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Qualche riflessione su primarie e altre derive reazionarie
RINNEGATI TRA IRAQ E AMERICA LATINA
(ovvero: quella Bolognina lunga 12 anni)
Fulvio Grimaldi, MONDOCANE FUORILINEA
...L’occupazione statunitense-israelo-italiana dell’Iraq uccide, sequestra,
tortura ogni giorno persone innocenti, coraggiose, dignitose, eroiche, rade
al suolo città, stupra, affama e devasta decine e decine di migliaia di
esseri umani, uomini, donne, bambini, utilizza squadroni della morte
terroristici che fanno ! assassinii mirati e piazzano bombe tra la folla,
come in Salvador, come in Nicaragua, come in Guatemala, come a Cuba, come
in Italia dal ’69 in poi, come in Indonesia, a Madrid, a Londra,
attribuendoli a “terroristi islamici”, tutto per demonizzare la resistenza
dei giusti, oppressi, stuprati. Ogni giorno dalle 60 alle cento operazioni
della resistenza si oppongono a questi psicopatici criminali e gli
impediscono di divorare il loro paese, il mondo, l’umanità. Non sono loro
che hanno deciso di fare la guerra, non hanno la minima colpa, non hanno
fatto migliaia di chilometri per portare morte, degrado, distruzione, non
fanno che difendersi, difendere la loro patria, la loro storia, le loro
donne, i loro bambini, le loro case, la loro dignità...

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Bunker-days with Reichsfuehrer George
Mike Whitney
Bush's speech to the National Endowment for Democracy was a long and
tedious journey through the shadowy world of terrorism. It was loaded with
the same wearisome phantoms and dreary evil-doers that have appeared in
every Bush speech since September 2001. Bush is beginning to sound like the
three wheeled ox-cart trundling down the road emitting the same shrill
screech with every rotation. The man needs some new material. His dismal
performance on Thursday further! demonstrated his inability to grasp
reality or to deal with the mess he's created. He dredged up the lackluster
imagery of 9-11 to cobble together a 40 minute monologue that excluded
every topic of national interest except terrorism. Even his audience, which
was chock-full of flag-waving jingoes and "democracy-spreading" zealots,
appeared dumbstruck...

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How the US Erase Women’s Rights in Iraq
Ghali Hassan, www.globalresearch.ca
Prior to the arrival of U.S. forces, Iraqi women were free to go wherever
they wish and wear whatever they like. The 1970 Iraqi constitution, gave
Iraqi women equity and liberty unmatched in the Muslim World. Since the
U.S. invasion, Iraqi women’s rights have fallen to the lowest level in
Iraq’s history. Under the new U.S.-crafted constitution, which will be put
to referendum on the 15 October while the bloodbath mounts each day,
women’s ! rights will be oppressed and the role of women in Iraqi society
will be curtailed and relegated to the caring for “children and the
elderly”. Immediately after the invasion, the U.S. embarked on cultivating
friendships with religious groups and clerics. The aim was the complete
destruction of nationalist movements, including women’s rights movements,
and replacing them with expatriate religious fanatics and criminals
piggybacked from Iran, the U.S. and Britain...

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Open Letter to Amnesty International on the Iraqi Constitution
BRussells Tribunal
...On August 9, 2005, Amnesty International launched a “Call for a human
rights based constitution”. This action alert calls on people to write to
Jaafari, asking him to make sure that the constitution is one that respects
human rights. Of course, we embrace the idea that Iraqi’s human rights will
be much better protected in the future than they are today. Nevertheless,
everyone who cares about human rights should question the ! validity of a
constitution that is written under the current situation. A call we
received from a well-know human rights activist from Baghdad, who has
strong reservations against Amnesty International’s action alert, should
illustrate our concern...

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The Story of a Declared Attack- Al Qaim Again - Families Besieged in
Refugee Camps
Dedicated to the UN, the Security Council, the International Society…
Sabah Ali , BRussells Tribunal
...Dr.Hamdi Al-Aloossy, the Alqaim general hospital director was in Aanah,
meeting with Dr. Walid Jawad, Aanah general hospital director, obviously
discussing what to do regarding the refugees and the impending invasion on
Alqaim. Dr. Hamdi confirmed that the majority of Alqaim population of
150.000 left the city, and t! hat only the disabled and those who prefere
to stay, remained. He also confirmed that many of the casualties he treated
were women and children (He has already confirmed this on Al-Arabia channel
3 days earlier). He explained that the families are not afraid of the
bombing, the fighting or the mortars as much as they are afraid of an
American-Iraqi invasion of the city, something which many families
mentioned too...

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War without Borders: Continuous Warfare for Decades to Come
Dick Cheney's "Global War on Terrorism" (GWOT)
Michel Chossudovsky, GlobalResearch.ca
Vice President Cheney in a recent speech to US military personnel has
acknowledged that the war could go on for several decades. This statement,
which reveals the Bush Administration's commitment to global warfare, was
barely mentioned by the mainstream media. We are dealing with a "military
roadmap". Iraq and Afghanistan are at the outset of the Bush admini!
stration's military adventure. Cheney warned that the US will be involved
in war for decades to come: Like other great duties in history, it will
require decades of patient effort, and it will be resisted by those whose
only hope for power is through the spread of violence...


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The war on pan-Arab nationalism
Xymphora
...It is correct to see many of the current scandals in Washington (Plame,
Franklin/AIPAC, Abramoff, and DeLay) as the reaction by patriotic Americans
to the wholesale capture of American foreign policy by Israeli interests.
However, it is also important to remember that American fear of pan-Arab
nationalism predates its current unhealthy relationship with Israel by
decades. The CIA started to covertly sponsor the Muslim Brotherhood in
Egypt in the 1950's, in reaction to N! asser and the perception of his
ability to forge a pan-Arab alliance. The whole thing starts to make sense
when you realize that al Qaeda is just an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood...

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How the US military liberated Iraqis...
Truth About Iraqis
..."We would give them blows to the head, chest, legs and stomach, and pull
them down, kick dirt on them," one sergeant said. "This happened every
day...We did it for amusement." Another soldier says detainees were beaten
with a broken chemical light stick: "That made them glow in the dark, which
was real funny, but it burned their eyes, and their skin was irritated real
bad." An off-duty cook told an Iraqi prisoner "to bend over and broke the
guy's leg w! ith a ... metal bat." The sergeant continues: "I know that
now. It was wrong. There are a set of standards. But you gotta understand,
this was the norm."...

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Galloway and the Stampeding of Arab Jews
Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire
It really irks the Zionists and their neocon fellow travelers George
Galloway has the gall to cite the historical record and thus criticize the
settler state of Israel for its immoral use of “dirty tricks.” For
instance, Patrick Devenny, as noted on this blog earlier in the week,
basically assigned Galloway to the status of a far left lunatic for telling
the talk show radio host Alex Jones and his audience the following: “They
(Zionist! s) created the conditions in the Arab countries and in some
European countries to stampede Jewish people out of the countries that they
had been living in for many hundreds of years and stampede them into the
Zionist state.”...

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 7 October 2005
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board,
the Free Arab Voice. ( http://www.freearabvoice.org )
...In the first days of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan (which began on 5
October) US Marines reportedly abducted and raped a 16-year-old Iraqi girl
whom they later dumped in the middle of a road outside of the city of
al-Hillah, south of Baghdad. The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported a
source in the al-Hillah puppet! police force as saying on Friday morning
that a detachment of the al-Hillah puppet police found the girl (Raqad K.),
who was born in 1989 thrown o the side of the road. She had been raped and
beaten by US Marines, they reported...

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IRAQ IS BUSH'S WAR / NOT AMERICA'S WAR
Allen L Roland, Ph.D
...Let me remind you that Iraq is an illegally occupied country with an
American appointed interim government which later became the illegal
official government while still under the iron rule of American occupation.
The root of this insurgency ( which Bush calls terrorism ) is the millions
of Iraqis who want their country back and decide their own fate ~ without
American interference. These are not desperate, maddened, fiends with
nothing but murder in ! their hearts and minds ~ they are insurgents
fighting for freedom and their country. We are the terrorists in the eyes
of millions of Iraqis who want to reclaim their own country ~ a country
which has been severely disenfranchised under Bremer's 100 illegal
executive orders...

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7.450 families already refugees again displaced by US attacks in the area
Press Release (IraqSolidaridad, www.nodo50.org/iraq)
...In the face of new offensives by the Pentagon in the Western zone of
Iraq, 7.450 families, previously refugees from al-Qaem, ha been forced to a
new internal displacement . US military forces and the Iraqi National Guard
re-launched finally their aerial and land strikes in the area of al-Qaim
and other nearly cities and towns (Ebeidi, Rabot, Sida, etc.) in the first
days of October. L! ast weekend, 1st and 2nd October started the attack
against the town of Sida, while Ebeidy was bombarded, according to local
resources...

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A CounterPunch Special Investigation
New American Law
The Case of Dr. Dhafir
JENNIFER VAN BERGEN
Dr. Rafil Dhafir, an American citizen of Muslim faith and Iraqi descent,
had a charity that gave money to help the children in Iraq. Now he faces a
twenty plus year sentence for it. Prosecutors say this is justice. The
defense says it was a deliberate attempt to intimidate and shut down a
tight-knit Muslim community that was not dependent upon American money
systems...

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The Plame Case: How About Focusing on the Real Issues?
Larry Johnson
...Whether or not indictments come down, our domesticated mainstream media
probably will continue to play down the damage to US intelligence. Even
more important, they are likely to ignore completely the very curious event
that started the whole business—the forging of documents that became the
basis of reporting that Iraq was seeking uranium in Niger for its
(non-existent) nuclear weapons program. Together with other circumstantial
evidence, th! e neuralgic reaction of Vice President Dick Cheney to press
reports that he was point man for promoting the bogus “intelligence” report
suggests that he may also have been its intellectual author/authorizer.
Yes, I am suggesting that it may have been an inside job...

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From Despair to Hope
Cindy Sheehan, t r u t h o u t
There were many nights after Casey was killed and we buried him that I had
to restrain myself from swallowing my entire bottle of sleeping pills. The
pain and the deep pit of hopeless despair were almost too much to cope
with. How can a person be expected to live in a world that is so full of
pain and so devoid of hope? I would think to myself: "It would be so easy
to take these pills and go to sleep and never wake up in this awful world
again"...

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Government Accused of Death Squads in Iraq
Sinan Salaheddin , AP
The 22 bodies, lined up in coffins in a mosque courtyard Friday, are as
shriveled as ancient mummies after lying a month in the desert where they
were dumped, bound and bullet-ridden. They were Sunni Arabs, rounded up
from their Baghdad homes one night by men in police uniforms. Relatives and
neighbors in mourning are convinced they were killed by government-linked
Shiite death squads they say are behind corpses that turn up nearly every
day in and! around the capital - two more on Friday. Now some Sunnis are
vowing to take action to protect themselves...

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Edging Towards Disaster with Iran
Mike Whitney
The prospect of war breaking out between the United States and Iran is more
likely by the day. Still, for the most part, the American public seems
strangely unaware of the growing danger. In late September Iran began
conducting major military exercises in the southwestern province of
Khuzestan, where officials claim that US agents have infiltrated and are
carrying out destabilizing activities. Tehran has deployed 100,000 soldiers
to the oil-rich region to address the! growing unrest and to carry out
maneuvers which anticipate a preemptive invasion by the US. These signs of
mounting tensions are further amplified by a resolution that was passed by
the UN's nuclear watchdog agency (IAEA) two weeks ago. The agency voted by
a slim majority to bring Iran before the UN Security Council for
"non-compliance" with its treaty requirements under the terms of the NPT
(Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty)...

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Bush White House declares torture vital to US security policy
Patrick Martin, WSWS
In an extraordinary declaration of the brutality of American foreign
policy, the Bush administration denounced a Senate vote to bar the use of
torture against prisoners held by the US military. Responding to the
passage of an amendment to a Pentagon spending bill—approved by an
overwhelming 90-9 vote Wednesday, the White House said the proposal would
“restrict the president’s authority to protect Americans effectively from
terroris! t attack and bring terrorists to justice”...

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Hasani blames Iran for murders of Shiite clerics
Middle East Online
Iraqi parliament speaker Hajim al-Hasani has accused Iran of being behind
the assassination of two top Shiite Muslim clerics in Iraq in 2003, a
Kuwaiti newspaper reported. "Baghdad has conclusive evidence of Iran's
involvement in the assassination of Ayatollah Mohammed Baqer al-Hakim and
Abdul Majid al-Khoie," he was quoted as saying by Islamist sources,
Al-Anbaa said in its Thursday edition...

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Iraqi pharmacists attack
Xymphora
They're getting a bit obvious, aren't they? Fitzgerald is getting ready to
announce who, if anybody, he's going after (with Rove apparently singing
like a little turd canary), and we get a big subway terrorism scare in NYC.
And get this! It's an attack by Iraqi pharmacists (I guess the Iraqi
fightin' opthamologists were busy)...

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Six U.S. Marines Killed In Western Iraq
Associated Press
The U.S. military said six Marines have died in a pair of roadside bomb
attacks in western Iraq. Four of the Marines died while conducting combat
operations Thursday about 50 miles west of Baghdad. The other attack
Thursday occurred while two Marines were on patrol not far from the Syrian
border...

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