Alternative View 2006 - for john schou

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05.03.2006 Uruknet 5 Daniel Pipes: Civil war in Iraq, in short, would be a humanitarian tragedy but
not a strategic one ... I don't, think from the point of view of the coalition it is
necessarily that bad for our interests
05.03.2006 Uruknet 5 evidence of 2 such cases, where the Iraqi police was clearly involved in
"Death Squad" activities. Acting under the protection of the Ministry of Interior
& the Industry Ministry, they are unscrupulous torturers & killers
05.03.2006 Telepolis 5 Von dem offiziellen Bericht der Bundesregierung zu den BND-Aktivitäten im Irak gibt es bisher 3
Versionen: ein 90-Seiten-Exemplar für die dumme Öffentlichkeit, eine 140-Seiten VS-NfD-
Ausgabe für "normale" Bundestagsabgeordnete und ein fast 300-seitiges Geheimdokument für
die exklusiven Mitglieder des Parlamentarischen Kontrollgremiums und die
Fraktionsvorsitzenden im Bundestag
06.03.2006 BAZ 5 Im Irak werden nach Einschätzung von Amnesty International (ai) bis zu 14
000 Gefangene von britischen oder amerikanischen Truppen ohne konkrete
Anklage festgehalten ... >200 Menschen bereits >2 Jahre inhaftiert
07.03.2006 Yahoo 5 Since fall 2003, 4,387 Army soldiers, 3,454 Navy sailors and 82 Air Force
personnel have deserted
07.03.2006 CBS 5 Two men were burned to death in their car after a shootout with Iraqi police in [Basra
on 3/6], and security officials said the victims were British citizens ... A 3rd person in
the car, also believed to be a British citizen, was wounded and rushed away by police
... ~9 p.m. after a police patrol chased two suspicious cars ... As policemen
surrounded the cars and asked those inside for identification, one of the vehicles
sped away. As the 2nd car tried to follow, policemen opened fire, setting it on fire and
killing two occupants
09.03.2006 Uruknet 5 Cheney [was] making sure Halliburton/KBR obtained so many no-bid contracts in
occupied Iraq .. . in both 2001 and 2002 he earned twice as much from a deferred
salary from his "old" company as when he was CEO ... he assisted in founding the
neo-conservative think tank [PNAC] ... was also part of the board of advisers to the
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs [JINSA]
09.03.2006 Scotsman 5 3 people have already been arrested over the video, which was shot in .. Al-
Amarah, 150 miles north of Basra, in 2004. It showed a group of up to 10
soldiers beating a number of young Iraqis
09.03.2006 Guardian 5 The notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is to be closed, probably within 3 months, the
US military said today. Around 4,500 prisoners will be transferred to other prisons ...
Reuters said US forces were currently holding >14,000 people in 4 jails in Iraq, > ½
at Camp Bucca, in the south of the country ... Iraq hanged 13 insurgents, marking the
first time militants have been executed
09.03.2006 Aljazeera 5 ―It was a completely unnecessary war. It was an unjust war," said [Jimmy]
Carter ... "It was initiated on the basis of false pretenses‖
10.03.2006 Uruknet 5 US always has planned to transfer authority for all detention facilities in Iraq to the
Iraqis, but announcements regarding the imminent closure at the Abu Ghraib prison
are premature {= more prisoners, Abu Ghraib + new Am. prison}
11.03.2006 Aljazeera 5 Al Sadr said that the barbaric attack which damaged a holy Shia shrine in Samarra was carried
"in collusion with the occupiers and the Zionist Entity of Israel"
12.03.2006 NY Times 5 top military leaders were stunned when [Saddam Hussein] told them three
months before the war that he had no weapons of mass destruction
12.03.2006 Guardian 5 Former Nixon adviser Alexander Haig said military leaders in Iraq are
repeating a mistake made in Vietnam by not applying the full force of the
military to win the war
12.03.2006 Daily search 5 No independant confirmation or further details to AP's report from 7.3.
12.03.2006 Uruknet 5 "Under the American and British occupation, Iraqi academics are being
forced out of their jobs and their country under the veil of politics. This is
especially true for female Iraqi academics, who once made up nearly half of
Iraqi academics in higher institutions ... >200 prominent Iraqi academics have
been assassinated in the past 3 years
12.03.2006 Ohio News 5 [Karl Rove] says the adm. will not pull American troops out of Iraq until victory
is won {mission accomplished?}
12.03.2006 Xinhuanet 5 Ben Griffin told .. after staying 3 months in Baghdad that he was no longer pre-pared
to fight with American forces. He said he had witnessed "dozens of ille-gal acts" by
U.S. troops, which he claimed regarding all Iraqis as sub-human
13.03.2006 Aljazeera 5 most worrying trend was the kidnappings of women, many of whom reported being
sexually abused or tortured. "Kidnapping and raping women has become so
widespread that every woman worries that she may become the next victim
14.03.2006 Uruknet 5 Who Benefits from Violence in Iraq? - We are told of Shia neighbors who gather to protect
Sunni mosques. In a Basrah shrine, Sunni and Shia gather to pray together ... While people in
power work to manipulate events and pit one group against another, military advisors trained in
counterinsurgency plot terror campaigns behind closed doors ... thousands of heroic acts of love
and kindness amongst the people in this tattered country go on unnoticed by most of the world