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uruknet.info «Ë-Ë"Ê Æ‰Ê·Ë :: information from occupied iraq :: informazione dall'iraq occupato Fabricating Intelligence as a Justification for War "The Intelligence and Facts were fixed around the Policy" Selected articles and essays Michel Chossudovsky , Editor , Centre for Research on Globalisation www.globalresearch.ca The balance-sheet of lies and fabricated intelligence presented in this selection of articles provides detailed and overwhelming evidence. We have included news reports dating back to 2002, background analysis, commentary, leaked intelligence documents, Secret memo! s and the reports by weapons inspectors. The collection which is intended to provide key references, also addresses a number of important issues, which have been shoved under the carpet, including the circumstances of David Kelly's death, the plagiarism of intelligence documents, the fabricated ricin attacks, etc... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12001&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12001 Iraq Started the Iran/Iraq War? Jude Wanniski If you continue to wonder why the "insurgents" in Iraq continue to blow themselves up to prevent the interim government from gaining credibility among the populace, please note the report that the new "interim government" has confessed that Saddam Hussein started the eight-year war with Iran in 1980. All these years, the people of Iraq believed the war grew out of Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini's call for Iraqi Shiites to overthrown Saddam in order to install a sectarian S! hiite government in Baghdad (...) Can it be that practically every member of the new interim "government" in Baghdad either fought on Iran's side in the war or was in exile, a la Ahmed Chalabi, openly rooting for the defeat of Iraq by the Iranians? Hasn't the New York Times, which says it is mystified by the determination of the insurgents to lay down their lives to preserve chaos, noticed that the new Baghdad regime is a government of quislings?? ... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11971&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11971 MEDIA ALERT: BBC STILL IGNORING EVIDENCE OF WAR CRIMES MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media ...We received the following response from Helen Boaden on May 19: Dear Mr Cromwell and Mr Edwards, In your original complaint, you criticised the BBC for failing to support your [sic] contention that US forces in Falluja used banned weapons and committed other atrocities. Our correspondent in Falluja at the time, Paul Wood, did not report any of these things because he did not see an! y of these things (...) We responded on May 24: Dear Helen Boaden, Thank you for your reply of 19th May. We are grateful that you have responded, but we are concerned that you continue to evade the points that have been put to you. Could you possibly please first of all retract your renewed assertion that claims of banned weapons use by US forces have been made +by+ Media Lens? That is incorrect. We are asking the BBC to report such claims; an entirely different matter./i>... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12006&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12006 More blood for less oil? Nicolas J S Davies, Online Journal Contributing Writer On Monday, April 11, the Financial Times printed a letter from Ian Rutledge, the author of "Addicted to Oil," in which he explained that the United States government and U.S. oil companies had counted on the invasion and occupation of Iraq to quickly boost Iraqi oil production by 2 million barrels per day, easing a projected shortfall in global oil supplies. Instead the war has had the opposite effect, reducing Iraqi exports by 1 mill! ion barrels per day, and the result is now evident at gas stations from Baghdad to Boston... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12013&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12013 Greg Palast IV: Fixed Intelligence to Justify Iraq Scoop.co.nz ...This is what nailed Nixon in the end, not just Watergate, but it was fixing the intelligence. In the case of Watergate, Nixon finally went down because he tried to blame the CIA and in our case, George Bush himself successfully did this. A month ago, we had a report out saying that the intelligence was not monkeyed with, rather the Rob Silverman report said that the CIA simply had the wrong information. Not so, the facts were being fixed... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11996&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11996 US military atrocities and the moral choice facing the American people David North and David Walsh, WSWS A New York Times editorial May 23 accused the president of the United States, along with other members of his administration, of grave crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba (...) Everyone knows that the murders at Bagram and abuse at Abu Ghraib are only the tip of the iceberg. One can say without fear of contradiction that crimes are being committed on a daily basis in Iraq, Afghanistan a! nd the US internment camp in Cuba. If there is not more exposure of the atrocities, and outrage at their commission, that must be explained by the general support such methods find within the American ruling elite. The greatest fiction, which the Times editors continue to maintain, is that the truly savage treatment of ordinary Afghans and Iraqis can be considered apart from the character of the war as a whole... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12002&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12002 Don't look now! Ed Naha Shhhh. Don't tell anyone but...there's a war going on and Americans are dying. I know, it's hard to believe, but trust me on this one. We can all go back to watching Michael Jackson news in a minute. As I write this, 1,636 American troops have died in Iraq, 49 this month alone, and over 12,000 have been injured. And how is America responding to this? With a big yawn. Last week, "The Los Angeles Times," printed the results of a study it conducted, tracking six newspapers and two news magazi! nes on their coverage of the Iraq invasion from the period of September 1, 2004 to February 28 of this year. Just how many photos of American casualties had been shown to our fellow citizens during that time period?... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12017&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12017 The dissonance of the NPT is getting louder Imad Khadduri The constant drumbeat of US propaganda about how Iran has to "come clean" with the world and "stop conducting a secret nuclear weapons program" is relentless, though dissonant in tone. The latest US demands would impose conditions--specifically, a permanent ban on reprocessing uranium--that goes far beyond anything that the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) actually stipulates. The US is demanding that Iran voluntarily agree to unilaterally American-imposed r! estrictions and submit to intrusive, unrestricted American inspections of its nuclear facilities, anywhere, anytime, anyplace, without any guarantees that these inspections won't be used to determine targets for a later (and, of course, illegal) US attack... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12008&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12008 Insurgents Kill Iraq's Counter-Insurgency Chief Fintan Dunne, BreakForNews.com The assassination on Monday of Iraq's new counter insurgency coordinator is a sign of either how inept, or now undermanned is the fledgling Iraqi security administration: An insurgent squad shot dead the commander of Iraq's new counter-insurgency headquarters as he drove to work Monday in Baghdad, as US and Iraqi troops conducted a massive sweep for insurgents (...) The Arab media report above makes quite clear the pivotal role ! of Rubaye in counter-insurgency, but scrambling to downplay the severity of the blow, the London Independent describes Rubay merely as a 'security advisor'... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12014&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12014 Wounded lioness Iraq ! Abu Assur Here you are Iraq, wounded, riddled with bullets and arrows but still defying your US murderers and Idol Zion thugs. Lioness Iraq you are crucified every day and your jailers US laugh and joke, not knowing that they are digging their own graves in your sacred soil. Wounded Baghdad, you are trailing the suffering of the world, you are dragging a mountain of pain and great sorrow of what has happened to the human race at the hands of the US assassins... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12003&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12003 At least 8,000 treasures looted from Iraq museum still untraced Louise Jury, Arts Correspondent, Independent Evidence of how quickly and irretrievably a country can be stripped of its cultural heritage came with the Iraq war in 2003. The latest figures, presented to the art crime conference yesterday by John Curtis of the British Museum, suggested that half of the 40 iconic items from the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad still had not been retrieved. And of at least 15,000 items looted from its storerooms, about 8! ,000 have yet to be traced... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11991&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11991 Fleeing Iraqi Christians on road to Damascus SUSAN TAYLOR MARTIN ...In the past two years, Syria has taken in as many as 20,000 Iraqi Christians fleeing violence and persecution in their native land (...) Syria's constitution requires a Muslim to be president, but the ruling Baath Party was founded by a Christian who believed in secular government. Christians also benefit from the fact that Syria's most recent leaders, members of the minority Alawite sect, have embraced other minorities as a way of strengthening ! their power. A similar situation existed in Iraq, where the Baath Party ruled until 2003. As a Baathist and a member of the Sunni minority, Saddam Hussein had a secular government that included Christians - among his best-known advisers was the Christian deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12005&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12005 Sadr Mediates Sunni-Shiite Dispute Juan Cole, Informed Comment Al-Sharq al-Awsat /DPA: Young Shiite nationalist leader Muqtada al-Sadr said Monday that the attempts of his aides to mediate between the Sunni Association of Muslim Scholars and the Shiite Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq's Badr paramilitary had achieved advances. Deutsche Press Agentur reported that Sadr told them in Najaf, "Our delegation detected a desire on the part of both parties to make an opening and to ensure the triumph! of the language of dialogue, rather than that of bigotry and prejudice. I can say that the delegation took the process to the next level"... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12009&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12009 Eight American Soldiers Killed in Iraq CNN Insurgent attacks during the past 24 hours have killed eight U.S. soldiers in Iraq, the military said Tuesday. Three soldiers died in a car bombing in central Baghdad on Tuesday and a fourth -- who was manning an observation post -- was killed by a drive-by gunman, Task Force Baghdad spokesman, Maj. Darryl Wright said. Four other American soldiers were killed by a bomb on Monday, the military said. They were assigned to the 155th Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Marine Expediti! onary Force... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12018&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12018 Bush, Blair & Howard Photo Atrocities Joe Vialls On December 9, 1937, a crowd of vicious war criminals set a precedent for what is happening today in Iraq, in Afghanistan, and inside the American concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. On that fateful winter day back in 1937, invading Japanese troops launched a massive attack on the Chinese city of Nanking. On the 12th, the defending Chinese troops decided to retreat to the other side of Yangtze River. On the 13th of December, the 6th and the 116th Division! s of the Japanese Army first entered the city. At the same time, the 9th Division entered Guanghua Gate, and the 16th Division entered Zhongshan Gate and the Pacific Gate... Warning - Extremely Graphic Images <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12015&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12015 Iraq launches hunt for freed Saddam regime official AFP Iraq said on Tuesday that police were hunting for a leading member of ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime who was freed from custody by the former government because of poor health. Ghazi Hammud al-Obeidi, one of a list of 55 notorious former regime leaders wanted by US authorities, was arrested soon after the fall of Saddam in April 2003. But he was freed recently by a US-appointed government committee headed by former prime minister Iyad Allawi, ! said Leith Kubba, a spokesman for new premier Ibrahim Jaafari. "There was a failure in the justice system and the current government does not intend to release any other prisoners" on the list of 55, Kubba said, adding that police have issued an arrest warrant for Obeidi. The former Baath Party leader has cancer and is not expected to live long... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12019&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12019 AWOL: McCain and the Democrats The Pork War WINSLOW T. WHEELER, CounterPunch It was business as usual last month as the Senate loaded pork into the spending bill President George W. Bush requested for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The bill that the Senate passed on April 21 was crammed with essential war-fighting treasures like $500,000 to study wind energy in North and South Dakota, $20 million for a fish hatchery in Fort Peck, Mont., $26 million to move nuclear materials out of New Mexico into Nev! ada, and $4 million for West Virginia's Upper Tygart Watershed Project... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12016&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12016 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 23 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 4:46pm Mecca time Monday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the so-called "Wolf Brigade" of puppet so-called "Iraqi interior ministry" forces, backed up by US occupation troops had arrested Shaykh 'Abd as-Salam 'Ali Husayn as-Zabidi, a member of the Board of Muslim 'Ulama' Scholars as he was re! turning to his home in Abu Ghurayb. The Board of Muslim 'Ulama' issued a statement saying that the puppet troops stopped the Shaykh in his car on the highway near the al-Yarmuk establishment and led him away with no explanation... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11999&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11999 Soldier's murder trial spurs debate on war zone killings Monica Davey The New York Times The American soldier and the Iraqi police officer were on patrol together outside a flea market south of Baghdad, chatting from time to time, when one of them suddenly started shooting. What prompted the gunfire is a matter of dispute, but one thing is not: The soldier, Corporal Dustin Berg, fired three times at his Iraqi partner, Hussein Kamel Hadi Dawood al-Zubeidi, and killed him. As Berg ran away, he picked up Zubeidi's A! K-47 and shot himself in the side. In the days that followed, Berg lied about what happened, saying Zubeidi was the one who had shot him. And for months he went right on lying, after he recovered from his wound, after he left Iraq, even after he received a Purple Heart he did not deserve, with his parents watching at a solemn ceremony back home in Indiana... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11993&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11993 Students protest outside military recruiting stations MELANTHIA MITCHELL, ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER Students from area universities, colleges and high schools rallied Monday outside a military recruiting station downtown, pounding on windows and demanding an end to U.S. operations in Iraq. Protests also were staged outside recruiting stations north of Seattle and in the University District next to the University of Washington. Students called for an end to military recruitment in schools and said money spent on the! war should be used to better fund all levels of public education... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11992&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11992 Baath Party slams U.S. over Saddam photos-newspaper Reuters Saddam Hussein's Baath Party has said pictures of the former Iraqi leader in jail reflected the moral decline of the United States, a pan-Arab newspaper reported on Monday. "When the Defense Department leaks pictures of the defiant leader in prison … it confirms the failure of its strategy in Iraq and, foremost, the moral and political collapse of the U.S. government and officials," London-based al-Quds al-Arabi daily quoted a Baath Party statement it re! ceived as saying... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=11990&s2=24>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=11990 <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. 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