Occupation issues new building master plan to Brukin village
The Occupation has issued a new master plan to the village Bruqin, allowing residents to build on a small portion of Area C land. This move does little to reverse the devastation brought on by more than 20 years of settlement activity on village land and, like the rerouting of the Wall in Jayyous, is an attempt to deflect criticism away from Occupation policy and practice.
http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/1749.shtml

Weekly report on Israeli human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territory 25 Sep - 08 Oct 2008
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/SHIG-7K9HJQ?OpenDocument&RSS20=02-P

UNRWA calls on Arab donors to provide aid for Nahr Al-Bared camp
Karen Abu Zayed, the commissioner-general of UNRWA, has made an urgent appeal to Arab states for emergency aid to about 30,000 Palestinian refugees whose homes were destroyed in Nahr Al-Bared camp.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7LXOkRgMv9fpvUsVhR7smdbq6r1pVFM5WjTjw1O5GXWvMNi4jU7SuxsAQUZ6PSxufnuS9tP%2f2KdoYBqQaMJjKMIcIpRnYiHmlnBJUdC9Pnjw%3d

Water crisis in Gaza - A report denounces Israeli responsibilities
"Israel violated international law by creating a water crisis in the Gaza Strip", accuses a report released by the Palestinian Union of Agricultural Committees, denouncing the "drastic reduction in water sources in Palestinian territory since Israel has built several small dams to block surface water that used to reach Gaza through river valleys".
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/ASAZ-7K9J5L?OpenDocument

'Yom Kippur riot' in Israeli city
Riots break out in Acre after an Israeli-Arab drives his car during the religious holiday of Yom Kippur, Israeli reports say.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/middle_east/7660628.stm

Beating of Palestinian man touches off riots in Acre
Riots took place in the Israeli town of Acre on Thursday morning after Jewish youths reportedly beat a Palestinian resident on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur.  Young Israeli Jews reportedly assaulted the Palestinian man after he drove into the eastern, predominantly Jewish section of the city just after midnight. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that the man claimed to be driving home.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=32422

As the Palestinians start the olive pucking season, settlers increase their attacks
As several Palestinian villages stated the olive piking season, extreme Israeli settlers increased their attacks against them and against several Palestinian villages.
http://www.imemc.org/article/57262

Israeli soldiers take over house overlooking Hebron settlement
Israeli soldiers in Hebron took over a house overlooking the Kiryat Arba settlement in Hebron last week, the home's owners said Wednesday.  The house, owned by Al-Hajj Suleiman Ar-Ragaby, is located on the Jawhar Mount hill in Hebron. A family member told Ma'an that Israeli soldiers arrived at the home one day before the start of Eid Al-Fitr, remaining there for over a week and preventing the three families living in it from moving about their homes.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=32413

Palestinian forces arrest 17 Hamas members in West Bank
Palestinian security forces arrested 17 members of Hamas movement in the West Bank on Thursday, the Islamic movement said.    The arrests were conducted in West Bank cities of Nablus, Ramallah, Bethlehem, Hebron and Tulkarem by security forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement, a Hamas statement said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-10/09/content_10172003.htm

IOF troops kidnap eight Palestinians, prevent farmers from harvesting olives
The IOF troops kidnapped eight Palestinians from villages near the northern West Bank town of Tulkarem and stopped farmers from reaching their land to harvest their olive crop.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s72hEM0ByA6DocjGcmVYJCLh1W8dRL7QkLc6UG01mWqLG754rnSmWtVb4wypufouxswMQbcLrIRAW5agbQDy2tWHhHstXty8F%2fJD8VoFavtRU%3d

Report: 20 kinds of violations committed against women in Israeli jails
The prisoner center for studies revealed that the Palestinian women in Israeli jails are exposed to more than 20 types of violations, stressing that such violations start from the moment of arrest.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7oHQ4eHjm21ju%2bjdRI%2fyVcANKiW%2b8%2fXEe%2fofxrSi5AcIHMtpUISJJA1cJR8%2bwHn0H30DVqP%2fRdAUY53ENp78ciBesRn5A82zseXxyO3%2bs3r0%3d

Salwa and Sara, 17 years-old and detained for months without charges in Israeli jail
For more than 4 months now, Salwa and Sara, two Palestinian teenager girls from Bethleem have been detained in Israeli jails. Arrested under an administrative detention, their imprisonment is highly arbitrary as an administrative implies the detention of individuals without charge or trial and is indefinitely renewable under Israeli military regulations. Sara and Salwa, after being condemned to 4 months each, have seen their administrative detention order renewed at its term. The girls are expected to be released in January 2009. If so, they will have spent 8 months, and their seventeen birthdays in jail.
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article665

Investigation demanded after prisoner dies in PA custody
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) calls on the Attorney-General of the Palestinian Authority to disclose the circumstances of the death of Shadi Mohammed Mohammed Shaheen, from the town of al-Bireh in the West Bank, who died on 29 September 2008 while in police custody in the city of Jericho.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9882.shtml

Extremist Jews storm the Aqsa Mosque under army protection
Hundreds of extremist Jews have stormed the Aqsa Mosque on Wednesday under the protection of the fully-geared Israeli occupation soldiers.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7R%2b8jwnHVjtl0QDAhe0WVGQaiPsIKci%2bWkJC6wQE7kBeELjOBuQLkdtI1OGOqQHeDi47VIy74FI%2b8dG5tNnxpSLuMLM%2bRRVQ3Hf1qNzRVRwA%3d

Israeli military closes the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron
The Israeli military closed the Ibrahimi mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron on Thursday under the pretext of Jewish holidays, preventing Muslim worshippers from attending prayers.
http://www.imemc.org/article/57264

The Fetal Terrorist
Halah Yousif is a 32 year old woman from Gaza. She is pregnant; yet the joy of pregnancy and the prospect of bringing new life into the world were dampened when Halah was diagnosed with a condition known as Toxemia. This rare ailment may cause her young child to be born with disabilities and can greatly complicate the birthing process. Like any mother-to-be she is scared, but determined to do all that she can to insure that her baby has the best chance at life.
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article666

Masked assailant kills man in Ain al-Hilweh
A masked gunman has shot and killed a 25-year-old man at the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Sidon, a Red Crescent official said. Mohammad Ismail died after the attacker shot him in the face and fled, the Red Crescent told AFP on Tuesday. "An investigation has been opened to find out the circumstances of this crime.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=96607

Jewish settlements a growing obstacle to peace
As a freelance journalist, I wanted to visit the West Bank and speak with Palestinians and Israelis about prospects for peace beyond official statements and sound bites.  So I scanned the news and found numerous references to Maskiyot, a tiny Jewish settlement among 26 others in the barren expanse of the northern Jordan Valley. Its current inhabitants are just eight families, six of whom came from the Gaza Strip after the Israeli withdrawal in 2005.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/08/MNNU12SC0E.DTL

Hamas gives nod to Egyptian proposal for Palestinian reconciliation
Hamas officials in Cairo signaled their willingness on Wednesday to discuss conflicting Palestinian agendas for new elections, following a meeting with Egypt's intelligence head meant to promote reconciliation among feuding Palestinian factions.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1027631.html

Hamas, Fateh, and Egypt likely to hold a meeting before the end of October
Initial reports from Egypt revealed that a trilateral meeting between the rival Hamas and Fateh movements along with Egyptian officials will most likely to take place before the end of this month.
http://www.imemc.org/article/57261

Israel bars Hamas delegates in W. Bank from going to Cairo
MP Khaled Tafesh, a member of the Hamas parliamentary bloc, reported Tuesday that the IOA prevented the Hamas delegation in the West Bank from traveling to Cairo to participate in the talks with Egyptian leadership which are aimed to end the inter-Palestinian discord. "We went in the early morning hours towards the Karama crossing on the Jordanian borders, but the IOA detained us for four continuous hours and then one of the soldiers came holding a decision banning us from travel permanently," MP Tafesh explained.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s71ggXugDGhQlnkwNsTdCGHnx4iHSxIpVBT%2f8h8QudmTVevjaA0Yu5B6%2bLa6TcgbEAs0L7MIHrL2ls%2bgJzOC2os1W6kcyv5onCCbzIl2627js%3d

Hamas accepts extending Abbas' presidency for additional six months
In a contradiction frequent statements by Hamas leaders regarding their rejection to extending the presidency of Mahmoud Abbas, Hamas delegates participating in the first day of the Cairo dialog said that the movement accepts extending Abbas' presidency for additional six months, the Palestine News Agency reported.
http://www.imemc.org/article/57267

Hamas may make concessions on Abbas' term, makeup of unity government in Cairo intra-Palestinian talks
Hamas has prepared a set of preliminary suggestions to overcome differences with its Palestinian rival, Fatah, and restore Palestinian unity through Egyptian-brokered negotiations, Contacts with sources in the movement, and Hamas' own websites, show that the party is heading into the reconcilliation talks in Cairo prepared to make concessions on certain key issues, including the makeup of a new Palestinian government, and the extension of President Mahmoud Abbas' term.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=32417

Fatah says Hamas stalling on Palestinian unity plan
Palestinian Islamists in Gaza are stalling on an Egyptian plan to reconcile them with the secular PLO leadership in the West Bank, a senior official of the rival Fatah faction said on Thursday.
http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnMAC949699.html

Gaza-Egypt tunnel owners come into open
The owners of hundreds of tunnels, running under the Gaza-Egypt border, have registered with the Hamas authorities, signed pledges to pay workers' compensation and hooked up their underground operations to the local electricity network.
http://archive.gulfnews.com/region/Middle_East/10250659.html

Smuggling by tunnel goes legit in Gaza
AP - Gaza's smugglers are going legit: Owners of the scores of tunnels running under the Gaza-Egypt border have registered with the Hamas authorities, pledged to pay workers' compensation and hooked up their operations to the electricity network.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081008/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_palestinians_tunnel_boom

Settlements in South Hebron Hills to be blocked during Yom Kippur
The authorities are implementing a closure on settlements in the South Hebron Hills east of the separation fence for Yom Kippur, citing a lack of manpower to keep the road open. At the beginning of the week, the residents of the settlements of Teneh Omarim and Shama'a found out that road 60, the main artery connecting Hebron-area settlements with central Israel, will be completely blocked except for emergency vehicles.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1027420.html

MKs: Police can't fight settler violence
Only five police cars are in service in the whole of Judea and Samaria, the Knesset's Internal Affairs Committee claimed on Tuesday. Committee chairman Ophir Paz-Pines pleaded with police commissioner Insp. -Gen. Dudi Cohen to increase funding to what he described as a beleaguered force struggling to cope with a rising tide of settler violence.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1222017493783&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Concern for fate of education from those for and against the strike
Bethlehem's Deheisha Refugee Camp was the scene of more upheaval today as students went on strike. The camp has already suffered a month of an Israeli arrest campaign targeting leftist youth. Joined by northern Hebron's Al Aroub Refugee Camp, students from the United Nations Relief Works Agency schools began protesting early Wednesday.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3705&Itemid=1

PA says checkpoints keep dozens of teachers from classrooms in Tubas
Palestine's Ministry of Higher Education announced in a statement on Thursday that Israeli forces were impeding students' and teachers' access to schools in the Tubas district of the northern West Bank.  The ministry said that "Israeli forces obstructed school days at a number of the local schools in Tubas" by irregularly closing the Tayaseer military checkpoint, which more than 45 teachers must cross to reach their classrooms.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=32427

British team of heart specialists arrives to treat Palestinian children
A team of doctors and nurses arrived from the United Kingdom to start a week of open-heart surgeries on children in the West Bank and Gaza, a Palestinian non-governmental organization announced on Thursday. The Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF) initiated the program several years ago, aimed at kids in Palestine and Lebanon needing specialized surgery. This year, pediatric cardiac surgeon Dr. B. Sethia led the team from Royal Brompton Hospital in London. Other experts included a perfusionist and an intensive care unit doctor.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=32423

After 16 years in Israeli prison Firas Jarar sat down with PNN's Jenin correspondent Ali Samoudi
Sitting in his Jenin home Firas Ahmed Mohammad Jirar recalls the vividly harsh memories of 16 years in Israeli prison. Jirar says he cannot forget being moved from one prison and detention center to another despite being newly released. "I am so happy to see my family, but it will be incomplete as long as there are prisoners in the jails.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3702&Itemid=1

The beauty of the check point
On his way home from work Abdul-Latif experienced the arbitrary treatment of the Palestinians at the Israeli check points. The following happened at the Beit Iba check point in Nablus. Abdul-Latif, 43, is a project coordinator of the Palestinian Hydrology Group...
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article663

Leviev boycott moves forward with action in the UK and NYC
Palestine solidarity organization Adalah-NY was recently involved in two actions against Lev Leviev, the Israeli diamond magnate and construction mogul. The first action called on the British government to reverse its plan to rent its new embassy in Tel Aviv from Leviev's company, Africa-Israel, as dealings with Leviev serve to condone the Occupation's settlement construction on stolen Palestinian land.
http://stopthewall.org/worldwideactivism/1746.shtml

Russian PM cancels meeting with Olmert; Putin refuses to "even see him"
Israeli sources described outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's visit to Russia yesterday as a "failure."  Though Olmert met with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Vladimir Putin refused to even meet with the Israeli leader, sources said.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=32416

Police ban Paris rally by "anti-Israel" groups
The first pro-Palestinian "Jerusalem Day" to be held in Paris has been banned by police, following alerts on possible altercations and incitement.
http://www.thejc.com/node/6530

Advocating Genocide as Electoral Tactic
In a 60 Minutes interview from 1996, then US ambassador to the UN, Madeleine Albright infamously quipped of the deaths of half a million Iraqi children to maintain US policy: "… we think the price is worth it."1 On 24 September, a prominent Canadian politician said that the collective punishment of the Palestinian people "… is the right thing to do." The name candidate with Canada's Liberal Party delivered a shocking statement that is, in essence, advocating a genocide against 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/10/advocating-genocide-to-win-election/

Frank Barat, "The Forgotten Fighter: Nablus's Will to Live"
Hakim tells me that every time he hears the Israeli Army during the night, he wakes up, gets dressed and sits quietly on his sofa waiting for them. Not because he's guilty of anything. Except maybe of being Palestinian. No one is safe in Nablus during the night.
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/barat081008.html

Israel's surprising best seller contradicts founding ideology
No one is more surprised than Shlomo Sand that his latest academic work has spent 19 weeks on Israel's bestseller list -- and that success has come to the history professor despite his book challenging Israel's biggest taboo. Sand argues that the idea of a Jewish nation -- whose need for a safe haven was originally used to justify the founding of the state of Israel -- is a myth invented little more than a century ago.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9884.shtml

Time for Vanunu is Now
As the world awaits the announcement of the recipient(s) of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, there is no doubt 2008 has been witness to a call to war. The pressure exerted by Israel in an attempt to goad the United States into attacking Iran has been relentless, and thankfully, resisted up to now. In this context, is there any better person to receive the Peace Prize than the man who initially exposed the Middle East's first—and only—nuclear power over two decades ago?
http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=14248

A genuine PEACE movement CANNOT BE ZIONIST
It's common practice among those of us outside Israel who have been frustrated by the hostility and intimidation we encounter whenever we voice criticism of Israel to point to the fact that there is greater freedom to criticize Israel in Israel. "Look at the critical articles published in Ha'aretz," we will say. "Look at the Israeli peace movement. Look at Peace Now and Gush Shalom." Tactically, this is a useful point to make in an argument. I know because I've used it myself.
http://palestinethinktank.com/2008/10/09/a-genuine-peace-movement-cannot-be-zionist/

Goal! A woman sportscaster in Gaza
The Gaza Strip is generally considered more conservative than other parts of the Palestinian Territories. So it was no small feat for 35-year-old Nelly Al-Masri to be accepted by her male peers as the first female sportscaster. MENASSAT spoke with Al-Masri about her experience.
http://www.menassat.com/?q=en/news-articles/4816-goal-woman-sportscaster-gaza

Moshe Dayan told '73 probe: I wasn't fit for war-time decision making
Moshe Dayan, the defense minister during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, had been lionized just six years previously over Israel's victory in the Six-Day War, during which he also served as defense minister. But when he testified before the Agranat Commission that investigated the Yom Kippur War, Dayan insisted that he lacked the necessary military qualifications to influence decisions before and during that war. "From 1957-67, I wasn't in the army at all," argued the man who had been IDF chief of staff in the four preceding years.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1027411.html

Muqawama, Hezbollah's Winning Strategy during Leb. War
Two Years and few months have passed on the Second Lebanon War and the Israeli army, officials, military analysts and media are still trying to figure out what really happened during that war and still trying to find out the gaps that led to the defeat of the most powerful army in the Middle East, which was used to be called "the undefeatable army".  In his latest analysis, and not the last, Israeli journalist Ron Ben-Yishai wrote an interesting analysis in the Israeli electronic site "Ynet" on Thursday under the title "In Search of a Winning Strategy", in which he started with the Israeli defeat in Yom Kippur in 1973 and ended with the Second Lebanon War in 2006.
http://www.almanar.com.lb/newssite/NewsDetails.aspx?id=59390&language=en

Wednesday: 1 US Soldier, 16 Iraqis Killed; 32 Iraqis Wounded
Excerpt: Updated at 12:42 p.m. EDT, Oct. 8, 2008 At least 16 Iraqis were killed and 32 more were wounded in the latest violence. The DoD reported the death of a U.S. soldier in an non-combat vehicular accident as well. Meanwhile, the Interior Ministry said they were ready to handle security should U.S. forces withdraw. Also, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said he would cancel any tribal support council that is affiliated with a political party.
http://www.antiwar.com/updates/?articleid=13567

Anti-US Sadrist MP dies in Baghdad bomb attack
AFP - An anti-American MP was assassinated in a bomb attack on Thursday in Baghdad's Shiite stronghold of Sadr City, marking the first killing of a lawmaker in 18 months, his radical Sadrist faction said.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081009/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrest

Iraqi MP killed in bomb attack
An Iraqi member of parliament has been killed in a roadside bomb attack in eastern Baghdad, officials say. At least two other people were also killed in the attack on the convoy of Saleh al-Auqaeili, a member of the Sadrist bloc, on Thursday. Five other people were injured.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2008/10/20081099439971949.html

Iraq: 5 Sunnis, 4 Shiites killed in house bombings
Iraqi officials say bombs killed five Sunnis and four Shiites who recently returned to religiously mixed neighborhoods south of Baghdad.
Police and morgue officials say a married Sunni couple and their three children died when their house exploded Wednesday in Madain.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2008-10-09-iraq-bombings_N.htm

Attacks on Christians in Iraqi city raise concern
Attacks on Christians in Iraqi city raise concern, BAGHDAD -- An Iraqi archbishop expressed concern Wednesday over what he called a "campaign of killings and deportations" against Christians in the northern city of Mosul after police reported seven Christians killed in separate attacks this month., A female suicide bomber also blew herself up near government offices in Baqouba, northeast of the capital, killing 11 people, Iraqi officials said.
http://www3.whdh.com/news/articles/world/BO90814/

US-Iraq security pact faces hurdles
AP - A U.S.-Iraqi security agreement spelling out how American troops and contractors operate was supposed to be in place over the summer, but the thorniest issues remain unsettled and neither side is budging.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081008/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq_us_security_pact

As violence drops, Iraqi tribes begin to make amends
Tribal elders are reviving a traditional process to heal the deep animosities resulting from sectarian bloodshed between Shiites and Sunnis.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1009/p01s04-wome.html

Iraq offers free returns for its Syrian refugees
AP - The Iraqi embassy in Damascus is organizing free journeys for refugees who want to return from Syria — the second such project in as many years — though two days into the campaign Wednesday, there have been no takers.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081008/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_syria_iraq

America Not Winning in Iraq Says Prestigious Debate Audience
Intelligence Squared U.S., the Oxford style debate series sponsored by The Rosenkranz Foundation, announced the results of a debate, the second of its Fall 2008 season, on the motion, "America is finally winning the war in Iraq." A sold-out audience at Rockefeller University's Caspary Auditorium, New York City voted 36% for the motion and 53% against at the conclusion of the debate. 11% were undecided.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/america-not-winning-iraq-says/story.aspx?guid=%7BF9E71B60%2D70A2%2D44F7%2D9B46%2D70A47605AF68%7D

ACLU: Bush admin tried to create 'Gitmo inside the US'
The US military was using the same procedures employed at the controversial Guantanamo Bay prison at other facilities inside the United States where US citizens and legal residents were detained, according to documents released Wednesday.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/ACLU_Bush_admin_tried_to_create_1008.html

Lieberman: 'I Worry About' Whether Obama Has 'The Right Stuff To Bomb Iran'
In an interview with the right-wing magazine Newsmax yesterday, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) called Sen. Barack Obama's worldview "naive." Asked if Obama had "the right stuff to bomb Iran if it came to that level," Lieberman replied, "I worry about that."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/lieberman-i-worry-about-w_n_132969.html

Judge Orders 17 Released From Guantanamo Bay
For the first time, a federal judge has ordered the Bush administration to release prisoners held at the U.S. military facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ruling Tuesday that 17 Chinese Muslims must be brought to his courtroom by the end of the week so that they can be set free.
http://us.oneworld.net/article/357897-judge-orders-17-released-guantanamo

AP Exclusive: Documents say detainee near insanity
A U.S. military officer warned Pentagon officials that an American detainee was being driven nearly insane by months of punishing isolation and sensory deprivation in a U.S. military brig, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081007/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/detainee_treatment;_ylt=AkPkbvrEZa4fJqOdy77G0lys0NUE

Americans' Satisfaction at All-Time Low of 9%
Only 9% of Americans are satisfied with the way things are going in the United States -- the lowest such reading in Gallup Poll history.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/110983/Americans-Satisfaction-AllTime-Low.aspx

Greg Palast On Vote Rigging and Suppression Ahead of the 2008 Election
BBC investigative journalist Greg Palast travels to New Mexico, Michigan and Colorado to investigate how both Democrats and Republicans are accusing each other of trying to steal the election. Palast also discusses his new comic book "Steal Back Your Vote", co-written with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/9/greg_palast_on_vote_rigging_and

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