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  • Al-ZARQAWIi DIED LONG AGO BUT UNITED STATES USES HIS NAME TO JUSTIFY OCCUPATION OF IRAQ
    21 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Saturday 17 September 2005, 8:12 Makka Time, 5:12 GMT Al-Kalesi said al-Zarqawi was killed in Iraq’s Kurdish region
    Al-Qaida’s leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is dead but Washington continues to use him as a bogeyman to justify a prolonged military occupation, an Iraqi Shia cleric says in an interview.
    Sheikh Jawad al-Kalesi, the imam of the al-Kadhimiyah mosque in Baghdad, told France’s Le Monde newspaper on Friday: "I don’t think that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi exists as such. He’s (…)

  • Bush Has No Exit Plan for Iraq, Say Americans
    21 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    September 20, 2005
    (Angus Reid Global Scan) - Many adults in the United States think George W. Bush has not formulated an explicit strategy for bringing an end to the coalition effort in Iraq, according to a poll by the New York Times and CBS News. 72 per cent of respondents believe their president has not developed a clear plan for getting American troops out of Iraq.
    The coalition effort against Saddam Hussein’s regime was launched in March 2003. At least 1,899 American soldiers have (…)

  • THE PRICE OF SECRECY
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Fisher
    During 2004, the Bush Administration issued more secret court orders, spent $148 creating new classified documents for every $1 spent releasing old ones, invoked the ‘state secrets’ privilege in court cases more frequently than ever before, and received 25 per cent more requests for documents under the Freedom of Information Act.
    These are among the findings of a new “Secrecy Report Card” prepared by
    OpenTheGovernment.org, a coalition of organizations dedicated to (…)

  • What has happened to Iraq’s missing $1bn?
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad
    One billion dollars has been plundered from Iraq’s defence ministry in one of the largest thefts in history, The Independent can reveal, leaving the country’s army to fight a savage insurgency with museum-piece weapons.
    The money, intended to train and equip an Iraqi army capable of bringing security to a country shattered by the US-led invasion and prolonged rebellion, was instead siphoned abroad in cash and has disappeared.
    "It is possibly one of the (…)

  • The British Army’s authority has never looked more fragile
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad
    The Iraqi deep south where the British Army is based has always had a potential for violence. On the whole the British forces have been far more careful not to provoke local feuds than their US counterparts further north.
    The price from the British point of view - though probably there was no alternative to paying it - was to leave much authority in the hands of local political parties and militias, particularly those successful in the election in January. (…)

  • New Zealand election stalemate exposes deep social divisions
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By John Braddock
    Provisional results from Saturday’s New Zealand elections have put neither of the two major parties, Labour or National, in a position to form a government. The incumbent Labour Party leads by a narrow margin of 23,000 votes with 218,000 special votes still to be counted. As it stands, the result gives Labour 40.7 percent of the vote (50 seats) and National 39.6 percent (49 seats). Both would need to stitch together a shaky coalition with more than one of the minor parties (…)

  • Holocaust Survivor Simon Wiesenthal Dies
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by IAN GREGOR
    LOS ANGELES - Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor who helped track down numerous Nazi war criminals following World War II then spent the later decades of his life fighting anti-Semitism and prejudice against all people, died Tuesday. He was 96.
    Wiesenthal died in his sleep at his home in Vienna, Austria, according to Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.
    "I think he’ll be remembered as the conscience of the Holocaust. In (…)

  • Report: Sharon raised illegal campaign funds in New York
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By The Associated Press
    Prime Minister Ariel Sharon raised illegal campaign funds during his just-completed trip to New York, Channel Ten reported Monday.
    Sharon returned home Monday afternoon, and Channel 10 quoted his office as saying that the prime minister was not aware of the fund-raising.
    Sharon was in New York to attend the annual General Assembly session.
    Channel 10 showed footage of the entrance to a swanky Fifth Avenue apartment building in Manhattan, where Sharon met (…)

  • Looting money in Iraq.......
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This article is from the online edition of The Daily Independent.
    What has happened to Iraq’s missing $1bn? By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad Published: 19 September 2005
    One billion dollars has been plundered from Iraq’s defence ministry in one of the largest thefts in history, The Independent can reveal, leaving the country’s army to fight a savage insurgency with museum-piece weapons.
    The money, intended to train and equip an Iraqi army capable of bringing security to a country (…)

  • BASRA : British forces stormed the jail using six tanks and free two soldiers held in Iraq prison
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Alaa Habib
    BASRA, Iraq - British forces freed two undercover soldiers from jail in Basra late on Monday after a day of rioting in the southern city sparked when the soldiers fired on an Iraqi police patrol.
    An Iraqi Interior Ministry official said British forces stormed the jail using six tanks and that dozens of Iraqi prisoners escaped during the raid. But the Ministry of Defence said the release of the two soldiers was negotiated and it did not believe the prison had been stormed. (…)