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    Is that by attacking the muslim lands, the muslim has an obligation to god to defend it from faslehood. By awakening the believers in Islam they will enjoin what Allah the most high has enjoined and forbid what he has forbidden, prefer the next life to this, and will once again struggle with their lives and wealth to bring themselves and others out of the oppression of man made ways of life to the justice of that which has been revealed by the all knowing creator! One of the companions of the prophet Muhammad(may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) Rab’ia ibn Amer, went to meet Rostrum, the famous Persian general, at his request and the general offered camels, and women and asked them to return to the desert. Rab’ia refused, and Rostrum asked him why then were they fighting. Rab’ia replied: “We have come to take mankind from the darkness to the light and from the worship of the false gods to the worship of Allah, from the narrowness of this world the wide expanse of this world and the next, and from the injustices of man made religions to the justice of Islam.” Another companion named Khalid Bin Waleed, said in response to a Roman letter inviting him to surrender: “We have with us people who love death as you love wine.” It was Ronald Reagan who quite rightly pointed out that: “How do you expect to defeat a people who believe that when you kill them they go to a paradise filled with beautiful virgins and rivers of wine?”

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Archive for August 10th, 2007

1001 (Officially acknowledged) mercenaries have died in Iraq

Posted by truthline on August 10, 2007

Labor Dept: 1,001 contractors have died in Iraq

By DAVID IVANOVICH
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — More than 1,000 civilian contractors have been killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion more than four years ago, according to Labor Department records made available Tuesday.

In response to a request from Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., the Labor Department revealed that 1,001 civilian contractors had died in Iraq as of June 30, including 84 during the second quarter of the year.

So far in 2007, at least 231 contractors working for U.S. firms have died in Iraq.

Those contractor fatalities are in addition to the 3,668 military personnel the Defense Department had confirmed dead in Iraq from the start of the war in March 2003 until today.

“We are not getting the full picture” of the cost of the war in Iraq, Schakowsky said in a recent interview.

Another 76 civilian contractors have died in Afghanistan since the start of operations there, the Labor Department records show.

Besides those killed, 4,837 workers in Iraq and 879 in Afghanistan suffered injuries severe enough to miss at least four days of work, the Labor Department said. More

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