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America must destroy the Wall of Fear and Isolation
Ibrahim Ebeid *
…A friend of mine who was a scientist in Iraq had to flee her country a month ago with her husband and two children. She told me “the Baghdad you know does not exist. Wherever you look there are destruction and concrete piles. We were afraid to go out or drive around; women have to cover their heads and are not allowed to continue their education. At present, very few go to higher education. The sectarian government is against any one who i! s educated and they are assassinating scientists whenever and wherever they find them. Shahristany was my boss in the seventies. When it was discovered that he was an agent to Iran and to the CIA he was arrested, then in 1991 he ran away to Iran and took with him all the names of the scientists and employees in the department he was part of. After the occupation he came back to Iraq and now he is the Minister of Petroleum. This sectarian man gave all the names of the scientists to the sectarian militias and they started killing the scientists, some times three or four a day. They do not distinguish between a Sunni or a Shia, to them an educated Shia is more of a target than a Sunni. Before the Occupation we never experienced the difference between Shia and Sunni, we felt like were all one family, and religion never played a role in discrimination (…) Then I asked her about the Resistance, she said, “the Resistance is very strong and it is gaining more strength, the peo! ple are behind it and it is our hope.” Then she added “! the Iraq i people are missing the golden days when Saddam was in power.” (The Scientist happens to be a Shia.)
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More “Culture Wars” Gibberish from nutcase David Brooks
Mike Whitney
Most of us know David Brooks as the balding goofball on “The Jim Lehrer News Hour” who shrugs his shoulders and giggles gleefully whenever he’s asked a question. He’s actually a political pundit whose far-right analysis of culture and politics appears regularly on the op-ed page of the New York Times. Like fellow-traveler Tom Friedman, Brooks loves to offer his sage-advice to Muslims about how they can improve themselves in the eyes of westerner! s and, thus, limit the relentless bombing and massacres brought on by a belligerent American foreign policy. Last week’s article “The Grand Delusion” is typical Brooks’ paternalistic claptrap. He sets out to scold those ‘backwards’ Arabs while discrediting the findings of the recently released National Intelligence Estimate (NIE)…
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the mind-boggling Truth about Iraq’s money pit
The Truth Will Set You Free
Nothing I could say can adequately prepare you for the mind-boggling fate of billions upon billions of Iraqi dollars under US supervision. “American law was suspended. Iraqi law was suspended. And Iraq basically became a Free-Fraud Zone. In a Free-Fire Zone you can shoot at anybody you want. In a Free-Fraud Zone you can steal anything you like.” * * * “As trustees of the Iraq assets, we did a very poor job. I thin! k it was a failure. After all, it was their money. We should have spent it on the Iraqi people rather than sucking out of them and putting into the pockets of foreign businesses.” * * *”And today, all across Iraq ordinary people are paying the price of that failure.” This is not just ‘water under the bridge’ as one US official in the clip would have us believe. Even the word ‘failure’ does not adequately describe it. This is perhaps the greatest war-time swindle in history – a testament to just how criminal our government has become…
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 1 October 2006
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice
…The patriotic Iraqi news website alBasrah.net reported Sunday that Iraqi tribes that live in al-Anbar province in the area of ar-Ramadi and al-Fallujah had announced that they had convened a meeting and resolved to expel four tribal leaders who met with the US-installed puppet “Prime Minister” Nuri al-Maliki and representatives of the US occupation forces an! d made agreements with them to help them against Iraqi Resistance fighters. The tribal statement as quoted by alBasrah.net reported that members of the tribes held a meeting on Saturday, 30 September, in the home of one of the shaykhs of the al-Mahamidah tribe, whose area of activity stretches from al-Fallujah to ar-Ramadi and one of whose members, Shaykh ‘Umar Hadid, is a commander in the Iraqi Resistance. The tribal meeting followed the evening meal and was attended by more than 20 major tribal personalities from al-Anbar…
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Video the Truth about Israel – if you can handle it
The Truth Will Set You Free
This is the UGLY truth about Israel and what WE support with our tax dollars – if you can handle it. WARNING – EXTREMELY GRAPHIC SCENES – NOT for the faint-hearted. Don’t believe the whiners for war crimes that crawl out of the wood-work each time there’s a serious debate about Israel’s atrocious political and military policies. See for yourself what it’s all about…
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Missing Link Atta “Martyrdom” Video Appears Five Weeks Before Election
Kurt Nimmo
Suddenly, with the midterm election five weeks away, a previously undiscovered video emerges, showing Mohammed Atta “reading his ‘martyrdom’ will inside Afghanistan at Usama bin Laden’s headquarters.” In another segment, Atta appears with Ziad Jarrah, who, according to the official nine eleven fairy tale, was the pilot of “United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania after the passengers apparently stormed the flight dec! k,” according to Fox News. As an extra added bonus, the tape shows Ramzi Binalshibh, the “senior” al-Qaeda leader and Hamburg cell member, supposedly captured after a gunbattle in Karachi, Pakistan, on September 11, 2002, and handed over to the United States…
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SIXTH ANNIVERSARY OF AL-AQSA MOSQUE INTIFADA PASSES STILL UNRESOLVED
Stephen Lendman
September 28 marked the sixth anniversary of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s provocative visit to the al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem (the Noble Sanctuary for Muslims and Temple Mount for Jews and Christians) that caused the eruption of the al-Aqsa Intifada still raging today with Palestinians on the painful receiving end of most of it. From that time till now, the Israeli Defenses Forces (IDF) committed un! ending and egregious war crimes and breaches of international law against defenseless Palestinian civilians in Gaza and the West Bank. Instead of abating, the assaults have intensified over the past year. They especially escalated dramatically after the June 25 incident at an Israeli military post near Kerem Shalom crossing, southeast of Rafah, resulting in the killing of two IDF soldiers, injuring several others and capturing a third still held. The clash followed a series of bloody June Israeli attacks on Gaza including the widely reported beach shelling that killed eight Palestinians and injured 32 others including 13 children…
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Murdering Children – Israel’s Domestic Policy
Joe Quinn, Signs of the Times
In the past 8 weeks alone, the Zionist government of Israel and it’s military aparatus have murdered 228 Palestinians, 37 of them children. Almost all of these children’s names have been completely excluded from Western media reports, while at the same time, almost everyone knows the name of the single Israeli soldier whose capture ( allegedly by Palestinian militants) in June was used by the Israeli government to attack Lebanon and murde! r 1300 civilians. The death of any child is a tradegy beyond compare, yet when we are faced with the deliberate mass murder of children by members of the Israeli military, under orders from their political leaders, and with the full conscious support (both military and political) of the Bush and Blair administrations, a feeling of anger accompanies the grief…
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Education or mind infection?
Sabbah’s blog
If you do not read anything else today, read the speech by Nurit, an Israeli women who lost her daughter to a Palestinian suicide bombing. I came to know that all in the audience, Christians, Muslims, and Jews literally cried. Read it and judge for yourself. I would like to dedicate these words to all the Palestinian boys and girls, and to all the Lebanese boys and girls, and to all the Iraqi boys and girls who have been massacred by mind-infected Israeli and Amer! ican soldier boys, and who have recently joined my own little girl in the underground kingdom of dead children, which is growing under our feet as I speak…
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USA allies with Abbas to topple Palestinian legitimacy
Palestinian Pundit
Signals of a possible American intervention to topple the legitimate PA elected government were mounting, and were preceded by the ongoing security mess in the Palestinian territories that was carried out by security forces loyal to PA chief Mahmoud Abbas. According to reports, the USA decided to intensively intervene with full force to derail the Palestinian democracy and topple the PA elected government in alliance with Abbas, and to stre! ngthen his position through “innovative” means…
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Afghan injury toll ‘three times worse than MoD admits’
Gethin Chamberlain
Three times as many British soldiers have been wounded in action in Afghanistan as the Government has admitted, a report has concluded. Defence chiefs claim it is “too difficult” to keep a record of every soldier injured fighting the Taliban, resulting in troops returning to the front after being patched up by medics and then left off official lists. According to the Ministry of Defence (MoD), only 41 soldiers have been wounded in action in! Afghanistan since the start of the year, despite British forces being involved in what has been described as the worst fighting since the Korean War. But a study submitted to the MoD by the vice-president of the Royal Statistical Society has concluded that the true scale of casualties has been dramatically under-reported…
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King George Bush and the Tortured Truth
Captain Eric H. May
Polls show that six out of ten U.S. citizens disapprove of George W. Bush, who has had one of the worst weeks in his six-year reign. Monday the National Intelligence Report — the consensus of his intelligence agencies’ opinions — made it clear that his war in Iraq is a failure, which has created rather than conquered enemies in the Middle East. Tuesday the Associated Press released a poll pointing out that most Iraqi citizens are in favor of insurgen! t attacks against U.S. occupation forces, while three out of four want those forces out of their country ASAP. Thursday Bob Woodard of the Washington Post, a former fan of the White House war, published his third book on the “war president,” State of Denial, and made up for all his previous sycophancy with a hard-hitting description of an administration in turmoil, without clear goals, barely propped up by a well-known Rovean notion: When in doubt, lie!
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Falsely Arrested and Abused in Ramadi – 09.28.2006
Alive in Baghdad
The man interviewed this week, Majed, shows his scars and discusses his recent detention and abuse at the hands of Iraqi security forces in Ramadi. Despite the overwhelming impression that the assault in Ramadi, ongoing since June, is under control, there is another side to the story. Far from being an Al Qa’eda dead ender, men like Majed are the typical residents of Ramadi. Although they are anti-occupation, they have not yet res! orted to violence in large numbers…
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GI Special 4J1: Interview With The Resistance – October 1, 2006
Thomas F. Barton
The Resistance: “Now We Gather In Broad Daylight. The People Know We Are Returning To Power”.
Not long ago, the Bush administration was fond of pointing to Afghanistan as a model of transformation.
But the harsh truth is that five years after the U.S. invasion on Oct. 7, 2001, most of the good news is confined to Kabul, with its choking rush-hour traffic jams, a construction boom and a handful of air-conditioned shopping malls.
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The March to War: Naval build-up in the Persian Gulf and the Eastern Mediterranean.
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, GlobalResearch.ca
We bring to the attention of our readers this carefully documented review of the ongoing naval build-up and deployment of coalition forces in the Middle East. Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya’s study provides a detailed overview. His article examines the geopolitics behind this military deployment and its relationship to “the Battle for Oil”. The structure of military alliances, which is crucial! to an understanding of these war preparations, is also analyzed. The naval deployment is taking place in two distinct theaters: the Persian Gulf and the Eastern Mediterranean. Both Israel and NATO are slated to play a major role in the US-led war. The militarization of the Eastern Mediterranean is broadly under the jurisdiction of NATO in liaison with Israel…
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Kuwait’s MP accuses US of polluting Persian Gulf waters
IRNA
A Kuwait’s member of Parliament accused US Army of polluting Persian Gulf ecosystem and aquacreatures, including fish, by nuclear radiations. Abdullah Akash said in an interview that US and its Army have poisoned fish in the Persian Gulf by nuclear radiations. Kuwait’s media and press in the last few days have released of illness of some of the Kuwaiti nationals after eating fishes caught from the coastal waters of the littoral states…
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Sadr Political Bloc Calls for Overhaul of Iraqi Cabinet
Amit R. Paley and K.I. Ibrahim, Washington Post Staff Writers
The political bloc of anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr demanded a shake-up of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s cabinet on Sunday, the latest challenge to the country’s increasingly beleaguered unity government. “Some of those who are in this government have direct or indirect relationships with terrorists,” said Bahaa al-Araji, a senior legislator with Sadr’s Shiite Muslim party. “The democrac! y that the occupation brought to Iraq is being exploited by the Sunni insurgents and the terrorists to kill our sons and our men.”…
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Soldiers Earn Court Victory In Battle To Prove Exposure Disability
Dean Meminger
Soldiers from the New York area are reacting to news that they can sue their own military for what they say is mistreatment of medical conditions they continue to suffer after serving time in Iraq. NY1'S Dean Meminger filed the following report. Iraq war veteran Hector Vega says he still gets headaches and lumps on his hands and neck. Why? He says it is because of high levels of depleted uranium or DU in his body. He says he breathed! in the radioactive substance in Iraq. But he says for the last three years military doctors have told him something different…
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DAILY WAR NEWS FOR SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2006
Today in Iraq
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Pfc. Christopher T. Blaney, 19, of Winter Park, Fla., died in Taji, Iraq, from a non-combat related incident on Sept. 29. Blaney was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.The incident is under investigation (…)
Scant new details on arrest in alleged Green Zone plot, except that indications are the city-wide lockdown was related to the plot, and was done at the behest of the U.S. military…
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Ex-CIA analyst- Iraq war a ‘crime’
RUDI KELLER ~ Southeast Missourian
Ray McGovern spoke to about 200 people at the Osage Community Centre in Cape Girardeau. The Iraq war is a “supreme international crime” and America will either leave voluntarily soon or be driven out by escalating violence in a debacle that will rival Vietnam, a former top analyst with the CIA said Saturday. In a speech lasting more than 90 minutes, Ray McGovern, who retired after 27 years with the spy agency, suggested that impeachment of Pres! ident George Bush should be considered and that the latest legislation on fighting terrorism is shredding constitutional rights…
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Jesus Camp
Imad Khadduri, Free Iraq
“The children at the Kids on Fire summer camp are intent as they pray over a cardboard cutout of President George Bush. They raise their hands in the air and sway, eyes closed, as they join the chant for “righteous judges”. Tears stream down their faces as they are told that they are “phonies” and “hypocrites” and must wash their hands in bottled water to drive out the devil. The documentary film Jesus Camp follows three children at the Kids on Fire Pentecostal summer camp in t! he small city of Devil’s Lake, North Dakota…
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