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  • Howard Dean continues to perpetuate Republican Lies-Warns of danger of Iraq pullout
    21 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Now that we’re there, we’re there and we can’t get out," he told an audience of nearly 1,000 at the Minneapolis Convention Center. "The president has created an enormous security problem for the United States where none existed before. But I hope the president is incredibly successful with his policy now that he’s there."
    An American pullout could endanger the United States in any of three ways, Dean said: by leaving a Shiite theocracy worse than that in Iran, which he called a more (…)

  • Privatizing a Mass Grave in Cambodia
    21 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    From Rob Maguire of Project Communis, we learn that "Cambodia has privatized a mass grave where thousands of former dictator Pol Pot’s political enemies were killed, handing it over to a Japanese company to run as a memorial" ("’Killing Fields’ Gravesite Privatized in Cambodia," CBC News 4 Apr. 2005).
    Some Japanese, like some Americans, often cluelessly ask, "Why do they hate us?" Most of "them" probably don’t hate the Japanese people (nor the American people), but many have a very good (…)

  • Counting the dead in Iraq
    21 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In 2004 the US-based scientist Dr Les Roberts led a survey into deaths caused by the invasion of Iraq. His results showed that approximately 100,000 Iraqis had been killed after the invasion. He spoke to Joseph Choonara about his survey
    Your research on mortality in Iraq, published in the prestigious Lancet journal, made headlines across the globe last November. What motivated you to conduct the survey?
    This is about the ninth “hot war” I’ve worked in. In most wars people are killed more (…)

  • ‘Wish Lists’ Drafted by U.S. Interrogators Urged Torture of Iraqis
    21 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Apr 20 - A series of e-mail messages between Army interrogators and intelligence officers in Iraq during 2003 — in which soldiers advocated the use of brutal interrogation techniques such as low voltage electric shock and beatings with phone books — appears to have helped spawn the widespread torture and abuse of Iraqi detainees by US forces.
    The Washington Post reports that an August 2003 e-mail sent to US interrogators by Captain William Ponce, an officer at Army headquarters in Baghdad, (…)

  • Iraqi Parliament demands apology after MP is assaulted at US Checkpoint
    19 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraqi deputies have demanded an official apology from Washington over the manhandling by US soldiers of an MP at a Baghdad checkpoint.
    Deputies suspended their session on Tuesday for an hour in protest against the incident involving Fatah al-Shaikh, a follower of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and member of the dominant United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) bloc, Aljazeera reported.
    They then voted unanimously on a motion demanding an official apology from the US embassy and Washington, and the (…)

  • Iraqi Lawmaker Says U.S. Soldier Grabbed His Throat
    19 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BAGHDAD — An Iraqi lawmaker accused a U.S. soldier of grabbing him by the throat and shoving him to the ground Tuesday after he parked his car in Baghdad’s Green Zone.
    Fattah al-Sheikh, an independent, said he had parked his car before a session of parliament when U.S. troops approached him and told him he didn’t have the right permit.
    He said a soldier then kicked his car, insulted him and grabbed him by the throat with both hands as others looked on, before tying his hands behind his (…)

  • Pakistan Gets F-16s in Exchange for US Bases to Attack Iran
    19 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Kilafah.com - April 16, 2005
    The well known Israeli-based web site Debka has revealed that Pakistan’s General Musharraf had agreed to US intelligence agencies’ need for a presence in Pakistani territory for gathering intelligence on Iran’s nuclear installations and in case of a decision to mount a military operation against Tehran.
    "There are strong intimations that Musharraf has already agreed to assist America in this eventuality." the Debka-weekly-Net said in a special report on (…)

  • The Hundred Days of Abu Mazen
    18 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Uri Avnery
    Next Saturday, 100 days since Abu Mazen (Mahmud Abbas) assumed the office of President of the Palestinian National Authority, Jews will celebrate Passover, in memory of the Exodus from Egypt - one of the great stories in human annals.
    According to the story (Exodus 5), Pharaoh ordered the Children of Israel to produce bricks from straw, but did not provide the straw. “And the Children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying: Wherefore dealest thou with thy servants? (…)

  • Does the Iraqi Resistance Target Civilians?
    18 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    To justify its continuing occupation of Iraq, Washington has endeavored to portray itself as the selfless protector of the Iraqi people who are menaced by ruthless terrorists. The corporate media has obliged Washington, by creating an impression that most guerrilla attacks target Iraqi civilians and that most Iraqi civilian casualties are caused by guerrillas, not by US and other coalition troops and Iraqi soldiers and policemen trained by them. A good example of the corporate media’s (…)

  • Does the Resistance target civilians? According to US intel, not really
    18 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    April 16, 2005 - The ceaseless demonization of Iraqis committed to ending foreign control of their country is a key ideological crutch for maintaining the American occupation. Smearing the armed resistance as a band of murderous thugs is well understood by American war planners to be a crucial part of effective counter-insurgency work. (1) Obviously, brutal and horrific attacks on Iraqi civilians have been carried out by some forces claiming to be a part of the resistance. But there is (…)