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Pain Ray - US torture weapons used against civilians Rai News 24 - Peacepalestine "Star Wars in Iraq" is a new investigative report by Maurizio Torrealta and Sigfrido Ranucci. The document takes off from the disturbing eyewitness report from Majid Al Ghezali, first violinist of the Baghdad Orchestra, who had witnessed the conquest of the airport by the US Armed Forces. Al Ghezali tells that he had seen the victims of the battle with their bodies shrunken and to have heard talk about the use of laser weapons. Even! the chief surgeon of the General Hospital of Hilla, Saad al Falluji, speaks of an episode involving the horrible mutilations that had occurred to the passengers of a bus that had been hit at an American checkpoint with a mysterious and silent weapon. The Iraqi physician was shocked at the absence of bullets or bullet wounds upon the dead and wounded... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23413 Stop the Genocide and abuse of Iraqi People by the squadron’s death of Bader Brigade The International Islamic Human Right Association in Iraq (IHRAS) We, the undersigned, petition the United Nations, its Security Council, Heads of States, and all International Organizations to declare that the Genocide and abuse of the Iraqi people (Sunni and some of Shia) and in particular the Arab Sunnis, by the Bader Brigade Militia and the Iraqi Minister of Interior (Beyan Jaber Soulak( and the chief of Bader Militia (Had! i Al Ameri) and his team firmly constitutes a Genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, and we demand that proper legal action be taken against the perpetrators of these crimes. Furthermore, we insist that these crimes which have reached the terrifying extent of randomly executing around a hundred of innocent Iraqi Sunni Arab civilians each day after being arrested by the forces of the Iraqi Ministry of Interior at their homes or during while praying at their Mosques only to discover their bodies a few days later dead with marks of widespread torture and bullets in their heads... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23433 Collapse of the Petrodollar Looming Dave Kimble The announcement by President Putin of a Russian bourse trading oil and gas in Roubles threatens the stability of the US Dollar far more than Iran's bourse alone would do, and continues the slide in relations between the old Cold War foes. In his annual State of the Nation address to both houses of parliament on 10 May 2006, Novosti reports President Putin said that work on making the Rouble an internationally convertible currency would be completed by 1 July 2006, ! six months ahead of schedule. To promote the currency, he announced that an oil and gas stock exchange will be created in Russia, that would trade in Roubles... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23430 Audio Interview: Palestinian Children in Israeli Jails Stefan Christoff, The Electronic Intifada Listen to an interview with Ayed Abu Eqtaish, a child rights activist from Defense for Children International [Palestine Section] and Adam Hanieh of Sumoud, a political prisoner solidarity group based in Toronto. This interview was recorded during the April/May 2006 second annual Free Palestinian Political Prisoners speaking tour organized by Sumoud, which focused on the realities facing Palestinian prisoners in Israe! li jails, specifically child prisoners... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23431 Tell Lies; Kill the Iraqis an iraqi tear I think there is not any suitable comment for this.. Two from SCIRI are laughing from all their hearts.. Why not? Soulagh after creating the DEATH squads became the "new’ minister of finance.. Now he will do his best to finance the squads from the "governmental" budget; if there is any! Soulagh is the perfect example for CORRUPATION and KILLING the Iraqis.. He could be a movie star; he is already "acting" in an Iraqi movie I named it: How to tell lies and rule Iraq; or How! to tell lies and kill the Iraqis... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23427 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 20 May 2006 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice ...In a dispatch posted at 11:12am Makkah time Saturday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that in the course of their sweep through the al-Jazirah area south of Samarra’, about 120km north of Baghdad, during Friday-Saturday night, US forces had arrested 525 local residents and killed 27 more, among them one woman and four youths. The correspondent for Mafkarat! al-Islam reported that the Americans arrested every single adult male in the area, other than those whom they killed. The town is now a settlement of women – all of them in desperate tears – the correspondent reported Saturday morning. The Americans and their Iraqi puppet army allies robbed the houses they raided, stealing gold and valuables, before departing the area at 4am local time Saturday morning... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23424 Iran Badge Story: More Neocon Propaganda Kurt Nimmo It never ends with the neocons—illusory weapons of mass destruction, aluminum tubes, yellow cake, Mohammed Atta in Prague, argumentum ad nauseam, ab ovo usque ad mala—they are seasoned and pathological liars. "Iran’s announced intention to force non-Muslims to wear an identifying badge is causing many to make the comparison to Hitler and the Nazis, who forced Jews to wear badges in the shape of the Star of David," declares the American Thinker, or rather non-thi! nker since there is a good chance the story is nonsense, a cheap and gaudy propaganda contrivance, another log tossed on the attack Iran pile... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23425 Does Israel have the right to exist in its current form? Remi Kanazi, Online Journal Contributing Writer May 15 marked the 58th anniversary of Al Nakba (The Catastrophe). Every year, Palestinians recount the tragedy of 1948. I recall my grandmother’s anguish: she was seven months pregnant with my mother when she was forced to flee to Lebanon by boat. She waited in Lebanon. The weeks turned into months. The months turned into years . . . Fifty-eight years later, my grandmother has yet to return to her house in Jaf! fa. When the Zionists forces (the Haganagh, Irgun, and Stern Gang) tore Palestine limb from limb, depopulating villages, uprooting cemeteries, and pillaging arable fields, Israel had not even been created. Today we see a fight for Israel’s "right to exist." But what right does Israel have to exist in its current form?... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23423 DAILY WAR NEWS FOR SATURDAY, May 20, 2006 Today in Iraq A bomb killed at least 19 people in the poor Shi'ite Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad, blasting a spot where crowds of workers had gathered in the hope of being hired for day laboring jobs. A further 58 people were wounded in the blast. A three-car drive-by shooting and mortar attack on the Fakhri Shanshal Sunni Arab mosque in the neighborhood of Jihad killed two people and wounded five (...) The bodies of 19 people killed over the last two months were found in different parts of Mussayab, some 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad. They will be buried on Saturday in the holy city of Kerbala... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23419 www.uruknet.info: a site gathering daily information concerning occupied Iraq: news, analysis, documents and texts of iraqi resistance available in Italian and English. 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