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  • A Soldier’s View of the Iraq War
    6 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I am a manipulated stooge who sold his soul to exploit the ignorant with the proud lies our own leaders.
    I am told on a regular basis "The Army is not like it used to be." Most of the lifers think that the military lacks discipline and blame the new "Nintendo generation" soldiers for the weakness.
    However, I think a hard look should be given at the uses of America’s advanced military in the modern era. Due to the operations the military has been tasked in the last forty years, the (…)

  • "This wasn’t a war, it was a massacre"
    5 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THE FOLLOWING letter from a U.S. soldier stationed in Iraq, known as hEkLe, powerfully conveys the terror of the U.S. assault on Falluja. It was published in GI Special, a daily Internet newsletter that gathers news and information helpful to soldiers and military families.
    You can find an archive of the GI Special updated with each new issue at www.militaryproject.org . hEkLe and several fellow soldiers have a Web log that they regularly update with essays at www.ftssoldier.blogspot.com . (…)

  • Trophy Hunting in Iraq
    5 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    December 04, 2004 Trophy Hunting?
    Dahr Jamail
    Yesterday, before the usual morning gunfire in the streets that has become my morning alarm clock, Abu Talat phoned me. There is very heavy fighting over in al-Adhamiya. Two giant explosions occurred around 6:15 a.m., followed by mortar blasts, then constant, heavy gun battles that went on into late morning. The Hamid al-Alwan mosque, a small Shia mosque in the predominantly Sunni area of Adhamiya had been hit with a car bomb. (…)

  • Medicine shipment to Haiti
    4 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dec. 5 rally in NYC
    The Emergency Campaign to Support the Haitian people, initiated by the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition and others, has been embraced by people all over the country who support justice for the people in Haiti. The Emergency Campaign has gained momentum, but we need your help to take the next big steps.
    We have been able to ship a very substantial amount of life-saving medicines to Haiti. We have focused the medicine procurement on Metronidazole, Mebendazole, Ampicillin and (…)

  • Israel shocked by image of soldiers forcing violinist to play at roadblock
    2 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Chris McGreal in Jerusalem
    Of all the revelations that have rocked the Israeli army over the past week, perhaps none disturbed the public so much as the video footage of soldiers forcing a Palestinian man to play his violin.
    The incident was not as shocking as the recording of an Israeli officer pumping the body of a 13-year-old girl full of bullets and then saying he would have shot her even if she had been three years old.
    Nor was it as nauseating as the pictures in an Israeli (…)

  • German Defense Minister Joins Abuse Investigation
    2 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Germany’s top military official meets with military officials on Wednesday to discuss the allegations of abuse at training camps which are threatening to engulf the armed forces in a damaging scandal.
    The investigation into the alleged abuse of young soldiers at Bundeswehr military training camps takes its first official step on Wednesday when German Defense Minister Peter Struck meets army chiefs to discuss the deepening scandal.
    Struck, who announced a wide-ranging inquiry into the (…)

  • Abu Ghraib, Caribbean Style
    2 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by New York Times
    Ever since the Abu Ghraib scandal broke, the Bush administration has claimed that the abuses depicted in those horrible photos were an isolated problem that was immediately fixed. The White House has repeatedly proclaimed its respect for the Geneva Conventions, international law and American statutes governing the treatment of prisoners.
    An article in The Times on Tuesday by Neil A. Lewis showed how hollow those assurances are. According to the International Committee (…)

  • Iraq : the body found was not Margaret Hassan
    1 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    The mutilated body of a Western woman found in Iraq in mid-November was not that of Margaret Hassan, the British Foreign Office said, adding that it believed the abducted aid worker had been murdered.
    Dental tests had shown that the body found by US marines in the former rebel stronghold of Fallujah was not that of the 59-year-old woman, a Foreign Office spokesman in London said.
    Ms Hassan, the British-Irish director of CARE International in Iraq and a longtime Baghdad resident with (…)

  • U.S. uses napalm gas in Fallujah - Witnesses
    30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The U.S. military is secretly using banned napalm gas and other outlawed weapons against civilians in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, eyewitnesses reported.
    Residents in Fallujah reported that innocent civilians have been killed by napalm attacks, a poisonous cocktail of polystyrene and jet fuel which makes the human body melt.
    Since the U.S. offensive started in Fallujah earlier this month, there have been reports of “melted” bodies which proves that the napalm gas had been used. (…)

  • Lords of the flies
    30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Hakim Mirzoev
    Together with Americans the flies invaded the city. They are millions. The whole city seems to be under their power. The flies cover the corpses. The older is corpse, the more flies are upon it. First they cover a corpse as by some strange rash. Then they begin to swarm upon it, and then a gray moving shroud covers the corpse. Flies swarm upon some ruins as gray monstrous shadows. The stench is awful.
    The flies are everywhere. In the hospital wards, operating rooms, (…)