Alternative View 2006 - for john schou

What Really Happened Jan_06.xls Seite 77
06.09.2006 Guardian 5 Britain forced to send more troops to Iraq
07.09.2006 Rense 5 12,000 US Dead, 25,000 Badly Wounded In Iraq - Secret Report
11.09.2006 X 5 Dick Cheney .. told that if the US had not removed Saddam Hussein then he,
Saddam, ―…would be sitting on top of a big pile of cash because he would
have $65 and $70 oil.‖
13.09.2006 X 5 A new gov. report has concluded there is no such thing as Gulf War syndrome
16.09.2006 Uruknet 5 Iraqi officials plan to dig a series of trenches around Baghdad in the coming
weeks to seal it off and control movement into and out of the city ... ~ 100 km
... 28 checkpoints
17.09.2006 X 5 Rumsfeld has introduced a new rationale for the invasion of Iraq: high gas prices
22.09.2006 Berlingske 5 Irakerne er i stort tal begyndt at flygte, og det er et varsel om en borgerkrig,
siger Mellemøsteksperten Helle Lykke Nielsen, der blandt andet mener, at
det er nødvendigt at sende flere soldater til Irak
22.09.2006 ABC.au 5 Italy has ended its mission in Iraq as the last major western European ally of
the US and Britain, handing Dhi Qar province under its control over to Iraqi
troops ... Italy's 1,600 troops will be home within eight weeks
22.09.2006 USA Today 5 Insurgents are now using kidnapping victims as unwitting ―suicide‖ bom-bers
— seizing them, booby-trapping their cars without their knowledge, then
releasing them only to blow up the vehicles by remote control, the Iraqi
Defense Ministry warned - the US was caught doing this a year back
23.09.2006 Yahoo 5 The U.S. needs roughly 3,000 more Iraqi forces to join the battle in Baghdad, but
requests for the troops have not been met because Iraqi soldiers are reluctant to
leave their home regions ... while the U.S. has 15,000 troops in Baghdad — which
military leaders say is the priority battlefront in Iraq — there are only about 9,000 Iraqi
soldiers there. That is just a fraction of the 128,000 Iraqi Army troops that the U.S.
says are now trained and equipped
23.09.2006 Guardian 5 > 1/3 Iraq, Afghan War Veterans Suffering From Stress, Mental Disorders
24.09.2006 Berlingske 5 En dansk soldat blev lørdag dræbt af en vejsidebombe i Irak
25.09.2006 NY Times 5 New York City‘s Reservists Are Asked to Return Iraq Pay ... far more than
many veterans imagined they would have to pay — as much as $200,000 —
and often for more money than they ever received
26.09.2006 X 5 Rumsfeld would discuss how with Montenegrin leaders how they can
contribute to the U.S.-led war on terrorism
29.09.2006 Guardian 5 Senior military officers have been pressing the government to withdraw
British troops from Iraq and concentrate on Afghanistan
30.09.2006 BBC 5 Total curfew declared in Baghdad - Is a coup underway?
30.09.2006 Uruknet 5 In 1979, depleted uranium (DU) particles escaped from the National Lead Industries
factory near Albany, N.Y., which was manufacturing DU weapons for the U.S military.
The particles travelled 26 miles and were discovered in a laboratory filter .. This
discovery led to a shut down of the factory in 1980, for releasing >0.85 pounds of DU
dust into the atmosphere every month, and involved a cleanup of contaminated
properties costing over 100 million $
01.10.2006 Guardian 5 Bob Woodward's new book exposes how Bush has kept the US public in the dark
about the true costs of the 'war on terror' ... ―It's getting to the point now where there
are 800-900 attacks a week. That's > 100 a day .. 4 an hour‖
01.10.2006 Zaman 5 A map prepared by a retired U.S. military officer that sketches Turkey as a
partitioned country was presented at the NATO‘s Defense College in Rome,
where Turkish officers attend {see pictures}
03.10.2006 X 5 Pentagon sources report that plans for a massive and quick US military
evacuation from Iraq have been drawn up -- and that they borrow heavily
from the US evacuation experience in South Vietnam
04.10.2006 X 5 The Iraq war has left the U.S. military in critical condition, stretched beyond its
limits in manpower and equipment and in danger of "breaking," retired Gen.
Barry McCaffrey said
06.10.2006 Guardian 5 ITN reporter Terry Lloyd was shot in the head by American troops as he was
being driven to hospital ... an Iraqi witness claimed Lloyd was still alive after
the original attack on his car but was killed by US troops as he was driven
from the scene
08.10.2006 Uruknet 5 The idea that all the Arab states should be broken down, by Israel, into small
units, occurs again and again in Israeli strategic thinking ... the "best" that can
happen for Israeli interests in Iraq: "The dissolution of Iraq into a Shi'ite state,
a Sunni state and the separation of the Kurdish part" (Ha'aretz 6/2/1982) -
Israel's game-plan for the last 24 years
08.10.2006 Wash Post 5 Last month, 776 U.S. troops were wounded in action in Iraq, the highest
number since the military assault to retake Fallujah in Nov. 2004