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=== News Update ===
BREAKING NEWS: Over 12,000 US Dead, 25,000 Seriously Wounded In Iraq
(Secret DoD)
Note: There is excellent reason to believe that the Department of
Defense is deliberately not reporting a significant number of the dead
in Iraq. We have received copies of manifests from the MATS that show
far more bodies shipped into Dover AFP than are reported officially.
The actual death toll is in excess of 10,000. (See the official records
at the end of this piece.) Given the officially acknowledged number of
over 15,000 seriously wounded (and a published total of 25,000 wounded
overall,), this elevated death toll is far more realistic than the
current 2,000+ now being officially published.
http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/98839
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Cornered US Military Takes to Desperate Tactics in Iraq
People living in areas where resistance to U.S.-led occupation is
mounting are facing increased levels of collective punishment from the
occupation forces, residents say.
The Geneva Conventions forbid use of collective punishment.
International law says the occupying power in a country is responsible
for safeguarding the civilian population.
Folks, they don't hate us here because "we're free": they hate us
because, as an army of occupation, we have given no signal about giving
the country well and truly back to the Iraqi people, not just back to a
US-rubber-stamped 'government'.
http://www.antiwar.com/jamail/?articleid=10141
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Staticide, Not Civil War in Iraq
Calling the tragedy in Iraq a "civil war" is not only inaccurate. It is
morally indefensible, laying the blame for the horrific violence and the
destruction of a country and a society upon the victims of an illegal,
aggressive war. It allows pundits like Thomas Friedman to claim that the
country has been dysfunctional for a millenium, ignoring a long
historical context of international support for Iraq's brutal dictator,
debilitating and murderous sanctions by the United Nations, and a
catastrophic and unprovoked US-led invasion of a sovereign state. More
important, if Americans believe that Iraq is in "civil war," liberals
would argue that the United States must remain in order to prevent an
even worse outbreak of violence.
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20061208110110885
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Shiite militias forcing Sunnis to abandon their Baghdad homes
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The displacement of Sunni Muslims from a Baghdad
neighborhood this weekend could tip a large portion of Baghdad to
control by Shiite militias, residents there and militiamen agreed
Sunday.
Since Saturday Sunni residents have been displaced or voluntarily left
the northwest Baghdad neighborhood of Hurriyah after police said three
Sunni families were killed. Those who fled voluntarily said they did it
because they did not trust the government forces to protect them. On
Sunday, they continued fleeing, moving into schools or strangers' homes,
the best immediate refuge they could find.
Shiite militiamen loyal to rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr openly admit to
entering their homes and forcing them to leave. That speaks to the
ongoing open battle for control of the capital and the apparent
domination by the Mahdi Army, Sadr's militia.
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/world/16210227.htm
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This is the daily life story in Iraq
On the 28th of August 2005, and after 10p.m. a combined force of
American forces and national guards launched a raid on my brother's
home; that force consisted of four American Humvees filled with American
soldiers and twelve truck loaded with Iraqi soldiers, more than 15
American and Iraqi persons entered the house in a terrifying and
irritating manner.
http://afamilyinbaghdad.blogspot.com/2006_12_03_afamilyinbaghdad_archive.html#116543274900524897
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George Will: The problem with Iraq is that they're all savages
The narrative is intended to shift blame for the catastrophic sequence
of events in Iraq from the policy-makers who started it to the Iraqis
themselves. It's also simply wrong -- Iraq was a functional, modern and
secular society before the Iran-Iraq war, and at least a functional one
before the 2003 invasion. The chaos that followed resulted from choices
made by the administration, not some deep-seated dysfunction in Iraq's
culture.
Policy-makers in Washington made a choice to not only remove Saddam
Hussein and the senior officials loyal to him, but to dismantle that
functional state from top to bottom -- sacking the army, the police and
hundreds of thousands of bureaucrats who kept the country running.
http://gadflyer.com/flytrap/index.php?Week=200649#3176
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It's Hard To Stop Lying When Your Name Is "Lyin' Colin Powell"
So Colin Powell was in Dubai last for something called the Leaders in
Dubai Business Forum:
[Powell] said that if the US had known at the time there were no weapons
of mass destruction 'it would have been a whole different equation' in
Iraq.
'If Saddam Hussein had come forward with a full and complete declaration
and he had not thrown the UN inspectors out, a war could have been
avoided.'
You'd think eight years after the UNSCOM inspectors were withdrawn with
the encouragement of the US, this particular lie might be showing signs
of age. You also might think Colin Powell would occasionally slip up and
tell the truth. But no, the Powell Lie Train keeps rolling along same as
always.
http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/001224.html
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At least 58 killed in another bloody day of U.S. occupation
A total of 40 bodies -- many of them shot and tortured -- were found
across Baghdad on Saturday, an Interior Ministry source said
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L10607361.htm
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 9 December 2006.
* Two US troops reported killed in Resistance bomb attack in ar-
Ramadi.
* US carries out mass raids, searches, arrests, in northern ar-
Ramadi Saturday.
* Resistance blasts US al-Warrar base near ar-Ramadi with Katyusha
rockets.
* Resistance bomb in 'Anah reportedly leaves two US troops dead
Friday afternoon.
* Resistance car bomb in al-Mawsil leaves four US troops reported
dead Saturday evening.
* Resistance fighters battle puppet “Iraqi National Guard” in al-
Fallujah.
* Resistance mortars bombards Jaysh al-Mahdi stronghold in al-
Kazimiyah.
* Resistance sharpshooter cuts down two puppet “Shock Troops” in
Baghdad's al-Qadisiyah district.
* Resistance sharpshooter kills two Iraqi puppet army soldiers in
western Baghdad on Friday.
* Resistance bomb kills commander in pro-Iranian Shi'i sectarian
Jaysh al-Mahdi militia in Baghdad.
* Resistance mortars blast Jaysh al-Mahdi gunmen in al-Mada'in
Saturday.
* Bomb destroys US armored vehicle in Ba'qubah Friday.
* Resistance bombards Iraqi puppet army facility in Ba'qubah
Friday.
* US troops arrest 40 members of al-Gharir tribe in al-
Mahmudiyah.
* Resistance mortars blast US consulate in al-Hillah Friday.
* Resistance fighters drive back Jaysh al-Mahdi-puppet “National
Guard” attack on as-Suwayrah.
* Resistance mortars blast US headquarters in Kirkuk airport
Saturday afternoon.
* Resistance bomb blasts Iraqi puppet army troops in ar-Rashad
Saturday afternoon.
* Resistance bomb targets US patrol in southeastern al-Mawsil
Friday.
* Mysterious car bomb explodes in crowded market in Karbala'.
http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?
mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2006/1206/iraqiresistancereport_091206.htm
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CIA is undermining British war effort, say military chiefs
Confidential report speaks of 'serious tensions' in the coalition over
strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan
http://tinyurl.com/y4cabz
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6 Afghan soldiers killed, 2 NATO occupation troops wounded in separate
attacks
A roadside bomb exploded next to an Afghan army vehicle, killing all six
soldiers on board, while a separate attack left two NATOoccupation
soldiers wounded, officials said Sunday.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/10/asia/AS_GEN_Afghan_Violence.php
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Four civilians killed in NATO air-strike in occupied Afghanistan
"A house was bombed by NATO planes. I know four people were killed and
one was injured -- they were civilians," the police chief told a news
agency.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/update_detail.asp?id=14316
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Afghan president weeps for dead civilians
"This nation and this country doesn't have the power to rescue itself.
Neither can we tell the terrorists not to come from Pakistan, nor can we
tell the coalition forces not to kill our children in the fight against
terrorism,' Karzai said, adding in a breaking voice and with tears in
his eyes, 'the oppression has gone beyond its limit."
http://tinyurl.com/y2ga7k
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'Die America!' chants Afghan "mob" at U.S. base
More than 1,000 stone-throwing Afghans tried to break down an outer gate
at the main U.S. base here Tuesday while demanding the release of eight
detained villagers, and Afghan troops fired warning shots and used clubs
to beat the mob back. U.S. troops also fired into the air.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8702657/
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Taliban reject Pakistan, Afghanistan peace councils
The Taliban have rejected participation in a Pakistan-Afghan loya jirga
- or grand tribal council - being planned to check cross-border
infiltration and growing violence in Afghanistan, news reports said
Sunday. The Pakistan's private Geo TV channel quoted the Taliban
spokesman, Qari Mohammad Yousuf, as saying the Taliban did not consider
taking part in the grand council, as the Islamist movement never
involved itself in politics.
Translation: they know they're winning, and it does not appear that
there is anything the West can do to stop that.
http://rawstory.com/news/2006/Taliban_reject_Pakistan_Afghanistan_12102006.html
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Taliban will fight through the winter, warns British commander
The Taliban can attack Nato troops in southern Afghanistan whenever it
wants, despite months of intense fighting, British military commanders
have admitted.
Hopes that the onset of winter would bring with it the traditional break
in the fighting have been dashed by the Taliban's sudden return to the
attack, using a mixture of suicide bombings and a ferocious fire-fight
with British forces last week to turn up the heat on the coalition.
One has to ponder at the "magical thinking" which lead to idea that NATO
could possibly win a land war from the air..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?
xml=/news/2006/12/10/wafg10.xml
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"Prominent” Western news agency omits Palestinians' condemnation of
Israel's massacre from its report on U.S. vetoing UN resolution
In the latest example of the West's biased approach towards Arabs, an
article on nnexposed.com revealed that CNN replaced all Palestinian
quotations with quotes from the U.S. and Israel in its report titled
“U.S. vetoes U.N. condemnation of Israel's Gaza strikes”.
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi%2Dbin/conspiracy%5Ftheory/fullstory.asp?
id=322
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The People's Right to Resistance
Final Statement of the International Conference in Support of
Resistance
In order to transform the historic victory achieved by the Lebanese
resistance against the Israeli aggression which targeted the Lebanese
population on the 12th of July 2006, into an incentive for
reinvigorating the struggle for comprehensive Arab liberation and to
direct it against the Zionist and Imperialist project and to consolidate
global solidarity with the resistance of the Arab people in addition to
their national resistance in Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq within the
framework of supporting the people's right to resistance, the
“International Conference in Support of the Resistance” was held in
Beirut from the 16th-19th of November 2006, in response to an invitation
from: Hizbullah, the Lebanese Communist Party, The People's Movement,
The National Unity Forum, and al-Leeqa'. Approximately 400
representatives from all over the world participated on behalf of tens
of political, trade-unionist, civil, anti-globalization, anti-war and
anti-imperialist movements that support the people's right to freedom
and progress.
http://www.brusselstribunal.org/BeirutResistance.htm
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GCC members ponder nuclear project
Gulf Arab states have announced that they are considering a shared
nuclear programme for peaceful purposes.
http://tinyurl.com/y2lppe
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Sandra Day O'Connor: “My Life as a Buck-Passing Phony”
When the final text is written, the name of Sandra Day O’ Connor will
feature quite prominently right next to Rasputin, Pol Pot, Henry
Kissinger, Pinochet and the other scoundrels who litter the history
books.
http://tinyurl.com/uudb4
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Clues To How the NSA Spies on Americans and Possible Immunity for
Telecoms for Helping Gov Spy
It's not clear if what's being considered will be a total immunity
provision or a change to substitute the government for the telecoms in
all the 48 or so pending lawsuits against the telecoms. That change
would give the government the ability to assert not only the state
secrets privilege but also executive privilege and sovereign immunity,
which would be almost impossible for any plaintiff to overcome in court.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2006/12/clues_to_how_th.html
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Bread, Bread, Everywhere, Yet not a Morsel to Eat
Humanity produces more than enough food to sustain the entire world
population. The United States alone wastes a shocking 96 billion pounds
of food each year even as we experience an epidemic of obesity.
http://tinyurl.com/y7lcxf
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Christmas trees removed at Sea-Tac
For more than 25 years, the airport has celebrated the holidays with
Christmas trees over its entrances. But overnight, the Port of Seattle
ordered all 15 trees removed.
"I think it's very unfortunate. Why lose the Christmas spirit? Christmas
is for kids," said passenger Lisa Jones.
The Port allowed "holiday" decorations to remain but decided to take
down all the Christmas trees after a Jewish religious leader complained
they were offensive.
One rabbi complains and Sea-Tac caves.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/295372_xmas10.html
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Nun Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Children
MILWAUKEE -- A Catholic nun who served as a principal at a Milwaukee
school has been charged with sexually assaulting children as many as 200
times.
http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/news/10462521/detail.html
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