This is, of course, not a real media advisory – we don’t need to teach you guys how to do your job!

NATO Media Advisory on the correct use of language in case of armed conflict.
NATO Headquarters 07 Sep 2011

1. This Media Advisory contains recommended guidelines for the use of language by media representatives in their reports.
2. For further information, please visit: http://www.nato.int.

In reporting civilian casualties it is important to follow the following guidelines:
Civilian casualties caused by NATO are always alleged casualties/ unavoidable collateral damage. If in doubt, don’t report.

In any report alluding to civilian casualties it must always be stated that NATO do their utmost to avoid civilian casualties and the target was in all cases a legitimate one.

Civilian casualties caused by the other side are to be reported as the result of deliberate targeting of civilians.

● Lie detector to be trialled at British airport
● Can detect a lie with a "press of a button"
● "Suspects" won't know they're being tested

The system could be used during customs interviews and at passport control to check whether people entering the country are giving a true account of themselves. A key element will be that people under scrutiny will not know they are being monitored for truthfulness. The airport where it will be tested is not known but if it works it could be installed in others around Britain.

The slain resident was identified as Khaled Abu Samhoud, 22; his body and the four wounded residents were moved to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. Furthermore, three military bulldozers and five tanks invaded Al Qarara and bulldozed farmlands while firing at random. The invasion came shortly after Israeli choppers opened fire into the area. Border areas between Gaza and Israel are subject to frequent Israeli invasion and attacks, including uprooting Palestinian farmlands close to the border. Israel is enforcing a no-man zone on areas that are close to the border, an issue that prevents the famers from entering their lands, and those who do are subject to direct gunfire from the area; dozens of casualties were reported due to the illegal Israeli measure.

A military and economic alliance with Egypt is set to be signed by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The deal should be clinched when Erdogan visits Cairo next Monday - the first such visit paid by a Turkish prime minister in 15 years. The alliance is not intended as "revenge" against Israel; Erdogan's intention is to extend Turkey's influence to areas it has not reached in past decades. Under former President Hosni Mubarak, Egypt rejected Turkish overtures; Mubarak viewed Erdogan as an interloper in regions that were under Egypt's, and Saudi Arabia's, influence. The new Egyptian government, however, seems eager to develop economic and strategic ties with Turkey.

Though tensions in the relationship between the US and Israeli governments rarely get aired in public, there is a general sense in media reporting that difficulties between the two are on the rise, with comments by former Defense Secretary Robert Gates underscoring the seriousness. In comments at the National Security Council Principals Committee, former Secretary Gates termed the Israeli government an “ungrateful ally,” insisting they had offered “nothing in return” for massive amounts of US aid and high level intel sharing. Israel’s keenness to start a US war with Iran is hardly a secret, of course, but the fact that it has gone from unspoken truth to newspaper topic speaks volumes, and suggests the “nothing in return” is starting to wear a bit thin.

Eli Clifton, National Security Reporter for ThinkProgress.org, discusses his co-authored report “Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America;” naming the names of the organizations, bankrollers and bloggers that drive the fear and loathing of Muslims; why frenzies of bigotry and intolerance tend to disappear almost overnight, once the spell wears off; and a few positive signs, like Herman Cain and Rick Perry eschewing anti-Islamic rhetoric in their presidential primary campaigns. Eli Clifton is a National Security Reporter for ThinkProgress.org. Eli holds a bachelor’s degree from Bates College and a master’s degree in international political economy from the London School of Economics. He previously reported on U.S. foreign policy for Inter Press Service, where he served as deputy Washington bureau chief. His work has appeared on PBS/Frontline’s Tehran bureau, The South China Morning Post, Right Web, Asia Times, LobeLog.com, and ForeignPolicy.com. MP3 here. (32:06)

Bob McIlvaine and Tony Szamboti appear on Geraldo to discuss the BuildingWhat? campaign for a new investigation into the destruction of Building 7.

WikiLeaks: Every law proposal, every ordinance, and every govt report hostile to the net, youth, and civil liberties in Sweden in recent years have been commissioned by the US govt and industry interests. - Since 2006, the Pirate Party has claimed that traffic data retention (trafikdatalagring), the expansion of police powers (polismetodutredningen), the law proposal that attempted to introduce Three Strikes (Renforsutredningen), the political trial against and persecution of The Pirate Bay, the new rights for the copyright industry to get subscriber data from ISPs (Ipred) — a power that even the Police don’t have — and the general wiretapping law (FRA-lagen) all have been part of a greater whole, a whole controlled by American interests. It has sounded quite a bit like Conspiracies ’R’ Us. Nutjobby. We have said that the American government is pushing for a systematic dismantlement of civil liberties in Europe and elsewhere to not risk the dominance of American industry interests, in particular in the area of copyright and patent monopolies. But all of a sudden, there it was, in black on white. It takes the description so far that the civil servants in the Justice Department, people I have named and criticized, have been on the American Embassy and received instructions. All the attacks on civil liberties and dismantlements of rights in Sweden, rights that have been and should be taken for granted, have been a demand from American trade interests. And these attacks continue to this date.

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, didn’t take kindly to Kumari Mayawati’s words that he should be sent to a mental asylum. So Mr. Assange lashed back. - Leaked U.S. diplomatic cables recently released by WikiLeaks called Ms. Mayawati, the chief minister of India’s state of Uttar Pradesh, unkind things like a “paranoid dictator” and “corrupt.” They even alleged she sent a private jet to Mumbai to pick up a pair of her favorite sandals – a revelation we found surprising, not least because we never knew Ms. Mayawati was much of a fashionista. She denied all of this, saying that the leaked cables were “baseless” and politically motivated. She took it all out on Mr. Assange, even suggesting he should be institutionalized in Agra’s mental asylum, in her home state. (You can read more on this here.)

It didn’t take long for Mr. Assange to respond in tone. In a statement released Tuesday he vouched for the authenticity of the cables and asked the chief minister to “admit her error and apologise.” “Should she fail to do so, she is welcome to send her private jet to England to collect me, where I have been detained against my will,” he said. He didn’t let the sandals reference slip by: “I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in India–a nation I love. In return, I will bring Mayawati a range of the finest British footwear.”

A doctor who helped the CIA find 'Osama bin Laden' has been barred from leaving Pakistan, a commission investigating the killing of the Al Qaeda leader said yesterday. Dr. Shakil Afridi ran a phony vaccination program in the Pakistani town where the Al Qaeda leader hid in an effort to obtain a DNA sample from him. Afridi is being detained by Pakistani authorities, but has not been charged with any crime.

Nato has suspended the transfer of detainees to some Afghan jails after fears they were being subjected to systematic torture, British defence officials have said. - The directive, issued this week, comes ahead of the imminent release of a UN report into detainees that is expected to be highly critical of the Afghan police, who process many of the detainees through the fledgling justice system. The report is understood to outline how prisoners are routinely beaten, given electric shocks and subjected to other human rights violations, some within private jails run by police commanders. The order from the head of the Nato-led mission, General John Allen, is understood to have directed with immediate effect that prisoners not be transferred to nine locations, including one in Kabul, where the abuse was reportedly the worst.

Deutsche Welle: Torture allegations at Afghan jails halt NATO detainee transfers

Message from Aisha Qadafi, September 3, 2011:

"Even if my father and my brothers are martyred, I will continue my fight against Islamic terrorists in Libya. Soon, I will appear in the media to announce the fight against terrorists and Al-Qaeda in Libya and other countries in the world. Let the West and their mercenaries take note; Aisha Qadhafi will never surrender to their conspiracy of evil. I carry the blood of a heroic father in my veins and I have never known the idea of surrender. NATO and Western assassins killed my husband and my child. But they must know by now that Aisha Qadhafi is a soldier. Even at the cost of my own life, I will free my country from the clutches of Islamic terrorists and Al Qaeda."

As Tripoli strives to get back to normality and enjoy its new-found freedom after Gadhafi's rule, disturbing reports have emerged of alleged indiscriminate violence against blacks many of whom are Libyan nationals.

"They grabbed my two brothers last night and took them to prison. We're black, that´s our only crime," Zeinab Muhamed, a Tripoli resident told Deutsche Welle.

The future of the euro is hanging by a thread at the moment. The massive debt problems of nations such as Greece, Italy and Portugal are dragging down the rest of the Europe, and the political will in northern Europe to continue to bail out these debt-ridden countries is rapidly failing. Could the end of the euro actually be in sight? The euro was really a very interesting experiment. Never before had we seen a situation where monetary union was tried without political and fiscal union along with it on such a large scale. The euro worked fairly well for a while as long as everyone was paying their debts. But now Greece has collapsed financially, and several other countries in the eurozone (including Italy) are on the way. Right now the only thing holding back a complete financial disaster in Europe are the massive bailouts that the wealthier nations such as Germany have been financing.

Andre Damon: Economic downturn intensifies global currency conflict

Lawyers representing the victims of the Israeli military attack on the Mavi Marmara have affirmed that they are pursuing legal action against the perpetrators, including individuals Israeli soldiers. The statement signed by Attorney Ramazan Aritürk says:

We have the ID information of some of the Israeli soldiers who carried out the May 31 attacks and we have been filing criminal complaints against them in local and international courts including the ICC [International Criminal Court] and we will exert utmost effort to ensure that they receive the necessary punishment.

Nine civilians were killed, many execution-style, by Israeli forces who attacked attacked the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, of which the Mavi Marmara was part, in international waters.