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Monday, October 30, 2006
WTC Bombing Shocker! FBI Cover Up!
Tapes Depict Proposal to Thwart Bomb Used in Trade Center Blast
By Ralph Blumenthal
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Law-enforcement officials were told that terrorists were building a bomb that was eventually used to blow up the World Trade Center, and they planned to thwart the plotters by secretly substituting harmless powder for the explosives, an informer said after the blast.
The informer was to have helped plotters build the bomb and supply the fake powder, but the plan was called off by an F.B.I. supervisor who had other ideas about how the informer, Emad A. Salem, should be use, the informer said.
The account, which is given in the transcript of hundreds of hours of tape recordings Mr. Salem secretly made of his talks with law-enforcement agents, portrays the authorities as in a far better position than previously known to foil the Feb. 26 bombing of New York City's tallest towers. The explosion left six people dead, more than 1,000 injured and damages in excess of half a billion dollars. Four men are now on trial in Manattan Federal Court in that attack.
Mr. Salem, a 43-year-old former Egyptian army officer, was used by the Government to penetrate a circle of Muslim extremists now charged in two bombing cases: the World Trade Center attack and a foiled plot to destroy the United Nations, the Hudson River tunnels and other New York City landmarks. He is the crucial witness in the second bombing case, but his work for the Government was erratic, and for months before the trade center blast, he was feuding with the F.B.I.
Supervisor 'Messed It Up'
After the bombing, he resumed his undercover work. In an undated transcript of a conversation from that period, Mr. Salem recounts a talk he had had earlier with an agent about an unnamed F.B.I.. supervisor who, he said, "came and messed it up."
"He requested to meet me in the hotel," Mr. Salem says of the supervisor. "He requested to make me testify and if he didn't push for that, we'll be going building the bomb with a phony powder and grabbing the people who was involved in it. But since you, we didn't do that."
The transcript quotes Mr. Salem as saying that he wanted to complain to F.B.I. headquarters in Washington about the bureau's failure to stop the bombing, but was dissuaded by an agent identified as John Anticev.
"He said, I don't think that the New York people would like the things out of the New York office to go to Washington, D.C." Mr. Salem said Mr. Anticev had told him.
Another agent, identified as Nancy Floyd, does not dispute Mr. Salem's account, but rather, appears to agree with it, saying of the New York people: "Well, of course not, because they don't want to get their butts chewed."
THE ENTIRE STUNNING STORY IS HERE: http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/sf/nyt10_28_93.htm Posted at 10:22 pm by Psychomike
Al Qaeda Threatens Angelina Jolie
ANGELINA JOLIE THREATENED BY AL QAEDA, NORTHERN IRELAND TRIES TO END HOUSING SEGREGATION, ISRAEL TO MOVE ON GAZA STRIP, HEZBOLLAH TO RESIGN FROM GOVERNMENT!
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned that the army was preparing an extensive operation in the Gaza Strip, with the government to make a decision on the offensive within days, an MP has said.
"The army is preparing for an even more extensive operation in the Gaza Strip," the prime minister was quoted by the source as telling parliament's defence and foreign affairs committee.
"The government intends to reach a decision on the exact pattern of the operation in the coming days," Olmert was reported to have said.
At least 260 Palestinians, many of them civilians, have been killed since current operations began late last June.
Hezbollah will seek the formation of a new Lebanese government through all democratic means, including the resignation of its two ministers and street protests, the group's senior MP said on Monday.
Hezbollah and its allies have been demanding a new government since a 34-day war between Israel and the Shi'ite Muslim guerrillas ended in August.
The group, backed by Syria and Iran, has been a fierce critic of Western-backed Prime Minister Fouad Siniora whom it sees is keen to disarm its guerrillas.
"We are careful to practice all democratic and legitimate means to express our stand and our rejection of the continuation of this situation and to work toward forming a government of national unity," Mohammad Raad, head of Hezbollah's parliamentary bloc, told reporters.
"We will take all available democratic steps to achieve this goal including resigning from the government," he said.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are living in fear of an al-Qaeda attack, it has been reported. Brad and Angelina are currently in India shooting A Mighty Heart – a story about American journalist Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and later executed by al-Quaeda terrorists in Pakistan in 2002. British security experts reportedly rushed to Pune, India, earlier this week, after being alerted by neigbouring Pakistan that the couple might be targeted because of the political nature of the film. http://www.tonight.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3512617
Though it's not part of the NBA's advertising campaign, it's widely known around the league office that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is an avid NBA fan with a preference for the Bulls. His sons have been spotted wearing Bulls jerseys on their regulation courts at the presidential palace.
-- Chicago Tribune http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/scorecard/10/30/truth.rumors.nba/index.html
Tutrns out North Korea has been selling ballistic missiles for years! http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061030/wl_asia_afp/usnkoreaweapons
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland launched the province's first mixed housing scheme on Monday in which families from either side of the country's political and religious divide will live side by side.
Northern Ireland's Roman Catholics, most of whom support a united Ireland, and its majority Protestant community, who want to retain the province's ties to Britain, live largely apart following a three-decade sectarian conflict.
As part of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement that is helping to cement peace, Britain committed itself to providing public housing for those who wanted to live alongside people of the other denomination, without fear of intimidation.
Some 94 percent of all public housing estates are segregated into areas where at least 90 percent of the residents are either Protestant or Catholic.
"Over the years Northern Ireland has come to accept as normal a society where most people live separately and where our children are educated separately," Secretary of State Peter Hain said in a speech launching the new project.
"This division and segregation through housing, employment and in schooling has come at a high price for the whole community. We need to change this geometry of relationships - we need to see new models of shared housing and shared schooling."
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-10-30T170906Z_01_L3068374_RTRUKOC_0_UK-IRISH-HOUSING.xml&src=rss
At least 80 militants have been killed in an air strike by Pakistani forces on a madrassa (religious school) used as a militant training camp, the army says.
The army said the madrassa in the tribal area of Bajaur bordering Afghanistan was destroyed by helicopter gunships early on Monday.
One eyewitness told the BBC that 70-80 students were inside. A leading local politician says the dead were innocent.
Pakistan has deployed nearly 80,000 troops along the border. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6097636.stm
In his death and the manner in which it was carried out, Sardar Akbar Bugti is likely to become a martyred hero for Baloch nationalism and nationalists elsewhere in Pakistan - rather than the anti-government renegade and reactionary tribesman Islamabad would like to portray him as.
Bugti, the Sardar or chief of more than 200,000 Bugti tribesmen, was killed along with more than 35 of his followers when the Pakistan Air Force bombed his hideout in the Bambore mountain range in the Marri tribal area.
Pakistani officials say that at least 16 soldiers including four officers were killed after they went in to mop up the remnants of the Baloch guerrilla group. A fierce battle ensued which led to their deaths.
Bugti, a 79-year-old invalid who could not walk due to arthritis, is reported to be buried in the rubble of the cave where he was hiding.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5290966.stm
Not many outside Pakistan's troubled tribal zone of Waziristan along the country's north-western border with Afghanistan will be familiar with the name of Haji Omar.
But in Waziristan, it is a name that is commanding increasing respect and awe with every passing day.
Haji Omar is the amir (chief) of the Pakistani Taleban that have risen over the last year to take control of large parts of Waziristan.
His writ runs virtually unchallenged in South Waziristan and he seems confident that his commanders will soon establish Taleban control in North Waziristan as well.
'Al-Qaeda ally'
Meeting him in Wana, South Waziristan's largest town, was not exactly what I had expected when I sought an appointment with him through an intermediary in Peshawar. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4927914.stm
There is growing world attention on the remote Pakistani tribal region of South Waziristan as efforts continue to locate Osama Bin Laden and other key al-Qaeda and Taleban suspects.
However, so far no senior al-Qaeda or Taleban figure has been caught in this semi-autonomous area where the Pakistani army beefed up its presence after the US intervention in neighbouring Afghanistan in October, 2001.
There are persistent reports that sympathetic Pashtun tribesmen in the area are providing fugitives with shelter and support.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3532841.stm
Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf wanted to draw a line in the sand in his struggle for the spiritual soul of the country by early next month, ramming through parliament a controversial bill regarding women's rights that is seen as a move to purge Islamic laws from the constitution.
Instead, helicopter gunships raining death on a village in the remote Bajour agency tribal area on Monday morning significantly escalated Musharraf's battle with militant Islamic forces fiercely opposed to any softening of the state's Islamic legislation.
A pre-dawn attack on a madrassa (Islamic seminary) in a village in the Bajour tribal district in North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) claimed the lives of scores of people.
Pakistani authorities claimed immediately that the raid was carried out by Pakistani forces. However, Asia Times Online contacts on the spot are convinced that the raid was undertaken by North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces. Recently, Islamabad agreed with NATO that it could conduct operations in Pakistan from across the border in Afghanistan.
Monday's attack came two days after thousands of pro-Taliban tribesmen held an anti-US, anti-NATO rally in Damadola in the Bajour area close to the site of a US missile attack that killed several al-Qaeda members and civilians in January.
Authorities say information that Taliban or al-Qaeda fugitives were in the region prompted Monday's raid. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HJ31Df03.html
The United States will lead international naval manoeuvres in the Gulf off Iran’s west coast beginning on Monday aimed at fighting weapons proliferation, the US state department official said. The war games come in the context of tensions over Iran’s nuclear programme and reports of possible terror threats against oil installations in the Gulf.
Australia, Bahrain, Britain, France, Italy and the US will participate in the exercises that will simulate inspection of ships carrying illicit weapons-related materials, the official said. Another 19 countries in the US-led Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) will take a minor part in the exercise.
http://www.asianage.com/main.asp?layout=2&cat1=3&cat2=79&newsid=254927&RF=DefaultMain
For nearly 50 years, worries about a nuclear Middle East centered on Israel. Arab leaders resented the fact that Israel was the only atomic power in the region, a resentment heightened by America’s tacit approval of the situation. But they were also pretty certain that Israel (which has never explicitly acknowledged having nuclear weapons) would not drop the bomb except as a very last resort. That is why Egypt and Syria were unafraid to attack Israel during the October 1973 Yom Kippur War. “Israel will not be the first country in the region to use nuclear weapons,” went the Israelis’ coy formula. “Nor will it be the second.”
Today the nuclear game in the region has changed. When the Arab League’s secretary general, Amr Moussa, called for “a Middle East free of nuclear weapons” this past May, it wasn’t Israel that prompted his remarks. He was worried about Iran, whose self-declared ambition to become a nuclear power has been steadily approaching realization.
The anti-Israel statements of the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, coupled with Iran’s support for Hezbollah and Hamas, might lead you to think that the Arab states would welcome Iran’s nuclear program. After all, the call to wipe the Zionist regime from the map is a longstanding cliché of Arab nationalist rhetoric. But the interests of Shiite non-Arab Iran do not always coincide with those of Arab leaders. A nuclear Iran means, at the very least, a realignment of power dynamics in the Persian Gulf. It could potentially mean much more: a historic shift in the position of the long-subordinated Shiite minority relative to the power and prestige of the Sunni majority, which traditionally dominated the Muslim world. Many Arab Sunnis fear that the moment is ripe for a Shiite rise. Iraq’s Shiite majority has been asserting the right to govern, and the lesson has not been lost on the Shiite majority in Bahrain and the large minorities in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. King Abdullah of Jordan has warned of a “Shiite crescent” of power stretching from Iran to Lebanon via Iraq and (by proxy) Syria.
But geopolitics is not the only reason Sunni Arab leaders are rattled by the prospect of a nuclear Iran. They also seem to be worried that the Iranians might actually use nuclear weapons if they get them. A nuclear attack on Israel would engulf the whole region
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/29/magazine/29islam.html?em&ex=1162357200&en=3c5032c7b3a210f1&ei=5087%0A Posted at 12:20 pm by Psychomike
Sunday, October 29, 2006
New Presidential Powers Bill!
QUESTION: For the current President, "enforcement of the laws to restore public order" means to commandeer guardsmen from any state, over the objections of local governmental, military and local police entities; ship them off to another state; conscript them in a law enforcement mode; and set them loose against "disorderly" citizenry - protesters, possibly, or those who object to forced vaccinations and quarantines in the event of a bio-terror event. What do you think about this?
ANSWER: I have been fascinated by the lefts reaction to this bill. When Katrina happened, Democrat after Democrat told me the military should have been there before the waters hit. I said the military couldn't be called out without the state asking for it, and that after billions of dollars and studies over decades New Orleans city government had no idea what to do. Who knows where all that money went.
Well, that was quickly brushed aside. Bush should have sent the military in without a request from the city or state. Period. Along comes a bill which will deal with military response to catastrophic events, and the left is outraged a law that Democrats claim they would have broken in the Katrina case is about to be changed.
By the way, if President Bush had sent in the military over the objections of the city and state before Katrina hit, what would have happened if the areas they were sent to were hit? Next, who set up Homeland Security? Democrats! A fellow by the name of Lieberman. So, how did it do with Katrina?
Here in Chicago, police only have to take target practice once a year. Weight requirements are unenforced. Now, if an area is hit with a biological weapon, the area will have to be quarentined. I am supposed to believe Chicago police won't rush home to check their families, they will be able to either restrain or shoot to kill any police officer leaving a quarentined area.
Yeah. Right.
This bill is long overdue. It was the biggest complaint Democrats had about Katrina response. Now they want to fight it. Which means they would have, in fact, done everything just like President Bush did. Following the Constitution, they would have waited to be asked in to New Orleans.
And waited.
And waited.
What DID New Orleans do with all that money......
QUESTION: Haliburton in charge of national security? The one thing we can't do is privatize our military!
ANSWER: When the Democrats set up Homeland Security their goal was to have phones on an emergency line so that fire, police and hospitals could be in communication with each other. As of today, three small states have been done. After all these years.
How long would it take Verizon to do this?
Like, a week?
The U.S. government has used private forces since the Revolutionary War! Our military now gets fed by private contractors. I read that in Chicago at the local jails, lunch consists of two pieces of bread, a slice of bologna. The cost is $18 per prisoner. There are no condiments on the bread. $18. Our Government at work. Can you imagine what the meals would be like if the private sector provided meals at that cost! Hell, if the money was just used to have food delievered from restaurants! There would be money left over.
If we don't privatize the money pit known as Homeland Security we will never attain less than 72 hour response to catastrophies- which is what we need.
QUESTION: I can't say with any certainty the Democrats will be able to catch Osama or get us out of Iraq. But I've had it with the Bush regime lies. Woodward's book shows they intended to create a two generation war. This is outragous.
ANSWER: From day one, this website unlike this administration, has stated that none of the people reading this will live to see this war end.
The reason I wrote this, is that religious wars last much longer than political ones. The Hundred Year War is actually a misnomer. It lasted longer than that! Getting a Hitler or destroying a political party is one thing- getting a leader who is called God? So I am actually relieved the administration understood this.
I see no proof that the opposition does.
Bush won't be running again so don't worry about him.
It took us three years to get Zarqawi, and he was able to trigger a civil war. This had more to do with our problems in Iraq than Bush.
Right now a Democratic senator is fighting to have 5 multi-billion dollar Destroyers built in his state. We need small boats that can move swiftly along say, Lake Michigan, to get quickly into areas hit. Destroyers? Against terrorists? Huh?
QUESTION: What do you think the greatest failings of our Intel are? Can they be corrected?
ANSWER: When I became one of about 1000 people to read the CIA reports on the truth about the McCarthy era my biggest surprise was to discover a secret group within CIA called the Pond entire history was gone. In our country, when we end a war, the people demand we dismantle the military, and wait for a "peace dividend".
Everything that has been learned, all programs that work, are gutted.
Everything has to be re-created everytime the shit hits the fan.
In the UK you must serve at least five years to get into Intel. Here, often all you need to know is another language. We have to reward soldiers enough to make them want to stay in five years!
If the companies involved in Intel have no idea what to do with the info they get from private jails, don't communicate with each other and cover their own asses- those groups should be ended. I would support an MI5 type group set up here in place of the FBI or CIA should they continue to fail at their job.
QUESTION: War with Iran? Impossible. We are stretched too thin.
ANSWER: I do think we will be at war with Iran. 70% sure by the end of the year. 99% before Bush leaves office. An aerial assault doesn't need a lot more troops. We have 350,000 troops in our Navy. If our military was really fluid, we can find the men and women already.
More troops in Iraq won't stop cell phone bombers, trust me.
Posted at 11:38 am by Psychomike
Sunday, October 22, 2006
DEMOCRATS STUNNED: GOP IS NOT GOING TO LOSE 20 SEATS, SHOULD THE BILL OF RIGHTS BE A SUICIDE PACT?, IS NEO-CONSERVATISM OVER?
Has anyone other than me noticed that before elections the last few times the polls and press have all been horribly wrong? Looks like this one will be no different!
JUBILANT DEMOCRATS SHOULD RECONSIDER their order for confetti and noisemakers. The Democrats, as widely reported, are expecting GOP-weary voters to flock to the polls in two weeks and hand them control of the House for the first time in 12 years -- and perhaps the Senate, as well. Even some Republicans privately confess that they are anticipating the election-day equivalent of Little Big Horn. Pardon our hubris, but we just don't see it.
Our analysis -- based on a race-by-race examination of campaign-finance data -- suggests that the GOP will hang on to both chambers: We expect the Republican majority in the House to fall by eight seats, to 224 of the chamber's 435. At the very worst, our analysis suggests, the party's loss could be as large as 14 seats, leaving a one-seat majority. But that is still a far cry from the 20-seat loss some are predicting. In the Senate, with 100 seats, we see the GOP winding up with 52, down three.
http://users2.barrons.com/lmda/do/checkLogin?mg=barrons-users2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.barrons.com%2Farticle%2FSB116138396438799484.html%3Fmod%3D9_0002_b_this_weeks_magazine_home
Alternate link: http://snipurl.com/102mr
Due process and liberty need protection, to be sure, but when it comes to dealing with terrorism, the "Bill of Rights is not a suicide pact"
http://www.nysun.com/article/41962
Is neoconservatism passé? No, argues Douglas Murray. In terms of its vision of liberty, it's just getting started
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=12810&R=EE562710
Cuba has created the world's most expensive cigar. http://allnightsurfing.blogdrive.com/archive/cm-10_cy-2006_m-10_d-22_y-2006_o-0.html Posted at 05:30 am by Psychomike
Saturday, October 21, 2006
Russian Foretold Own Death!
Russian journalist foretold death : Newly released essay from controversial reporter describes situation before Oct. 7 slaying, IRA Linked To Bank Robbery, Iran Heats Up, Iraqi insurgents stage defiant parades!
Russia will not allow the U.N. Security Council to be used to punish Iran over its nuclear program, the foreign minister said. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Russia was ready to discuss ways to pressure Iran into accepting a broader international oversight of its nuclear program, but added that "any measures of influence should encourage creating conditions for talks."
"We won't be able to support and will oppose any attempts to use the Security Council to punish Iran or use Iran's program in order to promote the ideas of regime change there," Lavrov said Friday in an interview with the Kuwaiti News Agency KUNA which was posted on the Russian Foreign Ministry Web site Saturday. http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2006/10/20/409130-russia-minister-no-punishment-for-iran
Iranian president said earlier there is no reason for Israel “the greatest insult to human dignity” to exist and it would soon disappear.
Halutz also warned Israel to prepare for possible war with Syria, whose missile to Israel population is similar to that of Hizballah.
http://www.debka.com/index.php
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice threw cold water on reports that in talks with Chinese special envoy Tang Jiaxuan, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il had regretted the first nuclear test carried out on Oct. 9 and promised not to test again. Reporting on her own Beijing talks on the way to Moscow, Rice said “Tang did not tell me that Kim Jong-il either apologized or said he would never test again” in his “fairly thorough briefing” to her on his Pyongyang mission.
http://www.debka.com/index.php
 by Jamie Tarabay
All Things Considered, October 20, 2006 · In Iraq, Shiite militiamen loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr seized control of the southern city of Amarah briefly Friday, after hours of fighting with local police.
The Iraqi government and Sadr's group rushed emergency delegations to the city, and a curfew was imposed. Sadr's militiamen have reportedly withdrawn -- and Amarah, north of Basra, is now described as calm but tense.
Television images showed men wearing black masks firing into the air in the streets of Amarah. Behind them local police stations smoldered and black smoke filled the sky. The fighting between Sadr's militia and local police was sparked by the killing earlier this week of the local intelligence chief, who was said to belong to a rival militia that has infiltrated the region's police.
After the killing, police in Amarah arrested the local head of the Sadr militia, prompting the Shiite gunmen to take to the streets.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6355037
Gardai uncover IRA link to £26.5m Northern Bank raid
Notes seized during probe into Provisional money-laundering have identification marks which prove they were held in branch's vaults
By Tom Brady
Identification marks on cash seized by gardai when they smashed an IRA money-laundering operation have directly linked the notes to the Northern Bank in Belfast.
The Provisionals were blamed by police on both sides of the Border for the £26.5m heist in December 2004.
For more than a year and a half gardai and the PSNI have been working closely together to establish the connections between the recovered money and the bank robbery.
Within two months of the raid gardai uncovered a money-laundering racket, which they believed was being used by the IRA to 'cleanse' at least ?5m in sterling notes from the proceeds of the heist.
Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy has now confirmed that a number of identification marks have been found on the seized cash, proving that it had been held in the vaults of the Donegall Square branch of the bank in Belfast.
Further tests are currently being completed to tie in the money with the stolen consignment.
A massive file on the money-laundering investigation has already been submitted by senior garda officers to the Director of Public Prosecutions, who will determine if criminal charges should be brought. http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=710701
Al-Qaida-linked gunmen staged military-like parades Friday in a string of towns west of Baghdad, underlining the growing confidence of Sunni insurgents in a part of Iraq where U.S. and Iraqi forces maintain a heavy counterinsurgency presence. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061020/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_insurgent_parades_1
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is staking part in the Russia-EU summit in Finland on October 21, speaking to reporters touched upon the situation in the Georgian-Russian relations. The Russian leader particularly notes that the problem is not in relations between Russia and Georgia, but in relations between Georgia and South Ossetia, between Georgia and Abkhazia.
According to Putin, Tbilisi is trying to restore its territorial integrity through military way. The Russian-Georgian relations will improve, Putin believes, as soon as relations between Georgia and South Ossetia, Georgia and Abkhazia. According to the Russian president, the blame for deterioration of relations between Moscow and Tbilisi is on the Georgian leadership. According to him, “it is done to form a political and information background suitable for settling the problems with South Ossetia and Abkhazia by coercive way, by bloodshed.” http://www.regnum.ru/english/725800.html
Anna Politkovskaya imagined her own death long before it arrived. For years, she was Russia's most fearless journalist, reporting for the newspaper Novaya Gazeta from the killing fields of Chechnya and exposing the brutality of the Kremlin's war under President Vladimir Putin.
She received one death threat after another, and was detained and beaten by Russian troops who threw her into a pit, threatened to rape her and performed a mock execution. "If it were up to me," an officer told her, "I'd shoot you."
Someone finally decided it was up tohim. Politkovskaya's body was discovered in her Moscow apartment building Oct. 7 with bullets in her head and chest, a Makarov pistol tossed at her feet. Her killing at age 48 came two months after she wrote this previously unpublished essay for "Another Sky," an English PEN book coming from Profile Books in 2007. Here are her words: http://www.insidebayarea.com/dailyreview/localnews/ci_4521414
MADONNA has copped a caning for trying to adopt a baby from the African nation of Malawi.
The pop star has been branded "egomaniacal and revolting" for adopting 13-month-old David Banda, whose mother died in childbirth, whose two brothers died of malaria and whose father left him in an orphanage.
Human rights groups are trying to stop the adoption.
But rather than criticise the 48-year-old mother of two, we should applaud her altruism. If only more people with resources, competence and parenting skills adopted a needy child.
Malawi, plagued by AIDS, drought and famine, has an average life expectancy for its people of 38, World Vision says. One in three children die before they reach five.
As Madonna said last week, she is just "trying to save a child's life".
http://www.smh.com.au/news/miranda-devine/madonna-deserves-applause-not-criticism-of-misguided-meddlers/2006/10/21/1160851179444.html
Abdul Rahim insists he's an apolitical student who fled a strict father. But he's fallen into a black hole in the war on terror in which first the Taliban and then the United States imprisoned him as an enemy of the state.
Arrested by the Taliban in Afghanistan in January 2000, Rahim says Al Qaeda leaders burned him with cigarettes, smashed his right hand, deprived him of sleep, nearly drowned him and hanged him from the ceiling until he "confessed" to spying for the United States.
U.S. forces took the young Kurd from Syria into custody in January 2002 after the Taliban fled his prison. Accusing him of being an Al Qaeda terrorist, U.S. interrogators deprived him of sleep, threatened him with police dogs and kept him in stress positions for hours, he says. He's been held ever since as an enemy combatant.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,223139,00.html
Witnesses in Somalia say government troops seized control of a strategically located town Saturday after a firefight with pro-Islamic militias.
The fighting occurred in the town of Bur Hakaba, 60 kilometers southeast of Baidoa. The town lies between the capital, Mogadishu, and the provincial town of Baidoa, which is the Western-backed interim government's temporary seat and only area of control.
Earlier this month, government forces briefly took control of Bur Hakaba. Witnesses said government forces were backed by Ethiopian troops at that time. Both Ethiopia and Somalia deny any Ethiopian troops are in the country.
Islamists seized Mogadishu in June and have since taken control of other areas in southern Somalia. They have declared holy war against Ethiopia, accusing Addis Ababa of sending troops into Somalia to help the weak interim government.
Somalia has not had an effective national government since 1991 http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-10-21-voa16.cfm Posted at 10:23 am by Psychomike
Friday, October 20, 2006
Election Crisis 2006: Voting Nightmare
ELECTION CRISIS 2006 PART 1: STEALING ELECTIONS- How It Can Happen, Signs It Is Being Done Already!, BUILDING RED AMERICA
Some time ago I wrote here that the next Presidential election was the best chance for a third party since Strom Thurmond actually got electoral votes in his campaign. Part of the reason I say that is I expect massive problems with the upcoming elections. I actually don't think we should use the computer system at all. Worldwide, low level politicians and party hacks, angry leftists who feel stealing an election would be payback for Florida, not to mention world dictators and terrorists, are already learning words like "computer virus" and how there are already viruses that would have no problem altering the course of elections. Without leaving a paper trail. And neither party seems to be doing anything about it. Partly I say the time has never been as ripe in my lifetime for a third party as it is now, is that if you look at the two parties as brand names in the world of business there would have been take- overs of the brands and competitors would be springing up. Call it voodoo economics, but that's how markets work.
To my surprise I discovered the "brand names" metaphor in the book BUILDING RED AMERICA, which no matter which party you belong to is a fascinating overview of the two parties- and their failure to adapt to the 21st century. This is followed by disturbing articles you should read about the new voting system. Scroll down for our first ELECTION CRISIS section.
Last November one of our contributors, Elce Redmond returned from Iraq after meeting with everyone from U.S. generals to travelling to meet the leaders of the insurgency. Here at this site, it was first said Iraq was in the midst of a civil war. Soon he may be going to the West Bank so we may get an up close look at what's happening there. Which could be a war!
There are many people who contribute articles they find and information to this site. And they come from all political beliefs. Elce works with a Christian peace keeping group, Juice Man (aka Drew) is a libertarian, Mojo is a pagan computer wizard. I am of course, to the right of Attila the Hun. Or so I've been told!
Thanks to you all!
Building Red America: The New Conservative Coalition and the Drive for Permanent Power
A book by Thomas B. Edsall
Everyone has advice for the Democrats these days. If you're ever stranded on a desert island, the quickest way to get attention may not be to launch a signal flare but to declare your candidacy as a Democrat. Someone will be with you shortly to explain what you should do.
The minority party attracts so many caring advisers because it has lost five of the last seven presidential elections and is constitutionally prone to deep bouts of soul-searching. It is going through such an identity crisis now, as liberal activists debate with those in the center-left over how to win back the majority. Making the situation especially urgent is the tantalizing disarray in the GOP ranks: Neoconservatives have been discredited by the Iraq quagmire, Northeastern moderates dislike Southern social conservatives, and small-government-loving fiscal worriers are outraged at the GOP-led government's lack of budgetary restraint. As the midterm elections loom, Democrats have an opportunity; they just need the right plan to embrace their moment.
Thomas B. Edsall and Thomas F. Schaller have both contributed well-documented and thoughtful arguments that might help direct Democrats out of their wilderness. Edsall's accessible "Building Red America" is not presented as a guidebook but as a tour of the political landscape. Republicans have learned how to manage that landscape and adapt more quickly to changes on it. Democrats, on the other hand, keep losing for a reason: Their party is no longer a populist coalition, but it keeps trying to run as one, and its leaders fail to understand the connection between middle-class voters' economic self-interest and their concerns about cultural values.
These days, both parties have abandoned the middle ground. Republicans don't care about it, and Democrats aren't talented enough to find it. But in this dim world, Republicans keep coming out on top. "The Republican Party holds a set of advantages, some substantial and some marginal," Edsall writes, and unless Democrats find a way to solve their problems, "the odds are that the Republican Party will continue to maintain, over the long run, a thin but durable margin of victory."
If Edsall portrays Republicans as cynical and manipulative, he paints the Democratic Party as hapless and structurally flawed. The party has not come to terms with eroding public support for the liberal agenda, he argues; it is held captive by special interests such as unions and trial lawyers but hasn't found a way to manipulate its core constituency groups over long stretches of time the way the GOP has. The occasional bursts of populist sentiment from Democratic candidates -- Al Gore's "people against the powerful" theme, or Howard Dean's claim to represent the "Democratic wing of the Democratic Party" -- will continue to fail because the affluent college-educated voters who make up much of the party's base are more interested in socially liberal issues. "At the top, the ascendant wing of the party is not populist," Edsall writes. "It is elitist."
If that zinger doesn't get him an inbox full of angry letters, Edsall's view of the Democratic Party's cultural failings will. He disagrees with those on the left who argue that Republicans have won voters through trickery -- by emphasizing values issues like abortion or prayer in school and then doing nothing to help those voters economically. Instead, he argues that Democrats should forge a link with voters who feel that rapid cultural change undermines the sense of family and community that they believe are preconditions for economic success. "Traditional values of family, neighborhood, church, school, and the workplace are, to millions of voters, `money in the bank' -- they are what holds people together, providing security against a rainy day."
http://www.arcamax.com/bookreviews/s-120963-556967
Posted at 04:41 am by Psychomike
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Israel Prepares Gaza Attack
ISRAEL PREPARES FOR WAR IN GAZA STRIP, NORTH KOREA DEFIANT, MULLAH OMAR HIDING IN PAKISTAN VILLAGE, AL QAEDA NUKE ATTACK LEADER IN UK
Israel has ratcheted up threats of a massive ground offensive in the Gaza Strip, amid an ongoing war of words with the ruling Hamas movement which has vowed to teach the army a harsh lesson.
"Gaza should not become a second Lebanon," said Immigrant Absorption Minister Zeev Boim on Tuesday, reiterating a phrase used by Israeli leaders recently to mean the territory should not become a bastion of militant resistance.
"Apparently we will not have any other choice but to launch an expanded operation, like Defensive Shield, in order to destroy the stockpiles of weapons and to hit the terrorist organizations," said Boim, a close ally of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
Defensive Shield, the largest military operation in the West Bank since the 1967 Six Day War, was launched by Israel in 2002. It left more than 200 Palestinians and 29 Israeli soldiers dead and some 5,000 Palestinians detained. http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/17/061017153818.8nxeucth.html
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accused the Hamas-led government of being "defiant," accusing the governing Islamic group of refusing "to recognize the Palestine Liberation Organization ... and past signed agreements." He said the group's refusal to open negotiations with Israel has worsened the situation in the Palestinian territories. (Ali Waked)
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3316267,00.html
Doctors in Gaza have reported previously unseen injuries from Israeli weapons that cause severe burning and deep internal wounds often resulting in amputations or death.
The injuries were first seen in July, when the Israeli military launched a series of operations in Gaza following the capture of an Israeli soldier by Palestinian militants.
Doctors said that, unlike traditional combat injuries from shells or bullets, there were no large shrapnel pieces found in the patients' bodies and there appeared to be a "dusting" on severely damaged internal organs. http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1924524,00.html
Blackhawk helicopters and interceptor jets have begun patrolling Montana airspace along the U.S.-Canada border, and American officials say unmanned drones could be deployed as early as next year.
But the U.S. is playing down the new security measure, claiming it has little to do with Canadians but more to do with the threat of terrorists using Canada as a staging point for attacks in America.
And they say that as long as the terrorist threat exists, border security will continue to be a high priority.
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=83ed3cf5-b413-4bcb-9ec6-8f5d0d8e93fd&k=52497
Russian music download site allofmp3.com insisted it was a legitimate business and said US accusations of piracy were merely an excuse to keep Russia out of the World Trade Organisation.
"The US government is conveniently using allofmp3 as an issue to gain further concessions from Russia," said company boss Vadim Mamotin and other executives.
"We operate under Russian law, we pay taxes in Russia and we pay royalties," they said in response to journalists' questions in an online news conference.
Russia has campaigned for 12 years to join the WTO but the United States is still witholding its endorsement of Moscow's candidacy -- it is the only major economy that has not yet backed Russia's bid -- citing shortcomings in several key trade sectors.
Moscow wants to join the organisation both for the prestige of membership and as a means to spur diversification in its own economy, still focused heavily on raw materials export.
But US negotiators have repeatedly returned to the issue of the worldwide music sales of allofmp3.com -- protection of intellectual property being a major stumbling block in Russia's negotiations to join the club.
US Trade Representative Susan Schwab has placed allofmp3.com on a "notorious markets" list and in a speech last month she accused Russian authorities of allowing the website to operate with impunity.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/17/061017182658.m5h8dscn.html
North Korea on Tuesday denounced UN sanctions over its nuclear test as a declaration of war and the United States and others suspected it may try a second bomb test despite international condemnation.
Defiant in the face of sanctions backed by even its closest ally, China, Pyongyang said it had withstood international pressure before and so was hardly likely to yield now that it had become "a nuclear weapons state."
"It is quite nonsensical to expect the DPRK to yield to the pressure and threat of someone at this time when it has become a nuclear weapons state," official media quoted a Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying.
"The DPRK wants peace but is not afraid of war," he said, referring to the country's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/488120/861608
Afghan President Hamid Karzai told The Associated Press that Mullah Omar, the supreme Taliban leader who headed the repressive Islamist regime ousted by U.S.-led forces five years ago, is hiding in the southeastern Pakistani city of Quetta.
http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=WORLD&ID=564824384792298699
Concern is growing among U.S. and Canadian counter-terrorism specialists that Somali-Canadians are joining Islamic militias linked to al-Qaida.
"We're seeing the possibility of a tragic future unfold," former senior Canadian Intelligence official David Harris told United Press International.
Harris said there was a possibility of future attacks by returning militia veterans who would likely have "the kind of skills that ... could make them very dangerous."
http://wpherald.com/articles/1763/1/Analysis-Somali-militias-threat-to-N-America/Future-attacks-by-returning-militia-veterans-feared.html
AN al-Qaeda general believed to be plotting dirty bomb attacks on seven US cities could be in Britain, FBI sources said yesterday.
Adnan El Shukrijumah, who has a £2.5million bounty on his head, is suspected of planning a spectacular attack using bombs that spread radioactive waste. http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006480097,00.html Posted at 02:10 pm by Psychomike
Saturday, October 14, 2006
The Taleban's War On Women, Which Nations Will Go Nuclear Next?, What Is Up With North Korea?, The Korean Nightmare Scenario: WHEN KOREA FALLS, Ireland Sets Date- Again
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SPECIAL KOREA SECTION:
Despite winning key concessions, Russia and China raised new objections that could delay a vote Saturday on a U.N. Security Council resolution imposing punishing sanctions on North Korea for its claimed nuclear test.
North Korea announced its first test of a nuclear device last week, setting off hand-wringing around the world that a newly armed Pyongyang might sell nuclear weapons to rogue states or terrorists.
But another threat, more likely and more dangerous, may emerge. Pyongyang's test could encourage "near-nuclear" proliferation -- a world in which states master key technologies that are ostensibly for harmless energy-related purposes but can be quickly adapted for deadly, offensive ends.
A world in which countries have the capability to go nuclear on short notice is fraught with peril. Over the next decade, keep your eye on five nations in particular that may pursue that path: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/13/AR2006101301398.html
My own feeling is that the North Korean nuclear program is being done to make sure the current leaders family remains in control of the nation after his demise. This is not lost on the world's dictators. The following article is a must read: THE NIGHTMARE AFTER IRAQ
Kim Jong Il’s succession was aided by the link that his father had established in the North Korean mind between the Kim Family Regime and the Choson Dynasty, which ruled the Korean peninsula for 500 years, starting in the late fourteenth century. Expertly tutored by his father, Kim consolidated power and manipulated the Chinese, the Americans, and the South Koreans into subsidizing him throughout the 1990s. And Kim is hardly impulsive: he has the equivalent of think tanks studying how best to respond to potential attacks from the United States and South Korea—attacks that themselves would be reactions to crises cleverly instigated by the North Korean government in Pyongyang. “The regime constitutes an extremely rational bunch of killers,” Lankov says.
Yet for all Kim’s canniness, there is evidence that he may be losing his edge. And that may be reason to worry: totalitarian regimes close to demise are apt to get panicky and do rash things. The weaker North Korea gets, the more dangerous it becomes. The question that should be of greatest concern to the U.S. military in the Pacific—and the question that will likely determine the global balance of power in Asia for generations—is, What happens when North Korea collapses?
The Nightmare After Iraq
Sen. Hillary Clinton isn't exactly cash-starved as she heads into the closing days of her race against her GOP rival, former Yonkers Mayor John Spencer.
New York's junior senator had about $15.8 million on hand at the end of September, according to campaign finance filings released yesterday, and early this month she donated more than $1 million to other Democratic campaign groups. Spencer spokesman Rob Ryan said, "It's obvious: Sen. Clinton is using this money to fund her run for President." http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/story/461566p-388379c.html
A TIMETABLE that would lead to power sharing in Northern Ireland has been put in place following talks at St Andrews.
A target date for devolution of March 26 next year has been put in place by the British and Irish governments.
Parties from both sides of the divide, including the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Fein, now have until November 10 to respond to the proposals.
If all sides agree a first and deputy first minister would be nominated on November 24. http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1523432006&format=print
Female students at a new Islamic school will be made to wear head scarves regardless of their religion, it was revealed yesterday.
The Madani High School in Leicester will be required by law to accept 10 per cent of its 600 pupils from a non-Muslim background.
But girls who are not Muslim will still have to abide by a rule insisting all female pupils cover their heads as part of the uniform.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23370738-details/Non-Muslim%20students%20at%20Islamic%20school%20forced%20to%20wear%20headscarves/article.do
Iraq is already in a state of "limited civil war" and progress towards making its army viable is "faltering," a leading U.S. expert says. "Iraq is already in a state of limited civil war," wrote Anthony H. Cordesman, who holds the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a prominent Washington think tank, in an executive summary of his new report published last week and entitled "Iraqi Force Development and the Challenge of Civil War: Can Iraqi Forces do the Job?"
Cordesman wrote: "What began as a small resistance movement centered around loyalists to the Baath and Saddam Hussein has expanded to include neo-Salafi Sunni terrorism, become a broadly based Sunni insurgency, and now a broader sectarian and ethnic conflict."
Although the Bush administration remains publicly upbeat about the rapid development of Iraq's 300,000-man strong security forces, including an envisaged 10-division army, Cordesman wrote that the development of these security forces remains "slow or faltering."
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Assessing_The_New_Iraqi_Army_In_Late_2006_999.html Posted at 10:47 am by Psychomike
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Iran, N Korea- What War Means
PLANS previously drafted by the Pentagon predict 52,000 US military casualties and one million civilian dead in the first 90 days of conflict if America attacked Pyongyang. The US leadership is looking at international economic and diplomatic sanctions against North Korea as its primary response to Monday's nuclear test.
But military contingencies are considered as a matter of course and analysts paint a horrific picture for even the most targeted of US strikes.
A report this week by US-based security and military analyst Stratfor predicts North Korea could return fire on Seoul with "several hundred thousand high-explosive rounds per hour" -- with up to 25 per cent of shells filled with nerve gas.
Other estimates say the US would need at least 500,000 ground troops to secure against a North invasion of the South.
"When US military planners have nightmares, they have nightmares about war with North Korea," the Stratfor analysis says.
Despite the risks, Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations expert Michael Levi, along with several Australian analysts, believe a North Korean nuclear test would increase the likelihood of a US military response.
Pentagon strategists continue to work on military contingencies but all scenarios forecast massive casualties and a high likelihood of escalating war.
When confronted with Pentagon drafts in 2004, US President George W. Bush was reported to have been horrified at the human cost. Updated Pentagon plans outlining bombing of North Korean nuclear sites, border artillery and troop emplacements call for:
FULL STORY HERE: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,20565819-661,00.html#
US General: Strikes on Iran possible by 2007
US Air Force General reveals details of possible US aerial offensive against Iran should diplomacy fail to solve dispute over Tehran's nuclear ambition; says 'doing it alone' is not an option for Israel
Yitzhak Benhorin
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WASHINGTON - Is it possible to halt Iran's nuclear program by military means? For years, this question has been asked by Israeli and US military officials.
Israel prefers Washington to act on its behalf but academics, left-wing politicians and experts say a military option is not on the cards for the Bush administration because of the situation in Iraq.
But retired US Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney thinks otherwise. There is a good military solution to Iran's nukes but it requires courage and determination to act Mcinerney told Ynet in an interview.
McInerney served as a pilot and a strategic commander in the US Air Force for 35 years. Following his retirement in 1994 he served as a commentator for Fox News.
McInerney said Iran should be attacked by fall 2007 if diplomacy fails.
He added that an aerial attack should be backed by a secret land operation aimed at deposing the Ayatollahs.
McInerney said a military operation against Iran should aim at destroying 1,500 targets within 24 to 36 hours, which would delay Iran's nuclear ambitions by at least five years.
He added that paralyzing the Iranian air force and the Shihab 3 missiles aimed at Israel would be among the goals of a US military offensive against Iran.
He said the Iranian Navy should also be destroyed to prevent Tehran from blocking the Persian Gulf.
The retired general estimates that such offensive would significantly destabilize the Ayatollah's regime.
Asked whether the exiled Iranian opposition is capable of governing Iran once the Ayatollahs are ousted, McInerney said the Iranian nation is divided and many citizens opposed to the Ayatollahs would attempt to take power.
Over 4,300 protests took place in Iran last year, he said.
He also noted that only 51 percent of Iranians are Persians while 49 percent belong to different ethnic groups.
He added that the Ayatollahs can be ousted if the US clandestinely supports opposition groups within Iran.
A US aerial attack against Iran would involve the following stages, says Mcinerney:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3314171,00.html Posted at 07:03 pm by Psychomike
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
The Life And Death Of Murdered Journalist Anna Politkovskaya, Child Soldiers Of The Congo, Ethiopian Women Most Abused
Even as people were trying to get over the shock after the killing of prominent journalist Anna Politkovskaya, a top Russian banker was shot dead here in a suspected case of contract killing.
Alexander Plokhin, a director of the Moscow branch of Russia's state-owned Foreign Trade Bank, Vneshtorgbank, was shot in the head on the staircase of an apartment building yesterday. Police, who found a pistol cartridge at the scene, said the attack bore the hallmarks of a contract killing, Interfax reported.
Plokhin is the second Russian banker to be killed in a month.
http://www.deepikaglobal.com/ENG4_sub.asp?ccode=ENG4&newscode=146679
To many of us Anna Politkovskaya will remain the epitome of what a journalist should be.
She represented the best traditions of the Russian intelligentsia - highly cultured, courageous and fiercely honest.
A softly-spoken and serious woman who always talked in measured terms, she was deeply concerned about what was happening in her country.
She was also deeply disturbed by the direction the Putin administration was taking it, and despite the huge pressures put on Russia's media to submit and conform, she regularly investigated and reported the many abuses she believed were ruining the country's progress towards a normal state of democracy. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6034701.stm
Anna Politkovskaya made her name reporting from Chechnya for Russia's liberal newspaper, Novaya Gazeta.
She was also the author of two books in English, A Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in Chechnya (2001), and Putin's Russia (2004).
Her writing was often polemical, as bitter in its condemnation of the Russian army and the Russian government as it was fervent in support of human rights and the rule of law.
The following are extracts from Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya published by Harvill. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6035133.stm
In the House of Farewell, an austere, cavernous funeral hall at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery, the body of murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya lay in an open casket Tuesday afternoon as thousands of mourners -- ambassadors, journalists, civil activists, politicians and ordinary Russians -- filed past and paid their final respects.
No senior Kremlin official attended http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/10/AR2006101000859.html
A well-placed insider said today that some within the intelligence community are taking an alternative view in confirming Pyongyang’s claims that it has a nuclear program. Other than loud words, a few seismic wiggles, acquisition of nuclear technology and materials, and an active missile program, there is little hard evidence of a nuclear program. Some analysts believe North Korea may now be perpetrating a ruse. Those analysts believe Pyongyang may be replacing a failing nuclear program with an active deception program.
Some analysts believe North Korea may now be playing a high-stakes political gambit modeling its strategy after Libya. Gadhafi, once considered one of the more evil leaders on earth, acquired nuclear components and apparently set out to make atomic weapons, yet after apparently failing, agreed to give up his WMD program if sanctions were dropped. http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MWNjMzgyZDAzMTc4YWFiYjgzNDdjZTk3ZGRmODkyNTE=
At least 11 000 children in Congo are still in the hands of armed groups or unaccounted for three years after the end of a war in which they were captured and forced to fight, Amnesty International said today.
Democratic Republic of Congo is trying to haul itself back to lasting peace after a 1998-2003 conflict dubbed Africa's first world war, which triggered a humanitarian crisis estimated to have killed nearly four million people. But as the vast country prepares for an October 29 presidential run-off vote meant to open a new era in its history, thousands of children are still being kept as fighters by armed groups ready to return to war if peace fails, Amnesty said in a report.
Congo's government launched a programme across the country - roughly the size of western Europe - two years ago to release child soldiers and reintegrate them into civilian life, but Amnesty said the scheme was failing.
http://www.sabcnews.com/africa/central_africa/0,2172,136449,00.html
Women in Ethiopia are most likely to suffer violence at the hands of their partners, says the United Nations.
Nearly 60% of Ethiopian women were subjected to sexual violence, including marital rape, according to the Ending Violence Against Women report.
Almost half of all Zambian women said they had been attacked by a partner. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6040180.stm
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