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What do Fallujah and Halabja have in Common?
Ghali Hassan
...The fabricated story continues today to justify the many atrocities
committed by the US and its allies against the Iraqi people. There was not
a single credible evidence to prove that Iraqi troops were in Halabja that
day, and that Iraq was responsible for the chemical attacks on the town.
Iraqi troops evacuated the town few days before the Iranian attacks, and
eventual occupation of the town by Iranian troops (...) Unlike Halabja, the
Fallujah genocide! remains hidden from American and Western "moral
consciousness". Very few people in the West heard the screams of Fallujah
citizens. The word "pacify" is a common euphemism for US destruction and
outright murder of innocent civilians...

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Il sistema sanitario iracheno sotto l'occupazione: duecento bambini muoiono
ogni giorno.
Ghali Hassan, Osservatorio Iraq
Dopo l'invasione militare e l'occupazione dell'Iraq, il sistema sanitario
iracheno si è degradato in seguito alla sua distruzione deliberata da parte
dell'amministrazione americana. Le vittime più vulnerabili di questa di
distruzione sono i bambini iracheni, e particolarmente i bambini al di
sotto dei cinque anni...

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Profferte e mercanteggiamenti respinti da Saddam Hussein
Salah Al-Mukhtar
E' giunto il momento di dire tutto? Forse sì (...)E' venuto il momento di
dire tutto sulle profferte fatte dagli Stati Uniti e dai sionisti al
Presidente Saddam Hussein, nella speranza di poter risolvere per mezzo di
grandi doni alcuni dei contrasti con il popolo iracheno (...) L'Iraq di
Saddam Hussein ha rifiutato ogni mercanteggiamento sulla questione
palestinese, anche in cambio della sospensione delle sanzioni e di un aiuto
finanziari! o, tecnologico e politico per l'Iraq...

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Osama, TV News Junkie
Kurt Nimmo
...Bush may talk about Osama's "dark vision," but simplistically
characterizing the resistance as al-Qaeda dupes will do absolutely nothing
to stop the ultimate victory of the resistance. In fact, the resistance —
and millions of Iraqis —could not care less what Bush and the Likudites in
Washington have to say about them or their determination to get out from
under a brutal and oppressive military occupation. Most of them realize
Bush's staged election in January will be a colossa! l failure and the
resistance will continue. Sooner or later America will be obliged to leave
Iraq...

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A New American Century? Iraq and the hidden euro-dollar wars
F. William Engdahl, Investigating Imperialism
...This little-noted Iraq move to defy the dollar in favor of the euro, in
itself, was insignificant. Yet, if it were to spread, especially at a point
the dollar was already weakening, it could create a panic selloff of
dollars by foreign central banks and OPEC oil producers. In the months
before the latest Iraq war, hints in this direction were heard from Russia,
Iran, Indonesia and even Venezuela. An Irani! an OPEC official, Javad
Yarjani, delivered a detailed analysis of how OPEC at some future point
might sell its oil to the EU for euros not dollars...

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Labor and the Anti-War Movement
Joanne Landy, www.dissidentvoice.org
...The Bush administration is clear in its intention to pursue the grisly
and murderous occupation of Iraq for years, if not decades--no matter its
cost in Iraqi and American lives, no matter how much it strengthens
reactionary forces throughout the Muslim world. But the Democrats show no
sign of offering an alternative foreign policy that could end the war or
genuinely promote global democracy and justice. Will labor challenge this
bankrupt two! -party system, with its de facto bipartisan foreign policy,
or will it continue to go along?...


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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 30 December 2004
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member editorial board The
Free Arab Voice.
The correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam met in Baghdad with Captain "Abu
Hasan" of the Madinat ath-Thawrah area in the Iraqi capital, a man who took
part as an officer in the puppet "national guard" in the US offensive on
al-Fallujah. Captain Abu Hasan was involved in the fighting just days ago
as the commander of a detachment that fled along with him from in! side one
of the northern neighborhoods of the defiant city (...)"And I'm remorseful
for fighting against the Resistance, because I'm convinced that God will
punish me for that. The infidels had brainwashed us"...


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The Great Crime Spree of 2004
Justin Raimondo
If 2003 was the year of the liars, as I opined last year, then 2004 was the
year of the war criminals, starting with Time magazine's designated Man of
the Year, criminal-in-chief George W. Bush. It was Bush who presided over
the torture and abuse not only at Abu Ghraib but in U.S.-run dungeons from
Guantanamo to Afghanistan - and spare me the cries of protest that he
didn't know, and Abu Ghraib was an "isolated incident"...

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Dead Soldier's Dad Finds No Enemy in Iraq
by Rebecca Romani, Inter Press Service
...And then Suarez's voice gets hard. "They say Saddam had illegal weapons.
Jesus died because of an illegal weapon. Cluster bombs are illegal under
the Geneva Conventions." (...) "The Americans dropped about 20,000 cluster
bombs. Only 20 percent exploded. My son didn't die in the front lines from
enemy fire; he died because of the military's negligence..."


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Tim Spicer's World
Andrew Ackerman, The Nation
Military contracts are big game. And one of the most notorious hunters is a
former British soldier whose past business ventures include violating a UN
arms embargo in Sierra Leone and unwittingly triggering a coup in Papua New
Guinea. His name is Tim Spicer, and in March his London-based company,
Aegis Defense Services, bagged a $293 million contract from the Pentagon to
protect US diplomats in Iraq...


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AMERICA'S DECLINE
AIJAZ AHMAD
...Coordination between the U.S. and Israel is so close that it now becomes
impossible to distinguish between the two. Israelis have trained the
Kurdish peshmargas under U.S. tutelage, and their forces are said to be
active on Turkish territory adjoining Iran. Israelis have even trained U.S.
forces deployed in Iraq, teaching them the techniques of urban warfare they
have deployed in such operations as in Jenin and Ramallah, and which the
U.S. has followed in Falluja...

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Spain: Madrid Commission confirms conspiracy of lies used to justify Iraq War
Paul Mitchell, WSWS
Evidence presented to the commission investigating the train bombings on
March 11 in Madrid in which 191 people died and 1,700 others were injured
confirms that a conspiracy of lies was used to justify the Iraq war and
deceive the Spanish people. The evidence emerged when current Prime
Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero testified at the Spanish
Congressional Commission of Inquiry into the Madrid bombings...

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Chemical Weapons in Fallujah
Raed Jarrar, Raed in the Middle
Sorry about the picture, I know it is too graphic. But... This is one of
many pictures that show how some people in Fallujah were killed by chemical
weapons. You can see how these two men were sleeping on the floor, covered
by blankets, and dead. These two men died while they were sleeping, there
is no blood any where that can indicate they were shot...


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Violence Against Iraq Troops Takes Toll
ROBERT BURNS, AP
Key measures of the level of insurgent violence against American forces in
Iraq, numbers of dead, wounded and insurgent attacks, show the situation
has gotten worse since the summer. While those numbers don't tell the full
story of the conflict in Iraq, they suggest insurgents are growing more
proficient...

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Falloujans Get an Unsettling Look at Their City
Edmund Sanders, Times Staff Writer
Yasser Abbas Atiya swore he'd sooner sleep on the streets of his beloved
hometown of Fallouja than spend another night in the squalid Baghdad
shelter where his family had been squatting. Thirty minutes after he
returned home this week, however, Atiya had seen enough. He left in disgust
and had no plans to go back. "I couldn't stand it," the grocer said. "I was
born in that town. I know every inch of it. But when I got there, I didn!
't recognize it"...


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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 29 December 2004
...In a dispatch posted at 6:40pm Wednesday evening, Mecca time (7:40pm
local time), Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US forces at 4pm Wednesday had
launched an attack attempting to break into the an-Nazal neighborhood in
the southern, Resistance-held part of al-Fallujah. The Americans attempted
to make use of the return of refugees to the city as cover for their
assault, driving a number of refugee families ahead of them into the
neighborhood as h! uman shields...

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Legal Breach: The Government's Attorneys and Abu Ghraib
Andrew Rosenthal, New York Times
The most obvious victims of the brutal treatment of prisoners at American
military jails are the men, women and children who have been humiliated,
sexually assaulted, beaten, tortured and even killed. But, as in all wars,
the Bush administration's assault on the Geneva Conventions has caused
collateral damage - in this case, to the legal offices of the executive
branch and the military...


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New Year surprise: Bush sponsors an Iranian government in Baghdad
Nick Possum
..."That leaves the Shia, in the south, as the only group apart from the
Kurds - and they really just want to secede from Iraq - that can gain
politically from the elections, but guess who's leading them … Ayatollah
Sistani, a bunch of Islamic fascists like the Supreme Council for the
Islamic Revolution in Iraq, and the Badr Brigades, and all of them are just
basically a front for the Mad Mullahs of Tehran"...

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Fallujah residents return to a destroyed city
Joseph Kay, WSWS
...The reality in Fallujah is the face of the US occupation. The
destruction of the city, which is a war crime on a massive scale, is meant
as an example. It is an indication of what the American military is
prepared to inflict on any region offering resistance to the US presence in
Iraq...

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Mosul election staff quit en masse
Aljazeera.net
The entire staff of the independent electoral commission in the Iraqi
northern city of Mosul, amounting to about 700 employees, have resigned
amid growing violence in the country. Staff members said on Thursday their
resignation followed threats they received in the past few days. The
withdrawal of the Iraqi Islamic Party from the election also figured in
their decision, Aljazeera has learned...


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Conduct Unbecoming
Paul Craig Roberts, Antiwar.com
Major General Thomas Fiscus, judge advocate general of the Air Force,
opposed the harsh interrogation techniques approved and later rescinded by
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for use on Guantanamo prisoners.
Subsequently, General Fiscus has been reprimanded for a dozen sexual
affairs during the last decade and may face disbarment proceedings. As the
affairs were consensual with civilian and military women, one doesn't know
whether the general is being punish! ed for sticking up for human rights or
whether the U.S. military thinks abstinence is a requirement of general
officers, with sexual license left to the Dominatrix of Abu Ghraib...



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