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Archive for the Month of October, 2005.
Viewing Iraq War NEWS articles 1 through 75 of 76.
- Filipinos are taking up work at US-run facilities in Iraq, dodging an official Philippines travel and employment ban on the war-torn country and providing the US military and its affiliated contractors the cheap, English-speaking manpower it is having increasing difficulty recruiting at home. - Yes, we must leave Iraq. We must leave now. However, we must also pay for reducing another country to rubble. We must pay for our arrogance of power.
- Dr. Curtis Doebbler, well-respected human rights lawyer and law professor, can't get American media to tell the truth about the legal farce going on in Bagdhad. He claims proceedings against the former Iraqi dictator have no merit since initial invasion violated international law. He also says Hussein's court appointed Iraqi attorney has been harrassed and had legal papers stolen by American authorities. - Anyone familiar with the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) should be skeptical about the administration’s claims that it does not have plans for a permanent military presence in Iraq. - How, I asked myself, does one describe this outside the language of a military report, the definition of the colour, the decibels of the explosions? The flight of the missiles sounded as if someone was ripping to pieces huge canopies of silk across the sky. - Using previously undisclosed Army records, the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News found that dozens of soldiers have been accused of crimes against Iraqis since the first troops deployed for Iraq. But despite strong evidence and convictions in some cases, only a small percentage resulted in punishments nearing those that civilian justice systems routinely impose for such crimes.
- One option under consideration was launching a major offensive on several villages 30 to 40 miles inside Syria that the U.S. government claims have been harboring Iraqi rebels.
- In the aftermath of Private First Class Lynndie England’s conviction for abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib, she has told NBC’s Dateline "I know worse things were happening over there." In her first post-court-martial interview, England "said one night she heard blood-curdling screams coming from the block’s shower room, where non-military interrogators had taken an Arab detainee." - On April 9, 2003, U.S. tanks pulled up to Basra’s huge, dilapidated oil refinery. "We were coming out early, at the end of our shift, and there was the American army," recalls Faraj Arbat, one of the plant’s firemen. The soldiers trained their guns on the oil workers. The head of the fire department made the mistake of questioning the troops, and he was ordered to lie facedown on the ground. - Tens of thousands of laborers have helped set new records for the largest civilian workforce ever hired in support of a U.S. war. They are employed through complex layers of companies working in Iraq.
- An Iraqi border guard spokesman in Najaf, Saadun al-Jaabari, said guards arrested "a terrorist group consisting of 10 people, including one British national called Colin Peter, near Mathlum, near the Saudi border". The group was armed with machine guns and was carrying a video camera, a satellite telephone, and GPS satellite-tracking device, al-Jaabari added.
- The Al-Arabiya Arab satellite news network has repeated its call for the release of one of its reporters being held by US forces in Iraq without charge.
- The CRS report said the latest average monthly cost for Iraq is $5.9 billion, or 19 percent higher than last year.
- The latest story...is that the Iraqi insurgents are using American vehicles stolen in the United States in committing their attacks. This has to remind you of the discovery that the insurgents were using Italian-made hand guns manufactured without serial numbers, an order almost certainly placed by some intelligence agency. - ..the Iraqi Resistance report that some of these bridges are "restructured" for use within days. That is why the Americans hit them repeatedly...
- Does the U.S. air force designate traffic lanes on these bridges, so that insurgents can use certain lanes and then be subjected to precision bombings, while common folks use safe lanes? - U.S.-hired contractors rely on laborers from impoverished countries, but no one looks out for the rights -- or lives -- of the foreigners.
- Saddam Hussein could be executed before the Iraqi Special Tribunal finishes charging him with all his alleged crimes, a source close to the tribunal said Sunday.
- ...drug pushers told IRIN they had found a lucrative market amongst soldiers in the US-led occupation forces. They report strong demand from Italian troops in particular. - After two years of preparation, a group of 24 citizens have brought a suit against the Danish prime minister over Denmark's role in the Iraq war.
- Muhsen al-Khafaji, a writer well known throughout the Arab world, has been held prisoner by United States forces for over two and a half years for the crime of exaggerating facts to journalists. Coming from the Bush Administration, according to this op-ed article form Iraq’s Azzaman newspaper, that is outrageous.
- A number of Iraqis apprehended two Americans disguised in Arab dress as they tried to blow up a booby-trapped car in the middle of a residential area in western Baghdad on Tuesday.
- Did you know that half of all Iraqi households still don't have access to clean water?
- Saturday's vote on Iraq's new constitution takes place nearly six months after the country's first elected government took power, and during that period at least 3,663 Iraqis have been killed in war-related violence, according to an Associated Press count. - A United Nations human rights investigator has accused the US and British forces in Iraq of breaching international law by depriving civilians of food and water in besieged cities. - "He had full immunity under the prevailing Iraqi constitution and you cannot have a retroactive legislation that removes that immunity."
- Political analysts believe that America and Britain are undermining security in Iraq in order to justify their own presence. - Today's vote on the Iraqi Constitution is the culmination of 15 years of unrelenting aggression against the Iraqi people. Washington has never wavered in it's to determination to topple Saddam and control Iraqi oil. Saturday's balloting is just another public relations stunt to disguise the criminal intention of the present occupation.
- With Saddam Hussein’s trial quickly approaching, much speculation has been made of the event. Most agree that it will be a mockery and the court has already made up its mind to execute the Iraqi President. - Flight-Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith is to be court-martialled for "refusing to obey a lawful command" after he told his commanding officer that he would not go to Basra. - Halliburton unit is tapping pipeline of illicit workers for U.S. military jobs in war zone
- Tens of thousands of such TCN laborers have helped set new records for the largest civilian workforce ever hired in support of a US war. - He was responsible for the investigation into the two Elite SAS men disguised as Arab "terrorists" - ODIOUS AGENDA BEHIND MEDIA’S TRIAL COVERAGE - Obviously, we are now at a point where the government is completely non-responsive to the people—and the people are so brainwashed and distracted as to not fill the streets and demand the government resign and Bush face criminal prosecution for war crimes.
- The following is the full text of the Iraqi constitution...
- The bombs were developed by the IRA using technology passed on by the security services in a botched "sting" operation more than a decade ago.
- The killings expose the utterly cynical character of the Bush administration’s propaganda that the October 15 referendum marked a genuine step toward democracy and sovereignty. Iraq is a conquered country, where US occupation troops are using the most ruthless methods to intimidate any opposition by the Iraqi people and force them into accepting neo-colonial American rule. - The judges who will be trying former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on Wednesday have been secretly trained in Britain in recent months... - Vote Totals Under Inquiry in 12 Iraqi Provinces, Panel Says - Fears that British forces in Iraq are reaching "breaking point" grew last night as the first hard evidence of a crisis in morale began to emerge. - Analysts suggest that the U.S. wars on Iraq and Afghanistan are part of a broader military agenda to control the Middle East; a continuation of the 1991 Gulf War and the NATO led wars on Yugoslavia.
- A judge in Spain has issued an international arrest order for three US soldiers whose tank fired at a Baghdad hotel during the war in Iraq, killing a Spanish journalist. - The trial of Saddam Hussein that begins today in Baghdad, under the auspices of the US-created Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal (SICT) and the US-sponsored Iraqi government, is a legal travesty. No credibility can be given to the prosecution of the former Iraqi head of state by a puppet court and client administration that exist only due to the illegal and predatory invasion of Iraq by US imperialism and the continued presence of more than 150,000 American and other foreign troops. - When the final page is written on America’s catastrophic imperial venture, one word will dominate the explanation of U.S. failure—corruption.
- The three-hour session was stormy, with Saddam arguing with judges.
- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday refused to rule out U.S. troops still being in Iraq in 10 years or the possibility that the United States could use military force against neighboring Syria and Iran. - ...although we don’t hear too much about it, many ordinary Iraqis refuse to believe that the Coalition authorities are holding Saddam Hussein captive in Iraq. - Anti-War grandmothers arrested at Times Square Armed Forces Recruiting Station
- Trial of Saddam diverts attention from US-UK war crimes
- Iraqi police have found the body of a lawyer for a co-defendant of Saddam Hussein, shot in the head just days after the first trial against the former dictator opened in Baghdad. - The early vote totals from Nineveh province, which suggested an overwhelming majority in favour of Iraq's draft constitution that assured its passage by national referendum, now appear to have been highly misleading. - U.S. forces have started fighting Syrians at Iraq's border. Can anybody say "Cambodia"? - Forty-five percent of Iraqis believe attacks on U.S. and British troops are justified, according to a secret poll said to have been commissioned by British defense leaders and cited by The Sunday Telegraph. - Legendary Houston oilman Oscar Wyatt and two others have been accused of paying millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's regime.
- The Iraqi referendum had been played so cleverly that all types of media, although most British papers were more cautious than others, and all political figures could not but call it an expression of democracy. Yet this "democracy" is being used to manipulate Iraqis into accepting the dictates of the American administration. - ...porno torture may be deduced as the intentional infliction of severe physical or mental pain for interrogative, punitive, or abusive purposes by forcing a person to engage in sexually explicit behavior which is recorded, or staged before a live audience.
- The Palestine Hotel, which houses many foreign journalists in Iraq, has been hit in a rocket-and-car bomb attack, killing at least 11 people and causing considerable damage to the hotel, Iraqi police and journalists say. - The American government is hiring private security firms to stabilise Iraq — and paying them a fortune to do it. But many of them are unregulated and operate outside the law.
- Iraq is not Vietnam. But the United States is the United States. War after war, decade after decade, the U.S. news media have continued to serve those in Washington who strive to set the national agenda for war and lay down flagstones on the path to military intervention. - It was the second time the 19-storey Palestine has come under attack leading to deaths. As US forces were first moving into Baghdad, an American Abrams tank shelled the hotel, killing and injuring a number of journalists.
- Bush and Blair say things are improving. It's not true: they're getting worse by the day.
- It was one of the biggest of the American pre-war blunders. Iraq, documents showed, had tried to buy uranium from Niger. The papers, though, soon proved to be false. But who forged them?
- Former soldiers and policemen also hired from other Latin American countries - It appears only gullible Americans and Brits believe the scary al-Zarqawi campfire story.
- The so-called Oil for Food scandal obfuscates the real issue—the sanctions imposed against Iraq by a maidservant United Nations (and enforced by US and British warplanes) were responsible for killing more than a million people, half of them defenseless children. - The previous high in US force levels was reached in January, when the number of US troops in the country rose to 159,000 during national elections. - Shortly after Desert Storm, the U.S., along with other accomplices, flooded Iraq with billions of dollars of counterfeit dinars and dollars. The results were staggering, taking down further the worth of the already weak dinar.
- Threatened With Arrest, Students Refuse to Back Down - "It is part of a media campaign aimed at smearing Galloway's reputation."
- Mother of slain US soldier addresses crowd of 2,000 - US warplanes have continued bombarding the west of Iraq and hospital sources say at least 40 people were killed in the latest offensive. - An increasing number of skilled Iraqis have been prompted by the continuing spiral of violence to leave their war-torn homes for security and stability in neighbouring Arab countries. - The US government had "no comprehensive policy or regulatory guidelines" in place for staffing the management of postwar Iraq, according to the top government watchdog overseeing the country’s reconstruction. - The US military has opened a new prison with capacity for more than 1,700 detainees near the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah.
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