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  • Marines Protect Their Own: A Cover Up of Cold-Blooded Murder in Iraq
    18 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Marines May Have Excised Evidence on 24 Iraqi Deaths
    By DAVID S. CLOUD
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 - A high-level military investigation into the killings of 24 Iraqis in Haditha last November has uncovered instances in which American marines involved in the episode appear to have destroyed or withheld evidence, according to two Defense Department officials briefed on the case.
    The investigation found that an official company logbook of the unit involved had been tampered with and that an (…)

  • The army is back, but don’t expect it to disarm Hizbollah
    18 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The army is back, but don’t expect it to disarm Hizbollah
    Robert Fisk - The Independent August 18, 2006
    Now you see them, now you don’t. Hizbollah weapons? None to be seen. And none to be collected by the Lebanese army. For when this august body of men crossed the Litani river yesterday, their officers made it perfectly clear that it would not be the army’s job to disarm the Hizbollah. Nor was anyone in Lebanon surprised. After all, most of the Lebanese troops here are Shias - like the (…)

  • Police may charge Katsav with rape in light of woman’s claims
    18 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Police may charge Katsav with rape in light of woman’s claims
    By Jonathan Lis and Roni Singer-Heruti, Haaretz Correspondents
    Officials investigating an alleged extortion attempt aimed at President Moshe Katsav are expected to question him following claims by a female former employee that she was coerced into engaging in sexual relations with the president.
    Police said Thursday that Katsav will be questioned in the coming days. Investigators have yet to determine which specific charges (…)

  • Kurds flee homes as Iran shells Iraq’s northern frontier
    18 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Kurds flee homes as Iran shells Iraq’s northern frontier
    Michael Howard in Qandil Mountain Friday August 18, 2006
    Turkey and Iran have dispatched tanks, artillery and thousands of troops to their frontiers with Iraq during the past few weeks in what appears to be a coordinated effort to disrupt the activities of Kurdish rebel bases.
    Scores of Kurds have fled their homes in the northern frontier region after four days of shelling by the Iranian army. Local officials said Turkey had also (…)

  • AIPAC Congratulates Itself on the Slaughter in Lebanon
    18 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    "Look What You’ve Done!" AIPAC Congratulates Itself on the Slaughter in Lebanon By JOHN WALSH
    "My fellow American," Howard Friedman, President of AIPAC, begins his letter of July 30 to friends and supporters of AIPAC, "Look what you’ve done"! After warning that "Israel is fighting a pivotal war for its life," by which he means Israel’s wanton slaughter and all-out destruction in Lebanon, Freiedman condemns "the expected chorus of international condemnation of Israel’s actions" and (…)

  • WALL STREET JOURNAL RHAPSODIZES OVER SHAM UN RESOLUTION TO END LEBANON WAR
    18 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Wall Street Journal Rhapsodizes Over Sham UN Resolution to End Lebanon War - by Stephen Lendman
    On its editorial page at least the Wall Street Journal is consistent. It never fails to disappoint or miss an opportunity to misinform its readers. The August 16 article by the right wing Hoover Institution George Shultz Senior Fellow and former US State Department legal advisor in the 1980s Abraham Sofaer is just the latest example. The article is a typical Journal litany of propaganda, (…)

  • Is the Lebanon invasion a step toward a regional war?
    18 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Is the Lebanon invasion a step toward a regional war?
    8/17/2006 10:30:00 AM GMT
    By: Kevin Zeese
    The dividing line between peace candidates and pro-war candidates is no longer opposition to the Iraq War - a view now held by large majorities of Americans. It is whether they oppose the pre-meditated destruction of Lebanon by Israel - with U.S. weapons, and oppose a first strike military attack on Iran.
    Israel’s massive attack on Lebanon, resulting in the death of more than 1,100 (…)

  • Meanwhile, in Gaza
    18 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Gideon Levy
    The Gaza Strip has been completely closed to Israeli journalists for the last two months or so, since soldier Gilad Shalit was abducted. Not that hordes of these journalists have been gathering en masse at the Erez border crossing. Israel has been engrossed in another war, and even during normal times, it averts its gaze from what goes on in Gaza. However, the Israel Defense Forces has been operating quite energetically there recently, with no Israeli eyes keeping track of (…)

  • Palestinian Self-defeating Unilateralism
    17 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nicola Nasser* With the Palestinian - Israeli peace process dormant, deadlocked and declared “dead” and at least two thirds of the Palestinians living in exile hosted and influenced by regional powers, the Palestinian leadership is facing an overdue review of its self-defeating unilateral approach to change course towards a multilateral, or better a collective, Arab approach to resolving the conflict with Israel. Adapting to an Israeli intransigent insistence on bilateral tracks of (…)

  • Olmert may not survive this disastrous war
    17 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Olmert may not survive this disastrous war
    By Gwynne Dyer The ceasefire in southern Lebanon will not hold. Israel will probably lose more soldiers killed in combat in the next month than in the past month (119). Ehud Olmert will probably no longer be prime minister of Israel by the end of this year. And it is all too likely that Binyamin Netanyahu will take his place.
    The UN-sponsored ceasefire will not hold because Hezbollah has not been defeated. Despite a month of pounding by (…)