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uruknet.info «Ë-Ë“Ê Æ‰Ê·Ë :: information from occupied iraq :: informazione dall'iraq occupato "Pre-emptive" Terrorism Ghali Hassan, GlobalResearch.ca ...Iraq is disintegrating with every passing day of the Occupation. The US aim in Iraq is the creation of a colonial dictatorship in order to re-colonise Iraq economically and institutionally to serve US interests. Like any act of terrorism, the violent US attack on Iraq is political. It is about power. The US is able to manipulate the outcome of the violence it created by altering the very language of politics. The war on Iraq is not about fighting "terrori! sm"; it is a war of terror to enhance US imperial control. There are conscious efforts by Western media and Western pundits to discredit the images of the Iraqi people and the Resistance against the Occupation. The Iraqi Resistance made up of local fighters and not "terrorists" who target civilians. Those who target civilians (Iraqis and non-Iraqis) are foreign intelligence agents and collaborators with the Occupation forces. Billion of dollars have been spent to destroy the fabric of the Iraqi society and divide the Iraqi people... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13390&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13390 Anti-Colonial Ally or New Colonial Missionary? Marta Rodriguez Recently the U.S. Labor Against War coalition sponsored a tour of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions, which generated some debate within the American antiwar movement. At the heart of the controversy was IFTU's not-so-veiled cooperation with the occupation (...) The U.S.'s good will toward the IFTU is no coincidence. Like its parent organization, the Iraqi Communist Party, the IFTU has supported the U.S. position that American troops must remain in ! Iraq to crush the resistance, whom they've denounced as "Saddamist," "Islamic fascist," and "terrorist." (...) Unfortunately, the promotion of the IFTU tour is only the latest instance in the U.S. antiwar movement's efforts to isolate and delegitimize the Iraqi Resistance, whose "crime" was taking up arms against the criminal mass murderers who occupied their country without provocation.... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13387&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13387 Dr Salaam Ismael’s return to Fallujah, Iraq Socialist Worker ...On the borders of Fallujah I found 5,000 people who were living on water drawn directly from the river. Dr Shamael Ishawi is from the health clinic in this area. He told me that the unclean river water is leading to the spread of typhoid. Inside the city the hospital which I had spent some time in earlier this year is in ruins. Refugees have returned to the city, but they are living in appalling conditions. There is no evidence whatsoever of the reco! nstruction effort that the Iraqi government and the US claim is underway. Residents have to pass through five checkpoints to get into the city. The Iraqi troops on the checkpoints humiliate the people, calling them “sons of bitches, sons of dogs”... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13394&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13394 Voices from the Iraqi wilderness Socialist Worker ...The people of Iraq have suffered terribly over the last few years—but now we find ourselves suffering under the “democracy” of tanks, sectarian killings and torture. Life in Iraq now is very hard, full of terror and fear. But we have to insist that the resistance has the right to defend Iraq—not only against the American occupation, but also against the sectarian militias that want to turn the mosques against the -Hussainiyas (Shia places of worship), the churc! hes against the mosques, and brother against brother. We know there are many sectarian militias kidnapping and killing, groups like SCIRI (a pro-occupation Shia party) and the Kurdish Peshmerga. They work for the occupation and are trying to turn Iraqi against -Iraqi. Meanwhile the media paints the resistance with the brush of sectarianism... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13392&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13392 Reading Between the Lines: Gladio Ops Designed to Discredit the Iraqi Resistance Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire It seems the corporate media reported on the Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr kidnap story in order to re-send the message that the CIA is in need of reform, as telegraphed in the wake of nine eleven by the Bush whitewash commission and the CIA’s freshly installed head, the neocon partisan Porter Goss. News stories over the last couple years portray the CIA as Maxwell Smart bunglers who allowed Osama t! o slip under the wire and fed bad intelligence to Bush and crew on Iraq, when in fact the bad intelligence (actually deliberately crafted propaganda) came from the Office of Special Plans and a handful of Iraqi “dissidents” such as Ahmed Chalabi, a Wolfowitz and Perle protégé and convicted embezzler... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13401&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13401 Tomgram: Dahr Jamail on the Zarqawi Phenomenon Tom Engelhardt & Dahr Jamail ...How to put together this conveniently satanic figure -- capable of personalizing all the horrors of Iraq in a single monstrous body and bringing them home to the American public in a way that the Bush administration has found convenient -- with what little is known about a possibly not-too-bright small-town thug is a curious challenge. Independent journalist Dahr Jamail, who wrote for Tomdispatch (among other places) from Baghdad and t! hen came home for a break, is now back in the Middle East and, from Amman, Jordan, he went on his own search for the truth behind the Zarqawi phenomenon... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13403&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13403 Bush's damaged control, Ed Naha, SmirkingChimp.com ...Wearing his poll numbers around his ankles, Bush had the AUDACITY to link July 4th, our Independence Day, with his Empire building in Iraq and with the terrorist attacks he allowed to happen on 9/11 (...) "At this hour, our men and women in uniform are defending America against the threats of the 21st century. The war we are fighting came to our shores on September the 11th, 2001. (NOTE: Nope. Is this desperation or what?) After that day, I made a pledge to th! e American people, we will not wait to be attacked again. We will bring our enemies to justice, or bring justice to our enemies. (NOTE: Is that dyslexic or what?)... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13410&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13410 Clinton bombing of Iraq far exceeded Bush's in run-up to war; Bush 'spikes of activity' questioned RAW STORY The U.S.-led coalition in Iraq dropped far more bombs during the sunset of Bill Clinton’s presidency than under President George W. Bush in the run-up to war in Iraq, RAW STORY has found. Between 1999 and 2001, the U.S. and British-led air forces in Iraq dropped 1.3 million pounds of bombs in response to purported violations of the no-fly zones and anti-aircraft fire from Saddam Hussein (...) The nature of! the strikes differed; Clinton’s bombings were part of what some dubbed a “war of attrition,” an attempt to degrade Hussein’s hold on power without resorting to full-scale war, whereas Bush’s bombings appear to have been part of a concerted effort to clear the way for a ground invasion... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13411&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13411 Blasts kill many in Iraq Aljazeera.net At least 23 people have been killed in Iraq when bombers blew themselves up in two seperate attacks. Two blasts in quick succession killed six policemen and wounded 26 people in Hilla, south of Baghdad, police said. The first blast occurred about 10.30pm on Saturday when a bomber detonated a belt of explosives while being searched by members of the elite Scorpion police command at a checkpoint in the centre of the city, according to Captain Muthana Khalid Ali of the Babil pr! ovincial press office... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13312&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13312 Miller and Cooper: No Compromise to Corporate Journalism Already Compromised Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire Shed no tears for Judith Miller. Don’t be surprised over Time Magazine’s spinelessness. It’s really too bad Miller will not go to prison for her role in creating a pretext to murder 100,000 Iraqis. Time Magazine is more worried about the damage to its business than it is about any possible damage inflicted on journalism. The Supreme Court decision last week not to hear the appeals of Miller and Matth! ew Cooper for refusing to squeal on the Bushcon (probably Karl Rove) who outed CIA agent Valerie Plame “doesn’t spell an end to journalism functioning as it should... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13389&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13389 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 4 July 2005 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. ...The Iraqi Resistance issued a communiqué on Monday morning, that was distributed among most mosques of Baghdad, saying that the forces of the Iraqi Resistance had increased 40 percent over last year, and that the strength of the Resistance was being augmented further every day, despite the fierce battles that were being waged against the occupation throughout ! the country. The communiqué, which was posted on doors and outer walls of mosques, stated that in spite of the continuing campaigns against the Resistance by the Americans and the stooges, the apostates who have sold out their religion and their country, the Resistance is increasing in strength every day and every hour... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13388&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13388 Hinges of History Ernest Partridge, Co-Editor The Crisis Papers ... In his speech last week to the troops at Fort Bragg, George Bush discovered that his lies have lost their leverage. The polls suggest that at long last the public (less his “base”) has finally begun to wise-up. “Fool me twice – not gonna be fooled again.” At the same time, the revelations from Downing Street of the conniving and deceit that led us into an immoral war have taken on a life of their own, thanks to the internet and alternative press,! and notwithstanding first the silence of, and then the debunking by, the mainstream media. The pressure of public outrage is building, but it is diverse, diluted, inchoate, and without leadership and direction... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13398&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13398 The Secret Service at Booker Elementary: The Dog That Did Not Bark Michael Rivero, WRH ...With a supposedly unknown number of planes flying across the nation and crashing into buildings, with Bush's presence at Booker Elementary School announced in the media three days in advance, and an airport just four miles away, how did the United States Secret Service Protective Detail KNOW FOR A FACT that Bush was safe where he sat reading about goats? How did the United States Secret Service Protective Detail know they d! id not need to drag Bush out and throw him in his armored limousine and start driving in any direction to foil an inbound? How did the United States Secret Service Protective Detail know that they were not making targets out of all those children by keeping them in that room with Bush?... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13404&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13404 The MSM Box Set Patricia Goldsmith, www.dissidentvoice.org Spin cycles are supposed to last little longer than 24 hours, especially when it’s bad news for Bush & Co. That is, perhaps, one reason why the Downing Street Memos (DSM) are causing such consternation in journalistic circles. A recent column by Newsday editorialist James Klurfeld, “Downing St. memos: Been there, knew that” (6-24-05), is of particular interest to me, since I live on Long Island, and because it is a fascinating window into the thought pr! ocesses of an influential member of the Mainstream Media (MSM), a man who plays an important role in creating storylines about George Bush. The entire interest of the piece is in watching Klurfeld frame the issues, beginning with his opening shot: “Somebody needs to explain to me all this furor over the Downing Street memos” -- from which I conclude that he’s furious... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13406&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13406 On July 4th – Independence for Iraq Aaron Glantz, CommonDreams.org As the United States celebrated its independence this weekend, Iraq celebrated another week under foreign occupation. So I thought it useful to look at Thomas Jefferson’s case against England’s King George III and compare it with the Iraqi case against our own President George II. Below are some of the complaints levelled against King George III on England on July 4, 1776. “For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us". The United States m! ilitary has quartered 138,000 troops in Iraq for more than two years and refuses to set a time line for withdrawl... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13393&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13393 We Are All Responsible Bud McClure, CommonDreams.org ...But ultimately we are all to blame, even those of us who have opposed this war from the beginning. No matter how much we might want to deny our culpability there are those moments when we awaken in the middle of the night because the truth sneaks up on us and reveals that something has gone terribly wrong. In these troubled moments we catch a glimpse of our own dark underbelly, of what we have become: a country largely indifferent to human suffering, driven ! by competition and greed, and willing to sanction others to torture, terrorize and murder in our names to preserve our consumptive way of life. We all share a responsibility for this... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13395&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13395 Mom, Who Lost Son In Iraq, Talks About 'Disgusting' White House Private Meeting With Bush Greg Szymanski ...Although Sheehan was opposed to the illegal nature of the war from the outset, it wasn’t until January that she began to become politically active. Besides speaking at rallies and becoming known in Washington for her outspoken criticism of Bush, Sheehan formed a group called Gold Star Families For Peace, joining together families who lost loved ones in an effort to expose the illegal nature of the war and t! o hasten the return of troops still fighting in Iraq. Her involvement with the anti-war movement also led her recently to join forces with the After Downing Street movement, a civic, political and activist group seeking to open a Presidential impeachment inquiry based on the release of damaging British intelligence documents showing Bush doctored WMD intelligence reports to justify his war policy.... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13397&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13397 Answering President Bush: The initiative is within the hands of the resisting Baath and the armed confrontation is ongoing and growing until the liberation. Baath Party Statement , Al-Moharer.net ...The Armed Resistance in its various confrontational ways and means is still ongoing and growing. It will take the necessary given time demanded by the resisting action in the intermediary phase to destroy the puppet authority represented by its structures and its individuals. This phase will precede the collapse of ! the US occupation and its defeat and the humiliation of its armed forces... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13408&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13408 Karl Rove: More anti-American Than Osama bin Laden or, They Execute Traitors, Don't They? Ted Rall ...Title 18, Part I, Chapter 115, paragraph 2381 of the United States Code reads: Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapa! ble of holding any office under the United States. Reads a lot like the definition of someone who unmasks a CIA operative (Valerie Plame) for rank political gain, doesn't it? Of course, if this is true, odds are that this goes straight to the top, to Piehole his own self. Can you really buy Rove acting without authorization?... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13396&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13396 Water ! Imad Khadduri While most of Baghdadis do not have drinking water, the American troops are swimming in a fresh water swimming pool in Baghdad's Camp Victory. <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13399&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13399 Iraq…Bahrain, Pakistan Envoys Under Fire IslamOnline.net Gunmen attacked the top envoys of Bahrain and Pakistan in Baghdad Tuesday, July5 , three days after Egypt's chief diplomat in the occupied Arab country was abducted from the street. About four gunmen opened fire on the Bahraini envoy's car from a pickup truck in the upscale Mansour district as he was driving to work, Reuters quoted a police source as saying... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13402&s2=06>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13402 <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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