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uruknet.info «Ë-Ë"Ê Æ‰Ê·Ë :: information from occupied iraq :: informazione dall'iraq occupato SADDAM'S LOOKING BETTER ALL THE TIME Malcom Lagauche ...No media mentioned that Saddam Hussein would probably have won the recent Iraqi election if he was on the ballot. He gained many votes as a write-in candidate, yet this was not reported. Even many previous naysayers now wish Saddam was back. But, this is the unspoken subject to which I consistently refer. My first on-line column on September 25, 2003 discussed the same issue. In it, I said no peace would come to Iraq until the grave injustices of de-Ba'athif! ying the country were reversed. Lagauche was right. After Desert Storm, Schwarzkopf was asked what kind of military leader Saddam Hussein was. He laughed. Today, Schwarzkopf, if he is an honest individual and military expert, would take back that laugh. The current resistance was planned in advance by Saddam Hussein. It is strong and will last for a long time... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=10005&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=10005 Nearly 50 more British soldiers may face charges on abuses in Iraq AP A British newspaper reported Sunday that secret military documents it has seen indicate that nearly 50 British servicemen could face prosecution for murder, assault and other crimes committed in Iraq. The documents, which informed ministers about police investigations in the cases, indicate that the 50 servicemen include at least 12 British soldiers who face charges of murder, manslaughter or assault in Iraq, The Sunday Telegraph reported. That! includes two cases in which Iraqi civilians were allegedly deliberately drowned by British soldiers, the paper said... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=10017&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=10017 Kurdish declared official language of Kirkuk Turkish Daily News The Kurdish governor of Kirkuk has issued a circular declaring Kurdish the official language in the disputed oil-rich city in northern Iraq, said a news report yesterday. Kirkuk Governor Abdurrahman Mustafa's order came as Osman Korutürk, Turkey's special envoy to Iraq, was visiting northern Iraq for talks with Jalal Talabani, leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK)... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=10012&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=10012 Fierce fighting in Iraq's Ramadi Jim Muir, BBC News It has been a day of scattered violence in Iraq, with at least 10 people reported killed in incidents, mainly in Sunni areas west and north of Baghdad. Reports said three died in a gun battle in Ramadi, as US and Iraqi forces try to clear insurgents from key areas in the so-called Sunni Triangle. People in Ramadi said there was a prolonged exchange of fire... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=10015&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=10015 British court martial whitewashes abuse of Iraqis Mike Ingram, WSWS The court martial of three British soldiers accused of abusing Iraqi civilians in May 2003 has ended in a whitewash. Though a total of four soldiers have now been jailed and dismissed from the army, the trial exonerated the higher command at the so-called Camp Bread Basket in southern Iraq. The broader context in which the abuses were carried out—involving at least 70 other soldiers—was all but ignored in order to make the case that a few individ! uals had gone too far in the heat of the moment... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=10011&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=10011 Halliburton Wins in Iraq t r u t h o u t Halliburton, under scrutiny for its contracts in Iraq, would receive an extra $1.5 billion as part of the Bush administration's additional war spending proposal for fiscal 2005, a senior US Army budget official said. Halliburton, once led by Vice-President Dick Cheney, is the largest corporate contractor in Iraq and has drawn fire for its no-bid contracts there, with auditors charging its Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR) unit overcharged for some work... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=10016&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=10016 The crisis of the US Army in Iraq Amanecer While Iraqi insurgents expand their ranks and operations in the occupied Iraq, the US Army is fighting desertion, open criticism, recruitment shortfalls and lawsuits from its own troops (...) Many soldiers who are not willing to take part in the war and its horror have decided to abandon the Army. According to several sources, the army of 150,000 in Iraq has experienced 5,000 desertions -an astonishing rate of 3.3%- up to now. Some of these deserters have fled to Canada.! .. <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=10008&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=10008 Heroes Stephen Gowans ...From Abu-Ghraib to Bagram, from Kandahar to Gauntanamo, see US forces "engage in widespread abuse" "taking 'trophy photographs' of detainees and carrying out rape and sexual humiliation." See Hussain Adbulkadr Youssouf Mustafa explain how US soldiers "forcibly rammed a stick up my rectum" after he was "blindfolded, handcuffed, gagged and forced to bend down over a table by two soldiers." See Wesam Abdulrahman Ahmed al-Deemawi placed in a cage and hung from a hook after being photographed ! in "shameful and obscene positions." See prisoners forced to live in their own filth at Gauntanamo Bay. See blood and cartilage explode from the nose of an Iraqi detainee as he's hit by a baseball bat swung by an American interrogator... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=10007&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=10007 The Law of Empire? H. RAJAN SHARMA, Frontline. ... From the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq itself, to its brazen and unconstitutional claims about wartime authority to detain even U.S. citizens indefinitely without charge or trial, let alone access to counsel, to the carefully nuanced ambiguities about the applicability of the Geneva Conventions, culminating in the blatant disregard of the prohibition against torture in international law as well as "refoulement" and the unlawful practice of transferring ! prisoners to "friendly" third countries with the knowledge of probable torture during interrogations, the Bush administration has displayed a self-serving distaste for the rule of law that borders on contempt. Not surprisingly, the trial of Saddam Hussein and other former members of the Baathist regime shows little evidence of any departure from prior practice... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=10013&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=10013 Objectivity in Independent Media Part 2: "What You See is What Exists" Kim Petersen & B. J. Sabri, www.dissidentvoice.org ... Just as the U.S. government created the myth that Iraq had huge stockpiles of WMD, it might also have produced fictional bin Laden tapes, and conjured up Zarqawi's defiant resistance in Iraq. An element of doubt pierces the purported authenticity of the bin Laden tapes. Since countless individuals around the world have discovered many inconsistencies and contradictions in those tape! s then, "Why did bin Laden never refer to the contradictions or expose them as fabrications?" A logical answer would be, "He could not. He is dead." (...) As for Zarqawi, why is it that a Jordanian speaks Arabic without a Jordanian accent? Most experts on the Middle East would also impart that Zarqawi is a Kurd who was leading the Islamic organization of Ansar Al-Islam (partisans of Islam) that operated in the American controlled Iraqi-Kurdistan during the 1990s... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=10003&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=10003 Torture's Our Business ... and Business is Good Ken Sanders, www.dissidentvoice.org Who could forget President Bush's repeated invocations of liberty, freedom, and human rights in his second inauguration speech? It warmed the cockles of the heart to hear our beloved President wax poetic about the grand ideals for which America stands. It chills the soul to contrast Bush's lofty rhetoric with the awful truth perpetuated by our government. The truth is, our government condones, promotes and even celebrates torture.! .. <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=10002&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=10002 COMPLAIN TO THE DAILY MAIL OVER IRAQ ABUSE!!! Arab Media Watch Please complain to the Daily Mail and reporters Nick Craven and Michael Seamark over an offensive article in the newspaper's February 25 edition entitled Revealed: The 'abuse' five. Subheading: And guess what, all the Iraqis at the centre of the Army brutality case plan to cash in on their 'ordeal' by suing the Government Note that the words abuse and ordeal are in quote marks, and the article talks of "their alleged ordeal". Why? Are th! ey in any doubt?! The soldiers were convicted and there is ample photographic evidence... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=10001&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=10001 War advice came from me, says Goldsmith Colin Brown, Deputy Political Editor, Independent The Attorney General fought for his political survival last night by denying he had been leant on by Downing Street over his advice on the legality of the war on Iraq. Lord Goldsmith issued the denial in the face of growing demands for the Government to publish in its entirety the Attorney General's advice to the Cabinet on the legality of the war... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=9999&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=9999 Will The Real Tony Blair Stand Up, Please? Anwaar Hussain, Axis of Logic The Neocons are Neocons. For years their agenda was clearly spelled out. They were shouting themselves hoarse with how they would shape the world given a chance. Only nobody was taking them seriously. The world at large and the Muslim world in particular, found out the deadly earnestness of their ominous intent much later while digging the graves of a hundred thousand odd innocent human beings. But what about Tony Blair? What were his compul! sions? Why did he join this monstrosity? What was it that drove the man to telling the lies that he told his nation to get them to allow him to join the Neocons' sick adventure?... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=9998&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=9998 The U.S. Will Lose the War in Iraq -- Material Necessity and Divining What is True Dr. Gerry Lower, Axis of Logic ...Consider the public backlash when the people come to realize that they have been led astray into an immoral war, largely in the interest of preserving a greed-driven corporate aristocracy and the most corrupt socioeconomic system among the western democracies. "The social truth of capitalism is smothered in a blanket of lies to promote individual confusion; people are to act personally responsible ! while supporting a social order that is, by its very nature, socially irresponsible and murderously so"... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=9997&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=9997 The Resistance Will Not be Televised Kurt Nimmo Iyad Allawi's occupational government has launched a new TV show, sort of an Iraqi version of reality television. "Terrorists in the Hands of Justice" runs several times a day in Iraq and features the confessions of beaten up "insurgents" who admit to terrible crimes, for instance serial murder(...)Blaming Syria and portraying the resistance as a gaggle of serial murderers and animal torturers will not put an end to the violence against "security forces" and foreign! occupation troops. More than anything, it would seem, "Terrorists in the Hands of Justice" is an idea devised for American consumers, although the show is not run in the United States... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=9995&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=9995 What if Iran is a ruse to provide an excuse for the real target? Xymphora ...So what is the next big target? Scott Ritter says Iran, in June. Ritter was right in everything he wrote about Iraq, so he has a great deal of credibility. I wonder. The Americans could certainly bomb Iran - air out some of those new bunker-busting nukes! - but even the neocons must realize that such an attack would only solidify, and enrage, the current Iranian leadership, which would seek revenge by making Iraq even more of a mess than! it is today. 'Regime change' would require hundreds of thousands of troops on the ground - Iran will be a much more formidable target than the heavily weakened, and much smaller, Iraq - and the Americans simply don't got 'em. They've been quietly removing troops from Iraq, and have pulled back the tsunami troops, but in the absence of a draft they can't fight a proper war in Iran. If Iran is not the target, who is?... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=9994&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=9994 Iraq war documents must stay secret, insists PM JAMES KIRKUP THE pressure on Tony Blair to publish the legal advice that the government says justified the war in Iraq intensified last night as a growing chorus of voices called for the document to be made public. Lord Mackay of Clashfern, the former Lord Chancellor and a widely respected legal figure, entered the fray, backed by Michael Mates, the senior Tory MP who sits on the House of Commons' joint intelligence committee... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=9993&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=9993 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 25 February 2005 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice < http://www.freearabvoice.org/ > ...The bomb had been planted in the middle of the road on which the puppet guards were traveling with the intent of observing Friday prayer sermons in the city as is their habit every Friday. The US-installed Iraqi puppet government issued decrees several months ago ordering that sermons be supervised and that any preacher o! r imam who "incites" worshippers to what it called "violence" or fighting the occupation troops would be punished with imprisonment for not less than six months. Such preachers would also be expelled from their mosque. After this order was issued Iraqi puppet forces and sometimes US troops themselves would listen to Friday sermons in Sunni mosques to watch the preachers and see if they were inciting worshippers to jihad or fighting the occupation... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=9991&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=9991 Top U.S. General Sees Lasting Iraq Insurgency Reuters The insurgency in Iraq is not likely to be put down in a year or even two since history shows such uprisings can last a decade or more, the United States' top military commander said on Friday. Air Force Gen. Richard Myers said that in the past century, insurgencies around the world have lasted anywhere from seven to 12 years, making a quick fix to the problem in Iraq unlikely... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=9992&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=9992 Powell criticises Iraq troop levels and rift with Europe Robin Gedye Colin Powell, the former US secretary of state, has for the first time publicly criticised troops levels in Iraq and spoken of the rifts between himself and Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, that undermined his role as architect of American foreign policy. Mr Powell, in his first interview since resigning last November, also told The Telegraph of his "dismay" at the deterioration in relations between America and Europe and of his "disappoi! ntment" with France... <http://uruknet.info?s1=1&p=10000&s2=27>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info?p=10000 <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.
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