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This is what the occupation did to Iraq.
Faiza Al-Arji
…What is the meaning of life in Iraq? All the beautiful meanings of life there are lost. for panic is the daily feeling, morning and night; militias for killings, free, incessant assassinations, sudden road blocks that kill people without a reason, bodies cast on the streets, which no one removes, on to a security chaos, the confusion of the government and the occupation forces, and- big statements (…) But since 1900 and till now, in the modern Iraqi stat! e, Iraqi never witnessed any sectarian conflict. And under the British occupation, the Sunnies and the Shia’ats united in the National movement, and threw the occupier out of Iraq. So, the story of AL-Zarqawi was invented, and his extremist Sunnie address, malicious against the Shia’ats. Meaning, in truth; there isn’t any Party or Sunnie Iraqi militia that ever declared it was against the Shia’ats or had a grudge against them. So, AL-Zarqawi, not an Iraqi person, was invented, and inserted into the equation to rip the unity of the Iraqis, and destroy the fabric of the one society. That who carried out the bombing in Samara, is the one who had the interest in a sectarian war in Iraq. The Samara bombing was a true turning point in Iraq. It was exactly like the September 2001 events in America. Commotion was ignited; the cards were mixed, and gave a perfectly suitable opportunity to wage a war against the Sunnies in Iraq, to burn their mosques, kill their men, target their fam! ilies, and dislodge them. It gave the opportunity to the emerg! ence of the role of the criminal sectarian armed militias, as their hands were let loose at killing, kidnapping, and torturing Sunnie individuals. The occupation and the former government were in complete collaboration to feed that violence, and didn’t stop it in any way. So, the story of AL-Zarqawi was utilized to justify killing the innocent Sunnie Iraqis, at the hands of death bands, and militias that only God knows who finances them, and who trained them in killing and crime…
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Permanent War? Dealing with Realities in Iraq and Washington
Robert Dreyfuss
…Just as the antiwar movement in the United States can strengthen the resistance in Iraq, the Iraqi resistance can aid the antiwar movement. The cold reality of the war in Iraq is that, had it not been for the Iraqi resistance, there would be no U.S. antiwar movement. Had Iraq’s Sunnis collapsed in disarray and meekly ceded power to the Shiite-Kurdish coalition empowered by the U.S. invasion, President Bush’s illegal war in Iraq might ! have succeeded far more effortlessly. But here’s the truth of the matter: Led by Iraq’s Baath party and by Iraqi military officers and their tribal and clan allies, a thriving insurgency did develop within months of the March 2003 invasion. …
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The perfect monster kills quietly
Nulwee
When anyone makes nuclear energy or nuclear weapons, a massive amount of radioactive waste is created. In the U.S., Depleted Uranium is harnessed by the government as a component for bombs, shells and automatic weapons bullets. Nuclear waste remains radioactive for billions of years, contaminating ground, water and air, causing cancer, birth defects and death, although DU is allegedly “safe” for humans, according to Pentagon scientists (irony being the weapons are still m! eant to kill). D.U. is now everywhere in Iraq: (and much of Aghanistan) bullets made with uranium lay in the residential streets, neighborhoods in Baghdad and Fallujah have been bombed with uranium weapons… and doctors in Iraq have taken notice: “Two strange phenomena have come about in Basra which I have never seen before… double and triple cancers in one patient. We had one patient with 2 cancers one in his stomach and kidney. Months later…cancer was developing in his other kidneyhe had three different cancer types. The second is the clustering of cancer in families. We have 58 families here with more than one person affected by cancer. …
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BUSH PROPAGANDA MACHINE GOES INTO HIGH GEAR IN IRAQ
Joel Skousen
…IPS reporters Brian Conley and Isam Rashid report on a crucial issue that is becoming more and more apparent to Iraqis: US and Iraqi government sponsored (or tolerated) militias account for many more deaths each month than the insurgency: “Baghdad’s central morgue received more than a thousand bodies each month this year, a doctor has revealed … Killing in Baghdad increased after the occupation, but it has flourished under the militia explosion! and the creation of what Iraqis commonly refer to as death squads. “’Most of those dead brought here have been tortured by beating, electricity, acid, drills, and by other horrible ways,’ said an Iraqi who refused to give his name. ‘When any Iraqi is arrested by police now it means we will find his dead body in Baghdad’s streets after some days. Because of all this killing, this morgue is not enough … Most of the dead arrived with their hands tied behind their backs’”…
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 19 June 2006
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr,
…In a dispatch posted at 2:33pm Makkah time Monday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the American-backed “prosecution” at the show trial of Iraqi President Saddam Husayn and seven other imprisoned Iraqi leaders demanded that the President and other Iraqi officials be executed for their roles in preserving the integrity of the Iraqi state against subversion in the 1980s. Mafkarat al-Islam reported! that the US-appointed “public prosecutor”: Ja’far al-Musawi called for the execution of President Saddam Husayn; of his half brother Barzan at-Tikriti, the former head of Iraqi intelligence; and of Iraqi Vice President Taha Yasin Ramadan. The American-installed court official made the call during his summation at the trial of eight imprisoned Iraqi leaders in connection with the execution of some 148 individuals in the village of ad-Dujayl in 1982, after they were found guilty of plotting to murder President Saddam Husayn and overthrow the Iraqi government. After hearing the pleas of the American-backed prosecutor at its 35th session on Monday, the show trial was adjourned to 10 July…
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In Support of Our Troops at Haditha
Aaron Sussman ,www.dissidentvoice.org
…It is best to shrug this incident in Haditha off as an aberration and move on, because when people realize that the “few bad apples” are really just normal apples from a diseased tree, there are going to be problems. Haditha is the war in Iraq. The white phosphorus in the chemical weapons used in Fallujah is the war in Iraq. Torture is the war in Iraq. And that’s okay. Liberty has a price. And unless you want to see outrageous accusation! s against the liberators in the Bush administration, unless you want to see the term “war criminal” thrown around by dangerous radicals, and unless you want the nation to see the shameful truth that lies in shards at the bottom of that slippery slope, then it is best to just support our troops, and let this be the last time we mention Haditha…
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Condemnation by the Conference of Rectors from Public Universities in Madrid of violence in Iraq and the assassination of Iraqi University Professors
Statement by CRUMA – BRussells Tribunal
…After the compromise acquired by the team of Madrid Autónoma University Direction on the occasion of the International Seminar about the killing of University Professors and Health Personal in Iraq, A War Launched to Erase both the Culture and Future of the Iraqi people, organized in Madrid last 22nd and 23rd April ! [1], and at the proposal of the Rector of the mentioned University, Mr. Ángel Gabilondo, the Conference of Rectors from Public Universities in Madrid (CRUMA) has approved in its meeting of 12th June, 2006, an institutional statement condemning the killing of Iraqi University Professors and the situation of violence that Iraq is going through…
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The Iraq War and the End of Economics
Ahmed Amr, www.dissidentvoice.org
Three long years into this war of choice, most Americans and Arabs are still trying to figure out why George Bush wasted so many chips playing Iraqi roulette. If the nasty Mess on Potamia wasn’t about the phantom weapons of mass destruction, it certainly had nothing to do with spreading the blessings of democracy to the region. “Liberating foreigners from the yoke of repression” is the last refuge of scoundrels without a good alibi for an unp! rovoked unilateral war of aggression against a sovereign state. The United States had fifteen long years to encourage the development of a model democracy in Kuwait — which remains a family ruled oil plantation with a rubber stamp parliament…
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Residents Struggle to Survive, In and Out of Ramadi
Dahr Jamail and Ali Fadhil
…A week spent in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province west of Baghdad, reveals that residents are suffering from lack of water, electricity, cooking gas and medical supplies for the hospitals. The streets are eerily empty, and it appears that many people have now left the city, although possibly as many as 150,000 still remain in their homes, either because they are too afraid to leave or they have nowhere to go. “We will survive an! yway,” Um Qassim, a middle-aged housewife with six children, told IPS. “It is Allah who gives life and he is the only one able to take it away”…
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Snow: There Is Too Much Focus on Kidnapped U.S. Soldiers
Think Progress
On Friday, two U.S. troops were kidnapped at a checkpoint in Iraq. They remain missing. This morning on Fox News Sunday, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow criticized the press for spending too much time covering their plight. Watch it… Last week at a White House press briefing, Snow was asked for a reaction to the death toll for U.S. troops in Iraq reaching 2,500. Snow responded: “It’s a number.”…
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Iraqi Glorious National Resistance’ Harvest, against the fascist and the bloodthirsty US occupiers and their puppets pagan Persian Zionist Iranian fire worshippers for the month of May 2006 only in the sectors of the heroic Diyala district..
Fadhel Badran – Al Moharer. net
…Let them hide their casualties.. Time, attrition, degradation, and collapse are awaiting the bloodthirsty fascist US superpower.. Yes! By God almighty Bush the idiot on rampage is dead right .. He was chosen by God.. Yes God chose idiot Bush! to destroy the US bloodthirsty idol Zion reign. The heroes of Iraq.. and the Nation.. The heroic Iraqi resistance men.. are destroying, with the Lord grace and with His will, the evil US war machine.. See, meditate and contemplate the humiliated US enemy weapons.. Just consider and imagine what is happening to those tanks and armored vehicles when they melt with their crew, forget not.. it is no joke.. We are not playing computers’ games..
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exchange between Les Roberts and John Sloboda on Iraq Body Count and the Lancet
Gabriele Zamparini, The cat’s dream
…You have publicly speculated about IBC’s completeness rates, rates which are unheard of in times of war. According to my colleague Riyadh Lafta (cc:ed above), only about 1/3rd of deaths were captured by the Government’s surveillance system in the years before the Coalition invasion (…) First, given that there should be 120,000 deaths per year as a baseline and every estimate I have seen implies! that there are more violent deaths than peaceful deaths, the IBC estimate seems very low. Second, Jim Krane from AP News wrote me on March 2, 2006 regarding the appearance that the IBC count might not be complete. He points out that 24,000 violent death corpses have entered the Baghdad morgue since the invasion when it used to be 2-3000 per year before the invasion (thus~17,000 excess deaths as of 3 months ago). I suspect that his suspicion was raised because less than a quarter of the population lives in Baghdad, the violent death rate is lower there than the rest of the country according to our data and NCCI’s data, and the morgues traditionally capture a small fraction of deaths. Thus, twice as many deaths in all of Iraq as recorded in the Baghdad morgue suggest IBC is very incomplete. Finally, we measured the sensitivity of your surveillance system during the first 18 months, we found it was <5%. This is what we generously referred to in the HPN paper as “cannot be mor! e than 20% complete.” The Falluja deaths in our data set were ! recorded by month and in IBC Falluja deaths were not as distinct as elsewhere so that we could not match them. However, among the other 21 violent deaths we encountered in our random sample of 988 households, one was in the IBC data set…
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Army Charges 3 GIs With Murder in Iraq
AP
The U.S. Army has charged three soldiers in connection with the deaths of three Iraqis who were in military custody in northern Iraq last month, the military said Monday. The Multinational Corps-Iraq said three members of 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division have been charged in connection with the deaths of three male detainees during an operation near Thar Thar Canal in northern Salahuddin province on May 9…
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What’s gone on at Guantanamo
Born at the Crest of the Empire
…Here’s a list of interrogation techniques reliably documented at U.S. detention centers in Guantanamo or Afghanistan, compiled by medical ethicist, Stephen Miles, in a forthcoming book, “Oath Betrayed.” His sources are 35,000 pages of FOIAed government documents or credible witness testimony: Beating; punching with fists; use of truncheons; kicking; slamming against walls; stretching or suspension (to tear ligaments or muscles to cause asphyxia);! external electric shocks; forcing prisoners to abase and to urinate on themselves; forced masturbation; forced renunciation of religion; false confessions or accusations; applying urine and feces to prisoners; making verbal threats to a prisoner and his family; denigration of a prisoner’s religion; force-feeding; induced hypothermia and exposure to extreme heat; dietary manipulation; use of sedatives; extreme sleep deprivation; mock executions; water immersion; “water-boarding”; obstruction of the prisoner’s airway; chest compression; thermal burning; rape; dog bites; sexual abuse; forcing a prisoner to watch the abuse or torture of a loved one…
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Google knows better
Imad Khadduri & an iraqi tear
Go to: “www.google.com/translate_t; it is the free google translation service.. Go o: translating from Arabic and English and write ((??? ???? which means (people annihilated or genocided) yet google translates it into (Iraqi people) you can try any other phrase to be translated and you will get the correct translation only with this phrase regarding ! killing and genociding people, the translation will be IRAQI PEOPLE..Any body could explain? I have mine: it is coming very clear day after another that Iraqis are not allowed more to remain a nation.. They should be eliminated.. WHY?Bush knows the answer because he is leading the campaign! Do not forget the American massacre against Iraqi civilians all over Iraq.
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Darkness and Light
When international law and science are silenced, the only outcome is darkness
Gabriele Zamparini, The Cat’s dream
…On 20 March 2003 the governments of the United States and United Kingdom broke their solemn pledge [as they had also done with 2001 bombing of Afghanistan and the 1999 NATO bombing campaign in the Balkans] with the invasion of the sovereign country of Iraq, “an illegal act that contravened the UN charter” according to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. (2) The darkness tha! t they brought to the Iraqi people has already slaughtered hundreds of thousands of human lives and contaminated that land with nuclear and chemical wastes for thousands of years to come. The crime perpetrated by the Bush and Blair’s alliance is “the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes [Abu Ghraib, Falluja, Haditha, etc.] in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” The art of government has denied this basic truth to the people of the world (THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS) through that sophisticated propaganda apparatus that hypocritically calls itself “mainstream media”…
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Reasonable Doubts about the Guilt and Death of the Deceptive “Mr. Zarqawi”
Dr. Richard Marsden,
When “Zarqawi” was killed off the evening of Wednesday June 7, 2006, at a house on the outskirts of the village of Hibhib, outside Baquba, I wasn’t at all surprised. Even a fictional character has to die some time. This one had lost all credibility. The plot had become unbelievable. So I argued a little over month ago, following release of the embarrassing Zarqawi promotional video and the fortuitous find by the Americans of some “out-takes”, showing him decked-out in American gear and fumbling his M-249. It was then I knew for sure that this “Zarqawi” was an impostor and his entire “narrative” a work of military deception…
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Chalabi in Bilderberg?
Roads to Iraq
Ahmed Chalabi is one of Bilderberg Attendees? This traitor sold the whole country Iraq to the Americans. I wonder what is he planning to sell now?…
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DAILY WAR NEWS FOR MONDAY, June 19, 2006
Today in Iraq
Spc. Jeremiah S. Santos, 21, of Minot, N.D., died in Baghdad, Iraq, on June 15 of injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV during combat operations.Spc. Brent W. Koch, 22, of Morton, Minn., died on June 16, in Ad Diwaniyah, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV. Cpl. Michael A. Estrella, 20, of Hemet, Calif., died June 14 while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq. Police ! Lieutenant Colonel Shahid Salah Hammud from Ain al-Tamur police station was killed, along with his three bodyguards, when gunmen ambushed his convoy on a highway between Al-Tamur and the southern city of Karbala. (West of) Gunmen killed police Col. Abdel-Shahid Saleh as he was heading to work west of Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad…
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A TALE TO TWO TERRORISTS
Malcom Lagauche
…However, Bush is the ultimate liar and hypocrite when it comes to abetting terrorists. There are two world-class terrorists today who will never come to justice because they are protected by the U.S. Both would make al-Qaida jealous in their deeds of killing innocent people. But, most U.S. citizens have never heard of one: Luis Posada. The other one, Ilyad Allawi is still vaguely remembered as a former prime minister of the “new” Iraq…
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Urgent! Urgent!
The US liberator, and civilization’ war jets level to the ground another important archeological vestige in Iraq!
A special report from Ana – west of Iraq – Al Moharer.net
What idol Zion herald Bush, wouldn’t do to stay the course in Iraq? Sky is the limit for the idiot on rampage.. Bush the prophet, the liberator, the civilization distributor, the democracy herald.. the children killer.. continues to destroy every thing in Iraq as the Iraqis say..al bashar wal shajar wal hadjar, ! killing human beings, trees and even stones.. Special reports from the city of Ana -west of Iraq, ascertained today that the barbarian US army has bombed and hit a very important archeological vestige belonging to the first Abbassid era west of Baghdad near the city of Al Qaeem…
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Nakba Revisionism
Xymphora
Holocaust Revisionism is a crime in many places. Denying the reality of the Holocaust, or even quibbling about its details as established by the official Zionist historians, can land you in jail. Why isn’t there a crime of Nakba Revisionism? The Nakba is the forced exodus of Palestinians from their homeland caused by violence and threats of violence by Jews who were, in effect, clearing land for the new state of Israel (an idea that may have come from Stalin). As part of the general m! ythology of Israel, the fact of the Nakba was almost entirely hidden from Official Western History until relatively recently. There is now absolutely no doubt that it occurred, and no excuse for claiming that it didn’t occur. Anyone who claims that the birth of Israel was without sin, or says something like “a land without people for a people without land”, is a Nakba Revisionist…
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 18 June 2006
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr,
In a dispatch posted at 2pm Makkah time Sunday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US aircraft struck a civilian house in the al-Karmah area northeast of al-Fallujah, totally destroying the house and killing eight members of one family. Six others were wounded in the air raid which took place in the early hours of Saturday morning. A witness told Quds Press that the American attack took place at 4:30! am Saturday morning. He said that American troops surrounded the village for hours as they raided houses. At that time US aircraft were prowling the skies overhead. Then they struck the house, killing eight civilians including women and children, and wounding six more. The witness said that the Americans also captured four women whom they took away with them to an unknown destination…
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The Haditha Doctor and The Media Dissemblers
Sarah Meyer
On 2 June 2006, PipeLineNews.org published an unsigned, scurrilous article entitled Questions Arise About Haditha Doctor – Wahid al-Obeidi – Central Figure In “Massacre” Case. This article questioned the account “Dr. Wahid al-Obeidi” had given about being arrested and beaten in Haditha in October 2005. The article then said, “Wahid is associated with the pro-terrorist Brussels Tribunal, a European-based anti-American group which counts among its members Sad! dam’s favorite film maker Scott Ritter and Saddam’s defense attorney Ramsey Clark.” Pipeline News has confused and then misused their facts. The name of the Director of the Haditha Hospital is Dr. Walid al-Obeidi. Dr. Walid al-Obeidi is not a member of the BRussells Tribunal. It is Dr. Abdul Wahab Al Obeidi, member of “Freedom Voice Society for Human Rights”, who is on the advisory committee of the BRussells Tribunal. Why is the (misnamed) Dr. Walid al-Obeidi being slandered? He saw the bullets in the bodies from the Haditha massacre, thus opening up the case against American troops…
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GI Special 4F17: “They’re Grumbling” – June 19, 2006
Thomas F. Barton
We speak with Peter Laufer, a Vietnam war resister and author of the new book, “Mission Rejected: U.S. Soldiers Who Say No to Iraq.”
AMY GOODMAN: Can you talk about the number of men and women who have refused to go to Iraq to begin with or to redeploy – or Afghanistan?
PETER LAUFFER: It’s an incredibly important question, Amy, and we really don’t have any way to have a hard figure on that total.
But, anecdotally — as I did the research for the book and talked to one after another of these soldiers rejecting the mission — anecdotally, I would have to say the numbers are big and growing because they talk to me about members of their unit who, even if they’re not overtly rejecting the war by disobeying orders, or going AWOL, or deserting, or filing for conscientious objector status, they are grumbling.
They’re over there unhappy with what is going on, displeased with the policy; and they’re opposing the war.
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Zarqawi Dog and Pony Show Rolls On
Kurt Nimmo
Once again, the intel op known as “al-Qaeda” has posted an internet communiqué, this time threatening to “avenge” the killing of the al-Zarqawi stand-in patsy. It’s simply amazing the corporate media reports this nonsense without critical comment, or laughing out loud, as they reported without comment the professed fact two 500lb bombs dropped on al-Zarqawi’s “hideout” vaporized walls, produced a large crater, flattened a palm grove, and yet his body was essentially u! nscathed…
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US military airforce strikes at residential quarters in Ramadi
Arabmonitor
Hundreds of US occupation forces, aided by Iraqi armed forces, are on rampage in Ramadi. The troops are controlling all access points to the city which has been cordoned off since 10 June, deprived of water and electricity. US military airforce is repeatedly striking at residential areas, while ground forces roam through the streets calling on the residents to evacuate the city. Sheikh Fassal Jaoud, former governor of the Anbar province de! clared the situation is catastrophic and residents fear the US occupation forces are planning a mass offensive like that on Falluja in November 2004, saying “the fearful city is haunted by memories of the battles that raged in nearby Fallujah in 2004…
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GI Special 4F16: Two U.S. Soldiers Captured – June 18, 2006
Thomas F. Barton
2 U.S. Soldiers Captured By Insurgents
American soldiers on Saturday went house to house, scanned the streets from helicopters and dove into irrigation canals to try to find two of their comrades who had been reported captured by insurgents in an ambush south of the capital.
The two Americans, who were not identified, were taken prisoner at dusk on Friday by a group of masked guerrillas who mounted a surprise attack on their Humvee near Yusufiya, a town that is a stronghold of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, Iraqis in the area said.
The American command in Baghdad confirmed that two Americans were missing on Friday after insurgents attacked a checkpoint they had set up on a canal crossing near the Euphrates River.
One soldier was killed in the attack, which appeared to be an elaborate lure intended to isolate part of the force.
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SOS Ramadi
Inge Van de Merlen, BRussells Tribunal
…On June 9, the first attacks began. The western media resembles the sleeping beauty. Except for an article in the LA Times, at the time of writing this article, no report on the operation can be found in the western press on the internet. All have their eyes still on Zarqawi in a media-induced trance Meanwhile, on Monday, 12 June, Al-Quds reported that the US Army had issued an ultimatum to Ramadi residents.[21] By June 15, they should turn in all the resis! tance fighters – what an irrational demand! – or face a massive attack. Again, as in Fallujah, those civilians who have no financial means to leave or no place to go, will be portrayed as ‘terrorists’ or ‘foreign fighters’ after they are killed, in order to clean up the face of this dirty war…
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The Smoking Cable: US Ambassador tells it like it REALLY is in Iraq
Magorn, Daily Kos
To hear our Fearless Leader tell it; things In Iraq are going great and they’re only getting better. Bush even went so far as to demonstrate the progress towards peace and stability in Iraq by sharply banking into Baghdad Airport for a quick, absolutely clandestine,(for security reasons), hello. He apparently wanted to see first hand how peaceful and prosperous, the insides of the most secure buildings in the Green Zone ar! e, when 70,000 troops patrol the surrounding city.. An Boy Howdy, he was certainly impressed; he held up Iraq as the model for transforming the Middle East. His Iraqi listeners however, could be forgiven for suspecting Bush had inhaled a little too much of the glue he used to put the model together however. A leaked secret State Dept cable from the US embassy in Baghdad paints a much grimmer picture of a Baghdad and the situation in Iraq, and puts lie to the Sunshine and flowers being offered by W.
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Recent Resistance reports on American losses .. not reported on CNN or Fox/White House news
Imad Khadduri, Free Iraq
Operations June 8 – June 16, 2006: South of Baghdad, 7 attacks on military vehicles, snipper killing one American soldier, attack on American observation post. North of Baghdad, 5 attacks on military vehicles, snipper killing one American soldier, attack on American observation post, killing one Iraqi contractor and 3 Iraqi army officers. Baiji, destruction of three Hummers.
Attack with two GRAD rockets on the Green Zone on Thursday June 15…
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How US hid the suicide secrets of Guantanamo
David Rose, The Observer
…Meanwhile, three US reporters at the base were ordered to leave. According to a Pentagon spokesman quoted by the US media, the reason was that two barred British reporters – us – had threatened to sue if the Americans were allowed to stay. This was, of course, untrue. Closing Guantanamo to the media meant there were no reporters there as the Naval Criminal Investigative Service team went about its work; none when pathologists conducted post ! mortem examinations; and none last Friday when, after a Muslim ceremony conducted by a military chaplain, the first body – Ahmed’s – was prepared to be flown home. It was also impossible to gauge the impact of the deaths on the 460 inmates…
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IRAQ: US escalates assault on Ramadi
Doug Lorimer
…”The situation is catastrophic”, said Sheik Fassal Gaood, the former governor of Anbar province, whose capital is Ramadi. Correspondents in Ramadi for Islam Memo, a Saudi Arabia-based Islamist website, reported on June 6 that the US military had cut off all electricity to the city as well as drinking water, and had closed all the petrol stations…
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Air Heads: The Win-Win Wars of Bushist Fantasy
Chris Floyd
Airstrikes Rise In Afghanistan as Fighting Intensifies (Washington Post)
Excerpts: As fighting in Afghanistan has intensified over the past three months, the U.S. military has conducted 340 airstrikes there, more than twice the 160 carried out in the much higher-profile war in Iraq, according to data from the Central Command, the U.S. military headquarters for the Middle East (…) U.S. officials say the activity is a response to an increasingly aggressive Taliban, whose leaders realize that long-term trends are against them as the power of the Afghan central government grows. They really are one-trick ponies, these guys. Anytime one of their wars goes wrong – the enemy grows stronger, more civilians die – they claim it’s the “last throes,” desperation, one last wild toss of the dice, etc. The worse things get, the better they’re about to get; this has been the constant refrain throughout the Iraq fiasco, and, as Afghanistan – the forgotten but uncompleted war – heats up further, we’ll hear it again and again from there as well…
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What has humanity come to?
Ren Jaluddin Ropeta, Vice Chair, Moro Christian Peoples Alliance (MCPA)
Amid the unjust wars in nations whose only crime is their aspiration for genuine sovereignty, all of humanity faces this question. Poor people in a rich land torn by an unjust war has been the tragic irony that befell on the people of Iraq. Three years after the US’s invasion and occupation of Iraq, justified by a monstrous lie about weapons of mass destruction, it continues be ravaged by US-weaponry manned by sold! iers who are nonetheless victims of their own country’s greed and folly. A parallel situation, with a somewhat subtle and diffused complexion can be drawn from the experience of the Muslims in the Philippines…
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DAILY WAR NEWS FOR SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 2006
Today in Iraq
Iraqi witnesses say two U.S. soldiers missing after checkpoint attack in Youssifiyah on Friday evening were captured. Iraqi witness and CentCom spokesman say U.S. has blockaded all roads into the area. Tensions are high after raids on houses (…) Armed gang kidnaps 10 bakery employees in Shiite Kadhimiyah neighborhood of Baghdad. AFP also reports that police found the bodies of nine men who had been tortured to death…
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