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  • Does the Resistance target civilians? According to US intel, not really
    18 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    April 16, 2005 - The ceaseless demonization of Iraqis committed to ending foreign control of their country is a key ideological crutch for maintaining the American occupation. Smearing the armed resistance as a band of murderous thugs is well understood by American war planners to be a crucial part of effective counter-insurgency work. (1) Obviously, brutal and horrific attacks on Iraqi civilians have been carried out by some forces claiming to be a part of the resistance. But there is (…)

  • Iraqi Rebels attack US Base, 3 troops killed
    18 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THREE US soldiers were killed by mortar fire at a US base in the city of Ramadi overnight, the US military said today.
    Seven servicemen were also wounded in the attack, three of them seriously, the military said in a statement. The attackers were believed to have fled into a nearby mosque. But when Iraqi security forces searched it, they found no insurgents.
    Ramadi, about 110 km west of Baghdad, has been one of the most violent cities over the past two years, with daily attacks on US and (…)

  • With US Casualties Mounting, US Press Unable to Report Accurately in Iraq
    17 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This morning on the NBC news show, "Meet the Press", two reporters who were in Iraq, NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski & New York Times’ Dexter Filkins both told moderator Tim Russert that it was difficult and dangerous for reporters to venture outside the fortified "Green Zone." Both reporters stated they they themselves rarely ventured outside the Green Zone. Naturally, they both made statements to the effect that "things are getting better" in Iraq.
    Are Americans so blind and stupid that they (…)

  • World Tribunal on Iraq to Convene in Istanbul on June 23rd
    17 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Leading international figures among the Panel of Advocates
    13 April 2005, Istanbul, Turkey - The organisers of the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) held a press conference today at the Sabanci University Communication Center in Istanbul providing details of the final session of the Tribunal that will be held at the Topkapi Palace Grounds in Istanbul between the 23rd and the 27th of June. The panel of advocates will include leading international figures, such as Dennis Halliday, Prof. Richard (…)

  • Playing Politics at Kids’ Expense
    16 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Playing Politics at Kids’ Expense Bill would insulate pharmaceutical firms from liability by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has buried a provision in the "Protecting America in the War on Terror Act" to insulate the pharmaceutical industry from liability for venal actions that may have poisoned an entire generation of Americans.
    Mounting evidence suggests that Thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative in children’s vaccines, may be responsible for the exponential (…)

  • What I Didn’t See in Iraq
    16 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by JIM MCGOVERN
    "Trust me when I tell you things are so much better in Iraq," said one US military official to me on my recent visit to that war-ravaged country. I didn’t know whether to scream or pull the remaining two strands of hair out of my head. I was in Iraq as part of a delegation of eight members of Congress, led by House minority leader Nancy Pelosi. Everything we have been told about Iraq by the Bush Administration has either been an outright lie or overwhelmingly false. There (…)

  • 4 American Troops killed in Iraq
    15 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    At least six people including four American troops were killed in several security incidents that took place on the Iraqi arena over the past hours.
    In the latest report, the Multi-National Forces said in a statement that a US Marine was killed in a firefight with armed insurgents in Al-Anbar, in the western territory of Iraq. The Marine died with shrapnel of a mortar shell, it said.
    Eearlier today, Iraqi police said three US soldiers where killed and two others were wounded in a car (…)

  • Pulling No Punches: We’ve been overtaken by gangsters
    15 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I’ve been asked to speak to you for 5 minutes or so. Please forgive me, but I’m going to take a little more than 8 minutes. The additional time that I’m going to steal from you is dedicated to my son, Casey, whose entire future was stolen from him.
    My son was killed in Iraq on this day one year ago, the same day of April on which Martin Luther King Jr. was killed. From a jail in Birmingham, on April 16 1963 Dr. King wrote these words: "We will have to repent in this generation not merely (…)

  • Children Recruited in the USA: ’Enlistment bonuses’ offered to 14 yr olds
    15 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In an effort to increase its ranks for coming wars, the U.S. military is recruiting - and paying - children as young as 14 years old for future combat duty.
    By Tim Schmitt
    Colin Hadley spends most of his days after school skateboarding or playing Halo II on his new X-Box with friends. He sleeps until noon or later on weekends and rarely, if ever, does any schoolwork outside the classroom, where he pulls down solid C’s and a few D’s - just enough to get by. He’s the typical 15-year-old (…)

  • AT LEAST 50 US SOLDIERS KILLED ON THURSDAY, APRIL 14
    15 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ORIGINAL:
    Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 14 April 2005. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org
    Thursday, 14 April 2005.
    Al-Anbar Province.
    Al-Q’aim.
    In a dispatch posted at 9:55am Thursday morning Mecca time, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that after failing on Wednesday night to storm the besieged city of al-Qa’im from four directions, US forces used loudspeakers on Thursday morning (…)