“the detention of five (5) Israeli Nationals who may have poassessed information about the terrorist incident targeting the twin towners of New York City’s world Trade Center on 09/11/2001.”
Top Official Claims CIA Covered Up Efforts to Recruit 9/11 Hijackers
Former White House Counterterrorism Czar Richard A. Clarke is accusing the CIA of conducting a massive cover-up in the leadup to 9/11 over their failure to recruit two al-Qaeda terrorists who eventually became 9/11 hijackers. 
(Read more from antiwar.com)
Anyone notice anything strange about this MSNBC poll?
The Riots: A Mob Made By The Welfare State?
Gates: Israel an ‘Ungrateful Ally’
In comments at the National Security Council Principals Committee, former Secretary Gates termed the Israeli government an “ungrateful ally,” insisting they had offered “nothing in return” for massive amounts of US aid and high level intel sharing.
The context of the comments is equally telling, coming amid reports of an FBI whistleblower’s attempts to reveal the details of spying on the Israeli embassy. Though the attempted leak failed to go public, it is now revealed that it detailed “Israeli officials trying unlawfully to influence US policy and edging toward military action against Iran.” (Read more from news.antiwar.com)
Roman’s Book Report
Roman’s Book Report has launched.
Episode 1:
Postal Service Is Nearing Default as Losses Mount
The United States Postal Service has long lived on the financial edge, but it has never been as close to the precipice as it is today: the agency is so low on cash that it will not be able to make a $5.5 billion payment due this month and may have to shut down entirely this winter unless Congress takes emergency action to stabilize its finances. (Read more from nytimes.com)
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East Jerusalem: Sharing our house with settlers
Palestinians vandalize, set fire to a Jewish Temple
Just kidding, here’s the actual heading: ‘Settlers vandalize, set fire to West Bank mosque’
Palestinians, Rabbis for Human Rights report mosque near Nablus vandalized in apparent “price tag” attack following Migron demolitions.
Settlers set fire to a mosque south of Nablus early Monday morning, in an apparent “price tag” attack following the earlier demolition of three homes in the Migron outpost, the Ma’an news agency quoted Palestinian sources as saying.
Ma’an quoted the sources as saying the settlers stormed the mosque in the West Bank village of Qusara, smashing glass and setting fire to a number of tires within the mosque.
Rabbis for Human Rights corroborated the report, saying that the building was also vandalized with graffiti and the fire damaged the first floor of the structure in which the mosque is housed, but did not destroy it.
The organization also speculated that the arson incident was a “price tag” attack in retribution for the demolition at Migron. “Price tag” is a phrase right-wing settlers have adopted to signal retribution for any Israeli moves against settlement-outposts built without government authorization. (Read more from jpost.com)
Palestinians vandalize, set fire to Jewish Temple
‘Settlers vandalize, set fire to West Bank mosque’
On NY Times column praising of Libyian rebels
AP: “Tea party bulling its way into 2012 GOP race”
Nice headline. Because if you’re not status quo, you’re a kook, unelectable, an outsider, crazy, etc. And once you overcome that, you’re a bully.
UN “peace keepers” from Urugway caught on taping raping Hatian teen
The video is profoundly disturbing. It shows four men, identified as Uruguayan troops from the UN mission in Haiti (Minustah), seemingly in the act of raping an 18-year-old Haitian youth. Two have the victim pinned down on a mattress, with his hands twisted high up his back so that he cannot move. Perhaps the most unnerving part of the video is the constant chorus of laughter from the alleged perpetrators; to them, apparently, it’s just a drunken party.
ABC News reports that a Uruguayan navy lieutenant, Nicolas Casariego, has confirmed the authenticity of the video. A medical certificate filed with the court in Port Salut, a southern coastal town where the incident took place, says that the victim was beaten and had injuries consistent with a sexual assault.
The incident is likely to pour more gasoline on the fire of resentment that Haitians have for the UN troops who have occupied their country for more than seven years. There has been a dire pattern of abuses: in December 2007, more than 100 UN soldiers from Sri Lanka were deported under charges of sexual abuse of under-age girls. In 2005, UN troops went on the rampage in Cité Soleil, one of the poorest areas in Port-au-Prince, killing as many as 23 people, including children, according to witnesses. After the raid, the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders reported: “On that day, we treated 27 people for gunshot wounds. Of them, around 20 were women under the age of 18.”
WikiLeaks cables released in the last week reveal that the Timothy Carney, representing the United States government as the top-ranking diplomat in Haiti in 2006, warned that such raids would “inevitably cause unintended civilian casualties given the crowded conditions and flimsy construction of tightly packed housing in Cité Soleil”. (Read more from guardian.co.uk)
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References: Report reveals shame of UN peacekeepers Sexual abuse by soldiers ‘must be punished’ www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/mar/25/unitednations
U.N. Faces More Accusations of Sexual Misconduct www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30286-2005Mar12.html
Peacekeepers ‘abusing children’ news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7420798.stm
Haiti probes Uruguayan UN peacekeepers in rape news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Crime/Story/A1Story20110903-297540.html
U.N. Grapples With Peacekeeping Abuse www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,150798,00.html