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  • Army reservist witnesses war crimes
    3 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    April 1, 2005-Aiden Delgado, an Army Reservist in the 320th Military Police Company, served in Iraq from April 1, 2003 through April 1, 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. His story contains new revelations about ongoing brutality at Abu Ghraib, information yet to be reported (…)

  • Green light for Iraqi prison abuse came right from the top
    3 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Classified documents show the former US military chief in Iraq personally sanctioned measures banned by the Geneva Conventions. Andrew Buncombe reports from Washington
    03 April 2005
    America’s leading civil liberties group has demanded an investigation into the former US military commander Iraq after a formerly classified memo revealed that he personally sanctioned a series of coercive interrogation techniques outlawed by the Geneva Conventions. The group claims that his directives were (…)

  • Is it fun to shoot innocent people ?
    2 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The USA troops came to Iraq to destroy weapons of mass destruction and seprade freedom and democracy ,as Mr Bush used to say. However ,on the Iraqi ground, tne USA troops used to shoot indescrimenately . One of thier Generals said, " Itis fun to shoot people " , as can be seen from the following report:-
    General: It’s Fun To Shoot People
    WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 2005
    Trigger-Happy Talk Flap
    Lt. Gen. James Mattis (Photo: CBS)
    "Actually, it’s a lot of fun to fight. You know, it’s a (…)

  • The British after the Americans are torturing the Iraqis
    2 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The photos of the British soldiers torturing some Iraqi detainees show the hidden page of the military intervention ( invasion ) in Iraq. The photos were released after 20 months of the committed abuses. This 22 photos form the second set of photos of the British troops, which has been disclosed. There are much larger number of photos, and much larger number of abuses were not photographed. The Iraqis themselves know the size of these brutal crimes. The inhuman acts have initiated violent (…)

  • The Disappearance of 350 Tons of Explosives In IRAQ
    2 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Disappearance of 350 Tons of Explosives In IRAQ
    One of the issues about Iraq is the disappearance of 350 Tons of Highly explosive materials from a site south of the capital Baghdad. Mr Bush was informed about the event and he gave no response !. Every body in Iraq and the rest of the world knows that since 9 April 2003, the USA troops are in charge of every thing in Iraq. After the installation of the provisional governing council and then the provisional government, major (…)

  • Bush Embraces WMD Report that Lays Blame on CIA
    1 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ben Frank
    ​ ​​​​ President Bush was pleased to accept the report from the WMD Commission, and he agrees with their conclusions- all the mistakes (wmd lies) were the fault of the intelligence community. Neither Bush nor anyone in his administration was criticized by the Commission appointed by Mr. Bush.
    The 9 member commission was headed by retired Republican judge Laurence Silberman and former Democratic Senator Chuck Robb who said, "They got wrong the critical judgments with (…)

  • Sgt. Benderman follows conscience, not orders: Refuses to participate in illegal war
    1 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The ongoing saga of Sergeant Kevin Benderman’s denial regarding the legitimacy of war and his refusal to participate in it has now crystallized into a war of words and legalities, pitting his beliefs and first-hand battlefield knowledge against an action by the U.S. Government and Army prosecutors who are charging him with desertion for choosing to follow his conscience, in a war declared illegal by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan. Benderman is scheduled to stand trial before a General (…)

  • Life in Fallujah is a Horror Story
    1 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    DAHR JAMAIL spent eight months working as an independent journalist in Iraq. As one of the few journalists not “embedded” with U.S. forces, his reports earned a reputation for being an uncompromising look at life under occupation.
    Currently, Jamail is back in the U.S. on a speaking tour that will take him to several West Coast cities. He spoke to ERIC RUDER about the destruction unleashed on Iraq by the U.S. during two years of occupation. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    YOUR REPORTS (…)

  • Philippines — 2nd Front of "War On Terror" Experiencing Terror
    1 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Since January of this year, 38 leaders, members and allies of progressive organizations and their electoral parties have been killed. The dead include a priest, a town councilor, a lawyer and peasants massacred at Hacienda Luisita, a sugar plantation owned by the family of former President Corazon C. Aquino.
    This wave of state terrorism began intensifying in 2001 when the country was declared the "second front" in the US-led supposed war on terrorism. The return of US troops to the (…)

  • The gates of hell are open in Iraq
    1 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The occupation and new US threats could spark neighbouring uprisings
    The US-British occupation of Iraq is poisoning all political processes in my country and across the Middle East. The elections held under the control of the occupying forces in January were neither free nor fair. Instead of being a step towards solving Iraq’s problems, they have been used to prolong foreign rule over the Iraqi people.
    Only when the occupiers withdraw from the country can Iraq take the first secure steps (…)