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Baghdad now forced to ‘export’ bodies
Jihad Karbalai, Agence France Presse
…Islamic custom dictates that a body should be buried within 24 hours of its death, but with sectarian death squads and suicide bombers roaming the streets of Baghdad, the city’s mortuaries are overflowing with unclaimed corpses. The city’s health authorities have come up with the best solution they can think of in these dark days. Each body is photographed with a digital camera, and assigned a number in a computer database. Then, it is ! loaded in one of the refrigerated vans and taken to one of the Shiite holy cities for burial. Once upon a time, all bodies just went to the massive graveyard of Najaf, but authorities there could not cope with the constant stream of corpses and now overflow cemeteries have been established in Karbala. Here, the bodies are assigned to numbered graves (…) Many families never find loved ones, and some Sunni relatives would fear to travel to Shiite Karbala amidst the communal bloodletting, but those who match a face to a grave can at least pay last respects…
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Rumsfeld’s Toads
billmon
I don’t want to go all Godwin here, but these two really do sound like a couple of Hitler’s military flunkies talking about their beloved Fuhrer: The top US general defended the leadership of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, saying it is inspired by God. “He leads in a way that the good Lord tells him is best for our country,” said Marine General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.(…) On the other hand, I doubt any of the real military professionals on the Germ! an general staff — not even the hardcore Nazi sycophants like Krebs or Jodl — would have uttered such revolting rubbish in public. They would have been too embarrassed by the stony silence of their brother officers. There are really only three plausible explanations for Pace’s and Stavridis’s outrageous displays of toadyism: * They felt they had to kiss Rumsfeld’s ass in public to keep their jobs. * Rumsfeld ordered them to kiss his ass in public. * They sincerely believed their own lickspittle praise. I don’t know which one is worse…
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Some ThingsWilliam Blum’s Anti-Empire Report October 19, 2006
You Need To Know Before The World Ends
William Blum
…The cartoon awfulness of the Bush crime syndicate’s foreign policy is enough to make Americans nostalgic for almost anything that came before. And as Bill Clinton parades around the country and the world associating himself with “good” causes, it’s enough to evoke yearnings in many people on the left who should know better. So here’s a little reminder of what Clinton’s foreign policy was! composed of. Hold on to it in case Lady Macbeth runs in 2008 and tries to capitalize on lover boy’s record (…) Iraq: Eight more years of the economic sanctions which Clinton’s National Security Advisor, Sandy Berger, called “the most pervasive sanctions ever imposed on a nation in the history of mankind”,absolutely devastating every aspect of the lives of the Iraqi people, particularly their health; truly a weapon of mass destruction.
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Forced labor for Palestinian children in Israeli prison
Sabbah’s blog
Many Palestinian children in Israeli Telmond Prison are being exploited by “forced labor in which they must work eight hours for a few shekels,” as reported by the Prisoners Information Center. One of the children made a statement after his release. “The prison administration has forced all prisoners in Telmond Prison to work eight hours for very low wages.” He went on to say, “The Israeli soldiers come to the chambers at seven and force us to ! go with our legs tied with chains.” The child added that his job was to stand under guard and pack plastic spoons in boxes…
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Purported Baath Party insurgent says Americans looking for “face-saving” way out of Iraq
The Associated Press
Iraq A man claiming to be a member of Saddam Hussein’s outlawed Baath Party told a television interviewer the United States was seeking a face-saving exodus from Iraq and that insurgents were ready to negotiate but won’t lay down arms. The interview with “Abu Mohammed”, a pseudonym, was taped several days ago in Beirut, Lebanon, according to Ghassan Ben Jeddou, the network’s bureau chief in the Lebanese c! apital (…) “The occupier has started to search for a face-saving way out. The resistance, with all its factions, is determined to continue fighting until the enemy is brought down to his knees and sits on the negotiating table or is dealt, with God’s help, a humiliating defeat.”…
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Iraq interior minister praises militia head after calm in clashes
AFP
Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani has visited radical Shiite cleric and militia leader Moqtada al-Sadr in the wake of serious clashes between militias and his police forces. “There were some regrettable events and now the situation has changed and is under control,” he told journalists in the Shiite shrine city of Najaf after his meeting with Sadr on Saturday. “There are legal measures and others to be taken after investigations, besides the in! vestigations of the ministerial committee,” he added…
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The David Kelly “Dead in the Woods” PSYOP
Rowena Thursby, Globalresearch.ca
British diplomat David Broucher describes to the Hutton Inquiry a meeting he had with David Kelly in February 2003. An audible gasp goes up when he recalls how the government scientist apparently predicted his own suicide. But evidence subsequently unearthed by Kelly’s daughter, shows their one and only meeting actually took place in February 2002 – a whole year earlier. It would have made perfect sense in February 2003 for them to have d! iscussed Resolution 1441, the September dossier and ‘the 45 minutes’ as Broucher claims; but wind back the clock to February 2002 and what do we find? None of them were in existence. Was the whole Broucher-Kelly conversation a fabrication? Had this civil servant been sent to help contrive one of the biggest cover-ups in British history?…
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Amara Fighting Threatens Stability of South
Juan Cole, Informed Comment
…Muqtada al-Sadr, the young spiritual leader of the Sadr Movement and the Mahdi Army, demanded that his men stop fighting and said that he washed his hands of anyone who disobeyed his orders, according to Aljazeera. Ahmad al-Sharifi, a Sadrist leader, told al-Zaman that the fighting in Amara is one of the consequences of the law on provincial confederacies passed last week by the Iraqi parliament, to which the Sadr Movement was opposed. Al-! Zaman’s contacts in the Iraqi intelligence establishment warned that the clashes in Amara could spread to the cities of Basra and Nasiriyah. He said that the Mahdi Army and the Badr Corps in those two cities had announced their mutual dislike of one another, and that they had begun recruiting further militiamen to replenish their ranks. These sources said that the transportation and communications lines between Baghdad and the south had been cut, leaving the capital isolated from the south. The main highway leading south out Baghdad had been blocked. They said that Basra is witnessing an unprecedented wave of weapons smuggling across the border from Iran. ..
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After Pat’s Birthday
Kevin Tillman, Truthdig
It is Pat’s birthday on November 6, and elections are the day after. It gets me thinking about a conversation I had with Pat before we joined the military. He spoke about the risks with signing the papers. How once we committed, we were at the mercy of the American leadership and the American people. How we could be thrown in a direction not of our volition. How fighting as a soldier would leave us without a voice… until we got out. Much has happened since we han! ded over our voice: Somehow we were sent to invade a nation because it was a direct threat to the American people, or to the world, or harbored terrorists, or was involved in the September 11 attacks, or received weapons-grade uranium from Niger, or had mobile weapons labs, or WMD, or had a need to be liberated, or we needed to establish a democracy, or stop an insurgency, or stop a civil war we created that can’t be called a civil war even though it is. Something like that. Somehow our elected leaders were subverting international law and humanity by setting up secret prisons around the world, secretly kidnapping people, secretly holding them indefinitely, secretly not charging them with anything, secretly torturing them…
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GI Special 4J20: DEFEAT – October 20, 2006
Thomas F. Barton
U.S. Command Announces Battle Of Baghdad Lost [And Iraq War].
When the occupation command started this, they boasted that this was the “Battle Of Baghdad,” and if Baghdad couldn’t be “taken back,” the war was lost. And now, for the results.]
“Senior officers have spoken of the campaign in “make or break” terms, saying that there would be little hope of prevailing in the wider war if the bid to retake Baghdad’s streets failed.”
Although American commanders have struck a generally sober tone in the past year, they have been careful not to hint in public at the increasingly gloomy view that some, at least, have taken in private.
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Bush’s absolute power grab
Carla Binion, Online Journal Associate Editor
On October 17, George W. Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006. This new law gives Bush power similar to that of Stalin or Hitler, and grants agencies within the executive branch powers similar to those of the KGB or Gestapo. Bush justifies this act by claiming he needs it to fight the “war on terror,” but a number of critics, including former counterterrorism officials, have said the administration has greatly exaggerate! d the threat and used illogical methods to combat terrorism…
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DAILY WAR NEWS FOR FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2006
Today in Iraq
The Shiite militia run by anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr seized total control of the southern Iraqi city of Amarah on Friday in one of the boldest acts of defiance yet by one of the country’s powerful, unofficial armies, witnesses and police said (…) Nine people were killed by mortars in the Shi’ite city of Balad and militias attacked two Sunni villages nearby, police said on Friday, in a new round of sectarian attacks in an area where dozens were ! killed this week. Police said at least 15 mortars hit Balad on Thursday and shortly afterwards gunmen wearing the black outfits associated with local Shi’ite militias attacked two Sunni villages…
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 20 October 2006
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice
In a dispatch posted at 11:22pm Makkah time Friday night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that at the time of reporting fierce fighting ws underway between Iraqi Resistance men and US occupation troops in the “12 Rabi’ ath-Thani” district of the city of al-Qa’im in western Iraq near the Syrian border. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported local eyewitnes! ses as saying that one US vehicle had been destroyed in the fighting and a second disabled…
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They must go, and soon
Haifa Zangana
…Politically, Maliki’s government is totally isolated from the people and unable to provide what any government should: security, basic services, and dignity to people in their daily lives. With no real power, it is consumed from inside, like an old wooden ship eaten by termites, by sectarian, ethnic division, but above all by corruption, militias and death squads. Maliki was so shaken by the news of an imminent US change in strategy that Bush had to call him to reassure him! there was no American deadline for the Iraqi government to stand on its own. Corruption is endemic among Iraqi officials and the US administration alike. Billions of dollars have been lost or redirected to “security”. Judge Radhi Al-Radhi, head of the Commission on Public Integrity, which is tackling corruption, said around $4.5 billion has “disappeared”. Meanwhile, occupation forces, militias, security forces, mercenaries and contractors enjoy immunity from Iraqi law. Indeed, whereas once Iraqi law was the protector of the Iraqi citizen, it is now toothless to ensure Iraqi civil rights. No wonder that support for the popular national resistance is increasing with most Iraqis celebrating the success of attacks on occupation forces…
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Iraq Aims to Limit Mortality Data
Health Ministry Told Not to Release Civilian Death Toll to U.N.
Colum Lynch, Washington Post Staff Writer
raqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s office has instructed the country’s health ministry to stop providing mortality figures to the United Nations, jeopardizing a key source of information on the number of civilian war dead in Iraq, according to a U.N. document. A confidential cable from the United Nations’ top official in Baghdad, Ashraf Jehangir Qazi of Pakista! n, said the Iraqi prime minister is seeking to exercise greater control over the release of the country’s politically sensitive death toll. U.N. officials expressed concern that the move threatens to politicize the process of counting Iraq’s dead and muddy international efforts to gain a clear snapshot of the scale of killing in Iraq…
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Medics Beg For Help As Iraqis Die Needlessly
Jeremy Laurance, The Independent
The disintegration of Iraq’s health service is leaving its civilians defenceless in the continuing violence that is rocking the country, Iraqi doctors warn today. As many as half of the civilian deaths, calculated at 655,000 since the 2003 invasion, might have been avoided if proper medical care had been provided to the victims, they say. In separate appeals, the doctors beg for help to stem the soaring death rate and ease the suffering! of injured families and children. They say governments and the international medical community are ignoring their plight…
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Hospitals now a battleground in the bloody civil war
Patrick Cockburn, The Independent
Iraqi hospitals are dangerous places. Policemen and soldiers carry their wounded comrades into operating theatres and demand immediate treatment, forcing doctors at gunpoint to abandon operations on civilians before they are completed. The hospital system is not a haven from the war. The Health Ministry is controlled by the supporters of the nationalist cleric Muqtada al-Sadr who did well in the elections in December. Intellige! nce officers claim hospitals are now being used by al-Sadr’s Mehdi Army militia as its headquarters and hospital basements are used as prisons. Sunni Arabs are nervous of even going to the central Baghdad morgue to look for their dead because they fear they may be targeted by Shia gunmen. One Sunni who took his brother to the morgue was asked: “Do you know who killed him?” When he answered: “Yes” he was immediately shot dead. Many people with bullet wounds fear entering a hospital on the grounds that they will be accused of being an insurgent…
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The End of Maliki?
Tom Engelhardt & Robert Dreyfuss
In some ways, amid the internecine bloodletting, torture, spiking American casualties, death-dealing confusion, and general mayhem, here’s all you need to know about the Iraqi “government” of Nouri al-Maliki. When the Prime Minister wanted to check on whether he was going to hang onto his position, he didn’t go to parliament or to the Iraqi people, he checked in with the President of the United States. What he needed, it turned out, was George Bush’s vote of co! nfidence…
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A U.S. Fortress Rises in Baghdad:
Asian Workers Trafficked to Build World’s Largest Embassy
David Phinney, Special to CorpWatch
John Owen didn’t realize how different his job would be from his last 27 years in construction until he signed on with First Kuwaiti Trading & Contracting in November 2005. Working as general foreman, he would be overseeing an army of workers building the largest, most expensive and heavily fortified US embassy in the world. Scheduled to open in 2007, the sprawling complex near the T! igris River will equal Vatican City in size. Then seven months into the job, he quit. Not one of the five different US embassy sites he had worked on around the world compared to the mess he describes. Armenia, Bulgaria, Angola, Cameroon and Cambodia all had their share of dictators, violence and economic disruption, but the companies building the embassies were always fair and professional, he says. The Kuwait-based company building the $592-million Baghdad project is the exception. Brutal and inhumane, he says “I’ve never seen a project more fucked up. Every US labor law was broken.”…
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Millions Stolen From Iraq’s Treasury
CBS News
More than half a billion dollars earmarked to fight the insurgency in Iraq was stolen by people the U.S. had entrusted to run the country’s Ministry of Defense before the 2005 elections, according to Iraqi investigators. Iraq’s former minister of finance says coalition members like the U.S. and Britain are doing little to help recover the money or catch suspects, most of whom fled the country. The 60 Minutes investigation also turned up audio recordings of a suspect w! ho seems to be discussing the transfer of $45 million to the account of a top political adviser to the interim defense minister.
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Heck of a job, Maliki!
Sami Moubayed
…Death squads roam the streets, killing over 100 Iraqis per day. Under Maliki, the death toll has risen to over 3,000 Iraqis killed per month. On the anniversary of his 150th day in power, 50 people were killed in Mosul, Kirkuk and Baquba, and another 100 were wounded, while 33 unidentified bodies – all shot in the head, were found in Baghdad. Earlier in the week, 60 beheaded bodies were found (…) Under Maliki, according to a report in the London-based daily Al-Hayat, Iraq! i men are carving tattoos on their bodies, with their home address and telephone number. This is so that if they are killed, mutilated or beheaded, police would be able to identify their bodies and send them back to their families for burial…
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Over 35,000 Christians Have Fled Iraq
The Associated Press
More than 35,000 Iraqi Christians have fled to Syria to escape the violence in their country, the leader of an Iraqi Christian group said Thursday (…) “We want to live in safety. We don’t want to be killed. We love life,” said another Christian refugee, Saddallah Mardini, 43. Mardini said US forces should leave Iraq now. “The occupation has brought destruction to Iraq,” he said. His wife, Wissam, 25, complained of shortages of electricity and water in I! raq. “My kids go to school now (in Syria), which is something they were deprived of in Iraq,” she said…
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Iraq: Mortar attack targets Baghdad Palestinians
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
UNHCR has repeatedly expressed concern about the many threats faced by thousands of Palestinian refugees in Baghdad and along the borders with Syria and Jordan. Now we have been informed that a mortar attack last night in Baghdad’s Palestinian neighbourhood of Al Baladiya left four Palestinians dead, a dozen wounded and many people displaced. Some of the wounded are in serious condition. Ambulances trying to rea! ch the area right after the attack were reportedly turned away by armed militia. There had been previous warnings by militia that Palestinians should leave the neighbourhood. The Al Baladiya area used to house some 8,000 Palestinians. Reports by Palestinian sources now say that there are about 4,000 remaining there…
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First Time: Women Prison in Abu-Ghraib
Roads to Iraq
A first publish women prison section in Abu-Ghraib, women wear yellow uniform. Shamelessly imprisoned by the occupation forces…
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Top US general says Rumsfeld is inspired by God
AFP
The top US general defended the leadership of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, saying it is inspired by God. “He leads in a way that the good Lord tells him is best for our country,” said Marine General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Rumsfeld is “a man whose patriotism focus, energy, drive, is exceeded by no one else I know … quite simply, he works harder than anybody else in our building,” Pace said at a ceremony at the Southern Command ! (Southcom) in Miami…
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Three U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq
Xinhua
Three U.S. soldiers killed in separate incidents in Iraq during the past 48 hours, the U.S. military said in statements on Friday. A soldier assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division, died Wednesday of wounds sustained due to “enemy action” while operating in the western Anbar province, the military said in a statement, a copy of which was obtained by Xinhua. Also on Wednesday, another soldier, assigned to 16th Military Brigade, was killed when his vehicle was hit by ! an improvised explosive device in Balad, a city north of Baghdad, the military said in a separate statement…
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VIDEO: Cheney Still Lying About Iraq-Al Qaeda Link
Think Progress
Just last month, the Senate Intelligence Committee — chaired by Bush-ally Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) — concluded that there was absolutely no relationship between Saddam Hussein and the late al-Qaeda operative Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Nevertheless, in an interview with a South Bend, Indiana television station yesterday, Vice President Cheney falsely asserted that Zarqawi was proof of a connection between Iraq and al Qaeda. Cheney’s statement is a lie. He! re’s precisely what the Senate Intelligence Committee found: Saddam Hussein attempted, unsuccessfully, to locate and capture al-Zarqawi and…the regime did not have a relationship with, harbor, or turn a blind eye toward Zarqawi…
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Electricity Levels In Baghdad At Lowest Level Since U.S. Invasion
Think Progress
In Sept. 2003, President Bush promised that he would help Iraqis “restore basic services, such as electricity and water, and to build new schools, roads, and medical clinics. This effort is essential to the stability of those nations, and therefore, to our own security.” But three years later, electricity levels in Baghdad are at an all-time low. Residents of Baghdad are receiving just 2.4 hours of electricity this month, compared to! an average of 16-24 hours of electricity before the U.S. invasion. The lowest level prior to this month was 3.9 hours/day…
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We’ve lost battle for Baghdad, US admits
Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian
A day after George Bush conceded for the first time that America may have reached the equivalent of a Tet offensive in Iraq, the Pentagon yesterday admitted defeat in its strategy of securing Baghdad. The admission from President Bush that the US may have arrived at a turning point in this war – the Tet offensive led to a massive loss of confidence in the American presence in Vietnam – comes during one of the deadliest months for US forces ! since the invasion…
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Shiite militia briefly seizes Amarah
CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, Associated Press Writer
The Shiite militia run by the anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr briefly seized control of the southern Iraqi city of Amarah on Friday in one of the boldest acts of defiance yet by the country’s powerful, unofficial armies. The militiamen later withdrew from the streets after Iraqi soldiers and mediators arrived, lifting their siege of police headquarters under a temporary truce negotiated with an al-Sadr envoy. It was not clear wh! ether the cleric knew about his militia’s planned takeover in advance. British military spokesman Maj. Charlie Burbridge said 600 Iraqi army soldiers had retaken control of the city, but not before the 25 gunmen and police were killed in violence that began Thursday night (…) The events in Amarah — involving a dispute between the Mahdi Army and local security forces believed controlled by the rival Badr Brigade militia — highlight the threat of wider violence between rival Shiite factions, who have entrenched themselves among the majority Shiite population and are blamed for killings of rival Sunnis…
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Medics Beg For Help As Iraqis Die Needlessly
Jeremy Laurance, The Independent
The disintegration of Iraq’s health service is leaving its civilians defenceless in the continuing violence that is rocking the country, Iraqi doctors warn today. As many as half of the civilian deaths, calculated at 655,000 since the 2003 invasion, might have been avoided if proper medical care had been provided to the victims, they say. In separate appeals, the doctors beg for help to stem the soaring death rate and ease the suffering! of injured families and children. They say governments and the international medical community are ignoring their plight…
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Neocon Declares Iraq War Crimes a “Worthy Mistake”
Kurt Nimmo
It is simply amazing the rabid, psychopathic neocon, Jonah Goldberg, son of Lucianne Goldberg, Lewinsky scandal barker, is allowed to characterize the bloody politicide in Iraq as a “worthy mistake” and nobody challenges him on it. Goldberg got his start as an understudy for the eminent and thus infamous neocon Ben J. Wattenberg. He works behind the scenes at the American Enterprise Institute, the criminal organization in part responsible for the “wort! hy” mass murder of more than 600,000 Iraqis. It is said the Los Angeles Times is a “liberal” newspaper, and yet Goldberg is a columnist there, and op-ed columnist Robert Scheer, described as a liberal, was fired for taking Bush to task for his illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq. In fact, there is not a single “liberal” corporate newspaper in the country, as the entire corporate media is decidedly neocon, that is to say fascist, although occasionally neocon crimes are described as mere peccadilloes in passing, criticism that does not amount to a hill of fetid beans…
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GI Special 4J19: Veteran’s Day Night – October 19, 2006
Thomas F. Barton
Art’s Division suffered extremely heavy casualties in Vietnam.
On Veteran’s Day night, Art felt the ghosts in the room with him,
sometimes he would see a face of smoke
and a shadow with no legs,
just dried black blood and white bones.
Art would try to wipe the dead tears
from the soldier’s eyes
but then Art would begin to cry uncontrollably.
A doctor he once had told Art
he was emotionally disturbed.
(…)
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Down the River
billmon
Riverbend posted today for the first time since early August. As she explains: “Every time I felt the urge to write about Iraq, about the situation, I’d be filled with a certain hopelessness that can’t be put into words and that I suspect other Iraqis feel also.” There is no way I can even begin to comprehend what it must feel like to be an Iraqi right now — much less an intelligent, educated, secular woman stuck in the middle of a slow-motion genocide. But I do know what a “certain hopele! ssness” feels like, or at least I think I do. It’s what I feel every time I think about how we came to this point. Riverbend’s topic is the Lancet study on war deaths in Iraq, and she curtly eviscerates the conservative Holocaust deniers…
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