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  • “I pay for for my Support to the Iraqi People"
    22 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The « Oil for Food » affair
    Free... but on bail !
    Statement by Gilles Munier
    Secretary General of the French-Iraq Friendsdhip Organisation
    “I pay for my support to the Iraqi people...”
    After 60 hours of questioning and police custody, I was charged, on October 6, 2005, by Magistrate Philippe Courroye but released on a bail amounting to 80 000 euros or $ 96 600 which I have to pay in four instalments till February 2006 or be imprisoned. My passport has been withdrawn and I am (…)

  • Caught in the Crossfire - The Untold Story of Falluja
    21 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Caught in the Crossfire - The Untold Story of Falluja
    A film by Mark Manning and Conception Media - To be Released October 18, 2005
    http://www.conceptionmedia.net/
    http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/multi_media/
    CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE
    A FUNDRAISER FOR IRAQI CIVILIANS: Victims of combat operations in Iraq
    ConceptionMedia presents:
    A Joint Production of Iraqi & American Filmmakers
    CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE THE UNTOLD STORY OF FALLUJA ON SALE NOW
    Proceeds go to ongoing relief (…)

  • Sorry, Judy... Everybody Didn’t Get it Wrong on WMD
    21 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Arianna Huffington
    In the Times’ Sunday Judy-Culpa, Judy Miller said of her woeful pre-war reporting: "WMD — I got it totally wrong... The analysts, the experts and the journalists who covered them — we were all wrong."
    To which a growing number of journalists are responding: No, we weren’t.
    Among them is Joe Lauria, a reporter who has covered the UN since 1990 for a variety of papers, including the London Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, and the Boston Globe. He bridles at Miller’s (…)

  • Kucinich introduces Resolution of Inquiry,demands documents from WHIG-Questions Iraq Reconstruction
    20 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Kucinich Uses Resolution Of Inquiry To Demand Documents From White House Group That Developed Strategy To “Sell” War To The Public And Press
    Washington, Oct 20 - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) today introduced a Resolution of Inquiry to demand the White House turn over all white papers, minutes, notes, emails or other communications kept by the White House Iraq Group (WHIG).
    “This group, comprised of the President and Vice President’s top aides, was critical in selling the (…)

  • Has US really taken military into Syria? Shades of Vietnam/Cambodia!!!
    20 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This is the first I have heard or read of this story and was wondering if anyone else on here had seen this yet in print. I know there has been a lot of talk about possibilities but this is the first semi-acknowledgement I have seen!!! And I am simply (*&#@&*#) upset about it....................................!!
    Dan Simpson: Invade Syria? Insane U.S. forces have started fighting Syrians at Iraq’s border. Can anybody say ’Cambodia’?
    Wednesday, October 19, 2005 Pittsburgh (…)

  • Ex-Governor Elected to Afghan Parliament
    19 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By AMIR SHAH
    KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A former regional governor who oversaw the destruction of two massive 1,500-year-old Buddha statues during the Taliban’s reign was elected to the Afghan parliament last month, officials said Tuesday as results from two provinces were finalized.
    Elsewhere, U.S.-led coalition forces killed four police officers after mistaking them for militants during an operation in the southern province of Kandahar, provincial Gov. Asadullah Khalid said. The (…)

  • Israel redraws the roadmap, building quietly and quickly
    19 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Settler population grows as Sharon grabs more West Bank land than he returned in Gaza
    by Chris McGreal in Jerusalem
    At the northern edge of Jerusalem, on the main road to the Palestinian city of Ramallah, three towering concrete walls are converging around a rapidly built maze of cages, turnstiles and bomb-proof rooms.
    When construction at Qalandiya is completed in the coming weeks, the remaining gaps in the 8m (26ft)-high walls will close and those still permitted to travel between (…)

  • Everyone’s favorite Old Bat Helen Thomas took a switch to rich kid Scotty McClellan today.
    19 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Turns out we killed 18 kids in a airstrike today and Helen was trying to get some answers from our "err on the side of life" administration. Especially take a good look at Scotty’s response at the end... the lines between "us" and "them" are blurring.
    Q Dispatches from Iraq said that yesterday we killed 70 people in Iraq, near Ramadi, including 18 children. I want to know what the President thinks of that.
    MR. McCLELLAN: Well, first of all, I think you need to talk to the military, (…)

  • Haliburton’s New Low In Treachery
    19 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Monday, October 17, 2005 by the Madison Capital Times (Wisconsin) Halliburton’s New Low in Treachery by Dave Zweifel
    The Chicago Tribune produced an incredible story last week detailing how unsuspecting young men from poor countries are tricked into working in dangerous jobs for a Halliburton subsidiary in Iraq.
    The two-part series retraced the journey of a group of Nepalese men who were lured to the Mideast with fraudulent paperwork that promised them jobs at a luxury hotel (…)

  • The great power games in the Middle East
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    It has become almost impossible to invoke Islam or Muslims without reference to the vague and ever changing categories of moderation and extremism.
    Two years ago, the Rand Corporation, a think-tank close to decision-making circles in Washington, issued a 66-page report entitled Civil Democratic Islam: Partners & Resources, which identified three elements within the Islamic mix, "the traditionalists, the fundamentalists, the modernists and secularists".
    The document recommended a (…)