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uruknet.info «Ë-Ë“Ê Æ‰Ê·Ë :: information from occupied iraq :: informazione dall'iraq occupato Tarmiya: a continuing story Dirk Adriaensens I keep on receiving mails from all over the world about the dreadful story of Tarmiya: the killings of Iraqi civilians by the US occupying forces. It seems that many people, once they are confronted with the horrors of the occupation in Iraq, are willing to undertake action, because they are appaled by the monstrous behaviour of US troops in Iraq once they know the realities on the ground. That's the importance of these stories. They awake the world community. And that! is why the US want to eliminate non-embedded journalists like Juliana Sgrena: they distort the image that the US corporate media want to give to their audiences: "everything's fine, and there are some minor problems with Zarqawi terrorists". No, nothing is OK in Iraq. It's hell, and all human values disappear... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11192&s2=19>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11192 IT’S ALL A BIG HAZE Malcom Lagauche ...To many people, the subject of Iraq from the time of August 2, 1990 until today has been a big haze. So many things have occurred that it appears like the world experienced many versions of the ongoing U.S.-Iraq war. However, it is still one ongoing war that has included many battles. No cease-fire has been in place since August 2, 1990. One part of the big haze that probably has escaped the memory of most people is the last week of the George Bush I presidency. Incidents of! that week were used as a warmup for future belligerence against Iraq... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11170&s2=19>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11170 The Bayoil Indictment -- the Real Scandal Jude Wanniski ...I've been waiting for your final report to be published and make it clear that Iraq not only had every legal right to charge fees for the taking of the oil, it charged the fees to every company in the world that was engaged in the program. After all, Paul, do not forget that the oil belonged to the government of Iraq in custody for its people. That's the way it works throughout the world. In addition, every last barrel that came out of its ! oilfields could not have been lifted without the cooperation and assistance of the Iraqi government that delivered it to the Iraqi pipelines that, in turn, delivered it to the companies that held permits. I'm surprised Saddam only asked 2 1/2%. Indeed, the neo-con team is brazenly acting as if Saddam did something wrong in selling Iraqi oil in violation of the United Nations embargo that we insisted by kept on for a dozen years after the 1991 Gulf War. The U.N. resolution did not prohibit Baghdad's sale of oil!!! It prohibited its purchase by U.N. members... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11169&s2=19>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11169 You Call This Normal? The New York Times in Fallujah MIKE WHITNEY, CounterPunch Cameras aren't allowed in Falluja; neither are journalists. If they were then we would have first-hand proof of America's greatest war crime in the last 30 years; the Dresden-like bombardment of an entire city of 250,000. Instead, we have to rely on eyewitness accounts that appear on the internet or the spurious reports that sporadically surface in the New York Times and Associated Press... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11176&s2=19>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11176 Soldiers' 'Wish Lists' Of Detainee Tactics Cited Josh White, Washington Post Staff Writer Army intelligence officials in Iraq developed and circulated "wish lists" of harsh interrogation techniques they hoped to use on detainees in August 2003, including tactics such as low-voltage electrocution, blows with phone books and using dogs and snakes -- suggestions that some soldiers believed spawned abuse and illegal interrogations... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11186&s2=19>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11186 The Hostage Crisis... Riverbend, Baghdad Burning ...We know a lot of our new officials and spokespeople are blatantly lying and it's fine to lie about security, reconstruction and democracy- we've gotten used to it. In fact, we tell jokes about it and laugh about it at family gatherings or over the telephone. To lie about something as serious as Sunni-Shia hostage taking is another story altogether. It's unacceptable and while Sunnis and Shia were hardly going to take up arms against each other over this latest d! ebacle, but it was still extremely worrisome and for people who wish to fuel sectarian violence, it was a perfect opportunity... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11168&s2=19>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11168 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 18 April 2005 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 18 April 2005. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org In a dispatch posted at 10:15am Mecca time Monday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US aggressor troops staged an air drop of more than 700 American invaders into the middle of the liberated city of al-Qa’im a short while before. The correspondent quoted witnesses a! s saying that the skies of the city were covered with parachutes carrying US Marines... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11190&s2=19>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11190 Australian media debates legalisation of torture Richard Phillips, WSWS Over the past three and a half years, the Howard government, in line with its embrace of the Bush administration’s “war on terror” and the illegal invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, has conducted an unrelenting assault on fundamental democratic rights. With tactical support from the Australian Labor Party, the government has endorsed the illegal US detention and abuse of Australian citizens David Hicks and Mamdouh Habib in Guantánamo Bay, ena! cted its own anti-terror laws, asserted the right to imprison asylum seekers indefinitely and imposed other repressive measures... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11185&s2=19>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11185 Analysis: why Iraqis fear militias James Hider, The Times ..."The idea of using these militias to police Iraq and put down the insurgency, voiced by President Jalal Talabani today, is not a new one. But a lot of Iraqis, while torn by the desire for order, are very nervous about the idea. What kind of accountability do you have from private, sectarian militia? Trying to use militias against different ethnic communities risks carving up Iraq on sectarian grounds"... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11184&s2=19>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11184 Iraq Official Connected with Hostage Crisis Killed Swissinfo Gunmen on Monday assassinated a seniorIraqi Interior Ministry official who had told the media that ahostage crisis that fueled sectarian tensions was exaggerated,police said. Police said 10 gunmen entered the home of Major-GeneralAdnan Thabet in Baghdad and killed him and his nephew. Hours before he was killed, Thabet said: "The number ofhostages has been greatly exaggerated"... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11183&s2=19>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11183 Robotic troops symbolic of U.S. attitude in Iraq The Asahi Shimbun A robot soldier detects a person hiding in the shadows. It takes aim and blasts away, taking yet another human life. While that scene may sound like something out of a sci-fi movie, it could soon become a reality on the battlefield. The U.S. Army is planning to deploy mobile robotic weapons for the enforcement of security in Iraq... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11182&s2=19>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11182 Keep open Iraq to the international solidarity and compromise A delegation of the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation of Iraq and for the Iraqi Sovereignty (SCOSI) travels to Iraq SCOSI, Informative Note - IraqSolidaridad (www.nodo50.org/iraq) ...The SCOSI wants to highlight, through this new initiative, the need and the solidarity compromise of the international movement against the war and the occupation to maintain open wide the communication channels with the Iraqi people and the politi! cal and social organizations who are demanding the immediate withdrawal of the occupation forces, the whole restitution of their sovereignty and the establishment of a democratic and non-sectarian system, which fully respects the political, social and economical rights of the Iraqi population"... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11181&s2=19>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11181 Iraq: Focus on increase in kidnappings IRINews.org ...Iraqi families are becoming increasingly concerned over a rise in kidnappings, where youngsters are being held for huge amounts of ransom money. According to the Ministry of Interior (MoI), more than 130 cases have been registered since July 2004 and 31 gangs have been arrested by the police in the capital, where the majority of kidnappings take place. But many cases aren't reported to the Iraqi police for security reasons (...) During the former regime, there! were few kidnappings and the only cases registered were resolved - they were usually linked to tribal family disputes and not associated with ransoms or poor security... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11180&s2=19>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11180 A Math Lesson The Killing of Nicola Calipari ELI STEPHENS, CounterPunch It was reported a few days ago: "U.S. soldiers reportedly have been cleared of wrongdoing in the shooting of an Italian journalist and an intelligence agent last month in Baghdad. "The car was about 130 yards from a checkpoint when the soldiers flashed their lights to get it to stop. They fired warning shots when the car was within 90 yards of the checkpoint, but at 65 yards, they used deadly force. Calipari was killed and Sgre! na wounded." Sgrena has told CBS that the car she was in was going 30 mph. At 30 mph, a car is going 15 yards per second. So, according to the U.S. military, they fired warning shots within 2.7 seconds of flashing a warning light, and used "deadly force" 2.3 seconds after that... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11177&s2=19>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11177 In Iraq, Security in Name Only The new police force is largely untrained, frequently unreliable, and all too ready to abuse civilians. How can U.S. troops hand over control? The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. The Bush Administration and senior military commanders have suggested in recent days that the training of Iraqi security forces -- one of the linchpins of America's exit strategy -- is going so well that significant troop reductions may be possible by early next year (...) Nonetheless, while t! he Iraqi army seems to be getting up to speed, the training of the 142,000-member police force -- about half the total security forces supposedly needed -- is moving more slowly and fraught with bigger problems than reports by U.S. officials might suggest.. <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11175&s2=19>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11175 The Contradiction of Supporting the Troops, While Opposing Their Actions: A Reply to Joshua Frank’s “Contradictions of the Anti-War Movement” Richard Moreno, www.dissidentvoice.org ...We should always patiently explain to our fellow antiwar activists why supporting the troops should really mean supporting the troops who refuse to fight. Nevertheless, we must untiringly combat the slogans that implicitly or otherwise neutralize the just character of our antiwar struggle. As for the Iraqi resistance, I can! say without any compunction that it is the objective expression of the U.S. occupation. Our task, as citizens of the aggressor country, is to denounce the war as unjust while mobilizing a movement that will hasten its end. This is what it means to be not only antiwar but an anti-imperialist... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11173&s2=19>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11173 People Around the World Mourn Marla Ruzicka's Tragic Death CIVIC Dear Friends of Marla and CIVIC, It is with deep sadness and regret that I am writing to inform you that Marla died on Saturday at the age of 28 in a suicide bomb attack. Faiz, CIVIC's Iraq Country Director, was also killed. It is tragically ironic that two beautiful people who devoted their lives to helping innocent victims of war have now become them. The attack occurred on the Baghdad Airport road as she traveled to visit an Iraqi child injured b! y a bomb, part of her daily work of identifying and supporting innocent victims of this war... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11172&s2=19>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11172 You are dreaming my yob! Abu Assur, Al-Moharer ...The Iraqi insurgency is not declining. It is your wishful thinking. US you have already lost the war. You are just playing with time and the lives of US youth and squandering billions of dollars. The Iraqi resistance is your nightmare, and it will stay until you are totally and utterly defeated and humiliated. The Iraqis are fighting in the name of the Humankind to get the world over rid of your muck, mess and filth. Iraqi rebellion, Iraqi insurgency, rather Iraqi! resistance is declining only in your daydreams... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11178&s2=19>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11178 No sign of hostages in Iraq's al-Madain Aljazeera.net The Iraqi army has found no hostages in the besieged town of al-Madain, where fighters have reportedly been holding Shia residents hostage. A 1500-strong Iraqi force moved into al-Madain - known also as Salman Pak - 30km southeast of Baghdad, according to an AFP correspondent embedded with the US military. Abd al-Salam al-Kubaisi, a member of the influential and mostly Sunni Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMS) told Aljazeera that he had contacted some! people in al-Madain and they confirmed there was a fierce attack on the town despite the apparent absence of fighters. "We can call this another Falluja," al-Kubaisi said. He went on to say that the Iraqi Interior Ministry announced on 14 April that there would be an attack against al-Madain town... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11167&s2=19>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11167 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 17 April 2005 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org ...Numerous residents of the al-Mada’in area southeast of Baghdad have refuted the claims, carried by western wire services and satellite TV stations, that some 80 or 100 Shi‘i citizens had been kidnapped by an armed “insurgent” group that threatened to kill them if all Shi‘i families fail to evacuate the city. Shaykh Ibrahim al-Ja! bburi, a local notable and tribal chief in the district of al-Mada’in denied that there were any armed actions of this sort. A report carried by albasrah.net said that he called such stories lies that the media had been relaying without doing any investigation... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11165&s2=19>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11165 <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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