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Poll: Iraqis Support Attacking Occupation Troops
Kurt Nimmo, Another day in the empire
In Britain, it takes a Ministry of Defense poll to figure out the obvious:
the average Iraqi hates the British, hates the occupation, and "up to 65
per cent of Iraqi citizens support attacks" against British and American
troops. "The nationwide survey also suggests that the coalition has lost
the battle to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people, which Tony
Blair and George W Bush believed was fundamental to creating a saf! e and
secure country," reports the Sunday Telegraph.

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Fast Car - Shadows On A Lonesome Road
John Kaminski
...The level of reality of most of antiwar activity in the United States
basically accepts the government's version of 9/11 and focuses its
objection on the unnecessary carnage taking place all over the world thanks
to U.S. policies, which of course is not a bad thing to complain about. But
missing the point about the nature of the war and who is creating the
violence -- it's not the neocons, it's the vast majority of the American
people who support them who are! letting this happen -- guarantees yet
another useless and failed effort on the part of America's peaceniks,
because they simply do not see the lies that have been told by the White
House and TV talking heads have twisted the way everyone sees things...

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Saddam's Lawyer Refrains from Traveling to Amman Due to Fear
Al Sharq Al Awsat
A member of the defense team of the former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein
stated that Khalil Al Dulaimi, the lawyer for Saddam, who was supposed to
arrive in Amman for arranging a work plan, has cancelled his trip, "for
security reasons." Essam Ghazawi, a Jordanian lawyer, said to AFP, "Khalil
Al Dulaimi has refrained from coming to Jordan for security reasons."
Ghazawi referred to what he described as "deliberate administrative compli!
cations on the Iraqi side that prevented Khalil from leaving to Amman on
Friday"...

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The center of the Axis of Evil located in Washington
Pravda.ru
Freedom and democracy? Or torture and murder? What does the United States
of America stand for today? After Abu Ghraib, shocking revelations reach us
of Taleban bodies being burnt and placed facing Mecca and Saddam Hussein
being subjected to torture. The United States of America of George W. Bush
makes a mockery of his country's culture, history and Constitution. Far
from being the land of the free, the land where dreams come true, George
Bush's Washi! ngton is the Great American Nightmare. With its foreign
policy dictated by a clique of conservative corporate elitists, the
procedure followed by Washington today is one of bullying, belligerence,
deception, deceit, lies, mass murder, criminal negligence, criminal and
wanton destruction of civilian structures with military hardware, war
crimes and increasingly, torture...

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Stomping on To Syria
Chris Floyd
With Rice pounding on Syria all last week and now Bolton and Bush leaping
on the Syrialiban bandwagon - the thumping drumbeat to expand the bloody
war is continuing to echo throughout DC this week. As soon as the UN report
on the death of Hariri came out the heat on Syria became even more palpable
and has escalated. Of course none of this matters perhaps - since Rice
recently told the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee that expansion of the
war was not off the table and would not! rule out Bush hitting Syria and
Iran next without Congress in his pocket. Could it somehow be covered under
Bush's enhanced dictatorial rights bovinely passed for Iraq after 9-11?...

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The "Stinky Inky," Part 2
Walter C. Uhler
Were one to read Davis Merritt's recent book, Knightfall: Knight Ridder and
How the Erosion of Newspaper Journalism is Putting Democracy at Risk, he or
she would realize that the reasons for The Philadelphia Inquirer's
deterioration extend far beyond the irredeemable right-wing slop that so
often besmirches its Commentary page. Merritt's insights take on added
significance, given the recently announced editorial staff reductions that
have shaken the Inky. But they must await my future evaluation, because the
Inky's stinky Commentary page of October 20, 2005 demands an immediate
response. Stinky? Yes, simply consider its outrageously uniformed and
insipid right-wing essays by Kathleen Parker and Jonah Goldberg . . .
First, a cheerleading Ms. Parker asked why no newspaper headlines read:
"Iraqi democracy takes bow to standing ovation, global applause." After
all, "What matters is, they voted. They went to the polls and practiced
democracy." Oh, really?

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US troops fighting losing battle for Sunni triangle
Adrian Blomfield
...But hopes for progress are growing more remote. The insurgency in
eastern Salahuddin province is growing more intense, more deadly and more
sophisticated. Lt Col Gary Brito, the battalion's commanding officer, said
that in recent months the number of roadside bombs targeting his men had
increased by a third - even though journeys out of base have been cut back.
They are having a more devastating effect too...

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One victory, another ongoing struggle
Campus military recruiters in hot water
Bryan G. Pfeifer
After being "banned" from campus, Charles Peterson has been reinstated at
Holyoke Community College. This victory for the entire counter-recruitment
and anti-war movement came only after massive worldwide support for
Peterson and resistance actions, including a march and rally on campus Oct.
6. The attempt to bar Peterson from the campus where he studies and works
came after a counter-recruiting action there ! on Sept. 29. He and other
members of the HCC Anti-War coalition were brutalized and Maced by campus
and state cops as they were protesting Army National Guard recruiting at
the student cafeteria...


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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 22 October 2005
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board,
the Free Arab Voice.
...Shi'i sectarian Badr Brigade forces on Saturday morning carried out
house-to-house raids on Sunni residents of the southern Iraqi city of
an-Nasiriyah, robbing the householders of their valuables and arresting
more than 70 individuals without charge. It was the second day of sectarian
raids and robberies. The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported that! 17
bodies of Sunni citizens, meanwhile, have been found mutilated with signs
of torture from burning with fire, electricity and boiling water on them...

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Throwing Miller and Libby Overboard is Not Enough
Arianna Huffington
So the New York Times has finally decided to throw Judy Miller overboard.
The lambasting that began with Bill Keller's memo and continued with
Maureen Dowd's column, has now culminated with Byron Calame's Public Editor
column. But everything the Times is now castigating Miller for was well
known, or easily knowable, weeks and months ago when the paper was
lionizing her as the Joan of Sag Harbor...

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U.S. hides the death of 4 Halliburton contractors in Iraq
Aljazeera.com
The U.S. military confirmed Saturday that four American contractors have
been killed last month in the Iraqi town of Duluiyah when their convoy came
under gunmen attack, The Boston Globe reported Sunday. Senior U.S. military
commander confirmed the report, but he provided no reason why the military
had not released information on the attack earlier...

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GI Special 3C91: 45% Of Iraqis Want U.S. Troops Dead
www.militaryproject.org
Forty-five percent of Iraqis believe attacks on U.S. and British troops are
justified, according to a secret poll said to have been commissioned by
British defense leaders and cited by The Sunday Telegraph. [In case you're
wondering, 45% is about 7 million Iraqis, if you subtract kids too young to
bear arms. Seven million vs. 140,000 occupation troops. Do you like those
odds? There is not the slightest hope of defeating the Iraqi resista! nce.
There is only endless death in a war already lost commanded by Imperial
politicians in Washington DC too cowardly and murderous to admit it. They
must all go, peacefully if possible, by any means necessary if not. Be
aware, the patience of the troops is not inexhaustible, and as Vietnam
showed, if the politicians won't end a hopeless, lost war, our troops will
stop the slaughter by acting for themselves.]...

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CIA Escapes With Impunity Over Prisoner Deaths: Report
IslamOnline.net
CIA officers and contract workers have tortured Iraqi and Afghan prisoners
to death with seeming impunity as they likely to escape criminal charges in
all of the reported deaths, a leading US newspaper revealed on Sunday,
October 23 . Federal prosecutors reviewing cases of possible misconduct by
CIA employees in both countries had notified lawyers they did not intend to
bring criminal charges in several cases involving the handling of terroris!
m suspects and Iraqi resistance fighters, The New York Times reported...

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GI Special 3C90: Dead In New Mexico - October 23, 2005
www.militaryproject.org/
Veterans groups and House Democrats blasted VA plans to review all
post-traumatic stress disorder claims because of irregularities in their
compensation system, calling it insulting to heroes who have served their
country. "To the VA, this is simply a process seeking out voids in
paperwork," said Rep. Tom Udall, D-N.M., at a Thursday hearing on Capitol
Hill. "But to veterans, it's a jolting realization that their day-to-day
struggles ! are being questioned again." [C]ritics called it a way for the
department to save money by shirking its duty to care for disabled
veterans. Quentin Kinderman, deputy director of legislative service for the
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, called the IG report flawed
and the proposed review a waste of money...

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IRAQ: Basra incident exposes the real foreign terrorists
Louay Alzaher
Last month, "civilised" Britain troops revenged themselves on the police
headquarters of Basra city, because the police had arrested two British
commandos, disguised in traditional Iraqi dress, who had fired on Iraqi
police, killing one officer. Using six tanks, in the early hours of
September 19 the British Army not only destroyed the Basra central police
headquarters, but also smashed all signs of Iraqi national sovereignty
under their wheel! s. When the two commandos were arrested on September 17,
the car in which they were travelling contained explosives, remote
triggering devices, a mortar, two automatic guns and a sniper gun equipped
with a night-vision scope...

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Americans must start protesting the Bush regime's international terrorism
Zack Krasuk
...On January 27, 2005, Venezuela's acting ambassador to Paraguay, Elmer
Nino, publicly stated that Venezuela's government has physical proof that
the Bush regime has plans for a possible invasion of Venezuela. Reasons for
such an invasion are of course, financial, just like the Iraq War was.
Venezuela's case would be all the more apparent however: the US is having
less trade with Venezuela and juicy deals are now impossible to ! achieve
since the days of foreign exploitation of the local populace are long gone.
The US has its eyes set on the vast oil, gas, and gold reserves of
Venezuela. Should the Bush regime try to commit an act such as that, which
violates international law, just like the invasion of Iraq, it is to be
noted that the Venezuelan people are united in their struggle to ending
foreign dominance and exploitation and shall be willing to fight to the
bitter end...

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Iraqi bar association urges boycott of Saddam court
Reuters
The Iraqi Bar Association on Sunday urged lawyers to stop working with the
special court hearing the case against Saddam Hussein until the murder of a
member of the defense team is solved. The association also passed a
resolution calling a one-day strike for Wednesday to protest the killing of
Saadoun Janabi, who was bundled out of his Baghdad office last Thursday by
heavily-armed men and later found dead of gunshot wounds...

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Pyrrhus Without His Victory
Bush the Strategist
BRIAN CLOUGHLEY
At the moment there are some 154,000 US troops in Iraq. That seems a lot.
It is, after all, about the population of Fort Lauderdale (FLA), Syracuse
(NY) or Kansas City (KS). It's only a tad more than the usual attendance at
the Kentucky Derby, which is a pretty big gathering of people. But it
doesn't mean there are 154,000 rifle-wielding soldiers and marines
available to combat the insurgents. Far from it. For Bush to claim that he
will "c! lear out enemy forces" city by city is absurd because there are
not enough US troops to do so. And that is exactly what his incompetent
defense secretary and even more grotesque assistant defense secretary were
told in plain words by the army's chief, General Shinseki, who informed
them that occupying Iraq would require several hundred thousand soldiers...

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British military investigator found hung in Basra
Julie Hyland, WSWS
A senior British military police officer in Iraq, Captain Ken Masters, was
found hung in his military accommodation in Basra on October 15. Masters
was commander of the Royal Military Police’s Special Investigations Branch
(SIB), charged with investigating allegations of mistreatment of Iraqi
civilians by British soldiers. According to the Independent newspaper, in
this capacity Masters "had examined almost every single serious allegation
of abu! se of Iraqi civilians by British troops," including "the cases of
the fusiliers convicted of abusing prisoners at Camp Breadbasket near Basra
and a paratrooper who has been charged in connection with the death of Baha
Mousa, a hotel receptionist." In recent weeks, Masters was thought to have
been involved in the investigation into the events of September 19, when
Iraqi police arrested two British undercover Special Air Service (SAS)
officers in Basra...

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Will the French Indict Cheney?
Doug Ireland
Yet another sordid chapter in the murky annals of Halliburton might well
lead to the indictment of Dick Cheney by a French court on charges of
bribery, money-laundering and misuse of corporate assets. At the heart of
the matter is a $6 billion gas liquification factory built in Nigeria on
behalf of oil mammoth Shell by Halliburton--the company Cheney headed
before becoming Vice President--in partnership with a large French
petroengineering company, Technip. Nigeria has ! been rated by the
anticorruption watchdog Transparency International as the second-most
corrupt country in the world, surpassed only by Bangladesh...

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The Show Trial of the Century
Trial of Saddam diverts attention from US-UK war crimes
Ghali Hassan, GlobalResearch.ca
President Saddam Hussein's "trial" before a U.S.-orchestrated Kangaroo
Court is hailed as the "trial of the century". Those who committed the
crimes are rewarded and protected, while their victims are put on a show
trial. It is not Saddam who is on trial; it is the international legal
system (...) Saddam trial is a theatre. It is a Hollywood show to divert
attention from the destructio! n of Iraq and the massive war crimes
committed against the Iraqi people. Like the invasion, the "tribunal" is
illegal and has no legitimacy in occupied Iraq. There is overwhelming prima
facie evidence to convict George W. Bush and Tony Blair of crimes against
humanity than to convict Saddam Hussein. Under the U.N Convention, Bush and
Blair are guilty of crimes against humanity, torture, and guilty of wanton
destruction of the Iraqi state (...) It is not Saddam who is guilty of
crimes against humanity; Bush and Blair are...

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