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  • Friday Night Congress: What Was That?
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Swanson
    During the middle of the day on Friday, I spent an hour or two on a conference call with activists and congressional staffers discussing next steps to end the war. We planned, among other things, to organize support for Congressman John Murtha’s bill, H.J.Res. 73, which he introduced on Friday. The bill resolves that:
    "The deployment of United States forces in Iraq, by direction of Congress, is hereby terminated and the forces involved are to be redeployed at the (…)

  • Iraqi Leaders Call for Pullout Timetable
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By SALAH NASRAWI
    CAIRO, Egypt - Reaching out to the Sunni Arab community, Iraqi leaders called for a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S.-led forces and said Iraq’s opposition had a legitimate right’’ of resistance.
    The communique - finalized by Shiite, Kurdish and Sunni leaders Monday - condemned terrorism but was a clear acknowledgment of the Sunni position that insurgents should not be labeled as terrorists if their operations do not target innocent civilians or institutions designed (…)

  • British-trained police in Iraq ’killed prisoners with drills’
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Francis Elliott, Raymond Whitaker and Kim Sengupta
    British-trained police operating in Basra have tortured at least two civilians to death with electric drills, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.
    John Reid, the Secretary of State for Defence, admits that he knows of "alleged deaths in custody" and other "serious prisoner abuse" at al-Jamiyat police station, which was reopened by Britain after the war.
    Militia-dominated police, who were recruited by Britain, are believed to have (…)

  • Germans: Bush misused data to justify Iraq war
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Informant’s handlers say they repeatedly warned of unreliability.
    By Bob Drogin and John Goetz
    BERLIN - The German intelligence officials responsible for one of the most important informants on Saddam Hussein’s suspected weapons of mass destruction say that the Bush Aadministration and the CIA repeatedly exaggerated his claims before the Iraq war.
    Five senior officials from Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service, or BND, said in interviews with the Los Angeles Times that they warned (…)

  • INCONGRUITY IN IRAQ
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    INCONGRUITY IN IRAQ
    By Peter Fredson
    November 21, 2005
    “Incongruity: strangeness, absurdity, inappropriateness”, according to my in-computer thesaurus, seems to reflect the puzzlement I feel when looking at the daily news about Iraq for the past four years.
    I wonder what those young people in United States uniform, holding automatic weapons at the ready, dressed like Samurai warriors in full-field gear, are doing so far from home. Why are they not back home in Sheboygan, Duluth, or (…)

  • PM halted Bush plan to bomb Arab TV channel off the air
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    PM halted Bush plan to bomb Arab TV channel off the air Exclusive By Kevin Maguire And Andy Lines
    GEORGE Bush’s plot to bomb an Arab TV station in friendly Qatar was crushed by Tony Blair who feared it would spark horrific revenge.
    An explosive No 10 memo stamped "Top Secret" records a threat by Bush to unleash "military action" against al-Jazeera, accused by the US of fuelling the Iraq insurgency and denounced as Osama bin Laden’s mouthpiece.
    The attack would have led to a (…)

  • John Rendon - The Man Who Sold the War
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    I find this very frightening.... The Man Who Sold the War Meet John Rendon, Bush’s general in the propaganda war By JAMES BAMFORD
    The road to war in Iraq led through many unlikely places. One of them was a chic hotel nestled among the strip bars and brothels that cater to foreigners in the town of Pattaya, on the Gulf of Thailand.
    On December 17th, 2001, in a small room within the sound of the crashing tide, a CIA officer attached metal electrodes to the ring and index fingers of a man (…)

  • Sen. Clinton says immediate withdrawal would be mistake - Newsday AP
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Sen. Clinton says immediate withdrawal would be mistake By JIM FITZGERALD Associated Press Writer
    November 21, 2005, 6:11 PM EST
    RYE BROOK, N.Y. — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that an immediate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq would be "a big mistake."
    While professing "the greatest respect" for Rep. Jack Murtha of Pennsylvania, the ex-Marine who called for a troop pullout last week, Clinton said, "I think that would cause more problems for us in America."
    On the other hand, (…)

  • How U.S. Fell Under the Spell of ’Curveball’
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Iraqi informant’s German handlers say they had told U.S. officials that his information was ’not proven,’ and were shocked when President Bush and Colin L. Powell used it in key prewar speeches. By Bob Drogin and John Goetz Special to The Times
    November 20, 2005
    BERLIN - The German intelligence officials responsible for one of the most important informants on Saddam Hussein’s suspected weapons of mass destruction say that the Bush administration and the CIA repeatedly exaggerated his (…)

  • The right to rule ourselves
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Faced with US torture, killing and collective punishment of civilians, support for the Iraqi resistance is growing
    by Haifa Zangana
    The photograph of an elderly Iraqi carrying the burned body of a child at Falluja, widely shown during the chemical weapons controversy of recent days, is almost a copy of an earlier one that Iraqis remember - from Halabja in March 1988. Both children were victims of chemical weapons: the first killed by a dictator who had no respect for democracy and human (…)