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An Interview with Ibrahim Ebeid Neo-CONNED News ...Iraq now is occupied and we feel that Iraqis have the legitimate right to resist the occupation. The Baath Party is the leader of the Resistance that will liberate it from the Anglo-Saxon Zionist occupation. We feel that the liberation of Iraq will be achieved very soon and a very progressive leadership will be born that will lead the Arabs to liberate historic Palestine. As a result Arab Unity will be closer to being realized. Yes indeed we support Saddam Hussei! n because he is the legitimate President. He is a prisoner of war and those who are living in four square miles - the so-called "Green Zone" - are both traitors and illegitimate because they are the puppets and agents of the occupiers. In no way do they represent the people of Iraq or our ambitions... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23258 DAILY WAR NEWS FOR SATURDAY, May 13, 2006 Today in Iraq A Multi-National Division-Baghdad Soldier was killed May 13 at approximately 4 a.m. when his vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb in south Baghdad. Clashes erupted between two Iraqi army units following a roadside bombing north of the capital, and Iraqi police said a Shiite solder was killed in an exchange of fire with a Kurdish unit. The U.S. military and Iraqi police provided differing accounts of the incident, which began with a roadside bombing near Dul! uiyah, about 45 miles north of Baghdad (...) In Baghdad, police found the bodies of three Iraqi men who had been tortured. Gunmen killed the son of Iraq's top judge along with two of his bodyguards and dumped their bodies in one of Baghdad's Sunni Arab neighbourhoods... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23272 Slate Dismisses Ahmadinejad’s “Goofy” Letter Kurt Nimmo According to Fred Kaplan, writing for Slate, Ahmadinejad’s letter "is a bizarre document" and Condi Rice "is right to say that it fails to address any of the issues on the table," that is to say "issues" put on the "table" by the neocons, a small number of Muslim-hating fanatics in the process of devising excuses to invade or at least bomb the heck out of Iran. As Hassan Rohani, representative of Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khameini, writes (and Time Magazine publi! shes, remarkably), the "issue" was manufactured by the United States and Israel. Iran is fully within its right, according to the fine type of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, to develop nuclear energy... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23271 Rove and Fitzgerald Play Monopoly Evelyn Pringle How many more get-out-of-jail free cards does Karl Rove get? Eat your heart out Martha Stewart. You should have tried playing Monopoly with the G-Men. On October 28 2005, the office of the Special Prosecutor released a press statement which stated in part: "A major focus of the grand jury investigation was to determine which government officials had disclosed to the media prior to July 14, 2003, information concerning Valerie Wilson's CIA affiliation, and the! nature, timing, extent, and purpose of such disclosures, as well as whether any official made such a disclosure knowing that Valerie Wilson's employment by the CIA was classified information." Somebody needs to inform Fitzgerald that "we got em". Kind of like Bush in Poland when he announced finding two trailers in Iraq and said that they had found the WMDs that Colin Powell had referred to in his speech at the UN. Hey Mr Fitzgerald, as for those government officials you've been looking for, we found em. Surprise, surprise, its Scooter Libby and Karl Rove... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23270 The accident-prone U.S. military Eli Stephens, Left I on the News The latest incident: Four Marines drowned when their tank rolled off a bridge and plunged into a canal, the military said Friday, adding that while the accident occurred in a Sunni insurgent stronghold, it was not the result of an enemy action. One of the only reasons I post this here, in the midst of soldiers dying every day, is how indicative it is of the attitude towards truth of the U.S. military. They apparently "know" these deaths we! re "not the result of an enemy action," even though later in the article we learn: The accident was under investigation, and the military said no other information was immediately available... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23269 10 Years Since Albright Declared Infanticide of Iraqi Children "Worth It" Is Another Mass Murder of Arabs in the Offing? STANLEY HELLER May 12 was the ten year anniversary of a public defense of genocide. On that date Bill Clinton's then UN Ambassador Madeleine Albright was asked on "60 Minutes" how she could justify the deaths of over 500,000 Iraqi children from the sanctions. She was asked by journalist Leslie Stahl whether the cost was "worth it". She replied that it was "worth it" because Saddam Hu! ssein was "coming clean" on weapons and had recognized Kuwait. She said her first responsibility was "to make sure United States forces not have to go and refight the Gulf War." (...) As they say "No use crying over spilt milk", but I bring all this up because what may happen in Gaza. The Olmert government of Israel with the collaboration of the Bush regime is taking unprecedented measures of "pressure" on the Palestinians. $55 million a month in Palestinian tax money is being withheld from the Palestinian by the Israeli government as "pressure". The main crossing into the strip, the Karni Crossing, has been shut down half the time since January 1st. At times the bakeries of Gaza have to shut down because there is no flour. Europe and the US are doing their part, suspending aid programs to the Palestine Authority. Pressure. Pressure... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23274 CRYING WOLF. Who is behind the Death Squads in Iraq? Max Fuller The following flash movie examines the epidemic of violence sweeping Iraq and considers who should be intellectually responsible. Every statement that is made in based on solid evidence drawn from mainstream media sources. Viewers should be &aware that due to the nature of the subject, some images within this movie are of a disturbing nature. The implications of the evidence are even more disturbing... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23262 A Pious Wish: The Anti-Imperialism of Stephen Kinzer’s Overthrow Stephen Gowans, What's Left Former New York Times reporter Stephen Kinzer’s latest book, "Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq" makes the case that regime change has been a regular feature of US foreign policy for decades, and is not a recent innovation cooked up one afternoon by neo-cons over barbecued ribs and Budweiser at the Bush ranch (...) While this is a welcome debunking of the myth that regime change comes from! a Bush-cabal-inspired hijacking of a mythical noble US foreign policy, Kinzer founders in his analysis of why US governments regularly seek to depose foreign regimes, and in the process, manages to reinforce liberal myths about the nature of US society and the possibilities of change within it... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23268 Euphemism of the day Eli Stephens, Left I on the News Over lunch I was watching C-SPAN, listening to a press conference by Lt. Gen. Robert Fry, British Deputy Commander of the MultiNational Forces in Iraq. Gosh it makes me embarrassed to be an American every time I hear someone from England (or most other countries) speak. But I digress. Fry's ability to actually speak, and answer questions without evasion, didn't prevent him from uttering this gem: "There's been a three-year period since our entry into Iraq.! " Some might go for the cheap sexual joke here, but not me. The rape of Iraq by the "MNF" has been far too deadly to be a joke. "Entry" indeed... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23267 Work to be heard, even without words RANDY ARONOV Last week, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's speech at the Atlanta History Center was interrupted several times by protesters who yelled at Rumsfeld and unfurled banners, an event that drew national news coverage. But in covering the speech, Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Jay Bookman also mentioned another protester: "But one man took a different approach. As showdowns go, it wasn't exactly two gunslingers face to face on a dusty street in Dodge City! . But there was drama in it nonetheless. As Rumsfeld stood at the podium, starting to outline his vision of the American role in world affairs, a balding man in a coat and tie rose out of the seated audience, turned his back on Rumsfeld and stood silently." My name is Randy Aronov and I am that silent dissenter. Who I am is not important. What is important is that I am an American citizen who objects to the lies from the Bush administration that led us into the war in Iraq... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23266 The Freefalling Dollar; Bush’s war on the Middle Class Mike Whitney The dollar is getting hammered almost daily now. It’s like watching the blood ooze from a hemophiliac. In just one month the dollar has tumbled from $1.20 to $1.29 vs. the euro; an astonishing 7% retreat. Can’t the American people see what is happening to their future? In just 6 years Bush has taken the world’s strongest currency and chopped it into finally ground hash. By the time people rouse from their stupor, the greenback will be eye to ey! e with the peso. Bush has piled up more debt than all the other presidents combined... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23265 Iranian Oil Bourse for Dummies Daniel L. Abrahamson The impending opening of the Iranian International Oil Bourse (IOB), set to commence trading next week on the island nation of Kish, strongly increases the chances of an imminent nuclear American-Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear and financial facilities. The electronic oil bourse, much discussed by terrorism expert Webster Tarpley, appears ready to launch in the coming weeks or even days. Because it will offer oil in euros, it may trigger the rapid collapse of ! the U.S. dollar. Over the past four days, the Western media has finally ended their blackout and acknowledged the possibility of an imminent dollar collapse, as gold reaches nearly $700 an ounce... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23264 Saddam defendants to take the stand Ahmed Janabi, Aljazeera.net Defence witnesses in Saddam Hussein's trial will start their testimonies in Monday's session, a member of the defence team told Aljazeera.net. Najib al-Nuaimi, a former Qatari justice minister and member of the defence team, said 30 people, including former government members, would take the stand for the defence. Iraq's former president has been on trial since August 2005 for approving death sentences against 148 Shia villagers from al-Dujail villag! e north of Baghdad, who were tried and sentenced for plotting against Saddam's life in 1982. Al-Nuaimi denied media reports that some of Saddam's officials were willing to testify against him... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23255 The Logic of "Humanitarian Intervention" Neocolonial tool serving geopolitical interests Brendan Stone, GlobalResearch.ca On his recent speaking tour across Canada, former Haitian minister of defense Patrick Elie, an elected representative in the first government of Jean Bertrand Aristide, was asked by a member of the World Federalists NGO to support Canada’s new "Responsibility to Protect" (RtP) doctrine. The idea behind the "RtP" is that other countries should intervene in the politics of a sovereign! country if they perceive instability or a human rights crisis. Patrick, who spoke at McMaster University early in March, acknowledged the need to protect people whose human rights come under attack. But since this "RtP" doctrine is coming largely from the developed Western nations, many of which are currently violating human rights at this very moment, Elie asked, "Who is protecting the rights of the people of Iraq, killed by the bombs of those who would grant themselves the "responsibility to protect?" For example, the lead author of the Lancet’s Iraqi casualty estimate has recently updated the death toll caused by the U.S./U.K. war to 300,000... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23275 SAVE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: IMPEACH BUSH Philadelphia Tribune Add criminal negligence to the list of offenses justifying impeachment proceedings against President Bush. The callously inept response to Hurricane Katrina by Bush clearly contributed to exacerbating the horrific suffering and death along the Gulf Coast, especially in the flood ravaged city of New Orleans. Including a criminal negligence charge to the already long list of impeachable offenses against Bush is one of the unique angles contained in the new ! book, The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office. (St. Martin’s Press)... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23263 GI Special 4E13: Raising Hell Works - May 13, 2006. Thomas F. Barton Army Forced To Admit Tormenting Injured Ft. Still Soldiers LAWTON, Okla.: The Army has shaken up a program to heal recruits injured in basic training after soldiers and their parents said troops hurt at Fort Sill were punished with physical abuse and medical neglect. The program, which treated more than 1,100 injured soldiers last year at five posts, normally returns three-fourths of its patients to active duty, according to Army statistics. But at Fort Sill, recruits said, injuries were often subject to derision, ignored or improperly treated. Two soldiers in the program have died since 2004, one or possibly both of accidental overdoses of prescription drugs. The latest death, in March, remains under investigation, the Army said. "I am an inmate," one soldier, Pfc. Mathew Scarano of Eureka, Calif., wrote in a letter home in January two months before he died. "I sometimes ask those friends of mine with jailhouse tattoos if they'd rather be back in jail, or here. So far, they are unanimous — jail." ... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23260 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 12 May 2006. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. ...In a dispatch posted at 5:55pm Makkah time Friday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while earlier US aircraft rocketed a private home in northeastern ar-Ramadi, about 110km west of Baghdad. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a medical first aid worker as saying that according to preliminary figures, the American air attack kille! d five members of one family, a man, his wife and their three children. "That’s how many we have pulled out from under the rubble so far. But neighbors of the victims are sure that there were more people in the house, relatives who had fled from Baghdad because of the murders of the Sunnis by the Shi'ah there," the aid worker told Mafkarat al-Islam... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23259 Iraq War refugees trapped in no man’s land Islamonline.com "Every morning we wake up and go around to find water and other things from the truck drivers. We are living by begging," says Khabet Mohammadi, who is one of about 200 refugees stranded on Iraq's border with Jordan (...) The refugees are Iranian Kurds. Most left Iran in 1982, or were born in Iraq. They lived in a refugee camp about 90 miles from Baghdad before the 2003 U.S. invasion. But after the fall of Baghdad, they received threats... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23273 DAILY WAR NEWS FOR FRIDAY, May 12, 2006 Today in Iraq Four U.S. Marines died in Iraq when their tank rolled off a bridge into a canal and they drowned: The accident happened Thursday when the four Marines with Regimental Combat Team 5 were traveling in a U.S. M1A1 Main Battle Tank near Karmah, 50 miles west of Baghdad in Anbar Province. Armed men in police uniforms kidnapped a Lebanese man in Iraq. Three US fuel transport tankers were set on fire Thursday in an attack by militants near Al-Mshahda, North Baghdad. ! Three fuel tankers were burned completely. Bodies of four people in military uniform, two of them beheaded, found in the town of Khan Bani Saad, near Baquba north of Baghdad. It was not clear whether they were involved in an attempt by men in army uniforms to kidnap civilians that was thwarted by police on Thursday. .. Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23257 A Perfect Mother's Day Gift Create a Peace Movement That Ends the Iraq Occupation and Prevents Future Wars of Aggression Cindy Sheehan Julia Ward Howe, the author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, became so horrified with the carnage of the Civil War that she began advocating for a Mother's Day of Peace. She published the Mother's Day Peace Proclamation in 1870. By 1873, 18 cities celebrated Mother's Day of Peace celebrations -- some of these celebrations continued for 30 years. Still today, we hav! e the enduring legacy of Mother's Day. Now we are faced with the modern carnage of the occupation of Iraq, and still there are threats of another war of aggression in Iran. The Iraq policy is fatally flawed, especially for the nearly 2,500 US deaths and for every one of these there have been 100 dead Iraqi civilians... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23256 The Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty Is Dead K Gajendra Singh The Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and its apartheid regime is but a carcass now. While the abhorrent South African regime is long gone, the major violators of NPT -an iniquitous, non universal thrust down regime –held in place by the five recognized nuclear weapons powers (NWPs) , who also occupy the permanent seats in the UN Security Council want this unethical and immoral regime to continue... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23254 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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