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IRAQ
Scoop: US Soldiers to America: ''Bring us home now; we’re dying for oil and corporate greed!''
Part 1 in a 5 part series
I had the unique opportunity to interview five US military servicemen who just got back from Iraq, or in the case of two men, corresponded with their wives so that I could ask questions of these soldiers by mail. When the two I corresponded with came back just last week, I was able to complete the interviews I started several months ago with some new details on how the war is actually going.
I was shocked and angered when I found out how many of the service men hate being in Iraq and want nothing to do with rebuilding and policing the devastated nation. From the conversations I had, many soldiers never wanted to go over to Iraq and fight, and the ones who had were now convinced of the awful crime that had been committed against Iraq and our own troops. I was told very few soldiers now believe in staying in Iraq, or want to stay in the country and serve any more days.
The following interview was with an enlisted man, but someone very high up in the enlisted ranks, with over 20 years of military service. I have promised not to reveal his identity for reasons that he has a family and has been told not to speak to journalists. He told me the Army had put a gag order on him while he was home, and told him they would give him twenty years in prison if he spoke out in any manner against the US or the government.
I took several weeks to finish this interview because of not being able to safely be seen with this individual out of his fears of being caught speaking out.
He asked me to call him USA in all the transcripts of these interviews. I have followed his wishes and tried to write what he said in the manner it was said so as not to lose any impact. At times the interview was very rough and the grammar is not perfect, but I tried to write this in his voice so that he can tell the world how bad it is in Iraq. I truly want you to feel what he has experienced in some way if possible
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Scoop: US Soldiers to America: ''Bring us home now; we’re dying for oil and corporate greed!''
Part 1 in a 5 part series
I had the unique opportunity to interview five US military servicemen who just got back from Iraq, or in the case of two men, corresponded with their wives so that I could ask questions of these soldiers by mail. When the two I corresponded with came back just last week, I was able to complete the interviews I started several months ago with some new details on how the war is actually going.
I was shocked and angered when I found out how many of the service men hate being in Iraq and want nothing to do with rebuilding and policing the devastated nation. From the conversations I had, many soldiers never wanted to go over to Iraq and fight, and the ones who had were now convinced of the awful crime that had been committed against Iraq and our own troops. I was told very few soldiers now believe in staying in Iraq, or want to stay in the country and serve any more days.
The following interview was with an enlisted man, but someone very high up in the enlisted ranks, with over 20 years of military service. I have promised not to reveal his identity for reasons that he has a family and has been told not to speak to journalists. He told me the Army had put a gag order on him while he was home, and told him they would give him twenty years in prison if he spoke out in any manner against the US or the government.
I took several weeks to finish this interview because of not being able to safely be seen with this individual out of his fears of being caught speaking out.
He asked me to call him USA in all the transcripts of these interviews. I have followed his wishes and tried to write what he said in the manner it was said so as not to lose any impact. At times the interview was very rough and the grammar is not perfect, but I tried to write this in his voice so that he can tell the world how bad it is in Iraq. I truly want you to feel what he has experienced in some way if possible
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OCCUPIED TERRITORIES
Aljazeera: Resistance groups deny Gaza attack
Two major Palestinian resistance groups have denied involvement in a blast which killed three American guards and injured another in the Gaza Strip.
Both Hamas and Islamic Jihad distanced themselves from the roadside explosion which devastated a diplomatic convoy in Beit Hanun on Wednesday morning.
Aljazeera: Resistance groups deny Gaza attack
Two major Palestinian resistance groups have denied involvement in a blast which killed three American guards and injured another in the Gaza Strip.
Both Hamas and Islamic Jihad distanced themselves from the roadside explosion which devastated a diplomatic convoy in Beit Hanun on Wednesday morning.
OCCUPIED TERRITORIES
Islamonline: Palestinian Factions Disclaim Gaza Blast
GAZA, October 15 (IslamOnline.net) – Palestinian factions immediately disclaimed responsibility for the road-side bombing attack on a U.S. diplomatic convoy that left at least three Americans dead in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, October 15.
Sheikh Adnan Asfour of the movement Hamas said the group's "unwavering position is against broadening the cycle of conflict or taking it outside the Palestinian territories.
"Resistance well understands that its main enemy is the one that had occupied Palestinian territories and killed Palestinians," he told IslamOnline.net.
For its part, the Islamic Jihad resistance movement said it had no interests to carry out the bombing attack against the American convoy.
"The group is always keen not to switch the Palestinian resistance against foreign targets," said the group's leading figure Khaled Al-Batsh.
Speaking to IOL, he set it as plain that "our main enemy is the one who had usurped our land and killed our children."
The Jihad leader pointed a finger of accusation at the Israeli occupation forces "which might have planted the landmine which caused the blast during their daily incursions in the Gaza Strip".
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigares, the armed wing of Fatah movement, also rejected the attack in a statement carried by al-Jazeera
"Die Palaestinensichen Wiederstandsgruppen uebernehmen sonst bei jedem noch so kleinen Anschlag die Verantwortung"
Islamonline: Palestinian Factions Disclaim Gaza Blast
GAZA, October 15 (IslamOnline.net) – Palestinian factions immediately disclaimed responsibility for the road-side bombing attack on a U.S. diplomatic convoy that left at least three Americans dead in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, October 15.
Sheikh Adnan Asfour of the movement Hamas said the group's "unwavering position is against broadening the cycle of conflict or taking it outside the Palestinian territories.
"Resistance well understands that its main enemy is the one that had occupied Palestinian territories and killed Palestinians," he told IslamOnline.net.
For its part, the Islamic Jihad resistance movement said it had no interests to carry out the bombing attack against the American convoy.
"The group is always keen not to switch the Palestinian resistance against foreign targets," said the group's leading figure Khaled Al-Batsh.
Speaking to IOL, he set it as plain that "our main enemy is the one who had usurped our land and killed our children."
The Jihad leader pointed a finger of accusation at the Israeli occupation forces "which might have planted the landmine which caused the blast during their daily incursions in the Gaza Strip".
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigares, the armed wing of Fatah movement, also rejected the attack in a statement carried by al-Jazeera
"Die Palaestinensichen Wiederstandsgruppen uebernehmen sonst bei jedem noch so kleinen Anschlag die Verantwortung"
PR WATCH
Washington Post: BUSH GOES 'OVER THE HEADS' OF NATIONAL MEDIA
"The Bush administration, displeased with the news coverage of the
war in Iraq, has accelerated efforts to bypass the national media
by telling the administration's story directly to the American
public," the Washington Post's Dana Milbank writes. In an
"unprecedented effort to reach news organizations that do not
regularly cover the White House," Bush did five eight-minute
interviews with regional broadcasters yesterday. Mentioning
improvements to Iraq's hospitals and schools, Milbank reports, "he
said that 'there's a great deal of consistency' in the
administration's actions and 'a very clear strategy' while
expressing "'a sense that people in America aren't getting the
truth.' In one interview, with Hearst-Argyle, he said, 'I'm mindful
of the filter through which some news travels, and somehow you just
got to go over the heads of the filter and speak directly to the
people.'"
Washington Post: BUSH GOES 'OVER THE HEADS' OF NATIONAL MEDIA
"The Bush administration, displeased with the news coverage of the
war in Iraq, has accelerated efforts to bypass the national media
by telling the administration's story directly to the American
public," the Washington Post's Dana Milbank writes. In an
"unprecedented effort to reach news organizations that do not
regularly cover the White House," Bush did five eight-minute
interviews with regional broadcasters yesterday. Mentioning
improvements to Iraq's hospitals and schools, Milbank reports, "he
said that 'there's a great deal of consistency' in the
administration's actions and 'a very clear strategy' while
expressing "'a sense that people in America aren't getting the
truth.' In one interview, with Hearst-Argyle, he said, 'I'm mindful
of the filter through which some news travels, and somehow you just
got to go over the heads of the filter and speak directly to the
people.'"
BOLIVIA: GAS WAR
Indymedia: Dozens Killed in Ongoing Insurrection
26 people were killed in El Alto, Bolivia, Sunday, as the army cracked down massively on protests against the sale of the country's natural gas to multinational corporations.
Protesters in El Alto had been maintaining the most intense road blockades in the country for weeks, cutting off the main route to La Paz, resulting in severe shortages of gasoline, food and other supplies. Escalating government repression against weeks of protests and strikes has killed more than 50 people in the last three days. After the massacre on Sunday the main focus of the fights moved to La Paz where the government is situated. Here again at least 20 civilian deaths have so far occured.
ZMAG: Thirty Killled in Gas War
In the past three days, in the city of El Alto, a prolonged confrontation between security forces and protesters resulted in thirty dead over one hundred wounded, the great majority from bullet wounds. Protesters in El Alto have been maintaining the most intense road blockades in the country for weeks, cutting off the main route to La Paz. As a result, La Paz has been experiencing a severe shortage of gasoline, food and other supplies
ZMAG: Bolivia's Gas War
A new cycle of conflict has developed in Bolivia as worker unions, coca farmers and ordinary citizens unite to prevent the sale of the nation's gas reserves to the United States through a Chilean port. In a country whose economic identity has been strongly shaped by U.S. pressure in the war on drugs and IMF structural adjustments, The Gas War is the most recent case where the Bolivian public has vehemently protested against foreign interests taking priority over the country's economic well being.
ZMAG: Divisions Deepen in Bolivia's Gas War
An intense series of road blockades, protests and strikes continue to gain momentum across Bolivia as new sectors enter the movement against the exportation of the country’s gas to the US. The geographical and political diversity of the groups involved in the movement makes it difficult for them to coordinate their efforts and demands. Furthermore, the paralyzed government jeopardizes its own longevity by refusing to negotiate with most of this loose, but persistent, collection of citizens.
ZMAG: Bolivia: Aymara Rebellion And Democratic Dictatorship
We’re going to count up how much you owe us in back taxes since 1532! You’re just tenants! We’re the rightful owners of this country!… Since you can’t govern, give us back the power!… Let us govern!”
Opposition Senator Germ?n “El Inca” Choquehuanca to Bolivian Vice-President Carlos Meza, October 9, 2003
Indymedia: Dozens Killed in Ongoing Insurrection
26 people were killed in El Alto, Bolivia, Sunday, as the army cracked down massively on protests against the sale of the country's natural gas to multinational corporations.
Protesters in El Alto had been maintaining the most intense road blockades in the country for weeks, cutting off the main route to La Paz, resulting in severe shortages of gasoline, food and other supplies. Escalating government repression against weeks of protests and strikes has killed more than 50 people in the last three days. After the massacre on Sunday the main focus of the fights moved to La Paz where the government is situated. Here again at least 20 civilian deaths have so far occured.
ZMAG: Thirty Killled in Gas War
In the past three days, in the city of El Alto, a prolonged confrontation between security forces and protesters resulted in thirty dead over one hundred wounded, the great majority from bullet wounds. Protesters in El Alto have been maintaining the most intense road blockades in the country for weeks, cutting off the main route to La Paz. As a result, La Paz has been experiencing a severe shortage of gasoline, food and other supplies
ZMAG: Bolivia's Gas War
A new cycle of conflict has developed in Bolivia as worker unions, coca farmers and ordinary citizens unite to prevent the sale of the nation's gas reserves to the United States through a Chilean port. In a country whose economic identity has been strongly shaped by U.S. pressure in the war on drugs and IMF structural adjustments, The Gas War is the most recent case where the Bolivian public has vehemently protested against foreign interests taking priority over the country's economic well being.
ZMAG: Divisions Deepen in Bolivia's Gas War
An intense series of road blockades, protests and strikes continue to gain momentum across Bolivia as new sectors enter the movement against the exportation of the country’s gas to the US. The geographical and political diversity of the groups involved in the movement makes it difficult for them to coordinate their efforts and demands. Furthermore, the paralyzed government jeopardizes its own longevity by refusing to negotiate with most of this loose, but persistent, collection of citizens.
ZMAG: Bolivia: Aymara Rebellion And Democratic Dictatorship
We’re going to count up how much you owe us in back taxes since 1532! You’re just tenants! We’re the rightful owners of this country!… Since you can’t govern, give us back the power!… Let us govern!”
Opposition Senator Germ?n “El Inca” Choquehuanca to Bolivian Vice-President Carlos Meza, October 9, 2003
OCCUPIED TERRITORIES
Aljazeera: US vetoes Apartheid Wall resolution
The United States has vetoed a Palestinian-drafted UN Security Council resolution seeking to bar Israel from extending its Aparthied Wall deep into the West Bank.
"Die USA weiten Ihre Fuehrung im Gebrauch von Vetos im Sicherheitsrat weiter aus. Das war das zweite Veto fuer Israel innerhalb von zwei Wochen"
Aljazeera: US vetoes Apartheid Wall resolution
The United States has vetoed a Palestinian-drafted UN Security Council resolution seeking to bar Israel from extending its Aparthied Wall deep into the West Bank.
"Die USA weiten Ihre Fuehrung im Gebrauch von Vetos im Sicherheitsrat weiter aus. Das war das zweite Veto fuer Israel innerhalb von zwei Wochen"
ISRAEL VS. SYRIA
aljazeera: US hawk does not rule out Syria attack
Pentagon adviser Richard Perle said the recent Israeli attack in Syria was long overdue and expected US military action against Damascus.
Perle, a close adviser to US President George Bush and Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, was speaking on Tuesday at a Jerusalem conference of conservatives from the United States and Israel.
“I was happy to see that Israel has now taken a similar step in responding to acts of terror that originate in Lebanese territory by going to the rulers of Lebanon in Damascus,” said Perle, a Washington hawk.
aljazeera: US hawk does not rule out Syria attack
Pentagon adviser Richard Perle said the recent Israeli attack in Syria was long overdue and expected US military action against Damascus.
Perle, a close adviser to US President George Bush and Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, was speaking on Tuesday at a Jerusalem conference of conservatives from the United States and Israel.
“I was happy to see that Israel has now taken a similar step in responding to acts of terror that originate in Lebanese territory by going to the rulers of Lebanon in Damascus,” said Perle, a Washington hawk.
OCCUPIED TERRITORIES
Aljazeera: Four killed as Gaza blast hits US convoy
Four American guards were killed and one was injured when a landmine exploded next to a US diplomatic convoy in the Gaza Strip
Shortly after the attack Israeli forces backed by combat helicopters invaded the northern Gaza Strip.
Saeb Erekat, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, sent his condolences to the families of the US guards killed.
Interviewed by Aljazeera, he condemned the explosion saying no Palestinian group would commit such an attack.
“The US convoy included a group of US observers, not CIA members, who were observing events happening on the ground in the area, such as the implementation of the road map and the Israeli and Palestinian commitment towards it,” he said.
“All Palestinian sides have sought the existence of international observation teams in the area. The Palestinian Authority presents a daily report to the observation teams on events happening on the ground.
Independent: Three Americans killed in diplomatic convoy blast
A huge explosion ripped through a diplomatic convoy in the Gaza Strip today, killing three Americans and wounding another in the first attack on a US target in three years of Israel-Palestinian fighting.
The attack was condemned by Palestinian officials who said those killed were members of a US monitoring team sent to the region to supervise implementation of a US-backed peace plan.
"Wer hat wohl am meisten von einem Anschlag auf die Amerikaner im Gaza Streifen? Bestimmt nicht die Palaestinenser. Ariel Sharon wird sich freuen"
Anmerkung vom Celsius233: Lustige details zum Konvoi-Blasting von heute morgen...
Das waere das erste mal, dass Palaestinenser mit Minen Fahrzeuge angreifen. Normalerweise schiessen sie aus den vielen Huegeln auf
Siedlerwagen.
Der Anschlag geschah neben einer Tankstelle nahe einem Kontrollpunkt. Wie vergraebt man dort eine Mine, ohne gesehen zu werden?
Ein Konvoi aus mehrern Fahrzeugen war unterwegs _ohne_ diplomatisches Personal an bord.
Der Golf von Tonkin laesst gruessen -- jetzt ist auch amerikanisches Blut geflossen, also werden die Israelis freie Hand, ja sogar aktive
Hilfe, kriegen... Just einen Tag nach der Vorstellung des Genfer Friedensplanes
Aljazeera: Four killed as Gaza blast hits US convoy
Four American guards were killed and one was injured when a landmine exploded next to a US diplomatic convoy in the Gaza Strip
Shortly after the attack Israeli forces backed by combat helicopters invaded the northern Gaza Strip.
Saeb Erekat, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, sent his condolences to the families of the US guards killed.
Interviewed by Aljazeera, he condemned the explosion saying no Palestinian group would commit such an attack.
“The US convoy included a group of US observers, not CIA members, who were observing events happening on the ground in the area, such as the implementation of the road map and the Israeli and Palestinian commitment towards it,” he said.
“All Palestinian sides have sought the existence of international observation teams in the area. The Palestinian Authority presents a daily report to the observation teams on events happening on the ground.
Independent: Three Americans killed in diplomatic convoy blast
A huge explosion ripped through a diplomatic convoy in the Gaza Strip today, killing three Americans and wounding another in the first attack on a US target in three years of Israel-Palestinian fighting.
The attack was condemned by Palestinian officials who said those killed were members of a US monitoring team sent to the region to supervise implementation of a US-backed peace plan.
"Wer hat wohl am meisten von einem Anschlag auf die Amerikaner im Gaza Streifen? Bestimmt nicht die Palaestinenser. Ariel Sharon wird sich freuen"
Anmerkung vom Celsius233: Lustige details zum Konvoi-Blasting von heute morgen...
Das waere das erste mal, dass Palaestinenser mit Minen Fahrzeuge angreifen. Normalerweise schiessen sie aus den vielen Huegeln auf
Siedlerwagen.
Der Anschlag geschah neben einer Tankstelle nahe einem Kontrollpunkt. Wie vergraebt man dort eine Mine, ohne gesehen zu werden?
Ein Konvoi aus mehrern Fahrzeugen war unterwegs _ohne_ diplomatisches Personal an bord.
Der Golf von Tonkin laesst gruessen -- jetzt ist auch amerikanisches Blut geflossen, also werden die Israelis freie Hand, ja sogar aktive
Hilfe, kriegen... Just einen Tag nach der Vorstellung des Genfer Friedensplanes
Tuesday, October 14, 2003
OCCUPIED TERRITORIES
Haaretz: Arafat: Accord bid to win peace, but lacks official status
Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, responding with caution to the Geneva Accord peace
proposal drafted by former senior Israeli and Palestinian officials, Tuesday called it a bid to
achieve Middle East peace, but noted that the document had no official standing.
Arafat did not comment on the specifics of the deal, which gives Palestinians a state in virtually all of the West Bank
and Gaza Strip and divides Jerusalem, but largely keeps Palestinian refugees from returning to homes in what is
now Israel.
Beilin blasted Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for reportedly condemning the accord as hampering
peace efforts. "Does anyone truly believe that Sharon is in the midst of serious negotiations
and Yossi Beilin is hampering him by bringing an agreement with someone else?"
"This is foolishness and nonsense," Beilin continued. "For three years, Sharon has been
babbling on about his wanting peace - and he doesn't do anything."
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is said to have described the document as "the greatest
historical mistake since Oslo."
Top Palestinian Authority officials confirmed Monday that Yasser Abed Rabbo, the former PA
minister who headed the group of unofficial Palestinian negotiators, is a very close
associate of Arafat's, and there is no chance he would have gone ahead with the talks without
the PA chairman's approval, the Palestinian leaders emphasized.
Haaretz: Arafat: Accord bid to win peace, but lacks official status
Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, responding with caution to the Geneva Accord peace
proposal drafted by former senior Israeli and Palestinian officials, Tuesday called it a bid to
achieve Middle East peace, but noted that the document had no official standing.
Arafat did not comment on the specifics of the deal, which gives Palestinians a state in virtually all of the West Bank
and Gaza Strip and divides Jerusalem, but largely keeps Palestinian refugees from returning to homes in what is
now Israel.
Beilin blasted Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for reportedly condemning the accord as hampering
peace efforts. "Does anyone truly believe that Sharon is in the midst of serious negotiations
and Yossi Beilin is hampering him by bringing an agreement with someone else?"
"This is foolishness and nonsense," Beilin continued. "For three years, Sharon has been
babbling on about his wanting peace - and he doesn't do anything."
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is said to have described the document as "the greatest
historical mistake since Oslo."
Top Palestinian Authority officials confirmed Monday that Yasser Abed Rabbo, the former PA
minister who headed the group of unofficial Palestinian negotiators, is a very close
associate of Arafat's, and there is no chance he would have gone ahead with the talks without
the PA chairman's approval, the Palestinian leaders emphasized.
OCCUPIED TERRITORIES
Haaretz: All Israelis are to blame' for Rafah
"As far as I'm concerned, if they find a tunnel under somebody's house, they can bury them in it,
but how is this our fault? I used to say that anyone who listened to suicide bombers was crazy,
but after what happened here, I say that every Jew, wherever he is, all the Israelis, are to
blame for what happened here," Jamal Yussuf declared yesterday.
Practically the only public institutions still functioning in this camp are premises donated
by international bodies. In preparation for the operation, the IDF commandeered them because of
their good view of the surroundings. Such was the case with a child development center, a new
building. Here, too, furniture was flung on the floor, firing slits were carved out of the
walls, and hundreds of bullet holes riddled the outside.
So far, eight Palestinians have reportedly died during the operation, and about 80 have been
injured, with 15 still hospitalized in moderate to serious condition. Two of the dead are
children who undoubtedly had no connection to the IDF's struggle against the armed men in the
tunnels.
At the opening stage of the operation, 8-year-old Ibrahim Krinawi was killed. Ibrahim,
whose house was in the first row facing the border, was the youngest of five children. His
father Ahmed said the family was in the house when the operation began. They were going to
leave but the bulldozer got there before they were able to do so. He said the bulldozer began
tearing down a wall of the house, and he and his children went outside to stop it. At this
point, a single shot hit Ibrahim in the right side of his chest and he collapsed. His father
called an ambulance. As Ibrahim's brother Ayad told it, "at the beginning, he was conscious
and yelling that it was hurting him terribly and for us to save him. Then he began to bleed
and he begged us to take the bullet out but we couldn't do anything." The father said a
Palestinian ambulance stopped a few hundred meters from the house but could not come any
closer. Finally, family members carried Ibrahim to the ambulance. An hour later, he died at a
makeshift clinic.
Haaretz: All Israelis are to blame' for Rafah
"As far as I'm concerned, if they find a tunnel under somebody's house, they can bury them in it,
but how is this our fault? I used to say that anyone who listened to suicide bombers was crazy,
but after what happened here, I say that every Jew, wherever he is, all the Israelis, are to
blame for what happened here," Jamal Yussuf declared yesterday.
Practically the only public institutions still functioning in this camp are premises donated
by international bodies. In preparation for the operation, the IDF commandeered them because of
their good view of the surroundings. Such was the case with a child development center, a new
building. Here, too, furniture was flung on the floor, firing slits were carved out of the
walls, and hundreds of bullet holes riddled the outside.
So far, eight Palestinians have reportedly died during the operation, and about 80 have been
injured, with 15 still hospitalized in moderate to serious condition. Two of the dead are
children who undoubtedly had no connection to the IDF's struggle against the armed men in the
tunnels.
At the opening stage of the operation, 8-year-old Ibrahim Krinawi was killed. Ibrahim,
whose house was in the first row facing the border, was the youngest of five children. His
father Ahmed said the family was in the house when the operation began. They were going to
leave but the bulldozer got there before they were able to do so. He said the bulldozer began
tearing down a wall of the house, and he and his children went outside to stop it. At this
point, a single shot hit Ibrahim in the right side of his chest and he collapsed. His father
called an ambulance. As Ibrahim's brother Ayad told it, "at the beginning, he was conscious
and yelling that it was hurting him terribly and for us to save him. Then he began to bleed
and he begged us to take the bullet out but we couldn't do anything." The father said a
Palestinian ambulance stopped a few hundred meters from the house but could not come any
closer. Finally, family members carried Ibrahim to the ambulance. An hour later, he died at a
makeshift clinic.
IRAQI RESISTANCE
Aljazeera: More US soldiers die in Iraq
A second US soldier has been killed in 24 hours in a rocket-propelled grenade attack in the Iraqi town of Tikrit.
A spokesman for the US Army's 4th Infantry Division gave no other details of the ambush in the hometown of ousted president Saddam Hussein.
But the death follows that of another soldier earlier on Sunday after his vehicle struck a landmine near the central town of Baiji, about 220km northwest of Baghdad.
Aljazeera: More US soldiers die in Iraq
A second US soldier has been killed in 24 hours in a rocket-propelled grenade attack in the Iraqi town of Tikrit.
A spokesman for the US Army's 4th Infantry Division gave no other details of the ambush in the hometown of ousted president Saddam Hussein.
But the death follows that of another soldier earlier on Sunday after his vehicle struck a landmine near the central town of Baiji, about 220km northwest of Baghdad.
IRAQI RESISTANCE
Aljazeera: Bomb rocks Turkey's mission in Iraq
A car bomb has exploded outside the Turkish embassy in Baghdad, injuring around six people.
A car stopped at a checkpoint before detonating, killing the driver, reported Iraqi police officer Muhanad Mahmud and US occupation authorities on Tuesday.
"Die Tuerkei hats sich von Amerika kaufen lassen um Truppen in den Irak zu senden. Moeglicherweise war das keine gute Idee, da weder Kurden, noch Shiiten, noch Shias die Tuerken im Irak haben wollen."
Aljazeera: Bomb rocks Turkey's mission in Iraq
A car bomb has exploded outside the Turkish embassy in Baghdad, injuring around six people.
A car stopped at a checkpoint before detonating, killing the driver, reported Iraqi police officer Muhanad Mahmud and US occupation authorities on Tuesday.
"Die Tuerkei hats sich von Amerika kaufen lassen um Truppen in den Irak zu senden. Moeglicherweise war das keine gute Idee, da weder Kurden, noch Shiiten, noch Shias die Tuerken im Irak haben wollen."
IRAQI RESISTANCE
News24: Three US Dead, Five Wounded In Fresh Attacks
TIKRIT (AP) -- Saddam Hussein is believed to have been hiding out recently in Tikrit, influencing the anti-American insurgency, the US military said on Monday.
Fresh attacks by resistance forces across central Iraq's guerrilla country were reported to have killed three American soldiers and wounded five others.
News24: Three US Dead, Five Wounded In Fresh Attacks
TIKRIT (AP) -- Saddam Hussein is believed to have been hiding out recently in Tikrit, influencing the anti-American insurgency, the US military said on Monday.
Fresh attacks by resistance forces across central Iraq's guerrilla country were reported to have killed three American soldiers and wounded five others.
GM FOOD
Independent: US Firms 'Tried To Lie' Over GM Crops, Says EU
"Far from developing GM crops to solve the problem of starvation in the world, as they claimed, the biotech companies did so to 'solve starvation amongst their shareholders'."
American biotech companies tried to lie to Europe in an attempt to force genetically modified crops upon them, Margot Wallstrom, the European environment commissioner, said yesterday.
They tried to lie to people, and they tried to force it upon people. It's the wrong approach. You cannot force it upon Europe. So I hope they have learnt a lesson from this, especially when they now try to argue that this will solve the problems of starvation in the world and so on. But come on ... it was to solve starvation amongst shareholders, not the developing world."
Independent: US Firms 'Tried To Lie' Over GM Crops, Says EU
"Far from developing GM crops to solve the problem of starvation in the world, as they claimed, the biotech companies did so to 'solve starvation amongst their shareholders'."
American biotech companies tried to lie to Europe in an attempt to force genetically modified crops upon them, Margot Wallstrom, the European environment commissioner, said yesterday.
They tried to lie to people, and they tried to force it upon people. It's the wrong approach. You cannot force it upon Europe. So I hope they have learnt a lesson from this, especially when they now try to argue that this will solve the problems of starvation in the world and so on. But come on ... it was to solve starvation amongst shareholders, not the developing world."
UK: DAVID KELLY
Rense: The Murder Of Dr. David Kelly
Part One of Two
This first part lays out the case from the evidence presented in the Hutton inquiry why the death of Dr. David Kelly was not by suicide. Part two will show the reasons, in this writerâs opinion, Dr. Kelly was killed
Rense: The Murder Of Dr. David Kelly
Part One of Two
This first part lays out the case from the evidence presented in the Hutton inquiry why the death of Dr. David Kelly was not by suicide. Part two will show the reasons, in this writerâs opinion, Dr. Kelly was killed
ESSAY
ZMAG: Dominance and its Dilemmas by Noam Chomsky
By The past year has been a momentous one in world affairs. In the
normal rhythm, the pattern was set in September, a month marked by several
important and closely related events. The most powerful state in
history announced a new National Security Strategy asserting that it will
maintain global hegemony permanently: any challenge will be blocked by force,
the dimension in which the US reigns supreme. At the same time, the war
drums began to beat to mobilize the population for an invasion of Iraq, which
would be "the first test [of the doctrine], not the last," the New York
Times observed after the invasion, "the petri dish in which this
experiment in pre-emptive policy grew." And the campaign opened for the mid-term
congressional elections, which would determine whether the
administration would be able to carry forward its radical international and domestic
agenda.
"CHECK IT CHECK IT CHECK IT"
ZMAG: Dominance and its Dilemmas by Noam Chomsky
By The past year has been a momentous one in world affairs. In the
normal rhythm, the pattern was set in September, a month marked by several
important and closely related events. The most powerful state in
history announced a new National Security Strategy asserting that it will
maintain global hegemony permanently: any challenge will be blocked by force,
the dimension in which the US reigns supreme. At the same time, the war
drums began to beat to mobilize the population for an invasion of Iraq, which
would be "the first test [of the doctrine], not the last," the New York
Times observed after the invasion, "the petri dish in which this
experiment in pre-emptive policy grew." And the campaign opened for the mid-term
congressional elections, which would determine whether the
administration would be able to carry forward its radical international and domestic
agenda.
"CHECK IT CHECK IT CHECK IT"
OCCUPIED TERRITORIES
Observer: The revenger's tragedy: why women turn to suicide bombing
As the honour codes that bound Palestinian familes unravel, Islamic
Jihad has stepped up its recruitment of women. Kevin Toolis reports from the
West Bank on the cycle of slaughter that drove an ambitious female lawyer to
become a human bomb
The blood red fruit was just beginning to ripen on the pomegranate tree
when Israeli undercover soldiers came for Fardi and Salah Darajat in
Jenin, the besieged 'city of martyrs', in the occupied West Bank.
After a burst of gunfire the cousins lay dying on the dusty track
outside the family home. Their bodies were bundled into a Jeep and driven off.
For Israeli special forces it was another successful hit against militants
from Islamic Jihad. Another notch in the war against terror.
But before the pomegranates were ripe, Fardi's sister Hanadi Darajat
would exact a terrible harvest of revenge by blowing herself up inside
Haifa's Maxim's restaurant and murdering 19 civilians.
Observer: The revenger's tragedy: why women turn to suicide bombing
As the honour codes that bound Palestinian familes unravel, Islamic
Jihad has stepped up its recruitment of women. Kevin Toolis reports from the
West Bank on the cycle of slaughter that drove an ambitious female lawyer to
become a human bomb
The blood red fruit was just beginning to ripen on the pomegranate tree
when Israeli undercover soldiers came for Fardi and Salah Darajat in
Jenin, the besieged 'city of martyrs', in the occupied West Bank.
After a burst of gunfire the cousins lay dying on the dusty track
outside the family home. Their bodies were bundled into a Jeep and driven off.
For Israeli special forces it was another successful hit against militants
from Islamic Jihad. Another notch in the war against terror.
But before the pomegranates were ripe, Fardi's sister Hanadi Darajat
would exact a terrible harvest of revenge by blowing herself up inside
Haifa's Maxim's restaurant and murdering 19 civilians.
IRAQ
Guardian: Turks will bring chaos, say Kurds
The Bush administration is in danger of scoring a disastrous own goal
with its decision to bring Turkish peacekeeping troops into Iraq, a Kurdish
leader has warned. Necirvan Barzani, prime minister of the Kurdistan
regional government in Irbil and a key US ally in the war to remove
Saddam Hussein, said the plan to bring Turkish soldiers to Iraq had needlessly
upset the pro-American Kurdish population in the north, and was also
opposed by Sunni and Shia Arab communities in central and southern
Iraq.
Guardian: Turks will bring chaos, say Kurds
The Bush administration is in danger of scoring a disastrous own goal
with its decision to bring Turkish peacekeeping troops into Iraq, a Kurdish
leader has warned. Necirvan Barzani, prime minister of the Kurdistan
regional government in Irbil and a key US ally in the war to remove
Saddam Hussein, said the plan to bring Turkish soldiers to Iraq had needlessly
upset the pro-American Kurdish population in the north, and was also
opposed by Sunni and Shia Arab communities in central and southern
Iraq.
USA
Guardian: Bush's Aids 'gift' has been seized by industry giants
Now the US may block the provision of cheap generic drugs for Africa
Fighting Aids was supposed to show George Bush's softer side. "Seldom has history offered a greater opportunity to do so much for so many," he said in his State of the Union address in January.
He has since reconsidered, deciding instead to offer a few more opportunities to the few. First he handed the top job of his global Aids initiative to a Big Pharma boss, then he broke his $3bn promise of Aids relief. And now there are concerns that he may sabotage a plan to send cheap drugs to countries ravaged by Aids.
Guardian: Bush's Aids 'gift' has been seized by industry giants
Now the US may block the provision of cheap generic drugs for Africa
Fighting Aids was supposed to show George Bush's softer side. "Seldom has history offered a greater opportunity to do so much for so many," he said in his State of the Union address in January.
He has since reconsidered, deciding instead to offer a few more opportunities to the few. First he handed the top job of his global Aids initiative to a Big Pharma boss, then he broke his $3bn promise of Aids relief. And now there are concerns that he may sabotage a plan to send cheap drugs to countries ravaged by Aids.
USA
LA Weekly: The Novak Affair - How I broke the CIA-leak story, and why nobody
noticed by David Corn
I fought the Republican spin machine, and the Republican spin machine won.
The battlefield was a Fox News Channel studio. I had been booked to
discuss my new book (plug, plug: The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the
Politics of Deception), but I was also told I would be talking about the
Wilson-CIA-leak affair. That was natural, for (plug, plug) I was the
first journalist to report that a July 14 piece by conservative columnist
Robert Novak was possible evidence of a possible White House crime. In that
article, Novak, citing “senior administration officials,” disclosed
that the wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson was a CIA operative.
Wilson had challenged the administration on its Iraq policy —
particularly its use of the (now infamous and still unproven) claim
that Saddam Hussein had been uranium shopping in Niger — and the column
seemed to be an administration effort to undermine or punish Wilson. The
leakers also may have broken a federal law prohibiting the identification of
covert officers. I noted that in The Nation two days after the Novak column
appeared. But the leak did not become major news until two months
later, when the CIA asked the Justice
Department to investigate the White House.
LA Weekly: The Novak Affair - How I broke the CIA-leak story, and why nobody
noticed by David Corn
I fought the Republican spin machine, and the Republican spin machine won.
The battlefield was a Fox News Channel studio. I had been booked to
discuss my new book (plug, plug: The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the
Politics of Deception), but I was also told I would be talking about the
Wilson-CIA-leak affair. That was natural, for (plug, plug) I was the
first journalist to report that a July 14 piece by conservative columnist
Robert Novak was possible evidence of a possible White House crime. In that
article, Novak, citing “senior administration officials,” disclosed
that the wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson was a CIA operative.
Wilson had challenged the administration on its Iraq policy —
particularly its use of the (now infamous and still unproven) claim
that Saddam Hussein had been uranium shopping in Niger — and the column
seemed to be an administration effort to undermine or punish Wilson. The
leakers also may have broken a federal law prohibiting the identification of
covert officers. I noted that in The Nation two days after the Novak column
appeared. But the leak did not become major news until two months
later, when the CIA asked the Justice
Department to investigate the White House.
DONALD RUMSFELD
The Atlantic: Rumsfeld's Roots:
James Mann talks about the political evolution and influences of Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Rumsfeld, Henry Kissinger once wrote, is "a special Washington
phenomenon: the skilled full-time politician-bureaucrat in whom
ambition, ability, and substance fuse seamlessly." "Young Rumsfeld" (October
Atlantic), James Mann's examination of the future Secretary of
Defense's tenure in the Nixon Administration, shows Rumsfeld at a time when these
three qualities had not yet quite fused, when Rumsfeld found himself
restlessly searching for- and never quite achieving-the kind of
position he wanted within the Administration.
The Atlantic: Rumsfeld's Roots:
James Mann talks about the political evolution and influences of Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Rumsfeld, Henry Kissinger once wrote, is "a special Washington
phenomenon: the skilled full-time politician-bureaucrat in whom
ambition, ability, and substance fuse seamlessly." "Young Rumsfeld" (October
Atlantic), James Mann's examination of the future Secretary of
Defense's tenure in the Nixon Administration, shows Rumsfeld at a time when these
three qualities had not yet quite fused, when Rumsfeld found himself
restlessly searching for- and never quite achieving-the kind of
position he wanted within the Administration.
RECLAIM THE STREETS
Um die 1000 Menschen nahmen sich letzten Samstag 11.10.2003 für mehrere Stunden einige Strassen Zürichs. Oft "Sauvage"oder in aehnlichem Sinne seit weniger langer Zeit "Reclaim the Streets" genannt. Beides zielt darauf ab, sich Plaetze und Strassen für einige Stunden zu nehmen, autofrei zu machen, das Geschehen selbst zu bestimmen und vielleicht auch herrschende Codes zu entstellen.
Aufgerufen wurde, um sich der zunehmenden Enge in Zürich zu widersetzen und Freiraeume einzufordern. Die Verdraengungspolitik wird auch in der Stadt Zürich für mehr und mehr Menschen spürbar. 'Es ist erlaubt, was nicht stoert': "Aufwertung" der Quartiere durch Kommerzialisierung und Repression/Vertreibung; Polizeieinsaetze gegen illegale, laute Parties; R?umung besetzter Haeuser usw. usf.
Diese Vorwürfe haben sich mehr als best?tigt, als die Polizei versuchte, wie schon in Basel oder Zug [1+2] geschehen, den Umzug von Anfang an zu blockieren und ihn waehrend des Abends mehrmals mit Traenengas, Gummigeschossen und Pfefferspray angriff. U.a. durch das Zusammenkommen von Menschen aus verschiedenen Zusammenhaengen, Subkulturen und Szenen entwickelte sich eine Dynamik und Selbstbestimmung, die so einfach nicht aufzuloesen war. So konnte die Polizei zwar die Innenstadt bzw. den Kreis 1 abriegeln und 5 Personen bis zum naechsten Morgen festnehmen, das Verhindern und Bestimmen der Reclaim the Streets war für sie aber nicht durchzusetzen. Der autoritaeren Doktrin 'es ist erlaubt, was nicht stoert' wurde getrotzt...
Geschichte, Kritik und Konzepte: Reclaim the Streets: Karneval und Konfrontation (Textstücke) | Spass kann auch Widerstand machen | Reclaim The Streets! Do or Die 1997 (english)
die bürgerlichen medien werden ihrem ruf gerecht..., kommentar zu SDA meldung und bericht
Um die 1000 Menschen nahmen sich letzten Samstag 11.10.2003 für mehrere Stunden einige Strassen Zürichs. Oft "Sauvage"oder in aehnlichem Sinne seit weniger langer Zeit "Reclaim the Streets" genannt. Beides zielt darauf ab, sich Plaetze und Strassen für einige Stunden zu nehmen, autofrei zu machen, das Geschehen selbst zu bestimmen und vielleicht auch herrschende Codes zu entstellen.
Aufgerufen wurde, um sich der zunehmenden Enge in Zürich zu widersetzen und Freiraeume einzufordern. Die Verdraengungspolitik wird auch in der Stadt Zürich für mehr und mehr Menschen spürbar. 'Es ist erlaubt, was nicht stoert': "Aufwertung" der Quartiere durch Kommerzialisierung und Repression/Vertreibung; Polizeieinsaetze gegen illegale, laute Parties; R?umung besetzter Haeuser usw. usf.
Diese Vorwürfe haben sich mehr als best?tigt, als die Polizei versuchte, wie schon in Basel oder Zug [1+2] geschehen, den Umzug von Anfang an zu blockieren und ihn waehrend des Abends mehrmals mit Traenengas, Gummigeschossen und Pfefferspray angriff. U.a. durch das Zusammenkommen von Menschen aus verschiedenen Zusammenhaengen, Subkulturen und Szenen entwickelte sich eine Dynamik und Selbstbestimmung, die so einfach nicht aufzuloesen war. So konnte die Polizei zwar die Innenstadt bzw. den Kreis 1 abriegeln und 5 Personen bis zum naechsten Morgen festnehmen, das Verhindern und Bestimmen der Reclaim the Streets war für sie aber nicht durchzusetzen. Der autoritaeren Doktrin 'es ist erlaubt, was nicht stoert' wurde getrotzt...
Geschichte, Kritik und Konzepte: Reclaim the Streets: Karneval und Konfrontation (Textstücke) | Spass kann auch Widerstand machen | Reclaim The Streets! Do or Die 1997 (english)
die bürgerlichen medien werden ihrem ruf gerecht..., kommentar zu SDA meldung und bericht
USA ECONEMY
NY Times: Don't Look Down by Paul Krugman
During the 1990's I spent much of my time focusing on economic crises around the world — in particular, on currency crises like those that struck Southeast Asia in 1997 and Argentina in 2001. The timing of such crises is hard to predict. But there are warning signs, like big trade and budget deficits and rising debt burdens.
And there's one thing I can't help noticing: a third world country with America's recent numbers — its huge budget and trade deficits, its growing reliance on short-term borrowing from the rest of the world — would definitely be on the watch list.
I'm not the only one thinking that. Lehman Brothers has a mathematical model known as Damocles that it calls "an early warning system to identify the likelihood of countries entering into financial crises." Developing nations are looking pretty safe these days. But applying the same model to some advanced countries "would set Damocles' alarm bells ringing." Lehman's press release adds, "Most conspicuous of these threats is the United States."
"Wenn Amerika nicht unendlich viel Geld drucken koennte ohne eine Inflation befuerchten zu muessen waere die amerikanische Wirtschaft schon lange gecrasht"
Recommended reading: Weltmacht USA , Ein Nachruf ISBN/EAN: 3-492-04535-9
NY Times: Don't Look Down by Paul Krugman
During the 1990's I spent much of my time focusing on economic crises around the world — in particular, on currency crises like those that struck Southeast Asia in 1997 and Argentina in 2001. The timing of such crises is hard to predict. But there are warning signs, like big trade and budget deficits and rising debt burdens.
And there's one thing I can't help noticing: a third world country with America's recent numbers — its huge budget and trade deficits, its growing reliance on short-term borrowing from the rest of the world — would definitely be on the watch list.
I'm not the only one thinking that. Lehman Brothers has a mathematical model known as Damocles that it calls "an early warning system to identify the likelihood of countries entering into financial crises." Developing nations are looking pretty safe these days. But applying the same model to some advanced countries "would set Damocles' alarm bells ringing." Lehman's press release adds, "Most conspicuous of these threats is the United States."
"Wenn Amerika nicht unendlich viel Geld drucken koennte ohne eine Inflation befuerchten zu muessen waere die amerikanische Wirtschaft schon lange gecrasht"
Recommended reading: Weltmacht USA , Ein Nachruf ISBN/EAN: 3-492-04535-9
WEATHER MODIFICATION
NY Times: Can Rain Be Bought? Experts Seed Clouds and Seek Answers
With a severe drought parching Colorado and much of the American West in recent years, Denver's water department decided to take a gamble in the hope of squeezing more precipitation out of the atmosphere. It has invested more than $1 million in cloud seeding in the last two years.
Has it paid off? Possibly, some research suggests.
The most recent report, issued yesterday by the National Research Council, is inconclusive. "Evaluation methodologies vary but in general do not provide convincing scientific evidence for either success or failure," says the report, titled "Critical Issues in Weather Modification Research."
NY Times: Can Rain Be Bought? Experts Seed Clouds and Seek Answers
With a severe drought parching Colorado and much of the American West in recent years, Denver's water department decided to take a gamble in the hope of squeezing more precipitation out of the atmosphere. It has invested more than $1 million in cloud seeding in the last two years.
Has it paid off? Possibly, some research suggests.
The most recent report, issued yesterday by the National Research Council, is inconclusive. "Evaluation methodologies vary but in general do not provide convincing scientific evidence for either success or failure," says the report, titled "Critical Issues in Weather Modification Research."
ISRAEL VS. LEBANON
UN News: ISRAEL VIOLATES LEBANESE AIR SPACE DESPITE EXISTING REGIONAL TENSION - UN ENVOY
New York, Oct 13 2003 3:00PM
Israeli jets, flying over areas of southern Lebanon, violated the Blue Line marking Israeli withdrawal from the area seven times today, but did not meet anti-aircraft fire from Lebanese territory, a senior United Nations envoy said.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Personal Representative for Southern Lebanon, Staffan de Mistura, expressed his "concern over these violations of the Blue Line and Lebanese air space by Israeli aircraft."
"These air violations come amid an already tense situation in Southern Lebanon and the region in general," his statement said. "He reiterates his call on Israel to cease these violations and for all parties to exercise restraint and respect fully the Blue Line, in order to avoid a further deterioration of the situation on the ground."
"link by pedro"
UN News: ISRAEL VIOLATES LEBANESE AIR SPACE DESPITE EXISTING REGIONAL TENSION - UN ENVOY
New York, Oct 13 2003 3:00PM
Israeli jets, flying over areas of southern Lebanon, violated the Blue Line marking Israeli withdrawal from the area seven times today, but did not meet anti-aircraft fire from Lebanese territory, a senior United Nations envoy said.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Personal Representative for Southern Lebanon, Staffan de Mistura, expressed his "concern over these violations of the Blue Line and Lebanese air space by Israeli aircraft."
"These air violations come amid an already tense situation in Southern Lebanon and the region in general," his statement said. "He reiterates his call on Israel to cease these violations and for all parties to exercise restraint and respect fully the Blue Line, in order to avoid a further deterioration of the situation on the ground."
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Monday, October 13, 2003
GHETTOPOLY
Rense: 'Ghettopoly' Is What Happens When Hip-Hop Is Celebrated
"How can black people be outraged over a board game when black superstars have gotten rich by promoting those same stereotypes? These performers aren't boycotted. They are worshipped."
By the time I called Urban Outfitters on Rush Street to find out if they had any more "Ghettopoly" games on their shelves, they had sold out.
"I'll have to put you on the waiting list," the clerk told me.
"How long is the list?"
"It's a two-week wait."
I tried another Urban Outfitters, this one at 2352 N. Clark.
"We've got a pretty long waiting list," the clerk said.
Either the clerks were lying, or consumers rushed down to Urban Outfitters to purchase the controversial board game the morning after WLS-Channel 7's Charles Thomas reported that the retailer was selling "Ghettopoly" at its chain stores.
The game is a takeoff on Monopoly. But as Thomas reported, instead of a top hat, cane and mustache, the Ghettopoly guy is a "thuggish, bandana-wearing black man with bug eyes, peering over dark glasses. He clenches a marijuana cigarette, holding an Uzi in one hand and a bottle of malt liquor in the other."
Game cards include ghetto stash and hustle cards, a loan shark tray, 40 crack houses, 17 projects, pink slip cards and seven game pieces (Pimp, Hoe, 40 oz, Machine Gun, Marijuana Leaf, Basket Ball and Crack) and counterfeit money.
The fallout from activists in the black community over the board game has been fast and furious.
BUY IT HERE: GHETTOPOLY
Rense: 'Ghettopoly' Is What Happens When Hip-Hop Is Celebrated
"How can black people be outraged over a board game when black superstars have gotten rich by promoting those same stereotypes? These performers aren't boycotted. They are worshipped."
By the time I called Urban Outfitters on Rush Street to find out if they had any more "Ghettopoly" games on their shelves, they had sold out.
"I'll have to put you on the waiting list," the clerk told me.
"How long is the list?"
"It's a two-week wait."
I tried another Urban Outfitters, this one at 2352 N. Clark.
"We've got a pretty long waiting list," the clerk said.
Either the clerks were lying, or consumers rushed down to Urban Outfitters to purchase the controversial board game the morning after WLS-Channel 7's Charles Thomas reported that the retailer was selling "Ghettopoly" at its chain stores.
The game is a takeoff on Monopoly. But as Thomas reported, instead of a top hat, cane and mustache, the Ghettopoly guy is a "thuggish, bandana-wearing black man with bug eyes, peering over dark glasses. He clenches a marijuana cigarette, holding an Uzi in one hand and a bottle of malt liquor in the other."
Game cards include ghetto stash and hustle cards, a loan shark tray, 40 crack houses, 17 projects, pink slip cards and seven game pieces (Pimp, Hoe, 40 oz, Machine Gun, Marijuana Leaf, Basket Ball and Crack) and counterfeit money.
The fallout from activists in the black community over the board game has been fast and furious.
BUY IT HERE: GHETTOPOLY
NORTH KOREA
American Freepress: 'Ethnic Bomb' To Kill Whites Only Tied To N Korea
A top North Korean scientist, working on a race-based bomb, has vanished. Was he taken by Western intelligence operatives or did the Chinese nab him?
Has Dr. Ri Chae Woo, North Korea,s world-ranking expert working on a "whites-only" racial/genetic bomb, been snatched in a combined CIA, MI6 and Australian secret service operation? Or has Ri been grabbed by the Chinese Secret Intelligence Service"so that the communist government can discover just how far Kim Jong II, North Korea,s unpredictable dictator, has advanced his threat to launch the ethnic bomb upon the world?
Kim could precipitate a crisis, which would bring China into direct confrontation with the United States"something it is not yet ready to do
American Freepress: 'Ethnic Bomb' To Kill Whites Only Tied To N Korea
A top North Korean scientist, working on a race-based bomb, has vanished. Was he taken by Western intelligence operatives or did the Chinese nab him?
Has Dr. Ri Chae Woo, North Korea,s world-ranking expert working on a "whites-only" racial/genetic bomb, been snatched in a combined CIA, MI6 and Australian secret service operation? Or has Ri been grabbed by the Chinese Secret Intelligence Service"so that the communist government can discover just how far Kim Jong II, North Korea,s unpredictable dictator, has advanced his threat to launch the ethnic bomb upon the world?
Kim could precipitate a crisis, which would bring China into direct confrontation with the United States"something it is not yet ready to do
911
IS WARREN BUFFET CONNECTED TO 911?
So where was Warren Buffett the morning of 9/11 and what was he doing?
Mr. Buffett was reportedly at his home in Omaha, Nebraska watching TV when he heard about the terrorist attacks. He was getting ready to host his "last annual golf charity event" which just happened to be at the U.S. Strategic Command headquarters located at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha. Offutt AFB is, coincidentally, where President G. W. Bush flew to on Air Force One later in the day for "safety". This early golf charity event hosted by Mr. Buffett was to include celebrities, professional athletes, and a small group of business leaders in which one of these business leaders became a very lucky person.
This very lucky person was Ann Tatlock, the CEO of Fiduciary Trust Co. International. Now what made Mrs. Tatlock such a lucky person for being invited to this charity event that morning? Mrs. Tatlock not only works in the World Trade Center, but her offices were right where Flight 175 crashed into the WTC 2
"Check It"
IS WARREN BUFFET CONNECTED TO 911?
So where was Warren Buffett the morning of 9/11 and what was he doing?
Mr. Buffett was reportedly at his home in Omaha, Nebraska watching TV when he heard about the terrorist attacks. He was getting ready to host his "last annual golf charity event" which just happened to be at the U.S. Strategic Command headquarters located at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha. Offutt AFB is, coincidentally, where President G. W. Bush flew to on Air Force One later in the day for "safety". This early golf charity event hosted by Mr. Buffett was to include celebrities, professional athletes, and a small group of business leaders in which one of these business leaders became a very lucky person.
This very lucky person was Ann Tatlock, the CEO of Fiduciary Trust Co. International. Now what made Mrs. Tatlock such a lucky person for being invited to this charity event that morning? Mrs. Tatlock not only works in the World Trade Center, but her offices were right where Flight 175 crashed into the WTC 2
"Check It"
IRAQ: PR WATCH
Gannet News Service: Hoaxed 'Good News From Iraq' Letters Exposed
Many Soldiers, Same Letter
WASHINGTON -- Letters from hometown soldiers describing their successes rebuilding Iraq have been appearing in newspapers across the country as U.S. public opinion on the mission sours.
And all the letters are the same.
A Gannett News Service search found identical letters from different soldiers with the 2nd Battalion of the 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment, also known as "The Rock," in 11 newspapers, including Snohomish, Wash.
The Olympian received two identical letters signed by different hometown soldiers: Spc. Joshua Ackler and Spc. Alex Marois, who is now a sergeant. The paper declined to run either because of a policy not to publish form letters.
The five-paragraph letter talks about the soldiers' efforts to re-establish police and fire departments, and build water and sewer plants in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, where the unit is based.
"The quality of life and security for the citizens has been largely restored, and we are a large part of why that has happened," the letter reads.
It describes people waving at passing troops and children running up to shake their hands and say thank you.
It's not clear who wrote the letter or organized sending it to soldiers' hometown papers.
Six soldiers reached by GNS directly or through their families said they agreed with the letter's thrust. But none of the soldiers said he wrote it, and one said he didn't even sign it.
Gannet News Service: Hoaxed 'Good News From Iraq' Letters Exposed
Many Soldiers, Same Letter
WASHINGTON -- Letters from hometown soldiers describing their successes rebuilding Iraq have been appearing in newspapers across the country as U.S. public opinion on the mission sours.
And all the letters are the same.
A Gannett News Service search found identical letters from different soldiers with the 2nd Battalion of the 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment, also known as "The Rock," in 11 newspapers, including Snohomish, Wash.
The Olympian received two identical letters signed by different hometown soldiers: Spc. Joshua Ackler and Spc. Alex Marois, who is now a sergeant. The paper declined to run either because of a policy not to publish form letters.
The five-paragraph letter talks about the soldiers' efforts to re-establish police and fire departments, and build water and sewer plants in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, where the unit is based.
"The quality of life and security for the citizens has been largely restored, and we are a large part of why that has happened," the letter reads.
It describes people waving at passing troops and children running up to shake their hands and say thank you.
It's not clear who wrote the letter or organized sending it to soldiers' hometown papers.
Six soldiers reached by GNS directly or through their families said they agreed with the letter's thrust. But none of the soldiers said he wrote it, and one said he didn't even sign it.
ISRAEL USA
AFP: US veto threat hangs over new UN resolution on Israeli Barrier
WASHINGTON, Oct 10 (AFP) - The United States on Friday said it opposed
a new Arab-proposed UN Security Council resolution declaring Israel's
construction of a controversial West Bank security barrier "illegal,"
setting the stage for a likely US veto next week. Despite
Washington's own objections to the barrier -- which will result in deductions from
US loan guarantees to Israel -- the State Department said the new
resolution was "unbalanced" as it does not address violence committed against
Israelis.
"Die USA koennten sich langsam mal eine bessere Begruendung fuer ihre Vetos einfallen lassen, ist die Mauer weniger illegal, wenn in der Resolution auch die Angriffe der Pal?stinenser erwaehnt werden?"
Kommtar vom Pedro: Es geht eher darum, dass sich die Israelis, wenn sie sich nicht an die
Resolution halten, darauf hinweisen koennten, dass die Palaestinenser,
die auch gescholten wuerden, den Terrorismus auch nicht abgeschworen
haetten, und sie sich somit nichts vorzuwerfen haetten... Was so harmlos
klingt ist leider ziemlich ernste sache -- leider spricht niemand
Klartext darueber
AFP: US veto threat hangs over new UN resolution on Israeli Barrier
WASHINGTON, Oct 10 (AFP) - The United States on Friday said it opposed
a new Arab-proposed UN Security Council resolution declaring Israel's
construction of a controversial West Bank security barrier "illegal,"
setting the stage for a likely US veto next week. Despite
Washington's own objections to the barrier -- which will result in deductions from
US loan guarantees to Israel -- the State Department said the new
resolution was "unbalanced" as it does not address violence committed against
Israelis.
"Die USA koennten sich langsam mal eine bessere Begruendung fuer ihre Vetos einfallen lassen, ist die Mauer weniger illegal, wenn in der Resolution auch die Angriffe der Pal?stinenser erwaehnt werden?"
Kommtar vom Pedro: Es geht eher darum, dass sich die Israelis, wenn sie sich nicht an die
Resolution halten, darauf hinweisen koennten, dass die Palaestinenser,
die auch gescholten wuerden, den Terrorismus auch nicht abgeschworen
haetten, und sie sich somit nichts vorzuwerfen haetten... Was so harmlos
klingt ist leider ziemlich ernste sache -- leider spricht niemand
Klartext darueber
OCCUPIED TERRITORIES
UN NEWS SERVICE: ISRAELI INCURSION LEAVES 1,240 PALESTINIANS HOMELESS, UN AGENCY FINDS
New York, Oct 13 2003 12:00PM
The Israeli demolition of refugee shelters in Rafah camp on the southern Gaza Strip last week has left 1,240 people homeless, United Nations relief workers said today.
Teams working for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said in a statement that Israeli forces demolished 114 refugee shelters and six non-refugee homes during their incursion from 9 to 11October. Another 117 buildings were damaged, but liveable, the agency said.
´The Agencyÿs relief and social services office in Rafah camp is struggling to deal with the demand for assistance from the newly homeless, but has so far established that 1,240 individuals were made homeless,¡ UNRWA said. ´The figure of 1,500 issued on Sunday, 12 October, was an initial estimate based on the number of homes demolished, multiplied by average family size.
´The recent incursion brings the total number of Palestinians who have been made homeless in Rafah since the beginning of the current intifada to 7,523,¡ it added. ´The total for the whole of the Gaza Strip now stands at 11,987.¡
UNRWA said it has been providing the homeless with tents and hot meals, as well as cash to pay rent, but ´three years of demolitions has created an acute shortage of property in Rafah.¡
The agency said in June last year that Rafahÿs registered refugee population was 90,638.
"Link by Pedro"
UN NEWS SERVICE: ISRAELI INCURSION LEAVES 1,240 PALESTINIANS HOMELESS, UN AGENCY FINDS
New York, Oct 13 2003 12:00PM
The Israeli demolition of refugee shelters in Rafah camp on the southern Gaza Strip last week has left 1,240 people homeless, United Nations relief workers said today.
Teams working for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said in a statement that Israeli forces demolished 114 refugee shelters and six non-refugee homes during their incursion from 9 to 11October. Another 117 buildings were damaged, but liveable, the agency said.
´The Agencyÿs relief and social services office in Rafah camp is struggling to deal with the demand for assistance from the newly homeless, but has so far established that 1,240 individuals were made homeless,¡ UNRWA said. ´The figure of 1,500 issued on Sunday, 12 October, was an initial estimate based on the number of homes demolished, multiplied by average family size.
´The recent incursion brings the total number of Palestinians who have been made homeless in Rafah since the beginning of the current intifada to 7,523,¡ it added. ´The total for the whole of the Gaza Strip now stands at 11,987.¡
UNRWA said it has been providing the homeless with tents and hot meals, as well as cash to pay rent, but ´three years of demolitions has created an acute shortage of property in Rafah.¡
The agency said in June last year that Rafahÿs registered refugee population was 90,638.
"Link by Pedro"
IRAQ
Scoop:Seeing the Iraqi People
It would be impossible for me to overstate or exaggerate the
devastation that has been imposed on Iraq, and the most troubling, consistent, and
unacceptable reason for this devastation has been the failure of the
international community, over long decades, to see the Iraqi people.
International policy toward Iraq has never been made with the desires
and interests of the Iraqi people at heart, and our advocacy today is just
as blind.
Opposition slogans such as "End the Occupation Now!," or "Bring Our
Troops Home," may be emotionally satisfying, but - like our governments'
policies - our protests at home reflect little on the reality of daily life in
Iraq.
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Scoop:Seeing the Iraqi People
It would be impossible for me to overstate or exaggerate the
devastation that has been imposed on Iraq, and the most troubling, consistent, and
unacceptable reason for this devastation has been the failure of the
international community, over long decades, to see the Iraqi people.
International policy toward Iraq has never been made with the desires
and interests of the Iraqi people at heart, and our advocacy today is just
as blind.
Opposition slogans such as "End the Occupation Now!," or "Bring Our
Troops Home," may be emotionally satisfying, but - like our governments'
policies - our protests at home reflect little on the reality of daily life in
Iraq.
"CHECK IT"
IRAQ
Independent: Iraq, six months on
A survey of the good, the bad and the uncertain
Casualties
The total of Allied soldiers killed since Saddam Hussein was deposed on 9 April is 230. The death toll includes 207 American servicemen and 20 Britons. During September, civilian deaths by gunfire in Baghdad totalled 518. Under Saddam, deaths from gun violence in Baghdad averaged 6 per month. According to the central morgue in Baghdad, violent deaths reached 872 in August. The highest monthly toll in the previous year was 237 deaths, with just 21 from gunfire.
Oil & Fuel
Only 300 petrol outlets for Iraq's 25 million people. Officially cheap and available but most rely on the black market. Refineries producing only 1.25m barrels of crude a day, compared with 2.4m barrels a month before the war. Estimated cost of restoring oil production to the pre-1991 level of 3.5m barrels per day is $6.6bn. Iraq is exporting 70,000 barrels per day compared with 1.8m per day before the war.
Food
Three out of five Iraqis depend on food aid. Before the invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and the imposition of UN sanctions, Iraq was one of the best fed countries in the Middle East. Then, it imported two thirds of its needs.
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Independent: Iraq, six months on
A survey of the good, the bad and the uncertain
Casualties
The total of Allied soldiers killed since Saddam Hussein was deposed on 9 April is 230. The death toll includes 207 American servicemen and 20 Britons. During September, civilian deaths by gunfire in Baghdad totalled 518. Under Saddam, deaths from gun violence in Baghdad averaged 6 per month. According to the central morgue in Baghdad, violent deaths reached 872 in August. The highest monthly toll in the previous year was 237 deaths, with just 21 from gunfire.
Oil & Fuel
Only 300 petrol outlets for Iraq's 25 million people. Officially cheap and available but most rely on the black market. Refineries producing only 1.25m barrels of crude a day, compared with 2.4m barrels a month before the war. Estimated cost of restoring oil production to the pre-1991 level of 3.5m barrels per day is $6.6bn. Iraq is exporting 70,000 barrels per day compared with 1.8m per day before the war.
Food
Three out of five Iraqis depend on food aid. Before the invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and the imposition of UN sanctions, Iraq was one of the best fed countries in the Middle East. Then, it imported two thirds of its needs.
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USA
Guardian: Regime change, the prequel
In 1983, the US 'pre-emptively' invaded Grenada. Sound familiar?
Spare a thought for Grenada. If the tiny Caribbean "spice island"
figures at all these days, it's as a last-minute holiday bargain in the travel
supplements. Even then, many people think it is in southern Spain.
The story was different 20 years ago. Grenada was catapulted on to the
front pages in October 1983 when troops from the world's most powerful
country invaded the nutmeg-exporting island in order to effect "regime
change". The White House sledgehammer was successful and US forces soon
withdrew, but claims that a minuscule place with no army and a
population of less than 100,000 could conceivably be a military threat prompted
derision.
"CHECK IT"
Guardian: Regime change, the prequel
In 1983, the US 'pre-emptively' invaded Grenada. Sound familiar?
Spare a thought for Grenada. If the tiny Caribbean "spice island"
figures at all these days, it's as a last-minute holiday bargain in the travel
supplements. Even then, many people think it is in southern Spain.
The story was different 20 years ago. Grenada was catapulted on to the
front pages in October 1983 when troops from the world's most powerful
country invaded the nutmeg-exporting island in order to effect "regime
change". The White House sledgehammer was successful and US forces soon
withdrew, but claims that a minuscule place with no army and a
population of less than 100,000 could conceivably be a military threat prompted
derision.
"CHECK IT"
USRAEL
forward: All Top Democrats Support Israel's Bombing Of Syria
The top Democratic presidential candidates, who have differed sharply
with President Bush over his conduct of the Iraq war, are registering their
agreement with him over his support for Israel's bombing of a terrorist
target in Syria. . . The Israeli attack, the first such strike inside
Syria in 26 years, was criticized in editorials in several leading American
newspapers.
But the leading Democrats, at least, all stood with their commander in
chief. . . . "This was an attack on terrorism, not on Syria," Rep.
Richard Gephardt of Missouri told the Forward in a telephone interview. . .
Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts also supported the Israeli attack. . .
Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut "made it clear [on Fox News] on Sunday
that he does believe Israel's strikes were defensive and that he understands
why Israel had to do it," said spokesman Matt Gobush. . .
"Etwas Anderes zu sagen waere dumm, da die Demokratischen Praesidentschaftskandidaten auf die Stimmen der Juedischen Lobby angewiesen sind"
forward: All Top Democrats Support Israel's Bombing Of Syria
The top Democratic presidential candidates, who have differed sharply
with President Bush over his conduct of the Iraq war, are registering their
agreement with him over his support for Israel's bombing of a terrorist
target in Syria. . . The Israeli attack, the first such strike inside
Syria in 26 years, was criticized in editorials in several leading American
newspapers.
But the leading Democrats, at least, all stood with their commander in
chief. . . . "This was an attack on terrorism, not on Syria," Rep.
Richard Gephardt of Missouri told the Forward in a telephone interview. . .
Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts also supported the Israeli attack. . .
Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut "made it clear [on Fox News] on Sunday
that he does believe Israel's strikes were defensive and that he understands
why Israel had to do it," said spokesman Matt Gobush. . .
"Etwas Anderes zu sagen waere dumm, da die Demokratischen Praesidentschaftskandidaten auf die Stimmen der Juedischen Lobby angewiesen sind"
EURO VS. DOLLAR
Moscow Times: Putin: Why Not Price Oil in Euros?
President Vladimir Putin said Thursday Russia could switch its trade in oil from dollars to euros, a move that could have far-reaching repercussions for the global balance of power -- potentially hurting the U.S. dollar and economy and providing a massive boost to the euro zone.
"We do not rule out that it is possible. That would be interesting for our European partners," Putin said at a joint news conference with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in the Urals town of Yekaterinburg, where the two leaders conducted two-day talks.
"But this does not depend solely on us. We do not want to hurt prices on the market," he said.
"Putin's putting a big card on the table," said Youssef Ibrahim, managing director of the Strategic Energy Investment Group in Dubai and a member of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, an influential body of leading world thinkers thought to help set the United States' foreign policy agenda.
"In the context of what is happening worldwide, this statement is very important," he said.
Putin's words come in the wake of a protracted drive by the EU to attract more countries' trade and currency reserves into euros, in a bid to chip away at U.S. hegemony over the global economy and money supply
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Moscow Times: Putin: Why Not Price Oil in Euros?
President Vladimir Putin said Thursday Russia could switch its trade in oil from dollars to euros, a move that could have far-reaching repercussions for the global balance of power -- potentially hurting the U.S. dollar and economy and providing a massive boost to the euro zone.
"We do not rule out that it is possible. That would be interesting for our European partners," Putin said at a joint news conference with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in the Urals town of Yekaterinburg, where the two leaders conducted two-day talks.
"But this does not depend solely on us. We do not want to hurt prices on the market," he said.
"Putin's putting a big card on the table," said Youssef Ibrahim, managing director of the Strategic Energy Investment Group in Dubai and a member of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, an influential body of leading world thinkers thought to help set the United States' foreign policy agenda.
"In the context of what is happening worldwide, this statement is very important," he said.
Putin's words come in the wake of a protracted drive by the EU to attract more countries' trade and currency reserves into euros, in a bid to chip away at U.S. hegemony over the global economy and money supply
"CHECK IT"
USA
Globe and Mail: Impeach Bush now
Unmasking a CIA agent is bad, lying to Congress worse. With each U.S. death in Iraq, the case against the President grows stronger, says JOHN MacARTHUR
Now that the U.S. government's chief weapons inspector in Iraq has, in effect, confirmed an obvious truth -- that President George W. Bush and his closest advisers promoted a non-existent nuclear and chemical weapons threat from Iraq to justify a war -- an obvious question presents itself: Why aren't Americans talking seriously about impeachment?
After all, Mr. Bush now stands plausibly accused of the lofty crime of subverting the Constitution of the United States -- that is, lying to Congress about an imminent danger to the American people in order to collect enough votes to authorize his corporate/imperial project in Iraq. Yet, outside of a few brave remarks from Senator Robert Graham, and the considered opinion of Watergate stool pigeon John W. Dean, almost nobody dares speak the "I" word.
Globe and Mail: Impeach Bush now
Unmasking a CIA agent is bad, lying to Congress worse. With each U.S. death in Iraq, the case against the President grows stronger, says JOHN MacARTHUR
Now that the U.S. government's chief weapons inspector in Iraq has, in effect, confirmed an obvious truth -- that President George W. Bush and his closest advisers promoted a non-existent nuclear and chemical weapons threat from Iraq to justify a war -- an obvious question presents itself: Why aren't Americans talking seriously about impeachment?
After all, Mr. Bush now stands plausibly accused of the lofty crime of subverting the Constitution of the United States -- that is, lying to Congress about an imminent danger to the American people in order to collect enough votes to authorize his corporate/imperial project in Iraq. Yet, outside of a few brave remarks from Senator Robert Graham, and the considered opinion of Watergate stool pigeon John W. Dean, almost nobody dares speak the "I" word.
IRAQ
Asia Times: No money, no play: US on the brink in Iraq
BANGKOK - This coming October 23 to 24, the United States will be sitting down with rich creditor countries, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) during an international donors' conference on Iraq in Madrid. The IMF, the World Bank and the UN have estimated that Iraq will need US$36 billion for reconstruction within the next four years, in addition to $19 billion for other nonmilitary needs calculated by the American occupation regime. [1] With few options left, the US will be passing the hat.
This meeting could be a turning point in the occupation because whether the hat goes back to the US full or not will determine whether the US can afford to stay. The decision of donor countries to cough up cash will depend, in turn, on whether this continues to be a unilateral or multilateral economic takeover of an occupied country.
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Asia Times: No money, no play: US on the brink in Iraq
BANGKOK - This coming October 23 to 24, the United States will be sitting down with rich creditor countries, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) during an international donors' conference on Iraq in Madrid. The IMF, the World Bank and the UN have estimated that Iraq will need US$36 billion for reconstruction within the next four years, in addition to $19 billion for other nonmilitary needs calculated by the American occupation regime. [1] With few options left, the US will be passing the hat.
This meeting could be a turning point in the occupation because whether the hat goes back to the US full or not will determine whether the US can afford to stay. The decision of donor countries to cough up cash will depend, in turn, on whether this continues to be a unilateral or multilateral economic takeover of an occupied country.
"CHECK IT"
IRAQ
UNWire: U.S. Should Give UN 'Real Authority,' Former CIA Chief Says
The United States needs to give the United Nations 'some real
authority' in Iraq to avoid the risk of alienating ordinary Iraqis, former CIA
Director Stansfield Turner suggested to U.N. Wire yesterday. Turner said in an
interview that if the Bush administration loses too much popular
support in Iraq, it will face difficulties overcoming snipers and other security
problems in Baghdad. The administration, he said, is having problems in
the United Nations now 'because they don't like the U.N. and they don't
like nation-building in general.' In addition, he said, the administration
'had a false impression of what Iraq reconstruction was going to be like.'
Referring to last week's report to the U.S. Congress on weapons of mass
destruction by lead U.S. investigator David Kay, Turner said, 'I'm just
aghast when I read what Mr. Kay says and then read what Mr. Bush says
about Mr. Kay and then read what Mr. (U.S. Secretary of State Colin) Powell
wrote yesterday about Mr. Kay's report.'
UNWire: U.S. Should Give UN 'Real Authority,' Former CIA Chief Says
The United States needs to give the United Nations 'some real
authority' in Iraq to avoid the risk of alienating ordinary Iraqis, former CIA
Director Stansfield Turner suggested to U.N. Wire yesterday. Turner said in an
interview that if the Bush administration loses too much popular
support in Iraq, it will face difficulties overcoming snipers and other security
problems in Baghdad. The administration, he said, is having problems in
the United Nations now 'because they don't like the U.N. and they don't
like nation-building in general.' In addition, he said, the administration
'had a false impression of what Iraq reconstruction was going to be like.'
Referring to last week's report to the U.S. Congress on weapons of mass
destruction by lead U.S. investigator David Kay, Turner said, 'I'm just
aghast when I read what Mr. Kay says and then read what Mr. Bush says
about Mr. Kay and then read what Mr. (U.S. Secretary of State Colin) Powell
wrote yesterday about Mr. Kay's report.'
ISRAEL VS. JEAN ZIEGLER
AP: Israel Demands Withdrawal of Food Report
GENEVA - Israel on Thursday demanded the withdrawal of a United Nations
report on the food situation in the Palestinian territories, claiming
the author is politically biased. Yaakov Levy, Israel's ambassador in
Geneva, wrote to the chairwoman of the U.N. Human Rights Commission demanding
that Jean Ziegler's report be "deemed unfit for presentation" to the
commission when it meets in the spring.
The move follows an interview with Ziegler on French television channel
LCI, in which he said he was a member of the board of directors of the
Tel Aviv-based Alternative Information Center, which describes itself as "a
Palestinian-Israeli organization which disseminates information,
research and political analysis ... while promoting cooperation between
Palestinians and Israelis based on the values of social justice, solidarity and
community involvement." ... "There is a permanent, grave violation of
the right to food by the occupying forces. There is a catastrophic
humanitarian situation, and really it is absurd," he said at the time.
AP: Israel Demands Withdrawal of Food Report
GENEVA - Israel on Thursday demanded the withdrawal of a United Nations
report on the food situation in the Palestinian territories, claiming
the author is politically biased. Yaakov Levy, Israel's ambassador in
Geneva, wrote to the chairwoman of the U.N. Human Rights Commission demanding
that Jean Ziegler's report be "deemed unfit for presentation" to the
commission when it meets in the spring.
The move follows an interview with Ziegler on French television channel
LCI, in which he said he was a member of the board of directors of the
Tel Aviv-based Alternative Information Center, which describes itself as "a
Palestinian-Israeli organization which disseminates information,
research and political analysis ... while promoting cooperation between
Palestinians and Israelis based on the values of social justice, solidarity and
community involvement." ... "There is a permanent, grave violation of
the right to food by the occupying forces. There is a catastrophic
humanitarian situation, and really it is absurd," he said at the time.
IRAQ RESISTANCE
BBC: Iraqis protest at US 'terrorism'
Up to 10,000 Iraqi Shias have taken to the streets of a Baghdad suburb
to denounce the US for "terrorism". The protest came during the funerals
of two Shias allegedly killed by US soldiers in Sadr City on Thursday.
The US Army says the deaths followed an ambush on an American patrol on
Thursday which two soldiers died.
BBC: Iraqis protest at US 'terrorism'
Up to 10,000 Iraqi Shias have taken to the streets of a Baghdad suburb
to denounce the US for "terrorism". The protest came during the funerals
of two Shias allegedly killed by US soldiers in Sadr City on Thursday.
The US Army says the deaths followed an ambush on an American patrol on
Thursday which two soldiers died.
USA
Telegraph: I was protecting you from a madman, Bush tells America
President George W Bush defended his policies yesterday in the face of
mounting criticism of the Iraqi conflict, saying he had acted to
protect Americans from a "madman", Saddam Hussein.
"Und wer beschuetzt uns vor "madman" Bush?"
Telegraph: I was protecting you from a madman, Bush tells America
President George W Bush defended his policies yesterday in the face of
mounting criticism of the Iraqi conflict, saying he had acted to
protect Americans from a "madman", Saddam Hussein.
"Und wer beschuetzt uns vor "madman" Bush?"
USA ISRAEL WMD
Observer: Israel deploys nuclear arms in submarines Link by Pedro
Israeli and American officials have admitted collaborating to deploy US-supplied Harpoon cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads in Israel's fleet of Dolphin-class submarines, giving the Middle East's only nuclear power the ability to strike at any of its Arab neighbours.
The unprecedented disclosure came as Israel announced that states 'harbouring terrorists' are legitimate targets, responding to Syria's declaration of its right to self-defence should Israel bomb its territory again.
According to Israeli and Bush administration officials interviewed by the Los Angeles Times, the sea-launch capability gives Israel the ability to target Iran more easily should the Iranians develop their own nuclear weapons.
Although it has been long suspected that Israel bought three German diesel-electric submarines with the specific aim of arming them with nuclear cruise missiles, the admission that the two countries had collaborated in arming the fleet with a nuclear-capable weapons system is significant at a time of growing crisis between Israel and its neighbours.
In a clear echo of the Bush doctrine of pre-emption, the Foreign Ministry's senior spokesman, Gideon Meir, insisted: 'Israel views every state that is harbouring terrorist organisations and the leaders of those terrorist organisations who are attacking innocent citizens of the state of Israel as legitimate targets out of self defence.' "Das ist Super...in dem Fall kann sich Nordkorea oder der Iran genau die gleichen Rechte herausnehmen und Pr?ventivkriege führen...der letzte der das getan hat war Hitler....und Amerika"
"Schoene Aussichten....Atombomben auf Teheran und Tel-Aviv...dann ist endlich ruhe dort unten."
Observer: Israel deploys nuclear arms in submarines Link by Pedro
Israeli and American officials have admitted collaborating to deploy US-supplied Harpoon cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads in Israel's fleet of Dolphin-class submarines, giving the Middle East's only nuclear power the ability to strike at any of its Arab neighbours.
The unprecedented disclosure came as Israel announced that states 'harbouring terrorists' are legitimate targets, responding to Syria's declaration of its right to self-defence should Israel bomb its territory again.
According to Israeli and Bush administration officials interviewed by the Los Angeles Times, the sea-launch capability gives Israel the ability to target Iran more easily should the Iranians develop their own nuclear weapons.
Although it has been long suspected that Israel bought three German diesel-electric submarines with the specific aim of arming them with nuclear cruise missiles, the admission that the two countries had collaborated in arming the fleet with a nuclear-capable weapons system is significant at a time of growing crisis between Israel and its neighbours.
In a clear echo of the Bush doctrine of pre-emption, the Foreign Ministry's senior spokesman, Gideon Meir, insisted: 'Israel views every state that is harbouring terrorist organisations and the leaders of those terrorist organisations who are attacking innocent citizens of the state of Israel as legitimate targets out of self defence.' "Das ist Super...in dem Fall kann sich Nordkorea oder der Iran genau die gleichen Rechte herausnehmen und Pr?ventivkriege führen...der letzte der das getan hat war Hitler....und Amerika"
"Schoene Aussichten....Atombomben auf Teheran und Tel-Aviv...dann ist endlich ruhe dort unten."
USA ISRAEL WMD
Observer: Israel deploys nuclear arms in submarines
Israeli and American officials have admitted collaborating to deploy US-supplied Harpoon cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads in Israel's fleet of Dolphin-class submarines, giving the Middle East's only nuclear power the ability to strike at any of its Arab neighbours.
The unprecedented disclosure came as Israel announced that states 'harbouring terrorists' are legitimate targets, responding to Syria's declaration of its right to self-defence should Israel bomb its territory again.
According to Israeli and Bush administration officials interviewed by the Los Angeles Times, the sea-launch capability gives Israel the ability to target Iran more easily should the Iranians develop their own nuclear weapons.
Although it has been long suspected that Israel bought three German diesel-electric submarines with the specific aim of arming them with nuclear cruise missiles, the admission that the two countries had collaborated in arming the fleet with a nuclear-capable weapons system is significant at a time of growing crisis between Israel and its neighbours.
"Dabei hat Israel offiziel gar keine Atomwaffen.
Observer: Israel deploys nuclear arms in submarines
Israeli and American officials have admitted collaborating to deploy US-supplied Harpoon cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads in Israel's fleet of Dolphin-class submarines, giving the Middle East's only nuclear power the ability to strike at any of its Arab neighbours.
The unprecedented disclosure came as Israel announced that states 'harbouring terrorists' are legitimate targets, responding to Syria's declaration of its right to self-defence should Israel bomb its territory again.
According to Israeli and Bush administration officials interviewed by the Los Angeles Times, the sea-launch capability gives Israel the ability to target Iran more easily should the Iranians develop their own nuclear weapons.
Although it has been long suspected that Israel bought three German diesel-electric submarines with the specific aim of arming them with nuclear cruise missiles, the admission that the two countries had collaborated in arming the fleet with a nuclear-capable weapons system is significant at a time of growing crisis between Israel and its neighbours.
"Dabei hat Israel offiziel gar keine Atomwaffen.
RECLAIM THE STREETS 2003
20Minuten: Zürich: Nächtliche Strassenschlacht
Eine unbewilligte Kundgebung hat in Zürich zu einer mehrstündigen Strassenschlacht zwischen der Polizei und mehreren hundert Demonstrationsteilnehmern geführt.
Tagesanzeiger: Kultur-Demo endet im Krawall
Eine Party-Demonstration mit über 1000 Teilnehmern artete in der Nacht auf Sonntag zu einer Strassenschlacht mit der Polizei aus. Zwei Personen wurden dabei verletzt, fünf verhaftet
Wow, nachdem der Tagesanzeiger gestern das Polizei Communique 1:1 abgeschrieben hat, haben sie sich doch noch dazu durchgerungen beide Seiten darzustellen. Don't believe the Hype
20Minuten: Zürich: Nächtliche Strassenschlacht
Eine unbewilligte Kundgebung hat in Zürich zu einer mehrstündigen Strassenschlacht zwischen der Polizei und mehreren hundert Demonstrationsteilnehmern geführt.
Tagesanzeiger: Kultur-Demo endet im Krawall
Eine Party-Demonstration mit über 1000 Teilnehmern artete in der Nacht auf Sonntag zu einer Strassenschlacht mit der Polizei aus. Zwei Personen wurden dabei verletzt, fünf verhaftet
Wow, nachdem der Tagesanzeiger gestern das Polizei Communique 1:1 abgeschrieben hat, haben sie sich doch noch dazu durchgerungen beide Seiten darzustellen. Don't believe the Hype
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