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A Middle East Union: A Two-Stage Solution To The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Post Date: 2008-01-13 22:28:04 by _______
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Since the 1980s the Palestinian leadership, most Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, the Israeli peace movement and a growing majority of Israelis have advocated a two-state solution to their interminable conflict. That solution envisioned a Palestinian state alongside the state of Israel. While it was not a wholly just solution – Israel retains 78% of the country, the Palestinians only 22%, even though, with the return of only some of the refugees, they would constitute a clear majority of the population – it gave the Palestinians meaningful territory, a political identity and a viable state. As Israel continues to strengthen its grip over the Occupied Territories (the ...
UK Troops Facing 'Decades' In Afghanistan
Post Date: 2008-01-13 22:17:38 by robin
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UK Troops Facing 'Decades' In Afghanistan Updated:07:34, Sunday January 13, 2008 British troops could be fighting in Afghanistan for decades, Defence Secretary Des Browne has indicated. His comments were the most explicit sign yet from the Government that the UK's commitments in the war-torn country may last more than 20 years. Asked when troops would be pulled out of Afghanistan, Mr Browne told The People: "We cannot risk it again becoming an ungoverned training haven for terrorists who threaten the UK. "But there is only so much our forces can achieve. The job can only be completed by the international community working with the Afghan government and its ...
NATO used Afghan children to detect land-mines: ex-German soldier
Post Date: 2008-01-13 22:05:56 by robin
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NATO used Afghan children to detect land-mines: ex-German soldier Global Research, January 12, 2008 IRNA - 2008-01-10 Soldiers of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) have repeatedly used Afghan children to detect land-mines in war-ravaged country, said a former German ISAF officer in Berlin on Thursday. Unveiling his new book titled 'Final Station', Achim Wohlgetan pointed out that children were misused by ISAF forces to find land- mines in the Kabul region in 2002. ISAF soldiers threw apples on an area and then waited to see what would happen. If the children were to run to pick up the apples, and there was no explosion, the area was declared safe, ...
The shocking truth about the American occupation of Iraq
Post Date: 2008-01-13 22:03:16 by tom007
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The shocking truth about the American occupation of Iraq Could Haditha be just the tip of the mass grave? The corpses we have glimpsed, the grainy footage of the cadavers and the dead children; could these be just a few of many? Does the handiwork of America's army of the slums go further? By Robert Fisk - 03 June 2006 http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article624173.ece http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/272620_haditha04.html I remember clearly the first suspicions I had that murder most foul might be taking place in our name in Iraq. I was in the Baghdad mortuary, counting corpses, when one of the city's senior medical officials, an old friend, told me of his fears. ...
“There’s no pressure from Congress” not to take military action, the House member added. “The only political pressure is from the guys who want to do it.” Speaking of President Bush, the House member said, “The most worrisome thing is that this guy has a messianic vision.” (Read This )
Post Date: 2008-01-13 19:48:15 by tom007
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“There’s no pressure from Congress” not to take military action, the House member added. “The only political pressure is from the guys who want to do it.” Speaking of President Bush, the House member said, “The most worrisome thing is that this guy has a messianic vision.” “The planning is enormous,” the former senior intelligence official said, referring to the activity at the U.S. Central Command headquarters, in Florida; the Joint Warfare Analysis Center, in Virginia; and the U.S. Strategic Command, in Nebraska. “Space assets, SLBMs”—submarine-launched ballistic missiles—“tactical air, and sabotage, coöperation ...
How the New England Journal of Medicine Undercounted Iraqi Civilian Deaths
Post Date: 2008-01-13 06:43:35 by Ada
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Gross Distortions, Sloppy Methodology and Tendentious Reporting How the New England Journal of Medicine Undercounted Iraqi Civilian Deaths By ANDREW COCKBURN Almost five years into the destruction of Iraq, the orthodox rule of thumb for assessing statistical tabulations of the civilian death toll is becoming clear: any figure will do so long as it is substantially lower than that computed by the Johns Hopkins researchers in their 2004 and 2006 studies. Their findings, based on the most orthodox sampling methodology and published in the Lancet after extensive peer review, estimated the post-invasion death toll by 2006 at about 655,000. Predictably, this shocking assessment drew howls of ...
Bush says troop cutbacks might stop
Post Date: 2008-01-12 20:50:49 by kiki
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MANAMA, Bahrain - President Bush said Saturday he is open to the possibility of slowing or stopping plans to bring home more U.S. troops from Iraq, defying domestic demands to speed the withdrawals. Updated on war developments, Bush said the U.S. presence in Iraq will outlast his presidency. Bush said any decision about troop levels "needs to be based upon success," but that there was no discussion about specific numbers when he was briefed by Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Baghdad. The president was cheered by news that Iraq's parliament had approved legislation reinstating thousands of former supporters of ...
Ban eased on Saddam-era officials
Post Date: 2008-01-12 18:41:03 by robin
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Ban eased on Saddam-era officials Saddam Hussein's Baath party was predominantly Sunni The Iraqi parliament has passed legislation allowing former officials from Saddam Hussein's Baath party to return to public life. The US had been urging Iraq's Shia-led government to approve the move in a bid to reach out to minority Sunni Arabs. It will allow thousands of former party members to apply for reinstatement in the civil service and military. US President George W Bush, who is in the Gulf, called the new Iraqi law "an important step towards reconciliation". Mr Bush was speaking in Bahrain, the latest stage in a tour of the Middle East. ...
Why is Iran Still in the Cross-Hairs? - Clues from PNAC
Post Date: 2008-01-12 12:39:34 by robin
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Why is Iran Still in the Cross-Hairs?Clues from the Project of a New American CenturyBy Dr. Ellen Hodgson BrownGlobal Research, January 12, 2008 webofdebt.comIn the latest escalation of tensions with Iran, on January 5, 2008 five Iranian patrol boats surrounded three U.S. ships in the Strait of Hormuz, coming within a "threatening" 200 meters. A voice with a thick accent then said in English, "I am coming at you – you will explode in a couple of minutes." The U.S. ships prepared to strike, when the patrol boats backed off. That is how the Pentagon told it, but Iranians have questioned where the threatening voice came from, and Pentagon officials have admitted that ...
FBI finds Blackwater trucks patched
Post Date: 2008-01-12 11:56:32 by richard9151
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1 hour, 2 minutes ago WASHINGTON - Blackwater Worldwide repaired and repainted its trucks immediately after a deadly September shooting in Baghdad, making it difficult to determine whether enemy gunfire provoked the attack, according to people familiar with the government's investigation of the incident. Damage to the vehicles in the convoy has been held up by Blackwater as proof that its security guards were defending themselves against an insurgent ambush when they fired into a busy intersection, leaving 17 Iraqi civilians dead. U.S. military investigators initially found "no enemy activity involved" and the Iraqi government concluded the shootings were unprovoked. The ...
Report reveals Vietnam War hoaxes, faked attacks
Post Date: 2008-01-12 09:30:20 by Kamala
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Report reveals Vietnam War hoaxes, faked attacks Tue Jan 8, 9:45 AM ET North Vietnamese made hoax calls to get the US military to bomb its own units during the Vietnam War, according to declassified information that also confirmed US officials faked an incident to escalate the war. The report was released by the National Security Agency, responsible for much of the United States' codebreaking and eavesdropping work, in response to a "mandatory declassification" request, the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) said Monday. From the first intercepted cable -- a 1945 message from Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh to his Russian counterpart Joseph Stalin -- to the final ...
POLITICS-US: Official Version of Naval Incident Starts to Unravel
Post Date: 2008-01-12 08:37:23 by Kamala
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POLITICS-US: Official Version of Naval Incident Starts to Unravel Analysis by Gareth Porter* Credit:Press-TV Image from Iranian video depicting the Jan. 7 encounter with U.S. warships in the Strait of Hormuz. WASHINGTON, Jan 10 (IPS) - Despite the official and media portrayal of the incident in the Strait of Hormuz early Monday morning as a serious threat to U.S. ships from Iranian speedboats that nearly resulted in a "battle at sea", new information over the past three days suggests that the incident did not involve such a threat and that no U.S. commander was on the verge of firing at the Iranian boats. The new information that appears to contradict the original version of ...
Blackwater dropped blinding tear gas on Iraqis, US soldiers in 2005
Post Date: 2008-01-11 21:02:21 by richard9151
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Blackwater security contractors employed in Iraq dropped a blinding riot-control gas on Iraqi civilians and US military personnel on a busy Baghdad street in May 2005, according to the reporter who first broke the NSA wiretapping scandal in the New York Times. "The copter dropped CS gas, a riot-control substance the American military in Iraq can use only under the strictest conditions and with the approval of top military commanders," James Risen writes. "An armored vehicle on the ground also released the gas, temporarily blinding drivers, passers-by and at least 10 American soldiers operating the checkpoint." CS gas -- 2-chlorobenzalmalononitrile -- is among the most ...
Voice from Iran incident may be regional pest ( Dr. Paul was right about rushing to wrongly judge Iranian gunboats!)
Post Date: 2008-01-11 18:35:39 by scrapper2
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The threatening radio transmission heard at the end of a video showing harassing maneuvers by Iranian patrol boats in the Strait of Hormuz may have come from a locally famous heckler well known to Navy crews. Since the Jan. 6 incident was announced to the public a day later, the U.S. Navy has said it's unclear where the voice came from. In the videotape released by the Pentagon on Jan. 8, the screen goes black at the very end and the voice can be heard, distancing it from the scenes on the water. "We don't know for sure where they came from," said Cmdr. Lydia Robertson, spokeswoman for 5th Fleet in Bahrain. "It could have been a shore station." While the threat ...
Bush: U.S. could "easily" be in Iraq for 10 years
Post Date: 2008-01-11 16:51:04 by robin
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush said on Friday the United States would have a long-term presence in Iraq that could "easily" last a decade, but that it would be at the invitation of the Iraqi government. In an interview with NBC News, Bush was asked about recent comments by Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain that it would be fine with him to have a U.S. military presence in Iraq for 100 years. "That's a long time," Bush replied, adding that there "could very well be" a long-term U.S. presence in Iraq at the invitation of the government in Baghdad. When asked if it could be 10 years, Bush replied: "It could easily ...
The "Good Good War" Is A Bad War - Afganistan
Post Date: 2008-01-11 12:38:51 by richard9151
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10/01/08 "ICH" -- - In his latest article for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes how the invasion of Afghanistan, which was widely supported in the West as a 'good war' and justifiable response to 9/11, was actually planned months before 9/11 and is the latest instalment of 'a great game'. "To me, I confess, [countries] are pieces on a chessboard upon which is being played out a game for dominion of the world." Lord Curzon, viceroy of India, speaking about Afghanistan, 1898 I had suggested to Marina that we meet in the safety of the Intercontinental Hotel, where foreigners stay in Kabul, but she said no. She had been there once and government ...
Congressman Wexler Is First To Call Iraq War a "Surge Of Lies"
Post Date: 2008-01-10 23:30:43 by AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt
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Congressman Wexler Is First To Call Iraq War a "Surge Of Lies" January 10, 2008 (LPAC)--Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL), who has opened a drive for the impeachment of Dick Cheney, has become the first Congressman to openly say that the Bush "surge" plan for Iraq is a failure and denounces the Rohatyn Democrats for not saying so. In a Jan. 8 statement entitled, "Surge of Lies" Wexler writes: "A new troubling myth has taken hold in Washington and it is critical that the record is set straight. According to the mainstream media, Republicans, and unfortunately even some Democrats, the President's surge in Iraq has been a resounding success. In fact, ...
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Post Date: 2008-01-10 22:57:40 by tom007
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What Happened in the Strait of Hormuz?How to prevent a naval war with Iran.
Post Date: 2008-01-10 20:58:47 by tom007
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What Happened in the Strait of Hormuz?How to prevent a naval war with Iran. By Fred Kaplan Posted Thursday, Jan. 10, 2008, at 6:29 PM ET The USS Port Royal. Click image to epxand.The USS Port Royal Just how serious was the half-hour standoff Sunday morning between three American warships and five Iranian speed boats in the Strait of Hormuz? Did we come close to war? Was there any provocation? Was the Pentagon's version of events, as the Iranians claim, a fake? In response to the Iranians' charge, the Defense Department released excerpts from a videotape of the incident. In response to that, the Iranians issued their own video. Both clips are strange. They are also very different ...
Army Clears Officer Court-Martialed For Abu Ghraib
Post Date: 2008-01-10 19:38:50 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The only U.S. Army officer to face a court-martial over the scandal at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison has been cleared of any criminal wrongdoing in the case, the Army said on Thursday. A court-martial convicted Lt. Col. Steven Jordan in August of disobeying an order not to discuss the investigation of abuse at the jail and issued him a criminal reprimand as penalty. But Maj. Gen. Richard Rowe, commanding officer for the Army Military District of Washington, on Tuesday disapproved of both the conviction and the reprimand, the Army said. The decision by Rowe wipes Jordan's record clean of any criminal responsibility. "In light of the offense Jordan has been ...
US warplanes pound Baghdad
Post Date: 2008-01-10 17:12:18 by Red Jones
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US warplanes pound Baghdad Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:51:32 US jet fighters have launched a massive air offensive on parts of Baghdad, hitting nearly 40 targets in the war-torn Iraqi capital. US warplanes dropped 40,000 pounds of bombs on more than 40 targets on Baghdad's southern outskirts, the military said in a statement. The US Air Force dispatched two B-1 bombers and four F-16 fighter jets, aiming at three large target areas in Arab Jabour. The statement allegedly said that the strike had been on al Qaeda targets. It gave no details of casualties. MSH/PA
Army turned over rape evidence to KBR
Post Date: 2008-01-10 12:55:59 by PSUSA
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WASHINGTON — The Defense Department's Inspector General is trying to learn why Army hospital personnel in Iraq who examined a former KBR worker after an alleged gang rape apparently turned the physical evidence over to KBR security officials. Responding to an inquiry from Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., Assistant Inspector General John Crane, in a Jan. 3 letter, said the Inspector General's office was looking into "whether and why Army officials turned the results of ... (the) rape examination over to company officials." The Inspector General's office also is trying to learn how many other rape examinations have been performed by U.S. military doctors in Iraq, as well ...
Soldier says he randomly shot at Iraqis
Post Date: 2008-01-10 09:54:11 by PSUSA
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The Associated Press Posted : Thursday Jan 10, 2008 6:10:49 EST FORT CARSON, Colo. — The Army is investigating possible war crimes after a Fort Carson soldier facing first-degree murder charges in the slayings of two Iraq war veterans told investigators he and another soldier randomly fired at Iraqi civilians. Pfc. Bruce Bastien Jr. and two former soldiers face charges in the December shooting death of Spc. Kevin Shields, while Bastien and one of those former soldiers face charges in the Aug. 4 shooting death of Pfc. Robert James. Fort Carson spokeswoman Dee McNutt confirmed the Army investigation detailed in a motion filed by prosecutors Tuesday seeking to combine the two slayings ...
Former Marine speaks out against shooting
Post Date: 2008-01-10 08:48:02 by noone222
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Former Marine speaks out against shooting Wednesday, 9-Jan-2008 10:31PM CST Story from United Press International Copyright 2008 by United Press International (via ClariNet) NANGAHAR, Afghanistan, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- An ex-Marine testified at Camp Lejeune, N.C., that Marines shot civilians after a 2007 car bomb attack on their convoy in Afghanistan's Nangahar Province. "I really felt there were a lot of people who died who didn't need to," former Sgt. Nathaniel Travers was quoted as telling a fact-finding hearing Tuesday by the San Antonio (Texas) Express-News. "They were just driving their cars." However, another Marine at the scene testified there was no ...
Iran: U.S. faked video of Gulf incident
Post Date: 2008-01-09 21:55:40 by leveller
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran accused the United States on Wednesday of fabricating video and audio released by the Pentagon showing Iranian boats confronting U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf. The video from Sunday's incident shows small Iranian boats swarming around U.S. warships in the Strait of Hormuz. In the recording, a man speaking in heavily accented English threatened, "I am coming to you. ... You will explode after ... minutes." "The footage released by the U.S. Navy was compiled using file pictures and the audio has been fabricated," an official in Iran's Revolutionary Guards was quoted as saying by the state-run English-language channel Press TV. ...
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