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What is happening to Gaza is big shame on the arabs

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[ 23/11/2008 – 09:12 PM ] 
 
DAMASCUS, (PIC)– Head of Hamas’s political bureau Khaled Mishaal has condemned Sunday the unexplainable Arab and international indifference to the suffering of the Palestinian citizens in Gaza, describing what is happening in Gaza as "big shame on the Arab Ummah".

Mishaal’s straight remarks were uttered as he spoke to participants in the international Arab conference for the Right of Return that was held in the Syrian capital Damascus, criticizing Egypt’s insistence to keep the Rafah crossing point sealed off despite the looming catastrophe in Gaza Strip.

"Don’t leave the sea to foreign sympathisers". All Arab states could send boats to Gaza", underlined Mishaal.

       

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Why 10000 ugandans are eagerly serving in Iraq

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Why 10,000 Ugandans are eagerly serving in Iraq
Thousands of men and women from poverty-stricken Uganda risk their lives
for $600 a month

By Max Delany
The Christian Science Monitor

Kampala, Uganda – Under a relentless equatorial sun and the gaze of her
Zimbabwean instructor, Juliet Kituye quickly reassembles her AK-47. Next
to her, a young man in a ripped red T-shirt discharges imaginary rounds
at an invisible target.

On a disused soccer pitch in the suburbs of the Ugandan capital,
Kampala, 300 hopefuls are being put through rudimentary firearms
training. Many of the recruits are raw and their drills occasionally
lurch towards slapstick. One trainee lets the magazine slip out of his
automatic rifle and onto the red earth, someone else about turns right
instead of left. All of them share the same dream, however: going to
Iraq.

As President Barack Obama announces plans to withdraw US troops from
Iraq, thousands of young Ugandans are increasingly desperate to be sent
to the war-torn country. Already, the Ugandan government says there are
more than 10,000 men and women from this poverty-stricken East African
nation working as private security guards in Iraq. Hired out to
multibillion-dollar companies for hundreds of dollars a month, they risk
their lives seeking fortunes protecting US Army bases, airports, and oil
firms.

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Israel ahmadinejad and peace interview with ramzy baroud

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Israel, Ahmadinejad and Peace: Interview with Ramzy Baroud

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‘Baroud: I am not sure if one can still earnestly discuss a two-state ‘solution’.
 
By Kourosh Ziabari

Ramzy Baroud numbers among remarkable Palestinian journalists, alongside such figures as Khalid Amayreh and Laila el-Haddad. Having been a producer for Aljazeera, he taught Mass Communication at Australia’s Curtin University of Technology, Malaysia campus, and appeared on BBC, ABC, National Public Radio and CNN, among numerous media outlets around the world. His forthcoming book is: My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story (Pluto Press).

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