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Kerry e il dono dell'immunità
Naomi Klein,Nuovi Mondi Media
... Linda Ortman ha mosso lo stesso appunto agli editori del Dallas Morning
News: "Non ci sono foto di soldati in Iraq che non fumano?" (...) E' questo
il vero regalo di Kerry per Bush: non tanto la presidenza, quanto
l'immunità. La dimostrazione migliore è, forse, nell'uomo Marlboro di
Falluja e nei dibattiti surreali che lo hanno coinvolto. La vera immunità
genera una specie di delirante decadenza, e la sua faccia è questa: una
nazione che si scalda con! il fumo, mentre l'Iraq brucia...



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La ragione per cui gli Iracheni dovrebbero boicottare le elezioni
Mohammed al-Obaidi , Peacelink
47 partiti politici Iracheni si sono riuniti lo scorso 17 novembre e hanno
preso la decisione di boicottare le prossime elezioni in Iraq. Il Movimento
di Lotta Popolare (Al-Shabi di Al-Kifah), che io rappresento, è uno di
questi gruppi (...) Queste elezioni sono una violazione di tutte le leggi
internazionali...

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IRAQ:ELEZIONI E SQUADRE DELLA MORTE
I misteriosi omicidi di esponenti dell'Associazione degli Studenti Musulmani
RON JACOBS, Comedonchisciotte
E' una coincidenza che Allawi, il pupazzo degli USA, stia chiedendo la pena
di morte per gli esponenti dell'Associazione degli Studenti Musulmani
(AMS), religiosi Sunniti che si oppongono alle elezioni, mentre nel
frattempo due di questi religiosi sono stati assassinati da forze armate
sconosciute? Questa coincidenza sembra essere più premeditata che accid!
entale. Infatti, non sarei per niente sorpreso se risultasse che questi due
uomini fossero stati uccisi dagli squadroni della morte usati dagli Stati
Uniti e dal suo governo fantoccio di Baghdad...

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Il racconto del soldato pentito: «Civili uccisi senza un perché»
Corriere Canadese
«E' stato un massacro. Il mio battaglione era stato dispiegato in una zona
periferica di Baghdad. Qui avevamo allestito un posto di blocco. Gli ordini
erano precisi: sparare alle macchine che non si fossero fermate al nostro
segnale di alt. Nel giro di quarantotto ore abbiamo ucciso trenta civili.
Dentro le loro automobili non abbiamo trovato nessuna arma. Abbiamo finito
il lavoro gettando i loro corpi in una fossa, come ci era stat! o ordinato
dai nostri superiori». Jimmy Massey parla con distacco dell'inferno che ha
visto e vissuto in prima persona in Iraq...

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Stanchezza a Baghdad
Baghdad Burning, Osservatorio Iraq
...I feriti a Falluja non vengono curati e oggi siamo venuti a sapere di
una famiglia con sei figli che è stata bombardata nella città. E' difficile
credere che di questi tempi e in questa epoca, in cui la gente "blogga",
manda e-mail e comunica alla velocità della luce si sta distruggendo una
intera città e si sta commettendo un genocidio - e tutto il mondo sa e
tace. Il Darfur, americani? Date un'occhiata a quello che avete fatto a
Falluja...

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Bush rules out any delay in bogus Iraqi election
Peter Symonds, WSWS
Before the Iraqi elections planned for January 30 get underway, it is clear
that the exercise has nothing to do with bringing democracy to the Iraqi
people (...)As far as the White House is concerned, the essential
preparation for the election is the dispatch of a further 12,000 US troops
to Iraq to bolster American military operations to suppress armed
opposition and to intimidate an overwhelmingly hostile population. The
Iraqi people will only! be able to "express themselves" at a ballot held
under US military occupation and for parties and candidates vetted and
monitored by US officials...



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Insurgents Step Up Attacks in Iraq
RedNova.com
U.S. troops fought a gunbattle with insurgents along a busy street in
Baghdad on Monday, sending passers-by scurrying for cover, witnesses said,
while five U.S. troops were reported killed in separate clashes in a
volatile western province as insurgents step up attacks ahead of next
month's elections. The violence came a day after gunmen ambushed a bus
carrying unarmed Iraqis to work at a U.S. ammo dump near Tikrit, killing 17
and raising the death toll from three d! ays of intensified insurgent
attacks to at least 70 Iraqis...


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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 4 December 2004 and Sunday,
5 December 2004
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member editorial board The
Free Arab Voice
...In a dispatch posted at 10:20pm Sunday night Mecca time, the Mafkarat
al-Islam correspondent in the al-Azraqiyah area west of al-Fallujah
reported that Iraqi Resistance forces had bombarded US troops in the
agricultural area north of al-Fallujah, the as-Sakani neighborhood, and the
area around the railroad station with at least 1! 5 Grad rockets around
sunset on Sunday. The rockets appear to have struck their targets because
they sent flame and smoke rising into the sky...

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The Pathetic State of the Arabs of America
Safiyyah al-Khayr, Al-Moharer
Everyday they witness the decimation of Iraqi cities by the United States
and its coalition of the wicked. Each time the attacks are more brutal and
desperate leaving behind them the bodies of innocent unarmed civilians
(...) Ninety-five percent of the Arabs living in America cower in silence
content to sit and watch the Zionist aggressors carrying out crimes and
outright genocide in Iraq and Palestine. Why???...

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Army says troops will stay in Iraq until 2008
TIM RIPLEY AND WILLIAM LYONS
THOUSANDS of British troops will have to remain in Iraq until at least 2008
- two years later than the government intended, The Scotsman has learned.
Senior military sources say the army has been told to plan to keep a
brigade-sized garrison of more than 7,000 troops in Iraq for four more
years or more...

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US Plans Police State Measures for Fallujans: Report
Fallujan men will reportedly be forced to work in military-style battalions.
IslamOnline.net
...The US occupation forces are planning a set of police state measures to
be strictly applied to any of the battle-scarred city's residents yearning
to come back (...)This includes funneling Fallujans to so-called citizen
processing centers on the outskirts of the city to compile a database of
their identities through DNA testing and scanning, accor! ding to the
American paper. Fallujans would also be forced to wear, at all times,
badges displaying their home addresses while the use of cars would be
banned inside the city (...) Another humiliating proposal, which even
triggered debate among Marine officers in control of the city, is to force
all Fallujan men to work in military-style battalions...


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Iraq as microcosm
Hassan Nafaa
...The situation is much more complex, and potentially explosive, than it
appears. During its invasion of Iraq the US relied on sectarian forces. The
US vision of a greater Middle East involves a delicate balancing act
between the sectarian groups found in Iraq. In this sense Iraq is a
microcosm. Nor is it a coincidence that this is precisely the vision Israel
has dreamed of for years -- a region made up of sectarian mini- states into
which Israel can blend but still manipulate, thr! ough military
superiority, advanced technology and its special relationship with the US...

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Five U.S. Troops Killed in Clashes with Iraqi Rebels
"PA"
Five US troops have been killed in separate clashes in Iraq's volatile
Anbar province west of Baghdad, the military said today. The 1st Marine
Expeditionary Force released a statement saying three soldiers attached to
the Marines died in two incidents yesterday "while conducting security and
stability operations" in Anbar province, a vast region which includes the
battleground cities of Fallujah and Ramadi...


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Reuters Still Seeking Answers on Alleged Abuse of 3 Staffers
Allan Wolper
Andrew Marshall, Reuters' chief correspondent in Iraq, is seeking justice
for three of his Iraqi news staffers and an NBC cameraman who claim they
were severely abused earlier this year at a United States Army base outside
of Fallujah. Marshall, a soft-spoken, short-haired, mirror image of a
military officer, lobbies the American media to cover the case (it was
first probed by E&P Online in May) while pressuring the Pentagon to reopen
its i! nvestigation of the incident that was eerily similar in some regards
to the military treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison...


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Sharm-el-Sheikh Conference
Blaming the Occupation impasse on the puppet government
Baath Arab Socialist Party - Iraq
As far as the results and the resolutions are concerned the Sharm el Sheikh
Conference finished according to the plans and wishes of the United States.
The US was forced to arrange such a conference in an attempt to get out
from its growing impasse in Iraq, it certainly wanted to share its
impotency, first with the puppet government in occupied Iraq, and then with
the participants of the Confer! ence. The participants are themselves first
class plotters as are the Arab regimes surrounding the Iraqi and Egyptian
regimes who are frightened, or at the point of being be devoured, after the
re-election of the US administration for another term- as is the Syrian
regime- or playing the role of spectators on the US impasse in Iraq, as are
some of the European countries...

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Iraqis must defeat US occupiers: Palestinian Fatah leader
AFP- Iraqwar
The new head of Fatah, the main grouping in the Palestine Liberation
Organization, called on Iraqis to defeat the US forces that have invaded
their country, and called on Arabs everywhere to tighten their links with
the Palestinians. Speaking to reporters on Monday in Tunis, Fatah leader
Faruq Qaddumi said: "We support the Iraqi resistance, and its victories
will be those of the Palestinian resistance" ...


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Tomgram: Icarus (Armed with Vipers) Over Iraq
Tom Engelhardt
... Along with the vast permanent military base facilities the U.S. has
been building in Iraq to the tune of billions of dollars -- hey, we're
capable of constructing, if not reconstructing, quite effectively in Iraq
when it really matters -- the loosing of air power on Iraq's cities is the
great missing story of the postwar war. Is there no reporter out there
willing to cover it? Is the repeated bombing, strafing, and missiling of
heavily populated civ! ilian urban centers and the partial or total
destruction of cities such a humdrum event, after the last century of
destruction and threatened destruction, that no one thinks it worth the
bother to attend to? Is the Bush administration really to be given another
remarkable free ride?...

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He's fleeing the war
MICHELE MANDEL, Toronto Sun
When American military deserter Jeremy Hinzman appears at his refugee
hearing tomorrow, seeking asylum in Canada because he does not want to
fight in Iraq, the AWOL soldier will not be alone. Beside him will be Jimmy
Massey, a former gung-ho Marine staff sergeant forever haunted by what he
saw and what he did for his country in Iraq. "We shot a guy with his hands
up," Massey recalled somberly, staring out the window of an Annex pub. "A
young Iraqi, he was probabl! y in his mid-20s. And then we shot a group of
protesters..."

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Nuking Iraq's Neighbors Will Not Solve US Problems
Youssef M. Ibrahim, Arab News
The commander of the United States armed forces in Afghanistan, Iraq and
Middle East, Gen. John Abizaid, made an astonishing hint last week to the
possible use of nuclear weapons against Iran or anyone meddling with his
occupation troops in Iraq. In an interview published Monday on the front
page of the daily newspaper USA Today, Gen. Abizaid who heads the US Army
Central Command stated that "If you ever even contemplate our nuclear !
capability, it should give everybody the clear understanding that there is
no power that can match the United States militarily''...


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Bush, Christian Right and Zionism
Ibrahim Ebeid, Al-Moharer
George W. Bush was reselected to be the Imperial President of the United
States by the extreme political and Christian right. He was entrusted to
rule four more miserable years. The United States will suffer under his
tyranny, more young people will die in Iraq in vain and more Iraqis will
suffer and die as well. The Christian Right are Christians who are not
right Christians but racist Zionists and President Bush became their
representative and their ad! vocate. President Bush is not a right
Christian, he dose not follow the teaching of Christ (...) Zionism, which
was born in the Imperialist West, found a strategic ally in Imperialist
USA. This racist movement was capable of dominating the United States and
dragging it to launch a war of aggression against Iraq to occupy and ruin
it...

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Iraq violence spurs calls for poll delay
Aljazeera.net
More than 90 deaths in three days have added weight to calls from Iraqi
politicians seeking to delay planned 30 January elections, arguing that the
climate of violence could lead to the results being challenged. "Flawed
Elections: Disputed Results" was the slogan at a gathering in Baghdad on
Sunday of about 200 mainly Sunni Muslim politicians and party officials
after a sharp upsurge in violence following a period of relative calm...


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