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In a clandestine message from his US jail, handed over specifically to both Magazines "Al Majd " and "al Moharer" Taha Yasin Ramadhan tells the details of his imprisonment, the tortures he endured and the sessions of the interrogation - tortures he suffered. Taha Yasin Ramadhan - Al Moharer ...Today, the jailed Leader-Commander Taha Yasin Ramadhan, the Iraqi legitimate Vice-President, chose to send the first message he was able to leak from behind the US jail bars to the "Al Majd" and its sister "Al Moharer" to be published in order to divulge the various horrible ways and means of the US tortures and expose the US lies about justice, democracy and human rights.. Here is the full text of this very moving letter indeed written by the jailed Vice-President: (...) Some weeks ago, you were able to read my letter in which I described the unbelievable hardships and ordeals suffered by the prisoners and detainees at the hands of the US authorities who continue to defy the Geneva Conventions, mainly the Third and the Fourth conventions in reference to the physical torture we endured specially during the first twenty two days of our detention. I spoke to more than one US interrogator and to the Red Cross representatives during the first visit they made to us, in great detail about the bizarre tortures. I found here, convenient to reveal To Whom It May Concern and in particular to those interested in Human Rights and people of good will everywhere and especially among our nation. These torture practices show the unbelievable hatred an! d the im mense rancor US carry to every Arab and every Moslem who is loyal to his homeland and to his nation and who rejects servility and puppetry and cares about the security of his brethren and is proud of his dignity. This will let you discover the US utter evil intentions against our people and against our nation. What is happening now on the soil of Iraq such as tearing away the country, planting the seeds of sectarianism and racism is a horrid example, which absolutely shows how the US looks down at the Arabs. That is why it is necessary to be careful and bear full responsibility right now, and from this very moment, towards what is happening in Iraq... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21037 The Smoking Gun Mike Whitney The AFP is reporting that the bombing of the Golden Domed Mosque "was the work of specialists" and that the "placing of explosives must have taken at least 12 hours" (...) Clearly, the bombing was not carried out by rogue elements in the disparate Iraqi resistance. This is the work of highly-trained saboteurs and bomb-experts who were executing a precision-demolition to incite sectarian violence. The blast bears all the hallmarks of a covert Intelligence agency-operation. Who benefits from such a vicious attack on the foundations of Islamic identity and culture? The AFP’s report is consistent with earlier analysis provided by a Baghdad blogger who convincingly demonstrates that the destruction of the mosque was a "controlled demolition" which required considerable time and professional expertise. The photographs of the nearby, but untouched, minarets provide a shocking example of the bomber’s skill... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21034 Who benefits from the Samarra attack? A short 'history' Imad Khadduri, Free Iraq Juan Cole further states: "As a historian, I try not to comment on things for which I don't have good documentary evidence. It just becomes speculation. I'm at a disadvantage in saying anything at all about what goes on in Iraq, since I am not there and can't see it. I finesse this by trying to make a judicious choice with regard to published accounts in Arabic. I didn't see anything I trusted on this issue." At one level, Cole's academically 'safe' response is totally in order. On another level, some extra effort to discern and connect the dots behind the glare of the Corporate Media's superficial coverage, especially for a mini-historian, as I may humbly claim to be, would be in order, even though I also "am not there". In the end, the approach does reflect the interests (as in: Regard for one's own benefit or advantage; self-interest), doesn't it?... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21047 Former CIA Analyst: Western Intelligence May Be Behind Mosque Bombing Prison Planet Former CIA analyst a and presidential advisor Ray McGovern does not rule out Western involvement in this week's Askariya mosque bombing in light of previous false flag operations that have advanced hidden agendas of the ruling elite. During the mid-eighties, McGovern was one of the senior analysts conducting early morning briefings of the PDB one-on-one with the Vice President, the Secretaries of State and Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. He joined Alex Jones to discuss many topics from martial law to government false flag terrorism and provocation tactics... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21044 Appeal on assassinated Iraqi academics: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) BRussells Tribunal 1. How many Iraqi academics have been killed and when? The BRussells Tribunal has compiled a list that names over 130 Iraqi academics murdered between 2003 and 2006. The Iraqi Association of University Lecturers say the number is over 300. The puppet government of Iraq has itself confirmed over 150 assassinations. Other estimates place the number over 1000. This is in addition to the thousands forced to flee Iraq in fear of their lives. That so many are subject to forced exile is testament to the violent climate that faces Iraqi educators, intellectuals and academics. Further to assassinations, disappearances and forced exile, a report published in 2005 by the International Leadership Institute, affiliated to the United Nations University, found that "Eighty-four per cent of higher education institutes were burned, looted or destroyed," following the US invasion in 2003... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21027 The Elimination of Iraq’s academics Haifa Zangana (BRussells Tribunal Committee) On the morning of Monday 23rd January, unknown militants assassinated a veterinary doctor, Dr. Atheer Husham Abd al-Hamid, in the district of al-Saidia. At the same time, Dr. Hilal al-Bayati, president of the Iraqi Association of Computers, escaped an assassination attempt on the main road between the districts of al-Saidia and Hayy al-Baya’, in Baghdad. This is not the first time a doctor, academic or scientist has been assassinated in occupied Iraq. With a heavy heart, I predict that it will not be the last. Our Iraq is threatened on all sides and at all levels, with every shot aimed with precision at our country’s enlightened minds... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21042 Planet Earth As Weapon and Target LEUREN MORET The 'permanent US war economy’ of the USA traces its roots in organisations and "a culture of death" back to the China opium wars, and through the current Iraq war. Samuel Russell, the primary American opium smuggler, acquired a vast fortune by launching the first clipper ship in 1823. Leading British and American families made vast fortunes with clippers smuggling opium from Turkey and India to China. The illicit proceeds of expanded drug-trafficking today are proliferating wars and influencing the foreign policy of modern nation-States. Many researchers tie former President George H W Bush to the CIA as far back as the 1950s, and indicate that one of his jobs was to consolidate and coordinate the world’s biggest industry—the global narcotics trade... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21041 Great books to read and to keep: The Neo-Conned & Neo-Conned Again Ibrahim Ebeid I was honored to receive Neo-Conned and Neo-Conned Again. The two Volumes are an excellent collection of articles, essays and interviews written by respected authors from different religions, nationalities and backgrounds. Light in the Darkness Publishers must be proud of this great effort in beaming their light in the darkness to help us see the facts behind the illegal war and the invasion of Iraq (...) The authors brilliantly exposed the neo – conservatives who were behind launching the war on fabricated lies, the raping of Iraq, dismantling it, stealing its wealth for their own interests and for the benefit of "Israel" and their allies. Frankly, the Neo- Conned volumes are unique and superior to many other books and essays that partially or obscurely deal with the subject... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21046 London Mayor Attacked for Opposition to Islamophobia Kurt Nimmo In Britain, using certain metaphors will get you suspended from your job. Case in point, the mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, who was suspended for the crime of "comparing a Jewish reporter to a concentration camp guard," according to the BBC (...) As such, the Deputies are allowed to slander and libel the enemies of Israel, or those perceived as enemies of Israel, for instance Interpal, one of the largest Palestinian charitable funds in Britain (in late 2003, the Deputies characterized Interpal as a "terrorist organization," according to Haaretz, and erroneously and slanderously linked the independent charitable organization to Hamas, and did not bother to apologize for the insult, even after it was determined by the British commission responsible for nonprofit organizations that Interpal is not connected to Hamas or terrorism in any way, unless of course you consider malnourished Palestinians terrorists)... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21051 The lion’s roar is yet to be heard! Hussein Al-alak, The Iraq Solidarity Campaign ...Some commentators have declared this attack has been a psychological blow for the Shia Arabs of Iraq, who won the majority in the countries parliament in the December 2005 elections. Others are claiming this is one step closer to Iraq falling into civil war and further ethnic strife. On the most part, this is actually neither of the above but it is infact an attack upon all Iraqi’s, with the central aim of imposing a division upon the country, that is based on ethnic and religious lines. This has been proven time and again, through the devastation that Iraq has been facing for over a decade now, first through the imposing of the in-discriminate Sanctions and the systematic in-discriminate slaughter of our countries innocence... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21045 Let’s turn the ‘civil war’ into a media William Bowles , I'n'I I must say that the independent media have done a damn good job in exposing the sham that is the 'civil war' in Iraq. However, before we get all righteous, the corporate/state media still need to be called to task over their distorted and misleading coverage, replete with every stereotype; ethnic, religious, 'tribal', et al, as well their predictable 'I told you so' bullshit and predictions of doom. Yet the reality is, that if the agent provocateurs are allowed to continue in their murderous assault on the good people of Iraq on behalf of their USUK paymasters, the situation could well reach the proverbial 'point of no return'... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21029 Saddam's Lawyers Call for Delay in Trial BASSEM MROUE, Associated Press Writer Saddam Hussein's lawyers are asking for a delay in his trial because of the turmoil that swept Baghdad after the bombing of a Shiite shrine, one of his lawyers said Sunday. A court official said a postponement was possible for the next session on Tuesday. The defense team's request comes amid sectarian violence and movement restrictions after the bombing Wednesday of a revered Shiite Muslim shrine in Samarra and ensuing reprisal attacks on Sunni mosques and clerics across Iraq. More than 200 people have been killed. Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21028 Developing monster in our midst? Al-Moharer ... Burning mosques and churches, destroying them and killing people indiscriminately are horrendous crimes; they are committed by the militias and police force under the "Democracy" of "New Iraq" that President Bush brought to the Iraqi people. Old Iraq under the Baath was more democratic and more secured. It was secular, flourishing and prosperous. "The New Iraq" is chaotic, sectarian, under developed, occupied and ruined and Mr. Bush keeps saying" the Iraqis are better off". Does he mean the Iraqis of the Green Zone? The ones who got richer by stealing the wealth of Iraq?... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21036 Dis-appointment in Samarra Xymphora It seems extremely likely that (or here) the attack on the religious shine at Samarra was the work of those attempting to cause a civil war in Iraq leading to its destruction as a unified country. An eyewitness report confirms Americans were in control of the area when the bombs were set. That would be American troops operating on behalf of the American neocons, who, despite some recent setbacks, are proceeding with their original Israeli plan without interruption... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21026 Iraq Attacks Kill at Least 27, Including 2 U.S. Soldiers; Leaders Pledge to End Violence SAMEER N. YACOUB Associated Press Writer Bomb blasts and gunfire killed at least 27 people, including two U.S. soldiers, in Baghdad and nearby towns Sunday as an emergency daylight curfew was lifted in three provinces following the bombing of a Shiite shrine and a wave of retribution against Sunnis. Authorities reported no progress in the hunt for kidnapped American journalist Jill Carroll, who reportedly was threatened with death by midnight if her abductors' demands were not met... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21025 The New York Times Rubbing Salt into Muslim Wounds Abid Ullah Jan ...To respond to the final argument of the editorial in which is says: "It is they [moderate Muslims] who must make it clear to their people that blowing up mosques, beheading hostages and strapping on belts of explosives are far, far greater evils than a few drawings in a distant paper. They must do so because their future is at stake — not Denmark's," one can only ask a simple question from the editors: Why were there no blowing up of mosques, beheadings and suicide bombings in Iraq before the US invasion and occupation? Were not Iraqi reeling under Saddam’s tyranny as we are told by the US? Was not Islam there to make Iraqis radical? Why didn’t they mis-interpret Islam then? Whey did these radical not radicalized others then? Was life more dear to Iraqis then and not now? The answer to these questions shows that the forces of radicalization lie in Washington—in the double standards and unjust foreign policies of the Western countries—and not in Mecca, the Qur’an or Islam... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21024 The Sanitized Horrors of Guantánamo Bay The U.S. has adopted the practice of force-feeding detainees who hunger strike Keith Barratt ("Welshman") ...Please show the mercy to these people that seems absent in our lawmakers and bring this issue to the attention of Congress through your representatives. I shall be doing so in the United Kingdom. Perhaps our Canadian and European friends can also raise questions on this treatment of detainees with representatives of their own government to increase international pressure... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21017 Morrissey investigated for criticising Bush Baghdad Dweller ROCK star Morrissey has revealed he was quizzed by the FBI and Special Branch over his criticism of the US and Britain. Morrissey, 46, has previously branded George Bush a terrorist and blasted the Iraq war. The ex-Smiths singer, who lives in Los Angeles, said: "The FBI and Special Branch have investigated me and I’ve been interviewed and taped. "They were trying to determine if I was a threat to the government and similarly in England... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21016 Is the U.S. Pursuing a "Divide and Conquer" Strategy in Iraq? Stan Moore Why wouldn't the U.S. bomb Shiite holy places in Iraq and shift the blame to Sunnis? Why wouldn't the U.S. want a civil war in Iraq? Hasn't the U.S. Always pursued "divide and conquer" strategies, starting with the earliest days of conquering the native inhabitants of Turtle Island? Didn't the British allies of the U.S. get caught with SAS soldiers in Arab garb driving around Basra with bomb-making materials in their vehicle? Weren't the Brits so concerned over the capture of their covert operators by Iraqi police that they broke them out of custody, using tanks to destroy a local jail?... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21015 Where Things Stand Tonight Christopher Allbritton ...We have reached a point where the facade of the "political process" has been shredded. The real power lies — and has always lain — in the hands of the sheikhs, the clerics — especially Moqtada — and the gunmen. The politicians in Baghdad can continue their silly little exercise in government building and the Americans and the foreign diplomatic corps can tell their audiences in their home countries how much progress Abdul Aziz al-Hakim is making at building bridges with Saleh Mutlak. But we on the ground know the truth. We’re on the edge of a hot knife, and it’s getting hotter. There may be a pause now, but only for now. And we might have pulled back from the abyss just in time. This might end soon after all and my doom-saying will be proven wrong... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21048 GI Special 4B24 - “No To America, No To Terrorism” Thomas F. Barton ...The shattered golden dome of Samarra is yet another milestone in George Bush’s "long war," in which a civil war in Iraq shows every sign of being a devastating feature. But what sort of civil war? I am convinced it is not the type of war that politicians in Washington and London, and much of the western media, have been anticipating. The past few days’ events have strengthened this conviction. It has not been Sunni religious symbols that hundreds of thousands of angry marchers protesting at the bombing of the shrine have targeted, but US flags. The slogan that united them on Wednesday was: "Kalla, kalla Amrica, kalla kalla lill-irhab."... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=21032 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.