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Al-Duri calls for an “open front” in the war against the occupation; more signs of political collapse
Arablinks.blogspot.com
Al-Quds al-Arabi publishes a summary of a statement by Baath resistance leaderIzzat Ibrahim al-Duri denouncing the recent AP-originated story about laying down their arms, and attributing it to the occuption’s disinformation campaign. Al-Duri writes: “Let the dogs of Rome (meaning the empire), and before them the Safavid dogs of Persia know, crouched in their Green Zone fortress, that the coming days will be darker for them than a moonless night…” which is his way of saying they haven’t laid down their arms. Moreover, Al-Duri goes out of his way to deny that there are any contacts at all between the Baath resistance and the Americans, in Amman or anywhere else (…) In another report on the same page, Al-Quds cites remarks by Sheikh Ali al-Abeidi, head of the Abeid tribe in central Iraq, who said: “The leaders of the Abeid tribe understand that the American occupation and the Maliki government have ignored their demands”. And the reporter quotes Fawaz al-Dulaimi, representative of the leaders of the Dulaim tribe in al-Anbar, who said: “Let the dogs of Rome in the White House know that the execution of Saddam will cause a reaction in Iraq in general, and in al-Anbar in particular, involving more death for the soldiers of the aggression”…
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TO THE DEMOCRATS USA
Ibrahim Ebeid, Al-Moharer
…Ending the war must take a priority for the sake of America and for the sake of peace in the United States and abroad. If the Democrats are really concerned about ending terror and want to live in harmony with the rest of the world then we have to start from within. We have to clean our house first before we accuse other nations as terrorists or “axis of evil” members. We have to admit that we and our allies are the “axis of evil,” not Iraq or other states that do not agree with us or refuse to be under our domination. We are the ones who attacked Iraq and destroyed it and the Democrats gave their full support to the war. The war against Iraq was not the war of the Republicans or Bush only, but the War of Democrats as well. If the Democrats are really sincere in their call for a new direction, we hope that the direction will be in admitting that they were wrong in supporting this horrible war and mass killing of Iraqis and young American men and women in uniform. Because the war of aggression was launched against Iraq with false and fabricated intentions, we should recognize the Iraqi Resistance and not those who were installed by the Bush administration…
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Cheney’s Revenge
MIKE WHITNEY
When Dick Cheney woke up on Wednesday mourning, his entire world had changed. The House and Senate was in control of the Democrats, Bush Senior’s buddy Robert Gates had taken over at the Pentagon, and his most-trusted ally, Don Rumsfeld, had been thrown overboard. Cheney knows that the story about a “Democratic sweep” is utter nonsense. He knows who operates the voting machines and how get the results he wants. The normal procedures for rigging the election were simply put on hold. He also knows that the Justice Dept had sent out over 80 attorneys to various parts of the country where the Republicans anticipated legal challenges after the elections, but there were no legal challenges. Someone decided that there would be no fight at all, even in the close senatorial races where recounts might have made a difference. Why? Is anyone gullible enough to believe that Republican big-wigs have given up cheating as a vital part of their strategy for winning elections?…
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U.S. Veto to Support Israeli Crimes
Sabbah’s blog
Once again, United States support state terrorism and allow Israel to continue its crimes. A little while ago, U.S. vetoed a U.N. draft Security Council resolution condemning Israel’s shelling of the Gaza town of Beit Hanoun. It is not a surprise for a Palestinian like me, however, my question is for fellow Americans; how can you sleep tonight knowing that your elected government decided to support Israel for its continuous massacres against innocents? The Security Council resolution was suppose to urge a quick withdrawal of Israeli forces from the area, deploy observer force and investigate the killings. But U.S. thinks that all of this is not necessary, as Israel is doing what they suppose to do, with your tax money…
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9/11: Beyond the Seal of Approval
David Montoute
…From the true origins of the Gulf War to the pre-planned dismemberment of Yugoslavia and Iraq, from Wall Street money laundering to the murder of David Kelly, from depleted uranium to ‘false flag’ terrorism, there is now an open-ended list of taboo subjects that the mainstream media and the foundation-funded ‘alternatives’ cannot address. The limits of Herman and Chomsky’s Propaganda Model are clear. The most serious distortions of today’s world lie not in the ‘spin’ given to events, but in the very ‘reality’ of those events. The startling proliferation in ‘black ops’ does not permit us the luxury of innocence when assessing a “people’s revolution” (coup d’etat) such as that orchestrated in Tbilisi in 2003. Nor can assassinations, such as that of Rafik Hariri, be automatically assigned to the “obvious” culprit…
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UN to let the slaughter in Palestine continue
Eli Stephens, Left I on the News
Hold your shock – the United States has vetoed yet another U.N. resolution condemning Israeli actions in Palestine (specifically Gaza in this instance). How far will the U.S. go to “protect” its clients in Israel? This particular resolution also “would have called on the Palestinian Authority to ‘take immediate and sustained action to bring an end to violence, including the firing of rockets on Israeli territory.’” Even that wasn’t good enough for the U.S., though…
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KHIAM SOUTHERN LEBANON
A BOMB’S ANATOMY
Flaviano Masella, Angelo Saso, Maurizio Torrealta, RaiNews 24
The special report was triggered by the radioactivity measurements reported on a crater probably created by an Israeli Bunker Buster bomb in the village of Khiam, in southern Lebanon. The measurements were carried out by two Lebanese professors of physics – Mohammad Ali Kubaissi and Ibrahim Rachidi. The data – 700 nanosieverts per hour – showed remarkably higher radiocativity then the average in the area (Beirut = 35 nSv/hr ). Successivamente, on September 17th, Ali Kubaissi took British researcher Dai Williams, from the environmentalist organization Green Audit, to the same site, to take samples that were then submitted to Chris Busby, technical adisor of the Supervisory Committee on Depleted Uranium, which reports to the British Ministry of Defense. The samples were tested by Harwell’s nuclear laboratory, one of the most authoritative research centers in the world. On October 17th, Harwell disclosed the testing results – two samples in 10 did contain radioactivity…
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Militias intensify rein of terror in Baghdad
Salah Salman, Azzaman
Heavily armed militias riding in cars with Interior Ministry marks have intensified their attacks on residential areas. It is now extremely difficult in Baghdad to distinguish between vehicles government forces use and those the city’s murderous militias deploy. Residents say the line separating marauding militias from government police and military forces is so blurred. Many now say the militias’ brutal activities are being carried out in cahoots with government forces. Last week gangs of factional militias belonging to groups which are part of the current coalition government attacked two Sunni mosques in Baghdad, killing four and injuring 18. Eyewitnesses said the gangs, wearing government army uniforms were openly assisted by Interior Ministry commandos in their attacks…
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Decrepit healthcare adds to toll in Iraq
Louise Roug, Times Staff Writer
Thousands of Iraqis are believed to have died from shortages of medicine, vital equipment and qualified doctors, despite an infusion of nearly half a billion dollars from U.S. coffers into this country’s healthcare system, Iraqi officials and American observers say. Raging sectarian violence as well as theft, corruption and mismanagement have drained health resources and made deliveries of supplies difficult. Exacerbating the crisis, hundreds of doctors have been killed, and thousands have fled Iraq. The child mortality rate, a key indicator of a nation’s health, has worsened since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, according to Iraqi government figures. In the most sinister reported development, provincial Sunni Muslim doctors charge that Shiite Muslims who control the Health Ministry deliberately withhold medicines and other vital supplies. Privately, some U.S. officials say that hard-line Shiites use the ministry for political and sectarian ends. This fall, U.S. troops raided the ministry, arresting employees suspected of kidnapping and killing patients at the Medical City Hospital in Baghdad. Afterward, ministry officials severed ties with the Americans and refused to open an $800,000 clinic built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in a deprived Sunni neighborhood in the capital. The clinic has since been opened, but relations are still strained between U.S. military officials and the ministry, which is staffed by Shiites loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada Sadr…
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“Helping” Iraqis…to an early grave
Eli Stephens, Left I on the News
Today, the Los Angeles Times carries an article which sheds some light on the state of health care in Iraq Thousands of Iraqis are believed to have died from shortages of medicine, vital equipment and qualified doctors, despite an infusion of nearly half a billion dollars from U.S. coffers into this country’s healthcare system, Iraqi officials and American observers say. My only argument with this article is the reference to “neglect by former President Saddam Hussein.” The fact that medicine and hospital care were free, and that an excellent public education system was producing well-educated doctors (and other professionals), were a direct result of the semi-socialist policies of Saddam Hussein and the Ba’ath party. It was the “United Nations” (in reality, U.S./U.K.) sanctions which forced the alleged “neglect.”…
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Jeff Blankfort deconstructs Neve Gordon
peacepalestine
Neve Gordon has been known as a defender of the Palestinian people, and even here I’ve published some of his interventions. But, it might not come as a surprise to many, that more and more Israeli supporters of Palestinians are getting cold feet and stressing their loyalty to Israel, despite seeing things that show Israel to be constantly falling deeper into the pit of atrocity and cruelty towards Palestinians and violations of the most essential laws of morality and international relations. Jeff Blankfort is known to many in the Pro-Palestinian camp. A tireless campaigner and researcher, incredibly intelligent and with a fierce sense of humour, he knows how to deconstruct dubious prose like it’s nobody’s business. Here, he tears apart something that Gordon thought was providing a defence for himself.
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Spurious “al-Qaeda in Iraq” Celebrates Dem Victory
Kurt Nimmo
It should be obvious by now “al-Qaeda in Iraq” is either a P2OG operation run out of the Pentagon or its members are blithering idiots. According to the Associated Press, “al-Qaeda in Iraq,” supposedly run by the shadowy Abu Ayyub al-Masri, has “urged the U.S. to stay in Iraq so his group would have more opportunities to kill American troops.” In other words, the fight in Iraq is not about evicting the United States from the country, the goal of all national liberation movements down through time immemorial, but rather is about a psychopathic desire to kill Americans, a sentiment that aligns perfectly with the neocon assertion that Muslims want to kill us for our freedoms and convert America to Islam, a cornerstone of the “clash of civilizations” fantasy. Instead of liberating the people of Iraq from the occupation, “al-Qaeda” declares its desire to fight “Jihad until we are under the olive trees of Rumieh and we have blown up the filthiest house—which is called the White House,” as al-Muhajir declared on yet another audio tape…
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DAILY WAR NEWS FOR SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2006
Today in Iraq
Car bombs exploded among shoppers in downtown Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least eight people, police said. At last 20 others were injured when a pair of bombs hidden beneath two cars detonated at 8: 45 at Hafidh al-Qadhi Square, Lt Ali Musin of the Rissafa police station, said. The area lies at the heart of Rasheed Street, Baghdad’’s main commercial centre.At least 38 others were injured in the explosion at Hafidh al-Qadhi square, a formerly bustling area on the eastern bank of the Tigris River. Police found five bodies, including a woman, bearing signs of torture and bullet wounds, in different parts of Baghdad, Interior Ministry sources said. Gunmen shot dead an intelligence officer in southern Baghdad’s Bayaa district, Interior Ministry sources said…
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Are you still reckoning?
Imad Khadduri, Free Iraq
“ Don’t let the recent elections in the U.S. fool you… Americans haven’t changed a bit. The reason that George Bush had a (slight) setback is that Americans are upset with not having “won” their war of aggression in Iraq, yet… not with the idea that they have the right to invade and plunder the rest of the world. Americans are still the reactionary monsters that they always have been. The day that they all come to the rest of us, begging on their knees for forgiveness for the long, long list of atrocities, war crimes and other outrages that they have inflicted on the rest of the world, we’ll have a reason to listen.
Until then, it’s “business as usual” — the business of war, torture, arrogance and imperialism.”…
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Baghdad’s new statue
Roads to Iraq
Still remember this story? A year ago, US or Iranian terrorists destroyed the statue of Baghdad builder, Jaafar al Mansou. Now a report that a new statue will be erected in the it’s place, but guess for who? Sistani…
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TOO EARLY TO CELEBRATE
Malcom Lagauche
There is a God. Camelot is just around the corner. Bush lost the House of Representatives and the Senate. Rumsfeld resigned. The U.S. is pulling its troops out of Iraq. Happy days are here again. Bullshit! Fairy tales are for kids. The left press and its supporters have gone berserk. For months, we have been told that a change in the makeup of the U.S. Congress will turn this country around and we all can look to many different policies. Today, they are in a jubilant mood. Six months from now, however, they will be just as gloomy as they were during the Bush days; maybe even more so. The big issue was the Iraq war. Most voters were conned into believing that a Democratic victory would begin an exit from Iraq. I only wish I could find some of the hallucinatory stuff they are smoking. First of all, 14 permanent U.S. military bases are being built in Iraq by around-the-clock workforces. They will not be turned into Disney parks or mini golf courses. Four of them are super-bases that will be able to house thousands of troops. Just down the road in Baghdad’s “Green Zone,” the largest embassy in the history of the world is being built…
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Unforgettable Week
Treasure of Baghdad
It has been almost two weeks since I talked to Ahmed, one of my best friends, who lives in my neighborhood. I received an email from him. To be honest, I don’t know whether I should be happy or sad after reading this email. On one hand I am happy because he is alive and on the other I am sad because of the content of this email that broke my heart. His email was all about what he went through for the last week. He is left alone with no friends around him. All of us left and now he is just so miserable living in the most dangerous spot on earth. His words broke my heart especially the part where he said he had to sit in the garden by himself where we all used to gather. The situation in my neighborhood is deteriorating, he said. The Mahdi army and the armed men are the only controlling power there. Iraqi Police and army are just names they hear about and have never seen there to protect the neighborhood and its people…
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 10 November 2006.
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice
In a dispatch posted at 12:12pm Makkah time Friday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while earlier Iraqi Resistance forces had fired a mortar barrage at the an-Nasr Sports Club building in western ar-Ramadi, about 110km west of Baghdad, the club has been occupied and used by US troops as a local headquarters for two weeks. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as saying that three mortar rounds blasted into the building sending thick smoke billowing into the sky…
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Olmert warns against hasty U.S. withdrawal from Iraq
Aluf Benn
For the first time yesterday, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert addressed in public the possibility that the United States may withdraw its forces from Iraq following the victory of the Democratic Party in the mid-term congressional elections. Olmert warned against a hasty withdrawal that may undermine the balance of power in the Middle East and endanger the moderate regimes in the region…
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5 more U.S. troops killed in Iraq
Louise Roug, LAimes Staff Writer
The U.S. military on Friday announced the deaths of five more American troops in Iraq. Meanwhile, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq purportedly issued a taunting audiotape urging the Bush administration to “stay on the battleground” so that more American troops would be killed. Two U.S. soldiers died Thursday when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in west Baghdad, officials said. In Al Anbar province Thursday, a Marine died in combat and a soldier was killed and another wounded by a roadside bomb west of Haditha. Another Marine was killed in an accident Friday, the military said. More than half of the U.S. troops slain by insurgents this month have been killed in western Al Anbar, a stronghold of the Sunni Arab-led insurgency…
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FAI: CRESPI, ‘OTTO PER MILLE’ FINANCED WAR ON IRAQ
AGI
The voluntary contribution in tax returns (’otto per mille’) paid by the Italian citizens to finance culture was used by the government to finance the mission to Iraq. FAI (Italian environmentalist fund) president Giulia Maria Mozzoni Crespi said today opening the yearly meeting on the artistic heritage. “I was astonished by what Enrico Letta (prime minister’s undersecretary) told me. The money Italian citizens wanted to give to finance art, cultural and social exigencies was used to finance the war on Iraq and only a small part was used to struggle against starvation in the world…
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