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uruknet.info «Ë-Ë“Ê Æ‰Ê·Ë :: information from occupied iraq :: informazione dall'iraq occupato The Iraqi government started punishing provinces who rejected the constitution Mohamed Younis The referendum about the Iraqi constitution was associated with huge frauds made by the ruling parties, who insisted on passing articles that are in their favor. Many parties and politicians have asked for investigations. However, instead of investigating these frauds, the Iraqi government has raised major offensives against people of the provinces which rejected the constitution... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=0&p=17895&s2=16>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=17895 US ADMITS USE OF WHITE PHOSPHOROUS IN FALLUJAH Truth About Iraqis ...But Venebale above says the US military never targeted civilians. That doesn't quite ring true. They encircled a town of 300,000 and those civilians who tried to get out during the early stage of the attack on the town were shot and killed. Those that tried to escape over the river Euphrates were shot and killed. You can find dozens of accounts from civilians themselves, but as they are all Iraqis and Sunnis, then they are all liars, of course. ! Right? Wrong. The liars are the US military. Just check your archives and see how the US military referred to all of Falluja with every one inside - a military stronghold. No mention of civilian town. Military. Stronghold (...) So when the US military says it never targeted civilians, sure that's true because it considered all of Fallujah a military stronghold... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=0&p=17897&s2=16>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=17897 White Phosphorus Stewart, Insulted.org Not too long ago there was a report from the Italian media that the US Armed Forces had used the illegal chemical weapon, White Phosphorus, on the population of Fallujah. "No, no," our government cried: U.S. forces have used [White Phosphorus shells] very sparingly in Fallujah, for illumination purposes. They were fired into the air to illuminate enemy positions at night, not at enemy fighters. "Wait, um… Can I change my answer?" they asked. Now, apparently, the milit! ary is admitting that they did use White Phosphorus as a weapon, but that there’s nothing wrong with that at all... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=0&p=17896&s2=16>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=17896 Amman Bombings: More Suspicious Details Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire A story appearing on the CBC World News website this afternoon reveals additional details about the Amman hotel bombings and shoots a big hole in the official story, as pimped by the corporate media. A security official, who will likely be demoted if his identity is revealed, told the Associated Press that "lights in sections of both the Radisson and Hyatt hotels went out just before the near simultaneous blasts in—apparent—co-ordinated! fashion…. A DJ at the Radisson, where a Jordanian-Palestinian wedding reception was bombed, also recalled how the ballroom where the party was being held mysteriously descended into darkness. 'The lights at the wedding hall went off seconds, maybe just one second, before the blast, although there was electricity outside the room in the corridor, the nearby lobby area and the reception,’ Fadi al-Kessi told The AP. 'For some reason, I looked to my right in the darkness and saw what looked liked lightening, then there was a loud boom. It felt like the explosion came from the ceiling, then people started running out,’" notes the AP... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=0&p=17883&s2=16>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=17883 Bomb trigger Xymphora We can now start to get an idea of the very simple but ingenious way in which the Jordan bombs were activated. I think we can take as a given that the target of the bombs was the Palestinians, particularly the chief Palestinian spy, and the Chinese military officials. Besides killing the Palestinians, the bomb was intended to send a message to the Chinese that they shouldn't be dealing with the Palestinians (I'll leave it up to you to guess the identity of the only country in the world that ! might want to send that kind of message). Any other story completely ignores the fact that it is just too much of a coincidence that the Palestinian and Chinese officials died. The technical problem was how to manage the bombing so that the right targets ended up dead. The civilian deaths were required to lay the basis for the suicide bomb fable... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=0&p=17901&s2=16>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=17901 End of Justice in Australia Ghali Hassan, www.globalresearch.ca The right-wing government of John Howard proposes to introduce through Federal Parliament a draconian anti-terror legislation, the Anti-Terrorism Bill 2005. If passed, the Bill would make it easy for the government and the police to arrest and detain without charge Australians from Muslim and Arab backgrounds on suspicion of planning to commit act of terrorism (...) In addition, anti-war demonstrators and anyone who provide moral support to the Iraqi! people resisting the violent U.S. Occupation and defending their country would be unlawful. The Howard Government proposes to make it an offence, punishable by seven years’ imprisonment, for "any person" who "urges another person to engage in conduct to assist, by any means whatever, an organisation or country ... engaged in armed hostilities against the Australian Defence Force". This is interesting because the war on Iraq was "an illegal act of aggression" and in violations of UN Charter. The UN legitimises resistance – by any means – against foreign occupation... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=0&p=17894&s2=16>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=17894 Intl. Probe Into Abuses by Iraqi Govt. Urged IslamOnline.net US-backed Iraqi government faced calls Wednesday, November 16, for an international enquiry into abuse of Sunnis at a secret prison in Baghdad where inmates were reportedly tortured, beaten and starved. The call by the Sunni-based Islamic Party follows revelations that more than 170 detainees, mostly Sunnis, were illegally held at a center run by the Shiite-dominated interior ministry, in a case likely to embarrass the US military supervising local secu! rity forces, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP). "We insist on having an international investigation," Islamic Party spokesman Alaa Makki told AFP... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=0&p=17898&s2=16>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=17898 Former U.S. Army Interrogator Describes the Harsh Techniques He Used in Iraq, Detainee Abuse by Marines and Navy Seals and Why “Torture is the Worst Possible Thing We Could Do” Democracy Now! ...Lagouranis says he now feels it his duty to speak out about what he witnessed in Iraq: * His use of harsh interrogation techniques on prisoners in Iraq including dogs, sleep deprivation, prolonged isolation and dietary manipulation. * How Navy SEALS induced hypothermia by using ice water to lower the body temperature of p! risoners. * Serving in Fallujah and going through the clothes and pockets of some 500 dead bodies to try and identify them. * The corpses on men, women and children in Fallujah, which had been lying in the streets for days and had been "eaten by dogs and birds and maggots," were then stacked up in a warehouse where U.S. soldiers ate and slept.... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=0&p=17881&s2=16>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=17881 Deaths by Torture Don't End Questioning Far from Abu Ghraib, some answers about the Bush regime's conduct are buried at the World Bank Harkavy, The Village Voice ...Mayer's story on the death of Abu Ghraib prisoner Manadel al-Jamadi is particularly chilling — in some ways, it's even more frightening than the photo of his corpse (...) Manadel al-Jamadi may be dead and cold and buried, but one body that's still alive and warm is buried in the vault of the World Bank. The least we can do is start ! probing Wolfowitz about prisoners, torture, and other matters. <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=0&p=17891&s2=16>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=17891 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 15 November 2005. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. ( http://www.freearabvoice.org ) In a dispatch posted at 4:50pm Mecca time Tuesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while before the US military had bombarded houses in the town of al-`Ubaydi, some 35km northwest of al-Qa'im near the border with Syria in western Iraq (...) The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in al-`Ubaydi reported that ! 24 bodies had been recovered from the rubble. These were nine children; five women; and 10 men, three of them elderly... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=0&p=17888&s2=16>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=17888 Our Man Cheney Anwaar Hussain, Fountainhead ...The trail of torture and prisoner abuse too has finally been traced and leads straight to Dick Cheney’s office. The policies on the treatment of prisoners emanating from Cheney's office triggered the abuse and torture, according to Lawrence Wilkerson, former Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff. He is a strong proponent of torture and supports a string of secret prisons all over the world in which suspects are held and tortured indefinitely, without trial! , without lawyers, without the right to confront their accusers, without knowing the evidence or the charges against them, if any. "We do not torture," he says in unison with the child President that he serves... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=0&p=17887&s2=16>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=17887 The Al-Zarqawi 11/9 Amman Bombings: More Holes in the Official Story Michel Chossudovsky, GlobalResearch.ca ...Upon reviewing the list of the 57 victims, however, we can confirm that: 1) There was not a single Israeli casualty. According to Haaretz and The Los Angeles Times, the Israelis had been evacuated prior to the blast. (see our earlier report on foreknowledge of the attacks); 2) With regard to the "Western and Israeli intelligence agencies", there were no reported Israeli or US intelligence officials a! mong the victims. In fact quite the opposite: two senior Palestinian intelligence officials were killed in the blast including Maj.-Gen. Bashir Nafeh, head of the Palestinian Authority's military intelligence and Col. Abed Allun, a high-ranking Preventive Security forces official. Both men were firm opponents of the US led war in Iraq... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=0&p=17886&s2=16>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=17886 Siberian Shadowlands- Part 2 Corporate Power: The New Tsar Sarah Meyer ...Browne is reported as being Blair’s favourite boss. Thus British Petroleum is also known as "Blair Petroleum." BP has membership in a number of Blair’s governmental 'Quangos.’ (...) Because of the Iraq war, BP pushed up profits by 42% in the second quarter of 2003. In the autumn of 2005, BP net profit was, in spite of hurricane damage, $6.53bn– a 34% quarterly profit rise. Halliburton, also working in the Siberian oil fields, reported ! a $499m profit for the third quarter.11 Why, then, were $billions of tax breaks given to oil corporations? Why are customers now paying more?... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=0&p=17893&s2=16>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=17893 Roadside Bomb Kills Three U.S. Soldiers Near Baghdad American Forces Press Service Three Task Force Baghdad soldiers were killed today when their patrol struck an improvised explosive device northwest of Baghdad, military officials in Iraq reported. The soldiers' names are being withheld pending notification of next of kin. Meanwhile, military commanders report Iraqi soldiers and U.S. Marines, soldiers and sailors have cleared most of Ubaydi in Operation Steel Curtain, but pockets of resistance and improvised bom! bs still pose "a considerable risk to both military personnel and civilians," according to a Multinational Force Iraq statement... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=0&p=17875&s2=16>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=17875 Exclusive: More than 13,000 being held by coalition in Iraqi prisons; Less than 2% have been convicted Larisa Alexandrovna, RAW STORY As more and more Iraqis have been detained and released, the insurgency has intensified. The number detained has more than doubled in the last year and a half; the number of attacks has also more than doubled over the same period. Recent documents leaked to RAW STORY reveal that as of Nov. 8, coalition forces in Iraq held 13,514 in Iraqi prisons. The documents also reveal the grim ! landscape of Iraq’s internment system, in which just two percent of those detained been convicted. A UN report has confirmed the basic figures... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=0&p=17882&s2=16>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=17882 Suspected torture centre found in Iraq Aljazeera.net More than 170 malnourished detainees found at an Interior Ministry detention centre in Baghdad appear to have been tortured, the Iraqi prime minister says. The announcement by Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari on Tuesday came two days after US troops surrounded and took control of an Interior Ministry building in the Baghdad neighbourhood where the detainees were found (...) The Interior Ministry is controlled by the majority Shia. Sunni leaders have accused S! hia-dominated security forces of detaining, torturing and killing hundreds of Sunnis simply because of their religious affiliation... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=0&p=17880&s2=16>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=17880 Pentagon used white phosphorous in Iraq ROBERT BURNS, Associated Press Pentagon officials acknowledged Tuesday that U.S. troops used white phosphorous as a weapon against insurgent strongholds during the battle of Fallujah last November. But they denied an Italian television news report that the spontaneously flammable material was used against civilians (...) The State Department, in response, initially denied that U.S. troops had used white phosphorous against enemy forces. "They were fired into the air to illu! minate enemy positions at night, not at enemy fighters." The department later said its statement had been incorrect... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=0&p=17879&s2=16>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=17879 Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse? Steven E. Jones, Department of Physics and Astronomy In writing this paper, I call for a serious investigation of the hypothesis that WTC 7 and the Twin Towers were brought down, not just by damage and fires, but through the use of pre-positioned explosives. I consider the official FEMA, NIST, and 9-11 Commission reports that fires plus damage alone caused complete collapses of all three buildings. And I present evidence for the explosive-demolition hypothesis, which i! s suggested by the available data, testable and falsifiable, and yet has not been analyzed in any of the reports funded by the US government... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=0&p=17878&s2=16>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=17878 In 2001, Tenet Said Iraq Posed No Threat Secret CIA Testimony Undermines Bush, Again JASON LEOPOLD President George W. Bush's attempt Friday to silence critics who say his administration manipulated prewar intelligence on Iraq is undercut by congressional testimony given in February 2001 by former CIA Director George Tenet, who said that Iraq posed no immediate threat to the United States or other countries in the Middle East. Details of Tenet's testimony have not been reported before... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=0&p=17877&s2=16>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=17877 Iraq WMD Lies: The Words of Mass Deception Michael Rivero, What Really Happened Colin Powell, February 2001: "[Saddam] has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors. So in effect, our policies have strengthened the security of the neighbors of Iraq." Condoleeza Rice, July 2001: "We are able to keep his arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt"... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=0&p=17873&s2=16>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=17873 'Peace Mom' Plans to Resume War Protest Associated Press The fallen soldier's mother who drew thousands to her 26-day war protest near President Bush's Crawford ranch this summer plans to return for Thanksgiving next week, despite new county ordinances banning roadside camping. Cindy Sheehan, of Vacaville, Calif., and at least a dozen supporters are prepared to be arrested as they return to the makeshift campsite along the road leading to Bush's ranch, where he is expected to spend the holiday... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=0&p=17876&s2=16>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=17876 <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. 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