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Yet another My Li massacre in Latifia by the American occupation forces Imad Khadduri, Free Iraq ..."At 10 p.m. on Saturday [May 13, 2006] night, American occupation forces and Iraqi 'national guards' launched a heavy offensive in the area of (Shakh Wahid) near Latifia, South of Baghdad. The attack started with an intense strafing by American helicopters of the houses in the village causing the families to flee into the surrounding farm land and hide in irrigation ditches to escape from the fierce attack. Seven h! elicopters then landed American soldiers who pursued and killed on site the fleeing civilians, 25 of whom were martyred. They captured six civilians including two women, Israa' Mahmoud Hassan and Widad Ahmad Hassan and a child, Huda Haitham Mohammad Hassan, whose father was killed during the attack. The attack on the same area, again supported by Iraqi 'national guards', was renewed at 4 a.m. on Monday [May 15, 2006]. This resulted in more civilian arrests and their houses were used as sniper positions"... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23310 58 Years of Zionist Cruelty and Terror ... It's Time to Put America First Hassan El-Najjar, Al-Jazeerah On May 15 1948, world Zionists claimed their state, which they called Israel. It was not good news to the world in general, and the Palestinian people in particular. Zionist Israelis did not limit their state to the borders prescribed in the 1947 UN Resolution 181, known as Partition Resolution. They occupied most of the lands prescribed to the Arab state of Palestine, particularly Galilee, most of the Gaza Str! ip (which included a strip extending north to Isdood), a lot of the West Bank (particularly the Jerusalem corridor), and the the Auja area south east of Gaza Strip... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23311 US war hero allegedly mutilates wife - did he pick this up in Iraq? Truth about Iraqis According to an AP story, "A decorated soldier accused of killing his teenage wife about three months after returning from Iraq went on trial Monday, with prosecutors showing video of a blood-smeared kitchen and the woman's mutilated body." Given all the atrocities perpetrated by US forces in Iraq, this case is rather important because it betrays the ease with which the trained soldier can kill without question, even ki! lling loved ones. This is not the first time, nor am afraid the last, we have heard of brutal murders committed by returning US soldiers. The problem is not simply the usual culprit - post-traumatic syndrome. Let us not neglect the fact that Iraq has become an open killing ground for US soldiers targeting Iraqis. The system of letting most US soldiers off the hook for killing armed, wounded, and innocent Iraqis creates an environment of irresponsibility. Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23313 White and Might Make Right: Morality is in the Eye of the Oppressor JASON MILLER ...To summarize, our European and American ancestors raped, pillaged, plundered, enslaved, and nearly annihilated the "lesser beings" they encountered on several continents in their "glorious" bids to expand their empires. After the invention of the internal combustion engine led to wide-spread use of automobiles, the Middle East became an area of particular interest to Europe and the United States. With the revelation that vast qua! ntities of black gold oozed from their sand, the heretofore unappealing arid lands of the Arab and Persian "savages" suddenly became indispensable commodities. Once again the "onus of domesticating the barbarians" was thrust upon the West. In the process of sharing their "enlightened values", the United States and their fellow imperialists in Europe have derived the "ancillary benefit" of exerting a great deal of control over the precious Middle Eastern oil. Assuaging their guilt for the Holocaust, they also "found" a homeland for the Jewish people. To this day we "noble" Americans are enabling genocide against the Palestinians to make this homeland possible. While virtually all of the former colonies are now "autonomous" nations, Europe and the United States possess many means to continue exploiting the people and resources of the "developing world". Imperialism is alive and well in Africa, South America, Central America, and the Middle East... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23315 US President Bush is 'genocidal assassin' says Chavez Deutsche Presse-Agentur Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez branded US President George W Bush Monday a 'genocidal assassin' and the 'worst criminal in humanity' during a a private visit to London. During a visit hosted by Ken Livingstone, London's controversial mayor, Chavez described the Iraq war as the 'Vietnam of the 21st century' and said he did not believe Iran was trying to gain nuclear capability. Livingstone, standing next to the radical Venezuelan leade! r, said: 'I sometimes have views on George Bush - not too dissimilar from yours.' Chavez was given a 'hero's welcome' by Livingstone at a public rally attended by left-wingers from Britain and Latin American countries Sunday evening. But he did not call, nor had he been invited to, on British Prime Minister Tony Blair, whom he has described as a 'main ally of Hitler' on account of British support for the Iraq war... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23314 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 15 May 2006 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. In a dispatch posted at 6:40pm Makkah time Monday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while earlier fighting broke out between Iraqi Resistance forces and US occupation troops in the city of ar-Ramadi, about 110km west of Baghdad. Resistance fighters were in combat with US troops at the time of reporting. Fighting was underway in the al-'Aziziyah ! area opposite the al-Anbar provincial government building, which the Americans have turned into one of their local headquarters. The correspondent reports that it appears that the Resistance was attempting to storm the provincial government building... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23312 Sorry George, can’t help with the Iran business Behind John Howard’s Timor provocation Gavin Gatenby, Possum News Network On Friday 12 May, shortly before flying off to see George Bush, Australian Prime minister John Howard did two remarkable things. Firstly, he ruled out Australian involvement in any military action in Iran. "I’m not in favour of other than trying to achieve a diplomatic solution", he told the media. Then he announced an unexpected and highly provocative military build-up for a possi! ble new occupation of East Timor. On the face of it, Howard’s Iran war stance is an extraordinary piece of evasion. Since US ground forces are completely engaged fighting the Resistance in Iraq, an attack on Iran could only take the form of an open-ended bombing campaign... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23318 Jason Leopold update on Rove Indictment Story Rob Kall As editor of OpEdnews, I started wondering when Jason Leopold's news that Karl Rove was indicted, which we made our main headline, did not show up in the mainstream news. He's been superbly reliable and great and bringing news ahead of others. So I wrote to him: I’m getting emails asking why the mainstream media aren’t reporting on Rove’s indictment... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23309 BLOCKING JUSTICE William Fisher The U.S. Government has once again invoked the "state secrets" privilege, arguing that a public trial of a lawsuit against a former head of the Central Intelligence Agency for abducting and imprisoning a German citizen would lead to disclosure of information harmful to U.S. national security. Once rarely used, the "state secrets" privilege has over the past five years become a routine defense used by the U.S. Government to keep cases from being tried... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23308 Why the Iranians will be Rebuffed Appealing to the United States is Not Very Appealing WILLIAM BLUM With his recent letter to President Bush, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has become part of a long tradition of Third-World leaders who, under imminent military or political threat from the United States, communicated with Washington officials in the hope of removing that threat (...) But if the White House has already decided upon an attack, Ahmadinejad's letter will have no effect. Was there an! ything Czechoslovakia could have done to prevent a Nazi invasion in 1938? Or Poland in 1939?... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23307 Urgent! Urgent! The US bloodthirsty and frightened thugs bomb their own troops in Haditha. Al Mujahideens Shura Council - Al Moharer ...On Thursday 11th of May 2006, in a hysterical move and after many of their terrified soldiers have been killed and wounded in an Iraqi Resistance operation, the US gangsters war jets started on four O'clock at the break of the dawn, to massively bomb a house where their foot soldiers troops were hiding temporarily..in the Haqlanya area in the town of Haditha.. where tw! elve unlucky US cannon fodder perished... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23316 "THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TONY SNOW JOB”* Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Fascism** engulfs nations by different routes. It can come by military conquest and overthrow of a democratically elected government, as in Franco Spain. It can come by conversion of a Constitutional Monarchy, with the acquiescence if not the open support of the monarch, as in Italy and Japan. It can come in a Constitutional Democracy through the on-the-surface legal use of Constitutional processes by a political party that first takes control of the ! executive branch and then proceeds to establish its dictatorship. The prime example of this is of course Nazi Germany (see my columns, "Bush is Not Hitler, I and the two-part Reichstag Fire/9-11 series). Unless the Georgites are somehow stopped, the United States will become the second major historical example of this route to fascism... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23317 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.