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Email received November 19, 2006
Imad Khadduri, Free Iraq
Dear Dr Imad. I just received news from Baghdad that Mehdi army has occupied my house in Aljehad district with all my belongings (furniture). A systematic procedure is beibg carried out to occupy Baghdad under the eyes of both American and the government. I spent 25 years of my life to have a 200m house. I bought it from Nabil Abdul Hamid, you remember him. So during the last year I have lost my job, my house and all my belongings: which are nothing compared to Iraq that we lost…
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Democrats and Republicans Agree: Iraq Shall Suffer Occupation in Perpetuum
Kurt Nimmo
As it turns out, predictably so, the tussle between neocon Republicans and their kissing cousin neoliberal Democrat relatives is not about ending the “war” in Iraq but rather over how many brainwashed kids will be sent there to be shot up, killed and maimed, afflicted with “mysterious diseases” that translate into a “debilitating death sentence,” thanks to depleted uranium (see Soldiers Face Debilitating Diseases). “[Incoming House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer] said Democrats would continue funding the existing troop levels,” reports the Associated Press. “Our objective was to remove Saddam Hussein and create an environment in which a democracy could be established. That has been done.” In Bushzarro world, a realm populated equally by Republicans and Democrats, in order for democracy to arise, a nation must be reduced from first to third world status…
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“WE KILLED JESUS, WE’LL KILL YOU TOO”
Desert Peace
…A 19-year old Swedish human rights worker had her cheekbone broken by an Israeli settler in Hebron today. Tove Johansson from Stockholm walked through the Tel Rumeida checkpoint with a small group of human rights workers to accompany Palestinian schoolchildren to their homes. They were confronted by about 100 settlers in small groups, who started chanting in Hebrew “We killed Jesus, we’ll kill you too!”, a refrain the settlers had been repeating to internationals in Tel Rumeida all day. After about thirty seconds of waiting, a small group of very aggressive settler men surrounded the international volunteers and began spitting at them, so much so that the internationals described it like “rain.”…
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The United States use of Depleted Uranium, installment number one
Mary MacElveen
…Dr. Alim Yacoub of Basra University conducted a study on the malignancies of children in Basra that was bombed in the first Gulf War that “found from 1990-1999, there was a 242% rise. That was before the recent invasion. Because conditions now are so chaotic in Iraq, only a small fraction of both cancer and birth defects due to DU are being reported. There are, however, many photos of infants born without brains, with their internal organs outside their bodies, without sexual organs, without spines, with terribly shortened limbs, with huge bulging tumours where their eyes should be, or with a single eye, or without eyes, or without limbs, and even without heads. Such birth defects are now commonplace.” I truly want all of you that read this piece to think of why there is a hatred towards America if we can do this to the most innocent amongst us living on this planet. What right did we have to do this? Do those who promulgate these immoral wars even care as babies are being born “without heads”?…
Warning: Graphic Pictures
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Order out of chaos
Imad Khadduri, Free Iraq
“Anyone who has followed the discourse over the past decade having to do with Iraq; would be aware that ‘liberation’, or weapons of mass destruction was never the intent. The strategy has always been to divide the country – into manageable regions and divvy up the oil resources. Reconstruction was always a joke – nothing has been done except to build more prisons, and a billion dollar (small town – housing 7000) embassy to oversee the business of oil. With hundreds of thousands homeless in America, seniors not able to afford medicines, veterans living under bridges/refused medical compensation, factories closed, foreclosures rampant; a billion + is being spent on this compound, complete with swimming pools, recreation centers, theaters etc. You will not see this reported anywhere on U.S. news (little wonder Iraqis see us as occupiers, eh?) but you will see, some jerk off named Tom Cruise and non-stop coverage, of his obscene materialistic wedding taking place in some castle in Italy or coverage on O.J ( resurrected) and how he might have killed his wife etc. I feel informed!…
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Support Gathers for Sunni Leader
Dahr Jamail and Ali Al-Fadhily, Inter Press Service
The arrest warrant issued last week by the Iraqi government for Sunni leader Dr. Harith al-Dhari has sent shockwaves through the government, and galvanised much of the Sunni population. Iraq’s minister for the interior Jawad al-Bolani told reporters that al-Dhari was wanted for inciting terrorism and violence. At the same time, Vice-President Tariq al-Hashimi said the warrant was “destructive to the national reconciliation plan.” Sixty-five-year-old Harith al-Dhari heads the influential Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS), the leading Sunni religious leadership of Iraq. Al-Dhari is currently in Jordan; he left Iraq five months back for fear of personal safety. The AMS is known to have contacts with the Iraqi resistance, and has been opposed to the U.S. occupation and the U.S.-backed Iraqi government…
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Democrats seek accommodation with Bush administration to continue Iraq occupation
Joe Kay, WSWS
Over the weekend, leading Democrats pledged their eagerness to work closely with the Bush administration in forging a bipartisan policy to continue the occupation of Iraq, and voiced their support for a substantial increase in the military budget and the recruitment of more Army troops. The remarks come amidst an intense debate within ruling circles over how to salvage the Iraq occupation and preserve the interests of American imperialism in the Middle East. While several different options are being considered, the possibility of an immediate withdrawal of some or all troops—the position supported by the vast majority of those who voted for Democratic candidates in the elections held less than two weeks ago—has been removed from the table…
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Iran invites Syria and Iraq to summit
Steve Negus, Iraq Correspondent, Gareth Smyth in Tehran and Daniel Dombey in Brussels, Financial Times
Iran is moving to cement its status as a regional power by inviting the Iraqi and Syrian presidents to Tehran for a weekend summit with Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad to discuss how to curb the violence sweeping Iraq. British government sources and news agencies said yesterday that Iran was keen to host the three-way talks. Iran’s plans highlight the country’s growing role as a power-broker in the region, which has both alarmed western officials and made them seek Tehran’s aid in stabilising Iraq…
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In Basra, Iraqi Nationalism Remains Proud and Articulate
Reidar Visser (historiae.org)
There is nothing new in Westerners making facile generalisations about Iraq and its people. Ever since the 1990s, strange maps of a tripartite Iraq have been bandied about, purporting to illustrate an Iraqi society subdivided into three homogenous “ethnic” blocs. Today, after the Democratic election victory in the United States, “territorial solutions” to the Iraq crisis are receiving renewed attention, as part of a possible “Dayton–style solution” to the Iraq crisis (…) True, today’s Iraq in many ways presents an ethno-sectarian mayhem. Population displacements, abductions, death squads – the country is experiencing a deep sectarian crisis, probably of unprecedented magnitude. Wild maps of a divided Iraq are indeed being cheered by some Iraqi politicians (especially, it should be added, those residing in magnificent castles close to the Green Zone and its dependencies of upscale Baghdad neighbourhoods). But it is not true, as some reporters claim, that the idea of Iraq as a unified entity is dead…
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 20 November 2006.
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice
In a dispatch posted at 8:40pm Makkah time Monday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US occupation forces imposed a strangulation blockade on the city of al-Hadithah and the nearby towns of al-Haqlaniyah and Barwanah on the Upper Euphrates about 220km northwest of Baghdad. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US troops proclaimed their blockade on the city using loudspeakers. The blockade, which went into force in al-Hadithah at dawn on Monday, and in al-Haqlaniyah and Barwanah on Sunday, included a curfew and ban on all pedestrian and motor traffic. Peasants are not allowed to bring their agricultural goods to market nor are residents of the towns currently away from home allowed to return to their houses, forcing them to camp out on the ground at checkpoints ringing the area. American troops also threatened to arrest anyone caught using a cellular telephone or accessing the Internet in the locked-down cities…
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Israel’s real problem with Iran
Xymphora
…Israel is like the alpha male in a herd of animals that can’t even tolerate the idea that there might be a challenger. The logic of Zionist colonialism is that Israel always has to be the top dog; if it loses that status, it disappears. Therefore, whether Iran has a bomb, or doesn’t – and it’s clear that it doesn’t and is in no way close to having one – is completely irrelevant. What is relevant is that there is a Middle Eastern leader who dares challenge the Zionist plans. All other Middle Eastern leaders, and the entire American government, including the new Democrat leadership, have been co-opted by the Zionists using various schemes. In the Middle East, those schemes generally involve playing off Shi’ite-Sunni differences, or manipulating dictators through the insecurity of their respective holds over power. Iran is a danger to Israel simply because it won’t play the Zionist games. Since the entire concern over Iran’s bomb is phony, a ruse to disguise the more ethereal risk that Iranian testicular fortitude poses to Zionism, Americans have absolutely no strategic interest in playing Israel’s mind games concerning Iran. Wise Americans know this, which is yet another reason why there won’t be an American attack on Iran…
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Muslim Charities and the Trial of Dr. Rafil A. Dhafir
Criminalizing Compassion in the War on Terror
KATHERINE HUGHES
…Dr. Dhafir is a pillar of the Muslim community in Central New York. He was a founding member of the local mosque, and he served as the imam at Syracuse University until they hired a full time imam. He paid a substantial amount of the running costs of the mosque and provided free medical consultation to those at the mosque without health insurance. His medical practice was in Rome, New York, an underserved area in which he was the sole oncologist. In his practice he provided free health care to people without insurance, and he paid for their expensive chemotherapy medicine out of his own pocket. For thirteen years Dhafir worked tirelessly to help publicize the plight of the Iraqi people and to raise funds to help them. According to the government, Dhafir donated 1.25 million dollars of his own money over the years. As an oncologist, he was also concerned about the effects of depleted uranium on the Iraqi population that experienced skyrocketing cancer rates. For the crime of breaking the U.S. and U.K. sponsored UN sanctions on Iraq and sending humanitarian aid to sick and starving civilians, Dhafir was held without bail for thirty-one months and then sentenced to twenty-two years in prison…
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When History Becomes Chopped Liver
Carolyn Baker, www.dissidentvoice.org
On Friday, George W. Bush arrived in Vietnam with the intention of strengthening business ties with that nation and used his photo op to make one of the most jaw-dropping statements of his presidency regarding the subject of history. “History has a long march to it,” he banally proclaimed as we all yawned, recalling that his major at Yale, where he barely managed to maintain a 2.3 average, was history. Then came the clincher as Bush was asked if any lessons from Vietnam apply to the war in Iraq: “One lesson,” he babbled, “is that we tend to want there to be instant success in the world, and the task in Iraq is going to take awhile. It’s just going to take a long time for the ideology that is hopeful, and that is an ideology of freedom, to overcome an ideology of hate. We’ll succeed unless we quit.” Oh really, the “lesson” of Vietnam is that we shouldn’t “quit”? There it is again, that Orwellian mindset that has pervaded this administration; war is peace, and evil is good…
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Iraq development: 20 Nov 2006
Roads to Iraq
Interior Minister admits: Iranian intelligence behind the abductions of Higher Education Ministry hostages. Interior Minister said in the presence of the Minister of Higher Education that the abduction of staff of the Ministry of Higher Education planned and oversaw by the Iranian intelligence, the aim is to topple him and the Minister of Defense…
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Two professors killed in Iraq
Xinhua
Gunmen assassinated two professors in central and northern Iraq on Monday, police said. Professor Ahmed Hamid al-Taie, head of clinic department in Mosul University was gunned down by unidentified armed men at about 1:30 p.m. (10:30 GMT) in downtown of Mosul city, some 400 km north of Baghdad, while he was heading for home, a local police source told Xinhua. In separate incident, assailants also shot dead Fulayeh al- Ghurabi, a professor at Babil University in the Babil province, some 100 km south of Baghdad, as he was driving home around midday, said a police source from Hilla city, the capital of the province…
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Baath Party Statement
The US’ and Iranian’s game in Iraq and in the region
The Arab Baath Socialist Party
Following Tony Blair admitting that his politics in Iraq are the greatest disaster in the UK modern history, repeating what the ex US secretary Madeleine Allbright has already said, we find that the US is planning its defeat and its humiliating exit from Iraq through a set up of measures, tactics, and criminal steps which are not less harmful and evil than the Iraq invasion and destruction. Considering Iran as a fundamental partner into finding a solution for Iraq and involving Syria into this dangerous game, confirms with no doubt that the US wants to increase the Iraqis’ suffering and pour more oil on Iraq flaming fires. For the US knows through its bitter experience in revolutionary Iraq, that Iran is not only its partner into invading and destroying Iraq but also a regional country which has designs on Iraq’s and Arab’ soil in general and that the Persian leadership and specially Khamenei is a very dangerous enemy and aggressor of the Arabs, before the US or the Zionist Entity even existed, and who played a major role into destroying and wrecking the Arab Islamic Caliphate…
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Ladies and Gentleman, a toast to the honourable minister for genocide
Lenin’s Tomb
La principessa di New York, la Clintonessa, the radiant host with impeccable manners and shoes from the Via Condotti, introduces our esteemed guest, Avigdor Lieberman. Lieberman, an eloquent proponent of ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians and the killing of Arab politicians in Israel, was recently added to the Israeli government. Kadima was encomiastic, praising the new minister for creating a “sane and more stable coalition”. Next to Binyamin Netanyahu, who calls for removing Palestinians from that part of Palestine that is legally called Israel, Lieberman is the second favourite politician to become Prime Minister among the Israeli public. He has recently advocated assassinating the Hamas leadership, ignoring the Fatah one and abandon any pretence of pursuing a “peace process”. He has said that he would be happy to send the IDF into the West Bank in order to bomb the place and “destroy everything”…
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A Palestinian Refugee Request for a Lawyer(s)
Sabbah’s blog
This is a solicitation for legal assistance, to help me present a case, or cases, against the State of Israel and private individuals and organizations, for damages, because of human rights abuses and many other crimes perpetrated against me by persons of Israeli and American citizenship under the protection and with the encouragement of the State of Israel. In the United States, a legal precedent for a similar lawsuit has probably already been set by the Jewish survivors of the Nazi holocaust perpetrated against them by the German Nazi regime until 1945. To my knowledge, such persons have presented a largely successful lawsuit (or lawsuits) against entities in France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland…
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IRAQ: Children have been the main victims of war
IRIN
With insurgency and sectarian violence continuing to escalate in beleaguered Iraq, children are some of the most vulnerable. Facing limited healthcare and education as well as witnessing death and destruction on a daily basis has made their existence increasingly miserable. While a number of awareness initiatives were launched worldwide on 19 November to commemorate the United Nations World Day for Prevention of Child Abuse, insecurity in Iraq makes it almost impossible for NGOs to operate effectively in the country to help needy youngsters. “I need to breath. I feel like I live in a prison. My family do not allow me to go to school and just take me when they feel it is safe. This is not an unusual thing in Iraq today,” Nur Sami, 11, said…
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Order out of chaos
Imad Khadduri, Free Iraq
“Anyone who has followed the discourse over the past decade having to do with Iraq; would be aware that ‘liberation’, or weapons of mass destruction was never the intent. The strategy has always been to divide the country – into manageable regions and divvy up the oil resources. Reconstruction was always a joke – nothing has been done except to build more prisons, and a billion dollar (small town – housing 7000) embassy to oversee the business of oil. With hundreds of thousands homeless in America, seniors not able to afford medicines, veterans living under bridges/refused medical compensation, factories closed, foreclosures rampant; a billion + is being spent on this compound, complete with swimming pools, recreation centers, theaters etc. You will not see this reported anywhere on U.S. news (little wonder Iraqis see us as occupiers, eh?) but you will see, some jerk off named Tom Cruise and non-stop coverage, of his obscene materialistic wedding taking place in some castle in Italy or coverage on O.J ( resurrected) and how he might have killed his wife etc. I feel informed!…
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The Zarqawi affair, part 15 of 23
B. J. Sabri, Online Journal Contributing Writer
In the period that elapsed between President Bush’s threat to invade Iraq (U.N. speech, September 2002) and the physical invasion (March 2003), one concept dominated the American discourse on Iraq: “Britain created Iraq.” Think tanks repeated it, politicians re-iterated it, websites and blogs (left and right) propagated it, writers discussed it, and national newspapers and TV networks interviewed myriad imperialist personalities to seek “insight” on an enigma called, “Iraq’s “creation.” They all agreed and parroted each other that Britain “cobbled” Iraq “together” from the former provinces of the Ottoman Empire, as if Iraq never existed before. This is not only a mechanical view of Iraq, but also a definite program that deliberately erases thousands of years of Iraqi history before that “cobbling” took place for the obvious purpose to prepare Iraq for chiseling and remodeling by the Zionist Empire of the United States…
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ZioPedia Uncovers Truth About MEMRI
Andrew Winkler
Mossad outfit MEMRI has done it again. They have stacked one of their free ‘translations’ of Middle-Eastern documents with lies, this times by suggesting that Iranian newspapers Kehyan and Resalat have urged Muslims around the world to prepare for a ‘great war’ to destroy the State of Israel. Not so long ago, MEMRI has performed one her most spectacular con jobs by making newspapers all over the world reproduce their lie that Iranian President’s had called for Israel to be ‘wiped off the map’. MEMRI’s insinuation that Iran wanted to start a war with Israel is totally ridiculous…
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Two professors killed in Iraq
Xinhua
Gunmen assassinated two professors in central and northern Iraq on Monday, police said. Professor Ahmed Hamid al-Taie, head of clinic department in Mosul University was gunned down by unidentified armed men at about 1:30 p.m. (10:30 GMT) in downtown of Mosul city, some 400 km north of Baghdad, while he was heading for home, a local police source told Xinhua. In separate incident, assailants also shot dead Fulayeh al- Ghurabi, a professor at Babil University in the Babil province, some 100 km south of Baghdad, as he was driving home around midday, said a police source from Hilla city, the capital of the province…
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Iraq development: 20 Nov 2006
Roads to Iraq
Interior Minister admits: Iranian intelligence behind the abductions of Higher Education Ministry hostages. Interior Minister said in the presence of the Minister of Higher Education that the abduction of staff of the Ministry of Higher Education planned and oversaw by the Iranian intelligence, the aim is to topple him and the Minister of Defense…
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Muslim Charities and the Trial of Dr. Rafil A. Dhafir
Criminalizing Compassion in the War on Terror
KATHERINE HUGHES
…Dr. Dhafir is a pillar of the Muslim community in Central New York. He was a founding member of the local mosque, and he served as the imam at Syracuse University until they hired a full time imam. He paid a substantial amount of the running costs of the mosque and provided free medical consultation to those at the mosque without health insurance. His medical practice was in Rome, New York, an underserved area in which he was the sole oncologist. In his practice he provided free health care to people without insurance, and he paid for their expensive chemotherapy medicine out of his own pocket. For thirteen years Dhafir worked tirelessly to help publicize the plight of the Iraqi people and to raise funds to help them. According to the government, Dhafir donated 1.25 million dollars of his own money over the years. As an oncologist, he was also concerned about the effects of depleted uranium on the Iraqi population that experienced skyrocketing cancer rates. For the crime of breaking the U.S. and U.K. sponsored UN sanctions on Iraq and sending humanitarian aid to sick and starving civilians, Dhafir was held without bail for thirty-one months and then sentenced to twenty-two years in prison…
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Eye on Iraq: Worse than Tet
Martin Sieff, UPI Senior News Analyst
President Bush is changing course on Iraq just as President Johnson did on Vietnam after the 1968 Tet offensive. But the situation facing U.S. policymakers now in Iraq is vastly worse than anything their predecessors faced after Tet. As we noted in our previous UPI Eye on Iraq column, the Tet offensive was in military terms a catastrophic defeat for the Viet Cong from which they never recovered as an effective fighting force. It was an overwhelming victory for the U.S. Army and for the Army of the Republic of South Vietnam. It was the political and strategic impact of Tet on American public opinion, key American media figures like CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite and on President Johnson and his policymakers that proved lasting…
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US promoting an international conference on Palestine, to strengthen Abbas and weaken Hamas
Arablinks.blogspot.com
The Israeli newspaper Maariv reported yesterday (Sunday November 19) that there are secret talks going on between Washington and Tel Aviv aimed at setting up an international conference to try and revive the Palestinian peace process, based on the “road-map”. The following is from a summary in Al-Quds al-Arabi, which it in turn attributes it to the Tel Aviv bureau of UPI. A major US aim is to improve its image in the Middle East. The conference would include Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt, in addition to the Palestinians and Israelis, and the overall concept for the US is to make this part of its hoped-for alliance of “moderate Arab states and Israel” (…) The report says this is going to involve additional efforts to fend off Hamas and Hizbullah, and to strengthen Abbas with “abundant financing and power”. The report says Saudi Arabia has already agreed not only to attent the conference, but also to provide a lot of financing for Abbas…
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Lieberman – Send Hamas and Islamic Jihad to Paradise !
Hiyam Noir, PalestineFreeVoice
The Minister of the “ Israelis” latest bizzare invention – the minstry of “Strategic Threats”, mr. Avigdor Lieberman, has in public media called for the “elimination” of Hamas and Islamic leaders, also he thinks that the “Israelis” should ignore the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, as an”irrelevant figure”. Does Mr Lieberman not understand that he is committing a crime when he verbaly treathen to murder another human being – or is he so arrogant that he think he can get away with a planned murder ! “ We “Israelis” should ignore Mahmoud Abbas as he is irrelevant, and we should send the leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad to a very good place”…
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