[UrukNet] - [Daily Information from Occupied Iraq] - [newsletter 03 Mar 2006 - Part two]

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Death Squads and Iraqi police: two sides of the same coin. Dirk Adriaensens (BRussells Tribunal) and Isam Rasheed (Baghdad) 03 March 2006 ...The BRussells Tribunal recently received evidence of 2 such cases, where the Iraqi police was clearly involved in "Death Squad" activities. Acting under the protection of the Ministry of Interior and the Industry Ministry, they are unscrupulous torturers and killers. We had doubts about publishing the story, because the pictures are very disturbing. But keeping Robert Fisks’ words in mind: "if the mainstream media would publish photos of the real war, as I’ve seen it, nobody would support this war", we decide to make these cases public... Warning: extremely graphic photos Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21217 I Do Not Wish to Be Associated With Torture Ray McGovern On Thursday, March 2, Ray McGovern and 15 others took action today in the halls of Congress. The 16 donned orange jumpsuits similar to those worn by detainees at Guantánamo Bay. They wore gags over their mouths decorated with one word - torture. McGovern, a 27-year veteran of the CIA, also returned his Intelligence Commendation Award medallion which was given to him for "especially commendable service." He delivered the medal to Congressman Pete Hoekstra along with the letter below... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21212 Baghad Enjoys Rare Day of Peaceful Streets SAMEER N. YACOUB, Associated Press Writer ...The militia that kept order Friday was the same force that went on a rampage of reprisal attacks against Sunni Muslim mosques and clerics after the Feb. 22 bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra. Thursday night, after a deadly bomb attack in the poor Shiite neighborhood, police and aides to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announced the radical leader's militia, the Mahdi Army, would help government security forces patrol Sadr City. The government decision to legitimize joint patrols with the Mahdi Army — which had been going on anyway — appeared to have tacit U.S. military approval... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21184 Details emerge in latest round of Plame emails ‘found’ by the White House Jason Leopold The White House confirmed Tuesday that it recently turned over to Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald 250 pages of emails from the Office of Vice President Dick Cheney related to covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, a vocal critic of the Bush administration's pre-war Iraq intelligence. The emails were not submitted three years ago when then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales ordered White House staffers to turn over all documents that contained any reference to Valerie and Joseph Wilson... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21183 Katrina: Why aren’t we talking about Criminal Negligence? Mike Whitney It is clear now that Michael Chertoff and George Bush can be directly implicated in the deaths of the 1,300 Americans who died in Hurricane Katrina. The newly released video from the Associated Press proves beyond a reasonable doubt that they were adequately warned of the gravity of the approaching storm and the risks it posed to people of New Orleans. The only question now is whether the charges should be criminal negligence or manslaughter. We leave that to the attorneys... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21182 Baath Party Statement Answering the rampaging idiot Bush: You have no other choice but to put into practice an exit strategy from Iraq and as fast as possible The Arab Baath Socialist Party A direct letter from the Baath and from the Iraqi Armed Resistance to the president of the United States, is necessary indeed to answer the drivels and the ramblings, the US stuck in the mud President is talking about to his petrified stooges in the puppet authority and through the telephone, where stooges were found either runaways outside Iraq, hiding or others uttering hollow declarations here and there.. Bush has confirmed what the Resisting Baath has said in its statement issued on the 20th February and entitled "imposing an executive rupture with the Occupation failed political episodes"... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21181 U.S. Cites Exception in Torture Ban McCain Law May Not Apply to Cuba Prison Josh White and Carol D. Leonnig, Washington Post Staff Writers Bush administration lawyers, fighting a claim of torture by a Guantanamo Bay detainee, yesterday argued that the new law that bans cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of detainees in U.S. custody does not apply to people held at the military prison. In federal court yesterday and in legal filings, Justice Department lawyers contended that a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, cannot use legislation drafted by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to challenge treatment that the detainee's lawyers described as "systematic torture"... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21178 Corporate Media Reports Selectively on Palestine Kurt Nimmo As a primary example of how the corporate media in the United States and Europe ignore Israel’s continued theft of Palestinian land, consider the remarks of Israeli Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz: "When we talk about Israel’s permanent or future borders it includes the Jordan Valley, Maale Adumim, Gush Etzion, Ariel, Kedumim-Karnei Shomron and Rehan-Shaked," Mofaz declared during a speech this week in Jerusalem. "The areas he mentioned comprise 20% of the West Bank, home to 3.5 million Palestinians, many of them refugees from what is now Israel," notes the International Middle East Media Center, one of several news outlets to cover the speech... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21177 The Ignorance Defense Xymphora Condoleezza Rice said that no one could have imagined the September 11 attacks, while admitting that Bush had the August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing on his desk entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States". Bush said "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees", and we now know he had received a full briefing about just that danger, before he went off to play guitar and present John McCain with a cake. Bush had detailed briefings from his own officials prior to the attack on Iraq that the substance of the arguments made by his own Administration in order to lead to war was false, yet the Bush Administration continued to lie until they secured the war they wanted, and now claim that they didn’t know that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. The neocons swear up and down that they are shocked by the violent uprising in Iraq, and yet Oded Yinon, strategizing for Israel, spelled it out years ago... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21175 www.uruknet.info: a site gathering daily information concerning occupied Iraq: news, analysis, documents and texts of iraqi resistance available in Italian and English.   You receive this newsletter because you subscribed it. If you think it was an abuse, or simply if you don't want to receive it any more, click here to unsubscribe from the newsletter.