The 'International Community' of hyenas and vultures
Gabriele Zamparini (*)...Since the International Community of hyenas and vultures has hijacked the UN Security Council and since the latter has betrayed its role according to international Law, starting with the UN Charter, it’s upon us, WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS: 1) to UPHOLD international Law; 2) to SUPPORT the Iraqi People’s JUST STRUGGLE for freedom and independence AGAINST the US-led illegal invasion-occupation of a Member State of OUR Community; and 3) to bring those responsible for this "crime against the peace" to Justice. Also recalling "Lynching Saddam - Parts 1-7" (7): a) Saddam Hussein is NOT a Prisoner of War but according to international Law his legal status is much closer to a head of state KIDNAPPED by a foreign power while committing the "crime against the peace", the "war of aggression" against Iraq. He’s now held HOSTAGE by that foreign power together with the illegitimate so-called "government" of Iraq; b) Saddam Hussein’s trial is a mockery of Justice and has NO foundation whatsoever, both according to Iraqi Law and to international Law; c) According to international Law, IT’S UPON THE IRAQI PEOPLE to decide the destiny of THEIR OWN COUNTRY together with the destiny of THEIR OWN PRESIDENT Saddam Hussein; d) The Point (c) above can only be accomplished once the IRAQI PEOPLE take THEIR Country back from the foreign invaders that committed the "crime against the peace", the "war of aggression" against Iraq; e) Until that point and according to international Law, the IRAQI RESISTANCE exercises the SOVEREIGNTY OF IRAQ...
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US Occupation Adding to “Acute” Health Crisis
Karen Button...Al-Aiouby was in Fallujah during the April 2004 US siege. "I saw 15-20 [US] snipers on just one roof," she said. "I was with a medical team in an ambulance and the ambulance was shot at. They also killed an old woman who was holding a white flag." By now an infamous photograph, Al-Jazeera News shot on-the-scene footage at Fallujah General Hospital when US troops arrested several doctors and patients at that time, claiming the facility was an "insurgent stronghold." They are shown handcuffed and lying on the floor, US soldiers with assault rifles standing guard over them (...) In March 2005, US troops stormed a women and children’s hospital in Ramadi, ordering medical staff and patients alike to leave, while detaining other staff members. On Wednesday of this week, hundreds of US troops raided the Saddam Hospital in Ramadi, claiming it was being used by "insurgents" to treat their injured and to fire upon them. Al-Aiouby said US-led troops also raided Haditha’s hospital, not for the first time, last November. "They beat the director, Walid Al-Hadithi, and arrested him, accusing him of supporting the 'insurgents’"...
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IT ALL STARTED WITH GRENADA
Malcom Lagauche...The aspect of dehumanization by U.S. imperialistic soldiers never changes. In Fallujah, Iraq, long before the city became famous for its resistance to the U.S. occupation, incidents occurred to set the stage for the now-famous defense of the city. Shortly after the U.S. invasion of March 2003, a schoolhouse was trashed by U.S. troops. When Iraqis entered the school after is debasement, they saw racist and bigoted messages written on blackboards. The statements included, "We love pork," and "Baghdad Taxi Company" (with a drawing of a camel). The door of the principal’s office was adorned with a drawing of a penis and a scrotum. When he went into the school after the raid, the headmaster cried. Grenada was no different. After the invasion, the Cuban Embassy’s door was adorned with the enlightened statement, "Eat shit, Commie faggot." The initials AA were left under the statement as a signature. This autograph stands for "All American" and it was commonly used in graffiti messages left by the 82nd Airborne Division. That is the same outfit that commemorated the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Grenada by killing three Iraqis near Fallujah while shooting up a farmhouse and calling in airstrikes to destroy the building...
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'Joke' song about Iraq killings to be recorded
Mike BakerA radio talk-show host is to record and release a song written by a US Marine corporal about killing members of an Iraqi family. The author, Cpl Joshua Belile, will not sing "Hadji Girl" but he may receive royalties if The Mike Church Show charges for downloads, a spokesman for the show said. The right-wing presenter will sing and release the song on air next week (...) The song prompted an outcry from the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Its spokesman, Ibrahim Hooper, said that the song was insensitive and glamorised the killing of Iraqi civilians. Marine Corps officials said that Cpl Belile did not violate military law. Cpl Belile said that his song was a joke and not connected to any wrongdoing...
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US Raids in Sadr City
Jonathan CutlerThere may be trouble brewing again between the US and Moqtada al-Sadr. The BBC and the Washington Post are reporting on clashes between US troops and Sadr’s Mahdi Army (...) At least one July 7 Associated Press report suggests that the US may be trying to distinguish between Sadr and breakaway Shiite militia forces. Iraqi forces backed by U.S. aircraft battled militants in a Shiite stronghold of eastern Baghdad early Friday, killing or wounding more than 30 fighters and capturing an extremist leader who was the target of the raid, Iraqi and U.S. officials said… The U.S. statement said the militant leader was involved "in the transfer of weapons from Syria into Iraq" in an effort to break away "from his current insurgent organization."… (...) The US claim that Abu Diraa was trying to break away from his "current insurgent organization" may prove crucial. Is this intended as a signal from the US that the raids are actually aimed at Sadrist splinter groups rather than loyal followers of Moqtada al-Sadr? After all, hasn’t Sadr been pretty quiet recently? The Washington Post report quotes a Sadrist who acknowledges as much: Qais Shawkat, 56, who said he is a neighborhood Mahdi Army commander in Sadr City, said… the Mahdi Army was under orders not to fight U.S. forces."We have orders from Sayyid Moqtada al-Sadr not to fight the Americans now," he said. "So, we didn’t. We were surprised. We did not expect the Americans to come and attack us."
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Doing the Wrong Thing in Afghanistan
Depleted Uranium: The Definitive Moral Paradox
Michael Clarke, Vive le CanadaOur government, military, newspapers, television and radio media are efficiently dispersing the official sound bytes: "our troops in Afghanistan have the moral authority"; "Canada is doing the right thing"; "it’s a noble mission"; and, "we are just spreading freedom and democracy". But, they are not telling us that there is something else we are spreading around Afghanistan that any truly moral person would instinctively consider immoral and evil (...) An estimated 900 tons of DU was released in the initial 2001 invasion of Afghanistan. The approximately 2,000 air strikes this spring could easily have released another 250 tons of DU into the air and onto the ground, water and crops. According to the White House website a total of 24,000 bombs were used in the first year of operations in Afghanistan, which would suggest a minimum of 3,000 tons of DU was aerosolized in only the first 12 months of conflict. There is a lot of deadly radioactive DU around there. According to one nuclear expert, Leuren Moret, the United States and its willing accomplices like Canada have effectively staged a nuclear war in Afghanistan by using dirty bombs and missiles that "slip the nukes under the wire"...
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London Bombings - The Facts Speak For Themselves
Joe Quinn, Signs of the Times...The facts are clear: there is no such thing as Islamic terrorism in terms of there being a world wide network of terrorists who want to "hurt civilised people everywhere". Any such suggestions should be seen for the clear Nazi party-style government propaganda that they are. All of this may sound like a joke, albeit a rather sick one, that the US, British and Israeli governments are perpetrating against the global population, but make no mistake, from their point of view, this is no joke - the 200,000 Iraqi civilians and the growing number of Palestinian civilians that have been butchered in the name of the 'war on Islamic terror' is a stark testimony to that fact. It's time (again) to wake up and stop blithely swallowing government lies and manipulations. Unnecessary and brutal war is being waged in your name and, until now, with your support. How long the killing continues is entirely - 100% - up to you...
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Maliki's dead end plan
Firas Al-AtraqchiMore often than not, the popular paradigm present in discussions of the Iraqi resistance is a Western construct. It was in the Western media, notably British and US wire services, that Iraqis were first divided into Shia and Sunni and it was there, too, that a concept of terrorism trumped that of resistance and was hammered into the collective psyche of myriad commentators. This architecture for the understanding and reporting of events in Iraq appeared late 2003 and fell into full swing in 2004. Again and again, reports from Iraq labelled any and all anti-occupation activity as of "insurgent" nature (...) When the wire news powerhouses create a trend, media worldwide tends to follow, and usually to the detriment of objectivity. For example, some wire agencies have portrayed the "insurgency" in Iraq as Sunni; the Sunnis were depicted as waging a war against the "Shia-led" government and their US military backers. To the reader, it appears that the country is caught between Sunnis fighting US forces and the Shia community. Missing from this description is the number of Shia resistance groups which in recent months have started to publicise their own videos of exploding Humvees, Abrams tanks and in one case at least, foreign contractors...
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"Coalition forces keep streets of Iraq safe"
Eli Stephens, Left I on the NewsYou all know about Steven Green, right? The apparent psychopath who has now pled not guilty to raping an Iraqi woman and killing her and three family members, who is now the designated fall guy for U.S. "apologies" to Iraqis, even though there were multiple American service members involved in both the crime and the coverup. Well, it appears that just six months ago, the U.S. Army was touting him as one of those who was "keeping [the] streets of Iraq safe," while, as the article noted, "still respect[ing] people's rights and property."...
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DAILY WAR NEWS FOR FRIDAY, July 7, 2006
Today in IraqIraqi forces backed by U.S. aircraft battled militants in a Shiite stronghold of eastern Baghdad, killing or wounding more than 30 fighters and capturing an extremist leader who was the target of the raid, Iraqi and U.S. officials said. U.S. officials did not identify the insurgent leader but residents of the Shiite neighborhood said he was Abu Diraa, a commander in the Mahdi militia of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. There were conflicting casualty figures. Lt. Kadim Abbas Hamza of the Sadr City police said fighter planes also fired from the air and nine people, including a woman, were killed and 14 were wounded. He also said eight people were arrested. A hospital official said seven people were killed and 34 wounded. A car bomb exploded as worshippers were leaving a Sunni mosque in western Baghdad, killing three people, a woman and two children. A mortar round landed in front of the al-Nidaa Sunni mosque in northern Baghdad killing five people, including a policeman, and wounding two worshippers.
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American Dream: The Fleeting Lights of Freedom
Chris FloydIn the mystic haze of midsummer, a most unlikely Oberon stepped forth last week to fling a spray of fairy light across the murk, rousing the ill-enchanted sleepers on the ground with the hope that dawn had finally come again. But as the magic glow fades, the spell-struck victims will likely find they are still caught in a curse of perpetual night. We speak of course of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down the ludicrous and lawless "military tribunals" concocted by President George W. Bush to serve as meat grinders for the captives in his Terror War (...) The ruling has been hailed as a "victory for democracy," the "light at the end of the tunnel," a "turning point" in the long struggle to reclaim the Republic from the usurping junta of the Bush Regime. But we have seen these lights before, and watched them fade. All the previous "turning points" – scandals, atrocities, judicial rebuffs, investigations, criminal convictions – have only led to more depredations; every seeming defeat of unlawful power becomes instead a springboard for its further advancement. There is no reason to think it will be any different this time...
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Are Israeli lives worth more than Palestinian?
Press Release, Arab Media Watch, 7 July 2006Arab Media Watch expresses its concern at the amount of coverage given to Israel's killing yesterday of almost two dozen Palestinians, including civilians, compared with the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier on 25 June, as well as the continued portrayal of the current crisis as being triggered by the kidnapping. Comparing the initial report of each incident in the British national dailies, the Daily Mail, the Guardian and the Sun devoted more words to the kidnapped soldier than the Palestinian deaths, with the Times devoting around the same amount of coverage. The Daily Express and Daily Star report nothing today on yesterday's deaths (...) Furthermore, the media is continuing to portray the current crisis as being triggered by the kidnapping, which is not the case...
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Tomgram: Chernus on Karl Rove's Bedtime Stories for Americans
Tom Engelhardt & Ira ChernusHere's how a Washington Post piece soon after the Supreme Court's smack-down of the Bush administration's Guantanamo policies began: "Republicans yesterday looked to wrest a political victory from a legal defeat in the Supreme Court, serving notice to Democrats that they must back President Bush on how to try suspects at Guantanamo Bay or risk being branded as weak on terrorism… As the White House and lawmakers weighed next steps, House GOP leaders signaled they are ready to use this week's turn of events as a political weapon." So what's new? The single greatest skill of the Bush administration -- and especially of its presiding political strategist Karl Rove -- has been turning potential disasters (of which there have been so many) into successful attacks on the Democrats, while, against all odds, briefly elevating the President's approval ratings...
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More rape, murder and conspiracy (UPDATE)
Joseph Cannon, CannonfireIn the comments section for my first piece on this atrocity (scroll down), dr. elsewhere and I have been debating the merits of my thesis that the soldiers who killed a poor Iraqi family after raping the 15 year-old-daughter did so as part of a psychological operation. In my view, the evidence suggests that the soldiers did what they did as part of a deliberate attempt to blame an act of barbarism on the insurgents. Whether you agree with that theory or not, you must find something odd in the coverage of the story. Take, for example, this bit from the Washington Post: U.S. soldiers at the scene initially ascribed the killings to Sunni Arab insurgents active in the area, the U.S. military and local residents said. That puzzled villagers, who knew that the family was Sunni, Janabi said. Other residents assumed the killings were sectarian, with Shiite Muslim militiamen as the likely culprit. Janabi is the name of the key witness -- a neighbor who came across the scene shortly after the crime occurred. Compare the WP paraphrase of what Janabi said with this direct quote. "After three hours the [American] occupation troops surrounded the house and told the people of the area that the family had been killed by terrorists because they were Shi'ah. Nobody in town believed that story because Abu 'Abir was known as one of the best people of the city, one of the noblest, and no Shi'i, but a Sunni monotheist. Everyone doubted their story and so after the sunset prayers the occupation troops took the four bodies away to the American base. Then the next day they handed them over to the al-Mahmudiyah government hospital and told the hospital administration that terrorists had killed the family...
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A Few Good Nazis
BillmonThis is very bad news: A decade after the Pentagon declared a zero-tolerance policy for racist hate groups, recruiting shortfalls caused by the war in Iraq have allowed "large numbers of neo-Nazis and skinhead extremists" to infiltrate the military, according to a watchdog organization. These crazed fascists obviously have to be identified and weeded out of the ranks as quickly as possible -- otherwise they might start doing horrible things, such as, oh I don't know, firing tank cannons at journalists, raping and killing 15-year old girls and then burning their bodies, going house to house methodically shooting everyone they find, savaging prisoners with dogs, and forcing fathers to watch the anal rape of their sons. And we certainly can't have that...
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The Corporate Interests Fueling Conflict in Palestine
Profiting from the Occupation
NICK DEARDENWe hear little from the Palestinian Occupied Territories other than endless death, destruction, poverty and despair. While living standards plummet and the death toll rockets, it's difficult to imagine a less likely place to make a profit. But despite the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding, and the international attention it receives, names familiar on high streets across Europe and the US are actively supporting Israel's Occupation of Palestine through their business practices--threatening to prolong the misery of the Palestinian people for many years to come. US multinational construction company Caterpillar has already been singled out, supplying as it does militarised bulldozers to the Israeli Army through the US's Foreign Military Sales programme...
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Conduct Unbecoming
Cindy SheehanI don't know Lt. Ehren Wataba, but I know his mother, and spoke at length with her back in May in Hawaii about how Ehren morally did not want to go to Iraq and how he was being harassed by other members of his unit for his beliefs that the war in Iraq was wrong and that he didn't want to kill innocent people for BushCo. Ehren tried everything he could within regulations and legal means to be excused from going over to the war crime in Iraq and becoming a war criminal himself; nothing worked, so he refused to be deployed with his unit...
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Most Israelis want Hamas leaders assassinated-poll
ReutersThe vast majority of Israelis believe the Jewish state should assassinate leaders of the governing Palestinian movement Hamas in response to the crisis in Gaza, a newspaper poll published on Friday showed. The survey in the Maariv daily showed 82 percent of Israelis favoured killing leaders of the Islamic militant group, whom Israel holds responsible for the abduction of a soldier on June 25 in a cross-border raid from Gaza and recent rocket attacks. Respondents were questioned on Wednesday, the day before Israeli tanks and troops pushed into northern Gaza, taking over areas Israel abandoned last year after 38 years of occupation...
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Stop Israel's Attacks on Gaza
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BACKGROUND: Israel is using weapons supplied by the United States to target Palestinian civilians and civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip in violation of the U.S. Arms Export Control Act, the Foreign Assistance Act and the Geneva Conventions. Israeli air force fighter squadrons are composed of Lockheed Martin F-16I Fighting Falcons and Boeing F-15Is, which fire U.S.-manufactured AMRAAM, Sidewinder, and Sparrow missiles. Between 2005-2005, the United States licensed to Israel at least $1.062 billion of spare parts, engines, and missiles for its F-15 and F-16 fighter planes...
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'Leading militant captured' after Sadr City battle
AP
Iraqi forces backed by US aircraft battled militants in a Shia stronghold of eastern Baghdad early today, killing or wounding more than 30 fighters and capturing an extremist leader who was the target of the raid, Iraqi and US officials said. In another operation, Iraqi troops backed by US soldiers arrested a top regional commander of a Shia militia near Hillah, a US statement said. The moves appeared part of a crackdown on sectarian militias blamed for the escalation in Shiite-Sunni violence that has led to fears of civil war. The US military said the raid in eastern Baghdad was launched to apprehend "an insurgent leader responsible for numerous deaths of Iraqi citizens". (...) The statement made no mention of any US role, but residents said they could hear American aircraft providing cover during the raid. In a statement yesterday, the US said Iraqi and US forces arrested Adnan al-Unaybi, commander of a Mahdi militia force south of Baghdad. The statement said he was arrested north of Hillah, about 60 miles south of Baghdad. An al-Sadr aide, Sheikh Abdul-Hadi al-Darraji, denounced the Baghdad raid, saying 11 civilians were killed and dozens wounded as US jets fired on the area as people were sleeping on their roofs amid searing summer temperatures and electricity shortages...
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