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Iraqi Women Under US Occupation
Ghali Hassan, www.globalresearch.ca
Under the US Occupation, the situation of Iraqi women has continued to
deteriorate. In addition to torture, sexual violence and rape by U.S.
Occupation forces, a great number of Iraqi women and girls are kept locked
up in their homes by a very real fear of abduction and criminal abuse.
Since the invasion of Iraq, Iraqi women have been denied their human right,
including the right to health, education and employment. Prior to the 1991
U.S. war an! d the 13 years of the genocidal sanctions, Iraqi women enjoyed
unquestionable quality rights to education and health. Iraqi women had the
most progressive human rights in the region and Iraqi women were the first
Arab women to hold high positions in academia, law, medicine and
government...

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Fallujah (I): Visit to General Hospital
The Delegation of CEOSI meets with the Director and delivers a first pack
of health assistance equipment
Delegación de la CEOSI en Iraq, IraqSolidaridad (www.nodo50.org/iraq)
Last Sunday, 24th April, while visiting Fallujah, the CEOSI Delegation in
Iraq (17th-26th April) delivered directly to the General Hospital of
Fallujah a first part of the medical supplies (medicines, wheelchairs,
fonends, and other medical supplies) amounting 3.817,61 dollars (...)!
CEOSI Delegation was received around 12 o'clock by the Director of the
Hospital, Dr. Abdul Wahad al-Alossy, who described to the group the US
assault against the medical centre at the beginning of the occupation of
the city last November, 2004. He also explained the situation of the
Hospital, thanked the delivery of material and called for all the
assistance that can be sent from Spain to continue...

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SECRET PLANS
Eighty-eight members of Congress call on Bush for answers on secret Iraq plan
RAW STORY
Eighty-eight members of Congress have signed a letter authored by Rep. John
Conyers (D-MI) calling on President Bush to answer questions about a secret
U.S.-UK agreement to attack Iraq, RAW STORY has learned. In a letter,
Conyers and other members say they are disappointed the mainstream media
has not touched the revelations...

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Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s Laptop
Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire
It looks like Abu Musab al-Zarqawi will be retired, the same way Osama bin
Laden was. Arab boogeyman have a shelf life and it appears al-Zarqawi is
approaching his expiration date, as bin Laden did after the battle of Tora
Bora. Or so we are told. Actually, Osama bin Laden died in mid-December,
2001, after escaping Tora Bora (it is also possible he was not there)...

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Galloway's triumph
Xymphora
Some days there seems to be nothing to write about, but this isn't one of
those days. Moussaoui's plea, England's plea, Larry Franklin, the odd
arrest in Pakistan, the 'smoking gun' of the Iraq war, North Korea, the
murders of Razicka and Calipari, Syria . . . the list goes on and on. But I
thought I'd mention the splendid election of George Galloway. Here is a
good little summary of Galloway's recent trials and tribulations in the
fight for truth and decency...

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 6 May 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 6:20pm Mecca time Friday evening, Mafkarat
al-Islam reported that US occupation troops at the time of writing were
surrounding the Shi‘i holy city of an-Najaf on all sides, having deployed a
large number of military vehicles and giant armored vehicles around the
city. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-I! slam reported that the American
occupation troops had prevented journalists coming from Baghdad from
getting into an-Najaf, setting a serious precedent of further inhibiting
news coverage in the country...

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Troops raid hospital and seal off city in hunt for terror chief
James Hider, TimesOnline
AMERICAN soldiers have sealed off the restive city of Ramadi in western
Iraq after troops raided its hospital in search of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
The raid came after an apparent intelligence report that Iraq’s leading
terrorist may be ill. Residents of the violent Sunni Triangle city, 70
miles west of Baghdad, told The Times that US forces were reinforcing their
positions around the city, prohibiting vehicles from entering and! allowing
passage only by foot through a single checkpoint...

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Something Iraq Will Never Lose
Felicity Arbuthnot** , IslamOnline.net
It's been two years since the illegal invasion, the destruction of
humanity's history, the subsequent slaughters, and the attempt to
dehumanize Iraqis, the people of Mesopotamia who brought the world all that
we call civilized. A people whose deaths, in the words of the inimitable
Major General Mark Kimmitt, are not productive to count. When asked about
media coverage of US carnage in the cradle of civilization, General
Kimmitt's response was "! change the channel"...

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McNamara: Bush Nukes “Dreadfully Dangerous”
Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire
On occasion, even war criminals make sense. For instance, Robert McNamara,
war criminal par excellence (responsible for the murder of a million or
more Vietnamese). McNamara, in an article appearing in Foreign Policy,
basically writes that Bush and Crew are immoral sociopaths (the inclusion
of the word denoting a serious mental condition is my choice, not
McNamara’s) because they are determined to use “nuclear weapons as a
foreign-p! olicy tool”...

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67 died in suicide bomb attacks
Michael Georgy
SUICIDE bombers have killed at least 67 Iraqis in a fresh day of violence
that has cast doubts over the new government's ability to defeat
insurgents. In the deadliest blast, a suicide car bomber struck a vegetable
market in a southern Iraqi town, killing at least 58 people and wounding
44, police and hospital officials said.


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The Quagmire.
As the Iraq war drags on, it's beginning to look a lot like Vietnam
ROBERT DREYFUSS
The news from Iraq is bad and getting worse with each passing day. Iraqi
insurgents are stepping up the pace of their attacks, unleashing eleven
deadly bombings on April 29th alone. Many of the 150,000 Iraqi police and
soldiers hastily trained by U.S. troops have deserted or joined the
insurgents. The cost of the war now tops $192 billion, rising by $1 billion
a week, and the corpses are piling up: Nearly 1,600 A! merican soldiers and
up to 100,000 Iraqi civilians are dead, as well as 177 allied troops and
229 private contractors. Other nations are abandoning the international
coalition assembled to support the U.S., and the new Iraqi government,
which announced its new cabinet to great fanfare on April 27th, remains
sharply split along ethnic and religious lines. But to hear President Bush
tell it, the war in Iraq is going very, very well...

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Memo says Bush wanted data to justify Saddam's removal
Washington Bureau
A classified British memo, leaked in the midst of Britain's just-concluded
election campaign, indicates President Bush decided by summer 2002 to oust
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and was determined to ensure that U.S.
intelligence data supported his policy. The document, which summarizes a
July 23, 2002, meeting of British Prime Minister Tony Blair with his top
security advisers, reports on a visit to Washington by the head of
Britain's MI! -6 intelligence service...

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Veterans for Peace Call for Bush Impeachment
Veterans For Peace
On the second anniversary of the invasion and occupation of Iraq, this
letter is being sent on behalf of Veterans For Peace (VFP), a national
organization of military veterans, to appeal for Congressional action to
remove George W. Bush and Richard Cheney from the offices of President and
Vice-President of the United States, respectively. We do not make this call
lightly and as former members of the U.S. armed forces, we take our
responsibilities as! citizens very seriously...

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Iraq Reports are Bad News for President
Jules Witcover, Baltimore Sun
Here are just some of the things that have happened regarding the U.S.
involvement in Iraq over the last several days: The Pentagon released the
names of 12 more American soldiers killed in Iraq, bringing the total U.S.
fatalities there as of yesterday to 1,591, of which 1,215 resulted from
hostile action...


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"The relevant issue is not the number of combatants but the number of
civilians supporting them".
An interview with the Iraqi Resistance
Delegation of CEOSI to Iraq, IraqSolidaridad (www.nodo50.org/iraq)
Abu Yusef identifies himself as representative of "[...] the patriotic
current of the dissolved Iraqi Armed Forces integrated in the Resistance".
Abu Yusef, slowly speaking and discreet in gestures, almost white haired
whose age can be no more than 55 is a former General: "Part of the actions
of the I! raqi Resistance against the occupiers are being lead by members
of the former Iraqi Army" that was dissolved, with the Ba'ath Party, by the
Civil Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority, Paul Bremer, in
Summer, 2003...

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Bush, Blair and the Osama Tapes
If the Moon could talk, what would it say?
Maher Osseiran, www.globalresearch.ca
While the controversy in England about the advice of the Attorney General
on the legality of the Iraq war rages on and fuels requests for its
publication in full, in America, George W. Bush is luckier and has survived
the Valerie Plame issue, WMD’s, and the scathing report on the failure of
intelligence prior to 9/11, the question is, how would both deal with the
issue brought up in this article t! hat potentially dwarfs all other
issues...

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Baghdad Diary
A Week of Bombs and Blood
PATRICK COCKBURN, CounterPunch
...The sense of hopelessness has deepened as the optimism following the
election on 30 January dissipated while the triumphant Shia and Kurdish
coalitions failed to form a government. It was finally sworn in this week
with Ibrahim al-Jaafari as Prime Minister, but several ministerial
positions have still to be filled. The sense of anarchy in Iraq is growing.
Ghassan Attiyah, an Iraqi commentator, said in Baghdad yesterday: "Iraq is!
getting more like Bosnia every day. The centre is becoming very weak.
Officially they will keep the façade of a unitary state, but in practice
there is no effective government"...

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Galloway Wins Respect in AntiWar Election Triumph
Fintan Dunne, BreakForNews.com
George Galloway has scored a major victory for the antiwar movement in
Britain, stealing the supposedly safe Labour seat of Bethnal Green and Bow
which the ruling party has held unbroken since 1945. The former Glasgow
Labour MP -who was ejected from the party over his stance on the Iraq
invasion- is the founder of anti-war party Respect. His stunning win over
Labour's Oona King, overturned a Labor majority of 10,000 at the last
elect! ion by almost a 1,000 vote margin. Galloway denounced Blair in his
victory speech, telling the Prime Minister: "All the people you have
killed, all the lies you have told have come back to haunt you". Blair,
knowing well that the Labour party is totaly unrepresentative of Labour
supporters, in his own early morning speech to supporters used the leftist
catchphrase words "solidarity" and "comrades" to try put a grassroots
veneer on his party's return to government. The win is a tremenduous boost
for Britain's antiwar movement. It gives them a voice in Parliament -where
no party currently reflects their views (...) Galloway was interviewed
overnight on BBC by establishment hatchet-man Jeremy Paxman. It was the
second time a TV station had tried to ambush the antiwar candidate in three
days. But Galloway was well up to the job...

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Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s Laptop
Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire
It looks like Abu Musab al-Zarqawi will be retired, the same way Osama bin
Laden was. Arab boogeyman have a shelf life and it appears al-Zarqawi is
approaching his expiration date, as bin Laden did after the battle of Tora
Bora. Or so we are told. Actually, Osama bin Laden died in mid-December,
2001, after escaping Tora Bora (it is also possible he was not there)...

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 5 May 2005.
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board,
the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org
In a bulletin posted at 5:37pm Thursday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam
reported that a short while before, Resistance forces had shot down an
unmanned US spy plane that was on a surveillance mission over the north of
the city of al-Qa’im on the border with Syria. The correspondent for
Mafkarat al-Islam in al-Qa’im reported witnesses ! as saying that the
Resistance fighters seized the wreckage of the spy plane on one side of the
Euphrates river while US forces were searching for it on the other side...

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Secret British Memo Shows Bush Tampered with Iraq Intelligence
Juan Cole, Informed Comment
...Bush was lying to the American people at the time and saying that no
final decision had been made on the war. Godfrey Sperling of the Christian
Science Monitor could write on August 27, 2002, "Indeed, Bush has said he
welcomes a 'debate' on Iraq from those in Congress and from the public. But
he has made it clear that he will make his decision based on what his
intelligence people are telling him." But Dearlove's report ! makes it
clear that Bush had already decided absolutely on a war already the
previous month, and that he had managed to give British intelligence the
firm impression that he intended to shape the intelligence to support such
a war...

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