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Film Criticism, Charles Clarke and Me
Les Skeates, Outside the Gates
...What is happening in Iraq with the bombings of Mosques, festivals and
markets is partly designed to disrupt and ultimately stop a similar
secular/faith alliance developing amongst the Iraqi resistance. Sectarian
terror of this sort only benefits the occupation forces. This was Northern
Ireland. Has been Palestine for the past 38 years and is now Iraq. Maybe I
have underestimated what the Generals learnt from 'The Battle of
Algiers'?...

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Syria: The Next Iraq
Robert Dreyfuss
Three years ago, the U.S. invasion of Iraq was widely viewed as the first
chapter of a region-wide strategy to remake the entire map of the Middle
East. Following Iraq, Syria and Iran would be the next targets, after which
the oil-rich states of the Arabian Gulf, including Saudi Arabia, would
follow. It was a policy driven by neoconservatives in and outside of the
Bush administration, and they didn’t exactly make an effort to keep it
secret...

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TvNewsLIES Challenges Believers of the Official Version of 9/11:
Where the Hell Is YOUR Proof?
Jesse, Editor - TvNewsLIES.org
To this day, there has been no independent official inquiry into the
attacks of September 11, 2001. The Kean Commission, with which most
Americans are familiar, was based on the Bush/PNAC version of events. It
was charged with probing the breakdown of intelligence prior to the attacks
and making suggestions for improving communications among the competing
agencies involved. The Commis! sion, formed after more than a year of
opposition by the Bush administration, did not…repeat...did NOT…investigate
or report about the causes of the attacks...

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Cheney Told Aide of C.I.A. Officer, Lawyers Report
David Johnston, Richard W. Stevenson and Douglas Jehl, New York Times
I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, first
learned about the C.I.A. officer at the heart of the leak investigation in
a conversation with Mr. Cheney weeks before her identity became public in
2003, lawyers involved in the case said Monday. Notes of the previously
undisclosed conversation between Mr. Libby and Mr. Cheney on June 12, 2003,
appear to differ from Mr. Lib! by's testimony to a federal grand jury that
he initially learned about the C.I.A. officer, Valerie Wilson, from
journalists, the lawyers said...

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Another Dodgy Dossier: The Mehlis Report On the Harari Assassination
Social Democracy Now
The Mehlis report on the Hariri assassination is just another dodgy
dossier. In order to lay the blame for the assassination at Syria's door it
specializes in innuendo and unverified allegations by anonymous persons.
The only named individual purporting to possess information incriminating
Syria turns out to be a multiply convicted swindler who was paid handsomely
for his revelations by a Syrian dissident...

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Improvised Iraqi weapons deadly to USA occupation forces
GI Total Dead: 3 short of 2,000
Ernesto Cienfuegos, La Voz de Aztlan
A primary reason for the defeat of the USA in Vietnam was the determined
insurgency by the Vietcong. The Vietcong, though lacking conventional
weaponry and field supplies, defeated the vastly better equipped USA armed
forces by utilizing improvised weapons and extremely effective guerilla
tactics. These very same tactics by the Iraqi insurgency are today taking a
very h! eavy toll on USA occupation soldiers. The Iraqi fighters are
following the ancient and classical principles of insurgency: when the
enemy attacks, retreat; when the enemy digs in, harass; when the enemy is
exhausted, attack...

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Salivate, Citizen
Mike (in Tokyo) Rogers
... I was indoctrinated by US government propaganda that taught me to
believe that American lives are more important or valuable than the lives
of people from other countries. Why do Americans care when two of their
soldiers are killed in a foreign country – in a foreign country? But when
tens of thousands of innocents – in their own homes – in their own country
– are bombed and murdered by us, it is not even reported in American news?
Why do the brainwashed cry when one o! r two soldiers are killed fighting
in a country – a country that they had no business being in the first place
– but don’t care for the innocent children murdered by those soldiers at
the same time?...

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Colonel quits as fears grow for the safety of his men
Sean Rayment, Telegraph
A senior army officer serving in Iraq, who voiced concerns over a lack of
armoured vehicles for his men, has resigned. Details of the resignation
emerged just days after another of Lt Col Nick Henderson's soldiers was
killed in a bomb attack in Basra. Last month the 43-year old commanding
officer of 1st Bn Coldstream Guards, who is married with children, made a
request to senior officers for extra Warrior armoured personnel carriers...

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Cheney aide passed Plame's name to Libby, Hadley, those close to leak
investigation say
Jason Leopold and Larisa Alexandrovna, Raw Story
With the possibility of indictments just days away, sources close to the
investigation into who outed covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson have
provided RAW STORY a more detailed account into how and why Plame's name
was leaked and what role the Pentagon and the vice president's office
played. Those close to the investigation say that Special Prosecutor
Patrick Fitzgerald has b! een told that David Wurmser, then a Middle East
adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney on loan from the office of then-Under
Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs John
Bolton, met with Cheney and his chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby in
June 2003 and told Libby that Plame set up the Wilson trip. He asserted
that it was a boondoggle, the sources said. Libby then shared the
information with Karl Rove, President Bush's deputy chief of staff, the
sources said...

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Alice in Wonderland: The World As It Is Today
Sam Hamod
I remember reading ALICE IN WONDERLAND and thinking, how in the world did
that world become so upside down. But guess what, weâ*™re in an Alice in
Wonderland world right now. G W Bush says things are better in Iraq; yet,
more of our troops and more Iraqi civilians are being killed everyday and
there is no safe place for any American or foreigner except in the Green
Zone...

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Former UN Weapons Inspector: Don't Rule Out Staged Government Terror
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
Former United Nations weapons inspector and Marine Scott Ritter appeared on
The Alex Jones Show and stated that he wouldn't rule out the possibility of
the Bush administration staging a terror attack in order to jolt a wavering
foreign policy agenda back on track. Ritter compared the atmosphere within
the administration to that during the time of Watergate, where Nixon
considered utilizing America's nuclear arsena! l to create a devastating
diversion from domestic calamity. "Nothing this administration would do
would surprise me, they're desperate right now"...

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Enemy Body Counts Revived
Bradley Graham, The Washington Post
US is citing tolls to show success in Iraq. Eager to demonstrate success in
Iraq, the U.S. military has abandoned its previous refusal to publicize
enemy body counts and now cites such numbers periodically to show the
impact of some counterinsurgency operations. The revival of body counts, a
practice discredited during the Vietnam War, has apparently come without
formal guidance from the Pentagon's leadership. Military spokesmen in
Washington and Baghd! ad said they knew of no written directive detailing
the circumstances under which such figures should be released or the steps
that should be taken to ensure accuracy...

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Is Anyone Responsible for Iraq's Disaster?
Ira Chernus
Once again, a mainstream journalist has missed the real story because he
didn’t check out CommonDreams.org. This time it’s the New York Times’ top
dog in Baghdad, Dexter Filkins, writing a long piece about the tragedy of
Nathan Sassaman (...) Sassaman’s own explanation sounded crazy: "Fear and
violence…can convince these people that we are here to help them." So
Filkins now omits that quote, which he had once published, and makes it all
sound very reasonable:! "His theory was that no progress would be possible
without order first and that ultimately, even if his men were hard on the
locals, they would come around." (...) One night early in January, 2004,
Sassaman’s hard-line theory of "order first" led some of his men to throw
two captive Iraqis into the Tigris river. Only one came out alive. Sassaman
tried to cover up their crime, got caught, and received an official
reprimand for criminal conduct, which effectively ended his military
career. But Filkins’ current article lays no blame on Sassaman, nor on Bush
administration decision-makers...

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Another Military Blogger Silenced
Matt, The Tattered Coat
Months ago, in response to a post I wrote about the military blogger Colby
Buzzell, Kate of Broken Windows told me to pay attention to Daniel Goetz, a
soldier writing a blog called All the King’s Horses. Regrettably, I never
followed her advice. And now, as Lizzy, Fred, and Navyswan tell us, it is
too late. It is too late because Daniel has been silenced, against his
will. And not only has he been silenced — he has been forced to publicly
declare himself "! a supporter of the administration and of her policies"...

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IEDs: Iraq rebels' deadly weapon against US troops
AFP
The most powerful military force in the world faces a steady loss of life
in Iraq from makeshift bombs planted by or even under the roadside — deadly
items soldiers call improvised explosive devices, or IEDs. While the
euphemism is a catch-all term that also includes small bombs made with
home-made explosives, in Iraq it more often refers to bombs built by
insurgents using military-grade ammunition...

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Iraqi oil exports grind to a halt
BBC News
Oil exports from Iraq have been completely halted by a combination of
attacks and bad weather, reports say. Four sabotage attacks brought exports
from Northern Iraq to a halt on Sunday and officials warned the damage may
take a month to repair. The problem worsened on Monday when a pipeline
carrying crude to the Turkish port of Ceyhan was hit in an attack...

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