[uruknet] -NL 17June 2005 - Part Two

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Dissing Conyers Reveals Truth: Invasion was for Israel
Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire
...In his attempt to dismiss and render childish those of us who are
rightfully concerned about Bush’s plot to invade and occupy a sovereign
nation—and violate international law, including the Geneva
Conventions—Milbank said a bit more than he probably should have. In an
effort to slam Ray McGovern, a former intelligence analyst, Milbank writes:
“[McGovern] declared that the United States went to war in Iraq for oil,
Isra! el and military bases craved by administration ‘neocons’ so ‘the
United States and Israel could dominate that part of the world.’ He said
that Israel should not be considered an ally and that Bush was doing the
bidding of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.” Milbank should have
stopped there, since overt criticism of Israel, especially in the context
of the invasion and occupation of Iraq—even used cynically to tar and
feather Bush’s critics as kooks (all critics of Israel, no matter how mild,
are naturally kooks and moonstruck mental cases)—usually does not make it
in front line corporate newspapers such as the Washington Post. Instead,
Milbank forged onward, attempting to portray McGovern as an anti-Semitic
jerk...


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The value of US assurances - Napalmed ... no, make that Firebombed
Imad Khadduri , Free Iraq
...Now, two years later, the well read and honorable British MPs are
'horrified' that the U.S. has been lying to them all this time on the use
of Napalm during the occupation of Iraq, and was also used on Fallujah and
neighbouring Saqlawiya when "Outraged critics [furious Labour MPs] have
also demanded that Mr Blair threatens to withdraw British troops from Iraq
unless the US abandons one of the world's most reviled weapo! ns." (...)
When will they reveal about the two MOABs that were dropped on Baghdad
airport in early April, 2003 and incinerated hundreds of Iraqi and American
soldiers?...

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FLASHBACK: Weapons of Mass Destruction Employed by US to Imolate Falluja:
White Phosphorus is a Chemical Weapon
Albasrah.net
The use of white phosphorus "violates the Geneva Protocol for the
Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases,
and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare. Incendiary agents such as napalm
and phosphorus are not considered to be CW agents since they achieve their
effect mainly through thermal energy. However, a report by the Agency for
Toxic Substances and Disease ! Registry concludes that White Phosphorus
achieves its effects mainly through non-thermal energy. It must be
concluded that White Phosphorus is considered a CW [chemical weapon] agent,
and would violate the Geneva Protocol since its use causes indiscriminate
and extreme injuries especially when deployed in an Urban area such as
Falluja, Iraq...
Warning: extremely graphic Pictures

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FLASHBACK: What do Fallujah and Halabja have in Common?
Ghali Hassan
...On 16 March 1988, the town of Halabja in the far northwestern Iraq was
attacked with artillery shells containing poisoning gas, leaving many
civilians dead. Evidence showed that they have been killed by cyanide-based
gas, as indicated by medical examinations of their bodies. The Iranian
government used the atrocity as propaganda tools against Iraq (...) The
fabricated story continues today to justify the many atrocities committed
by the US an! d its allies against the Iraqi people. There was not a single
credible evidence to prove that Iraqi troops were in Halabja that day, and
that Iraq was responsible for the chemical attacks on the town...

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In The Name Of Freedom
Anwaar Hussain, Fountainhead - ICH
There is a verse in my language that goes like this; Chaand uss raat bhee
nikla tha magar uss ka wajood, Itna khoonrang tha jaisay kissi masoom ki
laash. In English it means; The moon ascended the skies that night too,
But was as bloody as the corpse of an innocent man.
Ladies and gentlmen, steel your hearts for this 12 minutes video.

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Rep. Conyers’ Spotlights Bush’s Pack of Lies
William Hughes
...Rep. Conyers said at the rally, “This is great, historic day in America.
We have finally broken through the stonewalling that has been going on in
the Congress. Now, we were told one thing in America (about Iraq), but in
London they were planning a war all the time...We need more hearings, more
questions and more marches and more protests. This is only a beginning,
which is going to turn this sad and terrible war around,” he predicted...

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Saddam's Lawyer Alleges Torture, Deception
Attorney Says Iraqi Leader Not Found in Spider Hole, Interrogations Ignored
WMDs
ABCNews
...He was arrested at a friend's home when he was praying. He was not
inside the hole. The owner told the Americans he was there. He was drugged.
He was beaten the first two days by a translator and an American soldier
when he was arrested. They beat him in the face, they broke his leg, they
whipped him. His left leg was broken by the people that arrested him. The !
president has no recollection of being in the hole. He thinks they put him
in the hole. When you see the pictures of the doctor examing his cheeks it
was because the beating of the face. [Khasawneh interjects:] The deputy
president was also tortured, for 25 days. They put him in a very hot room,
without air conditioning. Then the slowly dropped small droplets of cold
water on him and they beat [him] up...

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U.S. jets drop 500 lb bombs in Iraq operation
Luke Baker, Reuters
F-16 fighter planes dropped a series of 500 lb (220 kg) bombs on insurgent
targets in western Iraq overnight as the U.S. military launched a heavy
offensive against rebels near the Syrian border. Nine of the powerful bombs
were dropped, the U.S. military said, two of them targeting suspected rebel
safe houses near the town of Qaim, an insurgent stronghold on the Euphrates
river about 20 km (12 miles) east of Iraq's border with Syria (...) The air
p! ower was in support of Operation Spear, the third major offensive U.S.
forces have launched in western Iraq in the past six weeks with the aim of
crushing insurgent activity in the Euphrates valley which stretches
northwest to Syria...

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Detention of US security contractors highlights “culture of impunity” in Iraq
James Cogan, WSWS
A controversy surrounding the detention of a team of private contractors by
US marines on May 28 has exposed the sharp tensions being produced by the
activities of thousands of mercenaries employed by the Bush administration
to help enforce the occupation of Iraq. Exactly what took place is the
subject of conflicting claims. What is agreed is that 16 American
contractors working for the North Carolina-based Zapata Engi! neering,
along with three Iraqi maintenance workers, were arrested by marines and
held in a US-run prison for three days...

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Staff Sgt. Charged In Killings Of Two Local Officers In Iraq
Associated Press
A U.S. Army staff sergeant was charged with murdering his two commanders
last week at a base outside Baghdad, the military said Thursday in what is
believed to be the first case of an American soldier in Iraq accused of
killing his superiors. The military initially concluded that the June 7
deaths of Capt. Phillip T. Esposito, of Suffern, N.Y., and 1st Lt. Louis E.
Allen, of Milford, Pa., were caused by a mortar round...

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Mothers of Slain Soldiers, Others, Demand Bush's Impeachment
By Staff and Wire Reports
Mothers of American soldiers of killed in President George W. Bush's
invasion of Iraq joined with a constitutional lawyer before Congress
Thursday to demand impeachment of the President for lying to force America
into war. Constitutional lawyer John Bonifaz told a Congressional hearing
sufficient grounds exist to impeach the President for lying to Congress
about the justification for the war...

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Abuse of U.S. Prisoners Abroad
Sonia Nettnin , Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Human rights lawyer and Unitarian Universalist Service Committee’s Stop
Torture Permanently Campaign Director Jennifer Harbury spoke about U.S.
prisoners abroad and their experiences with abuse and torture (...) In her
introduction Harbury said: “Anyone…who believes in the basic value system
of our (American) society were horrified by the torture practices that
occurred in Abu Ghraib, that maybe somehow we would lose our national
conscienc! e.” In the past, whenever she gave talks to Americans throughout
the U.S., the universal reaction she experienced from audience members was
outrage. Some Republican voters expressed to her that they voted for a
particular candidate, but not for torture. “We are facing a moral crisis,”
Harbury said, who believes many high-level officials decided to de facto
legalized torture...

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A war of aggression
Xymphora
...consider that we now have absolute proof in the series of memos flowing
out of London that the war was illegal under international law (a clear war
of aggression, described by the Nuremberg Tribunal the worst possible of
the war crimes, the "supreme international crime differing only from other
war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the
whole"), and American law (lying to the American Congress)...

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Fragging is on
Imad Khadduri , Free Iraq
In a Comment that I previously posted a week ago, I alluded to Justin
Raimondo's posting The Return of "Fragging"?. It has indeed returned:
"Staff Sgt. Alberto B. Martinez was charged with murder Wednesday in the
deaths last week of two Army officers at a base north of Baghdad, the
military said Thursday. The military initially attributed the June 7
killings of the officers - Capt. Phillip T. Esposito 30, of Suffern, N.Y.,
and 1st Lt. Louis E. Allen, 34, o! f Milford, Pa. - to an insurgent mortar
attack near Tikrit but said further investigation showed the blast pattern
was inconsistent with such an attack."

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Halliburton to build new $30 mln Guantanamo jail
Reuters
A Halliburton Co. unit will build a new $30 million detention facility and
security fence at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the
United States is holding about 520 foreign terrorism suspects, the Defense
Department announced on Thursday. The announcement comes the same week that
Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld defended
the jail after U.S. lawmakers said it had created an image problem for the
United St! ates...

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Couch Potato Consumers Do Not Murder the State
Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire
...I fear we will have to become more like the Iraqis—impoverished, under
direct threat of violence, able to discern clearly the danger and face it
with determination—before confronting, let alone murdering in self defense,
the mass state. As it now stands, we are several magnitudes removed from
doing what needs to be done. It will be infinitely more difficult with
“biometric ID cards courtesy of the REAL ID Act” and other spook! y
technologies of fascist control waiting in the wings. It will be difficult,
very difficult, to get out from under this leviathan and I am seriously
skeptical if the American people will rise to meet the challenge (instead
of rising to change the cable channel)...

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June 16 Rally Statement
Kevin Zeese
...He talked about the potential of a mushroom cloud over the United States
– a nuclear attack by Saddam – there was no evidence for this. He used fear
mongering tactics to scare people into supporting an unnecessary war.
President Bush did not lie to us once, he did not lie to us twice – he
lied, and lied, and lied and lied – for month after month. Because he and
his minions repeated the lies so often many in the Congress and the media
were fooled by their drumbeat of war lies! and as a result the American
people were fooled – thousands of Americans were led to death or serious
injury and more than 100,000 Iraqis were killed...

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 16 June 2005
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board,
the Free Arab Voice.
...The Palestinian magazine al-Manar from Jerusalem reported in its issue
No. 726 that according to informed sources, on Wednesday, 8 June 2005,
Ahmad Chelebi, the puppet so-called “deputy prime minister” of Iraq; and
Muwaffaq ar-Rabi‘i, the puppet so-called “Iraqi national security adviser”
arrived in “Israel” where they held meetings and discussions with top!
Zionist officials, including the so-called “prime minister of ‘Israel’”
Ariel Sharon, and Giora Eiland, the so-called “chairman of the national
security council” of the Zionist entity. Also attending the talks with the
Iraqi puppet officials was Zionist “foreign minister” Silvan Shalom....

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Think Again: The Memo Springs to Life
Eric Alterman
...What's worth noting, additionally, is the absence of any similar
documents domestically. Surely the Bush administration produces documents
and American reporters have contacts on the inside. Where is our "Deep
Throat," now that he is so desperately needed? And where are our Woodwards
and Bernsteins?...

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Saddam defence team kept in the dark - chief lawyer
Ibon Villelabeitia, Reuters
Saddam Hussein's chief lawyer on Thursday accused the Iraqi Special
Tribunal and United States of deliberately keeping his team in the dark by
ignoring repeated requests for legal documents. Ziad Khasawneh also told
Reuters in an interview that he was unaware until the last minute that
Saddam was to be questioned by a war crimes judge about killings of Shi'ite
villagers...

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Bush's great unraveling
George Ochenski, Missoula Independent
If recent polls are any indication, the Bush administration is losing
ground on virtually every front, from an outright rejection of Bush's
Social Security plan to a growing ennui with the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan. The American people seem to have had it with the swaggering
braggadocio of Bush, Cheney and their coterie of propagandists,
Bible-thumpers and cover-up specialists. Slowly but surely the Bush
presidency, heavy with secrecy, fraud and dec! eit, is beginning to fray at
the edges, gradually unraveling toward the historical infamy it so well
deserves...

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