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Najaf, Fallujah Hit by U.S. Warplanes, Military Says
Bloomberg
U.S. warplanes hit targets in Najaf and Fallujah in a bid to quash
insurgents operating in the two cities, military spokesmen said by
telephone from Iraq. Air strikes in Najaf, south of Baghdad, where
supporters of Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have staged a three-week
uprising, are ``ongoing,'' Major Jay Antonelli said in a phone interview
from Baghdad. Tank and aircraft fire hit targets in Fallujah, west of the
Iraqi capital, said Lieutenant Colonel T.V. Johnson fro! m outside the city.

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Iraqi police seize journalists in Najaf
Aljazeera.net
Iraqi policemen rounded up dozens of journalists at gunpoint in a Najaf
hotel and took them to police headquarters before later releasing them.
Firing their guns in the air,! the dozen odd policemen, some masked,
stormed into the rooms of journalists in the Najaf Sea hotel and forced
them into vans and a truck...

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ÃNostro padre in Iraq per la paceÀ
Leonardo Sacchetti, L'Unit–
Oggi ? il giorno della verit– per Enzo Baldoni: nel primo pomeriggio,
infatti, scade l’ultimatum di 48 ore dato dall’ÃEsercito islamico in IraqÀ
al governo italiano! per il ritiro del contingente ÃAntica BabiloniaÀ dal
Paese. Ieri ? stata la giornata dell’appello tv (prima sulle tg Rai e poi
su Al Jazira) dei figli del pubblicitario e freelance italiano, Gabriella e
Guido. ÃÈ un uomo di paceÀ, ha detto la maggiore dei due figli di Baldoni...

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Abu Ghraib: Ordinary folk or human aberrations?
Linda S. Heard, Online Journal Contributing Writer
—¢Everything, everything in war is barbaric . . . but the worst barbarity
of war is that it forces men collectively to commit ac! ts against which
individually they would revolt with their whole being," wrote the late
Swedish author Ellen Kay. If one goes along with the defense of "we were
simply following orders" put forward by the American military at Baghdad's
notorious Abu Ghraib prison, while images of them celebrating pyramids of
their naked, bruised, beaten and humiliated handiwork with grins and
thumbs-up, she may have a point...

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Combat Training, Courtesy of Fallujah
Zainab Naji
Two young men from Fallujah sat in a house in the Baghdad suburb of Sadr
City, eating a meal of rice and stew prepared by local women. They had come
to this sprawling neighbourh! ood to give the Mahdi Army militia –
supporters of radical Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr - the benefit of their
experience fighting the United States Marines. According to these men, the
Shia militia needs all the help it can get. "They don't know how to fight.
We came to offer experience," said one of the “trainers”, who both declined
to be named...

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Neocon Treason
Paul Craig Roberts, AntWar
...The failure of the U.S. occupation in Iraq has certainly demonstrated
the limits to U.S. hegemony. Despite limited armed opposition, U.S.
military forces do not seem able to control ! a single Iraqi city. If
rebellion were to become general or if Iraqis had effective weapons against
tanks and air power, the U.S. would have to withdraw its army...

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Iraqi resistance celebrated in Brazil
Ahmed Janabi , Aljazeera.net
A group of Brazilian activists have been campaigning in the Brazilian city
of Curitiba in support of Iraqi resistance fighters. Every Saturday,
businessman Jo! se Gil de Almeida and Moutih Ibrahim, chairman of the
Charity Brazilian-Arab Association, gather along with their supporters in
the city's main street and distribute posters displaying the actions of the
Iraqi resistance. The group organises regular writing and photography
competitions in the city's public library, the Parana, visited daily by
three thousand students...

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Three weeks of clashes stretch Najaf hospital to the limit
Reuters
Some stroke victims are too afraid of the fighting to go to hospital,
doctors don't have the medical instruments to save many victims of mortar
bombs and sniper! s and ambulances cannot get to patients at night. Najaf's
main hospital can barely cope with the chaos gripping the city of 500,000
after three weeks of battles between radical Shi'ite militants and US
troops...

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Dozens dead and injured in Amara
Aljazeera.net
Fighting in the southern Iraqi town of Amara over the past 24 hours has
killed at least a dozen people and wounded 54 more. Three children were
among the 12 shot dead during a two-! hour battle between Iraqi resistance
fighters and British occupation forces on Wednesday afternoon. Doctor
Mustafa Ali, speaking at Amara's main hospital, confirmed the casualty
figures and said three mortar rounds that landed on the al-Jadida
residential district caused the fatalities...

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Rumsfeld’s Panel Says ?Don’t Punish Rumsfeld’ for Abu Ghraib
Chris Shumway
A commission of civilian military advisers established by Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld says that soldiers running Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq
deserve! most of the blame for acts of torture and abuse committed there,
while high-ranking Pentagon officials are guilty only of mismanagement...

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America marks A first in Iraq: Female torturers and Army doctors will "Make
you last"
Mohamed Elmasry, Media Monitors Network
...But American abuse of Iraqi prisoners has marked a grisly first in the
history of torture -- the u! se of women to sexually humiliate men,
especially Muslim men. The recent and much-photographed fierce
concentration on men’s genitalia by female American military personnel
demonstrates a meticulously constructed technique of psychotic bestial
degradation. While intensely humiliating for any man, sexual subjugation of
the kind meted out in Abu Ghraib prison represents the worst possible
denigration for Muslim males, who have known only the morality and
traditions of a predominantly patriarchal society. Well done, America. You
really understand "those people."

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Vive la Difference
Zbignew Zingh, www.dissidentvoice.org
...Warsaw. Falluja. Warsaw. Wounded Knee. Falluja. Gaza. Jakarta. Warsaw.
Waco. Najaf. Warsaw. Warsaw. Warsaw. Powerful Humans always have and always
will try to squash r! esistance because if one act of resistance succeeds,
then it will encourage other acts of resistance which will, ultimately,
lead to the overthrow of those who Wield the Power. That is the brutal
reality of how People in Power retain their Power. They mercilessly squash
you if you resist. They squash you mercilessly to demonstrate to other
wannabe rebels that they, too, will be mercilessly squashed if they utter a
peep of dissent...

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Crime and Punishment
Brian Dominick
When the findings of the latest U.S. Army investigation into the Abu Ghraib
torture scandal are reported to Congress this week, no one of higher rank
than colonel is expected to be named as d! irectly responsible for the
systemic abuses uncovered in the prison just outside Baghdad. Meanwhile,
according to charges made by an ethicist in a major medical journal,
military physicians and medics in Iraq have been complicit or actively
engaged in some of the worst known incidents of cruelty, torture and
murder...

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'Ending Iraqi insurgency could take upto 10 years'
Indiatimes
US army officials have said that it could take upto 10 years to crush the
insurgency in Iraq, which has shown no signs of letting up since the
transfer of power to a! n interim Iraqi government. American officials had
expected the violence to drop after Iraqis regained control of their
government on June 28 in the belief that Iraqi security forces would be
better at gathering intelligence and support for militants would erode...

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What We've Really Lost in this Indefensible War
Jimmy Breslin
There were four Marines and an Army soldier killed in Iraq in one 24-hour
period over the weekend. George Bush, who does not like people who go to
war, probably will! say that they are not dead. As of Aug. 20, we list 952
of our troops killed in fighting. That is the Defense Department figure.
When the figure goes over 1,000, that can be devastating in an election.
But the figure of 1,000, so easily remembered, already has been reached.
That was on July 7, when a rocket-propelled grenade killed Pfc. Samuel
Bowen of Cleveland. The people keeping track at the Army Times newspaper,
which has given the best, and often the only, coverage of the war, made
Bowen the 1,000th. The Army Times, with no election to effect, properly
includes deaths in Afghanistan...

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Abu Ghraib, Rumsfeld sotto accusa
CARLO MARIA MIELE, il manifesto
-Donald Rumsfeld e i vertici dell'esercito statunitense rischiano di essere
infine chiamati in causa direttamente per lo scandalo delle torture ad Abu
Ghraib. Se! condo una commissione d'inchiesta indipendente del Pentagono,
il segretario della difesa di Bush e altri alti ufficiali del suo ufficio
avrebbero creato il clima in cui furono possibili gli abusi sui prigionieri
iracheni...

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Father of Beheaded Iraq Hostage Blames Bush Administration For Son's Death
Democracy Now!
We speak with Michael Berg father of Nicholas Berg who was captured and
beheaded in Iraq last May. In a rare interview in the U.S., he di! scusses
the invasion of Iraq, the corporate media's coverage of Nicholas' murder
and the controversy surrounding the last weeks of his son's life...

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Prosecutors: Marine accused of karate-kicking Iraqi POW wanted to show
prisoners who's boss
Robert Jablon, Associated Press
A Marine accused of karate-kicking a handcuffed Iraqi POW who later died
believed it was his role to sh! ow prisoners ''who's boss'' and to soften
them up for interrogation, a prosecutor said Tuesday as the court-martial
got under way...



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US forces accused of using blistering gas in its attacks in Najaf.
Xinhuanet
... On Monday, al-Darraji accused US forces of using blistering gas in its
attacks in Najaf. Asked about evidences, he said "some physicians in the
ci! ty conducted tests on some corpses in addition to the green smoke and
the corpses were immediately rotten" ...

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Former US attorney general may join Saddam defence team
Khaleej Times
Former US attorney general Ramsey Clark is expected to join a legal team
seeking to defend former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein before a special
Iraqi tribu! nal, the panel’s chairman Mohammad Rashdan announced Tuesday.
“Negotiations are going on for Clark’s joining of the team,” Rashdan said,
without providing details. Clark will become one of the distinguished
members of the panel, that also includes former French foreign minister
Roland Dumas and some 20 prominent Arab and non-Arab lawyers who
volunteered to defend the former Iraqi leader...

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