By Franklin Lamb
September 6, 2010
Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp
Beirut
The untreated psychic wounds are still open. Accountability, justice and basic civil rights for the survivors are still denied.
Scores of horror testimonies have been shared over the past nearly three decades by survivors of the September 1982 Sabra- Shatila massacre. More come to light only through circumstantial evidence [...]
Munir’s Story: 28 Years after the Massacre at Sabra-Shatila
Robert Fisk: The crimewave that shames the world
It’s one of the last great taboos: the murder of at least 20,000 women a year in the name of ‘honour’. Nor is the problem confined to the Middle East: the contagion is spreading rapidly
Independent Tuesday, 7 September 2010
It is a tragedy, a horror, a crime against humanity. The details of the murders – [...]
Hebron: soldiers convert Palestinian home into military base
International Solidarity Movement ISM Media September 6, 2010
Israeli soldiers have erected tents on the roof of the Salayma family’s home and are occupying the building
On Friday the Israeli army raided a Palestinian house in Hebron and converted it into a military base, forcing a family of 14 to move into the first floor of their [...]
Facebook threats force French minister to postpone wedding
By John Lichfield in Paris
Independent Tuesday, 7 September 2010
As far as Eric Besson is concerned, Facebook, the social website, just became antisocial. The French Immigration minister, 52, has been forced to postpone his wedding to a 24-year-old Tunisian art student after more than 1,000 people signed up to a Facebook group which pledged to disrupt [...]
New IAEA Report on Iran Says Little, Sparks Flurry of New Speculation
US Finds Report ‘Troubling’ as Iran Sees Vindication
by Jason Ditz,
Antiwar Forum - September 06, 2010
The IAEA’s latest report on Iran, leaked today to a number of media outlets, has sparked a wild array of stories and speculation, though it appears to say very little. CNN’s headline “IAEA: Iran still enriching uranium” perhaps says it all, [...]
Mohammed ElBaradei urges Egypt election boycott
BBC 7 September 2010
A leading opposition figure in Egypt has called for a boycott of November’s parliamentary election, saying it is certain to be rigged by the government.
Mohammed ElBaradei said participating would go against “the national will” to transform Egypt into a democracy.
The ex-head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said the “next year and [...]
Petraeus: Koran burning plan will endanger US troops
BBC 7 September 2010
The top US commander in Afghanistan has warned that troops’ lives will be in danger if an American church sticks to its plan to burn copies of the Koran.
Gen David Petraeus said the action could cause problems “not just in Kabul, but everywhere in the world”.
Pastor Terry Jones, of the Dove [...]
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