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  • Family of American beheaded in Iraq say U.S. government ignoring them
    18 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Family members of slain U.S. businessman Nicholas Berg are being stonewalled by their government as they try to find out exactly what happened in the weeks before he was kidnapped and beheaded in Iraq in May, Berg’s father said.
    Among other details, the Bergs want to know whether Berg, who had been in Iraq seeking work for his fledgling telecommunications company, was being held by allied or Iraqi forces before his kidnapping, The Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper reported.
    "If it weren’t (…)

  • Allawi shot prisoners in cold blood: witnesses
    16 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Paul McGeough in Baghdad
    Iyad Allawi, the new Prime Minister of Iraq, pulled a pistol and executed as many as six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police station, just days before Washington handed control of the country to his interim government, according to two people who allege they witnessed the killings.
    They say the prisoners - handcuffed and blindfolded - were lined up against a wall in a courtyard adjacent to the maximum-security cell block in which they were held at the (…)

  • Iraqi Tyranny Must Grant Freedom to Thousands of Iraqi Hostages Illegally Detained in Iraq
    16 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Thousands of Iraqi hostages — innocent men, women and children — are still held without charge or trial in unlawful jails or detention facilities of Iraq, including Abu Ghraib prison, after the so-called official end of the illegal occupation of Iraq on 28 June 2004. Some Iraqi hostages are housed in tents, and are suffering under the intense heat of Iraq’s summer.
    The cases of Nahla Hafez Ahmad, a mother of four, and her sister Huda are typical. Nahla was detained by U.S. troops in the (…)

  • Officials Accuse Each Other in Prison Scandal
    16 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    A top MP officer and the commander of military interrogators each gave testimony blaming the other for abuses at Abu Ghraib.
    By Richard A. Serrano
    A top military police officer and the commander of military interrogators at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq are blaming each other for improper treatment of prisoners who were stripped, abused and sexually humiliated.
    Capt. Donald J. Reese, commander of the 372nd Military Police Company, told authorities that he was repeatedly assured by (…)

  • Iraqi academics targeted in murder spree
    16 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Robert Fisk
    The Mongols stained the Tigris black with the ink of the Iraqi books they destroyed. Today’s Mongols prefer to destroy the Iraqi teachers of books.
    Since the Anglo-American invasion, they have murdered at least 13 academics at the University of Baghdad alone and countless others across Iraq. History professors, deans of college and Arabic tutors have all fallen victim to the war on learning. Only six weeks ago - virtually unreported, of course - the female dean of the college (…)

  • The Mother of All of All Anti-War Forces
    15 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Naomi Klein
    There is a remarkable scene in Fahrenheit 9/11 when Lila Lipscomb talks with an anti-war activist outside the White House about the death of her 26-year-old son in Iraq. A pro-war passerby doesn’t like what she overhears and announces, "This is all staged!"
    Ms. Lipscomb turns to the woman, her voice shaking with rage, and says: "My son is not a stage. He was killed in Karbala, April 2. It is not a stage. My son is dead." Then she walks away and wails, "I need my son." (…)

  • Remember the 1991 Gulf War: The Massacre of Withdrawing Soldiers on "The Highway of Death"
    14 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Joyce Chediac
    I want to give testimony on what are called the "highways of death." These are the two Kuwaiti roadways, littered with remains of 2,000 mangled Iraqi military vehicles, and the charred and dismembered bodies of tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers, who were withdrawing from Kuwait on February 26th and 27th 1991 in compliance with UN resolutions.
    U.S. planes trapped the long convoys by disabling vehicles in the front, and at the rear, and then pounded the resulting traffic (…)

  • US lawyers confident of justice for Vietnamese Agent Orange victims
    13 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    HANOI :
    American lawyers representing Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange are quietly
    confident that the manufacturers of the defoliant used by US forces during the
    Vietnam War will be held to account.
    On January 30, a lawsuit against more than 30 American chemical companies was
    filed in the US Federal Court in Brooklyn, New York by the Hanoi-based Vietnam
    Association for Victims of Agent Orange.
    The suit was lodged on behalf of three adults in Vietnam and all other Vietnamese (…)

  • The Mother of All of All Anti-War Forces
    12 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Naomi Klein
    There is a remarkable scene in Fahrenheit 9/11 when Lila Lipscomb talks with an anti-war activist outside the White House about the death of her 26-year-old son in Iraq. A pro-war passerby doesn’t like what she overhears and announces, "This is all staged!"
    Ms. Lipscomb turns to the woman, her voice shaking with rage, and says: "My son is not a stage. He was killed in Karbala, April 2. It is not a stage. My son is dead." Then she walks away and wails, "I need my son." (…)

  • The day Jawad saw the birds fall from the sky and the villagers lying dead at his feet
    12 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Robert Fisk
    AWAD’S job yesterday was to find The Independent a new fir tree - or at least some foliage which would colour the sun-bleached balcony of the paper’s office in Baghdad. The fine little Christmas fir which graced the apartment had, despite promises of constant watering by colleagues, turned into a black, carbonised tree of tiny dark prickles. So it was that I set forth for the market garden behind Palestine Street, a place that reeks of hot flowers and undergrowth and pot (…)