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Unrevealed Milestones in the Iraqi National Nuclear Program: 1981-1991

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Sunday, April 03, 2005

More, surely, are to follow ... & .... The abject bankruptcy of a colonial occupation


“Late Saturday, dozens of insurgents attacked the infamous Abu Ghraib prison, resulting in a clash that lasted about 40 minutes, 1st Lt. Adam Rondeau said. He added that it was unclear if the clash was aimed at helping prisoners escape, although the militants were unable to penetrate the prison's walls and no detainees were set free.

"This was obviously a very well-organized attack and a very big attack," Rondeau said. (emphasis added)

On Sunday, U.S. military officials raised the casualty toll from 20 to 44 U.S. soldiers and Marines wounded. Officials said 13 battleprisoners were also injured. Lt. Col. Guy Rudisill said one attacker was killed in the clash, but that none was detained. He didn't give further details. Officials refused to say whether the insurgents carrying out the attack were arrested or suffered casualties.The United States is holding about 10,500 prisoners in Iraq; 3,446 are at Abu Ghraib”
Insurgents Attack Iraq's Abu Ghraib Prison April 3, 2005

The following is an article that I wrote three weeks ago in which I maintained that we should be expecting Resistance operations on the scale of the above one, and now we would be expecting more of the same:

"Even before the invasion and occupation of Iraq, I had publicly stated my unequivocal conviction that "rivers of blood" will flow in Iraq, to the consternation of several American radio stations that curtailed the interview claiming I was threatening the sensitivities of the American listeners.
Back in August of 2002 Vice President Dick Cheney cited the Middle East expert Professor Fouad Ajami (who is not Iraqi) predicting that after "liberation" the streets in Basra and Baghdad are sure to erupt in joy in the same way the throngs in Kabul greeted the Americans. When an American soldier was shown on television raising the American flag, just a few days after the invasion, on a building in Um Qasr port south of Basra, I turned to my friends and predicted that that gesture by itself will cost hundreds of dead American soldiers.
Unlike Ajami and Cheney, and for that matter their "Iraqi" chorus of Chalabi, Allawi, and their ilk, I am more attuned with the dignity, and the indignities, of my people.
The US has not won this war.
A report by the US Army official historian (Maj. Isaiah Wilson, published in WorldTribune.com on March 7, 2005) claims that the US military lost its dominance in Iraq shortly after its invasion in 2003.
"In the two to three months of ambiguous transition, US forces slowly lost the momentum and the initiative gained over an off-balanced enemy," the report said. "The United States, its army and its coalition of the willing have been playing catch-up ever since."
The failure to stabilize Iraq in 2003 was primarily due to the "failure of army planners to understand or accept the prospect that Iraqis would resist the US forces after the fall of the Saddam regime".
Pointedly, the Iraqi resistance (and here I exclude the five percent Salafis and the "terrorist" acts of foreign intelligence agencies, near and far) has also aimed at the Achilles heel of the neoconservative construct for occupying Iraq. More than 215 successful attacks on the Iraqi oil pipeline infrastructure have occurred over a period of one year and a half, and will continue unabated until the departure of the occupiers. And despite the illicit grab of the large income from the oil sector by Bremer's irregular monetary policies, Iraqi oil is not covering the US occupation costs, as wished by its planners, but is, instead, augmenting the tailspin dive of the US economy.
In a typically "managerial" attitude of waging a war, stripped from any moral considerations, the defeat in Iraq is forcing top Pentagon planners to rethink several key assumptions about the use of military power and has called into question the vision set out nearly four years ago that the armed forces can win wars and keep the peace with small numbers of fast-moving, lightly armed troops. The Pentagon, instead, became bogged down in an old-fashioned, costly and drawn-out war of occupation. As one senior Pentagon official was quoted as saying by the LA Times on March 11, 2005, "there are smarter, more efficient ways to do regime change and occupation.... One of those ways is to rely much more on our friends and allies to do the back-end work." This is the ultimate abject bankruptcy of a colonial occupation.
The above relates to the "totality" of the US defeat in attempting to occupy Iraq. What will unfurl on the ground is more probably several devastating attacks on large concentrations of occupiers' locations that will hasten their decision to withdraw from Iraq. The attack on the Jizani US military camp near Mosul on December 21, 2004 and the attack on the foreign mercenaries' al-Sadeer hotel on March 9, 2005 are but miniscule examples of that.
When it was becoming clear, by July-August 2003, that the resistance was spreading, several radio stations again called to ask for an opinion on what course of action is best for the Americans. My response, even then, was for the withdrawal of the occupation forces, adding that when wounded, the saliva applied by licking and cleaning the wound is the best medicine. In other words, the Iraqi people can best take care of their tragedy by themselves, once the American occupation is ended and the Iraqis are left to tend to their own affairs. The recent determination and dignity of the election turnout (and not its legitimacy), whether participating in or boycotting it, is a vindication of that. My faith in the Iraqi people and their core capability to surmount our present predicament, according to our own traditions, culture and history, is deep and wide. The Iraqi people will prevail. "
The abject bankruptcy of a colonial occupation by Imad Khadduri, March 12, 2005 Published 17/3/2005 (c) bitterlemons-international.org

Assume for a moment that you, the reader, are one of the 3,446 prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
Can you conjure your feelings as felt by these prisoners when they were listening to the exploding rage of the battle around them?


Get Out - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - If and when you can
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Comments:
A short extract from Seymour Hersch: Bush is "Unreachable".

"The August 2003 bombing of the U.N. headquarters and the subsequent attack on the Jordanian Embassy, which Hersh describes as the psyops center for CIA and other espionage, sent a key message: “that the resistance was hitting facilities that would take out other facilities”—in other words, the hitting of key facilities would create a ripple effect, undermining other functions down the line.

". . . about a year before the Presidential election . . . with a desperate need for intelligence, the push was on to squeeze prisoners for information. Hersh said that most of the prisoners “had nothing to do with anything.” Most were caught at roadblocks or any male under 30 was grabbed if he was in the area after an ambush.

"At Abu Ghraib . . . in September 2003 the abuse of prisoners had begun. The attempts to gain intelligence were based on what Hersh called a “most acute form of torture,” the shaming of prisoners by using pictures of frontal nudity of males and posing prisoners as if they were performing homosexual acts, knowing that if photographs were shown in their communities, this would be death for them. This threat of distribution didn’t get very far because the situation we have today is that we still have no intelligence from inside the resistance or as Hersh puts it, “We don’t know jack.”

"From September to December 2003, torture was going on at night and all the top generals were coming in and out of Abu Ghraib."
 
Very incredible to believe,blame it on the drunkard .
If this was really so, this means the most powerful nation on Earth based their whole invasion of Iraq on the lies of some crazy con-artist liar. Is this what being the lone super-power has really come down to in this world? We called Stalin and Mao crazy (though to be honest the neo-conservatives still have a long way to go to equal their atrocities).
I'd rather think GWBush and his administration wanted this invasion so badly they'd have done it even if voices in their head or aliens from Mars told them Iraq had WMDs and such.
 
I recently read your article at weghat nazar about how you left Iraq, and- although it was painful reminder of the what happened to Iraqi scientists- I just loved it... thnaks for sharing that experience!
 
MSNBC says 18 molesters wont need any more medical care and 22 plus that would be needing some replacement body parts when a second car bomb went off in the midst of rescue attempts.

And no matter what, The US will never ever never leave Iraq. Maybe if it was someone like Clinton things would be different, Clinton was not as corrupt although if you look deeper you would find all these guys were crooks worse than the mafia. Clinton was also the only one who ever got some respect from me. Even if he was another gangster. But the likes of the neo cons and cheeny and the military industrial complex will never abandon Israel or the loot in Iraq. not while the US is still whole. Maybe if the US itself was destroyed and they will destroy it first before letting first off all, any Arabs get one up on them and secondly, all that oil that is already sold as collateral for the US$.

Leaving Iraq would turn the US into a 3rd world country deeply in debt with no prospects in the future hawking its leftovers to live a few more decades in decadence. It would also leave Israel with no benefactor and loose out on their dreams of a greater Israel. Iraqi water is is as important as the Oil it contains.

If you look, its not the Elite in the US who are suffering. What do they care about the lowlife's. Look at other empires, the Spanish, French and English never cared about their own lowlife's. Amerikans think they are different, but thats only rhetoric not reality. You have a def sec who uses a rubber stamp to inform relatives of their sons death and a president who wouldn't get caught in the same state as they are burying their dead in.
 
Robert Fisk had an article on forts, forts in Egypt, forts in Lebanon, forts in Libya, forts in iraq... The 13 Enduring bases where the colonial masters stay and where the slaves go to collect their orders and paychecks.

That is how it will be. The collaborators will go in get their orders on where to send the oil, water, profits, taxes and collect their paychecks. The turnovers would be huge since not many survives to collect social security or unemployment or even medical/dental coverages.

Without collaborators, Colonialism would not work! It is the collaborators who sells out their own mothers so the invaders get into their house to rape and pillage the rest. It is very rare colonials get in other wise, like when the Brits disarmed the Tibetans and then shot them. That dont work too often. And there will be a lot of collaborators. Who think they will have power.....
Or they think.....

Robert Fisk: US forces, are prisoners in their own fortresses: Sitting in Saddam Hussein's palace they can stare over the parapets but that is as much as most will ever see of Iraq
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8448.htm

Scott Ritter: "Mark Your Calendars!" June, a Great Month for WAR!
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8431.htm

Army reservist witnesses war crimes
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8441.htm
 
A recently unearthed portion of a Defense Department memo sheds some light on the issue, suggesting that more than $14 billion earmarked for reconstruction was actually invested on Wall Street.



The memo's author and date are unknown.



This portion of the apparently classified document -- marked "page 3" -- was mistakenly sent to Mid-America Seed Savers, a nonprofit organization in Lawrence, Kansas whose members had filed a Freedom of Information Act request for documents related to the Army's alleged distribution of genetically engineered wheat seed to farmers in Iraq.



The memo fragment is reproduced here in full:



[page heading] Reconstruction fund enhancement - p. 3



[...] that among these, the scenario with greatest potential was investment in a medium-risk portfolio of U.S.-based securities. To accomplish this without incurring excessive and unwarranted scrutiny, the Secretary issued a classified order creating the Office of Special Brokerage Services (OSBS), to which management of the reconstruction funds was assigned. The OSBS, quietly through third parties, purchased approximately $5 billion in stock in February, 2004. Another $9.2 billion was invested the following month. As of December 31, 2004, the fund had shown a net growth of approximately -1.7%.



The negative growth observed to date should not be cause for gloom. This is a long-term investment of behalf of the Iraqi people. According to OSBS projections, the fund's assets will achieve a value of $38.9 billion by a decade from now, assuming vigorous growth in the US economy.



It is important to compare that figure with the almost-certain undesirable outcome of spending the money directly on infrastructure enhancement. The past two years' experience shows that new public works run a significant risk of damage or even instantaneous 100% depreciation due to hostile and friendly combat activities. And, as the CJCS [Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard Myers] has noted, insurgencies typically last 7 to 12 years. If invested on the ground in Iraq today, the reconstruction funds might well be worth precisely zero to the Iraqi people a decade from now.



Prudent investment, on the other hand, can help Iraq rebuild while becoming an ownership society. The OSBS has assigned portions of the fund's assets to individual citizens, based on voting rolls from the January election. Although he or she is not yet aware of it, each and every Iraqi voter now owns a Personal Reconstruction Account (PRA) that will continue to grow in value, safely, until violence in Iraq subsides and normal economic activity can resume. At that point, Iraqi citizens will be able to draw on their PRAs as needed, putting that money to work in their economy and stimulating private-sector solutions to the problem of reconstruction.



PRAs will provide Iraqis with what they desire most: freedom of choice. Under this plan, money will go directly into the pockets of the Iraqi people, for whose benefit Congress intended it. Furthermore, the use of voting records to allocate PRAs will ensure that impetus for rebuilding the country will come from those who have demonstrated a commitment to the democratic process -- not from Muslim extremists or Baathist dead-enders.



The question of whether to inform American or Iraqi citizens of OSBS activities and plans is a difficult one. Taking into consideration current political realities, it is probably best not [. . . end of page]



(Pentagon officials have offered no comment on the memo.)
 
Ampikle -
Thank you for posting the DOD pg 3 memo fragment. The looters and destroyers care NOTHING about reconstructing a shattered Iraq. Fact is: There is big bucks to be made! Accountability? Forget it. Not a feature of imperialism.
 
Sorry man but the resistance aint spreadin' anywhere! Resistance is rare in southern areas of iraq and mostly comes from the sunni triangle. Resistance aint spreadin becuase the kurds and shi'ites want their power base back man and have to rely on western powers in da meantime!
 
Mudjack -
Do you read?
 
"George W. Bush Corporate Assassin is a murderer . . . He has deployed surrogates to kill more than one hundred thousand Iraqi civilians in a ruthless slaughter that is ongoing. The fact that he murders via remote control from the Oval Office does not confer legitimacy to his crimes. . . .

"Bush is slaying people in the name of democracy, . . . Recently released State Department papers reveal that the former Texas governor is murdering Iraqis for the purpose of stealing their oil, . . .There may be worse motives for killing people than thievery, but none leaps immediately to mind.

"The level of cruelty involved in this theft is awe-inspiring. At Bush’s behest, the United States military has “neutralized” unarmed Iraqis by dropping cluster bombs on them, showering them with napalm, shooting them from helicopters, executing them in mosques, and torturing them in dungeons. The BBC broadcast an interview with a grieving woman whose pregnant daughter had been machine-gunned by U.S. troops, which is the one method of abortion that conservatives are willing to tolerate."
 
A little light relief. Riverbend commenting on the cultural freedom of American TV to which Iraqis now are treated:

"I don’t understand the worlds fascination with reality shows. Survivor, The Bachelor, Murder in Small Town X, Faking It, The Contender… it’s endless. Is life so boring that people need to watch the conjured up lives of others?

"I have a suggestion of my own for a reality show. Take 15 Bush supporters and throw them in a house in the suburbs of, say, Falloojeh for at least 14 days. We could watch them cope with the water problems, the lack of electricity, the check points, the raids, the Iraqi National Guard, the bombings, and- oh yeah- the ‘insurgents’. We could watch their house bombed to the ground and their few belongings crushed under the weight of cement and brick or simply burned or riddled with bullets. We could see them try to rebuild their life with their bare hands (and the equivalent of $150)…

"I’d not only watch *that* reality show, I’d tape every episode."
 
Greetings Mohammed
I would appreciate it if you would point out for me the link to that weghat nazar article, as I have been waiting to read it but am not able to extract it from their archives.
Thank you.
All the best
Imad Khadduri

 
Democratic elections
 
unfortunately weghat nazar doesn't put their articles online, they sell the articles online though...

I can scan it and send it to u if you'd like...

what's your email address?

cheers,
Mohammed
 
Regarding the feelings of Abu Ghraib prisoners "listening to the exploding rage of the battle around them": Probably a mixture of terror, desperation, fury, powerlessness, hope and sympathy. From the outside we cannot possibly comprehend.

Regarding the colonial occupation: It will further dwindle over the next year, with Britain withdrawing more than 60% of its forces. Wonder how this relates to the coming election.
 
I am very very proud of the Iraqi resistance. I hope when my turn comes I can fight the invaders with as much courage and dignity as they have done and are doing.
If others think their turn wont come, well don't hold your breath, its only a matter of time. If you ain't prepared, feel free to teach your women how to service the imperial forces. At least that way they will have an avenue to make some money to survive. And it is a lot more satisfying to service the imperial forces than the collaborators. As history as proven over and over.
 
The Invisible Hand (of the U.S. Government)in Financial Markets

Summary: The U.S. government is manipulating all major U.S. financial markets—stocks, treasuries, currencies. This article shows how it is possible and how it is done, why it is done, who specifically is doing it, when they do it, and where they get the money to do it.


http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/reality/2005/0403.html
 
ampikle-
1. As a confirmed coward fully aware of the "Patriot" Act's implications I NOTE your comments concerning the resistance.
2. Thank you for the "Invisible Hand" article.
3. I now have read it and have a HUGE headache! Everyone still infatuated with the neocons should read the article. Maybe murder and torture do not speak to their consciences. They might, however, listen to the ravaging of their pocketbooks.
 
Thank you, indeed, Mohammed.

You may send the scanned copy to:

free.iraq@rogers.com

Much appreciated
All the best
Imad Khadduri

 
"This weekend’s attacks on the Abu Ghraib prison facility should be welcomed as a direct assault on the foremost icon of Bush’s War of Terror. Abu Ghraib has the same meaning to Iraqis and free people across the globe as did the Bastille to French citizens prior to the Revolution; an enduring symbol of arbitrary state power and cruelty."
 
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