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According to information from the International Red Cross more than 100 children are being held in Iraqi prisons, as well as in the infamous Abu Ghreib. As the TV magazine “Report” reports, maltreatment of children and youngsters by coalition troops appears to have occurred.
Mainz - “Between January and May we have registered a total of 107 childred, during 19 visits at 6 different detention centers,” said the spokesman for the International Red Cross (IRC), Florian Westphal, in Geneva (…)

By Robert Fisk
He drafted a new piece of legislation forbidding Iraqi motorists to drive with only one hand on the wheel. Another document solemnly announced that it would henceforth be a crime for Iraqis to sound their car horns except in an emergency. That same day, three American soldiers were torn apart by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad, one of more than 60 attacks on US forces over the weekend. And all the while, Mr Bremer was worrying about the standards of Iraqi driving.
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Comment: This is now proof of what we suspected all along. Phony ’Al-Qaeda’ groups with websites based in the US are claiming responsibility or acting as patsies for numerous different events. This has psy-ops written all over it.
The Islamic militant group Ansar al-Sunna has denied reports it has beheaded a US marine in Iraq.
A statement that the group had killed Cpl Wassef Ali Hassoun, an American of Lebanese origin, was made on two militant websites on Saturday.
But on its own (…)

People of Russia;
You all have suffered for many years with corruption and death to many people. A man and his underlings that are self-serving and cruel now rule your country. Putin is the man who is a KGB loyalist with motives that only satisfy a few. He has taken the power from the people and working class and has redirected it to a select few.
Look around you and see the sorrow in the streets and the hunger in the children, the mothers that try to feed their families, the fathers (…)

Dems Delete Support For Kyoto Treaty in new Platform In an initial draft of its 2004 platform, the Democratic Party has condemned the Bush’s administration unilateral foreign policy approach but it has decided not to describe the war in Iraq as a mistake or to call for the withdrawal of U.S. troops in Iraq.
Half of the 60-page draft, which was released on Saturday, concerns national security. It charges the Bush administration has walked away from more than 100 years of American leadership (…)

Keep your eyes on Putin! He now controls the oil and soon all resources. He will always be KGB! Democracy is a front to hide his goals. It will be payback to the Reagan lies. Just ask Napolean when he was fooled by Russia. Mother Russia only takes care of its children first!

The Bay Area Women’s Initiative for Peace and Justice will hold its first Women’s Peace Day on July 9th at the San Francisco Women’s Building. The event will focus on Korea, Okinawa and the Philippines — areas in Asia with long-term experience of occupation by the US military.
The Initiative is a project of GABRIELA Network USA, a Philippine-US women’s solidarity mass organizations; Korea Solidarity Committee, Nikkeis for Peace and Justice, and the Asian Pacific Coalition Against the (…)

by Uri Avnery
In the silence of the courtroom, there was an audible gasp of surprise and shock when Supreme Justice Aharon Barak, reading the court’s decision, reached the words: “The military commander did not use his discretion in a proportional way, as required.”
At that moment the veteran peace activists who filled the room realized that they had won.
Four days before, we could not have dreamt of that. We were far from the sterile silence of the beautiful Supreme Court building: a (…)

There is no doubt that the stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction alleged to be in Iraq were not there, the former UK Iraq envoy has said.
But Sir Jeremy Greenstock told BBC One’s Breakfast with Frost programme the reasons for taking action at the time were "compelling".
"We were wrong on the stockpiles. We were right on the intention," he said.
Meanwhile, Commons Leader Peter Hain has said a probe into the intelligence on WMD should not lead to a witch hunt.
Speaking on Sunday, (…)

She is a conspiracy theorist whose political conceits have consistently been proved wrong. So why were Bush and his aides so keen to swallow Laurie Mylroie’s theories on Saddam and terrorism?
By Peter Bergen
Americans supported the war in Iraq not because Saddam Hussein was an evil dictator - they knew that - but because President Bush made the case that Saddam might hand weapons of mass destruction to his terrorist allies to wreak havoc on the United States. In the absence of any (…)