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  • US military action on Pakistan advocated
    20 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    * Analysts say likely dangers include collapse of Pakistan govt * Propose Special Forces operation to prevent nukes from falling into wrong hands * Suggest supporting army
    Daily Times Monday, November 19, 2007 By Khalid Hasan
    WASHINGTON: Two experts have proposed that the US should take pre-emptive action to secure Pakistan’s nuclear weapons before they fall into the wrong hands.
    Frederick Kagan of the right-wing American Enterprise Institute and Michael O’Hanlon of the more (…)

  • U.S aims to arm Pakistani paramilitaries
    20 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The New York Times has reported that U.S. military officials want to enlist Pakistani paramilitaries along the border with Afghanistan. At a military strategy meeting of the United States Special Operations Command, the strategy was formulated as a means of expanding the ongoing battle against the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
    Tuesday 20th November, 2007
    The strengthening and expansion of Pakistani soldiers on the border would require higher approval and would involve a paramilitary force of (…)

  • IRAQ: FALLUJAH Now Under a Different Kind of Siege
    20 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Ali al-Fadhily
    FALLUJAH, Nov 20 (IPS) - Three years after a devastating U.S.-led siege of the city, residents of Fallujah continue to struggle with a shattered economy, infrastructure, and lack of mobility.
    The city that was routed in November 2004 is still suffering the worst humanitarian conditions under a siege that continues. Although military actions are down to the minimum inside the city, local and US authorities do not seem to be thinking of ending the agonies of the over (…)

  • The empire’s operatives exposed: The Krongards, 9/11, and Blackwater/Iraq
    20 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    New bombshell testimony before Congress has revealed that Alvin B. “Buzzy” Krongard, the former CIA executive director connected to 9/11 insider trading, is a consultant and advisory board member of Blackwater USA, the New World Order’s leading intelligence-related corporate mercenary death squad now under investigation for war crimes, murder, arms smuggling, and fraud in Iraq.
    By Larry Chin Online Journal Associate Editor Nov 19, 2007, 01:18 (…)

  • Slain Pakistani Jounalist`s Widow Killed
    19 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Slain Pakistani Jounalists Widow Killed
    Muhammad Taimoor – Islamabad , 18 Nov. 2007
    Mehrunnisa, the widow of Pakistani journalist Hyatullah has been killed by a bomb planted outside her house in Harmaz, North Waziristan, Pakistan. Her late husband, Hayatullah, was killed last year after reporting a missile attack on his village, which exposed the lies of the Musharraf regime.
    Possibly in an effort to make an example of him, Hayatullah was abducted by unknown armed men and killed after (…)

  • Iraqi archivist demands US return seized documents
    19 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Millions of historical documents seized by US occupation forces from Iraqi archives remain held in the United States by the CIA and the Pentagon and must, under international law, be returned to Iraq, Dr. Saad Eskander, the director of the Iraqi National Library and Archive in Baghdad, told an audience at Columbia University in New York City on November 12.
    wsws.org By Sandy English 17 November 2007
    Eskander stressed that the taking of these documents threatened the Iraqi people with (…)

  • U.S. Catholic Bishops “See No Evil” in the War Party
    18 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Baltimore, MD - They met in one of this city’s swankiest hotels. It’s a Marriott, located on the waterfront, just east of Harborplace, where the per diem rates begin at $260. I just can’t imagine Jesus and the Apostles hanging out at a place like that discussing their soul-awakening agenda. But, there they were—the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, all 220, in their expensive silk suits—holding their annual confab. I think they like the digs, since they were there last year, too. In a (…)

  • Gunmen loot 3,500-old Sumerian site
    17 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Attacks like these have increased recently amid reports that contraband trade in Iraqi antiquities scratched by illegal diggers from ancient sites was booming.
    Azzaman, November 13, 2007
    Tall Asmar, the famous ancient Sumerian settlement, has been stripped of its contents and digging implements, the Antiquities Department said in a statement.
    The site in the restive and violent Diyala Province is Iraq’s most important and significant Sumerian settlement in central Mesopotamia.
    Known (…)

  • THE MAN WHO BOMBED HIROSHIMA
    17 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Anthony Gregory
    The man who flew the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima passed away last week at the age of 92. Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr. did not die from war wounds or violently at the hands of other people, years before his time. He died in hospice care, in a bed, from heart problems and strokes.
    In stark contrast, the more than 100,000 civilians who were killed at Hiroshima 62 years ago were burnt, melted, vaporized, in an apocalyptic act of warfare. Many died (…)

  • Analysis: EU force may reach Chad in Jan.
    17 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published: Nov. 16, 2007 at 10:37 AM By LEANDER SCHAERLAECKENS UPI Correspondent
    BRUSSELS, Nov. 16 (UPI) — EU security forces are gearing up to assist NATO and African Union troops in securing refugee camps in eastern Chad and the Central African Republic that are home to millions fleeing the violence in Darfur.
    The area, which borders Sudan’s Darfur region, has been inundated with refugees. The United Nations estimates that at least 2 million people have been displaced and driven into (…)