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  • "This wasn’t a war, it was a massacre"
    5 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THE FOLLOWING letter from a U.S. soldier stationed in Iraq, known as hEkLe, powerfully conveys the terror of the U.S. assault on Falluja. It was published in GI Special, a daily Internet newsletter that gathers news and information helpful to soldiers and military families.
    You can find an archive of the GI Special updated with each new issue at www.militaryproject.org . hEkLe and several fellow soldiers have a Web log that they regularly update with essays at www.ftssoldier.blogspot.com . (…)

  • Trophy Hunting in Iraq
    5 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    December 04, 2004 Trophy Hunting?
    Dahr Jamail
    Yesterday, before the usual morning gunfire in the streets that has become my morning alarm clock, Abu Talat phoned me. There is very heavy fighting over in al-Adhamiya. Two giant explosions occurred around 6:15 a.m., followed by mortar blasts, then constant, heavy gun battles that went on into late morning. The Hamid al-Alwan mosque, a small Shia mosque in the predominantly Sunni area of Adhamiya had been hit with a car bomb. (…)

  • More prisoners? - "Just shoot them"
    4 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Left Hook Exclusive: An Interview with an Anti-war Veteran from the Iraq War Jim Talib HM3 (FMF/PJ)
    interviewed by Derek Seidman
    Jim Talib is an antiwar vet who served in Iraq earlier this year for nearly seven months. He has recently begun speaking out against the war and occupation. Derek Seidman, co-editor of Left Hook, was able to catch up with Jim Talib and ask him some questions about the war and occupation, his personal experiences in Iraq, and issues concerning the (…)

  • Fallujah: America’s Halabja
    3 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    "People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election."
    (Otto Von Bismarck - Prussian Prime Minister 1815-1898)
    by Yamin Zakaria
    Indeed corporate driven wars of Capitalist nations and elections share the trait of ‘deception’. This is expected as elections are the usual means to get into the driving seat to prosecute wars. Wars are primarily driven by corporate interests diluted with chauvinistic nationalism concealed by lofty slogans. However, why the need to (…)

  • Will The Real Mark Kimmitt Please Stand Up?
    2 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Will The Real Mark Kimmitt Please Stand Up? Nov 30, 2004 By Bruce Kennedy, JUS
    Remember Brig. Gen. Mark T. Kimmitt? He was one of the top brass US generals who gave countless press conferences detailing the American “progress” in the war in Iraq. For those who don’t know his background, Kimmitt’s father, Joseph Stanley Kimmitt, is a former Col. in Army who morphed his military service into a Washington, DC, public relations, or lobbyist gig rather, called Kimmitt, Senter, Coates, & (…)

  • GI threatens suicide over return to Iraq
    2 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    STRATFORD - A serviceman, apparently distraught over the prospect of being sent back to the war in Iraq, threatened to kill himself as he stood naked and screaming outside his house.
    Police took the man into custody at his Fernwood Drive house. He was taken for treatment to Bridgeport Hospital.
    Dispatched to investigate a report of a possible suicide attempt Thursday, officers saw the man naked with blood on his body in front of the garage area, police said. As officers approached, the (…)

  • Israel shocked by image of soldiers forcing violinist to play at roadblock
    2 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Chris McGreal in Jerusalem
    Of all the revelations that have rocked the Israeli army over the past week, perhaps none disturbed the public so much as the video footage of soldiers forcing a Palestinian man to play his violin.
    The incident was not as shocking as the recording of an Israeli officer pumping the body of a 13-year-old girl full of bullets and then saying he would have shot her even if she had been three years old.
    Nor was it as nauseating as the pictures in an Israeli (…)

  • Rumsfeld Sued for Alleged War Crimes
    2 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Alleging responsibility for war crimes and torture at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison, a human rights group has filed a criminal complaint in Germany against US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top US officials.
    The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and Berlin’s Republican Lawyers’ Association said they and five Iraqi citizens mistreated by US soldiers were seeking a probe by German federal prosecutors of leading US policymakers.
    They said they had chosen (…)

  • German Defense Minister Joins Abuse Investigation
    2 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Germany’s top military official meets with military officials on Wednesday to discuss the allegations of abuse at training camps which are threatening to engulf the armed forces in a damaging scandal.
    The investigation into the alleged abuse of young soldiers at Bundeswehr military training camps takes its first official step on Wednesday when German Defense Minister Peter Struck meets army chiefs to discuss the deepening scandal.
    Struck, who announced a wide-ranging inquiry into the (…)

  • Abu Ghraib, Caribbean Style
    2 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by New York Times
    Ever since the Abu Ghraib scandal broke, the Bush administration has claimed that the abuses depicted in those horrible photos were an isolated problem that was immediately fixed. The White House has repeatedly proclaimed its respect for the Geneva Conventions, international law and American statutes governing the treatment of prisoners.
    An article in The Times on Tuesday by Neil A. Lewis showed how hollow those assurances are. According to the International Committee (…)