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IRAN WINS AGAIN Malcom Lagauche The announcement has been made that Iraq will have yet another prime minister appointed by the U.S. If you don’t have a scorecard, the previous one, supposedly elected in a democratic manner, was Ibrahim al-Jaafari. For a few months, he was the darling of the U.S. administration, but he became old news. An influx of western politicians bombarded Iraq in the past couple of weeks and "persuaded" al-Jaafari to step aside for the good of the country. The new stooge is Jawad al-Maliki. ! Don’t be concerned that your memory is failing if you don’t recall him. He lived in Iran from 1980 until the illegal March 2003 invasion of Iraq. His most remarkable feat since returning is his membership of the de-Baathification committee in which he was a zealous proponent of taking away the nationhood of millions of Iraqis... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22765 The “Great Kurdistan” threat Gilles Munier Numbering 30 millions, Kurds are distributed over four countries, Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria. In Iraq, Massud Bargain and Jalal Talabani are said to be in a position to declare the independence of Kurdistan. The map of the new State as submitted last July to the "National Assembly" comprises territories over which the Kurds cannot have any claim…but which are oil-soaked. No doubt that such a "Great Kurdistan" if unilaterally founded would generate a string of conflic! ts which will destabilize the whole of the Middle East. Nobody save the United States and Israel has nothing to gain, least of all, the Kurds... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22749 Sign Open Letter to SFSU Defending Student Rights to Protest Join Cindy Sheehan, Medea Benjamin, Denis Halliday, Hans-Christof von Sponeck, Kathy Kelly, Camilo Mejia, Dahr Jamail and 60 authors. Ten peaceful student protesters at SFSU were grabbed and pushed out of a career fair by police, where the students were protesting military recruitment. They were kicked off campus without a hearing and given notice that if they returned within two weeks, they were subject to "immediate arrest." Some students were instan! tly made homeless or jobless, and none could go to class on campus. The university let them return to campus after 3 days, in the face of NBC planning to televise coverage. Students are waiting for the other shoe to drop. Let's not let it drop on them. Tell the university how you feel about its treatment of these students and their rights to protest. Tell the university that you oppose any discipline of these students... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22750 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 21 April 2006 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice ...In a dispatch posted at 7:30pm Makkah time Friday evening, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the puppet "Iraqi Interior Ministry" had issued a list of 16,000 Iraqis who, it claims, are "criminals and former Baathists" and whom it blames for the "deterioration of security in Iraq." The puppet "Interior Ministry," notorious for the torture and murder of hundreds! of Iraqis, threatened that it would arrest the 16,000 in the near future. The Baghdad correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the official television network of the US-installed puppet government broadcast the list, which includes a number of Sunni religious scholars, on Friday evening. In keeping with its standard terminology, the official regime’s TV station referred to the 16,000 Iraqi citizens as "terrorists"... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22769 Bush to Dump Cheney? Not Before Hell Freezes Over. Kurt Nimmo ... It’s no secret the Israelis have long planned to balkanize the Middle East and it is also no secret the opportunistic neolibs are along for the ride. Cheney and the neocons are on for the duration. Between now and 2008, Bush the "decider," under the sway of the Straussian neocons, will shock and awe Iran and attempt to fix an ineffectual puppet government and stir up as much trouble as possible in order to break the country up into malleable fiefdo! ms based on ethnicity (Kurds, Baluchis, Lurs, and Turkmans)... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22768 Lies, damn lies...and indirect quotes Eli Stephens, Here's how the Washington Post writes about what Iran is up to: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said last week that Iran was pursuing the enrichment of uranium on an industrial scale, which could allow it to accelerate the development of nuclear weapons. This statement is both grammatically and factually correct. But it certainly has a tremendous potential to mislead. Ahmadinejad, of course, not only said nothing about "accelerating the development of nucl! ear weapons," what he said was the exact opposite... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22767 Shame on the Post's Editorial Page Robert Parry If a full and truthful history of the disastrous Iraq War is ever written, there should be a chapter devoted to the pivotal role played by the Washington Post’s hawkish editorial page and the many like-minded thinkers who are published in the newspaper’s Op-Ed section. As arguably the most influential newspaper in the nation’s capital, the Post might have been expected to encourage a healthy pre-war debate that reflected diverse opinions from experts in the fields o! f government, diplomacy, academia, the military and the broader American public. War, after all, is not a trivial matter... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22766 Raging Grannies and Raging Americans Cindy Sheehan, t r u t h o u t I am sitting here watching CSPAN, where Congress is holding a special hearing into Chinese human rights violations, which is, of course, an important issue that needs to be addressed. An Amnesty International report just came out, and of all of the countries in the world, the US is fourth in number of executions - behind China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. China by far executes the most people with seeming barbaric abandon. Everyone who has a brain a! nd a stake in what direction our country is going should be demanding that Congress investigate the administration and itself for human rights violations... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22764 GI Special 4D21: "Sir! No Sir!" Available To ALL In Sevices - April 21, 2006 Thomas F. Barton ... THERE IS a myth of the "spat upon Vet." The tale goes that the soldiers of Vietnam came home to a radical fringe movement that spat on them as they unloaded onto the tarmac. This myth has served to all but erase the real history of the Vietnam antiwar movement from U.S. consciousness. David Zeigler’s film Sir No Sir! The Suppressed Story of the GI Movement to End the War In Vietnam lays this myth completely to res! t by telling the inspiring story of a movement that shook the very foundations of U.S. military power. Through interviews and stock footage, this powerful documentary tells the story of how thousands of U.S. soldiers, through their first-hand experience on the ground, came to realize that the war in Vietnam was an unjust travesty... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22763 Ex-CIA agent says WMD intelligence ignored Reuters The CIA had evidence Iraq possessed no weapons of mass destruction six months before the 2003 U.S.-led invasion but was ignored by a White House intent on ousting Saddam Hussein, a former senior CIA official said according to CBS. Tyler Drumheller, who headed CIA covert operations in Europe during the run-up to the Iraq war, said intelligence opposing administration claims of a WMD threat came from a top Iraqi official who provided the U.S. spy agency with other ! credible information... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22760 We're Staying! Unless the Iraqis Force the United States Out, The Evidence Shows the U.S. Isn't Leaving Kevin Zeese The message is clear. Indeed, it's gigantic for all Iraqi's, for the entire world to see. A 100 acre compound - ten times the size of the typical U.S. embassy, the size of 80 football fields, six times larger than the UN, the size of Vatican City. The U.S. Embassy Compound, in the middle of Baghdad - the center for U.S. domination of the Middle East and its resources. The compound towers! above the Tigris River like a modern fortress. It will have its own sources of power and water and sit in the heart of Baghdad. If there is any thought that the U.S. is planning on leaving Iraq, the new embassy should make it clear 'We're saying!' The growing skyline of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad is only the most recent indication that the U.S. has no intention of leaving... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22761 RAPID RESPONSE MEDIA ALERT: DEMONISING IRAN BBC Distorts Amnesty International Press Release Media Lens In a recent speech at New York's Columbia University, John Pilger commented: "We now know that the BBC and other British media were used by MI6, the secret intelligence service. In what was called 'Operation Mass Appeal', MI6 agents planted stories about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction - such as weapons hidden in his palaces and in secret underground bunkers. All these stories were fake." (Joh! n Pilger, 'The real first casualty of war,' New Statesman, April 24, 2006). Wittingly or otherwise, the BBC may now be participating in a rehashed 'Operation Mass Appeal' to generate support for an assault on Iran... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22757 Al-Jafaari expells Ahwazi Arabs from Iraq British Ahwazi Friendship Society Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jafaari is ordering the expulsion of Ahwazi Arab refugees, according to the el-Fekr-el-Eslami website. Some 2,500-3,000 Ahwazi Arabs in Iraq are registered with the UNHCR as refugees, most of whom fled the fighting in the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88). Al-Jafaari has reportedly ordered the their expulsion from the Iraqi provinces of Basra and al-Ammarah, under the orders of the Iranian regime. El-Fekr-el-Eslami w! ebsite says the refugees will be handed over to the Iranian authorities. Many Ahwazi Arab Sunnis have already fled Basra and al-Ammarah for Sunni areas of Iraq, including Fallujah, Morsel and Diali, to escape Iranian-backed Shia militias... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22771 More revelations of US profiteering and corruption in Iraq Jeff Lincoln, WSWS New reports of bribery and corruption involving US military officers, businessmen and occupation officials have underscored the criminal character of the American intervention in Iraq. This week court documents were unsealed revealing that businessman Philip Bloom pled guilty in February to conspiracy, bribery, and money laundering charges. Bloom admitted to giving more than $2 million in cash and gifts to US officials in order to obtai! n Iraq reconstruction contracts for companies he owns. The Washington Post reported April 19 that Bloom’s firms received a total of $8.6 million in reconstruction contracts, which were structured to give the firms an average profit margin of more than 25 percent. He could face up to 40 years in prison as part of a plea bargain... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22755 Adhamiya, The Lion’s Den Baghdad Dweller ...In people’s opinion US helicopters were providing intelligence to the attackers, who were wearing military uniforms and acting professionally. The attack was from three places, Omar Adbulaziz street (I still remember buying my books from Al-Sabah bookshop there), Adhamiya riverside and the bridge (which is under the US control) connecting the district to the other side of the river. Adhamiya residents did a good job defeating "El Salvadorian" death squads hired by the A! mericans, but this will not be the first attack or the second one, the government is now spreading rumors that resistance from west Iraq are smuggling weapons to Adhamiya as this article published today on Al-Hayat says, so the Americans and the Iraqi government will try to finish what the thugs failed to do... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22754 Who’s planting lies about a possible civil war in Iraq? Aljazeera.com ...Who would benefit if a civil war broke out in Iraq and the entire Middle East region? Surely they’re not the Iraqis or the Arabs and Muslims; it’s the U.S. who has so far failed to achieve all its intended goals in Iraq and needs a reason for an extended military presence in the war-torn country. Claims that Iraq is about or has already fallen into a civil war benefits the occupation hugely... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22753 Baath Party Statement The "religious understanding meeting" in Amman is a confirmation for the sectarianism and a jump over the Occupation reality The Arab Baath Socialist Party It is a new role "imposed by the Occupation" over the Jordanian regime, which is integrated with the Occupation security and political plans. This role is highly needed by the Jordanian regime for internal and regional considerations, which are exercising pressures over this regime to dwarf its role and the ambitions set by its ! historical function. Getting interested in the (Iraqi affairs) serves the stooges and the traitor’s interests to favor "denominational and religious character" over the national principles and duties in the battle to liberate Iraq. Sure! Jumping over the occupation reality and its ongoing battle with the Armed Iraqi Resistance is a deeply needed requirement for the US stuck in the mud administration and for its defeated forces in this mentioned battle... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22752 Outing CIA Agent - Keep It Simple Evelyn Pringle For all intent and purposes, the special prosecutor’s duty in the CIA leak case is straightforward. How the investigation ever got so complicated is beyond me. Mr Fitzgerald needs to keep it simple. Valerie Plame was a CIA agent in July 2003, and the fact that she was a CIA officer was classified. The responsibilities of some CIA employees require that their association with the agency be kept secret, because disclosure has the potential to damage national securi! ty in ways that range from preventing the future use of the agents, to compromising intelligence-gathering methods, to endangering the safety of CIA employees, and people who they may be associated with... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22751 DAILY WAR NEWS FOR FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 2006 Today in Iraq A major general in the Interior Ministry escaped injury when a roadside bomb hit his convoy in the Mansur district of the capital in an attack that killed one civilian and wounded four of his bodyguards, ministry sources said. KHALIS - Gunmen killed two civilians who worked at an Iraqi army base in Khalis, 80 km (50 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police said. BAQUBA - Gunmen killed two people in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police said. Two r! oadside bombs wound 11 policemen in western Baghdad. Two roadside bombs went off close to an Iraqi police patrol in western Baghdad on Friday (April 21), wounding at least 11 policemen, police said. A Shiite baker was killed in a drive-by shooting as he headed to work in Baghdad on Friday...The baker, Nadil Adel Ashor, was killed outside his home by unidentified gunmen in a speeding car in Dora, southern Baghdad. The two bullet-riddled bodies were found in Dora and in Mansour, western Baghdad, said police 1st Lt. Thair Mahmod. He said the identities of the victims and the motives for the killings were not immediately known... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22770 GI Special 4D20 Show All The Troops Sir! No Sir! Thomas F. Barton ...The recent announcement in GI Special # 4D19 that 500 DVD’s of "Sir, No Sir!" are being made available free to active duty troops in Afghanistan or Iraq by the IVAW and displaced films is a step in the right direction. My immediate reaction to seeing this film in a showing at the VFP National Convention last AUG was inspired by the Navy Nurse featured in the film who dropped leaflets from a light aircraft over military bases. I thought that if I! was a millionaire, I’d like to buy enough DVD copies of this film to air drop them over every US military base worldwide... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22762 UN SAYS THOUSANDS ILEGALLY DETAINED IN IRAQ (ANTARA News) Iraqi authorities are illegally detaining thousands of people, the United Nations` senior human rights official for the country said on Friday, and also urged the US-led coalition to charge or release its prisoners. Gianni Magazzeni, who is based in Baghdad, told reporters a total of 29,565 people were being detained in Iraq, some 14,222 of them by coalition forces. Of the 15,000 people held by the local Iraqi authorities, only 8,300 were being held by the! justice ministry, which is the only body that has the right to detain suspects for more than 72 hours, Magazzeni said... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=22756 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.