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  • Karpinski: RUMSFELD KNEW, Gen. Miller INSTRUCTED troops to use Leashes & Human Pyramids
    13 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The former commander of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq blamed a ranking officer for introducing the use of human pyramids and dog leashes in the abuse of detainees and said in an interview on Thursday that abuse may be continuing there.
    Col. Janis Karpinski, a former one-star Army Reserve general who was punished in the scandal, said she had no idea what was going on at the prison and blamed Gen. Geoffrey Miller for the methods that were used to humiliate detainees. (…)

  • Is the CIA Behind the Iraqi "Insurgents" — and Global Terrorism?
    13 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THE PROVOCATEUR STATE
    The requirement of an ever-escalating level of social violence to meet the political and economic needs of the insatiable "anti-terrorist complex" is the essence of the new US militarism. What is now openly billed as "permanent war" ultimately serves the geo-political ends of social control in the interests of US corporate domination, much as the anti-communist crusade of the now-exhasuted Cold War did.
    Back in 2002, following the trauma of 9-11, Secretary of (…)

  • March Against Suffering in the Middle East!
    13 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    March Against Terror - May 14, 2005, Washington, D.C.
    The Free Muslims Against Terrorism are proud to announce that on May 14, 2005, Muslims and Middle Easterners of all backgrounds will converge on our nation’s Capital for a rally against terrorism and to support freedom and democracy in the Middle East and the Muslim world. This will be the first rally of its kind in Washington, D.C., that is led by Muslims and Middle Easterners.
    Join us in sending a message to radical Muslims and (…)

  • "I can tell you from my own experience from being in Iraq, that we’re the bad guys..."
    13 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Arlington West, a documentary by Peter Dudar and Sally Marr, Laughing Tears Productions, www.arlingtonwestfilm.org.
    IN SANTA Monica, Santa Barbara and Oceanside, Calif., Veterans for Peace has constructed temporary cemeteries in the sand, honoring the soldiers who have died in Iraq. If a cemetery were created to honor the Iraqi dead, it would fill the entire beach. The memorial also serves as a gathering place for military families and veterans of both the Vietnam and Iraq wars, whose (…)

  • The people vs. Bush’s war : Put the war on trial
    13 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    TESTIMONY FROM: Pablo Paredes, Monica Benderman, Howard Zinn, Dr. Salam Ismael, Jo Wilding, Justin Alexander, Monique Dols, Dahr Jamail, Bill Davis
    TWO MEN are being put on trial by the military this week because they answered their consciences.
    Pablo Paredes and Kevin Benderman refused to accept the lies they were told about the U.S. war on Iraq. Refused to accept the racist dehumanization of the Iraqi people. Refused to participate in the violence of the most lethal military machine in (…)

  • Don’t demand answers; demand resignation
    13 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Tony Blair has been taking quite a beating lately in the United Kingdom. Despite having just won a third term as prime minister, his party has been dealt a severe blow, resulting in the loss of nearly 100 seats in Parliament. Responsible for this setback is the recent leak of a top-secret U.K. internal government memo, which recorded the minutes of a meeting between British Prime Minister Blair and other key figures in British intelligence and military outfits, and the very embarrassing (…)

  • Worst anti-US protests spread across Afghanistan
    13 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    KABUL — The biggest anti-US protests since the fall of the Taliban spread across Afghanistan on May 12, as unrest sparked by alleged abuse of the Koran at the US jail in Guantanamo Bay left three more people dead.
    Seven people have been killed and at least 76 injured during three days of violent demonstrations, all of them in clashes with security forces and police in conservative towns east of the capital Kabul.
    Angry Afghans shouting "Death to America" poured onto the streets of Kabul (…)

  • Indignation Grows in U.S. Over British Prewar Documents
    13 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Indignation Grows in U.S. Over British Prewar Documents # Critics of Bush call them proof that he and Blair never saw diplomacy as an option with Hussein.
    By John Daniszewski, Times Staff Writer
    LONDON - Reports in the British press this month based on documents indicating that President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair had conditionally agreed by July 2002 to invade Iraq appear to have blown over quickly in Britain.
    But in the United States, where the reports at first received scant (…)

  • Bush Mendacity Will Shock Historians
    13 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush Mendacity Will Shock Historians Bill Gallagher May 10, 2005 Detroit - When historians write about our times, they’ll shake their heads and wonder how so many people could believe so many lies for so long. They might actually write two parallel books - one describing the cascading lies and deceptions George W. Bush and the Republicans sold and the other telling the truth. We’re told, in effect, that trampling on civil liberties and eroding freedom are a sure way to protect us from (…)

  • Marine Unit from Ohio Wiped Out in Iraq
    12 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    HABAN, Iraq, May 11 — The explosion enveloped the armored vehicle in flames, sending orange balls of fire bubbling above the trees along the Euphrates River near the Syrian border.
    Marines in surrounding vehicles threw open their hatches and took off running across the plowed fields, toward the already blackening metal of the destroyed vehicle. Shouting, they pulled to safety those they could, as the flames ignited the bullets, mortar rounds, flares and grenades inside, rocketing them into (…)