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We Know All This About Bush and Blair
Phil Hong, Al-Jazeerah
We know that Bush and Blair always intended to invade Iraq, that they
determined on this aggressive, illegal revenge action very early, that they
worked with tireless determination to get the war started, that they lied
about everything including weapons of mass destruction, and that they were
on it too keen to kill, that they inwardly and outwardly rejoiced at the
'shock and awe' destruction wrought on an essentially defenceless
population...

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Resistance Exposes US Forces and Iraqi Collaborators on Car Bombs
Islammemo.cc - Iraqwar.ru
The Resistance has released a general announcement in Al-Ramadi advising
the brave people of Iraq to be aware of the evil actions perpetrated by the
US and its collaborators (Iraqi occupation police and army) who have been
known to fire mortar shells at residential homes and set off car bombs in
shopping areas and busy districts aimed at killing civilians. The known
objectives of such evil actions is to blame the national! Resistance of
being behind such attacks so as to weaken the public support towards the
Resistance...

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Sources: Iraq's Talabani met "Israeli military official" at undisclosed
location; exchanged letters with Sharon
Al Bawaba
Reliable Iraqi sources in Jordan said Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has
recently met with "an Israeli military figure" who presented the president
with a letter from Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, ynet reported
Sunday. The sources further added, without providing details on where the
meeting took place, that Talabani responded with a letter addressed to
Sharon in which he emphasized pos! itive developments in Israeli-Iraqi
relations are expected within the next three months...

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A small part of the greater AIPAC espionage story
Xymphora
...It is difficult to understand why Franklin would risk disclosure of this
information to protect a few Israeli spies in Kurdistan, particularly when
such disclosure, if caught, might result in a penalty as high as his
execution. From the AIPAC point of view, however, this may have just been
another part of the ongoing Israeli dissection of the complete American spy
networks in the Middle East. If Israel has already traded this information
away, or used ! it in its covert campaign in Iraq to lead to civil war, it
would explain why the Americans seem completely to lack intelligence in
Iran, and seem to have no effective counterintelligence operations in Iraq.
If Franklin did anything wrong, we must not forget that his is a small part
of the greater AIPAC espionage story...


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Insurgents greet Rice with car bombings, murders and chaos
Richard Beeston
THE surprise visit of Condoleezza Rice to Iraq was upstaged yesterday as
insurgents mounted a wave of attacks against those loyal to the shaky
United States-backed Government. In the first visit by a member of the Bush
Administration since Iraq formed its Government a fortnight ago, the US
Secretary of State sought to give impetus to the country's political
transformation...

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Trigger-happy US troops 'will keep us in Iraq for years'
Sean Rayment
British defence chiefs have warned United States military commanders in
Iraq to change their rules for opening fire or face becoming bogged down in
a terrorist war for a decade or more. The Telegraph has learnt that the
warning was issued last month in response to a series of incidents that led
to the deaths of Iraqi civilians, mainly at checkpoints, after soldiers
opened fire in the mistaken belief that they were being attacked by suicide
bomb! ers...

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Iraq's Ba'athists rebound on 2 fronts
Thanassis Cambanis, Boston Globe Staff
Veterans of Saddam Hussein's outlawed Ba'ath Party have begun openly waging
a two-pronged battle against the newly elected, US-backed government. Some
Ba'athists are publicly working to recover their rights and regain
political power. Others, according to former Ba'athists and Iraqi
officials, are now leading the bloody guerrilla war against Iraqi and
American troops (...) ''After what Iraqis have seen of chaos and
insecurity, of random ! killing and destruction at the hands of the
occupation forces, now they are nostalgic and hoping for a return of the
Ba'ath Party," Abdulkerim said...


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Secret emails, missing weapons
The Observer
...Almost a year ago, Barton was one of three senior weapons inspectors of
the Iraq Survey Group, including one unnamed Briton, who resigned in
protest at the 'dishonest' censorship and political pressure they say they
came under. In an exclusive interview with The Observer Barton details how
senior figures in British intelligence tried to stop the ISG publishing its
interim report when they realised what it would say. He also reveals how
when this failed, John Scarlett! , who was then head of the powerful Joint
Intelligence Committee and was subsequently appointed by Blair as the head
of MI6, tried to strengthen the ISG report by inserting nine 'nuggets' of
information to imply Saddam's WMD programmes were active, despite evidence
to the contrary...

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Amy Worthington On US Nuclear War In Iraq
The Idaho Observer - www.rense.com
...It's really RADIOACTIVE WAR, Ingri. It's one of the most important
topics of our day. Radioactive war has been raging since Bush-Cheney
started bombing Afghanistan in 2001. And yet most Americans still don't
understand that in THEIR name, and with THEIR money, this administration,
the U.S. Congress and the Pentagon have committed nuclear war against both
Iraq and Afghanistan, two non-nuclear countries whose citizens had nothing
whatso! ever to do with 9/1l...

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Deadly firefight in a desert town shocks marines
Tony Allen-Mills & Ali Rifat
...Taken by surprise as they attempted to launch Operation Matador — billed
as the biggest offensive against insurgent fighters since the crackdown on
Falluja last November — the marines moved swiftly to counter-attack last
Sunday in a town they had previously regarded as harmless. They had no idea
of the fury that faced them. The marines of Lima company advanced on Ubaydi
from the north. A platoon from Kilo company worked around from ! the south.
Both units met heavy fire. A rocket-propelled grenade was fired at the
amphibious vehicle carrying the Kilo company commander...


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More nasty surprises await U.S. troops in Iraq
Steve Chapman
...Fallujah was supposed to make a difference, and so is the recent U.S.
offensive in western Iraq. But someone forgot to tell the insurgents.
American commanders were surprised at the strength and sophistication of
the resistance in this latest campaign. But this war has been full of
surprises, none of them pleasant. In April, even before the latest
expansion of violence, the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency
testified, "The insurgency has grown ! in size and complexity over the last
year"...

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American's Right to Know War News
Ralph Nader, CommonDreams.org
An astonishing message came forth on May 12, 2005 from ABC News political
unit's The Note. I shall quote verbatim from Mark Halperin and his
associate editors: "We say with all the genuine apolitical and non-partisan
human concern that we can muster that the death and carnage in Iraq is
truly staggering. And/but we are sort of resigned to the Notion that it
simply isn't going to break through to American news organizations, or, for
the most part, Ame! ricans." "Democrats are so thoroughly spooked by John
Kerry's loss - and Republicans so inspired by their stay-the-course
Commander in Chief - that what is hands down the biggest story every day in
the world will get almost no coverage. No conflict at home = no coverage"...

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Dozens of corpses uncovered in Iraq
Aljazeera.net
Thirty-four corpses of men shot dead, beheaded or with their throats cut
have been uncovered across Iraq, medical and security sources said.
Thirteen of the corpses were found in Baghdad's Sadr City. Police
Lieutenant Colonel Shakir Wadi Al-Maliki said the 13 slain men, most
appearing to be aged in their early 20s, were wearing civilian clothes and
lying in a shallow grave in a vacant lot...


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Iraq is a bloody no man's land. America has failed to win the war. But has
it lost it?
Patrick Cockburn, Independent
...The ferocious resistance encountered last week by the 1,000-strong US
marine task force trying to fight its way into villages around the towns of
Qaim and Obeidi in western Iraq shows that the war is far from over. So far
nine marines have been killed in the week-long campaign, while another US
soldier was killed and four wounded in central Iraq on Friday. Meanwhile, a
car bomb targeting a polic! e patrol exploded in central Baghdad yesterday,
killing at least five Iraqis and injuring 12....

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 14 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 10:35am Mecca time Saturday morning, Mafkarat
al-Islam reported that a short time earlier US forces seized control of the
ar-Rummanah - al-Karabilah Bridge after a savage battle with Iraqi
Resistance forces that lasted for several hours. The correspondent for
Mafkarat al-Islam in al-Qa'im reported a member of! the Resistance as
saying that the American occupation troops, making use of massive air cover
from fighter planes, were able to seize the important bridge that links the
two towns...

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US occupation forces interrupt raid on western Anbar province
Arabomitor
After having killed at least 125 people, many of whom women and children,
and driven thousands from their homes in the western Anbar province, Major
General R.A. Huck, Commanding General of the 2nd Marine Division declared
"Regimental Combat Team-2 started and ended this operation as planned,
accomplished its mission and secured all objectives. Coalition and Iraqi
Security Forces will return again to this area in the future"...


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Iraq: how we were duped
Gary Hughes, The Age
...Anthony Cassimatis, the Executive Director (International Law) at
Queensland University's Centre for Public, International and Comparative
Law, was one of 43 experts in international law and human rights who warned
a month before the invasion of Iraq that military action would be illegal.
He told The Age this week that the absence of evidence of WMD "has
political and moral significance", but the war was already illegal before
that was known and remains so. H! e said that it was potentially possible
for Australian political leaders to be prosecuted in an Australian court
for the common law crime of aggression, although it was unlikely to
succeed. A similar attempt to have the Prime Minister and three other
members of federal parliament charged under common law with genocide of
Aborigines in 1999 failed in the Federal Court." A similar argument could
be run regarding the crime of aggression. I do not, however, think that
such a claim would succeed in an Australian court," Dr Cassimatis said. The
following is the best evidence to date about the Iraq war - what we were
told then, and what has emerged since...



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US troops kill Iraqi civilians
Aljazeera.net
US troops have shot and killed eight Iraqis, including five civilians,
during an attack on a patrol. US troops killed three fighters who fired on
their convoy after trying to ram it on Friday in Mosul, 390km north of
Baghdad, the American military said. The soldiers then opened fire on two
cars that approached the patrol and appeared to be hostile, killing five
civilians, the military said...

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Army Files Additional Charges Against Conscientious Objector.
Benderman Court Martial Delayed
MIKE FERNER, CounterPunch
The court martial of Army Sgt. Kevin Benderman for refusing to deploy to
Iraq with the Third Infantry Division has taken two dramatic turns before
it has begun. On Wednesday, in the no-frills courtroom here at this
sprawling Army post near Savannah, Col. Stephen Henley granted a motion
filed by defense attorneys for a new Article 32 hearing, setting the
proceedings against Benderman ! back to square one. Then, as the process
began anew the next day, the Army filed two new allegations against the 40
year-old sergeant that could add up to 10 more years to his sentence if he
is found guilty...

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Amman, Iraq, and Al-Qaim
Dahr Jamail, Electronic Iraq
...Another similarity between Qaim and Fallujah is that now there is a
humanitarian crisis in Qaim from the fighting. There are 1,300 displaced
families (approximately 80,000 people) from Qaim and the hospital there was
destroyed amidst fighting on 8 May between resistance fighters and locals.
On the 9th there was no electricity or water in Qaim and the surrounding
areas and schools were closed. On the 11th US warplanes continued to bomb
Obeidy and other nearb! y locations...

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The Iraq occupation and the kidnapping of Douglas Wood
James Cogan and Nick Beams, WSWS
The kidnapping and threatened execution of 63-year-old Australian citizen
and US resident Douglas Wood is a further expression of the living hell
that Iraq has become under the US-led occupation (...) The reality is that
the US conquest is the cause of every aspect of the catastrophe that exists
in Iraq...

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