About Maliki's reconciliation plan
Abdul Ilah Al Bayaty - political analyst - member of the BRussells Tribunal Advisory Committee (27 June 2006)There is no doubt that the Maliki's project of 'national reconciliation' is a political manoeuvre planned by the Pentagon and the State Department's circles in order to pretend, before the American congressionnal elections taking place in November, that there is some progress taking place in the so-called Iraqi "political process ", whose aim is to implement the US project for Iraq. The essence of this initiative is to give the impression that the danger overshadowing Iraq is Iran and the death squads controlled by it directly or indirectly. And, as a consequence, that the Arab resistance should cooperate with the US and the occupation's government to stand against this danger. No patriotic sane and conscious individual can fall into this trap, whether he is involved in the armed national resistance or outside it...
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THOUSANDS OF DISPLACED FAMILIES FLEE RAMADI AS HOSPITALS RUN OUT OF MEDICINE: CITY IS THREATENED BY MASSIVE US / IRAQI MILITARY ATTACK.
Dr. Salam T. Ismael (General secretary of Doctors For Iraq Society - Iraq) - BRussells Tribunal (26/06/2006)Doctors for Iraq has received reports that an estimated 3,250 families from the city of Ramadi have been forced to flee the city because of the threat of an imminent US/ Iraqi military attack on the city. Ramadi is the capital of Anbar Province in the west of Iraq and is home to an estimated 500,000 people. Many thousands of people are now displaced trying to flee the city in fear of a military assault on Ramadi. Residents described severe shortages of water and electricity in the past seven days especially in the Al Tameem and Al Azizia quarters of the city. All entrances and exists to the city have been sealed off by the US/ Iraqi military with reports of only one passage remaining open through the Al Warar bridge that provides a route out of Ramadi...
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GUNPOWDER OUT OF WHEAT
Malcom LagaucheWhen the Gulf War ended in March 1991, there was still one prize that eluded the U.S.: Saddam Hussein. However, Bush I was not worried. He thought Saddam would be gone soon and that a military coup would replace him and cooperate with the U.S. The C.I.A. and other agencies gave Saddam Hussein six months to remain in power. The simultaneous uprising of the Kurds and the Shia was the first ploy in getting rid of Saddam and creating a new U.S. stooge government. At first, the plan seemed to be working. The insurgent groups controlled 16 of 18 Iraqi provinces. Then, the Iraqi army began to dominate and the uprisings were done. Saddam was still in power. The next step was to come up with dirty tricks to allow the U.S. to again attack Iraq under the guise of Iraq’s non-compliance of U.N. resolutions. When the U.N. inspectors first arrived in Iraq, the U.S. delegates were spies. The Iraqi government knew this and when they complained, the U.S. said their allegations were preposterous. Today, we know the Iraqis were right. Scott Ritter, a spy amongst spies, has come out of the closet and told the truth that the inspections were aimed at getting rid of Saddam, not seeing if Iraq acquiesced to the resolutions. Ritter also reiterated that all U.S. personnel on the inspection teams were spies. Things seemingly were going fairly smooth. Then, in July 1992, the U.N. called for an inspection of the Iraqi Agriculture Ministry. The Iraqis disallowed the request. They said there was no information about weapons in the Ministry...
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Militias Oppressing Iraqi Women
Woman's Rights Observatory on Retreat of Women's Role in Political ProcessIn a memorandum addressed to the United Nations and a number of embassies in Baghdad, the National Observatory for Iraqi Woman's Rights said that it has received bitter complaints from Iraqi female activists and defenders of women's rights in Iraq indicating that there has been a retreat in what the observatory described "woman's role in political life" (...) The Observatory said that the position of Iraqi woman was deteriorating and the situation was becoming more serious. Woman's political role is being confiscated. She is exposed increasingly to threats and dangers as a result of the spread of violence in the country. The Observatory denounced the new measures the gunmen are using against women in Karbala. They prevent women from going to the market to shop...
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Lynchng Saddam – Part 5: United Nations and Saddam’s Lawyers’ call
Gabriele Zamparini, The cat's dreamThe United Nations reported: A United Nations expert on human rights and legal systems today called on the Iraqi Government to launch an independent investigation into the killing of a lawyer working for the defence team of former President Saddam Hussein. (…) Leandro Despouy, the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers said (…) "This is the third killing of a member of Saddam Hussein's defence team since the trial started in October last year," (…) In that light, the statement said that the Special Rapporteur reiterated his criticisms of the Iraqi High Tribunal, namely, that its jurisdiction is limited to certain groups of individuals, that it was set up in the context of an armed occupation, that it violates the right to be tried by an impartial tribunal and under those conditions is empowered to impose the death penalty...
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Baath Party Statement
The call for a reconciliation is a new indicator for the failure of the Occupation's options and the triumph of the Resistance!
The Arab Baath Socialist PartyYesterday Nuri Al Maliki the president of the stooges' government has made initiative he named (the national reconciliation) during an official speech in the so called new parliament, amidst previous political and Media set up orchestrated basically by the US administration and amidst the collapse of all the options the Occupation relied upon to find an exit from its killer quagmire in Iraq incarnated by its complete and utter impotency to quell the will of the Iraqi people represented by its National Armed Resistance, its sole and unique representative, and the Resistance success to extend horizontally and vertically inspite all the Occupation and its collaborators' plans to intensify sectarian strife. Further more the victories of the Resistance and the many defeats of the Occupation and its giving up relying on an army and security services stooges able to confront the Resistance and to be a shield protecting the Occupation from the blows of the Iraqi people, all these elements have deepened the feeling of the complete failure..
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An Accord In Iraq?
Robert Dreyfuss...But when the plan was revealed, it included neither a timetable nor an amnesty. The plan also didn’t include any incentive to Iraq’s Baathists. What happened? According to various reports, including the New York Times, the Maliki plan went through several drafts, and it was pummeled by both the Shiite religious hardliners and by the U.S. embassy. Maliki’s "decision appeared to have been influenced by religious Shiites who form his base and by the American military command," added the Times. The issue of a U.S. withdrawal is a deal-breaker for most of the resistance. What drives the resistance in Iraq is the occupation itself. According to resistance leaders I have spoken with, the insurgents are willing to declare a truce in order to allow U.S. forces to carry out an orderly withdrawal from Iraq, but they aren’t willing to make a deal that tolerates the continuation of the occupation. So, by excluding a timetable, Maliki makes it next to impossible for the main body of the resistance to sign a deal...
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Shalash al Iraqi
A Desperate Letter
A Glimpse of Iraq...I know that the government has no explanation or is ashamed to admit the politically embarrassing truth. People, Mr. Prime Minister, well know now that those death gangs are no longer 'secret death squads' as the media are fond of calling them. Those same gangs are publically proclaiming their acts and that those 'death lists’ are being openly circulated between members of what you call militias (...) On top of that, the crimes that started as political and revenge-motivated 'liquidations’ have turned into a culture. There is a new fearsome 'addiction’ to killing and taking pleasure in blood! There are murders just for the sake of murder; killings for reasons that the very act of contemplating is a crime against humanity. Now, there are people who cannot go to bed before shattering people’s skulls with their pistols. What a sour life between the days of car bombs and nights of criminal gangs… From this place, from the mountains of pain, terror, solitude and fear I address the Prime Minister… Your Excellency, for a reason unknown to me, I though well of you. The solution is not through massive deployment of security forces, Police Commandos and forces of Occupation. The simple solution is for you to go to Sayyed Muqtada and ask him to publicly disown those murderers and declare that they don’t belong to his movement and remove his cover of them and leave the people to deal with them. People already have lists of these gangsters and their connection to the Sayyed’s Office is common knowledge. Sooner or later the People will take their revenge from those killers. And when they do, Iraq will again sink in seas of blood in comparison to which the rivers of blood now flowing will seem like little ditches...
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IRAQ: Displaced children suffer depression and poor health
IRINTwelve-year-old Barek Ahmed has been diagnosed as clinically depressed after his family was displaced by violence two months ago. Now living with his relatives in Baghdad, the boy laments the fact that he has left his school and friends behind, and will not be able to join a new school in the capital because of a lack of places so late in the year. "Every year, I have the best results in my class and each day I felt I was getting closer to my dream to be a doctor," said Ahmed. "But I have missed out on the current year and couldn't do my exams because we had to leave our neighbourhood after insurgents threatened my father. I don't feel excitement about anything now. The only thing I want is to return to studying because it was my dream and they took it from me."...
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Torture of Iraqi prisoners self-inflicted says US army general
Simon Assaf, Socialist WorkerA recently revealed US department of defence report has sounded alarm bells among human rights groups. The report marks an attempt by the US military to reclassify the meaning of torture while discrediting its victims. The 75 page investigation, concluded by Brigadier General Richard Formica in Autumn 2004, was made public earlier this month after a campaign by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). According to ACLU the report is "a whitewash"...
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America's Anger Attacks
Richard Marsden, The Business of Emotions...The President and Vice-President are angry too, especially yesterday. They are angry at the New York Times for daring to print a story which revealed the Bush administration's secret program of financial surveillance, ostensibly aimed at detecting transactions among suspected terrorists. The government used subpoenas to compel the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) to allow it access to its records of transactions involving 7,800 financial institutions around the world. This nicely compliments the U.S. surveillance of millions of international and domestic phone calls and e-mails...
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Dayton Paper: Soldier Who Killed Handcuffed Iraqi Is Freed
E&P StaffAn American soldier convicted in the fatal shooting of a handcuffed Iraqi cow herder in 2004 was freed from a military prison in Oklahoma on Friday, more than a year before his sentence was up, the Dayton Daily News reported today. Army Spec. Edward Richmond Jr., 22, of Gonzales, La., was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced in August 2004 to three years in prison for the April 28, 2004, shooting death of Muhamad Husain Kadir in the village of Taal Al Jal, which is about 40 miles southwest of Kirkuk. Richmond was released on parole, his attorney said Friday...
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'We Cannot Bear that Anymore'
Genevieve Cora FraserEach week the Palestinian Center for Human Rights posts a summary of events for the preceding week. For the week of June 8-14, 28 Palestinians, including 7 children, were killed by Israeli occupation forces. Seven of the victims were members of the Ghalya family, who were picnicking at a Gaza beach once reserved for Israeli settlers only. Though the evidence points to an Israeli gunboat opening fire on the victims, Israel denies it -- a theme and variation repeated countless times over the 39-year occupation -- except for a new twist. Israel blamed Hamas...
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Barbaric
Wm. Terry Leichner, RNThe headline on the front page of the Rocky Mountain News screamed out in the largest font – "Barbaric". I thought to myself, which act of barbaric are they talking about? But I knew they meant the beheading of two young American soldiers captured when they ended up alone in one vehicle during an ambush. Of course it’s barbaric. War is barbaric. Is the beheading of two American soldiers any more barbaric than five hundred pound bombs and cruise missiles being fired into civilian neighborhoods where children used to play? I have to ask myself how many children died in "shock and awe" before "mission accomplished"? We’ll never really know...
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Bringing It All Back Home: The Bush War on Liberty Intensifies
Chris FloydGlenn Greenwald has the goods on the all-out war that the Bush Regime and its bootlicking sycophants throughout the right-wing media are waging against the free press. The recent "controversy" over the New York Times report on the Regime's surveillance of bank records is, as Greenwald astutely notes, based entirely on outright falsehoods. It is also being deliberately stoked by the White House, whose lies about the non-existent "damage" the NYT story has done to national security are exposed here -- by their own words. Greenwald turns up quote after quote, going back years, many of them from Bush himself, detailing the same kind of information relayed in the Times' story...
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Some Phone Calls from the Baladiyat Refugee Camp
Alive in BaghdadSunday night there was an attack by gunment in Baladiyat Refugee Camp, a camp for Palestinian Refugees in Iraq, that is situated in East Baghdad, on the border with Sadr City. Our correspondent Omar reached two residents by phone, here are their accounts of the events (...) here was so many attacks happened after the war , and most of these attack were by the Badr Brigade or the Iraqi National Guard, they used to come as convoys and detain young men from the camp and tortured them to death or put them in secret prisons, so the detainee's family cannot find them, and we don’t know if they were really the Iraqi National Guard or a gang and we really want from the Iraq government to do something about it because we can't live like this anymore we can't send our children to schools and we can't go to the markets because we are afraid from being kidnapped or killed by those people...
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Pentagon Resists Ban on "Degrading Treatment"
William FisherAs new reports detail further abuse by the U.S. military of its prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, a behind-the-scenes battle is being fought between the U.S. departments of state and defence about whether a key section of the Geneva Conventions should be included in new rules governing Army interrogation techniques. The Pentagon is pushing to omit from new detainee policies a central principle of the Geneva Conventions that explicitly bans "humiliating and degrading treatment". Critics say such a step that would mark a further shift away from strict adherence to international human rights standards. The State Department is opposing the decision to exclude Geneva Conventions protections and has been pushing for the Pentagon and White House to reconsider...
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DAILY WAR NEWS FOR TUESDAY, June 27, 2006
Today in IraqMulti-National Division - Baghdad Soldier died at approximately 3 a.m. today as result of injuries suffered from a bomb explosion while on a dismounted combat patrol south of Baghdad. (CENTCOM) A Marine assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5 died from wounds sustained due to enemy action while operating in Al Anbar Province today. (CENTCOM) A Soldier assigned to Regimental Combat Team 7 died from wounds sustained due to enemy action while operating in Al Anbar Province Monday. (CENTCOM) The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Cpl. Paul N. King, 23, of Tyngsboro, Mass. King died June 25 while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq. He was assigned to Marine Forces Reserve’s 1st Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Ayer, Mass. (DefenseLink)...
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 26 June 2006.
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org...In a dispatch posted at 3:55pm Makkah time Monday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US forces had closed 11 mosques in the city of ar-Ramadi, about 110km west of Baghdad, desecrating them and turning some of them into American military headquarters. The ar-Ramadi correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported Shaykh Ahmad 'Abd as-Sami', an official of the Sunni Muslim Pious Endowment Council (Diwan al-Waqf), as saying that US forces had occupied several of the mosques and locked up the rest, after desecrating them and tearing up copies of the Qur’an that were there...
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GI Special 4F23: Military Families Have Had Enough - June 27, 2006
Thomas F. BartonWhile Staff Sgt. Randy Myers was dodging roadside bombs in Iraq, his congressman was calling the war a lost cause.
At a welcome home ceremony this week for Myers and other troops from the Johnstown, Pa.-based 876th Engineer Battalion, the crowd cheered when a Murtha aide welcomed the troops on the congressman’s behalf.
Myers said he backs Murtha, an opinion echoed by a number of other troops and their families. Several share his frustration with the conflict.
"I’m not sure we’re doing a whole lot of good," Myers, 46, said of the U.S. presence in Iraq. "Everybody thinks we are. We’re trying to, but we’re not going to change what they want to do, and if they don’t want to change, they’re not gonna."
Doubts about Iraq have surfaced in the region. A Quinnipiac University Poll released Wednesday found that 25 percent in southwest Pennsylvania said all troops should be withdrawn from Iraq, while 38 percent in Pittsburgh and its surrounding suburbs said they should all be withdrawn.
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War is Still a Racket
Charles Sullivan...The lies espoused by our so called leaders do not matter on the battlefield. They do not matter when the bodies come home in oversized cardboard boxes, hauled by fork lifts to airport curbs and deposited at the feet of grief-stricken families like a commodity. In a sense, that is what they are. This is war's assembly line, where the bodies are packaged and sent home like a parcel, with the flag as a corporate logo printed on a box with the stamp "Made in America"; where lives are converted into cash for the global elite, a gift from the Plutocracy...
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