I C H 222 DAYS ... AND STILL NO WMD FOUND IN IRAQ. Wed Dec 10 16:24:18 2003 64.140.158.177 222 DAYS ... AND STILL NO WMD FOUND IN IRAQ. === Another Six Children Killed By U.S. Troops In Afghanistan: Another six children were killed during an assault by US forces on a compound in eastern Afghanistan, an American military spokesman said. http://news.ninemsn.com.au/World/story_53709.asp === This is real Terrorism not Liberation: What difference does it make to the parents of those murdered children in Afghanistan, whether it was caused by an accident or the result of bad intelligence? - Why is the killing of any Westerner or an Israeli is automatically classified as “terrorism” but not the murder of civilians in Iraq, Palestine and Afghanistan? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5363.htm === When Christians Kill: We have a very, very Christian President, which means that everything he orders his military to do, and everything his military orders our troops to do, is of course consistent with Christian principles. http://www.counterpunch.org/harper12082003.html === -:WARNING:- This video should only be viewed by a mature audience Take No Prisoners: U.S. Marines execute an Iraqi to the cheers of fellow marines http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5365.htm == Iraq to Stop Counting Civilian Dead: Iraq's Health Ministry has ordered a halt to a count of civilians killed during the war and told its statistics department not to release figures compiled so far, the official who oversaw the count told The Associated Press on Wednesday. http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20031210_1042.html === Least we forget: Images Of War Real people, real suffering. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2604.htm === Two U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq Attacks: Two U.S. Soldiers Killed and Four Wounded in Attacks in Northern Iraqi City of Mosul http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20031210_797.html === U.S.: Plane Probably Hit, Lands in Iraq: Guerrillas hit a U.S. Air Force transport plane with a surface-to-air missile, causing the engine to explode, a senior Pentagon source said Wednesday. The plane landed safely. http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031210/API/312100767&cachetime=5 === Helicopter engulfed by fire:: A US attack helicopter was engulfed by fire after it made a "controlled landing" near the city of Mosul in northern Iraq today, a military spokesman said. http://www.themercury.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,8130040%255E401,00.html === High Payments to Halliburton for Fuel in Iraq: The United States government is paying the Halliburton Company an average of $2.64 a gallon to import gasoline and other fuel to Iraq from Kuwait, more than twice what others are paying to truck in Kuwaiti fuel, government documents show. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/10/international/middleeast/10GAS.html === The new tragedy in Afghanistan : The concentration on the "war on terror" and the attempt to defeat terrorist violence by military means have been a major cause of the current crisis and, paradoxically, helped create the conditions for the Taliban to rebuild support. http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/comment/story/0,11447,1103552,00.html === U.S. Bars Iraq Contracts for Nations That Opposed War: The Pentagon has barred French, German and Russian companies from competing for $18.6 billion in contracts for the reconstruction of Iraq, saying it was acting to protect "the essential security interests of the United States." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5362.htm === Pentagon ban on Iraq contracts angers Canada: "Unacceptable." That's how Deputy Prime Minister John Manley describes a new directive from the Pentagon barring Canada and countries opposed to the Iraq war from bidding on reconstruction contracts in Iraq worth almost $19 billion http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1071057620405_15///?hub=TopStories === Iraqis Denied Worker Rights Under U.S. Occupation: Labor journalist David Bacon exposes how the Bush administration is systematically busting unions in Iraq to facilitate privatization and how none of the $87 billion appropriated by Congress for reconstruction will go to Iraqi workers or the unemployed. http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/30/1627246 === The privatisation of war : Private corporations have penetrated western warfare so deeply that they are now the second biggest contributor to coalition forces in Iraq after the Pentagon. http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1103566,00.html === Iraqi Shia protest US tank killing: Hundreds of angry Muslims protested in the Iraqi capital over the death of a Shia cleric crushed under a US tank. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/02A04E0E-65D7-46E5-A142-D4E8777A3ECC.htm === Iraqis grow cynical of U.S. pledge of democracy: After listening to all the promises about democracy and lectures on civil rights, Iraqis increasingly are telling their American occupiers that it's time to put up or shut up. http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1209IraqDemocracy09-ON.html === Winning Over Arabs Using Israeli Tactics: The Bush administration’s escalation of the violence, in an attempt to quell the Iraqi insurgency before next year’s election, comes as no surprise. But such escalation will kill, wound or anger even more Iraqi civilians and thus make long-term stability in Iraq even more unlikely. http://www.independent.org/tii/news/031210Eland.html === Manhunt in Iraq: Israel Trains U.S. Assassination Squads: Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh reveals how a new Special Forces group assembled to “neutralize” Iraqi resistance is working with Israeli commandoes to train in assassination and other tactics – comparable to the Phoenix Program in Vietnam. One of the key planners is Lt Gen. William Boykin who declared that Bush was not elected but appointed by God. Audio. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5364.htm === Israelis give a course in urban warfare: NEW TRICKS: Israeli counter-insurgency specialists have been sent to Fort Bragg to teach US special forces how to keep an unruly Iraqi population under control. http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2003/12/10/2003079052 === An occupier tells all - the story of Israeli brutality towards Palestinians: "I ran toward them and punched the Arab right in the face, never before did I do such a thing, he collapsed on the road…I dragged him over behind the jeep, I grabbed him by the hair and twisted his head to the side. He cried out loud… One of the soldiers approached him and punched him in the stomach. The Arab suffered from pain and grunted, we all giggled, it was funny…I kicked him real hard in the bottom and he whirled inside, just as I planned. They shouted that I am crazy and laughed – and I felt great". http://www.albawaba.com/news/index.php3?sid=265082&lang=e&dir=news === In case you missed it: Israel True to Values, Ashcroft Says : Attorney General John D. Ashcroft yesterday told a conference of evangelical Christians and Jews who are united in support of Israel that in the face of almost daily terrorist threats, Israel has remained "steadfastly true" to "the values our two nations share." http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A16079-2003Apr2¬Found=true === Is a new Iraqi civil war around the corner? : Shiite and kurdish fighters plan battalion against sunnis. Iraqi militiamen will be recruited in two weeks to create a new counter-insurgency battalion to tackle a wave of Sunni-driven violence that American officials predict will heighten as the country moves toward autonomy. http://www.dailystar.com.lb/10_12_03/art19.asp === Iraq and Vietnam: Battles of will: The strength of the US military means little when faced with an increasingly skeptical US public who have the potential to force Washington to pull its troops out of Iraq. In addition, while Washington cannot be overwhelmed by sheer force, there is no evidence that the guerrilla fighters in Iraq can be defeated that way either. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EL10Ak02.html === The Bodies Come Home: The president is grieved by U.S. casualties. He also worries they'll cost him votes. The president is right to worry that his re-election could be impeded by a steady drumbeat of casualty stories. He and his aides have tried to muffle them, accusing the media of looking only for the bad news in Iraq. http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0350/schanberg.php === A warning from deep inside the Pentagon: If you look at the weapons that we're buying, they're not for the war on terrorism. The best you can say about them is that they are not designed for the threats that we face. Some of them may not work at all. http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript245_full.html === US to expand its military empire: The world's only superpower, which already maintains a military presence in 140 countries, said it was expanding its empire because of "increased threats" in the post September 11 world. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/59EA56AD-70A8-43A8-BC9D-26D66386E2B9.htm === Here we go again: Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba : "Our government will establish a Commission for the Assistance to a Free Cuba, to plan for the happy day when Castro's regime is no more and democracy comes to the island." President George W. Bush, October 10, 2003 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/12/print/20031208-8.html === Australia: Journalists face jail under laws: JOURNALISTS face up to five years' jail if they report detailed circumstances surrounding the detention and questioning of terrorism suspects, under new ASIO laws passed in Parliament late last week. http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8129944%255E28097,00.html === Pentagon gags Hicks's lawyer: Australian lawyer Stephen Kenny has been gagged by the Pentagon from discussing anything to do with Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks. http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1007117.htm === High Court Points to Possibly Scaling Back Miranda Right: Government lawyers Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to give the police more freedom to question suspects without first warning them of their right to remain silent, and most of the justices sounded as though they were inclined to do so http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-scotus10dec10,1,3834722.story === .BushCo Slowly Destroying Bill of Rights : BushCo has battered, bludgeoned, and brutalized our Bill of Rights. They’re in the ICU with tubes sticking out of them – desperately in need of medical attention before the Neocons at BushCo end their suffering by pulling the plug or giving them a lethal injection. http://www.opednews.com/snyder_1203_bill_of_rights.htm === US media, Ashcroft silent on conviction of right-wing terrorists in Texas: One would think that the conviction of two individuals in a terrorism-related case involving actual “weapons of mass destruction” and a conspiracy to carry out large-scale terrorist attacks on US soil would be major news. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/dec2003/tex-d09_prn.shtml === City to seek closed records on terror issues : City officials plan to ask the Kansas Legislature to amend the state's sunshine laws so that local governments' meetings and documents about homeland security are shielded from public access. http://www.ljworld.com/section/stateregional/story/154322 === The Price was High: A Japanese reporter filming the bodies of Iraqis killed in a US raid finds himself in an arm-lock. He’s forced to the ground before American soldiers give him a sound kicking with their army boots. Soldiers with telescopic sights confuse a Sony video camera for a rocket-propelled grenade launcher and shoot a Palestinian cameraman from Reuters dead. http://world.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/2783/ === Iran's Nobel winner hits at US foreign policy: The first Muslim woman to win the Nobel peace prize took a swipe at US foreign policy in the Middle East. http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1007111.htm === Detained at the whim of the president: In the two years since the Sept. 11 attacks, the administration has established a set of extra-legal structures designed to bypass the federal judiciary. It has maintained that those detained by the United States outside U.S. borders - at Guantánamo and elsewhere - are beyond the jurisdictional reach of the U.S. courts altogether. http://www.iht.com/articles/120833.html === Baghdad Blogger : In the looters' market, a DVD singing the praises of the so-called resistance is selling like the hot bread of Bab al-Agha http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1103698,00.html === U.S. House of Reps. Approves Bill to Censor American Citizens from Voicing Opposition to U.S. War on Drugs: If enacted, the provision could effectively silence community groups around the country that are using advertising to educate Americans about medical marijuana and other drug policy reforms http://www.commondreams.org/news2003/1209-03.htm === U.S. threatening nuke treaty?: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35980 === Loyalist bombers 'helped by British' : A report into the bloodiest day of the Irish Troubles is expected to reveal today that British security forces helped loyalist paramilitaries to bomb the Republic of Ireland. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,1103594,00.html === In case you missed it: Blair: Iraq weapons threat growing: 01/14/2003 LONDON, England (CNN) -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair has warned that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programme is "active, detailed and growing." http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/09/24/uk.iraq/ === In case you missed it: Who Would Have Thought That Terrorists Would Attack The Pentagon Using An Aircraft: Washington, D.C., Nov. 3, 2000 — The fire and smoke from the downed passenger aircraft billows from the Pentagon courtyard. Defense Protective Services Police seal the crash sight. Army medics, nurses and doctors scramble to organize aid. An Arlington Fire Department chief dispatches his equipment to the affected areas. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3533.htm === This web site represents the effort of one person. I need your help to offset the costs associated with site hosting and bandwidth usage. If you find this site informative please help by clicking here http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/support.htm === DIY cruise missile thwarted: A New Zealand man who built a cruise missile in his garage claims the New Zealand government forced him to shut down his project after coming under pressure from the United States. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3302763.stm === HMOs to reap benefits from Medicare law : Health maintenance organizations will receive higher payments under the new Medicare law beginning in March, well before most of the system's clients get significant help with their pharmacy bills http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/APWires/health/D7VBCT8O1.html === 12/09 Moscow suicide attack kills at least five : A suicide bomb attack apparently targeting the Russian parliament in Moscow killed at least five people today, city police said. http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,2763,1103056,00.html === US helicopter downed near Fallujah: Ground fire forced a US reconnaissance helicopter to make an emergency landing Tuesday, but the two-man crew walked away with minor injuries. http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=8099 === Explosions Hit Iraq Mosque, US Bases: There were conflicting reports about what caused the blast - Reuters said it was a car bomb and the Associated Press said a missile hit the area http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=86F4DCFE-2F68-453 Troops in Iraq contract sand-fly disease — ProMED-mail post, Wed Dec 10 16:54
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