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  • No Takers As US Offers Forgiveness To Insurgents
    21 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    No Takers As US Offers Forgiveness To Insurgents Aamer Madhani, Tribune staff reporter January 19, 2005
    BAQOUBA, Iraq - The plan was a hopeful one: Some of those siding with the insurgency in this restive city would be offered a chance to drop their weapons and vow not to sabotage the elections.
    U.S. military commanders invited suspected insurgents and religious and tribal leaders sympathetic to the resistance to gather Tuesday for a conference with Iraqi government and military (…)

  • Western Military Train But No Longer Mentor Iraqi Police
    21 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Western Military Train But No Longer Mentor Iraqi Police SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM January 20, 2005 BAGHDAD - Iraqi police no longer work with Western mentors due to fears insurgents have infiltrated the Iraqi security agenices. Officials said Western mentors were withdrawn from police units in late 2004. They said the lack of mentors has hampered the operations of five police academies established by the United States to help create an effective Iraqi security force.
    The Iraqi (…)

  • Iraqi Freedom: Mother and Father Shot in front of children
    21 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It was a routine foot patrol. As we made our way up a broad boulevard, in the distance I could see a car making its way toward us. As a defence against potential car bombs, it is now standard practice for foot patrols to stop oncoming vehicles, particularly after dark.
    "We have a car coming," someone called out, as we entered an intersection. We could see the car about 100 metres away. It kept coming; I could hear its engine now, a high whine that sounded more like acceleration than (…)

  • Voter Turnout Won’t Be Enough To Legitimise Election...
    21 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Voter Turnout Won’t Be Enough To Legitimise Election As The US Tries To Cook The Books, Iraq May Be Heading For Civil War Paul McGeough January 21, 2005 There is something truly remarkable about the Iraqi human spirit. Cast around for a comparison of the numbers that might vote next Sunday and Afghanistan is a good choice.
    There, more than 10.5 million signed up last year in a security environment that made a mockery of the international observance of fragile polls when only a handful of (…)

  • Story Of Husband’s Execution Contradicted By Relatives Who Say He Is Alive
    21 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Threads Unravel In Iraqi’s Tale Story Of Husband’s Execution Contradicted By Relatives Who Say He Is Alive Peter Finn Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, January 20, 2005 An Iraqi woman who was granted refugee status in the United States after telling The Washington Post and U.S. officials that she had been imprisoned, tortured and sexually assaulted in Iraq during the 1990s appears to have made false claims about her past, according to a fresh examination of her statements.
    Jumana (…)

  • Censored For Being Too Subtle. An Army Surgeon Loses His Weblog
    20 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Censored For Being Too Subtle An Army Surgeon Loses His Weblog. The Reason: He Did Too Good A Job Illustrating The Casual Heroism Of Combat Kevin Horrigan 01/09/2005 The Pentagon reported last Tuesday that the number of U.S. troops wounded in the Iraq war had passed 10,000. Of the 10,252 wounded since the war began in March 2003, about half - 5,396 - were hurt so badly they couldn’t return to duty. The rest were patched up and sent back to work Also on Tuesday, in a not completely (…)

  • Can You Imagine?: Hussein Was Right & Bush Was Wrong
    20 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Can You Imagine?: Hussein Was Right & Bush Was Wrong Harry Browne January 15, 2005 You may remember that in 2002, the year before the Iraq War began, the United Nations Security Council ordered Iraq to produce a report detailing all of its biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons - past and present. Iraqi officials complied and produced an 11,800-page report on Iraq’s weapons programs. The report described all the chemical and biological weapons the country once had - where they came (…)

  • Call for the 2nd National Assembly of United for Peace and Justice
    20 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Because the war in Iraq represents the U.S government’s unchecked drive towards global domination, and wreaks havoc on poor and working people at home and around the world, with ramifications so drastic we can barely imagine;
    Because this is a war, at home and abroad, against people of color and it must be ended in all its manifestations;
    Because the majority of people in our country and throughout the world oppose the war;
    Because hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have been and continue (…)

  • The Gonzales Indictment
    20 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Marjorie Cohn
    Alberto Gonzales should not be the Attorney General of the United States. He should be considered a war criminal and indicted by the Attorney General. This is a suggested indictment of Alberto Gonzales for war crimes under Title 18 U.S.C. section 1441, the War Crimes Act.
    COUNT I: Application of Geneva Conventions; Definition of Torture
    On or about January 25, 2002 through January 16, 2005, Defendant ALBERTO GONZALES, Counsel to George W. Bush, the President of the (…)

  • Is PM Allawi of Iraq just another Saddam?
    20 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    US official confirms Iragis PM Allawi shot six dead
    A former Jordanian government minister has told The New Yorker that an American official confirmed to him that the Iraqi interim Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, executed six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police station last year.
    The claim is in an extensive profile of Dr Allawi written for this week’s issue of the magazine by an American journalist, Jon Lee Anderson, the author of The Fall of Baghdad and a regular Baghdad (…)