By GottaLaff
Iraq's Sadr plans new armed group to fight US forces 13 Jun 2008 Iraq's Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr announced on Friday that he plans to form a new armed group to fight US forces in Iraq. In a statement issued to his nearly 60,000 strong Mahdi Army militia, the cleric said the fight against US forces will now be waged only by the new group. "We will keep resisting the occupier until the liberation (of Iraq) or (our) martrydom," Sadr declared in a statement which was read out at a mosque in the holy Shiite town of Kufa. Sadr said the group will direct its operations against US forces and will be banned from fighting Iraqis. "This group will be professional and it will be the only group carrying arms which will be directed against the occupier. It will be banned from using arms against any Iraqis." [It's bye-bye to the 'sectarian violence' lie used by the corporate-owned media as a cover for Blackwater and all the other US terrorists to carry out war crimes in Iraq, daily. --LRP]Habeas corpus, schmabeas corpus:
US prison plans lead to tension in Afghanistan 13 Jun 2008 News that the US plans to spend $60m to build a 40-acre detention facility at its main military base in Bargram north of Kabul to replace an existing prison at the same site has set off speculation that Washington intends to create a new version of its controversial jail at Guantánamo Bay naval base in Cuba, where hundreds of detainees have been held since 2001.There now. Not everything can be about presidential elections. There are other things that are equally stressful out there, and I'm here to bring them to your attention.
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