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Who won the Iraqi elections? The neocons!
Xymphora
...Now we're supposed to believe that this phony election, staged by the
neocons and run by the Pentagon, with the votes counted without any
effective international monitoring, represents a defeat for the neocons? I
don't think so. Those who do the counting get exactly the result they want.
With the Sunnis effectively completely powerless, and at the mercy of their
historic enemies, the Shi'ites, and the Kurds feeling overly powerful due
to their relatively strong showing, we have all the elements set up for a
complete break-up of the country into three parts, all burdened by ongoing
wars and violence...

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Target: Syria
Bob Dreyfuss, Tompaine.com
The Bush administration's crosshairs shifted east decisively yesterday,
from Iran to Syria, and that country is now the chief target for the
neocons and their friends. With Iraq now firmly in the anti-Syria camp and
under U.S. tutelage, it seems like the time has come for implementation of
part two of the grand design laid out in the famous "A Clean Break" memo,
written by Richard Perle, Douglas Feith et al...

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Fallujah: the truth at last
Socialist Worker
Doctor Salam Ismael took aid to Fallujah last month. This is his story of
how the US murdered a city
IT WAS the smell that first hit me, a smell that is difficult to describe,
and one that will never leave me. It was the smell of death. Hundreds of
corpses were decomposing in the houses, gardens and streets of Fallujah.
Bodies were rotting where they had fallen—bodies of men, women and
children, many half-eaten by wild dogs...

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Iraq Occupation Ran On Policy of Corruption, Witnesses Say
Brian Dominick, The NewStandard
Witnesses testifying at a special Congressional hearing yesterday told
Democratic lawmakers about severe and rampant mishandling of American and
Iraqi funds managed by the former US-run occupation government, as well as
censorship and manipulation of Iraqi media in the service of pro-American
propaganda. One former senior advisor to the Coalition Provisional
Authority (CPA), the organization established to administer the US
occupation of Iraq during the first year following the March 2003 invasion,
testified that massive amounts of freshly minted American cash were
distributed regularly to Iraqi ministries and American companies...

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La BBC: il principale propagandista imperiale
William Bowles
...L'accettazione senza discussione da parte dei media occidentali
dell'esistenza di Zarkawi è ancora più sorprendente se si considera che,
prima dell'imbarazzante discorso all'ONU di Colin Powell che cercava di
giustificare l'invasione dell'Iraq con un'oltraggiosa litania di menzogne e
montature, nessuno aveva sentito parlare dell'uomo, che ora è, ci viene
detto, "il braccio destro di Osama" oppure, qualche volta, il suo
"discepolo". Un uomo del quale e ra stato ampiamente riferito essere stato
ucciso quando gli USA bombardarono la sua 'fabbrica di velenò nell'Iraq
settentrionale nel 2003. La 'fabbrica', ancora un'altra invenzione della
propaganda occidentale, molto probabilmente della CIA, spiccava nel
discorso di Powell all'ONU...

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Where were medics during mistreatment?
STEPHEN N. XENAKIS
...But documents of testimony taken during investigation into the abuses at
Abu Ghraib recently released under the Freedom of Information Act and
posted on the Web sites of the American Civil Liberties Union and Center
for Public Integrity suggest that medical personnel were aware of abuses,
may have witnessed some and may even have advised interrogators on the
individual medical conditions of the prisoners and their vulnerabilities to
specific stresses tha t could induce them to disclose valuable intelligence
— actions that may have bordered on torture...

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The Republican War
Am Johal, MMN
...Added to this are further issues on the front line in Iraq which have
rarely been addressed. Even though only 2.6% of the US military is made up
of non-US citizens, the forces in Iraq are composed of close to 30% non-US
citizens fighting under direct American control and are predominately
Hispanic and have been given offers of honorary citizenship as enticements
to enlist. As well, the deaths of non-US citizens are not officially
counted as part of the American dead. Some have e stimated that the number
of the American war dead is double the amount currently stated...

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To show the reality is also a form of resistance
Socialist Worker
I WAS always filming demonstrations and protests against the occupation and
for people's rights. That was what got me into trouble. I was arrested
first in 2003, but was released after a few hours. The second time was much
worse. On 30 January 2004, US soldiers appeared at my house at 3am
accompanied by an Iraqi policeman in plainclothes. I knew they were
probably coming to get me because they were unhappy about my filming. I
opened the door, becaus e I feared they would break it down...

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'Body parts everywhere' in Fallujah
AFP
"Body parts everywhere!" cries a US soldier as a shell crashes onto a group
of suspected rebels in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, where a punishing
torrent of firepower thundered down on Tuesday. More than 500 rounds of
155-millimetre Howitzer cannon shells have been fired on the besieged Sunni
stronghold west of Baghdad since a US-Iraqi offensive to take control of
the city started on Monday evening, said Sergeant Michael Hamby...

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U.S. contractors in Iraq allege abuses
Four men say they witnessed shooting of unarmed civilians
Lisa Myers & the NBC investigative unit
There are new allegations that heavily armed private security contractors
in Iraq are brutalizing Iraqi civilians. In an exclusive interview, four
former security contractors told NBC News that they watched as innocent
Iraqi civilians were fired upon, and one crushed by a truck. The
contractors worked for an American company paid by U.S. taxpayers. The Army
is looking into t he allegations...

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CNN's Nuke Plant Photos Identical for Both Iran and N. Korea!
www.BradBlog.com
...Two stories posted in the last week on the CNN website, one on nukes in
Iran last Wednesday, and another on nukes in North Korea on Saturday, both
use the same aerial photograph of the same purported nuclear power plant!
But one is supposed to be in Iran and the other is supposed to be in North
Korea! (...) Déjà vu, indeed. All of which begs at least these questions:
Who is the source for these photos? Was it the same person in both
instances?...

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'Priceless' Iraqi relics recovered in Delco 1
John Shiffman and Patricia Horn, Philadelphia Inquirer
Last month, a former Marine asked an FBI agent to meet him at a strip mall
just off Interstate 476 in Springfield, Delaware County. He said he had
something from Iraq the agent needed to see. There, the ex-Marine opened a
small plastic box. He delicately lifted white tissue to reveal eight stone
cylinders, each about an inch high, each about 5,000 years old. They were
signature seals, looted from near Babylon...

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Why I won't fight in Iraq
George Solomou, The Guardian
I am resigning from the Territorial Army because I believe the war in Iraq
is wrong. This has not been an easy decision. I have been in the TA for
five years - years in which I have learned a lot; won a humanitarian award
for helping save the life of a fellow soldier; made many friends; and, I
hope, contributed something to this country...

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The War in Iraq: Roll Over, George Orwell
BOB BURNETT, Special to the Planet
...Although Americans take pride in having a free press, the media has
generally been content to pass on the official Bush version of the status
of the Iraq war. There are two reasons for this: The administration has
relentlessly bullied the press by, for example, denying critical access to
all but the most "loyal" reporters. And, the situation in Iraq is so
dangerous that most U.S. correspondents can't get anywhere near the actual
fighti ng; in September, a Wall Street Journal reporter, Farnaz Fassihi,
complained from Baghdad that her life, "is like being under virtual house
arrest…[I] can't look for stories, can't drive in anything but a full
armored car, can't go to scenes of breaking news..."

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Sorrow and fury as the dead are buried in Fallujah
Socialist Worker
THE RESPECTED cameraman and producer Michael Burke co-operated with Dr
Salam Ismael to produce powerful material that was due to be shown on
Channel 4 News this week. It included film taken of mass burials near
Saqlawiya, on the outskirts of Fallujah. The bodies that were interred
there were collected mainly from the Jolan district in the city. Socialist
Worker's Simon Assaf saw the unedited footage and describes its graphic
content...

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Bodies of Four US Soldiers Retrieved from Iraqi River
Prensa Latina
The bodies of four US soldiers were retrieved on Tuesday after their
vehicle had fallen into the Ishaqi River, north of Baghdad, said sources
from the US command. According to some media reports, another four US
soldiers were wounded in the accident that took place on Monday near the
northern city of Balad, about 62 miles from the capital...


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Did the U.S and Israel Kill Rafik al-Hariri?
Kurt Nimmo
...It should be noted that Rafik al-Hariri, a billionaire philanthropist,
probably had more than his share of enemies—including Israel. Back in 2003,
as prime minister, al-Hariri said that Israel, "through its aggressive
practices," as the Middle East Newsline characterized it at the time,
wanted "to create a new situation in the region." His remarks came a few
days after Israel bombed Syria, an overt and brazen act of war supported
the Bush administration...

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 14 February 2005
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member editorial board The
Free Arab Voice.
During the first hours of dawn Monday US forces began evacuating the 'Ayn
al-Asad airbase in Hit, western Iraq, Mafkarat al-Islam reported. The
correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam witnessed the withdrawal of more than
300 US tanks, armored vehicles, earth moving machines, and other pieces of
construction equipment such as cranes and bulldozers under heavy cover of
US fighter aircraft, which flew over the area at an unprecedentedly low
altitude. The correspondent added that Apache, Cobra, and Black Hawk
helicopters hovered over the column that clogged the international
highway...

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Iraq Occupation Ran On Policy of Corruption, Witnesses Say
Brian Dominick, The NewStandard
Witnesses testifying at a special Congressional hearing yesterday told
Democratic lawmakers about severe and rampant mishandling of American and
Iraqi funds managed by the former US-run occupation government, as well as
censorship and manipulation of Iraqi media in the service of pro-American
propaganda. One former senior advisor to the Coalition Provisional
Authority (CPA), the organization established to administer the US
occupation of Iraq during the first year following the March 2003 invasion,
testified that massive amounts of freshly minted American cash were
distributed regularly to Iraqi ministries and American companies...

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Remembering The First Siege Of Fallujah
Omar Khan and Dahr Jamail
...A doctor working in a temporary emergency clinic in Fallujah during
April's siege posed a question on Democracy Now!, which he repeated: When
you see a child five years old with no head what can you say? When you see
a child with no brain just an open cavity what can you say? When you see a
mother just hold her infant with no head and the shells are all over her
body?....

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Number of soldiers resisting Iraq war grows
Sako Sefiani
According to the U.S. Army, a soldier preparing to deploy to Iraq for the
second time was detained in Fort Campbell, Ky., on allegations he made a
bomb threat against his unit, the Associated Press reported Jan. 26. Spc.
Rodney Whitacre of Decatur, Ill., was arrested Jan. 23 in the middle of his
allegedly threatening phone call. Whitacre is with the 4th Battalion, 3rd
Aviation Regiment of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division...

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