Free Iraq
The US's occupation of Iraq will see to it that the Lion of Babylon rises again .. سنـُبعـَث ُ من جَديد ، وإلى ضَـيـرِِهِـم
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| Unrevealed Milestones in the Iraqi National Nuclear Program: 1981-1991 | معالم وأحداث غير مكشوفة في البرنامج النووي الوطني العراقي 1981-1991 | 
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Two books that shed light on dark corners of the occupation of Iraq
جمع وترجمة بثينة الناصري*
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مشكلة الجندي الامريكي هي المفارقة التي يعيشها حين يكون "العدو" شعبا اعزل يعيش في قرى ومدن وقصبات على بعد آلاف الاميال عن الشواطيء الاميركية، ودون ان يكون لهذا الشعب عداوة مع الشعب الامريكي.ـ
هذا هو المأزق الذي يعيشه رامبو في العراق. ولهذا تكون يوميات الجنود وافكارهم وخواطرهم واعترافاتهم، ورسائلهم ومدوناتهم، نافذة تطل على ارواحهم الضائعة في بلاد الرافدين وتكسّر الاسطورة .ـ
بثينة الناصري: كاتبة عراقية ومترجمة مقيمة في القاهرة
يُُطلب الكتاب من المترجمة
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"The trial of Saddam Hussein marks the first time since the UN was created that a head of state has been put on trial by an invading, occupying power. This book seeks to draw public attention to the threat this precedent poses to developing nations worldwide, and to its distortive influence on the further evolution of international law.
Al-Ani documents the trail of illegalities marking the destruction of Iraq at the hands of the US and UK, from the genocidal sanctions of the 1990s, the US State Department pre-invasion planning that commenced in 2001, and the 2003 invasion, to the setting up and proceedings of the tribunal that swiftly dispatched Saddam Hussein.
While the Tribunal was intended to promote the image of a triumphant Iraqi democracy, the US was actually in control of all stages of the trial. It drafted the Tribunal’s Statute; determined the trial venue and what charges would be brought; researched, compiled, stored, and prevented access to evidence and documentation; selected and trained the judges, and micro-managed the proceedings."
The Trial of Saddam Hussain, by Abdul-Haq Al-Ani
Monday, July 28, 2008
Ongoing 5 year "collateral damage" Surge in Iraq .. ـ(مسالمة) الاحتلال - تموت وأنت تلوح للقتلة
في حينها اصدر الجيش الامريكي بيانا ، لأنه جيش مهذب ومؤدب ولا بد ان يشرح كل شيء للشعب العراقي الصابر حتى لا يروح بالغلط ويفهم اشياء مغايرة .ـ
قال بيانه حينذاك "مهدي والمرأتان كانوا من "المجرمين" وانهم اطلقوا النار على رتل امريكي على جانب الطريق من اسلحة خفيفة من السيارة. وقال الجنود انهم ردوا على اطلاق النار دفاعا عن النفس. وقد وجد (سلاح) داخل السيارة ووجدت آثار طلقات على مؤخرة السيارات العسكرية !! "ـ
يشرح البيان انه بينما كان الجنود واقفين على جانب الطريق لاصلاح احدى المركبات. رأوا سيارة مهدي وهي تسرع نحوهم فظنوا انها تقصد مهاجمتهم وقد اطلق الجنود تحذيرا للسيارة وحين تجاهل السائق التحذيرات اطلقوا النار على السيارة . أما مسألة السلاح والطلقات على مركبات الجنود فالبيان يقول انها كانت "سوء فهم" !! وليس "كذب وتضليل العدالة" لاسمح الله !!"ـ
The correction came more than a month after a bank manager at a branch inside the airport, Hafeth Aboud Mahdi, and two female bank employees were shot at by U.S. soldiers as they sped to work on a road within the secured airport compound. The road is used only by people with high-level security clearance badges. The car veered off the road, hit a concrete blast wall and burst into flames.
"When we are attacked, we will defend ourselves and will use deadly force if necessary," Maj. Joey Sullinger, a spokesman for 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, said in a statement at the time. "Such attacks endanger not only U.S. soldiers but also innocent civilians, including women and children, traveling the roadways of Baghdad."
On Sunday the story changed and the tone was apologetic. A military statement said that neither the civilians who were killed nor the soldiers were at fault for the deaths. An investigation found that "the driver and passengers were law-abiding citizens of Iraq."
Soldiers had pulled off the road because one of the vehicles in the convoy was having maintenance problems. As they worked on the vehicle they saw Mahdi's car and thought it was moving too quickly toward them, the statement said. Believing they might be in danger, the soldiers warned the car. When the driver ignored the signals they shot at the vehicle, the statement said.
The alleged attack and the weapon that was said to have been recovered from the burned vehicle were misunderstandings, the statement said."
Rinse and repeat daily in Iraq. Tell me again that US soldiers aren't war criminals."
Saturday, July 26, 2008
"The Prosecution of George W Bush for Murder" and other crimes
"Vincent Bugliosi’s opening statements during the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the constitutional limits of executive power. (first video clip - 6:43 minutes)
He did one heck of a job of keeping it simple to explain the lies on the WMD’s, and why they didn’t even matter. What mattered is whether a country is an imminent threat, and the CIA said even with WMD’s, Saddam was not. (second video clip - 5:31 minutes)"
Vincent Bugliosi: Hearing on Limits of Executive Power and his take on Weapons of Mass Destruction July 25, 2008
Dam Breaks As Media Covers Impeachment Hearing July 25, 2008
"The last several years have brought a parade of dark revelations about the George W. Bush administration, from the manipulation of intelligence to torture to extrajudicial spying inside the United States. But there are growing indications that these known abuses of power may only be the tip of the iceberg. Now, in the twilight of the Bush presidency, a movement is stirring in Washington for a sweeping new inquiry into White House malfeasance that would be modeled after the famous Church Committee congressional investigation of the 1970s.While reporting on domestic surveillance under Bush, Salon obtained a detailed memo proposing such an inquiry, and spoke with several sources involved in recent discussions around it on Capitol Hill. The memo was written by a former senior member of the original Church Committee; the discussions have included aides to top House Democrats, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers, and until now have not been disclosed publicly.
.... "If we know this much about torture, rendition, secret prisons and warrantless wiretapping despite the administration's attempts to stonewall, then imagine what we don't know," says a senior Democratic congressional aide who is familiar with the proposal and has been involved in several high-profile congressional investigations. "You have to go back to the McCarthy era to find this level of abuse," says Barry Steinhardt, the director of the Program on Technology and Liberty for the American Civil Liberties Union. "Because the Bush administration has been so opaque, we don't know [the extent of] what laws have been violated." Exposing Bush's historic abuse of power July 23, 2008
Monday, July 21, 2008
In memory of Dalal Al-Mughrabi .... في ذكرى البطلة دلال المغربي
-وضع الصهاينة أرقاماً على توابيت شهدائنا-
أنا لست رقما يا دعيْ
إني لأكبر من بنيك ومن أبيك السامريْ
أنا لست بعلا
إنني سبط النبيْ
أنا نسل إولاء الذين بخيبرٍ دك الحصون بهم عليْ
Dalal, a Palestinian fighter who became a legend for many years, led a group of 12 fighters in one of the most talked about attacks against Israeli forces 30 years ago.
This week, the body of Dalal and her comrades, buried in an anonymous Israeli graveyard, will be handed over to Hezbollah as part of a prisoners and bodies exchange deal with Israel.
On March 11, 1978, Dalal along with her group of fighters managed to infiltrate the Lebanese-Israeli border to the coastal plain near Tel Aviv using rubber dinghy boats.
She and her comrades destroyed the boats the moment they reached the coast. It was a one-way trip, as they had returned home to stay .
Nine-hour battle
They hijacked an Israeli military bus and took its passengers, some three dozen soldiers, as hostages after driving the bus along the coastal highway to the colony of Herzliya, where a nine-hour battle took place between them and Israeli forces, led by Ehud Barak, who later became prime minister and is now Israel's defence minister. The group was killed in the fighting, so were the majority of the Israeli soldiers on the bus.
Dalal, the 20-year old woman, who had never seen her homeland until the moment of her death, was born in the refugee camp of Sabra in Lebanon in 1958."
Thursday, July 17, 2008
The fascist shift in America
Monday, July 14, 2008
يأس و بئس الإحتلال ... وأحاديث عراقية محظورة في السياسة والمقاومة .. رعد الجبوري
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