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Answer Depends on You! an iraqi tear ...The 4 women, 6 children and Fayiz were killed.. 11 civilians.. The photos are very painful, sorry, but you should see the truth; these are the "terrorists". Send the photos and the names to your congressmen; ask them to be honest and noble.. say them to see the quite smile of the face of martyr Aysha.. She was killed while sleeping; she was dreaming a colored dream without bombs, ashes, deads and Americans... I am not asking your tears; I am asking your efforts.. Say NO to Bush the terrorist.. ask your congressmen and your conscious to define the word "TERRORISM".. is targeting and killing the children terrorism? the answer depends on your humanity.. Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=21836 The Anti-Empire Report Some things you need to know before the world ends William Blum I'm often told by readers of their encounters with Americans who support the outrages of US foreign policy no matter what facts are presented to them, no matter what arguments are made, no matter how much the government's statements are shown to be false. They include amongst their number those who still believe that Iraq had a direct involvement in the events of September 11, that Saddam Hussein had close ties to al Qaeda, and/or that weapons of mass destruction were indeed found in Iraq after the 2003 invasion. My advice is to forget such people. They would support the outrages even if the government came to their homes, seized their first born, and hauled them away screaming, as long as the government assured them it was essential to fighting terrorism (or communism)... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=21848 Execlusive: The Head of Mosul’s Dominican Monastery Talks to the Iraqi League :: media bureau::iraqi league :: ...Sister Mary is a distinguished and highly learned Iraqi with a great deal of wisdom and wide awareness of history and current affairs. Fluent in French, the smile never seems to depart from her face, but yet she vocalises her pain as she talks the IL about the US occupation of her beloved country Iraq. She says 'Iraq has never been through harder times, and has never seen a greater criminal than the US occupation which came to destroy a civilisation in its totality, basing its invasion on lies and deceit in order to justify its despicable crime. It’s the occupation’s deliberate policies that are directly responsible for the ugly sectarian and ethnic violence; it is trying to convey to the world the notion that Iraqis are unable to co-exist as brothers as has been for centuries. I cannot understand how some Iraqis are working with the occupation against their people and their country’... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=21849 Iraq is now an American colony Truth About Iraqis For those of you who have doubted the intentions of the Bush administration and the US military in Iraq, recent testimonials have uncovered that Iraq is now an American colony with a permanent military presence. When Iraqis protested at the illegal invasion and occupation of their country, we were told that the US military would remove itself once requested to do so by the Iraqi people... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=21830 God Forgive America Kurt Nimmo Instead of "God Bless America," we should put "God Forgive America" bumperstickers on our cars. Americans, as participants in horrendous war crimes, should ask for forgiveness. America is a killer nation—not only do we kill Iraqis and Afghans, but we are in the process of killing ourselves. "After forming microscopic and submicroscopic insoluble Uranium oxide particles on the battlefield, they remain suspended in air and travel around the earth as a radioactive component of atmospheric dust, contaminating the environment, indiscriminately killing, maiming and causing disease in all living things where rain, snow and moisture remove it from the atmosphere," writes independent scientist and international expert on radiation, Leuren Moret"... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=21828 Lynchings and Holy Wars Zeyad, Healing Iraq Black-clad Mahdi army militiamen drag the body of Sheikh Ghazi Al-Zoba’i, the Imam and preacher of the Al-Sabbar mosque around a street in Husseiniya, a mixed suburb north of Baghdad. I reported this lynching incident during the sectarian attacks that followed the Samarra shrine bombing. This is an extremely disturbing cell phone video clip of the whole scene. Someone shouts: "drag the Wahhabi," while another describes him as a "bastard." They pause a moment to search for a wire, then they dump him on the side of the road. Another militiaman suggests they bury him. "What do you mean bury him?" the gang leader snaps back with indignation. "Leave him here to the dogs." Then they joke about his underwear and cover the corpse with a cardboard. Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=21851 Sectarian Internal Migration Plagues Iraq Samir Haddad, IOL Correspondent Faced with simmering sectarian tensions and the looming prospect of a civil war, thousands of Sunni and Shiite families are fleeing their homes and moving to areas where their respective sects are in majority. Some 2425 Sunni families have migrated from Shiite-dominated provinces such as Karbala, An-Najaf, Al-Qadisiyah and Babil, according to statement by the Ministry of Migration and Emigrants, a copy of which was obtained by IslamOnline.net. They have moved to cities such as Fallujah, Samarra, Al-Latyfiah and Al-Mahmoudyah, where Sunnis are in majority, added the statement... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=21852 Woodward's Plame-leak Deep Throat Jason Leopold, Online Journal Contributing Writer He is referred to as "official one" and he is the mysterious senior Bush administration official who unmasked the identity of an undercover CIA operative to Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Bob Woodward in mid-June 2003 and conservative columnist Robert Novak a month later. The identity of this official is shrouded in secrecy. In fact, his name, government status, and the substance of his conversation with Woodward about the undercover officer are under a protective seal in US District Court for the District of Columbia... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=21847 Volunteers for Endless War Cindy Sheehan, t r u t h o u t | Perspective Being on the road constantly and being in the trenches for peace leaves me little time (and, if truth be told, little inclination) to keep up with George's dishonest and often incoherent ramblings; nonetheless, this week, two of his more calculated comments caught my attention. The first comment was on the White House lawn on Sunday, March 19th, the 3rd anniversary of the invasion. By the way, the White House website has entitled this speech "The President's Remarks on the Third Anniversary of the Liberation!!!! (italics and exclamation points added by me) of Iraq"... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=21844 Iraqi Prime Minister Jaafari asks Iran, US to begin talks on Iraq IRNA Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari on Thursday called on Iran and the US to launch meetings and talks on Iraq as soon as possible. "I hope the US and Iran will start their meetings and talks as soon as possible and the knot in relations between the two countries would be untied through the negotiations," Jaafari told a press briefing here on Thursday. He said Iraq strives for improvement of relations between its neighbors and other countries, considering it as an effective method for guaranteeing regional security... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=21843 Blaming the Media for Bad War News Norman Solomon, t r u t h o u t | Perspective Top officials in the Bush administration have often complained that news coverage of Iraq focuses on negative events too much and fails to devote enough attention to positive developments. Yet the White House has rarely picked direct fights with US media outlets during this war. For the most part, President Bush leaves it to others to scapegoat the media. Karl Rove's spin strategy is heavily reliant on surrogates. They're likely to escalate blame-the-media efforts as this year goes on... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=21842 The no-fly big lie Eli Stephens’s Left I on the News George Bush spoke again (sigh!) yesterday, repeating his recent (and frequent) lie about Iraq (known by its first name, "Saddam") having refused to "disclose" and "disarm" (although he temporarily dropped the one about "denying" the inspectors). But he added another one, one of the traditional American big lies: "He also was firing on our aircraft. They were enforcing a no-fly zone, United Nations no-fly zone, the world had spoken, and he had taken shots at British and U.S. pilots." Now I know, and you probably know, that the "no-fly zones" were imposed by the United States (and its junior flunkies across the "pond"), not by the United Nations... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=21841 Iraqi Exile Speaks Out Against the Targeting of Gay Iraqis by Shia Death Squads Democracy Now! ...Shiite death squads in Iraq have been systematically targeting gay Iraqis for persecution and execution. The attacks follow a death-to-gays fatwa issued by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani last October. In a question and answer section of his website, Sistani says homosexuality is "forbidden" and calls for the killing of gays in the "worst, most severe way." The story comes in this week's issue of Gay City News. It reports that the Badr Corps have heeded Sistani's call and have been targeting gay Iraqis. The Badr Corps is the military arm of the Iranian-backed Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, a powerful Shia group that is the largest political formation in Iraq's Shia community... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=21840 A Stone in the Lake John M. Peters Last week’s Operation Swarmer was ballyhooed as the largest U.S. combat air operation in Iraq since 2003. Designed to take the Iraqi insurgents by surprise and wipe out the obstacle to peace in Iraq. (Seems I have heard that line before.) Utilizing a succession of military and civilian bureaucrats, Washington has spent three years trying to impose its blueprint upon an increasingly resistant Iraqi population. The world’s most expensive military has been deployed to try to force political change and define the boundaries of a conflict which knows no boundaries. After three years, Washington is farther than ever from its illegal goals. Take Operation Swarmer... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=21838 The War Lovers John Pilger ..."There’s no doubt," said Matt Frei, the BBC’s man in America, "that the desire to bring good, to bring American values to the rest of the world, and especially now to the Middle East . . . is now increasingly tied up with military power." Frei said that on 13 April 2003, after George W Bush had launched "Shock and Awe" on a defenceless Iraq. Two years later, after a rampant, racist, woefully trained and ill-disciplined army of occupation had brought "American values" of sectarianism, death squads, chemical attacks, attacks with uranium-tipped shells and cluster bombs, Frei described the notorious 82nd Airborne as "the heroes of Tikrit."... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=21837 The First Casualty Of War (Flowers Sent to the Wake) Comments From Left Field I received a nice e-mail from a Spc. Flowers at Centcom the other day requesting I link to their website. Now I don't know if it was spam or an e-mail sent after an actual review of my blog. In any event, I googled Flowers and it turns out that he is part of a military program designed to address blogs critical of the military and to feed good news to others... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=21834 Chavez: U.S. Has Been Routed in Iraq CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER, The Associated Press Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Tuesday that U.S. troops have been routed by a strong resistance movement in Iraq, but haven't pulled out because officials in Washington won't acknowledge defeat. The United States would also suffer a tremendous military defeat if the Bush administration decided to invade Iran, Chavez told a group of foreign diplomats and government supporters at the Miraflores Presidential Palace. "The U.S. empire is defeated in Iraq, they just don't want to admit it," Chavez said to rousing applause... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=21833 No escape for fearful Palestinians in Iraq Maher Nazih, Reuters Reports of kidnappings, murder and persecution of Palestinian refugees in Iraq have forced many to try to flee, but for most there is nowhere else to go. Jordan's closure of its borders with Iraq on Sunday to prevent the entry of 89 Palestinians seeking sanctuary from Iraq's carnage shows the refugees have few options. Sheikh Ayman Mustafa, a 33-year-old Palestinian cleric who lives in one of the rundown apartment buildings in Baghdad that are home to thousands of refugees, said an explosion of sectarian violence had made it too risky to stay in Iraq (...) Amnesty International said Jordan was obliged to allow the Palestinians over the border. "Palestinians have been killed in Iraq and they will risk death if they return. We also call on armed groups to stop these killings," Nicole Choueiry, the human rights group's spokeswoman, said by telephone from London. "This period is very difficult for the Palestinians. They are kidnapped and killed and tortured," said a Palestinian diplomat in Baghdad who asked not to be named... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=21832 CPT Statement: CPTers Freed Christian Peacemaker Teams Our hearts are filled with joy today as we heard that Harmeet Singh Sooden, Jim Loney and Norman Kember have been freed safely in Baghdad. Christian Peacemaker Teams rejoices with their families and friends at the expectation of their return to their loved ones and community. Together we have endured uncertainty, hope, fear, grief and now joy during the four months since they were abducted in Baghdad... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=21831 58 Dead As Violence Continues in Iraq STEVEN R. HURST, AP The U.S. military spokesman in Iraq asserted Thursday that major violence is largely confined to just three of the country's 18 provinces, but fighting there raged on with at least 58 people killed in execution-style slayings, bombings and gunbattles. For the third straight day, Sunni insurgents hit a major police and jail facility - this time with a suicide car bombing that killed 25 in central Baghdad. The attacker detonated his explosives at the entrance to the Interior Ministry Major Crimes unit in the Karradah district, killing 10 civilians and 15 policemen, authorities said... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=21853 Anatomy of a Rebel Strike An attack northeast of Baghdad, which freed 33 prisoners and killed 17 security officers, was a bold and highly coordinated operation. Richard Boudreaux and John Johnson Jr., Los Angeles Times Since last year, the city of Muqdadiya had not been considered especially vulnerable. There were shootings and bombings from time to time, but police would round up suspected rebels in nearby villages, as they did last weekend, and haul them to cells in the downtown courthouse. Then at dawn Tuesday, masked men came to break the detainees out. Descending from a dozen cars and pickup trucks laden with mortars and grenades, they surrounded the judicial compound and blasted away, killing at least 17 policemen and guards and freeing 33 prisoners in one of Iraq's boldest insurgent raids in months... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=21850 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.