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  • US ’smuggles wounded troops home’ under cover of darkness
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    By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
    The Pentagon has been accused of smuggling wounded soldiers into the US under cover of darkness to avoid bad publicity about the number of troops being injured and maimed in Iraq. The media have also been prevented from photographing wounded soldiers when they arrive at hospital.
    Records show that flights from military bases in Germany arrive in the US only at night. Officials say this is purely the result of flight-scheduling pressures and is not a (…)

  • Iraqi Suspect Says U.S. Troops Took Mother Hostage
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    By Waleed Ibrahim
    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi apparently suspected by U.S. troops of taking part in attacks in Baghdad accused U.S. forces on Tuesday of taking his mother and sister hostage to pressure him and his brothers into surrendering for questioning.
    A U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad said he doubted the accusation and was not aware of such an incident. But neighbors interviewed around Arkan Mukhlif al-Batawi’s villa in the capital’s Sunni Arab suburb of Taji corroborated (…)

  • The origin of the 9/11 mysterious ’melt down’?
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    FPF - April 7 - 2005 - According to the latest polls more than half (52%) of the Americans still wrongly believe the 9/11 WTC disaster was the result of the murderous action by the ’Red Barons’ of Al Qaida, with Iraq’s Saddam Hussein as the bad genius behind it all.
    A sordid example of indoctrination of the americans, with the ’spin’ of the official 9/11 version. The world is confronted with an American/Israeli terrormachine, with guided missiles and misguided people, paying the bloody (…)

  • The REAL Oil for Food Scandal
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    A COMMISSION investigating allegations of corruption in a UN humanitarian assistance program in Iraq during the 1990s cleared Secretary General Kofi Annan of wrongdoing. Annan had been accused of steering a contract to his son, Kojo, through the oil-for-food program, which allowed Iraq to sell oil on the world market and use money approved by a UN committee for food and other humanitarian goods. But the real scandal never had anything to do with Kojo Annan or kickbacks from certain (…)

  • More US Troops Questioning Iraq Duty
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    More US troops questioning Iraq duty By Christian Henderson
    As soldiers continue to leave Iraq in body bags or on stretchers in increasing numbers, so too the number of US soldiers who balk at the prospect of serving in the war is growing.
    US army figures indicate that since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, about 5500 military personnel have absconded.
    In 2003 an independent advisory service for US military personnel, the GI Rights Hotline, received 32,000 calls, twice as many as in (…)

  • Saddam May Escape Noose In Deal To Halt Insurgency
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    Saddam May Escape Noose In Deal To Halt Insurgency Adrian Blomfield in Baghdad April 11, 2005 Saddam Hussein could avoid the gallows under a secret proposal by insurgent leaders that Iraq’s new administration is "seriously considering", a senior government source said yesterday.
    A reprieve is understood to be among the central demands of Sunni nationalists and former members of Saddam’s Ba’ath party who have reportedly begun negotiations with the government amid the backdrop of a bloody (…)

  • URUKNET: Muqtada as-Sadr: “Everything under the occupation is illegal.”
    11 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    ORIGINAL:
    Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 9 April 2005. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org
    Saturday, 9 April 2005.
    * Exclusive interview with Muqtada as-Sadr.
    * Resistance fighters parade in liberated al-Qa’im in defiance of US aircraft.
    * Sufis form armed Resistance group, join battle against US occupation.
    * Resistance strikes US forces throughout Iraq, (…)

  • Two Women Bound by Sports, War and Injuries
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    By JULIET MACUR WASHINGTON - For 25 days at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Specialist Danielle Green wondered if anyone could ever understand. But on the 26th day, a nurse told her: "A new female patient came in today. You have a lot in common."
    "Really?" Specialist Green said, and the nurse nodded.
    Like Specialist Green, the new patient was a 20-something firecracker, a 5-foot-8 former college basketball player, an Army soldier in the military police serving in Iraq.
    Like (…)

  • The Psychodynamics of Occupation and the Abuse at Abu Ghraib: An Interpretation After One Year of Revelations
    11 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Stephen Soldz
    There are various explanations for what went on at Abu Ghraib. The official US position is that a "few bad apples" among the reservist military police (MPs) there went out of control, violating orders to treat the prisoners humanely — "Animal House on the night shift," as former defense secretary James Schlesinger described it.(1) The MP defendants claim that they were following orders to soften up the prisoners as a prelude to interrogation. Investigative journalists have (…)

  • Iraq War protest still needed
    11 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    “All Syrian military forces and intelligence personnel must withdraw before the Lebanese elections for those elections to be free and fair.”
    President George Bush said that, and I agree with it. Free and fair elections cannot, by definition, take place under the occupation of a foreign regime. Yet Bush trumpets the recent Iraqi elections held under an American occupation 10 times the size of Syria’s. He holds one standard for the military that he oversees and quite a different standard for (…)