If only President Bush could see the results of withholding funds from the U.N. Population Fund. Somewhere in the world, a pregnant woman dies like that about once a minute, often leaving a handful of orphans behind. Call me na�ve, but I think that if Mr. Bush came here and saw women dying as a [...]

NOW they get it!… A new Harris Poll published in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal, gives Bush’s negative rating stands at 66% for his handling of events in Iraq, the lowest of his presidency, and for the first time, a majority (53%) of adults feel that military action in Iraq was the wrong thing to do. [...]

People Daily Online: Japan will finance the rebuilding of Muqata with an undisclosed amount under coordination between the The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and Palestinian National Authority (PNA) on renovating Muqata, Palestinian presidential headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Abbas Office Director said, “We need a new headquarters for the president, where [...]

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Enclosed is also a sample protest letter by the Israeli peace and anti nuclear activist Gideon Spiro.

The 2005 Nobel Prize for Economics

To The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences:

We, the undersigned, protest your decision to award the 2005 Nobel Prize in [...]

Blogger Seyyed Ahmad Seyyed Seraji has lost his appeal and is now to serve 18 months of jail (and receive 30 lashes), on charges of attempting to overthrow the Islamic Republic of Iran and insulting the Supreme Leader, Shahram Kholdi reports.

Bush always claimed that he will refuse any bills amendment (such as this one) which would limit the treatment of detainees in his “war on terror” because he says they are “not needed” and because they don’t torture anyone, right?

Then why are Bush and Cheney asking for an exemption for the CIA on the amendment, [...]

Bird flu at our door steps (Arabic):

Large numbers of chicken perished in south Yemen triggering fears bird flu, reports said Monday.

The Daily al-Ayam reported an unidentified disease is spreading quickly among birds in the province of Kabita, and cats and dogs that ate the dead birds also perished.

The paper said sick chickens stopped eating and [...]

Aljazeera:

Constitution has been approved, the ‘independent electoral commission’ said, as it announced the final results of this month’s landmark referendum.

I liked the word ‘independent’… Independent under occupation, aren’t they?

Anyway, as the Independent Commission for Iraqi Elections proclaimed a few hours ago, only 2 provinces (Anbar & Diyala) rejected the draft with more than 2/3 of [...]

Searched everywhere on the Arabic media to confirm this, but could not find it except on United Press International:

Saudi Arabia said Monday a rocket fired from inside Yemeni territory exploded on the Saudi side of the border.

Daily al-Watan quoted a security source as saying an explosion, which occurred in the border province of Najran, [...]

Poll shows Iraqis back attacks on UK, US forces. Forty-five percent of Iraqis believe attacks on U.S. and British troops are justified, according to a secret poll said to have been commissioned by British defense leaders and cited by The Sunday Telegraph. (Reuters report; Telegraph Data)
Now call them ALL TERRORIST!
[Hat Tip: Baghdad Dweller]