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Exclusive: How MI5 blackmails British Muslims 'Work for us or we will say you are a terrorist' (By Robert Verkaik , Law Editor) - 26-may-2013

May 24, 2013 -Five Muslim community workers have accused MI5 of waging a campaign of blackmail and harassment in an attempt to recruit them as informants. The men claim they were given a choice of working for the Security Service or face detention and harassment in the UK and overseas. They have made official complaints to the police, to the body which oversees the work of the Security Service and to their local MP Frank Dobson. Now they have decided to speak publicly about their experiences in the hope that publicity will stop similar tactics being used in the future.Intelligence gathered by informers is crucial to stopping further terror outrages, but the men's allegations raise concerns about the coercion of young Muslim men by the Security Service and the damage this does to the gathering of information in the future...

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"This time they destroyed everything": Uprooted Bedouins face more evictions (Jillian Kestler-D'Amours) - 26-may-2013

March 24, 2013-A clothesline hangs between heaps of twisted metal and cracked slabs of concrete, while a handful of olive trees lay haphazardly, their roots exposed, under the scorching Naqab desert sun.Less than a week ago, this was where approximately 600 Israeli police officers were deployed to demolish 18 structures, including 10 homes, and uproot 600 trees in the "unrecognized" Palestinian Bedouin village of Atir-Umm al-Hieran, just 30 minutes from the major city of Bir al-Saba (Beersheva).Residents reported seeing approximately thirty flatbed trucks haul away most of the rubble, while Israeli police set up a dozen roadblocks in both directions along the main road, preventing residents from trying to stop the bulldozers. Only a few destroyed buildings were left behind and broken toys, notebooks and other personal effects remained scattered across the sand...

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Father of Muhammad al-Dura rebukes Israeli report on son's death (Harriet Sherwood) - 26-may-2013

May 24, 2013 - In a scrubby cemetery in central Gaza, where crumbling tombstones nestle in the sand amid wind-blown rubbish, Jamal al-Dura crouched at the grave of his son Muhammad to recite the Muslim prayer for the dead. With the youngest of his 11 children at his side, he took his hands from his face, laid them on the marble slab and looked up, a bitter as well as a bereaved man. "Israel says my son isn't dead. Can you imagine how this feels for a father who has lost his child? They have all the technology tools in the world. He's not dead? Then bring him to me," he said. The long, acrimonious war over the death of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Dura in September 2000 was reignited this week with the release of an official Israeli report attacking a 55-second television broadcast, aired on that day 13 years ago, for what it said was distortion, falsehood, fabrication and incitement to terror...

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Old Masters and the Masters of War: Guernica – Gaza (By Vacy Vlazna) - 26-may-2013

May 24, 2013 - The Israeli military occupation is not only an external experience of ubiquitous soldiers, guns, teargas, tanks, F16s , Apache helicopters, warships, checkpoints, prisons, it is a virulent pathogen that infects and debilitates the psyches and bodies of its living hosts – the men, women and children of Palestine contaminating every precious instant of their lives from the first breath to death. The omnipresence of Israeli aggression is strikingly conveyed in internationally acclaimed Gazan artist, Mohammed Al Hawajri’s new exhibition, Guernica – Gaza 2010-2013, featuring 28 extraordinary artworks which present the Israeli reign of terror invading the artistic vision of certain Old Masters...

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Syria News - May 23, 2013 (Warning: Graphic Videos) (Local Coordination Committees of Syria + Videos) - 26-may-2013

May 23, 2013 - By the end of Thursday, local coordination committees documented 86 martyrs, including 8 women, 10 children and 7 martyrs under torture: 27 martyrs were reported in Damascus and its suburbs; 18 in Aleppo; 14 in Homs; 8 in Daraa; 7 in Hama; 6 in Deir Ezzor and 6 in Idlib. The committees have documented 359 points of shelling, fiercest of which was in Eastern Ghouta cites in Damascus suburbs and Qusair in Homs: Warplanes' air strikes were recorded in 37 points, shelling with cluster and thermobaric bombs was recorded in cities and towns of Eastern Ghouta, also shelling with surface-to-surface missiles was documented in Qusair in Homs, and shelling with explosive barrels was recorded in Qusair in Homs and in Eastern Ghouta in Damascus suburbs. While rocket shelling was recorded in 95 points, mortar shelling in 112 points, and artillery shelling in 118 points in different areas across Syria...

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From al-Araqib to Susiya: Forced Displacement of Palestinians on Both Sides of the Green Line (by Adalah) - 25-may-2013

May 23, 2013 - On Nakba Day, 15 May 2013, Palestinians marked the passing of sixty-five years since the massive forced expulsion of Palestinians from their national homeland. The Nakba commemorations demand reflection not only on the "catastrophe" of the loss of life, land, and property in 1948, but also on Israeli policies that are still dispossessing Palestinians of their land today, sixty-five years later. In a new film (view below), Adalah captures the stories of two Palestinian villages, Al-Araqib and Susiya–one in Israel, one in the West Bank–that share a single story of struggle against forced displacement...

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Obama speech suggests possible expansion of drone killings (By Lesley Clark and Jonathan S. Landa) - 25-may-2013

May 23, 2013 - President Barack Obama on Thursday defended his administration’s use of drone strikes to kill terrorists as effective, lawful and "heavily constrained," but he also appeared to be laying groundwork for an expansion of the controversial targeted killings. In remarks at the National Defense University in Washington, Obama cast the use of such operations as a necessary part of an overall national defense strategy, even as he acknowledged targeted killings risk "creating new enemies" and could "lead a president and his team to view drone strikes as a cure-all for terrorism."...

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America Not Shifting Away from Treating World as a Battlefield (By: Kevin Gosztola) - 25-may-2013

May 23, 2013 - The speech by President Barack Obama, which touched upon perpetual war, his authority to carry out drone strikes, the efficacy of drones, closing Guantanamo Bay prison, adhering to the rule of law when fighting terrorism and even national security leaks was wide-ranging and bewildering. It was longer than the "State of the Union" address he gave this year. A speech like this on his counterterrorism policies and civil liberties had not been given since his May 21, 2009, at the National Archives. In many ways, this was a repurposing of that speech with the inclusion of content intended to stifle criticism of the expansions of executive power he has embraced. Not responding to that criticism earlier and maintaining an excessive level of secrecy made it inevitable that his administration would have to cram all manner of talking points into a speech that would seemingly go on and on forever...

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