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uruknet.info «Ë-Ë“Ê Æ‰Ê·Ë :: information from occupied iraq :: informazione dall'iraq occupato Signs of U.S. defeat in Iraq adventure John Catalinotto ...The signs from outside Iraq point even more to a potential collapse of U.S. imperialism's aggressive adventure. George W. Bush and Britain's Tony Blair kept proclaiming that the only thing that would defeat the U.S.-UK resolve to "stay the course" in Iraq was the loss of will at home. Their statements had a prophetic ring. On July 6, newspapers reported that top Pentagon officers were thinking of dropping the U.S. strategy of being "able to fight two wars! at the same time." This change of attitude has been imposed on them by the Iraqi resistance, which is showing that the U.S. Army can't win even one war against a guerrilla army backed by the population, even under the difficult conditions that exist for the Iraqis... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13644&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13644 Fathers and mothers of the Americans killed in the Iraq war talk to al-‘Arab al-Yawm. Hada Sarha ...“Let Bush know that we won’t allow that my son died for an unjust war. Michael died with honor in a war with no honor.” Mitchell added, “I would like to meet Bush to stop his madness, because concealing the number of American dead and the extent of damage done in Iraq only makes the war easier for those trying to conceal the truth.” Mitchell says that he is working with large groups of Americans who have also los! t their sons or who sent their children off to fight in Iraq and who are trying to stop this war, end the occupation of Iraq, and let the Iraqis govern themselves... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13645&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13645 Blood On The Tracks -- WAR, INSANITY, & TERRORISM Grace Reid ...How about we stop the insanity. How about we hold criminals accountable. That means GW Bush and his whole crime family administration. That means terrorists, that means all of them. If terrorists are conceived of as the insane other, then there will be no end. If the war criminals who are driving the US & UK policy of perpetual war in the Middle East are not brought to justice, it is because insanity that is organized to that degree of sophistica! tion, with that much built-in profit incentives cannot be stopped because the people, in their confusion, have been taken over by fear, terror, and newspeak... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13628&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13628 From No Man’s Land to Displacement Dahr Jamail, Left Turn Magazine ...Kurdish-Iranian refugees have a long history of suffering (...) Many of them fled to Iraq, where the regime of Saddam Hussein placed them in the al-Tash refugee camp, located 80 miles west of Baghdad, which held over 12,000 Iranian Kurds. Many of these refugees, after the US-led invasion of Iraq in spring of 2003, said they were threatened by armed groups and told they had to leave. Several refugees I interviewed in No Man’s Land camp said they! were instructed to leave Al-Tash by the US-backed Iraqi government. Palestinians, Iraqis, Jordanians and Syrian refugees were also in the mix... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13630&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13630 WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEIR “TERRORISM” AND OUR “WAR”? Freedom Liberation Movement ...The invasion of Iraq provides a good example of how the West is run by double standards. It undoubtedly makes the responsible political and military leaders of America and Britain guilty of the first three indictments handed down by the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal against the principle Nazi defendants: 1) Conspiracy to wage aggressive war; 2) A crime against peace: the planning, preparation, initiation and! waging of a war of aggression; and 3) War crimes: violations of the laws or customs of war, including, but not limited to - murder and ill-treatment of members of the civilian population in occupied territory; murder or ill-treatment of prisoners of war; plunder of public or private property; and wanton destruction of cities, towns, or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13649&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13649 What was Judith Miller Up To? William E. Jackson, Jr., E&P ...But Rich later found ground in reality when he wrote that the scandal began with the sending of American men and women to war in Iraq based on twisted intelligence. Unlike many of Miller's apologists, he recalled that "Judy Miller was one of two reporters responsible for a notoriously credulous front-page Times story" (with Michael Gordon in September 2002) that enabled the Bush Administration's propaganda campaign to hype the threat of Saddam's WMD. ! This was just one of her error-ridden contributions to the cause of invasion. Demonstrating a singular lack of propriety, one of the most insensitive comments of the past week came from Miller herself when she told the judge after he sentenced her to jail: if U.S. troops could risk death in Iraq, "surely, I can face prison to defend a free press"... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13639&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13639 BACK TO THE LIE Michael Rivero, WhatReallyHappened.com As the dust settles in London, and Karl Rove dances the Potomac Two-step, the time has come for Americans and the British to refocus on the far greater crime of a head of state who has lied to trick the people into a war of conquest. I cannot speak for Great Britain, but in the United States, the Constitution does not explicitly authorize the government to lie to the people and the tenth amendment prohibits the government from arrogating that right to itself.! Certainly the President is not allowed to lie to the United States Congress. Yet both of these crimes have undeniably happened, in both these nations... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13643&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13643 9/11-PNAC, 9/11-PNAC SHOULD BE THE #1 TOPIC OF DISCUSSION Jesse - Editor, TvNewsLIES.org ...We discuss the Iraq war as if the plans to invade Iraq were suddenly thought of on 9/11. We do the same with the Patriot Act. We do the same with the war in Afghanistan. We do the same for the continual assault on our Constitution. We do the same for the unprecedented rise in government secrecy (which actually started prior to 9/11, with Cheney's secret energy policy meetings). As a matter of fact, the administration ! is doing just about anything it wants, in secret, using the excuse of 9/11. This unlimited power is a dream come true for the PNAC cabal. The media constantly repeat the neocon mantra that 9/11 justifies all of this unchecked power. Nothing can be further from the truth. 9/11 is not the reason the Bush/PNAC agenda took shape, it is the excuse for its implementation. It was not a response to the events of 9/11. It was waiting in the wings for an event like 9/11 to breath life into it much like the bolts of lightening that brought life to the Frankenstein monster... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13640&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13640 A Police State Greg Rollins, Electronic Iraq ...Recently a new fear has risen; fear of the Iraqi Special Forces (ISF). The ISF are a couple different brigades: the Wolf Brigade and Al Hussain Brigade. They are U.S. trained and work closely with the U.S. military, carrying out house raids, sweeps and major operations. People say they are brutal and that the Wolf Brigade is made up of many anti-Saddam Iranians from a militia called the Badr Brigade. An official from the Interior Ministry told CPT that approval for ! these Brigades' violent behaviour goes all the way up to the U.S. Embassy. One family told CPT their three brothers were arrested by the Wolf Brigade one night and the next evening they saw the brothers on TV looking beaten and confessing to crimes they did not commit. There are also stories about people being arrested by one of these brigades and found dead at the side of the road a few days later... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13638&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13638 Tomgram: Nick Turse on Cyberstalking the Recruitable Teen Tom Engelhardt & Nick Turse ...It's been a tough year for the U.S. military. But you wouldn't know it from the Internet, now increasingly packed with slick, non-military looking websites of every sort that are lying in wait for curious teens (or their exasperated parents) who might be surfing by. On the ground, the military may be bogged down in a seemingly interminable mission that was supposedly "accomplished" back on May 1, 2003, but on the Web it's s! till a be-all-that-you-can-be world of advanced career choices, peaceful pursuits, and risk-free excitement... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13636&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13636 Plame games originated with Judith Miller Ahmed Amr, MMN No one is suggesting that Sulzberger or Miller should be deprived of the right to advocate total war – all the time. That’s what the First Amendment is all about. But neither Sulzberger nor Miller has a right to market their war by conspiring to commit a felony against a legitimate whistle blower. The First Amendment is not an immunity blanket for criminals. You do the crime – you do the time. Lock them both up and throw away the keys... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13634&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13634 Dumping Bush's 'war-poodle': Blair brings the terror to London Mike Whitney, The Smirking Chimp ...Blair is teetering from accusations that he made Britain less safe and is responsible for the fresh wave of terrorist attacks on the homeland. No media extravaganza will turn that around. Blair's linkage to Bush is an albatross that grows heavier by the day. An aggressive movement to unseat the reeling PM could have a profound affect in forcing Blair to finally step down. Ridding England of Bush's "war-poodle" would! be the best thing to come from this hideous action. One good shove and he'll crack like glass. Then we can move on to George Bush... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13633&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13633 US forces arrest Iraqi Sunni leader Aljazeera.net US forces have arrested a senior Iraqi tribal leader from the predominantly Sunni Arab area around Samarra, north of Baghdad, Iraqi police say. Shaikh Talal Abd al-Karim al-Matar, the head of the Samarra tribal council and chief of the al-Sood, was taken away late on Monday night by US troops from his home in al-Muatasim, east of Samarra, said Lieutenant Colonel Mahmud Mohammed of Iraqi police on Tuesday... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13632&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13632 Liars, Damn Liars and the Bush Administration DOUG THOMPSON Add yet another lie to the mountain of prevarications that define the administration of President George W. Bush. For months, the “official” White House line has been that Presidential advisor Karl Rove was “not involved” in the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame’s name to the media. That lead compromised Plame, wife of former ambassador and Presidential critic Joseph Wilson. We may never know the extent of damage caused by the leaking of classif! ied information to the media. Now it turns out Rove was not only “involved” but was, in fact, the primary source for the leak to right-wing columnist Robert Novak, Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper and God knows how many others... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13629&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13629 Iraqis sell their blood to survive IRIN Iraqis are selling their own blood to people who are buying supplies for relatives in need, due to a shortage, doctors say. This has caused concern over the spread of disease since the supplies are not checked for blood-bourne infections. Every day hundreds of donors can be seen standing outside the blood bank at the Iraqi National Centre for Blood Donations (INCBD) in the capital, Baghdad... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13646&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13646 Voices of Resistance An Interview with Dr. Mohammad al-Obaidi of Iraq's Peoples' Struggle Movement LAITH al-SAUD, CounterPunch The mainstream media's attenuation of information regarding Iraq has now rendered public discourse about US policy in Iraq incoherent and incomprehensible. In spite of rising death and tragedy in Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld claims "progress". Instead of debating the criminality of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq, the New York Times and Washington Post are disc! ussing what Dick Cheney actually meant by "last throes." And, of course, instead of finding a way to end the destructive campaign that the Bush administration inflicts on the Iraqi people, Americans are being asked for open-ended commitment to war. Completely obliterated in all this is the suppression by the tmainstream media of an entire side of the issue: the opposition... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13648&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13648 Tariq Ali on politics and the bombs Socialist Worker ...Iraq brings back memories of Vietnam on a number of levels. In Vietnam, as in Iraq today, many politicians said, “It will soon be over, and we will bring our troops home by Christmas.” Older members of the audience may remember General Westmoreland, the US military commander in Vietnam. Every year he used to say, “The boys will be back this Christmas.” Another of the generals in Vietnam gave a statement contradicting the politicians and his fellow officers, ! saying, “If they want us to control this situation we could be here ten years.” At least he spoke the truth. Another similarity is the wanton destruction of cities and human life. Over 100,000 civilians have been killed in Iraq... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13627&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13627 Out !! Imad Khadduri, Free Iraq "Radicals within Iraq's Shiite majority community launched a petition for the withdrawal of US-led troops, which they said was drawing support from across the sectarian divide. Supporters of firebrand cleric Moqtada Sadr, who led a bloody six-month uprising against the coalition last year, said they were aiming to secure one million signatures inside four days. "We started this morning and so far we have had a good response, not only from Shiites -- Sunnis and Christians have also ! been coming to our office to show their support," said Ibrahim al-Jaberi, an official in Sadr's movement"... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13626&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13626 Right-wing bombing in London? Xymphora " Some informed British sources believe that the recent London Transport bombings may have been the work of far right-wing British terrorists hoping to stir up tensions with the nation's large Muslim population. There are several reasons for this belief. One is that GCHQ and MI-5 intercepts of the communications of Muslim groups in Britain and abroad - groups suspected of ties to militants - revealed that targeted individuals and organizations were genuinely surprised at the! London bombings"... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13625&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13625 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 11 July 2005 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. In a bulletin posted at 7:25pm Mecca time Monday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported from al-Fallujah that an Iraqi Resistance bomb had exploded a short while before next to a US patrol in the as-Sadd area to the south of the city (50km west of Baghdad). The correspondent reported residents of the Jubayl area in the south of al-Fallujah as saying that a bomb t! hat had been planted by the side of as-Sadd Road blew up as the patrol of four US Humvees passed by, destroying one of the vehicles and killing or wounding all aboard... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13624&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13624 Team recounts fear in US detention Contractors' tale reflects tensions with the military Josh White and Griff Witte, Washington Post The feelings of helplessness began to creep in right away. The orange jumpsuit and flimsy sandals were too small, the silence eerie. Time passed slowly. Before long, Darrell Cleland knew there were exactly 197 cinder blocks in his tiny cell and 861 openings in the grate above his head. Cleland, 28, used to escort prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a platoon serg! eant in the Marine Corps. But in May he was behind bars in Fallujah, Iraq, his Marine Corps brothers became his guards, and Cleland suddenly identified with his former captives... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13623&s2=13>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: www.uruknet.info/?p=13623 <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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