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  • Israeli officer: I was right to shoot 13-year-old child
    28 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Radio exchange contradicts army version of Gaza killing
    by Chris McGreal in Jerusalem
    An Israeli army officer who repeatedly shot a 13-year-old Palestinian girl in Gaza dismissed a warning from another soldier that she was a child by saying he would have killed her even if she was three years old.
    The officer, identified by the army only as Captain R, was charged this week with illegal use of his weapon, conduct unbecoming an officer and other relatively minor infractions after (…)

  • Audit: Halliburton lost track of government property in Iraq
    28 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By John Solomon WASHINGTON (AP) A third or more of the government property Halliburton Co. was paid to manage for the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq could not be located by auditors, investigative reports to Congress show.
    Halliburton’s KBR subsidiary ’’did not effectively manage government property’’ and auditors could not locate hundreds of CPA items worth millions of dollars in Iraq and Kuwait this summer and fall, Inspector General Stuart W. Bowen reported to (…)

  • US casualties near record level in November
    28 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON: November has been the second deadliest month for US troops in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion, and the Pentagon is braced for rising violence ahead of crucial parliamentary elections set for Jan. 30.
    At least 109 US troops have been killed in Iraq this month, about half of whom died in an offensive that began on Nov. 8 to crush insurgents in their former stronghold Falluja, according to Pentagon figures.
    In the 20-month war, only this past April, with 135 military deaths, (…)

  • Press Routinely Undercounts U.S. Casualties in Iraq
    28 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By E&P Staff
    NEW YORK As the toll of Americans killed and wounded in Iraq in November approaches record levels for one month in this war, is the press only telling part of the story?
    The Pentagon’s latest official count, provided on Wednesday, listed 1230 American military killed in Iraq and another 9300 U.S. troops wounded in action. How seriously? More than 5000 of them were too badly injured to return to duty. More than 850 troops were reported to have been wounded in action in (…)

  • Taking ’Trophy’ Pictures With Palestinian Bodies Widely Spread Among Israeli Occupation Soldiers
    26 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    GAZA
    The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth published a report last Friday 19 about a serious dark side of the moral degeneration of the Israeli occupation army; taking ’trophy’ photographs with bodies of dead Palestinians.
    The newspaper reported on its electronic edition that bodies of ’terrorists’ became a vital part of Israeli soldiers’ photo albums. "It is hard to believe, but this is the image in the Israeli army," the newspaper said.
    The report also hinted that not all those (…)

  • Official: At least 2,000 killed in Fallujah offensive
    26 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An Iraqi official announced on Thursday that at least 2,000 people were killed and 1,600 detained so far in the U.S.-led Fallujah offensive.
    Qassem Dawoud, the interim government’s national security adviser, didn’t provide any breakdown of fatalities among U.S. soldiers, Iraqi troops, fighters and civilians.
    As of Thursday, the death toll was "more than 2,085", Dawoud said, adding that at least 1,600 people have been arrested.
    U.S. officials in Iraq had previously said that 54 U.S. (…)

  • The recipe for civil war
    26 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Pepe Escobar
    Najaf was bombed in August. Samarra was bombed in September. Sadr City was bombed in October. Fallujah was bombed in November. Mosul may be bombed in December. And Kirkuk may be bombed in January.
    This is the calendar in the runup to the Iraqi elections set for January 30 next year. Then there will be another set of questions. Will the Iraqi elections be stolen? Will votes "disappear"? Instead of Florida or Ohio, will there be demands for recounts in Fallujah and Samarra? (…)

  • Americans! Stop bickering among yourselves! We are in danger here.
    25 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jane Stillwater
    You should see my inbox. "You lying liberals are the scum of the earth. I hope you die."
    Last night I got another threatening phone call. The red state cult Christians do NOT like us blue states at all. And the feeling is mutual. "The Confederate states suck eggs. How can 59 million Americans be so dumb!"
    This bickering is not a luxury we can afford. Right now, we are like some self-important mice trying to beat each other up — while the cat just stands by and (…)

  • Weapons of Self-Destruction
    25 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Is Gulf War syndrome - possibly caused by Pentagon ammunition - taking its toll on G.I.’s in Iraq?
    by David Rose
    When he started to get sick, Staff Sergeant Raymond Ramos’s first instinct was to fight. "I had joint pains, muscle aches, chronic fatigue, but I tried to exercise it out," he says. "I was going for runs, working out. But I never got any better. The headaches were getting more frequent and sometimes lasted all day. I was losing a lot of weight. My overall physical demeanor was (…)

  • voices of war
    24 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Found on the internet. A message from the former Hitler Reich’s-marshal Herman
    Göring, who was one of the major mindset during the dark German period between
    1933-1945.