By ROBERT BURNS
The Army has cleared four top officers - including the three-star general who commanded all U.S. forces in Iraq - of all allegations of wrongdoing in connection with prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, officials said Friday.
Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who became the senior commander in Iraq in June 2003, two months after the fall of Baghdad, had been faulted in earlier investigations for leadership lapses that may have contributed to prisoner abuse. He is the highest ranking (…)
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Army Clears Top Abu Ghraib Case Officers
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Iraqi Legislators Denounce Us Assault On Assembly Member
23 April 2005by James Cagan
An incident on Tuesday graphically illustrated the real relationship that exists between the US military forces in Iraq and the newly-elected, so-called “sovereign” Iraqi national assembly. At a vehicle checkpoint controlling the entrance to the “Green Zone” compound where the assembly’s building is located, a US army private threw an assembly member’s identity card in his face, pulled him from his car, handcuffed him and dragged him away in front of stunned onlookers.
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Marines storm ashore in Nitzanim
23 April 2005By ARIEH O’SULLIVAN
Hundreds of US Marines riding hovercrafts stormed ashore the beaches of Nitzanim Wednesday as part of joint maneuvers being quietly held between the US and Israeli militaries.
The Marines simulated an armed assault from the sea while IDF forces maneuvered inland until the two forces met.
Military sources said the operation was code named "Kaya Green." Troops were delivered by LCVs (hovercrafts) which also unloaded Humvees.
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Iraqgate: Saddam Hussein, U.S. Policy and the Prelude to the Persian Gulf War, 1980-1994
22 April 2005Friends in Deed: The United States and Iraq Before the Persian Gulf War
The scandal that came to be called "Iraqgate" first attracted widespread public attention in 1990, in the aftermath of Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait and the ensuing Persian Gulf war. The invasion followed a decade in which two successive U.S. administrations had viewed improvement of U.S.-Iraq relations as an important tenet of U.S. foreign policy, and had engaged in extensive trade with that country in pursuit (…) -
Rescuing the USA
22 April 2005How do we take her back from the wolves and jackals and what steps should we be planning to rid her of the cancers and chancres which right wing extremists have infested her with?
If the USA is rescued from the wolves an jackals who are raping and devouring her, what will we have to do to salvage what remains? How many deregulated industries, categories, activities will have to be re-regulated? How many taxes will have to be re-instated? How many criminal politicians will we have to try, (…) -
Are We Safer?
22 April 2005For two hours, truth once again became a virtue in Washington, DC. The second-annual Ron Ridenhour Awards—sponsored by the Fertel Foundation and The Nation Institute and named after the whistle-blower who exposed the My Lai massacre in Vietnam—honored New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh, author Adrian Nicole LeBlanc and housewife-turned-activist Kristin Breitweiser for their achievements in "truth-telling."
Breitweiser found herself widowed at age thirty when her husband Ron died at Tower (…) -
Halliburton: Poster Child of the War Profiteers
22 April 2005More and more revelations about contract abuse by Halliburton come out regularly. Just last week Rep. Henry Waxman issued a report that found Halliburton overcharging in Iraq now totaled more than $200 million, see: http://www.democrats.reform.house.gov/. Activists in Houston are working with national groups, including Democracy Rising, to highlight corporate contract abuse by Halliburton when they hold their shareholders meeting this May 18. In the interview below with DemocracyRising’s (…)
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HIGH RESOLUTION VIDEOS OF THE 9/11 HOAX (AND MUCH MORE).
22 April 2005HIGH RESOLUTION VIDEOS OF THE 9/11 HOAX (AND MUCH MORE).
Here you will find hi-resolution video of the (obvious) demolition of World Trade Center Seven and of the (less obvious) demolition of the Towers. The Naudet brothers stunning footage of the first plane hitting the North tower is also presented (at least one of the brothers quite clearly knew the first aircraft was about to hit the North Tower) together with less well known footage of the first plane hitting the tower, accidently (…) -
Iraq: The Trail of Disinformation
22 April 2005Iraq: The Trail of Disinformation What Really Happened
April 21, 2005
Let’s start with a simple fact. The United States invaded and conquered Iraq on the basis of lies. Even the official report of the United States Senate < http://www.infowars.com/print/iraq/war_on_alie.htm > admits as much. So, where did all this bad information come from? While the culprits would like to pin the blame on the Central Intelligence Agency, the facts point in a different direction. To cite just one (…) -
YET ANOTHER RAT ZINGER: HE’S A WAR CRIMINAL
22 April 2005By Hal Womack 3-dan
The new Pope alias the Despicable Joseph Ratzinger was the leading Vatican player promoting Bush Junior’s election campaign last year. JR issued an edict to the American hierarchy instructing them that the supreme issue in the US election of 2004 was the use of police powers to lock up abortionists. JR made it clear to US Catholics that the Vatican preferred the candidacy of George Bush, supposedly on that ground.
US Catholics voted for Bush over Kerry by a margin of (…)