I’m traveling right now so not updating my website as often as I normally do. My husband let me know that two recent letters from me to Dr. Dhafir have been returned, most likely as a consequence of being in the Communication Management Unit (see articles below). Please write to Dr. Dhafir (more…)
February 2007
Tue 27 Feb 2007
I’m traveling and so not updating my website as often
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Tue 27 Feb 2007
Operation Falcon and the Looming Police State
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When History Repeats…. Do We Notice?
Mike Whitney Uruknet 2/26/07
On 29th June, 1934, Chancellor Adolph Hitler, accompanied by the Schutzstaffel (SS), arrived at Wiesse, where he personally arrested the leader of the Strum Abteilung (SA), Ernnst Roehm. During the next 24 hours 200 other senior SA officers were arrested on the way to Wiesse. Many were shot as soon as they were captured (more…)
Tue 27 Feb 2007
Hersh: U.S. Funds Being Secretly Funneled To Violent Al Qaeda-Linked Groups
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ThinkProgress.org 2/26/07
New Yorker columnist Sy Hersh says the “single most explosive” element of his latest article involves an effort by the Bush administration to stem the growth of Shiite influence in the Middle East (specifically the Iranian government and Hezbollah in Lebanon) by funding violent Sunni groups. (more…)
Mon 26 Feb 2007
Facility Holding Terrorism Inmates Limits Communication
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[Dr. Dhafir’s letter from Terre Haute FCI is mentioned in this article.]
By Dan Eggen Washington Post 2/25/07
The Justice Department has quietly opened a new prison unit in Indiana that houses a hodgepodge of second-tier terrorism inmates, most of them Arab Muslims, whose ability to communicate with the outside world has been tightly restricted. (more…)
Mon 26 Feb 2007
Mall Versus Mosque in the War on Terror
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Inside Islamic Charity
By R. T. NAYLOR Counterpunch 2/24/07
Usama bin Laden, according to a top level “independent” task force of political hacks and self-appointed experts in “clandestine finance” set up by the Council on Foreign Relations, worked his monetary magic with the usual tools of clandestine finance–cash couriers, shell companies, coded bank accounts, and the like. (more…)
Thu 22 Feb 2007
By Lara Jakes Jordan AP news.yahoo.com 2/21/07
Federal prosecutors counted immigration violations, marriage fraud and drug trafficking among anti-terror cases in the four years after 9/11 even though no evidence linked them to terror activity, a Justice Department audit said Tuesday. (more…)
Thu 22 Feb 2007
The Most Dangerous Place on the Face of the Earth?
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StratCom and the Coming War on Iran
By TIM RINNE Counterpunch 2/17/07
Reports of a possible U.S. air assault against Iranian nuclear facilities have been circulating in the media for more than a year and a half now. Former CIA agent Philip Giraldi (The American Conservative, 8/1/05), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh (New Yorker Magazine, 4/17/06) (more…)
Thu 22 Feb 2007
Dirk Adriaensens 21 Feb 2007
40 Iraqi journalists/reporters, 36 Iraqi media assist workers and 2 non Iraqi media assist workers were killed in Iraq during 2006, the deadliest year of the war.
Link: BRusselsTribunal.org/JornalistKilled