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[uruknet] - NL 1 July - Part One
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uruknet.info «Ë-Ë“Ê Æ‰Ê·Ë :: information from occupied iraq :: informazione dall'iraq occupato Mesopotamia - Now an Endangered Species - Official. Felicity Arbuthnot, GlobalResearch.ca ...The World Monument Fund has, for the first time, named an entire country -Iraq - on its list of endangered sites. The Fund, which publishes every two years, an inventory of the world's most endangered historical and archeological sites and monuments, lists the 'cradle of civilisation' as, effectively, in danger of extinction. The illegal invasion, built on monumental lies, from Whitehall to Washington, has not alone 'dest! royed the village in order to save it', it has destroyed the country, the land of the biblical Tigris and Euphrates - described by Gertude Bell, writer, colonialist - never the less captivated by this 'land between two rivers' - in the 1920's -'... great twin rivers gloriously named, The huge Babylonian plains, now desert, Which were once the garden of the world...' <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13271&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13271 U.S. changed Iraq policy to begin airstrikes months before war John Byrne, Raw Story The U.S. quietly shifted policy towards Iraq to allow for surgical, pre-emptive airstrikes months before any attempt to seek UN or Congressional approval for the use of force, RAW STORY can reveal. The discovery, made by investigative blogger Ron Brynaert, raises questions of whether Britain and the United States violated a UN resolution to provide for the security of Iraqi citizenry in the wake of the 1991 Gulf War... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13276&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13276 Tigris dam damns Assur The Iraqi government is building a dam which will obliterate the capital of the ancient Assyrian empire Martin Bailey , The Art Newspaper The Iraqi government is building a dam which will destroy the ancient city of Assur, the former capital which gave its name to Assyria. Although it has received no publicity outside Iraq, the dam across the Tigris is likely to result in one of the greatest archaeological losses of modern times. John Curtis, the British Museum’s keeper o! f Ancient Near East, returned from a visit to Baghdad last month, and he told The Art Newspaper that the project “will destroy most of the remains of Assur”. He points out that the city, occupied by the Assyrians for some 2,000 years, is “arguably the most important archaeological site in the Near East.” Dr Curtis warns that the archaeological losses are likely to be even greater than those caused by the Aswan High Dam in 1970, when temples along the Nile were flooded... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13277&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13277 52 House members file FOIA request seeking documents related to Downing Street minutes RAW STORY ...Representative John Conyers, Jr., (D-MI) House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member, along with 51 other Members today submitted a broad and comprehensive FOIA request to the White House, the Department of Defense, and the Department of State seeking any and all documents and materials concerning the Downing Street Minutes and the lead up to the Iraq war, RAW STORY has learned. In addition, the Members also formally ! requested that the House Committees on Judiciary, Armed Services, International Relations, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence commence hearings on the Downing Street Minutes... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13274&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13274 Nearly 9,000 U.S. troops dead? A NATIONWIDE CALL FOR INFO FROM SURVIVORS Peaceseeker - Indymedia ...If you know (or know of) service members who've died in Bush's wars, look for their names on the full, alphabetized "official" Pentagon death list, at <http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/list.htm. >www.tbrnews.org/Archives/list.htm. IF THEIR NAMES ARE NOT INCLUDED, PLEASE SEND A REPORT TO: tbrnews (at) hotmail.com. You're also encouraged to notify your Congress members, your local newspaper! , and other interested parties. ( Note that the alphabetized list is updated regularly at tbrnews.org. It currently includes deaths reported up through early June. )... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13285&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13285 Nearly 9,000 U.S. troops dead? The Harring Report, TBRnews ...The DoD lists currently being very quietly circulated indicate almost 9,000 dead, over 16,000 seriously wounded* (See note below. This figure is now over 24,000 Ed) and a large number of suicides, forced hospitalization for ongoing drug usage and sales, murder of Iraqi civilians and fellow soldiers , rapes, courts martial and so on – I have a copy of the official DoD casualty list. I am alphabetizing it with the reported date of death following. TBR wi! ll post this list in sections and when this is circulated widely by veteran groups and other concerned sites, if people who do not see their loved one’s names, are requested to inform their Congressman, their local paper, us and other concerned people as soon as possible. The government gets away with these huge lies because they claim, falsely, that only soldiers actually killed on the ground in Iraq are reported. The dying and critically wounded are listed as en route to military hospitals outside of the country and not reported on the daily postings... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13283&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13283 No Iraq Plan? Please, Think Again Judith Moriarty, www.rense.com Per chance, you thought there wasn't some method in the madness going on in Iraq, think again. What has never been discussed in the "news" are long range plans made for the region before the threat of weapons of mass destruction, then it was instilling democracy, and now its morphed into us coming against the nest of insurgent and terrorists before they arrive here in hordes from this desert land and kill us! Stratfor is one of the most respected ge! opolitical intelligence services in the world. Statfor's high-level sources (2002) tell them that one of the leading long-term strategies being considered by U.S. war planner is one that will divide Iraq into three separate regions. Under this plan Iraq would cease to exist... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13280&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13280 The march/swarm of the madder'n hells, part II Mark Drolette, SmirkingChimp.com ...My most recent article, "The march of the madder'n hells," calling for one million of us to march to both the White House and Capitol to demand, respectively, responses to and hearings on, the Downing Street Memos (DSM), has touched a bit of a nerve. Yep, it's true, all right: People are ticked and want their country back. Go figure. As promised, this subsequent column is designed to rally more support and pass on as much informati! on as I have right now. More columns will follow... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13282&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13282 US Forces Attack Iraqi Hospitals Prensa Latina An urgent humanitarian crisis is unfolding in occupied west Iraq, where doctors and other Iraqi organizations are slamming US military for causing death and destruction. Hospitals have also been under heavy attack during US military operations in cities across western Iraq between May and June, causing great damage to the medical facilities, the organization Doctors for Iraqi Society have denounced... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13281&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13281 Pace of troop deaths up in Iraq Rick Jervis, USA TODAY U.S. military deaths in Iraq increased by about one-third in the past year, even as Iraq established its own government and assumed more responsibility for battling the insurgency. At least 882 U.S. troops died in the 12 months through Thursday, up from 657 in the preceding year, according to a USA TODAY analysis of Defense Department numbers. Iraqis assumed sovereignty a year ago this week, part of a U.S. strategy to lessen the visibility of U.S. troops and ! shift more responsibility for security to Iraq forces... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13273&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13273 Pentagon doles out up to $300 million for 'psyops' THE WASHINGTON POST The Pentagon awarded three contracts last week, potentially worth up to $300 million over five years, to companies it hopes will inject more creativity into its psychological operations efforts to improve foreign public opinion about the United States, particularly the military. "We would like to be able to use cutting-edge types of media," said Col. James Treadwell, director of the Joint Psychological Operations Support Element, a part of Tam! pa-based U.S. Special Operations Command. "If you want to influence someone, you have to touch their emotions"... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13272&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13272 A Summer Surprise Wrong About June GARY LEUPP, CounterPunch I thought for sure it would happen this month. The attack on Iran, I mean, or the one on Syria. The Israelis had said that by June Iran would pass "the point of no return" in acquiring the ability to enrich uranium, had declared they could not accept that possibility, and had purchased bunker-busting bombs from the U.S. Seymour Hersh had reported in January that the U.S. was conducting secret reconnaissance missions in Iran preparatory for prec! ision strikes and commando raids. Scott Ritter had stated in February that President Bush had "signed off" on an Iran attack in June... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13270&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13270 Respectable Murder and Pure Wind Mykeru.com ...I myself am depressed and obsessed. I'm depressed at how all this has unfolded and I'm obsessed with even the smallest detail of daily life in Iraq and the horrors therein. I study news photos and I visit terrible bloody sites to see all the ways living people can be turned into torn and burnt inanimate flesh. I read articles about the booming business of prostitution using underage Iraqi girls who have to sell themselves to feed their families. Hell, why not? Take t! heir country, takes their oil, take their pride, what have they got left? Daughters? OK, that can be their export... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13269&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13269 Respectable Murder and Pure Wind Mykeru.com ...I myself am depressed and obsessed. I'm depressed at how all this has unfolded and I'm obsessed with even the smallest detail of daily life in Iraq and the horrors therein. I study news photos and I visit terrible bloody sites to see all the ways living people can be turned into torn and burnt inanimate flesh. I read articles about the booming business of prostitution using underage Iraqi girls who have to sell themselves to feed their families. Hell, why not? Take t! heir country, takes their oil, take their pride, what have they got left? Daughters? OK, that can be their export... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13269&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13269 The theft of Iraqi oil revenue Imad Khadduri , Free Iraq ..."Iraq would need investment of $25 billion over the next five or six years to renovate its oil and gas infrastructure, former Oil Minister Thamer al-Ghadban told an Istanbul conference. The lion’s share of $20 billion would be for the oil sector, mainly upstream, with the rest going to the gas industry. The investment “can only be made with the help of foreign investors,” (added emphasis) added al- Ghadban". One might surely expect that the now in! viting ex-minister would have an idea of where the Iraqi oil money has been pouring, under his watch, during the past two years, no?... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13268&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13268 Deja Vu in Iraq Derrick Z. Jackson, Boston Globe At Fort Bragg, in front of soldiers and their generals, the president of the United States said, ''Terrorists can strike and can kill without warning before the forces of order can throw them back. And now he has struck again. At this very hour, a second wave of terrorists is striking the cities. Our forces are ready. I know they will acquit themselves, as they always have, however tough the battle becomes. There has never been a finer fighting force wearing the Am! erican uniform than you." (...) This was not this week. This was not President Bush at Fort Bragg. It was 37 years ago. This was President Johnson... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13278&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13278 Baghdad's Mayor Threatens to Resign Associated Press Baghdad's mayor decried the capital's crumbling infrastructure and its inability to supply enough clean water to residents, threatening today to resign if the government won't provide more money. The statement from Mayor Alaa Mahmoud al-Timimi was an indication of the daily misery that Baghdad's 6.45 million people still endure more than two years after the U.S.-led invasion... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13279&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13279 Fool Me Once: Saddam Recycled as Nine Eleven Perp Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire Indeed, our Congress critters take us for morons. Obviously, we will believe anything these people tell us, as is evident by the fact most Americans bought the ludicrous Iraq invasion pretext hook, line, and sinker, hardly any questions asked. Now, in the wake of Bush’s speech, once again linking Iraq to the “war on terrorism” fantasy story, we are told by people supposedly in the know that Saddam was behind nine eleven, even ! though this has been repeatedly debunked as neocon nonsense. “Saddam Hussein and people like him were very much involved in 9/11,” Republican Robin Hayes tells CNN. “Told no investigation had ever found evidence to link Saddam and 9/11, Hayes responded, ‘I’m sorry, but you must have looked in the wrong places’... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13266&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13266 Unbelievable... Riverbend, Baghdad Burning “Not only can they not find WMD in Iraq,” I commented to E. as we listened to the Bush speech, “But they have disappeared from his speeches too!” I was listening to the voiceover on Arabiya, translating his speech to Arabic. He was recycling bits and pieces of various speeches he used over two years (...) Do the Americans continue to believe such speeches? I couldn’t help but wonder. “They’ll believe anything.” E. sighed. “No matter what sort of absurdity they are fed, t! hey’ll believe it. Think up the most outrageous lie… They have people who’ll believe it.” The cousin sat up at this, his interest piqued. “The most outrageous lie? How about that Iraq was amassing aliens from Mareekh [Mars] and training them in the battle art of kung-fu to attack America in 2010!” “They’d believe it.” E. nodded in the affirmative... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13265&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13265 Journalist killed after investigating US-backed death squads in Iraq James Cogan, WSWS On June 24, Yasser Salihee, an Iraqi special correspondent for the news agency Knight Ridder, was killed by a single bullet to the head as he approached a checkpoint that had been thrown up near his home in western Baghdad by US and Iraqi troops. It is believed that the shot was fired by an American sniper. According to eyewitnesses, no warning shots were fired (...) Over the past month, Salihee had been gathering evidence that! US-backed Iraqi forces have been carrying out extra-judicial killings of alleged members and supporters of the anti-occupation resistance... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13263&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13263 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 30 June 2005 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. ( http://www.freearabvoice.org ) US occupation forces arrested the General Director of Hit General Hospital in western Iraq on Wednesday, Quds Press reported in a dispatch posted at 8:46 GMT Thursday. A source in the hospital told Quds Press that US forces raided the city hospital on Wednesday and arrested Dr. Nizar al-Kubaysi, the General Director of Hit Ge! neral Hospital on charges that he treated wounded and injured Iraqi Resistance fighters in his facility. The source explained that the American troops raided the hospital and searched through the wards and hospital rooms looking for what they called “insurgents” receiving treatment... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13262&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13262 <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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