Judge rules NSA wiretapping program “violated freedom of speech, protections against unreasonable searches and a constitutional check on the power of the presidency
- Court Rules Wiretaps Violate Rights (Reuters/NY Times)
Panel discusses need for balanced reporting of Muslims in America
- Panel: Media coverage creating ‘Islamic-phobia’ (AP/Chicago Tribune)
Muslim man held for 5 years after 9/11 is finally released three years after a magistrate finds his detainment for a deportation hearing was ”a charade’:’
- Post – 9 / 11 Detainee Returns to His Life (AP/NY Times)
Among a long list of complaints about Musharraf’s regimes, “last month a letter signed by a group of retired generals and government officials, including those who once worked with him, called for ‘the military’s disengagement from political power’”:
The story of one Lebanese family shows “six years is not a long time for the wounds of the 18-year occupation to heal
- A Girl’s Life Bound Close to Hezbollah (NY Times)
The UN is having trouble securing peace keeping forces for southern Lebanon
- Israel Alarm at UN Force Members (BBC News)
Turkey and Iran shell Kurdish villages in Iraq and are considering “a large-scale military operation across the border”:
Administration wants Americans to pick up another Israeli tab as taxpayers will be expected to pay for cleaning up Israel’s destruction of Lebanon and the continue subsidizing of Israeli bombs:
