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  • Abducted Aid Worker in Iraq Begs for Life
    24 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By ROBERT H. REID
    BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Trembling, haggard and weeping into a tissue, Margaret Hassan, the kidnapped British aid worker who has spent nearly half her life delivering food and medicine in Iraq, begged Britain on Friday to help save her by withdrawing its troops, saying these "might be my last hours."
    The gaunt, 59-year-old woman’s wrenching, televised statement - delivered between sobs - puts new political pressure on Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government, a day after it (…)

  • Beheadings now routine for Iraqi pathologist
    13 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Michael Georgy
    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The beheading of hostage Ken Bigley horrified the world. It sickened Iraq’s top pathologist too, but he is getting used to seeing severed heads.
    "It was barbaric, but we see all kinds of things here in forensic pathology and beheadings are on the rise. It is the biggest trend by far. Iraq is totally out of control," Faik Bakr told Reuters at his morgue in Baghdad.
    Bigley, a 62-year-old engineer, was beheaded with a knife on Thursday after his (…)

  • Eggs In One Basket
    11 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What would happen if Americans started to wonder about the roots of the terrorism of Islamic fanatics? Won’t there be some who would argue that America got into the Clash of Civilizations with the Muslim world only because of Israel?
    by URI AVNERY
    About a hundred years ago, the Russian Czar’s secret police cobbled together a document they called the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion". The "authors" were not particularly original - they took a satire, written decades earlier about Napoleon (…)

  • Freed Italian Hostage Says Iraq Rebels ’Justified’
    4 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    ROME (Reuters) - An Italian aid worker held hostage last month in Iraq said guerrillas there were right to fight U.S.-led forces and their Iraqi "puppet government."
    In comments that were bound to annoy Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s government, Simona Torretta also called on Rome to withdraw the troops it sent to Iraq to support its U.S. ally.
    "I said it before the kidnapping and I repeat it today," she told Corriere della Sera newspaper in an interview published Friday.
    "You have (…)

  • When the Rabbits Get a Gun
    15 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Rivers Pitt
    This is the comforting fiction: Osama bin Laden is a monster who sprang whole from the fetid mire. He had no childhood, no influences, no education, no experiences to form his view of the world. He did not exist, and then he did, a vessel into which the universe poured the essence of evil. It is a simple, straightforward story of a man who hates freedom and kills for the pure joy of feeling innocent blood drip from his fingers.
    This is the fairy tale by which (…)

  • ANOTHER LOOK AT 9-11 MORE PNAC PLOTTING?
    15 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By: Ted Lang
    Increasingly, evidence continues to mount against our own government. Parts of what were formerly viewed as disjointed, confusing and disconnected pieces of a puzzle are beginning to fall into place. The Abu Ghraib prison torture scandal was bad enough, but the Bush administration’s cover-up is much worse. The same can be said for the 9-11 Commission that never really addressed how it was possible for our skies to be so vulnerable on that day. We are to believe that nary a jet (…)

  • Nausea in New York
    2 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Rivers Pitt
    "One of the interesting things people ask me, now that we are asking questions, is, ’Can you ever win the war on terror?’ Of course you can." George W. Bush, April 13 2004
    You just can’t make this stuff up.
    George W. Bush, in an interview broadcast Monday by the ‘Today’ show, told host Matt Lauer that he doesn’t think his ‘War on Terror’ is winnable. "I don’t think you can win it," said Bush. "But I think you can create conditions so that those who use terror (…)

  • Journalist From Italy Killed in Iraq by Captors
    27 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By JOHN F. BURNS
    BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Arab news channel Al Jazeera reported early Friday that it had received a videotape from a group calling itself the Islamic Army in Iraq showing the killing of an Italian journalist, Enzo Baldoni, who disappeared last week while traveling to Najaf. Italy’s Ansa news agency quoted Italian officials in Iraq as confirming the Al Jazeera report.
    A spokesman for Al Jazeera, Jihad Ballout, was quoted by The Associated Press as saying that the satellite (…)

  • PM was told war would spur terrorism
    23 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Tom Allard
    The Federal Government was warned repeatedly by intelligence analysts before the Iraq war that the conflict would harm the war on terrorism by fanning Islamic extremism and spurring terrorist recruiting.
    An investigation by the Herald, which has included interviews with several serving and retired intelligence figures, has uncovered that John Howard and his senior colleagues were briefed on the dangers, verbally and in written reports.
    Yet the Prime Minister told (…)

  • Terror by video: How Iraq’s kidnappers drew their inspiration from horrors of Chechnya
    27 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Robert Fisk
    The pictures are grainy, the voices sometimes unclear. But when Kim Sun-il shrieks "Don’t kill me" over and over again, his fear is palpable. As the heads of Iraq’s kidnap victims are sawn off, Koranic recitations - usually by a well-known Saudi imam are played on the soundtrack. At the beheading of an American, the murderer ritually wipes his bloody knife twice on the shirt of his victim, just as Saudi officials clean their blades after public executions in the kingdom. (…)