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uruknet.info «Ë-Ë“Ê Æ‰Ê·Ë :: information from occupied iraq :: informazione dall'iraq occupato Time to Scrap the NPT Mike Whitney There’s only one country that has ever used nuclear weapons. There’s only one country that has used nuclear weapons on civilian population centers. There’s only one country that has ever threatened to use nuclear weapons on non-nuclear countries. There’s only one country that has over 10,000 nuclear weapons many of which are on hair-trigger alert for enemies real or imagined (...) There’s only one country that justifies unprovoked aggression (preemption) in its National Security! doctrine; allowing it to attack any potential rival to its global dominance. There’s only one country that currently occupies a Muslim nation of 25 million inhabitants without any proof of an imminent threat, weapons-systems, or territorial aggression. The purpose of the NPT (Nonproliferation Treaty) is to reduce or eliminate the development of nuclear weapons. If it is to have any relevance at all it must be directed at nations that not only have weapons, but demonstrate a flagrant disregard for the international laws condemning their use... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20226&s2=03>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20226 Iraqi academics in the killing zone. The BRussells Tribunal urges for an independent international investigation. Dirk Adriaensens, BRussells Tribunal Dr. Ali Abdul Razaq Al Naas, lecturer in the media college of Mustansiriya University in Baghdad and a political analyst, was shot dead in Waziriya north of Baghdad at 00:13 hours on friday 27/01/2006. During a recent appearance on a panel show, Abdul Razaq Al Naas, a Shiite, spoke out strongly against the government's failure to improve security and t! he economy. He often appeared on Arab TV talk shows to discuss Iraqi politics and criticized the continuing US occupation of his country. As usual, there are no leads into this assassination (...) Some of the killings are apparently carried out by Iraqi police, and others by the Badr Brigade, as can be read in the messages above. But the assassinations also take place in the North of the country, which is controlled by Kurdish Peshmerga militia’s. These militias have been financed and trained by the occupation forces. The Pentagon spent 3 billion dollars, out of the 87 billion $ budget for 2004, to create militia’s & death squads... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20218&s2=03>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20218 GI Special 4B1: 47% Of Iraqs Want US Troops Killed [That’s Only 12.2 Million] - February 2, 2006 Thomas F. Barton [If that number were willing to say so to some poll taker while living under a U.S. military dictatorship, with occupation death squads running around loose, you can imagine what the real numbers are. By the way, 47% is 12.2 million very pissed off Iraqis. How do you like them odds? T] Jan. 30, 2006 BY DREW BROWN, Knight Ridder Newspapers: WASHINGTON: A new poll found that nearly half of! Iraqis approve of attacks on U.S.-led forces, and most favor setting a timetable for American troops to leave. The poll also found that 80 percent of Iraqis think the United States plans to maintain permanent bases in the country even if the newly elected Iraqi government asks American forces to leave... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20229&s2=03>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20229 No protesting! Xymphora The single most striking deterioration that has happened in the United States in the last ten years or so is the loss of the right to dissent. The United States government has always done terrible things, but through it all Americans have always had the right to complain about it. The reason that we still hear a lot about what happened in Chicago in 1968 is that it was such an aberration (if you haven't seen it, you should watch the movie 'Medium Cool' some day). Kent State was another abe! rration, but I wouldn't be surprised, the way things are going, to see another such incident before the end of Bush's Presidency... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20206&s2=03>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20206 DEAR MRS. SHEEHAN, ALL THE FREE HEARTS ARE WITH YOU HAJ ALI, Association of Victims of the American Occupation Prisons DEAR MRS. SHEEHAN, Dear Mrs. Sheehan, all the free hearts are with you, all the free hearts mothers in all over the world are with you, all of us are with you. Please, never forget that: the Iraqi mothers are with you, the mothers of all Iraqi detainees are with you, the mothers of the Iraqi arrested are with you, the sisters of detainees and arrested are with you, all the hands in all over ! the world are waving to you... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20231&s2=03>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20231 Hellfire and Damnation: The Washington Consensus for Murder Chris Floyd Last month, President George W. Bush murdered four children. This is not a controversial statement. There is no dispute about the facts. Indeed, Bush's own minions fully acknowledge – even celebrate – the deed. Nor has the political opposition or the national media offered the slightest objection to the principle of presidential murder. Strange, isn't it? While the American Establishment is now convulsed over the issue of a president orderin! g wiretaps without court approval, the same president's assertion of the right to kill anyone on earth he chooses without charges, trial or judicial review is readily accepted on all sides. Even when these "targeted assassinations" go horribly awry – as in Pakistan last month, when 18 innocent people, including four children, were obliterated in their homes by Hellfire missiles, as the Observer reports – there is no demur, no moral shock... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20237&s2=03>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20237 Contrasting events Eli Stephens, Left I on the News Everyone has noticed the differential treatment between Cindy Sheehan, who was both ejected and arrested at the State of the Union address Tuesday, and Beverly Young, a war supporter, who was merely escorted out. Incidentally, if you don't think there was a linkage between the two, read this: "Young said an officer mentioned that Sheehan was removed earlier and therefore 'it was kind of only fair' that she be asked to leave, too." However there was a far more s! erious contrast between two other events that occured in the past few days. In the occupied West Bank (known in the American media simply as the "West Bank") yesterday, Israeli security forces demolished nine houses in an illegal (yes, that's redundant) Israeli settlement... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20223&s2=03>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20223 From the people that brought you Gitmo... Tom Mysiewicz The people that brought you Gitmo are at it again, and this time their camps could be located right in the mainland U.S. These camps could be activated in the event of an "emergency", such as a threat to U.S. "national security" resulting from an attack on Iran and/or the expulsion of the Palestinians from East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Chances are, though, the camps may be populated not just with illegal immigrants but with Moslems and others whose relig! ious beliefs are "incompatible with a democratic society"... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20221&s2=03>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20221 US army battles in Sadr City Truth About Iraqis According to reports in Baghdad, several Iraqis have been injured in fierce firefights between as yet unknown forces and US military forces in Baghdad's slum suburb of Sadr City. Fox reported on the story of US forces engaging fighters in Sadr City: Early Thursday, a U.S. helicopter fired rockets into a crowded Shiite neighborhood of eastern Baghdad, killing a young woman, after the aircraft was fired on, the U.S. command said... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20220&s2=03>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20220 Hypocrisy or Freedom of Speech? Truth About Iraqis - The Daily Racist ...If it is not permissible to refer to Jews in this fashion, nor deny the holocaust, why is it permissible to do that to Muslims and freely offend Muslim sensitivities? No, not freedom of speech at all. Let's not kid ourselves. It is hypocrisy of the most evident kind. And you expect Muslims to sit still about this? Just as I abhor any racism against Jews, I abhor racism against Muslims. Just as I highlight the plight of Jews under the Final ! Solution and condemn their murder in unmistakable terms, I highlight the plight of all oppressed and tortured peoples everywhere. But you cannot apply double-standards and expect people to not react... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20219&s2=03>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20219 Bush to seek $120 billion more for wars Money would pay for conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan into next fiscal year The Associated Press The Bush administration said Thursday it will ask Congress for $120 billion more for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. If approved by Congress, the war money would push spending related to the wars toward a staggering half-trillion dollars. Details of the requests are not final, but the 2007 budget proposal that President Bush will submit next week will reflect t! he totals for planning purposes. The president also will ask Congress to devote an additional $2.3 billion this year to prepare for a bird flu epidemic... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20234&s2=03>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20234 Former US Official in Iraq to Plead Guilty to Corruption James Glanz, The New York Times A former American occupation official in Iraq is expected to plead guilty to bribery, conspiracy, money laundering and other charges in federal court on Thursday for his actions in a scheme to use sexual favors, jewelry and millions of dollars in cash to steer reconstruction work to a corrupt contractor, according to papers filed with the court... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20235&s2=03>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20235 The White House memo Revealed: Bush and Blair discussed using American Spyplane in UN colours to lure Saddam into war. Gary Gibbon, Channel 4 News Channel 4 News tonight reveals extraordinary details of George Bush and Tony Blair's pre-war meeting in January 2003 at which they discussed plans to begin military action on March 10th 2003, irrespective of whether the United Nations had passed a new resolution authorising the use of force. Channel 4 News has seen minutes from that meeting, which took place ! in the White House on 31 January 2003. The two leaders discussed the possibility of securing further UN support, but President Bush made it clear that he had already decided to go to war. The details are contained in a new version of the book 'Lawless World' written by a leading British human rights lawyer, Philippe Sands QC... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20217&s2=03>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20217 Say Anything Michael Steinberg A short time ago, Los Angeles Times columnist Joel Stein wrote a column starting, "I don't support our troops." It was a well-reasoned piece by most standards, though Stein unthinkingly repeats the urban legend about "peaceniks" spitting on troops returning from Vietnam. For his honesty, he received a hundred "hate e-mails" on his (unpublished) personal e-mail account in three hours, far-right columnist Michelle Malkin called him "one of the most loathsome people in America," and in! two days the comments posted after the piece ran to 159 pages. Yet Stein never really answer the one question that you might have thought was most crucial: What does it mean to "support our troops"?... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20216&s2=03>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20216 On the Necessity of Impeachment -- Part I Kagro X, Daily Kos Impeachment. The "I word." We've been over that ground more than once here. And there's been something of an evolution in my thinking on the subject, and probably yours, too. But it seems every time I pick up the subject and start a discussion, I'm met with the same objections, almost always centering on the mechanics of impeachment as opposed to its propriety or necessity. I'd like to dispense with two of these objections before beginning with the rest! of the series... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20213&s2=03>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20213 Cartoons and Hypocrisy Danes Finally Apologize to Muslims (But for the Wrong Reasons) RACHARD ITANI, CounterPunch ...Then the Danes, who must have felt left out, decided to go the Dutch one better: a Danish paper published cartoons that are no less offensive to Muslims than anti-semitism is to Jews. The cartoons were described by Danish politicians and the press as not provocation, but a principled case of free speech, although many Danish and Scandinavian newspaper editors are on record stating that t! hey published the cartoons as an act of defiance against "radical Islam." This is akin to these ignorant morons recommending that the U.S. ought to nuke Tehran because that would teach Iranian President Ahmadinejad a lesson. What free speech are we talking about here? The law says thou shalt not utilize or publish anti-semitic language or imagery. Consequently, Danish (and other European) papers will refrain from doing so, lest they fall foul of the law and offend Jewish sensitivities. The law does not say: thou shalt not offend muslims or use imagery that may be deeply offensive to them... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20212&s2=03>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20212 Why ‘freedom of expression’ defence is questionable in the Muslim dispute with a Danish publication. Stuart Pethick, GlobalResearch.ca ...The publication of the offensive drawings has been made all the worse by a French newspaper (Soir) reprinting them on February 1st. The newspaper claims that in Europe it has the right to print whatever it likes, free from religious threat. Many would agree that this is a noble sentiment, if only the mainstream media of Europe would print what it liked, free from ideological an! d corporate interests. It clearly does not, and the republication of the drawings that have already caused widespread anger and offence can only be seen as further incitement and a deliberate act of antagonising Muslims. .. <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20208&s2=03>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20208 The bloodthirsty Mossad secret service is behind the bombing of Iraqi Churches. Al-Moharer.net Informed religious sources in Iraq ascertained today that the recent bombing of seven indigenous Iraqi churches carries the bloodthirsty Zionist entity secret services - Mossad's clear cut signature. An Iraqi Archbishop - who declined to give his identity - for obvious security reasons, asserted in Baghdad that the explosions and the bombings which targeted some indigenous Iraqi churches in Baghdad and in Mosul are the ! deeds of the "Israeli" secret services, known as the "Mossad"... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20210&s2=03>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20210 Five American servicemen killed in Iraq Associated Press Five American servicemen were killed in Iraq in separate attacks, the U.S. military said Thursday, including three soldiers who died in a roadside bomb blast. The soldiers were on patrol when the bomb exploded south of Baghdad. A fourth soldier died from wounds sustained in a small-arms fire attack in the capital's southwest, the military said. A U.S. Marine was fatally wounded during combat near the western city of Fallujah... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20207&s2=03>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20207 'Marlboro Man' Turns Against War He Symbolised Andrew Buncombe, The Independent A cigarette hung from his mouth in the manner of John Wayne or Humphrey Bogart, his grime-covered face showed the exhaustion of battle. This image of US Marine Lance-Corporal Blake Miller, taken during the battle of Fallujah, instantly captured the public imagination and for a while he was known simply as Marlboro Man. But 15 month after that photograph appeared in more than 100 US newspapers, the 21-year-old is back from Iraq, back ! on civvy street and he is talking about the trauma of what he experienced and the scars he still bears, physical and mental. The once unquestioning Marine is now also questioning whether US forces should be in Iraq... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20209&s2=03>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20209 U.S. occupation of Iraq assailed from all sides As protest and opposition grow, war-makers step up air attacks Monica Hill, Freedom Socialist newspaper, Vol. 27, No. 1 In December, accepting the 2005 Nobel literature prize, English dramatist Harold Pinter railed against the war on Iraq and the criminal record of the U.S. internationally, saying: "The United States supported and in many cases engendered every rightwing military dictatorship in the world after the end of the Second World War. ... The ! crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good." The masquerade, however, is disintegrating, because people are talking — and acting... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20222&s2=03>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20222 <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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