I C H Unknown illness sweeps US troops: (Sand Fleas) Thu Oct 2 18:09:31 2003 64.140.158.236 Unknown illness sweeps US troops: THE outbreak of pneumonia-like symptoms in US troops serving in Iraq could be the harbinger of a new and potentially enormous wave of Gulf war syndrome cases, according to American veterans' organisations and defence analysts. http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/1773.html ===== Annan: U.S. Ignored Iraq Recommendation Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Thursday a new U.S. draft resolution on Iraq does not follow his recommendation for a quick transfer of power to an interim Iraqi government. http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3219077,00.html === Annan Outlines Plan For U.N. Role in Iraq Secretary General Kofi Annan, who last week ordered the withdrawal of most U.N. personnel from Iraq, would be willing to consider having the agency resume its political role there if security improves and the United States speeds up the timetable for handing over greater power to Iraqis http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A25310-2003Sep30?language=printer === 12 dead in clashes with suspected al Qaeda fighters http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=4303426 === Two Canadian peacekeepers killed in Afghanistan http://www.examiner.ie/breaking/2003/10/02/story115800.html === Three Soldiers Killed in Iraq: Guerrillas killed three American soldiers in a wave of attacks in Iraq, the U.S. Army said on Thursday, adding urgency to efforts by Washington to garner international help in stabilizing the volatile nation. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3546091 === Calendar of US Military Dead during Iraqi War: 323 US Dead -- 80 British, Iraqi and others, not included. http://cryptome.org/mil-dead-iqw.htm === General: 3 to 6 GIs Dying in Iraq a Week: Nearly six months after the fall of Baghdad, U.S. troops are suffering an average of three to six deaths and 40 wounded every week, the commander of American forces in Iraq said Thursday. http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3218908,00.html === US wounded in the shadows: How many wounded and injured are there? Nobody really knows for sure. Understandably, it is difficult to be precise when more casualties are being created on a near daily basis. But gathering data is difficult for other reasons. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EJ02Ak01.html === Unknown illness sweeps US troops: THE outbreak of pneumonia-like symptoms in US troops serving in Iraq could be the harbinger of a new and potentially enormous wave of Gulf war syndrome cases, according to American veterans' organisations and defence analysts. http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/1773.html === 6 killed in factional fighting in Northern Afghanistan: At least six fighters have been killed and two others injured in fighting between forces of rival commanders in Northern Afghanistan. http://paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=39996 === Where are the Weapons? "Dateline" SBS. Australia : Broadcast 10/01/03 A leaked interim report from the American-backed investigation team in Iraq suggests that no weapons have been found. More disturbingly, it now seems likely they were long gone before George Bush, Tony Blair and John Howard even began preparing for war. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4868.htm === UN weapons inspectors knew that Iraq no longer possessed WMD It's not only politicians who are having to justify the basis for war - Senior UN weapons inspectors knew that Saddam Hussein no longer possessed stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, as was constantly claimed, yet remained largely mute. "Dateline" SBS. Australia : Broadcast 10/01/03 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4869.htm === The truth tramplers: Media war spin on trial: Tim Predmore is a US soldier with the 101st Airborne Division near Mosul in Iraq. He recently wrote of the current situation in the 'liberated' country: It is a devastating piece, by a person seeing the original justification for war unravelling before his eyes. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4870.htm === This is a must listen interview: BBC Today Program Broadcast: 10/01/03 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4872.htm === Bush Seeks $600 Million to Continue Hunt For Iraq Arms http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/02/politics/02WEAP.html?ei=1&en=c7a253146fecbe24&ex=1066104399&pagewanted=print&position= === What’s Love of Democracy Got to Do With It? Is it possible that the “We’re here to establish democracy” rationale being used to justify the continued occupation of Iraq is just as false and deceptive as the rationale that Iraq’s “weapons of mass destruction” posed an imminent threat to the United States? http://www.fff.org/comment/com0309r.asp === Saddam's Niger Point-man Speaks: The Iraqi diplomat at the center of the 'yellowcake' allegations says he was, indeed, trying to get Niger's president to break the embargo on Iraq — by flying to Baghdad, not by selling uranium. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4871.htm === N. Korea claims atomic bombs: North Korea said Thursday it is using plutonium extracted from spent nuclear fuel rods to make atomic weapons. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2003-10-02-koreas-nuclear_x.htm === Nuclear watchdog 'ignores Israel' Arab states have accused the United Nations nuclear watchdog of holding back from criticising Israel. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3151552.stm === Scores of States May Build Nuclear Weapons: The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Tuesday that unless the United States and other nuclear powers take concrete steps toward disarmament, scores of countries will follow their lead and build atomic weapons. http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=3533012 === GOP leaders hunt for ways to derail effort to force Iraq to repay U.S. aid: Pressure mounted on the White House Wednesday to reshape some U.S. aid to Iraq into a loan as the Senate opened debate on President Bush's $87 billion plan to help that country http://www.bouldernews.com/bdc/middle_east/article/0,1713,BDC_10836_2315190,00.html === Senate Panel Backs Bill to Give Tax Windfall to U.S. Companies: American corporations that have deferred taxes for years on the profits they made overseas could be in line for a huge windfall from Congress. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/02/business/02TAX.html?8br === Cheney Chief-of-Staff Named as Spy-Gate Leaker http://www.antiwar.com/justin/jspecial100203.html === Fenced in, locked out: a people in the shadow of fortress Israel http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=449062 === Israel to expand settlement Israel has launched a tender for the construction of 550 new homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3158036.stm === It's the US policy, stupid A blue-ribbon panel on United States public diplomacy is calling on President George W Bush not only to sharply increase funding to more effectively explain US policy to an increasingly hostile Islamic world, but also to narrow the gap between US values and what Washington actually does in the region. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/EJ03Aa01.html === CIA Leak Despite Longtime Rove-Ashcroft Ties President Bush’s closest aide Karl Rove was a consultant for John Ashcroft since 1985 in his gubernatorial and senatorial bids and pushed Bush to nominate Ashcroft as Attorney General. Rove has been accused of blowing the cover of a CIA operative to retaliate against her whistleblower husband. We speak to the author of Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush President. [Includes transcript] http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/01/1435242#transcript === Rush Limbaugh In Pill Probe: The moralizing motormouth was turned in by his former housekeeper - who says she was Limbaugh's pill supplier for four years. http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/122839p-110349c.html === When American Intangibles Do Not Save Afghan lives: The cost of this disaster to the Afghan people, it is immeasurable. After all, unlike you, who pay with your taxes, the Afghans pay with their lives, the deformities of their children and the imminent dangers that cloud their existence. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4865.htm === In case you missed it: Depleted uranium: How dangerous is it?: A former US military researcher tells Gay Alcorn of his crusade to expose the health risks of depleted-uranium weapons used in the Gulf wars. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4439.htm === In case you missed it: Depleted Uranium Hazard Awareness: Why Has Our Military Refused to Show This Training Video To Our Troops Now Serving In Iraq? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3582.htm === Fall, 2003 Tour with Doug Rokke on 'Depleted' Uranium Weapons: Dates confirmed in Indiana, South Dakota, Washington, Oregon, California and New Mexico. http://traprockpeace.org/depleted_uranium_rokke_03.html === Press Conference on Depleted Uranium with Doug Rokke,Ph.D: Doug Rokke, is former Director of the U.S. Army Depleted Uranium (DU) Project http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4207.htm === All exits from Iraq are blocked: The author is former ambassador of Jordan to the UN. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4864.htm === Not Vietnam, But... : One needs to pay closer attention to political developments than to the latest rocket attacks on American forces or car-bombings. http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20030930&fname=iraq&sid=1 === Open Letter To Soldiers Who Are Involved in the Occupation of Iraq: We write this letter because we have both been military officers during conflicts that descended into a moral abyss and from which we struggled to emerge with our humanity intact. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4866.htm === Astronomical Incomes: The distribution of wealth is wildly skewed; the 5% of households with the greatest net worth own almost 60% of the country's wealth. http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16515 === Liberty can not be preserved without general knowledge among people." (August 1765) John Adams Oil, War And A Growing Sense Of Panic In The US — Robert Fisk, Fri Oct 3 02:29 WMD report to raise new questions — BBC defence correspondent, Thu Oct 2 19:04 No WMD found in Iraq: David Kay — John Shovelan, Thu Oct 2 23:59 Tenet: No conclusions now on Saddam's weapons — JOHN J. LUMPKIN, Thu Oct 2 19:12 THERE NEVER WERE ANY WMD'S — Quotes on IRAQ, Thu Oct 2 19:29
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