The following is a video address by Adam Gadhan, aka “Azzam the American,” which aired on www.tajded.net.tc on May 29, 2007. TO VIEW THIS CLIP: http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1464

The angels guided us to them—The US military in Iraq says it believes three of its soldiers missing after an ambush have been abducted by militants from, or linked to, al-Qaeda. Some 4,000 US soldiers are searching for the three men, who disappeared on Saturday after their patrol came under attack south of Baghdad.

The Islamic State of Iraq, an umbrella group of militants led by al-Qaeda, says it is holding the soldiers.

It told the US to stop searching for them if it wanted their safety.

“Your soldiers are in our hands,” the group said in a statement posted on an Islamist website. “If you want them safe, do not search for them.”

SOON ALL THIS WILL BE OURS! —ISRAEL is facing a challenge it never expected when it captured East Jerusalem and reunited the city in the 1967 war: each year, Jerusalem’s population is becoming more Arab and less Jewish.

For four decades, Israel has pushed to build and expand Jewish neighborhoods, while trying to restrict the growth in Arab parts of the city. Yet two trends are unchanged: Jews moving out of Jerusalem have outnumbered those moving in for 27 of the last 29 years. And the Palestinian growth rate has been high.

In a 1967 census taken shortly after the war, the population of Jerusalem was 74 percent Jewish and 26 percent Arab. Today, the city is 66 percent Jewish and 34 percent Arab, with the gap narrowing by about 1 percentage point a year, according to the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies.

Jerusalem’s profound religious and historical significance makes its status perhaps the single most explosive issue in the Arab-Israeli conflict. And that status clearly would become even more contentious were the balance of the population to tip toward the Arabs. This is a specter that worries Israelis, even as the 40th anniversary of their victory in the June 1967 war approaches.

Desperate search for missing soldiers in Iraq

An Iraqi officer says dozens of suspects have been rounded up in house-to-house searches for three U-S soldiers missing since an attack on their patrol. Four other Americans and an Iraqi interpreter were killed.

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Islamic law by the back door

By Lucy Williamson BBC News, Jakarta Civilian police are looking for signs of alcohol and prostitution Half an hour’s drive from Indonesia’s parliament, the civilian police in the district of Tangerang go on patrol every evening. A dozen men, crammed into the back of a pick-up truck, cruise the dimly-lit streets, looking for anywhere serving alcohol or any woman they think might be a prostitute. The municipal government in Tangerang has banned both alcohol and “any behaviour that suggests prostitution”. It is one of a number of districts which, despite the fact Indonesia is a secular state, have recently brought in local Islamic-style laws. On the night of my visit, the patrol was doing spot-checks on the night-time vegetable market, some food stalls near a busy road and a patch of scrubland the police say is a favourite spot for sex workers. They found nothing. But many people in the area say it is not only prostitutes who get picked up by the patrol. Lilis lives with her husband and two children on the outskirts of Tangerang. Just over a year ago, she was arrested by the civilian police while waiting for a taxi on her way home from work. The police could not reach her husband, so Lilis was fined and jailed as a prostitute. She told me the arrest had left her shocked and traumatised, that she was now afraid to go anywhere on her own, and that even when she was out with her husband, the sight of the civilian police sent her into a panic. Fear of arrest Since her arrest, Lilis has lost her job, and has had to move house. The authorities say they only catch prostitutes, but that’s not true Lilis She rarely goes out in public now, and has begun wearing a headscarf in the hope it will make her less of a target. “My daughter is afraid to go too far from the house,” Lilis told me. “She’s afraid people will talk about her the way people talked about me.” “The authorities say they only catch prostitutes, but that’s not true. Lots of women simply come back late from work or school.” Tangerang is an industrial area, and the evening shift at many of the factories here finishes late - sometimes 10 or 11pm. One of the problems, say campaigners, is that the regulation against prostitution is worded vaguely - it simply bans any behaviour that suggests prostitution, and that means it is down to individual patrols to judge whether a woman is breaking the law. But the head of Tangerang’s patrol, Pak Lutfi, told me that the civilian police was being blamed unfairly. “We look for prostitutes,” he told me. “For instance those who stand in improper places, who don’t stand at bus stops. We’re sure they’re prostitutes but ultimately we let the judge decide.” But it is not only the way in which these laws are being enforced that is sparking a debate. Many civil and human rights groups are challenging them on constitutional grounds as well. It’s a good law. Prostitution and alcohol have to be banned. If not, the youth here will be lured into doing bad things Tangerang resident One of those campaigning for their abolition is Musdah Mulia, head of the Council on Religious Pluralism. “We would like the government to uphold the values of democracy,” she told me, “and to be firm towards any attempt to divert from democracy”. “There’s a lack of understanding in our society over what constitutes democracy,” she explained. “And there’s also abuse of regional autonomy; now a lot of groups at local level have used regional autonomy to pass laws based on sharia law.” Since the fall of the former President Suharto a decade ago, more and more power has been devolved to local governments. Campaigners like Mulia say that local laws which ban alcohol on religious grounds, or target women in this way, contravene Indonesia’s constitution. Local support But the problem for people like Mulia is that these kind of rules are proving popular. In the streets of Tangerang, most of those out eating supper at the roadside stalls were broadly positive. “I agree with it,” one man said. “I’m a Muslim. Alcohol and prostitution damages the society and the religion.” His neighbour agreed. “It’s a good law,” she said. “Prostitution and alcohol have to be banned. If not, the youth here will be lured into doing bad things. We need to give them a good example.” But another woman thought it was important to educate the police to carry out the rules fairly. “Sometimes the wrong people get caught, so we need to look at how the law is enforced,” she said. The popularity of these regulations is adding to the government’s headache. It has been under growing pressure to take a stand - to decide once and for all whether local authorities are over-stepping their powers. But the country’s leaders have so far been reluctant to get involved. And while they look the other way, Indonesia’s rules are changing.

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Candidate Gul as a Victim of Military Aggression

Cartoon No. 1: The small figure is labeled “Abdullah Gul.”

Al-Khaleej (UAE), May 1, 2007

Cartoon No. 2: “The Turkish Military Vs. [Presidential] Candidate [Abdullah] Gul”
Sign over entrance reads “The Presidency.”

Al-Sharouq (Algeria), May 5, 2007

Cartoon No. 3: “Turkey”

Al-Mustaqbal (Lebanon), April 30, 2007

Cartoon No. 4:

Al-Dustour (Jordan), April 30, 3007

Cartoon No. 5: “Gul Withdraws His Presidential Candidacy”
The army officer defending the goal says, “No Gul.”

Al-Sharq Al-Awsat (London), May 7, 2007

Criticism of Military Intervention in the Democratic Process

Cartoon No. 6: Right to left: “Gul [vs.] Ghoul” On the cap: “Turkish Army Member.” On the club and ballot box: “Democracy.”

Al-Dustour (Jordan), April 29, 2007

Cartoon No. 7:

Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt), May 3, 2007

Cartoon No. 8: “Turkish Army Topples Four Governments in Five Years”
On soldier’s tunic: “Military.” Above girl: “Democracy.”

Al-Madina (Saudi Arabia), May 4, 2007

Cartoon No. 9: “The Turkish Military Threatens to Move”
On the figure in the noose: “The Political Process”

Al-Sharq Al-Awsat (London), May 1, 2007

Cartoon No. 10: “Presidential Elections in Turkey.”
On the figure: “Military.” On the book from which he is emerging: “The Turkish Constitution.”

Al-Ghad (Jordan), May 2, 2007

Cartoon No. 11: On the right-hand club: “Turkish Secularism” On the left-hand club: “Exported American Democracy”

Al-Dustour (Jordan), May 1, 2007

The Struggle Between the Secular Camp and the Islamist AKP

Cartoon No. 12: “Turkey Between Islam and Secularism”

Al-Quds Al-Arabi, London, May 2, 2007

Cartoon No. 13: “Turkey”

Al-Watan (Qatar), May 1, 2007

Cartoon No. 14: “Turkey”
On the front of the glass case in which soldier is standing: “In Case of Threat to Secular Regime, Break Glass”

Al-Hayat (London), April 30, 2007

DAY BY DAY GENOCIDE—Not a single day passes without a crime being perpetrated by the Israeli occupation army and/or paramilitary Jewish terrorists, otherwise known as settlers, against innocent and helpless Palestinian civilians in the West Bank. And in case a murder is not committed, a home is demolished, a school child is crippled by a Jewish sniper’s indifferent bullets, a farm is bulldozed, a grain field is torched, or a new colony is started on stolen Arab land seized at gunpoint from its lawful proprietors, all in the name of Jewish nationalism.

It is more than the wide wild west here, it is actually very much like pre-war Germany when the Third Reich effectively encouraged Germans to have a free season on Jews, on their lives, homes and businesses.

Let us have just a few examples of what the so-called “chosen people” did in the West Bank in the past 48 hours:

On Wednesday (9 May), the heroes of Zionism shot and killed a 7-month-old fetus inside his mother’s womb. The woman is now fighting for her life in hospital. According to eyewitnesses, Israeli tanks raiding the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein Beit Alma in Nablus, began firing indiscriminately, hitting the woman in her underbelly and killing her fetus. A film showed a fetus image in the hospital after being taken from his mother’s tomb; the fetus is already dead after being shot by a bullet in the head. The treating doctor testified that “the bullets hit the fetus in the head after penetrating the mother’s womb. The latest crime raised the number of Palestinian children murdered by Jewish terrorists since 2000 to 853, of whom 124 were killed in 2006. The Israeli army is still “looking into the incident” just as it is still looking into thousands upon thousands of other murderous crimes committed since Israel’s misbegotten birth sixty years ago.

The same heroes of Zionism yesterday torched hundreds of hectares of harvest-ready fields of grains in various parts of the West Bank. The crimes were committed with the knowledge and in full view of the Israeli army.

In Hebron, crack Israeli soldiers ganged up on peace activists, including Jewish participants, after the activists sought to remove rocks and dirt blocking a major road linking Hebron with the town of Dahiriya. Several protesters were beaten savagely and graphic pictures of the “clashes” have been posted on several internet sites.

Around the same time, the Israeli occupation army rounded more than 51 Palestinians (the daily quota is 15-20), sending them to the notorious concentration camp in the Negev desert where they are interned in harsh conditions for months or years, either on concocted charges or without charge or trial.

There are more than 11000 Palestinians languishing in these detention camps. Israel calls them “terrorists or extremists.” However, the truth of the matter is that these people are doctors, teachers, university professors, nurses, students, lawmakers, government clerks, businesspeople and ordinary people whose only crime is their often peaceful opposition to the Nazi-like Israeli occupation of their country.

 Video : The story of a six day battle the {occupiers} did not want you to see

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