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To: steve harris who wrote (233698)	6/15/2007 7:57:22 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 281500

'Executions of cell phone users up in N. Korea' Jerusalem Post ^ \| Jun. 14, 2007 jpost.com North Korea has increased its public executions against cell phone users and those who circulate outside information in the communist country, a South Korean government think tank said Thursday. The phenomenon of executions of those who "circulate South Korean leaflets and sell videos and use cell phones are on the rise," the South's government-affiliated Korea Institute for National Unification think tank said in a white paper on the North's human rights conditions. No exact figures were given. North Koreans are officially banned from communicating with the outside world but some of them listen to foreign news and use cell phones through Chinese communication networks, according to North Korean defectors in South Korea. The use of cell phones in North Korea is banned though some are smuggled into the North by Chinese who have links with South Koreans.

To: steve harris who wrote (233698)	6/15/2007 8:12:23 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I have migraines....I think that is the fault of USA/Israel too..... Gaza crisis caused by US, EU, Israel, says UK campaign group Islamic Republic News Agency ^ \| 6-15-07 www2.irna.ir UK Palestine Campaign-Gaza Crisis The current crisis in Gaza and the West Bank is the "predictable outcome of the policy of Israel and the west of boycotting the democratically elected Palestinian government," says the UK-based Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC). "The deliberate creation of a humanitarian crisis by the EU, the US and Israel is a shameful and cowardly attempt at regime change," PSC chair Betty Hunter said Friday. Hunter said that the refusal to recognise Palestinian democracy, including a unity government representing 96 per cent of the electorate, had created "despair" among the Palestinians. Despite the offer of a comprehensive ceasefire and negotiations, she said Israel and the west have "punished the Palestinian people by depriving the Palestinian Authority of its own tax revenues and aid." In a letter to the Guardian newspaper, Hunter said it was a "brutal siege." The use of aid agencies was "ineffective," as graphically demonstrated in the recent Oxfam report, as well as UN documents and the report of the World Bank," she said. "Democratically elected Palestinian parliamentarians have been abducted and imprisoned by Israel - a third of the Palestinian legislature is incarcerated by Israel," she said. The PSC chair said the responsibility for the crisis "lies with governments, including our own, which have created these intolerable conditions for Palestinians and continue to deny Palestinians basic human rights." She urged the British government "to act now, to end the siege on the Palestinians and immediately reinstate the funding to the Palestinian Authority; to respect Palestinian democracy and fully recognise the Palestinian Authority." The UK, Hunter also said, should ensure that Israel releases the imprisoned MPs and all other political prisoners, to act to end the Israeli occupation and to ensure Israel abides by international law. She suggested that Britain's Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett, should use the next EU meeting on Monday to press for these changes in EU policy.