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  • Country is hurtling towards disintegration, Saudis warn
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ewen MacAskill, diplomatic editor
    The Saudi government yesterday warned that Iraq is hurtling towards disintegration and that an election planned for December is unlikely to make any difference. The government said it was delivering this bleak assessment to both the US and British administrations as a matter of urgency.
    Saudi fears of a break-up were voiced by Prince Saud al-Faisal, the foreign minister, in an interview with Associated Press published yesterday, and at a meeting on (…)

  • Iraq denounces British rescue in Basra: Why did undercover agents have anti-tank missle?
    21 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Alaa Habib
    Iraq denounced British forces on Tuesday over a dramatic rescue of two undercover soldiers that could stoke hostility to the army in increasingly volatile southern Iraq.
    British troops used an armored fighting vehicle on Monday to burst into an Iraqi jail in search of soldiers held by police in Basra. The British commander said he learned they had been handed to militia and ordered their rescue from a nearby house.
    "It is a very unfortunate development that the British (…)

  • British special forces were planning terrorist attack in Basra
    21 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraqis have accused British special forces of planning a terrorist attack on Basra.
    Sheikh Hassan al-Zarqani, a spokesperson for rebel Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, told Socialist Worker that the two undercover soldiers seized by Iraqi police last Monday were armed with explosives and a remote control detonator.
    The soldiers were disguised as members of Sadr’s militia, the Mehdi Army. The arrests sparked protests after British troops backed by tanks attempted to free the soldiers from an (…)

  • The British Army’s authority has never looked more fragile
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad
    The Iraqi deep south where the British Army is based has always had a potential for violence. On the whole the British forces have been far more careful not to provoke local feuds than their US counterparts further north.
    The price from the British point of view - though probably there was no alternative to paying it - was to leave much authority in the hands of local political parties and militias, particularly those successful in the election in January. (…)

  • Whoops! There Goes Another Pension Plan
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH
    ROBERT S. MILLER is a turnaround artist with a Dickensian twist. He unlocks hidden value in floundering Rust Belt companies by jettisoning their pension plans. His approach, copied by executives at airlines and other troubled companies, can make the people who rely on him very rich. But it may be creating a multibillion-dollar mess for taxpayers later.
    As chief executive of Bethlehem Steel in 2002, Mr. Miller shut down the pension plan, leaving a federal program (…)

  • Markets, Climate And Katrina
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Joseph Stiglitz Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics, is professor of economics at Columbia University and was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to President Clinton and chief economist and senior vice- president at the World Bank. His most recent book is The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World’s Most Prosperous Decade.
    The world has been horrified at America’s response to Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in New Orleans. Four years after the (…)

  • Downing Street Memos Verify Death of Journalism Ethics
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Carmen Yarrusso
    The preamble to the Code of Ethics for the Society of Professional Journalists eloquently declares: “...journalists believe that public enlightenment is the forerunner of justice and the foundation of democracy. The duty of the journalist is to further those ends by seeking truth and providing a fair and comprehensive account of events and issues...”
    Yeah, right!
    Mainstream media’s dismal failure to enlighten the public to the dire implications of the Downing Street (…)

  • BASRA : British forces stormed the jail using six tanks and free two soldiers held in Iraq prison
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Alaa Habib
    BASRA, Iraq - British forces freed two undercover soldiers from jail in Basra late on Monday after a day of rioting in the southern city sparked when the soldiers fired on an Iraqi police patrol.
    An Iraqi Interior Ministry official said British forces stormed the jail using six tanks and that dozens of Iraqi prisoners escaped during the raid. But the Ministry of Defence said the release of the two soldiers was negotiated and it did not believe the prison had been stormed. (…)

  • British soldiers, allegedly dressed as Arabs, opened fire on a police patrol
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Violence erupted in Basra this afternoon following the arrest of two British soldiers for allegedly killing one policeman and wounding another.
    British troops fired on crowds throwing petrol bombs, burning furniture and tyres which set at least one tank on fire. Reuters witnesses said a British soldier was engulfed by flames as he scrambled out of the burning tank, being pelted with stones by the crowd. Two Iraqis were killed in the violence, an Interior Ministry official said. The (…)

  • Paltrow: Bush a ’disgrace’
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "It’s a strange time to be an American", says Gwyn. (AP) Related articles Gwyn ’tackles’ paparazzi Paltrow a no-show at festival Hopkins praises Paltrow Paltrow’s advice to Brad Superstars join Watergate film Estee Lauder picks Gwyn Gwyn demands secrecy Gwyn’s marriage ’is fine’ print article email a friend London - Hollywood star Gwyneth Paltrow has said she has no intention of leaving London and returning to the United States "because (…)