friday's book

My Life as a Traitor
Zarah Ghahramani & Robert Hillman

...........Zarah Ghahramani was born in Tehran in 1981, two years after Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran to establish the Islamic Republic. Her life changed suddenly in 2001 when, after having taken part in student demonstrations, she was arrested (literally snatched off the street by secret police) and charged with ‘inciting crimes against the people of the Islamic Republic of Iran’.
While imprisoned in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison she faced brutal interrogation: her head was shaved, and she was beaten. After being released, she was forbidden to return to university, and soon realised that she had no future in her native land. Robert Hillman, an Australian writer, met and befriended Zarah in Iran in 2003, and helped her to escape to Australia, where she now has permanent residency.............

i hope everyone realizes

how very close to the brink we are. we're teetering on the edge. we're going to start world war iii (well i think we already started it) and we are all doomed. i think the rapture IS right around the corner. congress and the senate are sitting on their asses. not taking action. our men and women are dying. THEIR men and women are dying. now, we're going after iran. no turning back
(once again i will say, i am ALL for defending our nation against terrorists. DOMESTIC ones too. let's not forget the abortion clinic bombers in this group as well. at any rate, iraq wasn't bothering us. no terrorists from iraq bombed the world trade center, the pentagon or took a plane in pennsylvania. WE invaded iraq to line the pockets of a bunch o' good ol' white boys. now they're ALL coming after us)
Iranian Unit to Be Labeled 'Terrorist'
U.S. Moving Against Revolutionary Guard


By Robin Wright Washington Post Staff Writer
The United States has decided to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, the country's 125,000-strong elite military branch, as a "specially designated global terrorist," according to U.S. officials, a move that allows Washington to target the group's business operations and finances.
The Bush administration has chosen to move against the Revolutionary Guard Corps because of what U.S. officials have described as its growing involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as its support for extremists throughout the Middle East, the sources said. The decision follows congressional pressure on the administration to toughen its stance against Tehran, as well as U.S. frustration with the ineffectiveness of U.N. resolutions against Iran's nuclear program, officials said..........