Afghans outraged after US Marines cleared

Afghans reacted with outrage Saturday after the US military found Marines had acted appropriately when they opened fire after an attack last year, killing at least 10 civilians.

The country's top rights body meanwhile reiterated its finding that the troops had used excessive force in the March 4 incident in Nangarhar and the United Nations said it was disappointed no one was held accountable.

"I'm deeply outraged over this," Abdul Aziz Khairkhawa, deputy head of the Nangarhar provincial council, told AFP after the US Marines' announcement Friday.

"People sleeping in their home or walking on the road are being killed and they say they are innocent. This is not acceptable," he told AFP.

Khairkhawa said the soldiers should have been "strongly punished" and made to apologise.

The Marines opened fire after a suicide bombing on a patrol that wounded a soldier. They said it was a "complex attack" involving the bomb and small arms fire.

The Afghan interior ministry said the troops killed 10 civilians, including children. The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission said they had killed around a dozen civilians and wounded 35. More

Syria rejects linking Israel peace with cutting off Iran

Syria will not accept preconditions over its resumed peace talks with Israel and will not compromise its relations with other states, the government daily Tishrin said on Saturday, referring to Iran.

"Damascus rejects all preconditions concerning its relations with other countries and peoples," it said after an Israeli call for Damascus to distance itself from Tehran, which has called for the destruction of the Jewish state.

"Damascus will make no compromise on these relations," an editorial said.

Israel and Syria announced on Wednesday they had launched indirect peace talks, with Turkey acting as go-between, after an eight-year freeze.

Israel's Housing Minister Zeev Boim said peace "can be reached with the Syrians only if they end all terror activities, including supporting and arming Hezbollah in Lebanon and giving up their strategic dependence on Iran."

Israel regards Iran as its greatest strategic threat.

A three-decade alliance between Damascus and Tehran was bolstered in 2006, when they signed an agreement on military cooperation.

A first round of peace feelers between Syria and Israel last year ran up against Damascus's objection to any explicit linkage between a peace deal and its support for Iran and Arab militant groups.

Last June, Syria's ruling coalition, the National Progressive Front, accused Israel of trying to "impose conditions which have nothing to do with the principles of peace."

Israel also wants Syria to stop supporting Lebanese and Palestinian militant groups. Damascus has repeatedly denied having links to such organisations. AFP

Never trust zionist pigs deals!

So just where does the madness end?

All the monsters buried in the mass graves of the civil war have been dug up

That George Bush declared in Jerusalem that "al-Qa'ida, Hizbollah and Hamas will be defeated, as Muslims across the region recognise the emptiness of the terrorists' vision and the injustice of their cause".

Where does the madness end? Where do words lose their meaning? Al-Qa'ida is not being defeated. Hizbollah has just won a domestic war in Lebanon, as total as Hamas's war in Gaza. Afghanistan and Iraq and Lebanon and Gaza are hell disasters – I need no apology to quote Churchill's description of 1948 Palestine yet again – and this foolish, stupid, vicious man is lying to the world yet again.

He holds a "closed door" meeting with Lord Blair of Kut al-Amara – a man stupendously unfit to run any Middle East "peace", which is presumably why the meeting had to be "closed door" – but tells the world of the blessings of Israeli democracy. As if the Palestinians benefit from a democracy which is continuing to take from them the land which they have owned for generations.

Do we really have to accept this? Bush tells us that "we consider it a source of shame that the United Nations routinely passes more human rights resolutions against the freest democracy in the Middle East than any other nation in the world".

The truth is that it is a source of shame that the United States continues to give unfettered permission to Israel to steal Palestinian land – which is why it should be a source of shame (to Washington) that the UN passes human rights resolutions against America's only real ally in the region.

And what is Washington doing in the country where I live? It has sent one of its top generals to see the Lebanese army commander, signalling – a growing Fisk suspicion, this – that it has abandoned its support for the Lebanese government. The Americans promise more equipment for the Lebanese army. Independent

AMSI Warns the Muslim World of Insidious Plans of Israel

The Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMSI) revealed horrific strategy of Zionist occupation state as transferring some Iraqi children staying at the hospitals to Tel Aviv for treatment. In the statement AMSI appealed the Muslim World and Arabic Countries to not give any opportunity to Israel for maintaining so-called treatments or any other false allegations.

This horrific scandal has been revealed by AMSI after some reliable information given by an Iraqi doctor working in one Iraqi Center for Medical Assistance in the Green Zone comprising Iraqis and Americans. According to the information Israel is transferring some Iraqi children patients for treatment to one of the hospital in Tel Aviv.

The Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMSI) pointed out the irony of this scandal that brought the victim to be dealt with according to the claim under the supervision of the executioner.

AMSI said that: “ We appeal all Muslims and Arab brothers to hold this file of these children whether hospitals are unable to have premium class of advanced reception in the concourse, at least it is sufficient to accept these patients to any hospitals not to transfer occupation state.”

At the statement the Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMSI) stressed the vital and focal point which the Israel has.

“Israel and Zionist lobbies are one of the instigators of the war in Iraq. They have a field presence in its territory over the past years of the occupation and still wreaking havon on their land. They have full responsibility over what happened and is happening in whole Iraq. Therefore it is not possible to think that there is humanitarian purposes for this insidious action of Israel whatsoever they allege.” said the statement.

Meanwhile AMSI also blamed Zionist enemy to be partner with the occupation on destroying Iraq, making ethnic cleansing, killing children, women, elders and innocent civilians as well as tortures in everywhere of Iraq.

On the other hand, after revealing of this scandal investigators of AMSI also uncovered many other details about this insidious and horrific event at www.shevet.org/childrennowinisrael.html.

The readers can reach other details about the event and other activities through this web page.

It should be noted that the Zionist occupation state is being still blamed by many human rights organizations of using non-Jews patients in organ transfers, non-ethical scientific research and giving some parts of the patients’ bodies to others who are in need of this demanded organs. This horrific reality also broadcasted by some documentary and movie films like the Eyes of Zahra…

Israel don't treat kids Israel kills Kids and Targets Civilians

Israel presented new map of West Bank during negotiations

In a report that is unsubstantiated by official sources, the Israeli newspaper, the Jerusalem Post, has reported that Israel has presented a map of the West Bank in which Israel will control 8.5 percent of the land (including the most fertile land and the water sources). This is while negotiations are still ongoing between the Fateh-led portion of the Palestinian Authority and Israeli authorities in Egypt.

Map of West Bank with Israeli Wall and settlements

According to the Jerusalem Post report, they received this information from Palestinian sources close to the negotiations. According to their sources, this new map presented by Israel is not acceptable to the Palestinian side, as the Palestinians want Israel to withdraw to the 1967 borders, as they are compelled to do under international law and numerous UN resolutions. According to the Israeli press report, the Palestinian negotiators are willing to concede 1.8 % of the West Bank to Israel, but no more than that. More