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250.000 iracheni sono stati uccisi con la più totale impunità e davanti
alla indifferenza del mondo
Alberto Gil (trad. S. Antognoni, Peacelink)
...Prima dell'offensiva di Falluja un giornale inglese stimava che i morti
iracheni negli ultimi due anni fossero circa 100.000. Tuttavia il numero
reale è molto più grande. Noi, dall'Osservatorio di Bagdad, calcoliamo che,
dall'inizio della guerra e dell'occupazione, il numero di vittime irachene
è di circa 250.000 (...) Tutte le famiglie del mio paese hanno una storia
cr uenta da raccontare e anche la mia è fra loro: gli americani hanno
ucciso cinque membri della mia famiglia mentre in quella di mio marito tre.
Il più piccolo aveva 13 ani quando fu ucciso e il più anziano era un medico
di 60 anni. Ai marines non importò niente, spararono e basta...

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THE STRANGE KIDNAPPING OF MARGARET HASSAN
Matt Bojanovic, Traprock Peace Center
...The Prime Minister (Allawi) is much admired by his police officers. They
know him as a man capable of taking the initiative and to give a good
example, as when he killed six or seven prisoners in Baghdad, all by
himself. He is a capable man, capable of anything. The Prime Minister was
the person most likely to profit from the killing of Margaret Hassan. We
have motive, means, and opportunity. We have evidence of bodies buried in
his basement. No live witnesses in this latest case, but a fresh blood
trail leads to his doorsteps. Will that be sufficient to impanel a grand
jury?...

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Moral Vision, The Tsunami and Iraq
Sam Hamod
...At this time, most of their parents still have no idea what is going on
in Iraq—that hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have been killed by our
cluster bombs, 500 and 1000 bombs in Fallujah and Mosul, that thousands are
dying from cholera and other diseases brought about by lack of clean water
and sanitation, and few Americans realize our own troops and Iraqis are
being poisoned for a slow death from the Depleted Uranium shells we are
using in Iraq. The deformed babies will come home to haunt us, as will the
cancers of those who have gone to Iraq to fight—the Iraqis will die in
larger numbers and may have already died in larger numbers than those in
the Tsunami...

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Elections Under the Guns are No Solution
Ibrahim Ebeid, Al-Moharer
...The candidates are the choice of Washington and Tel Aviv under their
control and domination and are willing to sabotage the progress that the
Resistance in Palestine and Iraq are achieving. The selection of Allawi in
Iraq and Abu Mazen in Palestine are a necessity to achieve the Imperialist
schemes in the Arab area. The United States declared that it would put more
than 35,000 troops in the city of Baghdad in order to force the selection
of its candidates against the will of the Iraqi people. But the Iraqi
Resistance is showing more strength and gaining more popular support...

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Nine American Troops Killed in Iraq
NICK WADHAMS, Associated Press Writer
A roadside bomb killed seven U.S. soldiers in northwest Baghdad and two
Marines were killed in western Iraq on Thursday, the deadliest day for
American forces since a suicide attack on a U.S. base last month. The
bombing came as Iraq extended a state of emergency by 30 days to battle
militants whose attacks have surged ahead of this month's elections. The
prime minister warned the number of assaults would only rise as voting day
draws closer . Just three weeks before the Jan. 30 elections, the commander
of U.S. ground forces in Iraq acknowledged that security is poor in four of
18 Iraqi provinces (...) The soldiers with Task Force Baghdad were on
patrol Thursday evening when their Bradley fighting vehicle hit the
explosive, the military said in a statement. Everyone inside the Bradley
was killed...

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Iraq's Fraud Elections
Ghali Hassan
Elections are due on 30 January 2005 in Iraq, after nearly two years of
brutal Occupation. The elections were design to consolidate the Occupation,
"legitimise" those who serve US interests in Iraq, and hence prolong the
suffering of the Iraqi people. The purpose of the elections is to deceive
the peoples of the world. The Bush administration is counting on the
current US-appointed Iraqi Interim Government (IIG) to form the Iraqi
"façade" in Baghdad. However, this is not the cas e. The Allawi's
"government" is far less popular among Iraqis than the regime of Saddam,
and Allawi is the most hated individual in Iraq today...

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Televise The Funerals And Flag-Draped Coffins
Vincent L Guarisco, Scoop
...On the surface, it may seem cruel to advocate this, but for the love of
life, we must immediately start televising dead and mutilated sons,
daughters, uncles, aunts, husbands, wives and friends arriving home in
gift-wrapped body bags. Only then will the appeal of the selling points of
war and hostile occupation diminish. The injured and dead must appear on
television. The media must televise the reality of what this war is about:
the flag d raped caskets, the funerals, the grieving, the pain, the crying,
and the destruction. It must be shown immediately. It must...

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The other tsunami
John Pilger, The New Statesman
...A similar, largely unreported siege was forced on Iraq during the 1990s
and intensified during the Anglo-American "liberation". Last September,
Unicef reported that malnutrition among Iraqi children had doubled under
the occupation. Infant mortality is now at the level of Burundi, higher
than in Haiti and Uganda. There is crippling poverty and a chronic shortage
of medicines. Cases of cancer are rising rapidly, especially breast cancer;
radioactive pollution is w idespread. More than 700 schools are
bomb-damaged...

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American Public should be worried over U.S. monitoring of Iraqis
Stan Moore, Media Monitors Network
How many computer files are in the possession of the U.S. military and
intelligence agencies with regard to citizens of Iraq? For over a year,
U.S. forces have been keeping track of many Iraqi citizens in order to seek
and keep track of "insurgents", their families, and contacts. We have been
told recently that citizens of Fallujah will soon have retinal scans taken
and identification cards issued in order to track them in their own city by
foreign occupiers. The surveillance and tracking of Iraqi citizens in Iraq
may very well portend the future of American citizens in America...

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We Are All Torturers Now
Mark Danner, NYTimes
When Alberto Gonzales takes his seat before the Senate Judiciary Committee
today for hearings to confirm whether he will become attorney general of
the United States, Americans will bid farewell to that comforting story
line. The senators are likely to give full legitimacy to a path that the
Bush administration set the country on more than three years ago, a path
that has transformed the United States from a country that condemned
torture and forbade its use to one tha t practices torture routinely...

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Iraq: American Reality
Bob Burnett , CommonDreams.org
...George and Dick's adventure show isn't going according to script -
America is losing the war in Iraq. Each day brings new evidence of a
strengthening insurgency; fresh proof that what was once unthinkable has
now become ominously plausible - the US occupation is sliding towards
defeat...

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US troops 'laughed as Iraqi died'
BBC News
An Iraqi civilian has testified that US soldiers forced him and his cousin
to jump into the River Tigris and laughed as his relative was swept to his
death. "He was calling my name, said: 'Help me! Help me!'" Marwan Fadel
Hassoun told a military trial in Texas. Army Sgt Tracy Perkins, 33, is on
trial for an array of charges including involuntary manslaughter...


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What about the Children of Iraq?
By Jack Dalton|POAC Co-Editor, Axis of Logic
...My question is simply this, where is the worlds concern for the tens of
thousands of Iraq's children that have been so completely decimated by the
U.S. invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq? In the 12 years of U.S.
sanctions on Iraq prior to the invasion, over 500,000 children died--as a
direct result of those sanctions. Where was the care and concern of the
world then? Where were the so-called "compassionate conservatives" of th e
U.S. then? Oops! Forgot for a moment, they are the ones supporting the Iraq
war...

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Ignorance and Illogic About Iraq
Darrell Dow, Antiwar
As 2005 proceeds, I predict that the mess in Iraq will depart from American
consciousness, overtaken by the media's fixation on Michael Jackson. The
lack of knowledge about events on the ground in Iraq is stunning (...) One
particularly disturbing report that emerged during the election was a
survey by the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA). According
to PIPA, 72 percent of Bush supporters believed that Iraq had actual
"weapons of mass destructio n" or a major program for developing them.
Also, 75 percent of Bush supporters believed that Iraq was providing
significant support to al-Qaeda, and 63 percent thought clear evidence had
been found proving the linkage. These folks are obviously listening to too
much Hannity and Limbaugh, not to mention watching entirely too much Fox
News...




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U.S. Only Spent Small Part of Iraq Rebuilding Funds
Reuters
The United States has still only spent a small portion of the $18.4 billion
it set aside for rebuilding Iraq, a new government report shows. According
to a copy of the Bush administration's latest quarterly update to Congress
on Iraq obtained by Reuters on Thursday, as of Dec. 29 only $2.2 billion of
the funds has actually been spent...



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Outraged at Nature; Oblivious to Cluster Bombs
Colin Powell's Selective Sense of Horror
DAVE LINDORFF, CounterPunch
...And you have to wonder what he thinks now about the U.S. Shock and Awe
destruction of Baghdad, or more recently, of the leveling of the cities of
Najaf, Samarah and especially Fallujah. One would think that the carnage
caused by man - indeed the carnage for which Colin Powell himself bears
considerable responsibility - would be far more troubling than that caused
by nature. But then we are a selectively outraged people. Where is the mass
public campaign to raise money for the hundreds of thousands of wounded and
displaced in Iraq?...

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Alberto Gonzales: America's Next Attorney General
Kurt Nimmo
... In short, the Bush administration considers the prohibitions against
torture—to say nothing of mass murder of civilians in places such as
Fallujah, a sort of large scale torture resulting in "death, organ failure,
or serious impairment of body functions" —as old fashioned, odd, and
unusual because Bush is fighting a "new kind of war," not against soldiers
in uniforms but against entire populations, a form of "creative
destruction" requiring unprecede nted brutality, viciousness, and
depravity...


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It's Worse Than Illegal
Ray McGovern
...A friend of mine, Army Sgt. Sam Provance, was stationed at Abu Ghraib in
2003. He is an Army careerist, anything but a troublemaker (...) Sam was
not a military policeman or interrogator, but he was close enough to hear
the screams of those being abused - close enough to see the Iraqi boy who
had been tortured before his father's eyes. The purpose, of course, was to
"set the conditions for successful interrogation," to use the euphemism
coined by Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, w ho, after commanding the prison at
Guantanamo, "migrated," together with the abusive interrogation techniques
used there, to Abu Ghraib. The boy's father, you see, was an Iraqi general,
who might know something and, if so, might spill the beans if the right
"conditions" were set...

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The terrible toll of Bush's occupation
U.S. attack left Falluja "unfit for animals"
Eric Ruder, Socialist Worker
AFTER NEARLY two months of a savage U.S. offensive, the people of Falluja
are returning to their city--to find heaps of rubble and whole
neighborhoods demolished. Operation Phantom Fury, as the U.S. called its
assault, destroyed between 25 and 40 percent of the city's 50,000 homes,
according to one report. The number of civilian dead will likely exceed
10,000(...) "Even animals, who have no hu man sense and feelings, cannot
live here," said Yasser Satar, with tears streaming down his cheeks, as he
surveyed his destroyed home. "What do they want from Falluja? This is the
crime of the century. They want to destroy Islam and Muslims. But our anger
and resistance will increase"...



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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 5 January 2005
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member editorial board The
Free Arab Voice.
...Iraqi Resistance forces in Mosul issued a communiqué signed the "General
Command of the Islamic Resistance" that they distributed in mosques and
pasted along streets on Wednesday. The communiqué threatened the
US-appointed "prime minister" of Iraq Iyyad 'Allawi, whom they called "the
Sharon of Iraq" and warned US forces and the Kurdish chauvinist militia th
e Peshmergah against trying to attack Mosul or even thinking about it...

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Army Doctors Implicated in Abuse
Medical Workers Helped Tailor Interrogations of Detainees, Report Finds
Joe Stephens, Washington Post Staff Writer
U.S. Army doctors violated the Geneva Conventions by helping intelligence
officers carry out abusive interrogations at military detention centers,
perhaps participating in torture, according to a report in today's edition
of the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. Medical personnel
helped tailor interrogations to the physical and mental condi tions of
individual detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the U.S. military
prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to the report...

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