Amina Youssef | 18 March 2011

http://amaarantine.tumblr.com/post/3920160056/911-the-side-theyll-never-print

The events of September 11, 2011 were a catastrophe that shook the global population by its roots. An inhumane act largely unprecedented in the modern world was unleashed onto society causing a wave of fear and ‘terror’ that would significantly effect the years to come. Islamaphobia increased, racial hate became more prevalent, and the world turned a blind eye to the incoming or rather, ongoing suffering of Arabs and Afghans in the occupied regions of the Middle East. This is not to suggest that thoughts which did not exist were aroused on that day. Undoubtedly there was a seed, a fear of the unknown, that lay dormant and was awoken through nourishment provided by western propaganda. 

Prejudice and racial discrimination against Muslims was solidified due to the blame that was placed on an isolated minority of “Radical and fundamentalist Muslims”. ‘Terrorists’, a picture of the fallen towers, and the word ‘Muslim’ occupied every front paper on the Globe. Since it was they themselves who claimed to be brothers and sisters regardless of blood lines, it could only be said then that all were either directly or indirectly a terrorist by association.  This ‘Terrorist’ label was applied on Muslims before any tangible proof or thorough investigation could be undertaken. This became a significant problem especially since the American Government to the current day fails to outline any transparency of processes or tangible information to affirm that it was ‘Allah’s advocates’ who undertook this act of inhumanity. 

This is not to suggest that I am not in sympathy with those who suffered on that frightful day. On the contrary, I write this in order to allow victims of September 11 to have the rightful perpetrators of extreme violence to be put to trial so that it may possible to retain any justice left in the world. Any of you who have watched raw videos or heard audio recordings of the day can agree with me that the event was a tragedy. For those of you who do not agree, then perhaps you are on the wrong page. 

We all listened to the desperate voices calling out through telephone lines for someone to save them. We all witnessed the tears falling of those who were forced to recount the last words of their trapped loved ones. We all heard of the people who leaped from windows out of sheer desperation to be liberated from the internal and physical battle of slowly oncoming death. No human should be trapped in such a way that forces one to die a thousand times before the end finally comes. 

Undoubtedly, the people who planned and carried out the lethal acts were terrorists of the worst kind. Their emotional indifference to their human counter parts and the suffering that it would cause really strikes hard at the reasonable mind. This attack was not only one on people on that day and in that building. Their hijacking of the buildings tore through the human psyche of the Western population. It ravaged through centuries of peaceful streets and buildings that Islam had built through it’s beauty and tolerance. It tore apart hearts everywhere and hardened them creating a barrier between Islam and the non Muslim entities of the world.

George Bush accompanied by Western Media declared that the attacks were planned and executed by non other than the American trained Muslim terrorist Osama Bin Laden and his followers.

I was 11 years old at the time when the twin towers hit the buildings. I was ready to accept that Osama Bin Laden had convinced his little radical sheep to hijack planes in order to kill Non-Muslims (and Muslims alike). But I am no longer young, naiive and stupid. 

The evidence presented to us now conflicts with what Americans declared happened on that day. For example, 911truth.org is a group of officials such as Architects, lawyers, firefighters etc who came together demanding truth and transparency regarding the terrible events that left thousands of people dead. They have publicly spoken about the fallacies of what the Government dignitaries have supported. How is it that the tower fell down in such perfect vertical alignment? Why was there a series of explosions going off in the various levels of the building BELOW where the plane hit? How did the vehicles containing the explosives even get in through WTC security? And most importantly how did the passport of the supposed ‘Muslim’ hijacker be discovered in the debris and rubble during the aftermath yet the black boxes which are meant to be virtually indestructible be gone beyond repair? What lunacy! If you are ready to believe that a passport survived from the top of a high rise burning building to the bottom then I suggest to you that you are of poor mind. 

Whoever orchestrated these attacks needs to be brought to justice. The effects of the terrorist attacks on September 11 did not end on that day. These criminals have caused over one Million deaths of Iraqis, Afghanis, and foreign soldiers including Americans and Australians in the Middle East due to Bush’s atrocious and ill made “War on Terror”. 

They have created a rift between Muslims and Non-Muslims, and stamped an irreversible scar on the families of the 911 victims. Non-Muslim psyche’s were hit and charged with fury and hate. How very convenient since now most of the Western World feels a great sense of indifference to the suffering, pain and increasing death of Muslims in the Middle East by unwelcome occupiers and terrorists such as Israel. 

If this veil that has blinded them after 911 which Western Media was the direct instigator of could be removed they would be able to see the atrocities and war crimes that Israel incites on the West Bank and East Jerusalem on a daily basis. They would no longer see the death of the Arab and Afghan children in the middle east as collateral damage. 

Let the truth be exposed so that the world can work together to allow the future to be decorated with light and togetherness. Peace and tolerance can be promoted through the existence of truth and criminal accountability that can be placed on an individual regardless of race, colour or religion. 

This cannot happen as long as ignorance remains like a malignant tumor within mankind.

Don’t be dumb. The more you believe Western Propaganda the more you become a victim of mass hypnosis of an otherwise passive world community. Make your own decision, but don’t be blinded by patriotism in such a way that you cannot see the truth… and even if you don’t want to accept the truth, don’t be stupid enough to remain convinced by lies.

The events of September 11, 2011 were a catastrophe that shook the global population by its roots. An inhumane act largely unprecedented in the modern world was unleashed onto society causing a wave of fear and ‘terror’ that would significantly effect the years to come. Islamaphobia increased, racial hate became more prevalent, and the world turned a blind eye to the incoming or rather, ongoing suffering of Arabs and Afghans in the occupied regions of the Middle East. This is not to suggest that thoughts which did not exist were aroused on that day. Undoubtedly there was a seed, a fear of the unknown, that lay dormant and was awoken through nourishment provided by western propaganda. 

Prejudice and racial discrimination against Muslims was solidified due to the blame that was placed on an isolated minority of “Radical and fundamentalist Muslims”. ‘Terrorists’, a picture of the fallen towers, and the word ‘Muslim’ occupied every front paper on the Globe. Since it was they themselves who claimed to be brothers and sisters regardless of blood lines, it could only be said then that all were either directly or indirectly a terrorist by association.  This ‘Terrorist’ label was applied on Muslims before any tangible proof or thorough investigation could be undertaken. This became a significant problem especially since the American Government to the current day fails to outline any transparency of processes or tangible information to affirm that it was ‘Allah’s advocates’ who undertook this act of inhumanity. 

This is not to suggest that I am not in sympathy with those who suffered on that frightful day. On the contrary, I write this in order to allow victims of September 11 to have the rightful perpetrators of extreme violence to be put to trial so that it may possible to retain any justice left in the world. Any of you who have watched raw videos or heard audio recordings of the day can agree with me that the event was a tragedy. For those of you who do not agree, then perhaps you are on the wrong page. 

We all listened to the desperate voices calling out through telephone lines for someone to save them. We all witnessed the tears falling of those who were forced to recount the last words of their trapped loved ones. We all heard of the people who leaped from windows out of sheer desperation to be liberated from the internal and physical battle of slowly oncoming death. No human should be trapped in such a way that forces one to die a thousand times before the end finally comes. 

Undoubtedly, the people who planned and carried out the lethal acts were terrorists of the worst kind. Their emotional indifference to their human counter parts and the suffering that it would cause really strikes hard at the reasonable mind. This attack was not only one on people on that day and in that building. Their hijacking of the buildings tore through the human psyche of the Western population. It ravaged through centuries of peaceful streets and buildings that Islam had built through it’s beauty and tolerance. It tore apart hearts everywhere and hardened them creating a barrier between Islam and the non Muslim entities of the world.

George Bush accompanied by Western Media declared that the attacks were planned and executed by non other than the American trained Muslim terrorist Osama Bin Laden and his followers.

I was 11 years old at the time when the twin towers hit the buildings. I was ready to accept that Osama Bin Laden had convinced his little radical sheep to hijack planes in order to kill Non-Muslims (and Muslims alike). But I am no longer young, naiive and stupid. 

The evidence presented to us now conflicts with what Americans declared happened on that day. For example, 911truth.org is a group of officials such as Architects, lawyers, firefighters etc who came together demanding truth and transparency regarding the terrible events that left thousands of people dead. They have publicly spoken about the fallacies of what the Government dignitaries have supported. How is it that the tower fell down in such perfect vertical alignment? Why was there a series of explosions going off in the various levels of the building BELOW where the plane hit? How did the vehicles containing the explosives even get in through WTC security? And most importantly how did the passport of the supposed ‘Muslim’ hijacker be discovered in the debris and rubble during the aftermath yet the black boxes which are meant to be virtually indestructible be gone beyond repair? What lunacy! If you are ready to believe that a passport survived from the top of a high rise burning building to the bottom then I suggest to you that you are of poor mind. 

Whoever orchestrated these attacks needs to be brought to justice. The effects of the terrorist attacks on September 11 did not end on that day. These criminals have caused over one Million deaths of Iraqis, Afghanis, and foreign soldiers including Americans and Australians in the Middle East due to Bush’s atrocious and ill made “War on Terror”. 

They have created a rift between Muslims and Non-Muslims, and stamped an irreversible scar on the families of the 911 victims. Non-Muslim psyche’s were hit and charged with fury and hate. How very convenient since now most of the Western World feels a great sense of indifference to the suffering, pain and increasing death of Muslims in the Middle East by unwelcome occupiers and terrorists such as Israel. 

If this veil that has blinded them after 911 which Western Media was the direct instigator of could be removed they would be able to see the atrocities and war crimes that Israel incites on the West Bank and East Jerusalem on a daily basis. They would no longer see the death of the Arab and Afghan children in the middle east as collateral damage. 

Let the truth be exposed so that the world can work together to allow the future to be decorated with light and togetherness. Peace and tolerance can be promoted through the existence of truth and criminal accountability that can be placed on an individual regardless of race, colour or religion. 

This cannot happen as long as ignorance remains like a malignant tumor within mankind.

Don’t be dumb. The more you believe Western Propaganda the more you become a victim of mass hypnosis of an otherwise passive world community. Make your own decision, but don’t be blinded by patriotism in such a way that you cannot see the truth… and even if you don’t want to accept the truth, don’t be stupid enough to remain convinced by lies.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/05/04/3207266.htm

4 May 2011

High-profile Australian QC and human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson says the killing of Osama bin Laden is a perversion of justice that has effectively given the terrorist mastermind what he craved.

In the days since bin Laden's death, the US has been forced to backtrack and clarify details of the killing, with a picture now emerging of a targeted assassination.

This morning, White House spokesman Jay Carney confirmed bin Laden was unarmed when US commandos raided his compound in Pakistan and shot him above his left eye, reportedly blowing away a section of his skull.

Mr Robertson has told ABC News Breakfast bin Laden should have been brought to trial and his death has made him look like a martyr.

"The way to demystify this man is not to kill him and have the iconic picture of his body," he said.

"The way to demystify him, rather than to these soulful pictures of the tall man on the mountain, is to put him on trial, to see him as a hateful and hate-filled old man screaming from the dock or lying in the witness box.

"That way the true inhumanity of the man is exposed."

Mr Robertson says US president Barack Obama has been sloppy with his use of the word "justice" and questions need to be answered about whether there was an explicit order to kill bin Laden.

"It's not justice. It's a perversion of the term. Justice means taking someone to court, finding them guilty upon evidence and sentencing them," he said.

"This man has been subject to summary execution, and what is now appearing after a good deal of disinformation from the White House is it may well have been a cold-blooded assassination."

Mr Robertson says it is an irony that the US has given bin Laden what he craved.

"The last thing he wanted was to be put on trial, to be convicted and to end his life in a prison farm in upstate New York," he said.

"What he wanted was exactly what he got - to be shot in mid-jihad and get a fast track to paradise and the Americans have given him that.

"It's an irony that it's a win-win situation for both Osama and Obama. The latter gets re-elected as president and the former gets his fast track to paradise."

The US is still debating whether to release what it says are "gruesome" photos of bin Laden's corpse.

The White House also has pictures of bin Laden's burial at sea, which it says adhered to Muslim traditions.

But Mr Robertson says there will be consequences of releasing any of the photos.

"The method of disposing his body at night without an autopsy is also questionable," he said.

"They've got a photograph but they're not releasing that for fear that it'll become iconic, rather like the picture of Che Guevara on the slab.

"But if governments kill people, that's one of the consequences."

Mr Robertson says there now needs to be an inquiry into the death.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/islamists-vow-revenge...html

Tom Allard, Jakarta | May 4, 2011

THE killing of Osama bin Laden will bring ''disaster'' to the US and the al-Qaeda leader secured victory even in death, according to radical Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir.

Bashir, who is in prison as he faces charges of leading and financing a new terrorist organisation, met with his acolytes yesterday for the first time since news of bin Laden's demise.

''Ustad Abu [Bashir] said if the news is true, it means Osama won the battle twice,'' said his spokesman, Sonhadi, who visited Bashir in the Jakarta penitentiary.

''First, he will get the title as martyr in the afterlife and, second, his death is the victory over the hegemony of infidels. Ustad Abu also said Allah will bring disaster upon the US for killing the warrior of Islam … we just don't know what that disaster will be.''

Mr Sonhadi, who himself was imprisoned for four years for hiding terrorist leaders, said Bashir had his doubts that bin Laden had been killed, noting that no pictures of his corpse had been made public.

It was a theme prominent on Indonesian jihadist blogs and comments from militants yesterday, as were predictions of bloody revenge.

''Americans may be partying, celebrating his death. But they will cry later and be blanketed with pain,'' Syawal Yasin told the Jakarta Globe newspaper.

Syawal is the son-in-law of Abdullah Sungkar, who along with Bashir founded Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the terrorist group with direct links to al-Qaeda responsible for multiple attacks in Indonesia, including both Bali bombings.

JI has been badly fractured thanks to successful law enforcement efforts but other extremist groups have come to the fore, including some that are legal and have links to the police and political figures.

The Islamic Defenders' Front (FPI), which has been behind a string of attacks on religious minorities, will hold a commemoration service tonight in honour of bin Laden.

Jakarta's governor and police chief attended FPI's anniversary celebrations last year. The Jakarta police chief, Timur Prabopo, was later appointed national police chief by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. A series of plots have been uncovered in Indonesia in the past two years, including a plan to explode a massive bomb near a church during Good Friday services last month.

Any operational involvement by al-Qaeda in Indonesian militant groups these days remains unclear but great intrigue surrounds the arrest of Umar Patek, Indonesia's most wanted militant, in January in Abbottabad, the same Pakistani city where bin Laden was slain. The arrest followed a firefight in which the JI operative was shot.

Patek was a senior JI member who trained in Afghanistan and acted as deputy field commander in the first Bali bombing that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians.

Pakistani media reports said Patek was liaising with an al-Qaeda operative, a courier who also worked as a clerk at Abbottabad's post office.

According to an anonymous source from Indonesia's intelligence agency quoted in Koran Tempo, Patek was in Abbottabad to meet with al-Qaeda operatives and plan attacks to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

Anthony Bubalo, an analyst writing on the Lowy Interpreter blog, said: ''Perhaps most interesting of all is why bin Laden was not spooked into moving location as a result of Patek's arrest.''

Anthony Hall is a Senior Reporting Radiographer,  holding a Bsc (hons) in Diagnostic Radiography. He is responsible both for the imaging of patients and producing medical reports.

He is also one of the radiation protection supervisors at the hospital where he works - ensuring the equipment is working within safe limits.

On 12th April the Manchester Evening News published an an article which quotes Mr. Hall as follows:

“Every exposure to ionising radiation is a lottery. No expert would ever say that it is safe – they will say that it falls within a safe dose or a limit, but there is no such thing as a safe x-ray."

“No matter how small the dose, it carries a risk and passengers should be given an alternative. I believe it to be outrageous that there is no alternative and it really concerns me."

“There should be an opt-out option provided for anyone who wishes not to receive this additional, man-made, dose.”

Mr Hall joins us today for the entire hour to discuss these issues and much more.

A very important broadcast!