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COSE STRANE SUCCEDONO A FALLUJA
Occultano tracce di armi chimiche
Dahr Jamail, www.resistenze.org
...Ahmed (ho cambiato il nome per proteggerlo), un rifugiato appena giunto
all'ospedale della cittadina, mi riferì il mese scorso di aver visto
militari portare camion cisterna con acqua per lavare a pressione alcune
strade di Falluja. “Perché lo fanno? Per abbellire Falluja? No! Stanno
occultando le tracce delle orribili armi che utilizzarono nella mia città!”
Anche Abu Sabah, un altro rifugiato di Falluja dell a zona di Julan, mi
disse lo scorso novembre: “Usarono (i militari USA) le loro strane bombe
per produrre fumo come una nube a forma di fungo. Piccoli pezzi cadevano
poi dall'aria lasciando dietro di sé lunghe scie di fumo”...

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Un messaggio della resistenza irachena:
“Non siamo responsabili dell’11 settembre”
Gary Leupp, CounterPunch - www.resistenze.org
...Il video descrive il movimento di resistenza come diretto da “gente
semplice che preferì i principi alla paura” e risultato non solo
dell'invasione ma anche delle “sanzioni (dell'ONU) che consideriamo le vere
armi di distruzione di massa”. Spiega l'invasione in termini geopolitici,
non in modo semplicistico come una guerra tra l'Islam e l’Occidente, od in
modo stupido come una guerra tra il Bene ed il Male. (...) Fa appello ai
popoli del mondo per “formare un fronte mondiale contro la guerra e le
sanzioni”...

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U.S. goal for Iraq’s elections:
They want to legitimate occupation
Socialist Worker
...Antiwar activists should reject the upcoming elections in Iraq as a
sham--just as they must reject all justifications for the continuing
occupation of Iraq. The U.S. is hoping that the vote will bolster its
control over Iraq, not bring it to an end. It hopes to install a puppet
government, but it has also taken the opportunity to stoke ethnic and
religious divisions--in a classic attempt to “divide and conquer” the Iraqi
pe ople...

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 26 January 2005
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board,
the Free Arab Voice.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as saying
that Iraqi Resistance forces fired a SAM7 rocket, bringing down a US
helicopter over the city of ar-Rutbah, 460km west of Baghdad at 7am
Wednesday. The helicopter had been on its way to the village of Makr
adh-Dhib, which lies near the city. The correspondent explained that
American for ces habitually carry out helicopter-borne landings in that
area to raid and search houses and arrest people. It is nearly impossible
for them to go by land to the village because the Resistance controls the
countryside, so they must resort to helicopter-born assaults...

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Condi Rice is Incompetent
Jude Wanniski
...You say Saddam committed “mass murder,” which implies acts of genocide.
I’m sorry to inform you, Dr. Rice, that US intelligence services agree
there was no such genocide. The CIA’s report of last September, which I
understand you were too busy to read, confirmed earlier findings of the
Army War College that no such genocide occurred. If you like, I’ll send you
a synopsis of the report, which you can read if you have the time. Next you
said Saddam “maintained ties to terro r.” I have no idea what this means,
Dr. Rice, unless you mean that Iraq has supported the Palestinians, not the
Israelis...

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What Kind of Freedom? An Interview with Christian Parenti
Tucker Foehl, Mother Jones
...More recently, I went to Chicago to interview an interrogator who works
with the 10th Mountain, which is stationed at Camp Victory surrounding the
Baghdad Airport. The interrogators routinely grill people who are
completely innocent of anything and snatched at random and brought to Abu
Ghraib. This source wouldn’t tell the entire story to me. He was too scared
to tell it because he had to go back to Iraq and continue in this po
sition. But he did describe an intelligence system that was in complete
chaos -- where all intelligence has equal value and people are
indiscriminately imprisoned. He also discussed an operation called “Clean
Sweep” in advance of the January 30th election, which basically rounds up
every male in the area between 18-40...

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WSJ Votes Chalabi
Bob Dreyfuss , Tonpaine.com
Today’s Wall Street Journal, faithfully reflecting the neoconservative view
on Iraq, takes a whack at both the CIA and Iraq’s Prime Minister Allawi —
and says that it prefers none other than Ahmed Chalabi (...) Unlike his
rival and distant relative, the independent-minded and often-infuriating
Ahmed Chalabi, [Allawi] shared the CIA’s view of how things ought to be
done in a post-Saddam Iraq. Let’s leave aside the spectacle of the Journal
opposing someone for doing what the CIA wanted. The point is, the Journal —
and the neocons — have long insisted that the Shiites in Iraq (including
Chalabi, now, it seems) ought to rule...

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Bloodiest Day for U.S. Troops in Iraq, 37 Dead
Matt Spetalnickm, Reuters
Thirty-one U.S. troops died in a helicopter crash in Iraq and six more were
killed in insurgent attacks on the deadliest day for American forces since
they invaded the country 22 months ago. Rebels waging a campaign to wreck
Sunday's elections also killed 25 Iraqis in a string of suicide bombings
and raids on Wednesday, some of them aimed at parties contesting the
polls...

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DRAFT THE MEDIA!!
THEY SOLD WAR, LET THEM FIGHT IT!
TvNewsLIES.org
The American news media are as responsible for the invasion of Iraq as the
neocon liars in Washington! Their methods were calculated. Their motives
were premeditated. Their mission was transparent. They were determined to
sell the war. They reported half-truths, partial facts, unverified rumors
and selective viewpoints. Night after night, week after week, they beat the
drums of war draped in flags of pseudo patriotism, and helped to terrorize
the nation...

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Vote Where, How, and for Whom?
Dahr Jamail, Inter Press Service
...But some Iraqis still say they will vote. ”I'll vote because I can't
afford to have my food ration cut,” said Amin Hajar, 52, who owns a small
auto garage in Baghdad. ”There is a rumour that if we don't vote our ration
will be stopped. And if that happened, I and my family would starve to
death.” He said that when he picked up his monthly food ration recently, he
was forced to sign a form saying he had picked up his voter registration.
He believes that the government may use this to track whether he votes or
not...

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IRAQ: Remanufactured aluminium pans pose health risk
IRIN
Locally made aluminium cooking utensils, used widely by many Iraqis, pose a
serious health risk, according to a survey carried out by the Marketing
Research and Consumer Protection Centre (MRCPC) at Baghdad University (...)
"These pans were available on the Iraqi market before and after the war,
but after the war things got worse with local factories no longer under
watch," al-Turki said. At that time, the supervision of local industries
was done by the special institute for engineering and industry, under
former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. After the war, this institute was
dissolved and many industries are no longer being monitored for quality...

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Vote or no vote, we will kill you
Pepe Escobar, Asia Times
History will salute it in kind: the US administration of George W Bush,
parts 1 and 2, has introduced to the world the concept of election at
gunpoint. The guinea pig: Iraq, on January 30. The rules: candidates must
be anonymous (otherwise they will be killed). Voters cannot go out and vote
(otherwise they may be killed). Even if they wanted to vote, they wouldn't
know where, because the location of the polling stations will be known only
the night before the election. Of 1 million eligible expatriate voters,
only 10% will actually vote. There are no Sunni Arab candidates (in part
because the US military killed - or jailed - many Sunni party and tribal
leaders)...

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The Massage is the Message
William Bowles
...So perhaps in this period the most effective thing to do is to voice our
solidarity with those on the ‘sharp end’ which is why I try to focus here
on those countries that are meeting (and suffering) the imperium head-on.
Countries like Haiti, Venezuela, Iran and obviously Iraq, so far yet so
near to us. They need our support more than ever before. We need to expose
the hypocrisy of our governments and especially to challenge those who are
employed to sell the lies, for without a complicit intellectual elite,
there can be no justification for the actions of our rulers....

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'The US is behaving as if every Sunni is a terrorist'
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, The Guardian
Two weeks ago, Adnan al-Janabi, the then minister of state in the Iraqi
interim government of premier Ayad Allawi, and a tribal leader of one of
Iraq's largest predominantly Sunni tribes, was arrested, handcuffed and
insulted by US soldiers manning a checkpoint leading into the Green Zone
where he worked. Only when a senior bodyguard of the prime minister
intervened was he released. That same day he resigned from government...

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US occupation damages ancient sites at Babylon
Imperialism and cultural vandalism in Iraq
Harvey Thompson, WSWS
...The irreparable damage done to the ancient sites of Babylon is a
criminal act whose historical precedent is to be found in the Nazis’
looting of art treasures and destruction of famous monuments throughout
Europe during World War II. The decision to base a military depot in one of
the most important archaeological sites in the world can only have been
issued from a deeply reactionary and r eckless power that is utterly
hostile to the cultural achievements of mankind...

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"Standing for the Founding Principles of the Republic"
US Senator Robert C. Byrd
...Instead of being held to account for their actions, the architects of
the policies that led our nation into war with Iraq, policies based on
faulty intelligence and phantom weapons of mass destruction, have been
rewarded by the President with accolades and promotions. Instead of
admitting to mistakes in the war on Iraq and its disastrous aftermath, the
President and his inner circle of advisers continue to cling to myths and
miscon ceptions...

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We sanction what we used to condemn
Bob Cesca, .Reality Based Nation
The image to right is a propaganda poster issued by the U.S. government in
1942 (National Archives page) to publicize the realities of Nazi brutality.
The painting in the poster is eerily similar to an image we're all too
familiar with. Sadly, torture and brutality in places like Abu Ghraib and
Guantanamo blurs the distinction between the war crimes of Nazi Germany and
the torture sanctioned by our government. America is now in the business of
e ndorsing what we used to condemn...

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Baghdad and Saigon; the CIA's New Campus Spies; More on Matron's Chill Hand
and the Duke of Windsor's Diaper
ALEXANDER COCKBURN, CounterPunch Diary
Today, January 268, the US today lost a third of the soldiers it lost
around Saigon on the first day of the Tet offensive thirty-six years ago.
Even as George Bush was giving jesting with a docile press corps this
morning, the CNN newswire running under the images of President Mushbrain
disclosed that 36 American soldiers have died this same day. On January 30,
1968 th e National Liberation Front launched its Tet offensive across South
Vietnam. In the Tet assault on Saigon 110 US servicemen died, against 1,100
NLF...

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Torture treaty doesn't bar `cruel, inhuman' tactics, Gonzales says
Frank Davies, Knight Ridder Newspapers
...In more than 200 pages of written responses to members of the Senate
Judiciary Committee, who plan to vote Wednesday on his nomination, Gonzales
told senators that laws and treaties prohibit torture by any U.S. agent
without exception. But he said the Convention Against Torture treaty, as
ratified by the Senate, doesn't prohibit the use of "cruel, inhuman or
degrading" tactics on non-U.S. citizens who are c aptured abroad, in Iraq
or elsewhere...

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