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  • Documents unearthed in whistleblower suit show how Custer Battles cashed in on Iraq
    5 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    A $33,000 food order in Mosul was billed to the U.S.-led interim government of Iraq at $432,000. Electricity that cost $74,000 was invoiced at $400,000. Even $10 kettles got a 400 percent markup.
    Documents unearthed as part of a whistleblower suit against Fairfax, Va.’s Custer Battles reveal for the first time the extent to which the defense contractor is accused of gouging the Coalition Provisional Authority, which governed Iraq following the U.S. invasion of the country in 2003.
    Among (…)

  • U.S. Used Mustard gas, Nerve gas, and Burning Chemicals on Iraqis in Fallujah
    5 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    U.S. used banned weapons in Fallujah - Health ministry
    An official in Iraq’s health ministry said that the U.S. used banned weapons in Fallujah
    Dr. Khalid ash-Shaykhli, an official at Iraq’s health ministry, said that the U.S. military used internationally banned weapons during its deadly offensive in the city of Fallujah.
    Dr. ash-Shaykhli was assigned by the ministry to assess the health conditions in Fallujah following the November assault there.
    He said that researches, prepared (…)

  • Missile Counter-Attack. An Open Letter To US Secretary Of State Condoleezza Rice
    5 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Missile Counter-Attack Axworthy Fires Back At US - And Canadian - Critics Of Our BMD Decision In An Open Letter To US Secretary Of State Condoleezza Rice
    by Lloyd Axworthy Dear Condi, I’m glad you’ve decided to get over your fit of pique and venture north to visit your closest neighbour. It’s a chance to learn a thing or two. Maybe more.
    I know it seems improbable to your divinely guided master in the White House that mere mortals might disagree with participating in a (…)

  • Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena : US troops fired on the convoy transporting her
    5 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena, earlier reported released in Iraq, was wounded when US troops fired on the convoy transporting her, her newspaper said.
    Freed Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena was wounded when US troops opened fire on a convoy carrying her to safety, and an Italian mediator who help negotiate her release was killed, her newspaper Il Manifesto said on Friday.
    "She was going in a car to the airport with three people from the Italian security forces. US forces opened (…)

  • 33 Things You Should Know About the Middle East and America
    4 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Some Thoughts on the Middle East and America: 33 Things You Should Think About
    What right has President Bush or Conde Rice to dictate to the Lebanese Government?
    Why is it that the “demonstrators” in Beirut, Lebanon, had all their signs in English?
    Have you considered that they were playing to the American TV audience? In fact, the “big crowds” the American media spoke about were less than 3000 people, but the cameras shot the crowed for maximum effect.
    Did you realize that according (…)

  • US display marks 1,500 war dead
    3 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Portraits of nearly all of the 1,500 US troops killed in Iraq are going on display at a New York state university.
    The pictures, mostly painted by art students, stare down from a 60m (200ft) wall at Syracuse University.
    "It’s not about the war or politics. It’s about these people who have given their lives," said Stephen Zaima, a professor at the university.
    According to AP news agency, the number of US servicemen and women killed in Iraq reached 1,500 on Thursday.
    However, domestic (…)

  • Iraqi police on strike in Tikrit, demanding release of police chief
    3 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    TIKRIT, Iraq, - Iraqi police in Tikrit, north of Baghdad, went on strike Wednesday demanding the release of a police chief captured by the US troops and guarantees from the foreign forces to respect the local police, a police officer said.
    Police stations and streets of Tikrit, some 170 km north of Baghdad, were devoid of police who went on strike in a protest against the capture of Brigadier Hatem al-Juboury, chief of the homicide department in Salahudin provincial headquarters, (…)

  • ACLU and Human Rights First Sue Defense Secretary Rumsfeld Over U.S. Torture Policies
    3 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld bears direct responsibility for the torture and abuse of detainees in U.S. military custody, the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights First charged today in the first federal court lawsuit to name a top U.S. official in the ongoing torture scandal in Iraq and Afghanistan that has tarnished America’s reputation.
    The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Illinois on behalf of eight men who were subject to torture and abuse at the (…)

  • Iraq’s missing billions; Bremer shrugs off loss- Iraqis are used to corruption anyhow
    2 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iraq’s missing billions
    Ibrahim Jaafari, the prime-minister-to-be in Iraq, is unlikely to hand over the nation’s valuable oil assets to foreign companies, but he won’t be able to do much about the rest of the Iraqi economy, which was strangled by Coalition Provisional Authority chief L. Paul Bremer in rules and regulations benefiting Western business.
    A few of these rules, left over from the Bremer occupation period, as collected last year by Foreign Policy in Focus, the independent (…)

  • Custer Battles: Justice Dept. won’t Intervene to Reclaim Millions From Military Contractor in Iraq
    2 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    A U.S. military contractor in Iraq is at the center of a controversy over how American-forces disbursed and accounted for hundreds of millions of dollars in Iraq.
    The firm, Custer Battles is being charged in a lawsuit of defrauding the Coalition Provisional Authority of tens of millions of dollars during work in Iraq, which included securing Baghdad International Airport.
    Two former employees sued the company last year under the False Claims Act, seeking to recover damages on behalf of (…)