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Leaked: Insurgents' New Rockets Up To 50 Times More Deadly
Post Date: 2008-04-17 16:00:46 by tom007
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Leaked: Insurgents' New Rockets Up To 50 Times More Deadly By David Hambling EmailApril 15, 2008 | 3:00:00 PMCategories: Ammo and Munitions 107mm_rocket The portable, long-range rocket is one of the insurgents favorite weapons; rocket attacks have been causing casualties in the Green Zone in Baghdad recently. So the emergence of this document in Wikileaks recently may suggest cause for concern. Called "Iraq: Proximity Fuses found on 107mm Rockets," it describes how a cache of rockets with unusual fuses (pictured) were discovered: On 16 Feb 2006 Coalition forces discovered a weapons cache at a house located near the intersection of RTE Northstars and RTE Cannucks (38S MB ...
Pentagon docs reveal 'murder,' 'torture' charges: ACLU
Post Date: 2008-04-17 14:09:34 by robin
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Documents released by the Pentagon detail charges that detainees in Afghan prisons were beaten and doused with cold water before being forced into the snow, the ACLU charges. The American Civil Liberties Union, which obtained the documents, says they provide the first "on-the-ground reports of torture" at a detention facility in Gardez, Afghanistan. “These documents make it clear that the military was using unlawful interrogation techniques in Afghanistan,” said Amrit Singh, an attorney with the ACLU. “Rather than putting a stop to these systemic abuses, senior officials appear to have turned a blind eye to them.” Military interrogators assaulted Afghan ...
300,000 vets have mental problem, 320,000 had brain injuries
Post Date: 2008-04-17 11:55:00 by robin
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Study: 300,000 US troops from Iraq, Afghanistan have mental problems, 320,000 brain injuries Some 300,000 U.S. troops are suffering from major depression or post traumatic stress from serving in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and 320,000 received brain injuries, a new study estimates. Only about half have sought treatment, said the study released Thursday by the RAND Corporation. "There is a major health crisis facing those men and women who have served our nation in Iraq and Afghanistan," said Terri Tanielian, the project's co-leader and a researcher at the nonprofit RAND. "Unless they receive appropriate and effective care for these mental health conditions, ...
Report: Iraqi Troops Flee Sadr City Fight
Post Date: 2008-04-16 23:57:31 by richard9151
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Published: Apr 16, 2008 Iraqi soldiers attempting to retake parts of Sadr City deserted their positions, ignoring pleas from their U.S. advisers, military officials said. U.S. Army Capt. Logan Veath of the 25th Infantry Division said he begged his Iraqi counterpart to hold his ground. But, he said, about 50 Iraqi troops left in the middle of a firefight and the scene turned chaotic, The New York Times reported Wednesday. "If you turn around and go back up the street those soldiers will follow you," Veath told the Iraqi commander. "If you tuck tail and cowardly run away they will follow up that way, too." The pleas failed and another Iraqi unit was called in to ...
Pentagon records detail prisoner abuse by US military
Post Date: 2008-04-16 22:48:20 by richard9151
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34 minutes ago WASHINGTON - Military interrogators assaulted Afghan detainees in 2003, using investigation methods they learned during self-defense training, Pentagon documents released Wednesday show. Detainees at the Gardez Detention Facility in southeastern Afghanistan reported being made to kneel outside in wet clothing and being kicked and punched in the kidneys, nose and knees if they moved, according to the documents. A 2006 Army review concluded that the detainees were not abused but that the incident revealed "misconduct that warrants further action." The documents, which were turned over Wednesday evening to the American Civil Liberties Union, focus on the 2003 death ...
Bush Defense Secretary Admits 9/11 Was Blowback
Post Date: 2008-04-16 20:46:02 by tom007
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Bush Defense Secretary Admits 9/11 Was Blowback by Don Williams Page 1 of 2 page(s) http://www.opednews.com Tell A Friend You won’t find the above headline anywhere else. Believe me, I've tried. Still, it's true. In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee on April 10, 2008, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates made the following jaw-dropping statement: “We were attacked from Afghanistan in 2001, and we are at war in Afghanistan today, in no small measure because of mistakes this government made--mistakes I among others made in the end game of the anti-Soviet war there some 20 years ago.” That’s an astonishing confession, even if mine was the only ...
Army 'Rewards' Outspoken Antiwar Soldier
Post Date: 2008-04-16 06:26:41 by Ada
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One of the leading voices of dissent inside the U.S. Army has been promoted. Sgt. Ronn Cantu – who signed a petition to Congress demanding the U.S. withdraw from Iraq and gave interviews to the news shows 60 Minutes and Democracy Now!, as well as IPS detailing his opposition – has seen his rank upgraded to staff sergeant. Some observers say Cantu's promotion shows the military is now so stressed by the ongoing war it is finding it difficult to crack down on dissent within the ranks. Few members of the armed forces have made their disgust for the war in Iraq more public than Ronn Cantu. The 30-year-old Los Angeles native began speaking out during his second tour in Iraq, ...
The Black Woman, Socialists' Collateral Damage
Post Date: 2008-04-16 00:06:26 by echo5sierra
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No treatise on women would be complete without some comments on the black woman. For years, black neighborhoods across the country have made East Berlin under the Communists look like Caesar’s Palace in Vegas. Going back to the first Watts riot in Los Angeles, in your typical black neighborhoods you find boarded up stores and few or no services, one reason for which is that blacks themselves destroyed those services. Of course, you find rampant crime, mostly black-on-black, another example of black self-disgust, large gangs, widespread use of dangerous drugs, epidemic abortion (more self-disgust), and men who can barely speak English listening to “rap” on “ghetto ...
The Coming War with Iran: It's About the Oil, Stupid
Post Date: 2008-04-15 21:07:40 by richard9151
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14/04/08 "Huffington Post" -- -- World civilization is based on oil. The world is running out of oil. The oil companies and governments are not telling the truth about how close we are to the end. Dick Cheney knew about peak oil back in 1999 when he spoke to the London Petroleum Institute as Halliburton CEO. He predicted it would come in 2010. After that it's just a matter of years before it runs out. Whoever controls the remaining oil determines who lives and who dies. Sixty percent of this oil is under a triangular area of the Middle East the size of Kansas. In that speech Cheney said: "The Middle East with two thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is ...
Financial Collapse will End the Occupation: And it won't be "A time of our choosing"
Post Date: 2008-04-15 20:50:28 by richard9151
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“Come and see our overflowing morgues and find our little ones for us... You may find them in this corner or the other, a little hand poking out, pointing out at you... Come and search for them in the rubble of your "surgical" air raids, you may find a little leg or a little head...pleading for your attention. Come and see them amassed in the garbage dumps, scavenging morsels of food... Come and see, come..." "Flying Kites” Layla Anwar 14/04/08 "ICH " -- - The US Military has won every battle it has fought in Iraq, but it has lost the war. Wars are won politically, not militarily. Bush doesn't understand this. He still clings to the belief that ...
Five Years On, Fallujah in Tatters
Post Date: 2008-04-15 12:16:20 by robin
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Five Years On, Fallujah in TattersBy Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr JamailGlobal Research, April 14, 2008 Inter Press Service FALLUJAH, Apr 14 (IPS) - Fallujah remains a crippled city more than two years after the November 2004 U.S.-led assault.Unemployment, and lack of medical care and safe drinking water in the city 60 km west of Baghdad remain a continuous problem. Freedom of movement is still curtailed. The city suffered two devastating U.S. military attacks during 2004. Many of the buildings were destroyed, or heavily damaged. Several collapsed under the heavy bombing, and were never rebuilt. The heaps of concrete slabs and piles of rubble remain where they were. "We wonder why we have ...
Robert Fisk: Semantics can't mask Bush's chicanery
Post Date: 2008-04-14 21:21:06 by bush_is_a_moonie
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After his latest shenanigans, I've come to the conclusion that George Bush is the first US president to march backwards. First we had weapons of mass destruction. Then, when they proved to be a myth, Bush told us we had stopped Saddam's "programmes" for weapons of mass destruction (which happened to be another lie). Now he's gone a stage further. After announcing victory in Iraq in 2003 and "mission accomplished" and telling us how this enormous achievement would lead the 21st century into a "shining age of human liberty", George Bush told us this week that "thanks to the surge, we've renewed and revived the prospect of success". Now ...
The Torture Drawings the Pentagon Doesn't Want You to See
Post Date: 2008-04-14 20:34:12 by richard9151
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AlterNet. Posted April 11, 2008. Sami al-Haj is a journalist, but one unlike any other. For over six years since December 15, 2001 -- when he was seized by Pakistani soldiers on the Afghan border while on assignment as a cameraman for the Qatar-based broadcaster al-Jazeera -- he has been in a disturbing but unique position: a trained journalist held as an "enemy combatant" on the frontline of the Bush administration's "War on Terror," first in Afghanistan, and then in Guantánamo. The outline of Sami's story should be familiar to readers; last summer AlterNet published a detailed article by Rachel Morris: "Prisoner 345: An Arab Journalist's Five ...
It's Occupation, Not War
Post Date: 2008-04-14 16:24:43 by richard9151
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"The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly...it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.": Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister 3/04/08 "Antiwar" -- -- - The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan ended some years ago. In Iraq, the war ended with the fall of Saddam Hussein's government; in Afghanistan, with the fall of the Taliban government. What's been happening since is occupation and resistance to occupation. It's always helpful to call things by the right name. One of the ways using the wrong word can trip us is illustrated by John McCain's ...
Semantics Can't Mask Bush's Chicanery
Post Date: 2008-04-14 11:17:25 by Zoroaster
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Semantics Can’t Mask Bush’s Chicanery By Robert Fisk 12/04/08 "The Independent" -- -After his latest shenanigans, I’ve come to the conclusion that George Bush is the first US president to march backwards. First we had weapons of mass destruction. Then, when they proved to be a myth, Bush told us we had stopped Saddam’s “programmes” for weapons of mass destruction (which happened to be another lie). Now he’s gone a stage further. After announcing victory in Iraq in 2003 and “mission accomplished” and telling us how this enormous achievement would lead the 21st century into a “shining age of human liberty”, George Bush ...
Supporting troops could mean a draft
Post Date: 2008-04-14 00:25:40 by christine
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On any given day, my e-mail inbox is likely to contain something from Sen. Saxby Chambliss' office, so I wasn't particularly surprised to find Tuesday that the senator wanted to let the home folks know what he, as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, had said that day as the committee held a hearing with Gen. David Petraeus, commander of Multi-National Force-Iraq, and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker. Nor was I particularly surprised at what the senator, a stalwart supporter of the war in Iraq - a country he has, to his credit, visited six times during the war - had to say about the conflict. According to the e-mail, Chambliss closed his brief opening remarks by ...
US counting on 'diplomatic surge' for Iraq (a phrase Obama used a week ago)
Post Date: 2008-04-13 23:38:38 by robin
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - President George W. Bush this week celebrated security gains from the US troop "surge" in Iraq -- but made clear that US hopes rest heavily on what some aides call "the diplomatic surge." Amid controversy at home over plans for sealing a long-term strategic deal to keep US forces in Iraq, the Bush administration is stepping up efforts to get the country's neighbors, especially Saudi Arabia, to play a bigger role. "On the diplomatic front, Iraq will increase its engagement in the world -- and the world must increase its engagement with Iraq," the US president urged in an 18-minute defense of his handling of the unpopular war. But US ...
US Sanctions Send Iran Into the Arms of Asia
Post Date: 2008-04-13 21:56:19 by Red Jones
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US Sanctions Send Iran Into the Arms of Asia by China Hand Global Research, April 11, 2008 From a Western-centric point of view, the United States and its allies are pushing Iran into a corner. A broader perspective would indicate that we might simply be driving Iran into the arms of Asia. On March 24, Iran’s official media reported that Iran will apply for full membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a would-be nascent EU-esque community headed by China and Russia and containing a fistful of continental Asian states. Pres. Mahmud Ahmadinejad of Iran at SCO meeting, July 2007 Connoisseurs of irony, or at least sarcasm, will find fodder in Iran’s ...
Dr. Hans Blix: A War Of Utter Folly
Post Date: 2008-04-13 21:22:17 by robin
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A War Of Utter FollyResponsibility for this spectacular tragedy must lie with those who ignored the facts five years agoBy Dr. Hans BlixGlobal Research, April 13, 2008 The Guardian - 2008-03-21The invasion of Iraq in 2003 was a tragedy - for Iraq, for the US, for the UN, for truth and human dignity. I can only see one gain: the end of Saddam Hussein, a murderous tyrant. Had the war not finished him he would, in all likelihood, have become another Gadafy or Castro; an oppressor of his own people but no longer a threat to the world. Iraq was on its knees after a decade of sanctions.The elimination of weapons of mass destruction was the declared main aim of the war. It is improbable that the ...
Helicopter Gunship Blows Iraqis Up
Post Date: 2008-04-13 19:28:13 by YertleTurtle
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Poster Comment:I ran across this a few years ago. If I was the guy under the truck, I would have stayed there all night. No wonder so much of the world hates us.
More than 200 dead as battle rages in Baghdad
Post Date: 2008-04-13 02:04:08 by Dakmar
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THE toll from fierce fighting in Baghdad’s Sadr City has risen to at least 200 dead and more than 1,000 injured, according to doctors in the besieged suburb. US and Iraqi troops killed at least 13 gunmen in heavy fighting there yesterday against the Mahdi Army loyal to the radical Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. The reports from Sadr City hospitals suggest far higher casualty figures than previously reported, although they cannot be independently verified. Dr Qassem Mudalal, the director of the Imam Ali hospital, said: “There are 230 killed, I can confirm, in the hospitals of Sadr City. I’ve been living in the hospital for two weeks. “I can’t leave because ...
Bloodiest Week of 2008 for US Troops in Iraq Ends With Roadside Bomb Death, Pushing Toll to 19
Post Date: 2008-04-12 23:58:13 by robin
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A roadside bomb killed an American soldier in Baghdad on Saturday, capping the bloodiest week for U.S. troops in Iraq this year. Clashes persisted in Shiite areas, even as the biggest Shiite militia sought to rein in its fighters. At least 13 Shiite militants were killed in the latest clashes in Baghdad's militia stronghold of Sadr City, the U.S. military said. Iraqi police said seven civilians also died in fighting, which erupted Friday night and tapered off Saturday. The U.S. military said the American soldier was killed in a blast Saturday morning in northwestern Baghdad but did not say whether Shiite militiamen were responsible. The death raised to at least 19 the number of ...
Iraqi detainees languish uncharged in crowded jails
Post Date: 2008-04-12 23:38:13 by robin
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CAMP CONSTITUTION, Iraq — Barefoot in his yellow jumpsuit, the young detainee's eyes welled up as he described in a shaking voice how he landed in an Iraqi army detention facility on the outskirts of Baghdad. He was visiting his mother in the hospital when Iraqi soldiers raided the hospital and detained him and several others, said Thamer Hamed, 22. They handcuffed and blindfolded him and took him to a holding cell at a former U.S. military base, ironically named Camp Constitution, that's been handed over to the Iraqi army. There, he was told that he was accused of murder. That was 45 days ago, and he still hadn't seen a judge, he said. Asked to which religious sect he ...
US troops suffer worst week this year
Post Date: 2008-04-12 21:10:14 by richard9151
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2 hours, 50 minutes ago BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed an American soldier in Baghdad on Saturday, capping the bloodiest week for U.S. troops in Iraq this year. Clashes persisted in Shiite areas, even as the biggest Shiite militia sought to rein in its fighters. At least 13 Shiite militants were killed in the latest clashes in Baghdad's militia stronghold of Sadr City, the U.S. military said. Iraqi police said seven civilians also died in fighting, which erupted Friday night and tapered off Saturday. The U.S. military said the American soldier was killed in a blast Saturday morning in northwestern Baghdad but did not say whether Shiite militiamen were responsible. The death raised ...
Visions of Babylon (US Army Base Sits on Top Of Babylon)
Post Date: 2008-04-12 17:03:40 by Red Jones
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Visions of Babylon David Tresilian tours the Louvre's new Babylon exhibition and laments a major oversight Located in a strategic region of southern Iraq, the site of the ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon, like so much Iraqi heritage, has been in the news over recent years because of the threats posed to it first by the US-led invasion and then by the on-going violence and instability in Iraq. Last month, an exhibition dedicated to Babylon opened at the Louvre museum in Paris. However, missing from the presentation is any mention of the state of the site five years after the invasion of Iraq. The Louvre's new Babylon exhibition brings the historical city closer than ever to ...
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