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Turkey Honors 8 Slain Activists, Including US Teen
Post Date: 2010-06-03 11:51:17 by Brian S
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ISTANBUL (AP) -- Mourners in Istanbul hoisted coffins Thursday to cheers of "God is great!" as they honored activists slain during an Israeli commando raid, and the father of the lone American killed praised his teenage son as being a martyr for a just cause. The joint funeral came as Israel rejected demands for an international panel to investigate its deadly takeover Monday of six aid ships trying to break Israel's three-year blockade of the Gaza Strip. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hotly rejected calls to lift the blockade on Hamas-ruled Gaza, insisting the ban prevents missile attacks on Israel. Some 10,000 people prayed Thursday outside Istanbul's ...
Danish report from Gaza: "Where's the humanitarian crisis?"
Post Date: 2010-06-03 11:30:33 by no gnu taxes
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Danish reporter Steffen Jensen visits Gaza to see how bad things are, given that the entire world is in an uproar over the humanitarian crisis there (translated): Judging from the media, the situation in Gaza is desperate, everything is about to collapse, and the community is on the brink or at the level of a third world country. The Palestinian community's immediate downfall has been prophesied numerous times in the media. People have nothing to eat, we sometimes know. The UN must from time to time to stop food distribution, either because their stocks are running low, or because they can not get diesel for their trucks, and therefore can not carry food in. And so on. Yesterday I ...
Turkish airlines pilot removes Israeli co-pilot from plane [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-06-02 22:53:03 by A K A Stone
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An Israeli pilot working for Turkish airlines was removed on Wednesday from the plane he was co-piloting. Channel 2 reported that the pilot who removed him, told him that "you kill children, I don't want you on my plane."
Turkish aid group had terror ties [ French Judges says ]
Post Date: 2010-06-02 22:50:40 by WhiteSands
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PARIS - The Turkish Islamic charity behind a flotilla of aid ships that was raided by Israeli forces on its way to Gaza had ties to terrorism networks, including a 1999 al-Qaida plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport, France's former top anti-terrorism judge said Wednesday. The Istanbul-based Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief, known by its Turkish acronym IHH, had "clear, long-standing ties to terrorism and Jihad," former investigating judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. Bruguiere, who led the French judiciary's counterterrorism unit for nearly two decades before retiring in 2007, ...
How Free Explains Israel’s Flotilla FAIL
Post Date: 2010-06-02 15:49:48 by Brian S
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The organizers of the “Free Gaza” flotilla spent almost nothing on their campaign. The government of Israel poured millions into its botched raid on the ships — and now is in a worse position than when the flotilla launched. How did it happen? Part of the problem is that the Israeli government never bothered to read Wired. Israeli commandos may not have known that members of the Free Gaza flotilla were carrying knives, guns and metal bars. But they should have known that many in the incoming flotilla were armed with cameras, cellphones, blogs and Twitter accounts. For a country so technologically advanced, and with such acute public diplomacy challenges, to fail so miserably ...
Natalee Holloway Suspect Joran Van Der Sloot Sought in Peru Murder
Post Date: 2010-06-02 15:46:53 by Brian S
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Joran van der Sloot, the 22-year-old Dutch playboy twice arrested in the mysterious disappearance of American Natalee Holloway, has been named the prime suspect in the death of a young Peruvian woman found dead in a Lima hotel today, five days after she disappeared. Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramirez, 21, disappeared Friday and was found dead this morning at the Miraflores Hotel Tac in Lima, Peru. Flores was last seen with van der Sloot, the Dutch national who was twice arrested and released in connection with the disappearance of Holloway, an 18-year-old American student who went missing in Aruba five years ago this week. Flores was found beaten and stabbed to death in a room booked in ...
Luberator: Spreading tedium and wiping LP's ass
Post Date: 2010-06-02 14:42:57 by Biff Tannen
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#34. To: Bill D Berger (#15) Never figured you for a fascist lib. I'm a little disappointed. If you can't discern the difference between honest discourse and disingenuous BS and spamming, don't blame me for your low standards. Thought you were better than that.... Yeah, shame on me for wiping the ass of LP. liberator posted on 2010-06-02 14:02:03 ET libertypost.org/cgi-bin/r...ArtNum=290323&Disp=34#C34
Poster Comment:lol, what a fucking douche.
Repatriation and libertarian nationalism
Post Date: 2010-06-02 14:08:18 by Chris Moore
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(By Chris Moore, LibertarianToday.com) -- Repatriation singles out no one, but follows a simple rule of thumb: those that organize into parallel nations with their own identity, agenda and alien loyalties to the point of threatening the sovereignty of America belong in the nation to which they are loyal. Whether this is applied to La Raza (Mexico), the Israel lobby, or any other ethnic-nationalist group working at the behest of a foreign agenda makes no difference. For example, if the powerful Turkish lobby rose to the point of threatening American sovereignty, as the Israel lobby has, it too would be repatriated. It really wouldn’t be that difficult to set up tribunals to identify, ...
The Clouds of War Are Gathering in the Middle East
Post Date: 2010-06-02 14:03:19 by Badeye
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The Clouds of War Are Gathering in the Middle East By KT McFarland Published June 02, 2010 | FOXNews.com Things in Middle East are quickly spiraling out of control. The Palestinians want to import weapons from Iran, to stockpile for the next war with Israel, but are prevented from doing so by the Israeli naval blockade. They realize they can’t stop the Israelis militarily, so they’ve turned to the world court of public opinion. So, the Palestinians set a trap for Israel and they sailed right into it. Israeli SEALs boarded a ship in a Turkish flotilla supposedly carrying humanitarian supplies and were promptly knifed and clubbed by the so-called “peace activists” ...
UK Taxi Driver Kills 12, Wounds 25 In England
Post Date: 2010-06-02 14:00:36 by Brian S
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AP – This is a undated handout photo issued by Cumbria Police on Wednesday June 2, 2010 of Derrick Bird, 52, … By SCOTT HEPPELL, Associated Press Writer Scott Heppell, Associated Press Writer – 54 mins ago SEASCALE, England – A taxi driver went on a shooting spree across a rural area of northwestern England on Wednesday, police said, killing 12 people and wounding 25 others before turning the gun on himself. The rampage in Cumbria was the deadliest mass shooting since 1996 in Britain, where gun ownership is tightly restricted and handguns are banned. The deadly spree "has shocked the people of Cumbria and ...
Israel Rejects Call For Independent Probe
Post Date: 2010-06-02 13:02:14 by Brian S
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Israel began deporting all the foreign activists detained during a deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, as international pressure mounted for a full investigation of the incident.The Jerusalem Post reports,Israel on Tuesday night rejected international calls to end its naval blockade of Gaza and to launch an “independent” investigation into the death of at least nine activists during an IDF raid of the Mavi Marmara passenger ship, which was part of a flotilla that aimed to break that closure.“It’s important to understand that this [blockade] is essential to protect Israel’s security and its right to defend itself,” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told a ...
Ex-Mossad Agent: Gaza Flotilla Raid ’So Stupid It’s Stupefying’
Post Date: 2010-06-02 12:55:20 by Brian S
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While the United States has reserved judgment in the matter, a former Mossad agent is casting blame for the botched raid on a Gaza aid flotilla, pointing directly at Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for allegedly ordering forces to act without vital preparation.The former Mossad agent is Victor Ostrovsky, who enlisted in the Israeli Defense Force at age 18 and has since written two books highly critical of Israel's war-fighting apparatus. His first book, "By Way of Deception," illustrates the brutal and often confusing nature of the Israeli spy service's covert operations, casting the agency as a villain that engages in the drug trade to further their ambitions ...
US Navy Veterans Continue to Seek Justice for Israeli Attack
Post Date: 2010-06-02 12:44:12 by HAPPY2BME-ONLF
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US Navy Veterans Continue to Seek Justice for Israeli AttackTuesday 01 June 2010by: Dahr Jamail, t r u t h o u t | Report Damage to USS Liberty, June 1967. (Photo: U.S. Navy) The Israeli military has attacked a flotilla of international peace activists, killing as many as 19 innocent civilians while they were carrying ten tons of aid to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza. This is not the first time the Israeli military has attacked a nonthreatening entity in international waters.On June 8, 1967, while sailing in international waters, the US Navy intelligence ship USS Liberty was attacked by air and naval forces of the state of Israel. Of the Liberty's crew of 294, more than half ...
Israel was right to storm a ship bound for Gaza
Post Date: 2010-06-02 11:14:07 by no gnu taxes
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Israel had every right under international law to stop and board ships bound for the Gaza war zone late Sunday. Only knee-jerk left-wingers and the usual legion of poseurs around the world would dispute this. And it is pretty clear that this "humanitarian" flotilla headed for Gaza aimed to provoke a confrontation with Israel. Various representatives of the Free Gaza Movement, one of the main organizers of this deadly extravaganza, have let it slip throughout Monday that their intention was every bit as much "to break" Israel's blockade of Gaza as to deliver the relief goods. The Israeli commandos who stormed the ship, where fighting erupted, badly mishandled the ...
Gaza crisis: key maps and timeline
Post Date: 2010-06-02 09:22:04 by HAPPY2BME-ONLF
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Gaza crisis: key maps and timeline Israeli forces ended their offensive against Hamas in Gaza on Saturday, 17 January, following the declaration of ceasefires by Hamas and Israel.Highlighted below are some of the main buildings identified as destroyed or damaged in Gaza City and the surrounding area based on analysis by Unosat of satellite imagery taken on 19 January. The image, taken for Unosat at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, has helped researchers identify at least 1,008 destroyed or damaged buildings. The map below shows the main areas attacked in the three weeks of violence.Palestinian medical sources say more than 1,010 Palestinians were ...
Profile Gaza Strip
Post Date: 2010-06-02 09:18:42 by HAPPY2BME-ONLF
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Profile: Gaza Strip Gaza City is the Strip's main administrative and commercial hub The Gaza Strip is a narrow piece of land along the Mediterranean coast between Israel and Egypt.Just 40km (25 miles) long and 10km wide, it is home to more than 1.5 million Palestinians. The shape of the territory was defined by the Armistice Line following the creation of Israel in 1948 and the subsequent war between the Israeli and Arab armies. Egypt administered the Strip for the next 19 years, but Israel captured it during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and Gaza has been under Israeli control since then. Click here to for an enlarged map of the Gaza Strip In 2005, Israel pulled out the ...
IDF: Global Jihad links on flotilla - Concerns that Turkish warships would accompany a future flotilla to the Gaza Strip
Post Date: 2010-06-02 03:31:22 by HAPPY2BME-ONLF
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IDF: Global Jihad links on flotilla By YAAKOV KATZ 01/06/2010 Fifty 'Mavi Marmara' passengers tied to global jihad network. Dozens of passengers who were aboard the Mavi Marmara Turkish passenger ship are suspected of having connections with global jihad-affiliated terrorist organizations, defense officials said on Tuesday, amid growing concerns that Turkish warships would accompany a future flotilla to the Gaza Strip.According to the defense officials, the IDF has identified about 50 passengers on the ship who could have terrorist connections with global jihad-affiliated groups.RELATED:Editorial: A turning point for TurkeyWhat is the IHH?During its searches of the Mavi ...
Israel orders return of diplomats' families from Turkey
Post Date: 2010-06-02 03:02:35 by HAPPY2BME-ONLF
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Israel orders return of diplomats' families from TurkeyDiplomats fear for the safety of their families following Israel's operation on the Gaza aid flotilla; four Turkish activists were among the nine killed during the raid. The Foreign Ministry has ordered the families of its diplomats in Ankara and Istanbul to leave Turkey following the uproar over Israel's deadly naval raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. Some of the families have already arrived in Israel, and others are expected to land on Wednesday, after diplomats have asked the Foreign Ministry to help evacuate their families in light of the hostile atmosphere rising in Turkey. The Foreign Ministry has said this was a ...
Turkey PM Erdogan: World must punish Israel for its 'massacre' on Gaza aid flotilla
Post Date: 2010-06-02 02:53:27 by HAPPY2BME-ONLF
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Turkey PM Erdogan: World must punish Israel for its 'massacre' on Gaza aid flotillaAnkara seeks Israel's permission to send aircraft to transport their wounded, dead from Israel to Turkey.Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a press conference at the international airport in Santiago, Monday May 31, 2010. Israel has detained or deported hundreds of activists who were on the ships which were seized en route to the Palestinian enclave which has been under Israeli blockade since 2006. Erdogan called the raid a "bloody massacre," and warned "no one should test Turkey's patience." He told lawmakers in the Turkish parliament that ...
Israel, Egypt Ease Gaza Blockade After Deadly Raid
Post Date: 2010-06-01 22:21:16 by Brian S
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JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel and Egypt signaled a temporary easing of the Gaza Strip blockade following harsh international condemnation of the deadly Israeli raid on an aid flotilla en route to the sealed-off Palestinian territory. Egypt said it was freely opening its border with Gaza for the first time in more than a year to allow in humanitarian aid, setting off a mad rush to the crossing by thousands of residents, while an Israeli official said there is an "ongoing dialogue" with the international community on how to expand the amount of goods entering the area. At the same time, Israel began expelling some of the nearly 700 activists it rounded up in the naval raid, and ...
Israel is lost at sea
Post Date: 2010-06-01 21:53:57 by Skip Intro
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Israel is lost at sea With Monday’s brazen act of piracy, Israel dealt a blow to the legitimacy of its own struggle. The killing of activists aboard the captured ships sent Israel’s way of defending its security, which it was already imperative to return within the bounds of international law, hurtling into lawlessness. Israel claims the activists had links with extremist groups and that some attacked Israeli soldiers with knives and sticks (and in some accounts the odd light firearm). Even if true, this would not justify the illegal capture of civilian ships carrying humanitarian aid in international waters, let alone the use of deadly force. Outrageous as this behaviour was, ...
Gaza aid flotilla: Israeli sabotage suspected
Post Date: 2010-06-01 21:35:16 by Skip Intro
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Gaza aid flotilla: Israeli sabotage suspected Israel's military may have sabotaged two boats carrying Free Gaza activists after both malfunctioned at the same time in the same way prior to the raid Israel gave strong indications today that its forces had secretly sabotaged some of the ships bound for Gaza as part of the freedom flotilla. Matan Vilnai, the deputy defence minister, was asked on Israel Radio whether there had not been a smarter alternative to direct assault. He answered that "all possibilities had been considered," adding: "The fact is that there were less than the 10 ships that were due to participate in the flotilla." The comments appeared to ...
USS Liberty Survivor Aboard Gaza Flotilla
Post Date: 2010-06-01 19:45:52 by Brian S
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Bryant Jordan One of the Americans taken into custody by Israeli forces that stormed and took over several Gaza-bound ships in the Mediterranean Sea on the night of May 31 was a survivor of the 1967 Israeli attack on the U.S. intelligence ship Liberty. Joseph Meadors, who was a signalman aboard the USS Liberty, took part in the flotilla in part to refocus attention on Israel's attack on Liberty, according to James Ennes, another survivor of the June 8, 1967 attack. Ennis, author of Assault on the Liberty, told Military.com in an email that Meadors' wife learned today that he has since been released and on his way back to their home in Corpus Christi, Texas. "It was ...
New Yorkers join worldwide chorus of condemnation over Israeli attack on flotilla
Post Date: 2010-06-01 16:20:01 by HAPPY2BME-ONLF
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New Yorkers join worldwide chorus of condemnation over Israeli attack on flotillaby Alex Kane on June 1, 2010 · 64 comments Protesters in New York City. (Photos: Adam Horowitz)The following excerpt is of a report in the Indypendent, where you can read the full article on the New York City action condemning Israel's deadly raid on the "Freedom Flotilla."Shocked and furious New Yorkers took to the streets of Midtown Manhattan and joined thousands of others globally in unequivocally denouncing the Israeli naval attack on a ship carrying civilians and humanitarian aid that was trying to break the siege of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli raid on the “Freedom Flotilla” ...
BREAKING: Lebanon fires on Israeli warplanes: security official
Post Date: 2010-06-01 16:07:38 by HAPPY2BME-ONLF
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Lebanon fires on Israeli warplanes: security official Jun 1 03:26 PM US/Eastern Lebanon's military fired anti-aircraft artillery at Israeli warplanes that were flying over Lebanon, a senior Israeli security official said on Tuesday. "Our aircraft have been targeted by the Lebanese anti-aircraft guns while flying over southern Lebanon, and there was no damage," the official who requested the anonymity told AFP. A military spokesperson neither confirmed nor denied the report. Lebanon issues almost daily reports of Israeli violations of its air space, but its military rarely opens fire unless the planes fly within range of its guns. The overflights violate UN Security ...
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