Rampage in Gaza
Mike Whitney...The invasion of Gaza has nothing to do with the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier or even with Hamas’ rise to power. It is simply a continuation of the same, unalterable policy of annexation through brutality and subjugation. This is simply the latest manifestation of Israel’s territorial ambitions. The immensity of operation "Summer Rain", suggests that plans have been in place for quite some time and that the aims may be farther reaching than is now apparent. Could this be the beginning of "Transfer"; the Israeli scheme to force Palestinians off their land by creating (as Rabin said) "conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration"? It’s very possible. The intentional destruction of electric power plants, water lines, bridges, and other vital infrastructure, as well as the cutting off of food, financial resources and medical supplies, indicate that Israel is tightening the noose on the Palestinians in an effort to make life untenable in the West Bank and Gaza...
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Lynching Saddam – Part 7: the Myth of Human Rights
Gabriele Zamparini, The Cat's deamThese are some excerpts from "War in Iraq: Not a Humanitarian Intervention", written on January 2004 by executive director of Human Rights Watch Kenneth Roth: "By contrast, the United States-led coalition forces justified the invasion of Iraq on a variety of grounds, only one of which—a comparatively minor one—was humanitarian. The Security Council did not approve the invasion, and the Iraqi government, its existence on the line, violently opposed it (...) Because the Iraq war was not mainly about saving the Iraqi people from mass slaughter, and because no such slaughter was then ongoing or imminent, Human Rights Watch at the time took no position for or against the war." (...) The official position of HRW on the invasion of Iraq must be completed with the official position of Human Rights Watch on Saddam Hussein. "One can only rejoice at the capture of Saddam Hussein. Few people are more deserving of trial and punishment. U.S. forces deserve credit for arresting the deposed dictator so that his crimes can be presented and condemned in a court of law, rather than arranging to kill him in combat." Those U.S. forces that – according to HRW’s Kenneth Roth – "deserve credit" are the same US forces that are responsible, according to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, for "an illegal act that contravened the UN charter", using Nurember’s words "the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes [Abu Ghraib, Falluja, Haditha, etc.] in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole"...
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Rape and murder in Mahmudiya
Eli Stephens, Left I on the NewsI heard a commentator on TV talking about the latest reported American atrocity in Iraq, an incident of rape and murder in Mahmudiya. He noted that "these things happen in war" (...) But the main point I wanted to make about this incident is actually hidden in the fine print: < b>The killing of the family was originally reported by the military as due to "insurgent activity," American officials said. The same, of course, was true in the Haditha massacre of 24 Iraqis, who were also originally reported as being killed by "insurgent activity" (i.e., IED). So the next time you see statistics, also reported by the American military, about the percentage of the deaths in Iraq which are caused by "insurgent activity," keep these incidents in mind. Statistics only have validity when the underlying data is valid. When the underlying data is provided by the U.S. military, forget about it...
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 30 June 2006
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org...In a bulletin posted at 11:25am Makkah time Friday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi puppet police had found the bodies of some of the Sunni students abducted by pro-American Shi'i sectarian Badr Brigade militias from the Technological University’s student housing on Monday. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a source in the Iraqi puppet police as saying that six bodies of students arrested by puppet "Iraqi Interior Ministry" forces and Shi'i sectarian militias were found. Among the six was a student named 'Umar Muhammad whose body was particularly mutilated...
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Diabetes and depleted uranium
Italian embassy refuses visa
Bob Nichols"You are not being truthful about the purpose of your visit to Italy. What is your interest in diabetes and depleted uranium?" the Italian consul in Bombay demanded to know. "I am just traveling to Italy to meet with Leuren Moret," the famous Indian doctor answered. Leuren Moret recounted the episode in an interview June 29, 2006. She said, "The doctor had never mentioned either diabetes or depleted uranium." The Italian government official was grilling one of the leading doctors in India. This "interview" at the Italian embassy took place June 27, 2006, in Bombay, India. The doctor had traveled to Italy several times before and did not expect such outrageous treatment. The consul denied the doctor permission to travel to Italy to meet with Moret.
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Gaza and the treason of the international community
Ahmed AmrTake a good look at Gaza and become a witness to what amounts to collective punishment administered to a small people by the rest of the planet. Israel’s sadistic army is not alone in laying siege to the densely populated strip of land that has become a virtual penitentiary for a million and a half souls. While Olmert’s thugs blow up bridges and power plants, the American government hands them more rope to hang the Palestinians. In the same spirit, the Europeans pitch in to starve the destitute inhabitants while the Arabs lounge around serenely watching the slaughter of their 'brothers.’ It doesn’t take an international law degree to recognize that the deliberate destruction of essential infrastructure is a war crime...
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Looking for an excuse
XymphoraFrom Haaretz.com (Mazuz is the Israeli Attorney General; my emphasis in red): "The detention of Hamas parliamentarians in the early hours of Thursday morning had been planned several weeks ago and received approval from Mazuz on Wednesday. The same day, Shin Bet Director Yuval Diskin presented Prime Minister Ehud Olmert with the list of Hamas officials slated for detention." In other words, Israel used the Palestinian attack on the Israeli military post as an excuse to do what it was looking for an excuse to do, arrest a democratically elected government and destroy Palestinian access to electricity. And the world sits back and lets it happen...
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Iraq, where opportunities for fame and fortune are plenty
Truth About IraqisIraq, where opportunities for those looking to get ahead, make names for themselves or earn a few bucks are ripe. In the past three years, we have seen numerous Iraqis propelled to fame and notoriety. First and foremost among them, of course, is Muqtada Sadr (known as Pudgie by his Iranian mentors) who was virtually a nobody until the US illegally invaded Iraq (...) But military careers are also built in Iraq. Take, for example, the case of Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich, who has been nominated and is eligible for promotion. Ordinarily, there would be no problem here, except that one word sticks out like a sore thumb fermented in the dungeouns of Abu Ghraib and My Lai - Haditha...
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A statement made by the Patriotic, National and Islamic Front' spokesman concerning the US ambassador's initiative announced by its stooge, Maliki.*
Al Moharer.netNuri al Maliki, the president of the Occupation appointed government has announced an (initiative for dialogue and national reconciliation) designed by Iraq governor the US ambassador (Zalmay Zad) in a new miserable and desperate attempt to quell the intensification and the widening of the activities and the capabilities of the heroic and Patriotic Iraqi Resistance (...) This 'initiative' indicates the overwhelming failure of the so called political process and the collapse of the US project in Iraq.. Moreover! This is an implicit recognition that the Iraqi Patriot Resistance has triumphed and that this initiative is the enemy last attempt to save whatever he can save before the Occupation forces cut and run, from the soil of Iraq...
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Iran and 'regime change'
Lenin's TombA couple of excellent articles by Yoshie Furuhashi and Justin Raimondo detailing the preparations being made for 'regime change' in Iran. The warnings signs are all there: 1) A strong bipartisan vote in favour of sanctions on Iran unless there is a change in government, with only fourteen dissenters. It took five years for a congressional vote in favour of 'regime change' in Iraq to become a military invasion. 2) A White House propaganda blitz, manufactured crises, press hysteria. 3) Dodgy exile groups disseminating false information, lobbyists (often pro-Israeli) ferociously dissembling and campaigning...
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Another US atrocity in Iraq: Soldiers under investigation for rape and murder
Kate Randall, WSWSA top US Army commander in Iraq has ordered an investigation into allegations of yet another atrocity committed by US soldiers in Iraq. The case involves a particularly gruesome and sadistic episode, in which an Iraqi woman was allegedly stalked, raped and murdered. Three other members of her family were killed, and the corpse of the violated woman was burned (...) Military officials told the Associated Press that the soldiers had noticed the woman on previous patrols and that the killings appeared to have been "a crime of opportunity." For months, military officials attributed the civilian deaths to "insurgent activity."...
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DAILY WAR NEWS FOR FRIDAY, June 30, 2006
Today in IraqMulti-National Division - Baghdad Soldier was killed at approximately 10:30 p.m. Thursday as a result of injuries suffered from a bomb explosion while on a dismounted combat patrol south of Baghdad. (CENTCOM). A U.S. Marine was killed Friday in fighting west of Baghdad, while a soldier died the day before north of the capital, the military said. The Marine assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5 died from wounds sustained in fighting in volatile Anbar province, according to a statement. Small arms fire killed a soldier from the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team Thursday in the northern city of Mosul, the U.S. military said. Police found at least 10 bodies across Iraq, including one of a five-year-old unidentified boy who was tortured and later executed with a bullet to the head...
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Cindy Sheehan to provoke the Second American Revolution July 4th, 2006-Hunger Strike at White House!
Marta Rodriguez, BellaciaoGold Star Families for Peace will announce a historic hunger strike against the war in Iraq. At 5pm, they will sit down in front of the White House to eat their last meal and hold a press conference before beginning the fast at the same location in the morning of July 4 at 10am. "We’ve marched, held vigils, lobbied Congress, camped out at Bush’s ranch. We’ve even gone to jail. Now it’s time to do more," says peace mom Cindy Sheehan. "While others are celebrating July 4th with barbeques, we’ll be showing our patriotism by putting our bodies on the line to bring our troops home." Hundreds of celebrities, veterans, mothers, and concerned citizens across the country will participate in a rolling fast...
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Israel warns: free soldier or PM dies
Martin Chulov, The AustralianISRAEL last night threatened to assassinate Palestinian Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh if Hamas militants did not release a captured Israeli soldier unharmed. The unprecedented warning was delivered to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in a letter as Israel debated a deal offered by Hamas to free Corporal Gilad Shalit. It came as Israeli military officials readied a second invasion force for a huge offensive into Gaza. Hamas's Gaza-based political leaders, including Mr Haniyeh, had already gone into hiding. But last night's direct threat to kill Mr Haniyeh, a democratically elected head of state, sharply raised the stakes.
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 30 June 2006
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org...In a bulletin posted at 11:25am Makkah time Friday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi puppet police had found the bodies of some of the Sunni students abducted by pro-American Shi'i sectarian Badr Brigade militias from the Technological University’s student housing on Monday. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a source in the Iraqi puppet police as saying that six bodies of students arrested by puppet "Iraqi Interior Ministry" forces and Shi'i sectarian militias were found. Among the six was a student named 'Umar Muhammad whose body was particularly mutilated...
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Assyrian Author Testifies Before House Committee on Condition of Assyrians in Iraq
Assyrian International News Agency... My churches are being bombed. My elders are being killed. My young brothers are being assaulted and kidnapped. My fellow students are being harassed and beaten. My children and neighbors are being beheaded. If my sister refuses to wear a Muslim hijab, she is raped or tortured by having acid thrown in her face. And yes, the majority of these incidents have gone unreported in the western media. These atrocities are occurring right under the watchful eyes of my American government since the "liberation" of Iraq (...) Iraq's "liberation" has become the "oppression" of Assyrians. The war in Iraq is silently taking its toll on the Assyrians particularly in the Northern regions of Kirkuk, Mosul and Baghdad where the Assyrian population is concentrated. In the Nineveh Plains and its surrounding regions, under the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), and through a dictatorship, Assyrian lands are being illegally confiscated. And yet the Assyrians don't strike back. We remain peaceful and tolerant under intolerable conditions. There is no aid or funding going to the Assyrian regions under our American watch. Basic medical need is non-existent for these Christians...
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The Promotion After Haditha
As two investigations of the alleged massacre in Iraq drag on, questions are raised over the promotion of a Marine who is a focus of the probe
SALLY B. DONNELLY/WASHINGTON, Times OnlineThree officers have already been removed from their posts in the wake of the allegations that U.S. Marines killed 24 civilians in the Iraqi town of Haditha. But while top-level officials in the Marine Corps await the report from Army Maj. General Eldon Bargewell, who is investigating the actions of the Marines and the chain of command after the incident, the promotion of one of the Marines who is the focus of the criminal investigation is drawing new scrutiny. Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich, the Marine who was the unit leader on the ground that day in Haditha, was put on the Marine Corps list for promotion from sergeant to staff sergeant in October 2005. Being put on the list, however, does not ensure promotion; the Marine's commander must okay it first, and the Marine Corps routinely holds up nominations or promotions if there is any reason to question the actions of a Marine. Even a charge of "driving while intoxicated," for example, can delay or derail a step up...
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Supreme Court rules against Bush administration’s military commissions
John Burton with Axis of Logic editorial commentThe author of this analysis, John Burton points out: "While the decision was a judicial rebuke to the Bush administration, it did not order the release of any of the more than 400 prisoners still held at the US military base. Nor did it address the Bush administration’s claim that it can hold captives there or at other US facilities around the world for the duration of "active hostilities" in the so-called "war on terror," i.e., indefinitely" Axis of Logic also asks - Why did it take years for the U.S. government and it's judiciary to find the illegality of the Bush Regime's abominable imprisonment and torture of these prisoners of war? Why now - after these men and their families have suffered so? We observe that after the damage has been done and the regime in Washington find themselves being defeated by the Resistance Forces, some of the perpetrators want to shift their position (including the Surpreme Court, the Democratic Party and the Corporate Media) - to reflect opposition to the Afghan/Iraqi wars and the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo...
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Racism, Not Defence, At the Heart Of Israeli Politics
Joe Quinn, Signs of the TimesLast week, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert came out and publicly stated something that every unbiased observer of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has privately known for many years: that, to the Israeli oligarchs, the life of an Israeli citizen is "more important" than that of a Palestinian. Speaking of the recent mass murders by the Israeli army of Palestinian civilians in Gaza (which were ostensibly to stop the firing of impotent qassam rockets at the Israeli town of Sderot by the Palestinian resistance ) Olmert said: "I am deeply sorry for the residents of Gaza, but the lives, security and well-being of the residents of Sderot is even more important." Of course, Olmert's comment, and the deep-seated racism at the heart of Israeli politics that it appears to belie, can possibly be rationalised with the claim that it is not unreasonable that an Israeli PM would be more concerned about the lives of Israeli citizens than those of the Palestinian 'enemy'...
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Court and Spark: Gitmo Stonewall and Supreme Swift-Boating
Chris FloydPentagon on Supreme Court's Gitmo Ruling: "Who cares?" From the NYT: "If they rule against the government, I don't see how that is going to affect us," the commander, Rear Adm. Harry B. Harris, said Tuesday evening as he sat in a conference room in his headquarters. "From my perspective, I think the direct impact will be negligible." The Defense Department repeated that view on Thursday, asserting that the court's sweeping ruling against the tribunals did not undermine the government's argument that it can hold foreign suspects indefinitely and without charge, as "enemy combatants" in its declared war on terror. So that's OK, then. Naturally, a ruling "against the government," doesn't affect the Pentagon – because Rumsfeld's Castle is a government unto itself, unbound by the petty chains of law that simpering civilians try to put around the lusty sinews of war-fightin' he-men...
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GI Special 4F26: Terry Lisk - June 30, 2006
Thomas F. BartonRAMADI, Iraq: A soldier was dead, and it was time for him to go home.
The doors to the little morgue swung open, and six other soldiers stepped outside carrying a long black bag zippered at the top.
About 60 soldiers were waiting to say goodbye. They had gathered in the sand outside this morgue at Camp Ramadi, an army base in Anbar Province, now the most lethal of Iraqi places.
Inside the bag was Sergeant Terry Michael Lisk, 26, of Zion, Illinois, killed a few hours before.
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