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Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians
Best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges and journalist Laila Al-Arian spent the past year interviewing over fifty veterans to expose the patterns of the occupation in Iraq. The testimonies of these soldiers—many of who remain deeply traumatized by their experiences—uncover how the very conduct of the war and occupation have turned the American forces into agents of terror for most Iraqis. Collateral Damage is organized around key military operations—Convoys, Checkpoints, Detentions, Raids, Suppressive Fire, and “Hearts and Minds.” Military convoys traveling at tremendous speeds through towns have become trains of death. Civilians are routinely run over or shot to death. Soldiers fire upon Iraqi vehicles with impunity at checkpoints. Late-night detentions based on shoddy intelligence terrify women, traumatize children, and radicalize the young men caught in their dragnet. These soldiers have found the moral courage to speak out about the true nature of a war that has become one long, unchecked atrocity, and has given rise to the instability, sectarian violence and chaos that we witness today in Iraq. .
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Conspiring Against Joseph: Reflections of a Prisoner of Conscience in a Federal Penitentiary
Offering an inside look into life in a federal penitentiary, "Conspiring Against Joseph" is a collection of 62 poems written by Professor Sami Al-Arian, a Palestinian-American political prisoner. His use of vivid imagery to describe day-to-day life in the suffocating prison will both astound and enrage readers who have never pictured such abuses. This beautiful anthology offers insightful commentary on subjects as diverse as the 56-year Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the American dream before and after 9/11. Al-Arian's unique, evocative style places the reader in the heart of the poem, whether set in 1948 Palestine or America during the Revolutionary War. At once, the writer displays wit, wisdom, imagination, deep spirituality and awe-inspiring perseverance. Al-Arian, who began writing poetry at the age of fifteen while a refugee in Egypt, composed this latest collection over a period of six months, while awaiting trial in the solitary confinement wing of Coleman Federal Penitentiary in Florida. Above all, his writing demonstrates survival in the face of oppression. Long after this struggle for freedom and justice is over, these words will serve as a haunting reminder of the oppression suffered by one advocate of freedom who spoke truth to power..
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Shackled Dreams: A Palestinian's Struggle for Truth, Justice, and the American Way
"Shackled Dreams" is a must-read for anyone interested in the status of civil rights in post-Sept 11 America and the plight of pro-Palestinian activists. It describes the life and work of Dr. Sami Al-Arian, a former University of South Florida professor targeted by John Ashcroft's Justice Department as a result of his extraordinary efforts to raise awareness about human rights violations against Palestinians. The final section of the book contains illuminating interviews, speeches and articles by Al-Arian, who has been detained in Florida since Feb. 2003, where he is awaiting trial. More than anything, "Shackled Dreams" sets straight misconceptions about Al-Arian's case, tireless work and his beliefs. "The case of Dr. Sami Al-Arian will be seen by history as a defense of the best aspects of the U.S. Constitution that Sami has embraced, and in which he continues to have faith." --C. Peter Erlinder, William Mitchell College of Law. "In learning to fight McCarthyism through Jeffersonian liberalism, [Sami] became absolutely convinced that the American Muslim must find ways to replace the culture of bullet with the culture of ballot." --Agha K. Saeed, American Muslim Alliance. "Were it not for the suffering of... Sami Al-Arian, we Americans might still proudly proclaim that our judicial system deems the accused innocent until proven guilty." --Charles E. Butterworth, University of Maryland..
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The Patriot Act and Dr. al-Arian.: An article from: Peace and Freedom
This digital document is an article from Peace and Freedom, published by Thomson Gale on March 22, 2006. The length of the article is 1251 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: The Patriot Act and Dr. al-Arian. Author: Barbara Taft Publication:Peace and Freedom (Magazine/Journal) Date: March 22, 2006 Publisher: Thomson Gale Volume: 66 Issue: 1 Page: 18(2) Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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