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Archive for the Month of February, 2005.
Viewing Iraq War NEWS articles 1 through 21 of 21.
- A top Shia leader tipped to become Iraq's next prime minister has branded Iyad Allawi's interim government the most corrupt in the country's history. - As the corporate media pundits praise the "free and fair" Iraqi elections, a closer look reveals that the polling in Iraq was fundamentally flawed and lacking transparency in the same way as elections in the U.S. No wonder that the same people are behind the organization of both.
- The post-invasion US governing authority in Iraq lost track of $US 8.8 billion it transferred to government ministries in a black hole of fraud, kickbacks and misappropriation, according to an official US audit released yesterday.
- "Higher than expected turnout," US mainstream television media blared, some citing a figure of 72%, others 60%. What they didn't tell you was that these numbers were provided by one individual, Farid Ayar. Ayar said the 72% was "only guessing" and "was just an estimate," which was based on "very rough, word-of mouth estimates gathered informally from the field."
- Forget the UN corruption. The US occupation regime helped itself to $8.8 billion of mostly Iraqi money in just 14 months.
- Iraqi officials must recount votes because of various discrepancies, delaying final results from the landmark national elections. Hundreds - perhaps thousands - of other ballots were declared invalid because of alleged tampering.
- Chalabi, a brilliant man and crafty politician, still the darling of some Washington neo-conservatives, is lobbying hard for the post of prime minister in the new Iraqi government that will be formed after election officials finish counting the tally from last week's vote. - Iraqi-American doctor Rafil Dhafir, was convicted on 59 charges including violating economic sanctions against Iraq, Medicare fraud and tax evasion. Dr. Dhafir and others got together and began to raise money and to get funds, humanitarian aid, food, blankets, and medicine into Iraq, when they saw the devasting effects of the sanctions on Iraq.
- USA Arms Sunni Militias to fight the Shi'ia and cause civial war in Iraq.
- The US Government persisted with its claims about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, even though they were aware months before that the intelligence on Iraq's weapons was wrong. - Young boy found dead in a house in the Jolan quarter of Fallujah. A father who had tried to shield his two daughters, found dead in a bedroom.
Man found shot dead sheltering in his living room. Man killed in his kitchen. This is a story of how the US murdered a city.
- One of dozens of articles that are out there telling the tragic stories of the continuing murder of innocent Iraqis by occupying military forces.
- From the first days of the US-British invasion of Iraq, oil workers have resisted foreign occupation. Saddam's secret police used to creep over the roofs into our homes at night; occupation troops now break down our doors in broad daylight. The media do not show even a fraction of the devastation that has engulfed Iraq.
- For the first time since 2001, the Army began the fiscal year in October with only 18.4 percent of the year's target of 80,000 active-duty recruits already in the pipeline. That amounts to less than half of last year's figure and falls well below the Army's goal of 25 percent. - Three months after brutal attacks leaving Fallujah a city in ruins, Marines plan a vicious assault against Fallujah's sister city Ramadi, a city of 400,000 people.
- al-Jaafari was a member of the U.S.-picked Iraqi Governing Council, which was dissolved a few weeks before the U.S. occupation authority handed over sovereignty to the interim government in June 2004. He was the first of the council's nine rotating presidents. He has a history of militancy, is implicated in an assassination attempt, and was responsible for suicide attacks in Iraq in the 1980s.
- The British attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, warned less than two weeks before the Iraq war that military action could be illegal, the Guardian newspaper reported on Wednesday
- The Pentagon says more than 5,500 servicemen have deserted since the war started in Iraq.
- The Marine Corps suffered a 29 percent spike in suicides last year, reaching the highest number in at least a decade. The brutal military occupation in Iraq is to blame. - Four hours out of six are without electricity. Their flat has few windows, to minimise the summer heat, and with no power there is no light, so they spend most of the day in gloom. It has been this way since the invasion in March 2003. They cursed the world in general and the Americans and Iraqi authorities in particular. "It's worse all the time."
- Iraq a lawless land of chaos, bombings, and murders. Attacks on civilians increase as American seek to protect themselves.
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