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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scoobah who wrote (1526)	2/1/2002 11:33:37 AM
From: Baldur Fjvlnisson	Respond to of 32591

Peres: Iran widening its missile threat By Nina Gilbert jpost.com JERUSALEM (January 31) - Iran has supplied Hizbullah in Lebanon with some 10,000 missiles, enough that could ignite a regional conflagration, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said yesterday. According to Peres, the missiles have a range of between 20 km. and 70 km. He said Iran has acquired or is trying to acquire missiles to threaten the area, including the Shihab-3, with a 1,300-km. range, to threaten the region, and a 5,000-km. range missile to threaten Europe. It is now developing a 10,000 km. range missile that could strike at North America, he said. The Iranian "ayatollah" government has threatened to eliminate Israel with these weapons, or to commit "genocide through missiles," Peres said. Peres was responding to a parliamentary query from MK Anat Maor (Meretz) on the US plan to withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty. He said the real missile danger today is from "irresponsible states" which are producing missiles and transferring the technology to "terrorist countries." Peres said it was no coincidence that US President George Bush had identified three countries as dangerous: Iran, Iraq, and North Korea. Peres stressed the importance of missile defense systems to fight the ballistic threat. Search The Jerusalem Post: Previous Next News Mubarak said ready to press Arafat on terrorism Suicide bomber attacks Shin Bet agents Gold: Bush speech shows US sees Iran as adversary Lithuania hands over 31 Torah scrolls Palestinian gunmen fire on Gilo again Female bomber identified EU makes NIS 1.5m. donation to leftist immigrant group Ben-Eliezer works to create the chemistry Selling the 'Samson option' Peres: Iran widening its missile threat Tel Aviv team spots baby's sex just 16 days after conception Knesset to discuss Burg's planned Ramallah trip 'No Left, no terror' campaign draws fire Olmert: Municipality not to blame for Versailles banquet hall collapse Bloomberg says NYC 'open for business'

To: Scoobah who wrote (1526)	2/1/2002 12:44:42 PM
From: Cage Rattler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

HOW ABOUT THIS FOR OBJECTIVE JOURNALISM? Special Dispatch - Egypt February 1, 2002 Egyptian Government Daily: America's Torture of Al-Qa'ida Prisoners Worse Than Hitler's Treatment of Jewish and Christian 'Rivals' Many Arab columnists are harshly critical of the U.S. for its treatment of Al-Qa'ida and Taliban captives at Guantanamo. Renowned Egyptian author and columnist for the Egyptian government daily Al-Ahram, Anis Mansour, describes the treatment of the Al-Qa'ida and Taliban prisoners as 'worse than prisoners under the Nazis.' Following are excerpts from his article: "The Americans transferred the prisoners from Afghanistan to the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba. I saw this base in 1963, during the Tricontinental Conference in Havana. It's a nice base. No one expected it to be turned into a base for torturing Al-Qa'ida members from Afghanistan, in a way unprecedented in history - worse than what Hitler did to his rivals from among the Jews and Christians." "Hitler's soldiers burned, strangled, and then killed. But America's prisoners were transferred in planes, on [a trip] lasting twenty hours. Under normal circumstances, the trip would not have been exhausting. But what was done to the prisoners is abominable!" "They are blindfolded, their ears covered, and their noses sealed. They can't see, can't hear, and can't smell; they are in masks of iron. Their hands, arms, necks, and legs are shackled in heavy choke chains." "Twenty hours of sensory deprivation is sufficient to damage the senses of any man. If the Americans add another 20 hours, [one doesn't know] whether he is alive or dead. If we then remove the shackles, he will not know how - or where - to walk!" "In the solitary confinement cells, the darkness is absolute. Suddenly, [the Americans] shine a brilliant light and make aggressive [loud] noise for a few moments; then quiet and darkness are restored. Those moments are enough to make the prisoners blind, deaf, and brain-damaged." "[Even] America's friends have condemned this inhuman treatment of the prisoners of war. But U.S. Secretary of Defense, Rumsfeld, said: 'They are not prisoners of war, and the Geneva Convention does not apply to them.' He claimed that they are criminals who violated the law, and were members of bin Laden's gang." "[He says that] the Americans blocked the prisoners' ears out of pity, so that the noise of the plain would not bother them. Their noses were covered so that they would not spread their contagious diseases to the soldiers guarding them. This pressure on their nerves makes them easily turn over any dangerous information they have." "These prisoners of war cannot go to American courts to demand that the Constitution be applied, because they are not on American soil - rather, at Camp X-Ray, which is designed to turn them from men to beasts within hours!"(1)