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uruknet.info «Ë-Ë"Ê Æ‰Ê·Ë :: information from occupied iraq :: informazione dall'iraq occupato Minutes not Memo -- DOWN WITH BUSHSPEAK !! Grace Reid The new Public Editor of the New York Times has made a major strike towards truth in reporting. He is the first journalist, since the story broke in the US to address the importance of the Downing Street minutes. On the twist of a word, this story almost got lost. Not just to the public, but to editors and journalists, as well. You see, the documents released from Downing Street are not, and never were a "memo." They were, and are, in Calame's words "t! he minutes of a high-powered meeting on a life-and-death issue. Well, it took 30 days, but in the battle to break through the US media blackout we won our first word. "MINUTES." Thank God you've arrived, Mr. Calame, you seem to know what every secretary knows. Minutes are not memos. Phew!... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11980&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11980 Galloway, Israeli spies and more Joseph Cannon ...Back in November of 2003, Galloway revealed that four members of the U.N. weapons inspection team were actually Mossad spies. Here, no doubt, is the real reason for the smear campaign against this British MP launched by the spooked-up MEMRI, Chalabi, and Coleman. Brad Friedman reports that Galloway's inflammatory anti-Bush rhetoric was scrubbed from the official website of Coleman's committee (...) Those who get this story only from cable news aren't getting the ! story at all. Coleman has been compared to Joe McCarthy. In fact, he's worse: He reminds me of those lower-level McCarthy wanna-bes (Myron Fagan comes to mind) who spent much of the 1950s waving around bogus lists filled with the names of political adversaries... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11989&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11989 The First Casualty Marcus Hale, Executive Editor Southeast Asia News - Iraqwar.ru ...One of the greatest smoke screens for the truth in Iraq, and used interminably by the mainstream media, is the term "insurgents". So accepted is this word that even rational "un-embedded" reporters are now using the term and it is difficult to find an article on Iraq not written by an Iraqi which does not contain this terminology. Why is this important? Because of the impression it is designed to give us. All of us listening to ! and watching the news every night have this constant reinforcement of the idea that if not all but most of those fighting against the 'coalition forces' are not Iraqis, but insurgents, or people "surging in" from somewhere else with other, more sinister agendas, such arresting the arrival of democracy... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11987&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11987 Abdullah Al-Hourani: Attacking Palestinians in Iraq a Mossad-plotted Aljazeerah.info Head of the Gaza-based Palestinian National Center for Research and Documentation, Abdullah Al-Hourani, believed Monday that the latest Iraqi troops attacks on the Palestinian refugees in a Baghdad suburb, has been plotted by the Israeli Mossad. "Attacking the Palestinian refugees in Iraq has been a part of the criminal operations carried out by the Iraqi forces headed by Abdelaziz Alhakim, to revenge from the Palestinians for th! e national supportive position they had taken towards the deposed Iraqi regime of Sadam Hussein, which used to protect them", Mr. Al-Hourani told the IPC in a special interview... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11985&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11985 Deliberate Deception—Bush & Iraq: How Much More Evidence is Needed? Jack Dalton, POAC. That the single most serious decision which anyone calling them self the president can make is the decision to go to war, is beyond question. That George W. Bush & Company were formulating plans to invade Iraq even prior to 9/11 is also beyond question; at least for those willing to spend the time looking at the wide body of available evidence. Paul O'Neill, who was Secretary of the Treasury until Bush replaced him, was very cl! ear when he stated that invading Iraq was on the table from the first day Bush took office. Richard Clarke who was the "Terrorism Czar" was also replaced by Bush. Writing in his book, "Against All Enemies" he is very clear in explaining how the only thing Bush wanted to discuss, or hear, was invading Iraq... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11988&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11988 Attacks hit vital security in Iraq Sharon Behn, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Iraq's insurgents are conducting increasingly sophisticated and lethal attacks on the private security companies that are crucial to the nation's reconstruction and the eventual departure of U.S. troops, contractors and U.S. officials say. These contractors and officials point to the surprising level of planning and brutality involved in a May 8 attack on the British security company Hart Security Ltd., which provides protection to convoys, home! s and individuals in Iraq. <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11986&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11986 Car bombs, suicide attacks kill 49, scores hurt Iraqi security official slain; 5 U.S. troops die over weekend The Associated Press A string of car bombs and suicide attacks across Iraq killed at least 49 Iraqis and wounded more than 130 Monday, striking a Baghdad restaurant popular with police, a Shiite mosque and the home of a community leader near Mosul. Insurgents also assassinated a senior Iraqi general in the capital, and the U.S. military reported that four American soldiers were killed! in combat Sunday in northern Iraq and a fifth died in an accident. About 610 people, including 49 U.S. troops, have been killed since April 28, when Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari announced his new government... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11983&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11983 Dozens Have Alleged Koran's Mishandling Richard A. Serrano and John Daniszewski , Los Angeles Times ...An examination of hearing transcripts, court records and government documents, as well as interviews with former detainees, their lawyers, civil liberties groups and U.S. military personnel, reveals dozens of accusations involving the Koran, not only at Guantanamo, but also at American-run detention facilities in Afghanistan and Iraq. In one instance, an Iraqi detainee alleged that a soldier had a guard dog carr! y a copy of the Koran in its mouth. In another, guards at Guantanamo were said to have scrawled obscenities inside Korans... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11977&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11977 Legalising torture? Ray Fulcher, Green Left Weekly Most of people recoil at the use of torture, Most people would say that the perpetrators and their governments were guilty of crimes against humanity and should be severely punished. Not so according to two Australian academics who argue that these same states should be provided a legal framework and moral licence to torture foreign captives and their own citizens. To do otherwise would be "morally unsound" argue Mirko Bagaric, head of Deakin Law School in Geelon! g, and Julie Clarke of the same faculty... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11976&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11976 An Exclusive Interview with George Galloway How to Build a Successful Progressive Alliance ESTHER SASSAMAN and THOMAS NAGY, CounterPunch ...Sadly, few of the reporters gathered that day asked Galloway about his newsworthy victory as a Respect candidate in the seat of Bethnal Green, a seat of immigrants and working class people in east London. What's more, the progressive reports of Tuesday's hearing have largely focused on his refutation of the charges and rhetorical prowess, not his historic success as! a Respect candidate. We caught up with Galloway and his team at Union Station, in a restaurant on a circular platform towering above the busy station. As he puffed a cigar, we asked him about the victory of Respect and its applicability to the problems faced by American activists... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11974&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11974 It was a Fairly Quiet Day in Baghdad Tom Fox, Electronic Iraq In Baghdad today, four clerics (three Sunni and one Shi'a) were assassinated. The bodies of two other Sunni clerics who had been abducted last week were found. A suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle in the Abu Cher market killing nine Iraqi National Guard troops and injuring twenty-eight civilians. Two engineering students were killed when a bomb (or rocket) struck their classroom at a local school. The dean of a high school in the Shaab neighborho! od was assassinated.... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11978&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11978 All the King's horses Peter Lee America has a new weapon in the war on terror. Underwear. Our psy-ops wizards understand that the public spectacle of Saddam in his Y-fronts will bring about the rapid collapse of the insurgency. At least it should work better than advertising that we beat innocent people to death in detention and abuse a few Korans along the way. No doubt that's why the photographs were leaked... ...and the giant White House megaphone announced WE ARE JUST HORRIFIED, HORRIFIED THAT THESE PICTURES OF SADDAM LOOKING SILLY ARE OUT THERE FOR THE WORLD TO SEE and promised -- of course -- a full investigation. What is perhaps more significant is that the great minds running our military campaign in Iraq now acknowledge that we're dealing with a Ba'ath-directed local insurgency fueled by Sunni rage -- and vestigal nostalgia for a certain underwear-clad ex dictator--not an international terror campaign ginned up by al-Qaeda jihadniks sneaking in from Syria... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11973&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11973 Sgt. Kevin Benderman, An American Hero Hon. Cynthia McKinney I speak with you today about one of America's heroes, Sgt. Kevin Benderman. Sgt. Benderman is not a hero because he served a tour of duty in the Occupation of Iraq, though he did. He is not a hero because of the medals he was awarded, nor his ten years of honorable service in the U.S. Army. No, Sgt. Kevin Benderman is a hero because when all around him are pressing forward to prosecute a violent war against the people of Iraq, Kevin Benderman had the c! ourage to stand up and assert his heartfelt opposition to war... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11972&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11972 The Rumsfeld Stain Bob Herbert, New York Times Much of what has happened to the military on his watch has been catastrophic. In Iraq, more than 1,600 American troops have died and many thousands have been maimed in a war that Mr. Rumsfeld mishandled from the beginning and still has no idea how to win. The generals are telling us now that the U.S. is likely to be bogged down in Iraq for years, and there are whispers circulating about the possibility of "defeat. Potential recruits are staying away from the armed fo! rces in droves. Most Americans want no part of the administration's hapless venture in Iraq... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11970&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11970 Patterns of Abuse Editorial New York Times President Bush said the other day that the world should see his administration's handling of the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison as a model of transparency and accountability. He said those responsible were being systematically punished, regardless of rank. It made for a nice Oval Office photo-op on a Friday morning. Unfortunately, none of it is true. The administration has provided nothing remotely like a full and honest accounting of the extent of the abuses at American prison camps in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. It has withheld internal reports and stonewalled external inquiries, while clinging to the fiction that the abuse was confined to isolated acts, like the sadistic behavior of one night crew in one cellblock at Abu Ghraib.... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11969&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11969 Iraqi Sunnis make their demands public Le Monde - Translated by Siv O'Neall, Axis of Logic "While we condemn the raids and the arrests of Sunni imams and worshipers in the mosques under the cover of the law, we demand that an independent commission be set up to investigate the murders and the torture of prisoners and to dismiss the minister of the interior", was the request of several Sunni leaders who got together at a conference on Saturday in Baghdad to send out a press release. The conference, which gathered ! about a thousand Sunni representatives was held in the middle of a prayer strike in Sunni mosques to protest against the murder of 14 people working in the mosques, of whom three were imams... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11967&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11967 Great Lies of the Amercian free press David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor of PRAVDA In several previous PRAVDA articles, I discussed the Bush dictatorship's prominent use of Adolph Hitler's "great lie theory" - the political tactic where a leader fabricates "great lies," then "eternally" repeats them until a significant portion of the population comes to accept them as truth. The Bush dictatorship also discovered a residual benefit of the "great lie theory": People are often so myopic or so embarrassed by their gull! ibility that, even after the "great lies" are exposed, they would rather reward the liar than acknowledge the lie... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11966&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11966 U.S. looks to consolidate troops at 4 large bases Bradley Graham, Washington Post U.S. military commanders have prepared plans to consolidate U.S. troops in Iraq into four large air bases as they look ahead to giving up more than 100 other bases now occupied by international forces, officers said. Several officers involved in drafting the consolidation plan said it entailed the construction of longer-lasting buildings at the sites, including barracks and office structures made of concrete block instead of the me! tal trailers and tin-sheathed buildings that have become the norm at bigger U.S. bases in Iraq. The new, sturdier buildings will give the bases a more permanent character, the officers acknowledged... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11963&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11963 Murdoch's 'Sun' Still Shamelessly Defends Saddam Photos, in Violation to Geneva Convention Agencies Arab News ...In his disgusting and shameless defense, the editor of the Zionist newspaper, Tom Newton Dunn, described the captured Iraqi President and other captured Iraqi leaders with terms as ugly and disgusting as his arrogance in breaching the privacy of prisoners of war. The Sun, owned by Rupert Murdoch, said the photos it published Friday and yesterday were provided by a US military official it did not identi! fy who hoped their release would deal a "body blow" to the insurgency(...) The Sun also quoted an unidentified "senior British military source" as saying that the top brass at the British Defense Ministry and the Pentagon were secretly pleased by the media exposure... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11960&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11960 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 22 May 2005 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org A large force of Iraqi Resistance forces armed with rockets mounted a sweeping attack on a giant US truck convoy loaded with prefabricated housing that was on its way to a US base in al-Khalidiyah, east of al-Fallujah, Sunday morning. The Resistance attack, that took place in the al-Jazirah area near al-Khalidiyah, completely destroy! ed eight US trucks driven by Marines, together with their cargoes... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11962&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11962 For Bush, Iraq lies are fundamental Robert Parry, Consortium News More than two years and 1,600 dead U.S. soldiers later, George W. Bush's defenders concede Iraq may not have had weapons of mass destruction, but the defenders still get their backs up when someone accuses Bush of lying. A mistake maybe, but a lie never! That defense is anchored in their assessment of Bush's fundamental decency as a born-again Christian who would never knowingly mislead the American people, especially on something as important as s! ending U.S. soldiers off to war... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11952&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11952 <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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