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Are Israel’s Interests in America’s Interest? Ghali Hassan, Axis of Logic Three years ago an Israeli Army bulldozer – manufactured and financed by the US – drove over and killed Rachel Corrie. The 23-year-old student from Washington State was in Palestine trying to protect defenceless Palestinians from Israel’s daily terror. Rachel’s horrifying death was deliberately covered-up and her name smeared in order to "protect Israel’s interests". Why is the U.S. sacrifice so much for so little? Since its creation on Pale stinian land, Israel has received massive financial, military and political aid from the U.S. to facilitate Israel’s dispossession of the Palestinian people and expansionist policy. In 1948, Israeli Jews have ethnically cleansed more than 800,000 Palestinian (75 per cent of the population) from their land and massacred tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22602 REVISIONISM AT ITS WORST Malcom Lagauche I have been writing about Iraq since 1991 (...) One point that I have been making all along has left some naysayers, and even anti-war people, shaking their heads: Desert Storm’s main goal was not to remove Iraqi troops from Kuwait, but to stop at least one generation of Iraqis from becoming productive citizens (...) Now, let’s get current. The Washington Post of April 16, 2006 carried the article, "For Iraqi Students, Hussein’s Arrival Is End of History." Lagauche was rig ht on the money. Iraqi textbooks have been rewritten and the country’s history literally ends in 1968. No mention of Saddam Hussein. No mention of the Ba’ath Party. No mention of the Iran-Iraq War. No mention of the 1991 attack on Iraq by the U.S. No mention of the embargo. No mention of the illegal 2003 invasion of Iraq. Just a blank space from 1968 until today. There is nothing in the books to explain the presence of U.S. military personnel all over Iraq. Are they Iraqis? No, they don’t speak Arabic. Maybe they are foreigners who just fell out of the sky and dress funny. There is speculation that in a decade’s time, the books will reflect these times, only describing Saddam Hussein as Hitler. There will be no talk about the incredible steps forward Iraq took under the Ba’ath government... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22612 Falling into the abyss Jassem Murad, Azzaman ...We are at the threshold of the third stage in the post-U.S. invasion. According to well-informed Iraqi observers, this stage will see the pro-U.S. disparate factions turn their guns on each other this time for the control of land and resources in a bid to undermine the country’s integrity (...) Post-invasion Iraqi police, security and army do not owe their loyalty to the national flag but to their own factions. It is not surprising therefore to hear of 'squads of dea th’ roaming Iraqi streets at a time the Interior Ministry does not move a finger to stop them... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22599 U.S. arming of Iraq cops skates close to legal line Cam Simpson and Liz Sly, Chicago Tribune U.S. officials are doling out millions of dollars of arms and ammunition to Iraqi police units without safeguards required to ensure they are complying with American laws that ban taxpayer-financed assistance for foreign security forces engaged in human-rights violations, according to an internal State Department review. The previously undisclosed review shows that officials failed to take steps to comply with the laws ove r the past two years, amid mounting reports of torture and murder by Shiite-dominated Iraqi security forces. The review comes at a time when the U.S. military emphasis in Iraq has switched to training and equipping Iraqi forces to replace American troops... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22613 From the Cold War to the Long War – only the name has been changed to protect the guilty William Bowles, I'n'I ...This past 10 April the Guardian published an extremely misleading article that is worth addressing for everything that it doesn't say concerning US plans for the future and its so-called 'long war’ against 'international terrorism’ and it sums up the corporate media’s treatment of the continuation of the Cold War by another name. Titled 'The trailer park HQ where the 'long war’ is being waged’ and byli ned to Suzanne Goldenberg, it purports to be an examination of the fight against 'al-Qu’eda’ which is we told, what the 'long war’ is all about. Based, she tells us in a trailer park in Fort McDill, Florida, the story creates the entirely false impression that the 'long war’ is some crack-brained scheme dreamt up by a bunch of army guys hanging out in some caravans... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22595 US plots ‘new liberation of Baghdad’ Sarah Baxter, The Sunday Times THE American military is planning a "second liberation of Baghdad" to be carried out with the Iraqi army when a new government is installed(...) Helicopters suitable for urban warfare, such as the manoeuvrable AH-6 "Little Birds" used by the marines and special forces and armed with rocket launchers and machineguns, are likely to complement the ground attack... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22611 GI Special 4D15: " The Worst Place Imaginable" - April 15, 2006 Thomas F. Barton ...There were no death squads and militias in Iraq before the invasion. They have infiltrated the new police and military. They are murdering anyone (men, women and children) and anyone who seems to be anti-Occupation. "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 Saleh al- Mutlak, chairman of the Sunni National Dialogue Front. In the last th ree years Iraqis have been reduced to "Shiites" and "Sunnis." Their Arab and Muslim identity has been deliberately removed. Talk of "Shiites" and "Sunnis" entered Iraq with the Occupation and immediately became the dominant propaganda vocabularies of the mainstream media, amplified by the likes of CNN and the BBC... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22610 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 15 April 2006 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice ...In a dispatch posted at 9:30pm Makkah time Saturday night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Dr. Harith ad-Darri, the Chairman of the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq, the highest Sunni religious authority in the occupied country, had declared that wholesale destruction, torture, and murder are being perpetrated in Iraq by the US and its stooges and that the media are concealing the extent of the devastation. Iraq, he said, is a victim of the occupation and the media cover up. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Shaykh ad-Darri denounced the "lackey, hypocritical, and ignorant media" for concealing the reality of what is taking place in Iraq from the world. Addressing a group of people gathered for the opening of an office of the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq in Cairo, Dr. ad-Darri said that more than 200,000 Iraqis have died in the course of the last three years, "since the feet of the occupation trod on the land of Iraq"... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22609 The finessing of Plamegate Xymphora ...The understanding between Libby and the White House seems to be that Libby can do whatever he can to get off on a technicality. If he is convicted anyway, Bush will pardon him. All Libby’s lawyers have to do is manage the timing of the case so that Libby doesn’t actually have to report to a jail before Bush pardons him in December 2008... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22608 Lying no longer stirs deadened senses. The loud popping of biolab balloons Imad Khadduri Back on June 19, 2003, I published an article on "the two alleged mobile biological weapons labs" pointing out that: "As the swelter of anger bubbles from the machination of misinformation that led to the faltering WMD casus belli for invading Iraq, the retreat and half-baked excuses of Bush, Blair, Cheney, Wolfowitz and Powell further expose the sharp edge of their deceit. Whether it was "intelligence" failure or "flailing" t he intelligence, time will soon tell. In the meantime, the fig leaves keep falling"... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22607 Retired colonel claims U.S. military operations are already 'underway' in Iran Ron Brynaert, Raw Story During an interview on CNN Friday night, retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Sam Gardiner claimed that U.S. military operations are already 'underway' inside Iran, RAW STORY has found. "I would say -- and this may shock some -- I think the decision has been made and military operations are under way," Col. Gardiner told CNN International anchor Jim Clancy... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22606 Mission Accomplished: Al-CIA-duh Leaves Iraq Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire "Al Qaeda in Iraq and its presumed leader, Abu Musab Zarqawi, have conceded strategic defeat and are on their way out of the country, a top U.S. military official contended yesterday," reports the Moonie, er Washington Times. "They no longer view Iraq as fertile ground to establish a caliphate and as a place to conduct international terrorism," Lt. Gen. John R. Vines, who commands the XVIII Airborne Corps, said in an address at the neocon Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a criminal organization joined at the hip with the likes of the Project for the New American Century and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, criminal syndicates responsible for the intellectual basis behind the murder of a couple hundred thousand Iraqis and Afghans... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22605 British soldier killed in southern Iraq Channel 4 News A soldier from the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards has died of injuries received in a bomb blast in southern Iraq, the Ministry of Defence said. Three other soldiers were slightly injured in the incident that occurred just north of Basra. Although the dead man's immediate next of kin have been informed, his name is being withheld until the wider family has been told... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22604 Iraqi Christians in the good Friday Baghdad Dweller NPR posted a report about Iraqi Chritians to mark the Good Friday. Members of Iraq’s Christian minority visited churches in Baghdad and across the country to mark Good Friday. Under Saddam Hussein, Christians enjoyed a degree of protection. Now many are fleeing Iraq because of the continuing violence... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22603 DAILY WAR NEWS FOR SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 2006 Today in Iraq ...Rockets, Mortar Rounds Hit US Base Near Iraq’s Fallujah. Insurgents on Thursday fired rockets and mortar rounds at a U.S. military base near the restive city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad, witnesses said. "Insurgents fired two rockets at 6:00 a.m. (0200 GMT) and three mortar rounds 90 minutes later, at Habaniyah military base, which houses U.S. and Iraqi forces," witnesses told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. They said they heard loud explosi ons and sirens in the base and saw U.S. helicopters hovering over the area around the base. The U.S. military had no comments about the attacks. Roadside bomb hit a US patrol in a town near Fallujah on Saturday, destroying a humvee. Casualties reported. US troops shot back towards the town and wounded three civilians... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22601 Desert Rats Leave The Sinking Ship Why Rumsfeld Should Not Resign Greg Palast , The Guardian - Comment ...President Bush is one lucky fella. I can imagine him today on the intercom with Cheney: "Well, pardner, looks like the game's up." And Cheney replies, "Hey, just hang the Rumsfeld dummy out the window until he's taken all their ammo." When Bush and Cheney read about the call for Rumsfeld's resignation today, I can just hear George saying to Dick, "Mission Accomplished." Generals, let me give you a b it of advice about choosing a target: It's the President, stupid... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22600 Documents link Rumsfeld to prisoner's 'degrading and abusive' interrogation Charlie Savage, The Boston Globe Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld closely monitored the late 2002 interrogation of a key Guantanamo Bay prison detainee at the same time that the prisoner was subjected to treatment that a military investigator later called "degrading and abusive," according to newly released documents. The documents, portions of a December 2005 Army inspector general report, disclosed for the first time that Rumsfeld sp oke weekly with the Guantanamo commander, Major Geoffrey Miller, about the progress of the interrogation of a Saudi man suspected of a connection to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22597 Cheney authorized leak of CIA report, Libby says Murray Waas, National Journal Vice President Dick Cheney directed his then-chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, on July 12, 2003 to leak to the media portions of a then-highly classified CIA report that Cheney hoped would undermine the credibility of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, a critic of the Bush administration's Iraq policy, according to Libby's grand jury testimony in the CIA leak case and sources who have read the classified report... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22596 GI Special 4D14 - I'm Scared And I'm Sick Of Being Here - April 14, 2006 Thomas F. Barton A New Hampshire soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq Tuesday. Pvt. George Roehl, 21, of Manchester, was riding in a convoy south of Baghdad when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle, relatives said. Roehl had been in Iraq for five months, but in recent calls to family members he said he was scared and wanted to come home, said his sister, Sarah Roehl... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22594 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 14 April 2006 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. In a dispatch posted at 8:25pm Makkah time Friday night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that at the time of reporting US forces accompanied by their Iraqi puppet army allies were carrying out a campaign of mass raids and arrests of youths in the city of Hit, about 140km northwest of Baghdad. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported dozens of US and Iraqi pup pet troops had stormed into the city from the west, surrounded specific areas and then proceeded to carry out what he described as "arbitrary" raids and arrests... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22592 Rumsfeld and the generals: Splits, recriminations over Iraq debacle Patrick Martin, WSWS The barrage of public criticism of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld by at least half a dozen retired generals, including several with recent major roles in the US occupation of Iraq, has dealt another serious political blow to the Bush administration. It is a further demonstration of the enormous repercussions produced by failure of the US effort to establish a reliable stooge regime in the oil-rich country... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22591 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.