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By Ghali Hassan
On 30 June 2004, Mr. Iyad Allawi will switch his position from the Iraqi Governing Council (IGC) to be come the Iraq’s new Prime Minister in the new named Iraqi Interim Government (IIG), another creature of the U.S. Nothing will change for the Iraqi People. The Iraqi people are very sceptical and despised those expatriates the U.S. piggybacked to Baghdad. For Mr. Allawi and his clique, they will be richer and brutal. Mr. Allawi will appear on American TV screens as often as (…)

By Ibrahim Ebeid - co-editor@al-moharer.net
Selected President George W. Bush used fabricated lies to persuade the American people to support his invasion of Iraq. This war built on lies and deception will always remain a stain in American history.
Finally, the President was refuted and exposed by the Commission investigating the 2001 terrorist attacks. The facts discovered by the Commission could not be clearer and more factual. There was never any evidence linking Iraq to Al Qaida or (…)

Israel has hundreds of intelligence agents in the Kurdish areas of Northern Iraq believed to be involved in the collection of information and monitoring of events in Iraq, Iran and Syria.
Israel is concerned the United States will not be successful in stabilising Iraq after the transfer of sovereignty on June 30, and the elections scheduled for January 2005.
Many of the agents in the region are believed to be Mossad operatives investigating Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
The source of (…)

The British Ministry of Defense (MoD) is investigating charges that its soldiers mutilated the bodies of Iraqis last month, amid reports of "buying off" families of Iraqis killed by its troops to silence them.
"We are investigating evidence that has been given to us and should the outcome of that require it, we will commence a formal investigation into the incident," Reuters quoted a ministry spokeswoman as saying.
The Sunday Telegraph said an Iraqi judge had ordered that some of the (…)

Baghdad, June 20 (NNN): Even as US forces claimed they targeted the members of a network headed by an al-Qaeda leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, on Saturday, local residents of the Iraqi city of Falluja on Sunday vehemently disputed an American account of the air attack in which at least 20 people were killed.
Reports quoting the residents said that women and children were among the dead, and that a second missile strike was aimed at rescuers trying to find victims of the first attack.
The (…)

Newly unearthed, once-classified documents remind us that Abu Ghraib is hardly the first time that torture became policy.
By Stephen Kinzer
Not everyone was shocked by the revelations of the ways American soldiers have abused Iraqi prisoners. Those who have studied techniques that American interrogators taught and used in Vietnam, Latin America, and elsewhere during past decades felt only a grim sense of recognition.
"We are living an illusion if we think these practices are unique," (…)

By Zvi Bar’el Big money is being made in Iraq by American and British security firms, some of them headed by former senior officials, among them George Bush senior. Among those who sign up as security personnel are drug and arms dealers, as well as former servants of dark regimes of the past.
George Bush senior showed his mettle this week by skydiving on his 80th birthday. Older people, he declared, were still not "out of the game." He, for one, is certainly still in the game. For the (…)

2003 State of the Union Address Contained Implicit Admission
The National Lawyers Guild calls for the prosecution of President George W. Bush with a "command responsibility" theory of liability under the War Crimes Act. Bush can be prosecuted under the War Crimes Act or the Torture Statute, if he knew or should have known about the U.S. military’s use of torture and failed to stop or prevent it. A comment in the President’s January 2003 State of the Union Address contained an implicit (…)

By VIVECA NOVAK AND DOUGLAS WALLER
Could the abuse of prisoners in Iraq have gone beyond the beatings and sexual humiliation already alleged? Unreleased, classified parts of the report on prison abuse from Major General Anthony Taguba, which were read to TIME, contain indications of mistreatment of female prisoners. In a Feb. 21 statement to Taguba, Lieut. Colonel Steven L. Jordan, former head of the Abu Ghraib interrogation center, said he had received reports "that there were members of (…)

By Roy Eccleston, Washington correspondent
TREAT them like dogs. That was the advice Janis Karpinski says she received from the US officer in charge of Guantanamo Bay when he flew to Iraq to advise on the interrogation of the detainees being held at Abu Ghraib prison.
That officer, Geoffrey Miller, denies he said any such thing. But Brigadier-General Karpinski, 51, who commanded the military police who ran the US-controlled prisons in Iraq, told The Australian she clearly recalls his (…)