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Diritti Umani: Nuova denuncia di Amnesty International sugli arresti
arbitrari in Iraq
Osservatorio Iraq
Huda Hafez al Azawi è stata arrestata da militari americani e iracheni il
17 febbraio. Si ignora dove si trovi da allora e Amnesty International è
preoccupata per la sua sicurezza. Il 17 febbraio, alle 4 del mattino, dei
soldati americani e dei membri della guardia nazionale irachena si sono
introdotti con forza nella casa di Huda Hafez al Azawi, nel distretto di de
Hay al Jamia, a Baghdad. L' hanno am! manettata e le hanno bendato gli
occhi, e hanno picchiato le sue figlie, Nura, di quindici anni, e Sarah, di
vent'anni, alle quali hanno ugualmente messo le manette e bendato gli
occhi. Secondo le informazioni raccolte, i soldati hanno prelevato i
gioielli e 2500 dollari in contanti che si trovavano in casa...

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US Military Report: Bush's Achilles' Heel
The Bush Butcher's Bill: 30 US Military Deaths in Iraq from 1 through 13
February 2005 - Official Total of 1,532 US Dead to date (and rising)
U.S. Military Personnel who died in German hospitals or en route to German
hospitals arenot counted.They total about 6,210 as of 1 January, 2005.
Brian Harring, Domestic Intelligence Reporter
...There is excellent reason to believe that the Department of Defense is
deliberatelynot reporting a sig! nificant number of the dead in Iraq. We
have received copies of manifests from the MATS that show far more bodies
shipped into Dover AFP than are reported officially. The educated rumor is
that the actual death toll is in excess of7,000. Given the officially
acknowledged number of over15,000 seriously wounded, this elevated death
toll is far more realistic than the current 1,400+ now being officially
published. When our research is complete, and watertight, we will publish
the results along with the sources...

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Iran, the draft, and another "New Pearl Harbor"?
Indymedia
..."...The plan is not for the USA to attack Iran as "leaked' to Seymour
Hirsh. The leaks...[are] merely to stir up the Ayatollahs like a hornet's
nest, AS ROOSEVELT STIRRED UP THE JAPANESE BEFORE PEARL HARBOR, AND FOR THE
SAME REASONS, AND WITH THE SAME CONSEQUENCES. That Iran should attack the
USA. And to provoke that happening, Israel will first attack Iran...Israel
will attack the Iranian nuclear sites, with the USA permitting overflight
of Iraq for t! hat purpose. Iran will retaliate--but not against Israel--it
will attack the ships and armed forces of the United States in the region.
Just like Japan did at Pearl Harbor"...

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Call it what you like - this is hell
The Observer
...Mark Danner - toiling through official reports and transcripts of
interviews with prisoners and witnesses, as well as conducting his own
investigation in Iraq - has exposed the false piety in disavowals of
responsibility by Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, and established official
complicity in the abuse. The moral corruption began, of course, from the
obfuscation of language. It's easy to lie if you muddle up the definition
of truth; abominable acts can be made defen! sible if you call them by
another name...


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IRAQ: Baghdad hospitals need urgent improvements, survey says
IRIN
The situation in Baghdad's hospitals is critical, particularly in terms of
unhygienic and unsafe working conditions, according to a recent survey by
the US-based Medicine For Peace (MFP) NGO. The MFP reported that most
hospitals were unclean and unhygienic and lacked an infection control
programme. The sanitation system was practically non-existent and,
according to the survey, as much as 60 percent of toilets were not
working...

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Study of Depleted Uranium Effects Called For
Joel Wendland
Munitions used by US troops on a massive scale in the Iraq war may be
injuring US soldiers. According to Veterans for Peace, a national
organization of veterans who oppose the Iraq war, depleted uranium (DU), a
substance used in bullets and artillery shells to increase penetrating
ability, may be harmful to anyone exposed to spent DU munitions or areas in
which DU materials have been heavily used...

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3 GIs killed during medical evacuation in Iraq
MSNBC News Services
Three U.S. soldiers were killed and eight were wounded on Monday when a
roadside bomb detonated near a helicopter as it was carrying out a medical
evacuation, the U.S. military said. The medical team was sent by helicopter
to attend to a soldier injured in a vehicle accident in a southwestern
neighborhood of Baghdad when the explosion occurred, the U.S. military said
in a statement...

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Hundreds in Brussels Protest Bush's Visit
ROBERT WIELAARD, The Associated Press
Hundreds of demonstrators protested George W. Bush's visit Sunday, hours
before the U.S. president was to arrive in Belgium at the start of a
conciliatory swing through Europe (...) "He is coming to persuade and
influence the European leaders. We are afraid the European leaders will
distance themselves from their people," said Pol de Vos, one of about 700
anti-Bush protesters marching peacefully in downtown Brussels...

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US Military Report: Bush's Achilles' Heel
The Bush Butcher's Bill: 30 US Military Deaths in Iraq from 1 through 13
February 2005 - Official Total of 1,532 US Dead to date (and rising)
U.S. Military Personnel who died in German hospitals or en route to German
hospitals arenot counted.They total about 6,210 as of 1 January, 2005.
Brian Harring, Domestic Intelligence Reporter
...There is excellent reason to believe that the Department of Defense is
deliberatelynot reporting a sig! nificant number of the dead in Iraq. We
have received copies of manifests from the MATS that show far more bodies
shipped into Dover AFP than are reported officially. The educated rumor is
that the actual death toll is in excess of7,000. Given the officially
acknowledged number of over15,000 seriously wounded, this elevated death
toll is far more realistic than the current 1,400+ now being officially
published. When our research is complete, and watertight, we will publish
the results along with the sources...

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WHAT ABOUT DRESDEN
MALCOM LAGAUCHE
...In Iraq, we have another Dresden. It is located in Fallujah (...) The
doctor recalled a person who was shot but still alive. He raised his arm
and the arm was shot. Then, he moved his hand and that was shot. This was
nothing less than systematic torture before murder. I have seen some still
shots of this incident. One, in particular is gruesome. It shows a young
boy, about 14 or 15 years old, laying dead on the ground, clutching a white
flag. Will the U.S. be brought to just! ice? Of course not. Nobody will
stop the military people from digging up acres of land and destroying
buildings to cover up the use of chemical weapons on the Iraqis. Fallujah
is another Dresden.



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Message from "liberated" Iraq
Ghazwan Al-Mukhtar
...Mr. President, In 1991 America promised that Iraq will be returned to
the "pre-industrial" age and they nearly did that by bombing and destroying
everything. The Iraqi people surprised the world by reconstructing what was
bombed. On top of that, new projects were implemented despite the
sanctions. As an Iraqi this makes me extremely proud of our achievement in
1991. We the Iraqis set the standards of reconstruction. After 22 months of
"liberation" and the lack o! f honest and visible reconstruction work I
feel that America miserably failed to meet that standard...

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Ritter: Iran Attack On for June
Kurt Nimmo
...Iran's illusory nuke program is, of course, simply a pretext, more
fear-mongering on the part of the Likudite-Strausscon faction. Far more
important to Bush's clique of Zionists is reducing Iran to rubble—taking
out its civilian infrastructure, as it did in Iraq, and fomenting chaos and
ethnic squabbles in the hope of balkanizing the nation of around 70 million
people. Iran does not have the ethnic mix required, or not to the degree
Iraq does. More than half of the po! pulation is Persian with much smaller
numbers of Azeri, Gilaki, Mazandarani, Kurd, Arab, Lur, Baloch, Turkmen,
and other ethnic groups. The Strausscons intend to agitate these minorities
against the Persian majority and the Shia theocracy ruling Iran...

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Accomplices in War Crimes
Ghali Hassan
...Despite the horrific crimes and wanton destruction caused by an illegal
act of aggression and Occupation, mainstream media continues to promote the
Occupation of Iraq as a "humanitarian" act. And ignoring international law
experts who have substantiated that the war was an "illegal" act of
aggression against the Iraqi people. Major mainstream media particularly in
Britain and the US have deliberately failed to inform their citizens that
the war on Iraq is not sanctioned b! y the UN, and therefore was illegal
and in violations of UN Charter. In Britain, the BBC, the mother of all
acts of deception, led and is still leading the chorus of mainstream media
deception in its war against the people of Iraq...

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America's refuseniks
Sharif Abdel-Kouddous
...A revolt is taking place within the ranks of the US military as a
growing number of soldiers refuse to fight in Iraq and are increasingly
vocal in their opposition to a war they consider illegal and immoral. They
are today's generation of war resisters. Sergeant Kevin Benderman is one of
the US's latest war resisters...

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US Military, President Out Of Control
What Does 'Mildly Radioactive' Mean, Anyway?
Bob Nichols, Project Censored Award Winner
The Russians just recently stopped a weightlifter coming across the border
with about 100 pounds of "highly radioactive depleted uranium." The guy
said he was using it for dumbbells in weightlifting. The American
Department of Defense and other government departments all are unanimous in
calling so-called depleted uranium "mildly radioactive depleted uranium."
They like to use it for! bombs, shells and heavy caliber bullets. Highly
radioactive, mildly radioactive, moderately radioactive. What does it mean?
Whom to believe? The godless former Commies or the brave Iraq-smashing
Americans? Decide for yourself. Radioactivity is a standard property of the
metal uranium, used by Americans for bombs, shells and bullets, and one
gram will always give off 12,000 "atomic disintegrations" per second. This
lasts forever, as far as we are concerned. Think of the "atomic
diserntegrations" as little atomic bullets. The kind that are only harmful
from inside the human body...


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"You Could See the Fear in Their Eyes" Mexico: the Pentagon's Proxy Army in
Iraq
JOHN ROSS, CounterPunch
Mexico, which unlike its Central American neighbors was never a member of
George Bush's "Coalition of the Willing", now has the largest contingent of
any Latin nation fighting on the ground in Iraq--8000 Mexican and
Mexican-descent troops who voluntarily joined the U.S. armed forces. All
Central American contingents save for Salvador, which also has a
considerable number of security and construction per! sonnel on the ground,
have been withdrawn from Iraq by their governments...


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Iraq: Raid continues in Ramadi as Shiite leaders uncertain regarding
identity of next PM
Al Bawaba
U.S. Marines raided houses Monday on the second day of an offensive in
several cities west of Baghdad. In Ramadi, U.S. Marines fanned out across
the city, setting up checkpoints, searching cars and sealing off sections
of the city to prevent people from entering or leaving as they carried out
raids. Iraqi Maj. Abdul Karim al-Faraji said troops detained a prominent
Sunni sheikh, Mohammed Nasir Ali al-Ijbie, who heads! the al-Bufaraj tribe,
along with 12 of his relatives...


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US Military Report: Bush's Achilles' Heel
The Bush Butcher's Bill: 30 US Military Deaths in Iraq from 1 through 13
February 2005 - Official Total of 1,532 US Dead to date (and rising)
U.S. Military Personnel who died in German hospitals or en route to German
hospitals arenot counted.They total about 6,210 as of 1 January, 2005.
Brian Harring, Domestic Intelligence Reporter
...There is excellent reason to believe that the Department of Defense is
deliberatelynot reporting a sig! nificant number of the dead in Iraq. We
have received copies of manifests from the MATS that show far more bodies
shipped into Dover AFP than are reported officially. The educated rumor is
that the actual death toll is in excess of7,000. Given the officially
acknowledged number of over15,000 seriously wounded, this elevated death
toll is far more realistic than the current 1,400+ now being officially
published. When our research is complete, and watertight, we will publish
the results along with the sources...

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l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=9856




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