TED GALEN CARPENTER, Cato Institute
The Bush administration’s disenchantment with its onetime favorite Iraqi client, Ahmad Chalabi, has centered on the explosive allegation that he and his associates may have forwarded highly classified U.S. information to the fundamentalist Islamist government in Iran. Specifically, Chalabi and his cohorts are accused of informing Tehran that the United States had broken the communications code of Iran’s intelligence service.
If true, this could (...)
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Did Iran use Chalabi to lure the U.S. into Iraq?
18 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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Sandline mercenary: Bougainville to Iraq
17 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
The National (PNG), 16 June 04
Spicer in Iraq
Sandline mercenary fame of B’ville crisis to head private army in Baghdad
By SINCLAIRE SOLOMON
LIEUTENANT-Colonel Tim Spicer, the Sandline mercenary of the Bougainville crisis fame of 1997, has resurfaced in Baghdad, Iraq, to head what is undisputedly the biggest private army in the world. The Briton, whose Sandline mercenaries were expelled from PNG that year in a military-inspired protest led by Major General Jerry Singirok, this time (...) -
US Army Paralyses Baghdad with Fortifications
14 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
Baghdad Fumes as the Americans Seek Safety in ’Tombstone’ Forts
By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad
http://news.independent.co.uk/low_res/story.jsp?story=530692&host=3&dir=75
The US army is paralyzing the heart of Baghdad as it builds ever more elaborate fortifications to protect its bases against suicide bombers.
"Do not enter or you will be shot," reads an abrupt notice attached to some razor wire blocking a roundabout at what used to be the entrance to the 14 July bridge (...) -
Forced Nudity of Iraqi Prisoners Is Seen as a Pervasive Pattern, Not Isolated Incidents
10 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
Tomm W. Christiansen/Dagbladet Iraqis picked up for looting weapons were marched naked through a park into a building after their clothes were burned by American troops in April 2003. They were then freed and chased naked onto the street.
SEXUAL HUMILIATION
By KATE ZERNIKE and DAVID ROHDE
In the weeks since photographs of naked detainees set off the abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib, military officials have portrayed the sexual humiliation captured in the images as the isolated acts of a (...) -
Down Goes Tenet
5 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
By William Rivers Pitt
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/060404A.shtml
The news over the last week or so has been grim for the White House. Ahmad Chalabi, Bush’s favorite Iraqi, has been accused of passing high-level intelligence secrets to Iran. Questions as to who could have coughed up those secrets have been auguring towards Defense Department officials Douglas Feith and William Luti, the two men who ran the secretive Office of Special Plans (OSP).
The OSP, organized for the express (...) -
Bush Faces Italian Anger Over Iraq on Rome Visit
4 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
ROME (Reuters) - Italians greeted American soldiers as liberators when they marched into Rome 60 years ago but President Bush faces deep anger on his visit on Friday over the actions of a new generation of U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
Authorities fear violent demonstrations during Bush’s two days in Rome, and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, worried by the prospect of clashes in the streets, urged Italians to show "maturity and understanding of history."
While Berlusconi has been among (...) -
Army noted Geneva Conventions violations in Iraq prisons last fall
3 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
An Army general who visited Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq last fall complained that the military was violating international war standards by incarcerating common criminals along with insurgents captured in attacks against U.S.-led forces. It was one among dozens of observations in a still-classified report, obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, portraying an overcrowded, dysfunctional prison system lacking basic sanitation and medical supplies.
"Due to operational limitations, facility (...) -
Casualty count in Iraq still rising
2 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
Robert Burns, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON, May 31, 2004 — American troops in Iraq died at a rate of more than two per day in May, pushing the combined death count for April and May beyond 200, according to Pentagon figures. For the National Guard and Reserve, whose part-time soldiers make up at least one-third of the 135,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, the trend in casualties during May was especially troubling.
At least 22 citizen soldiers died, nearly one-third of all U.S. losses in (...) -
International Appeal - Withdraw All Foreign Occupation Troops From Iraq!
20 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
International Appeal Promoted Internationally by: * US Labor Against the War (USLAW) * the International Confederation of Arab Trade Unions (ICATU) * the International Liaison Committee of Workers and Peoples (ILC)
WITHDRAW ALL FOREIGN OCCUPATION TROOPS FROM IRAQ! PEACE AND SOVEREIGNTY FOR IRAQ!
We, the undersigned trade unionists and labor activists from around the world, applaud the decision by the new Spanish government to withdraw its troops from Iraq. We call on all governments (...) -
Odom: Bush Should Admit Iraq Is a ’Mess’
12 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
And Make Plans for a U.S. Troop Pullout by Next Year
William E. Odom, the head of the National Security Agency during the Reagan administration, says that President Bush should "eat a little humble pie," admit the invasion of Iraq was a mistake, and seek U.N. forces to take over for U.S. troops. Odom, who opposed the war before it began, argues that Iraq will never become a liberal democracy. He also warns that "we’ve also nearly broken the U.S. Army by over-extension and (...)