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  • Saudi Suicide Bomber Claims Zarqawi Was Captured, Then Released
    27 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Saudi Suicide Bomber Claims Zarqawi Was Captured, Then Released Alisha Ryu, Baghdad 24 January 2005
    A suicide bomber from Saudi Arabia, who survived a failed attempt to blow up the Jordanian mission Baghdad in December, alleges that Iraqi police may have captured, and then released, the most wanted terrorist in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, two months ago. Both U.S. and Iraqi officials could not confirm the claims made by the suicide bomber.
    On a video disk provided by Iraq’s interior (…)

  • Kucinich: Iraq Elections Will Be A Farce; No International Election Monitors in Iraq
    26 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Kucinich: Iraq Elections Will Be A Farce; Closest International Election Monitors Will Get Will Be Amman, Jordan In Letter To Secretary of State Rice and Ambassador Negroponte; Kucinich Cites Lack Of International Monitors
    WASHINGTON — January 26 — Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) today said that Iraqi elections, to be held on Sunday, will be a farce. In a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and John Negroponte, the United States Ambassador to Iraq, Kucinich cites a total (…)

  • US Foreign Policy (apart from Iraq)
    26 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US Political and Military Interventions since 1945 The US has launched a series of military and political interventions since 1945, often to install puppet regimes, or alternatively to engage in political actions such as smear campaigns, sponsoring or targeting opposition political groups (depending on how they served US interests), undermining political parties, sabotage and terror campaigns, and so forth. It has done so in nations such as
    China (1945-51) South Africa (1960s-1980s) (…)

  • Senator Dayton denounces Rice and US policy in Iraq
    26 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I don’t like to impugn anyone’s integrity, but I really don’t like being lied to repeatedly, flagrantly, intentionally. It’s wrong. It’s undemocratic, it’s un-American, and it’s dangerous. It is very, very dangerous. And it is occurring far too frequently in this administration. And this Congress, this Senate must demand that it stop now.
    My vote against this nomination is my statement that this administration’s lying must stop now. I urge my colleagues to join me in this demand, (…)

  • Depleted Uranium (DU): Main Cause of the Gulf War Syndrome
    26 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi has just tendered his resignation earlier this month, under great pressure. James Nicholson, former Ambassador to the Vatican, is slated to and has taken over the reins of the very troubled Department of Veterans Affairs.”
    The real reason for Mr. Principi’s departure was really never given, however a special report published by eminent scientist Leuren Moret’ naming DEPLETED URANIUM as the definitive cause of the “Gulf War Syndrome”. This (…)

  • Few Penalties for Soldiers that have admitted abuse of Iraqis
    26 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Army personnel have admitted to beating or threatening to kill Iraqi detainees and stealing money from Iraqi civilians but have not been charged with criminal conduct, according to newly released Army documents.
    Only a handful of the 54 investigations of alleged detainee abuse and other illicit activities detailed in the documents led to recommended penalties as severe as a court-martial or discharge from military service. Most led to administrative fines or simply withered because (…)

  • WMD Found in Iraq
    26 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Saddam Hussein’s possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) was used by the American administration as the major justification for invading Iraq. In August 2002 Vice President Dick Cheney stated “There is no doubt he (Saddam) is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies and against us.” Secretary of State Colin Powell testified before the U.N. Security Council on February 5th 2003 that Iraq has WMD, and could launch them within 45 minutes. His testimony included (…)

  • Congress should reject request for $80 billion-No More Funds For Failed Iraq Policy
    25 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON — January 25 — Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), a leader in the House of Representatives against the war in Iraq, released the following statement in response to news reports that the Administration will request an additional $80 billion dollars for the war in Iraq:
    "Congress should reject the Administration’s request for an additional $80 billion in funds for the war in Iraq. The Administration’s entire case for the war has now been debunked, Iraq is on the verge of a (…)

  • Military Families Denied Meeting with Rumsfeld
    25 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Dangerous Gold Star Families
    A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION by Cindy Sheehan
    Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld continues to astound us Gold Star Families with his heartlessness, callousness and disrespect in the faces of our children who are being killed in the mindless invasion and occupation of Iraq.
    I am one of the founding members of a group called Gold Star Families for Peace. Some of us families who have lost loved ones in this illegal and immoral war in Iraq have (…)

  • FBI Grills Jack Kemp In Oil-For-Food Scandal
    25 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    FBI Grills Jack Kemp In Oil-For-Food Scandal Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball Jan. 19 - Former vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp has been questioned by the FBI about his dealings with an Iraqi-American businessman who this week became the target of the first Justice Department criminal indictment in the United Nations Oil-for-Food scandal, NEWSWEEK has learned.
    Kemp today confirmed that the FBI interviewed him last October about his contacts with Samir A. Vincent, a Northern (…)