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Twenty Iraqis have been killed and 22 injured after US helicopters and heavy artillery bombed houses in al-Rummana village, north of al-Qaim city, Aljazeera reported.
Seven children, six women and three old men were among the dead, witnesses said, while the injured included 13 children, seven women and two old men.
The witnesses added that the shelling started after US forces, who landed near al-Qaim on Monday night, came under repeated attack.
Early reports indicated one house was (…)

Up to 300,000 demonstrated to demand an end to the occupation of Iraq on April 9, 2005, in Firdos Square (translated as ’Paradise Square’ in English) in Baghdad, Ramadi, and Najaf. Juan Cole says that "[i]f it were even half that, these would be the largest popular demonstrations in Iraq since 1958!"
FULL TEXT:
– http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/0...

By Norman D. Livergood
Today, the United States is being subverted and destroyed internally by a criminal, imperialistic ruling cabal controlling the Bush junta. Plutocratic cabals have previously tried to destroy this nation by achieving dominance in political and economic power. Such attempts in the past have resulted in abject failure and in the case we will examine, led to the destruction of the political party that tried to create a dictatorship.
By understanding the lessons to be (…)

At least 30 US troops reported killed, US mainstream media reports ZERO? Maybe one or two? Americans are being misled by a corrupt media.
ORIGINAL:
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 10 April 2005 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org
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Sunday, 10 April 2005.
Al-Anbar Province. Al-Qa’im.
Iraqi Resistance in liberated al-Qa’im shoots down US Apache helicopter Sunday (…)

Halliburton, the Houston-based oil services company, may have overcharged the US government by $212m (£113m, €165m) for work in Iraq, according to portions of Pentagon audits released yesterday.
KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton formerly run by Vice-President Dick Cheney, came under fire last year following allegations that it had overcharged the government $62m in "unreasonable costs" for importing fuel from Kuwait to Iraq.
Yesterday Henry Waxman, the top Democrat on the House committee (…)

By Ryan Lenz
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) Lavinia Gelineau’s grief-filled odyssey began a year ago when her husband was killed in an ambush by Iraqi insurgents, just a few weeks before their second wedding anniversary. She spent the following months attempting to ease the pain by lending support to other widows of soldiers.
She visited graves, left flowers and notes and attended funerals at each ceremony clutching a bright pink teddy bear her husband, Christopher, had given her on Valentine’s (…)

Workers arriving at the Caterpillar - Perkins site in Irlam, Greater Manchester this morning were surprised, first by a 30 foot yellow banner with an acrylic image of a Palestinian, head in hands, whose house is being demolished by a Cat bulldozer while an Israeli soldier stands guard. The spray-painted text proclaims "Stop Caterpillar... Palestine... House Demolitions... Apartheid Wall... Perkins... 100% owned by Caterpillar... Israeli Tank Deal".
The banner flew from a mound of grass (…)

Dear George and Dick,
I apologize (not really, you don’t deserve my apologies) for the familiarity, but I don’t call the people responsible for my son’s death: Mr, or Sir, nor do I have any respect for the offices that you have defiled. The only thing you both mean to me is pain and devastation. George and Dick, you are both shameful cowards who are sending our brave young people to die to make yourselves and your buddies unbelievably and fabulously wealthy. Neither of you have any idea of (…)

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press Writer
BOSTON - Many voters in last year’s presidential election were denied access to the polls through trickery and intimidation, former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry told a voters’ group Sunday.
"Last year too many people were denied their right to vote, too many who tried to vote were intimidated," the Massachusetts senator said at an event sponsored by the state League of Women Voters.
"There is no magic wand. No one person is (…)

Inflation has outpaced the rise in salaries for the first time in 14 years. And workers are paying a bigger share of the cost of their healthcare.
By Nicholas Riccardi Times Staff Writer
For the first time in 14 years, the American workforce has in effect gotten an across-the-board pay cut.
The growth in wages in 2004 and the first two months of this year trailed inflation, compounding the squeeze from higher housing, energy and other costs.
The result is that people like Victor (…)