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  • "WIPED OFF THE MAP" - The Rumor of the Century
    19 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Arash Norouzi
    Across the world, a dangerous rumor has spread that could have catastrophic implications. According to legend, Iran’s President has threatened to destroy Israel, or, to quote the misquote, "Israel must be wiped off the map". Contrary to popular belief, this statement was never made, as the following article will prove.
    BACKGROUND:
    On Tuesday, October 25th, 2005 at the Ministry of Interior conference hall in Tehran, newly elected Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (…)

  • US forces raid Kurdish refugee camp in northern Iraq
    17 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    dpa German Press Agency Published: Wednesday January 17, 2007
    Ankara- US troops in Iraq on Wednesday raided a refugee camp housing Turkish Kurds in northern Iraq, Turkish news agencies reported. Abdurrahman Belaf Berzenci, the elected leader of the 10,000 refugees at the Mahmur refugee camp, told the Dogan news agency that US forces moved into the camp Wednesday morning and went from dwelling to dwelling checking identity cards.
    Berzenci said that there were no violent incidents during (…)

  • Bush Determined to Strike Iran
    16 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iranian troops have shot down a U.S. pilotless spy plane, local Fars News Agency reported on Tuesday.
    http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2...

  • Remember Afghanistan Anyone?
    16 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    www.afghanistanafterdemocracy.com
    ATTENTION ALL AMERICANS
    Does anyone even remember Afghanistan?! I’m sure you’ve heard the same sh#* I have that the "war" in Afghanistan is over, it’s won, and all is sunshine and butterflies there. I challenge ALL AMERICANS to buy this book, LOOK at what has been done to Afghanistan IN OUR NAMES and do the right thing!!!!!! The book was written by an Afghani doctor to illustrate what has been done to Afghanistan. It is (…)

  • Paradoxes Doom Bush’s ‘New Strategy’ in Iraq
    16 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nicola Nasser*
    President George W. Bush’s paradoxical “new strategy” in Iraq is doomed by its own contradictions as much as by Iraqi and regional paradoxes and would in no time prove that the U.S. president’s go-it-alone approach will only extend the failure of the 2003 military invasion in developing into a permanent occupation, amid wide spread world and American calls for withdrawal and political solution.
    “The new strategy I outline tonight will change America’s course in Iraq,” (…)

  • Baghdad 2025
    15 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Baghdad 2025 The Pentagon Solution to a Planet of Slums By Nick Turse
    So you think that American troops, fighting in the urban maze of Baghdad’s huge Shiite slum, Sadr City, add up to nothing more than a horrible mistake, an unexpected fiasco? The Pentagon begs to differ. For years now, U.S. war planners have believed that guerrilla warfare is the future — not against Guevarist focos in the countryside of some recalcitrant, possibly-oil-rich land, but in growing urban "jungles" in the vast (…)

  • Kuwait media: U.S. military strike on Iran seen by April
    15 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Kuwait media: U.S. military strike on Iran seen by April
    www.chinaview.cn 2007-01-14 15:19:28
    Special report: Iran Nuclear Crisis
    KUWAIT CITY, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) — U.S. might launch a military strike on Iran before April 2007, Kuwait-based daily Arab Times released on Sunday said in a report.
    The report, written by Arab Times’ Editor-in-chief Ahmed al-Jarallah citing a reliable source, said that the attack would be launched from the sea, while Patriot missiles would guard all (…)

  • Moldovan plane that crashed in Iraq was downed - eyewitness
    14 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    ANKARA, January 12 (RIA Novosti) - A Moldovan An-26 cargo plane that crashed in Iraq January 9, killing 34 people, was downed by a missile, an eyewitness said Friday.
    "The plane is said to have crashed due to fog, but I saw no fog," Ozcan Sahin, a brother of Hamdi Sahin, a Turkish worker killed in the crash, told Turkish NTV television. He said he was 300-400 meters from the crash site, near Balad, north of Baghdad.
    "The plane was downed by a missile that struck the right section of (…)

  • In Irbil, Iraq. U.S. forces take Iranian diplomats hostage.
    13 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    January 12, 2007 — U.S. violates Vienna Convention status of Iranian liaison office in Irbil, Iraq. U.S. forces take Iranian diplomats hostage.
    In a major escalation of Middle East tensions, the Bush administration authorized two U.S. Special Forces operations against the Iranian liaison office in Irbil, Iraq and took six officials assigned to the diplomatic compound hostage. It was the first such attack on an Iranian diplomatic mission in the region since August 1998 when the Taliban (…)

  • U.S. warplanes bomb Baghdad as street battles rage
    13 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Azzaman, January 12, 2007
    U.S. troops are deploying massive air and ground fire power against heavily populated residential areas in Baghdad as a prelude to the start of the campaign to retake the city they invaded nearly four years ago.
    “The sky is burning,” one witness refusing to be named said of the aerial bombing of mainly Sunni-dominated districts of Haifa, Sheikh Omar and Alawi.
    The latest military drive to retake Baghdad, home to nearly six million people, comes (…)