More children killed in Iraq after US raids
Truth About IraqisBleed the children, eradicate future generations. Look at this picture (Thanks to TODAY IN IRAQ for the heads-up) carefully. The child's skull is split in two, the white you see in the middle is the color of the jishdasha the man is wearing. How did this child die? The US Military said a raid on Baquba resulted in the "killing of seven terrorists and two children". Wait. What's the connection? How do you kill seven terrorists and two children? The US military said it was targeting insurgents in the area where Zarqawi was operating. Wait. Didn't the US military once lead us to believe Zarqawi was everywhere at the same time? Popping up from one part of the country to the other. So, how big is this area exactly?...
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IT’S ALL A BIG HAZE
Malcom Lagauche...To many people, the subject of Iraq from the time of August 2, 1990 until today has been a big haze. So many things have occurred that it appears like the world experienced many versions of the ongoing U.S.-Iraq war. However, it is still one ongoing war that has included many battles and there is no end in sight. One part of the big haze that probably has escaped the memory of most people is the last week of the George Bush I presidency. Incidents of that week were used as a warmup for future belligerence against Iraq. Bush wanted to leave in place the mechanics to be able to attack Iraq at any time, for no reason other than bravado, even though the U.S. signed a cease-fire agreement with Iraq in March 1991. From March 1991 to January 1993, the embargo took hold. Iraqis began to suffer and die. But, there were no U.S. military attacks against Iraq. During Bush I’s last week, he decided to change that and set the stage for ongoing military action against Iraq, under the guise of many names, such as the "no-fly zone," etc. On January 13, 1993, news broadcasts were interrupted to proclaim that the U.S. was bombing Iraqi anti-aircraft sites. No one expected this, so the talk was intense about the new operation (...) This one-week period of January 1993 may not have represented a massive military engagement against Iraq. However, its legacy was very damaging as the stage had been set for any U.S. president to bomb Iraq at any time with no reason, creating a big haze that still permeates peoples’ minds today...
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So you thought Iraqis would receive justice?
Truth About IraqisSovereignty in Iraq. It is worth remembering those three words when you weigh the number of atrocities committed by US troops and private security (former US, UK, South African and other military personnel) firms against the number of those charged, punished or even incarcerated. I told you about how the US military blatantly lied about Ishaqi. And for the past two years they lied about Falluja and the use of White Phosphorous in addition to shooting at civilians carrying white flags, blowing up hospitals, and wome and children (...) The world public have seen video evidence, pictures, heard testimony and despite all of this the Western military man is NEVER WRONG. The fault is on the Iraqis for being ... Iraqis...
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Funereal in Gaza
Mike WhitneyIn Beit Lahiya on the June 9, 2006, 7 year old Huda Ghalya offered her final good-byes to her mother, her father, and her other siblings who were cut down by Israeli mortar-fire while picnicking on the beach in Gaza. Huda managed to escape the blast that killed 5 members of her family because she was swimming at the time. At the cemetery Huda was inconsolable and had to be revived repeatedly after fainting. "Father, father, forgive me", she said, as she knelt by his gravesite kissing his hand and weeping. As her father was lowered into the earth, she cried, "Don’t leave me alone" ...
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A letter to the brothers in all the Jihad factions
Mujahedeens' Armed Forces' General Command...Your beautiful country Iraq is being immolated from north to south! Your women are raped and your honors are violated! Your possessions are stolen! Your dreams are killed! Your scientists and your elders are slaughtered! Your faith is insulted and your Koran desecrated! Your mosques, your holy shrines and your indigenous Iraqi millenia old churches are burnt, and bombed and from where gush and flow blood and odor of death instead of prayers and the scent of incense! The bloodthirsty savage western occupiers and the pagan Persian fire wortshippers dogs have violated your dignity! They walked on your pride and they have maculated the soil! They sow every where in Iraq, corruption, destruction, mass murders and torture making no distinction between a Shia, a Sunni, a Christian, Kurd, Arab, Turkoman or Yezidi. They want to destroy Iraq as a present, future and as a history. They wish to impose a new Safawide, Zionist state of affairs with the blessings and the help of the bloodthirsty US fascist occupier to facilitate the loot (of the booty). But! Cursed they are for ever! Iraq will never ever be a booty! Rather! the soil of Iraq will swallow them as it did for the invaders before! And God knows there are in Iraq, proud people as the pride of the Iraqi date palm trees...
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Ramadi: Fallujah Redux
Dahr Jamail, t r u t h o u tFearful residents are now pouring out of Ramadi after the US military has been assaulting the city for months with tactics like cutting water, electricity and medical aid, imposing curfews, and attacking by means of snipers and random air strikes. This time, Iraqis there are right to fear the worst - an all out attack on the city, similar to what was done to nearby Fallujah. It has always been just a matter of time before the US military would finally get around to destroying Ramadi, the capital city of al-Anbar province. After all, Ramadi is not far from Fallujah, and so similar to Fallujah both tribally and in their disdain towards the idea of being occupied, that many people in Ramadi even refer to Fallujah as "Ramadi." I know many people from Ramadi who lost relatives and friends during both US assaults on Fallujah, and the level of anti-American sentiment has always been high there...
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“We Don’t Want to Inflict Values”
The Occupiers and the Worsening Plight of Iraqi Gays
Gary Leupp, www.dissidentvoice.orgLast May, Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith interviewed seven young Iraqi men on the program (...) One stated, "A lot of people want, well, 'We just want Saddam come back. We don’t want to live this life. OK, dictator? We don’t care; doesn’t matter anymore. We just want Saddam get back. We just want our life to get back to before.’" Leaving aside the daily "collateral damage" killings of Iraqi civilians, and the occupiers’ failure to accomplish the most basic reconstruction goals, the collapse of law and order and accompanying empowerment of fanatic religious militias has made life hell for women, Christians and other religious minorities, and intellectuals. "Under the previous dictator regime, the basic rights for women were enshrined in the constitution," the head of an Iraqi women’s group told Inter Press Service News Agency in March (...) As for intellectuals, over a thousand university professors had been killed by the end of 2005 by thugs taking advantage of the invasion-induced chaos to lash out those whose critical reasoning clashes with their religious prejudices. A Baghdad University political science professor has stated, "To tell the truth, in the time of Saddam Hussein, we used to speak to our students freely.… But now, a lot of people are not willing to say these kinds of things because of fear."...
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DAILY WAR NEWS FOR MONDAY, June 12, 2006
Today in IraqU.S.-led forces raided a house near a volatile city northeast of Baghdad on Monday, killing nine people, including two children, the military said (...) An attack involving three separate explosions, thought to have targeted a bus taking workers to Iraq's industry ministry, killed six people and wounded 12 others. Police reports say the victims were all workers at Baghdad's main oil refinery in the Dora district of the city. Two mortar rounds struck a neighborhood in southern Baghdad, killing three civilians just moments after gunmen strafed the area with random fire. Eleven others were wounded in the mortar attack. No one was injured in the drive-by shootings. A car bomb in the commercial Karrada district killed six people and wounded more than 40. In Baghdad's northern Shuala neighborhood, gunmen wounded two teachers, a man and woman. An explosion in Sadr City killed four people and wounded 41...
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Another U.S. Cover-Up Surfaces
Dahr Jamail and Arkan HamedIn the wake of the Haditha massacre, reports of another atrocity have surfaced in which U.S. troops killed two women in Samarra, and then attempted to hide evidence of their responsibility. Among the innumerable such cases people speak of, this one too has now come to light. According to an earlier account, Nabiha Nisaif Jassim, a 35-year-old mother of two, was killed in firing along with her 57-year-old cousin Saliha Mohammed Hassan on May 30 when they were being transported to Samarra General Hospital for Nabiha to give birth. What was not reported, according to an Iraqi human rights investigator who spoke with IPS on condition of anonymity, was that both women were shot in the back of the head by U.S. snipers...
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Gitmo Sings the Tombstone Blues
Chris FloydI was going to write something about the prisoner suicides at Bush's Cuban concentration camp, and the Pentagon's ludicrous "explanation" that the deaths were, simultaneously, both a carefully planned act of "asymmetric warfare" and also an outburst of pure mumbo-jumbo among primitive darkies who had somehow concocted the mystical belief that if three of them died then all the prisoners would be freed. (Sidenote: The utter contempt in which the Bush Regime holds the American people was clearly on display here: they're not even trying to make a coherent, plausible defense of the torturous limboland they've devised in Gitmo anymore. They just say anything, even if it contradicts itself, anything to muddy the waters, knowing that people -- or at least the ever-servile media -- will swallow it and move on to the next news cycle)...
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Suppose they gave a war and nobody lied?
Joseph Cannon, CannonfireCynicism becomes inevitable when an entire war is based on a forgery, and when that war includes staged media extravaganzas such as the "spontaneous" pulling of Saddam's statue and the pseudo-rescue of Jessica Lynch. A deep cynicism surrounds the death of Abu Musab al Zarqawi, bogeyman extraordinaire. Editor and Publisher discusses the faked Zarqawi letter from early 2004, which bolstered the Bush administration's propaganda line that Al Qaeda controlled the Iraq insurgency. The letter was leaked to NYT writer Dexter Filkins and to William Safire, who (as I've noted before) told completely different tales about its origiins. E&P notes that the NYT refused to publish any material casting doubt on the letter's authenticity, even after other publications started to poke holes in the story, and even though Filkins himself harbored such doubts. A couple of months ago, Bush still vouched for the authenticity of this letter on the very same day the Washington Post revealed it to be a propaganda creation. Question: If that letter was bunk, why should any sane person believe the current official pronouncements about the death of Zarqawi?...
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The Owners Of War
Judith Moriarty, www.rense.comThis morning, listening to C-Span, I was sickened at the inhumane remarks made by callers from across the country (both parties). I would estimate that 90% of the people had no problem with the recent massacre of civilians in Haditha. It was apparent, listening to their comments that few had bothered to read the initial accounts of this massacre. There was the usual lionizing of the military fighting for peace, justice and the American way...
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How Not to Get Out Of Iraq
Why “Redeployment” is the Wrong Answer to the Iraq Question
Pat Gerber...The Murtha and Boxer resolutions are steps toward repositioning U.S. planes, the troops who fly and service them, and everything else the military needs to bases in nearby Kuwait, Qatar, and Oman, as well as on ships that patrol the Gulf. These aircraft would then patrol Iraq’s skies 24/7, looking for "signs of trouble" and dropping bombs whenever any are found. Since the number of troops needed to control Iraq by use of air power is smaller than the number we currently have on the ground, some of them – perhaps as many as 25% -- will be able to come home. However, this is not a formula for bringing peace to the region but for continuing to exercise American control without having our boots on their soil. Instead of advancing the cause of ending the war and ushering in an era of peace, it allows the U.S. to continue managing Iraq’s affairs by using a new technique. This is not a substitute for ending the carnage (...) Last year, a few peace groups endorsed the Murtha bill before they understood what it actually entailed. Let’s not make that mistake again. This year, let’s tell congress that the only redeployment we want is the one that brings the troops home...
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War Crimes and BBC's Insane Society
Gabriele Zamparini...Your words "We took the view that there was little more we could add to the story" are dated June 10. In those same hours, three people – INNOCENT PEOPLE!!! - were killing themselves in the US concentration camp Guantanamo. Once again the BBC is actively aiding and abetting in war crimes and crimes against humanity. And now, please, tell us everything about the Rooney story. You have shown what an INSANE SOCIETY is...
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 12 June 2006
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org...US occupation forces have issued an ultimatum to the city of ar-Ramadi, giving the city until June 15 to turn in all the Iraqi Resistance fighters in the city or face massive American military attack, Quds Press reported. Leaflets dropped by US aircraft on a number of ar-Ramadi neighborhoods said that the residents of the city will have the opportunity to leave their town until 15 June. Resistance fighters must surrender, the American leaflets threatened, or face a massive American offensive. US forces battled Iraqi Resistance fighters in various neighborhoods of the city on Saturday, 10 June, for several hours from shortly after midnight until the first hours of the morning. In the end, US forces backed away from the northern part of the city....
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a note on "PERCEPTION"
Gabriele Zamparini, The cat's dreamInteresting the way the AP ends its article "American Lawyer Criticizes Saddam Court" "The perceived fairness of the trial is a crucial issue, since U.S. and Iraqi officials have hoped that showing justice toward Saddam will help heal the deep Shiite-Sunni divisions that have exploded since his regime's fall." It's always about "PERCEPTION", isn't it? This is one of the most used words by the Western state-corporate media every time the topic is war crimes, violations of international law, etc. There is always a problem of "PERCEPTION"...
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US 'planning to keep 50,000 troops in Iraq for many years'
Francis Harris in Washington, The TelegraphAmerica plans to retain a garrison of 50,000 troops, one tenth of its entire army, in Iraq for years to come, according to US media reports. The revelation came as George W Bush summoned his top political, military and intelligence aides to a summit on Iraq's future today at the presidential retreat at Camp David. Tomorrow the Americans will talk by video link to Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq's prime minister, and members of his cabinet, as well as American military commanders in Iraq...
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Sure…the Iraqis are guilty
Roads to IraqThis is the reality of the occupation, Iraqis blood is so cheap that shooting Iraqis became a hobby and a seasonal sport. Just like Haditha and Ishaqi, both disappeared in the mist of democracy and fake investigations; believe me nobody will be convicted and they are all innocents. Contractors Cleared in Videotaped Attacks The U.S. military has concluded its investigation into a video that appeared to show private security contractors shooting at civilian vehicles driving on highways in Iraq and determined that no one involved will be charged with a crime, a military spokesman in Baghdad said. Who’s guilt?, sure…the Iraqis…. driving, walking and minding their daily life in peace in their own country....
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