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Wednesday January 7th, 2009
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FLASHBACK: Israeli officer: I was right to shoot 13-year-old child
posted 01/07/2009, 8:37 PM (The Guardian)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
An Israeli army officer who repeatedly shot a 13-year-old Palestinian girl in Gaza dismissed a warning from another soldier that she was a child by saying he would have killed her even if she was three years old.
The officer, identified by the army only as Captain R, was charged this week with illegal use of his weapon, conduct unbecoming an officer and other relatively minor infractions after emptying all 10 bullets from his gun's magazine into Iman al-Hams when she walked into a... (more) |
FLASHBACK: Video: Huda Ghalya, a 7 year old Palestinian girl, screams in horror as she witnesses her dead parents and other family members being removed from the beach after an Israeli Bomb attack
posted 01/07/2009, 8:48 PM (InformationLiberation)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
 "Don't leave me alone mama, papa, take me along with you, I cannot live alone without you all. Please dear brother, sisters, don't go and leave me behind."
Repeating these words amid tears, Huda Ghalia was the lone survivor of Israeli shelling that had killed her entire family in an outing that was supposed to be pleasant, leisurely and away from daily chores. |
'Why are they doing this to us?'
posted 01/07/2009, 8:37 PM (The Guardian)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
Reem Al Ghussain, an English teacher at Al-Azhar University in Gaza
Today I walked for half an hour to find bread, and then I queued for five hours. All I could buy was enough for one day. My children didn't want me to go - they were worried I would die. They are scared. Whenever they hear any sudden sound they think it's a bomb. They don't sleep, and as a result I don't sleep.
Sometimes they don't want to eat. I say don't worry, the bombing is far away, but ... (more) |
Gaza medics describe horror of strike which killed 70
posted 01/07/2009, 8:37 PM (The Telegraph)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
 Mohammed Shaheen, a volunteer with Palestinian Red Crescent, was in the first convoy of ambulances to reach the site of the blast in Zeitoun since it was first occupied then shelled by the Israeli army.
His testimony confirmed accounts, first reported in The Telegraph, from survivors of the extended al Samouni clan who said they feared between 60 and 70 family members had been killed.
"Inside the Samouni house I saw about ten bodies and outside another sixty,'' Mr S... (more) |
UN: Gaza school attack only hit civilians
posted 01/07/2009, 8:37 PM (Press TV)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
The United Nations has dismissed Israeli claims that its bloody attacks on schools were directed at killing Palestinians fighters.
Christopher Gunness, spokesman for the UN refugee agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said with high confidence on Wednesday that there were no combatants or combative activities in the schools and school compounds targeted by Israel on Tuesday.
"We are calling for an independent investigation to establish the facts," he said, callin... (more) |
Disputed Holocaust memoir could reappear as fiction
posted 01/07/2009, 8:36 PM (AFP)
[Category: General]
A Holocaust survivor's memoir of love in a Nazi concentration camp, which was yanked from publication last month when he admitted it was a hoax, could reappear as a work of fiction.
Berkley Books, a unit of Penguin Books, has canceled a planned publication of Herman Rosenblat's memoir, "Angel at the Fence."
But York House Press, a small publishing house based in White Plains, New York, has said it was "in serious discussion" to publish the book as a work of fiction.... (more) |
Willem Buiter warns of massive dollar collapse
posted 01/07/2009, 8:36 PM (The Telegraph)
[Category: Economy]
The long-held assumption that US assets - particularly government bonds - are a safe haven will soon be overturned as investors lose their patience with the world's biggest economy, according to Willem Buiter.
Professor Buiter, a former Monetary Policy Committee member who is now at the London School of Economics, said this increasing disenchantment would result in an exodus of foreign cash from the US.
The warning comes despite the dollar having strengthened signif... (more)Consider this a threat. |
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