What
do Fallujah and Halabja have in Common?
Ghali Hassan
…The fabricated story continues today to justify the many atrocities committed
by the US and its allies against the Iraqi people. There was not a single credible
evidence to prove that Iraqi troops were in Halabja that day, and that Iraq was
responsible for the chemical attacks on the town. Iraqi troops evacuated the
town few days before the Iranian attacks, and eventual occupation of the town
by Iranian troops (…) Unlike Halabja, the Fallujah genocide! remains hidden
from American and Western “moral consciousness‰. Very few people
in the West heard the screams of Fallujah citizens. The word “pacify‰ is
a common euphemism for US destruction and outright murder of innocent civilians…
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Osama,
TV News Junkie
Kurt Nimmo
…Bush may talk about Osama‚s “dark vision,‰ but simplistically
characterizing the resistance as al-Qaeda dupes will do absolutely nothing to
stop the ultimate victory of the resistance. In fact, the resistance ˜ and
millions of Iraqis ˜could not care less what Bush and the Likudites in Washington
have to say about them or their determination to get out from under a brutal
and oppressive military occupation. Most of them realize Bush‚s staged
election in January will be a colossa! l failure and the resistance will continue.
Sooner or later America will be obliged to leave Iraq…
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Bargains
and offers rejected by Saddam Hussein
Salah Almukhtar
Has the moment to tell all now arrived? Perhaps it has. We refused to talk
about the characteristics of the leader and legal President of Iraq, Saddam
Hussein, may God set him free, when Satanic Safavid- Zionist waves were crashing
against this region; we feared lest we put ourselves in an unenviable position
on the defensive. But now that the Iraqi armed Revolution is knocking on the
doors of decisive victory, in the near future, God willing, and ! now that
America and the neo-Safavids are being defeated and the pillars of satanization
are under the blazing light of the truth ˆ a recent example being the
exposure of the lies about Halabjah and the “massacres‰ in the
south of Iraq ˆ the time has come to tell all about past years…
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A
New American Century? Iraq and the hidden euro-dollar wars
F. William Engdahl, Investigating Imperialism
…This little-noted Iraq move to defy the dollar in favor of the euro, in
itself, was insignificant. Yet, if it were to spread, especially at a point the
dollar was already weakening, it could create a panic selloff of dollars by foreign
central banks and OPEC oil producers. In the months before the latest Iraq war,
hints in this direction were heard from Russia, Iran, Indonesia and even Venezuela.
An Irani! an OPEC official, Javad Yarjani, delivered a detailed analysis of how
OPEC at some future point might sell its oil to the EU for euros not dollars…
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Labor
and the Anti-War Movement
Joanne Landy, www.dissidentvoice.org
…The Bush administration is clear in its intention to pursue the grisly
and murderous occupation of Iraq for years, if not decades—no matter its
cost in Iraqi and American lives, no matter how much it strengthens reactionary
forces throughout the Muslim world. But the Democrats show no sign of offering
an alternative foreign policy that could end the war or genuinely promote global
democracy and justice. Will labor challenge this bankrupt two! -party system,
with its de facto bipartisan foreign policy, or will it continue to go along?…
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Iraqi
Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 30 December 2004
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr,
member editorial board The Free Arab Voice.
The correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam met in Baghdad with Captain “Abu
Hasan‰ of the Madinat ath-Thawrah area in the Iraqi capital, a man who
took part as an officer in the puppet “national guard‰ in the US
offensive on al-Fallujah. Captain Abu Hasan was involved in the fighting just
days ago as the commander of a detachment that fled along with him from in!
side one of the northern neighborhoods of the defiant city (…)”And
I‚m remorseful for fighting against the Resistance, because I‚m
convinced that God will punish me for that. The infidels had brainwashed us”…
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The
Great Crime Spree of 2004
Justin Raimondo
If 2003 was the year of the liars, as I opined last year, then 2004 was the
year of the war criminals, starting with Time magazine’s designated Man
of the Year, criminal-in-chief George W. Bush. It was Bush who presided over
the torture and abuse not only at Abu Ghraib but in U.S.-run dungeons from
Guantanamo to Afghanistan ˆ and spare me the cries of protest that he
didn’t know, and Abu Ghraib was an “isolated incident”…
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Seven
killed in Iraq car bomb attack
Aljazeera.net
A car bomber has killed seven people, five of them Iraqi national guards, near
the northern town of Baiji. The bomber drove his car at a checkpoint in Siniya,
west of the oil refining town, killing five national guards and two civilians,
guard Captain Raad Jassim said on Friday. Two other civilians were shot dead
by guards nearby when they failed to stop at a checkpoint, hospital staff said…
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Dead
Soldier’s Dad Finds No Enemy in Iraq
by Rebecca Romani, Inter Press Service
…And then Suarez’s voice gets hard. “They say Saddam had illegal
weapons. Jesus died because of an illegal weapon. Cluster bombs are illegal under
the Geneva Conventions.” (…) “The Americans dropped about 20,000
cluster bombs. Only 20 percent exploded. My son didn’t die in the front
lines from enemy fire; he died because of the military’s negligence…”
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Tim
Spicer’s World
Andrew Ackerman, The Nation
Military contracts are big game. And one of the most notorious hunters is a
former British soldier whose past business ventures include violating a UN
arms embargo in Sierra Leone and unwittingly triggering a coup in Papua New
Guinea. His name is Tim Spicer, and in March his London-based company, Aegis
Defense Services, bagged a $293 million contract from the Pentagon to protect
US diplomats in Iraq…
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AMERICA’S
DECLINE
AIJAZ AHMAD
…Coordination between the U.S. and Israel is so close that it now becomes
impossible to distinguish between the two. Israelis have trained the Kurdish
peshmargas under U.S. tutelage, and their forces are said to be active on Turkish
territory adjoining Iran. Israelis have even trained U.S. forces deployed in
Iraq, teaching them the techniques of urban warfare they have deployed in such
operations as in Jenin and Ramallah, and which the U.S. has followed in Falluja…
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Chemical
Weapons in Fallujah
Raed Jarrar, Raed in the Middle
Sorry about the picture, I know it is too graphic. But… This is one of
many pictures that show how some people in Fallujah were killed by chemical
weapons. You can see how these two men were sleeping on the floor, covered
by blankets, and dead. These two men died while they were sleeping, there is
no blood any where that can indicate they were shot…
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Violence
Against Iraq Troops Takes Toll
ROBERT BURNS, AP
Key measures of the level of insurgent violence against American forces in
Iraq, numbers of dead, wounded and insurgent attacks, show the situation has
gotten worse since the summer. While those numbers don’t tell the full
story of the conflict in Iraq, they suggest insurgents are growing more proficient…
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Falloujans
Get an Unsettling Look at Their City
Edmund Sanders, Times Staff Writer
Yasser Abbas Atiya swore he’d sooner sleep on the streets of his beloved
hometown of Fallouja than spend another night in the squalid Baghdad shelter
where his family had been squatting. Thirty minutes after he returned home
this week, however, Atiya had seen enough. He left in disgust and had no plans
to go back. “I couldn’t stand it,” the grocer said. “I
was born in that town. I know every inch of it. But when I got there, I didn! ‘t
recognize it”…
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Iraqi
Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 29 December 2004
…In a dispatch posted at 6:40pm Wednesday evening, Mecca time (7:40pm local
time), Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US forces at 4pm Wednesday had launched
an attack attempting to break into the an-Nazal neighborhood in the southern,
Resistance-held part of al-Fallujah. The Americans attempted to make use of the
return of refugees to the city as cover for their assault, driving a number of
refugee families ahead of them into the neighborhood as h! uman shields…
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Spain:
Madrid Commission confirms conspiracy of lies used to justify Iraq
War
Paul Mitchell, WSWS
Evidence presented to the commission investigating the train bombings on March
11 in Madrid in which 191 people died and 1,700 others were injured confirms
that a conspiracy of lies was used to justify the Iraq war and deceive the
Spanish people. The evidence emerged when current Prime Minister José Luis
Rodríguez Zapatero testified at the Spanish Congressional Commission of Inquiry
into the Madrid bombings…
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New
Year surprise: Bush sponsors an Iranian government in Baghdad
Nick Possum
…”That leaves the Shia, in the south, as the only group apart from
the Kurds ˆ and they really just want to secede from Iraq ˆ that can
gain politically from the elections, but guess who‚s leading them ∑ Ayatollah
Sistani, a bunch of Islamic fascists like the Supreme Council for the Islamic
Revolution in Iraq, and the Badr Brigades, and all of them are just basically
a front for the Mad Mullahs of Tehran‰…
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Fallujah
residents return to a destroyed city
Joseph Kay, WSWS
…The reality in Fallujah is the face of the US occupation. The destruction
of the city, which is a war crime on a massive scale, is meant as an example.
It is an indication of what the American military is prepared to inflict on any
region offering resistance to the US presence in Iraq…
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Mosul
election staff quit en masse
Aljazeera.net
The entire staff of the independent electoral commission in the Iraqi northern
city of Mosul, amounting to about 700 employees, have resigned amid growing
violence in the country. Staff members said on Thursday their resignation followed
threats they received in the past few days. The withdrawal of the Iraqi Islamic
Party from the election also figured in their decision, Aljazeera has learned…
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Conduct
Unbecoming
Paul Craig Roberts, Antiwar.com
Major General Thomas Fiscus, judge advocate general of the Air Force, opposed
the harsh interrogation techniques approved and later rescinded by Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for use on Guantanamo prisoners. Subsequently, General
Fiscus has been reprimanded for a dozen sexual affairs during the last decade
and may face disbarment proceedings. As the affairs were consensual with civilian
and military women, one doesn’t know whether the general is being punish!
ed for sticking up for human rights or whether the U.S. military thinks abstinence
is a requirement of general officers, with sexual license left to the Dominatrix
of Abu Ghraib…
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Legal
Breach: The Government’s Attorneys and Abu Ghraib
Andrew Rosenthal, New York Times
The most obvious victims of the brutal treatment of prisoners at American military
jails are the men, women and children who have been humiliated, sexually assaulted,
beaten, tortured and even killed. But, as in all wars, the Bush administration’s
assault on the Geneva Conventions has caused collateral damage – in this
case, to the legal offices of the executive branch and the military…
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