‘A better and safer place’Tony Blair justifying the Iraq war in his response to the Butler reportRobert Fisk In Najaf20 July 2004 “The Independent” — For mile after mile south of Baghdad yesterday, the story was the same: empty police posts, abandoned Iraqi army and police checkpoints and a litter of burnt-out American fuel tankers [...]
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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Israeli interrogators ‘in Iraq’: “The US officer at the heart of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal says she has evidence that Israelis helped to interrogate Iraqis at another facility.
Brig Gen Janis Karpinski told the BBC she met an Israeli working as an interrogator at a secret intelligence centre in [...]
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Left I on the News: “More beheadings in Iraq
Another day, another ten Fallujans murdered by American bombs, ‘dismembered’ (that’s the polite way of saying ‘be-headed, dis-armed, and de-legged’):
‘The U.S military launched a coordinated airstrike Monday on a safehouse in the turbulent city of Fallujah, the military said. At least 10 people were killed, officials and [...]
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Eric Umansky: The Jihad in Iraq: “Osama opened the Pandora’s box of jihad.
Zarqawi, thanks to the Americans giving him the platform, has peeled that box open.
Now we have the jihad that we say we came here to prevent.”
Posted in News on July 5, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Yahoo! News – Army Stage-Managed Fall of Hussein Statue: “As the Iraqi regime was collapsing on April 9, 2003, Marines converged on Firdos Square in central Baghdad, site of an enormous statue of Saddam Hussein (news – web sites). It was a Marine colonel ? not joyous Iraqi civilians, as was widely assumed from the [...]
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The coalition didn’t trust the people they’d set free.
The Americans, especially, retreated behind rolls and rolls of razor wire, pointed their revolvers and their rifles at passionate but peaceful crowds, and barked orders in English at people for whom courtesy is one of the essential qualities of life.
They considered every Iraqi as a [...]
Posted in News on July 3, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Israeli commandos and intelligence units have been working closely with their American counterparts at the Special Forces training base at Fort Bragg
One step the Pentagon took was to seek active and secret help in the war against the Iraqi insurgency from Israel, America’s closest ally in the Middle East. According to American and Israeli military [...]
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Saddam Could Call CIA in His Defense
LONDON – Evidence offered by a top CIA man could confirm the testimony given by Saddam Hussein at the opening of his trial in Baghdad Thursday that he knew of the Halabja massacre only from the newspapers.
Thousands were reported killed in the gassing of Iraqi Kurds in [...]
Posted in News on July 3, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
America has sown the seeds of civil war in Iraq
They get their dead in neat caskets draped with a flag; we have to gather and scrape our dead off of the floors and hope the American shrapnel and bullets left enough to make a definite identification.” So wrote the author of the weblog Baghdad Burning, [...]
Posted in News on July 2, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Infoshop News – Report: Iyad Allawi Ran Car-Bomb Group in Iraq: “WASHINGTON, June 8 ? Iyad Allawi, now the designated prime minister of Iraq, ran an exile organization intent on deposing Saddam Hussein that sent agents into Baghdad in the early 1990’s to plant bombs and sabotage government facilities under the direction of the C.I.A., [...]
