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Persecuted Christians 4/02

JUBILEE CAMPAIGN PRESS RELEASE For immediate release April 25th 2002 JUBILEE LOBBIES AT U.N. FOR PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS AND STREET CHILDREN The British based human rights group, Jubilee Campaign, has called on the U.N Human Rights Commission in Geneva, Switzerland, to put strong pressure on the Indonesian government to remove all members of the Islamic extremist […]

Saudis And Al Qaeda

KING’S RANSOM by SEYMOUR M. HERSH How vulnerable are the Saudi royals? Issue of 2001-10-22 Posted 2001-10-16 Since 1994 or earlier, the National Security Agency has been collecting electronic intercepts of conversations between members of the Saudi Arabian royal family, which is headed by King Fahd. The intercepts depict a regime increasingly corrupt, alienated from […]

Our Saudi Friends

More for the Saudiophiles…. March 20, 2002 by John Loftus For twenty years I have served without compensation as a lawyer for federal whistleblowers within the US intelligence community. In the last year, I have received highly classified information from several of my confidential clients concerning a Saudi covert operation. The Saudi relationship is so […]

Terror, Mideast And Hypocrisy

By Mitch Albom April 23, 2002 Originally published in the Detroit Free Press. When suicide bombers attacked America last September, nothing could stop our retaliation. Yet when suicide bombers attack Israel, week after week, Israel is told — even by Americans — to back off. When we bombed Afghanistan, where Al Qaida was organized, it […]

Sudan

CHRISTIAN SOLIDARITY INTERNATIONAL April 21, 2001 New Sudanese Government Military Offensive Over 20,000 Black, Non-Muslims Displaced (Alek, S. Sudan/Zurich/Los Angeles, April 21, 2002) Yesterday, the armed forces of the Government of Sudan (GOS) launched a major offensive to capture the strategically important town of Gogrial, northern Bahr El Ghazal, Southern Sudan. Two brigades emanating from […]

Arafat

Posted on the web site “Scoop”, 19 April. The Real Yasser Arafat It is often said that the truth is one of the first casualties of war. This is certainly the case with regard to Palestinian Authority chairman, Yasser Arafat. Arafat once declared Jerusalem his birthplace: “This is my city . this is where I […]

The Return Of An Ancient Hatred

Editorial/Op-Ed http://nytimes.com/2002/04/20/opinion/_20SAT1.html **************************************************************************** ******* April 20, 2002 When many in the Muslim world blamed Israel and its supposed desire to discredit Islam for the Sept. 11 attacks, most Americans dismissed the report as a deformed joke. But just as the attacks forced Americans to face the fact that there are deadly serious groups seeking to […]

Israeli Military: Between A Rock And Hard Place

Dave Eberhart, NewsMax Monday, Apr. 22, 2002 WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Israeli Defense Forces die facing a fanatic enemy, threatened weapon embargoes by members of the European Economic Union, and the enmity of much of the world, the defense establishment looks longingly at the dim prospect for a multinational force to take over the dangerous […]

Blair, Bush And The Middle East

The Daily Telegraph, London Bush must learn to ignore anything that Blair tells him By Robin Harris (Filed: 22/04/2002) THE recriminations began even before Colin Powell’s return from his unhappy mission to the Middle East. Not since the end of the Cold War has American power been so brazenly mocked in the region. Still more […]

World Situation

April 18, 2002 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AROUND THE WORLD AND MATERIALISM AND SECULARISM IN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA ARE EQUAL THREATS TO THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST WASHINGTON, D.C. (BWA) – “The current threats to religious freedom in parts of Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and certain parts of Europe are of equal […]