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uruknet.info «Ë-Ë“Ê Æ‰Ê·Ë :: information from occupied iraq :: informazione dall'iraq occupato Whatever happened to what’s-his-name? William Bowles, I'n'I 'Scourge of Western civilisation’, 'leader of the insurgency’, 'al-Queda in Iraq’, 'Usama’s right-hand man’, the Scarlet Pimpernel of 'Islamic fundamentalism’, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. For the past couple of years we were bombarded by the mythical man’s dastardly deeds, then all of a sudden-he disappeared from the headlines. Well not entirely, in the month of January 2006 I collected 113 stories that mentioned his name of which about 40 are in Western media! publications. Scanning the headlines however and we find that the pickings are pretty slim, so slim in fact, most are hardly worth mentioning as they contain nothing of any significance but I suppose they keep some 'journalists’ employed... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20270&s2=04>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20270 Anatomy of a Murder Not only our enemies around the world scoff when Bush speaks of human rights Nat Hentoff ...The corpse was Major General Abed Hamed Mowhoush, "a high-ranking Saddam Hussein loyalist who was believed to have engineered insurgent attacks in northern Iraq." Army officer Welshofer, interrogating the prisoner on November 26, 2003, at Qaim, Iraq, shoved him into a sleeping bag and sat on his chest before "waterboarding" him to simulate drowning. No information was obtained, becaus! e the prisoner stopped breathing (...) Lest you think Welshofer received only a reprimand for his "aggressive technique," the Associated Press reported that he has been fined $6,000 with restrictions to his barracks, work, and place of worship for 60 days. After the sentence was pronounced, the AP continued, "soldiers in the gallery, many of whom had worked with Mr. Welshofer and who had testified as character witnesses, broke into applause." The son of the murdered prisoner, Mohammed Mowhoush, did not applaud (...) The son also revealed that when he was 15 he and his three brothers were snatched from their Qaim home on October 27, 2003, during a raid by U.S. soldiers' helicopters and armed vehicles in search of their father. The U.S. troops threatened that if the father didn't give himself up, the boys would be sent to Guantánamo... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20263&s2=04>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20263 Defending Saddam Hussein KANWAL TARIQ HAMEED, Gulf Daily News A BAHRAINI lawyer has joined the defence team of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, but says he is boycotting court hearings until the trial is held in an independent international court where safety is guaranteed to all involved. Isa Faraj Burshaid agreed to represent the former Iraqi ruler to fight what he called "modern-day imperialism" - accusing the US and UK of deciding people are criminals and orchestrating legal proceedings to prove it (...! ) He described existing court proceedings as a sham to justify a verdict that has already been decided and alleged that the US and UK promised to free Saddam if he stopped insurgents operating in Iraq - which he said proved they are not interested in an "honest" trial. "The British and Americans recently made an offer to Saddam Hussein," he said. "They said: 'If you go and stop the (civil) war in Iraq we can release you and we don't want anything from you.' "While he was in jail they made this offer. "Up until now he has refused - he said that when he is on television he will tell them to make more war because everything there is for Iraqi people and not for outsiders who have stolen oil, stolen everything from this people... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20276&s2=04>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20276 Is Freedom Really Free Under Bush? Ibrahim Ebeid I was watching the State of the Union speech hoping that the President might come up with something new but my hopes faded away as soon as he started. He failed to show a new excuse for his war of aggression against Iraq because he has no more excuses left in his sack. Alas! He still pretends that he is God's messenger to spread "Liberty" and "Democracy" around the World, especially in the Moslem and Arab Worlds. As an American from Arab background, to be specific,! from Palestinian origin, I think I am more aware of the Arab situation, hopes and aspirations and definitely I am more privileged to know more than he does about Islam and Moslems... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20254&s2=04>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20254 Washington's Iraq Blindness Robert Dreyfuss While Bush reinforces his Zarqawi myth and Dems call lamely for more armor, the battle lines for civil war in Iraq are being drawn. The Iraq that exists in President Bush’s imagination and the real Iraq, the one in which 160,000 U.S. troops occupy a nation sliding into civil war, have never seemed further apart. Bush’s Iraq is a fantastical one in which American forces are battling the enemy that struck us on 9/11. Yet on the ground, in the real Iraq, more than six week! s have passed since Iraq’s election, and battle lines for civil war are being drawn up. There are multiple parties to that civil war: militant Iraqi fundamentalist Shiites tied to Iran, well-armed Kurdish warlords planning to grab Kirkuk and its oil, powerful Sunni tribal and religious forces bitterly opposed to the Shiite-Kurdish bloc and a Baathist-military resistance movement that has strong support among the Sunnis. None of those forces, however, want anything to do with Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden or Abu Musab Al Zarqawi... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20264&s2=04>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20264 Tomgram: De la Vega on Why Rove Will Fall Tom Engelhardt & Elizabeth de la Vega For Karl Rove, no news from the Plame case -- Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's grand jury investigation into the outing of Valerie Plame Wilson's identity as a CIA agent -- is definitely not good news. Seismic activity is notoriously silent, so we may not be hearing any rumblings at the moment. But speaking as a former prosecutor, I believe it highly likely that, just below the surface, the worlds of Karl Rove and Special Prosecut! or Patrick Fitzgerald, shifting like tectonic plates, are about to collide. As was true with Vice President Cheney's top aide, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, charged with obstruction of justice and lying to a federal agent as well as to the grand jury, Rove might not be charged with the leak itself. I am confident, however, that Rove will not leave this party empty-handed. He will, at the very least, almost certainly be charged with making false statements to an FBI agent. Here's why... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20273&s2=04>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20273 Democracy Now! in Doha...The Story Behind the Other Downing Street Memo Where Bush Told Blair He Wanted to Bomb Al Jazeera Democracy Now! We broadcast from the headquarters of Arabic TV network Al Jazeera in Doha, Qatar - the place President Bush allegedly told Tony Blair he wanted to bomb. The report came out last November in Britain’s Daily Mirror, citing a secret British memo revealing that Bush told Blair in April 2004 of his desire to bomb the news outlet. Bloggers have pledged to publish the memo if it is l! eaked. We speak with British blogger Daniel Mason, who has been tracking the story of the Downing Street Memo... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20271&s2=04>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20271 GI Special 4B2: The Tipping Point - February 3, 2006 Thomas F. Barton ... Lancet, quoting documents uncovered by the ACLU in their ongoing FOIA lawsuit with the Pentagon, also discovered incidents where U.S. Army doctors: held detainees down during interrogations, provided interrogators the medical records of detainees in order to facilitate an interrogation strategy, or in some cases, literally looked the other way as detainees were physically abused. According too both Soeke and M. Gregg Bloche, law professor ! at John Hopkins University and co-author of the NEJM report, these actions are clear violations of the Geneva Convention, the Hippocratic Oath and Army Regulations... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20268&s2=04>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20268 Iraq, Niger, And The CIA Murray Waas, special to National Journal Vice President Cheney and his then-Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby were personally informed in June 2003 that the CIA no longer considered credible the allegations that Saddam Hussein had attempted to procure uranium from the African nation of Niger, according to government records and interviews with current and former officials. The new CIA assessment came just as Libby and other senior administration officials were embarking on an effort! to discredit an administration critic who had also been saying that the allegations were untrue. CIA analysts wrote then-CIA Director George Tenet in a highly classified memo on June 17, 2003, "We no longer believe there is sufficient" credible information to "conclude that Iraq pursued uranium from abroad... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20267&s2=04>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20267 The Mother of All Downing Street Memos? David Corn Channel 4 News in England is reporting on the existence of a January 31, 2003 memo that recorded a discussion between Bush and Blair, during which Bush raised the idea of orchestrating an incident in which Saddam would fire on UN reconnaissance planes and, thus, give Bush and Blair cause to attack Iraq (...) To my thinking, this is a rather big deal. The president of the United States caught conspiring to create a modern-day version of the sinking of the Maine?..! . <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20262&s2=04>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20262 Bush/Blair War Provocation Memo Sends Warning To Iran Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com Today's revelations that Tony Blair and George W. Bush debated staging an act of provocation to goad Saddam Hussein into war sends a very clear warning as to how a pretext for a conflict with Iran could be manufactured. It was reported today that Bush and Blair's 31 January White House meeting was a rubber stamp on the decision to go to war, irrespective of whether the United Nations had passed a new resolution authorizing ! the use of force. However, this isn't the story. As far back as 1999, before he was even elected, George W. Bush told his biographer that he thought it was his political destiny to invade Iraq. The real story here is that Bush proposed flying a U2 spy plane over Iraq and painting it in UN colors, therefore goading Saddam to order the aircraft to be fired upon and resulting in a widespread UN mandate for the war... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20275&s2=04>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20275 Bush 'plotted to lure Saddam into war with fake UN plane' Andy McSmith George Bush considered provoking a war with Saddam Hussein's regime by flying a United States spyplane over Iraq bearing UN colours, enticing the Iraqis to take a shot at it, according to a leaked memo of a meeting between the US President and Tony Blair. The two leaders were worried by the lack of hard evidence that Saddam Hussein had broken UN resolutions, though privately they were convinced that he had. According to the memorandum, Mr Bush! said: "The US was thinking of flying U2 reconnaissance aircraft with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in UN colours. If Saddam fired on them, he would be in breach."... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20269&s2=04>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20269 Christiane Amanpour: Iraq is a disaster Crooks and Liars CNN's Chief Int'l Corresp. Amanpour has been taking some heat from the Bush apologists because she interjected some truth into her reporting on Larry King during a segment on the danger to journalists in Iraq (...) Amanpour: And, it's really tough when you go out and do that and for sure every time I go out with either the U.S. or the Iraqi Army I am very conscious that this is a potentially life-threatening exercise and, you know, you basically pray fr! om the minute you go out to the minute you come back and you thank God when you've come back.... The war in Iraq has basically turned out to be a disaster and journalists have paid for it, paid for the privilege of witnessing and reporting that and so have many, many other people who have been there.. <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20272&s2=04>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20272 Iraq war is costing $100,000 per minute Mark Mazzetti and Joel Havemann, Los Angeles Times The White House said Thursday that it plans to ask Congress for an additional $70 billion to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, driving the cost of military operations in the two countries to $120 billion this year, the highest ever. Most of the new money would pay for the war in Iraq, which has cost an estimated $250 billion since the U.S. invasion in March 2003. The additional spending, along with other war funding! the Bush administration will seek separately in its regular budget next week, would push the price tag for combat and nation-building since Sept. 11, 2001, to nearly a half-trillion dollars, approaching the inflation-adjusted cost of the 13-year Vietnam War... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20261&s2=04>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20261 Military Denounces Newspaper for Cartoon ROBERT BURNS, The Associated Press Military leaders angrily denounced as "beyond tasteless" a Washington Post editorial cartoon featuring a likeness of a severely wounded soldier and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld as an attending doctor who says, "I'm listing your condition as `battle hardened.'" The cartoon by Post artist Tom Toles appeared in Sunday's newspaper. It reflected the view of some that Bush administration officials do not recognize that U.S. forces are b! eing worn out by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Last month, in response to a Pentagon-commissioned report that said the Army was stretched so thin that it had become a "thin green line," Rumsfeld said the war-fighting experience had made U.S. troops "battle hardened" _ stronger rather than weaker... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20260&s2=04>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20260 Pentagon database leaves no child alone Mike Ferner All over the country, organized citizens are fighting to restrict the military’s presence in schools. But having recruiters troll high schools cafeterias is just one way the Pentagon inundates our youngsters with messages to "Go Army!" Since 2002, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has spent a half-million dollars a year creating a database it claims is "arguably the largest repository of 16-25 year-old youth data in the country, containing roughly 30 million ! records." In Pentagonese the database is part of the Joint Advertising, Marketing Research and Studies (JAMRS) project. Its purpose, along with additional millions spent on polling and marketing research, is to give the Pentagon’s $4 billion annual recruiting budget maximum impact. And it has lit a fire under civil libertarians, privacy advocates and counter-recruiting activists across the nation... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20266&s2=04>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20266 Invitation to a Demonstration The World Can't Wait DANIEL ELLSBERG I would not have thought of copying the Pentagon Papers, risking a possible lifetime in prison, without the example of thousands of young Americans who were doing everything they could--including non-violent disobedience to the draft regulations--to oppose a wrongful, hopeless war. They showed civic courage, and I can attest to its effectiveness; as a government consultant and former official, I felt its power on my own life... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20253&s2=04>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20253 One hundredth British military death in Iraq Harvey Thompson, WSWS ...In both Afghanistan and Iraq the dangers for British troops have increased substantially since the middle of last year. Commanders say southern Iraq has become more dangerous over the past eight to nine months as guerrilla fighters have developed deadlier forms of roadside bombs and resistance to occupation has grown. Marriott said his troops now spend 60 percent of their time just defending themselves, limiting their ability to train Iraqis to! take over their role... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20257&s2=04>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20257 Special Report Mordechai Vanunu Rings a Bell for Justice And Freedom Delinda C. Hanley, Washington Report AFTER years of following his tale of heroism and hardship in the pages of the Washington Report, and writing about his release (see April 2004 Washington Report, p. 10), actually meeting Mordechai Vanunu at the Christmas Hotel in East Jerusalem on Oct. 7 was like getting together with an old friend. The former nuclear technician, who revealed details of Israel’s nuclear weapons program to Britain’s! Sunday Times in 1986, spoke to us across the street from the courthouse where, after a secret trial, Vanunu was sentenced to 18 years in prison, 11 and a half of them in solitary confinement. Pointing toward the floodlit building surrounded by huge walls, Vanunu said, "That’s where I drove up in a closed car so no one could see me and showed the words I’d written on my hand about being kidnapped from Rome." Even though the Israeli whistleblower has served every day of his harsh sentence, the government continues to hold him in Israel against his will, denying him his freedom to speak to reporters as well as his right to travel... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20265&s2=04>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20265 A Letter to Neocons Anwaar Hussain ...It is no secret that your ideological godfather, Israel, believes that the key to the fight against the Iranian nuclear program is in your hands, especially after the war in Iraq. On November 8, 2002, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in an interview given to the New York Post said that the U.S. war on terror should not end with Iraq. He added, "as soon as Iraq is dealt with, I will push for Iran to be at the top of the 'to do’ list . . ." <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20256&s2=04>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20256 Cartoons, consumed by hypocrisy, looses its humor Imad Khadduri, Free Iraq "Yesterday, a newspaper in France and another in Germany published the cartoons, citing freedom of the press. But the issue goes well beyond the old debate over whether freedom of expression has limits. It does in countries like Canada, which have anti-hate laws. But regardless of the presence or absence of legislated limits, every society has its own notions of what is acceptable and what is not. We can be certain that the editors publishing the Muhammad caricatures would not smear their pages with anti-Semitic graffiti."... <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=20258&s2=04>Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20258 <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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