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  • We Have Nothing To Fear But Bush Himself
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    We Have Nothing To Fear But Bush Himself Paul Craig Roberts February 12, 2005
    Suppose you are the party responsible for invading a country under totally false pretenses. Suppose you had totally unrealistic expectations about the consequences of your gratuitous aggression.
    What do you do when, instead of being greeted with flowers, you find your army is tied down by insurgents and you have no face-saving way to get out of the morass? If you are the moronic Bush administration, you blame (…)

  • Suspicion Surrounds Missing Bay Area Man. Fellow Military Contract Worker Pointed To Kickback Scheme
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Suspicion Surrounds Missing Bay Area Man His Fellow Military Contract Worker Pointed To Kickback Schemes - And Then Was Killed Colin Freeman, Chronicle Foreign Service February 13, 2005 Tikrit, Iraq - In the midafternoon of Oct. 9, 2003, Kirk von Ackermann, an American contract worker from the Bay Area, used a satellite phone to call a colleague from a lonely desert road between Tikrit and Kirkuk in northern Iraq. He told his colleague he had a flat tire and needed a jack.
    About 45 (…)

  • Voices of freedom are kept prisoner in Baghdad
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Giuliana Sgrena is an Italian journalist, working for the daily newspaper Il Manifesto. She was kidnapped in Baghdad on the 4th of February, in front of the Al-Mustafah mosque, where she had interviewed a number of families forced by US bombing to fly from Fallujah. She is still a captive.
    Florence Aubenas, French journalist of Liberation, disappeared more than one month ago in similar circumstances.
    Giuliana has visited Iraq many times, documenting with great honesty the dire sufferings (…)

  • Guantanamo Detainee Claims Confession Under Torture
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Australian 60 Minutes program - Channel Nine - transcript of interview with ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib. Transcript: Under suspicion February 13, 2005
    Reporter: Tara Brown Producer: Stephen Taylor Mamdouh Habib. INTRO TARA BROWN: Everyone has an opinion. Either Mamdouh Habib is a dangerous terrorist who should have been left to rot in jail or he is an innocent man persecuted because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. It’s one or the other, simple as (…)

  • Chalabi vying for Iraq PM post
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (AFP) - Iraq’s Ahmed Chalabi, once supported by the United States only to fall from favor, said Sunday that he is vying to become his country’s prime minister, following the formal announcement of election results there.
    "I am nominated for position of prime minister. And I will work with my colleagues to win this position," Chalabi, a Shia, told CNN television.
    To the anger of anti-Iran hardliners within the government, Chalabi — the leading Iraqi cheerleader for the (…)

  • Refusing to Hear War Crimes Case Against Rumsfeld Only a Temporary Setback
    13 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Center for Constitutional Rights Blasts Ruling of German Prosecutor Refusing to Hear War Crimes Case Against Rumsfeld.
    Attorneys in the Case Say Decision Is Politically Motivated, Timed For Rumsfeld’s Visit and Only a Temporary Setback. NEW YORK, NY - The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) today expressed dismay at the erroneous ruling by German courts concluding that the United States is not unwilling to prosecute high-ranking officials for the abuses at Abu Ghraib (…)

  • My Husband Means What He Says: "War is Wrong"
    13 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Monica Benderman
    HINESVILLE, GEORGIA, February 6, 2005—As the wife of a soldier who has sworn to "defend his country and its constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic," and as the mother of an 18 year old son who has recently had to register with Selective Service, I have thought about these comments to a great degree.
    In keeping with professional and "military" bearing, I realize that I must be aware that while I do not endorse this general’s opinion, nor do I understand (…)

  • Bush and Condi Failed US on 9/11-The Security of our Country is Severely in Danger
    13 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    With the news that President Bush and his administration knew of impending suicidal airplane attacks on American soil and did nothing about it directly indicates a dangerous ineffectiveness and incompetence to protect America.
    The failure to implement internal security for our country compounds our inability to secure America. After 911, few safe guards were implemented to protect our national security. Our boarders are not protected, our nuclear and chemical plants are not adequately (…)

  • Sorry George, but Iraq has given you the purple finger
    12 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The party likely to win the election opposes the US presence and policies
    by Naomi Klein
    ’The Iraqi people gave America the biggest thank you in the best way we could have hoped for." Reading this election analysis from Betsy Hart, a columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service, I found myself thinking about my late grandmother.
    Half blind and a menace behind the wheel of her Chevrolet, she adamantly refused to surrender her car keys. She was convinced that everywhere she drove (…)

  • Iraqi Prisoners claim US soldiers still committing abuse at Camp Bucca
    12 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    BAGHDAD, February 8 (IslamOnline.net) - The US occupation forces in Iraq are abusing Iraqi detainees and tearing up the Noble Qur’an, according to a message on a piece of cloth Iraqi detainees in the US-administrated Bucca detention camp in southern Iraq managed to sneak outside.
    The message also presented another version of events leading up to the killing of four Iraqi detainees by US forces at the camp on the eve of January 30 controversial elections, an incident that also left six (…)