[UrukNet] - [Daily Information from Occupied Iraq] - [newsletter 23 Aug 2006 - Part two]

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Dear “Terrorist” Child Manuel Valenzuela ...In Iraq and, most recently in Lebanon, can we observe the devastating war America is waging against the Arab world, especially Arab children. Iraq has been transformed into a land ruled by violence and anarchy, creating a hornet’s nest of hatred and internecine fighting that did not previously exist. With no threat to the American people, incapable even of inflicting damage to its immediate neighbors, Iraq was invaded and subsequently occupied by American forces, creati! ng the greatest strategic disaster in American history and sending Iraq spiraling down into the gates of Hades. The American occupation has created the birth pangs of sectarian civil war, with ethnic cleansing of entire neighborhoods now the rule, not the exception. The occupation has succeeding in introducing a level of violence unheard of in Iraq and the Middle East (...) You see the valiant resistance waging guerilla war against the Americans, they with tanks and fighter jets, the resistance with IEDs and mortar fire. They are fighting for your freedom and for Iraqi independence, freedom fighters destined to proclaim victory, if not soon then after patient determination, for morality and justice are with them, as is the population and the parameters of guerilla warfare. They fight occupation and the pillaging of Iraq’s resources by the Empire; they fight to expel the American military from your land, knowing full well that if not forced to leave by the resistance the arm! ies of the Empire will never depart; they fight both to make r! ight and bring a sense of justice to the myriad of American war crimes, torture, murder, dehumanization, false imprisonment, destruction and the taunts the American military, ignorant of history or of alien cultures, has imported into Iraq. They fight for vengeance, for honor, for Iraq, becoming a valid resistance against illegal occupation... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=26063 Are FOX News Employees really “Noncombatants”? Mike Whitney Are FOX employee’s innocent bystanders or an integral part of the American war machine? That may turn out to be an important question now that 2 FOX workers have been captured by a group of Palestinian militants. It would be hard, if not impossible to draw a line of separation between the US military and FOX News. Their anchors may shun the camouflage fatigues and jack-boots, but that is where the difference ends. FOX is a fully-integrated cog in the c! orporate/state media apparatus; faithfully reiterating the official statements of Pentagon Big-wigs and administration powerbrokers. Their "embedded" news team provides the splashy graphics and right wing chatter which energize their base and marshal public support for American aggression. They carefully create a narrative which makes deliberate acts of unprovoked warfare appear necessary and (even) humanitarian. Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=26059 BAGHDAD AND INFO WARS (Part Two) Malcom Lagauche In Part One of this interview, Captain Eric May, a former U.S. Army intelligence officer, gave us insight into what he considers one of the most devious cover-ups of all time: the Battle of Baghdad, primarily the battle for the airport. He also brought up that we are now in the process of conducting an info war that will eventually change the way that mainstream media can be manipulated by the U.S. government. Today’s article goes into further detail about the item! s Captain May brought up in Part One of the interview... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=26054 Is it ‘Islamic’ Fascists or Freedom-Fascists? Yamin Zakaria ...Since Islam and Fascism is an oxymoron, this only leaves the followers the Islam, the Muslims. It would only be fair to label the Muslims as Fascists, once they have managed to acquire the track record of Fascist like states, but then they would no longer be Muslims in any case. Listed below are some examples of fascist states and if the Muslims managed to replicate these, then they would qualify to be called Muslim-Fascists (not Islamic-Fascists): *! When the Muslim nations invade and kill over 100,000 innocent civilians based on lies, then you can then call them fascists. * When the Muslim nations have killed 500,000 children by applying economic sanctions then call them fascists. * When the Muslim soldiers (Mujahideen) gang rape 14 year old girls and then burn their bodies, then call them fascists. Ask yourself, would you trust your young daughters with such degenerate US marines or the noble Mujahideen who have never carried out such vile acts? Can you honestly answer this question? * When the Muslim soldiers sodomise little boys in front of their father, and rape little girls in front of her family members, and call such activities as "softening up prisoners" or "letting off some steam", then you may call them fascists... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=26053 Iraqi court sentences people to be beheaded? Truth About Iraqis I just saw this: Iraqi court issues death sentences against nine in Najaf BAGHDAD, Aug 22 (KUNA) -- An Iraqi court on Tuesday issued death sentences against nine people charged with terrorism, manslaughter and looting-related crimes in a number of towns. A spokesman in the Central Criminal court in Najaf said that beheading sentences were issued against nine suspects who have been indicted while 18 others were given life sentences.... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=26062 Iran 'the victor in war on terror' David Blair Iran has replaced America as the most influential foreign power inside Iraq, seizing an opportunity created by the war against terrorism, a report says. The turmoil unleashed by the invasion of Iraq gave Teheran the chance to fill the void left by Saddam Hussein's downfall, says the survey from the Royal Institute of International Affairs, in London. It says that Iran has bought influence by sponsoring parties representing the Shia majority, about 60 per cent of the ! population. By manipulating these allies, it has "superseded the US as the most influential power there". The report adds: "There is little doubt that Iran has been the chief beneficiary of the war on terrorism in the Middle East"... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=26061 “The World Just sat by”: An Interview with Dahr Jamail Christopher Brown ...I don’t think this cease-fire will hold because of what we have spoke of Israel encroaching into Lebanon again. At a time of they’re own choosing and a completely unprovoked. We can talk about that present tense. Already this cease-fire has failed and at any time Israel might…maybe even as we speak…they could be breaking this cease-fire agreement again. And I think that’s why it will fail. Because Israel has complete disregard for UN reso! lutions. We only have to look them breeching, I’m not sure how many, UN resolutions regarding what’s going on in the occupied territories. We need to remember that the first one to break this cease-fire was Israel and they’re may come a point when Hizbollah does respond and then the corporate media will begin to place the blame squarely on Lebanon’s shoulders... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=26056 Video FROM 'DISENGAGEMENT' TO CONTINUED OCCUPATION DesertPeace THIS VIDEO MUST be watched by anyone who still believes Israel withdrew from Gaza a year ago. Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=26057 Baghdad: the graveyard of hell janinsanfran My dear friends, I have been in Baghdad for three weeks, it looks not three weeks but it looks like years. The situation is so bad. Not safe at all. Baghdad looks like graveyard of hell. The US military close all the streets -- no cars pass through. No one can go from city to city in Baghdad. No people go to work for 4 or 5 days. The tanks everywhere and the police cars in front of every street and the fear in all eyes from the USA military and the police. Also from the! killers and the thieves. The weather is too hot: my skin burns and hurts me so much because of the sun and the heat. The killing everywhere; it's the real hell... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=26058 Human rights organization warns of humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza Strip Wisam Afifeh The Al Dameer Foundation for Human Rights in Gaza City expressed grave concern regarding the poor living conditions for Palestinians in the Strip. In a statement issued today, Al Dameer warned of a "humanitarian catastrophe as Israeli occupation forces practice collective punishment against the citizens of the Gaza Strip." "The situation continues to deteriorate," wrote the Gaza City human rights organization Wednesday. "The co! llective punishment has gone beyond all limits, norms and laws. We demand immediate intervention to stop the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip." Al Dameer wrote that the Israeli government is practicing the "ugliest form of state sponsored terrorism."... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=26055 US made an offer Iran can only refuse Gareth Porter Even before Iran gave its formal counter-offer to the permanent-five-plus-one countries (the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia and China plus Germany) on Tuesday, the administration of US George W Bush had already begun the process of organizing sanctions against Iran. Washington had already held a conference call on sanctions on Sunday with French, German and British officials, the Washington Post reported. In Tehran on Tuesday, Iran's top nucle! ar negotiator, Ali Larijani, delivered the official response to an international package to curb Tehran's nuclear program and suggested that Iran was prepared for "serious talks" with the six countries that extended the offer... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=26052 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.