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Archive for the Month of November, 2005.
Viewing Iraq War NEWS articles 1 through 75 of 82.
- "It is part of a media campaign aimed at smearing Galloway’s reputation."
- "When faced with an unsolvable problem—expand the problem." This cynical political advice supposedly hangs on the wall of U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s office. - Dr. Walid Al-Obeidi, the director of Haditha General Hospital and Dr. Jamil Abdul Jabbar, the only surgeon in the Haditha area were arrested for a week, very badly beaten and threatened to face the same treatment in the future by the American troops. - The walkout is part of a nationwide protest organized by Youth Against War and Racism.
- Coming off one of the deadliest months for American troops, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld indicated that the number of U.S. forces in Iraq could rise temporarily as Iraqis prepare to vote in mid-December parliamentary elections.
- Sociologist Ehsan Mohammad, at Baghdad University, said the community now was full of innocent people who had been jailed... - A former US marine has told a jury that he was given "carte blanche" to kill and was told to "shoot first and ask questions later" while serving in Iraq following the outbreak of war in 2003. - Three other witnesses are said to have "escaped" at the same time, so the only four people ever to succeed in an "escape" from a Guantanamo-bay-style maximum secitity US military prison all happen to be witnesses who wanted to testify against the US military.
- US and Iraqi forces have launched a joint offensive along the border with Syria involving about 3500 soldiers, the US military has said. - ...officials of the Kurdish Democratic Party bused non-resident Kurds to vote in polling stations in various non-Kurdish areas of Nineveh and created a climate of fear and intimidation in the province that reduced the vote against the constitution on the Nineveh plain. - No, no, says Thair Feely, chairman of the Iraqi Commission for Investment, emphatically denying rumors that a five-star hotel is about to be built in the center of Baghdad. Then, drawing out the words for effect, he adds: "We are building a 7-star hotel!" - Indiscriminate Killing Zone
- Withdrawal while providing the resources to recover and restore order could lead to domestic peace far more readily than withdrawal by itself. - An auditing board sponsored by the United Nations recommended yesterday that the United States repay as much as $208 million to the Iraqi government for contracting work in 2003 and 2004 assigned to Kellogg, Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary.
- Veteran admits: Bodies melted away before us.
- The bodies are arriving at the mortuary in Baghdad in such large numbers that the orderlies have run out of places to store them properly.
- Lawyers for Saddam Hussein and his aides severed all contact with the court trying the former Iraqi president on Wednesday after the second murder of a member of the defence team since the trial began last month. - Under the US "consequence management" system, there is a maximum payout of $2,500 per claim. A dead wife and a dead son are equivalent to two claims; meaning Hassan is in line to receive a total of $5,000 in cash. - The Internal Revenue Service has warned one of Southern California's largest and most liberal churches that it is at risk of losing its tax-exempt status because of an antiwar sermon two days before the 2004 presidential election. - The reporting of the Iraqi death toll - both in its scale and account of who is doing the killing - is profoundly dishonest. - There is a huge US military operation once again targeting the Al-Qa’im area of Iraq, this one named "Steel Curtain."
- That's right. Not from Al Jazheera, or Al Arabiya, but the US fucking Army, in their very own publication... - To penetrate the media smokescreen of spontaneous, uncontrollable violence and understand the role of intelligence operations in the creation of a beholden, occupied client state or series of statelets is fundamental to understanding the processes in Iraq today. It is also fundamental to recognising that the presence of Anglo-American forces in Iraq does not merely exacerbate the present violence; in Iraq we are the violence.
- Chemical spills, unsecured hazardous material and widespread pollution by depleted uranium are among the issues. - More than two years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, 10,000 artefacts looted from the National Museum of Iraq are still missing. Archaeological sites across the country have been plundered. - To maintain its tenuous grip over the country, the Bush administration is relying on an apparatus of paid killers and thugs to murder and terrorise the opposition, while the US military unleashes criminal attacks to crush rebellious cities and towns. - The man apologized and said “you know I’m just back from Iraq and I’m acting a little crazy… in Iraq we can do whatever. You think they put all that shit on the news? Man ask anybody we rape those bitches over there and we take their men and blow their brains out just like that and nobody ever knows.” - The toll of civilian casualties in Iraq prove that what’s taking place in Iraq now is nothing less than a "crime against humanity," according to an article from Iraq’s Azzaman newspaper.
- The city is now surrounded by a tight network of checkpoints controlled by U.S. forces and Shi'a members of the Iraqi Army. No one is allowed in without an identification card issued by the U.S. Marines, or other permission. - The incident started when a Fort Worth woman, Beatriz Saldivar, objected to a pro-war speech at the fundraiser, at the Wyndham Arlington. - The denial of water to civilians is illegal both under Iraqi and international law. - ...the U.S.-led Coalition forces and the Iraqi Army use the military strategy of cutting off food and water supplies to cities under attack by insurgents... - Some 1,100 Iraqi lawyers have withdrawn from Saddam Hussein's defense team, citing insufficient protection following the slayings of two peers representing co-defendants of the ousted Iraqi leader. - Conflicting claims emerged Saturday over the reported death of Saddam Hussein's chief lieutenant. - The war on Iraq is an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.
- Blood was mopped up with a chlorine solution before the interrogation scene could be examined by an investigator...adding that after Jamadi's death, a bloodstained hood that had covered his head had disappeared.
- Abu Sabah knew he had witnessed something unusual. - It Begins with the CIA's Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein - More than 35,000 Iraqis have been detained by American troops since the invasion of the country but only a tiny fraction have been convicted of wrongdoing... - Iraq's government says it has begun an investigation into the alleged abuse of more than 170 detainees held by Iraqi security forces in Baghdad.
- When a war is illegal, the methods of warfare are bound to go beyond what is permissible under the laws of war. But don't expect the American media to tell you any of this. - Saddam Hussein was beaten up during questioning after he made an obscene remark... - The United Nations has reported that the US military in Iraq is detaining people faster than a new board can review their cases to determine whether their rights are being respected.
- "Both Iraqis and coalition people often exaggerate the role of foreign infiltrators and downplay the role of Iraqi resentment in the insurgency..." - Imagine if it had been a naked marine on a leash held by an Iraqi woman.
- British-trained police operating in Basra have tortured at least two civilians to death with electric drills...
- A former Halliburton Co. worker was sentenced on Friday to 15 months in prison after pleading guilty in federal court in Illinois to taking more than $110,000 in kickbacks from an Iraqi company in 2004. - Col Tim Collins, the controversial Iraq war commander, trained his soldiers to use white phosphorus, which burns through flesh to the bone, in combat against enemy troops. - In July, Peter Beaumont revealed the existence of torture squads at work in the new Iraq. Here he reports on a sinister twist - a brutal campaign of political "disappearances".
- Two men and a child were killed and three people were wounded, Warren said. Survivors disputed the military's account, insisting that five family members, including two children, died and four were wounded as bullets tore through the van.
- Up to $113 billion in Iraqi oil revenues are going to multinational oil companies under long-term contracts, and not to the Iraqi people, says a social and environmental group. - He's now charged with taking bribes while in Baghdad - Britain left the subcontinent bleeding. Some wounds, like Kashmir, remain unhealed today. - It is feared that thousands of bomblets lie unexploded in Iraq, capable of maiming or killing innocent civilians.
- The Iraqi police Special Forces, Al-Hussein Brigades, came at dawn. There were around 20 pick ups full of them. They were hit on the highway very badly from a place behind the Yosfiya Water Project, east of the village. Tens of them were killed. Their cars were burnt. Some of them hid inside the village. The battle went on for 3 hours. In the end some of them managed to run away. In the afternoon, the same day, more forces returned back accompanied by the American troops and helicopters. They evacuated their dead, raided the houses, killed and arrested the men, humiliated the families, killed the cows and chickens, destroyed the yards, and set the village on fire. - Daniel Ellsberg among those detained - Food. Access to food. The right to produce food. The right to sell food. The ability to purchase food. These simple maxims are the foundation to a sovereign, healthy economy. These simple maxims were – and continue to be – denied to the people of Iraq.
- The huge danger, or course, is that the current Iraqi politicians will be bribed into signing long-term agreements which the Iraqi people will never be able to get out of. - The war in Iraq could last for decades with British troops unlikely to withdraw without a "highly unlikely" split with Washington, a report says today. - Despicable attack on the First Amendment deep in the heart of Texas - Once what is left of the story from Iraq reaches the west, having dodged bullets, kidnappers, suicide bombers and the occupying military, it must then overcome perhaps its most formidable obstacle: the filter of the mainstream media.
- The sewage system in the city does not function properly and heavy water from open sewers inundates streets.
- US invader troops reportedly drive five kilometers into Syrian territory, lose armored vehicle in battle with Resistance fighters, then withdraw to occupied Iraq with their wreckage. - In Iraq, a country being torn apart in a seemingly never-ending conflict, there is now an acute shortage of blood. And the worse the violence becomes, the higher its black market prices rise.
- A "trophy" video appearing to show British security guards in Baghdad randomly shooting Iraqi civilians has sparked two investigations after it was posted on the internet. The video has sparked concern that private security companies, which are not subject to any form of regulation either in Britain or in Iraq, could be responsible for the deaths of hundreds of innocent Iraqis. - "People are doing the same as (in) Saddam Hussein's time and worse..." - While President George Bush hints at eventual troop withdrawals, the Pentagon is busy building four major, permanent air bases in Iraq that will require heavy infantry protection. - Saddam Hussein's lawyers plan to argue when his trial resumes on Monday that the court is not legitimate because Iraq is not a sovereign country, and therefore the process should be adjourned.
- The US, largely through the CIA, has a long history of involvement with genocidal intelligence operations, from Indonesia under Suharto, through Operation Phoenix in Vietnam, to present-day Colombia. The current mass arrests in Iraq and subsequent killings bear all the hallmarks of such an operation. By analogy, one can reasonably guess that the current flood of victims will include anyone opposing US hegemony, such as the hundreds of teachers and academics who have already been assassinated... - The continuing destruction of Iraq's history - ancient and modern - of homes, lives and civil society under the watch of and at the hands of US and British troops - in defiance of a swathe of international law - is an uncanny and chilling mirror image of Pol Pot'sYear Zero. - The trial was delayed to allow time to find replacements for two defence lawyers who were slain and another who fled from the country after he was wounded. - In Bushzarro world, where Saddam “dead-enders” have morphed into wild-eyed al-Qaeda Muslims, you need a scorecard just to keep track of the convoluted twists and turns of the story as the Pentagon and the neocons make it up as they go along. - The Bush administration is considering a plan to put America's awesome airpower at the disposal of Iraqi commanders, as a way of reducing the number of US troops on the ground. The plan is causing consternation among commanders in US air force, who say it could lead to increased civilian casualties and lead to airstrikes being used as means of settling old scores. - Just before the U.S. forces attacked Qaim last 29 August, a thriving town of 150,000 people in western Iraq, they cordoned it off, cut electricity, water and food supplies. Then they indiscriminately and disproportionately blanketed the town, from the ground and from the air, with artillery shells, cluster bombs and napalm bombs with the full knowledge that civilians, particularly women and children, would be killed.
- This video shows how US soldiers in Iraq, with the help of a robot, blow up a standing car that appears to have had an accident, while a young man, well alive but probably trapped, is still sitting in that car.
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