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=== News Update ===
ACLU Releases Files on Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq
The files made public today are claims submitted
to the U.S. Foreign Claims Commissions by
surviving Iraqi and Afghan family members of
civilians said to have been killed or injured or
to have suffered property damages due to actions
by Coalition Forces. The ACLU released a total of
496 files: 479 from Iraq and 17 from Afghanistan.
The documents released by the ACLU are available
online in a searchable database at
<http://www.aclu.org/civiliancasualties>www.aclu.org/civiliancasualties
"Since U.S. troops first set foot in Afghanistan
in 2001, the Defense Department has gone to
unprecedented lengths to control and suppress
information about the human costs of war," said
Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the
ACLU. "Our democracy depends on an informed
citizenry, and it is critical that the American
people have access to full and accurate
information about the prosecution of the war and
the implications for innocent civilians."
The ACLU pointed out that during both the wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq, the Defense Department has
instituted numerous policies designed to control
information about the human costs of war. These policies include:
* Banning photographers on U.S. military
bases from covering the arrival of caskets
containing the remains of U.S. soldiers killed overseas;
* Paying Iraqi journalists to write positive
accounts of the U.S. war effort;
* Inviting U.S. journalists to "embed" with
military units but requiring them to submit their
stories for pre-publication review;
* Erasing journalists' footage of civilian deaths in Afghanistan; and
* Refusing to disclose statistics on civilian casualties.
http://www.aclu.org/natsec/foia/29316prs20070412.html
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The Baghdad Gulag : War Criminal
There were hundreds of thousands, perhaps more
than a million Iraqi nationalists, waving Iraqi
flags - with no room for a religious divide -
responding to Muqtada's call for "Occupation
out!" The Shi'ite million-man march proved once
again Sadrists rule the Shi'ite street - and are
the most powerful political force among Iraqi Shi'ites.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17527.htm
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Victim Recounts Iraqi Police Torture : War Criminal
Alaa Emad Al-Dulaimi, a young man in his early
twenties, sits in the living room of a friends
house in a quiet Damascus neighborhood as he
retells the nightmare of his arrest almost a year
ago. The intensity of Al-Dulaimis experience is
palpable, though his face remains dispassionate
throughout most of the two hours it takes to
detail the complicated maze of his encounter with
Iraqs corrupt justice systemone in which bribes
and torture are so common even Donald Rumsfeld
acknowledged them prior to his resignation.
In early 2005 Human Rights Watch reported that
torture and abuse by Iraqi authorities were
"routine and commonplace." The Al-Maliki
government promised reforms, but in July last
year the Los Angeles Times reported Iraqi
Interior Ministry investigations revealed over
400 incidents of police misconduct, which
included "the rape of female prisoners, the
release of terrorism suspects in exchange for
bribes, assassinations of police officers and
participation in insurgent bombings." Most went unpunished.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m32102
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Israel torturing Palestinian child prisoners : War Criminal
Appalling photographs of abuse and torture by
American guards at U.S. military bases and
detention facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan
shocked the international community, but the
Palestinians have been suffering harsher
treatment inside Israeli prisons since the 1967
occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The Palestinians suffering at the hands of the
Israelis is worse than in any other part of the
world. Many of the Palestinian detainees are
children, who are subjected to physical and
psychological torture by Israeli interrogators and prison guards.
Mohammed Mahsiri, a 17-year-old resident of
Dheisheh refugee camp in the occupied West Bank,
was arrested by Israeli occupation forces almost
a year and a half ago. "I was taken to a
detention centre and interrogated
The
interrogation would begin at 2 o'clock in the
afternoon and would finish after eleven p.m. I
was beaten all the time, especially if the
soldiers did not get the answers they wanted," he told IPS.
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2007/04/13/p15906#more15906
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Swedish teen: U.S. troops 'war criminal' led operation
A Swedish teenager who was imprisoned for weeks
with alleged terror suspects in Ethiopia said in
an interview published Thursday that Americans in
military uniform directed the Kenyan soldiers who
took her into custody on the Somali-Kenyan border.
http://snipurl.com/1ge9h
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The bombing of Somalia - U.S. grabs for power in Horn of Africa : WarCriminal
Why is the U.S. Air Force strafing southern
Somalia? Why is the carrier USS Eisenhower in the
Indian Ocean? What possible threat is Somalia to the U.S.?
The White House claims the right to attack other
countries to get suspected al-Qaeda members. But
no al-Qaeda operatives were hit on Jan. 8, the
first acknowledged U.S. military action in
Somalia since 1994. Seventy nomads and their
cattle perished. The herders were bombed at night
as they camped around fires to deflect mosquitoes.
http://www.socialism.com/
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9/11 Revealed : Former Bush Speechwriter Hints at 9/11 Inside Job
A GOP insider, former Bush 41 speechwriter and
close friend of the Bush family writes in his new
book that before 9/11, the Neo-Cons in control of
the Bush administration were eager to seize upon
a manufactured provocation to go to war - just as
LBJ had done with the Gulf Of Tonkin in 1965, and
questions the official 9/11 story.
Gold confirms that war in Iraq was decided upon
from day one, and that a fake pretext was readied
and anticipated before 9/11 happened. Though Gold
still pins the blame on Al-Qaeda, in
acknowledging the fact that the Bush
administration would have staged a false flag
attack anyway had it not been for 9/11, he is one
small step away from intimating that the attacks
on the WTC and Pentagon were an inside job.
"There would be regime change in Iraq," writes
Gold, "All that the Neo-Con war hawks, in the
Bush administration and out, needed to bring it
about was an excuse to invade. Looking back a
half-decade and knowing what we now know, who
could doubt that if al Qaeda hadn't obliged the
Neo-Cons with 9/11, the Kristolites would have
torn a page out of history and, with Rupert
Murdoch playing the role of William Randolph
Hearst, given us a reprise of the sinking of the Maine?"
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2007/130407insidejob.htm
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Police chief- Lockerbie evidence was faked : Another Dirty Work of CIA Revealed
A FORMER Scottish police chief has given lawyers
a signed statement claiming that key evidence in
the Lockerbie bombing trial was fabricated.
The retired officer - of assistant chief
constable rank or higher - has testified that the
CIA planted the tiny fragment of circuit board
crucial in convicting a Libyan for the 1989 mass murder of 270 people.
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The police chief, whose identity has not yet been
revealed, gave the statement to lawyers
representing Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi,
currently serving a life sentence in Greenock Prison.
The evidence will form a crucial part of
Megrahi's attempt to have a retrial ordered by
the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission
(SCCRC). The claims pose a potentially
devastating threat to the reputation of the entire Scottish legal system.
The officer, who was a member of the Association
of Chief Police Officers Scotland, is supporting
earlier claims by a former CIA agent that his
bosses "wrote the script" to incriminate Libya.
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1855852005
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A Paradigm Shift: America as Proxy
While the US was the major power that often
orchestrated proxy wars through clandestine
tactics, as it did in Central America and various
parts of Asia, Israel is now adopting a similar
scheme. In most instances in the past, Israel
managed to sway US administrations to behave
according to the misleading mantra: "What's good
for Israel is good for America." But a clash of interests here is unavoidable.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17528.htm
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The True Face Of This Administration Fully Revealed
The article quoted a comment by a senior
administration official that was outrageous. - I
cannot imagine in any other democracy that the
person who made this statement would not
immediately be told to resign from his non-elected high office of influence.
Mr. Bush's National Security Adviser, Stephen J.
Hadley, said in an interview on "Meet the Press"
on NBC that the White House has sufficient money
under its control to deploy the troops as
planned, and he suggested that once the troops
are in place, Congress would be reluctant to cut off funding.
"I think once they get in harm's way, Congress's
tradition is to support those troops," Mr. Hadley said.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/1/16/9288/25225
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The Israel Lobby. Portrait of a Great Taboo : The
Power of the Israel Lobby in the United States
A documentary program by the Dutch public
broadcast organization VPRO, allows several
interesting opinion makers to speak on the future
of the American and Israel relationship and the
reception of John Mearsheimers and Steve Walts
article "The Israel Lobby and US foreign policy."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17525.htm
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War in Iraq "the Sharon war"?
Robert Novak: "I am convinced that Israel made a
large contribution to the decision to embark on
this war. I know that on the eve of the war,
Sharon said, in a closed conversation with
senators, that if they could succeed in getting
rid of Saddam Hussein, it would solve Israel's security problems.
http://snipurl.com/1ge9e
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Dark of Heartness - A Journey Into The (Reputed) Soul of Conservatism
I have been haunted this last quarter-century,
and especially this last decade, by the darkness
that has descended over the American political
landscape, a long shadow unlike any I remember from the first half of my life.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17529.htm
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Uranium dust
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories has
applied for a permit to blow up as much as 450
pounds of depleted uranium in explosives tests west of Tracy this year.
http://tracypress.com/content/view/8695/2/
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In case you missed it: Poison DUst : Video
Poison DUst tells the story of young soldiers who
thought they came home safely from the war, but didn't.
http://snipurl.com/1ge9l
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Encouraging Ethnic Chauvinism - Kirkuk, Oil and
the Kurds : Iraq Muslim's Traitor
Before the end of this year, the residents of the
city of Kirkuk (about 250 KM north of Baghdad)
will partake in a referendum to choose their
fate. At issue is whether the oil rich city will
be annexed as part of so-called Kurdistan. The
history of Kirkuk is emblematic of the greater
history of Iraq: It is a city that has always
been prone to invasion, has always been seen as a
strategic point of defense against rival empires,
is ethnically and religiously very mixed and, of
course, has been both cursed and blessed by its
enormous oil supply. In conforming to this
narrative Kirkuk has once again become the focal
point of strategic concerns and the current
puppet regime in Iraq has agreed to "relocate"
Arabs, by removing them from their homes, and
"re-settle" Kurds in their place. Taking this
action just before the referendum almost insures
annexation and de facto Kurdish separation from the rest of Iraq.
http://www.counterpunch.org/saud04132007.html
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"Suicide Bombings" - The Cover Story For US Military Ops In Iraq
Al-sarafiya bridge which, until two days ago,
spanned the Tigris in Baghdad, linking Shia and
Sunni neighborhoods of the city.
"Suicide bombings" are a daily occurrence in
Iraq, and are the major propaganda tool used by
the US government and its mainstream media to
convince the world that there is still some
"freedom and Democracy" work to be done by US
troops in Iraq. But what if they are a cover for something else?
http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/130203-%22Suicide+Bombings%22+-+The+Cover+Story+For+US+Military+Ops+In+Iraq
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A bloody message from Iraq: nowhere is safe
Nowhere is safe. Insurgents struck in the heart
of the Green Zone yesterday, one of the most
heavily defended places in Baghdad. The symbolism
- and the bloody message - was clear with this
attack on the home to the US-imposed democracy.
http://snipurl.com/1ge8s
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Drug use, trafficking soar following US
occupation; 24,000 Iraqis officially reported
having used drugs, real number said far higher.
In a dispatch posted at 3:25pm Baghdad time
Thursday afternoon, the Association of Muslim
Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that the Reform
Society for combating Drugs in Iraq announced
that the number of drug users in the country is
on the increase, as a result of the war and the
chaotic security situation that has turned Iraq
into a drug market. Some of the narcotics are
consumed within the country; some pass through on their way to other markets.
http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0407/iraqiresistancereport_120407.htm
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War on Terror Looks Like a Fraud
It's becoming pretty clear that Iraq has been
'pacified' solely for the purpose of economic aggression.
Contrary to the "patriots" who try to use the
deaths of our soldiers in Afghanistan to stifle
debate on Canada's involvement in the War on
Terror, I would say that as new evidence presents
itself, we would indeed be cowards to ignore it
simply because we've lost troops in the field and
are therefore blindly committed to the mission.
And new evidence is piling up around us, arguably
strong enough to declare the whole War on Terror an undeniable fraud.
"The key point of the law," wrote Mother Jones'
Washington correspondent James Ridgeway on March
1, "is that Iraq's immense oil wealth (115
billion barrels of proven reserves, third in the
world after Saudi Arabia and Iran) will be under
the iron rule of a fuzzy 'Federal Oil and Gas
Council' boasting 'a panel of oil experts from
inside and outside Iraq.' That is, nothing less
than predominantly U.S. Big Oil executives.
http://www.edmontonsun.com/Comment/2007/04/13/4002307-sun.html
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A forbidden city inside Baghdad
The Green Zone is a forbidden city, a concrete
fortress in the heart of Baghdad housing the
Iraqi government, the US embassy, the British
embassy and the Iraqi parliament. It is defended
by concrete blast walls and well-fortified checkpoints.
From a distance, the first signs of the Green
Zone are the cranes rising above the enormous new
US embassy. They are impossible to miss because
they are the only new cranes in Baghdad.
A closer view of the Green Zone reveals that it
is entirely surrounded by grey concrete blast
walls to stop suicide bombers or other attackers.
These walls run along the right-bank of the
Tigris river and then run inland, blocking main
roads and slicing through neighbourhoods.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2444474.ece
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The most secure place in Iraq?
Ordinary people undergo a full body search. Dogs
sniff for explosives, luggage and equipment are
opened. Electronic vehicle scanners screen large cars and lorries.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6552229.stm
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The spectre of Saigon looms over Baghdad
That someone was able to pass through the
security checks yesterday with explosives
sufficient to inflict so much death and
destruction means that the "green zone" can no
longer be considered impregnable.
http://snipurl.com/1ge8v
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The Life Of An Iraqi Is Worth The Same As A Zebra
Yesterday's NYTimes had a story about the US
government paying up to but hopefully no more
than $2,500 for every Iraqi killed.
http://snipurl.com/1ge8y
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3 soldiers killed near Baghdad
BAGHDAD (AP) Three U.S. soldiers and two Iraqi
translators were killed in two attacks south of
Baghdad, the military said on Friday. Eight soldiers were wounded.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2007-04-13-iraq-casualties_N.htm?csp=34
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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 12 April 2007
* Iraqi Resistance bomber attacks puppet
Iraqi Parliament inside top-security Green
Zone, killing puppet politicians just after midday Thursday.
* Bomb explodes in Baghdads al-Karradah district Thursday evening.
* Resistance bomb rips through US Humvee in
Baghdads al-Hurriyah district Thursday afternoon.
* Bomb blasts rock Baghdad Thursday afternoon.
* Eleven bodies found in Baghdad Thursday,
more victims of Shii sectarian torture, murder.
* Bomb explodes in al-Amiriyah. Shii club director killed.
* Drug use, trafficking soar following US
occupation; 24,000 Iraqis officially reported
having used drugs, real number said far higher.
* Truck bomb severs bridge in central Baghdad Thursday morning.
* Mysterious bomb destroys bus in Kirkuk.
* Powerful blast destroys two buildings in al-Mawsil Thursday evening.
* US military camp in ad-Diwaniyah bombarded Thursday morning.
http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=art&lapage=../en_articles_2007/0407/iraqiresistancereport_120407.htm
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NATO Occupation Force Soldier Killed in Afghanistan, Bringing Week's Toll to 12
A member of the NATO occupation force in
Afghanistan died in combat today, bringing to 12
the number of foreign occupation force soldiers
killed in the past week as the Taliban steps up
attacks as part of a spring offensive.
http://snipurl.com/1ge90
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Israel will not be transferring Palestinian funds
Israel preceded the Olmert-Abbas meeting by
announcing Friday it will not transfer any funds to Israel.
http://snipurl.com/1ge9f
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Bush Administration Threatens Veto of Secret Prison Measure : Dictatorship
April 12 (Bloomberg) -- Administration officials
will advise President George W. Bush to veto
legislation requiring him to provide lawmakers
with details of the CIA's secret prisons for
terrorism suspects, a White House statement said.
The disclosure provisions are included in
proposed Senate legislation that would set new
requirements for giving lawmakers access to
intelligence reports and set intelligence program
funding for the fiscal year that ends Sept. 30.
The administration also opposed a proposal to
reveal annual U.S. spending on intelligence
programs, a figure that's now classified, saying
it imperils national security.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=ai94tdsY_sCI#
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Australia censors terrorism books : Dictatorship
The new law would be targeted at removing the
material from publication, rather than punishing
its authors, and customs officers would be given
much broader powers to confiscate books and films
being imported into the country.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6551003.stm
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1984? - Homeland Security Developing 'Hostile Intent' Technology
The United States Department of Homeland Security
announced in April that it is developing human
factors technology able to screen people at
borders for hostile intent. The tool will help
screeners identify people who should not be allowed to enter the country
http://www.ergoweb.com/news/detail.cfm?id=1717
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