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"Alerta que camina
la espada de Bolìvar
por America Latina"
Fulvio Grimaldi, MONDOCANE
"Con la testa a Cuba e il cuore a Bagdad", si potrebbe anche intitolare
questo racconto di un paio di altissime settimane trascorse in Venezuela
(...)E così, per cominciare dalla vicenda che mi sta, che dovrebbe stare a
tutti, più a cuore, a proposito di Iraq non si parla di "terroristi", se
non di quelli che su Falluja tirano fosforo e napalm, seminano di morti
ammazzati le strade (...)I poveri e poverissimi sono scesi d! all'80% della
popolazione al 68%. Certamente non basta, anzi, tocca correre contro il
tempo, neutralizzando frustrazioni, lotte intestine e complotti eversivi.
Quel tempo che la forza e la coscienza ormai matura di movimenti di massa
non più socialdemocratizzabili sta promettendo e che soprattutto viene
garantito da quella che Hugo Chavez e tutti i bolivariani del mondo
chiamano "l'eroica Resistenza irachena"...

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Saddam in un'intervista esclusiva
Babnet.net
...Questa corte non è legale, è il prodotto dell'occupazione (...), è una
ridicola messinscena (...) Gli Americani sono venuti in Iraq per
distruggere lo Stato iracheno e tutte le altre asserzioni di Bush sono
soltanto pura menzogna (...) la resistenza irachena è ottimamente
addestrata. E' stata preparata ben prima alla guerra. Avevo unito il
comando militare e politico e noi avevamo predisposto questa nuova pagina
della guerra contro gli Americani. Quanto accade og! gi non è frutto del
caso...



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The Empire in the Year 2005
James Petras, www.globalresearch.ca
World developments in 2005 will be determined by the major events and
tendencies in 2004. First and foremost, 2004 demonstrated in the most
dramatic and definitive manner that the US imperial military machine could
be defeated. The Iraqi resistance has proven that the US Empire is not
invincible. With over 1500 combat deaths, close to 25,000 disabled soldiers
and over 35,000 suffering severe "mental illnesses", the US occupation army
is incapable of! bringing the colonial war to a victorious conclusion...


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Linking al-Qaeda to the Iraqi Resistance: An Exercise in Futility
Kurt Nimmo
Osama bin Laden, dead and buried, and al-Qaeda is the best thing that ever
happened to the Bushcons. Earlier this week a voice "purported" to be Osama
promoted Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to the position of "emir" over the resistance
in Iraq, prompting the corporate media to include the al-Qaeda angle into
stories about the resistance. "Attacks this week on police and other Iraqi
security forces have left dozens dead in a sign that the Sunni in!
surgency, freshly endorsed by Osama bin Laden, remains potent despite U.S.
offensives intended to protect the election on Jan.30," writes Reuters. Of
course, these attacks would occur if Osama—or rather the manufactured voice
of Osama—had never said a word about the resistance...

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The International Criminal Tribunal for Iraq
Judgment
12 December 2004
The International Action Center
...the Tribunal finds the defendants George W. Bush and Tony Blair GUILTY
for crime of aggression under Article 2 of the Statute of the ICTI [para.2;
para. 3 (a) the invasion or attack by the armed forces of a State of the
territory of another State; (b) bombardment by the armed forces of a State
against the territory of another State, or use of any weapons by a State
against the territory of another Sta! te; (c) the blockade of the ports and
coasts of a State by the armed forces of another State; (d) an attack by
the armed forces of a State on the land, sea or air forces, or marine and
air fleets of another State]. The defendants George W. Bush and Tony Blair
are individually responsible and liable for the crimes, as they ordered the
commission of such crimes in their capacity of supreme commander..

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Too Bush Killing Iraqis
A Shameful Response to Disaster
DAVE LINDORFF, CounterPunch
...Surely the world's richest nation could spare a few thousand rescue
troops and medical teams and a billion dollars or so to help prevent the
inevitable epidemics and starvation that will follow this latest natural
catastrophe in one of the world's poorest regions. But then, where would
those troops and medics come from? They're busy killing Iraqis and patching
up the American wounded in the latest U.S. imperial advent! ure, and can't
be spared for humanitarian gestures...

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Ramsey Clarke to defend Saddam
Aljazeera.net
Former US attorney-general Ramsey Clark is to join Saddam Hussein's defence
team, a spokesman for the ousted Iraqi president's lawyers says.Ziad
Khasawna said on Wednesday that Clark, who held the office of
attorney-general under US president Lyndon Johnson, had "honoured and
inspired" the legal team by agreeing to help defend Saddam...

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Mossad mulls new state setup in Iraq
IRIBNews
The Israeli Intelligence Agency (Mossad) is trying to create a pro-Israeli
state in northern Iraq, said the member of Egyptian parliament Abul Iz
al-Hariri. "Paving the way for normalising Iraq ties with Israel is another
objective pursued by Mossad in northern Iraq, added Hariri...


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Saddam's 'oil-for-food' profit doubted
Associated Press
...In an interview being aired Tuesday on Alhurra, the U.S.
government-backed television station tailored for Arab audiences, Paul
Volcker questioned the reliability of reports Saddam diverted amounts
ranging from $1.7 billion to $21 billion US from the $60-billion
oil-for-food program...

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Dozens killed, wounded in Mosul fighting
Aljazeera.net
US troops backed by warplanes have clashed with anti-US fighters in the
Iraqi city of Mosul, after being attacked by bombs and rocket-propelled
grenades. Military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Paul Hastings said a
"suicide" vehicle bomb exploded near a US military outpost in Mosul on
Wednesday, and a second human bomb attack targeted a US patrol responding
to the first blast...



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Parents for Peace in Iraq
Raed Jarrar, Raed in the Middle
I had dinner yesterday with a group of parents that lost their children in
iraq. Along with representatives of several anti-war groups, including San
Francisco-based Global Exchange, CodePink, Physicians for Social
Responsibility (PSR), the parents will be distributing some US$600,000
worth of aid for the estimated 250,000 people who fled the city in advance
of U.S. offensive last month in which some 2,000 Iraqis and at least 71
U.S. soldiers were killed..! .



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Was 2004 the worst year in the history of the United States?
Xymphora
...Oh, and what about the war? In the late years of the Vietnam War, if you
can believe it, there were actually large protests against the war. That
sort of thing is unimaginable now, as progressives appear to have
completely given up (or maybe there are no more progressives in the United
States). The utter hopelessness of opposition may turn out to be the main
reason that 2004 is a real stinker...

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 28 December 2004
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member editorial board The
Free Arab Voice.
In a dispatch posted at 12:17am Wednesday morning Mecca time, Mafkarat
al-Islam reported that eyewitnesses said that the Iraqi Resistance had
fired about 29 Grad rockets at the US forces in al-Fallujah Tuesday.
Between 1pm and 2pm the Resistance fired about 25 rockets at American
troops, then at 5:30pm Tuesday evening Resistance fighters fired four more
Grad ! rockets at the Americans...

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Navy SEALs Sue AP Over Alleged Abuse Photos
Joe Strupp
Six Navy SEALs and two of their wives filed a lawsuit against The
Associated Press and one of its reporters today for allegedly revealing
their identities in photos published in early December, according to a
press release from the plaintiffs(...) The SEALs argue that the pictures
"actually depict special warfare operators' standard procedures during
covert operations...


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Exporting Unhappiness
Iraq is giving new meaning to the word nationalism. It's become a running
sore for the US.
SUNANDA K. DATTA-RAY
...The star of the year, therefore, is not the US but Iraq.It is there that
history was made in 2004 and is still being made (...) As more US troops
are despatched for a meaningless election whose outcome will be even more
short-lived than the Hashemite monarchy, Iraq at war teaches the rest of
Asia the meaning of nationalism...

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Many police killed in Baghdad blast
Aljazeera.net
Twenty-eight Iraqi policemen have died in a powerful explosion in western
Baghdad. An interior ministry official said the blast, which also wounded
18 people, occurred early on Wednesday when the police were raiding a house
in which fighters were suspected to be living...


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Happy New Year, Mr. President
Anwaar Hussain, The Baltimore Chronicle.
...From Iraq, too, we hear similar outrageous stories coming out. For
example, they say that your G.I. Joes are now deserting in hordes (...)
That the so-called ''Sunni Trianglè is a figment of your imagination and
your not having learned your geometry lessons very well. That in fact the
whole Iraqi population is up in arms against your benign occupation and it
is not a question of triangles, circles and rectangles. That the series of
bombings! that left hundreds of innocent Iraqis dead and scores of others
injured were in fact planted by your cohorts to drive a wedge between Shias
and Sunnis...

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32 cops among 62 killed in Iraq
The News International, Pakistan
Insurgents killed at least 32 policemen, in multiple attacks across the
country on Tuesday and a militant group claimed to have executed eight
Iraqi employees of an American security company, saying they had
collaborated with US forces. As violence against security forces escalates
ahead of January 30 parliamentary elections, the lawmakers called upon the
people to forge unity, while the US military announces to beef up security
in Baghdad...


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Saddam in an exclusive interview: The Americans will leave Iraq by the
small door
Babnet.net
... If God wants it, Bush will be lonely after the whole world will know
that he is a liar. He will leave Iraq by the small door because Iraqi
Resistance is well prepared. It was prepared quite ahead of war. I had
joined together the military and political commands and we had prepared
this new page of the war against the Americans. What arrives today is not
the fruit of chance (...) I am afraid for Syria. Like Iraq, this ! country
is in the collimator. Moreover, I repeated on several occasions that the
whole Arab Nation is aimed. It is a crusade, a racist war which aims the
Arabs and Islam at the same time.
For this reason they were baited on Iraq, this country with the long
civilization...


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Baghdad commander of Iraqi security forces assassinated
Khaleej Times
The commander of the Iraqi National Guard in the capital city was
assassinated on Tuesday by a suicide bomber who drove a car bomb into the
convoy transporting the official, witnesses said. In addition to killing
Madhar al-Maula, the explosion wounded several convoy passengers. Sheikh
Hazim al-Shalan, the interim defence minister, later visited the site of
the explosion...


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Congress Is Quiet on Abuse of Detainees
Frank Davies, The Miami Herald
Graphic reports of widespread prisoner abuse in Iraq and at Guantánamo Bay
continue to rise, with the latest reports coming from the FBI. Federal
judges are struggling to determine how far they can go in reviewing the
detention and treatment of those the government classifies as enemy
combatants. And the Bush administration is asserting broad powers to detain
and interrogate foreign suspects but has lost several court battles over
the matter. ! Yet through it all, Congress has been largely absent. "That
branch has really abdicated its responsibility to set rules and oversee
what's happening, and we are paying a price for it," said retired Rear Adm.
Don Guter, who was judge advocate general in the U.S. Navy when the
Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, prison camp was set up three years ago...


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