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Latest Articles: War, War, War
US tripped up over Iranian captives
Post Date: 2007-11-20 00:00:39 by kiki
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WASHINGTON - The George W Bush administration's campaign to seize and detain Iranian Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) officials in Iraq, presented by Bush himself in January as a move to break up an alleged Iranian arms smuggling operation in Iraq, appears to have run its course without having been able to link a single Iranian to any such operation. Despite administration rhetoric suggesting that the US military had solid intelligence on which to base a campaign to break up Iranian-sponsored networks supplying armor-piercing weapons, what is now known about the kidnapping operations indicates that the actual purpose was to obtain some evidence from interrogations that would ...
Pentagon is left scrambling to pay for war
Post Date: 2007-11-19 22:45:48 by kiki
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Washington - Congress's failure last week to agree whether and how to fund the war puts the onus on the Pentagon, at least for now, to find a way to cover expenses in Iraq, potentially forcing the Defense Department to close dozens of domestic military bases and imperil the livelihoods of tens of thousands of defense workers. The congressional inaction may trigger Secretary Robert Gates to carry out his threat last week to furlough as many as 200,000 civil servants and defense contractors this winter, raising the stakes for Democratic lawmakers determined to tie war funding to a drawdown of US troops from Iraq. Before lawmakers left town Friday for their Thanksgiving recess, they did ...
German Mercenaries Seek their Fortunes in Iraq Get Rich or Die Trying
Post Date: 2007-11-19 22:25:14 by Zipporah
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German Mercenaries Seek their Fortunes in IraqBy John Goetz and Conny Neumann American companies like scandal-plagued Blackwater aren't the only ones sending fighters to Iraq -- German companies are also part of the mix. Their mercenaries are either getting rich in the process or returning home in a coffin. It's an ordinary, middle-class row house, with firewood stacked neatly outside and a closely-mowed lawn, part of a development of similar houses in a small town somewhere in Germany. But the unremarkable house is home to a man -- who would prefer it if both he and the town remain anonymous -- who makes his living from war. His office on the second floor marks the starting point ...
Thomas Friedman and Iraq: Suck on This!
Post Date: 2007-11-19 19:39:58 by Zipporah
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C&Ler Jonathan D emailed and told me that the Thomas Friedman “Suck on This” Iraq clip has been removed from Youtube. UPDATE: billw sent me the video! Play (975) I guest hosted Richard Greene’s show on Air America a little while ago and talked about Friedman: Play (1509) Friedman: What they needed to see was American boys and girls going house to house, from Basra to Baghdad, um and basically saying, “Which part of this sentence don’t you understand?” You don’t think, you know we care about our open society, you think this bubble fantasy, we’re just gonna to let it grow? Well, Suck. On. This. That Charlie is what this war is about. We could ...
General Says N. Iraq Most Violent Region
Post Date: 2007-11-19 19:23:23 by Brian S
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(11-19) 16:15 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) -- Despite a decline in violence in Iraq, northern Iraq has become more violent than other regions as al-Qaida and other militants move there to avoid coalition operations elsewhere, the region's top U.S. commander said Monday. Army Maj. Gen. Mark P. Hertling said al-Qaida cells still operate in all the key cities in the north. "What you're seeing is the enemy shifting," Hertling told Pentagon reporters in a video conference from outside Tikrit in northern Iraq. Hertling said militants have been pushed east to his area from Anbar by the so-called Awakening movement, in which local tribes have allied with the coalition against ...
Iraq Says 2 American Guards Detained After Private Security Convoy Opens Fire In Baghdad
Post Date: 2007-11-19 18:58:17 by Brian S
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BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraqi soldiers detained two American security guards along with several other foreigners traveling in a private security convoy after they opened fire Monday in Baghdad, wounding one woman, an Iraqi military spokesman said. U.S. military and embassy officials had no immediate information about the report, which follows a series of recent shootings in which foreign security guards have allegedly killed Iraqis. Last month, the Iraqi Cabinet sent parliament a bill to lift immunity for foreign private security companies that has been in effect since the U.S. occupation began in 2003. Brig. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi said the convoy was driving on the wrong side of the road in the ...
I Want to Use the Word 'Holocaust' for Iraq
Post Date: 2007-11-19 16:10:30 by aristeides
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I Want to Use the Word 'Holocaust' for Iraq The ever-curious Charlie Rose deserves kudos for hosting Saad Eskander, the Iraqi national librarian, the other night. It is the kind of interchange that I as an optimist want to think can change America: an intelligent, sensitive Arab speaks from the heart to an elite American peers. Let's learn to love the Iraqis, now that we have crumpled their society. The most moving thing Eskander said was that he had stopped writing a blog in August. The blog was a professional's view of the terrors of life in Baghdad, including regular reports on the torture, displacement, and murders of library staff. And observations like this: ...
UC Santa Barbara Students Drive Out CIA
Post Date: 2007-11-19 11:10:43 by angle
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The CIA was scheduled to hold an “infosession” for students interested in jobs with the agency. Right as the session began, four activists entered the room and began to demonstrate waterboarding, a torture technique used by the CIA. After only one minute of the waterboarding demonstration the room was plunged into chaos by a group calling itself the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army. The Rebel Clowns, joined by several dozen antiwar organizers took over the meeting room and began passing out information on the CIA’s use of illegal torture techniques and literature related to the agency’s long history of subverting foreign governments, assassinating foreign leaders ...
U.S. struggles to restore drinking water to Iraqis (70% of Iraqis w/o clean water)
Post Date: 2007-11-19 10:30:24 by robin
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AL-SADIYAH, Iraq -- The water tankers arrive twice a week in this parched village surrounded by fallow fields stretching into the horizon. The town's wells still pump out a flow, but few villagers dare drink from it unless in desperation. At the gate of Kayria Fayhan's home, 250 gallons of the trucked-in cargo fill a metal tank for cooking and drinking, sometimes for washing up if itching from the groundwater becomes unbearable. Even the "clean" water from the tanker is a gamble on some weeks. "They say the water is clean, but sometimes the water is green," Fayhan said. "Sometimes, there's rust floating in it." Despite the fact that Iraq and ...
Wars to watch out for
Post Date: 2007-11-19 06:06:07 by Ada
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2008 will bring us an abundant crop of overseas crises As we approach the new year, a fresh crop of overseas crises threatens to spring up, like mushrooms after a rain, and the prospects for peace on earth, this holiday season, are dimmer than ever. Iraq: First up on the agenda is, of course, the war in Iraq, which, we are told, is going swimmingly. The much-touted statistics that we're being fed by the War Party and its media enablers sound good, but if you look at them a bit closer, the illusion begins to dissipate. The downturn in violence that we're hearing so much about is largely due to the fact that the ethno-religious cleansing of contested regions of Iraq has been ...
God's police damn whores
Post Date: 2007-11-18 22:06:39 by tom007
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God's police damn whores * * Email * Printer friendly version * Normal font * Large font Robert Tait ,Tehran November 19, 2007 Advertisement IRAN'S straitlaced censors are not known for their tolerance of sexually risque literature, so a book called Memories of My Melancholy Whores was never likely to meet with their approval. But in their determination to get Gabriel Garcia Marquez's acclaimed work into bookshops, publishers hit on an audacious ruse: they sanitised its title. As a result, the normally vigilant Culture and Islamic Guidance Ministry's officials waved through the publication of the innocuously named Memories of My Melancholy Sweethearts. Now the ministry ...
Iran leader dismisses US currency
Post Date: 2007-11-18 21:42:10 by tom007
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Iran leader dismisses US currency President Ahmadinejad (L), President Chavez (2nd L), King Abdullah (C) at the Opec summit 17 Nov President Ahmadinejad (L) disagrees with King Abdullah (C) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has suggested an end to the trading of oil in US dollars, calling the currency "a worthless piece of paper". The call came at the end of a rare Opec summit, and was opposed by US ally Saudi Arabia. The Iranian president had wanted to include the attack on the dollar in the summit's closing statement. The communique made little mention of the dollar, however, focusing instead on energy security and the environment. The summit in Saudi Arabia was ...
Am I to blame for his private war?
Post Date: 2007-11-18 18:24:22 by robin
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How this iconic image from Iraq changed the lives of its photographer and ex-marine James Blake Miller Cover Story Am I to blame for his private war? Luis Sinco Sunday November 18, 2007 The Observer The young marine lit a cigarette and let it dangle. White smoke wafted around his helmet. His face was smeared with war paint. Blood trickled from his right ear and the bridge of his nose. Momentarily deafened by cannon blasts, he didn't know the shooting had stopped. He stared at the sunrise. His expression caught my eye. To me, it said terrified, exhausted and glad just to be alive. I recognised that look because that's how I felt too. I raised my camera and snapped a few ...
How 4 Words From Basra Will Change Everything
Post Date: 2007-11-18 13:48:52 by robin
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How 4 Words From Basra Will Change Everything Jeffrey FeldmanSat Nov 17, 8:10 PM ET A recent article about British troops leaving Basra (the second largest city in Iraq) suggests that the Iraq debate is about to experience a seismic change--a shift in the way every American talks and thinks about the most pressing issue of our time. The change can be summed up in 4 simple words: troops leave, violence drops As the deafening hubbub of propaganda drowns out every attempt to talk real policy change on Iraq, this simple descriptive formula--troops leave, violence drops--cuts through it all. And here's why it is so powerful... A Simple Logic: Up And Down, In And OutOften, the most far ...
Dr. Gene Bolles- The War Comes Home {The Pentagon reports the grand total of U.S. killed, wounded, injured, and ill for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars reached nearly 67,000 at the end of July 2007}
Post Date: 2007-11-18 11:58:56 by Zipporah
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Dr. Gene Bolles has spent 30 years repairing bodies broken by disease, accidents and brutality. Drafted into the military during the Vietnam War, the Colorado neurosurgeon served for two years as a flight surgeon, witnessing the suffering of both U.S. military personnel and Vietnamese civilians. Yet, despite his extensive experience with war, nothing has shaken him up more than the 26 months he spent working at Landstuhl Medical Center in Germany treating U.S. soldiers wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq. Did You Know? The Pentagon reports the grand total of U.S. killed, wounded, injured, and ill for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars reached nearly 67,000 at the end of July 2007. Dr. Gene ...
Chavez: US Attack on Iran Will Spike Oil
Post Date: 2007-11-18 10:54:17 by Zipporah
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Chavez: US Attack on Iran Will Spike Oil By SEBASTIAN ABBOT Associated Press Writer 3:04 PM EST, November 17, 2007 RIYADH, Saudi Arabia In his opening address of a rare OPEC summit, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez warned the United States on Saturday that oil prices would further surge if the U.S. contemplates an attack against his country or Iran. Minutes after Chavez declared that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries should "assert itself as an active political agent," Saudi King Abdullah appeared to rebuke the Venezuelan, insisting that "OPEC has always acted moderately and wisely." "Oil shouldn't be a tool for conflict, it should be a ...
Murtha Two Years Ago Today: Bush’s Iraq Course Is ‘Flawed Policy Wrapped In Illusion’
Post Date: 2007-11-18 10:50:40 by Zipporah
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Murtha Two Years Ago Today: Bush’s Iraq Course Is ‘Flawed Policy Wrapped In Illusion’ Today marks two years from the day that Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) boldly called for a timetable for redeployment of U.S. forces out of Iraq. “The war in Iraq is not going as advertised. It is a flawed policy wrapped in illusion,” Murtha said, adding that his call for withdrawal was motivated by deep concern for the state of the military: This war needs to be personalized. As I said before I have visited with the severely wounded of this war. They are suffering. Because we in Congress are charged with sending our sons and daughters into battle, it is our responsibility, our ...
Iran says ready to act if attacked
Post Date: 2007-11-18 10:41:03 by Zipporah
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Iran says ready to act if attackedSat Nov 17, 2007 11:14 AM ET MANAMA (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday Iran was ready to respond if attacked, but played down the prospect of war with the United States.Ahmadinejad was speaking during a visit to Bahrain which came amid mounting concerns in the Gulf that the United States could launch military action against Iran, although Washington says it is committed to a diplomatic solution to a crisis over Tehran's nuclear ambitions."We never want any war in this region, but from another front, we have made all preparations, and if there is any suspicion on this matter, then we are ready," said Ahmadinejad, ...
The Siege (Who has seen this movie?)
Post Date: 2007-11-18 07:07:40 by Kamala
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The Siege From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search The Siege The movie poster for The Siege. Directed by Edward Zwick Produced by Lynda Obst Edward Zwick Written by Lawrence Wright Menno Meyjes Edward Zwick Starring Denzel Washington Annette Bening Bruce Willis Tony Shalhoub David Proval Sami Bouajila Music by Graeme Revell Cinematography Roger Deakins Editing by Steven Rosenblum Distributed by 20th Century Fox Release date(s) November 6, 1998 Running time 116 min. Language English Budget $70 million IMDb profile For other uses, see The Siege (disambiguation). The Siege is a 1998 film about a fictional situation where terrorist cells have ...
David Kelly: The belly-dancing spy whose secrets they just ignored
Post Date: 2007-11-17 22:17:30 by Zipporah
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David Kelly: The belly-dancing spy whose secrets they just ignoredBy NORMAN BAKER MP - More by this author » Last updated at 00:59am on 23rd October 2007 Comments Bewitching: Mai Pederson Uuncorrected to this day, the transcripts of the Hutton Inquiry still refer to a mysterious figure called Mike Peddison, mentioned in the testimony of David Kelly's wife Janice as a family friend. In fact, the transcribers misheard the name. Mrs Kelly was talking about Mai Pederson — a bellydancing US Army sergeant who, according to both her ex-husbands, is a spy with an astonishing ability to bewitch men. Charismatic and exotic, Ms Pederson was an Arab-American linguist whom ...
Dozens of corpses found in Baghdad
Post Date: 2007-11-17 22:09:09 by Zipporah
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Dozens of corpses found in Baghdad Baghdad grave in former al-Qaida stronghold is third found this monthThe Associated Pressupdated 3:35 p.m. ET, Sat., Nov. 17, 2007BAGHDAD - Remains of possibly dozens of people believed slain in sectarian violence were unearthed Saturday from a mass grave in a former al-Qaida stronghold in southern Baghdad — the third such find in Iraq this month.Also Saturday, an Iraqi television station reported one of its reporters had been kidnapped — the latest in a grim series of attacks that has made Iraq among the world’s most dangerous countries for journalists.The badly decomposed remains were found in Baghdad’s mostly Sunni Dora neighborhood ...
Homeland Security Links 9/11 Truthers to Taliban
Post Date: 2007-11-17 10:54:29 by snoopdougg
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Homeland Security Links 9/11 Truthers to Taliban November 16, 2007 by spktruth2power Do you remember when Bush Jr. said, “either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists”? Well, he meant it. Homeland Security’s sub-committee on terrorism risk assessment convened a hearing on 11-06-2007 to discuss “using the Web as a weapon - the Internet as a tool for violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism.” In a video of this meeting, which was last aired by C-Span on 11-12-2007, members of the sub-committee clearly pointed to Internet sites that question the legitimacy of the official 9/11 story as tools for recruiting terrorists. During the course of the hearing, ...
U.S. Helps Push Pakistan to the Brink
Post Date: 2007-11-17 06:18:09 by Kamala
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U.S. Helps Push Pakistan to the Brink By Ivan Eland November 17, 2007 Editor’s Note: The neoconservative vision of remaking the Middle East so it would conform to U.S. strategic interests is on the verge of turning into an unspeakable nightmare as nuclear-armed Pakistan teeters on the brink. In this guest essay, the Independent Institute's Ivan Eland looks back on how this happened and looks forward at how to avert catastrophe: Pakistani president Gen. Pervez Musharraf is now teetering on the edge of the abyss, just as I predicted in the spring of 2007. He was pushed there by U.S. policy, and worse yet, his country is armed with nukes. Share this article Bookmark Digg Email ...
US Economy–Recession, Depression, or Collapse?
Post Date: 2007-11-17 06:03:14 by Kamala
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Published on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 by CommonDreams.org US Economy–Recession, Depression, or Collapse? by Shepherd Bliss “For Consumers, the Hits Keep Coming” a recent banner headline in a New York Times-owned daily newspaper here in Northern California reports. The article misses the main points. If we continue to understand ourselves as primarily passive consumers, rather than as active citizens, the US economy will enter at least a recession, probably a depression, and possibly a collapse. Even our republic is at risk. Rampant consumption, our addiction to growth, and our failure to accept limits to growth damage us. The headline beneath the banner-”Cleanup ...
It’s Treason: Dems Stay Silent on Bush White House Crimes
Post Date: 2007-11-17 05:55:16 by Kamala
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It’s Treason: Dems Stay Silent on Bush White House Crimes By Richard W. Behan, AlterNet. Posted November 16, 2007. Lying to the people and the Congress was the most despicable violation of the rule of law by Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, but many more followed. Tools Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. --Article III, Section 3, United States Constitution (emphasis added) The mainstream Democrats -- represented, say, by Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Joe Biden, and Christopher Dodd -- have not levied war against the United States. Their ...
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