BAUAW NEWSLETTER-SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 2005

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GET THE MILITARY OUT OF OUR SCHOOLS! MONEY FOR EDUCATION
NOT FOR WAR! BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!

This week and next marks the final two weeks left in the
College Not Combat petition campaign. Over the July 4th weekend
(July 2, 3 & 4) the petition campaign will be stationed at
Dolores Park starting at 1:00 p.m.

A table will be set up at
The Mime Troupe performance of:

Doing Good

Based loosely on the book, Confessions
of an Economic Hit Man, by John Perkins.
This play is fresh, new, brilliantly performed,
insightful, full of content, and the music
is the icing on the cake!

MUSIC: 1:30 P.M. - SHOW: 2:00 P.M.
(THEN GATHER SIGNATURES AFTER THE SHOW)

BAUAW is setting up a COLLEGE NOT COMBAT
PETITION CAMPAIGN table by invitation
from the Mime Troupe. THERE WILL BE AN
ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT THE TABLE FROM THE STAGE.
Free antiwar posters and information will be
available as well as the petitions. We will
be able to gather signatures before
and after the performance. After the performance
we will also fan out over the city to give this
petition drive a big push over the July 4th weekend!

COLLEGE NOT COMBAT BALLOT INITIATIVE
FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO, NOVEMBER 2005, ELECTIONS:

"The people of San Francisco oppose U.S.
military recruiters using public
school, college and university
facilities to recruit young
people into the armed forces.
Furthermore, San Francisco should
oppose the military's "economic
draft" by investigating means
by which to fund and grant
scholarships for college and job
training to low-income students
so they are not economically compelled
to join the military!"

FREE! FREE! FREE! FREE! FREE! FREE! FREE! FREE! FREE!

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1) Cut all Public School Ties to the Military!
Speak up and Picket the S.F. Board of Education
the Fourth Tuesday of Each Month Starting:
June 28TH, 7:00 P.M.
555 Franklin St., S.F,
To get on the speakers list call:
415-241-6427, 241-6493 or 241-6000

2) COLLEGE NOT COMBAT PETITION CAMPAIGN
16TH & MISSION STREET
TUESDAY JUNE 28 AND THURSDAY JUNE 30, 5 & 7 P.M.

3) COLLEGE NOT COMBAT PETITION CAMPAIGN
JULY 2,3 & 4 WEEKEND SCHEDULE
*SHOW UP TO PETITION:
SATURDAY, SUNDAY & MONDAY, JULY 2, 3 & 4, 1:00 P.M.
DOLORES PARK, 18TH AND DOLORES STS, SF
*SEE THE SAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE'S PLAY
"DOING GOOD"
A play based loosely on the book, "Confessions
of an Economic Hit Man", by John Perkins.
MUSIC: 1:30 P.M. - SHOW: 2:00 P.M.
(THEN GATHER SIGNATURES AFTER THE SHOW)

4) HANDS OFF VENEZUELA SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA FILM
SHOWING: 7:00 PM, FRIDAY JULY 15
Center for Political Education
522 Valencia, Third Floor,
Near 16th Street, SF
(not wheelchair accessible)
Close the 16th Street BART
$5/$3 Students, Seniors, Unemployed

5) SAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE
PRESENTS: "DOING GOOD"
A play based loosely on the book, "Confessions
of an Economic Hit Man", by John Perkins.
JULY 16, PRECITA PARK
MUSIC: 1:30 P.M.
SHOW: 2:00 P.M.
(This play is fresh, new, brilliantly performed,
insightful, full of content, and the music is the
icing on the cake!...BW)
SPONSORED BY BAY AREA UNITED AGAINST WAR
Help get the word out about the ballot proposition
and upcoming antiwar events. Free antiwar posters!

FREE!

6) SAVE THE DATES: AUGUST 4, 5 & 6, 2005 FOR
PRESENTATION OF HOWARD ZINN'S ONE MAN SHOW,
"MARX IN SOHO" PERFORMED BY JERRY LEVY
The central theme of Marx in Soho is unique: heaven's
bureaucracy allows Karl Marx more than a century after
his death in 1883 to return to Earth to the place where
he spent most of his adult life, namely London's Soho.
The bureaucracy makes a mistake, however, and he finds
himself in New York's Soho and in front of an audience
to boot.
The single actor in this one-man play is Jerry Levy,
who has been teaching sociology at Marlboro College
and been acting with the Actors' Theater of Brattleboro
since he moved there from Chicago in 1975. Originally
directed by Michael Fox Kennedy of the Actors' Theater,
Levy has been on the road with Zinn's version of Karl
Marx for a year, performing at benefits, colleges, small
theaters and other venues around the state. At Middle
Earth he was sponsored by the Bradford-based Coos Peace
and Justice Alliance and performed free of charge but
charged with mighty talent and a bottomless love of the play.
LOCATION TO BE ANNOUNCED
TO BENEFIT BAY AREA UNITED AGAINST WAR
WWW.BAUAW.ORG
(FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL: 415-824-8730)

7) ICT and Millennium Development Goals
The Business of Hunger
By Devinder Sharma
http://www.mindfully.org/Food/2005/Hunger-Business-Sharma17jun05.htm

8) Eyewitness to FBI "witch-hunt" in Lodi, California,
By Veena Dubal and Sunaina Maira
From: Jess Ghannam

9) Collision Course Presents
a new film by
Toshikuni DOI
"Falluja April 2004"
with English subtitles by Toshikuni DOI
Sunday, June 26, 2005 at 8 pm
on San Francisco Cable Channel 29
Japanese video documentarian Toshikuni DOI was in Falluja
two weeks after the US invasion. He was one of the few
international journalists able to show the reality of the
cost of the invasion. Falluja has become a symbol of the
resistance movement against the occupation by the US forces.
In April 2004, the US forces invaded Falluja with several
thousand US soldiers. About 730 people were killed and 2800
were injured in the siege and attacks by the US military in
one month. He interviews medical workers and teachers as
well as people in the community about this horrendous assault
and the cost of it for the people of Falluja.
Why did Fallluj become the base of the resistance against
the occupation? How did the US forces attack? Who fought
against them and what injuries and damages did the people
suffer will be exposed in this important film.
Only 10 days after the siege of the US forces had been lifted,
Toshikuni DOI went to Falluja and investigated the site.
Footage was recorded in August 2003 (4 months after the siege)
and in May 2004.
falluja2004@hotmail.co.jp

10) Troops Will Carry General's 'Common Sense' Rules on
Wallet-Size Cards
By ERIC SCHMITT
Published: June 26, 2005
General Casey's rules offer a window into his priorities for
the troops, military officials say:
¶Make security and safety your first priorities.
¶Help the Iraqis win - don't win it for them.
¶Treat the Iraqi people with dignity and respect.
Learn and respect Iraqi customs and cultures.
¶Maintain strict standards and iron discipline everyday.
Risk assess every mission - no complacency!!
¶Information saves lives - share it and protect it.
¶Maintain your situational awareness at all times -
this can be an unforgiving environment.
¶Take care of your equipment and it will take care of you.
¶Innovate and adapt - situations here don't lend
themselves to cookie-cutter solutions.
¶Focus on the enemy and be opportunistic.
¶Be patient. Don't rush to failure.
¶Take care of yourself and take care of each other.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/26/politics/26cards.html

11) In danger's way
Trapped in cycles of poverty,
children toil in Bolivia's mines
By Indira A.R. Lakshmanan, Globe Staff | June 26, 2005
(Photo not shown) "Lucas Garito, 12, who has worked in
a mine in Potosi, Bolivia, since
he was 7, pointed to a shrine to El Tio, a devil-like
spirit who the miners hope will protect them.
(Globe Photo / Dermot Tatlow)"
http://www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/2005/06/26/
in_dangers_way/

12) We shelter behind the myth that progress is being made
Robert Fisk, ICH
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m12971&l=i&size=1&hd=0

13) Female Troops Face Hostile Fire in Iraq
By Frank Griffiths
The Associated Press
Saturday 25 June 2005
"Baghdad - The lethal ambush of a convoy carrying female
US troops in Fallujah underscored the difficulties of keeping
women away from the front lines in a war where such boundaries
are far from clear-cut."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/062505A.shtml

14) World Tribunal for Iraq, Culminating Session Testimony
Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches **
http://dahrjamailiraq.com **
Istanbul, Turkey
25 June 2005

15) One Year After Sovereignty Restored, Nation is in Crisis
By Patrick Quinn
The Independent UK
Saturday 25 June 2005
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/062505X.shtml

16) The Most Cowardly War in History
By Arundhati Roy
World Tribunal on Iraq
Friday 24 June 2005
Opening Statement of Arundhati Roy on behalf of the jury
of conscience of the world tribunal of Iraq.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/062505Y.shtml

17) Protesters Dismantle Part of Apartheid Wall in Bili`n
Israeli 'Screamer' Fails to Stop 3-Month Old Anti-Wall Protests
26/06/2005

18) THE MOTHER OF ALL HOAXES?
World Trade Tower 'Controlled Demolition'?
MER EDITORIAL:
http://www.middleeast.org/premium/
read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=1285&month=6&year=2005&function=text&stan
dalone=0

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1) Cut all Public School Ties to the Military!
Speak up and Picket the S.F. Board of Education
the Fourth Tuesday of Each Month Starting:
June 28TH, 7:00 P.M.
555 Franklin St., S.F,
To get on the speakers list call:
415-241-6427, 241-6493 or 241-6000

Bay Area United Against War (BAUAW) will be picketing the San
Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) Board of Education
meetings the 4th Tuesday of each month beginning June 28th until
the district cuts all school ties to the military.

San Francisco voters passed Proposition N for the immediate
withdrawal of troops from Iraq by a 63 percent majority last
November. And this November 2005 we will pass an anti-recruitment
resolution initiated by College Not Combat, a coalition of groups
and individuals opposed to the U.S. militaries' school recruitment
program.

We are currently gathering the necessary signatures to place
this counter-recruitment proposition on the ballot. The
proposition says, "The people of San Francisco oppose U.S.
military recruiters using public school, college and university
facilities to recruit young people into the armed forces.
Furthermore, San Francisco should oppose the military's "economic
draft" by investigating means by which to fund and grant
scholarships for college and job training to low-income students
so they are not economically compelled to join the military!"

Proposition N, passed last November, already mandates the
SFUSD to cut all school ties to the military. Yet S.F. children
are still being actively recruited at schools throughout the
district by direct military recruitment, and through the Junior
Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) programs.

Many students are forced into JROTC in order to get the necessary
Physical Education credits they need to graduate High School. JROTC
now fulfills this requirement-and the district actually pays
a million dollars a year to the Army to support JROTC. (JROTC, by
the way, is totally managed and controlled by the U.S. Army. The
Army writes the curriculum and appoints the teachers. The district
has no say in this program.)

In fact, the U.S. military maintains a presence in the schools
at all grade levels from kindergarten on up. And now the Military
is beginning to set up JROTC "Military Academies" in the Middle
Schools. At these "academies" children are taught how to obey
orders and to practice military maneuvers with realistically
functioning toy guns.

As a result of the board's open door military policy, many San
Francisco high school graduates are currently serving in Iraq.
This must end. Schools must not be used to recruit youngsters to
kill or be killed in this illegal, immoral war! The following
resolution was presented to the board several months ago.
They still have not acted on it!

CUT ALL SCHOOL TIES TO THE MILITARY!
Resolution for San Francisco Board of Education

WHEREAS, the United States military is actively recruiting high
school students into the military to fight in Iraq; and
WHEREAS, many young San Francisco high school alumni are
presently serving in military units fighting in Iraq; and
WHEREAS, it is San Francisco City policy by virtue of
Proposition N, to bring all U.S. troops home from Iraq now; and
WHEREAS, over 1,700 U.S. soldiers and approximately
100,000 Iraqis have been killed in this war and over
10,000 U.S. soldiers and unknown thousands of Iraqis have
been wounded; and
WHEREAS, the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the
war have robbed our children of resources that should be
spent on education and other human needs; and
WHEREAS, military presence in our schools legitimizes the
message that violence is acceptable; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT:
It shall be the policy of the San Francisco Board of Education
to cut all ties with the United States military, including, but
not limited to: Ending military recruitment on campuses; ending
the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC); and guaranteeing
that all students and parents are informed of their right to deny
military recruiters access to their names, addresses and
telephone numbers.

Come to the next planning meeting of
Bay Area United Against War (BAUAW)
Saturday, July 9, 11:30 a.m. at 474 Valencia Street
between 15th & 16th Streets, S.F.

Bay Area United Against War (BAUAW) • www.bauaw.org
P.O. Box 318021,
San Francisco, CA 94131-8021 •
414-824-8730

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2) COLLEGE NOT COMBAT PETITION CAMPAIGN
16TH & MISSION STREET
TUESDAY JUNE 28 AND THURSDAY JUNE 30, 5 & 7 P.M.

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3) COLLEGE NOT COMBAT PETITION CAMPAIGN
JULY 2,3 & 4 WEEKEND SCHEDULE
*SHOW UP TO PETITION:
SATURDAY, SUNDAY & MONDAY, JULY 2, 3 & 4, 1:00 P.M.
DOLORES PARK, 18TH AND DOLORES STS, SF
*SEE THE SAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE'S PLAY
"DOING GOOD"
Based loosely on the book, "Confessions
of an Economic Hit Man", by John Perkins.
This play is fresh, new, brilliantly performed,
insightful, full of content, and the music
is the icing on the cake!

MUSIC: 1:30 P.M. - SHOW: 2:00 P.M.
(THEN GATHER SIGNATURES AFTER THE SHOW)

BAUAW is setting up a COLLEGE NOT COMBAT
PETITION CAMPAIGN table by invitation
from the Mime Troupe. THERE WILL BE AN
ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT THE TABLE FROM THE STAGE.
Free antiwar posters and information will be
available as well as the petitions.

We will be able to gather signatures before
and after the performance. After the performance
we will also fan out over the city to give this
petition drive a big push over the July 4th weekend.

COME HELP GATHER SIGNATURES FOR THE

COLLEGE NOT COMBAT BALLOT INITIATIVE

FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO, NOVEMBER 2005, ELECTIONS:

"The people of San Francisco oppose U.S.
military recruiters using public
school, college and university
facilities to recruit young
people into the armed forces.
Furthermore, San Francisco should
oppose the military's "economic
draft" by investigating means
by which to fund and grant
scholarships for college and job
training to low-income students
so they are not economically compelled
to join the military!"

GET THE MILITARY OUT OF OUR SCHOOLS!

MONEY FOR EDUCATION NOT FOR WAR!

BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!

FREE! FREE! FREE! FREE! FREE! FREE! FREE! FREE! FREE!

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4) HANDS OFF VENEZUELA SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA FILM
SHOWING: 7:00 PM, FRIDAY JULY 15
Center for Political Education
522 Valencia, Third Floor,
Near 16th Street, SF
(not wheelchair accessible)
Close the 16th Street BART
$5/$3 Students, Seniors, Unemployed

With the Poor of the World
Con los pobres de la Tierra (2003) 56 minutes.
by Marta Harnecker on Venezuela
In Spanish with English Subtitles
This video gives the background and context of the
current struggles in Venezuela since 1993. Using TV
news footage and archival video, this film documents
the rise of Chavez and the Oligarchy's three attempts
to overthrow him.

May Day in Caracas
(2005) 22 minutes.
by a J. Carlos Flores.
In Spanish with English Subtitles
A short documentary about international labor day in
Venezuela

Hands off Venezuela will show these films as a benefit
to bring Stalin Peres Borges, a leader of the National
Union of Workers of Venezuela (UNT) a dynamic new
Venezuelan Trade Union federation.

Call Adam at 415 864 3537 or email sfbay@ushov.org for
more info or to arrange a speaker to talk about the
inspiring events in Venezuela and the need to protect
it from US attack.

Also Come To The Next Hands Off Venezuela Organizing
Meeting (all welcome): 7:00 PM, Thursday, June 30,
Socialist Action Bookstore, corner Valencia and 14th,
SF

www.handsoffvenezuela.org

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5) SAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE
PRESENTS: "DOING GOOD"
A play based loosely on the book, "Confessions
of an Economic Hit Man", by John Perkins.
JULY 16, PRECITA PARK
MUSIC: 1:30 P.M.
SHOW: 2:00 P.M.
(This play is fresh, new, brilliantly performed,
insightful, full of content, and the music is the
icing on the cake!...BW)
SPONSORED BY BAY AREA UNITED AGAINST WAR
Help get the word out about the ballot proposition
and upcoming antiwar events. Free antiwar posters!

FREE!

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6) SAVE THE DATES: AUGUST 4, 5 & 6, 2005 FOR
PRESENTATION OF HOWARD ZINN'S ONE MAN SHOW,
"MARX IN SOHO" PERFORMED BY JERRY LEVY
The central theme of Marx in Soho is unique: heaven's
bureaucracy allows Karl Marx more than a century after
his death in 1883 to return to Earth to the place where
he spent most of his adult life, namely London's Soho.
The bureaucracy makes a mistake, however, and he finds
himself in New York's Soho and in front of an audience
to boot.
The single actor in this one-man play is Jerry Levy,
who has been teaching sociology at Marlboro College
and been acting with the Actors' Theater of Brattleboro
since he moved there from Chicago in 1975. Originally
directed by Michael Fox Kennedy of the Actors' Theater,
Levy has been on the road with Zinn's version of Karl
Marx for a year, performing at benefits, colleges, small
theaters and other venues around the state. At Middle
Earth he was sponsored by the Bradford-based Coos Peace
and Justice Alliance and performed free of charge but
charged with mighty talent and a bottomless love of the play.
LOCATION TO BE ANNOUNCED
TO BENEFIT BAY AREA UNITED AGAINST WAR
WWW.BAUAW.ORG
(FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL: 415-824-8730)

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7) ICT and Millennium Development Goals
The Business of Hunger
By Devinder Sharma
http://www.mindfully.org/Food/2005/Hunger-Business-Sharma17jun05.htm

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8) Eyewitness to FBI "witch-hunt" in Lodi, California,
By Veena Dubal and Sunaina Maira
From: Jess Ghannam

Please circulate widely.

Dear all,

Thank you so very much for all your supporting emails, telephone
calls and offer to help the Muslim community in this difficult
time. I have been thinking about writing something about "Lodi
terrorism case" but was unable to do so because I could see the
same card played over and over again. Our administration is
creating a culture of fear, division, anger, frustration,
confusion and hate so they can expand their agenda.

I would like to assure you that I am very concern about the
safety and security of our country, I live here, my friends,
family members and children live here but scapegoating the
entire community is not the route we should be taking.
As I learned more about the case it became Crystal clear that
the Muslims and Arabs are not granted the same rights that
our Constitution guarantees for all of its citizens. Over
two weeks have passed and so far both Hamid and Umer have been
charged only with lying to federal investigators about Hamid's
visit to Pakistan in 2003.

Please read the report written by Sunaina Maira ( a friend and
partner in struggle for justice )and Veena Dubal, activists,
on their trip to Lodi after the Hayat arrests.

Thanks,
Samina

PS. Both imams cases would be heard in San Francisco and I will
need help from all of you to fill up the court room for support
and solidarity. We will keep you posted. www.amuslimvoice.org .

The FBI "witch-hunt" in Lodi

By Veena Dubal and Sunaina Maira

On June 7Th 2005, national and international media attention
focused on the small, agricultural town of Lodi, located
approximately forty miles south of Sacramento. The FBI arrested
and detained two individuals, both Pakistani-Americans, who
they suspected had AL-Qaeda affiliations.

The investigation was presented as a "terrorism case" by the
government and news sources. The initial affidavit released
to the media said that U.S.-born Hamid Hayat, had attended
a terror-training camp in Pakistan along with "hundreds" of
other terrorists, and returned to the US intending to "attack
. . . hospitals and large food stores." This kind of detail
resulted in a flood of sensationalized media coverage,
portraying 23-year old Hamid as a prospective mass murder
and his father, Umer Hayat, a 47-year old ice cream truck
driver, as the financial supporter and mastermind of an
alleged "Lodi terrorist cell".

Neither allegation, however, was in the affidavit filed
with a federal court in Sacramento the same day.

The FBI retracted their affidavit alleging Hamid's plot to
attack domestic targets and began downplaying the seriousness
of the presumed threat the men posed. Both Hamid and Umer
were ultimately charged only with lying to federal
investigators about Hamid's visit to Pakistan in 2003.

Three other Muslim men from Lodi, among them two respected
imams, were also detained on suspected visa violations.
One of the imams had actually been the target of FBI
surveillance beginning three years ago when a secret court
used the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
to approve wiretapping of Mohammed Adil Khan.

While the Justice Department has maintained that it was
not deliberately trying to precipitate an anti-Muslim witch
hunt, the difference between the two affidavits - the one
released to the media and the one filed in court - as well
as recent FBI activity in Lodi, speak a different story.
None of the five men have been charged with carrying out
or planning to commit any act of violence.

The many inconsistencies in the case and the hysteria it
stoked coincided very neatly with Bush's campaign to renew
and expand the 2001 Patriot Act, which can only be justified
if there was an ongoing "terrorist threat" and the public
continues to fear that there are Muslim or Arab terrorists
in their midst.

On June 14, we traveled up to Lodi to assess the impact of
the arrests and surveillance of the local South Asian
community, which is estimated to consist of over 2500 Pakistanis,
some of whom have been living in the town for three generations.
Basim Elkarra, Executive Director of the Sacramento office of
CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations) has been
diligently organizing in response to the arrests and
interrogations of local Pakistanis by FBI agents swarming
into town and warned us prior to our arrival about the extent
of surveillance and the fear the community felt. But no
amount of warning could have prepared us for the state of
near siege in the town.

As soon as we stepped out of our car in Lodi, we were made
aware of the FBI's presence. Not only is the entire Muslim
community being surveilled by the FBI, which had interviewed
many of its members, sometimes without an attorney present,
in the days following the arrest - so are the attorneys and
activists who are making sure that constitutional rights are
upheld. During our brief visit with Mr. Elkarra and civil
rights attorneys from the ACLU, a man with a large afro-wig
in a blue SUV circled us and took photos. When we tried to
approach him, he fled, only to return later to take more
photographs. His conspicuous appearance made us realize
the extent to which the FBI harassment is not at all
a secret investigation: it is an overt act of intimidation
of the community at large.

One of the attorneys we spoke to noted that the community
feels "terrorized." Residents believe that they are being
interrogated by the FBI and placed under
automatic suspicion because they are Muslim..

Pakistanis who attended the "Know Your Rights" workshops
held by CAIR in Stockton, Lodi, and Pleasanton were all
subject to obvious FBI surveillance. One Muslim mother
told an attorney that her young child was followed from
her home to an ice cream store by an FBI car. Others
complained that they were taken out of their places of
employment by the FBI for questioning and then could not
return because their co-workers became suspicious of them.

The most shocking of these reports was that of an incident
where the FBI stormed the Hayat home, when only women and
children were present, by ramming down the front door and
putting a gun to a woman's head. When her eleven-year
old daughter passed out, she was denied medical attention,
a gross violation of human rights that outraged even the
local emergency care personnel.

After handing out "Know Your Rights" fliers to community
members who have been repeatedly questioned, we went to
visit the Lodi mosque that is under FBI scrutiny. The
mosque is a small, humble structure - a former Jehovah's
Witness church - next to the cannery where Pakistani men
have worked as fruit packers, in some cases for more than
thirty years. South Asian and Latino children were
playing basketball together across from the mosque while
older South Asian men sat on the grass, presumably
relaxing after a long day's work.

Most of the Muslims who attend this mosque speak Pashtu
and are from the Northwest Frontier area of Pakistan.
Some have family that had been in the area since as early
as 1908, working on the railroads. They told us that the
FBI began coming to Lodi immediately after September 11Th,
making "friends" with mosque members. The men all seemed
undaunted by the FBI siege. However, it was clear within
minutes that beneath the welcoming, calm exterior, was
a harassed, interrogated, and scared community.

One man described to us, without looking around, exactly
where each federal agent's car was parked; we saw the
three large, black-tinted SUVs just yards from the mosque
and the courts where the young boys were playing. Another
middle-aged man said calmly, "Let them come ask us questions;
we have nothing to hide." While this resilience was
encouraging, we were reminded by another Pakistani man
who had already been questioned several times that while
he did not mind speaking to the FBI, it was frightening for
his wife and children. In addition, this has led to
a racist backlash by some Lodi residents agitated by
the lurid media reports about Islamic terrorists and
sleeper cells.

The government's investigation in Lodi has been conducted in
a way that does not respect the legal rights and dignity of
the Muslim community: individuals have been systematically
discouraged from exercising their right to an attorney and
have been disallowed access to attorneys; there has been
at least one detention of an individual who was not read
his Miranda warnings; and women and children have been
intimidated and denied medical care. Perhaps equally
disturbing, however, is that the general public has been
given new reason to fear South Asians and Muslims as
presumed terrorists. A community that has made this
area home for over one hundred years has been investigated,
intimidated, and cast under a shroud of suspicion,
all within days.

Veena Dubal is a JD/PhD student at the University of
California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall, and Sunaina Maira is
an Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at the
University of California at Davis. Both are volunteers
with the SF Bay Area organization, ASATA - Alliance of
South Asians Taking Action.

American Arab Anti Discrimination Committee
San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
522 Valencia Blvd San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 861-7444 adcsf@hotmail.com

To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/adcsfboard/

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9) Italy Judge Orders Arrest of 13 CIA Agents
By Aidan Lewis
The Associated Press
Friday 24 June 2005
"Rome - An Italian judge ordered the arrests of 13 people in the purported CIA
abduction of an imam, who then was sent to Egypt, the Milan prosecutor's office said
Friday. An Italian official said earlier the 13 were CIA officers involved in US anti-
terrorism efforts.
The 13 are suspected of seizing Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, known as Abu Omar,
on the streets of Milan on Feb. 17, 2003, and sending him to Egypt, where he
reportedly was tortured, Milan prosecutor Manlio Claudio Minale said in a statement.
An Italian newspaper said all 13 were American agents."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/062405A.shtml

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9) Collision Course Presents
a new film by
Toshikuni DOI
"Falluja April 2004"
with English subtitles by Toshikuni DOI
Sunday, June 26, 2005 at 8 pm
on San Francisco Cable Channel 29
Japanese video documentarian Toshikuni DOI was in Falluja
two weeks after the US invasion. He was one of the few
international journalists able to show the reality of the
cost of the invasion. Falluja has become a symbol of the
resistance movement against the occupation by the US forces.
In April 2004, the US forces invaded Falluja with several
thousand US soldiers. About 730 people were killed and 2800
were injured in the siege and attacks by the US military in
one month. He interviews medical workers and teachers as
well as people in the community about this horrendous assault
and the cost of it for the people of Falluja.
Why did Fallluj become the base of the resistance against
the occupation? How did the US forces attack? Who fought
against them and what injuries and damages did the people
suffer will be exposed in this important film.
Only 10 days after the siege of the US forces had been lifted,
Toshikuni DOI went to Falluja and investigated the site.
Footage was recorded in August 2003 (4 months after the siege)
and in May 2004.
falluja2004@hotmail.co.jp

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10) Troops Will Carry General's 'Common Sense' Rules on
Wallet-Size Cards
By ERIC SCHMITT
Published: June 26, 2005
General Casey's rules offer a window into his priorities for
the troops, military officials say:
¶Make security and safety your first priorities.
¶Help the Iraqis win - don't win it for them.
¶Treat the Iraqi people with dignity and respect.
Learn and respect Iraqi customs and cultures.
¶Maintain strict standards and iron discipline everyday.
Risk assess every mission - no complacency!!
¶Information saves lives - share it and protect it.
¶Maintain your situational awareness at all times -
this can be an unforgiving environment.
¶Take care of your equipment and it will take care of you.
¶Innovate and adapt - situations here don't lend
themselves to cookie-cutter solutions.
¶Focus on the enemy and be opportunistic.
¶Be patient. Don't rush to failure.
¶Take care of yourself and take care of each other.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/26/politics/26cards.html

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11) In danger's way
Trapped in cycles of poverty,
children toil in Bolivia's mines
By Indira A.R. Lakshmanan, Globe Staff | June 26, 2005
(Photo not shown) "Lucas Garito, 12, who has worked in
a mine in Potosi, Bolivia, since
he was 7, pointed to a shrine to El Tio, a devil-like
spirit who the miners hope will protect them.
(Globe Photo / Dermot Tatlow)"
http://www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/2005/06/26/
in_dangers_way/

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12) We shelter behind the myth that progress is being made
Robert Fisk, ICH
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m12971&l=i&size=1&hd=0

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13) Female Troops Face Hostile Fire in Iraq
By Frank Griffiths
The Associated Press
Saturday 25 June 2005
"Baghdad - The lethal ambush of a convoy carrying female
US troops in Fallujah underscored the difficulties of keeping
women away from the front lines in a war where such boundaries
are far from clear-cut."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/062505A.shtml

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14) World Tribunal for Iraq, Culminating Session Testimony
Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches **
http://dahrjamailiraq.com **
Istanbul, Turkey
25 June 2005

Thank you very much for inviting me to the Culminating Session of the
World Tribunal on Iraq. I first went to Iraq in November of 2003 as an
American citizen both frustrated and horrified by what my unelected
government was doing. I went to report on the situation because I was
deeply troubled by the "journalism" being provided by the corporate
media. At the time, as a frustrated mountain climber from Alaska working
as a journalist in Iraq, I never would have believed I would be
providing testimony to the World Tribunal on Iraq. I want to thank the
organizers for this opportunity. I am honored to be here in solidarity
with the Iraqi people.

In May of 2004 I interviewed a man who had just been released from Abu
Ghraib. Like so many I interviewed from various US military detention
facilities who'd been tortured horrifically, he still managed to
maintain his sense of humor.

He began laughing when telling me how CIA agents made him beat other
prisoners. He laughed, he said, because he had been beaten himself prior
to this, and was so tired that all he could do to beat other detained
Iraqis was lift his arm and let it drop on the other men.

Later, he laughed again as he told me what else had been done to him,
when he said, "The Americans brought electricity to my ass before they
brought it to my house."

But this testimony is not about the indomitable spirit of the Iraqi
people. About the dignity and strength of Iraqis, we need no testimony.
This testimony is about ongoing violations of international law being
committed by the occupiers of Iraq on a daily basis in regards to
rampant torture, the neglect and obstruction of the health care sector
and the ongoing failure to allow Iraqis to reconstruct their infrastructure.

To discuss torture, there are many stories I could use here, but I'll
use two examples indicative of scores of others I documented while in Iraq.

Ali Abbas lives in the Al-Amiriyah district of Baghdad and worked in
civil administration. So many of his neighbors were detained that
friends urged him to go to the nearby US base to try and get answers for
why so many innocent people were being detained. He went three times.

On the fourth he was detained himself. Within two days he was
transferred from the military base to Abu Ghraib, where he was held over
three months without charges before being released.

"The minute I got there, the suffering began," said Abbas about his
interrogator, "I asked him for water, and he said after the
investigation I would get some. He accused me of so many things and
asked me so many questions. Among them he said I hated Christians."

He was forced to strip naked shortly after arriving, and remained that
way for most of his stay in the prison. "They made us lay on top of each
other naked as if it was sex, and beat us with a broom," he said. In
addition to being beaten on their genitals, detainees were also denied
water and food for extended periods of time, then were forced to watch
as their food was thrown in the trash.

Treatment also included having a loaded gun held to his head to prevent
him from crying out in pain as his hand-ties were tightened.

"My hands were enlarged because there was no blood because they cuffed
them so tight," he told me, "My head was covered with the sack, and they
fastened my right hand to a pole with handcuffs. They made me stand on
my toes to clip me to it."

Abbas said soldiers doused him in cold water while holding him under a
fan, and oftentimes, "They put on a loudspeaker, put the speakers on my
ears and said, "Shut Up, Fuck Fuck Fuck!" In this manner Abbas's
interrogators routinely deprived him of sleep.

Abbas said that at one point, "Two men came, one a foreigner and one a
translator. He asked me who I was. I said I'm a human being. They told
me, 'We are going to cut your head off and send you to hell. We will
take you to Guantanamo.'"

A female soldier told him, "Our aim is to put you in hell so you will
tell the truth. These are the orders we have from our superiors, to turn
your lives into hell."

Abbas added, "They shit on us, used dogs against us, used electricity
and starved us."

He told me, "Saddam Hussein used to have people like those who tortured
us. Why do they put Saddam into trial, but they do not put the Americans
to trial?"

But unlike Saddam Hussein, the US interrogators also desecrated Islam as
part of their humiliation.

Abbas was made to fast during the first day of Eid, the breaking of the
fast of Ramadan, which is haram (forbidden).

Sometimes at night when he would read his Koran, Abbas had to hold it in
the hallway for light. "Soldiers would walk by and kick the Holy Koran,
and sometimes they would try to piss on it or wipe shit on it," he said.

Abbas did not feel this was the work of a few individual soldiers. "This
was organized, it wasn't just individuals, and every one of the troops
in Abu Ghraib was responsible for it."

Accounts by human rights groups support this. According to an April 2005
Human Rights Watch report, "Abu Ghraib was only the tip of the iceberg,
it's now clear that abuse of detainees has happened all over-from
Afghanistan to Guantánamo Bay to a lot of third-country dungeons where
the United States has sent prisoners. And probably quite a few other
places we don't even know about."

The report adds, "Harsh and coercive interrogation techniques such as
subjecting detainees to painful stress positions and extended sleep
deprivation have been routinely used in detention centers throughout
Iraq. An ICRC report concluded that in military intelligence sections of
Abu Ghraib, 'methods of physical and psychological coercion used by the
interrogators appeared to be part of the standard operating procedures
by military intelligence personnel to obtain confessions and extract
information.'"

Amnesty International has also released similar findings.

Other human rights groups report that US military doctors, nurses, and
medics have been complicit in torture and other illegal procedures such
as those administered to Sadiq Zoman.

55 year-old Zoman, detained from his home in Kirkuk in a raid by US
soldiers that produced no weapons, was taken to a police office in
Kirkuk, to the Kirkuk Airport Detention Center, the Tikrit Airport
Detention Center and finally to the 28th Combat Support Hospital, where
he was treated by Dr. Michael Hodges, a Lt. Col.

Lt. Col. Hodges' medical report listed Zoman's primary condition as
hypoxic brain injury (brain damage caused by lack of oxygen) "with
persistent vegetative state," myocardial infarction (heart attack), and
heat stroke."

After one month in custody, Zoman was dropped off in a coma at the
General Hospital in Tikrit by US soldiers. Zoman's last name was listed
as his first name on the report, despite the fact that all of his
identification papers were taken during the raid on his home. Because of
this, it took his desperate family weeks to locate him in the hospital.

Hodges's medical report did not mention the fact that the back of
Zomans' head was bashed in, nor that he had electrical burn marks on the
bottoms of his feet and genitals, or why he had lash marks across his
back and chest.

Today he lies in bed still in a coma, and there has been no compensation
provided to his now impoverished family for what was done to Sadiq Zoman.

Another aspect I shall discuss is the catastrophic situation of the
health system in Iraq. I've recently released a report on the condition
of Iraq's hospitals under occupation.

Although the Iraq Ministry of Health has supposedly gained its
sovereignty and received promises of over $1 Billion of US funding,
hospitals in Iraq continue to face ongoing medicine, equipment, and
staffing shortages under the US-led occupation.

During the 1990's, medical supplies and equipment were constantly in
short supply because of the sanctions against Iraq. The war and
occupation brought promises of relief from effects of the sanctions, yet
hospitals have had little chance to recover and re-supply: instead, the
occupation has closely resembled a low-grade war since its inception. In
addition, allocation of resources by occupation authorities has been
dismal. Thus, throughout Baghdad there are ongoing shortages of
functional equipment and medicines of even the most basic items such as
analgesics, antibiotics, anesthetics and insulin. Surgical items and
even basic supplies like rubber gloves, gauze and medical tape are
running out.

In April 2004, an ICRC report stated that hospitals in Iraq are
overwhelmed with new patients, short of medicine and supplies and lack
both adequate electricity and water, with ongoing bloodshed stretching
the hospitals' already meager resources to the limit.

Ample testimony from medical practitioners confirms this crisis. A
general practitioner at the prosthetics workshop at Al-Kena Hospital in
Baghdad, Dr. Thamiz Aziz Abul Rahman, said, "Eleven months ago we
submitted an emergency order for prosthetic materials to the Ministry of
Health, and still we have nothing." After a pause he added, "This is
worse than even during the sanctions."

Dr. Qasim al-Nuwesri, the chief manager at Chuwader General Hospital,
one of the two hospitals in the sprawling slum area of Sadr City,
Baghdad and home to 3 million people, added that they, too, faced a
shortage of most supplies and, most critically, of ambulances. But for
his hospital, the lack of potable water was the major problem. "Of
course we have typhoid, cholera, kidney stones...but we now even have the
very rare Hepatitis Type-E...and it has become common in our area," said
al-Nuwesri, adding that they never faced these problems prior to the
invasion of 2003.

Chuwader hospital needs at least 2000 liters of water per day to
function with basic sterilization practices. According to Dr.
al-Nuwesri, they received 15% of this amount. "The rest of the water is
contaminated and causing problems, as are the electricity cuts," added
al-Nuwesri, "Without electricity our instruments in the operating room
cannot work and we have no pumps to bring us water."

At Fallujah General Hospital, Dr. Ahmed, who asked that only his first
name be used because he feared US military reprisals said of the April
2004 siege that "the Americans shot out the lights in the front of our
hospital. They prevented doctors from reaching the emergency unit at the
hospital, and we quickly began to run out of supplies and much needed
medications." He also said that Marines kept the physicians in the
residence building several times, intentionally prohibiting them from
entering the hospital in order to treat patients.

In November, shortly after leveling Nazzal Emergency Hospital, US forces
entered Fallujah General Hospital, the city's only healthcare facility
for trauma victims, detaining employees and patients alike. According to
medics on the scene, water and electricity were "cut off," ambulances
targeted or confiscated by the US military, and surgeons, without
exception, kept out of the besieged city.

Hospital raids by US military and US-backed Iraqi forces now appear to
be standard operating procedure. On the 18th of this month, doctors at
the main hospital in Baquba went on strike, saying they are fed up with
constant abuse at the hands of aggressive Iraqi police and soldiers.

Dr. Mohammed Hazim in Baquba, pleaded for his governor to protect he and
his colleagues from "organized terrorism of the police and army."

When wounded Iraqi security forces showed up demanding treatment, Dr.
Hussein told one of them he would require an x-ray. The doctor was told
to go to hell by the policeman he was treating and was then beaten. The
same policeman then ordered another police officer to put a bag over the
doctor's head and take him away.

"Our security guards tried to stop them, telling them I was a doctor,
but they didn't listen and beat the security guards too," he said, "Then
one of them put a gun to my head and threatened me."

Similar behavior has been reported during the recent US-Iraqi military
operations in Haditha and Al-Qa'im. Doctors also recently went on strike
at the large Yarmouk Hospital in Baghdad in a very similar incident.

Many doctors in Iraq believe that the lack of assistance, if not
outright hostility, by the US military, coupled with the lack of
rebuilding and reconstruction by foreign contractors has compounded the
problems they are facing.

The former ambassador of Iraq Paul Bremer admitted that US led coalition
spending on the Iraqi Health system was inadequate when he said, "It's
not nearly enough to cover the needs in the healthcare field."

When asked if his hospital had received assistance from the US military
or reconstruction contractors, Dr. Sarmad Raheem, the administrator of
chief doctors at Al-Kerkh Hospital in Baghdad said, "Never ever. Some
soldiers came here five months ago and asked what we needed. We told
them and they never brought us one single needle...We heard that some
people from the CPA came here, but they never did anything for us."

At Fallujah General Hospital, Dr. Mohammed said there has been virtually
no assistance from foreign contractors, and of the US military he
commented, "They send only bombs, not medicine."

International aid has been stymied by the horrendous security situation
in Iraq. After the UN headquarters was bombed in Baghdad in August 2003,
killing 20 people, aid agencies and NGOs either reduced their staffing
or pulled out entirely.

With senior Iraqi doctors fleeing Iraq en masse for fear of being
kidnapped, interns and younger doctors are left to deal with the
catastrophic situation. The World Health Organization last year warned
of a health emergency in Baghdad, as well as throughout Iraq if current
conditions persist. But despite claims from the Ministry of Health of
more drugs, better equipment, and generalized improvement, doctors on
the ground still see "no such improvement."

In conclusion, a quick summary of the overall situation on the ground in
Iraq is in order. Over two years into the illegal occupation, while Iraq
sits upon a sea of oil, ongoing gasoline shortages plague Iraqis who
sometimes wait 2 days to fill their cars. In a country where a long gas
line once meant a one-car wait, Iraqis who are lucky enough to afford it
now purchase black market petrol and hope that it is not watered down.

Electricity remains in short supply. Most of Iraq, including the
northern region, receives on average 3 hours of electricity per day
amidst the nearly non-existent reconstruction efforts. Even the better
areas of Baghdad receive only 6-8 hours per day, forcing those who can
afford them to use small generators to run fans and refrigerators in
their homes. Of course, this is only for those who've been able to
obtain the now rarefied gasoline.

The security situation is, needless to say, horrendous. With over
100,000 Iraqis killed thus far and the number of US soldiers killed
approaching 2,000, the violence only continues to escalate.

Since the new Iraqi so-called government was sworn in two months ago,
well over 1,000 Iraqis and over 165 US soldiers have died in the
violence. These numbers will only continue to escalate as the failed
occupation grinds on. As the heavy handed tactics of the US military
persist, the Iraqi resistance continues to grow in its number and lethality.

As I mentioned before, potable water remains in short supply. Cholera,
typhoid and other water-borne diseases are rampant even in parts of the
capital city as lack of reconstruction continues to plague Iraq's
infrastructure. Raw sewage is common across not just Baghdad, but other
cities throughout Iraq.

With 70% unemployment, a growing resistance and an infrastructure in
shambles, the future for Iraq remains bleak as long as the failed
occupation persists. While the Bush Administration continues to
disregard calls for a timetable for withdrawal, Iraqis continue to
suffer and die with little hope for their future. With each passing day,
the catastrophe in Iraq resembles the US debacle in Vietnam more and more.

Dr. Wamid Omar Nadhmi, a senior political scientist at Baghdad
University who was invited to this tribunal, told me last winter, "It
will take Iraqis something like a quarter of a century to rebuild their
country, to heal their wounds, to reform their society, to bring about
some sort of national reconciliation, democracy and tolerance of each
other. But that process will not begin until the US occupation of Iraq
ends."

And it is now exceedingly clear that the only way the Bush
Administration will withdraw the US military from Iraq in order for
Iraqis to have true sovereignty is if they are forced to do so.

More writing, photos and commentary at http://dahrjamailiraq.com

Iraq_Dispatches mailing list
http://lists.dahrjamailiraq.com/mailman/listinfo/iraq_dispatches

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15) One Year After Sovereignty Restored, Nation is in Crisis
By Patrick Quinn
The Independent UK
Saturday 25 June 2005
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/062505X.shtml

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16) The Most Cowardly War in History
By Arundhati Roy
World Tribunal on Iraq
Friday 24 June 2005
Opening Statement of Arundhati Roy on behalf of the jury of conscience
of the world tribunal of Iraq.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/062505Y.shtml

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17) Protesters Dismantle Part of Apartheid Wall in Bili`n
Israeli 'Screamer' Fails to Stop 3-Month Old Anti-Wall Protests
26/06/2005

Palestine Media Center - PMC

Palestinian, Israeli and foreign protesters on Friday
dismantled part of the Apartheid Wall Israel is building
on occupied land in the West Bank village of Bili'n, after
several-hour clashes with the Israeli Occupation Forces
(IOF) who used an array of sound bombs, rubber bullets
and tear gas to disperse the anti-Wall demonstrators.
Bili'n village has been the scene of daily clashes between
anti-Wall protesters and the IOF for over three months,
during which dozens were detained or wounded as Israel
deported many foreign peace activists.

Over 2,500 dunums of the village land were confiscated
for building the Wall and expanding the two nearby illegal
Jewish colonies of Mod'in Illit and Mattityahu.

Since February 2005, at least 200 olive trees have been
uprooted and more than 100 Palestinian activists injured
in the protests against what the Palestinians officially
call the Wall of Annexation and Expansion, but describe
as the Apartheid Wall in the media.
Early Friday more than 200 protesters marched to the east
of Bili'n where the Wall is being constructed.

IOF closed off the road leading to the village's
confiscated lands with layers of barbed wire and
a roadblock.

Protestors swept through the roadblock and marched
towards their lands where around six IOF bulldozers
have been leveling the land and uprooting olive and
other trees for the wall on a daily basis.

The IOF soldiers used rubber bullets, sound bombs and tear
gas to disperse the demonstrators, who responded with
throwing stones.

Clashes ended when the IOF soldiers and bulldozers
withdrew at the end of the day's work. Protesters then
moved to dismantle part of the groundwork for a section
of the Wall's route.

Two days earlier, on Wednesday, anti-Wall protesters
constructed a mock prison on their expropriated land
to symbolize the imprisonment imposed by the Wall on
communities and villagers across the West Bank. Ten
people with a goat were locked into the mock prison.

An IOF bulldozer was used to destroy the mock jail.
One Palestinian, Ribhi el-Khatib, 20, was injured by
a rubber bullet in the leg during the clashes that
erupted when protesters tried to halt the work of the
bulldozer. Another Palestinian was detained by the
IOF soldiers.

A New Israeli Weapon: The 'Screamer'

On June 17, Israeli soldiers used a new weapon: A sponge
cap attached to a hard plastic shell that is fired from
a 40mm gun attachment and spins at high speed.

Declaring the village and the surrounding areas a closed
military zone, a large force of IOF soldiers, border
police and plainclothes officers were waiting for the
demonstrators with a white van that housed the new
Israeli army weapon, "the Screamer," behind barbed wire.
The "Screamer" transmits high-pitched sound waves, which
are not only hard on the ears, but can cause some to feel
bilious, "a little like sea sickness," an IOF officer had
told The Jerusalem Post.

When the IOF troops turned on the Screamer, the
demonstrators lay down on the road under mock tombstones.
A Palestinian who was lying on the ground was hit and
burned by a sound bomb. Soldiers refused to allow him to
receive medical care, though he was bleeding. He was later
detained with seven others, including three Palestinians
and four Israelis.

Fifteen demonstrators were injured in the course of the
demonstration from both the Israeli new and
"traditional" weapons.

Later, Israeli activists handed to a police station
a video tape that proves neither the Israeli nor the
Palestinian detainees were throwing stones at the soldiers.
Ninetieth Solidarity Foreign Activist Deported
Israel has deported many foreign activists who came to
show their solidarity with the Palestinians in Bili'n.

Johan Persson, from Sweden, was arrested in Bili'n on
May 15 and was the latest deportee.

Persson was the ninetieth solidarity activist to be
deported since April 2002. Hundreds of others have been
denied access to the occupied territories. The International
Solitary Movement (ISM) alone has documented 161 cases
of denied entry.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bayareapalestine/

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18) THE MOTHER OF ALL HOAXES?
World Trade Tower 'Controlled Demolition'?
MER EDITORIAL:
http://www.middleeast.org/premium/
read.cgi?category=Magazine&num=1285&month=6&year=2005&function=text&stan
dalone=0

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