Fresh Impressions from Baghdad.
Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues
I have a distant relative who lives in England. He went to Baghdad a month ago via Erbil, no visa required in his case as he holds the British nationality. He stayed in Erbil for a few days and went to Sulaymania. In Erbil, he says he needed “a translator” as Arabic was hardly spoken there. Thankfully, he managed with English. He stayed in Sulaymania for a few days then head to Baghdad to visit his family and his in-laws whom he has not seen in several years. These are his impressions of Baghdad today. – Overall, most Baghdadis he met, both Sunnis and Shias are totally fed up with the Mullahs and their doctrines. Most Iraqis really want a “secular country” and a “secular government.” ( Well they had a secular country before their “liberation”)…

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U.S. Congress to Iraq: Pay our war expenses with your oil revenue
Iraq Oil Report
Iraqis would be forced to pay for U.S. efforts in their country directly or via loans from the United States if any of at least five similar pieces of legislation introduced on Capitol Hill this month is approved. This comes as Americans deal with — and politicians respond to — an unpopular and expensive war, a sinking economy and record gas prices…

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Palestinian detainees tortured in Israeli custody, PLC member says
Ma’an News
A member of the Palestinian Legislative Council said on Thursday that the Israeli army policy of abuse and humiliation of Palestinian detainees is illegal. Issa Qaraqe’ issued a press statement in which he claimed Palestinian civilians are being illegally tortured during official investigations and these torture tactics are being ignored by senior army officials and often take place in Israeli military jeeps. “This policy isn’t aimed at getting information from the detainees as much as it is an act of revenge and constitutes sadistic and immoral behavior exercised by the Israeli army and border guards against Palestinian prisoners, and these practices are barbaric,” Qaraqe’ said. Qaraqe revealed that 85% of detainees, and especially children, are subject to abuse, beatings and humiliation before and during questioning…

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War on militias or an intra-Shiite conflict
Marwan Kabalan, Special to Gulf News
…Al Maliki seems also be trying to build his own militia to counteract the influence of the other Shiite factions. He has in fact managed to win personal loyalty among supporters of the Al Fadhila Party, which split from Al Sadr, and played an important role in controlling the government in Basra in the latest round of fighting.Moreover, according to Al Hayat, the London-based Arab daily, Al Maliki has tried to buy loyalty among tribal leaders in Basra, using central government funds to create what could become elements of a local security force under his direct control. Indeed, the Mahdi army has committed heinous crimes against the Sunni population of the country. These crimes can even be dubbed as crimes against humanity. Yet, this is the last thing that might trouble Al Maliki and his SIIC ally….

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The President’s Executioner
The High Crimes of John Yoo
JENNIFER VAN BERGEN
…Yoo’s efforts to deny rights to detainees is, alone, a breach of basic requirements of the 1907 Hague Convention, which states that “it is especially forbidden … [t]o declare abolished, suspended, or inadmissible in a court of law the rights and actions of the nationals of the hostile party.” (Laws and Customs of War on Land (Hague IV); October 18, 1907, Art. 23). Breaches of the Hague or Geneva Conventions may constitute war crimes, by definition, under the 1996 War Crimes Act. “War crimes” are not just crimes under some vague view of unenforceable international law subject to dispute by civilized nations. Nor are they just crimes under widely accepted international laws;they are also crimes under U.S. federal domestic law. Professor Yoo not only laid the groundwork for the commission of war crimes by others, but his “legal advice” was itself a promotion of crime…

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Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory No. 17/2008 (17 – 23 April 2008)
PCHR – Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Israeli violations of international law and humanitarian law seriously escalated in the OPT, especially in the Gaza Strip, during the reporting period (17 – 23 April 2008): Shooting: During the reporting period, IOF killed 15 Palestinians and wounded 32 others, including 4 children and a journalist, in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Two children also died from previous wounds in the Gaza Strip. In the Gaza Strip, IOF killed 12 Palestinians and wounded 21 others, including a child. On 19 April 2008, IOF killed 6 Palestinians, including a civilian, and wounded 9 others, including 4 civilians, in separate attacks throughout the Gaza Strip. On 20 April 2008, IOF killed an activist of the Palestinian resistance and wounded 3 others in the east of Gaza City. On the same day, IOF carried out an extra-judicial execution attempt in Rafah. The targeted person survived the attack, but a civilian was killed and 3 others were wounded…

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What a difference a month makes . . .
Richard Beeston, The Times
… The most notorious areas of Basra are now under government control, the Mahdi Army of Moqtadr al-Sadr has been roundly defeated… So how did a military novice, using untested troops, succeed where thousands of British forces had failed? The hint came at the weekend from the unlikely figure of Hassan Kazemi Qumi, the Iranian ambassador to Baghdad, whose country has in the past armed, funded and trained elements of the Mahdi Army. “The idea of the government in Basra was to fight outlaws,” said the envoy. “This was the right of the government and the responsibility of the government. And in my opinion the government was able to achieve a positive result in Basra.”… For once the interests of America, Britain, Iran and the Iraqi government coincided with disastrous results for Mr al-Sadr and his fighters… But there is little evidence that the Basra example will be repeated any time soon. In Baghdad, US forces are currently engaged in an identical battle against Mahdi Army irregulars concentrated in their Sadr City stronghold. The combatants may be the same as those fighting in Basra, but the political circumstances are completely different. In Baghdad it seems Iran wants the Mahdi Army to continue to have a piece of the Iraqi capital and a stake in the politics of the city…

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US claims North Korea helped build Syria reactor plant
Ewen MacAskill, The Guardian
The mystery over the Israeli bombing of Syrian territory last year took a new twist yesterday when US intelligence agencies showed a video claiming to prove that the target was a covert nuclear plant being built with North Korean help. The White House described the alleged reactor as “a dangerous and potentially destabilising development for the region and the world”…The video, made public last night after Congress had been briefed, is a collection of material from various sources, in addition to Israeli intelligence. There is no tape from inside the alleged reactor, only two still photographs, apparently taken by a human hand on the ground rather than a drone or satellite. This was supported by satellite pictures and graphs. The pictures taken on the ground show an apparently empty brown-grey, solid building, but nothing that seems to indicate it is being used for nuclear purposes…

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ID cards split Palestinian families
Sherine Tadros in Gaza, Aljazeera.net
From the moment I set foot in Gaza there was one question everyone kept asking me: “When are they going to open the crossings?” For almost a year now the two points at which people can get out of Gaza – the Erez and Rafah crossings – have been closed to all Palestinians. Even the Hamas forces guarding the crossings were asking me the same question. They are all prisoners in Gaza. But there is a larger problem beyond the closed crossings, one that will last long after deals on opening Rafah and Erez are made – Israel is using a controversial residency law to prevent Palestinian holders of Jerusalem identity cards currently living or even visiting Gaza from going back to their city….

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Top Sunni bloc is set to rejoin cabinet in Iraq
JAMES GLANZ, International Herald Tribune
Iraq’s largest Sunni bloc has agreed to return to Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s cabinet after a boycott of nearly a year, several Sunni leaders said Thursday. They cited a recently passed amnesty law and the government’s crackdown on Shiite militias as reasons for the move. The Sunni leaders said they were still working out the details of their return, an indication that the deal could still fall through. But such a return would represent a major political victory for Maliki in the midst of a military operation that has at times been criticized as poorly planned and fraught with risk….

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April 24, 2008: 3 US Soldiers, 42 Iraqis Killed; 38 Iraqis Wounded
Margaret Griffis, Antiwar.com
At least 42 Iraqis were killed and 38 more were wounded in the latest attacks. Three American soldiers were killed as well, but in separate accidents. Also, Britain is canceling its drawdown of troops for the time being. Two American soldiers were killed and one was wounded during a vehicular accident in Salah ad Din. One Iraqi interpreter was also wounded. Another American soldier was killed in a separate accident in Kuwait. Meanwhile, the MNF denied capturing former Vice President Izzat al-Douri….

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 24 April 2008
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. www.freearabvoice.org
…In a dispatch posted at 1:33am Baghdad time Friday morning, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that a rocket or possibly a mortar shell slammed into the building where employees of the Polish embassy live in Baghdad….

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U.S. kills 800 in 3 weeks in Sadr city
Laith Jawad, Azzaman
U.S. occupation forces have killed more than 800 people, most of them innocent civilians, in their three-week long military campaign to subdue the Mahdi Army in Sadr City, the leader of Sadr movement in Baghdad said. Sheikh Salaman al-fariji said the troops have also injured more than 1,800 people and caused large-scale destruction of private property and the city’s rickety infrastructure….

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Breaking the Silence – Israeli Soldiers Speak
Stephen Lendman
…Breaking the Silence (Shovrim Shtika) dedicates itself to two purposes: — exposing IDF oppression in occupied Palestine; and — providing discharged Israeli soldiers and reservists a platform to explain what they were ordered to do on the ground. In their own words, hundreds of their testimonies tell shocking stories – the ordeal they faced, its moral price, and the corrupting erosion it had on their values. They focus on orders gotten, rules of engagement and operational procedures that include frequent illegal commands: — firing at civilians posing no risk; — revenge operations for collective punishment; and — intentionally attacking Palestinian rescue forces, including ambulances. Their accounts are disturbing. They portray institutionalized moral corruption, universal contempt for Arabs, and how it affects everyone from new recruits to commanders.

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Hebron orphanage under threat by the army, hundreds or children will be homeless
Ghassan Bannoura – IMEMC News
The Islamic Charitable Society (ICS) in Hebron held a press conference on Thursday regarding the new Israeli army orders issued against them. Speakers at Thursday’s press conference included the Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT), Hebron, teachers and students from Al-Shari’yah Girls School in Hebron, Othman Abu Sabha of Palestinian Union of Medical Relief Committees, Doctors of the World, and Tim Rothermel, spokesperson for President Jimmy Carter. The Charitable society runs several projects in Hebron, and is also running three schools and two orphanages serving 7000 children, 300 of whom are living in the Society’s buildings….

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Tariq Aziz
Eli Stephens, Left I on the News
It’s been quite a while since I wrote about Tariq Aziz, whose “right to a speedy trial” (or even to being charged with anything) is no more a reality than tens of thousands of others being held by the U.S. in Guantanamo, Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. But now it’s time for an irony alert: Former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, the public face of Saddam Hussein’s regime, will face trial next week over the execution of dozens of merchants in 1992, a prosecutor said on Thursday. The merchants were accused of increasing prices of essential goods against state policy at a time when Iraq was suffering under U.N. sanctions imposed for its 1990 invasion of Kuwait. 40 people executed (I’m willing to bet following a trial, however nominal, and a conviction, though the article doesn’t say)! …

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Iraqis See Red as US Opens World’s Biggest Embassy
The 104-acre, 21-building enclave was cleared for occupancy recently and will open next month
Howard LaFranchi, Christian Science Monitor
For the average American who will never see it, the new US Embassy in Baghdad may be little more than the Big Dig of the Tigris. Like the infamous Boston highway project, the embassy is a mammoth development that is overbudget, overdue, and casts a whiff of corruption. For many Iraqis, though, the sand-and-ochre-colored compound peering out across the city from a reedy stretch of riverfront within the fortified Green Zone is an unsettling symbol both of what they have become in the five years since the fall of Saddam Hussein… “It is a symbol of occupation for the Iraqi people, that is all,” says Anouar, a Baghdad graduate student who thought it was risk enough to give her first name. “We see the size of this embassy and we think we will be part of the American plan for our country and our region for many, many years.”…

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Al-Sadr may restart full-scale fight against US in Iraq
HAMZA HENDAWI and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA
Muqtada al-Sadr is considering setting aside his political ambitions and restarting a full-scale fight against U.S.-led forces — a worrisome shift that may reflect Iranian influence on the young cleric and could open the way for a shadow state protected by his powerful Mahdi Army. A possible breakaway path — described to The Associated Press by Shiite lawmakers and politicians — would represent the ultimate backlash to the Iraqi government’s pressure on al-Sadr to renounce and disband his Shiite militia. By snubbing the give-and-take of politics, al-Sadr would have a freer hand to carve out a kind of parallel state with its own militia and social services along the lines of Hezbollah in Lebanon, a Shiite group founded with Iran’s help in the 1980s….It’s unknown how much al-Sadr’s Iranian hosts are shaping his views. Al-Sadr, who is in his mid-30s, is studying in Qom under the supervision of Ayatollah Kazim al-Haeri, a reclusive Iraqi cleric close to Iranian hard-liners…Salah al-Obeidi, al-Sadr’s chief spokesman in Iraq, acknowledged that al-Sadr and the Iranians were at present bound by close ties and common goals….

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The General Command of the Iraqi patriotic Forces warns any one who uses its name!
A statement
The Armed Forces General Command – Al-moharer
Our Iraqi heroic Armed Forces, while enduring a bitter struggle against the enemies of God, the enemies of the People and the enemies of the Nation, are subject these days, to various conspiracy attempts to affect its role, and its Jihad and belittle its influence in the management of the Armed battle with the US-Zionist and the savage Iranian Safawi aggression. This noble and ancient patriotic Institution has all the time ascertained its deepest belonging to its people and to its Nation when its men and women expressed their attachment to their Homeland’ soil and were the first to unsheathe their sword to defend the homeland’ independence and sovereignty….

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Iraqi army claims it is in full control of Basra
AFP
A month after Iraqi troops poured into the southern city of Basra to take on militiamen who had overrun five neighbourhoods, the government says it has regained control there. “All areas of Basra are under the command of the security forces,” interior ministry spokesman Major General Abdel Karim Khalaf said on Thursday. “There are no areas under the control of armed men. Iraqi police are deployed in all Basra streets,” he told AFP…

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PALESTINIAN ISLAMISTS, CHRISTIAN ACTIVISTS MAKE LAST-DITCH EFFORT TO SAVE ORPHANS FROM ISRAELI STATE TERROR
Khalid Amayreh, Desertpeace
Palestinian leaders and Christian peace activists as well as representatives of human rights organizations operating in the occupied Palestinian territories on Thursday made an impassioned appeal to “all men and women of conscience all over the world” to help stop Israeli army plans to close down and take over several orphanages and boarding schools sheltering thousands of orphans and impoverished students. Many of the orphans’ parents had been killed by the Israeli army and paramilitary Jewish terrorists, also known as “settlers”…

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Exchange with Graham Watson MEP, Leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe in the European Parliament
Gabriele Zamparini, The Cat’s Dream
…Most importantly, I would kindly like to have your attention on one point. Once again, as the media watch FAIR wrote a few weeks ago: “There is no more important question about the Iraq War than the question of how many Iraqis have died. It is impossible to truly evaluate the war or discuss where to go from here without knowing the human cost of the war, and that cost has overwhelmingly been borne by Iraqis.” Please, it would be possible for the European Parliament to ask for an investigation on the human cost of the Iraq war? …

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Donations for Abdullah’s Transplant Surgery
Hiyam Noir, PalestineFreeVoice
Abdullah Ramz Mahmoud Kalloub, a two and a half year old Palestinian boy from Gaza Strip, is diagnosed with Mevalonic Aciduria….Abdullah’s parents are paralyzed by the knowledge, that this huge amount required for the operation, is impossible to find.Even if the family have done their best to raze money among relatives and friends in Gaza Strip. The bitter truth is that every individual and family on Gaza Strip have had their share of misfortune. Every family has lost a child or a relative, a husband a wife, a sister or a brother, during the harsh circumstances in which the Palestinian society on Gaza Strip are facing, in particular due to the 10 month long, shameful Israeli/International blockade and siege imposed on Gaza Strip. The Palestine Authority has given a donation of $20.000, which will cover part of the expenses. The amount required to perform the transplantation is $45.000.The parents of the sick child have in their desperation turned to a number of charitable foundations for aid.However the Israeli occupant authorities, has not permitted charities on Gaza Strip and the West Bank, to operate their institutions and money transactions.Human Rights organizations use to give aid in similar situations though the conditions have changed,because of the blockade and siege imposed on Gaza Strip. Abdullah lost his 6 year old sister Marah in March this year…

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Turkey mediating Israel-Syria peace talks
Richard Boudreaux, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
Despite months of tension, Israel and Syria appeared Thursday to be engaged in indirect talks on the outlines of a peace accord that would include an Israeli pullout from the Golan Heights. Direct, U.S.-brokered talks over the territory, captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East War, collapsed in 2000. There have been periodic peace overtures since, but the current effort is viewed as more serious because it is being mediated by Turkey, which has close relations with both countries…

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Fallon: Petraeus At Centcom Doesn’t Mean War With Iran
JOHN ALLMAN | The Tampa Tribune
As the new head of U.S. Central Command, Gen. David Petraeus will have to deal with Iran’s continued influence in the Middle East. But his nomination shouldn’t be viewed as a step closer to war, said Adm. William Fallon, who abruptly resigned as Centcom commander in March. “I don’t think this is at all a sign there’s some kind of imminent action,” Fallon said during a brief phone interview today. “This is a story that won’t seem to go away.”…

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Americans – Sadrists reached a deal?
Roads to Iraq
Rumors reported by two days ego by Elaphabout Allawi mediation between the Sadirsts and the Americans [according to Allwai, the Sadrists asked him].Iraqi writer Zaid al-Zubaidi says on al-Akhbar that to stop bombarding of Sadr-City by the American occupation forces, the Sadrists have to handover a list of persons who are cooperating with Iran, to extend Mahdi Army freeze for at least a year and to stop the attacks on the American forces in exchange for not to follow other Sadrists leaders, the writer linked “other leaders” with the re-activation of the arrest warrant issued for al-Sadr in 2004. The writer also linked all the events above with the rumors of unrest among the Sadrists , questioning their leader’s credibility, comparing his deeds to his words of not negotiating with the occupation forces….

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Persecution without End
Nicole Colson
Sami Al-Arian was supposed to have been released from prison April 11 after more than five years behind bars. Instead, the former University of South Florida professor is facing another extension of his incarceration–and has been forced to take desperate action in protest. In March, Al-Arian began a new hunger strike, his third since he was first imprisoned in February 2003. As Socialist Worker went to press, he was on day 50 with no food and had reportedly lost more than 34 pounds….

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Former Iraqi deputy PM Tariq Aziz to face trial
Reuters
Former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, the public face of Saddam Hussein’s regime, will face trial next week over the execution of dozens of merchants in 1992, a prosecutor said on Thursday. Jaffar al-Moussawi, a prosecutor with the Iraqi High Tribunal, said Aziz and several other former members of Saddam’s regime would appear in court on Tuesday over the case. Aziz, who also served as foreign minister under Saddam, has appeared as a witness in earlier trials of ex-regime members, but this will be the first time he has faced charges himself. “Tariq Aziz will be presented for trial at the special tribunal over the execution of around 40 merchants in 1992,” Moussawi told Reuters. Asked what the specific charges would be, Moussawi said: “It’s believed he was involved in the case.”..

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3 US soldiers killed in vehicle accidents in Iraq, Kuwait
Associated Press
The U.S. military says two of its soldiers in Iraq died when their vehicle rolled onto its side north of Baghdad. A third American soldier died in a road accident in neighboring Kuwait. The two soldiers died Wednesday in Iraq’s Salahuddin province. The military said in a statement released Thursday that another soldier and an interpreter also were injured….

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UN suspends Gaza food deliveries
Aljazeera.net
The UN has suspended food aid deliveries in the besieged Gaza Strip due to fuel shortages. The United Nations Works and Relief Agency (UNRWA), which distributes food and essential commodities to nearly two-thirds of Gaza’s population, had earlier warned it expected to run out of fuel for its lorries by Thursday afternoon. The last shipment of fuel to Gaza by Israel – the sole distributor of it to the territory – came before Palestinian fighters attacked an Israeli fuel depot on April 9. An emergency shipment of fuel for UNRWA lorries from within Gaza was reportedly intercepted on Thursday by angry strawberry farmers who needed the supplies for irrigation and refrigeration. “Its something that we’ve been warning about since early April, and that is what is so tragic,” John Ging, head of UNRWA in the Gaza Strip, told Al Jazeera. “Now we’re at a stand still – we just don’t have the fuel to operate the trucks….

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U.S. hopes Sadr chooses peace
UPI
A top U.S. general in Iraq said Wednesday he does not blame the Mahdi Army for ongoing violence and hoped Moqtada Sadr would work toward peace. Speaking to reporters in Baghdad, Lt. Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, the second in command of U.S. military operations in Iraq, said military operations in Sadr City would continue to target Iranian-backed “special groups” operating in the region but not specifically Sadr’s Mahdi Army, Voices of Iraq reported. “We do not attribute what we’ve seen to (the Mahdi Army),” said Austin. “We certainly hope that Sadr will choose the road of peace and responsibility,” he said….

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Yinon’s Prophecy: Is the US Waging Israel’s Wars?
Linda S. Heard
…Read the following strangely prophetic segment from an article published in 1982 by the World Zionist Organisation’s publication Kivunim and penned by Oded Yinon, an Israeli journalist with links to the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Yinon’s strategy was based on this premise. In order to survive Israel must become an imperial regional power and must also ensure the break-up of all Arab countries so that the region may be carved up into small ineffectual states unequipped to stand up to Israeli military might. Here’s what he had to say on Iraq: “The dissolution of Syria and Iraq into ethnically or religiously unique areas such as in Lebanon is Israel’s primary target on the Eastern front. Iraq, rich in oil on the one hand and internally torn on the other is guaranteed as a candidate for Israel’s targets. Its dissolution is even more important for us than that of Syria. Iraq is stronger than Syria. In the short run, it is Iraqi power which constitutes the greatest threat to Israel.

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Anti-Hunger Protests Rock Haiti
Nazaire ST-FORT & Jeb SPRAGUE, Translated by Machetera – Tlaxcala
Demonstrations that started in Le Cayes on Thursday, April 3rd, against soaring food prices spread across Haiti to Petit-Goagve, Gonaïves, Aquin and, by April 7, to the capital, Port-au-Prince. Anger over rising prices has been building for many months with basic food stuffs increasingly out of reach for the poor. Tires were set ablaze in the streets and thrown together to form barricades that paralyzed traffic for days….

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