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  • Abuse at Abu Ghraib, the Psychodynamics of Occupation
    3 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Stephen Soldz
    May 2, 2004 "ICH" — This week, CBS’ 60 Minutes II published the now infamous pictures of abuse and torture by US soldiers at the Abu Ghraib detention facility in Iraq (some of the pictures can be viewed on the New Yorker web site at http://www.newyorker.com/online/slideshows/pop/?040510onslpo_prison
    Seymour Hersh has documented in the May 10, 2004 New Yorker (Torture at Abu Ghraib: http://informationclearinghouse.info/article6124.htm ) that the abuse shown in these photos (…)

  • 11 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq; hostage escapes
    3 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    American truck driver flees captors three weeks after being abducted
    Eleven U.S. troops were killed in attacks across Iraq, including a mortar barrage today in which six Americans died and 30 others were wounded. Meanwhile, kidnapped U.S. truck driver Thomas Hamill escaped his Iraqi captors, prying open a door of the house where he was held when an American patrol passed by.
    Running a kilometre to the patrol, Hamill identified himself and led the soldiers to the house, where two Iraqis (…)

  • Iraqis Declare Victory Over U.S. as Falluja Families Return
    3 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Fadel Badran, Reuters
    Eight-year-old Anas Mohamed wept as his father picked through the rubble where their family house once stood in the besieged Iraqi town of Falluja.
    "My books have been burned so how will I study?," he asked. "Where will we live? Where will we live?" he cried.
    Iraqi insurgents celebrate while riding through the streets of Falluja, May 1, 2004. Soldiers of the old Iraqi army led by one of Saddam Hussein’s generals patrolled the city of Falluja on Saturday, a year (…)

  • Officer Suggests Iraq Jail Abuse Was Encouraged
    2 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By PHILIP SHENON
    WASHINGTON, May 1 - An Army Reserve general whose soldiers were photographed as they abused Iraqi prisoners said Saturday that she knew nothing about the abuse until weeks after it occurred and that she was "sickened" by the pictures. She said the prison cellblock where the abuse occurred was under the tight control of Army military intelligence officers who may have encouraged the abuse.
    The suggestion by Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski that the reservists acted at the (…)

  • British troops abusing Iraqis too
    1 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Britain’s mass-circulation Daily Mirror newspaper published photographs today which it claimed showed British troops abusing an Iraqi prisoner in a camp near Basra, southern Iraq.
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    http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/01/1083224634091.html

  • What Colin Powell saw but didn’t say
    25 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    The rush to war in Iraq echoes Reagan’s Iran- contra scandal
    Sidney Blumenthal
    "History? We won’t know," George Bush tells Bob Woodward. "We’ll all be dead." But in his book, Plan of Attack, Woodward’s facts move the past from the shadows, adding significant new documentation to the story of the rush to war in Iraq.
    The serious constitutional issues and governmental abuses, the methods and even the continuity of some personnel that Woodward catalogues evoke memories of the Reagan (…)

  • IRAQ: at least 80 foreign mercenaries have been killed in the past eight days
    19 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Scores of Dead
    "The Star" Baghdad - At least 80 foreign mercenaries - security guards recruited from the United States, Europe and South Africa and working for American companies - have been killed in the past eight days in Iraq.
    Lieutenant-General Mark Kimmitt admitted on Tuesday that "about 70"
    American and other Western troops had died during the Iraqi insurgency since April 1 but he made no mention of the mercenaries, apparently fearful that the full total of Western dead would (…)

  • Shut Up, War Critics
    15 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Just shut up. That’s the new foreign policy line of our masters. When Senator Edward Kennedy dubbed Iraq "George Bush’s Vietnam", US Secretary of State Colin Powell told him to be "a little more restrained and careful" in his comments. I recall that when the US commenced its bombing of Afghanistan, the White House spokesman claimed that some journalists were "asking questions that the American people wouldn’t want asked". Back in the early 1980s, when I reported on the Iranian (…)

  • Iraq will never be sorted out until Mr Blair and President Bush admit their mistakes
    14 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Independent
    Robin Cook The coalition needs to find a model of reconstruction that gives priority to jobs in Iraq over profits in Texas. IT is almost exactly a year since a triumphalist President Bush in combat fatigues swooped on to the deck of an aircraft carrier to announce that "major combat operations" were over in Iraq. Yet for the past week television bulletins have been carrying violent images from Iraq that look suspiciously like major combat operations. Conquering Iraq (…)

  • New Reports on U.S. Planting WMDs in Iraq
    13 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BASRA, April 12 (MNA) — Fifty days after the first reports that the U.S. forces were unloading weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in southern Iraq, new reports about the movement of these weapons have been disclosed.
    Sources in Iraq speculate that occupation forces are using the recent unrest in Iraq to divert attention from their surreptitious shipments of WMD into the country.
    An Iraqi source close to the Basra Governor’s Office told the MNA that new information shows that a large part (…)