| |||||||||||||||||
| Dera Ismail Khan Suspected Taliban hiding among civilians | |||||||||||||||||
| Two boys held by Zainuddin on suspicion of being suicide bombers | |
![]() | You are viewing Log in Create a LiveJournal Account Learn more | Explore LJ: Life Entertainment Music Culture News & Politics Technology |

"A report issued recently by the Iraqi planning ministry, meanwhile, painted a grim picture of life in the country, saying shortages of clean water and food were growing worse.
The report found that life expectancy had fallen to 58 years in 2008 - seven years less than during the height of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.
Rates of poverty, tuberculosis, hunger, unemployment, and infant mortality have all increased substantially.

| Title: | Shortage Of Food Handouts Sparks Violence In Pakistan Camps |
| Caption: | SWABI, PAKISTAN - JULY 13: Pakistan Military attempt to hold back an angry mob, as they carry a man from Swat, who according to bystanders, was beaten by Police, upon asking for his food rations at the Yar Hussain UNHCR camp in Chota Lahore on July 13, 2009 in Swabi district, Pakistan. Approximately 3 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) have been created as a result of an on-going military operation against the Taliban. Thousands of families have been urged by the government to return to their homes in Lower Swat, Malakand and Buner. Hundreds of IDPs queued today at the Yar Hussain camp to receive their final two month food rations before leaving the camp and departing for their respective homes. The IDPs were not handed out their rations, and according to bystanders, Police in charge of distribution beat a man after he asked for his ration, sparking an angry mob which ransacked the Camp Directors Office and other rations. The army could not keep back the mob of frustrated IDPs, who carried the man from Swats' injured body on a Charpai, or makeshift bed, to present to the camp director. The Army then loaded the injured man onto a truck to take to a nearby hospital. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images) |



Plan B
The Salvadorization of Iraq
Occupation Iraq: Government Hit Squad Killed Reporters
Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group
Prop 201 tutorial
FRU
Islam's 9/11
The nightmare Bush dreads most
Occupation Iraq: Sectarian Saviors
How much more evidence do you need?
Operation Mockingbird
Prop 101: The "Terrorism" Business


To tell a story that never happened, never took place, never was, never got manifested. See the story of so many lives that never got fulfilled. never had the chance to grow up, fall in love, marry, bear children, grow old, They never had the chance to love and serve humanity, they never had the chance to fall in love with GOD. Decade after decade their suffering continues. What does GOD want us to do for them? Just see the woman clinging to her precious olive tree. See everything. This is not acceptable. It is not acceptable that powerful elites rule the world and create havoc, death and destruction in the lives of simple human beings. If we have any spine at all, we should not accept this. Please tell me, is there not some connection between our spirituality, our ideology, and these sweet suffering people? What is that connection? Just tell me. - Garda Ghista
About a home with a broken lantern

About a picnic that wasn’t enjoyed.




About an axe that killed a tulip


About a fire that consumed a plait





About a tear that couldn’t run down

I want to tell a story about a goat that wasn’t milked


About a wedding that wasn’t celebrated

And a baby girl that didn’t grow up


About a football that wasn’t kicked

I want to tell a story about a key that wasn’t used

About a classroom that wasn’t attended
About a besieged lonely farm
And about its fruits That weren’t picked
About a lie that wasn’t discovered
I want to tell a story about a stone that faced a tank
And about a stubborn flag that refuses to lie down
About a spirit that cannot be defeated
I want to tell the world a story
Now Light a little candle for Palestine
You can do it
Light a candle One little candle
Watch the darkness fade away
Just try it out
One ray of light
Wipes away the gloomiest
Jet-black nights
As the dawn breaks
Just observe
Can you see that
All the might of darkness
In the world
Cannot extinguish
The faintest flicker
Of a beam of light
Light a candle
One little candle
Watch the darkness fade away
You can do it
--SOURCE--"





To tell a story that never happened, never took place, never was, never got manifested. See the story of so many lives that never got fulfilled. never had the chance to grow up, fall in love, marry, bear children, grow old, They never had the chance to love and serve humanity, they never had the chance to fall in love with GOD. Decade after decade their suffering continues. What does GOD want us to do for them? Just see the woman clinging to her precious olive tree. See everything. This is not acceptable. It is not acceptable that powerful elites rule the world and create havoc, death and destruction in the lives of simple human beings. If we have any spine at all, we should not accept this. Please tell me, is there not some connection between our spirituality, our ideology, and these sweet suffering people? What is that connection? Just tell me. - Garda Ghista
About a home with a broken lantern

About a picnic that wasn’t enjoyed.




About an axe that killed a tulip


About a fire that consumed a plait





About a tear that couldn’t run down

I want to tell a story about a goat that wasn’t milked


About a wedding that wasn’t celebrated

And a baby girl that didn’t grow up


About a football that wasn’t kicked

I want to tell a story about a key that wasn’t used

About a classroom that wasn’t attended
About a besieged lonely farm
And about its fruits That weren’t picked
About a lie that wasn’t discovered
I want to tell a story about a stone that faced a tank
And about a stubborn flag that refuses to lie down
About a spirit that cannot be defeated
I want to tell the world a story
Now Light a little candle for Palestine
You can do it
Light a candle One little candle
Watch the darkness fade away
Just try it out
One ray of light
Wipes away the gloomiest
Jet-black nights
As the dawn breaks
Just observe
Can you see that
All the might of darkness
In the world
Cannot extinguish
The faintest flicker
Of a beam of light
Light a candle
One little candle
Watch the darkness fade away
You can do it
--SOURCE--"

| |||||||||||||||||
| Dera Ismail Khan Suspected Taliban hiding among civilians | |||||||||||||||||
| Two boys held by Zainuddin on suspicion of being suicide bombers | |
May 5, 2009 by attendingtheworld









“Everybody loves their own land,’’ said Mian Sedi Jan, an 80-something retired driver from Mingora in Swat who doesn’t know his exact age but remembers driving to Bombay before Pakistan and India split in 1947. As several children huddle around him, he whacks at them with a stick for getting too close to his spot on the floor of the brown tent he shares with his wife.
“We just want to go home. It’s the sweetest place on earth.’’
The Pakistani government, under pressure from the United States and a growing number of its own citizens, sees the human cost as necessary....Here at the camp, however, people seem divided on whether the Swat offensive has been worth the price in property, lives, and inconvenience they’ve experienced firsthand.
For Mursleen Khan, a 34-year-old Swat sharecropper, the peaches weigh most heavily on his mind.
This is peak harvest time, when the boughs groan under the weight of the sweet fruit, and Khan is distraught that fighting has kept him from his orchard, which accounts for the bulk of his livelihood.
“I’m here and they’re there,’’ he said. “It’s about all I can focus on right now.’’
With no work, little distraction, and no place to go, many camp dwellers find little to focus on but the unpleasant conditions, and tempers easily flare.
“The tent’s too hot, the kids are uncomfortable, there’s not enough water and I have no work,’’ said Fazal Rabi, 45, living in one of the long rows of look-like tents with his wife, eight daughters, and two sons. “We want to go home soon, God willing.’’
An ambulance pulls into the camp loaded with three wailing women and the body of a 70-year-old woman. The arrival draws a crowd of camp dwellers that watches six men carry the corpse to an area behind a plastic tarp. It takes some shouting and scuffles with the crowd before relatives gain some privacy in which to grieve.
Even the souls of the dead - the deceased woman had developed stomach problems and a high fever after her family was forced to flee Mingora - want to return to Swat, said Sahib Zada, a relative who blamed the death on an overtaxed medical system and move-related stress.
“We want to bury her in her home village, but the government has blocked the road,’’ Zada said. “Now we’ll have to bury her here in the camp. Ideally, she should enjoy her final rest at home, and it is very disturbing not to see that.’’
Government officials struggling to address the humanitarian crisis have said that displaced people should be able to return to Swat within a week or so.
Those living in tents, however, note that new arrivals from Swat speak of continued fighting, hardly ideal conditions for returning home.
“All this uncertainty and confusion creates real mental tension,’’ said Sher Ali, 19, a photocopy shop employee from Mingora. “And when we do finally go back, who knows whether we’ll find our house destroyed by all the fighting.’"Does Fatima collect my tears despite my non-official, non-practicing adherence to the faith?
When will the madness and lies end?
“I hope we could have spare time like any other young children in the world. I aspire as a Palestinian child to get my rights to play and to have fun like the rest of the world’s children. I hope that conflict, war, violence comes to an end and people live in a peaceful society. The nature of people should be the nature of freedom and security not the nature of killing, hatred, attack and destruction"
More photos from this narrative can be seen HERE
Boycott Israeli apartheid now – governments eventually submitted to the will of their peoples to end support of the apartheid South African regime. Let’s make them do the right thing again for the occupied people of Palestine.
--SOURCE--"




Recognizing lies for what they are is a part of the process of growing up! America, it is time to grow up! It is time to confront this heinous pack of lies! It is time to insist that the Obama administration begin a REAL investigation. It is time to insist that a Federal Grand Jury investigate every count of high treason, mass murder and domestic terrorism that was perpetrated upon the people of the US by the Bush administration, collaborators in the Pentagon, K-Street, the Congress and the leadership of the Republican party, Marvin Bush's 'Securacom', Larry Silverstein, General Myers, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and, of course, George W. Bush who was, at the time, the 'Commander-in-Chief' and ultimately responsible for the orders given the US military to 'stand down'. "
Children queueing with their parents at a food distribution centre in Manyar, a town under curfew in the Swat valley. Photograph: Declan Walsh)
Of course, let us not forget the American costs, as much as the MSM would like us to forget:
"at least 4,316 members of the US military have died in Iraq since the war began in March 2003"
Yup, the cost of ZIONIST WAR LIES!
Let's not forget the Iraqis, either:
Ever notice that "Al-CIA-Duh" shows up just when the U.S. needs them (or relaxes the violence, as the case may be)?
Add some more lives to the over over one million (must be two million by now) Iraqis dead from this invasion and occupation.
And a people I will NEVER FORGET:


----------------------------------------
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
PS: Maybe someone will say that I am anti-Semitic…
The News:
Carter says Gaza Palestinians treated like animals
GAZA, June 16 (Reuters) – Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are being “treated more like animals than human beings”, former U.S. president Jimmy Carter said on Tuesday.
On a visit to the enclave, he condemned Israel’s January bombardment of Gaza and its continuing trade blockade, which he said forbids even children’s toys.
“I understand that even paper and crayons are treated as a security hazard,” he told Gazans at a local United Nations office. “I sought an explanation of this when I met with Israeli officials and I received none, because there is no explanation.”
Carter, 84, has spent far more years as a human rights activist than he did in the White House from 1977 to 1981. He is easily the most outspoken former U.S. president on the Middle East conflict, and seen by many Israelis as a harsh critic.
He ignored a U.S. government ban on dealings with Gaza’s Islamist rulers Hamas and had talks with its leaders.
Israel tightened a blockade on Gaza in 2007 when Hamas took control after routing rival Fatah forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas, who favours a peace deal with Israel. In late December, Israeli forces bombed then invaded Gaza, devastating its already battered infrastructure.
Since then, Israel has blocked imports of steel, cement and other goods to the population of 1.5 million Palestinians, saying Hamas could use many items for military purposes.
Carter, a Democrat, said he had seen for himself there had been almost no reconstruction in Gaza over the past five months.
“Never before in history has a large community like this been savaged by bombs and missiles and then been deprived of the means to repair itself,” he said.
--SOURCE--"GAZA CITY - Former president Jimmy Carter said yesterday that he urged Hamas leaders during a high-profile meeting here to take steps necessary to become accepted by the leading Western nations.
Carter is the most prominent American figure to have met with the Hamas government that took over Gaza two years ago, after the Palestinian Authority’s forces were routed in a brief but bloody factional war. Hamas welcomed Carter’s visit as a significant step in its quest for international legitimacy.
Ismail Haniya, the leader of the Hamas government in Gaza, and Carter held a joint news conference at which an American flag was displayed alongside a Palestinian national flag behind the speakers. There were no green Hamas flags in sight.
It was Haniya’s most public appearance since Israel ended its devastating three-week military campaign against Hamas in Gaza in January, an offensive that Israel said was intended to halt rocket fire by Gaza militants against southern Israel.
Striking a conciliatory tone, Haniya said Hamas would favor the creation of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders and with full sovereignty, adding, “We are pushing for the realization of this Palestinian national dream.’’
I don't know how you are going to do that:

Maybe THIS is a better answer: The Final Solution to the Israeli Question
Haniya also said that Carter’s visit to Gaza was particularly important after two years of economic “siege’’ and after the “Israeli aggression.’’ He noted that it followed President Obama’s address in Cairo in which Haniya said he had heard a “different language.’’
Israel and Hamas declared separate, informal cease-fires after last winter’s war, but Israel continues to impose a punishing economic blockade that allows in only basic provisions for the 1.5 million residents of the isolated coastal strip.
Israel, the United States, and the European Union classify Hamas as a terrorist organization. They have set three conditions for dealing with Hamas, saying it must renounce all violence, recognize Israel’s right to exist, and accept all previous Israeli-Palestinian agreements. Hamas has refused to comply.
Hamas leaders have said they will never recognize Israel, and will offer only a long-term truce, not a full-fledged peace treaty, in return for a Palestinian state.
Carter, 84, emphasized that he was in Gaza as a private citizen, not as a representative of his government. But he said he would write a report on his visit to the region for the Obama administration on his return. In a three-hour meeting with Hamas government officials and senior representatives of the group, Carter told them to find a mechanism that would allow Hamas to meet the conditions set by international players, according to Ahmed Yousef, the Hamas deputy foreign minister who attended the meeting.
In a brief interview before the meeting, Carter said that in order to break the Israeli-Palestinian stalemate, “first of all Hamas has to be accepted by the international community as a legitimate player in the future, and that is what I am trying to do today.’’
Carter also called for Palestinian unity and elections, and for an end to the economic blockade of Gaza.
Earlier, touring the site of the American International School, a private institution in Gaza that was bombed by the Israelis during the war, Carter said, “I have to hold back tears when I see the deliberate destruction that has been wreaked against your people.’’ He added that he felt partly responsible because the school had been “deliberately destroyed by bombs from F-16s made in my country.’’
Israel said that rockets had been launched from the vicinity of the school.
Carter denounced the economic embargo.
Under international pressure, the new Israeli government says it is considering allowing more goods into Gaza, but has not yet made any decisions.
--more--"
And I LOVE this NEXT PHOTO!!
Carter visited Gaza on Tuesday and urged Hamas leaders to accept the demands to end an international boycott, which was imposed when the militant group overran Gaza two years ago.
Carter’s meeting was itself unusual because of the boycott. The United States, European Union, and Israel consider Hamas a terror group and refuse to deal with it directly.
Ahmed Youssef, deputy Hamas foreign minister, said Gaza’s Palestinians were pleased to receive Carter.
“The people think this is a historic visit,’’ Youssef told the Associated Press yesterday, describing Carter as “somebody very knowledgeable about the conflict and very sincere in the way he understands the conflict.’’
But Youssef said Hamas turned down Carter’s requests.
“The visit has not led to a significant change. Hamas finds the conditions unacceptable,’’ he said. “Recognizing Israel is completely unacceptable.’’
According to Hamas ideology, there is no room for a Jewish state in an Islamic Middle East. The militant group has sent dozens of suicide bombers into Israel, killing hundreds.
And WHAT of the THOUSANDS KILLED by ISRAEL these LAST 60 YEARS -- including 1,400 this past January?
Even so, some Hamas officials have indicated they could support the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, implying a form of tacit acceptance of Israel.
Youssef said the other two international conditions - renouncing violence and accepting past agreements between Israel and the Palestinians - are irrelevant. He said that Israel broke a cease-fire, killing many Palestinians, and that the state outlined in the partial peace accords “would have no substance, no borders, and nothing that a real state is.’’
Carter has said that despite the world boycott, Mideast peacemaking efforts must include Hamas, which took control of the Gaza Strip in 2007, expelling forces loyal to Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, whose government now effectively rules only the West Bank.
NOTHING about Hamas WINNING ELECTIONS! Isn't that odd?
June 11, 2009