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  • Who Was Right About Iraqi WMDs? Why? What Now?
    1 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON — March 31 — IMAD KHADDURI, http://www.iraqsnuclearmirage.com/index_en.php Khadduri worked on the Iraq nuclear weapons program beginning in 1981.
    In November 2002, Khadduri wrote the article "Iraq’s Nuclear Non-Capability" in which he commented: "Bush and Blair are pulling their public by the nose" with "their hollow patriotic egging on." He is author of the book "Iraq’s Nuclear Mirage: Memoirs and Delusions." He said today: "I did work on the Iraqi nuclear weapons program (…)

  • Another Report; Another Failure By This Administration To Admit Mistakes
    1 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON — March 31 — Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) issued the following statement today on the report by the Presidential Commission WMD’s:
    "Today, we are once again reminded of what we already know: that this Administration deliberately mislead this nation into an unnecessary war in Iraq. Today’s report now completes a series of reports that have completely debunked this Administration’s entire case for war against Iraq.
    "Despite yet another report debunking their case for (…)

  • There’s No Way I Could Go Die For Money And Oil, Rich People’s Investments
    31 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    HALIFAX—US Army Specialist Darrell Anderson hated his seven months in Iraq. He hated the people he was fighting against, hated the people he was fighting for. There was hate between soldiers. And hatred against the Iraqi people. Anderson hated facing death every day. Knowing people who died made him hate even more.
    "You stub your foot, you’re going to hit something. You ruin your life, you’re going to kill someone," the stocky 22-year-old Kentucky man told a crowd gathered at Dalhousie (…)

  • Rumsfeld Gets Grilled at Truth & Reconciliation Hearing
    31 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It was several years after the Bush Administration had left office, in what has been called the period of "Restoration of Constitutional rule." Criminal indictments were about to be unsealed, naming the architects of the former regime’s foreign wars/torture policy and martial law-type domestic rule. Those individuals had one chance to escape likely incarceration: appearances before the recently-instituted Truth & Reconciliation Commission. Here is a partial transcript from Donald (…)

  • “No Great Way To Die” - But the Generals Love Napalm
    31 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “No Great Way To Die” - But the Generals Love Napalm Exchange With the BBC’s Director of News David Edwards, MEDIA LENS
    “These are the stories that will continue to emerge from the rubble of Fallujah for years. No, for generations...” Dahr Jamail, independent reporter in Iraq
    Heavily Conditioned Sensitivity
    Traditionally, Western journalists give massive emphasis to acts of violence committed by official enemies of the West, while lightly passing over Western responsibility for often (…)

  • Halliburton Bribery Scandal Deepens
    31 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Overlooking a private white sand beach on the Persian Gulf, some 40 miles south of Kuwait city, is the Khalifa Hilton. It boasts no less than a dozen swimming pools and offers its guests activities such as windsurfing, banana boat rides and deep sea fishing. Every single one of the 84 luxurious air-conditioned villas face either the main pool, which is shaped like a giant guitar, or one of the two adjoining pools that resemble shimmering blue door keys.
    In late 2002, a company from Texas, (…)

  • Soldiers Join A Revolution:We Gave Our Oath To The People, To The Constitution, Not To The President
    30 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    3.25 & 3.28.05 Wall St. Journal
    As the demonstrators broke through the fence surrounding the government building, they faced the army.
    Calm down, sister! Gen. Abdigul Chotbayev, commander of the garrison told a protester who asked him to resign from the military. Several minutes later, the soldiers retreated in the face of an unruly crowd that pushed its way to the main entrance and threw rocks at the windows.
    We have enough bullets here to kill thousands, said Evgenii Razinkin, a (…)

  • More than 200,000 US casualties from Gulf War 1
    29 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    During Gulf War 1 more than 300 tons of depleted Uranium were discharged.
    During Gulf War 2 more than 1000 tons of depleted Uranium were discharged.
    Norman Schwarzkopf asked Rokke to oversee the environmental clean up and medical care of soldiers injured in friendly fire incidents involving DU weapons. Rokke later wrote the DU safety rules adopted by the Army, but was relieved of subsequent duties after he criticized commanders for not following those rules and not treating exposed (…)

  • Fallujah was subjected to a genocide war by the American forces
    29 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Report On The current situation in the city of Fallujah
    Presented to the 61st session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights For the period of 1ST January to 25th March 2005
    Studies Center of Human Rights and Democracy - BRussells Tribunal
    03/28/05 "ICH" - - The city of Fallujah was subjected to a genocide war by the American forces. The military machinery destroyed almost 70 per cent of the city, from civilian houses to medical center and general services facilities (…)

  • Is No One Accountable?
    28 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Bush administration is desperately trying to keep the full story from emerging. But there is no longer any doubt that prisoners seized by the U.S. in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere have been killed, tortured, sexually humiliated and otherwise grotesquely abused.
    These atrocities have been carried out in an atmosphere in which administration officials have routinely behaved as though they were above the law, and thus accountable to no one. People have been rounded up, stripped, (…)