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Nothing depleted about 'depleted uranium'
Abel Bult-Ito
Iraqi and visiting doctors, and a number of news reports, have reported
that birth defects and cancers in Iraqi children have increased five- to
10-fold since the 1991 Gulf War and continue to increase sharply, to over
30-fold in some areas in southern Iraq. Currently, more than 50 percent of
Iraqi cancer patients are children under the age of 5, up from 13 percent.
Children are especially vulnerable because they tend to play in areas that
are heavily pollut! ed by depleted uranium. The Pentagon has been using
radiooactive weapons for at least a decade and a half with full complicity
of at least three White House administrations and Republican and Democratic
congressional legislators...

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Mushrooming depleted uranium (DU) scandal
Heads roll at Veterans Administration
Bob Nichols, SF Bay View
Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter charged Monday that the reason Veterans
Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi stepped down earlier this month was the
growing scandal surrounding the use of uranium munitions in the Iraq War.
Writing in Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter No. 169, Arthur N. Bernklau,
executive director of Veterans for Constitutional Law in New York, stated,
"The real reason for Mr. Pri! ncipi’s departure was really never given,
however a special report published by eminent scientist Leuren Moret naming
depleted uranium as the definitive cause of the 'Gulf War Syndrome’ has fed
a growing scandal about the continued use of uranium munitions by the US
Military." Bernklau continued, "This malady (from uranium munitions), that
thousands of our military have suffered and died from, has finally been
identified as the cause of this sickness, eliminating the guessing. The
terrible truth is now being revealed."...

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Jack Abramoff and the Syrian 'Chalabi'
Xymphora
The Ahmad Chalabi of Syria is Farid Ghadry. The general neocon/Zionist
modus operandi is to set up a sort of government in exile to help to
undermine the governments of the countries that the Zionists intend the
United States to attack. Chalabi and his Iraqi National Congress were set
up by a the Republican spinner John Rendon...

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The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 41: The choice: obedience or annihilation
B. J. Sabri, Online Journal Contributing Writer
From one specific angle, the American bombardment of Iraq in 1991 had no
parallels in the entire history of modern warfare -- U.S. imperialists
televised it to every corner of the globe. With that, the show of mass
destruction had become visual entertainment for some and a message on the
cost of disobedience to U.S. diktat. In the United States where TV
addiction runs high,! viewers were able to see the live transmission of the
slaughter with a push of a button. This writer intensely recalls how some
people dinning out at New York City restaurants were wowing at the
televised scenes of explosions while consuming their meals. From another
angle, and because the Gulf War was an exclusive American-European
enterprise, but with a multinational cosmetic veneer, the televised
bombardment of Iraq signaled a revolutionary change in the attitudes of
Western imperialism and the societies they rule...

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Testimony from Bush Crimes Commission
David Swanson
...The Downing Street Minutes are short, to the point, and shocking. They
make clear that 1. Bush had already decided to go to war long before
approaching Congress or the public or the UN about it, and had already
started the attack with increased bombings; 2. Bush had already decided to
lie about weapons of mass destruction and ties to 9-11; 3. The Brits were
concerned by the illegality of an aggressive war, but the Bush
Administration was not; 4. Going to the ! UN was an attempt to justify the
war, and the hope was to craft an ultimatum that Saddam Hussein would
reject; 5. The focus of the Bush and Blair administrations was on selling
the war to the public, and not at all on trying to avoid it; 6. The Bush
and Blair administrations were aware that Iraq was no threat, and were
willing to attack Iraq precisely because it posed no serious threat of
fighting back...

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 21 January 2006
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board,
the Free Arab Voice
...In a dispatch posted at 11:59pm Mecca time Saturday night, Mafkarat
al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance fighters had carried out several
rocket attacks on strongholds of the US occupation forces in the 'Amiriyat
al-Fallujah area, south of the city of al-Fallujah proper, on Saturday. The
al-Fallujah correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that at ! about
2pm local time Saturday afternoon, Resistance fighters had fired two RPG7
rocket propelled grenades into a house in the area that US forces have been
using as a local headquarters for some time...

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Drinking water and the American raid
Baghdad Dweller
Related to the information given here; Mahmoudiya and Latifiya residents in
south Baghdad this week had water flowing from their faucets for the first
time in nearly eight years. This is not true, actually Baghdad never
suffered from lack of drinking water, water was never been a luxury in
Baghdad and to wake you up from your dreams, in most of the houses in
Baghdad there was two kinds of water, Drinking water and irrigation water
which used in houses fo! r cleaning and plants irrigation...

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Is the Red Cross doing the occupation a service by refusing to declare that
it has been prevented from fulfilling its humanitarian duties in Iraq?
Al-Basrah net
Our website is publishing the statement issued by the International
Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in reply to the Declaration of the Arab
Baath Socialist Party (appended to this commentary) in which the Baath
Party accused the ICRC of complicity with the occupation through its
silence about the occupation’s heinous crimes. We wish to note that our we!
bsite publishes political statements and declarations but it does not issue
any such statements or declarations of its own, despite the fact that we
are on the side of our people’s right to liberation from American
colonialism. A reading of the ICRC statement causes us to note, however,
that the ICRC is determined not to look at the disaster that the Iraqi
people are suffering from the viewpoint of international law and
humanitarianism, which in fact oblige it to expose such glaring
transgressions as have taken place and continue to take place against Iraqi
prisoners, in particular the members of the legitimate Iraqi leadership...

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Bush and NewSpeak Diplomacy
Peter Fredson, Daily Kos
Most of us know that Bush not only mangles phrases, but he manipulates the
meaning of ordinary words, twisting them beyond recognition in some sick
paraphrase designed to further his imperial ambitions. For instance, he
seems to blast ordinary but "sacred" words in the US into unrecognizable
rubble. Democracy, liberty, freedom, and sovereignty have been mangled and
distorted far from any legitimate meaning. Democracy for Bush is pointing a
gun at an Iraqi wom! an, and then blowing her head off. Liberty is putting
Abu Ghraib prisoners in chains, genitals connected to electrodes,
suspending them by their thumbs, and joyfully abusing them without any
restrictions. Sovereignty is the invasion of a conquering army into a small
country with shock and awe, the destruction of all authority in a country,
the looting of all resources, and the assigning of many "advisors" and
"diplomats" into that country to force them to kneel to Emperor George...

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Suicide car bomb kills two US Marines
AFP
A suicide car bomber has killed two US Marines in western Iraq, the
military said on Saturday. "Two Marines assigned to Regimental Combat Team
2, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), were
killed in action by a suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device
(SVBIED) while conducting combat operations in Haqlaniyah" on Friday, it
said in a statement...

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One American helicopter crashed in Iraq
ArabicNews.com
A source in the Iraqi police said that one American helicopter crashed in
al-Sadrin crossing area in al-Shula west of Baghdad, adding that members of
its crew survived and no one was injured. Meantime, a spokesman for the
British foreign office announced the killing of one of its members working
in a private security services company, but did not disclose the
circumstance of the incident...

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French president Chirac threatens nuclear retaliation in the event of
terrorist attacks
Peter Schwarz, WSWS
The French president, Jacques Chirac, has threatened states which support
terrorist attacks on France and its strategic interests, or which
contemplate the use of weapons of mass destruction, with retaliatory
nuclear strikes. He announced this new definition of French defence
strategy on Thursday at the nuclear powered submarine base, Ile Longue in
Brittany...

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It Would be Funny, If It Weren't So Tragic
Rumsfeld: Venezuela "Overspending"
DAVE LINDORFF
What are you supposed to do when the world's most over-armed, belligerent
and dangerous nation, which outspends all the rest of the world combined on
arms, and which is the major arms supplier to the rest of the world, tells
a little country like Venezuela that it is guilty of spending "too much" on
its military? The initial response is laughter. What a joke, right?
Venezuela, awash in oil revenue and feeling a ! little threatened by
threats from the United States to assassinate its leader and by U.S.
funding for groups that are trying to foment a coup, wants to spend a few
hundred million bucks on planes from Spain and Brazil to modernize its
airforce, and the U.S. State Department gets all worked up...

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GI Special 4A13: "I Ain't Movin" - January 21, 2006
Thomas Barton
Sgt. Kevin Benderman had provided Monica with a message for the radio
listeners, and only part of it was heard on air. It is shared below, and is
well worth reading at a time where this country seems intent on betraying
allies and seeking new enemies, even as it persists in manipulating both
Iraqi and Afghan politics. The betrayal and antagonism are not only
outwardly directed. Soldiers like Kevin Benderman are also targets. He
writes, Fi! rst of all, I would like to say thanks to everyone who has
supported Monica and me while we deal with the madness the Army has put us
both through because of my decision to stand up for what is right. I have
served a little over 5 months of a 15-month sentence given to me because I
developed a conscience and would no longer participate in a war that we
were lied into. I consider it an honor to be put in prison for standing for
what is right and all that I can say to the men responsible is "I feel
sorry for you." The reason I feel for them is because they refuse to see
the truth, and self-deception is the worse kind...

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How Cheney used the NSA for domestic spying prior to 9/11
Jason Leopold
In the months before 9/11, thousands of American citizens were
inadvertently swept up in wiretaps, had their emails monitored, and were
being watched as they surfed the Internet by spies at the super-secret
National Security Agency, former NSA and counterterrorism officials said.
The NSA, with full knowledge of the White House, crossed the line from
routine surveillance of foreigners and suspected terrorists into illegal
activity by continuin! g to monitor the international telephone calls and
emails of Americans without a court order...

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Diabolus ex Machina
The Convenient Reappearance of Osama bin Laden
Daithí Mac Lochlainn, The Gaelic Starover
…from WTVD-TV (ABC News, Raleigh/Durham, NC): "A Duke professor says he is
doubtful about Thursday's audiotape from Osama bin Laden. Bruce Lawrence
has just published 'Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin
Laden,’ a book translating bin Laden’s writing. He is skeptical of
Thursday’s message. 'It was like a voice from the grave,’ Lawrence said. He
thinks bin Laden is dead and has doubt! s about the tape...

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Wag the Osama
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
Isn't it a mighty big coincidence that Osama returns for a bizarre
appearance just as Bush is on the ropes for illegal spying on Americans --
and as Karl Rove announces that he is going to use fear again to maintain
one-party dictatorial control over America in the fall elections? Not that
we are skeptical or anything, but on top of that, the White House media
echo chamber used the alleged and ludicrous "negotiate or I will attack"
video to vilify Dems for being weak in the! war on terror and "aiding" the
"enemy."...

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THE IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION STRATEGY
David Isenberg and William Fisher
...But much of the reconstruction funding has been diverted to other
projects. At least $2.5 billion earmarked for infrastructure and schools
was diverted to building up a security force. Funds originally intended to
repair the electricity grid and sewage and sanitation system were used to
train special bomb-squad units and a hostage-rescue force. The US has also
shifted funds to build 10 new prisons to keep pace with the insurgency, and
safe hous! es and armored cars for Iraqi judges...

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Ayman al-Zawahiri, Covert Op Poet
Kurt Nimmo, Another day in the empire
In Langley, Virginia, the CIA is burning the midnight oil. "The Central
Intelligence Agency confirmed today that the voice on [an] 18-minute
audiotape, posted on an Internet forum that has carried Al Qaeda
communiqués before, was Mr. Zawahiri’s," reports the New York Times. "He
read a poem honoring the 'martyrs of jihad,’ or holy war, and dedicated it
to 'Muslim brothers everywhere, to the mujahedeen brothers in Islam’s
fortified borderlines ! against the Zionist-Crusader campaign in Palestine
and Iraq, Afghanistan and Chechnya and to the lions chasing the crusaders’
gangs and hired hands in Afghanistan’s mountains and valleys and its
wounded capital, Kabul,’" in other words far-flung places where various
"intelligence agencies" run covert fake terror operations...

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Tomdispatch: John Brown on the War on Terror as an Indian War
Tom Engelhardt & Tom Engelhardt
The Global War on Terror (GWOT) is, like all historical events, unique. But
both its supporters and opponents compare it to past U.S. military
conflicts. The Bush administration and the neocons have drawn parallels
between GWOT and World War II as well as GWOT and the Cold War. Joshua E.
London, writing in the National Review, sees the War on Terror as a modern
form of the struggle against the Barbary pirates. Vietnam an! d the
Spanish-American War have been preferred analogies for other commentators.
A Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, Anne Applebaum, says that the war in
Iraq might be like that in Korea, because of "the ambivalence of their
conclusions." For others, the War on Terror, with its loose rhetoric,
brings to mind the "war on poverty" or the "war on drugs." I'd like to
suggest another way of looking at the War on Terror: as a twenty-first
century continuation of, or replication of, the American Indian wars, on a
global scale...

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Franklin's fate
Xymphora
Larry Franklin has been sentenced to twelve years for his role in the AIPAC
spy scandal. Since the Zionists have assured us that there is no AIPAC spy
scandal, and it is just anti-Semitism, you have to wonder what the twelve
years are for. The kicker is that he doesn't have to report to jail, but
gets some time in the great outdoors to consider whether he'd like a lower
sentence in return for cooperating in nailing AIPAC...

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