Posts Tagged ‘Iraq’
This film, set in Afghanistan, Iraq and Washington, looks at President Bush’s ‘war on terror’ and the ‘liberation’ of countries where bloodshed and repression continue. In Afghanistan, Pilger investigates the claim that life has improved for the women of Iraq now that the Taliban have gone. In Washington, he interviews leading [...]
Investigative Journalist and RT Contributor Wayne Madsen says that the Philippines has become a major base for the operating of one of the most controversial private military companies in the US: Blackwater. Blackwater, which is now known as ‘Xe’ is apparently training private contractors for the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and [...]
Disturbing new evidence suggests the CIA fed faulty intelligence to handpicked journalists to win support for the war against Iraq.
The defection of Iraqi engineer Adnan al Haideri in 2001 was a massive coup for the White House. “He was probably the single most significant defector who came out of Iraq,” states [...]
Project For The New American Century – deconstructed
Project for the New American Century web page.
The Neo Conservative Manifesto, The Project for the New American Century PNAC
Project for the New American Century is Robbing Us Blind
The Project for a New American Empire – [...]
A jury in Kentucky sentenced a 24-year-old former soldier to life in prison without parole on Thursday for raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and murdering her, her parents and a younger sister in Iraq.
Former 101st Airborne Division Pfc. Steven Dale Green was escorted to the courthouse during his trial in Paducah, Ky., in April.
The verdict [...]
FALLUJA
Falluja: Iraq’s place of sacrifice
The US military offensive against Falluja has already provoked videos and websites that will cause events to happen far beyond the town’s boundaries. It is now seen as a centre of resistance and martyrdom that bravely sacrificed itself for Iraq and in the name of Islam.
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The sight of the Iraqi reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi hurling his shoes at President Bush at a press conference in Baghdad will gladden the heart of any journalist forced to attend these tedious, useless, and almost invariably obsequious, events. “This is a farewell kiss,” shouted Mr Zaidi. “This is from the widows, the orphans and those [...]
Sign of contempt
In Iraqi culture, throwing shoes at someone is a sign of contempt.
The incident will serve as a vivid reminder of the widespread opposition to the US-led invasion of, and subsequent war in, Iraq – the conflict which has come to define Bush’s presidency.
Bush shrugged off [...]
It took some time to make sense of the scene in front of us.
A jailer at Baghdad’s Rusafa prison had just swung open the heavy metal-barred door.
Inside a small dimly lit room, the first sight was the iron-framed double bunks, packed together and hung with plastic bags, clothes and towels.
Then, staring back at us from [...]
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