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  • Iraqis killed by USA toll ’over one million’
    13 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraq death toll ’over one million’
    aljazeera :: 2008-02-01 ::
    Over 1,000,000 Iraqis Killed as a Result of the Conflict Started by the US-led Invasion of Iraq in 2003
    More than one million Iraqis have died as a result of the conflict started by the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, according to a new survey by a UK polling group.
    The report was followed by more violence on Thursday, with five people killed and eight injured in a bomb blast in the Kazimiyah neighbourhood of Baghdad, (…)

  • Too many babies without eyes in Iraq as a result of depleted Uranium bombs
    12 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Edward De Sutter 26/05/2001 source : Dutch Journal Medical Science
    Source: Nederlands Tijdschrift Geneeskunde, 2001, 26 mei; 145(21), blz.1024 (Dutch Journal Medical Science, 26 May, 2001; 145(21), p.1024) Iraq: Too many babies without eyes
    Mohammed A. Salman, an eye surgeon from Baghdad, is reporting via the internet about the phenomenon anophthalmos: babies who have been born with only one eye or who are missing both eyes. This is a rare anomaly, which normally exists at 1 of the 50 (…)

  • Horror Chamber In Feb 1991 USA planes bombed Civilian shelter
    12 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In Feb 1991 USA planes bombed a shelter causing the death of 408 innocent civilians
    Inside the Al-Amiriya Shelter / Baghdad- IRAQ By RAMZY BAROUD
    A few years ago, I stepped into the horror of the Gulf War. It was April 1999, and the place was Baghdad’s al-Amiriya bomb shelter.
    Living most of my life in a refugee camp in Gaza, where the murder of innocent people at the hands of Israeli troops is routine, I was little hesitant to walk into al-Amiriya. I was not braced for what I would (…)

  • USA Army Buried Study Faulting Iraq Planning
    12 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By MICHAEL R. GORDON
    WASHINGTON — The Army is accustomed to protecting classified information. But when it comes to the planning for the Iraq war, even an unclassified assessment can acquire the status of a state secret. That is what happened to a detailed study of the planning for postwar Iraq prepared for the Army by the RAND Corporation, a federally financed center that conducts research for the military. After 18 months of research, RAND submitted a report in the summer of 2005 called (…)

  • Antiwar America Unite
    12 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    If 80% of America wants to End the War & Impeach Bush, why can’t we accomplish our goals?
    We have been unsuccesful thus far because we are not united. And why is that? Because many of the anti-war ’leaders’ are actually government plants operating in the cointelpro tradition of infiltrate, disrupt and discredit.
    Does that sound outlandish to you? Do you still think we’re a free country and our government would never use nazi tactics like that? Well it’s true.
    * Police spies (…)

  • The USA most Savage Crime of the Century
    11 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The USA most Savage Crime of the Century/ Bombing of Al-Amiriya Shelter In February 1991, during the First Gulf War, a U.S. bomb punched a hole through the roof of the Al-Amiriya bomb shelter; seconds later a missile plowed through the opening. The blasts killed 408 civilians, mostly women and children( as can be seen from the following list). Many were killed by the concussion, the rest by a fire so intense it left flash-burned outlines of women and infants on the walls that are still (…)

  • Red Cross Says Global Ban on Cluster Bombs Urgent
    9 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/07/6900/print/
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-16459645.html
    by Robert Evans
    GENEVA - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) called on Wednesday for urgent conclusion of a global pact to ban cluster weapons even if big powers like the United States, Russia and China were not ready to join.
    The Swiss-based humanitarian body’s senior arms specialist, Peter Herby, told a news conference the ICRC hoped the text of a (…)

  • IRAN-The Words No US Candidate Dare Say: NUCLEAR WAR
    7 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Commondreams
    January 28 2007
    By George Lakoff *
    The elimination of Natanz would be a major setback for Iran’s nuclear ambitions, but the conventional weapons in the American arsenal could not insure the destruction of facilities under seventy-five feet of earth and rock, especially if they are reinforced with concrete."
    —Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker, April 17, 2006
    "The second concern is that if an underground laboratory is deeply buried, that can also confound conventional (…)

  • US troops admit abusing Iraqis
    6 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    US troops admit abusing Iraqis
    aljazeera.net :: 2007-05-05 ::
    US involvement in Iraq have been dogged by claims of mistreatment of Iraqi detainees and civilians [AFP]
    Almost one in ten US combat troops deployed in Iraq have mistreated a civilian, according to a new survey conducted by an army mental health advisory team.
    The report, released on Friday, also found that less than half of the soldiers and marines surveyed would report a fellow serviceman for killing or injuring an (…)

  • Rights eroded in Iraq in 2007 with civilians targeted
    6 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    HRW: Rights eroded in Iraq in 2007 with civilians targeted
    AFP :: 2008-02-01 ::
    Human rights in Iraq deteriorated for much of 2007 while sectarian violence targeting civilians swelled the number of displaced to around 4.4 million, half of them abroad, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.
    "Attacks on civilians by various insurgent and militia groups continued," HRW said in a bleak assessment of Iraq in its annual report.
    This included the single deadliest attack since the war began in (…)