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A Tribute to Iraqi Ingenuity...
Riverbend, Baghdad Burning
...What happened in the south in 1991 is similar to what happened in
Baghdad in 2003- burning, looting and attacks. The area fell into chaos
after the Republican Guard was pulled out to different governorates for the
duration of the war. Meanwhile, the US was bombing the Iraqi army as it was
pulling out of Kuwait and the Tawabin were killing off some of the Iraqi
troops who had abandoned their tanks and artillery and were coming back on
foot through the s! outh. Many of those troops, and the civilians killed
during the attacks, looting, and burning, were buried in some of the mass
graves we conveniently blame solely on Saddam and the Republican Guard- but
no one bothers to mention this anymore because it’s easier to blame the
dictator. But I digress- the topic today is reconstruction. Immediately
after the war, various ministries were brought together to do the
reconstruction work. The focus was on the infrastructure- to bring back the
refineries, electricity, water, bridges, and telecommunications (...) Two
years and approximately 8 billion Iraqi dinars later, nearly 90% of the
damage had been repaired...

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Avoiding a War with Iran
Mike Whitney
The march to war with Iran is continuing apace despite skyrocketing gold
prices, a jittery oil market, and the unrelenting chaos in nearby Iraq. Are
we surprised? The control of Middle East oil has always been a central part
of the neocon strategy for global domination. That won’t change. The
toppling of Iran’s theocratic regime would consolidate dwindling resources
under the stars and stripes and guarantee continued supremacy of US
financial institutions, American energy g! iants, and the faltering
greenback. Additionally, it would defang a potential rival to an emergent
Israel, which sees itself as the prevailing power in the region...

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Death of Humanityv
Producers received mysterious calls: I was a fantacist who had never met
Margaret Hassan. I received one myself on a Sunday afternoon.
Felicity Arbuthnot, PalestineChronicle.com

For Iraq watchers, the daily carnage of liberation, the searing, wailing
grief of the bereaved, bombed, bereft, haunt. Neighborhoods, evocative
ancient homes reduced to rubble by the 'liberators', the surviving,
bewildered, standing on shattered bricks, mortar, toys, belongings,
liberated even from home's secure warmth. In the distorted horrors of
today's Iraq, many never make it home: disappeared, kidnapped, shot by the
occupying forces for driving, walking, and playing, in familiar venues.
Iraqi lives are the earth's cheapest. 'Government' or occupying troops kill
'insurgents' (even if baby or toddler 'insurgents’) and few questions are
asked. 'Insurgents' are also blamed for the kidnappings and killings of
independent aid workers and journalists - Iraqi and foreign - yet the
growing list of their disappeared and dead, are those who were recording
atrocities against the population by occupying troops and US imposed
government's militia...

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Sickness in the static
You know they lied to you, but you’re too scared to admit it
John Kaminski
...And number one out of all this, in this staticky barrage of conspiracy
shrillness, is to see the disconnect between people and the truth. The
facts are there — why isn't the public responding to them? Veteran 9/11
researcher Jake Stansbury offered one theory on the problem. His experience
of burning 9/11 videos and handing them out to his friends resulted in
people telling him they didn't believ! e the information he provided
because they hadn't seen it confirmed on television (...) Our greatest
enemy at this point in time and history seems to be a psychological
phenomenon known as "cognitive dissonance" (...) As David Ray Griffin noted
last summer about 9/11, "Controlled demolition can be proved beyond a
reasonable doubt." The lies that followed — anthrax, Afghanistan, Iraq, the
levees — are all predicated on the government telling the truth about 9/11,
which has not, so all those other explanations are necessarily also lies.
Yet the American public, surely shamed by its sick support for colossal
crimes against humanity, remains silently glued to poisoned airwaves that
offer only tempestuous titillation that cover up the sound we all try to
ignore — the sound of people dying over lies we fail to challenge...

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Epidemiology of mad war
700,000 people could be died as a direct result of the war
Nicolas J S Davies
...Thanks to Roberts and Burnham, their international team and the
editorial board of the Lancet, we have a more realistic and very different
picture of the violence taking place in IRAQ than that presented in the
media. By now, allowing for a further eighteen months of the air war and
other deaths since the completion of the survey, we have to estimate that
somewhere between 200,000 and 700,000 peopl! e have died as a direct result
of the war. The occupation forces have killed anywhere from 70,000 to
500,000 of them, including 30,000 to 275,000 children below the age of
fifteen...

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15 years ago the mother of all crimes started
Baghdad Dweller
You know, yesterday 15 years ago was the beginning of one the biggest US
crimes against Iraq, yes it is the first Gulf war. I am sure many of the
people involved in politics discussion now, were not mature at that time to
remember, not interested to know or not even knew where Iraq is (...)
Story…did I said story…I apologize I mean a "lie" and the "Bush family" are
very good in this lying and I want you to compare the events between now
and then. They ! hired a Kuwaiti girl with a name "Nayirah" (who is the
daughter of the Kuwait ambassador in US) and taught her to shed tears
before the congress claiming she saw Iraqi soldiers throwing Kuwaiti babies
from the hospital’s windows...

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Baath Party Statement
On the anniversary of The Thirty Countries aggression against Mujahid Iraq:
The US mess is a lesson to every evil force!
The Arab Baath Socialist Party
On this very day on the seventeenth of January 1991, a war by substitution
was launched by the US and with 28 states armies and the support of 33
small and not so small countries, against the Center of the Arab National
Renaissance, Iraq, to destroy it and to blow off the light beaming from its
ribs and loins to clear the Arab ho! meland night...

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Arabs aghast over Jill Carroll's kidnapping (UPDATED)
Truth About Iraqis
...From what I have heard among Iraqis I speak with regularly and from
statements made by prominent figures, Ms. Carroll was seen as someone who
had come to uncover the truth in Iraq. About the price Iraqis were paying.
About human rights violations committed against the Iraqi people. According
to Harith al-Dhari, a leading Sunni cleric of the Association of Muslim
Scholars, Iraqis (or some of them) viewed Ms. Carroll as anti-occupation.
Why! would the Iraqi resistance go after someone who seemed to be showing
her readers a different side of the Iraq invasion?...

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Women, under the occupation's rules of conduct .. and the 'counter conduct'
Imad Khadduri, Free Iraq
"Iraq's ministry of justice has told the BBC that six of the eight women
being held by coalition forces in Iraq have been released early. The six
were freed because there was insufficient evidence to charge them, a
justice ministry spokesman said. The US forces have refused to confirm the
releases, but say they would not be based on any operational activities.
The group holding US journalist Jill Carroll has said ! she will die unless
all Iraqi women prisoners are freed. The status of prisoners held by
coalition forces is reviewed twice a week by a committee made up of the
justice, human rights and interior ministries, and a representative of the
US-led coalition...

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 18 January 2006
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board,
the Free Arab Voice
...In a dispatch posted at 5:45pm Mecca time Wednesday afternoon, Mafkarat
al-Islam reported that US occupation troops had destroyed two houses in the
as-Siniyah area in the southwest of Bayji, some 200km north of Baghdad. The
correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported residents of the al-'Aday area
of as-Siniyah as saying that American occupation troops ! planted
explosives around the two houses that belong to two brothers who live in
the area. The US troops evicted the residents and then blew up the houses
just as the Zionists do in occupied Palestine, the local residents noted,
and then bulldozed the rubble with military bulldozers. The US forces then
arrested the owners of the two homes without explaining what drove them to
take this action...

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The Most Popular Demand of Iraqi Kidnappers
American Leftist
...I view such facts as evidence that the US military was simply lying when
it claimed there were no female prisoners held by American forces in the
fall of 2004 -- a lie that the US press enabled by downplaying the abuse of
women and children at Abu Ghraib to begin with. At one time there were
clearly female prisoners at Abu Ghraib, if the military wasn't lying in the
fall of 2004 it means that every single one of them was released without a
word from ! the press. It is interesting that this time around, in the case
of Jill Carroll, the US is not bothering to lie about the female detainees.
It is also interesting that the press seems to find nothing odd about the
fact that all of a sudden female detainees exist again...

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Some Iraq Rebuilding Funds vGo Untraced
Investigators Have Yet to Pursue U.S. Contracting Money That May Be Missing
SCOT J. PALTROW, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
More than 18 months after the Pentagon disbanded the Coalition Provisional
Authority that ran Iraq, neither the Justice Department nor a special
inspector general has moved to recover large sums suspected of disappearing
through fraud and price gouging in reconstruction. Earlier audits by the
Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstructio! n -- a post Congress
created in late 2004 -- found that oversight of contractors by the
Authority was so lax that widespread abuse was likely...

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Death Sentence for Friends and Families of Alleged Terrorists
Stan Moore
...There are no bounds on the use of violence in the so-called "war on
terror". The War on Crime is a lovefest compared to the alleged "war on
terror". Perhaps it is because the "war on terror" is designed to be
self-perpetuating. Perhaps it is because the "war on terror" was never
supposed to be about justice. Perhaps it is because the "war on terror" is
in reality a war OF terror BY terrorists FOR terroristic purposes. The U.S.
Government ! never hesitates to condemn others for killing the innocent.
But when eighteen people are killed in Pakistan by a drone-fired missile,
it is considered adequate justification that four of the people were
"terrorists", though no verification is provided. No criminal convictions
for terrorism are produced (...) The people of Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan,
etc., are tasting the beginnings of the future of the American people. It
is just a matter of time before missiles are launched into New York
apartments, Compton ghetto blocks, and Oakland hovels. The foreign training
of America's Imperial Armed Forces will be put to domestic use when the
leaders say it is time...

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The Military Recruiter's Lament
Scott Ritter, AlterNet
...The military today has degenerated into an entity that is viewed by many
in the American public as no longer serving the larger interests of the
American people, but rather the play toy of a political elite who use the
U.S. military as a tool to impose their ideology on others around the
world, as opposed to "upholding and defending the Constitution of the
United States," the mission assumed when one is sworn into military
service...

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Bush administration domestic spying provokes lawsuits, calls for impeachment
Patrick Martin, WSWS
The Bush administration’s open defiance of federal law and the US
Constitution, in proclaiming its right to conduct unlimited warrantless
surveillance of telephone and email traffic, has begun to produce a
political reaction within US ruling circles. Two civil liberties groups
filed lawsuits against the Bush administration Tuesday, seeking a court
order to end the domestic spying by the National Security Agency (NSA)! .
Several senators discussed the possibility of impeachment on television
interview programs Sunday, and former vice president Al Gore, in a speech
Monday, called for the appointment of a special prosecutor...

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US-Iraqi troops search for 50 kidnapped police recruits
Xinhuanet
U.S. and Iraqi troops began searching for 50 police recruits kidnapped
north of Baghdad earlier this week, a source from the Iraqi-US liaison
office in Tikrit told Xinhua on Thursday. Fifty police recruits were
kidnapped by unknown gunmen on Monday in an area north of Baghdad as they
were travelling from Baghdad to Samarra in the south, the source said...

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Iraq Baath-hunter denounces new Saddam chief judge
Waleed Ibrahim, Reuters
The Iraqi court trying Saddam Hussein was thrown into fresh confusion on
Wednesday when a senior official denounced the new chief judge as a member
of Saddam's banned Baath party who should be barred from office. "(Sayeed)
al-Hamashi is the object of a debaathification inquiry," Ali Faisal,
executive manager of the independent Debaathification Commission, told
Reuters. "His presence in this court violates the statutes ... and he must
be re! placed." (...) Allegations of Baath membership against judges and
other tribunal officials troubled the U.S.-sponsored court last year,
before the first trial began, prompting several resignations. Critics of
Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi, a former favourite of Washington who
fell out with U.S. officials, accused him of pressing allegations of
Baathist links after his nephew was ousted from his position in charge of
the tribunal...


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Kurt Nimmo: I have decided to begin reposting
Kurt Nimmo, Another day in the empire
Considering how valuable this blog is to so many readers—a fact I
discovered when I took it offline—I have decided to begin reposting. I now
realize my decision to take it offline was the wrong thing to do. Honestly,
I never thought this blog was very important, simply the opinion of one
man, but the avalanche of email has demonstrated otherwise. I have received
well over a thousand emails urging me to reconsider. Finally, it was! Jack
Blood, on his radio program, who nudged me toward the decision to continue,
regardless of the unscrupulous and unethical behavior of those who hate the
idea that there is freedom of expression in this country...

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Bomb hits U.S. convoy, killing two Americans
SAMEER N. YACOUB, Associated Press Writer
A roadside bomb hit a convoy carrying a U.S. security team near the
southern city of Basra, killing two American civilians and seriously
wounding a third, the U.S. Embassy said. Iraqi authorities, meanwhile, held
out hope that kidnapped American journalist Jill Carroll would be released,
and the sister of Iraq's interior minister was freed by her abductors about
two weeks after being seized in Baghdad, an official said...

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Gunmen, Car Bombs Kill Nearly 50 in Iraq
Nelson Hernandez and Bassam Sebti, Washington Post Foreign Service
Gunmen and car bombings killed nearly 50 Iraqis in several attacks around
the country Wednesday, police officials said, in a new wave of violence
that has ended a week-long lull in fighting. Gunmen ambushed a heavily
defended convoy of telecommunications workers traveling the streets of the
capital Wednesday morning, killing 10 security guards and kidnapping two
African engineers, an Iraqi government spokes! man said...

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