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uruknet.info «Ë-Ë“Ê Æ‰Ê·Ë :: information from occupied iraq :: informazione dall'iraq occupato An Important Statement by the Defense Committee for President Saddam Hussein, his Comrades and all Detainees in Iraq Khalil Dolaimi, President of the Defense Committee ...The trial of the legitimate President of Iraq – Saddam Hussein and members of his leadership has become clear evident where grave and serious pressures and dictations are practiced against the judges which led to the resignation of two judges who decided not to betray their oath or to relinquish the honor of their profession or to suffer feeling! s of guilt. History will acclaim them highly for this. We have reached a turning point after the appointment of a new judge who is partial, nervous and excessive enmity. These qualities were evident in his dealing with the lawyers and with our clients. The session of Sunday 29 January 2006 turned into a farce. Security men attacked Mr.Barazan Tikriti inside the courtroom. The defense lawyers were put under pressure and muzzled. The judge topped his conduct by dismissing lawyer Saleh Armouti out of the courtroom. Anarchy prevailed and the judge violated the established rules of procedures of any court in the world. The judge also threatened to dismiss the defense lawyers. He forgot or pretended to forget that neither he nor any other person has this right, which is limited to the client. According to information leaked from some lawyers, the attack against President Saddam, Mr.Barazan and some lawyers was plotted in advance. The judge was hasty to issue death sente! nce against our clients in response to foreign dictations. He! was the best person inclined to represent such foreign dictations (...) The Defense Committee does not intend to participate in the proceedings of this court while it is handcuffed and restrained in order to give legality to an illegal court. The Defense Committee does not want to be a party to a prefabricated sentence... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20149&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20149 Iraqi Kurdistan A « Gangster » State or a « Model democracy » Xaviere Jardez (AFI-Flash n°54 du 27/1/06) Dr Kamal Said Qasir, also known as Kamal Berzenji, was kidnapped by the agents of the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) on October 26, and given a 30 years prison sentence by a special security court after a trial lasting just one hour on December 19. His crime: writing two "insulting" articles about the scandals of the KDP and Kurdish Regional Government President, Massoud Barzani which were aired on! Internet on July 14 and August 25. Qadir was born in a small village in south of Hawler in southern Kurdistan and he immigrated to Austria in 1978 where he became an Austrian citizen. He studied law at the Vienna Law School. He was obliged to flee Kurdistan after the "liberation" of Iraq by the Americans because he demanded more democracy and the respect of human rights in southern Kurdistan... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20131&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20131 EFF's Class-Action Lawsuit Against AT&T for Collaboration with Illegal Domestic Spying Program EFF The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a class-action lawsuit against AT&T on January 31, 2006, accusing the telecom giant of violating the law and the privacy of its customers by collaborating with the National Security Agency (NSA) in its massive and illegal program to wiretap and data-mine Americans' communications. In December of 2005, the press revealed that the government had instituted a comprehensive! and warrantless electronic surveillance program that ignored the careful safeguards set forth by Congress. This surveillance program, purportedly authorized by the President at least as early as 2001 and primarily undertaken by the NSA, intercepts and analyzes the communications of millions of ordinary Americans... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20148&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20148 Bush's 130,000 Hostages Why the U.S. Probably Won't Attack Iran ANDREW COCKBURN Jimmy Carter presented Iran with 52 hostages. George Bush has done a lot better, sending 130,000 Americans across the ocean as guarantees of his administration's good behavior toward the Islamic Republic. Last week, Tehran reminded us of its ability to make life unpleasant for US forces in Iraq by hosting Moqtada al Sadr for a high profile visit, in the course of which he obligingly pledged that his militia, the Mahdi army,! would retaliate for any American attack on Iran. His spokesman quoted him as telling his hosts "If any Islamic state, especially the Islamic Republic of Iran, is attacked, the Mahdi Army would fight inside and outside Iraq." (...) But Iranian interest and influence in Iran are by no means confined to the radical Shi'ite cleric and his fighters. SCIRI, the principal party in the dominant Shi'ite coalition that triumphed in the Iraqi elections, was after all originally founded and fostered in Iran... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20124&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20124 Bush's State of the Union - Jan.31. 2006 Truth About Iraqis When US President George W. Bush takes to the podium amidst much fanfare and mechanical clapping, consider the following facts: * 1047 days have passed since Bush announced the invasion and occupation of Iraq * Conservative numbers indicate 2246 US soldiers are recorded to have died in this period. Another at least 16500 have been wounded. * 208 coalition troops have been killed - 98 from the UK * Between 35,000 and 135,000 Iraqis have been killed. This figure does not include resistance fighters. * Iraq's oil output has been unable to match or surpass pre-invasion levels(...) * In is 2003 State of the Union address Bush said Iraq had: The 25,000 liters of anthrax. Materials sufficient to produce more than 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin. As much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent. Upwards of 30,000 munitions capable of delivering chemical agents... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20125&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20125 Iraq Is Not Vietnam Jim Cox Last year I published a 15-item list of comparisons between the US experience in Vietnam, 1965–1966 and that of the current war in Iraq, 2003–2004. With another year behind us, here is Part II of that comparison for Iraq, 2003–2005 and Vietnam, 1965–1967 (...) Thus, we can all still take comfort securely in our knowledge that Iraq is not Vietnam; Vietnam is spelled with a "V" and is in Southeast Asia, Iraq is spelled with an "I" and is in Southwest Asia... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20127&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20127 Spoils of War Chris Floyd, Empire Burlesque Iraq says treating 12 possible human bird flu cases (The Kindred Times) We're fighting bird flu over there so we don't have to fight it in America's streets! Or rather, we have reduced Iraq to chaotic, bloody ruins where diseases – like bird flu, terrorism and religious extremism – can grow into mass epidemics that will blow back into our faces like a hurricane wind... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20143&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20143 WHAT 'IRAN' IS REALLY ALL ABOUT Chimes of Freedom ...Iran has been on the 'neocon' nazis hit list for a long time. Through relentless scheming to ensure that their Hitlerite PROJECT FOR A NEW CENTURY is fully adopted as official doctrine attacking Iran is part of the "permanent war" strategy now influencing the Pentagon . A strategy, that is, of permanent war lasting for the next 20-30 years! It was for this that the Bush/Blair Axis of Evil was preparing us after the premeditated, staged attack of 911. When seria! l-killer and arch war criminal Blair talks about the rules having changed this is what he means: they CHANGED the rules to the way THEY would like them in order to sell to their public an artificial "War on Terror" whose real purpose is to prepare it for the USUK's intention to conduct decades of RESOURCE wars over vital strategic resources such as oil, minerals and even water... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20140&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20140 Cindy Sheehan: "Bush's Presidency Is Illegitimate!" William Hughes Cindy Sheehan is back in Washington, D.C. She appeared at a Forum, on Jan. 30, 2006, proposing the impeachment of both President George W. Bush and his vice-president-in-mayhem, Dick Cheney. Sheehan believes Bush’s election in 2000, by the Supreme Court was illegitimate and that his abrogating to himself Congress’s war making powers to invade Iraq was unconstitutional. Congress won’t do anything, Sheehan said, "unless we make them" do it... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20137&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20137 TODAY - Tuesday 31 January 2006 The 100th British soldier was killed in Iraq. 5 PM TODAY - Parliament Square - to name the dead (British and Iraqi) WEDNESDAY evening - every town and city in the UK - protests and vigils Stop the War Coalition 100 - a sadly significant statistic for this country, to be added to the in excess of 100,000 other victims of Tony Blair's 'blood price' - Iraqis, Americans, British and others. We must stop this madness now before these Bush / Blair wars spread any further! . Londoners come to Parliament Square this evening to 'name the dead' and tomorrow attend demonstrations and vigils across the country. Message from Rose Gentle (mother of Fusilier Gordon Gentle, killed in Basra on 28 June 2004): "Soldiers in Iraq have told me they don't want to be there. They want to come home. They have told us to step up our campaign of resistance to this government's war policies. We must act now, bring the troops home and end this illegal occupation... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20145&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20145 King George Editorial, The Progressive There comes a time when the nakedness of the emperor can no longer be denied. Such a time is now. George Bush’s policy of eavesdropping on U.S. citizens without a warrant proves he has placed himself above the law. Add this to the long list of other impeachable offenses—lying the country into war, torturing prisoners, exporting detainees for torture, paying columnists to propagandize the American public—that George W. Bush has committed, and put it at the top. The President ! swears an oath of office that he will uphold the Constitution and faithfully execute the laws of the land.But he has been brazenly flouting the law that prohibits domestic spying without a warrant... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20136&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20136 2 British troops killed in Iraq, bringing country's deaths to 100 since 2003 Bushra Juhi, Canadian Press A British soldier was killed in a roadside bombing Tuesday, the second member of the country's armed forces to die in Iraq in as many days and the 100th fatality since the conflict began in March 2003. Three Iraqi soldiers were killed and six wounded in a gunbattle Tuesday in Buhriz, a tense Sunni Arab town 48 kilometres northeast of Baghdad. Police also said a roadside bomb struck a U.S. patrol in Samarra, bu! t there was no word on casualties... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20134&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20134 Scholars Repudiate Official Version of 9/11 PRWeb Press Release An influential group of prominent experts and scholars have joined together alleging that senior government officials have covered up crucial facts about what really happened on 9/11. The members of this new non-partisan association, "Scholars for 9/11 Truth" (S9/11T), are convinced their research proves the current administration has been dishonest with the nation about events in New York and Washington, D.C. These experts contend that books and art! icles by members and associates have established that the World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the official story about the attack on the Pentagon. They believe that the government not only permitted 9/11 to occur but may even have orchestrated these events to facilitate its political agenda... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20133&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20133 Cindy Sheehan and Lesser-Evil Politics: Campaigning Against the War in California Joshua Frank Cindy Sheehan may be elevating her activism to the next level. The mother of the antiwar movement, while attending the World Social Forum in Venezuela, told reporters that she is considering running against Senator Dianne Feinstein in California’s Democratic primary next June (...) There’s a catch, however. Sheehan would be running as a Democrat. Her antiwar campaign for the Senate, consequentially, would be terminated ! after the summer’s primary election if she didn’t pull off a victory. Of course, that’s if Sheehan decided to endorse Feinstein—who she’s dubbed a "despicable warmonger."... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20132&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20132 Gore Vidal Delivers State of the Union: "Let the Powers That Be Know There is Something Called We the People of the U.S. and all Sovereignty Rests in Us." Democracy Now! ...This is an unpatriotic government. This is a government that deals openly in illegalities, whether it is attacking a country which has done us no harm, two countries -- Iraq and Afghanistan -- because we now believe, not in declaring war through Congress as the Constitution requires, but through the President. 'Well, I think there are some ter! rorists over there, and I think we got to bomb them, huh? We'll bomb them.’ Now, we’ve had idiots as presidents before. He's not unique. But he's certainly the most active idiot that we have ever had. And now here we are planning new wars, ongoing wars in the Middle East. And so as he comes with his State of the Union, which he is going to justify eavesdropping without judicial warrants on anybody in the United States that he wants to listen in on. This is what we call dictatorship... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20138&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20138 New WPO Poll: Iraqi Public Thinks US Plans Permanent Bases in Iraq Half of Iraqis Approve of Attacks on US Forces, Including 9 Out of 10 Sunnis World Public Opinion.org A new poll of the Iraqi public finds that a large majority of Iraqis think the US plans to maintain bases in Iraq permanently, even if the newly elected government asks the US to leave. A large majority favors setting a timeline for the withdrawal of US forces, though this majority divides over whether the timeline should be over a period o! f six months or two years. Nearly half of Iraqis approve of attacks on US-led forces—including nine out of 10 Sunnis... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20139&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20139 Saddam greets Hamas victory Ahmed Janabi, Aljazeera.net Lawyers of jailed former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein has said that their client asked them to convey his congratulations to Hamas who won the Palestinian elections. Member of Saddam Hussein's defence team Salih al-Armoti told Aljazeera.net that "the president was pleased to hear about Hamas's victory". "He [Saddam] said he sympathises with any party which stands firm against hegemony, and does not compromise principles for interests" al-Armoti said. "The ! president said he was pleased to learn that the Palestinian people have finally been able to make a decision for themselves," he said. Al-Armoti who heads the Jordanian Bar association, said Saddam Hussein knew about Hamas's victory from his defence team. "Although we had agreed with the previous judge Mr Razgar Amin to provide the president and his companions with access to media to know what is happening around him, our clients are still living in total isolation" he said. "We are their only link to the outside world."... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20128&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20128 Baath Party statement The "court" and the Battlefields are the Baath powerful confrontation arenas with the Occupation and its puppet authority! The Arab Baath Socialist Party The US, and its collapsing forces in Resisting Iraq and behind the scenes, the degraded puppet authority in Occupied Iraq, will never ever pick up any advantage from the "trial" of Comrade leader Saddam Hussein and his resisting comrades, the Baath heroes. Moreover, changing the individuals of the gangrened "court" judges and usi! ng more illegitimate and irregular ways to treat the Leader, his comrades an the Defense Committee, will not be a successful tactic which will affect the positions of the Leader and his comrades, and the Baath, its militants, the Armed Resistance and its mujahideens' holding on continuing and intensifying their able confrontation with the occupation and its puppet authority... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20123&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20123 Targeting civilians Xymphora I know there are certain things you are not supposed to say, let alone think, but if blogs are good for anything, they are a good place to air the unsayable and unthinkable. Much bloviation about Hamas concerns the fact that it targets civilians, a fact that apparently puts it beyond the pale. Some have pointed out that it hardly lies in the mouths of Israel or the United States to complain about the targeting of civilians. Israel has targeted far more civilians than Hamas, and the Un! ited States is the current undisputed world champion in targeting civilians. Hypocrisy is the playground of the powerful. There is a big relevant difference between Israel and the United States, on the one hand, and Hamas, on the other. Hamas is fighting a war of national liberation against an illegal and immoral occupation. Israel and the United States are each involved on the other side, the side of the oppressive occupiers... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20121&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20121 Trading Oil In Euros – Does It Matter? Cóilín Nunan, Energy Bulletin With speculation mounting over the possibility of a US- or Israeli-led military attack of Iran sometime later this year, it has been suggested that real motivation for US antipathy towards the Iranian government has little to do with concerns that Tehran is developing nuclear weapons. Some commentators have instead suggested that Iran’s real Iranian threat to the US and its economy is that, in defiance of the US administration, it is attempting ! to establish an oil 'bourse’ (exchange) in March of this year which would enable oil to be traded in euros. This would move oil sales away from their usual denomination in dollars and would, it is argued, undermine the American currency with grave consequences for the US economy. This internet-based debate is reminiscent of what occurred before the invasion of Iraq when several observers, myself included, hypothesised that Saddam Hussein’s decision to sell Iraqi oil in euros was perhaps one of the reasons the US wanted 'regime change’... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20129&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20129 Heil, Frau Merkel ! Robert Thompson, Axis of Logic ...The scandal is the European insistence that Hamas must accept the right of the "state of Israel" to exist in the homes and on the lands stolen from the indigenous population, following the neo-con (in Europe we call them neo-fascist) rulers of the U.S.A. in giving massive financial, military and political support to the aggressors, and in threatening to cut off all aid from the violently oppressed and suffering victims unless and until they accept their status! as Untermenschen. I am disgusted. What happened to any support in the "West" for freedom and democracy, which alone can lead to a lasting peace?... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20135&s2=01>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20135 <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. You receive this newsletter because you subscribed it. If you think it was an abuse, or simply if you don't want to receive it any more, <http://www.uruknet.com/unsub1.php>click here to unsubscribe from the newsletter.
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