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uruknet.info «Ë-Ë“Ê Æ‰Ê·Ë :: information from occupied iraq :: informazione dall'iraq occupato Iraq: A Colonial Dictatorship Ghali Hassan, www.globalresearch.ca After two months of wrangling and haggling over the forming of the new Iraqi "government", the US got what it wants, a US government. The Iraqi people are saying: 'How could we have elected those people'? And those are the people the US will continue to protect. At gunpoint, the Iraqi people have been denied the right to govern their country and live in peace. Iraqis were disappointed by the results of the infighting between the expatriates in thei! r bunker. The rigged elections and the US-crafted and unconstitutional Transitional Administrative Law (TAL) gave the Kurds veto power, not only over the new constitution, but also to derail any democratic negotiation, including the end to the US Occupation of Iraq... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11411&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11411 The Rise Of Legitimate Resistance Movement Ghali Hassan, Countercurrents.org ...The shameful propaganda perpetuated against the Iraqi Resistance by Western media and pundits is unfounded. The label of "insurgency" used by Western governments and mainstream media to depict the Iraqi Resistance which is fighting for a legitimate cause, as an 'organized rebellion fighting against legitimate government' is an imperialist labelling to justify a "counterinsurgency" by foreign forces. It is typical smear against those r! esisting Western colonial aggression... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11393&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11393 Jaafari's Government Falling Apart, Already?! Raed Jarrar, Raed in the Middle I didn't find a SINGLE news item in any of the mainstream media about what happened in Iraq two days ago. Not a single news item about it! The Sunni Arabs Front, that includes both The National Front and The National Dialogue Council, announced their withdrawal from the Government, just few hours after Jaafari finished his "partial" announcement. Jafari's partial announcement didn't declare 7 of the most important positions: oil ministe! r, defense minister, electricity minister, industry minister, human rights minister, and two vice-prime-ministers. Other Sunni Iraqis, like the PM Mishaan Al-Juburi the head of The Reconciliation and Liberation party, asked the rest of the Sunni Arabs to withdraw from Jaafari's government... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11407&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11407 Hasan Karim Akbar Death Sentence: Ammunition for the Paranoid Right Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire No doubt right-wingers and plastic flag-wavers are jumping for joy now that Army Sgt. Hasan Karim Akbar (a Muslim) has been sentenced to death for killing two soldiers at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait during the first week of the United States military’s illegal invasion (predicated on famous lies) of Iraq. It is said Akbar killed the soldiers because he “claimed that white racists and Nazis had harassed” him “! and that drove him to his murderous assault.” Of course, this is no excuse for murder, even with the overriding irony of the fact Akbar and these alleged racist soldiers were sent to Iraq precisely to engage in a blood-and-guts orgy of mass murder that makes Akbar’s homicidal act pale by way of comparison... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11412&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11412 EYEWITNESS: Iraq’s children die of curable kala azar Reuters Dr. Eva-Maria Hobiger, project coordinator for Aladdin’s Magic Lamp, a Vienna-based humanitarian venture which provides medicines and medical equipment to Ibn Ghazwa Mother-Child Hospital in Basra, Iraq, says thousands of Iraqi children are at risk of dying from kala azar, a curable disease transmitted by sand flies... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11410&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11410 Iraq Victim's Mother 'Will Take Blair to Court' Victoria Mitchell, Chief Reporter, Scottish Press Association The mother of a British soldier killed in Iraq said today she will fight “tooth and nail” to take Tony Blair to court over the death of her son and what she described as “war crimes” (...)Today, at a press conference in East Kilbride, where Mrs Gentle is standing against Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram, she said: “We want justice not just for Gordon but for all the boys killed in Iraq and for all the Ir! aqis that have been killed"... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11409&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11409 3 U.S. Soldiers Among 41 Killed in Iraq THOMAS WAGNER, Associated Press WriterFri Insurgents unleashed a series of car bombings and other attacks across Iraq on Friday, killing at least 41 people, including three U.S. soldiers, and wounding dozens of people a day after the country's first democratically elected government was approved (...) At least 11 car bombs exploded in and around Baghdad on Friday, including four suicide attacks in quick succession in the Azamiyah section of central Baghdad... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11408&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11408 Iraq's hostage cabinet Pepe Escobar "We fasted for three months; then we broke our fast with an onion." - Iraqi proverb. After fasting - or watching non-stop squabbling - for almost three months since the January 30 elections, Iraqis finally got their onion: a new cabinet no one likes (except the Kurds). Shi'ite Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari didn't get what he wanted. No wonder: the Washington/Green Zone is wary of him. The Sunnis are threatening to walk out of the government altogether... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11406&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11406 Rebutting Gordon Brown The Attorney General's Legal Advice, Government Spin and the Iraq War (Part II) Milan Rai, www.dissidentvoice.org ...Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown has sought to defend the decision to go to war (which he participated), by referring to a range of documents brought before the British Cabinet on 17 March 2003. None of these documents demonstrates that Iraq was failing to cooperate with inspectors, or that Iraq definitely possessed weapons of mass destruction. The documen! ts instead demonstrated that Iraqi cooperation with the inspectors, and Iraqi disarmament, were increasing, not decreasing, on 17 March 2003. It was also clear that the judgment as to Iraq's cooperation should not have been made by the British Cabinet, but by UN weapons inspectors and the UN Security Council... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11404&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11404 The Attorney General's Legal Advice, Government Spin and the Iraq Weapons Inspectors Milan Rai, www.dissidentvoice.org The publication of UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith’s legal advice, presented to Prime Minister Tony Blair on 7 March 2003, before the invasion of Iraq, but not published until today (28 April 2005), marks a significant defeat for the Government, and an important opportunity for the anti-war movement to educate the general public about some crucial realities -- particularly about the role and f! unction of the UN weapons inspectors. Foreign Minister Jack Straw is piloting a new Big Lie for the Government to cover up its dishonesty... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11402&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11402 Conscientious Objector Status for Army Sgt. Kevin Benderman Denied: Ft. Stewart Command Quickly Rubber-Stamps Disapproval Robert S. Finnegan (Southeast Asia News) Yesterday [April 27] at Ft. Stewart Georgia, U.S. Army Sergeant Kevin Benderman was dealt a setback in his battle with the U.S. Army when his application for Conscientious Objector status was denied by his command. Benderman applied for CO status after having already served one combat tour in Iraq during which his Captain ordered personnel in the unit t! o fire on Iraqi children throwing rocks. This was one of many incidents during his deployment that Benderman said convinced him that war is immoral and it is his duty to refuse to kill. <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11401&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11401 Marla's Message War, Aid and Public Relations NORMAN SOLOMON, CounterPunch American news outlets provided extensive -- and mostly laudatory -- coverage of Marla Ruzicka after she died in Baghdad on April 16. The humanitarian aid worker's undaunted spirit and boundless dedication had endeared her to a wide array of people as she strived to gain acknowledgment and compensation for civilians harmed by the war in Iraq (...) By all accounts, she was a wonderful and inspiring person. Yet after I left the fu! neral, some key themes of the media eulogies and other testimonials kept bothering me. We were being encouraged to celebrate Marla Ruzicka's life, her work and her message. But -- in the context of a continuing war -- what was her message?... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11399&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11399 Defending the 'Good' Done in Iraq Harry Browne From time to time someone writes an essay that impresses enough people that the essay is circulated from hand to hand throughout the Internet. I recently received such an essay. It consists of a series of "Did you know . . . " questions. The purpose, obviously, is to make us realize that we don’t know the whole story of what’s happening in Iraq (thanks to the liberal media). And if we did know the whole story, we’d be getting down on our knees and thanking George Bus! h for being so much more far-sighted than we are. Or something like that. However, the questions indicate that the writer himself is a little confused about the war and especially uninformed about pre-war Iraq... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11398&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11398 Amnesty: Torture continuing in Iraq Aljazeera.net Amnesty International has said there are signs of fresh torture and sexual abuse in Iraq by prison authorities. The human rights group on Thursday also blasted the United States for failing to launch an independent investigation into the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, a year after images of abused detainees first shocked the world... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11397&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11397 Ricin plot: London and Washington used plot as a pretext to invade Iraq, Selected articles www.globalresearch.ca We bring to the attention of our readers several related articles on the alleged ricin in January 2003, which was used by the British and US governments as a pretext to invade Iraq. The evidence suggests that the ricin threat was based on fabricated intelligence and was deliberately used as pretext for war. And those who relied on the ricin plot to justify the war are war criminals... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11396&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11396 Multiple car bomb blasts rock Iraq Aljazeera.net At least 10 car bombs have exploded in Iraq a day after the country formed a new government. The string of deadly blasts on Friday killed at least 20 people and wounded 90 in and around Baghdad and al-Madain. The attacks targeted the Iraqi police and army, but also claimed the lives of civilians. The attacks came a day after parliament voted in the new government of Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jafari, which left several jobs vacant, including the powerful oil and def! ence ministries... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11394&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11394 Major Role in Iraqi Government for Chalabi "PA", Scotsman.com Thwarted in his bid to be Iraq’s leader, one-time Pentagon favourite Ahmad Chalabi has nevertheless captured a key position in the new government – a deputy prime minister’s spot and temporary control of the lucrative oil ministry. With his nephew also installed as finance minister, Chalabi and his family appear to have a firm grip on the country’s purse strings... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11392&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11392 Iraqi cabinet announced under US pressure James Cogan, WSWS After months of infighting, and despite numerous unresolved differences, the dominant pro-occupation parties in the Iraqi National Assembly have been pressured by the Bush administration into forming a government. A cabinet list was submitted by transitional prime minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari to the assembly yesterday and approved by 180 of the 275 legislators. In order to create the illusion of stability and popular support, the Bush administration has i! nsisted since the January 31 assembly elections that the parliament must form a “government of national unity,” which includes representatives of all the various sectarian and ethnically-based factions. Differences between them, however, caused the process to drag out for three months... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11391&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11391 Return of the Spanish Delegation of CEOSI from Iraq: The occupation forces clearly on the defensive on the ground IraqSolidaridad, 28 th April 2005 (www.nodo50.org/iraq) Translation into English by Lola Oliv”n (CEOSI) After what we live during those days, we have consolidated our full confidence in the final result of the emancipator effort taking place today in Iraq and supported in a formidable resistant effort. Despite of the horrible circumstances the Iraqi people face, we have found a dynamic society ! that has achieved to preserve their values of tolerance and dignity. The Iraqi people is living an stimulating, promising, plural process of self organization in all ambits (politic, in trade unions, in defence of human rights, women, anti repressive, etc.), process that encourages and protects the armed resistance against occupation and predicts a future fully sovereign and democratic... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11387&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11387 Iraq Through the Eyes of Unemebedded, Independent Journalist Dahr Jamail Democracy Now! ...the situation in Iraq is devastating. It's difficult to be there and see it day in and day out where there's no security whatsoever. There's complete lawlessness in the capital city and most other cities. The situation in the hospitals is an ongoing health care crisis. They're lacking medicines and basic supplies and things they need. Then we have the refugee situation where people are all over the city, hundreds of familie! s in various places, trying to survive. It's really quite -- it's the ongoing refugee situation we have that -- over 300,000 there. We have rampant fuel crisis going on where people are waiting one, sometimes two days, to fill the tanks of their cars... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11386&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11386 Exposed: Blair is a serial liar DAVID HUGHES Tony Blair's credibility was blown apart yesterday by the bombshell leak of the Attorney-General's top-secret legal advice on invading Iraq. It revealed that the Prime Minister persistently lied to Parliament and the public about the legal basis for the war. For two years Mr Blair has refused to publish the advice, citing confidentiality, while insisting the Attorney-General, Lord Goldsmith, was "unequivocal" that the war was lawful... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11383&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11383 <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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