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Welcome to the United States of Duplicity Mike Whitney Bush’s nuclear-summit with Prime Minister Singh was rehearsed long before he teetered off to India. That explains why the media was all atwitter over Bush’s severing the last frail strands of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT); the press loves to see our Crawford-strongman rummaging through international agreements like a bull in a China shop. Bush manages nuclear issues like a schoolboy handing out party-favors; rewarding India with one deal, offering a different one to Pakistan, and then a third for Iran. This is how Bush has expanded America’s traditional double-standards into "triple standards"; a new nadir in foreign policy. In just days, Bush toppled long-honored safeguards for the allocation and control of fissile material, and created a "nuclear bizarre" to be exclusively regulated by the United States... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21279 Iraq's Hutu Radio Jeff Wells, Rigorous Intuition Did you hear about last Friday's "catastrophic tragedy" in Iraq? The handcuffed and headless bodies of 100 Shiites - "children, women and men" - were taken to Kerbala from south Baghdad, writes Iraqi blogger "Sam Hammorabi." Reputedly, Sunni militia had been killing the Shiites "every day and hour passing." (...) Do these 100 headless corpses, children covered in blood, exist? Well no; it appears that they don't. Not beyond "Sam Hammorabi's" blog. Does this seeming fiction increase the likelihood of their existing, and many more besides? Naturally. Look to "Hommorabi's" links for the answer: FoxNews, The Washington Times, MEMRI, the US Embassy, and the blogger "Mover Mike" (January 2, 2006: "John Kerry promised, on national TV, to sign form SF-180 and release his military records. He has yet to do so.") Now, why would this clearly Bush-positive blogger be publishing material to incite civil war?... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21276 Israel Conducts Activities Against Iran in N. Iraq Zaman Israel is said to be conducting intelligence gathering activities in Northern Iraq against Iran. British newspaper, The Sunday Times wrote, special Israeli forces are operating inside Iran in an urgent mission to locate the country's secret uranium enrichment sites. "We found several suspected sites last year but there must be more," an Israeli intelligence source said... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21287 DAILY WAR NEWS FOR MONDAY, March 6, 2006 Today in Iraq U.S. soldier killed by "enemy action" on Sunday in western Anbar province. Suicide car bomber strikes police patrol near al-Mustansiriyah University in eastern Baghdad, killing two policemen and wounding three. Bomb explodes as police patrol drives through northern Azamiyah neighborhood, killing one policeman and a civilian bystander. Three people wounded, including another policeman. Explosion in Jadriya neighborhood of central Baghdad, killing one policeman and injuring three others. Car bomb blows up in Mahmudiya, 30 km south of central Baghdad, killing one person and wounding three others including two policemen... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21289 The cockroach returns as a midwife Swopa, Needlenose ... Muqtada al-Sadr predicted a "quick solution" to snarled attempts to form a government. Emerging from a meeting in the Shiite holy city of Najaf with secular Shiite parliamentarian Ahmed Chalabi, al-Sadr said: "All obstacles to forming a national unity government soon will be resolved." Chalabi, the one-time Pentagon favorite as Iraq's post-Saddam Hussein leader, said al-Jaafari deserved the opportunity to form a government. "Dr. al-Jaafari should be given a chance. ... It is to the benefit of all parties to keep the (Shiite) Alliance strong and unified," Chalabi said (...) The Sadr/Chalabi team gets results, it would seem from this AP follow-up: Iraq's president failed in a bid Monday to order parliament into session by March 12, further delaying formation of a government and raising questions whether the political process can withstand the unrelenting violence or disintegrate into civil war... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21272 Iraq's traumatized children: Mosul incident now under investigation; TV ad reveals Iraq's broken society Truth about Iraqis ...To show that children speak so freely and openly of violence indicates that this is something they have been raised on. Thousands of Iraqi children have died since the invasion, some have been tortured in Abu Ghraib (see US military's Taguba report), which leaves me to wonder how much psychological damage has been inflicted on our children. It is said the young are our future. If our children are bred on this, how will they build a future of their own in coming years?... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21271 Baath Party Statement The fatal thwarting and the destruction of the puppet authority in the process of routing the Occupation and liberating Iraq The Arab Baath Socialist Party Every single day confirms what the Baath has indicated and what it meant, when they mentioned the Iraqi Armed Resistance intermediary targeting of the Occupation puppet authority through its fatal wrecking and destruction. This process will achieve the strategic objective to rout the Occupation and liberate Iraq. The possibility to achieve earlier this intermediary targeting in order to reach the strategic objective can be justified for the following reasons: 1- The puppet authority is rooted in the Occupation and it is an Occupation product! Long before invading Iraq, the Occupation was lured to establish this authority on failed pretexts by various traitors and stooges gangs belonging to the racist parties (linked to Iran) and to Zionism and "Israel." connected separatists. Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21270 Iraqi Women Make Rare Trip to U.S. to Tell Their Stories of Life Under Occupation Democracy Now! This weekend, five Iraqi women arrived in New York City to begin a speaking tour to educate Americans about the reality in Iraq and meet with UN and US officials to call for a peace plan. Two of them join us in our firehouse studio: Faiza Al-Araji is a civil engineer and blogger, whose family recently fled to Jordan after her son was temporarily kidnapped, and Eman Ahmad Khamas, an Iraqi journalist, translator and human rights activist... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21288 '14,000 detained without trial in Iraq' Mike McDonough, The Guardian US and UK forces in Iraq have detained thousands of people without charge or trial for long periods and there is growing evidence of Iraqi security forces torturing detainees, Amnesty International said today. In a new report published today, the human rights group criticised the US-led multinational force for interning some 14,000 people. Around 3,800 people have been held for over a year, while another 200 have been detained for more than two years, the report - Beyond Abu Ghraib: detention and torture in Iraq - said... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21284 Cindy Sheehan Arrested in NY Protest Tr u t h o u t Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war activist whose son was killed in the Iraq war, was arrested with three other protesters in New York on Monday after a rally with women from Iraq. Sheehan became a central figure in the US anti-war movement last summer after she camped outside President George W. Bush's Texas ranch and has been arrested at least two other times at protests. On Monday, she had joined a delegation of women from Iraq at the rally at the United Nations, urging the United Nations to help prevent civil war in Iraq. About 20 protesters went to the US mission to the United Nations to deliver a petition with 60,000 signatures seeking an end to the war. Nobody from the mission received them so Sheehan and three other American women sat down in front of the building, refused to leave, and were arrested... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21285 A US Gestapo? Nancy Miller Saunders Congress is about to renew the USA PATRIOT Act. After the act was first passed in 2001, members of Congress excused away their votes by saying they didn't have time to study it and were still under the influence of 9/11 shock. By now, they have had ample time to study it, and even to examine "improvements" added to the bill, such as section 3056A. Others have had the time, like the author of the following. A provision in the "PATRIOT Act" creates a new federal police force with the power to violate the Bill of Rights. . . Go to House Report 109-33 USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 and check it out for yourself. Sec. 605 reads: 'There is hereby created and established a permanent police force to be known as the "United States Secret Service Uniformed Division."' Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21286 John Bolton Does AIPAC Kurt Nimmo It should be obvious, considering the photo to the left, who John Bolton, the Straussian neocon "representative" to the United Nations, works for—the American-Israel Political Action Committee. "U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, speaking at a convention of Jewish-Americans, said it is too soon for the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions on Iran but other countries are talking about doing so and Washington is 'beefing up defensive measures to cope with the Iranian nuclear threat,’" in other words the Pentagon is preparing to shock and awe Iran, maybe later this month, but probably down the road, sooner before later... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21283 'You are either with us or against us' Special to The Dubya Report On December 16, 2005 in a now well-known article, NY Times reporters James Risen and Eric Lichtblau exposed a three-year old program authorized by George W. Bush, in which the National Security Agency (NSA) eavesdropped on "hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people inside the United States without warrants." "Nearly a dozen current and former officials" were concerned enough about the program's legality and lack of oversight to discuss it with the Times. As reported by Newsweek's Jonathan Alter, Bush had "summoned Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger and executive editor Bill Keller to the Oval Office in a futile attempt to talk them out of running the story"... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21282 The Court-Martial Of Willie Brand CBS ...When 60 Minutes met him, Brand was facing a court-martial in the deaths of two prisoners. The prisoners were found hanging from chains in their isolation cells. They had been beaten; one of them was "pulpified," according to the medical examiner. Brand told correspondent Scott Pelley what he did wasn’t torture, it was his training, authorized and supervised by his superiors. So how is it he was charged with assault, maiming and manslaughter? "I didn’t understand how they could do this after they had trained you to do this stuff and they turn around and say you’ve been bad you shouldn’t have done this stuff now they’re going to charge you with assault, maiming and 'unvoluntary' manslaughter, how can this be when they trained you to do it and they condoned it while you were doing it," says Brand... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21278 U.S. endorsed Iranian plans to build massive nuclear energy industry Cheney Rumsfeld & Wolfowitz behind Iran Nuclear Program initiated during Ford Administration Ed Haas, Globalresearch.ca In 1976, President Gerald R. Ford signed a directive that granted Iran the opportunity to purchase U.S. built reprocessing equipment and facilities designed to extract plutonium from nuclear reactor fuel. When Gerald Ford assumed the Presidency in August 1974, the current Vice President of the United States, Richard B Cheney served on the transition team and later as Deputy Assistant to the President. In November 1975, he was named Assistant to the President and White House Chief of Staff, a position he held throughout the remainder of the Ford Administration. In August 1974, the current Secretary of Defense, Donald H. Rumsfeld served as Chairman of the transition to the Presidency of Gerald R. Ford... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21277 GI Special 4C5 - I'm Not Fighting For Anyones Oil Agenda - March 5, 2006 Thomas F. Barton ... Technology so far has proven to be of little use in protecting Army helicopters from the ravages of small arms and rocket propelled grenades, military and civilian experts contend. The Army has spent nearly $2 billion outfitting helicopters with high-tech sensors and flares that help foil shoulder-launched missiles, but none of these devices can prevent choppers from getting shot out of the sky by rocket-propelled grenades and automatic rifles, which are among the preferred weapons of Iraq’s insurgency. "The longer we stay in this conflict, the greater the ability of the insurgents to counter our countermeasures with their technology," says Steve Greer, a retired Army command sergeant major, and professor of unconventional warfare at American Military University... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21275 Humor, nonetheless Imad Khadduri ...We have been hearing of Mossad agents in Iraq's Kurdish north, since the sixties, and increasingly more since the Americans landed there in March 2003. The latest news about them is that several of them were in that 'German' hellicopter that crashed a month ago near Sulaimaniya, but on the Iranian side. The Mossad has also been training Kurdish militias, the Besh Murgah, who actively participated in the attack on Tal Afaar and various incursions in Mosul. Would it be beyond a Mossad operation, along with Kurdish Besh Murgah participants, both of whom have no qualms whatsoever to the blowing up of the Askari Holy Mosque in Samarra?... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21274 Impeaching George W. Bush Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet ...In fact, the case for the impeachment of President Bush is arguably the strongest in American history. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) makes this amply clear in its recent book, a concise indictment of President Bush that lays out four clear legal arguments that point to impeachment as a necessary remedy for the gross violation of our Constitution. The Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush covers illegal wiretapping, torture, rendition, detention and the Iraq war. An appendix compares the impeachment proceedings of Andrew Johnson, Nixon and Clinton to the comparatively more powerful case against Bush... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21273 Hundreds of Iraqi academics and professionals assassinated by death squads Sandy English, WSWS Hundreds of Iraqi academics and professionals have been assassinated since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, according to a petition to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Summary Executions from the European peace group BRussells Tribunal on Iraq. The petition has been signed by Nobel Prize winners Harold Pinter, J. M. Coetzee, José Saramago, and Dario Fo, as well as Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Cornel West, and Tony Benn. A Green party member of the European Parliament from Britain, Caroline Lucas, has called for support for the investigation. The exact figure of deaths is unknown; estimates range from about 300 to more than 1,000... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21269 Daniel Pipes and moral obligation Xymphora You should read this amazing collection of opinions from Daniel Pipes on the desirability of a civil war in Iraq. From an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (also here; my emphasis): "The moral one is a good one, but it's not a defining one. That is to say that we do want to help Iraqis. All of us want to see a free and prosperous Iraq, but it is not a moral obligation on us. Just because we got rid of Saddam Hussein doesn't mean that we are obligated to fix Iraq. I think the great achievement of the coalition was to get rid of this hideous totalitarian thug running Iraq. A danger to the Iraqis, the region and the outside world. That does not imply that we must - we can try - but it doesn't mean we must or are obligated - to fix Iraq"... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21268 And the Oscar Goes to... Riverbend, Baghdad burning It’s Oscar time once again. We’ve been bombarded with Oscar propaganda for nearly a month now (...) Now I’ve seen the nominees- we see them every year- and I’ve come to a conclusion- Iraqis need an award show. While the Hollywood glitterati make good entertainers, our local super stars, Hakeem, Jaffari, Talabani, Allawi et al. make GREAT entertainers. This last year we’ve seen several dramas unfold and our political leaders have been riveting!... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21265 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.