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The Sistani Puzzle. Did The Grand Ayatollah Collude With The US Assault On
Najaf?
Milan Rai, ZNet
Blunder or conspiracy? There are at least three possible accounts of the
origins of the recent Najaf conflict. Uncovering the truth requires a close
scrutiny of the behaviour of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, now feted as
the peace-bringer of Najaf. The standard Western media rendering is that
(for some unknown reason) militant Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr decided to
launch an uprising against the US occupation on 5 August...

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U.S. Strike on Fallujah Kills 9 Civilians
Associated Press
A U.S. airstrike on the city of Fallujah early Thursday killed nine
civilians, including three children, and wounded six others, hospital
officials said. The strike, wh! ich hit a residential house in the southern
neighborhood of al-Jubail, came just after midnight, witnesses said. U.S.
forces have repeatedly carried out airstrikes in Fallujah, west of Baghdad,
since Marines ended a three-week siege of the city in April aimed at
rooting out Sunni Muslim insurgents...

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US-Iraq-Israel-zionist connection
James Petras and Robin Eastman-Abaya
...Who benefited then from the US war? By examining the beneficiaries we
can get an idea who had a motive for promoting this crime against humanity.
The onl! y major beneficiary of the war is the State of Israel, which
succeeded in having the US destroy its most consistent Arab adversary in
the Middle East – the regime that extended the greatest political support
to the Palestinian resistance. Together with Iran and Syria they formed the
core resistance to Israeli expansionist plans to expel the Palestinians and
conquer and occupy all of Palestine...

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A no-win situation
PAUL KRUGMAN
Last Sunday The New York Times confirmed that while the world’s attention
was focused on Najaf, western Iraq fell firmly under rebel control.
Representatives of the US-installed government have b! een intimidated,
assassinated or executed. Other towns, like Samarra, have also fallen to
insurgents. Attacks on oil pipelines are proliferating. And we’re still
playing whack-a-mole with Muqtada al-Sadr: his Mahdi Army has left Najaf,
but remains in control of Sadr City, with its two million people.

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US troops, Iraqi security come under attack
Aljazeera.net
US military convoys and Iraqi security forces have come under renewed
attacks throughout Iraq, US sources have said. A US military truck convoy
has come under attack on ! a highway west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad,
Aljazeera has learned. One of the trucks was completely destroyed after a
rocket-propelled grenade hit it...

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The I[raq] of the Storm: Voices from the Convention floor
Tom Engelhardt , Tom Dispatch
...This is no evidence of failure; nor are the missing weapons of mass
destruction; nor is the lack of a bona fide al-Qaeda tie with Saddam! (even
if the 9/11 Commission confirmed its absence); nor is the now-never-ending,
unaccomplished war in Iraq. In the end, it's enough to say that Saddam
himself was a weapon of mass destruction, as most of the delegates did
indeed do...

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Baldoni, Malbrunot, Chesnot, bombe alle moschee, decapitazioni, ordigni tra
i civili: come ribaltare le vittorie della Resistenza e incastarci nello
"scontro di civiltà"
Fulvio Grimaldi, Mondocane fuorilinea
...“Tra un Iraq ! occupato dagli americani e un Iraq liberato dai
decapitatori preferisco l’Iraq occupato dagli americani”, così Riccardo
Barenghi che, lo crediate o no, fu direttore del “Manifesto” e oggi ne cura
una vistosa rubrica delle lettere (...) Mettere tutti sullo stesso piano,
carnefici e vittime, è già un bel colpo per Wolfowitz-Cheney-Rumsfeld,
tutti colpevoli nessuno colpevole, l’astuzia di Craxi. Da lì, poi,
all’inversione del binomio carnefici-vittime, alla Barenghi, il passo è
facile e breve...

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Blood on Whose Hands?
Felicity Arbuthnot, IslamOnline
...This illegal invasion has meant that everyone in Iraq is now a potential
“victim of terror,” residents and invaders alike. But the invaders have an
option: they can leave! (and take their puppet government with their
foreign passports with them.) Only then will normality and stability
gradually return, and shattered lives, homes, shrines, cities be rebuilt.
And maybe in time, foreigners too will again be able to walk the streets of
what remains of Iraq’s wondrous heritage till late in the night and hear,
as before, only, “Welcome, welcome, welcome...”

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The War on Terror is a Fraud: Unraveling the Logic of a Lie
M. Junaid Alam, www.dissidentvoice.org
...The “war on terror” is an absolute fraud. It is a war designed
specifically to mask the injustices and inequalities which aff! lict
millions of Americans by aggravating and amplifying the injustices and
inequalities inflicted upon millions of non-Americans. Its very existence
represents continuous and ever-expanding victory for only the most vicious,
opportunistic, and hateful elements among humanity...

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Republican Convention "We did not seek this War"
Juan Cole, Informed Comment
...And pretending that the US had no choice but to attack Iraq and reduce
it to a pitiful failed state is flatly dishonest (...) It dissolved the
Iraq! i army, throwing the country into chaos. That army was not gone and
would have gladly showed up at the barracks for a paycheck. It pursued a
highly punitive policy of firing and excluding members of the Baath Party,
which was not done in so thorough-going a manner even to Nazis in post-war
Germany. It canceled planned municipal elections, denying people any stake
in their new "government," which was more or less appointed by the US. It
put all its efforts into destroying Arab socialism in Iraq and creating a
sudden free market...

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Dubbi sui rapitori. I legami tra l'Esercito islamico e Allawi
il manifesto
C'è un particolare nelle azioni dell'Esercito islamico che diventa più
evidente ogni giorno che passa. I suoi rapimenti hanno una inquietante sin!
tonia con il pensiero del premier iracheno Iyad Allawi. Il primo dubbio
sulla collocazione politica del gruppo è nato ben prima dell'omicidio
dell'inviato di Diario, Enzo Baldoni. Era il 4 agosto quando l'Esercito
islamico riuscì a rapire Fereydun Jahani, il console iraniano a Kerbala...

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Abu Ghraib hearing will not seek testimony from Iraqi inmates
The News International
A US Army judge ruled on Tuesday that a special military hearing for an
American soldier accused of abusing Iraqi inmates at Abu Ghraib prison!
will not seek testimony from ex-prisoners as it would be too difficult to
arrange. Judge Colonel Denise Arn made the decision at a hearing for
Private Lynndie England, 21, known around the world from a photograph
showing her holding a leash attached to the neck of a naked inmate at Abu
Ghraib, after prosecutors said it could take days to track ex-inmates.

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Military Must Squarely Face New 'My Lai'
Andrew J. Bacevich
For the present generation of American soldiers, Abu Ghraib is fast
becoming what the My Lai massacre was to the generation that fought in
Vietnam — an episode of horr! ific misconduct transformed through
subsequent mishandling into a full-fledged moral crisis...

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Talks to Disarm Rebel Shiites Collapses in Iraq
DEXTER FILKINS and ERIK ECKHOLM, NYTimes
Talks to disarm hundreds of insurgents in the roiling Sadr City ghetto in
Baghdad collapsed Tuesday, after a tentative peace pact was abru! ptly
canceled by Prime Minister Ayad Allawi. Leaders of the Mahdi Army, the
rebel force led by the Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, and two well-placed
Iraqi sources said an agreement had been reached late Monday that called
for the disarming of the rebel force and a halt in American military
operations in Sadr City. Mahdi Army commanders and other Iraqi sources said
Tuesday that Dr. Allawi backed out of the agreement on Tuesday morning...

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«Scelli fa politica, la Cri va riformata»
GABRIELE CARCHELLA*, il manifesto
...In Iraq Scelli non ha credibilità come negoziatore, perché non ha fatto
uso della dovuta discrezione: ancora non era cominciato il negoziato per
lib! erare Baldoni, se mai c'è stato, che già rilasciava dichiarazioni. E'
un comportamento lontano anni luce non solo dalle regole della Croce rossa,
ma anche dalla prassi seguita da qualunque buon negoziatore. Non mi
stupisce, quindi, che i tentativi di salvare Baldoni, anche se accompagnati
dai propositi più nobili, siano falliti...

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Spy Probe Scans Neocon-Israel Ties
Jim Lobe , AntiWar
...The office in which Franklin has worked since 2001 is dominated by
staunch neoconservatives, including Feith himself. Headed by William Luti,
a retired Navy officer who w! orked for DPB member Newt Gingrich when he
was speaker of the House of Representatives, it played a central role in
building the case for war in Iraq. Part of the office's strategy included
working closely with the Iraqi National Congress (INC) led by now-disgraced
exile Ahmed Chalabi, and the DPB members in developing and selectively
leaking intelligence analyses that supported the now-discredited thesis
that former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had close ties to al-Qaeda...

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Iraq's universities still recovering from post-war looting, damage
Rawya Rageh, Associated Press
At the entrance to Baghdad's al-Mustansiriyah University, an administration
building lies in ruins. Its windows are shattered, its! walls charred and
its broken floors are covered in rubble. The student union and the dorms
are badly damaged, and the science and computer labs remain unusable. As
Iraq's universities prepare for a new school year more than 16 months after
Saddam Hussein's ouster, they are still coping with the damage caused by
looters who stole or destroyed more than 80 percent of the universities'
infrastructure...

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DUBBI SULL'IDENTITA' DELL'ESERCITO ISLAMICO IRACHENO
Arabmonitor
Le sanguinose imprese dei sequestratori in Iraq, i quali rivendicano la
propria appartenenza alla resistenza contro l'occupazione militare
straniera del Paese, co! minciano a suscitare perplessità nell'opinione
pubblica irachena. Arabmonitor ha sentito l'opinione di Houda al Mouhaymi,
ricercatrice di scienze politiche presso l'Università di Baghdad e
dirigente dell'Associazione delle donne irachene...

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday 30 August 2004 and Tuesday, 31
August 2004
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member editorial board The
Free Arab Voice
In a report posted at 12:32am Tuesday morning t! he al-Fallujah
correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US troops had withdrawn
from the environs of the city after their attacks during the day met, as
usual, with fierce resistance by the city's defenders who inflicted
significant losses on the US aggressors...

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Iraqi Groups Claims It Killed Three Israelis
AFP
A radical Iraqi insurgent group claimed Tuesday that it had killed three
"Mossad agents" in Iraq and holding another hostage along with a Turkish
truck driver accused of working ! for US-led forces. The claim was included
in a statement plastered on walls in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit
and signed by the "Horror Brigades", a previously unknown division of the
Secret Islamic Army which is holding three Indians, three Kenyans and an
Egyptian...

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