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Inquiry call over US agent leak: Prominent members of the opposition Democratic Party in the United States are calling for an independent investigation into new allegations surrounding the case for war in Iraq. Two White House officials are said to have illegally disclosed to journalists that Valerie Plame, the wife of former diplomat Joseph Wilson, was an agent for the Central Intelligence Agency.

US forces shoot dead Iraqi child: US occupation forces have shot dead a 10-year-old child near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. Soldiers opened fire at hundreds of stone-throwing demonstrators in Hawija, west of the mainly Kurdish city Kirkuk on Monday, said a hospital director.
US soldier killed, two wounded in Afghan battle: A US soldier has been killed and two others wounded in an attack on an US base in south-eastern Afghanistan. "One coalition service member died of wounds and two were wounded as a result of fighting on Monday near Shkin," Colonel Rodney Davis told reporters.
US suffers heavy casualties in Iraq:   US forces used tanks and rocket-firing helicopters to fight their way out of ambushes on Monday as two convoys came under heavy attack west of Baghdad, leaving at least one soldier dead.
Congress Likely to Add to War Request: Even as new questions surface about items in President Bush's war spending request, lawmakers say the measure's $87 billion price tag appears more likely to expand than shrink this week when lawmakers draft legislation to fund the war and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan.
War was a political disaster for Labour and Cabinet was complicit, says Cook: Joining the American-led war in Iraq was a "first-class political disaster" for Labour, dealing a heavy blow to the party's morale, the former foreign secretary Robin Cook said last night.
Iraqi scientists say weapons were dismantled in 1990s: Six months into the war against Iraq, and the U.S. has not yet shown evidence of alleged weapons of mass destruction - an allegation which prompted the Bush administration to launch its war on Saddam's regime.
Remembering Edward Said: A page of articles and links by and about this great person.
Arabs Criticize Alleged WMD in Israel:  Arab nations accused some countries of ignoring Israel's alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction while pressuring others to give up nuclear programs. Israel has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. It has never confirmed being a nuclear power, but it is widely believed to have nuclear weapons.
Three out of five Britons say Blair lied about Iraq: Three out of five people believe that Tony Blair lied over the threat posed by Iraqi weapons in the run-up to war, according to an NOP poll for The Independent.
Stray Uranium, Corralled: While the United States is rightly concerned about nuclear material falling into the hands of terrorists, it's having a hard time keeping a lot of it secure.
Senior U.S. diplomats press Israel on settlements: A senior U.S. diplomat said on Monday that Israel's refusal to stop building settlements in the West Bank threatened its future as a democratic Jewish state. The warning came in a speech by William Burns, assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, at the U.S.-Arab Economic Forum in Detroit, a conference exploring ways of fostering growth, development and trade between the United States and the Arab world.
UN leaves skeleton staff in Iraq: The United Nations has again cut the number of its international staff in Iraq due to security concerns, leaving fewer than 50 foreign employees in the country.
Website reveals 6000 held without trial: There are more than 6000 Muslim prisoners who are being held without trial in the West, according to a human rights campaigner. Yamin Zakaria, based in London, has now launched an international campaign to highlight the plight of the detained - including the 660 men being held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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U.S. Soldier Killed, 1 Hurt in Rebel Raid West of Baghdad: An American soldier was killed this morning and another soldier was wounded when guerrillas used a roadside bomb and gunfire to attack a military convoy west of Baghdad, a United States military spokesman said.
House panel questions Iraq proof:  The Bush administration scrambled yesterday to answer fresh attacks on the credibility of its case for toppling Saddam Hussein after House Intelligence Committee leaders called prewar information on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction "outdated and circumstantial," and the Justice Department opened a probe into CIA allegations that the White House illegally leaked the name of one of its agents.
US administration rejects Iraq charge: The Bush administration has rejected charges that there were serious failings in its intelligence-gathering before the war in Iraq. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been accused of using old information, in a letter from members of the House of Representative's intelligence committee.
Don't Mention The Oil. Or Ask About The Victims:  "The right thing ... a magnificent job ... heroes ... pride". So off Tony went again yesterday on Breakfast With Frost, spinning and spinning about Iraq. I wonder what he'd think of the city morgue downtown from here when they bring the gunshot victims in every morning. Or down in the Basra area where the British rule and where, in the past few weeks, 38 corpses have been found, hands and feet tied, each neatly executed with a shot through the back of the neck. Baath party officials, we're told. Killed, quite possibly, by the Shia Badr Brigade. Yup, things are getting better and better in "New Iraq".
Missiles Strike At Heart Of US Occupation: The man with the missiles was driving a white Toyota and pulled up in the leafy Baghdad suburb of Salhaya at 6.35 yesterday morning. Those who saw him said he climbed very calmly out of the car and placed a large battery on the road. Then he took seven rockets from the back seat and laid them on the tarmac. Using the battery as a ramp, he fired the first missile at the Rashid Hotel, fortress home to many of the senior American officials of the occupation authorities.
Lies, Mischief And The Myth Of Western Intelligence Services, Robert Fisk: They were at it again last week, the liars of our Western "intelligence" community. John Bolton, the US under-secretary of state for arms control and one of Donald Rumsfeld's cabal of pro-Israeli neo-conservatives, was giving testimony before the decidedly pro-Israeli sponsors of the Syria Accountability Act.
US 'had no new evidence of WMD' in Iraq: The US launched its war with Iraq despite having no fresh intelligence evidence that the regime of Saddam Hussein was developing mass destruction weapons or forging ties with terrorists, the leaders of the House of Representatives intelligence committee have concluded.
The U.S. was sure Saddam had WMD, but Iraqi scientists tell TIME the weapons were destroyed long before the war:  "They didn't realize at that time the Americans would insist on every single document," he says. "They thought the (U.S.) attacks would come and that would be it." When in the years after the war U.N. inspectors kept demanding a paper trail, the superiors got nervous. They "started asking us for the documents they had told us to destroy. They were desperate. They even offered to buy any documents we may have hidden."
Ex-PA security chief Dahlan: Armed struggle was mistake: On the three-year anniversary of the intifada, the outgoing Palestinian security chief said militants made a mistake in using arms against Israel and failed to understand that the world had hanged after September 11.
Blair: I'm proud of what we've done in Iraq (but, comrades, you can't vote on it): An unrepentant Tony Blair defied criticism of his hawkish stance on Iraq yesterday, declaring that he was "proud" to have ousted Saddam Hussein and that he had no regrets about the war.
Bush officials who leaked name of US spy 'for revenge' could face jail: The Justice Department is investigating whether Bush administration officials broke the law by revealing the identity of an undercover CIA operative whose husband disparaged claims by the White House that Iraq was seeking to develop nuclear weapons.
Edward Said:  It is with heartbreaking sorrow that the Palestinian National Initiative announce the tragic death of Edward Said who passed away yesterday after eleven years fighting leukemia. At this time our thoughts and love are with his family. We wish them strength and courage and assurance that Edward will be a man forever remembered not only for his incredible achievements but for his remarkable qualities as a friend.
Al-Jazeera broadcasts tape attributed to al-Qaeda deputy:  An audiotape attributed to al-Qaeda deputy Ayman al-Zawahri and broadcast on Al-Jazeera satellite television Sunday accused the United States of trying to abolish Islam. The tape appeared to be recent, as the speaker referred to a visit by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to India earlier this month and the Sept. 6 resignation of Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas.
The Magnificent 27: A year and a half ago, a small group of Israelis decided to break a deeply entrenched taboo and bring up the subject of war crimes. Until then, it was self-evident that the IDF is "the most moral and humane army in the world", as the official mantra goes, and is therefore quite incapable of such things.
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CIA rejects Iraq failings charge: The CIA has rejected charges that there were serious failings in its intelligence-gathering before the war in Iraq. It was accused of using old information in a letter from members of the House of Representative's intelligence committee.
Blair must go, say anti-war marchers: London had its fifth major protest yesterday against the war in Iraq, with organisers claiming that as many as 100,000 people attended the march from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square. The Metropolitan Police put the figure at up to 15,000.
The loneliness of Noam Chomsky, A. Roy: Today, thanks to Noam Chomsky and his fellow media analysts, it is almost axiomatic for thousands, possibly millions, of us that public opinion in "free market" democracies is manufactured just like any other mass market product — soap, switches, or sliced bread. We know that while, legally and constitutionally, speech may be free, the space in which that freedom can be exercised has been snatched from us and auctioned to the highest bidders.
More US troops mobilized for deployment to Iraq: Pentagon taps 10,000 soldiers from two US Army National Guard brigades for Iraq, puts 5,000 more on standby.
U.S. Troops Attacked in Afghanistan: Suspected Taliban fighters attacked a U.S. military patrol in eastern Afghanistan, but there were no reports of casualties or damage, the military said Saturday.
Iran says won't halt uranium enrichment: Iran said on Sunday it would not give up its nuclear program, including uranium enrichment, despite international pressure to prove it is not developing atomic weapons.
US kills three more in Sunni triangle: Standing by the grave of his dead brother, Sheikh Abed Asalam Jamil says he is happy and calls for a jihad against the US Army. 'Everyone in Iraq is a mujahid,' says the imam, whose brother, Zamal Jamil al-Juleimi, was killed on Friday night as he returned from a doctor's appointment with his family. 'The people of this country will raise the flag of jihad.'
UK troops in Iraq warned of 'inevitable' terror attack: A major terrorist strike against British forces in Iraq is 'inevitable', according to senior government sources in Iraq and intelligence officers in Britain and the Middle East. Any such attack would cause massive casualties and further destabilise the current US-led occupation government.
Chechen prime minister 'poisoned': A government statement says doctors diagnosed Anatoly Popov with "poisoning from an unknown toxin.  "He is currently in one of Chechnya's hospitals and will soon be taken to Moscow. He is in serious condition," the statement said.
Report on N. Korea nukes: Bogus: Contrary to what an anonymous high-level Bush-Cheney official told the Associated Press, North Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Kim Yong Il did not announce to the Russian, Japanese, U.S. and South Korean delegates at the Beijing conference this week that DPRK actually had a nuke stockpile and would test one of them in the near future.
Marchers worldwide demand Iraq pullout: Thousands of protesters demanding an end to the occupation of Iraq took to the streets Saturday in London, Athens, Paris and other cities around the world, chanting slogans against the United States and Britain.
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Aid agencies slam roadblocks: The group of more than 20 aid agencies has issued a statement urging Israel to allow Palestinians to move freely in the West Bank and Gaza. The agencies say Israeli roadblocks and checkpoints are severely limiting Palestinians' access to basic services like medicine and schooling.
JI poised to strike in new terror wave: A NEW breed of homegrown 'twentysomething terrorists' is poised to strike at Indonesia's international hotels with a wave of suicide bombings in December.These new generation Jemaah Islamiah terrorists are every bit as deadly and fanatically anti-American as captured leaders Hambali and Imam Samudra, said intelligence sources.
More Americans in Poverty in 2002, Census Study Says: The number of Americans living in poverty increased by 1.7 million last year, and the median household income declined by 1.1 percent, the Census Bureau reported today. The worsening economic conditions fell heaviest on Midwesterners and nonwhites.
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US troops kill more Iraqis in Fallujah: US troops have once again opened fire in the Iraqi town of Fallujah, killing at least four Iraqis and wounding several others.Locals said the US soldiers opened fire on cars at the entrance to the town that has been the hotbed of Iraqi resistance against the occupation.
Iraqi Government ‘in a Year’: In an effort to forge an international consensus, US Secretary of State Colin Powell advocated a deadline of six months for Iraqi leaders working under the American occupation to produce a new constitution — paving the way for elections and an Iraqi government in a year.Ad calls for Rumsfeld's resignation: A full-page advertisement in the New York Times on Friday called on Donald Rumsfeld to resign, for having led the US into a 'quagmire' in Iraq. Paid for by a US anti-war group MoveOn.org, the advertisement featured a picture of the US Defence Secretary alongside a letter from a man who described himself as a 'patriotic American' with two sons serving the US military in Iraq.
All UK Ministers to Blame for Iraq War, says Cook: The entire British government, not just Prime Minister Tony Blair, must take the blame for leading Britain into the disastrous Iraq war, according to former Foreign Secretary Robin Cook. "It is true that the dynamic for British participation come from Number 10 (Downing Street) and was driven by Tony’s determination to maintain the special relationship with (US President) George Bush," Cook said.
'You lied, they died,' US parents tell Bush: The father of a soldier killed in Iraq accused President George Bush yesterday of being responsible for his son's death. Fernando Suarez, whose 20-year-old son, Jesus, was one of the first fatalities, said: "My son died because Bush lied."
US wants claims against Iraq dropped: United States has urged Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to drop war reparations claims against Iraq for losses suffered during the first Gulf War.Paul Bremer, the US-occupation administrator in Iraq, told a Pentagon briefing on Friday that Iraqis should not be made to pay for a war that most of them opposed.
Reuters calls for report on cameraman's death: Reuters Chief Executive Tom Glocer has criticised the "haphazard" handling of a US report into the killing of a Reuters cameraman by a US soldier in Iraq and urged the Pentagon to hand it over. Glocer told Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in a letter released on Thursday that he was deeply dismayed that neither Reuters nor the family of its cameraman Mazen Dana had been properly informed of the conclusion of a military investigation into Dana's death. The letter was sent on Wednesday.
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More Americans in Poverty in 2002, Census Study Says: The number of Americans living in poverty increased by 1.7 million last year, and the median household income declined by 1.1 percent, the Census Bureau reported today. The worsening economic conditions fell heaviest on Midwesterners and nonwhites.
Israeli Army Closes Palestinian Territories: Israel reimposed a strict closure yesterday on the Palestinian territories ahead of the Jewish New Year following a flare-up in violence, as the co-sponsors of the “road map” prepared to meet at the UN with little progress on the horizon for the ailing peace process.
No WMD in Iraq, source claims:  No weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq by the group looking for them, according to a Bush administration source who has spoken to the BBC.
The WMD lies: The failure to uncover Saddam's alleged arsenal of WMDs (weapons of mass destruction) during the three months since the fall of his regime has fueled a great outcry from critics of the war and evoked various defenses from war apologists. Thus a review of the whole Iraq WMD issue is appropriate. Since efforts have been made by war apologists to blur what had been the administration's actual pre-war position on WMDs, the essay will start by documenting that position. I will then classify and evaluate some of the arguments that attempt to explain the absence of physical evidence for WMDs, my aim being to provide, in essence, a typology of WMD spin.
Journo claims proof of WMD lies: AUSTRALIAN investigative journalist John Pilger says he has evidence the war against Iraq was based on a lie that could cost George W. Bush and Tony Blair their jobs and bring Prime Minister John Howard down with them.
Expressing the sense of the Congress that Public Law 107-243, the authorization to use military force against Iraq, is null and void: Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That it is the sense of the Congress that Public Law 107-243, the authorization to use military force against Iraq, passed by the Congress on October 11, 2002, and signed by the President on October 16, 2002, is null and void.
Iraq Market Blast Kills 8, Violence Rises:  An explosion at a market outside Baghdad killed eight Iraqis and wounded another 13 Thursday, hours after a bomb damaged an NBC News office and a member of the U.S.-appointed government died from wounds received in an ambush five days ago.
Bomb Destroys The Media's Illusions:  Arasat is a quiet, uneventful suburb of Baghdad, a place of good restaurants serving moderate Lebanese wine, middle class and educated and absolutely unassociated with violence. So the bomb which stopped the clock of the Christian family across the road from the Aike Hotel - it showed 6.51am - also exploded many illusions. The American NBC television network was based in the pseudo-Greek apartment block, there was only one night-watchman and the reporters felt secure far from the American tanks and armoured personnel carriers that guard the Palestine Hotel and the other targets of opportunity in Baghdad.
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Britain in talks with US on restoring death penalty in Iraq: The attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, is discussing with the US authorities the reintroduction of the death penalty in Iraq, according Ann Clywd, the Labour MP who is Britain's human rights envoy to Iraq.  
US soldier killed in Kirkuk, Powell speaks about Iraqi constitution within six months: One US soldier was killed and two others were injured during an ambush in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said Friday. The incident occurred at about 11 p.m. Thursday when unknown attackers fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the soldiers' vehicle in the city of Kirkuk. The death raised to 86 the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraqi resistance attacks since May 1, when President Bush declared an end to major combat.
Iraqis given constitution deadline: The United States is to set Iraq's Governing Council a six month deadline to come up with a constitution that would lead to elections and a new government next year. US Secretary of State Colin Powell told the New York Times the deadline would be difficult but it was necessary to get the interim Iraqi leadership moving.
Why We Hate Bush: "Have the Democrats totally flipped their lids?" asks David Brooks in The Weekly Standard, quasi-official organ of the Bush Administration. "Because every day some Democrat seems to make a manic or totally over-the-top statement about George Bush, the Republican party, and the state of the nation today."
Baghdad safer under Saddam: Baghdad is a much more dangerous place under US occupation than it was when Saddam Hussein was in charge, according to statistics released Friday by a research group.Soaring violence on the streets of Iraq's capital since the US-led war on Iraq has killed an extra 1519 civilians.
Palestinians under full closure, Quartet members disagree on Arafat role: A full closure was imposed on the West Bank and Gaza Strip late Thursday, ahead of the Jewish New Year, which starts sundown Friday and lasts until Sunday evening. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Colin Powell is looking for help from Europeans, Russia and the United Nations in dismissing Yasser Arafat as a failed Palestinian leader.
U.N. Orders Further Iraq Staff Reductions:  Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday ordered a further reduction of U.N. international staff in Iraq after the second bombing at U.N. headquarters there in a month, raising questions about an expanded U.N. role in rebuilding the country.
Bush asks OPEC not to hurt US: One day after OPEC's surprise decision to cut oil supplies, US President George W Bush pressed Saudi Arabia and other cartel members not to act in ways that threaten the American economy.
War as Entertainment - Wolfowitz at the New School: You have to give Paul Wolfowitz some credit. It's not every deputy secretary of defense who can inspire more than 1,000 New Yorkers to queue up on a gorgeous Sunday afternoon just to hear a wonk speak. (Does anyone even remember who held that job under Clinton?) But then, few deputy defense secretaries have ever wielded as much power or aroused so much ire as "Wolfowitz of Arabia," the key intellectual architect for the Bush administration's war on Iraq.
US defends troops over Iraq killings: The US military says its troops behaved correctly during an incident in which they opened fire in the Iraqi town of Falluja and killed eight policemen.
U.N. Finds Iran Arms-Grade Uranium Traces:  U.N. atomic experts have found traces of weapons-grade uranium at a second site in Iran, diplomats said Thursday. President Bush said talks with world leaders this week produced wide agreement that Iran must not be allowed to have a nuclear weapons program.
Baghdad Burning: For Sale: Iraq - A fertile, wealthy country with a population of around 25 million… plus around 150,000 foreign troops, and a handful of puppets. Conditions of sale: should be either an American or British corporation (forget it if you’re French)… preferably affiliated with Halliburton. Please contact one of the members of the Governing Council in Baghdad, Iraq for more information.
Israeli air force grounds 'refuseniks': The Israeli air force grounded 27 reservist pilots yesterday after they refused to take part in future assassinations of Palestinian militants.
Arab world split on volatile Iraq: Torn for months over whether to recognise Iraq's fledgling Governing Council, the Arab League finally agreed to invite a delegation from the US-appointed body to take up Iraq's seat at a meeting of Arab foreign Ministers in Cairo on Tuesday.
Brutal Reality That Fans The Flames Of Hatred In Iraq, by Robert Fisk: Ahmed's 50-year-old father, Sabah, was buried just a week ago - 35 days after he died in American hands at the Abu Ghraib prison - and the 17-year-old youth with his small beard and piercing brown eyes blames George Bush for his death. "Pigs," he mutters. Ahmed was a prisoner, too, and his father died in his arms. According to a cousin of Sabah's, their tragedy began at 3am on 3 August when about 40 US military vehicles arrived in Saqlawiyah, a Sunni village 10 miles from Fallujah, the scene of dozens of fatal attacks on US occupation troops. A framed and undamaged photograph of Saddam Hussein hangs on the wall above us as we talk.
NATO reacts to Slovak 'purge': Top NATO officials have become so alarmed by the current intelligence crisis in Slovakia that JID has learned of the issuing of a directive to all civilian and military NATO personnel designed to place strict limits on both private and professional contacts with Slovaks. JID's regional correspondent reports on what has become the most pressing challenge to NATO's expansion.

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Iraqi politician dies; one dead in Baghdad hotel blast: Iraqi female Governing Council member Akila al-Hashimi has died from wounds sustained in an earlier assassination bid, as a bomb blast at a central Baghdad hotel housing US television staff killed a maintenance worker. And in the northern city of Mosul, witnesses said a US military vehicle was hit with an explosion, leaving at least four American soldiers badly wounded.
Sale of Iraq Suspended: Iraq’s Governing Council backed off yesterday from a controversial pledge by its finance minister to allow 100 percent foreign ownership in most economic sectors here, saying the matter needed more study.
Democrats seek rollback of Patriot Act Meanwhile, Bush administration pushes for added anti-terrorist tools: Several Bay Area Democrats moved Wednesday to repeal some provisions of the USA Patriot Act, which Congress passed overwhelmingly soon after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to bolster law enforcement tools against terrorists.  
U.S. Troops Hold, Handcuff Two AP Iraqi Staff : U.S. soldiers detained an Associated Press photographer and driver, handcuffing them and forcing them to stand in the sun for three hours, the news agency said on Wednesday.
Baghdad attacks take a toll on U.N. Aid work tough under tightened security -- agency may quit Iraq: The blue flak jacket is heavy and cumbersome, and Roger Guarda frets uncomfortably as he pulls it off his torso.  
Comcast Devours Your Life Privacy shmivacy. The cable-TV beast knows more about you than your own mother. Be very creeped out: Occasionally just for fun and to make yourself slightly ill and if you're for some reason eager to feel all soiled and violated and megacorporate and vituperative and John Ashcroftian, you read the fine print on your cable bill.  
27 Israeli Pilots Refuse to Carry Out Airstrikes: Twenty-seven Israeli Air Force pilots have signed a letter in which they said they would no longer take part in airstrikes on densely-populated residential areas in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Israel Channel 10 News reported last night.
Aljazeera barred from covering Iraqi council: Aljazeera has been banned from covering the US-installed Iraqi Governing Council’s activities – for allegedly inciting violence against US occupation forces and its supporters.
Zionism & the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: In the 1950s an American sociologist, coming from the social-democratic tradition, published an influential study called The End of Ideology. In it he argued that with the emergence of the welfare state, the old divisions between “left” and “right” are being blurred, and the political discourse is becoming de-ideologized, more “pragmatic” and less polarized.
There is No Chance Bush will be Re-elected But He Will Likely Remain President: Make no mistake, Bush will remain president for another term. There are many scenarios I can think of which will ensure the second coming of Bush, all equally as grim as the next. I am not, however, suggesting that ‘we the people’ resign ourselves to the rogue Bush administration’s fascist tendencies. We have already done this during the first presidential selection and we fell asleep during the years of mesmerization from media, fast food, pharmaceuticals, gasoline, violence, and arrogance preceding the NeoClown coup.
More Questions For Cheney: From Representatives Kucinich, Maloney and Sanders - members of the Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations.         
More attacks on US troops: Aljazeera's correspondent reported that a US military convoy was hit by an explosion near the al-Sadiqiyah bridge between Ramadi and Falluja west of Baghdad.
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Aljazeera barred from covering Iraqi council: The Governing Council declared bans on inciting violence, disorder, or any reporting that directly or indirectly represents the ousted Baath party. They said breaches of the rules posed a risk to democracy and the stability of Iraq.
The Western Christian Infiltration, Destruction and Demise of  Iraq: President Bush's $20.3 billion proposal for rebuilding Iraq includes money to establish ZIP codes there, help Iraqi workers learn English and start a museum of former leader Saddam Hussein's atrocities, an administration document shows.
Sgt. Leanne Duffy: With no plan apparent, GIs in Iraq slowly becoming frantic: Yes, we are physically able to finish our mission, but mentally and spiritually we are dying.                       
Afghanistan- Constitution Delayed: After a week of rumours and denials, President Hamed Karzai has finally announced the worst-kept secret in town - approval of Afghanistan's new constitution is to be set back two months.
Flashback - Our Brave Soldiers fight Ignoble Wars for Cowards: It seems so long ago, somehow embedded in the history of ages long since dismissed, and shrouded by the continuum of news media outlet distortions, that George W Bush declared the major combat operations of Operation Iraqi Liquidation were over. Since this proclamation nearly fifty young American boys and girls have died in the name of the American Empire. Since the beginning of the illegal invasion, nearly two hundred young Coalition Forces boys and girls have died and over 5000 Iraqi civilians have been slaughtered by the invading coalition as they struggle to maintain order as an occupying force in Iraq.
Global Eye -- Vanishing Act: The American vote-count is controlled by three major corporate players -- Diebold, ES&S, and Sequoia -- with a fourth, Science Applications International Corporation, coming on strong. These companies -- all of them hardwired into the Bushist Party power grid -- have been given billions of dollars by the Bush Regime to complete a sweeping computerization of voting machines nationwide by the 2004 election.
Bus explosion in Baghdad, one Iraqi civilian killed: An explosive device, possibly meant for an American military vehicle, hit two Iraqi commuter buses Wednesday morning, injuring at least 22, four seriously, and killing one, according to reports from Iraqi police sources.
Israeli Army Uses UN Vehicles to Arrest Palestinians, Kills Two: Palestinian security sources said Israeli troops, stationed at the illegal Jewish settlement of "Dugit", near Beit Lahia, randomly opened heavy fire at Palestinian houses, killing one citizen. Shifa hospital reported Marwan Najjar, 19, was killed after being shot with live ammunition in different parts of his body
Neo-Cons, Fundies, Feddies, and Con-Artists: It is now a matter of public record that immediately after the terrible tragedy of 11 September 2001, U.S. Secretary of War Donald Rumsfeld and his pro-Israeli "Neoconservative" Deputy Paul Wolfowitz began to plot, plan, scheme and conspire to wage a war of aggression against Iraq by manipulating the tragic events of September 11th in order to provide a pretext for doing so.
Oil prices surge after surprise Opec cut:  Oil prices rose on Wednesday as Opec producers said they would cut oil production by 900,000 barrels a day from their current daily output of 25.4m bpd. The cuts start from November 1.
America's toothless ' interim council' roars like a lion - against the press: Sewage is coming through the manhole covers, there's still only 15 hours electricity a day and anarchy grips the streets of Baghdad, but yesterday America's toothless Iraqi 'interim council' roared like a lion, issuing a set of restrictions and threats against - the press, of course.
Belgium's highest court throws out case against Sharon: Belgium's highest court on Wednesday threw out a war crimes complaint against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and a case against former U.S. President George Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell. The ruling by the Cour de Cassation is expected to soothe diplomatic relations with the United States and Israel, which had hit their lowest points in decades because of the court complaints.
Situation Excellent, I Am Attacking , by William Rivers Pitt: There is not enough grammar in the entirety of the English language to describe the incredible international humiliation that has befallen the United States of America. That this humiliation was brought down upon the American people by the man supposedly in charge of the country is, in all honesty, no big surprise for those who have been watching this all unfold.
PM's aide ordered dossier change to boost war case, admits spy chief: Intelligence that undermined the case for war against Saddam Hussein was dropped from the Iraq dossier at the last minute after the intervention of Tony Blair's chief of staff.
Arafat Says US Encourages Israeli ‘Crimes’: Yasser Arafat accused Washington of encouraging Israeli “crimes” against his people yesterday as US President George W. Bush said the Palestinian people’s cause had been betrayed by their veteran leader.
House demolition as terror: When eight-year-old Mamdouh Nassar returned home from school one day last week, he found just a pile of rubble where the family house once stood. 
Mastermind reveals Sept. 11 plot started in 1996:  Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, has told American interrogators that he first discussed the plot with Osama bin Laden in 1996 and that the original plan called for hijacking five commercial jets on each U.S. coast before it was modified several times, according to interrogation reports reviewed by The Associated Press.
Terrorism Has No Nationality: Fahd: Muslim representatives at a gathering of religious leaders yesterday sought to dispel the view that Islam provides a breeding ground for terrorists, arguing the religion promotes tolerance and non-violence. “Islam prohibits the killing of innocent people and says that it is tantamount to killing the whole of mankind,” said Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd in a message to the gathering.
Journo claims proof of WMD lies: AUSTRALIAN investigative journalist John Pilger says he has evidence the war against Iraq was based on a lie that could cost George W. Bush and Tony Blair their jobs and bring Prime Minister John Howard down with them.
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Annan Challenges U.S. Doctrine of Preventive Action: Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned President Bush that his doctrine of preemptive military intervention posed a fundamental challenge to the United Nations and could lead to a global free-for-all. In a speech to be delivered shortly before Bush addresses the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, Annan declared that the Iraq crisis had brought the United Nations to a "fork in the road" as decisive as 1945 when the world body was founded.
Belgian court throws out war crimes case against US General Franks: The Belgian court of appeal has thrown out a war crimes lawsuit brought under a controversial Belgian law against retired US general Tommy Franks, who commanded the US-led war on Iraq (news - web sites), a lawyer for the plaintiffs said.
Over 1,500 violent civilian deaths in occupied Baghdad: From April 14th to 31st August, 2,846 violent deaths were recorded by the Baghdad city morgue. When corrected for pre-war death rates in the city a total of at least 1,519 excess violent deaths in Baghdad emerges from reports based on the morgue's records.
Ashcroft Issues Tougher Prosecutorial Guidelines: Attorney General John D. Ashcroft yesterday issued new guidelines to the nation's U.S. attorneys, requiring that they pursue the toughest charges they can reasonably hope to prove in criminal cases and limit their use of plea bargains.
3 killed in U.S. air and ground attack: Three members of the same family were killed and three others injured Tuesday during a combined air and ground strike launched by U.S. forces in the town of Fallujah, Iraqi police say.
French plan for Iraq independence unworkable, US says: US National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice says France's insistence that Iraqis regain sovereignty over their country within months "isn't workable." Dr Rice has stressed at a White House press briefing that a constitution and democratic elections have to happen before sovereignty can be returned to the Iraqi people.
Powell: PA must crack down before Israel curbs settlements: Secretary of State Colin Powell has said he believes that the Palestinian Authority must crack down on terrorism before Israel can respond to U.S. pressure to curb West Bank settlement construction. In an interview with the Charlie Rose Show on public television, Powell sympathized with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on the settlement question, saying it would be almost impossible for an Israeli leader to appear to be yielding to U.S. pressure.
CIA created fake mullahs: The CIA installed phoney Muslim leaders and bribed existing ones to counter the anti-American sentiment in mosques across the Arab world after the 11 September attacks. The claim is made in "The CIA at War" by Ronald Kessler, an investigative reporter and author of several books about the CIA and the FBI, who also describes espionage activity in Iraq that supported the March invasion that unseated President Saddam Hussein.
Majority of Britons oppose Iraq war: Support for the war against Iraq among British voters continues to plummet with a majority believing for the first time since the end of major combat that the invasion was unjustified, according to a new poll.  A total of 53% of voters believe war was baseless with 38% backing the conflict, according to the ICM poll published in the London-based Guardian newspaper on Tuesday.
Iran flaunts missile might: Iran has paraded six of its newly deployed medium-range missiles which could reach Israel or US bases in the Gulf, despite pressure to dispel fears it is developing nuclear arms. Monday’s defiant parade included the largest number of Shahab-3 ballistic missiles put on public display since Iran announced in July it had finished testing the weapon and deployed it with the Revolutionary Guards.
Probe clears U.S. soldiers who shot journalist:  American military investigators have cleared U.S. soldiers of wrongdoing in the shooting death of a Reuters TV cameraman.Mazen Dana was fatally shot last month while he was filming outside Abu Ghraib prison in western Baghdad.
Bush to ask UN to help support postwar Iraq: Bush will speak at the opening of the 58th UN General Assembly session. He is expected to "stress the international community's opportunity and responsibility to help the people of Iraq and Afghanistan rebuild their countries," National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice said Monday night.
UN committee to study staff safety in Iraq: A former president of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari, has been appointed to lead an independent commission studying the safety of United Nations staff in Iraq. He was given the job by UN secretary-general Kofi Annan after yesterday's suicide bombing at the UN compound in Baghdad that killed an Iraqi guard, the bomber, and wounded at least 17 bystanders.
US forces in Fallujah firefight: United States forces in Iraq have carried out an attack near the town of Fallujah west of the capital, Baghdad. Local reports say three people were killed and three wounded when tanks opened fire on two houses in the village.
Editorial: Restructuring the UN: The 53rd session of the UN General Assembly, which opens today will inevitably be dominated by two issues: Iraq and reform of the organization itself — specifically the veto and who sits on the Security Council. They are inextricably linked. Iraq was not the first time the UN failed to fulfill international expectations and prevent a conflict, which most of its members opposed, but Iraq has been its most damaging failure.
Helping Iraq Without Helping Bush: Although Bush is loath to admit it, the US badly needs international assistance, troops and money to prevent its Iraq occupation becoming an inescapable quagmire. In other words, the UN has turned out to be anything but “irrelevant”. And through officials like Colin Powell, Bush the heedless unilateralist is now emphasizing consultation and an agreed, multilateral approach.
Mastermind reveals Sept. 11 plot started in 1996:  Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, has told American interrogators that he first discussed the plot with Osama bin Laden in 1996 and that the original plan called for hijacking five commercial jets on each U.S. coast before it was modified several times, according to interrogation reports reviewed by The Associated Press.
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Zionist Massacres Of Palestinians: Although the Image that Israel distributes about herself is that of an oppressed nation, the crimes and brutality of the Israeli Army present other painful facts. It is interesting to notice that today's media does not dwell on these crimes. Those who attempt to revive the true history of Israel are charged of being anti-Semitic. So we present this shameful history of Israel that plays more the role of Goliath than that of David.
Eighth Pillar of Wisdom? Iraq Is a Deep Morass: That Iraq would become a troublesome source of guerrilla tactics should come as no surprise to any student of T.E. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia. Lawrence is considered by many strategists to be the father of guerrilla warfare. He articulated a powerful treatise on the topic in his classic book, “The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.’’
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Foreign firms to bid in huge Iraqi sale: Iraq was effectively put up for sale yesterday, when the US-backed administration unveiled a sweeping overhaul of the economy, giving foreign companies unprecedented access to Iraqi firms which are to be sold off in a privatisation windfall. Under the new rules, announced by the finance minister, Kamil Mubdir al-Gailani, in Dubai, foreign firms will have the right to wholly own Iraqi companies, except those in the oil, gas and mineral industries. There will be no restrictions on the amount of profits that can be repatriated or on using local products. Corporate tax will be set at 15%.
Two killed in Baghdad suicide blast: Two people have been killed and 10 injured in a deadly car bomb attack not far from the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad.
Afghan housing plan for officials panned: Bulldozing homes to build pricey houses for Afghani government officials in the capital of Kabul could derail the 20-month government of Hamid Karzai. The U.N. Human Rights Commission's special representative for housing, Miloon Kothari, criticized the evictions of about 30 families living in modest mud-walled houses, the New York Times reported.
France lifts veto threat on Iraq: France will not veto a US-backed Security Council resolution on the future of Iraq, President Jacques Chirac has said. However, he has a set of rigorous demands for the US before he will pass such a resolution.
A PALESTINIAN VIEW - Laying the cornerstone: It must be said at the outset that the establishment of the settlements and their expansion were the means through which the Israeli occupation was born and since maintained. Hence, the removal of the settlements is about undoing the occupation and making amends, and cannot be detached from this context.
String of bombings in China:  At least seven people are dead and 31 injured after three blasts rocked China over the weekend, including one at a Carrefour shopping centre in central Wuhan city.
The price of dignity: In the past two years, 500 export assembly factories have shut down in Mexico, throwing 218,000 workers on to the street. Their crime was the $1.26-an-hour base wage they were paid by companies such as Alcoa Fujikura to produce auto parts for export to the US. Those wages are now "too high" in the global economy.
Sharon Policies Will Put Israel in Dire Peril: By the summer of 2002, George Bush had firmly set his new course: “regime change” and reform in the Muslim and Arab worlds, and, where necessary, American military intervention to achieve it. Hitherto, it had been assumed that the US could not go to war in one of the two great zones of Middle East crisis — Iraq and the Gulf — before it had at least calmed things down in the other, older and more explosive one, Palestine. But the American administration’s neoconservatives had a very simple answer to that. The road to war on Iraq no longer lay through peace in Palestine; peace in Palestine lay through war on Baghdad.
West's failure on Aids 'obscene': The United Nations special envoy on HIV/Aids has denounced as a "grotesque obscenity" the lack of cheap anti-Aids drugs in Africa. Stephen Lewis was speaking at the opening of a major international Aids conference in Nairobi, Kenya. He condemned the behaviour of Western powers, saying "we can find over $200bn to fight a war on terrorism, but we can't find the money... to provide the anti-retroviral treatment for all those who need such treatment in Africa!"
First They Come For The Lawyers, Then The Ministers: I always thought that the idea of a military man facing a court martial and having a military defense attorney was some kind of sick joke. The joke got sicker a few months ago when,with much pride, the government announced it was going to provide the men held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for almost two years with the best justice the military could muster.
Saddam holds secret talks with US authorities, wants to leave to Belarus: Ousted Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein has reportedly been in secret contacts with American occupation authorities for the past nine days.  According to the British Sunday Mirror report, Saddam was demanding safe passage to Belarus in exchange for information on weapons of mass destruction and his bank accounts. US President George W. Bush was being updated about the negotiations by his national security adviser Condoleeza Rice who was coordinating talks headed by US general Ricardo Sanchez, the top commander of US occupation forces in Iraq, the Sunday Mirror added.
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Americans draw a veil of secrecy as casualties grow, Robert Fisk: They will not comment on the killing by an American soldier of one of their own Iraqi interpreters on Thursday – he was shot dead in front of the Italian diplomat who was official adviser to the new Iraqi ministry of culture – and they cannot explain how General Sultan Hashim Ahmed, the former Iraqi minister of defence and a potential war criminal, should now be described by one of the most senior US officers in Iraq as "a man of honour and integrity."
Israel advises US on Iraq security: Seeking advice on how to police Iraq's hostile population, the US military has turned to its fellow occupier ... Israel. The Jewish state's tactics in the Palestinian territories have been blasted by human rights groups and prompted dozens of UN resolutions against Israel which have been ignored.
Another Day, Another Death-Trap For The US, Robert Fisk:  The American Humvee had burnt out, the US troop transporter had been smashed by rockets and an Iraqi lorry - riddled by American bullets in the aftermath of the attack - still lay smoldering on the central reservation. "I saw the Americans flying through the air, blasted upwards," an Iraqi mechanic with an oil lamp in his garage said - not, I thought, without some satisfaction. "The wounded Americans were on the road, shouting and screaming." 

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Iraq attacks kill three US troops: A military spokeswoman said the attack on the US-run Abu Ghreib prison on Saturday evening had left two soldiers dead and 13 wounded. No inmates were hurt. A separate bomb blast killed a US soldier in a vehicle near Ramadi, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) west of Baghdad on Saturday night, the US military said.
Mortar attack kills two US soldiers in Iraq: Two US soldiers have been killed and 13 wounded in a mortar attack on a US-run prison west of Baghdad. A US military spokeswoman said the two soldiers,from the 800th Military Police Brigade,were killed when two mortar rounds struck the Abu Ghraib prison on Saturday evening.
Cheney's Role In 911 Put On Center Stage By British MP: For the first time, a prominent British political figure has aired his suspicions, that the group around U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney may have intentionally caused, or allowed to happen, the mega-terrorism in New York and Washington on Sept. 11, 2001, to set into motion an era of neo-imperial wars. Labour Party Member of Parliament Michael Meacher wrote a major feature focussing on Cheney's Project for a New American Century grouping, in the London Guardian on Sept. 6. Meacher had resigned in June as Environment Minister, a post he held in Tony Blair's government for six years. This Summer's political wars in Britain, as EIR forecast they would, are drawing ever closer to Cheney. This is the context in which Meacher took Blair to task for subordinating Britain's interests to Cheney and his neo-conservative gang in Washington.
Protests Grow Over Year-Long Army Tours: Angry protests mounted this week among families of Army National Guard and Reserve troops as the full impact of a new policy requiring those forces to serve year-long tours in Iraq began to hit home across the country.
Boxing George Bush Into a Corner in 2004 - Come Out Fighting: It is an unlovely fact, but a fact nonetheless. The surest way to win a presidential election is to successfully scare the bejesus out of the voters about what will happen if the opponent becomes, or remains, president of the United States. Not a pleasant thing for Democrats, who like to be nice, to have to ponder. Fortunately for the squeamish, they will simply be telling the truth. George W. Bush is scary. Going negative against him, early, even right out of the box, might be not just a winning strategy. It will also be the patriotic thing to do. Just ask Rand Beers.
Saddam protege behind sabotage operations: One of the men behind the sophisticated bomb attacks against coalition troops in Iraq is a protege and henchman of Saddam Hussain, issued with several million dollars to conduct sabotage operations just before the war ended, the Sunday Telegraph has learned.  Mohammed Khudair Al Dulaimi, the fugitive chief of special operations in Saddam's mukhabarat (intelligence services) and an expert in remote-controlled explosives, sabotage and assassination, is directing the lethal resistance campaign, according to former Iraqi colleagues.
Osama’s Brother-in-Law Says He Is Maligned Unfairly: Jamal Muhammad Khalifa, a brother-in-law of Osama Bin Laden, has said that without any evidence he has been accused of involvement in more than 30 terror-related cases, including an assassination attempt on former US President Bill Clinton.
Germany, France, Britain Urge Rapid Transfer of Power in Iraq: "We all want to see a stable and democratic Iraq and that the transition to democracy occurs as quickly as possible," Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair said. "Whatever the positions in the conflict, the entire world has an interest in seeing these things happen. Whatever the differences there are, they can be resolved and I am sure they will be."
The war game: By the summer of 2002, George Bush had firmly set his new course: 'regime change' and reform in the Muslim and Arab worlds, and, where necessary, American military intervention to achieve it. Hitherto, it had been assumed that the US could not go to war in one of the two great zones of Middle East crisis - Iraq and the Gulf - before it had at least calmed things down in the other, older and more explosive one, Palestine. But the American administration's neo-conservatives had a very simple answer to that. The road to war on Iraq no longer lay through peace in Palestine; peace in Palestine lay through war on Baghdad.
France and America, A Shared History, Bill Moyers: We were in France last week. Seven old friends. One more reunion while there's time. We had a lot of catching up to do - grandkids and all that. On our last day drove a couple of hours out of Paris to visit for the first time some places we had heard about, long ago, from WWI veterans who were still around when we were growing up. The Marne River, Chateau-Thierry. Belleau Woods - it was at these places, in the summer of 1918, that young Americans fresh from the United States were thrown into battle during the German Army's last great drive of the war, aimed at Paris itself. So fierce was the fighting that it took American Marines a month, at the loss of over half their men, to capture a single square mile - the crucial strongpoint at Belleau Wood, defended by seasoned German troops who were astounded at how fiercely the Americans fought. By summer's end the Kaiser's army had been thrown back, Paris was spared, and the war would soon be over. Of the 310,000 Americans who took part in the action that summer, 67,000 were casualties...including the poet Joyce Kilmer and Quentin Roosevelt, the son of president. Nothing was ever found of 1060 of the missing, their blood and bone mingled now in the fertile soil of the Marne Valley vineyards. 
The Great Unraveling Of US Global Power: Centuries of lording it over slaves, butchering Indians, and pushing aside Mexicans have ill-prepared white America to live in civilized company, much less to act as maestro for the globe. As Johnny Cochran could tell them, those gloves don't fit. Easy victories over weak, captive or Stone Age adversaries served to teach all the wrong lessons, creating a perverse set of American family values. Unlimited resources, right there for the stealing; fertile fields, awaiting unpaid labor; fragile southern neighbors available to be mauled for sport and profit - a heady brew swilled sloppily, on a mean drunken binge of four hundred years.
Is Riyal a Weapon of Mass Destruction? Investigations by various Arab governments have shown that money donated to charities sometimes is diverted to terrorists. Those who donate are not to blame; they are fulfilling one of the five pillars of Islam. Not many people ask for full and complete information on where their contributions are going. Governments are then left with no option but to block all sources which may benefit terrorists; at the same time, they must reorganize charitable frameworks to make sure that those who need help receive it. Charitable organizations, such as mosques that distribute money to the needy, are harmed when these steps are taken.
They are called 'The Searchers'. But what are they looking for? Some 1,400 British and American experts are supposedly scouring Iraq to prove what Tony Blair and George Bush claimed before the war - that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction which posed an imminent threat to the world. But most of the Iraq Survey Group, the body created by the victorious coalition to replace the UN weapons inspectors, is not even in Iraq at the moment.
Arafat praises U.N. for resolution: Yasser Arafat told hundreds of supporters Saturday that a United Nations vote condemning Israel's decision to remove him is of the "utmost importance" as a sign of international support for the Palestinians.
America needs a bigger army: Untied States Army has 417,000 enlisted soldiers and 76,000 officers. Iraq has 146,000 American troops, Kuwait 34,000, Afghanistan 10,000, Balkans 5,000, South Korea 37,000 and Europe an additional 100,000. United States Army has a total of 33 active-duty combat brigades. At least 16 of those brigades are already in Iraq. Two are in Afghanistan, two in South Korea and one in the Balkans.
White House is ambushed by criticism from America's military community: George Bush probably owes his presidency to the absentee military voters who nudged his tally in Florida decisively past Al Gore's. But now, with Iraq in chaos and the reasons for going to war there mired in controversy, an increasingly disgruntled military poses perhaps the gravest immediate threat to his political future, just one year before the presidential elections.
Israeli-Indian Alliance: The Real Axis of Evil: One of the important manifestations of September 11th has been the strengthening of Israeli-Indian relations. The ultra-nationalist governments in both countries sought to capitalize on the Islamophobic atmosphere which pervaded the globe after September 11th in order to brutally crush Islamic movements seeking independence in Palestine and Kashmir.
Law schools file suit over military recruiters: An organization of law schools and a group representing hundreds of legal scholars sued the Department of Defense and five other federal agencies on Friday, seeking to help universities and colleges that want to keep military recruiters off their campuses because of the department's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays and lesbians.
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Jumpy U.S. soldiers fire on official, reporters: BAGHDAD, Iraq - In the last six days, U.S. troops have shot at Iraqi police, journalists, a wedding party and a top Italian diplomat searching for looted antiquities. The Americans are under increasing pressure as the guerrilla resistance has stepped up its hit-and-run attacks and is bringing more firepower and sophistication to the fight.
Wesley Clark for President? Another Con Job from the Neo-Cons: The "New Democrats" (neo-cons) are as much masters at the perception management (lying) game as their GOP counterparts (Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and Donald Rumsfeld). Clark's presidential candidacy announcement in Little Rock is one warning sign. This city is a sort of "Mecca" for the neo-con Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) and its main nurturers, Al From and Bruce Reed. It was from Little Rock where the DLC propelled a little known governor named Bill Clinton into the White House. And although Clinton did not turn out exactly as conservative as the DLC hoped for, his support for globalization and selected use of U.S. military power abroad were neo-con keystone successes.
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Expose the Links between Al Qaeda and the Bush Administration: When people across the US find out that Al Qaeda is not linked to Saddam but is in fact a creation of the CIA and that the terrorist warnings are fabricated, the legitimacy of the Bush Administration will tumble like a deck of cards. The  perceived enemy will no longer be Saddam, it will be Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, et al. 
Bush-Linked Company Handled Security for the WTC, Dulles and United: George W. Bush's brother was on the board of directors of a company providing electronic security for the World Trade Center, Dulles International Airport and United Airlines, according to public records. The company was backed by an investment firm, the Kuwait-American Corp., also linked for years to the Bush family.
NRDC: Executive Summary of the Cheney Energy task Force's Energy Policy: President Bush's energy plan offers a smorgasbord of incentives for the energy industry, emphasizing the need to increase domestic fossil fuel supplies and renewing a commitment to nuclear power. The administration's proposal -- prepared by Vice President Cheney's energy task force -- also includes modest proposals related to energy efficiency and renewable energy sources. However, it is clear that, as Mr. Cheney stressed in a recent speech, the Bush administration views conservation as perhaps a "sign of personal virtue," but "not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy."
Is Dick Cheney Guilty Of War Crimes Against Iraqis? There has been much criticism lately of Republican vice-presidential candidate Dick Cheney’s business record -- the propriety of his stock options, his role in getting government contracts, and whether or not he earned the millions he was paid. Earlier this summer we also heard much about some of Cheney’s less compassionate conservative votes in Congress -- against gun control, Head Start and Nelson Mandela.
Iraq governing council member shot: Gunmen opened fire on a car carrying a woman member of Iraq's US-appointed Governing Council on Saturday, seriously wounding her and three bodyguards.
Afghan civilians killed in US air raid: A US air raid in Afghanistan's southern province of Zabul has left eight civilians dead, besides killing a Taliban commander.
Yugoslav forces took part in Bosnia massacre: A former Bosnian Serb officer has implicated the former Yugoslavia’s forces in the 1995 assault on Srebrenica in which more than 7500 Muslims were massacred.
‘Those Murderous Israelis’: “Can you believe those murderous Israelis? They have publicly declared their intention of assassinating an elected head of state!” He was referring to the recently publicized statements by the upper hierarchy of the Israeli government making plain their unlawful intent of killing Yasser Arafat, president of Palestine.
NPT: a treaty in crisis: With concern growing over the nuclear programmes of North Korea and Iran, efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons by means of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) are in doubt. JID's nuclear weapons expert examines the potential threat posed by aspiring nuclear nations.
Iraq speech may have hurt Bush: President Bush has often used major speeches to bolster his standing with the public, but pollsters and political analysts have concluded that his recent prime-time address on Iraq may have had the opposite effect — crystallizing doubts about his postwar plans and fueling worries about the cost.
Foes gloat as GOP defies veto threats: The House and Senate each have passed measures in the last two weeks in spite of veto threats from President Bush, showing a willingness among Republicans to defy the president on some issues. Democrats said the votes represent a breakdown in Republican discipline as members no longer fear opposing a president declining in popularity, particularly on the domestic front.
IDF returns to PA: Exactly a month after the hudna (cease-fire) collapsed in the rubble of the terror attack on Jerusalem's No. 2 bus, Israel Defense Forces soldiers have resumed activities in the territories that predated the truce.
U.S. envoy warns PA against forming Arafat-controlled gov't: Sources in the Palestinian Authority said Saturday that United States Middle East envoy John Wolf has warned them against forming a new government that would be controlled by PA Chairman Yasser Arafat, Israel Radio reported.
Does He or Doesn't He (Snoop)? Ashcroft and Your Library Records: John Ashcroft's rant about our concern with his powers under the Patriot Act led to his statement that the Department of Justice and FBI had not used its powers under Section 215 of the Patriot Act to snoop into our library records. Section 215 does not specifically mention libraries or bookstores. But it permits the FBI to obtain secret warrants in foreign terrorism or intelligence investigations for "books, records, papers, documents and other items" from all types of businesses or other organizations.
Ashcroft got gag warning: A federal judge who is considering whether to order Attorney General John Ashcroft to come to Detroit to face contempt charges warned top officials about not violating a gag order nearly a year ago, a court document shows. Ashcroft was accused by defense lawyers for four men accused of providing material support to terrorists of twice violating a court order banning public discussion of the case.
Expedite loans for Iraq: US: The United States is believed to be pressing its industrial country partners in the G7 to make faster progress towards approving the advance of loans by the World Bank to support the reconstruction of Iraq.
American Bombs Land on Pakistani Territory: US warplanes yesterday dropped two bombs along a disputed part of the porous Pakistan-Afghanistan border, with witnesses saying they landed in Pakistani territory.
Former US president criticises Bush over N Korea: Former US president and Nobel peace prize winner Jimmy Carter has said current US policies toward North Korea have contributed to making it the greatest threat to world peace. "I do believe that the North Korean situation is the greatest threat to world peace. If North Korea does proceed to become an effective nuclear weapons power, then that would mean a major destabilization of that entire region," Carter said on CNN.
UN tells Israel to drop Arafat threats: The 191-nation assembly, where Washington has no veto, voted 133-4 to adopt a resolution demanding the Jewish state not carry out a policy to "remove" the Palestinian president.
Zionist aim to ethnically cleanse Palestine: Like all religious Zionists, Marzel is indoctrinated in the ideology of Messianic Zionism which teaches that the Jewish Messiah or Redeemer will not appear until Palestine is “cleansed” of non-Jews.
Arab League drops draft at UN on Israeli nuclear program: The Arab League withdrew a draft resolution Friday that called on Israel to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and allow the  United Nations to inspect its nuclear program, but vowed to try again next year.
Israeli Minister Hit in Face With Pie at US University: NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, 20 September 2003 — An Israeli Cabinet minister was hit in the face with a cream pie just before he was scheduled to give a speech at Rutgers University.
EU’s Big Three Face Splits on Key Issues:  The leaders of Britain, France and Germany will seek today to find common ground on Iraq — but they will also be under pressure to mend fences on a range of rows splitting the EU at a crucial time.
American Society of International Law: Armed Force in Iraq: Security Council Resolution 1502 on the Protection of Humanitarian and United Nations Personnel, The Legal Status of Foreign Economic Interests in Occupied Iraq, The Obligation of the Coalition Provisional Authority to Protect Iraq’s Cultural Heritage and more
Three Israeli soldiers wounded in Jenin as more West Bank homes destroyed: Three Israeli troops were wounded Friday in exchanges of fire with Palestinian fighters in the West Bank city of Jenin. The gunbattle came as troops went into their second day of searches for Palestinian activists in Jenin and neighboring refugee camps.
We Cannot Afford Another $87 Billion in Iraq: Rep Ron Paul (R. Texas) - The neo-conservative media machine has been hard at work lately drumming up support for the $87 billion appropriation to extend our precarious occupation of Iraq. Opposition to this funding, according to the Secretary of Defense, encourages our enemies and hinders the war against terrorism. This is a distortion of the facts and is nothing more than attacking the messenger when one disapproves of the message.
Chechen refugees forced to return: Russian authorities have cut off water supplies to a refugee camp in Ingushetia, stepping up pressure on Chechen refugees to return to their homeland.
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The Villain Is Ignorance: President Bush has said that there is no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved in the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington. A strange admission — because no one with even the most basic understanding of the Middle East believed that Saddam was in any way linked with the attack. Yet a poll in the US indicates that 70 percent of Americans believe it. A substantial number of them also think that Iraqis were involved in the attack, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
Kennedy labels Iraq war a 'fraud': The case for going to war against Iraq was a fraud "made up in Texas" to give Republicans a political boost, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy said yesterday. In an interview with the Associated Press, Mr. Kennedy also said the Bush administration has failed to account for nearly half of the $4 billion the war is costing each month. He said he believes much of the unaccounted-for money is being used to bribe foreign leaders to send in troops.
Losing Dollars and Sense in Iraq: I rise today to voice my concern about the disastrous turn which the fortunes of this nation have taken. The Bush Administration, in a scant 2 1/2 years, has imperiled our country in the gravest of ways, and set us up for a possible crisis of mammoth proportions. 
Scott Ritter Charges Iraq War Is For Global Hegemony: Interview with Scott Ritter, former U.S. Marine and U.N. weapons inspector. As violence continued to consume U.S.-occupied Iraq, President Bush addressed the nation on Sept. 7 to explain his administration's policies there and request $87 billion for the pacification and reconstruction of both Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Blast shakes Baghdad; Iraqi surrenders:  A big explosion rocked central Baghdad late Friday and a huge cloud of smoke was seen rising from the direction of Martyrs' Square, where the American military maintains a base. The explosion shook the Palestine Hotel about 2 1/2 miles away from where it was believed to have occurred. No other details were available.
Three US soldiers killed in Tikrit ambush: Iraqi resistance fighters have killed three US soldiers and wounded two others in an ambush near Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit.
We are facing death in Iraq for no reason: A serving US soldier calls for the end of an occupation based on lies
Saddam and 9/11: On The Record: President Bush took the unusual step of denying categorically that his administration has evidence that connects Saddam Hussein with the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. “We’ve had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September the 11th,” Bush said. But critics say the damage is already done and that the administration deliberately kept the theory alive.
US Troops in Fierce Firefight: BAGHDAD, 19 September 2003 — American forces took casualties yesterday after they came under attack in Khaldiyah. The troops — hit with a remote-controlled bomb then ambushed with small arms fire — engaged in a fierce gunbattle in which a stray bullet hit a 20-year-old man in the chest.
Congress bridles at spending package: President Bush sought to push through his huge new spending package for Iraq, and to solicit international help in securing and rebuilding the country yesterday, as attacks against US troops increased. The newly revealed small print of Mr Bush's $87bn (£54bn) funding request left many Democrats and some Republicans outraged that the administration aimed to spend more per head on Iraqi public services than it spends on each American.
Ex-Iraqi defence minister surrenders: Iraq's former Defence Minister Sultan Hashim Ahmad has surrendered to the US general in charge of the northern part of the country
Bush says Arafat damaged 'road map': President Bush yesterday blamed Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for "stalled" peace efforts in the Middle East, saying he torpedoed recent progress made by Palestinian territories ousted Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas.
Powell's Moral Imperative: On September 15 Mr. Powell visited Halabja, in northern Iraq. If you remember, this Kurdish community was reportedly gassed by Saddam's forces in 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war. "In an emotional defense of the invasion of Iraq, Powell visited a mass grave site, toured a new museum commemorating the attacks and listened as Kurdish political leaders proclaimed that the Halabja massacre provided sufficient legitimacy to go to war."
Arafat Scolds Israel on Death Wish; UN Body Meets Today:  Palestinian President Yasser Arafat told Israelis yesterday they should be ashamed of themselves for wanting him dead.
Utter Lies First, Correct Later: Diplomacy, Neocon-Style: It’s hard to believe that it was just a slip of the tongue rather than a calculated lie when US Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz sullied the memory of those who died on Sept. 11 by exploiting their deaths for propaganda purposes. The brainwashing of Americans, two-thirds of whom believe that Saddam Hussein was behind the attacks, is too effective a political ploy for the Bush regime to suddenly let the truth get in the way.