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I " reportage " dei mass-media USA, il loro stile, il contenuto...
James Petras, Osservatorio Iraq
...Sì, ci sono differenze tra il resoconto di Shirer sulla propaganda
nazista che difendeva la conquista dell'Europa e le scuse mediatiche per
l'invasione dell’Iraq e per il massacro dei palestinesi da parte di
Israele: il primo è commesso in nome del Fuhrer e della madre patria, gli
altri in nome di Dio e della democrazia. Ditelo ai cadaveri divorati dai
cani nelle rovine di Fallujah...

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Due pallottole nel petto e un colpo alla testa, la regola dei marines
Evan Wright - AprileOnLine.Info
... Dal video della moschea era ovvio che un crimine di guerra era stato
commesso (...) Ma quello che i comandanti non dicono è che il comportamento
del marine nel video è perfettamente rispondente all’addestramento standard
in uso presso alcune unità. I marines chiamano l’esecuzione dei feriti
“verifica di morte” (dead-check). “Ci insegnano a fare questo dead-check
quando ripuliamo un ambiente,” mi ha detto un ! marine da poco ritornato
dall’Irak. “Consiste nel piantare due pallottole nel petto del tizio e una
nella testa...”

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L'ombrello di Chamberlain
Antonio Tabucchi, L'Unità
...`È di questi giorni la notizia di un altro grave attacco alla libertà di
stampa in Italia. Il senato ha reso attuale una legge in vigore durante la
seconda guerra mondiale secondo la quale ai giornalisti è vietato dare
notizie sulle operazioni o gli spostamenti delle truppe italiane inviate
all’estero. È una legge di guerra per un Paese che in guerra non è, ma che
ha tuttavia inviato in Iraq truppe per iniziativa del ministro della
Difesa, senza il beneplacit! o del Parlamento. Tale invio è stato
denominato «Missione di Pace». Ebbene, i giornalisti italiani non potranno
più rendere conto ai cittadini italiani di ciò che fanno i militari
italiani in Iraq...

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Fallujah's 9/11:
U.S. Used Weapons of Mass Destruction
Fintan Dunne, Editor, BreakForNews.com,
.. The date on which unknown terrorist commanders allegedly orchestrated
the attacks on New York and Washington, September 11th --is written in the
US as 9/11. "Allegedly" --because the U.S. Government never produced the
dossier of evidence they claimed at the time would prove their case. And no
substantial criminal convictions as yet support that claim. The date on
which as yet unidentified terrorist U.S. command! ers attacked Fallujah on
November 9th --is written outside the U.S., also as 9/11. Many believe that
same people were behind both of these now infamous atrocities. They
maintain the 9/11 attacks were an "inside job". One argument of those
unconvinced by such "conspiracy theories," is that no US political/military
cabal would be capable of such callous inhumanity. That argument no longer
holds. Fallujah's 9/11 ends such illusions....

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Harness That Anger
Howard Zinn
...The reality of what is going on Iraq is more and more coming through the
smoke of government propaganda and media timidity. It cannot help but touch
the hearts of the people of this country, as they see our soldiers going
innocently into Iraq, but becoming brutalized by the war, practicing
torture on helpless prisoners, shooting the wounded, bombing houses and
mosques, turning cities into rubble, and driving families out of their
homes into the countryside. As I write this, the c! ity of Fallujah has
been turned into rubble by a ferocious bombing campaign...

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Iraq: bayonets, bullets and votes
JUAN DUFFLAR AMEL—Special for Granma International
THE fictitious "American dream" of a world of peace, liberty, democracy,
and universal suffrage does not apply to Iraq, a country invaded, occupied,
and devastated by the war machinery and troops of the United States.
Washington’s aim of legitimizing through "general elections" a genocide
that has cost the lives of over 100,000 Iraqi civilians and destroyed
millenary cultural, historical and religious values is not only a crime a!
gainst humanity but also an insult to universal intelligence...

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Rising insurgent activity reported west of Fallujah
Tim Johnson, KNIGHT RIDDER
A resurgence in armed actions broke out Tuesday in areas west of Fallujah
along a key highway leading to Jordan, just weeks after a massive U.S.-led
military offensive in the city. Heavily armed anti-American insurgents on
Tuesday took over and briefly held nine police stations and highway
checkpoints, blowing up two buildings, police said. Drivers reported that
insurgents also took control of large sections of the highway leading west!
out of Iraq, stopping traffic and shaking down passengers...

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 30 November 2004
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member editorial board The
Free Arab Voice.
...Members of the puppet so-called “Iraqi national guard” have been
plastering pictures of pro-American Shi‘i cleric ‘Ali as-Sistani in the
mihrab niches at the front of all mosques in the parts of al-Fallujah that
the US invaders and their stooges have occupied. The American invaders have
from the beginning sought to stir up and capitalize on sectarian strif! e
in Iraq. They began by establishing a confessionalist governing council to
rule the country under American auspices. In addition, sectarian Shi‘i
chauvinist Badr Brigade gunmen who invaded Iraq along with the US forces
have been incorporated into the so-called “Iraqi national guard”...

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Pentagon sending more troops to Iraq
ROBERT BURNS, The Associated Press
The Pentagon is sending elements of the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort
Bragg, N.C., to Iraq to bolster security in advance of Iraq's election,
scheduled for late January, an Army official said Wednesday. In addition,
at least two Army brigades now operating in northern Iraq will have their
tours extended by about two months, until after the election, the official
said speaking on condition of anonymity...

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U.N. considers "preventive" war
Evelyn Leopold, Iraqwar
A blue ribbon panel has released a landmark report on global threats that
insists the U.N. Security Council approve any "preventive" war, which was
not the case when the United States invaded Iraq. U.N. Secretary-General
Kofi Annan asked the panel of 16 veteran foreign ministers and diplomats
from around the world, including former U.S. national security adviser
Brent Scowcroft, to spell out how the world body should reform itself and
identify the main dange! rs to mankind in the 21st century...

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PR Meets Psy-Ops in War on Terror
Mark Mazzetti
...One recent development critics point to is the decision by commanders in
Iraq in mid-September to combine public affairs, psychological operations
and information operations into a "strategic communications" office. An
organizational chart of the newly created office was obtained by The Times.
The strategic communications office, which began operations Sept. 15, is
run by Air Force Brig. Gen. Erv Lessel, who answers directly to Gen. George
W. Casey, the top U.S. ! commander in Iraq...

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What happened to Iraq’s oil money?
By Lisa Myers & the NBC investigative unit
After the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the United States took control of all of
the Iraqi government’s bank accounts, including the income from oil sales.
The United Nations approved the financial takeover, and President Bush
vowed to spend Iraq’s money wisely. But now critics are raising serious
questions about how well the United States handled billions of dollars in
Iraqi oil funds...

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200 Children Die Every Day
Iraq's Health Care Under the Occupation
GHALI HASSAN,CounterPunch
Since the US military invasion and occupation of Iraq, Iraq's health care
system has deteriorated as a result of deliberate destruction by the US
administration. The most vulnerable victims of this destruction are the
Iraqi children, particularly children under the age of five...

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Sistani pulls main Shia parties together to dominate Iraq poll
Rory McCarthy , The Guardian
Iraq's Shia parties have built a powerful political alliance uniting
moderates with extremists and seem likely to dominate next month's general
election. The coalition, formed in weeks of private negotiations, will put
forward a joint list of candidates (...) The list is topped by the leaders
of Islamic Dawa and the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution, Ibrahim
al-Jaafari and Abdul Aziz al-Hakim. The co! alition also includes Ahmad
Chalabi, the secular Shia exile who was once a Pentagon favourite to rule
post-war Iraq, and representatives of Moqtada al-Sadr, the hardline Shia
cleric who has led a series of uprisings against the US occupation.

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From Guernica to Fallujah
Pepe Escobar
The Fallujah offensive has virtually disappeared from the news cycle. But
history - if written by Iraqis - may well enshrine it as the new Guernica.
Paraphrasing Jean-Paul Sartre memorably writing about the Algerian War
(1956-62), after Fallujah no two Americans shall meet without a corpse
lying between them: the up to 500,000 victims of the sanctions in the
1990s, according to United Nations experts; the up to 100,000 victims since
the beginning of the invasion of Iraq, acc! ording to the British medical
paper The Lancet; and at least 6,000 victims, and counting, in Fallujah,
according to the Iraqi Red Crescent...

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Falluja 'a horror' after U.S.-led offensive
CNN
...Fuad Kubaysi, one of those staying at the Red Crescent compound, said,
"What has happened to Falluja is a horror beyond anything imaginable. We
don't want it anymore. Let them have it. Let whomever wants it have it. We
cannot ever call this city home again." Red Crescent volunteer Sabri Abd
Almalek said the restrictions imposed by the Marines are hindering their
humanitarian efforts to bring relief to families throughout the city...

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Danish officer jailed for leaking secret Iraq WMD reports to media
AFP
A former agent with Denmark's military intelligence was on Tuesday
sentenced to six months behind bars for leaking a classified report to the
media stating there was no evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,
a Copenhagen court said. Frank Grevil, 44, admitted to providing the
conservative daily Berlingske Tidende with the report, addressed to the
Danish government. The paper published excerpts of the report last February
stating that! "no reliable information on operational weapons of mass
destruction" existed in Iraq before the US-led war there...

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US launches more raids near Baghdad
Aljazeera.net
Hundreds of US and British troops have raided homes near Baghdad as part of
an ongoing operation to quell Iraqi opposition to January elections.
Scottish soldiers from the Black Watch regiment and a force from the US
24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) cordoned off several kilometres of the
west bank of the Euphrates river on Wednesday, 50km south of Baghdad (...)
And in Falluja, clashes erupted on Tuesday evening in several
neighbourhoods between US forces and I! raqi fighters in the Julan
neighbourhood...

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U.S. Generals in Iraq Were Told of Abuse Early, Inquiry Finds
Josh White, Washington Post Staff Writer
A confidential report to Army generals in Iraq in December 2003 warned that
members of an elite military and CIA task force were abusing detainees, a
finding delivered more than a month before Army investigators received the
photographs from Abu Ghraib prison that touched off investigations into
prisoner mistreatment...

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Red Cross Finds Detainees Intentionally Tortured in Guantanamo as Lawyers
in Germany Charge Rumsfeld, Tenet With War Crimes in Iraq
Democracy Now!
In a confidential report, the Red Cross concluded that the U.S. has been
intentionally using psychological and sometimes physical coercion
"tantamount to torture" on prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. We go to Germany to
speak with Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional
Rights, who is filing a criminal complaint charging a group of U.S.
officials with war! crimes in Iraq...

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Save the World, Not the Empire
Ramzy Baroud*
...The increasingly prevailing narrative now indicates that Iraq was the
prize sought by the neo-conservative elements in US administrations as
early as a decade prior to September 11, 2001. While the justifications for
the war were modified according to the political atmosphere in Washington,
Israel’s security was, and remains a focal point (...) But the war party’s
interests are of course not limited to that of Israel, or even to any other
lone factor, be it strategi! c control over oil reserves, obstructing the
growing Chinese economic force from encompassing the Middle East, defending
the reputation of a weakening empire, or simply hunting for some Pentagon
contracts...

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