Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate during the major countrywide operation al-Fath shot down a US helicopter in Kandahar's Zhari district on Saturday noon (May 30). According to the report, the helicopter was set on fire right after it was shot and fell on the ground moments later, killing about 7 US soldiers and crew members aboard, Mujahideen official said. Similarly, a US helicopter got shot down in Helmad's Nad Ali district, while the enemy described the cause of the helicopter crash as quick landing.

American activist loses eye after being shot in face with tear gas canister. An American solidarity activist was shot in the face with a tear gas canister during a demonstration in Qalandiya, today. Emily Henochowicz is currently in Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem undergoing surgery to remove her left eye, following the demonstration that was held in protest to Israel’s murder of at least 10 civilians aboard the Gaza Freedom Flotilla in international waters this morning. 21-year old Emily Henochowicz was hit in the face with a tear gas projectile fired directly at her by an Israeli soldier during the demonstration at Qalandiya checkpoint today. Israeli occupation forces fired volleys of tear gas at unarmed Palestinian and international protesters, causing mass panic amongst the demonstrators and those queuing at the largest checkpoint separating the West Bank and Israel.

As details slowly emerge in the wake of Israel’s deadly attack on a flotilla of aid ships bound for the Gaza Strip, leaders from Turkey’s ruling and opposition parties raise their voices to condemn the action. It is the latest and worst incident in a long line of troublesome encounters over the last year and a half between the two NATO allies and some say this could be the final act. ‘Our relations will never be the same,’ says a member of the ruling AKP. Hürriyet Daily News: Families of those attacked on Turkish aid ship devastated. NYT: “This will be perceived as a kind of declaration of war on Turkey. Political dialogue will cease. It’s not possible to contain the deterioration in relations anymore.”

About 15 20 people were killed on Monday when the Israeli navy intercepted a convoy of aid ships that activists were trying to sail to the Gaza Strip, Israel’s Channel 10 private television network said. Earlier, a spokesman for the Free Gaza Movement which organized the six-ship flotilla said at least two were killed. Casualties could hurt Israel’s international image and diplomatic relations, especially its long-time regional Muslim ally Turkey, whose flag some of the aid ships were flying. AlJazeera.com: Israeli commandos kill 16 Free Gaza activists in international waters, wound at least 60 others. Voice of Palestine: Israeli media: 16 killed in the Israeli attack on the Freedom Flotilla. Al Jazeera: Israeli forces have attacked a flotilla of aid-carrying ships aiming to break the country's siege on Gaza. George Galloway speaking from Texas: Gaza TV's phlog (AUDIO). VIVA PALESTINA.org PressTV: Death toll from Gaza aid attack hits 20. + UN: Israel's aid convoy raid shocking. + Following the Israeli navy's attack on a convoy of aid ships bound for Gaza, Turkey has called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council. Information Clearing House: Civilians Under Attack by Israel -VIDEOS. Al Jazeera: Outrage over Israeli attack. Gilad Atzmon: Live Stream from Turkish's IHH Mission to Gaza [Embed HERE (LiveStream)]. Uprooted Palestinians: Call for action from activist Caoimhe Butterly as flotilla attacked - Protesters storm Israeli consulate in Turkey -VIDEOS. Palestine Telegraph: Palestinian Return Centre (PCR) condemns Israel's Crimes against “Freedom Flotilla”. Palestine Chronicle: Reactions to the Israeli Attack on Freedom Flotilla. Voice of Palestine: Hamas: Israel fully responsible for its brutal attack on Freedom Flotilla. Veterans Today: IDF SHOT SLEEPING PEOPLE ON THE AID FLOTILLA!

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UK
LONDON - 2pm @ DOWNING STREET
SHEFFIELD - NOW @ TOWN HALL
BIRMINGHAM - 4pm @ WATERSTONES, BULLRING
MANCHESTER - 5pm @ BBC on OXFORD STREET
GLASGOW - 5pm @ GEORGE SQUARE
YORK - 5pm @ ST SAMPSON SQUARE
ABERDEEN - 5pm @ ST NICHOLAS SQUARE
EDINBURGH - 5pm @ FOOT OF THE MOUND
GLASGOW - 5pm @ GEORGE SQUARE
CARDIFF - 3pm @ NYE BEVAN STATUE, QUEEN STREET, CARDIFF

IRELAND
Derry - 5pm @ GUILD SQUARE,
Belfast and 5 PM @ BELFAST-CITY HALL
Dublin and 6PM @ DUBLIN AT SPIRE

GREECE - ATHENS, Marathonodromon street 1. P. Psichico, 154 52 @ 19.00hrs Greek time.
BELGIUM - BRUSSELS devant le ministères des affaires étrangères 16 P.M rue des petit carmes. 1000 Brussels, Belgium

FRANCE
PARIS @ 18hr info de dérrniére minute rassemblement a 18h devant l'ambassade d' Israël 3 rue Rabelais (75008 ......Paris) metro ligne 9
St-Philippe-du-Roule
Annecy : Rassemblement ce lundi soir à 18h devant la Préfecture.
Bordeaux : Ce lundi 31 mai, 18h30 rassemblement Place de la Victoire.
Lille : Rassemblement ce soir partir de 16h Mairie de Lille et 18 h 30 Grand’Place.
Montpellier : LUNDI 31 MAI 18H PLACE DE LA COMEDIE.
Nantes : place du commerce à 18 heures.
Belfort : Rassemblement de soutien mercredi 02 juin à partir de 18h00 Place Corbis
Pau : rassemblement ce soir à 18h30 devant la préfecture.
Saint-Nazaire : manifestation lundi 31 mai 18h30, Place de l’Hôtel de Ville,à Saint-Nazaire.
Strasbourg : Rassemblement de protestation place Kléber à 18h.
Orléans : Rassemblement ce jour 31 mai à 18h devant la préfecture.
Elbeuf : rassemblement ce lundi 31 Mai à la poste d’Elbeuf rue des Martyrs à 18 heures 30
Marseille : Rassemblement ce soir 18 h sur le Vieux Port
Lyon : Rassemblement ce lundi 31 mai, à 18h30.Place de l’Opéra.
Tarbes : ce soir à 18h30 rassemblement Place de Verdun.
Boulogne sur Mer : Place Dalton à 18h30.
Caen : Rassemblement 18h30 ce jour devant la préfecture.
Grenoble : Rassemblement 18h30 Place Félix Poulat
GAP : lundi 31 mai à 18h30 Esplanade de la Paix.

ITALY
NAPOLI - ore 17.00 piazza del Plebiscito
GENOVA - Genova alle 18.00 GENOVA ORE 18.00 PIAZZA DE FERRARI
MILANO - ore 17.30 piazza san Babila
FIRENZE - a Firenze ci sarà un presidio (meeting) promosso (by the) dall'associazione di amicizia
italo palestinese per oggi alle 17 davanti alla prefettura,via Cavour,
PISA - presidio oggi alle 17 in piazza xx settembre davanti al Comune di Pisa
BOLOGNA - A Bologna l’appuntamento è per le 17.00 in Piazza Nettuno
TORINO - presidio nei pressi di Palazzo Nuovo (Università di Torino, angolo via Verdi – via Sant’Ottavio), lunedì 31 maggio alle ore 17.00
MODENA - anche a modena alle 17 sotto la ghirlandina se qualcuno è interessato.
Novara - ore 17.30 alla prefettura
Bergamo - ore 18.00 Piazza Vittorio Veneto
Grosseto - ore 18 davanti a prefettura
L'Aquila - ore 18.00 rotonda della Guardia di Finanza

PLEASE POST, SHARE AND FORWARD TO EVERYBODY .. THIS IS A BIG SITUATION .. AT LEAST 19 DEAD (MARTYRED) AND MANY MORE DYING ON THE SHIPS .. OVER 60 INJURED, MANY HAVE BEEN SHOT

ALSO TRY: http://www.facebook.com/l/f2d44;gazafreedommarch.org/cms/en/flotilla/protest.aspx

Kenny's Sideshow: Israeli Massacre on Gaza Peace Flotilla - The World Must Act! This is what the murderous Israeli government is. A zionist land theft death cult hell bent on anything but peace. The world must take action. What excuses will Obama and the traitorous US congress make for this attack? How will the jewish controlled US media spin this? The massacre happened in international waters. It's time to put the Zionazis in their place, once and for all. End the US money and all support for the criminal state of Israel.

PressTV: Israel envoys summoned across Europe: Greece, Spain and Sweden have summoned Israeli envoys to explain a deadly strike by Israeli navy commandos on a Turkish-sponsored humanitarian Gaza aid convoy.

Asia News: State of alert throughout Israel. "Brink of war or new Intifada". Toll from attack rises to 19 dead. Roads to the West Bank and the Gaza crossings closed. Access to Temple Mount mosques forbidden. Raed Salah, Palestinian leader of the northern Israel is seriously hurt. Arab and Israeli strikes in Gaza. Abbas declares three days of mourning and calls the Israeli operation "a massacre". Israel claims aid ships were "a provocation" with links to terrorism. Anti-Israeli demonstrations in Istanbul. Ankara withdraws its ambassador from Tel Aviv.

RT [Video]: Up to 19 reported killed as Israel disrupts Gaza humanitarian effort. According to latest reports, from 1 to 3 vessels of the international flotilla are being towed to the Israeli port of Haifa, not Ashdod as was suggested earlier, so as to avoid encountering international journalists who are waiting at Ashdod. Israel has imposed a military censorship on the events.

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Sunday, 05/30/10 AWIP/Khalid Amayreh: The Freedom Flotilla in the face of the Nazis of our time: As I write these words, around Sunday’s midnight, 30 May, 2010, some of the most noble men and women under the sun are sailing toward Gaza in rough seas in a gesture of hope and selfless love that is meant to say to the people of Gaza “You are not alone.” Needless to say, these brave men and women, these known and unknown soldiers deserve our utmost admiration and appreciation. They are acting on behalf of humanity, a humanity that has nearly succumbed to callous apathy and criminal indifference toward its weak and its poor. After all, Gaza today is very much like Ghetto Warsaw of 1943. The comparison might raise some eyebrows here and there, but the truth, in case people still care about it, is that Gazans are completely dependent on the good will of the peoples of the world for their very survival.

Sunday, May 30, 2010 at 3:02PM Gilad Atzmon: Hebrew Culture for Dummies by Gilad Atzmon: The Jewish state is very engaged with Jewish history. Yet, Israelis have managed to draw the very wrong historic lesson. Rather than becoming a compassionate and merciful nation, Israel has become an ultimate merciless evil. It locks the indigenous population of the land in concentration camps. It existentially threatens the entire region with its nuclear arsenal. It indeed looks as if the Jewish state gave up on the possibility to become a nation amongst nations. It gave up on humanism. Following the astonishing statistical figure of 94% of Israelis supporting the 2009 genocidal assault on Gaza, the Israeli leadership gathers that inflicting pain on others translates into political popularity in the Jewish State's street. Currently, the Israelis seem to gain a lot of pleasure from watching their kosher Navy chasing cement and paper on its way to Gaza. As I write these words, 6 boats are making their way to Gaza. Their humanitarian mission is sacred. This Flotilla is also a symbol of our resentment towards Israeli barbarism. Israel better listen to the nations now because the world's ability to endure tolerance to Zionist brutality is running out fast.

Already expressing its “regrets” for the call for a nuclear weapons-free Middle East as soon as they had signed it, more reports are emerging indicating that the Obama Administration’s official “support” for the idea is incredibly narrow and comes with strings attached. According to one unnamed Israeli official, President Obama made secret pledges to Israel before agreeing to the deal, promising to preserve and even strength Israel’s “strategic” arsenal. AWIP/Jeff Gates: Watching Israel Delegitimize the United States of America.

PressTV: Obama gives Israel all-out support: After the United Nations ratified a resolution calling for a nuclear weapons-free Middle East, the US president gives Israel "concrete guarantees" to prevent the decision from harming Israeli interests. Israeli daily The Jerusalem Post quoted senior political sources in al-Quds (Jerusalem) as saying that President Barack Obama's assurances to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came with the promise of a significant upgrade to Israel's military capabilities.

An estimated 50,000 [?] Thousands of people walked five miles through the streets and heat of Phoenix on Saturday in protest of Arizona’s new immigration law, which is slated to take effect July 29. A considerably smaller crowd gathered later in a nearby stadium in support of the bill, where speakers ridiculed any suggestion that the crowd was motivated by racism. —JCL Update: According to the Arizona Republic, which did a little police band eavesdropping, the march was anywhere from 30,000 to 100,000 people strong.

The rising cost of the Afghan and Iraq wars is always a serious concern, though it really only gets discussed when a major new spending bill is passed or a new milestone is hit. Tonight it is the later, as Costofwar.com, the maker of a popular Javascript ticker that estimates the current costs of the war, has seen its estimate pass the $1 trillion mark earlier today. Costofwar’s estimate is based on the amount of money allocated to the war in the current and previous fiscal years, but other estimates suggest that the true cost runs into the several trillion dollar range.

While the South Korean government announced on May 20 that it has overwhelming evidence that one of its warships was sunk by a torpedo fired by a North Korean submarine, there is, in fact, no direct link between North Korea and the sunken ship. And it seems very unlikely that North Korea had anything to do with it. That’s not my conclusion. It’s the conclusion of Won See-hoon, director of South Korea’s National Intelligence. Won told a South Korean parliamentary committee in early April, less than two weeks after the South Korean warship, the Cheonan, sank in waters off Baengnyeong Island, that there was no evidence linking North Korea to the Cheonan’s sinking.

An international children's rights charity has said it has evidence that Palestinian children held in Israeli custody have been subjected to sexual abuse in an effort to extract confessions from them. The Geneva-based Defence for Children International (DCI) has collected 100 sworn affadavits from Palestinian children who said they were mistreated by their Israeli captors. Fourteen of the statements say they were sexually abused or threatened with sexual assault to pressure them into confessions. Al Jazeera's Nour Odeh met with one of the children, identified only as N, who says he suffered sexual abuse at the hands of his interrogators.