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  • Pattern of Abuse
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    A decorated Army officer reveals new allegations of detainee mistreatment in Iraq and Afghanistan. Did the military ignore his charges?
    By ADAM ZAGORIN
    he U.S. Army has launched a criminal investigation into new allegations of serious prisoner abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan made by a decorated former Captain in the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an Army spokesman has confirmed to TIME. The claims of the Captain, who has not been named, are in part corroborated by statements of two (…)

  • Cinderella in Rafah
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    For the last week Palestinians in Rafah were reminded of what was, what could be and what is, writes Graham Usher in Rafah
    For seven days Palestinians in Gaza experienced life without borders, and borders without fear: that is, without Israel. Thousands streamed back and forth through the punctured walls, earthworks and fences that separate Egypt from Gaza or "Rafah Sinai" from "Rafah sumud," the most lethal front-line of the Intifada.
    How the fortresses were breached depends on who you (…)

  • An Open Letter To Cindy Sheehan
    23 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear Mrs. Cindy Sheehan
    I am writing to you to express my sympathy for the loss of your son. As a father of couples of children, I know very well what it means to a mother to lose a son, and if that loss is for the welfare and benefits of humanity or not. Mr. Bush has raised war against Iraq for no legitimate reasons, since it was not backed by UN at its start. In the months that followed March 2003, it became clear to the world that the issue of weapons of mass destruction and relation (…)

  • Save the lifes of the IRAQIS in Tal-Afar
    23 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear sirs, I am writing to you to draw your attention to the tens of Iraqis that are being killed every day by the air raids performed by USA troops in the Tal-Afar town west of Mosul. This town has around 300,000 inhabitant and about 90 Km from the border with Syria. These series of barbaric raids, which started few weeks ago, have been escalated recently. In the last two weeks 157 civilians have been killed and more than 680 were arrested according to military sources. However, actual (…)

  • TREASON IN IRAQ
    23 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BENEDICT ARNOLD IN IRAQ
    By Peter Fredson
    A Political Rant
    September 23, 2005
    Many years ago, after marching through the Arch of Triumph in Paris on VE-Day, I asked for a short leave to try to contact relatives in Norway. I had not heard from them since 1940 and was worried that the war had not treated them kindly. However my request to visit Norway was denied. The reason was simple: all transportation was disrupted, roads impassable in many regions, the food shortage was acute, and (…)

  • Madsen nails it!
    23 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/Bushsaudidrugs.htm
    Mohammed Atta and Prince Nayif: the Saudi drugs dealers who helped finance the 911 attack
    Released confidential documents point to financing of 911 attacks tied to Bush family drug network
    By Wayne Madsen
    © 2005 Wayne Madsen Report.com. All Rights Reserved
    In 1999, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) broke open a major conspiracy involving a Saudi prince’s Colombian cocaine smuggling from Venezuela to support some “future (…)

  • More Blood, Less Oil : The Failed U.S. Mission to Capture Iraqi Petroleum
    22 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Michael T. Klare
    It has long been an article of faith among America’s senior policymakers — Democrats and Republicans alike — that military force is an effective tool for ensuring control over foreign sources of oil. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first president to embrace this view, in February 1945, when he promised King Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia that the United States would establish a military protectorate over his country in return for privileged access to Saudi oil — a (…)

  • Stop Selling Our Heritage for Crooked Oil: Save Arctic Wildlife Refuge!
    22 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Arctic Folly By Jimmy Carter www.washingtonpost.com
    Congress is about to make one of those big decisions that marks an era. Unless wiser heads prevail, it may do it badly — making the wrong decision in the wrong way and about the wrong place. At stake is America’s greatest wildlife sanctuary, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. To dissuade Congress from this environmental tragedy, Americans must rally, and quickly.
    Congress had its Pyrrhic energy victory this summer, with a new energy (…)

  • Iraq denounces British rescue in Basra: Why did undercover agents have anti-tank missle?
    21 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Alaa Habib
    Iraq denounced British forces on Tuesday over a dramatic rescue of two undercover soldiers that could stoke hostility to the army in increasingly volatile southern Iraq.
    British troops used an armored fighting vehicle on Monday to burst into an Iraqi jail in search of soldiers held by police in Basra. The British commander said he learned they had been handed to militia and ordered their rescue from a nearby house.
    "It is a very unfortunate development that the British (…)

  • British special forces were planning terrorist attack in Basra
    21 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraqis have accused British special forces of planning a terrorist attack on Basra.
    Sheikh Hassan al-Zarqani, a spokesperson for rebel Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, told Socialist Worker that the two undercover soldiers seized by Iraqi police last Monday were armed with explosives and a remote control detonator.
    The soldiers were disguised as members of Sadr’s militia, the Mehdi Army. The arrests sparked protests after British troops backed by tanks attempted to free the soldiers from an (…)