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Al-Nauimi: The US is running the show Ahmed Janabi, Aljazeera.net
Najib al-Nauimi, the former Qatari justice minister who has joined Saddam Hussein's defence team, says the injustice that the deposed president is facing is his main motive for joining the team. Aljazeera.net interviewed al-Nauimi in Doha, Qatar, and had the following conversation with him (...) Iraq now is administered by the occupying forces. Artificial elections do not give legitimacy, otherwise, the Vichy government in France would have enjoyed legitimacy (...) I think that proving the court's illegitimacy is very important. This court is a special court designed to try selected people, and this is again a violation of the international law which prohibits the occupying forces from setting up special courts (...) If the trial is really fair, as they claim, the President Saddam Hussein will be acquitted, because nothing is really against him up to this moment, but if it is just a show, then you know what will happen...
Let’s start the new year off with some hard facts: The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law. The invasion was an arbitrary military action inspired by a series of lies upon lies and gross manipulation of the media and therefore of the public; an act intended to consolidate American military and economic control of the Middle East masquerading – as a last resort – all other justifications having failed to justify themselves – as liberation. A formidable assertion of military force responsible for the death and mutilation of thousands and thousands of innocent people...
Muslim Scholars Were Paid to Aid U.S. Propaganda DAVID S. CLOUD and JEFF GERTH, NYTimes
A Pentagon contractor that paid Iraqi newspapers to print positive articles written by American soldiers has also been compensating Sunni religious scholars in Iraq in return for assistance with its propaganda work, according to current and former employees. The Lincoln Group, a Washington-based public relations company, was told early in 2005 by the Pentagon to identify religious leaders who could help produce messages that would persuade Sunnis in violence-ridden Anbar Province to participate in national elections and reject the insurgency, according to a former employee...
SpyGate”—What Were The Bushbots Looking For? Paul Craig Roberts
Caught in gratuitous and illegal spying on American citizens, the Bush administration has defended its illegal activity and set the Justice (sic) Department on the trail of the person or persons who informed the New York Times of Bush’s violation of law. Note the astounding paradox: The Bush administration is caught red-handed in blatant illegality and responds by trying to arrest the patriot who exposed the administration’s illegal behavior...
"US - meaning/truth" An Iraq War Dictionary and Translator Jouna, iraqwar.ru
Having read infinite complains about the blurring propaganda around the Iraq
war, I'm offering today a package of linguistic tools, a dictionary and translator intended to make the propaganda transparent (...) "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less" As the major source of propaganda is the United States, the dictionary is built accordingly. On the left column a US propaganda term is introduced, on the right column a translation, a definition, a comment or alike, giving the true meaning (or contents) of the term, is revealed...
A prayer from an Iraqi citizen for the New year * By a Basrah dweller, Al-Moharer.net
Lord! You who created earth and heavens and you gave Adam, Eve and their offspring the drop of life.. We pray you Lord, we beg you Lord ! Get us out from this terrible ordeal which is been brought to us by this Century barbarians and darkness, savage and evil forces, the likes of the US, British, pagan Persians, rotten Zionists, traitors and procurers Arabs.. These killings columns which invaded us just like a swarms of summer insects coming from every where ! From East and West ! From north and south carrying just death and destruction...
U.S. air strikes are increasing in Iraq as some U.S. troops are preparing to withdraw from that country, a published report says. Official figures show the number of air strikes in 2005 -- running at a monthly average of 25 until August -- hit 120 in November and was expected to surge to 150 in December, the Sunday Times of London reported online. The newspaper said the tempo of air strikes is expected to increase even more this year as U.S. troops are reduced from 160,000 to fewer than 138,000 by March...
Three US troops killed as 12 car bombs explode across Iraq Al Bawaba
Three American soldiers were killed and others wounded when a US patrol hit by a bomb in Miqdadia in east Baghdad on Sunday. Elsewhere, a US camp at central Fallujah was attacked at the outset of the new year by resistance fighters. Iraqi media, quoting eyewitnesses, said gunmen lunched a hasty and brief attack on a building used by US forces. According to the sources, fire exchange and blasts were heard at the vicinity of the building in central Fallujah.
Meanwhile, Iraqi resistance fighters activated 12 car bombs in separate attacks, including eight in Baghdad Sunday, injuring 20 people but causing no deaths, police said...
What’s Wrong with Amy Goodman? RevolutionaryFlowerpotSociety
For a lot of people in the progressive political opposition, the year 2005 will hopefully come to signify the year of rejuvenation of the U.S. Left, thanks mostly to two significant events: Cindy Sheehan blowing the lid off the shamelessness of President Bush and his administration, and Hurricane Katrina blowing the lid off the shame of racism and the violence of poverty in the American society. This was a year in which the oppositional spirit in the U.S. expanded, in other words, and hope regained some vitality. And for that, we are very thankful. Yet, to assure a steady course on the rougher seas ahead, we must pay attention to the conditions we create for our own actions, and we must not forget that there are always leaks in our ship that need constant mending...
Four killed in Iraq fuel protests-police Chalak Abdullah, Reuters
Security forces in Iraq shot dead four people protesting against a recent hike in fuel prices on Sunday, police said, after rioters set cars and petrol stations on fire near the northern oil city of Kirkuk. Iraq, which has the world's third biggest oil reserves, is grappling with its latest fuel crisis and price rises imposed by a deal with the International Monetary Fund; longer than usual queues have built up at petrol stations and many who voted in last month's peaceful election talk of disillusion...
CIA-Mossad Sponsored “Rebels” Attack Iran’s Border Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire
It makes perfect sense for the CIA to be attracted to Iran’s Baluchistan province. First, the area has well established drug smuggling routes—and the CIA has an insatiable hunger for profits to be gleaned from illegal drugs—and second Baluchistan is a neglected tribal backwater where Hanafi Sunni Islam has a foothold in contrast to Iran’s Shia majority. In other words, Iran’s Sistan Baluchistan province is a perfect place to stir up trouble and make some money for covert ops in the process...
Even some Shiites uncomfortable with election results SAFAA MANSOOR
..."I will leave Iraq if these results are true," said the 22-year-old Shiite, who is unemployed and lives with her mother. Yousif's unhappiness with the results is mostly personal. She said her father was killed in 2003 because he had formerly been a local leader in deposed President Saddam Hussein's dissolved Baath Party. "I know who killed my father, but I can't do anything against them because those criminals are in power now," she said.(...) Many worry that the election results will only increase the influence Iran already displays over the southern part of Iraq. Banners written in Persian and posters depicting Iranian clerics are already visible in many Basra neighborhoods and many Shiites who currently live in the city had spent years in Iran, fleeing Saddam's rule. "Most of the local party leaders and senior provincial (government) staff have lived in Iran," said Ahmed Arif, 43, an Arabic-language teacher. "They are now pursuing Iranian politics in the city, and looking after Iranian interests"...
Two patriotic women Carsten Kofoed, Free Iraq Blog of Denmark,
The two Iraqi scientists, Huda Ammash and Rihab Taha, have allegedly been released after two and a half years of imprisonment. In May 2003, both women were captured by the US-led occupying power because of their alleged role in the development of chemical and biological weapons in Iraq. But just as much as the other things that the Western aggressors have alleged about Iraq, the allegations have not been proved, and no charges against the two scientists have been raised. But in the Western media this does not matter. In an anti-Arab, racist orgy of hatred, Ammash and Taha have been generally described as "Mrs. Anthrax" and "Dr. Germ", respectively. This was part of the dirty war propaganda by the Americans and the Zionists...
Don’t miss this important event in 2005 Baghdad Dweller
What was the most important event in 2005? With many websites and newspapers write about the events of 2005, I think the best event is the defeat of Bush’s war-machine, a humiliating defeat by a handful of men with primitive guns. Yesterday "Quds Press" published interviews with Iraqis asking them about their thoughts and wishes in 2006. Ihsan Omar is a university lecturer I don’t think 2006 will be much different from the last years under the occupation. The occupiers will not leave, they insist to stay even with all the resistance operations against them. QP: What do you wish in 2006? He pointed with his finger to a US army vehicle and said "I wish they will leave"...
Bush Impeachment Inquiry Has 8 House Co-Sponsors Matthew Cardinale, Atlanta Progressive News
A total of eight US House members have co-sponsored Resolution 635 to create a select committee to investigate the grounds for impeaching President Bush, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. The co-sponsors are Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA), Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX), Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Rep. Donald Payne (D-NJ), Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), and Rep. Lynn Woolsey (C-CA), according to the US Congressional website Thomas.loc.gov...
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