World-News

Israel has approved a major escalation of war by voting to send thousands more troops deeper into Lebanon in an expanded offensive echoing its invasion nearly a quarter of a century ago.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081006K.shtml

says Reid
Guardian [UK]

08/10/06

John Reid yesterday accused the government's anti-terror critics of putting national security at risk by their failure to recognise the serious nature of the threat facing Britain. "They just don't get it," he said. The home secretary yesterday gave the thinktank Demos his strongest hint yet that a new round of anti-terror legislation is on the way this autumn by warning that traditional civil liberty arguments were not so much wrong as just made for another age."Sometimes we may have to modify some of our own freedoms in the short term in order to prevent their misuse and abuse by those who oppose our fundamental values and would destroy all of our freedoms in the modern world," he said... [Editor's note: 'Those who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety end up trading freedom for security'-Franklin-MLS]

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,,1841019,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Called up to serve in the conflict against Hezbollah, Israeli reserve soldier Tom Mehagel decided he couldn't fight. "I don't believe that Hezbollah has any goal but destroying Israel," the artillery staff sergeant told IRIN. "But we shouldn't use our force against civilians."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080906T.shtml

A former CIA contract worker charged with beating an Afghan detainee who later died was "full of rage" during the man's interrogation and later admitted assaulting the prisoner, witnesses at the ex-contractor's trial said Tuesday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14438.htm

Requests from humanitarian organisations for clearance from the Israelis are now being refused. Even the Red Cross admits there is now, in effect, a blockade on a vast area along the Lebanese border where thousands of civilians are still cowering in their homes.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14433.htm

By Scott Ritter

One should not be fooled by the "false" diplomacy being waged by the United States, fronted by Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14448.htm

http://www.antiwar.com/hacohen/?articleid=9496


Informant: Lew Rockwell