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  • Sunni and Shiites converge on Baghdad to call for end to occupation
    9 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Anti-US protests in Baghdad
    April 9, 2005
    TENS of thousands of Shiites converged on the centre of Baghdad for an anti-US protest to mark two years since the city fell to coalition troops.
    Police cars blocked off main roads in central Baghdad and two major bridges across the Tigris River that cuts the capital in half as thousands marched through the street, chanting: “No, no USA, no, no America, no, no to the occupation.”
    Radical preachers had called on their congregations to rally in (…)

  • URUKNET: Resistance seizes control of city of al-Qa’im
    9 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 7 April 2005 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org
    Thursday, 7 April 2005. Al-Anbar Province. Al-Qa’im.
    Iraqi Resistance seizes control of city of al-Qa’im on the Syrian border.
    The Iraqi Resistance issued several communiqués on Thursday morning announcing that the city of al-Qa’im on the Iraqi-Syrian border, had fallen militarily from the (…)

  • Buck Doesn’t Stop at This President’s Desk
    8 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Helen Thomas
    White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan says President Bush was "pleased" with the latest investigation that blames CIA analysts for the false information that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
    That’s the reason Bush invaded Iraq, remember? Once again it’s those low-level bureaucrats who took us into war. And once again a panel of "don’t rock the boat" establishment figures has let the commander in chief off the hook.
    I asked McClellan if the president was upset (…)

  • The real oil-for-food scandal: The humanitarian cover for the brutal embargo of Iraq
    8 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by ANTHONY ARNOVE
    ANTHONY ARNOVE edited the book Iraq Under Siege and is coauthor, with Howard Zinn, of Voices of a People’s History of the United States. Here, he examines the controversy over the United Nations (UN) oil-for-food program in Iraq, following the release of the findings of a corruption investigation.
    A COMMISSION investigating allegations of corruption in a UN humanitarian assistance program in Iraq during the 1990s cleared Secretary General Kofi Annan of wrongdoing. Annan (…)

  • American War Criminal Made to Answer for Crime
    8 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Posted on Fri, Apr. 01, 2005
    Hearing delayed for sergeant charged in Kuwait grenade attack WILLIAM L. HOLMES Associated Press FORT BRAGG, N.C. - An Army sergeant charged with killing two officers in a grenade attack in Kuwait two years ago is competent to stand trial, a military judge ruled Friday.
    Sgt. Hasan Akbar, 33, is scheduled to undergo a court-martial this month in a March 2003 attack on fellow members of the 101st Airborne Division days after the start of the U.S. invasion (…)

  • Lawyers Against The War Are After Bush
    8 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Lawyers Against The War Are After Bush Norman (Otis) Richmond April 07, 2005
    Canadians are no better or no worse than any other people. They have been on the right and wrong sides of history. Like every other nation Canada has produced revolutionaries, working class heroes, buffoons and idiots.
    Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin was forced to take the correct position on missile defense by refusing to back U.S. President George W. Bush. At the same time Canada has come up short on the (…)

  • Who’s Better Off?
    8 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Before the US House of Representatives, April 6, 2005.
    Whenever the administration is challenged regarding the success of the Iraq war, or regarding the false information used to justify the war, the retort is: “Aren’t the people of Iraq better off?” The insinuation is that anyone who expresses any reservations about supporting the war is an apologist for Saddam Hussein and every ruthless act he ever committed. The short answer to the question of whether the Iraqis are better off is that (…)

  • Yushchenko hailed as hero by hypocrites; Asks bankrupt nation for economic aid
    7 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US Congress cheers Ukraine leader
    Mr Yushchenko - who has been hailed as a hero throughout a four-day visit to the US - received a rapturous welcome on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
    Members of Congress cheered and chanted his name as he walked to the platform.
    The Ukrainian president - who was elected in December in a re-run of a disputed election - said US support had been "clear and unambiguous".
    "The US condemned fraud and upheld Ukrainians’ right to freely elect their government," (…)

  • Uruknet: 32 more US troops die on Wednesday, April 6
    7 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 6 April 2005. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org
    Wednesday, 6 April 2005.
    Al-Anbar Province. Ar-Ramadi.
    Resistance bomb kills five US troops Wednesday morning in ar-Ramadi.
    An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US patrol as it passed through the as-Sufiyah area north of ar-Ramadi at 10am Wednesday. A source in the local police told (…)

  • the iraqi cultural heritage after 2-years of invation
    7 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Let us read what the expert has written about the abuses done by the invadors and their allies with the iraqi cultural heritage.
    ’Biggest Cultural Disaster Since 1258’, Says Expert
    Humberto MÙ„rquez
    CARACAS, Feb 15 (IPS) - One million books, 10 million documents and 14,000 archaeological artifacts have been lost in the U.S.-led invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq — the biggest cultural disaster since the descendants of Genghis Khan destroyed Baghdad in 1258, Venezuelan writer (…)