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Thinking the Unthinkable Felicity Arbuthnot ...And when factions in high places, allegedly threatened Times columnist, Matthew Parris's wealthy friend, prepared to pay a ransom for Maragaret Hassan, were it demanded, in to a state of terror for the safety of his family; confiscated Paul Bigley's communication equipment, when he was fighting for his brother's life and telephoned this correspondent demanding broadly: shut the f ... up about Margaret Hassan, was it because the decision to do nothing had been made an! d humanity and drawing attention to the real people behind the names muddied the planned spin? Unthinkable, of course. Oh, and of course, conspiracy theorists might wonder if those mobile 'phones were infact traced and a decision made to simply do nothing. As this is being written news of another 'breakthrough' hits the airwaves, another: ' Ladies and gentlemen,' we got 'im' moment. The slaughter of innocents at Haditha, Ishaqi and elsewhere, vanished from the news. Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, killed in Sulamainiyah, then Mosul, Al Quaim and Fallujah, has been definitively killed in Hibhib, near Baquba. Margaret Hassan's tragedy sort of sorted and the man who allegedly killed Ken Bigley, sorted again (...) 'How is it Zarqawi's body remains intact as if he died in his bed'? asked one resident. Paul Bigley, having hired tireless investigators in to his brother's death stated to this writer and in the Independent: ' I would not be surprised if Ken and Margaret's bodies weren't ! in some refrigerator in Washington to be produced at an opport! une mome nt'. Unthinkable... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23860 Terrorism in Iraq? Don't blame Zarqawi Mike Whitney ...Once again, the media is covering the facts and creating a narrative that absolves the administration of culpability. Unfortunately, most leftist web sites seem more eager to debate whether Zarqawi actually existed or not. This debate goes nowhere. What is imperative is to realize that Zarqawi has become more important to the Bush administration dead than alive. The media has taken the shadowy details of his life and shaped them into a storyline that is suppo! sed to rewrite the history of the war in Iraq. Zarqawi is now being held responsible for everything from initiating the sectarian violence to stopping the political dialogue between Sunni leaders and the new government... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23869 The great escape Lenin's tomb Three men have killed themselves in the off-shore gulag that the American government allows itself to have. The reason? Rear Adm. Harry Harris Jr says: "They are smart, they are creative, they are committed ... They have no regard for life, neither ours nor their own. I believe this was not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us." 'They' are prisoners held without charge, trial or opportunity for reprieve in an island torture-chamber. Yet, s! ince 'they' have already been determined guilty, and given the series of imaginative associations immediately available upon remembering that the prisoners are Muslims, it must seem somehow okay to engage in this bizarre Orwellian reversal. What would one think if any other government offered this kind of ridiculous claim in a similar situation? Those whom 'we' have locked up in a repressive prison camp with no chance of justice are the aggressors - they make war against 'us'... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23880 America backs Israel's right to kill children Mark Elf, Jews sans frontieres According the Jerusalem Post, America has issued a statement supporting Israel's latest war crime against Palestinian civilians. The US expressed support for Israel Friday night after apparent Israeli artillery fire caused the death of at least 12 Palestinians on a Gaza coast beach. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said that Israel had the right to defend itself, especially while terrorists were attacking it. However, McCor! mack added that Israel must consider the results well and do what was necessary to prevent harming innocent civilians. And if Israel doesn't "prevent harming innocent civilians?" He didn't say... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23875 Ban on permanent Iraq bases dies Richard Cowan, Reuters Congressional Republicans killed a provision in an Iraq war funding bill that would have put the United States on record against the permanent basing of U.S. military facilities in that country, a lawmaker and congressional aides said on Friday. The $94.5 billion emergency spending bill, which includes $65.8 billion to continue waging wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, is expected to be approved by Congress next week and sent to President George W. Bush for signi! ng into law. As originally passed by the House of Representatives, the Pentagon would have been prohibited from spending any of the funds for entering into a military basing rights agreement with Iraq... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23874 If you're expecting justice in Iraq, just look to Guantanamo for reassurance Truth About Iraqis For years now we have heard of the deplorable condition in which Guantanamo detainees have been held. Most have not been told why they had been at the military prison facility for five years.(...) However, US media has discared every claim they make; ridiculed evidence and testimony, torn apart as lies. Therefore, it is not surprising that there is no outrage when we hear that three Guantanamo detainees - a Yemeni and ! two Saudis - committed suicide today. Instead, we hear that the three have engaged in aggressive behavior against the United States. "They are smart. They are creative, they are committed. They have no regard for life, either ours or their own. I believe this was not an act of desperation, but an act of ...warfare waged against us," Rear Adm. Harry Harris, commander of the Joint Task Force Guantanamo, said in a telephone news conference. So, of course we will hear some say that the women and children of Haditha blew their own brains out. And in Abu Ghraib, the tortured Iraqis carried out all the abuse against themselves, in what is regarded as violent action against the US... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23878 Al-Zarqawi Circus Sideshow Continues Unabated Kurt Nimmo It is sincerely a corporate media circus, a multi-dimensional propaganda effort designed to convince the public al-Zarqawi was indeed alive and then killed by our fearless soldiers in Iraq. As we know, al-Zarqawi was killed some time ago, prior to the neocon invasion of Iraq, and his image was subsequently adopted by the Pentagon, refashioned, and trotted out by Colin Powell at the United Nations. All manner of super-human nastiness was attributed to the gh! ost of al-Zarqawi, from ricin attacks to a spate of gruesome beheadings. Somewhere along the line, the propagandists in the Pentagon decided to kill al-Zarqawi, and thus chalk up a victory against those who hate our way of life and our freedom to stand in line to use Diebold voting machines... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23871 Three Guantanamo detainees die in suicides: US army Michael Christie, Reuters Three foreign prisoners being held at the U.S. navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, died on Saturday in apparent suicides, the first since it started to be used as a prison in January 2002, the U.S. military said. "Two Saudis and one Yemeni, each located in Camp 1, were found unresponsive and not breathing in their cells by guards," U.S. Southern Command said in a statement (...) Facing indefinite detention with none of the rights afforde! d formal prisoners of war, or criminal suspects in the U.S. justice system, dozens of the detainees have undertaken hunger strikes... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23873 GI Special 4F8: Blood For No Oil - June 10, 2006 Thomas F. Barton Blood For No Oil: "We Didn’t Go In To Grab The Oil. Just The Opposite. We Went In To Control The Oil And Make Sure We Didn’t Get It" Investigative journalist Greg Palast joins us in the Firehouse Studio to discuss the follow-up to his best-selling book "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy." AMY GOODMAN: Is the war in Iraq a war for oil? GREG PALAST: Is the war in Iraq for oil? Yes, it's about the oil, but not for the oil. In my investigations for Armed Madhouse, I ended up with a story far more fascinating and difficult than I imagined. Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23877 The Iraq War Itself is a War Crime Nothing New About Haditha DAVE LINDORFF What is it that makes the Marine massacre of civilians at Haditha such a big issue, when we had much worse massacres going on before our eyes much earlier? The biggest of these was the giant massacre that took place over the course of two weeks in the 300,000-population city of Fallujah in November, 2004. Recall that the Marines--the service that, if we are to believe the propaganda coming out of the Pentagon, have such high sta! ndards where civilians are involved--surrounded the city and ordered everyone except the fighters to leave. The plan was to kill everyone who was left, and that's what they did. The problem is that they also were extremely loose in terms of how they defined that "everyone." At the time, on the eve of the assault that leveled the entire city, New York Times reporter Dexter Filkins reported that troops were stopping every person who was trying to flee the city and checking them for traces of powder on their hands. Those found to have residues were turned around and sent back to what would be the killing ground. But he reported that those males over the aged of 12 were also turned back, whether they had powder traces on their hands or not. In other words, the Marines encircling the doomed city decided that all males who were teenagers or older were presumed combatants... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23870 A Warning to Africa: The New U.S. Imperial Grand Strategy John Bellamy Foster, GlobalResearch.ca Imperialism is constant for capitalism. But it passes through various phases as the system evolves. At present the world is experiencing a new age of imperialism marked by a U.S. grand strategy of global domination. One indication of how things have changed is that the U.S. military is now truly global in its operations with permanent bases on every continent, including Africa, where a new scramble for control is taki! ng place focused on oil... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23867 DAILY WAR NEWS FOR SATURDAY, June 10, 2006 Today in Iraq One 101 st Sustainment Brigade Soldier was killed and one was wounded by an improvised explosive device while conducting a combat logistics patrol at about 12:55 a.m. June 9, west of Kirkuk, Iraq. (MNF- Iraq). Spc. Luis D. Santos, 20, of Rialto, Calif., died in Buritz, Iraq, on June 8, of injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV during combat operations. Santos was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment, 3! rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo. (DefenseLink). U.S. military spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said 39 raids were conducted across Iraq late Thursday and early Friday, including some directly related to the information they obtained from the strike against al-Zarqawi... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23866 The Zarqawi Show - A Pantomime For Children Of All Ages Joe Quinn, Signs of the Times ...Have you ever seen the effects of a 500lb bomb? Have you ever seen the effects of two? Generally, such bombs will obliterate everything in the immediate vicinity leaving a large crater at the site of the bombing and cause extensive damage over a wide area. Take the opportunity to watch the video on CNN of the bombing. Notice the extent of the massive explosion (...) An abrasion on his cheek and a cut on his forehead and above! his left eye. All of which leads us to conclude that either 'al-Zarqawi' really was a super human Islamic terrorist or someone in the US government thinks we are all very, very stupid... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23865 When Will We Ever Learn? Cindy Sheehan ...It's time to join us to stop allowing our government to give those orders to kill innocent Iraqis in the name of fighting a "global war of terror" - which is just another name for "corporate colonialism" (honestly, instead of patriotic emblems on their uniforms, our troops should have corporate logos all over them, like NASCAR drivers. Tanks should have a big "Exxon" symbol painted right on their sides, this would make more sense!). It's time to look at our country's knac! k for arming and training dictators and terrorists like Saddam and Osama and oppressing other countries for profit and demand that this violent behavior stop.... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23864 Ramadi attacked ... Imad Khadduri, Free Iraq ...A full scale American attack on Ramadi has commenced and fierce fighting is taking place in most districts of Ramadi. American helicopters withdrew from the area after one of them was hit by Resistance fire but was not downed. American fighter planes are now taking part in the offensive... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23861 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 9 June 2006. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. In a dispatch posted at 3:30pm Makkah time Friday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that at the time of reporting fierce fighting was underway in ar-Ramadi, about 110km west of Baghdad, between US occupation troops on one side and, on the other, Iraqi Resistance fighters including men of al-Qa'idah in the Land of the Two Rivers Resistance organization as wel! l as other Resistance groups. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as saying that Resistance fighters equipped with various types of weapons were battling the Americans in the areas of 20 Street, and al-Kass Street, and 17 Tammuz Street in the city. The witnesses reported that dozens of Resistance men were engaged in battle as cries of Allahu Akbar rang out from mosques... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23876 Anatomy of a Lie: The Zarqawi Psy-Ops, and an opportune death DelicateMonster, Daily Kos ...I suspect that his convenient death (real or otherwise) is being desperately hyped by a psy-ops campaign largely geared towards the American public. Originally, Zarqawi was used to show that al Qaeda and the foreign 'terrorists' element were strong in Iraq. He has now evolved into an ad hoc diversion from the slaughter at Haditha. Don't believe me? Fine. When's the last story you read about Haditha?... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23859 Neocon Prince of Darkness Sighted at Bilderberg Meeting Kurt Nimmo According to Megan Gillis, writing for the Ottawa Sun, the Straussian neocon "Prince of Darkness," Richard Perle, is in Ottawa, possibly to attend the Bilderberg Group meeting held there, along with the standard fare of neolibs and globalists, including "David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, Queen Beatrix of Holland, former N.B. premier Frank McKenna and a host of other bigwigs," as Gillis puts it. As Perle is a prime shaker and mover behind the "cl! ash of civilizations" agenda to "reshape" the Muslim Middle East (that is to say, shock and awe it, by way of bunker-buster and depleted uranium, into submission), it makes perfect sense for him to be on the Bilderberger roster, especially now that Iran is next up on the target list. It appears the globalists are at odds on Iran... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23858 Tortured Fragments of History Veil of secrecy surrounding methods of interrogation and torture Stan Winer In April 2004, the world was momentarily shocked by televised photographs from Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison showing hooded Iraqis stripped naked, posed in contorted positions, and visibly suffering humiliating abuse while amused American soldiers stood by. Responsibility for these acts of psychological torture has largely been confined to the lowest ranks and kept close to Abu Ghraib itself. Official s! tatements attributed the practice to a temporarybreakdown in "military discipline", thus diverting any suspicion that the evidence of psychological torture as paraded before our eyes in the Abu Ghraib snapshots is most likely the product of intelligence policies shaped in design and application over a long period of time... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23857 Is this picture from Haditha, Iraq? Truth about Iraqis Iraq? No. Try Gaza. Picture of one of three children, part of a family picnic on the beaches of Gaza, killed courtesy of the Israeli military. A total of 10 were killed. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called for an investigation into the deaths after the Bush administration refused to condemn the attack. Remember Haditha... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23856 No Permanent Bases: Passed Both Houses, Removed in Conference Committee David Swanson When the House and the Senate pass similar but not identical bills, they create a conference committee to work out the differences. When they both passed amendments to the "emergency supplemental" spending bill stipulating that none of the money could be used to build permanent bases in Iraq, the conference committee, behind closed doors this week, resolved that non-difference by deleting it. This would appear to be a blatant vi! olation of the rules of Congress and an unconstitutional voiding of the will of the people as expressed by their Representatives and Senators. But it can't appear that way to a people that knows nothing about it... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23855 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.