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Controversial News Report On Fallujah
Raed Jarrar
I found a strange article while reading Al-Jazeera's NewsPapers' Review.
It's a piece in the Saudi Al-Watan Daily Newspaper. I can't confirm the
Authenticity of this article. I'll just translate it without adding
comments from my side.
Dozens of massacres after the Fallujah military Operations
European Sources (in the NATO): Americans buried Iraqis in the Desert and
Added Chemicals to accelerate the decomposition of their bodies...


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An Open Letter To The Troops: "Fight For True Freedom Now!"
Chuck Richardson
...I am writing to let you know I support you, as a human being, with all
my heart; but can't support your military service to the United States
because it is enabling a criminal enterprise. Mafia hit men are never
acquitted because they're "just following orders." If the U.S. is defeated
(and there are more scenarios for defeat than mission accomplished), you
could be subject to prosecution in the International Criminal Court. Or, if
n! ot prosecuted, called as a witness. In the end, you will answer to
yourself or God, if you hold such beliefs, for volunteering your services
for meager pay and false hopes. Your behavior today will be judged
tomorrow, and the day after that...


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Occupation Forces Arrest Female Iraqis to Confront the Resistance of their
Husbands
almendhar.com
...The American occupation forces resorted to the arrest of Iraqi women to
force their husbands and brothers to surrender to the occupation, which is
a weapon that no one could imagine that the American occupation forces,
with all it possesses of huge military abilities, would resort to. But it
actually did resort to it after the war machine failed in confronting the
resistance. On its behalf, the Association of Musl! im Scholars, the
highest Sunni authority in Iraq has condemned the continuation of the
occupation forces' arrest of Iraqi women. It called for ending such
practices and refraining from raids and arrests, especially of women...


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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 17 May 2005
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board,
the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org
...The legal defense team for Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on Monday
accused US forces of raiding the home of the Iraqi lawyer Khalil
ad-Dulaymi, President Saddam Hussein's legal representative, and of
stealing legal documents and money. The Lebanese newspaper as-Safir
reported on Tuesday, 17 May 2005 that the French attorney Andr! e Chami
issued a statement in Amman, Jordan, saying that US forces had raided
ad-Dulaymi's home in a suburb of Baghdad two days before. "The American
forces carried out a search in the course of their attack and confiscated
all the documents related to the Defense Committee" for Saddam Hussein, the
newspaper quoted Chami as saying. The statement said that, the Americans
also "took valuables, in particular jewelry, telephones, and about
US$40,000"....

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Iraq to confiscate property of insurgency supporters
Middle East Online
The Iraqi government said Tuesday it will soon introduce new measures to
fight the insurgency, allowing for the confiscation of property of people
accused of abetting the rebels. Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari's spokesman
Leith Kubba told reporters that the measures to be implemented "soon" would
"hold accountable anyone who doesn't inform authorities about threats to
national security"...


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Barcelona Session of the World Tribunal on Iraq: "The Iraqi society facing
the US colonial domination project and the challenge of recuperating
self-government" (16th to 22nd May 2005)
IraqSolidaridad (www.nodo50.org/iraq): May 17, 2005
Programme of Preliminary Sessions and complementary Activities (Andalucia,
Asturias, Catalonia, Basque Country, Madrid and the Region of Valencia) and
Plenary Session (Barcelona) (...)
We understand that the initiative will involve a moral judgement against
Iraq invasion and occupation by USA and its allied. And what has to be even
more important: we trust that it will contribute with important elements
about the capacity of Iraqi society to recover its sovereignty. With the
signature of this manifesto we also want to clearly show our confidence in
the task of the associations that work in the civil field from inside Iraq,
because we consider that their task is and will be fundamental in the whole
process of liberation and sovereignty recovering"...

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MEDIA ALERT: BBC SILENT ON FALLUJAH
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media
...The BBC relentlessly proclaims its commitment to "providing trusted and
impartial news and information that helps citizens make sense of the world"
(Letter from BBC chairman Michael Grade to David Cromwell, 21 March, 2005).
Such grandiose statements are delivered as if on tablets of stone, to be
received with gratitude by the multitudes (...) In the real world, the BBC
diligently diverts public attention ! from the responsibility of western
governments for the horrendous suffering of the people of Iraq...

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There Is Blood On All Our Hands
James Glaser
...George Bush, and you and I have started this bloody war in Iraq, where
we are fighting people who not only never attacked us, but who never even
had the means with which they could have attacked us. Thousands of American
Soldiers and Marines are now dead or maimed for life. Tens of thousands of
innocent Iraqi civilians are dead or wounded and this includes thousands
and thousands of women and children. We don't even have the decency to
count the number of infants we! have killed...

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Sunnis Complain of "State Terror" in Iraq
Samir Haddad, IOL Correspondent
The gruesome discovery of mutilated bodies sparked fears sectarian killings
in Iraq, with Sunni leaders accusing the dominant-Shiite newly-formed
security forces of pursuing a policy of "state terror" against Iraq's Sunni
Arabs. "The mass killings and the crackdown and detention campaigns in
north-eastern Baghdad over the past two days by members of the Iraqi police
or by an Interior Ministry special force, known as the 'Wolf Brigade', are
! part of a state terror policy," Mothana Harith Al-Dari, spokesman of the
Association of Muslim Scholars, (AMS) told IslamOnline.net Monday, May 16...


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The American News Media - Tools and Fools and Scapegoats
W. David Jenkins III, Project For The Old American Century
...So the media was able to find some more fodder for the masses to consume
and all was well with the corporate media in LaLa Land. With a smoking gun
memo proving the administration was fixing intelligence to fit policy, a
raving lunatic soon to be confirmed as the US ambassador to the UN,
insurgent attacks in Iraq almost tripling in a month, continued lies being
told about Social Security by a lit! tle man whose popularity is the worst
ever for a second term president at this point and a Senate that is on the
verge of implosion over a handful of unqualified judicial nominees, the
media chooses instead to keep us up to date on a finger found in a bowl of
Wendy's chili...


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The American Way of Death Casts Its Shadow East
Lee Hall, www.dissidentvoice.org
Famously exposing the avarice of the U.S. funeral industry, Jessica
Mitford's book The American Way of Death (1963) confronted death and its
attendant rituals, removing the shroud of taboo. For today's military
managers, talk of death is taboo once again. Military funerals and coffins
have, for as long as possible, been kept out of public view. Even less has
come to light about the grief of Afghanistan and Iraq, where ordinary
peopl! e deal with death as part of their everyday business...

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IRAQ: Hundreds of displaced from al-Qaim in need of supplies
IRIN
Hundreds of displaced families camped in the desert close to the western
Iraqi town of al-Qaim are in need of urgent supplies, according to aid
agencies. US troops launched an offensive on the town, which is 320 km west
of the capital, Baghdad, on 7 May, to flush out insurgents. Al-Qaim is in
Anbar province and only a few kilometers from the Syrian border (...)
Nearly 6,000 individuals are now homeless in areas surrounding the town,
according to t! he NGO Italian Consortium of Solidarity (ICS)...


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The Self-Fulfilling Prophesy of Occupation
Joe Carr, Electronic Iraq
...In the first Bush War, the US bombed every major electricity and water
facility as well as many key bridges; people say the attacks on Iraq's
infrastructure were far worse in that war than this one. While under strict
US sanctions, Saddam managed to get the electricity back up after three
months, and the most powerful nation in the world has made little progress
in two years. There's no leadership now, our landlord says, people are paid
bette! r but they have no motivation to work...

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Scania Military Base
Joe Carr, Electronic Iraq
...He said on Sunday, 8 May 2005, American soldiers on a manhunt raided all
the houses in his neighborhood. They didn't find their suspect, but
arrested over 30 men, including all four men in his house. He said the
soldiers stole his money and gun, one thousand American dollars and half a
million Iraqi Dinars. He said they also stole a retirement ID needed for
his father's assistance. The soldiers at Scania told him they couldn't give
him compensation unless he knew ! which soldier took it or if he got a
lawyer...

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Statement issued by the Iraqi Resistance concerning the US enemy defeat and
its visible losses in al Qaem
The General Command of the Iraqi resistance
...The al Qaem battles and the great clear Iraqi victory they achieved is
another proof that the initiative is and it will always be in the hands of
the heroic Iraqi resistance, as show also the daily Martyrdom operations
facts of the sons of our Iraqi people from north to south, from east to
west, and that Iraq will always be an invincible fortress to the usurpers !
and that what the criminal Bush did in sullying our sacred land has opened
against the invaders the gates of hell which will engulf all their
gangsters armies and their mercenaries to the exception of no one, except
those who fled the soil of Iraq forever...

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The Dead and the Undead...
Riverbend, Baghdad Burning
...The bombs are mysterious. Some of them explode in the midst of National
Guard and near American troops or Iraqi Police and others explode near
mosques, churches, and shops or in the middle of sougs. One thing that
surprises us about the news reports of these bombs is that they are
inevitably linked to suicide bombers. The reality is that some of these
bombs are not suicide bombs- they are car bombs that are either being
remotely detonated or maybe time bomb! s. All we know is that the
techniques differ and apparently so do the intentions. Some will tell you
they are resistance. Some say Chalabi and his thugs are responsible for a
number of them. Others blame Iran and the SCIRI militia Badir...


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The Lies that Kill
Why Isn't Bush in the Dock?
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS, CounterPunch
George W. Bush and his gang of neocon warmongers have destroyed America's
reputation. It is likely to stay destroyed, because at this point the only
way to restore America's reputation would be to impeach and convict
President Bush for intentionally deceiving Congress and the American people
in order to start a war of aggression against a country that posed no
threat to the US. America can redeem itself only by holding Bush!
accountable. As intent as Republicans were to impeach President Clinton for
lying about a sexual affair, they have a blind eye for President Bush's far
more serious lies...

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Galloway vs. The US Senate: Transcript of Statement
George Galloway
..."Now, Senator, I gave my heart and soul to oppose the policy that you
promoted. I gave my political life's blood to try to stop the mass killing
of Iraqis by the sanctions on Iraq which killed one million Iraqis, most of
them children, most of them died before they even knew that they were
Iraqis, but they died for no other reason other than that they were Iraqis
with the misfortune to born at that time. I gave my heart and soul to stop
you co! mmitting the disaster that you did commit in invading Iraq. And I
told the world that your case for the war was a pack of lies (...) I told
the world, contrary to your claims, that the Iraqi people would resist a
British and American invasion of their country and that the fall of Baghdad
would not be the beginning of the end, but merely the end of the
beginning...


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Demonize, Disguise, Divert
Pinning the Blame on Newsweek
ROBERT JENSEN and PAT YOUNGBLOOD, CounterPunch
If there is a political playbook for right-wing conservatives these days,
it no doubt begins, "Step #1: Whenever possible, blame the news media."
What to do if the U.S. invasions/occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq have
sparked resistance in those countries because people generally don't like
being occupied by a foreign power that has interests in exploiting their
resources and/or geopolitical value! ? Blame journalists. That's exactly
what the Bush administration and its rhetorical attack dogs are doing with
the "scandal" over Newsweek's story on the desecration of the Quran at the
U.S. prison at Guantanamo...

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Report: US Locked in 'Vicious Circle' in Iraq
Harold Doan and Associates (press release),
The American effort in Iraq may be locked in a "vicious circle," according
to a new report that surveys Iraqi public opinion data and interviews with
Iraqis. The report, released on Wednesday by the Project on Defense
Alternatives, concludes that U.S. military actions meant to quell the
insurgency have increased its recruiting base...

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