A Message (In English) From The Iraqi Resistance.
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“To the American people we say, you have finally awakened and the millions of honorable people amongst you have now realized that the Iraqi people are not your enemies, and they are not responsible for your grief. It is your troops which occupied our country, and not us yours. The arrogant war criminal who rules in your name has humiliated your nation & military honor and we believe, that a democracy that is not willing to fight for its own freedom, is no better that a raw dictatorship.”

SY HERSH ON NEW BUSH WAR PLANS

Seymour Hersh told Der Spiegel, a German newspaper, that President Bush has now accepted the idea of ethnic cleansing

Hersh has more on new plans for an attack on Iran in the new New Yorker:

BILL MAHER: IRAQ IS NOT ANOTHER VIETNAM –IT’S ANOTHER ENRON

NYT: The American Embassy reiterated its support on Sunday for a united Iraq as six political parties together voiced their objection to a United States Senate resolution endorsing partitioning the country into three states

New Congressional Report: WE ARE #1
US Still Major Arm Supplier to Developing Countries.

HARD RIGHT FUNDS POLITICAL HIT SQUAD

BURMA: THE STATE OF THE STRUGGLE

Many dissidents said they were resigned to defeat without international intervention.

EXILES FEAR MONKS MURDERED

I was sent this letter from Thailand, said to be from a Burmese exile, “a friend of a friend.” Clearly I can’t verify but it sounds like information coming from Burmese exiles in Norway who were intereviewed on NPR

We just got phone call with our sister living in Yangon about a
few hours ago.

We saw on BBC world, saying that 200 monks were arrested. The true picture is far worse!!!!!!!!!

For one instance, the monastery at an obscure neighborhood of
Yangon, called Ngwe Kyar Yan (on Wei-za-yan-tar Road, Yangon) had been raided early this morning.

A troop of lone-tein (riot police comprised of paid thugs) protected by the military trucks, raided the monastery with 200 studying monks. They systematically ordered all the monks to line up and banged and crushed each one’s head against the brick wall of the monastery. One by one, the peaceful, non resisting monks, fell to the ground, screaming in pain. Then, they tore off the red robes and threw them all in the military trucks (like rice bags) and took the
bodies away.

The head monk of the monastery, was tied up in the middle of the monastery, tortured , bludgeoned, and later died the same day, today. Tens of thousands of people gathered outside the monastery, warded off by troops with bayoneted rifles, unable to help their helpless monks being slaughtered inside the monastery. Their every
try to forge ahead was met with the bayonets.

When all is done, only 10 out of 200 remained alive, hiding in the monastery. Blood stained everywhere on the walls and floors of the monastery.

Please tell your audience of the full extent of the fate of the monks please please !!!!!!!!!!!!

‘Arrested’ is not enough expression. They have been bludgeoned to
death !!!!!!

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OTHER FORMER DISSIDENTS IDENTIFY’

AP: Lech Walesa and Desmond Tutu speak of solidarity. Vaclav Havel hopes for another “Velvet Revolution.” Wei Jingsheng warns of a bloody sequel to Tiananmen Square.

Some of the globe’s most prominent former dissidents — acutely aware of what can go right and wrong when a repressed society attempts to shake off tyranny — see shades of their own past struggles in Myanmar’s drama.

In interviews with The Associated Press and other media, they offered insight and advice to the Buddhist monks and pro-democracy protesters who have defied Myanmar’s military government — and to the world leaders and ordinary people watching it all unfold.

“If there’s not enough international pressure, and China offers support in the background, then there will very likely be in Myanmar something like Tiananmen Square: a big massacre,” Wei, China’s best-known ex-dissident, told the AP in a phone interview from the U.S., where he lives in exile

BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE

Afghan Leader Sees ‘Serious’ Taliban Debate Over Disarming

KABUL, September 30, 2007 (RFE/RL) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s office says there is “serious debate” among some Taliban fighters about laying down arms.

”The information we have received from tribal elders indicate that different groups operating inside Afghanistan under the Taliban name are discussing this issue seriously,” Karzai spokesman Humayun Hamidzada told RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan today. “In this case, we don’t expect huge developments in the very near future, but we hope those who want peace and stability in Afghanistan will come step by step to join the ongoing peaceful process.”



Karzai recently said he would be willing to meet with Taliban leader Mullah Omar and give militants a position in government in exchange for peace.

Karzai spokesman Hamidzada said today that the militants would also have to accept Afghanistan’s constitution, which was approved early in 2004.



A Taliban spokesman, Qari Yosuf Ahmadi, was quoted as saying the militia will “never” negotiate with Afghan authorities as long as U.S. and NATO forces remain in the country.

Afghan boys in ‘Oscar contender’ refused visa for US premiere


The Daily Mail Reports: Spielberg Film “Not Famous Enough” For USG

(UK)
The Kite Runner, the tale of two Afghan boys united in war-torn Kabul by their love of kites, is based on the international bestseller by Khaled Hosseini. 
It is produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Marc Forster, who guided Halle Berry to her Oscar for Monster’s Ball. 

All three men are expected to attend the premiere of the £10million film at a theatre in west Hollywood next month, along with members of the cast and crew and a host of stars. 



Yet on the night there will be two noticeable absentees. Zekeria Ebrahimi and Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada, the young Afghan stars of the film, will not be there. 

Despite American protestations that they have brought liberty and normality to the streets of Kabul, the US government has turned down the boys’ visa applications on the grounds that the film ‘is not famous enough’.

BBC: PEACEKEEPERS KILLED IN DARFUR

Darfur attack kills peacekeepers

Ten soldiers die and another 50 are missing after a powerful rebel force raids an African Union base in Darfur.