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uruknet.info «Ë-Ë“Ê Æ‰Ê·Ë :: information from occupied iraq :: informazione dall'iraq occupato Bloggers are outwitting the Mainstream and Corporate Media! Abu Assur These days, they are rather worried. They are of no use any longer ! They have lost their aura. The carpet is being withdrawn from underneath their feet. Worse, they might even lose their jobs. They have become a burden for their employer. You guessed whom I am talking about ! The mainstream media or their masters' voice, the corporate media (...) Today things are changing. (Bush dumb, will immediately say it is because he attacked Iraq!) Blogg! ers and blogs are winning to the point that the mighty US Pentagon whores with all their finances, all their mercenaries, all their radio and TV stations all their technology, popraganda, and psyOp's are scared to death from these small bloggers sites which denounce the US tyranny and lies... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12028&s2=25>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12028 Wall Street Journal alibis for Nazi-style crimes in Iraq Bill Van Auken, WSWS In an editorial titled “As bad as the Nazis,” the Wall Street Journal Monday launched a smear campaign against the International Committee of the Red Cross, while attempting to cover up the crimes carried out by the US military in the illegal war in Iraq. The newspaper’s editorial board, whose right-wing writings closely reflect prevailing opinion within the Bush administration, feigned outrage at an alleged incident in wh! ich an exasperated Red Cross official compared the US personnel at Camp Bucca, a detention camp in Iraq, to Nazi concentration camp guards. <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12040&s2=25>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12040 YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE A WEATHERMAN TO KNOW WHICH WAY THE WIND BLOWS Malcom Lagauche ...The article went on to say that Bush quickly negated Karzai’s demand for custody of Afghani prisoners as well. This was quite a spectacle that happened quickly. Bush and Karzai went inside to discuss the issues. Shortly after, they emerged and Bush strongly told what was to happen. Karzai meekly stood by his side. Bush took him to the woodshed, admonished him, and then publicly humiliated Karzai in his speech to the press. Karz! ai got on board a plane and went home, tail between his legs (...) Saddam Hussein may have been recently photographed in his underwear, yet he never was humiliated in front of the world in the manner in which Karzai allowed himself to be yesterday in Washington, D.C... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12034&s2=25>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12034 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 24 May 2005 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org Iraqi Resistance forces mounted a violent rocket attack on the US base in al-Habbaniyah Monday night, in an assault that lasted more than an hour. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in al-Habbaniyah reported witnesses as saying that the attack began at the time of the nighttime prayer, Monday night at about 9:30 local time, and! ended at about 11pm. At a steady pace the Resistance fighters pounded the American facility with rockets and heavy mortar rounds. The correspondent reported that the barrage struck every part of the base, sending flames and plumes of smoke into the sky... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12042&s2=25>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12042 US military deaths on the increase in Iraq Associated Press A car bomb exploded next to a U.S. Army convoy in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing three soldiers, while another American died in a drive-by shooting a half-hour later. Their deaths pushed the number of U.S. troops killed in three days to 14, part of a surge in attacks that have also killed more than 60 Iraqis. In the northern city of Tal Afar, there were reports that militants were in control and that Shiites and Sunnis were fighting in the streets, a day a! fter two car bombs killed at least 20 people. Police Capt. Ahmed Hashem Taki said Tal Afar was experiencing "civil war." Journalists were blocked from entering the city of 200,000... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12043&s2=25>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12043 Proposal to divide Iraq into semi-autonomous states gains ground NANCY A. YOUSSEF, Knight Ridder Newspapers As Iraq begins writing its new constitution, leaders in the country's southern regions are pushing aggressively to unite their three provinces into an oil-rich, semi-autonomous state, a plan that some worry could solidify Iraq's sectarian tensions, create fights over oil revenues and eventually split the nation. In the southern Shiite Muslim city of Basra, where the provincial government launched the campai! gn, signs on the streets encourage residents to support the plan... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12037&s2=25>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12037 The "Turkey Shoot" and Lessons of Military History Remembered and Forgotten Stan Moore, MMN ...The Iraqis have proved that they are willing to accept casualties in defense of their nation, but they are determined to inflict them this time around. The Iraqis are focusing on asymmetrical warfare, guerilla warfare, and small scale, dispersed warfare with fluid movements, and decentralized planning and decentralized command and control. The American forces are not equipped and motivated to fight in this manner. The A! mericans have been forced to retreat into heavily fortified enclaves and duck mortars and make occasional tactical patrols with heavy air cover, hoping that their patrol and their vehicles are not the target each time around... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12032&s2=25>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12032 Michael Isikoff: Government News Source Junkie Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire “It was terrible what happened,” Michael Isikoff, spineless journalist for Newsweek, told Charlie Rose. “Even if it was just a little bit that we contributed to the violence that went on over there, that was awful, terrible.” No, Isikoff wasn’t talking about the “violence that went on” in Iraq and Afghanistan, so far resulting in the murder of more than 100,000 people, but rather the mistake he made in telling the truth about wha! t goes on every day in places like Guantanamo Bay, Bagram AFB, Camp Cropper, and other dismal facilities within Bush’s torture and sexual humiliation gulag. Problem is so-called journalists such as Michael Isikoff are like junkies, relying on so-called “sources” in the government for their stories, and when the government turns around and bites them in the ass they are screwed, damaging their precious careers in the process... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12026&s2=25>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12026 U.S. troops launch new offensive in Iraq ANTONIO CASTANEDA, Associated Press About 1,000 U.S. Marines, sailors and soldiers encircled this Euphrates River city in the troubled Anbar province Wednesday, killing at least three insurgents after launching the second major operation in this vast western region in less than a month, an official said. The offensives are aimed at uprooting insurgents who have killed more than 620 people since a new Iraqi government was announced on April 28... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12039&s2=25>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12039 Greens: Congress Must Investigate Torture of Detainees, Pentagon's Missing Common Dreams (press release), ..."The astronomical waste of taxpayers' money, torture of detainees, inadequate protection for U.S. troops facing enemy fire, disregard for the effects of depleted uranium, and 1,600-plus deaths of American personnel and tens of thousands of Iraqi civilian deaths are more than a failure of accountability," said Gloria Mattera, lead organizer of the demonstrations at the Brooklyn facility and current Green ca! ndidate for Borough President in Brooklyn <<http://www.electgloria.org/>. >http://www.electgloria.org/>. "This is a massive abuse of power. It deserves impeachment, criminal investigation, and prosecution..." <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12038&s2=25>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12038 The British (State) Broadcasting Corporation – A Coalition of the Killing? William Bowles, I'n'I Yesterday, May 23, we had an entire day without the BBC’s blanket non-coverage of important events due to a strike by the three main unions over threatened redundancies. A blessing in disguise? Well maybe… And if I may strike a totally au contraire view of the BSBC’s plans for the future, perhaps laying off a few thousand comfortable pen-pushing peons for the state is long overdue? After all, without the compli! city of those who prostitute themselves in return for a pension, perhaps they could put their hard-won skills to better use?... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12041&s2=25>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12041 Supporting dissent is not enough Camilo Mejia , ZNet Just about a year a go I was tried by a special Court-Martial at Fort Stewart, Georgia. The charge: desertion with the intent to avoid hazardous duty. My case received a lot of attention from the media, mainly because I was the first Iraq veteran to have been to combat, returned on a two-week furlough, and publicly refused to return to Iraq while denouncing the war as illegal, and who then surrendered himself to military authorities. For the first time since th! e invasion of Iraq the military had to deal with the delicate issue of public dissent within the ranks... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12044&s2=25>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12044 Yet another instance of an American 'terrorist act' in Iraq ... ? Imad Khadduri "On Friday [May 13, 2005], a 64 years old Iraqi farmer, Haj Haidar Abu Sijjad, took his tomato load in his pickup truck from Hilla to Baghdad, accompanied by Ali, his 11 years old grandson. They were stopped at an American check point and were asked to dismount. An American soldier climbed on the back of the pickup truck, followed by another a few minutes later, and thoroughly inspected the tomato filled plastic containers for about ! 10 minutes. Haj Haidar and his grandson were then allowed to proceed to Baghdad.(also Arab version inside) <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12024&s2=25>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12024 World Premiere at Brisbane: New Australian Documentary on the horrifying effects of DU Australian Coalition for Economic Justice The World premiere of new Australian documentary on Depleted Uranium (DU) weaponry and its horrifying effects on "Coalition of the willing" soldiers and civilians will be held in Brisbane at a date and venue now under negotiation. Details will be available on our website at <http://www.acej.org.au >www.acej.org.au The documentary by David Bradbury! : Blowin' in the Wind, was two years in the making and took him around the world. It was inspired by the Australian Coalition for Economic Justice (ACEJ) 2003 sponsored tour by former US Army physicist Dr Doug Rokke. He features in the film, which has important messages for Australians. After former US Army physicist Dr Doug Rokke's visit to Australia in 2003 a new organisation was formed to continue creating awareness of the horrific effects of depleted uranium (DU) ammunition on soldiers and innocent civilians alike. It is called Depleted Uranium Silent Killer (DUSK). <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12027&s2=25>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12027 Unseen Pictures, Untold Stories: How The U.S. Press Has Sanitized The War in Iraq Democracy Now! Images of thousands of dead U.S. soldiers helped to turn the tide of public opinion against the Vietnam War, but now photo-journalists are even banned from military funerals at Arlington national cemetery. A report this weekend in the Los Angeles Times documented the extremely rare publication of photos of American casualties in six major newspapers during a sixth month period. Readers of the Atlanta Journal-Constitut! ion, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Washington Post never saw a single picture of a dead serviceman or servicewoman in their morning papers... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12029&s2=25>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12029 Just What You'd Expect Galloway and the US Press MARIA TOMCHICK, CounterPunch Cowardice is the only way to describe the recent coverage of George Galloway's hearing before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Not only did the nation's two major dailies get many of the facts wrong, they went out of their way to paint Galloway as guilty. I'm going to pick on the Washington Post and the New York Times... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12030&s2=25>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12030 The Psychosis Inherent in Religious Capitalism: Causation in "The Crime of the Century" Dr. Gerry Lower, Axis of Logic ...Under the Bush administration's religious capitalism, America has become the scene for "The Crime of the Century." This became quickly apparent with the recent emergence of a "secret Downing Street memo" which "proves that everything the Bush administration said about the Iraq invasion was a lie" (David Michael Green, Common Dreams, AxisofLogic, May 15, 2005). So damning was this document, it ! received essentially no mention in the mainstream American press, which seems more bent on preserving the crony capitalism upon which America has come to depend... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12033&s2=25>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12033 Audit Criticizes Iraq's Handling of Oil Sales after Power Transfer USA Today The board monitoring Iraq's oil revenue said Monday that Iraqi leaders mishandled about $100 million in oil money meant for development in the six months after they took power from the U.S. government. The International Advisory and Monitoring Board said a new audit also found the now-defunct U.S. Coalition Provisional Authority used questionable accounting practices with money from the Development Fund for Iraq. It also singled out the ! U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for refusing to provide files for contracts that were funded with Iraqi oil revenue... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12035&s2=25>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12035 A base for the corruption of democracy Scott Ritter, Aljazeera.net ...The purple finger revolution of January 2005 has proved only one thing: that the US media is capable of building something out of nothing. Any informed observer of Iraq could have predicted the failure of the elections to produce any viable result; Iraq as a nation state was simply too deeply fractured for a process sponsored by an illegitimate military occupier to succeed. But one doesn't need to be an expert on Iraq to have figured this out.! .. <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12036&s2=25>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12036 Sick strategies for senseless slaughter John Kaminski The cat is out of the bag now. It happened quite by accident, as most revelations do. And it is seen by most of the world as the most revolting of the American/Israeli atrocities in the past few years, although it's hard to prioritize that claim because of the level and frequency of barbaric acts that are committed on a regular basis by those affluent automatons who call themselves the good guys (...) The first hint came in Imad Khadduri's "A warning to car d! rivers" (...) Khadduri recounted a scam that opens up a clear window to seeing who is perpetrating all this inexplicable violence in Iraq. Beyond the American attempt to pacify an outraged and abused nation through demonic destruction, and beyond the Iraqi attempt to resist this totalitarian takeover by a foreign conqueror, there are more than numerous acts of violence that simply can't be understood by straightforward explanations... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12023&s2=25>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12023 Sunni Scholars Propose Anti-Sectarian Code of Honor Samir Haddad, IOL Correspondent The influential Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS), Iraq's highest Sunni religious authority, has drown up a code of honor to nip in the bud sectarian strife in the US-occupied country. The document, a copy of which was obtained by IslamOnline.net, was given to representatives of young Shiite leader Muqtada Al-Sad, negotiating between Sunnis and other Shiite powers. It urges all Iraqi parties to avoid all acts fueling sectarian ! division in the country and to work for Iraq's supreme interests. The document also pressed for an end to all practices which might enflame the situation in the country whether from politicians, officials or the media... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12031&s2=25>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12031 <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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