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  • Counting the dead in Iraq
    21 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In 2004 the US-based scientist Dr Les Roberts led a survey into deaths caused by the invasion of Iraq. His results showed that approximately 100,000 Iraqis had been killed after the invasion. He spoke to Joseph Choonara about his survey
    Your research on mortality in Iraq, published in the prestigious Lancet journal, made headlines across the globe last November. What motivated you to conduct the survey?
    This is about the ninth “hot war” I’ve worked in. In most wars people are killed more (…)

  • ‘Wish Lists’ Drafted by U.S. Interrogators Urged Torture of Iraqis
    21 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Apr 20 - A series of e-mail messages between Army interrogators and intelligence officers in Iraq during 2003 — in which soldiers advocated the use of brutal interrogation techniques such as low voltage electric shock and beatings with phone books — appears to have helped spawn the widespread torture and abuse of Iraqi detainees by US forces.
    The Washington Post reports that an August 2003 e-mail sent to US interrogators by Captain William Ponce, an officer at Army headquarters in Baghdad, (…)

  • Iraqi Parliament demands apology after MP is assaulted at US Checkpoint
    19 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraqi deputies have demanded an official apology from Washington over the manhandling by US soldiers of an MP at a Baghdad checkpoint.
    Deputies suspended their session on Tuesday for an hour in protest against the incident involving Fatah al-Shaikh, a follower of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and member of the dominant United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) bloc, Aljazeera reported.
    They then voted unanimously on a motion demanding an official apology from the US embassy and Washington, and the (…)

  • Iraqi Lawmaker Says U.S. Soldier Grabbed His Throat
    19 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BAGHDAD — An Iraqi lawmaker accused a U.S. soldier of grabbing him by the throat and shoving him to the ground Tuesday after he parked his car in Baghdad’s Green Zone.
    Fattah al-Sheikh, an independent, said he had parked his car before a session of parliament when U.S. troops approached him and told him he didn’t have the right permit.
    He said a soldier then kicked his car, insulted him and grabbed him by the throat with both hands as others looked on, before tying his hands behind his (…)

  • Pakistan Gets F-16s in Exchange for US Bases to Attack Iran
    19 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Kilafah.com - April 16, 2005
    The well known Israeli-based web site Debka has revealed that Pakistan’s General Musharraf had agreed to US intelligence agencies’ need for a presence in Pakistani territory for gathering intelligence on Iran’s nuclear installations and in case of a decision to mount a military operation against Tehran.
    "There are strong intimations that Musharraf has already agreed to assist America in this eventuality." the Debka-weekly-Net said in a special report on (…)

  • Fire Bombs in Iraq: Napalm By Any Other Name
    19 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Summary
    This briefing examines the continuing use of incendiary weapons by the US military in Iraq. US officials have been forced to admit using the MK-77 incendiary, a modern form of napalm, at least during the initial fighting stage of the war. In direct contradiction, the UK government continues to deny that such weapons have been used in Iraq at any time. The UK is party to an international convention banning incendiaries where they may cause harm to civilians.
    1. Napalm past
    A (…)

  • You Call This Normal? The New York Times in Fallujah
    19 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Seattle, Washington, April 18, 2005
    "Things are almost back to normal here. We have teachers and books. Things are getting better."
    New York Times 3-26-05 "Vital Signs of a Ruined City Grow stronger in Falluja"
    "I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today "my own government."
    Rev. Martin Luther King
    Cameras aren’t allowed in Falluja; (…)

  • Iraqis suffer from contaminated drinking water, inadequate hospitals,power cuts and funding shortage
    18 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraqis suffer from contaminated drinking water, inadequate hospitals, power cuts and funding shortage, meanwhile the US is building itself permanent bases and ignoring billions of missing Iraqi money.
    Iraq blighted by poor services
    Two years since the fall of Baghdad, there is deep frustration among Iraqis at the state of public services.
    Stagnant water and litter on the streets of Baghdad Stagnant water lies on the street in Baghdad’s Sadr city There are continuing power cuts in much (…)

  • The Hundred Days of Abu Mazen
    18 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Uri Avnery
    Next Saturday, 100 days since Abu Mazen (Mahmud Abbas) assumed the office of President of the Palestinian National Authority, Jews will celebrate Passover, in memory of the Exodus from Egypt - one of the great stories in human annals.
    According to the story (Exodus 5), Pharaoh ordered the Children of Israel to produce bricks from straw, but did not provide the straw. “And the Children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying: Wherefore dealest thou with thy servants? (…)

  • Does the Iraqi Resistance Target Civilians?
    18 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    To justify its continuing occupation of Iraq, Washington has endeavored to portray itself as the selfless protector of the Iraqi people who are menaced by ruthless terrorists. The corporate media has obliged Washington, by creating an impression that most guerrilla attacks target Iraqi civilians and that most Iraqi civilian casualties are caused by guerrillas, not by US and other coalition troops and Iraqi soldiers and policemen trained by them. A good example of the corporate media’s (…)