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Boston Massacre, Modern Style Artillery Barrages and Instant PTSD

From a Combat survivor, this is it...

(PORTLAND, OR) - About a million or more military Combat Veterans have PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). Whether they were able to watch the carnage of this recent Boston massacre is improbable.

For me, it brings back my WWII crossing of the Rhine River when about 150 members of my battalion were ravaged and many killed by artillery and every other kind of weapon the Germans had.

Is Terror an Option for the Occupied and Oppressed Palestinians?

In theory it is only the occupied and oppressed Palestinians who could cause Israel to bleed and hurt by resorting to a well planned and sustained campaign of terror.

(LONDON) - My answer is “No” but I think the question needs to be asked. It was provoked in my mind by a recent Ynet op-ed article by Ziv Lenchner, described as a left-leaning, Jewish Israeli artist.

The headline over his piece was Israelis to Obama - we don’t care, don’t bother us.

Britons in Aid Convoy Kidnapped and Sexually Assaulted in Libya

Three women taking part in aid convoy to Gaza were attacked in Benghazi.

(BENGHAZI The Guardian) - Three women who were part of an aid convoy passing through Libya on the way to Gaza have been sexually assaulted in Benghazi, after a group of five British nationals were briefly kidnapped.

The three women, two of whom are sisters, were part of a large aid convoy travelling to the Gaza Strip.

Evidence Shows Syrian Rebels Behind Chemical Attack

Assad forces called upon the United Nations to launch an investigation into the attack.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Reports of a chemical weapon attack in Syria’s Aleppo Province last week provoked Western political leaders to advocate more fiercely for the overthrow of the Assad regime, despite the vague details.

Current data now suggests, that rebel forces were behind the attack.

US Hands Full Control of Bagram Prison to Afghanistan

The U.S. partly handed over the high-security prison and around 3,000 suspected Taliban fighters to Afghan control last year.

(BAGRAM VOA News) - Afghanistan has taken full control of a controversial detention center from the United States. Bagram military prison was handed over to Afghanistan in a ceremony Monday.

The transfer was scheduled to happen earlier this month, but was abruptly canceled just before a ceremony was to begin.

US Activists Respond to GTMO Hunger Strikes

166 men remain imprisoned at Guantanamo. 86 have been cleared for release.

(WASHINGTON DC) - On Sunday, March 24 human rights activists throughout the United States began a seven day fast and series of actions in solidarity with the men currently on hunger strike at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Dozens of men, according to detainee lawyers, are entering their seventh week of a hunger strike to protest their indefinite detention and a new wave of alleged abuses.

Joint Terrorism Task Force Report at Council

The report is actually nearly a verbatim copy of the Chief's report from last year with few exceptions.

(PORTLAND, OR) - Our new mayor is stonewalling the public about how his police bureau's resurrected (2011) cooperation with the FBI in the Joint Terrorism Task Force has been going. Read Dan Handelman's detailed report which concludes:

"...We certainly deserve better and more information."

Protected by Her Own...
Sayyeda Zeinab: the 7th Century Heroine of Karbala

The story of Zeinab at Karbala, and her subsequent life, like the passion play of Karbala itself, is history that one never tires of hearing.

(SAYYEDA ZEINAB SHRINE, Damascus) - It is well known in this region that powerful foreign and domestic forces are in nearly every country.

Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, are increasingly acting, for purely political purposes, to ignite a bloody internecine conflict within Islam.

US Refuses to Transfer High-Risk Prisoners to Afghan Control

The Obama administration considers the detainee problem a short-term disagreement unrelated to the strategic negotiations on Afghanistan’s future security.

(KABUL Khaama Press) - A dispute between Kabul and Washington over the fate of about three dozen militants held by US forces in Afghanistan has disrupted negotiations over a long-term security agreement between the two nations, Washington Post reported.

Reinvestigate 911 and Accountable Democracy: April 30 Public Meeting Conway Hall London, Full Programme

Terrorists ? Or just patsies? Several alleged 9/11 terrorists were saved from arrest before the attacks by order of FBI and CIA bosses.

(LONDON) - We have finalised the speakers list for the April 30 meeting, it's a weekday evening in Conway Hall, central London.

Given the usual refusal of the media to give us publicity, it vital that as many as possible help with distributing leaflets.