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[uruknet] NL 30 June - Part One
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uruknet.info «Ë-Ë“Ê Æ‰Ê·Ë :: information from occupied iraq :: informazione dall'iraq occupato IRAQI HOSPITALS ATTACKED AND DAMAGED BY US FORCES Dahr Jamail’s Iraq Dispatches An urgent humanitarian crisis is unfolding in occupied west Iraq. The Doctors for Iraq Society is calling on you to act NOW. US occupation soldiers have conducted simultaneous military operations in cities across the west of Iraq. Between May- June 2005, the heaviest of these attacks took place in the cities of Haditha and Al-Qa’im. These cities and surrounding villages are home to an estimated 300,000 people. Eyewitness and medical p! ersonnel in the area have described how US soldiers prevented food and medication reaching Haditha and Al-Qa’im and targeted the cities two main hospitals, medical staff and ambulances... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13243&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13243 Iraqi Resistance Issues Terms of Surrender (for Bush) Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire In response to Bush and the Tweedle Dee-Dummers in Washington, who believe all it will take is a bit of backbone to defeat the “terrorists” in Iraq (who will invade New York if they are not stopped in Iraq), and Rumsfeld’s admission the U.S. talked with the resistance, the Mujahideen Central Command has released a communique. First, the resistance claims there are no negotiations, stating “there is no such word ‘negotiatio! n’ in our political agenda” (in other words, Rummy may have made the whole thing up, not surprising considering the litany of habitual lies pedaled by the Bushcons), and second the resistance will keep on resisting, regardless of the corporate media spin (an increasingly desperate spin due to the stubborn fact the resistance is not going away, as Bush and crew promised after the Iraqi “elections” staged earlier this year)... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13225&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13225 What’s wrong with this picture? Reports death-squad activity one day; killed by a US sniper the next Stan Goff & Muhammad Abu Nasr Months after the stories began to surface in uncensored press, now American Knight Ridder newspaper has reported that so-called Iraqi security forces have been torturing and killing Iraqi Sunnis. A story by Tom Lasseter and Yasser Salihee written for Knight Ridder was published on Monday 27 June 2005 and reported that “days after Iraq’s new Shi‘i-led [puppet] government was an! nounced on April 28, the bodies of Sunni Muslim men began turning up at the capital’s central morgue after the men had been detained by people wearing Iraqi police uniforms” (...) Yasser Salihee, 30, was killed while driving alone in Baghdad on June 24, his day off. A single bullet pierced his windshield and struck him in the head. It appeared that a U.S. sniper shot him.” ... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13235&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13235 Memo to Iraq War This is the First Day of the Rest of Your Death NORMAN SOLOMON, CounterPunch On the propaganda front, it's been another tough week for Washington's war makers. But for them, where there's hope there's death. Let's address the Iraq war directly: It's too soon to know whether the Bush administration's new PR offensive will do anything for you in terms of public opinion. But rest assured that the U.S. military effort in Iraq won't be curtailed anytime soon. Despite the downward trend of pu! blic backing for the war -- and in spite of the mass media's inadequate yet significant widening of debate in recent weeks -- a combination of factors is in place to sustain your deadly momentum... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13229&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13229 Iraq: The Words of Mass Deception Michael Rivero, What Really Happened ...They dropped precision-guided munitions on Saddam Hussein's major western air-defense facility, clearing the path for Special Forces helicopters that lay in wait in Jordan. Earlier attacks had been carried out against Iraqi command and control centers, radar detection systems, Revolutionary Guard units, communication centers and mobile air-defense systems. The Pentagon's goal was clear: Destroy Iraq's ability to resist. This was war. ... Th! is was September 2002--a month before Congress had voted to give President Bush the authority he used to invade Iraq, two months before the United Nations brought the matter to a vote and more than six months before "shock and awe" officially began... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13238&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13238 Samarra' Assaulted by Guerrillas Juan Cole, Informed Comment The LA Times reports that guerrillas launched a major attack in Samarra on Wednesday. Carloads of gunmen came into the city and attacked a building used by security forces with rocket propelled grenades. They then attacked the hospital, until US and Iraqi government forces responded to attacks. When ten carloads of guerrillas can just drive into town and shoot it up, you know no one is really in control of the place. Samarra is an important city north o! f Baghdad, with a population of nearly 200,000. Its early Islamic monuments make it symbolically important. The LA Times says that guerrillas also killed Kamal Khalid Zebari, a Kurdish security chief of Mosul... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13230&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13230 MEDIA ALERT: CONSPIRACY – THE DOWNING STREET MEMO – PART 2 MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media ...Anyone who wonders how Bush and Blair, clearly major war criminals, are able to remain in power, need look no further than the mendacious record of corporate media performance above, which is all but uniform right across the media ‘spectrum’. Only Smith, writing in the Sunday Times, has managed to state honestly the significance of the documents leaked to him... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13228&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13228 Response to Bush’s Iraq Fantasy Speech: More of the Same Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire As we know, there is very little difference between Tweedle Dee Democrats and Tweedle Dum Republicans. In the wake of Bush’s fairy tale speech at Ford Bragg—a fairy tale in the fact most of it was made up (i.e., the United States is fighting al-Qaeda and Osama in Iraq)—U.S. Congress critters strived to make this similarity obvious, as if to remind us they are all on the same page, albeit with minor stylistic differences! ... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13239&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13239 Imperial Defiance Joel Miller, ICH ...It also shows us who are the Patrick Henrys of today and who are the foreign invaders and aggressors; who are the defenders of their homes and who are the pawns of King George. Of course the aggressors will label the resistance in pejorative terms and describe their actions in bloody-black colors. "Ragged rebels against the crown" sounded a lot like "insurgents" or "terrorist" to the ears of 18th century Englishmen. The weapon-bearing farmers who attacked the orderly rows of ! uniformed soldiers from hidden positions behind trees and rocks were described as cowardly and immoral for not fighting on an open field as prescribed by the conventions of war. The guerilla tactics of the colonial minutemen awakened the same revulsion and fear among the British troops 230 years ago as suicide bombers and IED-attacks do today among American troops... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13241&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13241 Larry Franklin, lone nut Xymphora There is an interesting article in the New Yorker by Jeffrey Goldberg about the AIPAC spy investigation. It is interesting in that it is massively slanted to protection of AIPAC and Israel from the effects of the scandal (...) Goldberg is thus one of the first propagandists to tie Saddam to al Qaeda, a fact which should color our reading of everything else he comes up with... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13224&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13224 The New York Times closes ranks with Bush on Iraq war Barry Grey, WSWS On Tuesday night President Bush went on national television and rehashed the lies his administration is using to justify the slaughter in Iraq. On Wednesday, the New York Times published an editorial that sums up the position of the so-called “liberal” establishment and the Democratic Party. Oozing evasion and duplicity, the editorial testifies to the commitment of the entire American ruling elite to the war and the complicity of the Democrats! in the imperialist enterprise... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13223&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13223 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 29 June 2005 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice ...Iraqi Resistance forces fired four medium-range Katyusha rockets into a US military position in the western Iraqi city of Hit at 8am Wednesday morning local time. Residents of al-Muhammadi village, east of Hit, told Mafkarat al-Islam that the Resistance blasted one of the US positions in the area with four Katyusha rockets setting fire to the position and s! ending smoke rising into the sky... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13222&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13222 Editorial: The biggest of Big Lies The Capital Times To the extent that George Bush had retained the slightest shred of dignity through the whole ugly Iraq imbroglio, it was found in his refusal to fully embrace the biggest of the Big Lies told by his aides: the claim that Saddam Hussein had played a role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The president was never honorable in this regard... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13226&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13226 9/11 – US Complicity: Implausible, or Very Probable? Questions for the People Who Believe the Official Conspiracy Theory TvNewsLIES.org ...So you think it ludicrous to suggest that a rogue group within our government was involved in the events of September 11th, 2001? You don’t even think it is worth your time to examine the overwhelming physical evidence that is available for your viewing, which at the very least disproves the official “conspiracy theory” put forth by the government and their mouthpieces in! the corporate media? Let me ask you folks some questions. Help me out here. If I am to ignore all the physical evidence that indicates government complicity I need you to explain to me why I should ignore the unprecedented actions by the Bush administration preceding the events, that seem to have no other purpose other than to prevent an event like 9/11 from being stopped and to prepare to set in motion their pre-planned agenda that would only be accepted after an event like 9/11... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13231&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13231 Bush: USS Titanic stays the course... Henk Ruyssenaars ...The biggest military power on earth using the worst imaginable anti-human weapons ever, was never threatened by any country, but still Bush's 'spin doctors' had him say: "We fight today because terrorists want to attack our country and kill our citizens, and Iraq is where they are making their stand. So we will fight them there, we will fight them across the world and we will stay in the fight until the fight is won." The US cabal's presidential 'front man! ' offered no shift of course: "We have a clear path forward,'' he said, sounding like the SS Titanic's captain, ignoring the icebergs surrounding him... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13217&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13217 "All Roads Lead to Baghdad: A Strategic Analysis of Unity in the U.S.Anti-War Movement" Virginia Rodino ...Iraq is now the achilles heel of the beast, the U.S. government's drive for empire. Battered, raw, exposed, this point must be focused on by the anti-Imperialist Left in the United States: Efforts must continue to strike away at this concentrated weakness. It is a crucial moment and a critical decision. Not because the Haitians, the Palestinians, the domestic poor and abused are any less deserving of liberat! ion, but because ultimately a victory of the Iraqi people against the U.S. war machine is a victory for liberation struggles around the globe... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13236&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13236 Push for autonomy develops in Iraqi south Edward Wong The New York Times With the Aug. 15 deadline for writing a new constitution bearing down, some powerful, mostly secular Shiite politicians are pushing for the creation of an autonomous region in the oil-rich south of Iraq, challenging the country's central authority. The politicians argue that the long-impoverished south has never gotten its fair share of the nation's oil money, even though the bulk of the country's oil reserves lie near Basra, at the head of ! the Gulf. "We want to destroy the central system that connects the entire country to the capital," said Bakr al-Yasseen, a former foe of Saddam who spent years in exile in Syria. He is a chief organizer of the autonomy campaign, which is supported by Ahmad Chalabi, a one-time favorite of the Pentagon and the scion of a prominent Shiite family from the south, among others... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13218&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13218 Saddam rejects meeting U.S. officials UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL ...The London-based al-Quds al-Arabi quoted unidentified sources close to Saddam and his lawyers as saying the former leader turned down an offer by U.S. Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld to urge the resistance to put down their arms in return for preventing the court from sentencing him to death. One of Saddam's lawyers told the independent Palestinian-owned daily Saddam had rejected the offer and refuses to meet any U.S. officials as a prisoner, ! "but only as the president of Iraq and after the American withdrawal" from the country... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13220&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13220 President Bush: Inspiration for "Insurgents" and "Terrorists" Stan Moore ...President Bush has made another critical mistake in last night's speech. He made it clear to the Iraqi freedom fighters that he had no intention whatsoever of giving up the fight against them. Bush made it clear that his goal is to kill the insurgents because their philosophy of freedom from American imperialism is completely irreconcilable with American goals for Iraq. Thus, there is nothing the insurgents can do but to fight and fight u! ntil they win. If there are any contacts and negotiations between Iraqi insurgents and American leadership, no doubt the negotiations are about American surrender, not Iraqi surrender. How can Iraqi insurgents surrender when America's goal is to take their land, their wealth, and even their lives?... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13216&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13216 Iraqi Resistance Replies To Bush Speech: Sets Terms For U.S. Surrender Bush……..Why the Hurry?!?! Rafidan-The Political Committee, ICH ...Rumsfield also found a solution which he thinks may save him! The return to the Kissinger method in Vietnam, when he requested negotiations, he began bombardment! He began with the destruction of Al Qaem, Karabila, in his spear operation, and instructed his puppet Persians in the appointed government to initiate operation thunder, to kidnap, kill and imprison! He also used! the Dagger operation of "Rustum" ( Persian General who lost the battle of Qadisiah against the Arabs in history) to stab the innocent day and night in the streets, cars, and markets. Then he requested to negotiate... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13215&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13215 Torture Fatigue Silja J.A. Talvi "The Christian in me says it's wrong," Army Specialist Charles A. Graner Jr. said of torturing prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. "But the corrections officer in me says I love to make a grown man piss himself." Photos taken of him demeaning captives at Abu Ghraib exposed Graner as the sadist that his surroundings allowed him to be. But are the differences between brutal correctional officers like Graner and other Americans as stark as we would like to think?... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13240&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13240 <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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