Hear the sound of silence (Building a Pyramid)

Hear the sound of silence (Building a Pyramid)

A good 9/11 legit quesitons post.

ABC News: Witness: Army Dog Handler Acted Properly

ABC News: Witness: Army Dog Handler Acted Properly

Blogger Thought: Not torturing to death, but still should not sanctioned.

WP: Katrina, Iraq cash diverted for pork - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com

WP: Katrina, Iraq cash diverted for pork - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com

[UrukNet] - [Daily Information from Occupied Iraq] - [newsletter 23 May 2006 - part two]

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American War Crimes In Iraq 1991-2005 EuroYankNewsTicke ...The above photo of wreckage on the infamous "Highway of Death" was taken in March 1991, in southern Iraq. The road went from Kuwait to Safwan, at the Iraqi border, and on to Basra. Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians were fleeing desperately, many in civilian vehicles. They were obviously no military threat to anyone. And yet American forces gleefully massacred them all, joking that it was as easy as "shooting in a sheep pen." On many occasions Ir! aqi soldiers tried to surrender to American forces. It didn’t make any difference. U.S. Air Force and Navy pilots were under orders to mass-murder every last human being in cold blood... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23498 Bush has his hand in the Monkey Trap Abid Ullah Jan ...Let us assume that Macbeth is fake. The problem of the more than 100,000 killed in Iraq would nevertheless remain with us. After all someone killed them, if not Macbeth. The fact will remain that 1.8 million were starved to death before that. The fact remains that the war machine is in full gear, not only in Iraq but also in Afghanistan. After indiscriminate bombing villages are closed down and no journalists are allowed (...) If the U.S. administration, the ! pundits in the "mainstream" media, their allies in the non-Muslim world and the puppets in the Muslim world believe that they will remain the same despite their crimes against humanity, they are totally out of their mind like a monkey in the Indian trap. Silencing one Macbeth or one liar posing as Macbeth can hardly hide the reality of the U.S. crimes against humanity that are still underway... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23493 Time for Abbas to Retire Mike Whitney Mahmoud Abbas has little to show for his two years as Palestinian president. He has neither produced a settlement nor forced Israel to sit down and negotiate terms for a final agreement. Just this week, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert brushed aside Abbas’ advances saying that talks would be pointless because Abbas is "powerless" to speak for his people. If this is so, then why was Sharon so eager to help Abbas win the election by shuttling him around the territories? In ! truth, Abbas is exactly the president that Israel wants, a feeble, ineffective bureaucrat who gets his marching-orders from Tel Aviv and poses no threat to Israel’s territorial ambitions... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23487 A WOMAN OF HER CONVICTIONS Malcom Lagauche After the announcement of his capture, a lesser-known lawyer from Lebanon sent the following letter to Saddam: To: Mr. President Saddam Hussein, may God protect him and guide him to the right path. President of the Republic of Iraq and leader of the Arab Mujahideen. Your image which appeared yesterday on TV showing you in the hands of those hypocrites made me feel that you are the only free Arab man, while all other Arabs without exception are the real prisoners. I ap! peal to you to allow me to have the honor of defending you in case a so-called "trial" is set up. The writer of the letter was Bushra al-Khalil. She is not your typical female Middle Eastern lawyer. A Shia Muslim, she dresses in a modern secular manner. And, she is very outspoken. After the assassination of well-admired Lebanese political figure Rafiq al-Hariri, much speculation came forth that Syria was behind the killing. Not al-Khalil... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23486 DAILY WAR NEWS FOR TUESDAY, May 23, 2006 Today in Iraq A roadside bomb damaged one Humvee in a U.S. convoy in the Dora neighborhood. An Iraqi woman and a child were wounded in gunfire that followed. A car bomb exploded in New Baghdad, killing two police commandos and three civilians. The attack, which damaged nearby shops and cars, also wounded five commandos and three civilians. Gunmen killed a cigarette vendor in a drive-by shooting in the capital. Gunmen killed a professor at Baghdad's Technology University, ! in northeastern Baghdad. An industry ministry employee was shot dead in northeastern Baghdad. Three corpses were found in Baghdad: two floating in different spots on the Tigris River, and one of a 10-year-old boy from the neighborhood of Dura in the south, police said. The boy, who was kidnapped on Monday, had been tortured before being shot through the head... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23484 The Militarisation of the Eastern Mediterranean: Israel's Stake in the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline Michel Chossudovsky, GlobalResearch.ca The Anglo-US Military alliance seeks to establish control over Central Asian oil and gas reserves as well as strategic pipeline routes. The most important strategic corridor is the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil and gas pipelines dominated by British Petroleum (BP). This corridor integrates the Caspian Sea to the Eastern Mediterranean. Israel is a potential partner in the Baku-Cey! han oil pipeline, which is also protected by GUAM, a US-NATO sponsored military alliance between Georgia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Moldava... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23503 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 23 May 2006. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice In a dispatch posted at 2:10pm Makkah time Tuesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US military column in the northeastern area of al-Hadithah, about 300km west of Baghdad. The al-Hadithah correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in the al-Haqlaniyah area as saying that a bomb that had been plante! d by the side of the main road to the US military headquarters in the middle of al-Haqlaniyah blew up as an American column was driving past. The explosion totally destroyed a Humvee, killing four US troops who were aboard it... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23501 A Slow Motion Coup Rowan Wolf, POAC ...Generally, a coup is seen as the overthrow of those in power by another - usually with support of at least part of the military. Often this is imagined as a swift move followed by a consolidation operation (kill or expel those who were previously in power). However, a coup seems to be occurring in the United States, but it is a slow coup. It may be culminated by one drastic move that consolidates the plan, but the pieces are being clearly put in place for a coup of the enti! re government with the eradication of democracy and the Constitution. I will constrain my discussion to three areas: executive power, intelligence, and military reach... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23499 Slaves to the "Free Market" Unite Can Humanity Make a Stand Against the Ruthless Onslaught of Capitalist Imperialism? JASON MILLER Relentlessly delivering the triphammer blows of a youthful Mike Tyson, America’s imperialist ruling class of wealthy and corporate elites has been pummeling the poor, minorities, and the working class with impunity for years. As some of my readers have aptly pointed out, America and its White Christian patriarchy do not have a historical monopoly on abuse of power or exploi! tation of "lesser people". It is also true that Anglos have been victimized at various points in history. Yet the United States exists and thrives almost solely because it obscenely exploited Africans to attain economic power and committed genocide against North America’s indigenous people to obtain and expand its territory... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23488 European governments cover up illegal CIA abductions Martin Kreickenbaum, WSWS Alleged terror suspects have been kidnapped in the European Union (EU) by the CIA and taken to third countries where they have been subjected to torture. The European governments knew of these illegal actions and were even involved in them. This is the conclusion reached in the first interim report of the subcommittee of the European parliament examining the illegal activities of the CIA within Europe. Dick Marty, the special investiga! tor of the Council of Europe, reached a similar conclusion in February. Forty-six European states belong to the Council of Europe; the European parliament includes representatives of the EU’s 25 member states... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23497 The Great Iraq Oil Grab Joshua Holland ...The national security arguments about Saddam Hussein's "WMD" and supposed ties to Al Qaeda -- all disproved -- only took centerstage after the attacks of 9/11. In the decade before, industry groups that are now closely tied to the Bush administration issued a string of position papers and op-eds urging the ouster of Saddam specifically in order to open Iraq's economy, and they openly lobbied for war on those terms. People like Dick Cheney, George Schultz and Henry Kissing! er (L. Paul Bremer was a protégé of Kissinger's) warned that American energy firms were at a competitive disadvantage as long as Saddam Hussein remained in power... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23494 Will Elena Benador Start World War III? Bob Fertik Joseph Cannon rightly calls our attention to Elena Benador, the woman who played a crucial role in brainwashing millions of Americans into supporting the invasion of Iraq - and is trying to do the same in Iran. Here's what the Jim Lobe wrote about her in 2003: When historians look back on the United States war in Iraq, they will almost certainly be struck by how a small group of mainly neo-conservative analysts and activists outside the administration were abl! e to shape the US media debate in ways that made the drive to war so much easier than it might have been… But historians would be negligent if they ignored the day-to-day work of one person who, as much as anyone outside the administration, made their media ubiquity possible. Meet Eleana Benador, the Peruvian-born publicist for [Richard] Perle, [James] Woolsey, Michael Ledeen, Frank Gaffney and a dozen other prominent neo-conservatives whose hawkish opinions proved very hard to avoid for anyone who watched news talk shows or read the op-ed pages of major newspapers over the past 20 months... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23495 New Estimate of Venezuela's Total Oil Reserves Makes It the Grandest of Grand Prizes for US Stephen Lendman I just finished reading an important new book the author's publisher sent me, which I'll shortly be reviewing for publication. The book is investigative journalist (and in his words "forensic economist") Greg Palast's latest foray into exposing the hidden from view crimes and wrongdoings of the Bush administration. I'm very familiar with Palast's important work and can only wish many others of his profess! ion did the same sort of it he does - his job. Sadly most don't, but luckily we have some who do, and we should pay close heed to what they tell us. They're our window to the dangerous world around us, and the information they provide is our protection from it... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23492 Slaves to the "Free Market" Unite Can Humanity Make a Stand Against the Ruthless Onslaught of Capitalist Imperialism? JASON MILLER Relentlessly delivering the triphammer blows of a youthful Mike Tyson, America’s imperialist ruling class of wealthy and corporate elites has been pummeling the poor, minorities, and the working class with impunity for years. As some of my readers have aptly pointed out, America and its White Christian patriarchy do not have a historical monopoly on abuse of power or exploi! tation of "lesser people". It is also true that Anglos have been victimized at various points in history. Yet the United States exists and thrives almost solely because it obscenely exploited Africans to attain economic power and committed genocide against North America’s indigenous people to obtain and expand its territory... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23488 What is the rehabilitation for someone who will no longer participate in war? Monica Benderman On May 16th Monica Benderman was invited to participate in a Congressional Briefing hosted by Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, at the Longworth Office Building, Washington DC. This briefing was to call attention to Conscientious Objection and Military Recruitment practices. Monica's husband, Kevin, is currently serving a prison sentence for refusing to return to Iraq. He was recently denied parole because he has not bee! n sufficiently 'rehabilitated.' Below is a transcript of her testimony. Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23490 QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Why even discuss the so-called 'Iraqi government'? Comment posted by John C. at Just World News (via Today in Iraq) Why even discuss the so-called "Iraqi government?" No such thing exists outside the realm of propaganda. To write about this or that Green Zone politician, or even to criticize the impotence, ineptitude and corruption of this group of puppets, is to promote the narrative of the puppetmasters. If people are talking and writing about an Iraqi government, then there must! be one, and if there is one (especially a weak, pathetic one), then there is a purpose for the continuing occupation other than murder, destruction, pillage and plunder. Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23485 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.

FBI blew many chances to ID spy - U.S. Security - MSNBC.com

FBI blew many chances to ID spy - U.S. Security - MSNBC.com



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Report: FBI blew many chances to identify spy Agency failed to see that suspected Chinese spy ‘was in bed with’ bureau
The Associated Press
Updated: 7:50 a.m. CT May 24, 2006

WASHINGTON - The FBI missed many opportunities to identify a suspected Chinese spy and her FBI lover, including a tip that she “was in bed with” the bureau’s Los Angeles office, a Justice Department internal review said Wednesday.
Katrina Leung, a Chinese-American paid informant for the FBI, and her handler, former counterintelligence agent James J. Smith, were able to deceive the FBI about their romantic relationship for nearly 20 years, Justice Department inspector general Glenn A. Fine said. In all, the FBI paid Leung $1.7 million over 18 years, Fine said.
FBI supervisors failed to act on two serious incidents just 10 months apart in the early 1990s that indicated Leung was passing classified information to China without FBI authorization, Fine said in the report’s 23-page executive summary. The full report is classified, he said.
The FBI “relied on Smith to resolve concerns about Leung, and failed to follow up further to ensure that he had done so,” Fine said. Smith told Fine’s investigators that Leung got the information from him.
No one at the FBI suspected they were lovers, even after a supervisor who went to surprise Smith at the airport after a trip to London also saw Leung there at the same time, Fine said.
In mid-2000, a source told the FBI Leung was “in bed with” the bureau’s Los Angeles office, the report said. Smith was informed about the tip, compromising any investigation, and an FBI official at its Washington headquarters said it was unclear that the comment was meant literally, Fine said.
PuzzlingThe bureau waited until May 2001 to begin investigating whether Leung was a Chinese spy who had a source within the Los Angeles office. Fine faulted the senior bureau official in charge of the counterintelligence division for the delay.
“It is particularly puzzling that the assistant director did not suspect Smith because the assistant director was overseeing the Robert Hanssen espionage investigation at the time,” he said. FBI agent Hanssen was caught spying for the Soviet Union and Russia for years.
Even then, a preliminary report concluded that “an espionage relationship between an FBI employee and Leung is unlikely,” Fine said.
Finally, a special task force was created in 2002 after FBI Director Robert Mueller, on the job for only a few months, expressed concern about the pace and scope of the investigation.
Smith and Leung were arrested in 2003 and indicted on various charges, the most serious of which related to misuse of classified information. Smith pleaded guilty to lesser charges in 2004. A federal judge dismissed the case against Leung, rebuking prosecutors for misconduct.
While the government’s appeal of the dismissal was pending, Leung agreed in December to plead guilty to making a false statement to the FBI and filing a false tax return.
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Hot Air � Blog Archive � Good news and bad news for �Loose Change� fans

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Allahpundit points out the the bin Laden tape has "left wing" talking points. Yet there mention that would show any understanding of the charade.

Left wing, right wing, whatever. There is a measure of basic savvy beyond political leaning, and Allahpundit is lacking that, much to all our determent.

Study: No marijuana link to lung cancer - Health - MSNBC.com

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[political-researchp] Bloglines - AN EX-CIA OFFICIAL TELLS WHY HAYDEN IS WRONG

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AN EX-CIA OFFICIAL TELLS WHY HAYDEN IS WRONG FOREIGN POLICY - The selection of Gen. Michael Hayden to succeed Porter Goss as director of the CIA raises questions about intelligence reform once again. Michael Scheuer, former chief of the Osama bin Laden unit at the CIA, explains to FP why he thinks Hayden is the wrong choice for the job, why intelligence on Iran is so poor, and why he thinks Iraq "is finished." FOREIGN POLICY: Is Michael Hayden the right choice for the CIA? Michael Scheuer: No. As a professional intelligence officer, the last people you want to report to are generals and diplomats. And if General Hayden comes to the CIA, we'll have Mr. Negroponte [a career diplomat] as head of the community, and a general as the head of the CIA. They are not particularly good at taking bad news to the president, in the experience of most intelligence officers. . . FP: People have said that U.S. intelligence on Iran is poor. Why is that? MS: It's poor because we haven't been there since 1979. People talk about new ways of doing intelligence, and new ways of working without a presence in a country. That's all talk. You can do a certain amount of that. But without a physical presence, it's very hard to collect intelligence. If you don't have an embassy, a consulate, or a physical presence, you're dependent on people coming out to meet you or on signals intelligence. One of the big problems in Iraq was that we hadn't had a presence there since the first Gulf War, and we depended on opposition people to give us information about Saddam. And it appears that the information supplied by [Ahmad] Chalabi and others was pretty close to perfect, in the sense of being perfectly wrong. FP: What is your one-year outlook on Iraq? MS: I think Iraq is finished. We'll just find a way to get out. I frankly don't think we ever intended to win there. We certainly didn't send enough troops to close borders, to control the country. [Defense Secretary Donald] Rumsfeld was obsessed, apparently with his new, lighter, faster military. The inflow of fighters is growing. The pace of the insurgency, both there and in Afghanistan, is increasing. I don't hold much of a brief for Sen. John McCain, but he's right, in an unpalatable way: Unless we greatly increase the number of troops we have in Iraq, we're going to have to leave. I think the question is how do we leave? Do we leave with some dignity, or do we leave by flying off the top of the embassy as we did in Saigon? . . .

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[political-researchp] Bloglines - Speaker Hastert Defends Privacy Rights of William Jefferson

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Speaker Hastert Defends Privacy Rights of William Jefferson By PGL Could someone please explain this: WASHINGTON (CNN) - House Speaker Dennis Hastert said Tuesday that the FBI and the Justice Department "took the wrong path" when they searched a Democratic congressman's office this weekend as part of an anti-corruption probe. "We understand that they want to support and pursue the process that the Justice Department is trying to pursue," Hastert, a Republican from Illinois, said. "But there's ways to do it, and my opinion is that they took the wrong path." Over the weekend, The FBI searched the Washington home and office of Rep. William Jefferson, D-Louisiana, and found $90,000 of allegedly ill-gotten funds in the freezer of his home, according to an affidavit. I know the right side of BlogLand went nuts over law enforcement looking into potential wrongdoing by Rush Limbaugh, but the left side of BlogLand has no sympathy for this Democratic Congressman. But the Republican Speaker of the House does? Justin Rood suggests: After sitting largely silent for more than five years of assaults against citizens' constitutional rights, our legislators have been moved to protect the Constitution because one of their own - a man who meets contacts in hotel parking lots to accept briefcases full of money, and actually kept $90,000 in cash bundled in his freezer - had his offices searched by the FBI. Methinks the Congress doth protest too much. Can anyone else provide an alternative explanation that makes any sense? I can’t. Update: Kevin Drum reminds us: But at least the FBI got a search warrant signed by a judge. Congress should feel lucky they were treated with such sensitivity.

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[political-researchp] Bloglines - Bush's Garroting of Democracy

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Bush's Garroting of Democracy By Robert Parry May 24, 2006 Over the past weekend, George W. Bush and his Justice Department signaled to the U.S. press corps and Congress that they are not beyond the reach of Bush’s “plenary” – or unlimited – powers as Commander in Chief or his authority as “unitary executive,” deciding what laws to enforce and how. On May 21, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told ABC’s “This Week” that news organizations like the New York Times could be prosecuted for publishing classified information about the “war on terror,” such as the disclosure of Bush’s secret program of warrantless wiretapping inside the United States. The night before that TV interview, the FBI conducted an extraordinary raid on the Capitol Hill office of Democratic Rep. William J. Jefferson of Louisiana as part of a bribery investigation, raising bipartisan concerns about the Executive Branch trampling congressional rights and intimidating members of Congress. “The actions of the Justice Department in seeking and executing this warrant raise important Constitutional issues that go well beyond the specifics of this case,” House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., said in a statement. “Insofar as I am aware, since the founding of our Republic 219 years ago, the Justice Department has never found it necessary to do what it did Saturday night crossing this Separations of Powers line, in order to successfully prosecute corruption by members of Congress,” Hastert said. [Washington Post, May 23, 2006] The FBI appears to have strong evidence against Jefferson – including allegedly finding $90,000 in bribe money hidden in his home freezer – but the Capitol Hill raid sent a message that the President and his Attorney General will cross any line when dealing with allegations of wrongdoing that might apply to members of Congress from both parties. The implicit chilling effect on congressmen and senators, who might otherwise consider holding Bush accountable for his own abuses, could not be missed. Gonzales delivered a similar warning to the news media, that the administration is dusting off the 89-year-old Espionage Act as a legal justification for prosecuting journalists and their sources when stories appear citing classified information, such as the New York Times article about Bush authorizing wiretaps of some American communications without court warrants. “We are engaged now in an investigation about what would be the appropriate course of action in that particular case, so I’m not going to talk about it specifically,” Gonzales said. But he cited “some statutes on the book which, if you read the language carefully, would seem to indicate that that is a possibility.” Though Gonzales did not mention a specific statute, he apparently was referring to the Espionage Act, which was passed in 1917 during World War I and bars an unauthorized person from receiving defense information and passing it on to others. The rarely used statute generally has been interpreted as applying to spies for other nations, but the Justice Department is relying on it to prosecute two ex-lobbyists for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee who received classified information from a Defense Department employee, who has pleaded guilty and got a 12-year sentence. Besides the Times wiretap story in December 2005, administration officials have complained about a Washington Post story on secret overseas CIA prisons where suspected terrorists are allegedly tortured and about a USA Today story about a Bush-approved plan to build a vast database of phone calls in the United States. While some experts doubt the administration would bring Espionage Act charges against journalists, it appears the Justice Department at least will examine phone records of reporters involved in the stories as part of investigations to identify government leakers. Plame Case Even if not prosecuted directly, journalists could face jail time if they are hauled before grand juries and refuse to identify their sources. Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald used that hardball tactic in the investigation of who leaked the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame, a probe that has revealed that the leak was part of a “concerted” White House effort to “discredit, punish or seek revenge against” Plame’s husband and Iraq War critic, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson. Fitzgerald sent New York Times reporter Judith Miller to jail for 85 days on contempt charges until she relented and agreed to testify about one of her sources on Plame’s identity, Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff I. Lewis Libby. In October 2005, Fitzgerald indicted Libby on charges of perjury, obstruction of justice and lying to federal investigators. Court filings also have connected Cheney and Bush at least to the broader White House effort to release classified information to counter Wilson’s accusation that the administration “twisted” intelligence to justify the Iraq War. Though the Plame Affair has revealed the White House leaking a sensitive secret – the identity of an undercover CIA officer – the Bush administration is now turning the case to its own advantage, as a precedent to go after reporters and sources who reveal possible criminal actions by Bush, such as the warrantless wiretaps and the torture of detainees. Bush and his supporters have claimed that disclosure of the warrantless wiretaps did serious damage to U.S. national security by alerting al-Qaeda and other terrorists to the U.S. capability to electronically intercept communications. However, skeptics of this argument cite evidence that al-Qaeda has long been aware that its phone calls were targeted by U.S. electronic surveillance. Even Gonzales conceded that point under questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee in February 2006. [See Consortiumnews.com's “Torture Boy Signals More Spying.”] As for the secret “black site” prisons where torture allegedly occurred, administration officials say the Washington Post article makes it less likely that U.S. allies will cooperate with such projects in the future – even though the Post withheld the names of East European countries where the prisons were located. ‘Plenary’ Powers Though it’s arguable whether “secrets” like the U.S. capability to do electronic spying are really secrets, the Bush administration apparently has decided to use their disclosure to advance a broader strategy for building an authoritarian system inside the United States. In defending the warrantless wiretaps earlier this year, Gonzales and other administration lawyers asserted that the “war on terror” justified Bush using his “plenary” – or unlimited – powers as Commander in Chief to override laws and constitutional safeguards. Bush also has claimed that he has powers as the “unitary executive,” meaning that he alone can decide what laws and regulations to enforce. Through so-called “signing statements,” Bush has announced that he has the authority to ignore hundreds of laws, including many that he’s signed. For instance, after evidence surfaced about abuse of detainees in U.S. custody, Congress enacted a law in December 2005 barring degrading and inhumane treatment of these terrorism suspects. After first opposing the legislation, Bush signed the law, but he then declared in a “signing statement” that he would not be bound by the law. A similar theory applies to Bush’s claim to “plenary” powers, which supposedly let him as Commander in Chief brush aside constitutional provisions, including the Fourth Amendment requirement of a court warrant based on “probable cause’’ to justify government searches and the constitutional right to habeas corpus, a fair trial. In regard to national security wiretaps, the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act also spells out procedures for the Executive to obtain secret warrants for eavesdropping on the communications of suspected enemy agents. Though the FISA law even lets the Executive start the wiretaps before seeking a court warrant, Bush not only ignored those provisions but lied to the American people about his continued need to get warrants. In a speech in Buffalo, N.Y., on April 20, 2004 – more than two years after signing an order for warrantless wiretaps – Bush said: “By the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires – a wiretap requires a court order,” Bush said. “Nothing has changed, by the way. When we’re talking about chasing down terrorists, we’re talking about getting a court order before we do so.” Later that year, before Election 2004, Bush managed to keep his new authority – and his lie – hidden by persuading the New York Times to withhold the warrantless-wiretap story. Only after the Times finally ran the article on Dec. 16, 2005, did Bush admit that he had authorized wiretaps without a court order. Under his “plenary” powers, Bush also has asserted the right to jail without trial people he calls “enemy combatants,” including U.S. citizens. [For details, see Consortiumnews.com’s “Bush’s Grimmer Vision” and “The End of Unalienable Rights.”] Presidential Excesses While Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and other previous presidents have used lies and claims of national security to conceal embarrassing or controversial decisions before, Bush may have gone further than any of his predecessors in institutionalizing these powers. By mixing in his control over government secrecy – with the “plenary” powers and the concept of “unitary executive” – Bush also is extending to himself the power to limit the free press and thus manage what Americans see and hear. The administration’s position seems to be that if Bush classifies his abrogation of laws and the Constitution – as in warrantless spying on Americans and torturing detainees – he can then have his Justice Department investigate, prosecute and jail the whistleblowers who expose these controversies. As part of this trend, the Bush administration also has moved to reclassify historical information previously released and stored at the National Archives. Plus, his CIA has clamped down on what former CIA officials can write and the FBI is even trying to seize old documents from the estate of the late investigative reporter Jack Anderson. In what could be almost an enunciation of an Official Secrets Act, FBI spokesman Bill Carter declared about the Anderson case, “no private person may possess classified documents that were illegally provided to them.” [NYT, April 30, 2006] While that prohibition may seem reasonable to some Americans, the clinker is that Bush gets to decide what is secret and what isn’t, which means that he can make selective disclosures of sensitive information to help himself and punish the exposure of innocuous secrets that might embarrass him. In the ABC-TV interview, Gonzales made clear that the administration believes government secrecy supercedes the First Amendment. “I understand very much the role that the press plays in our society, the protection under the First Amendment we want to promote and respect,” Gonzales said, “but it can’t be the case that that right trumps over the right that Americans would like to see, the ability of the federal government to go after criminal activity. … We have an obligation to enforce the law and to prosecute those who engage in criminal activity.” In many of these cases, however, Gonzales appears determined to prosecute people involved in exposing what might be considered “criminal activity” by himself, President Bush and other senior administration officials. Gonzales’s message to both government whistleblowers and the press corps is hard to escape. If you disclose apparent misconduct by the Bush administration in areas of national security, you will be hunted down and punished. As Bush said after a meeting with the four top congressional leaders on Dec. 18, 2000, “I told all four that there were going to be some times where we don’t agree with each other. But that’s OK. If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.” If Bush’s theories of unlimited presidential power are carried much further, his dictatorship comment might end up looking less like a joke and more like evidence of premeditation. There will be little left of traditional American democracy, beyond perhaps periodic elections in which a thoroughly deceived or uninformed electorate traipses to the polls and pushes buttons on electronic voting machines that may or may not record the votes. Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek. http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/052306.html The Bush administration’s steady garroting of American liberties – already strangling the right to a fair trial and protections against warrantless searches – is now tightening its chokehold around the First Amendment’s guarantee of a free press and respect for Congress as a co-equal branch of government. Comments

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BELLACIAO - Should Noam Chomsky Reset His Compass? - William Hughes - Collective Bellaciao

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[political-researchp] Bloglines - Osama Bin Distractin

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Osama Bin Distractin By George Washington The day after the first national poll showed that 70 million Americans support a new 9/11 investigation, and 55% of Americans disapprove of the way in which the media has covered questions surrounding 9/11, what does the mainstream media do? They covered the poll, and apologized for their terrible coverage of the evidence that 9/11 was an inside job or allowed to happen on purpose! Finally, it only took them 4 and a half years, but they've finally started reporting the truth! Uh ... no. Instead, all of the major networks are ignoring the poll and instead running a story about how Osama directed 9/11. Specifically, the top story at all of the MSM websites is something like "Osama bin Laden says Zacarias Moussaoui had nothing to do with the 9/11 terrorists attacks", that Osama directed the 19 hijackers on exactly what to do, and crazy old Moussaoui wasn't one of them. How convenient of Osama to distract attention away from the poll. What a helpful chap. It doesn't matter that the Osama videos about 9/11 are fake, or that he might be dead. ... Don't look at the man behind the curtain, folks. Osama Bin Distractin, once again." Here's the original article.

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New York Daily News - World & National Report - 2 in CIA to testify Libby lied on leak

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[political-researchp] Bloglines - When you want war -- call BENADOR

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When you want war -- call BENADOR By Joseph The whiff of war pervades the air, and we all know what the first casualty is. emptywheel at the Next Hurrah notes that ...Judy is back on the Neocon payroll (or at least some faction thereof), and that John Bolton is pursuing regime change. And that, by association, Judy got her toes wet on the Iran warmongering at the same time as her former speakers bureau, Benador Associates, started placing outrageously fraudulent stories to justify a war. The reference is to Amir Taheri, the guy behind the recent propaganda yarn that Iran had passed a law to make Jews wear identifying insignia. From Greg Sargent at The Horse's Mouth: Meanwhile, Amir Taheri, the fellow who penned one of the original stories, has posted a press release on the site of his rep Benador Associates that is anything but a mea culpa. Taheri seems to be standing by the story, though he concedes that his "column was used as the basis for a number of reports that somehow jumped the gun." He doesn't address the small problem that the law appears to have made no mention of religious minorities, only saying that his "sources" are telling him that the ideas of special markers for followers of Judaism, Christianity and Zoroastrianism are "being discussed," though we're not told by whom. Obviously, Taheri still hopes to convince the gullible that his fiction is factual. Here is the web page for Benador. And here is a very revealing quote about Benador from the Asia Times of August 15, 2003 : When historians look back on the United States war in Iraq, they will almost certainly be struck by how a small group of mainly neo-conservative analysts and activists outside the administration were able to shape the US media debate in ways that made the drive to war so much easier than it might have been… But historians would be negligent if they ignored the day-to-day work of one person who, as much as anyone outside the administration, made their media ubiquity possible. Meet Eleana Benador, the Peruvian-born publicist for Perle, Woolsey, Michael Ledeen, Frank Gaffney and a dozen other prominent neo-conservatives whose hawkish opinions proved very hard to avoid for anyone who watched news talk shows or read the op-ed pages of major newspapers over the past 20 months. More: New York-based Benador Associates is less than two years old, but has a star-studded client roster of 38 people, most of them Middle East specialists. Benador estimates that she arranges for her clients each week between 15 and 30 interviews on US and foreign television. In the same period, she places an average of about five op-eds by them in the most influential newspapers, such as the Times, the Post, the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times. She acquired that kind of clout in two years? Such things do not happen by accident. Hard work alone won't do the trick. This woman is connected. I would bet that someone else -- some larger organization -- set up Benador. Her husband, you may be intrigued to learn, is a Swiss art dealer. I don't yet know his name, but I feel fairly sure that he owned the Galerie Benador in Geneva. He may be Emmanuel Benador, the Picasso expert. If that guess is correct, then perhaps Arianna Huffington -- who wrote a book about Picasso -- can tell us more about the Benadors. I wonder if Eleanor made her initial connections with neocon "parapoliticians" (if I may be allowed such a term) via her involvement in the art world? Incidentally, another Benador-linked neocon is the well-known propagandist Laurie Mylroie, who co-wrote a book on Saddam Hussein with Judith Miller. Dr. Barry Rubin, the proprietor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (often considered a MOSSAD front) is also in the Benador orbit. (Whaddya think of my headline? I told you I worked in advertising...!)

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[political-researchp] Bloglines - Iran Zonar: “Real Sign of a Disinformation Operation”

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Iran Zonar: “Real Sign of a Disinformation Operation” By Administrator on Uncategorized Juan Cole, president of the U.S. Middle East Studies Association and thorn in the side of neocons far and wide, has nailed it—the fake news story circulated last week accusing Iran of forcing Jews and other religious minorities to wear identifying badges, thus kindling imagery of Nazis and the Holocaust, was “typical of black psychological operations campaigns.” A former U.S. intelligence official, cited by journalist Jim Lobe, “described the article’s relatively obscure provenance as a ‘real sign of [a] disinformation operation,’” in fact a fairly transparent and crude “disinformation operation,” as I noted on the day the article appeared with disgusting fanfare in the corporate media. Naturally, the neocon press, most notably the New York Sun, refused to publish a retraction after it was demonstrated, without much effort, the story was gibberish (although it did mention the Iranian Embassy in Ottawa denied the report). As Lobe reminds us, the New York Sun “has consistently taken positions consistent with the right-wing Likud Party in Israel on Middle East issues.” Meanwhile, Amir Taheri, the Iranian neocon described as “a prominent Iranian journalist under the Shah” by the Financial Times, who initially floated the story in Canada’s neocon friendly National Post, stands by his story. “Regarding the dress code story it seems that my column was used as the basis for a number of reports that somehow jumped the gun. As far as my article is concerned I stand by it,” Taheri writes on the Benador Associates website. “I raised the issue not as a news story, because news of the new law was already several days old, but as an opinion column to alert the outside world to this most disturbing development.” In other words, it is Mr. Taheri’s opinion that the Iranian mullahs will force “followers of Judaism, Christianity and Zoroastrianism” to wear “special markers, known as zonnars” (a zonar is a belt or girdle which the Christians and Jews of the Levant were obliged to wear to distinguish them from Muslims, known as Mohammedans in the day). Taheri’s opinion, however, has absolutely no basis in reality, although the corporate media treated the baseless zonar accusation as a fait accompli (as they treated the neocon lies about Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction likewise). Benador Associates is a neocon clearing house of sorts, a public relations firm that handles the likes of Frank Gaffney, Richard Perle, Michael Ledeen, James Woolsey, and other members of the criminal neocon rabble. In order to put Taheri and Benador into perspective, consider the latter promoted “Khidhir Hamza, an Iraqi nuclear scientist who fled to the United States in the early 1990s, where he wrote a book claiming that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear bomb. When pressed on the issue, he denied saying that Iraq had a bomb, despite the fact that he says exactly that in his book’s opening pages” (see Catherine Auer, “A View from Inside,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March-April 2001). Hamza and the neocons should be walking the line in orange jumpsuits, convicted of facilitating war crimes of Nazi caliber, but instead they are allowed to walk free, and the neocons are emboldened to pedal more nonsense about Iran in a calculated lead-up to attacking that country. Meanwhile, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, no stranger to war crimes (under Clinton, she oversaw the murder of over 500,000 Iraqi children), has “suggested that an official high in the Bush administration should give a speech in response to a letter that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent” to Bush, a letter our appointed ruler apparently used as toilet paper. “The last thing we need is to invade another country,” Albright told an audience of 800 people during a speech earlier this month. Of course, it is not that Ms. Albright is morally opposed to mass murder and wanton slaughter, but rather that the “nation’s military forces are overstretched,” as the Associated Press notes. For the Straussian neocons, breaking the U.S. military is of little concern—in fact, it can be argued this is precisely what they intend to do, and thus pitch the nation into a larger conflagration, necessitating increased militarization of society and eventually conscription, otherwise known as bullet stopper slavery. As Paul Craig Roberts wrote in late 2004, the “neoconservative godfather Norman Podhoretz…. is worried that mounting U.S. casualties in Iraq and growing public doubt about the wisdom of the failed Iraq invasion will derail the scheme to conquer the Muslim Middle East and to deracinate Islam.” Podhoretz gives his assurances that “the obstacles to a benevolent transformation of the Middle East—whether military, political or religious—are not insuperable.” He writes that “there can be no question that we possess the power and the means.” The only question is whether we have “the stomach to do what will be required”…. To make sure that we have the stomach, Podhoretz blames the 9-11 terrorist attack on American cowardice. He argues that four U.S. presidents (Carter, Reagan, Bush I and Clinton) spent 24 years convincing Muslims that America is a wimp…. We will suffer more devastating attacks, Podhoretz says, unless we find the stomach to fight WW IV…. To pursue the insane agenda of conquering and occupying the Middle East not only requires the stomach for inhumane acts, but also demands millions of Americans taking up arms. Here come the draft and a generation of casualties. Of course, there is nothing “benevolent” about Podhoretz’s “transformation,” as it will arrive in the guise of cruise missiles, bunker-busters, depleted uranium, and possibly even the use of “mini-nukes” against Iran. In fact, the neocons hate Muslims of all stripes, as do their fascist Jabotinsky mentors in Israel, and wish only to sow destruction and misery within their societies. For as the late Israel Shahak warned in the foreword to Oded Yinon’s Zionist Plan for the Middle East, the “idea that all the Arab states should be broken down, by Israel, into small units, occurs again and again in Israeli strategic thinking,” and this cruel and criminal idea is at the center of the Straussian neocon ideology. Amir Taheri’s propaganda ploy against Iran—once again portraying Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the mullahs as latter-day Nazis determined to shove Jews in gas chambers and crematoria—is yet another entrée in the fetid pièce de résistance of the Straussian neocon plan to demonize all Muslims and eventually decimate their society and culture. No doubt, in the weeks ahead, we will endure more of this crude propaganda as the neocons prepare for a terrible shock and awe campaign against Iran, a plan designed not only to topple the mullahocracy but also transform American society into a warrior culture the neocons plan to use in their crusade against the enemies of Israel and the Jabotinsky Zionists. Comments

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[World News Headlines - FT.com] Zoellick 'ready to quit' White House

Robert Zoellick, the US deputy secretary of state, is preparing to leave the Bush administration and has held talks with Wall Street investment banks on job options, according to people close to the administration.
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Bin Laden says Moussaoui not part of Sept 11: tape�|�Reuters.com

Bin Laden says Moussaoui not part of Sept 11: tape�|�Reuters.com

This is too funny. Who is this wizard behind the curtain. Why didn't he want to let us in on the secret before this?

Muhammad wanted to �terrorize� - Crime & Punishment - MSNBC.com

Muhammad wanted to �terrorize� - Crime & Punishment - MSNBC.com

[UrukNet] - [Daily Information from Occupied Iraq] - [newsletter 23 May 2006 - Part One]

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What happened in Kurdish Halabja? ...Of course, if Saddam had ordered the gassing of his own Iraqi Kurds, even one who died of poison gas would be enough to convict. But the official reports of our own Intelligence Community conclude that there was an exchange of gas attacks between the Iraqi and Iranian armies at Halabja and those civilians who died were caught in a crossfire... and were most likely casualties of the Iranians, using a cyanide agent that the Iraqis were not known to possess. A Marine Corps repor! t of December 10, 1990, on chemical weapons used in the war also "finds no evidence whatsoever that the Iraqis have ever employed blood gasses," which the Army war college says were used by the Iranians and caused the civilian deaths at Halabja... (Jude Wanniski) Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23481 Massacre in Kandahar Eli Stephens, Left I on the News ...And here in Kandahar we have the same story repeating itself. The U.S. military says, "The purpose of this operation was to detain individuals suspected of terrorist and anti-Afghanistan activities." But it's kind of hard to "detain" people when you are dropping bombs on them from the air. The U.S. military also says, "These individuals were active members of the Taliban network and have conducted attacks against coalition and Afghan forces as well as civi! lians" (note how the word "suspected" suddenly disappears; between the last sentence and this one the individuals went from being "suspected" of certain activities to having "conducted attacks," no question about it). And to top it off, this was a night-time operation. The assertion that, even with the best night-vision goggles, a pilot could identify "individuals" is implausible to put it mildly (...) So "massacre" -- the murder of a group of people who were not in the process of fighting back -- is definitely the right word... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23479 Stinkin' yellow badges and Israel's Nuremberg Race Law Xymphora You have to wonder what the National Post was up to, when it published its amazing lying articles on alleged Iranian sumptuary laws involving identification of minority groups. By publishing the original front-page article with a huge picture from Nazi Germany (front page reprinted here and here, but the article itself appears to have disappeared; by the way, is there an uglier front page design in the world?), it explicitly connected the current Ir! anian government with Nazi Germany... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23474 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 22 May 2006 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. In a bulletin posted at 9pm Makkah time Monday night, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while earlier the Iraqi Resistance had opened fire on an American Apache helicopter gunship over the al-'Ubaydi area near al-Qa’im in western Iraq near the Syrian border. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the helicopter was struck by medium machinegun! fire as it was hovering at low altitude. The witnesses told Mafkarat al-Islam that the helicopter could be seen going down with smoke coming out of its underside. It made a forced landing in the al-Bu Jum'ah Gardens area... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23478 Sharon's Legacy in Action Prof Tanya Reinhart At the present, Western world seems still under the spell of the legend of Ariel Sharon, who, so the story goes, has brought a gigantic change in Israeli policy - from expansion and occupation to moderation and concessions a vision to be further implemented by his successor, Ehud Olmert. Since the evacuation of the Gaza Strip settlements, the dominant Western narrative has been that Israel has done its part towards ending the occupation and declared its readiness to ! take further steps, and that now it is the Palestinian’s turn to show that they are able to live in peace with their well intending neighbor. How did it happen that Sharon, the most brutal, cynical, racist and manipulative leader Israel has ever had, ended his political career as a legendary peace hero?... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23477 Palestinian Catastrophe: Myths Revisited Prof. Ramzy Baroud Palestinians and their faithful supporters throughout the world commemorated May 15, as Nakba Day, the day when Israel was declared a state atop the ruins of Palestinian homes and hundreds of ethnically cleansed towns and villages, 58 years ago. Many writers, mostly Palestinians, attempted to once again articulate a solid position, reinforce an alternative reading to an intentionally confused history, reminisce on what was lost and on the very little tha! t remains... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23476 GI Special 4E22: Last Letter Home - May 22, 2006 Thomas F. Barton Hours after he buried his soldier son, David Timmons Sr. said yesterday that people should ask questions about the war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. "I think I need answers," he said. "We ask questions, that's what America's all about." Army Spc. David "J.R." Timmons Jr., 23, of Lewisville was one of 10 soldiers killed May 5 in a helicopter crash in eastern Afghanistan. The soldiers were conducting combat operations in a mountainous area as par! t of a search for al-Qaida and Taliban militants. The Army is still investigating the crash. Timmons said that Army officials told the family that the helicopter crashed during a sandstorm... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23473 Implementing Israel’s Strategy Dr. Abbas Bakhtiar ,Pravda.ru ... This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq — an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right. Here we see that Israel’s strategy as presented in the document is the removal of Saddam Hussein from power. Israel could not do this on its own. But again Israel didn’t have to. United States achieved the strategic objective of Israel, without Israel spending a single dollar. So far Israel has achieved most of its main ob! jective except completely neutralising Hezbollah, Iran and Syria... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23469 The Storm over the Israel Lobby Michael Massing The nasty campaign waged against John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt has itself provided an excellent example of the bullying tactics used by the lobby and its supporters. The wide attention their argument has received shows that, in this case, those efforts have not entirely succeeded. Despite its many flaws, their essay has performed a very useful service in forcing into the open a subject that has for too long remained taboo... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23468 Iraq doctor brings evidence of US napalm at Fallujah Andra Jackson EVIDENCE to support controversial claims that napalm has been used by US forces in Iraq has been brought to Australia by an Iraqi doctor. Dr Salam Ismael, of the Baghdad-based group Doctors for Iraq, said the evidence pointed to the use of napalm on civilians during the second siege of Fallujah in November 2004. It is contained in film and photographs that doctors took of bodies they collected when they were finally allowed to enter the city after! being barred for three days of the military operation. "We said that napalm had been used, because napalm is a bomb which is a fuel bomb that burns only on the exposed part of the body, so that the clothes will not be affected," Dr Ismael said from Perth at the start of a speaking tour... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23466 Easily Dispensable: Iraq's Children Dahr Jamail ...That women and children suffer the most during times of war is not a new phenomenon. It is a reality as old as war itself. What Rumsfeld, Rice and other war criminals of the Cheney administration prefer to call "collateral damage" translates in English as the inexcusable murder of and other irreparable harm done to women, children and the elderly during any military offensive. US foreign policy in the Middle East manifests itself most starkly in its impact on the! children of Iraq. It is they who continue to pay with their lives and futures for the brutal follies of our administration. Starvation under sanctions, and death and suffering during war and occupation are their lot. Since the beginning of the occupation, Iraqi children have been affected worst by the violence generated by the occupying forces and the freedom fighters... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23465 Photographs From Iraq: May 1 - 20, 2006 combat - Indymedia A selection of recent photos from the war in Iraq.: Riots in Basra, resistance in Ramadi, killing everywhere. Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23464 To Impeach or not to Impeach-That shouldn’t even be a question! Ben Frank To anyone who has read the Constitution and and has any sort of need for justice, it has become blatatly obvious that the only way to uphold our Constitution and stop these criminals with sinister intentions is to Impeach Bush and Cheney immediately to stop them from committing any more atrocities, looting the treasury and prevent them from being in charge during any more national emergencies. We have been given a line of excuses as to why ! this hasn’t happened which goes something like this 1.We cannot impeach unless there is an investigation. 2. We cannot have an investigation unless we have a democratic majority... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23463 Don't Attack Iran petition delivered to White House - video, audio and photos available Charles Jenks, Traprock Peace Center On May 18th, hundreds rallied against war in Lafayette Park in front of the White House, and a large delegation led by Cindy Sheehan delivered the Don't Attack Iran petition, with over 42,000 signatures, to the White House. Administration officials would not take the petition from the delegation, so the delegation left the petition at the gate. Watch videos of this historic event, including! the dramatic delivery of the petition to the White House, download mp3 audio of the rally and see the 75 photograph album of the rally and petition delivery at http://www.traprockpeace.org/iran_petition_video.html... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23462 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.