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[uruknet] - NL 30 June - Part Two
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uruknet.info «Ë-Ë“Ê Æ‰Ê·Ë :: information from occupied iraq :: informazione dall'iraq occupato More on Jeffrey Goldberg Xymphora ...We'll never know what happened at Halabja, which means we'll never know who was responsible for the death of the Kurds. What is clear is that this episode is part of a Kurdish, and almost certainly Zionist, propaganda war against Saddam. Jeffrey Goldberg is the main sprayer of the gas on the Halabja poison gas story, one of the first to make an explicit Saddam-al Qaeda connection, a guy that Douglas Feith feels comfortable speaking to, and the author of an amazing whitewash on! the AIPAC/Israel spy scandal... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13256&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13256 The intelligent American position Xymphora ...There are some big problems with the intelligent American position. He overstates the value of the things the Americans have done right (the schools and hospitals are a mess, and he has the good sense not to even mention the outrageous electricity and water/sewage situations), doesn't seem to understand that the evidence in the 'mass' graves is highly problematic from the point of view of proving that Saddam was as bad as he is officially supposed to have been, neglec! ts to mention that internal Pentagon planning documents covered all the issues before the war and were simply ignored by Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, and pretends not to notice that many of the problems in Iraq may be the intentional work of the neocons attempting to keep Iraq as weak as possible... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13255&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13255 WE ALMOST PULLED IT OFF Malcom Lagauche ...We were to wrestle five times in one week: in Baghdad and surrounding areas, such as Fallujah. The matches would be free of charge for the spectators. The final event would be in Iraq’s national stadium that seated about 100,000 people (...) Then, the news started changing. More and more missile attacks in the "no-fly zone" were occurring. More civilians were being killed. The talk of war was increasing (...) The beautiful stadium in which we were to have held the grand ! finale of the tour in Baghdad is no longer in use. U.S. tanks destroyed it in 2003 when they used it as a permanent parking lot. Today, it is a mass of ruts and holes. And, the soccer stadium in Fallujah where we would have performed, is now a mass graveyard. During the U.S. attack on the city in April 2004, more than 600 civilians were killed and the stadium had to be converted to a burial ground... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13259&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13259 US misled UK over Iraq fire bombs Richard Norton-Taylor,The Guardian The government was asked yesterday to explain why the US failed to tell it the truth about use on Iraq of incendiary bombs, successors to the napalm used in Vietnam.The MoD repeatedly denied Mark 77 incendiary bombs were dropped, on the basis of US assurances. Defence secretary John Reid now says the assurances, made to predecessor Geoff Hoon, were wrong and he "must correct the position"... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13258&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13258 Secret air campaign against Iraq? Downing Street memo, other documents may show war really started earlier than March 2003 Tom Regan | csmonitor.com Most American media have focused on the allegations from the Downing Street memo that the Bush administration was going to "fix" the intelligence in order to justify the war against Iraq. Now the reporter who broke the original story says they have missed a more substantial allegation to arise from the same set of leaked documents. Michael Smith, ! defense writer for the Sunday Times of London wrote this past Sunday that "The American general who commanded allied air forces during the Iraq war appears to have admitted in a briefing to American and British officers that coalition aircraft waged a secret air war against Iraq from the middle of 2002, nine months before the invasion began"... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13257&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13257 Kucinich: New Urgency to bipartisan efforts to pass "Homeward Bound" Resolution Dennis Kucinich, Bellaciao ...H.J. Res. 55 is an opportunity to rally the nation around a bipartisan plan to bring the troops home. It requires the Administration to "develop and implement a plan for the withdrawal of United States Armed Forces from Iraq." Its original cosponsors are Walter Jones (R-NC), Neil Abercrombie, (D-HI), Ron Paul (R-TX), Marty Meehan (D-MA), Lynn Woolsey (D-CA), Barbara Lee (D-CA) and myself. The bill, entitl! ed "Homeward Bound", requires the Administration to announce not later than December 31, 2005 a plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq, and to begin bringing our troops home not later than October 1, 2006. This will be the beginning of the end of the war in Iraq... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13260&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13260 'To abandon Viet Nam would be wrong' — Text of speech by President Lyndon Johnson, delivered April 7, 1965 SmirkingChimp.com ...We will not be defeated. We will not grow tired. We will not withdraw, either openly or under the cloak of a meaningless agreement. We hope that peace will come swiftly. But that is in the hands of others besides ourselves. And we must be prepared for a long continued conflict. It will require patience as well as bravery, the will to endure as well as the will to resist... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13249&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13249 Children, too, are abused in U.S. prisons Arlie Hochschild, The New York Times ...Under international law, the line between childhood and maturity is 18. In communications with Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, the Pentagon has lowered the cutoff to 16. For this reason among others, we don't know exactly how many Iraqi children are in American custody. But before the transfer of sovereignty to an Iraqi interim government a year ago, the International Committee of the Red Cross reported registering 10! 7 detainees under 18 during visits to six prisons controlled by coalition troops. Some detainees were as young as 8. Since that time, Human Rights Watch reports that the number has risen. <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13247&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13247 Thousands of Karabila residents return Report, IRIN, 30 June 2005 Thousands of residents are gradually returning to the town of Karabila, 325 km west of the capital, Baghdad, after fleeing a heavy US-led attack two weeks ago but for many there is little to go back to (...) "I couldn't find anything left of my house. It has been totally destroyed and my family has become homeless and dependent on humanitarian support," said Salua Ibraheem, 42, a Karabila resident who had her home completely destroyed... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13251&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13251 FORTUNATE SON New York Press "With supreme guts and righteousness, President Bush went into Iraq," Gov. Pataki told the Republican National Convention last August. The place erupted with applause. It was all very stirring. Almost one year later, Pataki's son Teddy is, with supreme guts and righteousness, seeking a three-year law school deferment from the Marines, which last week commissioned the recent Yale grad as a second lieutenant... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13242&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13242 Ranks Plagued by Infiltrators Patrick J. McDonnell, The Los Angeles Times ...But it is feared that rebels have a stealthy presence among those forces. Infiltration was a specialty of Saddam Hussein's security apparatus, and officials say many recent cases were directed by so-called former regime elements - FRE in military parlance. "We believe part of the FRE strategy is to infiltrate the security forces with elements under their control and to get them into positions of influence," Army Lt. Gen. John R. Vines, ! commander of the Multinational Corps, said in an interview here... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13254&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13254 Tomgram: Paul Loeb on Dying for One's Country Tom Engelhardt & Paul Rogat Loeb ...For me, "supporting our troops" has a very particular meaning. It had the same meaning in the Vietnam era (which is why, to this day, visiting the Vietnam Wall leaves me filled with sadness and with anger because we were unable to bring our boys home before all those names mounted up). If you support the policies of an administration, then you naturally support the mission of our troops and so whatever they are doing. If not, then y! ou don't want another unneeded death to occur and the only way to truly support our troops is to work hard -- in the case of Iraq with growing numbers of angry military people and military family members -- to bring them home... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13253&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13253 Listening to the Stories of Others Greg Rollins, Electronic Iraq ...One Iraqi businesswoman spent a month in a U.S. detention facility before the U.S. found her innocent of any anti-Coalition activity. Another woman said she lost four young children in U.S. raids on her apartment complex. One ten year-old boy bore a scar along the left side of his scalp where his mother said a bullet entered his head and stopped behind his left eye. She said he could no longer see out of it. She said U.S. soldiers shot him and th! at the surgery he needs to fix his sight cannot be done in Iraq... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13250&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13250 Hannity Says Pre-9/11 Iraq Invasion Plan A Conspiracy Theory Prison Planet ...It's also a conspiracy theory, going by Hannity's line of logic, that the sun came up this morning. Bush's own biographer, Mickey Herskowitz, said that Bush wanted to invade Iraq in 1999. He attributed the following quote to Bush. "One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief. My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it. If I have ! a chance to invade, if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I'm going to have a successful presidency."... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13245&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13245 <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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