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  • Rep. Dennis Kucinich and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen debate the war in Iraq
    13 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BEGALA: Welcome back to CROSSFIRE. Both President Bush in Texas today, and Donald Rumsfeld in Iraq, were talking about just how swell things are going in Iraq. But, a new survey says most Americans believe the war was not worth it. In the CROSSFIRE to debate Iraq, Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen — she is a Republican from Florida, and Congressman Dennis Kucinich, he is a Democrat from Ohio.
    HOLT: Welcome to the program, Mr. Kucinich, nice to see you.
    During the presidential campaign, (…)

  • Twenty Iraqis have been killed and 22 injured in US air attack: Poland pulls troops early 2005
    12 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Twenty Iraqis have been killed and 22 injured after US helicopters and heavy artillery bombed houses in al-Rummana village, north of al-Qaim city, Aljazeera reported.
    Seven children, six women and three old men were among the dead, witnesses said, while the injured included 13 children, seven women and two old men.
    The witnesses added that the shelling started after US forces, who landed near al-Qaim on Monday night, came under repeated attack.
    Early reports indicated one house was (…)

  • 30 More US troops killed on Sunday, US media reports ZERO!
    12 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    At least 30 US troops reported killed, US mainstream media reports ZERO? Maybe one or two? Americans are being misled by a corrupt media.
    ORIGINAL:
    Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 10 April 2005 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org
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    Sunday, 10 April 2005.
    Al-Anbar Province. Al-Qa’im.
    Iraqi Resistance in liberated al-Qa’im shoots down US Apache helicopter Sunday (…)

  • Audit doubles scale of Halliburton’s overcharge
    12 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Halliburton, the Houston-based oil services company, may have overcharged the US government by $212m (£113m, €165m) for work in Iraq, according to portions of Pentagon audits released yesterday.
    KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton formerly run by Vice-President Dick Cheney, came under fire last year following allegations that it had overcharged the government $62m in "unreasonable costs" for importing fuel from Kuwait to Iraq.
    Yesterday Henry Waxman, the top Democrat on the House committee (…)

  • Soldier’s widow slain by father symbolized grief of war and passion of youth
    12 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ryan Lenz
    PORTLAND, Maine (AP) Lavinia Gelineau’s grief-filled odyssey began a year ago when her husband was killed in an ambush by Iraqi insurgents, just a few weeks before their second wedding anniversary. She spent the following months attempting to ease the pain by lending support to other widows of soldiers.
    She visited graves, left flowers and notes and attended funerals at each ceremony clutching a bright pink teddy bear her husband, Christopher, had given her on Valentine’s (…)

  • Dear George and Dick
    11 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear George and Dick,
    I apologize (not really, you don’t deserve my apologies) for the familiarity, but I don’t call the people responsible for my son’s death: Mr, or Sir, nor do I have any respect for the offices that you have defiled. The only thing you both mean to me is pain and devastation. George and Dick, you are both shameful cowards who are sending our brave young people to die to make yourselves and your buddies unbelievably and fabulously wealthy. Neither of you have any idea of (…)

  • Kerry: Trickery Kept Voters From Polls
    11 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press Writer
    BOSTON - Many voters in last year’s presidential election were denied access to the polls through trickery and intimidation, former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry told a voters’ group Sunday.
    "Last year too many people were denied their right to vote, too many who tried to vote were intimidated," the Massachusetts senator said at an event sponsored by the state League of Women Voters.
    "There is no magic wand. No one person is (…)

  • Wages Lagging Behind Prices
    11 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Inflation has outpaced the rise in salaries for the first time in 14 years. And workers are paying a bigger share of the cost of their healthcare.
    By Nicholas Riccardi Times Staff Writer
    For the first time in 14 years, the American workforce has in effect gotten an across-the-board pay cut.
    The growth in wages in 2004 and the first two months of this year trailed inflation, compounding the squeeze from higher housing, energy and other costs.
    The result is that people like Victor (…)

  • US ’smuggles wounded troops home’ under cover of darkness
    11 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
    The Pentagon has been accused of smuggling wounded soldiers into the US under cover of darkness to avoid bad publicity about the number of troops being injured and maimed in Iraq. The media have also been prevented from photographing wounded soldiers when they arrive at hospital.
    Records show that flights from military bases in Germany arrive in the US only at night. Officials say this is purely the result of flight-scheduling pressures and is not a (…)

  • Iraqi Suspect Says U.S. Troops Took Mother Hostage
    11 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Waleed Ibrahim
    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi apparently suspected by U.S. troops of taking part in attacks in Baghdad accused U.S. forces on Tuesday of taking his mother and sister hostage to pressure him and his brothers into surrendering for questioning.
    A U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad said he doubted the accusation and was not aware of such an incident. But neighbors interviewed around Arkan Mukhlif al-Batawi’s villa in the capital’s Sunni Arab suburb of Taji corroborated (…)