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Occupied Jerusalem, Palestine -- Sixty years
of destruction and killing smear the faces of the Zionists who celebrated
their Independence in Palestine. It was on May 1948 that Israel declared
its rape of the Palestinians homeland and since that miserable day, the
Palestinians faced the option of resistance and die attempting to return
their homeland.
Israel's Independence today comes at the skulls and dead bodies of thousands
of innocent Palestinians. If the Israeli leaders feel proud of such achievement,
history does not hold this massacre as an achievement, but a crime against
humanity.
In the mean while, thousands of Palestinians worldwide protested Israel's
independence as a Day of Catastrophe against the Palestinians.
In the meanwhile, a new tragic Israeli crime in the West Bank, where Israeli
forces shot to death a Palestinian woman and made her 7 children orphans.
Israel, since its occupation of Palestine in 1948,
has committed daily crimes against the Palestinians. Illegal settlements
were established illegally depriving the Palestinians from their homes and
lands. Palestinian groups are waging a war of Independence from European
Zionists who occupied Palestine since 1948.
Baghdad, Iraq -- As the death toll of U.S. personnel killed in Iraq approaches
the 4,100 mark, two more U.S. servicemembers were killed on Friday. At least
3321 died as a result of hostile action, and about 13,379 servicemembers
were wounded and not returned to duty, according to the U.S. military. The
military also reported a roadside bombing on Sunday that killed two children
and wounded two civilians. It occurred in Khatoon, north of the Diyala provincial
capital of Baquba.
For the latest on the number of soldiers killed, check
the U.S. Dept of Defense website at the following link,
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/casualty.pdf.
The number of U.S. soldiers and personnel killed or
wounded in Iraq has been disputed by many U.S. informed sources and military
Generals. According to them, the real number is much higher than the number
reported by the U.S. DOD.
According to two independent and reliable U.S. studies,
over 675 thousands Iraqi civilians and military personnel and militias have
been killed since the invasion in 2003.
Yangon, Myanmar -- Over 85,000 people have been confirmed dead in
Myanmar, thousands others are considered missing. This tragedy was caused
by a cyclone that hit this poverty stricken country on Monday.
CNN reported that "destroyed homes along 30-kilometer stretches. In one area,
only four homes remained from a total of 369. People were taking shelter
under canvas sheets, and the weather remained awful."
The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) said it has managed to begin distributing
food in areas of Yangon and is preparing to send emergency supplies from
across Asia.
Preliminary WFP assessment reports confirmed tremendous storm damage to homes
and shelters, and they said flooding and road damage means some areas are
still cut off.
Spokeswoman Bettina Luescher said, "Many areas are accessible only by boat,
but many of the boats have been destroyed."
United Nations, New York -- The illegal Lebanese government of Fouad Seniora
continues to detain the four Lebanese Generals who were detained two years
ago without any charge. The Generals were accused of allegedly facilitating
the assassination of Rafik Hariri, the former Lebanese prime minister. A
charge later refuted by the UN appointed investigator in charge.
According to their families, the generals are being denied the basic of legal
procedures. They have been illegally detained for two years and for political
reasons are not being able to obtain bails.
In the last two years, the judicial system of Lebanon under the political
leadership (of the US and Israeli supported) Fou'ad Seniora, and with the
help of Sa'ad Hariri, the son of the Rafik Hariri, has become undemocratic
and unjust.
According to many Lebanese and International agencies, the detention of the
Generals in the Lebanese prison is unfair, undemocratic, inhumane, illegal
and politically motivated.
Informed sources share with us, "if you are detained in Lebanon, and you
are not politically supported, there is a great chance of not receiving fair
trial or justice. The reality is, in Lebanon, there is no functioning judicial
system. Most of the judges are corrupt and are merely employed or receiving
favors from the corrupt politicians and party heads." Today, in Lebanon,
"there is no judicial justice. If any, the justice is delayed at the expense
of human rights and human dignity," they continued.
Editor's Note: A special report about a Lebanese Senator, her Gynecologist
and expired medicine is coming soon.
Beirut, Lebanon -- Lebanon is burning. A labor demonstrations against the
illegal Lebanese government Fouad Seniora and its failed policies have turned
into a massive support for Hezbollah and the Lebanese oppositions groups.
The majority of Lebanese accuse the American kept Prime Minister, Fouad Seniroa,
as the reason of why most of their lives and economic situations have worsened.
The protest started early in the morning by demonstrations throughout Lebanon,
many of the Lebanese people live below the poverty level. The illegal government
of Seniora increased the minimum wage to 500,000 Lebanese lira ($315.00).
The demonstrators encouraged by the Lebanese General Labor Union have
demonstrated throughout the country.
The opposition indicated that today's demonstration is the first move toward
the fall of the American and Israeli backed and illegal government of the
traitor* Fouad Seniora.
In other development, Walid Junblat, the Israeli admired Lebanese politician
was placed under 24 hours surveillance by Western intelligence services
for fear of his assassination. According to the report, the decision to place
Junblat under the protection was by made at the request of the Israeli Mosad.
The Lebanese opposition accuse Junblat and Seniora of working and coordinating
the Lebanon second war with them in June 2006.
Lebanon, the small country with 4.5 million people has a foreign debts of
$48 billions. Most of the debts was acquired under the traitor Fouad Seniora,
the current prime minister.
Calls to put these people on trial have been made public by members of the
opposition.
The call for the labor protest against the policies of the government was
called by the Lebanese General Labor Union.
* Traitor is a term used to describe any Lebanese
citizen who cooperated with the Americans and Israelis against his country
and people.
Atlanta, USA -- The American President George W. Bush finally made
history as the most unpopular president in the history of this country. A
new CNN/Opinion research Corp released this week revealed that the majority
of Americans disapprove of how the U.S. president is his job as president.
"No president has ever had a higher disapproval rating in any CNN or Gallup
Poll; in fact, this is the first time that any president's disapproval rating
has cracked the 70 percent mark," said Keating Holland, CNN's polling director.
"Bush's approval rating, which stands at 28 percent in our new poll, remains
better than the all-time lows set by Harry Truman and Richard Nixon [22 percent
and 24 percent, respectively], but even those two presidents never got a
disapproval rating in the 70s," Holland said.
The poll also indicates that support for the war in Iraq has never been lower.
Thirty percent of those questioned favored the war, while 68 percent opposed
it.
"Americans are growing more pessimistic about the war," Holland said. " In
January, nearly half believed that things were going well for the U.S. in
Iraq; now that figure has dropped to 39 percent."
The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll was conducted by telephone from Monday
through Wednesday among 1,008 adult Americans.
The poll's sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Source: AP, Reuters, and other news bureaus
contributed to this News Brief.
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