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uruknet.info «Ë-Ë"Ê Æ‰Ê·Ë :: information from occupied iraq :: informazione dall'iraq occupato Saddam Hussein: "Sono stato torturato dagli USA" Brunei Press Sdn Bhd. ...l'ex presidente ha affermato che stava pregando, appena prima del tramonto, in casa di amici, quando i soldati degli Stati Uniti lo hanno circondato. "Mi sono trovato intorno gli americani, senza alcuna possibilità di difesa. La mia arma era lontano. Sono stato arrestato e sono stato torturato in modo spaventoso nei primi due giorni. Se avessi saputo che gli Americani erano vicino li avrei combattuti sino alla morte", ha detto Al-Du! leimi citando le parole di Saddam... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8463&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8463 FLASHBACK: What Happened at Halabja? Jude Wanniski Yes, David, I know you are ticked at me for saying the article you ran last month about Saddam Hussein gassing the Kurds at Halabja, back in 1988, was pure propaganda by your new writer Jeffrey Goldberg. You also seem most distressed that I said you should have told your readers that Jeffrey has dual citizenship with Israel and served in the Israeli defence forces a few years back... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8446&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8446 Lo "scandalo" Oil For Food è una cinica cortina fumogena Scott Ritter, ZNet ...La palese corruzione del programma Oil For Food era reale, ma non è scaturita in seno alle Nazioni Unite, come sostengono Norman Coleman ed altri. Le sue orgini risiedono in una politica moralmente corrotta di strangolamento dell'economia Irachena, messa in atto dagli Stati Uniti, nel contesto di una più ampia strategia di cambio di regime... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8460&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8460 IRAQ: Thousands of Fallujah residents return to devastation Integrated Regional Information Networks ...Since getting the go-ahead from coalition forces on 23 December to return to the city, nearly 4,000 residents who were displaced by the fighting have returned to their homes. But these numbers are tiny compared with the total pre-attack population of almost 300,000, the majority of whom fled before the fighting began on 8 November. Many other families have returned to check their houses only to leave again aft! er finding that they had been destroyed... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8456&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8456 'Staying the Course' Won't Do Patrick J. Buchanan, AntiWar ...And why should we fight and die for a Shia-dominated Iraq? Before addressing his countrymen, the president needs to ask and answer for himself some hard questions. Who told him this would be a "cakewalk"? Who misled him to believe we would be welcomed as liberators with bouquets of flowers? Who led him into a situation where his choice appears to be between a seemingly endless guerrilla war that could destroy his presidency, and walking away from Iraq! and watching it collapse in mayhem and the massacre of those who cast their lot with us? Why have these fools not been fired, like the CIA geniuses who sold JFK on the Bay of Pigs?... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8452&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8452 The American Dream Sara Solovitch, Exquire In all of Iraq, Jumana Hanna was the bravest witness to the horror of Saddam's regime, telling the Americans of torture, rape, and mass murder. In Washington, Hanna became a potent symbol of Iraqi liberation, and the Bush administration brought Hanna and her children to the United States for their protection. Then the author discovered the really horrible truth... (Photo: An emotional Hanna revisiting the place where she says she was imprisoned and tortured in Baghdad! . This photograph appeared with the July 21, 2003, Washington Post story about her, which made her a hero to the Americans in Iraq.) <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8453&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8453 Trail of torture leads to Washington The Virginian-Pilot When a Federal Bureau of Investigations officer says interrogations of Iraqi prisoners are too rough, that the techniques amount to "torture," you'd think somebody would listen. Not in this White House, or at this Pentagon. Since before the first prisoner was taken in Afghanistan, administration lawyers have looked for ways to skirt the restrictions on torture in the Geneva Conventions... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8457&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8457 Bush's New Year Resolution: Bullet-Stopper Conscription Kurt Nimmo ...In a more balanced and sane world, there would be an "exit strategy" in Iraq—or the United States would not have invaded in the first place—but in Bushzarro world, dominated by colluding Strausscons, the "war" must continue, possibly for generations (as warned), and since the current "Army of One" is not up to the task of "reshaping" the Middle East, bullet-stopper conscription is the only logical response. Telling the American people to "show ! their support not by flying yellow ribbons but by joining the Army" is not only ludicrous, it will never work. It will be universally ignored. Conscription, on the other hand, cannot be ignored without penalty... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8443&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8443 Injured Valley Soldier Critical of War in Iraq Andrea Conklin ..."I can't sleep. I still got dreams of Iraq." Eric says he believes the situation overseas is a hopeless one. "I say just put Saddam back in power, and just leave the whole Iraq, the country, it'd be better off like that." That despair is a sentiment he tells us many soldiers share. "There's a lot of people that don't think we should be there ... like my unit," Herrera says. "We're not doing good out there. We're just soldiers dying left and right.".! .. <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8448&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8448 Growing Frustration, Pain for U.S. Troops in Iraq Matt Gnaizda, The Epoch Times As of Christmas Eve, there have been over 1300 U.S. military casualties in Iraq- 90% of which have occurred after President Bush declared the war was over. Sneak attacks and suicide bombers appear to be eating away at American morale. "Troop frustration is growing," said a four-star general, speaking on condition of anonymity... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8444&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8444 The emperor's same, old clothes H.D.S. Greenway ...So saying, he discarded all the royal garments that reminded him of the usurper, and looked about him for a new firm of royal tailors. He appointed the firm of Cheney, Chalabi, and Wolfowitz, known as the Tailors of Baghdad, as his official clothiers (...) They promised the monarch that he had only to wear their suit of clothes and all Baghdad would fall before him. And not just Baghdad, but all of Araby as well. These liberated realms would accept the emperor's ! values, and the empire could have access to their oil, their military bases, and all his new subjects would joyfully fall over one another in praise of the emperor's clothes. Mr. Chalabi even threw in an extra pair of pants for the same price... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8451&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8451 Former US official blasts Iraq policy Aljazeera.net A former US national security advisor has strongly criticised the US-led invasion of Iraq. Zbigniew Brzezinski, who served under President Jimmy Carter from 1976-1980, also made a scathing assessment of the ensuing occupation after Saddam Hussein was ousted as Iraqi leader. He said the US administration will now have to scale down its ambitions for Iraq's future... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8442&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8442 Returning to Felluce Requires Strong Heart Zaman Newspaper ...It is reported that only 500 people returned in the first two days. A ruined city is waiting for the ones who come back to the city. Dr Saleh Isavi, Deputy Head of Fallujah Hospital, told the BBC that people started to return to the city on Monday morning. Isavi disclosed that 70 percent of the houses in the city were destroyed in heavy bombardment and added that there are no houses that are undamaged... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8441&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8441 L'ordine regna a Falluja: Napalm, bombardamenti casa per casa, gas Umanità Nova "In Iraq ci sono le scuole, c'è una vita regolare. Poi ci sono alcune cose che non funzionano. A esempio i semafori". (S. Berlusconi, 29.09.04) Per quanti cercano di seguire l'andamento della situazione in Iraq, il trascorso mese di novembre ha evidenziato due coincidenze solo apparentemente contraddittorie: mai le notizie riguardanti le operazioni di guerra sono state così rarefatte e mai in precedenza, dall'inizio dell'occupazione, le truppe Usa hanno ammesso un numero così elevato di perdite in un solo mese (almeno 137). Ennesima dimostrazione che in Iraq si sta svolgendo un conflitto coperto dal segreto militare... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8462&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8462 US Disclosures Signal Wider Detainee Abuse Charlie Savage A trove of government disclosures forced by a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit has signaled that the abuse of detainees in Iraq and at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was much broader than the Bush administration has portrayed it since the Abu Ghraib prison scandal became public this spring... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8445&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8445 Filling in the Blanks (or, Just What the FBI Thinks it is Hiding) Brian Dominick , The NewStandard ...The nature of the "cover-up" referred to in that almost totally-redacted document is completely blanked out (...) But we reported the details 5 months ago. Here is The NewStandard version of what it says under the blanks: A US Army counterintelligence agent who accused fellow National Guardsmen of abusing Iraqi detainees says that his own commander coerced an Army psychiatrist into diagnosing him as "de! lusional." According to Sergeant Greg Ford, his commanding officer confronted psychiatrist Angelina Madera, a captain with the 30th Medical Support Element, after she had initially assessed Ford to be mentally stable ... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8439&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8439 Iraq Rejects U.S. Talk of Adjusting Vote Result Luke Baker Iraq's election body rejected a suggestion in Washington it adjust the results of next month's vote to benefit the Sunni minority if low turnout in Sunni areas means Shi'ites win an exaggerated majority in the new assembly. Speaking of "unacceptable" interference, Electoral Commission spokesman Farid Ayar said: "Who wins, wins. That is the way it is. That is the way it will be in the election" ... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8436&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8436 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 25 December 2004 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member editorial board The Free Arab Voice. ...Iraqi Resistance forces have announced that five members of the Zionist Mossad secret police were killed and one other member taken prisoner Saturday morning south of Baghdad. A communiqué issued by the Resistance, a copy of which Mafkarat al-Islam obtained, said that a detachment of Resistance fighters attacked an armored GMC vehicle in the az-Za'faraniy! ah area of Baghdad at 10am Saturday, killing five persons... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8434&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8434 New Rand study suggests exploiting Sunni, Shiite and Arab, non-Arab divides to promote the US policy objectives in the Muslim world Abdus Sattar Ghazali, AMP A new Rand Corporation study suggests that Sunni, Shiite and Arab, non-Arab divides should be exploited to promote the US policy objectives in the Muslim world. The recently released Rand study - titled "U.S. Strategy in the Muslim World After 9/11" - was conducted on behalf of the US Air Force. One of the primary objective of the study was to "identify the ! key cleavages and fault lines among sectarian, ethnic, regional, and national lines and to assess how these cleavages generate challenges and opportunities for the United States."... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8435&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8435 Fallujah people in woe as tragedy continues Xinhua The people of Fallujah who returned home were shocked at the destruction of their houses due to the US-led attacks on the city last month. After waiting for a long time, local people managed to enter the city, 50 km west of Baghdad, after US forces allowed them to return home. "I passed through very complex procedures before entering the city, US soldiers took my fingerprints and checked my eyes, and then asked for more than one document to prove that I am resid! ent of Hay Al Andalus in Fallujah," 30-year-old Mohamed Jaleel told Xinhua... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8433&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8433 Lawyer wants Iraq's Aziz freed for 'lack of proof' AFP The lawyer for former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz, being held for trial on two counts of mass murder, said he would seek his client's freedom for lack of proof. "On Sunday I will present a petition to the chief of the investigating magistrates on the Iraqi Special Tribunal (IST) that Tareq Aziz be freed for lack of proof," Badi Aref Izzat told AFP (...)"No personal claim has been made against him," he said, arguing that the law requires that... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8432&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8432 <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. 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