Understanding the complex system of alliances and support that fuel the conflict in the Middle East can be difficult, but FSM Contributing Editor Tashbih Sayyed walks us through it, explaining just what this war means and why it matters.

To: faithfreedom2@gmail.com Date: Mar 27, 2006 10:44 AM Subject: A video you must give a link to on your site I am sending link to a video. It's an interview of 3 ex-terrorists. These terrorists support each and everything you have said and you have stood for so far. Here's the link: http://tinyurl.com/dl2dm Will you please give a link to this on your site? Here's a brief description:

By Ali Sina
In an Israeli air strike in Qana 54 civilians including 30 children were killed. This brought Arab condemnation and according to BBC, a Human Rights Watch accused the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) of treating southern Lebanon as a "free-fire zone" calling this strike a "war crime". It said the failure to distinguish between civilians and combatants could be judged as a war crime. “The Israeli military seems to consider anyone left in the area a combatant who is fair game for attack," said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch.

Pope Benedict XVI’s lecture at Regensburg University in Germany has caused a veritable tsunami among Muslims. My eyes caught early this week, the title of an op-ed article in the online Arabic newspaper, Al-Sharq al-Awsat, “ The Vatican’s Pope Encourages Extremism.”