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Sadr Aide Tells Iraq Militia to Cease Fire -- TV
Reuters
A top aide to Iraq's rebel Shi'ite leader Moqtada al-Sadr called on the
Mehdi Army militia Monday to cease fire across Iraq and said Sadr was
preparing to announce plans for a major political program. "Due to the
situation in Najaf and the provinces ... we call on all members of the
Mehdi Army to cease fire unless in self-defense, and to be patient until
the political program which Sadr's followers are planning is revealed,"
Sheik Ali Smeisim told Lebanon's al-Manar television...

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Allawi 'Plays Terror Card', Security Talks Stumble
IslamOnline.net
As what the Iraqi interim government calls "security talks" stumbled
Monday, August 30, over the thorny issue of weapons' handover, Prime
Minister Iyad Allawi b! luntly played the card of the US-led "war on
terror" (...) Meanwhile, US-picked Allawi used the kidnapping of two French
journalists, instantly denounced by Muslims from Baghdad to Paris, to
reiterate Washington's message of "the need to fight global terrorism".
Allawi said in an interview published in the Italian capital Rome Monday
that the kidnap shows that no country can remain neutral in Iraq and
choosing not to send troops to aid Baghdad is no guarantee against
terrorism...

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Family of Turk Killed in Iraq to Open Case against U.S.
Zaman
The family of Faysal Demir, a Turkish truck driver who lived in the
Reyhanli district of Hatay (a Southern Turkish city), is preparing to file
a lawsuit in the Europ! ean Court of Human Rights (ECHR) against the U.S.
because Demir was killed during a firefight in Iraq earlier this summer
while transporting cargo for the U.S...

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Al-Jazeera Calls For Immediate Release Of Journalists Abducted In Iraq
AFP
The pan-Arab television channel Al-Jazeera condemned Monday the killing and
kidnapping of journalists in Iraq and called for the "immediate release" of
! abducted newsmen. "The Al-Jazeera channel condemns all that journalists
are subjected to in Iraq, including killings, kidnappings and
restrictions," said a statement from the manager`s office of the Doha-based
station. Al-Jazeera "calls for the immediate release of the abducted
journalists and for allowing them to pursue their mission in conveying the
truth to people everywhere," it added...

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'We Were Supposed to Humiliate Them'. Interview with US Staff Sergeant Ivan
Frederick on torture at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison
CAROLIN EMCKE, Der Spiegel
...SPIEGEL: You could have invoked the Geneva Conventions.
Frederick: I didn't know anything about the Geneva Conventions. No one told
me about them when I was in training. I just recently tried to find out
about the Conventions on the internet. In addition, the intelligence people
were constantly praising us. They would just say: "Keep up the good work"...

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Insurgent Attacks Halt Iraq's Oil Exports
The Associated Press
Iraqi oil exports ceased Monday after a rash of insurgent attacks on the
country's petroleum infrastructure clamped off the flow of crude, the
country's main source! of income, senior oil company officials said.
Opposition fighters have been attacking oil pipelines in both the north and
the south of the country for months and late Sunday, all oil ceased flowing
from southern pipelines which account for 90 percent of Iraq's exports...

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Iraq Islamic groups against reporters' abduction
Khaled Yacoub Oweis, Reuters
Iraqi Sunni and Shi'ite Muslim groups at the forefront of opposition to the
presence of U.S.-led forces in the country have called on the kidnappers !
of two French journalists to release them. The groups, which have refused
to take part in the U.S.- engineered postwar political system, said on
Monday journalists working in Iraq should not be treated as combatants...

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The People's Judgment: 500 at ‘war crimes tribunal’ find Bush guilty
PeopleJudgeBush.org
More than 500 people assembled in New York’s Martin Luther King, Jr.
Auditorium concluded the War Crimes Tribunal with a resounding unanim! ous
vote of guilty, declaring the Bush administration guilty of war crimes,
crimes against humanity, and crimes against peace. Declaring the Bush
administration a criminal regime, this meeting, which drew speakers and
participants from around the world, defended the right of GIs to resist
illegal orders to fight against the people of Iraq, expressed solidarity
with the Iraqi resistance and declared itself in solidarity with the
upcoming Week of Resistance in New York City against the Republican
National Convention...

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Dyke: Bully Blair duped us all over Iraq
SIMON WALTERS, Mail on Sunday
Tony Blair faced a new crisis over Iraq last night after he was rocked by
sensational allegations against him by his former friend and ally, ex-BBC
Director! -General Greg Dyke. In his bombshell memoirs, serialised in The
Mail on Sunday today, Dyke lifts the lid on the bitter row between the BBC
and No 10 over claims the Government 'sexed up' intelligence on Saddam's
weapons. Dyke describes a letter he received from Tony Blair the day the
Iraq war started as a blatant attempt to 'bully' the BBC into gagging
anti-war critics...

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From Vietnam to Iraq: Pretext and precedent
William B. Bader IHT
The first 10 days of the politically charged August of 1964 present a
timely reminder of what can happen when a president shrouds the road to war
in a fog of dece! ption in the belief that it is necessary to do so for the
people's own good. On the basis of what President Lyndon Johnson said had
happened in the Gulf of Tonkin, Congress unblinkingly provided the
authority to "take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against
the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression." These
words translated into a war in which three million Vietnamese and 58,000
Americans died, a war that Johnson never expected to win...

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The Axis of Treason. Israeli spies in the Pentagon
Justin Raimondo, Antiwar.com
...However, unconditional support to Israel has always been a central tenet
of neoconservative foreign policy doctrine, and never more so than toda! y.
Feith was a co-author, along with several prominent neocons, of A Clean
Break," a 1996 policy paper written for then Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu that proposed the elimination of Saddam Hussein as a
primary goal: Baghdad was depicted as the gateway to Damascus, a byway on
the road to Tehran. The strategic utility of invading Iraq as a means to
combat "terrorism" as represented by al-Qaeda has always baffled war
opponents, and even a few reluctant supporters, because it was so
strikingly counterintuitive...

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Il comico Luttwak e la resa vittoriosa
ALESSANDRO ROBECCHI, il manifesto
...Luttwak non è di quei giovani o vecchi neocon che sputano sul pettine,
non è molto ascoltato tra quei simil-mistici del nuovo secolo americano che
spar! erebbero a chiunque anche in un saloon. Appartiene, per così dire,
alla mafia perdente, è più dottor Stranamore, come genere, un pò démodé. Ma
fa notizia che se ne esca con le mani alzate, urlando: «ritirata!».
Qualcuno lo nota, infatti, ma lui non ci sta: "E' strabiliante che la mia
proposta sia stata interpretata da alcuni in Italia come un'ammissione di
resa". E giù a rispiegare, su Panorama questa volta, che ritirarsi sarebbe
una vittoria. Cosa che dicono, del resto, tutti quelli che si ritirano...

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Standoff bolstered Sadr's support
Scott Baldauf | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Six months ago, Sheikh Jawad al-Khalasi was what most would consider an
Iraqi Shiite moderate. Critical of the militant ideas of fe! llow Shiite
cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, Mr. Khalasi preached a more cooperative approach
toward the Americans and the interim Iraqi government. Then, last Thursday,
when Iraqi snipers opened fire on him and thousands of demonstrators
converging on Najaf, hoping to end the siege there and protect the shrine,
Khalasi changed his mind. Now he's a radical, a troubling sign that Mr.
Sadr has grown stronger from a three-week-long standoff that the Iraqi
government once hoped might reduce Sadr to irrelevance...

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Evolution of Bush's standing on Iraq
Associated Press
The war in Iraq, in President Bush's words:
''If we allow that to happen, a terrible line would be crossed.'' Oct. 7,
2002, citing U.S. intelligence to argue that Saddam and his ''nuclear holy
warriors'' are building a weapons program that could produce a nuclear
weapon in less than a year...

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Chiarimento tra i misteri
SARA MENAFRA, il manifesto
La versione della Croce rossa sul rapimento di Enzo Baldoni e sul loro
ruolo non fa una piega. Avrebbe solo bisogno di una conferma impossibile,
quella di un morto: l'autista! Garheeb, che accompagnava Baldoni ed è stato
ucciso durante l'agguato del 20 agosto. O almeno ci vorrebbe una parola di
Giuseppe De Santis, capo del convoglio della Cri nel quale viaggiava
Baldoni. E' rientrato dall'Iraq ma la Croce rossa lo nasconde. Il
convoglio, infatti, era nato male ed è stato gestito peggio. Maurizio
Scelli, capo della Cri, ha dato la colpa prima a De Santis e poi a Garheeb.
Lui quella missione non l'aveva autorizzata. Ma andiamo con ordine. I primi
dubbi circolati in questi giorni riguardavano proprio il l'organizzazione
del convoglio, partito il 19 agosto da Baghdad alla volta di Najaf. Un
convoglio talmente strano, secondo alcuni testimoni, da far pensare che
Baldoni e il suo traduttore, siano stati venduti ancor prima della partenza
ai loro rapitori (...) Tutti sanno che la Croce rossa ha impiegato una
settimana per confermare la presenza di Baldoni nel convoglio. Perché tanti
misteri?...

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14 killed, 135 injured in Iraq clashes
Daily Times
At least 14 people were killed and 135 wounded in clashes between
insurgents and US-led coalition forces in Sadr City and Mosul overnight and
on Sunday. Shia militants and US f! orces battled throughout Sadr City, and
a mortar barrage slammed into a busy neighborhood in the capital...

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Chiarimento tra i misteri
SARA MENAFRA, il manifesto
La versione della Croce rossa sul rapimento di Enzo Baldoni e sul loro
ruolo non fa una piega. Avrebbe solo bisogno di una conferma impossibile,
quella di un morto: l'autista! Garheeb, che accompagnava Baldoni ed è stato
ucciso durante l'agguato del 20 agosto. O almeno ci vorrebbe una parola di
Giuseppe De Santis, capo del convoglio della Cri nel quale viaggiava
Baldoni. E' rientrato dall'Iraq ma la Croce rossa lo nasconde. Il
convoglio, infatti, era nato male ed è stato gestito peggio. Maurizio
Scelli, capo della Cri, ha dato la colpa prima a De Santis e poi a Garheeb.
Lui quella missione non l'aveva autorizzata. Ma andiamo con ordine. I primi
dubbi circolati in questi giorni riguardavano proprio il l'organizzazione
del convoglio, partito il 19 agosto da Baghdad alla volta di Najaf. Un
convoglio talmente strano, secondo alcuni testimoni, da far pensare che
Baldoni e il suo traduttore, siano stati venduti ancor prima della partenza
ai loro rapitori...

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The Cradle of Devastation
Manuel Valenzuela, AxisofLogic.com
...Iraq has become a phantom that is not seen, lingering in our midst yet
invisible to the conscious. The intensity of guerilla war and the
devastating attacks by Ir! aqi freedom fighters and the resistance
routinely go unnoticed, instead only making a ten second sound bite
proclaiming the death of dozens of dead-enders, thugs, Baathist remnants
and foreign fighters. It seems the reality of who it is American troops are
fighting cannot be blurted out since it was our forefathers who waged the
same kind of war for Independence more than 225 years ago. We would not
want to call the Founding Fathers and their army of patriots ‘terrorists,’
would we? ...

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Iraqi opposition meets in Lebanon
UPI
Dozens of Iraqis opposing the American occupation of their country attended
a Sunday meeting in Beirut that is designed to form a national council. The
group would form a national council ! in Iraq parallel to the current one
that was formed earlier this month in Baghdad...

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"Saddam Hussein, the Fighter, the Thinker and the Man" - Part One
Amer Islander, Al-Moharer
...His birth in 1937 was not a joyful occasion, and no roses or aromatic
plants bedecked his cradle. He was born an orphan, his father ! having died
before he was born, and a poor boy of peasant stock. Like the great
majority of true leaders in history, he was obliged, from the moment he
first became aware of himself, to face the challenges of life and to
fashion his own existence. It was in the spring, on the twenty-second of
April 1937, that Mrs. Sabhah Talfah al-Musallat gave birth to her son in
the house of her brother al-Haj Khairallah Talfah and it was his paternal
uncle, Hassan al-Majid; who gave him the name of Saddam...

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