[uruknet.info] - [daily information from occupied iraq] - [newsletter 12 Jan 2005]

["uruknet.info" <redazione at uruknet.info>]

  uruknet.info
  «Ë-Ë"Ê Æ‰Ê·Ë
:: information from occupied iraq
:: informazione dall'iraq occupato

Le elezioni sotto la minaccia dei fucili non sono una soluzione
Ibrahim Ebeid, Lega Antimperialista
...La causa palestinese affronta oggi l'ultimo atto, in cui si dispiegano i
progetti per la liquidazione concepiti dall'alleanza tra Imperialisti,
Sionisti e reazionari. Ed è per questa ragione che l'Imperialismo Sionista
e degli Stati Uniti ha sostenuto l'idea delle elezioni "democratiche" in
Palestina ed in Iraq. La sporca alleanza dell'Imperialismo degli Stati
Uniti con il Sionismo sta camuffando le sua ostilità ed aggressività dietro
questa nuova facciata di "democrazia" sotto la minaccia dei fucili per far
eleggere degli uomini che li rappresentino in Iraq ed in Palestina...

<http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8810&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8810


Fiction destroys U.S. credibility
Youssef M. Ibrahim, UPI
In July 2003, The Washington Post published a heartrending front-page story
of an Iraqi woman, Jumana Mikhail Hanna, under the headline "A lone woman
testifies to Iraq's order of terror," telling how she was falsely arrested,
tortured and raped (...) Alas, this week an extensive article in Esquire
magazine, published in the January 2005 issue, reveals that the entire
story of Jumana, from start to finish, is a total fabrication (...) She was
jailed, it turn s out, for prostitution and only for a few weeks after her
own mother complained her behavior was embarrassing, asking a police
officer to teach her a lesson. According to the Esquire account, there was
neither torture nor any physical signs of it, but the Iraqi doctor who
examined her was fired by occupation authorities for saying so...


<http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8823&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8823


Migliaia di soldati USA si oppongono alla guerra contro l'Iraq
Intervista a Maritza Castillo, madre di Camilo Mejía, il primo soldato che
si è rifiutato di andare in guerra in Iraq.
www.resistenze.org - popoli resistenti
...E' importante che il mondo sappia che ci sono migliaia di soldati,
giovani che stanno resistendo alla guerra. Mio figlio fu il primo a
denunciarlo pubblicamente, ma ci sono molti che stanno fuggendo verso altri
paesi ed all'interno degli stessi Stati Uniti molti vivono nascos ti,
nell'ombra, scappando per non partire. Vi è inoltre un movimento di
veterani dell'Iraq contro la guerra, insieme ai veterani del Vietnam, che
si sta organizzando, e vi sono centinaia di giovani che stanno applicando
l'obiezione di coscienza...

<http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8808&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8808


US military "mistake" claims 14 lives in occupied Iraq
James Cogan, WSWS
US military and Iraqi officials admitted on Sunday that an American F-16
made a "mistake" when it dropped a 500-pound satellite-guided bomb on a
house in the village of Aaytha, 30 miles south of Mosul (...) The bombing,
however, is a microcosm of what has happened day in and day out in Iraq
since the Bush administration and its international allies illegally
invaded and occupied the country. The Iraqi people, regardless of their
attitude to t he US presence, live under the constant risk of being
"mistakenly" killed, maimed or dragged off to detention centres...

<http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8824&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8824


I medici: il numero di morti a Falluja è in aumento
IRIN (traduzione: Circolo Anarchico Ponte della Ghisolfa)
"E' veramente angosciante raccogliere morti da case distrutte, specialmente
bambini. E' la più deprimente situazione in cui mi sono trovato da quando è
iniziata la guerra", ha dichiarato a IRIN il dottor RAfa'ah al-Iyssaue,
direttore del più gradne ospedale della città di Falluja, città situata a
circa 60 km a ovest di Baghdad. Secondo Al-Iyssaue, la squadra d'emergenza
dell'ospedale ha recuperato più di 700 corpi provenienti dalle macerie di
quelli che una volta erano case e negozi, di questi almeno 550 erano di
donne e bambini...

<http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8813&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8813


The unthinkable now has enough respectability to be published in the
newspapers.
Xymphora
You have to wonder why the American government is using Newsweek to float
its musings on the desirability of applying in Iraq the model of Reagan-era
American support for death squads in El Salvador. The CIA/Pentagon/Mossad
appears to be doing something like this already, and it seems odd, given
the many objections that could be raised, both practical and moral, that we
would be seeing the airing of this particular dir ty laundry in public.
Unfortunately, since September 11 Americans seem to have a limitless
ability to tolerate and even endorse positions that would have been
considered beyond the pale only a few years ago...

<http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8825&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8825


'The normalization of horror'
American Gulags Become Permanent
Ted Rall, Yahoo
A new documentary, "Hitler's Hit Parade," runs 76 minutes without
narration. Comprised entirely of archival footage, the film prompts its
reviewers to remark upon Hannah Arendt's famous observation about the
banality of evil. German troops subjugated Europe and shoved millions of
people into ovens; German civilians went to the movies, attended concerts,
and gossiped about their neighbors. People lived mundane, normal lives
while the ir government carried out unspeakable monstrosities. Sound
familiar? As Congress prepared to rubberstamp the nomination of torture
aficionado Alberto Gonzales as the nation's chief prosecutor, the
Washington Post broke news that would have torn a saner nation apart. The
Bush Administration, the paper reported January 2, is no longer planning to
keep hundreds of Muslim prisoners currently rotting away in U.S.
concentration camps at Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib and Bagram merely
"indefinitely"...

<http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8821&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8821


How Many More Will it Take—How Many More Will Have to Die?
Jack Dalton, Project for the Old American Century
...Report after report has been telling us that PTSD is affecting 1 in 5
serving in Iraq --and that is expected to go as high as 1 in 3. These are
not my numbers, but they come from the Veterans Administration, not a
bastion of liberalism. How many more will have to commit suicide before
this madness unleashed by BushCo ends? How many more will force someone
else to kill them, as did Andreas Raya? How many more will come back and
kill their families as what happened at Ft Brag?...

<http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8820&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8820


Bush's Cambodia: Syria in the Crosshairs
Kurt Nimmo
...As Richard Sale writes for United Press International, "Bush
administration hard-liners have been considering launching selected
military strikes at insurgent training camps in Syria and border-crossing
points used by Islamist guerrillas to enter Iraq in an effort to bolster
security for the upcoming elections, according to former and current
administration officials." In short, Bush is preparing his Cambodia, his
Laos in Syria. "There are all sorts of discuss ions going on, the White
House, the Pentagon, the Joint Chiefs," former CIA counterterrorism chief,
Vince Cannistraro, told Sale. It appears to be only a matter of time before
Bush and Crew invade Syria. Response in America? Nada. No visible antiwar
movement, no marches on Washington, no students writing and passing out
antiwar newspapers, or very few, anyway...


<http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8819&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8819


Iraq abuse hailed as creative
AFP
A witness at a court martial of the accused Abu Ghraib prison abuse
ringleader has hailed the stacking up of naked detainees as "a creative
technique" and said he too would have photographed the incident. Thomas
Archambault, a law enforcement instructor and an expert on restraint
techniques, said he thought US military policeman Charles Graner, had "used
good foresight" in the way he dealt with the detainees...


<http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8817&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8817


Falluja residents may never return
Aljazeera.net
Many residents who fled Iraq's shattered city of Falluja will not return
until after the 30 January election, if at all, due to uncertain security
and the lack of schools and hospitals, the UN has said. About 85,000
residents have entered the city, heavily damaged in a month-long US assault
that began in November, to inspect their houses, but only 10 percent of
those have decided to stay, the UN's refugee agency UNHCR told a news
briefing on Tuesday...


<http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8814&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8814


MEDIA ALERT: DWARFING THE TSUNAMI - A WARNING
MediaLens, David Edwards
...US secretary of state, Colin Powell, declared of the tsunami disaster
zone: "I've been in war and I've been through a number of hurricanes,
tornadoes and other relief operations, but I've never seen anything like
this." With Fallujah fresh in everyone's minds, the media failed to make
the obvious point. Iraqi doctor Ali Fadhil, however, reports from the
shattered city: "By 10am we were inside the city. It was completely
devastated, destruc tion everywhere" (...) This was done by human beings,
illegally, in contravention of the Geneva convention. Perhaps Powell had
forgotten about Fallujah. Perhaps the media had, too...


<http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8812&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8812


Haji Ali and U.S. Prisons in Iraq
Cliff Kindy, Electronic Iraq
...Haji Ali finished by saying, "Many detainees in prison are there based
on false information." The International Red Cross reported last year that
the U.S. holds 70 - 90% of Iraqi detainees without cause. With secret
prisons and unknown numbers of Iraqi detainees, it is difficult to monitor
U.S. treatment of Iraqi detainees. Haji Ali says, "U.S. human rights
organizations and U.S. people must intervene to end the suffering of
Iraqis"...

<http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8809&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8809


America's Corporate "Cash Cow"—Iraq
Jack Dalton, POAC Co-Editor
Day after day, week after week, and now, year after year we keep being told
by the Bush Brigade how good things are going in Iraq. How progress is
being made. How much more progress will be made once all those "murders,
thugs, killers, foreign fighters and die-hard Saddam loyalists" are gone;
and, once the 5.6% of Iraq's registered voters vote in three weeks. What a
joke to refer to this as "democracy on the march" (...) The only "plan" the
Bush Brig ade had for Iraq was to turn it into one great big giant "cash
cow." Bremmer and his infamous "edicts" pretty much made sure of that...


<http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8801&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8801


Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 9 January 2005 through
Tuesday, 11 January 2005
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member editorial board The
Free Arab Voice.
...Fierce fighting erupted between Iraqi Resistance forces and US aggressor
troops in the al-Jazirah village north of ar-Ramadi on Tuesday morning. The
Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent filed his report 500 meters from the
fighting after the battle had broken out when an American column had
stormed into al-Jazirah with dozens of tan ks, armored vehicles and Humvees
at 10am Tuesday. A large number of Resistance fighters were battling the
American column on the outskirts of the village, in fighting that was still
raging when the correspondent filed his report posted at 12:09pm Mecca
time. The correspondent reported that he saw four tanks ablaze and three
Humvees totally destroyed...

<http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8807&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8807


Iraq's Allawi says some areas unsafe for poll
Michael Georgy, Reuters
Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has acknowledged there are what he calls pockets
of Iraq that would be too unsafe for voting in a January 30 election, only
hours after guerrillas killed 20 people in attacks. Allawi promised to
spend $2 billion (1.06 billion pounds) to beef up Iraq's security forces to
combat insurgents trying to derail the vote...



<http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8804&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8804


Decorated US Marine brings "Fallujah" back to his hometown
Mexican-American marine who did not want to return to Iraq, kills cop and
is killed in shootout
Ernesto Cienfuegos, La Voz de Aztlan
A US Marine of Mexican descent home for the holidays from Fallujah, Iraq
decided to wage battle yesterday against his own hometown police department
of Ceres, California rather than return to Iraq to kill innocent Iraqi
civilians (...) One can only speculate what horrors Andres Raya experienced
in Fallujah. The slaughter by US occupation forces of Iraqi civilians in
Fallujah has been compared to the slaughter in Guernica by Nazi forces in
1937. Many US Marines with a conscious have found it very difficult to
reconciliate the Iraqi civilian murders in their minds and have committed
suicide...

<http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8800&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8800


Vatican Wants U.S. to Finish Job in Iraq
VICTOR L. SIMPSON, AP
The U.S. ambassador to the Vatican said Tuesday that officials in the Holy
See want the United States to remain in Iraq and pacify the country despite
Pope John Paul II's opposition to the war. ``We had an honest disagreement
between two great leaders and what happened, happened,'' Ambassador Jim
Nicholson, recently nominated by President Bush to be secretary of veterans
affairs, said in an interview with The Associated Press. Since then, most
Vatican officials have been ``forward looking,'' he said...


<http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8802&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8802


From El Salvador to Iraq: Death Squads Come in Waves
Charles Demers
...Of course, with the torture and war crimes of Bush's illegal war against
Iraq condoned by a majority of U.S. voters last November, the
administration isn't bound by any moral checks nor, would it seem, are they
bound by the limits imposed by shame - so long as they stop short of
drowning Iraqis with a tidal wave, we're unlikely to see any sort of
outpouring of grief or rage from up here in fortress North America. And who
knows even then; if Rum sfeld starts looking into seismological warfare,
I'm sure that the pundits and the apologists will have an ideological
cushion for him to land on then, too...

<http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8826&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8826



<http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8899&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8899



<http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=8898&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi
l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=8898




<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. If you think it has
been an abuse, or simply if you don't want to receive it any more, to
unsubscribe from our newsletter, please write to
<mailto:webmaster at uruknet.info?subject=UNSUBSCRIBE>webmaster at uruknet.info
If you cannot read correctly our newsletter, please write to
<mailto:webmaster at uruknet.info?subject=ONLYTEXT>webmaster at uruknet.info to
get the text-version.