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Another US crime in Ashaqi
Photographic evidence
Roads to Iraq
Eyewitnesses say that the US occupation forces committed a crime against innocent people in Ishaqi. The occupation forces besieged the homes of brothers Mohammed Hussein Jalmood and Mahmoud Hussein Jalmood, opened fire on members of the two families in the early hours today, to cover up the crime they air bombed the houses. People of the area who rushed to the crime scene and removed the bodies from the rubble found that all victims had been shot at close range, which confirms that they were mass executed. About 32 martyrs were targeted by the American forces intentionally among them 6 children and 8 women…
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Iraq’s People
Forgotten Victims of the 21st-Century Holocaust
Firas Al-Atraqchi
The war that should have been prevented is once again dominating Arab foreign policy and the concerns of the politicos in the Middle East and Washington, but the most important stories – that of the Iraqi people themselves – are going unreported. On Thursday, the Iraq Study Group (ISG) released their much vaunted assessment of how to bandage Iraq back together. But to analysts who have in the past three years watched the US get further bogged down, the ISG provided absolutely nothing new to the Iraq equation. Last week, Iraq’s Prime Minister Nur Al-Maliki met with US President George Bush in Amman to discuss Iraq. Both praised one another in one of the most bizarre and farcical rendition of two men at their wit’s end. During the press conference, 60 Iraqis were reported killed in Baghda (…) While Iraqi leaders were meeting in Cairo and Washington, a report was published in the London-based Al Quds Al Arabi highlighting the number of deaths on a daily basis in Iraq. The newspaper report quotes the Iraqi Southern Research Center for Strategic Planning as saying that it finds nearly 400 Iraqis are killed in Baghdad alone every day. These are 400 stories that go untold every day by the foreign press which instead has fixated itself with photo opportunities and mere public relations events…
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An Eye for an Eye …
Layla Anwar
Now that “Eye Raq” is a bloody mess , a stinkhole of anonymous cadavers, The Geniuses in the White House are calling on “Eye Ran “ to help them fix it. So Mr. “Death Squad” also known as Al Hakim, dusted off his robe, re-arranged his turban and pumped himself up like a peacock to be received in private by none other than the President of the USA. Some of those on the “Left” acclaimed another victory for the “Anti Imperialist forces” so bravely at work in Iraq. In their limited understanding of political power plays, “EyeRan” aka Persia is viewed as the Savior from the grips of ugly Imperialism and its racist bed partner Zionism (…) Let the “ Anti Imperialists” rejoice at the victory of the “Eyeranian” sectarian Mullahs now, whilst the “Eyeraqis” are being quietly eliminated at the rate of 400 a day with the blessings of the not so great U.S of A…
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Another US crime in Ashaqi
Photographic evidence
Roads to Iraq
Eyewitnesses say that the US occupation forces committed a crime against innocent people in Ishaqi. The occupation forces besieged the homes of brothers Mohammed Hussein Jalmood and Mahmoud Hussein Jalmood, opened fire on members of the two families in the early hours today, to cover up the crime they air bombed the houses. People of the area who rushed to the crime scene and removed the bodies from the rubble found that all victims had been shot at close range, which confirms that they were mass executed. About 32 martyrs were targeted by the American forces intentionally among them 6 children and 8 women…
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Israeli Weapons of Massdestruction(WMD)
PalestineFreeVoice
The Israelis nuclear weapons program grew out of the conviction that the “Holocaust” justified any measures the Israelis took to ensure its survival. Consequently, the Israelis has been actively investigating the nuclear option from its earliest days. In 1949, HEMED GIMMEL a special unit of the IDF’s Science Corps, began a two-year geological survey of the Negev desert with an eye toward the discovery of uranium reserves. Although no significant sources of uranium were found, recoverable amounts were located in phosphate deposits. The program took another step forward with the creation of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) in 1952..
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5 U.S. soldiers killed 2 in Anbar 3 in Baghdad
iraqwar.ru
The U.S. military said on Friday that two more U.S. soldiers have been killed in the volatile Anbar province. A soldier assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division died Thursday from wounds sustained due to a fierce clash on Wednesday with insurgents in Ramadi, during which 14 insurgents were killed and three other U.S. soldiers were wounded, the military said in a statement (…)INSURGENTS killed three US soldiers and wounded two others in separate roadside bomb attacks in and around the Iraqi capital, the US military reported overnight. Two soldiers died and two others were wounded during a “dismounted patrol” on Thursday when a roadside bomb exploded south of Baghdad, the military said…
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Oil, War and Other Incongruities
The Surreal Politics of Premeditated War
RICHARD W. BEHAN
George W. Bush, who proudly claimed the mantle of “war president,” was keenly rebuked in the recent mid-term election. The event was notable, but it merely continued the surreal politics of premeditated war”a politics that has dominated the last six bizarre, hideous years of our nation’s history. Two elements of the repudiation seem unreal, indeed. Not the fact of it, but the amazing length of its gestation period—those six years—and how tepid it was. Given the documented record of the Bush Administration”lying us into war, torturing prisoners, rewarding cronies with no-bid contracts, spying secretly on the nation’s citizens, selling public policy to Jack Abramoff’s clients, stating even their intent to ignore laws with dozens of “signing statements”—one would expect the political about-face to have occurred far sooner, and the protest to have been a firestorm. Bush loyalists in Congress (and George Bush) should have been turned out angrily and en masse two years ago…
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Brookings Hosts an Ethnic Cleanser
Mr. Lieberman Comes to Washington
WILL YOUMANS, CounterPunch
When far-right leader Avigdor Lieberman and his Yisrael Beiteinu party joined the Israeli government, pro-peace Israelis expressed outrage. The Brookings Institution extended an invitation. Brookings’ Saban Center for Middle East Policy is holding the third annual Saban Forum in Washington, D.C. from December 8 through the 10th. This year’s forum is entitled “America and Israel: Confronting a Middle East in Turmoil” ? “turmoil,” meaning pissed off Arabs, of course. In his new book Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, Jimmy Carter charges that we lack a national discussion about our nation’s support for Israel. This invitation proves his point, as does the entire forum ? which doesn’t think any Arabs, not even the empire butt-kissers, need be present. For some reason, they invited Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer, but not a single Arab…
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 8 December 2006
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice
…In a dispatch posted at 7:12pm Makkah time Friday night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a fierce battle raged in the city of al-Mada’in, a town of about 20,000 people located about 25km southeast of Baghdad on Thursday and into Friday morning between puppet “Iraqi Government” forces and pro-Iranian militia on one side and Iraqi Resistance fighters and local defenders on the other. The al-Mada’in correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the fighting broke out at dawn on Thursday when the puppet regime’s “Wolf Brigade” attacked the city and took control of a local cemetery as well as the districts of al-Khanasah, al-Wahdah, al-Mashru’, and at-Taqqah. About an hour into the fighting, pro-Iranian Shi ‘ sectarian Jaysh al-Mahdi militiamen joined the attack along side the puppet regime “Wolf Brigade,” bringing in a big force that camped down in the city under the protection of the “Wolf Brigade” who had come in with a force of 3,000 men plus cars and military vehicles…
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Iraqis Seek to Stem Sectarian Violence
DAVID ENDERS, The Nation
…Iraq’s ambassador to Jordan, Saad al-Hayani, said that meetings have taken place in the Iraqi embassy here between US representatives, including two US senators, and insurgent representatives in the last few months, as well as between Iraqis who have accepted and rejected the political process under US occupation, some of whom were directly involved with the insurgency (…) But others discount the talks, saying the time for negotiation, at least with the US, is over, and that the US was never serious about negotiations anyway. “As far as we know, America has not spoken with any of the really active resistance,” said Bashar al-Faili, a member of the Association of Muslim Scholars, a Sunni political party…
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U.S., Iraqi troops seal off Haditha – residents
Reuters
U.S. and Iraqi troops have sealed off the city of Haditha in Anbar province, in the heartland of the Sunni insurgency, and have warned residents to keep off the streets and stay indoors, officials and residents said on Friday. The U.S. military said troops were manning checkpoints and building a sand berm to crack down on insurgents in Haditha and in neighbouring Barwana. It said U.S. troops were protecting “the population and good citizens of Haditha”…
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Tony Two-Face
Sarah Meyer, INDEX RESEARCH
Lindsey Hilsum regurgitated the British government / Media Myth about Tony Blair and the Middle East problem last night on Channel 4 News. “The Prime Minister has always said that the Middle East issue between the Palestinians and the Israelis is absolutely crucial and central and that you will not get away from the the anger of arabs and muslims across the world against the West until you have done that.” Funny way of supporting and furthering the ‘peace process’ – first by supporting Israel in its war against Lebanon, and now supporting the Israeli war crimes in Beit Hanoun…
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A call for help from the family of a murdered Iraqi prisoner in a US jail.
Al Moharer.net
We the undersigned, the family of the martyr Jamil Mohayssen al Dalla Ali Al Ani
We beg those in charge, the human rights organization and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and all the Human Rights Organizations all over the world to help us please get the body of our father may the Lord rest him in peace. Our father whose death announcement ordeal was announced to us in the US Occupation jail at Buca where he was detained. He was jailed under the number of 300456 and his name is Jamil Mohayssen al Dalla Ali Al Ani. Our father didn’t suffer from any disease and we have no idea and we don’t know the cause of his death in the US detention camp…
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DAILY WAR NEWS FOR FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2006
Today in Iraq
Mohammed Haidar Sulaiman, a professor at a sports education college, was killed when gunmen opened fire while he was driving in eastern Mosul, said police Brig Abdul Karim Jubouri. An improvised explosive device detonated near a Multi-National Division – Baghdad patrol, killing one Soldier in the Iraqi capital Thursday. The combat patrol was conducting joint operations with the Iraqi Army to prevent sectarian violence in a western neighborhood of the city when the bomb exploded near one of their vehicles. An improvised explosive device detonated near a Multi-National Division – Baghdad patrol, killing two Soldiers south of the Iraqi capital Dec. 7. The Soldiers were conducting a dismounted patrol responding to a possible IED, south of the city, when a roadside bomb detonated, killing two Soldiers and wounding two others. at 9 o’clock this morning 5 unknown gunmen kidnapped 5 truck drivers in JISER DIYALA area southern Baghdad . at 6 o’clock this evening 4 mortars fell in al nahrawan area southern Baghdad, 4 civilians were killed and 8 others were injured . today 18 dead bodies were found in Baghdad , 2 were found in jihad area, 3 dora, 2 jeafer, 2 amil, 1 saidiyah, 3 kamaliyah, 1 new baghdad, 1 rashad, 2 madaain and 1 zayuna…
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Afghanistan’s opium crop at an all-time high
Jerry Mazza, Online Journal Associate Editor
The question is why. Under Taliban rule, which began in the late 1990s, Afghanistan just about kicked the growing habit by 2001. After five years the Taliban is slipping back in, but poppy production has grown by leaps and bounds. According to the Washington Post, “Opium production in Afghanistan, which provides more than 90 percent of the world’s heroin, broke all records in 2006, reaching a historic high despite ongoing U.S.-sponsored eradication efforts, the Bush administration reported yesterday…
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Words Even an Ex-President Can’t Say in America
The Media Lynching of Jimmy Carter
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN, CouterPunch
It seems Israel’s “supporters” have conscripted me in their lynching of Jimmy Carter. Count me out. True, the historical part of Carter’s book, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, contains errors in that it repeats standard Israeli propaganda. However, Carter’s analysis of the impasse in the “peace process” as well as his description of Israeli policy in the West Bank is accurate – and, frankly, that’s all that matters…
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Conspiracies Behind Haim Saban’s Closed Doors
Kurt Nimmo
“As if to finally dispel the myth there is a difference between Israel First neocons and Democrats, consider the upcoming “closed session” at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, a “think tank” bankrolled by Israeli-American millionaire Haim Saban. “Among the many officials attending are Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni; David Welch, the current top U.S. envoy to the region; Shimon Peres, Israel’s deputy prime minister; Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and her husband, former President Bill Clinton; Amos Yadlin, director of Israel’s military intelligence; Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s minister of strategic planning; and many other Bush administration officials and U.S. and Israeli lawmakers,” reports the Jewish Telegraph Agency…
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Record Number of Iraqis Leave Iraq
jamal taqi::alquds alarabi, via Iraqi League
No Iraqi wishes to leave his/her back on their beloved country for no reason. However, many Iraqis are quitting the country because of the life of hell that now exists in Iraq. The frightening fleeing rate of Iraqis from their country is a sign of the sheer disaster that has engulfed Iraq every since the US-led invasion-turned-occupation reached Baghdad, sacked its entire civil service of 3,000,000 serving Iraqis, and destroyed that state which had been functioning for some 80 years. The reports coming from various European asylum centres show beyond any doubt the continued soaring number of Iraqi refugees escaping their homeland and now living in such centres awaiting the opportunity to find a country that can give then sanctuary from the life of hell in Iraq, many of whom don’t have the large sums of money to pay the smugglers for the ‘journey of hell out of hell’…
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