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  • Flashback- Not the First Time Iraqis Ask US to Leave-American Papers Refuse to Print
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    Iraqi Lawmakers Call for Foreign Troops to Withdraw By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, BAGHDAD June 21, 2005
    Iraqi lawmakers from across the political spectrum called for the withdrawal of foreign forces from their country in a letter released to the media June 19.
    The move comes as U.S. President George W. Bush is under increasing domestic pressure to set a timetable for the pullout of American forces in the face of an increasing death toll at the hands of insurgents.
    Eighty-two Shiite, (…)

  • Experts Questioning Iraq Intel Silenced Before War- Never Let Politicians Say They Didn’t Know...
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    From the New Zealand Scoop-This isn’t new news! Posted by The Prissy Patriot http://prissypatriot.blogspot.com White House Silenced Experts Who Questioned Iraq Intel Info Six Months Before War Thursday, 12 June 2003, 11:48 am
    By Jason Leopold
    Six months before the United States was dead-set on invading Iraq to rid the country of its alleged weapons of mass destruction, experts in the field of nuclear science warned officials in the Bush administration that intelligence reports showing (…)

  • Woman poet ’slain for her verse’
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    by Christina Lamb
    SHE risked torture, imprisonment, perhaps even death to study literature and write poetry in secret under the Taliban. Last week, when she should have been celebrating the success of her first book, Nadia Anjuman, was beaten to death in Herat, apparently murdered by her husband.
    The 25-year-old Afghan had garnered wide praise in literary circles for the book Gule Dudi - Dark Flower - and was at work on a second volume.
    Friends say her family was furious, believing (…)

  • SHAMELESS BBC: WHEN MISINFORMATION MEANS WAR CRIMES
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    Exclusive interview with Karen Parker, Chief Counsel of the Association of Humanitarian Lawyers By Gabriele Zamparini (*)
    The BBC News website, in a special page “Q&A: White phosphorus” and under the title “The BBC News website looks at the facts behind the row.” reads:
    What are the international conventions?
    Washington is not a signatory to any treaty restricting the use of white phosphorus against civilians.
    White phosphorus is covered by Protocol III of the 1980 (…)

  • Friday Night Congress: What Was That?
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    By David Swanson
    During the middle of the day on Friday, I spent an hour or two on a conference call with activists and congressional staffers discussing next steps to end the war. We planned, among other things, to organize support for Congressman John Murtha’s bill, H.J.Res. 73, which he introduced on Friday. The bill resolves that:
    "The deployment of United States forces in Iraq, by direction of Congress, is hereby terminated and the forces involved are to be redeployed at the (…)

  • Iraqi Leaders Call for Pullout Timetable
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    By SALAH NASRAWI
    CAIRO, Egypt - Reaching out to the Sunni Arab community, Iraqi leaders called for a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S.-led forces and said Iraq’s opposition had a legitimate right’’ of resistance.
    The communique - finalized by Shiite, Kurdish and Sunni leaders Monday - condemned terrorism but was a clear acknowledgment of the Sunni position that insurgents should not be labeled as terrorists if their operations do not target innocent civilians or institutions designed (…)

  • British-trained police in Iraq ’killed prisoners with drills’
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    By Francis Elliott, Raymond Whitaker and Kim Sengupta
    British-trained police operating in Basra have tortured at least two civilians to death with electric drills, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.
    John Reid, the Secretary of State for Defence, admits that he knows of "alleged deaths in custody" and other "serious prisoner abuse" at al-Jamiyat police station, which was reopened by Britain after the war.
    Militia-dominated police, who were recruited by Britain, are believed to have (…)

  • Germans: Bush misused data to justify Iraq war
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    Informant’s handlers say they repeatedly warned of unreliability.
    By Bob Drogin and John Goetz
    BERLIN - The German intelligence officials responsible for one of the most important informants on Saddam Hussein’s suspected weapons of mass destruction say that the Bush Aadministration and the CIA repeatedly exaggerated his claims before the Iraq war.
    Five senior officials from Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service, or BND, said in interviews with the Los Angeles Times that they warned (…)

  • INCONGRUITY IN IRAQ
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    INCONGRUITY IN IRAQ
    By Peter Fredson
    November 21, 2005
    “Incongruity: strangeness, absurdity, inappropriateness”, according to my in-computer thesaurus, seems to reflect the puzzlement I feel when looking at the daily news about Iraq for the past four years.
    I wonder what those young people in United States uniform, holding automatic weapons at the ready, dressed like Samurai warriors in full-field gear, are doing so far from home. Why are they not back home in Sheboygan, Duluth, or (…)

  • PM halted Bush plan to bomb Arab TV channel off the air
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    PM halted Bush plan to bomb Arab TV channel off the air Exclusive By Kevin Maguire And Andy Lines
    GEORGE Bush’s plot to bomb an Arab TV station in friendly Qatar was crushed by Tony Blair who feared it would spark horrific revenge.
    An explosive No 10 memo stamped "Top Secret" records a threat by Bush to unleash "military action" against al-Jazeera, accused by the US of fuelling the Iraq insurgency and denounced as Osama bin Laden’s mouthpiece.
    The attack would have led to a (…)