26/10/07

Big-Game Hunting in Iraq
Tom Engelhardt & Nick Turse
…Nor is there anything new about Americans treating racial and ethnic enemies as the equivalent of animals to be abused or killed. In his memoir of the Vietnam War, Dispatches, acclaimed combat correspondent Michael Herr, for example, recalled a young soldier from the Army’s 1st Infantry Division who admitted, “Well, you know what we do to animals…. kill ‘em and hurt ‘em and beat on ‘em…. Shit, we don’t treat the Dinks [Vietnamese] no different than that.” Another veteran, quoted elsewhere remembered, “As soon as I hit boot camp…. they tried to change your total personality…. Right away they told us not to call them Vietnamese. Call them gooks, dinks…. They were like animals, or something other than human…. They told us they’re not to be treated with any type of mercy…” Today, the slurs of the Vietnam era have been replaced by “haji” and “raghead,” while the big-game hunters and the language that goes with killing animals have added to the atmosphere of dehumanization…

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Who is Occupying Iraq?
Samir Obaid, Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMSI)
…So the conflict is volition conflict and intelligence conflict between Tehran, Washington and Tel Aviv. The leaders of Iran have confessed that without the attitude and support of Iran the war on Talibans and Saddam would not be occurred and succeeded. That is why Iran wants its share in these two wars especially the loots gained in Iraq. However, Israel aims to control Iraq and the region not Iran. This is the essence of the conflict between Tehran from one side and Washington and Tel Aviv from the other side. The victim in this conflict is Iraq and Iraqi people. Both projects would not serve Iraq, the Iraqi nation or even the region….

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 26 October 2007.
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. www.freearabvoice.org
….In a dispatch posted at 12:40am Baghdad time just after midnight Saturday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a US patrol opened fire on a family in their car on a street in al-Fallujah, 60km west of Baghdad, on Friday afternoon, killing a little Iraqi girl. Yaqen reported a source in the puppet police, who asked not to be identified, as saying that the Americans opened fire on the private car when it darted out of a side street onto the main road where the US patrol was driving. The US gunfire wounded the little girls mother and severely wounded the little girl who was no more than five years old. The source said that the little girl arrived in al-Fallujah General Hospital in grave condition with gunshot wounds to her head and abdomen. She died a half hour after being admitted…

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ANALYSIS: Israel’s real intention behind sanctions on Gaza Strip
Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff , Haaretz Correspondents
There is an enormous gap between the reasons Israel is giving for the decision to impose significant sanctions against Hamas rule in the Gaza Strip, and the real intentions behind them. Defense Minister Ehud Barak authorized Thursday a plan for disrupting electricity supply to the Gaza Strip, as well as significantly shrinking fuel shipments. This is supposed to reduce the number of Qassam rocket attacks against Sderot and the other border communities. In practice, defense officials believe that the Palestinian militants will intensify their attacks in response to the sanctions. As such, the real aim of this effort is twofold: to attempt a new form of “escalation” as a response to aggression from Gaza, before Israel embarks on a major military operation there; and to prepare the ground for a more clear-cut isolation of the Gaza Strip – limiting to an absolute minimum Israel’s obligation toward the Palestinians there…

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US denies being on warpath with Iran
Olivier Knox, AFP
The White House on Friday rejected any parallels between its Iran rhetoric and the run up to the Iraq invasion, adding it had not ruled out the use of force but was “very hopeful” of avoiding war. Fresh sanctions on Tehran and escalating US warnings have fueled comparisons to the weeks and months before the March 2003 invasion, but spokesman Tony Fratto told reporters: “I don’t think there are any parallels to draw at all.” Asked whether the United States was on course for armed conflict with Iran over its suspect nuclear program and alleged interference in Iraq, Fratto replied: “I think we’re very, very hopeful that it won’t.” “We are absolutely committed to a diplomatic process. We would never take options off the table, but the diplomatic process is what we want to move forward with,” he said, calling it “unwise” to rule out the use of force…

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When ‘Good Men’ do Nothing
Joharah Baker for MIFTAH
…This is certainly not the first time a Palestinian prisoner has died in an Israeli jail. Since the start of the Aqsa Intifada in September 2000, there have been 17 prisoner deaths, according to the Prisoners’ Club. After each death, the Palestinians rise up on anger, condemning the injustice and calling on international organizations to step in and protect the prisoners. And while organizations such as the International Committee for the Red Cross facilitate in matters such as family visits and securing clothes to the men and women behind bars, they are rendered ineffective when Israel orders a shut down. After Monday’s riots at Ketziot, Israeli prison authorities canceled all family visits to the prison. So basically, the Palestinians, whether inside prison or not, are all at the mercy of Israel’s oppressive policies and Israel, regardless of its actions, is almost always exonerated in the eyes of the international community under the pretext of its “security” and “self-defense.” Since the Palestinians do not have all the means to persecute Israel for their actions, this responsibility should fall on those people (or countries) of conscience who do. In the words of English philosopher Edmund Burke, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”…

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Army to review Iraq contracts for fraud
RICHARD LARDNER, Associated Press Writer
A team of specially trained investigators will hunker down in an Army office north of Detroit on Monday to begin poring over hundreds of Iraq war contracts in search for rigged awards. This team of 10 auditors, criminal investigators and acquisition experts are starting with a sampling of the roughly 6,000 contracts worth $2.8 billion issued by an Army office in Kuwait that service officials have identified as a hub of corruption….

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Saturday 27th October 2007 : A Day Conference on Iraq
The Plight of Iraqi People under Occupation
Solidarity for an Independent and Unified Iraq
Let’s start with the facts: * Over a million violent Iraqi deaths since 2003. Many more due to breakdown of hospitals, water pollution and depleted uranium contamination. * Over a thousand professionals, academics, journalists, and medics murdered. * 4.5 million Iraqis displaced Iraqis, half abroad. With little education and job prospects a powder keg of anger and violence is threatening the whole region and the world. This dwarfs the scale of the Palestinian displacement of half- a century ago. * 30,000 Iraqi detainees at any one time by the US forces, and twice that number by the Western-armed Iraqi forces, ridden with sectarianism and criminal gangs. The ‘Iraqi government’ admits to 700 women detainees accused of terrorism. Rape and abuse cases have never been investigated…

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US steering clear of Kurdish fight
PAULINE JELINEK, Associated Press Writer
The U.S. military commander in northern Iraq said Friday he plans to do “absolutely nothing” to counter Kurdish rebels who are staging deadly cross-border attacks into neighboring Turkey. It was the most blunt assertion yet by an American official in the last few weeks that U.S. forces should not be involved in the fight. The Bush administration has said repeatedly that the border crisis should be resolved through diplomacy. Asked what the U.S. military was planning to do, Maj. Gen. Benjamin Mixon said: “Absolutely nothing.”…

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Jeffrey Feltman Moves On Does
“Loving” Lebanon Mean Never Having to Say You’re Sorry?
FRANKLIN LAMB
As US Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman packs his bags and prepares to depart Lebanon for his next assignment, he probably should be forgiven for feeling a bit abused these past few months. His pique surfaced on October 22 nd when he rudely insulted his host, his Christian eminence Bishop Mattar specifically, and Lebanese journalism in general when he likened it to a court clown tasked with bringing him some laughter in the morning which helps him forget his Lebanese concerns. Beirut’s media, including Al Safir has been having a field day commenting on the American Ambassador’s unprecedented pro Israel activities while claiming to “love Lebanon”…

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“Everything they couldn’t take they destroyed”
Maureen Clare Murphy writing from Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, Live from Lebanon
“Don’t ask what they stole, ask what they left,” dryly jokes Khaled, a Palestinian refugee from Nahr al-Bared camp in northern Lebanon. It was evident from what remained of the crown molding along the ceiling that his three-story house was once grand. Now, only one year after the seven-year process of building the house was completed, the structure is largely destroyed and its contents looted. The middle-aged video-maker and editor asks, “the battle never reached this far, so why did they burn my house?”…

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The Arab Baath socialist Party calls the Iraqi patriots to intensify combat against the bloodthirsty US thugs.
Al-moharer.net
The Arab Baath Socialist Party Comrades Mujahidins have issued and distributed hundreds of leaflets and handouts in many of Baghdad neighborhoods and its surroundings asking the Iraqi patriots to intensify the combat against the bloodthirsty US gangsters and wipe out the US puppet government and its collaborators everywhere in the homeland…

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Israelis Enjoy Torturing Palestinians
IslamOnline.net & Newspapers
Israeli soldiers enjoy torturing Palestinians, both men and women, and many of them use it to discharge energy, according to a recent study by an Israeli psychologist. “At one point or another of their service, the majority of the interviewees enjoyed violence,” Nufar Yishai-Karin, a clinical psychologist at the Hebrew University, told The Observer on Sunday, October 21. Interviewing 18 Israeli soldiers and three officers, Yishai-Karin heard confessions of brutal assaults troops routinely commit against Palestinians. All of the interviewees were among those serving with her at an army base in Rafah in the Gaza Strip. After finishing service, Yishai-Karin spent seven years investigating soldiers’ abuse of Palestinians during the first intifada in the late 1980s and early 1990s…

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Rumsfeld hit with torture lawsuit while visiting Paris
Jason Rhyne, RAW STORY
Former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s jaunt to France was interrupted today by an unscheduled itinerary item — he was slapped with a criminal complaint charging him with torture. Rumsfeld, in Paris for a discussion sponsored by the magazine Foreign Policy, was tracked down by representatives of a coalition of international human rights groups, who informed the architect of the US invasion of Iraq that they had submitted a torture suit against him in French court…

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White House On $2 Trillion Iraq War: ‘Not Worried About the Number’
Think Progress
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported today that “total spending for U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and other activities related to the war on terrorism would amount to between $1.2 trillion and $1.7 trillion for fiscal years 2001 through 2017.” With $705 billion in interest, the cost of the wars could amount to $2.4 trillion — with $1.9 trillion in Iraq. White House Press Secretary Dana Perino attacked the report as “a ton of speculation” and downplayed it as a creation “based on questions that Democrats in Congress that don’t want us to be in the war asked.” Perino added that the White House is not concerned about the exact cost of the war…

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Apartheid highway 443
Sabbah’s blog
The following photos are from the anti-apartheid protest that toke place yesterday and blocked busy Highway 443, one of many highways that run on occupied Palestinian land but are reserved for Israelis only. As usual, the Israeli Occupation Forces used force to move the peaceful demonstrators….

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War News for Friday, October 26, 2007
Iraq today
…A U.S. soldier was killed and four were wounded in a roadside bombing in southern Baghdad, the military reported Friday. The unit was hit Thursday with an explosively formed penetrator, known as an EFP. A suicide bomber blew himself up near the headquarters of a nationalistic Sunni insurgent group that has turned against al-Qaida in Iraq, killing a woman on her way to the market Friday and wounding four other people, police said. The attacker detonated his explosives belt after he was unable to get through the main gate of the headquarters of the 1920s Revolution Brigades in Muqdadiyah, about 60 miles north of Baghdad. Witnesses told police that the bomber was a young man who ran toward the main gate and blew himself up after he was barred from entry….

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A Family Tree.
Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues
…A friend who is closely associated with an International Organization, told me that the non official figure for Iraqi orphans is 5 million. I have no way of verifying this figure but I does not surprise me.(…) There are also hundreds of other Iraqi children rotting away in local prisons, under the pretext of helping the “insurgents.” (…) An article appeared yesterday, and it states that these child prisoners show signs of severe torture. Read on. “The five children showed signs of torture all over their bodies. Three had marks of cigarettes burns over their legs and one couldn’t speak as the shock sessions affected his conversation…” It is believed that there are about 220 child prisoners in Iraqi governmental run prisons. I say bullshit to that. Multiply this number by 3 at least, if not more. It is also common to witness an armed militia man walking into some hospital with some sick child prisoner (some not older than 12) and the doctors have to treat and ask no questions whatsoever. Some of these children are diagnosed with STD. Would you like to see your own children in a similar state ? So you have the orphans, the child prisoners and you also have another category, the traumatized for life, beyond help category…

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Home of the Brave?
Dave Lindorff
Several years ago, I warned that as the Bush/Cheney administration sought to reduce politically problematic casualty rates in Iraq and Afghanistan, it would resort to increased use of air attacks to combat the growing insurgency in Iraq and the resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan. I also predicted that the result of this switch in tactics would lead to higher civilian casualties in those two countries. We’re now seeing those results. In the latest reports from Iraq, we had 15 women and children slain, mostly in their homes by rockets and bullets fired from helicopter and fixed-wing gunships which were allegedly in pursuit of some supposed “al Qaeda” fighters, and as many as 17 civilians killed in Baghdad’s Sadr City neighborhood when US forces called in air strikes after seeing a group of men they deemed to be hostile. Again those air strikes ended up killing more civilians than alleged enemy fighters. The casual use of the term “air strikes” belies the horror of what is happening….

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CHEMICAL WEAPONS MYTHS
Malcom Lagauche
One of the most overstated subjects in recent history is the Iraqi chemical weapons program. First, we heard about the massive stocks of chemical weapons Iraq had prior to 1991. When U.N. inspectors arrived in Iraq, they were quite surprised to find that the alleged number of weapons mentioned in the Western media and by U.S. politicians, was no where near reality. There were many fewer. For the next 12 years, we heard that Iraq had not destroyed its stock of chemical weapons, and after December 1998, we had allegations shoved down our throats that the Iraqis were rebuilding their program. From 2001 until March 2003, U.S. politician-after-politician stated that Iraq’s efforts to rebuild its chemical weapons program had resulted in stockpiles larger than those Iraq possessed prior to 1991. There was absolutely no proof of these allegations. Once the issue became a steamroller, politicians of both major U.S. parties began to outdo each other with claims. All the time this was occurring, Iraq kept stating very clearly it had no banned weapons….

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Israeli Occupation Authorities Seek to Impose More Measures of Collective Punishment on the Palestinian People, and PCHR Warns of Further Deterioration to Humanitarian Conditions in the Gaza Strip
PCHR – Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
PCHR calls upon the international community, particularly the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, UN bodies and all international humanitarian organizations top take immediate effective measures to force Israeli occupation authorities to abstain from implementing the recommendations of the special security committee, established by the Israeli Ministry of Defense, to decrease the supplies of electricity, fuels and basic goods for the Gaza Strip. PCHR calls also for pressuring the occupation authorities to allow the immediately flow of foodstuffs and medical supplies in the Gaza Strip. PCHR further warns the international community of the repercussions of the policy of collective punishment practiced by Israeli occupation authorities against the Palestinian civilian population, including the closure of border crossings and restrictions imposed on importation and exportation….

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Israelis Enjoy Torturing Palestinians
IslamOnline.net & Newspapers
Israeli soldiers enjoy torturing Palestinians, both men and women, and many of them use it to discharge energy, according to a recent study by an Israeli psychologist. “At one point or another of their service, the majority of the interviewees enjoyed violence,” Nufar Yishai-Karin, a clinical psychologist at the Hebrew University, told The Observer on Sunday, October 21. Interviewing 18 Israeli soldiers and three officers, Yishai-Karin heard confessions of brutal assaults troops routinely commit against Palestinians. All of the interviewees were among those serving with her at an army base in Rafah in the Gaza Strip. After finishing service, Yishai-Karin spent seven years investigating soldiers’ abuse of Palestinians during the first intifada in the late 1980s and early 1990s…

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American casualties and ‘bravery’ plummet … Iraqi civilian casualties and Resistance rise
Imad Khadduri, Free Iraq
“This month has seen the smallest number of Americans killed in Iraq than any other month since March 2006. But the reasons may have less to do with progress in the war than with the way we’re now fighting it. Just 29 U.S. military personnel have died in Iraq in October so far—down from 65 in September, 84 in August, 78 in July, 101 in June … … However, some perspective is warranted. First, all told, 2007 has been a horrible year for American lives lost in this war—832 to date, more than the 822 lost in all of 2006, and, by the time the year ends, almost certainly more than the 846 killed in 2005 or the 849 in 2004. …What accounts for the decline in American deaths since the summer? It’s hard to say for sure, but one little-reported cause is almost certainly a relative shift in U.S. tactics from fighting on the ground to bombing from the air….

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Who is Occupying Iraq?
Samir Obaid, Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMSI)
…So the conflict is volition conflict and intelligence conflict between Tehran, Washington and Tel Aviv. The leaders of Iran have confessed that without the attitude and support of Iran the war on Talibans and Saddam would not be occurred and succeeded. That is why Iran wants its share in these two wars especially the loots gained in Iraq. However, Israel aims to control Iraq and the region not Iran. This is the essence of the conflict between Tehran from one side and Washington and Tel Aviv from the other side. The victim in this conflict is Iraq and Iraqi people. Both projects would not serve Iraq, the Iraqi nation or even the region….

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Letter from the Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council
More than 11,000 Palestinian civilians, including more than 400 children and more than 100 women, are being held in the prisons and detention centres of Israel, the occupying Power. The majority of Palestinians being illegally imprisoned or arbitrarily detained by Israel are subject to extremely harsh living conditions and constant physical and mental ill-treatment, including coercive interrogations and humiliation, and many of them are subject to torture. The inhumane treatment of Palestinian prisoners at the hands of the occupying Power has been the cause of widespread suffering and trauma among the prisoners and has led to the death of at least 190 Palestinian prisoners over the many years of this prolonged and bitter foreign occupation of the Palestinian land and people…

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Apartheid highway 443
Sabbah’s blog
The following photos are from the anti-apartheid protest that toke place yesterday and blocked busy Highway 443, one of many highways that run on occupied Palestinian land but are reserved for Israelis only. As usual, the Israeli Occupation Forces used force to move the peaceful demonstrators….

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White House On $2 Trillion Iraq War: ‘Not Worried About the Number’
Think Progress
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported today that “total spending for U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and other activities related to the war on terrorism would amount to between $1.2 trillion and $1.7 trillion for fiscal years 2001 through 2017.” With $705 billion in interest, the cost of the wars could amount to $2.4 trillion — with $1.9 trillion in Iraq. White House Press Secretary Dana Perino attacked the report as “a ton of speculation” and downplayed it as a creation “based on questions that Democrats in Congress that don’t want us to be in the war asked.” Perino added that the White House is not concerned about the exact cost of the war…

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Who Would You Believe?
Revenging Bloodshed
BRIAN CLOUGHLEY
…Then there are the scores of claims that “insurgents” are killed by airstrikes in which hundreds of ordinary people have been slaughtered in Afghanistan and Iraq. Just how do US forces know that a precise number of “insurgents” died in their air strikes? Do ground troops go in and check their identities? Do “insurgents” carry identity cards? How are they identifiable? What distinguishes them from ordinary people? Can the US military explain how ANY of the people they kill in air strikes can be said to be “insurgents”?…

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Rumsfeld hit with torture lawsuit while visiting Paris
Jason Rhyne, RAW STORY
Former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s jaunt to France was interrupted today by an unscheduled itinerary item — he was slapped with a criminal complaint charging him with torture. Rumsfeld, in Paris for a discussion sponsored by the magazine Foreign Policy, was tracked down by representatives of a coalition of international human rights groups, who informed the architect of the US invasion of Iraq that they had submitted a torture suit against him in French court…

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The Turkish troops inside Iraq
Tim Butcher, Telegraph
It was tricky to tell who was the more surprised – the Turkish soldiers deployed 12 miles inside Iraq or The Daily Telegraph after stumbling across this apparent “proof’’ that the invasion of northern Iraq had already begun. For a second, both parties tried to look composed. A Turkish soldier swung his machine-gun around to look as nonchalant as is possible while wearing a helmet peeking out of the turret of an armoured car deployed on a combat patrol in enemy territory. And I fidgeted self-consciously with my camera aware that grabbing a picture could upset an already a fragile situation….

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Gaza residents unable to get medical care, aid workers say
IRIN News
– Dozens of patients in the Gaza Strip are unable to receive medical treatment, in some cases life-saving procedures, due to the continued border closures with Israel and Egypt, health officials and international aid workers said. “At least three patients denied exit permits have died since June, and others have lost limbs or sight,” Human Rights Watch reported. The Palestinian organization Al Mezan in Gaza said a fourth man, Nimir Muhammad Shuheibar, aged 77, died on 23 October while awaiting treatment. Shadi Yassin, a spokesman for the Israeli Civil Administration in Gaza, said he was unaware of deaths due to the restrictions. The Israel Medical Association said it “regards the access to healthcare services as a fundamental right of all persons and therefore takes the current situation very seriously”….

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Palestine needs a new PLO
From Khalid Amayreh in Occupied East Jerusalem
It is no secret that the current PLO, headed by the American-backed Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, is no longer capable of navigating the Palestinian cause toward the shore of safety. The hapless and infinitely corrupt organization is senile, unreformed and utterly undemocratic, and as such can no longer represent the vast bulk of the Palestinian masses at home and in the Diaspora. Moreover, the current leadership of the PLO is more or less subservient to Israel if only because its very political and financial survival depends to a very large extent to Israel’s good will. After all, the PLO is under the Israeli occupation…

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The Arab Baath socialist Party calls the Iraqi patriots to intensify combat against the bloodthirsty US thugs.
Al-moharer.net
The Arab Baath Socialist Party Comrades Mujahidins have issued and distributed hundreds of leaflets and handouts in many of Baghdad neighborhoods and its surroundings asking the Iraqi patriots to intensify the combat against the bloodthirsty US gangsters and wipe out the US puppet government and its collaborators everywhere in the homeland…

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Livni behind closed doors: Iran nukes pose little threat to Israel
Gidi Weitz and Na’ama Lanski – Haaretz October 25, 2007
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said a few months ago in a series of closed discussions that in her opinion that Iranian nuclear weapons do not pose an existential threat to Israel, Haaretz magazine reveals in an article on Livni to be published Friday. Livni also criticized the exaggerated use that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is making of the issue of the Iranian bomb, claiming that he is attempting to rally the public around him by playing on its most basic fears. Last week, former Mossad chief Ephraim Halevy said similar things about Iran…

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Israeli authorities demolish all houses in an unrecognized Arab village in the Negev
IMEMC News
For the twelfth Israeli authorities demolished on Wednesday morning all houses, tin-houses, in the unrecognized Arab village of Taweel Abu Jaroul, in the Negev, for the twelfth time, and uploaded all the belongings of the residents on eight trucks before dumping them in a nearly trash-yard. Local sources reported that policemen took the identity card of Aqeel Al Talalqa, head of the village council, and took his car keys in order bar him from leaving the village to ask for help or to object to the authorities. Al Talalqa appealed all popular institutions to intervene and aid the residents of village, and stated that the villagers insist to remain steadfast in their lands….

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 25 October 2007
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. www.freearabvoice.org
…In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 5:03pm Thursday afternoon Beijing time, the Xinhua News Agency reported that Iraqi Resistance forces killed one more American occupation soldier in the city of Bayji, 200km north of Baghdad, on Wednesday. Xinhua reported a communiqué issued by the US occupation forces as admitting that one American soldier was killed and five more wounded in the course of combat operations against the Iraqi Resistance. Earlier the US had admitted that another of its soldiers had been killed and three more of them wounded in a landmine explosion somewhere else in Salah ad-Din Province on Wednesday….

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Google updated Syria satellite images 5x sharper
Roads to Iraq
Since yesterday night, Google updated their Syria satellite imagery for Syria 5 times sharper from 25 meter per pixel up 5 meters per pixel. It is possible to see all Syria military airports and even count how many warplanes on the ground, for the expert eyes, you can also recognize anti-warplanes batteries, its positions and its types This is in a way or another related to recent commercial satellite images released by the US claiming that the buildings are nuclear sites….

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War News for Thursday, October 25, 2007
Iraq today
MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a Coalition Forces Soldier who died of wounds as a result of injuries from a mine explosion while conducting operations in Salah ad Din Province on Wednesday, Oct. 24th. Three CF Soldiers were also wounded, and two were transported to a Coalition medical facility for treatment. No further information was given. MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of an MNC-I Soldier who was killed on Wednesday, October 24th during combat operations near the city of Bayji. Five other Soldiers were wounded. No further information was given . The Department of Defense announced today the death of two sailors who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died Oct. 22 in Bahrain during a non-combat related incident. Both sailors held the Master-at-Arms rating and were assigned to U.S. Naval Support Activity Bahrain….

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