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IL FILO NERO TERRORISTA
DA GROUND ZERO A BASRA
(e il silenzio dei giornali di sinistra italiani)
Fulvio Grimaldi
...Domenica 18 settembre due militari delle Special Air Forces britanniche
(SAS) (...) viaggiano con la loro auto verso un obiettivo imprecisato a
Basra. Si muovono sicuramente, dati i dettagli che elencherò, verso una
qualche concentrazione di folla, tipo mercato o moschea. Sono vestiti da
arabi e, perlopiù, nella foggia che fa riconoscere alla popolazione i
militanti dell’esercito d! el Mehdi, la milizia del leader scita
dissidente, Muqtada al Sadr. Un posto di blocco della polizia fantoccio,
per quanto collaborazionista, o forse proprio per questo, intima l’alt di
prammatica, non si sa mai, potrebbero essere partigiani anti-britannici e
anti-fantoccio. Presi di sopresa, i due travestiti sparano sui poliziotti
fantoccio, ne uccidono uno e ne feriscono un altro. Ma non riescono a
fuggire e vengono bloccati, arrestati e portati in prigione. Allo stupore
per la rivelazione della loro identità britannica, con la quale avrebbero
tentato di opporsi all’arresto, tra i poliziotti, forse davvero non immuni
dalle infiltrazioni di una Resistenza forimidabile per intelligence e
appoggio popolare, o, comunque, dotati di un minimo di dignità, si aggiunge
lo sbigottimento per quanto viene trovato nella vettura: due fucili M4, due
lanciamissili, due razzi anticarro, due mitragliatrici, cesoie da filo
spinato, diversi chili di esplosivo ad alto potenziale, un deto! natore,
parrucche. Coloro che l’hanno esaminata hanno poi con! statato che la
vettura era stata approntata per saltare in aria a mo’ di autobomba con
finto suicida tramite comando a distanza, pure presente nell’arsenale. ...


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Agents Provocateurs?
William Bowles, I'n'I
Fascinating. No really, the ‘evolution’ of state disinformation has
probably never been better displayed than in the case of the two (more than
likely) SAS soldiers who were ‘liberated’ after being arrested by the Iraqi
police on 19 September by a phalanx of tanks and helicopter gunships that
stormed the police station where the two undercover soldiers were being
held after they allegedly failed to stop at an Iraqi police roadblock and
subsequently opened fire on the Ira! qi police, killing one and wounding
another. The car they were travelling in was loaded with weapons including
allegedly, assault rifles, a light machine gun, an anti-tank weapon, radio
gear and a medical kit (’standard’ SAS issue according to the BBC).
According to at least two reports, the car they were traveling in (A Toyota
Cressida) was “booby-trapped”. Subsequent accounts vary according to the
source but according to the initial story broadcast on the BBC (19/9/05),
the two men wore traditional Arab dress but then this changed to “civilian
dress” (BBC TV News)...

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The Tipping Point
Where The Neocon Job Unraveled
Phil Toler, Axis of Logic Exclusive
No matter how they spin it, the red-handed nabbing of two British
agents-provocateurs in Basra will lift the veil of deceit that has cloaked
the otherwise unexplainable internecine attacks between Sunnis and
Shi’ites. The long-held Israeli/Neocon goal has been to break up Iraq,
among other Arab states, into more easily managed Bantustans. The obvious
fault lines among the Sunni, Shia, and Kurd communities made Wolfowit! z
believe achieving the goal would be a cakewalk. It wasn’t the toppling of
Saddam he was talking about, you see, and all those terrible 'mistakes'
made by Proconsuls Garner and Bremmer were as carefully calculated as the
rest of this bloody farce...

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British “Pond Life” Intel Ops Unmentioned in the Corporate Media
Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire
Jarlath Kearney, writing for the Daily Ireland, draws a crucial comparison
that will of course be completely ignored by the larger corporate media.
The incident in Basra, where two SAS undercover operatives were captured,
dressed as Arabs and driving a car loaded with weapons and explosives, is
similar to an earlier incident in Northern Ireland, where the SAS operated
for years. “The incident drew parallels with! the March 1988 attack on the
funeral of IRA volunteer Caoimhghin Mac Bradaigh,” writes Kearney. “During
that incident, two armed and undercover army intelligence operatives drove
directly at the cortege in west Belfast. After firing a shot, both soldiers
were subsequently captured, beaten and shot dead by the IRA.” Lucky for the
British intelligence operatives in Basra, they were not murdered, although
apparently beaten...

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Media Shifts Attention from SAS Screw Up to Iran
Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire
Leave it up to the Moonie-owned United Press International to attempt a
none-too delicate effort to steer attention away from the fact British
covert intel goons killed a cop and bystander and were caught red-handed
cruising around Basra in car loaded with explosives and detonators.
“Attacks on British forces in southern Iraq may be directed from Iran,”
reports the UPI. “The clashes and the arrest of two undercover British
sold! iers was almost certainly triggered by the arrest at the weekend of
Sheikh Ahmed al-Fartusi, the leader of the Mahdi Army, a banned militia
loyal to Moqtada al-Sadr.” Indeed, al-Fartusi, commander of al-Mahdi’s
militia in Basra, was arrested by the Brits in a Gestapo-like raid, thus
leading to “the spread of a great number of members of al Sadr Militia in
al Basra streets and the gathering of many of these men near a building in
the city center, which contains the headquarters of Al Sadr movement,”
explains al-Mendhar News...

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Il testo integrale dell'intervento di Aleksandr Lukashenko al vertice ONU -
15 settembre 2005
Traduzione a cura del Centro di Cultura e Documentazione Popolare -
www.resistenze.org
Tempo fa, nella sala vicina alla nostra sono state mostrati grafici e mappe
per dimostrare la presenza di armi di distruzione di massa in Iraq. Ma dove
sono quelle armi? Esse non esistono. Allo stesso tempo, l'Iraq è sommerso
dal sangue, devastato, mentre il suo popolo è piombato nella più profonda
disperazione. E i! terroristi minacciano l'utilizzo di armi di distruzione
di massa contro le città d'Europa e d'America. Si sta forse svolgendo un
processo aperto e indipendente dei prigionieri di Guantanamo sotto la
supervisione dell'ONU? Quanti sono questi prigionieri e chi sono? Chi
difenderà i diritti delle vittime di Abu Graib e punirà tutti i loro
torturatori senza eccezione?

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What is Covert Action?
J.V. Grady, ICH
...The policy in Iraq is to keep the country destabilized and on the verge
of civil war to show that it cannot govern itself and that it therefore
requires the continued presence of American and British forces. The man
accused of being behind much of the bombing going on there is Al-Zarqawi, a
man known to be dead for some time now. Also, because he is (or, rather,
was) a Sunni, bombings against the Shi’ia population, if blamed on him and
the Sunni insurgents, can keep the! pot of civil war simmering, thus giving
further justification to keeping American and British forces there. Most
recently, two British Covert Operations specialists were captured in Basra,
in Southern Iraq. They were disguised as Arabs and were carrying
bomb-making materials (...) So, who is behind many of the bombings against
the Shi’ia and Sunni populations? It is quite possible, even probable, that
many of them are being carried out by American, British, and even Israeli
Covert Action operatives...

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Which one is the pornographer?
Tim Grieve, Saloon.com
We're all for finding creative ways to support the troops in Iraq. Bringing
them home, sooner rather than later, sits right up at the top of our list.
But as Andrew Sullivan notes, the folks at a Web site called Now That's
Fucked Up have another idea: They're offering U.S. troops free access to
amateur porn in exchange for soldiers' photos from the war. We checked out
the site this morning. Some of the photos we saw there were about what
you'd expect to see: S! oldiers goofing off and looking tough with their
guns; troops hanging out poolside at the former home of Uday Hussein; a
soldier standing with an Iraqi kid...

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Cindy Sheehan Rips War Party in Baltimore Talk
William Hughes, MMN
Although she was hurt slightly in a police-inspired incident the night
before in NYC, at a Union Square anti-Iraqi War rally, Cindy Sheehan was in
splendid form by the time that she took the stage at Johns Hopkins
University's Shriver auditorium, on the evening of September 20, 2005. A
capacity crowd estimated at over 1,000 filled the facility, with plenty of
flags, banners, signs and posters, too, decorating the confines of the
facility. “'Camp C! asey' was very important to the Anti-War Movement,”
Sheehan explained, as she began her talk, “but, we are going to need to be
there (Washington, D.C.) in force this weekend...

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Troops out now! Build a united front
Stop the war at home
Editorial, Workers World
The devastation in the wake of Hurricane Katrina has revealed in stark
terms that there must be two fronts in the anti-war movement: the fight to
get the U.S. out of Iraq and the fight against poverty, racism and national
oppression at home. The criminal occupation/war in Iraq must be stopped.
Each day it continues, more Iraqis die; more Iraqi cities and towns suffer
raids, cordons, abuses and every form of brutality fro! m the occupiers and
their puppet troops. And each day more U.S. troops kill and are killed for
Washington’s now-fading dream of conquest in the Middle East. The ambition
for has turned into the humiliation of quagmire...

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Safe Hands
Billmon
According to the New Pravda, Guitar George has asked his top homeland
security advisor to investigate the administration's inept handling of a
major crisis in . . . homeland security: President Bush has named Frances
Fragos Townsend, his domestic security adviser, to lead an internal White
House inquiry into the administration's performance in handling Hurricane
Katrina, Scott McClellan, Mr. Bush's spokesman, said Monday. (...)We've met
Ms. Townsend before -- she's the brainless, heartl! ess bitch who tried to
turn the London bombings into a selling point for Shrub's war in Iraq, by
arguing that "the war in Iraq attracts terrorists "where we have a fighting
military and a coalition that can take them on and not have the sort of
civilian casualties that you saw in London." Thus consigning the dead and
maimed civilians of Iraq to the limbo land of political expediency -- the
human equivalent of road kill. But the more relevant atrocity is Ms.
Townsend's involvement in the Abu Ghraib torture scandal...

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 21 September 2005
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board,
the Free Arab Voice. ( http://www.freearabvoice.org )
...In a dispatch posted at 7:10pm Mecca time Wednesday evening Mafkarat
al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance fighters had taken prisoner 14
members of the Shi‘i sectarian Badr Brigades who were planning to kill a
number of leaders of the ad-Dulaym tribe. The capture took place in the
middle of ar-Ramadi Wednesday mor! ning. Iraqi Resistance fighters were
openly deployed in downtown ar-Ramadi for several hours on Wednesday
morning, an unusual occurrence. Sources in the Resistance told Mafkarat
al-Islam that the deployment followed the admission by the 14 captives that
they were members of the Badr Brigade – the armed wing of the Shi‘i
sectarian Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) – and
that they had three companions who were still at large in the city...

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GI Special 3C60: The Sign - September 21, 2005
www.militaryproject.org
...Nearly 1,500 displaced Iraqi families have returned to the northern city
of Talafar after Coalition forces ended an operation to rout insurgents
hiding there, but the returnees said dozens of their homes had been totally
destroyed. Up to 3,800 United States forces and 5,000 Iraqi troops took
part in the operation in which 153 terrorists have been killed and 187
captured, US officials said, denying there were civilian casualties.
[Meaning ev! ery single dead Iraqi is an insurgent.] However, Surkassi
Ahmed, a doctor at the local hospital, said there had been civilian
casualties. "We have received cases of deaths of women, children and the
elderly in our hospital," he noted...

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Bush administration's perfect post-Katrina storm gaining strength
Larry Chin, Online Journal Associate Editor
According to the official version, the "incompetent" Bush administration
bungled the Katrina relief effort. Wrong. This administration has gone
about its business like the world-class gangsters that they are. They have,
willfully and quite "competently," done all the things that really matter
to them, and disregarded what does not (...) Consider how, today, New
Orleans is a militarized hell, teeming with ! mercenary thugs, and
government agents. Dying, suffering people being intimidated. Military
checkpoints. Twenty-four curfews. Just like Palestine. Just like Iraq.
Right here, in the United States of America, right now...

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UN Food Program Sounds Alarm on Iraq
Associated Press
The U.N. World Food Program warned on Wednesday that its emergency
operations in Iraq, which feed about 3 million people, were at risk because
donors have only come up with 44 percent of the necessary money. The
Rome-based agency is aiming to provide 73,700 tons of food to 1.7 million
extremely poor primary school children, 220,000 malnourished children and
their families, 350,000 pregnant and nursing women, and more than 6,000
tuberculosis patients this year ! (...) Last year, a Norwegian research
group, in conjunction with the United Nations and the Iraqi government,
reported that malnutrition among Iraq's youngest children had nearly
doubled since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, from 4 percent to 7.7
percent...

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Anyone and everyone is a target
Ahmed Janabi, Aljazeera.net
Nowadays in post-invasion Iraq, everybody is on somebody's hit-list.
Different political groups have emerged with totally contradictory
interests and views, and some are resorting to violence against rivals.
Iraqi political analyst Liqa Makki said the hit-list phenomenon has in the
past afflicted many countries, but Iraq's case is much too complex. "The
most confusing thing about them is the diversity of targets. It is painful
to say it, but we have to a! cknowledge that those who carry out those
assassinations have managed to make every Iraqi think that he or she is a
potential target somehow," he said...

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Ex-UK official: Iraq worse than Vietnam
Associated Press
The invasion of Iraq is a bigger disaster than the Vietnam war, and Prime
Minister Tony Blair should have resigned for making a false case for
intervention, former Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind said Wednesday.
"Here we actually went in, created a war that would otherwise not have
occurred and now we see a complete political vacuum," Rifkind said on
British Broadcasting Corp. TV...

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Iraqis demonstrate against British troops in Basra
AFP
Hundreds of Iraqis, including policemen in uniform, protested against the
presence of British troops in the southern city of Basra after a police
station was stormed to free two British soldiers (...) "No, no to the
occupier," they chanted, carrying banners which called for the return of
the two soldiers to face Iraqi justice, while British troops who patrol the
port city kept out of sight. US-led coalition troops are not subject to
Iraqi law. The demonstrato! rs handed in a list of demands to the police
headquarters, including the resignation of the provincial police chief,
accusing him of being "an agent" of the British...


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US forces launch air strikes on Sunni town in Iraq
AFX
US forces launched air strikes on the Sunni town of Dhuluiyah, an Iraqi
security official said, where four US civilian contractors were killed a
day earlier in an ambush on their convoy. 'The US army has been conducting
operations, including air strikes, since Tuesday in the Al-Jabour district
of Dhuluiyah,' 70 km north of Baghdad, the official said, adding that US
forces had sealed off the area...

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“One man can choose to not get back in line”Kevin Benderman’s ride
Monica Benderman, Socialist Worker
...The story of Sgt. Kevin Benderman’s case is one in a long series of
abuses, not only to our military personnel, but to our country in general.
We have been whipped around, turned forward and backwards, so that even as
we get back in line to return for another ride, we still cannot recognize
that the long, slow climb is taking us to a fall that becomes much more
difficult to recover from every tim! e we dare to go around again...

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And the whole world seems like it is in a deep sleep……
Faiza Jarrar, A Family in Baghdad
...As for the miserable democracy model they want to apply in Iraq, it is a
catastrophe of a special type (...) A constitution that dedicates
sectarianism, and drags the country to more violence, and ruin…Then,
President Bush would say: that this is the best constitution in the Middle
East! Why, and how? Because it will create a weak, torn country? Is this
the type of countries that are required to be here? Perhaps yes….This! is a
type of countries without value, or significance… This is a type of
countries without identity, or character… The Iraqi no longer introduces
himself as an Iraqi, a Muslim, and an Arab… The Iraqi now should choose how
to present himself under this canopy only, and choose a definite category:
Sunnie, Shia'at, a Kurd, or an Arab. This is the only permitted range, and
nothing other than that…

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