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Iraq, i marines impazziti per la guerra
Il manifesto
...Quello che gli Stati uniti stanno per affrontare e stanno già
affrontando è un «diluvio di decine di migliaia di soldati che tornano
dall'Iraq con seri problemi mentali provocati dallo stress e dalla
carneficina della guerra, denunciano i veterani e sostengono i medici
militari», è l'allarme lanciato ieri dal quotidiano The New York Times. Su
questo terreno il paragone con il Vietnam non è solo una previsione
catastrofica ma è già una realtà...

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Video messaggio della Resistenza Irachena
Bloggers per la PACE
...Oggi vi chiamiamo ancora. Non chiediamo armi o combattenti, dato che ne
abbiamo in abbondanza. Vi chiediamo di formare un fronte mondiale contro la
guerra e le sanzioni. Un fronte che è governato dal saggio e dal sapere. Un
fronte che porterà la riforma e l'ordine. Nuove istituzioni che
sostituirebbero l'attuale corruzione (...) Istruite quelli che sono in
dubbio sulla natura di questo conflitto e che credono ai media mentre gli
incidenti sono b! en superiori di quanto loro ammettono. Desideriamo
soltanto di avere più macchine fotografiche per mostrare al mondo la loro
sconfitta...

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5,000 diserzioni e il conto continua
E' ancora una volta Déja Vu
Dave Lindorff, Peacelink
...Questa volta, mentre diventa sempre più chiaro che gli Stati Uniti non
possono vincere in Iraq - qualunque cosa questo possa significare - e che
ad un certo punto sono destinati ad essere sommariamente cacciati fuori dal
paese con la coda fra le gambe, sia che ciò accada quest'anno sia che lo
faccia fra cinque, questo è comunque un esercito differente. Anziché essere
composto di coscritti arrabbiati e poco volenterosi! , questa volta
l'esercito che è impegnato nella battaglia si compone, almeno nominalmente,
di ufficiali volontari - ossia di persone che hanno firmato per arruolarsi
come militari regolari, o che si sono uniti alle riserve o alla Guardia
Nazionale...

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Tareq Aziz: prigioniero o sequestrato?
Intervista all'l'Avv. Daniele Bertaggia
Enrico Galoppini , Aljazira.it
Dopo un preventivo accanimento mediatico volto a dipingerne un'immagine
totalmente negativa (ricordate il "mazzo di carte"?), i legittimi
rappresentanti della Repubblica dell'Iraq, tranne poche eccezioni, sono
nelle mani degli invasori statunitensi, ufficialmente in attesa di un
"processo". Tra questi, il vice-primo minsitro Tareq Aziz. Aljazira.it ha
contattato l'Avv. Daniele Bertaggia, del Foro di ! Ferrara, appartenente al
collegio di difesa dello statista iracheno.

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Gli occupanti ammettono l'efficacia degli attacchi della resistenza irachena
Granma
Il generale Lance Smith, vice-capo del Comando Centrale, citato dalla
stampa locale, ha riconosciuto che gli attacchi della resistenza irachena
hanno aumentato la loro efficacia, specialmente contro le linee di
rifornimento delle forze nordamericane e che le azioni condotte con uso di
esplosivi ritardano le azioni militari. Secondo PL, Smith ha confermato che
il contingente statunitense schierato in questo paese arabo ammonta a 1!
48.000 soldati, circa 10.000 in più rispetto al mese scorso, in seguito
alle richieste di truppe dei comandanti operanti sul terreno, dovute
all'ondata di violenza...

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Westerner beheaded on Mosul street as American forces lose control of key city
Patrick Cockburn, The Independent
... Mosul, a city on the Tigris river with a population of 1.2 million, is
largely populated by Sunni Muslims but has a large Kurdish minority. It has
increasingly fallen into the hands of Sunni insurgents over the past six
weeks. Insurgents launched an uprising on 10 November, two days after the
US Marines started their attack on Mosul, and stormed 10 police stations.
Out of a local police force of 8,! 000, all but 1,000 have deserted and
only 400 of those remaining are considered reliable...

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 17 December 2004
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member editorial board The
Free Arab Voice.
Mafkarat al-Islam reported on the authority of eyewitnesses that a group of
youths near the adh-Dhahab al-Abyad village in the area of Abu Ghurayb set
fire to three fuel tankers and totally destroyed four Humvees, killing 18
US troops. When the youths left the scene of their attack, US aircraft
pursued them and opened fire on them, killing 11 of the youths who! ranged
in age from 13 to 18 years..

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Syrian who was kidnapped in Iraq to sue American 'liberators'
Iraqwar
A Syrian chauffeur and translator kidnapped in August in Iraq with two
French journalists intends to sue his American liberators for maltreatment,
the French daily Le Parisien reported yesterday. Mohammad Al Jundi was held
and interrogated by US Marines for eight days following his liberation on
November 11 in the city of Fallujah. During that time, he claimed, he was
maltreated and threatened with death...

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U.S. isn't winning against Iraqi insurgents, agencies warn
WARREN P. STROBEL, JOHN WALCOTT AND JONATHAN S. LANDAY , Knight Ridder
Newspapers
The CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the State Department have
warned President Bush that the United States and its Iraqi allies aren't
winning the battle against Iraqi insurgents who are trying to derail the
country's Jan. 30 elections, according to administration officials. The
officials, who agreed to speak only on condition of anonymity because
intelligence estim! ates are classified, said the battle in Iraq wasn't
lost and that successful elections might yet be held next month...


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The Road to Armageddon
xymphora
... The neocons and their enablers justified the attack on Afghanistan on
the need to punish bin Laden, justified the attack on Iraq on the
allegations that Saddam was a bin Laden ally and was also behind 9-11, are
setting up to justify the attack on Syria based on its alleged help for the
Iraqi resistance, will use the same argument to justify the attack on Iran,
and so on, ad infinitum, ad nauseam...

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Iranian Manchurian
TomPaine.com
... But the important thing to understand is that the forces in Iran
supporting Sistani, Shahristani, Hakim and Al Dawa are a faction of
Iranians amenable to collaboration with the United States, Israel and the
neocons. They are still (of course) Islamic revolutionaries, but slightly
more moderate than the hardest of hardliners in Iran. They are the faction
of illusory moderates that Bill Casey, Ollie North and Michael Ledeen
courted during Iran-Contra in the mid-1980s, and I belie! ve that Hashemi
Rafsanjani—who is now contemplating a run for the presidency of Iran—is one
of them...

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Neo-cons on the road to Damascus
Jim Lobe
Just when it appeared that Syria was complying in earnest with US demands
to secure its border with Iraq, and even making unprecedented peace
overtures to Israel, key neo-conservative opinion shapers are calling on
President George W Bush to take stronger measures against Damascus,
possibly including military action. The media campaign was launched last
week when three analysts associated with the Foundation for the Defense of
Democracies, a neo-conservative group that g! enerally backs positions of
Israel's right-wing Likud Party, published an article in the Washington
Times titled "Syria's murderous role: Assad aides [sic] Iraq's terrorist
insurgency"...

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Tomgram: Michael Schwartz on America's Fallujan dystopia
Tom Engelhardt & Michael Schwartz
...It is not much of a reach to see that, at least in their fantasies, U.S.
planners would like to set up what sociologists call a "total institution."
Like a mental hospital or a prison, Falluja, at least as reimagined by the
Americans, will be a place where constant surveillance equals daily life
and the capacity to interdict "suspicious" behavior (however defined) is
the norm. But "total institution" might be too saniti! zed a term to
describe activities which so clearly violate international law as well as
fundamental morality...

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Torture Begins at the Top
Joe Conason, Salon.com
Renewed exposure of prisoner abuse, torture and even murder by American
military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan is widening already deep
divisions between the Pentagon and the intelligence community - and
creating an untenable situation for Donald Rumsfeld, the beleaguered
secretary of defense. A recently disclosed FBI memo indicates that
"marching orders" to abandon traditional interrogation methods came from
the defense secretary himself...


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We Will Reclaim Our Armed Forces!
Speech by Stan Goff at the December 11 Public Meeting and Speak Out in New
York City
Stan Goff, Bring Them Home Now!
...This is one reason we are important to the movement not just against the
war, but the movement to overthrow a system that breeds war, why veterans
and military families and dissident soldiers are so important in this
crucial period. In this period when the old tricks no longer work, and the
depredations of this global system have once again co! nsumed the very
bases of that system - its subordinated people and its wrecked environment
- the essence of that system, its true essence, the gun and the bomb and
the rape and the prison, are being unmasked by the necessity to use these
colonizers' tools openly to preserve power...

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Nation Doesn't Need an AG Who Cleared Path for Torture
Jamie Mayerfeld and Darius Rejali
Months after our nation was confronted with the photos from Abu Ghraib, we
now hear almost daily reports of continuing torture and abuse in U.S.
detention facilities around the world. One of the men principally
responsible for this problem is Alberto Gonzales, chosen by President Bush
to lead the Department of Justice, and scheduled to appear before the
Senate Judiciary Committee early next year...

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Fiddling as Iraq Burns
Bob Herbert
The White House seems to have slipped the bonds of simple denial and
escaped into the disturbing realm of utter delusion. On Tuesday, there was
President Bush hanging the nation's highest civilian honor, the
Presidential Medal of Freedom, on George Tenet, the former C.I.A. director
who slept through the run-up to Sept. 11 and then did the president and the
nation the great disservice of declaring that it was a "slam-dunk" that
Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction...

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Emmaus grad speaks against war in Iraq
Michael Hoffman spent two months there with Marines.
Randy Kraft
If you have one of those magnetic ''support our troops'' ribbons on your
car, Michael Hoffman suggests you grab a marker and add a few words:
''Bring them home now.'' Hoffman, who graduated from Emmaus High School in
1997, returned to the school Thursday night to speak out against the war in
Iraq. ''Being against the war is the only way to be for the troops,'' said
Hoffman. ''We're doing them! no good by sending them over there''...

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CIA Agent Says Bosses Ordered Him To Falsify WMD Reports
Democracy Now!
...We turn now to the story of how a senior intelligence officer was
targeted by the CIA after he refused orders from his superiors to falsify
his reports on weapons of mass destruction. The senior CIA operative
charges in a lawsuit made public last week that a co-worker warned him
three years ago that "CIA management planned to 'get him' for his role in
reporting intelligence contrary to official CIA dogma."


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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 16 December 2004.
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member editorial board The
Free Arab Voice
...A spokesman for Palestinians resident in Iraq has reported that on
Monday, 6 December 2004, US occupation forces massed a large force of
tanks, armored vehicles, and infantry, all supported by helicopters, to
encircle the Hayfa Sports Club, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, and
the residential area where many Palestinians live in the Baladiyat section!
of eastern Baghdad. American troops kept the area surrounded as they
savagely raided and ransacked the civil facilities inside their cordon,
terrorizing local residents and staff from the afternoon until midnight...

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Document: Intel Agents Who Saw Detainee Abuse Were Threatened
The Memory Hole.
A memo from the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency reveals that two
DIA agents who witnessed abuse of detainees in Iraq were threatened by the
interrogators. It was released as part of a Freedom of Information Act
lawsuit brought by the ACLU, which sums up the document:
* A June 25, 2004 memo from Vice Admiral Lowell E. Jacoby, Defense
Intelligence Agency chief, entitled "alleged detainee abuse by TF 62-6,"
describing how DIA personnel who complained about abuses were threatened,
had their car keys confiscated and e-mails monitored, and were ordered "not
to talk to anyone in the U.S." or leave the base "even to get a haircut"...


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