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The Occupation Commits another Murder; another Crime; another Horror :: media bureau::iraqi league :: No day goes by without a new horror is revealed; a new crime is committed by the forces of occupation against the people of Iraq. Iraqis witness these horrors day in day out whilst the forces of occupation hide behind the familiar web of lies of denial. This time it is different; this time the forces of occupation shamelessly admit to a distorted version of their crime. The crime scene is the town of Balad, some 7 0km to the north of Baghdad. On Monday 10/4/2006, the US forces of occupation began a two-hour shelling of various farms in the AlEshaaqi region, specifically near AlSaffa village, where the US forces of occupation had executed 11 members of AlHarrat family (...) Ask why she was murdered? and the US forces of occupation will say she was a 'terrorist’! She was 22 years of age, her name was Nahrain and she was a mother of two children, named Aayesha (3 years old) and Haydar (only 40 day old baby). Nahrain’s parents are both Shia, and her loving husband is Sunni making her a symbol of Iraq’s social harmony that stretches from the beginning of time... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22482 The U.S. Military is in DU Denial Susu Jeffrey "My name is John Marshall. I was exposed to DU (depleted uranium). I am 100 percent disabled and I am pissed-off. In fact, I was advised by a couple of my counselors not to do this [interview] because I’m so angry with the government—at the VA system, at the way I’m treated and other veterans are treated. It’s very impersonal. They don’t give you any time. They ask us to go fight their wars, do the dirty work and then they can’t take care of you." Most people don’t be lieve the U.S. has been poisoning its own troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, or they’ve heard about uranium "tipped" bombs—like fingernail polish painted on the outside of a shell casing. On the contrary, these are solid uranium core projectiles... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22490 America's Matrix, Revisited Robert Parry On June 1, 2003, I wrote an article entitled "America's Matrix," questioning claims by the Bush administration that the discovery of two specially equipped train cars was proof that Iraq was secretly manufacturing biological warfare agents. At the time, more than two months after the Iraq invasion, George W. Bush was getting edgy because the promised stockpiles of banned weapons hadn't materialized. So, on May 29, 2003, he hailed the discovery of the supposed mobile "biolog ical laboratories" as conclusive proof that "we have found the weapons of mass destruction," a claim that would be repeated by administration officials for the next several months... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22492 US like Nazis in Iraq: UK refusenik Peter Graff, Reuters A British Air Force doctor being court-martialled for refusing a posting to Iraq said on Wednesday he believed the United States was the moral equivalent of Nazi Germany. Australian-born Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith could face an unlimited jail sentence for disobeying an order to go to Iraq last year and four orders to prepare for his deployment. The case is the first of its kind in Britain over the war in Iraq. "As early as 2004 I regarded the U nited States to be on par with Nazi Germany as regards its activities in the Gulf," Kendall-Smith told the court amid a series of bitter exchanges with prosecutor David Perry. Perry asked: "Are you saying the U.S. is the moral equivalent of the Third Reich?" Kendall-Smith replied: "That's correct."... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22491 Winnebagoes of lies Eli Stephens, Left I on the News George Bush, yesterday: "I wanted people to see the truth and thought it made sense for people to see the truth. And that's why I declassified the document." But, although it was at almost exactly the same time, strangely enough George's desire for people to "see the truth" didn't extend to another document: On May 29, 2003, 50 days after the fall of Baghdad, President Bush proclaimed a fresh victory for his administration in Iraq: Two small trailers captured by U.S. and Kurdish troops had turned out to be long-sought mobile "biological laboratories." He declared, "We have found the weapons of mass destruction." The claim, repeated by top administration officials for months afterward, was hailed at the time as a vindication of the decision to go to war. But even as Bush spoke, U.S. intelligence officials possessed powerful evidence that it was not true... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22501 On "Preventive War," Kissinger Becomes Bush's "Useful Idiot" Walter C. Uhler Having recently revisited the international law governing the use of military force by reading Christine Gray's book, International Law and the Use of Force, I approached Henry Kissinger's April 9, 2006, Op-Ed in the Washington Post with eager interest. Unfortunately, as I waded through his Rules On Preventive Force, I found myself in the midst of a smoke and mirrors justification for "extending" international law to permit the type of il legal preventive war that should earn President George W. Bush impeachment and a subsequent trial by a War Crimes Tribunal. Like Mr. Bush in both editions of his National Security Strategy, Mr. Kissinger appears to intentionally confuse "preemption" with the actual type of illegal war that the Bush administration waged in Iraq and is contemplating against Iran. In fact, Mr. Kissinger devotes his first five paragraphs to preemption before actually turning to preventive war... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22500 Beware of the Fox Xymphora I think it is important to point out the many concrete examples which conclusively prove the Israel Lobby thesis. The thesis is so obvious that this should hardly be necessary, but for the loud whining from the apologists for the Lobby and their Chomskeyite American-Empire-explains-everything fellow travelers. Here’s something to think about from Ira Glunts, a former IDF volunteer... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22499 U.S. Death Toll in Iraq This Month Hits 35 VANESSA ARRINGTON, Associated Press Writer Four more American soldiers were killed in Iraq, the U.S. military said as the U.S. death toll for the month surpassed the total for all of March. More than 40 Iraqis also died, including at least 22 in a car bombing near a Shiite mosque northeast of Baghdad. Meanwhile Wednesday, key Shiite politicians cast doubt on a plan to convene parliament next week, saying they still have not decided whether to replace their candidate for p rime minister to break a deadlock over forming a new government... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22497 Lacking Biolabs, Trailers Carried Case for War Administration Pushed Notion of Banned Iraqi Weapons Despite Evidence to Contrary Joby Warrick, Washington Post Staff Writer On May 29, 2003, 50 days after the fall of Baghdad, President Bush proclaimed a fresh victory for his administration in Iraq: Two small trailers captured by U.S. and Kurdish troops had turned out to be long-sought mobile "biological laboratories." He declared, "We have found the weapons of mass destruction." The claim, repeate d by top administration officials for months afterward, was hailed at the time as a vindication of the decision to go to war. But even as Bush spoke, U.S. intelligence officials possessed powerful evidence that it was not true... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22495 NIGER-GATE: THE SCANDAL BEHIND THE SCANDAL Michael Rivero, WhatReallyHappened.com ...However, months before Joe Wilson's article appeared, the International Atomic Energy Agency had examined the documents which had surfaced in Italy purporting to document the sale of uranium to Iraq and determined that they were forgeries, and indeed, very clumsy ones. This is the scandal behind the scandal. The outing of Valerie Plame was not done out of revenge, or as the Washington Post reports, part of a feud between Karl Rove and the CIA. Joe Wilson's article started to focus attention on the fact that the documents used to claim that Iraq was buying uranium from Niger were fakes! The fact that the Niger documents were fake is hard proof that the lies that tricked this nation into war were not an accident, not "misinterpreted" or "bad" intelligence, but deliberate falsehood with malice aforethought.We The People were lied to intentionally to trick us into supporting a war of conquest against an innocent nation that had done us no wrong... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22494 Strike Iran? US can't be serious Linda S. Heard, Online Journal Contributing Writer As occupied Iraq is now arguably in a state of civil war, the Taliban regroups in Afghanistan and Palestine is under a Western-led economic siege, a growing number of Washington insiders say Iran is next on the list of death and destruction.They say the Bush administration plans to take out underground Iranian nuclear sites using tactical bunker busting nuclear weapons. Have they lost their marbles? Could this possibly be true?...< br> Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22488 The war on Iran Pepe Escobar The ominous signs are "on the table" for all to see. The Pentagon has its Long War, the rebranded "war on terror" that Vice President Dick Cheney swears will last for decades, a replay of the war between Eastasia and Oceania in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. President George W Bush issued a "wild speculation" non-denial denial that the US was planning strategic nuclear strikes against Iran, but Iran considerably upped the ante on Tuesday with President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's anno uncement that Iran had enriched uranium for the first time. In a nationally televised speech, Ahmadinejad urged the West to stop pressuring Tehran, saying that Iran was seeking to develop nuclear energy only for peaceful purposes... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22487 GI Special 4D12: The Haditha Massacre - April 12, 2006 Thomas F. Barton In the middle of methodically recalling the day his brother's family was killed, Yaseen's monotone voice and stream of tears suddenly stopped. He looked up, paused and pleaded: "Please don't let me say anything that will get me killed by the Americans. My family can't handle any more." The story of what happened to Yaseen and his brother Younes' family has redefined Haditha's relationship with the Marines who patrol it. On Nov.19 , a roadsi de bomb struck a Humvee on Haditha's main road, killing one Marine and injuring two others. The Marines say they took heavy gunfire afterwards and thought it was coming from the area around Younes' house. They went to investigate, and 23 people were killed. Eight were from Younes' family. The only survivor, Younes'13 -year-old daughter, said her family wasn't shooting at Marines or harboring extremists that morning. They were sleeping when the bomb exploded. And when the Marines entered their house, she said, they shot at everyone inside... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22486 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 11April2006 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. In a dispatch posted at5 :30pm Makkah time Tuesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that fighting broke out between Iraqi Resistance forces and US occupation troops in the al-Mal'ab ("playing field") area of ar-Ramadi. The ar-Ramadi correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in al-Mal'ab as saying that the combat began when Resistance fighters armed with light and medium weapons ambushed an American military column in the area. The battle that ensued lasted about four hours and witnessed the destruction of two US armored vehicles and one Humvee... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22485 Zarqawi-gate: More important than you think... Joseph Cannon Is the threat posed by Jordanian-born terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi real? Is Zarqawi himself a fiction, as some maintain? The Washington Post's recent revelation that a Pentagon psyop unit hyped up the Zarqawi threat may turn into the next big scandal, especially since the leaked document specifices that the propaganda campaign targeted the "U.S. Home Audience." One segment of the Post story desrves special attention: One slide in the same b riefing, for example, noted that a "selective leak" about Zarqawi was made to Dexter Filkins, a New York Times reporter based in Baghdad. Filkins's resulting article, about a letter supposedly written by Zarqawi and boasting of suicide attacks in Iraq, ran on the Times front page on Feb. 9, 2004. Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22484 Don't Attack Iran Cindy Sheehan Fresh from a resounding victory in Iraq, George Bush swaggered onto the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln and boldly and confidentally declared victory. It was a pretty war, it was a clean war, it looked stunning in all of its shock and awe. Wow, never was there such a swift and amazing American victory and it all looked so damn glamorous on CNN! As fake as his codpiece was, so was his "cakewalk" of an invasion. Over 2000 thousand dead soldiers, billions of wasted dollars, thousands o f maimed young people, innocent Iraqis dead by the hundreds of thousands, still no consistent electricity or clean water in their country, later, and this swaggering imbecile of a "leaker in chief" has the nerve to be trying to sell all of us on a new war in Iran... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22483 Mr. Bush, We Know What You Did That Summer! September 11th, 2001 Jesse - Editor, TvNewsLIES.org An Open Letter to: Mr. George W. Bush, Mr. Richard Cheney, Members of PNAC and your supporting cast: Guess what? WE KNOW WHAT YOU DID THAT SUMMER - that long ago time of innocence before the events of September 11th, 2001. We know what you did, and the game is over - even though you don’t yet know it.. The work of the independent 9/11 researchers is paying off. The evidence is steamrolling through the information super highway and is now creeping into the clogged arteries of the mainstream media. We may not know every detail and we may not agree on your individual motives, but two facts are now irrefutable: the official story of what happened on September 11th is not true and you were involved. Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22480 DAILY WAR NEWS FOR TUESDAY, April 11 2006 Today in Iraq ...Armed insurgents and government forces on Monday engaged in fierce fighting in the town of Fallouja west of the Iraqi capital killing at least 10 people, a source of the interior ministry said. At least 60 people were wounded in the five-hour battle that ended at sundown, the source told KUNA. Hospital sources in Fallouja said 10 Iraqis including six army soldiers were killed in the clashes, and witnesses said policemen were seen involved in evacuation of casualties from the scenes of the fighting. Situation in the town turned calm after the gunmen withdrew, he said, adding that the fighting broke out when the armed men attacked an American Army patrol, inflicting casualties and knocking out one vehicle... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22479 GI Special 4D11: "I've Lost Part Of My Son" - April 11, 2006 Thomas F. Barton ... President Bush says we will be in Iraq beyond his presidency. He tells us we will be there until victory is achieved but cannot tell us what victory is. My son is home on leave for the first time in 18 months. He has been to Afghanistan once and Iraq twice. He is 21 and has the empty, soulless eyes of someone who has seen too much. He talks vaguely of killing. He tells of recovering tanks and Humvees still drenched with his buddies ' blood. When he did guard duty, he told me, "Don't worry, Mom, we aim low with the kids." Nine in his unit have been medically discharged with post-traumatic stress syndrome – and these are mechanics. If you still believe in this president and this war, choose which of your children will be the next to go. I lost a part of my son over there. That's all you get, America... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22477 A Markerless Grave in Vacaville Cindy Sheehan, t r u t h o u t I am so tired of the Rovian, heartless, and ignorant smear machine attacking me and my family at every turn of my back. The latest abomination in their scrutiny of my life is the fact that Casey has no "tombstone." As if it were anybody's business but Casey's family. I am sure every last person who has a problem with this has buried a child and they know what we are going through... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22478 States of denial - states of terror William Bowles, I'n'I For those of you who still bother to read/listen to/watch the mainstream news, you might be forgiven for thinking that the events of the past couple of decades have been proof of the overwhelming success/superiority of 'Western civilisation’ in the battle with the heathen hordes hammering at the gates of Eden. I have to admit to going through bouts of extreme depression that lead me to stop listening to or reading the various and sundry mouthpieces of the s tate and big business, vowing to never again subject myself to the unending stream of crap that flows from the orifices of those tasked with smoothing over our deep-seated fears concerning the state of the planet driven as it is by the maxim that what the eye doesn’t see the heart won’t grieve... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22476 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.