Former CIA Official: U.S. Losing War in Afghanistan
J.J. Green, WTOP Radio
The U.S. is on the verge of losing the war in Afghanistan, says a former top CIA official who was involved in attempts to capture and kill Osama bin Laden. “Afghanistan of course is a terrible disaster for the United States and NATO. NATO seems to be dying in Afghanistan,” says Mike Scheuer, who headed the CIA’s Osama Bin Laden unit when the war began. Scheuer is no longer with the agency. His harsh assessment comes in his new book, “Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq.” “What we managed to do was what invaders of Afghanistan always do. We took the cities and declared victory, but we didn’t kill the enemy,” Scheuer tells WTOP….

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Iraq’s Ruined Library Soldiers On
R.H. Lossin, The Nation
The brutalities of the Iraq war accumulate so fast it is difficult to keep track. But in this season of fifth-year anniversaries, one largely forgotten crime demands to be recalled, in part because it relates directly to the politics of memory itself. Five years ago this week, U.S. troops stood by as looters sacked the Iraq National Library and Archives (INLA) — one of the oldest and most used in the world. In Arab countries the old expression was “Cairo writes, Beirut publishes, and Baghdad reads.” American troops were under orders not to intervene. Library staff who requested protection from the GI’s were told, “We are soldiers, not policemen” or “our orders do not extend to protecting this [building].” American military orders did, however, extend to guarding the Ministry of Oil, and the headquarters of the Mukhabarat, Saddam Hussein’s secret police. The selective passivity of U.S. forces was not only ethically questionable, but also a violation of international law. The Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (1954) makes clear that libraries should not only be spared attack in wartime but also actively protected….

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European campaign: Mass death in Gaza during the coming five days
Palestinian Information Center
The European campaign to lift the siege on Gaza warned that Palestinian patients in the Gaza Strip are going to die in large numbers if the Israeli occupation continues to prevent the entry of necessary fuel supplies. In an urgent appeal issued in Brussels and received by the PIC, the campaign explained that a complete power outage in Gaza which is expected to happen at the end of this week would stop feeding hospitals with energy necessary for the operation of medical equipment which definitely would result in mass death among patients especially those who are in intensive care units and those who depend on respirators and dialysis machines as well as babies inside incubators….

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THE IRAQI JUDICIARY FINDS SOMEONE WE DON’T LIKE INNOCENT? NO PROBLEM, WE CAN JAIL THEM ANYWAY.
Anabel Lee
After two years and one day of being detained by the U.S. military, Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein was granted full amnesty by an Iraqi judicial panel yesterday. The panel unanimously decided to drop the last remaining criminal charge against the photographer, which concerned allegedly improper contacts he had with insurgents who murdered an Italian citizen, and it ordered Hussein “released immediately.”..Although a positive development, the panel’s decision unfortunately does not necessarily signify the swift and timely release of Hussein that it should. The U.N. mandate does not expire until the end of this year, which means Hussein could spend up to another 8 months in a detention facility if the military drags its feet in reviewing the decision, or, worse, longer if it decides to bring new charges in an effort to prolong his detention.

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Militia break-up poses questions
Basil Adas, Gulf News
Iraqi Prime Minster Nouri Al Maliki’s insistence on dissolving the Mahdi Army militia has prompted many questions concerning the Shiite leader Moqtada Al Sadr’s options, the Iranian role, and US and various Iraqi political forces’ positions. “Al Maliki and others should realise that dissolving the Mahdi Army and disarming it is unacceptable and its leader Sadr will not consider this step an option,” Talal Al Sa’adi, a prominent figure in the Al Sadr trend, told Gulf News…

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Uneasy lies the chutzpah crown
Eli Stephens, Left I on the News
Iraq’s financial free ride may be over. After five years, Republicans and Democrats seem to have found common ground on at least one aspect of the war. From the fiercest foes of the war to the most steadfast Bush supporters, they are looking at Iraq’s surging oil income and saying Baghdad should start picking up more of the tab, particularly for rebuilding hospitals, roads, power lines and the rest of the shattered country. Their bill also would require that Baghdad pay for the fuel used by American troops…Perhaps the Republicans and Democrats are under the impression that Iraq asked to be invaded and have its country destroyed (not to mention the destruction caused during the preceding decade of sanctions and bombing imposed by the “civilized” world). Needless to say, they didn’t, and every cent needed for rebuilding that shattered country should be coming from the millionaires and billionaires and huge corporations in the United States who this war was intended to benefit, not from U.S. taxpayers…

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Israel and U.S. sign nuclear cooperation agreement
Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent
Israel and the United States signed an agreement several days ago to step up cooperation in the field of nuclear safety. The new agreement broadens and upgrades previous accords between the two countries in this field, which were signed over the past two decades. It will enable the Israel Atomic Energy Commission to access most of the latest nuclear safety data, procedures and technology available in the U.S. The agreement was signed by the director of the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Shaul Horev, and the chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Dr. Dale Klein…

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Islamic-Christian Front: “Israel aims at transforming Arabs in Jerusalem into a minority”
IMEMC Staff Report
Secretary-General of the Islamic-Christian Front for Defending Jerusalem and its Holy Sites, Dr. Hasan Khater, warned on Monday that Israel started implementing a new plan which targets the Arab presence in Jerusalem. Dr. Khater added that Israel is ongoing with its violations in Jerusalem and is ongoing with its plans to draw the borders of the city in accordance to the presence of its settlements and the Annexation Wall. He stated that Israel is currently advertising for a new Jerusalem Identity Card which will be granted to residents “with special qualifications”, adding that this plan aims it stripping the Arab residents of their Jerusalem identity and residency….

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Iraq names 36 eligible oil companies
The Energy Blog
The Iraqi Oil Ministry has released the names of 36 international oil companies which it says have the ability to securely develop the country’s rich oilfields. The U.S. appears set to earn the lion’s share of the spoils, with some seven companies on Baghdad’s rulers’ list of pre-qualified oil firms: 120 companies from a around the world had taken part in the selection process. Baghdad and its advisors had examined technical merits, financing, company legal structures, training for Iraqies and health and safety records….

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They’re Routinely Tortured for Throwing Rocks
Patrick Moser
…As of March 31, 324 Palestinian children were held in Israeli prisons, according to the Geneva-based Defense for Children International (DCI), an international rights group. With conviction rates above 95 percent, Mohammed didn’t stand much of a chance, said his lawyer, Iyad Misk. “The Israeli military trials are a sham. As a lawyer, I’d prefer not to take part in this charade, but I still try to help the children. For a lawyer, it’s a moral dilemma,” Misk said outside the trailer at the Ofer military camp where his young client was sentenced. The trials, conducted in Hebrew and translated into Arabic, generally last just a few minutes. Lawyers are at times denied access to documents, when military officials classify the evidence as secret. Some of the children never get a trial, but are held without charges under “administrative orders” that can run up to six months and be renewed indefinitely. “Everything in military courts is designed in favor of the occupation,” said Khaled Quzmar, who coordinates DCI’s legal unit in the West Bank. Lawyers say as many as 50 percent of jailed Palestinian children are held for throwing rocks…

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Under protection of Israeli army, Israeli settlers attack Palestinian farmers near Bethlehem
Najeep Faraj and Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News
A group of radical Israeli settlers from the settlement of Efrat attacked Palestinian farmers from the nearby village of Al Ma’ssarah, located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, on Monday before noon. The farmers said that they were farming their lands when at least a group of 15 settlers using rocks and batons attacked them. The farmers also stated that the settlers were protected by a battalion of Israeli soldiers. When the farmers did not leave as the settlers demanded, soldiers told the farmers that the only way to stop the settlers from attacking them is for the farmers to leave their lands….

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Iraq’s Financial Free Ride May End
ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press Writer
Iraq’s financial free ride may be over. After five years, Republicans and Democrats seem to have found common ground on at least one aspect of the war. From the fiercest war foes to the most steadfast Bush supporters, they are looking at Iraq’s surging oil income and saying Baghdad should start picking up the tab, particularly for rebuilding hospitals, roads, power lines and the rest of the shattered country. “I think the American people are growing weary not only of the war, but they are looking at why Baghdad can’t pay more of these costs. And the answer is they can,” says Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska….

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Afghan fighting poised to escalate
Laura King, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
For weeks now, the men in black turbans have been coming. They travel in pairs or small groups, on battered motorbikes or in dusty pickups, materializing out of the desert with Kalashnikovs and rocket launchers slung from their shoulders. With the advent of warmer weather, villagers say, Taliban fighters are filtering back from their winter shelters in Pakistan, ensconcing themselves across Afghanistan’s wind-swept south. “Every day we see more and more of them,” said Abdul Karim, a farmer who had sent his family away for safety….

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April 14, 2008: 2 US Soldiers, 87 Iraqis Killed; 142 Iraqis Wounded
Margaret Griffis, Antiwar.com
A British photojournalist held in captivity for two months was freed in Basra today. Meanwhile, 87 Iraqis were killed and another 142 were wounded in violent attacks. One American soldier was also killed during an IED attack in Salah ad Din province today, while another roadise bomb killed an American soldier in Baghdad. Fourteen Peshmerga soldiers were killed and 15 more were wounded during a complex suicide bombing and smalls arms attack while the soldiers were on their way to Sinjar…

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 14 April 2008
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice.
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 8:18am Tuesday morning Beijing time (4:18am in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that the US military had admitted that a bomb had exploded by a US patrol in northeastern Baghdad at 4:45pm Monday afternoon local time. Xinhua reported the US communiqué as saying that the explosion resulted in the death of an American soldier. The announcement said that he was initially badly wounded and then evacuated by helicopter, but that he died in a military hospital later…

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Died hanging from wrists and gagged, with over 25 rib fractures UPDATE2-His Name
bewert, Daily Kos
This is my first of a series of diaries about prisoners murdered by US forces. It will tell the story of an Iraqi man who died hanging by his cuffed wrists from a door frame, gagged, and beaten to death by his US interrogators. As the Final Autopsy Report noted: The remains are received clad in a white shirt, white pajama type pants, and white undershorts. Feces covers the clothing from the waist down….There is gauze dressing on the left wrist. No other evidence of medical intervention is noted…. The right chest wall has fractures of ribs three through seven anteriorly and ribs six through twelve posteriorly. The left chest wall has fractures of ribs two through nine anteriorly and ribs seven through twelve posteriorly. There are fractures of the lateral aspect of ribs nine and ten on the left side. There is a horizontal fracture through the mid-portion of the body of the sternum.” Yes, our tax dollars are paying for this…

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European think-tank sees Taliban growing in Afghanistan
New Europe,
The continuing strength of the insurgency and the Afghan government’s weakness make Western and European defeat in Afghanistan a realistic prospect, warns a report published by the newly-established European Council on Foreign Relations, a London-based think-tank. The report recently presented in Brussels by its author, Daniel Korski, says that six years of war and the biggest military operation in the history of NATO have failed to subdue the Afghan insurgency. “A swift and successful end to the conflict is out of reach: even optimistic scenarios foresee an international presence in Afghanistan for years to come,” EuAsiaNews quoted the 35- page report as underlining. The Taliban insurgency will continue to grow stronger as winter ends, it says…

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Manifest destiny?
Israel’s hidden agenda
Uri Avnery*
Uri Avnery reminds us of the hidden agenda that drives the state of Israel: “The real Zionist vision does not recognize any maps. It is a vision of a state without borders – a state that expands at all times according to its demographic, military and political power.” Next month, Israel will celebrate its 60th anniversary. The government is working feverishly to make this day into an occasion of joy and jubilation. While serious problems are crying out for funds, some 40 million dollars have been allocated to this aim. Bur the nation is in no mood for celebrations. It is gloomy….

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Financial Collapse will End the War:
And it won’t be “A time of our choosing”
Mike Whitney
…more than a million Iraqis have been killed in the war. Another four million have been either internally-displaced or have fled the country. But the figures tell us nothing about the magnitude of the disaster that Bush has caused by attacking Iraq. The invasion is the greatest human catastrophe in the Middle East since the Nakba in 1948. Living standards have declined precipitously in every area---infant mortality, clean water, food-security, medical supplies, education, electrical power, employment etc. Even oil production is still below pre-war levels. The invasion is the most comprehensive policy failure since Vietnam; everything has gone wrong. The heart of the Arab world has descended into chaos. The suffering is incalculable…

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Five Years On, Fallujah in Tatters
Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail*
Fallujah remains a crippled city more than two years after the November 2004 U.S.-led assault. Unemployment, and lack of medical care and safe drinking water in the city 60 km west of Baghdad remain a continuous problem. Freedom of movement is still curtailed. The city suffered two devastating U.S. military attacks during 2004. Many of the buildings were destroyed, or heavily damaged. Several collapsed under the heavy bombing, and were never rebuilt. The heaps of concrete slabs and piles of rubble remain where they were. “We wonder why we have been targeted by Americans since the first days of the occupation,” Dr. Mohammad Abed from al-Anbar University told IPS. “This city sacrificed thousands of its citizens through five years of occupation just because they said ‘no’ to a project that threatens their country’s future”…

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GAZA: Fuel Crisis Paralyzes 85% of the Transportation Sector and 50% of Education and Health Services
PCHR – Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
PCHR is extremely worried about the continued Israeli ban on fuel supplies required for civilian life in the Gaza Strip. The stoppage in fuel supplies has led to paralyzing 50% of the educational sector as half the students in all educational levels were unable to reach their schools and universities. In addition, educational sector employees have been unable to reach their work. Furthermore, the transportation sector has nearly stopped functioning throughout the Gaza Strip. As a result all basic functions of civilian life have come to a near standstill, including drinking water delivery, sewage water disposal, and garbage collection. In addition, healthcare facilities registered a 25% drop in clients due to the transportation crisis. Furthermore, hundreds of healthcare professionals were unable to reach their work places…

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Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment
Review of Peter Hallward’s book
Stephen Lendman
…In spite of overwhelming obstacles, the 1994 – 2003 decade was remarkable by any standard. “For the first time in its history, Haiti’s people were ruled by a government of their choosing, one that adopted their priorities as its own.” It made popular support for Aristide active, strong, and channeled through a network of “organisations populaire” (OPs) that played a central collective mobilizing role in the country. They provided an instrument for all kinds of social programs – education, construction, youth and cultural projects, sports, street cleaning, waste management, and more. It made FL “the single most important organized political force in the country” and also the main obstacle to elitist dominance. It made the movement and what it represents, far more than Aristide, the real 2004 putschist target…

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Fuel-starved Gaza facing blackouts
Ma’an News
The Gaza Strip will be blacked out within a few hours after Gaza’s only power plant shuts down due to Israeli fuel cuts, Palestinian officials in Gaza said on Monday. Mahmoud Al-Khizindar, the deputy president of the federation of gas stations in Gaza, told Ma’an that no fuel has been delivered to Gaza since Palestinian fighters attacked the Nahal Oz fuel terminal, killing two Israeli workers last Wednesday. Israeli attacks in Gaza also killed seven Palestinians that day. Al-Khizindar explained that just 45,000 liters were transferred to the power station on Sunday. This amount of fuel will last only a few more hours, he said. Israeli officials say that the closure of the fuel terminal will continue….

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Whose mass graves are these?
Laith Jawad, Azzaman
…In U.S.-administered and occupied Iraq people now talk of ‘Bush’s mass graves.’ More and more mass graves are being unearthed with hundreds of bodies, most of them unidentified, but all of them dug in the post-Saddam era which Iraqis associate with President Bush and his occupation troops….At least 80 bodies of men, women, children and elderly have been recovered from the mass grave in Mahmodiya, among them a girl still in her wedding gown, said Ubaidi. “There are hundreds and hundreds of bodies in this mass grave,” Ubaidi, who is also a member of Human Rights Commission at the Iraqi Parliament, said. He said the commission has a list of 500 people who have been reported missing from Mahmodiya itself. Mahmodiya, part of Baghdad’s southern suburbs, is a very small town of several thousand people. “On our lists there are 4,000 people who have gone missing. And these people, according to their relatives, were taken away by armed groups wearing Iraqi military or police uniform,” he said.

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Young Palestinian woman dies due to the Israeli siege on Gaza
Ghassan Bannoura – IMEMC News
Palestinian medical sources in Gaza City reported that one Palestinian patient died on Monday midday, succumbing to cancer after having been denied a permit by the occupying Israeli army to leave the Gaza Strip for treatment. Suhha Al Jumbass, 22, had cancer ,and she applied several times to leave the Gaza Strip for medical care but the Israeli army refused. The death of Al Jumbass bring the number of Palestinian patients who have died in Gaza due to the Israeli siege to 133…

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11 police, 2 British soldiers killed in Afghanistan
AFP
Dozens of Taliban militants have stormed a police post in southern Afghanistan, shooting dead 11 policemen, while two British troops were killed in a blast, officials say. The Taliban, a hardline Islamist movement that was ousted from government in a US-led invasion in late 2001, claimed responsibility for the attack on the policemen in troubled Kandahar province. “One of our police posts was attacked in Arghandab district. At this point I can confirm that 11 policemen have been killed,” deputy provincial police chief Amanuallah Khan said….

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Israel Refuses to Provide Security for Jimmy Carter Visit
Will Shin Bet also refuse to protect George Bush in Israel during anniversary of its founding?
BBSNews, Edited by Michael Hess
It emerged today that Israel has refused security cooperation between Shin Bet and the US Secret Service to protect former President Jimmy Carter during the Israeli leg of his ongoing Middle East fact finding mission. Haaretz reported that “Government sources on Monday described the lack of Shin Bet during Carter’s visit to Sderot, an area often hit by rockets from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, as particularly ‘problematic’.” ….

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Iraqi forces free kidnapped British journalist
AFP
Iraqi security forces freed a British journalist kidnapped two months ago in the main southern city of Basra on Monday after a fierce firefight with his abductors, Iraqi officials said. Richard Butler was found after the 30-minute gunbattle in a room handcuffed and with a hood over his head, senior Iraqi commander in Basra, Lieutenant General Mohan al-Fraiji, told AFP. Soon after his release, Butler was shown on state television Al-Iraqiya surrounded by Iraqi military officials who hugged and applauded him before sitting down with the journalist to share a meal…

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What is wrong with Egypt?
Comment by Khalid Amayreh in Jerusalem
Not since the downfall of the British puppet King Faruq in 1952 has the Egyptian national will been so shamefully subservient to a foreign power, namely the United States, whose politics and policies are tightly controlled by Zionist Jews. Today, Egypt, which could have become an African or Middle Eastern economic tiger is facing a hard time feeding its nearly 80 million citizens. Last month, several people were killed while standing in long queues waiting their turn to buy bread, the main staple for most Egyptians…

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NO KIDS IN SIGHT ~~ ‘LET’S BEAT UP THE OLD FOLKS INSTEAD’
Desert Peace
I reported earlier about an 80 year old woman being attacked at a checkpoint in the Occupied West Bank yesterday…. it seems that is the newest ‘game’ for the Israeli soldiers…. Same checkpoint, most likely same soldier also beat up an 80 year old man. Big heroes these Israelis… pretty much the same abuse my grandparents experienced in Auschwitz…

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Iraq opens door to foreign contracts at major oil fields
Damien McElroy, Telegraph.co.uk,
Foreign oil companies are poised to enter Iraq later this month after Baghdad signalled it was prepared to sign five oil field services agreements covering its biggest fields. Iraq can reach a geologic potential of 10m barrels a day with substantial foreign investment. But output will depend on security improvements Five years since the US and Britain toppled Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship, there have been few forays by oil’s major players into Iraq, even though the country accounts for almost 10pc of world reserves…

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Bahr invites Europeans to visit Gaza to see Palestinians dying slowly
Palestinian Information Center
Dr. Ahmed Bahr, the acting speaker of the PLC, invited Monday in a press conference held outside the UN headquarters in Gaza the European officials to visit Gaza to see the slow death being experienced by one and a half million Palestinian citizens there, adding that what is happening against Gaza is contrary to all international conventions and laws.Dr. Bahr added that the Europeans, who talks about human rights, are invited to Gaza to take a firm stand against the suffocating Israeli siege which have claimed the lives of 133 Palestinian patients…

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60 Years of Ethnic Cleansing, Land Theft
Nizar Sakhnini
At 4:00 P.M. on May 14, 1948, “State of Israel” was proclaimed in Tel Aviv. About 8 hours later, the White House announced: “This government has been informed that a Jewish State has been proclaimed in Palestine, and recognition has been requested by the provisional government thereof. The U.S. recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel.” (De jure recognition came about in January 1949.) Two major factors made this proclamation possible: British and American help, on the one hand, and treachery of the Arab rulers, especially Jordanian King Abdullah who was in tacit agreement with the Zionists, on the other…

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Al-Sadr demands that troops fired for deserting in Basra get jobs back
The Associated Press
Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is demanding the Iraqi government reinstate all security forces fired for deserting during fighting in Basra. Monday’s statement comes a day after more than 1,300 soldiers and policemen were sacked for abandoning their posts or refusing to fight when clashes broke out. The anti-U.S. cleric says those who gave up their arms “were only obeying their grand religious leaders” and “were driven by their religious duties.” He says in a statement issued by his office in holy city of Najaf that they should be reinstated and even rewarded for their loyalty….

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What is wrong with Egypt?
Comment by Khalid Amayreh in Jerusalem
Not since the downfall of the British puppet King Faruq in 1952 has the Egyptian national will been so shamefully subservient to a foreign power, namely the United States, whose politics and policies are tightly controlled by Zionist Jews. Today, Egypt, which could have become an African or Middle Eastern economic tiger is facing a hard time feeding its nearly 80 million citizens. Last month, several people were killed while standing in long queues waiting their turn to buy bread, the main staple for most Egyptians…

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Iraqi forces free kidnapped British journalist
AFP
Iraqi security forces freed a British journalist kidnapped two months ago in the main southern city of Basra on Monday after a fierce firefight with his abductors, Iraqi officials said. Richard Butler was found after the 30-minute gunbattle in a room handcuffed and with a hood over his head, senior Iraqi commander in Basra, Lieutenant General Mohan al-Fraiji, told AFP. Soon after his release, Butler was shown on state television Al-Iraqiya surrounded by Iraqi military officials who hugged and applauded him before sitting down with the journalist to share a meal…

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