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  • Before Rearming Iraq, He Sold Shoes and Flowers
    7 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Solomon Moore and T. Christian Miller
    Ziad Cattan was a Polish Iraqi used-car dealer with no weapons-dealing experience until U.S. authorities turned him into one of the most powerful men in Iraq last year - the chief of procurement for the Defense Ministry, responsible for equipping the fledgling Iraqi army.
    As U.S. advisors looked on, Cattan embarked on a massive spending spree, paying hundreds of millions of dollars in Iraqi funds for secret, no-bid contracts, according to (…)

  • Council: Bring troops home
    6 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Phillip Reese
    The Sacramento City Council called Tuesday night for the "rapid and comprehensive withdrawal of United States military personnel and bases from Iraq," citing the financial and human costs of the war on local resources.
    The resolution, sponsored by council members Lauren Hammond and Ray Tretheway, puts Sacramento on a short but growing list of cities nationwide pressing for a quick withdrawal. Chicago’s council recently approved a similar measure. San Francisco made the (…)

  • U.S. fears prospect of Saudi coup, weighs invasion plans
    6 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - The United States has raised the prospect of a military invasion of Saudi Arabia.
    The House Armed Services Committee considered the possibility of a Saudi coup and U.S. response during a hearing on Oct. 26.
    Saudi Arabia, with 200,000 military and National Guard troops, is the largest oil producer and exporter, with an output of nine million barrels of oil per day, according to Middle East Newsline. The Arab kingdom is the third largest supplier of oil to the United States, (…)

  • International Petition to Ban Uranium Weapons
    6 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    International Petition to Ban Uranium Weapons
    Uranium weapons, often called ’depleted’ uranium (DU) weapons, are manufactured from radioactive waste materials produced during the nuclear fuel chain and the production of nuclear weapons. They cause widespread and long lasting radioactive contamination of the environment. These weapon systems are radiologically and chemically toxic.
    Many people - innocent civilians especially children, military veterans, industry workers - have illnesses (…)

  • Halliburton Should Repay Millions to Iraq, a U.N. Audit Finds
    5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An auditing board sponsored by the United Nations recommended yesterday that the United States repay as much as $208 million to the Iraqi government for contracting work in 2003 and 2004 assigned to Kellogg, Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary. Skip to next paragraph The Reach of War Go to Complete Coverage
    The work was paid for with Iraqi oil proceeds, but the board said it was either carried out at inflated prices or done poorly. The board did not, however, give examples of poor (…)

  • Mapping Out Catastrophe
    2 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Remi Kanazi
    Does anyone remember that quirky little document called "the roadmap," the proposed path to peace initiated by the Quartet-the United States, the European Union, the United Nations, and Russia-involving the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians?
    If you remember it and its contents, you can recall that Israelis and Palestinians should be in phase two (of three) of the plan by now: the creation of a quasi Palestinian state with "provisional borders" and the markings of (…)

  • The True Cost of War
    1 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This immoral invasion and occupation of Iraq has cost the world so much. George and his reckless war of choice have cost the American taxpayers billions of dollars that could be better spent at home. Judging from Katrina, Iraq has cost our country much of its security. It has cost the US any good standing we enjoyed in the world community. It cost America the post 9/11 good will from almost the entire world. We Americans are the laughing stock of the world community. Not only is our callous (…)

  • Former soldier wins landmark case over Gulf War Syndrome
    1 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    A former guardsman suffering from Gulf War Syndrome has won a landmark legal case against the Ministry of Defence.
    Daniel Martin, 35, who has suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome, memory loss and impaired concentration since the 1991 conflict, will receive a disability award under the "umbrella term" of Gulf War Syndrome.
    He is one of 1,500 soldiers who made a claim for a disablement pension because of the syndrome, which, for the past 14 years, the MoD has said does not exist.
    A war (…)

  • UK Ministers knew WMD excuse was bullshit
    1 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    06/12/05 "The Times" - - MINISTERS were warned in July 2002 that Britain was committed to taking part in an American-led invasion of Iraq and they had no choice but to find a way of making it legal.
    The warning, in a leaked Cabinet Office briefing paper, said Tony Blair had already agreed to back military action to get rid of Saddam Hussein at a summit at the Texas ranch of President George W Bush three months earlier.
    The briefing paper, for participants at a meeting of Blair’s inner (…)

  • Bush Planned Iraq before he became President
    1 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    15 September 2002: A SECRET blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure ’regime change’ even before he took power in January 2001. The blueprint, uncovered by the Sunday Herald, for the creation of a ’global Pax Americana’ was drawn up for Dick Cheney (now vice- president), Donald Rumsfeld (defence secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld’s deputy), George W Bush’s younger brother Jeb and Lewis Libby (…)