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Lawsuit Against Rumsfeld Threatens US-German Relations
DW staff/AFP
The Pentagon expressed concern Monday over a criminal complaint filed in
Germany against US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other officials
over the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, warning that "frivolous lawsuits" could
affect the broader US-German relationship. The complaint was filed in
Berlin on Nov. 30 by the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights
(CCR) and Berlin's Republican Lawyers' Association on behalf of four Iraqis
who were a lleged to have been mistreated by US soldiers. Besides Rumsfeld,
former CIA director George Tenet, Undersecretary of Defense for
Intelligence Steven Cambone, Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, Brigadier
General Janis Karpinski and five other military officers who served in Iraq
were named in the complaint, which seeks an investigation into their role
in the prisoner abuses at Abu Ghraib...


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On the occasion of the first anniversary of kidnapping President Saddam
Hussien :
Enforced Disappearance and Incommunicado Detention are War Crimes.
"President Saddam Hussien Defence Lawyers' Committee"
Recent days events have come to consolidate the belief of the "Defence
Committee" that its Defence for President Saddam Hussein and hid comrades
is a Defence for Iraq as a whole : the President and the leadership , the
territory and the sovereignty , the people and the will of the Iraqi
people. It is a Defence for the Iraqi legitimacy with its Arabian, Islamic
and humanitarian diminutions , with all related implications such as the
pursue of legal suing , lawful litigation against all those who commit
genocide acts and war crimes against the Iraqi people and humanity in
general (...) President Saddam is not an accused person before a special
court. In accordance with all international laws and norms , he is still
the legitimate President (...) President Saddam's right to free access to
his family and lawyers is a sacred right protected by the provision of the
third Geneva convention - 1949, and the convention on P.o.w.s (1929), Both
treaties were ratified by the U.S.A...

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Iraq's prime minister says trials of Saddam regime start next week
MSNBC News Services
Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said Tuesday that trials of top figures
in Saddam Hussein's ousted regime will begin next week, but a senior Iraqi
official told Reuters that the announcement was an effort by Allawi to
generate pre-election attention and that more time was needed to arrange
the trials (...) Allawi also said a mass grave believed to hold about 500
bodies was found near the city of Sulaimaniyah, 162 miles northeast of
Baghdad. It appeared he was referring to grave site reported last week by
an official in the region, who had initially announced a mass grave had
been found possibly containing 500 bodies; when pressed later, he said two
skeletons had been found so far.

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U.S. Expands Cargo Flights Over Iraq
JOHN J. LUMPKIN, Iraqwar
The Air Force is making more cargo flights over Iraq to keep Army transport
trucks off the country's dangerous roads, accepting the increased risk to
planes and added cost to reduce the threat on the ground, officials said
Tuesday (...) The cargo consists primarily of repair parts and ammunition.
They flights also carry armored Humvees from Kuwait to Baghdad, eliminating
for the vehicles the risks of a four-day drive...


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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 13 December 2004 and Tuesday,
14 December 2004
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member editorial board The
Free Arab Voice.
For the third straight day, Iraqi Resistance forces battled US occupation
troops in al-Fallujah in fierce fighting on Monday. The latest round of
battles began on Sunday afternoon (12 December 2004), and lasted until
after dawn on Monday. Resistance sources say that the Americans have begun
to falter under the repeated blows of t he Resistance attacks from various
sides...

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A Statement from the Iraq Resistance
Infoshop
...We have not crossed the oceans and seas to occupy Britain or the U.S.
nor are we responsible for 9/11. These are only a few of the lies that
these criminals present to cover their true plans for the control of the
energy resources of the world, in face of a growing China and a strong
unified Europe. It is Ironic that the Iraqi's are to bear the full face of
this large and growing conflict on behalf of the rest of this sleeping
world...

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Fighters target police stations in Mosul
Aljazeera.net
Unknown attackers have attempted to overrun two police stations in the
northern city of Mosul, in an operation that augurs badly for the
approaching elections, according to a US commander. Major General Carter
Ham said on Wednesday that although the last four attacks on the city's
stations had been repelled by Iraqi police and National Guards, he noted
Mosul essentially remained without a working police force...

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Iraq's musical, artistic wealth destroyed by war
Times of Oman
...Dr Fakhouri's sentiments were also echoed by Dr Sheherazade Qasim
Hassan, a Paris-based ethno-musicologist, who is also a researcher for
Germany's Institute for Advanced Study. She said that she has lost her
entire sound archive along with some other invaluable possessions stored in
the Ministry of Information in her hometown Baghdad." "Iraq's civilisation
has been destroyed by the mobs at the instance of the coalition troops,"
loathed the well-ver sed lady, who hasn't been to her homeland since
occupation. "I will go only once my country is free"...


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Respite
Dahr Jamail
"My list is now 32," says Salam as he arrives at the hotel, "Now 32 of my
friends have been killed." He still has tears in his eyes, even though he's
being stoic. Another of his friends has been shot and killed. "You know I
feel like shit every time I add someone to my list. Sometimes it feels like
it is every day," he says. Welcome to Iraq. Where the news gets better with
each passing day...

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Documents reveal Iraq prisoner abuse
Aljazeera.net
The US Navy has investigated a number of alleged abuses of Iraqi prisoners
by US Marines, including an alleged mock execution of four Iraqi juveniles.
The revelations follow the release on Tuesday of internal US Navy documents
as a result of a court order. Obtained by the American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU), the documents show that marines were punished in some
instances while other cases were closed after investigations concluded the
allegations could not be su bstantiated. The ACLU said the documents showed
that abuse and even torture of detainees by marines in Iraq was
widespread....


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Pentagon and Bush White House Caught in More Lies: Don't Depend on U.S.
Media To Show the Lies or to Tell You the Truth
Sam Hamod, editor, www.todaysalternativenews.com
...Bush's constant calling of Allawi as the "legitimate" ruler of Iraq is
another lie the Pentagon and the White House have used for over a year. The
whole world knows that Allawi is merely a puppet put into place, ala Vichy
in France during WWII, who was put into place by the Nazi regime of
Hitler--but Bush and the Pentagon keep referring to him a s the "legitimate
leader" of Iraq. The American people hear this lie and believe it because
no reporter or mass media outlet dares to speak the truth on this matter.
So, the lies are not just to go out to others, but are used in an Orwellian
fashion on the American public...

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Iraq's Chalabi comes in from the cold
Khaled Yacoub Oweis, Reuters
Just months after falling out with the United States and being written off
by his rivals as politically washed up, Ahmad Chalabi is back in from the
cold.(...) Chalabi used his connections with influential Shi'ite cleric
Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani to help draw up a mostly Shi'ite list backed by
the Iranian-born scholar, people familiar with the list said (...) Part of
Chalabi's resurgence is owed to his alliance with Moqtada al-Sadr, the
young anti-U .S. cleric who has challenged the Shi'ite establishment led by
Sistani and the government...

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Ralph Nader on the Ohio Recount, Bush's Cabinet Reshuffle and the White
House "Lowballing" of U.S. Casualties in Iraq
Democracy Now!
...I mean, first of all, Bush is deliberately low-balling U.S. casualties.
If there are injuries in non-combat situations, even though it's hostile
territory in Iraq, large numbers of diseases like sandfly disease, severe
mental trauma, none of these are mentioned. So, the actual injured casualty
toll, if you include diseases is more than triple the official amount. And
I have been g oing after the White House for six-seven months on this;
there's been no response. I sent it to the Kerry campaign saying that you
should run with this. No response...

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Iraq: Government Deal With a 'Merchant of Death'?
Michael Isikoff, Newsweek
In an effort to crack down on one of the world's most notorious
international criminals, President George W. Bush last summer signed an
order barring U.S. citizens from doing business with Russian arms
trafficker Victor Bout. But not long afterward, U.S. officials discovered
Bout's tentacles were wider than anticipated: for much of this year,
NEWSWEEK has learned, a Texas charter firm allegedly controlled by Bout was
making repeated flight s to Iraq—courtesy of a Pentagon contract allowing
it to refuel at U.S. military bases...

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Watchdog Cites More Halliburton Failings in Iraq
Irwin Arieff, Reuters
Pentagon auditors found numerous irregularities in a no-competition deal
given by U.S. authorities to Halliburton Co. and paid for with Iraqi oil
money, an international watchdog disclosed on Tuesday. Audits covering five
work orders worth $812 million made last year by Iraq 's U.S.-led
administration "highlight many shortcomings including noncompletion of the
required technical evaluations, unsupported costs and overstated costs,"
the Interna tional Advisory and Monitoring Board said.


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Test cases: Iraqi civilian deaths
The Guardian
The following is a summary of the six test cases brought, the first one
successfully, on behalf on Iraqis seeking independent inquiries into the
deaths of family members allegedly at the hands of British soldiers...


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The Rise of the Amerikan Nazis Part I of III: Birth of Despotism
Manuel Valenzuela
...Hence, Afghanistan was invaded for its geopolitical position and its
access to American controlled natural gas pipelines, thereby leading the
Pax Americana into the collection of Stans littering the Caspian Sea basin.
Iraq , on the other hand, was invaded for its rich oil wealth, to make
extinct a threat to Israel , to control the larger Middle East and to
establish offensive military bases in Eurasia , forever planting a presenc
e signaling to rivals the seriousness of American intentions. Already in
the crosshairs is Iran , another oil rich nation of vital strategic
importance in Eurasia (...) Nothing, it seems, besides the valiant
resistance movement in Iraq , can stop their drive onwards...

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Empire of Barbarism
John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark, Monthly Review
...Today the world is facing what de Silva feared—a barbarism emanating
from a single powerful country, the United States, which has adopted a
doctrine of preemptive (or preventative) war, and is threatening to
destabilize the entire globe (...) The continuing decline of U.S. economic
hegemony, occurring alongside deepening economic stagnation in capitalism
as a whole, has led the United States to turn increasingly to extraeconomic
means of ma intaining its position: putting its huge war machine in motion
in order to prop up its faltering hegemony over the world economy. The
"Global War on Terror" is a manifestation of this latest lethal phase of
U.S. imperialism, which began with the 1991 Gulf War made possible by the
breaking up of the Soviet bloc and the emergence of the United States as
the sole superpower...

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UK must investigate Iraqi civilian's death
The Guardian
The family of an Iraqi civilian allegedly beaten to death by British troops
today won a high court challenge against the government's refusal to order
an independent inquiry into his death. The death of Baha Mousa, a hotel
receptionist, was one of six test cases in which the families of Iraqi
civilians allegedly killed by British troops in Iraq sought independent
inquiries into the deaths...


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Business as usual: More Pentagon lies and dissimulation
Kurt Nimmo
...If the Pentagon had any credibility, it was shot on the day the
Strausscons set up the Office of Special Plans and began cranking out all
manner of dissimulation and lies in the run-up to Bush's invasion of Iraq.
Now Bush and Crew want to do this again in preparation for an invasion—or
shock and awe bombing raid-against Iran and, down the road, other targets
on the "axis of evil" roster...



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Iraqi police suffer ambush
Aljazeera.net
Several Iraqi police officers have been killed in an attack on buses
transporting them between Basra and Baghdad. A senior police source said
the ambush on Tuesday occurred near the town of Salman Pak, about 30km
southeast of the Iraqi capital and left the highway "littered with bodies …
fighting is still going on"...


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