"When the prisoners first arrived at the camp, widely-published photographs showed them blindfolded, chained, and manacled…." – BBC News "From the time they are driven onto the base, recruits are told to keep their heads down and eyes closed. The less they know about the base’s layout, the less likely they are to try to …
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BAGHDAD – The U.S. military has been preventing delivery of medical care in several instances, medical staff say. Iraqi doctors at many hospitals have reported raids by Coalition forces. Some of the more recent raids have been in Amiriyat al-Fallujah, about 10 km (6.2 mi.) to the east of Fallujah, the town to which U.S. …
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A recent study [.pdf] by the Pentagon’s Defense Science Task Force on Strategic Communications concluded that in the struggle for hearts and minds in Iraq, “American efforts have not only failed, they may also have achieved the opposite of what they intended.” This Pentagon report flatly states that our war in Iraq actually has elevated …
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Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith is the neocon Likudnik who was tasked with cooking up the false “intelligence” that President Bush used to deceive the U.S. public into supporting an illegal invasion of Iraq. With the U.S. military now trapped in the Iraqi quagmire, Feith wants the U.S. to attack Iran. President Bush falsely claimed …
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Memo to: The White House Re: Terrorizing the IAEA I hear reports today of public-opinion polls not only showing President Bush disliked by the great majorities of practically every European country, but also for the first time showing a narrow majority of Europeans disliking the American people. The reason, of course, is the war in …
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TORONTO – Ottawa’s tendency to take contradictory or ambiguous political positions on sensitive issues will be put to the test in the current debate over the U.S. request that its northern neighbor endorse its controversial ballistic missile defense (BMD) program. If it signs on to Washington’s project, Canada will have difficulty maintaining credible diplomatic opposition …
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UNITED NATIONS – Despite UN reservations about the legitimacy of upcoming polls and warnings about deteriorating security in military-occupied, war ravaged Iraq, the government is determined to hold elections in January, a senior official told the UN Security Council on Monday. Brushing aside UN misgivings, Iraq’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Samir Sumaida’ie, told …
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David Sanger – a New York Times reporter – has actually visited the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna and interviewed its director general, Mohamed ElBaradei. Sanger’s resulting report – entitled “When a Virtual Bomb May Be Better Than the Real Thing” – appeared last Sunday. Until now, Sanger and other media sycophants have …
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"Old Europe" is blocking U.S. efforts to find an exit strategy for Iraq. Further evidence emerged on Thursday that Old Europe holds the only key to the door from Iraq marked "Exit," but don’t expect to see it used any time soon. After the reconquest of Fallujah (Fallujah II), the field for American military options …
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