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Silence kills and silence is complicity - email to United for Peace and Justice Gabriele Zamparini, The Cat's Dream United for Peace and Justice, On your website, a legislative action, "Keep the Pressure On" reads: Take Action! Unless Congress votes to end the war, the fourth year of fighting will begin on March 19. The costs so far … • over 33,000 Iraqi civilian lives (and some estimates are as high as 100,000 lives). Iraq Body Count, from where presumably you got the numbers, simply records the Iraqi civ ilians deaths reported in the English language media with an online website. On the IBC website, you may read: "It is likely that many if not most civilian casualties will go unreported by the media." When you write "some estimates are as high as 100,000 lives" you presumably refer to a study published on 29 October 2004 in the British medical journal The Lancet... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22454 Iraq After 3 Years of U.S. 'Democracy' Iraqis are dying by the hundreds every week Haider S. Kadhum Despite promises of democracy and safety, Iraq remains gripped by civil strife, death and terror three years after the American-led invasion of the country. A nation that was once united is now disintegrating. Security in Iraq under the occupation no longer exists. Going out to buy a newspaper could cost you your life. People are being killed as they are filling up their cars at petrol stations or as they simply shop for necessities... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22455 Emergency Cindy Sheehan ...Truly, George Bush is obviously out of control and he and the neocons need to be stopped. We will make Camp Casey, Easter, next week all about not invading Iran. It should be so simple: GeorgeCo lied through their collective asses about Iraq and now they are doing so about Iran. I don't have to convince you all that this would be a major disaster and could lead to World War (insert your number here) and it would be an enormous disaster for the people of Iran, Iraq, and for our troops in harm's way there... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22457 A war resistor's plea to IBC Pablo Paredes, Media Lens Message Board IBC, My name is Pablo Paredes, I am the only Navy public War Resistor thus far in the criminal acts being perpetrated against the people of Iraq. (I speak only of Iraq as your website is dedicated to that theater) My resistance was met with a Court Martial and a minor sentence (...) I am writing to you with a grave concern. I have read much of the literature on your website and it has led me to the conclusion that we share some of the same goals in regards to ending this massacre. My concerns come in the effect that your methodology and appearance are having. If this is your goal or not is not my concern, but you are perceived as the end all be all, definitive authority on Iraqi civilian casualties. This is not a perception relegated to the mainstream in the US and England but even in the left in this country and abroad, Anti-war folks are perceiving you this way as well. This for me is a problem. As someone who was ready to do serious time for refusing to take part in the current massacre i am really frustrated that educated people especially in the peace movement would accept a number as low as 30000 more or less to quote our president as the definitive estimate... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22441 IRAQ: 'You better confess in order to save your life’ Rohan Pearce On March 22, US Army Sergeant Michael Smith was sentenced to six months’ jail for his part in the torture of Iraq prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. The real scandal, however, is not that his pathetic sentence is such a slap in the face for the Iraqi prisoners who have suffered torture at the hands of the US-led occupation forces and the (for the most part US-controlled) Iraqi security forces. It’s that Smith was just the latest patsy to take the fall for Washington’s torture policy, while those responsible for drawing it up and overseeing its implementation continue to walk free... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22453 Baath Party Statement A frivolous, gone senile ! Egyptian regime President's mental and psychic behavior! The Arab Baath Socialist Party This statement is necessary to answer Hosni Mubarak's disdain for the blood and the sacrifices of the Iraqis and concerns the nature, the personality and the psychic behavior of the Egyptian regime President. The "frivolous* Hosni" is the convenient name indeed, the right title, an accurate and a perfect call which confirms and explains what exactly are the personality , the moral conduct and the psychic behavior of Hosni Mubarak, the senile Egyptian President. It is no secret that Mubarak was brought out from under Sadat's thighs, and was born a bastard who drove a wedge between Egypt and its Arab identity, accepted to be adopted by the dynasty of Abdel Aziz Saud, who taught him to be frivolous and excelled in performing this role.. Mubarak loved servility and lived like a servant... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22452 Why didn't you say so? Christopher Allbritton TIME Magazine is running what it calls a "full-throated" critique of the Iraq war by Marine Lt. Gen. Greg Newbold (Ret.) He’s one of two generals who opposed the plans before the war (...) So opposed was he that he resigned his position as director of operations for the Join Chiefs four months before the war … and then kept his mouth shut until now (...) Well, gee, forgive me if I don’t think he should be given a lot of credit. If he was so opposed to the war, why did he stay silent? Why did he sit by for three years while others "paid in blood" for what he feels is a flawed policy? It’s easy to be opposed to the war now... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22451 Dexter Filkins and the Zarqawi psy-ops operation Eli Stephens, Left I on the News Most of you have probably read about the Washington Post story which discusses the U.S. military psy-ops operation to paint Abu Musab al Zarqawi as a much more significant figure in the Iraqi resistance than he actually is. There are two aspects to this story worth extra emphasis here. The first is how the Post attempts to cover up the clear violation of U.S. law represented by the story (emphasis added)... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22449 Saddam's Saudi lawyer, Reem Al Habib, decries Saudi government restrictions against her Khaleej Times, (DPA) A Saudi lawyer currently on captured Iraqi President's defence team has criticized the Saudi Justice Ministry for not allowing her - as a woman - to practice law. In the Monday issue of the Saudi daily Al Watan, lawyer Reem Al Habib, 29, complained that Abdel Rahman Al Houtan, department head at the Saudi Justice Ministry, confirmed that no female lawyer would be registered or allowed to practice the profes sion. "Everybody knows that although no female lawyer is officially recognized in the country, nevertheless, I practise law by virtue of having got a law degree with honors from Harvard University in the US," Al Habib told Al Watan... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22448 Abaddon Jeff Wells, Rigorous Intuition A quick review of the teaser of the nuking of Iran before they roll out the feature presentation. First of all, the target isn't Iran, though of course it will be Iranians who may die by the hundreds of thousands should nuclear weapons be greenlighted for Washington's latest McGuffin. But Iran is no more the target than Japan was for Fat Man and Little Boy. The principal target demographic for the atrocity still on storyboards is Russia and China. The nuking of Iran will be a blockbuster remaking of the demonstration events of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which announced to the Soviet Union and all comers that the American Aeon had arrived (...) Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22447 GI Special 4D10: Halliburton Negligence Infected Troops - April 10, 2006 Thomas F. Barton ...A U.S. Army doctor serving in Iraq has linked a small outbreak of bacterial infections among U.S. troops to allegedly contaminated water supplied by Houston-based Halliburton Co. In the latest broadside against Halliburton and its performance in Iraq, Senate Democrats produced an e-mail Friday from Capt. A. Michelle Callahan, a family physician serving at Qayyarah Airfield West, recounting how she treated six infections over a two-week period in January, at the same time she was noticing the water in base showers was cloudy and foul-smelling. Follow-up testing of the water soldiers were using to bathe, shave and even brush their teeth revealed evidence of coliform and E. coli bacteria, Callahan wrote in an e-mail to a staffer for the Democratic Policy Committee, led by Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22446 DAILY WAR NEWS FOR MONDAY, April 10, 2006 Today in Iraq U.S. soldier killed by roadside bomb while on patrol in Tal Afar. Baghdad Gunmen abduct two doctors as they left Yarmouk Hospital. Parked car bomb explodes in Amariyah district, wounding four civilians. Two policemen were killed and several wounded in clashes with gunmen at a checkpoint in Amariyah. Drive-by shooters open fire on a group of construction workers in Shurta district, killing one and wounding another. Body of an official of a Baghdad power plant found a day after his disappearance. In the Mashtal district, gunmen enter a grocery store and kill owner. Gunmen storm a home in the neighborhood of Dora and kill a 25-year-old man and his parents... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22442 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 10 April 2006 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org In a dispatch posted at 6pm Makkah time Monday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance fighters attacked a column of armor-plated four-wheel drive vehicles and a patrol of Iraqi puppet army troops in central al-Fallujah, about 60km west of Baghdad. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in al-Fallujah as saying that Resistance fighters armed with light and medium weapons and pipe rockets ambushed the column of four-wheel-drive armor-plated vehicles driven by mercenaries working for the US occupation forces. The attack destroyed one of the vehicles and left two of the foreign mercenaries dead and two more of them wounded... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22440 Gas prices, discontent rising in Iraq Andrea R. Mihailescu, THE WASHINGTON TIMES In what is seen as an unavoidable trade-off, Iraq's acting government is risking public anger by ramping up gasoline prices to boost revenues and reduce a gas-smuggling trade that is helping to fund the insurgency. Heavily subsidized since the days of Saddam Hussein, the price of gas has risen from about 5 cents a gallon to 10 cents a gallon, and is expected to rise dramatically in the coming months, despite the threat of street prote sts and other signs of discontent... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22439 Sunni politician claims Iraq in political civil war Deutsche Presse-Agentur The head of an Iraqi Sunni party on Monday spoke of a political civil war taking place in the country, a day after the government criticized Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak for making statements of a civil war between Shias and Sunnis. 'There is a civil war, but not between the religious groups, but between the party militias on one side and the people on the other,' said the chairman of the Sunni National Dialogue Front, Saleh al- Mutlak , on Monday in Baghdad... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22438 Blowing Cheney's Cover Ray McGovern When you invest so much effort into tangling the web—in this case, corrupting intelligence analysis in the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq—it becomes hard to know when to stop. Vice President Dick Cheney went to inordinate lengths, including 10 visits to CIA headquarters, to ensure that that crucial NIE on weapons of mass destruction was alarmist enough to scare Congress into authorizing war. And when the evidence turned out to be flimsy, Cheney had a back-up plan: T he CIA made me do it. Ever since their exaggerated claims about Iraq’s possession of WMD turned out to be baseless, the Bush administration’s defense has rested on blaming the government’s intelligence analysts. But one of the great revelations from Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s court filing last week is more evidence that the White House—not the CIA—distorted intelligence on Iraq... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22437 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.