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Been a while since I posted anything about Iraq, but the I could not resist spreading this short video.
“The Long Night” is the first of a series of documentaries around the Iraq War and the current reality of a world that lives shrouded in World War III and it has not [...]
US Soldiers Discuss Using ‘Drop Weapons’ To Kill Innocent Iraqi.
Several soldiers who have returned from combat zones talk with the American News Project about what they say is the widespread practice of using “drop weapons” to cover up the killing of innocent civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Racism? Islamophobic? God forbid!
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats on Wednesday said they would like to see Germany take on thousands of refugees from Iraq. The hitch? They only want the Christians.
Source: spiegel.de
As both Israel and Mr. Bush are letting us know… Incredible, really incredible, how naive the media is. Bush didn’t go to sell peace… he went to sell more war!
US and Israel are on ‘same page‘ on Iran’s case.
“Israel and the US are “on the same page” regarding the gravity of the Iranian nuclear threat [...]
Via: The Jerusalem Post - During a short verbal exchange Wednesday at the Ben-Gurion Airport Terminal, Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger thanked President George W. Bush for the US’s military intervention in Iraq.
“I want to thank you for your support of Israel and in particular for waging a war against Iraq,” Metzger told Bush, according [...]
Film Summary:
Through startling interviews with perpetrators, witnesses and victims, GHOSTS OF ABU GHRAIB examines and contextualizes the abuses that occurred in the fall of 2003 at the notorious Iraqi prison abuses documented in photographs that are etched in our national consciousness. The film probes the psychology of how typical American men and women came to [...]
It’s time of the year for Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2007. With all my reservations regarding Reporters Without Borders neutrality (having doubt after knowing that France is their financial supporter, although they are an NGO!), yet, their report was always a good indicator, if not the closest to reality - at least from my experiences [...]
This is Bush (and allies) ‘victory’ in Iraq:
[Via: BBC]
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Civilian toll
Sunday’s violence followed the publication of a survey of Iraqis which suggested that up to 1.2m people might have died because of the conflict in Iraq.
A UK-based polling agency, Opinion Research Business (ORB), said it had extrapolated the figure by asking a random sample of 1,461 [...]
I admit I have missed the news when it was announced end of last July, but better late than never.
Honored to be Bahraini by soul for living in Bahrain for the last four years, I am very happy to know that Wafaa Ganahi, a 23-year-old teacher from the Law Faculty of Bahrain University, won the [...]
President Bush may be hailing Anbar as the surge’s great success but does this analysis hold up? Locals claim the US is sending in hit squads to take out insurgents - but they’re killing the wrong people.
“Everyone’s gone. We’re scared to stay here because of the random killings”, claims one man. Notes on every door [...]
Majority everywhere want US-led forces leave Iraq, but not Bush!
A majority of citizens across the world (67%) think US-led forces should leave Iraq within a year, according to a BBC World Service poll of 23,000 people across 22 countries. Just one in four (23%) think foreign troops should remain in Iraq until security improves.
However, half [...]
“The revelation that lobbying firm Barbour, Griffith and Rogers, whose president is a former US envoy to Iraq, is supporting former interim prime minister Ayad Alllawi, was first reported by IraqSlogger. The firm has sent hundreds of e-mails in Allawi’s name from an e-mail address it purchased, DrAyadAllawi@Allawi-for-Iraq.com, and it has purchased the Web domain [...]
Young American soldiers proud of raping, proud of torturing… laughing about it all …
An American soldier boasts of having tortured Iraqis and making a 15 years old Iraqi girl commit suicide after she had been raped.
Watch it before the ‘big brother’ decides to remove it!!
Will the U.S. ever leave Iraq? Official policy promises an eventual departure, while warning of the dire consequences of a “premature” withdrawal. But while Washington equivocates, facts on the ground tell another story. Independent journalist Dahr Jamail, and author Chalmers Johnson, are discovering that military bases in Iraq are being consolidated from over a hundred [...]
An independent investigation should establish the real history and may help prevent future administrations from creating fraudulent wars resulting in great loss of life in the future. This petition is calling for an investigation by an independent prosecutor.
http://tinyurl.com/2ogd32
After you read the articles, you may choose to act on your own by emailing or calling your [...]
The following documentary film provides a compelling account of a life inside Iraq that is rarely seen on news bulletins. Stories of ordinary women whose struggle to survive has only worsened since the occupation of Iraq.
The invasion of Iraq heralded promises of freedom from tyranny and equal rights for the women of Iraq. But years [...]
By the time of writing this, there are over 308 blogs joined together on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War, standing in opposition. By the sixth anniversary, their hope is to have 1,000,000 blogs united in the same purpose.
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