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uruknet.info «Ë-Ë“Ê Æ‰Ê·Ë :: information from occupied iraq :: informazione dall'iraq occupato Smoking Bullet in the Smoking Gun? Congressman John Conyers, Daily Kos ...These are revelations of not only systematic efforts to bring a war against Iraq in most of 2002, it appears to be evidence that war was BEING CONDUCTED against Iraq in 2002. Representative Conyers provides us some new information on the question he has presented to Secretaryof Defense Rumsfled and an action item. This morning I read the new revelations, again the London Times, that British and U.S. aircraft had substantially stepped up the! ir bombing activity in the summer of 2002 in an effort to "goad Saddam into War." If true, we would seem to have the "smoking bullet" to the "smoking gun" of the Downing Street Memo... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12155&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12155 A Vietnam-War-Style Anti-War Movement Needed to Awaken Americans Bill Henderson ...How is it possible that the fifth estate of the world's greatest democracy can't comprehend that Iraq is the crime of the century? That Bush's contempt of truth, democracy and the rule of law is THE huge story, so much bigger than Watergate, than Iran-Contragate? That we are living in the equivalent of Germany in the '30s; and that dimly most Americans even realize that government has been captured and that America is the aggressor! in Iraq and pushing in Asia towards possible nuclear war ?... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12157&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12157 The Pentagon Comic Strip Ahmed Al-Habbabi <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12131&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12131 Tariq Aziz denies offering Chirac oil vouchers as bribes before invasion Anne Penketh, Independent The right-hand man of Saddam Hussein, the former deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz, has denied that the Iraqi leadership bribed the President of France and the former leader of Indonesia with oil vouchers to secure political support before the invasion of Iraq (...) Senators from the Permanent Sub-committee on Investigations interviewed Mr Aziz in Camp Cropper last month, and he had previously been questioned by the ! US-led Iraq Survey Group. Mr Aziz said in one of the notes: "I was asked if I had recommended giving money or oil to President Chirac [of France], or Petros Gali [the former UN secretary general Boutros Boutros-Ghali], Ekius [Rolf Ekeus, the former chief UN weapons inspector]. My answer is NO. The same to President Megawati [of Indonesia]. NO"... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12158&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12158 Abu Musab al-Zarqawi: Suckering the Great Unwashed Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire Now we’re expected to believe Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is in Iran. “Quoting a senior insurgency commander in Iraq, the Sunday Times said Zarqawi had shrapnel lodged in his chest and may have been moved to Iran. It said his supporters might try to move the Jordanian-born militant to another country for an operation,” reports Reuters. Is it possible this “senior insurgency commander” is an idiot or possibly a rank amateur?... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12149&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12149 Do The People Of Iraq Have A Right To Resist U.S. Occupation? Jack Smith ...The nature of the fight back itself has been grossly distorted by the mass media at the behest of the White House. It is important in this regard to recognize three things: 1. The resistance is composed of political as well as armed elements. 2. The masses of Iraqis oppose the occupation and want U.S. troops to get out. 3. The resistance enjoys support from the people of Iraq, despite U.S. efforts to neutralize various constituencies thro! ugh pressure, manipulation, grandiose promises, threats and bribery. How else could an armed urban guerrilla force function in heavily occupied territory without the support of the people?... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12147&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12147 A REVOLUTIONARY ACT Malcom Lagauche The Iraqi resistance is getting a lot of publicity lately in the press. It’s about time. For months, the mainstream press ignored it and had no clue it was even occurring. Today’s reports, for the most part, are quite feeble. They are about a year out of date and reflect little of the reality of the resistance. However, on May 15, 2005, the Boston Globe ran a piece titled "Iraq’s Ba’athists Rebound on 2 Fronts," that gave a much more accurate look at the resistance from ! that of other major media. I am puzzled because no other mainstream U.S. media, and much of the progressive media, have failed to address the feature story... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12140&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12140 Oil-for-Food scandal? Galloway opens door to expose U.S. crimes Tony Murphy, Workers World ...The 2001 declassification of 1991 Defense Intelligence Agency documents showed that the Pentagon’s conscious goal was to cause widespread illness throughout the Iraqi population, through water-borne disease. “Conditions are favorable for communicable disease outbreaks, particularly in major urban areas affected by coalition bombing,” is a chillingly typical quote. This genocidal campaign, waged to get control! of Iraq’s oil resources, is the true crime behind the oil-for-food “scandal” now making headlines... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12129&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12129 Feith and Franklin Xymphora ...So the story is now that Douglas Feith decided that the best way to get information to his colleague and fellow ultra-Zionist Elliott Abrams was to have it delivered through Franklin to AIPAC and then to Abrams? Very strange. Note that the story that Franklin was trying to pass on information concerning threats to Israeli agents in Kurdistan is now that he was trying to pass on information concerning threats from Iranians to Americans in Iraq. The idea that Franklin was trying to pr! otect Americans from Iranians simultaneously makes Franklin more sympathetic and focuses the blame on Iran (which is of course on the current Zionist hit list), but has the disadvantage of making no sense... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12156&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12156 Shia Leaders... Riverbend, Baghdad Burning ...In 1958, after the July 14 Revolution which ended the Iraqi monarchy, the head of the Iraqi Sovereignty Council (which was equivalent to the position of president) was Mohammed Najib Al-Rubayi- a Shia from Kut (...) Even during the last regime, there were two Shia prime ministers filling the position for several years- Sadoun Humadi and Mohammed Al-Zubaidi. In other words, Sunni Arabs are not horrified at having a Shia leader (though we are very worried about the curr! ent Puppets' pro-Iran tendencies). Friedman seems to conveniently forget that while the New Iraq's president was a polygamous Arab Sunni- Ghazi Al-Yawir- the attacks were just as violent. Were it simply a matter of Sunnis vs. Shia or Arabs vs. Kurds, then Sunni Arabs would have turned out in droves to elect "Al Baqara al dhahika" ("the cow that laughs" or La Vache Qui Rit- it's an Iraqi joke) as Al-Yawir is known amongst Iraqis... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12150&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12150 Focus on Fallujah: CPT Iraq's current assessment of conditions 28 May 2005 Report, Christian Peacemaker Teams Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) has made it a priority to increase our presence in Fallujah. We need to connect with human rights organizations in Fallujah to ascertain whether they are interested in working with us on a regular basis. This visit was the first in what the team hopes will be a semi-weekly event that will be built around some type of checkpoint action as well as continued human rights repo! rting... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12154&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12154 Long Jailings Anger Iraqis Doug Smith and Raheem Salman, Los Angeles Times A year after the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal erupted, Iraqi anger has flared anew over the growing numbers of detainees held without charge at the notorious detention center and another prison in the south. In the battle against the insurgency, U.S. military sweeps net many guerrillas, but also thousands of people whose offenses are nonexistent, minor or impossible to prove. They are often held for months, only to be released without explanat! ion... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12153&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12153 The old lie: Dulce et decorum est - Pro patria mori * Kristina M. Gronquist As Memorial Day approaches, much of the media will roll over backwards to glorify war and all the soldiers slaughtered in wars. Tributes to the dead are easy; the dead don't talk back. The media will prove their nationalism and allegiance by feeding us war stories ad nausea. Civilian casualties will not be mentioned, nor will- post traumatic stress syndrome, Agent Orange, or Gulf War syndrome. The deleterious health effects of depleted ur! anium (used in today’s weapons) will likewise be ignored. This is no time for truth, mind you, this is the hour to exalt and wallow in the most evil system man has created – the system of war... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12152&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12152 INSURGENTS DEFY IRAQ CRACKDOWN World News Dozens of people have been killed in a wave of insurgent attacks across Iraq, despite the largest security crackdown since the collapse of Saddam Hussein’s regime (...) But insurgents wasted no time defying the offensive, launching a series of coordinated attacks on Sunday. Four car bombs in and around the capital killed 16 people, most of them security personnel. Nine soldiers taking part in Operation Lightning died when a suicide car bomb exploded at their roadblock j! ust south of the capital (...) An earlier suicide bombing near the oil ministry left two dead, while violence elsewhere claimed the lives of a British soldier and seven Iraqis. <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12151&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12151 RAF bombing raids tried to goad Saddam into war Michael Smith, The Sunday Times THE RAF and US aircraft doubled the rate at which they were dropping bombs on Iraq in 2002 in an attempt to provoke Saddam Hussein into giving the allies an excuse for war, new evidence has shown. The attacks were intensified from May, six months before the United Nations resolution that Tony Blair and Lord Goldsmith, the attorney-general, argued gave the coalition the legal basis for war. By the end of August the raids had become a f! ull air offensive. The details follow the leak to The Sunday Times of minutes of a key meeting in July 2002 at which Blair and his war cabinet discussed how to make “regime change” in Iraq legal... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12142&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12142 From Cakewalk to Bloodbath Bush Opts for Civil War in Iraq PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS, CounterPunch ...Moreover, the planned Baghdad Offensive is itself the beginning of a civil war. The 50,000 troops represent a Shi'ite government. These troops will be hunting Sunnis. There is no better way to start a civil war.As George W. Bush has made clear many times, he is incapable of admitting a mistake. The inability to admit a mistake makes rational behavior impossible. In place of thought, the Bush administration re! lies on coercion and violence. Nevertheless, Congress does not have to be a doormat for a war criminal. It can put a halt to Bush's madness... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12141&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12141 Operation Lightning Targets Sunnis: Leaders Samir Haddad, IOL Correspondent The new “Operation Lightning” security crackdown on Baghdad and its suburbs will backfire on security troops and lay to rest bids to calm down tensions, Iraqi Sunni leaders warned said on Sunday, May 29. “If the Iraqi security troops moved ahead with this new operation, resistance factions would find themselves on the defensive,” Islamic Party’s senior leader Iyad Al-Ezzawi was quoted as saying by the London-based Al-Hayat daily... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12148&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12148 Paper releases Aziz jail letters BBC News A British newspaper has published letters which it says were written by former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz in prison. In the letters released by the Observer and addressed to "world public opinion", he pleads for international help to end "his dire situation" (...) "It is imperative that there is intervention into our dire situation and treatment," he writes in one of the letters, which the Observer says was written on 21 April. "It is totally in contradicti! on to international law, the Geneva Convention and Iraqi law as we know it"... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12138&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12138 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 28 May 2005 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. ( http://www.freearabvoice.org ) ...QudsPress reported Dr Walid al-Hadithi, the Director of Hadithah General Hospital as saying that US occupation troops raided his hospital. The Americans began, Dr. al-Hadithi said, by firing noise grenades at the facility that terrified the medical workers and the patients in the hospital. Then the Americans stormed in and ! began a large-scale search of the hospital. The Doctor said that the reasons for the massive American raid on the hospital and for the terrorization of patients and staff was still unknown. Meanwhile, sources in various locations inside al-Hadithah told QudsPress that Resistance fighters were continuing their attacks on the American invaders from outside the city... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12137&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12137 Analysts Behind Iraq Intelligence Were Rewarded Walter Pincus, Washington Post Staff Writer Two Army analysts whose work has been cited as part of a key intelligence failure on Iraq -- the claim that aluminum tubes sought by the Baghdad government were most likely meant for a nuclear weapons program rather than for rockets -- have received job performance awards in each of the past three years, officials said... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12132&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12132 An Iraqi View: Abu Ghraib, Abu Gulag and Abu American Lies Ghazwan Al-Mukhtar ...Under the American control Abu Ghraib was transformed from a prison to a “detention and interrogation” center. American forces lacking the language skill, the cultural understanding and sheer volume of detainees were frustrated by the lack of progress in getting the intelligence information they needed. This frustration led to the “migration” of interrogation methods developed in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. This was t! he beginning of the Abu Gulag prison. It is at that time that the father of the worst prisons was created in Iraq by the American forces. Saddam’s Abu Ghraib was a jail of convicted criminals – at least there was an appearance that they were convicted in Saddam’s courts. The American Abu Gulag was a place where people were detained with no judicial orders and detainees were tortured to speedily extract information from them... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=12130&s2=30>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=12130 <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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