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uruknet.info «Ë-Ë"Ê Æ‰Ê·Ë :: information from occupied iraq :: informazione dall'iraq occupato USA, Whose Hostage? Ghali Hassan As a result of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq, the living situation for the Iraqi people have deteriorated to a level far worse than at any time before the war. The fabric of Iraqi society have been shredded, and the war shattered all hope that Iraq would advance on paths to "freedom' and "democracy". Why, and who is the beneficiary of this act of aggression? (...) Iraq had never pose a threat to the US. The nation was simply trying to survive 13-years genocidal sanctions.! In the sunlight, the reasons for the war on Iraq become more obvious: (1) support for Israel's terror against the Palestinian people, (2) support for Israel's expansionism, and (3) enhance America's corporate interests and control over Middle East vital energy resources... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=10914&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=10914 Destroy Abu Ghraib! Mike Whitney, Axis of Logic This weekend's attacks on the Abu Ghraib prison facility should be welcomed as a direct assault on the foremost icon of Bush's War of Terror (...) Saddam never dreamed up the sexually deviant torture that has been used on the prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Those were authorized by men at the very top of America's political establishment; many of whom matriculated in America's finest universities, like Harvard, Yale and Princeton. It's ironic that these institutions have u! nleashed this new pestilence on the world; these cadres of latter-day Torquemadas... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=10896&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=10896 Death of Pope Preempts Misery of Iraq Kurt Nimmo Predictably, the death of Karol Wojtyla, also known as Pope John Paul II, has crowded out other news stories, for instance: U.S IGNORED WMD REALITY IN IRAQ. "By the time President Bush ordered U.S. troops to disarm Saddam Hussein of the deadly weapons he was allegedly trying to build, every piece of fresh evidence had been tested—and disproved—by U.N. inspectors, according to a report commissioned by the president and released Thursday," the Washington Post reports! early today. In other words, Bush groomed a passel of lies and passed it off as a pretext to invade a sovereign nation and kill more than 100,000 innocent Iraqis. Now the Strausscons wants to blame this defective intelligence—i.e., lies—on the CIA and the "intelligence community"... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=10895&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=10895 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 4 April 2005 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org ...One Iraqi civilian was killed when US occupation soldiers shot him at one of their checkpoints in al-Fallujah on Monday. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in the city reported that a taxi cab driver was shot to death by US troops when he approached a US checkpoint at the old bridge near al-Fallujah Hospital. In a separate i! ncident, American soldiers shot two Iraqi civilians in the al-Fallahat area near al-Fallujah on Monday (...) In a third American killing, another Iraqi civilian died Monday when he was crossing the main street in 'Amiriyat al-Fallujah, just south of al-Fallujah city itself... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=10922&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=10922 Organized Resistance The All Spin Zone Winter is over in Iraq. The activities of millitants over the past few days signifies one of two things: an indication of a real shitstorm that's about to come, or truly the last gasp of an organized insurgency. The former is my opinion, the latter is the opinion you'll read in various corporate media reports. There's two things that are particularly concerning about last weekend's Battle of Abu Ghraib (Parts 1 and 2) and today's coordinated defensive position by militants (! and subsequent firefight) in Baghdad... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=10920&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=10920 Iraqi Suspect Says U.S. Troops Took Mother Hostage Waleed Ibrahim, Reuters An Iraqi apparently suspected by U.S. troops of taking part in attacks in Baghdad accused U.S. forces on Tuesday of taking his mother and sister hostage to pressure him and his brothers into surrendering for questioning (...) Batawi, who spoke to Reuters at the offices of a leading group of Sunni clerics, said U.S. soldiers searched his home on Saturday. When they found neither him nor two brothers also on the wanted list, they arrested hi! s mother and sister, he said. A message purportedly left at the house by the troops, which urged the brothers to surrender, contained a mobile telephone number. This was answered by an American soldier who appeared to be aware of Batawi's accusation but declined further comment... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=10917&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=10917 "A Disaster for the World; an Assault on Art The Bombing of the Malwiya Minaret GARY LEUPP, CounterPunch ...It's hard to understand why any insurgent faction would target the mosque. It is a Sunni mosque, but respected by the Shiites, and Shiites haven't been attacking Sunni mosques anyway. A colleague in Middle Eastern history suggests that insurgents might have wanted to prevent it from being used as a sniper position in future. Whoever is responsible, the invasion has produced yet another casualty t! o Iraq's rich cultural heritage (...) Under the occupation the National Museum has been looted, the National Library was badly damaged by fires. Tens of thousands of irreplaceable manuscripts have been lost. In the ancient city of Ur, according to the Guardian, U.S. forces during the invasion "spray-painted the remains with graffiti" and stole "kiln-baked bricks made millennia ago." Babylon has been turned into a military camp causing irreparable damage to the site... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=10913&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=10913 Iraq War Coverage Reminds Me of Vietnam John R. MacArthur, Providence Journal (Rhode Island) ...I asked myself the very same question when I picked up The New York Times on March 24 and read the front-page headline "Backed by U.S., Iraqis Raid Camp and Report Killing 80 Insurgents." The accompanying "news" story -- which depicted a "fierce battle" on the shores of Lake Tharthar -- was based entirely on uncorroborated statements by Iraqi and American spokesmen that suggested two highly improbable developments: fir! st, that the so-called Iraqi army had suddenly gotten its act together and was taking the initiative without U.S. prompting; and second, that the Iraqi rebels had just as suddenly abandoned their very successful hit-and-run tactics and started camping in big bunches out in the open, where anyone could see them. Is this familiar? For anyone who was raised on the press-release war waged by the Johnson and Nixon administrations, this was very familiar indeed... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=10912&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=10912 Bombing and looting Iraq's heritage MICHAEL JANSEN, The Gulf Today - Iraqwar.ru ...Last Friday, someone, allegedly a rebel packing a bomb in a briefcase, damaged the top-most level of the 1,155 year-old spiral minaret of the Abbasid mosque in the Iraqi city of Samarra. This 52-metre tower, the Malwiya minaret, erected by the Caliph Al Mutawakkil in 852, survived the Mongol invasions, Ottoman rule, and British occupation only to be harmed during the the ongoing period of US politico-military over-reach. It was ap! parently targeted because until two weeks ago US troops used the tower minaret as a sniper's nest and a platform to observe the movements of Iraqis in and around the restive city of Samarra, a base for the resistance. Although it has been generally established by the international community that heritage sites should not be used as military bases or posts, the US has more often than not ignored this dictum since it swept into Iraq... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=10897&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=10897 The war against us all By Mumia Abu-Jamal from death row ...This war in Iraq isn't the end; it's the beginning of wars to come all around the world at the whim of the neo-cons in the White House. This is the Bush Doctrine come to life: war, war, and more war. War brought to you by the big corporate masters who run the show. This isn't just a war on Iraqis or Afghanis or even Arabs or Muslims. It is ultimately a war on us all... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=10911&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=10911 Oil-for-food scandal: Washington's preemptive strike on the UN Peter Symonds, WSWS ...The fact that Annan is in the spotlight over the oil-for-food scandal demonstrates that the US is not willing to brook any opposition. Annan was installed as UN Secretary General in 1997 through the efforts of the Clinton administration to block the reappointment of Bhoutros Bhoutros-Ghali, of whom Washington was critical. A career UN diplomat, Annan has always been cautious not to offend the major powers, particularly the US. I! f he felt compelled to make timid criticisms of the US invasion of Iraq, it was because he attempted to straddle a deep divide between the competing interests of the US and European powers... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=10902&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=10902 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 3 April 2005 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. ( http://www.freearabvoice.org ) ...US pursues sectarian divide-and-rule as confessionalist sectarianism forms basis for new puppet so-called "government" in Baghdad. As a further step along the road of sectarian partition of Iraq, the puppet "parliament" in Iraq on Sunday named a Sunni Arab, Hajim al-Husayni - hitherto puppet so-called "minister of industry"! - to the largely ceremonial post of speaker of the parliament. In keeping with the colonial sectarian divide-and-rule strategy employed by imperialist powers in the region, the "parliamentary agreement" provides for the Kurdish chauvinist leader Jalal Talibani to be named puppet "president of Iraq," while the Shi'i chauvinist Da'wah Party leader Ibrahim al-Ja'fari is to be named "prime minister"... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=10905&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=10905 The horrifically ignored 'Collateral Damage' carnage Imad Khadduri , Free Iraq Dear Imad, Sorry to convey to you that the daughter of Dr. Hamodi Abbas Hameed was killed while traveling to Amman by American convoy for no reason whatsoever. I am giving you hereunder rundown of the accident, and Dr. Hamodi kindly ask you to send to CBS or any other mass media (...) I hope you can do something to make it known about the thousands of Iraqi's that are being such killed, with no one even mentioning it... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=10899&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=10899 Talabani to Be New Iraqi President Edward Wong The New York Times The major political parties of Iraq agreed Tuesday evening to appoint a president and two vice presidents at a meeting of the national assembly on Wednesday, breaking a two-month deadlock and taking the first significant step in forming a new government (...) The main Shiite and Kurdish political blocs have agreed to name Jalal Talabani, a Kurdish leader, as president; Adel Abdul Mehdi, a prominent Shiite Arab politician as one vice president; and ! Sheik Ghazi al-Yawar, the Sunni Arab president of the interim government, as the other vice president, said Hussein al-Shahristani, a vice speaker of the assembly... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=10919&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=10919 Four U.S. Soldiers Die In Iraq Clashes Associated Press The military said Tuesday four more U.S. soldiers died in recent clashes across Iraq. Two soldiers died in a joint attack Monday on insurgents in an eastern province. An explosion also killed a Marine in Anbar province Monday. Another soldier died Tuesday when an abandoned taxi exploded in Baghdad near a U.S. patrol. Four other soldiers were wounded. The day also has seen increased attacks on government officials... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=10918&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=10918 Probe suggests CIA role in Iraqi deaths Reuters CIA interrogations may have played a role in the deaths of several detainees in Iraq, as Bush administration lawyers were advocating an aggressive interrogation policy that critics say led to torture, military documents and officials say. U.S. officials have formally disclosed the death of only one person interrogated by the CIA in Iraq -- Manadel al-Jamadi, an unregistered "ghost" prisoner at Abu Ghraib who died November 4, 2003, while handcuffed in a prison shower! room... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=10916&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=10916 Executive Impunity Igor Volsky, www.dissidentvoice.org On its surface, the final report of the presidential commission on intelligence is another whitewash and rehash of previous investigations into pre-war intelligence debacles. The president appointed the commission reluctantly, delayed its final report calculatingly and "did not authorize it to investigate how policy makers had used the intelligence they received." Yet a close read and a cursory knowledge of modern political events still confirms the President! 's role in deliberate deception... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=10915&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=10915 America is usurping the democratic will in Iraq To forestall a clerical-driven religious regime, Washington has a plan to arm small militias Michael Meacher, Independent It's two months now since the elections in Iraq, and still no government is formed. The struggle over the Sunni problem, the Kurdish claim for the massive Kirkuk oilfields, and the manoeuvring between religious groups and contending personalities continues unabated. But there is a deeper problem still. There are two scenarios f! or Iraq. One, the American one, aims for a pro-Western government, an uninterrupted supply of Middle East oil to US markets, and a semi-permanent military base in the area to ensure that the first two objectives are secured. The other is more complex, and only now slowly beginning to emerge... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=10907&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=10907 Exclusive: Iraqi Mujahideen Claim To Have Killed CIA Shadow Director in Iraq Information Clearing House ...Congratulations to our Great Army. We congratulate you to the Demise of Dale C. Stoffel a CIA Shadow Manager in Iraq, and a close friend of George Bush. He is more important than Bremer and his lot of Generals. He was killed on the 8th of December 2004 after close monitoring of our moles on the hands of the Islamic Jihad Brigades... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=10906&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=10906 O'Reilly on Pope: "Saddam Enabler," "Detached from Reality" http://thinkprogress.org/index.php?p=576 More right-wing bashing of Pope John Paul II: O'Reilly Then: "John Paul has sent his emissary, Cardinal Pio Laghi, to tell President Bush that attacking Iraq would be 'unjust' and 'immoral.' That's like sending Sister Mary Theresa to tell Eminem to stop cursing…Humanistically, [the pope] is one of the many Saddam enablers"... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=10903&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=10903 Prisoners riot at Iraqi detention camp AAP Prisoners at a US-run detention camp in southern Iraq rioted on April 1, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) confirmed following a denial of the incident by the US military. "There was a riot at Camp Bucca on April 1. An ICRC delegation was there that day on one of its regular prisoner visits and it is now following up the situation, " said Christophe Beney, the head of the ICRC's Baghdad delegation... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=10900&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=10900 <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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