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28.10.<strong>2006</strong> Common<br />
Dreams<br />
What Really Happened Jan_06.xls Seite 81<br />
5 Former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix described the US-led invasion<br />
of Iraq as a "pure failure" that had left the country worse off than under the<br />
dictatorial rule of Saddam Hussein<br />
28.10.<strong>2006</strong> X 5 The death toll from the highly toxic weapons component known as depleted<br />
uranium has reached 11,000 soldiers and the growing scandal may be the<br />
reason behind Anthony Principi‘s departure as secretary of the Veterans<br />
Affairs Department<br />
28.10.<strong>2006</strong> X 5 [US District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein] ruled that graphic pictures of detainee abuse<br />
at Iraq‘s Abu Ghraib prison must be released over government claims that they could<br />
damage America‘s image. Last year a Republican senator conceded that they<br />
contained scenes of ―rape and murder‖ and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld<br />
said they included acts that were ―blatantly sadistic‖<br />
29.10.<strong>2006</strong> X 5 it appears that the Pentagon never mentioned the explosion of Depleted<br />
Uranium Munitions which were stored at the Falcon Base arsenal<br />
29.10.<strong>2006</strong> Al Jazeera Q 5 [11.10.] Iraqi officials said that shells "cooking off" in the fire had crashed down in five<br />
districts in the south of the city.The munitions store in Forward Operating Base<br />
Falcon was still burning on Wednesday, >13 hours after the strike set off the blaze<br />
that lit up the night sky and spread panic in the Iraqi capital<br />
29.10.<strong>2006</strong> Berlingske 5 Meningsmåling ændrer intet <strong>for</strong> K. Partiet er parat til at have danske soldater i<br />
Irak i et eller halvandet år endnu ... 61% af danskerne vil have tropperne<br />
hjem {definitionen paa vanvid ...}<br />
29.10.<strong>2006</strong> Independent 5 Bush & Blair: two leaders searching <strong>for</strong> a way out of Iraq, and finding none ...<br />
latest US polls show only 1 in 5 Americans believes Washington is winning in<br />
Iraq while 2 out of 3 oppose the war<br />
29.10.<strong>2006</strong> Uruknet 5 Ahmad Chalabi urged the US to open talks with Iran, saying that it could help<br />
reduce sectarian violence in Iraq and allow U.S. <strong>for</strong>ces to withdraw<br />
29.10.<strong>2006</strong> X 5 America Did Not Make Iraq‘s Violence ―Worse‖; We Made it ―Happen!‖<br />
29.10.<strong>2006</strong> Independent 5 Operation enduring chaos: The retreat of the coalition & rise of the militias -<br />
ironically, the death squads are the result of US policy. At the beginning of<br />
last year, with no end to the Sunni insurgency in sight, the Pentagon was<br />
reported to have decided to train Shia and Kurdish fighters to carry out<br />
"irregular missions". The policy, exposed in the US media, was called the<br />
"Salvador Option<br />
30.10.<strong>2006</strong> Wash Post 5 Oct. <strong>2006</strong> may be remembered as the month that the US experience in Iraq<br />
hit a tipping point, when the violence flared and shook both the military<br />
command in Iraq and the political establishment back in Washington<br />
30.10.<strong>2006</strong> Telegraph 5 British to evacuate consulate in Basra after mortar attacks<br />
30.10.<strong>2006</strong> Yahoo 5 Coalition <strong>for</strong>ces were not fully accountable <strong>for</strong> the 278,000 weapons that had<br />
been purchased <strong>for</strong> the Iraqis - But remember, Iran and Syria are arming the<br />
insurgency!<br />
30.10.<strong>2006</strong> JS 5 Suspicion that the photos show the wrong base. The destructins on<br />
Camp Falcon must have been much more massive<br />
01.11.<strong>2006</strong> NY Times 5 [Iraqi PM] al-Maliki demanded the removal of American checkpoints from the<br />
streets of Baghdad ... by nightfall, American troops had abandoned all the<br />
positions in eastern and central Baghdad that they had set up last week with<br />
Iraqi <strong>for</strong>ces as part of a search <strong>for</strong> a missing American soldier<br />
01.11.<strong>2006</strong> Reuters 5 The US Air Force is asking .. $50 billion in emergency funding <strong>for</strong> fiscal 2007 -<br />
- an amount equal to nearly half its annual budget ... the extra funds would<br />
help pay to transport growing numbers of U.S. soldiers being killed and<br />
wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan {bombs out, bodies in}<br />
01.11.<strong>2006</strong> Independent 5 Baghdad is under siege ... Well-armed Sunni tribes now largely surround<br />
Baghdad and are fighting Shia militias to complete the encirclement<br />
01.11.<strong>2006</strong> Aljazeera D 5 DoD cannot account <strong>for</strong> 14,030 weapons sent to Iraq, including machine<br />
guns, & rocket-propelled grenade launchers<br />
01.11.<strong>2006</strong> Uruknet 5 "By illegally using hundreds of tons of depleted uranium (DU) against Iraq ~<br />
Britain and America have gravely endangered not only the Iraqis but the<br />
whole world" Dr. Chris Busby, the British radiation expert and UK<br />
representative on the European Committee on Radiation Risk<br />
01.11.<strong>2006</strong> Uruknet 5 The UK Ministry of Defence said that there was no evidence linking depleted<br />
uranium use to ill health