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Speak, Memory Walter A. Davis Today is the 61st anniversary of the dropping of an Atomic Bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The first act of global, state terrorism. (The second three days later on Nagasaki, the city with the largest Christian population in Japan.) Today a new kind of nuclear war is being fought-- as harbinger to the next kind of nuclear war, which will be fought tomorrow. The suppressed story about the Iraq War is the use by the U.S. of depleted uranium weaponry. The cut to the chase: the U.S. li! ttered Iraq with between 315 and 350 tons of depleted uranium during Operation Desert Storm. Five times as much was used during the 2003 invasion. Every shell shot from an Abrams tank contains 10 pounds of DU. The result: all of Iraq is now littered with radioactive dust from DU... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25577 From Israel, To Lebanon KABOBfest Many people have questioned our invasion tactics over the past four weeks. Sure, we've supposedly killed about 1,000 Lebanese civilians, but that number is inflated; really, we've only killed like 10 and Hizballah has been moving those same ten bodies from one bomb site to another in a refrigerated truck and parading them in front of the cameras. It's true, we've destroyed Lebanon's infrastructure, including power plants, roads, highways, and - a couple days ago - the "sole human! itarian link" into the country. But you have to understand, we don't believe that Arabs are "humans," so they don't really need "humanitarian" aid. As John Bolton made clear, dead Lebanese are worth less than dead Israelis... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25567 Israel’s Conspiracy Theories KABOBfest Yesterday, after Hezbollah killed12 Israeli soldiers preparing to fight in Lebanon, Israeli Prime Minister Olmert met with fifty of his mouth pieces to inform them of the new talking points. In preparation for the widening of aggression against all of Lebanon, Hezbollah areas and not, they needed to get some new spin ready. "Our enemy is not Hezbollah, but Iran, which employs Hezbollah as its agent," Olmert told his spokepersons. Israel often constructs a mythical puppeteer,! far bigger than the opponent it is fighting, to either exaggerate its victories or minimize the meaning of its defeats... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25568 Hijab? Must have. Needlenose I vaguely remember watching some fluff-piece on CNN shortly after our invasion of Iraq about how the blossoming of democracy would somehow be good for women; blatantly preposterous even at the time, as Iraq was one of the mostly-Arabic countries where women could drive, work, walk around without a hijab and even serve in the government. Contrast with Riverbend's latest post: "For me, June marked the first month I don’t dare leave the house without a hijab, or headscarf. I don’t wear a hijab usually, but it’s no longer possible to drive around Baghdad without one. It’s just not a good idea. (Take note that when I say 'drive’ I actually mean 'sit in the back seat of the car’- I haven’t driven for the longest time.) Going around bare-headed in a car or in the street also puts the family members with you in danger. You risk hearing something you don’t want to hear and then the father or the brother or cousin or uncle can’t just sit by and let it happen. I haven’t driven for the longest time. If you’re a female, you risk being attacked."... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25580 The Clearing of South Lebanon The Lebanese Nakba and Israeli Ambitions PAUL LARUDEE Why did Israel remain in southern Lebanon after the departure of the PLO in 1982? The publicly stated reason was to assure the security of its northern border by neutralizing the resistance forces and by maintaining a "buffer" zone. However, it is clear that the most secure period for northern Israel since 1978 and perhaps earlier has been the period from 2000 to the present, when it had no occupation forces in Lebanon ! except for the Shebaa farms. Many Lebanese and international observers suspect that the real purpose of Israel's leadership (as distinct from that of its population) was to seize and ultimately annex southern Lebanon up to the Litani river. If so, it is plausible to speculate that this may not have been the original intention, but rather evolved from the initial successes of Ariel Sharon, then commander of Israeli forces in Lebanon, in occupying the territory in question... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25579 Palestinian refugee camp hit by Israeli gunboats Xinhua Israeli gunboats shelled the largest Palestinian refugee camp of Ain Al Hilweh in Lebanon early Wednesday, causing casualties, official sources said. Media reports quoted Lebanese and Palestinian officials as saying that Israeli gunboats fired two shells, which killed at least one person and wounded three others. But other reports quoted medics as saying that at least two people were killed and eight others, including five children, were wounded in the Isr! aeli attack... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25576 US democracy or an excuse to rape, pillage and plunder? Truth About Iraqis It has become the sign of the times. Pick up a newspaper or browse a website and you will come across at least one news report or in-depth analysis of human rights abuses, torture, murder, rape, and atrocity committed by the US military in Iraq or Afghanistan or in Guantanamo. Or some other CIA-run facility... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25574 DAILY WAR NEWS FOR TUESDAY, August 8, 2006 Today in Iraq Two Iraqi journalists have been killed in separate incidents in Baghdad, police said Tuesday. Mohammed Abbas Hamad, 28, a journalist for the Shiite-owned newspaper Al-Bayinnah Al-Jadida, was shot by gunmen at he left his home Monday in the Adil section of western Baghdad, police Lt. Mohammed Khayoun said. Late Monday, police found the bullet-riddled body of freelance journalist Ismail Amin Ali, 30, about a half mile from where he was abducted two weeks ago ! in northeast Baghdad, Lt. Ahmed Mohammed Ali said. The body showed sign of torture, he added. Ten people were killed and 69 wounded when two roadside bombs exploded in al-Shorja market in central Baghdad. Three separate roadside bomb attacks in Baghdad killed at least nine people. Two of the blasts targeted police, and the third was aimed at one of Baghdad's busiest bus stations. Gunmen stormed a bank in the northern Baghdad district of Adhamiya, killing five people -- three bodyguards and two employees -- before walking away with the equivalent of $4,000... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25573 Behind Bush’s “truce” plan: the drive towards a wider Middle East war Bill Van Auken US President George W. Bush on Monday declared his full support for a US-French United Nations resolution that dictates Israel’s terms to the Lebanese people while allowing the Israeli military to indefinitely continue its occupation and devastation of Lebanon. This document, far from an agreement for peace, represents one more step in widening the war initiated by the Bush administration in 2003 with the invasion of Iraq into a ! regional conflagration that poses an immense threat to working people not only in the Middle East, but in the US and all over the world... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25572 Israel: we are the real victims here Lenin's Tomb So, can anyone tell me, is Yedioth Ahronoth the Israeli version of The Sun or something? Only it's hard to find a more vulgar, brash, racist, propaganda sheet - yet it seems they have not fully calibrated for an external audience. Aside from the rather obvious front page and the news page in which today's top headline is "Ma'alot: Man moderately injured by rocket", they've got this wonderful news article in which Israeli politicians simply brag about their bullyin! g of Lebanon and Arab Israelis. Foreign Minister Livni's comments translated: 'Siniora better wipe away his tears and do as we say and stop telling everyone how terrible it is'. Knesset Speaker Itzik: 'You Arabs had better stop complaining and get behind the war effort or we'll treat you as traitors'. And of course there's the mantle of victimhood, and I quote this in full... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25571 A call to genocide. Lenin's Tomb Haaretz may have spotted Israel's very own Thomas Friedman: Israel should have given Lebanon an ultimatum like this: "Until our abducted soldiers are returned and the rocket fire at our communities ends, we will destroy the communities of southern Lebanon via aerial bombardment, methodically going from south to north, and we will begin within 24 hours." In this way, we would not have endangered even one soldiers in battle... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25570 Because 50% of the U.S. is certifiably STUPID Palestinian Pundit What? You don't believe me? See: Half of US still believes Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. The government thinks they can pull one of these off, again: War Pimp Alert: Yellow Cake II - Iran's plot to mine uranium in Africa : IRAN is seeking to import large consignments of bomb-making uranium from the African mining area that produced the Hiroshima bomb, an investigation has revealed... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25569 Religious Zeal and the Killing of the Lebanese Abbas Ali When President Bush was asked (July 25) whether or not there was a contradiction in his position in allowing "Israel to kill people, and civilians, in particular, and . . . trying to aid the very people that have been suffering and killed as a result," the President’s answer was "No, I don't see a contradiction." It is this firm confidence that makes it easier for the President to resist the international call for an immediate ceasefire to save lives and in! itiate genuine measures of reconciliation. The Israelis have warmly welcomed the President’ message and seem determined to annihilate the people in Southern Lebanese in the shortest possible time. This is strongly reflected in their actions and in the attitude of the Israeli army... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25566 Brutal US attack on unarmed Afghans captured by photos Tom Coghlan, The Independent Claims that US troops shot dead up to six unarmed Afghan civilians two months ago in Kabul have been given added credibility with a series of photographs offering visual evidence of military misconduct. The pictures were taken by an Afghan passer-by on 29 May in Khair Kane, a district of north Kabul. The 20 photographs appear to show a group of unarmed Afghan civilians being killed by gunfire from an American Humvee. The allegatio! ns made in Kabul follow other recent incidents in which US troops are alleged to have used disproportionate or reckless force against civilians, most notably in Haditha, Iraq, on 19 November 2005 when US troops allegedly killed 15 civilians... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25565 Collateral Damage is Murder Michael Boldin, GlobalResearch.ca Collateral damage is nothing more than a euphemism for state-sponsored mass murder. It is the term given to people killed in military actions who were "not intentionally targeted." In reality, this is pure propaganda. It has always been morally just to protect innocent people against aggressors. But, on the other hand, it has never been moral, nor has it ever been necessary, to bomb cities filled with innocent people. We rarely see the faces or know! the identities of those reduced to the status of collateral damage. It is a gray area where the victim becomes less than a person. Interestingly enough, during the Vietnam War, both Henry Kissinger and Robert McNamara used the term "integers" to describe those civilian deaths that they preferred not to have publicized as human beings. Such is the amazing power of doublespeak... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25563 Why the Lebanese resistance are clobbering the IDF Lenin's Tomb Eventually, they would have to start asking this sort of question: why are the local European supremacists not beating the brown people? Isn't this what we pay them for? How come they're not doing their job? According to The Guardian this morning, 57 Israeli soldiers have died. The latest estimate for Hezbollah deaths, meanwhile, is 53. The latest estimate for civilian deaths in Lebanon, meanwhile, is 933. Yes, the Israelis have never found any espec! ial difficulty in slaughtering civilians, but why can't they beat what they confidently assured the world was a 'rag-tag' army?... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25560 New and unkown deadly weapons used by Israeli forces 'direct energy' weapons, chemical and/or biological agents, in a macabre experiment of future warfare Professor Paola Manduca, GlobalResearch.ca By now there are countless reports, from hospitals, witnesses, armament experts and journalists that strongly suggest that in the present offensive of Israeli forces against Lebanon and Gaza 'new weapons' are being used. New and strange symptoms are reported amongst the wounded and the dead. Bodies with dea! d tissues and no apparent wounds; 'shrunken' corpses; civilians with heavy damage to lower limbs that require amputation, which is nevertheless followed by unstoppable necrosis and death; descriptions of extensive internal wounds with no trace of shrapnel, corpses blackened but not burnt, and others heavily wounded that did not bleed... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25559 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 7 August 2006 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice In a dispatch posted at 8:50pm Makkah time Monday night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that at that hour fierce fighting was under way between Iraqi Resistance forces and US occupation troops in the al-Bu 'Alwan area of ar-Ramadi. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the combat erupted when Resistance fighters assaulted a house that US troops had b! een using as a headquarters since they threw the homeowner out into the streets to commandeer his dwelling. The correspondent reported that large parts of the house were destroyed in the attack, forcing the Marines to rush out into a confrontation with the Resistance fighters. Heavy fighting was raging in the area at the time of writing... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25558 Issa Nakhleh: the Fascist Character of the Israeli State Kurt Nimmo ...In grotesque fashion, the corporate media papers over the repeat of these crimes by Olmert and the supposed "centrist" Kadima dominated government of Israel, refusing to note the obvious pattern of pathological and murderous Zionist behavior. Instead of noting or even hinting at the fascistic character of this behavior, we are told "some civilians are more innocent than others" (Dershowitz) and Hezbollah is responsible for Israel’s exterminati! on of hundreds, possibly thousands of Lebanese civilians. "The Zionist and Israeli leaders have followed in the footsteps of the Nazis. 3,000 Zionist and Israeli political and military leaders, during a period from 1939-1989, participated as organizers, instigators and accomplices in the commission of crimes of terrorism, crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide against the Palestinians and peoples of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt," writes Nakhleh in the preface to his online book... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25557 GI Special 4H8: The Crime Against The 172nd - August 08, 2006 Thomas F. Barton Soldiers in 4th Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment received word of the extension July 27 as they were preparing to depart Combat Outpost Rawah, in central Anbar province, where they had spent most of the previous 12 months. The news hit many hard. Many of those still in Iraq were within a day or two of leaving. Stryker crews had celebrated their last missions "outside the wire." There was an end-of-semester atmosphere at COP Rawah, with soldiers playing practical jokes on each other as they prepared to head home. Then came the news that rather than flying home into the arms of their loved ones, they would be heading into the heart of the violence in Baghdad, where more than 1,600 people died in July as sectarian violence between Sunni and Shi’ites spun out of control. Some soldiers greeted the news with disbelief and tears, others with shrugs. Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25556 Israel widens targets to hit civilian sites Abraham Rabinovich and Martin Chulov ISRAEL plans to ramp up its offensive in Lebanon by attacking the nation's strategic civilian infrastructure to make Beirut more amenable to ceasefire proposals acceptable to Jerusalem. Stung by increasingly deadly rocket attacks and believing an imminent ceasefire to be unlikely, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met his senior security advisers yesterday to discuss proposals to reinforce and speed up the army's northward movement in order! to push most of Hezbollah's rockets out of range of Israel. "We are now in a process of renewed escalation," a senior general defence staff officer said. "We will continue hitting everything that moves in Hezbollah, but we will also hit strategic civilian infrastructure"... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25578 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.