Enough is enough. Give Iran nukes to counter Israel and see what happens, If Israel is faced with odds of 20 to 1 maybe it will see sence ans decide to talk…….This has gone on for far to long.

Well i certainly agree with u on that dear. Iran with nukes is one single biggest challenge for Israels ambitions of a greater Israel. So far they have managed to keep the hope alive thanks to some super powers who like to have a bargaining chip to deal with the Oil rich middle east countries. Its about time to talk some sense else we all heading for a big stand off where i guess everything will go BOOM.

Gitmo suicides to increase pressure on America

WASHINGTON: The suicides of three long-held inmates of the US prison at Guantanamo are bound to intensify domestic and international pressure on Washington to wind up the facility and release or repatriate the over 500 inmates, the majority of whom is believed to be innocent of any terrorist act, having been found in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Many of them were rendered to the US by Pakistani and Afghan bounty hunters out of greed. Not everyone at Guantanamo was captured in Afghanistan. When this correspondent, along with some others, visited the prison in Cuba last year, he heard US prison officials claim with pride that although there had been many suicide attempts, no one had ever been allowed to die. That proud record is now marred with the death of three, two Saudis, one Yemeni. Their names have not been released.

Many would find it ironic that President Bush has ordered the dead bodies to be handled with respect in line with the correct religious practice when little respect was shown to the men when they were alive. All three had been on hunger strike and had been force-fed, a process that has come under criticism as being brutal. The three suicides were coordinated, prison authorities said. Three suicide notes in Arabic were left but their contents have not been released.

A Los Angeles Times report on Sunday said the deaths come as the Bush administration battles growing international criticism of its detention procedures and faces a potentially fateful Supreme Court decision this month. The camp commandant said the three were “committed jihadists” who died in acts of “asymmetrical warfare”. Army Gen John Craddock, leader of US Southern Command, said the men were not among detainees seeking US court reviews of their cases and had not appeared before military trial panels. Although the three were not accused of any crimes, Craddock insisted they were enemy combatants and terrorists. “This is a determined, intelligent and committed element. They will continue to do everything they can … to become martyrs in the jihad,” the Los Angeles reported.

There have been 41 suicide attempts at Guantanamo this year, including three last month, with one prisoner responsible for at least a dozen of them. “But there have been many other attempts by Guantanamo detainees to hang or otherwise harm themselves since prisoners were sent there in 2002. Twenty-three attempted a mass hanging in 2003. Last year, 131 prisoners engaged in hunger strikes, and a similar protest this year involved 89 detainees. Eight detainees are on a hunger strike currently. Only 10 of the approximately 460 men in custody at Guantanamo have been charged with crimes for their alleged involvement in terrorist activity.

Zarqawi might have been beaten to death

Zarqawi might have been beaten to death

LONDON: The leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, may have been beaten to death by US forces following the air strike on his safe house, two British newspapers claimed on Sunday.
The Observer and the Sunday Times both carried reports on events leading up to his death, citing apparent eyewitnesses to the immediate aftermath of the attack near the city of Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, last Wednesday.

In a two-page report, The Observer said that although there had been no corroboration of the claims that the badly-injured Zarqawi was beaten to death, revelations of revenge killings by US troops “means it cannot be discounted”. It quoted one man as saying that US soldiers had pulled a man resembling Zarqawi from an ambulance where locals had placed him, wrapped his traditional Arab robe, the dishdasha, around his head and “battered him severely till he died”. The Sunday Times went into more detail, citing 25-year-old labourer Ali Abbas as saying: “They (the US soldiers) were shouting and screaming and in a very tense and agitated mood.”

He added: “The Americans tore his dishdasha and they kept on asking him through an interpreter, ‘What is your name, what is your name?’”

The troops were said to have been worried that the man was wearing a suicide belt. Abbas said that the soldiers kicked the wounded man in the chest until he grew paler and began bleeding from his mouth before he died. He apparently recognised the dead man as Zarqawi after seeing pictures in newspapers the following day. Both newspapers carried US military confirmation that Zarqawi had not died after the initial air strike and that he had tried to roll off the stretcher when he realised the soldiers’ identity.

What do you guys think now?

Zarqawi might have been beaten to death

Zarqawi might have been beaten to death

LONDON: The leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, may have been beaten to death by US forces following the air strike on his safe house, two British newspapers claimed on Sunday.
The Observer and the Sunday Times both carried reports on events leading up to his death, citing apparent eyewitnesses to the immediate aftermath of the attack near the city of Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, last Wednesday.

In a two-page report, The Observer said that although there had been no corroboration of the claims that the badly-injured Zarqawi was beaten to death, revelations of revenge killings by US troops “means it cannot be discounted”. It quoted one man as saying that US soldiers had pulled a man resembling Zarqawi from an ambulance where locals had placed him, wrapped his traditional Arab robe, the dishdasha, around his head and “battered him severely till he died”. The Sunday Times went into more detail, citing 25-year-old labourer Ali Abbas as saying: “They (the US soldiers) were shouting and screaming and in a very tense and agitated mood.”

He added: “The Americans tore his dishdasha and they kept on asking him through an interpreter, ‘What is your name, what is your name?’”

The troops were said to have been worried that the man was wearing a suicide belt. Abbas said that the soldiers kicked the wounded man in the chest until he grew paler and began bleeding from his mouth before he died. He apparently recognised the dead man as Zarqawi after seeing pictures in newspapers the following day. Both newspapers carried US military confirmation that Zarqawi had not died after the initial air strike and that he had tried to roll off the stretcher when he realised the soldiers’ identity.

What do you guys think now?