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  • Money for Nothing
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Billions of dollars have disappeared, gone to bribe Iraqis and line contractors’ pockets.
    by Philip Giraldi
    The United States invaded Iraq with a high-minded mission: destroy dangerous weapons, bring democracy, and trigger a wave of reform across the Middle East. None of these have happened.
    When the final page is written on America’s catastrophic imperial venture, one word will dominate the explanation of U.S. failure-corruption. Large-scale and pervasive corruption meant that (…)

  • No oversight of how more than $140 billion is being spent in
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - The chief Pentagon agency in charge of investigating and reporting fraud and waste in Defense Department spending in Iraq quietly pulled out of the war zone a year ago - leaving what experts say are gaps in the oversight of how more than $140 billion is being spent.
    The Defense Department’s inspector general sent auditors into Iraq when the war started more than two years ago to ensure that taxpayers were getting their money’s worth for everything from bullets to (…)

  • Bush to Blair: First Iraq, then Saudi
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    George Bush told the Prime Minister two months before the invasion of Iraq that Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran and North Korea may also be dealt with over weapons of mass destruction, a top secret Downing Street memo shows.
    The US President told Tony Blair, in a secret telephone conversation in January 2003 that he "wanted to go beyond Iraq".
    He implied that the military action against Saddam Hussein was only a first step in the battle against WMD proliferation in a series of countries. (…)

  • THE IRAQI CONSTITUTION: A Referendum for Disaster
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Phyllis Bennis The constitutional process culminating in Saturday’s referendum is not a sign of Iraqi sovereignty and democracy taking hold, but rather a consolidation of U.S. influence and control. Whether Iraq’s draft constitution is approved or rejected, the decision is likely to make the current situation worse. The ratification process reflects U.S., not Iraqi urgency, and is resulting in a vote in which most Iraqis have not even seen the draft, and amendments are being reopened and (…)

  • The CIA-leak case: From a notepad to jail and back
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By DON VAN NATTA JR, ADAM LIPTAK and CLIFFORD J. LEVY
    In a notebook belonging to Judith Miller, a reporter for The New York Times, amid notations about Iraq and nuclear weapons, appear two small words: "Valerie Flame." ADVERTISEMENT
    Miller should have written Valerie Plame. That name is at the core of a federal grand jury investigation that has reached deep into the White House. At issue is whether Bush administration officials leaked the identity of Plame, an undercover CIA operative, (…)

  • ARMY’S TOP ABUSE COP KILLS HIMSELF IN IRAQ
    17 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THE Army officer in charge of investigating abuse of civilians by British forces in Iraq has been found dead, it was revealed yesterday.
    Royal Military Police Captain Ken Masters, 40, is believed to have killed himself. His body was found on Saturday evening.
    An army colleague is said to have made the grim discovery in Waterloo Lines camp within the main British military base at Basra airport.
    Ministry of Defence sources said last night it is not believed Capt Masters had left a (…)

  • If George and Dick come out of this unscathed, Mr. Fitzgerald may as well have stayed in Chicago.
    17 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Well, I screwed it up real good, didn’t I?
    - Richard M. Nixon
    In a New York Times article published on Sunday, columnist Frank Rich buried the dart right in the center-black. "What matters most in this case," wrote Rich, "is not whether Mr. Rove and Lewis Libby engaged in a petty conspiracy to seek revenge on a whistle-blower, Joseph Wilson, by unmasking his wife, Valerie, a covert C.I.A. officer. What makes Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation compelling, whatever its outcome, is (…)

  • Cars stolen in US,Suicide bombers ’forced’,US/Brits caught smuggling arms: Who are the terrorists?
    17 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Cars stolen in US used in suicide attacks
    The FBI’s counterterrorism unit has launched a broad investigation of US-based theft rings after discovering some vehicles used in deadly car bombings in Iraq, including attacks that killed US troops and Iraqi civilians, were probably stolen in the United States, according to senior US Government officials.
    The FBI’s deputy assistant director for counterterrorism, Inspector John Lewis, said the investigation did not prove the vehicles were stolen (…)

  • German court declares Iraq war violated international law
    17 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Just a few weeks ago, a highly significant judicial decision was handed down by the German Federal Administrative Court but barely mentioned in the German media. With careful reasoning, the judges ruled that the assault launched by the United States and its allies against Iraq was a clear war of aggression that violated international law.
    Further, they meticulously demonstrated that the German government, in contrast to its public protestations, had assisted in the aggression against Iraq (…)

  • UN Official: US Troops ’Starving’ Iraqi Civilians
    16 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    GENEVA - A United Nations human rights investigator on Friday accused U.S. and British forces in Iraq of breaching international law by depriving civilians of food and water in besieged cities as they try to flush out militants.
    Swiss Jean Ziegler, UN special rapporteur of the commission on human rights on the right to food, speaks, with regard to World Food Day on October 16, about the hunger situation in the world at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Oct. 14, 2005. (AP (…)