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US Military Conducting Propaganda Campaign to Play Up Role of Zarqawi --Jordanian Painted As Foreign Threat to Iraq's Stability
10 Apr 2006 The U.S. military is conducting a propaganda campaign to magnify the role of the leader of 'al-Qaeda' in Iraq, according to internal military documents and officers familiar with the program. The effort has raised his profile in a way that some military intelligence officials believe may have overstated his importance and helped the Bush regime tie the war to the organization responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. For the past two years, U.S. military leaders have been using Iraqi media and other outlets in Baghdad to publicize Zarqawi's role in the insurgency. The documents explicitly list the "U.S. Home Audience" as one of the targets of a broader propaganda campaign...
Zarqawi's role may have been overemphasized by the propaganda campaign, which has included leaflets, radio and television broadcasts, Internet postings and at least one leak to an American 'journalist.' One slide in the same briefing, for example, noted that a "selective leak" about Zarqawi was made to Dexter Filkins, a New York Times 'reporter' based in Baghdad.
[See: Rebels: Top Iraq Terrorist Dead 04 Mar 2004 U.S. officials say Abu Musab al-Zarqawi may have been involved in some of the series of suicide bombings this year in Iraq —
including the massive mosque bombings on Tuesday that killed more than 100 Shiite Muslims. But according to a statement circulated this week in Fallujah, a hotbed of anti-U.S. insurgency activity, al-Zarqawi was killed in northern Iraq "during the American bombing there."]
Bush warned against attacking Iran 10 Apr 2006 Critics of the Bush regime have expressed alarm over reports that the pResident is considering a military strike to knock out Iran's nuclear programme.
US plans strike to topple Iran regime - report --
US 'intent on Iran attack' --Bush accused of 'messianic' mission 10 Apr 2006 The US is planning military action against Iran because George Bush is intent on regime change in Tehran - and not just as a contingency if diplomatic efforts fail to halt its suspected nuclear weapons programme, it was reported yesterday.
US ready for nuclear strike on Iran: report 10 Apr 2006 One of the United States' most famous investigative reporters says the US has drawn up plans to destroy Tehran's underground nuclear facilities with tactical nuclear weapons. The reporter Seymour Hersh says that the Joint Chiefs of Staff recently unsuccessfully tried to remove the nuclear option from war planning, but the White House asked why they wanted to remove it when the initial idea came from them.
Who to believe? (The Daily Telegraph) 09 Apr 2006 "As Seymour Hersh reports in The New Yorker tomorrow, many of the US officials opposed to a strike believe that its most immediate effect will be to generate an armed insurrection among the Shias in southern Iraq - precisely the region where British soldiers are concentrated...
But if you believe the MoD's press office, British defence chiefs are not talking about any of these things. They have no anxieties about what might happen to British soldiers in Iraq, and are certainly not meeting to discuss what to do in the event that the US drops 'bunker-buster' bombs tipped with nuclear warheads on Iran's nuclear facilities. We leave it to readers to decide which is the more plausible picture of events at the MoD: its press office's account, or ours last week."
Town hall vote disaster looms for Blair 09 Apr 2006 Tony Blair risks a humiliating third place in next month’s local elections, which could put further pressure on him to stand down following the revival of tension with Gordon Brown.
Senior Republican to Bush: say "exactly what happened" 09 Apr 2006 A leading Republican urged President [sic] George W. Bush on Sunday to "tell the American people exactly what happened" in a leak of information aimed at countering criticism of his reasons for taking America to war in Iraq. Sen. Arlen Specter, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said on Faux News Sunday that "there's been enough of a showing here with what's been filed of record in court that the president of the United States owes a specific explanation to the American people."
Bush Ordered Declassification, Official Says 10 Apr 2006 A senior administration official confirmed for the first time on Sunday that President [sic] Bush had ordered the declassification of parts of a prewar intelligence report on Iraq in an effort to rebut critics who said the administration had exaggerated the nuclear threat posed by Saddam Hussein.
President Springs Leaks In Support --
Some Call Him Hypocritical Over Media Tips Before War 09 April 2006 Some pundits are calling President [sic] Bush leaker-in-chief and hypocrite, and while people may not fathom all the details about the Valerie Plame case, they understand barbs like those. And that means even more serious political trouble for a White House whose fortunes have been sliding downward for months.
The Deception Bush Can't Spin --
Libby's testimony shows that Bush disclosed national secrets for political gain -- and makes Bush's statements about finding the leaker ludicrous. By Joe Conason 07 Apr 2006 "If we are to believe the grand jury testimony of I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby -- as reported by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald in court papers --
then the president [sic] of the United States has been deceiving the country ever since the CIA leaks investigation began in 2003."
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Gangster Government A Leaky President Runs Afoul of 'Little Rico' By Greg Palast 09 Apr 2006 "OK, let's accept the White House alibi that releasing [secret agent Valerie] Plame's identity was no crime. But if that's true, they've committed a bigger crime: Bush and Cheney knowingly withheld vital information from a grand jury investigation, a multimillion dollar inquiry the perps themselves authorized... While [Judith] Miller sat in a prison cell, Bush and Cheney were laughing their sick heads off, knowing the grand jury testimony, the special prosecutor's subpoenas and the FBI's terrorizing newsrooms were nothing but fake props in Bush's elaborate charade, Cheney's Big Con."
U.S. report on Iraq offers bleak assessment 09 Apr 2006 An internal U.S. embassy report on Iraq's provinces and obtained by the New York Times concluded in January that the stability of the strategic Baghdad region is a serious concern.
U.S. Study Paints Somber Portrait of Iraqi Discord 09 Apr 2006 An internal staff report by the United States Embassy and the military command in Baghdad provides a sobering province-by-province snapshot of Iraq's political, economic and security situation, rating the overall stability of 6 of the 18 provinces "serious" and one "critical." The report is a counterpoint to some recent upbeat public statements by top American politicians and military officials.
U.S. Military Raid Kills 8 in Iraq 09 Apr 2006 American troops killed eight suspected 'insurgents' Sunday during a raid north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
Force-feeding an end to dissent --Pentagon ruling on hunger strikers raises concerns --
Report for UN calls the practice akin to 'torture' 08 Apr 2006 The policy to tube-feed detainees at Guantanamo Bay appears to contradict what's set out in Article 5 of the 1975 World Medical Association Tokyo Declaration to which the United Sates is bound through its membership with the American Medical Association...
Former commander of the base Maj.-Gen. Jay Hood told a group of civilian doctors, psychologists and ethicists who visited the camp's medical facility in October 2005 that doctors had been "screened, before coming to Guantanamo, "to ensure they do not have ethical objections to assisted [force-] feeding," according to an account of that visit in The New England Journal of Medicine. Doctors here are following a Pentagon directive that instructs them to force-feed.
Army faces a major officer shortage 08 Apr 2006 The Army expects to be short 2,500 captains and majors this year, with the number rising to 3,300 in 2007... "We're ruining an Army that took us 30 years to build," Republican maverick Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., told a group of reporters at a recent conference.
Women and jobless armed by Chavez to resist 'US invasion' 09 Apr 2006 The President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, is recruiting and training a people's militia to help lead a "war of resistance" against what he claims is the threat of a US invasion. Housewives, students, construction workers and the unemployed are being recruited for the country's Territorial Guard. "I can assure you right away that also in this battle we will defeat the US empire," Mr Chavez said in a speech last week. [One can only hope. --LRP]
Populist leftist holds narrow lead in Peru vote 10 Apr 2006 Ollanta Humala, a former army commander, held a narrow lead in Peru's presidential election on Sunday, initial official results showed.
"The 'department [of defence] must be prepared to 'fight the net'". America's war on the web 02 Apr 2006 By Neil Mackay "...
[Details] are contained in a report, entitled The Information Operations Roadmap, commissioned and approved by US secretary of defence Donald Rumsfeld and seen by the Sunday Herald. The Pentagon has already signed off $383 million to force through the document’s recommendations by 2009. Military and intelligence sources in the US talk of 'a revolution in the concept of warfare'... Firstly, the Pentagon says it will wage war against the internet in order to dominate the realm of communications, prevent digital attacks on the US and its allies, and to have the upper hand when launching cyber-attacks against enemies. Secondly, psychological military operations, known as psyops, will be at the heart of future military action... Thirdly, the US wants to take control of the Earth's electromagnetic spectrum, allowing US war planners to dominate mobile phones, PDAs, the web, radio, TV and other forms of modern communication. That could see entire countries denied access to telecommunications at the flick of a switch by America...
The report says the US military’s first priority is that the 'department [of defence] must be prepared to 'fight the net'. The internet is seen in much the same way as an enemy state by the Pentagon because of the way it can be used to propagandise, organise and mount electronic attacks on crucial US targets. Under the heading 'offensive cyber operations', two pages outlining possible operations are blacked out."
Wi-Fi plan stirs Big Brother concerns --Log-on rule would allow Google to track users' whereabouts in S.F.
Prodi wins Italy's election - exit polls 10 Apr 2006 Italy's prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, looks to have narrowly lost the country's general election to a leftwing coalition led by the former European commission president Romano Prodi, according to exit polls released immediately after voting ended today.
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