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  • Army Insider Blows the Whistle on Human Rights Abuses at Guantánamo
    8 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Soldier lifts lid on Camp Delta
    For the first time, an army insider blows the whistle on human rights abuses at Guantánamo
    Paul Harris in New York Sunday May 8, 2005 The Observer
    An American soldier has revealed shocking new details of abuse and sexual torture of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay in the first high-profile whistleblowing account to emerge from inside the top-secret base.
    Erik Saar, an Arabic speaker who was a translator in interrogation sessions, has produced a searing (…)

  • US imprisons Iraqi journalists without charges
    8 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    At least nine Iraqi journalists who worked for major Western news organizations have disappeared into the network of concentration camps in which the US military is holding an estimated 17,000 citizens of the occupied country, the French news agency AFP reported May 5 .../...
    http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/iraq-m07.shtml

  • How to End the War
    6 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Naomi Klein
    The central question we need to answer is this: What were the real reasons for the Bush administration’s invasion and occupation of Iraq?
    When we identify why we really went to war-not the cover reasons or the rebranded reasons, freedom and democracy, but the real reasons-then we can become more effective anti-war activists.
    The most effective and strategic way to stop this occupation and prevent future wars is to deny the people who wage these wars their spoils-to make (…)

  • Iran & Syria Armed With Russian S-300 Missiles
    6 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    During a visit to Ramallah in Palestine on April 29, 2005, President Putin commented: "Expecting Mahmoud Abbas to fight terrorism effectively, we have to realize that a slingshot and a handful of stones won’t do the job." Then Putin paused, before adding, "Which Israel clearly understands." When Vladimir Putin arrived in Palestine recently, the western media was curiously muted, perhaps painfully aware of the fact that the Russian President was one (perhaps the only) head of state, who (…)

  • Turkey Is Gathering Troops Along Southern Border With Iraq
    6 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Turkey Is Gathering Troops Along Southern Border With Iraq
    Worldtribune.com
    Turkey is gathering troops along its southern border with Iraq.
    Kurdish opposition sources said thousands of Turkish troops have been gathering in positions near the Iraqi border. They said the Turkish military formation was taking place in the Kurdish areas of southeastern Turkey.
    The Turkish troops deployed near the Iraqi border were identified as units of two commando brigades, Bolu and Kayseri. The (…)

  • The President is a War Criminal
    6 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The President is a War Criminal
    http://www.pnews.org/PhpWiki/index.php/BlowingThingsUp
    Iraq didn’t use cluster bombs. The U.S. used cluster bombs in every conflict. Iraq didn’t use nuclear weapons. The U.S. used depleted uranium munitions in every comflict.
    Nor did Iraq use depleted uranium in its conventional weapons - which can cause long term medical problems, all types of cancer, and kill innocent civilians who come in contact with it. The U.S. used napalm in Vietnam. It may (…)

  • The Quagmire. As The Iraq War Drags On, It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Vietnam
    5 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Quagmire As The Iraq War Drags On, It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Vietnam Robert Dreyfuss May 05, 2005 The news from Iraq is bad and getting worse with each passing day. Iraqi insurgents are stepping up the pace of their attacks, unleashing eleven deadly bombings on April 29th alone. Many of the 150,000 Iraqi police and soldiers hastily trained by U.S. troops have deserted or joined the insurgents. The cost of the war now tops $192 billion, rising by $1 billion a week, and the (…)

  • Mistrial for Lyndie England: Graner says was following orders, photos intended for training manual !
    5 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A military judge threw out a guilty plea by Lynndie England, a key figure in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, after new evidence in her trial indicated she considered herself innocent.
    The decision by Judge Colonel James Pohl yesterday throws into doubt the fate of the 22-year-old reservist private, made infamous by photos showing her pointing at a pile of naked Iraqi prisoners and holding one naked inmate on a dog-leash.
    The turning point was testimony by Private Charles Graner (…)

  • 32 days left before war with Iran
    5 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Are we going to stand idly by as more sovereign countries are attacked? This farce has nothing to do with getting rid of nuclear weapons in the Middle East or else the US would shut down the billions of dollars of aid that Israel receives. Money that is funneled into its massive chemical, biological and nuclear arsenal, which is turning Israel into a dominant superpower. Their military & political might remains unchecked. They are in firm control of the world’s remaining superpower, the (…)

  • Father of slain soldier plots UK “regime change”
    5 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    SEDGEFIELD, England - Polls say Tony Blair’s Labour Party is on course to win Thursday’s election, but the father of a British soldier killed in Iraq is convinced he can bring about “regime change” in the Prime Minister’s back yard.
    Reg Keys, whose son died at the hands of a mob in June 2003, is standing against Blair in his Sedgefield constituency in northeast England, arguing his son had died in an illegal war and that the premier had lied over the reasons for it.
    The odds are heavily (…)