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Cosa hanno in comune Fallujah e Halabja?
Ghali Hassan
... Il 16 marzo 1988 la città di Halabja nella parte nord occidentale
dell'Iraq fu bombardata con proiettili d'artiglieria contenenti un gas
velenoso, che provocò la morte di molti civili. Essi vennero uccisi da un
gas a base di cianuro, come è risultato dalle analisi mediche compiute sui
loro corpi (...) L'Iraq fu accusato di gassare il proprio popolo. La storia
inventata ad arte è usata tutt'oggi per giustificare le molte atrocità
commesse dagli Stati Uniti e dai suoi alleati contro il popolo iracheno.
Eppure non c'è una sola credibile evidenza che prova che le truppe irachene
fossero a Halabja quel giorno, e che l'Iraq fosse responsabile degli
attacchi chimici alla città...

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"Abbiamo ucciso un sacco di persone innocenti"
The Economist - Osservatorio Iraq
...Invece, hanno preso in custodia 70 uomini da zone identificate dal loro
informatore come "brutte" (...) La maggior parte erano stati presi
casualmente; diversi erano stati trattenuti perché avevano un Kalashnikov,
che è legale. Le prove contro un uomo erano alcune pubblicazioni
anti-americane, una mannaia e un flauto di latta. Ufficiali
dell'intelligence americana si muovevano tra le fila dei detenuti,
sollevando i cappucci per sc attare delle foto segnaletiche: "Un, due, tre,
jihaaad!". Questo il commento di un ufficiale di grado medio sulla
missione: "Quando facciamo questo" - ha detto - "perdiamo"...


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The Fire Shower
Peter Pritchard, ZNet
...The United States has admitted to using to using MK77 firebombs against
Iraqi troops stationed on a bridge leading to Baghdad. When questioned
about it by the press they used two talking points to divert the question.
The first was that the weapons were used on enemy troops. Of course there
is no way of confirming this because first, the U.S. military is supplying
no information about insurgents or civilians that it kills, and second,
because the bodies were incinerated, so it will be pretty hard for anyone
to identify them. Note, they are not denying using a weapon banned by the
U.N., just saying they used it against enemy troops (...) However, this is
not the only time that these firebombs have been seen by the Iraqis. Aid
workers and medics are reporting many severe burn wounds on civilians being
brought to the hospitals...

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U.S. troops fire on car, killing 2 civilians
Associated Press, St. Petersburg Times
U.S. soldiers opened fire on a car as it approached their checkpoint in
northern Iraq, killing two civilians in the vehicle's front seats, the
military said Wednesday. The children riding in the backseat were unhurt
(...) Cris Hondros, a Getty Images photographer, was on the scene,
providing this series of photos...


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Iraq: Closed Door Elections and Clandestine Candidates
Periódico 26, Cuba
The US president, now nearly bereft of arguments, continues insisting that
his country invaded and destroyed Iraq to install western style democracy
there and to hold presidential elections on January 30, to demonstrate that
the system is capable of doing so. The evidence, however, indicates that we
are about to see the holding of the least democratic and least
participatory elections ever. Iraq's interim government, installed by the
invader s to soften their image, has already announced that two days before
the elections, all ground, air and sea access will be totally sealed off
until Monday, January 31...



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Torture and Civilian Deaths in Iraq
The Nuremberg Principles Today
NANCY ODEN, CounterPunch
At the Nuremberg, Germany trials of Nazis following World War II, the world
listened with revulsion as Nazi troops reported committing atrocities
because, they said, they were "just following orders." (...) Today in Iraq
our young people are being ordered to commit terrible acts. Torture and
killing of women, children, injured people, doctors, nurses, and bombing of
places of worship and hospitals are all illegal under the Nuremberg
Principles. Repulsive atrocities are being carried out in our names...

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Hersh Adds Credibility to Speculation Margaret Hassan was the Victim of a
Counterinsurgency Operation
Kurt Nimmo
...Considering the long and violent history of the CIA (...) I find it
entirely plausible that Hassan, who was against Bush's invasion and
occupation (and influential as the director of a high-profile NGO), was
kidnapped and possibly murdered, although her body has yet to be found. It
makes infinitely more sense for a "pseudo gang" of Iraqi
terrorists—possibly criminals, paramilitaries from the Allawi g overnment,
or freelance mercenaries under the direction of U.S., Israeli, or British
intelligence—to engage in such vile behavior, not the Iraqi resistance who
would only lose from committing such horrendous violence against those
striving to alleviate the suffering of the Iraqi people.

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The Gonzales Indictment
Marjorie Cohn, t r u t h o u t
Alberto Gonzales should not be the Attorney General of the United States.
He should be considered a war criminal and indicted by the Attorney
General. This is a suggested indictment of Alberto Gonzales for war crimes
under Title 18 U.S.C. section 1441, the War Crimes Act...

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Car Bombs
Dahr Jamail
...As I write three more huge explosions rumble across the center of
Baghdad. In a span of just 90 minutes five car bombs detonated killing at
least 26 people. One of the car bombs detonated outside a bank where IP's
were collecting their salaries, killing at least 10 of them. Another car
bomb detonated at the airport, killing two guards. A military installation
was also attacked, killing two American soldiers and two civilians...



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Bizarro Election
Bob Dreyfuss , Tompaine.com
The election in Iraq is getting weirder and weirder. First, does anyone but
me think that the media's emphasis on registering Iraqi voters in the
United States and other Western countries is being wildly hyped? This is,
after all, an election in Iraq, but the U.S. media is giving enormous ink
to the polling places being set up in the United States, neglecting to
mention that these voters have no idea who to vote for, since there is no
campaigning, no election materials, and no easy way to find out who the
candidates are. Second, the press here keeps calling them Iraqi "exiles,"
but they are in fact "immigrants," just like millions of other foreign-born
U.S. citizens and residents...

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Vietnam Veteran and Attorney Fredrick Klepp: A Valuable Resource for Active
Duty Military Who Believe They Qualify as Conscientious Objectors
Jack Dalton, Project for the Old American Century
This is in response to the many emails I have received from people in the
military asking me if I know a good attorney that might be able to help
them as they attempt to file for Conscientious Objector status, among other
problems they are confronted with today. I immediately turned to Fredrick
Klepp...

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 18 January 2005
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member editorial board The
Free Arab Voice.
Two US soldiers were killed in al-Fallujah at 9:15am Tuesday morning by an
outraged Iraqi citizen who had returned to the city and found that his home
had been totally demolished. A neighbor of Mr. Ahmad Hudayb, who was gunned
down by US occupation troops after shooting two of them, said "Shaykh Ahmad
Hudayb, may God rest his soul, returned to his house in the ad-Dubbat
neighborhood in the east of al-Fallujah and found it totally destroyed. He
started to cry, and to think of his house as a sacrifice for which God
might reward him, and he called American soldiers over to talk to them
about what happened to his house and why it was demolished"...

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There is a simple, fast way to bring our troops home from Iraq. Will you
support the way to peace?
Stewart Nusbaumer, Intervention Magazine
We have reasoned and pleaded and listened, yet nothing has changed. A
majority of Americans still believe Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11,
that the invasion of Iraq is justified, that massive tax cuts and huge
increases in military spending are not squandering our economic future.
We've used historical examples, simple logic, screamed angrily, and
explained patiently, all to no effect...


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We Aren't Dealing With Rationality
Will Bush Quit Iraq?
ALEXANDER COCKBURN, CounterPunch
...The great dread of the Israel lobby back in the early 1970s was that
withdrawal from Vietnam might presage withdrawal of support for Israel.
Withdrawal from Iraq would be seen by the same lobby as a huge setback and
the Sharon government is no doubt pondering scenarios - maybe a Tonkin Gulf
type incident involving Iran, perhaps an attack on its reactor - to ensure
withdrawal is postponed. All the leaks and conse quent news stories -
notably one by Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker - about intelligence sorties
by US or Israeli units in western Iran, and possible attack on Iran later
this year reflect the ferocious debate going inside the Bush
administration. As in 2002 the strategy of the war party is to maintain
tension, and to fan the flames...


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Bush tells Washington Post he is not accountable for Iraq war lies
Patrick Martin, WSWS
...The war in Iraq is a monstrous crime, and Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld & Co.
must be held accountable. They do have co-conspirators, not among the
working people of the United States, but in the American ruling class.
Corporate America and the media and political establishment share the
responsibility for a war in which nearly 1,400 Americans and tens of
thousands of Iraqis have already died...



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Deadly car bombs shake Iraqi capital
Aljazeera.net
Three bombs, including one near the Australian embassy in Baghdad, along
with a checkpoint shooting, have killed 10 people and wounded many, interim
government and hospital officials say. A truck bomb exploded near the
Australian embassy in central Baghdad at about 7am (0400 GMT) on Wednesday,
police and witnesses said, in a blast that rocked the centre of the city...


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A catalogue of British abuse
Tony Paterson, The Independent
"Shocking and appalling" photographs of British troops allegedly torturing
and sexually humiliating Iraqi civilians were revealed yesterday. The
images were produced at a court martial of three British soldiers accused
of acts of abuse on Iraqis in an aid camp weeks after the fall of Saddam
Hussein. They include forcing detainees to strip and simulate sex acts
which were photographed by servicemen...



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Abu Ghraib abuse trial shields Pentagon, White House war criminals
Joseph Kay, WSWS
...The testimony of witnesses who did appear in Graner's case, mainly
fellow soldiers at Abu Ghraib and some detainees, indicated that
culpability extends well beyond the seven individuals who have been
charged. Some of the other soldiers who have already pleaded guilty noted
that Graner and others were encouraged in their actions by military
intelligence and CIA officials in order to "soften up" prisoners for
interrogation purpose s...

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Iraqi Elections: Farce of the Century
Felicity Arbuthnot, www.globalresearch.ca
...However, according to a renowned expert on international law, Sabah Al
Mukhtar, the London based President of the League of Arab Lawyers, the
election is not alone fatally flawed, it is illegal. 'Under the Vienna
Convention, an occupying force has no right to change composition of
occupied territories socially, culturally, educationally or politically.
This election was based on the laws laid down by former 'Viceroy' American
Paul B remer and is entirely unconstitutional. Bremer personally appointed
the overseers for the election', says Al Mukhtar...

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Iranian Democracy in Bushzarro World: Electric shock, Whipping, and Beating
Kurt Nimmo
...Moreover, we know—or some of us do, those who pay attention, examine
history, and use deductive reasoning—that the sort of behavior mentioned by
Hersh (termed a "terrorist" by the Strausscon Richard Perle for telling the
truth) is precisely the sort of thing the United States government has done
for decades under a long line of presidents and administrations: in Greece,
Italy, Iran, Guatemala, North Vietnam, Hungary, Laos, Ha iti, Cuba, the
Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Zaire, Brazil, Indonesia, Bolivia, Uruguay,
Cambodia, Chile, Australia, Angola, Afghanistan, El Salvador, Nicaragua,
Honduras, Panama, Iraq, and elsewhere...

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Iraqi candidates shot dead
Aljazeera.net
Unknown assailants in southern Iraq have gunned down two more candidates
running for the political coalition of interim prime minister Iyad Allawi
in the 30 January elections. Alaa Hamid, who was running on Allawi's slate
of candidates for the 275-member National Assembly, was shot dead Monday in
the southern port city of Basra in front of his family...


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