Church body condems Israel
Israel’s assault on Lebanon was planned before Hezbollah attacked and was aimed at driving a wedge between the different faiths in the country, a delegation from the World Council of Churches says. Full Story
Category: The war that will not end in our lifetimes
US Secretary of State told a group of journalists when the United States invaded Iraq, “this will be a war that will not end in your lifetimes.” The vision of the project for the New American Century which backed George W Bush’s bid for presidency, is that the United States will control the world economy, by controlling the world’s oil supplies. The backing of independence movements in Georgia and Chechnya has deprived Russia of the gateway to Middle Eastern oil, and prevented it building a planned pipeline to China. Combined with manouvers in Afghanistan, Iraq and Israel, it is clear that this plan is being put into effect. The news stories in this category track the progress of this project and the impact it is having on the world economy and hence, your daily life.
Israel’s bombs create ecological disaster
Along Lebanon’s sandy beaches runs a belt of black sludge, 10,000 to 30,000 tonnes of oil that spilled into the Mediterranean Sea after Israel bombed a power plant, reported The Age (29/7/2006, p.15). Oil storage tanks hit: Lebanon’s Environment Ministry said the oil flooded into the sea after Israeli jets hit storage tanks south of Continue Reading →
Wild dogs devour victims of Israel’s Bombs
Mike Whitney
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=24945&colonna=m&bh=0&l=e
"Lebanon carpenters are running out of wood for coffins. Bodies are stacked 3 or 4 feet high at the hospital morgue. The stench is spreading in the rubble. The morbid reality of Israel’s bombing campaign is reaching almost every corner of the city… On Thursday, the wild dogs gnawed at the charred remains of a family bombed as they were trying to escape the village." Hassan Fattah, New York Times
"The complicity of the American public in these heinous crimes will damn America for all time in history." Paul Craig Roberts; "The Shame of being an American"
For more than a week Israel has been raining down terror on the Lebanon’s unprotected cities and towns. So far, more than 1,200 sites have been completely destroyed laying to waste most of the country’s civilian infrastructure and triggering a humanitarian crisis. The death toll, currently at 350, continues to mount while the number of displaced civilians is estimated at more than 500,000.
Attack on Saudi oil infrastructure and Iraq’s Golden Mosque bombing push oil prices up
Attempted suicide bombing at world’s largest oil processing plant in
Saudi Arabia and Golden Mosque bombing in Iraq lift oil prices by over
$US2 a barrel
Ominous developments in Iraq deflected attention from an attempted
suicide bombing at the world’s largest oil processing plant, located in
Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich eastern province. But worries about spreading
violence in a destabilised Middle East lifted oil prices by more than
$US2 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, underscoring the
fragility of world oil supplies, according to The Australian Financial Review (27/2/2006, p.10).
Al-Qaeda did the bombing: Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for
the attempted bombing of the Abqaiq facility, adding to long-held
concerns about attacks on the Saudi oil sector, which accounts for
about 10 per cent of the world’s supply.
Endless civil war: Iraq’s Defence Minister, Saadoun al-Dulaimi,
a Sunni Muslim in the Shi’ite-led government, warned of an endless
civil war unless things were brought under control. “If there is a
civil war in this country it will never end,” Mr al-Dulaimi said.
Many people killed: He put the number of people killed at 119
since the Shi’ite Golden Mosque in Samarra was bombed on Wednesday, but
this almost certainly understates the number killed.