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  • IRAQ: Death in Fallujah rising, doctors say
    6 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    FALLUJAH, - "It was really distressing picking up dead bodies from destroyed homes, especially children. It is the most depressing situation I have ever been in since the war started," Dr Rafa’ah al-Iyssaue, director of the main hospital in Fallujah city, some 60 km west of Baghdad, told IRIN.
    According to al-Iyssaue, the hospital emergency team has recovered more than 700 bodies from rubble where houses and shops once stood, adding that more than 550 were women and children. He said a (…)

  • Army Sergeant may refuse return to Iraq: Last time I was orderded to shoot at children
    6 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ft. Stewart Georgia, “Rock of the Marne” — This morning Sergeant Kevin Benderman, U.S. Army awoke to face what will probably be one of the most important decisions of his life: whether or not to accept or refuse re-deployment to Iraq to participate in a war that has been increasingly questioned by the American public, and the world. A war that has been ruled illegal by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan and has come under increasing fire from both Republicans and Democrats alike who (…)

  • Extra Armor for Troops Still in Storage, now Pentagon refuses to use it- worried about liability
    6 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    OCALA, Fla. — One of the big complaints from troops in Iraq is lack of armor for their vehicles, but a campaign to collect armor in Central Florida was apparently a wasted effort.
    Marion County Sheriff Ed Dean and other sheriffs around the state of Florida started gathering old bullet-proof vests last February to send to American troops, WESH NewsChannel 2 reported.
    The vests were meant to provide yet another layer of armor for Humvees and other vehicles vulnerable to roadside (…)

  • Iraq is Lost: Bush and Blair are Deluding Themselves
    5 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "The American project for democracy or whatever its real purposes were, for oil, economic expansion, Middle East fit for Israel, whatever it may have been, that project is finished. It is hopeless. It cannot succeed. The insurgency in Iraq is so great now that American troops, however enormous their technology, cannot control it."
    "Not only do our leaders suffer from this mania of deluding themselves, but the press by their silence or by their complicity, assist in this process of (…)

  • Racism as Prelude to War Crimes
    4 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As a result of the Anglo-American invasion and occupation of Iraq, more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed - half of them women and children. Eighty-four per cent of the deaths were caused by the actions of the Americans and the British, and 95 per cent of these were killed by air attacks and artillery fire; thousands more are imprisoned and tortured; the lives of millions more have been wrecked.
    In addition, the conditions of child health in US-occupied Iraq today are even (…)

  • Whistleblowers Expose How Private Contractors Loot US Taxpayers
    4 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Former managers working with Custer Battles, a high-profile private security company in Iraq, are accusing the firm of using affiliated "shell" companies in the Cayman Islands and other "tax haven" countries to fraudulently overcharge on government contracts by tens of millions of dollars. The accusations are spelled out in a lawsuit filed under the False Claims Act and made public October 8.
    Custer Battles, headquartered in McLean, Virginia, first grabbed headlines after winning a $16.5 (…)

  • U.S. preparing for lifetime jailing of terror suspects without trial
    4 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Washington Post | January 2, 2005
    WASHINGTON - Administration officials are preparing long-range plans for indefinitely imprisoning suspected terrorists whom they do not want to set free or turn over to courts in the United States or other countries, according to intelligence, defense and diplomatic officials.
    The Pentagon and the CIA have asked the White House to decide on a more permanent approach for potentially lifetime detentions, including for hundreds of people now in military and (…)

  • The US is Losing Iraq
    3 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ben Frank
    "The CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the State Department warned President Bush this week that the United States and its Iraqi allies are not winning the battle against Iraqi insurgents Iraqi insurgents who are trying to derail the country’s Jan. 30 elections." As Mike Rivero at WhatReallyHappened.com pointed out, ’not winning’ equals ’losing’.
    On New Year’s Eve it was reported that, "the last six months of 2004 proved the deadliest period for US forces in Iraq, (…)

  • New horror stories of war crimes at Iraqi hospitals
    3 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Dahr Jamail
    Targeting hospitals or ambulances is in direct contravention of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which strictly forbids attacks on emergency vehicles and the impeding of medical operations during war.
    "they raided our supply room where our food and supplies are."
    "they smashed one of our ambulances,”
    “The Americans threatened to do here what they did in Fallujah if I didn’t cooperate with them,”
    “They are shooting our ambulances if they try to go to Fallujah.”
    “The (…)

  • Dennis Kucinich was right on Iraq: The Occupation is a Failure
    2 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Quotes from Dennis Kucinich on Iraq over the last year. Dennis was right across the board, tell me again why this wisdom was ’unelectable’.
    10/14/03 - “To support this war spending bill ($87 billion) would only serve to throw good money after bad... This Administration led this nation to war based on falsehoods and lies... This President should not be trusted with one more dime of taxpayer money to pay for his misguided policy."
    10/28/03 - "The assertion by the President that daily (…)