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News (page 2)Al Qaida & Other Groups In Unusual Show Of Cooperation Target Attacks On Occupying Forces Across IraBy Sanjay Sharma, Section News
Smoke rises above the scene of dual explosions Thursday near an Iraqi police headquarters in Baghdad. (Muhannad Fala'ah / Getty Images.) BAGHDAD, Iraq - Two car bombs ripped through a crowded street Thursday in front of an Interior Ministry office in central Baghdad, killing 18 people and wounding some three dozen others. The death toll from Thursday’s twin car bombs was the highest from an explosion since March 10, when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a Shiite mosque during a funeral. The force of the attack threw people to the ground, and thick, black smoke billowed over the city.
(534 words in story) Full Story Iraqi Resistance Captures An American Businessman Near Baghdad - No Word Yet On His ExecutionBy Sanjay Sharma, Section News
Al-Jazeera broadcast a video Wednesday showing an American, identified by the U.S. Embassy as Jeffrey Ake, a contractor taken hostage in Baghdad. BAGHDAD, Iraq - Al-Jazeera television broadcast a video Wednesday showing an American who had been kidnapped two days before. The U.S. Embassy said the man on the video appeared to be Jeffrey Ake, a contract worker who was kidnapped Monday while working on a water treatment plant near Baghdad. Al-Jazeera didn't broadcast the tape's audio, but said the hostage asked the U.S. government to start a dialogue with the Iraqi resistance. It also said the man asked the U.S. government to begin withdrawing from Iraq and to save his life. The tape showed a man sitting behind a wooden desk as three men pointed their guns toward him. He was holding what looked like a passport and a photo that appeared to show his wife and their three children. Ake’s family and his company inthe US were following the FBI’s advice in not commenting, police Chief David Gariepy told reporters after meeting with the family. More than 200 foreigners have been taken captive in Iraq in the past year, and more than 30 have been killed. Iraqi resistance has not died out as Bush and the Neocons promised. American President George Bush invaded Iraq on cooked up premises and lies. No one in the Bush administration has been punished for the killing and slaughter they conducted and are conducting in Iraq. In fact the American electorate rewarded the spectacle of blood created by George Bush by re-electing him.
(316 words in story) Full Story Iraq War Was Declared "Crime Of Aggression"- Attorney General Apparently Changed Mind At Last MomentBy Sanjay Sharma, Section News
What were the reasons for this Britisher to have fallen in line on Tony Blair's quest for blood and Glory with Texan George Bush in the holy land of Iraq?
The Iraq war amounted to a "crime of aggression", the former deputy legal adviser to the United Kingdom Foreign Office, Elizabeth Wilmshurst, has said. In her resignation letter, Another significant point that emerges from the released section is that Ms Wilmshurst specifically rejects the grounds on which Lord Goldsmith said that the war was legal. He apparently changed his mind from illegality of war to it being legal just before the war was launched. The letter was requested by the BBC News Website's World Affairs correspondent Paul Reynolds under the Freedom of Information Act - but part of the letter was not revealed. The significance of the missing paragraph is that it appears to show a late change of mind by the attorney general. The UK under Tony Blair joined hands with George Bush to to the chagrin of the rest of the world attacked Iraq. The former deputy legal adviser made the claim before war in her resignation letter. Ms Wilmshurst resigned from her post on the eve of war because she did not believe military action in Iraq was legal. Also a report on Channel 4 claims it shows the attorney general Lord Goldsmith changed his mind on the legality of the war at the last moment - declaring it legal just before Mr. George Bush premptively launched the war 90 minutes before the deadline he set himself. Up until his letter to the government of 7 March, in which he supported the legality of the war, he had apparently been of the view that it was not legal. Channel 4, without giving a source for the information, quotes Ms Wilmshurst as indicating that the attorney general changed his mind at the last minute, giving approval for the war after having previously opposed it.
(422 words in story) Full Story Ukraine Begins Iraq Pullout - One Less "Coalition Pardner" For The Lying Cowboy Bush' AdministrationBy Sanjay Sharma, Section News
March 12, 2005 (Kiev): Ukraine withdrew 150 servicemen from Iraq today, starting a phased pullout that officials have said will be completed by October. Earlier this month, President Viktor Yushchenko and top defence officials ordered phased withdrawal of Ukraine's 1,650-strong contingent from the US coalition in Iraq. Ukraine has lost 17 soldiers in Iraq, and the deployment is deeply unpopular among people in the former Soviet republic. (Eventually the world must turn against the American occupation and the Bush Administration's Neo-Con policies, and drive out the Americans from the Holy Land - by covert or overt force in a cycle of endless death, just like the one the Americans have unleashed on the Iraqis, and consequently the rest of the world.)
A company that was based near As Suwayrah left Iraq and is expected to return to Ukraine by Tuesday, the Defence Ministry said. Ukraine strongly opposed the US-led war, but later agreed to send a large contingent to serve under Polish command in central and southern Iraq. The move was widely seen as an effort by former President Leonid Kuchma to repair relations with Washington, frayed by allegations that he had approved the sale of radar systems and other military equipment to Saddam Hussein's regime in violation of UN sanctions.
(235 words in story) Full Story Osama Bin Laden Instructs al Qaeda's Emir In Iraq, al-Zarqawi, Attack American Targets Outside IraqBy Sanjay Sharma, Section News
Osama tells Zarqawi to expand the successful rebellion against the American Occupation in occupied holy land of Iraq, to the George Bush targets outside Iraq. WASHINGTON - The United States has intercepted a message believed to be from fugitive al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, instructing the leader of the Iraqi insurgency to expand his operations and begin attacking U.S. targets outside Iraq, intelligence officials told NBC News on Monday. Al-Zarqawi, the Emir of al Qaeda in Iraq, is a leading figure among Islamic insurgents who are waging a deadly campaign against U.S.-led Occupation forces in Iraq. The original explanations by the George Bush administration for invading Iraq have proven to be fabrications and lies. The US occupiers and occupation forces in Iraq are intensly hated for obvious reasons, and are now the rallying point for all Islamic forces world-wide. US Homeland Security spokesman Brian Roehrkasse confirmed Monday that the department had sent out a classified intelligence bulletin to state homeland security advisers over the weekend to give details of “recent credible but nonspecific” threat information. “This nonspecific information reiterates al-Qaida’s desire to potentially target the homeland,” Roehrkasse said.
(248 words in story) Full Story India's Ex-Army Chief Gen VP Malik's Leadership & Judgement During Kargil War Questionable & DubiousBy Sanjay Sharma, Section News
Former Air Marshal Vinod Patney who participated in the 1999 Kargil conflict has raised questions over the attitude of top army officials, including the then army Chief Gen VP Malik, towards the Pakistani action. He has asserted, as have many people, that Gen VP Malik failed to recognize the seriousness of the situation, and he was severely lacking in intelligence about the incursions. Frontline Magazine has more details.
(295 words in story) Full Story Top Iraqi Rebel Leaders Fighting The Occupation Forces Prove Elusive In Their Holy LandBy Sanjay Sharma, Section News
Intensified military raids in Iraq over the past few months have significantly battered the ranks of mid-level insurgents but have scored few gains against the 30 or so most wanted rebels, according to senior U.S. military officers here.
Further, after a lull in the days after the Jan. 30 election, insurgents have resumed bombings, suicide attacks and assassinations, an increasing share of them directed against Iraqi civilians and security forces.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6970538/ U.K. Reality TV To Test 'Torture' techniques - Sleep deprivation, Extreme TemperaturesBy Sanjay Sharma, Section News
LONDON - A British TV channel is preparing “Guantanamo Guidebook,” a show that will test the effectiveness of interrogation techniques like sleep deprivation which freed inmates say were used by the U.S. military at its camp in Cuba.
It could be a useful way of showing viewers that seemingly innocuous techniques like sleep deprivation can have a devastating effect, said Steve Crawshaw, director of Human Rights Watch’s London office. (225 words in story) Full Story Iraq War's "Mushroom Cloud" Architect Condoleeza Rice Warns Russia On DemocracyBy Sanjay Sharma, Section News
Condoleeza Rice, who drummed up scare with "Mushroom Clouds" delusions in her part to advance the war in Iraq, is now saying Russia needs to show a commitment to a free press and other “basics of democracy,” and cooperate with former Soviet republics such as Georgia and Ukraine where democracy is taking hold. “It is important that Russia make clear to the world that it is intent on strengthening the rule of law, strengthening the role of the independent judiciary, permitting a free and independent press to flourish,” Rice said. “These are all the basics of democracy.” “We have concerns, and we’ve made it clear, about internal developments in Russia,” Rice said in Poland.
Russia was an erst-while foe in Afghanistan, when the Americans enlisted and supported people like Osama Bin Laden to drive the Russians from Afghanistan. In some fashion or other, it is sure that the Russians are going to exact revenge in Iraq, as are others itching to teach a lesson to the out-of-control and barbaric American Military might. Rice said Russia is a valuable ally and partner in many areas, including the fight against terrorism and efforts to curtail the spread of nuclear arms. In essence, no meaningful relationship now exists betwen the two cold-war foes - America and Russians. Russia, which was critical of the Iraq war, has retreated during President Vladimir Putin’s tenure from some of the democratic advances since the collapse of communist rule. Putin has consolidated economic and political power and clamped down on the press. The backsliding of democracy in Russia could become an irritant in Bush’s second term and a sour note as the White House presses for expansion of liberty in the Middle East and elsewhere.
(313 words in story) Full Story Wouldn't You Have Fun If You Got A Chance To Shoot Occupiers Like James N. MattisBy Sanjay Sharma, Section News
James N. Mattis, Major General in charge of the US 1st Marine Division, speaks to the media in Fallujah, Iraq in a file photo from April 14, 2004. Major General James N. Mattis, a decorated Marine Corps general said, 'It's fun to shoot some people' referring to Iraq, and poked fun at the manhood of Afghans as he described the wars U.S. troops are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/John Moore, File) Can you blame people like Emir of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Al-Zarqawi, wanting to kill every American Occupier who is representing President George Bush. After what the occupiers did in Fallujah, there should be no mercy for people like this General who thinks shooting people is fun, and others like him who think their God is bigger and better. (179 words in story) Full Story
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