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  • American War Criminal Made to Answer for Crime
    8 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Posted on Fri, Apr. 01, 2005
    Hearing delayed for sergeant charged in Kuwait grenade attack WILLIAM L. HOLMES Associated Press FORT BRAGG, N.C. - An Army sergeant charged with killing two officers in a grenade attack in Kuwait two years ago is competent to stand trial, a military judge ruled Friday.
    Sgt. Hasan Akbar, 33, is scheduled to undergo a court-martial this month in a March 2003 attack on fellow members of the 101st Airborne Division days after the start of the U.S. invasion (…)

  • Lawyers Against The War Are After Bush
    8 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Lawyers Against The War Are After Bush Norman (Otis) Richmond April 07, 2005
    Canadians are no better or no worse than any other people. They have been on the right and wrong sides of history. Like every other nation Canada has produced revolutionaries, working class heroes, buffoons and idiots.
    Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin was forced to take the correct position on missile defense by refusing to back U.S. President George W. Bush. At the same time Canada has come up short on the (…)

  • New Revelations About Racism In The Military. Army Reservist Witnesses War Crimes
    8 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    New Revelations About Racism In The Military Army Reservist Witnesses War Crimes Paul Rockwell April 07, 2005 Aiden Delgado, an Army Reservist in the 320th Military Police Company, served in Iraq from April 1st , 2003 through April 1st, 2004. After spending six months in Nasiriyah in Southern Iraq, he spent six months helping to run the now-infamous Abu Ghraib prison outside of Baghdad.
    The handsome 23-year-old mechanic was a witness to widespread, almost daily, U.S. war crimes in Iraq. (…)

  • Who’s Better Off?
    8 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Before the US House of Representatives, April 6, 2005.
    Whenever the administration is challenged regarding the success of the Iraq war, or regarding the false information used to justify the war, the retort is: “Aren’t the people of Iraq better off?” The insinuation is that anyone who expresses any reservations about supporting the war is an apologist for Saddam Hussein and every ruthless act he ever committed. The short answer to the question of whether the Iraqis are better off is that (…)

  • Wal-Mart Sells the Marine Corps
    7 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Marine Corps is now on sale at Wal-Mart:
    Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. recently approved the airing of two Marine Corps public service announcements, "Family Photos" and "For Country." . . .
    Bill G. Harmon Watches the Marine Corps’ ’Family Photos’ PSA "Bill G. Harmon, a Virginia native, stops to watch the U. S. Marine Corps’ ’Family Photos’ public service announcement at Wal-Mart’s home theater section in Stafford, Va. The commercial features the original footage of the (…)

  • Uruknet: 32 more US troops die on Wednesday, April 6
    7 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Original:
    Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 6 April 2005. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org
    Wednesday, 6 April 2005.
    Al-Anbar Province. Ar-Ramadi.
    Resistance bomb kills five US troops Wednesday morning in ar-Ramadi.
    An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US patrol as it passed through the as-Sufiyah area north of ar-Ramadi at 10am Wednesday. A source in the local police told (…)

  • the iraqi cultural heritage after 2-years of invation
    7 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Let us read what the expert has written about the abuses done by the invadors and their allies with the iraqi cultural heritage.
    ’Biggest Cultural Disaster Since 1258’, Says Expert
    Humberto MÙ„rquez
    CARACAS, Feb 15 (IPS) - One million books, 10 million documents and 14,000 archaeological artifacts have been lost in the U.S.-led invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq — the biggest cultural disaster since the descendants of Genghis Khan destroyed Baghdad in 1258, Venezuelan writer (…)

  • “Howard and Bush are war criminals" ‘They are afraid of you’
    7 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The following remarks were made by independent journalist John Pilger to a March 20 anti-war rally in Sydney.
    The other day, the Aboriginal filmmaker Richard Frankland said this: “When you’ve got a voice, you’ve got freedom, and when you’ve got freedom, you’ve got responsibility. Negotiating with politicians doesn’t work. You’ve got to change attitudes.” That’s the task for all of us here today. It’s not an easy one. In fact, many good people in Australia and other countries believe their (…)

  • Whom to believe? US Media reports one death. Other sources say at least 29.
    7 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Some of us don’t trust the US media since the election on November 2, so we have taken to looking elsewhere for accurate news accounts. Since the US media doesn’t seem very interested in telling us what’s going on in Iraq, some of us have found other sources, like the one from which this story was lifted below. (The link will take you to the original, so you can judge for yourself.)
    What is interesting is that the US media has reported ONE US death over the past two days. Maybe, if you’ve (…)

  • Blair, Damaged by Role in Iraq War, Faces Judgment on Character
    7 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Four months after British and American soldiers invaded Iraq in 2003, U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair received a gold medal and standing ovation from the U.S. Congress as he pledged, You’re not going to be alone.’’
    To Americans, Blair, 51, is the most stalwart of allies, winning him popularity ratings that any U.S. politician would envy — 76 percent in a November 2003 Gallup poll. At home, it’s another story. Critics deride him as untrustworthy, and taunt him as President George W. (…)