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Saddam Hussein refuses to sell out Iraq.
Egyptian Magazine publishes transcript of meeting in prison between Saddam
Hussein and Donald Rumsfeld.
www.albasrah.net
...Saddam Hussein: I am not looking for opportunities. I am not looking for
a way to save my neck from the gallows that you have set up for all of
Iraq. If I wanted that I would have accepted the Russian offer and saved my
sons and grandson from martyrdom. I don't know what has become of my family
and my daughters and grandch! ildren. But believe me I am concerned with
every Iraqi citizen and the future of great Iraq more than I am concerned
with myself and my family. Through your men, you previously made an offer
that if I declare that weapons of mass destruction were smuggled to Syria,
you said that in return you would release me. I rejected that then and I
reject it again now...


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King George, Prince Abdullah, Global Warming, and the Torture of Thomas
Jefferson
Paul Street, ZNet
...Responsible journalists might find the administration's push for
increased Saudi oil production (and lower oil prices) highly interesting in
light of Bush's disastrous, illegal, and immoral occupation of Iraq. Among
other things, this brazen imperial action was supposed to bring Iraq's vast
petro-productive capacities into play, helping keep oil prices within
America's definition of "reasonable." But two years a! fter Bush's
proto-fascistic "Mission Accomplished" PR stunt (featuring the "top-gun"
president loanding in a flight suit on a U.S. aircraft carrier off the
California coast), this and other declared "Operation Iraqi Freedom"
objectives remain woefully unfulfilled...

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Regulated Resistance: Pt. 2 - The Gatekeepers of the So-Called Left
CHARLES SHAW, Newtopia Magazine
Last February United for Peace and Justice, the largest representative
coalition within the American "anti-war movement", emerged from their
second annual Assembly with a 2005 "action plan" that effectively caged the
"anti-war" debate exclusively within the Iraq conflict to achieve partisan
ends on behalf of the pro-war Democratic Party and their Neoliberal
corporate benefactors. Their "action plan" refused to addr! ess any of the
core issues of US Foreign and Defense policy, which are the root causes of
a pervading culture of war and militarism that has taken over the nation in
the years since WWII. These decisions are part of a larger pattern of
"regulated resistance", a system by which dissent is carefully managed and
constrained by self, overt, or covert censorship...

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CPT Iraq Release: Five Detainee Stories
Report, Christian Peacemaker Teams, 2 May 2005
Although the publicity surrounding the detainee abuse scandal is one year
in the past, the suffering of detainees and their families continues. Close
to 11,000 Iraqis are held in U.S.-run prisons and bases throughout Iraq.
They are held without trial and often without knowledge of the charges
against them. Often their families will not know where they are for months.
The following are five recent stories of detainees — two wome! n and three
men. Two are part of Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) Adopt-a-Detainee
campaign and are in detention right now...

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US Forces Kill 12 and Wound 2
Reuters
U.S. forces killed 12 people and wounded two others, including a six year
old girl, in a firefight and bombing close to the Syrian border on Monday,
the U.S. military said in a statement on Tuesday. It said six soldiers of
the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq were wounded in the fight against suspected
members of Al-Qaeda's wing in Iraq...

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Saddam and the 'incubator massacre'
Arbibi Ashoy
...It was due to this lack of abhorrence to Saddam that the Kuwaiti ruling
family and their American allies invented the story of 'the incubator
massacre' in which a young Kuwaiti girl claimed to have seen Iraqi soldiers
kill helpless Kuwaiti babies in hospital incubators. Only after the war to
'liberate' Kuwait supposedly, did journalists find out that this was a
fabrication. But the result of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait - which barely
caused any casualties - was t! he Gulf war which inflicted a heavy toll
upon the Iraqi people who really has no say in what their government did.
On top of that, the people of Kuwait never even got the democracy they
hoped for. Now again, another war against Iraq based on false premise -
that Saddam was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction...


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Families of dead soldiers to sue Blair
Kate Holton, Reuters
The families of soldiers who died in Iraq will launch a bid on Tuesday to
take Prime Minister Tony Blair to court over his "deception" in going to
war. Two days before the election, the families will deliver a letter to
Downing Street outlining the legal case they will bring against the Prime
Minister. "Some of the families are seriously concerned that their children
died in circumstances where the war was illegal," Military Families against
the War said! in a statement...

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Sgrena : Army Report Admits Forensics not Preserved
Fintan Dunne, BreakForNews.com
Classified material within an U.S. Army report on the shooting of Italian
journalist, Guiliana Sgrena has been recovered from an unclassified PDF
file. It seems the Army does not realize that one can recover blanked out
data in standard PDFs. Which seems suspiciously dumb -even for the Army.
Perhaps they wanted this material leaked to try bolster the official line
on the killing...

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A Zionist War
Kristoffer Larsson
...But although we for sure know that this war indeed was not a "preemptive
war" or about "liberating" Iraq, the "war for oil"-theory - adopted by the
greater majority in the anti-war movement - loses ground by the day. One
ought to at least question if oil was the main reason for going to war. Oil
tastes good, but the Americans want cheap oil, not expensive. The
occupation of Iraq cost the American tax payers more then 5.8 Billion
dollars a month. Thus, it would have been cheaper! to support dictators in
the region instead of overthrowing them - with the result of almost no oil
at all. But this is not a White man's war. Nor is it the oil companies'
war. No, this is a Zionist war...

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Insurgents Using U.S. Techniques
Iraqis' Borrowing Could Help American Forces' Response
Bradley Graham and Dana Priest, Washington Post Staff Writers
In 1965, the U.S. Army published a detailed manual on how to build and hide
booby traps, complete with detailed diagrams illustrating various means of
wiring detonators to explosives, and advising on the best locations for
concealing the deadly bombs along roadways and elsewhere. Two decades
later, the Iraqi military issued its troops an Arabic ve! rsion of the same
manual, copying not only the wording but also many of the drawings...

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Endless Iraq occupation: how many lives per gallon?
Dennis Rahkonen, Online Journal Contributing Writer
...Perpetual conflict? Endless occupation? How many lives per gallon? As of
this writing, nearly 1,600 of our troops have been killed and many
thousands more severely wounded. Untold numbers require emotional treatment
for post-traumatic stress. Tomorrow that grim tally will increase. More
than 100,000 Iraqi civilians no longer breathe the bracing air, because
their souls have been liberated from their bodies, ! courtesy of Donald
Rumsfeld's Pentagon...

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The British Prime Minister: Only Murderers and Liars, Please
Michael James
Fancy your election or re-election chances as prime minister of a
medium-sized European country called the United Kingdom? No problem. Just
find yourself some happy-family civilians minding their own business, and
kill them. The more, the merrier - 200,000 sounds like a nice rounded sort
of number. Be sure to pick the right target - one that you know for sure
cannot retaliate. Arab children and their doting mothers are a popular
sporting b! et...

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US War Crimes and the Legal Case for Military Resistance
Paul Rockwell, CommonDreams.org
...The enlistment contract, the very relationship between soldiers and
military service, must be re-examined in the light of what the world has
learned about monstrous and systematic war crimes in Iraq, sanctioned
brutality that goes far beyond the scandals at Abu Ghraib. The pattern of
U.S. atrocities in Iraq provide not only motivation, but the legal basis
for military resistance. When war crimes are systematic, especially ! when
they are intrinsic to the imperial nature of invasion, resistance is
justified...

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These Are Blair's Last Days
George Galloway, The Guardian
When I first called the prime minister a liar on air over his repeatedly
denied plans to invade Iraq - in the wake of the Texas meeting with George
Bush in spring 2002 - the BBC presenter was aghast at my presumption. Today
there can scarcely be a sentient being in the land who would disagree...

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Iraqi Press Under Attack from Authorities in Iraq
Mohammed al Dulaimy, Knight Ridder
A photographer for a Baghdad newspaper says Iraqi police beat and detained
him for snapping pictures of long lines at gas stations. A reporter for
another local paper received an invitation from Iraqi police to cover their
graduation ceremony and ended up receiving death threats from the recruits.
A local TV reporter says she's lost count of how many times Iraqi
authorities have confiscated her cameras and smashed her tapes...


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Halliburton's War Loot
Corruption in Bush's Iraq
BRIAN CLOUGHLEY, CounterPunch
There is a squalid little wart called Mark Steyn whose blinkered worship
for Bush and the Crazy Crusaders is intense. He is the darling of the
Murdoch-style, mind-bending, non-information media and of some other
formerly respectable US and British publications which have lost their way
in the fetid jungle of Bush idolatry. Steyn is the prat who wrote in the
UK's Telegraph newspaper a year ago that "I don't think it's possibl! e for
anyone who looks at Iraq honestly to see it as anything other than a
success story . . . "

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Walking Over Corpses - The New Statesman And The Guardian On Voting Labour
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media
...In which case, what level of criminal mendacity and violence would have
to be unleashed before the New Statesman rejects the idea that we should
vote for our elected killers? What level of improvements in public services
should we demand before we excuse a further 100,000 or 200,000 corpses?
Currently, Blair is trading his dead at bargain rates...

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Italian PM accused of editing report on agent's death
AFP
Reports have surfaced that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
intervened to ensure that a report on the killing of an Italian
intelligence agent in Baghdad by US troops would not damage relations with
Washington. An Italian report released on Monday blamed the killing of
Nicola Calipari, while he was escorting a freed Italian hostage, on the
"inexperience" of US troops acting under stress and without proper rules of
engagement...

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Two U.S. F-18s Crash in Iraq
Body of One Pilot Found; Search Continues for Second Pilot
Caryle Murphy and Fred Barbash, Washington Post
Searchers located the body of a Marine pilot Tuesday morning, hours after
two F-18 Hornet jets apparently crashed during an operation over Iraq, a
military spokesman said Tuesday. Searchers continue to look for the pilot
of the second plane. Both were flying off the carrier USS Vinson in an
unspecified operation when they disappeared from radar and radio about !
10:10 p.m. local time (2:10 p.m. EDT)...

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 2 May 2005.
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board,
the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org
...The Board of Muslim 'Ulama' Scholars issued a statement on Monday
denouncing the US siege of the Iraqi cities of al-Hadithah, al-Qa'im,
al-Haqlaniyah, in al-Anbar Province that has been going on for more than
one week. During this period, the statement says, the Board of Muslim
'Ulama' has been surprised at the silence with which i! nternational public
opinion has received these latest very serious American offenses...

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An Army of the Unwilling
Niko Kyriakou, Axis of Logic
Axis of Logic stands solid with those young men and women who are resisting
or refusing service in the U.S. military during the time of the U.S.
criminal wars on Afghanistan, Iraq and covert U.S. military operations in
other sovereign nations. We encourage young men and women and their
families seeking refuge from the U.S. military and those dealing with
recruitment/enlistment issues to contact our very competent friends at
JOIN-SNAFU.ORG for assistance....

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