• Trefflich fein Ontario Superior Court judge orders stay in proceedings to strip Helmut Oberlander of Canadian citizenship
• Ernst Zündel case Ontario judge stuns Toronto courtroom by launching a bid to avoid testifying | Paul Fromm reports on The Zündel Hearings: Quash That Subpoena!

Abu Ghraib

• Baltimore Sun Soldier’s diary details abuse at Iraq prison – implicates CIA and others | Iraqi Prisoner Images ‘Disgust’ Bush, Anger Arabs
• Abu Ghraib prison – US Army scandal Arab press publishes the disturbing photos | Text of the historic broadcast by CBS
• No surprises here Robert Fisk: Israeli Mossad and Shin Bet Associated with Prison Torture 
• It gets worse: Seymour M Hersh in latest New Yorker (May 9, 2004): “Chain of Command”. How the Department of Defense mishandled the disaster at Abu Ghraib 
• Robert Fisk: Betrayed by Images of Our Own Racism  | Israeli Intelligence lessons for US interrogation officers in Iraq 
• Historic document’s text International Red Cross report on the treatment by the Coalition Forces of prisoners of war in Iraq | Classified Report of Maj.-General Antonio M. Taguba: Article 15-6 Investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade [pdf, 85K] | Geneva Convention (1949): The Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War [pdf, 108K]
• David Irving: A Radical’s Diary on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal
  “Saddam, you’re toast. ‘Died of natural causes in captivity.’ ‘Shot while trying to escape,’ whatever. That’s the subliminal message, the grayed-out caption to the pictures of Lynndie England…”
• Humiliation complete New Zealand Herald says things are going to get very messy for US in Iraq | Drudge: Washington Post planning to unleash more prisoner abuse photos
• Censorship of GI’s tightened Halliburton Pulls the Plug on GIs’ e-Communications  | Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz says U.S. Needs Improved Torture Tactics Okay for some “Bundeswehrprofessor [Michael Wolffsohn, jüdisch, Israeli-Bürger] räsoniert über Vorzüge der Folter”: German professor Michael Wolffsohn calls for use of torture | Summoned before his minister
• Lawyers limber up In Iraq Prison Trial, Defense May Rely On Photos of Abuse | Lawyer for one guard claims picture shows his client taking orders from others – will generals take the stand?
• Expanding the Taguba report: Israel’s role in training US army in torture techniques
• Danish government accuses British troops Danish medics witnessed Iraqi prisoner die after interrogation
• Sunday Telegraph The mistreatment of prisoners was a fundamental US interrogation policy | New Yorker says Rumsfeld OK’d the criminal Prisoner Interrogation Program 
• Reuters agency released shocking details of US torture of three of its journalists 
• Israel’s involvement in Iraq: has torture experts at Abu Ghraib Jail
• Loopholes Prison “contractors” in Iraq may avoid war crimes charges 
• Civilian contractors: David Isenberg on Corporate Mercenaries 
• Can’t think why US Defense Secretary bans use of camera-phones in Iraq

Nick Berg

•  World’s print-media slowly catch on: Sydney Morning Herald asks Who killed Nick Berg? | Not used in, uh, final cut Film-maker Michael Moore filmed 20-minute interview with Nick Berg for “Fahrenheit 9/11”  | Evidence accumulates that Nick Berg was killed at Abu Ghraib in a gruesome PsyOps event to take atrocities pressure off Bush | “Berg decapitation video was filmed inside Abu Ghraib prison” 
• Sunday Times (London) on the Nick Berg beheading: Quite why an Islamic terrorist would be wearing an American cap has yet to be explained | Nick Berg was Arrested Twice at Oklahoma University in Spring 2000 | Nick Berg’s father: George Bush never looked into my son’s eyes 
• At least: Fifteen Anomalies Surrounding Death Of Nick Berg
• Of all the people Nick Berg’s odd link with ‘terrorist’ Zacharias Moussaoui revealed | CBS: Bizarre New Link In Berg Murder| Philadelphia Inquirer: Berg’s Journey to Iraq Sparked FBI Probe – and Other Strange Details  | JTA: Execution raises questions about terror’s targets
• Conflicting stories emerge: ‘Suspicious’ activity: Beheading victim ‘never in US custody’ | FBI Press release  | US businessman Nick Berg executed on camera | Mr Irving’s commentary | odd thing about Berger and his father and their politics  | Boston Globe: Questions surround Berg 

Hitler

• Mein Kampf Historian says last relative of Hitler could sue Bavaria for royalties millions

Lipstadt Trial, Holocaust, and Auschwitz

• Holocaust latest (35 years late) Prof Richard Breitmann rediscovers some not-so-new documents on the Third Reich
• Ruth Franklin on Wilkomirski-ism Identity-Theft: True memory, False Memory, and the Holocaust 

Free Speech

• Thugs and things David Irving: A Radical’s Diary in Arundel, Sussex | Bookthieves in Sussex, England Can you identify this woman? »»»»»

World War II History

• Palm Beach Post reviews Frederick Taylor’s book, Dresden, 13 February 1945 – and takes a swipe at Mr Irving
• Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist praises Nuremberg prosecutor Robert Jackson

Jews and anti-Semitism

• Just ain’t enough anti-Semitism to go around Alex Moise, head of French Friends of Israel, admits staging anti-Semitic phone calls to himself
• John Kerry outraged: Calls Crown Prince Abdullah “anti-Semitic” for saying ‘Zionists’ were behind bombings in Saudi Arabia

Israel

• Well, is it true, or isn’t it? Senator Ernest Hollings speaks for many on Capitol Hill when he says Israel is behind Iraq war  The full statement by the Senator 
• Wanton Israeli troops raid zoo in Gaza 

The Mossad

• Secrecy surrounds two Mossad agents when they reappear in Auckland court on NZ passport forgery charges
• Mossad sending hostile message via Asian-based organisations after New Zealand’s arrest of two agents
• History: Israel’s botched 1979 assassination attempt on Amb. John Dean: The Dean papers “with full taste of Mossad’s evil” opened in US National Archives
• Forbes list Russian billionaires include nine Jews – fears that this may reinforce anti-Semitic stereotypes »»»»»
• Innovation Israeli cocaine smugglers soaked clothes in cocaine
• Stereotyping Jewish Agency official Shai Hermesh: I was humiliated in NZ airport. (NZ official told him, “Israelis are spies and drug smugglers”)
• Friends and allies Israeli court sentences Rahamim Aharoni to 12 years for USA Ecstasy smuggling attempt
• “Thought they were M&Ms” Former Israeli minister Gonen Segev indicted for smuggling 30,000 ‘Ecstasy’ tablets [and … what is it with Israelis and iffy passports!]
• Never rains but it pours Former Israeli minister Gonen Segev, under arrest for narcotics smuggling, is investigated for check and credit card frauds
• BBC reports that Lebanon smashes Mossad assassination ring 

Israeli “Furniture Movers”

• Movers and Fakers: Don’t hold your breath Two wanted Israelis now in Federal Custody | Hold Put on Arrested Israelis | Two Israelis in Tennessee court in handcuffs | Two Israeli Chase suspects held without bond | arson accelerant was tossed from their Ryder Truck | Israelis with fake docs arrested, ‘how to fly’ leaflet found! FBI called in [Wasn’t in your local paper either, eh?]
• Daniel Hopsicker reports: Israeli “movers” in submarine-base scare to be … freed  Navy locks down King’s Bay Submarine Base (Georgia) after two Israeli “movers” are detained | Two Israelis held for deportation
• Turns out that Shmuel Dahan, leader of the two Israeli ‘furniture movers’ arrested in Tennessee car chase — now freed! — is son of top Likud Party official, was once chief of National Union of Israeli Students
• Moving scam Companies charged customers double contracted price: Two convicted, others flee to Israel

“Oligarchs” in Russia

• President Vladimir Putin to announce ‘de-oligarchization’ drive, singles out Mikhail Fridman’s Alfa Group »»»»» | Putin’s not stupid Former German justice minister Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger is refused access to Moscow trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky | and Mr Irving’s comment
• The Times How the ‘Golden Horde’ hoarded its way to top of Russia’s rich list
• Zündel calls Jewish leaders to testify at deportation hearing | Ontario Court refuses to hear Zündel’s challenge to a federal anti-terrorism law; faces five more years in Canadian solitary confinement awaiting trial
• Facing both ways David “Ratface” Cesarani reviews Christopher Browning’s book on the Holocaust, and notices that it contains two irreconcilable positions
• More history: Did Churchill and Mussolini exchange secret letters during World War II?
• Daily Telegraph journalists must promise to support that “sh*tty little country” if Axel Springer corporation takes over the newspaper group
• Not very odd? New York Air traffic controllers recorded their experiences after Sept 11, 2001 – but FAA destroyed the tape
•  Dr Andrew Mathis accuses Mr Irving of endorsing thuggish behaviour like the supporters of Deborah Lipstadt
• Clint Swift thinks that Prof Richard Evans is so cool, compared with the [expletive] Mr Irving

Bush war against Iraq

•  “He’s Wounded” – “HIT HIM!” French TV screens images of US helicopter crew killing four Iraqis [with mpeg video]
• Guardian Why being right on WMD is no consolation to Iraqi scientist whom Colin Powell labelled enemy of America 
• Six years ago in history: The neo-cons wrote to President Clinton: Project for the New Century | Wolfowitz lies again: Iraqi pipeline attacks go unreported
• Bazooka Portrait of a killer weapon: the Rocket Propelled Grenade RPG7
• The Guardian: How Chalabi and the White House held the front page: The New York Times has burned its reputation on a pyre of lies 
• Charley Reese: President Bush, Lying or Confused? 
• The Piper thanks the Paymasters Text, sound, and video of standing-ovation speech by President George Bush to AIPAC, Israel’s Washington lobby | The ADL is outraged – Jewish Congresswoman says Bush’s Policies are a Danger to Jews | The Forward Editorial on The Bush Cabal and the Iraq War: The Ground Shifts  | The more the excuses, the less the excuse: “Uncovering the Rationales for the War on Iraq,” by Devon M. Largio lists 27 of them. [3 pdf files] | Flashback George W Bush at Yale condoned “hazing” of young fraternity pledges with red hot coathangers 
• A Quisling unfrocked Some thoughts on the US Army raid on Ahmed Chalabi | Raid on Chalabi only seems to mark his downfall| | New York Times apologises for being suckered with reports on WMD, blames Chalabi
• Robert Fisk reports: Video pictures of US helicopter crew shooting wounded men have been censored by British and European TV (see below)
•  Atrocity-galleries from a “bloodless war”: rather worse than humiliation pics Thousands of images of the Iraqi victims of Bush and Blair
•  How to Shoot a Wounded Iraqi “That was awesome, let’s do it again!” [video, WMV, zip file, 1 MB]
• Baghdad burning, burying A good girl-weblog diary from Iraq 
• The Independent The US Marine’s tale: “I felt we were committing genocide” 
• More origins of anti-Semitism The confusing world of an Israeli army sniper 
• Iraqi wedding party attacks 82d Airborne, update: “US soldiers started to shoot us one by one”  | Wedding party in Iraq liberated by US troops — helicopter gunship massacres 45 guests

Miscellaneous

• Rassenkampf Turkish politician crows over defeat of white race in Germany – the Turkish men have conquered the German women Pot calling ... Reviewing “Skunky” Evans book, Abraham Brumberg in The Nation calls Mr Irving “foul, mendacious” — and gets a reply
• William Manchester finds ghost writer to complete third Churchill volume | Death of historian Manchester – obituary
• $8 billion fund to revitalise New York after 9/11 was diverted to luxury housing and office blocks

 AR-Dossier: casebook on the origins of modern antisemitism

 James Huddleston recalls how Mr Irving’s book on 1956 uprising gave Hungarian people hope

 David Irving’s mother wrote a famous children’s book, The Dawnchild: a reader inquires