naware of the dangers, is currently convinced that it
has no choice but to stay the coursea slogan adopted by both political
parties and accepted by virtually the entire economic, political, military,
and communications establishment. The reason for this seemingly irrational
determination to stick it out at all costs can only be understood through
an analysis of the logic and limits of capitalist empire.
http://www.monthlyreview.org/0105editors.htm
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Free Dr. Huda Ammash and all the Iraqi Detainees NOW! Petition
http://uruknet.info/?s1=2&p=8565&s2=02
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Bush will lose in Iraq
December 31, 2004According to UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter, Saddam
Hussein's Mukhabarat (secret police) devised a plan to defeat the US
Occupation. Dismissed by Bush Medal of Peace winner Jerry Lewis Paul Bremer
immediately after the fall of Baghdad, the Mukhabarat are conducting a
classical guerrilla war against US troops. The plan was created before the
invasion.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/123104Floyd/123104floyd.html
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US, UK consulates in Basra shelled
Posted Jan 2, 2005 03:23 PM PST Category: IRAQ
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8EF07A6A-7685-4D43-BDAE-690B43DD35AE.htm
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Iraq Ushers in New Year with Deadly Attacks
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq (news - web sites) ushered in the New Year on
Saturday the same way it ended the last one -- with a string of
assassinations and bombings by insurgents bent on wrecking a landmark Jan.
30 election.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&ncid=721&e=2&u=/nm/20050101/wl_nm/iraq_dc
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"It's kind of a shame," says a marine. "We've killed a lot of innocent people"
"There is only one traffic law in Ramadi these days: when Americans
approach, Iraqis scatter. Horns blaring, brakes screaming, the midday
traffic skids to the side of the road as a line of Humvee jeeps ferrying
American marines rolls the wrong way up the main street. Every vehicle,
that is, except one beat-up old taxi. Its elderly driver, flapping his
outstretched hands, seems, amazingly, to be trying to turn the convoy back.
Gun turrets swivel and lock on to him, as a hefty marine sargeant leaps
into the road, levels an assault rifle at his turbanned head, and screams:
'Back this bitch up, motherfucker!'
http://mparent.blog-city.com/read/985956.htm
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Suicide Bombers, Gunmen Kill 32 in Iraq
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Suicide car bombers hit a bus packed with Iraqi
National Guards on Sunday, killing 26 people in the deadliest attack of its
kind in four months on Iraqis cooperating with U.S. forces to secure a Jan.
30 election.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050102/wl_nm/iraq_dc&cid=574&ncid=1478
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A Daily Look at U.S. Iraq Military Deaths
As of Sunday, Jan. 2, 2005, at least 1,329 members of the U.S. military
have died since the beginning of the Iraq (news - web sites) war in March
2003, according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,042 died as a
result of hostile action, the Defense Department said. The figures include
three military civilians.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050102/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_deaths&cid=540&ncid=1473
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Insurgent Attacks Kill 33 Across Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents exposed the vulnerability of Iraq (news - web
sites)'s security forces again Sunday, killing at least 22 national
guardsmen and their driver in a suicide bombing and 10 other people in
separate attacks with elections just weeks away. Prominent Shiite leaders
called for unity with Sunni Arabs wanting to delay the vote but insisted it
be held despite the violence.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050102/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq&cid=540&ncid=2100
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Iraq election officials quit after threats
Posted Jan 2, 2005 03:20 PM PST Category: IRAQ
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/194DF378-0B44-4808-98B2-24D2B7B09EFC.htm
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Iraq bus bomb kills national guards
The national guard has suffered huge losses in recent days
Sixteen members of the Iraqi National Guard and a civilian were killed when
a bomb ripped through a bus leaving the capital Baghdad.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CAF41797-7074-48D7-B8AD-8866FD65359C.htm
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The last week - Iraq Who?
Nothing like a natural disaster in Asia to take the media focus off of the
man-made disaster in Iraq.
http://www.armageddononline.org/massmedia.php
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WHAT INTERNATIONAL LAW SAYS
All forms of torture and illtreatment of detainees, whoever and wherever
they are and whatever their status, are prohibited under international
human rights law ( which applies to states) and international humanitarian
law (which applies to parties to a conflict, whether states or non-state
actors). The prohibition is binding on all states, regardless of whether
they have signed the relevant treaties, and cannot be suspended, whatever
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