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  • Hart Viges: ’You can’t wash your hands when they’re covered in blood’
    26 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    My name is Hart Viges. September 11 happened. Next day I was in the recruiting office. I thought that was the way I could make a difference in the world for the better.
    So I went to infantry school and jump school and I arrived with my unit of the 82nd Airborne Division. I was deployed to Kuwait in February 2003. We drove into Iraq because Third Infantry Division was ahead of schedule, and so I didn’t need to jump into Baghdad airport.
    As we drove into Samawa to secure their supplies my (…)

  • Comments on the so-called incapability of the Bush administration to restore the Iraqi State
    26 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Traduction française du commentaire du commentaire ci-dessous. An interesting comment taken from the New York Times. The title already points to what was one of the essential products of the 9/11 operation: a Forever War, justified by the presence of a theoretical enemy, "the terrorists", the mythic Al Qaida, which would keep the Western World in a permanent state of emergency, justifying the sacking of civil liberties that were obtained by the citizens through 150 years of democratic (…)

  • 5 killed as US helicopter crashes in Afghanistan
    25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Five people were killed as a US army
    helicopter crashed in southern Zabul province of Afghanistan Sunday.
    "A US military CH-47 Chinook helicopter crashed southwest of Deh
    Chopan today killing all five crew members onboard," said a press
    release of the military.
    "The cause of the crash is unknown at this time. There are no
    indications of hostile fire involved at this time. An investigation has
    been initiated into the cause of the crash," it said.
    "US military (…)

  • Israeli soldiers tell of indiscriminate killings by army and a culture of impunity
    25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Whistleblowers’ testimony shows desire for revenge on Palestinians
    by Conal Urquhart in Tel Aviv
    From a distance of 70 metres and through the sight of his machine gun, Assaf could tell that the Palestinian man was aged between 20 and 30, unarmed and trying to get away from an Israeli tank. But the details didn’t matter much, because Assaf’s orders were to "fire at anything that moved".
    Assaf, a soldier in the Israeli army, pressed the trigger, firing scores of bullets as the body fell (…)

  • Israeli troops say they were given shoot-to-kill order
    25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Conal Urquhart in Tel Aviv
    Israeli military prosecutors have opened criminal investigations following allegations by soldiers that they carried out illegal shoot-to-kill orders against unarmed Palestinians.
    The 17 separate investigations were prompted by the testimony of dozens of troops collected by Breaking the Silence, a pressure group of former Israeli soldiers committed to exposing human rights abuses by the military in suppressing the Palestinian intifada. The investigations (…)

  • Bush Clears Way For More Buggering By Saudis
    25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Waives trafficking sanctions
    by Brian Richards
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — (OfficialWire) — 09/25/05 — George W. Bush and his religious Right administration decided Wednesday to waive all financial sanctions against Saudi Arabia-Washington’s closest Arab ally in the war on terrorism and a major owner of the United States-for failing to do enough to stop the slave trade in prostitutes, child sex workers and forced laborers. Go figure.
    Last June, U.S. State Department officials singled out 14 (…)

  • BRITISH UNDERCOVER OPERATIVES IN IRAQ
    25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Nafeez Ahmed
    Zarqawi Eat Your Heart Out
    Basra is relatively stable compared to central Iraq where violence involving insurgents, civilians and coalition forces is a daily routine. The city has rarely been a site of clashes between insurgents and coalition troops, nor is it a victim of regular terrorist attacks. This week, however, things changed, but not thanks to Zarqawi and his al-Qaeda ilk.
    On Monday, two British soldiers were arrested and detained by Iraqi police in Basra. (…)

  • Opponents of the war in Iraq are marching by the tens of thousands Saturday
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON - Opponents of the war in Iraq are marching by the tens of thousands Saturday in a clamorous day of protest, song and remembrance of the dead, some showing surprisingly diverse political views even as they spoke with one loud voice in wanting U.S. troops home.
    The surging crowd, shouting “Bush out now” and “Peace now,” marched in front of the White House and then toward the Washington Monument in an 11-hour marathon of dissent.
    They were young people with green hair, nuns (…)

  • Country is hurtling towards disintegration, Saudis warn
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ewen MacAskill, diplomatic editor
    The Saudi government yesterday warned that Iraq is hurtling towards disintegration and that an election planned for December is unlikely to make any difference. The government said it was delivering this bleak assessment to both the US and British administrations as a matter of urgency.
    Saudi fears of a break-up were voiced by Prince Saud al-Faisal, the foreign minister, in an interview with Associated Press published yesterday, and at a meeting on (…)

  • Public Pressure Mounts for Bush to Curtail Iraq War After Katrina Disaster
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Beth Gorham WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush says he can wage war in Iraq and still pay most of the huge bill for rebuilding the hurricane-lashed Gulf Coast. Most Americans don’t agree with him. And for the first time, Bush is facing a serious revolt in his own party over how to pay for hurricane relief.
    Republicans already edgy about the estimated $200-billion US price tag to clean up after Katrina were bracing for more damage by week’s end as hurricane Rita hurtled toward Texas (…)