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  • Members of Congress Ask Bush to Stop Undercounting U.S. Casualties
    12 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    December 7, 2005
    The Honorable George W. Bush President of the United States of America The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20500
    Dear Mr. President:
    We are concerned that the Department of Defense has been under-reporting casualties in Iraq by only reporting non-fatal casualties incurred in combat. We write today to request that you provide the American people with a full accounting of the American casualties in Iraq since the March 19, 2003 invasion, (…)

  • Shiite, Sunni groups sign pact for US withdrawal timetable
    11 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Baghdad, Dec. 9 (AP): A group of Shiite and Sunni parties has signed a declaration condemning terrorism, urging a timetable for the end of the US military presence, and vowing never to normalise relations with Israel.
    The parties to the "code of honour" included followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi, Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq and the Sunni Iraqi Consensus Front.
    The code also (…)

  • Dinner with Condi & the Fate of Gaza
    11 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Conn Hallinan
    There is a moment in Jeffery Goldberg’s New Yorker profile of Brent Scowcroft, George Bush Senior’s former National Security Advisor, when the current Administration’s combination of arrogance and cluelessness crystallize. Over dinner, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice tells Scowcroft that the ’good news’ from the Middle East is that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is pulling out of Gaza, the first step toward resolving the issue of a Palestinian state.
    According (…)

  • Kucinich wants Iraqi vote on withdrawal
    11 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (UPI) — Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, wants the Iraqis to decide whether the United States military should be withdrawn from Iraq.
    "Congressman Kucinich believes that Iraq, as a free nation and a blossoming democracy, should have the right of self determination," said his spokesman Doug Gordon.
    Kucinich is working on a resolution to be introduced on the floor of Congress "soon" that would make it the sense of Congress that the United States would support an Iraqi (…)

  • Should Israel give up its nukes?
    10 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By George Bisharat
    IN A SUDDEN ATTACK of common sense, a Pentagon-commissioned study released in mid-November suggests an approach to nuclear nonproliferation in the Middle East that might actually be accepted by the people of the region. What is this breakthrough idea? That U.S. policies begin not with a country that currently lacks nuclear weapons - Iran - but rather with the one that by virtually all accounts already has them - Israel.
    To avert Iran’s apparent drive for nuclear (…)

  • Spiegel satirist Broder re Iran Presid’s idea "Give the Jews Schleswig Holstein"
    10 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Henryk M. Broder Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinedshad’s suggestion to move Israel to Germany is not as absurd as it sounds. If you consider the idea impartially, you can see a historic land reform concept which can be advantageous to all parties. Everyone is attacking the Iranian president again because he suggested moving Israel from the Middle East to Germany, or Austria. Even those who were not outraged about Mahmud Ahmadinedschad’s demand "to wipe Israel off the map" are (…)

  • FREE IRAQI DETAINEES, FREE HOSTAGES
    10 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A human being is a human being whether he is an American, a British, or an Iraqi. His Wrights must be respected by all governments as those Wrights are guaranteed by all religions and man-made constitutions. The people in Iraq has long suffered from the unjustified embargo which has led to the death of more than 1 million Iraqis. The USA invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths and injuries. Added to all of these inhuman conditions, that the (…)

  • Britain ’trying to stall $1.3bn theft inquiry that could hurt Allawi’s election chances’
    9 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad
    The British government is trying to stall an investigation into the theft of more than $1.3bn (£740m) from the Iraqi Ministry of Defence, senior Iraqi officials say.
    The government wants to postpone the investigation to help its favoured candidate Iyad Allawi, the former prime minister, in the election on 15 December. The money disappeared during his administration.
    The UK’s enthusiasm for Mr Allawi may have led it into promoting a cover-up of how the (…)

  • Syria Attacks Evidence as U.N. Case Turns More Bizarre
    9 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By MICHAEL SLACKMAN
    DAMASCUS, Syria, Dec. 6 - The United Nations investigation into the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister, Rafik Hariri, is beginning to show some cracks: one witness is dead, another is in jail and still another has recanted his testimony with a fantastic story of abduction, drugging and bribery.
    In a case that has begun to sound more and more like a fictional spy thriller, with charges of Soviet-style intimidation tactics and a witness who died when (…)

  • Coup brewing in Iraq?
    7 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Hassan Hanizadeh
    Former Iraqi prime minister Iyad Allawi is a dangerous, mysterious figure who is currently trying to play a significant role in the Iraqi political scene, which seriously threatens the future of the country.
    The fact that Allawi was the only Iraqi official to attend a recent military parade inspection ceremony indicates that he intends to play an ambiguous military role in Iraq.
    After the collapse of Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship, Allawi, who was once an Iraqi (…)