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    *Bloodstain Analysis from Nick Berg Beheading Video - Forensic
Irregularities Cast Doubt on Events*
/Northeast Intelligence Network/
<http://www.uruknet.info/.?p=3391>
...My reaction to the horrific nature of the now infamous Nick Berg
video overshadowed any consideration of performing any type of forensic
bloodstain pattern analysis of the decapitation of this victim. Frankly,
it appeared to be a rather open and shut case - a cold-blooded murder,
an al Qaeda made-to-order "snuff film". I began to hear rumblings about
oddities surrounding the footage. One of several "oddities" involved the
blood evidence shown on the video. As I am certified in Bloodstain
Pattern Analysis by the Laboratory of Forensic Science and a member of
the International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts-IABPA, I
decided to take a closer look at the video...   continua / continued
<http://www.uruknet.info/.?p=3391>     [3391] [ 07-jun-2004 06:38 ECT ]

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*Arab Press Note: June 6, 2004*
/IRAQ Occupation and Resistance Report/
...The Ba'th party announced its condemnation of the new, US-installed,
Iraqi authority. In a statement posted by Iraq Forever the Ba'th party
said the new government is headed by a professional agent of the CIA ,
MI6 and Jordanian secret service...   continua / continued
<http://www.uruknet.info/.?p=3389>     [3389] [ 07-jun-2004 02:20 ECT ]

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*On a Mission in Sadr City, Waiting Silently for the Expected*
/MICHAEL KAMBER, New York Times/
...Sadr City, a poor and predominantly Shiite neighborhood, has become
one of the deadliest battlegrounds in Iraq. Since the militia of Moktada
al-Sadr militia started fighting in May, the First Cavalry Division has
killed 912 Iraqis here, according to official reports...   continua /
continued <http://www.uruknet.info/.?p=3388>     [3388] [ 07-jun-2004
02:17 ECT ]

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*Beating Specialist Baker, New York Times*
/NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF/
The prison abuse scandal refuses to die because soothing White House
explanations keep colliding with revelations about dead prisoners and
further connivance by senior military officers - and newly discovered
victims, like Sean Baker. If Sean Baker doesn't sound like an Iraqi
name, it isn't. Specialist Baker, 37, is an American, and he was a proud
U.S. soldier. An Air Force veteran and member of the Kentucky National
Guard, he served in the first gulf war and more recently was a military
policeman in Guantánamo Bay...   continua / continued
<http://www.uruknet.info/.?p=3387>     [3387] [ 07-jun-2004 02:14 ECT ]

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*Israel's common use of torture must be exposed*
/Mustafa Barghouthi, The Daily Star/
<http://www.uruknet.info/.?p=3386> 	The pictures of American soldiers
torturing prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq have shocked the
world. To the Palestinian people however, these photographs of hooded or
naked figures come as no surprise. For the tens of thousands of
Palestinians who have served time in Israeli prisons, the pictures only
bring back memories of their own torture. In many cases, the treatment
of Iraqis in Abu Ghraib bears a striking resemblance to Israeli methods
of torture. Accusations are now being made in the world's press that
Israeli security officers have actually assisted in the training of
private US security contractors being sent to Iraq...   continua /
continued <http://www.uruknet.info/.?p=3386>     [3386] [ 07-jun-2004
01:52 ECT ]

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*MP's Lawyer: Translator Gave Orders*
/Leon Worden City Editor/
Attorneys for guards charged with abuse at Abu Ghraib prison last fall
would like to talk to Canyon Country resident John B. Israel. They tried
in April, but he had left Iraq. "It is very frustrating," said Paul
Bergrin, the stateside attorney for Sgt. Javal "Sean" Davis of Roselle,
N.J...   continua / continued <http://www.uruknet.info/.?p=3385>
[3385] [ 07-jun-2004 01:41 ECT ]

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*Hoon agrees to review 13 alleged murders by troops*
/Severin Carrell/
The Defence Secretary, Geoff Hoon, has ordered his officials to
re-examine 13 cases of alleged murder by UK troops in Iraq after
mounting protests from human rights groups...   continua / continued
<http://www.uruknet.info/.?p=3384>     [3384] [ 07-jun-2004 01:25 ECT ]

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*Mercenaries in 'coup plot' guarded UK officials in Iraq*
/The Observer/
Mercenaries accused of planning a coup in an oil-rich African state also
worked under contract for the British government providing security in
Iraq, raising fears about the way highly sensitive security work is
awarded, The Observer has learnt...   continua / continued
<http://www.uruknet.info/.?p=3383>     [3383] [ 07-jun-2004 01:22 ECT ]

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*Senate committee still missing key documents in prisoner abuse case*
/Sumana Chatterjee and Shashank Bengali, Knight Ridder Newspapers/
The Senate Armed Services Committee is still missing key documents from
the Army investigation into the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal, including
information on interrogation procedures that could clarify whether
soldiers thought they were acting under orders...   continua / continued
<http://www.uruknet.info/.?p=3382>     [3382] [ 07-jun-2004 01:15 ECT ]

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*Michael Berg Blast Bush-Cheney Gang*
/William Hughes/
On Saturday, June 5, 2004, standing only a block away from the White
House, on a rainy, cool afternoon, in Washington, DC, Michael Berg,
accused the Bush()-Cheney Gang of being substantially responsible for
the death of his son, Nick Berg, age 26...   continua / continued
<http://www.uruknet.info/.?p=3381>     [3381] [ 07-jun-2004 00:56 ECT ]

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*Iraqi Plastic Art Documents Abu Ghraib Abuse*
/Samir Haddad & Mazen Ghazi, IOL Correspondent/
More than 20 Iraqi plastic artists have organized a two-hour exhibition
to showcase a remarkable collection of works giving a revealing insight
into abuses by U.S. soldiers of Iraqi detainees in the infamous Abu
Ghraib prison. The collection, which included paintings, statues and
porcelain sculpture, was displayed for only two hours in one of
Baghdad's streets, "for fear of reprisal" by the occupation forces.
"Iraqi artists are crying out loud against the humiliation, torture and
rape of Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib prison," said Ghazwan Al-Mukhtar,
of the Iraqi Plastic Art Association."We, artists, deal with feelings
and facial gestures, which helps us grasp the extent of brutality seeing
an American female soldier grinning before the body a a tortured Iraqi
detainee," Al-Mukhtar told IslamOnline.net...   continua / continued
<http://www.uruknet.info/.?p=3380>     [3380] [ 06-jun-2004 16:04 ECT
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*Iraq, l'Eldorado perduto*
/Ibrahim Warde, Le Monde Diplomatique - il manifesto/
...Il confine tra politica e affari appare sempre più indeterminato.
I contratti iracheni sono chiaramente considerati come una fonte di
facile arricchimento. Già in passato, il presidente del Comitato
consultivo del Pentagono Richard Perle aveva saputo sfruttare abilmente
il suo duplice ruolo. Sul piano politico era il più focoso sostenitore
di un'estensione della guerra all'Iraq e ad altri paesi; e come privato
cittadino aveva fondato la Trireme International, una società di
capitale a rischio con l'obiettivo di trarre profitto dalle operazioni
belliche...   continua / continued <http://www.uruknet.info/.?p=3376>
    [3376] [ 06-jun-2004 15:46 ECT ]

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*Conferenza internazionale di solidarietà con il popolo iracheno in lotta*
La Prima Conferenza di solidarietà con la resistenza del popolo iracheno
si è riunita a Parigi il 15 maggio 2004. Essa ha ottenuto il sostegno di
circa un migliaio di organizzazioni politiche, sindacali e sociali, di
personalità, in rappresentanza di una cinquantina di paesi. La
Conferenza lancia un appello pressante ai cittadini di tutti i paesi del
mondo perché si prenda coscienza della necessità di mettere fine alle
imprese di guerra fomentate dall'imperialismo...   continua / continued
<http://www.uruknet.info/.?p=3375>     [3375] [ 06-jun-2004 15:22 ECT ]

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*Bloody day for Iraqi police, contractors*
/Aljazeera.net/
<http://www.uruknet.info/.?p=3377> 	At least 17 Iraqi policemen and
members of the security forces along with four foreign contractors have
been killed in separate attacks across the occupied country. Consulting
were killed on Saturday when a convoy they were traveling in was
ambushed in Baghdad, said the Polish Foreign Ministry on Sunday.
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06-jun-2004 15:56 ECT ]

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*BERTINOT-IN-MY-NAME!*
/Fulvio Grimaldi/
...Salvo la ricorrente, pigra, imperdonabile a quei livelli, sciocchezza
dello stereotipo imperialista su "Saddam armato fino ai denti perché
riconsegnasse agli americani l'Iran caduto nelle mani degli ayatollah",
la più perfida delle falsificazioni imperialiste su chi e per cosa
volesse quella guerra: fu il ricavato delle vendite di armi israeliane
all'Iran, unite ai rispettivi istruttori, che finanziò i macelli dei
contras in Nicaragua, né l'Iraq ricevette mai una sola rivoltella dagli
USA, come s'è visto nell'ultima guerra, mentre i sionisti bombardarono
la centrale nucleare irachena nel 1981: era quello il vero nemico, laico
e socialista, del sionismo-imperialismo...   continua / continued
<http://www.uruknet.info/.?p=3374>     [3374] [ 06-jun-2004 14:56 ECT ]

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*An American Way of War. Torture, Rape, Murder*
/MATT SIEGFRIED, Counterpunch/
The photographs of US soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners have become
symbols of American conceit, American hypocrisy and American brutality.
The folly of the Iraq adventure seems to be summed up by pyres of naked,
bound and hooded men smiled over by the missionaries of American
democracy...   continua / continued <http://www.uruknet.info/.?p=3373>
    [3373] [ 06-jun-2004 14:43 ECT ]

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*Mass graves in Iraq*
<http://www.uruknet.info/.?p=3372>
...In the past few months the graves of thousands of civilians have been
unearthed in war-torn Iraq. Not surprisingly, the White House wasted no
time in declaring the dead to be prime examples of Saddam Hussein's
brutality and a further justification for the US-led invasion. But a
check of the historical record on this matter reveals yet another
calculated distortion by the US administration and its supporters...
  continua / continued <http://www.uruknet.info/.?p=3372>     [3372] [
06-jun-2004 11:16 ECT ]

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*The Crimes of Iran-Contra Have Never Ended*
/Jeffrey Steinberg/
...Beyond the latest falling out among neo-con thieves and the bizarre
resurfacing of John Markham, lies a much deeper scandal: The Iran-Contra
crimes of the 1980s never ended. The usual suspects-in Washington, in
Israel and in Iran-just merely went underground, for much of the Clinton
era, only to resurface, with a vengeance, under the Cheney-Bush
regime...   continua / continued <http://www.uruknet.info/.?p=3370>
[3370] [ 06-jun-2004 10:41 ECT ]

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*FLASHBACK: A promise made is a promise kept. USA would overthrow Saddam
for Iran*
/Karen Nakamura, The Coastal Post/
...A CIA transcript of October 29, 1985, described a meeting between
Oliver North, Richard Secord and Albert Hakkim, in Frankfort, Germany,
with a "second channel" from Iran. Iran-Contra experts will recognize
this trio. Not only did they sell weapons to Iran, they made an amazing
promise: America would overthrow Saddam for Iran. During the Iran/Iraq
war ("The Way to Jerusalem is through Baghdad"), instead of military
support, Kuwait and other Arab states gave money...   continua /
continued <http://www.uruknet.info/.?p=3369>     [3369] [ 06-jun-2004
10:34 ECT ] 	<http://www.uruknet.info/.?p=3369>

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*Our Place in the World: Peaceful Iraq village torn apart by raid*
/CHRISTIE SCHMID/
...As villager Mohammed stated, "While still in the village, men were
gathered together and beaten severely. A 70-year-old man suffocated and
died when they put a black plastic hood on him." Of those detained,
there were three boys (ages 14, 15 and 16), 10 school teachers, three
human rights lawyers and 67 farmers, 14 of whom were 60 to 80 years old.
All of the men were taken to Abu Ghraib...   continua / continued
<http://www.uruknet.info/.?p=3368>     [3368] [ 06-jun-2004 10:21 ECT ]



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