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uruknet.info «Ë-Ë“Ê Æ‰Ê·Ë :: information from occupied iraq :: informazione dall'iraq occupato Election Results... Riverbend, Baghdad Burning ...Theocracies (and we seem to be standing on the verge of an Iranian influenced one), grow stronger with time because you cannot argue religion. Politicians are no longer politicians- they are Ayatollahs- they become modern-day envoys of God, to be worshipped, not simply respected. You cannot challenge them because for their followers, that is a challenge to a belief- not a person or a political party. You go from being a critic or 'opposition’ to simply being a hea! then when you argue religious parties. Americans write to me wondering, "But where are the educated Iraqis? Why didn’t they vote for secular parties?" The educated Iraqis have been systematically silenced since 2003. They’ve been pressured and bullied outside of the country. They’ve been assassinated, detained, tortured and abducted. Many of them have lost faith in the possibility of a secular Iraq (...) I try not to dwell on the results too much- the fact that Shia religious fundamentalists are currently in power- because when I do, I’m filled with this sort of chill that leaves in its wake a feeling of quiet terror... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20181&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20181 Afghanistan Five Years Later Mike Whitney ...Afghanistan has been a policy disaster from the get-go. The country is ravaged by war and unemployment, security beyond the capital of Kabul is virtually nonexistent, and malnutrition rates are higher among children anywhere other than sub-Saharan Africa. Now, Karzai, who has seen his funding from the US consistently slashed year after year, must take his begging bowl to the world community; asking for the crumbs they can spare to bandage his failed-state together. Af! ghanistan excels in one thing alone; the production and export of opium, a booming business which now provides 90% of the world’s heroin. Is this what Bush had in mind when he promised Americans to rebuild and democratize the battle-scarred country; a modern-day drug-colony, occupied by legions of indifferent volunteers who rarely venture beyond their US controlled compounds?... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20176&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20176 It was more than election.. It was a referendum for liberation Ibrahim Ebeid, Al-Moharer Hamas is a Palestinian liberation group that has won the election. It is dedicated to liberate Palestine from the River to the Sea. This election was indeed a message to the World that the Palestinian people will never sacrifice their right nor will they give up their hope to liberate their homeland from the clutches of Zionism and Western Imperialism. This election was a referendum and a rejection to the Oslo agreement and t! o all the agreements that followed which were intended to force the Palestinians to accept the status quo, the rape and the usurpation of their homeland. The people have said no to liquidations of our historic land, yes to liberation... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20175&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20175 Dems AWOL on Iraq Robert Dreyfuss The spectacle of antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan being forced to leave the House chamber in advance of President Bush’s speech last night is sad. But far sadder is the stubborn unwillingness of the Democrats to confront Bush’s illegal, immoral, and failing war in Iraq. A one-sentence quote from today’s New York Times says it all. Referring to Senator Harry Reid of Nevada and Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, who spoke in advance of Bush’s speech, the Times noted: "The Con! gressional leaders steered clear of the Iraq war in their remarks before the speech."... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20196&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20196 Power Hour Productions Presents A William Lewis Film Beyond Treason This extremely powerful 89 minute film presents comprehensive documentation from United States Government archives of a massive cover-up, including military and civilian experimentation, dating back over 60 years. Hear the testimony of experts and of United States military veterans who demand answers to questions that the Department of Defense will not address. (...) From the first Gulf War the VA has determined that 250! ,000 troops are now permanently disabled, 15,000 troops are dead and over 425,000 troops are ill and slowly dying from what the Department of Defense still calls a "mystery disease." How many more will have to die before action is taken?... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20180&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20180 Bush's State of the Union - Endless War and Domestic Repression Troops Out Now Coalition Traditionally, the State of the Union address is an opportunity for Presidents to highlight their accomplishments and to lay out their vision for the coming years. Tonight, President George W. Bush, in his address, failed on both counts, because the past year has been one of horrific blunders on every front, and he has no new proposals to offer, merely a tired call to "stay the course." The people will give their response to! Bush's State of the Union speech by making the 3rd anniversary of the criminal invasion of Iraq, March 18, a day of mass protest to stop the war, with protests all over the globe, including a massive convergence on Time Square in New York City... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20171&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20171 Shias Head for Uncertain Govt Dahr Jamail, Inter Press Service Six weeks after parliamentary elections, occupied Iraq is still struggling for a viable government, as violence and instability worsen. The results of the Dec. 15 elections have still to be finalised, but it is clear that the United Iraqi Alliance (UIA), a Shia fundamentalist coalition, won at least 128 seats in the 275-seat national assembly (...) This means that the dominating Shia alliance is pro-Tehran, and that Iranian influence will continue to! grow in Iraq. On a recent visit to Iran, Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr declared that his Mehdi Army and millions of followers would fight for Iran if it was attacked by a foreign power. The largest Shia party, the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), has strong Iranian links... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20186&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20186 Tomgram: Thomas Powers on Spying, Lying, and Saying No Tom Engelhardt & Thomas Powers The challenges posed to American democracy by secrecy and by unchecked presidential power are the two great themes running through the history of the Iraq war. How long the war will last, who will "win," and what it will do to the political landscape of the Middle East will not be obvious for years to come, but the answers to those questions cannot alter the character of what happened at the outset. Put plainly, the President de! cided to attack Iraq, he brushed caution and objection aside, and Congress, the press, and the people, with very few exceptions, stepped back out of the way and let him do it... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20182&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20182 Screw You George W. Bush! And While We are on the Subject… Jesse, Editor, TvNewsLIES Screw you George W. Bush for pretending to be an American while your Gestapo hauled off an American citizen for wearing a tee-shirt and exercising her Constitutional rights. And Screw you George W. Bush for not mentioning any of the real threats to the lives of Americans such as your administration’s involvement in the events of 9/11, your environmental policies that are accelerating global warming, your health care policies that! ensure fewer Americans have access to health care, and your economic policies that ensure Americans that they will have to work much harder for their entire lives in order to stay fed and housed... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20177&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20177 COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO BUSH WAR CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY TO PRESENT PRELIMINARY FINDINGS International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity The International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity by the Bush Administration will present its preliminary findings on whether the Bush Administration has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity. Its areas of indictment are: 1) war, 2) torture, 3) global environment, 4) global health, and 5) the administration’s response to K! atrina... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20193&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20193 The True State of the Union More Deception from the Bush White House PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Gentle reader, if you prefer comforting lies to harsh truths, don't read this column. The state of the union is disastrous. By its naked aggression, bullying, illegal spying on Americans, and illegal torture and detentions, the Bush administration has demonstrated American contempt for the Geneva Convention, for human life and dignity, and for the civil liberties of its own citizens. Increasingly, the US is isolated! in the world, having to resort to bribery and threats to impose its diktats. No country any longer looks to America for moral leadership. The US has become a rogue nation... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20185&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20185 Legislation in Iraq seeks to limit NGOs Meredith Mackenzie Iraq`s transitional government is considering draft legislation that would severely limit the role of foreign non-governmental organizations in the country, a copy of the document obtained by United Press International shows (...) Critics say the 11-page draft is ambiguous as it fails to distinguish between social groups and tax-exempt NGOs that serve a public purpose. Its membership clause says all founding members of a new organization must be Iraqi cit! izens and non-Iraqis may only constitute one-fourth of the total membership. Other restrictions on membership may be violations of international law, critics say, as they discriminated based on gender and religion. Chapter 2, Section 1, Article 6, of the document says: 'It is impermissible to condition membership on differentiation based on religion, race ... sex or social status.' Rutzen says this could prohibit an all-woman or all-Christian NGO in Iraq... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20187&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20187 14 US House Reps Want Bush Impeach Probe 17 Total Call for Bush to Resign or Be Impeached Matthew Cardinale, Editor, Atlanta Progressive News The number of US House Representatives who have signed on to H. Res 635–supporting a probe looking into the grounds for impeaching Bush–has jumped to fourteen (14), including US Rep. John Conyers who initially sponsored the bill, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. The total number of Members of US Congress who want Bush’s impeachment or resignation is actually! seventeen (17), including 14 co-sponsors of H. Res 635, plus US Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) who called for Bush’s impeachment over wiretapping, and US Reps. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) and Bobby Rush (D-GA) who have called for Bush to step down... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20188&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20188 American "democracy" on display Eli Stephens, Left I on the News The mother of a soldier killed in an ongoing war cannot attend the State of the Union address as an invited guest of a member of Congress, wearing the clothing of her choice, without getting arrested. This is the country that is going to teach Iraq, or Palestine, or Iran, or anyplace in the world, about democracy?... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20174&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20174 Saddam Refuses to Attend Trial Session HAMZA HENDAWI, The Associated Press Saddam Hussein and four other defendants refused to attend their trial Wednesday, and their defense attorneys boycotted the proceedings, demanding the removal of the chief judge they claim is biased against the former Iraqi leader. Chief judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman pressed ahead with court-appointed defense lawyers and only three defendants present, hearing five prosecution witnesses. After a 4 1/2-hour session, the trial was adjourned until! Thursday... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20172&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20172 The State of the Union speech: Bush repeats litany of lies on Iraq war By Patrick Martin, WSWS ...Bush did not attempt to defend the lies he used in 2003 to justify the invasion of Iraq—the long-disproven claims that Iraq was connected to the 9/11 attacks, that Saddam Hussein possessed a huge arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, and that he might supply those weapons to Al Qaeda. Instead, he utilized a more recent concoction, rolled out by administration spokesmen over the past several months, centering on the! claim that if the US were to withdraw from Iraq, Osama bin Laden and Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi would immediately come to power in Baghdad. This was combined with the mindless argument that since so many American soldiers have already lost their lives in Iraq, more Americans and Iraqis must die to "finish the job." Bush read from a letter by a soldier slain in Iraq and then led a standing ovation to the soldier’s family, seated in the gallery—not far from where Cindy Sheehan, the mother of another soldier-victim in Iraq, was hauled off to jail less than an hour before... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20169&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20169 What Really Happened Cindy Sheehan As most of you have probably heard, I was arrested before the State of the Union address last night. I am speechless with fury at what happened and with grief over what we have lost in our country. There have been lies from the police and distortions by the press (shocker). So this is what really happened: This afternoon at the People's State of the Union Address in DC, where I was joined by Congresspersons Lynn Woolsey and John Conyers, Ann Wright, Malik Rahim and John Cavanag! h, Lynn brought me a ticket to the State of the Union address. At that time, I was wearing the shirt that said: 2245 Dead. How many more?... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20170&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20170 Iraq Sunni bloc threatens revolt BBCNews Iraq's main Sunni Arab alliance has threatened to start a campaign of civil disobedience if concerns about attacks on its community are not addressed. The Iraqi Accord Front called for Interior Minister Bayan Jabr to resign, the disbanding of militias and the release of all Iraqi detainees. The demands came as the governing Shia and Kurdish alliances discussed the formation of a coalition government... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20192&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20192 Police State Suppressing World Can't Wait Action in Cleveland Carol Fisher, -Received via e-mail at Axis of Logic The following is a first-hand account of police harrassment and brutality against a World Can't Wait organizer in Cleveland. If anything like this happens to you, let us know asap! Contact <mailto:info at worldcantwait.org >info at worldcantwait.org . My name is Carol Fisher, and I am on the staff of Revolution Books in Cleveland OH. At the bookstore we have been immersed in building and supp! orting the initiatives of World Cant Wait. Yesterday, 1.28.06, while putting "Bush Step Down" posters on telephone poles along a major thoroughfare on a sunny Saturday afternoon, I was brutalized by Cleveland Heights police, charged with 2 counts of felony assault and held incommunicado under police custody in the hospital! <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20173&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20173 Woolsey Statement regarding Cindy Sheehan Representative Lynn Woolsey US Representative Lynn Woolsey (D-Petaluma) today issued the following statement regarding Cindy Sheehan's arrest in the gallery of the House of Representatives before the State of the Union address. Mrs. Sheehan was Rep. Lynn Woolsey's guest to the President's State of the Union address. "Since when is free speech conditional on whether you agree with the President? Cindy Sheehan, who gave her own flesh and blood for this disastrous war, did ! not violate any rules of the House of Representatives. She merely wore a shirt that highlighted the human cost of the Iraq war and expressed a view different than that of the President. Free speech and the First Amendment exist to protect dissenting statements like Ms. Sheehan's last night"... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20197&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20197 Ethnic Tensions Rising in Kirkuk City’s ethnic and religious groups are warning of creeping sectarianism. Samah Samad in Kirkuk (ICR No.162, 1-Feb-06) ...The province of Kirkuk - home to about a million Turkoman, Arabs, Assyrians, Chaldeans and Armenians - is sometimes referred to as a little Iraq or as Iraq's melting pot, but some believe the area, in particular the city of Kirkuk, is a powder keg waiting to explode. The situation has worsened since Iraq changed from a one-party dictatorship under Sad! dam's Ba'athist regime, maintain local leaders and residents. Political parties in Kirkuk, most of which represent ethnic or religious groups, are battling for control of the city and its surroundings... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20195&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20195 <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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