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While U.S. Talks of “New Direction” in Iraq
Massacre in Ramadi
Revolution
Some politicians and media now portray Iraq as a civil war in which U.S. soldiers are “well meaning peacekeepers caught in the middle.” But what happened on November 13 in the city of Ramadi, in the western part of Iraq, tells a different story. On that night, U.S. tanks opened fire on homes in the Al-Dhubat area of Ramadi killing at least 35 people. A 60-year-old man, Haji Jassim, told Inter Press Service (IPS), “We heard the bombing and we thought it was the usual fighting between resistance fighters and the Americans, but we soon realized it was bombing by large cannons. We weren’t allowed by the Americans to reach the destroyed houses to try to rescue those who were buried, so certainly many of them bled to death… There was a big American force that stopped us and told us the usual ugly phrases we hear from them every day.”…
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Ethnic Cleansing and Israel’s Racist Discourse
Ramzy Baroud
“The term ethnic cleansing refers to various policies of forcibly removing people of another ethnic group. At one end of the spectrum, it is virtually indistinguishable from forced emigration and population transfer, while at the other it merges with deportation and genocide.” According to this definition, and others including those emerging in the 1990s, following the ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, Palestinians have been and remain victims of a determined and unwavering ethnic cleansing policy that began in 1947-48 and continues until today…
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Would HRW Have Attacked Martin Luther King, Too?
Palestinians Are Being Denied the Right of Non-Violent Resistance?
JONATHAN COOK
…In its press release “Civilians Must Not Be Used to Shield Homes Against Military Attacks”, which was widely reported by the international media, HRW lambasts armed Palestinian groups for calling on civilians to surround homes that have been targeted for air strikes by the Israeli military. Noting almost as an afterthought that more than 1,500 Palestinians have been made homeless from house demolitions in the past few months, and that 105 houses have been destroyed from the air, the press release denounces Palestinian attempts at non-violent and collective action to halt the Israel attacks…
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raqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 30 November 2006
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice
…In a dispatch posted at 1:43pm Makkah time Thursday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance forces distributed leaflets around various Baghdad neighborhoods on Thursday morning asking local residents, most of them Sunni not to leave their homes and districts out of fear of Shi’i sectarian attack or threat. Recent days have witnessed rampages of pro-Iranian Shi’i sectarian Jaysh al-Mahdi militias in primarily Sunni areas of the Iraqi capital as part of an attempt to drive Sunnis out of Baghdad in order to create a separate “Shi’i state” in keeping with plans to partition Iraq. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the leaflets were posted on several mosques calling on Sunni residents to show patient perseverance, to pray to God and fight Shi’i sectarian attacks and not let them achieve their aim of driving the Sunnis out of Baghdad. In the leaflets, the Iraqi Resistance pledged to defend Sunni people and honor against sectarian attacks. “By God,” the leaflets declared, “your honor is our honor, your blood is our blood, and you will never hear or see us as anything but zealous in defending you from these attacks.”…
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WAR NEWS FOR THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2006
Today in Iraq
…According to the coordination centre in Diyala province six civilians from one family, three of them women, were killed by an American air strike on their house in the Al Hashimat area near the main road between Baqouba and Baghdad. Iraqi forces found a mass grave holding 28 bodies just north of the capital in Diyala province. “The bodies were later transported to an Iraqi police station in Baghdad,” a US statement said. In Baghdad, the bodies will join 58 more found scattered around the bitterly divided city over the previous 24 hours, as kidnappers and death squads plied their trade amid the constant din of gunfire and mortar blasts…
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Iraq: Long history of multi-faith co-existence in jeopardy
Eerie Silence on Northern Iraq
B Nimri Aziz
…As troubling as the terrorizing of Tel-Afar is, we also see signs of a Zionist-type settlement by Kurds in the coveted city of Kirkuk. Kirkuk is targeted as a new center for Iraqi Kurdistan. Until recently, the city was multi-ethnic, although it is identified as the center of Turkmen Iraqi society and economy. For the past 3 years, Kurds have been moving into the city at an increased pace, frightening the Turkmen residents. As with Israeli ‘settlement’ in the West Bank, this is a strategy of “changing the facts on the ground’. Assassinations against Kirkuk’s Turkmen families have begun. Fear and tension are rising. Because the city is center of the important Kirkuk oil fields, it is a major economic prize and Kurds do not hide their ambitions for the city. Kurds, backed by Zionist and American elements, are well armed and powerfully placed in the Iraqi government. Turkmens say the ongoing settlement of tens of thousands of new residents, all of Kurdish origin, is in anticipation of a referendum on the city’s fate in 2007. With a majority Kurdish population, the city could become an official Kurdish territory. It is a frightening prospect for Iraq’s Turkmens…
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Motive and Precedent in the Gemayel Assassination
Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, www.dissidentvoice.org
…The assassination jeopardizes the likelihood of Syria being brought into the dialogue on Iraq. It provides Israel and its fifth column in the US an opportunity to renew their efforts for enlisting American military power in battering regional adversaries. The assassination could also be aimed at precipitating a civil war which directly benefits Israel: It will effectively neutralize Hizbullah, against which Israel can then wage a proxy war by arming Christian and Sunni militias. Most importantly it serves as a useful distraction from Israel’s horrific crimes against the defenseless Palestinians such as the recent murder of 19 sleeping men, women and children in Beit Hanoun. Besides ample motive, it is the sheer abundance of precedents that leaves one baffled as to why the possibility of Israeli involvement has not been considered in the mainstream media…
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Baker To Bush: Game Over
Robert Dreyfuss
…It is a war that has alienated America’s allies, emboldened its adversaries and rivals, inflamed its enemies and eviscerated its prestige. With each day that U.S. occupation of Iraq continues, each one of those effects is amplified. By supporting an end to the war, the Iraq Study Group has decided, at least, to stop the bleeding. It is, however, too late to stop the bleeding in Iraq. Six hundred thousand dead Iraqis later, the United States will depart from Iraq leaving behind a nation whose citizens will be struggling to rebuild their society for decades. The U.S. invasion of Iraq is a war crime of the first magnitude, an illegal war that destroyed a nation that had never attacked the United States, that did not have any weapons of mass destruction, that did not have any ties to al-Qaida, that had no connection to the September 11 attacks, and which—at the start of the war—was a small, impoverished country with a decimated army. The civil war in Iraq may indeed get worse, and it may last for years. Each and every one of those deaths will be on George W. Bush’s conscience—if, in fact, the Bible-thumping hypocrite has any conscience left…
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Anti-U.S. rebels dominate Baquba
Azzaman
Fierce clashes are taking place in the city of Baquba, the capital of Diyala Province. U.S. troops are reported to have deployed helicopter gunships and tanks to help contain attacks by rebels. Life has come to a standstill in the restive city, northeast of Baghdad, and most parts of the province. Both U.S. and Iraqi troops are said to have failed in attempts to restore order. Conditions are reported to have worsened following the withdrawal of Iraqi police forces present in the city…
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Armed vigilantes roam Baghdad streets
Azzaman
In the absence of government or U.S. control, various Iraqi militias operating in Baghdad have taken law enforcement into their own hands. Armed men totting machine guns and rocket propelled grenades roam the streets amid fears of reprisals from rival sectarian groups. In the mixed Yarmouk district, armed men keep an eye on strangers and search cars and vehicles. Amid an upsurge in kidnapping and assassinations, other quarters are following suit. In most areas gunmen and militias are in control and if the government forces or police are present they usually join the militia ranks…
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Sadr seeks anti-US bloc in parliament
Gulf Daily News
Radical cleric Moqtada Al Sadr is building an anti-US parliamentary alliance to demand the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. The 30-strong Sadrist bloc has suspended its support of Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki’s ruling coalition and withdrawn six ministers from cabinet in protest at the premier’s meeting with US President George W Bush. Maliki yesterday urged the group to end their boycott. “I wish they would revise their decision as it is not a positive milestone in the political process,” Maliki said. Earlier, Salih Al Agaili, a member of Sadr’s parliamentary group, said the bloc now hoped to persuade more MPs to follow their suspension, adding that some have “started contacting us to take a similar position. We are holding talks with them.” Earlier this year, Sadr supporters claimed they had recruited 100 members of the 275-member parliament who wanted to send home the 150,000-strong US force backing Maliki, but this was never put to the test in the chamber…
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Iraqi refugees
Eli Stephens, Left I on the News
…Today’s San Jose Mercury News finally bucks this trend with a story by one of my favorite mainstream reporters, Hannah Allam, herself a refugee of sorts (formerly the Baghdad bureau chief for Knight-Ridder, she’s now part of the Beirut bureau of McClatchy). Allam profiles some of the 600,000 Iraqis living in Jordan (yes, that figure is for Jordan alone, and doesn’t include “at least that many more [who] have fled to Syria, Egypt and other countries, testament to the viciousness of the war in their homeland.”) As Allam notes, “the departed represent about 5 percent of Iraq’s population of 27 million.” One of the most interesting parts of the article, similar to many of the things we read in years past (though not recently) from Riverbend on Baghdad Burning, is the intermingling of Shia and Sunni Iraqis in Jordan. There may be an “age-old” religious division between Shia and Sunni, but it certainly didn’t manifest itself as a bloodbath until the Americans showed up to “liberate” the country…
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Sadr Followers Target Assyrian School Girls in Baghdad
Assyrian International News Agency
Followers of Moqtada al-Sadr have issued a fatwa (1) concerning school girls, according to an Assyrian priest in Baghdad. The fatwa requires all girls to wear the veil while attending school. In an unusual twist of logic, the fatwa implies that failure to wear the veil would be tantamount on the girls’ part to complicity in the death of the Imam Husayn ibn Ali (killed in 680 A.D. in Karbala in a battle with the army of the Caliphate.) The priest indicated the fatwa was at least for the New Baghdad neighborhood, where many Christians live, and that he feared for the safety of the Christian girls in the area…
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Democracy, a death sentence for Afghanistan
Deanna Spingola
…”DU weapons were extensively used in both countries (Afghanistan and Iraq) as weapons of extermination of present and future generations, genocidal in properties. It is only the oil pipelines, oil wells and platforms and the contracts of Corporations which had to be secured; even as the livelihood and economies of both nations were destroyed. The war waged on Afghanistan was manifestly a war of aggression.” During the International Criminal Tribunal (essential reading) Bush’s criminal use of genocidal and omnicidal radioactive Depleted Uranium weapons in Afghanistan was addressed. “Professor Albrecht Schott, Scientist, World Depleted Uranium Centre, Berlin in an address titled ‘Consequences of the Military and Civil Use of Depleted Uranium (DU),’ at the public symposium on ‘American Policy and its Consequences,’ has described Depleted Uranium as ‘A Weapon Against This Planet.’ Prosecution Document E-130; this leads logically to the word ‘Omnicide’ used by witness Leuren Moret, among other scientists while describing the effect of this weapon system; as going beyond the ‘silent genocide’ it has inflicted on the Afghan and Iraqi people…
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Get Feith and Exit Iraq Without Bush
Ahmed Amr, www.dissidentvoice.org
… And what exactly did Israel want? Israel would like nothing more than to see Iraq partitioned. It has a long history of supporting Kurdish separatists — if only the Iraqi variety. In deference to its strategic alliances with Ankara, Tel Aviv has an entirely different attitude towards Turkey’s Kurdish rebels. Sabotaging the Arab nationalist movement has always been a strategic goal of Zionism. For Feith’s Israeli mentors, the outbreak of civil war and chaos in Iraq or any other Arab country is considered a good thing. The Likudnik obsession with the Baath Party is rooted in Israel’s fear of a resurgence of pro-Palestinian pan-Arab nationalism. Historically, the pan-Arabists gave the Palestinians safe havens in addition to financial, material and diplomatic support…
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Idle chatter … ?? ???
Imad Khadduri, Free Iraq
“Over the past year, a chorus of voices has called for Saudi Arabia to protect the Sunni community in Iraq and thwart Iranian influence there. Senior Iraqi tribal and religious figures, along with the leaders of Egypt, Jordan and other Arab and Muslim countries, have petitioned the Saudi leadership to provide Iraqi Sunnis with weapons and financial support. Moreover, domestic pressure to intervene is intense. Major Saudi tribal confederations, which have extremely close historical and communal ties with their counterparts in Iraq, are demanding action. They are supported by a new generation of Saudi royals in strategic government positions who are eager to see the kingdom play a more muscular role in the region…
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GI Special 4K28: Abandoned On The Killing Fields – November 30, 2006
Thomas F. Barton
Abandoned On The Killing Fields: No Medevac Coming;
“ALL Soldiers Need To Know That Unless They Are At A FOB, The MEDIVAC Will Not Be Launched”
Imagine that you were in the convoy, had just endured the death of two comrades & the wounding of one more (and the Iraqi interpreter), only to find out that you had been abandoned on the killing fields! For however the PAO monkeys try to spin this, the reality is that this group of Soldiers were, at the moment of maximum emotional trauma, told that you are there alone.
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Bush And Malki
Iraqi screen
…I wish that any Iraqi figure met with Bush would give him a telephone number of a family in Baghdad to chat with them and see what he had done to these innocent people, now, each family is jailed in its house just exchanging news, “the militia is in this neighbourhood and has taken ten guys, be careful”, the family would pray thousand time just to escape the harm of these militiamen who are wearing the uniform of the Ministry of Interior and using its cars and picking up men as they like…
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Maliki and Bush meeting, don’t expect much #2
Roads to Iraq
The meeting was exactly as I said in a previous post. Bush said we will support the Iraqi government, Maliki said thank you and that’s all, for one reason these two are not the main players in the whole political game. Lebanese Al-Akhbar newspaper foresees that Maliki is the victim, their editorial says: Bush sets the “Sunni coalition”, Al-Maliki is the first victim. In short they say there is no place for Maliki’s government in the new Sunni coalition [Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia]…
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‘He’s the right guy’ – Bush defends embattled Maliki
Jonathan Steele & Julian Borger , The Guardian
George Bush sought to patch up relations with Iraq’s prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, at a brief summit in Amman yesterday, describing him as the “right guy for Iraq and we’re going to help him”. At the same time, Mr Bush dismissed the leaked conclusion of a bipartisan commission in Washington that he should begin a gradual but significant withdrawal of combat troops. He rejected any notion of a “graceful exit” as unrealistic: “It’s in our interests to help liberty prevail in the Middle East, starting with Iraq. And that’s why this business about graceful exit simply has no realism to it at all.”…
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Prisoners of Envy: Wal*Mart Nihilism Versus the Punk Rock of Blogging
Phil Rockstroh
The Holiday Season has arrived, unfolding before us, like a cheap vinyl wallet, here in The United States of American Express. The days spill forth, their hours comprised of shopping and shooting sprees, of retail and retaliation. Jingle bells and the crackle of gunfire. This is the way an empire falls, with armies of confused killers abroad and legions of killer clowns at home. A decade and half ago, we watched smugly as The Kremlin came undone. Yet, somehow we believe ourselves to be immune from the rot that causes empires to collapse from within…
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86 corpses found across Iraq
Agence France-Presse
IRAQI and US forces have found at least 86 corpses across Iraq over the past 24 hours, the US military and local security officials said today. A security official said that 58 corpses were recovered in Baghdad, while the US military said 28 bodies were found in a “mass grave” in the northeastern Diyala province. The military said the 28 bodies found south of Baquba, the provincial seat of Diyala, were first taken to Nahrwan for possible identification by family members and then transported to Baghdad…
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 29 November 2006
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice
…In a dispatch posted at 4:14pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US occupation troops had launched a campaign of raids, searches, and arrests in the city of ar-Ramadi about an hour earlier. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as saying that the Americans blocked off the western exit from the city and then surrounded the al-Bakr and ad-Dubbat neighborhoods in the middle of ar-Ramadi, and proceeded to carry out house-to-house raids and searches. In the course of the raids, the American troops arrested 73 local residents, none of whom had anything to do with Resistance activity, the correspondent reported residents as saying. The witnesses said that the Americans arrested men ranging in age from 16 to 60…
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Business Becomes a Big Casualty
Dahr Jamail and Ali al-Fadhily, Inter Press Service
“Iraq got the foreign investment rules long sought by U.S. corporations,” Antonia Juhasz, a visiting scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, and author of ‘The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time’ told IPS earlier. Juhasz said the new laws, which were a part of the 100 ‘Bremer Orders’ instituted by former U.S. administrator Paul Bremer when he headed the Coalition Provisional Authority during the first year of the occupation, provided a flood of benefits for U.S. companies…
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Rush to Judgment
Human Rights Watch Must Retract Its Shameful Press Release
NORMAN G. FINKELSTEIN
Even by the grim standards of Gaza, the past five months have been cruel ones. Some four hundred Palestinians, mostly unarmed civilians, have been killed during Israeli attacks.(…) It is at times like this that we expect human rights organizations to speak out. How has Human Rights Watch responded to the challenge? It criticized Israel for destroying Gaza’s only electrical plant, and also called on Israel to “investigate” why its forces were targeting Palestinian medical personnel in Gaza and to “investigate” the Beit Hanoun massacre. On the other hand, it accused Palestinians of committing a “war crime” after they captured an Israeli soldier and offered to exchange him for Palestinian women and children held in Israeli jails. (Israel was holding 10,000 Palestinians prisoner.) Were this record not shameful enough, HRW crossed a new threshold at the end of November. After Palestinians spontaneously responded to that “unknown voice on a cell phone” by putting their own bare bodies in harm’s way, HRW rushed to issue a press release warning that Palestinians might be committing a “war crime” and might be guilty of “human shielding.” (”Civilians Must Not Be Used to Shield Homes Against Military Attacks”) In what must surely be the most shocking statement ever issued by a human rights organization, HRW indicted Palestinian leaders for supporting this nonviolent civil disobedience…
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Robert Scheer: Learning to Live With the Ayatollahs
Robert Scheer
How in the world did George W. Bush manage to turn Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the “Supreme Leader” of “Axis of Evil” Iran, into a prophet of peace in the Middle East? That is the disturbing question that must be asked after Iraq’s president journeyed this week to plead for support from what was previously described by the White House as one of the world’s most menacing rogue regimes. The White House is desperately twisting itself into knots to find a way out of an Iraq debacle sure to top the political agenda in the ’08 presidential election. Having idiotically dug ourselves a terribly deep hole in Iraq—remember when protesters against the war were mocked for using the word “quagmire”?—Bush is now forced to beg Syria and Iran to throw us a rope…
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If you boycott a government that doesn’t function, how can anyone tell?
Needlenose
From the Associated Press this morning: Lawmakers and Cabinet ministers loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said Wednesday they have carried out their threat to suspend participation in Parliament and the government to protest Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s summit with U.S. President George W. Bush. Unfortunately, some news reports (and blogs citing those reports) are interpreting this as the Sadr bloc having quit the government, as in resigning permanently. But saying they’re going to “suspend participation” seems to me like they’re just going to boycott meetings for a little while to blow off steam. And if all the Sadrists are doing is taking a little bit of unapproved time off, how does that make them any different than the rest of the Iraqi government?…
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U.S.-Iraq summit abruptly canceled
TOM RAUM, Associated Press
President Bush’s high-profile meeting with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Wednesday was canceled in a stunning turn of events after disclosure of U.S. doubts about the Iraqi leader’s capabilities and a political boycott in Baghdad protesting his attendance. Instead of two days of talks, Bush and al-Maliki will have breakfast and a single meeting followed by a news conference on Thursday morning, the White House said. The abrupt cancellation was an almost unheard-of development in the high-level diplomatic circles of a U.S. president, a king and a prime minister. There was confusion – and conflicting explanations – about what happened…
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Debating “War and Peace” behind Closed Doors: NATO’s Riga Security Conference
Michel Chossudovsky, GlobalResearch.ca
On the 28th of November, heads of State and heads of government from the 26 States together with Ministers of Defense and senior military brass of the “enlarged” Atlantic Alliance (NATO) will be meeting in Riga, Latvia. The venue is being held in a former Soviet Republic, regrouping for the first time all 26 members of the enlarged NATO, including Poland. It directly challenges Moscow’s influence in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It signifies to Moscow that NATO enlargement is proceeding on Russia’s doorstep. Although Israel will not be represented at the Summit, NATO has developed in the last two years a close working relationship with Tel Aviv, which in practical terms provides Israel with a “de facto associate membership” within the Atlantic Alliance. The NATO Riga Summit will launch NATO’s Rome based training program for its Mediterranean partner countries and members of the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI). The latter includes a number of Arab countries as well as Israel…
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THIS EYE-RANIAN MESS
Malcom Lagauche
With all the chaos now in Iraq, many people have forgotten the beginning of hostilities between the U.S. and Iraq in January 1991. Like now, and for the past 15 years, the U.S. public was in a state of confusion. The same xenophobia and ethnocentrism that accompanied the U.S. soldier to Iraq in 2003 was solidly in place in 1991 as well. No matter where you were in the United States in the early evening of January 16, 1991, someone would enter and herald, “We’re bombing Baghdad.” In the ensuing hours, most Americans were glued to their television sets or were listening to radios, trying to make sense of the varying reports…
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Gingrich Expands Bill of Rights Target List
Kurt Nimmo
Details have emerged concerning Newt Gingrich’s attack on the Bill of Rights. It is not simply the First Amendment the American Enterprise Institute and Council on Foreign Relations neocon wants to “supervise,” but the Fourth Amendment as well, using Britain’s recently imposed detention rule as a template. “The former speaker also pointed approvingly to England, where suspects in terrorism cases can be detained for several weeks without charge,” reports the New York Sun. According to Gingrich, if we don’t torch the Bill of Rights, we are “truly stupid,” because respecting our founding principles will allow al-CIA-duh to take out a city. How the CIA-ISI created organization will take out a city is not mentioned, although we can assume it will be accomplished with a “suitcase nuke,” said to be walked over the border here in the Southwest…
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U.S. plans to send more GIs to Iraq
Brian Knowlton and David S. Cloud, The New York Times
As President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki flew to Amman for talks aimed at finding ways to quell rising violence in Iraq, the United States on Wednesday announced a concrete step that seemed designed to underscore its unwavering commitment: the deployment of four additional combat battalions to Baghdad. But the deployment, announced by Pentagon officials, came on the heels of new political ferment in Baghdad, continuing violence in Iraqi streets, and a conflicting message about Washington’s confidence in Maliki that may have led to a temporary postponement of his meeting with Bush…
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GI Special 4K27: Defeat In Anbar – November 29, 2006
Thomas F. Barton
The U.S. military is no longer able to defeat a bloody insurgency in western Iraq … according to newly disclosed details from a classified Marine Corps intelligence report that set off debate in recent months about the military’s mission in Anbar province.
The social and political situation has deteriorated to a point” that U.S. and Iraqi troops “are no longer capable of militarily defeating the insurgency in al-Anbar,” the assessment found. In Anbar province alone, at least 90 U.S. troops have died since Sept. 1.
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GI Special 4K26: “The Day That Haunts Me” – November 28, 2006
Thomas F. Barton
Father says he’s proud, friends ask what happened to the person they used to know, and the families of those who died, friend and foe, greave endlessly.
I’ve torn it apart a million times in my head, re-evaluated over and over again, each time with the same result. It was unavoidable, at that moment in time. Everyone has their own tragedy, which relative to themselves, is equally painful to them as this was to me. It is these events that shape us in our many facets. In the end, we’re the ones that have to live with it, but even if I got off easy. I’m alive.
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