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Robert Fisk: Holocaust denial in the White House
Post Date: 2007-11-14 18:15:03 by tom007
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Robert Fisk: Holocaust denial in the White House The Turks say the Armenians died in a 'civil war', and Bush goes along with their lies Published: 10 November 2007 How are the mighty fallen! President George Bush, the crusader king who would draw the sword against the forces of Darkness and Evil, he who said there was only "them or us", who would carry on, he claimed, an eternal conflict against "world terror" on our behalf; he turns out, well, to be a wimp. A clutch of Turkish generals and a multimillion-dollar public relations campaign on behalf of Turkish Holocaust deniers have transformed the lion into a lamb. No, not even a lamb – for this animal is, ...
Baghdad Blast Shows Security 'Fragile': US
Post Date: 2007-11-14 15:55:52 by Brian S
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BAGHDAD (AFP) — A US commander warned on Wednesday that despite improving security in Iraq, progress is fragile and "far from irreversible", hours after a massive bomb ripped into a US military convoy in Baghdad. "The enemy still has both the will and the capacity to cause significant loss of life and damage to property," US military spokesman Rear Admiral Gregory Smith told a press conference. He referred to Wednesday's bombing of the military convoy outside the highly fortified Green Zone in which a US soldier and two civilians were killed, and to an attack by a large group of Al-Qaeda gunmen on the town of Adwaniyah near Baghdad on Monday that was ...
Nightline: THE OTHER WAR [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-11-14 14:54:54 by robin
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Nightline goes to Afghanistan for what they call “an uncensored and unfiltered look at the brutality of war in the untold story of THE OTHER WAR The following video is from ABC’s NIGHTLINE, broadcast on November 12, 2007 Posted November 14th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
Letter From Leuren Moret To Honorable Jim McDermott on Depleted Uranium
Post Date: 2007-11-14 12:56:31 by Horse
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February 21, 2003 The Honorable Jim McDermott, Congressman Washington State 7th Congressional District 1809 7th Avenue Suite 1212 Seattle, WA 98101-1399 (206) 553-7170 (206) 553-7175 FAX RE: Declassified 1943 memo to General L.R. Groves – a blueprint for depleted uranium Dear Congressman McDermott, Mr. Joe Pemberton, a lawyer in Bellingham, Washington, has asked me to provide you with scientific information on the critical and overlooked issues of particle size, penetration of gas masks, and mobility of depleted uranium formed under battleground conditions. It is also powerful scientific information to counter false statements recently made by the White House1 and the DOD2. I am ...
Turkish helicopters attack Iraqi villages: report
Post Date: 2007-11-14 11:15:44 by SmokinOPs
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SULAIMANIYAH, IRAQ — Turkish helicopter gunships attacked villages inside Iraq on Tuesday, Iraqi officials said, the first such air strike since border tensions have escalated in recent months. It also was the first major Turkish action against Kurdish rebels since Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan met U.S. President George W. Bush in Washington earlier this month. Col. Hussein Tamir, an Iraqi Army officer who supervises border guards, said the air strikes occurred before dawn on abandoned villages near Zakhu, an Iraqi Kurdish town near the border with Turkey. There were no casualties, he said. A spokesman for the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, corroborated Col. ...
Bremner, Bird, and Fortune: George Parr (Iraq oil)
Post Date: 2007-11-14 10:43:10 by angle
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An interview with 'George Parr' (a fictional character stating real facts). Shown in 2007 during Bremner, Bird, and Fortune the interview features Iraq and it's oil.
Report: FBI Has Found 14 of 17 Blackwater Killings In Iraq Were Unjustified
Post Date: 2007-11-14 00:12:02 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The New York Times is reporting that FBI agents have found no evidence that Blackwater security guards were fired on when they killed 17 Iraqi civilians in September. The Web site report, citing U.S. civilian and military officials briefed on the case, says the guards were unjustified in killing at least 14 of the civilians and that they violated the rules of deadly force. Included in the reports is that the FBI has found that as many as five Blackwater employees opened fire during the shootings and that agents are focused on one guard in particular because he was responsible for several of the deaths. A government official familiar with the investigation tells The ...
The Veteran Suicide Epidemic
Post Date: 2007-11-13 21:05:36 by Brian S
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(CBS) They are the casualties of wars you don’t often hear about - soldiers who die of self-inflicted wounds. Little is known about the true scope of suicides among those who have served in the military. But a five-month CBS News investigation discovered data that shows a startling rate of suicide, what some call a hidden epidemic, Chief Investigative Reporter Armen Keteyian reports exclusively. “I just felt like this silent scream inside of me,” said Jessica Harrell, the sister of a soldier who took his own life. "I opened up the door and there he was," recalled Mike Bowman, the father of an Army reservist. "I saw the hose double looped around his ...
In Iraq, the silence of the lambs
Post Date: 2007-11-13 20:42:14 by tom007
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In Iraq, the silence of the lambs By Ali al-Fadhily BAGHDAD - The separation of religious groups in the face of sectarian violence has brought some semblance of relative calm to Baghdad. But many Iraqis see this as the uncertain consequence of a divide and rule policy. Claims are being made that sectarian violence in Iraq has fallen because that the US military ”surge” has succeeded in reducing attacks against civilians. But Baghdad residents say that they now live in a largely divided city that has brought an uneasy calm. ”I would like to agree with the idea that violence in Iraq has decreased and that everything is fine,” retired general Waleed al-Ubaidy told ...
"Drug War" Puts Blackwater Back in the Running
Post Date: 2007-11-13 20:33:40 by tom007
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"Drug War" Puts Blackwater Back in the Running TruthNews | November 13, 2007 Kurt Nimmo Just when you thought Blackwater would have its purse strings clipped: "A Defense Department contract involving antidrug training missions may test the durability of the political controversy over Blackwater Worldwide's security work in Iraq," reports August Cole for the Wall Street Journal. The Moyock, N.C., company, which was involved in a September shooting in Baghdad that left 17 Iraqis dead, is one of five military contractors competing for as much as $15 billion over five years to help fight a narcotics trade that the government says finances terrorist groups. Also ...
DynCorp security guards shoot taxi driver dead in Baghdad
Post Date: 2007-11-13 18:48:52 by Zipporah
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Deborah Haynes in Baghdad Guards working for an American private security firm have shot dead an Iraqi taxi driver in the latest in a series of killings that has prompted a shake-up of Iraq's multibillion-dollar foreign security industry. Iraqi security sources said that the shooting took place on Saturday afternoon, when the driver's car passed too close to a seven-vehicle US convoy in western Baghdad that was being protected by DynCorp International guards. DynCorp and the US Embassy in the Iraqi capital confirmed that an incident had taken place but could not say whether anyone had been killed or injured. The death will add fuel to a debate that is already raging about the ...
Buchanan: Is World War III on hold?
Post Date: 2007-11-13 11:15:04 by Brian S
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November 13, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern Is a Bush pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear enrichment plant at Natanz, or on the Al Quds force of the Revolutionary Guard, a more remote possibility today than it was several weeks ago? So it would seem. The latest indication is a candid interview in the Financial Times with Adm. William "Fox" Fallon, head of Central Command, who would be the Tommy Franks of any naval or air war on Iran. "The Pentagon is not preparing a pre-emptive attack on Iran in spite of an increase in bellicose rhetoric from Washington, according to senior officers," concluded the FT in the lead of its story. Dealing with Iran is a ...
Iraq, Afghan War Costs Are $1.6 Trillion
Post Date: 2007-11-13 10:20:44 by christine
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The economic costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are estimated to total $1.6 trillion—roughly double the amount the White House has requested thus far, according to a new report by Congress' Joint Economic Committee. The report, obtained by The Associated Press and scheduled to be released Tuesday, attempted to put a price tag on the two conflicts, including "hidden" costs such as interest payments on the money borrowed to pay for the wars, lost investment, the expense of long- term health care for injured veterans and the cost of oil market disruptions. The $1.6 trillion figure, for the period from 2002 to 2008, translates into a cost of $20,900 ...
Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Iran (PRESIDENTIAL NOTICE OF NOV. 8, 2007)
Post Date: 2007-11-13 09:50:33 by aristeides
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Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Iran On November 14, 1979, by Executive Order 12170, the President declared a national emergency with respect to Iran pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States constituted by the situation in Iran. Because our relations with Iran have not yet returned to normal, and the process of implementing the January 19, 1981 agreements with Iran is still underway, the national emergency declared on November 14, 1979, must continue in effect beyond November 14, 2007. Therefore, ...
POLL: Is is possible to support the troops and oppose the Iraq war?
Post Date: 2007-11-12 20:02:14 by angle
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Is is possible to support the troops and oppose the Iraq war? No. Opposing the war dishonors the troops (60 Votes, 20%) No. Opposing the war means you can't support the troops (21 Votes, 7%) Yes. They're two different things (224 Votes, 73%) www.sanduskyregister.com/
US Military Reversing Iraq Troop Surge
Post Date: 2007-11-12 17:45:08 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The first big test of security gains linked to the U.S. troop buildup in Iraq is at hand. The military has started to reverse the 30,000-strong troop increase and commanders are hoping the drop in insurgent and sectarian violence in recent months - achieved at the cost of hundreds of lives - won't prove fleeting. The current total of 20 combat brigades is shrinking to 19 as the 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, operating in volatile Diyala province, leaves. The U.S. command in Baghdad announced on Saturday that the brigade had begun heading home to Fort Hood, Texas, and that its battle space will be taken by another brigade already operating in Iraq. Between January ...
Rest of Iranian Diplomats to Be Released Soon
Post Date: 2007-11-12 10:37:11 by aristeides
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Rest of Iranian Diplomats to Be Released Soon TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Tehran quoted head of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC) Abdel Aziz Hakim as saying that three of its diplomats still kept in US captivity will be released in the near future. Last Friday the US released two of the five Iranian mission staffers who had been kidnapped during a raid by the US troops on Iran's consulate general in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil last January. "We know that the respectable Iraqi officials have launched extensive follow-ups to the case to set all of our dear ones free," Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini told FNA here on Monday, quoting ...
U.S. Commander: U.S. not preparing strike on Iran (CENTCOM COMMANDER ADM. FALLON)
Post Date: 2007-11-12 10:27:44 by aristeides
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U.S. Commander: U.S. not preparing strike on Iran LONDON, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- The United States is not preparing a preemptive attack on Iran in spite of an increase in bellicose rhetoric from Washington, the Financial Times newspaper reported on Monday. U.S. Commander of Central Command Admiral William Fallon told the Financial Times that while dealing with Iran was a "challenge," a strike was not "in the offing." "None of this is helped by the continuing stories that just keep going around and around and around that any day now there will be another war which is just not where we want to go," said Fallon, who commands military operations in the Middle East. ...
The Man Who Bombed Hiroshima
Post Date: 2007-11-12 05:58:17 by Ada
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The man who flew the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima passed away last week at the age of 92. Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr. did not die from war wounds or violently at the hands of other people, years before his time. He died in hospice care, in a bed, from heart problems and strokes. In stark contrast, the more than 100,000 civilians who were killed at Hiroshima 62 years ago were burnt, melted, vaporized, in an apocalyptic act of warfare. Many died painful deaths over a period of days or weeks. Others saw family members consumed by flames. Most were far younger than Tibbets was when he finally died. Thousands were children. Is now the wrong time to discuss this? Tibbets ...
Bush says deaths in Iraq not in vain
Post Date: 2007-11-11 21:36:11 by tom007
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Bush says deaths in Iraq not in vain Nov 12, 2007 12:32 PM President George Bush marked Veterans Day by attending a memorial service for four US soldiers killed in Iraq, where he told their families the troops had not died in vain. Bush, who is spending the weekend at his Crawford, Texas ranch, visited an American Legion post in nearby Waco to attend the ceremony where two Army soldiers and two Marines were honored with anthems and tributes to their heroism. At the emotional service where some family members were crying, Bush praised the valour of the soldiers and expressed empathy for the aching hearts of those they left behind. "In their sorrow, these families need to know, and ...
USA plans to encircle Russia with missiles systems and radar
Post Date: 2007-11-11 20:22:56 by Zipporah
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As long as the U.S. administration conducts talks on the use of Russian radar stations in Azerbaijan and Armavir (the Krasnodar region of Russia), the Pentagon harbors other plans. The USA intends to deploy more elements of its missile defense system to the south of Russia in addition to the missile base in Poland and the radar station in the Czech Republic. The chairman of the US Missile Defense Agency, Lieutenant-General Henry Obering said in the beginning of spring that the United States would like to deploy a radar station in the Caucasian region. USA plans to encircle Russia with missiles systems and radars (podrobnosti.ua) Poland’s National Security Bureau (BBN) showed ...
Bush, Blair aren't to blame for Islamist terror
Post Date: 2007-11-11 19:41:50 by longnose gar
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Ten years ago, in November 1997, 50 Swiss tourists rose early to visit the Valley of the Kings across the Nile from Luxor in Egypt. Suddenly from the hills came a group of Islamists. They shot, disembowelled and decapitated the tourists. It was just one of the many forerunners of 9/11 in 2001 in New York, 7/7 in 2005 in London or 11/M as the Spanish call the train bombings in Madrid in 2004. Today, as the killing in the name of extremist political Islamist ideology increases in tempo and intelligence agencies struggle to disarm those promised a passage to heaven if they blow themselves and others up, the earlier wave of militant Islamist killing can be overlooked. One of the constant lies ...
Meet Abu Abed: the US's new ally against al-Qaida
Post Date: 2007-11-11 18:25:32 by Horse
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Meet Abu Abed: the US's new ally against al-Qaida With summary beatings and imprisonments, he has the methods of a mafia don. But he and others like him are crucial to American strategy On a recent Friday morning in west Baghdad, 20 of Hajji Abu Abed's men were shifting their feet nervously in the dusty yard outside his house as they waited for their leader to emerge. The men, young and well armed with Kalashnikovs, pistols and hand grenades, were wearing the favoured dress for militiamen in Iraq these days: green camouflage commando uniforms decorated with bits of US army kit - a pouch on one man, webbing on another, a cap here, sunglasses there, a few flak jackets between ...
Broken Supply Channel Sent Arms for Iraq Astray
Post Date: 2007-11-11 17:53:39 by robin
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November 11, 2007 Broken Supply Channel Sent Arms for Iraq Astray By ERIC SCHMITT and GINGER THOMPSON This article was reported by Eric Schmitt, Ginger Thompson, Margot Williams and James Glanz, and was written by Mr. Schmitt and Ms. Thompson. WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 — As the insurgency in Iraq escalated in the spring of 2004, American officials entrusted an Iraqi businessman with issuing weapons to Iraqi police cadets training to help quell the violence. By all accounts, the businessman, Kassim al-Saffar, a veteran of the Iran-Iraq war, did well at distributing the Pentagon-supplied weapons from the Baghdad Police Academy armory he managed for a military contractor. But, co-workers ...
CBS: Blackwater notified 'all immunities shall be cancelled'
Post Date: 2007-11-11 17:51:44 by robin
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An exclusive CBS report says that all private security firms in Iraq have been notified that "immunity from Iraqi law is about to end." The Iraqi interior ministry sent a letter to security contractors explaining that a soon to be ratified Iraq law will remove legal immunities, originally granted by former Coalition Provisional Authority head L. Paul Bremer in 2004. One contractor, distrustful of the Iraqi police, told CBS, "There's no question it's a disaster if this got passed." American officials expect that the law will not be ratified. The following video is from CBS's Evening News, broadcast on November 9, 2007.
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