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Comparing Iraqi Victims with Victims from the Indian Ocean Tsunami
Stan Moore, Media Monitors Network
The recent destructive tsunami caused by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean
was no doubt a terrible disaster (...) Unfortunately, though, the Iraqi
people have experienced a different sort of tragedy, which has killed well
over 100,000 innocent Iraqis (...) Tsunamis are disasters. Invasions are
crimes against humanity. Tsunamis are unavoidable by human effort.
Invasions and colonization must be resisted, prevente! d, and even punished
after the fact...

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Iraq abuse "went on until July"
Reuters
Sexual and physical abuse of Iraqi prisoners continued at least three
months after the Abu Ghraib scandal was revealed, according to accounts by
alleged victims published in the latest issue of Vanity Fair magazine.
Vanity Fair writer Donovan Webster, in a report on 60 hours of interviews
he conducted with 10 former detainees including a 15-year-old boy, quoted
several accounts of mistreatment that included Iraqi prisoners being
sexually assaulted by American soldiers or be! ing hooded, beaten,
subjected to electric shock and kept in cages or crates...


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Will the Islamic Army in Iraq Attack America?
Kurt Nimmo
...Any attack on America in the name of the Iraqi resistance, of course,
would go a long way in turning around the American public's growing
skepticism of Bush's Iraqi quagmire. Either the Islamic Army in Iraq is
stupid or they are not who they claim to be. Qui Bono? Certainly not the
Iraqis. Bush desperately needs public opinion where it was in the weeks and
months following the 9/11 attacks. He needs America's sons and daughters to
willingly donate! their lives to the Strausscon-neolib plan to "reshape"
the Middle East. How better to do this than stage Iraqi resistance attacks
in America?...

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An interview with Saddam Hussein
Sandy Shanks, The Daily Tribune
...He stated calmly, "He [Bush] will leave Iraq by the small door because
Iraqi Resistance is well prepared. It was prepared quite ahead of war. I
had joined together the military and political commands and we had prepared
this new page of the war against the Americans. What arrives today is not
the fruit of chance." Readers of this column are not the least bit shocked
by Saddam's statement. They read here on Aug. 22, 2003, "… captured
documents 'h! ave given some indication that preparations for a resistance
movement were made prior to the war.' [They] further state that General
Abizaid, CENTCOM's commander, views the current fighting in Iraq a
'classical guerilla-type campaign,' and that the resistance is comprised of
the paramilitary Fedayeen Saddam, and 'Republican Guard soldiers'...

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IRAQ: Death in Fallujah rising, doctors say
Integrated Regional Information Networks news
"It was really distressing picking up dead bodies from destroyed homes,
especially children. It is the most depressing situation I have ever been
in since the war started," Dr Rafa'ah al-Iyssaue, director of the main
hospital in Fallujah city, some 60 km west of Baghdad, told IRIN. According
to al-Iyssaue, the hospital emergency team has recovered more than 700
bodies from rubble where houses and shops once stood, adding tha! t more
than 550 were women and children. He said a very small number of men were
found in these places and most were elderly...


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A Compendium of Abuse
The Year in Torture
YORAM GAT, CounterPunch
The following are forms of maltreatment visited upon prisoners by U.S.
personnel during 2004. The list was compiled from articles detailing
information in official U.S. documents. Allegations by prisoners that were
not supported by official documents were not included...


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Bereaved US Families Share Iraqis Agonies of War
Adam Wild Aba, IOL Correspondent
With pictures of their smiling marine sons in their wallets and memories
about the good old days always vivid, bereaved US families wrapped up last
week a visit to Iraq in protest at the American occupation and in
solidarity with thousands of Iraqis displaced by the US monster firepower
(...) "We lost our son to an illegal war that is now destroying the lives
of thousands of Iraqi children," Fernando said. "We, as parents, must say !
'Stop the killing, comfort the children'"...

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Bush Should Not be Assassinated
DOUG BASHAM, www.OpEdNews.com
...What I do wish is for Bush to be driven from office in shame and
disgrace - as he deserves - with the media providing close-up after
close-up of his smug, arrogant and hopefully ever reddening, smirky face. I
do not wish to see him removed from office in a wooden box, with the media
falling all over one another to finally provide America with coverage of a
flag draped coffin. That would be a travesty, and would only further serve
to dishonor every A! merican soldier who needlessly died in Iraq under
Bush's murderous watch...

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The Fallacious Notion that News Coverage is Objective
BUZZFLASH
...Okay, let's take Fallujah for example. The American military and its
Iraqi puppet government restricted virtually all reporters from covering
the latest massive assault, in which it is likely that perhaps hundreds or
thousands of civilians were killed. Yet, the nightly newscasts, cable
television, and newspapers almost universally printed the Pentagon accounts
of the Guernica-style decimation, without any counter-reporting or
skepticism about "new! s accounts" exclusively obtained from the Pentagon.
Is this reporting "news," or simply passing along propaganda?...

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 3 January 2005.
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member editorial board The
Free Arab Voice
The Consultative Council of Mujahideen of al-Fallujah issued a communiqué
concerning the nature and results of the fighting that took place between
the occupation and the Resistance in the city between 6 November 2004 and 2
January 2005. The communiqué, a copy of which was obtained by Mafkarat
al-Islam, gave reasons for the withdrawal of Resistance forces! from the
northern neighborhoods of the city and from the al-'Askari neighborhood in
the city's eastern section...

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5 US Soldiers Killed
U.S. Central Command
Three Task Force Baghdad Soldiers were killed by an improvised explosive
device at approximately 11 a.m. in north Baghdad. Two other Soldiers were
wounded in the attack. The wounded Soldiers were evacuated to a military
hospital (...) One 1st Infantry Division Soldier was killed and another was
wounded when anti-Iraqi forces detonated an improvised explosive device
near Balad on Jan. 4 at about 11:34 a.m (...)One Marine assigned to the I
Marine Expeditionary Force was kil! led in action Tuesday, January 4, while
conducting security and stabilization operations in the Al Anbar Province...



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'All-out war' takes toll on Iraq oil industry
Kamal Taha, AP
Iraqi insurgents are waging an all-out war on the country's vital oil
industry, which has lost nearly $8-billion in revenue since last year's
United States-led invasion, Oil Minister Thamer Ghadban said on Sunday
(...) "Exports are now limited only to the south. There are no exports in
the north," he added. Oil exports from southern terminals in Basra are
averaging 1,8-million barrels a day...



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Iraqi governor killed, Green Zone hit
Aljazeera.net
Baghdad governor Ali al-Haidri has been assassinated by armed men in the
capital, police and hospital sources say. Details of al-Haidri's death on
Tuesday remain unclear. Al-Haidri is the most senior Iraqi official to be
assassinated in Baghdad since the head of the Governing Council was killed
by a bomb in May last year...



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The US is Losing Iraq
Ben Frank
"The CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the State Department warned
President Bush this week that the United States and its Iraqi allies are
not winning the battle against Iraqi insurgents Iraqi insurgents who are
trying to derail the country's Jan. 30 elections." As Mike Rivero at
WhatReallyHappened.com pointed out, 'not winning' equals 'losing'. On New
Year's Eve it was reported that, "the last six months of 2004 proved the
deadliest period for US forces in Iraq, despite th! e formal end of the
US-led occupation in June."


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Iraq exhostage says U.S. troops tortured him
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
The driver of two ex-French hostages is filing war-crimes charges against
U.S. forces in Iraq. Syrian driver Mohammed Al-Joundi filed charges of
"torture and war crimes" against Lt. Gen. John Sattler, commander of U.S.
marines in Fallujah, at a Paris court Tuesday morning, Le Parisien reports.
Al-Joundi was also taken hostage by the Islamic Army in Iraq last summer,
along with French reporters Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot...


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Congress expects $100 billion war request
Peronet Despeignes, USA TODAY
Congress expects the White House to request as much as $100 billion this
year for war and related costs in Iraq and Afghanistan, congressional
officials say. It would be the third and largest Iraq-related budget
request from the White House yet, and it could push the war's costs over
$200 billion — far above initial White House estimates of $50 billion-$60
billion. So far, the Iraq war has cost about $130 billion, according to the
White Hous! e's Office of Management and Budget...


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