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Democrazia e mendacità
Justin Raimondo, Antiwar.com - Arabcomint
...Il governo USA è a favore della "democrazia" all'estero purché i
risultati siano decisi in anticipo. Quando invece un'elezione minaccia di
sfuggire di mano e di rappresentare i veri sentimenti del popolo - in
guardia! In Iraq, qualche tempo fa, i sicari del "presidente" Iyad Allawi,
sostenuti dalle forze USA, hanno assaltato una moschea di Baghdad, ucciso
almeno due persone ed arrestato dozzine, inclusi i religiosi
anti-occupazione, accusati del ! "crimine" di aver chiesto il boicottaggio
delle elezioni pianificate per il prossimo 30 gennaio...

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"L'esercito d'occupazione è nel vicolo cieco in cui noi lo abbiamo messo"
Partito Baath Arabo Socialista, Lega Antimeperialista
...le forze di Abizeid sono diventate oggi ostaggi nello spazio e nel tempo
in tutto l'Iraq occupato. Loro usciranno dall'Iraq o morti o cacciati e
vinti, non importa quanto tempo dovesse durare questo scontro. Abizeid sa
molto bene e meglio di chiunque altro che la lunghezza dello scontro non
gioca a favore delle sue truppe, questo è proprio l'obiettivo che il Baath
aveva pianificato e ! che sta perseguendo oggi sul suolo dell'Iraq, secondo
un obiettivo strategico che pone l'azione armata come l'unica scelta su cui
li basa la liberazione e la Resistenza...


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The Oil-For-Food 'Scandal' is a Cynical Smokescreen
Scott Ritter
...The corruption evident in the oil-for-food programme was real, but did
not originate from within the United Nations, as Norm Coleman and others
are charging. Its origins are in a morally corrupt policy of economic
strangulation of Iraq implemented by the United States as part of an
overall strategy of regime change. Since 1991, the United States had made
it clear - through successive statements by James Baker, George W Bush and
Madeleine Albright! - that economic sanctions, linked to Iraq's disarmament
obligation, would never be lifted even if Iraq fully complied and disarmed,
until Saddam Hussein was removed from power...

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 9 December 2004 through
Sunday, 12 December 2004
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board,
the Free Arab Voice.
...US aircraft bombed the neighborhoods of al-'Askari, al-Jawlan, and the
industrial zone in al-Fallujah on Saturday, after Iraqi Resistance forces
advanced into areas formerly held by the US invaders. American B-52
strategic bombers were used in the aerial assault on the city, dropping
one-ton bombs on the city, and thousan! ds of anti-personnel cluster bombs
in container bombs. US F-16s also took part in the vicious US assault
attacking the al-Jawlan neighborhood and the industrial zone. Fierce
fighting was also reported throughout the night and until the first hours
of dawn. At the end of the day, Iraqi Resistance forces reported that they
had recovered the industrial zone and parts of al-Jawlan neighborhood from
the US occupation forces...

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Secure the Future by Remembering the Past
Safiyyah al-Khayr, Al-Moharer
...The way forward for the Arab nation is UNITY and brotherhood. No longer
can we waste time fighting and hating one another or pointing the finger of
guilt at this one and that one (...)Think of your history and where we were
standing centuries ago and let your hearts be filled with anger, courage,
determination and faith. We must not be deterred by the puppet regimes that
rule over us. We can beat all of them by joining our minds, bodies an! d
souls and going to the battlefield with the Mujahideen in Iraq and
Palestine...

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Beheading ElBaradei
Jude Wanniski
...Last week the neo-crazies that populate your administration had UN
General Secretary Kofi Annan in their gunfights, having long ago decided he
keeps getting in the way of their plans for a New American Imperium (...)
Mohamed ElBaradei, which the White House is openly campaigning against on
the spurious grounds that he should only have two terms, is this week's
neo-con victim. And if there is any political figure in the world these
days who has greater respect in the internatio! nal community than
ElBaradei, I can't imagine who it would be (...)It was Baradei's IAEA that
took only 24 hours to announce that the Niger "yellowcake" document proving
Saddam was buying uranium on the sly - a document that U.S. and British
intelligence swallowed as genuine - had been forged...


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Video Game Celebrates Fallujah Slaughter
Fintan Dunne, BreakForNews.com
If you thought the new video game inviting players to try their virtual
skills at assassinating JFK was tasteless , hold on to your hat. A
just-released mission in the Kuma wargame series is themed "Fallujah:
Operation al-Fajr." It re-creates the recent assault on Fallujah, which may
have left thousands of civilians dead...



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Controversial U.S. Groups Operate Behind Scenes on Iraq Vote
Lisa Ashkenaz Croke and Brian Dominick, The NewStandard.
Even as the White House decries the ominous prospect of Iranian influence
on the upcoming Iraqi national elections, US-funded organizations with long
records of manipulating foreign democracies in the direction of
Washington's interests are quietly but deeply involved in essentially every
aspect of the upcoming Iraqi elections...


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Company fed rotten food to Abu Ghraib prisoners, sparking rebellion
NewStandard Staff
To those Iraqi detainees whom guards and interrogators did not humiliate or
torture last winter -- along with those who they did -- a private military
contractor fed spoilt and rancid meals laden with dirt and bugs, according
to an article published by CorpWatch, an organization that investigates war
profiteering...

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U.S. Military Obstructing Medical Care
Dahr Jamail
The U.S. military has been preventing delivery of medical care in several
instances, medical staff say. Iraqi doctors at many hospitals have reported
raids by coalition forces. Some of the more recent raids have been in
Amiriyat al-Fallujah, about 10km to the east of Fallujah, the town to which
U.S. forces have laid bloody siege. Amiriyat al-Fallujah has been the
source of several reported resistance attacks on U.S. forces...


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Cuban Democracy, Bush style
Kurt Nimmo
...Compare this with "democratic" Iraq. "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," writes Ghali Hassan. A recent UNICEF report shows
that, "[b]efore 1990 and the imposition of sanctions, Iraq had one of the
highest standards of living in the! Middle East." Now UNICEF reports, "at
least 200 children are dying every day. They are dying from malnutrition, a
lack of clean water and a lack of medical equipment and drugs to cure
easily treatable diseases." ...



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The Pentagon's Neurosis
Fallujah Gulag
DOUGLAS LUMMIS, CounterPunch
...I think this mad "Fallujah plan" will, or should, go down in history as
one of those perfect, crystalline moments when imperial domination shows
its true nature. During the Vietnam War we had the immortal words, "We had
to destroy the village to save it." That summed it all up beautifully. The
Fallujah Plan expresses the same contradiction. To save Fallujah's
"freedom" it has to be destroyed as a city and turned into a prison...

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US retaliates after 8 Marines killed in Fallujah
AFP
US forces have launched air strikes on Fallujah after eight US Marines were
killed in weekend clashes with Iraqi rebels in Al-Anbar province, despite
claims the insurgency was being defeated. War planes pounded eastern
suburbs of the city of Fallujah, the backbone of the insurgency in
Al-Anbar, sending columns of black smoke into the sky, said an AFP
correspondent embedded with the Marines...


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Saddam planned insurgency before invasion: Report
Press Trust of India
The insurgency targetting coalition forces in Iraq was planned by Saddam
Hussein long before the invasion that toppled his regime, a secret US
military intelligence report has said. Anticipating his defeat, Saddam
began laying the foundation for the insurgency before the military campaign
in March, 2003, a media report quoting the report has claimed...

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IRAQ: Fallujah to become concentration camp
Doug Lorimer
The US military is discussing plans to turn the Iraqi city of Fallujah into
a giant concentration camp. Most of the city's 300,000 residents were
driven out by a massive US bombing campaign in the week prior to an
invasion by 10,000 US marine and army troops on November 8...

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Saddam's Capture 'Was Illegal'
Scotsman.com
The Jordan-based team called for Saddam's "immediate release" saying in a
joint statement that his "detention was illegal right from the very
beginning". It was more of a forced abduction that later became compulsory
concealment and solitary confinement, acts rejected by all international
conventions," said the team, citing some conventions and human rights
charters it said the United States has allegedly violated...

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Fuel Shortage...
Baghdad Burning, Girl Blog from Iraq...
...We're also watching the election lists closely. Most people I've talked
to aren't going to go to elections. It's simply too dangerous and there's a
sense that nothing is going to be achieved anyway. The lists are more or
less composed of people affiliated with the very same political parties
whose leaders rode in on American tanks. Then you have a handful of tribal
sheikhs. Yes- tribal sheikhs. Our country is going to be led by members of
religious parti! es and tribal sheikhs- can anyone say Afghanistan? What's
even more irritating is that election lists have to be checked and
confirmed by none other than Sistani!! Sistani- the Iranian religious
cleric....

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End the occupation of Iraq!
Green Left Weekly
...Before the 1964 US presidential election, President Lyndon Johnson told
voters, "We don't want to get ... tied down to a land war in Asia". Once he
was re-elected, Johnson ordered the escalation of the US war in Vietnam.
Bush is following the same script. Less than a month after winning the
election promising to reduce US troops numbers in Iraq, he has now publicly
taken the decision to escalate the US war there. Increasing the numbers of
US troops in Iraq will no! t end the Iraqi national liberation struggle
(...) The only way to end this nightmare is to immediately withdraw all the
US and allied occupation troops and let the Iraqi people have genuine
control over their own affairs...


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"SADDAM HUSSEIN, The Fighter, The Thinker and The Man"
Part II, CHAPTER 13. SADDAM HUSSEIN AND THE MUTABILITY OF THE GAME OF NATIONS
Amir Iskander, Al-Moharer
...it must first be said that the historic moment of Saddam Hussein's
appearance on the international stage was all but completely different from
the preceding moment, whilst simultaneously full of potential to change.
More precisely perhaps, Saddam Hussein's moment was that of a new moment of
labour in a new form for the world. Like all moments! of labour, it did not
only experience inner turmoil and instability, but also the natural pains
of birth...



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A Press Release
Issued by the Spokesman of "President Saddam Hussien Defence Lawyers'
Committee"
The official Spokesman of the President Saddam Hussein Defence committee:
expresses the committee's deep concern regarding the news about the hunger
strike declared by the Iraqi leaders arrested by the occupation authorities
The Spokesman reaffirms deep concerns regarding possible scenarios aiming
to get rid of Iraqi Leadership since the hunger strike may be exploited as
a pretext to justify the deterioration of! the President's health...



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Victim of Latin American torture claims Abu Ghraib abuse was official US policy
Andrew McLeod
FOR many Latin American victims of torture, the infamous pictures of abuse
at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison brought back not only chilling recollections of
their own experiences, but also confirmed what they have long maintained:
that their torturers were following interrogation guidelines set by the US
Army School of the Americas (SOA)...

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