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  • Iraq is Lost: Bush and Blair are Deluding Themselves
    5 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "The American project for democracy or whatever its real purposes were, for oil, economic expansion, Middle East fit for Israel, whatever it may have been, that project is finished. It is hopeless. It cannot succeed. The insurgency in Iraq is so great now that American troops, however enormous their technology, cannot control it."
    "Not only do our leaders suffer from this mania of deluding themselves, but the press by their silence or by their complicity, assist in this process of (…)

  • Nearly 3,000 troops are flown back to the UK for treatment
    20 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Severin Carrell
    Nearly 3,000 British troops have been flown back to the UK for hospital treatment after being wounded, injured or falling sick in Iraq, the Ministry of Defence has disclosed.
    The figure - which dwarfs the death toll of 74 troops and aircrew who have died since the invasion in March 2003 - includes hundreds of soldiers evacuated from Iraq with serious injuries or illnesses, some critical.
    The MoD has revealed that by last Wednesday, 2,862 personnel had been evacuated (…)

  • Secret Pinochet payments linked to BAE
    20 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    David Leigh, David Pallister and Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
    The British arms firm BAE yesterday refused to comment on documents showing mysterious payments linked to UK weapons purchases by General Augusto Pinochet.
    Sums of up to $5m (£2.57m) are listed in Gen Pinochet’s bank records obtained by a Senate investigation in Washington.
    Some appear to be linked to arms purchases he agreed to make from Royal Ordnance, a BAE subsidiary.
    At one point, Gen Pinochet obtained £1m, which (…)

  • You asked for my evidence, Mr Ambassador. Here it is
    7 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In Iraq, the US does eliminate those who dare to count the dead
    by Naomi Klein
    David T Johnson,
    Acting ambassador,
    US Embassy, London
    Dear Mr Johnson, On November 26, your press counsellor sent a letter to the Guardian taking strong exception to a sentence in my column of the same day. The sentence read: "In Iraq, US forces and their Iraqi surrogates are no longer bothering to conceal attacks on civilian targets and are openly eliminating anyone - doctors, clerics, journalists - (…)

  • A different ESF is possible
    7 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    People participating in the UK Local Social forum network met in Sheffield during on the 4/5th december and found consensus on this document to be brought to the Assembly which is going to be held in Paris the 18/19 December
    1. The British process to build for the ESF has been, from the proposal of having it in London, organized without an open, democratic, inclusive process. No link has been created with the UK Local Social Forum and, in fact, the very same groups which played a (…)

  • Final reminder: uk social forum gathering in Sheffield this weekend
    2 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Hello all
    A quick final update on the local social forum networking meeting happening in Sheffield this weekend. This looks like its lining up to be a really though-provoking and enjoyable weekend, bringing in a range of different experiences and opinions. The final details are:
    Saturday 4th December Meet 10am for 11sharp start. Sharrow Community Hall, John Street, off Bramall Lane. Will go on until about 6pm, with the option of various entertainments in the evening. This day is intended (…)

  • Court martial confirms Britain given advance warning of Iraq invasion
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Harvey Thompson
    A court martial into the killing of a British soldier, held on October 26, heard how United States defence officials passed on plans for war against Iraq to the British Army almost six months before the invasion.
    The information emerged during the trial of Lance Corporal Ian Blaymire, who was facing charges for the manslaughter of fellow soldier John Nightingale while serving in Iraq. Both men were reservists with the Territorial Army (TA), deployed as drivers with the (…)

  • Denial Of Water To Iraqi Cities
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Daniel O’Huiginn and Alison Klevnas
    Introduction
    Water supplies to Tall Afar, Samarra and Fallujah have been cut off during US attacks in the past two months, affecting up to 750,000 civilians. This appears to form part of a deliberate US policy of denying water to the residents of cities under attack. If so, it has been adopted without a public debate, and without consulting Coalition partners. It is a serious breach of international humanitarian law, and is deepening Iraqi (…)

  • Afghanistan wants its ’Dead Sea Scrolls of Buddhism’ back from UK
    14 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Nick Meo in Kabul
    The Afghan government is to request the return of the "Dead Sea Scrolls of Buddhism" from the British Library, amid concerns the priceless manuscripts were looted during civil war in the early nineties.
    Afghanistan’s Minister of Culture will formally ask for the 2000-year-old scrolls to be sent from London to the newly restored Kabul Museum in the next few weeks as part of a campaign to bring home stolen treasures from foreign collections.
    The British Library, (…)

  • Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction
    12 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    In honor of Veterans Day we would like the troops to have a little background on why they are in Iraq instead of home with their families so here is a report from the UK outlining the history of the Iraq WMD that Saddam Hussien posessed, it has not been in the mainstream press in the United States and has been overlooked in the story of why we are fighting a war in Iraq over WMD. This is a meeting in the UK parliament during July of 2004 less than 6 months ago, and the truth will soon be (…)