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uruknet.info «Ë-Ë“Ê Æ‰Ê·Ë :: information from occupied iraq :: informazione dall'iraq occupato Condemned to Relive the Past Ken Sanders, www.dissidentvoice.org ...In Iraq, U.S.-backed counterinsurgency groups are engaging in the same practices of kidnapping, torture, and murder that were employed in Guatemala and El Salvador. With each passing day in Iraq, more and more bodies of suspected insurgents are turning up exhibiting clear signs of torture and summary execution. Take, for instance, the case of Hassan an-Ni'ami, a suspected terrorist. As reported in The Observer, an-Ni'ami was abducted in May by I! raqi police commandos (to great televised fanfare) twelve hours before his mutilated body turned up at the morgue. He had been hung from handcuffs until his hands and wrists became swollen. There were burn marks and welts covering his torso... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13475&s2=08>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13475 TomDispatch - Tomgram: Chalmers Johnson on Robbing the Cradle of Civilization Tom Engelhardt & Chalmers Johnson Another successful landmark has been reached in our occupation of Iraq: The World Monuments Fund has just placed the country on its list of the Earth's 100 most endangered sites. ("Widespread looting, military occupation, artillery fire, vandalism, and other acts of violence are devastating Iraq, long considered the cradle of human civilization.") This is the first time that the Fund has ever put a who! le nation on its list and so represents a singular accomplishment for the Bush administration, which knew not -- and cared less -- what it wrought. The destruction began as Baghdad fell... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13471&s2=08>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13471 From Iraq To The G8 The Polite Crushing Of Dissent And Truth John Pilger, ZNet Over the past two weeks, the contrast between two related "global" events has been salutary. The first was the World Tribunal on Iraq held in Istanbul; the second the G8 meeting in Scotland and the Make Poverty History campaign. Reading the papers and watching television in Britain, you would know nothing about the Istanbul meetings, which produced the most searing evidence to date of the greatest political scandal of modern times:! the attack on a defenceless Iraq by America and Britain. The tribunal is a serious international public inquiry into the invasion and occupation, the kind governments dare not hold... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13469&s2=08>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13469 One Soldier’s Fight to Legalize Morality Monica Benderman, Democracy Rising On July 28, 2005, in a small non-descript courtroom on Ft. Stewart, Georgia, a Courts Martial is scheduled to begin. Again. One Army NCO who decided that he had no choice but to make a conscious choice NOT to return to war is being put on trial for caring about humanity. This soldier fulfilled his commitment, he kept his promise to his enlisted contract, and when ordered to deploy to Iraq at the start of the invasion, he went, not because! he wanted to "kill Iraqis" or "destroy terrorist cells," but because he wanted the soldiers he served with to come home safely. He returned knowing that war is wrong, the most dehumanizing creation of humanity that exists... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13468&s2=08>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13468 A Letter of Condolence Anwaar Hussain I write this on my own behalf and on behalf of innumerable others who share my feelings. I offer my heartfelt condolences to the bereaved of the innocent victims of the London bombing. This note is the hardest to write for I am at a loss to express my deep sympathy and profound sorrow in a way that can bring comfort to the near and dear ones of the blameless victims of the London bombing attacks. To overcome this difficulty, I will say what I truly feel (...) I can and I will! say to them that like all other victims--be they from Baghdad, Kabul or London--they are in our thoughts and prayers and that our love is with them, that we feel their tragedy and that our profound respects are for them and theirs... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13480&s2=08>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13480 Criminal Intent, Illegal Wars, Gangsta Plots: Why the Bush/Blair Gang will be tried for war crimes Edward Teague, I'n'I ...The above little noticed visit by one of the self confessed neo-cons, whose mission and vision were still a guilty little secret unknown outside the Beltway, was doing his best to drum up support for US refusal to recognise the International Criminal Court. Few criminals decide they don't recognise the courts jurisidiction in advance of committing the crime. Proof, if it were needed, of the w! icked and criminal intention to illegally invade and occupy Iraq... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13473&s2=08>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13473 Tony’s New Resolve Kurt Nimmo, Another day in the empire Now that multiple bombs have gone off in London, Tony Blair will have no choice but to talk about terrorism and Iraq, as the two are irrevocably bound together. Attending the G8 neolib confab (or conspiracy conclave) in Gleneagles, Scotland, Blair has focused on Africa and the environment, anything but the Iraq occupation and his servility to the Bushcons, a growing source of unpopularity and condemnation, especially with the Downing Street Minutes revelati! ons and the obvious fact Bush and Blair lied their countries into an illegal and immoral invasion and occupation... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13462&s2=08>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13462 The Message from the London Bombings Kim Petersen, www.dissidentvoice.org ... The London bombings are terrorism and as such the actions are deplorable. But terrorism is terrorism no matter who is carrying it out. The numerous bombs, cruise missiles, cluster bombs, and napalm rained down on Iraqi civilians is no less terrorism and the horror and mayhem experienced by Iraqis no less than that experienced by Londoners. Western leaders who refuse to deplore and denounce the terrorism of the western world carry litt! le moral dignity in condemning the London bombings... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13474&s2=08>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13474 No Crocodile Tears Over Current Episode of Anonymous News Sources Stan Moore, MMN ...If the suspicions of Ms. Plame's husband prove to be correct, Karl Rove, engaged in political payback of the lowest order in revealing state secrets about Ms. Plame's employment in government service. Protecting Karl Rove as an anonymous source creates journalistic sleaze or a form of "embedded-ness" between mainstream journalists and muckraking, lawbreaking political operatives. The news that Novak and Cooper and Miller told sho! uld NEVER have been told. There was and is no journalistic merit in that news and there should be no sympathy for these people going to jail in order to protect their disreputable source. They should all be in jail together -- with Mr. Rove... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13466&s2=08>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13466 The Message of Terror London's Burning GILAD ATZMON, CounterPunch We are used to seeing images of horrors from the Iraqi capital. For most Londoners and Britons, those images are nothing more than a remote call from a foreign country. Somehow, most of us have managed to forget that it is basically our government who is responsible for the continued horror in Iraq. Today's images of horror are coming from London, seemingly, Baghdad and London appear to share a very similar fate... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13465&s2=08>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13465 It's Up to the Anti-War Movement to Restrain the Thirst for More Revenge Message from London MIKE MARQUSEE, CounterPunch This morning, the suffering, grief and terror that have visited so many innocents in recent years came to London. We have not paid the kind of price that people have paid in Fallujah, Najaf or Jenin, but it is a steep price nonetheless. And its root causes are the same. The bomb blasts were grimly predictable. Indeed, they had been widely and repeatedly predicted - not least by rank! -and-file Londoners, who knew that by taking Britain into Iraq side-by-side with the USA, Tony Blair had placed their city in the firing line... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13464&s2=08>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13464 From "Pariah" to "St. Judy" The Luckiest Martyr ALEXANDER COCKBURN and JEFFREY ST. CLAIR, CounterPunch Is there ever anyone luckier than Judy Miller! All last year she was pilloried as the prime saleslady for the imaginary WMDs that offered the prime pretext for the invasion of Iraq. Although it refused to denounce her by name the New York Times publicly castigated itself for poor reporting, and Miller's career seemed to be at an end, except for the occasional excursion to CNN studios for tete a tetes ! with Larry King. But then came a glimmer of hope... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13463&s2=08>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13463 American Militarism, Part 2: On Celebrating Militaristic Nationalism Evan Augustine Peterson III, J.D, OrbStandard ...I hope a sea-change is occurring. That the day might be dawning when the American people finally wake up, and let their government know that they've had enough. We can tell them with our votes that we've finally had ENOUGH of their bloodthirsty militarism; ENOUGH of their depraved global empire of more than 6,725 military bases; ENOUGH of their extravagant expenditures on the endless overkill of s! uperfluous hi-tech weaponry; and ENOUGH of their obscenely-bloated defense budgets! It's up to us. It's our watch now. We're freedom's flamekeepers. Dark storm clouds are approaching swiftly on the horizon. If we don't tell our leaders "Enough!", a severe challenge could emerge soon... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13458&s2=08>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13458 Letter from A Veteran Orb Standard Bush refuses to do anything constructive about Global Warming because it will hurt Oil Companies profits if Bush does. Over the past 2 years Bush has blown $300 Billion on the the Iraq War that he lied to get America into and in which over 100,000 innocent people including 1746 American Troops have been killed because of Bush's Lies. By the time the US gets out of Iraq America will have wasted over 1 Trillion Dollars on the War Bush Caused... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13457&s2=08>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13457 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 6 July 2005 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org The Iraqi Resistance bombs staged a two-pronged attack on a US column at the eastern approaches to the city of al-Hadithah, 250km west of Baghdad at noon Wednesday. Witnesses told the al-Hadithah correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US armored column at the eastern entrance to the city, di! sabling one American armored vehicle at 12 noon local time Wednesday... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13450&s2=08>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13450 Iraq to launch military co-operation with Iran Aljazeera.com Iraq's Defense Minister, on a historic visit to Iran, said that both countries decided to launch a broad military co-operation. "We have come here to turn a painful page and to open another," Saadun al-Dulaimi said Thursday at a joint new conference in Tehran with his Iranian counterpart Ali Shamkhani (...) Dulaimi said that the two neighbors will launch military and "anti-terrorist" co-operation, but he also asserted that it was still too soon for the ! U.S. to leave his country. Diplomatic relations between the two countries have improved greatly since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13479&s2=08>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13479 Shiite Morality Is Taking Hold in Iraq Oil Port EDWARD WONG, NYTimes ...Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, the head of Sciri, praised that proposal on a visit to Basra in June. Arriving in a convoy from Iran, he said Iraq - particularly the south - could benefit from closer ties to its Shiite neighbor. "The great Islamic Republic has a very formidable government," he said at a news conference. "It can be very useful to us, and it has a very honorable attitude toward Iraq." But even in the south, many people still distrust Iran! and political parties linked to it. Nearly one million people died in the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, which started in 1980 over control of the Shatt al-Arab, the waterway here that flows into the Persian Gulf... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13478&s2=08>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13478 Binyamin’s Warning Kurt Nimmo I know, this will be considered anti-Semitic, as the truth often is, but… over at Arutz Sheva, pegged as Israel’s national news site, it was reported earlier today that the “Israeli Embassy in London was notified in advance [of the London bombings], resulting in Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu remaining in his hotel room rather than make his way to the hotel adjacent to the site of the first explosion, a Liverpool Street train station, where he was to address and economic summit.! ”... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13477&s2=08>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13477 Iraqi police open fire on 1,000 demonstrators Breakingnews.i Police opened fire on 1,000 demonstrators today at the seat of the provincial government in Saddam Hussein’s hometown who were protesting the killing of the local council’s head official, authorities said. At least four were wounded. The protesters demanded the resignation of the deputy governor and police chief because they believe their clan was responsible for yesterday’s killing of Ali Ghalib Ibrahim, who belongs to a rival clan, Mayor Wael Ibrahim ! Ali said... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13472&s2=08>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13472 Anti-war group calls for unity Sept. 24 Workers World The following statement is from the Troops Out Now Coalition (TONC) in support of a Sept. 24 anti-war protest in Washington, D.C. A Sept. 24 coalition, initiated by the ANSWER coalition, also includes TONC, National Council of Arab-Americans, Haiti Support Network, Alliance for a Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines, Muslim American Society (MAS) Freedom Foundation and National Lawyers Guild. Some of the Sept. 24 demands are: “Stop the war in Iraq—Bring t! he troops home now! End colonial occupation from Iraq to Haiti to Palestine and everywhere!”... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13461&s2=08>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13461 The cost of war Workers World As people came down to the beach near the Santa Monica pier on the weekend of July 4, looking for a day of fun in the sun, they were reminded of the human cost of war. Veterans for Peace and Topanga Peace Alliance, along with countless other volunteers, had put up 1,745 symbols representing the U.S. soldiers who have died needlessly in the war in Iraq. Every weekend these groups put up crosses, stars and moons to represent the dead soldiers, so many of them fresh-faced young people o! f color... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13460&s2=08>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13460 <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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