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  • No Place For Canada. Foreign Invaders Will Never Control The Fierce Pashtun Tribesmen Of Afghanistan
    3 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    No Place For Canada Foreign Invaders Will Never Control The Fierce Pashtun Tribesmen Of Afghanistan By Eric Margolis July 02, 2006 The war in Afghanistan that was supposedly won has resumed — with a vengeance. Fighting is reportedly intensifying and spreading across southern Afghanistan as resistance to foreign occupation grows.
    In 2001, unable to withstand high-tech U.S. forces, the Taliban leader Mullah Omar ordered his men to disband and blend into the civilian population. At the (…)

  • Diabetes and depleted uranium - Italian embassy refuses visa
    3 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    June 29, 2006 - "You are not being truthful about the purpose of your visit to Italy. What is your interest in diabetes and depleted uranium?" the Italian consul in Bombay demanded to know.
    "I am just traveling to Italy to meet with Leuren Moret," the famous Indian doctor answered.
    Leuren Moret recounted the episode in an interview June 29, 2006. She said, "The doctor had never mentioned either diabetes or depleted uranium."
    The Italian government official was grilling one of the (…)

  • Aw Shucks, Another U.S. Embarrassment...
    2 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Rape and murder inquiry is 5th in recent months
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — (OfficialWire) — 07/02/06 — Listening to a popular radio talk-show yesterday, I heard the newsreader say (referring to a report of the rape and murder of an Iraqi woman and the murder of three members of her family):
    "...and in what is yet another embarrassment for the U.S. Military..."
    To be honest, I admit that I didn’t hear the rest of the story.
    Embarrassment!?
    Are Americans so accustomed to the illegal acts (…)

  • The Myth Of Al Qaeda
    29 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Myth Of Al Qaeda Before 9/11, Osama Bin Laden’s Group Was Small And Fractious. How Washington Helped To Build Into A Global Threat. WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY By Michael Hirsh, Newsweek Updated: 5:55 p.m. ET June 28, 2006 June 28, 2006 - The capture of Ibn Al-Shaykhal-Libi was said to be one of the first big breakthroughs in the war against Al Qaeda. It was also the start of the post-9/11 mythologizing of the terror group. According to the official history of the Bush administration, (…)

  • Vice President Cheney, Chef In Chief
    27 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Vice President Cheney, Chef In Chief By Larry C Johnson Monday, 26 June 2006 at 20:08 The evidence now on the public record is overwhelming and, if we could have a jury, Vice President Dick Cheney would be found guilty of cooking the intelligence and lying us into war. Three remarkable and compelling pieces of evidence have hit the streets within the last two weeks. Let’s start with today and work backwards. The Democratic Policy Committee held a hearing on the pre-war intelligence. (…)

  • Reconciliation In Iraq: If Only Maliki Had Freedom Of Action
    27 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Reconciliation In Iraq: If Only Maliki Had Freedom Of Action Linda Heard, sierra12th@yahoo.co.uk Tuesday, 27, June, 2006 If left to his own devices Iraq’s new Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki has a good chance of uniting his fractured country and stamping out the violence. But there is just one problem. US internal politics appear to be thwarting his efforts.
    On Sunday, Al-Maliki presented his Parliament with a 24-point national reconciliation plan that was backed by Sunni opposition (…)

  • Pull Out Of Iraq Now, Congressman Urges. Cover-Up Of Haditha Killings Wrong, He Says
    27 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Pull Out Of Iraq Now, Congressman Urges Cover-Up Of Haditha Killings Wrong, He Says By Elizabeth Baier, South Florida Sun-Sentinel June 25, 2006
    American presence in Iraq is more dangerous to world peace than nuclear threats from North Korea or Iran, U.S. Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., said to a crowd of more than 200 in North Miami Saturday afternoon.
    Murtha was the guest speaker at a town hall meeting organized by U.S. Rep. Kendrick B. Meek, D-Miami, at Florida International University’s (…)

  • So What Is Bush’s Post-Iraq Strategy?
    27 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    So What Is Bush’s Post-Iraq Strategy? By Ellen Goodman 06/24/2006 It was probably not the wisest metaphor to choose for a country with only 58 kilometers of shoreline. "Cut and run’’ is, after all, a nautical term. More to the point, one person’s metaphor for cowardice is another’s description of speed and survival. As for the other mantra of war debate? We’re still at sea on whether to "stay the (disastrous or not) course.’’
    The good news is that the public seems to have finally (…)

  • Army Wives Get Phone Death Threats From Iraq
    27 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Army Wives Get Phone Death Threats From Iraq By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent (Filed: 25/06/2006)
    Wives and family members of soldiers fighting in Iraq have received telephone calls, believed to include death threats, from insurgents, according to military documents seen by The Sunday Telegraph.
    The "nuisance" calls have been made with increasing frequency over the past few weeks after insurgents managed to obtain home numbers from soldiers’ mobile telephones.
    The growing number (…)

  • If Wanton Murder Is Essential To The US Campaign In Iraq, It’s Time To Leave
    27 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    If Wanton Murder Is Essential To The US Campaign In Iraq, It’s Time To Leave The Reported Atrocities By American Soldiers Are Not Isolated Incidents But The Inevitable Offshoots Of Occupation Gary Younge Monday June 26, 2006 The Guardian Every four years it’s the same. The hand of God, the sending off, the miskick that finds only our net - the fluke that shatters the dream. Each World Cup some freakish incident dashes England’s hopes with such predictable regularity that the only truly (…)