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US soldiers murder another academic Truth About Iraqis Last Thursday, March 30, 2006, American occupation soldiers shot dead 72 years old Professor Qais Husameldeen Juma'a as he left the Agriculture College of the University of Baghdad and had just passed their check point. He had returned from Australia to supervise a few PhD students at the College.(...) I have repeatedly asked "How many Iraqi scientists have been killed in the past few years? ... How many poets and artists have been killed? How many forward-thinking women?" "... To ensure that Iraqi education never, ever be able to mass produce scientists who can so much as make ammonia in a lab. To ensure that no Iraqi innovators emerge, no Iraqi thinkers, poets, philosophers, economists." This is the rub, ladies and gentlemen. To destroy Iraq for generations and years to come, first by sanctions, then by military invasion and the use of bought-and-paid-for-CIA-trained so-called Islamic terrorists, and then finally by ensuring a restrictive, oppressive, backward, turban-hugging order of perverse clerics rule for good. Your tax dollars at work. Be proud... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22264 GI Special 4D4: The Worst News Bush Could Hear - April 4, 2006 Thomas F. Barton ... I just got letter a few minutes ago this from my (sunni) "adopted daughter" who lives in a northern Iraq city...they have cut-off their internet, except with pre-paid cards. Please note her statements about GIs raiding her house.... Not to mention the massacre of 24 shiatts by U.S. troops yesterday.... This is killing me...she and I have been writing for a long time now, and she truly is like my daughter... She is so fu**ing brave, and I wish I could get her out of there NOW, along with our troops.... I deleted most of her name for her protection... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22268 Not because of our blue eyes Saad N. Jawad Is Iraq heading toward disintegration? The question is asked frequently by observers, never mind their attitude toward Iraq and Iraqis. The question implies more fundamental ones: is Iraq an artificial state? Or is it built on certain necessary foundations? If these foundations are no longer valid, should Iraq disintegrate? Iraq as a state and a civilization has existed well back in history. Deep-rooted civilizations, be they in the north, middle or south, came into being not because some power interest required them to but as a result of natural evolution. Even in modern history, when the Ottoman Empire introduced the villayet system it could not separate the three villayets of Mosul, Baghdad and Basra. Indeed, the British occupation formed the new Iraqi state according to these lines after cutting out some of its territories... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22267 Omars new targets in Iraq's sectarian war Aqeel Hussein, LONDON SUNDAY TELEGRAPH For police in Baghdad's Al Adil neighborhood, the 14 corpses looked like the products of just another night's work in Iraq's sectarian war. All were young Sunni men, all had been killed with a bullet to the head, and all were found tossed into a garbage dump. Only when they noticed their identity cards -- carefully placed on the victims' chests -- did officers realize what else they had in common. All shared the same first name: Omar. The victims' only crime, it seemed, was to be namesakes of Imam Omar, a prominent historical figure in the Sunni religious tradition... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22258 DAILY WAR NEWS FOR TUESDAY, April 4, 2006 Today in Iraq Ten US troops died on Sunday, according to U.S. military and Department of Defense. Five died in the vehicle accident. Three Marines and a sailor were killed by "hostile fire." The tenth, Army Pfc. Jeremy W. Ehle was killed when his patrol came under fire near Hit. American troops clash with "insurgents" in Iraq. They began exchanging fire after a US military base was attacked in Ramadi, west of Baghdad (...) Bomb explodes outside Baghdad home Tuesday, killing a woman and two of her sons, ages 9 and 12. The woman's 13-year-old son was wounded in the bombing, as were two brothers of the second family. Two Iraqi staffers of United Aarab Emirates embassy killed when their car came under fire in Baghdad. Car bomb kills ten people, wounds 28 others in Baghdad. The bomb went off in a large lot in Habibiyah, where Iraqis go to sell used cars. 18 corpses found since Monday night... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22266 Amnesty report claims CIA used private flights to hide terror rendition Raw Story Amnesty International has released a report claiming that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) used private aircraft operators and front companies to hide CIA rendition flights and "black site" detention facilities in foreign countries. The report includes a lengthy account drawn upon the only public testimony of detainees held at "black sites," that of three Yemeni nationals who "disappeared" in U.S. custody for more than eighteen months but were never charged with any terrorism-related offences. "During their "disappearance", the three men were kept in at least four different secret facilities, likely to have been in at least three different countries, judging by the length of their transfer flights and other information they have been able to provide," the report states... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22265 Christian “AIPAC” Supports Palestinian Starvation Kurt Nimmo As if AIPAC wasn’t enough, the Christian Zionists in America have organized a new "Christian pro-Israel lobby," a "more powerful … version of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee" that will "target senators and congressmen on Capitol Hill" and demand they show ever-increasing fealty to the tiny outlaw state of Israel, reports the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. At the center of this effort is televangelist John Hagee and other Christian Zionists, including Jerry Falwell and Gary Bauer, president of the American Values organization. Hagee was given the "Humanitarian of the Year" award by the San Antonio, Texas, B’Nai B’Rith Council, the first time this award was bestowed upon a Gentile. He was also "honored" with the ZOA (Zionist Organization of America) Israel Award by Jean Kirkpatrick, a "fellow" at the neocon criminal organization, the American Enterprise Institute, where Bush gets his "minds," that is to say AEI provides Bush with warmongering reactionaries... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22270 The War Crimes Confession of Condi Rice Chris Floyd The incomparable Robert Parry puts Condi Rice clearly in the frame for war crimes after her extraordinary confessions during her trip to the UK last week -- confessions that have been entirely ignored by the US press. While there was a brief flurry over her casual remark about "thousands of tactical mistakes" in Iraq, no one but Parry caught her admission -- nay, her boast -- that the Bush Regime's policy in Iraq was an open, deliberate, carefully considered violation of the Nuremberg-based laws against aggressive war: principles articulated most forcefully by America's own representative to that international tribunal, and which were later incorporated into the UN Charter. As Parry notes, Rice confessed that the Bush Administration launched an unprovoked invasion and occupation of Iraq to effect a unilateral "regime change" for political and ideological purposes -- the same crime for which the Hitler Administration was justly condemned at Nuremberg... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22263 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 4 April 2006 ranslated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org ...In a dispatch posted at 6:20pm Makkah (Mecca) time Tuesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US occupation forces had launched a campaign of mass raids, searches, and arrests in ar-Ramadi, about 110km west of Baghdad. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in ar-Ramadi as saying that US troops surrounded the neighborhood of at-Ta’mim, the ath-Thilah district, 17 July Street, 20 Street, and the al-Mal'ab ("playing field") areas of the city around midnight Monday-Tuesday, and began storming into houses detonating percussion grenades and setting off explosives that they planted at doorways to blow people’s houses open. Local witnesses said at the Americans attacked and beat the men in the houses they raided... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22261 West Accused of Fiddling Figures on Iraq Aid Stephen Castle, The Independent UK Britain and other Western nations are using huge debt write-offs to Iraq to boost development aid statistics and give a misleading impression of their generosity to the Third World, campaigners say. The UK, France, Germany and Italy have all bracketed debt cancellations to Iraq as part of their assistance to the world's poorest nations. Figures released today by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development are expected to show that most, if not all, of the 15 nations in the EU before its 2004 expansion increased aid contributions... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22260 Iraq redux Dom Stasi. Online Journal Contributing Writer We are a people who observe anniversaries. Some are grand and celebratory recollections, events we embrace with family, friends, glee. Others are hardly more than obligatory nods to some arbitrary date. Others still, are those from which we cower. March 19 marked one of the latter. It marked an anniversary that we, as free, intelligent, caring men and women can only face with horror. March 19 marked the third anniversary of our invasion of Iraq. It also marked the third anniversary of our toleration of atrocity carried out in our name... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22259 John Kerry's learning disability Eli Stephens, Left I on the News So John Kerry has finally got the "Out Now" religion...sort of. In an op-ed in The New York Times, he proposes setting two deadlines for withdrawing from Iraq -- May 15, if the Iraqis don't form a new government, and the end of the year if they do. It's good that he's doing that, I suppose, since it reflects the reality of the situation on the ground, both in Iraq and also in the United States. But it's really a pathetic statement... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22257 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.