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  • 56 Iraqis Die in Attacks on Marketplace
    16 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Baghdad district is hit by shells, a car bomb and a suicide bomber. Police in Fallouja stay home.
    By Solomon Moore, Times Staff Writer
    BAGHDAD - Coordinated attacks Sunday in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood in south Baghdad killed at least 56 people and wounded 148, local officials said.
    The attacks on a market in Zafaraniya included a barrage of mortar rockets, a car bomb and a suicide bomber on a bicycle, police reported.
    Elsewhere, insurgents appeared to strike a blow to (…)

  • This Fall, We Declare Peace!
    16 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by united for peace
    Fear is in the air again. From Dick Cheney to Joe Lieberman, the proponents of the Iraq War are once again playing the fear card to try to shore up support for their failed policies — policies that have only made us more vulnerable to attacks like the one thwarted last week in England.
    Neither their overheated rhetoric, nor their color-coded warnings, nor their bloated and ineffectual "homeland security" apparatus are doing anything to keep us safer. They’re just (…)

  • They fight for our freedom...Our soldiers in Iraq
    16 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Thanks to Bush’s lies which thrust young soldiers into a "war" against "insurgents" in Afghanistan and especially Iraq....thanks to poor and irresponsible recruiting techniques back home....we are losing the VERY expensive "war on terror".
    Here is a sample of our troop makeup which clearly demonstrates why we aren’t winning...and never will.
    HARRY: Private 1st Class in the Army. Joined in North Carolina 2 days after 9/11. He was angry and wanted to get even. Shortly after going to (…)

  • Israel’s war on Lebanon "planned aggression": Syria
    15 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    DAMASCUS, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday told the opening session of a journalists conference that Israel’s war on Lebanon was a "planned aggression".
    "The Israeli aggression against Lebanon was not connected with its kidnapped soldiers (by Hezbollah), but had been prearranged for a period of time," Assad said.
    He said the resistance in Lebanon had achieved victory, adding the people’s support had helped the resistance achieve this victory. (…)

  • A Self-Defeating War
    15 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by George Soros The war on terror is a false metaphor that has led to counterproductive and self-defeating policies. Five years after 9/11, a misleading figure of speech applied literally has unleashed a real war fought on several fronts — Iraq, Gaza, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Somalia — a war that has killed thousands of innocent civilians and enraged millions around the world. Yet al Qaeda has not been subdued; a plot that could have claimed more victims than 9/11 has just been foiled by the (…)

  • Israel should pack up and go
    15 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Nadim Shehadi
    What is the logic that will emerge from this war? If Israel can exist only by destroying the neighborhood, then it’s time to declare it a failed state. The Zionist dream has turned into a nightmare and is not viable. If the future holds more of the same, then the time has come to reconsider the whole project. Every state has a duty to defend its citizens, but also it has a duty to provide them with security and the two are different. The prospects are for more destruction, (…)

  • As the 6am ceasefire takes effect... the real war begins
    15 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Robert Fisk
    The real war in Lebanon begins today. The world may believe - and Israel may believe - that the UN ceasefire due to come into effect at 6am today will mark the beginning of the end of the latest dirty war in Lebanon after up to 1,000 Lebanese civilians and more than 30 Israeli civilians have been killed. But the reality is quite different and will suffer no such self-delusion: the Israeli army, reeling under the Hizbollah’s onslaught of the past 24 hours, is now facing the (…)

  • Iran threatens to withdraw from IAEA
    15 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iran threatens to withdraw from IAEA
    Iran warned on Sunday that it would withdraw from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) if its "inalienable rights" are deprived of, the official IRNA news agency reported.
    "If depriving Iran of its inalienable rights is the result of its membership in international organizations, including the IAEA, our withdrawal from such bodies is well justified," parliamentary speaker Gholam-Ali Hadad-Adel was quoted as saying.
    He reiterated Iran’s (…)

  • Desert of trapped corpses testifies to Israel’s failure
    15 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Desert of trapped corpses testifies to Israel’s failure
    Robert Fisk - The Independent August 15, 2006
    They made a desert and called it peace. Srifa - or what was once the village of Srifa - is a place of pancaked homes, blasted walls, rubble, starving cats and trapped corpses. But it is also a place of victory for the Hizbollah, whose fighters walked amid the destruction yesterday with the air of conquering heroes. So who is to blame for this desert? The Shia militia which provoked this (…)

  • LEBANON: Who Were the First Aggressors?
    14 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Change of Location in Israel’s ’Operation Change of Direction’ by Trish Schuh
    A team of Israeli lawyers are suing the Lebanese government for starting the war. The projected multi-million dollar lawsuit, to be filed in US civil court, will sue for compensation and war damages suffered by Israeli residents and businesses. Attorneys Yehudah Talmon, Yoram Dantziger and Nitzah Libai claim the Lebanese government violated international law because it didn’t stop Hezbollah’s casus belli (…)