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Britain's politicians endanger the world http://www.news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1058222002 UK allows nuclear material sale to Iran By BILL JACOBS Westminster Editor THE Government has allowed the export of key nuclear weapons-grade material to Iran despite the fact that the Islamic fundamentalist country is trying to develop its own atomic bomb. The BBC revealed today that the Department of Trade and Industry allowed a quantity of the metal beryllium – a key component for the manufacture of nuclear weapons – to be sold to the Tehran regime despite a ban on the sale of arms to the country. Iran fought a ten-year war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and since the coup which replaced the Shah with Ayatollah Khomeini has been seen as one of the most dangerous Muslim states in the Middle East. The BBC’s File on Four programme tonight will disclose that other countries also received beryllium despite Britain being signed up to an international agreement restricting the sale of the metal to countries trying to develop nuclear weapons including Iran. The news came as Prime Minister Tony Blair addressed the cabinet prior to tomorrow's debate of a recalled Westminster parliament on military action to oust Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein partly because he is seeking to make his own nuclear weapons. The revelations have alarmed MPs who now plan to raise the issue in the House of Commons tomorrow and elsewhere. Roger Berry the Labour MP who chairs the select committee which scrutinises controls on arms exports, has said he knew nothing about the sale of beryllium to Iran last year. He said: “I’m so concerned that I will raise the issue with ministers.†Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman Menzies Campbell said he was “extremely alarmed†at the news. -XeNo-

Faithless is my fuckin' favorite band.....

LOL i saw that Tony I almost fell out of my fuckin' chair LOL

Yeah I read a little bit whenever I get time, haven't read those books yet though, but they sound very interesting. -XeNo-

Yeah I don't think he's quite evolved up the evolutionary scale yet.... -XeNo-

I'm so sick of this bullshit now I don't even feel like reading or watching the news or anything. God sees what's going on so he'll know how to deal with this situation, afterall what goes around comes around. Israel will get it one day for their actions.... "The eyes of truth are always watching you" -XeNo-

I heard Bush wanted to schedule an attack for this Wednesday........talk about a patient man LOL. -XeNo-

LOL you can't be serious, are you?

That's fucked up

They're wrong. In Chapter 5, verse 69 of the Q'uran it says that as long as you believe in one God and his prophets, you can enter Paradise. -XeNo-

hehe where did u get that?

What's your problem anyway kid?? You ask questions and ppl answer them for you but then you get into a hissy fit like you have your panties in a bunch.... Calm down boy.... -XeNo-

There is only one true Islam igloo. Pick up an English version of the Q'uran or the Hadith. I'm sure you'll benefit from it. Peace, -XeNo-

Answering Bush's War Propaganda on Iraq BUSH'S "WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION" HOAX: BIG LIE MASKS REAL MOTIVE FOR IRAQ WAR PART 1: ANSWERING BUSH'S WAR PROPAGANDA The tasks facing the new international anti-war movement include developing a popular and effective answer to the White House propaganda machine. Bush and the Pentagon are working non-stop to demonize the victims of their planned attack, while creating a credible pretext for war. Working people in the United States, and especially the youth, must be able to learn the real causes for the coming conflict and learn how to respond to the Pentagon's lies. Otherwise people will be susceptible to the pro-war hype and frenzy that are being cynically generated to prepare public opinion for war. The main argument used by the White House to scare up support for an invasion is that "Saddam Hussein must be prevented from acquiring or developing chemical, biological or nuclear weapons--a.k.a. weapons of mass destruction." The White House has focused on this bogus argument because it has no other. Every effort was made to connect Iraq to the Sept. 11 attack and later to the anthrax attacks in the autumn of 2001. But there was no evidence of a connection, so Bush simply broadened the scope of the "war on terrorism" by proclaiming that Iraq, Iran, north Korea and other "evil" countries would be considered terrorist and subject to preemptive military attacks. What made them terrorists? Bush said they were "trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction." Iraq certainly did possess and use chemical weapons in the 1980s. Both Iraq and Iran used such weapons against each other in that brutal and reactionary war. But these weapons were not "frightening" to the U.S. at the time of their use. Donald Rumsfeld, the current secretary of defense, was meeting in Baghdad with Saddam Hussein and other Iraqi leaders in December 1983 and March 1984, and improving U.S.-Iraqi relations on behalf of the Reagan administration when the allegations concerning chemical weapons surfaced. But this was when the U.S. was encouraging Iraq's war effort as part of a strategy to weaken and exhaust the Iranian Revolution. During the 1991 Gulf War, Iraq did not use chemical or non-conventional weapons, but the U.S. did. It dropped tons of depleted uranium weapons all over Iraq. It is important to deconstruct the piece of propaganda regarding "weapons of mass destruction." It is the only pretext available to the war-makers and it needs to be answered effectively. The facts are very crucial to understanding the duplicity of U.S. strategy. The U.S. is employing a classic Catch-22 public relations technique aimed at demonizing Iraq before an uninformed and unsuspecting public. BACKGROUND TO OPERATION DESERT FOX Iraq agreed in 1991 to let in UN weapons inspectors--a condition imposed by the United States at the end of the Gulf War. The U.S. insisted that economic sanctions would be lifted only after inspectors verified that Iraq was free from non-conventional weapons. But for the last four years it has been the U.S. government that has worked hard at manipulating the UN so that there would be no inspectors in Iraq, thus eliminating any chance of ending sanctions. After the U.S.-dominated team carried out 9,000 inspections over nearly eight years, Iraq demanded in 1998 that the UN/U.S. economic sanctions be ended. Most governments in the UN favored lifting sanctions. The demand to end the sanctions was gaining irresistible momentum. This prompted the Clinton administration to withdraw the weapons inspectors on Dec. 12, 1998, on the pretext that Iraq was not "fully cooperating," creating the impression that Iraq was leading inspectors on some wild goose chase or blocking their path. Clinton argued that the U.S. had no choice but to bomb Iraq because it was blocking meaningful inspections. In fact, the United Nations Special Commission--UNSCOM--cited only five "obstructions" to the 423 inspections conducted between Nov. 18-Dec.12, 1998. One was a 45-minute delay before allowing access. Another was Iraq's rebuff to a demand by a U.S. inspector that she be able to interview all the undergraduate students in Baghdad University's Science Department. Two other cases of Iraq's alleged non-compliance had to do with UNSCOM's request to inspect two establishments on Friday--the Muslim holy day. Since the establishments were closed, Iraq asserted that the inspections must be held another day or that an Iraqi official would accompany the inspectors--in accordance with an agreement between UNSCOM and Iraq regarding Friday inspections. Less than 48 hours after the inspectors were withdrawn from Iraq, the Pentagon began the massive bombing campaign known as Operation Desert Fox on Dec. 16-19, 1998. U.S. and British warplanes dropped more than 1,000 missiles and bombs on the country during those four days. Two weeks after Operation Desert Fox, U.S. officials publicly admitted the weapons inspectors were intelligence agents who provided Pentagon bombing planners with bombing coordinates. (New York Times, Jan. 7, 1999) Predictably--and justifiably--the Iraqi government announced that it would no longer cooperate with the UN weapons inspections. Bush, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Richard Cheney now routinely bellow that Iraq has denied weapons inspectors access to the country for four years; Iraq is intransigent and defiant of UN resolutions. And thus, the U.S. has cynically crafted the chief rationale for the coming invasion. IRAQI DIPLOMACY REBUFFED AGAIN Bush, Rumsfeld and Co. reveal the depth of their cynicism and duplicity as they work overtime now to make it nearly impossible for weapons inspectors to return to Iraq. That would slow down the invasion plan--their biggest fear of all. On Aug. 1, the day the Senate hearings concluded, Iraq's foreign minister released a letter sent to UN General Secretary Kofi Annan announcing that Iraq was ready to resume discussions about the possible re-admission of UN weapons inspectors. Given the experience of the past, however, when so-called inspectors were actually gathering coordinates for cruise missile attacks, Iraq wanted discussions first to set terms. Iraq also offered to allow a delegation of U.S. congressional representatives, accompanied by arms experts of their choice, to tour sites in Iraq where they suspect weapons of mass destruction are hidden. Far from defusing the U.S. war drive, however, the Bush administration immediately dismissed the Iraqi invitation to discuss the return of the weapons inspectors or the invitation to an arms control delegation from Congress. Colin Powell, secretary of state, and frequently portrayed as less hawkish than the other Bushies, made it clear that the U.S. wouldn't take "yes" for an answer from Iraq. "Inspection is not the issue, disarmament is ... we have seen the Iraqis fiddle with the inspection system before," Powell said dismissively while stopping over in the Philippines. (The Observer, Aug. 4) Another official, John Bolton, U.S. under-secretary for arms control, was even more blunt: "Our policy ... insists on regime change in Baghdad and that policy will not be altered, whether inspectors go in or not." (British Radio 4 Today show, Aug. 4) WHO ARE THE REAL TERRORISTS? If the production of weapons of mass destruction is the criteria to affix the terrorist label, then clearly George W. Bush presides over the biggest terrorist enterprise now or at any time in world history. The U.S. has the largest nuclear arsenal--more than 6,000 nuclear missiles and bombs. It has spent $4 trillion on nuclear weapons since 1945. When it had a monopoly on these weapons it did not hesitate to use them against civilian centers--up to 200,000 civilians were instantly incinerated in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Bush is spending hundreds of billions on militarizing outer space. The recently-released Pentagon military doctrine includes a declaration of its right to first use of nuclear weapons against Iraq, north Korea, Iran, China and Russia. The U.S. has Trident submarines and U.S. aircraft carriers carrying nuclear weapons 24 hours a day as the imperial fleet roams the seven seas. The U.S. government used chemical weapons in Vietnam, spraying Agent Orange over vast parts of that country. Thousands of U.S. GIs and an unknown number of Vietnamese people died, or live difficult and painful lives from the after-effects. Today, the U.S. government manufactures chemical and biological weapons, a fact that was routinely denied and only admitted after the anthrax attacks of 2001. And the U.S. government--led by both Democrats and Republicans--has knowingly and deliberately killed more than 1 million Iraqi civilians through the quieter, less dramatic weapon known as economic sanctions. This weapon that has killed 5,000 children every month for 12 years must be regarded as a weapon of mass destruction. It's time for anti-war activists to begin going to U.S. military bases and demanding to see if they have weapons of mass destruction on their premises, including chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, and depleted uranium. GET INVOLVED IN THE CAMPAIGN TO STOP THE WAR IN IRAQ BEFORE IT STARTS! 1) October 26, 2002: Internationally Coordinated Day of Mass Actions. On this day, protests will take place around the U.S. and internationally. Organize an action in your city or town! Email dc@internationalanswer.org to add your group's endorsement and/or to let us know about an action taking place in your city. 2) January 18, 2003: Save the date for a National March on the White House in Washington DC 3) Make a donation to help stop the war. Tax-deductible donations can be made online at http://www.internationalanswer.org/donate.html FOR MORE INFORMATION dc@internationalanswer.org New York: 212-633-6646 Washington DC: 202-332-5757 Chicago: 773-878-0166 Los Angeles: 213-487-2368 San Francisco: 415-821-6545 International A.N.S.W.E.R. Act Now to Stop War & End Racism http://www.internationalanswer.org *To subscribe directly to A.N.S.W.E.R.'s email list (low volume), email dc@internationalanswer.org with "subscribe" in your subject line*

What does this have to do with what Islam says about terror? Militant Islam is not a part of Islam... -XeNo-

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Bush does not give a fuck about Iraqi civilians.....there is always a hidden agenda to the U.S's actions. In Afghanistan, it's the pipeline, and in this case it's the same, more oil for the U.S. Also, I think Bush also wants to go to war with Sadaam on a personal level, because Sadaam tried to assassinate Bush Sr. when he was in office. There are alot more issues at home we have to deal with before we start fuckin around with other ppl, the most important being that we haven't even captured Osama Bin Laden. -XeNo- http://www.internationalanswer.org

Resolutions are resolutions, and their both being defied, who cares about the causes if the U.N is suppose to have the final say? Ok so you say that sadaam is willlingly killing his peaceful people, since when has the U.S. GOVERNMENT cared about justice and foreign civilians? ...if they did they would help both sides of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.... Don't you think it's hypocritical to let Israel defy 30 years of International Law and have Iraq bombed because of thier sanctions? I sure do..... The Israeli army is willingly killing palestinian civilians also.....please lets not get into an Israeli/Palestinian debate because I have been throught that many times on this board.... -XeNo-

Forgot to add one point....It's interesting the way things go down. Iraq goes to war with Iran for ten years (two muslim countries fighting, I don't know why), Sadaam is still in power but the U.S. supports him in fighting Iran. Saddaam then ivades Kuwait (another Muslim country) for what I don't know? Sadaam apparently really hates Shites......the man is loony but I still don't support a war against him. The U.S. helps Afghanistan fight the USSR, but recently bombs the shit out of them in the war on terror. Israel has ignored and defied U.N. resolutions and International law for over 30 years and everybody is cool with it. Iraq defies U.N. resolutions for 12 years, most of which are killing up to 5,000 children every month and everyone wants to go to war. -XeNo-

Also, generally speaking Muslims haven't really had a love affair for each other which ends up severely hurting them..... -XeNo-

Alright well look. All of what Sassa described is true, but that doesn't mean everybody follows their religion 100%. The Saudis are strict fundamentalists, who take there beliefs too far sometimes. Everybody everywhere is persecuted because of their beliefs. Muslims are severely persecuted in India everyday because of thier clash with Hindus, yet Hinduism teaches not to hurt anybody or anything and preaches non-violence. Another example, people in this country are far from religious. The U.S. being a Christian country, Christianity also teaches women to dress moderatley and pre-marital sex is forbidden....yet we have strip clubs, playboy magazines, pornos....etc, etc......all I'm trying to say is that people don't follow thier religion the way they are suppose to, they mold and shape their religious beliefs into the type of lifestyle they want to live. Take me for an example, I try to stay true to the major beliefs and try to stay away from the major sins, but I have a girlfriend, which is forbidden in Islam and Christanity and Judaism. I don't pray five times a day either. One has to realize that one can be a good person and still be a bad Muslim, Christian, Jew....etc. And if you don't believe me or Sassa, you can pick up an English version of the Q'uran and read it yourself so you can decide for yourself whether it is true or not. Peace, -XeNo-

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