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US Falluja air raid claims more lives
Aljazeera.net
Four people have been killed and six more wounded after US warplanes bombed
Falluja, according to a hospital in the Iraqi city. Victims of the dawn
raid (0100 GMT) were rushed to Falluja's general hospital on Thursday where
Dr Abd al-Hakim al-Badrani confirmed the civilian toll. A local journalist,
Abu Bakr al-Dulaimi, said a home in the Dhubat district had been completely
flattened. He told Aljazeera the bombing killed "a father, mother and their
two children" ! and had created a sense of mass outrage in the city...

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Have Allawi and Iraq's leaders lost the common touch?
Borzou Daragahi - Special to The Daily Star
With 100 days to go before elections are scheduled to be held to decide
Iraq's future, no posters adorn the capital's streets and no names are
being bandied about. There have been no debates scheduled, no candidate
forums, no voter education guides. Instead, Iraqi and American officials
are raising serious doubts as to whether legitimate elections are
possible...


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Iraq, oltre 2.300 attacchi nell'ultimo mese
il manifesto
Gli attacchi senza sosta della guerriglia fanno dubitare sempre più che
gennaio 2005 possa essere il mese delle elezioni irachene, tanto che gli
stessi partiti che dovrebbero prendervi parte si mostrano sempre più
scettici. Negli ultimi 30 giorni ci sono stati nel paese oltre 2.300
attentati contro obiettivi militari e civili. Non solo, l'area degli
agguati, inizialmente concentrata tra Baghdad e il cosiddetto «triangolo
sunnita» si è allargata, fino ad abb! racciare una regione compresa tra le
provincie di Ninive e Salahuddin nel nord, e quella di Bassora nel sud...

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British forces involved in Abu Ghraib torture prison
Peter Reydt, WSWS
Earlier this month the Blair government acknowledged that British forces
were part of the military chain of command at the Abu Ghraib prison,
Baghdad at the time when the torture and abuse of Iraqi prisoners occurred.
In a parliamentary answer to Adam Price, the Welsh nationalist Plaid Cymru
MP, Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram admitted that two intelligence
officers, Colonel Chris Terrington and Colonel Campbell James, were
"embedded within"! the US unit responsible for interrogations of Iraqi
prisoners...

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U.S.: Iraq Violence Widening
CBS
U.S. officials concede they are not defeating or even containing an
insurgency that goes deeper than the daily attacks and kidnappings seen on
television, reports CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin.
The governor of Al-Anbar province in western Iraq has warned the U.S. that
threats against local officials and their families have brought his
government to the verge of collapse. And it goes wider than the so-called
Sunni triangle around Baghdad. A recent report pre! pared for the State
Department by a private security firm says "a general trend is emerging of
attacks spreading into historically less active areas"...


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Committing a war crime: Cancer cases in Iraq are increasing
Iraqwar
While Washington expresses concern that "terrorists" could explode a "dirty
bomb" containing nuclear waste on a Western city, killing hundreds of
people and leaving a radioactive residue which will cause cancer for years
to come, the US is dropping "dirty" depleted uranium bunker bombs on Iraq
and selling 500 of these devices to Israel...

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War, Outsourcing and Debt. Delusion Rules
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS, Counterpunch
... The perilous condition of the dollar is one of the reasons Bush invaded
Iraq. What keeps the overvalued dollar up is the fact that it is the
currency in which the Middle East bills its oil. Every country has to
purchase dollars in order to pay for its oil, and these purchases keep the
dollar afloat. Just prior to the US invasion, sanctions on Iraqi oil had
run their course and were about to be removed. Saddam Hussein intended to
bill I! raqi oil in Euros, which could have started the abandonment of the
dollar by the oil producing countries. Instead of fixing our economic
problems, we started a war...

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The War's Littlest Victim. He was Exposed to Depleted Uranium.His Daughter
may be Paying the Price.
Juan Gonzalez
In early September 2003, Army National Guard Spec. Gerard Darren Matthew
was sent home from Iraq, stricken by a sudden illness. One side of
Matthew's face would swell up each morning. He had constant migraine
headaches, blurred vision, blackouts and a burning sensation whenever he
urinated. The Army transferred him to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in
Washington for further tests, but doctors there c! ould not explain what
was wrong. Shortly after his return, his wife, Janice, became pregnant. On
June 29, she gave birth to a baby girl, Victoria Claudette. The baby was
missing three fingers and most of her right hand...


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Iraq War Plans 'Were Drawn Up Before Vote'
Andrew Woodcock, Political Correspondent, PA News
Britain was involved in planning for war in Iraq for at least nine months
before MPs approved military action, according to a document apparently
leaked from the Pentagon. Details from the secret briefing paper, published
in London's Evening Standard, suggest that military commanders took part in
a war planning conference with US counterparts as early as June 2002...


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Italy 'paid $1m to free hostages'
BBC News
A senior Italian politician says he believes a ransom of $1m or more was
paid for the release of two female Italian aid workers kidnapped in Iraq.
Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said no money had been paid but MP
Gustavo Selva described the denial as purely "official" (...) Gustavo Selva
is head of the Italian parliament's foreign affairs committee and a member
of the National Alliance, one of the parties in the governing coalition.
"The young women's life was ! the most important thing," he told French
radio on Wednesday. "In principle, one should not give in to blackmail, but
this time I think we had to give in..."


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Iraq Study Sees Rebels' Attacks as Widespread
JAMES GLANZ and THOM SHANKER, The New York Times
Over the past 30 days, more than 2,300 attacks by insurgents have been
directed against civilians and military targets in Iraq, in a pattern that
sprawls over nearly every major population center outside the Kurdish
north, according to comprehensive data compiled by a private security
company with access to military intelligence reports and its own network of
Iraqi informants. The sweeping geographical reach of the atta! cks, from
Nineveh and Salahuddin Provinces in the northwest to Babylon and Diyala in
the center and Basra in the south, suggests a more widespread resistance
than the isolated pockets described by Iraqi government officials. The type
of attacks ran the gamut: car bombs, time bombs, rocket-propelled grenades,
hand grenades, small-arms fire, mortar attacks and land mines...


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"Le Nazioni Unite non esistono più"
Felipe Pérez Roque, ministro degli affari esteri della Repubblica di Cuba
Discorso pronunciato dal ministro degli affari esteri della Repubblica di
Cuba, durante l'assemblea generale delle Nazioni Unite tenutasi a New York,
il 24 settembre 2004.
...Detto questo, e sapendo - come sappiamo - che questo disturberà alcuni
potenti - pochi - qui presenti, e sapendo anche che sono condivise da
tanti, Cuba dirà adesso alcune verità evidenti: Primo: Non esiste più, dopo
l'aggressione all'Iraq, l'Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite, intesa come
un foro utile e diverso, basato sul rispetto dei diritti di tutti e sulle
garanzie anche per i piccoli Stati. Vive il peggiore momento dei suoi ormai
prossimi sessant'anni. Langue. Ansima, sembra che funzioni ma non lo fa.
Chi ha messo le manette alle Nazione Unite? Il Presidente Bush. Secondo: Le
truppe nordamericane dovranno essere ritirate dall'Iraq...


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Operation American Repression?
Eric Boehlert
An Army Reserve staff sergeant who last week wrote a critical analysis of
the United States' prospects in Iraq now faces possible disciplinary action
for disloyalty and insubordination. If charges are bought and the officer
is found guilty, he could face 20 years in prison. It would be the first
such disloyalty prosecution since the Vietnam War...

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Growing Pessimism on Iraq. Doubts Increase Within U.S. Security Agencies
Dana Priest and Thomas E. Ricks, Washington Post Staff Writers
A growing number of career professionals within national security agencies
believe that the situation in Iraq is much worse, and the path to success
much more tenuous, than is being expressed in public by top Bush
administration officials, according to former and current government
officials and assessments over the past year by intelligence officials at
the CIA and the departmen! ts of State and Defense...


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More Lies From the Five-Sided Propaganda Factory
David H. Hackworth
You'd think a Hollywood screenwriter scripted the "Saving Private Jessica
Lynch" spectacle the Pentagon produced last year. But that five-sided
propaganda factory with its battalions of well-trained deceivers came up
with this particular fairytale - about how a Special Ops unit snatched a
beautiful blonde American heroine from Iraqi fiends - all on their own
(...) In its micro way, the Lynch scam symbolizes the miasma of deception
surrounding the! invasion and the ugly unsolvable occupation already
causing the direst consequences to our national security...

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 28 September 2004
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member editorial board The
Free Arab Voice.

At dawn on Tuesday the Iraqi Resistance used a C5K to strike a US Humvee
near the governorate building in al-Qa'im city on the border with Syria.
The vehicle was totally destroyed in the blast. Three US soldiers were
killed and two others wounded. Immediately after the attack a US Black Hawk
helicopter began shooting at anything that moved in the vicinity of the
attack, wounding three civilians...

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Truths Worth Telling
DANIEL ELLSBERG
...Surely there are officials in the present administration who recognize
that the United States has been misled into a war in Iraq, but who have so
far kept their silence - as I long did about the war in Vietnam. To them I
have a personal message: don't repeat my mistakes. Don't wait until more
troops are sent, and thousands more have died, before telling truths that
could end a war and save lives. Do what I wish I had done in 1964: go to
the press, to Congress, and document ! your claims...

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"Le Nazioni Unite non esistono più"
Felipe Pérez Roque, ministro degli affari esteri della Repubblica di Cuba
Discorso pronunciato dal ministro degli affari esteri della Repubblica di
Cuba, durante l'assemblea generale delle Nazioni Unite tenutasi a New York,
il 24 settembre 2004.
...Detto questo, e sapendo - come sappiamo - che questo disturberà alcuni
potenti - pochi - qui presenti, e sapendo anche che sono condivise da
tanti, Cuba dirà adesso alcune verità evidenti: Primo: Non esiste più, dopo
l'aggressione all'Iraq, l'Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite, intesa come
un foro utile e diverso, basato sul rispetto dei diritti di tutti e sulle
garanzie anche per i piccoli Stati. Vive il peggiore momento dei suoi ormai
prossimi sessant'anni. Langue. Ansima, sembra che funzioni ma non lo fa.
Chi ha messo le manette alle Nazione Unite? Il Presidente Bush. Secondo: Le
truppe nordamericane dovranno essere ritirate dall'Iraq...


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"Ecco il programma della resistenza irachena"
Mohammed Hassan & David Pestieau, Lega Antimperialista
...Khair-el-Din Haseeb, direttore generale del Centro di Studi dell'Unità
araba a Beirut, l'ha reso pubblico sul giornale Al-Arabia, il 2 settembre
scorso. Questo programma si distingue per il rifiuto di ogni divisione
etnica e religiosa in Iraq. Come primo punto, il programma proclama "il
rifiuto totale dell'occupazione, delle organizzazioni create dall'occupante
(come il governo provvisorio). Si fa appello a ! non partecipare sotto
qualsiasi forma a questa occupazione"...

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Iraq's CIA Election
Kurt Nimmo
Sean McCormack says the Bushites want "a level playing field" for the
upcoming Iraqi elections. In other words, they want to determine the
election's outcome. How best to do this? Send in the CIA. Once upon a time,
before Bush was selected and "everything changed," the CIA went about its
dirty business under the cover of national secrecy...

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