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Baghdad will not be subjugated
Albayaty Abdul Ilah
Innovation in religious thinking is good; sectarianism in religion is a crime. Our country, Iraq, and its people reached a degree of consciousness and experience that they can differentiate between what is innovation and what is a crime. By their sectarian practices, sectarians commit political suicide. Iraq cannot tolerate sectarian violence for long. The first who will abandon sectarians are the members of the sect whom they pretend to defend, for there is no i! nterest for any human being to accept killing or repressing innocents from other sects. If the mentality of someone is so low that he accepts killing innocents, in what abyss he is falling! How can someone defend the sectarian killings of Zarqawi or Abu Drii? We were shocked when we heard that some made a fatwa saying it is legal to kill Baathists and when some of Al-Mahdi army men declared in Beirut that the Baathists deserve death. We thought they are religious and defend justice and we did not know that they are for blood and killing innocents. Baathists, Nationalists, Communists, Nasserists, Leftists and patriotic liberals are the best sons of Baghdad and from the best sons of Iraq. All Baghdad and Iraq will rise to defend them.
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A Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy?
Mike Whitney
…The Military Commissions Act is the culmination of 6 years of vigorous attacks on the Bill of Rights. From the very beginning, administration attorneys have set about to dismantle the basic protections which limit presidential power. This has resulted in a long list of systematic violations to international law including secret detentions, disappearances, torture, humiliating treatment, indefinite detention without charge, and criminal rendition. All of these activiti! es are transparently illegal and beyond any conventional sense of human decency. The pattern is unmistakable; the administration is contemptuous of our laws and will not respect any restrictions on the power of the executive. All of this is preparation for the New World Order and the end of American democracy. The far-right fanatics in the administration correctly focussed on habeas corpus as the cornerstone of the American judicial system. If the president has the statutory authority to incarcerate citizens or non-citizens without filing charges the rest of the Bill of Rights is irrelevant…
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Ba’ath Party issued a statement warning of any negotiation with the occupation
Roads to Iraq
Al-Hayat published today a new statement by Iraqi Ba’ath Party: The recent period witnessed a tendentious suspicious campaign inside and outside Iraq by distributing statements on behalf of the resistance, the [Ba’ath] party or on behalf of organizations claim to represent officers and former officials, claims rescue Iraq by collaborating with the United Nations, the Arab League or the American administration. This! campaign and those who behind it are acting under the command of the U.S. intelligence or Arab intelligence services, to exploit the credulity of some persons and setting confusion among the resistance attempting to penetrate the party’s fighters to service the American administration agenda, who are facing a clear defeat “. The Ba’ath Party reaffirms its basic elements and fundamentals are those represented by the strategic platform declared in September (September) 2003, which states unequivocally that the one who will decide the fate of Iraq is not the Arab League, the United Nations or the American administration, not any organization or group, except Iraqi armed resistance and its various armed groups…
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Secrets of the U.S.-Shiite Alliance
Robert Dreyfuss
The wrongheadedness of the Bush administration’s current posture on Iraqi politics — throwing its hands up and muttering about the Sunni-Shiite conflict — is that the United States, since March 2003, has clearly sided (and heavily so) with the Shiite side. That would be the death-squad-sponsoring, Sharia-imposing, militia-harboring, Iran-sympathizing Shiites. And now, more than three years later, Ambassador Khalilzad is shocked, shocked to find that the Shiite! s have militias? (…) If the Shiite militias are carrying out massacres, it’s the Bush’s administration’s responsibility…
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The end of the rule of law
Joseph Cannon, Cannonfire
…I posit that the administration knows what it is doing. They understand full well that torture breeds radicals. I believe that the Cheney administration wants these radicalized Muslims released back into the civilian population. An increased number of Islamic extremists means increased power for the neoconservatives. Cheney and Bush need terrorism the way Dracula needs blood. The administration hopes to provoke a world war which will leave America in ! charge of the oil fields…
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38 Days and a Dear George Letter
Smoking Mirrors
…The real purpose of this letter George is to let you know that I’m not afraid of you and that I speak for a whole lot of people that can’t speak for themselves. I speak for the people that are too dead and too afraid to speak. I speak for those trapped into silence by the presence of jobs and families and the ordinary fear of the mortal state. I speak like V in Vendetta and the sounds that howl in the atmosphere from outrage over what you have said and done. I’m! not St. George but, then again, you’re no real dragon either. You’re a punk in an expensive suit. You’re an inarticulate mouth breather; a fool and an embarrassment and a murdering thug hiding behind an army of your betters…
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DAILY WAR NEWS FOR SATURDAY, September 30, 2006
Today in Iraq
Baghdad authorities banned all pedestrian and road traffic from the city. Civilian flights to and from Baghdad airport were halted during the curfew, which was due to last until 6:00 am (0200GMT) on Sunday, officials said Saturday. Occasional cars with security clearance could be seen moving cautiously through deserted streets, while a column of US army Stryker armoured vehicles rolled over a bridge across the Tigris into the downtown Risafa district. ! Although no explanation was given for the curfew, residents of the Adamiya neighbourhood in the north of the capital said they heard gunfire and explosions near dusk on Friday. Police reported heavy fighting through the night in the southern flashpoint neighbourhood of Dura where Turki Abdel Jabbar al-Taif, one of the leaders of the powerful Sunni Marsumi tribe, was shot dead on Saturday. Baghdad police found six corpses today in the eastern section of the capital…
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TERRORISTS OR FREEDOM FIGHTERS ?
Allen L Roland
The Iraqi Resistance fighters are freedom fighters to their fellow occupied Iraqi’s and their numbers are growing every day . New poll results released this week show that six out of ten Iraqis approve of attacks on US-led forces, that 79 percent of Iraqis say that the U.S. is having a negative influence on the situation in Iraq, with just 14 percent saying that it is having a positive influence. Fifty-three percent said setting a timeline for withdrawal “would stre! ngthen the government,” while just 24 percent said it would weaken the government…
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White House on a Rampage Against the Constitution
Torturer-in-Chief
RALPH NADER
The messianic, authoritarian George W. Bush and the minds of his cohorts have further collapsed the rule of law with his bulldozing through a divided Congress more dictatorial powers in his increasingly self-defined, self-serving and failing “war on terror.” (…) Bush has concentrated so much arbitrary power in his Presidency that he can be described in the vernacular as the torturer-in-chief, the jailer-in-chief and the a! rrestor-in-chief. Who needs the courts? Who needs the constitutional rights to habeas corpus for defendants to be able to argue that they were wrongfully arrested or capriciously imprisoned indefinitely without being charged?…
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Iran Freedom Support Act passes House…again
Ben Frank
With scant media attention yesterday, the House of Representatives has again passed the Iran Freedom Support Act even as over 100 Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Leaders united to urge Congress to assert its oversight function to prevent a preemptive attack on Iran citing five causes for concern… 1) If passed, the Iran Freedom Support Act would add sanctions that could scuttle efforts for diplomacy in Iran. 2) The administration is using Mujahedeen-e Khalq (ME! K), an Iranian terrorist organization on the State Department’s List of terror groups, to destabilize the southern region of Iran. 3) The administration is repeating the same tactic to justify a military strike against Iran as it used against Iraq…
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 30 September 2006.
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice
…In a dispatch posted at 9:36pm Makkah time Saturday night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that at that hour violent fighting was under way around the US intelligence headquarters in the city of Tikrit, about 180km north of Baghdad. The Tikrit correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported the Resistance was apparently trying to storm into the headquarters wh! ich is heavily fortified behind concrete barricades in the middle of the city. The Resistance launched its attack with a barrage or mortar shells and Katyusha rockets on the headquarters. Eyewitnesses said that the fighting was so fierce that worshippers in the mosques of the city cut short their nighttime Ramadan prayers…
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Now, We’re On the Record as a Torturing Nation
Mommy, What’s Waterboarding?
DAVID SWANSON
Remember the great harm done to the moral core of our nation when, according to the excited news reports following Kenneth Starr’s great work in life, children were asking their parents what oral sex was? Neither do I. But children can now ask their parents what torture is, how waterboarding works, and when exactly torture is a good thing. “Mommy, we’re going to play enemy combatant. Can I have some pliers to pull! out Geoffrey’s fingernails?” Can I just say, to the Representatives and Senators who just voted to overturn (or allow George Bush to “interpret”) the Geneva Conventions and half the Bill of Rights and I say this as mildly as I know how WAKE THE HELL UPYOU COMPLICIT FASCIST MORONS; BUSH HAS CAMPS PLANNED FOR SOME OF YOU, AND DANTE HAS A CIRCLE RESERVED FOR THE REST. Oh, and one more thing: oral sex feels GOOD. Torture HURTS LIKE HELL. Got it? The world needs more sex, less sadism. What exactly are you unclear on?..
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Bring out the nails
Anwaar Hussain, Fountainhead
Bring out the nails to be hammered into the coffin of the fast approaching death of the dream of American Empire which has started to wane badly in its staging outposts of Afghanistan and Iraq. Bring out the nails. Bring out the nails because in Afghanistan, the first Neo-colony of the American Neo-Conservatives, the Taliban are on the rise a la the fabled phoenix rising from the ashes and where they once again control most parts of southern Afghanistan openly set! ting up shadow administrations there and where the coalition forces are getting a beating of their lives from the rag tag Taliban and where the whining and griping among the coalition forces over their looming defeat is increasing with each passing day and where on the Pakistani side too, the supremo General Musharraf has beaten a hasty retreat from the bordering Waziristan rather than trying to reinforce failure. Bring out the nails…
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White House on a Rampage Against the Constitution
Torturer-in-Chief
RALPH NADER
The messianic, authoritarian George W. Bush and the minds of his cohorts have further collapsed the rule of law with his bulldozing through a divided Congress more dictatorial powers in his increasingly self-defined, self-serving and failing “war on terror.” (…) Bush has concentrated so much arbitrary power in his Presidency that he can be described in the vernacular as the torturer-in-chief, the jailer-in-chief and the a! rrestor-in-chief. Who needs the courts? Who needs the constitutional rights to habeas corpus for defendants to be able to argue that they were wrongfully arrested or capriciously imprisoned indefinitely without being charged?…
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Liquid Bombing Ruse Does Not Make the Papers
Kurt Nimmo
Happening upon retired Lieutenant-Colonel Nigel Wylde’s debunking of the August liquid-bomb Brothers Grimm story, posted on the Raw Story site, it immediately becomes obvious why the corporate media did not pick up the story. Wylde, a former senior British Army Intelligence Officer, knows what he is talking about, as he was awarded the Queen’s Gallantry Medal for his command of the Belfast Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit in 1974…
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Depleted Uranium – Far Worse Than 9/11
Doug Westerman
In 1979, depleted uranium (DU) particles escaped from the National Lead Industries factory near Albany, N.Y.,which was manufacturing DU weapons for the U.S military. The particles traveled 26 miles and were discovered in a laboratory filter by Dr. Leonard Dietz, a nuclear physicist. This discovery led to a shut down of the factory in 1980, for releasing morethan 0.85 pounds of DU dust into the atmosphere every month, and involved a cleanup of contaminated prop! erties costing over 100 million dollars. Imagine a far worse scenario. Terrorists acquire a million pounds of the deadly dust and scatter it in populated areas throughout the U.S. Hundreds of children report symptoms. Many acquire cancer and leukemia, suffering an early and painful death. Huge increases in severe birth defects are reported. Oncologists are overwhelmed. Soccer fields, sand lots and parks, traditional play areas for kids, are no longer safe. People lose their most basic freedom, the ability to go outside and safely breathe. Sounds worse than 9/11? Welcome to Iraq and Afghanistan…
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Habeas Corpus Murdered, Few Notice
Kurt Nimmo
Now that Congress, at the behest of Bush’s Schmittian fascist puppetmasters, has nullified habeas corpus, a legal tradition going back to the 12th century, we can concentrate on more important subjects, for instance “space tourist” Anousheh Ansari, who “offers uncommon insight into life on the International Space Station,” in particular “the hazards of washing hair in zero gravity,” according to the Australian. On the Google News page this morning, mention of the Deta! inee bill is nowhere to be found, whereas “Anna Nicole Smith’s exchange of vows with her lawyer Howard K. Stern on a boat near Nassau” is all the rage, as the Boston Globe would have it…
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NATO’s Inferno
William Bowles
Poor old Dante Alighieri, were he around today, I am sure he would find it difficult to find the words to describe the evils visited by so-called civilised nations on the defenceless of the planet, assuming that is, he was fully informed of what is going on. I know I shouldn’t be surprised but nevertheless I am. Surprised firstly that I live in a barbaric culture that has been able to masquerade as civilised and secondly, that it has been able to persuade the world that it possesses ! civilised credentials in the first place. And thirdly, that it has been able to carry off this illusion for well on five hundred years…
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DAILY WAR NEWS FOR FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2006
Today in Iraq
…Iraqi soldiers found nine bodies inside a booby- trapped vehicle in the western Mansour district of Baghdad on Tuesday, the U.S. military said in a statement. The corpses of seven men and one woman were all found in east Baghdad neighborhoods. They were blindfolded, and had their hands and legs bound, police said. Unknown gunmen killed on Thursday two relatives of Al-Anfal trial’s Judge Mohammad Al-Oraibi, said an Iraqi security source. The Iraqi mil! itary said it had launched a major security operation in Baquba, capital of the volatile ethnically- and religiously-mixed Diyala province northeast of the capital…
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Israel uses ‘smart’ bombs – but stupid maps
The Truth Will Set You Free
Israel used a precision-guided bomb to launch a direct hit on four U.N. peacekeepers killed in southern Lebanon last July, the United Nations said on Friday of its probe into the incident. But, as usual, Israel came up with a pitiful excuse for slaughtering the peacekeepers in cold blood. They don’t deny that they used precision bombs – NO – instead they want us to believe that they used the wrong map! BUT they WILL NOT let the UN inte! rview the men responsible for delivering the so-called ‘wrong map’ to the bombers. Surprised? TOUGH! You’ll just have to take Israel’s word for it…
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Over 800 attacks every week in Iraq
Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian
The Bush administration has misled the American people about the level of violence in Iraq, where there is an attack by insurgent forces every 15 minutes, Bob Woodward, the investigative journalist, said yesterday. In a new book, State of Denial, Woodward argues that the White House disregarded warnings from advisers in the autumn of 2003 that it needed thousands more troops to put down the insurgency. He says the administration continues to den! y the gravity of the situation in Iraq because of Mr Bush’s conviction that it was right to go to war…
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