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More on coup d’etat rumors in Iraq
Robert Dreyfuss
From Egypt’s Al Ahram, a more rumors of a coup d’etat brewing in Baghad, with lots of interesting detail: Well-informed Iraqi politicians told Al-Ahram Weekly that discussions of a coup have been underway for some time between American and Iraqi officers. One politician stated that several Iraqi leaders, who have been working closely with the Americans even before the 2003 war that toppled Saddam Hussein, are also involved in the discussions…
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Any Body Could Help? Could Stop Killing the IRAQIS?
an iraqi tear
The following profs and academics were killed in Baghdad during the last two months: Today, the family announced finding the shot dead body of Dr Najdat Al-Salihi, 35 years prof in the department of psychology- Mustamsiriya University, he was kidnapped 20 days ago with his driver in area close to the university..(The university is occupied with the followers of Muqtada Al-Sadr and Mahdy Army, his militia). Today, Pro Dr Mohammed Jassim Al Thahbi, dean of the administration and economy faculty baghdd university, he was attacked and killed close to the gate of the faculty, his wife, a prof too in the same faculty, and son were killed with him. Dr Saad Shilash, PhD in journalism, the director of the editing board of Rayat Al Rab weekly, was killed 10 days ago, he was attacked at his house; his wife was killed with him…
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The “War against Terror” is a War against the People.
Silvia Cattori
In this interview recorded by Swiss journalist Silvia Cattori in November 2005 – more than six months before the war launched against Lebanon by Israeli army in summer 2006 – Youssef Aschkar was warning that the destabilization of Lebanon, Syria and Iran was under way, and that Lebanon was the country most threatened and most vulnerable to the Israeli menace. In the light of the recent developments in the region, the accuracy of his analysis appears impressive and almost prophetic…
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Iraq: Bush has a plan, and it’s working
Asia Times
So, does the Bush administration have a plan for Iraq, and if so, is it working? The answer to both questions could well be “yes”. But it’s not a plan that Bush could publicly boast about, despite the fact that it’s working like a charm. This is how things are shaping up in Iraq, according to US Central Command itself, which keeps a “chaos gauge” to measure Iraq’s progress from chaos to peace. According to the New York Times, the “gauge” was shown as a slide at a classified briefing on October 18. Unfortunately for the benighted Iraqis, the gauge is moving steadily in the “wrong” direction: away from peace and into the “red zone” of chaos. So how is it that the Bush plan can be said to be working? Easy, if the plan is … chaos…
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2-yr old Palestinian released from Israeli prison!
Sabbah’s blog
The attached are from our local Al-Quds newspaper on Nov 1, 2006. They are from a story about a 2-yr old girl who was released from an Israeli prison near Ramallah. Her name is Aiysha, which in Arabic means “life.” Aiysha’s mother gave birth to her while detained in an Israeli prison. Aiysha was released two days ago, her mother is still being detained under “Administrative Detention,” in other words, no charge, no trial, nothing…just a unilateral Israeli decision to detain her for 6 months at a time, already renewed 4 times! This poor baby. She knows nothing in life but the walls of her mother’s prison cell…
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Index on Afghanistan : October 2006
Sarah Meyer, Index Research
The month of October in Afghanistan saw two trends. The first was the deterioration of the U.S.-NATO plan to destroy the Taliban. ‘Hearts and minds’ are being lost; killing creates more people who are determined to rid their country of foreigners. I don’t think the Pentagon actually cares about hearts and minds, or reconstruction. Selling arms to NATO countries and building airports, bases, FOBs, roads and prisons is helpful for the corporate pocket. The uncounted dead are occasionally given ‘apologies.’ This monumental contempt denies dignity and respect for life, which is the chief tenet of the Geneva Conventions. The second trend is the growing public awareness that Afghanistan’s prisons (Bagram and Kandahar) have often been and are central to the US/UK policy of ‘rendition’ and torture. The recent Military Commissions Act has ensured that no one is accountable for crimes that have been/will be committed. The Geneva Conventions have been bypassed, and habeas corpus is dead…
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Spreading the word
That is happeneing in the north ogf Gaza , while the world is silent , break the silence and speak for the speechless
Khaled Nazzal, Blue Fog
During its large scale military operation against Gaza , the Israeli occupyiong army continued its attack on Beit Hanoun village in the north of the Gaza strip ,12 people were killed at least 75 were injured many seriuosly injured , at AlAwda hospital,the casualities that were received at the emergency room , were all seriously injured , (gunshots in the chest , abdomen and head ), movement of the ambulances in and outside the village is greatly restricted ,some patients who are inneed for renal dialysis cannot leave their homes for treatment, so other patients inneed for all sorts of treatment , the only hospital inside the village is surrounded by tens of army tanks and military vehicles ,the continous shelling and shooting made people unable to leave their homes , any moving body would be shot at once , all the men over 16 wee asked to gather inside one of the village schools l,while writing this peice the local radio station announced the death of one of the women who were trying to stop the army acts against her family ..
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An Abu Ghraib Offender’s Return to Iraq is Stopped
ADAM ZAGORIN, Time
As if the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal weren’t bad enough for America’s image in the Middle East, now it may appear to much of the world that one of the men implicated in the scandal is returning to the scene of the crime. The U.S. military tells TIME that one of the soldiers convicted for his role in Abu Ghraib, having served his sentence, has just been sent back to serve in Iraq. Sgt. Santos Cardona, 32, a military policeman from Fullerton, Calif., served in 2003 and 2004 at Abu Ghraib as a military dog handler. After pictures of Cardona using the animal to threaten Iraqis were made public, he was convicted in May of dereliction of duty and aggravated assault, the equivalent of a felony in the U.S. civilian justice system. The prosecution demanded prison time, but a military judge instead imposed a fine and reduction in rank. Though Cardona was not put behind bars, he was also required to serve 90 days of hard labor at Ft. Bragg, N.C…
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“STATEMENT”
The Defense Committee for President Saddam Hussein and his comrades
The current critical circumstances of this phase of Iraq’s history and the current state of affairs under the occupation, where matters are descending fast on the slopes of sectarian fighting, disintegration and disunity, have become known with all the reflections and effects of these circumstances, on the so-called “the Court and the illegal trial”, according to most of the experts of law, including the U.N. Working Group in its opinion # 31/2006 of the 1st of September 2006. This trial is merely another page of the book of occupation. It has been reported that the fifth of this November will be the date of announcing the verdict in the so-called Dujail case, so that the verdict will precede the date of the U.S. Congress elections, which are scheduled to take place on 7 November 2006. We deeply believe that President Saddam Hussein and his comrades are innocent of any of the charges, which were raised against them. Nevertheless, this trial is being conducted for well-known political motivations within these intentional timing…
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Palestine as a Foil for People’s Unconnected Dreams
Ramzy Baroud
Thousands of people recently marched in London to commemorate Quds Day, an annual day of solidarity with the Palestinian people that emanated from Tehran some 26 years ago. I neither wish to contend nor corroborate the sincerity of the call, made by Ayatollah Khomeini, in a time when the Palestinian people endure, unaided, the unbearable brunt of the Israeli occupation, international isolation and its subsequent economic boycott, and the burden of their leaderships’ own folly, that of factionalism and lack of political coherence. However, the scene in London was too surreal, and brought into question the usefulness of such displays of solidarity with the Palestinians…
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The false charges of the show trial
Carsten Kofoed, Free Iraq Blog of Denmark
In the so-called trial against the legitimate and illegally deposed President Saddam Hussein and seven other Iraqi top leaders at the Special Tribunal in Baghdad, which in December 2003 was set up by Paul Bremer, the US administrator of Iraq at that time, a “sentence” is going to be pronounced on November 5 according to plans. The accused are charged with two principal crimes: The Anfal Campaign in 1988 and the execution of 148 Shiites from Dujail in 1982. However, the objective of this article is not to discuss the obvious fact that the “trial” is completely illegal and unjust as it is a product of an illegal war violating the UN Charter and being totally controlled by the occupying power, that is, the US. On the contrary, the purpose here is to correct some misunderstandings relating to the “charges” against President Saddam Hussein and Co…
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Somewhere Down The Izzy River
Annexing the Pennsylvania “Terrortories”
Randy Shields, www.dissidentvoice.org
(Press Conference with President Bush) Reporter A: Mr. President, last year the American Council of Rabbinical Hydrologists concluded that a previously unknown biblical text proved that God gave “the land of the three rivers” to the Jews. The council further determined that these three rivers were the Allegheny, the Monongahela and the Ohio Rivers. In recent months, Jewish settlers have begun to establish “facts on the ground” at Fallingwater, Kennywood Amusement Park and, most controversially, the Pittsburgh Pirates’ PNC Park. What’s the administration’s policy on western Pennsylvania? Bush: Israel has the right to defend herself. I know that the moms and dads of Pittsburgh have some concerns about our strategy of victory in western Pennsylvania. But they have to understand that strengthening Israel helps bring stability and peace to the region…
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US force storms Allawi’s Home
KUNA
An Iraqi security source disclosed Wednesday that the US forces stormed the home of former Iraqi Premier Iyad Allawi who leads the Iraqi list, one of the biggest Iraqi parliament blocs, and arrested eight of his bodyguards. The source told Kuna that the US force of four Humvies and tanks stormed Allawi’s National Reconciliation Movement’s list and ransacked its contents at the Raghma Khatoun neighborhood…
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 2 November 2006
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice
In a dispatch posted at 7:03pm Makkah time Thursday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi medical sources had reported that the man American occupation troops proclaimed was a top leader of al-Qa’idah was in fact a citizen who worked in a local clinic.mThe ar-Ramadi correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported medical sources that asked not to be identified as saying that US aircraft struck a car in the as-Sajariyah area of eastern ar-Ramadi on Wednesday afternoon. The car was carrying four individuals who were returning from work at a local private clinic. One of the men in the car was al-Hajj Rafi’ ‘Abd as-Salam al-’Ithawi Abu Taha…
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WAR NEWS FOR THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 02, 2006
Today in Iraq
Gunmen killed the Shiite dean of Baghdad University’s school of administration and economics along with his wife and son on Thursday, four days after the murder of a prominent Sunni academic. A roadside bomb in a market killed a man and wounded 22 others in the eastern New Baghdad district of the capital. Gunmen attacked a police patrol and killed three policemen and wounded another in central Baghdad. Gunmen kidnapped a police colonel, Khalid Ibrahim, on Wednesday in al-Selekh district in northern Baghdad. Gunmen abducted a top Iraqi basketball official and a blind athletic coach, both Sunnis, on Wednesday, a day after U.S. and Iraqi forces lifted a blockade on Baghdad’s Shiite militia stronghold of Sadr City. The attack took place at a youth club on relatively prosperous Palestine Street in eastern Baghdad near the Sadr City district…
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Israeli Left-Right Divide Unmasked as Phony
Nicola Nasser
Avigdor Lieberman’s ascent to a strategic executive role in Israel has unmasked the artificial divide between left and right and revealed the mainstream ruling elite as still in consensus on the Zionist goals, a fact that rules out any credible peace process in the foreseeable future and dooms peace and left as wishful thinking as they have been ever since the creation of the Jewish state, until a forcible outside intervention could enforce a de-Zionization of peace-making. The line dividing Israeli right and left on the prerogatives of peace with Arabs, Palestinians inclusive, is too thin to be considered conducive to peace and as such peace-making will continue to be illusive and evasive…
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Breaking News from Biet Hanoun : UN Take Action Against “ Israel” ! – “Atumn Clouds” New Israeli Massacre
Israeli Occupant in FULLSCALE WAR on Biet Hanoun. At least 12 Palestinian Martyrs Over 70 Injured
Hayam Noir – PalestineFreeVoice
…Israeli ongoing criminal attacks on the north of the Gaza Strip has killed a further six Palestinians on Thursday, bringing the death toll to 13 over the last 48 hours. 75-year-old Yousif Aqeel 75 died of a heart attack after an Israeli missile hit his neighbour’s home, injuring six members of the same family. Over 70 injuries.are being reported and at least twelve of the injured are in a critical condition, including the four-year-old Bara’a, who is in a coma – a large number of the injured are women and children…
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Tangram: Son of Total Information Awareness
Kurt Nimmo
As usual, when it comes to surveillance and the panopticon state, the ACLU misses the point. In response to the discovery of the son of the Total Information Awareness, Tangram, described as “a program in which former TIA contractors build on existing TIA research to create a new, enhanced form of the program,” according to Justin Rood, the ACLU tells us the state is “misdirecting resources towards this kind of fanciful, science-fiction project… while neglecting the basics” of what Shaun Waterman of the UPI calls “good counter-terrorist detective work.” In fact, since the vast majority of terrorists out there are working directly or indirectly for the Pentagon, CIA, MI6, or Mossad, no “good counter-terrorist detective work” is required. John Negroponte, CFR member and former overseer of the El Aguacate torture and murder dungeon in Honduras, now Director of National Intelligence, is building upon Iran-Contra criminal John Poindexter’s Total Information Awareness, a “closed-loop” snoop system supposedly closed down on October 1, 2003…
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THE SHIT-EATERS ARE WRONG AGAIN
Malcom Lagauche
…At an age when most people have been retired for a decade and a half, Fidel Castro is undergoing his finest moment. His relentless work over the decades for social programs now is spreading throughout South America. All while the U.S. ignored the area while hunting Saddam. Cuba, with its newly-found allies, will oppose a U.S.-led “democratic transition.” They only have to look eastward at the new “democratic” Iraq to see the results of what the U.S. calls “democracy-building.”…
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Evil Is As Evil Does
Paul Craig Roberts
…If Khatami can be arrested in the UK for torture, how does British Prime Minister Tony Blair escape arrest for the torture of Afghans and Iraqis by coalition forces? Why are not US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Vice President Richard Cheney, and President George W. Bush arrested when they visit the UK? Does the British law excuse Anglo-Americans from its reach? Does it exclude government officials while they are in office and pursue them only when they have become private citizens? Or are we witnessing the operation of the neoconservative assumption that there is one rule of law for the US and its allies and another rule for countries that do not support the neocon agenda?…
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