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Destroying Iraq's Heritage ... yet again Truth about Iraqis ... The looting in Iraq was part of systematic, pre-planned campaign to destroy Iraq's history and heritage. I have maintained here that such a campaign ensures that you leave future societies without a bond to their common heritage and thereby can refashion them in whichever image you choose. So, it also comes as no surprise then that we hear the ancient site of Babylon has been nearly destroyed by ... no, not looters, but by the US military. "US forces built a helicopter pad on the ancient ruins and filled their sandbags with archaeological material in the months following the 2003 invasion," the BBC reports... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22561 Do Iraqi mortar shells hit their mark? Truth About Iraqis There seems to be a dispute about the veracity of the Iraqi resistance claims that they are able to shell US military outposts and barracks. Please see the videos below. The first is of an "insurgent" missile hitting a US military ammunitions depot (more than four minutes long). Why was this not reported in the media?... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22559 Sunni group demands action as body count surges in Iraq Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times Sunni Arab political leaders said Thursday that nearly 90 Sunnis had been reported abducted or killed in the past two days by groups with possible ties to the nation's Shiite Muslim-led Interior Ministry forces. In one incident, up to 25 men just released from detention were reportedly whisked away by gunmen in SUVs. The Sunnis also allege that 20 corpses turned up in Baghdad, all people reportedly abducted by security force s on the morning of April 4... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22558 $18 billion - Iraq's Annual Oil Losses Imad Khadduri, Free Iraq "I have recently chosen to discuss the question of the Iraqi oil with a senior Iraqi oil expert, who, given his clout over the local politics in Baghdad, is quite informed of the current developments there. In fact, just like any other Iraqi regretting the country's stolen and siphoned wealth, my old friend explained to me in figures how Iraq loses every year some $18 billion of oil funds as a result of smuggling, sabotage, and lost opportunities. First, I have inquired about the Iraqi revenue as calculated in Iraq's budget - with an exported 1.6 million b/d and a shadow price evaluated with the IMF at $46.1 a barrel or some $27 billion a year. At this, he simply laughed, saying, "These figures are nonsense. This is the century's scandal, not to mention the continuous developments. For the country loses every year $18 billion of oil receipts"... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22560 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 13 April 2006 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. In a dispatch posted at 6:50pm Makkah (Mecca) time Thursday evening, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance forces fired three Katyusha rockets at camps of US occupation forces in the 'Amiriyat al-Fallujah area, 7km southwest of the city of al-Fallujah, which is about 60km west of Baghdad. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesse s as saying that the Resistance fired the Katyusha barrage at 3pm local time, striking houses in the area that the Americans have occupied and turned into billets and headquarters... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22555 Dead Cities Chris Floyd Of all the war crimes that have flowed from the originating crime of President George W. Bush's unprovoked invasion of Iraq, perhaps the most flagrant was the destruction of Fallujah in November 2004. Now, as ignominious defeat looms for Bush's Babylonian folly, some of the key players in fomenting the war are urging that the "Fallujah Option" be applied to an even bigger target: Baghdad. What these influential warmongers openly call for is the "pacification" of Baghdad: a brutal firestorm by U.S. forces, ravaging both Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias in a "horrific" operation that will inevitably lead to "skyrocketing body counts," as warhawk Reuel Marc Gerecht cheerfully wrote last week in the ever-bloodthirsty editorial pages of The Wall Street Journal... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22554 Iraqis Change Names to Survive Sectarian Hell IslamOnline.net With about 60,000 forced to flee their homes under the yoke of sectarian violence, many Iraqis line up at a state registry believing that name changing is the best protection. "I changed my name to Abdullah because it is a neutral name. It could be Sunni or Shiite," Omar Sami, an Arab Sunni university student, told Reuters on Thursday, April 13. Names, many of which can clearly identify which sect an Iraqi is from, have become a matter of life or death in the violence-marred country... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22552 Generals clamor for Rumsfeld's ouster over Iraq war Steve Holland, Reuters Two more retired U.S. generals called for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign on Thursday, claiming the chief architect of the Iraq operation ignored years of Pentagon planning for a U.S. occupation and should be held accountable for the chaos there. As the high-ranking officers accused Rumsfeld of arrogance and ignoring his field commanders, the White House was forced to defend a man who has been a lightning rod for criticism over a war that has helped drive President George W. Bush's public approval ratings to new lows. Six retired generals have now called for Rumsfeld to step down, including two who spoke out on Thursday... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22556 Mearsheimer, Walt and Corrie The Lobby and the Bulldozer NORMAN SOLOMON Weeks after a British magazine published a long article by two American professors titled "The Israel Lobby," the outrage continued to howl through mainstream U.S. media. A Los Angeles Times op-ed article by Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Max Boot helped to set a common tone. He condemned a working paper by professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt that was excerpted last month in the London Review of Books... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22557 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. 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