Friday, July 29, 2011

Who commits terrorism?

If the Fox News promoters of racial profiling had been in charge of investigating last Friday’s terror attack in Norway, they might well have encountered blond, blue-eyed Anders Behring Breivik and his two smoking-hot guns only long enough to ask if he’d seen any suspicious-looking Muslims around.

After all, it has been a touchstone of the American Right, as well as right-wing Israelis, that Muslims are the source of virtually all terrorism and thus it makes little sense to focus attention on non-Muslims. A clean-cut Nordic sort like Breivik, who fancies himself part of a modern-day Knights Templar, is someone who would get a pass.

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In the 1996 interview, Stahl told Albright regarding the sanctions, “We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?”

Albright responded, “I think this is a very hard choice, but the price – we think the price is worth it.”

Later, an academic study by Columbia University’s Richard Garfield put the sanctions-related death toll of Iraqi children, under five, at 106,000 to 227,000. Full story...

Don't miss:
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  2. The Agony of the Usual Suspects...
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  4. Obama closed his eyes to Hindu terrorism...
  5. One year ago, the Christian massacre in Orissa, India...
  6. "Deadly drones a video game for CIA officers"
  7. Sam Richards: What if Iraq happened to you?
  8. The video the US military does not want you to see...
  9. Palestinian girl tells how her parents were killed... 
  10. On Aug. the 6th. 1945, the U.S. dropped a bomb on Hiroshima... 

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