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BRussells Tribunal, SOS Ramadi: New Wave of US Sponsored Atrocities in Iraq: The first heavy attack on Ramadi by the American and Iraqi forces was launched last Friday, the 9th of June. Ramadi is the capital of the Anbar province and is situated about 100 km west of Baghdad, on the Euphrates. The city’s population numbers approximately four hundred thousand and it is well-known for its strong opposition to the foreign occupation. The anti-war front meticulously followed the build-up of the assault, but the official press didn’t seem to be aware. The press mentioned rumors about a pending offensive against Ramadi a few times, but spokespersons of the US Army denied those plans.

A resident of Ramadi, Qasem Al-Dulaimy, distributed an emergency email on May 1st. At that time, he had already fled the city with his family. According to his testimony, US soldiers had killed three men during home raids on April 22. One woman was believed to have died of shock. A report on the website of Free Arab Voice describes how on that same day American troops stormed the residence of sixty-year-old Kazim Badiwi Hassan. Neighbors told the correspondent the soldiers blindfolded the family members, put them against a wall in one of the rooms and shot them with light machine guns. Kazim and his four sons were killed and his wife and daughter were wounded and taken away by the soldiers. ...

[Events summarized for the following dates]
- May 1
- May 4
- May 10
- May 11
- May 12

Free Arab Voice continues to report on the situation. On May 27, American troops arrested seven journalists of international, Arab and local press agencies. The next day, the US carried out air raids on the city, resulting in eight deaths (three of whom were children and a woman) and fifteen wounded. The western press apparently did not see anything. On May 30, Free Arab Voice reported five civilians killed, among them a woman and a child. Al Sharqiya TV also mentioned the incident, but once again, it was not announced in the western press. On June 5, five people were killed in an air raid: two children, an elder, and two women. Among the fifteen injured were nine students who were taking their final exams for school at the time of the bombing. The same day, hundreds of fresh troops arrived at Anbar, most of them were stationed in Ramadi. When the army began to seal off the city on June 6, the situation became deadly serious. Water and electricity were cut off and fuel stations were closed down. Medical stores were bombed, all the hospitals were closed and first aid supplies were confiscated. In an attempt to avert the looming major offensive, resistance fighters decided to withdraw from the city. Apparently, this move did not effect the occupation’s plans. On June 9, the first attacks began. The western media resembles the sleeping beauty. Except for an article in the LA Times, at the time of writing this article, no report on the operation can be found in the western press on the internet. All have their eyes still on Zarqawi in a media-induced trance Meanwhile, on Monday, 12 June, Al-Quds reported that the US Army had issued an ultimatum to Ramadi residents. By June 15, they should turn in all the resistance fighters – what an irrational demand! – or face a massive attack. Again, as in Fallujah, those civilians who have no financial means to leave or no place to go, will be portrayed as ‘terrorists’ or ‘foreign fighters’ after they are killed, in order to clean up the face of this dirty war. (emphasis added)
 

xymphora, Nakba Revisionism: Holocaust Revisionism is a crime in many places. Denying the reality of the Holocaust, or even quibbling about its details as established by the official Zionist historians, can land you in jail. Why isn’t there a crime of Nakba Revisionism?

The Nakba is the forced exodus of Palestinians from their homeland caused by violence and threats of violence by Jews who were, in effect, clearing land for the new state of Israel (an idea that may have come from Stalin). As part of the general mythology of Israel, the fact of the Nakba was almost entirely hidden from Official Western History until relatively recently. There is now absolutely no doubt that it occurred, and no excuse for claiming that it didn’t occur. ...
 

Justin Raimondo, The Assassins: From character assassination to physical assassination, the Lobby and its agents ruthlessly pursue their agenda.
 

Olmert rejects probe into Gaza ‘beach deaths’: “We will never agree to become subject to an investigation by international bodies.”
 

Retarded Prisoner Was Informant For Bungled June 2 London Terror Raid (Or, as someone observed, 'With informants like these, who needs Ann Coulter?')
 

Frontline: The battle between Vice President Cheney and CIA to control the 'dark side': Tuesday's episode [June 20] of the PBS public affairs series Frontline will probe the battle between Vice President Dick Cheney and the CIA to control the 'dark side,' according to a press release for the show.

"Amid daily revelations about prewar intelligence and a growing scandal surrounding the indictment of the vice president's chief of staff and presidential adviser, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, FRONTLINE goes behind the headlines to investigate the internal war that was waged between the intelligence community and Richard Bruce Cheney, the most powerful vice president in the nation's history," says the press release.

The title for the show is derived from a television interview Cheney gave five days after September 11, 2001, when asked how the government might respond to the terrorist attacks by NBC's Tim Russert.

A brief trailer for the episode can be viewed at PBS' Frontline Website.
 

Kurt Nimmo, Corporate Greed and the Fake Cyanide Attack: Ayman al-Zawahiri is the founder of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, a terror group spawned by the Muslim Brotherhood, the latter organization long ago selected by the CIA and British intelligence to serve as the Billy Graham of the Islamic world, according to Said Aburish. “Strangely enough, according to an expert who testified before a U.S. Congressional committee in January 2000, al-Zawahiri was granted U.S. residence by the Immigration and Naturalization Service—something almost impossible for many legitimate immigrants to obtain,” Umberto Pascali claims.
 

Kurt Nimmo, Zarqawi Dog and Pony Show Rolls On
 

NEIL MACKAY, A DESERTER’S STORY; WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE HORRORS OF IRAQ BECOME TOO MUCH FOR A SOLDIER TO BEAR?: MORE than 6000 men and women have deserted from the US army since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003. In the British forces, the figure stands at around 1000. The soldiers are leaving because they are sickened by the bloodshed in Iraq; because they believe the war is illegal; because they are on the verge of nervous breakdown; and because they are having to buy their own boots or are not being given enough food and water. Labour MP John McDonnell says that troops are now “questioning the morality and legality of the occupation”.

In Britain, deserters rarely – if ever – publicly explain why they have refused to fight. In the US, however, it’s a different story.
 

Arab Monitor, US military airforce strikes at residential quarters in Ramadi: Sheikh Fassal Jaoud, former governor of the Anbar province, declared the situation is catastrophic and residents fear the US occupation forces are planning a mass offensive like that on Falluja in November 2004, saying “the fearful city is haunted by memories of the battles that raged in nearby Falluja in 2004".
 

Former Dutch Ambassador Calls for Sanctions if Israel Refuses to Comply with International Law
 

Hamas leaders to be targeted?
 

Rome seeks trial for US marine who killed agent Nicola Calipari in Iraq
 

Malcom Lagauche, A TALE TO TWO TERRORISTS: [Namely, Luis Posada & Ilyad Allawi]

Posada and Allawi are in the major leagues of terrorists. But, the U.S. has protected both. Posada will probably become a U.S. citizen and Allawi lives in an expensive, well-guarded house in Jordan.

Some poor working-class Muslim may get arrested in his house in the U.S. and accused of being a terrorist because of his reading material. But, two of the world’s most notorious terrorists are protected by the same administration that said there will be no safe haven for any terrorist in the world.

By the way, the FBI has downgraded the status of the Mother of all Terrorists, Osama Bin-Laden. The current explanation of crimes for his being on the FBI Most Wanted list is: Osama Bin Laden is wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998 bombing of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya.

What about 9-11? You know, the reason the U.S. invaded Afghanistan because it would not turn over Osama Bin-Laden to U.S. authorities. The F.B.I. has stated it does not have enough evidence to charge him with that crime. (emphasis added)
 

Prosecutor demands death penalty for Saddam
 

Dahr Jamail, "Operation Forward Together": Deeper Into the Quagmire: On Tuesday, June 13th, while Mr. Bush spent a brave five hours in the "green zone" of Baghdad with puppet Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, at least 36 people were killed across Iraq amidst a wave of bombings. 18 of those died in a spasm of bombings in the oil city of Kirkuk in the Kurdish north.

The minute word hit the streets in Baghdad of Bush's visit, over 2,000 supporters of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr took to the streets in protest. The protestors chanted "Iraq is for the Iraqis," and Sadr aide Hazem al-Araji publicly condemned the peek-a-boo visit of who he referred to as "the leader of the occupation."

The very next day, not coincidentally, Maliki instituted the biggest security crackdown in the capital city since the US invaded Iraq, dubbed "Operation Forward Together." ...
 

Iraqi detainees held with eyes taped shut in tiny box-like cells for days
 

US soldiers charged with murder in Iraq: Three U.S. soldiers were charged with premeditated murder after being accused of shooting three detainees north of Baghdad on May 9 and then threatening to kill a fellow soldier if he told the truth about the incident, the U.S. military said on Monday.
 

“The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.”
 

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