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Father of Muhammad al-Dura rebukes Israeli report on son's death

guardian.co.uk — In a scrubby cemetery in central Gaza, where crumbling tombstones nestle in the sand amid wind-blown rubbish, Jamal al-Dura crouched at the grave of his son Muhammad to recite the Muslim prayer for the dead.

Father of Muhammad al-Dura rebukes Israeli report on son's death

guardian.co.uk — In a scrubby cemetery in central Gaza, where crumbling tombstones nestle in the sand amid wind-blown rubbish, Jamal al-Dura crouched at the grave of his son Muhammad to recite the Muslim prayer for the dead.

Officials Meet After Brutal Attack in Southeast London

nytimes.com — London - Britain's top security officials held an emergency meeting on Wednesday evening, after police officers shot two men who were suspected of killing what some reports identified as British soldier on a street in southeast London. Prime Minister David Cameron said there was a "strong indication" that the attack was a terrorist act, the BBC reported.

The Forgotten Victims of Obama’s Drone War

nytimes.com — ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - WHEN Barack Obama ran for president of the United States in 2008, his message of hope and change gave us, the citizens of lesser republics, hope that he would close Guantánamo and shut down programs where extrajudicial killing or bribing foreign heads of state with American taxpayer dollars had become standard practice.

Woolwich attack: first-person account

guardian.co.uk — "I was just on my way home after a trip to France. I was visiting my children in Plumstead and I had taken a 53 bus to get to Parliament Square where I was going to meet my children and walk to Victoria coach station before getting the coach to Helston in Cornwall.

Muhammad al-Dura and Israel's obsession with the propaganda war

guardian.co.uk — If Israel's government is to be believed, Palestinians have sunk so low as to be capable of faking their own deaths. Or wait, maybe the Israeli accusation of fakery is itself the indication of a horrifying new nadir.

Israeli inquiry says film of Muhammad al-Dura's death in Gaza was staged

guardian.co.uk — A film of a 12-year-old boy crying and cowering beside his father as a gun battle raged around them in Gaza has been challenged by an official Israeli report that suggests that the entire event may have been staged.