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US Backed Israel Zionist Terrorists Say "We must be very concerned about Obama's victory."

USHOSTAGE1 — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:20:00 GMT

MK: Beware of Black in White House!
November 5, 2008
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US President-elect Barack Obama

An Israeli right wing lawmaker has warned the regime about the strategies US president-elect Barack Obama might adopt after taking office.

Aryeh Eldad, a National Union Member of Knesset (MK), expressed concern about Obama's plans, saying "he is prone to buying the Arabs' favors with Israeli currency," the Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Wednesday.

The remarks were made shortly after Obama won the election to become the first African-American US President.

Eldad also said Obama's plans to pull out US forces from Iraq would seriously endanger Israel. During his campaign, Obama vowed to withdraw US troops from Iraq within the next 18 months.

Obama has also vowed to enter talks with Iran, instead of beating war drums, in a bid to halt the country's nuclear program.

The Democratic president-elect's Muslim roots have also been another source of concern for hawkish Israeli politicians who believe Obama's background might bring him closer to Arab nations.

SB/RE

Zionist Terrorists Murder Another Child

USHOSTAGE1 — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:29:00 GMT

Israeli troops kill Palestinian kid
July 29, 2008
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Israeli soldiers have shot dead a nine-year-old Palestinian boy during a demonstration in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian medics say.

Hammad Hossam Mussa was shot in the chest by Israeli soldiers during a demonstration in the village of Nilin on Tuesday, Salah Al Khawaja, a member of Nilin's Committee against the Wall told AFP on Tuesday.

Mussa died of his wounds while being transported to hospital in an ambulance shortly afterwards, the medical sources said.

SB/DT

Iran Armed Forces Would Target Israel and 32 US Bases

USHOSTAGE1 — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:34:00 GMT

Iran will target US bases if attacked
July 12, 2008
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Iranian fighter planes

Iran says its Armed Forces would target the heart of Israel and 32 US bases before the dust settles from an attack on the country.

"If the enemy was confident that it would emerge victorious from an attack on Iran, they would not put it off for even another day," an aide to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Mojtaba Zolnoor said on Saturday.

Today, through the efforts of Iranian experts, the military capabilities of the country's Armed Forces have reached an advanced level, he added.

"If the US or Israel fire one bullet against Iran, the Iranian Armed Forces will not hesitate to target the heart of Israel and 32 US military bases in the region before the dust settles," warned Ayatollah Khamenei's representative in the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC).

Iran has repeatedly warned that its Armed Forces are fully prepared to immediately deliver a crushing response to any offensive on Iranian territory.

Iran's words of caution come following escalating speculation that the Israeli maneuver in early June was held in preparation for a war with the Islamic Republic.

CS/HGH

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USHOSTAGE1 — Sun, 18 May 2008 20:12:00 GMT

US plan for Lebanon attack revealed
May 18, 2008
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The White House had given the green light to Israel to attack Lebanon's Hezbollah on May 11th, Israeli intelligence sources have revealed.

They said that, on May 10, the US government urged the Israeli army to launch a fierce military strike on Southern and Western Beirut as well as other Lebanese regions, DEBKA website which is close to Israeli intelligence agency reported.

May eleven was the day when Hezbollah forces were engaged in street battles with opposition militiamen in Beirut and other Lebanese regions.

Two controversial decsions made by the pro-US ruling majority against Hezbollah's telecommunication network and Beirut Airport's Security Chief mounted tensions in Lebanon.

"Israel failed to grasp a historic opportunity to get rid of one of its four enemies (Iran, Hezbollah, Syria, and Hamas). This would certainly lead to the destruction of Hezbollah," DEBKA quoted a senior US military source as saying.

The report said US president George W. Bush had promised not to postpone his May 14 visit to Israel even if the Israeli army was still fighting in Lebanon and Hezbollah struck back against Tel Aviv and Ben-Gurion airport.

American intelligence estimated that Hezbollah could retaliate by firing only 600 missiles into northern Israel.

Israeli premier Ehud Olmert, war minister Ehud Barak, foreign minister Tzipi Livni were the only officials who were informed about the US secret plan, the report added.

Olmert, Barak and Livni decided not to intervene and cancelled the operation at the last moment. The decision outraged hawkish echelons in the Bush administration.

On May 11, Olmert called Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and his allies, majority leader Saad Hariri, Druze politician Walid Jumblatt and Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea and informed them there would be no Israeli strike against Hezbollah.

According to the plan Israeli Air force were to bombard Hezbollah's positions.

This would provide the pro-government forces with an opportunity to attack Hezbollah forces. Israeli tanks would simultaneously drive into the South and head towards Beirut, the report said.

Israel and its staunch ally, the US, have long been seeking to destroy Hezbollah's military capabilities particularly after the Arab resistance group inflicted a humiliating defeat upon the Zionist regime in the 33-day war in 2006.

Pundits say Israel failed to go ahead with the plan because of the military deterrence of Hezbollah.

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'Hezbollah foiled US-planned coup'
May 11, 2008
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Hezbollah has foiled a US-planned coup to seize control of Lebanon during tensions sparked by controversial gov't decisions, a report says.

"The Americans launched a pre-emptive strike against opposition nationalist forces, starting with the (Hezbollah) resistance, and attempted a Washington-planned coup but were taken aback by the opposition, which restored order in Lebanon," Syrian daily Al-Baath reported on Sunday.

The Lebanese opposition aimed to "remove foreign interference and stop the plots to transform Lebanon... into an Israeli protectorate and new focal point of US links in the region," the paper added.

Tensions mounted among the feuding Lebanese parties and their supporters after the pro-US ruling coalition decided to ban Hezbollah telecommunications network and sack Beirut Airport Security Chief on Tuesday.

At least 39 people were killed in the clashes which eased after the Lebanese army rescinded the government's controversial measures on Saturday.

"The recent events in Lebanon showed that the coup (attempt) carried out by the Americans and their men in Lebanon backfired," the daily concluded.

Lebanon saw four days of fierce clashes between supporters of feuding political camps as Western and some of the regional media outlets including al-Arabia tried to portray them as sectarian violence.

They tried to describe the clashes as a fight between Sunni and Shia communities.

The reports came as a number of Sunni clerics in interviews with NBN and al-Manar TV stations denied the claims, saying many Sunni Muslims in Lebanon support Hezbollah especially for its heroic efforts to defend Lebanon against Israel.

Political analysts said that Tel Aviv and its staunch ally Washington have long been trying to destabilize Lebanon in a bid to avenge Israel's humiliating defeat against Lebanon's resistance movement (Hezbollah) in 2006.

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'US, Israel fomented Lebanon crisis'
May 14, 2008
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A former Lebanese lawmaker says the United States and the Zionist regime played a key role in inciting the recent unrest in Lebanon.

In an interview with al-Manar TV, the former member of Lebanon parliament, Nasser Qandil, accused the US and Israel of fomenting the Lebanon crisis.

"The Lebanese government had been consulting with the US and the Zionist regime on banning Hezbollah's telecommunications network for the past six months," Qandil said.

"The government banned the telecommunications network to as a part of plans to weaken the movement in a possible confrontation with Israel," he added.

Last week, the Lebanese government adopted two anti-opposition measures on sacking the Beirut International Airport's security chief and imposing a ban on Hezbollah's telecommunications network. The decisions sparked unrest which left at least 60 dead and 200 wounded.

MSH/BGH

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Saudi-Israeli plot against Hezbollah
May 15, 2008 16:36:28
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Prince Bandar bin Sultan (L), Ehud Olmert

Former Saudi Ambassador to the US Prince Bandar bin Sultan 'has asked Israeli premier Ehud Olmert to take steps against Hezbollah'.

Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan has formally requested Olmert to deploy Israeli troops along its borders with Lebanon to intimidate Hezbollah into stopping its moves against Lebanese PM Fouad Siniora, the Israel website Filkka reported Wednesday.

Bandar bin Sultan travelled to occupied territories and asked Olmert to do what was necessary to support Siniora, the report added. He also offered to fund any Israeli war against Hezbollah, according to the report.

Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert who face charges over a bribery case, said that he could not wage a war on behalf of Saudi Arabia, but he would discuss the issue with Israeli officials.

DTJ/RA

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High-profile law firm faces complaints, lawsuits

Former lawyers, clients allege unethical activity

By Greg Moran
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
signonsandiego.com
November 25, 2007

With its highly visible, nonstop advertising, the four-year-old Pacific Law Center in La Jolla has made itself one of San Diego's best-known law firms.
By the firm's estimate, it has represented 10,000 clients in drunken-driving and other criminal cases, bankruptcy, and personal injury lawsuits since opening here in 2003.

The advertising campaign promises aggressive representation and “little or no money down” and features testimonials for the center and its lawyers.

But in recent months, that picture has been clouded by lawsuits, a judge's ruling and action by the Better Business Bureau.

Former clients say it was difficult to get enough time with an attorney. Some say they were given unrealistic assessments about their cases.

Lawyers formerly employed by the firm have alleged in lawsuits and in sworn statements that Pacific Law Center uses unethical practices, such as allowing unlicensed clerks to sign up clients and give out legal advice. Two attorneys sued, claiming that they were fired after objecting to that.

Lawsuits filed by former Pacific Law Center attorneys depict a business where lawyers have caseloads so large that it is difficult for them to provide the kind of representation the firm advertises. Instead, they say, the emphasis is on settling cases as quickly as possible.

The Better Business Bureau, a business ethics and consumer protection agency, downgraded its rating of the firm from satisfactory to neutral after fielding 38 complaints over the past three years.

A judge ruled in June that the firm appeared to be “gouging” local taxpayers by seeking public funds to hire experts in two cases for which the firm already had collected thousands of dollars in fees from the clients.

Senior attorneys for the firm defend their practices and reject the various allegations. They insist that their caseloads are manageable and that they have time and resources to give clients personalized attention.

Robert Arentz, the managing partner, said that clerks act as fact gatherers and that no final agreement is ever signed without a lawyer first being brought in to talk to the clients. Arentz said all clients are told that the people they first speak to are not lawyers.

“We have a lot of attorneys and a lot of clients,” Arentz said. “It's easy to find individuals who have individual complaints about their individual situation.

“Overall, the majority of our clients are extremely happy with their representation.”

Arentz spoke from the Phoenix office of the law firm Phillips & Associates, which is affiliated with Pacific Law Center, where he often works.

Jeffrey Phillips, an attorney with the Phoenix firm that bears his name, is listed on the articles of incorporation for Pacific Law Center filed with the California secretary of state. Phillips is not licensed to practice law in California.

Arizona state bar records show that Phillips was censured in September 2002 and placed on two years' probation because he “failed to adequately supervise subordinate attorneys and non-lawyer specialists.”

The records say non-lawyers who first met with prospective clients failed to say they were not lawyers and did not adequately describe the firm's “little or no money down” payment plan.

Phillips completed his probation in January 2005. Complaints of aggressive intake clerks and hard-sell tactics are now being made against Pacific Law Center.

Phillips said potential clients are told repeatedly that the intake clerks are not lawyers, but assistants.

“We don't believe there is any way any of our people are doing anything wrong here,” Phillips said during a recent interview.

Assistants faulted

Court documents, as well as interviews with nearly a dozen lawyers who left the firm but did not sue, describe tactics by “legal assistants” who are not lawyers, who raise clients' expectations about what can be accomplished to get them to hire the firm.

“There were a significant number of clients who didn't get what they thought they bought,” said Charles Luckman, who worked as a criminal defense lawyer there from March 2004 to August 2006. “The best analogy I can give you is it was a law firm run like a used-car dealership.”

Often, according to court records and interviews with former lawyers with the firm, clients became angry when told that their cases were likely to turn out differently than what they were told when they signed up.

“I had to spend my first conversation with clients backpedaling like crazy from what the intake clerks said,” recalled one lawyer who wanted to remain anonymous because he feared retaliation from the firm.

Arentz declined to comment on the lawsuits or the specific allegations in them.

Luckman was one of three lawyers who sued after being fired last year. He reached a quick settlement with the firm, as did the other two lawyers.

He spoke to The San Diego Union-Tribune after the suit was filed but before the settlement, which contained a confidentiality clause, was reached.

In December 2005, Luckman wrote a memo to his superiors that the intake clerks were giving out “unlicensed, unqualified and erroneous legal advice” to clients, according to his lawsuit.

One client was told by a clerk that Luckman was a former judge, which was not true. Luckman said he handled 50 to 80 cases at a time, representing all the firm's East County clients.

In August 2006, after raising more complaints about the firm's practices, Luckman was fired.

Attorney Colin Cossio filed suit in September 2006, alleging he was fired after making numerous complaints about the business practices of the firm and saying he would complain to the State Bar of California.

Cossio said his caseload was enormous.

“When you have 800 files, how can you give each client the attention they deserve?” Cossio said in an interview before he settled his case.

His lawsuit said that non-lawyers routinely dispensed legal advice at the firm, in violation of bar rules and state law.

The complaints detailed by Cossio and Luckman were strongly rebutted by lawyers who now work at the firm. Ten lawyers sent unsolicited e-mails to the Union-Tribune, all saying that their caseloads were not overwhelming and that they had the resources and time to represent their clients well.

Michael Stuart, a lawyer handling criminal cases in El Cajon, said he had 55 active cases and that was manageable. Stuart wrote that he was “proud to be part of an organization that prides itself on ensuring the constitutional rights of its clients through excellent legal representation.”

Most of the letters lauded Alan Spears, named the head of the firm's criminal division in 2007. Spears' name has been in the news lately because he is the lawyer for Seth Craven, one of five men charged with murder in the death of a La Jolla surfer in the “Bird Rock Bandits” case.

Spears, who joined the firm this year, defended his lawyers.

“Do I think I have experienced and aggressive lawyers who vigorously defend people?” Spears said. “If that is the question, the answer is an unequivocal yes.”

In a later e-mail he said it was “absurd” to say his lawyers are overworked.

Judge criticizes lawyers

How the firm bills for services is another area of contention.

Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Fraser criticized the center in June for seeking public funds for indigent defendants in two cases in which the clients already had paid the firm for representation.

In one case, the defendant had paid the firm $12,000 of a $35,590 bill for a sex crimes case in which he pleaded guilty relatively quickly.

In another case, the firm charged $25,590 to represent a man who, after pleading guilty, changed his mind and wanted to withdraw his plea. The man had paid $19,500 of the $25,590 bill in advance.

In both cases, the firm wanted to hire psychological experts to examine their clients – and asked that they be paid from taxpayer funds administered by the court.

Fraser reasoned that some of the retainer fee could be used to pay the experts and rejected the request. It's important that “the public treasury is protected from greedy attorneys,” he wrote.

It is not only former lawyers and a judge with complaints against the firm.

The San Diego Better Business Bureau gives the firm a neutral rating, rather than the more common “satisfactory” or “unsatisfactory” rating. The reason: the large number of complaints consumers have lodged with the BBB.

Most of those complaints concern “service issues,” defined as delays in providing services, inferior quality of service, or not providing a promised service.

“We saw a pattern that causes concern,” said BBB President and CEO Sheryl Bilbrey. “They weren't bad enough to lose membership, but they are not good enough to get a satisfactory rating.”

Several former clients of the firm contacted for this story were bitter about their experiences.

One of those complaining to the Better Business Bureau was Genevieve Ruggles, 71, of Rancho Bernardo, who paid the firm $11,330 to represent her adult son in a drunken-driving case in Ventura County. When her son rejected Pacific Law Center's representation, it took Ruggles nearly six months to get her money refunded. She said that at her first visit to the firm to discuss the case she was immediately pressured to sign up.

Another former client paid the firm $5,500 to represent her on a drunken-driving charge. She said she and her husband spoke to “an aggressive kind of sales guy” when they went to the firm's La Jolla office, who told her the charges easily could be reduced. She said the representative later warned her she could spend 10 days in jail.

Neither turned out to be correct.

The woman, who wanted to remain anonymous because she did not want her arrest widely known in the industry she works in, eventually fired Pacific Law Center and settled the case with a new lawyer.

“They just really pressured us,” she said of the firm's sales tactics.

Arentz and Phillips both said they have worked with the Better Business Bureau and the clients to resolve the complaints. Moreover, Arentz said in a statement, considering the 10,000 clients the firm has represented since opening, the number of complaints to the BBB represents one out of every few hundred clients.

Marsha Hall, a former client who lives in Imperial County, did not complain to the BBB but sued the firm in July, claiming malpractice, fraud and false advertising. The lawsuit contends that the firm botched her case by missing the deadline to file a claim against Pioneer Memorial Hospital in El Centro – a necessary and routine step when suing a public agency.

Instead of admitting the error, the suit said, lawyers persuaded Hall to drop the case after referring her to experts who said she had no chance of winning.

Hall said two members of Pacific Law Center, Michael Clarke and John Schill, told her that her case had no merit – but did not tell her the firm failed to file a government claim on time.

John Schill was identified as the executive director of the firm on the BBB Web site file in May, but he no longer is listed there. He is licensed to practice law in Arizona, but not California.

Clarke has a discipline record from the State Bar of Arizona. He was suspended for six months in 2002 for misusing client funds. He was reinstated in September 2002.

Hall's malpractice lawsuit alleges that it was illegal to allow Schill to work on Hall's case in any way, because he is not a member of the State Bar of California. The suit also contends that Clarke's wife was one of the experts who told Hall the case had no merit.

The firm has denied Hall's allegations and insists it does quality work for clients.

“We have dozens of excellent lawyers, and we are proud of achieving client satisfaction and good results,” Arentz said in a statement.

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Nuclear Target - Entice New Terrorists - Murder Nuclear Scientists and Scholars

USHOSTAGE1 — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:19:00 GMT

VIEW: Nuclear targets —Bennett Ramberg
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January 1, 2008

Dimona has produced all the plutonium that Israel reasonably needs, and the reactor — one of the world’s oldest — has suffered minor mishaps and evident deterioration, raising the spectre of more serious accidents. So, if Israel cannot guarantee the plant’s defence against attack, it should close it

Nuclear facilities as military targets? The drumbeat appears to be growing louder. Western leaders repeatedly declare that no option is off the table to stem Iran’s nuclear ambitions. And, in mid-November, London’s Sunday Times reported that Israel put defences around its Dimona nuclear reactor on “red alert” 30 times, as worries grew that Syria would avenge Israel’s September attack on a suspected nuclear site in Syria.

Israel’s fear reflects the region’s unique history. Since World War II, strikes to halt nuclear activities have taken place exclusively in the Middle East: Iraq was struck by Iran (1980), Israel (1981), and the United States (1991, 2003), while Iraq bombed Iran (1984-87) and Israel (1991). But raids never generated significant radiological consequences, because plants were under construction, contained inconsequential amounts of nuclear material, had radioactive elements removed prior to the attack, or because the attacker missed the mark.

A successful strike on Dimona, however, would be another matter. So, given the threat of radioactive releases, does the plant’s continued operation outweigh the risks?

Dimona is unique. It is the region’s largest nuclear plant and sole producer of atomic weapons materials. Since it went into operation in the mid-1960s, it has generated elements for an estimated 200 nuclear weapons. Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben Gurion, inaugurated the enterprise to compensate for Israel’s strategic vulnerability, a fledgling army, and the West’s unwillingness to enter into a formal alliance to defend the Jewish state.

Dimona is no Chernobyl. It generates only about 5 percent of that failed Soviet reactor’s power. Still, the plant — along with its spent nuclear fuel, extracted plutonium, and nuclear reprocessing waste — poses significant radiological hazards that a military strike could disperse into the environment.

Israeli officials tacitly acknowledge the risk. Authorities have distributed potassium iodide tablets to the nearby towns of Yerham, Dimona, and Aruar. Potassium iodide blocks thyroid absorption of radioactive iodine, an early risk in a nuclear release. But it would not obstruct serious health consequences from other radioactive elements. And, depending on weather and the nuclear discharge, the radioactive consequences may not remain localised.

Light contamination and hot spots could impact Israeli, Palestinian, and Jordanian urban centres some distance away. Beyond health effects, contamination could terrorise affected populations, prompting temporary flight and permanent relocation. Serious, long-term economic consequences would follow.

For decades, Israel dealt with this risk through effective air defences and disdain for its adversaries’ ability to strike Dimona. In May 1984, after I authored a book about the consequences of military attacks on nuclear facilities, an Israeli intelligence officer came to California to question me about the vulnerability of the reactor and a proposed nuclear power plant. The officer belittled the risk, arguing that no Arab air force had ever overcome Israeli air defences, and none ever would.

At that time, history provided odd support. Although Egyptian reconnaissance aircraft had flown near Dimona in 1965 and 1967 without incident, during the 1967 war, Israel shot down one of its own Mirage jet fighters when it strayed over the facility. In 1973, Dimona’s defenders downed a wayward Libyan civilian airliner heading for the reactor, killing 108 people.

But the 1991 Persian Gulf War upset whatever solace Israel could take from the past. Iraqi Scud missiles bombarded Tel Aviv, and one came close to hitting Dimona. Hezbollah’s bombardment of northern Israel in 2006 further demonstrated the country’s vulnerability to missile attack. And, while Israel’s Arrow ballistic missile defences, which now surround Dimona, may be superior to the Patriot system that failed in 1991, Syria’s more advanced Scuds and Iran’s Shahab-3 rocket present a more capable challenge than Saddam’s projectiles.

Dimona has produced all the plutonium that Israel reasonably needs, and the reactor — one of the world’s oldest — has suffered minor mishaps and evident deterioration, raising the spectre of more serious accidents. So, if Israel cannot guarantee the plant’s defence against attack, it should close it.

By doing so, Israel could also derive political benefits. It could claim that closure demonstrates its commitment to reducing regional nuclear tensions, while sending a message about the wisdom of building reactors in the world’s most volatile region.

Indeed, about a dozen Middle East and North African countries propose to build nuclear power plants. Given the historic targeting of atomic installations, planners should consider whether providing adversaries with radiological targets far larger than Dimona makes sense. Until the Middle East resolves its political differences, it may not. —DT-PS

Bennett Ramberg, served in the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs in the George H W Bush Administration. He is the author of several books on international security

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Israel's secretive nuclear facility shows rare film of interior to entice new workers
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January 2, 2008

JERUSALEM: Israel's secretive nuclear facility is trying to recruit new workers with a rare glimpse of the interior of the reactor complex that shows "it's very pretty inside," a spokeswoman for the Israel Atomic Commission said Wednesday.

The film was shown at a job fair at Ben Gurion University, not far from where the reactor is located in the southern desert town of Dimona.

Nili Lifshitz, a spokeswoman for Israel's Atomic Commission, said this wasn't the first time film from the plant was publicly displayed, and no sensitive material was shown. "We showed footage to show the place is very pretty inside and that regular people work there," Lifshitz told The Associated Press.

"This year a lot of people are retiring at once and the demand for engineers and physics experts is very high," she said, "and so we decided to show the film to compete with the other companies."

Pictures extracted from the film of the facility published in Yediot Ahronot Wednesday show the nuclear compound lit up at night, a production line for equipment used in nuclear medicine and a radiation detector.

Israel is widely believed to be the only country in the Middle East to have nuclear weapons, though it maintains a policy of "ambiguity," insisting it will not be the first to introduce nuclear weapons into the region, without confirming or denying their existence.

Much of the evidence that it has nuclear weapons is based on details and pictures leaked in 1986 by Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu, who worked at the Dimona reactor.

The details divulged by Vanunu and published in the Sunday Times of London led experts to conclude that Israel has the world's sixth-largest stockpile of nuclear weapons, including hundreds of warheads. Vanunu was later kidnapped by Mossad agents and brought back to Israel to stand trial.

Israel's doctrine of "ambiguity" is meant to deter potential enemies from attacking. Officially, the nuclear facility in Dimona and a smaller reactor in Soreq, nearer the center of the country, are for research.

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metimes.com

Ash-Sharq (Qatar): Mossad killed 357 nuclear scientists and 271 Iraqi scholars – An Israeli newspaper revealed a U.S. report that the Israeli Mossad intelligence service joined the American forces in Iraq in killing 357 Iraqi nuclear scientists and more than 271 university professors in various fields. The report said the U.S. forces had resorted to Israeli help after they failed to persuade some of the victims to cooperate and work in the United States, adding that some of the explosions in the streets of Iraqi cities have been targeting the scholars.

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REPORT: U.S. Deploy To Israel Weapons of Mass Destruction

USHOSTAGE1 — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:59:00 GMT

U.S. Deployment of "Pain Ray" and "Death Ray"

Beirut

July 21st, 2006
uruknet.info

This is what we were able to find out today locally : The main points from our reports today are :

1- what Zeinab was able to find out about electromagnetic arms: please check http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/136518/1/5795

2- the director of Nabatiyeh National Hospital in the south , dr Hassan Wazni , talks about "vacuum bombs, it vacuums the air out of the body and stops the breathing and thus the heart stops operating. He also speaks about one death case , that of Sadek Hamed (12) whose caused is still unknown (medically) .

3- A spokesman for the army , said on record that the Israelis are using "bombs with special fillings" that could include internationally forbidden material.

4- The director of Marjeyoun national hospital (south) dr Mo'ness Kalakesh speaks about abnormal cases they treated: weird burns that make the skin glued and almost impossible to treat. These are people whose either arms or legs were hurt.

5- The doctors in the hospitals in the south all say the same thing : doing test on the remains is a luxury they can not afford at this time. They lack of doctors and equipment and time .. casualties arrive the around the clock and the priority is to try and save the injured and not to test the dead. However, an American University hospital expert , the head of Environment and Public Health and Danger management departement Azmi Imad , told us that not only the remains of the corps should be tested , but also the scene where the bombings happened too. This is of course impossible for more than one reason : all the "scenes" are unreachable due to the bombings ( some of the victims of the rmayleh bridge bombings are still under the remains of their cars) + no one can afford to leave the ER to go test scenes on the ground.

6- Today they had to burn corpses due to lack of space in the morgues , so maybe we're loosing proves.

7- Several hospitals in the south speak about similar cases : burnt not burnt corpses , swallowed, no bleeding , the unbearable semll.

8- None of the doctors would go to the extend of confirming naything : they admit they don't know. Only one doctor in Tyre , director of Najm hospital , says he saw similar cases in previous Israeli aggressions.

9- This is it . Tomorrow , a WHO representative is supposed to be handed remains of corpses and tests results, but I'm not very optimistic about any of this;on one hand , the local heath authorities seem more concerned about their political agendas and pay offs and are not giving the issue the time and effort it deserves. On the other hand, I have an innate mistrust and skepticism towards anything that involves the UN.

Hanady

Beirut

July 19, 2006

The attached pictures are hideously gruesome, but you have to look at them . Help me find out what kind of weapons cause this kind of dismemberment and mutation.

What kind of weapons cause this kind of damage? Do you know? Could you find out?

None of this is confirmed, or could be here and now. However, there are growing doubts that Israel might be using internationally forbidden weapons in its current aggression against Lebanon. News from "Southern Medical Center", a hospital in Saida( in South Lebanon) are not good. Dr. Bashir Sham, member of "French Association of Cardiovascular Surgeons", explains that the way the corps look when they reach the hospital, especially those of the air strikes in Doueir and Rmayleih, is very abnormal." One might think they were burnt , but their colour is dark , they're inflated, and they have a terrible smell" All this , and the hair is not burnt nor do the bodies bleed.

Eight of the victims of an air strike on Rmayleih bridge, near Saida, on the 15th of July, were transferred to Sham's hospital.

Sham says that only chemical poisonous substances "lead to instant death without bleeding".
And what indicates the power of these substances, is the high and unusual of number of dead victimes, compared to the number of injuries.

Sham thinks that whatever "abnormal " substance causing these features might penetrate through the skin, or another explanation would be that the missiles contained toxic gas that stopped the proper functioning of the nervous system, and led to blood clotting.

These toxic materials cause immediate death, within two to thirty minutes, according to Sham, who admits that these doubts can't be proven, not even by an autopsy.

The director of the same medical center, Ali Mansour, says that due to the strong smell of the corps, he couldn't breath properly for at least 12 hours after the corps were handled.

He explains that the center received eight bodies from Rmeileh last Monday, and none of them was bleeding.
Mansour tells us the hospital wrote to both the commissioner of the European Union for Foreign Affaires Javier Solana, and the United Nations Secretary general Kofi Anan. He said that dr Sham will communicate his doubts to the Doctors Order in Lebanon.

CAN YOU HELP US , PLEASE!
Hanady

Beirut

A body killed by a burning object lies in a Beirut suburb July 17- Reuters

A Lebanese firefighter extinguishes the charred body of a Lebanese truck driver who was killed when Israeli planes attacked the port in Beirut July 17 - AP

A member of the Lebanese Red Cross walks past a badly burnt body in Beirut's port, which was targeted by Israeli warplanes, July 17 - Reuters

A member of the Lebanese Red Cross walks past a badly burnt body in Beirut's port, which was targeted by Israeli warplanes

A member of the Lebanese Red Cross walks past a badly burnt body in Beirut's port, which was targeted by Israeli warplanes-2.

Lebanese firefighters try to extinguish the fire while the dismembered and burnt corpses of two Lebanese civilians killed in an Israeli air raid lie on the ground at the port in Beirut

Lebanese men remove a recovered body of a man from the back of a vehicle in Beirut July 17- Reuters.jpg

Lebanese Red Cross members remove the dismembered and burnt corpses of two Lebanese civilians killed in an Israeli air raid at the port in Beirut 17 July

Lebanese Red Cross members remove the dismembered and burnt corpses of two Lebanese civilians killed in an Israeli air raid at the port in Beirut.

look at his right eye - Lebanese citizens gather around a man who was killed by shrapnel from an explosion in Kfarshima, near Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, July 17 -AP

look at the foot - beirut prot july 17 - Reuters

Sidon

A Lebanese medic carries the body of a young girl, in a refrigerated truck used as a makeshift morgue, in the port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Monday, July 17 - AP

A Medic inspects burned bodies of Lebanese civilians who were attacked as they passed by a bridge that was targeted in north Saida, southern Lebanon, July 17 - Reuters

Tyr

A badly injured Lebanese civilian is seen at a hospital following Israeli air strikes on a house in the southern city of Tyre, 17 July - AFP

A Lebanese rescue worker gathers the remains of a woman from the rubble of residential buildings hit by the Israeli bombardement in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, 18 July - AFP

An 18-month-old Lebanese child lies dead 17 July on a hospital bed in Saida eight hours after being injured yesterday in an Israeli air attack in Tyre - AFP

Lebanese man that was injured and burned by Israeli attacks on Tyre, lies in a hospital in south Lebanon July 15 - Reuters

The corpse of a dead man lies admist the rubble from devastating Israeli air strikes in Tyre, south Lebanon, 16 July - AFP

The corpse of a Lebanese civilian lies amidst the rubble following a devastating Israeli air strike in Tyre, south Lebanon, 16 July a

Rmayleh

A civil defense member transports the corpse of a Lebanese civilian killed in an Israeli air raid that targeted the Rmeyleh bridge near Saida 17 July afp.

A Lebanese medic carries the body of a young girl, in a refrigerated truck used as a makeshift morgue, as another body lies covered, in the port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Monday, July 17

Civil defence rescuers carry the body of a woman away from a civilian car that was struck by an Israeli warplane missile- rmayleih juy 17 - AP

Drivers carry away Lebanese Ali Wahid after he was seriously wounded in his car, while he was driving past a bridge when was struck by an Israeli warplane missile- rmayleh july 17 ap.

Lebanese Red Cross members cover the burnt corpse of a Lebanese civilian killed in an Israeli air raid that targeted the Rmeyleh bridge in Saida 17 July AFP.

look at his face - A 7-year-old Lebanese boy fights for his life on a hospital bed in Saida 17 July 2006 after being injured in an Israeli air raid - AFP

Marwahin

A badly charred and mutilated body lies on the ground after an Israeli missile hit a van carrying passengers on a road in southern Lebanon, July 15, - Reuters

A body of a man from the southern village of Marwahin, who was killed along with 17 others near the village of Shamaa

A United Nations medic holds a body that was badly charred and destroyed after an Israeli missile hit a van carrying passengers on a road in southern Lebanon, July 15 - Reuters.

KILLED ON THE SAME ROAD IN THE SOUTH JULY 15 - REUTERS

Lebanese civil defence member carries the corpse of a young girl from the southern village of Marwahin

MARWA Marwa Abdallah, who survived Saturday's attack on a van in Tyre where twenty people where killed IN HOSPITAL JULY 16 - REUTERS.

MARWAHIN (SOUTH ) JULY 15 - AFP

MARWAHIN (SOUTH ) JULY 15 - REUTERS

Zebdine

A Lebanese Red Cross staff collects human remains following an Israeli air raid on Zebdine village (south )JULY 16 AFP

Teir Harfa

TEIR HAFRA 1 (SOUTH) JULY 15 - AP

TEIR HAFRA 2 SOUTH) JULY 15 - AP

TEIR HAFRA 3(SOUTH) JULY 15 - AP

TEIR HAFRA 4 (SOUTH) JULY 15 - AP

TEIR HAFRA 5 (SOUTH ) JULY 15 - AP

TEIR HAFRA 6 (SOUTH ) JULY 15 AP

Bekaa

look at the eye- Issam Mostafa, a 3-year-old Lebanese boy, rests at a hospital in Shtora in the Bekaa valley 17 July afp.

:: Article nr. 24936 sent on 23-jul-2006 02:24 ECT

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Link: www.assafir.com/iso/israeli-aggression/

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COMMENTS BY REGISTERED READERS OF URUKNET

Comment pos ted: by sbonzai on 23 Jul 2006 - 22:03

Incendiary properties - Depleted uranium burns. It is
something like magnesium in this regard. If you heat
uranium up in an oxygen environment (normal air), it
will ignite and burn with an extremely intense flame.
Once inside the target, burning uranium is another
part of the bomb's destructive power. i found this at- how things work unde r bunker busters.

Comment pos ted: by ricky_radical on 23 Jul 2006 - 23:04

America and Israel are immune to war with weapons of mass destruction. The UN l ooks the other way and condones their mass murders. I have lost faith in due pr ocess, it does not work for the powerful and the evil countries that murder peop le indescriminately like America and Israel. It is no wonder their are so calle d terrorists, that name by the way is coined by America and to me it means something altogether different. It means defense against the unjustifiable murder being done by America and Israel!

Comment pos ted: by moneylender on 24 Jul 2006 - 17:37

Israel Using 'Vacuum' &
White Phosphorus
On Lebanese
By Wayne Madsen
7-23-6

U.S. military intelligence sources have told WMR that the artillery shell shown below being used by an Israel Defense Force member in Lebanon, is a type of dual and multi-use weapon the neocons falsely accused Saddam Hussein of possessing. Although the canister artillery shell is marketed as an anti-land mine fuel-air bomb, its payload can also include the chemicals used in thermobaric bombs, white phosphorous weapons, and chemical weapons. Thermobaric bombs contain polymer-bonded explosives or solid fuel-air explosives in their payloads.

Thermobarics use a fuse munition unit (FMU) such as that seen on the nose of the Israeli artillery shell. The shell penetrates buildings, underground shelters, or tunnels, creating such a blast pressure that all the oxygen is sucked out fro m the spaces and the lungs of anyone who happens to be in proximity. Israel's us e of such "vacuum" weapons has been reported from across Lebanon.

The artillery shell below, with its FMU penetrator, can also be used to deliver chemical weapons, the use of which is also being reported from southern Lebanon. In addition, it can deliver white phosphorous, a substance that literally melts through skin but leaves clothing relatively intact. In Fallujah and elsewhere i n Iraq, U.S. forces have used white phosphorous on civilians, leaving grotesque corpses as a psychological warfare reminder to the civilian population to surrender or evacuate an area. The photo from Sidon of a burnt and badly disfigured young Lebanese girl is a telltale sign of white phosphorous use by the Israelis. Similar photos from Fallujah were shown to this editor by a top investigative reporter for Italy's RAI television network.

U.S. military intelligence experts believe the ease at which the Israeli soldier is handling the artillery shell is an indication that the payload contains ligh t-weight gas and not a fuel-air mixture or thermobaric bomb components. WMR cont inues to receive reports from Lebanon of depleted uranium shells being used by t he Israelis. The New York Times today is reporting that the U.S. is stepping up its delivery of "precision-guided" munitions to Israel (see article below on Bush administration pre-planning for the Israeli invasions of Lebanon and Gaza).

Comment pos ted: by moneylender on 24 Jul 2006 - 17:38

Israel Using 'Vacuum' &
White Phosphorus
On Lebanese
By Wayne Madsen
7-23-6

U.S. military intelligence sources have told WMR that the artillery shell shown below being used by an Israel Defense Force member in Lebanon, is a type of dual and multi-use weapon the neocons falsely accused Saddam Hussein of possessing. Although the canister artillery shell is marketed as an anti-land mine fuel-air bomb, its payload can also include the chemicals used in thermobaric bombs, white phosphorous weapons, and chemical weapons. Thermobaric bombs contain polymer-bonded explosives or solid fuel-air explosives in their payloads.

Thermobarics use a fuse munition unit (FMU) such as that seen on the nose of the Israeli artillery shell. The shell penetrates buildings, underground shelters, or tunnels, creating such a blast pressure that all the oxygen is sucked out fro m the spaces and the lungs of anyone who happens to be in proximity. Israel's us e of such "vacuum" weapons has been reported from across Lebanon.

The artillery shell below, with its FMU penetrator, can also be used to deliver chemical weapons, the use of which is also being reported from southern Lebanon. In addition, it can deliver white phosphorous, a substance that literally melts through skin but leaves clothing relatively intact. In Fallujah and elsewhere i n Iraq, U.S. forces have used white phosphorous on civilians, leaving grotesque corpses as a psychological warfare reminder to the civilian population to surrender or evacuate an area. The photo from Sidon of a burnt and badly disfigured young Lebanese girl is a telltale sign of white phosphorous use by the Israelis. Similar photos from Fallujah were shown to this editor by a top investigative reporter for Italy's RAI television network.

U.S. military intelligence experts believe the ease at which the Israeli soldier is handling the artillery shell is an indication that the payload contains ligh t-weight gas and not a fuel-air mixture or thermobaric bomb components. WMR cont inues to receive reports from Lebanon of depleted uranium shells being used by t he Israelis. The New York Times today is reporting that the U.S. is stepping up its delivery of "precision-guided" munitions to Israel (see article below on Bush administration pre-planning for the Israeli invasions of Lebanon and Gaza).

US Abu-Gharaib Torture Coverup

USHOSTAGE1 — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:27:00 GMT

This time people aren't taking pictures!
Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:36:23
Daryoush Bavar, Press TV, Tehran

The only officer charged in the Abu Ghraib scandal is acquitted

Jordan was the US Army officer in charge of interrogations at the prison in late 2003. His charges included cruelty to and mistreatment of detainees, making false statements, obstruction of justice and disobeying orders.

Instead, he was found guilty of breaking an order to keep silent about the abuse investigation. But prosecutors simply reprimanded him, sparing him a prison term.

The torture and abuse case at the US army-run prison came to light with the release of shocking pictures of American soldiers treating detainees in painful and humiliating positions at the prison. The pictures of the scandal shocked the entire world. They showed Iraqi prisoners being tortured, sexually assaulted and humiliated by their American jailers .

The court ruling left the burden of guilt for the tortures to fall on only 11 low-ranking soldiers some of whom appeared in infamous photos.

Now, over three years since the photographs were first published, the only US officer who was likely to be held accountable for the case has been let off simply with a reprimand.

Despite the lack of convictions among the senior ranks, serious questions linger as to their role in the abusive interrogations and whether they were part of a wider policy of condoning or encouraging torture and abuse.

The suspicion becomes more vivid in the light of revelations of similar interrogation techniques at another notorious US-run prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The New York Times wrote in a recent editorial that the verdict had swept the Abu Ghraib scandal under the carpet. "The verdict was a remix of the denial of reality and avoidance of accountability that the government has used all along to avoid the bitter truth behind Abu Ghraib: The abuse grew out of President Bush's decision to ignore the Geneva Conventions and American law in handling prisoners after Sept. 11, 2001."

And Hina Shamsi, deputy director of Human Rights First in New York, has spoken of an "accountability gap" which remained between the convicted low-ranking soldiers and senior military and government officials who sanctioned the harsh interrogation techniques.

"None of the cases brought to date has given the systemic accounting of what happened, why and how far up the chain of command responsibility lies," Shamsi believes.

Such comments suggest the trend of using torture at the US-run prisons goes all the way to the top in the chain of command indicating that higher ranking US defense and intelligence officials authorized or at least were aware of and simply condoned the techniques used on prisoners.

Senior US officials have been saying the abuses were not systemic suggesting they were the disconnected acts committed by a small number of rogue soldiers.

Some analysts, however, believe prisoner abuse grew out of President Bush's decision to ignore the Geneva Conventions in handling prisoners after Sept. 11, 2001.

And many tend to share the idea raised by American writer Tara McKelvey, the author of the book 'Monstering: Inside Americas Policy of Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War' who believes the abuses were widespread and systemic and what happened in Abu Ghraib was only the tip of the iceberg in the US 'ghost prisons'.

"It's true you can say the scandal exists because of the photographs, but what you saw on the pictures was really only a fraction of the abuse that was taking place. And certainly not the worst of it."

Before the announcement of Jordan's acquittal, Sam Provance, who was an Army intelligence analyst at the Abu Ghraib prison, had predicted "No US Army officer or defense official is likely to be held accountable for the torture, "ghost" prisoners, and other abuses at Abu Ghraib."

Provance has good reasons for his skepticism that justice would be done. "Since my own attempts to stop the torture and identify those responsible were repeatedly rebuffed."

But the skepticism about White House's sincerity that the tortures were an isolated act carried out by a small number of unruly soliders in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo is very deep-seated. The mistrust is best reflected in the words of Tara McKelvey that "I think the sad truth is that these things are still taking place but the difference between now and April-May 2004 is that people aren't taking pictures."