Alternative View 2006 - for john schou

19.05.2006 Aljazeera
Dubay
What Really Happened Jan_06.xls Seite 71
5 A new documentary about an emergency room of a U.S. military hospital in
war-torn Iraq sparked outrage among top Pentagon officials ... the film
[Baghdad ER] caused controversy due to its gruesome images of soldiers
suffering, and in some cases dying
19.05.2006 J_lem Post 5 The US-backed Iraqi gov. sent an official representative to this week's
meeting of the Arab League Boycott Office in Damascus, prompting criticism
from ... the Bush adm. ... to discuss ways of intensifying the Arab embargo
against Israel
19.05.2006 Raw Story 5 A backbench MP is to investigate the "unanswered questions" from the
official inquiry into the death of weapons scientist Dr David Kelly
20.05.2006 The Australian 5 Japan may begin withdrawing its [~600] non-combat troops from southern
Iraq next month, winding down the country's riskiest mission since WW2
23.05.2006 X 5 The secret to this denial is that they don't call it napalm any more. It's been
rebranded for PR reasons. It's still fiery, indiscriminating death from above
23.05.2006 The Age 5 Dr Salam Ismael, Baghdad, said the evidence pointed to the use of napalm
on civilians during the 2nd siege of Fallujah in November 2004
23.05.2006 BBC 5 Bush has said that the captured former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein should pay the
"ultimate penalty" for his crimes. What crimes? There were no WMDs, Saddam had
nothing to do with 9-11, did not aid Al Qaeda, was not in defiance of the UN ... So
what did Saddam do? Lie his people into a war? Yeah, I agree that deserves the
death penalty. Spy on his own people? Yeah, if he did that, that deserves the death
penalty
24.05.2006 Berlingske 5 Talabani håber, at de danske tropper kan være ude af Irak om 1 år
25.05.2006 Counterpounc
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5 U.S. military has all the fuel it needs, ~3 million gallons/day ... Kuwaiti fuel is
essential because output from Iraq's own refineries has been dramatically reduced or
stopped ... In northern Iraq, trucks carrying fuel and other supplies into the country
from Turkey ... in Baghdad, there is what is called odd/even traffic rule [i.e.] one day
only cars with odd numbered registration plates are allowed ... attempt to reduce fuel
shortage
25.05.2006 Antiwar 5 "I visited Basra last year and I've seen the piles – or mountains – of garbage
in the city. The sewage system is destroyed. The water system is not
adequate. Even clean water is not there. Electricity ... you're getting 30
minutes or one hour a day"
26.05.2006 Uruknet 5 [Independent:] 'Would the assassination of, say, Tony Blair by a suicide
bomber - if there were no other casualties - be justified as revenge for the
war on Iraq?‘…. Mr Galloway replied: 'Yes, it would be morally justified. I am
not calling for it ... It would be entirely logical and explicable. And morally
equivalent to ordering the deaths of thousands of innocent people in Iraq—as
Blair did" ... Galloway is of course over the top. It is never morally justified for
a suicide bomber to kill anybody for any reason
27.05.2006 BAZ 5 Italien zieht bis Juni 1100 Soldaten aus dem Irak ab
27.05.2006 Guardian 5 In what is being viewed as the gravest allegation to date of war crimes in Iraq... a
small group of troops shot dead 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians, including five men in a
taxi, and 11 women and children at homes in [Haditha]
27.05.2006 Independent 5 A military investigation has reportedly concluded that US Marines embarked
on the "methodical" killing of two dozen Iraqi civilians - including women and
children [in Haditha in March]
27.05.2006 LA Times 5 Photographs taken by a Marine intelligence team have convinced
investigators that a Marine unit killed as many as 24 unarmed Iraqis, some of
them "execution-style," in the insurgent stronghold of Haditha
28.05.2006 BBC 5 >1,000 members of the British military have deserted the armed forces since
the start of the 2003 Iraq war ... During 2005 alone, 377 people deserted and
are still missing. So far [2006] 189 are on the run
28.05.2006 Uruknet 5 in My Lai [Americans] massacred over 300 unarmed civilians ... Information
[came out] 20 months later [delayed by] the whitewashing and cover-up by
Mayor Colin Powel ... Lt. W. Calley was charged with murder, convicted &
given a life sentence but was released in 1974 [Haditha & My Lai]
29.05.2006 Independent 5 British forces in Iraq have been attacked by insurgents nearly 60 times a
month this year, up 26% increase on 2005
31.05.2006 BAZ 5 Im Irak sind seit Beginn des Krieges 71 Journalisten getötet worden = so
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