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  • Carlyle Covers Up
    3 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Naomi Klein
    Less than twenty-four hours after The Nation disclosed that former Secretary of State James Baker and the Carlyle Group were involved in a secret deal to profit from Iraq’s debt to Kuwait, NBC was reporting that the deal was "dead." At The Nation, we started to get calls congratulating us on costing the Carlyle Group $1 billion, the sum the company would have received in an investment from the government of Kuwait in exchange for helping to extract $27 billion of unpaid (…)

  • In God - or reality - we trust
    3 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Pepe Escobar
    "We will export death and violence to the four corners of the Earth in defense of our great nation." - George W Bush in Bob Woodward’s Plan of Attack
    It all boils down to Iraq. Will the majority of Americans reject George W Bush because of his defining moment - launching an indefensible preemptive war?
    No matter what happens on election day - or days or weeks if the multibillion-dollar special again goes to the Supreme Court - the fact is that at least half of the (…)

  • A Question of Conscience: How Many More? British Study Concludes That 100,000
    3 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Civilian Deaths Have Been Caused By Iraq War’s Violence
    by Evan Augustine Peterson III
    "...if the USA’s population suffered the proportional equivalent of 130,000 Iraqi civilian deaths, there would be 1,608,750 American civilian deaths. What if the entire population of a city the size of San Diego had been slaughtered over nineteen months after some hostile nation invaded US soil?"
    "...it is clear that whatever planning did take place was grievously in error. The invasion of Iraq, the (…)

  • Muslims Feel Militants Have Gone Too Far
    3 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by RAWYA RAGEH
    BAGHDAD, Iraq - Its name means "the Arab one," but that didn’t spare Al-Arabiya television from attack by insurgents who perceive it as pro-Western.
    The Saudi-owned satellite station lost five Iraqi employees when a car bomb exploded Saturday at its Baghdad bureau. It was one of several recent operations - militant groups have also kidnapped women and killed Muslims - that are drawing criticism as "un-Islamic."
    "Such operations are 100 percent wrong," said Adel Zeyada, (…)

  • Why we are still backing Arafat
    3 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Palestinians value their democracy and won’t accept a pliant successor
    by Karma Nabulsi
    Why has Yasser Arafat not "groomed" a successor (like some petty oriental despot), commentators have demanded to know in recent days, and why he is leaving a chaotic power-vacuum? What has been striking about these questions is not so much their wilful ignorance of the Palestinian reality, but the underlying assumptions they reflect.
    The first is that the ailing Palestinian leader is now either (…)

  • Suicide theory on female soldier
    3 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Richard Norton-Taylor
    A senior military policewoman found dead in Basra and named last night by the Ministry of Defence is understood to have killed herself.
    Staff Sergeant Denise Rose of the Royal Military Police’s special investigation branch was found dead from a gunshot wound at the army base in the Shatt-al-Arab hotel on Sunday, the MoD said.
    It added that the death was being investigated but was "not thought to have been the result of hostile action".
    Staff Sgt Rose, who had (…)

  • Iraqi Rebels Hit Ministry, Oil, Security Forces
    2 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Waleed Ibrahim
    BAGHDAD - Rebels bracing for a U.S.-led assault on their Falluja and Ramadi strongholds showed their muscle on Tuesday with a bloody car bombing in Baghdad, strikes on oil pipelines and several attacks on Iraqi security forces.
    A morning car bomb blast at the Education Ministry brought fresh carnage to the busy streets of Baghdad, killing six people and wounding eight, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.
    "I’m not crying because I’m wounded, but because of my brother. (…)

  • Fallujah Defenders Vow To Use Chem Weapons
    2 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Hala Jaber in Baghdad As the US reeled from the death of nine marines in Iraq at the weekend, insurgents in Fallujah claimed to have obtained chemical weapons and threatened to use them in any battle for control of the rebel stronghold. Rebel commanders said chemicals such as cyanide had been added to mortar rounds and missiles that would be deployed against coalition troops reported to be preparing for a major assault on the town west of Baghdad. A military committee made up of (…)

  • The US is committing acts of terror in Fallujah
    2 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This letter was sent by representatives of the people of Fallujah to the UN secretary general Kofi Annan
    "IT IS more than evident that US forces are committing daily acts of genocide in Iraq. As we write, these crimes are being perpetrated against the city of Fallujah.
    US war planes are launching their most powerful bombs against the civilian population, killing and wounding hundreds of innocent people. Their tanks are pounding the city with heavy artillery.
    As you know, there is no (…)

  • When Donkeys and Elephants Fly
    2 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    11-2-04
    WHEN DONKEYS AND ELEPHANTS FLY by Husayn Al-Kurdi
    There are four major dates on the US government calendar, three of them annual holidays and the fourth the quadrennial spectacle of the presidential election. On the fourth of July each year, the American people are prompted to celebrate the war exploits of the US empire, overlooking the fact that the USA lost many of its wars, including its first war against the so-called Barbary Coast pirates of North Africa and its most recent (…)