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  • An Arab-American Priest, Depleted Uranium, and Iraq
    4 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Robert Hirschfield
    TRAVELING around southern Iraq in the late 1990s to investigate the effects of U.N. economic sanctions on ordinary Iraqis, Jesuit Father Simon Harak stopped at a hospital in Basra. Meeting with him and his colleagues from the anti-sanction group Voices in the Wilderness, Dr. Jenan Hassan briefed them about the medical horrors she and other doctors were confronting as a result of the use of depleted uranium (DU) weapons by the U.S. Army in southern Iraq during the 1991 (…)

  • Radioactive Tank No. 9 comes limping home
    14 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (Topeka, Kansas, USA) Across the plains of Kansas the destroyed, radioactive 140,000 lb Abrams Tanks perched on railroad flat cars and rolled towards an uncertain future. Only one thing was certain. They would be radioactive forever. This would be their everlasting Death Mask. RADIOACTIVE The Pentagon deceptively calls it "depleted uranium." The Abrams Tanks are constructed with a layer of radioactive uranium metal plates. The big Tanks fire a giant uranium dart at 2,100 mph, much faster (…)

  • Cheney’s Big Lie in 2002: Saddam’s Son in Law told us about Nukes- lie exposed before war
    12 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    From the transcript of Conyers June 16th Downing Street Memo Hearing.
    27 Year CIA Veteran Ray McGovern:
    I would like to publicly thank the patriotic, courageous whistle-blowers who made available these documents because through them and through of all people Rupert Murdoch’s Sunday Times we know the answers to a lot of these questions.
    By now you know what the Downing Street minutes say. Let me focus in on the phase the intelligence facts were fixed around the policy. How exactly is (…)

  • These Photos of Niger Uranium Forgeries Blow Libby, War Case Wide Open!
    9 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Put the words NIGER FORGERIES and these photocopies (below) into the consciousness of Mr. and Mrs. America, and it could change the course of history. These 4 graphics are worth 4 million words. These are the cause/excuse for the Iraq war. They are not real (they are forgeries), but they are a REAL threat to the nation’s existence! Why? Because they came from foreign sources. FOREIGN AGENTS HAVE BEEN DRIVING US POLICY. That is a bigger threat to America than knocking down the WTC, (…)

  • International Petition to Ban Uranium Weapons
    6 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    International Petition to Ban Uranium Weapons
    Uranium weapons, often called ’depleted’ uranium (DU) weapons, are manufactured from radioactive waste materials produced during the nuclear fuel chain and the production of nuclear weapons. They cause widespread and long lasting radioactive contamination of the environment. These weapon systems are radiologically and chemically toxic.
    Many people - innocent civilians especially children, military veterans, industry workers - have illnesses (…)

  • Kucinich Demands IG Investigation Into FBI’s Handling Of Investigation Into Forged Niger Documents
    5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    FBI Drops Investigation Just As Italians Make A Potential Break In The Case; Kucinich Sends Department Of Justice A Letter Demanding Investigation
    WASHINGTON - November 4 - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) today sent a letter to the Department of Justice Inspector General (IG), Glenn A. Fine, demanding an IG investigation of the FBI’s handling of the situation.
    The letter, sent today, states:
    Dear Inspector General Fine:
    I am greatly dismayed to learn that without answering any (…)

  • Miers Out— Next Chess Move in the SCOTUS Nominee Game
    2 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Is the looming "Nuclear Option" a Queen Swap that will hurt the Republicans More than the Democrats? Why the democrats should excercise the filibuster and why the Republicans WON’T exercise the Nuclear Option
    by Rob Kall
    It’s official. The extreme right has torpedoed the nomination of Harriet Miers. She has withdrawn her nomination, as predicted, explaining that she didn’t want Bush to have to weaken is right of executive privilege by releasing papers she’d written for him. The timing is (…)

  • Clumsy forgeries, Italian style
    30 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Gordon Prather
    The March 2005 report of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction contained a scathing chapter on the "intelligence" President Bush used to justify Operation Iraqi Freedom:
    As war loomed, the U.S. intelligence community was charged with telling policy-makers what it knew about Iraq’s nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programs. The community’s best assessments were set out in an October 2002 (…)

  • ROVE, Libby CIA-leak Charges Mean: GET OUT OF PHONY WAR NOW
    28 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Clayton Hallmark
    Rove/Libby/Bush/Cheney got and used forgeries (shown) on Niger uranium to start the Iraq war — WHICH LED TO A COVERUP AND THE PRESENT CHARGES. The point isn’t their fate but (A) the administration is corrupt, (B) the war is based on forgeries can end now, and (C) foreign governments that aided the culprits must be exposed. The Washington grand jury of US Attorney Fitzgerald will obtain indictments in the outing of CIA’s Valerie Plame on Friday, sources say, and could (…)

  • Forged Niger Documents: Fitzgerald Launches International Investigation
    24 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    =================== Walker’s World: Bush at bay
    By MARTIN WALKER UPI Editor
    WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (UPI) — The CIA leak inquiry that threatens senior White House aides has now widened to include the forgery of documents on African uranium that started the investigation, according to NAT0 intelligence sources.
    This suggests the inquiry by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald into the leaking of the identity of undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame has now widened to embrace part of the (…)