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E-1: The Untold MAJOR Ethnic Cleansing Project in Jerusalem (Al Quds) Saracen A friend of mine and I were talking over this topic the other day. It concerns a major and almost untold project involving the silent annexation of Eastern Jerusalem by the Zionist state. The project has been titled "E1", named after the urban land bridge that would connect East Jerusalem with the settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, and concerns the major West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Adumim. This is a settlement that Israel has repeatedly re! fused to dismantle. During the farce that was the Gaza "pullout", the Israelis got enough of the media diversion they needed in order to underhandedly speed up this project of settlement expansion and outrightly illegal land acquisition... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25830 Why do the Israelis Continue its Crimes of Destruction Murder and Robbery Hayam Noir /PalestineFreeVoice During the past five weeks the world have been able to watch the full scale of Israeli capabilties of criminal terrorism - their havok of Lebanons fragile infrastructure - Television teams from every corner of the world have exposed from the frontlines every minute of the day. On the contrary the Palestinians on Palestine territories have suffered under decades, from Israeli terror under exactely the same cond! itions and even so much worse - with a few exeptions no TV teams have been reporting what the the Zionists are capable of to the outside world... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25833 Video To Lebanon with love Israeli Watch Or how Israel’s paper trail of mass destruction, annihilation, chaos and leaving civillians with no basic infrastructure in Beirut, since everything decent has actually gone up in smoke…. Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25832 Vaseline, Letters from al-Qaeda, and a Pack of Matches Kurt Nimmo Never mind that the suspects in the British "terror plot" were not in possession of bombs, or airline tickets, and some of them didn’t even have passports. "I have a feeling that all the Muslims detained in connection with the recent police operation to foil and alleged plot are innocent and will soon be proven so," writes Azzam Tamimi, director of the Institute of Islamic Political Thought in London. "I also suspect that the entire episode has bee! n deemed, despite its enormous cost, to be of utility to a government that is increasingly out of touch with reality and seriously short of public support and sympathy. I wonder whether this was also intended to smear the image of Islam and the Muslims at the time when the entire world can see that they are the victims of a most unjust world order dominated by the USA and the UK who both support and sponsor Israeli terrorism against Muslims in Palestine and Lebanon and who both oppress the Muslim peoples of Afghanistan and Iraq through direct occupation…." Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25850 With the Israeli army's invincibility myth shattered, it's time to address the other Zionist myths Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, Online Journal Contributing Writer On Saturday, the son of Israeli peace activist and famous novelist David Grossman was killed in action in South Lebanon. I grieved for this man and his son (who was my son’s age -- 20), and I reflected on the futility of wars. How does one assess the latest Israeli adventure taking the lives of 1,000 Lebanese civilians and 53 Israeli civilians (and 104 soldiers! ) and devastating Lebanon? Is there anything positive that could come out of this debacle? Or will Israeli forces simply continue the "routine" rampage, killings, and home demolitions (which have been ongoing in Gaza and the West Bank)?... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25829 Why don't those Palestinians just protest peacefully? Eli Stephens, Left I on the News People trying to be "even-handed," and criticize Palestinians and Israelis alike, often distance themselves from the Palestinians (and Hizbollah) by asking why they don't just protest non-violently, you know, like Gandhi? Well, aside from the fact that there is no equivalence between the violence of the oppressed and the violence of the oppressor, there are very practical reasons why Palestinians eschew the "non-violent" road -! because it's frequently met with Israeli violence. Rachel Corrie and Tom Hurndall are just two names well-known to those of us in the West because they were Westerners; they weren't the first and they won't be the last to be killed while protesting non-violently against Israeli actions. Now you can add the names of Rina Klauman and Lymor Goldstein to the list (fortunately not yet to the list of those who have died)... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25822 The A B C of politics for the Dummies Imad Khadduri, Free Iraq "President Bush made clear in a private meeting this week that he was concerned about the lack of progress in Iraq and frustrated that the new Iraqi government — and the Iraqi people — had not shown greater public support for the American mission, participants in the meeting said Tuesday. Those who attended a Monday lunch at the Pentagon that included the president’s war cabinet and several outside experts said Mr. Bush carefully avoided expressing a ! clear personal view of the new prime minister of Iraq, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25821 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 16 August 2006 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice ...In a dispatch posted at 1pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that fierce fighting broke out in several neighborhoods of al-Mawsil in northern Iraq between Iraqi Resistance fighters and Iraqi puppet police. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses in the city as saying that the combat erupted in the al-Yarmuk! neighborhood of southwestern al-Mawsil when Resistance fighters attacked the puppet police station in the neighborhood in an attempt to seize control of it. Fighting then spread to the al-Mawsil al-Jadidah district and the Suq al-Ma'ash area in the east of the city. Witnesses said that the sheep market, al-Muthanna district, the al-'Amil neighborhood and most neighborhoods of western al-Mawsil also were the scenes of fighting, as Resistance men armed with light and medium weapons engaged the puppet police... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25820 Cops Arrest AFP Journalist Christopher Bollyn Kurt Nimmo "I was harassed, beaten, and shocked with a Tazer-like gun in my front yard before my wife and children, and then abused for 6 hours by the ADL-trained local police," explains American Free Press journalist and Republic Broadcast Network talk show host Christopher Bollyn on the RBN website. "I have every reason to believe it is because of my journalistic investigation into 9/11. I have been threatened before in my career as a journalist, but this is the fir! st time I have been intentionally beaten and abused—by the cops…. I intend to seek asylum in Norway or Switzerland. I can read the writing on the wall." Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25819 "Look What You've Done!" AIPAC Congratulates Itself on the Slaughter in Lebanon JOHN WALSH "My fellow American," Howard Friedman, President of AIPAC, begins his letter of July 30 to friends and supporters of AIPAC, "Look what you've done"! After warning that "Israel is fighting a pivotal war for its life," by which he means Israel's wanton slaughter and all-out destruction in Lebanon, Freiedman condemns "the expected chorus of international condemnation of Israel's actions" and Europe's call for "a cea! se-fire immediately." Then he exults: "only ONE nation in the world came out and flatly declared: Let Israel finish the job. . That nation is the United States of America--and the reason it had such a clear, unambiguous view of the situation is YOU and the rest of America Jewry." (All emphases in the original here and below.) Here I must take issue with President Friedman since I bet that most Jewish Americans, in contrast to the AIPAC crowd, were horrified by the slaughter in Lebanon. In fact if anyone other than President Friedman wrote this, he would be accused of fabricating a Jewish plot and labeled a nutty conspiracy theorist and scurrilous anti-semite.)... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25818 APPENDIX II: INDEX ON WEAPONS IN LEBANON: WAR CRIMES in LEBANON and PALESTINE Sarah Meyer, INDEX RESEARCH ..."Thirty-six-year-old Khuder Gazali, an ambulance driver whose arm was blown off by an Israeli rocket, told IPS that his ambulance was hit (NB: War Crime) while trying to rescue civilians whose home had just been bombed. … On way to the hospital an Israeli Apache helicopter hit his ambulance with a rocket, severely injuring him and the four people in the back of the vehicle, he said. "So then another ambula! nce tried to reach us to rescue us, but it too was bombed by an Apache, killing everyone inside it," he said. … A 43-year-old man from Durish Zhair village south of Tyre lay at the Labib Medical Centre with multiple shrapnel wounds and half his body blackened by fire. "Please tell them to stop using white phosphorous," he said"... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25817 Israel's freeze of familiy unification in the Occupied Territories splits tens of thousands of Palestinian families Report, B'Tselem/HaMoked Today, B'Tselem and HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual, are publishing Perpetual Limbo, a report on Israel 's policy freezing family unification for Palestinians in the Occupied Territories . Although the policy affects almost every Palestinian family living in the Occupied Territories , it is unknown to the Israeli public. For almost six years, since the begi! nning of the second intifada, in September 2000, Israel has forbidden Palestinians of the Occupied Territories from living with their spouses who are foreign residents. Israel also prohibits the foreign family members from visiting the Occupied Territories. Israel refuses to process the more than 120,000 requests for family unification that have been submitted during this period... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25815 APPENDIX TO ILLEGAL WEAPONS IN LEBANON Sarah Meyer, INDEX RESEARCH The following is an update of source material for Index on Illegal US Weapons in Lebanon. (30.07.06.) (...) "Bush is now rushing depleted uranium (DU) bombs to Israel. … Laser guided GBU-28 bunker penetration bombs and much of the tank ammunition, such as M829 A1 shells, have DU penetrators built into them. What is even more galling is the likelihood that Rakon NZ probably manufactured the software to guide these obscene weapons… The silence of mo! st of the media is deafening over this increasing menace to our global atmosphere."... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25814 Speech of President Bashar al-Assad at Journalists Union 4th Conference ...We meet today when the Middle East they aspire to and which is based on submission, humiliation and on depriving peoples of their identities and their rights, has become an illusion. It has actually turned into a popular uprising throughout the Arab world, an uprising which is pan-Arab by nature, characterized by dignity and the rejection of all pretexts and excuses for keeping us submissive so that we are killed in silence in the same w! ay that sacrifices used to be offered in the past to avoid the wrath of the gods. But offering sacrifices in the past was considered a form of wisdom. So, are we supposed to adhere to that wisdom today? And does wisdom have a meaning if it was separated from courage?... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25813 GI Special 4H16: Payback Come Soon - August 16, 2006 Thomas F. Barton [O]n May 20 US group Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) issued a statement that explained: "The massacre at Haditha is not an exception to the situation in Iraq, it is a punctuation mark in a longer atrocity, the war itself." The statement said that foreign troops "cannot simultaneously be empathetic to population and be obliged to control that same population by pointing guns at them, breaking into their homes, turning them into collateral damage, and taking vengeance on them out of the inevitable frustration of fighting an urban counter-insurgency". Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25812 Lebanese deaths, and Israeli war crimes, kept off the balance sheet Jonathan Cook During Israel’s war against the people of Lebanon, our media, politicians and diplomats have colluded with the aggressors by distracting us with irrelevancies, by concocting controversies, and by framing the language of diplomacy. In the fragile truce that is currently holding while Lebanon waits for Israel to withdraw, we are simply getting more of the same. One example of the many distractions during the war that neatly reveals th! eir true purpose is the "faked Reuters photograph" affair. The supposed scandal of a Lebanese photographer tampering with a picture to add and darken smoke from an Israeli missile attack -- to little or no effect, it should be noted -- has not only been decried by activists on Zionist websites but amplified by mainstream commentators into a debate about whether we can trust the images of this war... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25811 Israel threatens to resume Lebanon operation Independent Online Israel will resume operations in Lebanon if a United Nations force being assembled to deploy in the south of that country does not disarm Hezbollah fighters, the Jerusalem Post daily reported Wednesday, quoting "an official in the prime minister's office." The Israeli warning comes in reaction to reports in the Israeli media that Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Sinora reached a deal with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah allowing the militant group to ! retain its weapons but to refrain from exhibiting them in public... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25810 Israeli forces demolish home with family still inside, father and son killed Ma'an News Khan Younis-Ma'an-A Palestinian father, 65 and his son, 45, were killed and another 2 seriously injured in an Israeli air strike on a home in Sheikh Nasser, east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, an activist affiliated to the Al Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, was killed and another one arrested during an armed clash in Al Farahin, east of Khan Younis. Medical sources at the! Nasser hospital said that Hasan Sha'ath, 65, and his son Ibrahim, 45, who were killed in the air strike, were totally dismembered when they were brought to the hospital. They said that the two injured people wwere in a critical condition... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25809 Humanitarian Disaster in Gaza: "People are crying, hungry, thirsty, and desperate" Urgent Appeal from Churches in Gaza Father Manuel Musallam, GlobalResearch.ca The current situation in the Gaza Strip is descending precipitously into a serious humanitarian disaster. Caritas Jerusalem operates a medical centre in the Gaza Strip as well as a mobile medical clinic. Our medical centre also engages in numerous local and regional health campaigns to help build the health capacity of families and children in ! Gaza through project activities conducted in schools and community based organizations. We also undertake social and educational assistance programs as well as programs and direct assistance for catastrophic medical care cases in Gaza... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25808 Israeli Chief of Staff involved in Insider Trading prior to ordering War on Lebanon Globalresearch.ca This Report from Israel suggests that there was Insider Trading prior to the aerial bomb attacks on Lebanon. Chief of Staff Dan Halutz, however, was not the only person who had prior knowledge of the war on Lebanon. The war on Lebanon was part of a broader US sponsored military agenda. Further investigation into this matter is required... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25807 We will combat your bloodthirsty god! Al Nasser Bi Ismillah, Al Moharer - Iraq patrol ...You sold our Iraq to the Evil You the puppets The stooges of your western masters! Thousands scores we have to set together! And by God almighty we will prevail! Triumphant we are! This is Baghdad, you who sold Baghdad! Baghdad will return! Baghdad will come back more delicious than a dream, proud like a date palm!... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25831 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.

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[UrukNet] - [Daily Information from Occupied Iraq] - [newsletter 15 Aug 2006 - part two]

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A SCORE CARD Tony Sayegh Israeli Objective--------------------- Score (0-10) 1) Kill Hasan Nasrallah -----------------------------------------0 2) Prevent Missile Firing On Israel, In Retaliation--------------0 3) Occupy The Area South Of The Litani---------------------------0 4) Push Hizbullah North Of The Litani----------------------------0 5) Turn The Lebanese And The Arabs Against Hizbullah-------------0 6) Destroy The Military Capability Of Hizbullah------------------0 7) Disarm Hizbullah----------------------------------------------0.... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25806 Gullible Americans Paul Craig Roberts I was in China when a July Harris Poll reported that 50 percent of Americans still believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when Bush invaded that country and that 64 percent of Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein had strong links with al-Qaida. The Chinese leaders and intellectuals with whom I was meeting were incredulous. How could a majority of the population in an allegedly free country with an allegedly free press be so totally misinformed?... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25804 Will Mossad Ignite a War with Syria by Killing Fouad Siniora? John Brown, Savage Justice Since the sham cease-fire took hold in Southern Lebanon two days ago - a ceasefire in which the UN allows Apartheid Israel to freely blockade, murder and pillage the same Lebanese whose land it occupies while crying about Hizbullah's arms - the Zionist propaganda site DEBKA has written several articles suggesting that an attempt on the life of Lebanon's Prime Minister, Fouad Siniora, is imminent. As one would predict from suc! h a propaganda outfit, DEBKA claims to have anonymous sources who assert that Syria will carry out the assassination. But in the wake of a great victory for the Resistance that has rendered "the Middle East they (the Americans) aspire to... an illusion," in the words of President Bashar Assad, such an attack makes no sense from Syria's perspective. With Lebanon's pro-West Prime Minister already emaciated by the failed Zionist invasion, Syria has nothing to gain by assassinating him... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25802 Israel to Lebanese: don't return to your homes. Lenin's Tomb Israel's latest leaflets: "We warn you not to head to the southern regions before the deployment of the forces that are supposed to safeguard your security," said leaflets dropped by Israeli aircraft in south Lebanon on Tuesday. Nevertheless: Despite the warning, Thousands of vehicles jammed the bombed-out coastal highway linking Beirut to the south from the early hours of Tuesday as thousands of displaced people headed home. Because what! are the Israelis going to do?... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25801 When 3 Thousand Die in U.S., It's a Horrific Tragedy. When It Happens in Iraq, it's Just Another Day in Paradise. Cut to the Chase How strange double standards can be. When nearly 3,000 people died in New York, Washington D.C., and a field in Pennsylvania on September 11th, 2001, it was an unspeakable tragedy and one worth launching world wars over and committing atrocity after atrocity. But when it happens in just one city in just one month in Iraq, it's hardly worth mentioning. Why is that? And why do we allow ! it to happen? What makes American lives priceless but Iraqi deaths.. or Lebanese or Palestinians... so acceptable? And no, this question is not rhetorical.bFrom today's New York Times: More Iraqi civilians were killed in July than in apparently any other month of the war, according to Iraqi Health Ministry and morgue statistics, despite a security plan begun by the new government in June. An average of more than 110 Iraqis were killed per day in July, according to figures from the Health Ministry and the Baghdad morgue... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25799 At 9:30 tonight, Iraq takes longer than WW II Ironing the Flag.... We're counting from the day Germany declared war on the US (December 11, 1941) to VE day (May 8, 1945). This is 1244 days. The Invasion of Iraq began on March 20, 2003 at 21:34 EST when the US began their first air strike on Baghdad. On August 15, 2006 21:30 EST the United States will have been at war in Iraq longer than it was at war with Germany in World War II... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25798 Operation "Change of Location"? How Reports of the July 12th Capture of IDF Soldiers Soon Shifted From Lebanon to Israel TRISH SCHUH A team of Israeli lawyers is now suing the Lebanese government for starting the war. The case, to be filed in US civil court, will sue for compensation and damages incurred by Israeli residents and businesses as a result of the war. Attorneys Yehudah Talmon, Yoram Dantziger and Nitzah Libai claim the Lebanese government violated international law because it didn't stop He! zbollah's casus belli cross-border raid against Israel. Israel's justification for its 'self-defense' attack on Lebanon, and the placement of the original "provocation" will take on new legal significance in coming months. Who infiltrated whom, and on what territory did the initial capture of the IDF soldiers occur? Differing press accounts stating that the capture occurred in Lebanon- not Israel- are now widely known: most frequently cited are AFP, Hindustan Times, Deutsch Press Agency, Asia Times, Bahrain News Agency and Voltairenet. Others reflect changes of direction in the recording of basic facts. Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25797 Muslims don’t hate freedom, they hate oppression Khalid Amayreh ...Bush’s use of the term "Islamic fascists" is a very serious calumny that can be compared to Adolph Hitler’s deliberate vilification of Jews prior to WWII. It is designed to make people hate and murder Muslims. And as everyone knows, collective hatred toward a specific ethnic or religious community is only the penultimate step toward the systematic persecution and possible extermination of that community. Yes, there are Muslim extremists and terror! ists who ought to be condemned in the strongest terms. There are also Christian, Jewish and other terrorists who commit far worse acts of terror and criminality. Terrorists are terrorists because terror has no religion or particular ethnic or cultural identity. George Bush himself, if truth is be told, is probably the greatest terrorist of our time... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25796 Finally, an American news source pays attention to the victims of the Israeli war of aggression on Lebanon The Angry Arab News Service Finally, an American news source pays attention to the victims of the Israeli war of aggression on Lebanon: "Israeli zoo animals show signs of stress" ... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25795 The Yugoslav Caldron: Jürgen Elsässer: "The CIA recruited and trained the jihadists" Silvia Cattori, Signs of the Times In his latest book, How the Jihad Came to Europe, German journalist Jürgen Elsässer unravels the Jihadist thread. Muslim fighters recruited by the CIA to fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan were used successively in Yugoslavia and Chechnya, still supported by the CIA, but perhaps sometimes out of its control. Basing himself on diverse sources, mainly Yugoslavian, Dutch, and German, h! e reconstructed the development of Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants at the side of NATO in Bosnia-Herzegovinia... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25794 Flying without liquids Xymphora ...We will continue to be fooled by the politicians as long as they need to hide behind the 'war on terror’ in order to stay in power. In this case, we have upcoming American elections coupled with Tony’s pressing problem of unpopular support for Israel’s massacre of Lebanese civilians. Therefore, everyone else gets to pay with increasing inconvenience at the airports. The joke is that the inconvenience stays at its highest levels until the airline executives manage to get their! phone calls through to the politicians, when suddenly the terrorist threat is reduced a shade or two, just in time to save the airlines from bankruptcy. This political scam can continue as long as we agree to put up with it... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25800 www.uruknet.info: a site gathering daily information concerning occupied Iraq: news, analysis, documents and texts of iraqi resistance available in Italian and English.

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Rules for reporting on the war Stephen Gowans ...Still, the deception, helped along by the frequent invoking of the red herring of Israel’s right to self defense, is that Hezbollah is attacking Israel. Sure, Israel has a right to self defense, but what does that have to do with this war? Nazi Germany had a right to self defense too, but that didn’t include invading Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, the Soviet Union and on and on. The standard operating procedure, where Israel is concerned, is to turn the ! truth on its head. And the chief truth inverter is the Western media. Rule #1. The "who started it?" rule. It is always the Arabs who attack first, and always Israel that retaliates in self defense. The current Israeli assault on Gaza is attributed to the capture (called a kidnapping) of corporal Gilad Shalit, by a group of Palestinians who tunnelled under the border and attacked an Israeli watchtower. But the day before Shalit’s capture, Israeli forces crossed into Gaza and captured (that’s captured, not kidnapped) a Palestinian doctor and his brother. Israel has kidnapped 64 Hamas members, including cabinet ministers, mayors and legislators. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Rule #2. The terrorism rule. When Arabs kill Israelis, it’s called terrorism. Rule #3. The self defense rule. When Israelis kill Arabs, it’s called self defense. Rule # 4. The reaction of the international community rule. When Israel kills too many civilians all at once, the West calls for restr! aint. Israel pledges it will take care to limit civilian casua! lties, t hen goes about its merry way, blasting apart civilians, blaming the deaths on the militants. "We had to take out the civilians. They were in the way. But we didn’t mean to"... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25790 Pitch Black Void Manuel Valenzuela ...The cabal, it must be understood, is comprised of pure blooded authoritarians, corporatist (fascists) tyrants that care not one ounce for the well-being of the population. To them we are but mere peasants, nothing but peons and pawns and patsies relegated to playing the grand game of geopolitical and greed-mongering chess, doing our part to advance the neocon Machiavelli wet dream of imperial hegemony. The death of 3,000 citizens means nothing to these monsters, much like the! murder of 250,000 Iraqis or the death of 2,600 American soldiers. The Bush cabal is made up of madmen and monsters, incapable of living in reality or of understanding truth, yet tyrannical enough to create a new Pearl Harbor through the controlled demolition of the Twin Towers (not to mention WTC 7 and a strike on the Pentagon). They dwell in an infallible bubble of make believe and of unrealistic theories, a land of Kool-Aid drinkers and dependents of delusional cocktails... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25781 Despite US forces, the real power in Iraq is Iran Mustafa Alani Iran's interventionist policy in Iraq has a long history. Tehran's objective to influence developments in Iraq has been motivated by a number of strategic factors, as well as cultural and religious interests. The most important is that the history of the two nations has been characterized by a near permanent state of rivalry and political-military conflict (...) Yet despite over 20 years of effort, and despite unlimited Iranian and Syrian political, ! financial and military support and propaganda, none of these Iraqi Shiite groups proved capable of posing a serious threat to the Iraqi regime. During the course of the Iraq-Iran war (1980-1988), the Iranian leadership mobilized the pro-Iranian, mainly Shiite Iraqi parties - the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq and Al-Daawa - to support Iran's military efforts in the hope of achieving victory. These two parties helped Iran with vital intelligence from Iraq, and their cadres participated in Iranian military operations along the border. This failed, and until the US-led invasion of Iraq in April 2003, Iranian strategy to intervene in Iraq had proved to be a complete failure. By mid-2002, the balance began to tip in Iran's favor with the escalation of the Iraqi-US confrontation. The Iranian leadership accurately judged the seriousness of this looming confrontation. Thus, while the Bush administration was engaged in plotting the removal of the Iraqi regime, th! e Iranian leadership was busy planning how Tehran could strate! gically gain from any US adventure in Iraq... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25779 Another 'Mission Accomplished' Moment? Dan Froomkin, Washington Post President Bush's startling assertion yesterday -- that at the end of 33 days of warfare between Israel and the Hezbollah militia, Hezbollah had been defeated -- once again raises questions about his ability to acknowledge reality when things don't turn out the way he intended. Here, from the transcript of his appearance at the State Department, are his exact words: "Hezbollah started the crisis, and Hezbollah suffered a defeat in this crisis. An! d the reason why is, is that first, there is a new -- there's going to be a new power in the south of Lebanon, and that's going to be a Lebanese force with a robust international force to help them seize control of the country, that part of the country." My first question: Did he really mean to say that?... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25792 DAILY WAR NEWS FOR TUESDAY, August 15, 2006 Today in Iraq Fierce gunbattles broke out Tuesday between armed supporters of an anti-U.S. Shiite cleric and Iraqi security forces after a raid on his office in this southern holy city, leaving many people injured, officials and witnesses said. The two sides exchanged gunfire near one of Iraq's holiest shrines containing the mausoleum of Imam Hussein, a revered figure in Shiite history. The fighting, which began early Tuesday, spread to at least four other parts of Karb! ala by afternoon in violation of a curfew. Gunmen in civilian clothes could be seen firing AK-47 rifles, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades at army patrols and running away. A Karbala Health Directorate official said six people were killed and five people were wounded in the clashes in Karbala. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to journalists. The fighting spread over at least five neighborhoods of Karbala around the office of Mahmoud al-Hassani, a cleric who came into prominence after the ouster of Saddam Hussein in 2003... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25791 Discourse of the Mean Spirits: False Mantras, Euphemisms and Naked Hypocrisy Paul de Rooij, www.dissidentvoice.org ..."Israel has the right to defend herself" has certainly been one of the most often repeated insufferable mantras. In recent weeks, nearly all US Congressmen and Senators are on record stating this, and none did so in a more craven fashion than US Senator Hillary Clinton. [1] A bit of context may be useful to interpret this mantra. What these Congressmen and Senators are justifying is not the "defen! se" of Israel, but an obscene Israeli war of aggression that may actually destroy an entire country. When General Dan Halutz, the Israeli military supremo, states that Israeli bombing is going to turn back the clock twenty years on Lebanon, then it is very clear what this war is about: terrorizing the civilian population (a.k.a, "draining the swamp"), destroying villages, creating hundreds of thousands of refugees, demolishing the infrastructure (electricity generators, telephone exchanges, water filtration and pumps), demolishing key industrial plants (milk factories, pharmaceutical plants), bombing refugee camps, dropping 24 tons of explosives on a populated area [2]… this constitutes war crimes (or worse), and the generals and politicians responsible for this belong in a war crimes tribunal... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25788 Hezbollah’s Victory and the Coming Shock and Awe of Iran Kurt Nimmo It is said the United States has "scaled-back" its "expectations" now that the United Nations has declared a "ceasefire" in Lebanon. "The U.N. agreement is only the most recent example in which Bush’s second-term doctrine of spreading freedom has run into the realities of international and domestic politics," notes the Baltimore Sun. Actually, Bush’s doctrine, which has nothing to do with democracy as most people understand the word, ran into the! reality of Hezbollah, the most effective resistance movement in the world. Israel’s defeat at the hands of the Shia resistance group, forged and tempered into steel hard resolve over many years by the experience of a brutal Israeli occupation, has dashed the "expectations" of the neocons, who are cut from the same cloth as the Jabotinksyite fascists in Israel. Consumed with racist hubris, both the Israelis and the American neocons expected a decisive victory over Hezbollah. But it didn’t work out that way... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25793 Neo-Cons, Nabobs and Empire It's Bigger Than the Neo-Cons CHRIS FLOYD It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it: it's time to take up the cudgels for the poor neo-cons. Day after day, these dedicated public intellectuals and hardworking federal officials are calumnied from coast to coast, accused of every crime under the sun. Who misled us into the bloodsoaked mire of Iraq? Who's pulling strings to foment a new war with Iran? Who's fanning the flames of Israel's assault on Lebanon, hoping to turn th! e entire Middle East into an arc of "creative destruction" that will transform the region into a pacified, profitable oasis of American power? Why, the neo-cons, of course, guilty on every count--or so we're told... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25786 What about Gaza and the rest of occupied Palestine? American-Palestinian New Generation For the past month, Gaza and occupied Palestine have fallen off newspaper front pages and mostly out of everyone's' imagination while Lebanon was being devastated by the Israelis. During the entire month of the Lebanon-Israel war, the residents of Gaza, the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem, continued to feel the cruel and relentless wrath of the occupying Israelis. It is likely that even greater damage was dealt to both civili! ans and infrastructure while the world was focused on Lebanon. It is now time to refocus equal attention on Palestine and Lebanon and let the momentum of a United Nations resolution--meant to protect the civilian populations on both sides of the border--reinvigorate the many existing resolutions calling for justice for Palestinian residents and refugees in the land of Palestine... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25785 Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 15 August 2006 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. In a dispatch posted at 7:50pm Makkah time Tuesday evening, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while earlier a US warplane struck a house in ar-Ramadi, about 110km west of Baghdad. The ar-Ramadi correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported a medical source as saying that the American air raid killed four civilians: a man, his wife and their two children,! both under five years of age. The source said that victims were a Sunni family that had fled from the rampant sectarian kidnappings and murders in the southern city of al-Basrah... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25784 Home Front: Dispatches from the War on America CHRIS FLOYD While your attention has been diverted by the proxy war in Lebanon, the civil war in Iraq, the still-hot shootin' war in Afghanistan and the coming war with Iran, the Bush Regime been busy waging -- and winning -- another take-no-prisoners, give-no-quarter conflict right in the sacred Homeland itself: class war (...)Dispatches from the Bush Faction's war on America come in every day, piecemeal, the dots rarely if ever connected. Last week saw a bumper cro! p of precision strikes, hitting an array of some of the Regime's favorite targets: the cannon fodder they've used up in their wars of crony conquest then tossed aside like so much bad meat; the two million Americans that have been clapped behind bars by the Bush Regime -- more prisoners both in sheer numbers and percentage of the population than any nation on earth; and those ever-popular punching bags, the unwealthy sick... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25783 My love and gratitude Hanady Salman ...We will be fine, I hope. We will burry our dead, the way they deserve to be buried, we will remember them as long as we live. We will tell their stories to our children; they will tell their own children the story: the story of a great people, one that never lost faith despite all the crimes, pains and injustices. One that started rebuilding the minute the fighting stopped. Rebuilding although they know that the enemy might destroy everything again, as it did so many times ! before. We will also tell them the stories of our enemy : how they killed our children , our elderly , how they hit us from the air, from the sea and from the ground and how we prevailed. How they starved our families in their villages, killed them on the roads, bombed their houses, their shelters, their hospitals, they even bombed vans carrying bread to them; and how in return we did not give up... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25782 Weak, Passive, Distracted What Next for the American Antiwar Movement? TODD CHRETIEN ...Therefore the anti-war movement must prepare for a new round of mobilizations this fall and be prepared to respond to new emergencies. Three-and-a-half years after the invasion of Iraq, the anti-war movement must put itself on a new footing. We must build a movement that stands for self-determination, rejects vilification of Islam and openly embraces Arabs and Muslim forces, fights to cut ties with Israel and severs! its allegiance to the Democratic Party. This will not happen overnight, but the people of Lebanon and Gaza have paid too high a price in their own blood for us to not take these lessons to heart here in the belly of the beast.... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25780 The UK Terror plot: what's really going on? Craig Murray I have been reading very carefully through all the Sunday newspapers to try and analyse the truth from all the scores of pages claiming to detail the so-called bomb plot. Unlike the great herd of so-called security experts doing the media analysis, I have the advantage of having had the very highest security clearances myself, having done a huge amount of professional intelligence analysis, and having been inside the spin machine. So this, I believe, is the! true story. None of the alleged terrorists had made a bomb. None had bought a plane ticket. Many did not even have passports, which given the efficiency of the UK Passport Agency would mean they couldn't be a plane bomber for quite some time... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25778 An Open Letter to George W. Bush on Lebanon Telling the Israelis to "Take Your Time" RALPH NADER The widespread destruction of a defenseless Lebanon-its civilians, its life-sustaining public services, its environment-is a grim and indelible testament to your consummate cruelty and ignorance. Nearly two weeks ago when your tardy Secretary of State met with the Israeli Prime Minister, the message she carried was summarized in a large headline across page one of an Israeli newspaper, "TAKE YOUR TIME." Yes,! take your time, says George W. Bush, pulverizing fleeing refugees in cars full of families, bombing apartment buildings, hospitals and the poor huddled in large south Beirut slums. Take your time, says George W. Bush, in destroying bridges, roads, gasoline stations, airports, seaports, wheat silos, vehicles with medical supplies, clearly marked ambulances taking the wounded to clinics, even a milk factory... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25777 GI Special 4H15: 172nd Betrayed Again - August 15, 2006 Thomas F. Barton About 300 Alaska-based soldiers sent home from Iraq just before their unit's deployment was extended last month must now go back, the Army said Monday, setting up a wrenching departure for troops and families who thought their service there was finished. The soldiers — all from the 172nd Stryker Brigade — are among the 380 troops who had gotten home to Fort Wainwright when Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld ordered the unit to serve four more months. The remaining 80 will not have to return to Iraq. Army officials have sent a team of personnel and pay experts to Alaska to help sort out all of the soldiers' vacations, school enrollments and other plans torn apart by the decision to return them to Iraq. The unit is now being stationed in Baghdad, one of the most violent parts of the country. Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25774 Cheney orchestrated Israel’s losing war Michael Carmichael, Globalresearch.ca Dick Cheney orchestrated Israel’s losing war against Hizbullah by authorizing George Bush and Condoleezza Rice to encourage Ehud Olmert to launch the war against Lebanon as a prelude to America’s forthcoming war against Iran. Following briefings from top Israeli military officials, Cheney approved plans for an air war against Lebanon as a preliminary move to disarm Hizbullah in advance of America’s broader military objective - to launch! an air war against Iran. Had the US launched its war against Iran without Olmert’s intervention in Lebanon, Hizbullah would have been free to attack Israel. Cheney’s plan was designed to disarm Hizbullah, but it was based on what now appears to have been a false assumption - that Israel would win their war in Lebanon... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25775 ‘a thousand PR experts can't turn failure into victory’ The Truth Will Set You Free Taken alone, the statement is true enough. But, who said it - and in what context? [Israeli] MK Aryeh Eldad responded to the ceasefire which took effect this morning: "With the ceasefire taking effect, the government of Israel has gone on a public relations offensive, but a thousand public relations experts cannot turn failure into victory. To him, a ceasefire is not a genuine effort at peaceful resolution for the sake of ! ending bloodshed, but rather a tactical public relations stunt calculated to polish a victory that, in his mind, does not exist... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25776 GI Special 4H14: " There Are Insurgents Everywhere" - August 14, 2006 Thomas F. Barton As the summer wears on in Iraq, the attacks on Ramadi's government center are subsiding. But rising in their place are the heat, the boredom and the complaints — about the sandbags Marines must carry, about the Ramadi mission, about the war. Marines often brag that their mission is to kill people and break their toys. But for the Marines of Kilo Company, stuck on the roof of Ramadi's government center and Iraqi police headquarters, simply killing insurgents doesn't feel like progress. And so the frustration rises with the mercury for these troops, most on their second deployment to Iraq and their second summer in Al Anbar province's scorching desert. Insurgents have regularly attacked the government center, trying to prevent the provincial government from functioning. Kilo Company has fortified the posts on the roof, manned around-the-clock by Marines charged with returning gunfire and killing assailants who fire rockets and plant roadside bombs. Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25773 Israelis Plan to Steal Lebanese Food Kurt Nimmo From the military of the only democracy in the Middle East: "If our fighters deep in Lebanese territory are left without food our water, I believe they can break into local Lebanese stores to solve that problem," Brigadier General Avi Mizrahi, the head of the Israel Occupation Forces logistics branch, informs Haaretz. "If what they need to do is take water from the stores, they can take." Of course, this is nothing new, as the Israelis have stolen from Arabs for dec! ades, regardless of what was supposedly inscribed on the stone tablets Moses brought down from Mount Sinai... Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=25767 GI Special 4H13A: Military Training And Atrocities - August 13, 2006 - Part 2 Thomas F. Barton A New Generation Of Activists In Solidarity With Active-Duty Personnel And Military Families "Need Not Be Helpless Before The Power Of Illegitimate Authority . " The elemental truth is that generals and war planners call the shots from air-conditioned building and bunkers far from combat, but wars must be fought on the ground by working-class troops who, when organized, can act on their own political principles rather than on those of their commanding officers. 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