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this piece of news shows that nobody even the strongest power can hide the TRUTH!

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5375064.stm

BBC
Last Updated: Sunday, 24 September 2006, 10:17 GMT 11:17 UK


US report says Iraq fuels terror

The violence in Iraq shows little sign of abating

The New York Times newspaper has published what it says are the findings of a classified US intelligence paper on the effects of the Iraq war.

The document reportedly blames the conflict for increasing the threat of terrorism and helping fuel Islamic radicalism worldwide.

Such a conclusion is at odds with the White House's persistent claim that going to war has made the world safer.

The paper has not seen the report, but spoke to people familiar with it.

Comprehensive study

The BBC's defence correspondent Rob Watson says this is not the first time the US intelligence community has said that the war in Iraq has made the problem of Islamist extremism worse.

Indeed it had warned that might happen even before the US-led invasion.

Many have been inspired by al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden

But, our correspondent says, this latest finding, known as a National Intelligence Estimate, is the most comprehensive report yet, based on the considered analysis of all 16 of America's intelligence agencies.

According to the New York Times, which has spoken to officials who have either read it, or been involved in drafting it, the report says the invasion and occupation of Iraq has spawned a new generation of Islamic radicalism that has spread across the globe.

It also warns that Islamic militants who have fought in Iraq could foment radicalism and violence when they return to their home countries, much as returning Jihadis did after the war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s.

Al-Qaeda threat

It reportedly concludes that, while al-Qaeda may have been weakened since the 11 September 2001 attacks, the radical Islamic movement worldwide has strengthened with the formation of new groups and cells who are inspired by Osama Bin Laden, but not under his direct control.

The report will make uncomfortable reading at the White House, our correspondent says. In a series of recent speeches, President George W Bush has been portraying the war in Iraq as the central front in the war on terrorism.

This report implies while that may be true, that it is a front of America's own making.

In the past, Mr Bush has dismissed such reasoning by arguing that Islamic militants had hated the US long before it invaded Iraq, or even Afghanistan for that matter.

wonder why .. !

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5375144.stm


BBC
Last Updated: Sunday, 24 September 2006, 10:20 GMT 11:20 UK

Venezuela rejects US apologies

Mr Maduro says his detention was a breach of international law

Venezuela has made a formal complaint to the US authorities and the United Nations after its foreign minister was detained at a New York airport.

The US state department has apologised to Nicolas Maduro who was detained for 90 minutes at New York's JFK airport as he travelled home.

He had been attending this week's UN General Assembly meeting.

He said he was verbally abused and strip-searched in what he said was a "flagrant breach of international law".

President Hugo Chavez described Mr Maduro's detention as a provocation.

Our correspondent Pascale Harter says the apology has done little to ease the tense relations between the two countries.

Mr Maduro said the US apology was not enough.

"We were detained during an hour and a half, threatened by police with being beaten," he told reporters at Venezuela's mission to the UN. "We hold the US government responsible."

US authorities initially denied Mr Maduro had been detained and his documents seized, saying he had simply been asked to go through a second security screening.

The US state department later confirmed the incident had taken place and apologised.

"The state department can confirm there was an incident with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro at JFK airport in New York," a spokesman said.

"The state department regrets this incident. The United States government apologised to Foreign Minister Maduro and the Venezuelan government."

Coup questions

President Chavez earlier said Mr Maduro had been questioned about his alleged role in a failed Venezuelan coup attempt in 1992, led by Mr Chavez.

US officials said airport security had questioned him, and diplomatic security was then sent to resolve the issue.

This latest episode shows that even small difficulties between the two governments are likely to trigger full-blown diplomatic rows, says the BBC's Greg Morsbach in Caracas.

Fire getting hotta !

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5365142.stm

BBC
Last Updated: Wednesday, 20 September 2006, 21:13 GMT 22:13 UK

Chavez tells UN Bush is 'devil'

Hugo Chavez used his speech to lash at US influence Speech Extract

Venezuela's leader Hugo Chavez has called US President George W Bush "the devil" in a speech at the United Nations General Assembly.

"The devil came here yesterday," he said, referring to Mr Bush's speech on Tuesday. "It still smells of sulphur today," he added.

US State Department spokesman Tom Casey said it was disappointing to see a head of state speak in such a way.

Mr Chavez went on to criticise the UN system, which he said was "worthless".

The left-wing Venezuelan leader - allied to Cuba's Fidel Castro and with growing ties to fellow oil-producer Iran - has long had tense relations with the US.

UN 'worthless'

On Tuesday, Mr Bush had defended his policies on the Middle East and said democracy was gaining ground as terrorists were marginalised.

The UN system born after World War II collapsed. It's worthless Hugo Chavez Venezuelan President UN session at a glance

Mr Chavez, who brandished a copy of American leftist writer Noam Chomsky's Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance, said Mr Bush promoted "a false democracy of the elite" and a "democracy of bombs".

"He came here talking as if he were the owner of the world," the Venezuelan leader said.

He called for drastic reform of the UN to reduce what he called US influence.

The UN in its current form "doesn't work", he said.

"I don't think anybody in this room could defend the system," the Venezuelan leader added.

The UN General Assembly is holding its 61st session

"Let's be honest. The UN system born after World War II collapsed. It's worthless."

Mr Chavez's criticism of the UN echoed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech to the assembly late on Tuesday, BBC diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall reports from New York.

"As long as the UN Security Council is unable to act on behalf of the entire international community in a transparent, just and democratic manner, it will neither be legitimate nor effective," Mr Ahmadinejad said in a speech delivered a few hours after Mr Bush's appearance.

Afghan appeal

Wednesday's session opened with a speech by Afghan President Hamid Karzai who argued military action alone would not stop terrorism in his country.

They decapitate elderly women, blow up mosques full of worshipers and kill school-going children in indiscriminate bombings of civilian areas Hamid Karzai Afghan president Karzai addresses UN

He called for the destruction of safe havens and elaborate networks operating in the region to recruit, train, finance, arm and deploy terrorists.

And he said the answer to defeating the drugs trade lay in international support for providing a "meaningful alternative livelihood to our farmers".

In other business at the General Assembly

• The US and the three other members of the so-called quartet of Mid-East mediators endorsed the idea of a Palestinian national unity government
• African Union leaders decided to extend the mandate of their peacekeeping force in Darfur until the end of the year
• The UN was due to hold a special meeting to discuss the four-year-old crisis in Ivory Coast, divided since its civil war.

latest news on the inappropriate remarks from missa pop

It is interesting to follow what willl evolve in pop's visit to Istanbul. Istanbul is the seat of Byzantine Orthodox Church which split with the Catholic 'pop' church in Rome in around 1050 after Iseyus Kristos -kNOWn in the Western World as Jesus Christ. Constantinople was conquered by the Turks in 1453. Since then Istanbul has been the heart of Muslim TurkIYE created by Ataturk and his hard working and peace loveing people.


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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5353208.stm

Security tight for Pope blessing

Security has been tightened in Rome ahead of Pope Benedict XVI's first public appearance since making comments deemed offensive by many Muslims.

The Pope will be under intense scrutiny as he issues Sunday's Angelus blessing.

In a speech on Tuesday he quoted a 14th Century Christian emperor who said the Prophet Muhammad had brought the world only "evil and inhuman" things.

A Vatican statement on Saturday said he was "very sorry" if his comments had offended and that he "esteems Muslims".

Insurgent 'threat'

Police are promising meticulous security checks in an extended area around Sunday's blessing at his residence at Castel Gandolfo near Rome but said they would be discreet so as not to disturb the prayers.

The Holy Father is very sorry that some passages of his speech may have sounded offensive to the sensibilities of Muslim believers Tarcisio Bertone Vatican secretary of state

The BBC's Christian Fraser in Rome says the Pope will be under huge diplomatic pressure and he knows that the world will be expecting a comment on the past week's events.

However, our correspondent says it is unlikely he will go further than the apology issued on Saturday.

Reading the statement, new Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone said the Pope's position on Islam was in line with Vatican teaching that the Church "esteems Muslims, who adore the only God".

"The Holy Father is very sorry that some passages of his speech may have sounded offensive to the sensibilities of Muslim believers," the statement said.

HAVE YOUR SAY Pope Benedict probably should self-criticise Christianity's violent past before commenting on the other faith John Lin, Illinois

The incident led Morocco to withdraw its ambassador to the Vatican, calling the comments "offensive".

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood said the apology did not go far enough and called on the pontiff to say sorry in person.

"The Vatican Secretary of State says that the Pope is sorry because his statements had been badly interpreted, but there is no bad interpretation," Abdel Moneim Abul Futuh, a senior official from the party told AFP news agency.

A statement on a web site purportedly issued by the Iraqi insurgent group, the Mujahideen Army, threatened an attack on the Vatican. The statement could not be independently authenticated.

Our correspondent says the crisis could not have come at a worse time for the Pope.

Not only is he due to visit Muslim Turkey in November but he has also recently appointed two new men to the jobs of secretary of state and head of diplomacy at the Vatican.

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said the comments had been "ugly and unfortunate" and when asked if the Pope's trip would go ahead, he said: "I wouldn't know."

Protests

In his speech at Regensburg University on Tuesday, the German-born Pope quoted Emperor Manuel II Paleologos of the Orthodox Christian Byzantine Empire.

Stressing that they were not his own words, he quoted the emperor saying: "Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."

He also said that violence was "incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul".

Reactions to the speech have come from such leaders as Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, who said efforts to link Islam and terrorism should be clearly opposed.

Street protests have been held in Pakistan, India, Turkey and Gaza.

In the West Bank city of Nablus, two churches were firebombed on Saturday in attacks claimed by a group which said it was protesting against the Pope's remarks.

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latest discovery about movement of people in history

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5352430.stm

basically the article says that once Britain was connected to Mainland Europe. The river flows that were created by the melting of the ice-cold ice managed to make Britain and island.

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anniversary of beginning of the end

today is september 11. and some people are mourning the death of about 1500 people who died that day. for me this day means something else. it is the beginning of the ultra-agressive policies of the government of the us and a.

since that day usa killed 66,000 people in iraq and afghanistan and left 4.5 million people as refugees.

these figures are based on the organization IRAQI BODY COUNT which can be found at http://www.iraqbodycount.net/


usa spent about 455 million dollars until today for the war in iraq. according to the movement "make poverty history" the amount of money required to erase the debt of underdeveloped countries in the entire world is 375 million dollars.

we, the peace and human-loving citizens of the world are sick of this massacre. it is only benefiting the already-thick pockets of the politicians and their immediate surroundings.

STOP IT USA AND BRITAIN! WE ARE SICK OF YOUR SICK WAYS !