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> Bush’s hand in the Terror War
> Mike Whitney
> Robert Fisk has pulled the shroud off Bush’s Iraq policy and exposed the
> rotting corpse below. In his latest article "Seen through a Syrian Lens".
> Fisk fingers the US as the driving force behind the present "alleged"
> sectarian violence in Iraq. He’s produced information from a trusted
> "security source" that America is "desperately trying to provoke a civil
> war around Baghdad in order to reduce its own military casualties". It is 
> a
> charge we’ve heard before but never qui! te as persuasively as from a
> veteran journalist who his relied on for "getting it right" (...) 
> Americans
> are sending unsuspecting Iraqis in vehicles to crowded areas, detonating
> the explosives, and then pinning it on Zarqawi or some other racist
> invention...
>
> <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=22987&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi
> l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22987
>
>
> IRAQ: “THE OCCUPATION IS THE DISEASE”
> Sarah Meyer
> The following information is from three highly esteemed Iraqi professional
> people. Their lives are in danger. Two people’s names and professions 
> have,
> by request, thus been withheld. ONE: "There is no way out of this 'Camp
> Iraq.’ " Iraq is worse than during sanctions … "By February 2006, 224
> (health professionals) had been killed. 1000 had left the country. Since
> February, I personally know six more highly specialised doctors who have
> been killed … Many in ! medical training have also left Iraq … Post
> graduate studies have closed down because of lack of teaching staff. So a
> (generation) gap has been created. Experienced doctors are unable to pass
> on their experience to new doctors … Specialised health services have
> declined. The airport road used to be a lovely area, with trees and roses.
> Families used to go there for picnics. An American soldier threw a stone 
> at
> me because I didn’t stop. My architect friend was killed – shot dead on
> this road by Americans. If you don’t stop, the Americans will shoot you …
> The US kill civilians and blame the resistance …
>
> <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=22986&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi
> l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22986
>
>
> Iraq Body Count – The acceptable face of slaughter?
> William Bowles
> ...Thus Sloboda, who claims to be anti-war and progressive had this to say
> about the current slaughter taking place in Iraq: He [Sloboda] says IBC’s
> figures have been used and cited by mainstream news organizations, British
> politicians in Parliament and even Tony Blair. "More recently, our data –
> rather than us being branded as some kind of anti-war, pro-Islam, 
> communist
> exaggerators – has entered the mainstream," he says. "Our figures are now!
> taken by most responsible media as the best data there is, in fact the 
> only
> data there is on civilian casualties in Iraq." Responsible media? I can
> only take this to mean the corporate and state-run media which, having
> given IBC the stamp of approval makes it (the IBC) the acceptable face of
> slaughter. Worse still, is the fact that Sloboda’s claim that his numbers
> have entered the mainstream belies the fundamental principle of the
> illegality of the war itself, something IBC never, ever mentions (...) Add
> to this IBC’s ad hominem attacks and unfounded slurs on progressive
> commentators and we find that the IBC, whether by accident or design has
> become a weapon of the warmongers...
>
>
>
> <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=22980&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi
> l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22980
>
>
> GI Special 4E1: "They Were Not Mindless War Machines" - May 1, 2006
> Thomas F. Barton
> To some viewers, "Sir! No Sir!" will come off as a surefire liberal
> manifesto, but to those who really know what we’re talking about, "Sir! No
> Sir!" is a documentation of a group of soldiers who served their country,
> but then decided they just couldn’t do it anymore because it was unjust, 
> so
> they stood up for their rights and decided they would fight no longer, and
> were crucified at the stake. Along with it came a domino effect o! f more
> and more protestors, gathering of activist organizations, and incidents
> that would further test their wills. But they stood up for their beliefs,
> and in that process, they became real heroes that chose not to kill. And
> yes, there are the ever present parallels to the Iraq war...
>
> <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=23001&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi
> l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23001
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>
> Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 1 May 2006
> Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board,
> the Free Arab Voice.
> In a dispatch posted at 1:40pm Makkah time Monday afternoon, Mafkarat
> al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance forces gave the Iraqi puppet army
> 72 hours to leave the city of al-Qa’im, located in western Iraq near the
> Syrian border, or meet death as supporters of the occupation. The al-Qa’im
> correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that notices had been posted 
> !
> on the ar-Rahman Mosque and the old al-Qa’im Mosque threatening the puppet
> army soldiers with death if they fail to leave the city within 72 hours.
> The notice, signed by the Mujahideen of al-Qa’im, said: "Failure of the
> Iraqi Shi'i sectarian army to leave the city will result in the killing of
> the Iraqi [puppet] army troops."...
>
> <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=23000&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi
> l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23000
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>
> DAILY WAR NEWS FOR MONDAY, May 1, 2006
> Today in Iraq
> ...Wife and daughter of a former construction and housing minister
> kidnapped in Baghdad. Clashes between U.S. forces and gunmen in Ramadi,
> leave at least two civilian bystanders dead. In Ramadi, gunmen attacked
> three policemen traveling in a car carrying the salaries of police in
> Fallujah, killing one, wounding another, and kidnapping the third with the
> bag of money. Two people killed by gunmen in two separate incidents in a
> suburb in Baquba, 60 kilometres nort! heast of Baghdad...
>
> <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=22998&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi
> l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22998
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>
> Happy 3rd birthday, Mission Accomplished
> Sploid
> ...On May 1 of 2003, America had lost 139 troops to the invasion and
> occupation of Iraq. Today that number stands at 2,400. In the three years
> since we won the war, 17,000 more soldiers have been wounded -- many of
> them mangled beyond recognition and doomed to live their remaining days
> without arms or legs. The victory pushed "insurgent attacks" up from eight
> per day back in 2003 to 75 per day in 2006 (...) But there's some good 
> news
> for the president on this third ! anniversary of the victory in Iraq:
> Despite everything that's happened and everything that's known, he remains
> a free man and still occupies the White House. Amazingly, Bush and his 
> team
> have yet to be removed from office, prosecuted, convicted of treason,
> imprisoned or executed...
>
> <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=23004&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi
> l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23004
>
>
> Iraq Still Below Pre-Invasion Levels: US Report
> IslamOnline.net
> Iraq's electricity supplies, economic and social living standards are 
> still
> below pre-invasion levels as the construction process has been stumbling
> over corruption and unabated violence, a US congressional inspection team
> has said in a new scathing report. Many Iraqis still have no access to
> clean water and lack proper health care systems in a country stricken by
> serious shortage in hospitals and health centers as well as power outages
> mainly in Bag! hdad, Stuart Bowen, the special inspector general for Iraq
> reconstruction (Sigir) assigned by Congress, said in his detailed report,
> Britain's the Guardian newspaper reported Monday, May 1...
>
> <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=22997&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi
> l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22997
>
>
> “Out of Iraq, Into Darfur”?
> Just Saying No to Imperialist Intervention in Sudan
> Gary Leupp, www.dissidentvoice.org
> At the huge, inspiring antiwar march in New York yesterday, I noticed many
> placards with the massage, "Out of Iraq, Into Darfur." They were held by
> members of a group called "Volunteer for Change," described as "a project
> of Working Assets." I wasn’t sure what to make of the slogan. Was it
> somehow satirical, playing on "Out of the frying pan, into the fire" and
> warning about a future Som! alia-like intervention in Africa? Or was this
> really a call to take US troops out of Iraq and deploy them instead in
> "humanitarian" "peacekeeping" in western Sudan?...
>
> <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=22996&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi
> l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22996
>
>
> Maverick
> Interview with Israel Shamir
> Kim Petersen
> Israel Shamir is a prominent and controversial Russian-Israeli thinker,
> writer, and translator who lives in Jaffa. Shamir brings to his political
> writing a refreshing candor, sharp insight, and inspiring humanity. His
> principled stand supporting the Palestinian refugees’ right of return and
> the rebuilding of their destroyed villages led to his firing from the
> "progressive" Israeli newspaper Haaretz (...) Shamir has renounced Judaism
> and embraced Chris! tianity. He is a strong proponent of the "One Man, One
> Vote, One State" solution for a united Israel-Palestine. I interviewed the
> unflinching maverick writer Israel Shamir...
>
>
> <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=22995&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi
> l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22995
>
>
> US Pays for 150 Iraqi Clinics, and Manages to Build 20
> James Glanz, The New York Times
> A $243 million program led by the United States Army Corps of Engineers to
> build 150 health care clinics in Iraq has in some cases produced little
> more than empty shells of crumbling concrete and shattered bricks cemented
> together into uneven walls, two reports by a federal oversight office have
> found. The reports, released yesterday, detail a close inspection of five
> of the clinics in the northern city of Kirkuk as well as a ! sweeping 
> audit
> of the entire program, which began in March 2004 as a heavily promoted
> effort to improve health care for ordinary Iraqis. The reports say that
> none of the five clinics in Kirkuk and only 20 of the original 150 across
> the country will be completed without new financing...
>
> <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=22994&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi
> l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22994
>
>
> Chalabi involved US, Iran policy making again, current and former
> intelligence officials say
> Larisa Alexandrovna
> Ahmed Chalabi, the man who helped provide cooked intelligence on Iraq to
> the Pentagon and the New York Times in the lead-up to war, is once again
> being engaged in US policy decisions, current and former intelligence
> officials say. According to two former high level counterintelligence
> officials, one former senior counterterrorist official and another
> intelligence officer, Chalabi is acting as broker be! tween the US
> Ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, and Iranian officials in what are 
> now
> stalled diplomatic efforts between the US and Iran...
>
> <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=23003&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi
> l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23003
>
>
> Families Hunt for Iraq's "Lost"
> David Enders, The Christian Science Monitor
> At the small, crowded prisoner-tracking department of the Ministry of 
> Human
> Rights (MOHR), tears often flow freely. "He was arrested from his house on
> December 25," sobs Jameela Abdullah Hikmet, who was looking for her
> brother, Jameel Abdullah Hikmet. With thousands of Iraqis kidnapped and
> arrested over the past three years, often in murky circumstances, the MOHR
> has become one more place Iraqis look for missing relatives. More than 34!
> ,000 Iraqis, according to MOHR figures, are held at one of the dozens of
> prisons across the country run by either the US military or the Iraqi
> Ministries of Interior, Defense, and Justice...
>
> <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=22993&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi
> l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22993
>
>
> GI Special 4D30: 1% Of Iraqis Trust US Troops - April 30, 2006
> Thomas F. Barton
> A majority of Iraqis say their country is in dismal economic shape and
> getting worse, with 3 of 4 respondents also describing security in the
> country as poor, according to a new poll conducted by a conservative
> American think tank. Only 1 percent said they trust U.S.-led coalition
> forces for their personal protection. The poll reveals a population with
> little optimism about its economic future. The findings show that Iraqis
> believe jo! bs are harder to find, electrical service is poorer, and
> corruption has increased dramatically since last year...
>
> <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=22990&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi
> l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22990
>
>
> Covert American killing of Iraqi civilians
> Imad Khadduri
> ...One young Iraqi man told us that he was trained by the Americans as a
> policeman in Baghdad and he spent 70 per cent of his time learning to 
> drive
> and 30 per cent in weapons training. They said to him: 'Come back in a
> week.' When he went back, they gave him a mobile phone and told him to
> drive into a crowded area near a mosque and phone them. He waited in the
> car but couldn't get the right mobile signal. So he got out of the car to
> where he received a bet! ter signal. Then his car blew up...
>
> <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=22989&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi
> l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22989
>
>
> Ignoring Colbert: A Small Taste of the Media's Power to Choose the News
> Peter Daou
> ...The AP's first stab at it and pieces from Reuters and the Chicago
> Tribune tell us everything we need to know: Colbert's performance is
> sidestepped and marginalized while Bush is treated as light-hearted,
> humble, and funny. Expect nothing less from the cowardly American media.
> The story could just as well have been Bush and Laura's discomfort and the
> crowd's semi-hostile reaction to Colbert's razor-sharp barbs. In fact, I
> would g! uess that from the perspective of newsworthiness and public
> interest, Bush-the-playful-president is far less compelling than a comedy
> sketch gone awry, a pissed-off prez, and a shell-shocked audience. This is
> the power of the media to choose the news, to decide when and how to 
> shield
> Bush from negative publicity. Sins of omission can be just as bad as sins
> of commission...
>
> <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=23002&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi
> l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23002
>
>
> Photos fuel probe into how Iraqi civilians died
> Barbara Starr, CNN
> Military investigators are reviewing photographs indicating that Iraqi
> civilians, including women and children, may have been shot deliberately 
> by
> U.S. Marines in Haditha last November, according to a military source
> familiar with the ongoing investigation. It is not clear how many
> photographs are being reviewed. But the source told CNN the photos are
> evidence that the Iraqis did not die in a roadside blast as the Marines 
> had
> originally said...
>
> <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=23007&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi
> l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23007
>
>
> Arabiya airs video of Saddam aide body "desecration"
> Reuters
> Al Arabiya television showed on Monday footage of what it said was the 
> body
> of a detained aide to former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein being trampled at
> an Iraqi state-run morgue. It said it was the body of Mohammed al-Zubaidi
> -- a prime minister during Saddam's era. Zubaidi was number 9 on the U.S.
> list of most wanted former regime leaders and had been detained in April
> 2003. Zubaidi died in U.S. custody in December 2005 and was handed over to
> Iraqi auth! orities. The Dubai-based television said the "body was
> subjected to desecration apparently by Iraqis". It showed the head being
> trampled repeatedly (...) Arabiya said U.S. forces said their
> responsibility for Zubaidi ended with his body's handover. But Khalil
> al-Dulaimi, the lead attorney in Saddam's trial, told Arabiya: "They (U.S.
> forces) shoulder the moral and criminal responsibility."...
>
> <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=22988&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi
> l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22988
>
>
> Calculating the dead in Iraq
> Jim Silva, Lompoc Record, CA
> Documenting the number killed in a war zone is "hard work." It takes
> something called a large scale mortality study. Only one has been done in
> Iraq, published in the British medical journal, "The Lancet," and released
> two days before the 2004 election. It did not get much press coverage,
> partly because its timing drew suspicions of partisanship. Also, the 
> figure
> was much larger than other estimates at the time, but the more I learn
> about the study, the mor! e likely it is that 100,000 was the best
> estimate, and if anything, low. The study was done by a team of public
> health researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
> Health, the Columbia University School of Nursing, and the College of
> Medicine at Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad. Dr. Roberts, the lead
> author, has testified before Congress and is a recognized world expert in
> counting war dead. His Congo study found 1.7 million civilians killed, a
> figure cited by Secretary of State Colin Powell, and Tony Blair before
> Parliament (...) In a February 2006 update to the Lancet study, Dr. 
> Roberts
> estimated 300,000 Iraqi civilian deaths since the invasion...
>
> <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=22981&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi
> l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22981
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>
> "United 93": What Happened on the Planes?
> Michel Chossudovsky, Globalresearch.ca
> This article was first published in August 2004, following the release of
> the 9/11 Commission Report. Our findings cast doubt on the Commission's
> narrative regarding what actually happened on board the planes. This
> narrative, which describes in detail the 9/11 Arab hijackers, is almost
> entirely based on recorded cell phone conversations. The telecom industry
> is unequivocal. Given the wireless technology available on September 11 
> 20!
> 01, these cell calls could not have been placed from high altitude. What
> happened on the planes is now the object of an "an exhilarating, somber 
> and
> heroic" Hollywood docu-drama entitled "United 93". Directed by British
> filmmaker Paul Greengrass, the film describes, taking the "findings" of of
> the 9/11 Commission at face value...
>
> <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=22979&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi
> l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22979
>
>
> In the Air
> Jeff Wells, Rigorous Intuition
> ...Many of us have been intuiting spoilers to the story arc of the Iraq 
> War
> for years: The death squads and black ops creating untenable chaos,
> sectarian strife and intentional failure to the bogus "mission" of
> democracy, with the objective of generating the "regretable inevitability"
> of partition. "Civil War" was talked up, because the End Game for Iraq was
> always division into impotent colonial Bantusans. We just knew it. It 
> seems
> like the End Game has arrived, because! suddenly partition, which "just
> months ago was largely dismissed as a fringe thought," is now being
> described by the usual suspects in the Pravdas of this empire as being the
> "surest - and perhaps now the only - way to bring stability to Iraq." And
> just as The Washington Post chimes in, Joe Biden shows up in The New York
> Times with an editorial contending that Iraq should be split into three
> separate ethnographic regions...
>
> <http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=22978&s2=02>Read the full article / Leggi
> l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22978
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