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  • Desert of trapped corpses testifies to Israel’s failure
    15 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Desert of trapped corpses testifies to Israel’s failure
    Robert Fisk - The Independent August 15, 2006
    They made a desert and called it peace. Srifa - or what was once the village of Srifa - is a place of pancaked homes, blasted walls, rubble, starving cats and trapped corpses. But it is also a place of victory for the Hizbollah, whose fighters walked amid the destruction yesterday with the air of conquering heroes. So who is to blame for this desert? The Shia militia which provoked this (…)

  • LEBANON: Who Were the First Aggressors?
    14 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Change of Location in Israel’s ’Operation Change of Direction’ by Trish Schuh
    A team of Israeli lawyers are suing the Lebanese government for starting the war. The projected multi-million dollar lawsuit, to be filed in US civil court, will sue for compensation and war damages suffered by Israeli residents and businesses. Attorneys Yehudah Talmon, Yoram Dantziger and Nitzah Libai claim the Lebanese government violated international law because it didn’t stop Hezbollah’s casus belli (…)

  • Lebanon’s Renewal Is Dashed in Weeks
    14 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Rebuilding could top $2.5 billion, officials say, as recent repairs from past war are wiped out.
    By Kim Murphy
    BEIRUT - When Lebanon breaks, Fadl Chalak gets called to fix it. Over the years, he’s seen it all: the destroyed roads and bridges, the displaced families, the blown-up buildings. Still, he says, nothing in three decades of war and recovery prepared him for the ferocity of Israel’s month-long bombing campaign.
    "I’ve never seen so much destruction in such a very short time," (…)

  • Empire comes to Lebanon
    14 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by AIJAZ AHMAD
    The U.S.-Israel axis goes all out to remove the last impediments to building a "New Middle East".
    LET us begin with a supposedly "undisputed" fact:
    The official story, told first by the Israeli government and automatically accepted by governments and media outlets across the world, is that Hizbollah is a Muslim fundamentalist, terrorist organisation which periodically lobs shells and rockets into civilian population centres of northern Israel and that, in its latest (…)

  • Are our troops fighting a dirty Afghan war?
    14 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by John Martinkus
    IT WAS a Stanley meets Dr Livingstone moment and if it hadn’t been so tragic, it would have been hilarious. I was sitting in the office of Uruzgan’s Governor, Abdul Munib, filming an interview with him in May this year when two Australian officers and an American walked in complete with body armour and weapons.
    The Governor introduced me as an Australian journalist and the two Australian officers simply ran out of the room, leaving their American colleague to turn to (…)

  • 30,000 fill the streets around the White House
    14 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The country’s largest protest against the U.S.-Israeli assault 30,000 fill the streets around the White House
    More then 30,000 demonstrators filled the streets around the White House today chanting, “Stop the US-Israeli war against Lebanon and Palestine.”
    The New York Times reported today that the demonstration’s “diverse crowd included many Arab-Americans and Muslims, college students and families, as well as veterans of prior demonstrations against the war in Iraq.” The NY Times goes (…)

  • Iraq Is Dying
    14 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Tom Hayden
    The possibility of saving Iraq as a viable Arab nation is in question, even if American public opinion forces the withdrawal of US troops. For some American hawks, a dismembered Iraq may not be ideal but would no longer be a strategic threat.
    Those were the morbid impressions I formed after two days of discussions with Iraqis gathered in Amman, Jordan, at an unprecedented meeting initiated by Code Pink and attended by Cindy Sheehan and a smattering of peace activists that (…)

  • What Has Happened to the Israeli Army?
    14 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    What Has Happened to the Israeli Army? by Uri Avnery 14/08/06 So what has happened to the Israeli army?
    This question is now being raised not only around the world, but also in Israel itself. Clearly, there is a huge gap between the army’s boastful arrogance, on which generations of Israelis have grown up, and the picture presented by this war.
    Before the choir of generals utters its expected cries of being stabbed in the back - "The government has shackled our hands! The politicians (…)

  • WATCHING LEBANON Washington’s interests in Israel’s war
    14 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
    In the days after Hezbollah crossed from Lebanon into Israel, on July 12th, to kidnap two soldiers, triggering an Israeli air attack on Lebanon and a full-scale war, the Bush Administration seemed strangely passive. “It’s a moment of clarification,” President George W. Bush said at the G-8 summit, in St. Petersburg, on July 16th. “It’s now become clear why we don’t have peace in the Middle East.” He described the relationship between Hezbollah and its supporters in Iran (…)

  • ISRAELI MOSSAD PLANNED AND EXECUTED 9-11 ATTACK ON AMERICA SAYS GERMAN INTEL REPORT
    14 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ISRAELI MOSSAD PLANNED AND EXECUTED 9-11 ATTACK ON AMERICA SAYS GERMAN INTEL REPORT,June of 2002.
    The German Intelligence Report
    • Original Document including German and English Translation http://tbrnews.org/Archives/a652.htm • Original German Document Scan PDF
    Source and authenticity of the document
    The following document was published in June of 2002. If genuine, it must rank as one of the most remarkable documents in history. It purports to be a top-secret report from the (…)