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Terror and Resistance The determination and courage of the Iraqi Resistance Ghali Hassan, www.globalresearch.ca
Since the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, there have been three elections and one "transfer of sovereignty". However, the situation on the ground in Iraq has further deteriorated. What have changed are the pretexts for ongoing terror and occupation. The U.S. administration is using elections as smokescreen to manipulate public opinion and legitimise the subjugation of the Iraqi people to a colonial dictatorship. As the U.S. and its collaborators failed to control Iraq on the ground – due to a determined Iraqi Resistance –, they turned to the air to rain their daily terror on the Iraqi people. With the complete silence of the "international community", U.S. warplanes are targeting population centres opposed to the Occupation. The U.S. air war of the 1990s is being re-enacted again in full force...
New Skirmishes in the Information Wars Mike Whitney
There are only two weapons in the imperial tool-chest; force and deception. The brutal colonial occupation of Iraq has provided us with a lavish example of the former, but the twin-axel of deception is more abstruse and difficult to pin down. Sure, there’s the flagrant propaganda that floods right-wing radio and political talk shows, but that tells us little about the state-sponsored disinformation-programs that permeate every area of American life. We now know that the Bush administration authorized massive illegal spying operations and is actively engaged in planting pro-American stories in the foreign press. These suggest that the administration’s overall theory of information management is much more extensive then originally imagined. In fact, news and information manipulation is at the forefront of Bush’s war on terror, a comprehensive strategy to control of every bit of information a citizen hears, sees or reads from cradle to grave. It is information warfare on a scale that would make George Orwell cringe...
US Death Toll in Iraq - Higher Than Reported Jesse, Editor , TVNewsLIES.org
So you think that you know how many Americans died in Iraq? Think again! The son of a close friend of mine was a Special Forces Staff Sergeant who worked with Tommy Franks and had left the military to work for a "private" security firm. He was in the Army and he was involved in the invasion. He has been working as a private security person since he left the Army last year (making a nice living, to say the least). Well he just let us know that while he was home on leave this month, two of his team mates were killed in Iraq. One was an American and one was a Canadian. Did you hear about this on the news? Did you see this listed on the Centcom website? Are their deaths part of any official death toll related to the US invasion of Iraq? The answer to all of these questions is NO!...
The Splendid Failure of Occupation Part 40: A one-way bombardment called Gulf War B. J. Sabri, Online Journal Contributing Writer
...You may ask, "Why am I talking about a war that happened 15 years ago, while new realties -- invasion, occupation, and resistance -- should have priority?" That may be; but before addressing that, we have to remember one thing: dialectically, without the Gulf War and subsequent U.S.-U.N. resolutions that imposed further sanctions on Iraq, and tied their lifting to Iraq's compliance with an open-end disarmament process totally controlled by the United States, that invasion would have never occurred despite dramatic changes worldwide. Conclusively, while the Gulf War was the cornerstone for the future invasion of Iraq, its aftermath transformed Iraq from a sovereign state into a hostage in the hands of the United States, and by implication, Israel and U.S. Zionists. For all practical reasons, the fate of Iraq has passed from the UN, which authorized war against it, to the United States that made of it an exclusive American issue...
Malkin’s Glee Over the Fake Persecution of the Corporate Media Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire
Michelle Malkin, concentration camp apologist, can hardly contain her glee over the prospect of the Justice Department investigating the supposed leak of classified information about the neocon secret domestic snoop program. Ms. Malkin wants a jihad against the New York Times and the Washington Post, newspapers she believes are rife with "Bush haters" and miscreant liberals. "Won’t be long before we start hearing the Bush-haters at the Times and elsewhere moaning about how this probe is a waste of time/distraction from the important business of Congress/politically motivated(!)," Malkin exudes telegraphically on her blog...
The American Imperial Plan and the Iraqi Oil Ministry Sarah Meyer, GlobalResearch.ca
The American Imperial Plan is proceeding nicely. Ahmad Chalabi is now controlling the Oil Ministry, whilst not a member of the newly elected government: "Relations with Washington after falling out with the US administration, was appointed acting oil minister after the incumbent Ibrahim Bahr al-Uloum was given leave, officials said on Friday. His takeover coincided with long lines forming at petrol stations in Baghdad, as words spread that Iraq's largest oil refinery had shut down and a crippling petrol shortage was inevitable. Chalabi, who supported Uloum for the post when a US-backed government was formed earlier this year, is already the head of the Oil Council, a cabinet-level board, and his influence on Iraq's economic and commodities policy is massive." ...
US toll in Iraq rises as year ends Associated Press
Two more American soldiers have been killed in Iraq as the year wound down. The deaths put the US military toll at 841, five short of 2004's lost lives despite political progress and efforts to quash the insurgency. Violence continued on Saturday. Armed men raided a house near Iskandariya, 50km (30 miles) south of Baghdad, killing five members of a Sunni family, army Colonel Hussain Shiyaa said, and a roadside bomb exploded in Baghdad, killing two police officers, officials said...
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Saturday, 31 December 2005 Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. ( http://www.freearabvoice.org )
In a dispatch posted at 3:10pm Mecca time Saturday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that an Iraqi Resistance marksman had shot and killed a US soldier in the ad-Dubbat neighborhood of eastern al-Fallujah. The al-Fallujah correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported eyewitnesses as saying that the American soldier was shot when he was atop the American camp in the south of the neighborhood on observation duty. The Resistance sharpshooter’s bullet struck him directly, killing him instantly. He was seen falling from the roof of the camp...
The Sound of Silence: As in Dogs Not Barking Ian Williams, www.dissidentvoice.org
...Last month Kojo Annan, son of Kofi, was awarded large damages against the Murdoch-owned London Sunday Times, which had to admit that its story connecting him to Oil For Food contracts had no substance. You did not see the story on Fox, MSNBC, or any of the usual cabal. In December, the US charged two colonels who had worked for the "Coalition Provisional Authority" with accepting bribes of $200,000 a month for steering contracts to companies that were seemingly just shells. They worked with someone whom the Coalition Provisional Authority hired as comptroller with a budget of $82 million -- despite a previous felony conviction for fraud. It did not make the headlines. Senator Norm Coleman and Congressman Henry Hyde did not call for the resignation of the chief executive of the organization involved, one George W. Bush...
Bush and Blair Plot Their Exit Strategy, as the Nation Falls Apart at the Seams The Year in Iraq PATRICK COCKBURN
This was the year in which the US admitted it was not going to defeat the insurgency. It was the ebb tide of American and British power in Iraq. By the end of the year both countries were urgently looking to withdraw their troops in circumstances not too humiliating to themselves and without precipitating the complete collapse of the Iraqi state...
Coalitions Reject Election Results Dahr Jamail and Arkan Hamed
Many Iraqis are demanding a new poll after more than 1,500 cases of election fraud and forgery were reported in the Dec. 15 elections, at least 30 of them "extremely serious". The results so far indicate a strong win for Shia religious groups. There are widespread complaints that many of the instances of fraud favoured Shia religious groups that led the interim government which conducted the poll. In Baghdad, the most important district in the poll with more than a fifth of the seats in parliament, the Iranian-backed Shia alliance took a surprising 57 percent of the vote, as opposed to 19 percent for the Sunni coalition...
Can somebody tell me what the hell just happened? Iraqi Rebel
...There has never been such tension in Baghdad since April 2004. Something tells me that all hell is going to break loose very soon. How can it be??? How could those Iranian mullahs win those votes? Even higher than last january when his excellency grand Shitheadstani himself ordered people to vote for them? It just doesn't add up. It defies logic and reason. No way Iraqis are such brainwashed fools. How could the mullahs get 58% of the votes in Baghdad? Last time, when the Sunnis boycotted they got 60%, but millions of Sunnis voted this time and hordes of Shia said they wouldn't vote for the mullahs this time so how could they get the same result? What the fuck happened? What about the truckloads of ballots that entered from Iran?...
...Here in Iraq, always I use to say that every yesterday is better than tomorrow. At least yesterday we know what had happened; every tomorrow here brings another agony that we do not know.. The (big) winners are still in meeting in the northern Iraq.. They are putting the last scheme of dividing Iraq… they are sharing the coming so called government as if democracy is a tool of the winners only! While their relatives are enjoying Hajj… every member of the "NEW IRAQ" official has the right of going to Hajj and taking with him/her 20 from the relatives and friends on the government account..
Some soldiers trying to get out of Army MARTHA MENDOZA, AP NATIONAL WRITER
Kevin Benderman spends his days sitting in a plastic chair in the stockade at Fort Lewis, Wash., completing a 15-month sentence for "missing movement" with his unit. Jeremy Hinzman is raising his baby boy in Toronto, awaiting a court date when he hopes the Canadian government will grant him political asylum. Aidan Delgado is back in school, studying religion at the New College of Florida and practicing Buddhism. All three are among a small but growing number of soldiers who have become disillusioned with the war in Iraq and are trying to get out of their required service...
Reorganizing Rumsfeld’s Inner Circle Devaluating the Military While Preparing for More War Gary Leupp, www.dissidentvoice.org
The Washington Times reports, "The three military service chiefs have been dropped in the Bush administration’s doomsday line of Pentagon succession, pushed beneath three civilian undersecretaries in Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld’s inner circle." The gist of the article is that by a little-noticed holiday week executive order from President Bush, the power structure in the Pentagon has been reorganized to place Stephen Cambone, Eric Edelman and Kenneth Krieg between Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and the Army chief who used to hold the third spot...
Occupation Denies Validity of Election Brian Conley and Isam Rashid
...The revelations of fraud and inconsistency have confirmed many Sunni Iraqis’ support for armed resistance. They say armed resistance is the only way to end the occupation. "I did not believe the election would make the situation in Iraq better, because we are under occupation," said Alaa Adel, a 32-year-old guard at a Sunni mosque in Baghdad. "I’m sure only real resistance will force the occupation forces to end their occupation."...
There has been a lot of talk about the parade of high American officials going to Turkey. It is claimed, without a shred of evidence, that these talks concern the planning for the American attack on Iran. It is far more likely that what they are really talking about is the coming violent creation of Kurdistan (coupled with the ethnic cleansing of the Turkmen from the area): "Kurdish leaders have inserted more than 10,000 of their militia members into Iraqi army divisions in northern Iraq to lay the groundwork to swarm south, seize the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and possibly half of Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city, and secure the borders of an independent Kurdistan."...
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