[uruknet.info] - [daily information from occupied iraq] - [newsletter 25Jul 2005]

["uruknet.info" <redazione at uruknet.info>]

  uruknet.info
  «Ë-Ë“Ê Æ‰Ê·Ë
:: information from occupied iraq
:: informazione dall'iraq occupato

MESSAGE TO THE IRAQI GOVERNMENT
Malcom Lagauche
...Just this morning, I read two accounts in the media that speak volumes.
The first comes from an "anonymous" source in your organization and was
printed by a newspaper sponsored by your group. It was short and sweet:
Saddam Hussein will be executed in a few weeks. Not one word about being
tried in a fair and legal manner. Just that he will soon be dead. In
another article, published by Al-Jazeera News, a female member of your
group criticized the assemblage for no! t paying attention to hospitals and
their needs. She mentioned that a hospital in the south of Iraq was not
even worthy of storing dates. Let me put these two articles together...

<http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=14092&s2=26>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=14092


The ‘Evil Ideology’
The teachings of Islam are peace and equality
Ghali Hassan, GlobalResearch.ca
Let’s be very clear: Islam is not an "evil Ideology", as Tony Blair
asserted. The teachings of Islam are peace and equality; it is outrageous
for Mr. Blair to suggest otherwise. It is Mr. Blair who is riding on an
imperialist ideology of violence and domination against the wishes of the
majority of the British people. No other religion which can claim to teach
tolerance, pluralism and respect for the other ! as beautifully as Islam
(...) Evil is: the occupation of Palestine, the occupation of Afghanistan,
the occupation of Iraq, the abuse and torture of Iraqis, include the
torture of children at Abu Ghraib, Baghdad, and Basra. It has been
estimated that since the 2003 invasion of Iraq by US-British armies, more
than 150,000 innocent Iraqi men, women and children have been killed and
countless number of Iraqis injured. Now one in the West suggests a two
minutes of silence for the mass slaughter of Iraqi children...

<http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=14082&s2=26>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=14082


2,000 vets call for release of more Abu Ghraib photos
RAW STORY
Veterans for Common Sense (VCS), a nonpartisan veterans' organization with
12,000 members, called for a commission to investigate torture allegations
today, in response to the Pentagon refusal to release photos and videos
from Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, the group said in a release Monday.
Details follow. In an open letter, signed by more than 2,000 veterans and
supporters (including 5 flag-rank officers and more than 200 commissioned
officers), t! he veterans urged Congress and the President to "commit --
immediately and publicly -- to support the creation of an independent
commission to investigate and report on the detention and interrogation
practices of U.S. military and intelligence agencies deployed in the war on
terror"...

<http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=14090&s2=26>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=14090


Tom Friedman; feeding the war machine
Mike Whitney
...The source of the problem is not in the heart of Islam but in the
sanctuaries of the American plutocracy, where fantasists who never held a
rifle dreamt of leading the nation to war. Their muddled vision has now
produced the greatest wave of terror the world has ever seen. Friedman
scrupulously tip-toes around the facts so he can shift the blame onto his
favorite whipping-boy; radical Islam. But the problem is not the “cancer in
their midst”, as Friedman claim! s, but the cancer in ours. “Hate mongers”
were not responsible for the unprovoked invasion of Iraq...

<http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=14073&s2=26>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=14073


Letter to George W. Bush	|
ilyana
...Today, July 23’rd is the third year anniversary of a meeting that took
place on Downing Street in London. May 1, 2005 began the release of
documents (the Downing Street Memos or DSM) that call into question, the
hows and whys you lead us into the war in Iraq. There was some “fixing of
intelligence” around the policy. There were people involved in helping you
implement that policy. The recent Plame production that stars Karl Rove,
only touches the tip of the iceberg, having to! do with the people engaged
in this information dominance and perception management...

<http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=14091&s2=26>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=14091


Water Not War Floods The Streets Of New York City
Anna J. Brown, Voices in the Wilderness-NYC, 25 July 2005
In the "Bechtel's Dry Run: Iraqis Suffer Water Crisis (2004)" report
published by Public Citizen's Water for All Campaign, its North American
reader meets Ahmed Abdul Rida, a resident of Baghdad's Sadr City. Mr. Rida,
whose family members join a million others in dire poverty, is waiting for
the two to three hours of electricity available per day to be activated so
that he may use his family's water pump. S! ince the water that he is able
to pump is derived from the polluted waters of the Tigris River, what he
and his family end up drinking is described as a "concentrated cocktail of
pesticides, fertilizers, heavy metals from antiquated piping, and unknown
amounts of depleted uranium, raw sewage and other chemicals from American
and Iraqi munitions from the 1991 Gulf war, and the more recent
Anglo-American invasion."...

<http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=14095&s2=26>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=14095


SALAH AL MUKHTAR: THE IRAQI RESISTANCE IS GEARED TO KEEP ON FIGHTING FOR A
DECADE TO COME
Arabmonitor
..."The current resistance in Iraq, to be accurate, has not made or
prepared by Iraqi government, but by Baath party leadership. At the
beginning in the year 2002, the Baath party has completed the training of
about 6 million Iraqi citizens to fight urban warfare by the so called Al
Quds Army (...)There is no sure information about the fate of Zarqawi, some
of the information suggesting that he had been killed at! the beginning of
Iraq’s occupation, but some other sources believe that he has been arrested
by Americans. Anyway whatever the correct story is, I tell you that Zarqawi
is a limited phenomenon and it is located in a specific area and playing a
limited role. The US intelligence used to say that all operations are made
by Zarqawi to show that those who fight against Americans in Iraq are
foreigners not Iraqis, to convince American public opinion that the war
against the so called( terrorism) is justified. On the other hand, the US
want to underestimate the role of the Iraqi resistance in general and the
Baath party in particular..

<http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=14074&s2=26>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=14074


"Wagging the Puppy" -- and Unleashing the Deadly Dogs of War
Norman Solomon, MMN
Midway through July, the Karl Rove scandal was dominating the national news
-- until the sudden announcement of a Supreme Court nominee interrupted the
accelerating momentum of the Rove story. Since then, some anti-Bush groups
and progressive pundits have complained that the White House manipulated
the media agenda. But when it comes to deploying weapons of mass
distraction, the worst is yet to come. Changing the subject is a key asp!
ect of political damage control. Media spin is often most effective when it
displaces one storyline with another...

<http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=14088&s2=26>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=14088


Evil Ideology
Robert Thompson, Axis of Logic
...Mr Blair is right in saying that we must all oppose evil ideologies,
but, if he were even slightly honest, he would surrender to the
International Criminal Court at The Hague to be tried for his
well-documented crimes against humanity as defined in the Nuremberg
Principles, and in other later internationsl agreements. It is no excuse to
argue that he was just doing what his Fuehrer told him to do - Mr George W.
Bush and all his other courtiers should face the same! fate, as did Mr
Adolf Hitler's close collaborators...

<http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=14098&s2=26>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=14098


No Video of the 3 Bombers Inside the London Subway Cars before they blew up?
Dick Fojut, GlobalResearch.ca
EVERY London bus and Underground train car has multiple Video Cameras! The
Police claim the bus videos malfunctioned, but made no similar claim about
the video cameras in the Underground train cars. The Muslim men are claimed
to have ridden from Luton to King's Cross where they split up to take
separate trains. I've also read it takes about 25 minutes to ride from
Luton station to where the bombs were detona! ted. Therefore, there MUST be
some 25 minutes continuous video of first four men, riding from Luton, then
video of each (supposed) "Muslim" Bomber, seated with his rucksack on each
of the 3 separate Underground cars, riding from King's Cross - to where the
3 bombs exploded SIMULTANEOUSLY!...

<http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=14083&s2=26>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=14083


Four 48th soldiers killed in bomb attack
Rome News-Tribune
Four soldiers were killed Sunday by a roadside bomb in the deadliest attack
on the 48th Brigade Combat Team since its mobilization. A fifth soldier was
injured in the blast and, as of Monday morning, was being treated at a
military hospital in Baghdad. The names and units of the soldiers are being
withheld while the affected families are notified and to give those
families time to grieve without exposure to the media, according to Army
policy...

<http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=14085&s2=26>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=14085


Hitler's Shadow and the Coming Storm
John Chuckman, www.dissidentvoice.org
Despite many differences, there are striking parallels between Bush's
invasion of Iraq and Hitler's invasion of Russia, and understanding these
parallels serves to warn of the coming storm Bush is calling down upon all
of us. Hitler's decision to invade Russia was a horrific turning point in
history, certainly the most consequential decision of the twentieth century
and likely the most destructive in all of history. We still live with some!
of its terrible results. In material terms, America's invasion of Iraq
cannot be compared to the invasion of Russia. Germany took on a gigantic
opponent, arrogantly regarded as its inferior in civilization and
technology. America's invasion was of a country with one-twelfth its
population and, of more importance from a military point of view, with
roughly one-twelfth its per capita income...

<http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=14081&s2=26>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=14081


Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit on Taking the Measure of Victory
Tom Engelhardt & Rebecca Solnit
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has long been obsessed by the
"metrics" of success in the war in Iraq. His are, of course, the metrics
from hell and they have regularly betrayed him when it comes to measuring
the signs of victory. But measuring the immeasurable on our confusing
planet is no small task and it's not restricted to the Rumsfelds of our
world either. All of us, whether we're particularly aware of it or not, !
spend more time than we might imagine looking for and trying to measure
"success"...




<http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=14096&s2=26>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=14096


GI Special 3C1: Two Minutes Of Hell - July 25, 2005
www.militaryproject.org
...But the Americans concede the growing sophistication of guerrilla
attacks and the insurgents' ability to replenish their ranks as fast as
they are killed. "We are capturing or killing a lot of insurgents," a
senior Army intelligence officer in a sensitive position said in an
interview. "But they're being replaced quicker than we can interdict their
operations. There is always another insurgent ready to step up and take
charge"...

<http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=14080&s2=26>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=14080


Iraqi police recruits not up to scratch, says US report
Michael Howard, The Guardian
The vetting of recruits to Iraq's police force is so poor that many who
join up have criminal records, are barely literate, or are members of the
insurgency, a new US government report has concluded. The report, compiled
by Pentagon and state department officials and quoted in this week's Time
magazine, said that while training for the new Iraqi police force had
improved, there were still a number of serious problems...

<http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=14087&s2=26>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=14087


Sharm el-Sheik and the Strategy of Tension
Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire
“Officials believe the mastermind behind [the Sharm el-Sheik] attacks could
be linked to the attacks in October on resorts in the Sinai Peninsula
resorts. The deadly tally in those attacks that entailed three explosions
that destroyed hotels in Taba and two other Sinai resorts: 34 people, most
of them Israelis,” writes Joe Gandelman in a news round-up. It is said the
Abdullah Azzam Brigades of al-Qaeda in Syria and Egypt claimed resp!
onsibility for the Taba and Ras Shitan bombings. Abdullah Azzam’s name
rings a bell...

<http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=14079&s2=26>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=14079


'Enemies of humanity' quote raises Iraq PR questions
News release quotes from unidentified Iraqis are virtually the same
CNN
The U.S. military on Sunday said it was looking into how virtually
identical quotations ended up in two of its news releases about different
insurgent attacks. Following a car bombing in Baghdad on Sunday, the U.S.
military issued a statement with a quotation attributed to an unidentified
Iraqi that was virtually identical to a quote reacting to an attack on July
13. After! questioning by news media, the military released the statement
without the quotation...

<http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=14078&s2=26>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=14078


Saddam asks to meet Ramsey Clark
Ahmed Janabi, Aljazeera.net
Lawyers for former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein have said he has asked to
meet a former US attorney general who is a member of his defence team, but
he is yet to hear from the authorities. A statement on Monday issued by the
team, which goes by the acronym ISNAD, said Saddam asked the special
tribunal set up to try him for a meeting with former US attorney general
Ramsey Clark, but his request had not been answered yet...

<http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=14086&s2=26>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=14086


Shoot-to-kill
Xymphora
...Shoot-to-kill makes some sense in the twisted world of Israel. After
all, in the Occupied Territories, if you shoot someone in the head who you
think just might be a suicide bomber, you've either stopped a suicide
bombing or killed a Palestinian. It's a win-win situation! In London,
however, the odds are against you. You have to weigh a very, very tiny
chance of stopping a suicide bomber against the huge probability of
allowing the police - or military - to be judge, jury and executioner! of
an innocent man. On top of that, you have to consider that the fear and
anger caused by a mistake could be the cause of real suicide bombings in
the future (this side effect is another thing that is considered a bonus in
Israel, as the provocation of terrorism allows for the Israeli state
terrorism which is being used in the ethnic cleansing of the Occupied
Territories)...

<http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=14071&s2=26>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=14071




<http://www.uruknet.info>www.uruknet.info: a site gathering daily
information concerning occupied Iraq: news, analysis, documents and texts
of iraqi resistance available in Italian and English.





You receive this newsletter because you subscribed it. If you think it has
been an abuse, or simply if you don't want to receive it any more, to
unsubscribe from our newsletter, please write to
<mailto:webmaster at uruknet.info?subject=UNSUBSCRIBE>webmaster at uruknet.info
If you cannot read correctly our newsletter, please write to
<mailto:webmaster at uruknet.info?subject=ONLYTEXT>webmaster at uruknet.info to
get the text-version.