KABUL, Afghanistan - Preying on a weak government and rising public concerns about security, the Taliban are enjoying a military resurgence in Afghanistan and are now staging attacks just outside the capital, according to Western diplomats, private security analysts, and aid workers.

Of particular concern, private security and intelligence analysts said, is the new reach of the Taliban to the provinces ringing Kabul, headquarters for thousands of international security troops. Those troops are seeking to shore up the government of President Hamid Karzai, help stabilize the country, find Osama bin Laden, and rebuild a nation deeply scarred by almost three decades of warfare. So far, they have had only mixed success.

"The Taliban ability to sustain fighting cells north and south of Kabul is an ominous development and a significant lapse in security," said a recent analysis by NightWatch, an intelligence review written by John McCreary, a former top analyst at the US Defense Intelligence Agency.

While the number of attacks around the capital has been small compared with the number of attacks in other areas of the country, McCreary wrote, the data showed that the Taliban this summer "held the psychological initiative. They still lack the ability to threaten the government, but moved closer to achieving it than they have in six years."

Analyses by the Afghanistan NGO Safety Office, a project funded by the European Commission to advise private aid groups about security conditions across the country, found "a significant monthly escalation in conflict" in the first half of the year. Attacks by armed opposition groups increased from 139 in January to 405 in July, according to the project's director, Nic Lee.

"Every month there's a 20 to 25 percent increase in offensive activity," he said, adding that attacks in June and July were 80 percent to 90 percent higher than in the same period last year, showing a general escalation in the conflict, rather than seasonal fluctuations.

"Attacks have spread across the entire southeast border area, with a rapid escalation in the east, and in the last four months in the center" around Kabul as well, Lee said. "These guys have the strategic intent to take back the country."

NATO and US officials have not released their own statistics about attack trends, but they dispute the notion that the Taliban are significantly expanding operations from their traditional base in the south or that Afghanistan is sliding backward.

US Army General Dan K. McNeill, the top NATO commander in Afghanistan, said much of the activity attributed to the Taliban and other militant groups probably was not part of the antigovernment insurgency, but probably was related to criminal activity, narcotics trafficking, and tribal disputes. And in some cases, he said, levels of conflict are up because more NATO, US, and Afghan forces are pushing into areas of the country where they had never operated. There are an estimated 50,000 international troops Afghanistan, about half of them American.

"Logic tells you the number of incidents you report are going to be increased," he said.

The Taliban's use of guerrilla warfare tactics - particularly suicide attacks and roadside bombings - is on the rise, largely because the insurgents cannot challenge foreign security forces through conventional means, McNeill said. About 60 percent of Afghanistan - a country slightly smaller than Texas and with 32 million people - experiences on average less than one significant security event a week, he said, although "the south and the east are clearly exceptions."

The rise in attacks reflects "acts of desperation," said Humayun Hamidzada, the spokesman for Karzai. "If you go and blow up 20 civilians, what does it show? Does it show strength? It shows their weakness. It's no resurgence. It's just showing who they really are."

So what does ANNIHILATING people by the hundreds in AIR STRIKES say about the U.S., 'eh, readers?

Remember, we are LOSING this war BIG TIME now, even though the stink Jew Press won't tell you!

They PRESENT what they PRESENT to SELL a WORLDVIEW and PUSH the NaZionist AGENDA!!!!

Otherwise, why would the Times continue to ignore U.S. operations and Afghani dead, but report on western workers being taken hostage?

Yup, those bloody inhuman Muslims -- that the U.S. is KILLING by the thousands!!!!

But they do have a picture in their paper on page 3 describing a water crisis in Kabul!

Shows an Afghan girl carrying a bucket of water through the streets.

Yup, not enough news fit for print, jut like the U.S.' mass-slaughter you have been failing to report, stinkfuck Jew Times!

Smell the Zionist shitstink yet, reader?

The Taliban ruled most of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001 and promulgated a harsh and often unorthodox brand of Islamic law. The group intimidated and brutalized citizens, particularly women, destroyed Afghan culture, isolated the country internationally, and allowed it to become a base for bin Laden and Al Qaeda, which planned out the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, in part, from camps in Afghanistan.

Talk about promoting the pack of lies that Zionists want, here is another great example.

Following the attacks, US-led forces invaded Afghanistan, toppled the Taliban, and began an intense manhunt for bin Laden, who remains at large.

In the aftermath of the invasion, senior American, Afghan, and Pakistani officials described the Taliban as a spent force. Today, that assessment is widely doubted.

"The question is, were they ever defeated, and I don't think they ever were," McNeill said.

Many analysts say they believe the Taliban continue to draw support from elements in Pakistan, an assertion hotly disputed by the government in Islamabad. The consensus among independent intelligence analysts is that the Taliban leadership is headquartered in Quetta, Pakistan."

So what, McNeill, you guys LYING all that time, huh?

Just like the shit Amurkn press, 'eh?

Now we can turn to Iraq with this stunner(?):

"Sergeant ordered him to kill, soldier says
Army opens probe into other deaths
By Katarina Kratovac, Associated Press | September 28, 2007

BAGHDAD - A US soldier cried yesterday as he told a court-martial that his staff sergeant ordered him to shoot an unarmed Iraqi. He said the sergeant then laughed and told the trooper to finish the job as the dying man convulsed on the ground.

The military reported, meanwhile, that it had opened probe into the deaths of five women and four children this week in a village where US forces had carried out ground and air assaults.

Both events took place in a region south of the capital.

Prosecutors say the first case involved the killing of an Iraqi man, placing an AK-47 rifle by his body to make it seem as though he was armed, and failing to ensure humane treatment of a detainee.

In the court-martial, Sergeant Evan Vela, 23, spoke barely above a whisper as he recounted shooting the man on May 11 near Iskandariyah, a mostly Sunni city 30 miles south of Baghdad.

Vela said Staff Sergeant Michael Hensley of Candler, N.C., told him to shoot the man, who had stumbled upon their hideout, although he was not armed.

"He asked me if I was ready," Vela said of Hensley. "I had the pistol out. I heard the word 'shoot.' I don't remember pulling the trigger."

As the Iraqi man was convulsing on the ground, Vela said, "Hensley kind of laughed about it and hit the guy on the throat and said shoot again.

Vela was testifying during the second day of the court-martial of Specialist Jorge G. Sandoval of Laredo, Texas. Sandoval is on trial for allegedly killing Iraqis and trying to cover up the deaths by planting weapons at the scene.

Vela said Sandoval was not present during the May 11 killing, but was nearby providing security. Sandoval has pleaded not guilty.

It was unclear why Vela was called to testify in Sandoval's court-martial."

That is a cut-down version from my paper, and I am sick of that sort of CENSORSHIP, too! Wait 'till you see the Times version!

Continuing through the Globe, you will find John McCain using troops as props -- ILLEGALLY -- but that's all right.

You are only arrested and hassled if you are a vet who is now against the war and protests it after serving.

After all, the only furor in Amurka about the war is if you criticize it in a newspaper add. Being for the mass-murdering act of aggression is o.k.

Heck, militarism rules the country! Amurkns love their mass-murdering heroes! Just last night I watched the first female, African-American combat pilot get applauded at the Republican debate last night (which Ron Paul won again, big time).

Thanks, feminist women's rights crowd, for making the test of equality and all your rights commensurate with becoming mass-murdering killers like men.

Yeah, that's progress!! Never mind the infant mortality, the lack of pre-natal care, the mommies and babies in poverty -- we got equality and are the greatest society ever because we can turn our women into mass-murdering killing machines.

Oh, what progress we are making in promoting LIFE, huh, readers?

Oh, I better not type these things! Next thing you know, I will be branded a thought terrorist by my federal government!

"The Democrat-led Senate voted yesterday to let federal law enforcement help states prosecute attacks on homosexuals, attaching the provision to a massive spending bill for the Iraq war and daring President Bush to veto the whole package.

The White House stopped short of reiterating Bush's veto threat, issued earlier this year when the House passed the same hate crimes provision as a stand-alone bill.

The bill would extend the hate crimes category to include sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or disability and give federal authorities greater leeway to participate in hate crime investigations. It would approve $10 million over the next two years to help local law enforcement officials cover the cost of hate crime prosecutions. Federal investigators could step in if local authorities were unwilling or unable to act.

Democrats and the provision's Republican supporters said the bill would create a safeguard in states that do not have laws against hate crimes committed based on sexual orientation or gender identity. And they insisted that the provision is relevant to the underlying military spending legislation because both are strikes against terrorist behavior.

So ANY VIOLENCE can be designated "TERRORIST" behavior, folks!

The government now reserves the right to PROSECUTE you on WHAT you might have THOUGHT as well!!

That's right, I saw the great liberal fat-ass Kennedy out there promoting division and authoritarianism on the Senate floor.

"Domestic terrorists," he thundered!! Yup, THOUGHT is TERRORISM now if it doesn't sway to the hard-line Zionist point-of-view!

Strange how beating someone up is considered a hate-crime, but invading a country based upon lies and mass-murdering over a million people is "politics."

Of course, this whole debate and the nedia coverage lately has totally proven out the Zionist domination and infiltration of all of AmeriKa's news outlets (even the alternatives).

Otherwise, why has that Zionist agent Amy Goodman been dominating her show with Myanmar and the Jenna 6?

Never goes near 9/11 and consistently repeats the government's racist, intellectually dishonest case -- the Muslims did it.

Meanwhile, C(IA)NN has been running with the Jena 6 and Myanmar, too!

Never mind the imminent attack on Iran:

"Washington Sees an Opportunity on Iran

By DAVID E. SANGER and THOM SHANKER
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 — A year and a half after President Bush told top aides that he feared he might be forced someday to choose between acquiescing to Iran’s nuclear ambitions and ordering military action, the struggle to find an effective alternative — sanctions with real bite — is entering a new phase.

The speech at the United Nations on Tuesday by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran is already being used by American officials in an effort to convince European allies that Iran’s leadership will respond only to a sharp new wave of economic pressure, far greater than anything it has endured so far. Mr. Ahmadinejad, trying to make the case that no additional sanctions would derail Iran’s uranium enrichment program, declared that “the nuclear issue of Iran is now closed.”

Until now, Washington has relied on gradually escalating sanctions, including convincing a growing number of banks that it is risky to lend new funds to Iran for major oil projects. Yet in interviews, American diplomats, White House officials and military officers acknowledge that the strategy has been largely ineffective.

So have veiled threats of military action. While President Bush and his aides insist that “all options are on the table,” senior officials say there is little enthusiasm in the White House or the Pentagon for military attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities, though they acknowledge that such war plans are always being refined.

The officials say the Iranians fully understand that while the United States could destroy Iran’s major nuclear facilities, it would be far harder to manage the probable response, which could include heightened attacks on American forces in Iraq, possible retaliation on Israel or the destabilization of governments from Lebanon to Pakistan.

Administration officials say that the chances appear slim that the United States can enlist Russia and China behind really tough sanctions against Iran, and that it could take several months for such sanctions to emerge, if they do at all.

But for the first time, administration officials say, the European allies are talking about a far broader cutoff of bank lending and technology to Iran than any tried so far. The lead is being taken by the new government in France, whose president, Nicolas Sarkozy, issued a starker warning to the United Nations this week about a nuclear Iran than did Mr. Bush.

That has created a new initiative between Washington and Paris unlike any since they split over the invasion of Iraq. The effort, said Stephen J. Hadley, the national security adviser, is intended to convince Iranians that the nuclear program is “taking us into the ditch,” and to make the pressure so great “that they finally have to make a strategic choice.”

In a meeting on Tuesday with editors and reporters for The New York Times, Mr. Hadley conceded that the United States was still struggling to understand how much pressure it would take to force Iran to make what he called a “strategic choice” and said that intelligence estimates “vary widely” about how much time remained before the Iranians could have a weapon.

One senior European official who is taking part in conversations in New York this week to design sanctions that the entire European Union might agree to said it was now “a race between how fast they can build centrifuges and we can turn up the pain.”

So the discussions now center on cutting off even more lending to the Iranians and — for the first time — supplies of technology and other goods. But that would require severing, one by one, deep ties between European and Iranian businesses, and necessitate what Mr. Hadley called a consensus for “aggressive action, even if that means compromising their commercial interests.”

A range of officials acknowledged the difficulty of designing a military strike option effective enough to set the Iranian program back for many years.

While many of the sites have long been known — especially the giant underground complex at Natanz, where just shy of 2,000 centrifuges have been installed — there is no certainty that military action could destroy the entire system of well-disguised factories and laboratories, some known and some hidden.

And the turmoil certain to follow such an attack may not be worth military action that simply delays nuclear development, officials say.

That probably explains why Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have both vowed to pursue the diplomatic track, saying that military action is a last resort. But those comments have not silenced the speculation here, in Europe and in the Middle East that America is planning for an attack.

“This constant drumbeat of war is not helpful, and it’s not useful,” said Adm. William J. Fallon, the senior American commander in the region.

In a telephone interview this week as he visited various regional capitals, Admiral Fallon pledged that the United States would “maintain our capabilities in that region of the world in an attempt to make sure that if they opt for military activity there, that is not going to be very useful to them.”

At the same time, he said, “we will pursue avenues that might result in some kind of improvement in Iranian behavior.”

“I am not talking about a war strategy, but a strategy to demonstrate our resolve,” Admiral Fallon said. “We have a very, very robust capability in the region, especially in comparison to Iran. That is one of the things that people might want to keep in mind. Our intention is to make sure they understand that, but we are being prudent in our actions and certainly not trying to be provocative.”

In recent days others have begun to speak openly about what the United States would face if Iran successfully fielded nuclear weapons or manufactured enough uranium to make clear that it could produce weapons in short order. It is that second possibility — in which Iran would stay within the strict rules of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty — that worries many intelligence officials.

Gen. John P. Abizaid, who retired this year as senior American commander in the Middle East, said that while the United States must do all it can to prevent Iran from going nuclear, the world could live with a nuclear Iran and could contain it.

“I believe that the United States, with our great military power, can contain Iran, that the United States can deliver clear messages to the Iranians that makes it clear to them that while they may develop one or two nuclear weapons, they’ll never be able to compete with us in our true military might and power, and they should not underestimate either our resolve or our ability to deal with them in the event of war,” General Abizaid said in a speech last week at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington policy institute

He said the broad rules of deterrence that kept a nuclear peace between the United States and the Soviet Union during the cold war, and remain in effect with nuclear Russia and China today, would be effective against a nuclear Iran.

“I believe nuclear deterrence will work with the Iranians,” General Abizaid said.

Inside the administration, senior officials say they have also considered organizing a regional forum to confront Iran, using as a model the “six party” talks with North Korea, an effort to put pressure on that country from all its neighbors. But in the Middle East, officials say, the idea has hardly gotten off the ground.

“As we talk to the regional leaders, we have yet to hear a single good idea for ways to find common ground, or a forum or framework for dealing with Iran,” said one senior official involved in Iran policy. The problem, officials say, is that none of Iran’s neighbors are willing and able to play the decisive role alongside the United States."

Senate Urges Bush to Declare Iran Guard a Terrorist Group

By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 — The Senate approved a resolution on Wednesday urging the Bush administration to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization, and lawmakers briefly set aside partisan differences to approve a measure calling for stepped-up diplomacy to forge a political solution in Iraq.

Since last month, the White House has been weighing whether to declare the Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist group or to take a narrower step focusing on only the Guard’s elite Quds Force. Either approach would signal a more confrontational posture by declaring a part of the Iranian military a terrorist operation.

Appearances by the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on Monday at Columbia University and on Tuesday at the United Nations, where he said Iran would ignore Security Council resolutions about its nuclear program, seemed to toughen the resolve of Senate Democrats, who had been hesitant to take an overly aggressive stance.

The Senate resolution, which is not binding, also calls on the administration to impose economic sanctions on Iran.

Even if the White House took that step, policy experts said, it was unclear that it would be anything more than a symbolic gesture without the cooperation of nations that, unlike the United States, still had substantial business dealings with Iran.

The measure, proposed by Senator Jon Kyl, Republican of Arizona, and Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut who usually votes with Republicans on war issues, relied heavily on testimony earlier this month by Gen. David H. Petraeus, the commander in Iraq, and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, the top American political official in Baghdad.

In negotiations, two crucial paragraphs were deleted from the measure in an attempt to reassure critics who had said the proposal seemed to urge the Bush administration to deal with Iran on a war footing.

Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, a Democrat and the majority leader, voted for the proposal after initially urging caution. “We certainly don’t want to be led down the path, slowly but surely, until we wind up with the situation like we have in Iraq today,” he said Tuesday. “So I am going to be very, very cautious.”

Senator Jim Webb, Democrat of Virginia, warned Tuesday that an early draft of the proposal “could be read as tantamount to a declaration of war.”

“What do we do with terrorist organizations if they are involved against us?” Mr. Webb asked in a speech on Tuesday. “We attack them.”

Even with the two paragraphs deleted, Mr. Webb voted against the resolution. So did a number of other Democrats who are among the harshest critics of the Bush administration’s handling of the war. The measure passed by a vote of 76 to 22.

Among those voting against it was Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., Democrat of Delaware, and chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, who said he feared that the administration could use the measure to justify military action against Iran.

In a separate vote, by 75 to 23, the Senate approved a resolution by Mr. Biden calling for greater diplomatic efforts with Iraq, and in particular, a focus on partitioning Iraq into federal regions in hopes of reaching a political solution and more swiftly ending the war.

While Democrats sought to portray the vote on the Biden proposal as a potential breakthrough in reaching other legislative compromises that might force President Bush to shift his war strategy, Republicans quickly made clear that this was not so.

Senator John W. Warner, Republican of Virginia, praised Mr. Biden’s measure but also predicted that any effort by Senate Democrats to dictate war strategy to the president would fail. “We will not see a measure reach 60 votes,” he said, the number needed to overcome a filibuster.

Mr. Biden’s resolution called on the United States “to actively support a political settlement in Iraq based on the final provisions of the Constitution of Iraq,” which would essentially divide the country into loosely allied, semi-autonomous regions.

And it said the United States should call on the international community to help and on Iraq’s neighbors not to “intervene in or destabilize” Iraq.

In an interview, Mr. Biden said such an approach would be a striking shift from the Bush administration’s insistence on a strong and unified Iraqi federal government and would permit a quicker withdrawal of American troops. “This is a fundamentally different goal, and it requires fundamentally fewer American forces,” he said."

US, Russia clash over sanctions against Iran's nuclear program
By Arshad Mohammed and Paul Taylor, Reuters | September 27, 2007

NEW YORK - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov of Russia clashed over sanctions against Iran's nuclear program at a meeting of world powers yesterday, participants said.

"There was a very blunt exchange between Sergei and Condi," said one European official present at a lunch of foreign ministers of the Group of Eight nations - the United States, Russia, Japan, Canada, Germany, France, Britain, and Italy.

Washington and Paris are pushing for tougher United Nations sanctions against Tehran over its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment, which US and many European officials suspect is aimed at developing a nuclear weapon.

Moscow opposes further sanctions now, arguing that Iran is cooperating with the UN atomic watchdog to clear up questions about its past nuclear activities and should be given a chance to satisfy the agency's requirements.

Lavrov was particularly withering in attacking Western moves to take unilateral sanctions outside the UN framework if the Security Council was deadlocked, the participants said.

Asked whether they had made any progress on Iran, Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner of France laughed and said: "I wouldn't exactly say so, no."

British junior foreign minister Mark Malloch Brown said the tone was "pretty rough."

A senior US official declined to characterize the mood of the meeting but said: "We have had, for several months, a tactical disagreement over how fast to proceed on a third sanctions resolution but there is a lot of momentum behind it now."

Political directors of the five permanent Security Council veto powers - the United States, Russia, China, Britain, and France - would discuss elements of a draft sanctions resolution, he said.

The United States earlier rejected Iran's claim that the political issue over its nuclear program was "closed," as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.

Iran says its program is purely to produce civilian power and remaining "technical" questions should be handled by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

"The case is not closed," US Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns told reporters.

"He is completely mistaken, and the international community is not going to allow him to forget about the fact that his country is operating against the wishes of the Security Council," he added.

The Security Council has demanded that Iran suspend its uranium enrichment and imposed two sanctions resolutions against Tehran for its failure to do so.

Iran agreed with the IAEA on Aug. 21 that it would explain the scope of its nuclear program. The pact allows Iran to settle questions one by one over a period the IAEA says will run to December. Western powers have cast doubt on the deal, saying it allows Tehran to string out answers while maintaining its enrichment program."

I smell war soon, how about you, reader?

Nothing further in the Globe except another dogshit, pro-Zionist, anti-arab editorial (not new):

"A Mideast real estate deal
September 28, 2007

A TINY, disputed parcel of land called Shebaa Farms, located where Israel, Syria, and Lebanon converge, has long been used as a pretext for armed confrontation. But Israel may now have a chance to remove this sliver of real estate as a source of conflict. This is an opportunity that should not be missed.

Shebaa Farms is currently occupied by Israel but claimed by Lebanon. When demarcating the border between Lebanon and Israel in 2000, after Israel ended an 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon, the United Nations ruled that Shebaa Farms was part of the Golan Heights, a part of Syria annexed by Israel. The fate of Shebaa Farms, then, would have to be determined in peace negotiations between Israel and Syria.

Earlier this month, Spain's foreign minister, Angel Moratinos, sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon describing talks he held recently in Damascus with Syrian President Bashar Assad. Moratinos said Assad is now willing to have Shebaa Farms transferred to the custody of the UN - even before the world body completes its current work of demarcating the border between Syria and Lebanon.

Assad's offer may seem at first glance to be little more than a ploy to embarrass Israel and to pretend - at a moment when Syria's heavy hand on Lebanon is provoking grave tensions there - that Syria respects Lebanese sovereignty and independence. Seen from this perspective, Assad's gesture might appear a contemporary version of the colonialist mapping decisions of Britain and France, who drew an imprecise border between Syria and Lebanon in 1923, apportioning land that was not theirs to give in the first place.

Despite having withdrawn from Lebanon under threat of USraeli attack!

FUCKING STINK LIES!!!!!!!

Indeed, Israel's initial response to the Moratinos letter was a mixture of rejection and complaint. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government objected that Moratinos had not consulted Israel about his initiative and derided the Syrian proposal as an attempt to put pressure on Israel to give up land without receiving anything in return. For the past year, Olmert's position has been that Israel will transfer Shebaa Farms to Lebanon - the presumed rightful owner - only after the Shi'ite militia Hezbollah obeys a UN resolution calling for the disarming of all Lebanese militias. To cede that territory to Lebanon without such a concession from Hezbollah, Israel's foreign ministry has cautioned, would be to give Hezbollah a "prize," gratis.

Those stinkfuck NaZionist assholes shouldn't even be there!

But if Israel were to seize the opportunity broached in the Moratinos letter, it could call Assad's bluff and Hezbollah's. Since 2000, Hezbollah has justified armed struggle against Israel on the grounds that Israel is still an occupying power on Lebanese soil. If Shebaa Farms belonged to Syria, as the UN ruled, then Hezbollah's rationale for refusing to disarm in accordance with the UN's resolution would be undermined. So Assad has been pretending he is willing to recognize Lebanese sovereignty over Shebaa Farms while postponing any transference of title to an indefinite future.

By turning Shebaa Farms over to the UN, Israel could serve its own interests, enhance the prospects for stability in Lebanon, unmask Assad, and establish a precedent for ending an occupation by diplomatic means. This is exactly what Israel should do."

Nothing about Israel's criminal bombing of Syria three weeks ago, right?

And did these NaZionist shit-suckers ever consider Israel's shitstink lies "ploys" needing to be "unmasked?"

I can smell the Zionist shitstink from here!

Turning to the Times now, as my routine viewed the Times pieces as filling in or augmenting.

No longer. I now realize that the Times is the NaZionists prime AmeriKan presstitute!

Obviously, Myanmar is going to take the front-page, for reasons outlined above.

"More Deaths in Myanmar, and Defiance

By SETH MYDANS
BANGKOK, Sept. 27 — Brutality and defiance marked the second day of an armed crackdown in Myanmar on Thursday as the military junta tried to crush a wave of nationwide protests in the face of harsh international condemnation.

The violence began before dawn with raids on Buddhist monasteries and continued through the day with tear gas, beatings and volleys of gunfire in the streets of the country’s main city, Yangon, according to witnesses and news agency reports from inside the closed nation.

Witnesses said soldiers fired automatic weapons into a crowd of protesters. State television in Myanmar reported that nine people had been killed and that 11 demonstrators and 31 soldiers had been wounded. The numbers could not be independently verified, and exile groups said they could be much higher. The Japanese Embassy said one of the dead was a Japanese photographer, Kenji Nagai.

International pressure on Myanmar built when President Bush asked countries in the region with influence on Myanmar’s authorities to urge them to cease using force, and the Treasury Department imposed economic sanctions on 14 identified senior Myanmar government officials.

China’s foreign minister, Yang Jiechi, at the White House for a scheduled meeting on Thursday with the national security adviser, Stephen J. Hadley, soon found himself in an impromptu Oval Office session with the president. Mr. Bush urged Mr. Yang to have Beijing “use its influence” in Myanmar to facilitate a peaceful transition to democracy, said the White House spokesman, Gordon D. Johndroe.

As Myanmar’s chief international patron, China blocked an effort on Wednesday by the United States and European countries to have the Security Council condemn the violent crackdown. On Thursday, while not going as far as Mr. Bush might have wished, China added its voice to criticism from abroad when it publicly called for restraint.

“As a neighbor, China is extremely concerned about the situation in Myanmar,” the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Jiang Yu, said at a news briefing in Beijing. “China hopes that all parties in Myanmar exercise restraint and properly handle the current issue so as to ensure the situation there does not escalate and get complicated.”

Despite a heavy military and police presence, protests gained momentum through the day in several parts of Yangon.

But with the authorities clamping down on telephone and Internet communications, human rights groups and exiles said they were having increasing difficulty in getting information.

The violence of the past two days has answered the question of whether the military would fire on Buddhist monks, the highly revered moral core of Burmese society. For the past 10 days, the monks have led demonstrations that grew to as many as 100,000 before the crackdown began.

“The military is the one who proudly claims to preserve and protect Buddhism in the country, but now they are killing the monks,” said Aung Zaw, editor of The Irrawaddy, a magazine based in Thailand that has extensive contacts inside Myanmar.

Like others monitoring the crisis, which began on Aug. 19 with scattered protests against steep fuel price increases, he said it was difficult to learn the numbers of dead in a chaotic situation in which hospital sources are sometimes reluctant to talk. Mr. Aung Zaw said he had been told of one death on Thursday when soldiers attacked two columns of monks and other people.

“The military trucks, I was told, just drove in, and soldiers jumped out and started shooting,” he said, describing a scene that was reminiscent of the mass killings in 1988, when the current junta came to power after suppressing a similar peaceful public uprising.

The Treasury Department included Senior Gen. Than Shwe, who leads the junta in power in the country, in the list of officials on whom it will impose sanctions. The measures will freeze any assets that the officials hold within the United States and prohibit Americans from transacting or doing business with them.

The foreign ministers of Myanmar’s regional group, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, issued a strongly worded statement on Thursday saying they were “appalled to receive reports of automatic weapons being used” against demonstrators.

The statement said that at a morning meeting at the United Nations, the officials from the 10-nation group had “expressed their revulsion” directly to Myanmar’s foreign minister, U Nyan Win, “over reports that the demonstrations in Myanmar are being suppressed by violent force and that there has been a number of fatalities.”

The foreign ministers of Asean are at the United Nations for the opening of the General Assembly, and George Yeo, the foreign minister of Singapore, the chairman country, put out their statement.

It said Mr. Nyan Win had given them assurances that Ibrahim Gambari, the special envoy whom Secretary General Ban Ki-moon sent Wednesday evening on an urgent mission to Myanmar, would be given a visa to enter the country once he arrived in Singapore. The statement said Myanmar should cooperate fully with Mr. Gambari and give him access to all parties.

“Mr. Gambari’s role as a neutral interlocutor among all the parties can help defuse the dangerous situation,” it read.

The statement called upon Myanmar to “resume its efforts at national reconciliation with all parties concerned and work towards a peaceful transition to democracy.”

It also called for the release of all political detainees, including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the pro-democracy leader who has been held under house arrest for 12 of the last 18 years.

Superstitious Burmese had predicted violence on this date, whose digits add up repeatedly to the astrologically powerful number 9: the 27th day of the ninth month in 2007.

There was no indication that international pressure would have any more effect on the junta than it has had over two decades of political pressure or economic sanctions like those announced at the United Nations this week by Mr. Bush.

“The big missing piece of the puzzle is what is going on in the minds of the senior leadership,” said Thant Myint-U, a former United Nations official who is the author of a book on Myanmar, formerly Burma, called “River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma.”

“Nothing that they have said in the last 20 years would suggest that they will back down,” he said

The government’s actions in the past two days seemed to bear this out.

In the raids early Thursday, The Associated Press reported, security forces fired shots at one of several monasteries, Ngwe Kyar Yan, where one monk said a number of monks were beaten and at least 70 of its 150 monks were arrested.

A female lay disciple said a number of monks were arrested at Moe Gaung Monastery, which was being guarded, like a number of other monasteries, by a contingent of armed security personnel.

Other unconfirmed reports from exile groups described scenes of brutality and humiliation of monks and their superiors when soldiers entered the monasteries.

“We were told by a lot of residents that the soldiers came in very rudely and told them to kneel down,” Mr. Aung Zaw said. “Their senior abbot was beaten in front of the others. They were told to walk like dogs. That news quickly spread, and whether it is rumor or true, people got very, very angry.”

Sunai Phasuk, a representative of Human Rights Watch in Thailand, said that he was concerned about the apparently large numbers of arrests of monks and lay people but that information about them was scarce.

Like others seeking news from inside the country, he said that the mobile telephones of his sources had apparently been cut off. There were also reports that the authorities were closing Internet cafes, where people had been loading and transmitting images from their telephone cameras.

“We have lost all contacts inside Burma,” he said. “We cannot reach them any more.”

Then I get the scoop on the Blackwater investigation and their activities in Iraq:

"Blackwater Shooting Scene Was Chaotic

By JAMES GLANZ and SABRINA TAVERNISE
BAGHDAD, Sept. 27 — Participants in a contentious Baghdad security operation this month have told American investigators that during the operation at least one guard continued firing on civilians while colleagues urgently called for a cease-fire. At least one guard apparently also drew a weapon on a fellow guard who did not stop shooting, an American official said.

The operation, by the private firm Blackwater USA, began as a mission to evacuate senior American officials after an explosion near where they were meeting, several officials said. Some officials have questioned the wisdom of evacuating the Americans from a secure compound, saying the area should instead have been locked down.

These new details of the episode on Sept. 16, in which at least eight Iraqis were killed, including a woman and an infant, were provided by an American official who was briefed on the American investigation by someone who helped conduct it, and by Americans who had spoken directly with two guards involved in the episode. Their accounts were broadly consistent.

A spokeswoman for Blackwater, Anne E. Tyrrell, said she could not confirm any of the details provided by the Americans.

The accounts provided the first glimpse into the official American investigation of the shooting, which has angered Iraqi officials and prompted calls by the Iraqi government to ban Blackwater from working in Iraq, and brought new scrutiny of the widespread use of private security contractors here.

The American official said that by Wednesday morning, American investigators still had not responded to multiple requests for information by Iraqi officials investigating the episode. The official also said that Blackwater had been conducting its own investigation but had been ordered by the United States to stop that work. Ms. Tyrrell confirmed that the company had done an investigation of its own, but said, “No government entity has discouraged us from doing so.”

An Iraqi investigation had concluded that the guards shot without provocation. But the official said that the guards told American investigators that they believed that they fired in response to enemy gunfire.

The Blackwater compound, rimmed by concrete blast walls and concertina wire in the Green Zone in central Baghdad, has been under tight control. Participants in the Sept. 16 security operation have been ordered not to speak about the episode. But word of the disagreement on the street has slowly made its way through the community of private security contractors.

The episode began around 11:50 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 16. Diplomats with the United States Agency for International Development were meeting in a guarded compound about a mile northwest of Nisour Square, where the shooting would later take place.

A bomb exploded on the median of a road a few hundred yards away from the meeting, causing no injuries to the Americans, but prompting a fateful decision to evacuate. One American official who knew about the meeting cast doubt on the decision to move the diplomats out of a secure compound.

“It raises the first question of why didn’t they just stay in place, since they are safe in the compound,” the official said. “Usually the concept would be, if an I.E.D. detonates in the street, you would wait 15 to 30 minutes, until things calmed down,” he said, using the abbreviation for improvised explosive device.

But instead of waiting, a Blackwater convoy began carrying the diplomats south, toward the Green Zone. Because their route would pass through Nisour Square, another convoy drove there to block traffic and ensure that the diplomats would be able to pass.

At least four sport utility vehicles stopped in lanes of traffic that were entering the square from the south and west. Some of the guards got out of their vehicles and took positions on the street, according to the official familiar with the report on the American investigation.

At 12:08 p.m., at least one guard began to fire in the direction of a car, killing its driver. A traffic policeman said he walked toward the car, but more shots were fired, killing a woman holding an infant sitting in the passenger seat.

There are three versions of why the shooting started. The Blackwater guards have told investigators that they believed that they were being fired on, the official familiar with the report said. A preliminary Iraqi investigation has concluded that there was no enemy fire, but some Iraqi witnesses have said that Iraqi commandos in nearby guard towers may have been shooting as well, possibly leading Blackwater guards to believe that militants were firing at them.

After the family was shot, a type of grenade or flare was fired into the car, setting it ablaze, according to some accounts. Other Iraqis were also killed as the shooting continued. Iraqi officials have given several death counts, ranging from 8 to 20, with perhaps several dozen wounded. American officials have said that no Americans were hurt.

At some point during the shooting, one or more Blackwater guards called for a cease-fire, according to the American official.

The word cease-fire “was supposedly called out several times,” the official said. “They had an on-site difference of opinion,” he said.

In the end, a Blackwater guard “got on another one about the situation and supposedly pointed a weapon,” the official said.

“That’s what prompted this internal altercation,” the official said.

The official added that in the urgent moment of a shooting events could often become confused, and cautioned against leaping to hasty conclusions about who was to blame."

"State Dept. Tallies 56 Shootings Involving Blackwater on Diplomatic Guard Duty

By JAMES RISEN
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 — The State Department said Thursday that Blackwater USA security personnel had been involved in 56 shootings while guarding American diplomats in Iraq so far this year. It was the first time the Bush administration had made such data public.

Blackwater, a large, privately held security contractor based in North Carolina, provided security to diplomats on 1,873 convoy runs in Iraq so far this year, and its personnel fired weapons 56 times, according to a written statement by Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte.

The State Department did not release comparable 2007 numbers for other security companies, but the new Blackwater numbers show a far higher rate of shootings per convoy mission than were experienced in 2006 by one of the company’s primary competitors, DynCorp International. DynCorp reported 10 cases in about 1,500 convoy runs last year.

The New York Times reported Thursday that Blackwater’s rate of shootings was at least twice as high as the rates for other companies providing similar services to the State Department in Iraq.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has asked Mr. Negroponte to oversee the department’s response to problems with security contractors.

A government official who was briefed on an hourlong meeting involving State Department officials on Thursday morning said that Ms. Rice had appeared surprised at the report that Blackwater had been involved in a higher rate of shootings than its competitors.

“She needs to be convinced that Blackwater’s hands are clean,” the government official said. Ms. Rice was also said to be taken aback by pressure from Representative Henry A. Waxman, the California Democrat who is chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, who issued an angry letter to her this week complaining about what he saw as the State Department’s efforts to block his panel’s investigation into Blackwater.

The meeting on Thursday with Ms. Rice seems to signal that the State Department’s leaders now recognize that the Blackwater issue is more serious than they had first thought, and that it may become harder for the Bush administration to defend Blackwater and allow the company to retain its prominent role in providing diplomatic security in Iraq.

Since the Sept. 16 shooting in the streets of Baghdad involving an American convoy guarded by Blackwater that left at least eight Iraqis dead, the Bush administration has fended off public demands by the Iraqi government for Blackwater to be evicted from the country.

Instead, the administration has said that it will conduct an investigation jointly with the Iraqis into the shooting, while American government officials have repeatedly indicated that they do not believe that the White House or the State Department would force Blackwater out of the contract.

The Pentagon said on Wednesday that it had sent a team to Iraq to investigate the role of security contractors there, in what appeared to be an effort to put private contractors under greater control by the United States military. The State Department quickly joined the Pentagon, and said that it would also send a team to review the role of contractors in Iraq.

Separately, a new study issued Thursday by Mr. Waxman’s oversight committee was highly critical of the company’s performance in a 2004 case in which four Blackwater contractors were killed in the restive Anbar Province city of Falluja. The committee concluded that witness accounts and investigative reports conflicted with Blackwater’s assertion that its contractors had been sent to Falluja “with sufficient preparation and equipment.”

In a statement, Blackwater said that the committee’s report was “a one-sided version of this tragic incident.”

“What the report fails to acknowledge is that the terrorists determined what happened that fateful day in 2004,” Blackwater said. ”The terrorists were intent on killing Americans and desecrating their bodies.”

And Here is a story that should lend new credence to any reports of U.S. forces disarming bombs in Iraq.

Easy to do when you PLANT the EXPLOSIVES, huh, readers?

"Testimony in Court-Martial Describes a Sniper Squad Pressed to Raise Body Count

By PAUL von ZIELBAUER
CAMP LIBERTY, IRAQ, Sept. 27 — An Army sniper is taught to kill people “calmly and deliberately,” even when they pose no immediate danger to him. “A sniper,” Army Field Manual 23-10 goes on to state, “must not be susceptible to emotions such as anxiety or remorse.”

But in a crowded military courtroom seemingly stunned into silence on Thursday, Sgt. Evan Vela all but broke down as he described firing two bullets into an unarmed Iraqi man his unit arrested last May.

In anguished, eloquent sentences, Sergeant Vela, a member of an elite sniper scout platoon with the First Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment, quietly described how his squad leader, Staff Sgt. Michael A. Hensley, cut off the man’s handcuffs, wrestled him to his feet and ordered Sergeant Vela, standing a few feet away, to fire the 9-millimeter service pistol into the detainee’s head.

“I heard the word ‘Shoot,’” Sergeant Vela recalled. “I don’t remember pulling the trigger,” he said. “I just came through and the guy was dead, and it just took me a second to realize the shot had come from the pistol.”

Then, Sergeant Vela said, as the man, a suspected insurgent, convulsed on the ground, Sergeant Hensley kicked him in the throat and told Sergeant Vela to shoot him again. Sergeant Vela, who is not on trial but faces murder charges in connection with the killing, said he fired a second time.

His testimony on Thursday, in the court-martial of Specialist Jorge G. Sandoval Jr., another sniper who is accused of murder, provided a glimpse into the dark moments of a platoon exhausted, emotionally and physically, by days-long missions in the region south of Baghdad that soldiers call the “triangle of death.” In their testimony, Sergeant Vela and other soldiers described how their teams were pushed beyond limits by battalion commanders eager to raise their kill ratio against a ruthless enemy.

During a separate hearing here in July, Sgt. Anthony G. Murphy said he and other First Battalion snipers felt “an underlying tone” of disappointment from field commanders seeking higher enemy body counts.

“It just kind of felt like, ‘What are you guys doing wrong out there?’” he said at the time.

That attitude among superiors changed earlier this year after Sergeant Hensley, an expert marksman, became a team leader, according to soldiers’ testimony. Though sometimes unorthodox, soldiers said, Sergeant Hensley and other snipers around him began racking up many more kills, pleasing the commanders.

Soldiers also testified that battalion commanders authorized a classified new technique that used fake explosives and detonation wires as “bait” to lure and kill suspected insurgents around Iskandariya, a hostile Sunni Arab region south of Baghdad.

As their superiors sought less restrictive rules of engagement — to legalize the combat killing of anyone who made a soldier “feel threatened,” for example, instead of showing hostile intent or actions — the baiting program, as it was known, succeeded in killing more Iraqis suspected of being terrorists, soldiers testified.

But testimony in proceedings for Sergeant Hensley and, on Thursday, for Specialist Sandoval, both of whom face murder charges in connection with separate killings of Iraqi men last spring, suggest that as the integrity of the battalion’s secret baiting program began to crack, so did Sergeant Hensley.

Only a select group of snipers in the battalion were told of the program, but many more were ordered, without explanation, to carry the baiting items on missions, creating rumors that the items were intended to be planted on victims of unjustified killings, soldiers testified.

Sergeant Hensley, according to several snipers, added to such suspicions when he told a junior member of his team to plant a roll of copper wire — clear contraband — on a suspected insurgent that Specialist Sandoval killed on April 27 after being authorized to shoot by his platoon commander.

On a separate mission two weeks earlier, Sergeant Hensley had killed another Iraqi man he said appeared to be “laying wire” near an irrigation ditch, as the man’s wife and children worked and played nearby.

Then on May 11, Sergeant Vela killed the unarmed man. Afterward, as he testified Thursday, Sergeant Hensley pulled an AK-47, a weapon favored by insurgents, out of his pack and placed it on the body, telling his team that the gun would “say” what happened.

Specialist Sandoval’s court-martial on murder charges began here on Wednesday, and is scheduled to conclude Friday. Sergeant Hensley’s court-martial on murder charges is scheduled to begin here Oct. 22.

An evidentiary hearing for Sergeant Vela, who took the stand on Thursday in the Sandoval court-martial after being granted immunity from incriminating himself in that case, is expected later this year.

Sergeant Murphy has been investigated for a killing of another Iraqi man on April 7. Prosecutors have warned two more battalion members that they are also suspected of committing possible crimes as accomplices in the murder cases.

Struggling to explain why a highly trained Army sniper unit, renowned for its lethal economy of patience and discipline, would bog down under a cloud of murder investigations, some soldiers in interviews faulted commanders for pushing units to keep their kill counts high.

Others pointed toward the outsized influence on the unit by Sergeant Hensley, who, according to other soldiers’ testimony, was dealing with two recent deaths: that of a close friend, killed in a roadside bomb, and also the suicide of his girlfriend back home.

“Staff Sgt. Hensley just continued to drive on,” said Specialist Joshua Lee Michaud, in testimony at the July hearing about the sergeant’s toughness. “Both of them didn’t even faze him.”

A trainer of snipers, Sgt. First Class Terrol Peterson, testified Thursday that the very emotions a sniper must control to do his job properly — anxiety and remorse — sometimes emerge in unexpected and painful ways. “When a sniper breaks, he breaks bad,” Sergeant Peterson said."

What to think now of ANY REPORT on CAR BOMBS and INSURGENTS killed, huh, reader?

Of course, the Times keeps up with the Zionist prop by bashing the Saudis and their women on page 3.

Never mind that the U.S. leads the world in domestic violence, rapes, and immorality, though! It's those Arabs who oppress and mistreat.

Continuing to flip through, I get another Times picture of Iraqis walking through a blasted Baghdad neighborhood, with this article beneath it:

(Hint: U.S. mass-murder inside. And why didn't the Globe report on this?)

"Official Calls Kurd Oil Deal at Odds With Baghdad

By ALISSA J. RUBIN and ANDREW E. KRAMER
BAGHDAD, Sept. 27 — A senior State Department official in Baghdad acknowledged Thursday that the first American oil contract in Iraq, that of the Hunt Oil Company of Dallas with the Kurdistan Regional Government, was at cross purposes with the stated United States foreign policy of strengthening the country’s central government.

“We believe these contracts have needlessly elevated tensions between the K.R.G. and the national government of Iraq,” the official said, referring to the Kurdistan Regional Government. The official was not authorized to speak for attribution on the oil contract.

The tensions between Kurdistan and the central government go well beyond the oil law. Already a semiautonomous region for more than 15 years, Kurdistan in many respects functions as independent state and wants as much latitude as possible to run its region. Recently, the Kurdistan government has pushed to extend its borders to include nearby areas that have sizable Kurdish populations.

Hunt Oil, a closely held company, signed a production-sharing agreement with the Kurdistan Regional Government this month. The company’s chief executive and president, Ray L. Hunt, is a close political ally of President Bush and serves on the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.

Hunt Oil and the Kurds signed the contract after the Kurdish government passed a regional oil law in August. But it is unclear how the regional law will interact with a national oil law under discussion in the Iraqi Parliament.

Under draft versions of the national law, the central government would have a say in whether individual oil contracts are legal. The Iraqi national oil law is one of the 18 benchmarks established by the Bush administration to evaluate the Iraqi government’s progress.

The senior official said the State Department had advised Hunt Oil, before the signing, that contracts with the Kurdistan Regional Government might contravene Iraqi law once national oil legislation was passed by the Iraqi Parliament. “We think they are legally uncertain,” the official said of Hunt’s contracts with the Kurdistan government.

Iraq’s oil minister, Hussain al-Shahristani, has said the Hunt Oil contract is not valid, though there is a provision for reviewing and possibly approving it in the proposed oil law. The intent of that law is to pool oil revenue to distribute it equitably to the Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish areas of Iraq.

The embassy official said at least four other American and international oil companies had consulted with the State Department about energy investment in Iraq, and all received the same advice.

Kurdistan faced trouble from neighboring countries on Thursday because of the activities of Kurdish separatists who are using the region as a redoubt from which to launch attacks on Iran and Turkey. Kurdish officials said that Iran shelled two areas along the region’s eastern border on Wednesday evening. Ten Iranian artillery shells struck Rayan, a small village about 15 miles from the Iranian border, destroying four houses and killing villagers’ animals. Twelve Iranian shells also hit the Qandil Mountains close to the border, said Jaza Hussein Ahmed, the mayor of nearby Qalat. There were no casualties reported.

Iraqi Kurdish officials bristled Thursday at word that the Iraqi central government would sign an agreement with Turkey on Friday that Kurds fear might pave the way for Turkish soldiers to cross into Iraq to pursue Turkish Kurdish separatists who take refuge in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Turkey has long been in an armed conflict with the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party), which launches hit-and-run attacks on Turkey from camps in the northern Iraqi mountains. They are fighting for autonomy for Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish southeast.

American forces said Thursday that they were investigating the deaths of nine civilians in a village about 60 miles southwest of Baghdad. The bodies — five women and four children — were found after a raid in Babahani village by American forces on Tuesday, according to a news release.

“Coalition Forces conducted operations in the area using ground and air assets prior to the discovery of the bodies,” the release said.

According to Iraqi military sources, the American raid began around 11 p.m. when a bomb was dropped on one of the houses in which the women and children apparently were staying. Shortly afterward, a second house was struck, killing two men and wounding two others, according to an officer from the Iraqi Army’s Eighth Division, First Brigade. Soldiers then entered a mosque and detained the imam, Mohammed Hassan al-Janabi, the officer said, and the operation was over by 1 a.m.

Recent intelligence reports suggested that staying in one of the houses was a local leader of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, a homegrown Sunni Arab extremist group whose leadership is foreign, according to Western intelligence sources.

Nine bodies were also found in Baghdad on Thursday, according to an Interior Ministry official."

Ah, yes, MORE DEAD WOMEN and CHILDREN added to the toll of Bush's "liberation!"

Well, FUCK HIM and his fucking MASS-MURDERING WARS!!

Continuing on, you'll find that Gates is worse than Rumsfeld, and intent on pushing the AIPAC/PNAC agenda for Israel!

I smelling a DRAFT, kids, so stop smokin' the weed and get your heads out of your asses!!!

Finally, I'll end with the Times version of the hate crime, Zionist-serving garbage, and the important passage from said article.

"Existing law applies protection to victims only of crimes based on race, color, religion or national origin and just in cases when the victim was engaged in certain protected activities like attending public school or serving on a jury. Existing law also provides stiffer sentences for federal crimes classified as hate crimes.

The new measure, promoted by Senators Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, and Gordon H. Smith, Republican of Oregon, removes the activities requirement while adding federal protection for gay, transgender and disabled victims.

Mr. Kennedy, in a speech, said, “If America is to live up to its founding ideals of liberty and justice for all, combating hate crimes must be a national priority.”

O.K, fat fuck, then IMPEACH Bush for his HATEFUL LIES about IRAQ!!!!

Yeah, let's now prosecute people for what they THINK, too!

Isn't the ACT enough?

So much for FREEDOM of SPEECH in AmeriKa, huh?!

Hey, Amurka, the BILL of RIGHTS is GONE!!!

Your THOUGHT POLICE are coming!

Enjoy Georgie's DICTATORSHIP!

SIG HEIL!!! SIG HEIL!!! SIG HEIL!!!!